WHAT'S INSIDE: Issue No. 5126 Nationwide coverage from the best news team in Guyana THE BEACON OF TRUTH guyanatimesgy.com PRICE $100 VAT INCLUDEDFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022 PPP1716P112P5 Authorities to soon probe APNU/AFC’s claims that dead, overseas people voted at 2020 polls …as GECOM releases documents Queen Elizabeth II has died …the end of an era – President Ali on Queen’s passing Over atkokeraffectedhouseholds200ascollapsesProvidenceGuyana’s First Lady champions gender equality at International Youth Summit P13 Brazil sees Guyana as key player in the region – Ambassador See story on page 2 “We are not at that stage yet” –Pres Ali on top judicial appointments See story on page 9 Nicole withpersons17ManickchandCAPEungradedpursueMinistryEducationtoAmbassadorasnominatedTheriotnewUSGuyanawilleveryCSEC,result–moreinfectedCOVID-19 …no patient in ICU NA man gets 15 years for Alness,damsfixcommencesWorktheslaughteredCattlebrother-in-lawkillingstolen,onCorentynetobreachedatSalton Page3 7Pages&12 Page10 P17
A section of the sluice that was damaged on Thursday morning Stop logs have since been installed at the sluice
Accordingly, he sen tenced Barclay to serve 15 years in prison and direct ed that the convicted killer be credited for the time he spent in pre-trial custody. State Counsel Nafeeza Baig appeared for the prose cution while Senior Counsel Murseline Bacchus repre sentedReportsBarclay.stated that the two men were imbibing on the day in question when an argument broke out be tween them over a woman. Things quickly turned vi olent after they armed them selves with a knife and cut lass and threatened to kill eachLaRose’sother. body was later discovered in a drain with stab wounds. The now dead man was Barclay’s sister’s husband. (G1)
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The Agriculture Ministry reported that around 02:00h on Thursday, the door of the sluice at Providence, East Bank Demerara (EBD), de veloped a breach resulting in flooding in some parts of theMorearea. than 200 house holds in Providence and Peters Hall were affected by flooding, with the lower flats of these houses being inun dated with river water. Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha and oth er senior officials and en gineers attached to the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) subsequently visited the area where an assessment wasThedone.Minister explained that the door collapsed as a result of the tide and that engineers from the NDIA were on site working to ad dress the situation and bring relief to those affect ed. “At around 2:00 am this morning (Thursday morn ing), the koker door at Providence collapsed result ing in our officers immedi ately mobilising resources to seal the breach. A con tractor was also engaged and installed stop logs until a new stainless-steel door is fabricated and installed to replace the damaged wood en door. A pump will also be on site until the new door is installed. Additionally, the stop logs will be oper ated during the low tide to facilitate gravity drainage to complement the pump,” Mustapha explained. He further explained that the local Regional Democratic Council (RDC) is responsible for maintain ing the structure, adding that it appeared this was not being done regularly. “The operation and main tenance of this structure fall under the RDC. From my observation, the struc ture was not maintained as it should be. I will now have to sit with the NDIA and the other authorities to de termine a way forward. We cannot continue like this, so the NDIA may have to assist with operating and maintaining this structure as well. We cannot have the lives and well-being of our citizens threatened, because those in charge are neglect ing their responsibilities,” he added.
ANew Amsterdam, Region Six Berbice-Corentyne)(East man was on Thursday hand ed a 15-year jail sentence for killing his senselessscribedBrassingtonBerbiceingthanwhomanslaughterguiltyoffencelyRegion18,Nkomo33-year-oldguilty“Jumbo”,Jermainebrother-in-law.Barclay,called37,wasfoundlastmonthofkillingsecurityguardLaRoseonDecember2018,atStanleytown,Six.Barclay,whowasinitialchargedwiththecapitalofmurder,wasfoundofthelessercountofby12jurors,deliberatedformoretwohours.DuringasentenchearingonThursday,HighCourtJudgeReynoldsdeLaRose’skillingasaandviolentcrime.
Jailed: Jermaine Barclay Dead: Nkomo LaRose
NA man gets 15 years for killing brother-in-law
Over 200 households affected as koker collapses at Providence
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It is the first step in the direction of an investiga tion that the AG had previ ously announced would be held into how immigration and registration data of cit izens ended up in the hands of APNU/AFC.According to his let ter addressed to GECOM Chairperson, Retired Justice Claudette Singh, Nandlall noted that APNU/ AFC delivered to GECOM documents claiming to show that dead people and persons who were overseas on Election Day, voted at the elections, as well as doc uments to claim that there were cases of multiple vot ing.“These allegations con tinue to be peddled in the public domain by leaders and representatives of the aforesaid political entity. At the time and until now, the impression conveyed is that these documents and/ or data were generated by and obtained from the of ficial lawful repository of the specific information, for example, the Immigration Department, the Guyana Police Force and the General Registrar’s Office. “It is important that the relevant State agen cy enquires into the source of this information, upon whose directions they were sourced and, perhaps, most importantly, to officially reconfirm their inaccura cy, for public record. In the circumstances, I hereby re quest a copy of these docu ments to initiate this pro cess,” Nandlall wrote. The AG had previous ly posited that at the end of the investigation, if it was found that laws were breached, culpable persons would face the consequenc es. No credibility The signalledandmationspeakingresults…itimpugntheiringallegationswholackativesinceathehadCommissionersOpposition-alignedatGECOMobjectedtothereleaseofdocumentsinquestion–movewhichNandlallhasexpressedwasindicoftheAPNU/AFC’sofcredibility.“Andthesearetheguysarerepeatingtheveryandarerelyupontheallegationsinincredibleeffortstothe2020electionistheywhoareabouttheinforinthatdocumentnowGovernmenthasanintentionto request that document so that it can be investigated so we can know the truth, and the people are object ing, the very people who are peddling the information in that document are now objecting to the document being released so that we can investigate,” Nandlall pointed“Theseout.people have no credibility at all, noth ing that they do make any sense to anybody,” he fur ther contended. “That is what we have to deal with.”
Authorities to soon probe that people at polls GECOM releases documents Nandlall, Singh
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High Tide: 16:05h reaching a maximum height of 2.63 metres. Low Tide: 09:38h and 21:56h reaching minimum heights of 0.54 metre and 0.56 metre.
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laims made by the A Partnership for National Unity/ Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) that dead people and persons who were overseas on Election Day voted at the 2020 polls will soon be investigat ed following the release of fundamental documents by the Guyana Elections CommissionSubsequent(GECOM).toa vote taken by the seven-member Commission on Tuesday, the body has since released to the Office of the Attorney General, documents that were submitted by the then APNU/AFC in its bid to dis credit the Official List of Electors (OLE) used in the 2020 General and Regional Elections.Speaking during his weekly programme – Issues in the News – Attorney General Anil Nandlall, SC, had posited that “once I re ceive them [the documents], I will pass them on to the relevant agencies with the request that an investiga tion be launched to verify the accuracy or lack there of of the information con tained in those documents”. Last week, Nandlall had written GECOM seeking information on how private citizens’ data was provid ed to it by the then ruling APNU/AFC.
The Berbice Bridge will be closed to vehicular traffic on: Parika and Supenaam departure times – 05:00h, 10:00h-12:00h, 16:00h, 18:30h daily Friday, Sept 9 – 15:45h-17:15h and Saturday, Sept 10 – 16:25h-17:55h.
WEATHER TODAY Sunny conditions are expected throughout the day interrupted by light to thundery showers in the mid-morning to early-afternoon hours. Expect clear skies at night. Temperatures should range between 22 degrees Celsius and 32 degrees Celsius.
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The Demerara Harbour Bridge will be closed to vehicular traffic on: Friday, Sept 9 – 02:00h-03:30h and Saturday, Sept 10 – 02:30h-04:00h.
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With a progressing agricultural sector that can easily develop an agro-industrial complex, Guyana is once again climbing global developmental graphs. During Budget debates, various Government Members of Parliament (MPs) outlined future transformative plans geared at making real the dream of taking Guyana from a middleincome developing country to a developed country, and one could only hope that the joint Opposition would allow good sense and patriotism to prevail over self-centred agendas, to work along on these visionary plans and projects that would benefit all Guyanese and create of this country not only “the only shining star of the Caribbean”, but the shining star of the world.Successive PPP/C Governments have always held out an outstretched hand to the Opposition and all stakeholders in the nation, with scant success of cooperation from the joint Opposition; and history will record their negative contributions to the development of this nation.
President Dr Irfaan Ali and his son, Zayd joined the Education Ministry’s “Drop Everything and Read” campaign as Guyana observed International Literacy Day 2022 (OP photo)
Guyana becoming a developed country is not merely an optimistic hope, but a doable and achievable reality, because Government’s facilitation of Private Sector investments can propel this nation into First World status. Before the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Administration assumed the primary executive office in the land in October of 1992, Guyana was rated on international developmental indices as being on par with Haiti. Graphed during the People’s National Congress (PNC) Administration as the least developed nation in the world, with a crippling debt burden, Guyana’s development under the astute leadership provided by successive PPP/C Presidents was rapid. After a relatively short time span of approximately two decades, Guyana was being recognised by the world as a middle-income developing country, and described by Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines as “the only shining star in the Caribbean”. The popular prognosis heralded great things for this nation, because the focus of the PPP/C Administrations – then and now – is to make Guyana a modern and developed country; and Guyana had indeed been inexorably moving from a middleincome developing country to becoming, in the not-too-distant future, a developed country. However, for the country to achieve such a status, it has to be a joint effort by all stakeholders working in conjunction and cooperation with Government. There have been, in the past, multiple successful partnerships between the Government, Private Sector, and other stakeholders to work together to create of Guyana a modern society.
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Post-2015 elections, a relentless reversal of Guyana’s developmental trajectory, under the coalition Government Administration brought this country to an almost bankrupt state, with a debt burden of billions of dollars.
One of the worst disincentives to private investment in Guyana is the high energy costs, which send overheads skyrocketing, especially in the manufacturing sector; and the PPP/C Government had attempted to address this problem through hydropower, but had reached the usual developmental roadblocks from the PNC-led A Partnership for National Unity/ Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) Opposition, which used every armament in their arsenal to shoot down the project.
It is a proven fact that not having cheap energy is one of the most prohibitive factors that have impeded Guyana’s manufacturing sector from surging.
The transformation of the national socio-economic landscape has not been easy, because there are elements of negativity who are intent on stymieing every developmental initiative.Regrettably, this progressive developmental paradigm took a relentless and rapid retrogression – in every sector – with the advent of another PNC-led Government in 2015.
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However, despite the setback with the Amaila Falls Hydro Project, President Irfaan Ali is adamant that the pursuit of alternative energy would be prioritised, so that Government can provide cheap energy for the development of a strong industrial manufacturing sector and a strong processing sector.
