AIETEUR NEWSK Guyana’s largest selling daily & New York’s most popular Guyana’sweeklylargest weekly Online: www.kaieteurnews.com September19,2022-Vol.15No.36 Online readership yesterday, 63,053 Monday Edition Price $100 Man injured by boat propeller dies on medevac flight from Mabaruma ...family medicalaccusesstaffofneglect ...acknowledges successful renegotiation by APNU+AFC, but holds fast to sanctity of contract position ‘Guyanese must wait 14 years before change to FriendsatdrownsToddlerTwoTwo boatdeadfearedaftermishap Dead: Shane Samuels New call for daily oil dataproduction ...formerEPAHeadsaysministry's websitenotuser-friendly Dead: Dead:ObermullerRobertRobertObermuller ...says Govt. must explain how it selects buyers, approves transfers of interests in oil blocks EITI urges Guyana to comply forpublishrequirementwithtocontractssaleofprofitoil 'lopsided' Exxon contract’ Govt. says...
Two feared dead after boat mishap in Essequibo River
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very quickly and he along with his bowman, Lamuel Allen,18,andthepassengers were left with no choice but to swim to shore. News had reached persons in Bartica andotherboatmentheresped outtorescuethem.
The boat mishap took place, between 18:45 and 19:00hrs in the vicinity of CalfIsland,EssequiboRiver
On the said day, at around 08:00 hrs, Adams called her sister while at work and she was told that her child was playing in the yard. The woman said she called a secondtimeonlytolearnthat the boy was missing. Later on,shegotacallfromafriend tellingherthattheyhadfound Shane'sbikeclosetoatrench. His lifeless body was later removed from the trench by hisuncle,CollinChandler.
The Essequibo River.
ackman said he attemptedto sail ashore with thesinkingvesselbutitsunk
Upon arriving home, Donell observed her son's motionless body on the ground next to the Two Friends trench. The matter
Onboardthevesselwereten passengers and among them Darrel Romeo, a popular DJ calledTheMagnum.captainofthevessel, Jermaine Blackman, told police that he was trying to navigate around a damaged beaconlocatedabout100feet east of Calf Island but collided with it instead. As resultofthecrash,aholewas formed at the bottom of the boat and it began taking in waterBl
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However, when the rescuemissionwasover,two passengers could not be found and authorities are beginning to fear that they mightbe Policedead.reported that they are unclear whether the two passengerswerewearinglife jackets at the time of the incident.Thosewhosurvived were taken to the Bartica Hospital for treatment while Jermaineandhisbowmanare in police custody assisting withAinvestigations.searchparty is still combingtheEssequiboRiver with the hope of finding the missingpassengersalive.
olice on the East Coast Demerara are investigating the death of a four-year-old boy who allegedly drowned atTwoFriendsVillage,ECD onSaturdayDeadis Shane Samuels. Police said the child died sometime between 20:00 hrs and 22:00hrs Enquiries revealed that the boy's mother 38-year-old Donell Adams, a vendor of Lot 41 Two Friends Village, ECD, had asked her sister Suella Adams, who shares a yard with her, to take care of her son while she was at work.
was reported at the Clonbrook Police Outpost and an investigation was launched. Thebodyoffour year-old Shane Samuels was examined and no marks of violence were found. The area was canvassed for CCTVsystems,butnonewas seen in the area. The body is currently lying at Jerrick's Funeral Home awaiting a post mortem examination Thescenewasprocessedbya member of the Crime Scene Department and statements were taken Investigations areongoing.
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ttorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, AnilNandlallSChaswritten the Commissioner of Police (ag) Mr Clifton Hicken requesting that a special investigation be launched into the data which he collected from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) in relation to the Opposition,APartnershipfor National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU +AFC) claimsoffraudulentvotingat theMarch2020elections.
Thegovernmentsaiditis of the view, as has been underscored by His
These projects have shown that with the prudent management of the oil and gas sector, Guyana can garner more economic and social benefits for improved intergenerational equity of thelocaleconomy.”
It stated further that the recent reports in the media regarding the 2019 amendment to the PSA sets the precedent for the renegotiation of the entire contract between Guyana and ExxonMobil “The government reiterates that
APNU+AFC continues to peddle allegations that the deceasedpersonsvotedatthe elections, that the elections were tainted by multiple voting and that persons who were overseas voted on electionsNandlallday noted that the allegations continue to be peddledinthepublicdomain withoutanyproof.
improvements in both environmental and fiscal benefitsforGuyana.
mid renewed c a l l s f o r amendments to unfavourable provisions within the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) between Guyana and the Stabroek Block partners, the Guyana government remains firm in its decision against anyrenegotiationofthe2016 oilcontract.Apublic statement from the Ministry of Natural Resource on Sunday, reiterated the government's position that the 2016 PSA, shared between ExxonMobil affiliateEssoExplorationand Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL)anditspartnerswill remain unchanged, while maintaining“sanctity”ofthe contract until the end of the agreement'slifecycle.
theywouldnotberecovering the two percent royalty that Guyanashouldbegettingoff the top, as owners of the oil
resource.Despite weeks of intense exchanges more recently, about whether the two percent royalty is being recovered by the oil companies, the government nor the opposition had mentioned the document's existence.Coupledwiththefactthat the 2016 PSA says that renegotiation of the contract is possible once the oil companies and government
agreetorevisitthedocument, commentators see the addendum as an act of that provision.Thisacthasthusreignited theircallsforthegovernment to approach the oil companies for negotiations onpossiblechanges.
“This will continue to be the trend for all new investments in the Stabroek Block until the contract renegotiation period is reached,” the statement clarified.Based on the production sharing agreement, the life cycle of the 2016 contract is 20 years This puts the renegotiating period sometimearound2036,since the document would have beensignedin2016.
The government has said however,thatitisfullyaware of the APNU+AFC amendmentmadetothe2016 PSAonApril26,2019.Itsaid that the amendment saw ExxonMobil Guyana being disallowed from recovering, through cost oil, the two percent royalty to be paid to thenation.Also,“the modification has been implemented and enforced through the mechanismsonthepayments for royalties and cost recovery conditions, and the monitoring features which set out for the governance of the cost bank regarding the projectssubjecttopetroleum operations,” the government ministrysaid.
Nandlall urges police to probe APNU+AFC voter fraud claims
petroleum consortium in the Stabroek Block and will c o n t i n u e t o w o r k assiduously, through various agencies,oneveryadditional license and environmental permit as has been done on Page 1 for Payara and Yellowtaildevelopments.
The ministry said that, “the government's position hasbeenandwillcontinueto be,thatthe2016PSAshared between ExxonMobil affiliateEssoExplorationand Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) and its partners, remains without a renegotiationinkeepingwith contractsanctity.”
Govt. says...
elections.Thedecision was made followingdeliberationsatthe weekly statutory meeting of
Immigration Officer, GECOM has mysteriously ceased to seek confirmation of the other hundreds of names submitted by the Coalition ” “Even worse, Chairperson [Justice Claudette] Singh has declined to act on the irrefutable evidence of s i g n i f i c a n t v o t e r impersonation already in GECOM'spossession.
...acknowledges successful renegotiation by APNU+AFC, but holds fast to sanctity of contract position
'lopsided'
The People Progressive Party (PPP/C) government insists that, “the model production sharing agreement (PSA) that is currently being developed will garner more economic benefitsforthenationandits people.”
requestfromtheGovernment of Guyana that a special investigation be launched by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and such other agencies and or persons authorisedandsupervisedby the GPF, to determine the veracityofthedatacontained in the documents as well as the authenticity of some of the documents themselves andallmattersandactionsof persons connected therewith.”Theletter to the acting Police Commissioner was sent days after Chairperson of GECOM, retired Justice Claudette Singh voted to release documents related to the claims by the Opposition that there were certain data that purport to prove the claims of fraud at the 2020 regional and general
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Excellency Dr Mohamed IrfaanAliandVicePresident Dr Bharrat Jagdeo that if specificfiscalconsiderations are amended in the current PSA, then that could impose unfavourable effects on current and future investments in Guyana, given the current world petroleum
“TheeconomyGovernment of Guyana respects the investments made by the
During a recent press conference, APNU+AFC Shadow Minister of Legal Affairs,RoysdaleForde,SC, read the party's statement in whichhenotedthereluctance by GECOM to look into the claims of voter fraud submittedbyhisparty Forde noted, “…Since the initial responses from the Chief
GECOM.Nandlall had written to the Chairperson requesting the information. In his letter to the GECOM Chair, Nandlall noted that the
Vice must wait years before change to Exxon contract’
The government's statement has come on the heels of revitalised calls for them to take Exxon and partners back to the renegotiation table given the “lopsided” provisions designed toward oil companies having a larger take from the country's oil resources.Arecently exposed document, an addendum to the 2016 PSA highlighted that two years after the A Partnership for National Unity+AllianceForChange (APNU+AFC) government signed the 2016 PSA, it brought Exxon and partners back to the renegotiating table, causing them to put into writing, assurance that
BharratPresidentJagdeo,leadoilandgaspolicyofficial Commissioner of Police (ag) Mr. Clifton Hicken ‘Guyanese
Kaieteur News has seen documentsthatshowalistof just over 500 names, more than100Guyanesewhowere said to be out of the jurisdiction during the 2020 elections were recorded as v o t e d d u r i n g t h e controversial polls; proving further, that some amount of irregularities would have occurred during the general elections.Added to this, the opposition has accused GECOM of failing to act on evidence of voter impersonation during the March2020elections.
I t s a i d t h a t notwithstanding this, the licensing for every new field to be developed since 2020 has seen significant
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In a letter dated September 14, 2022, NandlallwrotetoMr Hicken askingthattheGuyanaPolice Force(GPF)oranyagencyor person supervised by the GPF conduct a special probe into the voter impersonation c l a i m s I n t h e correspondence seen by this publication,Nandlallsaid,“I am forwarding these documents to you with a
Hesaid,“Atthetimeand untilnow,theimpressionthat [is conveyed by the APNU+AFC ] that is these documents and or data were generated by and obtained fromthelawfulrepositoryof the specific information that is Immigration Department, theGuyanaPoliceForce,and the General Registrar's Office.”Nandlall said it is necessary that GECOM releases the documents in its possession to clear the air Since the documents were released from GECOM,
Vickram NaturalMinisterBharrat,ofResources
the contract will remain fiscally unchanged for the country and investors' benefits.”Theministry went on to saythatthemodelPSAbeing developedbythegovernment will be adapted for all new petroleum activities offshore Guyana - whether it be for exploration or production operations.This,thegovernmentsaid includes the upcoming competitive bidding round that it intends to host in the last quarter of this year and other commercially viable discoveriesthatwillbemade in other oil blocks. “The 2016 model or any previous PSA will not be applied to any other oil block where a discoveryhasbeenmade.”
This is a blatant dereliction…” But Kaieteur News understands that when theinformationwasreceived byGECOMin2020,nothing was done about it since arguments were that GECOM did not have investigative power and that the information was for an elections petition.Alexander said that Government Commissioners and the Chairwoman, Justice (retd.) Claudette Singh had voted against anything being done withthedocument.
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DEAR EDITOR,
It is an abuse of power to wage a war against PNC supporters by dismissing and demoting them from and within the public sector, this (Continued on page 6)
Small contractors with government agencies are replaced, only because they are perceived to have voted for the PNC.Large government contracts for African Guyanese are non-existent.HavingGuyanese businessmen grovel to benefit from the wealth bestowed upon our nation, is psychologically destabilising for the confidence, mental condition and courage needed for the masses of African-Guyanese to have the hope and belief that they can succeed. This
gauging with ships transporting foreign crude oil into the USA. Therefore, the best way to learn how much oil is being shipped out of Guyana, is requesting Customs General Declaration and manifest submitted to Guyana Customs from the ship’s transporting crude oil. This way, you can estimate how many barrels of crude is pumped, and leaves
School is not an arcade; this madness must end
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from Guyana soil. Every ship or airline is required by IATA to present a Custom Declaration and manifest upon arrival or departure from a foreign port. Under the Freedom and Informational Act, this information is available. Please continue to educate those who are still in darkness. Psalm 15.
Racism in Guyana is getting worst, fuelled by the current governing administration’s Accelerated Racist Policies (ARP). The wealth of the nation is being allocated, divvied up, and Indianized to the detriment of African-Guyanese.Definitivestatements like the above if made by President Obama would be preceded by “Let me be Clear”; President Biden would precede such a statement with “Here is the deal”. The American leaders make these leading remarks to highlight matters of great importance.
suppressive and harassing system is fuelled by the ARP of this PPP administration that is enamoured and intent on having an Indian Supremacy Governance Structure.As Marcus Garvey noted, “Those of us with vision, cannot desert the race, leaving it to suffer and die.”
