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Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal n the first half of housing areas, the sum of acrossthecountryduringthe Finance revealed that oftheyear 2022, Government $7.4billionwasspent,sofar firsthalfoftheyear CH&PAcompletedworkson In the Sophia Housing expended $8 1 The document noted that The installation of 25 core homes at La Parfaite Area, the report said 25 coreI billion of the $12.4 approximately10kilometres electricity and distribution Harmonie, while another 25 homes are currently being billion allocated to further of roads were upgraded in networks were completed at areslatedforconstructionby c o n s t r u c t e d , w h i l e developthehousingsector existing housing areas at 12 housing areas in Regions theendoftheyear constructionofafurther25is This is reflected in the Uitvlugt, Belle West, La 3,4and6,withsimilarworks Construction was expected to commence by mid-year report released by P a r f a i t e H a r m o n i e , in 14 new housing areas completed for 100 low yearend. the Ministry of Finance over Herstelling, Ordinance slated for the second half of i n c o m e h o m e s a t Additionally, the the weekend. According the Fortlands, Bath, Balthyock, the year The document Hampshire/Williamsburg, construction of another 21 report of $11 billion Good Hope, Mon Repos, noted that infrastructural 150 moderate income core homes is expected to allocated to continue Section D Non Pariel, works are ongoing in homes at Cummings Lodge, commence by the end of the infrastructure works in TuschenandOnderneeming. housing areas in Regions 2, and 125 houses for young year, along the East Bank Central Housing Planning Additionally, 750 LED 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10. In its half- professionals at Providence andEastCoastofDemerara. Authority (CH&PA) for streetlamps were installed year report, the Ministry of and Prospect, in the first half The Government’s ‘Dream Realised’ housing drive was highlighted in the projected total to 6,049, report. Under the ‘Dream exceeding the 6,000 land Realised’ platform, the titles and transports targeted CH&PA launched a home for issue in 2022 where 399 construction assistance persons registered for programme during the first assistance. half of the year in Regions 3, This programme allows 4, 6 and 10 with the aim of applicants to choose from providing access to three pre-designed units at a financing for persons costof$7million,$9million buildingtheirownhomes. or $12 million, and preUnder the programme, qualify for loans with the CH&PA distributed financial institutions such as 1,843 house lots during the Republic Bank and New first six months of the year, Building Society to meet the taking the total allocation to cost of construction 11,680 lots since August Additionally, the report said 2020. distribution of 800 home It is also expected that a improvement subsidies is further 8,000 lots will be planned for the second half distributed by the end of the of the year, with 121 home year Atotalof449landtitles improvement subsidies, andtransportswereissuedin valued at $60.5 million to be the first half of 2022, and an distributed in the third additional 5,600 are quarter, and a further 679 scheduledforthesecondhalf subsidies before the end of of the year, bringing the thefourthquarter
Govt. spends bulk of $12.4B budget allocated for housing sector in first half of 2022
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OmarKhan,45,ofBetter Hope, East Coast Demerara on Sunday died after he lost control of his car and ploughedintoatrench. The accident occurred on the Melsha Access Road, Mon Repos, East Coast D e m e r a r a a r o u n d 14:50hours. According to the police, Khan was proceeding south along the Melsha Road in motorcar PKK 4289 at a fast rate of speed when he lost control, causing the car to flip and coming to a stop in a nearby trench. Khan was pulled out Khan was charged back of the motorcar by public- in 2017, for the death of his spirited persons in an teen son,Azeez Khan.At the unconsciousstate. time, the father claimed that When Emergency the youth had fallen from a M dical Technicians ladder at his place of work. (EMTs)arrivedonthescene, However, a post mortem they pronounced Khan dead. examination found that the His body was then escorted young man died from to the mortuary, awaiting a hemorrhage, due to blunt post-mortemexamination. traumatothehead. Dead: Omar Khan
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The Bank of Guyana (BoG) in its report rate across the first 6 months of 2022 on the performance of the country in the first averaged 6.2 percent, consistent with the three months of 2022 had estimated that by recordhighinflationseenglobally,”theMidyear end, inflation (the rate of increase in YearReportexplained.Itwentontopointout prices over a given period of time) would that the United States for example recorded a reach4.1percent. 12-monthinflationrateof9.1percentinJune In the first few months of the year, 2022,thehighestratesince1981. inflation of 1.7% had already occurred. Nevertheless, the revised end-2022 12However, now, the Ministry of Finance in its month inflation rate is now forecasted to be Mid-YearReporthasrevisedthisestimateup. 5.8 percent in Guyana. Government said it Itisnowexpectedthatfull-yearinflationwill responded with a series of measures to ease be 5.8%. This represents an increase in the burden of growing commodity prices on expected inflation of 41% from the previous citizens when it announced the reduction of report. In fact, this 5.8% full year inflation excisetaxonpetroleumfrom20percentto10 rate is even higher than last year’s inflation percent which was further reduced from 10 rateof5.7%. percenttozero.
According to the document, the increase Additionally, the administration boasted is “underpinned by high food and energy thatinthisyear’sBudgetit“removedVATon prices, with the former increasing by 8.1 cement to lower the cost of construction, and percent and contributing 3.6 percentage announced the reduction of the final tax points to the inflation rate.” Further, it was applied on miners’incomes from 3.5 percent explained that the main drivers in the food to 2.5 percent, and the removal of the 10 categorythatpushedupthefigureweremeat, percenttributorstax.” fish and eggs, vegetables and vegetable Additionally, “as part of the $5 billion products as well as cereals and cereal allocatedinBudget2022formeasurestoease products. With regard to the higher energy the cost of living, Government utilised $1 cost, the Finance Ministry noted that major billion for the purchase and distribution of contributors were operation and personal fertiliser to farmers across the country and transport which rose by 27.1 percent, in $800 million for cash grants to households in additiontofuelandpowerincreasingbynine riverain and hinterland communities,” the percent. Ministrysaidinitsreport.Itwaskeentonote Government in its report pointed out that that the administration is committed to the while a 4.9 percent increase in CPI has been continued monitoring of cost of living recorded at the end of June, this is lower than throughout the rest of the year and moreover the5.6percentincreasethatwasdocumented responding “proactively with actions to at the end of half-year 2021. “The 12-month reducetheburdenonallGuyanese”.
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Mid-year inflation rate surpasses what was predicted for the entire year
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ByZenaHenry N i c h o l a s B o y e r i n available. the joint venture is a Guyanese working in the addressing the issues denied Boyer said that indeed registeredcompanywithjust oil and gas industry continue firstly, that Guyanese some Trinidadian workers ayardmanagerattheSaipem tobeglocalauthoritiestopay workers were being are being paid more than location, so orders come more attention to their threatened or pressured to Guyanese,butthisisbecause fromtheownersoftheyard. sign the employment of their experience He The publication was told contracts. Boyer explained reiterated that what is next is that the owners of the yard tothenewspaperthatstaffers “ after Guyanese would provided the contract terms implemented by some hired to work in the Saipem have acquired the necessary and the company had to support companies in Yard are provided by skills, then they would take provide the contracts to securingtheirservices. TOFCO, which secures over.” Boyer reiterated that workers according to that. Many workers from Trinidadian staffers and since the joint venture has to The source confirmed as GOGSSI, Guyana staff. He provide the staffers and only well that workers are being services have complained saidthatthepartnersprovide gets paid for manpower sent home without notice bitterly to labour unions and workers as demanded by the provided, it is obvious that from the yard as the contract even this newspaper about Saipem Yard when work is workers cannot be kept on is suited for them to retain payment and other work- available As such, the the job when there is no workers only when there is related inadequacies The Guyanese workers were moneytopaythem. work “To cut cost, the most recent complaint came placed on contract since This newspaper has workers are being sent home justdaysagowhenPresident work in the fabrication yard, r e c e i v e d c r e d i b l e since there is no work to beand Gas Support Services apart from giving the of the National Mines are project-based and would information however that done at the time, but(GOGSSI), were facing employers control overWorkers Union of Guyana only be available when a there seems to be deliberate Guyanese are the ones beingseveral challenges brought when the staffers work, also (NMWUG), Sherwin project has to be completed. movestomakeGuyanesethe placed on pause.” “And thisto his attention including requires them to pay their Downer, told the Kaieteur He said staffers were not scapegoats when limited is something that has to bebeing sent home for long own taxes and other News that workers from a threatened to be fired or not work is available in the foughtforatthelocalcontentperiods without any notice obligations.support services company, paid if they did not sign the fabrication yard. The source level with the subcontractor,ontheirreturntowork. Othercomplaintsarethat with whom they previously contract because it would told the Kaieteur News that because they (workers) doThe workers say they Guyanese are beinghad grievances, was again mean less Guyanese in the while the Guyanese arm of have a point, for instance,were no longer being placed punished, including being“circumventing”labourlaws yard, “and we only get paid the joint venture has been some of the work is beingon probation with the dismissed for speaking upthat allowed them to secure based on the number of hiring the local staffers, it is completed and it might bepossibility of becoming against inconsistencies and workers’ services, while Guyanese workers we actuallytheSaipemyardthat thattheyarebeingsenthomepermanent staff, but are now thattheywerebeingpaidless ditching their responsibility provide.” It is the same for gives the workers their for a couple of months untilon contract with their than their Trinidadian to the staffers Downer the Trinidadian partner as mandate and determine who the new work starts… andemployers being able to counterparts- some of whom highlighted that workers theytooarepaidbasedonthe will work during the low thatnotfair It’shardtobeinsporadically send them aredeliberatelybeingkeptin attached to the Trinidad and nu ber of workers season. It was explained that (Continued on page 10)homewhentheirservicesare Guyana longer than theyTobago, Guyana Partnership no longer needed. Downer should to do jobs that Company,TrinidadOffshore saidthattheworkersclaimed Guyanese should have byFabricators Unlimited to be forced into signing the nowbeenincontrolof. (TOFCO) and Guyana Oil employment contract which
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Guyana needs an authoritative and credible Petroleum Commission now, not some hazy time in the future, but now. Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo was all in warm agreement two years ago about the need for and place of a Petroleum Commission. Two years later he is still of the same helpful, cooperative mind. But while he has been all good cheer and smiling support for a Petroleum Commission, this country is still in the same place. That is, Guyana still does not have any kind of Petroleum Commission to play a meaningful role in our oil industry. The man in charge of Guyana’s oil business is dragging his feet. Dr. Jagdeo is an unconvincing picture of unsteadiness and uneasiness over the establishment of a Petroleum Commission that could stand on its own feet, make its own judgments, and make a difference. An independent, fully functioning Petroleum Commission, as based on empowering legislation, could carve out its own sweeping space for what goes beyond regulatory oversight. It could serve as an analyst, a reviewer, and a forecaster, and an influential advisor to the Government. It also could be a buffer and check and balance on the absolute power over this oil of any minister, or the excesses of other politicians.Thereare many aspects of this (and more) in the equivalent national petroleum bodies in Ghana and Norway, which could be blueprints for Guyana, if leaders in the PPP/ C Government really want to have a Petroleum Commission of standing and vast reach. So, when we hear Vice President Jagdeo dawdling and slipping his way around the presence of a Petroleum Commission, no good feeling surfaces, and there is a sense of ‘not again.’ This is driven by his past record of failing to deliver, or delaying, on things that could definitely benefit this country.
Good Lord, if we can’t do this in this oil country, then what the hell can we do, Mr (Dr.) President? What can you do, Sir?
GHKSincerely,Lall Kenya has won! against lawyers presenting ‘misleading or fabricated evidence’ which proved to be ‘hot air’ and sent the court on a ‘wild goose chase’ (BBC September 5). Sounds familiar...as in a report on another election the wild claims were similarly rebuked and rejected as a ‘fishing expedition’.Kenya has won! Shamshun Mohamed
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The absence of a vibrant Petroleum Commission just does not make sense, and raises all manner of speculation as to what he is really up to…. We think that any wise Political Leader, any Politician with protective national instincts, would be enthusiastic about the idea of, and driven to, establishing a Petroleum Commission. This is what should have been, a must, from the first announcements of oil discoveries offshore, with a genuine search for the right people beginning from those early days. This puts people of quality and integrity in charge of Guyana’s oil promise, not Politicians who have a history wherever oil has been found, of helping themselves to its riches and benefits at the expense of hopeful citizens.
