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EDITORIAL
CULTURE AND POVERTY
A debate that is unfolding in the US may assist activists and policy makers here in clarifying their ideas around a key characteristic that unfortunately still defines the African condition: poverty. Reporting on a recent edition of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science under the title, “Reconsidering Culture and Poverty”, the NY Times trumpeted ‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback.” The “comeback” alluded to the alleged silence that followed criticism of a 1965 report on “The Negro Family” that introduced the term “the culture of poverty” to the American public. As described by the NYT, the “description of the urban black family as caught in an inescapable “tangle of pathology” of unmarried mothers and welfare dependency was seen as attributing selfperpetuating moral deficiencies to black people, as if blaming them for their own misfortune.” Sounds familiar? While conservatives never let go of the idea of “the culture of poverty” and in fact helped to shape the welfare program of recent US administrations, it was claimed that it was politically incorrect to discuss it in public and especially in academia. In 2004, the superstar comedian Bill Cosby, precipitated a huge public debate in and out of the Black community when he criticized poor blacks for “not parenting” and dropping out of school. He was echoed by many other prominent black figures. The treatment in the Annals signals that the reticence may have worn off in academia and secured official imprimatur. One reason could be that poverty has now hit a 15 year high in the US – some 44 million or one in every seven American. Extending the definition of “culture” to “shared understandings” and the way “individuals in a community develop an understanding of how the world works and make decisions based on that understanding”, it is postulated that inhabitants of poverty-stricken neighbourhoods adapt to survive. For some young black men, one Harvard sociologist, said, the world works like this: “If you don’t develop a tough demeanour, you won’t survive. If you have access to weapons, you get them, and if you get into a fight, you have to use them.” The New York Times article attempted to address the old charge of “blaming the victim” and quoted one editor of the Annals: “Are the poor, poor because they are lazy, or are the poor, poor because they are a victim of the markets?” But this was not enough for Stephen Steinberg of Boston Review. He asserted that a “myth’ was being created about the claim of “silence” which implied that the original charge of Black complicity in their poverty was true but was just not being voiced. The myth also justifies “the three pillars of anti-racist public policy—affirmative action, school integration, and racial districting (to prevent the dilution of the black vote)…been eviscerated.” Steinberg makes the point that must be pondered over in Guyana: “The question is not whether culture matters, but whether it is an independent and self-sustaining factor in the production and reproduction of poverty.” He quoted other scholars who “argued that the despair and coping mechanisms associated with the culture of poverty were anchored in conditions of poverty, and that the only remedy for the culture of poverty was the elimination of poverty itself.” While Steinberg acknowledged that the new “culturalists” genuflect to the notion that structural factors matter, he questions: “If the cultural practices under examination are merely links in a chain of causation, and are ultimately rooted in poverty and joblessness, why are these not the object of inquiry?” More germane, to those that claim that any job is a “good
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Are we men or are we mice? DEAR EDITOR, The political ideology of Guyana is social democracy. Our Constitution is socialist in construction and it stands as the Supreme Law of the land. It vests parliament with its powers. If parliament acts outside of the parameters of the Constitution it offends the Constitution gravely. Where any such act of parliament obtains, such act is not engraved with the stamp of constitutional legitimacy. The ultimate goal of social democracy is democratic socialism. In democratic socialism there exists a synthesis of a democratic political system and a socialist economic system. In its barest form, democracy is the eligibility of all citizens to participate EQUALLY in the government of themselves, whether they participate directly or by electing representatives to do their bidding. The focus of a socialist economic system is the production of goods and services primarily for satisfaction of the needs of the citizens and not for profit. Profit is the nucleus of
capitalism. Our Constitution envisions a gradual move away from capitalism to socialism. The labour movement is the strongest proponent of Socialism. Socialism contemplates the working class people. Its objective for them is tangible manifestation of the fruits of their labour by way of fair wages and working conditions fit for human beings. Our social democratic ideology broadens the scope of socialism by providing mechanisms through which the working class (and everyone else) can influence its (their) condition. Our Constitution has elevated this philosophy as the tone and tenor of all its articles. Guyana is a constitutional democracy with a socialist democratic ideology; well, at least on paper it is. It takes only a cursory glance at the working class to reveal that Guyana does not even pretend to be socialist. It appears that the permanent characteristics of the working class are less-than-subsistence wages and subhuman working conditions. Every salary
increase for public servants over the past decades has been neutralised by a corresponding increase in the cost of living and inflation. And it is the practice for salary increases to lag behind elevating costs of living. Modification in working conditions appears only when they become relics in other territories. The most noticeable change among the working class is younger faces replacing those of their older likeness. We truly epitomise the concept of public SERVANTS. It would appear that the socialist tenor of our Constitution continues to sing capitalist lyrics. Guyana does not pretend to be democratic either. A constitutional democracy has two core elements: a constitutional element; and a democratic element. The essence of the constitutional element is that the constitution defines and limits the authority of the government. The democratic aspect vests in the voters control of the government and opposition by holding them accountable for their
decisions and the discharge of their obligations during their tenure in public office. Any claim that we have a representative democracy would be dubious at best. What obtains in Guyana is a ‘List System’ of representation. Political parties pull their parliamentary representatives from a list submitted to the Elections Commission. The right to recall a member of parliament vests in the party. Individual members of parliament are accountable only to their respective parties. Their loyalty is singular. It is not outrageous to imagine that if a member is uneasy about a key issue his vote on it would be persuaded by party loyalty. Guyana is presumably democratic once in every five years, at general and regional elections. The time has come for members of parliament to be directly elected and accountable, by the right of recall, to the people who elect them. This would see the dawning of the day when parliamentary voices are not (Continued page 5)
Production and Productivity of the Guyanese Labour Force DEAR EDITOR, In a letter of October 25, Nowrang Persaud, a human resources development expert seemed to be in agreement with the views expressed by Prime Minister Hinds in his letter of October 23, that in order to improve the lives of Guyanese, attention must be focused on improving the low production, productivity, quality and competitiveness of Guyanese organisations/ industries. In his letter, PM Hinds in his usual vague way did not offer the means and methods as to how Guyanese organisations/industries could be more productive and therefore improve the living standards of their workers. However, Mr. Persaud has suggested that in order to achieve PM Hinds proposed focused attention to bring about improvements there has to be a shift in the strategic re-orientation and re-direction of the country’s graduates in management,
engineering, science and technology to satisfy the requirements for those proposed changes without giving any detail as to how they could be achieved. Guyanese cannot expect an increase in their standard of living for distribution, redistribution or otherwise unless the economy grows to create jobs and unfortunately the PPP Gov’t has no strategic plan to do so, except to extol such far-fetched projects as electricity from Amaila Falls hydropower and ethanol from sugar cane. No significant growth to the economy can be expected unless there is substantial investment in the country’s industries and basic infrastructures such as providing a reliable and dependable source of electricity without regular blackouts, modernized port facilities to handle and accommodate deeper draft ships to provide cheaper freight charges, roads without innumerable
job” he retorts, “Does it really matter how they define a “good job” when they have virtually no prospect of finding one?” The last point undermines the claim that one structural factor that must be overcome is “education”. How many African Guyanese graduates do we have from UG that still cannot find jobs?
potholes to reduce hauling times and maintenance costs, good drainage system to prevent yearly flood damage and potable water availability to wean the use of expensive bottled water. Also, Globalization is making the world technologically more complex and unless there is an educated and trained workforce available in specific areas to meet the needs of corporations willing to operate here, very few will be attracted to these shores to create the jobs so necessary for development. Finally, good management is essential for the successful operation of any organization/industry, but Prime Minister Hinds is oblivious to this imperative as the PPP Gov’t only selects supporters and party hacks to key management positions in organisations/industries it controls as well as to its inner circle where key policy decisions are made to govern the country, irrespective of t h e i r c o m p e t e n c y, qualifications, training and work experience. Hence, many of Guyana’s best and brightest are excluded from those favourable positions/places
PM Hinds has written about, where their knowledge and experience can make a difference but are excluded because of their political convictions. This is evident at GPL, Guysuco, GWI and NICIL, all failed PPP Gov’t (Socialistic) entities, while Banks DIH and DDL (capitalistic) companies prosper because of their management competency and not due to their socialistic or capitalistic philosophy as PM Hinds would want us believe, since Guyoil, a socialist company, is profitable because it has good management in place. Alcan and Bookers were successful companies not so much because of their capitalistic commitment and substantial attention to technical training and human resource development of the locals they employed, but because they were well managed to achieve set objectives. The increased employment of locals instead of expatriates during their sunset years of operation no doubt increased their profitability as well as it enabled them to adapt to the changing political environment of the time. Charles Sohan
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Elections will worsen the divisions in the nation and inflict new wounds DEAR EDITOR, The AFC column written by Mr. Dominic Gaskin that was published in Kaieteur News in its October 19th, 2014 Sunday Edition under the caption “The Myth of the PPP-C’s invincibility” gave a clear indication of that party’s political thinking as it relates to the present political situation in the country and what it hopes to achieve by the tabling of its ‘noconfidence’ motion. If the column was intended to silence the critics of the AFC who question the party’s motivation for its noconfidence motion, it has failed to do so. In fact the column has confirmed what many political thinkers had concluded, i.e. that the AFC’s primary concern is its selfinterest and not that of the nation. Mr Gaskin in his column stated: “The party will enter
its next election campaign in a much stronger position than it did in 2011 and will be targeting a plurality this time around.” What Mr. Gaskin has done here in clear unambiguous language is to state that the AFC is on track to win the next elections, and that above anything else is its ultimate objective. There is nothing wrong with a party wanting to win elections. While I understand the AFC leadership aspirations, I am forced to remind them that given the reality of the political situation in Guyana, the principle issue for political parties in this country and I dare say, particularly the parties in opposition (because I believe they have to confront the problems associated with race with the urgency that the party in government does not feel it is obliged to do) is to resolve the historic political/ race conflict in a way that is
beneficial to the masses. I wish to underscore this point by pointing out that the AFC’s often stated reluctance to enter into a more cosy relationship with APNU is rooted in the belief that they run the risk of alienating their Indian support base because they will be presumed to be joining with a African dominated party to get rid of an Indian party and government. I will add here (and this information was gleaned from the comments of an AFC Executive Member) that the reason why the noconfidence motion was laid as late as it was had to do with the AFC leadership trying to ascertain the extent of political fallout, in terms of numbers in the East Berbice area, which could very well result from the APNU’s likely support of the motion. I will submit here that party politics driven by the
Are we men or are we... From page 4 mere party chorus, but the articulation of the interests of the respective constituents they represent. The same should apply to our mayor; the holders of these offices should be elected and not selected. Such important offices should not be filled by tokenism. The only other avenue of citizens’ participation in the democratic process has been hijacked by the government. The facility of Local Government Elections has not been effected for over twenty years. This democratic expression is so crucial that Article 71(1) of the Constitution of Guyana (with 2001 Amendments) states that: “Local government is a vital aspect of democracy and shall be organized so as to involve as many people as possible in the task of managing and developing the communities in which in which they live.” It states further at Article
71 (2) “For this purpose Parliament shall provide for the institutions of a country-wide system of local government through the establishment of organs of local democratic power as an integral part of the political organisation of the State.” The government cannot claim discretion in this process when local democracy sits as a mere ornament on the pages of our Constitution. There can be no justification for not having Local Government Elections in over twenty years. This is just one instance in which the government flouts our Constitution. One would imagine that the constitutions of political parties would set the stage for observance of the national constitution. But this cannot be so when our government exhibits a reckless disregard for the mandates of our Constitution. The leading opposition party must be at variance with its constitution
as well or its constitution must be lacking in some material regard if the party cannot keep at bay its internal squabbles and is so susceptible to penetration by outside forces and propaganda. The following excerpt from Burnham’s 1961 speech bears relevance today: “…there are many people who have said that, in spite of such provisions in a constitution, the PPP and its leader can, and will, attempt to dishonour those undertakings. That they will attempt to dishonour those undertakings I am willing to concede, but comrades, there is one question I desire to ask you: are we men or are we mice?” Guyana is neither socialist nor democratic; neither is it ruled by a constitution. When the rape of our Constitution does not create a revolutionary situation then ours must be a country of men and women who have grown irrecoverably numb. Ronald J. Daniels
desire to “win” has dominated the political landscape of this nation for the last 60-plus years, and it has done little to reconcile the nation. Our present politics is not normal politics and therefore the present political engagement in the country cannot in the peculiar circumstances of our existence be considered normal. And when an opposition party in these circumstances chooses a course of action which forces the nation to new elections and does so without the necessary constitutional reforms being in place to end winner take all that party’s leadership cannot avoid critics questioning its national commitment. As the situation now stands it seems that the two parties which are best placed to benefit from early elections are the PPPC and the AFC. The APNU and the nation will be the losers. For the PPPC it opens the door for that party to regain the majority, and for the AFC (if it survives the PPPC’s propaganda onslaught that is directed against it) the possibility of winning one or two more seats at the expense of both the PPPC and APNU. Many political analysts agree that the PPPC will retain the plurality, but not the majority. The basis for this thinking lies in the changed demographics reflected in the last census report. However I am not convinced to that line of argument. I am of the view
that if the PPPC is able to get larger numbers of their supporters to the polls than they did in 2011 and in the process, wrest back from the AFC some of the supporters it lost in 2011, and the APNU constituents feel demotivated to the extent that they fail to turn out in sufficiently large numbers, then the ruling party stands the chance of winning the majority. We also have to factor into the election equation the fact that the opposition has not been able to neutralise the PPPC’s rigging of the results. While my sense of what the likely outcome of the elections will be as stated above, I am aware that elections in countries like Guyana, with a history of institutionalised racial voting where the two major parties support comes from different race groups, third parties political fortunes can be short lived. My advice to the AFC leadership is not to take the Indian votes they got in the
