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World Bank blacklisted all three Chinese companies that bid for Wales gas plant project

- accused of bribing officials, falsifying documents and fraudulent practices

By Kiana Wilburg institutionhadimposeda20- responsibility for underlying month debarment of the sanctionable practices and

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agreed to meet specified competingtobuildGuyana’s enterprise,knownatthetime corporate compliance Natural Gas Fired Power a

conditions as a condition for Plant at Wales, West Bank Engineering Group Hunan releasefromdebarment. Demerara (WBD) have a Electric Power Design

Theprojectwasdesigned well documented history of Institute Co., Ltd (CEEC- to increase the capacity and fraudulent activities The HEPDI). improve the reliability of the companies which are

electricity transmission and bidding against two other

distribution system in the entities are: China Energy construction services, in African State. According to Int’l Gr Co Ltd., China connectionwithfraudaspart the facts of the case, the MachineryEngineeringInc., of a Lusaka Transmission World Bank said, “CEECandPowerChinaInt’lGroup a

HEPDI knowingly and Ltd. Rehabilitation Project in the fraudulently falsified

In the case of China Republic of Zambia. The documentation describing Energy Engineering Group debarment made CEEC past contract experience, (a company that is 62.58%- HEPD

litigation history, and owned by China Energy participate in World Bank- business credentials to Engineering Group Co , financedprojects.Itwaspart meet the requirements of Ltd.) was blacklisted by the of a settlement agreement the bidding documents.” It World Bank on September under which the company had won the contract due to 11, 2019 The financial a

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payment amounting to US$ Yamba for corrupt practices Hunan Electric Power 29,186,169 09 to China involving another project. Design Institute Co. Ltd for

His arrest took place in May the construction

Group Hunan Electric thisyear ChilubaUniversityinMansa Power Design Institute Co.

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Education. The said money understands that Phiri, being waspaid

Architect at the Ministry to date no university has of General Education and beenconstructed. Project Manager for the In the same matter, the constructionofFTJChiluba ACC also arrested Joseph (Continued on page 16)

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Guyana could renegotiate for 15% royalty

...unwillingness of politicians will lead country into crisis - Nigel Hinds

International experts and benefitofthenation.Hesaid it seems that none of the tojustgiveus15percentand

o t h e r o i l a n d g a s it was time that they band political parties is willing to then they can do the rest. We stakeholders have warned together and demand to addresstheproblem.Hesaid take the 15 percent off the particularly, Third World renegotiate the oppressive that the PSA“has reduced us top and that’s the simple nationsenteringthelucrative Production Sharing (Guyana) to the point where solution.” But beyond that, crude industry against the Agreement (PSA) that ExxonMobil is running the Hindssaidwhatisabsolutely unequal distribution of Guyana currently has with country and which every necessary is governance for wealth emanating from this theExxonMobilconsortium administration that goes in, the people, “not governance sector They have warned operating in the offshore theydon’thavethebackbone for a particular demographic against the Dutch disease Stabroek Block In an itseems…”Hindscontinued oragroup.Thisisdestroying where countries become address to overseas that both administrations; the country and will cause heavily dependent on oil Guyanese at Hyde Park in former and current, conflict and crisis and revenues, and virtually New York, London over the “…could by decree, and by confrontation We don’t ignore their traditional weekend, Hinds said that the their willingness to oppose want to go back to the 1960s sectors, but continue to unwillingnessofthenation’s this draconian contract, where there is communal speak also, on the politicians to co-operate on adjust the royalty rate from violence and burning and importance of equal wealth the PSA has left Guyana two percent to at least 15 looting,”heurged. distribution as a means of open to control by the oil percent.”

H i n d s h a s m a d e economic and social companies. He believes that What Guyana currently statements in the past few stability if the politicians were has, he said, is “Exxon weeks claiming that the

At this time, civil society willing to work together for getting 98 percent of the current government is not activistandaccountantNigel Guyana, they would have monies coming out of the only inadequate in its efforts Hinds does not believe that been able to come up with a contract,andtheyhaveputin to get a better deal for Guyanese politicians are better fiscal arrange to front of that all kinds of pre- Guyana, but that it is taking stated, there is institutional part of the decision making, heeding these warnings. He garner more money for the contract cost that are the little it is receiving to r a c i s m w h e r e t h e “ some are really just in fact believes that the nation. unauditable, and we simply serve mainly its supporters. presidential candidate of the window dressing where country’s two main political He insisted that although don’t have the resources and This he described as partyisalwaysofaparticular they are put in power parties are too caught up in Guyana has “a lopsided and the personnel to do it.” A institutional racism ethnicity while the second in primarily because of their their ways rather than disadvantaged, cockroach simple solution to the practiced by both political command is of another skin colour or ethnicity.” coming together for the contract” with Exxon Mobil, problem, he proposed, “… is parties. In these parties, he ethnicity, but serving Hinds said that Guyana b a s i c a l l y a s a needs to move away from “rubberstamp”. He said that institutionalized racism and the parties would have learn to share in the individuals in particular patrimonyifthecountryisto positions, and while some really benefit from its oil may have the power to be wealth.

PAHO director reflects on decade of championing universal health

- calls for renewed attention to immunization at Pan American Sanitary Conference

people, planet and animals, and where Conference on Monday, the Pan “digital technologies enhance disease AmericanHealthOrganization(PAHO) monitoring, improve the patient Director Carissa F Etienne

experience and encourage informed acknowledged significant gains in decision-making in all of our Member health in the last decade but urged States.” countries to address current challenges,

The 30th Pan American Sanitary including immunization gaps that have Conference, held from 26 30 “rolled back nearly three decades of September 2022, kicked off today progress on childhood vaccinations in bringing together high-level dignitaries recentyears.” and health authorities from countries in

Teen girl drowns during outing in Linden

eventeen-year-old Nazana Samaroo of Little Diamond Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara

SdrownedonSundayinacreekinWismarwhileon afamilyouting.

Reportedly, Nazana, her parents and other siblings all went on a family outing at a creek in Wismar According to authorities, while there, Nazana and her 8-year-old brother haddecidedtogoforaswiminthecreek.Aftershehadtried severaltimestoswimacrossthecreek,Nazana’sbrotherhad noticed that she was missing and immediately raised an alarm.

“unwavering resolve,” as “other includes, among others, regional action

“Over the last decade, I’ve seen theAmericastodeliberateonpoliciesto countries translate the idea of universal strengthen health. During the week, health care into practical policies”, the delegates will discuss ongoing health PAHO Director said, citing how local, emergencies, including COVID-19 and regional, and national governments are Monkeypox, and review policies and workingtogethertoachieve“ourshared strategies to strengthen the region’s agenda for health in the Americas and preparedness for future outbreaks. This theSustainableDevelopmentgoals.”

PAHO was able to expand technical diseases like diphtheria and yellow to improve genomic surveillance, cooperation to increase health system fever are just one outbreak away from develop resilient health workforces and resilience and disaster preparedness, becoming regional emergencies.” The enhance regulatory systems to facilitate which “proved instrumental in our Director also called for greater the manufacturing of health responses to Zika, COVID and cooperation towards universal health in technologies, such as vaccines. Other monkeypox,” Dr. Etienne said. While theregion,sinceduringCOVID-19“the issues, such as the growing burden of collaboration has had real impact in world recognized just how central mental health disorders, access to reducing inequality, Dr. Etienne said health is to our societies and to our primary care and tackling non countries must continue in a spirit of economies.” “For 120 years, the communicable diseases, will also be solidarity to address current challenges, Americas have relied on cooperation addressed. including falling immunization because we’ve understood that our The Pan American Sanitary coverage Across the board, health, our security and our prosperity Conference is the Organization’s vaccination rates for preventable are interdependent,” the Director said, highest decision-making body, meeting diseases have either stalled or moved referring to PAHO’s creation in 1902 to everyfiveyearstodeterminepoliciesto backwards, the PAHO Director said, addressayellowfeveremergency improve the health and well-being of and the region now sees the circulation As we turn to the task of rebuilding thepopulationintheregion.Duringthis of diseases that “we had either already from this pandemic, Dr Etienne said, year’s Conference, Member and eliminated or were once on the verge of “wemustdomoretoimprovethehealth Participating States will elect the next surpassing.” of our people by working in PAHO Director, who will take office on

ThePAHODirectorurgedcountries partnership.” “Ihopethat10yearsfrom 1 February 2023 and lead the to reverse these trends with now, we can look at our region as one”, Organizationforthenextfiveyears.

Asearch was immediately launched by Nazana’s family and public-spirited individuals within the area where she was last seen. They would eventually find her body at the bottom of the creek. She was rushed to the Linden Hospital Complex where she was pronounced dead on arrival by an ondutydoctor Nomarksofviolencewereseen,norreported tobe,onherbody

Washington, DC, 26 September

Dr Etienne said, where countries 2022 (PAHO) – At the opening of the recognize the ties that link the health of 30th Pan American Sanitary

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Carissa F. Etienne

Accountant and activist Nigel Hinds during his address at Hyde Park, London

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EDITORIAL

Release the tax particulars… Will President Ali?

The hope is that President Mohamed Irfaan Ali would respondinatimelyandappropriatemanner ThePresident is being pressed to share the details on the tax payments made by his government on behalf of the foreign oil companies (“Civil society body asks Pres. Ali to make publicparticularsoftaxpaymentsmadeforoilcompanies”KNSeptember24). AsGuyanesewatchandwait,thefirst question is how the President will react. The second is whether he will react at all, especially since it is the tricky andthornyissueofGuyanapayingthetaxesfortheforeign oilcompanies.

Weaskthesequestionsbecause,inthe2-yearlifeofhis government,PresidentAlihascompiledarecordofhostility to those who raise matters that cause him discomfort. He becomes impatient and angry when he is presented with what clashes with his storybook narratives that have little connection to reality, particularly on compelling issues urgently calling for transparency We think that this reasonable request to the President to publicize the papers behindtheballooningtaxissueofwhatwaspaidwhere. It wouldhelpthemanyGuyanesestrugglingtofollowthetrail ofthetaxpayments,astheyunfoldedfromstarttofinish.

Thisistokeepeveryonehonest,andtoensurethatproper procedures were followed. This is what the increasingly restive civil society group, Article 13, has gently and formally written to His Excellency President Ali to share withthepublic. Weatthispaperwanttoknow,andthereare other Guyanese, besides Article 13, who are interested in seeingforthemselveswhattookplace,thesequence,andby whose authority We hope that the President will come throughanddelivertherelateddocuments. Forthiswould reveal how well and wisely this oil wealth of ours is managed, from the source of the tax funds to the actual paymentoftaxesonbehalfoftheoilcompaniestodeposits into the NRF in a New York bank to audits by the State’s AuditOfficeforverificationpurposes.

All of this is in the public interest, which has a right to know, and which is the objective behind Article 13’s communication to Guyana’s head-of-state. It is public knowledge that the Audit Office did not do justice by the Guyanese people when it issued “a clean audit opinion on thefinancialstatementsoftheFund(NRF)foreitherorboth years (2020 and 2021).” For its part, the head of theAudit Office tried to extract the entity out of this embarrassing situationbytakingthepositionthathisinstitutionisonlyto determinethatmoneywasplacedintheNRF

Byanystandardsthatcomesacrossasprettysuperficial, and rather hollow, given that the issue is about tax monies paidintothatsameNRF Theyarenotjustnumbers,forwe think that theAudit Office had a duty to dig for what was behind the monies deposited into the NRF, meaning, it is revenues paid by the oil companies, or taxes paid by the Government of Guyana (from oil revenues) on behalf of ExxonMobil and partners. Further, it is disappointing that theAuditorGeneralattemptedtoshiftthefocustotheGRA, thelocalagencyresponsibleforpayingthetaxesandissuing associated receipts. At the end of the day, it is his Audit Office that examined the NRF, and the opinion that was issuedshouldhavereflectedwhathappenedwithtaxespaid intotheFund. Thatis,ifitwaspaidornot,withtheopinion noting this accordingly. Taking the above as where things standcurrently,theballisnowinthecourtofthePresidentin theformofArticle13’swritingtohim. PresidentAlihasthe powerandreachtoputthisissuetobedonceandforall.

