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EDITORIAL
The Smart Phone Parents of preteens know the dismay that comes with this image: kids flopped on the couch for stretches of time, silent and mesmerized by smart phones. Maybe it’s Snapchat, maybe its Facebook or Instagram — but they scroll and scroll, oblivious to an outside world that beckons with all things tangible and sunny: a pool, a baseball diamond, a bike ride. The things that lure kids into their own walled-off worlds have evolved over the years: Pac-Man in the ’80s, Nintendo in the ’90s. Today, it’s a smart phone that at times can seem like the Pacific Ocean between you and your children. Recently, a backlash against the trend has burgeoned in the form of Wait Until 8th, a movement that encourages parents to hold off on giving their children smart phones until the eighth grade, when their kids are usually 13 or 14. Led by a former Chicago resident who now lives in Austin, Texas, the group launched this spring and now has more than 2,000 parents as members, the Tribune’s Kate Thayer reports. At least 100 families in Illinois have joined. There’s nothing binding in being a member. Parents simply take a pledge to “wait until eighth,” adhering to the group’s belief that elementary school is too soon for kids to start tapping and scrolling on smart phones. There’s a need for children who haven’t reached their teen years to have phones for communication and safety reasons, but the group stresses that major cellular service carriers offer basic packages for calls and texts — without data plans. “Smart phones are distracting, dangerous and detrimental for children, yet are widespread in elementary and middle school because of unrealistic social pressure and expectations to have one,” the group’s website declares. OK, we feel your pain, Wait Until 8th. But we think there’s a better way to look at this. Kids still bond in playgrounds, school hallways and backyards, but smart phones have changed the way we socialize, and that doesn’t just go for grown-ups. Kids now connect digitally, through texts, FaceTime, social media, the list goes on. It’s a reality parents can’t ignore. But it’s also a reality parents don’t have to accept unconditionally. Being a parent means being proactive about everything, and that includes being attentive stewards of their kids’ use of smart phones. Keeping them off the dinner table and away from reach at bedtime are sensible ground rules. There are also apps that allow parents to control when their kids can use their phones and what apps are accessible, Thayer writes. Setting boundaries is part of a parent’s job description, and that’s especially important when it comes to a kid’s smart phone use. It’s up to each parent to decide when to buy a smart phone for their child, and how to monitor the device’s usage. Every kid, and every family dynamic, is different. “There’s no research evidence that getting a phone at too young of an age is bad or good,” Yalda Uhls, author of “Media Moms & Digital Dads: A Fact-Not-Fear Approach to Parenting in the Digital Age,” told Thayer. What matters is being engaged enough in your kids’ use of the phone to know if, when — and how — it becomes a problem. The Chicago Tribune which reported on the impact of smart phones on children did not state the impact these phones have on learning. In Guyana reading is a dead art; spelling is simply putting letters where the writer feels, or the abbreviations that social media have fashioned into a language. The smart phone can be a useful tool but it can also attract danger. There was a time when people had small recorders playing music. The smart phone is doing this. It is so addictive that people risk their lives on the streets. These are adults. Imagine the impact on children.
I am a doctor in neuroscience; I know about suicides Dear Editor, My recent letters on suicide generated two responses entitled: “The suicide rate reduction is real,” and “It is the walk; not the talk that makes the critical difference”, from Mr Annand Boodram, the executive director of The Caribbean Voice (TCV). His letters aim to suppress my insights and to inflate his contributions on the suicide crisis. And he achieves his goals by dangerously fabricating stories which need to be debunked if a genuine decline in the suicide rate is to be realised. Moreover, Mr Boodram’s behaviour exemplifies a wider problem which generates unbearable stress in boosting the suicide rate. A clear case of how this man is out to suppress my voice rests on the fact that he made false accusations that my original letter contains inaccuracies and o v e rsights which were corrected by TCV. First of all, my original letter contained zero inaccuracies and second of all, how can TCV correct inaccuracies when there was none? I am sorry to say that his claims are obviously fiction. Due to such disrespect, I do not see how I can accept this man’s invitation to be a part of TCV. Unlike Mr Boodram and most of the TCV members, I hold several advanced degrees in psychology and the neuroscience-related field at the doctorate level; in
addition to years of research experience. Such training has enabled me to map the players within the suicide dynamics. I am confident that my insights conveyed in my original letter are accurate and pivotal to the understanding of suicide in Guyana. This gentleman should refrain from stifling my voice and give me a fair chance. To this end, I challenge him to provide specific examples of the inaccuracies and oversights he talks about. I guarantee he can’t come up with any because they never existed. He needs to know that I am trained to convey, complex ideas as concisely as possible and I am proud of how elegantly I have done this in my original letter. This is what scientists do. My unfortunate experience with him is reminiscent of a wider p r o b l e m w h e r e nonprofessionals take control and destroy this country. He casts himself as a destructive person who has the gall to stifle my voice even though I have the required academic foundation to make pivotal contributions. He needs to know that important solutions come through fundamental ideas like mine and a useful walk depends on such ideas. Definitely, he needs to refocus his talk and walk by giving stress centerstage attention. Mr Boodram needs to know that copycatting is only a minuscule piece of the
suicide dynamic when considering how stress rewires the brain in multiple ways in eliciting suicidal behaviours. The catastrophic social, economic and political dynamic is the generator of abnormal quantities of stress w h i c h l a rg e l y p u s h e s Guyana’s suicide rate over the global average. Editor, stress has the amazing ability to induce and or exacerbate mental illness, alcoholism, copycatting, relapse, impulsivity and an assortment of personality disorders, etc. Moreover, stress alters the hardwiring in multiple neuronal circuits in augmenting suicidal responses by unleashing depression, hopelessness, and anxiety, etc. Stress even diminishes the ability to cope, etc. My view remains pivotal to effectively tackle the suicide problem from multiple angles, plus added benefits on domestic violence; mental illness and alcoholism, etc. can be derived when stress is given center-stage attention. I must thank TCV for its contributions to the Guyanese people. However, I must point out that Mr B o o d r am’s u n ev en behaviours force me to question whether his talk can really translate into a meaningful walk. Here are my reasons why: I do not see how he can enlighten, advocate and educate when he lacks critical knowledge and professional skills. I do
not see how he can counsel when he fabricates stories. I do not see how he can debunk misinformation when he generates them. I do not see how he can lift selfesteem when he unleashes fiction. I do not see how he can suppress the suicide scourge when he triggers stress and psychological pain. And I do not see how he or the Ministry of Social Protection can take credit for a reduction in the suicide rate which remains skeptical. In fact, the suicide rate has trended upwards within the last 15 years. The Ministry of Social Protection is horrendous. This agency hurts Guyanese due to its lack of skills, lack of ethnic diversity and corruption among other serious problems. My sentiments are echoed by the majority of Guyanese. In closing, I would like to remind Mr Boodram that his actions influence the nature of this rebuttal. And it would be wise for him to embrace my proposal which embodies that stress robustly drives the bulk of suicide in multiple ways by disrupting homeostatic brain functions. I am confident that such knowledge will guide our efforts in developing novel approaches to combating this human tragedy from multiple angles. With this, I urge him to refocus his attention on stress as the key propeller to the suicide scourge, not copycatting. Dr Annie Baliram
Where are the ideas of the luminaries on Constitutional Reform? Dear Editor, The APNU and the AFC had bemoaned their helplessness to stop the PPP/C Government from doing what it had so desired to the detriment of the masses while in opposition. Hence, they saw Constitutional Reform as a requisite for controlling the abuse of power by future governments. Constitutional Reform was high on the Coalition’s Manifesto on their campaign and why notthere was NIS monies invested in the Berbice Bridge to offer a sweetheart deal to a few private investors and Marriot built with state funds in an act of vengeance to create competition for the owner of a business perceived to be an arch-enemy of the PPP/Cjust to name a few. After 23 years in office, the misuse of power and complacency had met the precipice of intolerance-
hence victory for the coalition. As early as July 2015, PM Nagamootoo started talks on Constitutional Reform with UNDP representatives and got assurance of help. By September, he initiated a Steering Committee on Constitutional Reform” headed by Nigel Hughes and a report was submitted back to PM in April 2016. That report remained a secret. At the symposium held by the Carter Center, late in May 2017, the center highlighted the need for reform to allow for individual candidates to run for presidency. The Center reaffirms that as it is now-the constitution rules in Guyana limit all candidature for the office of the presidency and for the members of the national assembly to those who join party lists. Carter Center said that an amendment is urgently needed to allow individual
candidates to participate in elections; this will place an incentive for voters to vote across party and communal lines. The Center cited that presently, there is no legislation related to the regulation and operation of political parties. In a nut shell, Carter Center touched at the heart of what is required in Constitutional Reform in Guyana. This is the gospel that the luminaries in society should be preaching to the people because the Carter Center acknowledges that the desire for Constitutional Reform has to be driven by the citizens. I see people writing of ‘Backward Guyana and what it does to poor people’ and ‘Socialism is a superior system to capitalism’ and ‘A new party is coming on stream’. The luminaries seem to lack the vision to identify that constitutional
impropriety is the root cause of our social and economic problems. I see little or nothing emanating from their pen on Constitutional Reform. As a result, food for thought on the subject remains at a minimal among the populace. In the absence of ideas from the luminaries, the masses will become moribund-where will the DRIVING FORCE for Constitutional Reform come from? At the launch of the EITI in February 2017, Nagamootoo said that, “Those who think that Constitutional Reform is a slogan, or that it could be easily achieved, our history has shown that it is a fight, it is a struggle.” I wish if he could have elaborated on whom and by whom that ‘fight’ and ‘struggle’ had ensued. Clearly, Nagamootoo and the Coalition’s former obsession (Continued on page 5)
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With hurricane hit islands, Guyana can be a saviour Dear Editor, As a young journalist, working for the Barbados Nation Newspaper in the 80’s, I was sent to cover the aftermath of the very devastating hurricane Hugo, that wreaked havoc in Montserrat in the summer of 1989. It was the morning after we got there. When we landed at the main John A. Osborne Airport, after riding in the belly of a British C110 aircraft out of Barbados, we were dumbfounded. I tried to hold ‘my own’ but it came gushing out in torrents of tears after my editor (a tall, hulk of a man), Timothy Slinger, began crying. It was a horrifying sight. The Island was in a mess. It looked like there was an island-wide fire. Everything was brown. There were no leaves on any tree. Nothing was in place. Cars and
household furnishings were scattered in the valleys. People walked the roads aimlessly. I immediately began shooting pictures. When I returned to Barbados with my pictures, the front page picture in our newspaper was with a little boy – maybe 10 years old – sitting on a threethreaded concrete stair, with nothing behind him. He was digging, with his hands, hard coconut jelly, from a coconut that had blown off a tree during the storm. That was his breakfast. He told us that where he was sitting was his home. There was nothing but the concrete steps remaining. The blue horizon framed his background. We drove from the airport into the capital of Plymouth, behind a frontend loader that was lifted by helicopter off a British ship. The machine was pushing
Where are the ideas of the... (From page 4) with Constitutional Reform are dying, despite $80M being budgeted for same. It is not by any stroke of brilliance that Anil Nandalall had accused Nagamootoo of trying to railroad Constitutional Reform by virtue of Nagamootoo presenting a ‘Constitutional Reform Consultative Bill’ to parliament. A few days ago while addressing the gathering on the theme, ‘Constitutional Reform-to court brave change or to leave well enough alone’ Anil while expressing his lack of desire for CR as not being synonymous with the PPP, is fully aware that his sentiment is shared by the entire leadership of his party. Anil is aware of the liberties, the present constitution gives to politicians in power, having been there. Nagamootoo having arrived there, now feels compelled to filibuster by advocating a ‘Constitutional Reform Consultative Bill’ having previously given the UNDP the assurance that he was interested in Constitutional Re-
form. The reality check is that none of the politicians wants Constitutional Reform. While the coalition is enjoying the ride, the PPP/C is basking in the sun, identifying and exposing the flaws of the Coalition and laughing at the cries of the Coalition’s supporters-some of them are uttering that even while the PPP/C enriched themselves at the expense of the people, ‘things were better’. They (the PPP/ C ) f a n c y t h e i r chances of getting back in power with the same cons t i t u t i o n i n 2 0 2 0 . Anil Nandalall finished his speech by asserting that ‘The need for constitutional compliance trumps the need for constitutional reforms’. Ludicrous! Where is the safeguard mechanism in the constitution to ensure compliance by the executive? Rudolph Singh
the boulders out of the way, to make the roads accessible. That was my first trip to Montserrat. Then in 1995, the previously dormant Soufrière Hills volcano, in the southern part of the island, came alive. Because of my previous affinity with the island, I was assigned to cover that story. I would visit that island several
times between 1995 and 2000. I was there when the initial major eruption happened and claimed its first victims – some farmers who ventured beyond the safe zone to take care of their cattle. The constant belching of plumes of ash and sulfur would eventually make the southern parts of the Island inhabitable. I saw as twothirds of the island’s popula-
tion was forced to flee, some to surroundings islands but most to the UK. The United Kingdom lays claim to the Island. There were fewer than 1,200 people left on the island. Today the numbers are slowly creeping up. No doubt these recent spate hurricanes will retard that momentum. I have lived in Barbados and have
been a witness to several hurricanes and tropical depressions. And with the latest uptick in these destructive weather patterns, I am wondering if life in the Caribbean will not make a formidable turn? Could it be that if the globe continues to warm – which is a catalyst for the (Continued on page 6)