last elections for granted. Just as they lost significant African votes to the APNU in 2011 they can lose Indian votes to the PPPC in the next election. Given the political reality in Guyana, new elections at this time is playing into the hands of the rulers. This is why I take the position that the No-confidence approach is at best, a high risk political gamble and at worst, political recklessness. Guyana needs a political situation where there are no winners and no losers. Our history has demonstrated that elections have failed to bring about “win win” situations that have benefitted all Guyanese. To end this backwardness is the challenge for all patriots. Let us use the present crisis to do something meaningful for the people. Elections will worsen the divisions in the nation and inflict new wounds. Tacuma Ogunseye
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Attorney General reveals plans to ‘hit’ Glenn Lall, Knews The following is the audio recording and transcript of the abovementioned conversation. TRANSCRIPT OF A PHONE CONVERSATION BETWEEN GUYANA’S ATTORNEY GENERAL, ANIL NANDLALL AND LEONARD GILDARIE ,SENIOR REPORTER, KAIETEUR NEWS Call made by Nandlall…. Leonard Gildarie (LG): Hello Attorney General (AG): Hey Gildarie LG: hey wha happening AG: is who been by me amm cousin and interview he, you? LG: yes dem sen me dem send me AG: But how you misquote the man suh man LG: How the f**k I misquote the man, we got the man pun record and is not me alone, they had other staff there too AG: Who, who is the other staff, some nice girl dem sen’ LG: Man me can’t give you the name man… oww AG: De man wan f**k de girl man, the man tell me seriously he wan knock de girl LG: How he gun f**k de
girl AG: No but still chief (inaudible) de man say he wan knock de ting, you can arrange LG: Man wha happening what alyuh got this thing going so far fuh man, me got me fucking job AG: well glen nah use he…eh LG: Me got me job fuh lose AG: No no me nah quarrel with you but all I am saying half wha he never tell you, de man say he never tell you that he didn’t know that he got to live in Guyana, the man said he live here but he got fuh travel LG: The man said duh, we got it on record AG: Wha record ?the man say you nah tape nothing yuh nah write nothing LG: The man nah know bout smart phone, of course we does be taping these people there anil AG: Anyhow me ah tell you man say cuz me aint been dey, but me driver been deh LG: No but whatever it is because I had to, of course I had an input I had to do it because dem send me and the other reporter and is not me either remember is
the editors dem to, I don’t see why AG: Yeah but who is the girl LG: Me gun tell you a cant tell you on the phone man oh sk**t you wan fuck me up AG: Whaaam glen nah a tap me phone man he nah got dem technology LG: No no man nah do dah, dem got people AG: uh LG: Ah cant do duh but a cant tell you who that is but is one of we staff hey AG: Oh oh some (inaudible) LG: Is a reporter dem woulda send dem wouldn’t a send me alone, you know I don’t do much AG: Eh hey LG: amm AG: Anyhow me nah know..wait no LG: Ammm AG: But hear nuh gildarie you do a story on duh , what is he gotayhing, if me uncle LG: Yea but… AG: Hear nah, if me brother, leh we say, you got brothers LG: Eh hey AG: if you brother murder somebody, wha duh mean you a go jail, me na…leh we assume that me uncle do something wrong I am not responsible.. me aint understand what the what the theory is, I am trying to figure out what is the end game …what’s the plan LG: Uh huh AG: By publishing ah ah, the AG uncle the AG uncle, if me uncle do something wrong me uncle is liable to face the consequence of it LG: Right Right AG: So me aint understand why why is he putting that LG: (inaudible) me say leh alyuh talk to the man direct and alyuh see wha alyuh can do because this thing cant continue we as staffers get caught up in it because we gotta wuk (inaudible voice in background)
AG: Hear nah, reaz is he brother, reaz use to put cocaine in shrimps and prawns and (inaudible voice in background) smuggle it all out (inaudible voice in background) ya’ll aint publish, I got details of how glen threaten fuh back track me know bout all duh budday, me nah wan disclose dem things duh but I could do it if he want fuh go down dah line (inaudible voice in background) LG: Boy me aint know wha fuh tell you boy except that I decide that i.. AG: You know wha Reaz do, you know Reaz full a container of apple and grapes off de fucking wharf …eating and go and put it at Melanie pon the side of the road and hook it up pun a GPL container, ah GPL lantern post and freeze a container of apple and grapes free for nearly three months (inaudible voice in background) you nah know and people a pass up and down pun de road and dem think dat the container just fall off the road and it full with apple and grape LG: But hear hear wha (inaudible) AG: The president already spoke, not glen but to Bhena, right LG: I just (inaudible) AG: I am telling you boss how every effort has been made, Glen Lall is mad, he run mad LG: (inaudible) Sattaur deh going at a set of newspaper and talking he sk**t whole day he cant continue doing that AG: Yeah but if glen got to understand that we cant, look he never read nothing from Sattaur, he refused, he was asked to, to just behave good for one week, he couldn’t f**king do that LG: No but deh man run to to ting everyday, ah just telling you wha how we
seeing him because I cant I cant (inaudible) AG: Now glen go an manufacture a fucking whole story about the man going an get ban from ACCA and all kinda madness LG: Because now every single day it just continuing continuing, Sattaur running till to guyana times he running to Chronicle we deh pun AG: wheh, wheh,anyway wheh you deh now LG: Me just deh at the back, I deh at the back of Kaieteur News AG: Whah you doing deh LG: Ah just come fuh tek dis call heh AG: hello LG: boy me nah wha fuh tell you but alyuh just sort it out because I don’t know how long I gun able (inaudible) AG: So why you don’t come across and come work with we? LG: Wha deh f**k you gun offer me AG: Better than Kaieteur News LG: Man we gun gaff man but alyuh need to stop (inaudible) AG: Send me a proposal of what you working for and um LG: Ah gun have to discuss it with the wife AG: No discuss it with your wife because the president and I clear on something.. we are building an elitist press team right LG: Yall do something man because I getting lil tired but alyuh stop this fucking thing nah alyuh stop because the country.. AG: no hear nah you know how it gun stop? somebody gun go into Kaieteur, you see everybody nah gat as I told Adam today I said adam everbody don’t joust.. everybody, wait hold on…everybody doesn’t have a newspaper to use as a weapon, I told Adam, I said Adam people got
weapons right, is not newspaper they gonna use as a weapon they got weapons and when you continue attack people like that and they have no way of responding they gun just walk with their weapon into that same fucking Saffon street office and wha come suh do and innocent, Peter gun gah pay fuh f**king Paul in deh one day, me ah tell you innocent, me a tell you honestly man to man that will happen soon LG: I don’t know (inaudible) AG: So the quicker you get out of deh, the quicker you get out of deh the better LG: Amm hear hear AG: This thing is ah hear, you cannot use your newspaper like that boss, you get charge, whether you feel, whether you feel you get charged wrongfully or not you can’t use yuh newspaper to drag a set of f**king innocent people in this, if and de people (inaudible) money, you know who is Kamal Mangal, the man look stupid, one bald head f**king poor man, you know who da man is ? LG: (inaudible) AG: But but alright must find out wha da man own and what he could do with one phone call, alyuh nah know who alyuh a deal with, I had to hold back that man LG: But is why alyuh don’t stop it ya’ll (inaudible) AG: uh hmm LG: (inaudible) AG: Anyhow, the man, the man view is that he is above everybody else that he is above the law and that he own this newspaper and he could buse enrybody comrade no society works like that, none none, there is a simple way of dealing with a situation yuh know, I tell Glen already ..he (Continued on page 7)
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Attorney General reveals plans to ‘hit’... From page 6 knows my capacity and I know his,…me nah got to go to court everyday and issue press statement I don’t have to revert to those methods LG: I like how yall (inaudible) AG: There are far more effective methods to which I can resort… right LG: Ammm wha wha wha whats the reason (inaudible) AG: I told, I told Glen I meet with glen I sit and down and talk with him (inaudible) I use some money from the government and Glen mek and issue of it I pay back deh fucking money long before he even mek de issue and he know about it because wha it pay fuh LG: Which issue is dat AG: Remember you were going to publish something (inaudible) about my wife and so on LG: (inaudible) AG: (inaudible) months ago not now months ago (inaudible) but I just, I am not worried about what he gun publish, me I am a f**king thoroughbred , I.. I just don’t want him to publish things about me wife that is all I don’t want you understand because she is innocent LG: it goes beyond that (inaudible) AG: Yeah but boss there’s two to tango one man cant tango LG: Yeah but but how, who are we interviewing how do we because (inaudible) AG: I already, I sent a message already and I… Bhena has been in contact with the president, they are very close right but glen is not keeping up his end of the bargain, the things them that Bhena spoke, they work out an arrangement LG: But Anil, but Anil (inaudible) AG: uh huh, uh uh LG: (inaudible) AG: well I Sankar a he man in law (inaudible) all of that
LG: (inaudible) but Sattaur started it..(inaudible) AG: Me aint know bout all a dat but I know what I know , wait chief, I am clean, I am clean right.. I never take a dog from any f**king body and what he is doing is to get at me through me family cause he cant find nothing on me I never thief, you understand me nah other people you know what wha he can (inaudible) thing pun, you understand, I never tek a LG: (inaudible) AG: Gildarie me a wan rich man me tek f**king government and become poor you… understand and glen knows that, me I achieve everything I wuk in life before I tek government, I retire, I retire at age 38 when I became attorney general I don’t have to work LG: tell me so wha you wan me fuh do (inaudible) AG: I think that you should, my first advice to you is that you should move out of there… it is a dangerous f**king place to work, is a dangerous place because that, I am telling you, read between the lines this thing not going to go on for long, people not going to tek this thing just so is a lot of powerful people that this man, wait ,nobody never used to bother with he before right and he used to getaway, get through with all wha he publishing but people get, people get sensitive now, they were chatree coolie rass, you know what is chatree LG: (inaudible) AG: you don’t engage a chatree in f**king war and that is what he has done …when he start fuh publish that I go and spy pun he and all kinda fucking madness .you nah see deh fucking tempo change after that, right. LG: I AG: me nah Jagdeo and Bobby yuh know and Brassington (inaudible) we come from a higher breed of people, you understand LG: All right let me talk, a
gun mek some calls fuh you cause I aint know (inaudible) AG: Anyhow nobody nah gun listen to you man nah worry with da stupidness the thing is that amm they should, we have some things we are doing on this side LG: uh huh AG: and you should think about your, boy me and BJ does talk about you and we believe that you does still f**king leak back information but amm you will have a review LG: Alright must give me a call AG: You should come up with us (inaudible) but you see how (inaudible) but you see this thing go down this road it nah gon end good right, ego, this is share ego happening hey, this man is lynching my family for no reason at all, no reason at all, just because he want to get at me and why he want to get at me because he believe that in can withdraw these charges against him… I can’t…me nah file dese charges boss LG: But why dem went ahead and charge this man knowing that dem nah get nothing AG: Because nobody is above the law boss, you cant… hear nah man… you cant put youself up as St Peter LG: No but hear I is no lawman but I was looking at the Act and they couldn’t a find a better way Sk**t because (inaudible) AG: No, no that’s not necessary, he got eyewitness, Sattaur tell you he got eyewitness accounts of where the vehicles are parked, the vehicle dem don’t ever park at the people house the people dem don’t even have f**king driver’s licence boss, Sattaur must know that LG: I was looking at some of the reports if the vehicle them are no longer (inaudible) AG: did what what, I didn’t hear you
LG: I am no lawyer but if the vehicle (inaudible) am looking at the reports and its not appropriate (inaudible) AG: You know them got some (inaudible) nuances in the law, you know on the face of it I agree with you LG: Right Right!! AG: But when you deeper, when you go deeper into the law you just cant… you see the law, the law looks at substance and not form, you can’t by not transferring your vehicle but giving a man the vehicle fuh use everyday, defeat the whole purpose of the thing, the law is not an ass, you understand LG: (inaudible) AG: The process, the people them (inaudible) hear we can end this tomorrow and all he gah do is go pay the duty and I could have worked out a reduced duty for him and the story done, anyway don’t give yourself too much liberty and say I talk to you and all kind of thing you know, let them believe that I you know cowering (pause) but eh man who is the girl man tell me who is de girl you a move away from you (inaudible) LG: (inaudible) AG: (inaudible) you cant give a girl name over de phone LG: (inaudible) AG: But who who is it me nah gun do nothing more wha de rass me gun do with the girl I just want know is who because the boy give a description and the girl is nice LG: (inaudible) AG: Nothing wrong with that e nah got nothing wrong with that me just wan know is who me nah got no ulterior motive, hai boss, me nah got no ulterior motive me nah (inaudible)nobody LG:(inaudible) AG: hmmm LG: (inaudible) AG: is Queen’s college people does run this country, you nah realize that (inaudible)
AG: Hmm, alright good eh hey Unidentified voice: Hi um this is the guy that spoke to you the other day concerning the story that you did (inaudible) the guy said that the story would have been in today’s newspaper but we buy the paper and we aint see it LG: That’s ok um I think we doing some investigations (inaudible) Unidentified voice: hmm yea he told me that yesterday LG: (inaudible) I am not sure what happened but I think the report is there in his office Unidentified voice: yea we spoke with him yesterday afternoon and he told me he spoke with Clifton and Clifton was very (inaudible) he didn’t say
much LG: I think that’s the nature of it um, a story just doesn’t appear in the paper like that I am sure the editors have their checks and balances so I guess uh uh I can speak to them for you and see (inaudible) but you could give him a call a little later and speak to him Unidentified voice: what is his name because I forgot to ask LG: Nicholas Unidentified Voice: Nicholas, uh what’s his number LG: you got to call through the office 225-8492 Unidentified Voice: Ok can I call now LG: no no no he is going to be here till after lunch Unidentified Voice: Oh oh alright sure
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Barbados public and private schools close due to heavy rains
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government Monday announced the closure of private and public schools as heavy rains associated with the passage of a tropical wave continue to affect the island. A statement from the Ministry of Education said all schools, including the Community College and the Samuel Jackman Prescod Polytechnic as well as private
schools and nurseries, have been ordered closed as a result of the rains that have caused flooding in several parts of the island. So far there have been no reports of injuries or destruction caused by the flood waters. The Barbados Meteorological Services said the tropical wave was interacting with an upperlevel low and trough over the Eastern Caribbean has been
generating some pockets of moderate to heavy showers, periods of rain, thunderstorms and occasional gusty winds across the island. In neighbouring Grenada, the citizens were being warned to be prepared for the passage of the tropical wave. The Meteorological Office said there was also a medium chance of flooding and landslide in vulnerable areas.
Barbados Govt says no IMF programme to turn economy around BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – The Barbados government Monday said it would not seek assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help turn around an ailing economy, insisting that the fiscal programme it has embarked upon is working, despite having laid off thousands of public workers. “What we have to do is to do the things that would help us achieve the (economic) growth,” Finance and Economic Minister Chris Sinckler told a news conference. “Based on what we are seeing we know growth will return,” he said, telling reporters that the government was working to achieve the two per cent economic growth as predicted by the Central Bank of Barbados. Sinckler said that in relation to the discussion pushed by the private sector for the Freundel Stuart government to contemplate a programme with the IMF, “we have said what our position is. “We are not
Barbados Finance Minister Chris Sinckler (Photo: antiguaobserver.com) contemplating any IMF programme at this stage, we do not think it is necessary, we believe that Barbadians can achieve the objectives of the programme that we have set ourselves. “It is not going to be easy or painless, but I know the alternatives which some people are clamouring for will be far worse than they may suspect,” he told reporters. “We are measuring the situation and we feel at this stage that (IMF programme) is not required at this stage,” he added. Last year, the government
announced the plan to cut public service jobs in a bid to save BDS$143 million (One BDS dollar = US$0.50 cents). Government said it would also institute a “strict programme of attrition” across the central public service, filling posts only where it is absolutely unavoidable, over the next five years, ending 2018-2019. On Monday he told reporters that the government was also looking at ways of reducing the burden of taxes on citizens and was exploring the possibility of broadening the tax base.
