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Kaieteur News Printed and Published by National Media & Publishing Company Ltd. 24 Saffon Street, Charlestown, Georgetown, Guyana. Publisher: GLENN LALL Editor: Adam Harris Tel: 225-8465, 225-8491. Fax: 225-8473, 226-8210

EDITORIAL

The migrant convoy: a heroic journey (Republished from The Guardian) The six or seven thousand people – men, women, and children – who have set out to walk 3,000 miles through Mexico to reach the US are brave, resourceful and determined to better themselves. They might become the kind of citizens that every country needs and whose support any politician should be proud of. Naturally, they are objects of loathing for President Trump, a man whose entire life has been cushioned by privilege. He has done his best to exploit their misery in advance of the midterm elections, claiming that “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners” are mixed in with them. There have been many such caravans before now, and there will be many afterwards. They are a natural reaction to the difficulties and dangers that lone travellers, especially women and children, face when they attempt to reach the prosperous world. The wise and sensible thing to do would be to treat them as an opportunity to manage migration – but the nativist reaction is to treat them as a giant jailbreak. For Mr. Trump and, indeed, for some other western policymakers, the function of poor countries is to keep poor people locked up. Aid to the Central American countries from which the caravan has fled is conditional on their “doing the job of stopping people from leaving their country and coming to the US” to quote another of his presidential tweets. This view of Central America as a prison colony is grimly reflected in the US justice system. Many experts point out that the chaos in Central America can in part be attributed to the mass deportation of gang members and suspected gang members from the US, whether or not they grew up there. These gangs originated inside the Californian prison system and among its clientele on the outside. They are not native to the countries that they are now destroying. It is their victims who are fleeing on foot to the US. The murder rate in parts of Honduras is the highest anywhere in the world outside of war zones. Much of this violence is fuelled by drugs, and the money from the drug trade, which also comes in the last analysis from the US. The idea that these countries and their inhabitants can be walled off from US politics, and the US economy, is a poisonous fantasy. But it has served Mr. Trump well and he will continue to exploit it. In theory, there is a policy of enlightened self-interest that would help to mitigate the worst effects of this traffic. Sufficient aid to the countries from which they come would help to enable the development of both the economy and the kind of security and access to justice that they desperately need. This was the policy pursued under the Obama administration, which Mr. Trump is now demolishing. Since 2015, “addressing the root causes of migration” has also been a key theme of official EU strategy. As a means of stemming the flow of refugees, this will be effective only in the long term. Civil societies grow over time. They can’t be prefabricated abroad and helicoptered into place like disaster housing. Nevertheless, increasing aid to help stabilise societies is a policy still worth pursuing, though care must be taken not to undermine poorer countries’ ownership of development policies. In the meantime, these caravans should be treated as the humanitarian emergency they are, and their inhabitants welcomed for their courage and spirit.

Medical Council Elections results questioned Dear Sir, In the not too distant past, I happened to read of multiple wrongs, which continue to occur with regards to the functioning of the Medical Council of Guyana, in collusion with the Chief Medical Officer who happens to be an integral member of the very council. There were various letters of complaints from members of the wider public who seem to have reflected the views of practising doctors, who for one reason or the other, were unable to directly give their views to the media because of the restrictions concerning doctors and the airing of grievances in the media to the wider public. The Council has been accused of being biased, ethnically and gender wise imbalanced, politically oriented, tardy in its decisionmaking and with a penchant for dealing in a high-handed manner concerning junior doctors. The CMO has been accused of favouritism for particular members of the council who it seems has had his great support thus resulting in his defence of their every

action or inaction with regards to the expected duties of council members. In his defence, the CMO launched a scathing attack on whom he classified “agitators” in an August 8, 2018 article published in Kaieteur News. He explained that some members of the medical fraternity wanted changes at the Medical Council for their own private agenda, which included the issuance of licences to unworthy practitioners. He also went to great lengths to disapprove the theory that he favoured sitting members of the council to continue in their position for the next election cycle and that he had no negative bias towards any other doctor. The CMO also heartily boasted that he had been in that position for over ten years and that he had overseen the functioning of the Medical Council and its election procedure without any complaints before and so this was something new, him being accused of showing bias. However, the CMO never addressed, adequately, the issue of why the nomination process for members of the

council was rushed with little time for all doctors registered to make their input. He never answered why insufficient media coverage was given to the nomination process or why the nominations made were not shown to the public (i.e. who nominated and seconded each candidate?). He also ignored an entire list of possible candidates without giving them due notification of why they could not be selected even though a letter penned to himself with the names of those nominated, those who nominated them and those who seconded the nomination was provided, along with their registration numbers as in the 2018 gazette of practitioners and a contact number for each and every person on the list. That letter clearly stated why it was nigh on impossible for those who were involved to personally carry in their individual nomination list during the timeframe given and asked for an extension to be granted or if deemed necessary, to make contact. NO ONE was ever contacted by the CMO or his staff. The CMO therefore clearly had an agenda and this

agenda was challenged by not one but various letter writers and proof of skullduggery will vindicate the accusations. In the October 28 edition of the Kaieteur News, the CMO bravely released the results of the Elections of New Council Members. They are as follows: Dr. Frank Anthony 82 votes, Dr. Mahendra Carpen 82 votes, Dr. Harry Bhiro 80 votes, Dr. Mercedes Palomares, 45 votes, Dr. Chris Prashad 79 votes, Dr. Navin Rambarran, 87 votes, and Dr. Marissa Seepersaud 72 votes. Given the fact that six members are selected from the votes, we can safely assume that all except Dr. Mercedes Palomares will be elected. Of those six, five are returning members of the current board with Dr. Chris Prashad being the only new comer and Dr. Ravi Motilall being the outgoing member. Five are currently staff members of the GPHC, with Dr. Anthony being the exception. Of the five, three are from the same Department (Surgery) at GPHC. No representative of any other region (Continued on page 6)

Copyright legislation critical to creative industries Dear Editor, At the risk of censure, I’ve pointed out that this administration can be and has been unnecessarily glacial on issues of cultural policy. That is something we need to correct because the failure to do so has repercussions for virtually every sector. That said, what we thankfully have not had over the past three years is the sort of retrogressive and inane rhetoric as that which emanated from former President Bharrat Jagdeo as captured in his comments on Government’s decision to update Guyana’s copyright legislation after sixty years. As both a former head of government and a man who had/has presidential aspirations still, Mr. Jagdeo has been no doubt aware of the critical importance of copyright in particular, and intellectual property in general, as a tool for development. What his pronouncements belie, however, is what I had reason to label years ago as the deliberately malign neglect of culture and creativity under the PPP era. My research on the efforts to update copyright legislation indicates that for the fifteen years prior to its expulsion from government, the PPP effectively kicked the can along the road on copyright, beginning with a lip service commitment to include it as

part of a national development strategy at the turn of the century, to a 2004 copyright Bill that was drafted and put on the shelf, to empty promises by Ministers of Culture Gail Teixeira and Frank Anthony. There are three core dimensions to Mr. Jagdeo’s recent pronouncements that indicate either his gross disingenuousness or woeful ignorance on this issue. The first is the inference that there can be some causal relationship between updated copyright legislation here and Guyana’s continued poverty. Copyright remains the critical cornerstone of the creative industries, the orange economy. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) estimates that trade in creative goods and services grew 134 percent between 2002 and 2011, reaching a total of US$646 billion in the latter year. This period coincides with Mr. Jagdeo’s tenure as president, one marked not by any progressive measure on creative arts development but by the evisceration of cultural institutions and the establishment of cardboard cutout ‘initiatives’ in their place. A visionary leader would have looked at the global economic trends and begun to redesign his country’s economic infrastructure to take

advantage of a not only viable but vibrant pathway for economic diversification. The second dimension has to do with his simplistic assertion that on the issue of copyright legislation enforcement, Guyana will have to essentially be the policeman for the world. Guyana acceded to the Berne Convention in 1994, the key international convention that obligates us to recognize and offer protections for copyright on a global scale, the same obligations that every signatory of the convention is bound to. Stemming from this global concept of copyright is a complex interplay of both multilateral and bilateral obligations to which we are bound and the breach of which has repercussions for our international standing as well as our own economic development. For example, under the US Caribbean Basin Initiative, we are in danger of losing our beneficiary status as a country that “Allows the broadcast of copyrighted material, including films or television material belonging to United States copyright owners without their express consent.” The only time that there has been any indication that the PPP had anything close to a clearly articulated policy position against the enforcement of copyright was the embarrassing exhortation made

by Mr. Jagdeo’s successor, Mr. Donald Ramotar, for the UN to review international copyright legislation in order to make textbooks more cheaply available to students from developing countries. This was of course in the wake of the scandal of the then government of Guyana tendering for pirated textbooks even as it was investing tens of millions of US dollars into a Marriott-branded hotel. The third dimension of course is Mr. Jagdeo’s claim that piracy is so intrinsic to the cultural and economic resilience of Guyanese that it would effectively constitute a national punishment if copyright legislation were to be updated and enforced. First of all, even if this were empirically true, it would in fact be an indictment of both the literal and metaphorical poverty of his own economic programmes. Mr. Jagdeo cannot have it both ways – he is either the architect of a resilient and transformed modern Guyana, or he’s the man under whose tenure a socio-economic infrastructure was constructed that is so fragile that it would collapse if people stopped bootlegging DVDs. The reality is that the cottage industry component of copyright piracy developed due to a failure to diversify (Continued on page 6)

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Copyright legislation not for Guyana Dear Editor, Stabroek News’s editorial on Monday, October 29, 2018, provided for interesting reading; more so, given that some arguments proffered were not contextually based, not fully at least. The editorial, in stressing the need for copyright legislation, took issue with comments made by former president, Bharrat Jagdeo, and raised several points. The former president is quoted to have said, “We are a poor developing country. Wait until such time in the future when people can afford to pay for the copyrighted stuff. That is how I see it. It may not sound like the most enlightened position given that you have international treaties and stuff but half of those treaties don’t protect us small countries. They don’t protect our interests”. The editorial talks about photocopied textbooks and the need for copyright legislation to stop this practice. I have a simple question for the author of that editorial, when one textbook costs thousands of dollars and many low income families survive on a minimum of $15,000 a week, how are people sending their children to school? I would vote for a government that reduces burdens on families trying to make a better life for their children, over one that would do the opposite, any day. Already the $10,000 cash grant to help with transportation for children has been taken away and in total that was about $1.6 billion a year. So how can the former president be wrong when he advocates for a delay in passing copyright legislation until people can afford to pay

for the copyrighted stuff? Stabroek News states that the under the former president’s tenure, “Guyana’s development languished and the country” and the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is to be blamed for economy’s performance. Editor, most of all, the government is aware of the fact that Guyana’s economy under the Jagdeo presidency saw consistent economic growth and saw Guyana being one of the fastest growing economies in the Caribbean. Also, it was under a PPP government that Guyana was reclassified from being a Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) country. Stabroek News argues that the absence of copyright legislation will undermine international commitments; for example, under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). However, as I said earlier, the arguments raised are not completely grounded in the context of real time occurrences. Legislation does not guarantee compliance by countries that sign onto treaties. As recent as June 2018, Antigua and Barbuda was still battling with the United States of America (USA) to have it comply with a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling. Antigua and Barbuda

went to the WTO in 2003 and eventually won the right to compensation of $21 million annually after the WTO judges upheld its complaint that USA laws were discriminatory. The USA has not paid and Antigua and Barbuda have lost $315 million so far, equivalent to more than a quarter of its annual GDP and less than 0.1 per cent of the U.S. economy, according to a Reuters report on June 22, 2018. The editorial said that the former president is “rushing to the aid of the same oligarchs” who would be in immediate jeopardy once legislation is updated. Who are the oligarchs? Are the schoolchildren, the hundreds of thousands of Guyanese who will be affected and the small vendors the oligarchs that Stabroek News is referring to? The only oligarch here seems to be Stabroek TV Inc., which has a monopoly with the distribution of DirecTV. It is companies like Stabroek TV Inc. that would benefit once the copyright legislation is in place. The cost charged to set this up is a whopping $45,000, plus a monthly fee. How much more will this cost increase once legislation is in place? How much more revenues will the company rake in? So is this argument about some companies being made to pay more or about Stabroek

