2 vessels, 1 minibus seized with smuggled liquor, goods WHAT'S INSIDE: Issue No. 5098 Nationwide coverage from the best news team in Guyana THE BEACON OF TRUTH guyanatimesgy.com PRICE $100 VAT INCLUDEDFRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2022 P9 …orders APNU/AFC MP to pay costs for “vexatious” challenge finedjaileddrugSelf-confessedannounces1fromforOnline-bookingferriesOctober–Edghilldealerfor4years,$2.3M …wheelchair-bound coaccused on $150,000 bail Sophia forvisaremovalGCCIofstabbingremandedsistersformother3todeathlobbiesforofUKrequirementGuyaneseCorentynemanwhofatallystabbedex-wifeturnsselfinfromcompensationgetsquattersLindenfinancialGovtHicken’s appointment to act as Top constitutionalCop – Chief Justice rules See story on page 3 Access Road demolition See story on page 9 See story on page 8 P11P17P17P12 Guyanese must optimise benefits for developmentcountry’s –PSC Chair Sod turned for $130M business centre to benefit persons living with disabilities …PLWD should have no less opportunity, should be given no less treatment – Armogan President Ali promises to assist Reg 5, 6 communitiesdevelopmentwith Preliminary CXC results to be available in last week of August P2 P15 See story on page 7 Page 16
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TheCouncilExaminationsCaribbean(CXC)isaim ing to have the preliminary examination results for the year 2022 available by the last week of August. In a statement, the Council said it has been working assiduously at com pleting the marking and grading process for the time ly release of this year’s ex aminationConsistentresults.with the an nounced schedule for re lease during the last week of August or the first week of September, preliminary results for the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE), Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Certificate of Secondary Level Competence (CCSLC) will be released in St Lucia on September 5, 2022. Candidates can access their preliminary results online on the CXC portal. This year, a decision was made to delay the start of the written and practical com ponents of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exam inations and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE). The new start date was May 23, 2022, and the ex aminations ended on July 1, 2022.The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) was established in 1972 un der Agreement by the par ticipating Governments in the Caribbean Community (Caricom). CXC assures the global human resource competitiveness of the Caribbean through the pro vision of syllabuses of the highest quality; valid and reliable examinations and certificates of internation al repute for students of all ages, abilities and interests; services to educational insti tutions in the development of syllabuses, examinations and examinations’ adminis tration, in the most cost-ef fectiveCXCway. comprises 16 participating countries: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and Turks and Caicos Islands. Last year, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has announced the 2021 top awardees for the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations – in which both spots were copped by Guyanese students Samuel Haynes and Zaynab Shaffie.
Preliminary CXC results to be available in last week of August
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…says vacant office could have had negative impact on national security
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Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George, SC Police Commissioner (ag) Clifton Hicken
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that this was not a case where the President had to act on the advice of anyone or any entity, she pointed out, “this is a case where the President is autho rised to make an appointment albeit to certain circumstanc es under Article 211.” While those conditions could not be met, this does not mean that the President could not act, she said, noting that there was uncertainty, not only be cause the PSC was not re constituted but because since January 26, an Opposition Leader had not been elected and it was unclear when such an election would occur.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2022 | GUYANATIMESGY.COM Draw By Feona Morrison Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George, SC, has upheld President Dr Irfaan Ali’s appointment of Deputy Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken to act as Police Commissioner, deem ing an APNU/AFC parlia mentarian’s challenge to the appointment “vexatious and an abuse of the court process”. In her ruling on Thursday to APNU/AFC Chief Whip Christopher Jones’s applica tion, in which he sought to nullify the March 30 appoint ment, mainly on the ground that the Head of State failed to “meaningfully consult” with the Opposition Leader as is constitutionally required, Justice George found that the President always had proper ly executed his discretion. Article 211 (1) of the Constitution mandates that “the Commissioner of Police and every Deputy Commissioner of Police shall be appointed by the President acting after meaningful con sultation with the Leader of the Opposition and the Chairperson of the Police Service Commission [PSC] af ter the Chairperson has con sulted with the other mem bers of the Meanwhile,Commission”.provisions for a person to act in the office of the Police Commissioner are outlined under Article 211 (2) of the Constitution, and the provisions contained in Article 211 (1), shall apply to such an appointment as they apply to the appointment of a person to hold that office. Cannot be faulted When Hicken’s appoint ment took effect, the Office of the Opposition Leader was va cant following the resignation of Joseph Harmon on January 26. Aubrey Norton—Leader of the PNCR—was appoint ed Opposition Leader on April 13. The tenure of the previ ous PSC expired on August 8, 2021; it was reconstituted on May 31 by President Ali. As a result, the Chief Justice said that President Ali could not be faulted for making the ap pointment when there was no one for him to consult, adding that it was not within his pow er to appoint an Opposition Leader.In the absence of an Opposition Leader and the PSC, she held that President Ali, who is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, acted “out of necessity” and it was reason able for him to take action in his “own deliberate judge ment” to appoint someone to act as Top Cop. “As of March 30, the position of Leader of the Opposition was vacant and the Police Service Commission had not been reconstituted. It, therefore, meant that at that date, compliance with Article 211 as regard to the appoint ment of Police Commissioner was impossible because of cir cumstances beyond the con trol of the President,” said the ChiefSheJustice.reasoned that it is “hardly likely” that the fram ers of the Constitution would have contemplated a situa tion where an important con stitutional office such as the Leader of the Opposition, who plays an integral role in the appointment to other consti tutional offices, would have been vacant for such an ex tendedHighlightingperiod.
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Hicken’s appointment to act as Top Cop constitutional – Chief Justice rules
Negative impact Moreover, she added that there could have been a neg ative impact on national se curity if the highest office of such an important law en forcement agency was left va cant.In relation to Jones’s argu ment that the President was required to appoint the next senior officer, in this case, Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Williams, to act as Police Commissioner, Justice George said that this is not instructed by the Public Service Commission rules. Further, Jones had sub mitted that the President could have appointed some one to “perform the functions of” Police Commissioner as was done in 2020 with Nigel Hoppie, instead of appoint ing someone “to act”, untilw an Opposition Leader was appointed.TheChief Justice, how ever, explained that the lan guage of “to act” and “per form the functions of” are interchangeable as they are “one and the same thing”. “As in effect, they amount to the appointment of a per son to fill a position in what should be a temporary or holding situation. Thus, whether appointed to act or to perform the functions would amount to the same thing, a person would be per mitted to carry out the duties and responsibilities of the post,” she further went on to explain.Shealso addressed Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn’s affidavit in which he deposed that assuming but not admitting that the President acted unlawful ly, the doctrine of necessi ty would justify a departure from what is required by the Constitution because there was an impossibility in se curing constitutional compli ance. But according to her, there was a need to distinct from the doctrine of necessity which is applied to legalising otherwise unlawful or uncon stitutional acts, and necessi ty to act in order to ensure that the machinery of admin istration is not hindered.
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An important event took place on Thursday with the turning of the sod for the construction of a $130M Business Center for persons living with disabilities. More importantly, this is the first of more such regional centers to be established. Persons living with disabilities often times still face several challenges in Guyana and around the world. Many of these challenges remain unattended for quite some time, with no proper mechanism to curb them. However, the concept of the state-of-the-art business center signals good intention to assist those living with disabilities. When persons with disabilities are given a chance to acquire a good education, or are taught a skill, or be able financially to support themselves, they are in a better position to break the cycle of poverty that normally defines such situations.
President Dr Irfaan Ali and Prime Minister Brigadier (ret’d) Mark Phillips ushered in Raksha Bandhan celebrations on Thursday morning by receiving rakhis from sisters from the Brahma Kumaris and from representatives of the Indian High Commission in Guyana. Rajnie Narine and Ahalia Geer from the Brahma Kumari, and Sunita Tyagi, Savitri Dutt, Sanyukta Singh and Pammi Kaushik from the Indian High Commission visited President Ali at the Office of the President on Shiv Chanderpaul Drive and Prime Minister Phillips at his office, where they tied the rakhis on their wrists ahead of the day of celebration on Thursday (OP photos) By Marina Hyde Devastating news for the future Trump Presidential Library, already suffering acute supply problems after recent reports that the former US President frequently ripped up presiden tial papers and clogged toilets with them (home and abroad). Last night, the FBI carried out a raid on Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach mansion in which Trump currently resides, shar ing only several of its com munal areas with paying Floridians. The raid – or “as sault”, as Trump would have it – is thought to be related to his already-proven removal of re cords from the White House at the end of his administration, but could reasonably be linked to a number of active law suits and investigations cur rently being faced by the 45th President.Evenso, it’s a develop ment that has hit Trump and his family hard. Or opportune ly, depending on how you look at it – and more on that lat er. “These are dark times for our Nation,” began an over night statement by the former President, talking like a Star Wars opening crawl. Trump went on to say his property was “under siege”, which feels a little histrionic. Surely, this was just a harmless law en forcement rally that mildly got out of hand, though not in a way that saw five people end up dead, a gibbet erect ed on the croquet lawn, and small-state golfers barricading themselves into executive re strooms in genuine and ratio nal fear of their lives? Alas, that wasn’t the line which the presiding inspo for the Capitol riots decided to go with, with Trump instead putting the monstrous imper tinence of the FBI in perspec tive with the howl: “They even broke into my safe!” Lest you imagined you had hallucinat ed this attack line, Donald’s etiolated adult son Eric could be found honking it over on Fox News, where, as I am typ ing this, the story is current ly being headlined “BIDEN’S FBI RANSACKS THE HOME OF POTENTIAL 2024 OPPONENT”. As Eric de clared with incredulity: “They broke into a safe?! … I mean, gimme a You’llbreak!”behugely taken with this notion that a safe is your special private place that NO ONE should ever touch, a kind of supra-legal repository whose contents are automati cally placed beyond the legiti mate attentions of any and all law enforcement agencies, no matter the gravity of federal crimes being alleged, and no matter how loudly your polit ical opponents shriek “but his safe!” or simply “LOCK HIM UP”.As yet, there are no de tails of where in Mar-a-Lago Trump’s safe was located, though students of the resort’s interiors’ style would hope it was concealed behind the 1989 portrait of him entitled ‘The Visionary’. To be clear, I’m not talking about the ninefoot painting of himself that Trump paid for with $60,000 meant for charity, but the one where he’s wearing crick et whites as sunbeams break through some celestial clouds behind his head, and his ex pression says simply: “I dare you to report what I’m about to do to you, sweetheart”. FBI raids on former Presidents; filing stuff in the U-bend – another huge ly uplifting 24 hours in pol itics. Not for the first time, much of the most unwitting ly revealing commentary on it all comes from Trump him self, who says of the raid, “Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before”. Well, quite. Meanwhile, plenty of his most powerful supporters have lost no time in informing Americans that if this can hap pen to the former president, then the ordinary people are next. And yet, and yet…are they? Of all the things to lose sleep over in the contemporary US, the imminent peril of doz ens of FBI agents turning up on your doorstep and finding classified presidential records among your ironing is argu ably not one of them. Still, what kind of world are we living in when a man of the people is treated like one of the people? The whole busi ness has appalled freedom-lov ing anti-elitist Nigel Farage, who this morning announced himself to be “shocked” by the FBI’s presence at Trump’s property, before concluding that “the deep state truly does exist”.Carry yourself with the moral and intellectual consis tency of Nigel, who believes that rich and powerful men who are the subject of multi ple active criminal investiga tions should be above the law, while he himself has previ ously endorsed a US political candidate who – among other things – believes that all ho mosexuality should be made illegal. A huge number of grim prospects are coming down the slipway, but the virtually locked-on prospect of Nigel us ing the cost-of-living crisis to respawn over the next year or so is definitely up there. For now, more immediate respawnings are available. Trump is already fundrais ing off the outrage his winged monkeys are whipping up af ter last night’s raid, and at tacking its very legitimacy. “Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President,” was the way he characterised the actions of an FBI whose lifelong Republican director he personally chose for the job. As so often in the rabbit hole down which Trump has led us, I fear the news of the raid is not the unalloyed de light that many of his detrac tors may be celebrating it as. It surely makes it more, not less likely, that his 2024 presi dential run will be announced in short order, very possibly breaking his agreement to hold off before the midterms. After days like these, what does he really have to lose, barring other people’s money? Each new probe is an added incen tive to win and shut it down, pausing or permanently halt ing any number of lawsuits, and painting all reasonable investigation as clearly politi cally motivated, or – just like before! – an attempt at sim ple electoral theft. Never mind five towns ago, we passed “ra tional” five years ago. For all the drama of last night, the way back still remains entire ly unclear. (The Guardian) (Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist)
In a more general sense, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is necessary for countries not only to adopt, but to implement fully, because it is a tool for ensuring that people with disabilities have access to the same rights and opportunities as everybody else. As explained by the World Health Organization (WHO), rather than considering disability as an issue of medicine, charity or dependency, the Convention challenges people worldwide to understand disability as a human rights’ issue. The Convention covers many areas where obstacles can arise, such as physical access to buildings, roads and transportation, and access to information through written and electronic communications. The Convention also aims to reduce stigma and discrimination, which are often reasons why people with disabilities are excluded from education, employment, and health and other services. People with disabilities have generally poorer health, lower educational achievements, fewer economic opportunities, and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities. This is largely due to the lack of services available to them, and the many obstacles they face in their everyday lives. If one can recall, when this Dr Irfaan Ali-led administration came into Government in 2020, the Head of State, shortly after taking office, met with the umbrella body representing persons with disabilities in Guyana - the Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons with Disabilities (GCOPD) – where a call was made for the new administration to take steps to ensure that the national developmental plans are inclusionary, and create equal opportunities for persons with disabilities. At that meeting, the organisation had listed a number of concerns which it would like to see the Government address to make life more comfortable and meaningful for persons living with disabilities. Those requests include: the establishment of a monthly Disability Grant in place of the Public Assistance; opportunities for employment of qualified and skilled PWDs in the Public Sector; improvements in the delivery of education to children with disabilities; provision of low-income housing for PWDs; and provision of assistive and mobility aids. Today it is refreshing and noteworthy to see the reality of that list of requests being achieved. At the sod turning, Coordinator for Guyana Council of Persons Living with Disabilities, Ganesh Singh, referred to the Business Center as a “new chapter” for the transformation of persons living with disabilities. To quote him: “These individuals, most of them live in impoverished circumstances. A high percentage is unemployed. With this center, that will change. You will have persons with disabilities gaining employment and lifting themselves out of poverty.” Significantly, he said that he is humbled to know there are persons who care to improve the lives of persons living with disabilities. Kudos must be given to the Office of the First Lady and the Chinese Government, who are assisting with the funding for the programme. This Business Center and its replicas countrywide would indeed ensure that persons who are living with disabilities earn a decent living, express their independence, and have the economic freedom to not only have a comfortable social life, but a transformative life.
