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Saturday October 22, 2016

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

TRUMP VERSUS HILLARY Listening to the last Presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, one cannot help but wonder about the perceptions they have created on the young people. They lowered the standards of political discourse in the United States. For this to happen in the most powerful country in the world is mind-boggling. Politics in America has degenerated to a new low. The debates prove that America is no different from those countries they have labelled as banana republics. It is very troubling that millions of people had to witness such a performance. Parents should warn their children not to emulate the conduct displayed in the Presidential debate, especially by the Republican candidate. It is rather unfortunate that the desire for fame and power has made him descend to such a low level as to mock even a disabled person. Such behaviour has been frowned upon by the American people. It is disgusting, to say the least. It is unthinkable and perhaps disconcerting that such powerful individuals are fully aware that their negative and sometimes antisocial behaviour could contribute to the social disorder that exists in the country. It seems that respect, tolerance and integrity have been traded for uncouth and vulgar behaviour. Such negative behaviour poses a dilemma for youths everywhere. Many expected the candidates to engage in professional discourse on the issues that are of importance to the country without descending into personal attacks and verbal abuse. It is inevitable that some would imitate such behavior because it seems to be the norm. Americans have known enough about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. They are aware that both candidates are not trustworthy and are not the best choice for the presidency but they have no other alternative. Trump continues to embarrass himself, the Republican Party and the United States with his unorthodox style of politics that is unfamiliar to most Americans. Trump has already shown himself to Americans and the world as being bigoted against immigrants, Mexicans, Muslims, blacks, and prisoners of war such as United States Senator John McCain. He also calls women pigs and gloats over his depravity at grabbing their private parts. This may be titillating for reality TV, but certainly not for the president of the most powerful country on the planet. He has poisoned the nation with hateful rhetoric and dragged it down into the pits with insults. Almost everyone, except Trump knows that talking about groping and bullying women is not normal. It is unnatural. It is bestial. It is sexual assault and only sexual predators indulge in such boorish behaviour. But for him to dismiss it as just “locker room talk” is offensive and sends a message that the foulest vulgarity against women is fine as long as it is done behind closed doors. Instead of encouraging the nation to cleanse itself of disdainful conduct, he justifies his actions by ridiculing those whom he assaulted; those he deems of little value. This kind of misconduct provides comfort to many of his die-hard supporters and those who found pleasure in abusing women. It is sickening and demeaning. Men who value women should not indulge in such wanton and lewd acts. Women are undeserving of such scorn. Hillary Clinton on the other hand has some explanations to give about her e-mails scandals and about her husband’s foundation, but she is better prepared for the presidency. She has rallied Americans to be proud of themselves and is seen by many as more electable and who can bring the people together. Her honored career as a public servant which spanned 30 years has enabled her to address the issues that are plaguing the nation. She is better of the two.

Editor’s Note; If your sent letter was not published and you felt its contents were valid and devoid of libel or personal attacks, please contact us by phone or email.

I insist; the Finance Minister must explain Dear Editor, I have had cause to write in 2010 about this precise matter when someone who is well school in the art of finance and accountancy was trying to mislead the nation that it is alright for a budget to be missed by billions of dollars. It is not alright unless the people have a clear explanation for the variance. It would therefore be remiss of me to ignore this theatre of great implausibility that I am observing today, being played out in the Ministry of Finance, by way of a new item in Prime News created by the Minister himself. What is a budget? A national budget is the quantitative express of the plans of a government for the forthcoming year. It reflects the goals and objectives of the government and it gives a fairly accurate assessment of the projected cash inflows and outflows from the Treasury. What it does not do is miss the mark by G$20 billion without a proper explanation. Knowing the information provided by the

Minister is fuzzy, if not deceptive, I did not react immediately since I suspect his advisors would have identified his missteps and a corrective statement would have been issued soon after. But with so much time now under the bridge, it appears anything passes for public statement these days in the Ministry of Finance. This precedence if left unchecked will create a credibility issue for the entire nation. Everyone will agree with the Minister that a government will never be able to spend its budget to the exact cent; it is an estimate. But what is absolutely clear, is a Minister does not miss the target by more than 57% without clearing the air on this massive variance. The Minister had a chance at his press conference and failed to offer an explanation to the nation; rather he chose to rant and rave on a Constitutional Office for doing its work. But it is not who make the most noise that counts; it is who makes the most sense that matters and so far the

Minister comes across as very unschooled on this concept of public accountability. As cited on page 37 of the Auditor General Report and as certified at the bottom of that page by the Accountant General, it was confirmed that the Parliament approved the payment of G$35 billion in the 2015 Budget to repay the Public Debt, but the Minister in his wisdom chose to pay G$15 billion. That is not an immaterial financial misstep; this is a serious shortfall in one’s promise. Therefore when such massive variance occurs, you account to the owners of those funds; the people. Politicians must continually reinforce in their head that they are just mere, temporary custodians of other people’s moneys. So if the Minister argues that the G$35 billion was a rough estimate then the entire 2015 budget can be deemed a “cock and bull” budget that pulled numbers from out of the sky with no real science behind it. I have been doing budgets for most of my life,

with the last one completed 2 weeks ago and sized at over US$90 million and on every occasion where there is a material deviation from the estimates, there is an explanation to the stakeholders. But, the taxpayers are yet to hear from the Minister as to why he chose to underpay the Public Debt by G$20 billion. Budgeting is not a black art or magic, it is a science that is explainable. And therefore the Minister ought to have explained to the nation the reason why he underpaid on the Public Debt by some G$20 billion in 2015. As I said before, my focus is on how G$20 billion is being passed forward to the primary school children of Guyana. This is no little matter. This is a G$20 billion unexplained. I, therefore respectfully invite the Minister to explain to his employers, the people of Guyana, why he underpaid on the promised Public Debt repayment by some G$20 billion. I humbly rest my case. Sase Singh

A glowing tribute to Lord Canary D ear Ed itor, Malcolm Corrica better known as Lord Canary, his adopted stage name, is no more in material form. However, his spirit being is so well entrenched that it is likely to live on into many many more years to come. Such was the manner of the man Lord Canary. He hailed from the village of Bagotstown; lived his entire life there unto his retirement from terrestrial existence on Monday, October 10, 2016. Among other things Lord Canary was an ardent follower of the Founder Leader, Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham and through his life exemplified Burnham’s concept of the small man becoming a real man. Canary from his early days saw dignity in labour, thus upon his completion of primary school declared his intention to learn, and live by, a trade, thus he pursued wood work as a vocation and with the assistance of his father

became an accomplished joiner. All along, he also, in and out of church, pursued his love for singing and calypso in particular. This saw him rising to be a top notch and reputable calysonian across the Caribbean and further a field, even defeating The Mighty Sparrow in a King of Kings competition in 1960. In the face of all of that success he refused to leave his native land for what many described as greener pastures and many a lucrative officers. Burnham recognis ed Canary for his talent, patriotism, loyalty and commitment and invited him to a career in politics. This he accepted with humility and subsequently became a Parliamentarian and Minister of Government spanning two political regimes: Burnham and Hoyte. Upon retirement he took up an appointment in

the Secretariat of the People’s National Congress as he continued his loyal political activism. D u r i n g t h a t e n t i re period, even as his social status was elevated, he continued his humble life style in his homestead, Bagotstown. He even engaged in the rearing of small ruminants as a livestock rearer. He had become a statesman but never stopped living the life of, and with, the common man. H is vocation as a calysonian was never shelved although it took second place during his call to higher office. Once he demitted higher office he resumed that career in a full-fledged way and only terminated it approximately three years ago when amputation due to the direct effect of diabetics affected his mobility. Among his valuable contributions was the scripting and performing of congress songs for the party

well beyond his period of employ with the Party. His tribute to Burnham is also the theme song for the Burnham Foundation television programme: “State of the Nation. Canary truly talked the talk and walked the walk and never stopped keeping abreast with the politics of the day from his home where he received many fans and admirers. Unlike many c e l ebrities, Canary was honoured in his life time. The last such o c casion was the compilation and publication of his biography in 2016 by friends and admirers, including Alan Fenty, Vic Insannally and the Burnham Foundation.The Burnham Foundation mourns the lost of a committed Comrade and Patriot and extends condolences to his family, friends and fans. M an y h is S ou l r est in Peace. Vin cen t Alexan der

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The PPP is practicing dictatorship as the Vice Chairman of consultation was done with in Region 6 me the Works Committee. Unfor- that NDC. What is disturbing DEAR EDITOR, The People’s Progressive Party is most vociferous in echoing cries of witch-hunting, victimization and abuse of power but what it has miserably failed to do is to address these same issues within the Party itself – how it treats its own members and how it treats others. These people are out of government but are still involved in these nefarious activities. I have written a few letters to the press expressing my disgust and disappointment about the practices in Region 6 involving the Regional Vice Chairman, Mr Dennis Deoroop and the Engineer, Mr Roopesh Singh. I also wrote about the fact that no consultations were done with the 52-74NDC. I gave examples of sub-standard work which was certified by the aforementioned Regional Officials and examples or areas which should have been in the Budget Proposal if any consultation was done. Subsequently, about two weeks ago the contractor went and rectified the substandard work which I exposed in my letter. This was the 52 Middle Walk Road and the Massiah School Bridge. If I had not exposed this then nothing would have been done. However, yesterday I became the recipient of the wrath of the Regional Vice Chairman, who is also the First Secretary of the PPP. He used a well-known PPP RDC Councilor to force the NDC Councillors to move a ‘no confidence’ motion at the statutory meeting of the PPP dominated NDC to remove

tunately, the motion gained the favor of the ‘hog tied’ council and I was duly removed. It must be noted that after the ‘no consultation and corruption issue’ gained momentum in the Region, the Regional Vice Chairman went to all the PPP controlled NDCs and forced them into saying that they were consulted. He reminded them that he was instrumental in getting them appointed. But he could not have gone to the Adventure/ Hogstye NDC which is controlled by APNU/AFC although this NDC wrote about the non-consultation process and the corruption in Region 6. This is the main reason why I ran as an independent candidate in the Local Government Elections, I was aware that political considerations would normally influence and bypass important socio-economic decisions. But I could not sit quietly and allow corrupt practices to decimate my community and my region. I have taken an oath to carry out my duties ‘without fear, ill-will or favor’ and I did just that. What is alarming is that the PPP is even forcing their own members to resign from positions simply because they cannot be controlled or coerced to their biddings, especially those of the Regional Vice Chairman. Recently, the Vice Chairperson, Lucille Ayana, of the Kilcoy/Hampshire NDC was embarrassed and abused by the General Secretary of the PPP, Mr Clement Rohee to resign from the post simply because she agreed with the Chairman and other NDC councilors that no

is that Mr. Rohee even used unacceptable language in the process. Is this the gender equality which the PPP is preaching about? This reminds me so much of the BheriRamsarran issue. This woman was duly elected according to Chapter 28:02 with a majority of the NDC Councilors voting for her so it leaves me to wonder if Freedom House’s decision is superior to the laws of this land. What is the former AG’s take on this matter? It must be recalled that Mr Yusuf who is the Chairman of that NDC and a Regional Councillor was the first person to expose the lack of consultation in the formulation of the Regional 2017 Estimates so I am wondering how long more does he have? Will he be forced to resign? I am sure that some devious tactics are being hatched at this moment to get rid of him. The PPP’s major problems are that they are averse to independent thinkers, they are ‘power crazy’ and are dictatorial. They see an independent mind as a threat to their status quo and that is the main reason why the PPP cannot move forward as a political party and their membership is dwindling rapidly. The main reason why the PPP is still vibrant is that they are capitalizing on the mistakes of this Coalition Government which needs to get its act together. I do hope that independent thinkers can have a chance to flourish in this country. Lakeram Singh 52-74 NDC Councillor and Ex-Vice Chairman of Works Committee

Jagdeo takes issue with the Kaieteur Kaieteur News con- consistent personal attacks, News but... edition, tends that in addressing as well as attacks on the poDEAR EDITOR; The disingenuous nature of the Kaieteur News has once again been put on display in its Friday, October 21, 2016 edition, in an article headlined ‘Jagdeo bars Kaieteur News from asking questions at press conference.” In that article there is no mention of the fact that two (2) Kaieteur news reporters were present, one of whom was the first reporter to have been allowed to ask questions; five (5) questions to be exact. The decision of the second Kaieteur news reporter not to wait until reporters from other media houses had a chance to pose questions was ignored. As such the article can only be seen as reflective of uninspired hyperbole, as is characteristic of the Kaieteur News. Also, in a second article in its Friday, October 21, 2016,

Guyana’s current economic challenges, no solutions were offered by the Opposition Leader. Again, the newspaper ignored fact. I defined elements of a matrix that could address the current slowdown in the economy. Of note is that I gave this explanation after a question was posed by the Kaieteur news. I explained that the matrix would feature three primary factors – consistent policies and incentives; uniformed applicability of policies; and a focus by the Minister of Finance on growth rather than managing for ratios. I also pointed out that to define this matrix further would take up a great deal of time which I was prepared to do, but not at a press conference. Of note too is that the misrepresentations published by the Kaieteur news followed my explanation for the

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litical Opposition. Yesterday I explained that Kaieteur news had applied for a radio licence, but was not issued one. The role of the media has been accepted as a critical one in a democracy. However, reporters also have a responsibility to reflect issues in a truthful manner. Hon Bharrat Jagdeo Office of the Leader of the Oposition Co-operative Republic of Guyana Editor’s note: The newspaper stands by its report which we assert is an accurate representation of what took place at Mr. Jagdeo’s press conference. Significantly, Kaieteur News never said that the Opposition Leader did not offer a solution. We emphatically stated and maintain that his grand solution to the economic slowdown was not clear.

