WHAT'S INSIDE: Issue No. 5119 Nationwide coverage from the best news team in Guyana THE BEACON OF TRUTH guyanatimesgy.com PRICE $100 VAT INCLUDEDFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2022 Amerindian Heritage Month 2022 PPPPP28151017P9Page2 inopportunitiesBusinessGuyanatobediscussedatupcomingGalainToronto “I was young and lack of guidance” –youth who killed former Top Cop’s brother …awaits sentencing See story on page 11 Govt working to localmigrantsintegrateintoworkforce …“one-size-fits-all” approach is not appropriate – Hamilton Man hismothermurderingdeniesofchild …co-accused pleads guilty 27 new HealthCOVID-19infectedpersonswith–Ministry 2 ICU patients being monitored slaughteredcattleinterventionforFarmerdamagesseverelybuildings,destroysAgricolarelocationtoextensiongivensquattersBlairmont6-monthcompletefire2anothercallsPoliceasstolen,$161M in contracts signed for Agriculture Ministry projects … “I salute this young hero, Corporal Ivor Williams” – Justice Kissoon …$25M Region 1 processing facility to serve 250 households 2008 crime wave "Smallie" sentenced to death murder“reprehensible”forofsoldier P11 Former Foreign Affairs Minister Rashleigh Jackson Celebratepasseswith confidence “that you will be an equal partner” in developmentGuyana’s–President Ali See story on page 3 Page7 See story on page 17
Having migrants in a for mal arrangement, Hamilton noted, eliminates issues where they can be exploited or trafficked. “The other important is sue we discussed is how we bring the migrants out of the informal arrangement to the formal arrangement. The recognition is that in in formal environments, they can be exploited; they can be taken advantage of. The issue of trafficking is funda mental in the migrant popu lation,” he Accordingnoted.tothe Labour Minister, everyone is cov ered under the labour laws. Thus far, a labour matter regarding a Greek nation al was reported and dealt with. Law enforcement and immigration also in tervened. There was also a case last week concerning a Jamaican national which required attention.
Aprocessing facility for White Water Creek in Region One (BarimaWaini) was among the works under four contracts signed on Thursday to the tune of $161 million to continue the Agriculture Ministry’s work programme.The $25.5 mil lion Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) facili ty contract was awarded to Supreme Contracting and Supplies. Since the commu nity is highly vulnerable to flooding and loss of crops ef fected by rainfall and poor access roads, the facility will ensure that agricultural products reach a wider mar ket. Products such as cassa va bread, farine and cassa reep can reach beyond the community.Some250 households are listed as the beneficiaries, with 67 persons directly in volved in agro-processing. The facility will be complet ed before year Agricultureend. Minister Zulfikar Mustapha ex plained, “White Water is an area that we have made a commitment there to the farmers to build this agro-processing facility. Whilst we are awarding the contract now, we have already started procuring equipment for the agro-pro cessing facility. This shows our commitment to making our farmers’ produce value added. The agriculture sec tor is moving rapidly.” Fertiliser Meanwhile, a $96.6 mil lion contract was signed with Cyril Singh Agricultural Enterprise Incorporated for the supply and delivery of fertilisers to the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI).For services at the Charity Pump Station, a $21 million contract was signed with E&A Consultants. This will ensure effective imple mentation of construction, and enable flood control by draining in excess of 200 acres of farmland for cash crop cultivation. This will replace two mobile pumps in theThearea.fourth contract will be executed by CEMCO Inc, and involves an $18 million supervision of con struction of an A-line sluice.
the contract awardees post signing …$25M Region 1 processing facility to serve 250 households
Through enhanced monitor ing of the project, the imple mentation timeline will be reduced by three months. Approximately 3000 acres of residential plots and farm land for cash crops and rice at Versailles and Canal Number One Polder will be impacted.These projects are all in keeping with the Ministry’s work programme execution for 2022. On Monday, anoth er $100 million in contracts will be signed with the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo). Mustapha expressed, “I want contractors to en sure that they do the work according to the specifica tion and also, execute it on a timely basis. People are looking forward.” In July, Government sought $44.794 billion in supplementary funding for a number of programmes. Another $2 billion for opera tional expenses of GuySuCo was sought as part of a $3.5 billion request. This also in cluded operational expens es for other agencies such as the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) – $1.2 billion; the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) – $44.1 million and the $218.9AuthorityAgriculturalMahaicony-Abary/Mahaica-Development(MMA/ADA)–million.
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Govt working to integrate migrants into local workforce …“one-size-fits-all” approach is not appropriate – Hamilton $161M in contracts signed for Agriculture Ministry projects Agriculture
Labour Minister Joseph Hamilton has opined that when dealing with Guyana’s migrant pop ulation, there must be tai lored approaches to address the different groups of peo ple entering the country. He made this com ment during a meeting with regional heads of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to con tinue ongoing discussions over Guyana’s migrant sit uation, specifically as it re lates to Venezuelans. It was shared that the Labour Ministry is seeking to inte grate these persons into the workforce, especially where there is demand beyond the country’sFleeingcapacity.theeconomic cri sis in their country, thou sands of Venezuelans have crossed the border into Guyana in search of better living conditions. He point ed out that especially in this category, there are many subsets of people with dif ferent“I’vebackgrounds.alwaysargued the case that when we’re deal ing with the migrant pop ulation from Venezuela, it cannot be a one size fit all, because you have three sets of persons – full-fledged Venezuelans, Guyanese who left for decades and lived in Venezuela, and children of those Guyanese. So, they al ways have to compartmen talise the programmes,” Hamilton shared. This engagement also explored the possibility of training, certification, and accreditation for migrants who might have skillsets to join the workforce – a Board of Industrial Training pro gramme is being mulled.
“I have not had cause to intervene based on any re port, other than one at the Ramada Hotel. One Sunday, I was called about a Greek guy who was working for several years…The whole short of it was for two years, they refused to pay him. Somehow, the management took it upon themselves that they could just deport the guy. We dealt with it in stantaneously from the la bour side,” he expressed. As it relates to default ing companies, he continued that the current fines were meagre. When the laws are amended, this will be ad dressed.“Wehave legal prescrip tion fines, which are min imal and useless. In our discussion and proposal re garding fines, they will be substantial when the law is amended. Right now, it’s useless. Beyond that, we can take them to court before a Magistrate where they can make commitments to the court,” Hamilton told the media.Areas of discussion have extended to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Migrants have been em ployed in the services sector, construction, and mining. Meanwhile, Minister Hamilton said Cubans were another group frequent ly entering the country, in most cases to obtain their US visas. (G12) Minister Zulfikar Mustapha with
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Guyana’s development – Pres Ali TURN TO PAGE 16
As the Amerindian Heritage Month cel ebrations got under way on Thursday evening with a cultural extravagan za, President Dr Irfaan Ali has pledged to Guyana’s Indigenous people that his Government would ensure that they would be part of and benefit from the coun try’sAddressingdevelopment.the gather ing at the National Stadium Tarmac, Providence, East Bank Demerara (EBD), the Head of State pointed out that all Guyanese were en titled to the same treat ment and opportunities. As such, he committed to stand by Indigenous people from every community and take them on the pathway to pros perity, telling them that they should celebrate this month with this in mind. “Celebrate with the confi dence that your future is go ing to be better. Celebrate with the confidence that the opportunities of the future will come to you. Celebrate with the confidence that you will be an equal partner in the development of our coun try. Celebrate with the confi dence that you are deserving people. Celebrate with the confidence that you are equal to anyone else. Celebrate with the confidence that this Government is with you, for you, and by you,” President Ali Thestated. Guyanese lead er went on to note that Government has the respon sibility to create the environ ment for Indigenous people, especially the youth, to pros per. To this end, he reiterat ed that Government would support and provide all that was necessary, including the finances, for those qualified Amerindians who want to be trained in a particular field – nursing, teaching, medical technology, environmental science, and so on. “We will make sure you get all the opportunities… You have what it takes to be all you can be and we will create the environment to ensure you be all you can be,” he posited.Infact, the President re vealed that 60 per cent of the junior teachers trained in the last three months came from hinterland and riverine com munities across the country amounting to approximate ly 500.Moreover, in the area of agriculture, President Ali again encouraged hinter land communities to produce crops, issuing the reassur ance that Government would assist them with the trans portation to get the produce to markets.Hecontended that hinter land communities too have a role to play in Guyana’s food security agenda, and by ex tension, the Caribbean re gion’s“Soplan.produce, we are go ing to get the produce out [to the markets] for you,” he im plored.To further empower Indigenous people the Head of State went on to out line the other initiatives Government has undertak en such as the Hinterland Housing programme across the country. Only last week during a visit to Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo), President Ali an nounced a series of measures to push homeownership in hinterland communities. This includes a $1 million grant to some 600 land title holders so that they can start construction on their homes. Added to this, Government has partnered with two com mercial banks to provide low-interest $2 million loans to each of these persons to supplement the grant , since a typical house in the re gion costs about $3 million to build.To further assist with vil lage economies, Government also will be procuring some two million building blocks from Region Nine commu nities. At least one village, Shulinab in South Central Rupununi will be getting $10 million to supply 300,000 clay bricks to be used in the region’s housing programme. According to President Ali on Thursday, the best in vestment Government can make is in its people. On this note, he underscored the im portance of empowering in dividual persons, especially young people. He explained that trans formation was not only seen in physical infrastructure but also in individual de velopment. The Guyanese Leader stated that by trans forming individuals, collec tively they would in turn transform their communities and ultimately, the country. “Our country will do bet ter and everyone must be better,” he asserted.
Heritage Month 2022 Celebrate
Changing methods ineducationdelivering September in Guyana traditionally ushers in commemoration events on “Indigenous Heritage” and “Education” by the Government. The latter event usually centres on some aspect of the education curriculum that the Ministry wishes to emphasise. However, with the coming of oil and the promise of greater economic opportunities, there is the beginning of a conversation on the relevance of our curriculum to the demands of that economy. The educational establishment has responded by offering additional subjects in the technical/vocational fields, as well as in business management. While there is much more to be done, this is a good start. All of these changes are very positive, and must be encouraged, since we are situated in an increasingly globalised world that was created as the Industrial Revolution of the 19th Century evolved to fundamentally new levels with the Information Revolution in this 21st Century. The Industrial Revolution was facilitated by the educational system and curriculum, which is only now being revamped in our country. Queen’s College, founded in 1847, for instance, still maintains much of the orientation and ethos from that time, while broadening its curriculum beyond the old Classics’ orientation. But as we try to catch up with the rest of the world developmentally, we must take cognisance that the methods of delivering education have also changed in response to the new realities of the new communication age in which we now live. Take, for instance, the old “behaviourist” paradigm we still use to transmit “education” – passive learning – in which a teacher passes on information to a classroom of students who are expected to memorise it. However, in addition to the “subjects” taught changing, the 21st Century methods stress “learning by doing”. There are many approaches to education that fit within this 21st Century paradigm, and we quote from a summary of some of them: “Cognitive Constructivism” proposes that we learn by constructing ideas in our heads (rather than having them inserted into our minds). We construct information when we place ideas in our working memory, compare it to our existing prior knowledge, and make decisions about how useful, truthful or valuable this new knowledge is to us before saving it, using it to change our minds, or discarding it. We don’t just take bits of information for granted: we ‘mull them over’ and ‘consider them’ before deciding how to use them.Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching strategy based on cognitive constructivism and involves learning through solving problems. This is clearly very different to learning by being told facts. That’s because students aren’t given answers to problems: they have to solve the problems themselves to discover the truth. That’s why sometimes we also call PBL discovery learning. Problem-Posing Education (PPE) is very similar to problem-based learning. In a problem-posing environment, the teacher or student will come up with a problem, and present the problem to the class. The class and the teacher need to learn the answer to this problem together. So, not even the teacher enters the classroom with the answers in this approach. It therefore creates a very democratic colearning atmosphere in the classroom. Project-Based Learning is where students in a classroom would work on one big problem for many lessons (maybe even weeks or months) at a time. Students would often work together, and use resources around them, like community members or the Internet, to create something new (their project!).Finally, there is Phenomenon-Based Learning, which is popular in Finland. Rather than learning through subjects (mathematics, languages, science, history), students focus on a ‘phenomenon’ (or ‘topic’) that requires them to use multiple different forms of knowledge from different subject areas to learn about the phenomenon in a holistic way.” In education, as in biology, form determines function.
The reverberating call back then was for the legitimate Government, the PPP/C, to take office and start rebuild ing the nation; and with good reason too, as I will now de lineate, using just one piece of evidence.
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Sewage of “Brutal Enemies
Yours Deodattruly,Singh of the State”
Dear Editor, Lincoln Lewis borders on the level of unmatched in sanity. In his maniacal let ter, “No mess of pottage or crumbs from the table could be greater than African dig nity”, he denies reality, re gurgitates dissimulations, and in the tradition of a ‘maudlin drunk,’ lays blame at the feet of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Government. I take great umbrage with this, thus it is incum bent upon me to respond to his turbulent yet vacuous blathering. Right off the bat, I see that Lewis accuses the PPP/C Administration of “… forcing the descendants of Africans…to confront bru tality in the 21st century, al beit in a different form”. Of course, like a ghetto brat, he does not substantiate, as I guess he really cannot.