We need to become more conversant with our history Dear Editor, I refer to Kingsley Williams’ letter, “A question for Ravi Dev” (KN (9-21-17) referencing my letter where I asked, “Can the Indian Guyanese speak for justice?” Mr Williams cited Preambles #4 and 8 of Ordinance 21 of 1850, which confirmed Indian indentured servants “ shall be entitled to a free passage back to India” after 5 years “service” and further, if “desirous to commute his right to a free passage for the value of land to the amount of the cost of such passage, and the Governor shall see fit to grant to such immigrant out of the Crown lands of the colony, a piece or parcel of land equal in value, at the upset price of Crown lands, to the amount of the cost of such return passage, such immigrant shall have the same in lieu of his right to a free passage.” Mr Williams’ question was why, as I had written “Of the 163,964 Indian immigrants that remained in Guyana, a mere 2,653 (1.6%) exchanged their return passage for land”? I want to compliment Mr Williams for his query because I really believe if we become more conversant with our history, we can create a Guyanese reality and narrative that give each group an “equal place” in our land. Firstly, Mr Williams’
citations debunk the claim by some that Indian immigrants were “pampered” by the planters and “given” free land. The minuscule acreage acquired by them via this route was in EXCHANGE for the cost of a passage back to India they were owed through the terms of their indentureship. As I demonstrated, the value of the land for the exchange was on the average half of what the passage would have cost. It is important to note that the “exchange” clause was inserted after indentureship from India was suspended in 1848 after a mere three years. In 1847 however, the exslaves’ strike for higher wages after a 25% reduction, was broken by the 15,747 Portuguese, 12,898 West Indian (mainly Barbadians), 8,692 Indian and 6,957 African indentured brought in to work for the lower wages. The Planter-dominated legislature wanted to impress the Indian Government to re-open immigration and also to sweeten the recruiters’ inducement because the other sources were dwindling and uncertain. Matters had become desperate for sugar interests, because by 1848, more than half of the 83,545 freed slaves had departed to the villages they formed, after purchasing abandoned estates. While
these experienced workers could outperform the indentureds, they worked on their own schedule and sugar production had fallen by 40%. The planters, on the other hand, wanted a cheap labour force they could control totally because of the demands of sugar production. Indian indentureship resumed in 1851. But the reality was always quite different from the promises on the indentured contract. On Mr Williams’ specific question, Mr Mohammed Shabudeen, in his book “From Plantocracy to Nationalisation” has this to say on exchanging return passages for land; “here the idea had been around since 1850, but its implementation started only in the 1860s, and then with the almost absurd suggestion that a portion of the somewhat “gelatinous territory” at Plantation Best, West Coast Demerara, be allocated in one-acre grants.” In his footnote, Shabudeen noted, “…the provisions were not acted upon and were omitted from subsequent ordinances.” Carl
Greenidge, in his book “Empowering a Peasantry in a Caribbean Context: the case of land settlement Schemes in Guyana (1865-1985)” agreed with Shahabudeen and suggested, “Presumably this was the case because it was not seen as being of any special benefit to sugar.” In fact, Ordinance 22 of 1856 tried another tackle; it allowed the planters to reindenture the immigrant for a bounty payment. In 1863, Immigrant Agent-General James Crosby proposed villages be established for non-returning Indian immigrants but it was not until 1871, when the De Vouex Commission was inquiring into the conditions of India immigrants, that Plantation Nooten Zuil, ECD was identified. But as with Plantation Best, the condition of the land was deemed unsuitable and there were no takers. Between 1880 and 1903, the above-mentioned land was exchanged but by the following year all the settlements were dubbed as ‘failures’. Ravi Dev
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Some policy proposals of my government going into 2020 Dear Editor, As someone who regularly engages in discussions on economics, I usually have to re-emphasise that scarcity or induced poverty is often a consequence of poor government regulation and policy. I have put together a broad sketch of some of the policies my government would be implementing within the first year of our administration to engage the public in discussion. These have, for the most part been kept brief. 1. Water & Electricity The Guyana Water Inc.
will be responsible for preparing and submitting information regarding unserved areas. They will also develop and implement a plan for addressing the availability of potable water. Concerns about electricity supply and cost will be addressed as a matter of urgency, with a more clinical approach to addressing needs and resource utilisation mechanisms. 2. Health & Education The Ministries of Health & Education will be tasked with identifying weaknesses in their service delivery, and making proposals to address
those weaknesses. For example, much more needs to be done to address the performance of students at the ‘Common Entrance’ or National Grade Six Examinations. 3. Public Servants’ Wages & Salaries The wages and salaries of our public servants have taken a drubbing for in excess of two decades, and will be brought to the front burner immediately. Public service union leaders can therefore look forward to making proposals on public servants’ salaries because I have some which
This Public Relations Officer is a poor performer Dear Editor, I have observed a few letters appearing in the dailies under the signature of the Public Relation’s Officer of the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown as she ostensibly attempts the uncomfortable task of defending the incompetence, inanity and treachery of her colleagues at City Hall and the absolute man-made disaster they are creating for the citizens of Georgetown. But her responses at best are evasive, disingenuous and misleading but that may be because she is just writing what she is told to write without properly researching the facts, does not understand the questions and concerns being raised or prefers to condone and champion the wrongdoings of her colleagues within the Council. In response to concerns expressed about harassment of Cuban shoppers, rather than addressing the distress of these and other visitors to Guyana, she goes into a long winded, nonsensical and extraneous epistle about how old
the City Constabulary is, and the privileges it enjoys in theory because of some archaic laws. That is irrelevant and of no interest to Guyanese or visitors to our country. There are police units all over the world, some which are older than the City Constabulary which is just as renowned for their brutality, corruption and carrying out of the paranoid whims of immoral and tyrannical leaders, such as the Tonton Macoutes, the Frumentarii, the Oprichniki, etc. She is running away from the fact that the Constabulary has no responsibility for immigration and thus should not be harassing any visitor to our country, and that their ‘supposed authority’ ends at Cummings Lodge on the East Coast and at Agricola on the East Bank, and therefore should not be armed and working at residences in Diamond, etc. The PRO is under the delusion that the image of the Georgetown Municipality is merely fragile. She could not be serious. Someone should tell this lady that the Council has the worst public image pos-
sible and has been viewed that way for a number of years, because of allegations of corruption, nepotism, draconian taxation, incompetence, etc. But the biggest joke contained in her correspondence is that persons should call City Hall to report wrongdoings committed by their staffers. Are they blind, deaf and operating in some kind of bubble at City Hall? Could Ms. Lewis say what was done about the Canadian national that was ‘aggressively assaulted’ by ranks of the City Constabulary a while back at City Hall? I speak of the lady that was invited to Guyana’s shores by the Ministry of Social Protection to develop a social empowerment programme for girls and women, and who was assaulted by four female officers of the city constabulary when she took her son to the City Council for a meeting with the then M a y o r, a n d w h o w a s punched in the face, kicked about the body and dragged half naked through City Hall Compound as they had ripped off her underwear and pants until she became unconscious and ended up with two perforated discs, a hairline fracture to the hip, and bruises and lacerations about her body. Shanta Singh
I am confident will stir interest. 4. Rice & Sugar Discussions will be held with representatives of the rice sector to address bottlenecks within the sector. Greater supervision will be made available to ensure rice farmers are fairly treated. The problems in the sugar industry should have been addressed long ago, and will be brought to a closure sooner than later. I intend to have sugar workers, who left or were released from 2010, which I think is an appropriate cut-off point, for inclusion. Failing any firm agreements which will involve the union regarding privatisation, I have already drafted some proposals which include the distribution of land to sugar workers along with a financial compensation package. The distribution of land will fall within a larger policy support framework for
those receiving these lands. 5. Gold Mining Within the gold mining sector, it is my opinion that in the absence of stronger policing systems, royalties and other punitive charges need to be reduced to improve official gold declarations, and encourage investment and job creation within the sector. 6. Investment, Job Creation & General Private Sector Matters Foreign investors have the potential to significantly accelerate Guyana’s development prospects, and in this regard, GO-INVEST will be further strengthened, with greater efforts being extended to marketing Guyana abroad in an effort to attract investor attention. A public/private panel will be set up which will focus on local private sector concerns regarding investment, job creation and general matters that concern private sector expansion. Also to be covered
here is infrastructural development. 7. Taxation It is public knowledge that I consider the recent applications of VAT in the 2017 budget ridiculous. These will be repealed if the current administration does not do so by 2020. Further efforts will be paid to seeing how VAT can be scaled back. Some mechanism will be also put in place to lower income taxes generally, and an investigation into the appropriateness of having a lower flat tax for businesses will be made. General reductions in tax rates will follow increased government revenues which are expected to flow from the policy matrix government implements after consultations with various stakeholders. Reductions are also subject to infrastructural demands. Craig Sylvester
Suggestions for finding work for City Hall’s huge workforce Dear Editor Watching the aftermath and devastating consequences of recent hurricanes in our region, including Hurricane Maria (the fourth named storm since Irma) and well aware of the significant overstaffing and complete bankruptcy of the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown, I would like to make a proposition that would ‘kill two flightless birds with one giant stone’ as they say here in Guyana. With thousands of Caribbean people including a significant number of Guyanese with no shelter, clothing, food or water. With animals stranded and pets abandoned and left behind. With many buildings flattened, roads ripped up, bridges damaged and other public infrastructure destroyed there is an urgent need for engineers, architects, surveyors, draughtsmen, public health workers, plumbers, electricians, masons, carpenters, tinsmiths, labourers, mechanics, welders, painters, crane and excavator operators, landscapers, security officers
etc., all of which the Georgetown Municipality has. I would therefore like to suggest that the City Council sends roughly half of its approximately 1,000 workers to the islands to help with the rebuilding of the services and structures needed for people in order for them to resume some semblance of ordinary life in places such as Cuba, St Kitts & Nevis, Dominica, St. Maarten, and Barbuda. In this way, these employees would have meaningful work to do for the next couple of years as currently they are not provided with tools nor
materials to work, and if funding could be obtained from international organisations to pay their salaries whilst they are rebuilding these countries infrastructure it would save the City Council tens of millions of dollars each month, the savings which they could use to pay off their creditors including the garbage contractors. Of course, Pat and Roy who we all know love to travel, could travel between these islands ferrying supplies, supervising their workers and providing nursing care and PR services. Sambu Jacobus
W ith hur ricane hit... hurricane (From page 5) most deadly and destructive storms – the islands will (like Montserrat), become sparsely populated? The Bible speaks of an eventual disappearance of Islands, can this be a foretaste? Guyana – if only because of our sizable land mass and English language – can well become a saviour to the Caribbean residents. We need to begin to think in these terms. We were long the laughing stock of the Caribbean, however, our new found brush with oil wealth and the prevailing and pre-
dicted weather patterns, might very well position us as a proverbial “rejected stone” that becomes the “head of the corner”. Of course, we can benefit from the mental acumen and the entrepreneurial skills of our fellow Caribbean sisters and brothers. We can benefit from their assistance particularly in the areas of tourism and offshore investments. Maybe, there should be a nonpartisan committee established to begin to explore ways of offering Islanders terms and packages that will lure them to Guyana, as financial investors. I think that we need to strike the nail while it is hot. There is a proverb which says, “He is wise who does now what he will eventually be asked to do.” Pastor Wendell Jeffrey
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Greed is groovy
The Americans parade their rich and successful; we tear ours apart. The Americans worship material achievement; we idolise service without reward. To grasp this reality just study this newspaper’s column on ‘Special Persons’ in our society. This column appears every Sunday. The persons chosen are invariably those who have been said to have given back to society more than what they have taken out of it. The Americans, however make no such pretence: wealth accumulation is the benchmark of personal success. In the heart of capitalism, the more you have; the better. But while the rich are making their zillions, the poor
have to be made contented with their crumbs. Thus, they are sold the view that being poor is virtuous. This deceives the poor into not upsetting the status quo, thereby allowing the rich greater freedom to continue to make untold riches which the poor satisfy themselves with the virtue of serving others for the pure joy of doing this. Capitalism is however built upon the virtue of greed. Greed is good; greed is what drives wealth creation and provides competition. This competition allows for all; both rich and poor, to benefit. Competition drives down prices, allows for expansion, which in turn creates more jobs and provides incentives for further innovation to
reduce prices and thus provides more benefits. Greed is good for all then. This is the creed of capitalism. But it is the creed that applies only to the rich, for the poor are encouraged to accept their lot. All kinds of spectacles and entertainment are provided so as to conceal and suppress the fact that they are being exploited and used as cogs to make the rich get richer. They are also encouraged to see what they do as something good. They are encouraged to give. “Ask not what America can do for you, but what you can do for America.” And the poor swallow this line, hook and sinker. They even begin to believe in the service to others.
