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Region 3 landowners fume over pipeline for Gas-to-Energy project

…as Govt. proposes to buy over lands

ByDavinaBagot

About 25 landowners on Friday afternoon received a proposal from the Government of Guyana (GoG) to buy over part of their lands to facilitate the 12-inchpipelinetotransport gas from the Liza Fields in theStabroekBlocktoWales, WestBankDemerara.

Leading the discussion with the landowners was Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister, Anil Nandlall, S C Also in attendance at the meeting, which was venued at the West Demerara Secondary School, was Natural Resources Minister, Vickram Bharrat, Public Works Minister, Juan Edghill,ProjectHeadforthe GTE project, Winston Brassington and officials from the Housing Department.

It was explained that works for the project are scheduled to commence in October, hence the need to complete the land acquisition process in a timelymanner

Minister Nandlall in an interview with this publication said that government first amended thelegislationtoremovethe power of acquiring lands in the pathway of the pipeline fromthelicenseeandplaced it in the hands of the government. This was done strategically with a view of ensuring the people’s interests receive paramount consideration,theAGnoted, while adding it must “not (be) left at the whims and fancy of any private company ” Nandlall explained, “We believe that the government would be responsible in ensuring that the negotiations and engagementswiththepeople are both fair to the governmentaswellasfairto thepeople.”

In moving the process forward,theAGsaidthepath of the pipeline was then plotted and published in the Official Gazette as required by law He was keen to note that in deciding on the route of the pipeline government ensured that it – as far as possible fell alongside public lands so as to minimize the pipeline

interfering with private property.

Importantly, he told Kaieteur News that the land was also demarcated with enoughexcessonbothsides of the structure to create a “buffer” zone This will ensure that private property is not affected when maintenance works are required,amongothers.

Next, the AG said, “we did a survey and got the names of all the private property owners who are affected and they were served with notice of the survey That was done and the area of land demarcated inasurveyplanandthenwe tookthatplanandthatareaof land to the government evaluation department and a value was placed for each. Wearedoingitinphases.”

The landowners who received an offer for their lands are located between NouvelleFlandersandCanal Number One. Nandlall said the next step would be to meet with land owners betweenCanalandWales.

Eachaffectedlandowner received a document containing the name of the person, the area of the land, size of it and the value. According to the Legal AffairsMinister,“theideais that the people will receive compensation at fair market value (or) at current market value.”

W h e n a s k e d i f government will be finding landstorelocatetheaffected parties Nandlall said,

“Different options are being explored but the underlying principleismarketvalueand arriving at a consensual position with the people whether it’s money or whether it’s alternative arrangements can be arrived atbutattheendofthedaywe want agreement. We don’t wantdisaffection.”

FARMERS’ CONTENTION

This publication spoke withanumberoflandowners who said they are not satisfiedwiththeoffermade by government for their lands One farmer for example explained that the offer made did not take into consideration the earnings made from the property that wouldbeaffected.

Thefarmertold Kaieteur News, “I don’t think the valuation considers the earningsthatwegetfromthe land by planting rice. They just gave a flat value of that but they don’t consider that everymonthweearnonthis landsotheyshouldconsider howitwouldaffectuswhen theytakeitawayfromus.”

A landowner in Canal Number One then explained

t h a t e v e n t h o u g h government will only require part of his land, his farming activity will be completely disrupted hence he does not believe he received a fair offer for compensation The man, who is employed at a government office, asked to remain anonymous He explained, “I am one of the land owners that will be extremely affected According to what they are saying it will be about six acrestheyneed.Myconcern is, if you taking half of the landIcan’tdoanythingelse on the other half so it’s kind ofpointlessbecausetheyare saying there will be a fence oneithersideofthepipeand they will have some sort of security or something so I would have to move off of thelandbecauseIcan’tfarm onit,Ican’tlivethere,Ican’t burn anything on the land because of the pipeline. I plantpineapples,tangerines, plantains and other cash crops.Ibornandgrowthere and my father got the land fromhisgrandfatherandsoI amcurrently29yearsold.It will affect me a lot. I am

looking forward to a call from whichever lawyer they say they are gonna propose to us but this offer I can’t workwithit.”

Also,theyoungmansaid he is fearful that a gas leak may occur and start a chain reaction; hence he may be forced to discontinue his greatgrandparents’legacy

Afemalelandownerwho did not state her name shared,“webeenlivinghere we whole life now they just want come and disrupt your wholesystem.Nottheentire landwillbeaffectedbutstill you are being disrupted Exxonhadsentayounglady and I asked what would happenifitexplodeandthey saiditwouldbeunderground nine feet but I don’t know how much land they really taking but I am waiting on next week to hear what they wouldsay.”

Anothermalericefarmer atNouvelleFlanderssaidhis property was owned by his family for almost 150 years now “Iam51yearsnowand Iamaricefarmer Theyjust disrupt we whole life now and I don’t know if we will earnanything.”

Meanwhile, another landowner said he has two lots that will be affected by the pipeline in Canal Number One. He explained that the property is particularlyclosetohimasit has been in his family for fivegenerations.

Another farmer told Kaieteur News that his concern is nestled in being cut off from the access dam tohislandsinCanalNumber One “Them taking the accessdamfromweandthat is the issue because when they take the dam, we don’t have anywhere to go in and out. We planting rice and tangerine and everything in Canal Number One. I born and grow there and I’s 45 rightnow,”herelated.

It must be noted that at Friday’s meeting, affected property owners were told by Minister Nandlall that they would be contacted by l a w y e r s f r o m t h e governmenttolistentotheir specific concerns and counter proposal. He also told the citizens that they were free to secure the servicesoftheirownlawyers on

From right: Public Works Minister, Juan Edghill;Attorney General and LegalAffairs Minister,Anil Nandlall, S.C; GTE Project Head, Winston Brassington and Natural Resources Minister Vickram Bharrat sit with executives of Region Three and the Housing Ministry to discuss the interruptions that will be caused by the project

Alandowner along the pipeline route shares a concern with the government team

The national togetherness challenge

Guyanese have coexisted in a state of uneasiness in the decades since Independence. In the years prior to national freedom, tension and intolerance spiralled to a fever pitch. Fromeveryindication,itseemsthatcitizenshaveneverfully recoveredfromthetraumasofoverahalfcenturyago. Each elections season rekindles, restores, and gives renewed life to the disharmony and disunity that have been the national culture, no matter how subdued, how subtle, or how softened. The arrival of massive amounts of oil has only served to magnify and intensify the national wretchedness that originates in, is driven by, and perpetuated through political separateness and dogged resistance to closing the woundinggaps. TogethernessisGuyana’smysterykey,but wehavelostit,andnowdon’tmakeanyefforttofindit.

If there is no national togetherness, then we are among themostwretchedofmenandwomen. Thisconsignsusto languishinastateofuglyfury,acultureofsocialapartness, and heading towards a destiny that mocks the great riches bestowedonus. Whenweasanation,asapeople,asaplace of self governance and self determination, remain committed to and content in living in this manner, then we are unworthy of our fabulous gifts. We at this paper make thiscrystalclear:wecanneverachievethetruepotential,the fullest benefit, of our national patrimony, when there is continuing satisfaction with our hard, unyielding differences, our recognisable hostility, and our failure to dedicatethenecessaryenergiestochangewhereweare,and howweare.

We are not the Guyana of old anymore. We are oil Guyana, this oil bonanza, this glittering, enchanting oil paradise. Yet we have not changed an inch to ready ourselves to greet the riches that are ours. We delight in arguing, we thrill with quarrelling, and we like being torn andfragmented,woundedanddragging. Whilewedragon our bottoms, rendered so by our disuniting diseases, others comefromtheoutsideandwalkawayatwillwithourwealth thatisthewonderoftheworld.

We are a society of less than a million people, and we can’tspeaktoeachother,don’thavethesoundnessofvision, the sense in our makeup, to appreciate that we are our own worstenemies. Weareacountryofmanybillionsofbarrels ofoil,andforeignexploiters(thatiswhattheyare)cartaway, haul away, and ship away what belongs to us, and we still prefertodenounceneighbour,whoweseeasenemy,theonly one. Weareasmallcountrywithtwopoliticalgroupsonly, for all intents and purposes; yet both fail to put aside their disagreements,ortheirmemories,sothattheycansucceedat bringingaboutabetterGuyana.

This is the source, the fuel, and the engine of our individual, communal, and national self-destruction in bits and pieces, and to which each of the two political parties contribute. Itistothesameself-destructivenessthatmostof us,ifnoteachoneofus,willinglyparticipate.

CitizensinGuyanaarelargelyandpowerfullyfuelledby thevisions,positions,andconditionsofthepoliticalparties they follow faithfully It is imperative, therefore, that the People’s Progressive Party and the People’s National Congress, the political majors that matter in their fusion groups, think of the mandatory steps they must take, then actuallytakethem,andpavethewayforGuyanesetoclose ranksandjoinhands. WhenthePPP/CandtheAPNU+AFC standshouldertoshoulder,therestoftheGuyanesepeople follow suit Both governing PPP/C and Coalition OppositionoweadutytoGuyanesetocarveoutaway,andto leadtheway,towardsthetogethernessthathasalwaysbeen suchabittermedicineforustoabsorb.

Togetherness in this time of great wealth is a must. Togethernessiswhatassuresabetterunderstanding,abetter reception,ofeachother(andallthoseinbetween)forabetter future. Government and Opposition must set the example, be in front. If not, we will stay stuck at where we have alwaysbeen,andthiswealthmayaswellnotbeours.

Kaieteur

Government’s unblemished track record of creating opportunities for all Guyanese

DEAREDITOR, t r a n s f o r m a t i o n a l narrativespeddledbycertain state.

In recent weeks, Guyana development agenda will be unsavoury characters which Most recently, my has seen a vicious onslaught achieved based upon the are evidently designed to attention was drawn to a of claims from certain inclusivityofallGuyanese. generate racial hostility and letterpennedbyNigelHinds sections of society that have I understand race is an u n d e r m i n e o u r (KN: September 19, 2022) sought to malign the PPP/C emotive subject for many transformational agenda who introduced an absurd G o v e r n m e n t f o r Guyanese and that is why which is creating historic concept by alluding to discriminatory policies there are forces seeking to opportunities for all several unsubstantiated againstAfro-Guyanese. exploitourfears,divideusas Guyanese. claimsaboutthetreatmentof

Let me be clear These a nation and rob us of the We will continue to Afro Guyanese under the accusations are baseless and opportunities that are confront the lies, PPP/CGovernment.

u n f o u n d e d a s o u r flowingastheworld’sfastest machinations and the He starts out by

G o v e r n m e n t h a s growingeconomy diversionary tactics of those explaining that racism is demonstrated through our We in the Government whowanttoseeGuyanafail gettingworseinGuyana, policy framework that our willnotbedistractedbyfalse as a modern democratic (Continuedonpage6)

Government’s unblemished track record of creating... Kaieteur M@ilbox Kaieteur

Frompage4 but offered no evidence to support this ridiculous claim.

Instead, he fumbles through his missive only to arrive at a conclusion using his cocktail of lies as justification for the APNU+AFC’s boldfaced attempt to rig the 2020 regional and general elections.

It is evident that desperation has set in for those peddling their racist agenda because how else does a rational person explain a chartered accountant with possible political aspirations callously justifying our d e m o c r a c y b e i n g underminedbycowards.

G e o r g e t o w n , board as our Government percent while there will be and quality as a direct result delivery are once again Mocha/Arcadia, Linden, has removed VAT on water n o d o w n p a y m e n t ofinterventionstargetingthe national priorities set to Buxton, Golden Grove and and electricity, basic food requirement for house and replacement of old benefit all Guyanese

Melanie Damishana, to items and household buildings costing $6M or transmissionmains. accessing public health nameafew necessities, educational and less.

In Georgetown, work facilities.

In many cases, residents medical supplies, certain Underouradministration was focused on Vlissengen These are just a few of have confirmed that the construction materials and we have seen over 16,000 Road, Newtown Kitty, the opportunities and PPP/C’s high level most recently on building house lots allocated under Mandela Avenue, and programmes provided by ministerial visits to their cement, sheetrock and the flagship ‘Dream CemeteryRoad. Government in the past two communities are the first concreteboard. Realised’ Housing Drive in Our social programmes years that prove that no suchtobeundertakenbyany The application of the Regions Two, Three, Four, areprovidingasafetynetfor Guyanese is being denied government. freight cost adjustment for Five,Six,Nineand10. allvulnerableGuyanese.We access to opportunities from

Arising from the visits the calculation of import We have reversed land haveprovidedacashgrantof ourGovernment. are working solutions with taxes, rolling back freight lease fees across all sectors $100,000foreachchildwith Mr Hinds and others

residents to address cost to pre-pandemic levels and water charges back to a disability regardless of peddling race are in quick community needs such as from1August,2021until31 2014 rates and reversal of ethnicity sand and are therefore improved roads, bridges, December, 2022, estimated Landtaxesanddrainageand Some 1500 persons running out of time as more potable water supply, access to save $10 billion for irrigation charges back to benefited from the Ministry Guyanesecometogripswith toagriculturallands,andthe businessesandconsumers. 2014. of Human Services and thedeceptivetacticsofafew resolution of long-standing Guyanese are taking In just two years in Social Security’s EyeCare lonelyvoices. landissuesamongothers. advantage of the national office, over 5,000 drive which included free These voices go cold

Contractors from within p a r t t i m e w o r k e r Certificates of Titles and eye tests. We have provided when confronted with the A f r o G u y a n e s e programme which was Transports were distributed $1M in grants to 30 young factsasIhavelaidoutabove. communities are benefiting launched in May 2022 in and more than 1,200 persons to support creative Letuscontinuetopursue

AsaGovernment,weare directly from the Regions Two, Three, Five, affordable housing units venturesinliteraryarts,film, a path that will bring us all immovable in our position infrastructural development Sixand10,withsome9,000 were constructed across fashionandmusic. together as One Guyana as against APNU+AFC and its takingplaceasinthecaseof personsbenefitingthusfar. RegionsThree,Four,Sixand Governmenthasrecently through our collective actors within GECOM to Buxton where 25 contracts Our Government has 10, with some 300 announced plans to invest efforts, we will be able to embark on open banditry were recently awarded to progressively lowered the completed and handed over $9M to cover studio time achieve our fullest potential against the will of the repair bridges in the Excise Tax on fuel from 50 tolowandmoderate-income costs for the next 12 months asanation. Guyanese people as they community percentinFebruary2021to0 families, and young at three local studios for Honorable Brigadier attempted to rig the 2020 As an Afro Guyanese percentinMarch2022.This professionals. musicians to record their (Retired)MarkPhillips elections. myself from the town of reduction has eased the In excess of $15.4B has music. Prime Minister of the

We will continue to Linden,Iamproudtobepart burdenofhighfuelpriceson beenexpendedtosupportthe New hospitals and Cooperative Republic of support all legal means to of the PPP/C administration households across the expansion of water improved healthcare Guyana

punish those responsible for where all Guyanese, country distributionsystems,drilling bringingshameanddisgrace inclusive ofAfro-Guyanese, We understand that of new wells, and providing toourdemocraticprocesses. have equal access to homeownership is near and improved level and quality

Mr Hinds is not a lone opportunities and where dear to all Guyanese. This of service, including firstwolf. national policies and desire is not unique to any timeaccesstowatertomore

The opposition and their programmes are never particulargroup. than 35,000 people in over confederates are busy influencedbyrace. ThatiswhyGovernment 60communities. creating mischief and Our policies are non- is providing the steel for

Over10,000newservice drumming up racial strife discriminatory construction as well as a connections were provided within our communities I am honoured that I am sling (fifty-six (56) 60lb. to support the rapid Whiletherearedoingso,the part of a Government that burlap bag) of cement for e x p a n s i o n i n t h e PPP/C Government is has reinstated and increased beneficiaries constructing Government’s massive constructively engaged with the ‘Because We Care’cash housescosting$6Mandless, housing drive and Afro Guyanese leaders, grant and uniform grant, while persons constructing h o m e o w n e r s h i p groups and communities benefiting thousands of houses costing above $6M programme. who were neglected and children in communities all and up to $25M will receive

Over 50,000 residents of used under theAPNU+AFC acrossGuyana. twoslings. Georgetown, Region Four administration. This programme was The interest rate for and Bartica Region Seven

Theseengagementshave stoppedbytheAPNU+AFC. houses costing up to $9M is are benefiting from taken place in southern Benefits are across the set to be reduced to 3.8 improved service delivery

Kaieteur M@ilbox Kaieteur M@ilbox

The PPP is delusional to believe a bloated list can become an accepted norm in Guyana politics

DEAREDITOR, reflectiontheprincipleapartyshouldadopt

Let me swipe the legs from under this to a 7 year cycle for new

argumentsothatitdoesnotresurface. registration—which meant 2015 was the KN,ClementJ.Roheefullyexposedthathe warranted. No,Mr.Rohee,thelisttodayin2022is next due date. Accordingly, the Coalition has no response to the fact that the PPP TheRoheeprinciplestatesthatifaparty not the same list in the 2011 and 2015 governmentprovidedGECOMtherequired supported a new list and biometrics all the winsanelection,thatpartyhasnocaseorno elections. funding. wayuptotheNCMin2018;noresponseto need to ever question the list. Hence, he

Inhisletterof23rdSeptemberinSNand to determine whether or not a new list is

RecallthatthelastH2Hregistrationwas Butin2018,thePPPdouble-crossedthe the fact that the major election observers argued: “Has Mr. Lowe conveniently in 2008. The National Register of nation—andwearewherewearetoday.We separately called for new registration; and forgotten that it is the same list that he and Registrantswasthereforethreeyearsoldin haveendedupwiththePPP/Roheeprinciple no response to the fact that the Chief his party complain so ashamedly about 2011andsevenyearsoldin2015.Today,it wherethequalityofthevotersregisterisnot ImmigrationOfficer has verified that votes being ‘bloated’ that gave his coalition is14yearsold! Ithaslostitspurity,shape determined by technical and democratic werecastformanypersonswhowerenotin combined majorities in the National and soul. It is not the same animal. As I standards such as its accuracy and GuyanaonElectionDay2020. Assembly of the 9th and 10th parliament pointed out in my first response to Mr cleanliness,norby

Instead, Rohee advanced for our respectively?” Rohee,thePPPhadagreedwithinGECOM (Continuedonpage63)

Government’s unblemished track record of creating...

Frompage 4 but offered no evidence to support this ridiculous claim.

Instead, he fumbles through his missive only to arrive at a conclusion using his cocktail of lies as justification for the APNU+AFC’s boldfaced attempt to rig the 2020 regional and general elections.

It is evident that desperation has set in for those peddling their racist agenda because how else does a rational person explain a chartered accountant with possible political aspirations callously justifying our d e m o c r a c y b e i n g underminedbycowards.

embark on open banditry Mocha/Arcadia, Linden, and electricity, basic food buildings costing $6M or Our social programmes against the will of the Buxton, Golden Grove and items and household less. areprovidingasafetynetfor Guyanese people as they Melanie Damishana, to necessities, educational and Underouradministration allvulnerableGuyanese.We attempted to rig the 2020 nameafew medical supplies, certain we have seen over 16,000 haveprovidedacashgrantof elections.

In many cases, residents construction materials and house lots allocated under $100,000foreachchildwith

We will continue to have confirmed that the most recently on building the flagship ‘Dream a disability regardless of support all legal means to PPP/C’s high level cement, sheetrock and Realised’ Housing Drive in ethnicity punish those responsible for ministerial visits to their concreteboard. Regions Two, Three, Four, Some 1500 persons bringingshameanddisgrace communities are the first The application of the Five,Six,Nineand10. benefited from the Ministry toourdemocraticprocesses. suchtobeundertakenbyany freight cost adjustment for We have reversed land of Human Services and Mr Hinds is not a lone government. the calculation of import lease fees across all sectors Social Security’s EyeCare wolf.

Arising from the visits taxes, rolling back freight and water charges back to drive which included free

The opposition and their are working solutions with cost to pre-pandemic levels 2014 rates and reversal of eye tests. We have provided confederates are busy residents to address from1August,2021until31 Landtaxesanddrainageand $1M in grants to 30 young creating mischief and community needs such as December, 2022, estimated irrigation charges back to persons to support creative drumming up racial strife improved roads, bridges, to save $10 billion for 2014. venturesinliteraryarts,film, within our communities potable water supply, access businessesandconsumers. In just two years in fashionandmusic. Whiletherearedoingso,the toagriculturallands,andthe Guyanese are taking office, over 5,000 Governmenthasrecently PPP/C Government is resolution of long-standing advantage of the national Certificates of Titles and announced plans to invest constructively engaged with landissuesamongothers. p a r t t i m e w o r k e r Transports were distributed $9M to cover studio time Afro Guyanese leaders, Contractors from within programme which was and more than 1,200 costs for the next 12 months groups and communities A f r o G u y a n e s e launched in May 2022 in affordable housing units at three local studios for who were neglected and communities are benefiting Regions Two, Three, Five, were constructed across musicians to record their used under theAPNU+AFC directly from the Sixand10,withsome9,000 RegionsThree,Four,Sixand music.

AsaGovernment,weare administration. infrastructural development personsbenefitingthusfar 10, with some 300 New hospitals and immovable in our position Theseengagementshave takingplaceasinthecaseof Our Government has completed and handed over improved healthcare against APNU+AFC and its taken place in southern Buxton where 25 contracts progressively lowered the tolowandmoderate-income delivery are once again actors within GECOM to G e o r g e t o w n , were recently awarded to Excise Tax on fuel from 50 families, and young national priorities set to repair bridges in the percentinFebruary2021to0 professionals. benefit all Guyanese community. percentinMarch2022.This In excess of $15.4B has accessing public health

As an Afro Guyanese reduction has eased the beenexpendedtosupportthe facilities. myself from the town of burdenofhighfuelpriceson expansion of water These are just a few of Linden,Iamproudtobepart households across the distributionsystems,drilling the opportunities and of the PPP/C administration country of new wells, and providing programmes provided by where all Guyanese, We understand that improved level and quality Government in the past two inclusive ofAfro-Guyanese, homeownership is near and of service, including first- years that prove that no have equal access to dear to all Guyanese. This timeaccesstowatertomore Guyanese is being denied opportunities and where desire is not unique to any than 35,000 people in over access to opportunities from national policies and particulargroup. 60communities. ourGovernment. programmes are never ThatiswhyGovernment Over10,000newservice Mr Hinds and others influencedbyrace. is providing the steel for connections were provided peddling race are in quick

Our policies are non- construction as well as a to support the rapid sand and are therefore discriminatory sling (fifty-six (56) 60lb. e x p a n s i o n i n t h e running out of time as more

I am honoured that I am burlap bag) of cement for Government’s massive Guyanesecometogripswith part of a Government that beneficiaries constructing housing drive and thedeceptivetacticsofafew has reinstated and increased housescosting$6Mandless, h o m e o w n e r s h i p lonelyvoices. the ‘Because We Care’cash while persons constructing programme. These voices go cold grant and uniform grant, houses costing above $6M Over 50,000 residents of when confronted with the benefiting thousands of and up to $25M will receive Georgetown, Region Four factsasIhavelaidoutabove. children in communities all twoslings. and Bartica Region Seven Letuscontinuetopursue acrossGuyana. The interest rate for are benefiting from a path that will bring us all

This programme was houses costing up to $9M is improved service delivery together as One Guyana as stoppedbytheAPNU+AFC. set to be reduced to 3.8 and quality as a direct result through our collective

Benefits are across the percent while there will be ofinterventionstargetingthe efforts, we will be able to board as our Government n o d o w n p a y m e n t replacement of old achieve our fullest potential has removed VAT on water requirement for house and transmissionmains. asanation.

In Georgetown, work Honorable Brigadier was focused on Vlissengen (Retired)MarkPhillips Road, Newtown Kitty, Prime Minister of the Mandela Avenue, and Cooperative Republic of CemeteryRoad. Guyana

Ourmoralobligation!

Many politicians around the world feast lavishly as the masses remain ignorant of business happening in their own backyards.

Here in Guyana, the situation is no different. Our leaders refuse to publicise critical information as it relates to the management of our abundant natural resources.

This publication, on the other hand, has been unrelenting in its efforts to “wake up” the citizenry on such issues, particularly on matters related to our oil wealth.

While the politicians remain hell-bent on keeping the people in the dark, we will continue to keep people “in the know” about these issues.

This is our moral obligation, our God-given right!

What’s in it for Jagdeo?

- Glenn Lall questions VP’s commitment to extract better from ExxonMobil contract for Guyanese

crime, now he is in command with although acknowledging it is Jagdeo maintained his criticisms of all the powers in his hands and flawed. He maintained that the the contract, which were first talking about sanctity of mere 2 percent royalty, massive tax divulged during his time in contract…Not even opening his breaks, and the absence of a ring- opposition. mouth to say ExxonMobil come sit fencing provision, are three key Jagdeo said, “I do, I do and I down and give these brown, black flaws of the 2016 Stabroek Block willtellyounowwhyImaintainthe and purple people of this country a Production Sharing Agreement position that the contract is penny more, something they can (PSA),butsaidhisgovernmentwill lopsided. We identified several holdonto,somethingtomakethem not seek to renegotiate the deal to areas; one was the total take for the feelnice.”

correct those identified Guyanese public. We believe that

Kaieteur News Publisher, Glenn Lall

Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo

Mr Lall said what he has been weaknesses. During his almost when the contract was renegotiated seeing and feeling is a Jagdeo who three hour long interview with by (former Natural Resources will not change or touch that Lall, Jagdeo was asked a series of Minister,Raphael)Trotmanthatwe Against the background of his government. Jagdeo said he does“lopsided contract that he ‘cussed’ questions about the deal that was already had three billion barrels of government’srefusaltorenegotiate not know what internal process itGrangerthemforsigning,plainand signed with ExxonMobil proven resources in the ground and the lopsided oil contract with went through but it was signed bysimple.” Corporation affiliate, Esso that opportunity should have been

ExxonMobil and constant

Trotman almost overnight and

Deal bad, but no change Exploration and Production used not to weaken the 1999 posturing regarding extracting contrary to advice. The official

Dissecting his interview with Guyana Limited (EEPGL) and its contractbuttoaddbenefitstoit.” favourable terms for Guyanese, reiterated that while the contract isJagdeoafewweeksago,Lallonhis partners, Hess Corporation and The VP said the 2016 contract transparency advocate and lopsided,hisgovernmentwillnotlast Friday programme contrasted CNOOC Petroleum Limited. Lall’s was drafted by Exxon and sent to Publisher of the Kaieteur News, Continued on page 18the Jagdeo while in opposition and first question sought to ascertain if t h e f o r m e r A P N U + A F C Glenn Lall is questioning Vice the man today “Our VP when he President Bharrat Jagdeo’s was in opposition, ‘cuss down’the commitmenttothiscountry Coalition Government for signing

Infact,hehasaskedwhetherthe that oil contract but now he is in formerPresidenthasvestedinterest love with that contract. That inExxonMobil.“Whatishegetting contract that will send generations out of this oil deal that he is not to come into extreme poverty by moving in the direction to have a him not making a move to have it better deal for this country? What changed, he is doing everything to hasovercomethismanthatheisnot preserve, defend and uphold that his usual self when it comes to this contract,” Mr Lall told his radio oil sector? You guys not smelling and internet audience last Friday something burning?” Lall night. Jagdeo during an interview remarked. withMr Lallrecentlywasadamant

Headded,“Wheninopposition, thatduetotheproverbialsanctityof he was a big bad man, say this contract doctrine, his government contract was the worst and is a willnotseektorenegotiatethedeal,

One killed, two wounded in Sand Hill Landing shooting

ByAllyiahAllicock operation and went to Sand Hill next to the area where the brothers Landing and while sitting on the wereseated.

Police in Region Seven are front step of Shanaz Allicock’s C h u n i l a l l r e l a t e d t o currently investigating the murder shop,aHondaXRmotorcyclerode investigators that on the night of of Ray Narine of Spring Garden, up from a western direction with the incident, he was at the ‘Momo Essequibo Coast who was fatally bothsuspects.