ItisourpositionthatthePresidenthasonlyonechoice: toputintothepublicdomain,thedocumentsthatarebeing sought. Thiswouldbeaboutthetransparencythathelikesto sayhehasbeenabout. Nowhemustproveitbydeliveringin these curious circumstances involving taxes, the NRF, the AuditOffice,andtheGRA.

Material and higher spirits

DEAREDITOR, Attheweddingreception cannot get their minds over we can consume their The age-old problem of ofayoungauntatourhouse, the naturalism of their manufactures. alcohol and its abuse now my father poured a shot of sciencestoacknowledgethe Why not use this present surrounds the University of rum for each of his three God who made them blessing for a Faculty of Guyana’s 60th anniversary boys. One hated the taste all Therefore,theremediesthey Theology at UG? Our and its El Dorado Rum hislife,anotherdiedfromit, prescribe will be ever more imams, pandits and pastors sponsor.Formanypeople,it and the third was only a burdensome human will not have to go overseas is a dilemma of the socialdrinker regulations. fortraining. democratic right to choose Whence cometh the Theoldestuniversitiesof At our present level of thealcoholicdictator diversity? Alcoholics the world were first ignorance, I can see no

Ifwewanttohaveprize- Anonymous recognises a theological colleges. We are problemwithsuchaFaculty winning rums, we must higher power Only a more blessed with a diversity of being sponsored by the sale encourage the rum

powerful supernatural spirit religions that so far coexist of rum. For it is not the rum companies and if we want canconquerthelowerspirits peacefully in this country; that is the problem, but the world fame in domestic ofaddiction. and we do not have to disciplining of the human bliss, we must discourage The more enduring subscribe to the hedonistic will, in order to achieve them?Wecan’thaveourrum dilemma is that the materialism the neo better anddrinkit. intellectuals of the world colonialistsadvertisetousso AlfredBhulai

Discrimination in Guyana’s Public Service – I stand unmoved

DEAREDITOR, given who are the victims. doomed existence for them consequences of those are

I note the letter titled, Next, there are droves of in this country The grim coming to light, especially “Responding to Benschop Black Guyanese public prospects are private sector after the storm-tossed 2020 and GHK Lall” (KN servants who have been work (or migration, if elections; vengeance is now September26). Myfirsttake reduced to the indignity and possible), and we all know extracted, and vileness was that I don’t recall traumaofbeingdangledona how inseparable the private perfected, through the making any kind of inquiry, month-to-month basis when sector is from the PPP continuum of public service but taking a position as a their employment contracts Government. artifices and caprices going public service contribution. expire.

In this tight knit, open on below the radar Second, Nonetheless, I thank the Also, there are those secret society, political thewriterspokeofGuySuCo writer and commend this Blackpublicservantswhose powers can make any such and silence when Indian Guyanese for having the workcontractshaveexpired, tenure objectionable and, sugar workers were the courage of his convictions, and they are terminated hence, dismissible upon target. the fundamental decency, to There is usually no reason discovery of such This is my stance. If I share in the independent, given. The reality is that employment. were the decision-maker (or mainstream media today,theyarein;bytheend This is the ugly and advisor) then or now, the Speakingformyselfalone,I of the day, they are sent dastardly state to which this issues to confront head-on make this exception in packing. country has deteriorated wouldhavetobe:(1)canthis responding,onlythisone. I know of the utterly So, people keep quiet and entity be viable; (2) what is

I gather that the writer is ludicrous situation of hopeforthebest. Mysecond the likelihood/probability of peeved at my contentions of Thomas Nestor, Guyana point is that it is said that all competing and delivering; discrimination in the public Gold Board Audit politics is local, which in and (3) with what long-term service, as especially Consultant, who did Guyana means all politics is prospects on the table. The directed at African/Black excellent work there, being race, given our voting stillhonestamong Guyanese. Again, it is fired because he was history and patterns. The (Continuedonpage6) gratifyingthatthisisanissue supposedly‘tooold.’ Heisa that concerns someone friend and pointed out that enough to generate putting people older than himself pen to paper. The three were among those presiding thrusts were of “evidence”, overhisdeparture. theprecedentof“GuySuCo” The case of Mr Hilbert and silence, and last Knights is another He had “serious” consequences over a decade of service at resultingfrompresentations, the Board when he was such as mine. Regarding booted, without a word for evidence, I help. There are his clean managing of a what are loosely termed corruptingbusiness.

‘RetirementUnits’inseveral Iofferthesesnapshotsso ministries of this PPP thatallGuyanesecouldhave Government. aglimpse(aglimpseonly)of

It is the pasture area, what is happening to Black (waiting for hammer to fall, public servants in this end to come), where Black country They are not Guyanese public servants Blacks from neighbouring are being unceremoniously CARICOM countries, but and systematically corralled bornandbredcitizensofthis togetridofthemeventually our Guyana. Further, the The highly skilled and well- reports are of inexplicable experiencedonesarekeptfor outcomes in recruitments the purpose of training their andpromotionswhenBlacks replacements, who are citizensarearound. usually of the other major My last two points on racial strain. Many held in this score are: (1) Black suspense in these units for public servants (any others) the day to come, have just are afraid to come out in the packed up and left, for they open and say that they have will have none of such b e e n s u b j e c t t o e x p l o i t a t i v e a n d discriminatory treatment discriminatory practices, since that would spell a

Continued lawlessness on the G/T seawall

DEAREDITOR, cigarettes. I can’t say if the The last time I wrote on malt revenue licence and theseawallwasonThursday, cigarette revenue licence August 26, 2021 when I were abolished, could the noted that there is GRApleaseclarifythis. lawlessness on the seawall. So the vendors have Sincethensomeworkswere taken over the seawall done, along with some new without any regard for sitting benches installed others, the question I am facing the Atlantic Ocean. askingis:Whenonearthwill This was very good for us this lawlessness stop? In my seniorcitizenstogosit and letter of the above relax. mentioned date, I suggested

The lawlessness that the vendors move down comprise of the following: towards the western end of The vendors continue in theGeorgetownseawall. large numbers to ply their Taxpayers’ money was trade with loud, loud music spent on enhancing the being played at a high level seawall and I now have the decibel rating. There are feeling that this project was notices saying” vending is just a “show” by the First prohibited”, I counted 29 Lady My question to her is, stalls. when last she visited the

Including trampolines, I Georgetown seawall to see discovered two stalls were the above mentioned selling hard liquor without lawlessnessthatgoeson.She revenue licences (GRA mustgothereunannounced. shouldlookintothis)and18 Withverybestregards, stalls were selling beers and 5seniorcitizens

Focus on cricket entertainment not past immigration sentiments

DEAREDITOR, restricting GAW to a victory inside the 20 overs. teams head forAustralia for BarbadosorJamaicabutnot studied or worked in Although fans were left relatively low score within Guyana had already the World Cup that to Trinidad. Dem people ah Trinidad know better As in awe as Guyana Amazon thepowerplaywithGuyana qualified for the semi-final commencesa few days after insultabee”.Itisreminiscent many Guyanese would Warriors(GAW)bowledout losing two early wickets. and was number two in the that. Some players of other ofBrianLara’scommentofa attest, Trinis never looked theirBarbadosopponentsfor Instead of focusing on the pointstableandthereforeno nations have already left for defeat West Indies suffered down on those of us with 125 inside 17 overs, they Barbados match, many need to take risks, lose a thetripDownUnder at the hands of a weak academic and economic continued to talk about the continued to talk about the match and earn the wrath of The Guyana team’s Zimbabwe team in a world achievements when we gameagainstTrinidad. encounterwithTrinidad. fans. Guyana has not won a p e r f o r m a n c e l a s t cup encounter when Lara visitedTrinidadorstudiedor

Fans came out on what Itturnedouttobeaneasy championship in the ten Wednesday, Thursday, saidhedidn’tmindlosingto workedthere. was a sold out stadium and encounter against Barbados seasons From the way Saturday,andSunday(inthe anAfrican team, rather than I travelled all over had expected a close and as such there was not things are shaping up, they bowling) were spectacular to say a White team Trinidad and Tobago during encounter with Barbados much to talk about in terms are likely to make history The reactions to the GAW (meaning Australia, mypollingactivitiesonboth which has been at the top of of players’ or team nextweek.

victorieswentviralonsocial England, New Zealand) islands and know virtually the table in points in this performance. So they went Thetwosidesmeetagain media, particularly against Ethnic or race nationalism every village in Central and year’sCPL. backtotheTrinidadmatch. on Tuesday evening in the Trinidad, with fans loving even pervades sports or South Trinidad. I was never

Theyreadiedthemselves Barbados score and semi-finals. Jamaica and St. theeffort. cricket in the Caribbean. ill-treated. Only once did foranexcitingencounterbut scoring rate were not great Luciameetintheothersemi

As I travelled on the (SouthAfricaatthetimewas someone, an Afro Trini, in were disappointed that fora20/20format. on Wednesday The winners coast, Guyanese have been alsoaWhiteteambutitisnot Mayaro told me to go “back Barbados performed poorly And Guyana’s response ofbothsemisclashonFriday marveling at the victory known whether Lara would to Guyana and go and cut losing wickets steadily and was not significantly better forthefinal.Thelosersofthe while Trinis are smarting not have seen it as such. cane”. puttingupatotalthatwasnot But the GAW would have two semis also meet to over their humiliating loss. What was his feeling losing That kind of prejudice is very competitive although adjustedthebattingdeciding decidenumberthreeandfour Guyanese kept rubbing it in tosayIndiaorPakistanorSri not prevalent as most Barbados tried to defend it not to take major risks to status. After the final, West totheTrinis.Onetaxidriver Lanka?Wedon’tknow GuyanesewhovisitTrinidad and started off well achieve a low total for Indies and players of other said, “I prefer to lose to But Lara has been wouldattest.Imetcountless employed by an Indian TV Guyanese at all kinds of station as an IPL cricket events in Trinidad — from analystandisnotexpectedto Chatney to weddings, to becriticalofIndiaasateam.) a n n i v e r s a r i e s , t o

AG and team landed a great breakthrough

DEAREDITOR, thingandwiththatcomesthe that the quality of legal alongside the Hugh Wooding

This is big news indeed, removal of so many other education will not be LawSchool,St.Augustinein anddeservingaccoladesmust expenses travel and compromisedastheAttorney Trinidad and Tobago; be heaped on Attorney accommodation and the Generalpointedout. NormanManleyLawSchool, General and Legal Affairs actualexternalfees. He explained that “… the Kingston, Jamaica; and Minister, Anil Nandlall, SC, For example, every year, Government of Guyana is EugeneDupuchLawSchool, forbringingGuyanacloserto Guyanese are faced with proposingthatthelawschool Nassau,Bahamas. the setting up of the Council enormous financial burdens, be a Council institution to be As we know all of this of Legal Education (CLE)- including $6,616,548 in managedandadministeredby translatestothearrangement, approved law school. When tuition/compulsory fees for the CLE but that the governedbyaTreatywhichis thisnewshitthemedia,Iwas the two year programme Government will provide the incorporated by legislation, not that surprised, as theAG, offered at the law school. In land and buildings based so that in all member states, frominception,provedthathe some schools in the u p o n c r i t e r i a a n d “Under this arrangement, all knowswhatheisabout. Caribbean, it is even more specifications set by the holders of a recognised

The reaction or view of Ramayanas, Pujas, Koran the Guyanese taxi driver Shariefs hardly any aptly describes a feeling of described bitter experience. many (certainly not all) Yes, Trinis expressed Guyanese towards Trinis sentiments of distrust for The sentiment is harsh and Guyanese because of bad strongandalsocomeswitha encounters of selling fake lot of ignorance of why and gold and some criminal howTrinisinthepastlooked activities But it is not down on (most) Guyanese. widespreadandthat Those of us who lived or (Continuedonpage16)

Let’s recall that back in expensive. Council.”