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Editor, in June 2020, it was made public that “At the end of April 2020, the public deposit account had been overdrawn by some $88 billion”, reflecting “a $10 billion increase from the month prior.” What was “… even more alarming (was) the sustained and massive deterioration of the account, which had a positive balance of just over $5 billion in May 2015 (bequeathed by the PPP/C, of course). In other words, that ac count alone was drained of some $9 billion, thus in debting each Guyanese, on a per capita basis, to approx imately $120,000. At that point in time, Guyana’s gold reserves were largely liq uidated, “…with just a pit tance remaining.” And as for the country’s financial state of affairs, it was revealed that “…our foreign currency reserves (were) below the ac ceptable threshold.” As we all know today, the Coalition, (A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change), in five (5) years, had “…extracted from Guyanese taxpayers some $300 billion more in addi tional taxes.” In fact, APNU/ AFC’s notorious banditry, with its imposed 200 new tax measures, made sullied history, becoming the first Government to achieve such levels of brutality. How controvertibly sil ly can this man be? Has he forgotten that the PPP/C re versed, like ASAP too, this ‘brutality’ by APNU/AFC, bypassing several amended bills, “…reversing taxes, and putting money back into the pockets of citizens…” who, for five years, were economi cally least.ILegalGeneralLincoln’sNow,slaughtered?concerningattackonAttorneyandMinisterofAffairs,AnilNandlall,amnotsurprisedintheThismanhasbeen the ‘thorn in the flesh’ of the congregation of APNU/AFC. He has bested them in the media and the courts, reduc ing them to a frazzled heap. He, Lincoln, claims that Anil’s mindset, reflective of the Government’s, promul gates “…the execution of a programme that corrupts and misapplies the law to disenfranchise Africans, even to the most basic rights of freedom of assembly and speech, when neither posed a threat to the state, but sought to articulate the re ality of the African commu nity…”Like is this not more symptomatic of APNU/AFC? I mean, what do the likes of Lincoln Lewis make of the December 2017 court issue, when three farm ers (and note their names please), Phillip Johnson, Rawle Miller, and Rupert Blackman of Seafield, West Coast Berbice, were deliv ered via the said Attorneyat-Law Anil Nandlall and his team, all because of President David Granger’s “…illegal act that violat ed Article 142 (1) of the Constitution, that redound ed in the revocation of these farmers’ leases. Chief Justice (ag) Roxanne George described Granger’s brutal act of revo cation as “…discriminatory, arbitrary and capricious.”
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Just look at what he is do ing in terms of empower ing Africans to ‘legally’ own lands in Golden Grove, Melanie Damishana and Buxton.Iask readers to ponder “Who is who for whom?” So, the immoral smear is on APNU/AFC, and not on Anil nor the PPP/C. And the ‘Cuffy 250 Committee’ indeed will have to get not only ‘more voices,’ but bet ter and honest ones, who are not forgetful of necessary truths, and who will not be inventing lies.
Let me close, Dear Editor, by agreeing with Mr. Lewis that indeed there is a need for “… having frank, honest and open conversa tions, (so) we can move to correct what is wrong in so ciety.” What is wrong? Well, I have pointed out a few, and for starters, the fra ternity of APNU/AFC, with the likes of Lewis, need to apologise to their smatter ing of disciples for lies per petrated and conjured up. They can start with their mismanagement of the country’s finance, repeat ed attempts at rigging the 2020 elections, and the fab rications of Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield, Deputy Chief Elections Officer Roxanne Myers, and Region Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo, who are all facing charges of conspiracy to defraud voters at the 2020 general and re gional elections.
Anil is the consummate an tithesis of what Mr. Lewis is making him out to be.
So, I need to show him what is ‘brutality’, and who un leashed and who is still un leashing it. As a caveat, Guyana must never forget postMarch 2020 to August 2020. This period was ‘madness epitomised.’ The era, as the world knows, was when APNU/AFC, in front of na ked and recording eyes, made repeated attempts to rig ‘fair and free elec tions in Guyana, even af ter ruling unconstitution ally for almost two years.
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Former Govt Minister attacking snr management at GGMC
RandySincerely,King (Jnr) Dear Editor, Aubrey Norton is in the news making threats and ex hibiting other forms of idiocy as he extols his emptiness to the world. This leader, who happens to be educated, is otherwise of limited capaci ty when it comes to his rea soning ability as well as con ducting himself with any semblance of decency and decorum. So, he continues to ramble and be disorderly, with no end in sight. There is a logical conclu sion to Aubrey Norton's ob tuse behaviour, which, if I am correct, can be placed into two parts: (a) He is not a lead er who commands the respect and authority of his party; in simple terms, he is not liked by a great number of persons in his party. The big wigs in the PNC abhor him, so we can safely say he is a loner and a wanderer in the party that he leads. So, from time to time, he must muster up that big bad wolf approach to gainHerecognition.mustspeak as a dragon, with fire breathing through his nostrils, to com mand some attention from the faithful few that he leads. The fact that none of the top brass in the PNC has ever referred to him since he en tered Parliament is a testa ment to the fact of his unpop ularity within his party. If you start at the begin ning, you would find that Granger never approved of this guy, and the elder leaders of the PNC would not counte nance him leading the par ty in Opposition. There was great rancour and acrimo ny involving Norton's ascen sion to the post of Opposition Leader. There was much back-and-forth, which final ly ended when someone at tested to the idea of giving a
Former Prime Minister Hamilton Green wrote: “I advised President Hoyte to abort the 1992 vote as the lists were clearly flawed, but he refused to, I did not want to create mayhem.” The PNCR’s disen chantment over their 1992 electoral defeat was ex pressed in resistance and other forms of street vio lence. Rioters who stormed the Election Centre and the GECOM Headquarters terrified President Jimmy Carter, who was forced to seek the US State Department’s intervention. “The most person al danger I have felt since leaving the White House was in Guyana in 1992.” Persistent social agitation (making the country un governable and use of in cendiary rhetoric, ‘slow fiah mo fiah’) exploded in may hem in January 1998 fol lowing the victory of the PPPC at the 1997 and the 2001 elections. PNCRites claimed that the voters’ list was flawed, but an indepen dent audit by International IDEA found the list to be 99% accurate. In the 1980s, the econo my was in serious distress. Guyana defaulted on debt service; the country’s GDP had shrunk by 13.19% in 1982 and by 6.9% in 1983; inflation was 40% in 1988, while the public debt of US$1.8 billion in 1988 was spinning out of control; the poverty level was 43%; and international reserves were US$26.6 million in 1990 (enough to cover for just 4 weeks’ imports).
The implementation of these measures not only dismantled the “command and control” structure of the economy (1968-1992), but also led to the dramatic devaluation of the Guyana dollar: from Gy$3 to US$1 in 1985 to Gy$145 to US$1 in 1993; while 17% of Public Service workers (6,000) were retrenched, along with 7,000 from state-owned cor porations. Industrial re lations and collective bar gaining became a casualty in the process. The country’s access to a concessionary loan un der the ESAF (Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility) in the sum of US$72.7 million, which was suspended in 1991 (because the PNC Government could not meet the targets set) was restored in 1999. When the PPP took of fice in 1992, they had to allocate 50% of foreign ex change (forex) for debt ser vice, and 40% forex were for fuel payments, leaving only 10% to run Government op erations. They had to tame inflation, which was 101.5% in 1991, and brought it down to single digit. They increased international re serves at an average annual of US$268.06 (during 19921999) from US$191.43 in 1992; they achieved an an nual growth rate of 7.3% in the 1990s; succeeded in re ducing the public external debt that was US$2.1 bil lion in 1992 to US$1.196 billion in 2000 mainly through debt relief nego tiated with the Paris Club and the World Bank/IMF Enhanced Highly Indebted Poor Countries (EHIPC) and related Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI).
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The 1990s: a critical turning point
06:00 (Sign on) Inspirational Time 06:30 Cartoons 07:00 Evening News (RB) 08:00 Stop Suffering 08:30 Stay Woke 09:00 MasterChef Junior 10:00 CPL: St. Lucia vs TT 14:00 Raven's Home S1 E5 15:00 Indian Soaps 16:00 Henry Danger S1 E23 16:30 Stop Suffering 17:00 The Young & The Restless 18:00 The Evening News 19:00 CPL: St. Lucia vs Barbados 23:00 The Ranch S4 E19 23:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? S16 E17 00:00 Movie - Annabelle Comes Home (2019) Friday, September 2, 2022 Dear Editor, The more I live in Guyana, the more I get the impression that Guyana is not a real place when it comes to some politicians, as they seek to strengthen a firm grip on Government Ministries and regulating agencies for their own per sonal benefit. Recently, there was a Facebook Live hosted by the former junior Minister of Natural Resources, Simona Broomes, wherein she made flagrant attempts to influ ence the top management of a leading regulatory agen cy, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC). Ms. Broomes was first a miner, and then became a politician. However, she still seeks to enjoy influence by criticising the top manage ment of the Commission, and even went as far as sin gling out specific officers, whom she claims to be un qualified and incompetent. This, I believe, is far from the truth, as I believe Ms Broomes is aiming to de stabilise the top manage ment of the Commission by making other junior and middle management staff believe they are disenfran chised, and should be pro moted over the current crop of managers. This is what you call ‘state craft’, and Ms Broomes should be called out for her attempts at polit ically influencing the man agement of a state entity, especially since she is not in Government and is a fulltime miner. Why is the former Minister afraid of the cur rent top management of the Commission?Editor,while any civ il-minded person would sup port transparency and equal employment opportunities in the Public Sector, I strong ly condemn the unchecked comments by this former Government Minister to in fluence, misguide, and turn professionals within the GGMC against each other. Ms Broomes seems bent on instigating mischief and creating disarray at a very important regulatory agen cy. Therefore, I call upon the Ministry that has responsi bility for the GGMC and the Board of GGMC to monitor this situation closely, and to ensure staff is appraised of the process and selection of top management. The Ministry and the GGMC Board should take a strong stance on that outside and inside the Commission, this engagement in mali cious attacks against profes sional managers of GGMC. Let goodwill and profession al conduct prevail at GGMC, in order that all miners be served.
Guyana’s PNC President, Desmond Hoyte, was forced to broker an IMF Economic Recovery Program (ERP) that re quired the privatisation of state corporations, removal of trade barriers and price controls, allow the Guyana currency to float, provide for poverty reduction, con solidate and strengthen the Public Sector management, initiate social sector re forms, and improve balance of payments.
The 1990 period was chosen because of four rea sons: (1) it signified the res toration of electoral democ racy; (2) it ended 24 years of authoritarian rule; (3) it marked the end of the downswing (collapse) in the economy (1977-1990); and (4) highlighted the role of debt relief in the country’s economic recovery. The 1992 elections (free and fair) were held under a Carter-Hoyte brokered agreement that allowed for (i) the preparation of an accurate voters’ list; (ii) a balanced Election Commission; and (iii) votes to be counted and declared at polling places. Some PNCR members, however, were skeptical.
The message from the 1990s was clear: open mar ket reforms saved the coun try from economic collapse. There is no turning back in the foreseeable future. The debt burden would no lon ger be an albatross around Guyanese necks. The IMF projects that 4.8% of the country’s revenues would be used to service the exter nal public debt in 2022.
NeilRespectfully,Adams
Dear Editor, The following views on the political developments in the 1990s are intended to provide young Guyanese (18-25 years) in particular with a broader understand ing of the nature of the ex isting political struggle for state power. They would have gath ered enough knowledge on living conditions under both the PNCR and PPPC administrations in the 2000s, but they would not necessarily have had a good understanding of the evolu tion of the political struggle in the 1990s, and even be fore. This is an attempt to cast their focus in that di rection.
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Reasons for Aubrey Norton's obnoxious behaviour
Market reforms
relatively younger person the position of leadership. So, my dear readers, you can now get the real reason behind Norton's rantings. Now, this brings us to point (b): the cause of his ranting and raving and mouthing these ignorant (Caribbean meaning) state ments in the media. Reason number two is: having been caught between a rock and a very hard place, Norton must now prove his mettle as a "strong leader". That is, he must play brave and ob noxious ad infinitum, at least someone will take notice of him. Ironically, this kind of be haviour is a high point in all PNC circles. That is, to play the big bad bully game and blaze your way through. This belligerence has high marks in the PNC; howev er, I must caution him that the more he behaves fool ishly, the more he sinks his party into a repulsive mode, way past an acceptable level, so that even the most trust ed party faithful would turn away.Mr. Norton must realise that he is putting his par ty in a very bad light. This 30% Leader of the PNC will soon realise that his party's standing in the polls would be greatly diminished by his actions. Incidentally, there is an upcoming LGE, in which, from the last compromised election, the PNC only got 39% of the constituency's votes; and with the present poor performance of its lead er, I am inclined to believe that there will be a further downward spiral. The latest tirade will further harm that party’s chances. So, this is the sordid pic ture of the Opposition Leader of our country; a very dismal and pathetic one, to say the least.