Guyana closer to signing improved policy deal with EU for forestry exports Guyana is inching closer to signing an agreement that will help local and foreign companies exporting forest products, secure better markets within the European Union. Guyana has, for a number of years, been involved in negotiations with European Union on the Forest Law and Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT). The country has taken steps towards signing a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) which will be essential for the establishment of adequate framework to increase the level of sustainability and transparency as it relates to the country’s forest exports. Officials associated with the EU FLEGT Programme provided an update on the progress towards signing the
VPA during a media workshop held at the Savannah Suite of the Pegasus Hotel, yesterday. During a power point presentation, facilitator of the workshop, Mona Bynoe, reiterated that the VPA is a key element of the EU’s Forest Law and Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan. It would facilitate increased market access for Guyana’s timber into the lucrative EU market. Officers attached to Forest Products’ Association of Guyana believe that signing the VPA on the EU Forest Laws will help local industry align themselves with proper business practices. “The local forestry sector will improve itself by implementing government policies for compliances with
National Insurance Scheme, (NIS) Guyana Revenue Authority, (GRA) and other local authorities.” Giving an update on the progress on the EU FLEGT Programme, Guyana Forestry Commission’s official, Kenny David noted that the work has been ongoing as it regards signing on the VPA. According to David, several of the criteria set by the EU have been covered including Annexe/Field testing and baseline study/ consultation exercises geared towards updating stakeholders on the progress. At present, he said that there are a few steps to be completed before Guyana can sign the deal. He emphasised the EU FLEGT agreement has passed through phases of (continued on page 11)
Dem boys seh...
Jagdeo on de cussing spree again Yesterday Jagdeo, that scamp, call dem reporters fuh talk to dem. He tell dem how he got a hard time getting de Waterfalls paper to lie like he. And is not fuh de want of trying. This is a man who does lie about everything and de Waterfalls paper expose all. If de truth walk up and slap ee in ee face ee gun seh is a lie. Whenever he get corner he does try to insult and belittle people. He does do that every day. A reporter challenge him on his statements regarding the new Demerara Bridge and instead of responding to the issue he tell de reporter how he sounding just like Patterson.
When de reporter ask he wha Patterson sound like, he tell de boy fuh ask he mudda. Another reporter ask him bout de millions of dollars in drugs he best friend get pay for and never deliver. Jagdeo twist he mouth, skin he eyes, tun sideways because he couldn’t watch de reporter in he face, and seh is lie. When de reporter show him de Auditor General reporter he seh de findings in de report is also lie. When de reporter ask him how de Auditor General can lie, he seh de man use to wuk wid he and I teach him good. Dem boys seh anything fuh Babbie, Jagdeo would defend wid all his might
because Babbie is just a front fuh him. Is billions missing and is billions Babbie handling fuh him. Jagdeo and Babbie is de two richest men in de region and if people ask him he gun seh that’s a lie. This same Jagdeo is a man who don’t drink, don’t smoke and don’t foke. When people question him about dem three things he does seh is a lie. This is a man who does see de dark side of life fuh people, and only de bright side fuh he and Babbie. De same man does stand up in ee own shadow and wonder why it’s dark. Talk half and find anybody who can seh Jagdeo talk one truth in he whole life.
The poor are encouraged to give and give and give and the more they give, the less they receive while the less the rich give the more they receive. As a result of these diametrically opposed processes, a form of class division results. The rich get richer and the poor become poorer. But this too is suppressed by selling to the poor, the notion that everyone can one day become rich. The poor swallow this pill too and the very poor man follows his own pipe dream. While they are chasing rainbows, the rich are smiling all the way to the bank. The poor are encouraged to believe that if they work hard, if they make the necessary sacrifices that they, too, can one day become as prosperous as the rich man. In the rich countries, it is easier for a man to believe this. But in poor countries, there are limited resources and thus there is competition for these limited resources. This competition does not leave everyone better off; instead it creates a gaping gap between the rich and the poor which becomes starker. This in turn leads to two symptoms. The first is mimicry. Everyone wants to be like the rich man. They see what the rich man has and they think that if they only do as the rich man does, that they too can become rich. So the rich man is the shop man or so people feel. They have not seen his bottom line, just his shelves.
They think he has a fat bankbook, but they do not know about his overdraft. So wanting to become a shopkeeper, they forget about working for others and see the measure of their independence as working for themselves even if it is in a four by eight contraption that is a shack. They see it as a ‘shop’ or the even the ‘store’. They stock this shop by purchasing on credit, and they sit all day waiting on the sales to come. Mimicry does not work in small societies. It creates self delusion – individuals believe that they have become a man or a woman when they no longer have to hold down a steady job, when they can sit all day in their shop, never mind all that is selling is a few cigarettes and mints, trying to make enough to repay the wholesalers from whom they purchase. And in this shaky business of mimicry, they still can muster the sense that sitting all day waiting for a sale that they have arrived; they have achieved status; they are self-employed and even if their store is a knocked-up shack made of a few odd pieces of plywood, it is still their own, their business. The second reaction that competition for limited resources creates is a culture of pulling down the rich. And this is very much evident in Guyana. Those envious of the rich try to justify their own lack of accomplishment by pulling down the rich. They do so by suggesting that the rich have become prosperous through ill-gotten means.
How often do we not see this in Guyana? A man builds a fancy house and the rumours are rife that he is into something underhand. A person works his way from rags to riches and instead of us worshipping that person’s success, the person is pulled down; his fame is ridiculed and his good name tarnished. The man is pulled down in the eyes of the public. He is seen as a target for attack. Rather than celebrating that person’s luck, tact, skill or the political and social connections that have allowed that person to make an easy profit, we try to pull that person down. If we say that capitalism is about making money and if we say that capitalism is good does it not follow that so long as what a man acquires is through honest means, even if it is an easy profit, that we should be happy for that man? Should greed not be groovy to every aspiring capitalist even if he has bought something for $1M and sold it for $40M? Or do we prefer for that man to sit all day in a shop and sell a few mints and chewing gum and make a $2 profit? Which is the better role model? The one who is greedy and makes a huge profit? Or the one who is also greedy and makes a small profit?
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=== The Freddie Kissoon column ===
There is a colossal, psychic breakdown in Guyana The tragedy of the rape/ murder of Leonard Archibald has struck this nation like a gargantuan hurricane, something we have never witnessed in this country. Guyanese everywhere is talking about this act of heinous insanity. In as much as we revolt against what happened to this innocent, little child, we must not forget other uncivilized ravages that have been perpetrated on this nation the past two years, some of which need mentioning.
Burglars invaded a Berbice home, looted the place and set it on fire, killing a mother while her son escaped. One of the accused while entering the court was waving to his relatives and laughing. A group in Berbice burglarized the home of a shopkeeper in his seventies and chopped him and his wife to death; while the victims were bleeding to death the invaders were eating and drinking. Over on West Coast
Demerara, robbers couldn’t get into the bedroom of a couple that was in their seventies. They burnt the home down killing the elderly folks. From media reports, it appears that gunmen went into a home, robbed the occupants and when leaving sprayed the victims with bullets. One occupant is dead, another is critical. The question that everyone asked is; why do that when you robbed the people? If they come behind you, then fear of getting caught could cause you to fire but not shooting at the people at random in their home. In Monday’s KN edition, when I analyzed the Leonard Archibald tragedy, I argued
that we see gruesome crimes in large industrialized societies where because the society breeds alienation, people freak out and do horrible things. A majority of Third World societies do not experience that kind of intense alienation. Is something deadly wrong with the nationality known as Guyanese? Passersby were walking on a New York street and saw a person sawing off the head of a person. It was a Guyanese man who killed his wife. Robert Simmel was one of the defence lawyers mafia figures turned to. He was good. Simmel took the case of a Guyanese drug trafficker and that was the end of him. He was given a dozen years for witness tampering. A British woman who worked in the Foreign Office in London committed suicide on her holiday in Berbice two weeks ago. Who knows; maybe she vacationed in many other parts of the Caricom region. But she died on holiday in Guyana. Here is an interesting piece of statistics taken from the August 11, 2017 edition of the New York Times with
the caption; “In little Guyana, proposed cuts to family immigration weigh heavily.” This is what the Times reported, “Foreign-born Guyanese people make up a tiny share of the United States
Frederick Kissoon as a whole — just over 280,000 people in 2015, or 0.09 percent of the total population.” What is the importance of that little piece of information? It tells the story of the psychic breakdown of a nation of people known as Guyanese. We constitute 0.09 percent of the US population. That is, Guyanese born in the US. Now check the statistics on crime, suicide, road accidents, family dispute and other negative among that 0.09 percent and compare them with Greeks, Nigerians, South Koreans, Pakistanis and other nationalities who were born in the US. You will see per capita, that the negatives are higher among
Guyanese. Do you know what 0.09 percent means in a population of 324,459,463 million— the number of Americans in the US in 2017? Guyanese born in the US constitute a mere speck on the US landscape. Yet we are always in the news for the wrong reasons. There is a difference, of course, between Guyanese in the US and Guyanese living here. We here are not subject to the mental pressures people in post-modern societies have to put up with. Yet look at the bestialities and sadism. Something is wrong with this nation. Something is wrong with the nationality known as Guyanese. What could it be? We have to be careful when we accept the monocausal methodology. There could be more than one cause. Several factors could explain this descent into nihilism. I think we should start with leadership. Space will not allow for an elaboration but my mind goes back to President Hoyte. Hoyte let this society know that he was in charge, he had a programme and an agenda, and he was not tolerating crime, incompetence, skulking, indiscipline etc. The society felt that it had a no nonsense leader that was prepared to stop the rut in Guyana. His message filtered down to the entire country.