DEAR EDITOR, Democracy is more than just having or guaranteeing free and fair election (FFE). The ABCE countries protected the will of the voters in March 2020 elections. The country is grateful and thankful. Are FFE the start and end of the democratic process? Are the ABCE countries only concerned about free and fair elections? Don’t they feel a moral duty to ensure the country also has democratic governance (consultation by the ruling party with the Opposition and with the citizens, representatives of civic and political organisations)?Nodoubtperiodic free and fair elections is the hallmark of democracy. But once
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A Petroleum Commission means a layer of oversight and fulfilling roles currently missing and which we must have.
Once again, we point to the far reaching Ghana and Norway models.Wethink that Dr. Jagdeo knows about all of this, which is why he has not dared to object, but still slips and slides around one being around. We are interested in giving Dr. Jagdeo the benefit of the doubt, but he makes it difficult for us. He does so whenever he bobs and weaves, and leaves us with little confidence in his frail posturing. When a Petroleum Commission could introduce some sanity and authority around our oil sector, he is stonewalling, and sniffing the air (like some cunning fox) to detect where danger lies. Why is he hesitant? Why is there this delay of two years and counting? Every day that there is no Commission in place means too much political management of the oil sector. It is revealing that the Vice President could justify ramping up production for many reasons, yet is so slothful on a Petroleum Commission of substance. As the push for a strong Petroleum Commission builds, there is the likelihood that we could end up with another entity that is the twin brother of Guyana’s toothless Environmental Protection Agency. Meaning that any Petroleum Commission finalised by Vice President Jagdeo would be a newborn puppy that is sightless and helpless, and one that is unable to stand on its own feet. With the right people, Guyanese of calibre and integrity, much progress could be achieved in how we oversee our expanding oil sector.We need an independent and potent Petroleum Commission, and we need it yesterday.
Unscheduled bridgae closure and a disgraceful discovery
most 19th century. I think it is an improvement from what I had used before, about a decadeTheago.water taxis themselves are on the upside, comparatively speaking. There are lifejackets, complete enclosure, and a bit of space, all a step up since almost none of those three amenities were presentButbefore.itwas on the Georgetown side of the river that I got a shock, and it takes a lot to do so in Guyana.Atthe Stabroek ‘Big’ Market Stelling, the destination point, I came across the unbelievable. Men were waiting on the Stelling right where the water taxis dock, to give a hand to those who need it (the weighed down, the elderly, women, and the frail) to get from the platform immediately off the docked water taxis onto the Stelling itself. There are these steep, I would say about 110% angled, steel rails for passengers to reach for, grab hold of, and pull or leverage themselves up a short flight of about 4-5 steps. Editor, to put it extremely mildly, I was ashen-faced and astonished that this was/is how boat passengers embark and debark on workday.atconfusiononlyschool,dailysideGeorgetown/Stabroektheoftheirmostlikelytravelsforwork,andsoforth.IcanimaginethechaosandandcongestionrushhouronaregularIcanonlyspecu-
late, with some trepidation, the tricky state of the daily commute during wet weather, or when it is both wet and dark.I hope that my fellow Guyanese can now identify with my anger, disgust, embarrassment, and spirit, as stated in the first few short sentences at the beginning of this writing. We are an oil country, or we are a sewer state. We are in the 21st century and poised to be the next Dubai. Or we are a classic Donkey Country, with you-know-what for Government and Governors. To make matters infinitely and excruciatingly worse, humiliatingly so, His Excellency President Ali h ails from ‘across the river’ so this is his backyard and his people. This leader has to have more pride, more awareness, more interest in taking care of the basics for his people. If he can’t take care of what is happening at Stelling,Georgetown/StabroekthethenIsubmitthat he is helpless to deliver much elsewhere. If he can’t be there for thousands of his own people, who use that facility day after day, then I lay before all that this man, this leader, this President is most ill-equipped to do anything constructive for this nation as aAndwhole.one more thing, after all the big speeches and massive episodes of self-congratulation over the big billions spent on infrastructure, he can’t find it in those spendings to spare GY$5M to 10M (with plenty allowance for teefin) to erect a simple, safe, and secure structure that literally provides more of a helping hand and solid footing to all our brothers and sisters who use that crossing facility daily.
DEAR EDITOR, Democracy is alive and strong in Kenya with the Chief Justice rejecting the challenge to the recent election results and upholding the declaration of William Ruto as President-elect.RailaOdinga lost the election and must take his ‘licks like a man’ (borrowing that famous phrase). The Court was harsh
ABCE Countries should speak out on lack of transparency and Accountability citizens vote, that is not the end of their involvement in the democratic process. The public is also empowered with a number of rights that are characteristic of democracy. But regrettably these rights are not enforced. This includes the right to criticise the Government without fear of victimisation. The Government should accept open critiques of its actions. Democratic governance also involves absolute transparency and accountability in policymaking, expenditures, awarding of contracts, etc. In addition, the Government must provide the Opposition and civic groups equal access to the state media with freedom to question the Government. All of the preceding characteristics of democracy are absent in Guyana. The ABCE countries guaranteed the country free and fair elections. But why aren’t they speaking out about lack of transparency and accountability and abuse of the state-owned media and the one private media house that is more sycophantic in favour of the Government than the state media? Why don’t the ABCE countries speak out on the lack of democracy in the selection of Presidential candidates in all the parties? Why aren’t they critical of the state media for its abuses of opponents and critics of the Government. What we have in Guyana is not a democracy but an elected autocracy. The people’s other rights are not enforced. The Government is controlled by two individuals who have zero tolerance for criticism. There have been countless complaints on lack of accountability and transparency over the last two years; similar situation during the last regime and pre2015.When the last regime was hell bent to manipulate the election result, sanctions were threatened. Visas of leading officials and their family members were cancelled by the USA. I appealed to the US Ambassador to invoke similar sanctions on those who are tied to corrupt practices and or violate other norms of a democratic culture.
DEAR EDITOR, I am angry. I am ashamed. I am disgusted and just plain sick at what passes for leadership decision-making and governance in this country. Incredibly, it all has to do with, is directly correlated to, Sunday’s unscheduled closure of the Demerara Harbour Bridge because of unforeseen developments. This is the sequence of events. I had to be present on the West Coast Demerara, and not too distant from where His Excellency, President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, originally hails. I assure everyone that it had nothing to do with reconnaissance, espionage, or sabotage. There I was just around 11:30hrs returning to the Bridge, with the long lines of vehicles queuing up three abreast to cross. At close to 13:00hrs, updates came, and they dashed any flickering hopes about a quick reopening. So, we turned around and headed for the Vreed-en-Hoop Stelling to make the crossing via speedboat, or water taxi, which is what I think they are called these days. It was a thickening crowd for a Sunday, but orderly and moving. There were a number of water taxis lined up, and it looked as though business was brisk, as I expected given the condition of the Bridge. We lined up, kept moving, and descended into a waiting boat/taxi.The descent on the Vreed-en-Hoop side was fair, though somewhat surprisingly ancient and crude, al-
Petroleum Commission, why not now?
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FAO study on poor catch not interviewed nor being asked to take part in any surveys as part of the study. No data were collected from the fishermen as to the amount of fish now being caught vs. the amount caught say six months ago, fishers were not asked for their reasons why the catches were declining, etc.So Dear Editor, we the fishers want to know how the study was done if fishers were not involved? Who were the research persons conducting the study and what are their qualifications? And most importantly, where can the documents that made up the study be found. In the meanwhile, fishers continue to suffer from low catches despite now being the peak of the fishing season. Are the fishing areas being over fished, is it the noise and pollution from emerging oil and gas exploration and extraction contributing to the low catches, is it as our leaders say the effects of climate change on the sea water or is it a combination of all theseMorefactors.ought to be done by the relevant stakeholders as to bring some semblance of clarity as to why are the catches declining in Guyana and we do hope that this le tter catches their attenti on. Fishermen/women may be uneducated but are not stupid. Yours since rely, A concerned fisher
The Politics of Chicanery and Datadin’s Revealing Group Supremacy Mentality… for the Prime Minister and other Ministers, who have miniscule or no power to hire or to prevent hiring or prevent firing, within their Ministries, this is the sad reality. 2. Government majority discusses oil sector with Opposition in Parliament; yet will have no talks with Harmon in his capacity as Opposition Leader, unless he formally recognises the PPP administration as the Governing AdministrationAli (Demerara Waves, March 4, 2021). What malarkey! This state of affairs is insulting and disrespectful to our slogan of One People… The statement by Malcolm X that not everyone sitting at the table is a diner, can be aptly applied here. Everyone needs to be eating. It is an uncivil and a dehumanising policy for elements of the PPP to embrace the belief that African-Guyanese are not competent to lead and head agencies and organisations in a successful and effective way; this is the crux of a complete fallacy. It borders on a God Complex Syndrome, where one entity dictates that “the others” must accept the scraps, which if accepted, depicts the “other” as window dressing, a sponger or both, as well as a sell-out, due to the rubber stamping role they have to operate within. This is not about MP Datadin, it is about a culture of anti-black prejudice that perpetuates a canon that some Guyanese are only fit and proper to fetch water or be disenfranchised from being treated as first class citizens of Guyana. Several non-traditional PPP supporters from their personal experience, have informed me that this current administration is by order of magnitude and to extreme lengths; discriminated more than any previous PPP administration against African Guyanese, in both the private and public sector. Show me some genuine economic inclusion by this governing administration at an uncompromised leadership level, and I’ll show you a flying elephant. I have had discourse with many members of both the PNC and PPP - our exchanges were mostly private and will remain that way however, it seems to me that ‘the colony in a nation’ environment is being nourished with blank (Continued on page 6)
DEAR EDITOR, The recent statements coming from the Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo and the Minister of Agriculture Mr. Zulfikar Mustapha that the reason the fishermen of Guyana are experiencing low and poor catches was due to effects of climate change (too much rains affecting the salinity of the sea water) leave more questions than answers. Both este emed gentlemen gave as their explanation that this conclusion came from a study purported to have been done by the FAO, the Fisheries Department and the FishermenEPA.have not seen the documents that had made up the study as yet, why is this document been kept a secret, as an active fisherman coming from a recognised fish landing site and conv ersing with fellow fishers we were not aware of any research/study being done. Fishermen were
Tuesday September 06, 2022 Kaieteur News PAGE 5 DEAR EDITOR, Datadin avoids addressing need for Antiracial Governance: Updated from my March 6, 2021 letter in Guyana Standard. My response to Datadin’s March 3, letter is even more relevant in the current political social landscape - True then and more prevalent Now! The pronouncements by Datadin in ‘Guyana Standard’ on March 3, 2021 were not initiated by him, another opinion of mine. Datadin statements displayed that he does not understand nor does not care that the action of the PPP leadership has brought us to a point ripe for conflict andBelowclashes.is an interesting extract from Datadin’s comments, where he overtly writes on behalf of the PPP in the last paragraph of his letter: He said that he is of the firm belief that Hinds has said all he did because “he thinks we must consult him personally. Then he will be satisfied. But it cannot work thatConsultationway.” is needed with those entities that have constituencies and support bases, such as the PNC and other organisations. The silly notion of Datadin’s that I think the PPP need not consult, is ridiculous and must have been a brain freeze moment for supporters.byAgenciesamongMinisterconsultancyillustrate“servants”.decidedecisionsacceptandthemselvesEssentially,theirconsultitadministrationbeliefconditions.improveaccessneeddisadvantagedcaptureopportunityconsultation.needyopportunitiesownership,contracts,itdoesDisenfranchisementhim.notonlyrelatetovotes,isrelevanttojobs,propertyaccesstocapital,forthemoreandparticipatoryEqualforalldoesnottheplightofgroupswhogovernmentsupporttoopportunitiesandtheirlivingIexpandhereinonthethatthecurrentdoesnotseefitandpropertogenuinelywiththoseoutsideofleadershiphierarchy.theyconsiderasthemasters,theirsubjectsmustwhatevercrumbsortheyunilaterallyuponfortheirTwostarkexamplesPPP/Datadin’snon-syndrome:1.TheneuteringoftheofForeignAffairs,otherMinisters,andAdvisors,lednon-traditionalPPPStatusandtitles
GoG committed to sustainably manage Guyana’s resources jointly with all stakeholders
EDITOR, The Government of Guyana through the Ministry of Natural Resources is not surprised at the recent misinformation contained in a Press Statement from the Guyana Human Rights Association, where poor attempts were made to deliberately mislead members of the public. The dictatorial head of the so-called Guyana Human Rights Association seems to be suffering from the Rip Van Winkle syndrome and has only recently awakened from his deep slumber to attract routine attention for Therelevance.Ministryof Natural Resources wishes to acknowledge and re-emphasise that it was this current administration that implemented the policy to recognise indigenous titled lands and this still obtains to date. As it relates to the Chinese Landing issue, the Ministry would like to restate and remind the GHRA which suffers from selective amnesia, and all interested stakeholders that the mining permit re-
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Leader to grovel before him, in order for them to have a meeting, illustrates the kind of class servility traditionalized in some cultures. It was the Mexican Emiliano Zapata who noted several times that: “It is better to die on your feet, than to live a lifetime on your knees.” Nigel Hinds
ceived favourable judgment from Guyana’s final court for redress, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). However, in the minds of those at the GHRA like their political handlers, they believe that the decisions of the CCJ can be ignored for their convenience, much like the APNU+AFC portrayed during the March 02, 2020 elections fiasco. Further, it was the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission that supported and joined the legal challenge with the Chinese Landing community against the miner. The PPP/C Government firmly respects the court of laws and most importantly the rights of all its people and as such during the recent National Toshaos Conference discussions were held with the Chinese Landing leaders and other stakeholders. This is ongoing and efforts will be continued for an amicable solution for all stakeholders within the confines of the law. However, it is not surprising that the one-man Executive Committee, self-appointed Head of the GHRA, Mike McCormack is once again temporarily awakened to continue his misinformation agenda to justify collecting funding from his political blind-sided handlers. Most notably, it is no secret that the PPP/C Government is committed to working towards the interest of all Guyanese irrespective of political affiliations, race, gender, or disability to safeguard and secure a prosperous, progressive, and peaceful ‘One Guyana’. As such, the Government trough the Ministry of Natural Resources and its regulatory agencies remains committed to implementing policies in keeping with the laws of Guyana to ensure the country’s resources are sustainably managed for the economic and social benefits of all Guyanese. This will be guaranteed under the new Low Carbon Development Strategy 2030 for an environmentally rich and economically prosperous Guyana.