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Yet more disgrace for Trump as the FBI raid Mar-a-Lago
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Dear Editor, It is with shock and hor ror that we listened to a leaked audio recording of a segment of the GuySuCo Board meeting and exchang es therein. Editor, this is documentary evidence that GuySuCo has degenerated to its lowest level in record ed history. The Corporation desperately needs help. The relationship between ex ecutive management and the board of directors is un healthy.Should this condition be allowed to continue? Can GuySuCo make a turn around in this state? The issue at hand in that leaked audio is about pur chase of fixed-frame tractors versus articulated tractors. The Corporation is ada mant that it needs articu lated tractors, and not fixedframe tractors. The Board is seemingly skeptical of the Corporation’s choice because of costs, fuel consumption, and capability. It further ar gues that fixed-frame trac tors would be required for other activities in any event. Editor, it is my consid ered opinion that any good business person would pur chase a piece of equipment that is: (a) capable of core function, (b) multifunctional (3) efficient, (4) low mainte nance and (5) cost competi tive. GuySuCo is driving ag ricultural mechanisation, and this is very much need ed; however, agricultural mechanisation is not limit ed to land preparation only, hence there is need for a ma chine that is multifunction al. There may be a need for some articulated tractors, but the question is: do we need the quantum that the Corporation is having a tan trumThefor?second issue I wish to address is a news item re ported in Guyana Chronicle (6/8/22)- “8,000 bags of sugar in bonds”. In this news item, the Corporation attempts to downplay the Uitvlugt fiasco as a major cause of nation al sugar shortage. The news paper reported: “Singh ex plained that while there was a minor issue at the Uitvlugt Estate during the first crop, the problem there was fixed, using technology from the United States”. Editor, in the audio recording, the CEO is heard referring to the Uitvlugt situation as a “national catastrophe”; how ever, we are told in the GC article that it is a “minor is sue”. This is clear deception, to lead this nation into be lieving that the Uitvlugt fi asco had nothing to do with the sugar shortage debacle. The truth on the Uitvlugt situation is that GuySuCo’s engineers, having observed a deteriorating high-speed, high-torque gear assembly on its mill turbine gearbox in December 2021, did noth ing to procure a new gear as sembly, or acted very late to source replacement from one of its sources in USA, India, or China. The engineers de cided they would repair that gear assembly through welding - a patently wrong engineering decision for this type of duty and applica tion. This type of gear can not be effectively repaired or fabricated locally (which GuySuCo spent millions to experiment with), and must be sourced internationally. It is not “new technology” that is needed, it is a simple replacement.Intheend, the repairs failed after 16 hours of op eration, and a locally fab ricated gear assembly also failed on the first trial. This caused the estate to aban don its 1st crop, thus wiping out 6,000 tonnes sugar from the national supply. And Uitvlugt employees were left without incomes. This man-made disaster/ catastrophe presented a sit uation for Mr. Mohammed to extend his love, kindness and generosity to Uitvlugt employees, for which they are thankful. No deflection or deception can remove thatTofact.compound the na tional sugar supply prob lem, Albion and Blairmont Estates did not achieve the meagre targets of 9,078 tonnes and 6,888 tonnes re spectively in the first crop. Ultimately, with demand being steady and supply lowered, price skyrocketed. The ACCA and MBA hold ers do not need me to ex plain further. between GuySuCo management and board is unhealthy
SookramSincerely,Persaud Relationship
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Truck driver on $1M bail for Sarah Johanna fatal accident
The driver at the scene of the accident
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Thirty-two-year-old Shamby Yamat of Sarah Johanna, East Bank Demerara (EBD), who was involved in a fa tal accident on Monday, was grant ed bail in the sum of $1 million when he appeared at the Diamond Magistrate’s Court. Yamat appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman on Wednesday where he pleaded not guilty to the charge which stat ed that he drove motor lorry GYY 6047 in a dangerous manner thus causing the death of Francisco Simosa.Itwas reported that 35-yearold Simosa, a Venezuelan nation al, was killed by a reversing truck driven by Yamat along the Sarah Johanna Public Road, EBD. Police had stated that the now dead man was standing along the roadway as motor lorry GYY 6047, which was heading in the direction of Timehri, stopped, and as the driver reversed, the left side of the tray struck the pedestrian, causing him to fall onto the parapet. It was then that the left side rear wheel of the truck ran over him.The injured man was picked up by the Police and public-spirit ed citizens in an unconscious con dition and taken to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, where he was pronounced dead. A breathalyser test was con ducted on the driver, but no al cohol was reportedly found in his system.Ina video that was provided by a resident, the driver of the truck explained that he was reversing when he felt as if the truck rolled over something on the roadway. As such, he stopped the vehicle and saw the man lying in a motionless state.He exited the vehicle and from all indications, Simosa appeared to be dead. The driver claimed that a buzzer would normally come on when the truck is reversing and he was not sure if the now dead man heard“Theit. buzzer was on and if he hear it, why he didn’t move?” the driver questioned. Meanwhile, Yamat will return to court on August 29, 2022.
Dead: Francisco Simosa
Step 2: Find the greatest number in the tenths place: 0.90. Then the next gre atest number in the tenth place: .61 Step 3: If two decimals have the same number in the tenths place, look at the next place value, the hundredths place and rank according to the higher number. With 0.21 and 0.22, 2 is greater than 1.
Comparing and orderingExercises:decimals
Remember: When comparing numbers with decimals, always look at the whole numbers first. If two whole numbers are the same, then compare to the right of the decimal point.
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A king and queen once upon a time reigned in a country a great way off, where there were in those days fairies. Now this king and queen had plenty of money, and plenty of fine clothes to wear, and plenty of good things to eat and drink, and a coach to ride out in every day: but though they had been married many years they had no children, and this grieved them very much indeed. But one day as the queen was walking by the side of the river, at the bottom of the garden, she saw a poor little fish, that had thrown itself out of the water, and lay gasping and nearly dead on the bank. Then the queen took pity on the little fish, and threw it back again into the river; and before it swam away it lifted its head out of the water and said, “I know what your wish is, and it shall be fulfilled, in return for your kindness to me— you will soon have a daughter.” What the little fish had foretold soon came to pass; and the queen had a little girl, so very beautiful that the king could not cease looking on it for joy, and said he would hold a great feast and make merry, and show the child to all the land. So he asked his kinsmen, and nobles, and friends, and neighbours. But the queen said, “I will have the fairies also, that they might be kind and good to our little daughter.” Now there were thirteen fairies in the kingdom; but as the king and queen had only twelve golden dishes for them to eat out of, they were forced to leave one of the fairies without asking her. So twelve fairies came, each with a high red cap on her head, and red shoes with high heels on her feet, and a long white wand in her hand: and after the feast was over they gathered round in a ring and gave all their best gifts to the little princess. One gave her goodness, another beauty, another riches, and so on till she had all that was good in the world.
Step 4: What do you do with .09 and 0.091? Add a zero to .09 as a placehol der for the thousandths place: 0.090. Now, you can see that 0.091 is greater than 0.090. Exercises: Place these decimals in order from least to greatest: 2.61, 2.21, 2.610, 3.220, 0.90, .09, 7.61, 0.75, .92, 4.22, 1.90, .093
When you compare whole numbers, you look at place value. To compare de cimals, you will look at place value. Line up your decimals so that the deci mal points are in a column. Then begin by looking at the column to the im mediate right of the decimal point, the tenths place. As you arrange your numbers, work toward the right. Example: Place these decimals in order from least to greatest: .61, 0.21, .09, .22, .90, .091 Step 1: Line up the decimal points: 0.0910.90.21.61.09.22
Hicken’s appointment to act...
Development agenda
was the first stop in President Ali’s outreach. The President also met with residents in Abary Creek, Region Five, on Thursday.
President Dr Irfaan Ali on Thursday conduct ed several outreach es in Regions Five (MahaicaBerbice) and Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) during which he promised to assist several communities with theirThedevelopment.Headof State told the residents of Baracara and neighbouring communities in Canje Creek, Region Six, that his Government would work hand-in-hand with them to ensure that they benefit from development pieceedlook.tynolivetheatesinglecommunity,willingGovernmentPresident,Accordingopportunities.tothehisentireisreadyandtowalkineverysingletoembraceeveryGuyaneseandtocreajourneythroughwhichchildrenofGuyanacaninafuturewherethereisdifferenceinthecommunitheyliveinorthewaythey“WeareonlycementtogetherinonesingularthatiscalledGuyanese.
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President Ali also spoke about enhancing healthcare delivery in the communities as well as improving condi tions for However,teachers.hetold the resi dents that Government needs their support in doing these and other things to not take the country further but en sure that all communities are simultaneously agriculturallivestockment,drainagethealthemcernsAli,Nevertheless,developed.Presidentafterlisteningtotheconoftheresidents,assuredofassistanceinseverareasincludingaccesstointernet,theprovisionofandirrigationequipandassistancewithfarmingandotheropportunities.Baracara,inCanjeCreek,
During that engagement, the Head of State told res idents of Abary Creek that the importance of communi ties such as theirs, to nation al growth and development, is oftenAsunderstated.such,heannounced im mediate and medium-term in terventions in several areas to further assist in their develop ment.From October 1, he said a full system will be in place to ensure that health services will be provided to residents throughout Abary Creek. In addition, the President mandated an immediate ex amination of the school boat to ensure the comfort of the school children upon the re quest of the residents. He said too that monies will be allocated for the reha bilitation of two miles of the farm-to-market access road before the end of the year. The residents, the Guyanese leader assured, will also benefit from the Government’s solar pro gramme.Tofollow up on these promises, he said that by next week, a team comprising of representatives from various Ministries and agencies would return to the creek. The Head of State also said that his Government will ensure residents benefit from investments in education, healthcare, agriculture and sport.Abary Creek was the sec ond stop for President Ali during Thursday’s outreach. He was accompanied by Minister Mustapha, repre sentatives from the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority, regional officials as well as representatives from the Office of the President. (G8)
President Ali promises to assist Reg 5, 6 communities with development
We are ‘One Guyana’… Let us start living in this coun try [and] what it means to be Guyanese and what it means to be Guyanese is where we look out for each other and where we are the keeper of eachHeother.”went on to outline his vision for future develop ments. President Ali related that his Government wants to create a pathway that will see tremendous results but not in the near future.
