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KAIETEUR NEWS Printed and Published by National Media & Publishing Company Ltd. 24 Saffon Street, Charlestown, Georgetown, Guyana. Publisher: GLENN LALL Editor: ADAM HARRIS Tel: 225-8491, 225-8458, 225-8465 Fax: 225-8473 or 226-8210
Editorial
It’s a case of self interest
The private sector’s response to Brigadier (ret) David Granger’s call for protest action to back his demands for local government elections was not surprising. Comments by Mr. Lincoln Lewis and Dr. David Hinds were also not unexpected. The different perspectives of the various actors point to the thread in the narratives which addresses the question of violence. On the one hand the body which speaks for the business community, and which - incidentally had not much to say in support for calls to hold local government elections, is now very much vocal, albeit in pursuit of its own agenda. In the opposite corner is the viewpoint that protest action is among the more acceptable means of moving an intransigent administration in a desired direction. One group is offering the subliminal message that protest action will affect its profit margin, especially if these are timed to coincide with the approaching holiday season. There is no stated consideration for the concerns of the wider body politic; a position which reflects self-interest pure and simple. The other group argues that the history of post independence protest is replete with instances of unequal treatment depending on which side of the ethnic fence one sits. The Guyanese people have at various times capitalized on their constitutional right to protest but recent history has demonstrated a movement towards an ‘Animal Farm’ mentality where some folk are more equal than others, and are therefore to be accorded a special dispensation when it comes to public protest. In all of these inequities the voices of groupings like the PSC remain silent. One community can come out in numbers to torch vehicles, attack police stations, assault policemen and ministers of government and the assailants are treated with kid gloves. They are virtually told that their concerns will be addressed; ‘Go and sin no more until next time’. Another community dares to raise its voice in anger at inter alia the failing justice system, the brutality of the young and disadvantaged by the police, and the stench of a rotten local government system and its members are described as hooligans and thugs - these being among the more charitable appellations. One thing that is sure not to have escaped anyone’s attention is that by dealing with the two situations in the manner that the administration has been treating with them, the message is being sent out that one group enjoys favoured ethnic status to the exclusion of the others. It is incumbent on all nationalistic Guyanese to lend their efforts to eradicate this impression of ethic favouritism which is a scourge on the soul of this nation. It seems as if people have lost sight of the long-term danger perpetuation of this evil brings. Children are brought up in households programmed with tales of the wicked and unworthy other(s). They in turn find themselves confronted with a culture shock when they are exposed to the world beyond their ethnic enclaves. Not surprisingly they are shown evidence to support their indoctrination like scenes of violent protestors who might be responding to aggravation caused by politically-inspired tension and inept police action. It is never a pleasant sight to see young defenseless women cowering in fear and seeking the protection of their ethnic other with whom they work or go to school. Ironically, those same protectors might themselves be seeking protection but no one seems to think that likely. There is a widely held conviction supported by incontrovertible fact that political activists go into depressed communities like Albouystown and Tiger Bay to recruit people during protests and elections campaigning. These agent provocateurs usually target young unemployed and unemployable men (and lately women) to wreak havoc on the activists’ own party supporters with the aim of ensuring their followers remain loyal while discrediting the protest action. In the few instances where bona fide protestors seize these misguided young men and hand them over to the police no prosecutions have resulted. The organisers of protest marches and picketing must be on their guard to deal condignly with infiltration of their ranks by people bent on bringing their just struggles to naught.
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Is this man Guyana’s J. Edgar Hoover? DEAR EDITOR, Blackmail was a tactic that worked for J. Edgar Hoover, the late long serving Director of the United States of A m e r i c a ’s F e d e r a l B u r e a u o f Investigations (FBI). Using files compiled on those he presumed were his enemies, Hoover managed to keep them quiet whenever they challenged him or his circle of friends. Hoover snooped not just on politicians but on officials high and low, on Supreme Court justices -at least 12 of them - even on presidents. He built files on writers, actors, on citizens across the spectrum who caught his malignant eye. By an official count after his death, the Director held 883 files on senators and 722 on congressmen. Sounds scary, right? If it scares you, you have every right to be, because Guyana may have its own J. Edgar Hoover.
While the Guyana Revenue Authority is not the FBI, its boss, Kurshid Sattaaur, is certainly being used to unleash terror, and silence those who attempt to oppose the current corrupt administration that rules this country we call our home. Just ask Freddie Kissoon, Adam Harris and Glen Lall. When Freddie continued to criticise the government, he was targeted by Sattaur and the GRA, by way of a letter requesting that he declare his assets, and that he was in tax arrears to the tune of millions of dollars. We all know what happened to Freddie after that-silenced. When the Kaieteur News exposed favouritism in the granting of duty free, and nepotism at the GRA, Glenn Lall became the subject of attack from the GRA and Sattaur. Adam Harris as head of the newspaper is said to be the next on the list. There are many others who are
being threatened by the GRA, like Joe Harmon, who spoke out on the issue involving Sattaur’s children being employed at the state entity. Judging from the recent revelations, the GRS’s boss is not acting on his own. There is evidence that he is being used to keep those who step out of line in check. There seems to be a cabal parallel to the government that is wielding immense power in Guyana. It is no secret that this cabal controls the government, its party, the judiciary, the police force etc. And, they use every state agency to go after citizens (especially through the Guyana Revenue Authority -GRA which is being run by Sattaur). Like Hoover, Sattaur gets away with his excesses. They were both showered with honours. Sattaur wrote in his leaked email to (Continued on page 6)
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Kaieteur M@ilbox Kaieteur M@ilbox Many have placed their fortunes in the hands of a few elected politicians DEAR EDITOR, US President Barack Obama on September 23 reaffirmed the long-standing American support to sustaining global civil society’s significant role at a gathering sponsored by the Clinton Global Initiative. President Obama said, “If you want strong, successful countries, you need strong, vibrant civil societies. When citizens are free to organize and work together across borders to make our communities healthier, our environment cleaner, and our world safer, that’s when real change comes.” Listening to Obama’s speech, I reflected upon my own involvement with civil society organizations, taking stock of where this particular sector stands in Guyana. While a few organizations are working tirelessly to
address many social, health, education, economic and cultural issues, there is no overwhelming sense of broad participation in these groups. Most citizens seem to have placed their fortunes and desires complacently in the hands of a few elected politicians. Political discourse emanating from government authority figures and the national assembly dominates the daily narrative, while civil society groups struggle to get coverage of their work and policy positions. While Obama speaks of citizens being “free to organize and work,” our civil society is paralyzed by a suffocating fear. This fear discourages those from joining civil society groups. This fear silences most civil society groups from voicing policy positions
supporting their stated goals. This fear makes the private sector and donors – including those from abroad – shy away from supporting the cause of civil society groups, particularly those that advocate public policy prescriptions. This fear is
the single most egregious impediment to civil society growth in Guyana. This fear stems from real concerns that those in positions of authority and power will intentionally target and discriminate against individuals actively
involved in civil society work and thus affecting their livelihood. Similarly, from my own experience, I have noticed a form of discrimination against NGOs whose public policy positions do not align with those of political parties
or the government. When NGOs such as Blue CAPS speak out on public policy issues, its members and the organization become likely targets for discrimination. This occurs in various forms including public (Continued on page 6)
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Kaieteur M@ilbox Kaieteur M@ilbox By being weak, the opposition finds itself now contemplating a high risk gamble DEAR EDITOR, Mr. Nigel Hughes’ letter published in Kaieteur News on September 16.2014 captioned, “It is difficult in this environment to push for a serious discussion on an interim govt. of national unity” caught my attention. I read it with keen interest. In his letter Mr. Hughes was responding to one authored by Dr David Hinds in which Hinds expressed the view that the no confidence motion should have been tied to a proposal for an interim government in Guyana. It is not my intention here to defend either of the two advocated positions. That is
not necessary, since in my estimation, the two writers are capable of defending themselves and don’t need my help. However, as Mr. Hughes’ letter restated the AFC’s position for the no confidence motion, i.e. the need to have new elections, I wish to take this opportunity to explore the political thinking of the AFC leadership on this political strategy, because they are advocating this course of action as the one best way to deal with the PPPC and the government. In his letter, Hughes reiterated very strongly one of the main reasons for the AFC pressing ahead with its
Surendra should never have been given this contract DEAR EDITOR, In the September 19th issue of KN, the article headlined – AFC gives “real reason” Govt. scrapped Surendra contract is an excellent piece. I totally agree with the Leader of the AFC. Surendra should never have been given the contract to build the hospital. They have no experience in this type of service and Parliament should delve deeper into this whole operation. The entire episode does not smell right. It is rumoured that very senior
officials are involved in this and many other contracts. It is also rumoured that, at an escrow meeting, the PPP has called for an investigation. Where are the pumps? Is this yet another scam? Is this the Government which is asking people to vote them back into power? Guyana does not need a Specialty Hospital. Guyana needs a Community Hospital based in Georgetown, while the Georgetown Hospital can be upgraded to a Specialty Hospital. This would make economical sense. T. Profitt
no confidence motion. He said, “There comes a time in the life of the Republic where the plunder of state’s assets and resources by those in whose care they have been entrusted has reached such astronomical levels that to permit it to continue without the registration of the strongest possible constitutional protest, is a neglect of one’s responsibility to the electorate.” I am not sure what Mr. Hughes meant here by “the strongest possible constitutional protest”. Is he referring to the act of tabling the motion of no confidence in the government in the national assembly, or is it about the consequence of the motion which ushers in General and Regional Elections when it is passed. Because of what I perceive as the absence of clarity by Mr. Hughes on this important question, I am forced, for the purpose of this letter, to conclude that Mr. Hughes and the AFC have in mind both the tabling and consequence of the motion. There is no need for me to waste time on whether the government’s arrogance and disrespect for the majority in the parliament and the nation require an appropriate political response from the opposition. It does. Only the politically naive will think otherwise. The AFC has taken the position that going back to the electorate is the best action for the opposition to take.
The question I wish to pose is this - is this really so? Is the opposition satisfied that it has exhausted all of the political options inside and outside the parliament to justify the “high risk” political gamble of going back to elections at this point? In 2011, the people gave the “opposition” a powerful mandate, which they have not fully utilised. By restricting their struggle to the parliament and failing to make any serious attempt to mobilise the people to put political pressure on the rulers, the opposition political parties demonstrated that they are weak and ineffective and not quite ready for hard-balled politics. The political situation today would have being very different if the APNU and AFC, jointly or separately had held rallies and marches with the stated goal of making the regime respect the majority in the parliament. A practical demonstration of “people’s power” in the streets would have brought the rulers to their senses a long time ago. This failure of the opposition to take to the streets and use the most potent political tool at its disposal to manners the PPPC party and government make the case for elections, premature. The APNU and the AFC must come round to the realisation that their combined failure to mobilise
the energies of the people has let the rulers off the hook and put enormous pressure on themselves to find a political solution to the crisis the country is faced with. By demonstrating that they have been weak and indecisive over the last three years they now find themselves contemplating a high risk political gamble to go back to general and regional elections. What are the AFC’s expectations? Do they really believe that a three party fight will lead to the PPPC losing the plurality? Can the AFC guarantee the nation and its supporters that a three way contest will not lead to the PPPC regaining the majority that they lost in the 2011 general and regional elections? And if this eventuates would the AFC leadership accept responsibility for the consequences of its political miscalculation or would they
turn around and blame the people for the political outcome? These are important issues which the AFC must address publicly to demonstrate that its judgement on the present political situation and its call for general elections are the correct responses at this time. The AFC’s no confidence strategy has to be tested against what I believe are very pertinent questions which I have sought to draw to that party’s attention. As a serious party it owes the nation a considered response to them. I also hold the view that if it fails to address them publicly it runs the risk of being seen as concerned only with its narrow partisan interest i.e. simply wanting to increase its numbers in parliament at the expense of the APNU and the nation and in the process, give the PPPC the majority. Tacuma Oyunseye
Is this man Guyana’s J... From page 4 the Attorney General, “Of course I am deeply indebted to the Government for the confidence it places in me to continue to execute my duties as CG.” This is a clear indication that he has the backings of the administration to go after those who step out of line. No wonder, despite revelations of nepotism at the Guyana Revenue Authority, nothing has been done; in fact it seems that
Sattaur has solidified his position at the helm of the GRA. The FBI Headquarters in Washington DC is named after J. Edgar Hoover; maybe the new GRA headquarters will be named after Sattaur. The nation must rise up and confront this Evil and its cohorts before it’s too late. If the administration gets away with silencing the Kaieteur News, there will be no one else left to stand up to their xcesses. Tax-payer
Many have placed their... From page 5 rebuke by political parties. Other forms might be more subtle, such as not being invited to topically relevant meetings, seminars and workshops or not responding to NGO queries or invitations intended for public and political officials. Members of NGOs are also discriminated against at their places of employment because of their association. This can take the form of direct verbal warnings to disassociate, lack of job promotion as a result of such affiliation, or an expression of skepticism by managers and superiors who question an employee’s capacity for being objective and professional on the job because of their involvement with certain civil society groups. Some are even dismissed from their jobs because of their association.
Private sector firms also fear the potential for political backlash if they venture supporting and funding vocal civil society groups so they back away from any form of support or endorsement. Notwithstanding, civil society must stand firm and never cave in to threats and intimidation for we will never be ‘free’ unless these clouds of fear are lifted. It is worth listening to the words of President Obama, who reminded that, “when these rights [association and expression] are suppressed, it fuels grievances and a sense of injustice that over time can fuel instability or extremism.” I hope those who attempt to suppress our civil society listen and take directly to hold these wise, prudent words. Clinton Urling Blue CAPS
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Kublalsingh refuses drips
Dr Ashanti Charles-Le Blanc takes a blood pressure reading from Highway Re-route Movement leader Dr Wayne Kublalsingh outside the Office of the Prime Minister, St Clair, Friday. PHOTO: CLYDE LEWIS Trinidad Guardian Environmentalist Dr Wayne Kublalsingh has refused rehydration treatment from his doctor even as she described his condition as “critical” Friday. He has been on a hunger strike for the past nine days and intends to continue until he receives a response from Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on a new proposed route for the Debe to Mon Desir section of the $7.5 billion Solomon Hochoy Highway extension. Kublalsingh’s doctor, Asante Charles-Le Blanc, visited him Friday to check his vital signs as he continued his strike opposite the Office of the Prime Minister, St Clair. While Kublalsingh’s vital signs appeared to be stable, Charles-Le Blanc said his condition was critical. She
checked his blood pressure and monitored his heart rate but when she suggested rehydration in the form of drips, Kublalsingh refused. “I have to abide by his decision,” she told the media. Kublalsingh also was visited Friday by veteran masman Peter Minshall, Movement for Social Justice leader David Abdulah, former gender affairs minister Verna St Rose-Greaves and Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union president general Ancel Roget. Minshall, who was among a group of concerned citizens who wrote to the PM on the matter recently, recalled one of his past mas creations of “Man Crab” and the “Washerwoman”. He said “Man Crab” represented man’s greed for money and material things,
adding that it likely resided in the direction of the Prime Minister’s Office. St Rose-Greaves said only that “the time for talk was done.” Roget, who spent a significant amount of time lending support to Kublalsingh during his first 21-day hunger strike in 2012, said he had explored the new route proposed by Kublalsingh’s Highway ReRoute Movement on Wednesday. He said the OWTU endorsed the route as a viable alternative to the Government’s route for the highway. Kublalsingh said he would be resting at home over the weekend and despite concerns about his health would return to the Office of the Prime Minister tomorrow.
Jamaica Gleaner - The St Lucia government says the war on illegal drugs is being significantly hampered by the decision of the United States to continue sanctions against the St Lucia Police Force. Washington announced
last year that it was preventing the local police from taking part in US-funded training exercises and assistance under its anti-drug programme. The decision was taken by Washington in light of
what it called credible allegations of gross human rights violations by local law men. The allegations are linked to several fatal police shootings between 2010 and 2011 under the former United Workers Party government.
US sanctions hamper St Lucia’s drug-fighting efforts
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Govt. permitted Chinese to mine sand in Timehri - Works Minister Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn has said that Chinese mining company China Habours Engineering Company (CHEC) was given permission by the government to mine sand in Timehri North as part of the work being done on the country’s international airport. The Minister told Kaieteur News, last week, that the company was given the go ahead to remove sand from what he described as “two old sand pits located in Timehri North.” Residents of the Timehri North community had made several complaints about the effect of the activity on them, personally and on the community. They were also seeking clarity from the government as to whether the government
had given the Chinese permission to mine sand since the residents were not informed of the activity that is now taking place a short distance away from where several homes are located. When the Chinese workers were questioned, they told residents that “your country has given us permission to remove all sand. No problem”. The heavy machinery passes within the heart of the community to enter and leave the current mining space and is also destroying the roads, the residents said. They even demonstrated against the mining activities. Minister Benn stated, however, “The area where the sand is being removed is an old sand pit and was used as a dump site.” He explained,
Dem boys seh...
Guyana tek all de stupidness When stupidness did sharing Guyanese tek all. This country got people who does walk in de middle of de road and tell drivers fuh knock dem down. It got Ministers who was more poor than a church mouse when de president swear dem in and within a year dem more rich than de richest businessman. This country also got people who does travel pun de river like if dem deh pun de road. Dem don’t slow down when dem approaching a turn and de next thing is a big crash up and people dead, de boat dem bruck up and de captain blaming one another. Dem boys wake up de other day and dem see stupidness at its highest. A man vex wid a woman and he hire a man fuh kill she. He pay de man wid a snow-cone. This is wuss than de man who pay a man four dollar fuh kill he brother. De man kill de brother and all of dem woulda walk free if only de man who do de hiring did pay de man. Is stupidness does mek dem police set up road block and rob people. Imagine is a time de very police does lock up people fuh doing stupidness suh dem boys want to know why dem does do stupidness. Bobby get de contract fuh supply all de drugs that Guyana could get. Luncheon couldn’t wait fuh de people who give de contract fuh mek de announcement. He jump and talk first. People sue de government and dem now pulling Bobby contract. Sam do nuff stupidness too. He wait till Donald lef to go to de United nations before he perform. De Chinee people had a big function at de Embassy behind de Gardens. People dress up and go to de function wheh dem mek speech. Dem boys still smiling because Sam dress up like a Chinee emperor and de Chinee ambassador wear he suit and tie. Sam was more Chinee than dew Chinee ambassador and if that ain’t stupidness. Dem had another piece of stupidness but dem boys gun talk bout that later. Imagine a court telling dem that dem can’t talk bout de man who like dig shit pun people. Well dem boys going to court fuh an injunction to stop all injunctions. If that ain’t wuk then Guyana deh pun more stupidness. Talk half and wait fuh all de stupidness.
also, that the area was being used as a dump site, but that it is now being cleared to make room for the dumping of ‘pegasse’ soil which is being removed from where the airport runway is being expanded. It was however explained to the Minister that a visit to the Timehri community showed that the area where sand is currently being mined was once an area with trees and vegetation and not a dump site. He stated, ‘Whatever it is, I am saying it is a site for which they (Chinese) have permission and its airport land.” Ron Rahaman, Chief Roads and Bridges Engineer, is also responsible for the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project. He said he is not aware exactly where the mining is ongoing but he knows that “the company, China Habours Engineering Company was given permission to mine sand in two sand pits.’ “As far as I know they should be using sand from those pits. But I cannot say exactly where the pits are located.” Representatives of the Timehri North Community Development Council
One of the pits that was recently dug for sand mining. (TNCDC) said they were surprised to see CHEC workers using a bulldozer to clear the parapet that interlocks with the Main Access Road, in the Prison Service Area some two weeks ago. A few days later, they said that pieces of heavy duty equipment were being driven along the Main Road. Residents became upset since the workers were further destroying the road which “has never been repaired by this government”. Residents expressed concern about the health issues that could result from the unearthing and
transporting of the sand. “Already, the dust issues are plaguing residents, as large and unusual build-up of dust can be seen on the furnishings and other household paraphernalia,” they stated.