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Work commences to fix breached dams at Alness, Salton National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) excavator working to fix one of the breaches
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On Thursday, farmers eagerly watched as breach es were sealed and the dam filled to allow access. Samual Rajgopaul, one rice farmer with about 90 acres under rice cultivation, told this publication he was pleased to see the develop ments taking place. “This was very bad, be cause during the rain the tubing blow away due to the water that was running over the dam. So, we did not get much access to go down at the backdam and then peo ple would quarrel if you try to use the other dam; they don’t allow you to use it. Now we will get to go into the backdam, because it is coming to reaping time now. This is what we really need – even before now,” the el derly farmer Meanwhile,said. another farmer, Mahindra Tulsi, who had to park his motor bike as he got to the breach and walk into the waisthigh water on Monday, ex pressed delight at the fact that an excavator had come to their“Awerescue.thankful that we get the machine fo do the drainage. Is a big help out fo we right now,” the farm er who cultivates 40 acres of rice,Hesaid.also expressed grat itude that tubes were sup plied which will allow for water to flow beneath the dam and not on it. Tulsi explained that his main focus at this time was being able to bring his pad dy from the fields when it is harvested within a few days.However, farmers have expressed concern that even though the excavator was sent to the area the op erator was only instruct ed to do revetment work. However, after dialogue with the operator, an agree ment was reached that he would undertake the need ed work.
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Work has com menced on fixing breached dams at Alness and Salton Villages on the Corentyne, Region Six (East ferplantedrusvation.villages3000thewatertheirimalRice,Berbice-Corentyne).othercrops,andanfarmerscouldnotgettofarmsasoverflowinghadmadesectionsofaccessdamsimpassable.ThereareinexcessofacreswithinthetwounderricecultiAdditionally,citandcashcropsarealsoinwhatfarmersretoasthebacklands.OnThursday,anex cavator from the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) went into the access dam and began work.Two days ago, Guyana Times highlighted the plight of those farmers who were battling as much as two feet of water which was covering some sections of the dam. Some rice farmers had noted that some of their rice should be harvested in two weeks, but at the time was under water and they had no access to take pumps to the fields to pump the water out.
The state of the dams at Alness and Salton Villages earlier this week
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What to do Cut an arch-shaped “doorway” in one side of your brown bag. Use the bottom of a cardboard egg carton, or two, to make the “cells” that will go in the hive. Glue small, cutout pieces of wax paper – “wax scales” – into all the egg-carton cells. Glue bits of yellow paper for pollen and dark brown paper for honey into the cells. (Honey mixed with pollen makes “bee bread”, the food for growing bees.)Glue one small white paper “egg” into each cell. Put the cells into the hive. (If your bee eggs were real, they would develop into larvae, then pupae, then adult bees.) Cut out adult paper bees, and have fun flying them in and out of the hive! This activity was modified and adapted from the Buzzing a Hive Teacher’s Guide published by LHS Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS). (Excerpted from startwithabook.org) side
Exercises: Solve Solving equations by multiplication and division cont’d TO BE CONTINUED By The BroThers Grimm CONTINUED FROM THURSDAY Power Up Maths Solving equations by multiplication and division cont’d You can solve equations with unknown numbers by multiplication and division Problem:Examples:���� 6 = 18 Since ���� 6 = k x 1 6 , you multiply the left side of the equation by 6. Then you would have k x 1, which is equal to k alone. You can multiply the left side by 6 alone only if you also multiply the right
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by 6. Step 1: Multiply both sides by the same num ber: k = 18 x 6 Step 2: Multiply: 18 x 6 = 108. So k = 108 Problem: 6r = 18. Solve for r Now you divide the left by 6 to get r. You must also divide the right side by 6. Step 1: r = 18 ÷ 6 Step 2: Divide: 18 ÷ 6 = 3. So r = 3 InRemember….anequation, you need to treat both sides the same way. Whatever you do to one side, you must also do to the other side. Remember...
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Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Guyana on February 4, 1966: Inspecting the Guard of Honour presented by Major Raymond Sattaur of the SSU
Princess Elizabeth in 1945 changes a wheel on a truck as she trains as an ATS (auxiliary territorial service) officer, driving and maintaining vehicles as part of the war effort
Queen Elizabeth II meeting with Guyanese during her visit to British Guiana in 1966 just before the country gained Independence
Princess Elizabeth in 1947 marries her third cousin, Lt Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey. He becomes the Duke of Edinburgh. They spent their wedding night in Hampshire before honeymooning in Birkhall on the Balmoral estate
Grace, dignity, dedication
Queen Elizabeth II in 1957 driving her children Prince Charles and Princess Anne at Windsor, watched by a group of onlookers
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After reigning for 70 years, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II –the United Kingdom’s lon gest-serving monarch – died on Thursday afternoon at age 96. Buckingham Palace, in a statement, said the Queen died peacefully at her Scottish estate, Balmoral Castle, where she had spent much of the summer.Atthe moment the Queen died, the throne passed imme diately and without ceremony to the heir, Charles, the former Prince of Wales. He will now be known as King Charles III. On Saturday, Charles will be officially proclaimed King.
The end of an era The Queen’s passing marks the end of an era, Guyana’s President Dr Irfaan Ali said in a statement following news of her “Idemise.joinall Guyanese in ex pressing our profound and deepest sorrow at the death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. Her passing marks the end of an era in the histo ry of the British Monarchy, the United Kingdom, and the Commonwealth of Nations,” the Guyanese Head of State said.“Queen Elizabeth’s place in history is assured, and her legacy is intact. Her long and impactful reign has helped to shape the post-World War II world. Her Majesty has been a source of stability for her coun try. She will be long remem bered for her sterling leader ship of the Commonwealth of Nations,” he Presidentadded.Alinoted that the Queen’s visits to Guyana were recalled “with great fond ness”. The Queen’s last tour to Guyana was in 1994 as Head of theBeforeCommonwealth.that,shehad vis ited in 1966, four months pri or to British Guiana gaining Independence after more than 100 years of colonial rule.
The United Nations Secretary General António Guterres also issued a state ment, extending his condolenc es on the passing of the Queen. “As the United Kingdom's longest-lived and lon gest-reigning Head of State, Queen Elizabeth II was wide ly admired for her grace, dig nity, and dedication around the world. She was a reassur ing presence throughout de cades of sweeping change, in cluding the decolonisation of Africa and Asia and the evolu tion of the Commonwealth,” he expressed.TheSG also noted that Queen Elizabeth II was a good friend of the United Nations, having visited its New York Headquarters twice, more than fifty years apart. “She was deeply commit ted to many charitable and environmental causes and spoke movingly to delegates at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow. I would like to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II for her unwavering, lifelong dedication to serving her peo ple. The world will long re member her devotion and lead ership.”The Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland, QC, also issued a statement in tribute to the Queen on her passing. “After a long life of faith, duty and service, a great light has gone out,” she expressed. “Her Majesty was an ex traordinary person, who lived an extraordinary life: a con stant presence and example for each of us, guiding and serving us all for as long as any of us can remember. Throughout her reign, and seven decades of extraordinary change and challenge, Her Majesty was the epitome of duty, stability, wisdom and grace.” During her reign, the Queen travelled more than any monarch in history, visiting ev ery part of the Commonwealth family of nations. The CW SG recalled that between 1971 and 2018, she missed only one Heads of Government Meeting. “Her devotion to duty was only matched by her skill as Head of the Commonwealth of Nations, always a generous host and consummate diplo mat,” she noted. “I will miss her greatly, the Commonwealth will miss her greatly, and the world will miss her greatly. We will never see her like again…Hers was a life of service which will echo through the ages. We will be forever grateful.”
Life of service Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born on April 21, 1926, in a house just off Berkeley Square in London, the first child of Albert, Duke of York.The young Elizabeth had little prospect of acceding to the throne until her uncle, Edward VIII (afterward the Duke of Windsor), abdicat ed in her father’s favour on December 11, 1936, at which time her father became King George VI and she became heir presumptive.Uponthe King’s death on February 6, 1952, Elizabeth became Queen. The first three months of her reign, the pe riod of full mourning for her father, were passed in com parative seclusion. But in the summer, after she had moved from Clarence House to Buckingham Palace, she undertook the routine duties of the sovereign and carried out her first State opening of Parliament on November 4, 1952. Her coronation was held at Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953, at the age of 27, in front of a then-record TV au dience estimated at more than 20 million Subsequentpeople.decades would see great change, with the end of the British Empire overseas and the swinging '60s sweep ing away social norms at home. Queen Elizabeth reformed the monarchy for this less def erential age, engaging with the public through walkabouts, royal visits, and attendance at public events. On September 9, 2015 she became the longest reign ing monarch in British his tory, surpassing the reign of her Queengreat-great-grandmotherVictoria. (G11)
The end of an era – President Ali on Queen Elizabeth’s passing
Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, pose for an official photograph with their families on the day of their wedding, in the throne room at Buckingham Palace in 2011
Prince Charles kisses the hand of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, during a visit to the Chelsea flower show in London in 2009
Wayne Gilbert Dead: Rawle Rodrigues
Shereffudeen Nazamudeen Mandy Sukhdeo and her father, Surendra Sukhdeo
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al at the High Court in Georgetown, had deferred their sentencing to Thursday for social reports to be read to theButcourt.the Sukhdeos, who remain imprisoned follow ing their convictions, are now set to be sentenced on September 12. Their former co-accused, Rean Ghani, who is also their neighbour, and who had been jointly charged with them for the man’s murder, was, how ever,Inacquitted.relation to the Sukhdeos, the jury re turned a 10-2 guilty ver dict for the lesser count, finding that they killed Shereffudeen Nazamudeen, called “Sheriff”, on February 14, 2017, at Ruby, East Bank Essequibo (EBE).
Decolonising…
The views expressed in this column are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Guyana Times’ editorial policy and stance
“Nervous” for trial Monday over 2017 bus park murder
But there was an interesting letter in the press from the Chief Education Officer informing us that evidently, the MoE has an even more radical understanding of the need for “literacy”. He noted, “UNESCO Director-General issued a clarion call to “all actors in the field of education and beyond to re-think the role of literacy” and cited the renowned theorist Paulo Friere in noting that literacy should entail “the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of theirNowworld”.asyou can tell from that quotation, Friere is also going to the CONTENT of education – which our MoE sees as suitable right now. Friere saw education as never neutral but supremely political – either educating to support and maintain the status quo or helping to critique and change reality. It was a restatement of Marx’s exhortation that the point isn’t to “interpret” the world, but to CHANGE it?? So the Ministry’s calling for us to storm the barricades?? …living conditions Oh…how the world’s a-changin’. Only a few decades ago, China provided the metrics against which the West showed how superior they were against “the rest” in living standards. But today that’s all changed as a consequence of China’s meteoric rise in the economic sphere – poised to overtake the US as the largest economy in the world. Now some may think that’s only because of their humongous population that gives the Purchasing Power Parity. But it’s reflected in life chances metrics like life expectancy.