TV Inc. being able to make more? Copyright legislation is not just about the DVDs and music, as the Stabroek News tries to focus on. It is also about software. Has Stabroek News paid monies to Microsoft for using its ‘Word’ and other software, such as the very expensive Adobe Creative Suites? Has Stabroek News paid for its Servers’ operating system, as well as operating systems for users? Has Stabroek News paid for the software, which is used in the press department and needed to allow for the printing of its daily newspaper? Has Stabroek News paid for its anti-virus software? I have to point out that these are not one-off payments that have to be made. Payments for these software are either monthly or yearly subscriptions. There must be an acknowledgement that there are wider impacts to the proposal to implement copyright legislation. Finally, the Stabroek News editorial created the impression that nothing was said by the former president about protecting local content. The former president said clearly, “We should protect the copyrighted material for our local artists.” Sincerely, Kumar Kowlessar

Professional Fee is separate from Income Tax Dear Editor, The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) wishes to respond to the Headline of the Sunday October 28, 2018 edition of the Kaieteur News titled “Lawyers, doctors and other professionals collectively pay less than $6m to GRA in 2017”, and the first paragraph of the said page 3 article which stated that “the hundreds of lawyers, doctors, and other professionals with private practices across Guyana have collectively contributed only $5.6M to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) in 2017. Again, in its sensational manner, and without seeking any explanations from the Revenue Authority, Kaieteur News has attempted to mislead the general public and its readers, by implying that these professionals have only contributed $5.6M in taxes. The Guyana Revenue Authority would like it to be public record that these groups of professionals, despite the fact that many of them may not have complied with their tax obligations, have paid hundreds of millions in taxes, with a few of them making tax payments in excess of the $5.6M so stated. The $5.6M represents professional fees for Tax Practice certificates applicable under Section 39 of the Tax Act, Chapter 80:01, and does not in any way reflect the total revenue

paid by the compliant professionals as taxes on their income. There is no doubt that the amount of fees collected would have been higher had the conservatory order not been in place. However, it should be noted that there is a steady increase in the number of compliant professionals and collections from this sector have steadily increased. Nonetheless, it is clear that the person tasked with covering the Auditor General’s report is either not familiar with taxation principles, may be too focused on sensationalising its content, which have so far only resulted in erroneous publications, or may be deliberately disreputing the Auditor General’s report. Guyana Revenue Authority Editor’s note: Indeed the reporter was focusing on the professional fee. However, that omission from the opening paragraph may have created the impression that the money represented income tax payments. Yet the entire article spoke directly to professional fees.

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City Hall features many rags to riches stories Dear Editor, From all the constant negative reports that have been emanating over the years from the Georgetown Municipality and more so now, like the late payment of salaries to employees each and every month, the withholding of their NIS, income tax and credit union dues, the non-payment of pensions and gratuities when they retire, the nonissuance of uniforms and protective gear, the firing of whistle blowers, discrimination with remuneration and promotions, etc.; it is logical to assume that hardly anyone would want to set foot in City Hall let alone be employed or be associated with that entity. But I wish to say that it is not only doom and gloom there; as in fact, there are a lot of rags to riches stories. A few persons there are now enjoying lifestyles of the rich and the famous or should I say the rich and the notorious where they go way beyond champagne wishes and

caviar dreams and are living in the lap of luxury. It is indeed a pity that Robin Leach has passed or he might have wanted to do a story on City Hall. Where else could a political leader who just a mere three years ago used taxis and other forms of public transportation to get where they wanted to go, move to overnight acquiring a Mercedes Benz luxury sedan and an expensive Pontiac roadster to cruise around town? Where else could a senior administrator, who was squatting in a shack on the municipal reserve and from being unable to meet his mortgage payments move to purchasing several luxury homes in and out of the city at the drop of a hat? Where else could a few persons who not so long ago were considered the ‘Lumpen-proletariat’ suddenly be surrounded by bodyguards, chauffeurs, personal assistants, and other underlings, and now being seen regularly dining at ritzy

restaurants and sipping the most expensive wines? Where else could you find persons who might have encountered difficulty in the past finding the airport, suddenly becoming jet setters, winging around the world first class, shopping at high end malls, investing overseas and picking up expensive toys and trophies from the most exotic destinations in the world . Where else could a small moneylender and dhal puri vendor in the municipal markets become one of the biggest and wealthiest contractors overnight just by merely being a friend of the folks at City Hall and getting all of the municipal contracts without bidding for them? Thanks to the Commission of Inquiry, TV, social media, paparazzi with telephoto lenses, the newspapers and Instagram we realize that the Council is not as needy and deprived as we were being led to believe. Regards Kwasi Sanderson

Copyright legislation critical to... From page 4 including creating legitimate structure for the core activities involved. With a functional National Film Commission, the pursuing and signing of coproduction treaties with international partners, packaging and distribution agreements with film companies (as has happened in other jurisdictions), we could have easily been the site of the creation of intellectual property as opposed to a site for its theft. The real winners of the copyright piracy environment cultivated under Jagdeo were never the poor that he is now supposedly concerned about – it was always those who had the financial capacity to import, process and distribute the basic materials for

the pirated content. In fact, many of those people who have had to resort to selling DVDs on the street to make ends meet would likely have been better employed if Guyana’s wild west copyright environment were not a key deterrent for external investors, or if local investment were made in creative industry development. Over the past three years, I’ve had meetings both locally and internationally with persons who are involved in copyright infrastructure development, either at the regional or national level. Almost unfailingly there is always an initial hesitance about the sincerity of my interest in bringing Guyana into the fold. Our partners in the region in particular had long stopped reaching out to the government of Guyana because every invitation extended to the Jagdeo/Ramotar administrations was rebuffed or ignored, and any forum that we were

obligated to hold here was held under virtual secrecy. I cannot begin to calculate not merely the economic but reputational damage that Jagdeo’s position on copyright has done to this country and I’m disinterested in speculation upon his and his party’s motivation in doing so – all we can do now is to ensure that we move forward. Copyright reform, not merely legislation but general infrastructure, has to move forward, and has to be done as a component of meaningful mainstreaming of culture into national development, including specifically into the letter and spirit of the Green State Development Strategy. It is up to Mr. Jagdeo and the opposition he, for want of a better word, leads whether they want to catch up, but they should not be allowed to continue to hold us back. Yours faithfully, Ruel Johnson

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GWI is lacking when responding to consumer concerns Dear Editor, Guyana has earned its name from the Amerindians, with the meaning “Land of Many Waters”. Ironically, in this land of many waters, that precious, supposedly colourless mineral has become the most abused, wasted and expensive commodity. Just over a year ago, I had cause to publicize a Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) billing issue. Senior Management and Executives subsequently met with me over it. I presented my facts, and the issue, which had greater reach than my simple highlight, was acknowledged and efforts subsequently made to correct it. My publicity of the GWI issue did not go down well with some persons and even resulted in minor collateral damage. A once close friend, who was also even more closely linked to the GWI top people, took offence to my action and our friendship dissipated over the ensuing months. In life, you win some and you lose some. GWI’s operation is again

the subject of my attention. On October 19, 2018 at 12:11, I sent a video and photograph of a leaking water main located in a section of northeastern Georgetown to the GWI Facebook Account. All relevant details were provided. My message was read by someone at the GWI at 12:12, one minute later, on the same day. To date, the water main continues to leak. I estimate that thousands of gallons of water have been wasted over the past months since the main first started leaking, although some ingenious resident in the area placed an old bucket over the breakage to prevent the water from sprouting into the air. Hundreds more gallons of water may have been wasted since I took my precious time and effort in a public spirited gesture to inform the GWI via its fancy Facebook public interface over a week ago. Is GWI really serious by its PR, advertisements, and appeals for members of the public to report breakages and leaking water mains? I am no stranger to this

type and culture of inaction in my hydrophilic country, but it is stifling to absorb the hypocrisy and even animosity that some in the corporate arena develop when the public media is engaged on such matters, which invariably expose their apparent slighting attitudes or incompetence. The GWI people may again be unhappy with this missive notwithstanding their untimeliness in addressing my report of the leakage. If acted upon, the entity will undoubtedly avert the unnecessary wastage of hundreds of thousands of dollars in water wastage, as well as restore full water pressure to consumers in the affected area. Some other time I will address the issue of that orange-brownish colour featured in the water, which permanently stains everything it comes into contact with, from linen to toilet and sanitary ware. GWI is lucky to be operating in a country where persons do not actively sue for damages. Yours faithfully, Orette Cutting

Medical Council Elections results... From page 4 or Health Facility was elected. Take time to digest this fact! Was there no other person interested enough in bettering their region or another health facility (be it public or private) worthy of consideration? The CMO’s claim that he has been responsible for elections for the last ten years leads to a simple question. Are the elections a true reflection of the wishes of the general medical fraternity or has the election process always been as tainted as the current version reflects? Doing the same thing for ten years does not mean that one is correctly doing what should be done, and as a doctor, the CMO should be aware of this fact. If one is the least bit interested, the current gazette for Health Care providers will show on record that there are approximately 1000 doctors (1080 to be exact) registered to practise medicine in Guyana and thus eligible to vote in any council election. Of this number, 454 are junior doctors with Institutional Registration, some having this type of registration for more than 3 years (even though the Medical Practitioner’s Act clearly states that this is unlawful and the CMO whether aware or ignorant of this fact has clearly not made it a priority to rectify the situation), and 626

have full registration (as of May 22). This gazette as demanded by the governing act is supposed to be up to date for every year and available to all health care providers and the general public for inspection. What significance does this data show? It means that at the last election where each registered doctor has one vote whereby he can select from the list of candidates, a total of 6 worthy candidates for the board, no candidate garnered more than a tenth of the total votes available. All doctors are supposed to be sufficiently qualified to understand the rules of voting so the candidate with maximum vote (87) and give or take 13 ballots as being spoilt then that would be a grand total of 100 votes. A hundred votes are a tenth of the total number of registered voters as reflected by the national gazette of doctors. Were nine tenths or 90% of the voting population not interested in their well-being or was the system set up in such a way to reflect the results as shown? How do the current members of the council feel when the evidence is there that they were elected by a drastic minority of voters? Will the CMO be man enough to accept the fact that his tried and trusted formula is erroneous and that the current election results are not a true reflection of the doctors he claims to serve? Will the Honourable Ministers of Public Health accept the results

as they are on the good word of the CMO? Will the wider public sit idly by and watch corruption in its ugliest form continue? Who provides the checks and balances when the system that is put in place for good governance fails? The world is watching, the doctors are watching especially the younger ones, those who feel under represented, those with more to lose. Can the system make do without the 112 young doctors who have refused to continue with the government any longer? Can GPHC give the MOPH the 40 requested GMOs so that they replace their departing colleagues from the interior, and still function to optimum capacity? Can the government cope with the loss of almost 50 doctors every year for the near future due to fulfillment of contractual obligations and the calling of the wider world? Are we as a government doing enough to keep our most prized asset, our human resource? We all know the answer. Let’s hope we see the change that we voted for. To see wrongs being committed and to sit idly by and allow the continuance of these wrongs makes one and all partners of wrongdoing. Stand up and be counted Ministers of Public Health. Ole Pai.