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MINISTERS AND DUTY FREE CONCESSIONS Many years ago, there was a story on the then Evening News on Channel 28. The story was about an official in Region Three who was granted a duty free concession for a vehicle to be used for his job but who instead was using the Region’s vehicle to get about his work. The Office of the Auditor General did an investigation and held that the official who
was granted a duty free concession on vehicle to be used in his work should use that vehicle and not the Region’s vehicle. But what about Ministers of the government? Should they enjoy duty free concessions on personal vehicles while they are assigned a State vehicle and a driver? In the case of Ministers of the government they were not
Dem boys seh...
Anil learning to be like Jagdeo, a scamp Monday, dem boys realize that nuff crook been to QC. Dem had nuff of dem in de assembly. Dem see Sam plus ammm; dem see Granger who is no stranger; dem see Priya without she Bhaia; dem see Ashni who is a nobody; but dem didn’t see Anil. He was too busy mekking plan fuh threaten de Waterfalls paper and de boss man. Dem boys seh that dem now see why Guyana in such a state. From far back was QC people who been controlling de country. Dem had Burnham; dem had Cheddi. When de two of dem was at de top de country was bloody. Nuff people dead and nuff house bun down. Now dem have Donald and Granger. De two of dem behaving like stranger. Dem can’t agree pun nutten when instead, she shoulda be like shirt button—tight, tight. Jagdeo didn’t go to QC except when he tun president and dem ask he fuh mek a speech. De man tek de opportunity fuh go and sit down in a classroom fuh learn how to become a scamp, a crook and a thief. He tell dem boys that he did want to follow Forbes. Today he get he desire and he got a few followers. All of dem trying to get into QC. Anil been deh and he seh how he now learning to be as smart as Jagdeo, a scamp.
Finance Minister underscores need for more evidence-based decision-making …at Statisticians’ forum Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh yesterday called for a cultural reorientation whereby Governments, businesses and individuals alike, rely more on readily available empirical data in everyday decision making rather than anecdotal opinions and accounts which are often far removed from reality. He was at the time delivering the keynote address at the opening ceremony of the 39th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Caribbean Statisticians (SCCS) and the 24th meeting of the Regional Census Coordination Committee (RCCC). The event which was held at the Princess Ramada Hotel, Providence, saw the participation of statisticians from across the region. The SCCS was established in 1974 to provide sound, relevant and timely statistics in guiding sustainable social and economic development of the Region. This is the first time that Guyana is hosting this meeting since the establishment of the SCCS 40 years ago. There can be no serious policy-making or decision-making in the absence of strong and reliable data. This he said, is and should not be confined only to the Government, but also be applied to decisions at the corporate and household levels. Minister Singh informed that the Guyana Bureau of Statistics is often inundated with requests from the corporate world for a vast array of data which serve to inform future plans such as investment, diversification and expansion opportunities and/or to better understand demographic and market trends. “The data generated by offices such as yours, (Continued on page 24)
in the past granted duty free concessions. Instead they were assigned a State vehicle. They had their chauffeurs and could use the assigned vehicles for both work and personal use. It needs to be asked whether the situation has changed because of recent we read of reports in the media of ministers claiming that they had more than one vehicle. We have also read reports of a minister enjoying a duty free concession on a personal vehicle. This issue needs to be clarified because once the State assigns a vehicle to a Minister there is no need for that Minister to be granted a personal duty free concession. While there may be nothing illegal about a minister enjoying a duty free concession on a personal vehicle, it really makes no sense for the State to be assigning a State vehicle to a minister and to allowing that
same Minister to enjoy a duty free concession. This should not be happening and there needs to be some explanation as to why it is happening if indeed it is happening. The opposition parties need to ask a question in the National Assembly. They need to determine just how many vehicles are assigned to any one minister at any one time. They also need to ask if any Minister who is assigned State vehicle enjoys duty free concessions on a vehicle owned by the Minister. If the government is going to tighten up on the granting of duty free concessions, then the political officials within the government must set the example. If someone is assigned a State vehicle for his both personal use and work, that person should not enjoy a duty free concession. If that person enjoys a duty free concession on a personal
Admitting that there is an existing “untenable and unhealthy” situation which is that the National Assembly has not met since July 10, House Speaker, Raphael Trotman, has made moves to secure a sitting next week. Trotman wrote the Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs, yesterday requesting that he should make necessary arrangements to facilitate a sitting next Thursday, November 6. Trotman acknowledged that the Parliamentary Management Committee had decided unanimously to allow Government and Opposition Chief Whips to continue in their efforts to agree on a date for the next sitting of the National Assembly. He said however that recent communication with the Whips, and pronouncements in the media attributed to both Gail Teixeira and Amna Ally, clearly lend to the view that the positions are intractable and that the likelihood of a date been agreed upon soon, is unlikely. The Speaker said that there is therefore gridlock, “and we are faced with the untenable and unhealthy situation of the National Assembly not meeting since July 10, 2014. I am sure that you will agree with me that this cannot be allowed to continue any longer as there is no state of national emergency, or otherwise, that prevents the Assembly from not meeting. In fact, on the contrary, I make bold to say that there are myriad issues
of national importance that require our immediate attention.” Trotman told Isaacs that notwithstanding the process in which the Whips were involved, he chose to engage Isaacs and the former Speakers of the National Assembly with a view to enquiring how best things could be resolved. He acknowledged receipt of opinions from Isaacs, and Messrs. Sase Narine, O.R., S.C., and Ralph Ramkarran, S.C. But Trotman told Isaacs that “With regard to your opinion on the applicability of Standing Order 8 (2), I am in fact in complete agreement with it. With that said, this cannot mean that the National Assembly cannot be convened unless by agreement or indication from the Government; especially where such agreement appears elusive to even impossible.” Standing Order 8 (2) says “If during an adjournment of the Assembly, it is represented to the Speaker by the Government, or the Speaker is of the opinion, that the public interest requires that the Assembly should meet on a day earlier than that to which it stands adjourned, the Speaker may give notice accordingly and the Assembly shall meet at the time stated in such notice. The Clerk shall as soon as possible inform each Member in writing, or telegram or by appropriate electronic means of any such earlier meeting.”
vehicle then that person should not be assigned a State vehicle. It is impossible for a Minister to be two places at the same time. It is impossible for a Minister to be using two vehicles at the same time. And it is unreasonable to ask a Minister of a government-any government-- to use a State-owned vehicle to go to work but if that Minister has to go to the supermarket then that Minister should use his or her personal vehicle. Ministers should have exclusive access to a State vehicle period. But once they do, they should not have access to a duty free concession on a vehicle that they own personally. Another reason why this issue needs to be resolved concerns the number of State vehicles that are assigned to Ministers and top government functionaries. At one time it was reported that a Ministry vehicle was
assigned to a daughter of a Minister. Now it is one thing for a vehicle assigned to a Minister to be used to move around the children of that Minister. We should not be petty and say this should not happen. A Minister is an important person and the State vehicle assigned to that Minister should be allowed to be used to move his family members around. But it is another thing to have a different State-owned vehicle assigned to a Minister’s children. So the question that needs asking is whether Ministers who are assigned State vehicles are also allowed to purchase their own personal duty free vehicles.
House Speaker sets date for first sitting since July
Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman The Speaker said that with consideration of this he found favour with the opinion rendered by the former Speakers of the National Assembly, which in effect states that the National Assembly shall meet “day by day”; unless otherwise decided by the National Assembly, and that as the Assembly automatically went into recess on August 10, 2014, so too did it automatically come out of recess on October 10, 2014. Therefore, the House should have been convened forthwith on the first working day thereafter. He noted as well that his belief that when the House adjourned to a “date to be fixed” it was done in error as a date should have been fixed. The Speaker took “full responsibility” for that even as he made known his opinion
that an open-ended adjournment is tantamount to a violation of the constitutional mandate for the National Assembly to meet day by day. “I am also of the opinion that the adjournment to “a date to be fixed” was superseded by the event of the House entering into the annual recess on August 10, 2014. The next day on which the House should have met should have been Monday October 13, 2014 as October 12, 2014, was a Sunday. No direction from the Government or the Speaker is required to re-convene the sittings in this regard. Indeed, to support this view, Committee meetings have resumed without an instruction or direction having to be given. Further, when His Excellency issued the proclamation for the 10th Parliament to be summoned and to commence sittings, it was your office that convened the sittings then and every time thereafter,” noted the Speaker. Trotman calculated that the date he set gives provision for the normal notice period for Members of Parliament to be notified. In terms of the Order Paper for the sitting, Trotman advised that the Agenda as of July 10, 2014 is the Agenda that should be used at the next sitting together with any additional matters that have arisen during the recess subject to the requisite period of notice being observed. (Abena Rockcliffe)
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== THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN ==
Another death waiting to happen A school boy from the institution at Cornelia Ida, run by Swami Aksharananda, committed suicide after he was expelled for an alleged affair with a teacher. It was a cruel death because of one factor only –expulsion. Even though he said he was humiliated in front of his peers, it was the expulsion that triggered the tragedy. What goes through the mind of a child when he/she knows that he/she has to find another school maybe far away from home and will lose childhood friendships? It takes me back years ago to a morning outside the
Medicare Pharmacy on New Market Street. The wife of chartered accountant Hardat Singh was distraught. And that is putting it mildly. She asked for my help. Her daughter was expelled from Mae’s because she was found with her cell phone. She said that the child was taking it badly and was not eating. She said that she spoke to two PNC parliamentarian (both lawyers); Deborah Backer and Clarissa Riehl and both couldn’t help. I suggested that she speak with Education Minister, Sheik Baksh, while I discussed legal avenues with her husband
whom I know well since we were colleagues at UG. Minister Baksh opted to stay out. Hardat told me that he would seek an injunction. He never did. The child found entry into School of the Nations and that was the end of the matter. The son of Mr. Johnson, owner of Nigel’s Supermarket met with the same fate at Mae’s. School of the Nations accepted him, and once more Mae’s escaped legal action. You do not expel a child in the middle of the term for possession of a cell phone. It is harsh and sadistic. There must be other less bestial forms of punishment. I wrote on this issue that should that happen to any other child at any other school I would like the parents to contact me and I would proceed with immediate court action. My daughter went to Marian Academy and one of her classmates was
peremptorily expelled for kissing a boy. It was a decision by the headmistress without any official inquiry. The grandmother spoke to me but my efforts to get other parents to intervene were unsuccessful. The ParentTeacher Association was a silly little tool unworthy of its name (at least at that time). That little, working class girl from Hadfield Street never recovered from that expulsion. Her life just went astray from thereon. The headmistress of Marian Academy is a Catholic nun. The headmaster of the school at Cornelia Ida is a Swami who may be the equivalent to an Archbishop. Where was God when these things were happening? Let me divert a little from my main topic. Years after I ran into the distraught mother in the Mae’s expulsion case, the weeders at my home broke my back windscreen and in a casual conversation with her
at a random meeting, I mentioned my difficulty in getting a replacement. She advised me that a man had ordered one from Beharry’s months ago and was still to pay for it. She got Beharry’s to sell it to me. I thanked her and reminded her of what the PPP Minister Sheik Baksh did to her and implored her not to vote for the PPP in the future. There was no death from Mae’s two expulsions (but there must have been many more) but there was one from Swami’s school. And that suicide should alert this society to the potential for more deaths if students are expelled for conduct that does not warrant such draconian measures. It is abysmally stupid to expel a child for possession of cell phone. And to think that Minister Baksh told that emotionally drained mother that there was nothing he could have done. What was Swami Aksharananda
Frederick Kissoon thinking? From what I have heard of this religious man he is a nice person. But how much do we know of the people we know to be nice? From the little I heard of the Swami he appears to be the kind of person who would sit down with the boy and give him a sociological lecture (the Swami’s real name is Oudaipaul Singh who has a doctorate in sociology). Swami was also capable of giving the boy a philosophical talk. Why was that route not taken? So are we going to take steps to stop another suicide because of expulsion? I doubt it. The Ministry will never issue an edict to private schools to desist from throwing out students found with cell phones. In Guyana who cares about suicides and homicides and any kind of sides? Many do.