DrSincerely,TaraSingh
2 or 3 cereal boxes Glue or stapler Tin foil or parchment paper Bowl or plate Water, marbles, balls or small toys with wheels NB: Adult supervision required Directions
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6) Repeat the process with another set of paper towel tubes and a cereal box. This time, adjust the height and angle of your arches. By creating a few aqueduct parts of varying heights and angles, you can create a complex system that can move everything from water to toy cars!
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3) Draw matching arches on both of the larger sides of the box and cut them out. Both arches should slightly decrease in size, leaving about 1 inch of space between the edge of the box and the top of the tallest arch. Keep in mind that the difference in height between your first and last arch will determine the angle of your aqueduct path.
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The Commutative Property of Multiplication: Numbers may be multi plied in any order without changing the product.
Then the princess ran to the door and opened it, and there she saw the frog, whom she had quite forgotten. At this sight she was sadly frightened, and shutting the door as fast as she could came back to her seat. The king, her father, see ing that something had fright ened her, asked her what was the matter. “There is a nas ty frog,” said she, “at the door, that lifted my ball for me out of the spring this morning: I told him that he should live with me here, thinking that he could never get out of the spring; but there he is at the door, and he wants to come in.” While she was speaking the frog knocked again at the door, and“Opensaid: the door, my prin cess dear, Open the door to thy true love here! And mind the words that thou and I said By the fountain cool, in the green woodThenshade.”the king said to the young princess, “As you have given your word you must keep it; so go and let him in.”
4) Cut out the arches so that they remain connected to the middle and top of the cereal box. 5) Staple or glue the paper towel tube to the inside of the box, just above the top. Staple or glue the other side of the paper towel tube to the other side of the box.
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Find out how to build a homemade aqueduct using cereal boxes and other recyclable materials. With a little time and creative engineering, you will learn how the ancient Romans moved water from place to place. While in Rome, Andy uses spare materials to build an aqueduct just like the ancient Romans! Ancient aqueducts were used to transport water over great distances by using gravity and keeping water sources high. Help your child build an aqueduct at home to learn a little about ancient engineering while repurposing recyclable materials! Encourage your child to look for creative solutions while they build. In the end, are you able to build an aqueduct?
1) To get started, cut the paper towel tubes in half lengthwise . Set the paper towel tube halves aside. 2)Let’s create some arches! Disassemble a cereal box and cut off the flaps and short ends so the box creates a rectangle when laid flat on a table.
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7) Waterproof your aqueduct by lining your paper towel tubes with parchment paper or tin foil. Place a bowl at the end of the aqueduct to catch the water that you send through the tubes! (pbskids.org)
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T he next day, just as the princess had sat down to dinner, she heard a strange noise – tap, tap— plash, plash – as if something was coming up the marble staircase: and soon afterwards there was a gentle knock at the door, and a little voice cried out and“Opensaid: the door, my prin cess dear, Open the door to thy true love here! And mind the words that thou and I said By the fountain cool, in the green wood shade.”
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“I salute this young hero, Corporal Ivor Williams,” Justice Kissoon said, adding that the soldier stayed true to his oath, even when his life was under grave threat by the criminal gang’s attack on his patrol vehicle which came un der rapid fire from machine guns.Given Mark Williams’s previous convictions for mass killings, the Judge noted that he has chosen a “path of vio lent criminal existence”—one which he has pursued with muchAccording“enthusiasm”.tothe High Court Judge, extreme vio lence was unleashed by the criminal gang on the night of Corporal Williams’s death. He pointed out that there were “absolutely no mitigat ing factors”. In light of the ex ceptional seriousness of the crime and the convict’s “rep rehensible” conduct, Justice Kissoon saw it fitting to im pose the death penalty on him. Forgiven him Through a victim impact statement, the dead soldier’s grandmother said that she missed him and that she was proud when he chose to enlist in the military to serve his country.Sherelated that she had cared for her grandson from infancy to adulthood, fondly recalling that he had a hab it of “spoiling her” with treats and other items whenever he cameThehome.elderly woman ex pressed that she would like her grandson’s killer to know that she has forgiven him, since he, too, was a young man, and she had no ill feel ings towards him. At the time of his death, Corporal Williams had a young daughter. Nightmare Meanwhile, a serving GDF Sergeant, who was also part of the military operation, shared that the night of Corporal Williams’s death would “al ways be a nightmare to me”. A Lance Corporal at the time, the Sergeant said that his col league’s death was a “great loss for us”, adding that even though he wanted to leave the profession after the attack, he stayed in honour of the late Corporal’s memory. Hijacked community Residents of Mark Williams’s community la belled him as a quiet and re spectable young man. Via interviews with a probation officer, they said that Mark Williams and other youths of the community were targeted by criminal gangs during the crime wave to take part in un lawfulAccordingacts. to the residents, had it not been for the crim inals that “hijacked” their community, the convicted killer and other young men could have had a different life experience.
“Smallie”
The use of capital pun ishment in Guyana is reserved for certain cat egories of murder, including the killing of members of the Disciplined Forces in the line of duty. High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon, on Thursday, sentenced 33-year-old Mark Royden Williams to suf fer death by hanging for the January 23, 2008 murder of Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Corporal Ivor Williams. Back in July, the father of three of Friendship, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was found guilty by a 12-member jury of fatally shooting the soldier, who was acting in the execution of his duties. Mark Williams, called “Smallie”, who is current ly on death row for murder ing eight persons during the 2008 Bartica, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) Massacre, and who ap peared in court virtually on Thursday, sat expression less as a ninth death sen tence was imposed on him at the Demerara High Court. Corporal Williams, 24, a fa ther of one, was shot dead by the members of the notorious Rondell “Fineman” Rawlins gang while he and other sol diers were carrying out a mil itary operation in Buxton and neighbouring ECD communi ties.
Convicted killer Mark Royden Williams, called “Smallie” Murdered: GDF Corporal Ivor Williams High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon
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Hope for the future Mark Williams’s lawyer, Nigel Hughes beseeched the Judge for leniency, submit ting that his client was “de serving” of being placed in a position where hope for the future was available to him. Hinting at an appeal of his client’s conviction for the soldier’s murder, the lawyer added that Mark Williams continued to maintain his in nocence because of his strong belief that he was not a par ty to the plan to murder the soldier. The defence counsel also asked Justice Kissoon, in passing sentence, to give the statements of forgiveness by the soldier’s close relatives “due weight and consider ation”.For their part, State Counsel Muntaz Ali and State Counsel Taneisha Saygon, who prosecuted the matter, had submitted aggravating and other factors they wanted the court to consider ahead of the sentencing hearing, and only asked, on Thursday, for the maximum punishment to be imposed.Whileleading his defence, Mark Williams, who elected to give unsworn testimony, had adamantly denied fatally shooting the soldier, claiming that “[investigators] got the wrong man”. In his social report, he professed his innocence and expressed no remorse for the crime for which he was found unanimously guilty by a jury of his peers.
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“I salute this young hero” The Judge, in his sentenc ing remarks, condemned the senseless murder of Corporal Williams, describing it as a “shocking, brutal, horrif ic, violent and premeditated crime”.This crime, he highlight ed, was designed and calcu lated to entrap, ambush, and “murder in mass” members of the Disciplined Forces act ing in the lawful execution of their duties to preserve and maintain calm in Buxton and neighbouring communities during the bloody crime wave. Alluding to the fact that Mark Williams and his ac complices were on a killing spree, not only in Buxton but in other communities across the country, the Judge said that the gangsters set out to murder Disciplined Forces members for no reason, other than the fact that they swore to uphold the rule of law and the Constitution of Guyana.
2008 crime wave sentenced to death for murder of soldier this young hero, Ivor Williams” Justice Kissoon
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“reprehensible”
… “I salute
Bartica Massacre In 2017, Mark Williams and Dennis “Anaconda” Williams were sentenced to death by hanging for their involvement in the 2008 Bartica Massacre, which left 12 persons, including three Policemen, dead. The jury found them guilty of eight and seven of the 12 counts of murder, respectively. In rela tion to the remaining killings, they were found guilty of the lesser count of manslaughter, as it was proven that it was the gang leader, Rawlins who had murdered five of the mur dered dozen.
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Hamilton, called ‘Quarters’, formerly of Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, and 37-yearold Ranachal Singh, also known as ‘Andy’, who also resided at Mahaicony, ap peared before Justice Sandil Kissoon at the Demerara High Court on Thursday, jointly charged with the April 2016 mur der of 25-year-old Simone Hackett, a mother of one. Singh has opted to plead guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter, and has been further remanded to prison until September 26, when he would be sen tenced. Hamilton, who is the father of the woman’s son, has denied the murder charge, and will go on trial from next Monday before a mixed 12-member jury. Hamilton and Singh are respectively being rep resented by Attorneys-atLaw Latchmie Rahamat and Alaira MurphyGoodman. The case for the prosecution is being led by State Counsel Muntaz Ali, in association with State Counsel Taneisha Sagon. It has been report ed that on April 16, 2016, someone phoned Hackett and instructed her to col lect a package for her son from a friend at the University of Guyana (UG) Access Road at Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown. The woman left her home at ‘C’ Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown to go to the location, but failed to return home. Three days later, her lifeless body was discovered in a trench at Cummings Lodge, Greater Georgetown by two boys who were on their way to school.Hackett was reportedly choked and stabbed several times about her body. (G1)
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Since then, Norton has strenuously maintained the call that “Claudette MUST GO!!” Never missed an opportunity!! And earlier this month, he reiterated at his Press Conference, “…we do not see elections being held with a bloated list and with Claudette Singh as Chairman, and there are many things we can do to put the pressure on the Elections Commission and Claudette Singh, but we have first given her the opportunity to tender her resignation…so we have left the door open, and we hope we don’t have to close it and Claudette Singh will do the decent thing and resign.” Now, this doesn’t sound too bad, does it?? But everything’s CONTEXTUAL!! And the context is if Mr Norton can label President Ali’s offer of a simple HANDSHAKE as “bullying”, then his continuous threats to “pressure” Singh to resign gotta be seen as bullying!! In Australia, for instance, there’s a “Brodie Rule” that demands Police action if there’s been “harassment and intimidation over a period of time”!! Brodie was a female who’d been bullied and committed suicide. Did Norton sufficiently lower the bar on “bullying” to fail the Brodie Test??? Politicians gotta be thick-skinned!! …by China?? Again, because of the sensitive nature of this topic, your Eyewitness is gonna stick as close as he can to the record –in this case a UN Report just released by departing U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet. The report asserts that “serious human rights violations have been committed” in China’s western province of Xinjiang “in the context of the Government’s application of counterterrorism and counter-’extremism’ strategies.” Rights groups have long accused Beijing of abuses against Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority that numbers around 10 million in Xinjiang, including the mass use of forced labour in internment camps. The US has accused China of genocide. In charges that have been circulating for decades about Chinese internment and torture “reeducation” camps, the Report continued, “The extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim groups… may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.”Asbefore, China has steadfastly denied these charges. Your Eyewitness expects China would allow an impartial investigation. …common sense?? Jamaica’s increasing its potato acreage by 14,000 hectares by handing out “spuds” and equipment to farmers. And this is against the point made by Opposition MP Hannah that the cost of the potatoes is EIGHT TIMES THE COST OF IMPORTS!!
A 43-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to the capital offence of murder in the killing of the mother of his child, whose body was pulled from a trench days after she had goneClevaughmissing.
Man denies murdering mother of his child …co-accused pleads guilty
Bullying... ...the GECOM Chair??
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Murder accused Clevaugh Hamilton Confessed killer Ranachal Singh Dead: Simone Hackett
The PPP Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance (MoPAG), Gail Teixeira, has called on the Police to investigate threats she claims were made by Leader of the Opposition (LoO), Aubrey Norton, against GECOM Chair Justice (rtd) Claudette Singh. Now, this is serious stuff – especially when the call’s made at a time when our Police are under fire (metaphorically!!) for not investigating a notorious murder, and might be a bit trigger happy (metaphorically speaking!!) to haul in and grill the LoO (metaphorically speaking!!), or worse!! So, what are these alleged threats?? Well, so’s not to put words that might be construed as setting-up anybody, your Eyewitness will take pains (metaphorically speaking!) to quote the folks involved. After citing various and sundry calls made by Norton, insisting that Madam Singh be “removed”, the MoPAG insisted, “these threats and verbal attacks expose a sinister plot to bully and intimidate a former Judge and the Chairperson of GECOM - established to protect the right of the Guyanese people to vote for a Government of their choice…” Well!!! And what exactly did Norton say?? Well, as far back as March of this year, Norton was quoted as telling the visiting US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Caribbean Affairs and Haiti, Barbara Feinstein: “We raised with them the fact that…the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission is not independent. …she votes on every occasion with the PPP; (like) to break the rules to make a CEO who is not qualified for the job. And so she is partisan, and our mantra must be…Claudette Singh must go!”!!