The worst performance of the forestry sector in 20 years DEAR EDITOR, The half year report from the Finance Minister underscores the dismal performance of the forestry sector under the new Government and new Board. The Ministry of Finance reported a decline in performance by over 15%. The board has done everything to stymie the development of the forest sector. Analysts have exclaimed that this is perhaps the worst performance of the forestry sector in 20 years. In less than one year of the board’s existence everything has gone through the window. Many companies have closed down or are in the process of closing down; investors’ lands are being repossessed without due process basically leading to a total shut down of the sector. It would be good for the board to release information on how many new investors they have attracted, how many new jobs have been created, how many new mills have been developed, how much new roads have been developed, have new markets been established, how much investments have been done. The answer is simply negative. We agree that the Chinese were perhaps benefitting from some concessions, but what happens to the rest of the sector? The small man’s produce

is not selling, while the board seems unaware of the reality of the situation. If you go the length and breathe of this country small producers as well as large operators are crying out there is no program or plan to re- invigorate the sector, communities in the government stronghold of Linden and Kwakwani are crying out for help. What is the board doing? In addition we are not hearing anything on the LCDS phase 2. We have heard the board and government are developing a new plan to replace the LCDS but where is it? Has Norway given any money since the new government took office? I suspect not! Given the record decline in the forest sector and the mismanagement of the sector under the new board and administration I would urge Norway not to send any more funds to Guyana and to close off the agreement. Norway should read the Auditor General Report for the period when the APNU/ AFC took office and see the shocking mismanagement and misuse of public funds over such a short period of time particularly at the Ministry of Finance. So why put money into a system that is destined to misuse and mismanage the funds as it has proven while in office just

over a year? When the PPP was in office a particular board member was a constant critic of the President and subject Minister for Forestry as well as the Commissioner James Singh. But she is now a board member and what she has to show of her knowledge and expertise of the forestry sector; a record decline in forest sector performance while being on the GFC Board. The public is calling on this particular expert to bring out all her plans and ideas she has or had for the development of the sector and Guyana as a whole. It is time to walk the talk. Seems to me the only solution is to get more competent people on the board or more so in Government. So Board Chair and Hon Minister the ship is sinking fast the public awaits the government and board - A PLAN. The public is watching and slowly getting fed up. Carlos DeBarros (Snr) Forest Ranger (rtd)

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Public servants should not mistreat citizens like this DEAR EDITOR; It was my misfortune to have visited the Ministry of Finance’s Student Loan Agency on the Turkeyen Campus of the University of Guyana yesterday (October 19, 2016). Though I work at the Turkeyen Campus, I had not visited this facility in nearly ten years. On this occasion, I was accompanying someone to check the details of his case because what was related to me suggested that the student had misunderstood what was said to him. To my discredit, I had forgotten about the opening hours of the Agency and arrived between 11:30 and 11:45 to a locked door. Another person arrived approximately twenty paces ahead of me to the same situation but as he turned and began walking away, the door was opened and this renewed my conviction that I was on time. I was wrong. This realisation struck me only because the door remained closed. A careful look around revealed no information about the opening hours. However, customers were still inside the building and as I stood deflated, a young man arrived and he also could not find the opening hours. From where we were standing, we then noticed some people using a door at another side of the building.

The young man responded quickly and I waited to know his fate. He entered and walked up to the waiting area uneventfully. I followed but stopped at the threshold when I noticed a sign on the door indicating that is was an entrance for staff. The young man ahead of me was apparently eventually turned away because he returned outside. Nevertheless, I had to know the opening hours. I could see no employees due to the layout, so I raised my voice to ask about the opening hours and to indicate that there was no sign outside to communicate this to visitors. About ten vacant seconds elapsed before a young woman walked briskly and purposefully to the entrance and began to close the door without a word in answer to my question. Yes Editor, I was still standing at the threshold. Having instantaneously realised what was happening, I held my ground which stopped her since the door was destined for my face. I repeated my inquiry about the opening hours of the Agency with voice still raised perhaps in response to the aggression. To this she responded simply “one-thirty” and in the same breath continued “please excuse yourself so that I can

close the door”. The situation had suddenly become even more demeaning. But, what happened next was appalling on a new level. For my own sanity, I have to believe that in her eagerness to close the door and be rid of me, the woman was attempting to reach for the grill that was behind me as it opens outwards whereas the door opens inwards. My reflexes were unsure, because I caught myself rotating my shoulder to avoid contact. She stopped. Then she said something to the effect that this is a staff entrance and added “please excuse yourself so that I can close the door”. I responded to indicate that I can see that and that’s why I am still standing outside. She was visibly agitated and as far as I could tell regarded me as nothing but a nuisance or some pestilence, the cure for which was simply closing the door. Her answer – “one-thirty” – suggested that she did not hear my question which was about the opening hours and not about when the office will be opened again later in the day. I said this much and she retorted that I was the one who was not listening. My response to this was to say that “you are providing a service, there is no sign outside so I am ask-

GuySuCo’s management team before and after May 2015 DEAR EDITOR; I read with much amusement the comments of Mr. Abel Seetaram in his letters published in both SN and KN and the response by GuySuCo in both papers. From both exchanges, eitaher Mr. Seetaram or Ms. Thomas, the PRO of GuySuco is in a comatose state or there is deliberate effort to twist facts. Editor, both authors attempt to convince readership that GuySuCo’s management team before May 11th 2015 was incompetent and this “new group” are the best minds recruited by this Government. The fact is, all, and I repeat all of the persons in the present executive management structure (except the HR Director) were part and parcel of executive management before May, 2015 or recent periods before. It is this very group that made management decisions before May, 2015.

If Mr. Seetaram and Ms. Thomas were living in Guyana they would know that Mr. Errol Hanoman and Mr. Paul Bhim served as CEO for the period 2008-2013 (in succession) and Mr. Hanoman was Regional Booker Tate Director with responsibility for GuySuCo in the period 2002-2008. Also, Mr. Bhim was the Finance Director for many years before 2010 when he was appointed to CEO. Both persons are now members of GuySuCo’s IMC. As for, Estate Managers, it is no different. They have all been their current job since 2011 at least and have served in other capacities below the Estate Manager level for longer periods. The point here is that, persons in the present executive operational management structure have not changed much since May, 2015 and it is true that Hanoman and Bhim were not in the company

for about 1 ½ years leading up May 2015 but they were fully involved in the company for many, many years before. This is an undisputable fact. If this “new group” comprise the best minds, it is logical to conclude that they were also the best minds before May, 2015. Isn’t this correct Ms. Thomas? If not, Mr. Hanoman and Mr. Bhim and Estate Managers formed an incompetent bunch when they served before prior to May, 2015. Mr. Seetaram and Ms. Thomas deliberately failed to inform the Guyanese public that GuySuCo recently hired at least five (5) consultants or employees with ministerial type salaries despite the company’s financial state. Are these the best minds? Since the most competent team was formed after May, 2015, I ask Ms. Thomas to show us GuySuCo’s performance for each crop after that magical date. I recall the CEO and Chairman boasted about performance because of good management in the second half 2015. Show us 2016 numbers! Frederick Yuvraj

ing; you cannot treat people like this”. This was an allusion to the way she was treating me and it elicited rolling eyes, loud sighs and the frustrated words “oh lord”, confirming that I was a nuisance. I stood my ground as anyone would if abased like this. In the meantime a young woman arrived behind me and indicated that she works at Georgetown Hospital and that she could not leave work at another time to visit the Loan Agency. There was no response. This young woman waited about half a minute while the stand-off continued with my repeating that “you are providing a service, you cannot treat people like this”. She then walked past us in the doorway and to the counter without being sent back. Editor, I had no case for being allowed in if the Agency was closed. The point of my inquiry was to establish that it was disre-

spectful to have people arrive to a closed door, with no one there to indicate that it was past opening time and no sign to establish this fact. Although I wanted to get my business done, I did not ask to be allowed in, as a mark of respect to the rights of the employees on their lunch break. Yet, someone was allowed to walk past me through the “staff entrance” even while there was a standoff about using the said entrance. I even refrained from using this as leverage to demanded entry. But the woman from Georgetown Hospital and all of us should understand what happened right at that point. The woman who came to close the door left frustrated either because I just stood there repeating my refrain or perhaps because she felt that she lost whatever moral ground she had. Another person came a few seconds later, presumably a superior, to do

the same thing. However, she stopped when she heard what I was saying. She indicated what the opening hours were and explained that there was no sign because they sometimes “flex”. I left the facility, wondering about what people must go through as they attempt to access a loan from the Ministry of Finance to educate themselves. This was in fact the primary reason I was visiting the Agency and I may have gotten the answer. I infer from this experience that people who visit the Loan Agency sometimes leave without some measure of dignity. There is no lower limit on service quality at this facility and firing someone would not address this failing for as I recall, no other employee objected. No other employee attempted to apologise. I had a right to being treated as a human being. Troy Thomas, PhD

An enumeration of the crimes of Bharrat Jagdeo DEAR EDITOR, Bharrat Jagdeo’s public utterances that the APNU + AFC has no idea for a national programme and therefore using the projects initiated by the PPP/C; a crime is at its worse and that freedom is being challenged today, need to be addressed frontally. The thinking that the construction of a road or any project that commenced under one government must be terminated under a succeeding government is a lack of understanding that any project initiated by any government must be to the benefit of the people. The projects that commenced under PPP/C governments are expected to be examined by the APNU+AFC government and must be brought to fruition if possible with necessary adjustment. The moneys invested in these projects belong to the taxpayers not the PPP/C or APNU+AFC, and for this reason it will be foolhardy for the current government to abandon projects already in the pipeline and billions of dollars invested. On the issue of crime, it is instructive that Jagdeo is being allowed to lecture this society about current criminality when he presided over a criminal enterprise. During his period as president citizens across the country were fearful to sleep, be it day or night. Drug lords and phantom squads reigned supreme and its members had association with officialdom. Buxton was held under siege and in-

nocent people lost their lives. Massacres happened under Jagdeo’s watch and these unfortunate situations were used to escalate racial tensions and divide the country to advance political ends. Rights were trampled with impunity and the rule of law treated with contempt. The Consolidated Fund was violated and the resources of the nation plundered without conscience. Jadgeo is the last person to be talking about crime, in fact he is deserving of being placed before the courts in Guyana and The Hague for his criminality and crimes against humanity. Having said that, crime is an anti-social behaviour, its cause and effects must be addressed, and while the statistical reductions are noted and commended we must continue to strengthen our crime-fighting techniques and putting systems in place not only to arrest but avoid criminal activities. And this brings me to the issue of white collar crime. This government must not continue engaging in acts of violating the rules that guide withdrawal and accounting for the moneys in the Consolidated Fund. This society must too hold this government accountable as done for previous for conducting the nation’s business within the confines of the laws, universally acceptable standards and best practices. Wrong is wrong and right is right. Development can only happen when we remain con-

sistent in demanding and upholding these principles. On the issue of freedom in this society it is reminded that during the Jagdeo presidency fear stalked this land, individuals and leaders of non-governmental institutions were fearful to speak out of recognition that the reprisals from him would have been harsh and deadly. The society needs not forget, for it was only yesterday, he is alive, and must be held accountable for his stewardship. The nation needs to be reminded that Stabroek News and Kaieteur News were denied state advertisements and private businesses were pressured to do likewise. Media personnel were banned from attending press conferences held by the Office of the President or Jagdeo. The report in Kaieteur that he is seeking to limit or deny the paper the opportunity to question him at his press conference, he needs to be reminded that he is Leader of the Opposition which is a constitutional office and is therefore answerable to the people. Where he continues to treat any media personnel or media with contempt the media is called upon to collectively treat with him by boycotting his press conference. Arrogance and contempt for the people by public officials who are paid by the people must have no place in our new political environment. Lincoln Lewis

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Guyana has highest child labour rate in Latin America, Caribbean The Caribbean Human Development Report 2016 has recorded that the child labour rate in Guyana is at 16.4 per cent, the only country above the Latin America and Caribbean average of 11 per cent. According to the UNDP, in the Caribbean, child labour rates fluctuate between Guyana’s rate and the lowest of 0.7 per cent in Trinidad and Tobago. Kenroy Roach, Regional Advisor, UNDP, said at the report’s launch on Thursday, that in the Caribbean there exists very high youth unemployment. He said that in the CHDR 2012 report the issue had been linked with insecurities within the region. He said that youths and children continue to be one of the most vulnerable groups in society. The children’s vulnerability have found them being exploited in labour conditions and exposed to hazardous conditions at work, in the streets. They are the school dropouts and the abused. The report which was launched at the University of Guyana, noted that the risk factors responsible for the vulnerability are poverty, in-

effective schools, abusive families, ineffective legislation and a lack of awareness. Roach said that he believes that by addressing the youth vulnerability issue focusing on risk factors, strengthening families and communities and creating avenues for young people’s productive participation, Caribbean countries can break the economic structural issues. According to the UNDP report, Caribbean youths are underachieving educationally at the secondary school level and this is associated with poverty, juvenile crime and violence. Young males were identified as the main victims and the main perpetrators of crime in the Caribbean. Violence is starting at a younger age than in the past, he added. “Unemployment rates are much higher among youths whose unemployment rate is twice to three times the adult unemployment rate.” Roach said that women have been doing better than their male counterparts educationally. This was reflected in the report which stated that women have higher access to and better performance in

secondary and tertiary education than men. The report states that good educational attainment or education at the secondary and post-secondary level is found to be associated with lower teenage pregnancy and a reduction in violence against women. On this issue Roach said, “While women are performing better academically, and we’re seeing more women graduating from universities and so on, that is not translated into women having higher paying jobs, women being in positions leadership and authority and so on.” Additionally, the UNDP representative said that there co-varying risks which show several vulnerabilities adding up which put women at a higher risk as compared to their counterparts. Picture saved in Saturday as: UNDP Caption: (From left) UNDP Regional Advisor Kenroy Roach, making his presentation during Thursday’s launch as Mikiko Tanaka UN Resident Coordinator, Finance Minister Winston Jordan and Dr. Barbara Reynolds, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, UG look on.

GPSU rejects Commission to probe allegations against GPHC Matron Although a Commission of Inquiry (COI) to investigate allegations made against the Director of Nursing Services (Matron) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) only commenced last week, already the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is preparing to reject the results. The Union in a statement said that it declares “publicly its reservation and lack of confidence in the outcome of this inquiry.” This reaction, according

to the GPSU, is premised on the fact that the GPHC refused to acknowledge concerns that it highlighted ahead of the start of the COI. In its statement, the Union explained that it was notified by the Board of the GPHC that a COI into a petition against Collene Hicks, the Director of Nursing Services, would be launched. According to the GPSU, the Board had in fact asked the Union to name a member to sit on the Commission. The Union’s choice was Mr. Reginald Brotherson, Per-

manent Secretary of the Department of Public Service within the Ministry of the Presidency. The statement added, “The GPSU felt it necessary to have members of the commission who have had no relationship with the GPHC neither past, present nor in the near future, to be selected as members.” However, the Union in its statement, explained that it subsequently learnt of the other members of the (Continued on page 11)

Finance Minister Winston Jordan receiving the CHDR 2016 Report from Mikiko Tanaka UN Resident Coordinator in the company of Kenroy Roach, UNDP Regional Advisor (at extreme left) and Dr. Barbara Reynolds, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, UG (at extreme right)

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Barama to meet Labour officials on workers’ future The Ministry of Social Protection has called for a meeting with Barama Company Limited (BCL) to discuss its workers’ future. “Out of concern for the employees as well as the future of the company, the Ministry has invited the company along with the last known recognised trade union for discussions pertaining to the possible impact the company’s contemplated actions is likely to have on the workers future,” a statement from the ministry said yesterday. BCL announced earlier this week that it was scaling back on operations amidst falling world prices on timber. A new agreement was being negotiated with the Government of Guyana. The Ministry said that it is always concerned with the socio-economic affairs of workers throughout the entire employment spectrum of Guyana. “Whether they are from the public sector or the private sector, the wellbeing of workers is always foremost in the focus of the Ministry. Such issues as workermanagement relations, working conditions, occupational safety and health and security of tenure are always positioned within

the immediate interest of the ministry.” The Malaysian-owned company, up to last year, had around 800 workers at its Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara and Buck Hall, Essequibo River locations. Barama says it wants to concentrate on its veener and plywood operations and sawmilling. The company has also built up a network of suppliers and other service providers who will be affected from the closure of the logging activities. The company has notified Government that it no longer wants the 1.6M hectares of forests it controls. It was the largest forest concessions holder in the country and has been here since the 90s. Barama was also one of two major investors that came to Guyana in the early 90’s, along with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT). On Thursday, the Ministry of Natural Resources said that it plans to launch a review to determine exactly what Guyana benefitted from over the last 25 years. Following the review, the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) will be determining

Barama’s Buck Hall, Essequibo River operations

what to do with the 1.6M hectares that BCL has now given up. With BCL’s concessions and 600,000-plus hectares that were repossessed recently from Chinese-owned BaiShanLin, Guyana now has an additional 2M hectares of forests lands available for reallocations. The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) had confirmed that BCL has notified the Government of Guyana that it has opted not to renew its Forest Concession Agreement which expired on October 15, 2016, after 25 years. The ministry said that discussions on the renewal had commenced over a year ago, with BCL being provided with a draft agreement for review and negotiations. A task force was established to examine Barama’s operations to pave the way for a new agreement.