Kaieteur News was told that residents entered the sand pit which was lately dug and prevented the Chinese operators from mining any sand. They claimed that there was an exchange of words between themselves and the Chinese who they claimed described them as “mad people”. The residents who clashed with the workersmainly farmers- added that last Wednesday persons claiming to be from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) visited the area and the workers were allegedly prevented from mining the sand. They residents reported, however, that the workers were back at the pit the very next day and this caused the residents to react in protestation.
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EZjet boss challenges jurisdiction of Florida Court Days away from being sentenced to decades in prison for fraud, money laundering and embezzlement charges, EZjet boss, Sonny Ramdeo, has put up another challenge to his incarceration and imminent sentencing. Ramdeo has already over the course of his incarceration fired a number of defence attorneys as well as changed his plea on a number of occasions. Ramdeo this past week filed another motion, this time a 28 page document outlining why the US Court should set aside his guilty plea. He was found guilty of obstruction of justice when on a previous occasion he attempted to change his plea. In his latest petition to the Court, Ramdeo is looking to have his guilty plea to the superceding indictment, reversed ahead of the imposition of his sentencing. In outlining the grounds for the withdrawal of his plea, Ramdeo points to the sixth amendment to the United States Constitution which he says grants the right that “in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a public trial by an impartial jury of the state and district
…attempts to again withdraw guilty plea ahead of sentencing
One of the planes Ramdeo chartered. wherein the crime shall have been committed.” He further noted that the court must allow the defendant to withdraw his guilty plea if he can show a fair and just reason for such a request. According to Ramdeo, neither the court the government or his attorney recognized, nor was he informed, that he was pleading to a court that lacked jurisdiction and further, that his speedy trial rights were being violated. He argues that his attorney failed to file speedy
trial reports. In October last year, Ramdeo pleaded guilty but maintains that prior to this his attorney had never handled a wire fraud case before. He is adamant too that throughout his relationship with that lawyer, Alan Diamond, there was always friction as it relates to the progress of the case. According to Ramdeo’s motion, “Ultimately, the defendant (Ramdeo) was hauled before the court on October 1, 2013 without being previously advised by counsel that he scheduled a change of plea hearing.” He noted too that the defence counsel at the time testified to having met him in September prior to the October hearing, but according to Ramdeo, the prison records show differently. Ramdeo said too that at no point in time did his attorney explain to him how his conduct fell within the charged statutes, “nor did they investigate whether the court had jurisdiction over this matter.” According to Ramdeo, he had relied on his attorney to reasonably investigate any defects in the indictment and whether the matter was being
conducted in keeping with his available rights. Ramdeo is adamant that after a court accepts a plea, but before imposing sentence, a defendant may withdraw a plea of guilty if he can show just reason for the withdrawal. Ramdeo in his motion maintains that he clearly received ineffective assistance because of counsel’s errors which prejudiced him. Ramdeo, who is currently remanded to prison in a Florida Jail, is set to be sentenced on November 14, but is still attempting to defend his innocence and has also filed a motion to have a US Judge grant him access to the evidence to be used against him by the US Prosecutors. Ramdeo recently filed a motion to the court claiming that the US prosecutors have been withholding evidence from him. He further claims that none of his previous attorneys ever had a chance to peruse the evidence against him. Ramdeo further alleges that some of the evidence includes computers and other devices that were seized without a warrant
following his arrest. He is adamant that the evidence he seeks will address numerous issues at his sentencing and has since petitioned the court to direct the US Government through its prosecutors to allow him to inspect, “examine, copy and print materials beneficial to him for sentencing purposes.” He noted too that his most recent defence lawyer, prior to the termination of his services had shared case information with the prosecution regarding the possible disposition of the charges pending a plea agreement. Ramdeo is also contesting several pieces of evidence the US prosecutors intend to use against him at sentencing. Ramdeo, who was behind the failed low cost carrier EZjet, was charged in the US with embezzling millions from the hospital chain he had been employed. Ramdeo has repeatedly changed attorneys, some of which were provided by the State to represent him. He has also pleaded not guilty, changed that to guilty and attempted to change it back to not guilty. Ramdeo was also recently found guilty of obstruction of justice when he had attempted to change his guilty plea to that of not guilty. Ramdeo’s troubles were escalated further as he was put on notice that at sentencing he should be prepared to address the questions of whether his advisory guideline sentencing range should be increased for obstruction of justice based upon false testimony he presented. Ramdeo was found to have lied to the court about
EZjet Boss, Sonny Ramdeo representation provided to him by court appointed lawyers. Ramdeo has pleaded guilty to one count each of wire fraud and money laundering, admitting that he stole between US$20M-$50M and using a number of bank transactions, passed the monies through the accounts of EZjet, a low-cost charter that he started up in 2011 and which folded last December, following his arrest in Brooklyn by US federal agents. According to court documents seen by Kaieteur News, Ramdeo was hired in 2005 by Promise Healthcare Inc., and Success Healthcare Inc., two sister companies that manage hospitals in a number of US states, to work along with its payroll tax systems. After the contract for the independent company which handled the tax payments for the companies was terminated, Ramdeo informed his employers that he knew a firm that could do the job. What he did not tell them was that Payserv Tax Inc. was a company he created, and in which he had ownership interest. Continued on page 59
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== THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN ==
An aging pit bull who wants to be vicious I didn’t know that Ralph Seeram had referred to me as jackass last week until it was brought to my attention that the Chronicle made reference to it last Friday. I don’t know who Ralph Seeram is; don’t care to. Never met the gentleman; don’t want to. My understanding is that he is an aging journalist living in Miami. I could be as acerbic as Seeram by referring to him as a tenth rate journalist living as a tenth rate citizen in another land, but I will refrain from hostile semantics for the moment. I can’t remember any Ralph Seeram in the seventies. He must have been pretty invisible or didn’t distinguish himself, because I could rattle off my head the eminent or popular journalists of the seventies and eighties in Guyana. Some years ago, this gentleman got angry with me and penned an article with the caption, “Freddie Kissoon is a jackass.” He doesn’t seem to have a wide vocabulary, because this is the second time he uses the same appellation. After this column, he may refer to me as a donkey. At least that will show that he is not stuck on one word. So why did he caption his article in such a way? Because I described Ralph Seeram as a profound fool,
an idiotic man, and a really stupid fellow for composing a picture of then President Jagdeo that was utterly asinine. According to Seeram, he went to a party the PPP group in New York hosted for the visiting Guyanese president. He wrote he was delighted that President Jagdeo granted him a fiveminute conversation. He elaborated on his feelings for Jagdeo by saying that when he looked into the eyes of Jagdeo, he saw a man who wants democracy for Guyana and will make his country great. I don’t know at the time if Seeram was still a journalist when Jagdeo gave him that five minutes but if he was, then, journalism can produce some ignorant people. So how did Seeram know that Jagdeo was interested in democracy for Guyana and will be a great president? Because he saw it in Jagdeo’s eyes and he got that impression by a short, fiveminute chat. Can you tell a president will lead his country into greater freedom by looking into his eyes and from a fiveminute chat at a party? And to think Seeram actually wrote this. After my column on this pathetic nonsense of Seeram, I got several e-mails telling me
about Seeram. I didn’t know that Seeram was enamoured with Jagdeo because he, Seeram, and Jagdeo shared a similar character trait. But surely if you belong to the same sub-culture of a person or you share a certain membership with him in a certain closed society, that doesn’t mean you should insult your dignity by telling people that you can predict what he will do for his country by looking into his eyes after a five-minute chat. I admire profoundly Nigel Hughes, Khemraj Ramjattan and Dr. David Hinds. I have looked into their eyes millions of times. I still can’t tell from those looks what they will do when they administer the affairs of Guyana. So in reaction to that column, he called me a jackass. Seeram went on to praise Mr. Jagdeo in several more articles. For me this man was so silly, I stopped reading what he writes. I would have replied with an earlier column if I knew he had said that of me since eight days ago. Now Seeram is into his jackass thing again. And this is because I took umbrage at PPP supporter, Oscar Ramjeet, an ethnic soulmate of Seeram, for referring to Carl Greenidge as writing trash (Ramjeet’s word) after Greenidge ex p o s e d t h e PPP’s interference in the
judiciary. No w b r a c e y o u r s e l f for the bad man, the big w a r r i o r named Ralph Seeram. Here is what he wrote of me; “You attack me, I come after you like a vicious pit bull and take you down in the gutter with me.” So the Guyanese readers can expect a pit bull attack on me. The only problem is that it will be an anti-climax. S e e r a m ’s pit bull viciousness is for the bees and insects in the cocoon where he carries on his
existence. Unlike Seeram’s “democratic” president, I never put my wife out of the marital bedroom after one week of the union. In fact we have been together for a few months short of 36 years. So Seeram has to go into the gutter with someone else. Maybe the pit bull will invent some dirt as they did to Raphael Trotman. But it won’t work with me. The Guyanese people know me. I live among them. Editor’s note: This is the
Frederick Kissoon end of the ad hominen attacks by anyone contributing to the pages of this newspaper. Perhaps I should have ended it a long time ago.
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Justice is hard to find for survivors of sexual assault Sexual assault is an appalling ordeal, yet occurrences of this form of human rights violation remain rife in society. In fact, the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA), having examined the information emerging about the brutal gang rape of a young Amerindian hotel worker in Mahdia, Region Eight, two weekends ago, stated that the situation underlines how unresponsive the medical and legal systems remain to survivors of sexual assault. The human rights body has noted that the Sexual Offences Act (2010) has the potential for real progress to secure justice for survivors of sexual violence, but it claims that mobilizing sufficient political commitment to carry through with reforms has consistently failed. This remains true at all stages of the justice process. “In too many cases from their first contact with the system to the end, survivors
of sexual offences continue to experience callous indifference whether from the police, the prosecution services or the Judiciary.” “Too many cases are lost in the High Court because juries refuse to convict due to confusion over the issue of ‘consent’. This suggests that judges need to exercise greater care to ensure juries understand this concept.” The GHRA said that although the hotel worker was carried unconscious into the hospital by a coworker, with extensive bites and bruising about her body, she was examined only for physical assault because ‘no rape kit was available.’ The Association claims that no anti-HIV prophylactic was administered, neither was the victim provided with the STI-preventative medicine normally prescribed in cases of sexual assault. The victim was only given painkillers and discharged the following morning. It was revealed that had it not been
for the courageous initiative of a friend who took photos with a cellular phone of her battered colleague, despite police warnings to desist, no evidence of what she underwent would be available. The human rights body explained that as part of the reform ushered in by the Sexual Offences Act (2010), rape kits were introduced into medical examinations of persons alleging sexual violence. According to the body, the sealed kit is supposed to be made available by the hospital when the police bring the victim, and opened in the presence of a police officer. Each kit, the GHRA added, contains step-by-step guidelines for procedures the examining medical officer should take. “Separate bags are provided for the victim’s underwear, and other clothing, and a series of other packets for smears, samples and other forensic evidence. All are sealed, placed back in the kit and a document signed by the police officer and the attending physician. The kit is then sent for forensic examination as part of building a charge against suspects.
- GHRA “While the absence of a rape kit should not preclude medical personnel performing a thorough examination of the victim, the GHRA understands that its absence was used as the reason for not examining the victim for sexual assault in Mahdia, which is astonishing.” Further investigation by the body has revealed that most interior hospitals do not have rape kits. According to GHRA, the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) appears to be the only location where the use of rape kits is integrated into the response to complaints of sexual violence. The GHRA called on public health authorities to take responsibility for the role they are mandated to play in recognizing serious health consequences that sexual violence generates for survivors. It was explained that the efficient provision of rape kits is a step in ensuring medical evidence is secured. “The health of the
survivor goes well beyond the need for evidence. The Ministry of Health needs to embrace its responsibilities in responding to those needs, because many survivors never fully recover from sexual violence.” The GHRA said that the Police ‘A’ Division, Georgetown appears to have the only effective Sexual Offences Unit which is housed in the Brickdam Police Station. This Unit works principally with child protection agencies, and rape kits are used in medical examinations. “Rape complaints lodged at other city stations are channeled to Brickdam for medical examinations. What use is made of rape kit evidence is unclear since they have not yet been employed as evidence in any High Court trials. “Best forensic practice based on the use of rape kits requires they be available in all hospitals and used routinely by medical practitioners. In addition to poor medical care in Mahdia towards the victim, the behaviour of police ranks was callous and unprofessional,” GHRA contended. The body said that the
rank’s refusal to include the allegations of sodomy in the statement flatly violates the rule for taking statements. “Despite her insistence, this part of her statement remained excluded and the victim signed the statement because, “in my own mind I had decided to go to Georgetown to take up the matter there.” “Such lack of confidence in the Guyana Police Force (GPF) was aggravated in this case by the obvious familiarity between the hotel personnel who were seen in the station precincts and the police ranks responsible for the case.” It is the view of GHRA that Mahdia is a mining hub with many bars, encouraging high levels of alcohol consumption which sees it potentially having higher than normal levels of sexual violence, including underage sex. “In light of these conditions, the state of unpreparedness by both the health and police authorities raises serious questions. Furthermore, the GHRA is calling on the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which has taken control of this case, to vigorously pursue the perpetrators of this crime.” Police action on this case must also extend to an investigation by the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) of the GPF into the unprofessional behaviour of the ranks in Mahdia. The GHRA said that it will be providing the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the OPR with statements supporting the allegations made in respect of this case and will continue to monitor developments.
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We don’t even talk to each other The Man above gave human beings an intense gift—the gift of communication. The result is that people in any corner of the world enjoy a universal language that is often precipitated by a smile. I have travelled a lot to countries where English, my native language, was not at a premium but I survived because I used the gift that God gave me. And even in those countries where people spoke English, one needed to listen carefully because of the accent. A few decades I happened to visit London. I was on my way back from Libya where I had gone to observe the anniversary of the coup that brought Muammar Gadaffi to power. Two things happened that would stay with me forever. On the flight from Libya to Guyana I happened to sit next to a young man who must have been filthy rich, because in London he was going to stay at one of those top flight hotels. He said that his father was a pilot on the international routes. In those days Guyanese did not require a visa to enter England, us being a former British colony. When we reached Immigration, the
officer asked the young man where he was staying then proceeded to grill him. I could not see the relevance of some of the questions, but the officer had to do his job. He eventually let the young man in, but not before the young man in his halting English said that he had a beautiful country and that he could simply go back home. I was next and the officer simply said to me, “You can’t be too careful with these types.” The year was 1980 and being a Black man I was not amused. That young man could have been me. Today, there are Islamic radicals from that corner of the world from which the young man came. I suppose in hindsight, the immigration officer knew what he was talking about. On that same trip, I had to seek directions to my friend Arnon Adams’s residence. I had never gone to London before, but I had a general idea where he lived. I had his address. An elderly woman told me where to go, but I was hesitant. Then she said to me, “Young man, you have a good tongue in your head.” Later, this tongue helped me, because I formed some interesting conversations with people I had never seen.
I remember when I was in the Falklands, I met a high ranking army officer in one of the stores at Port Stanley. We talked about so many things, including the war with Argentina. I never realized that this was the man responsible for the military establishment on the island. We met formally a few days later when I was leaving the island. The aide de camp announced the presence of this general and then this man walked in. He said ‘Hi Adam” and I was stunned. Then he said something that made sense to a number of people, but not to me. “We met, I was wearing uniform.” The implication was that I was familiar with the insignias. The second thing that made me realize the importance of communication involved my suitcase. Somehow, I arrived in Libya without my suitcase and I had to communicate this with someone there. He spoke no English and I spoke a little French. Believe it or not, we managed to understand each other and when the suitcase did arrive it was taken to my hotel. I remember these things because as I look at the political situation and even at normal incidents, I realize that
we simply do not talk to each other, with the result that things that could be settled peacefully end up with the parties becoming acrimonious. A friend called me in the wake of the most recent lawsuit filed against Kaieteur News and me, and asked why is it that people can’t talk? He said that the Guyana Revenue Authority could have talked with the people about the Lexus and proceeded to do the same thing, but that there would have been no rancour. I had to discuss this same absence of communication on a previous occasion. At the time Bharrat Jagdeo was the president. There were street protests, because the then Opposition Leader Desmond Hoyte, claimed that he could not reach an accord with Jagdeo, that Jagdeo appeared not to listen and when he did listen, he made promises that he could not keep. Similarly, President Donald Ramotar has been unable to communicate with the leaders of the opposition parties to the extent that each year when the budget is presented there is a problem. In one case the issue ended up in court. In offices I see people
who write notes to their juniors because they simply cannot call the junior and talk about the issue that is the source of concern. We are now witnessing a preponderance of hostile acts between couples. People kill each other over some stupid incident when mere talk could have resolved the issue. I felt elated when the legal system introduced mediation. I recently noticed that mediation has been extended to the Berbice courts. But has there been more communication? As a student I learnt that the spoken word makes up one-tenth of all
Adam Harris interpersonal communication. This means that we say more without even opening our mouths. But even that we do not take time to do properly.
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Challenges to hinterland tourism On September 27th Guyana joined the rest of the world in observing World Tourism Day (WTD). The theme for this year was, “Tourism and Community Development” According to the UN website the theme “draws special attention to the role of tourism in contributing to one of the building blocks of a more sustainable future for all: Community development. As a sector representing 9% of global GDP, one in 11 jobs worldwide, and a key revenue sector for developing and emerging economies, tourism is widely acknowledged for its capacity to respond to
global challenges. The consolidation of tourism’s economic influence has built up its social responsibility and political relevance, with a growing number of countries allocating a stronger mandate to tourism in economic and development policy planning. With the special focus on the community, WTD 2014 highlights how tourism can be conducive to advancing sustainable development from the grassroots level. Community based tourism involves the local population in the decision making process according to local priorities. The opportunity to become part of
the tourism value chain actively involves host communities in the development process. Tourism thus becomes a catalyst of social cohesion, going beyond the immediate impact of job creation and its positive economic consequences and enhances, for instance, local governance capabilities which multiply the tourism impact even further.” The Guyana tourism product has faced many challenges and thanks in large to the players in the private sector, the hope of a viable tourism industry is kept alive. Despite a city overflowing with garbage, semi-naked and mentally challenged persons walking
the streets, chaotic traffic that threaten limb if not life, almost daily reports of gun-toting criminals on the attack and architectural masterpieces such as City Hall falling into disrepair, the hardy operators in the tourism industry have withstood the test of time and managed to keep hope alive. The Alliance for Change applauds their efforts! Of recent, as more attention turns to eco-tourism, hinterland communities have started exploring possible opportunities to tap into the tourist market. Set in the heart of Guyana, hinterland communities offer breathtaking scenery, clean air, a chance for tourists to connect with nature as they explore dense jungles, precipitous mountainsides or never-ending savannahs. Whether it’s a relaxing vacation or research expedition, there is something there for every tourist. But all of this may be in danger as
the Government encourages investors in the mining sector. Let it be made clear, the Alliance For Change is not against growth in the mining sector. We recognise that mining today is competing with agriculture as the main foreign exchange earner and may be the leading industry in providing jobs for our young people. However, growth in the mining sector must be measured against the impact on the environment and the preservation of the culture and way of life of our Amerindian peoples. According to the Amerindian Act (2006) the Guyana Geology & Mines Commission (GGMC) is the first authority a miner must secure in order to conduct mining activities on Amerindian lands. It is only after securing the authority of the GGMC that the miner approaches the village. In the
case of large scale mining, a decision by the village not to entertain mining on village lands can be overturned by the Minister. Section 50 of theAmerindian Act allows the Government to override the Amerindian veto for large scale mining. The decision is made by the Minister responsible for mining and Minister of Amerindian Affairs, and they determine the fees and tributes to be paid to the village. The elected officials of the village have no say in this matter. So while village leaders and the community may prefer to retain their pristine state as they pursue the tourist market, the Government may have a different agenda. This being the case, there is need for the conversation of the use and ownership of Amerindian ancestral lands to continue. National development must be compatible with preservation of cultures.