Shop’ when he saw the two shotonThursdaynightatSandHill Ron further related to suspects passed him on a Landing, Cuyuni River, Region investigatorsthatherecognisedthe motorcycle and they parked in a Seven. The police in a report pillion rider because he had an dark area. Thereafter, he saw stated that the incident, which altercation with him on September when they walked towards the two claimed the life of the 22-year-old 17, last, in which he (Ron) had brothers who were sitting at the miner, also left his twin brother, relieved the suspect of a firearm nearbyshop. Ron Narine, and another man, and ammunition which were later AccordingtoChunilall,hesaw Rakesh Chunilall, 30, of Banana handed over to police. The young when the suspects pointed what Land,Berbiceinjured. man recalled that the suspects appear to be handguns towards According to police, when dismounted the motorcycle and them, and he began hearing loud ranksarrivedatthesceneonFriday hurriedly walked towards their explosions which sounded like around noon, Ray’s motionless direction with what appeared to be gunshots On hearing that, body was seen covered with handguns and started to discharge Chunilall said that he, and the several tree branches at a corner of severalroundsintheirdirection. otherswhowereattheshop,began the main access road. The body As a result, he said both he and running away, and during that was clad in a grey jersey and black his brother ran in a western process, he felt a burning pain in and white trouser, and upon direction and while running, the his lower abdomen. He fell to the examination, two suspected suspects were still discharging groundandbecameunconscious. gunshot wounds to the chest area roundsintheirdirection.

An injured Chunilall was were seen, along with one-inch Theyoungmantoldpolicethat picked up by public spirited lacerations to the abdomen and while trying to evade the suspect, persons and taken to the Bartica shoulder,andatwo-inchlaceration he saw his brother collapse on the Regional Hospital where he was to the right arm Also one roadway as he continued running seen and examined by the doctor suspected exit wound was and he sustained a gunshot wound who observed a single suspected observed on the right side of the to his right arm. He said that he gunshot wound to his lower back and one suspected warhead sought refuge in some bushes stomach, which exited through his was also recovered in close where he remained for about two lower back. He was transferred to proximity of the victim which hoursafterwhichhereturnedtothe the Georgetown Public Hospital appeared to be a .32 (calibre) landing. Corporation where he underwent ammunition.Rankswereinformed Whenhearrivedatthelanding, anemergencysurgeryandisnowa that the fatal shooting between he said that he found his brother patient in recovery His condition 23:30hrs and midnight involved a lying motionless on the road with isregardedasseriousbutstable. man and his son who hail from what appeared to be blood on him. Meanwhile, Ray’s body was Pearl Village, East Bank By then, the suspects had already taken to the Bartica Regional Demerara. Police said based on escapedinanunknowndirection. Hospital where it was pronounced information received, the brothers While conducting their dead officially and later taken to operate a dredge in the Sand Hill investigation on Friday, police the hospital’s mortuary to await a backdamarea. reported that an eyewitness, postmortemexamination.

Ron told police on Friday that Rakesh Chunilall, told them that While the matter is still being on the night of the incident, he and before the shootout occurred, he investigated, police are searching Ray left their four-inch mining was a customer at another shop currentlyforthetwosuspects.

Jagdeo is out of order!

The President needs to threatened retaliatory action escalates and Suriname

heartening that Jagdeo has following the controversy muzzle his Vice President againstBarbadians.Buthere decides to expel the more indicated that Guyana plans which erupted over theVice Bharrat Jagdeo. The Vice is Mr.Vice President, a man than 20,000 Guyanese from toinvolveCaricominmatter News feature The President has been making without a ministerial that country? What is going but Suriname will be within distribution of grants to statements which are portfolio,openlyhintingthat tobethefateofthosepersons their rights to first demand fisherfolk and the

harmful to the country’s Surinamese companies can if they are forcibly expelled that Jagdeo retracts those announcement of thousands is for this reason that national interest, especially find it difficult operating and having to leave all their statements he recently made of part-time jobs are viewed PresidentAlishouldputabit itsrelationswithSuriname. here. assets and return to an to local fisherfolk No as restoring some of his inJagdeo’smouth.

Addressing fisherfolk This is highly arrogant uncertainfutureinGuyana. country likes to negotiate popularity (The views expressed in recently, the Vice President outburst by the Vice Guyana is looking to underduress.

But intemperate this article are those of the is reported to have accused President. It undermines the create a massive arc of It is widely suspected outburstssuchastheoneshe author and do not Suriname of not honouring President and the excellent energy cooperation that Jagdeo is seeking to made against Suriname will necessarily reflect the an agreement it has with relations he has cultivated involvingGuyana,Suriname reclaim popular support hurttheentirecountry Andit opinionsofthisnewspaper.) Guyana for the issuance of with Suriname. It is known and Brazil Trinidad and 150 fishing licenses. These that there is an excellent Tobago had indicated an licenses would allow local chemistrybetweenPresident interest in joining this fisherstofishinSurinamese Ali and President Santokhi. initiative which is being waters.Jagdeoisreportedto The latter came to Ali’s pushed by the Inter have said, “Our patience is inauguration and Ali has American Development being tested and we are reciprocated and also paid a Bank (IDB). Guyana can going to write CARICOM State visit to Suriname become the largest exporter onthismatter.” Relations between Guyana of natural gas in the

Hewentontoaddthese and Suriname have been at Caribbean It would be chilling words, “These are their best with both sides unfortunate if in retaliation different days ” And agreeing on areas of to Jagdeo’s statements, according to a Demerara cooperation.

Suriname signals its Waves report went on to But Jagdeo’s hint at withdrawal. This will hurt suggest that Surinamese retaliatory action has more Guyana’sambitionstobethe companies operating in serious implications At energy capital of the Guyana could soon face present, there are about Caribbean and to find uses difficulties operating here 25,000 Guyanese living in for the massive volume of unless Guyanese fishers are Suriname, the majority of natural gas which will be treateddifferently who are not citizens of the generated during oil

This latter statement can Dutch speaking republic production. beviewedasathreatagainst Hundreds more make the

The dispute between Suriname. It suggests that daily and weekly commute Guyana and Suriname will unless Suriname honours its to go and work in Suriname not be resolved through a agreement with Guyana, andtoreturnhomeattheend warofwords.Thereisalegal then there could be adverse ofthedayorweek.Hundreds impediment to the quick implications for Surinamese alsodothrivingcross-border resolution of this issue and companies operating in trading. there is also resistance from Guyana. Should Suriname decide elementswithinSurinameto

This is a new low in to close the border with granting Guyanese fishing relations between Guyana Guyana in response to rights. and Suriname and between Jagdeo’sthreatwhatisgoing

Suriname is within its Guyana and any other tobethefateofthehundreds rights to deny Guyanese CARICOM member state. of local traders and workers fishers licenses. This is not Barbados was once who ply the Guyana Guyana’swaterstodictateto notorious for deporting Surinamerouteeachweek? anyonewhatshouldhappen. Guyanese; there was even Should Suriname decide Guyana therefore has to saidtobeaGuyanesebench tototallycloseoffitsfishing negotiatearoundthisissue. at the Immigration Section grounds to all Guyanese B u t d i p l o m a t i c of the Grantley Adams fishers, what is going to negotiations appear to International Airport. Yet, happen to the economy of playing second fiddle to the Guyana,includingunderthe Region 6? But even more issuance of public Presidency of Jagdeo, never worrying is if the situation statements and threats. It is

Not in Guyana

PrezziewenttodeUNandtelldeworld wuk.Whenyuhgatalargereservearmyof how world food prices increase by 65 unemployed persons de prices of labour percent. De same UN telling de world how does fall because people does be so foodpricesdeclinefuhdefifthconsecutive desperatefuhwuk,demdoesacceptlessdan month.And dem claim dat dis year it only normal.Disiswatdoeshappeninderestof raise by 8 percent. But not in Guyana! De deworld.ButnotinGuyana! modepricesfallinternationally,dehigherit De more unemployment yuh gat, de raisinginGuyana. higher money dem workers want. Dem

De world going in one direction and carpenter and labourers now nah wukking Guyanagoingindenext. fuh less dan G$12,000 and G$10,000 per

In America, de price of petrol also day,respectively.Soifyuhplanningfuhdo falling.Itbeendehinslowfallfuhdepast3 lilconstruction,yuhbetterstartlookingfuh months. At wan stage, it was as high as demCubansandVenezuelans. US$5pergallon.

Dem gan tek half of wah we Guyanese

But it now fall to around US$3.68 per work men want. And dem gan wuk faster gallon.InGuyana,depricestickleatG$269 andbetterdandemwahcallingheftywages. and G$279 per litre. Prices falling But dat is Guyana fuh you. De world everywhere.ButnotinGuyana! goingoneway;andGuyanagoingdeodder

People complaining how dem nah gat Talkhalf,leffhalf.

Guyana’s foreign policy in the new Cold War

his columnist as a maximize relationships in All countries have national CARICOM countries in the trained social scientist international affairs that bring security interests but the Eastern Caribbean was hit hard by who studied history, securityandeconomicbenefits. international order is devastated WTO impositions, President

T of no concern to Guyana. If Iran, philosophy and

The Prime Minister of the UK when some countries are given Jagdeo was brave enough to resist China, Venezuela, Nicaragua and internationalrelationswouldreject willarguethatitisintheinterestof carte blanche to destroy other in 2008 with the UK imposed the countries want to give Guyana any justification for the Russian national security that Britain must nation’s sovereignty while other CARICOM EU Economic aidandloans,Guyanamustacceptinvasion of Ukraine An haveclosertieswithIsrael.Thereis nations are condemned when they PartnershipAgreement. them and shape a non-securityunprovoked war cannot be absolutely nothing wrong with dothesame. Trends in African foreign relationwiththesecountries. justified. suchthinking.Itisnormalinstincts TheCrimeadoesnotbelongto policy directions point to Africa TheCEOofoneoftheworld’s

The Ukraine never even had a ininternationalrelations.Butithas Russia. Jerusalem and the Golan moving towards a more even most powerful financial border skirmish with Russia. The dangerous implications for the Heights do not belong to Israel. balance in its relations with the institutions,JPMorgan,hasoffered war must come to an end with a internationalorder. WhereastheBritishPrimeMinister West. Africa is maintaining a some realpolitik advice to the Russian withdrawal. What cannot Just a quick digression before hasherreasonforwantingtomove healthy trade and aid arrangement current US Government. He said bejustifiedalsoistheacceptanceof we continue with the main the UK embassy to Jerusalem, she with China and will resist theUSmustcounterChinainAsia Israel’sseizureofPalestinianlands argument Do you know the may play into the hands of the American pressure to loosen ties and Africa by developing soft andtheirannexation. opposition leader in Venezuela is Russians Annexation by any with China. Here in Guyana, oil powerinthedevelopingworld.

It is unbelievable that in the more aggressive in his stance of countryiswrong.

territorial sovereignty Thereisnothingtobegainedby between the US and countries the mercilessly again Beware of

revenues should decrease ThisiseuphemismbytheCEO midst of an illegal invasion by claimingmorethanhalfofGuyana Russia and Israel are two Guyana’seconomicdependenceon forgeo-politicalexploitationofthe RussiaandRussianoccupationofa than Maduro? It is Guyana’s aggressors in this context. Other theWest.Infact,itisgoodnewsfor TWbytheUS.HemeansUSmust sovereign country, the British security interest to have closer nations, mostly in theThirdWorld Guyana’s foreign policy when the pull the TW into its orbit. The US PrimeMinisterhasannouncedthat bilateraltieswithMaduro.Backto (TW) must act in their own EU announced that aid to Guyana did that when there was the first Britain may move its embassy to themainthrustofthiscolumn. interests and avoid taking sides will be decreased because of Cold War After it won that war, it Jerusalem which is illegally The 1848Treaty ofWestphalia withwhatcaneasilybedeemedthe Guyana’srisingincome. droppedtheTWmercilessly What occupiedbyIsrael.SowhyIsraelis sought to impose strict obligations NewCold.ItistheUSandtheWest As Guyana gains rapid happens if China’s economyright to annex other people’s land on European nation states in versus the other superpower, development, it must pay careful collapses and it is no longer a butitiswrongforRussiatopursue relation to mutual acceptance of China. attention to how it balances its act superpower? TW will be droppedthesameobjective?

The answer is simple Internationalpeacehadheldsteady theTWtakingsides.WhentheUS US do not want Guyana to have Greeksbearinggifts!Countriesactintheirowninterest. untilothercountriesinthelate19th won the first Cold War, it close relations with. Guyana must (The views expressed in this Countries have domestic and century and early 20th century barefacedly abandoned the TW not act as a sycophant to the US. article are those of the author and foreign interests which lead them disregarded the sacred virtue of with resulting poverty disasters in The US has its battle with its do not necessarily reflect the to shape their foreign policies to sovereignty many TW countries The giganticrival,China;thatshouldbe opinionsofthisnewspaper.)

FrederickKissoon

BLUNTNESS ON INDECENCY!

In case you haven’t heard, please be informed that as part of our continued effort to channel positive changes in our country, our publisher, Mr. Glenn Lall, has dedicated our Page Seven to be “BLUNT” about on-going indecency in our land that should matter, not only to us at this publication, but the entire nation.

SUNDAY

editionwouldgodownasthe could publish, not one, not

placards, one of which stampitout. back- we don’t disagree. should read - “Renegotiate Not the meaningless This country is badly theExxoncontractnow!” s l o g a n e e r i n g f r o m wounded by ethnic strife, Government Leaders, but which is being exploited by r e a l w o r k i n o u r our leaders daily for their PATIENCE ISA communities to arrest our narrowpoliticalagenda.

WEDNESDAY

CHOICE! men folk- some of whom For all, the noise around AGolden Opportunity day of infamy for the Vice two, but four articles of the If patience was a continue to treat our women his sloganeering- President

Everyonceinawhilelife President,BharratJagdeo. poor stewardship of the oil commodity, it would’ve, lessthanhuman. Irfaan Ali’s ‘One Guyana’ offers each of us a golden The newspaper carried and gas sector under Jagdeo, without a doubt, been a Reading the horror story initiative is as dead as his opportunity Whilethereare several articles all speaking then it is high time he luxury since not too many of Sharon Scott of Ann’s administration’s economic many examples of golden the uncomfortable truths examines himself and rides people believe they have Grove who endured years of policies. opportunities, today let’s about the erstwhile leader of offintothesunset.

TUESDAY

whatittakestoacquireit. torment at the hands of her In the shortest possible take a look at one currently ouroilresources. However patience is husband who ended his life sentence, his words have not staring our Government The articles portrayed merely a choice, and once as well as that of his son, been matched by equivalent RIGHT in the face. It is one theformerpresidentasdoing The wounded warriors activated, it gives you the Seon Scott, onWednesday is works. that gives it the opportunity a poor job in managing the have come home capacity to accept or tolerate more reason for us to unite For, as we see it, ‘One to renegotiate that absurd sector If this writer were the After a most miserable delay, problems or suffering against this demon called Guyana’ cannot deliberately contract with Exxon. While VP, I would have resigned showing on foreign soil, the without becoming annoyed DomesticViolence. include almost one group of the PPP/C Government has my post not just as the Guyana Amazon Warriors oranxious.

The worryingly, even people time and again, and m a i n t a i n e d t h a t overseer of the oil and gas being sponsored by

Patience is hard to alarming statistics on just as repeatedly (and renegotiation of the 2016 sector, but as Vice President ExxonMobil have arrived achievebutverynecessaryif domestic violence generally clearly purposely) exclude PSA to get a better deal for ofthiscountry homeforthefinallegoftheir we are to have a peaceful don’t capture the extent of most of another set just as Guyana is impossible, The articles in question journey in this year’s journey through this world physical abuse, let alone the often. Kaieteur News recently were published under the Caribbean Premiere League o f f a r t o o m a n y often equally as damaging uncovered documents that followingheadlines: (CPL). manufactured hate, hurt, and psychological aspects of it. proveotherwise.

SATURDAY

1. Damning revelation No one-not even Exxon, hiddendespicableagendas. Experts have said that the Where are you heading?

Two years after that of amended royalty expects Guyana Warriors to Embracing patience full impact of domestic Daily we are seeing contract was signed then provision in Exxon deal improve their standing for means embracing hope that violence is insidious and tragic ending to precious PresidentDavidGrangerhad exposes VP Jagdeo’s true the few games they will play the unabated atrocities we goes far beyond mere lives It’s like human beings gotten Exxon to change the colours’ before a packed Providence see on a daily basis will one physicalattacks. are being swat out of provision in relation to the -Govt. must quit being Stadium starting on day come to a screeching We know too that it is a existence, in overdrive, in 2% royalty which was oil companies’ servants; Wednesday halt. hidden cancer spreading much the way we swat recoverable. secure more for its people – Many persons have within the community and bothersomeflies

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

This proves that the KNPublisherLall predicted that they will lose mustbeexcised. When will we learn that Government has the 2 VP Jagdeo was all the games, but who cares, Take a stand against lifeissimplynotinourhands wherewithal to correct that callouslymisleadingon‘The given that their chances of Domestic Violence and at any moment we could contract,ifitsodesires. Glenn Lall Show’ - former getting to the playoffs is as Domestic violence has One Guyana sloganeering benext?

But will they seize this EPAHead remoteasgettingtheGuyana become such a scourge in The President of the What legacy will you be goldenopportunity?Dothey …invites him, Exxon to Government to renegotiate Guyana that a week does not Georgetown Chamber of leaving behind when the have what it takes to make discussfactswithnation the lopsided ExxonMobil pass without us reading in Commerce was quoted in swat comes your way? Even suchanoblemove?

3 M i n i s t r y contract. thepressthegorydetailsofa this newspaper earlier this more sobering: where will advertisement exposes For whatever it is worth, woman being abused at the week urging our leaders to youbeheading?

Jagdeo’s lies on private those of you who have handofherpartner stop their pettiness and sit Whether you choose to Rough news investment in gas-to-energy purchased tickets for the It is a frightening reality down and talk about this believe it or not, a final day for Jagdeo project matches go cheer the that must be prayed against country’sdevelopment. destination awaits each of us The Kaieteur News If in one day, the leading wounded warriors and with each and everyone For many, this is like and it depends on your track Sunday September 18, 2022 newspaper in this country remember to carry your joining in a campaign to pouring water on a duck’s recordhere.

MONDAY

1 new COVID-19 case recorded in Region 6

The Ministry of Health, on Saturday, 19virus. recorded a new COVID-19 case. The new While there are no patients in the infection, which was recorded in Region Six, Intensive Care Unit (ICU), there are now six has taken the total number of confirmed persons in institutional isolation and 79 in cases,sinceMarch2020,to71,312. home isolation. On Friday, the number of

On Friday, the Ministry reported that personsinhomeisolationstoodat100. sevenpeoplewereinfectedwiththeCOVID- Thusfar,69,946patientshaverecovered.

Region 3 landowners fume over...

From page 3 vessels, transporting approximately 50 iftheysodesired. millionstandardcubicfeetperday

RESPECT FOR PROCESSAND It will entail three components inclusive PROCEDURE ofthepipeline,aNaturalGasLiquids(NGL) While some landowners were facility to treat and separate the gas and a particularly concerned about how they power plant to generate 300 megawatts of wouldbeaffectedbythenaturalgaspipeline, electricity one property owner, Elizabeth Deane The project has a planned life cycle of at Hughes said she was bothered about the least25years. government’s respect for process and In ExxonMobil’s environmental studies procedurewiththeproject. for the project, it was clearly stated that the

Shetoldthisnewspaperatthesidelinesof venture can result in chronic hardships for Friday’s meeting that after speaking with a farmers. This newspaper had reported that number of landowners, she does not believe hardshipsforfarmerswithincloseproximity the land acquisition process is being carried to the plant and pipeline can be affected, as through in accordance with legal impacts to their agricultural products could requirements. extend beyond the construction phase to the Deane Hughes, an Attorney at Law operationsstageofthefacility said,“Thisisaboutourlives,ourlivelihoods TheEIAexplainsthattheproject’suseof and our lands and most people have owned land when construction starts and during the these lands for generations. This is a right of operationstagewillreduceaccesstolandfor way (ROW) for the pipeline, they should agriculture and other purposes. It added that haveknownthisbeforethefact.Youcan’tbe the loss of access to personal properties can coming now and trying to figure out how result in temporary and/or permanent peoplearegoingtoaccesstheirlands.Thatis economic displacement for people who may adisrespectthatisunacceptable.” depend on these lands for their livelihoods,

To this end, she pointed out, “I have no employment, and/or income generating problems with pipeline, what I have a activities. problem with is the lack of respect for The document pointed out that this process and procedure…we have had it with impact will be relevant to rice fields, north the (Environmental Impact Assessment) and south of Crane, West Minister/Lust-enEIA, we now have it with land acquisition Rust rice fields and pineapple and mixed because people were not given notices of crops in the northern part of Canal Number surveys so that is a legal issue that can be TwoandthesouthandnorthernhalfofCanal made.Alot of persons that I spoke to, whose NumberOne. numbers I now have - we are going to Beyond the construction phase, farmers organise and we are going to stand up as one can brace for additional impacts as their headandoneGuyanaagainstthis.” overall quality of produce can be reduced.

The attorney said that a survey was done The document says that, “the Project could buttoconductthesurvey,atleastsevendays also result in a change in the quality of notice must be given. However, she told this agricultural crops harvested from the newspaper that some of the landowners she Primary Study Area. This could result as an spoke with did not receive a notice even indirect effect of dust deposition during the thoughthesurveyswerecompleted. construction stage, which could conceivably

“I also know in Canal Number One, they extend beyond the project footprint to affect surveyed and then gave the notice after…so adjacentareas.” right there and then, we have process and The EIA said that construction activities procedureissues,”Deane-Hughesadded. could generate dust through vegetation

THE GTE PROJECT clearing, earthworks, and movement of

The GTE project will involve capturing equipment and vehicles on unpaved associated gas produced from crude oil surfaces. Dust emissions from construction production operations on the Liza Phase 1 areas could be deposited on nearby crops, (Destiny)andLizaPhase2(Unity)Floating, and could adversely affect crop growth or Production,Storage,andOffloading(FPSO) productivity

Man killed while hustling for gold alone

OnThursday,aminerwaskilledinanold groundjusttohustleforafewgramsofgold. gold mining pit at Sand Hill Backdam, He reportedly went into an old gold pit Region Seven, after one of its walls located close to the one that the company is collapsedonhim. presentlymining.

The man identified as Omar Oselmo, 37, A few minutes later, his co-workers of Kamwata, North West District (NWD), heard him screaming and then suddenly, Region One, had reportedly returned to the there was silence. When they rushed to the old pit on his own just to make a late workgroundtoseewhatwaswrong,Oselmo afternoon hustle but ended-up losing his life was not seen. However, his co-workers instead. noticed that one of the walls of the mining

According to police, Oselmo met his pits had collapsed and suspected that he demise around 18:00hrs. He was at the time mighthavebeenburiedalive. working with a local mining company in the Theybegantodigthroughthesandysoil, area and work had finished for the day. The and as suspected, they found Oselmo’s man’s co-workers had all headed to camp, motionless body which they removed. The butOselmo,afamilyman,decidedtopickup police were notified. Bartica police have his batel (a metal-pan like tool, used in since taken custody of the body and an panning for gold), and returned to the work investigationwaslaunched.

Taxi driver dies, teacher in custody following WBB accident

taxi driver lost knownteacher,ColinBynoe,

intoYusuf’scar escaped with minor injuries his life some crashedintohiscaralongthe

It showed that Bynoe while Yusuf was found in an three houses D’Edward Village Public was travelling at a fast rate unconscious state and

A away from his Road. and it appeared as though he bleeding from injuries about homeandateacherhassince

Police investigators lost control of his vehicle hisbody been taken into custody reported that Yusuf was whilenegotiatingaturn. HewasrushedtotheFort following a vehicular driving his car in a western

Another car managed to Wellington Hospital but accident they were involved direction, along the southern swerve out of his path as he doctors pronounced him in on Saturday at D’Edward side of the road, and Bynoe

skidded over into the deadonarrival. Village, West Bank Berbice was travelling in the southern driving lane Bynoe has since been (WBB),RegionFive. opposite direction, along the slammingintoYusuf’scar arrested and is assisting

Both cars were wrecked p o l i c e w i t h t h e i r identified as 30 year old whenthecollisionoccurred after the collision but Bynoe investigation. Salim Yusuf of Bennett

The dead man has been northern side of the road,

At the scene, Yusuf’s Dam, D’Edward Village, family members recorded WBB.According to a police Bynoe claiming that Yusuf report, the accident that took had driven into his path.

p a s s e n g e r H e w a sYusuf’s life occurred at

However, video footage reportedly only three housesaround04:30hrs. obtained showed that it was away from his home when aYusuf, it was revealed, Bynoe who had lost control black SUV driven by a wellhad left home to pick up a of the vehicle and crashed

The wrecked cars

Dead taxi driver: Salim Yusuf

Arrested teacher: Colin Bynoe

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intend to buy based on which can be used by undertaking, however easy discernible under contain the following I f t h e b u s i n e s s affordability, price, brand, suppliers/businesses to worded, or presented, given normal conditions of sale. In information: establishment from which performance and quality In guide the drafting of by a manufacturer, addition, the document shall Name and address of you would like to make a addition to these, it is also warranty document they distributor,supplier,agentor not include any illustrations, theguarantor, purchase does not provide a imperative that buyers find provide to consumers for vendor, additional to the words, symbol, or statement The duration of the warranty/guarantee or you out just who will accept mutual benefit and statutory obligations placed which might give an warranty (6 months, are not satisfied with the responsibility for items they protection The standard on him. It relates to the erroneous or misleading 1year,etc.), details and conditions purchased that become indicates the way in which quality of manufacture, impression as to the nature, What exactly the stipulated in the document, defective,throughnofaultof warranties or guarantees satisfactory operation of a quality, safety or use of the warranty covers be sure to find another theirs. shall be expressed, and how product and generally states goods covered by the (whether the whole business to make your

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Guyana’s musical culture ready to embark upon a renaissance

By Pat Dial among the legends of those occasions like Old Year’s

generation thereafter, the to whatever country they couldbeachievediftheState times. Many young persons Night and Twelfth Night; musical culture of Guyana could until Guyana was authorities, the various

Over the last 50 years, had their first exposure to and on the regular boat was caught in a tailspin of emptiedofhalfitspeople. In NGO’s, the Churches and the Musical Culture of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, “excursions” where a decline and had apparently this situation of social and other religious bodies and Guyana has experienced a Chopin and other Classical Transport and Harbours disappearedby1990.

economic collapse, the the Private Sector and the serious decline Such composersbytheseconcerts. Ferryboatwashiredforriver

The reason for this musical culture which had Mediaweretojointlyhelpin decline is apparent in all the The Militia Band and the cruises On all these decline was the massive existed in the 1950’s became this process of the cultural Musical Traditions in the Police Band gave regular occasions, live music was economic disaster which analmostforgottenmemory Renaissance of the country country The African performances at the Seawall played by the small three or overwhelmed the country

In the last decade, In such a Renaissance, the Tradition which is reflected Bandstand and the Botanic four piece bands for house with shortages of the Guyana has been steadily Musical Life and Culture in folk songs and in Gardens and their repertoire parties and big orchestras necessities of life and making social and economic wouldberevived. drumming; the Indian consisted of semi classical like Washboards, Tom unemployment Violent recovery and political (The views expressed in Tradition with its Ragas and music like Strauss’ waltzes Charles and his Syncopators crime grew at an enormous stability is returning. It is this article are those of the rich religious music; and the or Delibes’ Sylvia and and Sonny Thomas and his rate and people feared for now becoming possible to a u t h o r a n d d o n o t Western Classical Tradition Pizzicato, the current hit bandforthebigoccasions. theirlivesandproperty The resuscitate the rich cultural necessarily reflect the with composers such Bach, parade top tunes and one or In the 1960’s and for a population tried to emigrate life of the country and this opinions of this newspaper.) Mozart, Beethoven and twofolksongs. Thesebands

Chopin have all but were a nursery of Guyanese disappeared Vocal music musical talent and many such as ballads or arias or members who emigrated to other songs from the Operas the USA and Europe were are never heard today and successful musicians in their there have been no local newcountries. performers for many years. African folk songs and The vocal tradition was once drumming were popular in so vibrant that whenever the villages and resonated at great performers such Emancipation Day and PavarottiweretouringSouth during the Christmas America, they would try to Season. Becominganexpert include Georgetown in their drummer was an accolade itinerary after which many village

In all the schools, both youthstrovetoachieve. primary and secondary, Church music was also singing was done every day of a high quality Classical with classic songs, mostly and universal hymns were British and the universal heard in all churches and the classical hymns. In the main bigger churches and secondary schools such as cathedrals had organs while Queen’s College and the smaller ones had pianos. Bishop’s High School, During the Christmas and music was a school subject Easter Seasons Gregorian and the Royal College of chants were heard at the St. Music examinations were George’s Cathedral and the taken When a student Roman Catholic Cathedral reachedtheGradeVI,he/she o f t h e I m m a c u l a t e was well on the way to Conception in Brickdam developing into an able Allchurcheshadchoirs. musician. Every year, a The mandirs and masjids member of the Royal also maintained their Indian College would visit to hold musical tradition. In the practicals and would give at masjids, qasidas were sung least one recital for the and melodious chanting of public. the Holy Quran was heard

Performances by local e s p e c i a l l y a t J u m a artistes were staged every (Sabbath). Many mandirs weekend and the venues maintained the Raga were the Assembly Rooms classicalmusicplayedonthe which stood where the Bank sitar as well as devotional of Guyana now stands. The bhajans from Kabir and AssemblyRoomshadagood Rajrani Mira and others. theatre where plays were Every temple had its own often performed and its group of amateur musicians concert hall had excellent whose instruments were acoustics. The other concert usually the sitar, drums like hall was the auditorium of d h o l a k a n d t a b l a s , the Town Hall where the tampouras, sarangis (Indian acousticswerealsogood,the violin) or occasionally even floorswerepolished,andthe Western violin, flute impressive stairway leading occasionally replaced by toitwascarpeted. Thestage clarinet and harmoniums was furnished with a small Bhojpuri and chutney music concert piano and an organ were heard at home and it accommodated an celebrations such as audience of 400 persons. weddings and janewas Performances were usually (“christenings”). on the piano and violin and Popular music, a great by singers. Artistes such as deal of it American, was Lynette Dolphin, Lynette heardathousepartiesandon Katchay, Billy Pilgrim, the occasions like weddings; at L o n c k e f a m i l y a n d the big dances organised by Rosemary Ramdeholl were the various sports clubs on

What’sinitforJagdeo?

