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Moleson Creek school saga ...

What is the truth?

- Ministry says closure because only two school aged children in area, but residents bring out 14 From the mining community of Linden, now it seems to the Agricultural community of Moleson Creek more controversies seem to be brewing with the government at the centre of them all.

Residents of the now neglected agricultural community of Moleson Creek located some 66 miles from New Amsterdam on the border line of the Corentyne River are now preparing for their fight with the government.

They are displeased with the way they are being treated by the government, especially since they have been making continuous pleas for assistance.

The once thriving

agricultural and farming community, now being referred to as a jungle community, is now a symbol of desertion and neglect. It was once a populated area with many thriving businesses and a top farming community.

The residents are displeased with recent utterances by Region Six Education Officer, Shafiran Bhajan, that the school has been closed. The residents said that they learnt of this development through the Kaieteur News publication of Saturday September 1.

They plan to protest the untimely, unsavory and unilateral move by the Ministry of Education.

They described the

Can all these children fit in this car?

government, the Ministry of Education and the Regional Education Officer as uncaring and deceitful.

“Which part of the world or country you hear people closing school? People are clamoring for more schools, and the government always boasting that they are opening more schools. Now

what will they say? But we will fight it. We will protest the decision. We have our ways and means to resist.

“This is close to Suriname and this is an Agricultural, food producing area. So we are putting the government on notice.”

They said that they were never told that the school

was or will be closed.

“Bhajan did not visit Moleson Creek proper; she stopped on the Corentyne highway and visited the stelling. We wanted her to visit the area; we want any government official to visit the area.”

“They said that we only have two students of school

age.” They mobilized the school age children and asked, “Are these only two students?”

They are accusing the Regional Education officer of counting backwards.

“She then said that she will make arrangements to have two teachers placed at (continued on page 18)

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NY top cop almost conned Jagdeo US$7M Disgraced former Commissioner of Police of New York, Bernard Kerik, was granted a lucrative US$7M ($1.4B) security contract by the Guyana government back in 2006, says a revealing book by former Newsday police reporter and columnist, Leonard Levitt.

Kerik would later lose the contract after investigations in wrongdoings by the US government intensified against him.

Titled, “NYPD Confidential- Power and Corruption in the Country’s Greatest Police Force”, and published in 2009, the book follows the rise and fall of former Police Commissioners Lee Brown, Bill Bratton, Howard Safir and the nowjailed Kerik.

A grand jury of the United States District Court for the

Southern District of New York issued a 16-count indictment against Kerik on November 8, 2007, alleging conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, and lying to the Internal Revenue Service.

Kerik surrendered to authorities the next day and pleaded not guilty to all charges. On October 20, 2009, his bail was revoked and he was jailed pending trial.

On November 5, 2009, he pleaded guilty to eight charges in a plea bargain with prosecutors who recommended a jail sentence of 27 to 33 months. Kerik was sentenced to four years in federal prison on February 18, 2010.

On March 30, 2011, he lost his appeal in federal court to have his four-year sentence reduced.

During his courtroom trial, Levitt asked Kerik, according

Man banned from village after sexual advances to daughter A 45-year-old father of five was reportedly chased out of the Community of Mashabo, an Ameridian settlement situated on the western half of the Essequibo Coast, after he made sexual advances to his 14-year-old daugther.

The 14-year-old is a student of the Mashabo Primary School.

The incident, which shocked the community, occurred some time last week.

Captain of Mashabo, Joseph, said that charges were not laid against the man because his wife and daughter did not supply police with the correct information.

“They distorted the truth and that was one of the barriers that prevented the police from charging him.”

According to reports, the incident occurred during the night. The father of five was said to be under the influence of alcohol when he attempted to have sex with his daughter.

The 14-year-old raised an alarm and her mother rushed to her rescue. News of the incident filtered to close members of the community who subsequently informed the Captain.

Added reports have also indicate the man had also threatened to maim his wife.

Residents have said the recent incident was not the first. Joseph said the man has since admitted to making inappropriate sexual advances to his daughter and has blamed his erratic behavior on being an alcoholic.

to the book, how he was handling the situation.

“I stay mad,” he answered. The investigators had taken his passport and he could not leave the US. That ended his contracts in Guyana and in Jordan.

In August 2006, former President Bharrat Jagdeo announced that Kerik, a decorated former top cop of New York and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Kerik Group, will be an integral part of the planned restructuring of the Guyana Police Force.

The move was a criticized at the time because of investigations against the American. But Jagdeo had insisted on keeping Kerik and his company.

Kerik’s firm would have assisted in the US$20M reformation plan that government was footing through a loan from the InterAmerican Development Bank.

“I met with him and he will be working with us during the post-Elections period along with the Scottish Police and the British Government in the reform process,” the President confirmed at a media conference hosted at Office of the President, which focused mainly on the August 8 wanton killings on the East Bank Demerara. At that time, a gang went on the rampage killing several persons in Bagotstown.

Kerik was fined in the United State for an ethic violation and Jagdeo had told the media his government is cognizant of this, but maintained that Kerik is being hired on the basis of his remarkable experience in law enforcement. The President

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo in discussion with Bernard Kerik back in August 2006. (Photo by Sandra Prince) had further added that “Mr. Kerik has a firm and that firm will work with us. So it is not necessarily that Mr. Kerik would be heading a unit, but the firm will work with us on the reform of the Police Force.”

On June 30, 2006, after an eighteen-month investigation conducted by the Bronx District Attorney’s Office, Kerik pleaded “guilty” via a sworn statement in open court to two ethics violations (unclassified misdemeanors) and was ordered to pay $221,000 in fines at the 10minute hearing.

Kerik acknowledged that he failed to document a personal loan on his annual New York City Conflict of Interest Report (a violation of the New York City Administrative Code) and accepting a gift from a New Jersey construction firm attempting to do business with the city (a violation of

the New York City Charter).

On November 8, 2007, in White Plains, New York, Kerik was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy, tax fraud and making false statements.

Prosecutors say Kerik received about $255,000 in renovations to his Riverdale, Bronx, apartment from a company seeking to do business with the city of New York and concealed the income from the Internal Revenue Service.

The indictment also charged that Kerik made several false statements to the White House (in his background information statement regarding his Department of Homeland Security appointment) and other federal officials.

Kerik is currently incarcerated at a Federal prison camp, the Federal Correctional Institution, located in Cumberland, Maryland and could walk out a free man next year.

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Letters... Where your views make the 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

Don’t blame Linden for Amaila Falls road The protest action that started in Linden on July 18, last, is being blamed for many things including the decline in mining activities in Guyana’s goldfields, the hardships that people in the hinterland experienced when shipments of food and fuel could not reach them and of course, some of the criminal activities that took place in the mining community.

Today, the Linden protests are being blamed for the delay in the completion of the Amaila Falls road project. This project was shrouded in controversy from its inception. The award of the contract was met with skepticism because everyone knew that the contractor had never constructed anything close to a road.

After more than a year the government came to its senses and revoked the contract. The road should have been completed within eight months. When the contract was revoked more than a year after it was awarded less than thirty per cent of the road had been cleared.

The government split the contract and consigned the various sections of the road to individual contractors. New deadlines were set but none has been met so far. Instead, the government allowed them to proceed at their pace. There was no hurry. That changes today when the government signs off on the loan agreement with the Chinese Bank.

None can deny that had it not been for the protest action there would not have been the fires that destroyed the properties; there would not have been the three deaths that further exacerbated the protest and for sure the government might have found something else to do with the $80 million that it has forked out to facilitate an investigation into the disturbances and the deaths.

We know that fuel and food could not pass through Linden which had become the gateway to the hinterland, replacing Bartica which was accessed by the Essequibo River. Linden has become strategic; it is the location through which the road from Brazil will pass. So influential has Linden become that when the protest erupted and then prolonged, President Donald Ramotar remarked that the financiers of the road from Brazil might be having second thoughts about passing the road through Linden.

What was the most significant destruction in Linden was the One Mile Primary School which went up in flames.

Someone failed to recognize the importance of education.

As far as the hydro project road was concerned, it should have been completed a long time ago. The nation was led to believe that with each day the cost of the entire hydroelectric project would have become more costly.

President Jagdeo even said that to reduce the cost of the entire project Government was funding the road. And the money would have come from the Norway Fund which offered so much hope to the nation.

The funds have come from the public treasury but the road continues to lag. Linden is now being blamed for the delay. Sadly for those playing the blame game, the Linden situation lasted only one month. The road is more than a year behind schedule.

We now understand that it could be two more years before the road is completed although this sounds farfetched. We know that equipment used by one of the contractors on the road has been seized so that too is contributing to the delay in construction.

In most countries where a lot of money is involved, the government would bring in the most professional contractors. This was the case when Guyana constructed the Soesdyke/Linden Highway. It was also attempted when Guyana undertook to construct a new Essequibo Coast road. The same should have been done for the Amaila Falls road.

The nation knew what the size of the original contract was. It does not now know how much the road would now cost.

To seek to blame Linden for any delay is to attempt to pull wool over the eyes of the Guyanese people. There has been no attempt to expose the nation to the road. More than a year has passed since the promise was made to take the media to visit the road project. It remains shrouded in mystery.

Guyanese are experiencing a large and growing gap between economic haves and have-nots DEAR EDITOR, The revelation by the Kaieteur News of photographs of the home of the former President Bharrat Jagdeo’s home was met with swift attempts at justification and condemnation of it as a security breach.

It appeared to me to be a response to what must have been an embarrassment to a party in government founded by the late Dr. Cheddi Jagan, who was respected by all for his integrity and simplicity.

While the rest of the world is saddled with an image of Guyana as uniformly poor, second to Haiti, Guyanese themselves are experiencing a large and growing gap between economic haves and have-nots.

I have not seen such opulence in the home of any of the former Prime Ministers in Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica or Anguilla. Only the home of

former Turks & Caicos Premier Michael Misick in Providenciales is comparable, though this home is part of an order of the Honourable Chief Justice Gordon Ward which freezed all of his assets.

I cannot dispute that former President Jagdeo was not hardworking. There are many hardworking Guyanese who unfortunately don’t earn a decent living, have to pay taxes and who struggle to meet their monthly commitments.

It must be those persons, particularly those who support the PPP, the defenders must have panicked about when the photographs were revealed.

There has been no former Guyanese Head of State before who has been so insensitive to the reality of the Guyanese people that they have flaunted their hardearned money in the faces of the struggling population.

One only needs to drive on Princes Street, Lodge to see the squalor under which some have to raise their children while some prepare, in obvious anticipation of a bride and many children.

There is the Guyanese saying, “who got luck eat pork” and some are clearly raising pigs.

So life continues in this Republic. I am hopeful, as my brother’s second daughter T’Sehai, on passing the Office of the President, said she wanted to become the President of Guyana.

Once she achieves this, then after just one term in office, I’m sure she too can own a similar palace close to the former President’s home with hard work It was Dr. Cheddi Jagan who in 1992 said, “We (Caricom Heads of Governments) must set our face sternly against corruption and extravagance.

We cannot have a Cadillac-style living with donkey-cart economies. Our leaders must set the example of democratic, accountable, clean and lean governance and efficient governance,” though the party that calls his name loudly at the time of every election has walked away from the very principles he so believed in.

Former President Jagdeo has shown he is his own man and if Dr. Jagan believed that some wanted power for money and swanky living; others for personal glory but he (Dr. Jagan) wanted power for the people, for the masses, that was not the stance he was prepared to take.

So while one will go down in history for clean and lean governance, the other’s legacy may be a lot more personal.

As the late Godfrey Chin would say, “yuh tink it easy.”

Dawn A. Holder

Politicians must answer reporters’ questions DEAR EDITOR, I agree with the view expressed by Adam Harris that reporters should not be mouthpieces for any politician (KN Sep 2). Yet many reporters are just that.

However, we must not ignore the fact that some reporters, columnists, letter writers and even editors and publishers have an agenda – their personal or political agenda – and are not objective in their reporting or editing.

Reporters and media practitioners (including columnists) are part of the fourth estate and should discharge their duties professionally and without bias. Otherwise, they will mislead a gullible public, as is the case with some columnists and reporters.

They should write objectively and pen news exactly as “eyewitnessed” or revealed to them. And the analyses of columnists should be balanced and supported with evidence.

Reporters and editors should not editorialize or comment on the news event unless they are penning an opinion like that of a columnist.

It is the duty of a reporter to put a politician on the spot at a press conference so as to get answers out of him or her on important public matters. That is the role of a reporter during my 34 years experience in the field.

It is highly disrespectful for a politician to tell a reporter or anyone else “to shut up” or to state what questions he or she would or won’t answer. Politicians should answer reporters’

questions irrespective of how unsavory is the question. If a politician does not feel comfortable about a question, just simply say you will get back to it later.

But don’t tell anyone “shut up” or “I am not answering that question”.

Politicians must answer questions at press briefings – that is the purpose of a briefing unless it is a major event at which the politician feels answering questions will compromise some important action. In such a situation, the politician should explain that he or she can’t take questions or answer a particular

question because it is highly sensitive – reporters will understand. But never tell reporters to shut up!

There are press briefings in the US where the politicians issue a statement and immediately leave the podium.

That is understandable, especially when reporters and politicians have a working relation. But if the politician is going to take questions, there is no such thing as “an unrelated question” to a press conference. Reporters are free to ask about anything, even if it is unrelated to a briefing.

In response to a question

he or she does not want to address, a politician can say he or she is not in a position to offer an intelligent answer, but will get with the reporter on the question. That is how press matters are addressed in the US when politicians do not want to deal with an issue.

Politicians and reporters have an abiding duty to be courteous and respectful.

But politicians are not always at fault for the violation of trust and respect.

In many situations, reporters pen or report untruths and so incur the wrath or disrespect of politicians.

Vishnu Bisram

Huge strides have been made in the education sector DEAR EDITOR, Pondering thoughtfully on the significance of this year’s theme for Education Month, “Transforming the Nation through Inclusive Education”, reflects the huge strides that have been made in the education sector, and particularly within our public schools over the past years.

Being in the system for more than a decade, a young and budding teacher, I have seen many systems that have been tried and tested by the Ministry of Education in that entity’s efforts to transform the academic spotlights of this nation. The torching of the Linden school, however, must be condemned, since this affects our children’s potential to be the best they can.

Education Month 2012 stresses on inclusive education; education whereby the teacher is geared and ready to teach the curriculum to all kinds of students; the weak, the not so weak, even the disabled.

Yes, tools and materials must be provided to teachers and educators to effectively transform inclusivity in curriculum delivery, but this is not what the theme focuses on.

Inclusivity means that every child of every

background, religion, culture, economic and social conditions, different interests and ways of learning— all are welcome in the classroom and within the walls of the school complex.

Inclusive education begs teachers to provide individualised attention to students without the (harmful) effects of separating learners from the task at times.