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Crime Chief considers Rodney assassination case closed Crime Chief of the Guyana Police Force, Senior Superintendent Leslie James, considers the 34-year cold case of Dr. Walter Rodney’s bomb blast assassination in Georgetown “closed” because the main suspect Gregory Smith is deceased, James told the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry, yesterday. He, however, said the Commission of Inquiry is fulfilling such a purpose, of probing the death of Dr. Rodney. Under intense grilling from Counsel for the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), Christopher Ram, Senior Superintendent James for the first time appeared flustered and uneasy in the witness stand, and peppered the day parrying pointed, specific questions from Ram with answers like “I’m not sure”. The Presidential Commission for the first time zeroed in on the failures of the Police Force to investigate why famed Guyanese historian and international scholar Dr Walter Rodney died in an explosion in his car when a communications device disguised as a deadly bomb blew up in his lap. Ram’s cross examination focused on the relevance of
the cold case, and sought to probe why the Police failed to consider the plethora of evidence that identified Gregory Smith, a mysterious Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier, as the main suspect in the bombing. Ram asked the Crime Chief if the Police Force ever investigated, or even considered, the “conspiracies” of the “State apparatus” to execute Dr. Rodney. The Crime Chief responded; “I’m not sure”. Ram’s line of questioning prompted the Commission members – Chairman Sir Richard Cheltenham of Barbados, Senior Counsel Seenath Jairam of Trinidad and Tobago and Jacqueline Samuels-Brown of Jamaica – to comment on the stunning failure of the Police Force, with Sir Richard asking the Crime Chief if the “extraordinary” failures appeared to be “deliberate”. James said he did not think so. Appearing uncomfortable and uneasy under Ram’s direct and detailed crossexamination, James sought to avoid direct answers to serious questions that implicated the Police Force’s investigation of Dr. Rodney’s death. Sir Richard asked the Crime Chief if it may be
appropriate to consider the questionable performance of the Police Force in the case and look to identify if the Force’s “professional integrity” suffered serious damage. Ram questioned the “State apparatus” that failed, including the Foreign Affairs Ministry, as the fiancé of Gregory Smith showed up as an employee at the Guyana Consulate in Toronto, Canada, shortly after Dr. Rodney’s assassination. The Commission is probing the period 1978 to 1980 in Guyana, when Dr. Rodney and a number of other political activists died violently, including Father Bernard Darke, who was stabbed on Brickdam, Georgetown, during a popular street protest against the dictatorship government of the People’s National Congress (PNC). Widespread suspicions over the past three – and – ahalf decades hover over the troubled PNC Government as the main executor of the assassination of the populist political activist on Friday, June 13, 1980. The Counsel dealt with Smith’s getaway to the hinterland aboard a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) aircraft,
detailed reports in the Catholic Standard newspaper, eye witness accounts of Smith’s sighting after he escaped Georgetown the day after the bombing on Camp Street, and an account by a Pamela Beharry, all identifying Smith as a GDF soldier. Ram wanted to know if the Crime Chief thought the Police Force should have investigated if there were conspiracies involving the security forces – GDF, Guyana Police Force and the Joint Intelligence Command, along with other agencies like the Foreign Affairs Ministry to cause Dr. Rodney’s violent death. James told the Commission that Police investigators closed the file on the Dr. Rodney cold case after Smith died, yet the Force never obtained a death certificate for Smith. Smith is reported to have died recently in French Guiana, where he escaped to, in a mysterious flight from Guyana after the deadly bomb blast transformed Guyana forever. The Commission discussed how Smith secured two different birth certificates, and how he obtained a passport and how he got a GDF military plane to fly him the morning after the
bomb blast on June 14, 1980 to Kwakwani and how and why his fiancé got a diplomatic posting to Canada, after she was a mere confidential secretary, and how the Police neglected to arrest Smith despite publication of his name and picture and other details in the Catholic Standard and how and why the police did not act on Donald Rodney’s statement that Smith had supplied a communications device to Dr. Rodney, which exploded in his lap, killing him in his car, and how the police did not act on Pamela Beharry’s identification of Smith as a GDF solider. Sir Richard noted that reports peg Smith as a military man, and hinted at testimony at the Commission that fingered Smith as an intelligence officer working as a double agent for the GDF and the joint Intelligence Command, and for the WPA, through Dr. Rodney. In the mid-1990s, the Police issued an arrest warrant for Smith, but it was never executed. Ram worked on the idea that the Police failed to probe Dr. Rodney’s killing, implying that the assassination was a PNC Government conspiracy, and the Crime Chief said that
based on all the information that was available to it, the Police Force should have arrested Smith, as “all the particulars” were available in a report compiled by Police investigator, Ignatius McRae. McRae investigated the bomb blast, but ended up charging the badly wounded Donald Rodney as he lay in a hospital bed. Rodney is the only eye witness to the bomb blast killing of his brother, and is slated to testify at the Commission. James told the Commission the ultimate responsibility for the investigation lay with then Crime Chief, Cecil ‘Skip’ Roberts. Donald Rodney was charged on June 26. The Commission expressed the thought that if Smith was an undercover operative of the security forces, he would not have been charged. Records show that the GDF paid Smith’s phone bill, and a passport was issued to him by the PNC Government. In fact, Smith was in Police custody only ten days before the deadly bomb blast, when Deputy Principal of the Rama Krishna School, Harry Persaud, filed a Police report that Smith had (Continued on page 24)
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PPP says GECOM suffers La Penitence resident remanded for shooting security guard security breaches - laments Yesterday the People’s Progressive Party told the media that there is a break down in security at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). This, PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee said is of grave concern to the Party which like any other political Party is a GECOM stakeholder. There have been significant losses of electoral material and other items from several GECOM locations. Rohee, as he hosted the PPP weekly press conference at the Party’s Robb Street Headquarters, said that the PPP has been reliably informed that just about 25 cartons of the indelible electoral ink as well as dozens of black tanks have gone missing or cannot be unaccounted for within GECOM. “What is even more alarming is that there seem to be efforts within GECOM to
efforts to keeps losses from public
PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee keep these breaches of security from the public and the stakeholders.” Rohee said that covering up such breaches in security by GECOM would further shake the confidence and trust that stakeholders have in the entire elections commission. However, when asked if the PPP has lost any confidence in the man sitting at the helm of GECOM, Dr.
Steve Surujbally, Rohee responded in the negative. Rohee called on the Chairman of GECOM to provide all political parties as well as the public with the full details of these breaches of security as well as assurances that appropriate action or actions will be taken against whoever is found to be negligent. Rohee, who is also the Minister of Home Affairs, said that the Guyana Police Force must be called upon to investigate these breaches. Rohee lamented that for too long, equipment and items procured from tax payer’s monies by GECOM are stolen or declared lost and no one is held accountable. He said that the PPP recalled “the declared lost” laptop computers to date. No one was held accountable and or responsible. “GECOM may wish to update the populace on these issues as well, said Rohee.
A 27-year-old man has been charged for shooting a security guard attached to Bhena’s Footwear in a robbery attempt some eight months ago. Eon Ambrose, of Lot 91 Sideline Dam, La Penitence, Georgetown, appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to face two charges that stemmed from the incident. The court heard that on February 2, at Middle Road, La Penitence he attempted to rob Omar Bynoe, 35, of Agricola, East Bank Demerara. Ambrose was charged too with discharging a loaded firearm at Bynoe with
intent to maim, harm, disable, disfigure or cause him grievous bodily harm. Police Prosecutor, Inspector Michael Grant said that Bynoe was dropping off one of his colleagues in La Penitence, when a gun-toting Ambrose approached and called him out of his car. He said that Ambrose opened fire on Bynoe hitting him on his left shoulder. Bynoe, a licensed firearm holder, returned fire on Ambrose and his accomplice. The attackers, the Prosecution said, fled the scene that day. Grant told the court that Bynoe was picked up and taken to the Georgetown
Region Three Education Officer dies The Ministry of Education, (MOE) has said that it mourns the passing of Education Officer (Primary) of the Department of Education, Mr. Seeram Bhairo. Mr. Bhairo died late Saturday night, after a brief illness. He served Guyana as an educator for more than 40 years. In a press release, yesterday the MOE lauded the former Education Officer for his sterling contribution to the sector. Bhairo started his career
at Lower Bonasika Primary in 1973. He was appointed Senior Master in 1991. He also served as Headmaster at the Zeelugt Primary School; as District Education OfficerRegion Three and was serving as District Education Officer (Primary) -Georgetown up to the time of his death. The Ministry of Education will be hosting a wake in honour of Mr. B h a i r o ’s m e m o r y t h i s evening, at its Brickdam, Georgetown, Head office.
Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). The Prosecutor said that Ambrose and his accomplice avoided the clutches of the police for months despite several attempts to arrest them. He said that they recently managed to nab him and placed him on an Identification (ID) parade where the accused was fingered as one of Bynoe’s attackers. Ambrose, the prosecutor said, was subsequently charged with attempted robbery and discharging a loaded firearm with intent. Responding to the charges in court yesterday, Ambrose pleaded not guilty and his lawyer, Clive Forde, asked for him to be released on bail. The Prosecutor, who objected, emphasised that extreme violence was used and the security guard was shot during the incident. The Inspector said no firearm was recovered. He opined that he was a flightrisk who may run from facing the charges leveled against him. Forde, the lawyer, said that Ambrose, a married man with one child, is employed at Rohan Security Service and had never been charged before. The lawyer argued that Ambrose was not a flightrisk. Forde contended that when his client was taken to the police station he was subjected to a flawed ID parade. The lawyer alleged that the victim was prompted by the police to point out Ambrose but the Prosecution debunked the lawyer’s claims. Notwithstanding his application, bail was refused. The case was transferred to Magistrate Fabayo Azore and will be called for statements on November 13.
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PNCR hosts activities for Month of the Elderly
The PNCR leader was accompanied to New Amsterdam by Central Executive Member Joseph Harmon; Head of Organisation Department, Fitzroy Corlette and Mark Archer, Head of the Communications Department. Earlier this month a similar activity was held in Linden. A team of PNCR members travelled to Linden to celebrate with senior citizens of the mining town. The visiting team thanked the seniors for their sterling contribution to the party over the years and urged them to help impart some of the ideals of PNCR to the younger folks.Hampers and hot meals were distributed to more than 100 senior citizens in Linden. The event was organised by the Upper DemeraraBerbice PNCR Regional Coordinator Sandra Adams. October was designated Month of the Elderly by the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security. During the month, a number of activities that afford Guyanese opportunities of crediting the nation’s seniors for their
Guyana tops region in suicides …Americas record seven suicides per hour- PAHO/ WHO
PNCR Director of Human Services’ Department, Volda Lawrence spreading cheer to the elderly at the Palms on Sunday.
The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), an arm of the main political opposition coalition, A Partnership for National Unity, APNU, last Sunday, hosted two events in commemoration of Month of the Elderly. In Georgetown, a team of Party officials headed by Vice Chairperson of the PNCR and Director of the Party’s Human Services’ Department, Volda Lawrence, visited the Palms Geriatric Home for Senior Citizens, then served hot meals, beverages and hampers to the residents. The visitors also included Mabel Baveghems, Member of Parliament (MP), and representatives of the National Congress of Women (NCW), the women’s arm of the PNCR. At New Amsterdam, Leader of the PNCR, Brigadier David Granger, participated in the annual senior citizens luncheon, hosted by the Angoy’s Avenue PNCR group. Brigadier Granger along with a team of senior national and regional party officials served lunch to the more than 50 seniors.
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achievements are hosted. As part of the activities earlier this month, the Palms Geriatric Home held a mini health fair at its Brickdam location to mark the observance. The fair was hosted for elders to access free health checks. At the fair, various services were offered to the elderly. There were tests for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and counselling, random blood-sugar testing and physiotherapy. Food for the Poor (Guyana) Incorporated, (FFTP) in collaboration with the Chest Clinic at the Georgetown Public Hospital and a number of other related groups also conducted a Geriatric Health Clinic at the FFTP headquarters in Festival City, North Ruimveldt, Georgetown. Seniors were offered various medical services by a team of professionals which included doctors and nurses. The senior citizens were treated to free eye examinations, dental examination, blood sugar/ blood pressure testing and free beauty treatment.
More than seven persons commit suicide every hour, according to a recent report released by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO). The report, Suicide mortality in the Americas, is based on data from 48 countries and territories in the Western Hemisphere. It shows that suicide is a significant health problem and one of the region’s leading preventable causes of death. “Many things about suicide make it especially tragic,” said PAHO Director Carissa F. Etienne. “The severe emotional suffering of the one who takes his life; the feelings of loss, abandonment or guilt of family members and friends left behind; and it is so permanent yet many times for problems which can be solved. “But to a large extent suicide is preventable. Research has shown that reducing access to the most common means like firearms, pesticides, and certain medicine helps lessen suicides.” Regionally the Americas have a lower average suicide rate (7.3 per 100,000 inhabitants) than the global average (11.4 per 100,000) and lower than other WHO regions. Within the Americas, however, rates vary significantly in different countries as well as by age and sex. Among subregions, North
America and the nonHispanic Caribbean have the highest suicide rates. Men have higher rates than women in all the region’s countries. And among age groups, people over age 70 have the highest suicide rates. Other significant findings of the new report include: Suicide is the third-leading cause of death in young people ages 10 to 24; Adults over age 70 are the most likely to die from suicide; Men are about four times more likely than women to die from suicide, although women make more suicide attempts. The most common method of suicide in the region is suffocation (including hanging), followed by firearms and poisoning (including drug overdose and pesticide ingestion); Suicide declined slightly in North America between 2005 and 2009 but increased in Latin America and the Caribbean. The countries in the region with the highest suicide rates (for 2005-2009) were: Guyana (26.2 per 100,000), Suriname (23.3), Uruguay (14.2), Chile (11.2), Trinidad and Tobago (10.7), the United States (10.1), Cuba (9.9) and Canada (9.7). The report notes that these and other findings should be interpreted with caution, since data quality varies significantly across countries. In addition, cultural, religious and even legal factors lead to
underreporting of suicide in many countries, which suggests the report likely underestimates the real burden of suicide in the Americas. The report also notes that there is a strong link between suicide and mental health problems; research suggests that mental illness is a factor in as many as 90 per cent of all suicides. The report recommends that countries evaluate their mental health systems to determine if they have the programmes, services, and resources to prevent and treat problems associated with suicidal behaviour. “We need to detect early and treat mental disorders like depression and alcohol abuse,” said PAHO Director Etienne. “In our communities and in our primary care services, we must identify, monitor and provide care for those at risk. We must be especially vigilant for those with previous attempts. But preventing suicide is not just the responsibility of health care workers; communities, families, churches, and social groups must become involved.” PAHO, founded in 1902, is the oldest international public health organization in the world. It works with its member countries to improve the health and the quality of life of the people of the Americas. It also serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of WHO.
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Adrian Bishop fatal shooting… CARPHA workshop to strengthen Police Complaints Chairman Caribbean response to Ebola
to send report to DPP
The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) will host workshops geared at strengthening the Caribbean’s ability to prepare and respond to outbreak situations such as the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa. From November 17 to November 21, CARPHA, in collaboration with the Communicable Diseases and Health Analysis (CHA) unit of PAHO/WHO, will provide two training workshops on Infectious Substances Shipping Training and Biosafety Practices for the Clinical Laboratory, at its Port of Spain, Trinidad headquarters. Laboratory professionals from across the Caribbean
who complete the World Health Organization Shipping Infectious Substances course will be certified to prepare shipments of laboratory samples. Successful participants will be certified for a period of two years to handle and package Category A Infectious Substances, such as samples from suspected cases of Ebola virus disease. CARPHA will also train personnel in bio-safety measures, practiced in the laboratory, which include infection control, proper use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and waste management measures. It is expected that laboratory technicians actively involved in the
packaging of laboratory samples, for the purpose of international transport, will in turn provide similar training to other colleagues at institutional and country level. Both the Shipping and Bio-safety courses are in accordance with WHO Guidance on regulations for the transport of Infectious Substances 2013-2014 and WHO Biorisk Management Programme respectively. Many countries adopt the United Nations Model Regulations in their entirety to stand as their national dangerous goods legislation. Some countries apply variations. National authorities should provide details of their own national requirements.