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SUNDAY SPECIAL JAGDEO/SATTAUR PLOT TO DESTROY KAIETEUR NEWS UNEARTHED Publisher of the Kaieteur News, Glenn Lall, is in possession of incontrovertible evidence of a plot by former President, Bharrat Jagdeo, and Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur, to bring down Kaieteur News. Confidential documentation, leaked to this publication, reveals that the Commissioner-General provided the former President with detailed tax information of a number of independent media houses in Guyana. The disclosure of the information by GRA’s Commissioner-General to Jagdeo, represents a grave breach of the ‘Oath of Secrecy’ sworn to by Sattaur as an officer of the Guyana Revenue Authority, said one lawyer. In taking the Oath, Sattaur solemnly declared that he would “truly, faithfully, impartially and honestly execute the powers vested in him.” He also swore that he would “judge and determine upon all matters and things before him without fear, affection, or malice”. And he swore, too, not to disclose any tax information concerning any taxpayer, but this has not been the case. COP KILLS MAN AFTER VICTIM ASSAULTS POLICEWOMAN Senior police officials last Saturday night grilled a police constable who allegedly killed an unarmed man who had reportedly assaulted a female rank in Hill Street, Albouystown. Police sources confirmed that Adrian Bishop, 28, was shot in the right side of his neck around 17.30 hrs in the vicinity of Hill Street and Punt Trench Dam, Albouystown. At the time Bishop, who had a lengthy criminal record ranging from carjacking, assault and armed robbery, was sitting in a police minibus in which the arresting ranks had placed him. The sources confirmed that Bishop was unarmed, while the police constable, who is seconded to the Brickdam Police Station, was armed with a shotgun. Albouystown residents and police sources confirmed that Bishop, who is said to be from Campbellville, had struck a policewoman with a bottle a few minutes before he was slain. Some residents alleged that the female rank is a former girlfriend of Bishop’s.
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Kaieteur News was told that the injured policewoman made a report at the Brickdam Police Station. She then accompanied about three of her colleagues back to the scene in a “silver-grey Pitbull bus.” According to some residents, Bishop was walking south along Hill Street towards Punt Trench Dam when the policemen arrived. Eyewitnesses alleged that the ranks began to assault the unarmed Bishop before forcing him into the police vehicle. They alleged that while Bishop was sitting in the bus, a policeman, who was outside the vehicle, pushed a shotgun through one of the windows and shot Bishop. Eyewitnesses claimed that immediately after, the apparently confused rank walked towards Punt Trench Dam and threw down his weapon. MONDAY EDITION SATTAUR ADDRESSES ISSUE OF PLOT TO DESTROY KAIETEUR NEWS …NEWSPAPER PROVIDES THE EVIDENCE On Sunday, Kaieteur News reported on what it said was a plot by Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Khurshid Sattaur, and former President Bharrat Jagdeo, to destroy the newspaper. The news report prompted the following response from Sattaur. Dear Editor, Reference is made to various articles in Kaieteur newspaper edition of the 21/ 9 of which you are well undoubtedly aware. There would appear to be a deliberate and orchestrated effort on the part of the paper and no doubt that of the owner/publisher of the newspaper to give maximum coverage to the ongoing legal proceedings involving the
vehicles imported by remigrants but “loaned to the Lalls”. This can be construed as an apparent and continuing effort to influence the learned Chief Justice in his impending decision. This belief is further confirmed from the most naive reference made by the editor of the publication that “this matter is before the court and I am sure it will go nowhere”. Perhaps the editor of Kaieteur News can enlighten the public what is meant by this statement and if he is privy to information that is not in the public domain. The GRA is still of the firm belief that the matter will be heard and determined expeditiously and justice will prevail. While this reference to a current court case and these unjustified and baseless statements may appear to the uninitiated to be innocuous, Mr. Harris should be seriously reprimanded by the Chief Justice for contempt. The statement that “nothing in the law that says a man cannot loan his vehicle” betrays the ignorance, misapprehension, misinterpretation of the law or represents a deliberate attempt by the publication to disseminate this misinformation to the reading public.
blood stained shoe laces were found in a black plastic bag. There was also some “heavy duty” tape wrapped around the bag. Several other bones which appeared to be human where scattered around the scene because dogs had begun to devour the remains. Police sources have also said that a plastic handcuff along with a car mat was found in the bushes close to the body. Detectives who were summoned to the scene took a statement from at least one worker attached to the Ministry. Kaieteur News was told that the police had tried to get Government Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh to the scene to do a post mortem but were unsuccessful in their attempts. HOUSE SPEAKER FILES $50M LAWSUIT - SAYS ALLEGATION IS POLITICALLY MOTIVATEDANDTIMELY EXECUTED An injunction has been granted barring Johnny Anthony Welshman Jr. from publishing, whether in the
TUESDAY EDITION MAN’S HEAD FOUND IN PLASTIC BAGA FEW YARDS FROM BODY Workers attached to the Ministry Public Workers Monday afternoon made a shocking discovery while clearing out a cemetery at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara. Hidden in a clump of bushes was the badly decomposed body of a man. The discovery was made shortly after 16:00hrs. That particular area where the body was found is very desolate. A few yards away a human skull and a pair of
Policemen at the scene
print or electronic media, any material relating to allegations he made against Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman. This was made known through a press statement released by the Alliance For Change (AFC) Monday evening. The Party noted that the injunction was granted Monday in the High Court. The AFC said that Welshman has also been ordered to remove all malicious content from his Facebook page. “In his Ex Parte Affidavit in support of the application for the injunction, Trotman has also sought damages in excess of $50 million for libel contained in a statements allegedly made by Welshman and published in the Stabroek News, Guyana Times and on Welshman’s Facebook page.” The AFC expressed its unequivocal support for its Co-Founder and Speaker of the National Assembly against the “recent spurious and unfounded allegations” leveled against him. Following a press conference Monday morning,
Trotman faced the media and expressed full confidence that he will be vindicated. The Speaker, in the compounds of the National Assembly insisted that he is innocent and said that he has not a doubt in his mind that the recent allegations were politically plotted. WEDNESDAY EDITION GRA TAX BOSS BREACHES “OATH OF SECRECY”…KHURSHID SATTAUR SHOULD RESIGN IMMEDIATELY– AFC - ROHEE CAN’T SAY IF GOVT. IS CONCERNED ABOUT HIS ACTIONS In light of damning evidence provided by this newspaper which shows the Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur, sending tax information on several independent media entities to former President Bharrat Jagdeo, the Alliance For Change (AFC) has made a strong call for his immediate resignation. Kaieteur News on Sunday (Continued on page 43)
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PPPC thinks it can fool all of the people all the time President Donald Ramotar has joined the queue of People’s Progressive Party Civic –PPPC – presidents who have systematically failed to conduct six successive local government elections over the past seventeen years. Ramotar, however, unlike his predecessors, knows that times have changed. The population is impatient. People are tired of the same old dodgy excuses for postponement. They are tired of being fooled with false promises that local government elections will be held. Sooner, rather than later, the President must call elections. Time is running out for the PPPC. Ramotar, unable to avoid the inevitable, has resorted to what the PPP has done since it entered office in 1992 – start its elections campaign with a
massive spending spree of state funds in order to sway the electorate. The current squandermania is aimed at winning votes from constituents and communities which the PPPC neglected for years. Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr Frank Anthony, as elections approached, suddenly seemed to realise that the celebrated 125-yearold Georgetown City Hall was in danger of collapse and needed major restoration. He announced that the administration would expend $200 M to start work on the building. He expects to reap the gratitude of civil society for this act of civic beneficence. Minister in the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development Norman Whittaker unilaterally launched a $500
M ‘Clean-Up My Country Programme.’ The city has been in dire straits through the terrible tenures of Ministers Harrypersaud Nokta, Clinton Collymore, Kellawan Lall and Ganga Persaud before him. Whittaker, as local government elections approach, turned his attention to the Albouystown, Bourda and Stabroek Markets and the urban drainage network. He then, in a magnificent gesture of generosity, also handed over brush cutters to the ten Neighbourhood Democratic Councils and a fogging machine to the Regional Democratic Council in the Essequibo Islands-West Demerara Region (No.3). Great gifts! Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai made
a spectacle of presenting school uniform material to eight villages in the Upper Mazaruni sub-district of the Cuyuni-Mazaruni Region (No. 7). She has also been making headlines by handing over all-terrain vehicles to the Toshaos of several hinterland villages, as if they were personal gifts rather than administrative necessities. She had, earlier this year, tried to secure $1.1B for the Amerindian Development Fund in the 2014 national budget, but this was disapproved. The reason for disapproval was the discovery that the payment to so-called community support officers was not likely to be utilised for Amerindian community development at all. It was, rather, to recruit and pay stipends to young activists for the PPP election campaign. Minister of Education Priya Manickchand waited over six months and still seems not to be ready to disburse the grand grant of G$10,000 promised to the families of children at nursery, primary and secondary levels. The money was earmarked in the 2014 national budget in March 2014 ¯ long before the start of the new school year. Disbursement, however, was
delayed in order to ensure the greatest public impact on the PPP election campaign. Yes, we cannot hand out the grants yet! Minister in the Ministry of Finance Juan Edghill has been assigned to the Upper Demerara-Berbice Region (No. 10) to take over from the veteran candidate Samuel Hinds who ‘lost’ the Region in 2011. Edghill went on a binge of promises to sway the distrustful Lindeners who have been frequently fooled by the PPP before. The people want proper LindenKwakwani and LindenLethem highways. Edghill took the low road offering only to complete minor or ongoing projects ¯ the reconstruction of the One-Mile Primary School; the extension of the Upper Demerara Hospital; a health centre at Christiansburg; a nurses’ hostel at Kwakwani and small-scale drainage, road, and other infrastructure works. No highway, guys! Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, exiled to the East Berbice-Corentyne Region (No. 6), opened the PPP election campaign with an abundance of frothy promises. His visit was timed to coincide with the donation of netbooks to residents of
Lesbeholden, Black Bush Polder through the One Laptop Per Family Programme. Hinds made lavish promises that the government would be installing road lights along the deadly Corentyne Highway and would complete muchpromised ‘remedial’ works along the 40 km East Bank Berbice roadway. Sorry Sam. Berbicians heard all that before and won’t be fooled again this time. The PPPC is now in full election mode. It has deliberately delayed development projects so that they can be implemented and completed closer to the expected elections. The people, after 22 years of PPPC mis-spending, are suspicious of the motives behind the PPP’s new campaign promises. The PPP, for sure, will continue to squander state funds, not its own money, to try to fool the people to support its election campaign. President Donald Ramotar who is leading the campaign seems to have forgotten President Abraham Lincoln’s famous adage: “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
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Prospect of tighter White House security touches nerve in Washington (Reuters) - The prospect of more of the U.S. capital being closed off after an intruder got into the White House has struck a nerve in Washington over public space being eroded by barricades and bollards. The possible tightening of security around the president’s residence, a highly visible symbol of democracy and a prime draw for tourists and protesters alike, raises questions like whether safety trumps openness or whether a capital city can ever be entirely safe, analysts said. The week after a 42-yearold Iraq war veteran climbed the 7-foot (2.1-meter) wrought-iron fence, sprinted across the lawn with a knife in his pocket and entered the executive mansion through an open door, law enforcement officials erected a second fence around parts of the White House. They are considering further measures including closing more sidewalks to pedestrians, setting up additional barriers and possibly searching the bags of people approaching the building, the Washington Post and the New York Times said, citing unnamed sources. “So you’re going to further isolate the White House. Why don’t we just move the White House out to West Virginia or something?” said Steven Bucci, a national security expert at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Increased security measures have shut off large parts of the capital in the last 20 years, especially after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania that killed almost 3,000 people. They have include the closing off of traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue and a second street around the White House, and the shutting off of the West Terrace of the Capitol, which offers a sweeping view of the
The White House seen from outside the north lawn fence in Washington in this September 22, 2014, file photo. CREDIT: REUTERS/KEVIN LAMARQUE/FILES National Mall’s museums and monuments. The Supreme Court’s front doors are sealed off. The former head of the Capitol Police, which oversees security at the white-domed landmark, has advocated making a dozen blocks around it a no-drive zone to block potential car bombs. FREEDOMAND OPENNESS Judy Scott Feldman, president of the National Coalition to Save Our Mall, said more closings would only erode Washington’s democratic symbolism. “We are the capital of a nation dedicated to freedom and openness,” she said. “Fear can’t be our dominant planning principle.” Safeguarding the president and his family, other top U.S. officials and visiting foreign leaders is the responsibility of the U.S. Secret Service, which has been battered by drinking and prostitution scandals in recent years. The agency began reviewing White House security after veteran Omar Gonzalez made it into the White House on Sept. 19, at a
time when President Barack Obama and his family was not present. Gonzalez, who faces an unlawful entry charge, told an agent he needed to get information to the president about the atmosphere collapsing, according to court
documents. A House of Representatives oversight committee has scheduled a hearing on the breach for Tuesday. The Secret Service declined to say if it had settled on permanent measures to raise White House security.
“The U.S. Secret Service is not aware of any definitive plans to add increased permanent security measures around the White House,” spokesman Brian Leary said in an email. ‘HOW FAR?’ Washington Mayor
Vincent Gray said the security of the president and the White House was paramount but noted that people need to feel comfortable in the city, especially tourists who are vital to the local economy. Last year, Washington had a record 19 million visitors who spent $6.7 billion, according to the tourism bureau. Bucci, of the Heritage Foundation, said hundreds of millions of dollars had been poured into physical security in Washington since the 2001 attacks. Every government building had set-back areas and such features as concrete barriers, street-blocking bollards and its own security force, he said. Thomas Luebke, secretary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, which advises on design matters in the capital, said his panel’s top task since 2001 had been dealing with security features. Luebke said there was no way to create a risk-free capital, adding, “How far do we push the need for a sense of security versus the damage to the public realm?”
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Man fined for using cousin’s Taxi driver remanded identity to get passport for drug peddling A fifty-year-old man was fined $60,000 on Friday after he admitted to using his cousin’s birth certificate to obtain a machine readable passport. Sasenarine Etwaroo who appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court was charged with making a false declaration. The court heard that on July 22, last at the Central Immigration and Passport Office in Georgetown, Etwaroo made a false statement by signing a written declaration that he was Peter Persaud, and that he had never held or previously applied for a passport. According to the police,
that day Sasenarine went to the Central Immigration and Passport Office and applied for a passport in the name of Peter Persaud. Police Prosecutor, Kerry Bostwick said that on September 5, last, the 52-yearold returned to the office where he inquired for a lost passport. He was identified by a rank at the office and taken into custody where he was questioned. Bostwick told the court that under interrogation, Sasenarine admitted that he used his cousin Peter Persaud’s birth certificate to apply for the passport. He was then charged for the offence. During his arraignment, Sasenarine pleaded guilty and
A taxi driver reportedly busted with a quantity of marijuana on Thursday was remanded to prison by Magistrate Judy Latchman the following day on a drug trafficking charge. Phillip Lovell, 38, of East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, who appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court is alleged to have had 2.272 kilogrammes of marijuana in his possession for trafficking purposes on September 25 at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara. He pleaded not guilty to the offence and submitted a bail application. Lovell, who had no lawyer, said that he is married and has five children. He stated that he had never been
Accused: Phillip Lovell charged before. Police Prosecutor, Sergeant Vishnu Hunt did not present the Prosecution’s facts in Court, but did opposed bail. He said that Lovell failed to provide the
Court with any special reason for bail to be granted. Lovell was remanded to prison. The case will be called again on September 29 before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
Minibus operator charged for defending wife - court hears Sasenarine Etwaroo begged the court for mercy. He said “I am sorry for what I did. When the rank advised me on the severity I trembled.” He was fined $60,000 and warned that if he failed to pay, he would spend the next 21 months in prison.
A minibus operator who reportedly cuffed another man several times to the face because he had spoken inappropriately to his wife was released on bail after facing a charge at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Friday. Imtiaz Baksh, of Grove New Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman charged with assault causing actual bodily harm. The charge against him detailed that on September 23, last, at Water Street, Georgetown, Baksh unlawfully assaulted Jonathan Moonsammy, so as to cause him actual bodily harm. Baksh pleaded not guilty and submitted an application for minimum bail through his lawyer, Haymant Ramdhani. In his bail petition, the
lawyer explained that Baksh’s wife was in a minibus and Moonsammy was being “very vulgar” in his speech towards her. Khan explained that his client asked the younger man to desist from doing so, but he didn’t. According to the lawyer, Moonsammy instead turned around and assaulted his client who received injuries. He said that the defendant obtained a medical which shows the injuries he had sustained. Ramdhani said that Baksh, a married man with three minor children, had never been charged before and was not a flight risk. Police Prosecutor, Kerry Bostwick explained, however, that both men dealt cuffs to the each other’s face. He said the cuffs resulted in Moonsammy having a swollen gum and the outside of his mouth.
Moonsammy, a 24-yearold Herstelling, East Bank Demerara resident, was charged with using abusive language towards Baksh. He explained that the incident occurred around 15:30 hours that day. He said that they were at the bus park when the bus he was working on “dropped back li’l bit and hit he (Baksh) number plate. It ain’t break or scratch but we give he $1200 to buy back one, but he didn’t want that.” He claims that Baksh cursed him. Police Prosecutor, Sergeant Vishnu Hunt offered no objections to bail for either of the men, who both denied the charges. Moonsammy and Baksh were granted bail in the sum of $20,000 and $80,000 respectively. Their case will be called again before Chief Magistrate Priya SewnarineBeharry tomorrow.