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The Guyanese lead er further stressed that his Administration’s development agenda targets every segment of the population but specifi cally women, children and the elderly.“What I want is for us to have a broad conversation in Baracara and the entire Canje Creek to see what are the things we can do to ensure that your children can study under the GOAL programme, that they can have the schol arships, that you can expand education, that you can have the children under better fa cilities. What is it that we can do to support the further up liftment of Presidentchildren.”Alitold the resi dents that they already know of the various programmes and initiatives that the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic Government has imple mented but what he wants to know is how to advance this even further to benefit them. To this end, he disclosed that in a recent meeting with Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha, they discussed us ing skills from communities along the Canje Creek to build two cargo boats to help farm ers transport their produce out to the markets. “We don’t only want the produce to go to the mar ket… We are working now on the development of a munici pal airport [in Region Six] … If we develop this airport and we produce all the foods here, we can take it straight to the cargo facility and fly it to the Caribbean; and have fresh produce, fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, fresh food produc tion in the Caribbean. That is the long vision.” But the Head of State not ed that first they have to build the necessary infrastructure to support this. He added too that the Government and the com munities also have to work to gether to link infrastructure with food production.
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“This is a case of a necessi ty not to cure an illegality, but to ensure that the unexpect ed lacuna that resulted in the impossibilities comply with Article 211 did not result in a situation that would have left the Guyana Police Force and, therefore the nation, without a Commissioner.”Accordingto her, the Opposition parliamentarian’s argument that President Ali, upon assuming office, had re fused to engage with former Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon until the APNU/AFC recognised the legitimacy of the PPP/C Government, was to “engage in speculation”. Even if she had declared Hicken’s appointment uncon stitutional, the Chief Justice made it clear that she would have applied the defacto offi cer doctrine, to save all actions carried out by him, including the recent promotion of doz ens of junior Police ranks. Considering her findings, the Chief Justice concluded, “There could be no disregard of and thereby a breach of the requirement for meaningful consultation when it was im possible to so engage. [Jones] therefore, is relying on an im possibility to ground the claim of court.”anapplicationunconstitutionality…thisisvexatiousandabuseoftheprocessofthe
Dismissed with costs In the end, Jones’s applica tion was dismissed, with costs to the respondents, name ly, Attorney General Anil Nandlall, SC, and Hicken, to be assessed, if not agreed upon by August 31. Jones was represented by Senior Counsel Roysdale Forde and Attorney Selwyn Pieters. Appearing on behalf of the re spondents were the Attorney General and a battery of law yers from his Meanwhile,chambers.Hicken was appointed to act in the office of Commissioner of Police af ter former Commissioner of Police (ag) Nigel Hoppie pro ceeded on pre-retirement leave.Before ascending to the helm of the Police Force, Hicken, one of the longest serving members of the Police Force, performed duties as Deputy Commissioner in charge of operations. He became prominent to the public during his ten ure as Commander of Police A and B Divisions. He also served as Head of the Police Force’s Training Centre.
He announced that a team will return to Canje Creek for two days and work with resi dents on detailing how to ac celerate agricultural produc tion“Whatthere. do we need to do? Do we need to bring in two machines and keep it in here for a few months and use those machines for the impol dering of lands? These are the types of discussions that we want to have. If that is what is required then I can commit to you now that the President is going to work with the Ministry of Agriculture to en sure that you get that.”
The men who were arrested during the anti-smuggling operations
The Law Enforcement and GuyanaDivisionInvestigations(LEID)oftheRevenueAuthority, with support from the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard, on Wednesday seized a motor vessel laden with a large quantity of for eign liquor and other uncus tomed items at the Abary foreshore in Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice).Theseizureoccurred as the vessel was being operat ed by three men, who were arrested after they attempt ed to evade the law enforce mentAndauthorities.inaseparate opera tion, LEID of the GRA, with support from the Guyana Police Force, seized an other motor vessel and a minibus laden with a large quantity of foreign alcohol ic beverages, cigarettes and other uncustomed items at the Number 43 Village koker on the Corentyne Coast in East Berbice. Five persons have thus far been arrested, and investigations are still ongoing. The GRA has said that as it maintains a “zero toler ance” approach to smuggling and other illegal activities, it is encouraging persons in volved in such activities to cease and desist therefrom, and bring themselves into compliance with the nation’s tax, trade and border laws.
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…on elections Now, we know General Elections are due in 2025. Unless, of course, the PPP calls a snap election – which is their prerogative. But whichever way we go, there’s gonna have to be a Voters List – with the names and particulars of all who’re entitled to vote! Now, your Eyewitness isn’t too sure about their stance on the imminent LGE, but Opposition Leader Norton just made it clear the Opposition ain’t going to participate in the 2025 General Elections unless there’s a brand-new voters’ list - put together from a house-to-house exercise.They claim our list is too “bloated”, cause it has too many persons who’ve migrated or died. Now, this threat sounds reasonable – until you hear that the Courts have ruled that you can’t take off emigrants’ names!! So, what to do?? Well, we can always change the constitution to allow that. Or, as the PPP says, tighten the safeguards that were instituted after 1997 and subsequently!! Whichever way we go, this aint gonna end well. …in the air? A lotta folks are happy that British Airways is back. Now, this might be good for Britain, as they try recovering from Brexit. But is this recreating the old Pax Britannia? And will the navy follow??
2 vessels, 1 minibus seized with smuggled liquor, goods
…of culture
Vultures...
There are some people who’ll go to any length to create strife and confusion in our country – just to further their lust for power. Note your Eyewitness didn’t say “to SATISFY their lust for power” – cause as they move up the power ladder, they get enlarged perspectives to see and seize ever larger chunks. To reverse the analogy, they become like avalanches picking up debris to build their mass, smashing everything in its path. Your Eyewitness, of course, is talking about those elements in the Opposition camp, who, knowing fully well we’ve got an ethnically divided society, yet exploit culturally driven fears in the community. And this is very, very dangerous, since culture goes to the very essence of who we are; or, more to the point, who we see ourselves to be. Or not!! Now the danger comes from the fact that folks who live near each other, or with each other, can’t help but compare themselves – and in these matters, someone will always come out ahead or behind. That’s what comparison’s all about, ain’t it?? Now, this started from the very beginning of this country, when the Europeans who “discovered the New World” compared themselves with the local Indigenous peoples and concluded that they were faaaar superior!! So superior that they didn’t even deign to consider how they could “discover” these lands when those folks were already living here!! And, of course, the answer is they didn’t consider those to be REAL people!! And ditto for all others they dragged from all four (?) corners of the earth for the honour of slaving away for them!! To slave for them was an honour, since we’d pick up some “civilised” behaviour from them – like whipping and beating us for the slightest “infraction”. Such as looking at them cross-eyed!! You were supposed to be grinning even when you were dragging a punt loaded with cane to the sugar factory!! And some are surprised that nowadays we beat our wives and children at the drop of a hat!! Anyhow, our history has, not surprisingly, produced cultures that make us touchy about all kinds of “slights”. And if you’re slighting your neighbour, if you happen to be doing better than he is doing, you’re implicitly signalling that he’s not as good as you!! And when an entire group suffers by comparison to another group, then, lo and behold, you have the ethnic conflict that bursts out ever so often in our dear old mudland!! And that’s what these culture vultures are digging up like old sores. Folks move ahead or fall behind for all sorts of reasons – driven by historical or contingent factors. Rather than whipping up frustrations that can explode into violence, why not work to overcome debilitations?
The views expressed in this column are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Guyana Times’ editorial policy and stance
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At least 20 Linden, Region 10
the beneficiaries for their patience exhibited through out the process. He also used the opportunity to remind them that the Ministry will continue to work to fulfil the housing demand in Region 10 and outlined several housing development plans for the Furtherregion. noting that squatting should not be an alternative for citizens, Croal posited that the hous ing drive will continue to be extended to every region. He also called on persons to be more responsible and desist fromInsquatting.earlyMay of this year, the Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) had conducted a demolition ex ercise in Phase 4, Amelia’s Ward, which has been ear marked for infrastructure development by the Ministry of Housing and Water. During the exercise, however, two habitable structures were demolished, while other structures in cluding fences and founda tions were also removed. The structures were in the path of an access road. To date, some of the affected persons have been offered house lots while two have opted for housing units. Immediately after the demolition exercise, Chief Executive Officer of the CH&PA, Sherwyn Greaves met with the persons who had taken up illegal occu pancy in the area. A com mitment was made for those persons to be offered lands and alternative housing op tions. These offers were accepted, followed by an independent valuation ex ercise which was done by the Ministry of Finance’s Valuation Office in June. But prior to this agree ment, several officials in cluding Minister with the Housing Ministry Susan Rodrigues had met with the affected persons. At one of those engage ments, the CH&PA Head had explained that while the demolition exercise was un fortunate, it was necessary as the area was earmarked for a new thoroughfare and the agency could no longer sit by and hold back devel opment.Moreover, he had stated that when the occupation al survey was done in mid2021, there were no struc tures in the path of the road and the squatters in the area were advised against erecting new structures as well as making additions to existing structures. It was previously report ed that of the 16 informal settlements, only two hab itable structures existed at the time of demolition, while the other structures varied from chain-link fences to wooden and concrete foun dations.While the affected per sons have agreed to the sug gested resolution to the mat ter, the CEO had pointed out that the issue of squat ting is causing major set backs in the housing drive for the region. He noted that while there are genuine instances where persons are forced to occupy lands illegally, this practice cannot and would not be en couraged.Greaves had further ex plained, “last year we al located 400 house lots in Amelia’s Ward and we can not give persons access to those lots because of those persons who are squat ting. Now we have to move around that and we have to constantly be changing our plan and it is unfair to those 400 people to be affected by a few, so as a result those ac tions were taken.” (G8)
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Linden squatters get financial compensation from Govt
Affected persons signing their financial settlement agreements
Housing and Water Minister Collin Croal presenting a compensatory package and agreement to one of the squatters
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Tickets for ferry services can be booked online from October
Bridging the gap be tween emerging job markets and skills to support such sec tors has moved one step closer with the sign ing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) and Coursera. This signing, facilitated on Thursday, comes after weeks of consultations, and will bring about training programmes facilitated by Coursera that would upskill persons in all sectors. One of the first initiatives is a sur vey to identify the skills gap and needs of the labour mar ket, after which the training would be rolled out. Senior Advisor at Coursera, Chad Pasha, un derscored that nationwide upskilling would develop the skills on demand in the Private Sector. He noted that Guyanese need to pre pare for the jobs that would come on stream from the budding oil and gas indus try.“As the country’s eco nomic landscape rapidly evolves, it is imperative for Guyanese citizens to have the opportunity to learn the skills and earn the creden tials needed to continuous ly prepare them for today’s and tomorrow’s job mar kets. There are now much fewer barriers to accessing the world’s best online edu cation. Learners don’t need pre-qualification for the vast majority of Coursera cours es. You don’t even need con stant internet connection to download our content of fline,” he noted. Already, there are 65,000 Guyanese learners enrolled in over 248,000 courses. The project aims to offer dif ferent and highly relevant learning“Goingopportunities.forward, the Private Sector Commission and Coursera will work to gether to understand the skills needs across Private Sector organisations and the skills gaps among the la bour force. We are current ly working with the PSC to map these needs to a Private Sector survey,” Pasha has said.PSC Chairman Paul Cheong added that there is a new Guyana in the making, and stakeholders must cap italise on opportunities. He also said the country’s land scape is changing quite rap idly, and people must keep up with this “Guyana’space.economy is growing at a rapid pace. This year, it is projected to grow 60 per cent. That growth and development create also the need for the requisite skills to participate in the coun try’s development…We need to, as citizens of this coun try, put ourselves in a place to optimise whatever benefit we can get through the con tribution we would be mak ing to our country’s develop ment. So, we look forward to many of our people coming on board outside to get the requisite training that they require,” the PSC Chairman relayed.Launched in 2012, Coursera is now one of the largest learning plat forms in the world, with over 102 million registered learners. Coursera collab orates with over 250 lead ing universities and in dustry partners, including Yale University, University of Michigan, Google and IBM, to offer a broad cat alogue of content and cre dentials, including courses, specialisations, professional certificates, guided projects and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. Institutions and Governments around the world use Coursera to up skill and reskill their em ployees and citizens. “We now have a gold en opportunity to increase the economic potential and quality of life of thousands of Guyanese citizens, as well as improve Guyana’s attrac tiveness for investment, its competitiveness on a glob al footprint, its growth tra jectory, and the ecosystem for innovation which leaves no citizen behind. We must lower the barrier to entry in education, and allow people from vastly different skill sets, backgrounds, abilities coming from different parts of the country to be able to have equal chances at im proving themselves to the best of their ability,” Pasha added.