“Smallie” handed death sentence for...
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Sixteen informal set tlers residing along the reserve at Blairmont, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) have been granted a six-month extension to complete their relocation process. Susan Rodrigues, Minister within the Ministry of Housing and Water, met with the fami lies at the community cen tre on Wednesday, as she wrapped up a series of pub lic engagements in the re gion.The families were allo cated lands by the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) at the nearby Balthyock Housing Scheme in October 2021, and had agreed to relocate by January 2022. After they failed to va cate the area, they were served a second notice, giv ing them up to July 2022 to vacate the area. So far, only three persons have re located, a release from the Housing Ministry has said. During the meeting with the Minister, the residents stated that while they are eager to move, financial constraints have prevent ed them from so doing. And after listening to the resi dents’ plight, the Minister granted them the extension.
She told them that the President Ali-led Administration is a car ing Government, and that a humanitarian approach is being used to ensure that both the residents and the Government are satisfied. However, the Minister has also reminded that squatting is illegal, and she has urged them to cooperate with the Ministry. She also said there is no need for persons in the region to squat, as the Government’s robust hous ing drive would satisfy the region’s housing demand. As part of interven tions to facilitate the smooth movement of resi dents, the Ministry would be partnering with the Mahaica/Mahaicony/ Abary Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA) to assist elderly residents during the relocation. Present at that meet ing between the Minister and the residents were the following persons: Member of Parliament and Regional Representative Faizal Jafferally; Director of Community Development at CHPA, Gladwin Charles; Vice-Chairman of MMAADA, Mohamed Zaid Rafeeoodeen; and other of ficials.
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Blairmont squatters given 6-month extension to complete relocation
They were given death sentences for each of the murder convictions, and life sentences for each of the manslaughter convictions by now acting Chief Justice Roxane George, SC. The two men have since filed appeals against their convictions and sentences. Those cases are yet to be called at the Court of Appeal of Guyana.OnFebruary 17, 2008, gunmen carried out a bra zen attack on the communi ty of Bartica while members of the mining communi ty were watching a game of 20/20 cricket on television. On that fateful night, Police Lance Corporal Zaheer Zakir and Constables Shane Fredericks and Ron Osborne were fatally shot. Edwin Gilkes, Dexter Adrian, Irving Ferreira, Deonarine Singh, Ronald Gomes, Ashraf Khan, Abdool Yasseen, Errol Thomas, and Baldeo Singh were the civil ians killed. Acquittals Then, in 2021, Mark Williams was found not guilty by a jury of the December 16, 2007 mur ders of 35-year-old Rajesh Singh and 25-year-old Fazal Hakim, at Triumph, ECD. Another man, Michael Caesar, called “Capone”, was sentenced to 13 years in prison after pleading guilty to the lesser count of man slaughter for the deaths of Singh and Hakim. In February 2019, Mark Williams and Sherwin Nero, called “Catty” or “Pussy”, were both found not guilty of the murder of businessman Kumar Singh, which oc curred on August 30, 2007. Singh, 51, also known as “Mango Man”, of Cove and John, ECD, was shot and killed by bandits. In May 2013, Mark Williams and another man, James Hyles, called “Sally”, were found not guilty of murdering 11 persons, in cluding children, in the January 2008 Lusignan, ECDFollowingMassacre.the men’s dis charge, the State appealed their acquittals to the Court of Appeal of Guyana, argu ing, among other things, that several material irreg ularities had rendered the not-guilty verdicts unsafe andTheunsatisfactory.appellatecourt unan imously allowed the State’s appeal, thereby remitting the matter to the High Court for a new trial. But Mark Williams and Hyles appealed that ruling to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), which, in May 2018, restored theirInacquittals.2017,Mark Williams was among the high-pro file prisoners who es caped after a fire gutted the Camp Street Prison in Georgetown. He was, how ever, apprehended weeks later by Police ranks while he was on a public minibus on the Weldaad Public Road, West Coast Berbice (WCB).
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At the scene, Harry (only name given), who lived with his mother in the upper flat of one of the destroyed hous es, explained that he was not at home when the fire start ed. He said he heard the com motion and went to inves tigate, and then discovered that his home was on fire. He explained that he and his mother had occupied the upper flat of the building, while a tenant had occupied the lower flat. That tenant was reportedly at home when the fire started. The cause of the inferno is yet to be deter mined.Devlin (only name given), who had lived in the upper flat of the other house, re called that she was in front of the yard when she heard children screaming. She, too, discovered the house on fire only upon investigating the reason why the children were screaming. She told Guyana Times she had heard an explosion, and, soon after, flames quick ly consumed the house in which she had lived for the past year. According to the young woman, the former oc cupants of the building were unable to save anything from being destroyed by the fire, and she estimates losses to be in the Officialsmillions.ofthe Guyana Fire Service have launched an investigation into the cir cumstances that caused the fire.
Agricola fire destroys 2 buildings, severely damages another caused
Afire of unknown origin erupted at Romulus Street, Agricola at approximately 15:00h on Thursday, September 1, and completely destroyed two buildings in that Greater Georgetown community even as it severely damaged an other before it was extin guished.The conflagration com pletely ravaged a two-sto rey home and the upper flat of another; and due to the intense heat, the glass win dows of a third building were shattered, and contents of that building were destroyed. Upon receiving report of the fire, several tenders from the Eccles and Central Fire Stations were deployed to the area, but by the time they arrived there, the build ings were completely en gulfed. And although fire fighters had immediately sprung into action, they were unable to save the two build ings from destruction. They, however, managed to pre vent the blaze from spread ing to other buildings.
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will be hosting its inaugu ral Gala and fundraiser, where Senior Minister with Responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh will be speaking about the econom ic and social transformation of Guyana as well as busi ness opportunities here for Canadians.TheGala and fund raiser will take place on September 24 at the Hilton Markham Suites Hotel in the Greater Toronto Area. Minister Singh will be joined by Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr Peter Ramsaroop. This event will bring to gether entrepreneurs from various sectors including agriculture, financial ser vices, advanced manufac turing, information and communications technolo gy, oil and gas, clean tech nology, aviation, hospitali ty, and the service industry. It will also attract many leading figures from the more than 85,000 Guyanese citizens who call Canada home.“The Gala promises to be a great business and social networking opportunity for anyone with an interest in Guyana,” the Canada-based Co-Chair of the Chamber, Winston Kassim said. He added, “We are hon oured that Minister Singh has chosen our event to speak about the economic and social transformation taking place in Guyana, and the recent initiatives by the Government to make it eas ier to do business in one of the fastest-growing coun tries in the world.” As Minister of Finance, Dr Singh rep resents Guyana on the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group, the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB), and the Caribbean Development BankThis(CDB).isDr Singh’s third stint as the country’s Minister of Finance, a post he held for two terms from 2006 to 2015, and again starting in November 2020. Several elected officials and members of the dip lomatic corps are expect ed to attend the Gala, in cluding Canada’s High Commissioner to Guyana and Suriname, Mark Berman.The Canada-Guyana Chamber of Commerce was established in 2020 to strengthen trade and in vestment opportunities be tween Canada and Guyana. It is a non-partisan entity. The Chamber is chaired by Anand Beharry (Guyana), with Kassim serving as CoChair.Since its establishment, CGCC has hosted sever al panels on opportunities for investment in Guyana. Back in May, the Chamber and its partners discussed the available opportunities in the local agriculture sec tor and prospects for invest ment.Meanwhile, CGCC will host its second annu al edition of the Guyana Basins Summit, October 4 to October 6, in-person at the superb new Pegasus Suites & Corporate Centre in Georgetown.Thisunique event will focus on what the future holds for Guyana and the region and deep dive into how growth plans to ben efit Guyana should now be best delivered. The summit agenda will centre around the theme: “Responsibly Developing the Region’s Resources for a Prosperous and Sustainable Future”. Hundreds of internation al and local attendees and organisations are already booked to participate in the event – both in the exhibi tion and as delegates. (G8)
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…awaits sentencing
Lack of guidance Asked by Justice Kissoon if he had anything to say be fore being sentenced, the confessed killer said, “I was young, and lack of guidance. I would like an opportuni ty to continue my efforts and contribute meaningful ly to society, and further my studies…”Inclosing his remarks, the accused begged the court for mercy and lenien cy, and said he would like a chance to “correct my wrong”. He was represented by Attorney-at-Law Alaira Murphy-Goodman. (G1) “I was young, and lack of guidance” – youth who killed former Top Cop’s brother
A20-year-old man who was charged for the 2017 murder of Hemant Persaud, brother of former Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud, now awaits sentencing, after pleading guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter.Thisman was charged back in 2017, when he was a juvenile, and due to certain provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act, his photograph, name, and other particu lars cannot be published, be cause he was charged as a juvenile.Hewas arraigned be fore Demerara High Court Justice Sandil Kissoon on Thursday, September 1, for the capital offence of mur der, but has opted to plead guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter. He has been further remanded to pris on, to await his sentencing hearing, which is fixed for September 26. Reports detailed that on February 19, 2017, the ju venile, then 15, while in the company of another at Stabroek Market Square, Georgetown, had noticed the 51-year-old Hemant Persaud, otherwise known as ‘Bhim’, of Affiance Village, Essequibo Coast, in a drunkenPersaud,state.had reported ly just returned from the in terior, and was purchasing items from a vendor. This teen trailed Persaud to the back of the Stabroek Market with intent to rob him. He walked up to Hemant Persaud and de manded that he handed over a gold chain he was wear ing, and when Persaud re fused, the teen stabbed him in the chest and confiscat ed the chain before making good his Public-spiritedescape. citizens had rushed the injured Persaud to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC), where he was pronounced dead on Arrestedarrival.on March 3, 2017 at his home at Sophia, Greater Georgetown, the teen had allegedly admitted, in the presence of his fami ly and Police officers, to com mitting the crime. The body of Hemant Persaud had remained un identified for approximate ly two weeks at the GPHC mortuary, as his family had believed he was still in the interior. But when the Police released information seeking the public’s assistance to identi fy the deceased, the identity of Hemant Persaud was con firmed. His cause of death was given as perforation of the heart due to stab wounds. During Thursday’s court proceedings, prosecutor State Counsel Muntaz Ali revealed that the 20-yearold man, in his confession statement to the Police, had said, “I roll up on he (Hemant Persaud), I stick he up and tell he pass the chain, and he start scram ble on on me. He pick up a barrier and run into me, and I ran up to he, pull off the chain, and juk he with the knife…”According to Prosecutor Ali, the accused gave the confession in the presence of his mother, and he was also
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positively identified in an identification parade held at the Police station.
“We have also now dedi cated an area in the hospi tal for monkeypox patients. These would be persons who require clinical treatment, but in some cases just re quire isolation. We don’t have a lot of patients there, we only have two patients,” The Minister said. Guyana confirmed its first monkeypox case in August, after laborato ry testing had confirmed the virus in a Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) male. A week later, another case was detected in a woman, who has since been isolated at the Infectious Diseases Hospital. This new epidemic has been declared a pub lic health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) with the detection of monkeypox in 95 territories. Since March 2022, over 42,666 cases have sur faced globally. Across the Region, cases have been detected in countries like Cuba, Barbados, Jamaica, Bahamas, and Brazil. However, Dr. Anthony on Wednesday said health of ficials are currently faced with some difficulties in de tecting where Guyana’s first monkeypox patients initial ly made contact with the in fectiousPresently,virus. antiretrovi ral treatment is being used to treat monkeypox, but it is not widely available around the world. Guyana has made attempts to procure some smallpox vaccines through the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). These are manufactured by Bavarian Nordic, and de mand for these vaccines is at its peak.
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Infectious Diseases Hospital records 80% recovery rate
The Infectious Diseases Hospital at Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown has recorded an 80 per cent recovery rate among its patients since it began operating in 2020, ac cording to Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony. Since that facility –retro fitted from the Ocean View Hotel – began operating due to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic exactly two years ago, it has admin istered health care to a total of 4,183 patients. While initially it start ed out as a facility to treat COVID-infected persons, the hospital eventually widened its reach to cater to all per sons diagnosed with an in fectious disease. Of the 4,183 patients treated at the hos pital, 3,786 were tested pos itive for COVID-19. These figures were revealed by Dr. Anthony on Thursday. “At Ocean View, over the last two years, we have treated 4,183 patients there. Of these 4,183 (patients), 3,786 were COVID-19 pa tients, so the 397 were oth er diseases, but they came to Ocean View because they have these other infectious cases. “At Ocean View, those who were treated there, we have an 80% recovery rate. So, there were 3,786 who were COVID-positive, and about 3,045 recovered,” Dr. Anthony related. In addi tion, a total of 741 COVID-19 deaths were recorded at the facility over the past two years.He reiterated that the hospital has been admitting other patients, including the two recently-confirmed mon keypox cases in Guyana. “So while we don’t have a lot of COVID patients right now, we have been admit ting persons with other in fectious diseases. In a dif ferent part of the hospital, we have TB patients who re quire hospitalisation. From time to time, we’ll have pa tients with HIV, who proba bly are not taking their meds and are viral suppressed.
Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony
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Twelve radiant young ladies will be vying for the ti tle of Miss Guyana Teen Scholar when the pageant is staged at the National Cultural Centre on September 10, The2022.pageant is being hosted by Imperial House in collab oration with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport; and the twelve delegates are: Robeina Edinboro, Mya Saunders, Akeelah Jones, Carissa Vandoimen, Jayda Overton, Curtela Lewis, Lisa Hassan, Beyonce Nicholson, Trasmattie Dasrath, Olivia Stephens, Ashanti Corlette, and Chidima Nurse. The delegates have already competed in the eloquence, talent, and personality interview segments, and have also each submitted a video presentation on social issues, which would also be judged. On pageant night, these 12 young ladies would be competing in the ballroom dance and evening gown segments, after which the final five would be announced. The finalists would then be given the final question of the evening. The queen will receive a scholarship to any institution of her choice, while the runners-up would receive other consul tationTicketsprizes.for the pageant cost $2500, $2000 and $1000.
reparations are underway to host the Guyana leg of the 10th Edition of the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) from September 21 to 30, and a recruitment drive for cheerleaders will take centre stage newTheweek.contract to find these beautiful and classy young ladies was awarded to Radio personality Surida Nagreadi, who was also once a cheerleader. The girls will be recruited under her brand, ‘Zen & Co.’, and auditions will be held on Sunday, September 11. A venue and time will be released in the press.
Those who think they have what it takes to be a cheerleader can apply via the Zen & Co. Facebook and Instagram pages, and must send along their photographs. Persons can also apply via WhatsApp 681-7874. Among the criteria to become a cheerleader is the ability to dance, and, more importantly, to work as a team. Of the 11 home games, seven will require cheerleaders. All logistical arrangements will be taken care of, and an attractive salary is beingSo,offered.ifyouhave what it takes and would love to be part of the ‘biggest part in sport’, please apply today!
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15 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2022 | GUYANATIMESGY.COM NEWS C onfirmed infec tions of COVID-19 in Guyana have reached 71,062 after 27 new cases were reported on Thursday. This was from 305 test Guyana’ssamples.death toll has remained at 1278, with three persons under treat ment in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). From the latest dashboard, nine persons are in institutional isola tion, 244 in home isolation, and four in institutional quarantine.Morethan 250 active infections are being mon itored across health fa cilities in the country. In hospitals, 11 persons are being monitored. Eight of these persons are at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown. A to tal of 69,528 persons have recovered and 688,408 tests have been processed to date. The new cases are dis persed among four ad ministrative regions, with five in Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), 16 in Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica), four in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) and one in Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice). There were no new reported cases in the other Vaccinationregions. figures show that so far, 446,000 or 86.9 per cent of adults have taken a first dose, while some 345,757 or 67.4 per cent are fully vaccinated. For adolescents be tween the ages of 12 and 17, 35,588 first doses (48.7 per cent) and 26,091 second doses (35.7 per cent) have beenVaccinationadministered.for chil dren in the five to 11 cat egory shows 7844 first dos es (7.7 per cent). Only 3105 (three per cent) have re turned for their second shot. Approximately 72,526 persons have returned for their booster shots thus far. In the Region of the Americas, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has increased to 175 mil lion while the death toll has gone up to 2.8 million. Globally, there are 596 million confirmed cases with 6.4 million deaths. If anyone is displaying any of the symptoms as sociated with COVID-19, or need any additional in formation, they are asked to contact the COVID-19 Hotline on 231-1166, 2267480, or 624-6674 immedi ately or visit www.health. gov.gy. (G12) 27 new persons infected with COVID-19 – Health Ministry …2 ICU patients being monitored GUYANA COVID-19 DASHBOARD SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 UPDATE NUMBER OF NEW CASES 27 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN INSTITUTIONAL ISOLATION 9 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN HOME ISOLATION 244 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN COVID-19 ICU 3 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN INSTITUTIONAL QUARANTINE 4 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES BY GENDER (FEMALES) 38,484 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES BY GENDER (MALES) 32,578 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES IN GUYANA SINCE 2020 71,062 NUMBER OF RECOVERED CASES 69,528 TOTAL 1st DOSE VACCINATED 446,000 FULLY IMMUNISED 345,757 TOTAL NUMBER OF DEATHS 1278 DISTRIBUTION OF TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES SINCE MARCH 2020 REGION 1 2688 REGION 2 3137 REGION 3 8733 REGION 4 35,368 REGION 5 2574 REGION 6 6921 REGION 7 2655 REGION 8 921 REGION 9 4346 REGION 10 3719
The event saw the atten dance of Prime Minister Brig Ret’d Mark Phillips, Cabinet Ministers, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, represen tatives from hinterland vil lages and other officials.
ploy people from the area’, because infrastructural de velopment must mean bet ter infrastructure, but it must also bring employment to the community while you are benefiting from a new road,” Edghill poorlyLaravillageraisedimplementedwouldannouncedthatMeanwhile,added.followingannouncement,Edghillthattheprojectseephasetwobeingin2023.AfterconcernswerebytheToshaooftheaboutabridgecalledKabra,whichwasconstructedbyprevi ous contractors, the Public Works Minister said the con dition of the bridge would be addressed in phase two of the road project. “We can include that as a phase two,” the Minister said, “with the road and the bridge included. So, when we finish this current contract for 2022, we can include that for 2023, and we come with a phase two, including the bridge: do a proper bridge and some more of the road.” Cornelius said the Lara Kabra bridge was made out of inferior materials, and those have deteriorat ed over time, making the bridge “very dangerous” to traverse.TheToshao noted that improvements were made to the bridge, but they were only short-term solutions, because the improvements didn’t address the root cause of the problem with the bridge - the posts that keep it inMinisterplace. Edghill has as sured residents that he would be returning to in spect the road upon its com pletion.
16 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2022 | GUYANATIMESGY.COM NEWS Public Works Minister Juan Edghill has re cently announced that $70 million would be pumped into the develop ment of roads in Karrau vil lage, Region Seven (CuyuniMazaruni), making road development works among the largest infrastructural works to be implemented in thatThevillage.Minister has said this project is part of the PPP/C KarrauinfrastructuraleringMinisterinWemetressaidtomitment.andgrademostawardedbringnews,heremediately.theland2,000commitmentAdministration’stoupgradingkilometresofhinterroads,andphaseoneofprojectissettobeginim“ThereasonwhyIamistobringyougoodbecauseweonlygoodnews.Wehavethecontractofal$70millionfortheupofroadsinKarrau,thisispartofourcomWhenwewenttheelectionsin2020,wewewilldo2,000kiloofhinterlandroads.[Government]putthatblackandwhite,”thesaid,whiledelivremarksonthismajorprojectattheCommunityGround.Theroadworkswould span approximately five ki lometres, covering all the in ternal roads in the village, and the project would be ex ecuted by JBS Investment Inc. The Minister noted that the contractor is expected to be fully mobilised within a fewEdghillweeks. highlighted that village Toshao Shane Cornelius would obtain an unpriced bill of quantities, which is being done to offer transparency to the villagers. “We are a Government that is committed to trans parency; we believe in good governance, we believe in ac countability. The people who are the beneficiaries must know what the Government is spending the money on, and if it isn’t correct, bring it to our attention, to ensure that you are getting proper delivery,” Edghill has said. To foster community en gagement and economic growth within communities where major development is being done, contractors who carry out infrastruc tural works on behalf of the Government are being urged to employ residents from within the communities they are assigned work. “We have said to con tractors all across the coun try that ‘When you get a job and go into a local area, em
The Head of State also used the opportunity to highlight Guyana’s rich cul ture embedded in its six rac es. “What we have is unique, what have cannot be taken away, what we have can only be celebrated and shared… because what we have is a united people and united cul ture,” he pointed out. During Thursday’s Amerindian Heritage Month Cultural Extravaganza at the National Stadium Tarmac, there were perfor mances of traditional dances and songs as well as spoken pieces by cultural groups from various hinterlands communities across all 10 regions in the country.
Fort Island is one of the stops on many of the cir cuit tours in the Essequibo River. Government has al ready signalled its commit ment to further developing the tourism circuit in the Essequibo.Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) General Manager Marcelene Merchant disclosed that “every Saturday while on its way to Bartica, the ferry will make stops to Fort Island Stelling, whether it is to drop off or to pick up passen gers or their cargo and also on the return from Bartica on Sunday the ferry will also stop at Fort MerchantIsland”.notedthat sys tems were in place should the need arise for the ferry to stop at the island during the“Ifweek.there are any special request during the week, be cause the ferry don’t usual ly stop during the week, but if there are any special to stop and do any pick-up or drop-off, well, then we will be more than happy to facili tate that,” she stated. As it relates to cost, adults will pay $100 from Parika to Fort Island and children $60; the journey from Bartica to Fort Island will cost adults $420 and children, $220.
MV Malali ferry service reintroduced to Fort Island
Public Works Minister Juan Edghill
After a 13-year hia tus, residents of Fort Island, Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) are now bene fiting from the reintroduc tion of the ferry service on August 27. The MV Malali is servic ing the island. The reintroduction of the ferry service was made pos sible following the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Administration’s $82 million investment that saw the construction of a new stelling on the island. The return of the ferry service is also the fulfilment of a commitment made by Government upon comple tion of the stelling back in May.Fort Island is home to about 95 persons and more than 200 persons from the catchment areas. Agriculture is one of the main economic activities of theWithisland.the ferry now back in service, persons will not only be able to get their pro duce to market, but also sell to persons who stop with the ferry at the island.
This year’s Heritage Month being held under the theme “Celebrating our tra ditional culture, while build ing One governmentonlysaidlifetiontheConstitutionaltionalmotepartnergovernmenttothatHowever,tureministerpersonal,culture,portancepriate.Sukhai,AffairsAccordingGuyana.”toAmerindianMinisterPaulinethisthemeisapproPointingouttheimoftheindigenousshenotedthatitisuniqueandscared.Inthesamebreath,thesaidthisrichculisslowlyfadingaway.sheexplainedthereisanadvantageavoidthisespeciallywithasacommittedinthedrivetoproandpreservetradiculturecoupledwithprovisionsforprotectionandpreservaofAmerindianswayofandculture.Infact,MinisterSukhaithatGuyanaisthecountrythathasasupportinga
month-filled activities aim at celebrating and promot ing indigenous traditional knowledge and culture. “But in actively working to celebrate and preserve of our culture, we have to each do our part. Indigenous lead ers, elders and youths have a specific role to play and we must take our roles serious ly, proactive steps must be taken to not only celebrate and promote our culture but to keep it alive, to transmit it to the nexy generation, to embrace it and ensure we have pride in our identi ty,” the Amerindian Affairs MinisterSimilarstated.sentiments were echoed by Chairman of the National Toshaos Council (NTC), Derrick John, who urged that at no time must indigenous people forsake their heritage. Instead, he implored, they must pre serve it for future genera tions. He added that this requires renewed efforts to work on passing down vari ous indigenous traditions to generations.Amerindian Heritage Month is observed in September annually. However, this year’s cele brations have returned after a three-year hiatus caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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The island, which is also a major tourist destination, is home to Fort Zeelandia, which was built in 1744. It is also home to the Court of Policy, a Dutch Heritage Museum which is the only one of its kind in Guyana.
Govt pumps $70M to construct roads in Karrau Village
Few more than me can vouch for the quality of the Ministry’s service to Guyana under Rashleigh’s guidance: names like Rudy Collins, Anne Jardim, Miles Stoby come to mind – and there were others,” Sir Shridath said.Jackson was also the Ambassador and Permanent Representative for Guyana to the United Nations. Elected President of the Council for Namibia in 1974, Jackson campaigned vigor ously around the world. The visit to Guyana on Namibia Day (August 26) was marked by a monument to freedom on the grounds of the Umana Yana in “RashleighGeorgetown.endshis com mendable book on Guyana’s Diplomacy with reference to “the Presidency that nev er was” – the Presidency of the General Assembly for 1993. His account is itself such a model of diploma cy that it must suffice for me to remind that for that highest of posts in the UN, Rashleigh Jackson had been warmly endorsed by the Heads of Government of his Caribbean region. It wasn’t to be; but he deserves to be remembered for the out standing work he did in mak ing it possible for Guyana to assume those heights glob ally,” Sir Shridath noted. He said that Jackson’s service to Guyana in anoth er sphere needed also to be recalled as he leaves. It is in relation to Venezuela’s threat to the Guyana that Jackson helped to build. “From Independence, through the 12 years of the Protocol of Port of Spain, and 27 years of Venezuelan filibuster in a thwart ed UN good offices pro cess, Rashleigh laboured in Guyana’s cause – and so to the very end, with diplomat ic wariness and passion.” Jackson himself had be come Foreign Minister of Guyana in 1978, a post in which he remained until 1990.