I recently became a viewer of The Glenn Lall Show. I found it to be informative and educational. I hope that the Guyanese people will take advantage of (Glenn Lall’s) knowledge, especially about the ExxonMobil contract and the financial losses expected from the oil and gas leases. To tell you the truth, I could
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I admire the honesty of this year’s top performers, who have made no secrets of their pursuit of scholarships. Their uncritical acceptance of the status quo, however, is where that kernel of thickness I perceive lies. If passing subjects is a sign of brilliance, then a student brilliant
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The unmoving mantra of the PPP/C Government and its leaders about sanctity of contract, and the sacred nature of its terms and conditions are all now shot to pieces and should be scattered to the winds. As we editorialised in our September 5 edition, “Renegotiation - touching one provision, means having to touch all.” The 2% royalty has progressed from recoverable by ExxonMobil, according to 2016 contract to non-recoverable in 2019 by addendum, under the signatures of the then ExxonMobil Country Head, Rod Henson, and then President David Granger. The first chink in the armour of the 2016 oil contract was made, and it is not insignificant, for it opens up the world of possibilities for Guyana.
All those insulting and extremely disadvantageous items to Guyana must be revisited and renegotiated, and this must be done now. We have already lost a lot of money, and significant change must be in the making without any delay. We name just a few of the bitter bonein-the-throat items, such as royalty percentage, taxes, and ring-fencing. Those are only for a start, and definitely not all. From our perspective, the 2016 contract should be scrapped altogether, with Guyana and ExxonMobil sitting at the table of renegotiation as honest and equal partners, and starting from scratch. Quite frankly, nothing else will feel as rewarding, nothing as good.
not withhold this information, I am about to share with you. I am a Guyanese who left Guyana over fifty years. I worked for the US government for more than twentyfive years. The majority of these years were with Customs, then Customs Border andIProtection.havemany years of knowledge, especially in oil
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The PPP/C Government and its two top leaders must not waste a second. They must use what happened with the 2% royalty as the basis for firm, continuous, and comprehensive actions to bring about better for all Guyanese by renegotiating this criminal oil contract that menaces our existence. In the simplest terms, ExxonMobil must give more, ExxonMobil must pay more, and ExxonMobil must do much more. For the Guyanese people, so that they can truly experience what it means to be the owners of billions of barrels of oil, and to be a producer of it. This is what President Ali and Vice President Jagdeo must grab onto and make non-negotiable. It is not the time for either of them to be timid, to hem and haw, to be fearful. It is not the moment for either leader to be squandering the opportunity by debating and arguing with their own Guyanese about whether the contract was amended, or not. As said before, there must be no spinning, no ducking, and no retreating. Further, to do anything other than start the process for the earliest renegotiation of the 2016 oil contract would be the worst of betrayals, the most unpardonable of evil national sellouts.
Accelerated Racist Policies (ARP) against African-Guyanese months,
fiedPPPmisconducttionstuallybeingassaulttweeninequalitiesmusttioneddatedpublishedagainstmantlemindedmustcoined“talentedeconomicandtraditionalaboutleadershipAfrican-GuyanesehavebeenvocaltheimpoverishingofPNCsupportershavereferredtoARPasapartheid.TheAfrican-Guyanesetenth”atermbyW.E.B.DuBois,standtogetherwithlike-Guyaneseanddis-theimpositionofARPAfrican-Guyanese.InmyclairvoyantletterinStabroekNews,March2,2021;andcap-“Theadministrationgovernopenlytoreducewithinandbe-groupsofGuyanese.”InotedPPPcontinuingontheeconomicwell-ofPNCsupporters,ac-justifiedriggedelec-between1964and1992.Themoroseandgrossbythecurrentadministrationhasjusti-attemptsbytheGranger
Having a few AfricanGuyanese as window dressers and rubber stamps, with high sounding titles and minuscule decision-making powers and who are willing to accept the crumbs and scraps for personal and marginal privileges is an embarrassing and humiliating spectacle to observe for conscious blacks.
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administration to disenfranchise the votes of PPP supporters in the 2020 General Elections.Theefforts by Lowenfield and Mingo to undermine the majority vote is now defensible. The dismissals in the public sector of Junior and Senior officers are acts of callousness and prejudice.
To anyone reading this who wrote 20 plus CXC subjects, well done! You have accomplished a significant feat. But the fact that you did it at all shows that you are not immune to inanity. I am emphatically not trying to make you feel bad or cause distress, only to point out that there should be other avenues to whatever it is you wanted to achieve that did not involve ludicrous acts of academic masochism.Iaskall of you praising these students, if any of you would have dreamed of writing that many subjects. Ten years ago, what would you have said if you heard of someone sitting 27 subjects? You would think them crazy. That you now lionize them and encourage them to sit more and more subjects to sustain your own sick patriotism is nothing short of sa-
DEAR EDITOR,
Much time has already been lost in the two years since the PPP/C returned to office. We don’t have any interest in getting bogged down by considerations of whether the PPP/C Government knew about this change in the recoverable terms to the 2% royalty, or when it did. Undoubtedly now, the President and Vice President know today what has been changed, what has been achieved. They also have to know what this 2019 amendment means, regarding going after all those other horrendous terms and conditions embedded in the 2016 contract.
dism. Children’s academic achievement is like a drug to the public. In celebrating the achievements of our nation’s children, they internalize them, make them their own, and their own perceived success sends them on a high. And like anyone suffering a drug addiction, they become desensitized and need a bigger and bigger hit, stories about more and more subjects to get their blood pumping and their senseless national pride stoked. However, they are not the villains of this tragedy. The so-called top students have mentioned that their motivation is the pursuit of scholarships. The blame then lies with the Government of Guyana and the Caribbean Examinations Council. These two organizations offer a pathetically limited number of scholarships on the basis of the number of subjects a student writes. People will say that this is not so, but in this day and age, where “top students” are
What will His Excellency, President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali and Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo do now? Will it be a case of more of the old spinning to give the foreign oil companies a way out? Or will it be the time for tightening of their belts and finally readying to be about winning for Guyana? These questions are driven by the article titled, “Exxon, Ex-Pres. Granger changed recovery of 2% royalty -Addendum reveals” (KN September 17). The big question is this: will President Ali and Vice President Jagdeo take this amendment to the contract and run with their all for what it represents?
practically vomiting out Grade Ones, that is what it amounts to. This is, of course, a ludicrous criterion.
I will tell you a little secret. It is not hard to get lots of Grade Ones. It has little to do with academic abilityonce a student has reached a not-terribly demanding level, it is largely an investment of time. Many of your readers will find this unbelievable. Doubtless the brightest of them slaved away to get and were delighted at their eight Grade Ones and three Grade Twos, results that even in my day would have been frowned at as almost disappointing. But I tell you that there is a trick to acing these exams, one that is completely intellectually undemanding. Once you have mastered this trick only the inevitable arrival of bad luck or a particular inaptitude at some subject can upset a student’s string of Grade Ones. I shall not reveal this trick, but any top student will be able to furnish
you a painfully remembered description. If you do not have one on hand, a few days of careful and critical thought on the matter will let you work it out, and then you will be fully equipped with the tools needed to rob your child of theirInyouth.myday, the polite fiction was maintained that students were flexing their academic chops and writing many subjects gave an opportunity to showcase their ability. Leaving aside how pathetic that sounds, it was pure caca. It was a rat race, plain and simple, for the coveted scholarships that would lift you off the ground.
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As always, we emphasise this point: we want ExxonMobil and its partners to make good money, but it must not be at our expense. We, the Guyanese people, must also make good money. Let genuine and comprehensive renegotiation begin now. Will the PPP/C Government, as led by President Ali and Vice President Jagdeo, actually summon the nerve, strength, and courage to do so? This is their moment to show what they are made of, and for whom first and foremost.
In my everlasting debt to Walter Rodney, I simply say “It seems to me” that the PPP administration is intent on pushing Guyanese Blacks off the cliff that surrounds Guyana’s economic fields of wealth.Over the last several
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I empathize with the honest professionals in the Guyana Police Force (GPF). They struggle against circumstances and convention and culture to do a clean and efficient job protecting the anxious citizens of this country. Now their duties have been made more challenging by an environment more and more infested with fake security people.When they show their faces, they have the element of surprise on the unwary, get the drop on them in their long moments of uncertainty and hesitation.Whois real? Who can blame those suddenly finding themselves s taring at the dangerous end of a firearm?In one moment, the life and death flash before the eyes, and there is no time for reaction, including evasion.Editor, the point I wish to emphasize today is how the expanding presence of fake police and security is being assisted and energized by official and political sanction.Idon’tthink that it is deliberate on the part of the PPP Government, simply the shortsightedness that is
I suppose it is democracy on the move, and its vaunted freedoms on flashing display.
However,factors.Guyana’s ethnic voting since the 1950’s muddied the waters of democratic governance and its purported linkage with economic development here. The Indian Guyanese majority was assured of forming the Government, creating an ‘Ethnic Security Dilemma’ for African and Indigenous Guyanese in the majoritarian political system. The PNC and Forbes Burnham got a free pass from their African Guyanese supporters to rig elections and rule with an iron fist from 1968 to 1992. Free and fair elections in 1992 might have introduced democracy under the PPP but not stability since even though the economic situation was improved for all groups (as shown by internationally supervised empirical surveys) ethnically directed violence was unleashed by the PNC and African Freedom Fighters up to 2008.
GHKSincerely,Lall
Development and democracy in Guyana
With high differential emi-
gration rates, however, the 2012 census confirmed that Indian Guyanese had dropped to 39.9% compared to African Guyanese, 29.2% and Mixed Guyanese 19.9%. This offered an insight to the 2011 elections results where the PPP secured 48.6%; APNU, 40.6% and AFC, 10.3%. With no single ethnic group commanding a majority, each ethnic-based party had to seek crossover votes or a coalition with the multiethnic AFC. The latter option was taken by the APNU in 2015 and the PPP was ousted by APNU/AFC’s 50.3% versus their 49.2%. In March 2020, benefitting from APNU alienating AFC’s Indian supporters by shuttering 4 sugar estates, the PPP was returned to office in 2020 with 50.69% versus 47.34% to APNU/ AFC. Additionally, by 2020 when the PPP took over, oil revenues had started to flow and the prospects for the economic development of Guyana had become much rosier as the PPP stressed their better record in this area versus that of the PNC. They promised to focus on infrastructure and job creation while unleashing a welter of cash and other material infusions into communities. The question was what would the impact of improved economic conditions be on the ethnic voting
be elected” by them. In a nutshell, they were being asked what would Guyanese put first, “bread or ballots?”
The answer, which has been out a year now, was unequivocal: 65 percent of the population prefer “guaranteed basic income and services even if no elections”. And that percentage went up among the young, poor and lesser educated. On a related metric of measuring governance style, 57% of those surveyed 57 percent of Guyanese – the highest in all the 22 countries surveyed - would prefer a “strong leader” in the Government, even if the leader bends the rules to get things done.
DEAR EDITOR, Back in 1959, the US sociologist and political scientist, Seymour Martin Lipset examined a wide global cross section of nations and reported a strong and positive correlation between income per capita and democracy. And ‘modernisation theory’ was launched-economic development linked with democratic governance by the US to counter the communist calls for revolution by the ‘proletariat’ to improve the lot of the poor. Even though our early leaders balked, they went along with the imperatives of ‘modernisation theory.’ While later studies couldn’t show any causation between democracy and development, the correlation sufficed to encourage policy makers to stress both
Pity that regular people can peep as much and as long as they like but never seem to be able to understand what goes on behind the political and official tints in Guyanese life.
Who is police and who is thief?
Backpattern.inMay-June 2021, Vanderbilt University seemingly set out to answer this question in Guyana in a LAPOP ‘Pulse of democracy’ survey of 3011 adult citizens. They posed the question as to whether they preferred a political “system that guarantees access to a basic income and services for all citizens, even if the authorities cannot
DEAR EDITOR, The work of official watchers and enforcers of the law has become more difficult, increasinglyCitizens,trickier.fromindividuals to business owners and operators, experience trouble in differentiating between “who is police and who is ‘thief” in this country.
a product of negligence and ignorance, plus liberal doses of arrogance.First,there are many private security firms functioning almost as the GPF, in that they have been given clearance to assume some of the roles of official law enforcement.Second, these private security firms have all the trappings -machinery, weapons, clothing, and bearing that gives them authority that is accepted.Third, the split second to question or delay is either surrendered without a thought, or too late to pushback when detected, given the risk of grievous, even possibly fatal exposure.Fourth, and this has worried me, many vehicles sport the kind of lights, markings, and other attributes that ordinary citizens usually associate with the GPF.Itisextremely difficult to decide who is who, what is what, and which is which. That is, official and lawful, versus the secondhand and, hence, the underhand, if not the outright criminal.Iconclude that the ecstasies and hysterias post August 2, 2020 continue to flourish, o nly now it is more open, with abandon, and as approved by the PPP Gover nment through the use of collaborators in the GPF to clear the way.Similarly, there is the daily reality increasingly faced by the man in the street, where it seems that more vehicles now have tints than those without. This is inclusive of private Thevehicles.tints are neither thin nor transparent, which would defeat the original
All of this has some presence in, and can be extracted from, the article titled, “Six charged for $13.4M heist at GTT’s Giftland store” (KN September 18). It has to do with criminals posing as security personnel.