Guyanese must optimise benefits for country’s development – PSC Chair …as Private Sector, Coursera start nationwide upskill partnership
Members of the PSC, Coursera and other stakeholders at the MoU signing
Beginning from the month of October, com muters using Guyana’s ferry services would simply be able to book their tickets on line, rather than waiting for hours prior to their departure to secure a spot. This development has been announced by Public Works Minister Juan Edghill, earlier this week at the par liamentary“Nobodysitting.hasto go there to line up and get a num ber to board. You’d be able to book, you pay and you know. The advisory board of the Transport and Harbours Department is working very hard for the implementation of online booking,” he said. The Transport and Harbours Department would publish the sched uled trips departing from the Parika Stelling to places like Supenaam and Bartica. There have been com plaints from commuters about the hours of waiting just to secure a spot for their vehicles. Due to the large vol ume of passengers traversing daily, the Minister explained that authorities would facili tate additional trips per day, to ensure that people get to their destinations.
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NEWS W ith the reintro duction of British Airways to ply the Guyana-United Kingdom route, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has called for the removal of the ex isting UK visa require ment.On Thursday, the GCCI said it welcomes the de cision by carrier British Airway (BA) to restart its route between Guyana and the United Kingdom (UK). This decision, it said, comes at a time when Guyana has become the largest trading partner in the Caribbean with the UK. This deep ened relation, driven large ly by enterprise, demon strates the strengthening of the Guyanese economy. In light of this, the Chamber reiterated its longstanding call for the removal of the visa re quirement that exists for Guyanese who wish to travel to the UK. “The GCCI is of the view that the removal of this re quirement will auger well for continued deepening of economic relations be tween the countries, and foster Private Sector de velopment in both terri tories,” the Chamber dis closed. The GCCI intends to make formal representa tion to the Governments of both Guyana and the United Kingdom with a view to urging the respec tive leaders to examine the removal of the visa re quirement.BritishAirways will be gin flying within the first quarter of 2023. They an ticipate twice-weekly ser vice to Guyana and return from the airline, which will be using a Boeing 777 that will use 200ER equipment. However, there will not be direct flights from Guyana to London, since the aircraft will transit in St. Lucia, which will also open new opportunities for thatTicketscountry.to travel with British Airways went on sale immediately after the announcement. The new airline provider to Guyana will play a critical role in granting better access to the diaspora in the UK, which surpasses 30,000 people.Last year, a delegation from the United Kingdom (UK) was in Guyana to dis cuss bilateral trade oppor tunities. Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd used that occasion of their meet ing to push for, among other things, the removal of visa restrictions for Guyanese to travel to the UK. He had informed the delegation that the Government of Guyana is on a quest to create an envi ronment that is conducive to business, as it recognis es the importance of “ease of business” in attracting investors to Guyana. It was also not lost on the group that Guyana’s economy is set to under go a transformation in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), owing to the oil wealth. Despite these developments and Guyana being a part of the Commonwealth, a visa was a requirement for travel to theAroundUK. that period, the GCCI had said it was lob bying for the return of vi sa-free travel to the UK, especially in light of the in creased business activities which were slated to take place between the two na tions. (G12) for removal of UK visa requirement for Guyanese
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Undertakers removing the body from the Montrose trench
The decomposed bod ies of two uniden tified men were on Thursday pulled from the Demerara River and a trench at Montrose, East Coast Demerara respective ly. The Police have said they received an anonymous call stating that a body was seen floating at the eastern bank of the Demerara River in the vicinity of the Tiger Bay area. The discovery was made at about 12:15h, and a team of ranks from the Brickdam Police Station went to the area and ob served the body with its foot in an advanced state of de composition. The head and hands also appeared to have been eaten or rotted away. The body, clad in a pair of grey three-quarter pants, was taken to the Memorial Gardens Funeral Home to await proper identification and a post-mortem exam ination.Meanwhile, the partially decomposed body of anoth er man was found floating in a trench at Montrose, ECD. This body, of a man of East Indian descent, was found lying in a face-down position and without clothes on it. Police examined the body for marks of violence, but none wasThisseen.body is also at the Memorial Gardens Funeral Home, awaiting identifica tion and an autopsy.
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Online booking for ferries...
Decomposed bodies of men found in Demerara River, Montrose trench
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“Essequibians have rice that they have to get to mill ers, and they have produce that have to get to mar kets. We facilitate that to ensure we support what the Ministry of Agriculture is doing,” he said. For 2022, the Public Works Ministry has facili tated dry docking for the MV Barima, MV Kimbia and MV Malali. The MV Kanawan and MV Sabanto which tra verse the Parika-Supenaam route were successfully sent into drydocking and re turned to operation. “In seven months, five vessels in and out of drydock is history for the Transport and Harbours Department.
The commitment that we have now from the Transport and Harbours Department is that we have to main tain a proper schedule to en sure that when these vessels go into dry dock, we don’t meet some of the challenges we had,” the Public Works Minister noted. In the supplementa ry funding approved on Monday for Government to continue its work, $131 mil lion was set aside for the rehabilitation of ferry ves sels. Guyana’s maritime op erations would soon get a boost with the introduction of the spanking new MV Ma Lisha. The US$12.7 ves sel is built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd in India. It is 69.55 me tres long, with a 13.5-me tre beam. Designed to tra verse the conditions from Georgetown to the North West District (NWD), it will cut travel time by 50 per cent, with a speed of 15 knots and 500 nautical miles’ endurance. It has a 250-tonne cargo capacity, with a six-tonne capacity crane, and will be powered by two engines. Passenger capacity is 294 persons, in clusive of crew members. Works will be car ried out at Kingston, Port Kaituma, Mabaruma, and Morawhanna stellings to ac commodate this vessel. (G12)
TheeantMisshighly-anticipatedJamZonepagisslatedforstag ing at the National Cultural Centre (NCC) on Saturday, August 13, 2022, and the seven delegates would then be competing in the National Costume, Talent, Swimwear, and other seg ments.The delegates have al ready competed in the Fantasy Swimwear segment at the Jam Zone Beach Jam, and the personal interviews were done live on NCN and Channel 72/21 on Monday evening. The semi-finalists on Monday paid a courtesy call on Tourism, Industry and Commerce Minister, Oneidge Walrond. After being in troduced to the delegates, Minister Walrond declared herself pleased to see such beautiful, intelligent women in the pageant, and urged the young ladies to express them selves during the process.
The teen delegates at the sashing ceremony
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T he 4th annual Miss Guyana Teen Scholar pageant officially kicked off with a sashing ceremony of 12 delegates vying for the crown, title, and scholarship of Guyana’s next teen Robeinascholar.Edinboro, Mya Saunders, Akeelah Jones, Carissa Vandoimen, Jayda Overton, Curtela Lewis, Lisa Hassan, Beyonce Nicholson, Trasmattie Dasrath, Olivia Stephens, Ashanti Corlette and Chidima Nurse were offi cially sashed on Sunday, August 7th, and introduced for the first time to an audi ence of their friends, fami lies, sponsors and fans. The energy in the au ditorium of the St. Joseph High School was electric as the delegates walked out on stage, introduced them selves, and gave Guyana a glimpse of what was next to come.The ceremony featured the musical talent of Teija Edwards, national pan nist and Teen Scholar 2021 awardee for Best Talent; an Indian medley dance by Rameisa Ganesh, winner of the 2019 Best Ballroom Dance award; a dance by the delegates; and remarks from the pageant’s chore ographers, Aliya Wong and Joshua Percival. The delegates were sashed by reigning Queen Shequana Holder, Miss Guyana Teen Scholar 2021 and 3rd Queen of The Imperial House. Holder congratulated the potential queens, and wished them success on their journey. The quarterfinalists will now be preparing for the preliminary competition of the pageant, a person ality interview, talent and dance presentation; presen tation on social issues, and an elocution competition which would determine who moves forward in the com petition on pageant night. The winner of the pag eant would be awarded a scholarship that covers her expenses for any tertia ry education programme in Guyana during her year of reign; she would also man age a community develop ment fund for her outreach and voluntary projects, and would speak as a role model to encourage other girls to pursue their education and ambitions.Thisyear’s Miss Guyana Teen Scholar pageant is co ordinated by The Imperial House, in partnership with the Culture, Youth and Sport Ministry.
From left to right are: Jasmine Assanah, Jade Mercurius, Shaniyah DeCosta, Amel Griffith, Tourism Minister Oneidge Walrond, Phelicia Adams, Omaiah Hall and Jada Jones
The delegates - Amel Griffith, Omaiah Hall, Jasmine Assanah, Shaniya DeCosta, Jade Mercurius, Phelicia Adams, and Jada Jones - took the opportu nity to express their hopes for the development of the Tourism industry. The Miss Jam Zone Pageant has always been tourism-focused, and this year, the coordinators chose seven towns for the dele gates to represent and depict in their National Costume. Each delegate worked close ly with several renowned Guyanese designers to cre ate the most stunning and thought-provoking pieces for the upcoming pageant. The pageant has long been a part of the annu al Jam Zone celebrations, and after a brief hiatus, it returned this year to enor mous support from the pub lic. Tickets for the pageant are on sale at the National Cultural Centre at a cost of $2000, $2500 and $3000.
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ays after stabbing his ex-wife – 24-year-old Cindy Ramchandar – to death, the suspect, Suraj Ganpat, turned him self in on Thursday. This was confirmed by Regional Commander Boodnarine However, up to press time investigators were still receiving information from theCrimesuspect.
Corentyne man who fatally stabbed ex-wife turns self in
Murder suspect Suraj Ganpat with the murder victim Cindy Ramchandar G uyana’s COVID-19 death toll is now 1274 after two per sons who has tested posi tive for the novel coronavi rusThedied. Health Ministry on Thursday reported that the latest fatalities are two males, an 82-year-old from Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) and a 76-year-old from Region Seven (CuyuniMazaruni), who succumbed on August 1 and 9, respec tively. Neither of the men was COVID-19 vaccinated. This makes the third COVID-19 death to be re corded in the month of August.Meanwhile, another 69 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 within the previous 24-hour period. The total number of con firmed cases in the country is now 70,353, with more than 500 active cases, in cluding two persons who are in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the re maining persons in isola tion – 500 in home isolation and 13 in institutional iso lation.To date, some 68,564 persons have recovered from the life-threatening vi rus.Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Guyana, a to tal of 681,159 tests were conducted of which 32,217 males and 38,136 females tested positive. A breakdown of the new infections shows one case from Region One (BarimaWaini), three from Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), 18 from Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), 41 from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica), one from Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), three from Region Seven (CuyuniMazaruni), and one each from Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) and Region 10 (Upper Americas,(Potaro-Siparuni).Berbice)fromDemerara-Berbice).NocaseswererecordedRegionFive(Mahaica-andRegionEightIntheRegionofthethenumberof confirmed COVID-19 cases is pegged at over 169 million with a death toll of 2.7 mil lion. Globally, the confirmed positives stand at over 571 million with more than 6.3 million reported deaths. If anyone is displaying any of the symptoms asso ciated with COVID-19 or needs any additional in formation, they are asked to contact the COVID-19 Hotline at 231-1166, 2267480, or 624-6674 immedi ately or visit www.health. gov.gy. (G2)
Chief Wendell Blanhum had earlier told Guyana Times that the Police were making strin gent efforts to apprehend theRamchandarsuspect. had sev ered the relationship and had moved out of East Canje and back to her Corentyne home about two months be fore her Notwithstandingdemise. that, Ganpat accused the woman of infidelity. It was reported that the now dead woman ended the relationship after she had been constantly abused by Ganpat. However, on Monday, Ramchandar of Number 47 Village, Corentyne, left her home on her electric bike to drop off her three-year-old niece at her parent’s home, which is one street away. While she was in front of the child’s mother’s home, Ganpat reportedly drove up and struck her off the bike. He reportedly exited the car, attacked the woman with a knife, and stabbed her sev eral times before fleeing the scene. The injured woman was picked up and taken to the Skeldon Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The couple had no children. Anita Thirbhowan, an aunt of the dead woman, told Guyana Times on Monday that, “I don’t know who call the boy and tell him that this gyal going by them to drop the child over there… but the boy get some details, because he is not living at Rose Hall so he could reach so fast. He come from till in New Amsterdam and wait in front of the health cen tre. That is where he catch the gyal, she go with a red scooter and he push down the scooter and he stab she.” According to her, the cou ple had been married two years ago, but separated two months ago. During their marriage, Ramchandar had suffered constant abuse at the hands of her husband.