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Gunmen kill dredge held hostage owner …workers for eight hours
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Eight “Spanish-speaking” gunmen shot and killed a 36year-old Brazilian dredge owner about 500 meters from his Akaiwanna, Cuyuni, Region Seven mining camp, hours after they held several of his workers hostage and raided his camp. The dead man has been identified as Antonio Da Silva. His body bore several gunshot wounds. According to information received, some time between 17:45hrs on Tuesday and
02:00hrs yesterday, a gang of about six to eight men, armed with rifles and handguns attacked the mining camp. They reportedly bound the owner and his workers and ransacked the camp. Reports are that the gunmen even washed down the daily production after which the bandits reportedly took the dredge owner a distance from the camp and killed him. A team of policemen went to the area yesterday to launch an investigation.
Duo freed after man they chopped refuses to testify Two persons who were accused of attacking a vendor and chopping him in the head with a cutlass and cuffing him to the abdomen, were freed on a wounding charge on Tuesday, after the victim who was seen with several stitches refused to offer evidence against them. Osmond Brummell, 31, of Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown and Jenel Walters, 20, a vendor, of Castello Housing Scheme, Georgetown appeared before Principal Magistrate, Judy Latchman both denied the charge which alleged that on September 18, at Cross and Hadfield Streets, Georgetown, they unlawfully and maliciously wounded Wesley Payne. Initially, they were granted bail to the tune of $150,000 each. However, the charge against them was dismissed after Payne stood before the Magistrate and expressed his desire not to proceed with the matter. During his brief time in the witness box, Payne told Police Prosecutor, Shawn
Jenel Walters
Gonsalves that he was not forced or threatened to make the decision and that it was of his own free will. According to Payne, one of his attacker’s relatives was robbed and they suspected that he had information about who the robbers were and refused to speak. Prosecutor, Shawn Gonsalves said that on the VEHICLE FOR SALE day in question, Payne was Allion, Primo, Fielder Wagon, Spacio, Bluebird, seated at his stand when he 212 Carina, NZE, Honda was approached by Brummell CRV, Toyota IST, RZ & Pit- and Walters. An argument ensued between the parties, bull – Call: 650-7501 during which, Brummell Toyota Allion: AC,TV, alarm, whipped out a cutlass and magrims, reverse camera. In dealt Payne a chop to the excellent condition $1.7M- head. Walters then began Call: 639-2490 cuffing the man to his Mercedes Benz 2009 C200. abdomen. Immaculate Condition- Call 616-5933 One black 4 door Raptor for sale 2013 year- Call: 6707920 1 Mack Truck- Call: 2271245, 225-0680, 225-06811
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PI into shooting of ‘John Man falls from scaffold, Kirby’ to close today dies hours later
The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the shooting of Martin Atwell, also known as ‘John Kirby’ is expected to close today with the prosecution recalling its final witness, Police Lance Corporal (Detective) Rodwell Chapman, to give further testimony. Former policeman Lloyd Lyte, 43, is currently out on $150,000 bail for the offence which alleges that on November 14, 2016, he discharged a loaded firearm at Atwell, with intent to murder him. Based on reports, Atwell was standing outside the ‘Wings and Things’ bar, on Mandela Avenue, Georgetown when an argument ensued between him and Lyte. Police said the row started after Atwell refused to remove some beer bottles he placed on the trunk of Lyte’s vehicle. It is alleged that after the argument, the ex-cop went into the bar, but Atwell followed him, pulled out a firearm and shot at him. The man immediately drew his licensed handgun and discharged several rounds at Atwell, hitting him in the chest and abdomen. When the PI continued yesterday before Magistrate Judy Latchman, Lance Corporal Chapman who is stationed at the Grove Police Station, was called to testify by Police Prosecutor Vishnu Hunt. Lance Corporal Chapman testified to receiving a file with statements in relation to the matter. The file, Lance Corporal Chapman said, contained a statement from former Police Constable Anthony Primo,
CHARGED: Lloyd Lyte who is now permanently residing overseas. The statement was tendered in court by the police witness. The statement was admitted to form part of the prosecution’s evidence after Magistrate Latchman overruled objections from Attorney-at-Law Satesh Kissoon, who is representing Lyte. Also testifying were Police Constables Leandre Gillis and Devon Timmerman, who are both stationed at the Brickdam Police Station and attached to the Court Superintendent Office. Constable Gillis testified to unsuccessful efforts he made to serve a summons on former Police Constable Primo. According to Constable Timmerman, he listened to radio messages sent via the National Communication Network (NCN) radio for Primo to attend court. On Tuesday Superintendent of Police Phillip Azore, who is also stationed at the Brickdam
Police Station, was called to testify during which he told the court that he has received training in gun powder residue both locally and in the Caribbean. He said that he has examined over 300 samples of gunpowder residue. Earlier on in the PI, Atwell testified that prior to the shooting he was drinking Double Black whisky at the bar and feeling nice. Also testifying was Police Constable Kevis Thomas, who is stationed at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Headquarters, Eve Leary, Georgetown and attached to the Crime Laboratory. According to the police witness, he carried out a gun powder residue examination on Atwell. In May, Atwell, who is said to be a father of 30, was released on $200,000 bail after he pleaded not guilty to a charge which alleged that he attempted to pervert the course of justice. Particulars of that charge alleged that Atwell, 45, of Lot 374 East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, Georgetown contacted Hurst Simons to give false information to police. The offence allegedly occurred on May 15 at Georgetown. Court facts indicate that on the day in question, Simons dropped off Atwell’s son, Jose Atwell at his destination. However, after Jose disembarked the vehicle, Simons upon checking found a loaded firearm in the seat in which Jose was sitting. Jose has been charged for being in possession of an illegal 9mm pistol and 14 rounds of ammunition.
Guyana is moving rapidly to phase out mercury use President David Granger, has travelled to Geneva, Switzerland for the first Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Minamata Convention, where he intends to reassure the international community that Guyana will not only reduce its use of mercury in the mining industry, but will work to eliminate the practice. In an interview in New York, the President said that Guyana takes the protection of its environment very seriously and has been working to reduce the use of the deadly chemical. However, the Head of State said that it is time for firmer action to be taken to prevent environmental degradation and loss of human lives. “I think that it is very
important because the reckless use of mercury could be harmful to the population and, of course, it can cause damage that would last a very long time. It is my intention not just to reduce, but to eliminate the use of mercury in the mining industry. “It is time for all Guyanese to wake up to the danger. We have had a mining industry in Guyana for maybe over a century and a quarter, but people have been very reckless and my visit to Switzerland is, of course, concerned with reassuring the international community that Guyana wishes to cooperate with it in order to bring this sort of environmental damage to an end,” the President said.
Guyana signed on to the Convection in October 2013, which aims to reduce the risks of mercury around the world. Switzerland is working to locate the convention’s secretariat in Geneva, which is already a centre of expertise in hazardous chemical products and wastes. According to the Convention’s website, the objective of the Minamata Convention is to protect humans and the environment around the world from mercury emissions caused by human activities. The agreement regulates the use of this heavy metal in manufacturing processes and products, the reduction of emissions and the management of mercurycontaining wastes.
Krishna Balwant Diaram, 43, of Vryheids Lust, East Coast of Demerara was at his work site at Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara, around 08:30am when he went up a scaffold that was approximately 10 feet high when he fell. He was at the time ‘loosing down a column’ for a client, at the back of Grand Coastal. He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where he later sucuumbed to his injuries. Diaram died from an aneurysm, which is the result of a burst blood vessel in the brain causing brain haemorrhage. The man reportedly told his 22-year old son, Tishaun Diaram, that he had a headache. He was eventually told to come down. On his way down, relatives recalled that he hit his head after he would have slipped on the scaffold. This resulted in Krishna receiving a blow to his head. The man’s son ran to his attendance. The other workers washed the man’s face and rushed him immediately to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Relatives disclosed that the man suffered from high blood pressure, as well as high cholesterol. Doctors at GPHC on Tuesday last, disclosed to relatives of the victim that ‘he bleeding too much in he head’. According to a brother of Diaram, the doctors claimed that they could do nothing. He added that the doctors even told him after the CT scan that, “Two parts in he brain burst, so how long he going, he going.”
Dead: Krishna Diaram This Newscast understands that the man had returned from the Airport and had taken his breakfast before leaving for work. Krishna was born in North Sophia and was married to Seema, the niece of Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, who showed up at the hospital on the afternoon of the incident. He was a former security guard for the Prime Minister. The man was the father of two, a boy and girl. Kaieteur News was told that the man was speaking to his son on his way to the hospital. His last words to his son were ‘take care’.
Union disappointed with Govt's response to needs of public ... From page 12 Public Service improvements that have to do with the creation of conditions which will impact on the long-term quality of the lives of its members at all levels of the service. These conditions must also impact their families and improve the quality of service provided in the public interest and ultimately national development. The GPSU head listed some issues which he believes should be treated with urgency. For this Union, some issues are in the nature of emergencies; for example, eradicating the notion of the contract employees in the permanent establishment of the Public Service which still exists. Yarde emphasised that re-
alistic increases in allowances which are ridiculously low and in many cases unchanged for over two decades need urgent attention. The GPSU President recalled the empty promises made by the Minister of Finance. “Here I must mention the empty promise made to the GPSU in 2015 by the Minister of Finance Winston Jordan and which was also repeated in his presentation in Parliament in the 2015 Budget. “The ridiculously low allowances paid to public servants would be addressed urgently, Jordan had said. To date, this has not happened; that commitment has not been honoured. “Isn't there anything that we were told that we can have
confidence in? Is there anyone that we can trust their word? Is there no feeling of shame? Is it that we are still being subjected to the same blatant barefaced experiences of the previous PPP/C regime? I certainly hope not,” said Yarde. The GPSU head therefore advocated for an early return to formal, periodic dialogue between the Union and Government. “This dialogue must be serious, it must be sustained, it must be agenda-driven and it must be underpinned by an environment of goodwill robust enough to withstand the challenges of industrial disputes, even work stoppages. Above everything else, it must be decision-oriented.”
UG receives radio licence after ... From page 18 receive the transmitter to become operational in April 2018. Total cost for establishing the Radio Station is US$75,000. However, the Deputy VC stated that the Communications Centre already has equipment thereby decreasing the cost. Chairman of the GNBA, Leslie Sobers, noted that the GNBA took pride in reissuing UG's Radio License. He added that in the future, once the University meets all the requirements, its
Television Broadcast License will be granted. Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ivelaw Griffith, thanked a number of persons, instrumental in the re-issuance of the licence, including President David Granger, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo the Ministry and Minister of Public Telecommunications, and the Guyana National Data Management Authority (GNBA) among others. The radio station sgould be housed in the proposed University of Guyana's Yucatan Centre for Green-
ing Research, Information, and Sustainability (CeGRIS), while the proposed name for the station is the 'Golden Arrow Community Broadcasting System'.
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Body of suspected rape victim washed up at Foulis foreshore The partly decomposed body of a woman, suspected to have been sexually molested, was discovered at the Foulis, East Coast Demerara (ECD) foreshore around 21:30 hrs on Wednesday. The victim, who appeared to be in her late 30s
is of mixed race, brown in complexion and about five feet, five inches in height. Kaieteur News was informed that when the body was discovered, the victim’s blue jeans and light blue underwear were pulled to her knees while her blue top was above her
breast. The police found a yellow metal chain around the victim’s neck, a pair of multi-coloured slippers and a burgundy cloth hammock were discovered near the body. It was discovered by a fisherman.
Taxi driver charged for sexually assaulting 7- year- old girl A taxi driver who was hired by the parents of a seven year old child to take her to and from an Islamic school, yesterday found himself in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts for allegedly fondling the seven year old. Thirty-six-year-old Anansuarundin Khan of Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara was arraigned before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman where he denied the charge which alleged that between June 1 and June 30 he engaged in sexual activity with a child under the age of sixteen. The man was represented by Attorney-at-Law Sase Gunraj who asked that his client be released on reasonable bail. Police Inspector Vishnu
Charged Anansuarundin Khan Hunt had no objection to bail being granted to the defendant but asked that it be in a substantial amount. According to information the taxi driver
was hire by the child parent to carry her to school and take her home. It was while the defendant was taking her home he stop the vehicle and zip down her pants and fondle her private parts. The child upon her arrival home complained to her mother. The mother then went and reported the matter to the police and the defendant was arrested and charged for the offence. Magistrate Latchman ordered to the defendant to post bail in the sum of $ 150,000. He was instructed to make his next court appearance on October 5 where he will appear before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts for assignment.