“BCL in communicating its decision not to renew its concession noted that the company concluded that it was no longer viable to continue in the forestry operations in view of prevailing global prices.” Barama’s decision has given Guyana some opportunities, the ministry said Thursday. “The decision of BCL presents an opportunity to engage in a s t o c k t a k i n g exercise where Government can objectively assess the value of the standing forest through its contribution to the ecosystem while simultaneously examining the value of the past 25 years to the people of Guyana.” According to Government officials, this review will likely entail examining what Barama exported in terms of logs and the revenues that were earned

by the GFC and other state agencies from the various operations of the company. The assessment would be pivotal in the decision-making process a s i t r e l a t e s t o economic empowerment and development of sustainable livelihoods of present and future generations. The Ministry made it clear that the concessions that Barama held will be up for re-allocations. “Following the review, the Guyana Forestry Commission will shortly be making a determination about the future allocation of the Barama concession.” Already, the MNR has mandated GFC to work with Barama to ensure a “smooth closure” of all concession related activities within the stipulated period, and to ensure that “all labour and other related issues” are fully addressed in a holistic manner in keeping with applicable laws and regulations. “The government thanks BCL for its involvement over the past

25 years, and will be engaging the company in further discussions on its stated interest in the continuation of the added value activities.” While Barama initially started with the extraction of logs, it eventually ventured into manufacturing of plywood and evolved to include veneer and sawn timber operation. In 1993, it established a plywood operation. This was followed by the establishing of a sawmill operation in 1996 at its Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara site and two others at the Buckhall site in 2006 and 2008. According to GFC figures, Guyana has almost 12.6M hectares of state forest with around 6.9M allocated for forestry and other activities. GFC, through consecutive Governments, has been pushing forestry operators to increase production, arguing that the annual allowable cuts were far below expectations.

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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MINISTER OF FINANCE Dear Minister of Finance, Here are some suggestions for the National Budget for next year. 1. Increase the old age pension to $25,000 per month but ensure that only persons living in Guyana and who can prove that they are older than sixty-five can receive the pension. If a man can get two fake passports, given all those checks that take place at the Passport Office then it cannot be hard for a fifty-year old man to obtain a fake birth certificate to say that he is seventy-five. Guyanese are barefaced. At GPL they have some young strong men with

only streaks of grey in their hair, joining the elderly line. You have women who have high tummies who pretend there are pregnant and join the same line. Any and every thing can happen, Verify those names on the pension list and raise the pension. 2. Stop granting duty free concessions on vehicles to persons from outside of Guyana. This is big rip off and it is unfair to Guyanese who stay and work here to not be able to afford a simple car. Yet people who can afford to pay their duties are given duty free concessions on vehicles simply because they have lived outside of Guyana for a

certain period. 3. Remove the income tax threshold so that everyone can learn to pay taxes. But lower the tax band for those earning below $50,000 per month so that their present incomes are not affected. 4. Allow Guyanese to leave this country for the Caribbean with their driver license or ID card. People should not have to use their passport to go to Suriname. In fact, some people go to Suriname without a passport. 5. Close down NCN and GINA and the Department of Public Information and all those public relations personnel in government offices. If

Ex-parte injunctions essentially breach the law of natural justice Should only be granted in special circumstances – Senior Counsel An undetermined number of ex-parte injunctions are granted by Judges of the High Court each year. Such an order has become a source of concern for many individuals and entities seeking litigation since whenever an ex parte injunction is granted it is based on hearing the case of one party in the

matter, a procedure which is essentially in breach of the laws of natural justice. According to certain legal definitions, an injunction can be simply described as a judicial order that prohibits a party of litigation from beginning or continuing an act threatening or invading the legal right of another, or that compels a

person to carry out an act. An ex parte order or injunction is granted whether prohibitive or mandatory on an application of one party without the other party (adversely affected) is heard. But the law of natural justice requires that both should be given a hearing before the (Continued on page 31)

Dem boys seh... Who seh crime gone down Since last year, ever since de government change de police begin to talk how crime going down. People always seh that is only a fool gun show off. People does only sit down and wait fuh see who gun jump up, then people gun burst ee bubble. Every month de police talk about how crime on de decline suh de bandits decide to show dem that it ain’t so. Imagine gunmen go inside a supermarket to rob a man. That man actually go in de supermarket to kill time but de gunmen was out waiting to rob him. Because he tek long to come out, de gun-

men go in and rob him. Dem didn’t even concern that de security guard inside had a gun because dem shoot him and all. Jagdeo call a press conference and he tell people that crime was never so bad. Well if he can seh suh it got to be that he can lie bareface. He was de president when he Ministers use to frighten to sleep in dem own house because of de gunmen but he never see so much crime as today. People robbing dem own family and mekking de police believe is strangers. Husband killing wife and Jagdeo seh is de government cause that.

But dem boys notice something. When was de jubilee and all dem policemen been in lying dem didn’t have no robbery. When de police boss man seh crime gone down all of a sudden it gone up. Dem boys seh is de junior testing de boss, telling him that he talking too fast. Poor Soulja Bai, he can’t seh nutten because Rum Jattan ain’t saying nutten bout he crime plan. In fact, dem boys want to know if he existing because dem ain’t seeing him. De message is that people shouldn’t talk about crime going down. Talk half and get out you tape and measure crime.

the government does its job properly it does not need to bother about its image. 6. Offer teachers and police, a 100% increase in salary. Where will the money come from? Cancel some of those unnecessary contracts which are being funded with state resources and institute an education surcharge on all workers, public and private sector. 7. Institute a four-day workweek in government offices. This will result in an increase in earnings by 20% since instead of working five days per week, workers will work four days. They will be happier and come to work on

Mondays prepared to work rather than being tired from the two-day weekend. 8. Cut out all overtime for government workers. Ask each worker to write down what they would have done each day and then assess whether they are doing enough work. Instead of paying overtime, employ additional persons if there is additional work to be done. Some government offices should have a second shift that allows some in from 5 in the afternoon until 1:00 am. More people will be employed and more work will be done. 9. Build a new bridge across the Demerara River to

ease the congestion. The over-fly that is being proposed will not work. Guyana is too big a country to be having flyovers. There is need for another road from the back of Diamond to the East Coast. 10. Appoint an internal auditor in every government Ministry. It will give you less headaches.

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=== The Freddie Kissoon column ===

The WPA has become a “nonexistent” hypocrite I was never in love with the political movements that were founded to fight against colonialism, post-colonial autocracy, race discrimination, human rights violations, bad governance etc. I joined and was active because there was a higher goal. I participated and made personal sacrifices because of higher dreams, the dreams of liberating the poor and powerless. I came from that class in Wortmanville in South Georgetown. I know what race discrimination, colour prejudice, economic deprivation, class snobbery, denied opportunities, police intransigence, democratic violations are. I have seen them all while growing up in Wortmanville with two very poor parents and six siblings. I joined the bandwagons each time one passed

my way. I wanted to fight for poor people. But I was never impressed with the leadership of those broad social forces that I was part of. Many of those leaders I simply disliked or to put it more harshly, I never could have respected and put my faith in. They were not goodhearted people. Throughout my political career I have named many of them. I don’t care. As the editor of this newspaper is wont to say; “I don’t take my plate to them.” I have also named many individuals in those movements that I came to admire. Their names are scattered in the thousands of columns I have written since 1988. My instinct worked in the direction of individuals, not the movement itself. For that reason I never held a party card

in all my life. I spoke at more political meetings than any other AFC leader during the 2015 election campaign. I am not an AFC member, will not join and have nothing in common with the ideological anatomy of the AFC. The AFC is essentially a middle class entity; I see nothing wrong with that. My preference is for working class parties that have open pro-working class agendas and dreams. This is a long preface to the point I want to get at and that is the fictions the remnants of WPA are perpetuating on the Guyanese people. Each time I write a political assessment of the moribund WPA, Tacuma Ogunseye replies and performs a task that appears quite dishonest. He focuses on me; the messenger. He most blatantly ignores

the contents, the manifest points in my message. In yesterday’s issue of KN, he was at it again. It is always about Freddie Kissoon and not the physiology of the WPA. He ignores the questions I raise about the existence of the WPA. He will do it again. David Hinds joined Ogunseye and penned a Chronicle column on my contention that the WPA is virtually dead. But as in the myriad of replies to me by Ogunseye, there was no elongation of my main polemical point about the demise of the WPA. There is a weekly Chronicle article by David but there is no mention of the quintessential life of the WPA in government and the role the WPA plays in Government. Are Ogunseye and David so assured that they believe

Guyanese accept the WPA is alive and is part of the policymaking of the APNU+AFC regime? Here are three simple absurdities from the world of the WPA. One is from Ogunseye. In response to my opinion that the Coalition is faltering, he observed; “The WPA sees it as its responsibility to do everything in its power to halt the slide.” What power the WPA has and who is the WPA? And what strategies and mechanisms it inserts into governance structures to “halt the slide.” Secondly, Ogunseye went public and wrote that the WPA’s representative in Cabinet has refused to report on Cabinet decisions to the WPA. This is unheard of in the history of coalition politics anywhere in the world. Yet David could see it fit to write on the political deportment of the AFC but cannot pen a line on that outrageous position of Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine. The third example is from a body calling itself, WPA Overseas Friends.

Frederick Kissoon It published a long letter in the Stabroek News detailing the WPA’s position in the Patriotic Coalition for Democracy in the 70s and 80s. Why go back so long? Why not write on the WPA’s position in the Government of Guyana of which it is a part. I would never deny the phenomenally great role of the WPA in the seventies of which I played my little small part. But this is what the WPA has come to forty years after? Do the remnants of the WPA seriously think that the Guyanese population believes that it is a force within the corridors of power? Really! What is Rodneyism?

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Local stakeholders trained in competition laws Starting Monday until yesterday, 15 participants from various government agencies, including staffers of the Guyana Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission, attended a workshop on competition law and policy designed to increase local knowledge and awareness of these areas and build institutional capacity in the context of the implementation of the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Competition law seeks to ensure that firms compete fairly with each other by applying appropriate rules. Competition can bring a number of benefits to Guyanese firms and consumers alike, such as driving enterprise, innovation and efficiency among businesses and creating a wider choice of goods for consumers to select from, that may be of a higher quality and lower cost. Participants benefitted from in-depth presentations on the three areas of competition law: anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominance, and merger control regulation. According to a statement on the workshop, other topics covered included the economics of competition and the methodology for investigating a case using the Rule of Reason Procedure along with international dimensions of competition law and the evolution of jurisprudence in the US and EU for

dealing with cross border anti-competitive conduct. “Participants also learnt the methodology of conducting market studies and gained an understanding of the importance of institution building, strategies for developing institutional capacity and winning support for the institution.” Dr. Taimoon Stewart, associate senior lecturer in Law at the University of the West Indies, was the workshop facilitator. The training course is an activity of the CARIFORUMEU Capacity Building Project on Competition, Public Procurement and Customs and Trade Facilitation that is funded under the 10th EDF and under the overall supervision of the CARIFORUM Directorate, CARICOM. The project’s main objective is to support CARIFORUM Member States’ beneficial integration in the world economy. Specifically, it seeks to help member states implement their EPA commitments in the areas of Competition, Procurement and Customs and Trade Facilitation. A consortium led by Equinoccio (Spain) which includes the London School of Economics (UK), SGS (Netherlands) and Maastricht School of Management (Netherlands) is implementing the project. George Seales, a commissioner of the Competition and Consumer Affairs Commis-

GPSU rejects Commission... From page 7 commission and by way of letter informed Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dr. Carl ‘Max’ Hanoman, of its displeasure with the Commission selected. This reaction, the Union said was due to the fact that some of the members have an association with the GPHC. “It was felt that the association could influence the conduct of the inquiry making it prejudicial against the subject of the inquiry,” the GPSU has asserted. But even after yet another letter, dated October 18, 2016 to the Board Chairman on the same matter, the Union said that “the GPHC went ahead with the Commission as originally set out.”

“The Committee has gone ahead with the inquiry ignoring the GPSU’s challenges/ concerns which are: (1) Departure from standard practice; (2) Obvious inclusion of elements whose credibility the Union challenges,” the GPSU has emphasised. In addition to Brotherson, the Commissioners of the COI are former GPSU General Secretary turned Attorney-at-law, Chandrawattie Persaud, the Chairperson; Ms. Laurelle Daw, Director of Nursing Services at the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital for the past seven years; Dr. Anwar Hussain who has racked-up decades of service at the GPHC and former Auditor General, Mr. Anand Goolsarran.

Participants at the workshop with trainer, Dr.Taimoon Stewart (front centre) and Mr. Patrick Martens of Equinoccio (front right) sion, noted that he found the workshop to be very educational and informative. He said that the training he received had given him a wider scope in com-

petition law coupled with economics. Seales recommended that all consumer bodies should hold similar collaborative seminars and workshops.

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Opposition Leader misleads nation on Lotto Fund “They are still to transfer the Lotto Fund (to the treasury)…They have all these huge sums of money that they can use to do much more; but they are keeping it.” So said Opposition Leader,

Bharrat Jagdeo at his most recent press conference held at Freedom House, on Thursday. This press conference was aired live on People’s Progressive Party/Civic radio station

which he gave to the party days before he left administrative office. Jagdeo’s remark about the lotto fund came as he sought to make a point to the effect that the coalition government

is holding out when there is much more that it can be doing for the nation’s wellbeing. Jagdeo said that the APNU+AFC government is only crying out about the lack of money in the treasury when

it has “all this money lying around in these accounts.” Jagdeo said that this is yet another campaign promise that the government has reneged on. However, once again the former President has been proven a liar. But even the Auditor General has proven Jagdeo wrong. Auditor General, Deodat Sharma reported that 89 bank accounts were closed in 2015 and their balances amounting to over $2B were transferred into the Consolidated Fund. This proves that the government has indeed closed accounts that Jagdeo himself insisted on keeping during his presidential tenure, the report suggested. The Auditor General report also spoke specifically about the Lotto Fund. Sharma said, “Over the years the Lotteries Commission received proceeds from the National Lottery which were used to make payments ap-

proved by Cabinet. These proceeds were retained in a bank account and no amounts were paid over to the Consolidated Fund.” In 2015, the Ministry budgeted for Lottery Receipts of $1billion under the category of Miscellaneous Revenue. Amounts totalling $1.069 billion were transferred from the bank account to the Consolidated Fund.” Last year, Raphael Trotman, during a post-Cabinet briefing, told the media that a decision was made to transfer the Lotto Fund into the Consolidated Fund. In 1995, the Government of Guyana and the Canadian Bank Note (CBN) entered into an agreement for the latter to conduct a national lottery. CBN agreed to pay a licensee fee to the Government of 24 per cent of the gross revenue while the Government undertook not to permit another lottery of similar scope during the life of the agreement.