So what the vast majority of Guyanese want, according to the LAPOP poll is a strong leader handing out bread, whether there are elections or not. The most intriguing piece of data is from the question, “How well is President Ali doing?” In the Poll 41% African Guyanese; 53% Mixed Guyanese and 80% Indian Guyanese answered, “very good and good”. In the year since the poll, the PPP has intensified its developmental program and direct material infusions into communities –while projecting a strong Pres. Ali. Meanwhile, the APNU/AFC Opposition has countered this by claiming that the PPP is favouring the Indian Guyanese community, and in fact is in the process of constructing an “apartheid state” in Guyana. Meanwhile, the LAPOP survey suggests that such views are not gaining traction in the African and Mixed Guyanese community to reverse the PPP 2020 gains.
purpose.Rather, they are thick to the point of being impenetrable.Fifth, things have gotten so bright with tint developments that reports are of some minibuses sporting them. Minibuses, folks, is what we have come to, now live with when tints are discussed.
toilet.Now that the GPF is forced to deal with these all points bulletin involving fakes imitating them in one manner or another, how do they cope successfully with
Who is police and who is ‘thief”?How can a Government and its leaders be so unwise, so slipshod, and so reckless as not to understand what is being let loose on the land and those labouring honestly in it?
RaviSincerely,Dev
And,them?last, where does this leave citizens going about their law-abiding business when confronted with steel pointed in their faces, and nothing between them and eternity?
He who hesitates could end up losing.
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And might even be alienating some.
Putting all this on the public table, and considering our dangerous daily environment, I retrace steps to the first question, while throwing in a couple more.”
It could be that they do understand, but didn’t give it the time spent in the
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ation. The evidence therefore is starkly before us that a 200,000-strong bloated list is not just a potential threat to electoral integrity. It has already been exploited for electoral
Concerned adult
The EU team spoke of the “clear limitations in the ability of the existing continuous registration system to maintain an up-to-date, accurate
DEAR EDITOR, September 19 had been declared by President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali as a National Day of Mourning on the passing of Queen Elizabeth 11 whose burial will take place on that date.
This is indeed a fitting tribute to the late Queen whose contribution to British and global politics is unmatched. Throughout her long and illustrious reign as Queen and Head of the British Commonwealth spanning a period of seventy years, she carried herself with grace and dignity beyond comparison.
party, the PPP, after its defeat in 2015 that first loudly demanded a clean list, biometrics, and a new GECOM chair.By
From page 4 is especially wicked, considering that the public sector is where the core of PNC supporters gain a sustainable livelihood.There is no democratic value in accepting election results that will end your right to work, end your right to equitable allocation and access to financial capital, deny and/ or deprioritise your right to own property, and have no equitable right to obtain government
On receipt of this information from Immigration, one would have expected GECOM to order—to use an analogy from commercial aviation— the emergency grounding of all flights to review the entire situation.Nothing of the sort occurred. Instead, it seems that the Chair of GECOM discontinued sending the other APNU+AFC submissions for verification and aborted the investigation.Meanwhile, Rohee’s PPP was issuing all sorts of threats to challenge in court any probe into voter imperson-
The PPP also supported a clean voters list and biometrics
To Minister Manickchand, who says we should stop complaining about students writing ‘too many subjects’, I say: No. We have a duty of care to these children. Cap the number of subjects a student can write through their school at a sensible number, a single digit number.
Accelerated Racist Policies (ARP) against...
School is not an arcade; this madness...
Moreover, the PPP had formally agreed within GECOM for periodic H2H registration.Assuch, it endo rsed the budgeting by Finance Minister Jordan of GYD$3 billion for the next round of house-tohouse registration.
DEAR EDITOR, Clement J. Rohee’s letter, which appeared in both SN and KN under the title “APNU+AFC’s demands should be considered dead in the water”, omitted critical facts and thus rendered it blinkered and hypocritical. His assertions merely repeated those of his party and its flatterers in the private sector.
The OAS, in turn, advocated that GECOM should undertake “a House-toHouse registration exercise at the earliest opportunity upon completion of the election and periodically thereafter.”
To CXC, your exams have been made a laughingstock. Writing subjects is now less about learning and more about passing exams. You have undermined this country’s education system. Your senseless criteria for ranking students have led
What does this mean? It proves voter impersonation on a scale that calls the credibility of the 2020 election results into question.
If they want, they can write more subjects in 4th form or write them privately if they want the “challenge” of writing Studentsmore. should try to get high scores, not hiscores. School is not an arcade. This madness must end.
register.” The PPP and its small special interests are the last remaining objectors to a clean voters list.
racism have gone so far beyond the pale that AfricanGuyanese can no longer wait
For instance, many would recall that in 1990, then Presi dent Desmond Hoyte agreed to postpone elections to facilitate constitutional and other amendments which saw the enactment of the Carter formula (as Article 161 of the constitution) and, for the first time, counting at the place of poll. With good faith, the political parties can agree and pass the necessary amendments to facilitate credible elections that can reflect the democratic will of the people and win their confidence.
Thelaws.Caricom Observers, for instance, emphasized “the urgent need for the total re-registration of all voters in Guyana.”And,incase, we didn’t get that, they added “It therefore behoves the Commission to create a new voter registry especially given the suspicion that the 2020 register was bloated, a suspicion which is not without merit.”
bers majority that results in marginalisation and subjugation is illogical and makes a mockery of majority rulesbasedWhydemocracy.provide a rope for your own lynching?
now, most interested citizens would have read the SN report (“PPP wants fresh voters list among other electoral reforms” – SN 2015/10/06) to satisfy themselves of the PPP’s hypocrisy on this matter. Of course, the PPP’s call for the GECOM Chair “to go” was directed to then Chairman Dr. Steve Surujbally.
Guyana has benefitted substantially over the years from British and Commonwealth support especially in terms of our democracy. It was Britain and other western countries that played a strong advocacy role for the return of democracy to Guyana in the October 5, 1992 elections after nearly three decades of PNC dictatorial
Of course, with the passage of the ‘No Confidence Motion (NCM)’, the PPP shifted gears and dropped its demands.Rushing elections became its priority. But even if one understood its post-NCM haste in 2018 for new elections, those elections have beenWeheld.have reverted to the normal 5-year election cycle. What then has happened to the PPP’s pre-2018 demands
I am no fan of the British
Hydar Ally
Monarch but credit must be given where it is due. The late Queen must be credited for holding the Commonwealth together and raising the profile of Britain and other Commonwealth countries on the international stage.
Is she fit for purpose is a very appropriate question.
The efforts by Lowenfield and Mingo to undermine the majority vote are now defensible, due to the un-inclusive nature of governance by the PPPTheadministration.discrimination and
rule. And it was Britain and the Commonwealth that lent support to democracy in Guyana in the March 2, 2020 General and Regional elections after an attempt was made by the APNU+AFC coalition to subvert the will of the Guyanese electorate. Britain and the Commonwealth has also taken positions favourable to Guyana in defence of our territorial integrity. A new era has begun in terms of British and Commonwealth politics with a new Monarch, and coincidentally, with a new Prime Minister of Britain.
FIVE, in light all the systemic, administrative, legal, technological, and operational p roblems exposed during the 2020 recount, how could the GECOM Chair continue to believe that she must do nothing other than helplessly sit in a runaway train spe eding towards an impe nding election fiasco?
Sherwood Lowe
THIRD, the Chief Justice’s ruling in August 2019 that the National Register of Registrants Database could not be dumped to accommodate fresh house-tohouse registration is a surmountable legal hurdle.
Still, CXC and the Government have much to answer for. The top students may well feel that their sacrifices were worth it, time well spent for their deserved reward. But what about everyone else?
From page 4 enough to pass every subject should be bright enough to find simpler avenues to achieving their ambitions.
Ifgain.thePPP has nothing to hide, as it claimed, then it should vote to allow GECOM to complete the verification and investigation of voter impersonation of both migrants and the dead.It should then agree to a clean list and biometrics should the findings turn out to be significant as the indications are.
A new era has begun in terms of British and Commonwealth politics
FOUR, not many persons know (or, in some cases, dare to know) that of the several thousands of names APNU+AFC submitted to GECOM as persons for whom votes were cast although they were out of the jurisdiction on election day, over 75% has been confirmed by the Chief Immigration Officer.
too much. Will the government pay for the private medical care she so urgently needs?What about Suresh, who like the hypothetical reader got eight Grade Ones and three Grade 2s, and is mocked by his teachers as an underachiever.What about Chantelle, who wrote six subjects and got six Grade Ones the top of six merit lists, who could have netted twenty-seven Grade 1s but was far too clever to do so. By many a metric her results are the most impressive in the country, but no one will pay her a second thought.
Clement J. Rohee intentionally omitted the following facts.FIRST, the public would be aware by now that it was Mr. Rohee’s
What about poor little Mark, whose teachers made him write 18 subjects so he would have to go to their lessons? Mark studied all day every day for two years and got 18 Grade Ones but no one really cares anymore about those rookie numbers. From next year, if you want a scholarship you will have to write each and every single subject.
What about Dionne, who had a nervous breakdown halfway through her 19-subject exams, when the stress of having to sit 40 papers was
them to pursue stupid and reckless paths, and the everinflating number of subjects has at last reached its natural conclusion - a student who sits and passes each and every single exam. Revise them immediately to remove these perverse incentives.
The APNU+AFC demands to which Rohee referred are the call for a clean voters list (that is, one cleansed of the over 200,000 names of persons who either died locally/abroad or have permanently migrated), the use of biometrics while voting (to eliminate voter impersonation by confirming that a voter is who he/she says he/she is), and that the Chair of GECOM must resign (in light of her outright refusal to even appear impartial—let alone, to actually so act—and to work towards raising GECOM’s organisational efficiency and public trust).
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for a new list and biometrics? Why has it changed its mind, spewing s elf-righteousness?SECOND, Rohee and his party continue to duck the inconvenient truth that the major Election Observer Missions at our 2020 election (CARICOM, the OAS, the Carter Centre, and the EU) have each separately called for a new voter registry and/or a total revision of Guyana’s voter registration
The required constitutional and statutory amendments could be made as was done several times in our recent history.
on 2025 General Elections to obtain genuine inclusive economicThepolicies.Accelerated Racist Policies (ARP) that are being carried out by this PPP Administration necessitates the oppressed group to deal decisively with these subjugating policies “Consciousnow.blacks cannot possibly fail to realise that in our own homelands, we have no power.”Walter Rodney – The Groundings with my Brothers. Nigel Hinds
Rough news day for Jagdeo
The newspaper carried several articles all speaking the uncomfortable truths about the erstwhile leader of our oil resources. The articles portrayed the former president as doing a poor job in managing the sector. If this writer were the VP, I would have resigned my post not just as the overseer of the oil and gas sector, but as Vice President of this country.
2. VP Jagdeo was callously misleading on 'The Glenn Lall Show ' - former EPA Head …invites him, Exxon to discuss facts with nation
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1. Damning revelation of amended royalty provision in Exxon deal exposes VP Jagdeo's true colours' - Govt. must quit being oil companies' servants; secure more for its people – KN Publisher Lall
If in one day, the leading newspaper in this country could publish, not one, not two, but four articles of the poor stewardship of the oil and gas sector under Jagdeo, then it is high time he examines himself and rides off into the sunset.
The Kaieteur News Sunday September 18, 2022 edition would go down as the day of infamy for the Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo.