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Justice Kennard rejects Royston King’s challenge to inquiry …tells Town Clerk he has nothing to fear Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the operations of City Hall, Retired Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Cecil Kennard yesterday rejected an application from Town Clerk Royston King which challenged the validity of the ongoing probe. The ruling paved the way for King to commence his long-anticipated testimony before the CoI. “I have come to the conclusion that this Commission of Inquiry was properly set up and the inquiry will now continue,” Justice Kennard stated. Further, Justice Kennard told King that he has nothing to fear, and that he (Kennard) was only seeking the truth to be able to make effective recommendations to the Local Government Commission (LGC). Justice Kennard made the ruling after listening to legal arguments put forward by King’s legal representative, Maxwell Edwards, along with opposing arguments from Everton Lammy-Singh, Coun-

sel for the Commission. King was summoned to appear before the CoI yesterday, but when the proceedings commenced at about 11:30 a.m. at the Critchlow Labour College, Edwards started by first waving a copy of the Kaieteur News of October 26. He questioned whether King would get a fair hearing and pointed to the Kaieteur News headline, “King instructed staffer to remove documents from Council archives – CoI probes Coverup’. He questioned why the CoI was looking into historical records. A heated exchange ensued. At one point during the arguments, an orderly told Edwards to lower his voice, but Edwards said he would not take such an instruction from an orderly. Justice Kennard stated that the KN report detailed evidence presented to the CoI and that the Commission has no control over what is presented by the press. Edwards then moved to

address an affidavit submitted by King which challenged the legality of the CoI being established by the LGC. According to Edwards, Section 14(1) of the LGC Act stipulates that the LGC itself should conduct the CoI. Further, Edwards argued that Chapter 28:01 Municipal and District Councils Act, the Minister of Communities is empowered to undertake the CoI and under the CoI Act, the President could appoint a CoI. He stated that the current CoI is a nullity, because it was not set up by the President or the Minister. Edwards said that the LGC could not delegate the holding of such a CoI either. Lammy-Singh in his response following a two-hour recess, argued that the CoI was properly established under the LGC Act. Justice Kennard ruled that the magnitude of such an investigation is to be undertaken by a trained legal person. He stated that one would have to adopt a realistic approach. According to Justice

Town Clerk Royston King (left) takes instructions from his legal representative, Maxwell Edwards Kennard, the position taken that the CoI cannot delegate is a narrow view. “Having regard of the

573,923 on voters’ list for Local Govt. Elections - 7,918 joint services members to vote on Friday The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is all set for Local Government Elections. This was reinforced as the agency hosted a press conference yesterday. At that forum, GECOM Public Relations Officer, Yolanda Ward noted that the Official Voters’ List is completed and 573,923 persons are on that list. She said too that there are 1676 polling stations. Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, told the media that ballots arrived in Guyana on October 22 and are being kept “under tight security” at GECOM Head Office. He indicated that the ballots were bought from Canadian Bank Note and the process of procurement was overseen by two commissions representing the government and opposition. Further, Lowenfield indicated that the sorting, extracting and enveloping of ballots for the Disciplined Services have been completed. He said too that the 7,918 members of

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the three disciplined forces— Guyana Police Force, Guyana Defence Force and Prison Services—will vote on Friday coming at 63 locations. Lowenfield said that training of 10,723 polling day staffers concluded last weekend. He said that officers will be appointed by Friday. However, Kaieteur News understands that officers needed for ‘D’ day—when the Disciplined Services are to vote—have already been appointed. Deputy Chief Elections Officer (DCEO), Roxanne Myers indicated that Friday will also be the last day when application forms for proxy voting can be uplifted. She said that approvals will be available by November 8 and can be uplifted from returning officers. PRO Ward indicated that there are thousands of identification cards that are yet to be uplifted. She stressed that these are needed in order for persons to carry out their Constitutional right to vote.

GECOM’s CEO, Keith Lowenfield

GECOM PRO, Yolanda Ward

magnitude of the task and the various complaints brought to the attention of the Local Government Commission, I would say it is commendable on the part of the Commission to set up this inquiry…One has to apply a commonsense approach in interpreting legislation,” Justice Kennard asserted. Edwards said that King will give evidence to the Commission under protest. King, 53, joined the employ of the City Council in 1989 as a public health officer in his 20s. In the early stages of his testimony, King admitted that he was ‘painfully aware of the poor storage of municipal records’, pointing out that monies had been budgeted for the establishment of a documentation centre which would accommodate a library and archives. He blamed the state of affairs on the lack of finances and

human resources. The records are currently held at the City Constabulary Training School on Water Street. Justice Kennard visited the facility and he shared that the building was not a proper storage for the documents. King stated that there are considerations as to whether to repair the building and rent it to private interests. He also provided information on the restoration plans for City Hall, which is estimated to cost US$4.5M. King stated that there are no funds available to undertake the project and that lobbying had started. King, who was appointed Town Clerk on July 14, 2015, is expected to continue his testimony on Friday, addressing more controversial issues relating to contracts, land leases and the no confidence motion which was brought against him.

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As World Stroke Day is observed...

Strategic support given to patients at risk of detrimental complications Persons inflicted by stroke are at heightened risk if they are unable to swallow properly. This was underscored yesterday by Rehabilitation Assistant, Desia Wray. According to Wray, a stroke patient unable to swallow properly will not only be subjected to poor nutrition, which by extension will affect their energy level and muscle strength, but they are also at risk of developing even more complications. “If you can’t swallow properly then your food is going down the wrong way, and that means into the lungs, and that can lead to aspiration pneumonia. Nothing is supposed to be in the lungs other than air, so that will cause other complications...so the wellbeing of a stroke patient will be affected,” said Wray. It was for this reason that the Rehabilitation Service Department of the Ministry of Public Health yesterday focused on the importance of proper swallowing for stroke patients when it observed World Stroke Day. World Stroke Day is observed annually on October 29. This year, the theme was “#UpAgainAfterStroke: Support for life after stroke, and the day is one that saw health professionals emphasising the importance of support to stroke survivors and raising awareness about basic needs of stroke survivors and their care givers. At the Rehabilitation Services Department which is accommodated at the Brickdam, Georgetown Palms Geriatric Home, yesterday for

the first time efforts were made to observe World Stroke Day. The observance not only entailed the edification of patients about swallowing, but it also saw some of them being treated to a day of fun activities at the Promenade Gardens. The activities were designed to help patients deal with issues such as depression which could considerably impact the lives of patients who sometimes find it very difficult to cope with their condition. “This is the first time we have done something like this in recognition of World Stroke Day,” said Wray, who has been attached to the Rehabilitation Service Department for one year. She has, however, been in the rehabilitation field within the public health system for the past 12 years, having undergone the Ministry of Public Health’s Rehabilitation Assistant Programme. Since the start of this year, Wray said that the Department has been attending to 233 stroke patients [whose ages range from around 30 to 80]. A number of these patients have difficulties with swallowing. “We also see patients in the wards [at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation] but not many of them come to the Department...some go to other clinics,” Wray related. Yesterday, the efforts of the team at the Rehabilitation Department was boosted by support from Rehabilitation Department of the Georgetown Public Hospital, in the person of Aloma Fredricks, and four of the five students who represent the inaugural batch of Speech

Rehabilitation Assistant, Desia Wray. Therapy programme at the University of Guyana. The Speech Therapy batch is set to graduate next month, after which they will be officially plugged into the health system to advance the speech therapy agenda of the Public Health Ministry. Although a number of people have already been taking advantage of the rehabilitation services already being offered, Wray informed that there are some people who are ignorant about their condition and therefore opt to utilise home remedies instead of seeking the recommended care. “They delay getting attention because they believe if they get a rub down by someone they will be better, not really understanding that they need a therapeutic intervention in the form of an exercise or treatment,” Wray shared. With therapeutic care, the Rehabilitation Assistant said that patients stand a better chance of being rehabilitated to a point where they can become independent and resume activities including dressing, bathing and even preparing meals for them-

A patient being assisted to Speech Therapy students, Lisa Sam and Kerianne Richards. selves. For those who would have lost their speech, Speech therapy is an important solution. “Once you have a stroke a whole lot of areas are affected, and this Department deals with all of those areas. When you come we do an assessment, but firstly you have to be referred by a medical professional and we accept patients from private and public institutions too,” said Wray, who noted that evaluation of patients is usually done on Fridays. Once evaluated, patients with stroke and other conditions which require rehabilitation are then assigned a therapist who designates therapy days. However, as part of the observance yesterday, the focus was on stroke patients, where those with swallowing challenges were invited to the special screening session as part of the observance of World Stroke Day 2018.

Speech Therapy student, Gordonieka De Freitas, examining a patient’s mouth.

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The link between a ‘joint’ and crime During the politicallyinspired crime wave, which began just after the PNCR election loss of 2001, the people of Berbice used to look at what was happening on the East Coast and in Georgetown, and boast that Berbice was not affected by such high levels of criminality. Well, the shoe is now on the other foot. The past ten years has seen an escalation of crime in Berbice, including armed robberies. Last Friday, bandits invaded the home of an elderly couple at No.65 Village, Corentyne. They brutalized the couple and robbed them. It was one of many similar incidents, which have affected a region, which once boasted of low levels of armed robberies. What has changed that

has allowed Berbice to descend into such an orgy of criminality? It is not as if the economy of Berbice collapsed ten years ago. It is not that unemployment, though high, has gotten appreciably worse. The rate of change of these factors has remained low. So what has changed? The greatest change which has affected Berbice, and which may be the principal reason from high levels of crime, is drug use. The spike in crime began in the Rose Hall, Canje area, and this spike corresponded with the increased sale and use of cocaine and marijuana in that area. You can stand on some street corners in Canje, after hours, and get ‘high’ simply inhaling the pot-filled air.

All across the Corentyne, young people are using narcotics. And there has been a corresponding rise in crime. Correlation is not causation, but it is sure a basis for investigating a link. Instead of investigating the link between drug use and increased crime, the Guyana authorities have latched onto a foreign-funded initiative called the Citizens’ Security Strengthening Project (CSSP). The West, including their financing agencies and banks, are not really interested in helping us solve robberies and muggings. They are interested in stopping the flow of drugs from the Caribbean to North America. The latest initiative, it is said, will put a billion dollars into improving secu-

Dem boys seh ...