From page 8

One-sided Minister, Raphael Trotman, He said if a contract only he never once mentioned the benefits one side and one word sanctity of contract, side only then it is not an however, today when they agreement, “it’s a giveaway, areinoffice,wearehearingathecontractwouldhavebeen of ring-fencing provisions, signed an agreement a sell out or plain robbery, so different tune. Today, we arerenegotiate it as previously better addressed as it is an whichwouldhaveprevented between two people. It’s a howthewordsanctitycomes hearing how we have tostated while in opposition. area of contention now with ExxonMobil from deducting principled position with two into play here in Guyana, abide by the sanctity of“Wewillensurethatwehave Exxon and the Guyana expenses related to other individuals where you when ExxonMobil and contract, why? The way web e t t e r c o n t r a c t Revenue Authority (GRA). projectsfromtherevenuesof shouldn’t go back on your others taking all our oil and hearing them talking aboutadministration. If we fail to “We have issues with oil producing projects. word, but ever since, that leavinguswithcrumbs?You this word sanctity ofhave better contract taxation and even now, we

“Jagdeo uses that word principled position, has been tellmehowthewordsanctity contract, you would believeadministrationandtherewas have a dispute with Exxon sanctity as if he is a born brokenandchangedmillions comes into play here? You that the word sanctity is no room for that then we’ll about vehicles. They wanted again Christian, and I say of times all over this world, tellme how I must stickwith imbedded, is printed on thetake a harder line,” the VP to bring in 20 SUVs and we this to some of you, that the especially when one person a principled position, when cover and on every page inadded. saidthat’snotcoveredbythe word sanctity comes from is deliberately taking my leaders sign away my thecontract.”

The KN Publisher then agreement; you have to pay the Bible, it is an old biblical advantage of the other country – that just can’t Professor Kenrickasked the VP to explain to taxes on those, that it’s not a word which means you have

person - we have seen many, happen, it cannot, it should Hunte, Former Guyanacitizens what differently he blanket concession,” the to stick to your word, abide many individuals and not and it must not. I just Ambassador to South Africawould have done from the Vice President noted. He by the agreement or the companies break away from don’t have it in me; can’t in a recent letter to the pressC o a l i t i o n d u r i n g noted that the PPP/C contract. that principled position and bring myself to that kind of commenting on thenegotiations in 2016 with Administration would have You cannot modify, change agreements between slavery and surrender, not government’s refusal toExxon. Jagdeo was keen to alsoaddressedthesizeofthe amend, renegotiate or two parties - it’s nothing even for my enemy, no one renegotiate said thusly:notethatissuesoftaxationin royaltyaswellastheabsence change anything after you new,”Mr Lallexplained. should accept that,” Lall “Given this non-interference insisted. Outside of Mr Lall, by Guyana; and in light of scoresofpersonshavecalled the fact that EEPGL will be on the government to seek a acceleratingtheextractionof renegotiationofthecontract. Guyana’s oil by introducing Onlyrecentlyeventhemajor several new floating opposition also joined calls production storage and forchangestothecontract. offloading(FPSO)ships,itis Mr Lall said everyone conceivable that come 2036, knows that the Exxon EEPGLwillbereadytoshutcontract with Guyana is one- shop and leave, as all the sided and lopsided in favour commercially viable oil of the oil companies, and would have been extracted every citizen on earth and Guyana will have “including our very own nothingtoget. politicians have been saying We have seen similar that we have gotten the behaviour in the extraction wrong and rotten end of the of other non renewable stick with that contract, so resources when the whyshouldweabideorstick impending tax payment date with that so called isimminent. principled position of I would therefore sanctity of contract? Why? contend that adding new Sanctity of contract is the FPSOs was probably not in newweaponthattherichand theoriginalcontract;anditis powerful tie up poor nations on this premise that a and their people with renegotiation can be Before they used big guns introduced, for more FPSOs and big boats, now they will enhance production and come up with this weapon reduce the economic life of over we head called sanctity the Stabroek Block of contract and Jagdeo Consequently, I would repeating that mantra more further contend that unless thanExxon–canyoubelieve action is taken to allow that?” Guyana to get an equitable

Mr. Lall added that share of its patrimony, one Jagdeo and President Irfaan can only think of the Mighty Ali while in opposition said Sparrow’s song in which I umpteenth times how havemodifiedafewlinesfor terrible the contract is and context and alignment. Can what it means to the you imagine how they Guyanese people, and once planning to dig out (we)… they get into office, they will liver’ (and),notapolicein renegotiate and change it. the area! (E)very man in “Jagdeo when he was the gang had a white-handle ‘cussing’the contract signed razor Ten to one is byformerNaturalResources murder!”

Stillnoparentcompanyoilspill guaranteefromExxonMobilandpartners

ByZenaHenry

Despite not being the operator w i t h i n t h e

Stabroek Block and not holding any permits to conduct petroleum production here, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo says that ExxonMobil and partners,theparentcompany for Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), has nonetheless committedtoprovidingextra protection for Guyana in the event of an oil spill to the tuneofUS$2B.Whetherthis commitment/agreement has been put into writing; a statement, an addendum, or anysuchdocumenttoensure its validity, the Vice Presidentdidnotstate.

Instead,whenquestioned about the “paltry” parent company coverage during his recent appearance on Kaieteur Radio’s The Glenn Lall Show, he told the host that the additional coverage is what was offered and will be provided by the oil consortium. “Sothatiswhat has been negotiated and that is the guarantee that the parent company said that they will do,” Jagdeo posited.

Further pressed on ensuring the availability of full cover liability; inclusive of the stated US$600m per project, as well as the parent cover above what EEPGL could handle financially, Jagdeo clarified that while Exxon and company are not the one’s operating in Guyana,theyarestillwilling to offer coverage above the insurance for each project and the value of the company’s assets that could be liquidated under dire circumstances. The parent company coverage, the Vice President explained further, is to ensure immediately, cash in hand that would prevent the EEPGL from having to liquidate its assets tocoveritsoilspillliabilities.

The Vice President said that all permits currently demand parent company coverage on top of whatever insurance is provided per oil project However, when pressed again about Guyana not having the parent company guarantee in writing, Jagdeo reminded thatExxonandcompanyare nottheoperatorshere,butare guaranteeing the US$2B

s um. He explained that in understanding the issue, it must be noted that, “EEPGL is a Guyanese registered company They have the permit from the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) Therefore, this Guyanese registered company has a permit from the EPA. There are three investors that own this company, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) Hess and Exxon; they own the company So, the company (EEPGL) now has gotten a permit from the EPAandtheyhavetomeetall their obligations to clean up any spill or any other environmentalliability.”

“This company,” he continued, “has taken out US$600M per event insurancesothatcompanyis paying for that. Secondly, this company has assets valuedUS$6B.Soassuming itfailstomeettheUS$600M; can’taddressaspill,toclean it up or meet all of its liabilities; the Guyanese publicortheEPAhascall(ed) ontheirassetsofUS$6B.”

“Now the parent guarantee,”headded,“isfor financial resources because that’sassetsthattheyhavein the FPSOs and the other fixed assets, immovable assets. The parent guarantee isjusttoprovidethefinancial resources in that period so that they don’t have to liquidate their assets to deal withanyoilspill.”

“Sotheparentcompanies are not paying for the oil spill,”Jagdeosaid,“Theyare not operating in Guyana. EEPGL is the operator and theowneroftheassets.They have the permit So the investors, they’re liabilities; they have agreed on top of EEPGLinsuranceandontop of its assets, that they are going to layer this with a US$2B basically cash flow, so that the company has

company or affiliate companies guarantees to the EPA, undertaking to add adequate financial resource for the permit holder and its co-ventures to pay or satisfy their environmental obligations The Vice PresidentagreedthatEEPGL isasubsidiaryofExxon,and whenasked,reiteratedthatit isalimitedliabilitycompany

m

oney immediately to deal with any environmental liability.”

To clear up further, any mix up on who is operating the Stabroek Block, Jagdeo c h a r g e d t h a t “ n o environmental permit was given to Exxon,” the international company The environmental permits provided by EPA, Jagdeo said, requires the permit holder,assoonasreasonably practical, to provide parent

…JagdeosaystheyarenottheonespumpingoilinGuyana

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo while on The Glenn Lall Show

Guyanese take EPA to court to ensure Exxon covers all costs for oil spill disaster at Liza Phase 1 Project

ByKianaWilburg

Guyanese citizens, Frederick Collins and Godfrey Whyte, have taken the Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA) to court to enforce a critical clauseintheLizaPhaseOne environmental permit, recently issued to Esso Exploration and Production GuyanaLimited(EEPGL). That provision says ExxonMobil Corporation, the parent company for EEPGL, must cover costs

for all environmental loss anddamagethatmightresult fromawellblowout,oilspill or other failure in the Liza Phase One Development ProjectinGuyanasStabroek Block.Any“accident”inits operations will affect not only Guyana and Guyanese but most of the Caribbean countries and possibly beyondtheregion.

K a i e t e u r N e w s understandsthatMr Collins and Mr Whyte are represented by Mr Seenath Jairam, SC, Ms. Melinda

Janki and Mrs Abiola Wong-Inniss.

Mr Collins, a former insuranceprofessional,said, “I cant even drive my car without insurance. So it is incomprehensible that the government would allow Esso to operate without any formofinsurance/guarantee fromitsparentcompany An oil spill would be devastating for our country and region as many Guyanese and Caribbean peoples depend on the Ocean for their livelihoods.

Thatiswhywehavedecided that the time has come to take matters to the court for relief.”

Scores of other

Guyanese citizens are also deeply concerned with the safety of Essos operations.

Many have said they are shocked to learn that Esso has been using a faulty gas compressor and flaring billions of cubic feet of gas instead of re-injecting it.

Citizens have also gone to courttochallengetheflaring Continuedonpage55

Stillnoparentcompany...

Frompage19 US$600M insurance policy, “that we are paying for because wearepartofthe...”TheVicePresidentdidnotexpoundonhis statement regarding Guyana’s role in the payment of this policy

Itmustbenoted,however,thatitwassincelastNovember thatVicePresidentJagdeohadtoldmembersofthemediathat efforts were apace by his government to secure the up to US$2BfromExxonMobiltocoveranydamagethatmayresult fromtheUS$9BYellowtailProject,thefourthtobedeveloped in the prolific Stabroek Block. The talk about securing the US$2B commitment came after many criticisms from stakeholders regarding the absence of any formal guarantee fromExxonMobilthatitwouldcoverinfull,thecostshortfall associated with an unmitigated spill not covered by EEPGL. AcceptanceofthatUS$2Bcommitment,asitwashighlighted then, means today that the Yellowtail Project falls into the same bracket of other Exxon-led projects without confirmed full liability coverage; the Liza Phase One, Liza Phase Two andthePayaraProject.

Jagdeo had said at the time, that the government is constantly seeking to improve the permits. “…in the one we are looking at in theYellowtail Project, we are looking for a genericpositionwheretheparentcompany,ExxonMobil,will nowguarantee;wellwearelookingatmaybeuptoUS$2Bfor anydamagecausedhere…becausefromthebeginning,there wasnoparentguarantee.Itwasimplicitbut…thatiscrucialfor usaswemoveforward.”

Followingthemostrecentannouncementthattherewasa spillage of one barrel of crude oil from the Exxon operation sometwoweeksago,theAFC,aswellasotherstakeholders, reiteratedcallstothegovernmenttoputinplacefullcoverage liabilityforpetroleumproductionasisrequiredbythepermits and demanded by many citizens. They said that Exxon previously reported that “no more than one tablespoon” of crude oil had been spilled since the commencement of oil production in Guyana. This amount has now risen to one barrel, by volume, theAFC said; “…an over 10,000 percent increase,thathighlightsthatthepossibilityofamajoroilspill is high, and will continue to increase directly proportional to increasedoilproduction.”

The party added that the EPA oversight mechanisms neededtobestrengthenedasitisunacceptablefortheagency to be solely relying on the (Stabroek Block) operator, for information on spillages and other hazard during oil productionoperations.

Attorneys-at-Law, Mr. Seenath Jairam, SC, and Ms. Melinda Janki

Kri stie Emi ly RAMBHARA T

Meet the newly crowned MissAmerindian Heritage Queen 2022. She is Kristie Emily Rambharat. The gorgeous Indigenous belle hails from Karrau District in Region Seven. She represented her district at the regional competition before competing against beauties from the 10 administrative regions to finally win the heritage queen crown.

Following her victory, last week, she asserted, “Though my journey to the crown has not been an easy one, I held on to the Bible verse my mom gave me, when facing challenging situations: Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me...”

The entrance of the Regional Food Festival at Main StreetAvenue

Georgetown (Photo credit: Cricket Carnival 592

Regional Food Festival kicks off on Main Street Avenue

Cricket Carnival’s Regional Food Festival has kicked off on MainStreetAvenue.

For three days, September 23-25, 2022,upscalerestaurantsaswellasthe small-business owners and vendors will create a spread of delicious cuisinesfromacrosstheregion.

Locals and tourists who grace the event will get an amazing opportunity to indulge in some of the country’s finest signature dishes, as well as cuisinesfromCaribbeancountriesand

neighbours such as Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Brazil and Suriname.

Theeventservesasanopportunity forpatronstotryawidearrayofsome delicious and scrumptious Guyanese dishes such as pepperpot, labba, different curries, Chinese fried rice, bar-b-que, roti, finger foods and a varietyofotherdishesaswellaslocal snackssuchasplantainchips,chicken foot, and polourie which are available foralltoenjoy

The Regional Food Festival is slated to last for three days September 23-25, 2022 at Main Street,Avenue Georgetown. (Photo Credit: Cricket Carnival 592)

launches brokerage firm as oil economy rapidly expands DHL Guyana Agent

With the Local Guyanese that is intent on Shesaid,“Theshipments will continue to strive to ofthecompany C o n t e n t ensuringDHLGuyanaisone consigned to the oil uphold its slogan which is: “Mrs. Bristol has Legislation of, if not the best, in the c o m p a n i e s r e q u i r e E x c e l l e n c e S i m p l y beenandcontinuestobethe

demandingall industry companies like DHL to Delivered embodiment of relentless our participation These C o n t r a c t o r s , S u b In an invited comment operate at a higher level to Meanwhile, Operations hard work and limitless include brokerage, rentals of Contractors, and Licencees Mrs. Jeffers noted that she serve them and the output Manager, Mr Tinnie said the ambition. She has set the office space, transportation, within the booming oil has been in employment required has definitely DHL brokerage services stage for many to now insurance services, and industry have 100 percent of with DHL for the past 25 changed the way we do aims to produce several continue to refuel the catering,”expressedJohn. their brokerage services years. She said her tenure business...The logistics and outcomes. For customers, he company daily with the He said confidently that procured from locals, DHL w i t h D H L s a w h e r dynamics of shipping have said, “We will reduce the energy it needs to move to the law has no doubt gone Guyana which has been in functioning in finance and changed and the shipping time for processing the next level. I could not be above and beyond to protect operation since 1988, has then human resources world of today has seen clearance of cargo by 24 prouder and more honoured the rights of Guyanese to tap expanded its services to be responsibilities were added. changes in volumes and h o u r s b e c a u s e t h e to have the chance to learn opportunities in the industry partofthesupplychain. Her new challenge is now contentandtherequiredway transaction remains under from this outstanding Importantly, John said the Specifically, Executive brokerage. Mrs. Jeffers said toprocessshipments.” o u r c o n t r o l ; w h i l e woman; a CEO of a law holds the potential to Director at DHL USA it is a welcomed venture that Because of enforcement maintaining visibility trailblazing agent, ” achieve diversity and Global Export (GY) she intends to approach with of policies by agencies like through our electronic expressedJohn. inclusivityandiseagertosee Limited, Maurice John the same zeal and passion the Guyana Revenue tracking at a competitive Importantly, John said thisrealised. disclosed the news that the In conclusion, John was Guyanese owned agency adamant that the company has opened its brokerage was on a commendable firm which is armed with a growth trajectory, and in a team of experienced few weeks, he planned on professionals. announcingsomegreatnews

John said DHL Guyana thatwouldblowthelidoffin which has offices in Guyana. “There’s no plan on G e o r g e t o w n ; N e w stopping; the sky’s the Amsterdam and Corriveton, limit,”headded. Berbice; and Linden has had ABOUT DHL to retool the organisation, DHL is the leading that is to say, build back its global brand in the logistics systems;increaseend-to-end industry Its DHL divisions capacity, personnel and offer an unrivalled portfolio equipment; and retrain for of logistics services ranging higherlevelsofaccuracyand f r o m n a t i o n a l a n d output. international parcel delivery,

“This should realise e-commerce shipping and more demand for time fulfillment solutions, sensitivedeliveryofcargoof international express, road, all types, sizes, and values. air, and ocean transport to Guyana is clearly expanding industrial supply chain its economic activities at a management. rapid pace in keeping with

With about 380,000 the demands of the oil and employees in more than 220 she has given to the other Authority (GRA), Mrs. costleveltoclients.” thecompanyisintheprocessgas industry And DHL has countries and territories aspectsofthecompany.

Jeffers said it is almost For the GRA, the of applying for its Localdecided to make an worldwide, DHL connects

Furthermore, Mrs. necessarytohaveabrokerto government, and the people Content Certificate. He saidinvestmentdecisionthatwill people and businesses Jeffers said she has watched clear a shipment coming to of Guyana, he said the the nation’s Local Contentallow us to be part of the securely and reliably, the company experience Guyana, and to some extent, company will provide a tried Secretariat has a mostcountry’s future while enabling global sustainable tremendous growth over this those being exported from and trusted trade partner in diligent system in place,driving its growth and tradeflows.Withspecialised period. The CFO said, “I Guyana With this, she the accurate and timely adding that the shippingmarket presence by adding a solutionsforgrowthmarkets have watched this company contended that DHL has payment and receipt of agent is working on meetingBrokerage firm,” expressed and industries including move from a fully manual responded and has seen it revenue into the national all of the requirements setJohn. technology, life sciences, system to typewriters, to necessary to have a coffersforthebenefitofall. out.

He was keen to note that and healthcare, engineering, computers and now, to all brokerage department rather For the company, he said A s t h e c o u n t r ythenewserviceisessentialto manufacturing and energy, sortsofgadgetsbeingusedto than staff in employment the new department will no progresses with its localthe end-to-end DHLservice; auto mobility and retail, allow employees to work who perform this role doubtaddvaluetoitsservice content efforts, theadding that given the needs DHLhas said it is decisively smart and to produce amongstothers. profile and ensure more Executive Director said it isand growth prospects of the positioned as “The logistics remarkable results for its “We have an opportunity employment opportunities significantforonetonotethemarket trend, the goal is to companyfortheworld”. customers. With this growth to serve our customers from for the national workforce. extent to which theoffer specialised services DHL is also part of comes greater expectations end to end and this will be “These three channels will legislation itself has now setinternally and externally for Deutsche Post DHL Group. and the challenge to step to done with excellence as allow for the flow of a the stage for GuyaneseDHLoperations. This would The Group generated anotherlevel.” DHLhasbeeninoperationin multiplicity of benefits services to be prioritised.incorporate manifest, revenues of more than $81

The Manager of the Guyana since 1988 and we directly into our society, “Because of the legislation,ASYCUDA, clearance billion euros in 2021. With Brokerage Unit said DHL have grown as the industry thereby buttressing the oil companies are nowpreparation,andprocessing. sustainable business has continuously stepped up grew in Guyana, navigating support base needed for the required to make use ofJohn was also in high practices and a commitment to the proverbial plate, all the requirements that saw p r e s e n t a n d f u t u r e indigenous services Ourpraise of Mrs. Ruth Jeffers, t o s o c i e t y a n d t h e adding that the discovery of us standing tall in the

generations,” the Operations team has been getting itselfChief Financial Officer environment, the Group oil in Guyana and the industry,” Mrs Jeffers Managerconcluded. au fait with the provisions(CFO) who is in charge of m a k e s a p o s i t i v e exploration for more of this explained.

In particular, John and they are impressive.Thethe brokerage team, and Mr contribution to the world. “black gold” will require As the world changes, stressed that the company’s country’s oil sector, thoughHuburn Tinnie, Operations Deutsche Post DHL Group new standards of operating she is of the firm conviction forerunner, Mrs Ingrid young, has been able toManager They form part of aims to achieve net zero intheshippingindustry that the DHL Guyana Agent Bristol remains the lifeblood outline40areasthatmustseethe outstanding team of emissionslogisticsby2050.

Kiana

Executive Director at DHL - USA Global Export (GY) Limited, Maurice John

Mrs. Ruth Jeffers, Chief Financial Officer

DHL Guyana forerunner, Mrs. Ingrid Bristol

Pres. Putin’s actions are jeopardizing economic peace and growth: The world should say “no more”

“Every bullet, every aggravated an already rates, surging three to four

No region of the world, s y m p a t h e t i c bomb, every shell that hits a difficult worldwide times higher than they were oranypersonwithinregions, nations and target in Ukraine, hits our economic situation, caused just two years ago. The h a s e s c a p e d t h e fortified by a pockets and our economies bytheCOVID-19pandemic. situationisnodifferentinthe consequences of Russian p a t r i o t i c in Africa.” Those were the While he spoke as an Caribbeanregion.

President Vladimir Putin’s resoluteness, have words of the President of African, Akufo-Addo could If the world was turned

ill advised invasion of pushed Russian The referenda are Ghana, Akufo-Addo, at the havebeenspeakingforevery upside down because of the Ukraine, clearly aimed at troops out of Ukrainian scheduled to start on UN General Assembly on developing region of the Covid 19 pandemic, seizure of large tracts of territory that they had earlier September 23 and to September21. world, including the Russia’s invasion of Ukrainian land and strategic seized.

continue for five days, after The Ghanaian President Caribbean. Ukraine is damaging it still access to the sea and global T h i s h a s c a u s e d which Russia will no doubt was referring to Russia’s S e v e r a l A f r i c a n further And, with no end in commerce.

President Putin to announce announce that the people of invasion of Ukraine, which countries now have inflation sight.

In July, the International conscription of reservists the areas have voted in Monetary Fund (IMF) said andothercivilians. favour, and they have opted “global growth is projected But his plan has met tojoinRussia. toslowfromanestimated6.1 resistance. More than 800 In his quest to re percent in 2021 to 3 6 Russians were arrested in establish the Soviet Union, percent in 2022 and 2023. anti-war demonstrations in President Putin is doing so This is 0 8 and 0 2 37 cities, including Moscow by seizing the territory of a percentage points lower for and St Petersburg, neighbouring state and 2022 and 2023 than accordingtotheindependent balkanizingit. projectedinJanuary”. Russian human rights group This is a grave violation

TheIMFemphasisedthat OVD-Info. of the international legal the economic costs of the The number of men order, which Russia was Russian war against Ukraine fleeing the country has party to establishing, and “are expected to spread increased as has widespread which has been applied by farther afield through protestsbyRussiancitizens. the UN Security Council commodity markets, trade, The protestors have been since1945. a n d t o a l e s s e r assaulted with military force But, in the way of e x t e n t f i n a n c i a l and hundreds have been powerful nations, rules and interlinkages. detained Journalists in laws are discarded when it

Fuel and food price rises M o s c o w, w i t h t h e doesnotsuittheambitionsof are already having a global international news agency, theirgovernments. impact, with vulnerable Associated Press, reported Everygovernment,atthe populations—particularly in that they witnessed at least a United Nations General l o w i n c o m e dozen arrests in the first 15 Assembly this month, at the countries—mostaffected”. minutes of a night time General Assembly of the

Therefore, the troubling protest in the capital, with Organization of American economic and financial police in heavy body armour States next month, and in situation should completely tackling demonstrators and, every international meeting, dispel the illusion, held by hauling some away as they should make it very clear to some in the developing chanted,“Notowar!” President Putin that the war world that the war has Fighting a war, which against Ukraine is not only nothing to do with us. In r e l i e s o n r e l u c t a n t unpopular, but it is fast fact, the entire world has a conscripts, is unlikely to becoming a war against v e s t e d i n t e r e s t i n bring the success that Putin global economic peace and encouraging its immediate told the Russian people was growth, which are vital end. imminent. conditions for economic

The leaders of the two Instead, the Ukrainians progress in developing most important developing haverecapturedvastswathes countries. countries, Xi Jinping of of Russian occupied Developing countries, China and Narendra Modi of territory In addition to especially, small states, India recently indicated their sinking confidence in any depend on adherence to concerns about the war achievement, resulting from international law; they also Significantly Recep Tayyip the war, the Russia economy need global peace that Erdogan, the President of isalsosuffering. facilitates travel for tourism, Turkey, has called for an end Despite all this, and in a aid money being spent on to the war in Ukraine “as departure from reality, development and not on soon as possible through PresidentPutinisplanningto arms, and competitive diplomaticchannels.” hold referenda “on joining commerce that reduces high

As in all unpopular wars Russia” in areas of the prices for food and other – and this one certainly is – Ukraine that Russian troops goods. Russian military forces have occupy President Putin has been losing ground to the Referenda in the middle jeopardizedallthat. more committed Ukrainian of a war, and with the (The writer is Antigua troops. population living under the and Barbuda’s Ambassador

The former are soldiers, guns of occupying forces, to the United States of carryingoutorders;thelatter would hardly be credible to A m e r i c a a n d t h e are men and women any nation in the global Organization of American determined to protect their community States. He is also a Senior homeland with their lives. However, the decision to Fellow at the Institute of Despite the superior Russian hold them clearly shows Commonwealth Studies, military firepower, Putin’sintentiontoannexthe University of London and especially missiles launched a r e a s t o R u s s i a Massey College in the from areas bordering Consequently, the war will University of Toronto) Ukraine, the Ukrainians, escalate further, as the Responses and previous armed with improved Ukrainians intensify their c o m m e n t a r i e s : weaponry gifted by resistance. www.sirronaldsanders.com

Sir Ronald Sanders

“Going to the gym does not mean you will lose weight”

ByDavinaBagot

There is a popular misconception associated with exercise.Automatically,one runs away with the conclusion that a person headingtothegymwantsto lose weight or very often, a person would even start exercising only to discover theyarentlosingweight.