Govt suspicious over spate of blackouts - faulty Chinese-built transmission line proving a problem The recent spate of blackouts across the country has sparked suspicions from Government whether the outages were coincidences…or something else. Questioned yesterday about the outages which have been rocking the country, in all three counties, Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, disclosed that the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has been ordered to provide a report on the outages, which has caused shutdowns in not only the Demerara and Berbice interconnected grid, but in other areas like Bartica, Region Seven; and Essequibo coast, Region Two. According to Harmon, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, who was performing the duties of the President, on Thursday asked GPL to provide a report. With widespread complaints and a growing pressure on Government to fix the situation, the administration appeared to be mystified by the outages. “It seems as if some of these things were happening so much at the same time…all across the country… as if it was something planned. We will have to investigate the occurrence of these things almost simultaneously,” Harmon said. Not only were there three separate shutdowns earlier this week that saw customers

in Berbice and Demerara without power for hours, but engines in both Bartica and Anna Regina, went down, forcing GPL to cut power in load shedding exercises to several communities in these areas. In Demerara, the problems are a combination of bad timings or something else. They have to do with new infrastructure on which Guyana spent billions of dollars early last year. The infrastructure included new high-power transmission lines along the coastlands, along with seven sub-stations and new submarine cables across the Berbice and Demerara rivers, creating an interconnected system. There were both built by Chinese contractor, CMC. The submarine cable across the Demerara River was damaged, apparently by a vessel back in July. The damaged cable in effect cut the delivery of excess power from the new 26megawatt power plant at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Demerara to the city and Berbice. The absence of the excess power left GPL on the edge, with frequent trips causing shutdowns. GPL is currently shipping in critical repair parts for the damaged cable, but it is unlikely that it will be fixed before next (Continued on page 31)

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Govt. welcomes any intervention by Opposition to move Guyana forward-Harmon By Kiana Wilburg Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, asserted yesterday, that the government welcomes any intervention by the Opposition on issues that will essentially move Guyana forward. The Cabinet Secretary made this assertion during a post Cabinet press conference which was held yesterday at the Ministry of the Presidency. There, Harmon was informed that Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo recently stated that he remains open to talks on the future of the sugar industry. He was then questioned to say if Government is interested in exploring this avenue for communication with the Opposition. The Minister of State said, “We have always said that we welcome the Opposition Leader; we welcome the Opposition to have conversations on these matters but we do not wish to have these matters, such as the Guyana Sugar Corporation

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo (GuySuCo), to be made into a political football.” Harmon added, “And we believe that it is an important matter which has to do with the livelihood of a significant number of Guyanese. We believe that it has to do with the economic future of this

county and therefore any conversation on GuySuCo we would welcome Jagdeo and crew to discuss it with us. “We have said before that we welcome any intervention

Quarrel leads to wounding

The fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court Quin George, 24, of Lichfield Village, West Coast Berbice, was on Friday placed on $60,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Rondel Weever at the Fort We l l i n g t o n M a g i s t r a t e Court to answer a charge of felonious wounding. According to reports, around 15:30 hours, on Tuesday, a pedestrian narrowly escaped being struck by a motor car travelling along Cemetery Road in Hopetown, West Coast Berbice. An argument subsequently ensued b e t w e e n George, the accused, and Devon Griffith, 24, known as Two-Kick, of Cemetery Road, Hopetown, West Coast Berbice, as to whether it was the pedestrian or the driver of the car who was in the wrong. The argument became heated and eventually gave way to a physical encounter resulting in Griffith being wounded in the head. Griffith was rushed to the

Fort Wellington Hospital, where he received initial treatment before he was transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital, and was admitted. George, who is said to be a ‘pork knocker’ was subsequently arrested and charged. He was placed before the Fort Wellington

Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charge of felonious wounding. Given the nature of the offence he was not required plead, but was placed on bail, and given a date to return to court. Griffith has since been released from hospital.

by Jagdeo and team to speak on this.” The Minister of State added that the government is willing to have discussions with the Opposition on the

future of the sugar industry and any other matter of national importance. The issue of the sugar industry has been a contentious one, between the coalition administration and the political opposition. In fact, President David Granger recently reminded the Parliament that the gravest financial problem it inherited from the former regime was perhaps the bankruptcy of the Guyana Sugar Corporation which had $89 billion in debts. “Your Government was forced to divert money from economic development and social projects to rescue the ailing corporation with an immediate injection of $12 billion. An additional $11 billion had to be provided the next year, 2016, making a total of $23 billion bailout in 18 months,” the President said. Granger said that these transfers exclude the servicing of GUYSUCO’s debts in respect of the Skeldon Estate Modernisation Project which he deemed as a monstrous and monumental US$200 million mistake and, probably, Guyana’s single most costly industrial catastrophe of all time. On the other hand, Jagdeo has been bashing the government for its failure to solve the issues affecting the sugar industry since it as-

sumed office. But he admitted on Thursday, that indeed, the PPP regime should shoulder some of the blame for the prevailing sugar woes. Jagdeo made this comment during a press conference held at Freedom House. There, the former President was asked by Kaieteur News whether he felt that the PPP should essentially take some responsibility for the troubles facing the sugar sector since those problems did not start 17 months ago. The Opposition leader said, “On the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), I agree. I agree absolutely with what you are saying that the troubles with GuySuCo started some time back and a lot of it had to do with the cuts in the European Union prices where we lost about US$40M per annum of revenue.” Jagdeo added, “But when the Government decided to close the Wales Sugar Estate, I said to them that we are prepared to sit and talk about the future of the industry because we believe that it has a future.” The Opposition Leader stressed that he is still open to talks with the government once there is a serious approach that is not political or a product of some Cabinet Committee.

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Male security guard shot by fleeing bandit

The Electronics City store located in the Fogarty’s Building on Water Street Electronics City security guard, 27-year-old Quacy Anthony Joseph, was shot during a robbery which took place within the electronics store in the Fogarty’s building, Water Street at around 11:00hrs yesterday. Store manager, Corlis James, said that a customer, Abdel Odie entered the store holding a package. She said that the man browsed the store for about 10 to 15 minutes. “After that, another guy came in the store. He was wearing a white hat, a short (black) guy walked up behind the customer and grabbed him from behind and said give me your bag.” James said that Odie refused to comply with the order given to him. She said that it was at this point that the young man pulled out his gun and cocked it.

“You heard the crank, and he pointed it at the customer and then the man released the bag.” She said that the security guard, Joseph, heard the crank as well and as a result stood up to ascertain what was happening. “The gunman saw that our security had a gun, so he shot at him and he fell to the ground and the man with the white hat ran out.” Joseph was shot in his abdomen. According to further reports, it appears that Odie had withdrawn about $1.3M from Republic Bank and was followed by the gun toting bandit. The robber made good his escape on a CG motorcycle. A similar incident also took place earlier that day. A male juvenile allegedly stole a handbag belonging to a female security guard. The incident occurred about

04:00hrs yesterday in the compound of Republic Bank Limited at Waterloo and New Market Streets, Georgetown. The suspect was observed in the compound in possession of the guard’s bag which she had left on a table. The guard raised an alarm and the suspect dropped the bag and scaled the fence. The guard then alerted her supervisor from the Professional Guard Service and shortly after a patrol responded. Further, a male matching the description given was seen in the area and confronted. During this process a round was discharged from the shotgun of a member of the police patrol. The suspect was rushed to the GPHC where he is presently undergoing surgery for gunshot wounds to his face and body.

Poor record keeping at Indigenous Affairs Ministry hampers AG’s audit The poor record keeping at the Ministry of Indigenous People’s Affairs is of serious concern to the Auditor General, Deodat Sharma. The Auditor General said that the absence of basic accounting procedures acted as a barricade in the way of the thorough state audit he attempted to carry out at that ministry. In his 2015 report, Sharma noted that it is a requirement for the Ministry to maintain a contract register to record the details of all contracts awarded, so that the ministry can monitor the progress and payments of these contracts. However, Sharma said that “it was again observed for 2015 that the contract register was still not properly written up to reflect all contracts awarded by the Ministry.” Further, he said that contracts were still given a new contract number every time a progress payment was

made. As such, Sharma said that it was difficult for his Auditors to ascertain how many contracts were awarded by the Ministry and to determine the status of those contracts where more than one payment was effected. It was indicated that this problem has been highlighted before by the Office of the Auditor General. In Sharma’s report he said, “It was again observed” indicating that this was a long standing problem. Kaieteur News understands that the problem started under the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic administration and continued under the APNU+AFC government. Sharma said that the Audit Office “again recommends” that the ministry ensures that the contract register is properly written up and that the systems put in place are functioning properly. The Ministry of Indigenous People’s

Minister of Indigenous People’s Affairs, Sydney Allicock Affairs responded to Sharma’s concerns. The Head of Budget Agency indicated that a contract register was in place. “However, it was not properly maintained in 2015. This situation has been corrected in that the Ministry has now put systems in place to have the contract register properly written up.”

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Saturday October 22, 2016

South Africa to quit troubled U.N. war crimes court PRETORIA (Reuters) South Africa said yesterday it was quitting the International Criminal Court (ICC) because membership conflicted with diplomatic immunity laws, dealing a new blow to the struggling court and angering the political opposition. Pretoria last year announced its intention to leave after the ICC criticised it for disregarding an ICC order to arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir,

who is accused of genocide and war crimes, when he visited South Africa. Bashir has denied the accusations. The United Nations yesterday confirmed receipt of South Africa’s withdrawal from the ICC, which will take effect one year from Oct. 19, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said, making it the first country to quit the Rome Statute. The instrument of withdrawal document, seen by Reuters on Thursday, has

been assessed by the United Nations as bona fide and is being processed, Dujarric said. The announcement puts new pressure on the world’s first permanent war crimes court, which has had to fight off allegations of pursuing a neo-colonial agenda in Africa, where all but one of its 10 investigations have been based. Burundi’s leader this week signed a decree to leave the ICC, and Kenya’s parliament is considering following

suit. Justice Minister Michael Masutha told reporters in Pretoria that the government would draft a bill to repeal its adoption of the ICC’s Rome Statute to preserve its ability to conduct active diplomatic relations, and had given formal notice. He said the statute conflicted with South Africa’s Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges Act, which was cited in the decision to ignore the court order to detain Bashir, but that the government remained committed to the fight against impunity. The ICC said it had not formally been notified of South Africa’s intention to leave the Rome Statute. A document seen by Reuters at the United Nations on Thursday showed the move would take effect one year after notice was formally received by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The document was signed by South African International Relations Minister Maite NkoanaMashabane and dated Oct. 19. James Selfe, a senior executive at the main opposition Democratic Alliance, said it would file a court application on Friday to set aside the plans “on the grounds that it is unconstitutional, irrational and procedurally flawed”. Former South African judge Richard Goldstone, a respected figure in international justice and former chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, said quitting the ICC was “demeaning” to the country. “From a moral standpoint, it detracts from the inspiring legacy of the administration of President Nelson Mandela that so strongly supported the ICC,” said Goldstone, chairman of the advisory

Omar Hassan al-Bashir board of the coalition for the ICC, which provides strategic guidance on key issues. Masutha, the justice minister, said Pretoria would now drop its appeal to the Constitutional Court against a ruling that the state had made an error in letting Bashir leave the country. In June 2015 Bashir was in Johannesburg for an African Union summit. He was allowed to leave even though the ICC had ordered that he be kept in South Africa until the end of a hearing on whether he should be detained under a global arrest warrant. The High Court ruled Bashir should have been arrested to face genocide charges at the ICC since, as a signatory of the Rome Statute, Pretoria was obliged to implement arrest warrants. The government lost an appeal at the Supreme Court in March and the appeal to the Constitutional Court was its last chance of overturning the ruling. The ICC, which sits in The Hague and has 124 member states, is the first legal body with permanent interna-

tional jurisdiction to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. But it has secured only five substantive verdicts in its 14-year history, all of them on African suspects, and several African countries have expressed concern that the continent is being picked on. In January, the African Union backed a proposal by Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta for officials of various member states to “develop a road map” on possible withdrawal from the Rome Statute. The decision was not legally binding as the final decision to leave the ICC would be taken by individual nations. A high-profile ICC attempt to try Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto over post-election violence failed amid diplomatic lobbying and allegations of witness intimidation. Adan Duale, leader of the majority in the Kenyan parliament, said impetus was building there to pass a bill on quitting the ICC that has been slowly making its way through the assembly.

Peru’s wealthy president mocked for complaining about salary (Reuters) Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a former investment banker who reported earning $700,000 per year before taking office in July, faced a wave of criticism yesterday for complaining about his salary as a public official. Kuczynski’s comments, posted online in a video by local daily newspaper Correo, come as his centrist government has been reeling from a corruption scandal involving a former adviser and deadly protests at one of the country’s biggest copper mines. The 78-year-old Oxford-

and-Princeton-educated former World Bank economist was pitching a reform to raise the salaries of local mayors before he turned to his own earnings. “The president of the Republic makes half of what a minister makes. There are two ministers here. Between the two of them they make four times what I make. Does that seem fair to you?” Kuczynski said before a group representing municipalities. Kuczynski’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Peruvians took to social media to deride the remarks,

some drawing comparisons with three volunteer firemen who died this week trying to pull people from a fire near the outskirts of Lima. “Before he said his dream was to become president to ‘serve Peru.’Amnesia? Senior moment?’ said Twitter user Rubem Dos Santos. But some Twitter users said Kuczynski should be paid more than his ministers. The president of Peru earns 15,600 soles ($4,588) per month before taxes. Cabinet ministers earn 30,000 soles per month. The minimum wage in Peru is 850 soles ($250).