Inclusive education confirms the acceptance of children with a wide array of academic, social, mental and other abilities and backgrounds; many of which affect their behaviour in the school environment.

The Ministry of Education’s after-school remediation drive and Sixth- year Transitional Curriculum are just two of the initiatives that cater for inclusivity in the education system, which has come under heavy criticism from time to time. But the Ministry of Education is not sitting idle by and waiting for disaster to take place. I hope they are not.

And we tend to leave it all up to that body.

Parents must get on board and work feverishly through their PTA’s especially during ParentTeacher Conferences and renew their interests and vigour to maximise the participation in this process called education. Parents must not only be seen when it is time to collect (Continued on page 5)

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The synthetic track must conform Huge strides have been made in the... to international standards DEAR EDITOR, During the recent burst of argumentation published, as to which of the two Tournaments Guyana was qualified to participate – the Olympics or Paralympics – there was relevant discussion about the proposed construction of a synthetic track, and its location.

All would agree that wherever sited, the whole objective of the project is to have competition timings recognised by international bodies. It is therefore obvious that the track must conform to international standards.

The following extracts from the IAAF should therefore be instructive: “IAAF Performance Specifications for Synthetic Surfaced Athletics Tracks (Outdoor) · It is important to remember that the tolerances required of this type of facility involve a good standard of road construction.

The total depth of base necessary to ensure longterm stability of the finished track surface will depend upon the exact nature of the site on which it is to be built.

It should be noted that, even on the most ideal site, a MINIMUM of 150mm freedraining aggregate below a MINIMUM of 60mm bitumen/ macadam will prove to be necessary.

The macadam would typically comprise a base course 40-60mm thick and a wearing course 25-30mm thick. Great attention must be paid to the accuracy of the final macadam layer because of the very strict requirements for surface flatness in Clause 1.2 and the requirements for minimum thickness of the synthetic surface in Clause

1.3 of these specifications. It is quite likely that, in order to achieve the required tolerances, corrective work to the macadam layer will be necessary and time should be allowed for this in the programme for the works.

It is important that the overall construction must drain freely by means of an adequate perimeter drainage system. · It is recommended that a geotechnical survey of the ground conditions over the site is carried out at an early stage, and the results of such a survey should be made available to an independent consultant engineer in order that an adequate base to the track can be designed. · It should be noted that certain options for the construction of the track surface may not be entirely appropriate for particular climatic conditions prevailing in certain countries. The advice of an independent expert should be sought at an early stage. · It is usual for a five-year warranty to be given by the installer of the facility.

The specifier should obviously be satisfied that the terms of such a guarantee can be met by the company concerned.

The exact mechanism for

ensuring such compliance by the installer will vary from one country to another. · It is important that, during construction, quality control of ALL aspects of the work is rigorously adopted.

This should extend from the installation of the drainage system, through the entire project, to the application of the finished synthetic surface and line markings.

The assistance of an independent, suitably experienced and competent test laboratory should be sought in particular for the quality control of the synthetic surface and to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the finished facility in order to ensure compliance with the performance parameters.

When selecting such a laboratory, the specialised requirements of this IAAF Specification must be carefully considered.”

It is worth noting the commonsensical emphasis that is placed on drainage - a particular concern so far as Guyana’s rainfall pattern is concerned.

The remainder of related information can be found at: http://www2.iaaf.org/ TheSport/Technical/Tracks/ PerfSpecifications.html.

E B John

From page 4 school uniform vouchers or when their kid is beaten up by another student or even when their kid is involved in some issue at the school.

Too often, the school has become the proverbial daycare, when parents breathe a sigh of relief to let go of their children when school reopens since their (the parents) own lives are full of too much drama.

We have not, though, reached the zenith of inclusive education. We have much more work to do and more money will have to be spent. The government, therefore, needs to have more counselors in schools and welfare officers in the various districts to deal with the growing levels of social issues in our schools. There is a dearth of these professionals

in the system and I was hoping that our new Minister would have acted speedier in this regard.Teachers out there have numerous ideas how to improve our education system.

Guyana’s schools can be more child-friendly and student-inclusive if parents, teachers, government and the community play their distinct, yet combined roles, effectively.

When all is said and done, inclusive education is grounded and rooted in the classroom and to a larger extent, within the walls of a school.W e can transform the education arena and this great nation through the strides and initiatives made by the Ministry of Education.

Inclusive education to its maximum is a costly initiative and the government must invest heavier in this regard.

Smaller classroom sizes,

comfortable classrooms, the tools, and healthy learning environments can be a start. And the teachers will do the rest.

Leon Suseran

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Debt Recovery Unit being touted for City Hall City Hall is likely to rake in significant revenue with the proposed introduction of a Debt Recovery Unit. The move has been touted by recently appointed Presidential Adviser on Financial Matters and Chairman of the municipality’s Implementation Committee, Keith Burrowes.

He was at the time speaking at a meeting attended by union representatives and senior municipal officials. He said, during that forum, that if the operation of the municipality does not change Government will continually have to be the council’s financial saviour.

“If the Treasurer’s Department is not run properly and there is misappropriation of funds do you know who will suffer? The workers...”

It was against this background Burrowes suggested the need for the Debt Recovery Unit adding that it is also important that it be staffed by senior municipal officials. Staffers of this unit,

he recommended too, should be uniformed thus ensuring that while in the field they can be easily identified by defaulters.

This tactic, Burrowes said, has been utilised by some banking systems and has proven to be effective enough to force defaulters to honour their obligations. “I suggested that we would look at providing uniforms for those people because there will be a psychological effect.

There will be some publicity so people know the uniform and so if store owners see that uniform they would know who didn’t pay their rates and taxes.”

Burrowes said that he is hoping to have about 10 senior municipal officers trained for the unit even as he emphasised that debt recovery is not merely about taking a letter to a defaulter. “...It is about sitting down with the clients to work out an arrangement to understand the problems they are faced with, and you cannot send two junior clerks to do that.”

He also took a swipe at the municipal amnesty programme. “I don’t believe in amnesty and I don’t want to say why because that has a lot of other implications...I believe in publishing names in the (news) papers,” he added.

ADDRESSING RATES Burrowes said, too, that he is hoping to acquire some 20 cameras to be used by municipal officers to photograph buildings within the municipality’s jurisdiction to determine whether they have changed from residential to business status.

“Some businesses are still paying residential rates and there are a number of people doing this. You just have to go down Sheriff Street to see this...Now that is something we should be looking at.”

President of the Guyana Local Government Officers Unit (GLGOU), Dale Beresford, in defence of municipal officers said that efforts are already being made to address such

Former Commissioner sustained fractured spine

A post mortem examination conducted on the remains of former Police Commissioner Henry Greene has revealed that he sustained a fractured spine and other internal injuries, while ten year old Shaffiya Jamaluddin died from multiple injuries.

This newspaper was told that the post mortem examinations were conducted

by Government Pathologist Nehaul Singh at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Funeral arrangements for the Commissioner are not known as yet.

Greene and the child were killed around 09:10 hrs on Friday morning following a three-vehicle smash-up on

the West Coast Demerara Public Road near Harlem, six kilometers from Vreed-enHoop.

Reports are that Greene, 58, was driving a white Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) PLL 7411 east along the West Demerara Public Road when he collided head-on with a car PJJ 4812, which was transporting six persons, including ten-yearold Shaffiya.

He then crashed into the Bakewell Distribution truck GJJ 9067. The truck in turn slammed into the car that Greene struck. Greene and the young child reportedly died before receiving medical attention at the West Demerara Regional Hospital.

The other injured were

identified as Victor Persaud, who was employed as a driver with Bakewell; Shalim AliMohamed and Dharmendra Prashadmisir who are porters with the company; Rahim Kaleem, 45; his wife, Zairoon Hussein; Reaz Kaleem, 18; Shaimoon Kaleem; and Fawaz Kaleem, 15.

People immediately rushed to the assistance of the injured after the accident.

They were initially taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital and later transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital. At present, Rahim Kaleem, Reaz Kaleem, Zairoon Hussein and Fawaaz Kaleem are all patients of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

developments in the city.

He alluded to a list of about 100 defaulters that has been put forward to the municipality’s Evaluation Committee, adding that one of the major violators is a business located in Forshaw Street, Georgetown.

However, merely comparing the changes from the past to now may not be nearly as effective as the photography move, since according to Burrowes previous evaluations were done by aerial means.

Aerial evaluation of city properties was undertaken several years ago through the Inter-American Development Bank Urban Development programme. “We had these evaluations done but it was

the roof of the buildings basically reflected...You can’t know what you need to know from that...” he insisted.

However, he offered that rather than attempting to raise the rates and taxes ceiling at this point efforts should be directed to having persons pay an added percentage on the existing rates that is required of them.

“That will bring in the added money we need without touching the valuation...So don’t let the valuation keep you back.

We know we have to do a valuation and that will happen sooner or later.”

He further proposed that the municipal official who sits on the Central Housing and Planning Authority should have a technical background

in order to make technical contributions.

“I keep hearing that the engineers at City Hall don’t know until buildings are built...but City officials must know that once you see sand and stone in Regent Street, for instance, you should know a store is on its way up...We need to arrest that and not wait until the buildings are right up and we can’t do a thing,” Burrowes warned.

But according to the GLGOU President, officers are often in the field monitoring such developments and in many instances when officers approach questionable highrise constructions “they receive phone calls to say do not touch that building...and it is usually some high ranking official.”

Opposition challenges local lawyers attached to Linden Inquiry - “They are not associated with the adjudication process”- AG “I don’t think that the opposition’s objection is deserving of a comment” said Attorney General Anil Nandlall who was asked about the appointment of two lawyers to serve within the Commission of Inquiry into the Linden shooting.

Last week APNU’s member of Parliament, Joseph Harmon, raised several issues about the appointment of Euclin Gomes and Gamesh Hira, the two lawyers who would be tasked with gathering evidence and witnesses.

Nandlall told Kaieteur News that the two lawyers appointed are both professional people.

According to the AG, the two are not at all associated with the adjudication of the inquiry. The AG said that he would not go on further to comment on the issue.

According to Harmon the two lawyers are connected to the Attorney General. Harmon told Kaieteur News that their appointment represents some form of nepotism.

He added that there should have been some form

of advertisement. He further told Kaieteur News that he does not know on what basis the two were appointed and whether they are component enough.

Harmon said that he did not know how the two were appointed and if the AG had anything to do with the appointment, but noted that the process should be reviewed.

On Wednesday four of the five commissioners Justice Lensley Wolfe O.J., Mr. K.D. Knight S.C and Ms. Dana Seetahal S.C along with Guyana’s former Court of Appeal Judge, Claudette Singh, CCH, were sworn in by the head of state Donald Ramotar.

Former Chancellor of the Judiciary and the current Chairman of the Police

Complaints Authority, Cecil Kennard, was absent from the ceremony. He is expected to be sworn in upon his return to the jurisdiction from annual leave.

In August, the Government and the Opposition came to an agreement on a foreign component being added to the Commission of Inquiry into the Linden protest killings. On July 18, last 24year-old Shemroy Bouyea, 46-year-old Allan Lewis, and 17-year-old Ron Somerset were killed on the first day of a planned-five day protest by Lindeners.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, had disclosed that some $80M has been budgeted for the inquiry which is expected to last 30 days.

Five execution style killings make up the 81 murders recorded up to the end of August this year.

The figure represents a 12 per cent decrease so far.

Disorderly murders account for the most with 38, while there were 16 domesticrelated, five committed during robberies, and 17 that are so far unknown.

A division accounted for all the execution style killings and continues to the country with 26 murders overall.

East Coast Demerara with 17 and the Interior Division with 16, lead Berbice with 13, West Demerara with seven and Essequibo with only two.

According to the police there has been an overall decrease of two percent in serious crimes at the end of August this year in

comparison to last year.

The total number of reports of serious crimes made

by August 31 this year was 2498 compared to 2542 for the same period in 2011.

Some of the offences monitored are murder, robbery under arms, robbery with violence, larceny from the person, break and enter and larceny, burglary, rape and kidnapping.

Robbery under arms, however, had increased by 23 per cent at August 2012, with 670 reports compared to 544 for the same period in 2011.

The statistics indicate an increase of 17 per cent in the number of armed robberies involving the use of firearms, and a 35 per cent increase in armed robberies where instruments other than firearms were used by the perpetrators.

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Six Chinese remanded for Man accused of robbing overstaying in Guyana contractor denied bail Six Chinese nationals were yesterday remanded into state custody pending investigations relating to the circumstances of their stay in Guyana.

The six who reportedly came to this country on business, appeared before (Ag) Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine -Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The court learnt that on August 24 they all entered Guyana via the Cheddi Jagan International Airport and were granted a week’s stay in the country to transact business.

However on August 28 the police intercepted the group in Lethem as they attempted to travel to Brazil without the appropriate travel documents.

Prosecutor Stephen Telford made an application to have the Chinese deemed as illegal immigrants and

deported to China.

Telford explained that the defendants all citizens of the Republic of China, cancelled their tickets to return to the country of their birth, and went to Lethem to cross over to Brazil via the border.

He told the court that the Chinese were detained by the police because they were traveling in a taxi in route to the Guyana \Brazil border without the legal travel documents.

The prosecutor further said that the taxi driver, who was contracted by the Chinese, gave the police information that he was transporting the group of Chinese who intended to depart for Brazil.

Attorney At Law, Euclin Gomes provided legal service for the six immigrants.

Gomes told the court that his clients were in Lethem driving around looking for a

place to eat when they were arrested by the police. The lawyer said that his clients had not breached the legal conditions of their stay in Guyana but that their visit expired while in police custody and they could not make an application for an extension of time to remain in the country.

Prosecutor Telford then disputed that lawyer’s submission and stated the Chinese were intercepted while heading to Brazil.

When asked by Magistrate whether they want to return to China, the Chinese all gave a negative response. As such the Magistrate recommended that the lawyer approach the Supreme Court to make any further applications on his clients’ behalf. The matter was adjourned until Tuesday September 18 to facilitate further investigations.

A hire car driver from Lot 71 Gordon Street Kitty was released on $250,000 bail after he acquired over $1million under the pretense that he could aid in the reduction of Customs duty on a motor vehicle.

Rajendra Gopie, 45, pleaded not guilty to obtaining money by false pretense after he appeared before the Acting Chief Magistrate Priya SewnarineBeharry yesterday.

Police claim that between July 31 and August 3, 2012 Gopie collected $1,150,000 from Sarran Deokarran under the pretense that he was in a position to aid in lessening

the customs duty for a motor vehicle passing through John Fernandes Wharf.

Gopie’s lawyer, Paul Fung-A-Fat requested minimum bail. He told the court that the accused has indicated that repayments will be made to the complainant.