To put this into perspective, national coach, Martin Webster recently explained what exactly happens when a person exercises and why they should keep at it. Webster does not believe that going to the gym will make you lose weight. Instead, the trainerwithover20yearsof experience says that going to the gym simply aids in making your body stronger, while for some, weight loss comesasabonus.

Inaninterviewwith The Waterfalls earlierthisweek, Mr Webster explained his position.Hesaid,“Yougoto the gym to get strong not to lose weight. Weight loss comes as a by-product of what you did and what you ate because you can eat, train and get bigger.” As a power lifter, Webster said this is precisely what his traineesdo.

“Weliftweightandbody builders do the same thing too, they lift and get bigger, some body builders lift and get smaller because we

know how to manipulate diet for the weight categoriesthatwerein,”the fitness enthusiast pointed out.

Thecoachexplainedthat muscles get stronger when you exercise, so overtime, you will find that you can run longer for example. As themusclesstrengthen,your lung capacity will become more efficient so that you dontrunandenduppanting for breath and complaining about stitches, among other things.

Webstersaidthatpeople usually work out to become fit; however, being fit can mean different things for differentpeople.

For instance, he noted that for some people, being fit means being able to perform a particular task. According to him, “If that task is sweeping the house, cooking for your husband and looking after the kids, thenthatsabiggoal.Ifthefit means lets say youre a runnerandyouwanttodoa 5kruneverytimeonecomes up,youhavetotrainforthat; so everything you do is in line with that and that only But if your original goal is weight loss, this comes in the frying pan. So if you wanttobeabletodocertain things, lets say dancing, an active sex life, you have to definethatbecausebeingfit

is relatively a vague term. You cannot put one definitiontoit.”

“Measanoldguy,whatI call fitness for me is to be strong-asstrongasIcanbe. I dont have to run, Im not interestedinthatbecausefor meIwanttobeabletowalk around and pick up 400 pounds,” the former weight liftingchampionshared.He wentontonotethough,that there are other men who would want to have a sixpack abs and show it off as thisistheiropinionofbeing fit.

Webster said that to achieve whatever your objective is to look ideal, it would involve diet and training.

Importantly, you should not give up on exercise just because the scale does not show you the numbers you arelookingfor

While your body mass may have even increased, thisdoesnotmeanthatyour physiquehasnotchangedor improved. In fact, many gym rats join just to tone their bodies rather than lose weight.

At the same time, if you would really like to shed somepounds,exercisealone will definitely not cut it. Adjusting your diet will definitely assist as you simultaneously push harder inthegym.

National Power Lifting Coach, Martin Webster preparing for a round of squats back when he was a national athlete in 2014

Salma Hack, a power lifter who has been exercising since 2015 has gained weight to achieve her body goals. In the left image (2019), the fitness enthusiast weighed 119 pounds but in this recent 2022 photo (right), the influencer weighs 128 pounds. Hack posts videos and photos almost daily on her social media pages to encourage women to feel their best in their bodies.

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And truth be told, throughout othersaround,thatindividualwas myyears,Irarelyeverconsidered nowhere in the room during my whether many people liked me or encounter with that prominent hope. Jesus ensured that throughwhat I represent, a mind-set that person. the bible, we are made aware thatwas premised on my conviction

ButnewsaboutJesusmustget He is “the way, the truth, and thethatIwouldneverhavetotakemy around one way or another, for life. No one can come to theplate to their kitchen for my everyone deserves to know about Father except through me (Johnsurvival. the goodness of God. Even this 14:6)”, and that “The thief comes

Today, I know, without a prominent person, who is no onlytostealandkillanddestroy;Idoubt, I need not be dependent on different from the rest of us, is (Jesus) came that they may haveanyone, but my Saviour Had it eligible to know about the gift of life, and have it abundantly (Johnnot been for this predisposition, I Jesus dying on the cross for all, 10:10).”probably would have been and not just a few Why must this

But even though the Supremediscouraged from professing the person live in mortal fear when Being is merciful, He will not sitname of Jesus after an individual theysimplydon’thaveto? backindefinitelywaitingforustofrommypastthoughtitnecessary

According to Romans 10:13, respondtoHisgentlecalltocomeon Friday last to let me know, “For everyone who calls on the as we are and repent of our sins.among other things, that I am nameoftheLordwillbesaved.”

According to Romans 1:28,being mocked because of my

It is time that people stop “Since they thought it foolish toweeklytestimony believing the lies that are being acknowledge God, he abandoned

But I am heartened by this peddled as truth – those lies that them to their foolish thinking andrevelation. It tells me at least try to convince us that we have let them do things that shouldpeople are reading.Added to this, what it takes to preserve our own neverbedone.”if people despised Jesus – the one existence by acquiring material

In fact, it is scriptural that thewho died on the cross for our sins things and making profane majority of human beings will– why should I expect to be liked bargains. choosetoignoreHim.atthisjunctureofmylife.

Proverbs 14:12 outlines that,

At John 15:18-19, those of us “There is a path before each tuneintoHisgentlecall,Hewho choose to live for Jesus are [extraordinarily] patient toward livingforJesusisadealof person that seems right, but it is saying at Matthewreminded that, “[18] If the world you, not wishing for any to perish a l i f e t i m e , I a m ends in death.” But there is 7:13 14, “[13]hates you, remember that it hated butforalltocometorepentance.” determined to let as many

For thefew who arewillingto

E n t e rme (Jesus) first. [19] The world The scripture continues at verse people as possible know would love you as one of its own 10: “But the day of the Lord will about His saving grace – the if you belonged to it, but you are come like a thief, and then the wonderful gift that is available no longer part of the world. I heavens will vanish with a toallofus. chose you to come out of the [mightyandthunderous]roar,and It is for this very world,soithatesyou.” the [material] elements will be r e a s o n I w a s through the

WhileIdon’tcareforthelikes destroyed with intense heat, and compelled, not so long ago, to narrow gate fromallandsundry,Godhasputit theearthandtheworksthatareon tell a prominent individual in For wide is the in my heart to care about their itwillbeburnedup.” the land about Jesus I gate and broad final destination. Whether you Interpret that however you somehow sense this individual is the road that choosetobelieveitornot,thereis wishbutIassureyouthatthetime suffers from Thanatophobia (an

l e a d s t o aplacethateachofuswillendup; will come when earthly ‘powers’ intense fear of death or the dying destruction, and either eternal damnation or will not shield those who possess process) and needs to know that many enter through reigningwithChristJesus. them from what is imminent. The being free from that bondage is it. [14] But small is

For the scoffers, who have time will come when people will as simple as believing in Jesus the gate and narrow been given the opportunity to see wish that they had taken the who specialises in making a the road that leads to another day, the Amplified popular John 3:16 scripture waywherethereseemstobeno life, and only a few version of the bible underscores, seriously: “For God so loved the way According to Mark 10:27, findit.” even for you, at 2 Peter 3:9-10, world that He gave His only “Humanly speaking, it is

Ifyoudesiretobesaved “[9] The Lord does not delay [as begotten son that whosoever impossible. But not with God.

f n able thoughHewereunabletoact]and believes in Him shall not perish EverythingispossiblewithGod.” is not slow about His promise, as buthaveeverlastinglife.”

My willingness to share the some count slowness, but is Because I know for a fact that message of Jesus with that

Jesus Says Me!”

destination, today I share with you the sinner’s prayer

Please don’t delay another day – choose Jesus and He will choose you too; deny Him and He will deny you. Matthew 10:32-33 states: “[32] Whosoever therefore shall confess me beforemen,himwillIconfess also before my Father which is in heaven. [33] But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father whichisinheaven.”

Sharmain Grainger

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What causes nerve pain? s e e i n g h o w

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By Dr. Zulfikar Bux Emergency Medicine Specialist

Nerve pain can be due to sensitive it is to painkillers? Well, it may be problems in the central touch. Your doctor possible that neuralgia or nervous system (brain and may order tests betterknownasnervepainis spinal cord), or in the nerves specific conditi the cause. Unfortunately, the that run from there to the that may be causing mechanism for nerve pains muscles and organs. It is your nerve pain but aredifferentandcanoftenbe usually caused by disease or there isn’t a specific missed and go untreated or injury test that can diagnose because their mechanism of inappropriately treated for Common causes nerve pains; it depends on action focuses more on the prolonged periods. Today, I include: your doctor taking the clues n e r v o u s s y s t e m

different types of of nerve pain?will expand more on this an injury to the brain, from you and putting it Antidepressants such as nervepainsbutbelow Nerve pain often feels like acondition that is slowly spineornerves together to determine that amitriptyline and duloxetine arethemorecommon shooting, stabbing orbecoming a more common poor blood supply to you’regettingnervepains. and anti-seizure medications causesofthem: burning sensation. Patientscauseforpaininmany. thenerves

How is nerve such as gabapentin,

What is nerve pain? heavydrinking pain treated? p r e g a b a l i n a n d can happen after painthatissometimesmixedNerve pain, also called phantompainafteran There are many ways to carbamazepine are the more you’ve had shingles with numbness or loss ofneuralgia or neuropathic amputation treat nerve pain.Treating the effective medications (herpes zoster) and sensationaroundtheaffectedpain, occurs when a health vitamin B12 or underlying cause, if there is againstnervepains.affects the same area area. Sometimes, it can be ascondition affects the nerves thiamine (vitamin one, is the first step Non-medicine treatments astheshinglesrash sharp and sudden as anthat carry sensation to the B1)deficiency Painkillers and a range of N o n m e d i c i n e

post-herpetic — this often describe it as a blazing

trigeminal— causing electric shock Personsbrain.Itisaparticulartypeof certain medications differentmedicinescanhelp, treatments can helppain in the jaw or affected by neuropathic painpain that feels different from s u c h a s as can non-drug treatments people to understand cheek are often very sensitive toother kinds of pain. When a chemotherapydrugs like exercise, acupuncture and cope with the occipital — causing touch or cold and cannerve is also damaged from Conditions that can and relaxation techniques. pain.Theyinclude: pain at the base of experiencepainas aresultofaging or exposure to cause nerve pain Nervepaincanbedifficultto e d u c a t i o n a n d your skull that can stimuli that would notchemicals, it causes include: treat. counsellingspread to the back of normally be painful, such asexcitation of signals around infections such as A n y u n d e r l y i n g exercise yourhead brushing the skin. It’s oftenthat area and can lead to s h i n g l e s a n d conditions such as diabetes acupuncturepudendal — causing worse at night. It might bedebilitatingpains. HIV/AIDS and Vitamin B12 deficiency relaxationtechniquespain in the ‘saddle mild or it might be severe.

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How is nerve pain pain relievers such as If you are affected by diagnosed? diclofenac, panadol, tylenol, pains that have not

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Audit Office, EPA – the preparedness of both…

h e r e w a s difficulttheconversation. dogged, trusted, and reliable responsible? What we do hustlers given coverage in KN Nevertheless, this does is not present. Dogged, know a fortnight later is that free rein to do on Wednesday not give either theAG or the trusted, and reliable must be the nation’s EPA doesn’t w h a t t h e y

T and Thursday last AO a pass on the failure to the primary vision and know And when the local please They that brought the encouraging flag the glaring deficiency mantraoftheAG’sandAO’s EPA is in the dark, then we, have done so, from one article, and the with that tax money in the work. This is what inspires the citizens, are in a worst and they will disturbing in both. It has to nation’s Oil Fund Its faith in theAudit Office, and place. continue to take do with the readiness of two absence should not have this is regardless of who, or If this can be the state of advantage of crucial State bodies to been missed, not even by a whichgroup,isgoverning. things for one barrel of oil e i t h e r function effectively in the tenderfoot auditor, since it Alongtheabovelines,on spilled, then I shudder to w e a k e n e d , newoilworldofGuyana. In was so huge. It is disturbing T h u r s d a y , t h e think of its readiness should muzzled, or afractionofnutshell,bothof that this was what came out Environmental Protection there be a bigger one. The p o s s i b l y the two agencies are of theAO’s review, and does Agency (EPA) came in for prayer is that such never be compromised strugglingtocopeinthisnew notgiveanyconfidenceasto more blows. The Agency’s ourfate. institutions of AgeofGuyana. the quality of audits to be former head, Dr Vincent ButthisiswheretheEPA t h e S t a t e

On Wednesday, the expected in other sensitive Adams said that it is is, and Guyanese are, after Guyanese are Meanwhile, national hopesAuditor General (AG) non-oil areas of the business unprepared to execute that supposedly single barrel l e f t w i t h sizzleinthefire.declared that his Audit oftheState. thoroughly the full range of spill. whatever cunning leaders

(The views expressed inOffice (AO) was not To put bluntly, if the AO its duties. Like the Audit

After the initial media see fit to deliver to them, this article are those of theequipped to handle audits in could not see a tax item of Office, Guyana’s EPA exists reports of the small spill, the what they term transparency a u t h o r a n d d o n o ttheoilsector(KNSeptember such significance, and make under a cloud of suspicion. blankets came out, and the andaccountingtothepublic. necessarily reflect the21). I say thanks to the AG a bigger one itself in its own Whyisitthisway? Whathas sun went down. This is Afinekettleoffishleadersof opinions of this newspaper.)forbeingfrankandhonestby blindness, then I put the come over it? When will it perfect for Exxon and its this country has turned to be. revealing the limitations question: what can it see? be ready? It had to do with under which his AO What is it equipped by an oil spill involving a barrel operates. It is a startling trainingandinclinationtogo of crude, a mere matter of 42 admission, given that we are after? Though loaded, I gallonsoftherawstuff. Two now years deep since the emphasise that word weeks later, Guyanese don’t discovery of oil. I think that inclination. haveaclueaboutwhatreally itissomethingthatshouldbe Despite its lack of what went on (spilled) out there in imitated by other public would properly equip it, Exxon’soffshoreoperations. servants and their political there is the high probability How much oil was masters, especially the that the AG and his Office spilled? Was it one barrel or senior ones, for openness could encounter similar, if more? HasExxonsharedthe would only serve Guyanese not worse, difficulty if the full story, as to the amount better, no matter how powerful inclination to be spilled, and what was

GHK Lall

Have you ever noticed how efficient you become, when there is a strongdesireforsomething? Itsabsolutelyincrediblehow we conjure up the will and energytomanifestthethings we want the most. Yet, it is equallyamusinghowwefail to enact the same discipline andenergytowardthatneed or desire that for instance, may not bring us any immediaterewards.

We often find ourselves, aswehonestlyshould,living for the now; we seek enjoyment and fulfillment now, thus expending our time and energies now, to attain such results. I mean everyoneshouldbehappyin every moment, doing what pleasesthemthemost,butin this existence, where our level of comfort comes, more or less from the effort we put in, living for now is not always the most beneficialoption.

Many of us, depending on our upbringing, may never have had certain qualitiesinstilledinus.AndI am not talking about the basics; dont tell lies, do not steal,berespectful,etcetera, etcetera. I am talking about the personal qualities that help to build successful characters If you were broughtupoleskoolstyle,in a working-class home, like me, its highly likely that emphasiswasplacedonyou growinguptobearespectful individual more than a successfulone.

Now there is nothing wrong with being a respectful character, but I say this to highlight the difference and importance between being taught about success along with anything else that is also deemed necessary.Iforsurewasnot taughttobesuccessful.Iwas taughteverythingelseinthe average home, but I was never taught that success wasaquest.

Truth be told, the only discussion on success in our homewastogotoschooland getaneducation.Tothisday, we say education brings success, when in fact, education alone doesnt do the job. For sure, being

By

representation of being successful, especially if it is not one that satisfies you or doesnotbringintheincome youdesire.

Success now looks very different to me, I no longer hold it to financial bounds, although, I must say that financialsecurityisoftenthe gateway to true success. Of course, if your basic needs aretakencareofandthereis no worry about survival issues,thenthatleavesmuch space to explore and chase dreams.

So, we will focus on financial success and see what this entails. I say sometimes,therearethingsI know now that I wish someonewouldhavetoldme at a younger age, because nowthatIknowthejourney, I recognise the amount of work that I have to put in, and I am still working on myself, trying to put things in place and create the mindset conducive for my success. No one told me success is an attitude, that it

isabehaviour;thatitisnota look, but a style; that it is courage, discipline and that it is hard work. It is the ability, in a lot of cases, to ignoretheenjoymentsofthe nowforthegloryoflater Ipersonallydonotdesire too much. Actually, what I desire the most, at this point in my life, is ready to be harnessed, I just lack the courage so far, to drop everythingandchaseafterit. Sometimes,itsthediscipline too, to try to maintain a

balance, and incorporate it into my current activities; despite me being convinced thatitwillbringmegreatjoy and fulfillment. I think I have identified fear as my greatest hurdle right now; fear of not achieving what I envision and fear of probably putting myself out there. Now these are my thoughtsinmy30s.

When I was younger, I felt like there was no fear that could have held me back; I was eager; I was

hungry to be what I wanted tobe,butthateagernesswas not fed. Can you imagine whatcouldhavehappenedif mydriveandexcitementwas fedatanearlyage?Thereare parents who nurture and encourage their children to bethethingsthattheydesire, and they bring them up in a way that facilitates that. I have seen the difference in homeswherekidsaretaught to be successful characters, against those that teach the basics of just being a good person or any other ‘people person’skills.

For example, in some homes, when children turn 18, their parents tell them you are an adult now The new young adult believes that; goes into the world of work, “falls in love”, gets a boyfriend or girlfriend, gets a child, in many cases, and immediately life begins for them,leavinglittleroomfor personal growth or achievement or even space tocleartheaironwhatpathit is they should be taking basedonthelifetheywantto create for themselves Outside of this, we get

caught up in other activities and distractions that dont necessarily serve our development; and it eventually weighs more on ourlivesthanthethingsthat actuallyshould.

Ontheotherhand,Ihave seen parents tell their 18year-oldsthattheyarenotan adult, and that the work to gettherehasjustbegun;that they must now go to university,orlearnaskill,or learn a trade and become a contributing adult rather than a dependent one. Ive heard parents say to their kids that age does not make you grown; that there are grown folks’ problems and needs and until you can fulfill those things for yourself, then you may consideryourselfmature.Of course, I have seen some of thoseschoolfriendsturnout tobeverysuccessfulpeople, never mind much of it came from the contributions of theirguardians.

Responsible adults are able to provide for themselves nonetheless and for their families, as well as make positive contributions

totheirsocieties.Wecanask ourselves how such discussions may have been heldinhomesandhowmany wereletinonthesecret;that preparing ones self for success is an entire job; as wellas,howmanyofuswere prepared for it. Based on wheresomeofuscamefrom, we may recall that such conversations were almost non-existent.

The bottom line therefore, is that instilling certain qualities in a person, especially at a young age, has immense benefits when talking about success Disciplined, being responsible, persistent, motivated, enduring; all these qualities and learnt behaviours that werent driven into us, yep, you guessedit,weneedthemall. Andwhatwedidnotreceive earlierinourlives,ifyouare lookingtobesuccessfulthen Idosuggestthatyoudolike me and start putting in the work.We must clear out the useless information, beliefs and ideas that we hold and make room for those that will serve in your purpose and take you almost effortlessly to your final destination. And there are many ways to prepare yourself.Youcouldntaskfor abettertimetobehere,when everything has been made easierwiththeeasyaccessto information.

I have had conversations withmypeersandsomehave reasoned that indeed if our parentshadtaughtthemsome things they know now, they honestly believe that they would have been further along in life But it has been statedtoothatifourguardians themselves did not understand some of these very factors, how then could they have imparted it to us andprepareusforthelevelof success that we seek We mustthereforedoitourselves and share it for the elevation of the generations, if we are lookingthatfarbeyond

Hopefully, some of us who were not honoured to certain life changing knowledge would eventually pick up on what was missed outaswegetolderandseekto achieve with that which we learn Andweunderstandthat value of certain information and lessons, and deliver it to the ones behind us As they say, we all have to be the changethatwewouldliketo see

This Day in History - Sep. 25

Compiled by Zena Henry Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, the first use of a remote control

Torres Quevedo started to develop the idea of a remote control around 1901 or 1902, as a way of testing his airships without risking human lives. He was the first person to lay down the modern remote control operation principles, which he expressed in a prototype that he patented in 1903 under the nameTelekine.ThistermcamefromtwoGreekwords:tele(far away, in the distance) and kine (force, m o v e m e n t ) , resulting together in “movement at a distance, ” whichisbasically what the inventor was trying to achieve He carried out his first Telekine experiments a year later with a simple tricycle He managed to m a k e i t g o forward and backward,aswell as change direction, by sending orders from a wireless telegraphtransmitterfromadistanceofuptoabout32yards.

After this,Torres Quevedo decided to extend the use of his remotecontroltoengine-drivenboats.

On 25th September 1906, in the presence of KingAlfonso XIII of Spain and a crowd of awed spectators,Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrated the telekino in the port of Bilbao, where he controlled a vessel with eight people aboard, from a distanceoftwokilometres.

The positive results of those experiences encouraged Torres Quevedo to apply to the Spanish government for the financial aid required to use his Telekine to steer submarine torpedoes,atechnologicalfieldwhichwasjuststartingout.His application was, sadly, denied, which caused him to abandon the development and improvement of the Telekine. (Source: cyberneticzoo.com)

The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed

TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system is inaugurated

TAT 1 (Transatlantic No 1) was the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system. It was laid between Oban, Scotland and Clarenville, Newfoundland Two cables were laid between 1955 and 1956 with one cable for each direction. It was inaugurated on September 25, 1956. The cable was able to carry 35 simultaneous telephone calls. A 36th channel was used to carry up to 22 telegraphlines.

Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery

On September 25, 1974, the late Dr Frank Jobe performed the first ever elbow ligament reconstruction surgery on Dodgers left hander Tommy John The procedure is now more commonly known as Tommy John surgery John, who was 31 years oldatthetimeofhisinjury, tore his ulnar collateral ligament pitching in a game in July 1974. Jobe, the Dodgers team doctor, looked him over and knew the UCL was torn. A few weeks of rest didn’t help, which is when Jobe suggested a radical new procedure.Inanutshell,elbowreconstructioninvolvesdrilling some holes in the elbow and a weaving a tendon from another partofthepatient’sbody—usuallythewristorforearm—into a figure-eight pattern to form a new ligament. (Source: cbssports)

Dr. Frank Jobe pioneered both elbow ligament replacement and major reconstructive shoulder surgery for baseball players the

After a 17-yeargap since its last mission to the red planet, the United States launched Mars Observer on September 25, 1992.

Routes under study in early 1956

Calls for Sex Offenders registry heighten after 13 yr old boy is raped and murdered in Berbice

Following the heinous rape and murder of Berbice teenager, 13 year o l d L e o n a r d Archibald, calls for the introduction of a Sex Offenders R e g i s t r y heightened in the hopes of keeping o t h e r a t r i s k children safe. On September 25, 2017, Women and Gender Equality C o m m i s s i o n ( W & G E C ) members pressed for the implementation of this Registry. They stressed the need for the court to process cases more swiftly, citing two recent convictions that had occurred in 2017. There were two rape convictions earlier that year and advocates hoped to start with those convicts; a pastor who raped a six-year-old girl in 2007 and the other raped another childin2010;bothwereconvictedin2017.

The child rights advocates felt that special attention needs tobegiventosuchoffencesagainstchildren.TheCommission had pointed toward a shorter time span for children to get justice. They said that children are being violated (partly) becauseofsystematicweaknesses.

he 1926 Slavery Convention or the Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery was an

Tinternationaltreatycreatedundertheauspicesofthe League of Nations and first signed on September 25, 1926. It was registered in League of NationsTreaty Series on March 9, 1927, the same day it went into effect. The objective of the convention was to confirm and advance the suppression of slaveryandtheslavetrade.

The spacecraft was based on a commercial Earth-orbiting communications satellite that had been converted into an orbiter for Mars. The payload of science instruments was designed to study the geology, geophysics and climate of Mars.

The mission ended with disappointment on August 22, 1993,whencontactwaslostwiththespacecraftshortlybefore it was to enter orbit around Mars. Science instruments from Mars Observer were reflown on two other orbiters, Mars GlobalSurveyorand2001MarsOdyssey (Source:NASA)

The Telekine (or Telekino in Spanish)

13-year-old Leonard Archibald

Court Journal

Persons brought before the court for dramatic robberies

ecently making

the Sparendaam Magistrate’s

headlines are the $13 Court before Magistrate Alicia million robbery at the George.Theypleadednotguiltyto

R Giftland Mall and the the charge and were remanded to theft of $400 million in gold bars prison. The matter was adjourned from a Mahaica, East Coast toOctober26,2022. Demerara home. Charges were

It was reported that two b a

gunmen posing as security guards defendants in the matters and they from the Amalgamated Security wereremandedtoprison. Services Limited (ASSL) had

O n Tu e s d a y, l a s t , a entered the Giftland Mall around construction worker was jailed 21:45hrs on September 8, 2022, while another was remanded for and robbed the GTT Store located reportedly stealing some $400 on the second floor of $13.4M in million in gold bars from a female cashand$6Mincheques. golddealer

The Mall was closed at the

Bhaloonauth Seegobin called time and no one suspected that medicalbills. ‘Krishna’,a49year-oldcontractor theywerebanditsbecauseASSLis Police retrieved the clothes as of Lot 13 Farm, East Bank the company that would normally part of their evidence and Demerara (EBD) and his son conduct GTT’s Cash-in-Transit continuedtheirinvestigationandit Satrohan Seegobin called Services – uplift cash after the led them to detaining Andrea

store ends its operation for the day Dover, a cleaner employed at the Giftland Mall’s GTT branch. She confessed that she was the one who had set-up the robbery but wasnotthemastermind.

Shetoldpolicethemastermind was Jamal Haley called “Biggs” and reportedly said that he was the one who had approached her to plantherobbery

Dover’s job, this publication was informed, was to give Haley key details about the movements of cash from GTT, including the security company that uplifted it and the time of pick-ups. She was also tasked with identifying all the entrance and exit points of the building.

For her role, the bandits paid her $800,000 and that cash, she said, was given to her sister for safe keeping. Police contacted the sisterandfoundthemoneystashed inafowlpeninherbackyard.

On September 11, last, police located the residence of Biggs at (WBD) or Lot 29 New Road, Victoria Road, Plaisance, East

construction worker of the same Vreed en Hoop, West Coast CoastDemerara(ECD)buthewasmillion dollar gold robbery,

investigation into the multi anddepositssameintoabank.

Police were able to crack theaddress, made their appearance at Demerara (WCD), Andray notathome.detectives believe that more case in a matter of days afterthe Cove and John Magistrate’s Duncan called Junior, 27, of Lot

They, however, detained hisindividualsareinvolved. tracking down the getaway carCourt before Magistrate Fabayo 718 Kaneville, Grove, East Bank girlfriend who was there and she

On Tuesday last too, another used in the robbery–a white oldAzore. Demerara(EBD),andMarkSingh told them that indeed he wassuspect was arrested and police modelToyotaRaum.

Satrohan pleaded guilty to the also known as ‘Poppy’, 22, of Lot

involved in the robbery Thewere able to recover some $6

Detectives were able tochargewhichstatedthatheandhis 522Herstelling,EBD. girlfriend recalled him arrivingmillion in cash – cash suspected to ascertain that the car belonged tofatherallegedlystole1,000ounces

A week before the theft of the home with “a lot of cash” andhave been received from the sale Roberts, and they located him andof raw gold from a female gold $400 million gold heist – six when she asked him where he gotof some of the gold bars – and two atthetimeofhisarrest,thecarwasdealer at Mahaica, ECD, personswerechargedforthe$13.4 it from, he confessed to her that itcars believed to have been blackandwhite.sometime between December million robbery at a GTT store was from the robbery at Giftlandpurchasedwiththesaidcash.

During interrogation, Roberts,2021andJanuary2022. locatedintheGiftlandMall. anditwasforher.