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Corrupt Brazilian senators aided by cops: police Brasília (AFP) - The head of Brazil’s Senate police service and three other officers were arrested yesterday on charges of helping senators caught in corruption scandals to dodge investigators. A giant probe into an embezzlement and bribery network centered on state oil company Petrobras has already targeted two ex-presidents, ministers, senior legislators, and some of Brazil’s richest men. The latest suspects are members of the congressional security service, including the Senate force’s chief, who “aimed to obstruct investigative operations by the Federal Police against senators and ex-senators, using counter-intelligence technology,” the Federal Police said in a statement. A large number of police vehicles converged outside Congress early Friday as searches were conducted inside. The G1 news site reported that the four officers conducted sweeps for police listening devices at the homes and offices of Senator Fernando Collor de Mello, who is also a former president, and former senator Jose Sarney and Senator Edison Lobao, both of whom are from current President Michel Temer’s center-right PMDB party. All three politicians have been implicated in the Petrobras probe, codenamed Operation Carwash. The police, allegedly working illegally on their behalf, made four visits to the senators’ houses and allegedly in at least two cases flew

Fernando Collor de Mello at public expense to their home states to conduct the counter-bugging sweeps. However Senate President Renan Calheiros, who has also been implicated in the Petrobras scheme, defended the action of the legislature’s police force, saying they were only asked to root out “illegal listening devices.” “The Legislative Police carried out their activities within the framework of the constitution,” he said in a statement. The Operation Carwash probe, which has been running almost three years, has exposed a gargantuan kickback scheme involving a cross section of Brazil’s political and business elite. Prosecutors have aggressively gone after figures once considered untouchable, using a variety of weapons, especially plea bargains in which suspects give inside information in hopes of getting lesser sentences. Wiretaps have also added to an atmosphere of paranoia in the

capital Brasilia. Earlier this week the former speaker of the lower house of Congress, Eduardo Cunha, was jailed on charges that he took millions of dollars in bribes. Popular former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is also accused of taking Petrobras-related bribes and faces three separate corruption court cases. Collor de Mello, who was president from 1990-92 before being impeached and resigning, was accused in August last year of corruption and money laundering. Late Thursday, the prosecutor general’s office gave new details of the charges, saying that Collor de Mello had received at least 29 million reais ($9.2 million) in bribes between 2010 and 2014. The prosecution document said that his wife Caroline Collor de Mello and seven others were part of criminal group, and that the former president should be removed from his senate seat.

No Answers Yet From Govt. On UK Prison Deal Offer The Gleaner - There’s been a further delay in the Opposition getting answers to questions tabled in the Senate on whether the Andrew Holness administration has rejected the offer of the United Kingdom to help Jamaica build a new prison. Opposition Senator Lambert Brown tabled the questions on July 15, which under the rules were due to be answered by the Leader of Government Business in the Senate Kamina Johnson Smith 21 days later on August 5. Parliament was on summer recess by then and resumed sittings last month. This morning when Brown queried, Johnson Smith said she was awaiting

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a response from the Ministry of National Security and will make checks. She did not state what was causing the delay. Leader of Opposition Business Mark Golding suggested that Johnson Smith could get an update from the Junior Minister in the Ministry, Pearnel Charles Junior, who was in the Upper House, but Senate President Tom Tavares Finson did not allow it. He said he was satisfied with Johnson Smith’s explanation. Brown has asked the Government to state whether the help to build a maximum security prison would be beneficial to the Department of Correctional Services and

whether the Holness administration has been meeting with British Government officials since it took over the Government. He has also asked for update figures on British deportations in Jamaica and Jamaicans incarcerated in the UK. During a visit to Jamaica last year September, David Cameron, then UK prime minister, triggered national fury when he said Jamaica had signed an agreement to get 40 per cent of the cost to build a new prison. Cameron revealed that as part of the deal 300 Jamaican nationals who are serving sentences in the UK prison system would be sent back to Jamaica to complete their sentences.

Venezuela thwarts anti-Maduro referendum, foes protest Reuters - Outraged opposition leaders vowed yesterday to focus their battle to remove socialist President Nicolas Maduro on peaceful street protests after judicial and electoral authorities shot down their drive for a referendum against him. The suspension of the opposition’s push for a plebiscite leaves Hugo Chavez’s successor on track to complete his term, which ends in early 2019, despite the OPEC nation’s crushing economic crisis and his own personal unpopularity. It also deals a massive blow to the opposition coalition, which was buoyed by winning legislative elections at the end of last year but has then seen its all-consuming effort for a vote to recall Maduro this year come to nothing. “Our response will not be submission or violence, but a fight,” said coalition head Jesus Torrealba, comparing the Venezuelan opposition’s situation with Polish leader Lech Walesa’s battle against communism in the 1980s. “The government has 80 percent of the country against it; it does not have international support, and it’s breaking both the law and the constitution.” With the opposition due to announce strategies later on Friday, a few dozen angry students took to the streets of Caracas in the morning. They were blocked from marching by police. “Socialism has failed here, everyone can see that,” said student Saray Nava, 18, among demonstrators outside a university. “This disaster affects us young people the most. We don’t want to leave like so many have. We

Nicolas Maduro want to work in Venezuela, have children in Venezuela.” Citing court orders, Venezuela’s election board on Thursday suspended the next phase in the opposition’s referendum push - the collection of 4 million signatures to trigger the plebiscite - that had been scheduled for next week. Critics say both the judiciary and the election authority are both subservient to the government, and barely any of their decisions have gone against Maduro since his rule began in 2013. Adding to their fury, opposition figures published a purported court document saying eight of them, including Torrealba and twice-presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, had been ordered not to leave Venezuela. Some of the harder-line opposition figures, including veteran activist Maria Corina Machado and jailed protest leader Leopoldo Lopez’s wife Lilian Tintori, are urging civil disobedience. “This dictatorship will not grant us any-

thing, we have to achieve change in peace, democracy and - above all - in the street,” Lopez’s Popular Will party said. In 2014, opposition protests led to 43 deaths, including security force members and both government and opposition supporters. Many of Venezuela’s 30 million people are worried about a fresh bout of unrest. Venezuelans are already suffering from a cruel economic crisis that has families skipping meals amid food shortages and triple-digit inflation. Maduro, a former bus driver and union leader elected three years ago after Chavez died from cancer, has seen his popularity tumble to just above 20 percent in hand with a recession now in its third year. While foes say failed socialist policies are to blame, the government points to the plunge in oil prices and alleges an U.S.-led “economic war” against it.

PM dismisses call for dismissal of Attorney General PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley says he is not prepared to respond to the “rants of a dysfunctional Opposition Leader” who has been calling for the dismissal of Attorney General Frais Al-Rawi following the publication of a picture allegedly showing his children handling high-powered guns. Last week opposition legislator Dr Roodal Moonilal used the budget debate to display two pictures of children bearing “a striking resemblance to a senior Cabinet minister” with the high-

powered weapons, and provided such -evidence. “I’d say they are children with a striking resemblance to senior government officials. I will now ask the attorney general – I’ll pass it to him – if he recognises the children in this photo.” Moonilal said. Al Rawi has not confirmed or denied that the children in the picture are his, but Prime Minister Rowleyt condemned the action of the opposition legislator saying the children were under the “supervision and control of the state security services” and that they were “photographed by ele-

ments of the state security services”. Persad Bissessar and the main opposition United National Congress (UNC) have been on a campaign to get AlRawi to resign or be dismissed as a result of the photographs. “It is most unfortunate that the irresponsible conduct of AG Al-Rawi has put children in such a precarious position. This is not about young children so much so as it is about the rule of law. Recently, a father was charged for wilful neglect of his child which resulted in the child drowning during floods.

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Ex-parte injunctions essentially breach... From page 12 court can make a ruling or determination in a matter. Attorney-at-law Edward Luckhoo, S.C explained that such an order by the court, ought to be only granted in exceptional circumstances and where the party applying for the injunction would suffer irreparable harm that cannot be compensated through damages or a settlement. For example, an ex-parte injunction should be granted in instances where a person’s possession or property is in receipt of a credible threat that the property is about to be destroyed. However, where such harm is not likely to occur unless there is clear breach of legal right, an ex-parte injunction should not be granted and the court ought to grant service on the other party to be heard before any order is made. Mr Luckhoo stressed that an important facet of an application for an ex parte injunction is that there must be full disclosure of all material facts, both in favour of and against applicant. If it established that there is no full disclosure of the material facts, the ex parte order is discharged for that reason alone. Senior Counsel Luckhoo explained that an ex parte order is generally made until a short returnable date to give the other party are opportunity to show cause why the injunction ought not be continued. He contended that mandatory ex-parte injunctions ought not to be granted by the Court except in incomparable (extreme) circumstances. Kaieteur News has had its share of lawsuits, all of which featured a number of ex parte or-

ders. One such instance involved former Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur. In 2014, Sattaur filed a suit against the Kaieteur News seeking in excess of $500 million in damages for what he claims was libel contained in its ‘Dem Boys Seh’ columns and news reports. Sattaur, had an ex-Parte application filed by the firm Satram and Satram. He also managed to secure an interim injunction retraining publisher Glenn Lall, editor Adam Harris and the National Media and Publishing Company Limited— named as the defendants in the action—from further writing, printing, publishing or circulating the alleged defamatory words contained in editions published between August 31 and September 23, 2014. Sattaur had contended that after he initiated an investigation into the importation of two vehicles by remigrants Narootandeo and Gharbassi Brijnanan that resulted in the seizure of the two vehicles, Lall, Harris and the newspaper began a campaign to “defame, malign, degrade and humiliate” him in the performance of his duties as Commissioner-General and in his personal life. He asked for the injunction out of fear that the newspaper would continue to be used to defame him. In that matter, Justice Sandra Kertzious granted the injunction and an in-chambers hearing was set on Sattaur’s application to determine whether the injunction would be continued until the hearing and determination of the action.

Govt suspicious over spate of... From page 12 month.Then in the city, a transmission line linking the Kingston and Sophia facilities of GPL has developed faults. GPL reportedly carried out some repairs but the line is continuing to face problems, proving a major distribution problem. GPL engineers are reportedly now battling to isolate the faults. In the meantime, the outages continue. Meanwhile, with regards to then situation at Bartica, which has also been plagued with outages, Harmon explained that the three engines developed problems one after the other-— from a faulty radiator, to a cracked

engine head to a stuck piston. Two of the engines went down and left the third one to bear the load. However, that engine also went down recently leaving Bartica without power for hours. GPL was forced to dispatch engineers from MACORP to conduct emergency repairs. According to the Minister, it is the plan to introduce new generation equipment in Bartica, an area considered a key gold mining community. In Essequibo, the problems are similar, so moves are underway to not only install new generators but also to convert the systems to a 60 hertz cycle to increase efficiency.

GPL itself has been slow off the start this year when it comes to getting a number of projects off the ground. A major infrastructure project to install over almost 30,000 smart meters, new transformers and low and medium voltage power lines along the coastlands, has been delayed. Tenders for the project, opened since in February, are still being “assessed” eight months later with bidders becoming nervous. CMC, the same contractor; Cummings Electrical and Fix-it Hardware are some of the companies that have submitted bids for this $3.6B project.

Extra-curricular activities must... From page 18 Minister told the awardees.He, however, emphasised that the onus is on the education system to offer students a rounded education and not churn out one-dimensional citizens. This exhortation, the Minister said, comes at a time when the Ministry has embarked on a curriculum review process that provides an ample opportunity for the aforementioned issue to be addressed. The Minister noted that since “these awards are all about academia, I am disappointed that in addition to the academic awards there are no awards for the non-academic or hybrid aspects to students’ performance, that I believe is an indictment of the system if it purports to aim at the all-round development of our products.” As such the Minister described the ceremony yesterday as a “bitter sweet day.” “I bask in your achievements but bemoan the limitations of

what we have offered you,” said the Minister as he recognised the strain that the system is subjected to when it seeks to provide situations whereby students can write in excess of 20 subjects. The result of such a state of affairs, he said, is not only less time for extra-curricular activities but less time for core subjects and a greater need for extra lessons to supplement the work done in schools. The Minister also observed that extra lessons could have further daunting developments. He was at the time alluding to the fact that some extra lessons commence as early as 05:00 hours and end as late as 22:00 hours. “What manner of person emerges from such lop-sided exposures?” questioned the Minister. He, moreover, urged the awardees to pursue all-round development instead of mere academic development even as he expressed confidence that this course of action will bring them more joyous and arduous

achievements. The Education Minister’s views were supported by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, who performed the duties of President, and delivered the feature address at the award ceremony. While emphasising the importance of science, technology and mathematics, Prime Miniser Nagamootoo stressed the need to have an inclusive and rounded education. “I fully endorse the Minister of Education when he said that he would like to see music being taught in all our schools. We should have children being taught national songs, patriotic songs. We are nothing without a conviction of love of our country...it is our country that moulds and bring us up into citizens of work in the world and therefore it is our music, it is the sports that is introduced into the school that give you time off from concentrated studies that add to your character,” Nagamootoo added.

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Antiguan PM hints at calling off referendum on CCJ ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) — The Antigua and Barbuda Government is hinting at the possibility of “calling off” the national referendum to determine whether or not the island should replace the London-based Privy Council with the Trinidadbased Caribbean Court of Appeal (CCJ) as its final court. “We have always taken the position that we reserve the right to call off the referendum. So if per chance we do a poll later in the year and we are not up to the 67 per cent, we may just decide to call it off, I am not saying any such decision has been taken,” Prime Minister Gaston Browne said. In August, Browne said he had agreed to an opposition request to extend the timeframe for public discussions on the issue indicating that a referendum on the matter would now take place by March next year for the latest. Winding up debate on the Constitutional Referendum Bill 2016, which he piloted, Browne said he hoped the extension is not being utilised to frustrate the process. He said the referendum vote, which had originally been announced for October 27, would be extended “to early next year, January, February, perhaps no later than March of 2017”. Browne on Friday said he also wanted to dismiss any notion that the main opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) is “going to be optimistic” about the CCJ matter “and to probably to suggest any failure would redound to their

Gaston Browne benefit, we pretty much can still determine whether or not we proceed with this”. The prime minister added that the Barbados-based political scientist, Peter Wickham, head of the Caribbean Development Research Services (CADRES), had been contracted to conduct the poll. But he said that another poll, which is expected to be conducted later this year, does not show the required 67 per cent support for the initiative, a decision will have to be made. “We poll the CCJ, we are in a majority position in terms of support, but unfortunately we are not at the 67 per cent which means we have a significant amount of work to do and as you know we continue to pursue the public education of the CCJ to try and get up to the 67 per cent.

“The unfortunate thing about it is that people are voting along party lines and not based on the merit of completing this cycle of independence to have our own court,” he said, noting that he has not seen the commitment of the leadership of the opposition party to the initiative. “I believe if they were serious about this transition that they would have taken a decision to commit the UPP and I will be writing to them to ask them for that level of commitment because it was never the intent for this to be the subject of any partisan politics, but for us to do it collectively and to share in the benefits”. He said the Government is “not getting that shared responsibility from them and you can be assured that they will be challenged from that standpoint”.