EDITOR, It is not too late to change the idea of a new From page 5 promises and pseudo appointments by the PPP that have to be rejected. The dated request by the President for the Opposition
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New bridge idea bridge and have a tunnel instead.This allows constant flow with closures for ships to pass. P. Pay
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Guyanese
Guyanese say harsh words against foreign corporate predators, and Guyana Governments are the biggest cheerleaders of the foreigners. Take a tough stand against the same foreign corporate predators, and Government after Government in Guyana are the biggest defenders of the foreigners, who exploit our riches on the cheap, even on the sly. The Coalition did its share of the cheerleading and defending, but the PPP/C Government is in a class all by itself where the foreigners are concerned. The PPP/C Government and its leaders declare war on Guyanese for daring to point out opportunities to pressure the foreigners. Both don’t want to hear anything that makes companies from ABCE (and other) countries uneasy and uncomfortable. And, all of it is to make the foreign corporate predators happy, and exploit us some more. Guyanese: when is there going to be enough anger to run the locals out of office, and the foreigners out of town? Our Governments have preferred to disown us, distance from us, and deny our hopes, destroy our dreams.
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I am sure will do well with a set of specific goals to oil spending effectively He S i n h e oil and gas but the question I ensure citizens are in the said this was a major failing Government’s intent to not ask is: “How can you do driver’s seat of the industry of Trinidad and Tobago. He renego iate the 2016 better you? A few things These include prioritizing said, “Any money that came Stabroek Block Production keep me thinking about Guyanese nationals and in quickly, was very Sharing Agreement (PSA), wheretheanswerstothisare. Guyanese companies in the inefficiently used and and instead, seek to claw The question of natural gas procurement of goods and sometimes stolen so I would b h comes up in this regard. servicesfortheenhancement say that Guyana should mechanisms like the Local Who’s thinking of the big of the value chain of the make sure that it builds the Con tion, picture for natural gas? petroleum sector, enabling capacity to manage industry stakeholders Who’s looking at the whole local capacity development, expenditurewellandyouput thereforesuggestthatcarebe resource potential of it? and providing for the the right amount in savings taken in how fast offshore Who’s looking at the investigation, supervision, andlong-terminvestments.” field development takes downstream potential and co ordination, monitoring Paul “ h place. and and evaluation of, and financial management of Essentially, going too partnerships that keep locals participation in, local that quick revenue is wealthy That can have an view that Guyana can andfast could undermine the inthedriver’sseat?” contentinGuyana. somethingthatIhaven’tseen impact on things like crime, willdowellwithitsoilsectorgoals of the legislation. This The next matter for Paul said, “If local a lot of conversation around quality of life etc ” solongasitkeepsitseyesonadvice was recently offered consideration he said is the content is important then because you also don’t want Ultimately, the Energy the right issues and citizensby Trinidadian Energy pace of development. Paul faster isn’t better because a society where the poor get Strategist said he is of the continuetobevigilant.Strategist, Dr Anthony Paul reasoned that if it is the you can’t build capacity fast poorer and the rich get filthy during his appearance on country’s intention to enoughtogetthevalueoutof K a i e t e u r R a d i o ’ s achieve its local content it if you are spending and Programme, ‘Guyana’s Oil goals, build capacity and producing quickly too. So andYou’. maximize value, then a fast that’s a consideration for the Paul said, “It is no doubt p a c e d d e v e l o p m e n t country.” that this is a very exciting underminesthis. Another key factor he time for Guyana. The According to Guyana’s noted is the importance of potentialishugeandGuyana LocalContentLaw,thereare building capacity to manage onscious of the in Guyana to realise its full organisationsaid,isforthere migration of growthpotential. to be an understanding of theClabour from With this in mind, the type of labour, which is traditionalsectorsintotheoil IOM said it is crucial that needed as the country moves a n d g a s i n d u s t r y, Guyana understands that it deeper into the oil and gas Government said it has needs to tap into its Diaspora era. engaged a Consultant to potential and urgently Towards this end, the analyze this state of affairs produce a structured IOM said there is need for and provide immediate migration policy, informed the establishment of labour solutions. byevidence-basedanalysis. market information systems In its 2022 Mid-Year The document noted, (LMIS) which can be Report,Governmentsaidthe “Guyana has a large handled by a labour market Consultant will review gaps Diaspora around the world, information centre (LMIC). in the labour market and particularly in the US, UK It was explained that an supportthedesignoftraining and Canada, this pool of LMIC can be a bureau of and appropriate policy Guyanese workers is said to Government which does advicetoresolvetheongoing number about 550,000 many research, analysis, and issues. of whom are considered forecasts. With just a population of highlyskilled. This agency would have about 700,000 people, a I t i s t h e r e f o r e the principal responsibility report by the International r e c o m m e n d e d t h a t of analysing the labour Organisation on Migration structured engagement with market, forecasting trends, (IOM), has highlighted that the Diaspora ensues so this understandinglabourmarket the foregoing review would skill set can be utilised to gaps, collaborating with be urgently needed since the contribute to its maximum agencies such as the Bureau country could face a labour potential.” of Statistics, evolving the crisis with the emergence of Simultaneously,theIOM Central Recruitment & theoilandgassector stated that the Government Manpower agency and The report states that if must ensure the Guyanese advising government on Guyana were to harness all workforce benefits from policy of its unemployed, significant training for those Overall,theIOMsaidthe underemployed and without skills, retraining for Government has taken discouraged workers, the those whose skills may be several steps in the right potential supply of labour mismatched with the direction however, reforms, would be only 63,500 the demand in the economy, and i n n o v a t i o n a n d medium-term. It goes on to upgrading of skills for those modernization, will be state that Guyana will need who may have skills but are needed to ensure that approximately 160,000 unable to operate in an Guyana can handle an workers. It concluded that intensified competitive explosion of growth in there will be the need for, at environment. migrantworkerscominginto minimum, 100,000 workers Equally crucial, the thecountry
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Local Content Goals could be compromised if field development goes too fast -Expertwarns
T&T AnthonyStrategist,EnergyPaul
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Govt. engages Consultant to address gaps in labour market
Tuesday September 06, 2022 Kaieteur News PAGE 9
School reopen and Christina now gat to carry she children to school.
Nothing has been said about what percentage of students passed five or more CSEC subjects, including Mathematics and English. In order to get a job in the Public Service you need four CSEC subjects, unless you have Godfather or Godmother in the system who will waive the requirements. In the past it used to be five subjects including English and Mathematics. The general entry requirement for the University of Guyana used to be five subjects including English and Mathematics. The entry level requirements for employment into most private sector entities is the same. But we are yet to hear or read what percentage of those sitting the CSEC examinations got five or more subjects at the 2022 examinations. We are yet to learn what percentage got five or more subjects including Mathematics and English. We are also yet to be told about the pass rate for Mathematics and English and whether four out of every 10 students are still failing these subjects. We are yet to be told about the pass rates in each of the Region and including a breakdown for English and Mathematics.
Each year we are reading either about marginal improvements or marginal declines in English and Mathematics. That is not going to produce the sort of workforce which is needed for the modern and transformative economy which the Government contends is being established.TheGovernment is always keen to parade the top performers when they make the announcement of the results. But they should be circumspect, since there have been misrepresentation and embarrassment in the past. The final determination of the top students is usually done based upon criteria set and determined by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC). And that process has to await the outcome of the appeal of the grades which usually takes one month. So it is not until October that the country is likely to know the overall top performer and top performers in Science, Arts, Technical and Vocational Studies, Humanities, Short Story and Visual Arts. A few years ago, there was also a terrible controversy concerning the CAPE results. The CAPE results are done in two units and you cannot judge the overall top achievers solely by passes at one unit. The results of two units, usually done over a period of two years, have to be combined. The authorities therefore have to be careful. They can speak about top performers but not rank these performers until the CXC is finished with the review process. By mid-October, the ranking of local top performers will be made public. Our students continue however to make a mockery of the Caribbean Examinations Council. One student passed as many as 28 subjects. For the past few years students have been writing and passing, with excellent grades, as many as 20 plus Theresubjects.isareason why students are writing so many subjects at CSEC, apart from testing their limits. The CXC offers scholarships to the top performers at CSEC but strangely does not do this for CAPE. The students are desperate for these awards and so they are writing as many subjects as they can to obtain the awards at CSEC. For CAPE, the CXC does not offer scholarship but the Government does and thus there is also fierce competition for these scholarships.Thelarge number of subjects which Guyanese students are writing has posed a credibility problem for the examinations. Persons are beginning to question how anyone can humanly pass so many subjects and with such excellent grades unless these students are geniuses or the examinations are too easy. There is no doubt that Guyana has the finest students in the Caribbean. No question about that. But these students are being put under immense pressure because of the desire to win these scholarships which are offered by the CXC. The CXC has to begin to look at this issue. The purpose of the examinations is not to fail anyone but to help develop their capabilities and intellect but with these students writing so many subjects it raises questions about the examinations. The CXC needs to find a way to move the incentive more towards CAPE rather than CSEC. And at the same time to find a way of encouraging academic excellence without students having to write so many subjects. (The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)
Haslyn been know Maths good. But he gone a lang time ago. Suh dem boys hoping dat some ah dem old professors of Mathematics can help dem with lil addition, subtraction andItmultiplication.mekdemboys remember de story of de Mathematics teacher and de exchange student from overseas. De Maths teachers start fuh teachDefractions.exchange student raise he hand and say, “Excuse me Miss but ah don’t know how to say fractions. How do you say “Easy,”those?” de teacher seh, “you just say the top number and then the bottom number is read as an ordinal number. For example, 2/3 is ‘two-thirds’, 3/4 is ‘threefourths’, and 2/5 is ‘twofifths’.” “Thanks, ah understand,” de exchange student“Good,”seh.de teacher seh, and den ask de student, “so how do you say 4/8?” “Should I reduce?” de boy“Thatask. would be best,” seh de “One-second,”teacher. said de exchange student. “Take as long as you need,” seh de teacher. Talk half, leff half.