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Trump vows another healthcare vote next year, eyes executive order WA S H I N G T O N (Reuters) - President Donald Trump, faced with the latest Republican failure to undo Obamacare, pledged yesterday to tackle it again n e x t y e a r, s u g g e s t i n g without evidence that he had the votes to pass reform and promising to work with Democrats in the meantime. Trump told reporters at the White House that he also was working on an executive order, possibly to be signed next week that would allow individuals to buy health insurance across state lines. Senate Republicans abandoned their latest effort to repeal former President
Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act on Tuesday after failing to secure sufficient support from fellow Republicans. Trump said there would be another vote on healthcare in the first few months of 2018. He said he would work with Democrats to make the effort more bipartisan. Democrats strongly oppose repealing and replacing Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement.”I am ... going to meet with Democrats and I will see if I can get a healthcare plan that’s even better,” Trump said. “So I will negotiate with Democrats, but from
the Republican standpoint, we have the votes. We’ll vote in January, February or March.” Trump did not explain the discrepancy between his conviction that the votes were there and the fact that not enough Republican senators supported the latest bill, forcing Republican leaders to scrap plans to hold a vote. Republicans control the Senate by a 52-48 margin. The bill’s sponsors vowed to try again but face steeper odds after Saturday, when special rules expire that allow them to pass healthcare legislation without Democratic support.
South Africa anti-Zuma protests harden ANC succession divides
Puerto Rico seeks waiver of shipping restrictions to speed hurricane relief SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Puerto Rico officials pressed the Trump administration yesterday to lift a ban on foreign shipping between American ports as the U.S. island territory struggled with fuel, water and medical supply shortages one week after Hurricane Maria struck. Even as federal emergency management authorities and the U.S. military stepped up relief efforts, many residents on the island of 3.4 million
people voiced exasperation at the prolonged lack of electricity, reliable drinking supplies and other essentials.Maria, the most powerful hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in nearly 90 years, swept across the island last Wednesday with roof-ripping winds, knocking out the territory’s entire power grid, unleashing severe flooding and causing widespread heavy damage to homes and infrastructure. The storm claimed more than 30 lives across the
Caribbean, including at least 16 in Puerto Rico. Governor Ricardo Rossello called the d e v a s t a t i o n a n unprecedented natural disaster. Medical experts said they were concerned about a looming public health crisis posed by the island’s crippled water and sewage treatment system. The delivery of relief supplies has been complicated by disruption of telephone service and roads still damaged by flooding or left impassable by fallen trees and debris.
People line up to buy gasoline at a gas station after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria, in San Juan, Puerto Rico last week Friday. REUTERS/Alvin Baez/File Photo
Protesters attend a demonstration organised by The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in Cape Town, South Africa yesterday. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings C A P E TOWN/JOHANNESBUR G (Reuters) - Thousands of South Africans marched in anti-corruption protests yesterday, in a rallying cry against scandal-plagued President Jacob Zuma and his powerful allies three months before a new ANC leader is chosen. The African National Congress will pick its next leader in December with Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa expected to face off against Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the former chair of the African Union and Zuma’s ex-wife. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), which has backed Ramaphosa and operates in an alliance with the ANC, led marches in major cities across South
Africa. T h o u g h t h e demonstrations were supposed to be against corruption, it became apparent protesters had come to vent their anger at Zuma and throw support behind his rivals. Throngs of protesters marched to parliament in Cape Town singing songs and waving “Zuma must go” placards, although the crowds never got close to the tens of thousands promised by COSATU. “Things are just going down under President Zuma,” textile worker Florence Titus told Reuters. “He needs to play a president’s role not just be there to fill his pockets and his family’s pockets. He must step down.” Senior members of the
ANC have also called for Zuma to quit in recent months following a swell of allegations that his friends, the Gupta family, wield undue influence over the award of state contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The Guptas and Zuma deny wrongdoing and say they are victims of a politically-motivated witchhunt. Zuma survived an attempt in parliament to force him from office in August, but was left politically wounded after some ANC members backed t h e o p p o s i t i o n ’s n o confidence motion. He can remain head of state until a parliamentary election in 2019, although the next ANC leader could edge him out next year.
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Rowley says no the IMF P O RT O F S PA I N , Trinidad - CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley says his administration will not be approaching the International Monetary Fund (IMF), despite billions of dollars in lost revenue over the last few years. Rowley was addressing the forum “Spotlight on Trinidad and Tobago’s Financial Circumstances – the Road Ahead” yesterday. The Prime Minister also said the country would not be revisiting measures used in the 1990s to control foreign exchange. “We will not be going back to the exchange controls we had in place before 1993 but we will certainly not be using up our foreign exchange reserves at levels that will maximize our imports. When we took the
Dr. Keith Rowley decision in 1993 to let the market substantially determine the rate of exchange, we were accepting in principle that we would live with any rate of foreign exchange …….In this period of significant decline in foreign exchange inflows it will be unreasonable and dangerous
to use up our foreign exchange as we were accustomed to. This would be paving our way into the arms of the IMF and that is something that government is not prepared to do.” Concerning the energy sector, in the twin island republic, the Prime minister revealed a decline in revenue of 90 percent between 2014 and 2017. He added that due to the massive drop in revenue, the public sector could suffer the consequences. “One of the main concerns is the level of p u b l i c p a y r o l l employment…. And since government revenues have declined so precipitously, it is to be expected that public sector employment would be in serious jeopardy .
Jamaica To Review Disaster Insurance Fund With CCRIF The Gleaner - Finance Minister Audley Shaw says the government will be reviewing the insurance policy with the Caribbean Catastrophe Insurance Fund (CCRIF) given the severity and frequency of natural disasters affecting the region. Shaw made the announcement while
responding to questions in Parliament Tuesday. Citing the damage sustained by several Eastern Caribbean countries in the aftermath of two powerful hurricanes in the space of a week, Shaw said there is a need for Jamaica to enhance its insurance coverage. More than a year ago Jamaica upgraded its CCRIF
policy after the country sustained massive flooding following the passage of tropical storm Erika in 2015. This after the island was unable to get a drawdown from the Fund because the country’s insurance policy did not cover damage associated with excess flooding.
Tuesday September 28, 2017
St. Kitts Nevis establishes diplomatic relations with the Lao People’s Democratic Republic BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - CMC – The Dr. Timothy Harris led administration has established diplomatic relations with the Lao P e o p l e ’s D e m o c r a t i c Republic. During a brief ceremony on the weekend, which took place at the United Nation’s Headquarters, Foreign Affairs Minister Mark Brantley and his counterpart from Laos, Saleumxay Komma s i t h , d i s c u s s e d areas for mutual cooperation in the international arena with the view of achieving global peace and security and sustainable development . Kommasith said he also looked forward to pursuing a reciprocal visa exemption agreement between both
Mark Brantley and Saleumxay Kommasith countries as soon as possible. Brantley indicated that the establishing diplomatic relations with the Lao P e o p l e ’s D e m o c r a t i c Republic was yet another manifestation of the Unity Government’s foreign policy goal of expanding the diplomatic footprint of St.
Kitts and Nevis. The administration views the establishment of diplomatic relations with Laos a small landlocked country in Southeast Asia is one significant initiative in the federation’s step to strengthen its South-South bilateral cooperation.
OECS Monetary delegation visiting Canada TORONTO, Canada CMC – A delegation from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Monetary Council has arrived here for talks with top Canadian financial institutions. The delegation is led by
St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Allen Chastanet, the chairman of the ninemember OECS sub regional grouping and includes the St. Kitts-Nevis Prime M i n i s t e r D r. Ti m o t h y Harris is as well as the Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, Timothy Antoine and senior representatives from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. “This important meeting comes as Eastern Caribbean countries continue to engage with leading financial institutions to shore up the sub-region`s monetary policies and position it as a top investment destination,” according to a statement issued by the St. Kitts-Nevis government. It sai d P r i m e Minister Harris used the occasion to h i g h l i g h t t h e “ l o n g s t a n d i n g relationship between Canadian banks and t h e E a s t e r n C a r i b b e a n ” : and also sought clarity on issues of cooperation and the need to resolve challenges in the context of an uncertain global economy. It said that among the critical issues discussed were de-risking, correspondent banking
Allen Chastanet relationships and their implications for the financial stability and growth of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). In the context of the devastation being experienced as a res ult of H urricanes Irma and M aria, the delegation als o s ought s olidarity and cooperation as the impacted Eastern Caribbean islands begin to recover and rebuild. The Canadian financial institutions, including the Royal Bank of Canada, Scotia Bank and CIBC, were urged to continue considering the longstanding benefits derived from the Caribbean region and encouraged t h e m t o p u r s u e communication and dialogue as they make farreaching decisions.
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Brighton striker Hemed handed three-match ban for violent conduct (Reuters) - Brighton and Hove Albion striker Tomer Hemed will serve a threematch suspension after the FA found the 30-year-old guilty on Wednesday of violent conduct during Brighton’s 1-0 victory over Newcastle United in the Premier League last Sunday. Hemed, who scored the winning goal, allegedly stamped on Newcastle defender DeAndre Yedlin in the 88th minute and while the incident was not spotted by match officials, it was caught on video. Off-the-ball incidents that are not seen by match officials are eligible for retrospec-
Tomer Hemed will miss matches against Arsenal, Everton and West Ham. (Getty Images) tive action by the FA and En- said on their website glish football’s governing (www.brightonandhovealbion.com). body charged the Israeli inHemed will miss ternational on Tuesday. Brighton’s upcoming league “Hemed appealed the games against Arsenal, charge, but an FA panel re- Everton and West Ham jected the appeal,” Brighton United.
Thursday September 28, 2017 ARIES (Mar. 21–Apr. 19) Matters pertaining to work must be completed before you leave. Younger relatives may seek your advice. However, be careful with luggage; it may be rerouted. TAURUS (Apr. 20–May 20) Pamper yourself today. You may find that others do not do things the way you want; however, if the job gets done, let it pass. If they don't like the plan, suggest that they contribute a little. GEMINI (May 21–June 20) Concentrate on work or make changes to yourself. Social events held in your home will be successful and entertaining for those who attend. You're best to channel your energy into work. CANCER (June 21–July 22) Get back to the comforts of cottage or home. Communicate with relatives who may need advice in order to find solutions to their existing problems. Don't allow someone to do a job that was designated specifically for you. LEO (July 23–Aug. 22) A friendship might suffer if money becomes an issue. Your ability to relate will close the generation gap. You may have been too nice to a friend who just wanted to take advantage of you. VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) Residential moves are evident. You should be traveling to that exotic destination you've been dreaming about. Stress coupled with diet will
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add to stomach problems. LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) Use your charm to get your own way. Opportunities to get ahead will be evident. You will find that friends or relatives may not understand your needs. SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) Check your project over carefully if you were not the only one contributing to the end result. Be sure to take care of any minor ailments. Disappointments are likely if your mate embarrasses you in front of friends. SAGIT(Nov.22–Dec.21) The personal problems you may be having are interfering with your productivity. You need more space for the whole family. Property investments will payoff. CAPRI (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) Don't make any drastic changes or begin new projects today. You will be looking for creative ways to make a little extra cash. Your personal life is going through a state of confusion. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18) Travel will be on your mind; however, be careful and proceed with caution as minor accidents will cause delays. Don't let relatives make demands of you. You must use discretion when talking to others. Gambling should not be an option. PISCES (Feb. 19–Mar. 20) It will do you some good. Underhandedness regarding legal matters or contracts must be counteracted. You can expect opposition from family as well as colleagues.