3. Ministry advertisement exposes Jagdeo's lies on private investment in gas-to-energy project
The articles in question were published under the following headlines:
defaulting consumer to a minimumquantityperday
cessation of awards of new licenses in the oil and gas sectorsince2017,whichwas effective during the period underreview(2018). Inspite of this, Guyana has not used itsEITIreportingtodisclose transfers of participating interests in oil and gas blocks, of which at least one took place in the Orinduik blockinOctober2018. EITI said it remains unclear from publicly accessible documents whether any technical and financial criteriaareassessedineither oilandgaslicenseawardsor transfers.Itsaid, “Government officials explained that rigorous checks of licence applicants were performed (even if the criteria against which these checks were performed were not made public) but that these could be waived in the instance of well-known international oil companies(IOCs),asarethe majorityoftheoilcompanies currently operating in Guyana.”The international watchdog has since urged authorities to make the necessary efforts to come into full compliance with Requirement 4 2 of its Standards.EITIREQUIREMENTS
The disclosures could include ownership of the productsoldandthenatureof the contract (e.g. spot or term).Companies buying oil,
Againstthisbackdrop,he told the PUC, “We hereby request a review of reconnection rates to establish a short- and longterm solution to this area of concern. We believe the review needs to consider a d i s a g g r e g a t i o n o f disconnection costs, opportunity costs and revenue loss from disconnection. We hereby ask your consideration for a zero rate for reconnection in the short term, so long as a customer clears the agreed outstanding payments In addition, clearing unpaid bills should result in immediate reconnection to ensure continued revenues by
According to the International Secretariat for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), Guyana is yet to declare consistently information pertaining to the volumes of oil collected in accordance with the profitsharing split, alongside the identityofthebuyerforeach oilcargo.Furthermore, EITI said Guyana does not appear to have yet made progress on publishingdescriptionsofthe process for selecting the buying companies, the technical and financial criteria used to make the selection, the list of selected buying companies, any material deviations from the applicable legal and regulatory framework governing the selection of buying companies, and the relatedsales
hile Guyana has made some progress in routinely publishing information about the numberofbarrelsofoilbeing produced as well as how much petro-dollars flow into its Natural Resource Fund (NRF), it is still faltering in somekeyareas.
consumer concerns specifically with regard to utility services, is scheduled to host a public hearing on September 21, 2022 on the matter The session will be held via the zoom platform and members of the public are invited to join from 10:00am.ThemeetingIDis: 839 2269 6647 and the passcode is: 456518
Mahadeo in his missive reasoned, “A consumer who clears outstanding bills is readytoresumepaymentfor service. Any contemplation ofareconnectioncostshould be backed by clear and detailed cost breakdowns
The published data must be disaggregated by individual buying company and to levels commensurate with the reporting of other payments and revenue streams (4 7) Multi stakeholder groups, in consultation with buying companies, are expected to considerwhetherdisclosures should be broken down by individual sale, type of productandprice.
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...says Govt. must explain how it selects buyers, approves transfers of interests in oil blocks
confident that addressing these concerns will meet the Human Rights requirements whileallowingGWItowork towards such solutions that have been effectively adoptedinothercountries. memorandum
Validation is the EITI's qualityassurancemechanism to assess implementing countries on their ability to meet the provisions of the EITITheStandard.ValidationofGuyana commenced on October 1,
There should be a disaggregation of the expenses, identification of opportunity costs, surpluses, and the evaluation of the risks and rewards of disconnection and reconnection that lie solely withandforGWI.”
gas and/or mineral resources from the state, including state-owned enterprises (or thirdpartiesappointedbythe state to sell on their behalf), are also encouraged to disclose volumes received fromthestateorstate-owned enterprise and payments madeforthepurchaseofoil, gasand/ormineralresources. Thiscouldincludepayments (incashorinkind)relatedto swap agreements and resource backed loans Kaieteur News understands thatthepublisheddatacould be disaggregated by individual seller, contract or sale.Thedisclosurescouldfor eachsaleincludeinformation on the nature of the contract (e.g. spot or term) and load port. Also, where there are concerns related to data reliability and where practically feasible, the multi stakeholder group should consider further efforts to address any gaps, inconsistencies and irregularities in the informationdisclosed.
Report outlines the full assessment of Guyana's Validationbyrequirement.It is based on extensive stakeholder consultations and a review of three templates that reflect the components of EITI Validation, namely “Outcomes and impact”, “Stakeholder engagement” and “Transparency” The Board decision, including corrective actions needed before Guyana's next Validation,ispublishedinthe decisionsregister
Mahadeoinaletterdated August 22, 2022 to the PUC arguedthatthedisconnection ofwaterbytheGuyanaWater Inc(GWI)mustnotcontinue, while suggesting that other options be explored to get customers to pay their bills. In fact, he even made suggestions to the agency in thisTregard.hePUC, which is mandated to listen to
cash or in kind) related to swap agreements and resource-backedloans.”
that a thorough analysis of the cost of disconnection would prove that GWI suffers exponentially from such an event. For instance, he explained that there is physical disconnection cost which is not borne by the consumer.TheGWI goes on to incur further losses, the Consultantnoted,fortheloss ofrevenueduringthisperiod coupled with “the loss of goodwill,andthelossoftime in planning and executing a reconnection.”Ontheother hand, Mahadeo explained that a penalty is imposed upon the
The Consumer body representative argued that water suppliers around the world have had to grapple with maintaining a supply while recovering its costs through collections from its customers as well. He said, “Inmanycountries,thewater supplier cannot disconnect the water supply to a domestic customer, schools and hospitals for non payment ” To this end, Mahadeo told the Public Utilities Commission that those companies have instead employed systems to “woo” defaulting consumers topaytheirbills.Onewayof doing this, the Consultant pointedout,wouldbetolimit and reduce the flow to a
GWI.”Mahadeo is adamant that consumers should not be required to wait any longer than the time it took GWI to disconnect the service. He is
on reconnectionratesseekto (Continuedonpage16)
Guyana
(GCA)AssociationConsumersConsultant,Dr.YogMahadeo
EITI's Requirement 4.2 speaks to sale of the state's share of production or other revenuescollectedinkind.
consumer who clears the outstanding payments but is stillforcedtowaitfordaysto get reconnected, which amounts to more revenue loss for the water company during the waiting period.
April 2022, Guyana was found to have achieved a fairly low overall score (52 points) in implementing the 2019 EITI Standard The Validation
public call for stakeholderviewswasissued on September 1, 2021 Stakeholder consultations were held virtually on October 11-29, 2021. The draft Validation report was finalised on December 6, 2021. Following comments from the Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) January 31, 2022, the Validation report w a s f i n a l i s e d f o r consideration by the EITI Board.
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saidExpoundingagreements.further,EITItherehasbeenadefacto
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Consumer Association rails against GWI disconnecting citizens, charging reconnection fees …PUC to host hearing on Wednesday
EITI urges Guyana to comply with requirement to publish contracts for sale of profit oil
It states, “Where the sale of the state's share of production of oil, gas and/or mineral resources or other revenues collected in kind is material, the government, including state owned enterprises, are required to disclose the volumes receivedandsoldbythestate (orthirdpartiesappointedby the state to sell on their behalf), the revenues received from the sale, and the revenues transferred to thestatefromtheproceedsof oil, gas and minerals sold. Where applicable, this should include payments (in
h e c u r r e n t reconnection rate is a perplexingly high penal charge for consumers.Notonlythatbut disconnectingone'saccessto water breaches human rights regulations according to the United Nations Resolution 64/292.These are some of the argumentsbeingputforward to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) by a consultant of the Guyana Consumers Association (GCA),Dr YogMahadeo.
He went on to explain
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Guyana does not have to enter into any discussions about the royalty rates with the oil companies.Itis Guyana’s prerogative to set the new royalty rates in the new model PSA.
De govament and de country bin banking pon de Warriors doing well.
money fuh see yuh team getting licks and on top ah dat, yuh gat fuh pay fuh parking.Dem boys hope dat dem gan gat security fuh dem parking lots.
He had pointed to the pre-contract costs which had to be repaid. He accused the Coalition government of downgrading the PPP/C’s agreement with the oil companies, including through the insertion of the Stability Clause which it was said tied Guyana down to a number of lopsided provisions.Jagdeohimself pointed to Exxon paying no taxes, being unaffected by any future law and only having the obligation to bring gas onshore for domestic demand.Jagdeo was definitive in January 2018 that Guyana lost significantly from the deal. He said Guyana ended up with ‘peanuts’ while Exxon walked away with a favourable agreement.Duringthe debate on the no-confidence motion, Jagdeo said the Coalition had the opportunity to renegotiate more benefits in the 2016 Instead,contract.ofdoing this, he said the Coalition approached the negotiations unprepared and incompetently struck up a deal that would harm the country for decades.
A model agreement is determined solely by the government.Butwhat makes Jagdeo even more evasive was that he was not being asked about the new PSA but rather if he was in the Coalition’s shoes, what sort of deal he would have signed.Providing a direct answer to this question neither preempts nor prejudices whatever happens in the new PSA.Guyana has to state its conditions in the new PSA and negotiate around those demands. There is no preempting.Butoneunderstands why Jagdeo is bobbing and weaving on this issue.
answer to Lall because it is not likely that the model PSA is go ing to deviate much from the 2 percent royalties which 3 years ago, he said set a precedent for
It look as if dem plane gan be coming in halfempty.Talk half, leff half.
future oil contracts.
It gan tek dem fuh win dem remaining matches and hope dat dem other matches get rain out. Dat gan require wan act of God.
Second Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo was Opposition Leader between 2015 and 2020. During that period, he was highly critical of the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) which was signed by the APNU+AFC government with the oil companies. Now that he is in government, he is singing a different tune.
Is all kinda activities organise as side events fuh de cricket.DeCricket Carnival however look like it gan turn into a Wake.De organisers now selling parkingImaginetickets.yuh gat fuh pay fuh park in Guyana.
In June 2019, when he was still Opposition Leader, he recommended that no further concessions should be granted to the oil companies until a model PSA was completed.Thereason for taking this stance was because, as he said, the 2016 PSA acts as a precedent for future contracts.Itishereby respectfully suggested that Jagdeo could not provide a direct
De govament invest a lotta money in de cricket. Dem nah tell de nation up to now if dem had to pay or wat concessions dem had to grant fuh get de rights to deButfinals.dembin expecting a big contingent of visitors from overseas.
When the then head of Transparency International GuyanacalledInc.for renegotiation of the 2016 contract, Jagdeo said that this is something he feels strongly about.
(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)
Some people overseas in aDembind. done book plane ticket, hotel room, cricket ticket and dem mek plans fuh come to Guyana fuh see de Amazon Warriors play.
Monday September 19, 2022 Kaieteur News PAGE 9
Jagdeo is bobbing and weaving
Dem gat as slim a chance of getting to de playoffs as
Dem boys seh...
Yuh done paying nuff
He had criticised the PSA on many fronts.
De Warriors losing de fight!
He also said that the PPP/ C would make this a prominent feature of its Manifesto for the 2020 elections.Itdid. In the excerpts of its Manifesto, the PPP/C said that upon taking office, it would immediately engage the oil companies in better contract aandinnegotiatedwouldnewaboutclarifiedhimworkingnewgovernmentbeHebegantoprovidingpeople.beenrateAPNU+AFC.theJagdeoShow,lastbackburner.renegotiationfuturecontractsthecontracts.beganPPP/Crenegotiation.administration/Butnosoonerhadthesettledintooffice,ittospeakaboutfutureItclaimsithastorespectsanctityofexistingbutwouldamendcontracts.IthasplacedontheDuringhisappearanceonTuesday’sTheGlennLallthehostremindedabouthiscriticismsofPSAsignedbytheLallthenaskedhimwhatofroyaltywouldhavefairtotheGuyaneseJagdeoinsteadofadirectanswerastraightquestion,hetobobandweave.saidhedidnotwanttopremature.HesaidthatthehastoissuecontractsandwasonamodelPSA.GlennLallinterruptedcourteouslyandhewasnotaskingtheroyaltyinthePSAbutratherwhathe,Jagdeo,haveasaroyaltyratethe2016contract.Jagdeobegantobobweaveagain.1Heproceededtogointodifferentdirectiontalking
about three variables which the government is utilising to govern a new PSA: the company must get a fair return, create enough incentives for production and a greater share of government for benefits.Hesaid if he says 5 percent royalty, he is preempting the discussion. But what discussion is Jagdeo speaking about?
APNU+AFC gat of winning any future elections.
But de way de Amazon Warriors playing mek nuff ah dem people want cancel dem flight and stay weh demItdeh.gan tek a miracle fuh de Warriors fuh mek de playoffs. De Warriors tekkin a Demlikkin.supposed to be warriors but dem hardly putting up a fight.
He further accused the Coalition of selling out the national patrimony and seeking refuge in national security considerations.
itsrecountreport: “The team viewed much of the exercise of the phenomenon of ghost voting as well as voter impersonation as a fishing expedition… the net was cast extremely wide in the hope of at least making a small catch and at times the anticipated catch ended in slim pickings.”
Police retrieve firearm after owner knocked out with a punch to face
Here is what the CARICOM recount team w r o t e a b o u t t h i s documentation on page 8 of
FrederickKissoon
And if his figures are rightthenitshouldhavebeen thePNC,AFC,ACDA,Cuffy 250, IDPADA G and all those African rights organisations that should have clamoured for the release of the document not theAttorneyGeneral.
imaginewhatwent throughthemindof the chairperson It had to go like this: “Don't they want to show the world this fraud? Why then, they want to keep this information secret? Any sane person sitting in the position of the chair would have cast a vote fortheNowrelease.anaficionadoofthe PNC wrote the following yesterdayandwhenyouread what he had to say, think of how contemptuous some African leaders are of AfroGuyanese. Read this from Sherwood Lowe, “Of the several thousands of names APNU+AFC submitted to GECOM as persons for whom votes were cast although they were out of the jurisdiction on election day over 75 percent has been confirmed”.