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From page 27 last stated that its Publisher, Glenn Lall, is in possession of indisputable evidence of a plot by Jagdeo and Sattaur, to bring down the newspaper. The same day Sattaur issued a statement denying the plot and contending that he had a right to share information with the Head of State. The evidence put forward by this publication were emails between Sattaur and Jagdeo which were then shared with the Attorney General Anil Nandlall. Sattaur via email sent information on the corporation tax income of several media houses to Jagdeo and then to Nandlall. According to some lawyers, the information disclosed by the GRA Commissioner-General to Jagdeo, represents a grave breach of the ‘Oath of Secrecy’ sworn to by Sattaur as an officer of the Guyana Revenue Authority. TRAVELSPAN TO QUIT BY SATURDAY - NO WORD ON POSSIBLE RESUMPTION The US- registered charter company TravelSpan has suspended its New York/ Georgetown, flight service. According to information, the company and its carrier provider, Vision Airlines, apparently had a dispute over reimbursement for several delays which the travel agency faced during the recently ended peak summer season. There has been no word yet as to when and if service will resume. THURSDAY EDITION PLOT TO DESTROY KAIETEUR NEWS…SATTAUR REMAINS MUM ON EMAILREVELATIONS Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur, is in no way fazed by the calls for his resignation or articles published against him. He contends that whatever he does is covered in law. Sattaur, during an interview, Wednesday, maintained that whatever he does in the execution of his duties is covered in law and as such he has nothing to hide or to be afraid of. Asked whether he denies that he did in fact share tax information of privatelyowned media houses with the former President Bharrat Jagdeo, Sattaur said, “No comment.” STRIKE OVER AS GUYSUCOAGREES TO
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STAY SKELDON WORKER DISMISSAL A crippling strike by canecutters in Berbice ended following continuing negotiations Wednesday between the state-owned sugar company and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU). According to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), a critical meeting with GAWU Wednesday, under the chairmanship of the Chief Labour Officer, Charles Ogle, saw an agreement reached on the immediate calling off of the strike and for full resumption of work Thursday. “Under the terms of resumption, the parties have agreed that conciliation proceedings in the dispute that led to the strike, which was the dismissal of Daniel Steven, will commence on Friday (September 26) of this week,” a statement said Wednesday. The agreement provides that there be no victimization by both sides and that the days on which the workers were on strike will be regarded as not available for qualification purposes. “The agreement further specifies that the dismissal of Daniel Steven will be amended to suspension without pay until the end of either conciliation or arbitration proceedings.” Steven, a sugar worker, was dismissed from his job after he allegedly slapped the Skeldon estate manager, Dave Kumar. However, sugar workers claimed that the manager was the one at fault and demanded that the staffer be rehired. Protest action against their colleague’s dismissal also led to workers reportedly setting fire to tugs fetching some 130 metric tons of cane which were being transported to factories for grinding. GAWU and GuySuCo had been meeting all week but without any headway. FRIDAY EDITION PLOT TO DESTROY KAIETEUR NEWS…WHO AUTHORISED RELEASE OF TAX INFORMATION TO ‘BJ’? – ASKS RAMJATTAN Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur, has corroborated reports in other sections of the media that the entity he heads, intends to file criminal charges against Kaieteur News Publisher, Glenn Lall, his wife, Bhena, family friends, Narootandeo Brijnanan and his wife,
Gharbassi along with their son, Navin. The proposed charges stem from the importation of two Lexus vehicles by the Brijnanans, and used occasionally by Lall and his wife Bhena as part of their security detail. Sattaur during a telephone interview with this publication, Thursday, said that the matter is currently engaging the attention of his attorney, whose name he refused to divulge. He has already sued for libel using R. Satram, C.V. Satram and Mahendra Satram. He has accused Lall of waging a vendetta against him and as such would be taking the matter to the courts. Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, when contacted Thursday said that it was the GRA that enforces the Customs Act, which he believes is the relevant legislation under which any charges would be filed. Attorney-at-Law, Khemraj Ramjattan, however is not so confident about Sattaur filing any charges against Lall. According to Ramjattan – who has already called for Sattaur’s resignation – the Commissioner General may be hesitant to follow through with any such charges. Ramjattan, who has represented Kaieteur News, said that he did not want to make too many pronouncements at this stage, since no charges have been filed, and as such he is unaware of the specific allegations being made against Lall and others. He said that what he does know is that should the Commissioner General actually file charges, then he, Sattaur, will be made to testify. According to Ramjattan, Sattaur will then be forced to tell the court who authorized the release of the tax information on several privately-owned media houses and who authorized that he share it with ‘BJ.’ Sattaur moves to silence
Kaieteur News…sues for $500M While criminal charges were promised, Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has filed a lawsuit against the Kaieteur News, its Publisher Glenn Lall and Editor-in-Chief Adam Harris, seeking in excess of $500M as well as an injunction preventing this publication from repeating a number of allegations against Sattaur. Sattaur on Thursday successfully secured an interim injunction against Kaieteur News, from Justice Sandra Kurtzious, from circulating or causing to be published any libelous statements against him. In the court documents filed by Sattaur and delivered to Kaieteur News on Thursday, Sattaur claims that this publication has libeled him on no less than nine times in recent weeks, dating back as far as August 31. Sattaur’s writ was filed Thursday by his attorneys R. Satram, CV Satram and Mahendra Satram. Kaieteur News has been ordered to respond within 10 days. SATURDAY EDITION BRAZILIAN WOMAN DIES FOLLOWING BOAT EXPLOSION IN MAZARUNI RIVER A Brazilian woman perished in a boat collision in the vicinity of the Mazaruni River on Friday afternoon. Dead is 31-year-old Gisele Vieria Salis, a businesswoman who was said to be stationed at Bartica, Region Seven. Salis was reportedly transporting supplies to a shop, which she operated in an interior location when the boat she was travelling in collided with another vessel and exploded. The incident was recorded less than 24 hours after Guyana joined the rest of the world in the observance of International Maritime Day. According to a statement from the Maritime Administration Department,
(MARAD) the accident occurred at approximately 13:00 hours Friday while two vessels, an aluminum hull passenger vessel (jet boat) and a wooden passenger/ cargo boat were travelling in the vicinity of an area known as “All Boys,” in the Mazaruni River. “One is an aluminum hull passenger vessel and is propelled by two water jets. The other is a wooden passenger/cargo boat and was being propelled by a 200 horsepower outboard engine. As a result of the collision, a fire ensued and quickly engulfed the wooden vessel, causing a female passenger to be burned extensively, and subsequently perish,” the release from MARAD stated. Chunilall Baboolall a prominent gold miner from Bartica who was in the area moments before the explosion told this newspaper that the Brazilian was a passenger aboard the wooden vessel “Akeem,” which was transporting fuel into the interior.
Kaieteur News understands that at the time of the collision, the combustible content aboard the vessel caused a quick explosion, fatally injuring the woman and catapulting her body into the river. It was reported too, that the explosion caused significant damage to the engine and hull of the small wooden vessel, food supplies and about seven barrels containing fuel on board were also damaged. However, no one else was reportedly seriously injured in the collision. Police in a statement noted that investigations have so far revealed that the boats, captained by Eugene Charles, 58, of Parika, East Bank Essequibo and Clifton Melville, 19, of Fifth Avenue, Bartica, were proceeding along the Mazaruni River with passengers when they collided, causing the Brazilian national to fall overboard and disappear under the water. As a result, a search was conducted and the body was recovered.
The remains of the ‘Skull’ which was found a short distance from the body
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Coping and support for Genes influence taste, and possibly use, of alcohol a patient with stroke Dr. Kumar Sukhraj Many patients with stroke usually find it difficult to accept the changes as a result of their illness. A stroke is a life-changing event that can affect your emotional wellbeing as much as your physical function. Patients usually experience feelings of helplessness, frustration, depression and apathy, mood changes and less of a sex drive. Regardless of the changes that one may experience as a result of stroke, remember, acceptance and rehabilitation is the key to success. Stroke patients need to maintain their selfesteem, connections to others and interest in the world as essential parts of their recovery. There are lots of strategies that can help patients and their caregivers. These strategies are discussed below: · Please don’t be hard on yourself. Accept that physical and emotional recovery will involve tough work and that it will take time. Aim for a “new normal,” and celebrate your progress. Allow time for adequate rest. · You need to get out of the house even if it’s hard. Try not to be discouraged or self-conscious if you move slowly and need a cane, walker or wheelchair to get around. If you do not have one of these, then you can purchase one or seek help from rehabilitation institutions. Getting out is
Dr. Kumar Sukhraj good for you. · Join a support group. Meeting with others who are coping with a stroke lets you get out and share experiences, exchange information, and forge new friendships. This will make a stroke patient feel worthwhile. · Let friends and family know what you need. People may want to help, but they may not know what to do. Let them know how they can help, such as by bringing over a meal and staying to eat with you and talk, or attending social events or religious activities. · Know that you are not alone.There are so many people around the world who are suffering from stroke and there are many who are worse than you. One of the most
frustrating effects of stroke is that it can affect a patient speech and language. Here are some tips to help you and your caregivers cope with communication challenges: · Practice will help. Try to have a conversation at least once a day. It will help you learn what works best for you, feel connected and rebuild your confidence. · Relax and take your time. Talking may be easiest and most enjoyable in a relaxing situation when you have plenty of time. Some stroke survivors find that after dinner is a good time. · Say it your way. When you’re recovering from a stroke, you may need to use fewer words, rely on gestures or use your tone of voice to communicate. · Use props and communication aids. You may find it helpful to use cue cards showing frequently used words, pictures of close friends and family members, or daily activities, such as a favourite television show or the bathroom. Please feel free to send an email to kumarsukhraj@yahoo.com or call 6228032 for further enquiry and discussion on the topic. Patient education plays an important in the diagnosis and management of diabetes and any other illness. Please look forward for a continuation of the discussion on health issues in the next publication.
Genetically determined taste perceptions could lead some people to become teetotalers and others to become alcoholics, a new study suggests. John E. Hayes and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University studied the genetic make-up of 93 adults, looking in particular for socalled bitter-receptor genes, which are responsible for people’s sensitivity to bitter tastes. The researchers then asked participants to taste and rate alcohol samples in a laboratory. The findings suggest that two genetic variations influence perceptions about the taste of alcohol and may shape how people respond to their first sips of beer, wine or booze, according to the study published in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. “Some people might be more vulnerable because of how they experience bitterness, and that’s because of differences in their genetics,” Hayes told Reuters Health in a telephone interview. “If it’s more bitter, you like it less, is the assumption.” Hayes is a food science professor at Pennsylvania State in University Park. “The bitterness they perceived was influenced by which gene they had, and it was exactly the same direction as we would have
expected from the previous work on alcohol intake,” he said. Prior research, he said, shows that the more people taste bitterness, the less likely they are to drink alcohol, and vice-versa. “The study suggests that people may or may not be predisposed toward liking alcoholic beverages when they first try them. Just like people can be color blind, it turns out some of us are more or less taste blind,” Hayes said. Humans have about 25 different bitter-taste receptor genes, he said. He studied two: TAS2R13 and RAS2R38. Both of these have been linked in previous studies to a tendency to drink when the gene is “turned off” and not to drink when it is turned on, Hayes said. The findings show that participants with one of the variants of the bitterness
Volunteers use 3D printers to create inexpensive prosthetics An online organization of more than 1,500 volunteers is using 3D printers to produce prosthetic hands or fingers for people around the world who need them. This Sunday, the group, called e-NABLE, will come together at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to further their goals of designing, printing and distributing their inexpensive plastic prostheses, in advance of an upcoming U.S. Food and Drug Administration public forum on 3D printing of medical devices. e-NABLE founder Jon Schull, a research scientist at New York’s Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for MAGIC (Media, Arts, Games, Innovation and Creativity), said the group’s prostheses are made of tough plastics and cost little to make or repair. “Traditional prosthetics can cost more than $40,000,
and our hands have been favorably compared to them,” Schull told Reuters Health. “We live in a world where the standard offerings are extraordinarily expensive. In contrast, we are harnessing the power of thousands of volunteers and giving them away.” e-NABLE’s printed hands cost less than $50 to produce for volunteers with access to 3D printers, but they are not as elaborate as traditional prostheses. They are based on open-source, nonproprietary designs, some of which were first developed in 2012. (Hand, finger and arm design files are available from the group here: bit.ly/ 1CcwpWd.) The collaborative approach to design has the potential to improve millions of lives around the world, said Dr. Albert Chi, a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins, in a statement to Reuters Health. “Now is the time to bring
these technologies and practices into mainstream medicine.” Quinn Cassidy, the mother of a five-year-old who received an e-NABLE prosthetic hand, is an enthusiastic supporter of the organization. “My son Griffin loves his - we still need to tighten the strings on the fingers and tweak it. When he put it on, he was immediately able to pick up a ball and throw it with his left hand, something he was never able to do before,” she told Reuters Health. Chi helped outfit Griffin with a prosthetic hand. Cassidy said the prosthesis has also helped Griffin become more confident, and he enjoys showing it off to curious children. “He’s wearing it a lot. He’s really taken ownership of it,” she said. “It’s glow-inthe-dark, so he’s pulling people in bathrooms and showing them. I can see him walking a little prouder when
he has it on.” Cassidy recommends eNABLE prosthetics to other parents with children facing limb difference, partly because they are so much more attainable than traditional prostheses and easy to use. “We did not find a traditional body-powered prosthetic that Griffin liked at
all. He would not wear it and it was incredibly expensive: even with good insurance, just the co-pay was $1,000,” she added. “We have pledged $50 to provide another child a 3D-printed hand.” A growing Google+ network helps connect patients to local individuals or institutions with access to 3D printers.
gene rated the taste of alcohol as 25 percent more intense, he said. People with the bitterness variant of the RAS2R38 gene drank half as often as those without it, Hayes said. “Biology is not destiny, but it could play a role. Environment’s hugely important too,” Hayes said. “Some people might find it easier to drink, but they still might not drink more because of religion, culture. There’s lots of factors that can influence what we choose to eat,” he said. Hayes said he and his team have asked the National Institutes of Health for a grant to follow 1,000 college students for their first year at school, to see how genetic differences in taste perception might influence their drinking habits. If they find in the students what they found in the laboratory, it could confirm that these genes might be good targets for biologically tailored interventions to prevent and treat alcoholism, Hayes said. Researchers first identified a genetic basis for variability in the perception of bitterness in 1932, Hayes noted in a previous report. Natural selection to avoid eating bitter plant toxins may have driven the genetic variation. Nowadays, alcoholic beverages frequently are sweetened, reducing the effect of the bitter-taste receptor, he and his colleagues point out in their current paper. Russell Keast, a professor of sensory and food sciences at Deakin University in Australia, issued a statement with a press release accompanying the article. “The link between genetic variations in receptors and taste is an area of growing importance,” he said. Keast was not involved with the current study.
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Slavery show with black actors Dr. Dre is king of hip hop with canceled in UK after protests $620 million in earnings: Forbes A slavery exhibition featuring black actors as live models to represent African slaves was canceled by a London art center after protests of racism, sparking a debate on Thursday about freedom of expression. The show, Exhibit B, by South African director Brett Bailey, at London’s Barbican Centre, aimed to tell the stories of African slaves and asylum seekers under British colonialism using black actors in a series of live scenes. These 12 installations included a black woman shackled to a bed and a black man in a metal mask which Bailey said were designed to recreate the horrors of slavery and the “human zoo phenomenon” when African tribespeople were displayed in the 19th century for the entertainment of European and American audience. But over 200 demonstrators took to the streets outside the show staged in underground tunnels by Waterloo station in central London on Tuesday, prompting organizers on Wednesday to cancel the show’s eight scheduled performances this week. “It became impossible for us to continue with the
show because of the extreme nature of the protest and the serious threat to the safety of performers, audiences and staff,” a spokesman from the Barbican said in a statement. “We believe this piece should be shown in London and are disturbed at the potential implications this silencing of artists and performers has for freedom of expression.” It is the first time that the Barbican has been forced to withdraw a show since its opening 32 years ago.
The “Boycott the Human Zoo” campaign, led by Sara Myers, an activist from Birmingham, voiced concerns about what she called “a complicit act of outrageous racism” with a petition campaign over the past month escalating to a street protest on Tuesday. The campaigners hailed the cancellation as a victory. The show had been staged in around 12 cities around Europe before coming to London, receiving largely favorable reviews. (Reuters)
Movies bust out of screen with panoramic, virtual technology A Tyrannosaurus rex lumbers forward, belts out a deafening roar, then stomps overhead, and a viewer watching inside a virtual reality headset turns around to see the beast walking away. The lifelike run-in with a prehistoric monster comes courtesy of prototype Oculus Rift goggles, giving a glimpse of a future that breaks movies out of the flat screen. Virtual reality, which immerses viewers in 360degree worlds long used in video games, is drawing top Hollywood filmmakers and studios such as Twenty-First Century Fox and Walt Disney Co. The technology should arrive on the consumer mass market within two years. Virtual reality can transport audiences into the middle of the movie landscape, says Brendan Iribe, chief executive of Oculus, which Facebook Inc acquired this year for $2 billion. “In some decade or two, we are going to be at a point where watching things on 2D surfaces is going to feel pretty outdated,” Iribe told Reuters.Virtual reality still has
technological hurdles to overcome. The biggest problem is motion sickness in some users, which Oculus believes it is close to resolving. Hollywood directors are trying to figure out how to create 360-degree scenes, and it remains unclear if audiences will want to spend two hours in a virtual world, or just visit for shorter experiences. BABY STEPS FOR BIGGER SCREENS Iribe has big ambitions for Oculus Rift devices, the latest version unveiled at a
developers conference on Saturday in Hollywood. A prototype is sold now to developers for $350 per headset. With a consumer version on the horizon, Iribe believes virtual reality devices could be in the hands of millions of consumers within a couple of years. Designers at Disney’s Lucasfilm are playing around on the desert planet Tatooine, exploring how to bring virtual reality to the “Star Wars” universe as the studio prepares to release Episode VII of the film franchise in 2015.
With $620 million in estimated pre-tax earnings, veteran rapper and record producer Dr. Dre topped Forbes list as the highest paid hip hop artist, ousting Sean “Diddy” Combs from the top spot. Forbes said Dre’s estimated annual earnings for the 12 months between June 2013 and 2014 are the highest of any musician in any genre it has ever evaluated, and more than the combined takings of the other 24 names on the hip-hop list released on Tuesday. Much of the 49-year-old’s earnings this year came thanks to the $3 billion sale to Apple of the Beats highend headphone company he founded with music executive Jimmy Iovine and other financial ventures, including cognac and vodka brands. Combs, 44, tied for second place with Jay-Z, 44, with $60 million, with earnings from drinks, clothing and television deals. Jay-Z, who toured with his wife, Beyonce, for the first time with their “On the Run” concerts, pulled in money from lucrative performances, his latest album and his Roc Nation entertainment empire, which assured him a place in the top five. Drake, 27, came
in fourth with $33 million with takings from his album “Nothing Was the Same,” an endorsement deal with sportswear firm Nike and a concert tour. Grammy-winning duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis rounded out the top five with $32 million. Forbes compiled the list by looking at income from record sales, publishing, merchandise sales, tours and endorsement deals and talking to managers, agents, lawyers and some of the
artists. The earnings were calculated based on data from Pollstar, RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and Nielsen SoundScan. Fees for agents, managers and lawyers were not deducted from the estimates. “Happy” singer and music producer Pharrell Williams, who joined the NBC television singing competition “The Voice” as a coach this season, slipped into the top 10 with $22 million. (Reuters)
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Hamid Mohamed A 32-year-old man was shot in the left side at around 21.00 hrs on Friday while fighting off two robbers who were attempting to rob him and his girlfriend in De Abreu Street, Kitty. Sources identified the victim as Hamid Mohamed, of De Abreu Street, Kitty and said that he is in critical but stable condition. According to reports, Mohamed was walking with his girlfriend when two men on bicycles, and armed with a handgun, attacked them. After relieving the woman of $15,000, the bandits attempted to take Mohamed’s valuables. He decided to put up a fight and one of the men shot him. He has been admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
Miner beats robber, takes away firearm A 25-year-old bandit suffered the embarrassment of being beaten, relieved of his gun and handed over to the police after attempting to rob a gold miner in the vicinity of the Stabroek Market around 19.00 hrs on Friday. According to reports, the suspect, identified as Calvin Dover, was in the vicinity of Demico House when he saw Dave Rodrigues, a 37-year-old gold miner, drinking with a friend. At the time, Rodrigues had a large sum of cash in a
bag, and Dover, allegedly armed with a loaded 9mm pistol, decided to take the miner’s money. He reportedly pressed his gun to Rodrigues’ ribs and ordered him to hand over the bag. Instead, Rodrigues inflicted a beating on his attacker, took away his gun, and marched him over to the Stabroek Market Police Outpost. Last July, Dover was charged with being in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
EZjet boss challenges... From page 14 Investigators found that the original address of Payserv was Ramdeo’s home in Florida. As a result, Promise Healthcare Inc. transferred millions to Payserv. While employed at Promise, Ramdeo also created and started EZjet GT Inc., a chartered air service providing flights to passengers from New York to Georgetown, Guyana. He also added flights to Toronto. Ramdeo admitted that he did not seek permission when he transferred millions from Payserv to EZjet. None of the monies he collected from his employers to pay taxes ever ended up with the Inland tax agency of the US. Only Ramdeo had control of the bank accounts. He used some of the monies to finance the operations of the airline. When questions were raised during an audit of Promise Healthcare, Ramdeo created an email account and sent messages to himself showing that the monies from his employers were paid over. With the net closing in around him Ramdeo emptied his Florida home of its furniture and disappeared. Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), tracking his calls, arrested him in a basement apartment in Brooklyn, New York. The apartment was disguised to look like a store room.