Bachelor of Laws degree are 2017,Nandlall,aformerCLE In fact, many Guyanese

So, unlike a proposal admitted to these law member,hadto‘cleartheair’ did not pursue legal studies made by his immediate schools ” This eases this when he was scapegoated by because of one or all of these erstwhile predecessor AG, whole ‘nonsense’at times of the thenAG, Basil Williams, factors. My hope then, is that BasilWilliams,SC,andthatI ‘equivalencyduress.’ who peddled a customary this school will be ‘fast- alludedto,thelawschoolwill Why? Simply because self-defence lie, that a CLE- tracked’andthus,allowforso be established by all the with a Legal Education approved law school was not many potential students necessary protocols and I am Certificate (LEC) (from any a promised realisation waitingtobeenrolled. sure we will soon be having oftheseschools),therecomes because of Anil Nandlall. It Imeanithasbeenyearsof non Guyanese applying to therighttopracticebeforethe wasthenthatAnilclearedthe delay, but now , according to thisinstitution. Courts of Law in Member air by explaining that, “The theAG,“…progressisfinally As a matter of fact, the States. truth of the matter is that he being made…” in setting up ventureisnottobeviewedin After all, education as a (Williams)neverobtainedthe this law school in Guyana, isolation. human right, is a powerful permission of the Council of following a meeting between The AG noted that it driver of development, and LegalEducationtoestablisha toplegalandjudicialofficials merges with the Government

lawschoolinGuyana.” in Guyana and the CLE in of Guyana’s commitment to instruments for reducing

Anil also added that Bridgetown,Barbados.Along promoting Guyana as an poverty and improving “When I exposed this (the this line of its expediting, the attractive offshore education health, gender equality, first lie), he then lied to the AG detailed that “This destination. peace,andstability nationbysayingthathedid.” request was favourably Meaning that, “the

So,itseems,thatafterthe considered, and the Council proposed law school is consistent returns in terms of rightful procedure was made a decision to write the expected to attract regional income, and is the most expectedly followed byAnil, Government of Guyana and international students, important factor to ensure thingswillstarttohappen. shortly, informing of this while also easing the equalityofopportunities.

First, I think that a law decision and setting out the overloading, particularly at And what better way can schoolhereinGuyanawillbe cr iter ia an d o th er the Hugh Wooding and there be to achieving all of most welcomed by all requirements which the Norman Manley Law this-almost everything must Guyanese. The prestige of Government will have to Schools.”Itisforsureawin- berootedinthelaw having the CLE approved satisfy.” win situation. When said and Yourstruly, institution is just a natural Editor,thesecondthingis done, Guyana will be H.Singh

Resurgent Warriors deliver knockout punch on TKR

DEAREDITOR, with the mental scars of

Written off by many, beingtheperennialwhipping including yours truly, the boys against them, was newest oil producing nation sufficient to fuel cautious triumphantly sent optimism of a favourable shockwaves with seismic outcome However, the proportions throughout the Warriorshaddifferentplans, Caribbeanasitmarchesinto andasfatewouldhaveit,the the qualifying stage of CPL restishistory tenth edition, with Itisevidentthattheteam dominance and flare so has grown from strength to reminiscent of previous strength,albeitmoreneedsto tournaments. be done as we progress

In what seemed like an further into the tournament. incontrovertible early exit at But for now, we must be the commencement of the thankful for small mercies. tournament, the Warriors When it seemed as though reminded us why they are we would falter against the still a potent force to reckon Tallawahs on home soil, a with. resolute Shai Hope’s form

Scripted like something finding knock and the out of a movie, a resurgent gladiatorial Smith reignited Warriors team has the fire of belief in a team m i r a c u l o u s l y a n d which was already on its incredulously qualified for knees. the playoffs of CPL tenth We have seen some edition, possibly buoyed by spectacular fielding and thehomecrowdsupport,the miserly bowling spells from ubiquitous and animated young Motie, none better PresidentoftheCooperative than when it mattered the Republicatthesegames,the most.Wehaveseentheguile inclusion of the young and andenergyofTahir;whatan effervescent Afghanistan important cog he still is. We andtheBangladeshiveteran. have seen the class and Whatever is responsible for passion of Gubraz. As a the change in fortune, it is result,theyhaveensuredthat fair to say that the team has this opponent would not be been unrelenting on home thethorninthefleshthistime soil,sofar around. The question is:

Needingawinfromtheir Will the Warriors win this finaltwogamestomakeitto elusive tournament this time the playoffs, they met with around? It is too “oily” to familiar foes yet again but answer because the thistimeonhomesoil,which tournament is now heating wasengulfedbyanoceanof up. But what we do know is Warriors’ supporters that the air of expectation However, their familiar will continue to rise with collapseagainsttheTrinbago every match that they play Knight Riders when in a henceforth. positionofdominanceinthe Yourstruly, previous encounter coupled RaulKhan

The issue of financial inclusion is complex and multi-faceted

DEAREDITOR, T h e a b s e n c e o f people are shut out from the internal reporting

Self employed self correspondent banking basic human right of having mechanisms.Asaresult,our starters, across a range of arrangements was the key abankaccount.Thismeans, citizenscannotexercisetheir industries,continuetodream issue The opening that many are shut out from basic right to savings and abouthavingaccess testimony was emphatically the right to save and their right to other kinds of to global payment delivered by Prime Minister therefore the right to grow wealth creating financial providers,suchasPayPalor MottleyofBarbados. financially To avoid the services.Acaseofafewbad Stripe. It is a dream that The testimonies were punitivemeasuresoffederal apples, and not in the same many are living elsewhere. delivered by individuals financial regulators in the basket! For example, overseas representing a range of US, local banks take a Editor,itisclearthatthe basedGuyanesearetheonly global and regional defensive position and put issueoffinancialinclusionis ones capable of easily organisations. Among the upbarrierstoaccessingbank complex and multi-faceted. implementing apps that five: was Wazim Mowla, a services.Onesuchbarrieris Onelettercan c o n t a i n p a y m e n t GuyaneseAmerican and the having to provide “proof of scarcely suffice. I integrations. This has the Assistant Director of the income” in order to open a thereforeaskthatyoupermit effect of shutting out local Caribbean Initiative. Video simplebankaccount.Fartoo mespacenonetheless,asitis developers from the market of the complete session can few of us are aware of how important to highlight that for local apps! Networks of be found online, under the bad this situation really is uninformedfederalfinancial banks guarantee the title: “When Banks Leave: andwhatitimplies.

regulation continues to be balances that are held in The Impacts of De-Risking The testimonies one of the most critical PayPal accounts When on the Caribbean and presented to the US House issues affecting the payment platform

Strategies for Ensuring Committee on Financial development of our people. supporting banking FinancialAccess.”

Services,included So much depends on the networks deem certain Banks operating in overwhelming evidence ability to open a bank regions as “high risk”, regions deemed as having that anti-money laundering account and the ability to citizens in those regions do “highfinancialrisk”canface regulations do not stop the save. notbenefitfromtheservices devastating funding of terrorism, nor do Furthermore, high that make life easier for consequencesiftheyfail they stop or inhibit criminal unemployment and millionsofpeopleacrossthe to comply with anti-money activities. Furthermore, as especially high youth world The addition of laundering regulations Prime Minister Mottley unemployment have little to correspondent banking in Theseregulationsaresetout stated in her testimony, FBI do with the attitudes of the Caribbean can support by federal financial traces of illicit finance more youth, as some columnists such an inclusion, and regulators in the United oftenleadtobanksoperating heave through their mouths, facilitatesomuchmore. States. in major city-centers in the and more to do with the

Earlier this month, The T h e C a r i b b e a n , Global North, inclusive of issuesofworldorderandthe U.S. House Committee on including Guyana, is one Luxemburg, New York and structures of our economyFinancial Services received s u c h r e g i o n T h e London. The Caribbean is subjects that very few write testimoniesonthe consequence of this almostneverimplicated,yet about for the general i m p o r t a n c e o f relationshipbetweenfederal banks consistently maintain audience. addressing Caribbean regulatorsandlocalbanks,is theperceptionofhighriskin Sincerely, financial inclusion issues. that many hard working the region, through their EmilleGiddings

Discrimination in Guyana’s Public...

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usedtokeepGuySuCoafloat considerations, no matter tightfistedness displayed in us, including inside the on its knees, and think of howprogressive. thepublicservice(Blackand PPP,knowtheanswers,none howmuchmorewiselythose What I detect is that PNC, I remind) speaks of which comforts. I would billions (with more to GuySuCodoeshaveautility volumes. Last, the writer close, but on a more follow) could have been put almost as good as a vote spoke of people like me structured basis, and in a to work to reequip and getter: it serves as a being the source of the more thoughtful manner redeploy and redirect depositary for the slush ‘serious’resulting down the That’s my bottom line. I impacted workers in a funds earmarked in budgets, line. look at the tens of billions staggeredformat. so that the regular financial This is deliberate

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funandgamescanbecarried shortsightedness found

corporate cover

GuySuCo represents PPP Toclosethisout,thefactthat characteristic of loyalists, votersurety,whicherectsan

much can be given to who wish everyone to see impregnable steel wall GuySuCooutofthenational their partisan world through

their racial prism. In writing,Iamexhortingtodo differently by Guyanese public servants (mainly Black), so as to avoid coming to that contentious juncture about who did get, and who didn’t Who benefited (farmers, fishers, sugarworkers,privatesector operators, and selected community areas), and who is neglected. The history of the ‘serious’places is of the conflictthatensueswhenan internal group perceives a litany of marginalization, o

discrimination. I have said myfirstandlastwords.

Sincerely, GHKLall

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Shadiness,corruptionandfraud

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Today, we lead with a shocking story that all three of the Chinese companies that submitted bids to build Guyana’s Natural Gas Fired Power Plant at Wales, West Bank Demerara (WBD) have a well documented history of fraudulent activities.

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The companies which are bidding against two other entities are: China Energy Int’l Gr. Co Ltd., China Machinery Engineering Inc., and Power China Int’l Group Ltd.

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In the case of China Energy Engineering Group (a company that is 62.58%-owned by China Energy Engineering Group Co., Ltd.) was blacklisted by the World Bank on September 11, 2019. The financial institution had imposed a 20-month debarment of the Chinese state-owned enterprise, known at the time as China Energy Engineering Group Hunan Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd (CEEC-HEPDI).

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We have warned here time and again about the secretive nature of this project and the financial and other dangers that lie ahead. This revelation of the bidders is just a tip of the iceberg. Guyanese need to open their eyes and stop this project before the government pulls off another scam on the Guyanese people.

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Lack of taxes, ring-fencing shorten Guyana’s profits from oil sector - former Ambassador

As the Government of Republic of Namibia, High acceleratingtheextractionof sharecollectedbyEEPGLof Gold. Guyana (GoG) maintains its Commissioner of the Guyana’s oil by introducing 81.6 million barrels of oil; To this end, Dr

of Zambia, and

and being captured at a rate Hunte argues that the renegotiation of the 2016 Non Resident Ambassador production storage and ofapproximately7barrelsof total cost for these

offloading(FPSO)ships,itis oil for EEPGL tonne barrel additional expenses Agreement (PSA) with US

conceivable that come 2036, ofoilforGuyana”. that Guyana must pay oil major ExxonMobil, p

EEPGLwillbereadytoshut-

The Professor was keen will reduce its formerGuyanaAmbassador, scholarly articles in peer shop and leave, as all the to note that the approximate already miniscule Dr Kenrick Hunte said the reviewed journals, book commercially viable oil seven to one ratio that share. Not only that, country would be worse off chapters, and letters to the would have been extracted Guyana suffers is not the but he believes these when the resource is editors on various issues; as and Guyana will have final distribution of oil costs “further exhausted. well as participated in radio nothing to get. We have seen between the two parties penalizeGuyana.”