Cuba provides largest batch of healthcare workers for Ebola crisis - GCSM President Cuba has sent a second group of medical staff to West Africa to help fight the Ebola outbreak. The country is sending 83 doctors and nurses will treat Ebola patients in Liberia and Guinea. A few weeks ago another contingent of 165 Cuban healthcare professionals travelled to Sierra Leone, according to President of the Guyana Cuba Solidarity Movement (GCSM), Haleem Khan. Khan explained that even the World Health Organization (WHO) has noted that Cuba is now the biggest single provider of healthcare workers to the Ebola crisis in West Africa, more than the Red Cross or richer nations. More Cuban medics have been trained to travel there. The epidemic has killed more than 4,500 people in West
President of the Guyana Cuba Solidarity Movement, Haleem Khan. Africa. Recently, Cuba hosted a Regional Summit on Ebola where Heads of state and g o v e r n m e n t a l representatives of various countries that make up the regional integration bloc gather in Havana to address
a joint contribution to the prevention and fight against Ebola, the deadly epidemic currently affecting West Africa. Khan explained that the meeting was spurred on the heels of the U.N. Secretary General making an international appeal for additional support and help in preventing and coping with the epidemic. He said Cuba has been praised for its response to the Ebola crisis, including by the United States. Despite America’s frosty relations with the Communist island, US Secretary of State John Kerry cited Cuba as an example of a small nation which sent more than larger, richer states.
Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority, Justice Cecil Kennard, has completed his perusal of the report on last September ’s fatal shooting of Adrian Bishop in Albouystown at the hands of a police rank. He is to hand the document over to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) this week. Kennard explained that although he will send the file with his comments, the final outcome rests with the DPP. The file contains ballistic expert’s report and the post mortem report, which will be crucial to the DPP’s decision. It reportedly also contains statements by the rank who shot Bishop and by civilians who claimed that the shooting was deliberate. Bishop, 28, was shot in the neck on Saturday, September 20, last, after being taken into custody in the vicinity of Hill Street, Abouystown. He was unarmed at the time and was in a police vehicle. At the time he was being arrested for assaulting a policewoman, with whom he
allegedly had a relationship. Police have stated that a mobile police patrol responded to a policewoman’s report that Bishop had assaulted her in Albouystown. The ranks, accompanied by the policewoman, went to Hill Street, Albouystown, where Bishop, of Garnett Street, Kitty, was pointed out to them. Police allege that while he was being transported in a police vehicle, Bishop attempted to take away a shotgun from one of the ranks. A round was discharged and struck Bishop in the neck, police said. But several Albouystown residents alleged that the policeman deliberately shot Bishop while the civilian was sitting in the police vehicle. Residents told Kaieteur News that a policewoman, known to them as ‘Big Wig,’ was at a ‘fish fry’ in Hill Street, Albouystown, when Bishop assaulted the woman, who was said to be his exgirlfriend. The policewoman made a report at the Brickdam Police
Station. She then accompanied three of her colleagues back to the scene in a “silver-grey Pit bull bus.” According to some residents, the ranks began to assault Bishop before forcing him into the police vehicle. They alleged that while Bishop was sitting in the bus, a policeman, who was outside the vehicle, pushed a shotgun through one of the windows and shot Bishop. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Bishop and two others had appeared in court for allegedly hijacking a businessman’s car in Cross Street, Alexander Village. They were each released on $100,000 bail. In August, Bishop was remanded for allegedly robbing Marlon Henry at gunpoint of a motor scooter and other items. In May, 2008, Bishop was charged with robbing Lester Simon and Kenrick Lawson, respectively, of their cars at gunpoint.
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Finance Minister underscores need Bandits hit Muneshwer’s Limited, shoot security guard for more evidence-based decision... A 54-year-old security guard on escort duties was shot to his left foot by two gunmen who carted off an undisclosed sum of cash from Muneshwer’s Limited on Water Street, Georgetown. The robbery occurred about 16:40 hrs in front Muneshwer’s Limited opposite Fogarty’s Department store on Water Street, Georgetown. The injured guard has been identified has Terrence Haywood, a father of five of Friendship, East Bank Demerara (EBD). When this newspaper visited Haywood at the hospital, he was waiting to seek medical attention in the facility’s waiting area. He told this newspaper that he was escorting one of
the company’s managers from one store to another in the same area when he was wounded. “Just as the manager come out the vehicle in front Fogarty’s, one bandit hold him by his neck and collect the money. When I see that I reached for my gun but the man shoot me,” the wounded security guard recalled. He added that the two men fired about 12 shots before they escaped in a waiting vehicle. A police outpost is located just a stone’s throw from where the security guard was shot. According to the security guard, the ordeal lasted a few minutes. Investigations are ongoing. No one has been arrested as yet.
INJURED: Terrence Haywood
Father of two charged for gas station robbery A 27-year-old father of two accused of storming into a West Coast Demerara gas station five months ago and holding an employee at gunpoint before making off with the day’s sales, was remanded to prison when he appeared in court yesterday. Kerwin Yearwood, of Lot 7 Ogle Street, Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara was taken before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry to respond to armed robbery charges. The court heard that on May 22, last, Yearwood went into the Shell Gas Station in Vreed-en-Hoop, held Narendra Ramnauth at gunpoint and relieved him of $500,000. The booty, which belonged to Reyaad Hussain, was the gas station’s daily earnings. The court heard that the father of two also relieved the employee of his cellular phone and other items before turning his gun on a customer and relieving him of his cash and a $5000 Nokia cellular phone. Police Prosecutor, Inspector Michael Grant explained that Yearwood then made off with the items and was arrested sometime after. He said that he was placed on an Identification
(ID) parade where the two victims fingered him as the gun toting robber. The Prosecution asked the court to consider that a firearm was used in the commission of the crime. He objected to bail too citing the nature, gravity and prevalence of gun crimes. He opined that the accused was a flight risk who would not return to face charges. In an application for bail, Forde said that Yearwood, a father of two, had never been charged before. He argued that his client was not a flight-risk. Forde claimed that the police ventured to his client’s house last Saturday and searched it before arresting him. He said that nothing was found there. The lawyer alleged that when his client was taken to the police station he was subjected to a flawed ID parade. He claimed that the police prompted the victims to point out his client. However, the Prosecution debunked the lawyer’s claims. Yearwood was remanded to prison and the case was transferred to the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court for October 30.
Crime Chief considers Rodney... From page 11 threatened him with a gun. The Commission noted that ‘Skip’ Roberts had mentioned this incident. Crime Chief said “it could be a possibility but not sure” that Smith could have been involved in the killing of Rodney. Chairman Sir Richard asked him if, given the information available, the security forces may have given Smith the instructions. James said he’s “not sure”. The Chairman said; “could you rule that out?” The Crime Chief said; “it cannot be totally ruled out”. Chairman: “Given the times is there any evidence the Police looked into that aspect that Smith (was) carrying out orders from security forces? Crime Chief:
“I’m not sure”. Samuels-Brown: Police could have checked if aircraft operated by GDF, but no evidence that investigation was done. Failure of Police to pursue investigation. Chairman: Picture in papers that Gouveia recognised Smith as the person he flew on GDF military plane on June 14, 1980, speaks to involvement of GDF aircraft in getting Smith out of jurisdiction. Chairman: Can the police ask themselves - did we act professionally, or was our professional integrity challenged? Crime Chief: Frankly, there should be some engagement that call must be made by my superiors. Chairman: We got to ask
where we went wrong? How did this happen? Ram: Conspiracy by state apparatus with Smith to kill Dr. Rodney. Crime Chief: Not sure, investigation short of being thorough, although police had capacity. Ram: Was there a coverup in the implications of the State Apparatus in the death of Dr. Rodney. Crime Chief: I don’t know of a cover-up. Chairman: Would it strike you that these were extraordinary omissions on behalf of investigators. Does it not raise a question that these were, given the frequency and importance of omissions, that they were deliberate? Crime Chief: No. (GINA)
From page 9 literally shape the decisions made in the corporate boardrooms of the region, and indeed Cabinet rooms of the region. Yours is an extremely important responsibility, and I am pleased with how this responsibility has been discharged in Guyana,” the Minister said. The Bureau of Statistics was established as a department in 1957, but prior to this, the collection and publication of statistics was decentralised and assigned to a few key government departments. In 1990, an Act of Parliament 1990 incorporated the Bureau as a semi-autonomous body, outside the purview of the traditional Public Service. Minister Singh gave the example of individuals pursuing studies at the University of Guyana without taking into account the demands of the labour market.
“You are making a decision that will influence the job opportunities that will become available to you, and the income that you will be able to earn…I want to make the call for more of our citizens and corporate entities to make decisions on the richness of data that is available,” Minister Singh said. He also called on the academic community and the media to sufficiently treat with the abundance of available data to better address developmental challenges in the region and to better understand some of the phenomena that are observed. Assistant Secretary General, CARICOM, Colin Grandison pointed out that Information Communication Technology (ICT) has to be the tool to power the data revolution. He noted too, that statistics is indispensible in the planning and monitoring
of developmental objectives. Meanwhile, Director of the Regional Statistics Programme of the CARICOM Secretariat, Dr. Philomen Harrison in her remarks spoke of issues that affect the work of statisticians in the region and the world over such as availability of adequate resources, principles of independence and confidentiality, and the development of the profession. “I would like to urge fellow directors of statistics and chief statisticians to continue to be passionate about your work while being vigilant. There is a lot more to be accomplished by statisticians in serving countries,” Dr. Harrison said. The theme under which these two meetings are being held is, “Data revolution for sustainable development in CARICOM - designing and operationalising a framework for statistics”.
President joins in QC's 170 anniversary... From page 13 development of Guyana, and it can contend with any secondary institution in the world that can produce people with high calibre as Queen's College has done,” President Ramotar noted. Queen's College, he said, should be replicated all over Guyana, and Government is working to ensure that every secondary school is associated with the institution. Three of the four students who copped the CXC regional awards were students of Queen's College, while the fourth student came from New Amsterdam Secondary School. President Ramotar highlighted that fact that the
fourth student's background was very modest, noting that this proves Government's effort to ensure every other institution is as distinguished as Queen's College. He said, “We are working hard to ensure that the other schools also have a quality education in this era that we belong.” Science and technology, he said, also play a major role in today's society, and all across the world one can find a Queen's College student. These past students are very much involved in science and technology, he observed. President Ramotar emphasised that education has transformed in Guyana, so much so that every child
in the most remote areas can access education. “For the students of today, I think that you are fortunate to have many role models that have come out of this institution that you can follow, but you must not only seek to follow, but to surpass the achievements that they have made…may Queen's College grow from strength to strength,” the President said. The school was established in 1844 as the Queen's College Grammar School for boys by Bishop William Piercy Austin, and the first class was held in August of that year with an enrollment of just 15 students and two tutors. (GINA)
Local health workers get support... From page 14 Chester, Nurse Rose Mason, Nurse Stacey Pharrel and Nurse Latesha Smith. According to Bagot while the GPHC already has in place an Oncology Room, “what we are doing is try to strengthen what they have and make it more efficient.” She said too that Chief Executive Officer of the GPHC, Michael Khan, was very supportive. He ensured that the collaboration was realised as was (GPHC's) Public Relations Officer, Ms. Mitzy Campbell. OSHAG was formed in 2000 by Bagot, a Berbician who migrated 25 years ago. She currently holds a Masters Degree in Human Service Administration. OSHAG members have been coming to Guyana ever since its establishment to offer health care support. In 2005 the group partnered with
the Caribbean Medical Mission and the New Amsterdam Public Hospital and currently doctors affiliated with the Caribbean Medical Mission are in New Amsterdam facilitating clinics and surgical procedures. Yesterday their medical services were offered at Manchester and Lancaster while today they are scheduled to be at Belladrum, Wednesday at Mahaica while they will venture to Buxton on Thursday and Friday at Enmore. “So we are doing a lot with regard to touching base with the various communities regarding health issues,” Bagot told this publication. Lambert, OSHAG's Vice President, also a Guyanese by birth residing in the United States, told this publication yesterday too that the move to collaborate with the GPHC was premised on the fact that
“we have been finding more and more cases of cancer thus the need for this particular venture. “Every year we come we are finding people who are undiagnosed thinking it is an abscess... but some may have breast cancer, cervical cancer; there are a lot of cancers,” said Lambert. It is for this reason, she added that the visiting team has been facilitating surgeries to deal with cancers as she emphasised that “this is a great, great need for this country and for the Caribbean.” According to GPHC's Nursing Services Director, Sister Audrey Cory, the support from OSHAG could not have come at a more opportune since keen focus is being directed to the treatment of cancer, particularly breast cancer which has been increasingly affecting younger women.
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Cameron escalates row over EU bill
(Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain would not pay “anything like” the 2.1 billion euros (1.6 billion pounds) the European Union wants from London after Eurosceptic media praised him for taking what they called a noble stand against money-grabbing “Eurocrats”. An angry Cameron on Friday refused to pay the bill by a Dec. 1 deadline, accusing the EU executive of ambushing him with an unacceptable demand in an appalling way. On Monday, he went further saying he had no intention of paying the bill in its current form, suggesting he wanted it sharply reduced. “We’re not paying 2 billion euros on the first of December and we’re not paying ... a sum anything like that,” Cameron told parliament. “That is very clear.” He has said the bill made it harder to make the case to keep Britain in the European Union before a membership referendum he has promised in 2017 if he is re-elected next year. The payment dispute and the way it has been spun by the popular press and politicians highlighted Britain’s decades-old distrust of the EU, a shift towards greater Euroscepticism and the intemperate nature of any debate about Europe in Britain. It also illustrated how the rise of the anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP) has dramatically shifted the political centre of gravity
towards Euroscepticism. Cameron’s Conservatives fear UKIP, which wants lower immigration and a British exit from the EU, threatens their re-election chances. It has poached two of Cameron’s lawmakers, winning its first elected seat in Britain’s parliament this month, and is on track to win a second in November. Britain was hit with the higher bill because its economy has become more successful, something evidenced by data provided by its own Office for National Statistics. Other EU states were clobbered with painful bills too, and in the past Britain has been the beneficiary of such EU budget redistributions. But much of that nuance has been lost in a public debate where the country’s
right-wing press has cast Britain as being punished by the EU for its rising economy - the fastest-growing in the EU - to pay for the mistakes of two of its oldest historical foes: France and Germany. “Why should Britain be punished with the shock EU bill for fragile success while France is rewarded with a rebate for abject failure?” the best-selling Sun tabloid asked yesterday. “Why should we make taxpayers borrow 1.7 billion pounds only to hand it over to feckless bunglers? Eurocrats like Jose Barroso (the outgoing commission president) can strut and bluster about our legal obligations but we have the whip hand.” With many Britons blaming the EU for what they see as unacceptably high levels of immigration from the bloc in recent years, such rhetoric goes down well with many voters, even as, incongruously, opinion polls show support for staying in the EU is at its highest in 23 years. EUROSCEPTIC SHIFT On Monday, the EU warned Britain it would put the country’s cherished EU budget rebate at risk if it tried to change the rules in response to the surprise bill. Britain’s rebate, which is 5.9 billion euros for 2014, was created to offset the relatively lower share of cash the country got from EU agricultural and infrastructure funds compared with other countries. It is controversial with some member states.
government that would heal the “split” in Ukrainian society. Poroshenko began power-sharing talks with Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk after their political groups led other pro-Western forces committed to democratic reforms in
sweeping pro-Russian forces out of parliament. “The main task is to quickly form a proEuropean coalition for carrying out agreements with the EU,” Yatseniuk said at a meeting with election observers.