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Hundreds of Lindeners on Saturday flocked the Linden Constabulary Hall to collect laptops from the One Laptop per Family programme. Ranging in age from about 18 to about seventy, residents awaited their turn patiently for their numbers to be called to collect the Laptops. However while many expressed satisfaction that they were able to acquire the Laptops, there were quite a few disgruntled persons, who complained that although they had applied ever since the first batch of laptops were distributed, they were told that their names were not on the list. “Now we‘re being told to reapply all over again. That is not fair to us- how come our
names not on the list? This is not fair to us”, one woman complained. But for many others the laptops represented a step closer to achieving computer literacy. “I don’t know anything about computers, but with this in the home I intend to learn, so it will be me and the children learning together,” a proud father said. Approximately 500 laptops were dispersed, and it is expected that over the next couple of days, the same number will be distributed daily. The programme extends until Friday at the same venue, beginning at 10 in the mornings until four in the afternoons. Junior Minister of Finance, Juan Edghill,
described the programme as remarkable, adding, “Its indicative that residents of this town are interested in these programmes.” “It is a clear sign that people are prepared to apply themselves to developmental programmes that are available to citizens of this country. The One Laptop per Family programme was designed to give people development with dignity. This is not just charity, that you’re handing out something and you go home. This is to ensure that you have dignity as a person. “You are moving into the information, communication, information technology age, and you shouldn’t be a bother to anyone at their
home, to use their computer. Your children will have the opportunity now to do their SBAs and do their research.” Edghill noted, too, that single mothers will now have the opportunity to become computer literate, thereby creating an environment where they would be ‘employable”. He added that with the “new wave and the diversified sector” that is taking place presently requires people that are employable because they are computer literate. The programme continues until Friday. Edghill said that within that period it is hoped that the residents of Region Ten would be adequately served. (Enid Joaquin)
Two Miles Primary wins Bartica Spelling Bee competition Bartica Lions Club in collaboration with the Region Seven Department of Education hosted the Annual Spelling Bee Competition for Grade Six children to mark Education Month. The venue was Leanna’s Kiddies Park, Fifth Avenue, Bartica. The participating Primary Schools were St John the Baptist, St Anthony’s, Two Miles, Holy Name, Kartabu, Itaballi and
Karru. There were three participants from each school. In the final round were Holy Name and Two Miles Primary Schools. The winner of the competition was Two Miles Primary School but the second Best Speller, Daniel Edwards, and Best Speller Jameila Pollard came from Holy Name Primary School. Congratulations to Two Miles Primary School for being Bartica Lions Club 2014 Spelling bee champs.
The champion speller of Two Miles Primary receives his trophy.
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One bedroom high house with toilet & bath, rent include water, $25,000 monthly @ Vreed-En-Hoop Tel: 685-7566
Barber shop and salon furniture: Chairs, Mirrors, Cabinets, Air-Condition & other supplies from Canada Call: 643-5177, 676-5176
Newly built 2 bedroom semi furnished bottom flat in Festival City, asking price $80,000 – Call: 619-2141 after 4:00
DELL/HP Computer complete with LCD’s $59,000, laptops from $55,000, Blackberrys $15,000 @ FutureTech – Tel: 231-2206 Great Dane, Boxer, Pit bull, Rottweiler for sale! – Contact Frank: 664-5401
VEHICLE FOR SALE 1- AT 192 Carina (Private) automatic, fully powered, mags, A/C - price$1M Contact Rocky:225-1400
First Class Auto: Allion, Premio, Spacio, Fielder, Sienta, Runx, Bluebird – Tel:609-8188, 602-6307
1 - Toyota RZ mini-bus BNN series, gear, mags, hardly used, (EFI) - Price:$1.8M Contact Rocky:621-5902 or 225-1400
Unregistered Premio $2.3M Negotiable, fully loaded - Tel: 226-5473 1 Toyota land cruiser Prado PMM Series – Call: 219-5354, Monday to Friday – 8:154:15PM, Saturday 8:15-1:15PM 1-Dodge Ram 4x4, model 2002, 4 wheel drive $2.6M. 1F150 model 1999 $2.2M- Call: 674-4929 Black Mercedes Benz C200, new Altezza (sports look) & AE100 (loud music, average 6m- Call:679-3140 Star Cars Auto:- In stock: Allions, Premio, Spacio, Fielder, new Raum - Call: 6793140 Toyota Noah /Voxy, unregistered - $1.9M - Call: 603-9700 Toyota Spacio 2006 model, Toyota Rav4 2001 Model – Call: 231-2431 or 664-5114 Yamaha R6 Motorcycle, Candy red, in excellent condition – Tel: 648-9293 Toyota Rav-4, Fun Cargo, AT212, AT192, Tacoma (GRR Series), Hilux Surf – 4 runner, Raum, Ceres – Tel:644-5096, 697-1453 1 AT170 Carina stick gear, power window, AC, excellent condition - $600,000 –Tel: 618-1047 Honda CRV RD5, 80,000Km, rear camera, spoiler, tyre, A/ C,TV, CD, Alarm – Price $3.1M negotiable –Tel:6483184
Massey Ferguson 390 4X4fully renovated – Call: 6886274, 691-3851, 678-8698 Games for PS2, PS3, XBOX360, WII, consoles also available - Call: 6722566, 265-3232
VEHICLE FOR SALE Smart Choice Auto unregistered Spacio (old & model) Allex, Voxy, Bluebird, Premio-Call:652-3820,665-4529
FOR SALE/FOR RENT American pool table - 2770578 Located @ Lot 5 Block ‘K’ Waller’s Delight W.C.D - 4 bedrooms all self contain. Price $25M / per month $100,000 - Tel: 674-4929/ 662-0187
Toyota Premio PNN Series, Clean condition, owner leaving country – Call Laverne: 223-0213 Unregistered Premio with Rims - $2.250 – Call: 657-1796 Model M Truck KK Series, Caterpillar Bulldozer – Tel:670-4293, 600-7620, serious enquiries only! Hiace super custom bus TV, CD, AC, Mags, BSS – Price to go – Tel: 677-8359 2004 Subaru Impreza WRX: AWD, manual, 2L Turbo, PKK Series, 81,000 KM $2.8M Negotiable – Tel: 6987104 1 Suzuki 4 door car/van (Jeep) Automatic, Fully Powered with A/C, hardly used – Price:$1M Contact Rocky: 621-5902/ 225-1400 One Leyland DAF dump truck with Hiab – Contact: 671-1608
1 Isuzu Canter (open back) short base manual, excellent condition, price - $1.3M Contact Rocky 621-5902/2251400 Toyota Tundra Extra Cab (unregistered) manual (5 speed) fully loaded 4x4 (V6) price $2.9M – Contact:6215902/225-1400 1- Toyota Raum (new model) automatic, fully powered, alarm a/c, price - $1.5M Contact Rocky: 621-5902 or 225-1400 1-AT212 Toyota Carina (new model) automatic, fully powered, A/C, Alarm, mags, Price $1.4M– Contact Rocky: 621-5902 / 225-1400 1-Honda CRV (immaculate condition) automatic, fully powered (hardly used) price $2.3M – Contact Rocky: 6215902 or 225-1400 1To y o t a Raum, automatic, fully powered, AC, mags, alarm, price $1.1M- Contact Rocky: 621-5902 or 225-1400 AT212 Carina – Call:679-2928 One Toyota RAV4, PMM series, perfect condition, price negotiable – Tel:2316278, 628-7680
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Over edge and straight stitch operator to work at garment factory-Call 222-2541Monday to Friday. Couple or small family to live and work at New hope E.B.D Tel: 266-2711, 609-4594 One male or female to work in the interior in a shop – Tel: 669-6030
EDUCATION IAE (Secondary Educational) 194 Camp Street, register for Forms 1-5, Lessons, CXC Adult Classes for repeaters & beginners Tel: 223-0604; 683-5742 Learn any language fast with Rosetta Stone software, also get any software. Call: 672-2839 Starting on 4th October 2014: Maths Lessons Forms 2, 3,4,5,6 & private CXC, contact Sir Das on Tel:6543159 A.S.A.P at 44 Delph St Campbellville G/Town Institute of Academic Supremacy Forms 1-5, CXC Adults Classes for repeaters/ beginners $1200, Grade 6, 9 Lessons - Call: 231-5678, 6905008 Full time CXC Mathematics classes, for May/June 2015, limited space – Call: 614-5006, 223-8922 FREE! FREE! FREE! Sessions of one week: Phonics, reading and spelling classes for all ages –Tel:691-8699 Physics lessons from 3rd – 6th forms – Call:679-1679, Educational Trust College.
Play Boy’s Auto Sales: S p o r t s To y o t a A l l i o n $2.6M, Honda Zest Turbo - $2.2M – Contact: 2604323, 664-2100
Drivers for labour lorry at LBI Estate – Tel:228-5655, 628-1756 LEARN TO DRIVE Soman Son & Outar Driving School at Maraj BuildingTel: 644-5166; 622-2872; 6150964; 689-5997
Play Boy’s Auto Sales: Mitsubishi Colt plus Turbo $2.6M, Toyota Voxy Private $3.5M- Contact: 260-4323, 664-2100 Play Boy’s Auto Sales: Mercedes Smart Car - $2.5M, Toyota Town ace private $1.1M, Toyota Vitz full racing - $3M- Contact: 260-4323, 664-2100 Play Boy’s Auto Sales: Madza Demio Sport - $2.2M – Tel:260-4323, 664-2100
One part time or full time gardener/handyman – Call between Monday to Saturday: 219-5354 Live in babysitter & live out domestic babysitter Call Monday – Saturday 219-5354 (8:15-4:15Pm) Experienced counter server, roti/puri cook, pastry maker, cleaner, apply @ Hacks Halaal, 5 Commerce Street. Attractive waitress, salary $20,000 weekly – Contact: 698-0083, 687-8783 One labour handyman to work 2 or 3 half days – Call:226-3736 One female I.T Teacher & English ‘B’ Teacher for 5th Form Student – Kindly Call: 648-3817 Two Kitchen assistants need - Tel:698-8670, 647-9673 Carpenters, masons, painters – Contact: 6157526, 602-9469 Handy boys to work free live in accommodation & meals – Call: 228-5655, 628-1756 1 Apprentice Diesel Mechanic for Bedford X DAF Lorry – Tel:228-5655, 628-1756
Blowout Sale!! Unregistered, New model Raum- bodykit, TV, spoiler, Alloy Wheels, alarm - $2,200,000 – Tel:6436565; 226-9931 Solid DIFF Toyota Hilux Gasoline & Diesel Pickups, unregistered, in excellent condition, price negotiable – Call: 6912077
One cook to work in a kitchen in the interior - Tel: 681-6044 Female worker needed, 3 CXC subject or sound secondary school education. Call: 612-1607
DRESSMAKING Enid Dressmaking classes @ 66 Sixth Street Alberttown, certificates will be issued – Call: 223-9106, 643-7966 Classes in Dressmaking & sewing, Schoonoord (5 minutes Harbour Bridge) Call Sharmie: 626-2629, 676-6312
Cashiers, salesgirl, porters and a domestic maid, Apply to 1E Dennis & Middleton Streets Campbellville Live in waitress – Contact 604-8277, 228-5129
ACCOMMODATION Aracari Resort W.B.D. One mile from harbor Bridge – Rates $40USD, Double occupancy, breakfast included - Tel: 264-2946 Harmony Inn: Furnished apartments and rooms $5,000-$8,000 - Tel:668-0306, 218-1400, 694-7817, your luxury hideaway. (Continued on page 64)
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Govt. honours outstanding Amerindian women, students – at Amerindian Heritage Month Dinner
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PROPERTY FOR SALE 3 Storey business property @ Middle Street G/Town opposite GPHC, 2 business property @ Whim Public Road Corentyne – Call:2315171, 619-7134 Caneville - $3.4M, Parfaite $5.5M (48X80), Chateau Margot - $28M, Brickdam $60M, Diamond, Enterprise (beautiful) $35M, Cummingsburg – Tel: 2312199, 618-7483 Majestic Diamond, Front, $14M, Festival City - $21M, La Grange, Melanie, Atlantic Gardens, Houston Gardens (85X110), Republic Gardens – Tel:231-2199, 618-7483 One unfinished house @ Parfaite Harmonie - $4.3M – Call: 601-3469, 600-1062 Apartment building Located Lot 68 William Street Kitty, Price - $35M negotiable – Contact: 674-9266 1 – 2storey wooden & Concrete house with 5 bedrooms upper flat & lower flat 4 apartments located@ Shell Road, kitty - $34M – Tel:642-7898 Diamond – three bedrooms, flat concrete house, Price $10.5M – Call: 623-3348, 2660548 House & land @ Supply Public Road, Riverside, East Bank Demerara, suitable for business – Call: 698-8100 Albouystown: Corner Spot Business and residence, 3 bedrooms upstairs, parking - $11M negotiable – Contact:227-0583 1 Two Flat wooden and concrete building, situated in Alberttown, price negotiable – Tel:231-6278, 628-7680
FOR RENT PLANNING AN EVENT? BIRTHDAY PARTY, GRADUATION,WEDDINGS, ANNIVERSARY, ETC. CALL DIAMOND TENTS: 216-1043; 677-6620 GT TOOL RENTALS: 30% OFF COMPACTOR; CHIPPING HAMMER RANSOM & FLOOR SANDER, (SALE) SAWS & DRILLS -$10,000 - CALL: 675-0767, 667-2535 Salon Stations @ 51 Robb & Albert Streets to rent, must have clients – Call:2314010, 627-8277, 669-6110 One 2 bedrooms flat house for rental @ La Parfaite Harmonie, fully tile inside, parking space, over head tank - Call: 652-9024 Spacious 2 bedrooms upper flat - $30,000 monthly @ Meeten-Meer-ZorgContact Basant: 626-0150, 277-3743 Furnished 3 bedrooms lower flat @ Uitvlugt $US300 Monthly - Contact Basant: 626-0150, 277-3743 Two bedrooms apartment for rent at Lot 7 Durban Street Lodge - Call: 687-5324 1-3 bedrooms top flat secure with all conveniences, suitable for working couple, no pets @ Public Road Mc Doom – Call:233-0570. One two bedroom apartment for rental at Stewartville W.C.D – Call: 613-5261 Two bedroom apartment in Austin street with AC accommodation & parking space. Contact 628-7953 One business space in Duncan street,One bedroom apartment in Austin street with parking space- Contact 628-7953
SERVICES PLANNING AN EVENT? BIRTHDAY PARTY, GRADUATION,WEDDINGS, ANNIVERSARY,ETC.–CALL DIAMOND TENTS: 2161043; 677-6620 Permanent & Visitors Visa Applications, Professional Immigration Consultant Room D5 Maraj Building Call Sabita: 225-6496, 662-6045 Guyana Passport & Visa Forms Application, USA, Canada and England. Tel: 626-7040; 265-4535. Repairs & spare, fridge, freezer, A/C, washers, stoves. Contact Nick: 683-1312, 6273206 Repairs, sales & spares air conditioning, microwaves, washer, fridges & stoves. Ultra Cool, call :225-9032, 647-2943 FOR LOW COST: REPAIRS TO FRIDGE, FREEZER,A/C UNIT, MICROWAVES, TV & WASHINGMACHINE -CALL: 629-4946 OR 225-4822 Services Done to any kind of satellite dishes / program FTA Boxes – Call: 683-7167, 655-6031 Offering care giving service direct to patience home, USA Trained & certified, service fee negotiable, no agent – Call: 692-7599, 628-4027 Managing, renting or Selling then contact the professionals Pearl Realty – Call: 689-9991
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and other officials with the Amerindian women honoured. The contributions of 20 Amerindian women, and high performing students, were recognised when the Amerindian Affairs Ministry paid tribute to them at an award ceremony held at the Georgetown Club on Friday evening. Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, performing the duties of President, lauded their contributions, and called on all stakeholders to aim for two goals, the first being to earn themselves a good living, and secondly, to come together as
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VACANCY Carpenter, Labours, someone to run sound studio (marketing, recording) - Call: 265-3586 Hairdressers, apply with written application to West Shore Plaza W.C.D Tel:2691524, 656-3561 One welder and fabricator of mining parts - Tel: 642-7898
LAND FOR SALE Diamond/Grove New Scheme, First Bridge, Corner lot with foundation and post - $7M - Tel:603-9700 Parfaite Harmonie, high income area (100ftX50ft) $3M, Low income area $1.6m (80ftx40ft) – Tel: 682-2018. Land for sale in Stone Avenue Contact: 628-7953
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Guyanese. These tasks, he said, are difficult, but in the last 30 years, “great progress” has been made. “Our Amerindian people have shared in the growth and improvements that we have had”. Improvements in transportation, education and others, he said were just a few of these. He said that Guyana faced a particular challenge to build cohesion amongst its peoples, since they were never really together. “We have closed a lot of distance, but still have some distance remaining.” He said that as Guyanese work together, trust will be developed. The Prime Minister said that the P e o p l e ’s `Progressive Party h a s always had as a core belief, “That in working t o g e t h e r, t o b r i n g a common prosperity to all of us who are within this land that we would make t h e e x p e r i e nces that would develop the trust, and we would be one without being conscious of it”. Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai, herself an awardee, also thanked all of those recognising their achievements in various fields. The event was also a fund raising activity to assist the more vulnerable within the hinterland communities. Receiving plaques and tokens of appreciation were Guyana’s first female Foreign Affairs Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett; former National Toshaos Council Chairperson, Yvonne Pearson; radio personality, Michella Abraham-Ally; first officially recognised female
Amerindian miner, Leona Winters; GDF Warrant Officer and nurse, Marcia Williams; Owner of the Guy-Braz Transportation Service, Bernadine Gomes; retired Midwife, Vera Fraser Boyal; Senior Education Officer, Muriel Grant, Senior Medex, Juliet Wille; Traditional medicine translator, Cecelia Jeffrey; Cultral Preservationist, Dorothy Faria; Business owner, Vanya Albert; retired teacher, Esther Attilene Campbell; Former secretary of the TSC and Technical Assistant to the Chief Education Officer, Francesca Vieira, and National Swimming Coach, Stephanie Gomes-Fraser. Awards of appreciation for their long years of service were also given to Mohabir Bhajnauth, Rosamond Daly, Claire Emanuel, Cheryl Blackman and Patrick Johnson, all of whom have given years of service to the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs. Hinterland student awards were also presented to the top Grade Six hinterland student Mareisa Nascimento, second top student Raul Ramdass and third top student Alex Abraham. Top CSEC performers, Farida Husuff, Khary Boyer and Kyle Joseph, were also honoured. All of these students received scholarships, previously for their outstanding performances at the primary level, before going on to excel at the Secondary level. The annual dinner brings the curtains down on Amerindian Heritage Month celebrations which were observed under the theme “Traditional Embodiment for Amerindian development”. (GINA)
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Brazil’s Silva vows to clean up regulatory agencies RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian presidential candidate Marina Silva vowed last week to depoliticize regulatory agencies that she says do more to win favor with government allies than ensure fair and efficient markets in Latin America’s biggest economy. Silva, who is running neck-and-neck with President Dilma Rousseff in polls ahead of next month’s election, accused the ruling Workers’ Party of undermining regulation by stacking government watchdogs with party members and allies during its 12 years in power. “Agencies have been overtaken by a political logic,” she told Reuters in an interview in Rio de Janeiro, adding that similar interference is weakening state-run companies like Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras, the oil company currently embroiled in a kickback scandal. If elected, Silva added, she would prioritize “ethical and technical criteria” among regulators and use a nonpartisan committee to select them. A 56-year-old former rubber tapper and maid whose activism as an environmentalist catapulted her to Brazil’s Senate and a five-year run as environment minister, Silva has upended the electoral campaign ahead of a first-round vote on Oct. 5. Originally a vice presidential candidate, she was thrust into top billing for the Brazilian Socialist Party when her running mate, Eduardo Campos, was killed in an August plane crash. Since then, Silva, who could become Brazil’s first black president, surged to become a frontrunner and she is expected to go into a runoff vote against Rousseff on Oct. 26. If elected, she will be
Marina Silva
tasked with jump-starting an economy now in its fourth year of lackluster growth, weak investment and a loss of competitiveness by major industries. She would also have to tame an unruly Congress that has proven restive even when far bigger parties have controlled it. So far, Silva has drawn voters with promises to maintain popular welfare programs, push for more sustainable development and return to the market-friendly fiscal policies that paved the way for a near decade-long boom that fizzled in 2011. Critics have said that Rousseff, a leftist seeking a second term, has undermined the economy with interventionist tactics that have failed to revive growth. Silva’s call for more independence for regulators is similar to a key pledge she made early in her campaign to grant formal independence to Brazil’s central bank. Economists, and Rousseff’s opponents, have said that political pressure by her administration has led the bank to grow more lenient with inflation, now running at just
over the government’s official tolerance ceiling of 6.5 percent. But Silva declined to specify just how she plans to seek independence for the central bank. She also declined to say whether the bank’s mandate would move beyond its current focus on inflation. “We want the best arrangement for Brazil,” she said, acknowledging the more comprehensive role that the Federal Reserve, for instance, plays in fighting unemployment in the United States. Silva is the only candidate to publish an extensive, pointby-point agenda on critical issues and proposals. Since that agenda was released, however, she has grown more cautious because of efforts by Rousseff and centrist rival Aecio Neves to poke holes in it. Rousseff campaign ads suggested that Silva’s plan for the central bank would take food off the tables of poor Brazilians. “I am being very cautious because any partial phrase of mine turns into some headline that my adversaries will want to use against me,” Silva said. “Even things I don’t say have become headlines.” While support for Silva has faded slightly in recent polls following a barrage of attack ads by opponents, she still poses the first serious threat to the ruling Workers’ Party since it came to power in 2003. Though Silva helped found the party in the early 1980s and served with it as environment minister, she resigned the post and left the party because of disagreements over proposed changes to environmental policies she introduced that successfully slashed the rate of Amazon deforestation.