Last Saturday, I went to repairmywife'spairofshoes on Bourda Street on the eastern pavement of Bourda Market.AsIchattedwiththe repairmen (3 of them), one turntotheotherandsaidthat Mr Kissoon got something that he likes more than politics.The third gentleman chimedinandasked:“Wuhis duh bhai?” The first gentleman said: “He like he daag.”Whatisthepoint?The workingmassesknowwhois who in politics, they know who does what and says what.”Itis for this reasonAfroGuyaneseknowthatthePNC has fooled them and is fooling them about the election results of March 2020. The clue to the PNC's and their surrogates' and the AFC's credibility was the
Fooling Afro-Guyanese again, and again and again
The election went smoothly on Monday evening of March 2. By Tuesday morning, the PPP, PNCandalltheinternational observer groups knew the results. The PNC that night knewtheylosttheelection.
Kaieteur NewsPAGE 10 Monday May 02, 2022 THEFREDDIEKISSOONCOLUMN
(The views expressed in this article are those of the a u t h o r a n d d o n o t necessarily reflect the opinionsofthisnewspaper.)
How does Lowe know that when the CARICOM recount team referred to that particular claim as a fishing expedition? Once more, Afro Guyanese are being disrespected by their own leaders.Correction and apology: In yesterday's column, the namesMortimerMingowere used instead of Clairmont Mingo This columnist apologises sincerely for the mixup.
Monday September 19, 2022
proveLowe'scontention.
Many of the leaders of bothPNCandAFCmetatthe APNU's campaign office at Lamaha and Camp Streets and pandemonium, hysteria, insanity and tears filled the building. If there is anything this columnist knows about the March 2020 elections is what took place in the uncivilisedhoursofTuesday, March 2020 in that very building.Mysource is one million percent reliable. Years from now, I will reveal who my sourcewasandtheGuyanese people will see how credible
The Attorney General wroteGECOMtoreleasethe immigration data which APNUsubmittedtoGECOM in May 2020 to prove that deadpeoplevotedandpeople whowerenotinGuyanaalso castGuessballots.who objected to GECOM releasing the data? You are not going to believe it. You send to GECOM papers that prove that there was electoral fraud because you have in your possession evidence that ghosts and peoplenotphysicallypresent inGuyanawentandcasttheir ballots.Butyouareobjecting to the release of this information.TheGECOMchairvoted for the release of the information Any human with normal faculties can
It is easy to crush this fictionalisation of Lowe becausenoonehasmadethat pronouncement on paper so where did Lowe get his figures from? There is no paper that APNU+AFC has that could be tendered to
Police in Regional Division #7 on Saturday retrieved a Smith and Wesson Revolveralongwithfourroundsofmatching ammunition that was seized from a known maleatSandHillLanding,CuyuniRiver
Accordingtothe22-year-oldman,heand the suspect had a misunderstanding over some money when the suspect whipped out the firearm and dealt him a lash to his head with the gun, police said in a press release.
Themanthenhandedoverthegunalong with the ammunition to the Supernumerary Constablewhomadecontactwithranksfrom the Itaballi Police Checkpoint and informed themoftheincident.
Apolicesergeantlatervisitedthescene andretrievedthefirearmalongwiththefour matching rounds of ammunition and one spentshell.Effortstolocatethesuspectwho went missing after regaining consciousness has been unsuccessful thus far, police said. The 22-year-old miner was escorted to the BarticaPoliceStationwherethefirearmwas lodged.Furtherinvestigationsareongoing.
he/shewasatthattime.From TuesdaymorningofMarch3, the PNC made the decision that it will claim that the election was tampered with but will not display, at anytimetoanyone,itsSOPS. It has not done so. It will never do so. It will keep fooling its supporters and because of the invisible SOPS of the PNC, its supportersknowitislyingto them.The PNC has not learnt from its disastrous mistake with the SOPS It has repeated the same comical stratagem with the documentation of dead people voted and overseas Guyanesevotedeventhough theywerenotinGuyana.
Therevolverwasretrievedbya33-year old Supernumerary Constable attached to Baksh Diamond Enterprise Security Service at about 06:15hrs on the said date, at Sand HillLandingCuyuniRiver,afterthesuspect hadassaulteda22-year-oldminerofParika, East Bank Essequibo with the weapon and wassubsequentlypunchedand'knocked-out' bythe22-year-oldman.
Thesuspectwasdealtapunchtohisfaceand lostconsciousness.The22-year-oldminerimmediatelytook away the firearm from the suspect and dischargedaroundintheair
The firearm that was retrieved
statementsofpoll(SOPS).
Monday September 19, 2022 Kaieteur News PAGE 11
age 24 years, of New Amsterdam, Berbice and Elboy Anastacio, age 20 years, of Grove, East Bank Demerara A search was conducted onTerrence John's baginamake-shiftcampand a A03 Samsung Cellular phone and one Guyana NationalIDcardwerefound. Further searches were conducted in the camp and a Guyana passport in favour of EphraimDanielVaughnalong withhisvaccinationcardwas found.The camps, drying areas, processed cannabis, and cannabis plants were all destroyed by fire. The three adult males and the juvenile were escorted to Central Police Station along with the cartridges,onespraycan,one water can, and one brush cutter, along with cannabis plants. At the station, the detainees were placed in custody pending charges, while the items mentioned above were lodged Investigationsareongoing.
Terrence John, 24 years old of Lot 260 New Amsterdam
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exercise.Some 15,000 cannabis plantsrangingfromteninches to seven feet amounting to approximately 2000 pounds were found cultivated on a total of approximately six acres of land, the Guyana PoliceForcesaidinarelease. In addition, approximately 1,000 pounds of dried cannabis, six 12 gauge cartridgeswerealsofoundina campwherethreeadultmales and one juvenile were seen attending to the plants on the farms. On seeing the police, they ran in an attempt to escape. However,policegave chase and apprehended all of them. The three males were interviewed and they gave their names as Fabian Atkinson, age 30 years, of Santa Rosa Mission, North West District; Terrence John,
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Kaieteur NewsPAGE 12 Monday September 19, 2022
On August 22, after months of consistent requests from transparency activists, the Ministry of
Natural Resources directed KaieteurNewstoitswebsite where oil production data wasItavailable.wasexplained that the portal was launched in the first quarter of 2021 under the Petroleum Management Programme. This was not known to the media and otherNstakeholders.otably,the website
offers data regarding the number of barrels produced attheLizaOneandLizaTwo operations in the Stabroek Block, as well as the daily reported injected gas, flaredgasandgasusedfor fuel It also gives an overview on the Brent Crude prices and the amount of water produced andinjected.
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Obermuller after he was injured by the propeller and passengers tried to assist him to stop the bleeding.
La Rose recalled “everyone that was present in the boat started to panic because Robert was badly injured and we were stranded in an area for approximately half an hour with no signal to call for help.”The woman related that the desperate cries of the passengers were eventually heard by a concerned residentnearby,whoquickly rendered assistance and contacted the coastguards whoarrivedshortlyafter Shesaidherhusbandwas then transported swiftly from the wharf by a soldier vehicle which arrived at Mabaruma Hospital around 2pm.“He had been lying on his stomach since he first suffered the wounds to lessen the bleeding from his back,andheremainedinthis position while being attended to by the medics.”
Therelated.woman explained that the plane which was scheduled to medevac her husband to Georgetown arrivedfourhourslater After the plane arrived at the
ambulance to the plane, irritated the wounds and worsened the bleeding. She saidshortlybeforetheplane arrived, the medics were preparing him for transportation to the airport and they switched him from lyingonhisstomachtolying onhisSback.hesaid despite pleading with them not to, they continued and this caused him to bleed profuselyFurther, La Rose noted
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the engine The incident causedObermullerwhowas seated next to the captain to sustainseveralseverecutsto hisbackfromthepropellerat around12:40thatday
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thatduringtheplaneride,the nursesbeganpressingonher husband's stomach after he started panting for breath.
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airport, La Rose said there were further delays because thepilotrefusedtotransport the injured man. He said, “I cannot transport him in this condition.Thereistoomuch blood, and this will mess up the plane. He showed more concern for the medical plane than the person fighting for his life,” she noted.After much begging, the womansaidthatsheandher husbandwereallowedonthe planewiththepilot.
“I was with him the entire time and I witnessed thepainthathewasinbuthe was still conscious. Some medicalstaffwasaskingthe doctors at Mabaruma Hospitaltoclampthewound andcloseitupuntilhecould beevacuatedtoGeorgetown Hospital since there was no blood for him at Mabaruma butthedoctorsrefused,they said a bandage would hold…”They said too that there was enough blood in his system to last him throughout his journey to Georgetown hospital. The wife noted that an emergency plane from Georgetown was then contacted but there were complaints about the weatherShe said, “There were two other planes in Mabaruma that came for patients but the doctors refusedtoletmyhusbandgo on either because they were bookedforotherpatientsbut none of the other patients wasinsodirecondition,”the woman
Former Executive Director of the nwebsite-thatpressAllianceEAoarewouldiResources.bysharedwkpreleasecalledDProtectionEnvironmentalAgency(EPA),rVincentAdamshasonthegovernmenttodailydataonoilroductionevenashenockedthemannerinhichinformationbeingonwebsitemannedtheMinistryofNaturalAdamssaidthewebsitesnotuserfriendlyandbafflecitizenswhonowlearningabouttheilandgassectorDrdams,aPetroleumngineer,saidduringanForChange(AFC)conferenceonFridaytheinformationontheseelinkbelow-isotreadable operations.interpretcharts,datainsteadNaturalbossthispeoplefriendstheuserthetitletheythe1nota-visualizationhttps://petroleum.gov.gy/datHeargued,“thedatahasbeenupdatedsinceJuly1,nottomentionsomeofsloppiness;ifyougolookatsomeofthegraphsandhavegotonethingattheandsomethingelseatshortandit'svery,veryunfriendly.”Dr.Adamscontinued,“Ihavegottencallsfromevenpress,evensomeofmysayinghowmanycanreadgraphs.”Toend,theformerEPAsaidtheMinistryofResourcesshouldposttheproductionusingfiguresratherthansothatanyonecanthelevelofoffshoreOnSunday,this
data. Well if you are doing real time monitoring on productiondata,youhaveto be giving us the real time dataonthatwebsitethatyou sentus…thedatahasnot been updated since July 11,”Dr Adamsexplained.
The mother of six said that on the 24th August, 2022, she and her husband Robertwerereturningfroma family function held in Port Kaituma via boat when a floatinglogstrucktheboat's motor propeller and the captainbrieflylostcontrolof
...family accuses medical staff of neglect Dead: ObermullerRobert
Obermuller is questioning the competency of local healthcare workers after he died suddenly on August24,2022whilebeing medevaced from the hinterland.Obermuller reportedly bled to death on the plane ride to the city after he was injuredbyapropellerearlier thatdayduringaboatrideat afamilyfunctionwhichwas being held in Port Kaituma, Region One. The injured man who sustained several deepgashestohisback,was on his way to the GeorgetownPublicHospital Corporation (GPHC) for emergency treatment when hedied.Hiswife,LovernLa Rose gave Kaieteur News a harrowing account of the events that lead up to her husband's death. She is hoping that by highlighting the situation, the health authorities will be able to offersomeformofredress.
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La Rose noted too, “There were no doctors on the plane; my husband was leftinthecareoftwotrainee nurses…”Priorto this, the woman claimed that the actions carried out by the medical personnelduringtheprocess of transferring him from the
The woman believes however, that the medical team could have done more to lessen her husband's bleeding.
“This action made the bleeding worse, and Robert died as a result from excessive blood loss as shown by the postmortem and this was due to the careless action taken while seeking medical help,” she lamented The grieving woman is therefore calling for an investigation into the matter
newspaper could not ascertain when the last productionreportwasposted as the portal was unavailable.Theformer agency head however insisted that the datawasnotbeingdisclosed in a timely manner even though Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said during 'The Glenn Lall Show' last Tuesday evening that Guyana has access to real timeproductiondata.