CONCACAF throws support behind Caribbean relief efforts
Some of the damage caused on the Caribbean island of Dominica by Hurricane Maria. MIAMI, United States, CMC – Continental governing body, CONCACAF, has established a Disaster Evaluation Taskforce as part of its plan to bring much-needed relief to Caribbean countries devastated by the recent passage of Hurricane Irma and Maria. President Victor Montagliani said the confederation would be supporting on-going relief efforts as well as providing resources to help rebuild infrastructure in the affected nations. Dominica, one of CONCACAF’s 41 members, received a direct hit from Hurricane Maria, suffering widespread damage. The cyclone also left a death toll of 15 so far in the small Caribbean island. Barbuda, the sister island of Antigua, was also left uninhabitable after being struck by Hurricane Irma earlier this month. Overall, 16 CONCACAF nations – including Mexico which was struck by a massive earthquake last week – have been impacted by recent natural disasters and have been earmarked for relief. “Our hearts and thoughts remain with our CONCACAF family and friends, who have been deeply impacted by the recent natural disasters
Trophy Stall backs U19... (From page 28) teams well, while Zaheer Mohamed who on Monday received the prizes on behalf of the coaches, expressed gratitude to Sunich for his support. The Wakenaam side includes Marlon Dindyal, Bhumeshwar Ramkissoon, Romario Stephen, Dicquan Clarke, Beesham Moses, Reon Venture, David Chalitar, Mahase Ramnarine, Devendra Seetaram, Quacy Whyte, Derwin Bacon, Sachin Dindyal and Matthew Chung. The NOC SC Select XI will have players such as Orlando Jailall, Shane Wong, Davendra Mohan, Sherlon Anthony and Saeed Hack.
within the region,” Montagliani said. “As the Confederation assesses the needs of our member associations that were severely devastated, we are working diligently to provide emergency assistance. Together, we will help rebuild these communities.” The Disaster Evaluation Taskforce will assess the individual needs of each affected nation and also “identify potential support measures and recommend the best course of action.” CONCACAF will then coordinate their efforts with those of world governing body, FIFA, and the football community in implementing relief. “Our immediate priority is the well-being of the communities in which the confederation has presence. Core
infrastructure in countries across the region has been impacted,” Montagliani said. “We recognized that our actions can go only so far in providing aid, but we come together to do all we can to support our Associations in the short-term, and assist rebuilding the game once the situation begins to normalize. “To be effective, our approach will be humble and targeted; if CONCACAF can contribute to reestablish football then we also help to reignite hope for those devastated by these disasters.” Hurricane Irma and Maria tore through the Caribbean earlier this month before also going on to impact the US state of Florida. The United States is the most powerful member of CONCACAF.
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Lewis, Joseph career-bests in vain as England take series However, Evin Lewis was left in pain when he inside edge a delivery into his ankle ©AFP
LONDON, CMC – Evin Lewis’s sublime career-best hundred and Alzarri Joseph’s maiden five-wicket haul both proved in vain as West Indies crashed to a six-run d e f e a t u n d e r Duckworth/Lewis in the fourth One-Day International, to concede the five-match series to England here yesterday. Chasing a difficult 357 for victory at the Oval following Lewis’s 176, England were 258 for five in the 36th over – ahead of the D/L par score of 252 – when the adverse weather drove players from the field at 7:35
pm (2:35 Eastern Caribbean time). Wi t h t h e d r i z z l e s persisting, officials called play off at 8:10 pm, leaving a disappointed West Indies with their sixth straight ODI series defeat to England and without a tour victory over a higher-ranked side in five years. This statistic seemed destined to change when the Caribbean side romped to 356 for five off their 50 overs – their fourth highest total in ODIs and highest-ever against England. The charge was led by Lewis while captain Jason
Holder lashed a career-best 77, Jason Mohammed struck 46 and Rovman Powell, a cameo unbeaten 28 at the end. England seemed on course to complete their highest-ever successful run chase when opener Jason Roy stroked a top score of 84 in an opening stand of 126 with Jonny Bairstow who made 39. But fast bowler Joseph intervened with an outstanding spell to claim five for 56 to haul West Indies back into the contest by reducing England to 181 for five in the 28th over. However, Moeen Ali p r o v e d t h e Wi n d i e s tormentor again, hammering an unbeaten 48 in a 77-run sixth wicket stand with Jos Buttler who made 43 not out, to get England ahead of the required rate with rain looming in the distance. England now lead the series 3-0 with the final match of the series carded for the Ageas Bowl on Friday. Sent in, the innings belonged to Lewis as he d o m i n a t e d E n g l a n d ’s bowlers before finally being stretchered off in the 47th
Rubis Bel-Air sponsors clocks for Guyana Draughts Association
Mr Jairam (centre) collects the clocks from employees of the Bel Air Rubis Station. The Management of Rubis Bel-Air Service Station handed over three clocks as part of sponsorship for the Association’s Annual National Draughts C h a m p i o n s h i p commencing this coming Sunday at the National Gymnasium. The Management of Rubis supports this Board
Game since it’s a National event and encouraged all Draughts players to visit the Rubis Service Station for optimum service. As Draughts helps to sharpen one’s memory and let the brain remains functional so too do Ultra Tech Diesel which is designed to keep your engine clean and running
like new and improving fuel economy. Rubis Head Office has recently presented the first and second place trophies f o r t h e ‘ A’ c l a s s Championship along with other tokens. Mr. Jairam, President of the Guyana Draughts Association collected the clocks at the latest presentation.
over after driving a full length delivery from pacer Jake Ball into his ankle. He lost talismanic partner Chris Gayle for two to the fourth ball of the innings, the veteran lefthander edging seamer Chris Woakes to Joe Root at first slip with two runs on the board. Lewis then watched as West Indies slid to 33 for three in the seventh over, losing Shai Hope (11) and Marlon Samuels (1) cheaply. The 25-year-old lefthander dug deep to produce an innings of class, stroking 17 fours and seven sixes off 130 deliveries, carving out the fourth-highest individual score by a West Indies batsman in ODIs. Significantly, he put on 117 for the fourth wicket with Mohammed who faced 71 balls and counted four boundaries before adding a further 168 with Holder in a record stand for the fifth wicket. Lewis reached his halfcentury off 52 deliveries in the 20th over before accelerating to reach his second ODI century off 94 balls, when he swung Woakes to the fine leg boundary in the 35th over. With his landmark safely behind him, Lewis launched a stunning assault, with a pair of sixes off pacer Liam Plunkett in the 40th over and nearly single-handedly smashing 25 off the 44th over from off-spinner Moeen Ali as he motored past 150. He lost Mohammed in the 29th over caught at the wicket off Rashid but found an ally in Holder to reset the fifth wicket record for the Windies in ODIs. Holder, dropped on three by opposite number Eoin Morgan at cover in the 30th over off Plunkett, blasted four fours and four sixes in a 62-ball cameo before
Jason Roy took his chance at the top of the order after replacing Alex Hales ©AFP
perishing to the final ball of the innings. When injury forced Lewis out with the charge on, Powell belted a pair of fours and sixes in a 15-ball knock as West Indies posted 131 runs off the last 10 overs. Woakes was the best bowler with three for 71. Roy then took the game away for the Windies early, in a 66-ball knock which contained 11 fours and two sixes, against bowling which lacked discipline. With the game slipping away quickly, the visitors found a way back through Joseph, who at age 20, became the youngest West Indies bowler to take a fivewicket haul in ODIs.
In the third over of his spell, he had Roy caught at the wicket trying to run one down to third man in the 18th over and claimed Bairstow in identical fashion at 144 for two in the 22nd over. England then lost their next three wickets for 37 runs as West Indies snatched the advantage but Moeen once again proved their nemesis, belting six fours and two sixes off 25 balls in a brazen counter-attack. Scores: England 258 for 5 (Roy 84, Moeen 48*, Joseph 5-56) beat West Indies 356 for 5 (Lewis 176*, Holder 77, Woakes 371) by six runs (DLS method).
West Ham and Tottenham charged by FA over players’ clash (Reuters) - West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur have been charged for failing to control their players during last Saturday’s Premier League derby at the London S t a d i u m , t h e FA s a i d yesterday. The players clashed after
Spurs were awarded a free kick in the 95th minute of their 3-2 win. The scuffle resulted in four players being booked Tottenham’s Eric Dier and Fernando Llorente and West Ham’s Andy Carroll and Winston Reid. “It is alleged that in or
around the 95th minute of the game, both clubs failed to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion,” the FA said in a statement. Both clubs have until Sept. 28 to respond to the charge.
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Grimes, Khan shine on debut at Suriname Bodybuilding & Fitness Comp.
Ms. Chandani Khan (#48) pictured with the other competitors of the Miss Bikini International Segment. Guyanese bodybuilders, Ya n n i c k G r i m e s a n d Chandani Khan made themselves and country proud with respective 2nd and 3rd finishes on Sunday last when they competed at the Suriname Weightlifting Federation
Bodybuilding and Fitness Competition held at the Anthony Nesty Sports Hall. Held as a tribute the Surinamese Pro Bodybuilder Eddy Wilson, Grimes, the reigning Mr. G u y a n a O p e n M e n ’s
Physique champion took second place in the Men’s Physique International segment. The top three finishers from the Surinamese Men’s Physique Tall and Short Class were pitted against the international
competitors where Grimes showed his class despite not being in tip top shape to finish a creditable second. Khan, who outshone her colleagues to win the Miss Bikini and Miss Best Legs categories at the Fitness
National Futsal Cup kicks off tonight at National Gymnasium The inaugural Street Vi b e s E n t e r t a i n m e n t ’s ‘National Futsal Cup’ was officially launched yesterday at the Windjammer Hotel in Kitty with action set to begin tonight at the National Gymnasium in the 32-team tournament that will run for 2 weeks. T o u r n a m e n t Coordinator, Linden Gill, declared that he expects a very competitive tournament, which will feature teams not only from the Georgetown environs but also out of the country. He revealed that a Brazilian team and a unit comprising of African nationals will be competing in the event, which will add to the spectacle. Meanwhile, Captain of the African contingent David Chimda stated that his team is excited to compete in the tournament, noting that the composition of his roster features players from Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon, Ghana and Zimbabwe with a hunger for success. Referee coordinator, Wayne Griffith, explained during yesterday’s launch that unlike previous futsal tournaments, after two fouls,
From left, Referee Co-ordinator Wayne Griffith, Tournament coordinator Linden Gill and African team’s captain David Chimda at yesterday’s launch. there will be a new rule enforced that will allow for the award of a penalty after each successive fouls. The event kicks off at 19:00hrs at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue with 8 elimination matches as the teams look to stay in contention in the tournament that has a total prize purse of over $1,000,000. In the opening fixture, Kitty Hustlers will oppose Pike Street Sophia, while Agricola Champion Boys will engage Meadowbrook Kings (MBK) All-Stars at 1 9 : 3 0 h r s . The third fixture will pit Gold is Money against Albouystown-B at 20:00hrs,
while Showstoppers will oppose New Marker Street at 20:30hrs and Mocha will tackle Broad Street from 2 1 : 0 0 h r s . In the showdown, Leopold Street will battle Melanie from 21:30hrs, while Back Circle lock horns with A l e x a n d e r Vi l l a g e a t 22:00hrs and Sparta Boss match skills with Channel-9 Warriors at 22:30hrs. The event will resume on Saturday at the same venue with another eight matches. At 19:00hrs, Swag Entertainment will battle Beterverwagting (BV), while Dave and Celina’s All Stars will tackle West Back Road at 19:30hrs and Silver Bullets take aim at North
East La Penitence from 20:00hrs. In the fourth contest, Albouystown-A battles Bent Street at 20:30hrs, while North Ruimveldt will oppose the Brazilian Team from 21:00hrs and Ol Skool Ballers engage the African Te a m a t 2 1 : 3 0 h r s . The final two fixtures will pit Sophia against Tucville from 22:00hrs and Campbellville against Future Stars at 22:30hrs. The winner of this tournament will pocket a handsome $700,000 and the championship trophy, while the second, third and fourth place finishers will receive $250,000, $150,000 and $100,000 respectively.
Yannick Grimes displaying his silverware in Suriname.
Paradise Gym annual Gym Expo in July this year, also made an impression on her international debut by placing third in the Miss Bikini International segment. The other athlete that represented Guyana in
Suriname on Sunday last, Caerus Cipriani did not make the top five in the M r . P h y s i q u e I n t e r n a t i o n a l competition. The athletes were accompanied by Travis Trotman.