In one of his recent and television discussion similar behaviour in the sinceGuyanaisforcedtopay He reasoned, “In writings, Dr Hunte, a programmes; and conducted extraction of other non from its 12 million barrels of fact, if we, the owner Professor of Economics at consultancies in India and renewable resources when o i l , t h e c o s t f o r of the resource, Howard University, the Caribbean for the World the impending tax payment

environmentalinsuranceand already feel that we Washington, D C , and Bank and the Food and dateisimminent.” oil spills; the cost related to are being robbed at 7 the 83.6 million barrels theyformer Adjunct Professor at Agriculture Organization. In More importantly, the no ring-fencing provision; to 1; the case will will receive, given that weJohns Hopkins University, Guyana, he was the Chief scholar said that Guyana’s taxes due for fake receipts; become much worse when will struggle to reject anyBowie State University who Executive Officer/Director current share of profits from the loss of fishermen income these other costs are expenses EEPGL submits;holds a PhD in Economics of the Guyana Development the oil and gas resource due to smaller landed subtracted from the 12 and, therefore, Guyana’sfrom the Ohio State Bank(GAIBANK). shows how the country is catches; and the loss of the million barrels that we sharewillbeminiscule.”University,USApointedtoa TheProfessorisadamant being robbed Dr Hunte price differential between a receive Consequently, Professor Hunte is of thenumber of gaps in the that by not renegotiating the pointed out that this year the medium to light sweet oil EEPGL has done an firmviewthatrampingupoilcontract which he believes deal before the end of the country is poised to receive called Liza and an even excellent job of maximizing (Continued on page 9)currently leaves none but “a period outlined in the 12 lifts of profit oil, however lighter grade called Unity shareholder earnings from hole in the ground and contract(2036),Guyanawill “This distribution of the oil crumbsinthebank”. essentially have “nothing to between Guyana and

Dr.Hunteisalsoaformer get”. He explained, “Given EEPGL is a constant High Commissioner of the this non interference by reminder of the inequity that Cooperative Republic of Guyana; and in light of the Guyana is experiencing. Guyana to the Republic of fact that (Esso Exploration These twelve lifts at one South Africa and is also the and Production Guyana million barrels each will N o n R

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The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has reporters on August 29, last and detectives issued a wanted bulletin for businessman, decided to set-up a sting operation on Friday DorwainBess,45ofLot162RupaPlace,Bel lasttocatchthem. Air Park, Georgetown, in relation to a Police, this publication was informed, defamatorypublication. got the businessman to convince the

According to reports, Bess was reporters that if they removed the story, he implicated by two reporters, who were on would pay them $1 million and they agreed. Friday last caught in a sting-operation A plan was formulated and the auto dealer attempting to extort $90M from an auto was given marked cash to hand over to dealer for the removal of a ‘news story’ Eleazar and Wayne The men, this published on a Facebook page dubbed publicationwastold,metwiththeautodealer GuyanaNewsNetwork(GNN). and they engaged in a conversation during

The reporters – Gary Eleazar and Alex whichthemarkedcashwashandedover Wayne – said to be employees of GNN, are Policeranksthenmadetheirmove.Itwas reportedlytheauthorsofthestorywhichwas revealed that the ranks located the reporters, used in the alleged attempt to extort the cash conducted a search on them and found that from the car dealer According to the story, they had already divided the marked cash the auto dealer has been cheating the betweenthemselves. government of millions of dollars in taxes. Ranks also seized two cellphones and a The auto dealer has since denied the claim laptop. Further searches were conducted at but alleged that the reporters demanded that Eleazar’s home and police found another hepaysthem$90Mtoremovethestoryfrom laptop, along with three hard drives which theFacebookpage. were also seized. So far, police have secured

Addressing the matter on his Facebook a video confession from Wayne and he page on Saturday, Attorney General and admitted to collaborating with another MinisterofLegalAffairs,AnilNandlall,SC, businessmanidentifiedasDorwainBessand noted that the businessman had moved to Eleazar to publish the news report. The lodge a police report against the two reportersuptopresstimeremainincustody

Former Ambassador and University of Guyana (UG) Lecturer, Dr. Kenrick Hunte

In custody, Gary Eleazer

In custody, Alex Wayne

Wanted, Dorwain Bess

Bourgeois politics

The anti-PPP/C politics of its financial backing, class.

parking meter contract children to private school. of race should not surprise ideology, policies and One of the major signed by an APNU+AFC The working class also was anyone. It was predictable leadership,itisalignedtothe financers of the PPP/C was CityHall.Itwasforcedtodo burdened by the imposition that those antagonistic same forces which control given a major contract. The this because the AFC of VAT on electricity and always align themselvestowards the ruling party the PPP/C – the business PNC/R could not criticise expressedconcernattheloss water instinctively to the workingwould have resorted to class. thisactofcronyismbecause of middle class and petite The Coalition may not classes.Buttheyarefondofc

a c

a l Working class pennies the same financer also bourgeois class support as a havebeenasgroovywiththe using the working class asd

nat

on and cannot fund an election, not handedly supports the result of the protests against Private Sector Commission fodder when they wish tomarginalization the type of the elections PNC/R. the introduction of parking as the PPP/C was but some attackthePPP/C.

This is the typical which the political parties

One of the reasons why meters. The AFC made it major players in the private

It is for all of theseplaybook of anti PPP/C like to run these days and the PNC/R’s streets protests known that the PPP/C was sector were very close to reasons the financialforces The anti PPP/C which involve costly rallies, have fizzled out is because the prime political influential figures in the dependenceonthebourgeoisforces in Guyana are mobilising supporters and inevitably such protests beneficiary of the protests APNU+AFC. The business class, the pursuit suit ofresorting to race and one of ensuringhugeentertainment descend into attacks on the against the parking meters class benefitted under the neoliberal policies and thethe main reasons for this is value To finance these business class And the while the Coalition was APNUincludingthroughthe ambitions of the petitebecause they can no longer campaigns requires financerswhobelongtothis losingsupport. reduction of the corporation bourgeois leadership – thatcreditablymakeanargument hundreds of millions of class make their views

The APNU+AFC’s tax and by extending the thereissuchpaucityofclassaboutclass. dollars and that money known to the PNC/R’s policies hurt the working exportallowancesgrantedto analyses of the PPP/C rule

There are greater comes from the bourgeois leadership,andasaresultthe classmorethanthebusiness non-traditionalexportstothe andpolicies.grounds – and these have class, the same class, proteststendtodissipate. class.TheCoalitionimposed fisheries sector a move

Instead the anti-PPP/Calwaysbeen–tocriticisethe ironically,whichcontrolsthe When it was in huge taxes on workers. It which benefitted fish forces are pushing racialPPP/C on the basis of class. PPP/C. g o v e r n m e n t , t h e sent home more than 7,000 exporters.

narratives discrimination

But the anti-PPP/C forces It would be financially APNU+AFC pursued neo- sugar workers. It took away Undoubtedly, there were and marginalisationcannot indulge in class suicidal for the PNC/R to liberal policies. Instead of theeducationcashgrantand some progressive measures narratives which as we haveanalyses and class criticism take engage in criticism of crushing the very class, abolished a programme e m p l o y e d b y t h e seen are easily discredited.of PPP/C policies because it the bourgeois class. It will which keeps the PPP/C which provided stipends to APNU+AFC But all of The anti PPP/C forcesis not in their interest to do venture some criticisms of strong, the Coalition ended 2,000ordinaryAmerindians. thesefittedneatlyintoaneocannot do better becauseso. the Private Sector up in the same bed with the It stopped the one-month liberalframework. they and the PPP/C are

ThePNC/Risaworking Commission.Butitwillstay bourgeoisclass. bonus to the Disciplined The adoption of a neoalignedtothesameclassandclass partybut only in terms clear of being critical and The PNC/R was forced Services and this measure liberal agenda by the assuchhavetoseekrefugeinof its membership. In terms hostile of the bourgeois todisassociateitselffromthe enraged ordinary members APNU+AFC was not the old and typical forms ofof the Disciplined Services. surprising considering that oppositionpolitics.It initially imposed VAT on manyofitsleadersbelongto (The views expressed inprivate education not or have ambitions to belong this article are those of therealising that this measure to the petit bourgeois class. author and do notaffected working class Manyofthemarepartofthe necessarily reflect theparents who sent their professionalclassanddonot opinionsofthisnewspaper.)

Lack of taxes, ring-fencing shorten...

Frompage8 will be attached in future oil The deal that the oil production should trigger a contracts Vice President, company often brags about renegotiationofthe2016oil Bharrat Jagdeo who is the to its shareholders, also contract Insisting on its General Secretary of the forcesGuyanesetopaytheir importance, the former UG party has said several times share of taxes, amounting to Lecturer said, “a hole in the that government must millions of US dollars each ground and crumbs in the honour the agreement to year This figure is likely to bank represent perpetual maintain “sanctity of further balloon as more damage that future contracts”andprotectfuture operations come on stream. generations will forever investmentsinGuyana. In addition, the country is bemoan the loss of our non- Inthemeantime,citizens allowing ExxonMobil to renewable resources and have been protesting for a operateoffshorewithoutfull inter-generationalwealth.” fairer share of their liability coverage in the ThePeople’sProgressive resources. event of an oil spill, which Party in the lead up to the They believe that the means that the risk is borne 2020 General and Regional present agreement only byGuyana. Electionshadstatedpublicly favours the oil company as Another key provision its intent to renegotiate the Guyanareceivesameretwo that is lacking in the lopsideddeal. percent royalty for its sweet document is ring fencing

However, soon after lightcrudeandsettledfor50 provision, which would taking office, the party percent profit sharing, after avoid the oil company from changed its tune to “better Exxon takes 75 percent of usingthepetroleumrevenue contract management” only the earnings to clear its in one field to cover for assuring that better terms expenses. expensesinanother

Dem boys seh...

De Private Sector want holiday!

Jus suh dry de private sector want a holidays in Trinidad and Tobago, dem does holiday fuh today because of de cricket. But beunofficialholidays.Peopledoanwukpon demnahknowdatdestadiumcanonlyhold demdays. about8,000personsanddiscountrygatabout Sonahaskdegovamentfuhshutdownde 740,000 residents plus another 5,000 people countryjustbecauseahcricket.If deprivate comeindecountryfuhdecricket. sectorwantit,demcantelldemstafffuhstay

Isnatdetrafficprablemmekdemwantde home and watch de cricket. Dem can mek it holiday.Isdefactdatnuffpeopleganabsent wanunofficialholiday. todayfromwuk. But dat is how de private sector does

Dem workers can’t concentrate pon dem operate. It nah want give dem workers time wuk knowing dat Guyana playing dis off but it want govament fuh declare a marning. Dem eyes gan be glued to de TV holiday And it claiming is because of de screen rather dan de desk; nuff people gan traffic. reportsickandnuffpeoplemindnahgandeh Itmightaswellaskfuhderestahdeweek pondemwuk. be holiday because dem gat matches all dis

But yuh don’t give holidays fuh dah weekandGuyanamightjusgettodefinal. reason.CarnivalMondayandTuesdayisnot Talkhalf,leffhalf.

Oil hypocrisy meets election hypocrisy

In its editorial yesterday, the mouthstospeakonoil.Theytooka of these oil crusaders during the the election crisis

The StabroekNewswrotethefollowing principled stand on the desecration five months of rigging that the column, “In The Diaspora” words: “While more voices are of the constitution when the Stabroek News feel should be did not devote at least one needed, the yeoman’s work being APNU+AFC regime arbitrarily joined by others? None of them, I article to the NCV and the done by members of civil society in appointedaGECOMchairmanand repeat not one of them was visible electionnightmare. relation to the travesties in the oil refused to recognise a legitimate during the arbitrary appointment of We had Minister Priya and gas sector must be strongly no-confidencevote(NCV). aGECOMchairman,thecaricature Manickchand as our guest on the applauded.” Lall and Ram were principled of the 2018 NCV and the five Gildarie-Freddie Kissoon Show

With the exception of Mr voices during the five months of months of attempted rigged Becauseofherpresence,Iwentand Glenn Lall and Mr Christopher riggedelection.Duringtherigging, elections. did the research on women groups Please do not take my word for Ram, those voices are hypocritical, I co-hosted a programme with After Dr Ali was sworn in as in Guyana. I examined all the four it. Please do a little research. Make obnoxious and unpatriotic. Those Leonard Gildarie on Kaieteur president and the legal victor of the dailiesforMarch-July,2020.There alistofthepeoplethattheStabroek voiceshavenotdoneanyyeoman’s Radio Mr Lall made it clear to his election settled down to do their wasn’t one letter from any women News noted that gave yeoman work for Guyana. Those voices do staffthatthe Kaieteur News official work, these oil critics suddenly rightsorganisationcondemningthe service (service to whom?) and go not speak for me and the Guyanese position was that the election was appeared.You couldn’t help asking electionrigging. back from the NCV in December people. There are questions, which beingrigged. wheretheycamefrom.Wherewere Let me make my position 2018 right up to August 2, 2020 the Guyanese must put to these I witnessed in front of my eyes, theybefore2021? pellucid. I believe the oil contract when Dr Ali was sworn in and see hypocrites about their questionable the tsunamic disagreement, Mr I saw with my own eyes, could have been shaped to give ifyoucanlocatethevoicesofthose morality Lall had with his editor, Adam

Guyana more income. I have seen people.