GUYANA COVID-19 DASHBOARD AUGUST 11, 2022 UPDATE GET MEDICAL ADVICE ON COVID-19 FROM MOH 24/7 HOTLINE NUMBERS: 2311166; 226 7480; 624 6674; 624 2819; 624 3067 OR 180/181. NUMBER OF NEW CASES 69 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN INSTITUTIONAL ISOLATION 13 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN HOME ISOLATION 500 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN COVID-19 ICU 2 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN INSTITUTIONAL QUARANTINE 0 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES BY GENDER (FEMALES) 38,136 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES BY GENDER (MALES) 32,217 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES IN GUYANA SINCE 2020 70,353 NUMBER OF RECOVERED CASES 68,564 TOTAL 1st DOSE VACCINATED 445,168 FULLY IMMUNISED 344,803 TOTAL NUMBER OF DEATHS 1274 DISTRIBUTION OF TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES SINCE MARCH 2020 REGION 1 2683 REGION 2 3108 REGION 3 8659 REGION 4 35,045 REGION 5 2555 REGION 6 6740 REGION 7 2628 REGION 8 909 REGION 9 4323 REGION 10 3703 HERE IS HOW YOU CAN BE SAFE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Wear a face mask. Keep a physical distance of at least 6 Washfeet. your hands or use handIfsanitizeryouhave any symptoms, call the COVID-19 Hotline. 2 unvaccinated men latest COVID-19 deaths …69 new cases recorded
…PLWD should have no less opportunity, should be given no less treatment – Armogan
The sod-turning ceremony for the business centre at Palmyra, Region Six
I n keeping with Government’s pledge to assist rice farmers to secure a better crop, the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) on Wednesday began the dis tribution of fertiliser vouch ers in Region Two, with over 1500 farmers being re cipients.During Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s visit to the region earlier this year, he had offered Government assistance to sustain the rice sector in light of the high production cost for fer tiliser.The fertiliser assistance project – carried out by the GRDB in collaboration with the Rice Producers Association (RPA) – is being conducted for $275 million and is aimed at alleviating the cost burden of produc tion in the region. The vouchers can be ex changed for fertiliser at companies identified by the RPA.President Dr Irfaan Ali had announced a $1 billion fertiliser assistance pro gramme for farmers earlier thisInyear.July, Guyana Times reported that two months after President Dr Irfaan Ali had announced that his Government would pur chase $1 billion worth of fer tiliser to distribute to farm ers across various regions, the tender for that project was out, and has already at tracted a number of bids. The bids for this ten der, which is seeking a com pany to supply 5000 met ric tons of granular urea fertiliser, were opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) this week. According to the ten der, the fertiliser would be distributed in Regions One (Barima-Waini), (East(Mahaica-Berbice)(Demerara-Mahaica),WestThree(Pomeroon-Supenaam),Two(EssequiboIslands-Demerara),FourFiveandSixBerbice-Corentyne).Amongthebidders, Caricom Rice Mill Limited entered a bid of $1.1 bil lion and Dax Contracting Services entered a bid of $1.2 billion. Cyril Singh Agricultural Enterprise Incorporated had a bid price of $495 million. Meanwhile Rayaadul Hakh Rice Industries bid in Regions One, Two, Three, Four, Five and Six. Thankful Meanwhile, during an interview with several farmers, Sahadeo Persaud told Guyana Times that he is very thankful for the voucher. He added that it will assist him tremendous ly with his 40 acres of rice farm.“What the Government is doing is bringing joy to most of us as rice farmers... You know how much this will help us? The price for fertiliser now we can’t af ford and they do something great and lessen our bur dens,” farmer Persaud said Another rice farmer, Suresh Singh said that he is very satisfied with the bags of fertilisers he received for his 65 acres of rice fields. He added that most of his money was spent on fertilis er where the price for one bag of urea is $11,000 and the cost for one bag of MPK IS $10,000.“Withthis intervention it will assist me a lot in my rice field. I am very thank ful and satisfied with the bags I received,” he said. Other recipients praised the Government for its sup port of the rice industry and are looking forward to their continuousAdditionally,support.during an interview with the Regional Vice Chairman, Humace Oodit, he stated that the process was being hindered by inaccurate information supplied to extension offi cers by the farmers. He add ed that it was time-consum ing since the information has to undergo a verifica tion process, which is done in the fields.
Sod turned for $130M business centre to benefit persons living with disabilities
First Lady Arya Ali on Thursday offici ated the ceremonial sod-turning for a $130 mil lion state-of-the-art business centre at Palmyra, Region Six, for persons living with disabilities (PLWD). It is the first of a se ries of such regional cen tres to be established by the Government.According to the First Lady, within a few months, the building is expected to the erected, furnished and operational.“Thissite will soon house what will be a state-of-theart business centre exclu sively for persons with dis abilities. Construction of the facility is expected to com mence and there are discus sions with various groups which represent disabili ty communities have com menced to solicit and incor porate their ideas.” She said the long-term aim is to ensure that per sons who are living with dis abilities – some of whom are already making products – will be able to use the fa cility for all aspects of their business. It is hoped, the First Lady added, that bene ficiaries will also use the fa cility to train others. Efforts are being made with the Guyana National Bureau of Standards to pro vide the necessary resourc es to ensure quality with the ultimate goal being to have craft, snacks and oth er items being produced by persons living with disabil ities at the business centre, branded with the Made in Guyana certification. “Apart from that, we would want to assure that these persons benefit from technical training and func tional support that they can be empowered to lead their own lives. As it is, the major ity of persons with disabili ties live in relative poverty; that is because disability in creased the risk of poverty through lack of employment and educational opportuni ties,” the First Lady said. In Guyana, there are about 30,000 persons living with disabilities. Hence, Ali said the private sector, non-gov ernmental organisations and Guyana’s international partners needs to all come on board to Meanwhile,assist.Coordinator for Guyana Council of Persons Living with Disabilities, Ganesh Singh at the event noted that this is a new chapter for persons living with disabilities. He referred to the project as transformative as it will transform the lives of benefi ciaries who are part of a vul nerable“Thesegroup.individuals, most of them, live in impover ished circumstances. A high percentage is unemployed.
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Region Two farmers receiving their vouchers
With this centre, that will change. You will have per sons with disabilities gain ing employment and lifting themselves out of poverty,” Singh said. He added that he is hum bled to know that there are persons who care to improve the lives of persons living withHowever,disabilities.Singh called for the project to be replicat ed in other regions. Countrywide Similar sentiments were expressed by Region Six Chairman David Armogan, who went on to explain that similar business centres for persons living with disabili ties will be built in other re gions across the country. Armogan noted that in Region Six, training of per sons with disabilities is tak ing place at every level. “Persons living with dis abilities should have no less opportunity and should be given no less treatment than persons who do not have disabilities. That is the Government’s commitment to persons living with dis abilities in our country.” Also attending the ceremony were China’s Ambassador to Guyana Guo Haiyan and Housing and Water Minister Susan Rodrigues.Thebuilding was de signed and is being con structed by the Housing Ministry. According to Minister Rodrigues, per sons living with disabilities are part of the tone “One Guyana” notion. “They must not be left out. We are a Government that pays heavy emphasis on empowerment. We do not want to be a Government giving handouts,” she ex plained.On the other hand, Minister Persaud said through her Ministry, much attention is being placed on persons living with disabili ties.“Persons living with dis abilities are being trained free of cost in all of the re gions of Guyana in vari ous skillsets including ICT – equipping them with tab lets loaded with the JAWS program for those who are blind or visually impaired; persons who have mobili ty issues or any other form of a disability have benefit ed from programmes such as garment construction or sewing.” Through the Office of the First Lady, the Chinese Government is assisting with funding for the pro gramme. Ambassador Guo Haiyan explained that both countries have been plac ing much focus on improv ing the lives of persons liv ing with Whendisabilities.completed, the Office of the First lady will be furnishing the building which will be equipped with a conference room that can be used for training. (G4)
Over 1500 Region 2 farmers receive $257M in fertiliser vouchers
An artist’s impression of the completed business centre
Public Works Minister Juan Edghill has said that there has been a recorded increase of per sons transiting through the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.This increase has now taken the level of traffic at the airport almost back to the levels recorded be fore the country was hit by the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, which forced the country into lockdown. “August of July 2022, these number are record ed as of the end of July 354,961 passengers transit ed and operated through the Cheddi Jagan International Airport and that is com pared to a 183,063 for the corresponding period last year…in 2022 we are al ready recording a 94 per cent increase of traffic for the corresponding peri od last year,” the Minister said on Wednesday during a pressHeconference.addedthat arriv als at CJIA reflected a 97 per cent increase while de partures reflected a 91 per cent increase, adding that “we are currently doing 95 per cent of our pre-pandem ic traffic which was measur ing at 2019 before we had to into the lockdowns in 2020.” “So, right now air traf fic and travel in and out of Guyana, we are getting back almost to the pre pandemic levels and we have seen sig nificant increases over the last year,” he said. The Minister stated that since taking office back in 2020, the Government has been able to double the number of airlines operat ing Thishere.has now led to an increase in the number of seats available for travel as compared to previous years. “When we came in on October 2020 and we reopen that airport there were just 4 airlines operating, we had Caribbean Airlines, Copa Airlines, Suriname Airways and American Airlines. The total available seats as of October 2020 amounted to 260,434.“Intwo years, we were able to get Jet Blue, Inter Caribbean Airways, Fly Allways and we are welcom ing British Airways. So, we met 4 airlines operating and in 2 years we have been able to double that by putting in another 4 airlines operating in and out of Guyana,” he stated.The total available seats as of July 2022 is 627,318, which is an increase of 140 per cent as compared to the seats offered in 2020, when the Government took office. With the arrival of British Airways, the new est airline operating out of Guyana will be able to add 1328 per week or 69,056 seats per year. The Public Works Minister further explained that this is due to the Government’s decision to reopen the airports despite the negative feedback from naysayers.“Ithink the vision ary leadership and deci sion making directed by President Irfaan Ali, when we decided October of 2020 to reopen our airport is bearing fruit and we led the Caribbean in this regard and I’m sure that every one is now contended that we made the right decision amidst all of the risk and the cry and the pessimism that was being offered, that we were going to bring COVID in and kill people. “We had given the fig ures of how many persons had tested positive on ar rival and those numbers are miniscule, we were able to control this in a great way and we also want to remind that airports international would have certified and ac credited the Cheddi Jagan International Airport with very high accolades of our ability to operate during that COVID-19 period,” Edghill added.