Dem boys hope dat she done sort out how much money she spending per week fuh dem children. But now dat school open some ah dem politicians in de APNU can get some help with dem Maths. It seem like dem having prablems with division, multiplication and even addition. Dem calling numbers wah proving to be wrang.
Over to Aunty Priya!
APNU looking fuh Maths teachers
Suh dem boys hoping dat some ah dem old Maths teachers can volunteer to help dem.
The educational authorities are attempting to milk the results of the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) and the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC). They seem overjoyed by the fact that the pass rate for CAPE has increased from 90.86% to 93.22%; and the pass rate jumped from 66.3% to 68.5% But that is only one metric for each of the levels of secondary examinations.
Dem boys seh...
Kaieteur NewsPAGE 10 Tuesday September 06, 2022 THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN
Frederick Kissoon
From page 3 venture had been sent home for months such a position.” The source continued that because there was not enough work, while even Guyanese companies are being left in the Trinidadians were being kept onboard. the middle because they merely provide the The newspaper was told that since that staff.TheTrinidadiancompanywillfightfor report, the local workers were made into theirworkerstoremainsincethatishowthey ‘independent contractors’responsible for all are paid and this is despite their staff having their employment obligations. When the to be reduced so that Guyanese could take joint venture landed the Saipem contract last over Also, they are more interested in December, Boyer had told the media that keeping the Trinidadians knowing that they “TOFCO were the ones who had done the alreadyhavetheskills. first project and we have worked to create This newspaper had reported some time thisjointventurecompanyandtrainlocalsto back that the Guyanese staff in the joint dothesamething.”
Guyanese oil and gas workers still...
Ramjattan versus Kissoon – and publicise the contents approvaltoconcur never, I repeat never made renewed accord.h e m r a j of the non-disclosure paper I consulted Mr Hughes anotherappearanceincourt. He cannot tellRamjattan, the All Guyanese who have an who asked me if I want to For a trial to have lasted the GuyaneseAFC’s leaderK interest in discerning the end the matter I gave him from 2011 to 2019 and Mr people what arehad a mouthful to say about character of public figures my reasons for so doing. A Ramjattan’s presence was t h e s e c r e tmeattheGoldenGroverally should demand that covenant was drawn up, my only for five days does not arrangement Heof the PNC last week. Based Ramjattan and I answer lawyer examined it and I constitute a defence by him must show the nationon what he mouthed off questions in full view of all approved it. I did not see the of me. Now here is the the words that heagainst me, he and I were Guyanesewherevertheyare. document The broad precondition for going agreedto.requested for an interview to I am going to go in front agreement was read out in public with the non So for those who told Mr Brown that becausesit next to each other by well of the Guyanese people and court. I did not sign the disclosure item. Ramjattan don’t like Freddie Kissoon, I requested the trial to end,known diaspora personality, read what Ramjattan calls document I believe Mr said I signed a non you have a chance to destroy and signed the nonNorman Brown of the UK. t h e n o n d i s c l o s u r e Hughes acted in my best disclosure paper. Fine! I will my credibility. You will see disclosure paper, I wasMr Brown is a staunch critic agreement between me and interest and I have no revealit. what I approved in a compelled to criticise theofthePPPgovernment. Bharrat Jagdeo. I have problem with publicly But Ramjattan has to covenant drafted by Mr. APNU+AFC government.Mr Ramjattan referred nothingtohide.Idonothave reading the document after I reveal his non disclosure Jagdeo’s lawyers. And if it Briefly,IdidrequestthelibelMr Brown to a document I acopyofthedocument.That secureahardcopy. item too. He signed the compromises me then I have trial to end. Secondly, thesigned with Bharrat Jagdeo wasworkedoutbetweenMr. I need to point out at renewed Cummingburg lostmycredibility. trial was halted in 2019. Asto bring an end to the libel Jagdeo’s lawyers and my many public meetings and in Accord in February 2020 For those who admire early as June 2015 I wastrial Mr Jagdeo brought attorney,NigelHughes. television interviews, Mr with Joseph Harmon and Mr Ramjattan and will vote attacking the APNU+AFCagainst me. Ramjattan told Mr Hughes represented Ramjattan has taken credit parts of it had to remain for him in 2025, you have a government in literallyB r o w n t h a t I a m my interest and did so to the fordefendingme.Thatisnot secret. Mr Ramjattan spoke chance to see if your leader hundreds of articles betweencompromised by the nonbest of his ability I did not true and he should stop lying to the press defending the has credibility and character June 2015 and Novemberdisclosure agreement I pay him I trusted Mr to the Guyanese people. The secretsectionsoftheaccord. If he wants me to show you 2019 when the trial came toaccepted Brown’s offer Mr Hughesinthedeepestwayto case began in 2011 and So we both are going to what I signed with Mr an end. Ramjattan is in anRamjattandeclined. protect my interest when the lasted to 2019. During those go in front of the nation with Jagdeo, then, he must show extremely bad position rightI am willing to go on any rendezvous was approved. years there were hearings in the original document in our you what he signed with now How can he escape?programme – mainstream Mr Jagdeo’s lawyers felt eachyear Mr Ramjattanand hands. Mr Nigel Hughes Joseph Harmon. I am most Doyoufeelsorryforhim?media, radio, television and that the libel belonged to a Mr Chris Ram left the trial will be a witness to me willing to discuss the non- (The views expressed innewspapersandsocialmedia bygone era and sought my after the first five days, and deceivingpeopleifIreadout disclosure paper with every this article are those of the what is not in the paper human on planet earth a u t h o r a n d d o n o t Ramjattan has to come with Ramjattanmustdothesame. necessarily reflect the the original copy of the Finally, Mr Ramjattan opinions of this newspaper.)
Secret documents:
Tuesday September 06, 2022 Kaieteur News PAGE 11
To be Cleavaughnsentenced:Hamilton
Awaiting sentencing: Gordon Leslie Durant
Elderly man admits to killing wife house-bodywasfoundincoveredwithsand en years after the d e c o m p o s e d body of JoanT Durant, was discovered buried in the sand of an unfinished bathroom, her 80-year-old husband, Gordon Leslie Durant, on Monday admittedtokillingher Durant appeared before JusticeJo-AnnBarlowinthe DemeraraHighCourt,when the capital charge was read tohim.Hedeniedthecharge which stated that between June 26, 2012 and June 28, 2 0 1 2 , a t M e l a n i e sentencing to September 15, Joan’s son had reported her Damishana, East Coast 2022, and ordered that a missing on June 26, 2012 Demerara, he murdered the probationreportbeprepared and two days later her 50-year-oldwoman. in favour of the accused. husband confessed to the While the accused Representing the State in policeandledthemtowhere denied the murder charge he this matter are Prosecutors, he buried his wife. Joan’s pleaded guilty to the lesser Marisa Edwards, Simran decomposed body was count of manslaughter. Gajraj,andLatifahElliot discovered in the unfinished Justice Barlow deferred his According to reports, housecoveredinsand.
JoanDead:Durant
Kaieteur NewsPAGE 12 ays after he she left her ‘C’Field Sophia Hamilton, and a taxidenied killing house. On April 19, 2016, driver, Ranachal Singh, 31, themotherofhis H a c k e t t ’s p a r t i a l l y of Lot 7 Good Hope,D child, 30 year decomposed body was Mahaicony, ECD, were later old Cleavaughn Hamilton, discovered in a trench charged with the capital called ‘Quarters, ’ a gold parallel to the University of offence. Last Thursday, both miner of Mahaica, East Guyana(UG)road,atFourth men appeared before Justice CoastDemerara,onMonday Field, Cummings Lodge. It Sandil Kissoon in the changed his plea and was reported that her throat Demerara High Court. In admittedtomurder was slit and there was what this case, the State is It was onApril 16, 2016, appeared to be two stab represented by Prosecutor, 25-year-old Simone Hackett wounds to the back of her MuntazAli. was reported missing after neck. Hamilton had denied the charge, while Singh pleaded laterpickedupinSingh’scar A few days later, guilty to the lesser count, withHamiltoninside. Hackett’s body was manslaughter However, on Hamilton admits to, discovered, along with the Monday Hamilton changed while in the back seat of the weapon that was used to kill his plea and admitted to said car stabbing Hackett her Hackett died from an murdering Simone Hackett. several times about her body incised wound to her neck According to the statement andslashingherthroatwitha and there were 11 other of the agreed facts, during knife. The men then stopped incisedwoundstoherbody the month of March in 2016, the car at a bushy concrete Hamilton was later Hackett and Hamilton had a bridge and Hamilton arrested and gaved an oral disputeovertheirson. dragged Hackett’s body out statement of the role he Hamilton admits that on of Singh’s car and dumped played.Healsoledthepolice April 16, 2016 he contacted herinanearbytrench,where to the spot where Hackett Singh to take him to pick up he also disposed of the was picked up. Singh’s car Hackett. The men lured the murderweapon. was also discovered with young woman to the UG After committing the blood stains on the seats and Road by having Singh crime, the two men stopped maggots below the mats in calling her and pretending to at a canal on the East Coast thebackseat. be Dexter someone she of Demerara, where Hamilton and Singh usuallycollectsitemssentby Hamilton soaked his shirt were friends for a few years Hamiltonfrom. andusedittocleantheblood and knew each other from The woman left home stains from the car They Mahaicony Both men are believing that she was going then drove to Mahdia, expected to be sentenced on to meet Dexter and she was RegionEight. September26,2022. Tuesday September 06, 2022
To be Ranachalsentenced:Singh
Gold miner changes plea, now admits to murdering child-mother
Dead: Simone Hackett
Bhedesh Persaud of Queen’s Secondary in Region Six, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Entrepreneurship Unit 1 and 2, College gained 14 grade ones and President’sCollegeinRegionFour, Science, Food and Nutrition, Tourism Unit 1& 2, Logistical and one grade two at this year’s TheWest Demerara Secondary and French, Geography, History, Supply Chain Operations Unit Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Saraswati Vidya Niketan School in Information Technology, Law, 1and 2, Building and Mechanical Examination(CAPE). Region Three, the Anna Regina LiteraturesinEnglish,Logisticand Eng. Drawing – Mech Unit 1and 2, Persaud was also a top Secondary in Region Two, and for Supply Chain Management, Building and Mechanical Eng performer in the lower sixth form Georgetown the exam centres were Management of Business, Physical Drawing–BuildingUnit1and2. and earlier, at the Caribbean located at the Bishops’ High, Education and Sports, Physics, Further, in twenty eight units Secondary Education Certificate Queen’s College, St Joseph’s High, Pure Mathematics, Sociology, thepassrateofcandidateswas75% (CSEC)examinations. St Rose’s High, St. Stanislaus Spanish, Tourism,PerformingArts or higher with Grades One to Five Vish Kistama of Berbice High College, Marian Academy, Adult andGreenEngineering. passes These include Accounting secured Grade One passes in ten EducationAssociation and Chase’s Giving a breakdown of the Unit 1,Agricultural Science Unit 1, (ten) Units and a Grade Two in one Academy performance, the Ministry of Applied Mathematics Unit 1and 2, Unit Atishta Seenarine of As it relates to E Testing Educationnotedinthirty-fiveunits, Biology Unit 1 and 2, Caribbean Saraswati VidyaNakitan secured platform, nine examination centres candidates obtained a 100% pass StudiesUnit1,ChemistryUnit1and Grade Ones passes in nine (9) used the modality to offer Paper rate with grades one to five passes 2,CommunicationStudiesUnit1. Units Additionally, Trenny Ones examinations in twenty in Accounting Unit 2, Agricultural According to the Ministry, an credit hours), was separatelyEdwards of St Stanislaus College subject areas. The participating Science Unit 2, Computer Science improved performance was examinedandcertified.securedGradeOnepassesin6(six) centres were Berbice High, Unit 2, Digital Media (Unit 1 and r e c o r d e d i n I n t e g r a t e d
Ramoll Baboolall of Anna Regina who wrote 27 CSEC subjects and gained 24 Grade Ones and three Grade Twos. (Photos Credit: NCN TV)