Whatever work they have done Harris.ItwascleartomethatHarris prominent attorney, Timothy Jonas people that belong to the I don’t have a problem with and are doing was/is to massage was not in support of the official in 2022 pointedly asking the head government echo that sentiment. personswhocondemntheEXXON theirmonumentalegos.Theremust position of the newspaper and that of Transparency International Former president Donald Ramotar oil contract. My problem is that be constant exposure of these broughtabouthisdeparture. Guyana Chapter over a Zoom wasaguestontheGildarie-Freddie Guyana does not deserve to have depraved minds that were silent Juxtapose the Kaieteur News programme to explicitly state on KissoonShowandhedescribedthe hypocrites lambasting the oil when the 1968, 1973, 1978, 1980 policy on the election during the behalfofhisorganisationthatthere oilcontractasabadone. contract because EXXON and the and1985cancerofriggedelections five-month election saga with the were attempts to rig the March But I do not think Guyanese Government are not going to listen returnedinMarch2020toeataway Stabroek News. All the columnists 2020 election Do the logical deserve to listen to hypocrites who to such people who they feel have at the anatomy of Guyana. I (RalphRamkarranisnotaStabroek deduction. Why would Mr Jonas have conveniently found their nothingredeemableaboutthem. advocate to all Guyanese not to be News’ columnist) were writing in ask that question in 2022? What voice and when they discovered (The views expressed in this fooledbythesepublicityseekers. support of the rigging and were washegettingat?

that they have a voice, it is only article are those of the author and

Moray House did not hold even capable of pronouncing on one do not necessarily reflect the Glenn Lall and Mr Ram open their Wherewerethepensandvoices one symposium on the NCV and issue–theoilcontract. opinions of this newspaper.)

I have no problem when Mr blatantaboutit.

Friends get life imprisonment for murder of Sophia woman

Gold miner, Cleavaughn

Notably, Justice Kissoon stated Hamilton, called ‘Quarters,’ of too that he does not accept Singh’s Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, plea of mitigation and said that like and his friend, Ranachal Singh, 37, Hamilton, Singh is a murderer and a taxi-driver of Lot 7 Goodfaith, no less culpable. “Accused one Mahaicony,ECD,wereonMonday [Hamilton] and accused two sentenced to life imprisonment for [Singh] are the architects and themurderofaSophiawomanback executorsofthisheinouscrimeand in2016. I sentenced them both to life

It was on April 16, 2016, when imprisonment.Theyaretoservethe Hamilton’s child mother Simone minimum of 30 years before they Hackett, 25 was reported missing are eligible for parole,” Justice after she left her ‘C’ Field Sophia Kissoonsaid. house. On April 19, 2016, her

In this matter, the State was partially decomposed body was represented by Prosecutor, Muntaz discovered in a trench parallel to Ali. Hamilton was represented by the University of Guyana (UG) attorney at law Alaira Murphy road, at Fourth Field, Cummings Goodman while Singh was Lodge. It was reported that her represented by attorney at law throat was slit and there was what LatchmieRahamat. appeared to be two stab wounds to

Murdered, Simone Hackett

Ontheirfirstappearance,Singh thebackofherneck. denied the murder charge that was

The sentence was handed down readtohimbutoptedtopleadguiltyandbrutallyexecutedbybothofthe

sentbyHamiltonfrom. it to clean the blood stains from the by Justice Sandil Kissoon at the to manslaughter. Hamilton hadaccused. He noted that they acted

Thewomanlefthomebelieving car They then drove to Mahdia, Demerara High Court. In handing denied the murder charge and wastogetherforthepurposeofcarrying that she was going to meet Dexter RegionEight. down his sentence, Justice Kissoon scheduled for trial. However, heout the brutal murder of a young and she was later picked up in A few days later, Hackett’s first highlighted that the crime was later changed his plea and admittedmother. The judge pointed out the Singh’s car with Hamilton inside. body was discovered, along with adeliberate,calculated,cruelactof tomurderinghischildmother

role both men played in aiding and Hamilton also admitted to stabbing theweaponthatwasusedtokillher murder conceived, premeditated According to the statement ofabettingthemurderofHackett. Hackett several times about her Hackett died from an incised the agreed facts, during the month body and slashing her throat with a wound to her neck and there were of March in 2016, Hackett and knife.Thementhenstoppedthecar 11 other incised wounds to her Hamilton had a dispute over their at a bushy concrete bridge and body Hamilton was later arrested son. Hamilton dragged Hackett’s body and gave an oral statement of the

HamiltonadmittedthatonApril out of Singh’s car and dumped her roleheplayed. 16, 2016, he contacted Singh to in a nearby trench, where he also Healsoledthepolicetothespot take him to pick up Hackett. The disposedofthemurderweapon. where Hackett was picked up. men lured the young woman to the Aftercommittingthecrime,the Singh’s car was also discovered UG Road by having Singh calling two men stopped at a canal on the with bloodstains on the seats and her and pretending to be Dexter- East Coast of Demerara, where maggotsbelowthematsintheback someone she usually collects items Hamilton soaked his shirt and used seat.

Frederick Kissoon

Jailed, Cleavaughn Hamilton

Jailed, Ranachal Singh

‘Cash grant won’t solve woes of fishing industry’

Government’s $150,000 address the situation rather one off cash grant to thanattemptingtocoveritup fisherfolk is a band aid bypayingasmallgranttothe approach to solving the parties affected from problems plaguing the taxpayers’dollars. fishing industry, Shadow Oil

Patterson pointed out and Gas Minister, David that a very important Pattersonhassaid. component of that plan

Hetold Kaieteur News in should entail an independent an

n

baseline study into the y e s t e r d a y t h a t a fisheriessector comprehensive plan is what

He stressed that while oil is required to offer relief to giant ExxonMobil has been theailingfisheriessector He conducting offshore studies, said while government it would be outright foolish attempted to cover up the to believe the company low catch being experienced would provide information grounds of the various Unsustainable get that money so it’s not by the fishers by explaining that suggests negative about speciesoffishaswellastheir In the meantime, equitable,it’snotfairandit’s that it was the off season for its operations, hence the migratorypatternsatvarious Patterson noted that the notsustainable.” fishing, the cash grant need for an independent seasons.

$150,000 grant is not As such, he said, “like confirms the suffering of baseline study to be Likewise,henotedthatit sustainable, as the current everything else, this is just aacross the country to fisherfolk in Guyana. It was conducted. would also help to identify cost of living has spiraled. In plaster on the fishing

ExxonMobil’s operations

Vice President Bharrat H e e x p

, wherethefishhaverelocated fact, he argued, “It is a very industry and we have to

However, Patterson is of the Jagdeo who said last year “Everybodyhasbeencalling to if the oil operations chase ill conceived programme examine it holistically ”view that “the mere paying that there is no proof that the for this for the longest while them further away from You are only going to According to him, “Theyof this compensation is an oil activities offshore were but they are deliberately regular fishing grounds. “So selective groups and take for (government) don’t have aacknowledgement that there the reason for the low catch. declining to do a baseline that study would help to example public servants plan and the fisherfolk haveis an issue and I’ve heard Infact,heexplained,“Igrew study

showiftheyhavemovedand minimum wage, to get that beencomplainingforthelastthem say that it’s a global up in a fishing village, in

What this study means is where they’ve moved to and $150,000, they would need a twoyearssinceoilissue but it’s being Unity if you did it two years ago, it soon.” pay increase of 22 percent to (Continued on page 17)exasperated by the oil

There are periods when would say how much theseoperations.” Further, the we have had low catch too. fishermen have beenformer Minister of Public The guys would go out catching every trip and thatInfrastructure pointed out many,manytimesanddidn’t would have been the base. Ifthat Guyana’s experience bring in any (thing) much youdoitnow,thebasewouldwith low fish catch is not and that was long before we be so much lower becauseun

, a

were producing oil, since I they are barely catching 200producing nations would wasayoungboy.” insteadofthe1000pounds.”have faced a similar fate. To

As a consequence,

In addition to the totalthis end, he believes that Jagdeo implied that it would catch, Patterson noted thatgovernment should be be irresponsible to attribute this study would alsoe m b a

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a the decline in fish catch identify the breedingcomprehensive plan to

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Wanted bulletin issued for Sand Hill Landing murder suspects

TheGuyanaPoliceForce (GPF) on Monday issued wanted bulletins for the suspects in relation to the murder of 22-year-old Ray Wame Narine of Spring Garden,EssequiboCoast.

Wanted are: Shawn Thomas also known as Troy Richards and Ackime Richards called ‘Akeem’ both of Pearl Village and of d2 Aven

Diamond

Kaieteur News had reported that Narine was fatally shot on Thursday night at Sand Hill Landing, Cuyuni River,

on the night of the incident,225-8196, 227-1149 or the RegionSeven,whilehistwin he and Ray left their miningnearest police station. This brother Ron Narine, and operation and went to Sandpublicationhadreportedthat another man, Rakesh Hill Landing and whilethe fatal shooting which Chunilall, 30, of Goed sitting on the front step ofoccurred between 23:30hrs BananenLand,Berbicewere Shanaz Allicock’s shop, aand midnight, involved a leftinjuredduringthecourse Honda XR motorcycle rodeman and his son who hail oftheincident. up with both suspects. Hefrom Pearl Village, East

A n y o n e w i t h further reported that heBankDemerara. information that may lead to recognised the pillion riderAccording to the police, the arrest of Thomas and becausehehadanaltercationbased on information Richards is asked to contact with him on September 17,received, the brothers the police on telephone last, in which he (Ron) hadoperate a dredge in the Sand numbers: 225 6940, 225 relievedthesuspectofaHill backdam area Ron 8196, 226-7476, 225-2317, (Continued on page 17)related to investigators that

...initiative will breed corruption, will not address low catch - Patterson

Fisherfolk at the Port Mourant Community Centre Ground

Member of Parliament, David Patterson

Wanted: Ackime RichardsWanted:Shawn Thomas

Parents, teachers protest deplorable state of Santa Rosa school

- leaky roof, rotten floors, lack of ventilation among issues

everalteachersand protest is because of the parents of students deplorable state of the Santa of the Santa Rosa Rosa Primary School

S Primary School in building.” The chairperson Region One yesterday told this publication that last protested the deplorable week they held a PTA condition that currently meeting with parents and prevailsattheschool. raised concerns about the K a i e t e u r N e w s school. Flowing from the understands that the school discussion at the meeting, has been in a deplorable they decided to take action condition for a long time and yesterday She mentioned nothing has been done to that for months, the address it Due to this, headmistress of the school done. “We have some major not have ceiling and there is parents and some teachers would write in her monthly issues there where there is no proper ventilation,” she became frustrated and held a reports to the Regional major overcrowding of the explained. protestactionattheRegion’s Democratic Council (RDC) school, we have some According to Ms. Henry Administrative Office that the school is in dire need children admitted to register just before schools reopened calling for the old existing ofrepairs. and they cannot attend earlier this month, some buildingtobe“renovated”. According to Ms. Henry, school because the school minor repairs were done to Speaking briefing with what she learned was that doesn’t have space for them. thebuildingbytheRDC.She Kaieteur News yesterday there is a $19 5 million Another issue is that the

about the situation, was allocation put aside to repair building is a very, very old prompted them was that the chairperson of the school’s the school, which the RDC building - the floors are school’s officials had Parent Teacher Association, promised to use to do the rotten,wehaveaseriousheat planned not to open the Ms.DonnaHenrywhostated necessary renovation, but up problem that resulted school if the issues were not thatthe“mainreasonforthat to now nothing has been because the building does fixed.

The protest held outside the Education Office yesterday over the deplorable condition of the Santa Rosa Primary School

The current condition of the Santa Rosa Primary School in Region One. (Photos credit: Moruca RDC)

The Santa Rosa Primary School.