“When the Vice Presidentwasconfrontedby (KN Publisher Mr Glenn) Lall about real time monitoring (of costs), he saidohwecan'tdorealtime monitoring because we are not co managing but however we do real time monitoring on production
e schools and institutions that received the donation include: Durban Backlands Practical Instruction Centre; St Stanislaus College, North Ruimveldt Multilateral School; Kuru Kuru Co-op College; Dora Secondary School; St Rose's High School, South Ruimveldt
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Chase's Academic Foundation (CAF) has demonstratedonceagainthat students can pass Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) at any level.In 2016, thirteen-year old, Orande Chase wrote through CAF and passed CSEC with a Grade one in EnglishAandtheschoolhas done it again this year, with TyroneAustinaGradeEight (FormTwo)studentwhoalso passed with a Grade one in English A Last June, Thirteen-year-old, Tyrone of La Parfaite Harmonie West Bank Demerara, challenged himselftotakeonthetaskof writing CSEC English A,
some four years before his scheduledAustintime.notonly earned a Grade One pass, but he is among the top three performing students for the school in the examination. He admitted that he is intrigued by difficult situations and enjoys a good challenge. Austin is also an avid reader and thinks such passion is paramount to the success of an English student. English teacher at the school, Mr Franklin Langhorne commended the student for his efforts and outlook.Hesaid,“Tyroneisa disciplined and mature studentandhewritesbetter
to surprise her parents with the excellent results but the Education Minister, Priya Manickchand, had ruined that surprise by announcing her grades on national television.Herparents were proud and treated her to a special dinner but she had no clue that her community, Vryheid's Lust had an even bigger surprise for her. One week after receiving the results,McArthurlearntthat the community will be honouring her with a billboard, elevating her to celebrity
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a t e i s h a McAuthur, one of Guyana's top CSEC performers this year only wanted to be a role model for little brother and make her family proud but she ended being a celebrity inVryheid'sLust,EastCoast Demerara after the community on Sunday honoured her with a billboard.McAuthur, a student of Queen's College, placed tenth in the country for her outstanding performance at t h e r e c e n t C S E C examinations.Shegained grade ones and two grade twos Speaking wit Kaieteur News on Sunday, the aspiring gynaecologistsaidthat she was motivated to do well because she wanted to be a role model for her little brother and the first in her family to attain a high number of CSEC passes.McArthur recal burning the 'midnight candle' and studying until 03:00hrsinthemorningjust to make sure that she was prepared properly for the exams. The hard work paid off and she gained grade onesinGeneralMaths,Add Maths, English and a number of other science subjects. McAuthur wanted
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academically.KurtBraithwaite, a former teacher of the Vryheid's Lust Primary School, said that this is not thefirsttimethecommunity has erected a billboard for top performing student in McArthur's family McAuthur's little brother had placed fifth in the country for the NGSA examsandhewashonoured inthesamefashiontoo.
with the Ministry of Agriculture, which is building a shade house and chicken pen for the school. Thus, she is overjoyed that
The young woman said thatshefeelsproudknowing thatshehasnotonlybecome a role model for her little brotherbutforalltheyouths in Vryheid's Lust who have dreams of excelling
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Speaking at a simple handing-overceremonyheld at Food for the Poor Complex on Tuesday last, Chief Executive OfficerFFTP(Guy) Inc. Mr Kent Vincentsaidthelocalarmof the non-profit organisation has always supported the education sector over the years, and the tools donated willboostthecapacityofthe agricultural department of eachschool.Heemphasised that FFTP (Guy) Inc is commitment to the educationsector M e a n w h i l e , t h e Headmistress of South Ruimveldt Secondary School, Donna Isles, stressed that they are resuscitating their agriculture department because the school has a feedingprogrammeandthey wish to be self-sufficient. They have also signed on
Braithwaite explained that Vryheid's Lust has chosentodothisasawayof (Continuedonpage16)
FFTP (Guyana) is donating the tools because of the incorporationofAgricultural Science into the timetable, the students will be able to y Education Certificate (CSEC)in2024.
The billboard erected to honour Lateisha McArthur for her outstanding performance.
Department at St. Rose's High School, Ms. Glenis Fordyce stated that Agriculture Science is more theory-based at the school, but practical is done at Durban Backlands and they are hoping to do that at the school.She further stated that theyareverythankfulforthe tools because there are a lot more students doing Agricultural Science thus, more tools and equipment are needed for the programme to be more efficient.Headmistress of Dora Secondary School, Ruth Lawrence stated that their agricultural department is functional, and her students are involved in the subject because of the school's location.Sheis very thankful to FFTP(Guy)Inc.becausethe toolsdonatedwillbenefitthe children since their program hasbeenextended.
n Sunday, Manickcha nd and other community members unveiled the billboard in a simple ceremony It was erected just over the Railway Embankment, along the Vryheid'sLustMainRoad. Manickchandreportedly congratulated the young
The contribution was made to the schools in recognition of Education Month, presently being observed. A total of eight learning institutions each benefitted from 12 units of hoes with handles, pix axes with handles, forks, machete, shovel square with handles,triangularfiles,and shade.Th
everal schools and other learning i n s t i t u t i o n s recently received donations from Food for the Poor (FFTP) (Guyana) Inc. to aid in practical work for AgriculturalScience.
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woman and advised her to continue striving for success because she has the potentialtobecomeone f t h e b e s t aecologists in the world.“I feel very elated to behonouredwithabillboard and motivated by the minister's remarks” , McArthur told Kaieteur News
Food for the Poor (Guyana) Inc. executives hand over the tools to representatives of the various learning institutions.
A proud moment: (At left) Tyrone Austin, a Grade Eight (Form Two) student who passed with a Grade one in English A, stands beside his parents.
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to improve Guyana's flood protection infrastructures Additionally, the budget assigned some $1.2 billion dollars to the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority in August as supplementary funds to aid ongoingworks.
Kaieteur News PAGE 15Monday September 19, 2022
But owing to Guyana's low lying northern coastal zone and the gradual rises in sea levels which have been recorded over the years, Guyana's coastal zone is uniquely positioned to bear the brunt of further climate and extreme weather related catastrophes.Anddespitethe government of Guyana having invested billions of dollars into shoring up Guyana's sea defences, deficiencies still exist and overtopping continues to occur along the coastal zones The forecasted outcomes for Georgetown are dire especially as it is home to the majority of the nation's citizens and is the centre for business and commerce in Guyana President's Ali's pledges at COP26 considered the impacts of Guyana's particular circumstances, the need for its pristine and invaluable rainforests to be preservedandforthecountry to develop in a sustainable and carbon friendly manner However, outside of those pledges and pronouncements,subsequenttherehasbeenverylittleinthewayof ment policyA l o w carbonfuture T h e updated Low C a r b o n
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Ali stated that the government would be making “massive investmentinadaptingtothe impacts of climate change”. Goingfurthertostatethathis
Irfaan Ali, attended the Conferences of the Parties (COP26) on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Glasgow last November, he made several pledges s u r r o u n d i n g h i s government'scommitmentto reducing carbon emissions and protecting Guyana's biodiversitySpecif
ically, President stated that it his intention to reduce Guyana's carbon emissions by seventy percentby2030,even asthenationembarks on a nobillionsreportedEstimatesercomingwithworstsubjectednthatDomesticthanfigurerecordedAfcountry'stheGuyanese.bcand2030.expectedidentifiedcityAcrisisimportantstatesscornersitstacklingCrCespousedGuyana.thebeenpledgesenvironmentalurufPresidentspearheadeddevelopmenttransformativeagenda,bythehimselfandueledbynewlynlockedpetroleumevenueswhichrinderminingGuyaobjectives.SincePresidentAli'satCOP26,therehavemanydevelopmentsinworldandespeciallyinMuchoftherhetoricbyworldleadersatOP26,centeredaroundecoveringfromtheOVID19pandemicandtheclimatecrisisasimpactsarebeingfeltinalloftheworld.ForGuyanaandothermallislanddeveloping(SIDS),itisevenmorethattheclimateistackledastheSouthmericannation'scapital,Georgetown,hasbeenasoneofninecitiestobeunderwaterbyCertainly,thesocialeconomicimpactsofthelimatecrisisarealreadyeingroundlyfeltbyIn2005,Guyanasufferedworstfloodinginthehistorywithoverivehundredmillionmericandollarsbeingindamagesalone,athatrepresentedmorehalfofthenation'sGrossProduct(GDP)foryear.Andlastyear,theationonceagainwastosomeofthefloodinginitshistory,citizensineveryregiondangerouslyclosetoelivingthehorrorstheyxperiencedin2005forthelossesweretohavebeenintheatthetime;however,officialfigureshavebeen
y a's recently resuscitated policy document detailing its commitment to the development of a green economymainlythroughlow carbon energy, employment a n d d e v e l o p m e n t
opportunities.Mostimportantly, the document sets out the government's intentions to upgrade and transform the nation's current energy mix, moving away from its over reliance on imported fossil fuelssuchasHeavyFuelOil (HFO) and Diesel which make up over 90% of the country's current electricity mix with a move towards cleaner sources of energy such as natural gas and hydropower According to theLCDS,between2022and 2027, the government intends to meet growing electricity demands using a combinationofnaturalgas-a source that could make as much as 94% of the power mix by 2024 -, solar and hydropower And by 2027 to 2032, the government intends to continue its elimination of HFOs and increase its use of renewables, to reach around 75%oftheelectricitymixby 2040.Inprovidingtheforeword for the document, President
numberofboldclaimswhich according to experts are almost impossible to verify in fact, owing to the lack of baseline data available. For instance,thedocumentstates that Guyana's 18.5 million hectares of rainforests are capable of storing 19 5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (a key greenhouse gas) while adding that the world emits about 50 billion tonnesperyear Accordingto
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released.Flooding has been a recurrent issue within Guyana with billions having been invested over the years to address an outdated drainage and irrigation system and to invest in various sea defense initiatives. For instance, in the 2022 National Budget, some $13 billion dollars were allocated to upgrade drainage and irrigation systems in the country, with another$5billionearmarked
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Overtopping at the Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara
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government would manage the oil and gas sector “responsibly” for the benefit of all Guyanese Critics however remain skeptical as planstoaccelerateoilandgas production are well underway with the government aiming to bring 10 floating production, storage and offloading vessels (FPSOs) on stream by2030.Thedocument makes a
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the Global Carbon Project, the total annual greenhouse gas emissions per year amounts to just about 34 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent.DrJanette Bulkan, Forestry Specialist and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia,waskeentorefute those figures as more than mere “pronouncements” as the data contained in the study does not appear to be clearly sourced and has not been independently verified. She went on to relate that if the government is serious about cutting carbon emissionsbyseventypercent aspledged,thereshouldbeat least a white or green paper presentedbythegovernment to show the short and long term steps to be taken, but ultimatelynothingofthesort exists.The LCDS goes on to state that “at the same time, Guyana can grow its economy fivefold over 20 years and can keep energy emissionsflat”,while
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As such, he noted that reconnection of a consumer inherently secures future earnings and the ongoing tariff evaluation on metered connections ultimately allows full costTherecovery.Guyana Water Inc. responded to the
The government of Guyana's other flagship energy generation initiative, the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project (Amaila Falls) has also been criticized for its price tag too.According to information released by the government, the project is expected to cost an estimated US$900 million dollars to generate and contribute an estimated 165MW to the nation's electrical grid.
will be for COP27, civil society advocates bemoan their lack of involvement as the government has not yet held any consultations with them in the lead up to
Mr. Bhulai explained that the DBIS ordinarily generates an output of around 100MW to 150MW when at maximum capacity but owing to built in fail safes, the grid usually trips whenever there are fluctuations in power.
From page 15 protecting the coasts and hinterlands from climate change.
Dr. Janette Bulkan has written and spoken extensively about Guyana's forests and was able to state categorically that “for quite some time, Guyana has not been a carbon sink and certainly now that the nation is producing oil, it has actually become a massive carbon emitter”.
The Energy Technologist however lamented that it would be very expensive for the government to attempt to improve and upgrade the DBIS noting only that an estimate of US250 million dollars was proposed by former Prime Minister Sam Hinds anecdotally.However, no formal studies have ever been conducted.Mr.Bhulai's recommendation to the government would be to proceed with installing “mini solar grids” in government'sgasGuyana'stionsthegrowingsharegasdemicduringpositiveeconomiesduction.vironmentalableresourcesfromGuyaneseoilwithintoareistssocietypartners.government'sprivateingurecometheoilisPresident,Presidentwasincommunities.outwhichnectedwhichthroughoutcommunitiesthenation,wouldnotbecon-totheDBISandcouldalsoberolledtofaroffhinterlandGuyana'sLCDShasbeencirculationsince2009andfirstconceivedbythenandcurrentViceBharatJagdeo,whonowheadingupGuyana'sandgassector.Sincethen,VicePresidenthasbe-asomewhatdivisivefig-inGuyana,largelyenjoy-supportfromthenation'ssectorandtheinvestmentHowever,anumberofcivilorganizations,activ-andseveralvocalcriticsurgingtheVicePresidentaddresstheshortfallsitspartnershipwiththecompaniessothatmighttrulybenefittheextractionoftheirandtakeallreason-stepstomitigatetheen-costsofoilpro-TheCostofDevelopmentGuyanawasoneofafewthatrecordedeconomicgrowththeCOVID-19pan-withthenation'soilandsectorfuelingthelion'softhatgrowth.Dubbedasthefastesteconomybymostofmajorfinancialinstitu-overthelastfewyears,emergingoilandsectorhasbecometheprimaryfocus
Dr. Adams also noted that according to the permits he had drafted whilst at the EPA, flaring had not been permitted to occur, however following his controversial departure from the EPA, a clause was inserted into the permits and license, essentially allowing the oil companies to flare as much as they wanted with the only caveat being that they were able to pay for it. Currently, the oil companies are taxed $50 per tonne of gas flared.Essentially, Dr. Adams views this as an incentive that the government has given the oil companies to flare with impunity.Ashe explained, the government “gave them the license to flare any quantity of gas as long as they can pay for it”.On the COP27horizonisscheduled to convene in Egypt in November 2022 and will mark the 30th anniversary for the adoption of the UNFCCC. President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt, in his welcome message, highlights the urgency with which the global community should act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle the existential threats posed by climate change as the world collectively builds its capacity to adapt.Most importantly, President El-Sisi expressed his hope that “COP27becomes the moment when the world moved from negotiation to implementation and where words were translated to actions”
It is unclear if there are further costs associated with the project's execution as the government has not released or published any feasibility studies or financial viability study for this Nonetheless,project.aspart of this agreement, the government of Guyana intends to procure natural gas from the oil companies which would be used to generate electricity to support the nation's electrical grid.