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Venezuela takes over plants left by U.S. firm Clorox VALLES DEL TUY Venezuela (Reuters) Venezuela announced over the weekend the “temporary” takeover of two plants belonging to U.S. cleaning products maker Clorox Co which has left the country because of difficult economic conditions. After Clorox management abruptly left, many of the firm’s 400 workers occupied two plants in the Valles del Tuy district to the south of Caracas and in central Carabobo district for several days. “Here’s the workers’ government of President Nicolas Maduro temporarily occupying these installations together with the workers,” Vice President Jorge Arreaza said with officials at the Valles del Tuy plant on Friday evening. “We’re going to reactivate the plant,” he said, accusing Clorox of an “evil” example by abandoning its staff. In the latest sign of dissatisfaction from private businesses with Maduro’s running of the South American OPEC nation’s economy, Clorox announced its exit last Monday, saying its business was not viable and that it would sell its assets. The company said operating restrictions imposed by the government, economic uncertainty and supply disruptions would have led to considerable operating losses. Its share price rose on the announcement, despite the company saying it expected to incur aftertax exit costs of $60 million to $65 million, or 46 cents to 50 cents per share, in its fiscal 2015. Various multinationals, from ColgatePalmolive Co to Avon Products Inc, have been warning of hits to their balance sheets and scaling back operations in Venezuela, citing Byzantine currency controls and a slowing
economy. Though official GDP data for 2014 is not available, economists say Venezuela is in recession. Annual inflation is more than 60 percent and the complicated multi-layered currency controls make it difficult for importers to access dollars. “We’ve temporarily occupied the plant because the boss has abandoned it,” Luis Pinango, one of more than 200 workers at the Valles del Tuy plant, told Reuters shortly before the government delegation arrived. Arreaza gave no further details of the government’s plans for the Clorox installations. Clorox managers in Venezuela have been unavailable for comment, and there was no response to Reuters’ requests for information from the company’s U.S. headquarters. Workers, some holding banners decrying the “illegal closure” and proclaiming “we want to work,” said they were bitter at the manner of their dismissal, via a text inviting them to call a telephone number and listen to a prerecorded message. “It’s the first time a multinational has done anything like that in Venezuela,” said Zairo Roman, a machine-repair worker in Carabobo. Venezuelan analyst Diego Moya-Ocampos, of IHS risk consultancy, said the Clorox case was symptomatic of risks to companies seeking to scale back operations or leave Venezuela. “Clorox is looking to sell its facilities, but the union seizure risks scaring away potential buyers and could result in property damage,” he wrote in an analysis. “There are several international companies in Venezuela facing the same core problems of rising costs, controlled prices, and the elimination of their profit margins.
Cuban cabinet change aims to boost flagging economy HAVANA (Reuters) - With Cuba’s economy flagging, President Raul Castro has turned to his most trusted economic adviser, Marino Murillo, granting him more authority to carry out ambitious reforms to the socialist economy. Castro last week added the title of economy minister to Murillo’s brief. Murillo, 53, was already one of Cuba’s vice presidents, part of the powerful 14-member Political Bureau of the ruling Communist Party, and chief of the commission charged with carrying out Cuba’s market-style economic reforms. The existing minister, Adel Yzquierdo, 69, was demoted to vice minister, returning both men to positions they held together previously. Yzquierdo also retains his position on the politburo. The official announcement said it was “necessary to take the process of modernizing the economy and planning to a higher level.” It also referred to the need to “harmonize and integrate” the reform process and the economy. The dual challenges of restructuring the economy and nurturing its growth now fall squarely on Murillo, the architect and chief advocate of Raul Castro’s economic overhaul. Since taking over for his ailing brother Fidel in 2008, Raul Castro has turned much of statecontrolled agriculture over to cooperatives, reduced the state workforce and allowed selfemployed contractors to operate small businesses. In 2011, the Communist Party detailed 300 reforms to be implemented by 2016. Some 250
have been instituted, but economists say progress has been too slow and shallow, and Cuba’s economy has lagged. Cuba reported growth of 0.6 percent in the first half and revised down its full-year growth forecast to 1.4 percent from 2.2 percent. “Whether you want more reforms or less, economic growth is imperative right now. The reforms cannot really progress unless the economy grows much faster,” said Paolo Spadoni, a political science professor at Georgia Regents University, Augusta and author of this year’s book “Cuba’s Socialist Economy Today.” Notably, Cuba recently reported record imports of $14.7 billion in 2013 at a time when officials have placed urgency on replacing imports with local production. Murillo also takes on his new role with some of the most complicated reforms still pending. “Murillo has designed the changes well. What’s left is the implementation,” said Pavel Vidal, a Cuban economist. “He is the one who can most efficiently maneuver this financial transition.” Two major initiatives this year to attract foreign investment have yet to result in a foreign company signing a contract with Cuba. The island nation still must unify its dual-currency system, which features a local Cuban peso and a separate “convertible” Cuban peso equal to the U.S. dollar. Also pending is a restructuring of its largest state industries such as sugar, manufacturing and tourism. Those are huge tasks for a communist government that has often proven resistant to change.
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Man hired to “take out” woman Opposition financially ready for elections in bitter car dispute captured A long running dispute over a Mazda Axela motor car turned ugly yesterday with one party accusing the other of contracting a killer to take her out. The plot unraveled when the alleged contract killer was caught yesterday in a Robb Street apartment where his target, a woman, was supposed to be. The would-be killer admitted after a beating that he was sent by a man who picked him up near the Bourda Market and offered him “something” to “take care of the woman”, with whom this man has an ongoing court dispute. The suspect is currently in custody at the Alberttown Police Station where he confessed to being sent by a man fitting the description of the other party in the car dispute. The issue has its genesis in an arrangement inked earlier this year between the woman and a pawnbroker involving the motor car. The pawnbroker has alleged that the woman had pawned the car to him and did not pay him when the stipulated time was up, a claim that is being disputed by the woman. The matter took an interesting twist two months ago when the woman forcibly took possession of her car after claiming that the pawnbroker was using the vehicle and had damaged it. The police were called in and accused the woman of stealing her car, detaining her for three days at the East La Penitence Police Station and impounding the vehicle at Brickdam. After weeks of back and forth investigations, the matter was sent to the Director of Public Prosecution for advice.
The badly wounded man. Meanwhile, the man, sensing that since the woman was the registered owner of the car and there was the likelihood that there was no criminal intent in the matter, filed a civil action in the high court to recover the money he claimed was not repaid. Eventually the DPP concurred that there was no basis for a criminal charge and advised the police accordingly. The car was subsequently returned to the woman on Friday. Apparently angry at the decision of the police to return the car to the woman, the pawnbroker decided to take matters into his own hands.
It is alleged that on Friday he trailed the woman and subsequently launched a physical attack on her in full view of several startled onlookers outside her attorney’s office on Croal Street. Thankfully for the woman, a passing police mobile patrol intervened and the matter was dealt with at the Brickdam Police Station where the man was charged with assault and is to appear in court on Tuesday. But it did not end there. Yesterday, while the woman was at the Brickdam Police Station, she received a call informing her that a man was caught in her friend’s
Robb Street apartment which she had just left. She hurried back only to hear the shocking revelation that the man was sent to the apartment to attack her. Kaieteur News was told that the man was nabbed by a relative of the owner of the apartment who had gone there just in time to see him crawling through a window. An alarm was raised and several neighbours circled the would-be assassin and dealt him a beating. When this newspaper arrived on the scene, the man was lying on the parapet outside the apartment building, surrounded by curious onlookers. When questioned, he said that he was picked up by a man near the Bourda Market and taken to the apartment, where he was instructed to attack the woman who was described to him. “He buy a sno-cone fuh me and tell me dat he and de woman deh in court and he want me fuh harass she and search up fuh she documents,” the man told a reporter from this newspaper. His remark startled several onlookers who were moved to remark, “look how cheap people life get, when a man could tek a sno-cone fuh kill somebody.” He said that upon completion of the job, he was supposed to meet the man at an agreed rendezvous. However, no weapon was found on him and there is speculation that he stashed it while hiding out in the yard before he was captured. The man was eventually escorted to the Alberttown Police Station where he faces break and enter charges. Up to last night the police had not questioned the man who the would-be assassin had implicated.
AFC Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan
With the no-confidence motion debate drawing closer, both parliamentary oppositional parties have expressed readiness to contest elections and are already equipped with the necessary funding to do so. At its press conference on Friday, the Alliance For Change said that it is most definitely ready. The Party’s Leader told the media that it is almost by necessity that the AFC will have to contest elections. He added, “We may not have the bounty the PPP would have but we will have enough money to run a campaign sufficient to win a majority in my view.” AFC Member of Parliament, Cathy Hughes told the media that she is confident that the AFC doesn’t need to do much work to win the votes of right thinking Guyanese. She said, “We can have elections at midnight tonight we don’t need a campaign. The people of Guyana have lived and experienced everything since the last election to now and the people of Guyana are intelligent enough to know what they experienced and to go and vote wisely.” Also, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) said that it is ready as well. The coalition’s leader, Brig. David Granger, told Kaieteur News that it has already started its Local Government Election campaign and would also be ready for General Elections pending the eventualities of the upcoming No-Confidence
APNU Leader, David Granger Motion which it is fully prepared to support. He said that APNU is “financially, emotionally and organizationally ready.” In early August, the AFC made good on its promise to file a No-Confidence Motion against the Guyana Government which if approved, will force Head of State, President Donald Ramotar to call fresh General Elections. In a history making moment, the AFC’s General Secretary, David Patterson, accompanied by Treasurer Dominic Gaskin, delivered the Motion to Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs. The combined Opposition, which gained a one-seat majority over the PPP government that has been in power for the past 22 years, has expressed repeated disappointment in the administration, for financial impropriety and for failing to adhere to decisions of the National Assembly.
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“Sir Vivian Richards – In a special class!” Last week was wild! Immediately after completing television commentary of West Indies’ 500th Test, an impressive victory, even if only against Bangladesh, I rushed to London, courtesy of Lord’s Taverners Cricket Club, to a massive 72-hours special celebration for Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards. LTCC stages these events for big charities, sponsoring schools and clubs, especially for disabled youths, in UK and internationally, with many hundreds of thousands of Pounds Sterling in cricket gear, training and coaching opportunities, operational sports facilities, and everything else.
Sir Viv’s special charity this year is St. Johns’ (Antigua) Anglican Cathedral Restoration Appeal Fund. In 2012, LTCC, along with Brian Downing, now exPresident of Surrey Cricket Club, home of Kennington Oval, also invited me and other former WI fast bowlers, to a similar event, “World Best Fast Bowlers Dinner”. That event is rumored to have garnered US$200,000 for charity! Last year, they held an “International Captains’ Celebration and Dinner”. Apparently, 2013’s event outdid the “Best Fast Bowlers’ Dinner”, rumored to have come in at around US$225,000! Wow!
This one, for Sir Viv, in isolation, was just as posh, polished, as well attended and could be better still! Representing WI were Chairman of selectors Clive Lloyd, former fast bowlers Sir Andy Roberts, Joel Garner and myself, and former opener Gordon Greenidge. Sir Richie Richardson, Michael Holding and Desmond Haynes were also invited but could not attend. Mikey was unavailable, while the other two have more pressing business in India. Dessie is Icon and Manager of Barbados Tridents in Champions League, while Sir Richie is WI’s Head Coach and Manager for the tour to India.
Sunday September 28, 2014 ARIES (March 21 - April 19): Any work today could require a higher level of concentration than you can muster, Aries. You might lapse into daydreams, think about personal matters, and feel guilty because you aren't doing what you're supposed to be doing. ******************* TAURUS (April 20 - May 20): Today your creative impulses could seem blocked, Taurus. You might be trying to reach your own or someone else's deadline. ****************** GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): A friend who planned to come over tonight might not show up, Gemini. You may worry, since this person isn't one to blow you off. ******************** CANCER (June 21 - July 22): Travel of any kind might be virtually impossible today, Cancer. Airports could be jammed, flights delayed, and planes plagued with mechanical problems. ********************* LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22): This isn't a good day to invest in anything. Don't spend much time working on speculative projects, Leo, and don't put your money into anything but gold, land, or blue-chip stocks and bonds. ******************* VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): A love partner could be gloomy today, Virgo. This might be the kind of day when no matter how many times you draw your mate's attention to the doughnut, he or she still sees only the hole. The glass is always half empty, never half full.
LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22): You tend to be curious, Libra, and you're always trying to learn more about your many interests. But today you could be eager to research a subject but be unable to find any information about it no matter how many libraries or databases you explore. ********************* SCORPIO (Oct. 23 Nov. 21): The need to attend to business or networking obligations disguised as parties could get to you today, Scorpio. You may have been forced to attend too many of these recently, and now there are even more coming up. ******************** SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21): Your home could be empty today, Sagittarius. Other household members may be away and you could find it depressing. .********************* CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 Jan. 19): Someone close to you might be uncharacteristically silent today, Capricorn. Something is bothering them terribly, and they don't seem to want to talk about it. ******************** AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 Feb. 18): Financial worries might come up today, Aquarius. You may check your bank balance and find that you have little money. ********************* PISCES (Feb. 19 March 20): Today you might be so gloomy that you don't even want to get up. It might not be a good idea to stay home, however. Try to find some tasks to distract you.
Representing England were former captain, now President of Lords Taverners, Chris Cowdrey, former England captains Mike Gatting and David Gower, former spinners Geoff Miller, Pat Pocock and Derek Underwood, and former fast bowlers Darren Gough, Devon Malcolm and Ricky Elcock. Also involved with organization, especially with physically challenged youth, who put on a great presentation at the Oval, was former England women’s player, Ebony Rainford-Brent. Energetic!! Caribbean’s cricket journalism’s doyen, Tony Cozier, and well-noted Caribbean-UK journalist, Sir Trevor Mc Donald, led tributes to Sir Viv, with two Government Ministers of Antigua & Barbuda. A great time was had by all! One eye-opener, when WI played its 500th Test two weeks ago, was that only three players, of the 300 who have played Tests for WI, were constant and standard inclusions in any “best WI Test team ever”, selected by anyone and everyone – “Massa” George Headley, Sir Garfield Sobers and Sir Viv! Sir Viv played in more than one-fifths of 500 Tests too; 121; making “only” 8540 runs, much less that Brian Lara and Shiv Chanderpaul, yet only Sir Viv, of these latter three, was in everyone’s team. True! Sir Viv is a winner, not just a superlative performer, never losing a Test series in which he was captain, leading WI 50 times! With 2015 ICC World Cup in Australia and New Zealand on the horizon, WI should be fully celebrating Sir Viv’s direct inputs into causes and effects that allowed WI to win both ICC World Cups 1975 and 1979! In 1975’s final, Sir Viv made five, while captain Lloyd rampaged a belligerent 102, abetted by a studied 55 from
Rohan Kanhai, his last international game, the pair putting on 149 for the 4th wicket, after WI had been shaky at 50-3. WI ended at a useful if not overwhelming 291-8 in 60 overs. Then Sir Viv really went to work, athletically running out three of Australia’s brightest stars and greatest hopes of overhauling WI. Opener Alan Turner, and middle order supremos Greg and Ian Chappell were all run out by Sir Viv; Ian when well set at 62, Turner and Greg with direct hits to the stumps! Unreal! Many still insist that Sir Viv should have been “Man of that 1975 Final”, instead of Lloyd, as even with those run-outs, Australia still managed to get to within seventeen runs of 291. 274 all out; 58.4 overs! Intelligence, poise and purpose were Sir Viv for 1979’s final. WI again wobbled at 99-4. All-rounder Collis King played probably the best ODI innings ever that day; 86 from a partnership with Sir Viv of 139. Upstaged, outscored but sensible, Sir Viv continued to a colossal 138 not out, ending the innings with a six off Mike Hendrick’s last ball “Yorker” over backward square leg, as
Colin E. H. Croft says: WI made 286 in 60 overs. For good measure, Sir Viv also took a splendiferous catch to dismiss his friend Ian Botham, off yours truly, as England lost by 92 runs. Arguments also still continue as to if Collis or Sir Viv, who won the honor, should have been “M-o-M 1979!” Sir Viv showed his unbelievable batting abilities when we toured Pakistan 1980/81. Four Tests, seven innings on the toughest batting pitches anywhere, yet he scored the only WI century, 120 not out from 249, as WI beat Pakistan for the first time ever; 1-0; in Pakistan. Recently appointed Technical Director of WI “A” team, for tour to Sri Lanka, Sir Viv deserves every accolade and celebration he gets. Enjoy!