Magistrate Azore sentenced

In total, police were able to according to police, admitted to

On September 15, Andrea

While police continued theirseize a washing machine, a gas being the getaway driver on theSatrohantofouryearsinprisonfor Dover, 25, a cleaner of Lot 616 D search for Biggs, they found hisstove, tea sets, two carpets, a night of the robbery He said thethe offence, whereas Bhaloonauth FieldSophia;PriecyRoberts,30,a alleged accomplice, Ryanseven-piece dining set, six boxes car was entirely white when thewas remanded after he denied the businessman of Lot 22 Tucville, Goodluck,atBarrStreet,Kittyandof tiles, one 12 amp skill saw, a crime was committed because hecharge.

wheelbarrow, a 25-inch television had used white wrap to cover theBhaloonauth is expected to 27, a cleaner of Lot 100 Victoria

Georgetown; Ashley Mansfield, arrestedhim.

He denied that he was part ofset, a spade and a music set. black colour on the bonnet and themakehisnextcourtappearanceon Road, Plaisance, East Coast therobberyAmong the seized vehicles seized top.November1,2022. Demerara; Jamal Haley, 24, a

too are four fielder wagons – two

It was reported that Roberts

However, police found a total

The father and son duo, labourer of Lot 461 D Field, of $286,420 in cash in hisblack and two white; a blue canter then led police to his home whereaccording to reports, was Sophia, Greater Georgetown; possession. After his arrest, it didtruck and one white Axio he gave them cash amounting toundertaking some repairs on the Ryan Goodluck, 24, of Lot 928 not take detectives long to locatemotorcar. $500,000, half of the total sharefemale gold dealer’s house when Herstelling Housing Scheme, East Biggs.

Notably,onFriday,theGuyana that he had received from histhey found the gold bars and Bank Demerara, and Osman

They arrested him atPolice Force (GPF) issued three participation in the multi-milliondecidedtostealthem. Brummell, 39, a vendor of Lot 63 Cummings Lodge, ECD and hewantedbulletinsforothersuspects dollarheist.

Investigatorswereabletotrack Cross Street, Werk en Rust, reportedly confessed too. He eveninrelationtothesaidcrime.

When asked what he did withthem down because they had Georgetown, all made their first handed over a total of $1.1M to

The three wanted persons are: the other half, he said that he hadreportedly gone on a spending courtappearance. police which he had given to a busDamien Brummell, 51, of Lot 36 purchased some clothes forspreeafterthetheft.

As police continue their

They defendants appeared in driverforsafekeeping.La Grange, West Bank Demerara himself and paid off his mother’s

Renay Sambach

Remanded, Ryan Goodluck

Remanded, Priecy Roberts

Remanded, Osman Brummell

Remanded, Andrea Dover

Remanded, Jamal Haley

Remanded, Ashley Mansfield

Health Facts

Simple tips for healthy living

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printer which is to make surerecommends drinking at “Even if you do not like should be taken in portions. persons in that workspaceleast eight glasses of water to drink the plain water, you To do this, there are portion have to get up and go to theper day. She noted that eight can add fruits, mint, or plates that you can use to printer which is one way ofglasses can be equivalent to ginger to add a flavour and routine. In the meantime, but rest is important becausewatch your intake of each making sure they get theirat least four to five of the make it more appetising, just breathing exercises and at the end of the day, ourfoodgroup.” stepsin…”regular size water bottles to make sure you are meditation are always body needs to repair andThe doctor warned of “Exercise does not havethat is sold at shops and drinkingenoughwater.” recommended no matter reset. If you don’t rest, youto be in a structured manner what physical condition you willlosefocusduringthedaybut it can be intentional. Put arein.” and have situations whereon some music and dance

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InterestingCreatures... Atta cephalotesAtta cephalotes

Atta cephalotes is a species of leafcutter ant in the tribe Attini (the fungusgrowing ants) A single colonyofantscancontainup tofivemillionmembers,and each colony has one queen that can live more than 15 years.Thecolonycomprises different castes, known as “taskpartitioning”,andeach caste has a different job to do.

TAXONOMY

Thespeciesisoneofthe

earliest formally classified ants, first described by Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 as Formica cephalotes in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae together with 16 other ant species, all of whichheplacedinthegenus Formica

Itwaslatertransferredto a new genus, Atta, along with five other species by Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius in 1804. In 1911, American

entomologist William Morton Wheeler designated A. cephalotes as the type species of Atta It was also designated as the type species of Oecodoma, but thegenusisnowasynonym ofAtta BIOLOGYAND BEHAVIOUR

A special caste of workers manages the colony’s rubbish dump These ants are excluded fromtherestofthecolony If any wander outside the dump,theotherantswillkill them or force them back. Rubbish workers are often contaminated with disease andtoxins,andliveonlyhalf aslongastheirpeers.

DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT

The species is widely

distributed in the

Neotropical region, from Mexico to Bolivia, with disjunct populations in Amazonasandnorth-eastern Brazil.

Across the rainforest floor they typically occupy an area of approximately 20 square feet. They live in neststhatcanbeasdeepas7 metres that they have carefullypositionedsothata breezecanridthenestofthe dangerous levels of CO2 givenoffbythefungusthey farmandeat.

[Source:Wikipedia]

PREVENTING PREMATURE LASH FALL Lessons from a Lashpreneur !!!

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Music enthusiasts launch Creative Titans GY to promote new talent

Creative Titans’ is celebrating its five year anniversary by launching Creative Titans GY, a new imprint dedicated to the regionalWestIndiesmarket.

The imprint will be headquarteredinGeorgetown, Guyana (South America) which has been experiencing rapid growth due to recent oil findings. Enhancements have been happening across all industries and the music industryisnoexception.

E-Networks to feature five must watch shows

This week on the Enetworks DreamTV, be sure to sit back, relax with your favourite drink and snacks and enjoy yourfavouriteshows.Seeattachedphotoformoredetailson Enetworks’mustwatchshows.

attention of the Latin music

Creative Titans has plans industry which lead to new on promoting Guyana as business ventures with Sony another music hub for the Latin & The Orchard and we

Almost one year ago, Ron TelfordCaribbean. are looking to amplify our and Creative Titans took a gamble on

“WithCreativeTitansGY,weareon relationshipsacrossLATAM” High Connection - Cartagena basedtracktodevelop,launch,distributeand

For those who may not be aware, music collective consisting of Jhosy,publishnewtalentfromtheWestIndies, Creative Titans is a full service Frank Design, Joe On The Beat, D.and also, our roster – likeWalshy Fire, entertainment company with years of Wolther&more.PopeyeCaution,J.Perry,andIzyBeats experienceinthemusicindustry

In May 2022, the team made it to— wanted to develop their own artists

It believes in fostering uncanny Spotify’s Viral Colombia and Deezerparalleltotheirowncareers,”explained collaborations to create unique music Top 300 Tracks Venezuela All GenresAdrian Johnson, Managing Partner of across all genres, and across the charts, as “Aurora,” the smash hit byCreativeTitans. diaspora.

Jhosysoaredtothetop.ItwasJhosyand“IlovemybirthnationGuyanaand

It also hand delivers talent with High Connection’s first taste ofopeninganofficetherefeltlikeanatural excellenceandhassaiditwillcontinue commercialsuccessandbythelooksofstep.Weplanonpromotingthecountry to bridge culture, technology to set the things,itwon’tbethelast.and creatives to the rest of the world.” trends of the future. CT also provides

“We’ve had small but impactfulAlongside the launch of the new artist management, music publishing, successes which have been paying offimprint, Creative Titans has partnered consulting, events, and artist in a major way,” says Ron Telford.with Sony/The Orchard for Latin development, marketing, career “This year alone, we caught thereleases. strategyandmore.

RonAndré Elvis Telford

(From Left to Right) Ron Telford, Jhosy, Frank Design,Joe On The Beat, Luis Gabriel (High Connection), John Eddie Perez (A&R - Sony Latin)

Spinach Juice:Uses, Benefits, Side Effects

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Banana Flower: Benefits, Side Effects

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StingyJackandtheJackO’Lantern

ByPatSt.Pierre

“Daddy,” shouted Dylan Joseph, “how manymoredaysuntilFallFestival?”

“Twomoreweeks,”saidDad. “I can’t wait,” said Dylan Joseph “Mommy promised to take me to the store to pickoutacostume.”

ThisFallFestivalwasespeciallyexciting for Dylan Joseph. In school there was going tobeaHalloweenpartywithaparade. They werealsogoingtocarveoutapumpkin.

“Do Jack O’Lanterns grow with a funny face?”askedDylanJoseph.

“No,” answered Dad. Jack O’Lanterns start out as pumpkins. “Remember went we went to the farm and we saw all those pumpkinsontheground.”

“But how do pumpkins become Jack

Joseph.

“Well,” said Dad, “the Irish peopleO’Lanterns?”askedDylanJoseph. namedadaycalledHallowsEve.Onthatday“Wecarvethefacesintothem.” they would carve out pumpkins rather than“Why?”DylanJosephasked turnips, because they were larger, and they“Well,” said Dad, “the tradition started put lights in them to scare off evil spirits andmany years ago in Ireland.There was a story tofrightenStingyJack.”that people told, much like a fairy tale, about

“Are they’re still evil spirits today?”anoldman,namedStingyJack.” askedDylanJoseph.

“Tell me the story,” Dylan Joseph

“No,” said Dad. “But each year on thatbegged. certain day in October, the children dress up

Dad sat down on the couch and Dylan incostumesandcarvepumpkinsintoJackO’Josephclimbedupandsatnearhim. Lanterns. Inside the Jack O’Lantern they“Many years ago, there was an old man placealightjustliketheydidmanyyearsagonamed Stingy Jack. Stingy Jack was always in Ireland.They do this to frighten the make-playing mean tricks on everyone. After believe evil spirits and Stingy Jack,” saidStingy Jack died, the story says that he was Dad.forcedtowanderaroundindarknessbecause

“I’m going to carve the scariest face onof his evil ways. In order for him to find his my Jack O’Lantern.,” Dylan Joseph said. “Iway in dark, Jack put a piece of coal into a wanttomakesureIfrightenStingyJack.”carvedoutturniptoprovidesomelightinthe “I’m sure it will,” Dad said and gavedarkness.”

“Andthenwhathappened?”askedDylan

DylanJosephagreatbighug.

Jigoku Puzzle

Junior page

Directions To Make Halloween Luminaries

Supplies Needed To Make mason jars. It’s okay if the mouth with hot glue (adults Halloween Mason Jar paint is still a little only)orgluedots.

Luminaries translucent. This will just To create the jack o 8oz.MasonJars allow the lights to shine lantern jar, attach 2 googly AcrylicPaint through in the dark. If you eyes, a felt triangle for the BlackFelt would like to make all of the nose and a felt mouth. You HotGlue Halloween characters, you can also make the eyes of the FairyLights will need to paint a white, pumpkinwithfelttoo.

Note: keep batteries greenandorangejar And finally for the away from children, ensure 2 This step is optional, Frankenstein jar, attach 2 there is a proper secured but if you want your lids to googlyeyesandblackfeltfor closure on the battery be black, apply a few coats some “stitches” on the compartment. of black paint and allow to foreheadandmouth.

GooglyEyes dry 4 Finally insert your Directions To Make 3. Now it’s time to add fairy lights into the jar, turn Halloween Luminaries thedetailstoeachjar!Forthe them on and secure the lid.

1. First you will want to ghost jar, attach 2 googly Place the jars in a dim room put one coat of paint on your eyes and a felt oval for the andwatchthemglow!

FUNWITHPOETRY

By Tameria StewartHome and Family

Home

by Uncle Roy

ASense of Belonging is important to our Growth

Withtheonsetofadolescence,whenayoungperson is experiencing strange changes in all aspects of his/her life, he /she feels the importance of satisfying the need to be accepted for what he/she is, and to have that acceptance in the various communities in which he/she operates,namely,thehome,school,work-placecommunity, andthevariousorganisationstowhichhe/shemaybelong.

Withoutthissenseofbelonging,whichwillallowthat person to develop and grow as a responsible and reasonable individual, he/she will tend to search for this security in the wrong direction, and can easily fall into error as a result. One example of this is when young people give in to the links which they obtained from birth, or are too busy to have appeal of juvenile gangs, even though these may not thetimetodoso. conform to the standards which they have learnt from their

This means that young people increasingly lack and miss previous experiences at home, church, etc. They do so close personal ties as they grow older, living in a world where because these gangs can satisfy the need for belonging, they feel isolated, disconnected from their parents and socialacceptanceandidentification. siblings,andunattachedtoanythingofimportance. Theyfeel

Whenthishappens,theyhavetorealisethatthemajor out of touch with society, unable to build and maintain need is to retain individuality and reinforce their personal meaningfulrelationshipswithothers. valuesinthefaceofbehaviourpatternsandsituationswhich

Theymayalsoshowlittlemotivationtocontributetothe go against what they know to be best for them, and which well-being of other individuals or society as a whole. They can lead to improper situations. As young people strive then tend to look to the outside environment to satisfy their for independence from their parents and the values which needs, and this more often than not can lead to forming they have more or less been forced to accept, they need to associationswhichcanbeundesirableandharmful. relate to others about their own world of music, friendships, Wewillnextdiscussthethreestepswhichmaybetaken school,entertainment,sexualchanges,etc. to facilitate positive relationships with your peers, to foster a

In the modern world, it is prevalent that the people at sense of social well-being, and to create feelings of belonging homeeitherdonotseemuchneedinstrivingtomaintainthe inwhateversituationyoumayfindyourself.

There are many times that children find They have problems with what others do, Sometimes it is with some friend, And it can be with their teacher too.

Most children keep these problems inside, And don’t know what to do, And soon they find the trouble becomes worse, Until it is very hard to get through.

Whenever you see this happening to you, Do not be afraid to speak out; Tell your parents what is worrying you, And ask them to help you out.

The knowledge that you are accepted in the various environments in which you function will go a long way towards making your life happy and worthwhile.

Solutions to last week’s Talk to your Parents by Uncle Roy

Illustrious teacher, YEARS…

is a Special Person SirFranklinLonghorne

“I always wanted to becomethreethings:apastor, ateacher,andbroadcasterand atdifferentstagesofmylife,I took on all three of these roles,” Longhorne said of fulfillinghislifelongdreams Infact,thosedreamsledhim to enter the Cyril Potters College of Education (CPCE) or the Teachers Training College at age 19 To further qualify himself, Mr Longhorne also completed a short communicationCourse at the Critchlow Labour College, then a short course at the University of Guyana where he r e a d f o r a L a n g u a g e T e a c h i n g Certificate

Education Certificate (CSEC) students In St Lucia,healsotaughtEnglish and Communication at the Arthur Lewis A Level College.

ByRehannaRamsay

An y p e r s o n p r i v i l e g e d enoughtohavea conversation with Mr Franklin Longhorne can immediately tell you that he has an intimate affair with the English Language. His love for the vernacular in whatever form it takes creole (broken English) or Standard English is undeniable.

So much so, that Mr. Langhorne, a teacher of the English language for more than40years,isregardedas “alivinglegend”bymanyof

Sir Langhorne as he is called by those closest to him, has not only enjoyed many years as an illustrious language teacher but he has fared well in other faculties where his command of the English Language is essential.

At various points of his life, this weeks Special Personfunctionedasapastor andabroadcaster,capacities in which he held notable speaking roles. He told this publication that he has been “blessed” to have achieved all three of his boyhood ambitions.

Back then, t h e y o u n g teacherquicklymovedtothe UniversityofGuyana,where he earned his Bachelor of Education Degree with an English Major Longhorne then ventured into broadcasting

Herevealed,“Ijoinedthe Guyana Broadcasting Cooperation in 1985 as a continuity Broadcaster and doubleddutiesasHeadofthe English Department at PresidentsCollege.”

Sir Longhorne then left in 1995 for St. Lucia where heservedasanEnglishAand English B teacher for Caribbean Secondary

In 2000, Sir Longhorne leftSt.LuciaforNetherlands Antilles where he taught English A and English B. He returned to Guyana in 2010 and rejoined the Guyana Broadcasting Corporation as a radio broadcaster doing shows like Plain Talk, “Straight from the heart” and others. He then began lecturing in communicatio n and effective speaking at the Critchlow Labour College and eventually joined the staff of School of the Nations, followed by Morgans Learning Centre andfinallyChasesAcademic Foundation where he still serves as a Master English Teacher

VILLAGE BOY

However, the highly esteemed, Sir Longhorne stillregardshimselfasavery simple man who had grown tobearhardlyanysemblance to the village boy he once was. Mr. Langhorne cautioned, however, the essence of who he is, is still very connected to the boy whogrewupinAnnsGrove,

Ea st Coast Demerara. He said he was what many people call “a church boy ” Longhorne revealed that very early on in his life, he was exposed to a “rigid”, religiousupbringingthatled him to lead a very modest lifestyle.

“I basically grew up in the old Pentecostal churchcalled the Church of God of Prophecy in Anns Grove.”

He recalled too that duringhischildhood,almost thewholevillagewaschurch oriented.Assuch,hesaidthe village expected him (referred to back then as

“ B r o t h e r Frank”),andhis four closest friends to set a veryhighbarforthe other young people in the village. He said that his strict Church upbringingforbadehim frommanythings.

He noted, “For example, there was no going to the cinema; no wearing of gold; no singing ofpopsongs.”

“As a result, that upbringing instilled in me a very strong sense of no to things considered wrong…Even when I went to get married, I couldnt get married with a ring because no gold was allowed in the church Of course, that caused some problems for me as it upset the young ladys mother,” Longhorne said.

He revealed, however, that as he matured and was exposed to various personalities,hisperspective changed.Addedtothis,the

hisstudentsandpeers.

“I always wanted to become three things: a pastor, a teacher, and broadcaster and at different stages of my life, I took on all three of these roles.”

Sir Franklin Longhorne, an English Teacher for over 40 years

Doting father: Mr. Longhorne stands with one of his sons after a Church service

Mr. Longhorne surrounded by his students at ChasesAcademic Foundation

…FOR THE CLASSY AND COMFY

An emerging local customised apparel

business, called

K O M I C, has started on a mission to offer members of the public customised classy but comfortablewear.

KOMIC meaning Kingdom Outfits Made In Class was founded in 2020 by a young woman name Makila Thoman who officially launched the businessinMarchthisyear

Thoman, who hails from Kitty,Georgetown,saidduringan interview with this publication that it was her love for creating and building things that inspired her to even consider starting the venture. Most importantly, she said,themovewasaninspiration fromGod.

Shenotedthat“Asacreative, almosteverythinginspiresmebut my main inspiration comes from GodsoHegotmetolaunchout.” KOMIC,shesaid,providesteens, young adults and adults with customisedwears.

Thoman mentioned that since takingthesteptolaunchout,her

support system has been tremendous Family members, friends,andveryloyalcustomers, she noted, have been motivating and encouraging her to do even more,andshehasbeendoingso.

Having been in business for just a short while, the young woman shared that one of the mainchallengesshehasfacedwas delivering customised hoodies to clients in Jamaica, St. Lucia and Trinidad during the pandemic. But with the operation of the airlines now fully back to normalcy that problem has been resolved,shenoted.

“While the pandemic had affectedshippinganddeliveriesin thepast,itwasalsothebirthofthe vision to be the first business to create customised hoodies and sweats in Guyana. If we weren’t locked indoors who knows if I wouldbeheretodayastheyoung CEO of a thriving business,” Thomanadded.

With a lot in store for this emergingbusiness,thisyoung

“While the pandemic had affected shipping and deliveries in the past, it was also the birth of the vision to be the first business to create customised hoodies and sweats in Guyana. If we weren’t locked indoors who knows if I would be here today as the young CEO of a thriving business.”

ByAllyiahAllicock

Y oung

entrepreneur ,

Malika Thoman

Some the customised wears you can order from KOMIC.

Cuisine Culture Cultur

A PRODUCT OF FATHER-DAUGHTER LOVE CM Black Cake:

ByRenaySambach

Among the many savoury dishes that areamusthaveduringtheChristmas holidayisthelusciousblackcake.

After working on a project with her father to create the perfect black cake for over a decade, evenafterherfather,ColinMing,passedawayin an accident last year, Saralise Ming, earlier this monthlaunchedCMBlackCakeinhonourofher father

CM Black Cake is the flagship product at Noodle Cake Creations and is considered an artisanproduct.

JOURNEY OF CM BLACK CAKE

The journey of CM Black Cake began back in 2012, after Saralise launched her trademark business, Noodle Cake Creations.

After opening her business, her father challenged her to create the perfect black cake. According to her, “he said: Sara, if you’re going in this direction, lets work on perfecting your mother’s black cake. I think it could really beaworldclassproduct.”

Saralise shared that the first partofthejourneywaslearning the fruits ratio for the black cake and by the end of 2012, under the guidance of her mother, she was able to put

herfirstbatchofboozyfruitmixtocure.

ThefruitmixthatSaralisehadmadewasthen namedtheMotherMix.Shesaidthatsomeofthe Mother Mix was used for cake, while some was mixed with new fruit to facilitate the curing process.“Oldfruitisalwaysaddedtonewfruitto keeptheagingprocessgoing.Ifwe’redoingsome quickmath,2012to2022,myfruitmixhasbeen rotating for nearly a decade! Thats part of what makesitsospecial.”

Saralisesharedthatthefruitpartwas justthe beginningofherlongjourneythatwasahead.She said, “Let me tell you. Black cake is unlike any other The mixing and baking techniques are completelyunique.Evenwitharecipeandmom’s guidance,ittookawhiletofirstlearnherversion and then to figure out the tweaks. As the orders camein,Iwasworkingonit.”

AccordingtoSaralise,witheachbatchthatshe made,herfatherwouldcuthissliceandcritique. “No matter how perfect I felt our cake was becoming, he’d always say but Sara you need to fix this and hearing that phrase for several years wasterriblyfrustrating.”

Saralise said, “Every year around May, dad would travel to play golf with his buddies in MyrtleBeach.Hedalwaystakemomsblackcake fully covered with a generous layer of almond paste.Eventhoughwewereworkingonourblack cake project, he never would let me bake that specific cake. He always wanted her to bake it. Yes,Iwasdisappointedeachyearashewouldn’t

letmetrymyhandatitandIfeltIcoulddoit.”

However, in 2019, Saralises father gave her thetasktobaketheblackcakeforthetrip.

Whileherfatherwasonthetrip,shereceiveda phone call and her father told her that someone wouldliketospeaktoherandhethenpassedthe phonetooneofhisfriends.

“We exchanged our greetings and a bit of smalltalk.Thenhesaid,butIwasaskingtospeak withyourMother,whereisshe?Icouldheardad inthebackgroundsaying:No,youaskedtospeak with the baker and I gave you the right person. Then the next thing I heard was, Did you really bake that cake? I wanted to talk to your Mom to tellherthatthisoneisthebestonethatwe’veever hadoveralltheseyears.”

Saralise explained that after hearing those words,shewasleftinastonishment.Herfather

Continued on page 63

Saralise Ming, owner of CM Black Cake

Illustrious English teacher,

SirFranklinLonghorne...

Frompage51

rules of the old church headquartered in the UnitedStatesbegantoshifttoaccommodate a less rigid form of Christianity the core of which remains the same but the perspective wasmoremodern.

Furthermore, Longhorne’s pursuit of education led him to a more liberated viewpoint “Pursuing academics also introduced me to different personalities like AdamHarrisandotherpersons,whomImet in college and who brought new perspectives… I was also impacted by the wisdom of great lecturers like Mr Samuel Smallwhotaughtmeincollege,”Longhorne,

aformerstudentofAnnsGrovePrimaryand TutorialHighSchooladded.

He continued, “Now I am matured and liberated in the sense that I have my own understandingofthefaith.”

‘SIR LONGHORNE

Long before he entered the teachers training college, Sir Longhorne became awarethatGuyaneseCreoleisalanguage.He was also aware that in spite of it being an authentic language, it did not possess international currency He observed too that the interlanguage was hurting our students. Ourstudents,therefore,hadtohearthisother language, Standard English, which was not

GuyanesetakeEPAtocourtto...

Frompage20 in a separate court case. Furthermore, Esso has also admittedtooperatingabove the safety level of its productionvessel.

According to Janki, an internationallawyer,whois representing the litigants, this state of affairs is absolutely reprehensible Janki said, “If there is any mistakeinEssosoperations and oil ends up in the Caribbean countries, Guyana could be liable for the damage as a result of international law Liability from a well blowout or oil spill could cost Guyana billions of dollars and that cost to Guyana could be more than the money that Guyana supposedly gets under the deal. This is a massivefinancialriskandin my view, the permit clearly puts that financial risk on Esso and its parent ExxonMobil,andnotonthe Guyanesepeople.”

Janki further stated that communities in Guyana are

taking lessons from major disasters like the BP Deep Water Horizon in 2010, which cost the company over US$65 billion and destroyed the environment and livelihoods. Unlike the United States of America, JankipositsthatGuyanahas no experience of oil and no oil/gas experts, engineers and other necessary technical staff to run an oil sector She said too that Guyana also lacks the infrastructuretoswiftlycap a well and mitigate the damage caused by a potentialoildisaster

Janki also noted that a WorldBankprojecttobuild capacity has been downgraded to moderately unsatisfactory

W h a t f u r t h e r compounds the madness, in hereyes,isthefactthatEsso isregisteredoffshoreandits financialpositionisunclear as it has been filing what it calls branch accounts in Guyana.

Inaseparatelitigation,a

Guyanese citizen has asked the court to order Esso to comply with Guyanas company law and file full accounts.

Mr SeenathJairam,SC, when asked for a comment, stated: “Any right thinking and objective person would and must be concerned about the possibility of a petroleum disaster on the high seas, which will cause untold damage, destruction and loss to an entire region and its peoples, so that it is absolutely crucial to have full and adequate insurance coverage from reputable insurers, which are capable of honouring billion dollar claims, in the event of an suchaccidentoraccidents.”

Jairam categorically statedthatthisisnotatrifling matter. “It is a matter of immense concern to me and all persons who are environmentallyconscious.”

To date, there are six cases in court regarding the operations of ExxonMobils affiliateEssoinGuyana.

theirmothertongue.”

Given that he is a natural Guyanese Creole speaker, he had to move away from Creole to be able to make a living. Mr Longhorne said that it impacted him in a particularway

“I wanted to preach the doctrine of the authenticityofourCreolelanguagebutatthe same time make my students aware of its limitations. For example, the words cut eye, there is no way to say “cut eye” in Standard English but there are other words to explain whattheywanttosay Somymessagetomy studentsistokeeptheold[GuyaneseCreole] because it is good and learn the new [Standard English] because it is absolutely necessary,”heshared.

His method of teaching has certainly yieldedmuchfruit.Manyofhisstudentshave done well for themselves. He counts this among his highest professional achievements.

“I remember Ruel Johnson a two-time GuyanaPrizewinner wasonceastudentof mine at Presidents College and Cassia Alphonso anotherGuyanaPrizewinnerwas mystudentatschooloftheNations…Justto name a few I also taught Attorney-at-law Abiola Wong Inniss, Prominent Cardiologist, Dr Mahendra Carpen, Eye Specialist.Dr ShailendraSugrim,Attorneys, Kim Kyte, and Roger Yearwood are all the reward of my hard work,” he said, adding, “Now I have Tyrone Austin, a 13-year-old who secured Grade 1 English a student at ChasesAcademicFoundationwhoisstillmy student.”

To this end, the teacher asserted, “I believe God has given each one of us a special gift mine is to let the village boy or girl know that there is a piece of gold deep downinside…Whenhe/shesmilesandhands me a red-ink pen, thats what I ask for when theypassCSEC,andsaysthankyouSir,Igot through thatsmilefuelsmymotivation.”

BROADCASTER

Outside of his work as a teacher, Mr Longhornealsoworkedwiththeradiostation of the National Communications Network (NCN) until the COVID-19 hit in March 2020. During his stint, he had become what somesuggestedasthekingoflate-nightradio

with programmes like The Triple M show, (TheMusic,theMagic,andtheMemories),A SundaykindofLove,andothers.Longhorne had always admired the great speakers he encounteredandhedesiredtofollowsuit.

He said that at college, “I had a senior, ErrolChristopher,whospokealmostperfect English. In addition to that, I was a fan of former President Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham,whomthelateQueenElizabethII, herself lauded for his command of the English language. It was listening to people like those that encouraged me. I said to myself,IwanttosoundlikethatandIbegan toworkatit.”

As a result, he revealed that he never chased the opportunities in broadcast but as he became the best at what he did, the opportunitiesfollowed.

He said, “I learned from Dr Myles MunroewhoseteachingIholdinhighregard that once you find you like something and youaregoodatit,thenyourefineittoapoint where you believe that nobody can do it as well as you can; once that happens the opportunities will chase you rather than you chaseit.”