Rice Ton about to be a movie star Oil coming to Guyana and extra money suppose to come. De foreign people advise dat de govt put aside some of dis money fuh hard times. Dat extra money is what dem call de Sovereign Wealth Fund. Dem boys want to know why foreign governments got to advise de people of Guyana wha dem must do wid dem money. Every li’l child know when you get extra money wha you must do wid it. Dem know dem have to bank it. One bank does call it early savings. But dem boys want Guyana to know dem could have a lot of extra money wha dem put aside and end up more poor than how dem start. Tek fuh example, Guyana put $100 million of de extra oil money in a bank and de bank offer three percent in-

terest. You tun back and borrow $100 million from China to build road and bridges. Dem charge you six percent interest. Do de Maths. De bank pay you three percent and you paying six. Dem boys seh you gon end up using you own money fuh pay back de loan and still owe. De best advice is to spend you own money fuh develop you country and stop borrowing. Jagdeo seh publicly how he re-invest de rice money at a higher interest rate to wha Guyana had to pay Venezuela. To dis day SOCU can’t find de rice, de rice land much less de money. Plenty things nobody can’t find. Dem couldn’t find Rice Ton fuh nuff things. Now de man getting ready to star in a movie called “From pauper to a King”. He was a

broke Mofo who use to ketch shart drap car to come to de Waterfalls paper. Now de man gat two high-end vehicle. Dis same Rice King couldn’t pay he mortgage and he use to squat pon de reserve to hide from de bank. Now dem boys hear he got nuff property all about de city. A man who know him now asking where else could a man who was a streetwalker suddenly be surrounded by bodyguards, chauffeurs, personal assistants, and other underlings. Dis same man who use to drink water from a standpipe now being seen regularly dining at ritzy restaurants and sipping the most expensive wines. It will be a nice movie. Talk half and wait fuh de end of de movie.

rity in communities. The monies will be wasted. This is not a sustainable initiative. It does not address the link between certain social factors and crime. The Americans also have their own initiative. That too is a waste of time and money. The Americans were under pressure for not doing enough to help partner countries combat domestic crime. The war against narcotics trafficking, which the Americans have waged for almost four decades in this part of the world, was seen as more concerned with stemming the transshipment of drugs than with helping to improve the security of citizens. What the Americans found, however, was that drug lords were able to recruit youth from poor communities to engage in drug trafficking or to be their henchmen. Therefore, the Americans have come up with their plan to help re-

duce the number of young people who are prey for drug lords. All of these initiatives will not work, because drug use is the problem, and unless the link between drug use and crime is disproved, then Guyanese can expect an increase in crime. The one way to test the link between drug use and crime is to go after those who sell drugs to the young people. The police know the persons suspected of selling drugs. If the supply lines are cut this is no easy task - then its impact on reducing crime can be assessed, and a theory to guide crimefighting can emerge. Fighting crime is not a guessing game or a learnas-you-go exercise. Those entrusted with fighting crime, at both the policy and operational levels, have to know what they are about if they are to be successful in combatting crime. The Minister of Public

Security has to seek advice, but in the end he has to weigh the different advice which he receives and determine the correct direction in which to proceed. He has to have a crimefighting theory, be it the broken-windows theory or some other theory, which guides his policy-making. The Minister of Public Security should not throw up his hands in frustration or claim that he is not an expert and therefore needs expert advice. He should use his legal mind to come up with a theory, which explains crime in Guyana. Then he should design crime-fighting measures based on that theory. Anything else would amount t0 fiddling while Rome burns.

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=== The Freddie Kissoon column ===

Political miasma that continues to harm Guyana’s future A special mental corner in me was buoyed when APNU was born. I was in deep optimistic waves with the continuing electoral success of the AFC. Then the AFC and APNU came to power and I am left with the thought of one of the best Marxist minds of the 20th century, the Italian thinker, Antonio Gramsci. He said that the optimism of the will must override the pessimism of the intellect. There are countless backwardness and manifestations of miasmic politics from the AFC and APNU that keep the candle of pessimism

burning inside of me. Two recent episodes are just another mile the train of disaster has covered in this tragic count r y. F r i e n d s o f m i n e , people I trust, people that I share political sentiments with, told me that A P N U + A F C counterdemonstrators attacked sugar-workers that were picketing Parliament last week when the President was addressing the House. I was told that placards were pulled away and sugar workers were shoved. This is what I thought we had left behi n d w i t h the birth of APNU and the electoral journey of the AFC. These formations are now in power

Apology Kaieteur News wishes to apologize for erroneous information publicized in the Saturday, October 27, 2018 edition of the newspaper. The information surrounds the ongoing Commission of Inquiry into City Hall. The Headline which reads “City Engineer’s Department could take two years to approve building plans,” should have read ‘City Engineer’s Department could take up to two months to approve building plans.’ Additionally, sections of the article stating similar information are incorrect. Kaieteur News apologizes for the errors and any inconvenience caused.

and we see no values from them that indicate we are on a journey to a new political culture; on the contrary, the deportment, mentality and mindset of our new dispensation are no different from the Freedom House monsters that ruled us for 15 years. I was outside the head o ff i c e o f t h e A F C o n e evening last week with my dog when AFC parliamentarian Michael Carrington came out and played with my dog. I saw Charles Ramson Junior and his group putting up PPP flags on the posts on Railway Street where the AFC head office is. He came up, shook my hand and Carrington’s. I saw with my own two eyes as I was driving west on Railway Street the next morning on my way to the National Park, a fellow taking down all the PPP’s flags. The PPP would have done the same, but one thought that the AFC and APNU would usher pieces of a new culture that would eventually merge into a p r o m i s i n g c a r t o g r a p h y.

This was not to be. A friend told me some APNU+AFC counter-protestors crossed their line and went straight into the faces of the PPP’s supporters. They unleashed a torrent of abuse of those who were holding placards highlighting the mistreatment of sugar workers. Some PPP picketers were actually manhandled. People have a right to picket. This is what our f o r e p a r e n t s f o u g h t f o r. This is what we fought to have in the colonial era. This is what we struggled for during the domination of Forbes Burnham, Bharrat Jagdeo and Donald Ramotar. Under Ramotar’s presidency in 2012, three peaceful picketers, including a mentally challenged fellow, were shot dead in the demonstration. I believe PPP leaders did incite their supporters to physically harm antigovernment picketers in Berbice during the hegemonic days of Jagdeo and Ramotar, and would do it again, if and when they get back in power.

But those who lived through those horrendous times need to show a superior culture, because people voted for changes in such type of behaviour and believed that APNU and the AFC would bring new attitudes. The other episode concerns Whim, the Berbice birth village of the Prime Minister. It relates to the upcoming LGE. There are dimensions to the crisis there that do not augur well for electoral smoothness in the future. The main contention of the PPP is that fifty persons added their signatures to the AFC’s electoral document, but were manipulated in doing so, in that they were not told they were giving their signatures for election purposes. The AFC said this is the usual PPP nastiness. But some things are not right here. The PPP asked the courts to remove the fifty names. The court ruled against the PPP, with the judge saying that he found no evidence of fraud. But it still leaves the 60 million dollar question – if the fifty

Frederick Kissoon persons want to remain on the list as AFC sympathizers, surely they must have told the PPP this. Why would the PPP go to the court to remove their names when they are legitimate backers of the AFC? In other words, the PPP tried to get the courts to wrongfully remove fifty names on the AFC electoral papers. But where are these fifty souls? Why they, themselves are not picketing the PPP’s office shouting down that they want their names to remain on the list? Alternatively, why isn’t the AFC producing these people for the media and the nation to see? Where are these fifty villagers?

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No apology for ordering Mayor to shut up – City Hall COI Chairman Retired Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Cecil Kennard has said that he has no apology for ordering Mayor Patricia Chase-Green to shut up during a hearing of the Commission of Inquiry into City Hall, last Friday. Justice Kennard had upbraided the Mayor for her conduct as she was being cross-examined by Counsel for the Commission, Everton Singh-Lammy. Chase-Green was at the time facing questions over the noconfidence motion brought against Town Clerk, Royston King. During an exchange, Chase Green responded to a question by the lawyer by asking him a question. It was then that Justice Kennard interjected and warned the Mayor not to answer in that manner. “You have to answer questions,” Kennard had said. Well, I’m answering, but I did not appreciate the question he asked, Chase- Green responded “Well, say that…Don’t attempt to be rude,” the Chairman stated, thereafter telling Chase-Green that she needed to shut up listen to the questions. However over the weekend Justice Kennard faced criticism over his comments. When the inquiry resumed yesterday, he sought to address the issue. “First of all, I just have to say that I have no apology for making that statement,” he said. The Judge noted that

Chairman of COI, retired Judge Cecil Kennard

City Mayor Patricia Chase-Green

instead of answering questions, Chase-Green was asking questions of the Commission’s lawyer, and even after she was upbraided, she continued to “prattle” Kennard also told those gathered at the public hearing that he is appalled at suggestions that he was unlikely to be fair. The Judge noted that he intends to perform his duties in accordance with the oath that he has taken to ensure a proper investigation is conducted and recommendations made. The retired Judge alluded to his qualification and experience as a jurist, noting that he has never been faced with any accusations of being biased in his professional career. “I can assure all concerned, regardless of political affiliation or otherwise, I will assure everyone that I conduct my

duty in accordance with the guidance of the Lord above,” he said. “No one has ever accused me of being biased and I don’t intend to be biased on any issue,” said Kennard, who noted he is also the holder of two National Awards - the Order of Roraima and Cacique Crown of Honour - stressing too that his views will not necessarily have any bearing on the recommendations he will have to make to the Local Government Commission. The retired Chancellor also emphasised that he intends to perform his duties in accordance with the oath that he has taken. “I intend to act in accordance with the evidence that has been led and will be led,” he said.

Cyclist charged with causing death of pedestrian Twenty-year-old Daniel Forrester was yesterday charged and released on $400,000 bail after being slapped with a causing death by dangerous driving charge. Forrester denied the charge which stated that on September 12, last, at Bagotstown Public Road, East Bank Demerara, he drove motorcycle CJ 6345 in a manner dangerous to the public, thereby causing the death of Shawn Bruce. He appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ C o u r t s . Forrester was represented by Attorney-at Law Jed Vasconcellos who asked the court to grant his client reasonable bail. Police Prosecutor Simone Payne, made no objections to bail being granted to Forrester, but asked that conditions be attached. Facts presented by the prosecutor stated that on September 12, last, at around 07:50 hrs, Forrester was proceeding south along the eastern carriageway of the Bagotstown Public Road, at

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a fast rate. The court heard that Forrester collided with Bruce, who was crossing the road. They both fell to the ground in an unconscious state. Both persons were picked up and rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, where Bruce was pronounced dead on arrival, and Forester was admitted a patient. The matter was then reported, an investigation was car-

ried out, and Forrester was charged for the offence. Magistrate McLennan suspended Forrester’s licence until the completion and determination of the trial. He was also instructed to report to the Providence Police Station - to the officer in charge - every Friday. The matter was adjourned until November 1 for commencement of the trial.