Farmer calls for Police intervention as cattle stolen, slaughtered
Guyana’s renowned former Foreign Affairs Minister Rashleigh Jackson died on Thursday evening at his home in Republic Park, East Bank Demerara (EBD). Jackson, 93, who hailed from New Amsterdam, Berbice, had received the Order of Roraima for his ser vice to TheGuyana.former diplomat was a student of Queen’s College.Ina tribute to Jackson, Guyana’s international ly-recognised diplomat, Sir Shridath Ramphal on Thursday evening said that while at Queen’s College, his “mastery of mathemat ics was legendary; and after university abroad he came back to his alma mater to teach a new generation. But these were the days of na tion building and in 1964, Rashleigh joined the public service where he remained for most of his working life.” By 1966, and Independence, he said that Jackson was the Permanent Secretary of the External Affairs“TogetherMinistry.we built our fledgling Foreign Service that was to serve Guyana’s needs as a new micro-State beset by existential threats.
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ACorentyne farmer is calling on Police to be more respon sive as two head of his cat tle were stolen and slaugh tered sometime between Wednesday evening and ThursdayMukishmorning.Balkrishna, 41, of Salton Farm, Corentyne, Region Six (East BerbiceCorentyne) suffered the loss of the two animals, includ ing a cow that produced one and a half gallons of milk daily.He noted he had been rearing animals since he was a small boy, but had previously stopped because of losses suffered as a result of theft.“When my children grow up, I bought a cow with a calf and I have the cow just to get milk for my children. This morning when I came I saw the rope cut from the calf and from the mother. Whilst looking I notice that the mesh fence was cut and then I notice a blood trace and when I checked it is all two of the cows killed right there,” Balkrishna said as he pointed to the spot where the animals had been tied. The farmer had been keeping his cows in the neighbouring village of Hogstye on an empty plot of land.He showed <<<Guyana Times>>> evidence indicat ing that the carcasses were dragged to the road and re moved by a vehicle.
Former Foreign Affairs Minister Rashleigh Jackson passes
Guyana’s former Foreign Affairs Minister, Rashleigh Jackson
“Daily, I have to get milk. I have three children going to school and they have to get milk every single day: I don’t want them to grow with malnutrition. I have to feed them. If I don’t feed them from young, how would they be somebody good?” he questioned.Balkrishna said the ex cess milk he got from the cow on a daily basis would be shared with persons in the“Rightvillage.in the same yard I would give some to my friend and while I am going home I would give to other people. I can’t use a gallon and a half of milk every day. So I give it away.” The father of three said just before the discovery was made that the animals had been slaughtered, he had enquired from a neighbour whether he wanted milk on Thursday.According to Balkrishna, he bought the animals for $280,000 two years ago, but he considered them priceless now.“I can’t value that cow. That cow is priceless to me. I can’t sell it; I wouldn’t sell it to anybody, so I can’t val ue that cow; it is priceless to me.”The farmer said he had also been losing produce from his farm. According to him, on more than one occa sion, he caught the thieves red-handed and called the Police, but was told to go to the station and make a re port. Balkrishna says he has even taken away banan as from thieves and taken them to the Police station and made a report, but the Police never acted on the in formation.“When you go in the gar den, you catch a man with you coconut and you take the coconut to the station the Police ask if they can have some of them and they are not interested in the per son who steal the coconut,” he lamented.Following the discov ery on Thursday morning, Balkrishna said he reported the matter to the Number 51 Police Station, but up to Thursday evening, the Police had not fulfilled a promise to visit the scene. He noted that for years there have been promises to construct an abattoir along the central Corentyne which will ensure farmers have one central place for their animals to be slaughtered. This, in turn, would pres sure butchers to purchase only meat coming out of the abattoir.“Alittle house building they cannot make so that farmers can take their an imals to one place spot. Every meeting you go to, you raise the same topic and all they do is promise. They giving out $600 million con tracts and they can’t do a $3 million abattoir. Every week, animals are being lost in this area and nothing has been done; it has been years this has been going on,” he said.
Mukish Balkrishna
(Excerpt from Reuters)
SVG Opposition says country faces a cost-of-living crisis
People walk between street vendors selling their goods in Rio de Janeiro's downtown, Brazil September 1, 2020 (Reuters/Ricardo Moraes file photo)
The National Assembly (DNA) late Tuesday gave the green light to the Dutch-speaking Caribbean Community (Caricom) nation to imple ment a 10 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) even as sev eral business organisations, including the Suriname Business Association (SBA); the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) and the Association of Surinamese Manufacturers (ASM) had urged legislators to approve a lesser VAT. By a vote of 26 to 12, with the main Opposition National Democratic Party (NDP) voting against the measure and the NPS, one of the Government partners, supporting the legislation “underIvanildoduress”.Plein, one of the three Government legisla tors, voted in favour, while the other two -- NPS leader Gregory Russia and Patricia Etnel – stayed away from the vote in Pleinprotest.saidwhile the NPS was in favour of introduc ing VAT to replace turnover tax, the party had urged the Government of President Chan Santokhi to reconsid er its 10 per cent propos al and come up with a low er rate. However, the NPS said it found the five per cent proposal by the Opposition unrealistic because it would not achieve the Government objectives, such as a reduc tion in payroll taxes from January 1, 2023. “We are going to vote for it under protest and condi tions, at least I am,” said Plein, adding “the condi tion is that other tax-reliev ing laws are passed before January 1, 2023, so that they can enter into force together with the VAT.” He said the NPS’s po sition should signal to the Government that the party was “not happy with the 10 percent VAT but are cooper ating in the greater interest”. The VAT will be levied as of January 1, 2023. (Excerpt from CMC) Finance and Planning Minister Armand Achaibersing
Monkeypox cases jump to 7 in Jamaica
Suriname introducing VAT in 2023
The Prime Minister had earlier promised the Afreximbank the same priv ileges and immunities ex tended to the Caribbean Development Bank if it sets up in the “Similarly,island.the ability to share data to let us know what we all want and what we all need from each oth er, what our people like,” she told those gathered at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre.Mottley also addressed the issue of air travel and the lack of direct air links between Africa and the Caribbean. (Excerpt from CMC)
GDP was bolstered by 1.3 per cent growth in the dominant ser vices sector, along with a 2.2 per cent gain for indus try and a 0.5 per cent expan sion for agriculture. On the demand side, investment jumped 4.8 per cent and con sumer spending rose 2.6 per cent, while Government ex penditure declined 0.9 per cent. (Excerpt from Reuters)
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Ecuador begins regularisation process for thousands of Venezuelan migrants
Former Chilean Police Officer found guilty for assault that left woman blind
O pposition Leader, Dr Godwin Friday appealed to the Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines to pay urgent attention to the “cost of living crisis”, espe cially as school is about to open.Friday said some people do not know where to turn to get what they need espe cially with the reopening of school around the corner. He urged Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves and his Administration to “do more to assist people to cope with the rising costs of ev eryday goods – food, cloth ing, building materials – so that they can see the light at the end of the tunnel; that they have some hope”. “This is such a seri ous matter for people now,” Friday said during his weekly programme on NICE Radio. “Every day, I see people who are finding it so difficult. The circum stances are grave in their homes because you can’t put nothing on the table for yourInchildren.”anational address last month, Friday out lined the Opposition New Democratic Party’s propos al to help people cope with the rising cost of living. But Dr Gonsalves rub bished his suggestions, saying that the country did not have the money to cov er the ideas put forward and noted the assistance already being given to res idents.But Friday said: “When people lose hope, all kinds of things suffer as a conse quence, and we have … to have a sense that there’s a plan for us to go forward.” (Excerpt from CMC)
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SVG Opposition Leader, Dr Godwin Friday Brazil's economy picked up more than expected in the sec ond quarter, as a boost in consumer spending offered a tailwind for President Jair Bolsonaro's re-election cam paign.The country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ex panded 1.2 per cent in the three months to June, offi cial statistics agency IBGE said, above the 0.9 per cent growth forecast of econo mists in a Reuters poll. It was the fourth straight quarter of sequential growth, lifting economic ac tivity three per cent above its pre-pandemic level and prompting several banks to raise their 2022 growth fore casts.An improving econo my has revived the election hopes of Bolsonaro, who trails former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in opin ion Second-quarterpolls.
The number of con firmed monkeypox cases in Jamaica has jumped to seven following the detection of two more cases in the island, Observer Online understands. The Ministry of Health is expected to make an official announcement of the new casesJamaicasoon. earlier this week confirmed its fifth case of the disease, the first in the very populated Corporate Area and third locally trans mitted infection. (Jamaica Observer)
Strong Brazil GDP boosts Bolsonaro's re-election efforts
AChilean court on Thursday convicted a former special forces Police Captain of assault af ter a woman was left blinded by a tear gas canister in late 2019, when the country was rocked by massive protests. The court found that former Captain Patricio Maturana had committed "unlawful coercion result ing in serious and very se rious injuries" to Fabiola Campillai, whose eyes were permanently damaged af ter being hit in the face by a Police-issue canister while waiting for the bus. His sentencing is sched uled for October 10. The Prosecutor's office has re quested a 12-year prison sentence.Thecase became one of the most notorious of the estimated 3000 people who were injured during the of ten-violent protests. Last year, Campillai was elected as a Senator. Human rights organisa tions have criticised what they say was a heavy-hand ed Police response to the protests, which also left 30 peopleMaturanadead. was arrest ed by members of the Police Human Rights Squad in AugustCampillai2020. and members of her family are also suing the State for damages, seek ing over US$2 million in compensation. (Excerpt from Reuters) E cuador on Thursday began a regularisationyear-longpro cess for thousands of Venezuelan migrants who are undocumented or lack visas or a legal right to stay in theThousandscountry. of Venezuelans have entered Ecuador in recent years, fleeing the economic crisis in their country. Many of them use the Andean na tion as a transit country to others in South America such as Peru and Chile. More than 500,000 Venezuelan migrants and refugees were living in Ecuador in August 2022, according to data from the International Organisation for TheMigration.Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry said that the reg ularisation is a migratory amnesty, from which some 324,000 Venezuelans who entered Ecuadorian ter ritory through the official borders of the country will benefit in a first stage. Ecuador also hopes to regularise from February 2023 another 300,000 Venezuelans who arrived through irregular steps. Along with these steps, the Government expects to create a foreigners' da tabase to generate policies regarding migratory flows. In addition, it seeks to guarantee the rights of mi grants to access labour and social benefits. Venezuelan migrants have to register in a first stage via an online plat form managed by the Ecuadorian Government. The process will cover foreign citizens of other na tionalities, according to the Foreign grantproblems,linesoughtVenezuelanEarlyMinistry.onThursday,citizenswhotoregisteronencounteredtechnicalaccordingtomigroups.
The first AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF) opened on Thursday in Barbados with Prime Minister Mia Mottley say ing the two regions “have business to do” and assert ing that it was only political will keeping the two regions from establishing direct air links.Giving the keynote ad dress at the start of the conference, which her Government is hosting with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Mottley said while the ex isting political coopera tion between Africa and the Caribbean was essential, it was not sufficient to reverse the under-development of ei therSheregion.insisted that they had not fully tapped into the existing avenues for part nership, including business and“Thetourism.ability for us to be able to have a Caribbean Export-Import Bank with our partners in the African Export-Import Bank is too critical a possibility for us in this region and for unlocking further the benefits of the Caribbean Single Market and Single Economy for us to ignore at this stage,” Mottley said.
PM says political will needed to form deeper links with Africa
R ussian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funer al of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, deny ing the man who failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet empire the full State honours granted to Boris Yeltsin.Gorbachev, idolised in the West for allowing east ern Europe to escape Soviet communist control, but un loved at home for the cha os that his "perestroika" reforms unleashed, will be buried on Saturday af ter a public ceremony in Moscow's Hall of Columns.
IAEA experts inspect Russian-held nuclear plant in Ukraine
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi said the "plant and physical integrity of the plant" had been "violated several times". The inspectors were ac companied to the plant by Russian soldiers after a risky journey delayed by shelling.Russia and Ukraine ac cused each other of trying to sabotage the Zaporizhzhia,mission.in south ern Ukraine, is Europe's largest nuclear plant. It was occupied by Russia soon af ter it invaded Ukraine in February.Ukrainian staff who con tinue to operate the plant say Russian troops have used it as a military base and that workers are in ef fect held at gunpoint. "We are not going any where. The IAEA is now there, it is at the plant and it is not moving – it's going to stay there," Grossi said, once he had crossed back into Ukrainian-held territo ry. But he did not specify how many people would be staying and for how long.