Manwantedfor$400Mgoldheist,turnsselfin

Andray Duncan, called Junior, Brummell, 51, of Lot 36 La identified as father and son, spree. Bhaloonauth pleaded not of the stolen gold bars and were 27, of Lot 718 Kaneville, Grove, Grange, West Bank Demerara Bhaloonauth Seegobin, 49, called guilty to the offence and was able to identify more suspects. East Bank Demerara (EBD), (WBD)orLot29NewRoadVreed- ‘Krishna’ and Satrohan Seegobin, remanded to prison but Satrohan Police also seized a washing another suspect in the $400 million en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara 24, called ‘Richie’, both of Farm, admitted and was sent to jail for machine, a gas stove, tea sets, two gold heist on Monday morning (WCD), and Mark Singh also EBD. fouryears. carpets, a seven-piece dining set, turned himself over to the police in known as ‘Poppy’, 22, of Lot 522 The men, according to police, Police were also able to arrest a six boxes of tiles, one 12 amp skill the company of his lawyer, Eusi Herstelling,EBD. were hired to do some repairs on a third suspect and recovered $6M in saw, a wheelbarrow, a 25-inch Anderson. So far, police have been able to woman’s house at Mahaica, ECD cash, two cars, a canter truck and television set, a spade and a music Last Friday, the Guyana Police capture two suspects.Two of them, andhadallegedlyfoundthestashed someofthestolengoldbars. set. Force (GPF) had issued three both construction workers, were gold bars weighing some 1000 As they continued their Among the seized vehicles are wanted bulletins in relation to the charged for the gold theft which ounces and stole them. They were investigation, they managed to fourfielderwagons–twoblackand gold heist. The bulletins were took place between December identified as suspects after they seizemorecarsandotheritemsthat two white; a blue canter truck and issued for Duncan; Damien 2021 and January 2022. They were reportedly went on a shopping wereboughtwithcashfromthesale onewhiteAxiomotorcar

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World Bank blacklisted all three...

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University in Mansa and Kasama, in 2018, did attempt to fraudulently facilitate payment to China Energy Engineering Group–Hunan Electric Power Design Institute Co. Ltd by signing and issuing an Interim Payment Certificate No. 2 valued at US$ 29,186,169.09 with an inflated sum of US$7,578,772.41 for goods purportedly supplied when in fact not.

CHINA MACHINERY ENGINEERING CORPORATION (CMEC)

In July 2018, the World Bank had also blacklisted China Machinery Industry Construction Group, Inc. and another company for fraudulent practices.

pertaining to the Shandong Energy Efficiency Project in China.

That project was designed to improve energy efficiency in selected enterprises, particularly in the industrial sector of the Shandong Province, and increase the use of biomass for power and heat generation.

practices under the Guangxi Laibin Water Environment Project in China. That project is worth US$127M and is designed to reduce flood risks and improve drainage in selected areas.

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The World Bank Group had said that the two-year debarment of Shanghaibased China Nuclear Industry Fifth Construction Co., Ltd. (CNF), an infrastructure construction company that provides power and electrical engineering services, and the four-year debarment of China Machinery Industry Construction Group, Inc. (China Machinery), a construction company, was based on deceptive practices

According to the facts of the case, CNF and its subcontractors, hoping to receive advance payments, falsified documents that certified aspects of the project were completed and had met quality standards. China Machinery also sought to receive advance payment by misrepresenting in falsified documents that work had been completed. This is a fraudulent practice under World Bank Group procurement guidelines. As such, both CNF and China Machinery were sanctioned.

POWER CHINA INT’L GROUP LTD.

Not to be left out, the World Bank Group in June 2021 had also announced a two-year debarment of Chinabased Zhejiang First Hydro and Power Construction Group Co. in connection with fraudulent and corrupt

The World Bank said Zhejiang First Hydro’s de facto agent and subcontractor offered and paid bribes to two government officials in exchange for a contract.

The company also misrepresented its intent to mobilise the resources required to implement the contract as well as the availability of experts proposed in its bid. The bank said these were corrupt and fraudulent practices, respectively. The debarment period was significantly reduced in light of what the bank said was Zhejiang First Hydro’s “extraordinary cooperation and voluntary remedial actions”.

As a condition for release from sanction under the terms of the settlement agreement, Zhejiang First Hydro committed to undertake integrity compliance programmes and to continue to cooperate with the World Bank Group Integrity Vice Presidency.

Focus on cricket entertainment...

From page 6 and strong and also comes with a lot of ignorance of why and how Trinis in the past looked down on (most) Guyanese. Those of us who lived or studied or worked in Trinidad know better. As many Guyanese would attest, Trinis never looked down on those of us with academic and economic achievements when we visited Trinidad or studied or worked there.

sentiments towards each other go both ways and regrettably are carried over into cricket.

Like everywhere else, Guyanese were treated less than citizens with full rights.

cians. Trinidad was not the only country to rough up Guyanese at the airport.

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I travelled all over Trinidad and Tobago during my polling activities on both islands and know virtually every village in Central and South Trinidad. I was never illtreated. Only once did someone, an Afro Trini, in Mayaro told me to go “back to Guyana and go and cut cane”.

Many Trinis, like citizens in other countries including the US, UK, and Canada, did develop and still have a feeling that Guyanese have made life difficult for them, taking away jobs and opportunities when all that enterprising Guyanese did was to avail themselves of golden opportunities.

Guyanese migrants outperformed locals or indigents.

It happened everywhere with treatment worst in Barbados and less so in St. Kitts and St. Lucia. Except for one minor incident in Grenada and two incidents in Trinidad, I was accorded respect on arrival in hundreds of trips to all of the islands travelling with my Guyanese passport. And I will be heading there again in a few days for a political survey.

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That kind of prejudice is not prevalent as most Guyanese who visit Trinidad would attest. I met countless Guyanese at all kinds of events in Trinidad — from Chatney to weddings, to anniversaries, to Ramayanas, Pujas, Koran Shariefs — hardly any described bitter experience.

Yes, Trinis expressed sentiments of distrust for Guyanese because of bad encounters of selling fake gold and some criminal activities.

But it is not widespread and that feeling does not apply to professionals. Some Trinis also conned Guyanese. So

The feeling of distrust for Guyanese in any society is understandable. Several were and are involved in all kinds of unsavoury activities in Trinidad and in several.

They largely tend to behave themselves in US, Canada, and UK where laws are very strict and violators are punished for offenses.

But we must also recognise that almost every Guyanese abroad is hardworking and praised for work ethics and talent; they are an enterprising people who have done extremely well everywhere they settled overseas.

Guyanese must now move on in their thinking about the defeat of Trinidad and how they were treated in their visits on the island over several decades by immigration and custom agents and politi-

I didn’t hear boos when Guyana took on Barbados Sunday night and didn’t see the frenzied reaction like what happened Saturday night against Trinidad.

Was it because the Barbados PMs (late Owen Arthur and present Mia Mottley) helped save democracy in 2020? Of course Sunday night’s score was also not formidable to overtake and perhaps the reason for reduced jingoism.

A repeat encounter between Guyana and Barbados is on Tuesday night.

Fans should focus on cricket and not past bad feelings based on ill-treatment in the islands. The feeling in the stadium and around the country in the remaining encounters should be on performance in the game not immigration or past jealousies.

Yours truly, Vishnu Bisram

Courtjailsmanwhomurdered woman thinkingshehad infectedhimwithHIV/AIDS

KINGSTOWN, St

Vincent (CMC) – A High Court judge in St Vincent sentenceda26-year-oldman to more than 17 years in jail after he was found guilty of murdering a woman he wrongly thought had infected him with the HIV/AIDSvirus.

Justice Brian Cottle sentenced Desron Roberts, whohadbeenonremandfor nearly four years awaiting trail, to a further 17 years, five months and 11 days in prison.

OnJune27,2022,Robert pleaded not guilty to the chargethatbetweenOctober 24and27,2018hemurdered RhodesiaRochelleBailey

The court heard that Roberts, who was then 22, had a sexual relationship withBailey,30,whosehouse hefrequented.

OnJuly16,2018,Bailey told Roberts that she was HIV positive and two days later, he went to see a doctor, who advised him to take a post exposure treatmentforHIVandtoget tested

Robertsbeganthecourse of medication, but did not adhere to the prescription fully as he felt that some of the side effects of the

medicationweretooharsh.It isallegedthathehadboutsof d e p r e s s i o n a n d contemplated suicide but was afraid to speak to anyone about his problem forfearofthereactionthathe wouldface.

Nonetheless, he continued the sexual relationship with Bailey and in October 2018, decided that he would kill her, wrongly thinking that she had infected him with HIV

On October 25, 2018, he took a knife with him to Bailey’s house. As she was lying wearing only her underwear, Roberts told her thathehadcometokillher

It is reported that Bailey toldRobertsthatshewasnot afraid to die and he put the knife down and began to strangle her Bailey attempted to reach for the knife but was unsuccessful and Robert continued to try tostrangleher

Unsatisfied with his attempts to end Bailey’s life that way, Robert took up the knife and began to stab Bailey, who held on to him begging for her life

Roberts stabbed her multiple times before releasing her Bailey ran from the house but

collapsednearby

Robert then allegedly returned to his home. A passing villager found Bailey’s body early the followingmorning.

Apostmortemfoundthat she died of multiple stab wounds.

Following his arrest, Roberts confessed to murderingBailey

In sentencing Roberts, JusticeCottlesaidhehadno need to depart from the guidelines regarding the a i m s o f c r i m i n a l punishment, namely retribution, deterrence, prevention, rehabilitation, and that the court must follow the sentencing guidelines, unless they lead to injustice in a particular case.

Justice Cottle said further that the court can impose on an adult convicted of murder, a sentence of death, a whole life sentence or a determinatesentence

He said there was a significant degree of premeditation involved in the killing, noting that Roberts took the knife with himtothesceneandtoldthe victim that he had come to killher

‘Cashgrantwon’tsolvewoesoffishing...

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production started so giving people $150,000 is just a political gimmick.What you are supposed to do is start to progressively address this issue but we aren’tseeingthat.”

Patterson on this note returned to his pointaboutbaselinestudies,explainingthat this investigation could lead the local fishers into new fishing locations, which couldalsomeanbetterequipmentandboats wouldberequired.

AnotherimportantalternativePatterson listed was compensation from the oil company

He pointed out that the baseline study could help identify whether the oil operation is indeed impacting the country which would then tie the oil company to taking responsibility for the damages caused.

The Shadow Oil and Gas Minister pointed to the urgency of the fishing industrybeingresuscitatedasthesubjectof food security takes the limelight in the Caribbean. He explained, “We would be catching less local fish and would have to start importing more and that brings the onset of the Dutch disease but the government doesn’t want to admit that’s where we’re going that’s why they are applying these plasters but it will only get worse.”

Headded,“TheywillblametheUkraine War,theywillblameclimatechangeandall sortofthingsbutwithallpoliticsaside,we havetoaddressourissueshereinGuyana.”

In offering another recommendation,

Pattersonsaidthebaselinestudycouldpush ExxonMobiltopayupamonthlyfineforthe damages caused to the country’s fisheries sector The former Minister explained, “Most of these fisherfolk have a fishing society or a fishing co-op and these have beenaroundsincethe1970sand80swhere thesepeoplecanlandtheirboats,iceandso on and what’s supposed to be happening is that you (Exxon) give the money to a fund soitsnotaquestionofhandingoutmoney

You do a fund and they contribute directly which would go to sustain fisherfolk.”

He said this fund could be used to help fisherfolk wean off the “one off dependency syndrome” and help them diversify their operations, rather than sit back and wait on the next handout. On the other hand, he told Kaieteur News that the handingoutofthesegrantscanbetherecipe forcorruption.

“One-off payments wouldn’t work, we don’tevenknowwhothefishermenareand who are not so it’s a recipe for corruption andwearealreadyhearingthat.

You are hearing about the thousands of personsthataregettingmoneyandI’mnot evensosuretherearesomanyfishingboats astherearepeoplebeingcompensated,”he concluded.

Overthepastweek,governmenthanded out approximately $195 million in fisherfolk relief grants to over 1,000 affectedpersons.AccordingtoVPJagdeo’s Facebook page, fisherfolk in Regions Three, Four, Five and Six have already receivedpayments.