Top CAPE Bhedeshperformer:Persaud
QC boy tops CAPE with 14 grade ones, 1 grade two
Anna Regina boy cops 27 CSEC subjects
reliminary results of the Caribbean S e c o n d a r y E d u c a t i o n Certification Examination (CSEC) revealed that an Anna Regina Secondary School student, Ramoll Baboolalltoppedthecountry with 27 subjects- 24 being grade ones and three grade twos.Coming in second was Uotam Heeralall also of Anna Regina Secondary who wrote 25 subjects and gained 24 Grade Ones and one Grade Two. In at third is Anna Regina Secondary Daniel Dowding with 22 Onesandthreetwos. The preliminary results results tonight (Monday) Ones in eight or more Ones, Sheridan Dyal of Grade One and four Grade Outstanding performance which were released on will have an opportunity to subjects. Of the 213 she Queen’sCollegewhogained Twos. were noted in nine subjects Monday by the Ministry of appeal those grades and added that 28 candidates 18 Grade Ones and one At this year’s exams it where 90% and over gained Education at the Anna thoseappealscouldchangea secured 14 Grade Ones or Grade Two, Krips Thani of was mentioned that a total of acceptable Grades One to Regina Secondary School in pictureentirely.” more. Queen’s College, who 10,368 students registered Three Some of these Region Two showed that Noting the criteria for The 28 candidates are gained 18 Grade Ones , for the May/June sitting as subjects are: Agricultural four out of the top five determining the student with from schools such as Anna Manisha Bhrimranie of compared to 9,808 that Science (double award) with performers were students of the most outstanding award, Regina, Queen’s College, Anna Regina who gained 16 registeredlastyear 99.43%, Music with 100%, thatschool. Minister Manickchand Skeldon Line Path, Grade Ones and three Grade An analysis of the 2022 Electronic Documentation Revealing this year’s top further said, “ Sometimes Saraswati Vidya Niketan, Twos,LateishaMcArthurof preliminary results revealed P r e p a r a t i o n a n d performers at CSEC was who the top student is, the Tagore High, Rosignol Queen’s College, who that the overall pass rate at Management with 90.90%, Minister of Education, Priya person who gets the most Secondary andAbram’s Zuil gained 16 Grade Ones and the General and Technical and Industrial TechnologyM a n i c k c h a n d , w h o outstanding award either in Secondary two Grade Twos, Leezo proficienciesforGradesOne Mechanical with 98.68%. cautioned that the results are the country or in the region, Other top students Prasad of Skeldon Line Path to Three was 68 5% as Withthecountry’stopCSEC only‘preliminaryresults.’ is dependent on more than topping the list are, Saskia who gained 16 Grade Ones comparedto2021whichhad performers yet to be “ W h a t w e a r e just the highest number of Twahir of Queen’s College and one Grade Two, 66.36%passrate. officially announced, it was announcing are preliminary ones, it’s dependent on a who gained 21 Grade Ones Niashree Madho of It was noted by Chief mentioned yesterday within results,wedon’thaveresults combinationofsubjects.” and one Grade Two, Saraswati Vidya Niketan Education Officer, Dr. 10 days, the Ministry of yet that are concrete because Before announcing the Chavelee Solomon of Anna who gained 16 Grade Ones Marcel Hutson that E d u c a t i o n w i l l b e they (CXC) don’t have top performers, the Minister Reginawhogained19Grade and three Grade Twos, and improved performance at announcing this year’s results that are yet concrete mentioned that a total of 213 Ones and two Grade Twos, Bhagmattie Sarendranauth CSEC was evident in 20 National Grade Six and why is that, because all candidates who wrote the Eshika Singh of Anna also of Saraswati Vidya subjects and remained Assessment (NGSA) the children who get their exams, have secured Grade Reginawhogained18Grade Niketan , who gained 16 constant in six subjects examinationsresults.
Daniel Dowding of Anna Regina Secondary who wrote 25 CSEC subjects and gained 22 Grade Ones and one Grade two.
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Uota, Heeralall of Anna Regina Secondary who wrote 25 CSEC subjects and gained 24 Grade Ones and one Grade Two.
The single unit subjects offeredUnits, three Grade Twos, three Christianburg/Wismar Secondary, 2), Animation ad and Gaming Mathematics from 78.67% in 2021 was Caribbean Studies,Grade Threes and one Grade Queen’s College, St Joseph High, D e s i g n U n i t 1 a n d 2 , to 83 67% in 2022 Pure Communication Studies andFour. A release from the St Rose’s High, St Stanislaus Environmental Science (Unit 1 and Mathematics Units 1 and 2 also Integrated Mathematics TheMinistry of Education outlined that College, President’s College, 2), Electrical and Electronic recorded improved performances double unit subjects offered werethe students scored the highest Marian Academy and Saraswati Technology Unit 2, French Unit 1, in 2022. Pure Mathematics Unit 1 accounting, Agricultural Science,grades out 671 candidates from 12 VidyaNiketan. Information Technology Unit 2, moved from 58.89% in 2021 to Applied Mathematics, Art andSecondarySchoolsandfourprivate The Ministry noted that while Green Engineering Unit 1 & 2, 65.35% in 2022 while Pure Design, Animation and Gaming,centres who wrote the CAPE last candidates from the other Management of Business Unit 2, MathematicsUnit2recordedapass Biology, Building and MechanicalJune. The exams were written via territories were offered units in Physics Unit 2, Sociology (Unit 1 rate of 80.95% in 2022 as against EngineeringDrawingBuildingandseventeen examination Centres thirty three subject areas, and 2), Spanish (Unit 1 and 2), 74.17%in2021.CaribbeanStudies Mechanical, Chemistry, Computerlocated at Mackenzie High School, candidates from Guyana offered Tourism Unit 1 and 2, Physical and Communication Studies Science, Digital Media,Christianburg/Wismar Secondary, sixty one units at this year’s Education and Sport Unit 1& 2, continue to record an over 90% Economics, Electrical andIDCE – Linden in Region 10, examination. Each Unit comprises Performing Arts Unit 1 and 2 pass rate. The overall pass rate in E l e c t r o n i c Te c h n o l o g y,Berbice High, New Amsterdam ofthreeModules(equivalentto150 (Cinematic Arts and Drama), 2022is93.22%.
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‘Guyanese must see gas-to-energy contract before Govt. signs on’
...country must know interest rates upfront, if more tax holidays will be given - stakeholders
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Itmustbenotedthat Agency (EPA) to commence government is yet to host a the massive venture, Exxon In an existing and Press Conference to engage has already awarded two binding contract between the media on the subject, contracts to lay the 12 inch Guyana and American oil w h i l e i n t e r s pipeline and provide major ExxonMobil, the stakeholders too have not engineering, procurement, worldagreesthatthecountry been allowed an opportunity construction and installation was cheated. To avoid a to share their concerns or ofsubsearisersrespectively similar fate in the suggestions regarding the “Guyanese don’t know agreement to transport project, except at brief anything but they have natural gas from the Liza consultations hosted by started doing work already Fields in the Stabroek Block Exxon on the environmental on it. What’s the interest to Wales- stakeholders in aspectoftheproject. rate? Who’s going to make Guyana believe citizens To this end, Gaskin said, the profits? Who’s going to should see the contract “They started on this project pay the taxes? We don’t before Government attaches without telling us what the know nothing at the present its signature, especially project is all about. They time,”theactivistargued. since they will ultimately be talking about over US$1 To this end, he told don’t make any sense to this public, we wouldn’t even said it would be necessary to required to repay the project Billion for a pipeline alone Kaieteur News that the country altogether, because begin to understand the get the National Assembly costs, likely to reach US$2 but who owns this thing? agreement should be made over US$1 billion for this depth of the contractual involvedonthismajordeal. billion. Who is going to make the public so Guyanese can pipeline,who is going to pay arrangementwearein,hence TheGTEproject Economist Ramon profits? All this we need to understand for themselves if for it with couple megawatts all of this fever right now to Esso Exploration and Gaskin for example, in an know but they started theprojectisindeedfeasible. to power and to go where? haveitchangedandtohavea Production Guyana Limited exclusiveinterviewwiththis working on this without According to him, “It should OntopofAmaila?Allofthis new modelPSAput in place. ( E E P G L ) E x x o n ’s newspaper on Monday telling us the facts and that’s bemadepublicsopeoplecan makesnosensetomeandwe So without that agreement subsidiary that will be argued that the Gas to the problem.” Despite not know if this thing makes any should put a halt on all of it we would have no idea what undertaking the project- has Energy(GTE)projecttodate having the blessings of the sensebecauseasIseeitright until we could figure out contractualarrangementsare revealed that a minimum of has been shrouded in Environmental Protection now, the gas to shore deal what’s going on with the and what we are going to be 50 million standard cubic feasibility of it and with the liableforornotliableforsoI feet of gas per day (mmscfd) financing of the project absolutely believe that it will be transported through When we get that then we needstobepublic.” thepipelineby2024andthat canreaditandseewhatitis.” Also weighing in on the the pipeline would have a Gaskin believes that the need for the GTE agreement maximum capacity of 130 Government should not sign to be made public was mmscfd. The project will any agreement with the oil Transparency Advocate, Dr encompass three major company for this project Yog Mahadeo, who shared aspects, that is, the pipeline until Guyanese become three reasons for his to transport the gas toWales, privy to the details of the position. Firstly, he said that the Natural Gas Liquids arrangement. “They should t o e n s u r e t h e r e i s (NGL) facility that will treat not sign nothing unless we transparency in the and separate the gas and the see what it is they are management of the gas power plant to generate the planningtodo.Whoisgoing resource, the contract should electricity So far, Guyanese to get the profit from this reachtheGuyanesepublic. have been told that the thing? Who is going to pay “Secondly we have had pipeline aspect, which is the taxes? Is this thing tax the oil contract itself done in being pursued by US oil free? There’s so much the dark of the night and majorExxonMobil,willcost secrecy involved in this Guyanesehadtowaitsolong around US$1.3 billion. Even thing and we should out an before we could’ve seen that this is expected to increase end to it until we find out contract. Now that we have when Exxon closes critical what is going on,” he seen it, they are saying it’s contractsforsame. concluded. too late down the road so the Vice President Bharrat Similarly, Attorney at Government should learn,” Jagdeo had shared, “We are Law, Elizabeth Deane Dr Mahadeoreasoned. doing estimates We are Hughes in an invited He insisted that the saying US$1 billion dollars comment explained the administration should learn now for the pipeline. That is importance of the document from the mistakes made by where we run the numbers. being revealed to the the former Government and So assuming it comes in at Guyanese public. She let there be full disclosure. US$900 million, then if it pointed out that the 2016 On another note, the activist comes in that will come Exxon contract was explained that failing to down, the US$1.6 cents will published by the former make the agreement public comedowntoaboutUS$1.4 Coalition administration, would equate the two cents so it comes down which allowed for the flaws politicalpartiestoeachother lower If it goes to US$1.1 to be exposed. As such, she where contract management billion, it may go to US$1.7 believes that it is important is involved. According to cents that’s just the for this new agreement with him, “The first set did it pipeline part…then if you the same oil company to be where they took the contract estimate the power plant and properly vetted. “Just like at the ninth hour or the the NGL facility to be about the PSA was made public, eleventh hour to Parlaiment US$700million… that will Guyanese would need to see and Gail Teixeira and add another one point this document to understand another one complained somethingcentsperkilowatt whatitis,soweknowclearly about the lateness of hour.” VPJagdeo said that if what position we are in. If presentation to Parliament oneweretoconsider that PSA was not made and so forth.” Therefore, he (Continued on page 15)
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‘Guyanese must see gas-to-energy...