“That is why one of my favourite quotes is greatness lies not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarilywell,”hesaid.

Andthathedidfor10consecutiveyears. Longhorne entertained the Guyanese public with his twilight segments. The Triple M ShowonVoiceofGuyanawasoneofhispet projects.Heexplained,“Iwouldplaymusic, the music triggers a memory and the magic happensasyourelivethosememoriesforas longasthesongslast.”

Although he is no longer entertaining, Mr Longhorne said he maximizes his time “by cutting from activities I deem to be unnecessary e g Facebook, Tik Tok, Saturdaynightlies,etc.Hisfreetimeisspent being of service to his wife, Carol, their six children Carolyn,Gee-Gee,Oneika,Andrea, Franklin Jnr, Ekwensi as well as his grandchildren Uriel, Radiance, Javier, and Lennix In his humble opinion, Mr Longhornesaidhebelievesthereisnogreater giftthanbeingabletoraiseastrong,healthy family

As such, he told this publication, “My greatest achievement is the fact that I have been able, with the help of theAlmighty, to assist my wife to help navigate our six children through life developing in them a deep respect for God the Father and His son JesusChrist.” ”Oneisamanageratabankin St.Maarten,oneisapastor,oneisateacher, one is a communication student at UG, and two are self employed,” he added contentedly

Mr. Longhorne sits behind a microphone during his days as a broadcaster

Family man: Mr. Longhorne is pictured with his loving wife and six children

Reporters attempt to extort$90M from car dealer over ‘news story’

TworeporterswereonFriday story which was used in the theFacebookpage. last caught in a sting-operation allegedattempttoextortthecash Addressing the matter on his attemptingtoextort$90Mfroma fromthecardealer Facebook page on Saturday, auto dealer for the removal of a According to the story, the Attorney General and Minister ‘news story’ published on a autodealerhasbeencheatingthe of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, Facebook page dubbed Guyana government of millions of SC, noted that the businessman NewsNetwork(GNN). dollars in taxes. The auto dealer had moved to lodge a police

The reporters – Gary Eleazar has since denied the claim but report against the two reporters and Alex Wayne – said to be alleged that the reporters onAugust 29, last and detectives employees of GNN, are demanded that he pay them decidedtoset-upasting reportedly the authors of the $90M to remove the story from (Continued on page 62)

Gary Eleazer

Alex Wayne

WEEKINREVIEW

Agreement (PSA) to pay income Natural Resource Fund is taxesforExxonanditspartners. unprecedented in its importance to SUNDAY

Thosetaxesaretobepaidfrom Guyana and but stressed that ‘the revenues earned for the sale of cavalierattitudebeingtakenbythe

DAMNING REVELATION Guyana’sshareofprofitoil.Those PPP/C Administration to comply OF AMENDED ROYALTY deposits are made into the NRF with its own legislation’ is most PROVISION IN EXXON DEAL account.Thegroupnotedthatthese disconcerting.

EXPOSES VPJAGDEO’S TRUE taxes which ought to be paid over COLOURS werenot,yettheAuditorGeneralin MONDAY his review, gave it a clean bill of

-GOVT MUST QUIT BEING OIL health. Thecivilsocietybodysaid, GOVT. SAYS…‘G COMPANIESUYANESE ’SERVANTS AND “…It was inappropriate and MUST WAIT 14 YEARS SECURBEFORE E MORE FOR ITS PEOPLE incorrectfortheAuditorGeneralto CHANGE TO ‘LOPSIDED’ KNPUBLISHER LALL issue a clean audit opinion on the EXXON CONTRACT’

Uponperusalofadocumentthat financialstatementsoftheFundfor – ACKNOWLEDGES SUCCESSFUL revealedacriticalfiscal either or both years (2020 and RENEGOTIATION BY amendmentwasmadetothe2016 2021).” APNU+AFC, BUT HOLDS StabroekBlockProduction

‘Article 13’ on the foregoing FAST TO SANCTITY OF SharingAgreement(PSA)under grounds called on the Auditor CONTRACT POSITION thecoalitionregime, Kaieteur Generaltowithdrawhisstatements News Publisher,GlennLall,saidit and re-issue his opinion on the Amid renewed calls for isunfathomabletothinkthe financial statements for non amendments to unfavourable PPP/CAdministrationwould compliancewiththelaw provisions within the Production refusetotakesimilaractionto “We understand that such a SharingAgreement(PSA)between securemorebenefitsfor step, though unusual, was done by Guyana and the Stabroek Block Guyanese. theAuditOfficebeforeandthat,in partners, the Guyana government any case, that it is a professional remainsfirminitsdecisionagainstThe document in question requirement where a previously any renegotiation of the 2016 oilpertains toAddendum No. 1 to the issuedreportissubsequentlyfound contract.

Stabroek Block Petroleum to have been inappropriately A public statement from theAgreementdatedApril26,2019.It issued,”thegroupstated. Ministry of Natural Resource onstates that former President David ‘Article 13’ also expressed Sunday, reiterated theGranger and President of Exxon concern that based on information government’s position that theaffiliate, Esso Exploration and availabletothepublic,theGuyana 2016 PSA, shared betweenProduction Guyana Limited contract. The 2016 deal for

According to Lall, “The first Revenue Authority would have ExxonMobil affiliate Esso(EEPGL), Rodney D Henson, example, states that the oilPress Conference when I asked issued receipts and certificates to Exploration and Productionaccepted that the Stabroek Block companiescanself-insure.GuyanaJagdeo if royalty was recoverable, the oil companieswhich show that Guyana Limited (EEPGL) and itsdealallowedfortherecoveryofthe hassaidthiswillnotbeallowed,ashe carried us around in a circle taxes were paid on their behalf by partners will remain unchanged,two percent royalty and mutually such, stricter insurance provisionssaying the Guyana Revenue theState.Thisisinspiteofthefact whilemaintaining“sanctity”oftheagreedforthistobeamended. have been put in place using theAuthority (GRA) has to give him thatitdidnotreceivesuchfunds. contract until the end of theenvironmental permits that havethat information because he doesThe Addendum for which this

ItsaidthereforethatGRAmust agreement’slifecycle.been issued for Exxon’s projects.not know. At the second Pressnewspaper has secured a copy, provide evidence to the public as The ministry said that, “theGuyanese authorities have alsoConference, he came and talkedstates that the parties engaged in the bearers of the liability for the government’s position has beeninstituted a Local Content Lawwithoutbeingaskedaquestionanddiscussionsand“intheinterestof tax payments, that it did receive and will continue to be, that thewhich makes tougher demands onsaiditisnotbeingrecovered.”the avoidance of all doubt, the such monies and that the 2016 PSA shared betweenExxon and its partners to prioritiseparties have come to a mutual During last week’s interview certificateswereproperlyissued. ExxonMobil affiliate Essotheuseoflocalgoodsandservices.and satisfactory agreement that withLall,Jagdeowaskeentonote

The civil society group was Exploration and Production the payment of royalty pursuant that while the contract allows for keen to note that GRA may Guyana Limited (EEPGL) and itsCIVIL SOCIETY GROUP SLAMSto Article 15.6 of the Petroleum theroyaltytoberecoveredwiththe correctly assert that it is prevented partners, remains without aAUDITOR GENERAL FOR ISSUINGAgreement shall be borne solely permission of the minister, same by the Income Tax Act from renegotiation in keeping with

MISLEADING REPORT ON OILby the Contractor.” It goes onto was not provided. GRA had also communicatingthetaxinformation contractsanctity.”ACCOUNTstate that “the said royalty providedsimilarguidance. of any person to any other person, Itsaidthatnotwithstandingthis,CHALLENGES GOVT.,GRATOpaymentshallnotberecoverable except as authorised by the thelicensingforeverynewfieldtoLall noted, however, that the RELEASE EVIDENCE ON TAX cost, in any manner or

President,Dr IrfaanAli. be developed since 2020 has seenaddendum proves two things: PAYMENTS FOR OIL COMPANIESformulationunderthePetroleum

Anticipatingthatitmayseekto significant improvements in bothindeed, royalty is not beingAgreement.” hide behind this legal barrier, environmental and fiscal benefitsrecovered thanks to the actions of Civil Society Group, ‘Article ‘Article 13’ said it will shortly be forGuyana.

Vice President, Dr Bharrat the Granger Government and 13’, has expressed grave concern writingtothePresident,askinghim “This will continue to be theJagdeoduringaninterviewwiththe changes can be made irrespective about the Government as well as to authorise GRA to release the trendforallnewinvestmentsintheKN Publisher last week, insisted of the excuse of sanctity of the Auditor General, Deodat particularsofthecertificatesissued Stabroek Block until the contractthat there are other weaknesses in contract. Sharma’snon-compliancewiththe forthevarioustaxespaidbyeachof renegotiation period is reached,”the 2016 deal but the PPP/C Natural Resource Fund (NRF)

“SoJagdeohasbeensellingthis the oil companies in 2020, 2021 the statement clarified. Based onGovernment will not enter into legislation.nation a jumbie story Is he saying and2022. the production sharing agreement,renegotiations. Jagdeo had said he

The group explained that it as the man heading this oil sector

Alternatively, it said the thelifecycleofthe2016contractisis doubtful Exxon and partners carriedoutareviewofthefinancialthat he didn’t know or see this President can request the Minister 20years.would be open to doing so at this statementsoftheNaturalResourcedocument?Notasoulbroughtitto responsible for Petroleum release This puts the renegotiatingstage. FundfortheyearendedDecemberhis attention? Two years sitting at thatinformationinthesamedetail. periodsometimearound31, 2021 and comparativeJagdeo repeatedly stated that thehelmofthisoilsectorandheis

Overall, ‘Article 13’ said the (Continuedonpage58)informationfor2020.the contract would not be touched clueless about this? I refuse to

KaieteurNewsunderstandsthatduetothegovernment’srespectfor believethat.Jagdeoknewallalong partofthisexercise,carriedoutbythe sanctity of contracts and the thatthiscontractcanbeamendedin ProfessionalAccountants here andinherent Stability Clause of the this fashion,” expressed the abroad,includedadeterminationofPSA. Thatclausepreservestheoil Publisher Lall said every citizen whether the NRF’s financialcompanies’ fiscal returns as must ask themselves why the Vice statements which were audited byprovidedforinthedealirrespective President insists on painting the Audit Office of Guyanaof any change in law Following Guyana as powerless when the compliedwiththelawthe explosive revelation of the Addendumprovesthenationisnot.

‘Article 13’ said that exercise

Addendum by Chartered “The question is why? Whose found that theAG did not conductAccountant,ChristopherRam,Lall interest is this man looking out his audit in a manner that issaid the proverbial cat has been let for?” compliantwiththerequirementsofout of the bag He said the Lall also noted other critical the NRF law ‘Article 13’pointeddocument has exposed the true changes that were made in spite of outthatGuyanaagreedviathe2016colours of VP Jagdeo and the the existing provisions of the StabroekBlockProductionSharingGovernmentbyextension.

KN Publisher, Glenn Lall

Chartered Accountant, Chris Ram

Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo

Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat

Frompage57

renegotiation of the entire unclear from publicly madeforthepurchaseofoil, for oil) moves pass the must tap the benefits of 2036,sincethedocument contract between Guyana accessible documents gas and/or mineral determined rate. He said, increasedoilprices. would have been signed in and ExxonMobil “The whether any technical and resources This could “Guyana must move to a Back in June, this 2016. government reiterates that financial criteria are includepayments(incashor variable royalty regime newspaper had questioned

assessedineitheroilandgas in kind) related to swap which increases royalty theLeaderoftheOpposition, statement has come on the fiscally unchanged for the licenseawardsortransfers. agreements and resource levels when Brent Crude is Aubrey Norton on his heels of revitalised calls for country and investors’

The government’s the contract will remain

It said, “Government backedloans. above a determined price. position on the matter of them to take Exxon and benefits.”Theministrywent officials explained that K a i e t e u r N e w s Thisshouldapplybothtothe windfall taxes. At the time, partners back to the ontosaythatthemodelPSA

rigorous checks of licence understands that the existing Production Sharing he could not definitely say renegotiationtablegiventhe being developed by the applicants were performed published data could be Agreement (PSA) and the whether he agrees with this “lopsided” provisions government will be adapted (even if the criteria against disaggregated by individual newmodelPSA.” policy for the oil companies designed toward oil for all new petroleum which these checks were seller, contract or sale. The P r e v i o u s l y, t h e as he wanted to first consult companies having a larger activities offshore Guyana - performed were not made disclosures could for each Oppositionmadeitclearthat with the AFC Vice take from the country’s oil whetheritbeforexploration public) but that these could sale include information on they believe in the “sanctity PresidentBharratJagdeohas resources. or production operations be waived in the instance of the nature of the contract of contracts” However, confirmed that it is the

A recently exposed This, the government said well-knowninternationaloil (e.g. spot or term) and load when questioned about its citizens that forced other document, an addendum to includes the upcoming companies(IOCs),asarethe port.

new position, Low countries to slap the one-off the 2016 PSA highlighted competitive bidding round majority of the oil Also, where there are explained, “It’s essentially a taxes on those companies, that two years after the A that it intends to host in the companies currently

concerns related to data windfall tax…this change arguingthatthiscouldnotbe Partnership for National last quarter of this year and operatinginGuyana.” reliability and where will only be due if we see replicated in Guyana since, Unity+AllianceForChange other commercially viable The international practically feasible, the abnormal circumstances in “weareboundbyaPSAwith (APNU+AFC) government discoveriesthatwillbemade watchdog has since urged multi stakeholder group theoilmarket,whichnoone very specific terms on the signed the 2016 PSA, it inotheroilblocks. authorities to make the should consider further could have reasonably taxationside.” brought Exxon and partners necessary efforts to come efforts to address any gaps, predicted when the contract The United Kingdom back to the renegotiating — SAYS GOVT. MUST into full compliance with inconsistencies and wassigned.” recently slapped its oil table, causing them to put EXPLAIN HOW IT SELECTS Requirement 4 2 of its irregularities in the Moreover, he said that companies with a one-off into writing, assurance that BUYERS, APPROVES Standards. informationdisclosed. the exciting oil prices mean windfalltaxof25percenton theywouldnotberecovering TRANSFERS OF INTERESTS EITIREQUIREMENTS that the share of the oil all oil companies operating the two percent royalty that IN OIL BLOCKS EITI’s Requirement 4.2 TUESDAY companies would not be inthatjurisdictioninorderto Guyanashouldbegettingoff speaks to sale of the state’s lessened, which makes it alsopartakeinthesweeping the top, as owners of the oil While Guyana has made share of production or other

OPPOSITION BACKS CALLS safe to implement. To this profits being had by the resource. Despite weeks of some progress in routinely revenues collected in kind. FOR GOVT. TO IMPOSE end,LownotedthatGuyana operators as a result of the intense exchanges more publishing information It states, “Where the sale of WINDFALL TAXES ON OIL too should be enjoying the escalatingoilprice. recently, about whether the about the number of barrels the state’s share of

Notably, the US is two percent royalty is being ofoilbeingproducedaswell productionofoil,gasand/or seeking to move in this recovered by the oil as how much petro-dollars mineral resources or other direction as well, having companies, the government flow into its Natural revenuescollectedinkindis already hiked its royalty nor the opposition had Resource Fund (NRF), it is material, the government, payable by oil companies mentioned the document’s still faltering in some key including state owned there to above the 18.75 existence. areas. enterprises, are required to percentinDecemberlast.

Coupled with the fact According to the disclose the volumes

Meanwhile, British that the 2016 PSA says that International Secretariat for receivedandsoldbythestate Columbia (B.C.), Canada’s renegotiation of the contract the Extractive Industries (orthirdpartiesappointedby western most province, is possible once the oil Transparency Initiative the state to sell on their appears to be following in companies and government (EITI), Guyana is yet to behalf), the revenues the footsteps of the United agree to revisit the declare consistently received from the sale, and States ofAmerica (USA) as document, commentators informationpertainingtothe the revenues transferred to it has announced that it will seetheaddendumasanactof volumes of oil collected in thestatefromtheproceedsof beincreasingroyaltyratesto that provision. This act has accordance with the profit- oil, gas and minerals sold. raise additional money thus reignited their calls for sharing split, alongside the Where applicable, this annuallyforitspeople. the government to approach identityofthebuyerforeach should include payments (in

Only last week, this the oil companies for oilcargo. cash or in kind) related to publication reported that the negotiations on possible Furthermore, EITI said swap agreements and InternationalMonetaryFund COMPANIES increased profits rather thanchanges. Guyana does not appear to resource-backedloans.” (IMF) published a free

…BUT JAGDEO STICKING allow the oil companies to

Thegovernmenthassaid have yet made progress on The published data must advisory for countries to RIGIDLY TO ‘SANCTITY OF reap these benefits alonehowever, that it is fully publishing descriptions of be disaggregated by lookatareaswheretheycanCONTRACT’POSITION from the nation’s resources. aware of the APNU+AFC the process for selecting the individual buying company implement additionalIn arguing his case, theamendment made to the buying companies, the and to levels commensurate mechanisms to allow for

Assupplystocksbecome Opposition member2016PSAonApril26,2019. technical and financial with the reporting of other benefitsfromtheunexpectedlimited in Europe and the explained, “We areIt said that the amendment criteria used to make the payments and revenue cash. The United Nationsprice for oil predicted to monitoring the situation in saw ExxonMobil Guyana selection, the list of selected streams (4 7) Multi Secretary-General, Antonio spike further, the A Europe where tensions havebeing disallowed from buying companies, any stakeholder groups, in GuterresalsostronglyurgedPartnership for National continued to escalate, therecovering, through cost oil, material deviations from the consultation with buying oil producing nations toUnity+AllianceforChange potentially permanentthetwopercentroyaltytobe applicable legal and companies, are expected to implement windfall taxes to(APNU + AFC) Opposition closureoftheNordStream1paidtothenation. regulatory framework considerwhetherdisclosures not only benefit from thebelieves now is the time to pipeline being the latest

Also, “the modification governing the selection of should be broken down by surge in income, but to alsotax the excessive profits example.Thereisariskthathas been implemented and buying companies, and the individual sale, type of break the energy sector’sbeing raked in by the Russiawillsimilarlyceasetoenforced through the relatedsalesagreements. productandprice. holdoncommoditypricesin petroleum companies supplypetroleumtoWestern mechanisms on the Expounding further, The disclosures could a bid to force them intopresently operating in countries when further payments for royalties and EITIsaidtherehasbeenade include ownership of the producingmore.Guyana’s rich Stabroek sanctions take effect latercost recovery conditions, facto cessation of awards of product sold and the nature Block. thisyear Thismayresultinaand the monitoring features new licenses in the oil and of the contract (e.g. spot or

VIBRANT DEBATE IN

A member of the severe, abnormal andwhich set out for the gassectorsince2017,which term). MEDIA UNDERSCORES

Opposition’s Oil and Gas prolonged price spike. We governance of the cost bank was effective during the Companies buying oil,

CITIZENS’OUTRAGE ATCommittee, Elson Low on witnessed an example ofregarding the projects period under review (2018). gasand/ormineralresources SECRETIVE PRACTICES INMondaytoldthisnewspaper what could happen when subject to petroleum In spite of this, Guyana has from the state, including OIL, MINING SECTORS-thatthepoliticalgroupholds earlier this year the war inoperations,”thegovernment notuseditsEITIreportingto state-owned enterprises (or

EITIthe view that the PPP Ukraine resulted in a veryministrysaid. disclose transfers of thirdpartiesappointedbythe

Following its latestGovernment should significantincreaseinprices,

It stated further that the participating interests in oil state to sell on their behalf), evaluation of Guyana’sspecifically achieve this peaking at almost US$140 arecent reports in the media and gas blocks, of which at are also encouraged to adherence to its standards,objective by increasing its barrel.”

regarding the 2019 least one took place in the disclose volumes received

the Extractive Industriesroyalty rate when Brent To this end, theamendment to the PSA sets Orinduik block in October fromthestateorstate-owned TransparencyCrude(thebenchmarkprices Opposition said Guyanathe precedent for the 2018. EITI said it remains enterprise and payments

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differences and work cases where politicians Initiative’s International togetherasmuchaspossible. workingoneithersideofthe Secretariat said it has He too agreed that this level divide were able to join observed a most vibrant ofcollaborationisnecessary forces and protect the debate in the local media as if Guyana is to truly interestsoftheircountryand regards practices in the oil maximise value from the oil savemillionsofdollarsinthe and mining sectors In and gas sector while process too. In the case of particular, the Secretariat ensuringproperoversight. Ghana, Paul said it was the said there is a noticeable

Paul said oil companies robust oversight of the degree of outrage for the lovenothingmorethantosee government as well as the secretive management of politicians more concerned oppositionthatpreventedthe these critical revenue with fighting amongst country from being saddled earners. themselves as opposed to with an overdesigned and

In its latest report, the working as one to defend its inflated field development EITI body said the public people. plan. The cost saving from debate in the press is an

Given the magnitude of this level of oversight, he indication of the challenges Guyana’soilresources,Paul said, saved the country facing Guyana’s extractive said he would advise almostUS$1Bincosts. industries which include Guyana’s young politicians ensuring transparency in oil in particular, to make use of OIL MONEY EACH YEAR and gas production and parliamentary oversight ONLY ENOUGH FOR TWO exports, the fiscal terms committees as much as PROJECTS -JAGDEO TELLS across different legislation include additional cannolongercontinuetobegoverning mining contracts, possible to demand more BERBICIANS governing mining license information on the licensing divided or persons will beand the environmental information from ministers awards. Additionally, there p r o c e s s , s u c h a s disenfranchised.impacts of extractive about their policies and Even though Vice is no evidence that those commentary on the “We see politicians

measures of accountability PresidentBharratJagdeohas stakeholders responsible for efficiency and effectiveness divided for so long but wesmall-scalemining.

projects and artisanal and

The international management of the sectors, The country has since potential as a country if wewatchdog said there are have not sought to use EITI been urged to take a suite of don’tworktogether;ithastothousands of active mining reporting as a diagnostic of correction actions to be in betogetherandyou’vegottolicensesinGuyana,butonly actual licensing practices to compliance with EITI’s put your petty differencesa dozen licenses in the more date. They have also not standards. aside for the good ofrecentoilandgasindustry pursued any assessment of everyone.

keeping tabs on Guyana’s ofthesesystems. could never realise our true

It noted however that deviations from statutory

WEDNESDAY You’ve got to comethere is no publicly procedures in licensing together and create aaccessible cadastral portal practices since Guyana OPPOSITION,GOVT. MUST nationalplan.for mining or oil and gas became a candidate in GROW UP, SET ASIDE It’s not when you comelicenses in Guyana, as October2017. DIFFERENCES into power ‘oh we’re gonnaexisting license registers

Furthermore, EITI’s WE CAN NEVER REALISE change this; we’re gonnaappear to be maintained for Secretariat pointed out that TRUE POTENTIAL OF OIL paint the buildings in thisinternalministrypurposesat there appears to be WEALTH IF WE DON’T colour’ and then when youpresent. significant public interest in WORK TOGETHER -GCCI come out, another party is

It was keen to note that licensing practices in the PRESIDENT going to be painting it backGuyana’sEITIreportinghas mining sector, on the part of President of the to the original colour,” theaddedvaluebyprovidingthe both civil society and Georgetown Chamber of GCCIPresidentexpressed.only public source of basic industry given alleged Commerce and Industry Further to this, he said itinformation on the licensing irregularities in license (GCCI), Timothy Tucker is important that there is aregime and license grants in awards. believes it is high time that unified front on thethetwoindustries.

In fact, several politicians within the fundamental issues that

Be that as it may, the stakeholders consulted the OppositionandGovernment hinder the improvement ofSecretariat said Guyana’s transparencygroupsaidthey campsgrow-up,andsettheir the nation’s standard ofEITI reporting has included believe the process for differences aside for the living.limiteddisclosureonoiland extractive license awards greatergoodofthepeople.

H e s a i d p o w e rgas licensing, including for remained opaque and Unlocking the true generationisamatterallandinstance clarifying the expressedconcernthatlarge potentialoftheoilwealthhe sundry have agreed must bestatutory technical and oil and gas blocks had been posited,cannotberealisedif fixed if the country is tofinancial criteria assessed in awarded without adequate both sides are at proverbial transform for the betteroilandgasblockawardsand public oversight of the loggerheads. Tucker said there is also antransfers. process. In mining, there Theshrewdbusinessman agreement that the countryIt noted also that there was also concern expressed and leader for one of the needs good medical care,hasbeenadefactocessation over the award of largest business advocacy and a proper mass transitofawardsofnewlicencesin overlapping licenses for groupsinGuyanaofferedthe system.the oil and gas sector since differentlanduses. foregoing advice during a “These are matters we2017, which was effective

The Secretariat’s recent appearance on have to be able to find aduring the period under assessment is that Guyana K a i e t e u r R a d i o ’s common ground on andreview (2018). In spite of did not fully comply with Programme, Guyana’s Oil ensure that we keep eachthis, the international body EITIRequirement2.2which andYou. other in check,” the GCCIsaidGuyanahasnotusedits requires implementing Bluntly speaking on the Presidentsaid.EITI reporting to disclose countries disclose needforbothsidestoworkin It is on the foregoingtransfers of participating information about license harmony,Tuckerwaskeento premise he contended that ainterests in oil and gas awards and transfers that remind that every policy government and oppositionblocks,ofwhichatleastone take place during the leader has a role to play in working arm in arm, pavestookplacein2018.

accounting period covered setting the stage for the the way for every citizen to

In the mining sector, the by the EITI reporting cycle. future generation to live feel the benefits of theSecretariat said there

Thisinformationisexpected comfortably boomingoilindustrycontinued to be significant to include a description of He said the current Earlier this month,licensing activity, with 252 theprocessforawardingand population size which totals Trinidadian Energymining license awards and transferring licenses, the approximately 700,000 StrategistandLocalContent75 license transfers in 2018 thatwouldbeinplaceforthe argued in the past that criteria used, as well as personsisakintoafamilyof Expert, Anthony Paulalone.Itshouldbenotedthat spendingoftheoilrevenues. Guyana’s profits remain deviations from the legal 10personswhoareincharge offered similar advice as heGuyana’sEITIreportinghas

He had said too that in larger than the oil framework and policies on of managing massive stated that the governmentnot undertaken more manyofthecountries,which companies’share,license allocations amounts of wealth His and the political opposition

thorough legal analysis to he has worked in, there are Disclosures may also belief is that this household mustaspiretoputasidetheirhighlight inconsistencies

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo addressing Berbice residents

Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton President, Dr. IrfaanAli

GCCI President, Timothy Tucker

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s i m i l a r a r e a s f o r American oil major, herecentlyadmittedthatthe funds collected should be improvement has also been ExxonMobilreporteda‘one money Guyana receives for distributed However he

Former EPAHead, Dr. VincentAdams

presented to other barrel’spill at the Liza Two its petroleum resource is in noted,“Thesamepeoplesay CARICOMstates. operation in the Stabroek factnot“awholelot.” oh the cost of living is too

It was only last month Block, the Environmental

While addressing an highandyouhaveahighrate that T&T’s Prime Minister, Protection Agency (EPA) audienceinBerbicethispast ofinflation. Dr Keith Rowley and has not come out to tell the weekend, he told citizens Well if you send more President Irfaan Ali nation whether its therethatthefundscollected money into the market and disclosed that a taskforce investigation has confirmed annually are barely enough youarenotcareful,youdon’t was created to not only the minor spillage as tocompletetwoprojects. have a solid fiscal and address non-tariff barriers, reportedbythecompany

He explained, “When monetarypoliciestosupport but also standardise and To this end, the former you hear a lot about the oil thespendingthenyouwould definepoliciesfortrade. EPA head, Dr. Vincent money and we’ve collected simplybepromotinggreater AtaNewsConferenceat Adams says this occurrence about US$350 million per inflation.” the Diplomatic Center in shows how grossly year so far, the first two Even though the Vice PortofSpain,afterbi-lateral underpreparedGuyanaisfor years, you think it’s a lot of President has accepted that talks on trade, transport, petroleum production even money But the Demerara Guyana is not receiving “a energy and agriculture, as it embarks on an Harbour Bridge alone, the lot of money” for its oil Rowley explained that the ambitiouscampaigntospeed four-lane bridge, there is wealth, he has no plan to non tariff barriers uptheseoperations. US$260 million and the change the lopsided Exxon restrictions on trade outside In an invited comment, hospital, the Children and contract which several of tariff systems will Dr Adams, a Petroleum Maternal Hospital that we experts have advised undermine CARICOM’s Engineer explained that the