Afather and his daugh ter who were found guilty on August 10 of beating a 22-year-old fish erman to death continue to awaitInitiallysentencing.indicted for the capital offence of murder, Surendra Sukhdeo and his daughter Mandy Sukhdeo, were convicted of the lesser offence of whoJusticemanslaughter.SandilKissoon,presidedovertheirtri
Accused of stabbing a man to death during a robbery in 2017, 30-year-old Wayne Gilbert will go on trial from Monday for the capital offence of murder.Arraigned before Demerara High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon on Thursday, Wayne, called “Nervous” for merly of West La Penitence, Georgetown, pleaded not guilty to the charge. It is alleged that on January 20, 2017, in the county of Demerara, he murdered Rawle Rodrigues during the course/further ance of a robbery. The murder accused is being represented by Senior Counsel Stanley Moore while State Counsel Muntaz Ali and State Counsel Taneisha Saygon are the Prosecutors.Wayne,a remanded pris oner, was first charged with the murder of the 43-yearold man in December 2017. After a Preliminary Inquiry (PI) in 2019, a Georgetown Magistrate committed him to stand tri al for the offence after ruling that a prima facie case was made out against him. Reports are that Rodrigues of Leopold Street, Georgetown was stabbed multiple times after he was attacked by three men at the Route 32 Minibus Park, in Georgetown.Itwasreported that the trio had trailed the man from a nearby bar where he had been imbibing to the busAtpark.the bus park, there was reportedly an alterca tion between the now dead man and two of the men during which one of them stabbed him to the chest. An injured Rodrigues was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he died. (G8)
…the mind?? Y esterday was “International Literacy Day”, under the theme, “Transforming Literacy Learning Spaces”. Your Eyewitness figures that means not seeing the transmission of literacy confined to formal schools or even rooms. It doesn’t matter where you find the illiterates –you gotta nab them and enlighten them wherever you can!! The shepherd with his flock?? Teach him while the flock’s grazing – and nowadays you can do this any number of ways via the Internet that’s now available – even in the interior!!
The Ministry of Education, in its wisdom, with that theme in mind, hosted a “drop everything and read!” programme and book drive in observance of Literacy Day. Now, knowing Guyanese, you wanna bet some Government employees “cocked up” their feet on their desks and read the day away – while brushing off supplicants for their service??!! But the thought is good: we SHOULD take time to “drop everything and read” nowadays. Especially when you consider that less and less people are reading. It's affected our politics – the main vocation of our people – in case you didn’t notice. Who reads newspapers nowadays? Especially those long drawn-out articles from which the older reporters can’t wean themselves away!! These days, people’s eyes start to glaze over after 5 sentences – and that’s stretching it!! The social media talking heads are the way to get news for that lot – all the news that’s NOT fit to print!! The gorier and more scandalous they are, the more hits they get!! As do their revenues!! If that isn’t a formula for bottom feeding, what is?? So, we support the exhortation to “drop everything and read”!! Even if it’s the headlines of the dailies!
For instance, in 1949, their life expectancy was only 36 years. By 1980, it had increased to 65.5 years. This increase is attributed mostly to improved nutrition and lowering of mortality due to decrease in infectious diseases. And here in 2022, China’s passed the US in life expectancy -clocking in at 77.1 years, vs 76.1 years for the US!! Isn’t that incredible?? India’s got a ways to go at 70 years – like ours.But it’s far from their 32 years at Independence! …our invidious comparisons The census just launched isn’t only gonna be counting noses. It’ll collect data on income and consumption. Hopefully, the authorities will disaggregate the figures by ethnic group, to provide a reading – not “feelings” – on comparative poverty rates.
The father and daughter were represented by a legal team led by Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes, while State Counsel Latifah Elliot, State Counsel Marisa Edwards, and State Counsel Simran Gajraj were the Prosecutors. The two Sukhdeos and their neighbour were first tried for the fisherman’s murder in 2021. But with the jury unable to reach ver dicts back then, they were further remanded to prison pending a retrial. They resided in the Ruby community along with the now dead fisherman. At the time of the alleged killing, Mandy Sukhdeo was a Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) Alliance For Change (AFC) Councillor, and her fa ther, a Good edthatMandyCouncillor.forCouncilNeighbourhoodHope/HydronieDemocratic(NDC)APartnershipNationalUnity(APNU)ItwasreportedthatSukhdeohadclaimedshehadbeenconfrontbyNazamudeen,whohad snatched her bag and at tempted to escape. She had reportedly raised an alarm, and residents in the neighbourhood had pur sued Nazamudeen. Reports are that he was caught in the ruins of a Accordinghouse.to reports, he was tied up and beaten. Following the beating, the man suffered severe in juries to his body, and had been taken to the Leonora Cottage Hospital, where he subsequently succumbed. Three pieces of wood, suspected to be the murder weapons, were recovered from the scene by detectives. The woman and her fa ther were immediately ar rested, while Ghani was ap prehended the following day, after he was allegedly impli cated by neighbours. (G1)
Sentencing deferred for father, daughter who beat fisherman to death
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Formula Over two decades after a con stitutional amendment was made to allow the two top judicial of fice holders to be appointed by the President after receiving agree ment from the Opposition Leader, Guyana remains without a sub stantive Chancellor of the Judiciary and Chief Justice. The procedure for the appoint ment of Chancellor and Chief Justice are outlined in Article 127 (1) and (2) of the Constitution of Guyana. It states therein: “The Chancellor and the Chief Justice shall be appointed by the President after obtaining the agreement of the Leader of the Opposition.”
President Dr Irfaan Ali has once again indicated that he will deal with the substan tive appointments of the Chancellor and Chief Justice (CJ) when the time is right, and after the vari ous service commissions are estab lished.He reiterated this position on Wednesday while fielding ques tions from members of the media. “We’re not at the stage of ad dressing those issues as yet,” the Head of State explained, when asked for an update on the top judi cial“There’sappointments.nothing stalling it. It’s just that we’ve not commenced ad dressing that as yet.” According to President Ali, there are other matters engaging his “Iattention.amtrying to complete the Judicial Service Commission; these things must be in place almost in stantaneously now that we have the clearance. We’re hoping to have the Teaching Service Commission fully constituted and in effect, we’re hoping to have the Public Service Commission fully in effect…then we’ll move our focus…,” he ex plained.President Ali had previously told the media that “we have no is sues appointing (the Chancellor and Chief Justice), but when the right time comes, we will have the consultations on the Chancellor and the Chief OppositionJustice”.Leader Aubrey Norton has since expressed his sup port for the confirmation of Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards as Chancellor and Justice Roxane George as Chief Justice. They are currently acting in their respective positions.
“We are not at that stage yet” – Pres Ali on top judicial appointments
During the opening of the April 2022 Demerara Criminal Assizes, the President of the Guyana Bar Association, Pauline Chase called for the formula for appointing the top judicial office holders to be re formed.“…those who the duty so falls to start the consultative process and put into motion the machinery to address the correction of this un workable and failed formula… It is, therefore, inimical to the rule of law that there are acting appoint ments of our highest judicial offi cers. The absence of confirmed ju dicial officers since the amendment of the Constitution for their ap pointments some 20 years ago is no clearer evidence that that system is not working,” Chase said. Attorney General Anil Nandlall, SC, had responded to Chase, con ceding that the current formula that requires consensus between the President and the Opposition Leader has not worked in the more than two decades it has been in place.He explained that since the addition of this provision to the Constitution in 2001, a sitting President has been unable to secure the agreement of the Opposition Leader on either of those appoint ments. Luckily, he added, an ad justment was made for an alter native if there is no agreement between the President and the Opposition Leader, that is, for the President to make acting appoint ments. The fact that Guyana has been unable to make substantive appointments in these two offices is “an unfortunate state of affairs”, Nandlall had expressed. Guyana’s last substantive Chancellor of the Judiciary was Justice Desiree Bernard, who served from 2001 to 2005 when she demitted office to serve as a Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ ),which was inaugurated on April 16 of that year. After then, several other Judges were appointed to act in the posi tion including Justice CummingsEdwards, who was sworn in by then President David Granger on March 27, 2017, following the retirement of Justice Carl Singh, who was also never confirmed in the post. Justice George was also sworn in to act as Chief Justice on March 27, 2017, following the retirement of the late Justice Ian Chang, SC. Previous efforts Referencing a lawsuit filed by the Opposition over the non-ap pointment of the top judicial posi tions, Nandlall during his recent programme – Issues in the News – recalled previous efforts made by past People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) Presidents to sub stantively fill those posts. He reminded that the then President Bharrat Jagdeo had on many occasions attempted to engage the then Leader of the Opposition Robert Corbin to se cure an agreement to confirm the appointments of Chief Justice (ag) Singh as Chancellor and Justice Chang as Chief Justice. “There are several meetings that were held, several letters ex changed and Mr Corbin refused to give his agreement either to con firm Chancellor Singh or to confirm Chief Justice Chang,” Nandlall pos ited.He noted that these efforts were made by Jagdeo up until 2011 when Donald Ramotar became President. Ramotar too, Nandlall recalled, made every effort to en gage the then Opposition Leader David Granger on the substantive appointments, but Granger also re fused.When Granger became President in 2015, Nandlall re minded that before he went ahead and appointed Justice George and Justice Cummings-Edwards to act in their respective positions, he had attempted to bring someone from outside of Guyana to fill the posi tion of NandlallChancellor.argued too that this process of the top judicial appoint ments was initiated by the Head of State and that during Granger’s tenure, he never attempted to kick start the “Presidentprocess.Granger, not once, ever attempted to engage Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo from 2015 to 2020 in respect of se curing an agreement for the per sons acting in the Office of Chief Justice and Office of Chancellor,” the Attorney General said. (G11)
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Chancellor of the Judiciary (ag), Yonette Cummings-Edwards and Chief Justice (ag), Roxane George
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Brazilian Ambassador to Guyana, Maria Clara Duclos Carisio has posited that her country sees Guyana as an import ant player in the achieve ment of common goals for theThisregion.was highlighted during a reception hosted on the occasion of Brazil’s Bicentennial Independence Anniversary. In attendance were President Dr Irfaan Ali and other important of ficials. The diplomat said, “Brazil is always open for dialogue and cooperation with Latin America and the Caribbean. Especially with Guyana, Brazil is convinced that working together is the best and fastest way to achieve our common goals. Brazil and Guyana have many areas of cooperation where objectives and solu tions can be shared for the mutual benefit of their peo ple. Let me mention the im portant role Guyana plays in leading all the Caribbean countries to participate in the initiatives of cooperation on agriculture and food se curity.”According to Ambassador Carisio, Brazil is confi dent that the products be ing developed by the two Governments will result in immense benefits for Guyana and the North of Brazil. Agriculture, infra structure, energy, defence, and security are among the areas of cooperation.