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From page 14 cents per kilowatt hour may be the cost to estimates for paying for the pipeline, generate the electricity, another five cents NGL and power plant, it can come down as may be lost in the transmission and low as four cents to about five cents per distribution of the power, which could take kilowatt hour. He said this would be paid the final price for the sale of the electricity to backover20years. about US$15 cents, after adding five US HewaskeentonotethatwhilethefiveUS centsasprofitsforthecompany.
The Guyana Medical Council has issued a warning about an imposter in its fraternity and appealed to members of the public in an advertisement to be on high alert.According to the advertisement, which was published in this newspaper, the Medical Council said Ms. Kavita Singh, also known as Nanda Gopaul, has been posing as a medical doctor when she is not. The Council said the woman has never sought an application at the Council to practice in the field of medicine.Using the foregoing pseudonyms, as well as Gita Kissoon, Johana Gray, Juan Singh, and Juan Craig, the woman is said to have a history of scamming countless persons desirous of joining the medical field. As a result, she has had many encounters with the Posingpolice.asKissoon, the first time she was apprehended was back in the year 2009 when she opened a fraudulent school named ‘The Inter-American Nursing School’, which was located at Lot 5 Cummings Street, Georgetown. She had scammed numerous aspiring medical students out of thousands of dollars with the promise of them being accepted into the Ministry of Health, and even getting the opportunity to travel abroad to advance their ‘medical
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‘Fake nursing tutor resurfaces as ‘medical doctor’ Medical Council issues warning training’ in the USA where she claimed her medical school was legally recognised.Somestudents eventually got wind of Kissoon’s fraudulent ways and they had filed a report with police. She was apprehended and placed in custody but was later released on $100,000 bail. The students had demanded refunds the moment she was released since they were worried that she would leave the country without paying up. She would pay them, but not all of the money owed, since she claimed she lacked sufficientKissoon,funds. according to reports, would later leave the country after it was established by the Ministry of Health and its Minister at the time, Dr. Ramsammy, that she was a scammer. In the year 2011, Kissoon (Continued on page 18)
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Members of the APNU+AFC team (right) with heads of diplomatic missions (left) h e n a n as legally mandated. The Opposition issue however, is that teammetwith GECOM, in relation to aW members of High Court ruling by Chief the Diplomatic Community Justice Roxanne Wilshire, last week, Alliance for believes that there is no way Change ( AFC) leader, to remove persons’ names Khemraj Ramjattan, said from the voters list unless that members of the foreign they have died and with the missions acknowledged relevant proof provided to statements they made support same, or are following the 2020 disqualified based on legal elections, that a clean voters provisions specifying list should be provided to disqualification of a Guyanesebeforetheholding potential voter In its ofotherelections. interpretation of the High Local Government Court ruling, the Elections Elections (LGE) could be agency also believes that not held by early next year once even a house to house a date has been provided to exercise will clear the the Government from the bloated list since the court G u y a n a E l e c t i o n s would have stated clearly ruling was not challenged, sanitised list is the People’s whythePPPdon’twanttogo current Opposition wasCommission (GECOM) how the names would be and in light of that, new Progressive Party (PPP) thatroute(togetacleanlist), accused of trying to defraudHolding of the overdue local r e m o v e d , a n d h a d legislation may be required And there can only be one not necessarily because of the General Elections topolls has therefore revived highlighted in its ruling that to denote other methods to conclusion drawn from that- having the final product, but retainthePresidencyand intensified the not finding persons at a allow for the removal of that the list is going to because of the fact that they Following that fiascoconversation regarding a specific location during a names from a perceived support them (PPP) in doing feel that the Opposition which saw the election‘clean voters list’, with the house to house exercise bloatedlist. their impersonation. “That is could behave bad and the running into several monthsOpposition and other could not justify the removal The Opposition, is the opinion that we left them country could get strife as a before a winner wasstakeholders demanding that oftheirnames. maintaining that GECOM as with that there is gonna be result of (PPP) not wanting declared, the foreignGECOM provide Guyanese GECOM has noted the legal authority for lotsofimpersonationwhena the list.” These are issues missions made severalwith a credible list of names thereforethattheHighCourt elections must find a way to list is so bloated,” Ramjattan Ramjattan said may be recommendations including deliver a credible list despite said. concerning to the Diplomats the need for a clean voters the Court’s ruling “ I b e l i e v e t h e y who he believes may very list.AFCChairperson,Cathy Ramjattan told the (Diplomats) are very well apply pressure in Hughes was the one who newspaper that the concernedaboutwhythereis ushering Guyana toward an brought up the 2020 Diplomats acknowledged no clean list,” Ramjattan amicableresolution. recommendations at the making the clean voters list continued Despite being T h e D i p l o m a t i c meeting In a Press statement in 2020, but that reserved in their comments, Community has been part of Conference, she said that the was as far as they went. The the AFC leader said that the Guyanese elections over the Carter Centre, European foreign mission paid keen Diplomats’ demeanor was years, and has played an Union, the OAS and attention to the concerns clear on the issue especially important role in assisting Caricom, who monitored the raised. “We mentioned the since, “…they themselves the country to carry out 2020 election, stated fact that not only they, but a recommended, the whole credible elections by unanimously, that a houselotofotherlocalandregional world recommended, and observing the process. In to-houseregistrationprocess observers made the same even the PPP after the 2015 fact, the Diplomatic that will produce a new recommendations (for a elections,wassayingthatwe Community is credited with voters list is a fundamental clean list),” Ramjattan said, have to go to the elections playing a key role in requirement to electoral before highlighting that the withapurelist.” disallowing the ‘theft” of the reform in Guyana. She went only ones not making any “I am aware that they are 2020 election and the “threat on quote the statements of progressive move toward a also very concerned about to democracy” when the someobservermissions.
Opposition raises concerns over ‘bloated voters list’ with Western Diplomats
Three years after being It was reported that committed to stand trial in Scipio, of D’Urban Street, the High Court for the Wortmanville, Georgetown murder of businessman, was shot in the chest as he Godfrey Scipio, called was leaving a city hotel. The ‘Saga’, ex-convict, Aubrey b u s i n e s s m a n l a t e r Bobb on Monday pleaded succumbedattheWoodlands guiltytothecrime. Hospital. Scipio had been Thirty year old Bobb selling at the Berbice Car f o r m e r l y o f K i t t y, Park for several years, and Georgetown was arraigned was known for wearing lots before Justice Jo Ann ofgoldjewellery Barlow in the Demerara After Bobb was charged High Court. He admitted to with Scipio’s murder, he the charge which stated that implicated former Police on October 27, 2017 at Corporal, Derwin Eastman, Stanley Place, Kitty, and his colleague, Police Georgetown, he murdered Constable, Jemison Scipio in the course or Williams, in the crime. In furtheranceofarobbery. July 2021, Eastman was Bobb’s sentencing was committed to stand trial in deferred to September 26, the High Court for the 2022, pending a probation offence, while Williams report Representing the walked free Bobb had State in this matter are alleged that Eastman is the Prosecutors, Marisa mastermind behind the Edwards,SimranGajraj,and killing since he allegedly LatifahElliot. providedthegun.
Man pleads guilty to murdering ‘Saga’
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From page 16 would resurface in Guyana and was found, by authorities, committing a similar fraud. On this occasion, several of her students were locked out of her ‘medical university’ after questioning her on the legitimacy of their certificates. Students had told Kaieteur News that they had become suspicious after hearing rumours of Kissoon’s school being illegitimate, and when they confronted her, she answered not a word opting instead to lock them out. What made the matter more suspicious was that one of the students, when it was nearing graduation, had presented his certificate to a medical institution to seek employment when he was abruptly turned down. Kissoon had kept herself secured in the building when several reporters turned up at her institution to press her for answers. The authorities would later show up and she was taken to the Brickdam Police Station for questioning.In 2014, Kissoon would once again find herself in hot water as students who had attended her ‘school’ would find out, upon graduating, that the certificate they were given could not land them any job in the medical field. Furious, the students protested outside the Ministry of Education’s Brickdam, Georgetown HeadOffice. They pleaded for the assistance of Government Ministers.Kissoon, even after being legally classified as a fraudster, would continue intermittently to run her ‘school’ under different names, and continued swindling unsuspecting persons. At one time her ‘school’ operated under the name ‘Guyana Health Care Education Institute’ and was set up on an upper flat of a building in Robb Street (next to Scotia Bank) and then on Croal Street. Then, students were scammed of about $95,000 individually, which was the total amount they each were required to pay monthly. To mask her scam, Kissoon had even tried to sue the National Accreditation Council for not granting permission for her school to be recognised as a legal institute, but she failed. In 2016, Kissoon took things a little further. After the parents of students she tricked into enrolling into her school (this time named ‘North Shore’) yet again, found out her institute was fake and that she had robbed them, they gathered at the Lot 218 Lamaha Street, Georgetown building where they angrily demanded to be refunded. Students who were still in the building at the time would find out why they were angry through a series of texts shared among students. They slowing began leaving the building. However, two students were unable to leave as they were locked inside the building by Kissoon. Kissoon would continue to hold the students hostage, and refused to open the door despite the pleas of other students and frustrated parents. Police, located in proximity, were called, but would take two hours to arrive. A fourman team arrived after prompted by members of the media who had showed up outside the building. Eventually a ladder was brought and the police were successful in entering the building through a window; arresting Kissoon and rescuing the students in the Thisprocess.time around, the Medical Council, after learning that Kissoon might be involved in a scam again, promptly issued an advertisement informing members of the public that she is not certified to conduct any medical activities in Guyana. During an interview with Kaieteur News on Monday, Dr. Navindranauth Rambaran, the Chairman of the Medical Council, said that the proactive move was employed after members of the medical fraternity suspected that Kissoon was an imposter. There are reports that she was seen attending to patients at medical outreaches. Efforts were made to ascertain her medical background and it was found that she had none, and that no attempt was ever made for an application to practice in Guyana.Dr.Rambarran said that although it is not within the remit of the Council to intervene unless a report is first filed of an illegal practice, the Council has nevertheless taken it upon itself to issue a warning as a public service gesture. “The Medical Council is concerned with the registration of medical practitioners in Guyana, so if there is someone who is supposedly practicing medicine, and is not registered with the Council, then that concerns us,” Dr. Rambarran stated. He went on to explain that this was the first time he was made aware of Kissoon’s previous antics, and that no report has ever been lodged about her past conduct. He stated too that he is not aware that the matter has, thus far, been reported to law enforcement officials.
‘Fake nursing tutor resurfaces...
From page 21 national men, who fought hard, but only found the back of Hikers net once. The experienced Hikers side battled and played a hard defence as Shane Samuels converted 2 of their penalty corner opportunities.One of the Garnett brothers, Shomere scored the lone goal for his side. In the semifinal, Pepsi Hikers will play Bounty GCC, while Pepsi Cadets come up against against YMCA Old Fort. The round robin matches continued for the women’s category with GCC Tigers edging Saints 4-3. Striker Sonia Jardine netted 3 goals for her side, while Clayza Bobb netted twice for her side. In the match against Woodpecker Hikers and Old Fort Igniters, the Hikers ladies won 4-2. After the semifinal round on Wednesday evening the tournament moves to the Finals on Friday, September 9, from 17:00 hrs.