OPEC's output hit 29.6 million barrels per day (bpd) in the most recent month, according to a Reuters survey, while US output rose to 11.82 million bpd in June. Both are at their highest levels since April 2020. Still, the oil market will have a small surplus of just 400,000 bpd in 2022, much less than forecast earlier, according to OPEC and its partners – known as OPEC+ – due to underproduction of its members, data from the group showed. read more The group expects an oil market deficit of 300,000 bpd in 2023.In the latest attempt to bring Venezuelan oil into the market, Chevron Corp submitted a new application to the US Government to expand its licence to operate in Venezuela, sourcesMeanwhile,said. US crude stocks fell by 3.3 million barrels, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Wednesday, while gasoline stocks were down 1.2 million barrels.Finance Ministers from the Group of Seven group of wealthy nations will discuss the US Administration's proposed price cap on Russian oil when they meet today, the White House said. (Reuters)
China may have commit ted crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken said, welcoming the UN report.
Beijing has vigorously denied any abuses in Xinjiang. “This report deepens and reaffirms our grave concern regarding the ongoing geno cide and crimes against hu manity that PRC Government authorities are perpetrating against Uighurs,” Blinken said in a statement released by the US State Department. The European Union’s High Representative Josep Borrell also welcomed the re port, saying the 45-page doc ument recounts rights vio lations in China that could amount to “crimes against humanity”.Thereport, published minutes before UN Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet’s term ended, called on Beijing to immediately re lease “all individuals arbi trarily deprived of their liber ty”. (Excerpt from Al Jazeera)
mostly Muslim ethnic minori ties in the north-western re gion of Xinjiang may amount to “crimes against humanity”.
"Western-world oil demand, as well as China's, is stagnant, while supplies are expanding incrementally, largely on the back of the US shale boom," said Julius Baer analyst NorbertAsia'sRucker.factory activity slumped in August as China's zeroCOVID curbs and cost pressures continued to hurt businesses, surveys showed on Thursday, darkening the outlook for the region's fragile recovery. Southern Chinese tech hub Shenzhen tightened COVID-19 curbs as cases kept increasing. Large events and indoor entertainment were suspended for three days in the city's most populous district, Baoan. The main European stocks index fell to seven-week lows as worries deepened about aggressive rate hikes to fight recordTheinflation.dollarindex hit a 20-year high after US data showed a resiliently strong economy, giving the Federal Reserve more room to raise interest rates. A stronger greenback makes dollar-priced oil more expensive for holders of other currencies."Chinadoing another round of COVID lockdowns at major export terminals," said Dennis Kissler, senior vice president of trading at BOK Financial, which along with the "super strong US dollar is causing further fund liquidation in crude futures".
Putin made a sign of the cross in Russian Orthodox fashion before briefly touch ing the edge of the coffin. "Unfortunately, the President's work schedule will not allow him to do this on September 3, so he decid ed to do it today," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov toldHereporters.said Gorbachev's ceremony would have "el ements" of a State funer al, and that the State was helping to organise it. Meanwhile, the chair man of Russia's Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports say. The company confirmed his death, but said only that Maganov, 67, had "passed away following a severe ill ness".Russian media said he was being treated at Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital and died of his in juries.Maganov is the latest of a number of high-pro file business executives to die in mysterious circum stances. (Excerpt from BBC News)
The comments were made a day after the UN human rights office said in a long-de layed report that China’s de tention of Uighurs and other
United Nations nu clear experts have made their first in spection of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine and are to maintain a presenceInternationalthere.
A man places a rose on a sculpture of Mikhail Gorbachev in memory of the final leader of the Soviet Union, at the "Fathers of Unity" memorial in Berlin, Germany, August 31, 2022 (Reuters/Lisi Niesner)
Putin denies Gorbachev a state funeral and will stay away
The grand hall, within sight of the Kremlin, host ed the funerals of Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev. Gorbachev will be given a military guard of honour – but his funeral will not be a state one. State television on Thursday showed Putin solemnly placing red ros es beside Gorbachev's coffin – left open as is tradition al in Russia – in Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital, where he died on Tuesday aged 91.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres hopes China will “take on board the recommendations” made in a report by the or ganisation’s Human Rights Office on the Xinjiang prov ince, says a spokesman.
The report by UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet “confirms what the Secretary General has been saying on Xinjiang for quite some time, that human rights must be re spected and that the Uighur community need to be re spected,” Guterres’s spokes man, Stephane Dujarric, told reporters on Thursday. Dujarric added that Guterres was “concerned” by what he had read in the re port, which cited possible crimes against humanity.
UN SG hopes China will “take on board” Xinjiang recommendations
Watchtowers on a high-security facility near what is believed to be a so-called 're-education camp' where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained, on the outskirts of Hotan, in China's north-western Xinjiang region [File: Greg Baker/AFP]
People in southern Pakistan face yet more devastation af ter record floods blamed on climate change submerged a third of the country, killing more than 1100 people. A surge of water is now flowing down the Indus riv er, threatening communities in southern Sindh province. Local officials say 1.2 million people have been displaced in Dadu district in Sindh, where hundreds of villages are submerged –and there is still more water coming. Mudslides and floodwa ters are travelling down from the mountains towards villages in this district. The military is evacuat ing the stranded by plane and many others by boat. Thousands more are still on the flood path and need to be moved – but there isn't much time. An official who is part of the operations on the ground tells me they've been work ing in the region for a month now."More water is coming, we are starting to see it. There is too much need, not enough of us, but we are do ing our best," he says before getting on a large boat. It can take hours in the water, as the villages are far from each other. In Khairpur Nathanshah, the military, aid workers and villagers are all racing to get people to dry land. (Excerpt from BBC News)
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Oil slides 3% as China lockdowns stoke demand fears
Russia's Interfax news agency reported that around eight to 12 inspectors would stay on, while Ukraine's State nuclear company Energoatom said five inspec tors would stay. The inspectors hope to assess the state of the plant and talk to Ukrainian work ers under Russian control. Grossi said that battles taking place near the plant were "not going to stop" the inspection. (Excerpt from BBC News)
Pakistan floods: Time running out for families in Sindh
A possible revival of a 2015 Iran nuclear deal which would allow the country to boost its oil exports also weighed on prices.French President Emmanuel Macron said he hoped a deal would be concluded in coming days. Oil market volatility grew this year on concerns about inadequate supply in the months after Russia sent military forces into Ukraine and as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) struggles to increase output.
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Oil prices tumbled more than three per cent on Thursday, as new COVID-19 lockdown measures in China added to worries that high inflation and interest rate hikes are denting fuel demand. Brent crude settled down US$3.28 at US$92.36 a barrel, a 3.4 per cent drop. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell US$2.94, or 3.3 per cent, to US$86.61 per barrel.
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"We had a wonderful event (on Sunday). (It was) very well supported, espe cially from the local hors es. I want to thank all those local trainers and owners. They have stuck (it out) for two and a half years, since we had no races during the COVID-19 time; but because (and) for the love of the sport, they have stuck to it and kept feeding the horses and keep ing them, and that is an ex treme task. But because (and) for the love of the sport, the amount of money they spent during those years, the horses can never earn them back again. I want to give my heartfelt thanks to the own ers," he Deoroopsaid.added: "From the administrative side of horse racing in Guyana, we would put a lot more in the local horses to give them more op portunities. The two-yearold horses will run for a first prize of one million dollars before the year is out. So, we want to encourage those local horses."The next race meet to be held in Guyana is the President’s Cup, set for September 18 at the Rising Sun Turf Club in Region Five. Another race will be held on October 23 at the Kennard Memorial Turf Club, and the traditional Boxing Day race will be held on December 26 at the same venue in Bush Lot Farm. (Brandon Corlette)
P otaro Strikers Women rose to the oc casion on Wednesday night when they defeat ed the Bartica All-Stars Women 4-0 in their fix ture of the GFF Women's Development League. With the match being witnessed by respective screaming fans and foes at the Bartica Community Centre Ground, both teams displayed great ball con trol, teamwork, and deter mination; but the Potaro Strikers Women managed to find the back of the net four times: by way of a dou ble from Odelleia Benjamin (16th and 79th minutes), and singles from Darissa McAndrew (13th minute) and Jeselle Pollard (32nd minute); while the Bartica All-Stars Women had no such fortune. With the final result, Potaro Strikers Women have earned their first points in the league after three matches, while the Bartica All-Stars Women are yet to get off the mark following two matches. Bartica All-Stars are expected to meet the Essequibo All-Stars on Saturday at the Anna Regina Ground. The Women's Development League is a national programme being managed by the Guyana Football Federation in as sociation with the Guyana National Women's Football Association.Wednesday's women's match was supported by a male exhibition match in which Rising Stars FC de feated Potaro Strikers FC two goals to one.
Dennis Deoroop, President of the Kennard Memorial Turf Club Night 2 of the Lucozade Indoor Hockey Tournament saw YMCA Old Fort boys and men capturing a solid 9-goal victory over their opponents, GCC War Dogs, and the Spartans continuing their winning stride from the previous night by recording a 3-0 victory over the GCC Torna-does.
The Saints Club junior girls, Saints Conquerors, showed dominance like their junior boys by defeating YMCA Old Fort Scouts 10-0. In the last 2 junior category matches of the night, Saints Aces girls lost to YMCA Old Fort Samurais 0-2, while Saints Superstars defeated Saints Scorpions 3-0. In the lone ladies’ match, contested between GBTI GCC Tigers and YMCA Old Fort Igniters, the nippy Sonia Jardine led her team to victory with 3 goals, in the process, giving them the highest margin of victory so far recorded in the ladies’ division: 7-0. In the night’s most competitive game in the men's category, Saints Splinters pulled off a massive victory over GCC The Sequel. Devin Hooper opened the score sheet with a penalty-corner goal in the 5th minute, but 2 minutes later, Joshua Joseph answered for his team with a raiding field goal in the 7th minute. A minute later, Dwayne Scott kept his team ahead on the scoresheet by shooting a ball past goalkeeper Alleyne. With the game deadlocked, with both teams fighting for possession of the ball, and with GCC showing great composure and skill, the speedy Splinters kept up the rapid pace of the game, resulting in GCC being outnumbered on several runs. Edmond Chinian caused the Saints fans to erupt in spontaneous applause when he found the back of the GCC net in the 39th minute. And in the 40 minute, with seconds left in the game and with GCC scrambling for a draw, Chinian again received a pass and flicked it over the keeper from the far right of the goal. Thus the Saints Splinters were able to celebrate a 4-2 win of the Thematch.last match of the night saw the young national boys of YMCA Old Fort whipping the Hikers Cadets 9-3. Warren Williams, who secured 2 goals for his team in the junior category, led his team’s scoresheet with 6 goals. The tournament continues nightly and from 10am this weekend, with the semifinals and finals set for Sunday, September 4.
KMTC President Dennis Deoroop delighted with record entries
GFF Women's Development League… Potaro Strikers dominate clash of Bartica teams Potaro Strikers Bartica All Stars Old Fort, Saints S7N, dominateConquerorsNight2 action Kennard Memorial Horse Meet… Lucozade Indoor Hockey Tournament…
President of the Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC), Dennis Deoroop, has said he was delighted to see the re cord number of entries for the races run during last Sunday’s meet at Bush Lot Farm, Corentyne, Berbice, especially the entries involv ing locally-bred horses. In an exclusive interview with Guyana Times Sport, Deoroop also noted that the two-year-old horses would in future be running for a mil lion-dollar prize. "As President of the Kennard Memorial Turf Club, and on behalf of the di rectors, I want to thank all the fans that came out. We had a record number of en tries, especially in the lower classes of horses. “We had 14 horses en tered for the two-year-old race, and 23 horses for the first-time starters. That has shown that the local breed ing is still alive, and people are interested in the sport and (are) hungry for racing," "Soon we will be push ing for legislation, so hope fully we will have legislation in place. We have introduced ‘forecast betting’, which is the way forward. That will be the only betting after leg islation. All hand bets will be eliminated. I saw it on Sunday, and it was very suc cessful, and hopefully we can expand," Deoroop said. Deoroop was in full praise of the owners of the local horses, for keep ing their animals up to standard despite the ab sence of racing during the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tiffany Solomon (GBTI GCC Tigers) taking a shot at goal in a penalty corner against Old Fort Igniters
The first six of the nine matches of the night showcased the junior category of players, with the opening match pitting GCC Spartans against the GCC Torna-does. The YMCA Old Fort boys team, which comprised under-21 national players, raided the goal space of the game’s newcomers, GCC War Dogs, and young Old Fort captain Shaquan Favorite secured 4 goals for his team, while Simeon Moore and Warren Williams each recorded a double, and a lone goal came from Daniel Woolford, giving Old Fort a 9-0 victory over the GCC War Dogs. And just like the Old Fort boys, Saints S7N, comprising young national players, also made light work of the inexperienced GCC Bull Dogs, administering them a 16-0 drubbing, with Shakeem Fausette leading the scoresheet for his team with 5 goals.