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President Dr Irfaan Ali with Ambassador Maria Clara Duclos Carisio at the reception
“The bilateral trade is in creasing and lots of oppor tunities are opened for our business communities on both sides,” she added. Meanwhile, President Ali said that the relation ship between Guyana and Brazil will continue to grow given that the countries share a common future with common opportunities. Ali expressed, “We are proud to be your neighbour. We see no difference be tween Brazil and Guyana… We live in peace. We live in full respect of each other. We respect the territorial integ rity and borders of each oth er. More importantly, you support us without a doubt on the issue of our borders.”
Brazil sees Guyana as key player in the region – Ambassador
The Education Ministry will be pur suing every ungraded result at the 2022 Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) examinations, in or der to ensure that students achieve a fair grade. Some students who wrote the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) have received an ungraded mark next to some subjects. While some of these re sults have already been rec tified, Education Minister Priya Manickchand has stated that every grade would be pursued to ensure a fair“Theoutcome.preliminary results submitted to us had ungrad ed subjects…It is possible that when students open the portals, you will see un graded next to a subject you did your best in and that you submitted everything for. We will do as we did in 2020. We will not leave you. We’re going to pursue ev ery last grade until you get a fair and just resolution,” the Education Minister ex plained during the official results announcement this week.In 2020, across 20 coun tries in the Caribbean, a to tal of 11,578 students that sat the exams received un graded in one or more sub ject areas. In Guyana, these revelations sparked wide spread public outrage, with students demanding an swers from the examina tions body as it relates to the poor grades assigned. The Education Ministry had led robust efforts to ensure there was a review of the re sults in question. For CSEC, 10,368 candi dates were registered as op posed to 9808 in 2021. There were 62,990 subject entries. This year, Guyana has seen improvements in both CSEC and CAPE, a feat which was credited to the investments in the education sector. “We invested in the chil dren of this country and you will see results now. That investment won’t stop. It will grow and it will be di verse and equitable.” To ensure that the coun try’s pass rate continues on this trajectory, the Minister said investment in resources would complement the goal to have 100 per cent trained teachers in the next four years.“This year, about 75 per cent of our teachers are trained. Before the next four years, 100 per cent of our teachers will be trained or in training. That’s a big move to take up and sustain high pass rates. All our teachers will be taught how to teach. Not only will they have strong content but they will learn how to deliver that to students. “ Before the ending of 2022, all CSEC students will benefit from the textbooks they need along with other support“Lookingmaterials.after how eq uitably services are deliv ered. That’s why you can see when we deliver text books and all materials to NGSA students, we didn’t give it to Georgetown students. We didn’t give it to a particular school. We gave it to all our country. Every result you see is an active investment in students.”Today,the Education Ministry will announce the results for the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) 2022. (G12) Minister Priya Manickchand
Education Ministry will pursue every result – Manickchand
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“I know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country, the realms and the Commonwealth, and by countless people around the world.”During the coming pe riod of mourning, he said he and his family would be “comforted and sustained by our knowledge of the respect and deep affection in which the Queen was so widely held”.The King and his wife, Camilla, now Queen Consort, will return to London today, Buckingham PalaceSeniorsaid.royals had gath ered at Balmoral after the
Queen’s doctors became con cerned about her health ear lier in the day. All the Queen’s chil dren travelled to Balmoral, near Aberdeen, after doc tors placed the Queen under medical supervision. Her grandson and now heir to the throne, Prince William, and his brother, Prince Harry, also gathered there.UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, who was appointed by the Queen on Tuesday, said the monarch was the rock on which modern Britain was built, who had “provid ed us with the stability and strength that we needed”. Speaking about the new King, she said: “We offer him our loyalty and devo tion, just as his mother de voted so much, to so many, for so “Andlong.with the passing of the second Elizabethan age, we usher in a new era in the magnificent history of our great country, exactly as Her Majesty would have wished, by saying the words ‘God save the King’.” The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby – spiritual leader to the Church of England of which the monarch is supreme gov ernor – expressed his “pro found sadness”. He said his “prayers are with the King and the Royal Family”.Queen Elizabeth II’s tenure as Head of State spanned post-war austeri ty, the transition from em pire to Commonwealth, the end of the Cold War and the UK’s entry into – and with drawal from – the European Union.Her reign spanned 15 Prime Ministers starting with Winston Churchill, born in 1874, and including Truss, born 101 years later in 1975.Sheheld weekly audienc es with her Prime Minister throughout her reign. At Buckingham Palace in London, crowds awaiting updates on the Queen’s con dition began crying as they heard of her death.
The union flag on top of the palace was lowered to half-mast at 18:30 BST and an official notice announcing the death was posted out side.On the Queen’s death, Prince William and his wife, Catherine, became the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Cornwall.
The official notice read: “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.”
The Queen was born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, in Mayfair, London, on April 21, 1926. Few could have fore seen she would become mon arch, but in December 1936 her uncle, Edward VIII, ab dicated from the throne to marry the twice-divorced American, Wallis Simpson.
Elizabeth’s father be came King George VI and, at age 10, Lilibet, as she was known in the family, became heir to the throne. Within three years, Britain was at war with Nazi Germany. Elizabeth and her younger sister, Princess Margaret, spent much of wartime at Windsor Castle after their parents rejected suggestions they be evacuated to Canada. After turning 18, Elizabeth spent five months with the Auxiliary Territorial Service and learned basic motor me chanic and driving skills. “I began to understand the es prit de corps that flourishes in the face of adversity,” she recalledThroughlater.the war, she exchanged letters with her third cousin, Philip, Prince of Greece, who was serv ing in the Royal Navy. Their romance blossomed and the couple married at Westminster Abbey on November 20, 1947, with the Prince taking the title of Duke of Edinburgh.
She would later describe him as “my strength and stay” through 74 years of marriage, before his death in 2021, aged 99. Their first son, Charles, was born in 1948, followed by Princess Anne, in 1950, Prince Andrew, in 1960, and Prince Edward, in 1964. Between them, they gave their parents eight grand children and 12 great-grand children.Princess Elizabeth was in Kenya in 1952, representing the ailing King, when Philip broke the news that her fa ther had died. She immedi ately returned to London as the new Queen. “It was all a very sudden kind of taking on and mak ing the best job you can,” she laterElizabethrecalled. was crowned at Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953, aged 27, in front of a then-record TV audience estimated at more than 20 million people. Subsequent decades would see great change, with the end of the British Empire overseas and the Swinging ‘60s sweeping away social norms at home. Elizabeth reformed the monarchy for this less def erential age, engaging with the public through walk abouts, royal visits, and at tendance at public events. Her commitment to the Commonwealth was a con stant – she visited every Commonwealth country at leastButonce.there were periods of private and public pain. In 1992, the Queen’s “an nus horribilis”, fire devas tated Windsor Castle – a private residence as well as working palace – and three of her children’s marriages brokeAfterdown.the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car accident in Paris in 1997, the Queen drew criticism for appearing reluctant to re spondTherepublicly.were questions about the monarchy’s rele vance in modern society.
Queen Elizabeth II has died
The Duke of Edinburgh was at the Queen’s side for more than six decades of reign, becoming the longest-serving consort in British history in 2009 Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born in Mayfair, London, on April 21, 1926, the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York
Queen Elizabeth II, the United longest-servingKingdom’smon arch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.Shedied peacefully on Thursday afternoon at her Scottish estate, where she had spent much of the sum mer.The Queen came to the throne in 1952 and wit nessed enormous social change.Her son King Charles III said the death of his beloved mother was a “moment of great sadness” for him and his family and that her loss would be “deeply felt” around the world. He said: “We mourn pro foundly the passing of a cherished sovereign and a much-loved mother.
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On her Platinum Jubilee, the Queen delighted crowds by appearing on the balcony with three generations of her family Elizabeth II being crowned queen
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FROMPAGE10 der-based violence exists is because of an imbalance in power relations between men and women and this often times happens be cause women do not have equal access to the same economic opportunities as men,” she said. To support the econom ic advancement of women, the First Lady shared that her office has been provid ing fully-funded academic and technical skills train ing scholarships to victims of domestic violence who are in institutional care. She also brought into the spotlight her groundbreak ing period poverty project – dubbed the Menstrual Hygiene Initiative – noting that the issue has been one of the barriers to girls re ceiving a quality education. Referencing a recent study by the Ministry of Education which shows that girls are at high risk of experiencing learn ing loss or dropping out of school altogether because of their inability to afford or access sanitary pads, Ali told the gathering that she could not sit by and not do anything about it. “This is why I embarked on an ambitious initia tive… which aims to pro vide every school-aged girl free sanitary pads at no cost to them. This pro vides our girls equal access to educational opportuni ties. Better education for our girls will mean better economic opportunities for them,” she stated. Shifting her attention to women in leadership, Ali dismissed the idea that women ought to prove that they deserve a seat at deci sion-making“Defendingtables.whythe rep resentation of women in leadership positions mat ters is akin to defending someone’s right to live. The fact that women make up just about half of the world’s population is suf ficient enough a reason for us to be represented equally at all levels of de cision making,” Ali said to a thunderous round of ap plause.She went on to add that for too long women have sat on the sidelines and watched men make deci sions that impact their per sonal and professional lives and they have had little to no input. “No longer will we be complicit. No longer will it be a man’s world,” she said, to another round of applause.TheOne Young World Summit brings togeth er youths from all over the world who are active ly working to positively transform the socio-politi cal landscape in the areas of human rights, the en vironment, gender equali ty, discrimination, and in justice. (Office of the First Lady) “No institution… should expect to be free from the scrutiny of those who give it their loyalty and support, not to mention those who don’t,” she acknowledged. As a 21-year-old prin cess, Elizabeth had vowed to devote her life to service. Reflecting on those words decades later, during her Silver Jubilee in 1977, she declared: “Although that vow was made in my salad days, when I was green in judgment, I do not regret nor retract one word of it.” That same commitment to serving was made 45 years later in a thank you letter to the nation on the weekend of her Platinum Jubilee in June. The milestone was cele brated with a mix of State ceremonies and a colourful festival of all things British, as well as lively street par ties.Although the Queen’s health kept her from some events, she said: “My heart has been with you all.” In a moment met with cheers from huge crowds in the Mall, she was joined by three generations of her family on the Buckingham Palace balcony for the finale of aKingpageant.Charles, aged 73, becomes Head of State in 14 Commonwealth realms. He and his wife, Camilla, are at Balmoral alongside his siblings, Princess Anne and Princes Andrew and Edward.They are accompanied by Edward’s wife, Sophie, as well as Princes William and Harry.William’s wife, Catherine, remained at Windsor with their children – George, Charlotte and Louis –- as it has been their first full day at a new school. The Royal Family has now entered a period of mourning.Inthecoming days, much of national life will be put on hold. The King is expected to address the nation today. Official engagements will be cancelled and union flags will be flown at halfmast on royal residenc es, Government buildings, across the Armed Forces and on UK posts overseas. Members of Parliament will pay tribute to the Queen and take an oath to King Charles.There will be church bells tolling and gun salutes as local and national organ isations and charities orga nise ways to pay their re spects, with commemorative events and books of condo lence.A State funeral for the Queen is expected in the next two Foreignweeks.leaders have paid tribute to the Queen, with US President Joe Biden recalling how she stood in solidarity with the US in their “darkest days” after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. To France’s President, Emmanuel Macron, she was a “kind-hearted Queen” and “friend of France”. For Justin Trudeau, Canada’s Prime Minister, the Queen was a constant in Canadians’ lives and one of his “favourite people in the world”. (BBC
First Lady Arya Ali during the event on Wednesday evening in the United Kingdom
President Ali added that the neighbouring countries are connected not only in trade, economics and foreign policy but also through cul ture. He noted that the “most important glue of friendship is our people, our culture, and more importantly our love for sports”. He assured that Guyana’s cooperation and collaboration will con tinue in the areas of defence, food security, climate securi ty, and foreign policy. A few months ago, Guyana and Brazil held de tailed discussions on in frastructure and energy, among other areas of bilat eral interest during a oneday state visit of President JairByBolsonaro.June,Guyana regis tered two lifts of one million barrels of crude each from the Liza Phase One and the Liza Phase Two projects operated by ExxonMobil for the month of June, and Brazilian state-owned com pany Petrobras purchased one of these Meanwhile,lifts.the countries also signed bilateral treaties that would see collabora tion on a number of securi ty and legal areas including the seizure and disposal or exchange of assets during criminal investigations and prosecutions.