Reports are that Gopie and the complainant know each other and as such the complainant was inquiring about getting a vehicle which was sent by a relative from overseas cleared through Customs at a reduced tariff when the defendant told the man that he knew someone who could get the job done for the price of $1,150,000.

Gopie subsequently collected the money, but when Deokarran tried to contact him via telephone in relation to the agreement the calls went unanswered.

The matter was reported to the police and Gopie was arrested and charged.

The accused was granted six months to make the financial settlement. He will make his next court appearance today September 11.

Man granted $250,000 bail on ‘scam’ charge

A 47-year-old vendor and father of two accused of robbing a contractor of $283,000 worth of cash and valuables appeared before (Ag) Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine -Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

The man, Mark Henry, is said to have committed the act against Building Contractor Tajnaught Luknauth on Saturday September 8.

His Attorney, Paul FungA-Fat made a request for bail

and told the court that on the day of his client’s apprehension, he was chased by a group of people and so he ran without knowing why he was being chased.

However prosecutor Gordon Mansfield told the court that the defendant admitted to the crime in the caution statement that he gave to the police.

According to police information, the plaintiff was on Camp and Church Streets with $260,000 and a quantity

of construction tools cloaked in a canvas bag when Henry and a group of other persons came up behind him.

Luknauth remembers Henry grabbing the bag and they became engaged in a scuffle. Henry eventually relived the man of his bag and took off running. Luknauth stopped a taxi and gave chase and the defendant was caught with the bag in his possession.

Henry was denied bail until September 12.

Afghan Taliban threaten to kidnap and kill Prince Harry KABUL (Reuters) -The Afghan Taliban said yesterday they were doing everything in their power to try to kidnap or kill Britain’s Prince Harry, who arrived in Afghanistan last week to fly attack helicopters.

Queen Elizabeth’s grandson is in Afghanistan on a four-month tour, based in Camp Bastion in the volatile Helmand province, where he will be on the front line in the NATO-led war against Taliban insurgents.

“We are using all our strength to get rid of him, either by killing or kidnapping,” Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, told Reuters by phone from an undisclosed location.

“We have informed our commanders in Helmand to do whatever they can to eliminate him,” Mujahid added, declining to go into detail on

what he called the “Harry operations”.

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was not worried about the Taliban threat against Prince Harry.

“That’s not a matter of concern,” Rasmussen told a news conference in Brussels yesterday. “I mean, we do everything we can to protect all our troops deployed to Afghanistan whatever might be

their personal background.”

Britain’s Ministry of Defence declined to comment on Mujahid’s statement.

British authorities have given few details of Prince Harry’s stint in Afghanistan for security reasons.

The 27-year-old prince, who is third in line to the throne, took up his new role two weeks after being photographed frolicking naked in Las Vegas.

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US rum subsidies hammer Jamaica, other Caribbean producers KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Rum, the sugar-based liquor that has fueled the development of the Caribbean for centuries, has become the focus of an increasingly bitter dispute with the US. Small producers in countries such as Antigua, Guyana and Jamaica complain they are being punched by unfair trade and marketing advantages for global beverage corporations operating in US territories, and say US rum subsidies threaten to drive some beloved top-shelf Caribbean labels out of business, or force them to sell out.

It’s a high stakes battle because rum, first developed on Caribbean sugar plantations in the 17th

century and deeply engrained in local culture and history, is one of the few competitive industries for the tourismdependent region’s tiny, vulnerable economies.

The tipple, which can range from colourless to coppery, from almost tasteless to richly layered, generates roughly US$500 million in foreign exchange for independent Caribbean countries and more than US$250 million in tax revenue.

The subsidies come from money raised through an excise tax on liquor sold in the US. Under an obscure federal law, almost all of the money generated by rum goes to the treasuries of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Those tropical territories in turn hand a share of it to the

producers as a subsidy to do business there.

Distillers in other countries say they lived fairly comfortably with the US subsidies for decades, even if they thought the rebates gave advantages to rum giant Bacardi Limited in Puerto Rico and Cruzan Rum, a US Virgin Islands brand now owned by Beam Inc, the US maker of spirits such as Jim Beam and Maker’s Mark.

But they are alarmed by recent deals that sharply increased the subsidies for already powerful corporations in the two territories.

The moves have prompted some competing Caribbean distillers to urge their governments to complain to the World Trade Organization (WTO), fearing that the US subsidies may undermine age-old rum operations in the Caribbean, the global center of production, and motivate other multinational distillers to relocate to US territories.

So far, no Caribbean government has declared their intention to challenge the US, the region’s biggest trading partner, with a WTO complaint. The Caribbean Community, which groups 15 Caribbean nations and dependencies, said it is trying to achieve a “negotiated settlement” with Washington

Tuesday September 11, 2012

MOTION DEFEATED - COP to file amended ‘Warner must go’ version to PM Congress of the People (COP) vice-chairman Vernon De Lima’s motion to have National Security Minister Jack Warner removed from Cabinet failed by majority vote yesterday.

“I lost the vote, so we will see what happens,” De Lima said as he left COP headquarters in Charlieville, Chaguanas. He departed soon after the motion failed and did not stay for COP leader Prakash Ramadhar’s closing remarks.

Last week, De Lima moved the motion to have Warner removed from Cabinet but also threatened that the COP would “dissociate” itself from the People’s Partnership Government if he was not. De Lima also threatened to leave the COP if he failed in this bid.

But yesterday, faced with a 91-6 vote against his motion, De Lima said he remained a COP member “at this point”.

Despite the failure of that motion, an amendment to De Lima’s motion was passed that also called for Warner’s removal from Cabinet, but without the ultimatum of the COP’s departure.

Ramadhar said despite the fissure created by the motion, De Lima remained a “treasured member” of the COP. “The motion having been defeated, he made public pronouncements.

Unfortunately he had an emergency and he had to leave before I had a chance to chat with him to know what would be his position now that the motion vote has been against him,” he said.

Ramadhar said while no disciplinary action would be brought against De Lima for filing a private motion under the party’s name, the internal party election is on October 28 and De Lima’s vicechairmanship position would be put to a vote.

“I think that discipline comes in many forms and there are internal elections coming up next month and people will exercise their own level of discipline,” he said.

“We think the moral strength of the argument is strong and as such we expect the Prime Minister to act in accordance with what is best for Trinidad and Tobago.

“We have also asked in that motion for the police to conclude as speedily as is possible any criminal investigations in relation to that Minister. So we can have a final resolution in relation to any criminal charges or not on this. It is fair to all to have a final and quick determination on this issue,” said Ramadhar.

“I have to take responsibility for the party and when the party did not authorise a motion and it was

put in the public space as a COP motion... It was Mr De Lima’s motion and we had to set that record clear.”

Ramadhar ended all speculation that the COP would ever leave the People’s Partnership Government.

“We are staying because we promised the people of Trinidad and Tobago certain things which we have not yet delivered on and which we are working on delivering. It would be an abdication of that trust that they gave to all of us, especially the COP.” Ramadhar said he was voted in for five years and will not “destabilise” the country by threatening to leave pending Warner’s Cabinet position.

“We have to appreciate that the Government was voted in by a majority of persons, we have to respect that and we will not abdicate our responsibility to the population any time before that period,” he said.

In response to the failed motion and the new amendment, Warner, in a telephone interview, would only say: “That is COP’s business, not my business.”

Jamaica seeking clarification on Mugabe statement KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – The Government of Jamaica says it is seeking clarification on a statement reportedly made by Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe about the country, before it makes a full response.

But in the interim, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister AJ Nicholson has brushed aside reported remarks that Mugabe described Jamaica, as “a country of marijuana smokers where women are now taking charge since men are always sloshed”.

The Zimbabwean president was quoted further as saying that while marijuana is illegal in Jamaica, citizens are free to smoke and that men are always drunk, while universities were full of women.

Nicholson said that Kingston is seeking to verify the statement before Prime Minister Portia SimpsonMiller responds fully.

But in the meantime Nicholson said he would remind Mugabe that Jamaica is a nation characterised by adherence to “democratic principles and the rule of law”.

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Yesterday was a red-letter day in the history of public transportation of Guyana.

The new Chinese ferry that allows vehicles to roll on and roll off freely had its maiden voyage from Parika to Supenaam.

This is an important development in Guyana’s marine history and points to the continued investment by PPP governments in marine transportation in Guyana.

The new vessel now permits the larger fleets of cars and trucks to now travel directly from Parika and Supenaam.

Previously the ferry would have to make its way out into the choppy waters of the Atlantic and then navigate its way inland, docking at Adventure.

This new vessel and the docking facilities at Supenaam will provide a much improved service and result in savings in the time

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that it takes to travel from Parika to the Essequibo Coast. Persons wishing to go by ferry to the Essequibo Coast can now do so in greater comfort and in half the time than before.

Of course not everyone uses the ferry and even with the halving of the travel time, many will continue to opt for the speedboats which can half the time that the new ferry takes to go from Parika to Supenaam.

However, when it comes to the movement of cargo, the new ferry is a God- send. For many businesses on the Essequibo Coast it will allow for the faster movement of cargo.

This will ease the hassle of many businesses, especially small traders who use the ferry service for the movement of cargo. It will also allow for more produce from the Essequibo to be brought out of the region and

therefore boost economic activities in Essequibo.

There have been many criticisms about the Chinese invasion of our commercial sector. But China has not just been seeking business opportunities in Guyana.

They have also been helping Guyana and the ferry is just one such assistance.

Ferries are longlasting vessels. The ferries that plied the Berbice River were acquired since the early PPP governments in the 1960’s and some of them are still around.

They however do require substantial maintenance and this is where the government needs to pay careful attention. There needs to be ongoing maintenance of the present vessel.

The Transport and Harbors Department should not wait until things get real bad before they begin maintenance.

Each day there should be inspections and maintenance undertaken. If there are scratches to the paintwork to the inside of the vessel, these should be “touched” up immediately.

The vessel should also be kept clean at all times. It was appalling to have seen the condition of the vessels that plied the Berbice River. They were dirty; the toilets were in a deplorable condition; and travel was far from being comfortable.

You dared not wear a pair of white trousers on that vessel because if by chance you had to brace on some part of the ferry, then your trousers would become soiled with grease.

It is hoped that the new Chinese vessel will be maintained in a state of cleanliness and that the seating arrangements would be comfortable. In fact the passenger area should be air-

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conditioned so as to encourage more persons to travel by the ferry rather than by speedboat.

The new ferry, it is said, can transport close to eight hundred persons per trip.

This is about the daily traffic between the islands, the Essequibo Coast and the mainland.

As such, the vessel is expected to present some competition to the speedboats but these boats will continue to exist because Guyanese just to arrive fortyfive minutes earlier, would opt for the faster travelling speed boats.

The new ferry will dock at Supenaam and while works are also ongoing at that location it is hoped that the Transport and Harbours Department will acquire exclusive rights to the stelling area. It is hoped, also, that the Transport and Harbours Department can

make the Supenaam stelling a presentable and orderly area.

This can only be achieved if there is regulated vending. In fact no illegal vending or touting for passengers should be allowed.

There should be designated taxis and minibuses which should pay a base fee to the authorities and given exclusive rights to transport passengers from the stelling.

Guyana needs to have orderly development. It would be a sad day if after so much has been invested in the stelling and the ferry that the entire docking area should be swarmed by vendors with their rickety wooden stalls or by minibuses and their touts.

Kwakwani’s action is in defiance of Govt imposition Interim Management Committee Chairman of the Linden municipality, Orrin Gordon, in reflecting on what recently transpired at Kwakwani where the people elected a fifteen-member committee to manage their affairs, and defying a Government threat not to recognize it, said that the situation was something that had been ‘brewing’ for some time.

Gordon said that what transpired was not a question of legitimacy, but an act of

democracy.

He added that prior to the installation of the interim management committee there had been no consultation with the people, so essentially what the move amounted to was an imposition of an IMC

by Government that the people were not prepared to accept. “It was something that was concocted.”

The IMC Chairman said that under the circumstances which the IMC was installed the people would have had no confidence in that body.

Dem boys seh ...

Is lie pun lie all around When people want fuh lie dem must hide de evidence. De waterfalls paper been in Moleson Creek and see a school yard full of bush. When dem print de photo nuff people vex.

De next thing dem do to cover up is to tell de whole country that de school shut down because dem only got two children in de area.

Nutten don’t get Guyanese vex like when people tell dem that dem don’t have children. De people bring out de children.

Dem boys seh that de people claim how dem only got two children in de area and de people produce 14. Well if dem been seh one de people woulda produce 28.

Now de people want to know wha is de next lie. Dem already hear nuff.

Dem hear when Rob-Earth claim how he sell he house at Eccles for $100 million when in truth he transfer he house to Colin.

Irfaat claim how he family sub and give he money fuh one house which is all he got. De man got four house all over de country. Bharrat claim how he sell a house fuh $120 million when de house didn’t even worth $40 million. And he expect people fuh believe that.

Well dem boys want to know how much this one cost.

Some people believe that it ain’t cost nutten. And of course dem gun believe it ain’t cost de man nutten especially wid all wha come in wid container and wha de Bees help he wid.

Is lie all around. De fire service claim how somebody go to burn down de court.

But dem boys seh that in town these days fire does start just so. If a man watch a building too hard it does bun down.

And people believe that.

Talk half and lie bout de rest.

“I want to point to the local Government issues that are right now affecting our country; I can’t say only Linden or Region Ten but the entire country. The question is how we see this as practitioners in the local Government System.

“I want to say that there is a serious issue with local Governance in Guyana. And there is a seeming intransigence on the part of the Government, not to allow Local democratic organs to breathe and operate freely.

There is also a morbid reluctance on the part of the Government to not allow the organs to do what they are expected to do—that is manage and govern on behalf of the people in the community.

“The problem is that the Government has had a history of wanting to control everything at the local level.’

Gordon reflected back to 2008,

when there was the Urban Development programme.”

According to him there was a decision that the supervision which the RDC had obtained under the previous government in 1983, and which was promulgated by the then Minister of National Mobilization, Mr Robert Corbin placed the ten RDCs in Guyana to be responsible for supervising municipalities, wherever those were found, and also NDC’s wherever those were found.”

Interim Management Committee Chairman,of the Linden municipality, Orrin Gordon in reflecting on what recently transpired at Kwakwani where the people elected a fifteen member committee to manage their affairs, defying a Government threat not to recognize it, said that what happened, was something that had been ‘brewing’ for some time .

Gordon posited that what transpired was not a question of legitimacy, but an act of democracy.

He added that prior to the installation of the interim Management committee there had been no consultation with the people, so essentially what the move amounted to was an imposition of an IMC

by Government that the people were not prepared to accept. “It was something that was concocted.”

The IMC Chairman said that under the circumstances which the IMC was installed the people would have had no confidence in that body.