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Fletcher continued to score with ease and grace, while
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Fletcher's innings even tually came to an end when he was also caught by Bosch off the bowling of Ramon Simmons, after scoring 81 runs from 55 deliveries in a score that was decorated with 11 fours and one six. The Patriots’ score was then at 135-5 after 15.3 overs, and Dwaine Pretorious was removed the very next ball as the Patriots continued to crumble. They eventually end ed their innings on 149-8 in 17 overs. Jason Holder had 2-27, and left-arm seamer Simmons had 2-28. It was only Fletcher and Da Silva who reached double figures for the Patriots. Bosch claimed five catches for the Royals.
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Fletcher slammed a brilliant 81 Magical Hosein spins Knight Riders to victory in CPL match FLETCHER SLAMS 81 IN CPL GAME 3, but Patriots manage only 149-8 against Barbados Royals
Joshua Da Silva is stumped Corbin Bosch claimed five catches for the Royals
The Patriots were then at 99-3 in 12.2 overs, and Fletcher took Obed McCoy to the cleaners, although he watched Dewald Brevis hold out to the fielder at long-on. The Patriots were then at 1284 in 14.2 overs.
Fall of wickets: 1-57 (Joshua Da Silva, 6.5 ov), 2-83 (Darren Bravo, 10.4 ov), 3-99 (Sherfane Rutherford, 12.2 ov), 4-128 (Dewald Brevis, 14.2 ov), 5-135 (Andre Fletcher, 15.3 ov), 6-135 (Dwaine Pretorius, 15.4 ov), 7-147 (Dwayne Bravo, 16.4 ov), 8-149 (Sheldon Cottrell, 16.6 ov) BOWLING O-M-R-W Joshua Bishop 3-0-19-1 Corbin Bosch 3-0-33-1 Jason Holder 3-0-21-2 Ramon Simmonds 4-0-28-2 Obed McCoy 4-0-41-1
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ST LUCIA KINGS INNINGS (20 overs maximum) Johnson Charles †c Narine b Hosein 4-7 Leroy Lugg b Narine 13-21 Mark Deyal c Pooran b Hosein 35-24 Roston Chase (c)lbw b Hosein 19-23 Scott Kuggeleijn c Seales b Hosein 0-1 Roshon Primus c Webster b Seales 38-25 Ackeem Auguste c Pollard b Phillip 11-11 Alzarri Joseph c Pollard b Seales 9-6 Matthew Forde not out 6-2 Jeavor Royal run out (†Seifert/Seales) 0-0 Extras (lb 1, w 7) 8 TOTAL 20 Ov (RR: 7.15)143/9 Did not bat: Kesrick Williams Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Johnson Charles, 2.4 ov), 2-32 (Leroy Lugg, 5.3 ov), 3-76 (Roston Chase, 12.1 ov), 4-76 (Scott Kuggeleijn, 12.2 ov), 5-77 (Mark Deyal, 12.5 ov), 6-102 (Ackeem Auguste, 16.5 ov), 7-137 (Roshon Primus, 19.3 ov), 8-137 (Alzarri Joseph, 19.4 ov), 9-143 (Jeavor Royal, 19.6 ov) BOWLING O-M-R-W Akeal Hosein 4-0-13-4 Jayden Seales 3-0-38-2 Anderson Phillip 3-0-22- 1 Sunil Narine 4-0-21- 1 Shaaron Lewis 1-0-8-0 Andre Russell 2-0-20-0 Seekkuge Prasanna 3-0-20-0 TRINBAGO KNIGHT RIDERS INNINGS (Target: 144 runs from 20 overs) Sunil Narine c Deyal b Royal 6-4 Tion Webster c Auguste b Williams 58-45 Nicholas Pooran c Williams b Kuggeleijn 4-6 Tim Seifert †c Forde b Joseph 34-39 Andre Russell c Lugg b Joseph 5-5 Kieron Pollard (c)c Deyal b Joseph 17-15 Seekkuge Prasanna b Joseph 1-3 Anderson Phillip not out 6-2 Jayden Seales not out 0-0 Extras (lb 6, nb 3, w 8) 17 TOTAL 19.2 Ov (RR: 7.65) 148/7 Did not bat: Akeal Hosein, Shaaron Lewis Fall of wickets: 1-6 (Sunil Narine, 0.4 ov), 2-19 (Nicholas Pooran, 3.1 ov), 3-100 (Tion Webster, 12.1 ov), 4-107 (Andre Russell, 13.3 ov), 5-140 (Tim Seifert, 18.2 ov), 6-142 (Kieron Pollard, 18.4 ov), 7-142 (Seekkuge Prasanna, 18.6 ov)
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Patriots Innings Andre Fletcher c Bosch b Simmonds 81 Joshua Da Silva †st †Thomas b Bishop 19 Darren Bravo c Bosch b Holder 7 Sherfane Rutherford c & b Bosch 9 Dewald Brevis c Bosch b Holder 4 Dwaine Pretorius cHolder b Simmonds 2 Dwayne Bravo (c)c Bosch b McCoy 7 Duan Jansen not out 5 Sheldon Cottrell run out (Bishop/†Thomas) 1 Extras (b 5, lb 2, w 7) 14 TOTAL 17 Ov (RR: 8.76) 149/8
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Darren Bravo, who came to the crease, continued his struggles and was eventual ly caught at long-off for seven from eight balls. The Patriots were then at 83-2 after 10.4 overs. Fletcher eventually reached his fifty from 40 balls, and Sherfane Rutherford, who then came to the crease, struck a six but was dismissed the next ball by Corbin Bosch for nine.
AbrilliantspellofbowlingfromAkealHoseinhasseentheTrinbagoKnightRiderscommencetheir2022HeroCaribbeanPremierLeague(CPL)campaignwithavic tory over last year’s finalists Saint Lucia Kings by three wickets.The Knight Riders won the toss and chose to field, and Hosein took frequent wickets to restrict the Kings to 143/9, despite some big hitting from batter Roshon Primus towards the end of theTheinnings.Kings lost openers Johnson Charles and Leroy Lugg in the batting pow erplay. Mark Deyal began to rebuild with some flu ent batting, but the 13th over proved to be pivotal, as Hosein took three wick ets therein, including those of Mark Deyal and captain Roston Chase. But although the Kings continued to lose wickets, a late flurry of boundaries from Primus ultimately saw them reach 143/9. The Knight Riders also got their innings off to a tough start, losing two ear ly wickets before a com manding innings from Tion Webster (58) helped to guide them to victory with four balls to Trinbagospare.Knight Riders suffered major setbacks ear ly in their chase, losing the wickets of Sunil Narine and Nicholas Pooran when both batters were caught in try ing to clear the boundary. But opener Webster led the recovery in scoring 58 runs from 45 balls, with sup port being provided by part ner Tim Seifert. However, the Saint Lucia Kings fought back by tak ing the wicket of Webster, followed shortly by that of Andre Russell through an outstanding catch by Lugg. It looked like Seifert and captain Kieron Pollard would take the Knight Riders to victory, but Alzarri Joseph dismissed both in the nineteenth over, be fore striking with his final ball to dismiss Seekkugge Prasanna and set up a nervy finish.In the end, though, Anderson Phillip struck a six to take the Knight Riders across the line. (Adapted from CPLT20)
BOWLING O-M-R-W Jeavor Royal 4-0-29-1 Alzarri Joseph 4-0-17-4 Scott Kuggeleijn 3.2-0-26-1 Roston Chase 4-0-28-0 Mark Deyal 1-0-19-0 Kesrick Williams 3-0-23-1
The Trinbago Men celebrating Andre Fletcher was the star of the show for St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in match three of the Hero Caribbean Premier League, played against the Barbados Royals at Warner Park in St Kitts & Nevis on Thursday night. At press time, Patriots had made 149-8 in their allotted 17 overs, with Fletcher scoring a shot-filled 81. He received support only from Joshua Da Silva, who made 19, while Ramon Simmons and Jason Holder led a collective bowling effort for the Barbados Royals. One hour and 30 minutes after the original start time, the match got underway with 17 overs per side and a fiveover powerplay, and Joshua Da Silva opened the batting in place of the absent Evin Lewis.Da Silva (19) and Fletcher posted 57 runs for the opening wicket after 6.5 overs, before the Trinidadian Da Silva ran past one and was stumped.
Kvist Paul (8) keeping the opposition at bay for the Junior Jags
Massy Women’s CPL 2022 tourney… Rain plays spoilsport after Fraser’s heroics in GAW vs TKR match SCOREBOARD TRINBAGO KNIGHT RIDERS WOMEN INNINGS (20 overs maximum) R-B Natasha McLean †b Fraser 20-26 Lee-Ann Kirby c Athapaththu8-15 Sune Luus c Ramharack 9-13 Deandra Dottin (c) 21-18 Kyshona Knight c Gajnabi 5-11 Hayley Jensen not out 25-25 Geetika Kodali b Khaka 6-12 (lb 2, w 9) 11 20 Ov (RR: 5.25) 105/6 Sheneta Grimmond, Anisa Mohammed, Jannillea Glasgow, Steffie1-25Soogrim(Lee-Ann Kirby, 6.1 ov), 2-31 (Natasha McLean, 6.5 ov), 3-60 (Sune Luus, 11.4 ov), 4-66 (Deandra Dottin, 12.2 ov), 5-90 (Kyshona Knight, 16.2 ov), 6-105 (Geetika Kodali, 19.6 ov) BOWLING O-M-R-W Shamilia Connell 4-0-10-1 Ayabonga Khaka 4-0-13-1 Cherry-Ann Fraser 4-0-21-3 Karishma Ramharack 4 0 32 0 Shabika Gajnabi 4 0 27 1 GUYANA AMAZON WARRIORS WOMEN INNINGS (Target: 106 runs from 20 overs) BATTING R-B Rashada Williams † not out 7-8 Chamari Athapaththunot out 2-5 Extras (nb 1, w 3) 4 TOTAL 2 Ov (RR: 6.50) 13 Did not bat: Shemaine Campbell, Stafanie Taylor (c), Chedean Nation, Rachel Vincent, CherryAnn Fraser, Shabika Gajnabi, Ayabonga Khaka, Shamilia Connell, Karishma Ramharack BOWLING O-M-R-W Geetika Kodali 1-0-9-0 Sheneta Grimmond 1-0-4-0 When the covers went on during the Warriors’ batting innings, it never came off until after the game’s time was up Natasha McLean is bowled by AnnCherry-Fraser CONCACAF U17 QUALIFIERS… Rain, rain, go away! three-feranpickedAnnCherry-Fraserupexciting
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G uyana’s Under-17 football team the Junior Jags on Thursday bounced back from a crushing loss ear lier this week to thump the Bahamas in the ongo ing CONCACAF Under-17 Qualifiers. National U17 Coach Vurlon Millis opted for a playing XI which read: Duquain Samuels (Goalkeeper), Shakem Welcome (Captain), Swade Edwards, Gerry Burnette, Krishtian Louis, Seon Cato, Kvist Paul, Noah Kissoon, Matrim Martin, Bryan Wharton and ChristopherCompetingWhitter.atthe IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, the Junior Jaguars had an impres sive first half, in which they registered their com plement of four goals, but went quiet in the second segment. However, the Jags’ defence did enough to keep their opponent at bay, unlike their perfor mance on GuyanaTuesday.hadtheir ac count opened for them with a Bahamas own goal in the 4th minute. Capitalising on the new found momentum, Bryan Wharton found the back of the net in the 9th for Guyana. A little later, it was Christopher Whitter who was celebrating an on-point strike in the 18th.Wharton returned to complete his brace in the 30th, to push Guyana to a 4-0Thescore.Junior Jaguars’ next outing in Group A of the competition will come on Saturday, September 3, against Sint Maarten at the same venue from 9:10am local time.
Junior Jags bounce back with 4-0 victory over the Bahamas
ceeded to wreak havoc on the Trinbagonian openers. With the first ball of the 7th over, Fraser served a pitchedup delivery to Lee-Ann Kirby, who responded by slicing it to Karishama Ramharack in the circle. An LBW ap peal followed the wicket, and a boundary ensued off the bat of Natasha McLean, but cleaners in pursuit of a com petitive score, smashed 12 of the 13 runs in over 16, but was quickly brought back to earth when Shamilia Connell sent Kyshona Knight back to During the TKR innings, the rain had already played spoilsport several times, but it had the final say at the be ginning of the Warriors’ bat ting innings. Rashada Williams had only enough time to hit a sol itary boundary in her innings of 7 runs from 8 balls -- while at the other end, Chamari Athapaththu was now find ing her groove on 2 from 5 balls –- when the floodgates of Heaven were opened in an unrelenting downpour. As the rain persisted, Guyana’s batters were left stranded on 13-0, and were forced to share points with TKR. As a result of the aban doned game, the TKR Women have booked their tickets to Sunday’s Women’s CPL final, while the Warriors and the Barbados Royals women will battle on Saturday for the other spot in Sunday’s finals. (Jemima Holmes)
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