Sophia resident remanded for unlawful possession of firearm, ammo

Twenty four year old Akeem Daniels, a miner of ‘B’ Field Sophia, GeorgetownwasonMonday remanded to prison for the unlawful possession of a firearmandammunition.

Daniels was arrested on September 22, at Gold Finger Landing, Cuyuni River in Region Seven. He was later charged with the offence of unlawful possession of firearm and ammunitionwithoutlicence.

OnMonday,heappeared in the Bartica Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate CrystalLambert.Hepleaded notguiltytothechargesthat were read to him and was remanded to prison until October13,2022.

Wanted bulletin issued for Sand Hill...

Frompage13 firearm and ammunition which were later handed over to police. The young man recalled that the suspects dismounted the motorcycle and hurriedly walked towards their directionwithwhatappeared tobehandgunsandstartedto discharge several rounds in theirdirection.

As a result, he said both he and his brother ran, but the suspects continued to discharging rounds in their direction.

The young man told police that while trying to evadethesuspect,hesawhis brother collapsed on the roadway as he continued running and he sustained a gunshot wound to his right arm. He said that he sought refugeinsomebusheswhere he remained for about two hours after which he returnedtothelanding.

When he arrived at the landing,hesaidthathefound his brother lying motionless on the road with what appeared to be blood stains onhim.Bythen,thesuspects had already escaped in an

unknown direction. While c o n d u c t i n g t h e i r investigation on Friday, police reported that an eyewitness, Rakesh Chunilall, told them that before the shootout occurred,hewasacustomer at another shop next to the areawherethebrotherswere seated. Chunilall related to investigators that on the nightoftheincident,hewas atthe‘MomoShop’whenhe saw the two suspects passed him on a motorcycle and they parked in a dark area. Thereafter,hesawwhenthey walked towards the two brothers who were sitting at thenearbyshop.

According to Chunilall, he saw when the suspects pointed what appeared to be handgunstowardsthem,and he began hearing loud explosions which sounded like gunshots. On hearing that, Chunilall said that he, and the others who were at the shop, began running away, and during that process, he felt a burning pain in his lower abdomen. He fell to the ground and becameunconscious.

AninjuredChunilallwas picked up by public-spirited persons and taken to the Bartica Regional Hospital where he was seen and examinedbythedoctorwho observed a single suspected gunshot wound to his lower stomach, which exited through his lower back

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GeorgetownPublicHospital Corporation for further treatment, police had reported that upon examination of Ray’s body, two suspected gunshot wounds to the chest area were seen, along with oneinch lacerations to the abdomenandshoulder,anda two-inch laceration to the rightarm.

Also one suspected exit wound was observed on the rightsideofthebackandone suspected warhead was also recoveredincloseproximity ofthevictimwhichappeared to be a 32 (calibre) ammunition.

HisbodyisattheBartica Regional Hospital mortuary awaiting a post mortem examination.

Remanded, Akeem Daniels

Former diplomat wins libel suit against Speaker

Former diplomat and defamatory statement to board member of Guyana conclude that Hollingsworth Power & Light (GPL), Kirk acquired over 3000 square Hollingsworth, has been feet or 3,199,92 acres of awarded damages in the sum land. of $7.5 million by Justice The document outlined Fidela Corbin-Lincoln in a further Nadir’s comments libel case against Speaker of were meant to show that the National Assembly, acquisition of 3000 square Manzoor Nadir and the PPP- feet of land from the owned,FreedomRadio. government was an award or According to Court result of Hollingsworth d

manipulating the system for surrounds defamatory

statementsmadebyNadiron enrichment. November 12, 2019, on Hollingsworth indicated F

Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir

Former diplomat and board member GPL, Kirk Hollingsworth.

dom Radio Inc that he was a former i n s i n u a t i n g t h a t diplomat having served in Hollingsworth acquired land the British foreign service corruptly for over 25 years in the UK, Further, the document the Middle East, the noted the Nadir used his Caribbean and southern social media forum and also Africa and was a board published the defamatory member of GPL and that statementonFreedomRadio Nadir’s remarks caused his clients, Kaydel Oil and thatthecommentsarebased. defendants which included unmeritorious defences to 91.1 FM (Demerara), 90.5 damage to his character and Gas Limited, terminating his “The defence must identify the filing of an application trial and with evidence the FM (Berbice) and 90 7 reputation. consultancy with them. In the matters of public interest less than seven days before costshavebeenincreased.” (Essequibo) which is The man claimed that he hisdefence,Nadirstatedthat on which the comment is

circulated throughout also suffered and continues he was certain that his made,”shesaidinherruling.

Guyana and internationally to suffer financial injury,

She said further, that in pursuing the defences which represented by Senior online. constant grave distress, defamatory,falseoractuated considering the basis upon were unsustainable as Counsel Roysdale Forde

It is averred that the humiliation,embarrassment, by malice towards or in which costs should be pleaded and without any CD and CV Satram, Marcia

awarded, “I have considered evidence to support the Nadir Sharma, and Javed meaningofthewordsandby He noted that this was However, in her ruling, all the circumstances defences at trial and that by Shadick represented the way of innuendo means and evinced, days after the Justice Corbin stated that including the conduct of the

indignity,painandsuffering. relationstotheclaimant.

defendants. would cause the reasonable publication, when he such a defence must set out reader of the defendants’ received a letter from one of the facts alleged to be true

No new COVID-19 cases, 7 persons hospitalised

With no new COVID-19 cases and no institutional isolation, 77 are in home deaths, the Health Ministry yesterday isolationandtodate,atotalof69,950persons reported that seven persons are in haverecoveredfromthevirus.

Hetymer signs as Valvoline Ambassador

Sankar’s Auto Sales CEO Sasenarine Sankar and 25year-old West Indies & Guyana Amazons Warrior Skipper Shimron Hetmyer yesterday signed an agreement making the cricketer the Valvoline Brand Ambassador.

Hetymer who has played 16 Tests, 47 ODIs, 50 T20Is and 154 T20 games for franchise leagues including the IPL and CPL, also presented an autographed bat to the Sankar family, owners of the Campbellville located business place.

The CEO speaking to a small gathering of customers, staff, media and fellow owners Mrs Radika Sankar (CFO)

and their sons Managers

Shiva Nayan and Navin, informed that Hetmyer is the first Brand Ambassador appointed.

“Today is a special day

for us to have someone as famous as Hetmyer to be the face of one of our products.

We have three main core values which are Hard work, Trust and Friendly Service

and it great to have Hetmyer, who I am meeting for the first time an d who seems to share those same values, as our Valvoline Brand Ambassador,” said the company’s CEO.

The company started in 1993 as a paint shop and over the years has expanded with the Valvoline Brand being first introduced in 2012.

Tuesday September 27, 2022

ARIES (Mar. 21–Apr. 19)

Get-togethers with friends or meetings with a small group, if possible, should prove informative and enlightening today, Aries, although some of it may be a bit perplexing.

TAURUS(Apr.20–May20)

Today things could be rather hectic at work, Taurus. You'll probably be very busy and happy with whatever results you produce. You could tire yourself out,

GEMINI (May 21–June 20)

Some new information about an interesting field could have you browsing the web and looking through books to learn more, Gemini. This could involve law, philosophy,

CANCER (June 21–July 22)

Today you might learn about new and creative ways to increase your income, Cancer, possibly involving technology in some way. So much new information could come your way.

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22)

Social events could put you in touch with interesting people in intriguing professions, Leo. You might get involved in some fascinating conversations that provide you with a lot of useful information.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Se pt. 22)

A friend or colleague could recommend some books that you want to read right away, Virgo. Be sure you take breaks and rest your eyes from time to time to avoid eyestrain and headaches today.

BCB/Lochan Samkarran Cricket Programme… Region Six Secondary Schools benefit

- Programme moves to Region Five shortly

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22)

Today your mind will be quick, insightful, and inspired, Libra. Your creative impulses should go a thousand miles an hour and ideas should pop in and out of your head like crazy.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21)

If visitors are able to pop in and out during the day, Scorpio, you'll be in the right frame of mind to enjoy their company. Expect interesting news and stimulating conversation.

SAGIT(Nov.22–Dec.21)

Don't be surprised if your inbox fills with email or your phone rings off the hook, Sagittarius. Friends, relatives, and colleagues could have great news and useful information.

CAPRI (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) = It

Inspiration is the word for today, Capricorn. Your creative talent should blossom and motivate you to work on wonderful ideas. This could involve music, painting, decorating,

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18)

Today your physical and mental energy should be operating at a very high level, Aquarius. You probably won't spend much time inside if you can avoid it. Expect get-togethers

PISCES (Feb. 19–Mar. 20)

Your intuition is likely to be very keen today, Pisces. Accurate psychic insights could come to you thick and fast. Your imagination is also strong, and you might come up with ideas to enrich your home,

Berbician Hetymer speaking on behalf of his a gent and family thanked Sankar’s Auto Sales for choosing him. (Sean Devers)

Representatives of fourteen secondary schools turned up to the St Francis Community Centre Training Hall last week to receive close to two million dollars (G$2m) worth of uniforms and cricket gears as part of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB)/Lochan Samkarran School Cricket Programme. The schools that are based in region six were mainly represented by their head teachers. Three schools were absent at the simple presentation ceremony and will receive their supply of items later this week when executives of the BCB pay them a visit. Each school received a package that consisted of fifteen pairs of branded white cricket uniforms, two boxes of red balls and some cricket

gears. Among the gears shared out were bats, batting gloves, seed guards and wicket keeping gloves.

The schools that benefitted were Line Path, Skeldon High, Black Bush Polder, Manchester, Winifred Gaskin, Corentyne Comprehensive, JC Chandisingh, Lower Corentyne, Port Mourant, Canje Secondary, Berbice High, Vryman Erven, BEI and Tutorial Academy. Absent were Tagore Memorial, Central Corentyne and New Amsterdam.

BCB President Hilbert Foster urged the teachers to take care of the items as they were obtained at great cost to Samkarran, an overseas based businessman. Foster disclosed that with the donation of the items, the second phase of the historic programme will start shortly with coaches going into schools under the Namilco Thunderbolt Coaching Project. The BCB executives that include Foster, Secretary -Angela Haniff, Competition Chairman - Leslie Soloman and Asst SecretaryAmeer Rahaman discussed the schedule for the coaching programme which would involve fifteen coaches in Region Six. Foster also stated that at the end of the c oaching programme, a squad of sixty players will be named by the coaches for a special twoweek coaching camp. This will be followed by four different tournaments at the inter-zone level.

The zones - West Berbice, New Amsterdam/ Canje, Lower Corentyne and Upper Corentyne will each provide a champion. The four teams then play in a special tournament to decide on an overall Berbice Secondary School Champions. Meanwhile, six schools in region five will collect their uniforms and gears shortly and also be involved in the coaching programme. Foster expressed thanks to Samkarran for his assistance and stated that his contribution was most welcomed. He assured the sponsor that the donated items will be used for the intended purposes and disclosed that the BCB was confident that a batch of over twenty national players will emerge from the programme over the next few months. Several representatives of the school expressed thanks to the BCB and Samkarran for their assistance and pledged to take care of the items.

(2nd right) Valvoline Brand Ambassador, Shimron Hetmyer, presents the Sankar family with an autographed bat at the inaugural signing of their partnership.

Namilco renews sponsorship with RHTYSC U-21 and 1st Division teams

The National Milling Company of Guyana last week renewed their cricket sponsorshipoftheRoseHall TownYouthandSportsClub duringasimplepresentation ceremony at the company’s AgricolaHeadOffice.

Namilco’s support will cover sponsorship of the club for their under-21 and first division teams for the nexttwelvemonths.

RHTYSC Secretary, HilbertFoster,statedthatthe company first sponsored the two teams in 2019 and over the last three years, both teams have excelled on and other the cricket field. The teams have won several major cricket tournaments including the Busta Champion of Champions, Stag Beer 50 overs, Elizabeth Styles under-21 and Ivan Madray 20/20 tournaments Foster also informed Namilco management that the teams have produced several outstanding players including KelvonAnderson, Junior Sinclair, Clinton Pestano, Kevin Sinclair, Jonathan Rampersaud, Shemaine Campbelle, ShenetaGrimmond,Shabika Gajnabi, Jermey Sandia, Mahendra Gopilall, Sohail Mohamed and Ramzan Koobir who all played for Guyana or the West Indies overthelasttwelvemonths.