INDCscateDecemberunveiledtheticipatedcededworkUNFCCC(INDCs),termineditswhenactivehecommittedhisfulRadzik,justiceableLongstandingCOP27.sustain-developmentandclimateadvocate,Vandaishoweverdoubt-thatPresidentAliandgovernmentaretrulytothepledgesmadeatCOP26.RadzikhadplayedanroleinconsultationsGuyanaformulatedIntendedNationallyDe-Contributionsaspartofthereportingframe-in2015whichpre-Guyana'slaterpar-inCOP21,whereParisAgreementwastotheworldin2015.Theclimatejusticeadvo-notedthatGuyana's“havebeenrolledbackfromtheParisAgree-menttowhatisnowbeingproposedwherethestrat-egyofthegovernmentis'drillbabydrill',accordingto[VicePresident]Jagdeo”.Radzikhasbeenin-volvedwithmanyofGuyana'ssocialandsus-tainabledevelopmentCSOsoveradecadelongcareerandhasbeenanout-spokencriticofthegovernment'sapproachtothemanagementoftheoilandgassector.Shehaswrittenexten-sivelyinthelocalmediaabouttheshortcomingsassociatedwithwhatshedeems“theworstoilcontractintheworld”andwentontostatethat“Guyanaisgoingtobecomeamajorfossilfuelextractorwithoutanyoftheprecautionarymeasuresinplace,anyconsiderationofrightsbeingabusedwithex-tremelylimited,scanty,obfus-catedinformationcomingtotheGuyanesepublic.”Sheexplainedthat,“ev-erythinghastobelookedatwithacumulativelens”andthatthegovernment'sLCDS“strategyislooking
And to truly garner the value of Guyana's forests, Mr. Bhulai suggested that Guyana should “get other countries who have enjoyed cutting down their forests to pay us to keep our forest, that's the reasoning at many of the COP events.”President Ali did not respond to a request to discuss his pledge to cut carbon emissions by seventy percent by 2030 at COP26. However, it has to be assumed that he will once again be offered the opportunity to expound on that commitment and further on his government's strategy for addressing the obvious impacts of climate change in Guyana.
This story was reported with support from the Internews' Earth Journalism Network.
with approximately eleven billion barrels of oil discovered to date.The oil revenues have been earmarked already for national development priorities with the first deposits from the Natural Resource Fund (NRF), some six hundred million US dollars already being withdrawn and integrated into the nation's 2022 Budget, pegged for public spending.Butdespite President Ali pledging to retain the country's forests and working with local communities to preserve biodiversity, his government has also been announcing massive expansion plans for the nation's mining and oil and gas sectors.
The project represents the largest infrastructural project the government of Guyana has ever undertaken with estimates for its costs starting at US$1.3 billion for the pipeline to transport the gas to shore alone.
Recognising the shortcomings of the LCDS, Senior Associate and Forest Management Specialist John Palmer however noted that the document is generally better and a “great improvement” from previous iterations however he further stated that some of the data is “highly suspect with wild estimates” which he states contribute to the government being able to draw policy conclusions which are ultimately not justified.Onesuch manifestation is the government of Guyana's Gas-to-Energy project with ExxonMobil and its partners.
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She stated that this is attributed largely to the emission of greenhouse gasses from the oil operations and the clearing of land for gold mining operations.Furthermore, the government only recently re-
There is an ambitious plan being pushed by the government of Guyana and its oil partners; ExxonMobil, Hess Corp and CNOOC (the China National Offshore Oil Corporation) to have ten FPSOs in Guyana's lucrative, oil rich Stabroek block by 2030.Then earlier in May of this year, Senior Minister within the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh, announced that three large scale gold mining operations would soon be established in Guyana.The Minister confirmed that the expected scale of the developments would be larger than the Omai Gold Mines operation which has been one of the largest mining operations in Guyana's history.
leased information in late August for the first time about how much the oil companies have been flaring since operations began back in 2019.Dr. Vincent Adams, a Petroleum and Environmental Engineer and Former Head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was able to scrutinize the data released and was dismayed to find that since December 2020, the oil companies have been routinely exceeding safe operating limits set within their EPA issued permits and licenses and have been flaring massive quantities of greenhouse gasses.Dr. Adams noted that in July 2022 alone, the data show that the companies flared in excess of twenty million standard cubic feet (mscf) of gas on a daily basis.
as two cents per kWh of electrical energy from solar power. However at present, it is estimated that solar power only contributes approximately 5MW to the Demerara Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS), according to the LCDS.The DBIS, which is the nation's main electrical grid responsible for power distribution struggles with frequent power outages.
And though the government of Guyana has not yet indicated what its strategy
According to Energy Technologist and former head of Physical Sciences at the University of Guyana, Alfred Bhulai, Amaila falls is simply “far too expensive” when considering the alternatives available to Guyana. According to his calculations, consumers would be paying some 14 cents for Amaila and 9 cents for Gasto-Energy per kWh unit of electricity.Mr.Bhulai has written extensively about the benefits and relative ease with which Guyana is able to adopt solar power as a clean, inexpensive and reliable energy source as compared to natural gas and hydro.And according to the model he proposes, consumers would be paying as little
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It was only last month in July that President Ali boasted about how well documented Guyana's biodiversity and environmental wealth has been, noting particularly that the standing value alone of the nation's forests is over five hundred billion US dollars.But the experts are not convinced that the President, nor his government, truly understand how Guyana's forests operate, how carbon is stored and sequestered and whether the forest is able to offset the greenhouse gasses from the oil operations, as they claim.
GPL (Guyana Power and Light Inc) being the agency responsible for the management of the DBIS.
at 85% of the forest and saying that is going to absorb all the carbon is a fallacy”.In recognising the need to protect and preserve Guyana's forest while formulating a concise energy strategy, Mr. Bhulai shared a few observations.Helamented that sometimes fires can be seen to the southern regions of Guyana where hinterland communities are burning the forest to create fuel for their communities and that “sometimes you can see fires on the horizon of the Atlantic where Exxon is flaring”.His recommendation is that “they [the government of Guyana] use the oil money as it comes to roll out solar power to far away places and let GPL try and manage with what they already have.”
With COP27 quickly approaching in November, it is unclear how President Ali will balance his commitments on climate change as the world continues to witness Guyana's economic transformation at the hands of the oil and gas sector.
The general sentiment of COP27 appears to be geared at encouraging world leaders to move from rhetoric to action where agreements and pledges are translated into actions and programs.
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through Social and Emotional Learning; and Financial Literacy: A universal21stCenturySkillLessonsLearnedfromLowand Middle Income countries.The
In June 2022, Samuel Haynes and Hansranie Budnie joined Minister of E d u c a t i o n , P r i y a Manickchand in Paris, France to represent Guyana attheThePre-Summit.twoparticipatedina dedicatedYouthForumwith their topic, “the right to be heard".Minister Manickchand believes strongly that it is imperative that the young people of Guyana be exposed to local global leadershiponvariousissues.
opportunities share their views and make positive contributionsnotonlytothe country's education sector but to the overall developmentof Meanwhile,Guyana.theMinistry of Education's School Feeding Coordinator, Mahendra Phagwah, is also in the United States at the invitation of the United NationsFoundationtoattend thesummit.Phagwah is representing Guyana as a speaker at several high level events joiningHeads of States and Ministers of Educations where he is speaking on why school feeding is important to transforming education at the Ford's Foundation by the United Nations Foundation and Reimaging the Future of Learning for Sustainability and Inclusivity on the sidelines of the United NationsGeneralAssembly
Guyana participates in UN Transforming Education summit
u y a n a i s currently being represented at the United Nations Transforming Education SummitinNewYork,which opened on Friday and will concludetoday
The Ministry of Education's School Feeding Coordinator, Mr. Mahendra Phagwah, is in the United States at the invitation of the United Nations Foundation to attend the Transforming Education Summit at the United Nations hosted in New York.
The Ministry of Education's Chief Planning Officer,Ms.NicolaJohnson, Legal Officer and Public Relations Manager, Mr Murtland Haley along with Guyana's top performing Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) 2022 Mr Bhedesh Persaud and Ms. Loiselle Robinson,ateacherfromthe Barima Waini region (Region One) are attending theevent.Overthe past few days, theteamhasbenefittedfrom numerous discussions.
As such, under her leadership, numerous young people from across Guyana h a v e b e e n g i v e n
Mr Phagwah is also the only Guyanese researcher behind the "By Us For Us, Rewiring Education for a New Generation" launched in Dubai, UAE of last year which has now led to the launching of a new report “Rewiring Education for People and Planet” at the Transforming Education Summit.Thereport, developed in partnership with the Education Commission, pulls together the main o u t c o m e s a n d recommendations from the RewirEd Summit to make sure they are taken forward andTheimplemented.reportpresents six concrete, win-win solutions that align action across sectors and stakeholders for which education is both the fundamental vehicle and goal.
Transforming Education Summit was convened in response to a global crisis in education –one of equity and inclusion, qualityandrelevance.Many studies have shown that this crisisishavingadevastating impact on the futures of children and youth globally The Summit provides a unique opportunity to elevate education to the top oftheglobalpoliticalagenda and to mobilize action, ambition, solidarity and solutions to recover pandemic related learning losses and sow the seeds to transform education in a rapidlychangingworld.
These included Schools 2030: Reimagining the Roles of Schools, Systems and Societies for the Future of Teaching and Learning; LearningPassport:ADigital Future for Every Child; Tackling Inequality and Transforming Classrooms
The Ministry of Education's Chief Planning Officer, Ms. Nicola Johnson, Legal Officer and Public Relations Manager, Mr. Murtland Haley along with Guyana's top performing Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) 2022 Mr Bhedesh Persaud and Ms. Loiselle Robinson, a teacher from the Barima-Waini region (Region One) are attending the event.
Vanilla doing her thing
A section of the massive crowd at Providence National Stadium.
ey waited the performers, they sat on some benched located on the stadium tarmac. Two of them, elderly
It was a concert featuring a number of localartistesandtheeventreallylivedupto name not only by bringing Guyanese fromdifferentethnicbackgroundstoparty together but also energised the grannies andgrandpastostayoutlateandfetewith theyouths.TheOneGuyanaMegaConcertwas oneoftheplannedeventstokick-start thefirsteverCricketCarnival inGuyana.Guyaneseturned up by the hundreds to see their local stars perform and party to the different genresofmusicsuchas,reggae, dancehall,chutneyandsoca.
Igiggledbutwhenthepartystartedaround 22:30hrs, I was left surprised because when looked into the crowd from the stage, the two grannies and others were “wuking up” “Poowah Wine and Swing she Wais performedbyVanitaWillie.
My response was, “You know Guyanese withtime,itmightstartjustnow”.
man can't function, wa kinda manisthat?”
Feeling the rhythm
Vanita Willie during her performance
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Carnival cricket continues today with “Amerindian night”attheSophiaExibition Centre.
Theywerenottheonlyonesdancinglike teenagers there, one grandfather could not control himself when one of the artistes started singing, “Woman lie down and the
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Saiku
Oneofthemsawthisreporter'smediabadge and said, “Next time must tell them to start time and they got to provide some seats fuh becauseIdoescan'tstandonmafoottoolong”.
women, sat next to me and they kept asking “whentheshowgonstart?”
Former Soca Queen, Big Red
Two grannies enjoying the vibes.
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'One megaGuyanaconcert'
Ole boy showing the youths how to screw the bulb.
he late Bob Marley once said, “one goodthingaboutmusic,whenithits you,youfeelnopain”andIbelieveit because the vibes at the “One Guyana Concert” held on Saturday night at the Providence National Stadium had pensioners fetingliketeenagers.
Young & old party at
Onshowwerelocalchutney Vanita Wille, Vicadi, Bunty Singh, Tony Cuttz and y Gajraj Big Red, don Harding, Timeka shall, Samuel Medas, Adrian Dutchin and Vanilla were also there to bring the socavibes.Forthedancehall d reggae lovers, they dancedtorhythmicvoicesof Drew Cush Gully, Azariel, lvin Burnette, Nekeita andApartSaiku.from the massive crowd and the electrifying erformance, Kaieteur News was taken aback by side shows put on by the enior citizens in the audience.Theywere the first to turn up for the concert because it was scheduled to start at19:00hrs.Asth
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CCCT T20 Cricket Tournament...
game scheduled for Saturday. A fair-sized crowd watched as Melbourne, which includes Guyanese Kevin George, Eugene La Fleur, Dharmimdra Lildhar and Sherwin Layne, were asked to fieldJazbafirst.Cricket Club reached 150 in 19.4 on the matting track which offered a bit of bounce before Melbourne responded with 154-5 in 18.4 overs, with eight balls to spare. Jazba were led by Harshit Saveenwho, who made an at-
Your emo tions could be extra powerful today, Capricorn, although something may not feel as if it's sitting right. It could be a feeling of manipulation.