British Prime Minister David Cameron
U.S. and EU hail pro-West election outcome in Ukraine, Russia guarded (Reuters) - Pro-Western parties will dominate Ukraine’s parliament after an election handed President Petro Poroshenko a mandate to end a separatist conflict and to steer the country further away from Russia’s orbit towards mainstream Europe. U.S. President Barack Obama hailed Sunday’s election as “an important milestone in Ukraine’s democratic development” while top European Union officials said on Monday it represented a “victory of the people of Ukraine and of democracy”. But, reflecting the geopolitical struggle between Moscow and the We s t o v e r U k r a i n e ’s future, Russia’s foreign minister reacted c a u t i o u s l y, saying M o s c ow expected Poroshenko to form a
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Pistorius verdict, sentence facing appeal
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African prosecutors will appeal against the culpable homicide verdict and five-year jail sentence passed on Oscar Pistorius last week after public and legal criticism of the judge’s decision to absolve the track star of murder. The Olympic and Paralympic athlete, whose lower legs were amputated as a baby, killed his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day last year by firing four 9mm rounds into the locked door of a toilet cubicle in what he said was the mistaken belief an intruder was hiding behind it. The announcement of the appeal came on Monday in a
Twitter statement from Nathi Mncube, spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA): “Oscar Pistorius judgment, NPA will be appealing both the conviction and sentence.” Mncube confirmed the appeal in an email to Reuters but gave no further details. During the sensational seven-month trial, the state failed to convince judge Thokozile Masipa of Pistorius’ intent to kill when he fired, leading to his conviction for negligent killing - culpable homicide and a five-year jail term last week. However, Masipa’s decision to rule out murder was criticized by several legal
experts and the Women’s League of the African National Congress (AN) as an erroneous interpretation of ‘dolus eventualis’, the legal principle by which a person is held accountable for the foreseeable consequences of their actions. A possible error of law opens the way for an appeal by the state. Under the principle of ‘dolus eventualis’, it does not matter whether Pistorius intended to kill Steenkamp, so much as the imaginary person whom he believed to be behind the door. “We have already sought a legal opinion on the proceedings thus far, especially on the
Tuesday October 28 2014 ARIES (Mar. 21–Apr. 19) The amazing thing about your nature is that, like a good politician, you have just the right tone of voice and catch phrase for every situation. You can put on your smile and charm and talk your way out of just about any pickle you get into. TAURUS (Apr. 20–May 20) You're apt to get the feeling that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence today, Taurus. Try not to get too hung up on this. GEMINI (May 21–June 20) Your mind may wander to a fantasyland full of castles, wizards, and magic dragons today, Gemini. You could find that you're putting yourself in the robes of a beautiful or handsome figure in a tall tower who's waiting for the perfect mate to come along. CANCER (June 21–July 22) Get on the fast track and use your powerful words and creative mind to make quick decisions that are mindful yet spontaneous. LEO (July 23–Aug. 22) Start the day with some vigorous yoga and then some meditation to help clear your mind, Leo. Stretch your body and get the blood flowing through all of your limbs. VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) Do something for the community today, Virgo, and really consider how your talents and skills can best be put to work. Consider volunteering at a school or library.
LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) If you're having trouble tackling a giant problem, Libra, don't get discouraged or overwhelmed. They key for you is to break things down into smaller chunks, analyze them, and figure out their role within the greater whole. SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) It may seem like everyone around you is happy and getting what they want while you're stuck in the trenches, Scorpio. Don't compare yourself to other people and make judgments based on outside appearances. SAGIT (Nov.22–Dec.21) Imagination and fantasy play a big part in your thinking today, Sagittarius, and you shouldn't hesitate to embrace this frame of mind. CAPRI(Dec.22–Jan.19) Engage more of your rational mind today, Capricorn. If your mind continues on its track into a fantasy world, you might consider enlisting the help of people who can help you bring some discipline to your situation. AQUARIUS(Jan.20–Feb.18) Suppose you were someone else for a day, Aquarius. How would it feel to be treated the way you normally treat other people? PISCES (Feb. 19–Mar. 20) Today your thoughts may turn to fashion and the different ways in which you can improve your wardrobe. Don't be afraid to create a look that reflects your true inner spirit. If
interpretation of the Pistorius judgment and in particular the understanding of the concept of dolus,” the AN Women’s League said before Mncube’s statement. “We believe regardless of whom Mr. Pistorius believed was behind the bathroom door on that fateful night, Mr. Pistorius shot to kill and therefore a murder did occur.” HOSPITALWING James Grant, a professor of criminal law and expert on ‘dolus’ at Johannesburg’s Witwatersrand University, said last week that lead prosecutor Gerrie Nel had
asked for his assistance in the event of a possible legal review. “I have advised that he should appeal and agreed to assist,” Grant said on Twitter. Despite the criticism of Masipa’s ruling, some lawyers said her decision was legally sound. In South Africa, an appeal by the state involves a review of the trial and verdict by a panel of senior judges who only consider the court’s interpretation of evidence and matters of law. They do not initiate a retrial or listen to any new
evidence. If the verdict is overturned and found to be murder, Pistorius could face a much longer stretch behind bars. He is currently in the hospital wing of the capital’s Kgosi Mampuru II prison, formerly known as Pretoria Central. The vast complex, infamous as the execution site of black activists under South Africa’s old whiteminority government, is now home to some of its highest-profile criminals, i n c l u d i n g ‘Prime Evil’ apartheid death squad leader Eugene de Kock.
Foo (85), Shiv (52) repair early damage after lively Gordon... From page 27 Amir Khan whom he took a liking to and clobbered for two more sixes over the bowler’s head. A clinical pull off Johnson reached the boundary like a bullet while a majestic clip through midwicket was simply orgasmic and was followed up by a flowing square drive for four. Bramble (2) was neatly stumped by Jason Sinclair when he missed a wild swipe at a flighted ball which turned from Khan at 129-7 before Veerasammy Permaul played some delightful shots in his 24 and along with Foo, in the
GCA/NBS 40over tourney
Rain stops play in latest action Play in the latest round of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/New Building Society (NBS) second division 40-over tournament was halted due to rain on Sunday last. At the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC), the home team were prevented of a possible victory after restricting Diplomats for 78 in 24.3 overs. Mark Cumberbatch, Steven Sankar and Miguel Persaud claimed three wickets each for the host. At Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO), the host managed 188-9 in 35 overs, batting first against Gandhi Youth Organisation. Richard Latiff stroked 70 and Abdul Kadir made 40. Abdul Raheem snared three wickets and Garfield De Roche two. Both teams were unable to commence their reply.
middle of one of his better innings, added 92 for the eighth wicket before Permaul and Kemol Savory (0) were bowled by Adams (2-38) in three balls as two wickets tumbled at 221. With last man Paul Wintz at the crease, Foo continued to display a wonderful
temperament and shot selection until he inexplicably was taken on the cover boundary off the fast bowler when just 15 short of what would have been a well deserved century. Today is the second day and play is scheduled to commence at 09:30hrs.
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Action galore at The fall of a King Rising Sun Rodeo Letter to the Sports Editor
DEAR EDITOR, It started at Pegasus and concluded there. Mr Matthias has self-destruct. He contributed to his own failure and fell. He literally chased away all the people who knew football administration and could have helped turn around football. Matthias was seen as a savior to football in getting rid of the Klass regime, but blew an opportunity to catapult Guyana’s Football to higher heights, the foundation was there yet he literally demolished all the hard work that was done by his predecessors. Selfishness took him from glory to gory. One of Matthias’ downfalls was the re-auditing of an audit that was done by a reputable auditing firm and the cost was mammoth. He claimed it was to be a forensic audit so you could have ascertained who was pilfering the funds. We are yet to know, will we ever know. Imagine working in the GFF office and not entering the office of the accountant for 1 year to enquire on how the accounts are set up, how it is done, he never sought financial advice. Insecurity caused many executive members to be ostracized. Matthias made many decisions on his own on the pretext that he had a mandate from FIFA and if anything goes wrong he is accountable. Another of his traits aiding his downfall was the constant untruths. Those were pedaled to the Minister of Culture, Youth & Sports, Banks DIH Managers, the
Travel Agency, GFF Executives, the Congress, even FIFA, CONCACAF & CFU, the footballers, spectators, many Hotel Owners, many transportation providers, the Referees and Coaches. Matthias has created history in all forms in Guyana. He is the shortest serving President in the GFF, destroying an entire executive in approximately 1 1/2 year and literally close down football in Guyana. The FIFA Officials said Guyana were on the brink of being suspended but they realized that football would have suffered and not Matthias. He promised to liquidate the debts incurred by the previous a d m i n i s t r a t i on, instead racked up millions of other debts to add on to the other millions inherited. One early failure was the withdrawing of the Beach Soccer team from the CONCACAF tournament and Guyana was fined, the signs were there yet were not seen. Another disaster was when Guyana entered a U16 female team to play in a CFU tournament yet Guyana did not have a vibrant female football tournament. The result was embarrassment for Guyana with the team conceding in excess of 40 goals. A U16 Male team was sent to participate in a CFU tournament with little preparation time and with no money. He vowed to get the goal project going and chastised and castigated the previous
administration of mismanagement, after 18 months we are still the same place or further back. Matthias could be credited with starting the lawlessness by playing a final with one of the established Guyana To u r n a m e n t ( K a s h i f & Shanghai) that have gained worldwide recognition when he was Secretary of the GFA. Yet when one friendly associations attempted to do the same, high handedness stepped in, he initiated an illegal Congress and banned and suspended left, right and center. The icing on the cake or the straw that broke the camel back was when Matthias publically said that Guyanese born in the Diaspora were foreigners and would not be considered for selection or words to that effect. The Senior National team was humiliated by Caribbean Minnows and he said that they did well. How can one be so absurd? Matthias has been recently saying since his ousting he has seen development in his tenure, well my dear sir this is a fabrication of your imagination, you are disillusioned and probably suffering from some form of myopic and incurable illusion. What I hope that you do is to keep as far away as you can from football because you have no clue on how to administer football, stick to Brokerage. Raul Thorne
By Samuel Whyte It was action galore and fans could not have asked for more as the Rising Sun Rodeo Committee successfully held their annual action packed, fun filled day of breathtaking action at the Rising Sun, Arima Park West Coast Berbice venue last Sunday. It was a day filled with skills, thrills, spills and plenty of fun and frolic as the Vaqueros displayed their dexterity in some daring sequences as many spectators were left in admiration. This year the competition was very intense with a number of new features. The clown, who was on show for the first time and came all the way from Brazil to taunt the animals and worked as a protector for the riders was a hit. His antics and brave moves were timely on many occasions as he darted between the charging animals and rider and then slipped away just in time as the animals charged. The Vaqueros were up to the task as they showed off their ability in some brave sequences. Vaqueros as well as their animals ended on their heads, shoulders and back with some getting awkward tumbles, but managed to continue to perform. Some were not as lucky as they and the animals received slight injuries. Some of the riders were butted, kicked and charged at by the bulls and how they escaped serious injuries was anyone’s guess. All of this was done by the animals in an attempt to throw off their riders, who through skills or divine intervention were able to avert serious injury throughout the day.
Many riders were displaced by the raging animals and had to beat a hasty retreat as the enraged animals charged. The wild animals especially the bulls charged at the rails and fences in a bid to escape the arena, forcing patrons perched to get a better view to fall or cling on for dear life. One piece worth mentioning saw the rider after dismounting the horse fired a double kick at the horse as he sent it on its way; the animal in return delivered a double back foot kick at the rider who somehow managed to evade the blow. Nine events were run off, among the favorites were the Bare back bronco, Bull riding and Saddle bronco. These events are similar. The vaqueros had to wear a pair of spurs, and stay on the animal for 10 seconds, one hand must be free away from the animal at shoulder level at all time. The Vaqueros would then throw their hats in the air as a sign of triumph. Wild Cow milking, where the participants (a pair) had to rope, restrain and milk the animal within a period of two minutes. The participant with the most milk won. In the Calf roping, the Vaquero on horseback was required, to rope a calf around the neck dismount the horse, secure three feet of the calf by tying it, stand and raise their hand in the air to indicate that they are done; the persons with the fastest time won. In the end the various winners were Wild Cow milking - the Rising Sun pair of Keino Hardcourt and Kelroy Semple winning from Carlos Davis and Frank Andries and Christopher Deen and Kevin Mc Donald.
The Calf roping event saw star performer Keino Hardcourt of Rising Sun winning again this time from Johnny Nurse and Frank Andres. In the Bare Back Bronco event - Odo Peters of the Rupununi Savannahs thrilled the crowd with his acrobatics and skills to be crown champion ahead of Udi De Souza of Brazil and Frank Andries. Wild Bull Riding saw Brazilian Max Celso taking top honours ahead of Odo Peters and Frank Andries. The Saddle Bronco event was won by Richard Peters of the Rupununi ahead of Julio De Santos and Keino Harcourt. No one was able to catch the steer after the first throw in the Steer Roping event. For the second year in a row the Best Dressed male Vaquero prizes went to Brazilian Yudi De Souza. The prizes which included cash incentives, trophies, and other memorabilia were presented to the outstanding performers immediately after the completion of the final events. Organiser Fazal Habibulla was happy with how things went and expressed his gratitude for all the support received. He was also loud in praise for the media in helping to publish the event. There were plenty of improvements including double rails which were inserted all around the Rodeo arena, in an effort to guide the animals to their various stations and also used for the safety of the spectators. The event was attended by a wide cross section of spectators.