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Smalta on board with Rebel Tennis Club Jnr Tournament Tournament set to commence on Sept 16
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Seawon McGarrell, the Trade Marketing Head of Guyana Breweries Inc (left) presents the sponsorship Cheque to Rebel Tennis Club President Andre Erskine.
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Rebel Tennis Club’s President and Coach, Andre Erskine expressed happiness to have Smalta on board once again.“This Smalta sponsorship will go a long way in helping the development of the young Tennis players across Guyana,” said Erskine, whose Club recently toured St Lucia andTheTrinidad.tournament will feature players in the under 12s, 14s and 18s categories, as well a Medley Doubles. (Sean Devers)
Seawon McGarrell, the Trade Marketing Head of Guyana Breweries Inc confirmed his Company’s continued commitment to sponsor this tournament.
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Hikers Cadets...
Rose Hall Town Pepsi... grabbed 3 for 19 off 10 overs, he was supported by fellow off-spinner Deeraj Ramjit 3 for 17 off 10 overs. All matches that were washed out will be rescheduled as the tournament continues over the weekend.
From page 22 overs, Nicholas Ishack scoring 22, Dion Sital 13 and Dhanesh Prabuadial 13. Bowling for the Rose Hall Town Pepsi Under19 ‘A’; off-spinner Jonathan Rampersaud returned with the ball and
The third Edition of the Rebel Tennis Club Junior tournament is scheduled to start on September 16 and will run for three weeks. This tournament is expected to attract players from each club in Guyana at every level of Junior competition and Smalta is once again one of the main sponsors.
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Mohammed Nassir took 2-23 from 3.5 overs forQC.AtMSCinamatchthat started an hour late due to soft areas on the ground, StephonBrowncaptured614inhisfouroverstogive Malteenoes an emphatic nine wicket win over Diplomats.Brown orchestrated Diplomatsdemisefor56in 14.1oversevenas20extras helpedthe Adriancause.Foster(12)and Royton Gill (17) were the onlybatterstoreachdouble figures on the heavy outfield.Thepair added 40 for thesecondwicketbutonce GillwasLBWtoBrowneat 43-2,Diplomatscatapulted indramaticfashionasthey lost eight wickets for 13 runs.MSC lost Browne for 12,butJeremiahScottwith a quick-fire unbeaten 32 from 12 balls with five sixes and opener Judel McAllister 13 not out with asixsawtheThomaslands sidetovictoryin6.2overs
The duo found able support from Dwayne Baptiste who contributed a brace, he hit the network in the 13th and 27th minutes; there was one apiece for TrevonPluck(22nd), Joshua Abel (24th), Ryan Green (42nd), Jermaine DeRuche (52nd), and Nicklus Stanton in the 5 3 r d m i n u t e Camptown, once a formidable unit at all levels is in the rebuilding process likemanyotherclubs,fellto Eastveldt Football Club, 01 0 Meanwhile, two more matches were contested on Saturday at the same venue but the results were not as wideas RiddimSundaySquad, a club thatisbasedatMochaonthe East Bank of Demerara but playsintheGFA,madelight work of Georgetown Football Club which they brushedaside, 2-0,thankstogoalsfrom Allister Harding in the 8thminuteandJamaalHarry in the 29th minute Santos were led to a comfortable 4 2 triumph against Pele FC, thanks to a hat-trick off the boot of Akeem Gittens who rocked thenetsinthe12th,20th,and 27thminutes, the other goal was scored by Solomon Austin in the 37th minute. Pele got their goals from Deron(Thomas30th)and Joshua Air Rubis beat QC, MSC whip Diplomats by 9 Wkts
GFF/NAMILCOThunderboltFlourPowerU-17League–GeorgetownFA Fruta Conquerors, Eastveldt post huge wins; Riddim Squad, Santos also flawless
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QC's Jonte Thomas smaches one past the ankles of Persaud at QC yesterday in his unbeaten 56 from 24 ballx (Sean Devers Photo)
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BySeanDevers Played in sweltering heat Sunday at the Queens C o l l e g e a n d t h e Malteenoes grounds, Bel Air Rubis beat QC by four wickets at QC while host M S C h a m m e r e d Diplomats by nine wickets in the GCA’s Atlantic Marine Supplies Inc /Suzuki Motor Cycles T20 Second division cricket tournamentforteamsinthe CityAt QC, on slow track and very good outfield d e s p i t e F r i d a y ’s thunderstorm in the City whichleftGCCandseveral streets under water, the hostswereaskedtobatand reached 154-4 in their 20 overs.Led by a fourth wicket partnership of 78 between Jonte Thomas, whose unbeaten56lasted24balls and was decorate with two fours and four sixes and Tuen Hicks who was run outoffthepenultimateball of the innings for 40 from 54withtwofours. The pair joined forces after Kishan Persaud (12) and opener Ron Persaud fell for a brisk 22 from 17 balls.National U-15 left-arm spinner Arun Gainda was the best bowler with 1-13 fromfouroversforBelAir Rubiswhogallopedto1576in17.4 Afterovers.Claudius Fraser, batting with an injured hand, was caught behind for a second ball duck off Thomas, Andy Lall with a pugnacious78fromjust38 balls with 12 boundaries which included nine sixes, got support from Terrence King who clobbered four sixes and three fours in his 27 ball undefeated 48, whileArvinda Gainda was 11 not out when victory was achieved with 2 2 overstospare.
Teams affiliated w i t h t h e Georgetown Football Association (GFA) continued to match skills in the GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power, Under-17 Intra Association League when matches were playedontheweekendatthe GFF National Training Centre, Providence, East B a n k D e m e r a r a On a bumper Sunday which sawatotalof26goalsbeing scored Fruta Conquerors mauled Black Pearl 16-0, whileEastveldtwereequally solid in their 10-0 blanking o f C a m p t o w n The Tucville based Conquerors completely controlledtheirclashagainst BlackPearlandwereguided totheirbigwinonaccountof a helmet-trick each from Antonio McArthur and D w a y n e J a m e s McArthur rocked the nets in the 4th, 21st, 40th, and 48thminutes while James tallied his goals in the 29th, 33rd,39th,and41stminutes.
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Lucozade Indoor Hockey Tournament…
According to the company, SOS Kit Aid is more than just a charity which recycles sports kits. Through their network of relationships, they’ve harnessed the power of rugby and sport to make a positive impact on young people’s lives through sporting activities that promote healthy lifestyles, lifeskillsandfriendship. SOSKitAidsaidthey’ve donated £6m worth of kit and over 700 deliveries madearoundtheworld.
F o l l o w i n g t h e presentation, the GRFU hosted a specially-arranged Sevens match where the players were decked out in theuniformsreceived. With the support of World Rugby, SOS Kit Aid distributes second-hand and unused new rugby kits to disadvantaged youngsters allovertheglobe.
Fisherman Masters were crowned champions of the Zameer Hassan birth anniversary softball competition following an eight wicket win over Success on Sunday at Lusignan. Success batted first and posted 108 for 9 from their allotted 15 overs withShamBoodramscoring 29 Davanan Khanan claimed4for17. Fisherman Masters replied with 109-2. Zaki Salim struck an unbeaten 54, while Zameer Hassan made 21 not out. Salim was named man-of the -match in the final while Khanantookthebestbowler prize Polly Sookdeo of Mahaica received the prize for the highest individual score, 71 Earlier, Fisherman beat Rafman XI by eight wickets. Batting first, Rahman XI made 159 allout.R.Johnsonscored48; Khananclaimed3for17. Fisherman replied with 162 for 2. Robert Mohan made 64 and Rawl Reid 51 notout.Fisherman overcame Mahaicabysevenwickets. Batting First, Mahaica tookfirststrikeandmade999 with Seeraj Bhimain scoring 20 while Rawl Reid picked up 3 for 17 Fisherman responded with 100-3in12.1overs. Reid made 34, Jagdish Persaud 21 not out. Success drew the bye to the final in thefive-teamcompetition. Hassan expressed gratitudetoteams.
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The Lucozade Indoor Hockey Tournament prepares to enter the semifinalstageasalloftheteams turned out in full force to contest the quarterfinals at the Cliff Anderson Sports HallonSundayevening. In the under20 girls department, Saints Conquerors, YMCA Old Fort Samurais, GCC Spartans and GCC Herricanes made it through to the semis which will be played on Wednesday, September7.Intheunder20 boys, Saints S7N, Saints Superstars, GCC Pitbulls andYMCAOldFortmadeit to the final four. The men’s quarterfinals saw the Pepsi Hikers continue their unbeatenstreakastheymade light work of Saints Splinters,winning11-2.The Bounty GCC won against GCCTheSequel,3-1,giving them a spot in the semis, while Hikers Cadets pulled off an unexpected upset against the Saints Team beatingthem2-1.
Fisherman Masters crowned Zameer Hassan birth anniversary softball champs Fisherman Masters with their prize.
British High Commission to Guyana, Ambassador Jane Miller and Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson Jr, are flanked by rugby players during the SOS Kit Aid presentation.
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Coco Gauff, 18, reaches U.S.Open
GRFUreceivessupport fromSOSKitAid
The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) overtheweekendreceiveda quantity of uniforms and other equipment from SOS KitAid.Bri t i s h H i g h Commissioner to Guyana, Ambassador Jane Miller, made the presentation on behalf of the UK based charity organization after helping to facilitate the processofhavingthemuchneededrugbykitsbroughtto Guyana.Also present was Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson Jr Ryan Dey, GRFU president, lauded the efforts of the British High Commission and noted that the equipment and uniform received will certainly have animpactonthesportandits developmentinGuyana.
Hikers Cadets create major upset to reach semis
Shane Samuels controls the ball for Hikers during their match against Saints.
Frompage23 knownhowtalentedGauffis for a while now After all, at 15,shebecametheyoungest qualifier in Wimbledon history in 2019, beat Venus Williamsinthefirstroundof themaindrawandmadeitall the way to the fourth. There have been more steps along the way, more achievements –lastmonth,shebecamethe second youngest doubles 1No.in WTA history – and her ever-developing game – the st notable re ent improvements were to her forehandandsecondserve–keeps carrying her closer to the top of the singles rankings and closer to a GrandSlamtitle.Andatthis point,havingthefullsportof more than 20,000 folks in Ashe doesn’t hurt, either “She’s found a home there,” Dadsaid.“Ihopeshe’sgoing to play there for the rest of thetournament.”
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TeamGuyanaprogressinInternational RankingsfollowingChessOlympiadcampaign
This makes her one of the top ten rated female players in the country rankingatsixthamongrated players and third among activeJessicaplayers.Callendergained 22ratingpointsandnowhas 1319, while Sasha Shariff gained57pointswhichtakes her to 1240. Both players earned their conditional women’s candidate master titles which will appear behind their names once theyattainratingsof1800or above.For active players listed for Guyana on the FIDE website, the top five rated females are all from the recentteamthatcompetedin the Olympiad. From first to fifth place are Callender, Shariff,Lall,PoojaLamand NellishaJohnson.