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Philippines’ Duterte says didn’t really mean ‘separation’ from U.S. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday he was not severing ties with his country’s long-time ally the United States, but merely pursuing a more independent foreign policy by strengthening relations with China. A day after he provoked fresh diplomatic alarm by announcing his “separation” from Washington, Duterte struck a more conciliatory tone as he arrived back in the Philippines after a four-day visit to Beijing. “It is not severance of ties. When you say severance of ties, you cut diplomatic relations. I cannot do that,” the Philippine leader told reporters at a midnight news conference in his southern home city of Davao. “It’s in the best interest of my countrymen to maintain that relationship.” On Thursday, Duterte had told Chinese and Philippine business people at a forum in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People that America had “lost now”, as he sought what he calls a new commercial alliance with China. “I announce my separation from the United States,” he had said, to sustained applause, adding he would also seek closer ties with Russia. Clarifying his comments yesterday, he said that what he meant was that Manila’s foreign policy need not always “dovetail” with Washington. “As in separation, what I was really saying was separation of foreign policy,” he said. “In the past, and until I became president, we always follow what the United States would give the cue.” The White House, which had responded to the “separation” speech by saying there had been “too many” troubling statements from Duterte recently, was quick to welcome the apparent shift in tone. “Based on his extensive,

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte interacts with reporters during a news conference upon his arrival from a four-day state visit in China at the Davao International Airport, Philippines. REUTERS/Lean Daval Jr. colorful previous comments, there is greater clarity that we would like to get about the intent of President Duterte and his government,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest told a daily news briefing. “But based on what you’ve read me that seems to be a change in tone that is more consistent with the seven decade-long alliance between the United States and the Philippines.” “WHAT THE PRESIDENT MEANT...” Earlier officials in Manila were left scrambling to explain the latest comments from Duterte, whose broadsides against the United States have grown increasingly frequent. “In terms of economic (ties), we are not stopping trade, investment with America,” Trade Minister Ramon Lopez told CNN Phil-

ippines. He said the Philippines was “breaking being too much dependent on one side”. Duterte’s spokesman, Ernesto Abella, said the president had been making a “restatement” of his bid to chart an independent foreign policy. Duterte wanted to “separate the nation from dependence on the U.S. and the West, and rebalance economic and military relations with Asian neighbors” like China, Japan and South Korea, Abella said in statement. Underscoring that, the Chinese and Philippines defense ministers met in Beijing on the sidelines of Duterte’s visit, and pledged to restore security ties, China’s Defence Ministry said. ANTI-U.S. PROTEST Duterte’s efforts to engage China - months after a tribunal in the Hague ruled that Beijing did not have historic rights to the South China Sea in a case

Living in the UK won’t be so easy for Caribbean Nationals soon LONDON, England – Caribbean nationals hoping to find work or study in Britain will have a harder time getting the green light, under an immigration crackdown announced by United Kingdom Home Security. Major new restrictions will prevent foreigners from taking up jobs that Britons can do, and significantly reduce the number of people being allowed into Britain to work and study. Addressing the Conservative Party conference recently, Rudd said the Home Office would soon consult on a new student immigration

system and on tightening the resident labour market test that companies have to pass before recruiting employees from overseas, as part of the drive to reduce net migration – which currently stands at 327,000 – to “sustainable levels”. “The test should ensure people coming here are filling gaps in the labour market, not taking jobs British people could do,” she said. She also announced that mandatory immigration status, including on those who apply for licences to drive taxis, would come into effect this December. And the new drive to re-

duce the flow of overseas students from outside Europe – who account for 167,000 of the 600,000 new migrants each year – is to focus on linking student immigration rules to the quality of colleges and courses for the first time. Rudd said the current system allows favourable employment prospects to all students, regardless of their talents and the university’s quality, when they stopped studying. She noted that while an international student was studying in Britain, their family members could do any form of work.

brought by the previous administration in Manila - mark a reversal in foreign policy since the 71-year-old former mayor took office on June 30.

It has also been in stark contrast to the language he has used against the United States after being infuriated by U.S. criticism of his bloody war on drugs. He has called U.S. President Barack Obama a “son of a bitch” and told him to “go to hell”. On Wednesday, about 1,000 anti-U.S. protesters gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Manila calling for the removal of U.S. troops from a southern Philippine island. Hundreds of left-wing demonstrators burned a replica of the U.S. flag at a rally in Manila yesterday as they called for an end to U.S. military agreements. The United States, a former colonial power, has seen Manila as an important ally in its “rebalance” to Asia in the face of a rising China. The U.S. Embassy press attache in Manila, Molly Koscina, said Duterte’s statements were creating uncertainty. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Washington intended to keep to its alliance commitments to the Phil-

ippines. “Obviously any relationship is one of mutuality and we will continue to discuss that with our Philippine counterparts,” he told reporters on a flight to Turkey. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, asked in Beijing about Duterte’s comments, said countries should not resort to win-lose mentalities. “We should not have Cold War thinking; it’s either you or me, you win I lose, that kind of zero-sum game,” she told a regular press briefing. Wrangling over territory in the South China Sea, where Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims, has consumed China-Philippines relations in recent years. China claims most of the waters through which about $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year, and in 2012 it seized the disputed Scarborough Shoal and denied Philippine fishermen access to its fishing grounds. Arriving home, Duterte said he had discussed Scarborough Shoal with the Chinese, but did not elaborate.

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Tamim leads Bangladesh recovery after Moeen strikes for England Tamim Iqbal continued his fine record against England, Bangladesh v England, 1st Test, Chittagong, 2nd day, ©Getty Images

(Reuters) Opener Tamim Iqbal led Bangladesh’s fightback with a dogged 78 after the hosts had got off to a wobbly start in reply to

England’s first innings 293 on the second day of the opening test yesterday. At stumps the match

was delicately poised with Bangladesh on 221 for five, trailing England by 72 runs, with allrounder Shakib Al Hasan (31) and nightwatchman Shafiul Islam

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(zero) at the crease. England captain Alastair Cook called on Moeen Ali, who top-scored for his side with 68, to bowl the final over of the morning and it took the bearded 29-year-old just two deliveries to break Bangladesh’s opening stand. The openers had looked untroubled until then but Moeen got the ball to spin past Imrul Kayes’ bat to hit the off-stump before number three Mominul Haque edged behind without scoring to leave Bangladesh reeling on 29-2. The hosts almost went through the second session unscathed after Moeen’s threat diminished on a baking afternoon with Tamim and Mahmudullah defending resolutely to keep England at bay at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. Bangladesh lost Mahmudullah (38) to leg-spinner Adil Rashid on the stroke

Maurice Boyce’s death... (From page 35) acknowledge the input of those that are alive. The list is extensive but readily coming to mind are Michael Parris, for his Olympic Bronze medal achievement and Clive Atwell, for his herculean effort in the square jungle that left him somewhat incapacitated. What about those past stalwarts that have been the foundation of the sport but are now encountering vast challenges in their twilight years? Are they not deserving of some attention and assistance or will we reserve such accolades for their departure from Mother Earth? On a daily basis I encounter many of our stalwarts that have encountered misfortune but receive no assistance. Boxers do not receive a pension and most times their purses are not enough to even facilitate a decent savings account. It is time that our punchers enjoy the benefits of their contributions even after their active tenure is done. This article is not meant to dictate who will bell the cat but rather a need to bell the cat and should instigate meaningful discussions among officials and other stakeholders. At the moment our boxers are used and discarded like old cars when in fact they should be placed on a pedestal as antiques to be admired and appreciated. Boyce’s death, what he stood for and what he had wished to achieve should be the catalyst for a renewed culture that presents an opportunity for a second life for our pugilists when their active punching days are done.

of the tea interval but not before he had shared in a vital third-wicket partnership of 90 with Tamim. The left-handed Tamim was given out caught at slip off Moeen but as on numerous occasions already in the match, he managed to get the umpire’s decision overturned on review. Replays showed the ball has missed the edge of his bat. He was finally out caught behind to off-spinner Gareth Batty who is playing his first test in more than 11 years. Bangladesh edged towards England’s total as captain Mushfiqur Rahim (48)

and Shakib dug in but Ben Stokes had Mushfiqur caught behind by wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow near the close of play to leave the game evenly balanced. England had earlier resumed on 258-7 and added 35 runs before debutant off-spinner Mehedi Hasan completed a six-wicket haul with the dismissal of Stuart Broad after left-arm spinner Taijul Islam had removed Chris Woakes and Rashid. Scores: Bangladesh 221 for 5 (Tamim 78, Mushfiqur 48) trail England 293 (Moeen 68, Bairstow 52, Mehedi 6-80) by 72 runs.

West Berbice Chamber of... (From page 35) investment for the future. The Chamber welcomes the undertaking and urged both residents and the business community to come forward and support the activity. The Chamber will continue to support the development of communities within which it serves.” Interest partners and sponsors are asked to come

on board in support. A number of sponsors are already on board so far including Universal DVD Club, Big B’s Restaurant, Leah ’s Homes and Assets, Eworth Auto Sales and Feroze Auto Sales. For more information persons can contact 592-3287977, 687-9009 or email wbcic2015@gmail.com. (Samuel Whyte)

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All set for Rising Sun Turf Club and Jumbo Jet Horserace meet Over 65 horses have been entered for the Rising Sun Turf Club in collaboration with the Jumbo Jet Business entity meet is tomorrow at the Rising Sun Turf Club, Arima Park West Coast Berbice. Eight races are listed for the day with a total of $4M in prize monies, trophies and other valuables. The feature event is for animals classified E and lower and has a competitive field which includes Spit Fire, Kari Azari, Release the Beast, It’s My Choice, Perfect Windstorm, Media day and Burbon Bullet as they compete over 1400M for a winning prize package of $1.2M and trophy. The G1 and lower race has the likes of Red Rocket, Big Man Boss, Keep on Swinging, Cat Messiah, Precise Gold, Campador and Rosetta competing for the prize package of $800,000 and trophy over 1400M. The H2 and lower event has the likes of Appealing Harvest, Big Man Boss, Amazing Run, Isn’t She Charming, Anfield, Rosetta, Princes Paige, Bird Man and Campador over 1100M for a winning package of $ 5 0 0 , 0 0 0 a n d t r o p h y. The two years old Guyana bred event will see Snow Prince, Seven Dust, Super Cat, Street Fighter, Irish Baby, Royal Jet, Awesome Cash, Call me Pepper and Miss Olympic sprint showing their mettle over 1100M for the $500,000 and trophy at stake. The event for animals classified three year old West Indies Maidens that have not earned over $100,000, three year old Guyana Bred Horses and

Courts Pee Wee Schools Football Competition

Group leaders aiming to remain atop Part of the action in this year’s Courts Pee Wee Schools Football Competition being played at the Banks DIH ground, Thirst Park.

Over 65 entered tho se classified “I” and lower for the prize package of $375,000 and trophy has the likes of Jumbo Gift, Liquid Lion, She So Special, Maid of The cat, Ready for Romance and Miss Christina over 1100M. The other three events are for animals classified J and Lower, K and lower and L and lower are all 1100M events and over 30 horses entered to compete. Among the sponsors on board are the Jumbo Jet Enterprise, Banks DIH Limited, Trophy Stall, Shariff Business enterprise and Racing Stables, Chester Fried Chicken of Bush Lot, West Cost, Berbice and the Rising Sun Cattle Ranch among others. Apart from the riveting day of horseracing that is expected to unfold, the organisers have also put forward a number of other attractions, including trampoline and bouncy castle for the benefit of the e n t i r e f a m i l y. The champion jockey, champion stable and champion trainer will all receive trophies and other accolades, compliments of the Trophy Stall and the o r g a n i s e r s . Any last minute information can be accessed by calling Fazal Habibulla at Chester Fry Bush Lot West Coast Berbice on Telephone No 232-0232 or 657-7010 or Chandu 624-9063 or 6089063, Sancho on 602-1567 or Jin Jo on 618-7278 for any details or entry. Race time is 13:00 hrs. (Samuel Whyte)

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After two exciting weekends of action, play in this year’s Courts Pee Wee Schools Football Competition resumes today with 12 more matches planned for the Banks DIH ground, Thirst Park. Group leaders West Ruimveldt, Tucville, North Georgetown, Marian Academy, St. Angela’s, Stella Maris and South Ruimveldt are aiming to remain atop the points’ standings heading into today’s round of matches,

while those below will seek to adjust their positions as well. The matchup of the day is the clash between unbeaten teams North Georgetown and Marian Academy and this encounter promises to provide sizzling action for the fans. Shaquan Walters, who netted a brace in their previous game, will once again take charge of their quest to notch up another victory and support for him should come from Nigel

Lowe, Aken DeSantos and Kellon King. M a r i a n A c a d e m y ’s

ambition to remain undefeated will rest on the services of Malik Darker.

Guyana male triumph, female lose as IGG Volleyball commences Guyana’s Klondyke C.O. Rodney (number 7) attempts a shot against the Surinamese.

G u y a n a ’s q u e s t t o maintain their unbeaten record against Suriname at the Inter Guiana Games male Volleyball got off to a wonderful start yesterday at the National Gymnasium. The Guyanese outplayed their Dutch neighbours to win by three straight sets 2514, 25-17, 25-10. Guyana looked purposeful from the

onset and took a 5-1 lead before Suriname fought back somewhat leaving the score at 8-5 in favour of Guyana going into the first technical time out. H o w e v e r, G u y a n a played as a unit and hardly gave their opponents a chance to take the first set comfortably. Suriname showed improvement, but the

Guyanese proved a handful to win the second set, and dominated the third set much to the delight of the fans. While Guyana dominated the male category it was the opposite in the female division as Suriname won comfortably 25-12, 2512, 25-13. Guyana’s coach Levi Nedd said he is happy with the success of the male team

adding, that while the competition is not finished, players are riding high in confidence. He stated that there are some areas to improve on, but is positive his players can retain the title. Nedd is hoping for an improvement from the females as the competition continues today.