Ravens’ National Anthem Singer resigns after fans ‘attack’ player protesters Huffington Post - After a carefully worded message on Tuesday announcing his resignation as the national anthem singer at Baltimore Ravens home games, combat veteran Joey Odoms made it crystal clear yesterday why he’s quitting. “Fans who attack players for protesting (a right in which I fought to defend) but are simply not interested in understanding why, is the reason I am resigning,” he said on Instagram. Odoms, a member of the Maryland National Guard who served tours of duty in Afghanistan, won a competition in 2014 to get the job. On Tuesday, Odoms posted a less-specific missive to explain his quitting. “The tone/actions of a large number of NFL fans in the midst of our country’s cultural crisis, have convinced me that I do not belong there,” he wrote on Instagram. “This is not an emotional reaction to recent events, rather an ethical decision that part of me regrets but my core knows is the right
Joey Odoms choice,” Odoms added. Fan backlash erupted as players kneeling in protest or simply not appearing during “The Star-Spangled Banner” mushroomed across the NFL following President Donald Trump’s repeated criticism of them. Negative reactions have included fans booing in some stadiums, the burning of team apparel, the burning of season tickets, and two New Orleans Saints players being disinvited as grand marshals for a Mardi Gras parade. “We greatly appreciate the work Joey did for us and we thank him,” Ravens spokesman Kevin Byrne told the Baltimore Sun. The Ravens played the Jacksonville Jaguars in London on Sunday, losing 44-7. Players protested there as well.
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Archery Guyana/Ministry of Indigenous People’s Affairs holds successful collaboration Once again Archery Guyana’s collaboration with the Ministry of Indigenous People’s Affairs concluded with a very successful archery competition at this year’s Indigenous Heritage Games at the Everest Cricket Club Ground. Though there was a little less participation in the competition, there was a lot more interest from patrons after the end of each day’s competition. There was an overall total participation of 53 competitors, most of whom were in the men’s division; 35 for the Men’s Division, 10 for the Ladies Division, 3 for the Youth Male 12-17, 2 for the girls Under 12 Division, and 3 for the boys Under 12 Division. Saturday’s Qualifying Rounds began with 3 Toshaos (Joel Fredericks, Colin Adrian and Lennox Shuman) losing the first arrows to start off the competition. 13 men eventually made it to the Semi-finals, while 3 ladies, 3 Youth Males and 3 Under 12 children made it to the finals. The 13 qualifying men through to Semi-finals were: I v o r Wi l l i a m s , J o e l
Sports Minister Dr George Norton taking the first shot to start off the finals on Sunday. Fredericks, Lennox Shuman, Colin Adrian, David Henry, Wi n s t o n B a i r d , R o y Shuman, Nyron Pearson, Calisto Martin, Deon Andrews, Horacio Barboza, Oswald Hussein and Shawn Raphael. The 3 Ladies through to finals were: Brenette Gordon, Aliyah Gordon and Samantha Paulino. In the Youth Male Division the 3 boys through to the finals were: Joshua Sandwell, Keon Kattow and Michael Hing and the 3 for the Under12 Division were: Paige Fernandes,
Dolphlundren Shuman and James Marco. Sunday’s exciting Semifinals and Finals began with the first arrows being loosed by Sports Minister Dr George Norton and Junior Minister within the Ministry of Indigenous People’s Affairs Valerie GarridoLowe. For the Men’s and Ladies finals, targets were set at 3 different distances (10, 15 & 25m). After which each archer had to shoot at 3 moving targets rolled along the ground. The 3 Men’s Finalists were Ivor Williams
Trophy Stall backs U19 cricket in Essequibo
Zaheer Mohamed (left) and Stephen Persaud of Trophy Stall display the trophies. An initiative between senior coaches Forbes Daniels and Nandkishore Andrews to stage a threematch U19 50 over tournament between New Opportunity Sports Club select XI and Wakenaam has gained the backing of
Trophy Stall proprietor Ramesh Sunich. Sunich has sponsored the first and second place trophies for the competition which is set to start on Saturday at the Wakenaam Community Centre ground in Good Success.
Some of the winners of the Archery competition. From left: Ivor Williams, Michael Hing, Aliyah Gordon, Paige Fernandes, James Marco, Brenette Gordon (behind Marco), Winston Baird and Horacio Barboza. of Moruka, Region 1(29pts), Winston Baird of Campbelltown, Region 8 (23pts) and Horacio Barboza of Intac, Region 8 (17pts). Only Ivor Williams was able to hit the moving target, drawing loud applause from the crowd. The Ladies saw mother and daughter Brenette and Aliyah Gordon of West Demerara, Region 4, vying for the top spot, as Samantha Paulino of St Ignatius Village, Region 9 was unable to compete in the finals, which automatically earned her 3rd place with 0 points,
while Aliyah Gordon came out on top with 8 points and Brenette Gordon 1 point to gain second place. Aliyah Gordon also won in her division last year. The Youth Males 12-17 was hotly contested by Joshua Sandwell of Pakuri, Region 4 who earned 1st place (7pts), and Michael Hing of Georgetown, Region 4 (4pts) who gained second, while Keon Kattow of Pakuri, Region 4 (0 pts) came in third. The Children (under 12) shot at 15m distance only. Dolphlundren Shuman of
Pakuri, Region 4 gained an automatic 3rd place, as only James Marco and Paige Fernandes were present to contest the U12 title. Paige Fernandes of Georgetown, Region 4 gained 16 points to win 1st place, while James Marco came in 2nd with 1 point. Archery Guyana is happy to have been a part of the Indigenous Heritage Games for the third year and looks forward to working with the Ministry in the coming years and in the future development of this most exciting sport.
Well Teen, Trophy Stall, Nauth Motor Spares, Tropical Spring U13 cricket continues
Daniel Mootoo accepts his man-of-the-match prize from Wayne Jones in the presence of his team mates In an invited comment, Sunich said he is happy to contribute to the development of the game in the area and lauded the coaches for the venture. He urged the players to remain committed and wish the (Continued on page 25)
A fine all-round performance by Daniel Mootoo guided Demerara Cricket Club to a ninewicket victory over Everest Cricket Club when the Well Teen, Trophy Stall, Nauth Motor Spares and Tropical
Spring U13 cricket continued recently at DCC. Batting first Everest CC were bowled out for 70 in 23 o v e r s w i t h Av i n a s h Rajkumar scoring 15 and Yougish Persaud 10; Mootoo grabbed 4-3 and Inderjit
Nanan 2-23. Mootoo then returned with the bat to top score with 30 to take the man-of-thematch aw ard as D CC responded with 71-1 in 11.4 overs. Ezekiel Wilson supported with 14.
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GCB/CGI 3-day Franchise League
E’bo looking to widen gap at the top as 5th round starts tomorrow W/B’ce aim to begin winning streak Shemron Hetymer
Gudakesh Motie
Ricardo Adams By Sean Devers After four rounds of the GCB/CGI three-day Franchise League, the fifth round starts tomorrow from 09:00 hrs with Essequibo leading from the inception with three victories and a washed out match. Wi t h t h r e e r o u n d s remaining West Berbice before their last round threewicket win over East Coast were dead last but now they aim to begin a winning streak which leaves all eight teams with a chance to win the title in the second three-day Franchise season. Those players selected to play in the Antigua Independence tri-nation T20 tournament which includes the hosts and Jamaica, will miss the sixth round which
starts on October 6. West Berbice’s line-up includes left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie, the leading wicket-taker in the tournament with 39 scalps including four five-wicket hauls. Motie is a virtual oneman army for his team but their batting have remained impotent. However, 19-year-old Te s t b a t m a n S h i m r o n Hetymer, in his first match since his return from England did what was expected by someone who comes back to a lower level. The first Young Warriors member to play Test cricket, stamped his authority with an authoritative 114 to spur West Berbice to their first win. With Hetymer and Motie available for the sixth round
Fitness Express and Trophy Stall also on board The National Sports Commission (NSC) has agreed to supply all the medals that will be awarded at the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) RAW National Championships which will be contested this Sunday at the Saints Stanislaus College Auditorium, Brickdam. According to the federation, the NSC has always been supportive of its competitions and they are grateful for its continued show of confidence. Athletes will be seeking to out-lift each other in the following categories: Female – 47kg Open, 47kg Sub Jr., 72kg Open, 72kg Jr.,
Gajanand Singh
and leaders Essequibo without Ricardo Adams, Kemo Paul and Ronsford Beaton due to national duties, West Berbice will fancy their chances going forward. This makes tomorrow’s round very important for teams who will be affected by the Antigua tournament. In the last round, Essequibo beat Georgetown by three wickets at Tuschen, Lower Corentyne defeated East Bank by 114 runs in Cumberland,West Berbice got past East Coast by three wickets at Bush Lot andWest Demerara drew with Upper Corentyne at Port Mourant. Those results mean that Essequibo maintain their
lead with 56.3 points followed by West Demerara on 43.7. Lower Corentyne is third, while Upper Corentyne is in the fourth position. Tomorrow, Essequibo face Upper Corentyne at Port Mourant, West Berbice oppose East Bank at Bush Lot, East Coast battle Lower Corentyne at Lusignan and West Demerara take on Georgetown at Tuschen. Georgetown will be led Nactional Captain Leon Johnson who will hope that Chris Barnwell converts his good starts into hundreds and that opener Robin Bacchus and West Indies U-19 selectee Raymond Perez give them a good foundation.
NSC sponsor medals for GAPF RAW Nationals
85kg Open. Male – 53kg Jr., 53kg Open, 59kgOpen, 66kg Jr., 66kg Open, 74kg Open, 83kg Sub Jr., 83kg Jr., 83kg Open, 93kg Open, 105kg M2, 105kg Open, 120kg M1, 120kg Open. The federation has also indicated that long time corporate supporter Fitness Express is also on board again as well as The Trophy Stall. Around 30 athletes including 7 females will be on show many of which were part of the history making team that competed at the 16th Annual NAPF/FESUPO PanAmerican Powerlifting Championships; 15th Annual NAPF North American Regional
Deputy Director of Sport Brian Smith and GAPF Treasurer Colin Austin.
P o w e r l i f t i n g Championships and 32nd Annual FESUPO South American Powerlifting Championships in Orlando,
Florida back in July. Weigh-in time next Sunday is 07:00hrs with the first flight of lifters set to hit the platform two hours later.
Jamaican leggie Ramaal Lewis, Gajanand Suknanan and Steven Sankar could do the bulk of the bowling against a West Demerara team which includes Bajan Raymond Reifer who made two fifties in the last round, Tagenarine Chanderpaul, whose 176 is the highest score in the tournament, Akshaya Persaud, one of three centurions in the last round and 20-year-old Allrounder Romario Shepherd. Apart from pacers Reifer and Shepherd, Richie Looknauth is maturing into a good off-spinner while leftarm spinner Kesram Seyhodan should enjoy the Tuschen track. Anthony Adams has three five-wicket hauls and a century (137) while Ricardo Adams with two tons and Savory are the other centurions for Essequibo who also has Kemol Savory and Kevin Boodie and has produced one of the better batting line-ups this season even without their most experienced batsman Shiv Chanderpaul, who is participating in the English County cricket. The unrelated Adams (Anthony and Ricardo), Joshua Jones, Paul and possible Beaton, who missed the last round due to injury, gives Essequibo a balanced bowling attack as they face Upper Corentyne with Anthony Bramble, Rajiv Ivan, David Latchaya, Kevin Sinclair, Shawn Pereira, Clinton Pestano and Balchand Baldeo on a Port Mourant track that’s good for batting. Test batsman Rajendra Chandrika, Brian Sattaur,
Chanderpaul Hemraj and Bhaskar Yadram, one of nine centurions after four rounds will be a part of a strong East Coast batting line-up while Yadram, Amir Khan and pacer Cordel Mars could do the bulk of the bowling at Lusignan. CPL players Gajanand Singh and Jonathon Foo are back after missing the last round and with Seon Hetymer, Waheid Edwards, Devon Clements and the pair of Guyana youth players Alex Algoo and Kevlon Anderson, who certainly looks one for the future, Lower Corentyne’s batting is strong. Spinners Kasim Khan and Veerasammy Permaul, one of 14 bowlers to take 19 five-wicket hauls so far, should do the bulk of the bowling for L/Corentyne who also have Raun Johnson and Nial Smith, two of only four pacers with five-wicket hauls. At Bush Lot, East Bank will depend heavily on Sherfane Rutherford one of the stand out all-rounders with a 12-wicket match haul in the second round and a century in the third round, Sachin Singh, M a r k Robe, Darshan Persaud, Steven Jacobs, Renaldo Ali-Mohammed and Ershad Ali. Rutherford, Keon Morris, Jacobs, Ali, Totaram Bishun and Ali-Mohammed will take care of the East Bank bowling while West Berbice will depend heavily on Motie and Hetymer and will hope that Arthley Bailey and Av i s h k a r S e w k a r r a n contribute with the bat.