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TheGuyanachessteam c o n c l u d e d t h e i r
Rose Hall Town Pepsi Under 19 registered two wins in the above named tournament even as heavy rainfall halted the other matches scheduled over the lastPlayedweekend.at the Area ‘H’ Ground Rose Hall Town, Rose Hall Town Pepsi Under19 ‘A’ defeated Rose Hall Town Pepsi Under19 ‘B’by170runs.Battingfirst after winning the toss, Rose Hall Town Pepsi Under19 ‘A’amassed245for8off30 o ers, with National U d r19 all rounder Jonathan Rampersaud scoring 100 not out, he was supportedbyRomeshBharat 35, Matthew Pottaya 29 and National Under15 batsman Razam Koobir 27. Bowling fortheRoseHallTownPepsi Under19, Tyrell Hutson grabbed 2 for 35 off 6 overs andRoshanCrandon2for31 off6Inovers.reply Rose HallTown Pepsi Under19 ‘B’ were bowled out for 75 with principal scores coming from Tyrell Hutson 16 and Komalchand Ramnarace 10. Bowling for the Rose Hall Town Pepsi Under19 ‘A’, Matthew Pottaya grabbed 3 for 23 off 6 overs and was supported by Raj Tika and Mario Butcher who grabbed twowicketseachfor11and6 runsPrespectivelylayedatthe Albion Community Centre Cricket Ground, Rose Hall Town Pepsi Under19 ‘A’ defeated Albion Under19 ‘B’ by 101 runs Batting first after winning the toss, Rose Hall Town Pepsi Under19 ‘A’ scored 226 all out off 47.4 overs, with Jonathan Rampersaud scoring a patient 63 before he was stumped off the bowling of Chamesh Sewnauth, Matthew Pottaya 35, National Under19 cricketer Jeremy Sandia 29 and RomeshBharat21.Bowling for Albion Under19 ‘B’; Nathaniel Ramsammy grabbed 4 for 39 off 8.4 overs, Dinesh Prahabudial 2 for27off6overs. InReplyAlbionUnder19 ‘B’scored125for9off50 (Continuedonpage19)
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2022 Hero Caribbean Premier League… moves to St. Lucia Shimron Hetmyer and his Amazon Warriors spring into battle on Thursday morning (Getty Images)
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BCB/ Albion Community Centre Cricket Club Under-19 50 overs Tournament Hall Town Pepsi Under-19 register two wins Jonathan Rampersaud scored 100 not out
T h e 2 0 2 2 H e r o Caribbean Premier League now moves to St. Lucia following the two opening rounds in the home of the defending champion, St KittsandNevis,andwillsee eight matches being contested at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground in BeausejourThis leg of the tournament is scheduled to run from September 7 – 11 withmatchesinthemorning andeveningbeforetheParty travels to Trinidad for anothereightmatches.
O n We d n e s d a y, September 7, the first encounter that begins at 10:00 hrs bills Barbados Royals against Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) then the St. Lucia Kings go up against the Jamaica Tallawahsfrom19:00hrs. The following day, Guyana Amazon Warriors and St Kitts and Nevis Patriots get things going in themorningmatchwhilethe home team will face the Royalsintheeveningmatch. After a day’s rest, the campaign resumes on September 10 with the Tallawahs going head to head with TKR from 10:00 hrs while St. Lucia tries to defend against Amazon Warriorsfrom19:00hrs. Thursday,September11, isthefinalplayingdateinthe Beausejour Hills area as Tallawahs tackle Royals in the curtain raiser while the Kings and the Patriots settle things in the feature encounterMean w h i l e , t h e Tallawahs command the points table alongside the Royalswithfourpointsfrom two consecutive wins each. However, the Jamaicans have the edge on a superior Net Run Rate (NRR) of 1 338 against Barbados’ 1.197.In third are the Trinidadians with three points from a win and a no result. TKR has the third highestNRRintheunbeaten topthreewith0.505. Fourth place is occupied by the defending champion, whohavehadatorridstartto their title defence The Patriots are the only team to have played four matches whiletheremainderofthelot haveallcontestedtwoeach. Inthefifthplaceposition arethefive-timerunnersup, Amazon Warriors, on one point after losing their opening match and unfortunately having to settle for a No Result in the secondencounter Thecellar has the Kings who have lost bothmatchestheyplayed.
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TaffinKhanremainsasthe highestrankedplayerinthe country with 2005 points afterplayingonBoardOne for Guyana’s National Open team This was Khan’s fourth consecutive Olympiadandhefinishedon 4.5pointsastheonlyplayer forGuyanatoplayalleleven roundswithnobreaks. FIDE Master Anthony Drayton,whowasplayingin hisfourthOlympiad,gained 33 rating points which brings him now to 1961 as thethirdhighestratedactive playerinthecountry LorisNathooalsogained rating points moving up to 1702,whileRobertoNetois at1651.Ethan Lee is the most highly rated junior player with1523.Thiswashisfirst Olympiad.Onthe Women’s side, 12-year-oldAnayaLall,who was previously unrated, gainedaratingof1166after defeating highly rated playersinChennai.
participationinthebiennial FIDE Chess Olympiad in Chennai, India on August 9, 2022 having increased the countries international rankingsfortheWomenby 16 places and the Open team moving up four places.Some players who competed in the Olympiad also increased their international rankings significantly, having played against some of the toughest players from aroundtheworld.
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Coco Gauff,18, reaches U.S. Open quarterfinals for 1st time
ByRawleToney
The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) has named Olympian Keevin Allicock, Collin Lewis and DesmondAmsterdam as the country’s representatives at the October 1 – 15 South American Games in ParaguaySteve Ninvalle, GBA president, told Kaieteur Newsyesterdaythatwiththe trio only recently returning fromrepresentingGuyanaat this year’s Commonwealth Games in England with considerable success, he’s expecting the local pugilists to do well in the city of Asunción.Allicock will fight in the featherweight division, while Amsterdam will step into the ring in the Middleweight category Lewisissettocompetewith theotherWelterweights. Both Allicock and Amsterdam suffered ‘headscratching’ decisions in the Quarter Finals of their respective decisions in Birmingham and will be hoping to use the South American Games to make amends.“Ithink we had a good s h o w i n g a t t h e Commonwealth Games and we see the South American Games as a new challenge. The SouthAmerican Games has its own unique toughness,”Ninvallesaid. According to Ninvalle, the GBA is “Happy that we have this continuous internationalexposure. The South American Games will not be the last international games for the year.”Amsterdam had the GBA’s highlight so far this year, when he became the first Guyanese to win a medal (bronze) at the A m e r i c a s B o x i n g Confederation (AMBC) EliteMeanwhile,Championship.Ninvalle is urging the boxers to be committed to training, telling Kaieteur News, “We need boxers to make good useofthetraining. We have them working with Cuban Coach, FranciscoRoldansowewant them to exploit what the Cubancoachisoffering.”
Associated Press - NEW YORK–CocoGauffraiseda fist, then wagged her right index finger, responding to, and riling up even more, a loud louder loudest Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd that wasstandingandscreaming.
“We (GBA) can’t make them go to the gym, they have to want to be there and maketheefforttoturn-upto training,”Ninvallereasoned. As it relates to the coaching staff, Ninvalle explained that the International Boxing Association (IBA) rules allowsforatleastoneThree Star coach in a boxers’ corner Sebert Blake and Terrence Poole are the only two coaches in Guyana with ThreeStarcertification. “We’re hoping to have three people in the corner We had two coaches at the Commonwealth Games and based on their reports, it is importantthatwehavethree coaches.Youcan win or lose by having more than one coach inthecorner,”Ninvallesaid. At the 2018 South AmericanGamesinBolivia, Allicock (bantamweight) a n d L e w i s ( l i g h t welterweight) fought their waytobronze. The 2022 edition of multi-sport event will see Curacao,ArubaandPanama joining the 12 independent countriesinSouthAmerica. French Guiana, the only department/territory on the South American continent, will not be present at the games.
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Allicock, Amsterdam and Lewis for South American Games (L-R) Desmond Amsterdam, Keevin Allicock and Colin Lewis will be representing Guyana at the 2022 South American Games in Paraguay. (Rawle Toney photo)
M e d v e d e v w i l l relinquishthetopspotinthe rankingsaftertheU.S.Open, with Ruud joining Rafael Nadal and CarlosAlcaraz as players with a chance to replaceAfterhim.trailing 5-4 in the opening set, then 5-3 in the second, which she was a pointfromlosing,Gauffwas buoyed by spectators who cheered her every point and chanted“Let’sgo,Coco!”as the end neared She improvedto4-0inAshethis year after having never previously won a match at the biggest arena in Grand SlamHowtennis.loudwasit? “Itgotsoracuousinthere thatIgotaheadache.Ihadto take anAdvil,” said Gauff’s father, Corey “I kept pinching myself. I’m like, `Mygosh,allofthesepeople here for my daughter.’ You dream about this, but you never know if you’re going to realize that She was pumpingherselfupandthey responded to her It sent chillsupmyspine.” Zhang, at 33 the oldest woman to reach the fourth round,saiditwasmorenoise than she’s ever heard at a match.ShepraisedGauff’splay, callingher“asuperstar”and adding: “Everything is very good She’s so much youngerthanme.Herenergy is so much better She’s faster She’spowerful.” They competed mostly from the baseline, and the longer the exchanges, the more success Gauff found: Sheclaimeda45-26edgein points that lasted five or moreGarciastrokes.is coming off a hard-courttitleatCincinnati and stretched her winning streak to 12 matches by defeating No 29 Alison Riske-AmritrajoftheU.S.64,6-1.“I’m super excited, actually, to play Coco – in U S , in New York, quarterfinal of a Slam. It’s great,”Garciasaid. Theotherquarterfinalon thathalfofthewomen’sfield will be between Ajla Tomljanovic,theplayerwho beat Serena Williams in the third round, and No. 5 Ons Jabeur, who was the runner up at Wimbledon Tomljanovic got past Liudmila Samsonova 7 6 (8), 6-1 at Louis Armstrong Stadium in a matchup between unseeded players, whileJabeurdefeatedNo.18 Veronika Kudermetova 7-6 (1),T6-4.omljanovic is a 29 year-old Australian who is now into her third Grand Slam quarterfinal after making it that far at Wimbledon the past two years On Wednesday, Tomljanovic beat Williams in three sets in what is expectedtobethelastmatch of the 23-time Grand Slam champion’scareer. In Gauff Zhang, the whirring of the Ashe retractableroofbeingpulled shutaccompaniedthestartof the second set because of showers that started soon after, and it took a while for the artificial lights to reach full strength The match proceeded, even though it was rather dark – and quite humid–Zhangindoors.started getting a bit better of the back-andforth midway through the secondset,andwhenshehit a backhand winner of her own,shebroketolead5-3. Last year’s U.S. Open doubleschampion– she and Sam Stosur beat Gauff and Caty McNally in the final –served to force a third set, and was a point away from getting there, but Gauff steeledherselfandstoodher ground. That set point was frittered away when Zhang sent a backhand long. Gauff smacked – what else? – a down the line backhand winner for her third break point of that game, then delivered a good return to a corner that drew a long backhandtomakeit5-4and start a four-game, matchclosingrun.Everyone’s (Continuedonpage21)
Gauff ’s U.S. Open opponent, Zhang Shuai, covered both ears with her hands to shield them from whatshedescribedlaterasa “Boom!”ofsound. Gauff and her fans were reacting excitedly to quite a point, one in which the 18year-old Floridian raced to her right for a defensive forehand, then changed directionstosprintandslide into a backhand that drew a netted volley from Zhang. Just four points later, Gauff was a quarterfinalist at Flushing Meadows for the firstGauftime.f, the French Open runner up in June, came back in each set to beat China’s Zhang 7-5, 7-5 on Sunday to become the youngestAmerican to make it this far at the U.S. Open sinceMelanieOudinwas17 in2009.“Here, I can’t hear myself scream. Makes me want to do it more. I think I’m feeding off the momentumalot.Ienjoyit,” saidNo.12seedGauff,who meets No 17 Caroline Garcia of France today “NewYork is bringing out a sideofmethatIhaven’thad sinceIwas15,soit’snice.” Nick Kyrgios is playing muchbetterthanheeverhas at Flushing Meadows, too, building off the momentum of his run to theWimbledon final in July, and he eliminated defending champion and No. 1-ranked DaniilMedvedev7-6(11),36,6-3,6-2onSundaynight. The 23rd seeded Kyrgios was up to some of his usual behavior – warned for cursing, yelling at his guest box, playing to the crowd but he also outplayed Medvedev in a high-qualitymatch. “I’mjustgladI’mfinally able to show New York my talent,” said Kyrgios, never past the third round at the U.S. Open until now “I haven’t had too many great tripsHe’llhere.”play No. 27 seed Karen Khachanov today, when the other’s men’s quarterfinalonthetophalfof the bracket is 2022 French Open runner up Casper Ruud against 2021 Wimbledon runner up MatteoBerrettini.
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