irst Lady Arya Ali on Wednesday joined more than 2000 young leaders from across the globe at the One Young World 2022 Summit in Manchester, United Kingdom, where she par ticipated in a panel dis cussion on education, gen der equality, and women in leadership.Earlier in the week, Ali joined the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markel, along with other political and business leaders at the opening ceremony. On Wednesday, the First Lady shared the stage with former First Lady of Colombia, María Juliana Ruiz, for a First Lady’s Session which fo cused on global challenges which disproportionately affect women and girls. Ali and Ruiz are found ing members of the Global Network of First Spouses which works closely with the One Young World group to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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In the area of gender equality, Ali underscored the need for women to be economically empowered to lead independent lives. “One of the reasons gen
Name: Janella Pollard Platform: Teenage pregnancy in Amerindian communities or villages in region 10. Hobbies: singing, writing songs, reading fictional novels, drawing anime and football
Region: Nine (Upper TakatuUpper NAME:Essequibo)MonicaRose Joseph Platform: Domestic violence against Hobbies:womenReading and dancing Region: 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice)
Name: Amber Andrews Platform: Advocating for Amerindians to take advantage of the opportunities under the ‘One Guyana’ initiative Hobbies: Swimming, going on adventures, dancing and playing volleyball. I’m also football enthusiast Region: One (Barima-Waini)
Name: Reahna Emmanuel Platform: Effect of Child Abuse Hobbies: Reading, Dancing and visiting exciting places
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Name: Narria Simon Platform: Women empowerment in Amerindian communities Hobbies: swimming, cooking, and meeting new people.
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Name: Leah Nelson Platform: Internet connectivity in the Hinterland Region Hobbies: reading & singing
Region: Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam)
Region: Four (Demerara-Mahaica)
Name: Kristie Emily Rambharat Platform: Indigenous Women Empowerment Hobbies: dancing and cooking Region: Eight (Potaro-Siparuni)
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Ten young ladies from their respective Administrative Regions are on a quest to cop the coveted title of Miss Amerindian Heritage queen when the pageant is hosted on Saturday, September 17, 2022 at the National Cultural Centre. The ten beauties have al ready competed in the indige
Name: Anasie Fredericks Platform: Importance of Indigenous Culture preservation Hobbies: Chess, Music Region: Three (Essequibo Island -West Demerara)
Region: Six (East Berbice-Corentyne)
Name: Valda Marlie Williams Platform: Promoting communitybased tourism while protecting ancestral lands Hobbies: playing football, volleyball, singing, dancing, and meeting other people
nous challenge which was held at St Cuthbert’s Mission on Sunday last. The delegates were chal lenged to make cassava bread from scratch. However, on pageant night, they will be competing in talent, intelligence, evening wear, tradi tional wear, and the intelligence segments. Tickets cost $5000, $3000 and $2000 and are avail able at the National Cultural Centre and the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs.
Name: Reenee France Platform: Education in Amerindian communities Hobbies: Dancing, meeting new people, Riding motorcycle, playing outdoor games.
The businessman and Daniel Dowding and Uotam Heeralall (Mike Gonslaves photo) Azruddin Mohamed along with Ramoll Babolall and his mother on Thursday (Team Mohamed’s photo)
Certificate (CSEC) exams. Babolall secured pass es in 27 subjects, including 24 Grade Ones and three Grade Twos, while Heeralall secured 24 Grade Ones and one Grade Two and Dowding copped 21 Grade Ones and three Grade Twos. Babolall created history as the first person to have written 27 subjects at one sitting. During the meeting, the three young men were con gratulated and rewarded with a token as an incen tive for their performance by Mohamed, whose par ents also originated from the Essequibo Coast. He reiterated that their successes were testimonies that despite someone’s cir cumstances, with hard work and determination, you can be destined for great things. In addition, the philan thropist also thanked their parents for supporting them in their academic pursuits and more so, the teachers and all those who played a role in their success. “I would also like to con gratulate the parents for their tremendous support during your studies which undoubtedly played a pivot al role in your performances in the exams.” He then encouraged the young men to follow his ca reer path. Babolall inspires to be come a biochemist while Dowding wants to be a Marine Biologist or Veterinarian and Heeralall has his eyes set on becoming a surgeon and a politician. Mohamed offered to offset the expenses for Babolall’s tertiary education in the event he does not re ceive a scholarship from the Government of Guyana. The young men and their families thanked the busi nessman for his generosity.
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T he Health Ministry has announced that another 17 persons have been infected with COVID-19 as of Thursday. An updated dashboard reflected 71,150 con firmed cases to date; ac counting for 32,613 males and 38,537 females. The death toll remained at 1279.There are no persons in the Intensive Care Unit, seven in institu tional isolation, 190 in home isolation and six in institutional quarantine. Additionally, 69,674 per sons have recovered com pletely. The country has processed 690,131 tests to date.New cases have been detected in four admin istrative regions, with a breakdown of three for Region Two (PomeroonSupenaam), seven for Region Four (DemeraraMahaica), two for Region Six (East BerbiceCorentyne), and five for Region Seven (CuyuniMazaruni).Vaccination figures show that so far, 446,219 adults have taken a first dose, while some 346,032 are fully vaccinated. For adolescents be tween the ages of 12 and 17, 35,647 first doses and 26,143 second doses have beenVaccinationadministered.for chil dren in the five to 11 cat egory shows 8001 first doses have been adminis tered. However, only 3671 have returned for the second jab. In addition, 71,943 booster shots were taken.Regionally, there is an uptake of 1395 boost er doses in Region One, 3259 in Region Two, 9086 in Region Three, 36,516 in Region Four, 4310 in Region Five, 11,687 in Region Six, 7961 in Region Seven, 1080 in Region Eight, 3066 in Region Nine and 863 in RegionAccording10. to re cent World Health Organisation (WHO) fig ures, some 601,189,435 confirmed cases were re ported globally along with 6,475,346 deaths. In the Region of the Americas, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has increased to 175,912,685 while the death toll in the region has gone up to 2,818,706. 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) face a physical distance of least or handIfsanitizeryouhave any symptoms, call Hotline.
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17 more persons GUYANA COVID-19 DASHBOARD SEPTEMBER 8, 2022 UPDATE GET MEDICAL ADVICE ON COVID-19 FROM MOH 24/7 HOTLINE NUMBERS: 2311166; 226 7480; 624 6674; 624 2819; 624 3067 OR 180/181. NUMBER OF NEW CASES 17 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN INSTITUTIONAL ISOLATION 7 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN HOME ISOLATION 190 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN COVID-19 ICU 0 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN INSTITUTIONAL QUARANTINE 6 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES BY GENDER (FEMALES) 38537 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES BY GENDER (MALES) 32,613 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES IN GUYANA SINCE 2020 71,150 NUMBER OF RECOVERED CASES 69,674 TOTAL 1st DOSE VACCINATED 443,802 FULLY IMMUNISED 343,575 TOTAL NUMBER OF DEATHS 1279 DISTRIBUTION OF TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES SINCE MARCH 2020 REGION 1 2688 REGION 2 3143 REGION 3 8739 REGION 4 35,426 REGION 5 2576 REGION 6 6932 REGION 7 2655 REGION 8 921 REGION 9 4348 REGION 10 3722 HERE IS HOW YOU CAN BE SAFE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Wear a
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S ome 50 families will soon settle into their new homes as the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) has completed the construction of a number of core homes in Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara).Theconstruction of these homes falls under CHPA’s Adequate Housing and Urban Accessibility Programme (AHUAP) which targets low-income residents.The20ft x 20ft two-bed room concrete structures have been built in La Parfaite Harmonie. At an event held on Wednesday, Housing and Water Minister Collin Croal disclosed that “al ready, we have constructed 50 Core Homes valued at $4 million each and these have been completed in La ParfaitePersonsHarmonie”.wererequired to apply for the core homes and once successful were expected to contribute $100,000. AHUAP also ca ters to home improvement subsidies of $500,000 in materials to upgrade their homes.Croal further disclosed that the Government will soon commence the con struction of a number of flat houses in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam).Hesaid,“Wehave an other 125 flat houses that are expected to come on stream within two weeks in Region Three.” In Region Three alone, over 3200 house lots have been distributed in the Government’s first two years in office. Croal said so far in 2022, over 1400 lots have already beenJustdistributed.recently, some 46 families who have for de cades been squatting at Cameron Dam on the West Bank of Demerara in Region Three have been al located lands at Lust-enRust, Canal Number One Polder.Cameron Dam has been earmarked for road net working and other infra structural development, and as such, relocating these families was neces sary.A representative from each household pulled lot numbers when the docu mentation process was ini tiated. Each family has been allocated a plot of land measuring 45 feet × 80 feet.Some $3.4 billion in infrastructural works are ongoing in five hous ing developments in the region which cater for 2800 allottees. Works in clude land preparation, and construction of access roads, bridges, culverts, andThedrainage.infrastructur al works also cater for the installation of elec trical and water distribu tion networks in housing areas at Anna Catherina, Cornelia Ida, Edinburgh, La Parfaite Harmonie, Meten-Meer- Zorg, Uitvlugt, Zeelugt, Tuschen, Leonora, Groenveldt, and Stewartville.