“I want to point to the local Government issues that are right now affecting our country; I can’t say only Linden or Region Ten but the entire country. The question is how we see this as practitioners in the local Government System.

‘So there was devolution of power to the local organ for the whole question of budget, and the question of discipline and appointment of officers. Those were devolved to the RDC’s as the highest tier within the Regions, and the NDC’s and municipalities responded likewise to these organs.

Now here it is was that in 2008 the Government removed that important aspect of Local Governance, from the RDC’s and returned it to Central (Ministry).

He pointed out that there was no ‘hue and cry’ when that happened in 2008, even though a few persons including himself ‘made some noise’, and said that it was a backward step.

“But they said no, ‘that it was recentralization for decentralization’.

So what they were basically saying is that they (continued on page 18)

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THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN

“The spy who loved me” People from all countries of the world, who know what is going on in Guyana, laugh at this nation. We do the stupidest things and the normal mind wants to know how human beings can be so clownish and selfdestructive.

Mr. Gerry Gouveia should be on our radar screen. An employee from his company has been arrested for cocaine trafficking.

One would assume that Mr. Gouveia would do the normal, sane thing and let the law take its course. Countless times, employees of companies get tangled up with the law and you don’t see the firms holding internal enquires. What is the relevance?

We must ask Mr. Gouveia if tomorrow another employee is accused of duty free scams, whether there will be a company probe. If next week, another Roraima employee is passing off donkey meat as beef, will Roraima investigate again? Well, I guess you can argue that nothing is wrong if Gerry Gouveia (I won him a bet but I am still to collect) wants to hold an internal inquiry.

But he went about it in a silly, asinine way. Why should I accept the findings of a team that Mr. Gouveia himself appointed to look into how an employee of his got involved in alleged cocaine trafficking.

The team is headed by attorney James Bond. Sound

strange! Bond is an APNU parliamentarian and a lawyer without substantial experience. So Gouveia who is close to the PPP Government as I am close to my wife (married for 34 years) selected an opposition parliamentarian. One word best describes that - enigma.

Also on the committee is frequent Chronicle letterwriter and PPP supporter, Roshan Khan. If Gouveia is reading this I would like to recommend an additional member to the probe team – Kwame McCoy. I am telegraphing my thoughts to Gouveia – this column will not accept the findings of his handpicked investigators.

Before we leave the topic, I hereby recommend to James Bond, a James Bond movie – “The spy who loved me” If you think the Gouveia inquiry smacks of asininity then what do you think of Bibi Shadick becoming head of the National Broadcasting

Authority? I functioned with Ms. Shadick on the UG Council where I threw her application in the dustbin when it came before me when she applied for the post of Registrar.

UG has gone to the dogs but to have Shadick as Registrar had to be the final nail in the coffin. Shadick, who obviously was giving up her law practice when she applied for the UG position knows as much about the media and communications as I know about dancing and I know to myself I am the world’s worst dancer.

From asininity we go to masochism. This country has become the tragedy spot of the world because the violations that it accepts and is happy to live with not even the citizens of the world’s worst dictatorships would tolerate.

Dr. David Hinds who sits on the APNU Council of Leaders as an alternating

WPA member has experienced a strange burglary at his home where just two laptops were removed.

The cell phones, jewelry and TV sets were not touched. Then his workplace, Arizona State University was bombarded with e-mails informing the university that he intends to assassinate the Guyanese President. APNU and the WPA are yet to inform the university that Hinds is the target of powerful politicians that is out to scandalize him.

APNU and the WPA are yet to tell the PPP Government that such nasty politics will not be accepted and if it continues there will be consequences We just take all the mess the government throws on us.

The masochism gets deeper when you think that the government has minority status. It did not win a majority at the last national election.

But it functions as if it has a landslide mandate.

It goes around imposing interim management committees on Neighbourhood Democratic Councils in areas where it has

Frederick Kissoon never won a majority of votes in regional and national elections.

So when and where will be the next manifestation of masochism? I guess it is coming soon.

When a government is contemptuous of its opposition as we see with the PPP Government, no type of violation is beyond imagination.

So we have Kwame McCoy on the Rights of the Child Commission; Bibi Shadick heading the Broadcasting Authority; Neil Kumar still is National Sports Director; Kellawan Lall is Ambassador to one of the world’s most important countries, Brazil; BK Tiwarie is Honorary Council to Spain.

So why not make the alleged sex-talk lecturer at UG, Evan Persaud, the Vice Chancellor.

Why not?

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GuyExpo 2012 to feature ‘Future City,’ ‘Youth village’ at Exhibition site Under the theme “Strengthening The Traditional, Embracing The New” GuyExpo 2012 will be staged from September 27 to September 30 at the Sophia Exhibition Site.

The exposition continues to highlight Guyana's strategy, and its prudent policy implementation and continuing efforts to expand opportunities for sustainable investments.

The Planning Committee hopes that businesses will seize the occasion of GuyExpo 2012 to creatively present their goods and services to the tens of thousands of patrons and investors that will be visiting Guyana's Premier Trade Fair Exhibition.

As Guyana's premier trade fair and investment show looms closer, construction work is underway to ensure that the exhibitors and participant's expectations are met, in keeping with high standards synonymous with the event.

According to the Director of Tourism and the GuyExpo Public Relations M a n a g e r, I n d r a n a u t h

Haralsingh, the improvements underway are designed to cater to the needs of all who come to the event, with new additions ranging from a Service Pavilion, International Pavilion, Fashion Village and Kids Zone.

Alluding to one of the additional highlights of the upcoming show, he announced that the Tourism Village will be designed to attract and entice visitors with a myriad of activities, showpieces and exciting giveaways from the many exhibitors.

“We Have 'Giftland' coming to showcase its new Mall and theatre along with the employment opportunities that will come out of that venture. There will also be a presence from Princess Hotel, Universal Travel, Evergreen Tours, Roraima Tours, Guy Braz and THAG among others.

We w i l l b e o f f e r i n g entertainment every night that is sure to captivate,” he announced.

The Tourism Village will be located between the GTA Building and the Guyana National Bureau of Standards.

In expounding on other new features, Haralsingh pointed to the electrifying new exhibit- 'Future City' which will be displayed at the roundabout and will encapsulate all the transformative projects underway to propel Guyana into the future.

He said, “Here we will showcase and project what our country will look like in years to come when all of the transformative projects underway and those yet to come have taken root.”

To complement this, there will also be a 'Youth Village' which will feature all of the possibilities that exists for youth development and entrepreneurship, in preparation of a new dynamic future.

Spectators can also look forward to wholesome entertainment, thorough steel pan music, fashion displays, talent showcases, kids' entertainment comedy and a delectable spread of Creole and international cuisine at the food courts.

The PR Manager announced that 85 per cent of the booths at the Exhibition

The rotunda at the Exhibition site which will be transformed into a 'Future City' for this year's GuyExpo site are already booked, which he said is evident of the tremendous interest the event is generating.

He said, “This year, a big focus is being placed on attracting overseas buyers, we are not encouraging our business to only be transactional. For that reason we have a team working along with the large GuyExpo Committee, working inside and outside of Guyana. We can confirm participation from the US, Canada, Barbados, Trinidad, China, Brazil, Suriname, St. Lucia. St.Vincent, India, and a few others.

“There are not only here

as exhibitors but as buyers because we want to create the linkages here. That is why it's a trade expo.”

As part of the strategy to ensure the successful staging of the activity, Haralsingh emphasized that the issue of adequate parking has also been addressed, and that the front parameter fence has been shifted 20 feet to accommodate at least 1000 vehicles.

“We are anticipating over 100,000 persons over the four days of this event and we want to ensure that we are prepared to make this an event that they are sure to remember and enjoy. Even in

the booths themselves we will deploy Pavilion Managers to manage the flow of pedestrians to avoid congestion. We have listened to our exhibitors and our consumers and we are catering to their needs,” he declared.

This year's exhibition will see many changes including an earlier starting time, as committee members have announced that following the official opening ceremony at 18:00 hours on Thursday September 27, the gates will be opened to the public from 15:00 hrs- 23:00hrs on Friday, and 13:00hrs- 23:00 hrs on Saturday and Sunday.

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US$$M Chinese roll on roll/off ferry‌.

'Kanawan' commences operation from Parika

General Manager of TH&D Marclene Merchant

Marine superintendent Captain Garfield Halley

By Rabindra Rooplall Vehicles and passengers boarded one of the multimillion-dollar Chinese-built roll on roll/off ferries, 'Kanawan' yesterday as it made its inaugural trip from Parika to the Supenaam Stelling.

General Manager of Transport and Harbours Department (TH&D) Marclene Merchant noted that the commuters are overjoyed that the ferry is in operation although the rollon-roll-off facilities are not yet complete.

The commencement of operations yesterday will see a significant reduction in the build up of vehicles and commuters at the stellings.

The Roll on Roll Off ferries, 'Sabanto' and 'Kanawan' vessels will be making one trip per day. They will be supported by one of the older ferries, either Mv Malali or Mv Torani, which will also travel from Parika and

Supenaam but they will service the islands of Leguan and Wakenaam.

Noting that the Kanawan was not filled to capacity yesterday, Merchant said that most commuters were unaware that the ferry commenced its operations.

As such, later in the week, the vessel use will be maximized. There will be more people and cargo.

Marine superintendent Captain Garfield Halley, who is piloting the vessel, said that the ferry will be taking approximately 90 minutes between Parika and Supenaam.

This is about half the time the previous ferries took. The roll on/roll off ferries can seat 800 persons and can carry many more trucks and other vehicles.

The inaugural mooring has been declared as successful. The vessel can be moored from either end from (continued on page 16)

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Chinese-built roll on roll/off ferry 'Kanawan' takes off to Supenaam

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1 experienced cook, must be over 35 years, 2 waitresses, contact: 638-3925

Attractive live in waitress to work in bar, age 18-30 years, attractive salaries Call: 3270252, 674-4665 Excavator operators, diesel mechanic, service men to work in the interior Call: 2269768 between 9:00am to 4:00pm.

1-Accounts clerk, experience: VAT,NIS & PAYE Call: 614-4358 T.S.I, Eccles Industrial Site.

1 Handyboy to work in the interior Call: 688-0197 Security officers male & female; salary $2,000-$2,500 daily, depends on qualification. Call: 680-0515 Attractive females who are interested in becoming waitresses and bartenders Call: 226-7054 Family to live and work on farm, near East Bank Public Road. Free House Call: 6117777 or 226-0011 1 cook, able to prepare a variety of foods. Experience mandatory. Food handlers required, age 30 & over Call: 225-0125 One porter, one Sales Clerk, Call: 225-2313 Drivers and Porters, apply at Survival, Lot 10 Vlissengen Road Live in waitress, age 18-25 yrs, salary $50,000, boarding & lodging free Call: 610-5043

1 General Domestic- Must know to cook also, East Bank area, call: 614-4358 Porter to work on van from West Bank area Call: 2672207, 672-2632 One live in/ live out Maid 668-3985, 253-3149, 264-3356 One CLEANER to work 3 days a week, between Unity Area Call: 623-3231 1 Salesgirl to work in Snackette, age 18-25, 1 kitchen assistant. Call: 226-2320

Attractive waitress, apply to Chilly’s Bar Call: 667-7380

VEHICLES FOR SALE Just arrived: Allion and Premio, tel: 624-2000, 622-1610

Nandy Park fully furnished US$1,500, Subryanville apartment $90,000 Call: 6872806

One enclosed Mitsubishi Canter, excellent condition, price $1.4 M negotiable, call: 253- 3349, 695- 6945

Land and building for rent 13,000 ft at Peter’s Hall Public Road Call: 233-6161, 651-8870

Canter for sale GPP Series, very good condition Call: 682-4224

One business Place and House, tel: 276- 0818

Leading Auto Unregistered Allion, Premio, Spacio, Runx, IST Call: 677-7666, 610-7666

Property Lot 15 New Heaven, Bel Air for US$2,500 and Lot 198 Lamaha Gardens, Bel Air for US$2,000 Call: 600-4664, 644-1300

1 Allion, 1 IST, 1 Rav4, 1 45150 Leyland Daff, 1 55-210 Leyland HIAB Call Archie 624-1343, 664-2755

Durban Street 3 bedrooms, fully furnished $150,000, Section ‘K’semi furnished US$1,800 and US$2,000 Call: 687-2806 Paulines Hair Salon, 177 Charlotte Street, Hairdressers barbers chairs & nails tables to rent Call: 679-1579, 680-1969, 233-5495 Coolers for rent Call: 622-4271 Office space South Rd $3500US, Town to country 627-7390, 225-0854 Diamond $25,000, $50,000 Call: 225-0854, 686-9888 Prime Business Spot bottom flat on the Main Road, 41 Logwood Enmore Call: 2563769, 677-8600

1 planner operator, 1 portable sawmill operator & labourers Call: 619-9143, 221-2196

Live in couple, driving an asset Call: 610-2978 after 6pm.

Male/Female (domestic) to live in/live out, must be able to take care of dogs Call: 2275500 Female to assort goods, Apply Alabama Trading, Georgetown Ferry Stelling Stabroek.

SALON Make up courses, artist trained & certified in Trinidad: 660-5257,647-1773 New Classes in Cosmetology, nails & makeup Call Abby 216-1950, 6665241, 619-7603

Porters, Apply Alabama Trading, Georgetown Ferry Stelling Stabroek.

VEHICLES FOR SALE Unregistered Fielder & Cami $2.3M. Call: 641-1127 Hilux! Hilux! Hilux!. Just arrived Toyota Hilux Solid Axle Pickups. Excellent condition Call: 623-0243 Spacio New Model, unregistered, $2.5M Call: 621-0956

LEARN TO DRIVE Soman & Sons Driving School, First Federation Building Call: 225-4858, 6445166, 622-2872, 615-0964

Sale! Sale! 2 & 3 ton canter, open back & enclose, unregistered Call: 220-2345, 642-7295 Honda Civic 2003, 17" rims, HID, TV/DVD, reverse camera $1.9M Call: 652-5668 1 Mitsubishi Lancer, 3.5 ton open back canter Call: 6269254, 264-2582 Leading Auto Unregistered, Toyota Tundra 2004 Loaded Call: 677-7666/610-7666 GX620 Honda Welder Generator, 20HP, 14.9kw, 614cc, 270 amps, 2002 Toyota Tundra Call: 611-5114, 2204495

Tundra tray cover, fully loaded, magrims, going cheap, Titan 4x4 tray cover, fully loaded, magrims Call: 227-5500 Just arrived 2 Toyota Tacoma extra cab, 1 manual & other automatic/ year model 2006 Call: 263-7166, 660-1269, 6166007 1- Noah, unregistered $2.5M negotiable , 1- Toyota Wish $2.850 Tel: 648-6869

FOR SALE Massey Ferguson Tractor 290. Full working condition.