Govt. pushes GTT, Digicel for interim inter-connectivity arrangement Given ongoing court battles, Government is pushing Digicel and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) to work out an interim interconnectivity agreement. Earlier this month, the Te l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s Authority Suriname (TAS) shut down the alleged illegal microwave link, which Digicel used to feed data capacity to its unit in Guyana. It caused significant data outages for Digicel’s customers here. GTT has long complained that Digicel should be forced to buy its data capacity from them instead of feeding it over the border. Minister of Public Te l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s , Catherine Hughes said that she has met with both companies in an effort to find a temporary solution. “The allegation is that some of the traffic in that [Suriname] link comes to Guyana as opposed to the traffic going through GTT. I

have met with GTT and Digicel and have been in constant conversations with them, saying to them work out an agreement so that Digicel can go through GTT,” Hughes stated. GTT has previously alleged that Digicel has deprived Guyana of $30 million in lost charges by bypassing its network. It claims the link is illegal. Digicel has denied those claims. GTT confirmed that it complained about Digicel’s cross-border link to the Guyana government, which presumably passed those concerns on to its counterparts in Suriname. “There are cases in the court, because Digicel feels that GTT license does not prevent them from providing data services. That is a dispute that only the courts can decide on, but I have said to them in the interim; guys work out an agreement when the court decide then if there is compensation that is

required; if they are fees and monies due then the courts will decide on that,” Hughes noted. As Guyana gears towards a year-end conclusion of the telecoms monopoly held by GTT, there is a major battle brewing in the High Court. Digicel Guyana and GTT are challenging each other. On one hand, U Mobile (Cellular) Inc., which has a licence now being operated by Digicel, is asking the court to rule that the telecoms licence granted in the 1990s to GTT is illegal, as it breached several rights. GTT, on the other hand, says that Digicel illegally attempted to stop routing its international calls through GTT’s network. The matter challenging the licence had been dragging on since 2009. Hughes pointed out that she continues to invest a lot of time into ensuring that the monopoly ends by December 31, as promised.

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‘Saga’ murder PI...

Former officers kick co-accused down prisoners’ chute Tw e n t y - s i x - y e a r- o l d Aubrey Bobb, the main witness in the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of Godfrey Scipio, 58, known as “Saga”, claimed that he was viciously attacked at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts by two former members of the Guyana Police Force – co-accused - and was kicked down the prisoners’ chute. Bobb was the first person to be charged with Scipio’s murder, and subsequently implicated former Police Corporal Derwin Eastman and his colleague, Constable Jemison Williams. They were jointly charged with the offence. The trio were not required to plead to the in-

Aubrey Bobb

Jemison Williams

Derwin Eastman

Dead: Godfrey Scipio

dictable charge which stated that on October 12, 2017, at David Street, Kitty, Georgetown, they murdered Scipio. They are cur-

rently on remand for the capital offence. Yesterday when the matter was called in Senior Magistrate Fabayo Azore’s Courtroom, officers at the court handcuffed and shackled Bo b b , t h e p r o s e c u t i o n ’s s t ar witness, before sending him through the prisoners’ chute to make an appearance in court. While in the chute, Bobb, who is testifying on behalf of the State was a l legedly confronted by E a s t m a n a n d Wi l l i a m s ,

whom he claimed dealt him several kicks and cuffs about his body. He also claimed that Eastman stamped him in the chest causing him to fall down the stairs. Police officers, upon hearing the commotion in the prisoners’ chute, sought to determine what was happening within, and saw Bobb lying on the ground. An irate Bobb began shouting “Y’all setting me up for them to kill me. Why y’all send them (Williams and Eastman) in the

chute behind me. The officers know they supposed to wait until I reach in court then send Eastman and Williams up.” A few minutes later Bobb was sent back up the chute and into the courtroom where he was placed to sit on a bench, while Eastman and Williams were seated in the prisoners’ dock. There, Bobb told Magistrate Azore that Williams head-butted him and Eastman stamped him down the stairs after they were

involved in an altercation. Bobb then pointed out an officer to the Magistrate whom he claimed witnessed the attack on him. The officer was questioned by the Magistrate and his story corroborated Bobb’s account. Both Eastman and Williams denied assaulting Bobb when asked by Magistrate Azore. Bobb then gave his evidence against the former officers and he was subjected to a lengthy cross examination by Attorney Nigel Hughes, who is representing Eastman. Attorney Dexter Todd is representing Williams A few weeks ago, Bobb testified against Eastman and Williams where he detailed his connection with the duo, how the murder was orchestrated and who is the mastermind. According to reports, Bobb alleged that Eastman is the mastermind behind “Saga’s” murder since he allegedly provided the weapon. Scipio, 58, was shot dead shortly after leaving a Kitty hotel. He was also relieved of a gold chain.

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Education Ministry commissions IT labs at two Primary Schools The importance of Information Technology was emphasised yesterday when the Ministry of Education commissioned two new IT laboratories at the Eccles and Tucville Primary Schools. While at the Eccles Primary, Minister of Education, Dr. Nicolette Henry, told the gathering of students and teachers that the computers within the laboratories will help with numeracy and literacy and to bridge the gap between access to education and learning material. She said that the lab will serve to ensure that the nation’s children are digitally literate and assist them to conduct research. Moreover, Minister Henry noted that the equipment can be used by teachers as well to access resources that are available online. According to the Education Minister, the Government of Guyana is working towards making technology more available. She said that in addition to the two labs commissioned, 95 primary schools had benefited from IT labs in 2017. Minister Henry said that Information Technology must be provided in all schools and that plans are being made for additional schools to be equipped in 2019. Further, she explained that the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Organisation of American States and the ProFutoro

Foundation will be introducing digital classroom tools such as tablets, laptops and learning systems to 28 primary schools in regions one, four and 10 beginning later this year. “This will allow for more personalised learning for pupils in ICT. Teachers will be able to track student progress and respond to the changing learning needs of each student.” While at Tucville Primary School, the Education Minister urged students to use their time within the new laboratory to research topics that they would not ordinarily be able to see. She said that though the commissioning ceremonies might be thought of as a simple gesture, they are a part of a long and important journey towards modernising and improving the education system in Guyana. Head of the Management Information Systems Unit within the Ministry of Education, Mr. Yoganand Indarsingh made the point that it is important for schools to be equipped with IT labs since technology today is pervasive. He said that IT is “much more than social media, and it allows opportunities to transform the way we learn, work, and has the power to inspire a richer life if we all can see that vision.” Indarsingh added that IT has unleashed a wide range of job opportunities, from art - where there

are animation and digital creations - right up to science, where medicinal research is expanding. He urged teachers to grasp that vision and translate it to students so that they can understand what benefits are possible. Head Teacher of Eccles Primary School, Ms. Doreen Wright said that the new lab at her school will facilitate the education of pupils in the practical and theoretical application of technology. She said that technology needs to be embraced to make learning engaging and interactive. “Our government and the Ministry of Education are aware of this need and have taken the necessary steps to ensure this need is met at the Eccles Primary School,” Wright noted. Meanwhile, Head Teacher of the Tucville Primary School, Ms. Colleen McTeir said that the IT lab presents an amazing opportunity for learners to integrate technology in the classroom. She said that the lab will encourage collaboration among pupils and develop problem-solving skills while providing teachers with an opportunity to be further exposed to non-traditional methods of teaching. She said, “technology is the way forward for the education system.”

Minister of Education Nicolette Henry and MISU Head Yoganand Indarsingh engaging students of Eccles Primary School in their IT Lab.

Minister Henry and students of Tucville Primary School performing the ceremonial cutting of the ribbon to officially commission the IT Lab.

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Khashoggi fiancee: Riyadh North Carolina student dead as high responsible for his murder, must explain school fight ends with shooting (Reuters) - A fistfight between two North Carolina high school students turned deadly on Monday when one of them pulled out a handgun and fired at the other in a crowded hallway before the start of classes, authorities said. The alleged shooter, identified only as a male student at David W. Butler High School in Matthews, a suburb southeast of Charlotte, was quickly taken into custody, police said. “There are no other threats or dangers to any of the students or staff, or anyone in the area of the school,” Captain Stason Tyrrell of the Matthews Police Department told reporters near the school. “I can just tell you that the shooter was taken into custody by Matthews Police Department, and his family is

aware as well,” Tyrrell said. The school briefly went into a lockdown as the wounded student, who was also not identified by police, was rushed to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. The student died there a few hours later, they said. Students were later released to their anxious parents who had jammed the area around the school, while police spent much of the day interviewing witnesses and combing over the crime scene. Surveillance video shows the two students getting into a fight before the shooting, Tyrrell said. “From what I’ve seen and the information I’ve received, our school resource officer was very nearby when it took place, and the situation became under control very

quickly,” he added. Charlotte Mecklenburg School Superintendent Clayton Wilcox said the school did not have a policy of searching every bag that enters the school, but said all security procedures would be reviewed following the shooting. Keeping firearms out of schools has become an urgent issue across the country since a suspect killed 17 in a shooting rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February. “I don’t know how a young person gets a handgun in the state of North Carolina,” Wilcox told reporters. “But we are going to look into all those things, and we will do our best to make sure that this never happens again.”

Mexico president-elect halts partly built airport

LONDON (Reuters) The fiancée of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has said Saudi authorities are responsible for his murder, and the kingdom should give more details so that those responsible can be brought to justice. The death of Khashoggi a Washington Post columnist and a critic of Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sparked global outrage and pitched the world’s top oil exporter into crisis. When asked who was ultimately responsible for the killing, his fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, told Reuters in Turkish: “This took place inside a Saudi diplomatic mission ... In such circumstances, the Saudi Arabian authorities are responsible for this.” “This incident, this assassination, took place in the Saudi consulate,” she said, speaking through a translator. “So the Saudi authorities probably know how such a

murder took place.” “They need to explain what happened.” Khashoggi, 59, entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain paperwork necessary for his upcoming marriage to Cengiz, a Turkish national. He did not walk out of the consulate. Cengiz first raised the alarm. Asked if she held Crown Prince Mohammed or the Saudi royal family responsible, she said: “I and my government would like all those responsible, from the person who gave this order to those who carried it out, to be brought to justice and punished under international law,” she said. Cengiz said she had not been contacted by Prince Mohammed or the Saudi royal family, nor offered any condolences by them. Saudi Arabia initially denied any involvement in Khashoggi’s disappearance but a Saudi official eventually

US sending 5,200 troops to border with Mexico The Pentagon is sending over 5,200 troops to the border with Mexico as thousands of Central American migrants head north through Mexico. General Terrence O’Shaughnessy said Operation Faithful Patriot would focus on Texas, Arizona and California. President Donald Trump earlier said the “invasion” of migrants would find the US military waiting for them. There are already 2,100 National Guard members at the border, sent after a previous request by Mr Trump in April.

Foundations for Mexico City’s new airport at Texcoco have already been built (BBC) Construction of a partially built new airport for Mexico City is to be halted after it was rejected in a referendum, President-elect Andres Manuel López Obrador has said. Mr López Obrador, who takes office in December, said money would be used instead to improve existing facilities. He has been a strong critic of the project which he says is bad for the environment and tainted by corruption. The referendum was one of Mr López Obrador’s campaign promises.About one million people took part in the vote over four days, about 1% of the electorate, and critics have alleged cases of people casting multiple the

ballots.The estimated cost of the new airport at Texcoco, north-east of the capital, has been put at more than $13bn (£10bn). The government of outgoing President Enrique Pena Nieto says it would create up to 450,000 jobs and business leaders have insisted the new facility is needed to ease traffic at Mexico City’s aging main airport. But Mr López Obrador said that the current international airport would instead be upgraded and two runways would be added at a military airfield south of the city. He said another airport, at Toluca, would be repurposed. “The decision is to obey

mandate of the citizens,” he told reporters. It is unclear what will happen to the site at Texcoco where the foundations for the airport have already been built. Peter Cerda, regional vicepresident for the International Air Transport Association (IATA), said abandoning the project would cost Mexico’s economy $20bn annually. “The decision puts Mexico at a disadvantage as a regional hub,” he said, adding that IATA would lobby the Mexican government to change its position. Left-wing leader Mr López Obrador won the presidential election by a landslide in July.

attributed his death to a botched attempt to return him to the kingdom. Later, Riyadh said the killing was premeditated and Prince Mohammed has vowed that the killers would be brought to justice. Saudi Arabia has detained 18 people and dismissed five senior government officials as part of the investigation into Khashoggi’s murder. Some were members of a 15-man hit team, many of them Saudi intelligence operatives, who flew into Istanbul hours before Khashoggi’s death, Turkish security sources say. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has urged Riyadh to disclose who ordered the murder and prosecutors have prepared an extradition request for 18 suspects from Saudi Arabia. “The explanations given so far by Saudi Arabia are not sufficient,” Cengiz said. “I want to know the details of who is responsible.”