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Race walkers in action in Elcock asks questions on CS&TC 10k race this morning Letter to the Sports Editor
horse racing legislation
DEAR EDITOR, I the undersigned, Colin Elcock, has observed an article in your newspaper dated September 23rd, 2014 with the heading Drafted Horse Racing Legislation Arbitrary, Null and Void. That heading has prompted my response to correct whatever misunderstanding emanated from the administrators of some race tracks. I am a prominent horse owner and trainer for over 30 years now with approximately 12 racehorses under my care. My farm that is situated on the Corentyne has a similar amount of breeding horses and foals. The problem that we the horse owners and trainers are facing are proper regulation of the business of horse racing where the clubs tends to look after their own interest without paying attention to the bigger picture of rules governing the sport, clean racing without the use of banners, enhancing drugs, stud books, illegal betting and a host of other difficulties faced, coupled with the level of frustration due to infighting. I was entrusted with the
task from my late Uncle, Senior Council Marcel Crawford, to uplift some copies of the Trinidad and Tobago Racing Authority Rules which he used to draft our current legislation this document was presented to the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture over five years now without much action being taken. The secretary of the Trinidad and Tobago Racing Authority Mr. David Loregnard was invited by me to come down on one of our Big day of horse racing to get a firsthand look into our local racing based on the constant enquiry as to why we in Guyana can’t have our legislation in place to date, the guy did come for our Guyana Cup Horse Race meet in August during which time he personally dropped off a copy of the Trinidad Racing Legislation to the sports minister for us the stake holders to meet and study, he even volunteered to return sometime in October when everyone by then would be acquainted with the rules to meet and state their views. Mr. Fazal Habibulla was kept constantly updated by me on progress being made. What I can’t understand
from your article, on whose behalf those mentioned track owners are speaking on, are they trying to say the Guyana Horse Racing is just about race track owners and Administrators, what about the horses owners, Trainers, Jockeys and Grooms don’t we have any say over the legislation. So what should we do with our horses which are expensive to upkeep while these guys are playing king for land on who are legitimate to rule over the clubs that surprisingly have no control or ownership of the horses that are privately owned. Time does not permit me to go into more details. But sir we need our legislation very bad, it’s long overdue even if we have to work directly with the Sports Ministry and leave the Guyana Horse Race Track Authority to war between themselves. This document clearly charts the way forward with regards to who could be in charge by a Democratic Process with all stakeholders’ interests being addressed. Yours Truly, Colin Elcock Horse Owner/Trainer
GMR&SC ‘Race of Champions’ Meet
Jeffrey’s reign could be under threat today The question of whether Kevin Jeffrey could hold off the in-form Danny Persaud and Ryan Rahaman will be answered today when the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMR&SC) host its ‘Race of Champions’ Meet, at the South Dakota Circuit. A source from the fraternity told Kaieteur Sport that Jeffrey recently returned to Guyana and was expected to compete in the Group 4 category along with Rahaman, Persaud and Keith Evelyn which will make for an exciting duel amongst some of the fastest cars locally. Jeffrey, who drives a Mitsubishi Evolution 8, undoubtedly has the quickest car in the category, but his machine was beset with mechanical problems during the first leg of the Caribbean Motor
Racing Championship (CMRC) in Barbados earlier this year so he could be vulnerable at this moment, especially since Persaud is coming off of an outstanding performance in the second leg of the CMRC which was held in Trinidad and Tobago. However, fans are being cautioned that the battle for bragging rights does not rest alone on the rivalry between Jeffrey and Persaud because both Rahaman and Evelyn are known to be very competent drivers with fast machines as well and they too could be in the mix battling for the chequered flag. The Group 2 division is another category that is sure to bring excitement to the fans with Shairaz Roshandin, Syed Hassan, Danny Persaud, Chet Singh, John Joseph and Suriname’s Oliver Tjin Liep Shie, all experienced
drivers and accustomed to doing well at the South Dakota Circuit. Just to add spice to the Group, Roshan Ali, Shane Seejattan, WR Reaz and Andre Dhanraj could very well come as spoilers in the same category. The 125cc motorcycle division is another category that is shaping up to provide exhilarating action with young Matthew Vi e i r a , t h e Boodhram brothers Hemanand and Heeranand along with the veterans Victor Pires, Terrence and Charlie Henery expressing their readiness to thrill the fans. Twenty four races are carded for the day and fans who’re yet to make up their minds on whether to be at the track are being urged to do so with immediate effect or they could miss what is shaping up to be the best locally staged circuit racing of the year.
The nation’s race walkers are will set the East Coast alight when the Cavaliers Sports and Tour Club (CS&TC) stages a race walk in commemoration of Education Month activities along the East Coast corridor, this morning. Competitors are asked to convene at the President’s College, Golden Grove at 06:00 hrs to facilitate a prompt start half an hour later. The race will
then proceed to the Village Market before the walkers retrace their steps to the place of origin. The race would be contested in several categories including senior male and female, juniors, veteran and the differently able. Prizes would be awarded to the first three finishers in the respective categories. Meanwhile, the walkers will be in action again on
Sunday October 12 when the CS&TC organizes another event, the World Food Day and Agriculture Month 2014 Race Walk. The walkers will congregate at the Guyana School of Agriculture, Mon Repos at 06:00hrs on the morning of the event, proceed to the road head and back to the starting point. Prizes will be given to the first three finishers.
This week we bring another bit of sporting facts to our readers, complied by Statistician Charwayne Walker. In this series we have been talking football, highlighting the rich heritage of our football, looking at the notable moments in Guyana’s history. Did you know that Guyana was the only country that defeated Alex Ferguson touring St. Mirren Scottish Division One Team in 1976? Did you know that recently retired General Manager of Manchester United Sir Alex Ferguson toured the Caribbean as Manager of the Scottish D i v i s i o n O n e Te a m St . Mirren in June, 1976? Alex Ferguson and St. Mirren were using the 1976 Caribbean tour for preparation for the Scottish first division season. F e rg u s o n ’s Boys opened the 1976 Caribbean Campaign with a one-nil victory against Barbados at the National Stadium in Bridgetown. St. Mirren’s next stop was Port-of-Spain where they defeated Trinidad and Tobago 2-nil in a three match series. The Boys from Scotland won the series opener one-nil, drew
the second contest nil all, and won the decider onen i l . A f t e r t h e Tr i n i d a d triumph Sir Alex Boys deplaned at Timehri International looking to continued their unbeaten run and started the Guyana leg of their Caribbean Tour with a commanding 4-one drubbing of the Guyana N a t i o n a l Te a m a t G C C Bourda. Goal scorers for St. Mirren were Len Richardson, Frank McGarvey and a double by Jack McGillvary, Bunny Anthony was the lone Guyanese Goal scorer. In the series finale at GFC Ground, Guyana behind goals from Pele’s FC duo Vibert ‘Durdy’ Butts and Patrick ‘Labba’ Barton e n d e d S i r A l e x a n d St. Mirren unbeaten run with an emphatic two-one victory. Donny McDonald was the lone goal scorer for St. Mirren. After the twoone loss to Guyana, St. Mirren travelled to Paramaribo and trashed Suriname 4-nil. The St. Mirren Team that toured the Caribbean in 1976: Billy Johnson John Mowat Bobby Reid John Young Walter Borthwick Tony Fitspatrick
Len Richardson Billy Stark Brian Kinnear Bert Ferguson Donny McDowell Allan Munro Frank McGarvey Jack McGillvary Willie Abercombie Robert Torrance Donald Hunter Dave Provan – Assistant Manager AlexFerguson – Manager Guyana National Team 1976 that ended St. Mirren’s unbeaten run: Desmond Marshall- goalie Wendell Sandiford- goalie Denzil Thompson- goalie Earl O’Neal Clive Nedd (deceased) Dennis Solomon Gregory Stewart (deceased) Alfred Benjamin Maurice Enmore- Captain Keith Layne Patrick Barton Keith Niles Vibert Butts Terrence Nichols Rudolph Hunte Bunny Anthony Keith Smartt Walter Prince Roger Alphonso David Wolford Robert Birkett Garth Nelson Deryck Anderson Alvin Braithwaite George Greene - Coach
East Coast clubs form... From page 73 with $100,000. Trophies for the tournament are donated by Nauth and Sons Motor Spares, these are for the winner, runners-up, and man-of-the-match for each game, along with other individual prizes. The former East Coast Cricket Board Executives refused to recognise the GCB and DCB hence refused to participate in competitions of the DCB, resulting in many players being disenfranchised. Some of the clubs on the East Coast, piloted by Enmore, rescued the young players by organising prac-
tice sessions and selecting teams to participate in competitions of the DCB, the release noted. As a result, players such as Brian Sattaur were able to represent their country. The Clubs on the East Coast then wrote to the Demerara Cricket Board’s President, Mr. Rajendra Singh requesting help and the intervention of the DCB. The Clubs complained of no elections being held, members being sidelined from participating in authorized cricket, denying of rights of members of the ECCB among a plethora of complaints.
The DCB President pledged his support to the committee and stated, “The DCB is here to promote cricket and anyone who share that interest would be supported.” The Committee is chaired by Shameer Shahib, the committee members consist of Anil Persaud, Jitlal Jawahirlall, Quancy Cummins, Richard Chaturia, Atamdeo Persaud and others. Raj Singh recently handed over some funds and balls to Anil Persaud to assist the Committee with their Competition and other administrative commitments.
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Old rivals to clash in Legend basketball final today Smythfield Rockers demolish Black Sharks in semi-finals After being dumped and then reinstated into the Legend Classic Basketball Inter Club competition for teams in Berbice, Smythfield Rockers of New Amsterdam made full use of the opportunity by beating up Fyrish Black Sharks 4229 in their semi-final encounter which was placed last Sunday at the Area H Court in Rose Hall Town to secure a place in the final of the competition. Their opponents will be old rivals New Amsterdam Warriors. The game started with all
things equal with the first segment being locked at 11 each. However the Rockers started to straighten things out in the second segment as they took a one point lead at half time with the score at 18-17. By the third quarter the Rockers completely dominated proceedings as they held the Black Sharks at sea, for a 30-24 lead. By the fourth segment the Rockers were all over the bruised, battered and injured Black Sharks as they closed out the 42-29 win. The Rockers assault was
led by Jason Fraser with 12 points with assistance coming from Mark Brown with 11 points. For the Black Sharks Linden Joseph scored 10 and Desi Douglas 8. The final of the competition will be played today at the New Amsterdam Basketball Court beginning from 15:30hrs. The tournament is being s p o n s o r e d b y P o n a i ’s Pharmacy, MPG Packaging, A. Ally and Sons, Nand Persaud Rice Mills and Digicel. Vibert Garrett is the organiser.
GCA Hadi’s two-day cricket
Sankar grabs career best 8-71 but Nanan’s 5-10 ensure MSC follow-on By Sean Devers Under a clear blue sky on a two-paced track with variable bounce at the Malteenoes ground yesterday, Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ended the first day of the latest round of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) two-day Hadi’s division one cricket competition, in a commanding position against the home team, who have been asked to followon. A career best 8-71 from National under-19 legspinner Steven Sankar helped to dismiss GCC for 224 on the stroke of Tea but by the close Demerara leftarm spinner Raj Nanan had taken 5-10 and received good support from pacer Joshua Wade (3-26) and Robin Bacchus (2-30) as Malteenoes, set 124 to avoid the follow-on, tumbled for 107 as only Skipper Steven Jacobs offered any resistance with a fighting 37 with six fours. GCC won the toss after the contest began 10 minutes late because of smoke emanated from the neighbouring Transport Sports Club ground due to the burning of bushes. They lost Bacchus (5) LBW to young fast bowler Darren Best at 21-1 and one run later it was 22-2 when Deonarine Seegobin (1) was removed by Kellon Carmichael. Elon Fernandes (22) was then LBW to Sankar after he and Martin Pestano-Bell had
Raj Nanan taken the score to 66-3. Gavin Singh (25) and National youth player Renaldo Ali Mohamed, who hit five fours and two sixes in a confident 49, revived the position somewhat before Nanan, who hit three fours in well constructed 36 was bowled with a ball that kept low from Sankar, who utilized the under-prepared pitch to rip out the next three wickets to leave the Bourda boys on 220-9. The resistance from Pestano-Bell, who was forced to ‘retire hurt’ after being hit on the glove by a good length delivery that ‘kicked’ ended when he was last out three short of his fifty after hitting six fours and a
six as Sankar wrapped up the innings in quick time. Maleenose began their reply with a cool breeze ruffling the branches of the palm trees surrounding the venue and stared in disastrous fashion when First-Class opener Shemroy Barrington failed to control a ball that lifted off a good length off wade before he had scored. Four runs later it was 7-2 when Wade bowled Floyd Rollins for five. Kareem Naughton was then bowled by Bacchus for seven at 26-3 before Jacobs and Carmichael took the score 52 when Carmichael (12) was trapped LBW to Wade and when Keffa Naughton (5) got one from Bacchus that scuttled through and was struck in front, the Thomas Lands unit had slumped to 57-5. Jacobs whose first four scoring shots were all boundaries off Bacchus, was joined by Racquel Green (12) and together they took the score to 79 before Green was adjudged LBW off the inside edge. When Jacobs played back to one that shot through from Nanan was bowled at 89-7 Maleenose were in tatters in the own back yard. Cordell Mars clobbered two sixes in his 13 but Nanan quickly got rid of Sankar (2), Best (0) and Mars, minutes before the close, to leave the hosts 17 short of the follow on target. The final day is scheduled to start at 10:00hrs today.
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‘You were put on Earth to achieve your greatest self’ GCC’s President tells Leon Johnson
Leon Johnson is presented with his photo by GCC President Lionel Jaikarran while Coach Monty Lynch shares the moment. By Sean Devers The mood at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) last Friday night was one of pride and celebration as World famous club, venue for the first ever test win by We s t I n d i e s i n 1 9 3 0 , honoured Leon Johnson, its newest Test player at a specially arranged function at Bourda. On September 13 in St Lucia, Johnson became the 300th player to play at the highest level for West Indies, the 48th from Guyana and 14th from GCC. The occasion was even more memorable for the 27-yearold Johnson since the Regional side was playing the 500th Test since their first in 1928 in England. GCC President Lionel Jaikarran was elated and emotional and warned the gathering that if he became emotional it was with good reason. He informed those present that Leon began his career at age 12 under Coach Harold Dhanraj after joining the club in April 2000.
Jaikarran added that Johnson, who has two centuries and 20 fifties from 51 First-class matches, made his First-Class debut at 16 and lead the West Indies Under-19 side in the 2006 youth World Cup. Johnson, who scored 66 and 41 in his debut Test, has also returned to the West Indies ODI team to tour India next month after playing his only three ODIs in Canada in 2008. “ To d a y L e o n i s embarking on a new journey and what an honor it is for the Georgetown cricket club that Leon now joins the long list of Test cricketers from the club,” the GCC Head said. Johnson joins 13 others from GCC who have played Test cricket including modern day players like Faoud Bacchus, Carl Hooper, Shiv Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Reon King and Neil McGarrell. “Leon you were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self and do it courageously,” Jaikarran added.
Also speaking at the function were past GCC President Paul Chan-a-Sue, GCC’s head Guyanese Coach Monty Lynch, the former England International who has played a huge role in Johnson’s career and Richard Jodah, the ex-Guyana under-19 player who has seen Johnson’s career flourish from when he started his career. Also present at the function were Secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Anand Sanasie and Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) President Raj Singh along with Johnson’s team mates at GCC and his National team colleagues Chris Barnwell and Trevon Griffith. Johnson, who had his photograph put on the wall with the others from the club who played test cricket, thanked everyone for their good wishes and promised to do his best in India in the ODI and the three Test series. He gives the West Indies an additional option with his off-spin.
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Top notch action expected at Alness Turf Club Today By Samuel Whyte The day has finally arrived and thousands are expected to swarm the Alness Turf Club today for the Banks DIH Limited, Alness Turf Club grand one day horserace meet slated for the club’s Racetrack, Alness Corentyne, Berbice. A c c o r d i n g t o information, fans cannot wait to see Guyana Top Race horse Score’s Even, back in action. The Kentucky bred animal from the Simple Royal Stable has been in devastating form and boasts an impressive record since its arrival in Guyana with some 11 wins, five second and one third from 19 starts and will definitely be looking to add to that when it gets into the starting box today. The feature Banks DIH Limited ‘A’ class and lower 1600M event has an encouraging winning take of $1M from a total package of $2M and the Banks DIH Limited trophy. Among those looking to upset Score’s Even are Church House, Dark and Lovely, Run Nana Run, Bridal Stone Corner, Young Elite, Set for Fame and California Strike. Meanwhile, a number of additional sponsors have
been added to the list of those being associated with the race meet including Hand in Hand Insurance, Ganesh Singh Engineering Services of No 6 WCB, Lancelot business of Georgetown and Poonai’s Pharmacy. They will join Beverage giants Banks DIH Limited, Guyana Tourism Authority, Nand Persaud and Sons Group of Companies, Mohammed ‘Nanko’ Shariff Business Enterprise and Racing Stable, Fazal Habibulla, Attorney at Law Ryan Crawford, J. Ashrafally (Papie) Supermarket, Dennis DeRoop’s Simple Royal Stable, Choke Gas Station, Kanhai Electrical A g e n c y, R . M a t a d i a l , Randolph Richmond and Family and Businessman and horserace Commentator Campton Sancho among others. The full list of events and animals will see the likes of Swing Easy, Bridal Stone Corner, Settle In Seattle, Weekend Surprise, Top Of The line and Marathon Man go for the winning prize in the F and lower 1200M event for a winning purse of $350,000 and trophy. The likes of Shooting Star, Secret Circle, Silent Night, Sent From Above,
Thousands anticipate to see Score’s Even back in action
Score’s Even with Richmond well perched is all alone, winning the Feature B class event at the Digicel Meet. Marathon man, Prince Paige, Weekend Surprise are among the star studded field lined up in the G3 and lower event over 1400M for the winning take of $275,000 and trophy. The ‘I’ and lower1200M event has such animals like Mary Ann, Affinity, Smarty Light, Royal Cash, Dance For Gold, Lady Secret, The Road Is Mine, Miss Messiah and Famous Pride among them competing for a purse of $200,000 and trophy. The ‘J1’ and lower 1000M event for the winning
EBFA/MCYS U-13 League
Herstelling Raiders and Grove Hi Tech in winner’s row Herstelling Raiders FC and Grove Hi Tech recorded full points when rivalry in the East Bank Football A s s o c i a t i o n ( E B FA ) , Ministry of Culture Youth And Sports (MCYS) Under13 football league kicked off yesterday at the Farm ground, East Bank Demerara. The humidity of the day did not in no way steal any of the energy of the four teams on display as the youngsters sought to get the better of each other in exciting end to end exchanges. Playing in the feature game, Herstelling Raiders needled Agricola Red Triangle, while in the opening encounter; a brace from Threvon Pluck guided G r o v e H i Te c h t o a comfortable 5-0 win over Diamond United FC. Herstelling, riding on their second place finish in
the CULT Under-17 league went to business early against the Agricola boys and were rewarded a penalty when the ball was handled in the second minute of the game. Captain and defender Devon Winter stepped up to take the shot and he put the ball away clinically past goalkeeper Christopher Adams to give Herstelling the lead. The ensuing exchanges did not see any more goals, even as Agricola made a few raids of their own, it was the home team that squandered many other opportunities to stretch their advantage. In the opening game, Grove got the better of Diamond United, the sixth team to register for the tournament. Grove, already winning both junior tournaments so far this year (U-15 and U-17)
made a bright start in their quest for yet more silverware. Under-15 leading goal scorer Threvon Pluck has already eased into the top place again finding the back of the nest twice to set his team apart. Pluck was on target in the 24th and 34th minute. Devon Padmore had put his team in the lead in the 12th minute his brother, Kevin sealed the deal in the 52nd minute after Solomon Ward tucked in one of his own in the 45th minute. The other two teams in the competition, Soesdyke Falcons and Kuru Kururu Warriors will open play on Saturday from 10:00hrs when the league continues at the same venue. Grove Hi Tech will then match skills with Agricola Red Triangle with Herstelling Raiders taking on Diamond United in the feature game.
pocket of $170,000 and trophy has a full box that comprise of Prince Bayaya, Wicket Revenge, Royal Cash, Cart Man, Red Steel, Iron Man, Red Jet, Lady Secret, Smarty Light, The Road Is Mine, Slim Shady, Famous Pride and Dance for Gold among others. The race for animals classified J3 and lower has a full compliment of horses lined up to compete for the winners money of $140,000 and trophy over 1100M. The K and lower event will fetch a winning prize of $90,000
and trophy over 1000M. Animals such as Iron man, Prince Bayaya, Speed Vision, Wicked Revenge, it’s My Time, Quincy, cart Man, Gangster, Journey, Go Zapper, Windy Killer, Princess Stallion, Royal Intention, Flying Colours, Fit To Fight, Lucky Star, Sophia’s Choice, Brown Boy and Triple S are among them. There is an event for unclassified animals over 4 furlongs with Sweet Man, Fit To Fight, Flying Colours, Sofia’s Choice, Flying
Private and Brown Boy among the entrants in this event. Outstanding individual performers including top Jockey, trainer and stable will be presented with trophies and other incentives compliments of the organizers. Persons with last minute queries can contact Marcel Crawford Jr on Telephone number 678-5342, Nikita Ross 662-4668, Campton Sancho 690-0569 or R Matadial 325-3192. Race time is 13:00 hrs.