Just overhauled & sprayed; tel # 618 – 7530.

FOR SALE 1 225 KVA Generator, 1 Hiace Canter, Premio, 3 light towers, car batteries Call:624-2000

10 acres of lease land at Kuru-Kururu suitable for Poultry Farm, call: 692-6239

Roofing Shingles 15-15-15 Fertilizer Call: 266-2711, 6094594

Leading Technology, Toshiba Laptop-wholesale & retail Call: 648-6600

Lighting plant generator (5500W), (5000W), ($175,000), ($165,000), 2 Diesel tanks 275 gallons each, prices negotiable Call: 678-0224 258-0070

Brandnew American made Crosely 10.5 cu ft Refridgerator for sale $75,000 Call: 697-5677 Granite, various colors, size 2x8 with backsplash, generators & cement mixers Call: 223-0943 Mon-Fri 9am4pm 65 kVA, 1 ph Deutz air cool gen set. Tel 622-3940 Ship 200 ft in length, selling as scrap, Ocean going Barge sold as is Call: 227-5500 Spares for washer, microwaves, fridges, stove timers, gear boxes, pumps etc Call: 225-9032, 647-2943

Jags’ Auto. IRZ, VVTI, Manual Buses, Raum, Rav4, Cheapest. Call: 616-7635 One AT 192, Price $850,000 Call: 642-1305, 264-2954

Imported Umbrellas 10ft & 12ft Call: 645-0870 2 adults Rottweiler and mixed pups $3,000 each Call: 677-0294 Games for PS2 $900, PSP $900, Xbox360 $2,600, PS3 $2,600 Call: 265-3231, 6722566 Male enhancer Viagra $4,000, 4 in pack Call: 638-1627

L 15 HP Yamaha ( Long Foot), Tel: 689-5254/643-0332 Deal on Blackberry Torch 1 & 2, Memory cards 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, Stihil chainsaw No:310 Call: 6996911, 685-9497

Land tillers Honda new $160,000, Shredding machine with 11 HP Honda battery start $400,000 Call: 678-0224, 258-0070

One 150 Jailing Scrambler, Price $140,000 Call: 642-1305, 264-2954

19Ft Bass tracker, boat with trailer in excellent condition Call: 223-0943 Mon-Fri 9am4pm

One 16 inch dredge complete & block of land to work in Demerara River Call: 6604733, 226-9358 New family home @ 184 Eccles EBD, two stories, 5 bedrooms, self contained, land area 40’x90’ Call: Pearl Realty 689-9991 Fluffy Pups. Tel: 642-6664.

LIBRARY Sale! Novels, Texts, UG, others from $100 to $3,000 Call: 223-8237

Craftsman weeders with 4 stroke engine (new) $50,000, 1-4 HP Yamaha outboard engine (new) $280,000 Call: 678-0224, 258-0070 Massey Tractors- 265 $2,800,000, 275 $3,000,000, 285 $3,200,000, 298 $3,200,000, 399 $5,800,000, Welding generator $380,000 Call: 678-0224, 258-0070 Caterpillar backhoe low hour 426c Model, double jackhammer compressor, briggs, straighten roller compactor Call: 233-6161, 651-8870 ATV Yamaha Raptor 450, fully race ready Call: 6156600

Toyota RAV4 1998 Model PLL Series Call: 663-8556 1 Nissan Long Base Canter GNN Series Call: 653-6098

Toyota Starlet EP71 Call:6482075

1 Auto Darkening welding helmet, New Chicago power tool, belt sander “4 x 24”, tel: 627-9825

One 4 doors Hilux pickup (Toyota) and one mini Cooper Call: 263-7166, 6601269, 616-6007

Waitress @ Sab’s Bar Call: 233-5264 PARTY RENTAL Trampolines and Bouncy Castle Call: 225-2598, 6410784

Unregistered Tundra tt 100 and Tacoma Call: 265-2103, 645-9860

Toyota 02 Tundra 2WD, Single cab, not registered $2.3M, excellent condition Call: 612-8879, 678-2819

Jetman & marck man. Call: 616-8512

A family (Labourer/general domestic) to work at Resort in Present Hope Parika Call: 226-9492 Domestic Help between ages 30-45. Must be able to work flexible hours.

Preferably from E.B.D Call: 226-7352

FOR RENT Taxi Base rental at a popular West Side Hotel Call: 638-1627

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1 Toyota Harrier $3.5M, 1 RAV4 2002 Model ACA21, 4 doors $3M Call: 231-7837 8am-4pm

VACANCY Driver for party rental service, within the vicinity of Parka to V/Hoop, must be able to work flexible hours.

Tel # 638-1627

1 EP71 Starlet, 1 Toyota 192, 212, Ceres, G-Touring wagon, AT 150 Corona, 1 Nissan E24 Van , Alteeza PMM Call: 6445096, 697-1453

Be part of our world class customer care team . Phone: 220-0401-3 or email: recruitmentguyana@ qualfon.com

1 AT 192, 17’’ Rims, Alarm, CD Player, Mint Condition $1.3MCall:613-7553or664-5594

One trainee/refrigeration technician Call: 231-0655,6838734

Earth delivery at spot also bobcat & excavator rentals Call: 626-7127 PERKINS ENGINE Foreign used, direct from England, 4&6 cylinder also 6 cylinder cummings Call: 653-7654 Exotic Hibiscus, Roses, Mussaenda, B/Ville, Ficus, Marigold, Periwinkle, Petunia, Herbs, Vegetable seedlings, A.K Plant Shop.

Call: 260-0005 Energy saver bulbs, call: 641-1127 (Continued on page 20)

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Kaieteur News

Tuesday September 11, 2012

Two years later …

Demerara Bank clerk’s killer still on the loose “At least I gave them time, they asked for time and still, nothing,” victim’s mother On September 10, 2010, Demerara Bank Clerk, Sheema Mangar, was awaiting transportation on north road to take her home when a thief came up to her and snatched her cellular phone.

Instinctively, Mangar tried desperately to retrieve the instrument from the thief who had jumped into a waiting car.

Thinking that it was the best thing to do, the young bank clerk held on to the car but fell and was dragged under the vehicle for almost a block, sustaining severe injuries in the process.

She subsequently succumbed to her injuries at the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. The crime sparked public outrage and it was expected that the police would have pulled out all the stops to solve it, especially since there were a number of eyewitnesses.

But two years later, confusion, denial and seeming incompetence have led to one of the most undesirable cold cases in recent criminal history on local soil.

For Radica Thakoor, the situation is unbearable and will remain so until someone is charged or she is called to join her daughter, Sheema, in the great beyond.

“Whenever I think about it, I question the system. It’s been two years. At least I gave them time; they asked for time and still, nothing. This thing is eating away at my heart. As a family, we lost everything.

The killer is free and we have no happiness,” a tearful Thakoor told this newspaper yesterday.

From the outset controversy surrounded the investigations, as investigators obtained nothing tangible to link the

several persons who were detained and the cars that were impounded to the crime.

Investigators then turned their attention to no tried and proven method of solving modern crimes, technology, more specifically, forensic science.

However, Guyana’s limited capacity in the field resulted in investigators having to rely on overseas help and Barbados was the port of call.

They secured samples of a piece of fabric recovered from one of the impounded cars. They also retrieved what appeared to be blood and hair from the car with the hope of matching them to samples obtained from the dead woman’s relatives.

The first sign that things were not going according to plan was when the results of the cloth test came back.

Kaieteur News was reliably informed that the samples of fabric and suspected blood collected from the vehicle believed to have been involved in the matter did not match those that were obtained from the victim’s relatives.

But this was the beginning of the confusion.

There are reports that what was thought to be blood was not, and to make matters worse, the hair sample never left Guyana for Barbados where it was intended to go though DNA testing.

With respect to the hair samples, the police had put the blame on one of its officers, stating that disciplinary action was being contemplated against the person who was responsible for the apparent lapse.

However, this newspaper understands that the hair

sample was deliberately not taken to Barbados in the first place, since it would have been of no value to the investigations.

According to a source, the hair sample had no root and the tests in Barbados would not have been able to ascertain anything from it.

“The police should stop fooling the family. The piece of hair is just a piece of hair and there is nothing the lab in Barbados could have done with it,” a source who was close to the initial investigations had told this newspaper.

In the first place, crime scene investigators did not do a proper job initially. At first, they did not secure samples of the clothing that Mangar was wearing when

A shortage of pathologists has caused the local Ministry of Health to challenge recently registered doctors to take advantage of available scholarship programmes in the area of pathology.

This disclosure was made recently by Minister of Health, Dr Bheri Ramsaran, who expressed concern about the lack of doctors seeking to specialise in this field.

Pathology is the science of the causes and effects of diseases, especially the branch of medicine that deals with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue for diagnostic or forensic purposes.

According to Minister Ramsaran, “We don’t have pathologists. The oldest pathologist is 63 years old

Driver placed on bail, fouryear-old still hospitalized

Injured: Lakeram Sugrim

she was dragged several yards under the car.

“The authorities are not telling the family the truth.

eldest daughter. “Whenever the name comes up he wants to burst into tears.

Today we will go to church. That’s where we get our strength,” Thakoor told this newspaper.

But apart from her belief in God, Radica Thakoor is pinning some of her hopes on modern technology, although the local investigators seem to be bungling the whole investigations.

“I feel they could solve this case. These days they have technology to solve crime like this. It’s not like long time, the technology is there and the police have experts,” she said.

She believes that as long as the matter is brought up periodically, the police will feel pressured to act to bring about justice.

Health Ministry challenges young doctors to specialise in pathology

Mon Repos fatal accident…

The father of two who met his demise o n t h e M o n Repos, East Coast of Demerara (ECD) public road, after a pickup slammed into his cycle while he was returning home with his four-year-old son Wednesday evening, was laid to rest yesterday at Good Hope Cemetery.

Post mortem results revealed multiple injuries to the body. The driver of the pick-up was placed on bail by the court on Friday last.

The victim, said to be a carpenter, was identified as 29-year-old Rajendra Sugrim,

Sheema Mangar

They only have them going around and around. At the moment there is no physical evidence to link anyone to the crime,” the source said.

Radica Thakoor’s most recent engagement with the police, which occurred yesterday, has added more confusion to the matter.

The woman claimed that she was told by a senior police official that the samples had not been returned from Barbados.

The situation is also taking its toll on Thakoor’s 17-year-old son, Jason.

“He will repaint the cross that was placed at the scene of the crime. That’s his only comfort,” she said.

Sheema Mangar’s father, Lalchand Mangar, hardly speaks about the incident that has left him without his

called Navin, of 61 North Mon Repos, ECD. His son, Lakeram Sugrim, known as Krishna, is a patient in the Pediatric Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC.) Relatives said the boy sustained injuries to the head and abrasions.

According to reports, the accident occurred at 18:30hrs Wednesday evening.

The driver of the white pick-up (PMM 607), was heading towards the city when he collided with the cyclist, killing the man and injuring his son.

and the youngest one is just a few years younger than that. If somebody would come forward and say I want to go into that field obviously we would have to link them to that area so that they can get the grooming.”

The Minister’s remarks were forthcoming even as he congratulated the most recent batch of 21 graduate doctors, two of whom were trained in Russia and the remainder in Cuba.

Young doctors accepting the challenge could see the Health Ministry deviating from its administrative regulation which requires that doctors serve at least two and a half years before being eligible for post graduate scholarships, Dr Ramsaran said.

Doctors who are the product of scholarship programmes awarded by the government are expected to serve the country for a period of five years throughout the administrative regions.

In amplifying that the Ministry of Health is an enlightened institution and a learning organisation, the Minister said, “We provide upward professional mobility by giving young professionals other opportunities” even as he added that the health sector is always under pressure to recruit more skilled professionals.

However, while there is scope for deviation, Minister Ramsaran pointed out that this move is only possible through the discretion of the administration.

“There is no obligation for me to start training you or putting you on a post

graduate scholarship tomorrow or the other day.

“The administration has in place an administrative arrangement whereby you must serve at least two and a half years but it doesn’t mean that at the end of that period we will put you on a post graduate scholarship because there are other considerations.”

This consideration, the Minister said, has been linked to unfortunate developments whereby persons have absconded from their contractual obligations.

“Currently there is one individual on a scholarship who has since mystic; we can’t find him. He was a truant and a constant delinquent,” said the Minister.

He made reference to instances where past scholarship beneficiaries have even absented themselves from duty, a state of affairs the Ministry will be examining very closely.

“Those who stick to their guns are the ones who we see would want a second contract to serve after being trained in post graduate programmes such as surgery, gynaecology or paediatrics.”

According to the Minister once persons are allowed to join post graduate programmes, the preponderance of which are local, they will be expected to sign a further contract to serve.

“If you are absorbing more resources of this country you need to s e r v e m o r e because you are absorbing an expensive scholarship...” the Minister quipped.

He revealed that several post graduate programmes have been introduced

recently which represents “a conscientious effort by the administration to address certain needs of our young professionals who want to move upwards.”

In previous years, he noted that young doctors were not afforded many such opportunities which had caused some to migrate.

The programmes that are now being offered he said, “are not fly-by night, ‘wishiewashie’ activities; they are done in connection with international centres of excellence.”

Minister Ramsaran disclosed that several universities from overseas and several clinical centres have arrangements with Guyana, mainly through the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation and the University of Guyana, to create internationally recognised programmes.

According to him young doctors should in fact, be aware of these developments in order to align plans for their further professional advancement.

“Once they complete these programmes they are expected to take their additional skills across the country and we have had some very good experiences with the product of these programmes, for example the surgeons.

They have done well and even foreigners have attested to this...Not only do they bring additional skills but they also bring leadership.”

In serving, the Minister said that it is expected that young doctors ensure that they are professional in every (continued on page 17)

Tuesday September 11, 2012

Kaieteur News

Businessman feels harassed by GNBS

By Abena Rockcliffe Disgruntled over what he deems as a “set up”, Anthony Sarjoo is claiming that his business is under attack.

Sarjoo, the owner of Isaac Computer Electronics, said that two male representatives from the Guyana National Bureau of Standards accompanied by three armed police ranks “barged” into his store on Friday; and placed “on hold” signs on his display case halting any sale of Blackberry phones.

According to Sarjoo, he inquired whether there was a court order and was met with a response from one of the representatives from the Bureau of Standards that “ we don’t need a court order, we can do what we want cause you selling a set a refurbished phones.”

The business owner said that the scene was somewhat embarrassing as two of the ranks were in possession of “dem big big guns and they just barge in like I am some criminal.”

Sarjoo give the genesis of Friday’s incident as an “ongoing” situation existing with a customer whom Sarjoo “found to be the suspect from the beginning.”

The man said that following the customer’s initial purchase of the phone, she requested that she be given a warranty; six months was granted.