Both sides of the US political divide have been accused of using the migrants for electoral gain just a week before Americans go to the polls. In mid-term elections on 6 November, President Trump’s Republican Party will seek to keep both houses of Congress out of Democratic hands.The migrants are still around 1,000 miles (1,600km) from the US border. Gen O’Shaughnessy said the troops would be deployed by the end of the week with weapons, helicopters, aeroplanes, barriers and miles of razor wire to support border patrol agents.

Constitutional crisis turns violent in Sri Lanka Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) One person has been killed in Sri Lanka after the bodyguards of a deposed government minister opened fire on a crowd of protestors amid a worsening constitutional crisis. Sunday’s shooting follows a tumultuous 48-hours in the island nation, as the country comes to grips with President Maithripala Sirisena’s shock dismissal of his cabinet, the suspension of parliament, and the appointment of former strongman president Mahinda Rajapaksa as the new prime minister. The shooting occurred on Sunday, as crowds loyal to the president attempted to prevent recently deposed petro-

Sri Lankan soldiers keep watch outside the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation in Colombo leum minister Arjuna Ranatunga from entering a government building in the capital, Colombo. As the crowds surged forward, bodyguards of Ranatunga, a former Sri Lankan cricket captain,

opened fire, killing one and injuring three others. One bodyguard has since been taken into custody and an investigation was under way, police spokesperson Ruwan Gunasekera confirmed.

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Timehri Panthers, Agricola Red Triangle and Soesdyke Falcons put away opponents Timehri Panthers downed Hauraruni Eagles 12-1 on Sunday, while on Saturday, Agricola Red Triangle trounced Diamond United 81 and Soesdyke Falcons got past Mocha Champs 4-0 to each book a place in the next round of the East Bank Football Association senior knockout competition to select two teams for the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) year-end Super 16 tournament. Contesting the final match

of the round of 12, the Timehri lads, who dominated proceedings from start to end, were led by Samuel Steel who blasted the nets six times, while Shannon Samnauth supported well with a hat-trick. Steele was on target in the 28th, 35th, 39th, 42nd, 75th and 78th minutes with Samnauth scoring his three in the 11th, 25th and 27th minutes. Dexter Welcome had opened proceedings in the 7th minute; John Steele added his name second down in the 9th

Agricola Red Triangle goal scorers. minute with the other coming off the boot of Rhondell Haywood in the 57th minute. Agricola Red Triangle

stamped their authority against the Diamond United lads in registering victory led by a hat-trick from Brian Price who found the

Ward Panthers... Tuesday October 30, 2018 ARIES (Mar. 21–Apr. 19) A love relationship seems more stable than usual today, Virgo. The security wraps itself around you like a blanket as you consider the events leading up to this new sense of commitment.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) Today you may not feel much like working, and you might even decide to play hooky from your responsibilities. If you have nothing urgent to do, consider indulging this whim.

TAURUS (Apr. 20–May 20) Today you could complete a creative project that you've been working on for a while, Taurus. You will be more than happy with the results and inspired to move on to bigger and better things.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) A community issue may come up today concerning you and your neighbors. Perhaps a meeting will be held in your home. Something requires change in your neighborhood, and most of you are probably firmly united behind it.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) Things seem to be returning to normal after the hectic pace of late, Gemini. Life has slowed down, and the energy is lower but more peaceful. CANCER (June 21–July 22) Have you been waiting for a letter or call from a business or romantic partner for a long time, Cancer? If so, you will probably receive it today. Don't be surprised if it's long! News and useful information could be exchanged. LEO (July 23–Aug. 22) Your time finally seems to be your own, Leo. There are probably no rush jobs to finish, no urgent phone calls to make, and no one looking over your shoulder. This causes a significant release of stress, and you're better able than usual to focus on what you have in front of you. VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) A love relationship seems more stable than usual today, Virgo. The security wraps itself around you like a blanket as you consider the events leading up to this new sense of commitment.

SAGIT (Nov. 22–Dec. 21) A new opportunity could come your way today. There's no promise or guarantee, but there is an indication that if you devote yourself thoroughly, it will. CAPRI (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) A sense of duty toward family members, children, and your sweetheart may cause you to take on responsibilities today that you wouldn't normally assume. Sincere efforts on behalf of those you care about are likely to bring the results you want. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18) Emotions stemming from past experiences might cause you to assume undue responsibilities, particularly concerning family members. PISCES (Feb. 19–Mar. 20) Relatives or neighbors may come to you today asking for favors. Some may know exactly what buttons to push in order to get you to do what they want. Don't be sucked into guilt or other negative emotions. Help others if you wish, pisces.

From page 31 when he nudged in the 44th minute goal to give his side a 1-0 half time advantage. The second half produced no other goal and that allowed the Panthers to gain valuable points to go to 10, just trailing joint leaders Eagles United and Net Rockers who are in front on 12 points. Topp XX and Botofago would battle to a 1-1 draw later that night with Botofago going ahead in the 58th minute but Topp XX responded and gained the equalizer when Keon Hall slotted home in the 70th minute. Tomorrow, two more matches are slated for the Mackenzie Sports Club ground with game one at 19.00hrs between Eagles United and Silver Shattas and the other featuring Winners Connection and Net Rockers.

Fruta Conquerors... From page 32 the 10th, 11th and 21st minutes, while there was one each for Selena Chan (25) and Kendra Thomas in the 36th minute. Prior to the match held at the Tucville Ground, the teams were greeted by GFF’s President Wayne Forde and other GFF officials, Forde also did the ceremonial kickoff. The WDL seeks to, among others, significantly increase the player population across Guyana, act as a base of the Talent Identification recruitment pathway and produce players for the GFF national teams. It will be played in 11 areas including Upper Demerara, Essequibo, Mahdia, Berbice, Bartica and Moruca. Matches in the other areas are scheduled to begin on November 3.

back of the nets in the 21st, 24th and 35th minutes. Shaquelle Baptiste started proceedings with a goal of his own in the 4th minute, B. Jabar doubled the lead in the 19th minute before Price got into the act. The other contributors were David Corrica (25), Floyd Boyce (41) and Leon noel in the 53rd minute. Diamond achieved a consolation goal in the 43rd minute. Soesdyke Falcons were never troubled in their contest against Mocha Champs and got over the line via a 4-0 margin. Tyrone Khan opened proceedings from the penalty spot in the 25th minute after being brought down. Thereafter, goals in the 42nd and 45th minutes from Colin Holder and Mark Barker

in the 52nd sealed Soesdyke’s place in the next round and a date with Herstelling Raiders on Saturday in the first match of a double header from 14:00hrs.Saturday’s feature game will see Grove Hi Tech coming up against Kuru Kururu Warriors from 16:00hrs. The lone match on Sunday brings together Agricola Red Triangle and Timehri Panthers. One team from the final three that would be left standing would earn a bye to the final with the other two facing off in the lone semi final. The finalists would earn the right to be the EBFA’s representative teams to the GFF year-end tourney which has at stake over Six Million in prizes.

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LeBron James proud after Batsmen did not do themselves justice: Holder passing Nowitzki, Shaq & Kobe Bryant milestones

MUMBAI, India, CMC – A disappointed West Indies captain Jason Holder has lamented his side’s batting meltdown, which he said was unfortunate especially coming on the backs of superb performances in the previous three matches of the series. The Windies suffered a record 224-run defeat to India in the fourth One-Day International of the five-match series at Brabourne Stadium here yesterday, after they were dismissed for 154 in pursuit of a massive 378. For the tourists, it was their worst showing in the series after exceeding 300 in the first two matches and then successfully defending 283 in the third ODI last Saturday. “We didn’t play well enough today. I guess we allowed them to score too many runs and obviously we never got going when we batted. The application wasn’t there and we lost wickets up front and we were never able to build any momentum,” said Holder. “The cricket we’ve played so far in this series, today doesn’t do justice to it. [India made] too many runs and I felt it was a really good wicket. Outfield was lightning [fast] and it’s a wicket that once you get in, you can go big. “It’s just unfortunate that none of our batters really got in and gave themselves a chance to bat deep into the innings.” Holder, batting at number seven, was the only Windies

West Indies captain Jason Holder … has lamented the poor batting display. player to pass 20 as he topscored with 54 off 70 deliveries to notch his seventh ODI half-century. The run chase started disastrously when both Shai Hope (0) and Kieran Powell (4) were run out in the space of five deliveries, to leave the innings tottering on 20 for three in the sixth over. There was no recovery despite Holder’s intervention as 20-year-old left-arm seamer Khaleel Ahmed (3-13) and leftarm spinner Kuldeep Yadav (3-42) ripped through the middle and lower order. Holder pointed to the run outs as key, noting they were ill-afforded especially when chasing a large total. “Run-outs are something that you just don’t want in one-day cricket or any limited overs cricket for that matter,”

he stressed. “It was two of our better players up front and it really set us back and there was a lot to do to rebuild to get to 370-odd. So in games like these here, you try not to get run out and you try to build a partnership up front which we never got.”With the victory, India took a 2-1 lead in the series with the final match carded for Thursday in Thiruvananthapuram. And Holder said the Caribbean side had not given up hope of at least squaring the series now. “Cricket is played on the day. We just go out there to play a clinical game of cricket – it just didn’t come off today. Hopefully the guys can regroup in the next couple of days and come back stronger.”

Despite defeat for the LA Lakers, LeBron James was humbled to pass three significant career milestones during his 35-point display. Omnisport - LeBron James was proud after achieving three significant milestones as his Los Angeles Lakers side suffered defeat to the San Antonio Spurs. The Lakers lost 110-106 on the road on Saturday in a match which saw the 33-yearold pass Dirk Nowitzki for sixth position on the NBA’s all-time scoring list when he notched his 21st point of the night in the third quarter. James is now the game’s active leader in points scored (31,202), while he also surpassed Lakers great Shaquille O’Neal for sixth on the all-time field goals list (11,339).