This is essentially the “You must be willing toare building which will be a Guyanatochange. goalsofcreatinganefficient agency’s failure to make a perspective of President of solve it and if you’re notWorld-class hospital for our In its Mid-Year Report, single market and economy pronouncement on the spill theGeorgetownChamberof willing to solve the issueschildren and women the Ministry of Finance said (SME)ifnotcontrolled. days later paints a gloomy Commerce and Industry thatarecausingrifts,thatarespecialised hospital with the the total balance in the

He said in many cases, picture of what the nation (GCCI), Timothy Tucker creating the inequalitybestcarethatyoucangetlike Natural Resource Fund policies to protect countries can expect should a spill of During his appearance on throughouttheregion,thenitany part of the world that’s (NRF), inclusive of interest are used to limit or reject greater scale occur. K a i e t e u r R a d i o ’s makesnosensetalkingaboutabout US$170 million. That income, at the end of June goodswhichcouldbetraded. Nonetheless, he said, “It’s programme last week, big ticket items like oil andalone is one year of the oil was US$753.3 million, after

“WhenIwasAgriculture not about the size of a spill Tucker said both nations gas.”money.” a withdrawal of US$200

Minister, we wanted to sell it’sjusttheculture.Itreflects standtobenefitgreatlyfrom The GCCI President

He went on to note that millioninthemonthofMay. porktoJamaica,”hesaid. ontheconductofoperations a united front on the energy recalledthathisorganizationthese two infrastructural By Kaieteur News’

“TT had a good pork- andthesafetyculture,andif sector Be that as it may, he has been at the forefront ofprojects alone could use up calculations, Exxon’s producing infrastructure youmissonthesmallthings said issues pertaining to highlighting the difficultiesthe funds gathered, without subsidiary and operator of here. that’s how you get all of t r a d e w h i c h h a v e Guyanesebusinessesfaceineven considering the the Stabroek Block, Esso

Butwecouldn’tbecause, these major spills and undermined production, getting some of theirhighways to be built on the Exploration and Production while there was no tariff disasters. growth a ith

against the meat from TT, a All of them that we’ve equality, ought to be pineapples, honey, orother road works scheduled poised to walk away with Jamaican interest group – had in the world they addressed. pumpkin, into certainfortheirRegion. US$3 9B while CNOOC mainly technical people – occurredbecauseofmissing

East Bank of Demerara and GuyanaLimited(EEPGL)is

The Vice President, willgetUS$2.2Bthisyear It

In his eyes, these two territories.

used animal health to say, justsimplethings.” CARICOM states can ill- Tucker said, “In anonetheless, assured that therefore means that Exxon “YouTThadswinefever25 Whenhewasaskedifhe afford to have superficial relationship you showGuyana’s revenue from the and partners will walk away years ago, therefore we b e l i e v e s t h a t t h e talk

oil and gas sector would with US$8.7B profit, tax-

cannot buy any pork from investigations should have increase over the next few free,in2022. you because you might been completed by now, Dr years.Hesaid,“Soit’snota Meanwhile, Guyana introduce swine fever into Adams responded in the wholelotofmoney must pay the company’s Jamaica. As a result of that, affirmative In fact, he Laterfromtheoilandgas share of income taxes for the pork business in TT, argued, “The very next day sector, once we stay the 2022 from its projected whichwasheavilysupported or as soon as possible you course, we are going to US$957.6millionrevenue. by the TT Government and havetosendateamoutthere. collect more money but the Despite this, the former theprivatesector,shrunk.” It’s of high urgency and to money that we are spending Head of State had rebutted

Attorney-at-Law, Dr. Vivian Williams

T h e P M a d d e d , me,ifitiswhattheysayitis, that we are receiving now Guyana’s earning being less

“Sometimes a customs it shouldn’t be complicated and the money that we are thantheoilcompaniesshare. officer by him or herself, so that shouldn’t be taking collecting because our Back in June during a press usingthecustomslawofthe any time…all it takes is a economy is expanding conference, he said, “I have country, would say this or single day’s visit on the generally - that is taxes - seen in the newspaper a lot that cannot come in. And a FPSO. You conduct your we’ve made it clear how we abouthowExxonisdrawing lot of that is happening in interviews with all the want and where we will down hundreds of US CARICOM.” employees and you make spendthemoneyandweare billions more and we are

Ali for his part was keen yourassessment. not gonna sway everyday gettingapittance.Butpeople to note that policies are Based on what they tell likealeafinthewind. making such statements are widelyopentointerpretation you then you come up and We have laid this out in mistaken.” by public servants confirm whether it’s one our Manifesto, we said the monitoring what enters barrelorwhetherit’s100.” first priorities are one world

THURSDAY through the ports, and this The former EPA head class health care and now serves as a barrier to trade. believes that Guyana is in you are seeing us, we have T&T,GUYANA CAN NO

Thetaskforcewilldealwith fact telling Exxon that it is just awarded seven new LONGER AFFORD thisissue,hesaid. not serious about oil spillsstrengthening of trade camaraderie and if youhospitalsforthecountrythat SUPERFICIAL TALKS ON Alisaidworkhasalready andbeingaccountabletothesystems. can’t eliminate the basic will cost nearly US$400 REMOVAL OF TRADE started for the task force, as people by failing to provide

Tucker said, “I wish to challenges then why should million…” BARRIERS-GCCIHEAD many of the barriers have itsownreport.remind of the words uttered weeventalkaboutthebigger

The Vice President was beenidentifiedandlisted.He Assuch,hesignaled,“Ifby President Irfaan Ali and thingslikeoil.” at the time explaining that While Guyana and her said both Governments wegetaspillit’sgoingtobethat of Prime Minister of Having stated such a theOpposition,forexample, CARICOM sister, Trinidad would keep the public adisasterbecausewearenotBarbados, Mia Mottley: position,Tuckernotedthata has suggested solutions andTobago,mayhaveadeep informedonitsprogress. preparedtohandleonetobe“There needs to be a Task force has been without any analysis interest in pooling their honest.”coalition of the willing.” established to address nonunderpinningsame. resources to build a world EPA’S RESPONSE TO OIL Earlierthisyear,theEPAThesetwoleadershaveused tariffbarriers.

For instance, he detailed class hydrocarbon industry, SPILL SHOWS GUYANA saiditacquiredequipmenttothe said statement to Tucker who is close to thatsomesectionsofsociety theremovaloftradebarriers GROSSLY conduct remote monitoringunderscorethattheproblems the matter said both nations believe that the treasury is is a fundamental, age-old

UNDERPREPARED- FORMER of Exxon’s operationof the Caribbean can be have exchanged a list of overflowing with revenue matter that has to be put to EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR howeverDr Adamssolved quickly if we act as actionable items which is from the oil and gas sector, rest. Almost two weeks after (Continuedonpage61)one. being worked on. A list of

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Guyanesecitizenship.

this exercise, carried out by said the audit was merely to believes that this type of Unfortunately, he Professional Accountants examinethemoneythatwas oversight is not what is positedthattherearecertain here and abroad, included a placedintheNRF Hemade required. According to him, legal loopholes which can determinationofwhetherthe it clear too that while his “You don’t need satellite hinder its effectiveness NRF’s financial statements office is responsible for monitoring or something Specifically, the lawyer which were audited by the audits, it is the mandate of from the skies to tell you contended that the law does Audit Office of Guyana the Guyana Revenue there is a spill in the ocean. not give the Local Content complied with the law but Authority(GRA)toindicate Youneedtobedownthereon Secretariat the overarching ‘Article13’saidthatexercise whetherthetaxesarepaidin the (Floating Production powers it needs for proper found that the AG did not full. Storage and Offloading enforcementtoavoidabuses conduct his audit in this

At the time, the groupVessel) FPSO and prevent it and ensure maximum fashion. also expressed concern thatand that monitoring is not benefitsareachieved.

‘Article 13’ had pointed based on informationgoingtoseetheoperationsin In one of his four out that Guyana agreed via available to the public, thethe control room itself analytical pieces published the 2016 Stabroek Block GRA would have issuedwhereasyouneedtohavethe by local media entity,

Production Sharing receipts and certificates to eyes of the people there to Demerara Waves, published Agreement (PSA) to pay the oil companies whichmonitor that. A spill is after July 10, 2022, Dr Williams income taxes for Exxon and showthattaxeswerepaidonthefact.It’snicetoseetheoil whoisadmittedtoanumber itspartners. theirbehalfbytheState.Thisspillbutwhenitdoeshappen ofBarsintheCaribbeanand is in spite of the fact that itThosetaxesaretobepaidit’s too late so what purpose holds a Master of Laws in didnotreceivesuchfunds.fromrevenuesearnedfortheis that serving? Seeing it is Global Antitrust Law and sale of Guyana’s share ofnot going to help you so it Economics from George GETTING THE MOST FROMprofitoil.Thosedepositsaredoesn’t add a whole lot of MasonLawSchool,outlined

OUR RESOURCES MUSTmarket, an incentive to Excellency, we are sure that made into the NRF account.value.” thebasisforhisconclusion TRUMP DIFFERENCEScheat. Dr Williams said it is you will appreciate the The group noted that theseHe was keen to note that Though theAct uses the BETWEEN GOVT.,significant public interest in taxeswhichoughttobepaideven though the EPA has Local Content Secretariat to OPPOSITIONcompanies have indulged in this matter – and of course over were not, yet thebeenusingthattechnology,it regulate the extent to which

…IT IS JUST AS CRITICALcreativewaysofcompliance the completeness and Auditor General in hisis yet to determine the foreign firms have access to AS BEING UNITED ONwhichisalreadybecominga accuracy of the national review,gaveitacleanbillofamount of crude that was procurement opportunities CHALLENGES TO OURmajor problem for the State. financial documents The health.spilled recently He said, in the oil and gas sector, Dr

SOVEREIGNTY -With the law as it is, he said purpose of this letter“We are depending on them Williams said this body has

The civil society body APNU+AFC’SAMANZA

things are expected to get therefore is to respectfullyand we cannot dispute nopowertoinvestigatefirms said,“…Itwasinappropriate WALTON-DESIRworsenotbetter request that you authorisewhatever they are saying. inthelocalmarket. andincorrectfortheAuditor A P N U + A F C

He further noted that the Commissioner General,Theyreporteditsonebarrel, To gain local content there are no checks and under the authority given tomaybeitis,maybeitit’snot certification,hesaidafirmis balances within the law He your Excellency underbut we have no way to allowed to self-report on its pointed out that the Section 4 of the IncomeTaxconfirmit,whereasifyou’re ownership and governance Secretariat has a single Act, to provide to us ontheshipyouknowexactly structure, and the level of Director rather than several particulars of the paymentswhathappened.”

f o r e i g n w o r k e r s Directors Dr. Williams made or provided for on

In addition to having a participation in its wrote, “A single director behalf of the oil companies24/7presenceontheFPSOs, workforce Once the increases the prospect for in the years 2020, 2021 andthe former EPA boss also information is provided, he c o r r u p t i o n a n d for2022todate.”highlighted the importance said the Secretariat decides corruptibility This is ‘Article 13’ noted thatof having specialists to whether to issue a local particularlysobecausethere while the Commissioner represent Guyana, since contentcertificate. is no administrative review General of the Guyanasomeonethatlacksexpertise Dr Williamswrote,“The process to create a check on Revenue Authority (GRA),can be baffled and problem is, the Secretariat the Director To reduce the Godfrey Statia issuedintimidated by the has no power to investigate chances for corruptibility, receipts and certificatesinformationprovided. the information provided to enforcement agencies in the under the said Article 15.4

He pointed out that the orwithheldfromit.Ithasno corporate arena avoid a and 15 5, the Nationalcontrol room allows for a subpoenapowers. structure where a single Estimates and the financial‘read out’ on how the Further, the Secretariat person or group handles a statements of the Naturaloperations are ongoing has no power to seize and case from intake to Resource Fund (NRF) does“You have the pressure in inspect documents and decision.” not reflect such payments.every valve, you get the computers and electronic

Taking these and other However, the transparencyproduction, you see how it’s filesfromfirmssuspectedof factors into consideration, advocategroupmadeitclear Generaltoissueacleanaudit ParliamentarianandShadowgoing, you get the creative compliance or the lawyer concluded that that paragraph (b) of 15.4 opinion on the financial Minister of Foreign Affairs,temperaturesandproduction outrightfraud.” Guyana could be at risk of requires that those taxes be statements of the Fund for AmanzaWalton-Desirholdseverythingrightthereandall The lawyer who holds a not realizing the noble paidoutofGuyana’sshareof either or both years (2020 theviewthatgettingthemostofthedatathatweget,that’s P h D i n B u s i n e s s aspirationsofitslegislation. profitoil. and2021).” value from the extractivewhereitcomesfrom.”

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To this end, the group sector is an exercise thatCollege, City University of ‘Article 13’ on theSATURDAY told President Ali, “As this must trump all differencesFRIDAY New York, also opined that foregoing grounds called onmatter is the subject of between Government andthe Secretariat cannot the Auditor General toCIVIL SOCIETY BODY ASKS correspondencebetweenour thepoliticalOpposition.

withdrawhisstatementsand

PRESIDENT TO MAKE civil society organisation For her, having a unitedpotentially re-issue his opinion on thePUBLIC PARTICULARS OF and the Audit Office, we front on the management ofROBUST INVESTIGATIVE useful information and financialstatementsfornon-TAX PAYMENTS FOR OIL would appreciate your early thenation’sresources,isjustPOWERS OVER OIL conducthearings.Wherethe compliance with the lawCOMPANIES reply.” as critical as the allianceCOMPANIES–ATTORNEY Act speaks of investigation

“We understand that such a

In a report published in needed when confronted

AT-LAW,DR WILLIAMS and monitoring, Dr step, though unusual, was

Civil society body, Sunday edition of the with challenges to theWilliams said it specifically done by the Audit Office‘Article 13’ has penned a Kaieteur News, ‘Article 13’ nation’ssovereigntyFollowinghisreviewof restricts the jurisdiction of before and that, in any case,letter to President IrfaanAli slammedtheAuditOfficeof ThiswastheoverarchingGuyana’sLocalContent the Secretariat to oil that it is a professionalrequestingthatparticularsof Guyana for non-compliance viewofthePoliticianduringLegislation,New-York companies that have requirement where athe tax payments made by withtheNRFlegislation. her first appearance onbasedAttorney-at-LawDr contracts with the previously issued report isGuyana on behalf of the oil K a i e t e u r R a d i o ’s

It was explained that theVivianWilliamssaidits government. subsequently found to havecompanies, be made Programme, ‘Guyana’s Oilgroupcarriedoutareviewofframersmustbe He reasoned therefore

been inappropriatelyavailabletothepublic. and You.’ There, she sharedthe financial statements ofcommendedforcapturing that self-reporting and the issued,”thegroupstated.

The letter, dated her perspectives on thethe Natural Resource Fundthespiritofnationalismin absence of a robust September 19, 2022, was

The Auditor General, importance of thefortheyearendedDecemberthedocument.Hefirmly investigative power, give addressed to the Head of

Deodat Sharma, in Governmentand31, 2021 and comparativebelievesthatitadds domestic firms and foreign State by the group which responding to the criticism, (Continuedonpage62)informationfor2020.Partoftremendousvalueto firms seeking to enter the e x p l a i n e d , “ Yo u r

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Reporters attempt to extort $90M from...

From page 56 operation on Friday last to catch them.

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Opposition working together to get maximum value for current and future generations.

The Parliamentarian said, “Once you take a decision that you are going to exploit your natural resources, the issue then becomes how do you do that? You do it with sensitivity to the environment…You have to pay attention to what can eventuate from the exploitation of these resources.”

“You have to ensure that your systems and your institutional structures are set up. Now let’s be frank, Exxon is a multi-billion corporation. They have a fiduciary duty to whom?

Their shareholders; they have to ensure the long-term profitability of their company for their shareholders.”

The Politician said the same principle applies to the Guyana Government. She opined that the administration has a fiduciary duty to the people of Guyana to get maximum returns.

Walton-Desir noted that this is not an exercise that

must be left squarely at the feet of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic. She acknowledged that the political Opposition also has its role to play in ensuring it provides scrutiny and in demanding transparency and accountability. She also stressed the need for both sides of the divide to work together on garnering the most from its resources.

“…You will appreciate that not having a united front does provide room for us to be set one against the other. But if as a nation we are saying, “this is what we want and this is what we are looking for, for the people of Guyana, then there’s no room for anyone to come in and to set us one against the other,” expressed the Shadow Minister.

While the oil and gas sector is an entirely new and complex industry to Guyanese, Walton-Desir said there are examples Guyana can look to as regards the dos and don’ts. She opined that Trinidad and Tobago as well as Nigeria are very good examples of the perils that can befall a nation that is gripped

by poor management and overreliance on the oil revenues.

On the flipside, WaltonDesir said nations such as Norway and Singapore can serve as examples on the best practices new producers like Guyana, can follow in order to have first class operations.

The Shadow Minister said, “We really do have the choice to learn from these nations and not have to have the painful experiences ourselves. T

he question is do we have a Government that has the political will to do that? From all indications, it appears not. I think we may learn these lessons the very hard way unfortunately.”

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Upon entering the political arena in 2020, WaltonDesir explained that she always held the belief that policy leaders are called to be servants of the people and that they are to display a keen sense of duty and humility in every aspect of governance. Over the past few years, however, Walton-Desir said her observations are a far cry from the anticipated outcome.

The Politician said, “I am of the firm belief that when it comes to serving the people of Guyana, there is no room for arrogance.

We live in a society that is multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious.

There are three main religions and each of them provides guidance as to how we as leaders ought to operate.”

Govt. to expand net for citizenship qualification

(BARBADOS TODAY) - address irregularities and Implementation Agency for Legislation to allow more perceived barriers which Crime and Security categoriesofpeopletoattain have been identified and (IMPACS)andInternational Barbadian citizenship is to seektomaketheapplication Organisation for Migration go before Parliament soon, process a lot simpler,” he (IOM) workshop, Towards Minister of Home Affairs announced. the Development of a and Information Wilfred RegionalMigrationStrategy“Along with citizenship,Abrahams disclosed on and Policy, at Radisson we will be taking theThursday as he called for Aquatica Resort onopportunity to examine thediscussion on a regional Thursdaypolicies and measuresmigrationpolicy relating to immigrant status, DeliveringherBudgetin

Hesaidthenewlawswill permanent residence, March this year, Prime also seek to streamline student visas, payment Minister Mia Mottley processes associated with modalities,allwithaviewof announced that a major immigrationpolicies. simplifying processes and overhaul of the country’s reducing processing immigrationpolicywouldbe

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She said then that apolicy.”expandingthenetofpersons recent study had indicated who qualify for status and Abrahams was speaking that unless the situation was citizenship. at the opening of the addressed, the island’s Caribbean Community workforce would be smaller

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K.O.M.I.C Kingdom Outfit Made...

One Guyana initiative is as daily photos on the front Kaieteur News andsome dead as his administration’s pageofthesamenewspaper personalitiesassociatedwith economicpolicies.” Repeat a lie often enough ithaveadoptedthemantleof Thereisliterallynotruth and it could become the speaking for the ‘people’ in tothisvilelittleclaim. truth.Perhaps. ways that are direct and The direct truth is that Yet, I can assure you the perhapsevencourageous. even though growth rates as strategy won’t work in Yet, the most cursory expressed in the expansion Guyana. Only recently,Vice perusal of the Blunt page oftheGDP,ortheriseinper President Jagdeo proved on reveals that the only capita income may carry GlennLall’sradioshowhow bluntness evident are direct some distortions, they do quickly months of misrepresentations and half- impart statistically reliable propaganda can be truths. information about the destroyed.And let us recall,

The contents of KN’s conditionanddirectionofan itwasdoneinReal-Time. September 23, 2022, Blunt economy Dr RandyPersaud agitprop demonstrates a Recent reports by OfficeofthePresident wanton disregard for facts, substance, or even a modicumofaccuracy

Headlined “One Guyana sloganeering” the frame contains the following wild assertion-“For,asweseeit, ‘One Guyana’ cannot deliberately include almost onegroupofpeopletimeand again, and just repeatedly

The PPPis delusional...

Frompage6 itscapacitytoreflectthetrue will of the people, nor by its ability to win public trust. Noneoftheabove. The PPP/Rohee principle is all about what is convenient oradvantageousatanygiven timeforFreedomHouse.

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Agri. Ministry promises to clamp down on high ‘fresh food’ prices

…says no shortage, middlemen driving up costs

…Guyana ready to supply needs of Caribbean

By Davina Bagot and more and more lands are are working on the removal being cultivated. When you ofnon-tariffbarrierstoallow he Ministry of lookattheHalf-YearReport, for the free movement of A g r i c u l t u r e , you would see how much goods between CARICOM

Th e a d e d b y increase in fresh fruits and memberstates.Notonlythat, Minister Zulfikar Mustapha vegetables we have but Mustapha said, “The is adamant that there is no increased over the last six entire Eastern Caribbean is shortage of fresh fruits and monthssowearecontinually now looking to Guyana for vegetables on the local increasing production to importation of fresh fruits market as claimed by satisfy the demand locally and vegetables so the vendors, seeking high andalsoregionally.” demands are higher now for prices for the sale of these Even with this ambitious us. That means we have to goods p r o g r a m m e b e i n g increase production and if

Inarecentinterviewwith streamlined, Mustapha is we are looking to reduce the Kaieteur News, the subject also confident that Guyana’s food import bill by 25 Ministersaidthatheisaware prices will be competitive percent in the next three of the prevailing high costs enough to supply the food years then we fall right in for fresh food items, while baskets across the region. linewiththatprogramme.” assuring that the Ministry TheMinisterpointedoutthat In the Ministry of will be taking steps to Finance Half-Year Report, it addressthis. was explained that some

He explained, “I know $651.9 million was invested that local consumers have into the ‘other crops’ subbeen complaining about the sector prices and you know one of

In this year’s budget, a the things we have started is total of $1.3 billion was thefarmer’smarket. allocatedtothisstream.First

When you look at the half spending went towards farm gate price, it is almost the completion of 109 shade 300 percent less, the houses, and the construction middlemen are driving up of four green houses as part thisprice.” of Guyana’s implementation

Cognisant of this, the of climate-smart agriculture Minister said he is exploring practices. ways to get the Guyana

“In addition, preparation Manufacturing Corporation commenced for the (GMC) involved to help expanded cultivation of regulate the prices. “I am t u r m e r i c , g i n g e r , lookingatawayinwhichwe blackpepper, nutmeg and can get GMC now to come onions, which will allow since the necessaryup with a plan so that we can self sufficiency in the investments were made toalso buy these produce and production of spices. It is increase the production oftake it around the market at a expected that by the end of fruits and vegetables, localcheaperpriceto theretailers. 2022, 62 acres of turmeric farmers will have moreThey have these trucks and and 633 acres of ginger will opportunities to retail theirso,”henoted. be in cultivation. Further, goods.Mustapha is certain that Government will continueto In underlining some oft h e m i d d l e m e n a r e provide shade house the steps taken to boostresponsible for the increased materials to farmers at a Guyana’s production in thisfresh food prices, adding reduced cost, and increase regard,Mustaphashared,“Inpressure on the consumer, the distribution of farm crops, we start diversifying.since the price per pound of equipment, seeds and We started planting corn andplantain for example is seedlings, chemicals, and soya - we gone into highmerely$100atthefarmgate, fertilisers. valuecropsforyoungpeoplewhereas at the market some

Importantly, the delivery too in broccoli, cauliflowervendors are retailing at $200 of extension services will be andcarrot.or$210perpound. restructured, in order to We are looking at theAs such, he explained provideimprovedservicesto possibility now to start thethat this not only drives up farmers,” the government’s trialforwheat...it’sall-roundthe costs but creates the reportdetails. inagriculturebecauseweareillusion of a shortage

During the first six consolidatingandexpandingAccording to him, “We are months of 2022, some 953 like the fresh fruits andlooking to bring this back in farmers were trained in vegetables.”line once again. I am hoping sustainable agricultural Already, he said that thethat this is a temporary thing practices. In addition, 83 local demand for producebut we will continue the farms were certified to hasincreasedsincePresidentfarmers market around the produce wholesome foods Irfaan Ali met with thecountry.” a n d a g r i c u l t u r a l Caribbean leaders earlier

M e a n w h i l e , t h e commodities for export this year at the AgriAgriculture Minister said he Another 3,602 cash crops Investment Forum and Expobelieves Guyana is on track farmers received $431 7 hosted in Guyana betweento supply the needs of the million in relief grants to May19and21.Caribbean. assist with their recovery

He explained, “Well we from the 2021 floods, the Minister said the countriesare expanding production reportsaid.

In the meantime, the

Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha

Ninvalle to attend IBA

Extraordinary Congress today

Guyana will be among more than one hundred and seventy countries casting votes when the International Boxing Association (IBA and formerly AIBA) stages an Extraordinary Congress this morning in Yerevan, Armenia.

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) is being represented by its President, Steve Ninvalle, at the critical event which could p it incumbent Umar Kremlev of Russia against Holland’s Boris Van Der Vorst, in a race for the President’s seat.

Today’s Congress will see eligible affiliated Federations

first casting votes on whether there needs to be an election.

In a telephone interview with Ninvalle yesterday, he explained that IBA held a Presidential election last May in Istanbul, Turkey where Kremlev was reelected unopposed.

However, Van der Vorst, who was also a candidate for the presidency in the May election, was excluded from the vote for alleged irregularities.

He appealed his exclusion to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and in June, CAS ruled that the Dutchman’s bar-

ring from the vote was not justified.

According to Ninvalle, the affiliates will first have to vote on if there is need for an election today. “

Only if this vote is successful then there will be an immediately election,” Ninvalle added.

“To me, this is one of the most pivotal events in boxing and the results, in my personal opinion, will reveal if IBA is capable of solving its own issues or, if outside influence has the upper hand,” Ninvalle, a former Americas Boxing Association (AMBC) Vice President claimed.

All-rounder Fraser comes into...

From page 71 adults can purchase general admission tickets online at US$5.00, with free admission for children under the age of 16 when accompanied by a paying adult. Seniors benefit from half price tickets.

The stadium ticket office will open on the day of the rescheduled 1st CG

United ODI with printed tickets available for EC$15.00/ US$5.00.

There will also be a Kids Fun Zone during the 3rd CG United ODI and the 2nd and 3rd T20 I nternationals, where the younger fans can enjoy a bouncy castle, face painting and other exciting activities.

All eight matches will

be streamed live in the Caribbean on ESPN Caribbean’s “ESPN Play” app and will be available around the world with some of CWI’s broadcast partners and on the Windies Cricket YouTube channel.

Live ball-by-ball scoring will also be available on thewww.windiescricket.com Match Centre.

President Ali, sport is being...

Sunday September 25, 2022

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From page 72 National Racquet Centre can only accommodate squash. Two years after rehabilitation works had commenced, the Tennis Court at the Woolford Avenue facility is yet to be completed. That simply means that there are no public courts that the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) can use for tournaments. The only two indoor facilities in Guyana (Cliff Anderson Sports Hall and National Gymnasium) are earmarked for upgrades.

SPORTS LEFT BEHIND

The President Ali Government is transforming Guyana at an unimaginable pace, thanks to our new-found wealth – Black Gold!

President Ali, appearing during the innings break of the Guyana Amazon Warriors and St Lucia Kings match on Thursday evening, said “sports are a very important part of the transformation that we’re going through and that transformation necessitate investment in young people; investment in communities and one of the strongest component of that investment is in sports.”

However, I wish the President would take a detailed look at the sector for himself and he will see that sport is actually being left behind – especially our athletes.

The plight of our sportsmen and women are wellknown.

The success of our athletes on the international stage can be equated to the biblical story of Jesus walking on water – a miracle, taking into account the little to no support they receive from the Government and private sector.

President Ali means well, and so does Minister Ramson. But it’s time to do more than just talk.