Jamaica Observer - PORTAU-PRINCE, Haiti — St Lucia’s Under-17 team manager Timothy Moffat wants to emulate what the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is doing in providing tutoring for students who are taken out of school to represent their country.Moffat approached the Jamaican delegation at breakfast, congratulated them, and arranged for further dialogue with tutor Onaje Bell, which he pointed out went well. “I saw the article in Jamaica Observer where you all have a tutor that travels with the team. It’s exactly what we have been looking for. We don’t know how
to set it up, but the fact that it’s being done somewhere else means that the wheels are already in motion,” said Moffat. “What happens is that we have struggled since the last phase of the tournament in getting our team together to train as much as possible, because most of our team members are doing CXC and so parents are, of course, very concerned about academics,” he noted. He continued: “Commitment and training take a lot of time away from these boys. It takes hours to get them to and from training, so it interrupts their studies when they get home. So we have been struggling with it, not knowing
how we are going to keep the parents happy, how we are going keep the boys competent and at the same time bring the team up to a level that is satisfactory.” St Lucia, who defeated Trinidad and Tobago 3-2, lost 1-6 to Haiti and drew 1-1 with Barbados, and finished second in Group A with four points and have qualified for the first time to the CONCACAF final qualification round. Moffat noted that because of school commitment, several players’ parents refused to allow their children the opportunity to represent the country here.“We have been scratching our heads. First of all, what we are going to do to get
ready for this tournament in Haiti. We have managed to do it, but we actually had a couple team members whose parents felt that it was more important to stay home and finish SBAs and continue with their studies,” he pointed out . We always thought if we make it to the next leg, we will have problems because it will be closer to CXCs and what are we going to do. How are we going to even train now and then?” asked a concerned Moffat. “So it’s a case of either working with Jamaica or a couple islands, so we all get one unit and put together classes in Honduras. We are all doing CXC so the
syllabuses are all the same. We can share the cost as one nation maybe, or we can do what Jamaica did and have our own tutor,” he argued. But Moffat foresees problems making that arrangement as St Lucia doesn’t have private schools like Jamaica, and it would take special and concerted efforts from all the stakeholders in the country to pull it off. “It’s wonderful to know it’s been done and hopefully give us an opportunity to put some comfort to the parents. We will have to work with our government, the ministry of sports, the St Lucia Football Federation to try and find a way
to keep these boys focused and try and get the best team ready for the Honduras tournament,” he reiterated. December will be four years since the JFF implemented the programme when they sent two tutors to Brazil on a six-week training course as the Under-17 prepared for CONCACAF qualifiers, which they hosted in February 2011. That pioneering Jamaican team with the likes of captain Omar Holness, Alvas Powell, Andre Lewis, and Jason Wright, remain the last Jamaican team to qualify for any FIFA World Cup tournament and St Lucia have similar dreams.
St Lucia wants to learn Jamaica’s system of tutoring student footballers
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GT Beer/Berbice Cup 2014
Kings overrun Monedderlust 2-0 to wrest title ……East Coast dominate Berbice
Victoria Kings ended the reign of inaugural Champions Monedderlust FC when the 2nd annual GT Beer/Berbice Cup climaxed last Saturday night in front of a large crowd at the Number Five Village venue on the West Coast of the Ancient County. The much older East Coast Unit, under the guidance of former national Yo u t h m i d f i e l d e r M a r k ‘Sevens’ Charles over the last two months, proved their superiority against the much younger Monedderlust side which meekly surrendered their title 0-2 in a disappointing display before a majority home crowd that had nothing to shout about. The Tournament’s top g o a l s c o r e r, Wi n s t o n Pompey gave Kings the lead as early as the 4th minute when he netted from the Penalty Mark after midfielder Arden Lawrence was illegally brought down in the area and referee Colin Bowery pointed to the spot. The ‘Dreadlocked’ P o m p e y, w h o w a s a l s o named MVP of the Tournament, placed a low hard right-footed shot to goalkeeper Elvis Rutherford’s right for his 5th conversion of the 8team competition. The game lacked
imagination for the greater part as neither team possessed the ball with authority while at both ends the citadels were stoutly defended with the Kings’ custodian Ron Collins, named the Best Goalkeeper of the To u r n a m e n t , denying Monedderlust the equalizer with a brilliant one handed save in the 10th minute. Towards the end of the first half the home side applied some pressure in going forward but putting the final passes together in the final third of the pitch proved a mountain to climb. On the resumption after the break the Kings led by the fleet-footed and evergreen Pompey attacked relentlessly but could not get past the stubborn defense, led by Captain and the To u r n a m e n t ’s Best Defender Travis Henry. On their rare counter attacks the home side had to contend with the combined 76 years of Shawn Samuels and Sherlock Dowden who were rock solid at the back for the Kings. E v e n t u a l l y, s e c o n d s from the end in injury time, left full-back Sherwin Skeete, in an overlapping run from behind, split the Cup holders’ defense to
break away through the middle and score from close up. The 19 year old crowned a solid night’s performance when he held his composure to place the ball with his right foot to the keeper’s left and send the Victoria fans into wild celebrations and end a losing night for the Berbice teams. The Kings collected the Champions Trophy and Medals from Banks DIH Outdoor Events manager and former national player Mortimer Stewart along with four hundred thousand dollars, while the dethroned champions got three hundred thousand dollars and a Trophy. Earlier in the 3rd place p l a y - o ff , A n n s G r o v e United humbled New Amsterdam’s Cougars FC 4-0 to earn the two hundred thousand dollars prize money while the losers cashed in on a hundred thousand dollars. On target for Anns Grove were; Maxton Adams (20th), Kevon Barry (58th), Antonio Jackson (60th) and Quincy Johnson (67th). Both sides were also recipients of a Trophy each for reaching the last four of the KO competition which started on October 4th and was co-hosted by the Starlight Generation and Monedderlust FC.
IGG 2014 tennis competition...
From page 30 Tournament Administrator for the closing matches. Mr. Pierre Saint-Arroman, French Honorary Consul to Guyana who attended the event, signaled his appreciation for an impressively run tournament and encourages the GTA to take on a tournament of similar caliber and model for Senior Players. The major sponsors for
the Tournament were Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry, David Persaud Investments, Sterling Products, Bill Adams International Tennis Academy, Brian Fung & friends and other sponsors were Associated Industries Ltd, Air Services Ltd,704 Food Court, Continental Agencies Ltd, Camex Restaurants Inc., Demerara Distilleries Ltd, Caribbean International
Distributors Inc, Park Players Tennis Club, Harry Panday and Rawle Blyden. Overall, the 2014 IGG tennis hosted in Guyana was a resounding success under the constraint of limited financial resources. GTA thanks all sponsors and the team of dedicated organisers. It is expected that the next Inter Guianas for tennis will be held in Suriname next year.
From page 31 Company Incorporated (BBCI) defeated Ansa McAl by three wickets. Ansa McAl batted first and scored 93-8 off 10 overs with the BBCI in reply 97-7 off 8 overs. Handin-Hand lost to NBS after scoring 59 with NBS replying with 60-1. Banks DIH Ltd made easy work of J’s Supermarket. Banks DIH then posted 125-6 in 10 overs to take care of Regional
Chairman’s XI who made 826 by 43 runs. Dharmic Sabah after scoring 112 -2 in 10 overs, lost to NBS by eight wickets who responded with 111-2. At the presentation which followed, the winning NBS team was presented with the first place cheque and trophy by treasurer Chris Hicks, while Michael Ramdass was presented with his award by BCCDA President Mark
Roopnarine. The champions cannot compete in the tournament next year. The objective of the tournament is to promote unity and foster better working relationships between entities in Berbice. The final and semifinals were played under lights. Metro was awarded third place after scoring more runs than BCCI in their losing semifinals. (Samuel Whyte)
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Foo (85), Shiv (52) repair early damage after lively Gordon fires out top order at Bourda Foo on the go at Bourda
By Sean Devers On a flat Bourda track in sweltering heat yesterday, Jonathon Foo and Shiv Chanderpaul rescued Leon Johnson’s X1 from a precarious position of 22-4 with contrasting halfcenturies after fast bowler Jeremy Gordon had fired out the top with incisive fast bowling on day one of the first four-day practice match at Bourda to select the Guyana Jaguars for the inaugural West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Professional Cricket League Regional Four-Day Franchise Tournament which starts on November 14. Foo clobbered four fours and three sixes in a pugnacious 85 from 131 balls and 140 minutes before a rare bad shot orchestrated his demise, caught on the cover boundary driving impetuously at pacer Kemo Paul. Chanderpaul’s carefully constructed 52 lasted 185 minutes, 120 balls and included four fours and a six as Johnson’s X1 reached 240 all out. The 27-year-old Gordon, who has played First-Class cricket for both Guyana and Canada, provided a stern test
for the batsmen with his lively pace and ripped out three of the first four wickets to finish with 4-41 for Vishaul Singh’s X1 who reached 16 without loss by the close with Taignarine Chanderpaul on nine and Kandasammy Surujnarine on two. Rajendra Chandrika (1) edged a drive at one that left him from Gordon, who made his First-Class debut against the Leeward Islands at Albion in 2007, to the keeper as he struck at 3-1. Robin Bacchus was beaten for pace and bowled for a first-ball duck by Berbician Gordon, who has played three First-Class matches for Guyana and two for his adopted country. Eleven runs later Gordon, who also played five ODIs for Canada, struck again when Narsingh Deonarine (1) cut a catch to point as Johnson’s X1 slumped to 14-3. It was soon 22-4 when West Berbice pacer Raun Johnson had Trevon Griffith caught at short-leg for 17 before the 40-year-old Chanderpaul (29) and Chris Barnwell (27) rallied Johnson’s X1 to 79-4 by Lunch with the Captain being
unable to bat due to a sprained finger. But with the fifth wicket stand on 60, Barnwell, who hit three boundaries, fended a short ball that ‘kicked’ on him at 82-5 as the impressive Gordon, bowling with genuine pace, continued his mission of destruction under a clear blue sky. Watched by a handful of spectators, Chanderpaul dumped left-arm spinner Anthony Adams into the players’ pavilion before pulling Paul for a double to reach his fifty from 104 balls, 161 minutes with four fours and a six. However, the Test lefthander was deceived by offspinner Steven Jacobs and was taken at short mid-wicket to end his well crafted innings at 124-6. Anthony Bramble joined Foo who played with refreshing maturity and responsibly, playing each ball on its merit without sacrificing his ‘big shots’ when ball was in the slot to be dispatched over the boundary. Foo reached his halfcentury with a murderous straight six off leg-spinner (Continued on page 25)
WICB, WIPA and player representative issue joint statement following New Building Society wins BCCD... Kingston meeting Kingston, Jamaica – The West Indies Cricket Board, the West Indies Players Association and representatives of the West Indies Squad on the tour of India held an emergency meeting on Sunday evening at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica. The meeting was cordial, positive and fruitful and
discussions will continue in an effort to find a way forward following the premature end of the tour of India. The WICB was represented by President Dave Cameron, Director Don Wehby and attorney Luke Hamel-Smith. WIPA was represented by President and Chief Executive Officer Wavell Hinds, Secretary Wayne Lewis and
attorney Patrick Foster QC. Representing the players who were on the West Indies Squad to India (with the exception of Marlon Samuels) was attorney Ralph Thorne QC. Thorne also represented the interests of Chris Gayle, Sunil Narine and Lendl Simmons. Also in attendance were players Andre Russell and Jason Holder.
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2014 National Open Boxing Championships
Guyana Defence Force takes championship honours as tournament concludes By Michael Benjamin The Guyana Defence Force scored 8 points, one more than the Republicans Boxing Gym to cart off championship honours when the action in the 2014 National Open Boxing Championships concluded at the M&CC Municipal Centre, California Square, East Ruimveldt, last Sunday evening. The Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Forgotten Youth Foundation (FYF) amassed 4 points apiece and shared the third place, while Rose Hall Jammers accrued 2 points to finish in the cellar position. Elite boxer, Dennis Thomas, had earlier in the tournament scored a technical knockout victory over Republican, Kevin Rodney and returned to add the scalp of Steven Chan to his collection to take the 75kgs title. The lanky boxer, representing the Guyana Police Force (GPF), was aptly adjudged the Best Elite Boxer, while Jamal Eastman of the Rose Hall Jammers won a similar accolade in the junior category after winning his 52kgs bout against Seon Griffith. The win was even more meritorious when it is
noted Eastman had surrendered a points decision to this very boxer when they met about one month ago. The highly touted ‘feature attraction’ between super/ heavyweights, Quincy ‘Biggie’ Small (HE) and John Campayne failed to live up to expectations and was finished just as soon as it started. The towering figure of Small dwarfed his opponent and even before the first bell sounded fans were doubtful of Campayne’s ability to mesh with Small. They did not have long to wait to endorse their fears when Small charged out upon the first bell and delivered several clouts to his opponent’s temple. More intent with saving his skin than winning the fight, Campayne darted from one end of the ring to the other to stem Small’s attack. Two looping punches to his temple deepened his resolve to avoid his opponent at all costs and he sprinted from one end of the ring to the next. Small eventually caught up with him and when another right cross collided with his jaw, he staggered into the ropes and received an 8 count from the referee. Two more punches upon the
Dennis Thomas, Jamal Eastman best boxers on show resumption grazed Campayne and his body language said it all; the referee mercifully waved off the one sided affair to save the crowd from the monotony and the Republican, further embarrassment. The time was 2:07secs of the first stanza. Thomas was in a no nonsense mood and unleashed stiff combinations on Chan just after the bell rang. He drifted into one of the neutral corners where Thomas unleashed several power punches that forced the referee to institute the mandatory 8 count. Thomas attacked upon resumption and after Chan had received several unanswered punches, the referee decided to halt the one-sided fight at 2:30secs of the first stanza. Desmond Amsterdam (GDF) and his gym mate, Markember Pierre clashed in the 91kgs division and, but for the identical uniform, the spectators would have never believed they belonged to the same institution. Both pugilists went after each other with a vengeance with Pierre getting the better of the
earlier exchanges. Fortunes then sway as first one boxer then the other appeared to be in control. It was in the third round when both pugilists had exhausted themselves that Amsterdam dug deep and delivered several pin point combinations that caused Pierre’s legs to buckle and the referee to issue a count. Pierre bravely re-entered the fray but received a similar dose and another count. Even though he shook his head affirmatively when asked if he wished to continue, Pierre’s body language emitted a contrasting message and shortly after the resumption he received several other clouts that cause the referee to intercede and wave the bout off at 2:58secs of the 3rd stanza. Trevon King (GDF) was also in a devastating mood and disposed of Delon Gordon (REP) in 2:33secs of the first round of their 91kgs affair. King pummelled his opponent from the start and after a vicious punch connected, blood began to ooze from a wound over Gordon’s right eye. The
Republican bravely returned to the fray but did not see the wicked right cross that sent him sprawling on the canvass where the referee completed the count. Eon Bancroft (GDF) has no one but himself to blame for his points loss to Glenroy Smith of the Essequibo Boxing Gym (EBG). Clearly the more seasoned boxer, Bancroft adopted strange tactics, never looked the part and surrendered a points decision. To make matters worse, Bancroft sustained a gash over his right eye and his opponent peppered the wound with jabs and right crosses and forced the intervention of the ringsider doctor. Bancroft continued to lunge and most of his ill timed punches failed to find their mark. He seemed surprised when the decision was announced. Keeve Allicock (HE), another seasoned boxer suffered a similar fate in his 64kgs bout against Aquincy Harvey (GDF). A boxer of immense ability, Allicock was warned on numerous occasions for infringing
various rules until the referee disgustedly stopped his bout and awarded it to Harvey. Imran Khan ((GPF) experienced little trouble in his 60kgs bout against Republican, Nankumar Singh and literally gave him a free boxing lesson in the finer art of the sport. Dubbed ‘the Coolie Bully,’ Singh had earlier in the tournament disposed of Rupert Gillis (GDF) but found the skill and movements of Khan too much to handle. Delon Charles (FYF) launched a two fisted attack on Stefan Andrews (REP) that forced the referee to institute two mandatory 8 counts in the first round of their 56kgs bout but just could not finish his man off. He eventually won on points. Earlier, Kevin Allicock (REP) won against his gym mate, Dewayne Kawall in the 52kgs division while Tyron Lashley of the Rosehall Jammers triumphed over Richard Subratee (FYF). S p o n s o r s h i p acknowledgements went to the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, Monty Profitt, Courts, B K International and Mike’s Pharmacy.