Junior and Kevin Sinclair played in the 2022 CPL tournament while Kevin and Pestano played for Guyana at the first class level.

Anderson,aformerWest indies under-19 player was unluckynottogainselection to the national senior team but gained selection to the West Indies Emerging

PlayersAcademy

Foster disclosed that in 2022, the RHTYSC producedfourplayersonthe national under-19 female team, six on the national senior female, two on the national senior male, two in theCPL,twoforthenational under-15 male and three for the national under-19 male team A hand injury prevented Matthew Pottaya, the opportunity to play for thenationalunder-17team.

Off the cricket field, the two teams together hosted over fifty personal development projects includingtheconstructionof twohomesforfriendsofthe club, annual cricket camp, annual summer camp, covid 19 hamper programme, scorebook programme, medical outreach, Basil Butcher Trust Fund, distribution of school bags and educational school grants.

The teams, over the last twelve months assisted dozens of youths with bicycles, cricket gears and electronic tablets as part of their ‘Say Yes to Sports and Education Programme’ Members of the teams will also be involved in promotional work for their sponsor during the upcoming Berbice Expo at theAlbion Ground from the October14.

Foster also disclosed that with some of the club’s most senior veterans passing the age of thirty five,adecisionwasmadeto invest in the younger players like Sandia, Pottaya, Rampersaud, Gopilall, Romesh Bharrat andRamzanKoobir

Thiswasdonedespitethe fact that it might affect

performances on the field. The long serving club official stated that the immediategoalisnottowin tournaments but to mould a powerfulteamforthefuture.

He stated that the RHTYSC,MS,haswonover one hundred tournaments over the last thirty years but silverwares are not the main objectives, but rather producing a team for the future Players like the Sinclairs, Anderson, Slyus Tyndall,KeithSimpson,Eon Hooper and Clinton Pestano shall provide the leadership totheyoungergenerationas part of the rebuilding process.

B o t h , N a m i l c o Managing Director - Bert Sukhai and Financial Controller Fitzroy McLeod, hailed the outstanding work of the RHTYSC and the way the two teams have represented thecompanybrand.McLeod hailed Foster for his visionary leadership of the clubandstatedthatNamilco was very pleased to be associated with a club that

all of its commitments under the sponsorship. He also stated that he was very impressed withtheteamswinningways a

outstanding players they havebeenproduced.Aspart of the sponsorship, the company also handed over thirty pairs of coloured uniforms to the club along with a cheque to cover the cost of transportation, meals/snacks, balls, gears and practice sessions

Kelvon Anderson will captain the first division

Rampersaud will lead the under-21team.

RHTYSC Secretary Hilbert Foster receives the coloured uniforms from Namilco Managing Director Bert Sukhai in the presence of other company executives.

Hudson takes the blame!

…but insisted the GOAcould’ve helped

By Rawle Toney

Aubrey Hudson, president of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) is taking full responsibility for the country’s track and field athletes not being present at the SouthAmerican Games. Thegamesarescheduledfor October 1 – 15 in Paraguay, with Guyana being represented by 16 athletes and six officials from the disciplines of boxing, squash, table tennis and badminton. Kaieteur News has been clinical in its reports of the AAG’s flaws, in particular of them not having athletes at the South AmericanYouth Games, the World U20 Championships and also failing to register a single athlete for the Commonwealth Games something that was done on their behalf by the Guyana

Olympic Association

(GOA) Hudson told Kaieteur News yesterday while he’s admitting to the AAG’s shortcomings, it is a resultofotherexecutivesnot “pullingtheirweight.”

“It’s a serious issue that wefaced,Imustsay,because IthinkIcouldseeintherear view mirror that people within the Federation were

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not pulling weight and we were able to change that, at least in one instance in the General Secretary,” Hudson said. According to Hudson, “So I am disappointed very, very disappointed because the mechanism that we’ve beenusinginthelastcouple of years to get athletes to competitions was as a direct result, and I can say without any fear or contradiction, it was a direct result of financialinputfromme.”

Hudson said the AAG knewtheywerelatewiththe submission of a long list of athletes to the GOA, but ca utioned, “the requirements for submitting a long list is not just a list of names and the GOA takes it…it’s a comprehensive list with passport information and all the rest of it. If athletes do proper registration at the beginning of the year, then it’s easy to transition that informationover.”

“We had back-and-forth with our athletes residing overseas, especially those preparing for the new year, saying that these games are comingtoolate.

Sowe’reblundered,I’m notgoingawayfromthat;the AAG blundered in a major way, but as a result of that blunder, we made our

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The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) is aiming to have one of the largest SouthAmerican10KonSundayNovember 6.At a press conference yesterday, AAG president, Aubrey Hudson, revealed that each South American country has indicatedtheirwillingnesstoparticipate

Hudsonsaidthisyear,they’relooking touptheante,startingwiththeraceroute, which he said the AAG has adopted the World Athletics standard for organising theevent.

“We’re coming straight from the Montrose/HappyAcrearea,comingdown straight on the northern carriageway to the roundabout, so we don’t have to deal with Kitty public road and the gas station going into the roundabout and onto JB Singh Road and the only piece of stretch that we don’t have issue and into the national park for the finish,” Hudson explained

He said the local organising committee took the decision to run against the flow of traffic to alleviate any incidents and encroaching from the public; to protect the athletes.

pleading at the level that GOA says it’s not us, it’s them that would not open this thing for you,” Hudson said. Hudson said the AAG made several attempts to have the athletes registered, even with the South AmericanGames’custodian, the Organización Deportiva Suramericana(ODESUR)of whichGuyana(GOA)isone of 15 National Olympic Committees that are members.

Meanwhile,Hudsonisof the view that the GOA could’ve been more accommodating, rather than being what he calls, “punitive” when the AAG fell short. Hudson reasoned thattheGOAinrecenttimes, have blanked the AAG’s every request for assistance in various areas, including administratively

Track and Field, at the 11th edition of the South AmericanGamesinBolivia, ended their participation withthreeofthefivemedals wonforGuyana.

It was at the 2018 South American Games where Leslain Baird threw 78.65 metres to not only finish second, but also set a new national record in the Men’s Javelin.

Winston George had

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This year’s South American 10K, Hudsonsaid,willcosttheAAGUS$60,000. He added that the AAG is banking on the support from corporate Guyana, the NationalSportsCommission(NSC)andthe GuyanaOlympicAssociation(GOA).

Hudson said Banks DIH Limited, through their usual support under the Rain Forest Water brand, have signalled their intention of once again being on board

Thisyear,apartfromtheUS$1,000that will be up for grabs for the winners for the Male and Female categories, they will be drapedwithan18-karatgoldmedal.

At last year’s event, Guyana Defence Force (GDF) athletes, Marlon Nicholson andSheamaTyrellwontheGuyanalegof theSouthAmerican10K

Nicholson crossed the line in a time

clocked45.67stofinishthird in the men’s 400m, while Jenea McCammon’s 13.39s atthegamesinthewomen’s 100mhurdles,whichsawher running third, also became the country’s new National Record in the event McCammon would later go ontolowerherrecordtimeto

13.27swhenshecompetedat the Central American and CaribbeanGames(CAC).

Keevin Allicock and Colin Lewis’ bronze were theothermedalsaddedtothe country’s tally of five in the central Bolivian City of Cochabamba Hudson, relating the success of track and field at the various multisport events, should be accommodated, even if they fallshort.

The AAG head, who’s servingathirdterminoffice, believes the AAG will haveto tighten up

administratively going forward.

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(33:39 30) Tyrell finished the race in 41:16 09s to defeat Aliyah Headley (45:33 00) and Assatta Eastman (48:29 02)

AAG president, Aubrey Hudson

commitment to social responsibility, the company has annually rewarded students who would have

written the exams and distributed school supplies to students attending primary and secondary schools in West Ruimveldt, Sophia, Parika, De Willem, and New Amsterdam communities.

At a simple ceremony held at the company’s headoffice,theproprietor, who is a former national table tennis playe Dwayne

Munroe, congratulated this year’s honourees and told them, “As you prepare toembark on your secondaryeducation, it doesn’t matter whether you want to become a lawyer, doctor, astronaut, engineer, dancer or CEO, what mattersisthatyouhaveall done well and you have proved that you have the ability and talent to

becomeanyoneyouwantto be.”

He also reminded them to accomplish great things, “you must dream as well as act and everything is possible when you believe in yourself ”

This year’s NGSA honourees received laptop computers,electronictablets andmonetaryassistance.

Dozens turn out for beginners’ golf event

The Nexgen Golf ‘Just for Beginners’ Golf tournament, sponsored by Survival Supermarket Sheriff Street was held on Saturday with over 50 participants, many ofwhomhadneverplayedgolf,takingpart in a chipping and putting contest at the Scout Association Ground on Woolford Avenue.

Thecompetitionwasintensewiththree players having to go through four putting playoffstodeterminethelastwinnerofthe magnificenthampersfilledwithdozensof productssoldatSurvivalSupermarket.

The eventual outcome saw Nevada Dyal, Rupesh Singh, Dhanram Dyal IV, Ryan Brathwaite and Shaian Haniff

The respective winners pose with their prizes.

cartingoffwiththemainprizes.

The Just for Beginners tournament is designedtoallownewplayerstoexperiencethe gamewithouthavingtoworryaboutcompeting with experienced golfers and thereby giving a widerrangeofpersonsachancetosucceedand winprizes.

The next scheduled competition at the Scout Association Ground will be on Saturday, September 23 from 5 7 pm as players will compete for prizes from Vivaanta Spa.

For more information on how to participate, stop by the Nexgen Golf Academy on Woolford Avenue or call 645 0944

The Georgetown base, Dominion Enterprise, honoured students who wouldhavewrittenthe2022 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) for t h e i r o u t s t a n d i n g performance. As part of its

Students of New Amsterdam, Berbice with their accolades.

2022HeroCaribbeanPremierLeague…

Amazon Warriors, Royals confident ahead of Qualifier 1

pressconferenceonMonday

Hetmyer both expressed

respective teams ahead of their clash in Qualifier 1 of the Caribbean Premier League in Guyana on Tuesday

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Amazoan Warriors finished first and second in the recently concluded league phase and will clash at Providence with the winner bookingtheirspotinthefinal andthelosergettinganother chance in Qualifier 2 on Wednesday against the winner of the Eliminator between the St. Lucia Kings and the Jamaica Tallawahs. The Eliminator bowls off at 19:00hrs.

The Royals have been in fine form, winning eight out of their ten matches in the leaguephase.

“Thingshavebeengreat. Winning eight games out of ten, I think the boys have been playing some good cricket. We’re studying the game,veryhigh-spiritedand ready to go for tomorrow,” said Mayers in a pre-match

On the other hand, the Amazon Warriors had an abysmal start, winning just oneoftheirfirstsixmatches before reeling off four straight wins after returning toGuyana.

“So far it’s been okay The start wasn’t what we expectedasateambutwhen we got back to Guyana, the guys spirits were much higher than I expected and they were ready to go, especially with the crowds. With the crowds here and knowing the conditions as much as we do, I think the guys are really up for the challenge. It’s just for us to continue,”Hetmyersaid.

The Royals have lifted the CPL trophy on two occasions in 2014 and 2019 while the Amazon Warriors have never won it despite

something Hetmyer says is not on his team’s mind headingintotheplayoffs.

“Mentally, the guys are good. We can’t really think about what happened in the past because a lot of these guyswerenotherewhenwe made it to the knockout rounds before. We just have

tokeeptakingitonegameat a time and focus as hard as we can on the game to come.”

The match will start at 10:00hrsETC.(SportsMax)

Barbados Royals captain KyleMayersandhisGuyana

Anew champion will be crowned in this edition of the Hero Caribbean Premier League. (CPL)

FLASH BACK! Marlon Nicholson powering his way to win the 2021 SouthAmerican 10K Road Classic. (Emmerson Campbell photo)

Georgetown.

TheAmazon Warriors and Barbados Royals will

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AAG president, Aubrey Hudson