The speed of which we’re seeing Guyana moving as it relates to infrastructural development and other critical areas is reflected in the Ministry of Finance 2022 MidYear Report showing that Guyana recorded an overall real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of 36.4 per cent.

But, what about sports? Let us not be naïve to use the CPL finals hosted in Guyana as sports moving forward. It’s not. Or we can say it has stalled.

President Ali loves sports. He loves his cricket more, but a casual conversation with him, you’ll under-

stand why I’m saying he loves sports. However, maybe it’s time for the Head-of-State to have a candid reason, privately, with the country’s elite athletes and their coaches to understand why I am of the view that sport is being left behind.

After all, it’s One Guyana!

Bangladesh and Ireland qualify for 2023 women’s

T20 World Cup

(Cricinfo) - Bangladesh and Ireland have booked their places at the next women’sT20WorldCup,to beheldinSouthAfricaearly next year In the semi-finals ofthequalifyingtournament in Abu Dhabi, while Bangladesh beat Thailand, Ireland edged past Zimbabwe. The two teams will meet in the final on Sunday,butthatwillhaveno bearing on their presence at theWorldCup.

Natthakan Chantham’s attacking 64 off 51 balls went in vain for Thailand in the second semi-final, as a lack of support from the other batters and sharp bowling from Bangladesh

proved decisive in a lowscoring game. Chantham hit four fours and three sixes in her knock, but the next-best score in Thailand’s reply to Bangladesh’s 113 for 5 was captainNaruemolChaiwai’s 12.

Sanjida Akter Meghla and Salma Khatun had reducedThailandto13for3 by the fifth over, before Chantham and Chaiwai briefly steadied the innings with a partnership of 32, whichwasbrokenbyNahida Akter But Chantham continuedthefightbyadding 50 with Sornnarin Tippoch, but Salma grabbed two late wickets including Chantham’s to seal

Bangladesh’s win, and a placeattheWorldCup.

Bangladesh had a rough timewiththebat,too,losing threewicketsfor29runsina middle-overs mini-collapse astheThailandbowlerskept chipping away Their top three got off to stable starts, but couldn’t get off the blocks,andBangladeshwere restricted to just 81 after 17 overs.

However, Rumana Ahmed and Ritu Moni bashed 32 off the remaining threeoverstogivetheirside some late impetus, which proved crucial in the end. Rumana hit an unbeaten 28 off 24 deliveries, and Moni cracked17fromtenballs.

“We have been playing together for so many years, this is our time to show the worldhowgoodweare,how muchwehaveimprovedasa side,” Bangladesh captain Nigar Sultana said after the win. “There are a lot of experienced and talented players in our side, and we need to show the kind of potentialwehave.”

Itwasatightaffairinthe first semi-final, as Ireland rode on a combined batting efforttoputupacompetitive 137 for 6, but then Zimbabwe gave the target a spirited chase, before stoppingjustfourrunsshort.

Ireland,askedtobatfirst, had Orla Prendergast topscoringwith28atjustbetter than a run a ball, while Rebecca Stokell provided thefinishingtoucheswithan aggressive 26 not out from

No 6 Stokell’s 12 ball innings, with a four and two sixes, ensured Ireland piled up 41 runs in the last four overs.

They had gotten off to a quiet start as captain Laura Delany managed just 22 from29balls,withNomvelo Sibanda keeping a check on the opposition up top Sibanda got 2 for 24 from four overs, while Kelis Ndlovu, though expensive, a l s o b a g g e d t w o wickets Like Ireland, Zimbabwetooktheirtimeto get going with the bat. The first five overs produced only 20 runs, as 19-year-old JaneMaguirestrucktwiceto remove Ndlovu and Chipo Mugeri Tiripano That is when Sharne Mayers and captain Mary Anne Musonda got down to add 50, before Arlene Kelly

bowled the former after she had scored 39 from 36 deliveries.

When Cara Murray had Musonda stumped for 31. Zimbabwe required another 39 off 29 balls with six wicketsinhand,buttheyfell short despite quick cameos fromModesterMupachikwa andJosephineNkomo.

“Itisalotofreliefthatwe won.Theyranustillthelast ball; it was a very competitive game,” Delany said.“Weweren’tsuccessful last time so wanted to do things differently We had a very good season some brilliant wins against some tough sides Qualifying for the World Cup is the next step in the journey We will get to play against some better sides hopefully on a more regular basis.”

Laver Cup: Novak Djokovic wins as Team Europe lead Team World

(BBC Sport) - Novak Djokovic looked sharp as he thrashed US Open semi-finalist Frances Tiafoe at the Laver Cup in his first appearancesincewinningWimbledon.

Serbia’s Djokovic won the first set in 23 minutes before completing a 6-1 6-3 victory toputEuropeaheadinLondon.

Theformerworldnumberonealsowonin the doubles to put Europe into a 8-4 lead goingintoSunday’sfinalday

Roger Federer, whose career came to an endintheearlyhoursofSaturday,wasonthe benchtosupportDjokovic.

“It was a long and emotional day yesterday, it was hard to restart the engine,” DjokovicsaidaboutFederer’sfarewell.

“Itwasoneofthemostbeautifulmoments we have experienced live or on the tennis courts.Wewerealltakenawaybyit.”

Federer, 41, was also present in Saturday’safternoonsession,offeringadvice to Italy’s Matteo Berrettini and Britain’s CameronNorrieduringtheirsinglesmatches forTeamEurope.

BerrettiniputEuropeintoa4-2leadwith

a 7-6 (11-9) 4-6 10-7 win over FelixAuger Aliassime, but world number eight Norrie lost 6-1 4-6 10-8 to American opponent TaylorFritzonhisLaverCupdebut.

That left the teams tied at 4-4 at the halfway stage of the three-day event before the impressive Djokovic put his team in command.

After cruising past Tiafoe, the 21-time major singles champion teamed up with Berrettinitowin7-56-2againstTeamWorld pairJackSockandAlexdeMinaur

Djokovic, 35, had not played competitively since winning Wimbledon in July, having been prevented from playing in theUnitedStatesbecauseheisnotvaccinated againstCovid-19.

“Ihaven’tplayedfortwomonthsandI’m reallygladtohavecontinuedtherun,itwasa prettydecentmatchfrommyside.I’mseeing the ball well and didn’t do many things wrong,”hesaid.

Each match win is worth three points on Sunday, with the first teamto earn 13 points declaredthewinners.

Bangladesh’s top three got off to good starts, but couldn’t get off the blocks (ICC)

GSA Nex-Gen School’s Coaching Academy continues Monday

Joshua Henry Memorial Tape ball Cricket Competition bowls off today

The inaugural Joshua’s Henry Memorial U13 and U15 Tape ball Cricket competition is slated to commence today at Kamwattta Recreational ground, Moruca, Region one.

Friends United, Santa Rosa Secondary, Kamwattta Primary and Karaburi Primary will compete in the inaugural tournament. Action will commence at 13:00hours.

TheGeorgetownCricket Association (GCA) Nex Gen Primary School’s Coaching Primary program sponsored by Guyana Beverages Inc., located on the East Bank of Demerara, continued last Friday in the City

The five schools at which sessions were Ketley Primary; coached byAkazeThompson,Rama Krishna Primary; coached by Kervin Ross, St Anne’s

Agricola Primary; coached by Pernel Christie, RedeemerPrimary;coached by Dorian Best and South RuimveldtPrimary;coached byKenroyJoseph.

T h e e i g h t w e e k program, which was launched on September 14 andendsinthethirdweekof November, involves eight schools with 400 students participating; half of them beinggirlsandotherhalfare boys.

At the completion of the program, 14 of the best students of each school (7 boys & 7girls) will be taken onatourofQueen’sCollege before going onto the QC Groundforacompetition.

To gain selection the pre teens must have an 80 percentattendanceatschool, doingwellinAcademicsand bedisciplinedandattentive.

T h e p r o g r a m m e continues on Monday. (SeanDevers)

Joshua Denny march into finale Santos,

The first match will see Kamwata Primary coming up against Santa Secondary in an under 15 match followed by Friends United versus Karaburi Primary another U15 encounter.

FriendsUnitedandKaraburi willthencontestanunder-13 match.

Friends United would like to extend gratitude to Frontier Pharmacy for providing the championship U15Trophy,MartiDeSouza - DCEO in the Hinterland Regi on,forsponsoringthe Player of the Tournament trophy and balls for the games.

Gratitudealsogoesoutto Orison Sealy, who is sponsoring a Cricket bat for the player that scores

t h e m os trunsintheCompetition.

According the relatives, 13-year-old Joshua Henry died after taking the second dose of Pfizer vaccine; he was unaccompanied by a guardian.

Egypt to apply to host 2036 Olympic Games

(Reuters) - Egypt will apply to host the Summer OlympicGamesin2036,the Egyptian youth and sports minister said in a statement on Saturday, a bid that if successfulwouldmakeitthe first Arab or African nation tohosttheevent.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi gave the green light to apply,

MinisterAshrafSobhiadded during a reception for International Olympic Committee President ThomasBachinCairo.

Thestatement,issuedby theEgyptiancabinet,quoted Bach as saying Egypt’s sports infrastructure was capableofhostingtheevent.

The summer Olympics willbeheldinParisin2024,

followed by Los Angeles in 2028andBrisbane,Australia in2032.

T h e p r o c e s s o f applying for to host the 2036Olympicshasnotyet begun, while there are reports of interest from countries including Germany, Mexico, Turkey, Russia, India and Qatar

ESCL exhibition match set for today at Reliance ground

The Joshua Denny Memorial Football Tournament commenced on Friday evening attheMinistryofEducation(MoE)Ground, CarifestaAve, with two contrasting matches thatsawthefinalistbeingdecided.

In the opening game, Santos defeated CamptownFootballClubbyamassive6–1 margin to advance while Georgetown Football Club (GFC) outplayed the Fruta Conquerors,2–1.

Santos were led by a first half double from Darren Niles (15’, 23’) and reinforced forvictorybyasecondhalfbracefromTyrese Dowridge(48’,58’).

SolomonAustin and Jahiem McPherson scored in the 35th and 70th minutes, respectively, while Camptown’s lone goal was scored by Calvin Prince in the 68th minute.

The encounter that followed saw the FrutaConquerorstrytoclosethegapagainst

GFC, who were comfortably ahead for the majority of the match. Ravi Coates opened thescoringinthe24thminutewhileShamar Welchdoubledtheleadinthe59thminute.

Conquerors were only able to pull one back compliments of Antonio McArthur, whowassuccessfulinthe68thminute.

The event, which is to honour the late Joshua Denny whose life was senselessly snatched away on September 30, 2021, concludes this Friday, exactly one year after the tragedy That finale will see Santos and GFCfightfortophonours.

The tournament, hosted under the theme ‘MothersAgainstViolence’, is organised by the Petra Organisation and the family of the formerCamptownFootballClubplayer Itis a tournament they wish would sensitize the publicandmoresotheyouthsaboutworking to achieve their goals instead turning to crime.

Defending champion Caribbean Cricket ClubandSunrisersMastersaresettocollide today at Reliance ground in a specially arranged 15-overs exhibition over-40 match from1pm.

This is to kick start another 2022 competition under the auspices of the EssequiboSoftballCricketClub.

According to Chairman of the ESCL Wakeel Layne, the stage is set to what shouldbeafascinatingencounter

He also expressed excitement of having the two teams meeting each other and thanked the other five teams for their commitment to feature again in the round robincompetition

For Sunday, Layne informed that the two teams are also thrilled to face each other Layne related that trophies are up for grabs and admission to the venue is absolutely free

Some of the sponsors for the day are expected to grace the occasion and Layne is

appreciative of their generosity to the game oncemore.

He stated that Vo Tajeshwar, Tom Bacchus, Gary Mohamed, Mohamed Azeem and Salim Layne are the main sponsorsforthisseasoncompetition

Layne mentioned that he is also very grateful to Tajeshwar for his continued support to the community as well Tajeshwar has made donation to Mandir amongothersaswell

Meanwhile, the exhibition match will haveLiveFacebookcommentarybyveteran Cricket Journalist and Commentator RavendraMadholall.

Layne added that should be exciting and historical as well giving the fact that would be the first time they would have this gesture.

Madholall has also expressed excitement to do the coverage and thank the ESCL for the opportunity to voice the on field action

Sherlon Rodrigues (left) received the player of the tournament Trophy and balls from Deputy Chief Education Officer for Hinterland, Marti DeSouza.

The Santos U20 Football Squad took a photo op with a Joshua Denny Memorial backdrop ahead of their opening match on Friday.

Ruthless record another dominant win

Christianburg/Wismar Secondary School (CWSS) p r o d u c e d a n o t h e r spectacular performance when the Petra organised GuyOil/Tradewind Tankers Under-18 Schools Football League entered its second day on Saturday at the Ministry of Education (MoE)Ground.

Following up their 5 – 0 winoverWestRuimveldton the opening day, CWSS dismantled the Friendship team to win by an 8 – 0 margin.

Playing in the second matchoftheday,thevictors were led by doubles from DanielAdolph (3’, 50’) and Demoll Warner (59’, 65’) whileagoaleachcamefrom Amani King (10’), Kemani Field (33’), Lamar Jules (68’) and Devon Gilbert (70’).

Theday’sopeningmatch saw Cummings Lodge and West Ruimveldt battle to an entertaining 3 – 3 draw Cummings Lodge went ahead in the fourth minute whenAntwanSamuelscored then they had their lead doubled when Elijah

Mendoncastruckinthe16th minute.

West Ruimveldt managedtopullonebackin the 21st minute but it became a two possession game once again when Fabian Figueria found the back of the net in the 32nd minute.

Later in the game, West

Ruimveldtpulledthedeficit back to one compliments of Trevor Bentt’s 46th minute strike

The equaliser was then found in the 58th minute when Ozim Lewis piercedtheuprights.

Game seven of the tournament was a draw between North Ruimveldt

and President’s College that ended2–2.

Yet another intriguing stalemate to behold, Jevon Pluck drew first blood in that match in the 13th minute then Shamar Barringtonansweredforthe opposition in the 36th minute

North Ruimveldt regainedtheleadinthe54th

minute through an Omar Sam strike before Michael Joseph produced the second equaliser three minutelater

The day final match

b e t w e e n D o l p h i n Secondary and Golden Grovealsoendedwitha2 2scoreline

GoldenGrovewerefirst to go ahead with a goal in

the ninth minute from Tyrese Liverpool before Brian Burnette equalised in the28thminute.

Dolphin then gained the lead when Jequan Cole struck in the 40th minute but Golden Grove were not to be denied as Yannick Liverpool drew the score leveled in the 57thminute

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Legendary West Indies fast bowler Sir Andy Roberts believesnothavingasettled team could make things difficult for the team in the upcoming T20 World Cup qualifiers.

In order to officially bookaspotinAustralianext month, the two time champions must advance from a play-off group that will also feature Ireland, Scotland, and Zimbabwe

The team will start as heavy favourites to advance from the group but the squad will feature several players that have not been in the squad for the last few months and even some who have never played the format internationally

Since a disastrous campaign at the 2021World Cup, the Windies have played22matches,butafew of the players added to the squadhavenotplayedinthe

majority of them over the pastyear Forinstance,Evin Lewis has not played since thelasttournament,Johnson

Charles has not played for theteamsince2016,Sheldon Cottrellhasplayedsparingly sincethestartoftheyear,and

YannicCariahandRaymond Reifer are yet to play in the format.

Having played so many

matchesRobertsbelievesthe team should have been already been using a settled squad ahead of the

tournament.

“We don’t have a settled team and that is the biggest problem. You don’t know what your teammate is capable of doing because he hasjustcomeintotheteam,” Roberts told the Mason and GuestRadioprogram.

“When West Indies was at its best, we had a settled team for five, ten years. If you check out Australia, Australia has a settled team, and Pakistan has a settled team. India is fiddling aroundwiththeteamandjust look at the issues they have been having. You need settledteams,”headded.

“We are going with a number of new players, new to the international scene We knew for a long time that the World Cup was going to be this year, so we should have been tryingourbesttomakesure wehaveaunitthatisready togofromballone ”

CWSS goal scorers from left: Kemani Field, Demoll Warne, Devon Gilbert, DanielAdolph, Lumar Jules andAmani King

North

GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power U-17 League Hosororo United flay GreenPark FC on a historic day

- & Water FC battle to draw

History was created yesterday at the Mabaruma Settlement Playfield when for the first time the G F F / N A M I L C O Thunderbolt Flour Power, Under-17 Intra Association LeaguekickedoffinRegion One, Barima Waini It was a double dose of history as the Barima Waini

Football Association (BWFA) Interim Management Committee (IMC) members received their letters of recognition from the Guyana Football Federation which outlines the parameters of their functioning as they seek to become the 10th Regional Association of the Federation.

Atotal of 17 teams have registered to play this League under the BWFAIMC umbrella and four of those that will contest the Mabaruma leg participated in the March Past yesterday to the applause of dozens of

fans. Representing the GFF was Member Services Officer, Franklin Wilson, who took the salute at the March Past along with BWFA IMC Chairman, Knester Castello Wilson extended greetings and best wishes to the clubs and technical staff on behalf of President Wayne Forde and theCounciloftheGFF

The members of the B W FA I M C w e r e recognised for their commitment and sacrifices to bring the process to this stage.

”ThevisionofPresident Forde and the GFF is to see the hinterland regions of Guyana having equitable access to the structured football programmes and its developmental resources,” Wilsonstated.

”President Forde would like to express thanks to the Reginal Chairman and other community leaders of the Region for their support

towards the work of the committee. Every success is wished for you as we look forward to officially welcoming the BWFA into theGFFfamily.”

Castello informed the playersandofficialsthatthis moment has been long in cominganditisnowtimefor Region One to show that they truly deserve to be countedasoneoftheRA’s.

”As a Region, we intend toshowGuyanathatwehave what it takes to first be a legitimate member of the GFFfamilyandtoalsoshow thatweareblessedwithlots of talented players at every level.Wewillworkhardand bededicatedtogoingallthe wayinthenextyear Iwould like,onbehalfoftheBWFAIMCtoexpressthankstoour Regional Chairman, Mr Brentnol Ashley, REO Teka Bissessar, and all who have contributedtothisprocess.

I would also like to personally thank my other

IMC members for their commitmentandpatiencein bringing this process to this stage and look forward to their continued support as wecontinuetoworktowards full and permanent membership of the GFF.”

The clubs present yesterday were Hosororo United, Green Park FC, Kissing Rocks United of Mabaruma Settlement,andWhiteWater FC.AbsentwereKamawatta and Hobodeia, due to the high costs of transportation to traverse the area; one of themainchallengesthere.

This would have also negated the teams from Martarkai and Moruca traveling to Mabaruma for the commencement of this leagueduetothehighcosts. Tocombatthischallenge,the BWFA IMC has decided that the three Sub-Regions will play among themselves with the top three teams set to meet in the playoffs to decide the overall

champions The Moruca teams are Golden Eagles, Mighty Warriors, Atkinson Brothers, Friends United, Silver Sands, and Alpha United.

Those set to contest the Martarkai regionare Port Kaituma Secondary, Fitzburg United, Matthew’s Ridge, Orinque, and Seebai.

Intotalcontroloftheirclash was Hosororo who was led by their Captain, Ricardo whonettedabraceasdidhis teammate, Reon Richards. However, the historic

opening goal came off the boot of Chad Scott within five minutes of the kick-off. The afternoon’s second match ended in a 1-1 draw between White Water FC which took the initial lead against Kissing Rocks United of Mabaruma Settlement.WhiteWatergot itsgoalfromAndellFerreira while the neutralizing goal for Kissing Rocks United which ensured they shared the points, came from Junior Anthony

ST JOHN’S, Antigua –The Cricket West Indies (CWI) Women’s Selection Panelhasannouncedthe13member squad for the third and final CG United One Day International (ODI) against New Zealand Women to be played on Sunday,25Septemberatthe Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.

Right-armpacerCherryAnn Fraser comes into the squad to replace Shamilia Connell Fraser had an impressive 6ixty and Women’s Caribbean Premier League showing with her team, Guyana Amazon Warriors, taking four wickets in each tournamentformat.

Lead Selector for

Women’s cricket, Ann Browne-Johnsaid:“TheCG United ODI Series has been a return to play for the team since their last encounter would have been the World Cup in February to April. Although the team is in the rebuilding process, the first two matches turned out to have very close results, which augers well for the

future. The captain, Hayley Matthews,ledfromthefront withherbowlingandbatting inthesecondmatch.Itisalso the time to start exposing someoftheyoungerplayers evident in the fact that Shabika Gajnabi was given the responsibility of batting atNumber3.Anotheryoung player, Cherry Ann Fraser has been included in the squadforthefinalODIasthe panel strives to continue player development and exposure to international cricket.”

The first two matches of the CG United ODI Series have been very close encounters New Zealand wonthefirstbyfiverunson the DLS Method and then took the second by two wicketsinanailbiter

Fans can now purchase ticketsforanyofthematches attickets.windiestickets.com ,theofficialWindiesTickets service pr n Mastercard. matches,

Hosororo United goal scorers from right, Chad Scott, RicardoAllen and Reon Richards.

BWFA-IMC Chairman Knester Castello officially kickingoff the historic GFF-NAMILCO U17 League on Saturday at the Mabaruma Settlement Playfield.

President Ali, sport is being left behind HEAR ME OUT!

ByRawleToney

The Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is in its 10th edition and for the first time, the finals of the world’s second most popular T20 league will be playedinGuyana(eachyear until2024).

It’snodoubtthatcricket is the most popular sport played in the Caribbean and

of course, in Guyana, but with one of the most unique ethnic make up and multicultural society within CARICOM, it should be obvious that other disciplines would want to emulate.

To be fair, with the Government’s Cricket Carnival,afusionofthearts, entertainment, sports and

…ask our athletes

culture, there’s nothing football, the second most played sport in Guyana, Boxing or Track and Field can do to level-up with the CPL But, to see the aforementioned disciplines receiving the same support from the highest office in

Guyana, would be commendable.

Let me be clear I endorse the Government of Guyana’s decision to bring theCPLfinalstoGuyana.By all means, it’s obviously not aunilateraldecision,butone which was carefully crafted with advice from key stakeholders in various sectors.

The above statement might be called hypocritical to some who would’ve remembered my 2016 comment when the APNU Government was lobbying CPLtohostthefinals.

What changed my position?Well,backin2016, sportwasanafterthoughtfor thePresidentDavidGranger Government.

They had removed the Ministry of Culture, Youth andSportandplacedit,first, as the Department under the Ministry of Education, and then under the Ministry of Social Cohesion. Sports regrettably regressed. Not that they had taken over Sports in Guyana while it wasflourishing.

The previous People’s Progressive Party/Civic Governments really didn’t do much for sports. Some would argue that they haven’t done anything at all –threefacilitiesin23years–building the Guyana National Stadium in 2007, the NationalAquatic Centre in 2011 and the National Track and Field centre in 2015.

Following the highly anticipated and contentious 2020 General Elections which saw Mohamed Irfaan Ali being declared the winner and sworn in as the 10th President of our Cooperative Republic, the new PPP/C Government tookadifferentapproach.

First, the announcement of Charles Ramson Jr as Minister of Sport. For the first time (in a long time), a youthful Minister of Sport whocanrelatetoathleteson their level He loves basketballandcricket.

Thiswasfollowedbyan allocation of $1.5B in 2021 and$3.2Bin2022.

According to the

National Budget, a total of $1.4Bwasbudgetedin2022 for sports infrastructure and development, including the completion of the synthetic tracks in Regions 6 and 10; multi purpose sports facilities; erection of stands at the National Track and Field Centre, rehabilitation works at the Guyana National Stadium to support the Cricket Academy; construction of pavilions in Region 6 and 10 as well as the procurement of sports gear

Of this amount, $250M was budgeted for the continued improvement of community grounds. Aside from this, $45.8M was allocated for maintenance works to sports facilities including Mackenzie Sports C l u b , K w a k w a n i Recreational Centre, NationalAquaticCentreand ColgrainPool.

However, eight months after the 2022 Budget was announced, one might ask, where did the $3 2B go…whatwasitreallyspent on?

I’m throwing out a challenge to anyone; travel from Parika to Georgetown andtryhardtofinda‘proper’ communityground.

No, not the National Track and Field Centre. The facility is a ‘shell’of what it should be. The track is in a deplorable state The Football field is an embarrassment.Itistheonly facility in Guyana (other than the National Stadium) that can host International football.

From the Corentyne to Georgetown,thebestground isinBuxton.

There’snosportsfacility available for athletes in CentralGeorgetown,outside of the Georgetown Football Club Ground (which is privatelyowned).The

Rawle Toney

Amazon Warriors send Knight Riders packing 2022HeroCaribbeanPremierLeague…

-stormsintosecondplace

It was a bottom-of-thetableclashlastnightbetween old rivals Guyana Amazon Warriors and Trinbago Knight Riders, in a match thatTKRhadtowintoavoid being knocked out of 10th edition of the Hero CaribbeanPremierLeague.

The capacity fans in the stands at Providence created an atmosphere befitting of a final, and when the dust had settled it was the Warriors who had won its 11th match in 24 games against TKR, with a 37-run margin to move to nine points from ninematches.

The Warriors reached 173-6in20oversas20-year old Afghan, Rahmanullah Gurbaz,hitsixsixesinthe43 ballshefacedtobringuphis second fifty in as many innings while Shakib al Hasanmade35from25balls astheyadded60runsforthe thirdwicket.

Gurbazalsodominateda 50-run second wicket-stand with Shai Hope, who struck twofoursinhisshortinnings of14.

Skipper, Shimron Hetmyer,scored23withfive fours before he was run out off the last ball and along with Odean Smith, who smashed three sixes in an unbeaten 22 from seven balls, put together 41 in the last18balls.

SunilNarinehad2-23for TKR, who were bowled out for 136 in their attempt to stayinthetournament.Only ColinMunro(30)andSamit Patel (34) reached 30 as Shakib led with 3-20 while Junior Sinclair (2-26) and Imran Tahir (2-31) helped bowltheirteamtotheirthird consecutive win on home soil.

When TKR began their chase, they lost Tim Seifert (13)asShakibstruckat32-1 beforeColinMunrotookthe scoreto68afterposting47-1 inthepowerplay

But after hitting two sixes off Chanderpaul Hemraj, Munro was dismissed by Tahir while Nicolas Pooran (1) was run outsixrunslater,muchtothe delight of the crowd which

included President Dr Irfaan Ali, sitting in the Red stand onceagain.

Kieron Pollard, who hit Tahirforsixoffhisfirstball, joined Patel, who was looking set on 34 with three foursandasix,beforehefell to Smith at 91-4 in the 14th over

Patel’s demise brought the‘oldboys’,AndreRussell andPollardtogetherforalast hoorah. But that was not to be as Gudakesh Motie, unluckynottobeintheWest IndiesWorldCupsquad,had Pollard(13)stumpedat1005asthecrowdwentwild.

Narine thumped Smith forsixbutwhenRussell(12) tried to hit Shakib onto the East Bank Public Road, he dispatchedahighcatchtothe keeper with 55 needed from 19 balls. However, Narine (19) was then bowled by Shakib, Akeal Hosein (1) was bowled by Tahir while Ravi Rampaul (1) was bowledbyJuniorSinclair

The final wicket to fall was Shaaron Lewis (1) who wascaughtbyHetmyeroffa

Sinclairdeliveryonthefinal ball of the innings. Shakib was adjudged man of the match for his performance thatwascappedoffwith3 20 while Sinclair (2 26) and Tahir (2 31) supported well along with Smith (1 21) and Motie (116).

To d a y, J a m a i c a Tallawahs face the Patriots from 10:00am before the WarriorsbattletheRoyalsin their final preliminary game from7:00pm.

Sunil Narine picked up two wickets for Trinbago Knight Riders. (Getty Images)

Shimron Hetmyer and Odean Smith took the Warriors to 174 when the overs expired. (Getty Images)

Rahmanullah Gurbaz’s performance earns him another spot on our back page. (Getty Images)

TheAmazon Warriors have now moved on to nine points with their latest win over TKR. (Getty Images) send

IBAPresident Umar Kremlev (left) met with GBAboss, Steve Ninvalle, inArmenia, yesterday.

Joshua Denny Memorial