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Saturday October 22, 2016

Gone but not forgotten

Maurice Boyce’s death should inject life into boxing fraternity Says Michael Benjamin It’s just a few days since veteran boxing coach, Maurice ‘Bizzy’ Boyce was interred and the reality has only just sunk in. Referred to as a boxing technician, Boyce’s input has positively affected most of the boxers that have donned gloves in representation of this country. Undoubtedly, the boxing community has lost yet another stalwart and it seems pretty obvious that Boyce, who was interred last Tuesday, will soon be reduced to a mere statistic despite years of sweat and toil towards the development of boxing. His contribution to the fistic sport has been phenomenal and should have attracted wider acclaim were it not for the lackadaisical and ‘don’t give a damn’ attitude of the boxing community which he has served with distinction (and believe me, I am not seeking exemption). When former World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight champion, Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis, died in a car accident on May 4 at Friendship, East Bank Demerara, it was Boyce who broke the news to me. I remember when I gasped in astonishment, he calmly and philosophically declared, “ E v e r y o n e ’s t u r n i s coming.” I never believed his turn would have been ‘just around the corner’ to borrow a popular Guyanese parlance. ‘Sixhead’s’ death had caused some ripples in the boxing community and ever since there has been talk and promises to erect a monument in his honour. It seems as though the initiators of that idea had encountered some challenges and the first stone is still to be laid. The boxing community has lost quite a few stalwarts within the past five years and sadly, their memories and works have also been buried with them, never to be retrieved. Boxing coaches, Ralph Parris, Caesar Barrow, Michael Barker, referees/judges, Cecil H e n r y, C l a i r m o n t e DeSouza, Leslie Allen and a range of other affiliates have left us and there has been no

Former WBC light/heavyweight champion, Wayne ‘Big Truck’ Braithwaite, is but one of the vast number of pugilist that has benefitted from Boyce’s expertise. conscientious effort to retain their contributions for the perusal and benefit of the succeeding generation of boxers or even historians. During a football press conference in the office of former Mayor, Hamilton Green, he queried of the few journalists in attendance of Cliff Anderson’s exploits. Shockingly, few could give even a brief account, while a few others did not even know of whom Mr. Green spoke, this despite the volume of data of Cliff’s exploits readily available. One could just imagine the display of ignorance of the future generation of boxers, of past stalwarts, amidst the absence of requisite documentation. At Boyce’s funeral ceremony, an emotional Odinga Lumumba bemoaned the fact that Boyce was not considered for a national award. The head of McNeal Enterprises promotional group felt that the veteran coach had done more than enough and was deserving of the merit. One wonders whether such sentiments were shared when ‘Bizzy’ was alive and just how fervent were Lumumba’s efforts to attain it. It may also be interesting to know if Lumumba nurtures similar sentiments of other (living) fighters and if he is prepared to represent that cause. It is indeed honourable to acknowledge the feats of dead stalwarts while glorifying their achievements, but such ponderings are a waste of time unless one is gifted with supernatural powers to raise that dead. Boyce’s input

dates back to the 1960s when he would have contributed to the development of boxers that even contemporary fighters might not have known existed. That alone merits acclamation and when one reflects on the number of present day fighters that have been nurtured by the veteran coach, the achievement becomes even more meritorious. Despite his vast input Boyce died somewhat disgruntled after witnessing a vast decline in the sport. This writer has spent many hours engaged in discourse with Boyce at his Durban Street residence during the latter part of his life and indeed, while his love for the sport remained intact, his spirit was somewhat deflated. Even I came in for some vitriol as he bluntly told me that I was not writing the things that would have preserved the profound achievements and the sweet history of the sport. Indeed, he documented many shortcomings which he felt needed attention if boxing was to have retained its rightful place as the local top sport. Boyce is gone and he has taken with him an institutional memory that is almost impossible to replace. Notwithstanding, his contribution is evident in the vast numbers of boxers, past and active, that have benefitted from his expertise. His passing should instigate action on the part of our administrators and all lovers of the sport to preserve his contributions even as we adequately (Continued on page 33)

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Guyanese Khan excels in Canada League Guyanese Imran Khan had a productive season in the recently concluded Canadian League Cricket where he represented the Lankans Cricket Club in the Toronto District Cricket Association second division tournament. Khan, a former Guyana U15 Captain, who hails f r o m Wa k e n a a m , w a s instrumental in his team finishing at the top of the division which earned them a place in the playoff game which was rained out after only one over. Playing in his fourth season for the club, Khan, a right handed batsman amassed 473 runs in 15 innings at an average of 33.79 including five half centuries, a highest score of

87 versus Ghaznavi CC. He bagged 30 wickets from 16 games with his best being 415. Khan also represented Hawaiian Arctic Cricket Club in the Scarborough Cricket Association’s Elite Division where he notched up a highest score of 84. Bowling left arm spin he grabbed 13 wickets. Following the conclusion of the Season, Khan has returned home and is currently representing Good Success SC in the Wa k e n a a m C r i c k e t Committee tournaments. He told Kaieteur Sport that he is working towards gaining a call up to the Essequibo team in the next local Franchise competition.

Imran Khan Khan stated that playing there helped to improve his game since he learnt to play of various surfaces and is willing to share his experience with the younger players at his club here. (Zaheer Mohamed)

Letter to the Sports Editor

I was wrongly quoted, Coach Daniels Dear Editor, To say I’m confused, amused or in a state of shock is still to be ascertained. On the 16th of October, 2016, I was reading the Kaieteur News as I normally do, and to my disbelieving eyes there on page 66 was an article, ‘E’bo Franchise team not supported by ECB - Forbes Daniels’ written by Sean Devers. Now it is disbelieving because I did not give an interview to Mr. Devers. To say the least, my curiosity was heightened, so I read the entire article in fine details. It is astonishing how our country’s leading sports journalist has written an article where he claims to quote me and said that a group of men including Mr. Devers having a discussion and I was the only person he chose to quote. Where is his quote from the others? And more so, why did he not quote Mr. Michael F. Hyles

head coach of the Essequibo Franchise team who told him to quote him about none support from the board. Why did he not quote the umpire who spoke about the condition of the hostel. Why didn’t he quote the former executive of the Guyana cricket board who spoke about the level of cricket being played? What is so special about me Forbes Daniels that I’m the one Mr. Devers chose to be the base for his article? Why did Mr. Devers not quote himself comparing me to Mr. Joel Garner as he accused me of knowing the truth about Essequibo cricket and not speaking out about it? I would like it to be known that although Mr. Devers article was written about issues that may or may not have been my views and opinions, my only contribution to the discussion that was quoted is found in paragraph 6 of

his article. Here now I’m asking myself, should individuals be scared of being in group discussions in the presence of media personnel and being quoted for words, views and opinions of another? Should we be scared of having these “professionals” report to the public we have given interviews when we haven’t? And my answers rings a loud yes! It was disappointing having called Mr. Devers asking him to correct the quotes in his article only to be told by him, that he and his editor has decided his article remains as is.! This is a clear abuse of press freedom and abuse on my freedom to refuse an interview. Deeply disappointed, Forbes Daniels. Certified Cricket Coach and Manager of this year’s Essequibo Franchise Team

West Berbice Chamber of Commerce cricket extravaganza set for November 6 T h e We s t B e r b i c e Chamber of Industry and Commerce (WBCIC) will be staging a one day 10/10 fund rising cricket competition on November 06 at the Blairmont Community Centre G r o u n d , We s t B a n k , Berbice

The much anticipated and fun filled one day tournament will be contested among six teams namely; Cotton Tree Die Hard, Blairmont Blazers, Achievers of West Berbice, Universal DVD of Port Mourant, Albion and D’Edward Cricket Club.

Admission is easy and the funds raised will go towards the less fortunate children. The Chamber in a release stated that, “It is delighted to be a part of the initiative since it believes that investment in youths and sports represents (Continued on page 33)

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Tucber Park are BCB/NBS Second Division Champs Tucber Park of New Amsterdam defeated Rose Hall Town Bakewell by six runs to win the final of the Berbice Cricket Board/New Building Society second division 40-over tournament on Sunday last at Albion. Led by a half century from Steve Deonarine, Tucber Park posted 190-7 after they were inserted. Deonarine added 40 for the first wicket with Ameer Seecharran before the latter was stumped by Delbert Hicks off Ravi Narine for seven. Deonarine who timed the ball well then shared in useful partnerships of 51 with Hackeem Hinds and 45 with Chetram Persaud to anchor his team’s batting. Hinds and Persaud scored 27 and 31 respectively, while Deonarine made 64 with five fours. Narine claimed 2-35. In reply, RHT Bakewell lost

Brandon Prashad without scoring in the first over off Niall Smith before Captain James Fraser and Surendra Kissoondyal added 34 for the second wicket to steady the innings fairly. However, Joel Seitaram provided the breakthrough when he bowled Fraser for 11 before accounting for Khemraj M a h a d e o 1 0 . Shortly after, Kissoondyal went for 23 before Hicks and Narine added 47 for the sixth-wicket to keep their team in the hunt. However, Hicks was bowled by Leon Swammy for 42 while Narine remained unbeaten on 45 as RHT Bakewell were bowled out for 184. Seitaram finished with 2 for 23, Swammy 2 for 25 and Smith 2 for 36. At the presentation ceremony that followed, the winners received a trophy

Keon DeJesus collects the winning trophy from NBS Berbice Manager Rana Persaud in the presence of his teammates, BCB and other officials. and $60,000, while the runner-up took home a trophy and $30,000. Deonarine was named manof-the-match and best batsman, while Seitaram took the best bowler prize.

Speaking on behalf of the BCB, Angela Haniff thanked the teams that participated in the competition, the media, umpires, Guysuco, Albion Estate and The New Building Society Limited for

Suriname tighten IGG basketball stranglehold -win opening games against Guyanese By Edison Jefford Suriname tightened its Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) stranglehold on the Guyanese last evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with a blowout win against the girls and a narrow victory versus the boys in the first of a three-game goodwill series. Suriname opened their campaign for supremacy with a 69-25 mauling of the Guyanese girls who posed little challenge. Cyanah

Kensmil poured in 17 points while Stephanie Hubard and Mirelva Marica scored 10 points apiece for Suriname. Kennesha Leacock was the top scorer for Guyana with nine points. The male game that followed was set to restore some pride with Guyana coasting with a 3927 lead early in the third period. It seemed then that Guyana had the game firmly in its grasp. H o w e v e r, S u r i n a m e switched its zone to press

defence and awoke the adversary of the Guyanese, which was an inability to control the ball; the Guyanese squandered seven straight possessions in the middle of the period and paid a heavy price. Forward, Bjorn Ewijk nailed a three-point jumper from the left side arch on the southern end to equalise the scores at 39-39 after Suriname consistently scored off turnovers. The visitors continued to capitalise on a bad ballhandling period for the home team when Charf Elburg finished a baseline drive then stole an inbound pass for another fast-break play to solidify an important lead for the Surinamese. Both teams exchanged points in an intense battle that was marked with early foul trouble for them because of its physical nature, but it was the Surinamese who held on to a 54-48 lead at the end of the penultimate period – a lead so significant it was never relinquished. The visitors raced to a 6053 lead in the final stanza with forward, Dancell Leter symphonising the beauty of the game with a well

composed march through the lane for an easy front-rim finger roll that besides being fundamental, also extended the Surinamese lead. The play also underscored the hosts’ lack of defence in the paint where they were so dominant in the first half with local forward, Jamal Gilkes playing with real tenacity; that ‘fight’ dissipated in the second half to more or less gift-wrap the game for Suriname. Despite a few last minute signs of hope, Suriname used the clock well to take the first game 74-68 and tighten their IGG grip on Guyana. Elburg finished with 17 points, while Leter had 15 and Ewijk 13 points. Emile LaRose also scored nine points. For Guyana, Travis Belgrave had 15 points while forward, Stanton Rose added 14 points and Gilkes 13 points. Nathan Saul had nine points for the Guyanese, who will play a must-win game today to keep hope of a series win alive. The games was officially opened at the Leonora Track and Field facility with the ceremony followed by athletics competition last evening.

their input. She said that most if not all of the current national and West Indies senior and junior players from Berbice played in this competition some time in their career,

while NBS Berbice Manager, Rana Persaud stated that his company has faith in the current BCB and will continue to support the game in the county and across the country.

Supreme Court limits BCCI’s financial freedom ESPNCRICINFO - The Supreme Court of India has passed an order that limits the BCCI’s financial freedom and power until the board and its state associations comply with the Lodha Committee’s recommendations. The court directed the BCCI not to distribute funds to its state associations until they submit affidavits stating compliance with the recommendations to the court and the Lodha Committee in two weeks. It also asked the BCCI president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke to meet the committee before November 3; the next court hearing is scheduled for December 5. The court directed the Lodha Committee to fix a limit on the value of contracts the BCCI can enter into; all contracts above the limit should go through the committee. The next major contract for the board is the broadcast rights for the IPL, set to be finalised on October 25. The court also said the committee should appoint an independent auditor to scrutinise the BCCI’s accounts. “What impact it will have on cricket, we cannot comment before going through the order,” Thakur said. “Once we get the copy of the judgement, we shall respond. There are difficulties which have been placed in front of the Court.” The developments took place in Delhi yesterday, when the court released the order it had reserved on October 17. The order was in response to the Lodha Committee’s status report, which had recommended that the BCCI office bearers be “superseded” and a panel of administrators be appointed because the board was impeding the implementation of the court-approved recommendations. The court had said then that replacing the BCCI office bearers would be an “extreme measure” and had asked the amicus curiae Gopal Subramanium to recommend additional measures to ensure compliance. Subramanium had asked for all funding to be stopped to states that refused to comply and that future BCCI contracts go through the Lodha Committee. The BCCI’s position has been that it cannot implement the Lodha Committee’s recommendations without a majority of its state associations agreeing to do so. The key recommendations the board said the states were reluctant to accept were the one-state-one-vote policy, the age cap of 70 for administrators, and the limit of three, three-year terms with cooling-off periods in between for office bearers.

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National Secondary Schools cricket

Spooner, Matthews bowl Tutorial to one-wicket win Rajendra Singh hits 158 for President’s College

Rajendra Singh scored the tournament’s second ton yesterday. By Sean Devers Rajendra Singh fashioned a magnificent unbeaten 158 for President’s College to lead his team to an emphatic 214-run win against Lusignan at the Enterprise ground in the East Coast zone of the GCB/MOE National Secondary Schools 30-over knock-out cricket tournament yesterday. Singh’s brutal unbeaten ton was the architect of P r e s i d e n t ’s C o l l e g e mammoth score of 294/1 off just 25 overs and 214-run win against Lusignan. Singh, who joined Chase Academy’s Sachin Singh as the only centurions in the tournament, slaughtered the Lusignan bowlers smashing 14 fours and seven sixes as

Brandon Matthews (left) and Joel Spooner shared 7 wickets between them yesterday at Bourda. he and David Wilson, who made 79 including six fours and one six, shared a partnership of 224. Lusignan in reply could only manage 82 before being bowled out in 16.3 overs. Diquan France made 34, while Keron Samaroo and Krishna Surujpaul had three wickets each for President College. At Bourda, in a game which was reduced to 25 overs because of the late arrival of the match balls from the GCB office which sits in same compound of GCC Bourda where the only game in the City zone was held, Tutorial High squeezed past North Georgetown Secondary by one wicket. Joel Spooner (4-10) and Brandon Mathews (3-5) shared seven wickets

between them before Devon Allen made an unbeaten 30 to get Tutorial over finish line. Dwayne Bollers produced a useful all-round performance with an unbeaten 31 and 2-10 with his leg-spin in steaming heat for North GT in a losing effort. North GT batted first on a slow track and fairly fast outfield but their batsmen did not turn up for classes and were bowled out 88 in 24.3 overs with Bollers being the only batsman to reach double figures. Tutorial replied with 89-9 from 21.2 overs. Things could have been even worse for North GT had it not been for 34 extras including 28 wides conceded by the wayward Tutorial bowlers. Off-

Wayne Bollers goes over the top in his one man fight yesterday to finish unbeaten on 31 at Bourda. (Sean Devers photo) spinner Spooner, like many others in this tournament, bowled with a suspect action and got support from Matthews as they kept the batsmen in detention all afternoon. The pint-sized Bollers, square drove Asafa Green for four to post the 50 in the 15th over and with his father among the small but noisy crowd, played some welltimed drives, most of which went straight to the fielders. The 15-year-old Bollers found a wonderful partner in last man Ravon Bayley (3) who kept his company for 44 balls before he was run out in the final over of the innings. Bollers had earlier added 35 for the sixth wicket with Paul (9) after they had joined forces at 28-5. N o r t h G T, w h i c h

produced West Indies Test pacer Colin Stuart and has one of the strongest bowling attacks in this tournament, fought back well but Allen led a one-man Army with a responsible 30 to see his team home. Pacer Daniel Paul took 3-23 and Bollers 2-10, while off-Spinner Nkosie Beaton and left-arm spinner Michael Pooran all tried to compensate for the poor work of their batsmen. Meanwhile, in the East Bank Zone, Friendship Secondary beat Camille’s Institute by five wickets after making 104-5 in reply to the 103 all out in 24.2 overs. John Pillay hit 26 with two fours and a six while Sachin Lim stroked four boundaries in 20. Levi

Kattow had 4-17, Orlando Ghisiawan 2-14 and Jonathan Jagdeo 2-21. Friendship were led to victory by Jeremiah Benjamin’s 36 which was decorated with four fours and 20 from Lallbachan Arjune which also included four boundaries. Davendra Sankarsingh took 2-9 for Camille’s Institute. The competition continues on Monday with the postponed Ascension Community High versus Carmel Community High game scheduled for DCC yesterday, being played at the same venue. Richard Ishmael Secondary play School of the Nations at GNIC and South Ruimveldt Secondary oppose Lodge Secondary at Bourda.