…wheelchair-bound co-accused on $150,000 bail Andre Clarke at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on Thursday
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Jailed: Akeem Lashley On bail: Andre Clarke
T wo sisters, Jamacy Jason, 21, and 29-year-old Tiffine Greaves of B Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown, were on Thursday remanded to prison for the capital of fence of murder. They appeared be fore Magistrate Rushelle Liverpool at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Courts.The joint indictable charge against them stated that they murdered 22-yearold Vanessa Anderson, a mother of three of B Field Sophia Dam, Greater Georgetown, on August 9. They were remanded and the case will continue on September 28. Reports are that Anderson and the sisters were not on speaking terms because of an old grievance. They lived next to the now deadOnwoman.August 9, Anderson was at home with her sis ter and a relative when Jason and her sister began taunting her. As such, an argument erupted between them.As the mother of three was walking going to a nearby shop, the sisters at tackedGreavesher. allegedly whipped out a knife and handed it to her younger sis ter, who stabbed Anderson in the back. The injured woman was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. After the stabbing, the siblings sur rendered to the Police. (G1)
Air traffic almost back to prepandemic levels in Guyana
The parcels of cocaine that were allegedly found in Andre Clarke’s home
Aman who confessed to trafficking a quan tity of cocaine was jailed for four years and fined $2.3 million on a drug trafficking charge. Akeem Lashley, 26, was brought before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on Thursday. He admitted to hav ing 1.5 kilograms of co caine in his possession on August 8 at Norton Street, Georgetown, for the purpose of trafficking. The drug has an estimated street value of $1.5Lashleymillion.pleaded guilty, stating: “Everything is me own...I does do drugs.” His co-accused, 43-yearold Andre Clarke, who is paralysed and confined to a wheelchair, pleaded not guilty to the charge and was released on $150,000 bail. Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) Prosecutor, Attorney-at-Law Thalia Thompson related that ranks from the agency searched Clarke’s home and found four parcels of co caine.At the time of the raid, Self-confessed drug dealer jailed for 4 years, fined $2.3M
Sophia sisters remanded for stabbing mother of 3 to death
Remanded: Tiffine Greaves Remanded: Jamacy Jason Dead: Vanessa Anderson
Lashley, Clarke, along with Police Sergeant Dion Bascom, 33; 54-year-old Rodwell George and Serena Mentus, 19, were at the premises.Clarke’s lawyer, Adrian Thompson, petitioned the court for his client to be granted reasonable bail, highlighting that he is inca pacitated. But the prosecu tor made serious objections, citing the serious nature and prevalence of the of fence. She also disclosed that the entire incident was captured on video in which Clarke made statements ad mitting to his involvement in the crime. In the end, Clarke was released on $150,000 bail. The case was adjourned un til September 5. Clarke is no stranger to law enforcement officers. In fact, in 2011, he was ar rested on a drug trafficking charge after 590 grams of cocaine was found buried in his Theyard.charge was, how ever, withdrawn against him the following year by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Since then, he has been a person of interest to CANU and several investigations into his operations have led to his recent arrest. CANU has described him as a “known drug traf ficker”. (G1)
Lula has said on the campaign trail that the rich should pay more income tax and the poor less. He also advocates taxing dividends paid by companies. The leftist leader is cur rently the frontrunner in the October presidential race, though his advantage over far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro has narrowed in recentThepolls.PTis studying taxa tion of dividends over 1 mil lion reais (US$194,600) per year, and the reduction in payroll taxes paid by com panies.The Reform Bill pending in the Senate aims to unify nine federal taxes into a one value-added tax (VAT) at the federal level, and merge state and municipal taxes into another VAT. It also aligns between states the ICMS inter-state tax on the circulation of goods and services, estab lishing a 17 per cent limit to rates levied, while sub stantially reducing or elimi nating taxation on essential products."Wehave to take ad vantage of the progress al ready made in the Senate," Mercadante said. (Excerpt from Reuters)
Awoman in Brazil has been arrested on sus picion of using a psy chic to swindle her moth er out of more than US$140 million (£114 million) in art, cash and jewellery. The alleged victim is re portedly the widow of one of Brazil's foremost art collec tors.Her daughter is accused of stealing her artwork by using a psychic to pretend it wasOnecursed.painting - by one of Brazil's most celebrated art ists - was reportedly found stashed under a bed. According to Police in Rio de Janeiro and local media reports, the scam began in 2020 when the victim was told by a supposed psychic that her daughter was ill and was persuaded to pay for Intreatment.themonths that fol lowed, Police say the daugh ter and an accomplice posing as a psychic "began to take the artwork from the house, claiming that the paint ing was cursed with some thing negative, with nega tive energy that needed to be prayed over". The scheme went on to involve several accomplices, PoliceThesaid.daughter and the other suspects allegedly mistreated the victim, keep ing her at home for months. "They took 16 paint ings," Police Officer Gilberto Ribeiro told Reuters - in cluding works by renowned Brazilian artists. "We concluded in the pre liminary check that all the characteristics of the seized paintings are compatible with the authentic paint ings," another officer added. Police say seven peo ple are suspected of in volvement in the years-long crime and face charges of embezzlement, robbery, ex tortion, false imprisonment and criminal association, Reuters reported. (Excerpt from BBC News)
R escue divers have thus far failed to reach 10 work ers trapped in a flood ed Mexican coal mine, ac cording to authorities. The workers have been trapped inside the mine since last week, and shafts clogged with debris paired with bad visibility have hindered the first attempts by divers to locate them. Four attempts were made Wednesday, but the divers were not able to get far. “They found they didn’t have space to advance,” said Mexican Defence Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval on Thursday. “With the lights they carry they don’t have the visibility they need to identify what they find.”
Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, if elect ed in October, will back a Tax Reform Bill currently in the Senate that would uni fy federal taxes on consump tion into one valued-added tax, a close aide told Reuters on Thursday.Hewould also replace another Bill changing in come taxes that has already been approved by the lower house, said former Minister Aloizio Mercadante, coor dinator of Lula's Workers Party (PT) campaign pro gramme and a member of Lula's inner circle.
Initial efforts to rescue trapped Mexican miners unsuccessful Cuban oil fire all but out, blackouts and gas lines lengthen Colombia to “radically diversify” exports, says new Finance Minister Brazil's Lula to continue tax reform, but replace Income Tax Bill if elected, says aide
Remains of small armour-plated dinosaur unearthed in Argentina
ubans have been left to endure six- to 18hour blackouts, and search for ever-scarcer gas oline in the wake of a spec tacular blaze that destroyed 40 per cent of Cuba’s main fuel depot and shuttered its only super tanker port. The fire began on Friday when lighting struck a storage tank, spreading to three others before being brought under control on Tuesday. By Thursday the flames were out, but oil res idues remained dangerous ly hot.The import dependent Caribbean Island nation was already reeling from the impact of tough US sanctions, the pandemic’s impact on tourism and ris ing international prices for fuel, food and shipping. Cuba has long relied on the 2.4-million-barrel Matanzas terminal, about 60 miles (130 km) from Havana, for most crude and heavy fuel imports and storage.The communist-run country imports 60 per cent of the fuel it consumes. Cubans were already suffering through chron ic power outages, fuel, food and medicine shortages and lining up for hours to purchase basic goods.
The miners became trapped on August 3, when a mine in Sabinas in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico flooded. Authorities believe the miners breached a wall shared with anoth er flooded area. Five miners were able to escape with in juries, but rescue workers have not been able to make contact with the 10 who re main trapped. It is unclear if they are still alive. Mexican authorities have tried to drain some of the water using dozens of pumps, and Wednesday’s dives marked the first effort of rescue workers to enter the mine. Coahuila Governor Miguel Riquelme said on Twitter that more pumping would be carried out before additional attempts were made to Militaryenter.personnel and rescue dogs were deployed to the scene of the acci dent on Wednesday, and the Defence Ministry has promised that “the work will not stop until they are found.” (Excerpt from Al Jazeera)in a flooded coal mine in Sabinas, Coahuila state, Mexico on August 11 [Daniel Becerril/Reuters]
The accident has ag gravated the energy crisis due to an obsolete power grid and poor maintenance, said Jorge Pinon, director of the University of Texas at Austin's Latin America and Caribbean Energy and Environment.Justovera year ago, un rest swept the country and this year there have been scattered small protests, mainly over blackouts. Havana, home to 20 per cent of the country’s 11.2 million inhabitants, had been spared the worst of the energy crisis until this month, when rolling fourhour blackouts every three days began and diesel fuel vanished. Since the oil de pot blaze power outages are more frequent, longer and less predictable. (Excerpt from Reuters) C olombia will priori tise the diversifica tion of its exports to reduce its dependence on oil, gas and mining and com bat its high trade deficit, its new Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo said on Thursday.TheAdministration of leftist President Gustavo Petro, who took office on Sunday, has already pro posed a tax reform set to raise 25 trillion pesos, some US$5.8 billion, for social programmes in 2023 - part ly through increased du ties on oil and coal exportsand is backing a Bill to ban fracking for hydrocarbons. Ocampo, speaking at the Colombian Business Association's annual con ference, said he is open to changes to the Tax Bill but will not modify the amount being sought, which will also help reduce a fiscal deficit of some 80 trillion pesos.Colombia accumulated a nearly US$6.5 billion trade balance deficit between January and May, up 20.5 per cent on the same period a yearTheearlier.trade balance is the top reason for a wide current account deficit, which doubled last year to US$17.8 billion, equivalent to 5.7 per cent of gross do mestic product. The central bank estimates that deficit will fall to 5.1 per cent of GDP this year. Exports of oil and coal reached US$15.6 billion during the first half of the year and accounted for 54.5 per cent of the country's ex ports.Business groups have said the reform, which would raise duties on com panies by 12 trillion pesos (US$2.8 billion), could hurt investment. (Excerpt from Reuters)
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Regional Brazil woman and psychic con mum out of US$140M in art and cash – Police
Police holding a painting by artist Tarsila do Amaral, thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars
Rescue personnel participating in the operation for miners trapped Palaeontologists on Thursday heralded the discovery of a pre viously unknown small ar moured dinosaur in south ern Argentina, a creature that likely walked upright on its back legs roaming a then-steamy landscape about 100 million years ago. The Cretaceous Period dinosaur, named Jakapil kaniukura, would have been well-protected with rows of bony disk-shaped armour along its neck and back and down to its tail, they said. It measured about 5 feet (1.5 meters) long and weighed only 9 to 15 pounds (4-7 kg), similar to an average house cat.Its fossilised remains were dug up over the past decade near a dam in Patagonia in Rio Negro province's La Buitrera pale ontological zone. The scien tists described Jakapil in a study published in the jour nal Scientific Reports. The scientists said Jakapil marks a first-ofits-kind discovery of an ar moured dinosaur from the Cretaceous in South America. It is part of the thyreophoran dinosaur group that includes the likes of Stegosaurus, known for its bony back plates and spiky tail, and tank-like Ankylosaurus, covered in armour and wielding a clublikeLeadtail. palaeontologist Sebastian Apesteguia and his colleagues found a par tial skeleton of Jakapil along with 15 tooth fragments fea turing a leaf-like shape, sim ilar to iguana teeth. Jakapil resembles a primitive form of thyreo phoran that lived much earlier, making it a sur prise that it dated from the Cretaceous. Apesteguia said never before has such a thyreophoran been dug up anywhere in the southern hemisphere. (Excerpt from Reuters)
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Arollercoaster crash at Legoland's theme park in Germany has hurt more than 30 people, at least one of whom has severe inju ries.According to the park, the accident happened after two rollercoaster trains collided with each other. The incident took place on the Fire Dragon ride at the leisure resort, which is near Gunzburg in Bavaria. Legoland said it had im mediately started a full inves tigation and the ride will be closed for the time being. The company said the acci dent happened after one roll ercoaster train stopped and another train "did not stop completely for until now un known reasons and made im pact". A total of 38 people were in both trains, the park saidwith 31 of them suffering mi nor injuries. Of those, 14 went to hospital for further obser vation and one person needed furtherThreetreatment.helicopters were de ployed to the scene, German mediaRidersreports.still trapped on the rollercoaster had to be evac uated after the incident with the help of two fire engines. "All told, the accident was quite mild," said the Bavarian Red Cross, which was involved
An Arctic Council work ing group based in Troms, Norway, had reported in May 2021 that the increase in av erage Arctic surface tempera ture between 1971 and 2019 was 3.1 degrees Celsius (5.58 degrees Fahrenheit), about three times higher than the globalTheaverage.study, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, found significant regional variations in warming rate within the ArcticBottomcircle.of Form
Kenyans anxious for news on next President 2 days after tight vote Arctic warming 4 times faster than rest of planet – climate study
Legoland: Rollercoaster crash at Germany resort injures 31
France battles “monster” wildfire as heatwaves scorch Europe
Top US Gulf of Mexico oil producer Shell said a pipeline leak prompted it to halt production at three US Gulf of Mexico deepwater platforms designed to produce up to 410,000 barrels of oil per day Resumptioncombined.offlows on the southern leg of the Russia-toEurope Druzhba pipeline further calmed global supply worries. On Tuesday, Russian state oil pipeline monopoly Transneft said Ukraine had suspended flows to parts of central Europe since early this month because Western sanctions prevented it from receiving transit fees from Moscow. Meanwhile, physical oil prices around the world have begun to sag, reflecting easing concerns over Russian-led supply disruptions and heightened worries about a possible global economic slowdown. (Excerpt from Reuters)
Oil prices settled up more than US$2 on Thursday after the International Energy Agency raised its oil demand growth forecast for this year as soaring natural gas prices have some consumers switching to oil. Brent crude futures gained US$2.20, or 2.3 per cent, to settle at US$99.60 a barrel. US West Texas Intermediate crude futures settled up US$2.41, or 2.6 per cent, to US$94.34. "Natural gas and electricity prices have soared to new records, incentivising gas-to-oil switching in some countries," the Parisbased agency said in its monthly oil report. It raised its outlook for 2022 demand by 380,000 barrels per day (bpd). By contrast, the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cut its 2022 forecast for growth in world oil demand, citing the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, high inflation and efforts to contain the pandemic. OPEC expects 2022 oil demand to rise by 3.1 million bpd, down 260,000 bpd from the previous forecast. It still sees a higher overall global oil demand figure than the IEA for 2022. Prices were also boosted as the US dollar extended losses against other major currencies after a report showed US inflation was not as hot as anticipated in July, prompting traders to dial back expectations for rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.