He said that the phone was purchased on a Wednesday.

The following Monday, the woman returned to the store with complaints that “the phone ain’t taking charge and that de power cable (charger) was crooked.”

Both her battery and charger were replaced. “We found it strange cause all these things were shown to her before she left the store so it obviously was crooked then. We figured it done there,” stated an employee.

However, the customer returned a few days later and stated that the phone wasn’t even “coming on, that “it ain’t

rebooting or nothing.”

“I told her that she has to wait until the boss comes back for negotiations.

After that, we were in constant communication until one day her mother said that they knew someone from the Bureau of Standards and that they will report us. Since then we weren’t contacted till today’s drama” recalled one of the store workers.

Sarjoo stated that he thinks that someone is out to get him because of his “unbeatable rate” on blackberry phones.

“I ain’t looking for a 100 per cent profit. I sell my things reasonable. Is years I in this business. I ain’t looking to rob nobody” affirmed Sarjoo.

The man said that he never purchased refurbished phones or computers because they are too problematic.

He even produced the invoice for the said phone sold. That invoice stated “condition: new.”

NDC chairman needed in Parika - Stall holders

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Law firm to file contempt motion against Registrar of Lands The law office of Poonai and Poonai is thinking about moving to the High Court to file a motion of contempt against Registrar of Lands, Juliet Sattaur.

The law firm, on behalf of its clients, made the statement yesterday in relation to land titles that the Registrar is reportedly refusing to release despite being ordered by two judges; one being the Chief Justice himself, to hand over the land documents.

According to a partner at the law firm, several complaints have been made against the Registrar pertaining to her alleged slothfulness in the transfer of lands.

The lawyer claimed that in some cases, years pass by; some persons die and the Registrar would still not make the title transfers despite the mandatory requirements of compliances, rates and taxes and power of attorney being provided.

Sohan Poonai alleged that instead, the Registrar would formulate several excuses in defence of her not making the land transfers. “…some matters, for as long as three years, she (Registrar) would take to effect a transfer.

Fifteen applications for land were filed; some since 2009 for her to transfer title to the applicants…

“She has refused. Her excuse would be that the compliances were not renewed, the power of attorney is not updated or that the rates and taxes have to be renewed, not withstanding that at the time of filing applications all documentation were complied with.”

Poonai explained that when the year expires the

compliances by law, must be renewed. He alleged that the Registrar would then use that glitch as an excuse for refusing the land transfers.

Poonai argued that it is no fault of his firm or the applicants that the compliances need to be renewed when all the land documents were initially provided at the time it was filed.

Poonai told Kaieteur News that on May 11 this year, Justice Diana Insanally granted several orders compelling the Registrar to transfer land titles.

He alleged that when the matter was called in court, the Registrar never made an appearance to justify why she was allegedly failing to grant the land applications.

The Attorney further stated that Justice Ian Chang made an order compelling the Registrar to pass all the titles over to the respective applicants.

He however claimed that Sattaur was still refusing to comply with the ruling, thus defying the order of the Chief Justice.

“On 11 May 2012, Justice Chang made all the orders absolute… meaningcompelling her to pass the titles. We served these orders on her.

Notwithstanding that we

served these orders, she still adamantly refuse to issue the titles. She is disobeying the order of the court…. and no less, a court of the Chief Justice.”

Poonai read from the order of Justice Insanally which incorporated that the Registrar’s failure to issue the land titles is “unlawful, arbitrary and unreasonable.”

Poonai concluded that his law firm has been forced, on behalf of its clients, to file a motion of contempt “to send the Registrar to prison for disobeying the order of the Chief Justice.”

The Attorney opined that the Registrar’s action is of public importance since these are not isolated incidents that are slowing up commerce in the country.

In the meantime, several other lawyers who opted to remain anonymous vented their frustrations towards the Registrar.

One attorney is of the belief that nothing will change despite the numerous complaints made against Sattaur.

He described the Registrar as being “greater than the institution she works for.” He said he has filed numerous matters against Sattaur and no change has come about.

Health Ministry challenges ...

From page 16 regard insisting that they attend to patients in person rather by telephone.

“We want you to walk to patients with your chart and treat them in person not by long distance but in the way you were taught.

We have had embarrassing moments and

what it does is undermine the glory and authority of the Cuban School.”

Moreover, Minister Ramsaran stressed the importance of young doctors seeking to hold strict and high standards even as they seek to demand the highest professional accountability and approaches.

'Kanawan' commences operation from ...

A pile of garbage next to the drains where stall holders have to dwell daily.

Parika stall holders are complaining of the garbage and drainage situation.

These are constantly an issue and a health hazard not being addressed by the Mora-Parika, Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC.) The residents also noted that they are dissatisfied with the way the district is being managed, citing the lack of road repairs even though material is available and has been in stock.

They pointed out, also that the drains were not cleaned over a long period of time and the road shoulders have not been cleared of excess growth.

They are calling on Regional Chairman Julius Faerber and other relevant authorities to investigate and

find solutions to the various issues facing stall holders and residents.

One of the brave stall holders, known as ‘Auntie Anne’ said “I went into the NDC office to the overseer,. I asked her, where is the vicechairman? He is no where around. He is in the bush. I then asked how the drains would clean? Because sometimes we pay $4,000 a week to clean the drains and no returns.”

She said when she enquired about the reason for paying their monies; the stallholder said the overseer then asked if “we can’t clean the drains since the NDC doesn’t have money. We don’t have a chairman or a vice-chairman either, since the condition of the area is

nasty.”

Adding that stallholders are requesting a proper market, she said the NDC and other authorities want vendors to remove from the roadside.

However, there is no system being implemented to develop the area, but authorities want to only make decisions without seeking solutions to various problems and issues.

When the regional chairman Julius Faerber was contacted, he noted that the Mora-Parika NDC should be contacted since persons can claim or make allegations about anything.

However, calls to the Mora-Parika NDC proved futile since none of the calls were answered.

From page 13 which it can load or offload.

This too will be tested in the coming days utilizing the varying river conditions.

The two vessels were acquired from China, with funding from a US$17M grant from the Chinese Government.

Each ferry has three decks and can hold up to 800 persons, 44 cars, and 20 trucks. They can travel at a test speed of 12.5 knots.

The long awaited Roll on Roll Off Ferries, 'Sabanto' and 'Kanawan' arrived in Guyana last December.

To accommodate the ferries the Works Ministry had to upgrade the stellings at Parika and Supenaam. The contract was awarded to BK International, which modified the Parika Stelling at a cost $240.1 million and the Supenaam Stelling at a cost of some $138 million. The com-

pany had promised to complete both stellings within four months.

However this was not the reality since almost one year had passed before its completion.

BK International had won the initial contract to construct a stelling at Good Hope/ Supenaam on the Essequibo Coast with a view to reducing the travel time between Parika and the Essequibo Coast.

Initially, it took more than four hours for the ferry to travel between Parika and Adventure.

The government decided to limit the travel time under three hours by constructing the stelling at Supenaam. At a cost of more than $400 million BK International constructed the stelling which then remained idle for nearly two years.

But the need to get the

stelling operational caused the government to inject money into the project.

Earlier comments by the Works Minister pertaining to the delay in construction of the stelling by the management of BK International pertaining to the delay in construction of the stelling by the management of BK International did not go unnoticed.

The construction company launched a scathing attack against the Works Minister only to apologise a few days later.

The Works Minister had blamed the company which in turn insisted that it performed according to the design specifications.

The company also blamed the Works Ministry for contributing to the problem of the stelling by attempting modifications.

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Kaieteur News

Tuesday September 11, 2012

Man claims police stole his Suspicious drowning at the Lamaha canal…

Cops question dead amplifier A man, whose car was seized and he was arrested and locked up, is now contending that his $300,000 amplifier was stolen out of his car by police attached to Turkeyen Station.

The man, who identified himself as Compton Semple, disclosed that he was locked up on August 17, last, as police “pull in” his car that was parked at his niece who lives two corners away from his Sophia residence.

According to Semple, police alleged that his vehicle was there waiting to transport “copper (GT&T cables). I was thrown in the lock-ups then I pass through court; get charge with simple larceny and was sent to Camp Street jail.”

Semple disclosed that Friday last marked his second court appearance; he was granted bail and a court order to uplift his vehicle from the Sparendaam Court.

The man said that on the said day, he returned to Turkeyen police station to uplift his vehicle. However, he was told that he needed a written court order; he then returned to Sparendaam Court.

According to Semple, he was in turn told that he did not need a written court order, as the prosecutor would have communicated with ranks at the station.

“I went back Saturday,

lad’s friends

Compton Semple standing next to his car in Turkeyen station compound they ain’t give me; I go back early this morning(yesterday morning) they taking long, long fuh give me my vehicle so I call me lawyer. Then they give me de key.”

However, as he inspected his vehicle, Semple said that he was greeted by a space where his “expensive” amplifier use to be.

I call me lawyer back and he say give them back de key and make a report; none a

dem didn’t want to take no statement from me.”

The man said that instead of taking a statement, ranks at the station started a blame game.

Semple is now calling on the commissioner to look into the matter. He is contending that he will not uplift his vehicle because it is not the way he left it.

Police yesterday took statements from several teenage boys in an attempt to ascertain how their companion, 14-yearold Daniel Younge, ended up drowning in the Lamaha Canal last Sunday.

Investigators have received conflicting reports about the incident. One report is that the South Ruimveldt Gardens youth died after plunging into the canal, popularly known as ‘the Blacka’.

Another report is that the lads were chasing one another in the water and that one of them pulled Younge, who is believed to have been a poor swimmer, into a deep section of the canal.

The teen who allegedly dragged Younge further out into the water was questioned at the East La Penitence Police Station but was not detained.

The victim is the son of businessman Colin Younge, who returned from overseas on Sunday night. Mr. Younge and other relatives have expressed the view that Daniel was either dragged into a deep section of the canal or was held underwater.

Mr. Young is convinced that his son would not have plunged into the canal, given the fact that he was not an experienced swimmer.

PYO is 60 years old The Progressive Youth Organisation on Sunday concluded a successful series of activities to mark its 60th anniversary to become the oldest youth movement in Guyana.

Yesterday saw several groups of the PYO in various regions on the coastland participating in the nationwide pick it up campaign in several communities. There were among other activities in Regions Two, Three, Four, Five and Six. This is in line with the efforts by the PYO to spread awareness regarding one of our modern challenges which is an increase in the generation of waste and improper disposal habits, particularly in the more populated housing areas.

Groups from Region Two also conducted a treeplanting exercise in keeping with Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy drive but also to maintain the structural integrity of roads next to some of the main drainage canals in Affiance, Essequibo Coast.

A coordinated effort between the Diamond/Grove PPP and PYO groups also resulted in a massive cleanup

campaign of the Diamond Diagnostic Centre compound.

Over in Region Three, the PYO spearheaded an initiative at Leonora, WCD to restore the monument of Kowsilla, a martyr who was killed on March 6, 1964.

The activities commenced on Sunday, September 2, 2012 in a national road safety drive with the painting and repainting of pedestrian crossings along the coastland.

Lectures on the history of the PYO were also hosted by the Lethem PYO group in Region Nine and at Anna Regina in Region Two among others.

The main activity was a grand cultural show at Red House, Main Street on September 6, 2012 which saw the participation of several diverse PYO groups from across the country. The large audience was addressed by His Excellency President Donald Ramotar among several other leaders.

The Progressive Youth Organisation wishes to thank all those who participated or supported its activities which were all designed to promote the various skills and volunteerism of our youth in Guyana.

Yesterday, the businessman visited the area where the tragedy occurred.

He even dived to the spot where the body was found and said that it was so deep that he was unable to touch the bottom of the canal.

After this, Mr. Younge said that he was even more convinced that his son would not have ventured out there.

One relative told Kaieteur News that Younge was left in the care of an older sister. It was some time in the midmorning when he left his home without notifying relatives.

The relative explained that while he was at the “Blacka,” one of his friends swam up and said that he was ‘feeling something’ in the water. “My friend shout and say he feel like a man deh underneath the water…so I say if you feel something pull it up,” the relative related. He received a shock when the body was pulled from the water and it was his cousin.

Panic immediately erupted

Dead: Daniel Younge and the lad was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

The relative told Kaieteur News that doctors at the hospital informed them that the teen was dead for about four hours prior to the body being found.

However, contrary to earlier reports, the victim was not fully clothed when his body was retrieved from the water. A relative reportedly put a shirt on the dead lad.

A postmortem is expected to be performed on the remains tomorrow.

What is the truth?

From page 2 the school as early as possible. We were shocked to read what was written in the Kaieteur News. There are more than two children at this school, about 20 are going to school right now and another 10 are willing to go, but their parents do not have money to send them as yet”.

“No teacher wants to stay in the jungle. Now instead of remedying the situation they are closing the school”. Are they serious?

The resident said that a Mr. Alpha visited with Bhajan and promised to send a car to take the children to Crabwood Creek school until they find the two teachers. They said that Alpha promise to visit them at 07:30 hrs on Monday morning to have a follow up meeting, but did not show.

As the students tried to fit in the car, a resident asked, “Can somebody tell me how all these children could fit in this one car?” The resident also said that it will cost them $4,000 a day to send their chil-

dren to Crabwood Creek School, some six miles away.

They are wondering what will happen to the Kindergarten children whose school dismisses at noon. “We never receive any voucher; the voucher is another scam and is given to rich people.”

At Moleson Creek there is no electricity, running water, telephone, no markets or shops. Because of these absences and the sad state of the road a lot of persons have deserted the area.

Giving a back ground to the situation. The resident said the area was once well populated. But because of Government’s lack of foresight and no assistance people started to migrate.

Then the government started to give out lands at the back of the area to people to plant cane. Those people don’t live here; they don’t care about us and our roads.

They started to use the big tractors and heavy duty equipment that really mash up the road.

Kwakwani’s action is ...

From page 9 were going to recentralize the authority, so that they can then ‘decentralize’.

He however noted that from then to now, there has been no decentralization, and what has happened, is more centralization, more control.

Gordon said that as a people, “we allow these travesties to pass, and as

they pass, the Government is emboldened to do more.”

The IMC Chairman posited that in his view the administration is now ‘panicking’ that what has happened in Linden, has now taken root all over Guyana.

People are now standing up for what they want, in terms of governance and their development.

Tuesday September 11, 2012

Kaieteur News

McDonald resumes winning ways as Grace Hercules fight in GASP Open Championships National Scrabble Champion, Abigail McDonald, resumed her winning ways when she defied a second round loss to Leon Belony by a spread of 41 to capture the top prize when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) Open Championships concluded at the Malteenoes Sports Club, Thomas lands Sunday afternoon last.