East Coast clubs form committee ...Receive blessings and support from the DCB
Mr. Rajendra Singh, President of the DCB, hands over a cheque and some cricket balls to Anil Persaud in the presence of GCB Chairman of the Senior Selection Panel, Rayon Griffith. The major cricket clubs on the East Coast of Demerara have banded together to play competitive cricket in the absence of a legitimate association after
no elections were held for almost four years, a release from the new Committee stated. The Committee has already begun a 40-Over
competition involving 12 clubs. The winner of the round robin competition will collect $200,000, while the runners-up will walk away (Continued on page 69)
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Michael Benjamin regurgitates nostalgic memories It’s been more than thirty years still the memory lingers. I had visited the home of boxing, the National Sports Hall, now the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, to witness the finals of the National Open Boxing Championships where a plethora of stars were on show. Anthony Barrow represented the Ricola Boxing Gym and was scheduled to face off with Anthony ‘The Pearl’ Andrews in what many regarded as the main attraction. Then there was Darius Forde, matched against Republican, Winston Richards. The card also had such stalwarts like the late, John ‘The Beast’ Brummell, Dereck and Allan Housner, the Alberts brothers, Ray and Herbert and I could reel off dozens of other names that would touch the nostalgic bones of patrons that visited the boxing arena in those days of skilful and raging slugfests. The venue was ram-jammed with eager fans, some casting their wagers in support of their choices while hundreds rocked the gates eager to get in. Outside, around the periphery, alert police officers patrolled with
Down ‘Boxing’ Memory Lanes vicious looking guard dogs, protecting the promoters from those that chose to enter the venue unconventionally. Inside the venue, ‘Starry, ’a renowned tailor and staunch supporter of the boxers out of the Republican Boxing Gym, was flashily dressed and waved a flag with the Republican emblem emblazoned for all to see. He would stop periodically where the boxers of the Dowden’s International Gymnasium were assembled, awaiting their respective turn in the ring, and bellow, “The only good Ford is Taps car.” He was taunting Darius Forde, referring to a Ford Escort motorcar owned by the late Errol ‘Taps’ Butcher and warning him to beware of Winston Richards who was at his best. While ‘Starry’ represented him on the outside, Richards was in the dressing room with his other gym mates, warming up and getting ready for war. Reporters referred to Ford as the sixteen years old schoolboy with talent incomparable. The joke making its rounds then was
that Darius enjoyed this status for three full years. Shortly before the Richards/Forde shindig, word was out that a top prison official had leaked the news that if Richards defeated Ford, he (Richards) would be given a reprieve from his lengthy prison term. The crowd went wild in renewed anticipation of the treat in store and fans were not disappointed. In what is still a talking highpoint among boxing pundits, Richards unleashed a sustained attack on Ford that included a wicked body assault that that had Darry (as he was familiarly called) cringing and resorting to the use of the ‘third guard’ for added protection. For the uninitiated, the ‘third guard’ occurs when a boxer receives several body digs and draws up his leg to stem the blows. It is a term that originated around the boxing circles and aptly describes the plight of the boxer on the receiving end of the blows. Many will remember the intensity and the sustained attack that earned Richards the unanimous verdict and his
Courts 10km Road Classic on today
Forde races against the clock The two outcomes of today’s Courts 10km Road Race Classic are easy to deduce; it’s one of two things; Cleveland Forde will confirm his status as perhaps Guyana’s best distance athlete ever, or Nathaniel Giddings and Cleveland Thomas will trump up ace performances. The latter outcome seems unlikely in the male race. Among the women, we can expect the battle to be among United States-based Euleen Josiah-Tanner and Alika Morgan. JosiahTanner has an advantage already after beating Morgan in Guyana a few weeks ago. Either which way, today makes for interesting rivalries with revenge at the back of the minds of both Giddings and Thomas. Giddings will continue running the way he knows best, ‘barefooted’ and out in front, which makes him the man to catch in the race. Forde, who is renowned in the Caribbean, has to begin
at some time looking for a sub-30 minute time since his only competitor in road races recently is the clock. Today’s race, with Thomas and Giddings chasing Forde in the latter stages, should be a personal test for Forde. The prizes for the male and female senior category include $100,000 for the winner; $75,000 for second place; $50,000 for third; $30,000 for fourth and $20,000 for fifth place. The prizes in the Masters category (Women 35 years and over and Men 40-54) are $60,000, $40,000 and $25,000 respectively. A total of $200,000 in vouchers and hampers will be handed out to the Juniors, male and female, with the top prizes being $60,000; second gets $40,000; third $30,000; fourth $20,000, and fifth $10,000. The Masters Men (55 and above) will get a $15,000 hamper each. The race will start in front of Courts’ Main Street Office, proceed north to the Seawall Road, east along the
Seawall Road and continue east along Rupert Craig H i g h w a y ’s n o r t h e r n carriageway to turn at Church Road on the Rupert Craig Highway. It will then proceed on the Rupert Craig Highway’s southern carriageway into Kitty Public Road; south on Vlissingen Road; west on Lamaha Street, south on the eastern carriageway into Main Street, before turning around at the Cenotaph to finish on the western carriageway of Main Street in front of Courts. The 3km ‘Health Run’ will start outside of Courts on Main Street, proceed north to the Seawall, continue along the Seawall, turn right on to Camp Street, continue to Lamaha Street, turn left on Lamaha Street, proceed west to Main Street, turn left onto Main Street. The race will continue in the southern direction to the Bank of Guyana before turning right onto Main Street (western side) and finishing at Courts.
freedom. Unfortunately, Richards did not make full use of the opportunity and was soon in the ‘slammer’ again. His life of crime continued and Richards died as he lived, killed in a confrontation with the police after he was fingered in a criminal endeavour. The Barrow/Andrews bout was a thriller and there was only standing room space in the Sports Hall. The two went after each other in a delightful slugfest that rocked the venue and one could have heard the reverberating screams of the crowd from way down in Campbellville. Caesar Barrow trained his son and was uncompromising; following a hectic 4 miles workout early in the morning, he would insist on 30 minutes of calisthenics and abdominals. In those days the boxers were as tough as nails but the workload was so intense that even the toughest complained. After an especially tough workout one of the boxers turned to Caesar and muttered, “Man Caesar, Rome was not built in a day, you know!” Without missing a beat Caesar responded, “That’s because I was not the contractor.” The complaining boxer would then engage in unintelligible jargon forcing Caesar to say, “I’m not asking for the impossible; I just want you
guys to render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.” Yes, those were the days when the Cubans sent strong teams to Guyana and local boxers returned the favour, returning to the Spanish Island to compete in the Cardin Games. I remember the Anthony Andrew/Joquin Campanioni flyweight bout, Andrews’ first lost, when the Cuban southpaw unleashed a barrage of punches that sent ‘The Pearl’ to the canvass for the full count. I remember Ray Jones taking on Campanioni just afterwards and turning in such a display that left boxing pundits wondering aloud how the judges could have possibly scored against him. I have deliberately chosen not to engage in comparative analysis with our past stalwarts and the present crop; it’s like chalk to cheese. Nevertheless, boxers of yore were not all saints and engaged in mischievous violations. One day me, Pascal David and Simeon Rahaman, all boxers and members of the Guyana National Service, scaled the fence aback the Base Command Sophia and slipped into the Guysuco cane fields. Shortly after a vanload of rangers swooped down, bundled us into their van and sped off to the Sparendaam Police Station. We w e r e f r i s k e d a n d deposited into a dank, musty,
foul smelling cell. We banged on the door and informed the officer in charge that we were military personnel. We were taken out and immediately a message was despatched to Director General Joe Singh who ordered the Sports Officer, Captain Patterson to investigate and mete out the requisite discipline. In the meantime we were questioned by the officer in charge. “What is your trade?” Me and Rahaman replied, “We are boxers.” Pascal decided to play safe, “I am good in any field,” he replied. The officer fixed him a caustic stare and bellowed, “Not in Guysuco cane fields.” Those were good days. Present day boxers are less tough than their predecessors; a few days ago I was in the gym and while engaged in sparring sessions a certain boxer lost his mouthpiece to a wicked left hook. He immediately stopped to retrieve it and I jokingly said, “In my days it was not the mouthpiece that fell, it was teeth and we never got the chance to retrieve it.” I was joking but it depicts the general attitude of present day pugilists in comparison to their predecessors. And we have the gumption to question the non-support of patrons and the corporate community.
Barbados XI dominate Windies ‘A’ two-day game Barbados Cricket Association - Bridgetown, Barbados - Openers Kyle Corbin and Shayne Moseley hit centuries as a Barbados XI dominated a two-day practice match against a West Indies ‘A’ side at the Three Ws Oval. After being sent in, Barbados amassed 330 for one declared off 83 overs to which West Indies ‘A’ responded with 195 for six off 64 overs. Corbin, who has been in fine form for Sagicor Life UWI in the BCA Elite division championship with 561 runs (ave: 56.10) including two centuries - one of them a double - made 117. He batted for 279 minutes, faced 200 balls and struck eight fours and five sixes. Left-hander Moseley, who represents CounterPoint Wanderers, scored 132 retired (not out) in 282 minutes off 199 balls with 15 fours and four sixes. The pair added 272 in 63.4 overs.
Moseley, a member of the champion Barbados Under19 three-day team player in 2012, first reached his century in 218 minutes off 151 balls with 12 fours and three sixes in the 50th over, while Corbin, a first-class player for Combined Campuses & Colleges and a former Barbados and West Indies Under-19 representative, got to his hundred in 257 minutes off 185 deliveries, striking eight fours and three sixes, in the 58th over. The Hope brothers, Kyle and Shai, who both play for ESA Field Pickwick, were unbeaten on 35 and 22 respectively. When bad light ended play o n t h e o p e n i n g d a y, Wednesday, Barbados were 317 for one off 76 overs with Shai Hope on 16 and Kyle Hope, 28. West Indies ‘A’ made a poor start, losing Kraigg Brathwaite (nine), Assad Fudadin (one) and Kirk Edwards (nought) - all with Test experience - as they
wobbled to 11 for three. Andre Fletcher topscored with 80 at No. 4. He batted for 211 minutes, received 171 balls and hit four fours and five sixes. Sunil Ambris contributed 33, skipper Carlos Brathwaite 32 and Marlon Barclay, 22 not out. Dawayne Sealy, the UWI fast bowling all-rounder, took four for 44 off 13 overs. His scalps were Kraigg Brathwaite, Edwards, Fletcher and Ambris - all of whom are in the 14man West Indies ‘A’ squad named Friday for a tour of Sri Lanka starting next month. Fudadin, who is also in the West Indies ‘A’ squad to tour Sri Lanka, fell to national Under-19 left-arm pacer Tarik Shorey and was given chance to bat twice, while Carlos Brathwaite was dismissed by left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican, who is currently the top bowler in the Elite division championship with 42 scalps for virtual new winners ICBL Empire.
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NBS 2nd Div. 40-Overs Kennard Memorial PPP Horserace Meet set for Sunday October 12 Sobhai slams 121 in Betsy Ground win; Shivdyal stars for Fyrish
The Kennard Memorial Turf Club will be the venue for a grand nine event horserace meet set for Sunday 12th of October at the Club’s entity Bush Lot Farm Corentyne, Berbice. The event, which will be held in collaboration with the People’s Progressive Party, will feature the President’s Cup and General Secretary Trophy being at stake. The seven race meet has so far attracted over 60 entries with most of the top horses set to compete for the $4M in prize money and trophies that are at stake. The races cater for everyone and is expected to see an exhilarating day of racing unfold. The A class feature event has an attractive $1.5M and the Presidents Cup up for the takings and is expected to
attract the best in the business over 1600M. The other events listed for the day are the race for horses classified D3 nonwinner in 2014 & E & Lower for a winning take of $600,000 and trophy over 1400M. The Incentive for the winner in the F3 and lower 1400M event is also worth $400,000. Two year old West Indies Bred animals will be racing for a winners money of $300,000 and trophy over 1000M. There is a race for G3 non-winners in 2014 over 1400M and will see the winner taking away the $300,000 first prize and trophy. The Guyana Bred two years old animals will have their chance to compete for a first prize of $200,000 and trophy also over 1000M. Racing fans will see the top ‘I’ class horses racing for a
winning take of $220,000 and trophy over 1400M. The J1 class horses 1000M sprint has a winner’s prize of $200,000 and trophy. The final event on the day will see the horses classified J3 and lower competing for a top prize of $180,000 and trophy also over 1000M. With so much on offer an action pack day of racing is anticipated. The top individual performers will be presented with accolades compliments of Ramesh Sunich of Trophy Stall, Bourda Market. Entries are expected to be closed on the 7th of October 2014. Interested persons are asked to make contact with Mr Roopnarine Matadial 325 3192, Ms Nikita Ross 662 4668, Dennis DeRoop 609 9143 and Fazal Habibulla 657 7010. (Samuel Whyte)
Shiv Chanderpaul vs. Christopher Barnwell this evening at DCC T20 encounter Foo, Deonarine, Griffith, Dowlin, Reon King also in action The newly floodlighted DCC Ground on Lance Gibbs St. will be buzzing with excitement tonight starting 6:00PM, when the country foremost cricketers will be in action in a T20 affair in honour of Coach Garvin Nedd birthday. Former world #1 and currently #3 test cricketer, Shivnarine Chanderpaul will come against Christopher Barnwell, undoubtedly Guyana #1 T20 player. The action promises to be keen as the DCC line up battle the Rest Team. The day’s activity will involve a bar-b-que, Kiddy cricket Festival, Ladies Open and Men Over-40 softball and the young brigade of the club engaging each other in a match, with the action culminating with the T20 fixture. Teams: DCC Select: Christopher Barnwell,
Christopher Barnwell
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Trevon Griffith, Travis Dowlin, Jonathan Foo, Andre Percival, Kemal Savoury, Anthony Adams, Lenox Cush, Reon King, Colin Stuart, Mahendra Nagamootoo, Seon Daniels, Rohan Sarjoo, Brian Sattaur, Quamie Cross. Manager: Ian John, Coach: Esuan C r a n d o n . R e s t Te a m : Shivnarine Chanderpaul,
Robin Bacchus, Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Kevin Boodie, Ravindra Chandreka, Steven Jacobs, Kemo Paul, Narsingh Deonarine, Ricardo Adams, Amir Khan, Paul Wintz, Jermain Neblett, Raj Nanan, Roderick Lovell, Shemroy Barrington. Manager: Robert Adonis, Coach: Clive Grimmond. Admission is $200.
The New Building Society (NBS) second division 40-Overs cricket competition in Berbice continued recently with Deonarine Sobhai hitting 121 (19x4 2x6) for Betsy Ground Triple Star to become the batsman with the highest individual score in the competition. He teamed up with Ramnarine Jugisteer who hit 67 to put on 180 for the 4th wicket as Betsy Ground posted 268 in 30 overs against Gangaram Strykers. Jusgister came back with the new ball to take 4-19 orchestrating Gangaram’s demise for 188. Following are summarized scores from the matches played. At Goed Bananen Land Betsy Ground Triple Star hammered Gangaram Strykers by 80 runs. Betsy Ground Triple Star 268 in 38 overs; Deonarine Sobhai 121, Ramnarine Jugisteer 67, Mohan Rampersaud 2-32, Chetram Bassant 2-38, Alex Dhanai 244. Gangaram Strylers 188 in 38 overs; Mohan Rampersaud 40, Faurdeen Kassim 35, Totaram Karran 25, Ramnarine Jugisteer 419, Wakmeshwar Sobhai 316, Devendra Ramoutar 333. At Fyrish - Fyrish trounced Seawell by 176
Mahmood Khan
Hoolsarran Lalsa
runs. Fyrish 206 in 30 overs; Munilall Shivdyal 86. Seawell 30 in 14 overs; Munilall Shivdyal 6-11, Yugendra Chinapen 2-0, Alvin Subramani 2-7. At No. 70 - No. 70 MYO outplayed No. 68 Turn Team by 9 wickets. No. 68 Turn Team 169-6 in 20 overs; Hemant Ramsaroop 62, Areef Khan 3-11, Salim Khan 2-20. No. 70 MYO 171-1 in 15.5 overs; Areef Khan 74*, Mahmood Khan 52. At Blairmont - D’Edward defeated Blairmont Community Centre B by 2 wickets. Blairmont Community Centre B, 73 in 30.4 overs; Hoolsarran Lalsa 5-6, Navindra Rampersaud 2-16, Kevon Jawahir 2-21. D’Edward 74-8 in 15.3 overs; Devendra Lalsa 31,
Shamar Flatts 3-24. At Rose Hall, Canje Young and Restless beat Rose Hall Community Centre by 48 runs. Young and Restless 148 in 25 overs; Azid Zaheer 29, Kristoff Bahadur 2 for 13; Keon Isaacs 2 for 27. Rose Hall Community Centre 100 in 25 overs; Subil Sookdeo 3-21, Dhanesh Gopaul 2-8, Vedesh Singh 2-4. At Chesney - Chesney got past Chesney Riders by 64 runs. Chesney 213 in 35.2 overs; Devendra Harilall 50, Shabeer Bacchus 37*, Joel Johnson 3-44, Junior Jeffery 3-43, Kelly Persaud 2-47. Chesney Riders 176 in 39 overs; Ravindra Hardyal 46, Levi Thomas 42, Saif Latchana 2-7, Shabeer Bacchus 2-18, Zameer Khan 2-31.
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Current Group 4 champion Kevin Jeffrey leads the pack in a race last year.
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Grove Hi Tech double-goal scorer Threvon Pluck (with ball) moving towards the Diamond United FC goal yesterday.
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