IGG 2014 tennis competition concludes The curtains were brought down on Saturday for the IGG 2014 tennis competition despite the threat of rain, with one of the most thrilling matches on GBTI Bel Air Park Court 2, Guyana vs. Suriname Girls Under 14s. All spectators’ eyes were glued to Afruica Gentle and Shivani Persaud battling against the Suriname team. The Guyanese girls took the first set comfortably at 6-0, but battled neck and neck in the second set to force a tiebreaker which ended in favour of the Surinamese team at 7-5. In the deciding super tiebreaker, the home team dug deep and cleaned up on their errors winning 103 to bursts of applauses from the appreciating spectators. The closing ceremony took place immediately thereafter where it was revealed that Suriname came in first with a total of 27 matches with Guyana finishing second place with 23 matches and French Guyana in third place with 3 matches. There was a general
Members of the respective teams display their medals and trophies following the presentation. perception that the level of play of the Guyanese team was exceptionally better than the previous two performances during 2012 in Suriname and 2013 in French Guiana. Guyanese International Professional Bill Adams acting as Tournament Referee, who came in for the tournament, remarked on the proper organization of the
tournament and commended Guyana on this bold step that has really signaled the elevation of the profile of tennis in Guyana. He noted that the spirit of the players were exceptionally professional with little or no disputes, a feature that is not generally characteristic of international tournaments. CEO of GBTI, Mr. John
Tracey, former Executive of the GTA, in representing the tennis community, expressed his delight at the quality of the matches and the unwavering effort of the GTA to produce an international tournament of such high standard for the first time in recent years. President of the GTA, Miss Grace McCalman, who
also articulated her satisfaction and excitement at the quality of tennis displayed by the young players, recounted the four critical success factors of the tournament which were the provision of a facility by the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry, the financial support provided by the French and Surinamese Tennis Associations, the local sponsors and the dedication of the executive, coaches, players and parents who she named. There was specific mention of Tennis Veteran Harry Panday who also provided his courts for some matches to be played. After the presentation of the country trophies and medals to all team players and coaches, all Guyanese players were given the opportunity to present their favorite player of each visiting team with souvenirs, to loud jeering and applauses. The President also presented tournament souvenir cups to Mr. Bill Adams for his willingness to
leave his academy in Florida to come to Guyana to provide assistance to the GTA, Mr. John Tracey for his attention to detail in ensuring that his facilities fully support the requirements of the tournament and to National Junior Coach Shelly DalyRamdyhan for her passion and commitment to junior development over the years. All of the local players except one originated out of the Park Players Club, which is a significant indication of the progress of her programme at the club. The other player Shivanie Persaud started her tennis career in Roraima Tennis Club. The evening closed with a dinner and party for the three teams and officials hosted at the home of newly installed executive member Ms. Scheherazade Khan. Also installed recently into the GTA Executive was American William Spangler who is attached to the Georgetown International Academy. Mr. Spangler took on the responsibility of (Continued on page 27)
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Guyana Judo Association celebrates World Judo Day
Raoul Archer (standing l) moments after conducting a session with his charges recently Today is World Judo Day and administrators of the Guyana Judo Association (GJA) will join with their affiliates and counterparts worldwide in celebration of this auspicious occasion. Activities are being observed under the theme, ‘Honour’, one of the core values of the extraordinary art of combat, had its inaugural launch in 2010 and dedicated to all judokas worldwide. In
keeping with tradition, President of the GJA, Raoul A r c h e r, h a s d e l i v e r e d remarks to commemorate the auspicious occasion. Today, more than 20 million people within 200 National Federations across five continental Unions are engaged in the practicing of Judo. Permit me to extend heartfelt congratulations, on behalf of the Guyana Judo Association, to local Judokas
and those involved in the sport worldwide. On this auspicious occasion, our association will continue to promote awareness on the values of the sport, the importance and benefits derived from participation and its correlation to overall academic development. October 28, is the birthday of the founder of the sport, Dr. Jigoro Kano, popularly regarded as The
Father of Judo and a stalwart who comprehensively studied the ancient art of selfdefense forms. Subsequently, Dr Kano integrated the best of these forms into a sport which is known as Kodocan Judo. In his lifetime, Professor Jigoro Kano attained a doctorate degree in Judo and a degree equivalent to the twelfth Dan, awarded to the originator of Judo only.
The sport made its debut internationally in the 1964 Tokyo Games and after fifty (50) years in the world arena, judo has become the third highest ranking sport in the Olympic Games, just behind athletics and swimming. Judo was built on a foundation of honour and d u r i n g t h i s y e a r ’s celebrations I’d like to see all those that are connected to the sport, directly or indirectly,
continue to honor the precepts and foundation on which this noble sport was built. I’d also like to call on all judokas in Guyana to instill the quality of dignity and honor acquired from the training they would have received from their involvement in the sport as honour is the most single variable to achieving goals in the sport. Raoul Archer (President Guyana Judo Association)
New Building Society wins BCCD - CBIS Inter Agency 10/10 Softball cricket competition New Building Society (NBS) team put aside their banking ability and showed that they are not only good at dealing with money, but also have time for sports. The NBS team took to the cricket field and easily took care of business when they won the fifth edition of the Corporate Business in Sports (CBIS) 2014 tournament which was held on Saturday at the Albion Community Centre ground. The final which was played between surprise finalist NBS and Beverage Giants Banks DIH Limited under permanent floodlights for the first time, saw NBS steamrolling Banks DIH by 10 wickets. Losing the toss and being asked to take first strike, the drinks boys could only manage 51-5 in their six overs with Alvin Ramdass top scoring with 19. Bowling for NBS, Michael Ramdial
picked up two wickets. NBS in reply hurried to 55-0 in 4.1 overs with David Looknauth hitting 32 and Ramdass returning to strike 17. I n s e m i f i n a l p l a y, Metro’s had posted 91-3 off their six overs against NBS who replied with 92-4 off the last ball in their encounter. In the other semifinal, Banks DIH batted first and reached 66-1 with Ramdass scoring 39 not. Berbice Bridge Company in reply was restricted to 54-8 in their overs. The day’s encounter started in dramatic fashion with two upsets. In one game Dharmic Sabah defeated the powerful Karibe Rice team. Scores; Karibe Rice 88-2 off 10 overs; Dharmic Sabah 903 in 8.3 overs. In the other major upset, Metro Stationery and Office Supplies crafted a tournament high 149-8 in 10 over. In reply, Olendoff
The NBS team as they collect their winnings from Treasurer Chris Hicks. Carriers tried valiantly but were dismissed for 78. In other results, Regional Chairman’s XI defeated a
Region Six XI by eight wickets in a high scoring affair. Region Six XI scored 102-8 off 10 overs with
Regional Chairman’s XI replying with 102-2 in 4.2 overs. NBS defeated Metro by six wickets with Metro
scoring 91-3 in six overs as NBS responded with 92-4 in six overs. Berbice Bridge (Continued on page 27)
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Social Sciences win UG Inter-Faculty Athletics C/ships
Kadi-Ann Rowe, centre, blasts to the female 100m win, on Saturday at the University of Guyana, Turkeyen Campus.
FULL SUPPORT OF THE LAW! Former national junior sprinter, Ianna Graham (third, left) and students from the Department of Law within the Faculty of Social Sciences galvanise support for their female colleagues in the 100m race.
The Faculty of Social Sciences raced away with the 2014 University of Guyana (UG) annual Inter-Faculty Track and Field Championships on Saturday against strong performances from its seasoned athletes at the Turkeyen Campus. Social Sciences amassed 166 points to top Natural Sciences, which was second with 120 points, edging Health Sciences on 118 points. The Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry finished fourth with 98 points, while UG Tain Campus in Berbice was fifth with 89 points. The Faculty of Technology finished sixth
with 63 points, while The School of Education and Humanities was seventh on 60 points. The School of Earth and Environmental Sciences came in the cellar position with 33 points. Local distance running ace, Cleveland Forde was Champion Boy with 30 points from winning the 800m, 1500m and 5000m events. Kezia Bess and Tain Campus’ Kenisha Lashley were both adjudged Champion Girl with 26 points apiece. Bess won the 200m and 400m races and placed third in the 100m while Lashley won the 5000m and 1500m and placed third in the 800m.
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Wellman Providence cop Champion of Champions dominoes title Wellman Providence emerged winners when the curtains came down on the Champion of Champions dominoes tournament on Sunday night last at Gaulding Place, South Ruimveldt. Providence and TNT were tied on 78 games each in the final, but the former got the nod by making more sixes. All Season Racing Service placed third with 67 games. Troy Dos Santos, Vernon Jordon, Batson MarsonBeaton and Sean Davis made 14 games for the winners. Ry a n B o o d h o o , S e a n Morgan and Trevor Smith scored 16 each and Stephon Duncan 14 for TNT. David Bennet chalked 17, Franklin Seaforth 16 and Raymond Alli 11 for All Season RC. In the semi final, TNT recorded 74 games to beat All Season RC with 69 and Mix Up on 64. Boodhoo and Trevor Smith made 16 apiece for TNT, Seaforth and Ali 15 each for All Season, Clarence Whitehead 15 and Rawl Peters 14 for Mix Up.
Ryan Boodhoo of Golyn and Sons (left) presents the trophy and cash prize to Deon Telford of Wellman Providence in the presence of other members. Providence took home a trophy and $70,000, TNT a
trophy and $30,000 and All Season a trophy and
GCA/Noble House Sea Foods second division
DCC through to final after rain ruins clash against Police After rain put an end to the first s e m i f i n a l o f the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/Noble House Sea Foods second division two-day tournament between Police and host Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) last weekend, the latter have secured their place in the final by virtue of having four wins from six games as opposed to Police with three victories from a similar number of games in the preliminary stage. DCC are now a w a i t i n g t h e winner of the next s e mi final between Georgetown Cricket Club and Everest which will be played on a date to be announced. W h e n r a i n c e a s e d f u r t h e r play on Sunday, D C C w ere 134-3, replying to Police first innings score of 250 all out in 66.2 overs. Sherfene Rutherford and Raymond
Rawl Enmore (left) and Pernell London Perez added 64 for the opening stand before they both fell to leg spinner Vishal Jaigobin. Rutherford made 41 (6x4,2x6), while Perez scored 24 (3x4). Tevin Imlach was the other wicket to fall for 24 while Andrew Gibson and Dexter George were unbeaten on 24 and one respectively when play was halted. Vishal Jaigobin took two wickets and Pernell London one.
W h e n P o l i c e took first strike o n S a t u r d a y , D a r son La Rose, batting at number 11 top scored with 48 while Pernell London cracked 42, Rawle Enmore made 40, Kelvin Leitch 36. La Rose added 76 for the last wicket with Richard Leacock (19*) to beef up their total. Yekini Favourite and Linden Lyght claimed two wickets each for DCC.
$20,000. The competition was
sponsored by Windjammer hotel, Faye Joseph, Golyn
and Sons and Boutique 58. (Zaheer Mohamed)
Kashif and Shanghai awaits installation of Normalisation Committee The Kashif and S h a n g hai Organization (K&S) is currently preparing for their 25th annual football tournament, but according to director Kashif Muhammad they are awaiting on the installation of the Normalisation Committee to discuss the programme for the tournament. Muhammad informed Kaieteur Sport yesterday that a letter was sent to Christopher Matthias during his tenure as president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) seeking permission to run the competition. H e added that they got a response informing them of the requirements, but since he was sacked as the head of the governing body of the game in the country, they are now awaiting the installation of the Normalisation Committee for a meeting so that they move forward. The Director stated that they will be pleased if they can meet at the earliest opportunity since time is not on their side. The tournament w ill
Kashif Muhammad be played at the senior club level and is expected to kick start on November 14. Muhammad informed that they are currently in talks with their major sponsors. The competition will take a different format with 69 teams taking part in the initial stages which will be contested on a knock out basis in the various associations with 20 teams going through to the finals. Sixteen teams from Georgetown, thirteen from
Linden, five from Bartica, twelve from West Demerara, eight from East Bank, seven from Berbice and eight from East Coast will battle in the preliminary stages. The finals w ill s ee eight teams from the city, two from Linden (including a standby), and one from Bartica, two each from West Demerara, East Bank and Berbice and three from East Coast battling for supremacy. M uhammad pointed out that they are trying to revitalize the game locally and prize money will be given by the organizers to the winners of the various associations while the proceeds from the preliminary stages will go towards the associations. After the conclusion of the preliminaries on November 30, the tournament will break for two weeks before the finals commence on December 14 and conclude on January 1, 2015. M uhammad pointed o u t that their school tournament is set to continue in 2015.
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Stephan Andrews (REP) ducks out of range as Delon Charles cranks up a wicked right hand punch.
Try as he might, Republican boxer, Nankumar Singh left) could not evade this stiff left jab from Imran Khan.
Action galore at Rising Sun Rodeo
This rider has to scamper from the angry bull and the clown (right) tries to get the animal’s attention.
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A cowboy aboard a raging animal during the bull riding competition.
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