After heavy rainfall and high winds dam aged several hous es at Bare Root and Dazzell Housing Scheme on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD), on Monday, the Government, through the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) ,deliv ered assistance the affected families.After the incident on Monday, the CDC dis patched officers into the communities to conduct an assessment of the damage to effectively provide relief to the families who were af fected.After the assessments were conducted, it was not ed that the families were in need of building materials due to some houses being completely damaged, while the roofs of several homes wereOnremoved.Thursday, Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony; Labour Minister Joseph Hamilton and Minister within the Housing Ministry, Susan Rodrigues accompanied CDC officials to deliver building materials including zinc sheets, nails, and hampers containing es sential food items and clean ing supplies to the affected families.TheMinisters have com mitted to offering further support through their re spective ministries. Dr Anthony has commit ted to providing medical aid to those who suffered in juries during the incident, saying following the assess ment, the Government was able to intervene promptly to address the needs of the affected“Whatpersons.weare doing to day is after that assess ment, we were able to get building materials for these residents. We are go ing to see how else we can assist; I have been able to see a few persons who would’ve sustained medi cal injuries, so we are go ing to help those persons as well, and this is what the Government does, we try to respond to people in need,” Dr Anthony said. In addition, those affect ed by the storm will be pro vided with more building materials and infrastructur al support from the Housing Ministry to restore their homes.
Three heads of cattle –two of them pregnant and the third that gave birth hours before being stolen –have been slaughtered on theCattleCorentyne.farmer
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Nicole Theriot nominated as new US Ambassador to Guyana
Lynch previously served as senior deputy assistant administrator and acting assistant administrator in USAID’s Latin America and Caribbean Bureau. She is a career member of the senior foreign service, a graduate from Mount Holyoke College and holds master’s degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and the National War College. She also served with USAID from 1993 to 2018 and was post ed overseas in Bangladesh, Peru, Afghanistan and Iraq where she was the USAID mission director in Baghdad. In Washington, she served in the Regional Bureaus of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance.Lynchhas played a crit ical role in the development of Guyana since she took of fice and continues to build and strengthen bilateral relations between Guyana and the United States of America.During the COVID-19 pandemic, the US had do nated 146,250 Pfizer vac cines to Guyana back in 2021, and made major in vestments in the security of Guyana by renovating the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard training cen tre in Kingston. The US Ambassador also played a keen role in secur ing Guyana’s democracy in the March 2020 General and Regional Elections by placing pressure on the previous Administration to allow the smooth transi tion of the current elected Administration.
Nicole Theriot will be the new Ambassador to Guyana
Bare Root, Dazzell families affected by windstorm receives Govt help
The incident oc curred sometime be tween Wednesday evening and Thursday morning at Number 56 Village, Corentyne.According to the 57-yearold farmer, he had 43 head of cattle of which eight were being used for milking pur poses. Three of them have disappeared.“Yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon me pen me cow in me pen and go to wuk and when ah come back this morning, me son went to milk the cow an he observe that three cows missing and he tell me that it look like people move out the cow dem. So ah tell him we got to lookAccordingaround.”to his son, Mooneshwar Jairam, ini tially, he did not miss the animals, but he noticed that a calf which was dropped the previous day was look ing for its mother and he then started to look around the pen and discovered that three cows were missing. He ventured to the play ground, which is a short distance from their home, to look for the cows. “The first thing me see is the blood when ah walk in. After when ah look around ah see a lil baby calf in the corner and then ah see an other one.”
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Cattle stolen, slaughtered on the Corentyne
Udishteer Jairam points to the spot where the foetus was left T he White House has announced that Nicole Theriot, who is currently serving as the principal officer in Karachi, Pakistan, will be the new ambassador to Guyana when current Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch’s term comes to an end.
Theriot graduated in 1983 from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor’s degree and in 1998 with a masters in in ternational relations from Vanderbilt university in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a career member of the senior foreign service and previously served as deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in Port-auPrince, Haiti. She has also served as director for im migration and visa securi ty counsel in the executive office of the President. She was also senior advisor to the deputy assistant secre tary of state for overseas cit izens service in the Bureau of Consular Affairs. Theriot was also a political counsel lor at the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan; prin cipal officer in Casablanca, Morocco and Bureau of Consular Affairs supervi sory regional consular offi cer in Frankfurt, Germany, and many other overseas assignments. She is also the recipient of numerous state awards including a se nior foreign service perfor mance award. The current US Ambassador to Guyana, Lynch was confirmed by the US senate on January 2, 2019 and sworn in as Ambassador to Guyana on January 7, 2019.
Ministry of Home Affairs to look into the issue of es tablishing an abattoir. Everything should be done at the abattoir rather than people carrying the meat to the market and sell it to the butcher,” he pointed out. There have been several instances of cattle rustling on the Corentyne in recent weeks. Some farmers have been reluctant to report it to the Police based on past experiences.According to Harbhajan, the Government has been promoting livestock rear ing and importing bulls but if cattle rustling is not stopped, the small farmer will suffer. There are reports of sev eral animals being stolen and slaughtered along the central Corentyne within the past Meanwhile,month. Police are investigating Thursday’s incident. (G4)
Udishteer Jairam said he would rear cattle and sell the milk to supplement his salary as a security officer and on Thursday morning he was told that three of the ani mals were missing.
The two foetuses – one fully developed – were dis covered in a trench along with parts of the intestines of theAccordingmothers.to his father, one of the cows was expect ed to deliver within three days and the other in six weeks. The third, he ex plained, gave birth the pre viousJustday.one week ago, a farmer at Salton, also on the Corentyne, lost a cow and a nine-month-old calf. The animals were slaugh tered on the vacant plot of land where he grazed them. That farmer, Mukish Balkrishna called on au thorities to live up to an age-old promise of building an abattoir along the cen tral Corentyne which will ensure farmers have one central place for their an imals to be slaughtered. This, in turn, would pres sure butchers to purchase only meat coming out of the abattoir.Activist Gobin Harbhajan in comment ing on the issue noted that it was very difficult for a farmer to lose five animals.
Mourners gather outside Windsor Castle in Berkshire, England, Thursday, September 8, 2022, following the announcement of the death of Queen Elizabeth II. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)
A man is suspected of killing himself and attempting to kill his one-year-old child. Cleon Blackwood, 45, from Bannister district, Old Harbour, St Catherine was found dead and his oneyear-old daughter found be side him in bushes in the area on Thursday morning. Blackwood had ran away with the child after firing on Police on Wednesday night. His body and the alleged suicide weapon was found. Police said Blackwood’s child’s mother made a re port against him about 21:00h on Wednesday. The Police went to Blackwood’s home in a marked ser vice vehicle, but, upon ap proaching the house, the lawmen saw Blackwood outside holding his daugh ter. Blackwood fired at the Police and fled into bushes with the child. The Police remained in the area until daybreak and commenced a search about 06:30h, when Blackwood’s lifeless body was found with a single gunshot wound to the left side of his chest and his one-year-old child was found with an entrance and exit wound to her abdomen. She was assisted to the Spanish Town Hospital where she was treated and then transferred to the Bustamante Children Hospital, where she re mains in stable condition. A Taurus 9mm pistol with a magazine containing 14 9mm rounds with a round stuck in the breach was found close to Blackwood’s body.It is alleged that Blackwood is a licensed fire arm holder, but that has not yet been verified. (Jamaica Observer)
T&T PM, Young talk ALNG, new projects with BP in UK
T rinidad and Tobago Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley and Energy Minister Stuart Young held discussions with British Petroleum (BP) executives in London on Thursday on several is sues of mutual interest. A statement issued by the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) said Dr Rowley and Young met with a BP team, led by its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bernard Looney, at BP’s headquarters at St James Square, London. BP gave Rowley and Young an update on its plans for future gas produc tion, including the sanction ing of new projects.
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth sits next to Prince Charles during the State Opening of Parliament in central London, Britain, June 21, 2017
Couple charged for planning attack on Kirchner Jamaica: Father found dead in suspected suicide, child shot
Caricom expresses grief over Queen’s passing Charles’ succession stirs Caribbean calls to remove monarch as Head of State
A Judge in Argentina has charged a man and his girlfriend with attempting to kill Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner last week.Fernando Sabag Montiel, 35, and his girl friend, Brenda Uliarte, 23, deny involvement in the failed attack, when a gun was pointed at the politi cian.The gunman’s weap on jammed and the Vice President was not hurt in the incident in the capital, Buenos Aires. But a Judge said the ac tions of the two suspects were planned and co-ordi nated.The charges are prelim inary and can still be mod ified. The incident happened on Thursday, September 2 as Fernández de Kirchner, 69, greeted supporters out side her home. A small crowd had gath ered to show its backing for the Vice President, who is currently on trial for cor ruption, when a man point ed a handgun at her head. The moment was cap tured on video. The gun did not fire, but Argentina’s President, Alberto Fernández, lat er said it had been loaded with five bullets. “Cristina
is still alive, because, for some reason yet to be con firmed, the gun ... did not fire,” he said in a televised address.President Fernández de scribed it as “the most se rious incident since the re turn of democracy” in 1983. Fernando Sabag Montiel, who was born in Brazil but has lived in Argentina since he was a child, was arrested at the scene minutes after the in cident.Lawyers for Fernández de Kirchner said they did not think he had acted on his own and on Sunday Police detained Uliarte. (Excerpt from BBC News)
The OPM said, “The dis cussions also touched on the progress of the Atlantic LNG (ALNG) restructuring negotiation which is expect ed to be finalised soon.” On January 25, Government and ALNG’s shareholders reached a heads of agreement (HoA) that will guide the compa ny’sInrestructuring.astatement on that day, the Energy Ministry said the HoA is being ex ecuted by Government, BP, Shell TT Ltd and the National Gas Company (NGC). BP and Shell also welcomed the HoA in sepa rateAtstatements.thattime, sources told Newsday the objective of the HoA is to restructure ALNG so its shareholders would own certain percent ages in the new entity, as opposed to having owner ship in its four trains. In the current arrangement, Government, through NGC, only has shares in trains One and WhileFour.theHoA may not immediately address is sues concerning Train One, which is currently shut down, sources said a re structured ALNG could al low Government, through the NGC, to access a portion of the revenues from trains in which it currently has no shares. (Excerpt from Newsday)
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley (Stefan Rousseau/Pool via Reuters file photo)
“Queen Elizabeth II will be remembered for her love of and dedication to the Commonwealth of which she was a passionate supporter and“Caricomleader. extends its con dolences to the Royal fami ly and to the Government and people of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and the Commonwealth of Nations on the passing of a Monarch whose memory will be long revered. May she rest in peace.” (Trinidad Guardian)
18 guyanatimesgy.comFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022 Regional Caricom has expressed deep regrets over the passing of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday. In a message, Caricom Chairman President Chandrikapersad Santokhi of Suriname said: “The Caribbean Community (Caricom) ex presses its deep regrets at the passing of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland and Head of the Commonwealth, which includes nine of our Member States, and all five of our Associate Members due to their relation to the United“DuringKingdom.her 70-year reign, Her Majesty’s com mitment to service and de votion to duty was a sterling example to all. She was the one constant in a world of never-ending change.