Windies A concede series with heavy defeat

West Indies A captain Shamarh Brooks … top-scored with 46. DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka, CMC – A dramatic batting collapse ensured a series defeat for West Indies A as they plunged to 138-run loss on the last day of the third and final four-day “Test” against Sri Lanka A yesterday.

Set a target of 333 for victory, the Caribbean were cruising at 108 for two before losing their last eight wickets for just 86 runs to crumble for 194 all out, at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium. Captain Shamarh

Brooks top-scored with 46, Kieran Powell got 44 while his opening partner Rajendra Chandrika stroked 30 but it was leg-spinner Jeffrey Vandersay who had the final say, claiming six for 47, to wreck the innings. Sri Lanka A had earlier

declared their second innings on 257 for six, after resuming from their overnight 211 for five. Roshen Silva, unbeaten at the start on 29, made 44 off 97 balls while Dasun Shanaka converted his overnight seven into 33 not out off 76 deliveries with five fours. They stretched their sixth wicket stand to 65 before being separated when fast bowler Keon Joseph prised out Silva to finish with two for 30. Off-spinner Rahkeem Cornwall claimed four for 87. Powell and Chandrika then gave the visitors a bright start by posting 63 for the first wicket. The left-handed Powell faced just 41 balls and struck seven fours and a six in a cameo knock while Chandrika was more patient,

consuming 93 deliveries and counting a single four. When Powell was lbw to left-arm spinner Lakshan Sandakan, Shimron Hetmyer helped add another 25 for the second wicket with Chandrika. He had made a breezy 18 off 16 balls with four fours when he perished at 88 for two and his dismissal triggered a slide where three wickets fell for 36 runs as Chandrika and left-hander Vishaul Singh (6) also fell in quick succession. Stumbling on 124 for four, West Indies A were p u l l e d around by a 47-run, fifth w i c k e t partnership between Brooks and wicketkeep er Jahmar

Hamilton who made 25. The right-handed Brooks faced 75 deliveries and struck five fours while Hamilton spent 61 balls at the crease and hit a single boundary. The decline started when Brooks and Rahkeem Cornwall (0) fell off successive deliveries to Vandersay to leave Windies A on 171 for six, and the end came swiftly as the last four wickets tumbled for ten runs. West Indies A will turn their attention to the threematch one-day series which bowls off on Monday.

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GTT remains committed to GHB National Indoors The 14th Edition of the GTT-sponsored National I n d o o r H o c k e y Championshps was launched yesterday, during a simple ceremony that was conducted, at the entity’s Canteen on Hadfield Street. In attendance at the occasion were President of the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) Philip Fernandes, Honorary SecretaryTricia Fiedtkou, Company PROs Nadine DeAbreu and A l l i s o n P a r k e r, o t h e r members of Staff and junior hockey players. Parker, who handed over the cheque for an undisclosed sum to Fernandes,in her brief remarks spoke of the association with the GHB with specific reference to the sponsorship of the National Indoor Tournament which had its inauguration in 2000 and has remained a regular fixture on the GHB calendar ever since except for two years due to unavoidable circumstances. “Once again we are pleased to be partnering with the GHB to sponsor the National Indoor Tournament an association that commenced in 2000, and has continued ever since,” Parker told the gathering of media operatives.

GTT’s PRO Allison Parker presents a cheque to Guyana Hockey Board President Philip Fernandes in the presence of staff members and hockey officials yesterday. She said they’ve always admired the discipline and ability that is usually demonstrated by the GHB in the organisation of its activities and this according to her has always been a key factor in the two entities relationship over the years. Fernandes in his response said the GHB was pleased to be associated with a quality brand, informing that GTT has been a strong supporter of the sport. “The sponsorship of this, the most prestigious local i n d o o r h o c k e y Championships by GTT, dates back to 2000 with the competition being held every year except for 2002, when there was a seasonal

disruption and 2011 when the facility was under renovation.” The Championships once again will be held at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue from 31st October to 5th November when the national champions in all senior divisions, men 1st division, women and men’s 2nd division, will be crowned. The PEPSI Hikers were the men’s 1st Division champion back in the inaugural tournament and enters this year’s edition as the two-time defending champions. The club boasts one of the best win records in regional competition and

Corriverton Links Football Club receives donation

The Club Secretary Vona De Souza receives the donation from Sihon Austin while club members appreciate the moment. On Tuesday last, the Corriverton Links Football Club was the recipient of two footballs from Mr. Junior Austin and his sons Sihon and Shanon, receiving the donation on behalf of the club was Ms. Vona De Souza, the club’s secretary and pee wee coach. In brief remarks, the Club’s president Mike

DeSouza thanked Mr. Austin for the timely donation which came at a time when the club is participating in the Namilco U-17 tournament and is planning a Primary schools pee wee competition involving six schools in the Upper Corentyne area, the president is optimistic that other individuals and

businesses would get on board to assist in the club’s ongoing programmes. Also present at the simple ceremony was Mr. Lyndon Murray, Skeldon E s t a t e ’s C o m m u n i t y Development Officer who thanked the Austins and repeated the call for more support from the community of Corriverton.

will once again be led by stalwarts Devin Munroe and Captain Robert France. Their toughest competition is likely to come from the record championship holders, Bounty GCC with seven trophies to their name, and three-time winners, Old Fort. GCC’s dynamic duo of Kevin Spencer and Orland Semple makes their club always a threat in this competition, while the outstanding Aderemi Simon and skillful Jason De Santos keep Old Fort in the running. Saints HC national players Hilton Chester and Ato Green along with junior national squad goalkeepers, Michael Hing and Rahim Oliver, for Team 2020 are the more notable names

being on show for the men’s competition. The first ever GTT ladies champions, the now defunct We s t e r n D r a g o n s o f Uitvlugt, lives on in their lone remaining representative Ulrica Sutherland who represents Pizza Hut GCC and their record ten championship victories over the years. The Pizza Hut ladies enter as strong favourites this year boasting an unprecedented seven-year winning streak. Prolific strikers Sonia Jardine and Kerensa Fernandes are likely to energize the crowd and strike fear in the minds of opponents with their usual goal-scoring prowess. The Hikers ladies will be led by recent Lucozade MVP, Marisha Fernandes

with fellow national Maria Munroe and the exciting young talent of Nicole Eastman in support. The Old Fort Shooting Stars have been improving with each outing and have grown into genuine contenders for the tournament mostly through the pace and skill of Minsodia Culpepper and athleticism of goalkeeper Sarafina Phillips. The Spartans are a young side eager to improve on their recent outings and feature the new emerging talent of strikers Sarah Klautky and Abosaide Cadogan. Matches begin on Monday October 31st from 17:00hrs and competition runs until the evening of Saturday 5th November.

Pink ball matches set for return in Windies first class season ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board will return to ‘pink ball” cricket for the upcoming first class season, with six day/night matches scheduled for the first time since the concept was trialled in the region six years ago. Each of the six franchises will play two day/night games – home and away – when the Professional Cricket League season bowls off on November 11, as the WICB seeks to familiarise its players with the innovation now taking root at Test level. “We welcome the return of day/night matches with the pink ball in the [four-day season],” said cricket operations manager, Roland Holder. “Each team has two

matches – one home, one away – as gradually international boards begin to embrace this concept. “The purpose of the reintroduction of day/night matches is two-fold. First, it allows our elite players to familiarise themselves with the pink ball, and secondly, it allows for greater spectator attendance, as patrons can have a relaxing evening watching their favourite team.” Day/night games will begin at 3 pm and four have been scheduled in the five rounds of matches slated to be played prior to the Christmas break on December 19. Trinidad and Tobago Red Force and Windward Islands Volcanoes face off at Queen’s Park Oval in the opening round from November 11-14, title-

holders Guyana Jaguars and Volcanoes feature in the second ‘pink ball’ game at the Darren Sammy National Cricket Ground in the third round from November 2528 while Barbados Pride clash with Jaguars in the third such game at the Guyana National Stadium in the fourth round from December 8-12. Leeward Islands Hurricanes and Jamaica Scorpions will do battle in the fourth game during the fifth round which runs from December 15-19 The two remaining games will be played in the second half of the tournament following the New Year. Last week in Dubai, West Indies played their first ever day/night Test, losing by 56 runs to Pakistan.

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Windies rocked by Younis hundred as Pakistan take honours

Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis Khan © Getty Images ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies showed early promise but buckled under the weight of the irrepressible Younis Khan’s 33rd Test hundred and a couple of dropped chances, as Pakistan gained an early foothold in the second Test here yesterday. Opting to bat first on a flat track on the opening day of the contest at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium, the hosts were comfortably placed on 304 for four when bad light ended play with six overs remaining. Younis, who missed last week’s historic day/night opening Test in Dubai as he recovered from a bout of dengue, stroked a high class 127 while captain Misbahul-Haq closed on an unbeaten 90. Asad Shafiq, who also got a half-century in the opening Test, chimed in with a valuable 68 to help pull

Pakistan around after they lost their openers cheaply. Fast bowler Shannon Gabriel was impressive despite struggling with a noball problem, leading the Windies attack with two for 43 from his 14 overs sent down in short spells throughout the day. The right-armer struck as early as the fifth over of the morning when he had first Test triple century-maker Azhar Ali bowled off the inside edge without scoring, with only six runs on the board. Shafiq arrived to add 36 for the second wicket with Sami Aslam before the lefthander perished on the stroke of the first hour, bowled for six between bat and pad missing a drive at legspinner Devendra Bishoo. Thereafter, however, West Indies were forced to toil for success as the 38year-old Younis spearheaded

two partnerships to limit West Indies to just two more wickets for the remainder of the day. He and Shafiq posted 87 for the third wicket to see Pakistan safely to the lunch interval, before he added a further 175 for the fourth wicket with the unruffled Misbah, which ensured the hosts won the last two sessions. The right-handed Shafiq played positively from the outset, getting off the mark by punching Gabriel to the backward point boundary before pulling seamer Miguel Cummins to the ropes at square leg. He then moved effortlessly to his 16th Test half-century off just 68 balls half-hour before lunch, by delightfully stroking a wide delivery from Gabriel to the cover boundary. Unbeaten on 54 at the break and partnered by Younis on 29, Shafiq departed 45 minutes after the resumption when he chopped on to the final delivery of the first over of a new spell from Gabriel, at 129 three. He faced 121 balls and struck seven fours. Younis and Misbah then took control of the game, scoring freely and at will against the Windies attack which lacked penetration. Younis struck ten fours and a six off 205 deliveries while Misbah as so far consumed 146 balls and

Boxers, referees for Suriname next month The Guyana Boxing Association has received an official invitation to participate in an international tournament to be held in Suriname late in November. The GBA has been asked by the Suriname Boxing Association to send a team of six boxers and two coaches to the competition that is scheduled for November 26 in Paramaribo. In addition, the SBA has requested referee/judges to officiate at the event. GBA president Steve Ninvalle confirmed that Guyana has accepted the invitation and opined that it is the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship with the SBA. Last month Ninvalle met with Suriname’s General

Secretary Morris Ricardo to kick start formal talks towards further development of the sport in the Guianas. The two discussed a number of avenues for collaboration, including the exchange of coaches and referee/judges and the creation of an Inter Guiana boxing tournament that would include French Guiana. The GBA will use the next month’s tournament as part of preparation for the Caribbean Development tournament to be held in Barbados early December. Suriname boxers last visited Guyana in August 2014 when Sita Pinas and Samuel Green represen t e d t h e Dutch speaking country in a specially arranged segment of the Inter Guianas Games.

Later that year the Dutch speaking country issued an invitation for Guyana to participate in a tournament there. However, world governing body AIBA instructed that the GBA not accept the invitation from the Suriname Amateur Boxing Association to participate in the competition scheduled for October 2014. Internal wrangling in the SABA was the main reason for the AIBA instruction. GBA Technical Director Terrence Poole has been tasked with leading the team that will be selected to travel to former Dutch C o l o n y. M e a n w h i l e , President of the SBA Remy Burke is expected in Guyana next week for further discussions.

counted four fours and two sixes. Both batsmen survived chances. On 83, the righthanded Younis drove a firm return catch to part-time offspinner Kraigg Brathwaite in the last over tea but the Windies vice-captain failed to snaffle the low offering. And Misbah was also let off on 54 by wicketkeeper Shai Hope – in for the injured Shane Dowrich – who failed to hold on diving to his right off the unlucky Gabriel, about an hour after tea. Younis was untroubled from the start and breezed to his half-century off 88 deliveries about 40 minutes after lunch, when he drove off-spinner Roston Chase for a couple. He then accelerated, ondriving captain and seamer Jason Holder for four before clearing the ropes at midwicket with Bishoo a few overs later, to move into the 70s. On 84 at tea, he reached triple figures 40 minutes after the resumption when he cut Chase to the square boundary. He is now ninth on the list of all-time centurymakers and has the most by

any active player. Misbah, meanwhile, made his intentions clear from early, smacking Bishoo over mid-wicket and then over the ropes at long-on, before striking the Guyanese for another a six a few overs later to move into the 20s. He was on 35 at tea and

raised his 35th half-century in the eighth over after the resumption with a single to point off Brathwaite. Against the run of play – and off what turned out to be the last delivery of the day – Younis picked out Chase in the deep off Brathwaite, to give West Indies some consolation.

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Suriname’s high-flying forward, Bjorn Ewijk finishes at the rim last evening at Cliff Anderson’s Sports Hall after beating the Guyanese to the bucket.

Suriname tighten IGG basketball stranglehold -win opening games against Guyanese

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