Afghan international Gurbaz will be making his first appearance at the Hero CPL. Having played 44 matches for Afghanistan and with experience at the Indian Premier League and Pakistan Super League he will bring a lot of batting power to the Amazon Warriors line up.
PISCES (Feb. 19–Mar. 20)
WhenMelbourne.therunchase began, Sherwin Layne made 35 with six f ours, before Eugene La Fleur hit three fours and a six in an unbeaten 38
Shakib al Hasan and Rahmanullah Gurbaz join Amazon Warriors
Rahmanullah Gurbaz
LEO (July 23–Aug. 22)
Use your power resources today, Libra, as you have a great deal of dynamic energy at your dispo sal. You have the ability to transform and conquer anything now.
Former Guyana U-19 offspinner, Kevin George, captured 3-26 from 4 overs and got support from Amzat Khan, who took 2- 2 7 from 4 overs for
VIRGO (Aug. 23–Se pt. 22)
and shared in an unfinished half century partnership with Dharmindra Lildhar, who made 24 not out. (Sean Devers)
Emotionally, you may feel as if you're running up against a brick wall, Sagittarius. It could be that your first reaction is to drown your sorrows in drink. Escapism is only a temporary remedy.
You could be asked to make some spontaneous decisions today that you might not feel entirely comfortable making, Scorpio. You could feel you don't have enough facts.
Today is your day, Gemini, so live it up! If it seems like things have been rather intense lately, don't worry, they're apt to lighten up quite a bit today. Feel free to be your usual jolly self,
SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21)
There's a fiery tone to the day that can't be ignored, Pisces. You may find that adjustments need to be made in your own plan of attack in order to get on the same page with other people.
Monday September 19, 2022
In cold and cloudy conditions, Melbourne beat Jazba Cricket Club by five wickets in the penultimate preliminary round match of the Canadian Commonwealth Association of Toronto (CCCT) T20 Cricket Tournament at the Keel Top Cricket Ground in Toronto, Canada. The result of the game which was contested last Saturday, means that Melbourne have already qualified for the semi-finals ahead of their last preliminary
TAURUS(Apr.20–May20)
LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22)
SAGIT(Nov.22–Dec.21)
CANCER (June 21–July 22)
You may need a translator to get through to people today, Virgo. It could be hard to make decisions, but not impossible. Today's tip is to err on the side of adventure.
Be careful that you aren't acting in a way that you dislike in others, Cancer. You could find that you're slowly taking on the traits of the people you despise.
Take hold of this day as if it's your own and use it to grow your dreams, Aquarius. You'll find a great deal of power and dynamism in the air urging you to take the adventurous route.
(CPL) - Shakib al Hasan and Rahmanullah Gurbaz will be joining the Guyana Amazon Warriors for the remaining matches of the 2022 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL). They will be replacing Heinrich Klaasen and Tabraiz Shamsi who have been called up to international duties with South Africa after the Trinidad leg of the tournament.This will be the third Hero CPL franchise that Shakib has represented having previously played for the Barbados Royals and Jamaica Tallawahs. The Bangladesh all-rounder is the holder of the current record for best bowling figures in a Hero CPL match, having taken 6/6 for the Barbados franchise in 2013.
AQUARIUS(Jan.20–Feb.18)
advanceMelbournetosemis
CAPRI (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) The
GEMINI (May 21–June 20)
Take yourself on a mental adventure today in which you explore new aspects of your world. Discuss philosophy and religion. Get to the core of a matter that seriously interests you.
There's an extra spark in your eye that people won't be able to ignore. Today's a good day to get your point across, because you'll find people more open and receptive to new things than usual.
ARIES (Mar. 21–Apr. 19)
tractive 59 with six fours and three sixes while Angad Bhatia scored 40 with four sixes and three fours.
The day's general mood should fit quite well with your agenda, Leo. There's no need to fixate on the negative. Keep things light and upbeat and worry about the consequences later.
Monday September 19, 2022 Kaieteur News PAGE 21
Tickets are also available for the 10am games where Barbados Royals will take on St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots (September 21), Trinbago Knight Riders facing Patriots (September 22) and Jamaica Tallawahs versusSt.LuciaKings(September25).
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The activity which was held at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue, targeted players 16 years and younger and saw more than 50 youngsters, both boys and girls taking part.The camp was held in two segments; the first from Monday July 11 – 22, while the second was held from August 15. Sessions were
During that camp, the participantswereexposedto the basics of the sport, including introduction, orientation, teaching and practicingintabletennis.
The objectives were to help players with the basic skills; help players to be better prepared for future tournaments. The camp was conducted using both theoretical and practical segments. The participants also participated in a novice’s tournament among themselves.Attheendoftheactivity participants were presented withcertificates.Thecoaches included Xenophon Goliath and Linden Johnson for the programmethatcontinuesto be aligned with the MCYS/NSC Sports Academy That activity which began on Tuesday, September 6, is expected to last for 12 weeks and is continuing on successive
T h e G T T A i n collaboration with the NationalSportsCommission (NSC)recentlystagedaTwo Players Teams Table Tennis Tournament at the National Gymnasium using the rules of the International Table TennisFederation. That tournament was coordinated by President Godfrey Munroe and General Secretary Linden Johnson with support from Deirdre Edghill and Idi Lewis.The GTTA, apart from coaching, teaching, staging camps and other activities locally, is one of few bodies that have sent players to all activitiesoverseasproviding t h e y a r e i n v i t e d
(CPL)-VehiclepassesforCPLmatchesat the Guyana National Stadium will be availablefromMondayattheCPLboxoffice at233-234CampStreet,Georgetown.
Since their participation in the Commonwealth Games, held in England, where there performance w a s d e e m e d a s commendable. The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA)hasbeenveryactive while staging a number of events and participating in tournaments in Guyana and overseas.Immediately upon returning home, the GTTA teamed up with the NationalSportsCommission (NSC) in a collaborative effort to stage a successful ‘Teach Them Young’ Table TennisSummerCamp.
The passes are only available for the gamesonSeptember21,22,24,and25.
Vehiclepassesfortheplayoffsandfinals willbeavailablesoon.
VehiclepassesforCPL’s finallegonsaleontoday
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Meanwhile, the Association ispresentlypreparingateam to compete in the South American Games to be held in Paraguay from October 1 –15.
conducted from 10:00h to 12:00h,MondaystoFridays.
The Guyana Amazon Warriors will face JamaicaTallawahsonSeptember21followed by St. Lucia Kings the next day On September 24, the Warriors will battle Trinbago Knight Riders before ending the league stage against Barbados Royals. All matcheswillbeplayedat19:00h.
Some of the participants display their certificates within the presence of coach Linden Johnson (right).
‘Teach Them Young’ Table Tennis Summer Camp wraps up
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 4pm to 6pm attheNationalGymnasium.
Passes will cost $2000 for internal parkingand$1500forexternalparking.
Dindyal’s consecutive fifties highlights weekend matches
Niomi Erskine (left) defeated Jaydean
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Redman took 2 12 and RafaelSingh,2-21.
For Agricola, only Joel Drakes and extras contributed 10 runs as Murland Ward took 4-9 and
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Blair top scored with 31 while Idris Allen made29asAgricolawonby fiveAtwickets.MYO,thehometeam,
Shewbert Williams had 4 22 for Agricola, who responded with 82-5 in 10 overs.Oswin
Guyana’s number one Boys U-12 had a straight forward win against Dequan Boston, 4-0 & 4-0, while top ranked Girls U-12 player Niomi Erskine also rolled past her cousin Jaydean King by the samescoreline.
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Travis Persaud had 2-8 and Mahindra Jeenarine bagged 2-28 for Bel Air Rubis, who responded with 157-9.Andy Lall continued his excellent form with his 65 from25ballswithtwofours and nine sixes whileAvinda Gainda made 32, decorated with three sixes as Akeem
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Mavindra Dindyal scored consecutive fifties over the weekend (Sean Devers photo
made143-5in20overswith Sagar Hathienmani scoring 47 from 50 balls with five fours and two sixes while Jonathan Rampersaud, who stroked five boundaries, made37 Mavindraruns.
RebelTennisClubJunior tournament started its third editionoftheirannualJunior tournament on Friday, September 16, with the top under 12s boy and girl competing in the opening matches at the Diamond Court.Nathan
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Warriorsdismantled Agricola by 123 runs after making 156-8 and bowling out the opposition for a paltry33in10overs.
At QC, Bel Air Rubis beatTransportbyonewicket afterthelatterreached150-9 as Riyad Latif made 31, AdrianHindssupportedwith 28 and Shawn Massiah scored19.
AtMSCintheafternoon game, Sophia made 84-8 in 15 3 overs as Ronald Hercules’s 21 and Eon Daniels’ 16 were the only two scores to reach double figures while extras was the topscorerwith22.
Dindyal with 2-21 was the best bowler from for GCC who made 147-2asDindyalreturnedto hit 63 with two fours and a six, completing a feat of back-to-back fifties in two days. Martin Pestano-Bell wasagaininformscoring45 witheightboundarieswhich includedthreesixes.
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rainHowever, that total proved more than enough as the Royals bowling attack offerednofreebieswhenthe Amazon Warriors came to bat. Led by Mujeeb and Rahkeem Cornwall they ensured the run rate become untenable as the Royals cruisedtovictory
The Amazon Warriors couldn’t get going as a
Matchdetails:‘Barbados Royals 107/6 (Holder 40, Cornwall 20; Hemraj 3/15, Sinclairbeat2/12)Guyana Amazon
The Barbados Royals had celebrated a lot against the Amazon Warriors. (Getty Images)
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Having reduced the Royalsto62/5whentherain delaycame,ImranTahirthen removed David Miller immediately after the restart butJasonHolderandMujeeb Ur Rahman compiled a 39run partnership off 16 balls to give the Royals a total to defend.111 to win suggested advantageAmazonWarriors but Mujeeb and Rahkeem Cornwall produced spell binding bowling in the first four overs to restrict the Warriors to 12 runs for the lossofonewicket.
Guyana Amazon Warriors’ cadre of spinners imposed themselves on the game taking all six wickets to fall in the Barbados Royalsinnings.
Takingwicketsatregular intervals the Amazon Warriorsmadeitdifficultfor the Royals to negotiate the conditions and only a late order rally from Jason Holder and Mujeeb Ur Rahman ensured the Royals
(CPL)-BarbadosRoyals confirmed their spot in the playoffs of the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) campaign with a commanding DLS victory against the GuyanaAmazon Warriors.TheAmazon Warriors won the toss and opted to field first and that appeared tobetherightdecision.
became an easy win for the Royals as they coasted to victoryby29runs.
Warriors 81/9 (Smith 15, Hetmyer 12; Cornwall 2/12, Simmonds 2/21) by 29 runs (DLS)
endedwithareasonabletotal of 107/6 from an innings shortened to 16 overs due to
disciplined Royals bowling performance increased the pressure with a plethora of dotballs.Inthe end what should have been a tight game
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United ODI Seriesagainst New Zealand is another opportunity to continue to buildtheteam.
Full Squad: Hayley Matthews(Captain),Aaliyah Alleyne, Shamilia Connell, Afy Fletcher, Shabika Gajnabi, Chinelle Henry, Kyshona Knight, Natasha McLean, Chedean Nation, Karishma Ramharack, Shakera Selman (Vice Captain),StafanieTaylorand RashadaWilliams.
Thepanelonceagainhas blended developing and s e n i o r p l a y e r s Unfortunately, Shemaine Campbelle has been ruled out of the series through injuryWhile this is a blow to both the batting and wicket keeping departments, it allows the upcoming wicket keepers to showcase their talent It is hoped that particularly the batters will use this CG United ODI seriestogetsomebigscores w h i c h w i l l b o o s t confidence.”Fanscan now purchase ticketsforanyofthematches
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Caribbean’s “ESPN Play” app and will be available around the world with some of CWI’s broadcast partners and on the Windies Cricket YouTubechannel.
(CWI) The Cricket WestIndies(CWI)Women’s Selection Panel has announced the 13-member squad for the first two CG U n i t e d O n e D a y International (ODI) matches against New Zealand Women to be played from September19to25attheSir VivianRichardsStadium.
Reserves: Cherry Ann Fraser, Sheneta Grimmond andJannilleaGlasgow
Mastercard.Forall matches, adults can purchase general admission tickets online at US$5 00, with free admissionforchildrenunder the age of 16 when accompanied by a paying adult.Seniorsbenefitfromhalf price
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