McDonald amassed 5 points with a positive spread of 473 to relegate Belony to second place after he had scored 4 points with a positive spread of 514. Moen

Gafoor closed off the podium spots with a similar amount of points as Belony but a lower positive spread of 82.

Grace Hercules distinguished herself among the lower rated players, also scoring 4 points but with a negative spread of 118. The Lindener is a persistent player and might just have clinched the third place but for losses by large spreads to McDonald (136) and Gafoor (118). She nevertheless scored convincing victories over Orlando Michael (56), Michael Benjamin (31), Maurice Munru (80) and Belony (93).

McDonald’s other 4 points were accrued after wins over Munru (70), Gafoor (118), Michael Benjamin (118) and James Krakowsky (72).

Belony’s other victims were Michael (268), Krakowsky (73) and Munru (158). Gafoor scored wins over Julian Skeete (4), Wayne Cave (16), Belony (15) and Hercules (13).

The organizers will meet shortly to announce the next competition day but members of GASP are reminded that practice sessions are on Thursday at the Malteenoes Sports Club starting at 19:00hrs.

Keen competition anticipated as...

From back page the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Franklyn Wilson officially welcomed the visitors to Guyana. He acknowledged the warm welcome and superb hospitality offered by the Spanish team when the locals played there last week and promised them similar treatment. Mr. Wilson said that the first match was indeed

a fiercely fought duel and he anticipated a repeat performance tonight.

He further hinted of an improved level of play by the locals since they would be enjoying the home advantage.

Mr. Wilson also acknowledged the input of Mr. Shabazz who has literally transformed the ‘Jaguars’ to a raging, determined bunch.

Tonight’s activities get underway at 20:00hrs sharp and the price of admission remains at $3000.

Mr. Wilson explained that the organizers had initially advertised a special package for children twelve years and under but were forced to renege on this promise through circumstances beyond their control.

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Andy Murray beats Novak Djokovic to win US Open BBC Sport - Andy Murray ended Britain’s 76year wait for a male Grand Slam singles champion with an epic victory over Novak Djokovic in the US Open final.

The Scot finally emulated Fred Perry’s 1936 achievement, winning 7-6 (1210) 7-5 2-6 3-6 6-2 in four hours 54 minutes on Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Murray - the new world number three - ended Djokovic’s title defence and 27-match hard court winning run at majors.

It caps a fine year for the 25-year-old, who also won Olympic gold.

But this result will arguably have a greater impact on his career and the future of tennis in the United Kingdom. Murray lost his first four Grand Slam finals an Open era record he shares with coach Ivan Lendl - but like the Czech he has triumphed at the fifth time of asking.

While it is a dream of his to win Wimbledon, the British number one has long been tipped to make his breakthrough at Flushing Meadows.

He was the boys’ singles champion there in 2004, hard courts are his favourite surface and he enjoys the atmosphere in New York.

Murray is unlikely to ever forget the atmosphere inside the world’s biggest tennis arena as he celebrated his success. A swirling wind made conditions troublesome for both players, but it was Murray who coped better in the first two sets.

After early breaks were exchanged, Murray struck again before moving 4-2 ahead following a game that included a 54-shot rally.

Djokovic rallied to force a tiebreak, yet his opponent showed greater belief and converted a sixth set point with 87 minutes on the clock.

Murray roared with delight and carried his momentum into the second set, breaking an out-of-sorts

Djokovic twice for a 4-0 lead.

A lapse in concentration allowed Djokovic back in and when the Serbian landed a majestic lob for 5-5, Murray clutched his left thigh.

There were no signs of injury, though, as Murray held to 15 and then forced a flurry or errors from the world number two, opening up a two-set lead for the first time in a Grand Slam final.

The crowed urged Djokovic to respond and he did - threatening in game one of the third set before making his move in game three.

Murray was now starting to berate himself and voice his frustrations in the direction of his player box, never more so than when two backhand mistakes saw chances squandered in game six. He then fell a double-break down thanks to an incredible backhand on to the baseline from Djokovic, who easily closed out the set.

Djokovic looked revitalised, Murray weary, and the right-hander from Belgrade swiftly found himself 2-0 up in the fourth set. Just when it seemed

Murray might respond, Djokovic was called for a time violation and he angrily took his performance to a new level.

When Murray’s backhand broke down again, Djokovic leapt with joy and it seemed he could become the first man since Pancho Gonzales in 1949 to rally from two sets down to win the US Open. But Murray had other ideas and made a devastating start to the decider, breaking in game one and consolidating it with some defensive play of the very highest order.

The third seed was in dreamland when Djokovic netted a forehand to hand over the double-break, only for a nervous Murray to immediately surrender one of his strikes with a timid backhand. A love service hold put Murray back on track and he advanced to within one game of victory when Djokovic netted a forehand.

Murray served out the championship 79 years to the day - on the same court - that Perry won the first of eight major singles crowns.

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West Indies open the tournament against the Aussies on Saturday, September 22 followed by a clash with the Irish on Monday, September 24.

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Sensei Ramkirath has been studying karate since 1989 and is a student of Shito-Ryu karate expert, Darryl Williams since 1993. His dojo will be called Bassai Karate DojoNew York. He holds the grade of Sandan (3rd Degree Black belt) and his pursuing his referee and coaching certifications under WUKOUSA. He is well known for his fighting skills and has competed and won numerous times both in Guyana and the USA. His school will be in the Richmond Hill area of Queens Borough, in New York. For information send email to kumar6918@yahoo.com or log on to www.bassaikaratedojo.webs.com He will be visiting Guyana

Kumar Ramkirath and Trinidad and Tobago soon to conduct technical workshops.

Stoby peaking in time...

From page 21 this was as a result of limited participation in terms of numbers of athletes.

Stoby was in vintage form as he captured Gold in both the Open and Masters 74kg categories, setting new Caribbean, Commonwealth and World records in the dead lift 265.5kgs and total 645.5kgs in the Masters Category.

His dead lift record was only recently broken by a Russian with a lift of 267.5kgs.

Nevertheless, Stoby has served notice that he intends to reclaim that record as well as capture the World Champion Title by warming up with commanding performances recently in the local National Masters Championships where he set a national as well as tied the current world record in the dead lift of 267.5kgs with lots of energy left in the tank.

It is appropriate to mention that Stoby has a best recorded official lift of 275kg set in 2010 (75kg class) at the CAC Championships. He is

strategically peaking at the right time and in ominous form and as the old adage goes, he is ‘saving the best for last’.

Compatriot ‘Big’ John Edwards, who competes in the 120kgs class, has been withdrawn due to an injury.

According to the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) President Peter Green, all Guyanese patriots need to rally behind Stoby.

Meanwhile, sponsorship towards Stoby’s participation is welcome. Fund raising and promised (but not yet fulfilled) sponsorship has seen his expenses covered at the three quarter mark.

Green has vowed to see this deserving son of the soil given the chance on the World stage and reminds all and sundry that since its reemergence in 2008, the fast growing sport of Powerlifting has always delivered.

Stoby is scheduled to depart Guyana September 28.

Persons interested in rallying behind the Champ are free to contact him on 624-8710.

Victoria Kings take pole...

From page 23 brace (3, 56), Colwin Barnwell tucked in the other in the 41st minute.

First round matches in the two-round League will continue this weekend.

POINTS STANDING Teams Win Loss Draw Goals Points Victoria Kings 4 1 1 12 13 BV Triumph United 4 1 0 4 12 Buxton United 3 1 2 8 11 Ann’s Grove 3 2 1 9 10 Buxton Stars 2 0 3 4 9 Mahaica 2 4 0 4 6 Plaisance 0 4 2 0 2 Golden Stars 0 5 1 2 1

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BCB/NCN Inter Zone Under-15 competition...

Stoby peaking in New Amsterdam/Canje upset Lower time for World Corentyne to lift championship Powerlifting C/ships

Winston Stoby Listed as the #1 ranked lifter in his weight category (74kgs M2 Class), which features the World’s best lifters from Japan, Great Britain, USA, France, South Africa and Peru; Guyana’s Winston Frank Stoby, barring any unforeseen challenges is set to give Guyana its first ever World Power lifting title.

The Masters athlete’s quest for ultimate glory lifted off back in 1996 when he was part of the National team at the 1996 Pan American championships in Canada where he captured an individual gold while setting a Pan American record in the open 75kg dead lift.

Ever since that performance, Stoby has been preparing for his inevitable date with destiny, returning to the International arena in 2010 and participating at the Masters level at the Caribbean Championships hosted by Guyana for the first time ever, Stoby captured Gold with a total of 652.5kgs and coincidentally, it was a better total than was recorded by the winner of the Open category (625kg) achieved by fellow Guyanese Ryan Williams.

Three months later, as part of a four-man team of competitors at inaugural Central American and

Caribbean Power lifting Championships, Stoby stamped his authority as undisputed king of his class when he won Gold in the Open 75kg category which featured some lifters half his age; he recorded a total of 655kgs.

Guyana tallied 2 gold and one silver as well as the Best Lifter Overall Title which was won by Randolph ‘The Accomplisher’ Morgan.

Stoby next took aim at the World Championships in 2011, Canada. Were it not for the late receipt of his visa, Guyana would have already gained its first World Powerlifting title as the eventual winner, Lewis of the USA, total was significantly lower than Stoby’s best of 2011.

Another Champion, ‘Big’ John Edwards, gave Guyana a Bronze at the said Canadian championships, competing in the Heavyweight class.

In 2012, Stoby warmed up for this year’s World Championships by participating as a member of an almost full strength National team at the Caribbean Championships in April which saw Team Guyana recapturing the Team Title they won in 2010 in Guyana but lost in 2011 and (Continued on page 20)

A brilliant all round performance from Man-ofthe-Final Kassim Khan led his team New Amsterdam/ Canje to an upset and exciting first innings victory over defending champions Lower Corentyne in the final of the 2012 BCB/NCN Inter Zone Under-15 cricket tournament.

Playing at the Young Warriors Cricket ground in Cumberland, East Canje, Berbice in front of a fair size crowd, the host edged the defending champions by 4 runs on first innings to lift their first title at this level.

Batting first after losing the toss, New Amsterdam/ Canje reached 113 all out off 43 of their allotted first innings quota of 50 overs.

Khan top scored with a fighting 30 with 3 massive sixes and received support from Clifton Lindie 26 and Leon Andrews 21. Skipper Daniel Lewis bowled well to claim 6 for 28 runs from 13.4 overs, while Joshua Harrichan took 2 for 10 from 4 overs.

Lower Corentyne in reply lost Brandon Prashad and Tyrone Poornauth cheaply for 4 and 1 respectively to be 18 for 2 in the 13th over.

However, Lewis and the talented Balchan Baldeo added 56 runs in 20 overs to take their team to 74 for 2 before Lewis was caught driving at left arm pacer Kassim Khan for a composed 30 (2x4).

The rest of the batsmen failed to apply themselves and support Baldeo who was out for 47 with three fours at 93 for 8. Lower Corentyne were eventually dismissed for 109 in 48.2 overs.

Khan took 6 for 32 off 20 impressive overs while off spinner Leon Andrews supported with 4 for 35 from 19.3 overs.

Batting a second time with a lead of 4 runs, New Amsterdam/Canje reached 35 for 2 with Leon Andrews making 20 (2x6) and Clifton Lindie 11 not out. Joel Davis was the other batsman out for nought, caught off Joshua

The winning New Amsterdam/Canje team pose with NCN and BCB officials.

Harrichan.

At the Port Mourant Ground, West Berbice got past a disappointing Upper Corentyne on first innings in the 3rd place playoff. Randy Wade 74, Adrian Singh 21, Mahendra Mahadeo 18 and Randy Singh 18 batted well for West Berbice who scored 185 in their first innings.

Off spinner Deon Esau bowled well for Upper Corentyne taking 4 wickets for 53 runs.

In reply, Upper Corentyne were bundled out for 70 in 43.2 overs as only Mahendra Deochand 20 and Esau 13 making any significant contributions. Left arm spinner Parmanand Ramdhan took 6 for 27 and the ‘pacy’ right arm fast bowler Greison Grant 2 for 20.

Batting a second time, Grant blasted 47 runs to take West Berbice to 55 without loss at the close of play.

At a simple but impressive post match ceremony, both Anil Beharry, treasurer of BCB and Hilbert Foster, PRO of BCB hailed the tournament as a great success and expressed gratitude to NCN and its acting CEO Michael Gordon for the sponsorship.

Foster highlighted the remarkable achievement of the board so far this year and commits it to more success.

Member of Parliament and NCN Berbice Coordinator,

CEO NCN Michael Gordon hands over trophy to Captain of New Amsterdam/ Canje team, Leon Andrews.

Faizal Jaffarally congratulated the BCB on its outstanding work and told the attentive cricketers that they were a privileged bunch to be served by the Board’s outstanding and visionary leadership.

NCN acting CEO Michael Gordon in a well received presentation hailed the success of the tournament and stated that his company was pleased to be associated with the best administered board in Guyana. Describing Berbice Cricket as a role model for the rest of Guyana and the Caribbean, Gordon announced a renewal of the sponsorship for 2013 and hinted at similar tournaments

Several lucky persons clinch prizes as GASP announces winners of fund raising raffle Several persons have become lucky, winning various prizes when the drawing of the raffle organized by the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (G.A.S.P) took place on the 25th August last.

The proceeds from the raffle assisted G.A.S.P in successfully hosting the

recently concluded Caribbean Scrabble Championships over the period August 23rd to 25th.

Trinidad and Tobago retained the trophy while Guyana finished in the second placet.

Barbados ended up in the cellar.

The raffle was drawn at the closing ceremony of the tournament at the Bank of

Guyana Sports Club and was witnessed by a representative of Ram and Mc Rae Chartered Accountants.

The first prize of a pair of Nike Sunglasses by Kings Jewellery World was won by Claudine Collins, while Marlyn Cameron clinched the second prize of one digital camera donated by

Gizmos & Gadgets. Cell Phone Shack had donated the 3rd place prize of one cellular phone and it was won by Curtis Vaughn.

The other three prizes were won by Nicholai Latchana (Food Hamper by Survival Supermarket), Dr. S. Mangru (Dinner for 2 by Windjammer Restaurant) and Chris

Chapwanya (Wall clock donated by the Chichester family).

The organizers wish to congratulate the various winners even as they express gratitude to all participants as well as the members of the corporate community that were instrumental in the success of the venture.

in the other Counties followed by an Inter County under-15 Championship. Gordon announced to large applause, that the final of the 2013 tournament will be carried live

by NCN Radio. He promised on behalf of NCN to partner with the BCB in a new initiative of a live television programme to be aired on the last Thursday evening of every month.

The board will use this programme to inform the public of what is happening in the world of cricket from the international to the local level.

The NCN and BCB have also partnered in an anti drugs advertisement programme to be aired on the National Television.