The ascension of King Charles to the British throne has stirred re newed calls from politicians for former colonies in the Caribbean to remove the monarch as their Head of State.Charles succeeds his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who ruled for 70 years and died on Thursday afternoon. The Jamaican Prime Minister, Andrew Holness said the country would mourn Elizabeth, and his counterpart in Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne or dered flags to half-mast un til the day of her burial. But in some quarters there are doubts about the role a distant monarch should play in the 21st cen tury. Earlier this year, some Commonwealth leaders ex pressed unease at a sum mit in Kigali, Rwanda about the passage of leadership of the 54-nation club from Elizabeth to Charles. And an eight-day tour in March by now heir-tothe-throne Prince William and his wife Kate to Belize, Jamaica and The Bahamas was marked by calls for rep aration payments and an apology for Barbados,slavery.oneof a doz en Caribbean nations which are Commonwealth mem bers, ditched the queen as Head of State last year. Jamaica has signalled it may soon follow suit, though both remain members of the Commonwealth.AnAugust survey showed 56 per cent of Jamaicans favour removing the British monarch as the head of Mikaelstate. Phillips, an Opposition member of Jamaica’s Parliament, in 2020 filed a motion backing the“Iremoval.amhoping as the Prime Minister had said in one of his expressions, that he would move faster when there is a new monarch in place,” Phillips said on Thursday.Former St Lucian Prime Minister and now Leader of the Opposition, Allen Chastanet told Reuters he backed what he said was a “general” movement toward republicanism in his coun try.“I certainly at this point would support becoming a republic,” he said. Activists in the Region said Charles’s ascension to the throne was also an op portunity to redouble calls for slavery reparations. (Excerpt from Reuters)
On Wednesday, both benchmarks dropped more than five per cent to close at their lowest levels since mid-to-late January, putting WTI into technically oversold territory for the first time in a “Today’smonth. advance ... appears motivated mainly by an oversold technical condition that allowed the complex to shrug off a seemingly bearish crude stock build per the EIA,” analysts at energy consulting firm Ritterbusch and Associates said. Prices also drew support from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat to halt oil and gas exports if price caps are imposed by European buyers. The European Union proposed capping Russian gas prices, raising the risk of rationing this winter if Moscow carries out its threat. Russia’s Gazprom has already halted flows from the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline.
US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank was “strongly committed” to bringing down inflation and needed to keep going until it got the job done.
World leaders remember a "kind-hearted Queen"
19guyanatimesgy.com FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022 OIL NEWS
Crude prices edged up about one per cent on Thursday after dropping to a seven-month low in the prior session as some technical traders bought the dip and Russia threatened to halt oil and gas exports to some buyers. That price increase came despite a surprise build in US crude inventories, news that the United States was weighing the need for more crude releases from strategic reserves and concerns China’s COVID-19 lockdown extensions and rising global interest rates would slow economic activity and hit fuel demand. US crude stockpiles surged by nearly nine million barrels last week due to a combination of increased imports and ongoing releases from Government emergency reserves, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said. The hefty build compares with the 250,000-barrel draw analysts forecast in a Reuters poll and data from American Petroleum Institute (API) industry group showing a 3.6-millionbarrel“Mostincrease.ofthat oil in that build came from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The quicker we empty out the SPR, the bigger the draws are going to be in the future,” said Phil Flynn, an analyst at Price Futures Group. US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Joe Biden’s Administration was weighing the need for further releases of crude oil from the nation’s emergency stockpiles. Brent futures rose US$1.15, or 1.3 per cent, to settle at US$89.15 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose US$1.60, or 2.0 per cent, to settle at US$83.54.
A series of extreme heat waves and a long-running drought saw June, July ,and August shatter the previous high mark for temperature. The Copernicus Climate Change Service said the data showed August in Europe was the warmest on record by “a substantial margin”.“An intense series of heatwaves across Europe paired with unusually dry conditions, have led to a summer of extremes with
A Chinese couple plot ted to set up a ministate on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, brib ing Members of Parliament (MPs) and officials along the way, US Prosecutors say.The man and wom an tried to persuade law makers to set up a “SemiAutonomous Region” (SAR) on a remote atoll. Such a zone would have expanded foreign access to the Pacific nation, which was administered by the US untilThe1979.Marshall Islands Government is yet to fully address the accusations, de spite calls from Opposition parties.But US authorities say the defendants – Cary Yan and Gina Zhou – under mined the island nation’s sovereignty.Theirefforts saw bills supporting the SAR’s cre ation debated in the Marshall Islands’ Parliament in 2018 and 2020, US Prosecutors say.Prosecutors allege sev eral Marshall Island law makers, unidentified in the charge sheet, voted for the bills after receiving bribes ranging from US$7000 to US$22,000. (Excerpt from BBC News)
China’s Chengdu extended a lockdown for a majority of its more than 21 million residents to prevent further transmission of COVID-19.TheEuropean Central Bank (ECB) raised its key interest rates by an unprecedented 75 basis points and signalled further hikes, prioritising the fight against inflation even as the bloc’s economy is heading for a likely winter recession.
Oil edges up from 7-month low as Russia threatens export halt
Around the World World leaders and dignitaries have paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who has died at the age of 96. They have honoured her deep sense of duty and her resilience, as well as the Queen’s sense of humour andFrance’skindness. Emmanuel Macron led the tributes, re membering “a kind-hearted queen” who was “a friend of France”.Andformer US President Barack Obama said the Queen had “captivated the world” with a “reign defined by grace, elegance, and a tireless work ethic”. Current US President Joe Biden – who first met Her Majesty 40 years ago –described her as “more than a monarch – she defined an era”.Remembering his visit to the UK in 2021 as President, Biden said “she charmed us with her wit, moved us with her kindness, and generous ly shared with us her wis dom”.Queen Elizabeth II met 13 US Presidents during her reign.Canada – where Queen Elizabeth was Head of State – has seen 12 Prime Ministers during her reign. An emotional Justin Trudeau said she had “an obvious deep and abiding love for FlagsCanadians”.havebeen low ered to half-mast around the world – including at the European Commission in Brussels, leadership”.her,ditionremainingpassingabilitytheUrsulaCommissionBelgium.PresidentvonderLeyensaidQueen’s“empathyandtoconnectwitheverygeneration,whilerootedinthetrathattrulymatteredtowasanexampleoftrue
Concerns about the health of the global economy and expectations of falling fuel demand led to sharp oil price falls in the previous session.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky tweet ed that it was with “deep sadness” that he learned of “this irreparable loss”. African leaders also shared tributes for Queen Elizabeth – who knew many of them well and, as the Head of the Commonwealth, was sympathetic to their cause.Kenyan President-elect William Ruto praised her “historic legacy” and said Kenyans would “miss the cordial ties she enjoyed” with the Kenya,country.aformer British colony that became indepen dent in 1963, was a very spe cial place for the monarch. For a start, it was where she became Queen. The young princess, then just 25 years old, was on holiday there when her father, King George VI, died in his sleep in 1952.President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, which is one of the newest nations to join the Commonwealth, said: “The Queen was a great friend of Africa and Africa showed her affection in return.” (Excerpt from BBC News)
T his summer was the hottest on record in Europe, according to data from European Union (EU) satellite monitoring.
records in terms of tem perature, drought, and fire activity in many parts of Europe, affecting soci ety and nature in various ways,” said Freja Vamborg, a senior scientist with the Copernicus Climate Change Service.Europe also experienced the worst drought condi tions in 500 years. Around the globe the high temperatures in August persisted wide ly, with drought conditions also affecting China. Globally, the research ers say, August was the third warmest yet recorded. (Excerpt from BBC News)
Ukraine hailed a light ning counteroffen sive it said had re captured swathes of its territory in the east and south, as US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken visit ed the country to pledge fur therUkrainianaid. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video address that Kyiv’s forces had “liberated doz ens of settlements” and re claimed 1000 square kilo metres (385 square miles) of territory in the east and south since September 1. Zelenskiy also posted a video in which Ukrainian soldiers claimed to have captured the eastern town of Balakliia near Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine. Video posted to a popular Ukrainian news ag gregator appeared to show the Russians left trucks, artillery, and ammunition boxesVitalybehind.Ganchev, a lo cal pro-Russian official, told Russian State TV that Moscow’s forces had fought off a Ukrainian attempt to encircle and capture Balakliia, which he said re mained in Russian hands. Reuters could not inde pendently confirm the bat tlefield accounts. (Excerpt from Reuters)
Ukraine claims to oust Russia from dozens of communities, US gives more aid
Marshall Islands: Chinese pair plotted ‘mini-State’ in Pacific nation Climate shattersEurope’schange:warmsummerrecords
Belgium’s Energy Minister proposed a cap on wholesale gas prices rather than just Russian imports. Britain said it will cap consumer energy bills for two years.
“Energy traders have mostly priced in the Chinese COVID shutdowns and demand concerns from aggressive tightening signals by the ECB and Fed,” said Edward Moya, senior market analyst at data and analytics firm OANDA. (Excerpt from Reuters)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz paid tribute to the Queen’s “wonderful hu mour” and said in a state ment that “her commitment to German-British reconcil iation after the horrors of World War Two will remain unforgotten”.IndianPrime Minister Narendra Modi recalled his “memorable meetings” with the monarch during two UK visits.“I will never forget her warmth and kindness,” he tweeted. “During one of the meetings, she showed me the handkerchief Mahatma Gandhi gifted her on her wedding. I will always cher ish that gesture.” Irish President Michael D Higgins honoured the Queen’s “extraordinary sense of duty”, which he said would “hold a unique place in British General,UnitedofQueen’sduration”herMicheálIreland’shistory”.Taoiseach,Martin,spokeofreignasoneof“historicanddescribedthepassingas“theendanera”.AntónioGuterres,theNations’SecretarysaidQueen Elizabeth was “a reas suring presence through out decades of sweeping change, including the de colonisation of Africa and Asia and the evolution of the Commonwealth”.QueenElizabeth vis ited Australia – another Commonwealth nation where she was Head of State – 16 times, the only reigning mon arch to head down under. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese noted that many had never known a world without her.