”Guys that I’ve played against, played with, watched before I even got to the league, admired and was in awe of,” James said via ESPN when asked about O’Neal and Nowitzki after his accomplishment. “Dirk’s always been one of my favourite players, and I think Shaq is the most dominant player to ever play this game. “So for me to be in the same conversation with those guys in anything that we’re talking about as far as basketball, it’s a tribute. “As far as being humble and knowing where I come from, be-

“We can’t win finals batting the way we did” laments Coach... From page 32 Crandon, a member of 2005 team that won Guyana’s last 50-over title, said the team did not change its positive approach. “We didn’t change our positive approach. The pitch was different so the batters had to be much more watchful and make the necessary adjustments,” said the 36-year-old Crandon. The Berbician explained what was felt that the team needed a little more stability at the top of the order. “ We went with Tagenarine because Rutherford wasn’t playing the role we wanted him to. I honestly thought we played our best 11 for the conditions,” Crandon stated. This is Guyana’s third final since 2005, while they

have lost nine semi-finals in the last 13 years and could be considered the biggest ‘chockers’ in Regional 50-over cricket. “The batters were poor today (Sunday). You can’t win finals batting the way we did. The bowlers tried but the runs weren’t enough,” Crandon lamented. Clinton Pestano (15), Lewis (13) and Shepherd and Permaul with 10 each were all among the wickets, while Raymon Reifer finished with 323 runs with four 50s and Chris Barnwell, Trevon Griffith and Skipper Leon Johnson all passed 200 runs in a rain affected tournament which the Jaguars dominated until Sunday’s final. Most pundits struggle to find an explanation for a team which plays outstandingly in the preliminary

Esuan Crandon rounds, playing so badly in the Knock-out stages. Many put it down to psychological pressure getting the better of the players since Guyana are the best prepared team (physically and technically) in the Region. “We didn’t play well

obviously. I thought we didn’t bring our ‘A’ game t o d a y. Our batters struggled to put a good score on the board. No one took the responsibility to fight and stay at the crease. Conditions were a bit difficult at first because of inconsistent pace and

bounce but our batters didn’t apply themselves,” concluded a disappointed Crandon. Johnson also expressed disappointment with coming away empty handed in a tournament in which every member had contributed at one time or another in what was a superb team performance until the final. “Heading into this game we had ticked all the boxes but now will return to Guyana and play in the three day (Franchise) League there and prepare for the FirstClass tournament,” a dejected Johnson said just after the completion of another limited overs Final that Guyana would rather forget. The Regional four-day tournament is expected to commence on December 13 and Guyana Jaguars are four-times defending Champions.

ing from Akron, Ohio, a small town that most African-American kids don’t make it out of. So anytime I’m able to do something like that, I give it all back to my hometown and the kids that are just like me.” James had a season-high 35 points along with 11 rebounds as the Lakers fell to 2-4 on the season. It was his 432nd career 30-point game, moving him past another franchise icon Kobe Bryant for fourth position in that all-time list.He had the opportunity to knock down a long, contested three-pointer with five seconds remaining to force overtime but missed, though was happy with the Lakers’ competitiveness in San Antonio. “When you have those games where your offense isn’t clicking like it is, you’ve got to be able to rely on your defense, and we did that,” said James, who was 13-for-21 from the field. “We were down one, they had the ball, and [Demar] DeRozan hit a tough, tough two over Josh [Hart]. We did our job, and that’s all you can ask for.”Asked about James and Nowitzki, Lakers coach Luke Walton explained that stopping either player was a thankless task. “I’ve had to try to guard both of them when I played, and there’s nothing you can do,” he said. “You can play great defense, and they still make the shot. All you’re trying to do when you’re playing guys of that level is make it hard on them. Don’t foul them. Make them take contested shots. Make them take a lot of shots to get their points. But there’s nothing you can do to stop either one of those guys.”

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GFSCA Guyana Cup 8

Ariel Speedboat retain Open title; Regal thump Fishermen Masters - Parika Defenders and Demerara Female triumph for Over-45 crown Ariel Speedboat played like true champions to retain their Open title while Regal Masters proved their worth once again by winning the Over-45 category; Parika Defenders landed their first major title and Demerara won the female category when the curtains came down on the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) Guyana Cup 8 on Sunday night at the Demerara Cricket Club. Ariel Speedboat, which is based on We s t Demerara, defeated SVC Cricket Club of New York by four wickets and 15 balls to spare in the Open final. After deciding to bat in front a fair-sized crowd, SVC CC were off to a fine start with Navin Singh and Richard Latif adding 62 for the opening stand before Singh was bowled by Ian Ivan for 10. Latif timed the ball well and smashed two fours and four sixes, but after looking set for a half century, he was bowled by Kishore Smith for 42. Andrew Gonsalves was then removed by Shazim Hussain for 14, while Vjay Surujpaul was bowled by Ivan for four, leaving SVC CC at 82-4. Shazim Hussain uprooted the stumps of Zamal Khan (05), but Safraz Esau propped up their total hitting one four and three sixes before he was taken off Shazim Hussain for 39 as SVC CC managed 161-8 off their allocation of 20 overs. Shazim Hussain picked up 3-47, while Smith had 2-15 and Ivan 2-32. Sadiek Kayoon removed Shazim Hussain (01), while Bobby Prahalad disturbed the stumps of Brain Mangar (05) to reduce Ariel Speedboat to 332 in reply. However, Anand Bharat and Greg Singh steadied the chase fairly with a third wicket stand of 43 before Bharat was bowled by Surujpaul for 23. Latif then removed Lennox Marks for seven to keep his team in hunt, but Greg Singh and Vi k a s h Dhaniram batted Ariel Speedboat out of trouble with a stand of 40. SVC CC were guilty of bowling too wayward as they conceded 40 extras most of which were wides. Singh struck four sixes before he was bowled by Mark Harold for 35, while Dhaniram was taken off Gonsalves for 27

after hitting three fours and one six. Wazeer Hussain, who smashed Gonsalves for a maximum to see his team home, ended unbeaten on nine as Ariel Speedboat finished on 1656. Surujpaul, Kayoon, Prahalad, Harold and Latif took one wicket each. Smith was named the most valuable player, while Singh was voted the manof-the-match. Ariel Speedboat collected a trophy and $800,000, while SVC CC took home a trophy and $200,000. Regal Masters have added to their collection once again with a 60-run victory over Fishermen Masters to follow up their win over Wellman Masters in the Prime Minister’s T20 Cup. Batting first, Regal Masters lost Mahase Chunilall for 10 with the score on 28 before Troy Kippins and Eon Abel put on 44 for the second wicket with sensible batting. Kippins reached the boundary eight times and cleared it once before he was bowled by L. Persaud, three shy of a half century. While Abel rotated the s t r i k e n i c e l y, s k i p p e r Mohendra Arjune gave the innings much impetus as he shared in a crucial thirdwicket stand of 104 with Abel. Arjune smashed eight fours and one six before he was caught off Pooran Singh for a top score of 72 while Abel was run out for 39. David Harper chipped in with 18 off nine balls as Regal Masters posted 218-7 in 20 overs. L. Persaud and Pooran Singh claimed two wickets each. Robert Mohan and Hemraj Pillay put on 36 for the first wicket before Mohan was caught off Harper for 14 as Fishermen Masters lost their first wicket with the score on 36. Fazleem Mohamed removed Pillay for 24 before Baldeo Persaud who scored a century in the preliminary round of the competition and Fazal Ali added 88 for the third wicket. Despite their stand, Regal Masters ensured that they didn’t attain the required run rate with some tidy bowling. Persaud struck three fours and one six before he was stumped off Troy Kippins for 70, while Ali was bowled by Fazleem Mohamed for an

The over 45 champions Regal Masters.

Parika Defenders even half century which included three fours and two sixes as Fishermen Masters were limited to 158-5. Mohamed took 2-32. Arjune was named man-ofthe-match, while Unnis Yusuf of Floodlights was the MVP. Regal Masters pocketed a trophy and $600,000 and Fishermen Masters a trophy and $150,000. Parika Defenders landed their first international title with a 25-run win over Floodlight Legends in the Over-50 final. Led by a fine 73 from Rasheed Mohamed, Parika Defenders scored 214-4 in 20 overs, taking first strike.

Mohamed and Oswald Chandler put on 109 for the second wicket after Parika Defenders lost their first wicket with the score on 20. Mohamed hit three fours and seven sixes before he was dismissed for 73 while Chandler made 45. Sadeek Mohamed struck six fours and three sixes in an unbeaten 53 while Ramesh Rambharose made 20. Floodlights Legends threatened somewhat, but were limited to 189-6 in reply. Sahadeo Budhoo made 38 while Hackim Majeed got 29 and Khemraj Baljit 21; Mohamed Saphie took two wickets. To n y Fernandes was the MVP,

while Rasheed Mohamed was the man-of-the-match. Parika Defenders received a trophy and $400,000 and Floodlights Legends a trophy and $100,000. Demerara beat Berbice in the female matchup. Batting first, Demerara scored 203-4 in 15 overs. Latoya Smith stroked nine fours and seven sixes in scoring

106 while Cherryann Fraser made 68 with five fours and four sixes. Tessa Parks took two wickets. Berbice were bowled out for 115 in 14.5 overs in reply. Parks made 45 and Erva Giddings 41; A. Allen and Kaysia Schultz captured two wickets each. Demerara took a trophy and $75,000 and Berbice a trophy and $25,000.

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Rohit ton helps India steamroll West Indies in Mumbai MUMBAI (Reuters) Virat Kohli endured a rare failure but Rohit Sharma more than compensated with a blistering 162 to help India steamroll West Indies by 224 runs in the fourth one-dayer yesterday and go 2-1 up in the five-match series. West Indies had a mountain to climb after Rohit’s 211run partnership with fellow centurion Ambati Rayudu powered India to a commanding 377 for five. A strong start was paramount but a couple of runouts derailed the chase and the touring side were shot out for 153 in 36.2 overs with Khaleel Ahmed and Kuldeep Yadav claiming three wickets apiece. Beaten comprehensively in the first match, West Indies had roared back into the series by forcing a tie and then beating the hosts but they could not replicate that form at the Brabourne Stadium which was hosting international cricket after a nine-year gap. Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit gave India a breezy

start, adding 71 runs before Dhawan pulled Keemo Paul to Kieran Powell at midwicket to depart for 38. Having scored 140, 157 not out and 107 in the last three matches, Kohli walked in seeking a record-equalling fourth successive century but Kemar Roach dismissed him for 16. Rohit made sure the India captain was not missed. The elegant right-hander took 98 balls to bring up his 21st ODI century before accelerating with a flurry of boundaries. The Mumbai player, whose 264 against Sri Lanka in 2014 remains the highest individual score in this format, was looking good for his fourth ODI double century when he tried to slash an Ashley Nurse delivery and top-edged it to third man. Rohit’s seventh 150-plus score included 20 fours and four sixes.Rayudu needed 80 balls to bring up his third ODI century before being run out on 100. Bhuvneshwar Kumar dismissed Chandrapaul Hemraj

Rohit Sharma dealt well with the short-pitched deliveries as he powered to an impressive century. ©AFP

Jason Holder provided some late resistance with a battling half-century, but by then the result was a foregone conclusion ©Associated Press cheaply but it was casual running-between-wickets which cost West Indies their next two wickets as they slumped to 47-5 inside 12 overs. Windies skipper Jason

Holder top-scored with an unbeaten 54. The teams move to Thiruvananthapuram for the fifth and final one-dayer on Thursday.