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GTT National Indoor Hockey Championships
National Teams continue dominance on night 2 The GTT National Indoor hockey tournament is being served as a warm up for the monumental PanAmerican Cups Hockey Championships that will be hosted in Guyana for the first time next month and the national teams are getting in tune with good wins against the top clubs of the country. On Tuesday evening, night 2 of the 14thedition of GTT I n d o o r H o c k e y Championships, the national men’s green and black, along with the ladies all secured good wins against their opposition. The ladies were up against a tricky Antonio’s Grille Hikers veteran side, but they overcame their opponents in a commanding 8-2 victory led by 2 field goals each from the athletic Aliyah Gordon and versatile
Tricia Woodroofe. Gordon got the ball rolling after intercepting a Hiker’s pass with their D to opening the scoring in the 1st minute of the match up before completing her double in the 8th minute. Marzana Fiedtkou (5th minute), Latacia Chung (27th minute), along with Hiker’s ladies duo Maria Munroe (29th minute) and Nicole Eastman (30th minute) all got on the score sheet in the national Ladies dominating victory over Hikers veteran men’s side in the 40-minute match. Robert Fernandes (16th minute) and George Melville (24th minute) were the goal scorers for Hikers. The National Men’s Blacks made very light work of Saints Hockey Club in a devastating 11-0 victory that
National Blacks’ Rayon Branford about to slot his solitary goal past Saints HC goalie Ato Greene. was capped off with a 9-goal second half burst. Robert France and Jamarj Assanah both smashed in 4 goals each in the lopsided win, while Andrew Stuart scored a
double and Ryan Branford notched up one goal to complete the rout. Aroydy Branford scored a second half double to see the Men’s National Green
ease past Old Fort titans 5-3 after 40 minutes of competitive hockey. At half time the score stood 1-all with goals from veteran John Abrahams in
the 6th minute following a penalty corner before Green’s skipper Aderemi Simon equalized in the 9th minute. After the half-time break the double from Branford and one each from Jason Dos Santos and Kevin Spencer were enough to trump goals from Ascofu Simon and Abrahams’ second successful penalty corner strike. The other results of the night saw GCC Pitbulls defeating Hikers 5-1, GCC Spartans drawing 1-1 with the ever improving Old Fort Shooting Stars in the women’s division, while Saints Hockey Club lost to Saint Stanislaus Hockey Club 5-3 and Pepsi Hikers suffered a demoralizing 8-1 defeat at the hands of Bounty GCC. (Calvin Chapman)
NBS 40-over 2nd Division tourney launched
GCA’s President says tournament is a feeder for bigger things By Sean Devers Former West Indies Test player, former West Indies Coach and Guyana Amazon Warriors’ Coach are Caps worn by Roger Harper, but yesterday on the fourth floor of the New Building Society (NBS) Harper spoke proudly as the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) President when he told the gathering that several players, who played in this tournament, has gone on to play for Guyana at youth level. The occasion was the Launching of the sixth annual NBS competition for second division clubs in the City which concluded with the 2017 sponsorship cheque being presented by NBS’s Mr. Majeed to Harper. The tournament is scheduled to commence this Saturday with defending Champions Transport Sports Club taking on Ace Warriors
Mr. Majeed of NBS (left) presents the sponsorship cheque to GCA President Roger Harper yesterday as NBS Chairman Floyd McDonald (extreme left) share the moment. (Sean Devers photo) at Bourda, Everest facing Diplomats at Everest, MYO opposing Police at Eve Leary and GDF hosting UG in Zone ‘A’. In Zone ‘B’, GCC battle DCC at DCC, Sophia come
up against GYO at GYO and Third Class face GNIC at GNIC. MSC draw the bye. All games will start at 10:30hrs. The teams will vie for the $100, 000 winners’ prize, the runners-up take home $70,000 and the semifinalists collect $40,000 each. Majeed spoke about the glory days of West Indies cricket when the Caribbean side was in the finals of the f i r s t Wo r l d C u p tournaments, winning the first two and lamented on the present standard. Majeed said that he did not want to lament about the issues affecting local cricket but said with West Indies cricket
in crisis, sponsorship of cricket is welcomed by all involved. Harper disclosed the 15 teams that will participate in the tournament, adding that the teams are excited about the competition and were looking forward to making maximum use of the current good weather. “This sponsorship has provided opportunities for the players to represent Clubs in Georgetown to showcase their talent and hone their skills. A point to note is that while the clubs are in Georgetown, the players come from all a r o u n d t h e C o u n t r y, including as far as Essequibo,” Harper said.
“Last year, there were 12 youngsters who represented Guyana in various youth teams that would have played in the New Building Society tournament during the first three years. Well this year the trend continued with eight players representing Guyana in various youth teams. They are; Shemar Yearwood who played for the Guyana U-15 team. Ashmead Nedd, Sachin Singh, Qumar Torrington and Alphius Bookie played for the U-17 team and Bhaskar Yadram, Ronaldo Ali-Mohammed, Joshua Persaud and Raymond Perez for the U19s,” Harper reminded. Harper told the NBS
officials at the head table that undoubtedly their sponsorship continues to bear good fruit before thanking the company for sponsoring this competition and supporting the youths and the grassroots of our sport. Chairman of the GCA’s Competitions’ Committee Shawn Massiah explained that the teams will be divided into two zones with the top two teams in each zone qualifying for the semis, adding that there are batting and bowling bonus points, while pacers with have to bowl 16 of the 40 overs in a completed game. Chairman of NBS, Floyd McDonald spoke of the interest this competition has generated and said accountability is very important, adding that NBS, which also supports sports in Berbice, and would continue to provide sponsorship for the well-run Associations. “We will continue to sponsor this tournament since we have gotten value for money,” McDonald promised. The competition is expected to climax with the Final on the last weekend in October and will be played with White clothes and Red Balls. GCC were Champions in the 2012, ’13 & ’14 while DCC took the 2015 title with TSC winning last year.
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Ravi Ramkumar heads Mt Sinai Cricket Club - Director of Sports hands over cricket gears Youth Leader Ravi Ramkumar was elected President of the Mt. Sinai Cricket Club on Sunday last during a special meeting of the newly reformed club. Forty members turned up for the Special Meeting which included Director of Sports Christopher Jones and his Deputy, Brian Joseph and was held at the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sports Drop In Centre in Angoy’s Avenue. A nine member Executive Committee was elected to administer the affairs of the Cricket Club which would at first concentrate on junior cricket at the Under-13, Under-15, Under-17 and Under-19 levels and also at Second Division level.
Director of Sports Christopher Jones hands over donation to Mt. Sinai President Ravi Ramkumar.
Those elected were Ravi Ramkumar - President, Neil Rudder – Vice President, Akele Denhert - Secretary, Jaipersaud Hardeo Treasurer, Pinky Arthur Asst Secretary/Treasurer.
The Committee Members are Carlton Sinclair, Troy Morrison, Shawn Taylor and Safraz Kassim. The Cricket Coach would be Carlton Sinclair, while Jaipersaud Hardeo and Neil Rudder
Motorbikes set to raid GMRSC’s Caribbean Invasion International Drag meet
would represent the Club at the Berbice Cricket Board level. After being sworn into office, Ramkumar promised that his Executives would work hard to make the Mt. Sinai Cricket Club one of the best in Berbice and to also play a major role in getting youths to stay away from social ills. He expressed gratitude to the Mayor & Town Council of New Amsterdam and the Guyana Police Force ‘B’ Division for their efforts in getting the Club going after a period of b e i n g d o r m a n t . Vi c e President Neil Rudder, a retired Prison Officer, stated
that he was delighted to serve the youths in his community and to make sure that the Club would be administered in the best interest of all its members. Cricket Coach Carlton Sinclair spoke widely on the importance of discipline and disclosed that only disciplined youths would be allowed to be a part of the Mt. Sinai Cricket Club. Special Guest, Christopher Jones congratulated the newly elected Executive Committee and urged them to be role models to every member, to listen to the needs of members and to
make sure that all clubs records are in order. The success of the Club would not depend on the Management alone but on the combined efforts of every member. He pledged the co-operation of the National Sports Commission and handed over a large quantity of cricket gears that includes pads, helmets, thigh pads and forearm guards to the President of the Club. Jones also pleaded with the Club to get involved in more sports like basketball, volleyball and table tennis in an effort to involve more youths.
Team Jamaica supporters make a blistering comeback to Trump’s Bolt remarks
Motorbikes going head to head at a previous meet at the South Dakota Circuit. (GT Ridez photo)
Motorcyclists will be part of the action this Sunday when the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) speeds off their Caribbean Invasion, international drag race meet at the South Dakota Circuit on the Linden-Soesdyke highway. The local motorsports body has released information on Tuesday stating that several persons have already registered for the drag racing meet this weekend which will be competed in the 600cc and the 1000cc classes and those eager of competing should sign up as quickly as possible. “Riders desirous of competing must be first
registered for the event. We are also asking them to produce medicals for their own safety,” the release stated. The GMRSC correspondence further explained that, “We want to ensure that in no uncertain terms, the right protocols and procedures are in place should any unfortunate incident happen.” Meanwhile, for those who are registered members of the club, they need only submit their event registration form and their medical. All other persons will be charged a participatory fee of $3,000 along with the requisite documents. Action begins at 09:00hrs with free runs,
while classification into the time bracket system begins at 10:00hrs with the knockout set to scorch the track at noon.
Mashable - Trump is going to learn the hard way what happens when you attempt to throw a country’s favourite idol into the political arena for your personal gains. The U.S. president is embroiled in a bitter fight with NFL players over their #TakeAKneeprotest during pre-matches national anthems. So he thought better to tweet a video from the 2012
Summer Olympics showing Jamaica’s national pride and world renowned sprinter Usain Bolt, cutting a live interview as the U.S. national anthem plays in the background: “Even Usain Bolt from Jamaica, one of the greatest runners and athletes of all time, showed RESPECT for our National Anthem!” Trump tweeted. However, his comment didn’t go well with Team
Jamaica, the most popular forum for supporters of the country’s Olympic team, which sharply replied: “Please leave The Boss out of your politricks” Te a m J a m a i c a @JamaicaOlympics Bolt hasn’t responded yet, but we’re quite sure he probably enjoys the dry wit used to smash Trump down. Better be careful next time you decide to play with “Lightning Bolt”.
t r o Sp Lewis, Joseph career-bests in vain as England take series
Lewis and Jason Holder put on a rapid century stand to hurtle West Indies over 300 - 13 sixes coming in the last 11 overs ©Getty Images
Alzarri Joseph then made repeated breakthroughs to put West Indies on top ©Getty Images
Grimes, Khan shine on debut at Suriname Bodybuilding & Fitness Comp.
From right, Ms. Chandani Khan, Travis Trotman, Yannick Grimes and Caerus Cipriani.
Archery Guyana/Ministry of Indigenous People’s Affairs holds successful collaboration
The 3 Toshaos; Joel Fredericks, Colin Adrian and Lennox Shuman losing the first arrows to start off the competition.
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