Kenyans crowd ed round radios and televisions on Thursday, increasingly anx ious for news of who their next President might be, two days after voting in an elec tionTheended.East African coun try's election commission (IEBC) has neither released a running tally of results nor said when it plans to an nounce the winner, but un official and sometimes con flicting media counts show a nail-bitingly close race.
More shelling of ZaporizhzhiaUkraine'snucle ar power plant has been re ported, with Ukraine and Russia again blaming each other for the attack. Each side said there were 10 hits on the plant's admin istrative office and fire sta tion on Thursday. UN Secretary General António Guterres warned the fighting could "lead to disas ter" at Europe's largest nu clear plant, seized by Russia in earlyUkraineMarch.warned that Russia may provoke the world's worst nuclear acci dent.On Wednesday, Foreign Ministers from the G7 group of industrialised nations said Russia must immediate ly hand back control of the plant to Kyiv. The US, meanwhile, called for a demilitarised zone to be established around the plant. "Fighting near a nuclear plant is dangerous and irresponsible," a state de partment spokesperson said. The facility and its sur rounding area in central-east ern Ukraine saw shelling last week, with Russia and Ukraine also accusing each other over that attack. Ukraine says Russia has turned the site into a mili tary base, launching attacks from there, knowing that Ukrainian forces are unlikely to retaliate.Moscow denies the claim. In a statement on Thursday, Ukraine's nucle ar agency Enerhoatom said that "Russian invaders again shelled the Zaporizhzhia plant and territories near the nuclear facility". It said an administra tive office near the welding area was hit and several ra diation sensors were dam aged. There was a small fire on some nearby grass, but no injuries.Enerhoatom added that the fire station located near the plant was also targeted. Because of the shelling, it was impossible to change the personnel after their shift, so they had to continue work overtime.TheRussian-installed of ficials issued a mirroring statement, accusing Ukraine of carrying out the shelling. (Excerpt from BBC News)
The Arctic has warmed nearly four times fast er than the rest of the planet during the last 40 years, according to research published on Thursday that suggests climate models are underestimating the rate of polar“Weheating.present evidence that during 1979–2021 the Arctic has been warming nearly four times as fast as the entire globe,” the authors said in the study.“Thus, we caution that re ferring to Arctic warming as to being twice as fast as the global warming, as frequently stated in literature, is a clear underestimation of the situa tion during the last 43 years since the start of the satellite observations.”Whilethere is a long-held consensus among scientists that the Arctic is warming quickly, estimates have var ied according to the timeframe studied and the definition of what constitutes the geo graphic area of the Arctic.
The rollercoaster train, which is designed to look like a fire-breathing dragon, pass es through a dark indoor area before emerging outside to a large, twisting track at speeds of up to 29km/h (18mph). (Excerpt from BBC News)
A firefighting plane dropping flame retardant to extinguish a fire in Belin-Beliet, as wildfires continue to spread in the Gironde region of southwestern France, August 10, 2022
But the blaze reached the outskirts, leaving wrecked houses and charred tractors in itsSupportwake. was on its way from across Europe, with 361 firefighters, as well as trucks and waterbombing aircrafts, expected to back up the 100 French firefighters already on the Moreground.than 60,000 hect ares (230 square miles) have gone up in flames so far in France this year, six times the full-year average for 20062021, data from the European Forest Fire Information SystemFrenchshows.authorities said temperatures in the Gironde region would reach 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) on Thursday and stay high until Saturday. Firefighters warned of an "explosive cocktail" of weather conditions, with wind and the tinder-box conditions helping fan the flames. (Excerpt from Reuters) in the emergency response. According to Legoland's website, the Fire Dragon ride is suitable for children aged six and older who are accom panied by adults, and eight years and older when unac companied.
Veteran opposition leader and former political prison er Raila Odinga, 77, is mak ing his fifth stab at the pres idency. He stands neck and neck with outgoing Deputy President William Ruto, 55. Kenyan media are com piling results from images of forms that the commis sion uploaded on to its web site from more than 46,000 polling stations, a mammoth task that means their tallies differ, and lag far behind the amount of raw data avail able.Amid concerns that those discrepancies could trigger claims of rigging, which have sparked deadly violence af ter recent ballot, many are urging their fellow citizensafter a largely peaceful elec tion - to wait patiently for the official results. More than 1200 people were killed in widespread vi olence that followed the 2007 election, and more than 100 died after the 2017 polls. That history adds to scru tiny on an electoral commis sion wary of repeating mis takes in tallying that caused the Supreme Court to nul lify the 2017 result and or der a re-run. (Excerpt from Reuters)
UN alarmed as Ukraine nuclear power plant shelled again
For example, the Eurasian sector of the Arctic Ocean, near the Svalbard and Novaya Zemlya archipelagos, has warmed as much as 1.25C (2.25F) per decade – seven times faster than the rest of the Theworld.team found that even state-of-the-art climate mod els predicted Arctic warming to be approximately one-third lower than what the observed data showed. (Excerpt from Al Jazeera) A"monster" wildfire raged for a third day in southwestern France on Thursday, ravaging forests and forcing 10,000 people to evacuate their homes. With no let-up in scorch ing temperatures likely be fore the weekend, firefighters backed by water-bombing air craft battled on many fronts, saying the massive fire could change direction at any mo ment. "It's an ogre, it's a mon ster," Gregory Allione from the French firefighters body FNSPF told RTL radio. Wildfires have broken out across Europe this summer as successive heatwaves bake the continent and renew focus on climate change risks to in dustry and livelihoods. Firefighters said they had managed to save her village, transformed into a ghost town after Police told residents to evacuate as the flames ap proached.
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Russia seized the nuclear plant in March, but kept the station's Ukrainian personnel
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A rise in US oil inventories last week and resumption of crude flows on a pipeline supplying central Europe capped price gains. US crude oil stocks rose by 5.5 million barrels in the latest week, the US Energy Information Administration said, more than the expected increase of 73,000 barrels. Gasoline product supplied rose to 9.1 million barrels per day, though that figure shows demand down 6 per cent over the last four weeks from a year earlier. The premium for front-month WTI futures over barrels loading in six months was pegged at US$4.38 a barrel, the lowest in four months, indicating easing tightness in prompt supplies.
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Russell is the first play er to have his jersey num ber retired throughout the NBA. The Celtics had al ready retired his number. The NBA would also pay tribute to Russell through out the 2022-23 season by having players wear a commemorative patch on the right shoulder of their jerseys. Each NBA court would also have a clo ver-shaped logo that in cludes the number six dis played on the sideline near the scorer’s table. Russell was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 1975, then again as a coach in 2021. (BBC Sport) WithasbuildinganticipationtoafrenzySundayAugust 14 draws closer – the day when the 14th edition of the Guyana Cup, Guyana’s premier horseracing event, would be held at the Rising Sun Turf Club in Region 5the Trophy Stall has jumped on board this action with a donation to the event. The Trophy Stall is spon soring the Champion Jockey Trophy for Sunday’s races, and according to proprietor Ramesh Sunich, who has al ways been an avid supporter of all sporting disciplines, he has made this donation in honour of his father Neville Sunich, who had been a jockey in his heyday. Justin Ally, a member of the Jumbo Jet Thoroughbred Racing Committee (JJTRC), promotors of this unmatch able event, was on hand to receive the trophy on Thursday.TheGuyana Cup will have three feature races on Sunday, foremost of which is the Banks DIH Cup, to be contested over a mile for a purse of US$35,880. The Associated Construction Services Derby Stakes would also be contested over a mile, and the winner’s purse is US$17,940; while the Val’s Construction Sprint Classic, being contested over 5.5 fur longs, has a winner’s purse of US$10,765.Afterthe races, Dancehall Artiste Skillibeng is set to ignite the crowd as the headline act in the en tertainment to follow, and a number of other region al and local stars have been booked to perform.
West Indies Men’s Head Coach, Phil Simmons Bill Russell wore number six throughout his 13-year career with the Boston Celtics Trophy Stall proprietor Ramesh Sunich making the presentation to JJTRC’s Justin Ally
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WE CAN’T BEG PEOPLE TO PLAY FOR WEST INDIES – Phil Simmons NBA to retire Bill Russell’s #6 jersey
Andre Russell hasn’t made himself avail able for selection. The status of Sunil Narine’s availability is a bit of a mystery. Evin Lewis and Oshane Thomas have not appeared for their fitness tests. Sheldon Cottrell and Roston Chase are out with injuries, while Fabian Allen has pulled out for personal reasons. As a result of the foregoing, with the men’s T20 World Cup about two months away, West Indies are far from identifying their best squad, and the 4-1 series defeat to India at home recently hasn’t helped. The three-match T20I Series against New Zealand gives the team manage ment one last chance to see the players in an interna tional setting. The CPL will follow, but Lead Selector Desmond Haynes and Head Coach Phil Simmons have expressed disappointment at the state of affairs ahead of theRussell,series. for example, has not played for West Indies since the 2021 T20 World Cup. He’s playing the Hundred at the mo ment - along with Narine - and missed the home se ries against India and now against New Zealand. A couple of days ago, Russell was part of the list of over seas players unveiled by the UAE’s International League T20, which begins in January next year. “From what I have gath ered, I think he is unavail able because he hasn’t made himself available,” Haynes said of LewisRussell.failed to complete a fitness test that had been arranged for him by the CWI during his IPL stint with Lucknow Super Giants earlier this year, according to Haynes.“Iwould love (for) every one to play for West Indies. I would love to make sure that all the guys make themselves available to play,” Haynes has said. “But you must realise that the guys have options now, and if guys are choosing other franchises in front of West Indies, then we have to pick from who is available to us.” Simmons’s comments were stronger: “It hurts! There’s no other way to put it. But what can you do? I don’t think that I should be begging people to play for their countries. I think if you want to represent West Indies, you will make your self“Lifeavailable.haschanged in that people have the opportuni ties to go different places, and if they choose that over West Indies, that’s just how it is.”The CPL, which runs from September 1 to October 1, will come at a good time vis-à-vis West Indies’ se lection for the T20 World Cup. The West Indies would have to play the first round of games, which starts on October 16, to qualify for the Super 12 round of the T20 World Cup. “If there is a competi tion that is run by the West Indies (and) somebody is playing well, I think his name should really come up for selection,” Haynes said about considering CPL per formances for World Cup se lection. “That performance is very important to us, and we didn’t say that we have picked the World Cup team yet, so all the games that are going to be played lead ing up to the World Cup we must take into consider ation.”In the three T20Is against New Zealand, West Indies could tinker with the positions of their two main batters in the middle order, Nicholas Pooran, the cap tain, and Shimron Hetmyer. “So far, we have been experimenting. As we get to the end of these games, we’re going to have a bet ter idea how we want them to be put in the order, and how we want them to go in,” Simmons said. “And we tend to judge it by overs and the situation. So, in each game, it could be different; Shimron could bat higher and Pooran could bat lower. It just depends on the game, the situation in the game.” (ESPNCricinfo)
T he NBA will hon our the late 11-time champion Bill Russell by retiring his jersey, num ber six, across the league. Boston Celtics’ legend Russell died at the age of 88 last month. Current players who wear six, in cluding LeBron James, would be able to continue to use the number, but it would not be issued to new players.Centre Russell won a re cord 11 NBA titles and five NBA Most Valuable Player awards during a 13-year career with the Celtics. He also captained the USA to Olympic gold in 1956, and made a significant impact as the league’s first black head coach and an equal rights“Billpioneer.Russell’s unpar alleled success on the court and pioneering civ il rights activism deserve to be honoured in a unique and historic way,” said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.“Permanently retiring his number six across ev ery NBA team ensures that Bill’s transcendent career will always be recognised.”