Sports Committee formed in 11th Avenue Diamond - Aiming to address needs of youths and elderly

President of the Diamond 11th Avenue Sports Committee, Christopher Lowe (seated center) is joined by some of the others members for a photo, recently. For years, a plot of land identified for a sports facility would have been taken over by bushes with attempts by some to get it cut down and in some kind of shape for uses by members of the community but it did not work out. Now, with the formation of the Diamond 11th Avenue Sports Committee, members of the community are endeavoring to ensure that this time around, with the help of NGO’s, Government and the Private Sector, they would be

able to realise a state of the art multi-purpose sports facility. Heading the new body is Christopher Lowe as President who is confident that the dream of having a top of the line facility that would benefit the youths and elderly would become reality in the not too distant future. The other persons making up the committee are, Yvette Collins (Vice President), Odessa Johnson (Secretary), Lisa Sattaur (Treasurer),

Dawn Joseph (Assistant Secretary), Sarah Saheed (Assistant Treasurer), Shaka Braithwaite (Public Relations Officer), Bradford Kilkelly (Assistant PRO), Shadeo Persaud (Assistant PRO); Committee Members – Kurt Johnson, Osley Collins, Tomeka Joseph, Shafeek Ally, Trenton Garraway, Keon Williams, Shahid Saheed and Perriann Vanslytman. The aim of the committee is to also promote healthy living through encouraging

members of the community to be actively involved in sports activity. Among the disciplines they committee is expected to cater for are football, cricket, volleyball, tennis and basketball. President Lowe said that he was encouraged by the Grove/Diamond NDC to form the committee which would be shortly meeting with members of the wider community to get them more involved as stakeholders.

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GT Motorsports’ Georgetown Grand Prix delivers promised action John Phang (125cc juniors) and Zachary Persaud (Rookie Cup) once again showed the future of motor-racing in Guyana is in safe hands with sublime performances at the third edition of the 2018 Georgetown Grand Prix staged at GT Motorsports last Saturday night. At the previous meet held in early May, both of the above drivers were relegated below the champion driver on the podium. They certainly must have said no more since they paced themselves ahead of the pack after getting valuable spots on the grid during qualifying. The only blemish for Phang (125cc juniors) was placing third in his first race which was won by Rayden Persaud with Elan Rahaman finishing second. Phang would return to win his other two races to cop the title in his class with his best lap being an amazing 32.221 seconds. Heading into the Easy Cup Rookie, Dharmendra Dharmo was the man to beat after winning twice at the previous meet. Zachary Persaud, who had a mixed bag at the same meet last May, drove like he was on mission to make

amends. All night he kept a controlled pace ahead of the pack as he swept the flag in all three races, while Dharmo and Naresh Alves finished second and third respectively in all three outings. Another strong performance of the night came from Stefan Jeffrey to win the Easy Cup Super title. Only one occasion was Jeffrey displaced from the first spot by Steven Nobrega; otherwise he fended off the intense challenge from cousin Kristian Jeffrey and the ever consistent Nobrega, who interchanged between second and third for the other two races. Thrills and intense competition continued for the night and the Sun Burst Kids Cup was no different with Jeremy Tenpow retaining the champion driver tag, by winning two out of three races. The lone defeat came at the hands of his brother J u s t i n Te n p o w, a s b o t h Nathan Persaud and Paige Mendonca, though young and talented, were not able to capitalise on the small openings. Other champion drivers for the night were the unbeaten Ben Phang, whose

Zachary Persaud, winner of the Rookie Cup. fastest time in the 60cc Baby Cup was 37.967s; Haniff Mohamed in the 125cc Masters and Kristian Jeffrey in the 125cc Seniors. See full results below.

John Phang, 125cc Juniors Champion.

Final 20-Player rosters announced for the 2018 Concacaf Under-20 C/Ship - Four teams will qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup Miami – The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) yesterday made public the official rosters submitted by the 34 Concacaf Member Associations participating in the 2018 Concacaf Under-20 Championship, to be played November 1-21, at the IMG Academy, in Bradenton, Florida. In line with the competition regulations, teams may make injury related changes to their final Group Stage rosters up until 24 hours before their first match. For the Qualification Stage, teams will be permitted to make up to 6 non-injury related player changes. Such replacements must be made within the 24 hours following the completion of their

final Group Stage match. The 2018 edition of the Men’s Under-20 World Cup qualifying tournament will be disputed between a record number of 34 teams. Unlike the previous format, which included regional qualifiers in the Caribbean and Central America and one final championship, this year’s redesigned competition ensures that all the participating teams have access to play more toplevel football matches. After an initial group phase, the six group winners will advance to the Qualification Stage, where they will be divided into two groups of three teams. The two group winners plus the secondplace finishers of the Qualification Stage will qualify for the FIFA U-20 World Cup Poland 2019. Additionally, the two

group winners will advance to the tournament’s final to determine the regional champion. Fans will be able to follow all the action through the Confederation’s partner networks, including Univision Deportes (United States), Fox Sports Latin America (Mexico & Central America), Flow Sports (Caribbean) and other local partners. For other territories, the tournament will be available on Concacaf GO (subject to territory restrictions). Guyana will open against Guatemala on Friday from 10:30hrs with their second match against the Cayman Islands on November 6. Next up would be Curacao from 12:45hrs on November 8 with the final group match set for November 10 against El Salvador from 19:45hrs.

UDFA GTT 2017/18 Senior Football League

Ward Panthers beat Hi Stars 1-0 to move third, Topp XX and Botofago draw 1-1 Amelia’s Ward Panthers came away with a narrow 1-0 victory over Hi Stars which pushed them into third place currently as the GTT2017/18 Senior Football league organized by the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) began

its second half play at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground last Sunday night. In the other game that evening, Topp XX and Botofago played to a 1-1 stalemate which facilitated Botofago who came off the carpet and record their first

point in the tournament as Topp XX stayed clear above the bottom, ahead of Hi Stars and Botofago. The first game resulted with Akeem Caesar getting the lone goal of the game for Amelia’s Ward Panthers (Continued on page 27)

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GBTI banks on GCC ladies hockey team

GBTI GCC Ladies hockey team. Guyana’s largest indigenous bank which is synonymous with high quality customer service has delivered yet again in support of the GCC ladies hockey team. The GCC ladies, much like the bank, have developed a stellar reputation for success in dominating the local league for over ten years and

enjoying great success regionally in neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) and Barbados as well. The reigning GTT National Indoor and Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Festival Champions are looking to make a clean sweep again this year of the two major indoor events on the Guyana Hockey Board’s (GHB) an-

nual calendar. Captain of the new GBTI GCC ladies hockey team, Tiffany Solomon, expressed great joy with the new partnership, “GBTI is a sound local entity and those are the kinds of companies with which we like to be associated and to represent.”

GFF/Always National Women’s Development League

Fruta Conquerors ‘A’ & ‘B’ Teams post easy first day wins At the end of the first double-header of the GFFAlways National Women’s Development League (WDL), Fruta Conquerors FC cemented their intention to be a competitive force when both their ‘A’ and ‘B’ teams posted comprehensive wins. In the first match, Fruta Conquerors ‘B’ put away Foxy Ladies 8-2 with the first hat-trick of the league being registered by Annastacia Horsham who scored in the 8th, 17th and 41st minutes. She was well supported by Shamya Daniels who found the nets twice (48, 49) with a goal each from Jammaica Hunte (7), Amanda McKenzie (31) and Alleia Alleyne in the 26th minute. Foxy Ladies tucked in two goals of their own from Shontel Greene and Shamika Marcus in the 24th and 37th minutes, respectively. The second match of the day produced another emphatic performance, this time it was Lekeisha Pearson

Anna Horsham celebrates after scoring on the opening day of the GFF/Always Women Development League on Saturday last.

who stole the show with a sixfor performance to lead Fruta Conquerors ‘A’ to a huge 150 triumph over Buxton Youth Developers. The experienced Pearson finished in the 2nd, 17th, 20th,

37th, 43rd and 50th minutes. Good support came from Tiandi Smith with a helmettrick in the 1st, 9th, 14th and 48th minute; a hat-trick was recorded by Odessa Romeo in (Continued on page 27)

Solomon further posited that, “We (GBTI GCC Ladies) look forward to performing at our best and satisfying GBTI that they made the right decision in partnering with us.” The club’s team not only has been a leader at the top level but also manages a vibrant junior academy which has produced some of

the best junior players and dominated the recent junior competitions. This places the team in a good position for success in the coming years. The GBTI GCC ladies will first represent the bank in this year’s GTT National Indoor which began on Sunday 28th October.

“We can’t win finals batting the way we did” laments Coach Crandon - Says Jaguars didn’t change positive approach By Sean Devers When CCC Marooners beat Guyana Jaguars by six wickets with 12.2 overs to spare in Sunday’s Regional Super50 final in Barbados the result extended Guyana’s tittle drought to 14 years without a 50 overs Championship. Tagenarine Chanderpaul, the only change to the team which had come into the finals with just one loss (to Red Force in their first match), top scored with his maiden halfcentury. But his 56 took 95 balls and the Jaguars’ 204 all out in 49.1 overs included 157 dots balls or 26.1 overs off which no runs were scored. At the end of the 10-over power-play Jaguars had limped to 40-1 (their lowest power play score in the tournament) while CCC, who responded with 205-4 from 38.4 overs on a track with had gotten a little better for batting, were 100 without loss in 15.3 overs. Jaguars head Coach Euan (Continued on page 28)

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2018 GCB Female Franchise Under-17 Secondary Schools T20 League

Wins for West Demerara and Lower Corentyne The 2018 GCB Female Franchise Under-17 T20Tournament took off on a brilliant start with West Demerara and Lower Corentyne gaining victories over West Berbice and Upper Corentyne respectively. As the action commenced over at Albion ground, Lower Corentyne totaled an acceptable 93 for 2 in a reduced 15 overs match after winning the toss. Openers Ashmini Munisar and Shenia Simon took their team to a 52 runs partnership scoring 22 and 18 respectively, while Amesha Samaroo and Niveena Ramnauth were the not out batters scoring 9 and 3 respectively. Bowling for Upper Corentyne, Shanaya Fraser was the only bowler to take one wicket for 20 runs, while the other wicket

was a runout. I n r e p l y, U p p e r Corentyne struggled to reach their total scoring 66 for 8 in their reduced 15 overs. Shanaya Fraser top scored with 17. Bowling for Upper Corentyne, Ashmini Munisar picked up 3 for 14, while she was supported by Niveena Ramnauth who took 2 for 5. Lower Corentyne won by 27 runs. Meanwhile over at Wales Ground, in West Demerara, West Berbice won the toss and choose to bowl first. West Demerara then scored 77 for all out in13.3 overs from their allotted 20 overs. Ariana Buckan top scored with 8, while Jamaica Simon scored 5. The most instrumental bowler was Renata Liverpool who grabbed 4 for 15, while Lisa Isaaca and Tamara George took 3 for 20 and 2 for 10

Player of the match Niveena Ramnauth receives her reward.

respectively.In reply, West Berbice failed to accumulate the required total and only managed to score 63 all out f r o m 1 8 o v e r s . We s t Demerara Bowling saw

Ariana Buckan as the most destructive bowler grabbing 5 for 18, while she was s u p p o r t e d b y Va r u n i Pitambar who took 2 for 10. West Demerara won by 14

Player of the match Ariana Buckan is rewarded for her efforts.

runs. There will be four matches today, West Berbice will face Georgetown at DCC ground at 9:00hrs, while Essequibo will face East

Coast at Enterprise. In Berbice at Albion Lower Corentyne will face West Demerara at 13:00hrs and Upper Corentyne will play East Bank at 9:00hrs.

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All the winners pose for a group photo on Saturday night.

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Ariel Speedboat retain Open title; Regal thump Fishermen Masters for Over-45 crown - Parika Defenders and Demerara Female triumph

The victorious Speedboat team with their hardware.

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