He advised the young cricketers to remain focused and stay in school and he pledged the support of his company for the development of sports in Guyana.

The winning team pocketed $40,000 and the Championship Trophy, the runner up $25,000, 3rd place $15,000 and 4th place $10,000.

Kassim Khan took home $3,000 and a lovely trophy for been man-of-the-finals.

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Reece edges Holder to take Furniture World cycle event

Tuesday September 11, 2012

Sport in Guyana in crisis...

Hypocritical simulations of meetings more of the old procedure

By Rawle Welch

Reece receives his winning cheque for his cliff hanger victory from Furniture World CEO Ms janet Hikyle The event was touted as the race of the season so far and lived up to all its pre-race billing as top cyclist Neil Reece and the inform Dwight Holder battled from start to finish with Reece nosing home by a millimeter ahead of Holder in a cliff hanger finish in the Furniture World 50-mile road race held last Sunday.

The winning time was 1hr 55minutes. The event which was organized by the Flying Ace Cycle Club, began around 09:30 hrs and saw the 20 cyclists riding off from in front of the Furniture World establishment at Main and King Street and proceed to No.37 village on the Corentyne before turning back to finish at the point of origin.

When the race got started, Roy Millington, conscious of the presence of Reece and Holder made an early break

with Wasim Hasnu hot in pursuit as the two opened up an early lead about eight miles into the race.

Reece decided that it was enough and made a move on the leaders, but Holder and the rest of the pack closed in quickly and soon enough they had connected to the leaders.

Reece and Holder then made a break at Albion and were never challenged. At the half way stage they had already opened a sizable lead on the chasing pack.

Try as they others may, no quarter was given none was asked for as the men stepped up the pace on the downward journey and carried on side by side, move by move until they passed the finish line.

After much deliberation for a few moments the officials awarded Reece the

win. Wasim Hassnu rode home third ahead of Roy Millington with the veteran Syborne Fernandes improving to take fifth spot head of Shawn Rasheed sixth.

Andrew Green was first among the beginners winning a close finish from Audreul Ross, with Andrew Hicks third as Tyron Brush, Richard Alexander, Junior Quinn and Termine Hooper taking the other top spots.

Reece took away four of the prime point prizes with Holder and Hassnu one each.

The beginners rode 20 miles starting at Adventure and finished in front of Furniture World at Main and King Streets in New Amsterdam.

The event was held to promote awareness for domestic violence. The coordinator was Randolph Roberts. (Samuel Whyte)

There is no doubt that Sport is in a crisis in Guyana and the present calamity has instigated a stream of articles from some sections of the independent media criticizing the laughable support or lack thereof from critical stakeholders for its development.

After reading and listening to talk from the major stakeholders about what will be done to extricate us from our current position, the general feeling is that unless there is a concerted effort to attract and include persons with the requisite will and skill supported by a major injection of funding, no amount of speech-making could resolve the problems that has inundated the sports landscape.

The objective of this missive is to extract from all of the talk some sensible proposals that if adopted could at least provide some answers for the future.

It was Karl Marx who said, “the point is not to understand the world but to change the world” and this quote is made more urgent than usual by the crisis that is currently facing sports, a messy situation which has brought us continual disappointment and international embarrassment.

What we’ve had in the past is a situation of unilateral approaches and the absence of inclusiveness and that had given rise to a shortage of an assortment of ideas coming from a wider cross section of the society.

However, even the attempt by the Director of Sport (DoS) Neil Kumar to engage the Heads of Associations will fall short of what is required to change the present state of

affairs unless a National Consultative Forum is speedily organized to address the seemingly interminable poor performances of our athletes on the international stage.

There must be a change from how things were done in the past since it is clear for all to see that the previous approach did not garner satisfactory results, while the Government’s diffident funding policy has also hindered progress.

The expanded nonappearance of the Sports Policy is another source of contention since it is the one document, providing that it benefits from the input of all the stakeholders, could definitively emphasize the seriousness of the Government and ultimately gather unequivocal support from the Private Sector.

At the core of the problems are the crisis of ideas which is fundamentally linked with inclusivity and the implementation of an unopposed first class policy that plainly defines strategies to take Sport out of the existing dilemma.

The hypocritical simulations of meetings being held among a chosen few must only be seen as more of the old procedure which has been exposed as a failure and rightfully decimated by some sections of the media.

The challenge now must be to devise a different approach and that must start with admittance that the present strategy hasn’t worked and it is now time for a new plan to be implemented that includes all the major stakeholders.

Time is of essence and any delay could very well endanger the ‘From now to Brazil’ undertaking as promised by the DoS.

Aubrey Gordon wins USA Masters Cycle Road Race

NBS 2nd Div. 40 over cricket...

Young Warriors and RHT Bakewell into semis Young Warriors and Rose Hall Town Bakewell booked their places in the semifinals of the 2011 New Building Society Second Division 40over cricket competition being contested in the ancient County.

The two clubs have joined No.70 Young Stars and Albion Community Centre in the semifinals.

Playing at the Cumberland Ground, Canje, Young Warriors defeated Courtland All Stars by 26 runs. Winning the toss and batting first, Young Warriors managed 171 for 9 in their 40 overs; former Guyana Under-15 batsman

Sanjay Khan led with 47*, Mortimer Fraser 31 and Hubern Evans 23.

Bowling for Courtland, Timothy McDonald took 3 for 23, Travis Williams, 2 for 16 and Eon Gibson 2 for 18.

When Courtland All Star replied, they lost early wickets to be 68 for 6 before John Percival (33) and Timothy McDonald put on 64 between them but after they both departed, Courtland All Star fell for 145 in 30.2 overs.

Bowling for Young Warriors, former Anil Beharry took 3 for 21, Berbice Under17 pacer Suresh Dhanai, 2 for 6, Kawal Mangal 2 for 14 and

Hubern Evans 2 for 17.

Over at the Rose Hall Town Ground, Rose Hall Town Bakewell got past No.71 by 3 wickets. Winning the toss and batting first, Rose Hall Town Bakewell posted 183 for 7 in their 40 overs; Jason Sinclair hitting 71, Ravi Narine 27 and Eon Hooper 23.

Bowling for No.71, Shiraz Khan took 2 for 27 and Trishan Ramdass 2 for 35.

No.71 in reply were bundled out for 90 in 28.3 overs; Deoprakash Ramdat made 16.

Bowling for Rose Hall Town, Guyana Under-17 all rounder Arif Chan grabbed 4 for 20 and Eon Hooper 4 for 19.

Aubrey Gordon powers to the finish line in an exciting sprint USA based Guyanese rider Aubrey Gordon, who competes in the 55-59 Men’s Masters category, continues to blaze the trail in the big apple chalking up yet another Place 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th

major win in his cycling career. Representing Liberty Cycle, Gordon won the USA Cycling Masters Road National Criterium which was held on September 8. The

consistent high end performer now has his eyes set on the Masters Track Championships which will be held in Manchester England, next month.

FOLLOWING ARE THE RESULTS OF THE TOP TEN FINISHERS. Points Name City, State Time 145.73 Aubrey Gordon Reading, PA 55:50:00 154.91 Mark Hoffenberg Santa Rosa Ca 55:50:00 164.09 Robert Downs Madison, WI 55:50:00 173.27 Daniel Nicolette Los Alamitos 55:50:00 182.45 Glenn Schneider Lake Worth, FL 55:51:00 191.63 Charles Holbrook Oconomowoc 55:51:00 200.81 Kevin Willitts S Lake Tahoe 55:51:00 209.99 Kalman Szkalak Capistrano Beach 55:51:00 219.16 Mark Sommers Washington, DC 55:51:00 228.34 Bill Crum Eagle, ID55:51:00

Tuesday September 11, 2012

Stag Beer EDFA Senior League...

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ction in the Stag Beer sponsored East Demerara F o o t b a l l A s s o c i a t i o n ( E D FA ) Division One League continued this past weekend with three matches at the

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Victoria King takes pole position; wins for Mahaica & Buxton United Buxton Community Centre Ground.

Recording wins were Victoria Kings which ran out 4-1 winners over Ann’s Grove United; Mahaica were winners via the walk over route from Plaisance

Sarwan: Hilaire threatened my career

Ramnaresh Sarwan

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he West Indies Cricket Board was recently directed to award TT$1 million (US$155,900) to Ramnaresh Sarwan for “publicly denigrating and humiliating” the Guyanese middle order batsman. The payment is part of a $1.5 million pay out in damages which the Board incurred r e c e n t l y. S a r w a n w a s awarded the damages after winning his arbitration matter against the WICB… In his evidence at the arbitration, Sarwan stated that Dr. Ernest Hilaire threatened him and told him if he did not change his attitude, his career would

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Ernest Hilaire come to an end.

Sarwan stated that following the West Indies tour of Australia in 20092010, he received a letter from Hilaire which indicated that the WICB had just concluded its review of the tour and had concerns about his ‘attitude and approach to fitness and physical preparation’…

“He told me if I did not change my attitude, my career would end, and he hung up.”

Sarwan said he immediately called back Hilaire and asked if he was threatening him. He said Hilaire told him he would inform the selectors to act accordingly.

which failed to show up, while Buxton United disposed of Golden Grove 30.

Victoria Kings, once a formidable unit on the East Coast, are earnestly seeking to return to those glory days and with the win over Ann’s Grove, have taken over the lead with 13 points after six matches, one point ahead of BV Triumph United (5 matches).

Aubrey Gibson blasted a hat-trick for the Kings hitting the network in the 20th, 35th and 41st minutes.

Scoring in the 28th minute for the Kings was Royan Morrison. An improved performance by Ann’s Grove kept the Kings at bay for the entire half.

Some form of consolation came Ann’s Grove’s way when C. Jerrick pulled one back in the 65th

minute.

Sunday should have seen a double header card but only one game was played owing to the no show of Plaisance for their clash with Mahaica Determinators.

In the lone match-up, home team Buxton United eased their way to a comfortable 3-0 win over Golden Grove compliments of a Jamaal Booker (Continued on page 20)

Aubrey Gibson

FIFA World Cup Qualifying tournament...

t r o Sp Keen competition anticipated as ‘Golden Jaguars’ go after El Salvador tonight

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ollowing their fiercely fought 22 stalemate again El Salvador in the latter country’s backyard last Friday night, the ‘Golden Jaguars’, Guyana’s premiere football team, will attempt to solidify their standings in the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers when it oppose that Spanish team in the return encounter at the National Stadium, Providence tonight.

The foreign team arrived in Guyana Saturday evening last and their representatives were present at a press conference at the Princess Hotel International, Providence yesterday afternoon to brief the media of particulars of tonight’s encounter.

Their coach, Juan de dios Castillo oozed confidence even as he promised to turn in a great performance. He said that he had made minimal changes to the team that had played in the home match, while reiterating that all systems are in place for an improved performance.

Coach of the Golden Jaguars, Trinidadian Jamal Shabazz, was more outright than his Spanish counterpart, “We are an ambitious team and we have a lot to play for; it’s important that we destroy El Salvador,” he exhorted when asked of his prediction for tonight’s game.

Mr. Shabazz said that while in El

Officials of the two teams at the Press Conference at Princess Hotel yesterday.

Salvador the local team was well treated. He said that though the level of fair play was superb, the two teams were engaged in fierce rivalry. He anticipated a similar scenario tonight and urged all Guyanese with even an iota of patriotism and nationalism to come out in support of the local players.

Mr. Shabazz remains adamant that the ‘12th man,’ the Guyanese supporters is an extremely vital component to the team’s performance and he enforced this point by underlining the massive demonstration of support of

the El Salvadorian fans for their team in the just concluded match.

M e a n w h i l e , representatives of the corporate community that have been a pivotal force behind the local team’s efforts were also at the forum and pledged continued support.

Sales Executive (Georgetown and Suriname) of Caribbean Airlines, Dion Inniss, said that his company is extremely delighted to support the local ball weavers in their quest to attain World Cup honours.

He said that the two entities have enjoyed fruitful relations over the years and

CAL on Board with GFF - two lucky fans to win tickets to New York

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aribbean Airline, which recently inked a partnership with the Guyana Football Federation, will be, as their motto says (the warmth of the Islands) warming the hearts of two lucky spectators that will be attending today’s World Cup Qualifying match between Guyana and El Salvador at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

According Marketing Executive Dion Inniss, six spectators who are clad in yellow will be randomly chosen when entering the stadium and asked to predict the final score of the game in one instance.

Six other persons also clad in yellow will also be chosen randomly and asked to predict

who will be the first Guyanese player to score. The lucky persons, one in each case will win tickets to New York compliments of Caribbean Airline.

Inniss noted that this is Caribbean Airline’s way of showing their commitment for the great journey that the Golden Jaguars have embarked on and their commitment towards their continued progress.

He stated that the partnership with the Guyana Football Federation is a strengthened one and one that has been ongoing. He promised that with the continued progress of the ‘Golden Jaguars’, Caribbean Airline will be increasing their contributions towards the GFF and their valued customers.

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he anticipated a stauncher union as the footballers pile up the victories. Mr. Inniss further wished the team all the best and urged the players to play hard and win tonight’s match.

Chief Executive Officer of Ansa McAl, Beverley Harper also exuded confidence in the local

players. She said that the current championships coincided with the 20th anniversary of her organization and she was anticipating a great game.

DDL Marketing Executive, Alexis Crawford said that her company places sports high on its agenda and top executives are indeed

delighted to be a part of the team’s efforts at attaining World Cup honours. She echoed the lamentations of Mr. Shabazz saying that the corporate community has done its part and it is now time for the supporters to emulate their act.

Earlier, President (ag) of (Continued on page 19)

Gibson optimistic about Windies’ World T20 chances Bridgetown, Barbados – West Indies coach Ottis Gibson said he was optimistic of his side’s chances in the World Tw e n t y 2 0 To u r n a m e n t taking place this month in Sri Lanka.

Gibson said the composition of the team struck the right balance between experience and talent, and he expected West Indies to live up to his longheld belief that they had the potential to win the World T20 title.

“The players have done very well at the camp and looking at the composition of the team. . .we have a good combination, a good mix of experience and young players. . .and we feel we have a real good chance of

Ottis Gibson doing very well in this tournament,” said Gibson prior to the team’s departure on Sunday.

Gibson noted that players like Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo and Sunil Narine have

done very well in the T20 format. “They have been stars of the Indian Premier League, and have in-depth knowledge of this format,” he said.

“The captain, Darren Sammy, is in great form, so too Andre Russell and Fidel Edwards, and there are others that can step up.”

The World T20 features 12 teams and will be played from September 18 to October 7. West Indies have been drawn in Group B along with Australia and Ireland – and both first round matches will be played at the Premadasa Stadium in Sri Lanka capital of Colombo.

Gibson said it was hard to predict which sides were the biggest threat in the competition and it was (Continued on page 20)

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