CPL’s CEO, Pete Russell Banks DIH will have their hands full this CPL season Grenada’s Anderson Peters
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No one has as yet been charged in connec tion with the inci dent in which Grenada’s javelin world champion Anderson Peters was beaten and thrown overboard from a boat in his homeland on Wednesday.Avideo of the incident showing Peters engaged in a physical altercation with several men showed he was overpowered, kicked and punched, before eventual ly being thrown off the boat, named “Harbour Master”, which was docked on the Spice Island of Grenada. There is no word yet on what had triggered the incident. The Royal Grenada Police told Sportsmax.TV on Thursday that the mat ter is still being investigated, and that no charges have yet been laid in connection with the Asincident.itrelates to the health of the Commonwealth Games silver medallist, the Police have said that his condition is still being evaluated. Calls to Grenada Athletics Association President Charles George went unanswered, and there has been no response from the Grenada Olympic Association when Sportsmax. TV called on Thursday. A representative of the Grenadian athletics icon was also unable to provide any in formation on the state of his health.Peters, 24, won his second World Championship title in Oregon in July, but finished second at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in July. (Sportsmax) are delighted to have them being part of us bringing the Hero CPL Finals to Guyana for the first time. No party is complete without an ice-cold beer, and we are looking for ward to responsibly enjoy ing Banks’ amazing product in September.”CliffordReis, Chairman/ Managing Director of Banks DIH Limited, has said: "The beer of Guyana is at the Biggest Party in Sport, and Banks DIH Limited is ex tremely delighted to be as sociated with this signature event!“The Playoffs and Finals of the historic Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2022 will be held at the Providence Stadium in Guyana for the very first time, and Banks Beer is pleased to announce its partnership with the CPL as the Exclusive Beer for the Playoffs and Finals, sched uled for the 27, 28 and 30 September.“Banks Beer plans to thrill fans at this regional cricketing showpiece with a truly unforgettable experi ence, by providing the per fect local brew and excit ing promotions during the matches." (CPLT20)
GFF President Wayne Forde (C), taking a photo opportunity with children who would benefit from the ATC programme in Region 7
“The launch of the first Upper Mazaruni ATC is an important step in the on going implementation of the GFF’s hinterland foot ball development strate gy,” GFF President Wayne Forde has said. “Through the ATC programme, more Indigenous coaches will be developed, and many more young boys and girls will now benefit from well struc tured, age-specific coaching programmes. This will have a huge impact on the quali ty of players that will emerge from these communities in the coming years.” Forde added, “In partner ship with the Government of Guyana and other stake holders, the GFF intends to roll out the ATC programme across the entire hinterland region in the coming years.” Acting GFF Technical Director Bryan Joseph has said the new centre in Region 7 would play an instrumental role in the GFF’s aim to “en sure that no stone is left un turned when it comes to iden tification and development of our nation’s footballers. “The ATC will now serve as the hub for identification and development of hinter land talent,” Joseph said. “We look forward to gradu ating more players into our national teams. Our recent teams have had good repre sentation of hinterland play ers, with as many as six play ers in a single team.” The new academy is also expected to receive great sup port from Kamarang and Waramadong villages, be cause most of the school-aged children in the area attend the Desiree Fox Secondary School in Waramadong. The secondary component of the ATC would be mobile with in the other Upper Mazaruni communities.
2022 is the first time that the historic CPL Final will take place in Guyana, and Banks Beer will be there to celebrate the occasion with the country’s passionate Hero CPL fans. Banks will have the pourage rights for the four knockout matches at the 2022 Hero CPL, as the brand becomes an integral part of delivering the culmi nation of this year’s Biggest Party in Sport. 2022 is the 10th anniver sary for the Hero CPL, and Banks will also be a sup porting sponsor for the tour nament’s anniversary din ner, which will take place on Friday 23 September in Georgetown.PeteRussell, CEO of Hero CPL, has said: “Banks is an iconic brand, and we
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No charges yet after assault of Grenada’s javelin world champion
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Academy Training Centre launched in Region 7
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With support from the Government of Guyana (GoG), the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has established an Academy Training Centre (ATC) at Waramadong vil lage in the Upper Mazaruni community of the CuyuniMazaruni district of Region Seven.Itis the 10th centre to be established by the GFF in its groundbreaking national youth football development programme.Launched in 2017, the ATC network seeks to pro vide boys and girls with age-specific, structured foot ball training from certified coaches employed by the GFF Technical Department. The pioneering system has raised standards of the game across the nation and created a prolific talent pathway for Guyana’s national youth and senior teams.
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New Warrior Jermaine Blackwood already enjoying time with GAW CPL 2022… Kevin Sinclair among 4 Guyanese in WI ODI squad to face Black Caps
Jermaine Blackwood having a chat with Guyana Times Journalist Jemima Holmes
FULL SQUAD Nicholas Pooran (Captain) Shai Hope (Vice Captain) Shamarh Brooks Keacy GudakeshKyleBrandonAlzarriAkealJasonShimronCartyHetmyerHolderHoseinJosephKingMayersMotie (subject to fitness)Keemo Paul Jayden Seales Kevin Sinclair MATCH SCHEDULE Wednesday 17 August: 1st CG United ODI at Kensington Oval, Barbados. Local start time 2pm/1pm Jamaica Friday 19 August: 2nd CG United ODI at Kensington Oval. Local start time 2pm/1pm Jamaica Sunday 21 August: 3rd CG United ODI at Kensington Oval. Local start time 2pm/1pm Jamaica
By Jemima Holmes Even after 10 years of the “Biggest Party in Sport”, a number of “firsts” can still happen. For instance, 2022 may be the year that Guyana Amazon Warriors’ new addition, Jermaine Blackwood, gets the opportunity to play his first Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) game at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence, EBD. Though he may not have been on the pitch, Blackwood is no stranger to the ener getic crowds that pack the National Stadium to capaci ty; it is an aspect of the CPL he is eagerly looking forward to, as he hopes to make the most of his first year with the localThusfranchise.far,Blackwood has found the ongoing Warriors camp to be a welcoming one. The batsman related ex clusively to Guyana Times Sport, “It was good to hear or see that I got picked for the Guyana Amazon Warriors, my first time playing for GAW. To be honest, from yesterday, the first day that I got here, I can feel the to getherness with the team and the management staff. “From the airport, I just felt that feeling like I’m at home, and that’s always good when you’re in an environ ment and you’re so comfort able already. I just can’t re ally wait to get the games on the“Itway.has been good. Today was a bit hot, humid, but the guys put in the work. We have some very young, good talent as well. So far, my first day was excellent,” he add ed about his first day in the GAW training camp. Blackwood comes to the Guyana Amazon Warriors from the Jamaica Tallawahs, whom he last represented in the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) in 2020. On the international scene, Blackwood has had a good year, especially in Test cricket, wherein he racked up two centuries and two fif ties. Unbothered by the dis parity in formats, Blackwood believes his aggressiveness with the bat would bode well in the T20 landscape. “Well, it’s not going to be too hard for me to (tran sition) from Test match to T20 or T10, because I’m an aggressive player. Over the past few years, I haven’t been playing, like, any whiteball cricket, I’ve been playing a lot of Test cricket; and, you know, with Test cricket, you have to take your time and bat, but T20 is more fastpaced, and it’s going to be a nice turn around for me,” he told this cialer,gametablishsaid,Continuing,publication.Blackwood“Also,I’mtryingtoesmyselfintheT20aswell,and,asaplayIjustwannadosomespethingsfortheGuyana Amazon Warriors and help them to the trophy this year.” While admitting that he has never played a CPL game at Providence, this right-handed batsman is ea gerly looking forward to the vibes and, most importantly, the“Fromfans. (the time that) I got here yesterday, the taxi driver told me that the four games here sold out already; so that’s a massive thing for us as a team. You know, when you’re playing at your home, you want to get the full support and the full backing. That’s going to be a big booster for me, because I like to play with fans in the stands so, you know, I can put on a good show for them,” the new GAW player explained.Stillon the topic of the “Warrior Nation” fans, he said, “The party stands and the entertainment here have always been great. Even if I’m not playing CPL, I al ways watch it, and I always see a lot of fun activities go ing on here when the game is playing, or even when the game is finished.” Like most others, Blackwood is optimistic about this year’s CPL sea son, anticipating that he can bring something to the table that would get the Warriors over the line at home. “I just get this feeling this year that this year is going to be the year for us to win this trophy. We always appreciate the support from the fans, and just looking forward for that same sup port this year,” Blackwood said.The Hero CPL is sched uled for August 31st to September 30th 2022 in St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana. The Amazon Warriors will have four home games on September 21st, 22nd, 24th and 25th, before the playoffs begin on September 27th.
windiescricket.com/tick ets avoiding the need to queue or travel and to choose their preferred seat. The Windies Tickets service, presented by Mastercard, provides advance tickets for every West Indies home fixture, delivering tick ets securely and directly to fans’ ticket accounts to store on their mobile devices or to print out for entry into the stadium.Additionally, fans can pur chase tickets from box offices at Kensington Oval leading up to each match day. For all matches, adults can purchase half-price tickets for children under the age of 16, and se niors can also benefit from half price tickets. Fans in the West Indies can watch the CG United ODI Series exclusively live on ESPN Caribbean, or listen to live radio commentary on the West Indies YouTube chan nel. Fans in New Zealand can watch exclusively live on Sky Sport.
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Four Guyanese: Shimron Hetmyer, Keemo Paul, Gudakesh Motie (sub ject to fitness) and Kevin Sinclair, have been named in the West Indies Men’s ODI squad to face New Zealand nextNotableweek. is Sinclair’s callup to the West Indies Camp, since he is yet to make his ODIThedebut.Cricket West Indies media release has said as fol lows:“The Cricket West Indies Senior Men’s Selection Panel today announced the squad for the CG United One-Day International Series against New Zealand. All three match es will be day/night match es played under floodlights at Kensington Oval in Barbados on 17, 19 and 21 August. “The three matches are West Indies’ last remain ing three fixtures in the ICC ODI Super League, as West Indies aim to automati cally qualify for the 2023 ICC World Cup in India.” IndiesWest will seekingbe to win the CG United ODI Series to secure one of the automatic qualifi cation places reserved for the top 7 teams in the ODI Super League table, excluding hosts India.The CWI Selection Panel has named one newcomer to the squad in off-spinner Kevin Sinclair. He made his international debut in T20I cricket last year against Sri Lanka, and has so far sixplayed T20Is. Left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie has been named in the 14-member squad, but will have to un dergo a fitness assessment on the finger injury sustained against India in the CG United ODI Series in Trinidad lastAll-roundermonth. Roston Chase is unavailable for selection due to injury, while fellow all-rounder Fabien Allen is also unavailable, for personal reasons.Lead Selector, The Most Hon Dr Desmond Haynes, has said:“As we stated before, we are looking to broaden the pool of players, and we have decided to give Sinclair an op portunity in the CG United ODI Series against New Zealand. He has been in the system for a while, and was also in the ‘A Team’ to play against Bangladesh ‘A’ in the upcom ing series. We believe hiswith calm matcheswellheandproachapskillswilldointhe against New Zealand.”Haynes added: “New Zealand is a very good cricketing nation, and this will be a very com petitive series. We have the confidence in the players select ed, that they will do very well. This is the last series of the international season at home, and it would be good to end with some sol id performances as we contin ue to build towards the ICC World Cup in India next year.” Fans can purchase their tickets online at tickets.wind iestickets.com or via www.
GUYANA TIMES - www.guyanatimesgy.com, email: news@guyanatimesgy.com, NEWS HOTLINE: 231-8063 EDITORIAL: 223-7230, 223-7231, 231-0544, 225-7761 SPORT: sport@guyanatimesgy.com SALES AND MARKETING: 231-8064 - marketing@guyanatimesgy.com - PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY GUYANA TIMES INC. Sport is no longer our game, it’s our businessFRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2022 New BlackwoodJermaineWarrioralreadyenjoyingtimewithGAW Sinclair among 4 Guyanese in WI ODI squad to face Black Caps CPL 2022… Banks confirmed as Official Beer of Hero CPL Finals Academy Training Centre launched in Region 7 Kevin Sinclair, who made his T20I debut in 2021, is seen receiving his cap from Chris Gayle Jermaine Blackwood is getting used to sporting the GAW colours Page 23 Page 23 Page22 Page 22 Government of Guyana/Guyana Football Federation collaboration…