New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, said she was woken to the news of the monarch’s death by a Police Officer shining a torch into her bedroom at 04:50 to wake her up. “She was extraordinary... The last days of the Queen’s life captures who she was in so many ways, working to the very end on behalf of the people she loved,” Ardern said.Israel’s President, Isaac Herzog, also acknowledged the enormous change the Queen saw throughout her reign, but said that through out this, she “remained an icon of stable, responsible leadership and a beacon of morality, humanity and pa triotism”.King Abdullah II of Jordan said his country “mourns the passing of an iconic leader”. He said the Queen, who visited Jordan in 1984, was “a beacon of wisdom and principled leadership… a partner for Jordan and a dear family friend”.Russian President Vladimir Putin, who met the Queen several times and once reportedly kept her waiting for 14 minutes, sent his “deepest condolences” to King Charles III.
Queen Elizabeth II greets New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London 2018
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Jets #1 Most Valuable Player Tishawn Kitt collects the trophy from LABA President Lawrence Simon Jets #1 Junior winners of LABA 3x3 competition
Kohli hits first century in 1,021 days against Afghanistan
Bhuvneshwar runs through the batting Things were only about to go worse for Afghanistan. Bhuvneshwar's fourth ball was the perfect deliv ery: pitching on leg stump, swinging against the angle, hitting Hazratullah Zazai in front of leg stumps and would have gone on to hit leg stump. Two balls later, he swung the ball the other way and went through the gate Rahmanullah Gurbaz
21FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022 SCOREBOARD INDIA INNINGS (20 overs maximum) BATTING R B KL Rahul (c) c Najibullah Zadran b Fareed Ahmad 62 41 Virat Kohli not out 122 61 Suryakumar Yadav b Fareed Ahmad 6 2 Rishabh Pant †not out 20 16 Extras (w 2) 2 TOTAL 20 Ov (RR:10.60) 212/2 Did not bat: Deepak Hooda, Dinesh Karthik, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Deepak Chahar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh Fall of wickets: 1-119 (KL Rahul, 12.4 ov), 2-125 (Suryakumar Yadav, 12.6 ov) BOWLING O-M-R-W Fazalhaq Farooqi 4-0-51-0 Mujeeb Ur Rahman 4-0-29-0 Fareed Ahmad 4-0-57-2 Rashid Khan 4-0-33-0 Mohammad Nabi 3-0-34-0 Azmatullah Omarzai 1-0-8-0 AFGHANISTAN INNINGS (Target: 213 runs from 20 overs) BATTING R B Hazratullah Zazai lbw b Kumar 0 4 Rahmanullah Gurbaz †b Kumar 0 1 Ibrahim Zadran not out 64 59 Karim Janat c Kohli b Kumar 2 4 Najibullah Zadran lbw b Kumar 0 2 Mohammad Nabi (c)lbw b Arshdeep Singh 7 7 Azmatullah Omarzai c Karthik b Kumar 1 6 Rashid Khan c Patel b Hooda 15 19 Mujeeb Ur Rahman b Ashwin 18 13 Fareed Ahmad not out 1 5 Extras (w 3) 3 TOTAL 20 Ov (RR: 5.55) 111/8 Did not bat: Fazalhaq Farooqi Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Hazratullah Zazai, 0.4 ov),2-1 (Rahmanullah Gurbaz, 0.6ov), 3-9 (Karim Janat, 2.4 ov),4-9 (Najibullah Zadran, 2.6ov), 5-20 (Mohammad Nabi,5.5 ov), 6-21 (AzmatullahOmarzai, 6.5 ov), 7-54 (RashidKhan, 13.1 ov), 8-87 (MujeebUr Rahman, 17.4 ov) BOWLING O-M-R-W Bhuvneshwar Kumar 4-1-4-5 Deepak Chahar 4-0-28-0Arshdeep Singh 2-0-7-1Axar Patel 4-0-24-0 Ravichandran Ashwin 4-0-27-1 Deepak Hooda 1-0-3-1Dinesh Karthik 1-0-18-0
presented.Inhis second over, Bhuvneshwar produced the outswinger-inswinger trick again. Karim Janat edged to slip, and Najibullah Zadran was late on an inswinger, trapped right in front. Bowling four on the trot, Bhuvneshwar had Azmatullah Omarzai chip a slower ball straight to short cover. The five-for reduced Afghanistan to 21 for 6. Ibrahim then scored a fifty, but that was only delaying the inevitable. (ESPNcricinfo)
Match Report Even Kohli was shocked the century to break his drought came in this for mat. One thousand and twenty-one days and 83 in ternational innings since he last scored a hundred, Kohli got his elusive num ber 71 in a T20 interna tional. Given the opportu nity to open the innings in the absence of the rest ing captain, Rohit Sharma, Kohli played a vintage in nings, going from 10 off 10 to 50 off 32 and then scor ing 63 off the last 21 balls he played. Bhuvneshwar then returned figures of 4-1-4-5 with eachway swing to leave Afghanistan reeling. Playing less than 24 hours after the heartbreak against Pakistan, Afghanistan wore a dazed look. They dropped three relative ly easy catches, and looked like they had no response when Kohli went on the offensive. And Bhuvneshwar didn't need to set bat ters up. Outswingers took edges, inswing ers smashed the stumps, and slower balls were chipped to fielders. New opening pair take time and then go bang The match started with the energy of a dead rubber. India made three chang es, and it would have been tough for Afghanistan to get up and dust themselves in a match they didn't have any thing to play for. The first two overs went quietly by, but in the third KL Rahul began to push India's intent. Kohli took apart Mujeeb Ur Rahman in the sixth, com ing down the wicket and reaching the pitch of the ball to negate his mystery, and also employing the rare sweep. Soon he had over taken Rahul. In the eighth over came a pivotal moment of the match: Kohli mis-hit a pull off Mohammad Nabi, but Zadran misjudged the space behind him, end ing up one-handedgoingandtappingtheballoverthebound ary. Rahul falls, but Kohli keeps celeratingac Rahul tried to push the scor ing rate up, fol lowed in Kohli's steps with a fif ty and just when he was dangerouslookingand poised for his typ ical steep accel eration, he mis timed a pull down the ground for a catch to long-on. Suryakumar Yadav began with a six first ball, but played on the second ball. Rishabh Pant then struggled to get going. At the other end, Kohli was now into the death overs, still fresh and his eye in. This is where he gets dangerous in T20 cricket. This is a phase he has been trying to get into in T20 cricket for a while, but he has not been able to. Kohli then un leashed punishment on Afghanistan. He gave Rashid Khan the charge and hit a six, which is not easy to do. Then the leftarm quicks Ahmad and Fazalhaq Farooqi were tak en apart. The hundred came with a flat six via a pull to a short-of-a-length delivery. In the final over, it looked like Kohli was just showing off. There was a charge and a flick for a six, a no-look pull for a six, and then the extra-cover drive along the ground for four.
F inals’ wins were re corded by two out fits from Amelia’s Ward Jets on Sunday night as they claimed top prizes when the Linden Amateur Basketball (LABA)-organisedAssociation3x3com
petition for senior and ju nior players ended at the Retrieve Hard Court in Mackenzie.Thecompetitions began Saturday night with the junior preliminary rounds taking place, reaching the final four were Jets #1, Retrieve Raiders #1, Jets #2 and Kings #1. Among the seniors, those advanc ing were Royals, Jets #1, Kings #1 and Jets #4. Both Jets teams were winners on Sunday when Ward Jets cart off honours after winning Junior, Senior LABA 3x3 the semi-finals and finals were held with Jets #1 tak ing championship honours led by the Most Valuable Player Tishawn Kitt, as they won 16-12. In the senior semi-fi nals, Jets #4 secured a place in the title round by beating Jets #1 and Royals took care of Kings #1 in the second semi. In the senior final, Jets #4, being too good for Royals, carted off top hon ours again for the Ward club, this time led by Most Valuable Player award winner Quincy Easton for a 15-10 triumph. The trophies and rep licas for the two competi tions were donated by the LABA President Lawrence Simon.
V irat Kohli scored his first century in 1021 days in India's Asia Cup victory over Afghanistan in Dubai. The 33-year-old, who last hit a century in a Test against Bangladesh on November 23, 2019, made an unbeaten 122 off 61 balls as already-eliminated India made 212-2 from their 20 overs. Afghanistan made only 111-8 in reply, losing by 101 runs, as Bhuvneshwar Kumar took five wickets for fourKohliruns.hit 12 fours and six sixes in his first Twenty20 international ton. Since his last centu ry, he has averaged 27.25 in Tests, 35.82 in One-Day Internationals, and 50.60 in T20Theinternationals.former India Captain also made 341 runs in the 2022 Indian Premier League (IPL), at an average of 22.73.Hehas hit five IPL cen turies, including four in 2016, in 223 games. KL Rahul, captaining the side in the absence of Rohit Sharma, made 62 off 41 balls, while left-arm seamer Fareed Ahmad claimed both Afghanistanwickets.were 9-4 and 21-6 in response, but Ibrahim Zadran's unbeaten 64 helped them avoid being bowled out. Kohli's 122 surpasses Rohit's previous mark of 118 for the highest individ ual score by an India batter in men's T20 internation als.Neither India nor Afghanistan can qualify for the final, which will be contested by Sri Lanka and Pakistan on Sunday. (BBC Sport)
Virat Kohli celebrates his maiden T20I and 71st career century
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Barbados Royals Innings Johnson Charles c Holder b Walsh 29 Niroshan Dickwella †c DC Thomas b Holder 18 Faf du Plessis (c) c Mayers b Greaves 7 Roston Chase c Bosch b O Thomas 10 Mark Deyal c Greaves b Walsh 21 Tim David c Mayers b McCoy 40 David Wiese not out 29 Extras(lb 3, nb 1, w 12) 16 TOTAL 20 Ov (RR: 8.45) 169/6 Fall of wickets: 1-31 (Niroshan Dickwella, 3.6 ov), 2-57 (Faf du Plessis, 7.3 ov), 3-63 (Johnson Charles, 8.2 ov), 4-75 (Roston Chase, 11.1 ov), 5-90 (Mark Deyal, 12.5 ov), 6-169 (Tim David, 19.6 ov) BOWLING O-M-R-W Kyle Mayers 1-0-6-0 Oshane Thomas 3-0-28-1 Obed McCoy 4-0-41-1 Jason Holder 4-0-29-1 Corbin Bosch 2-0-28-0 Hayden Walsh 4-0-19-2 Justin Greaves 2-0-15-1 BARBADOS ROYALS INNINGS (Target: 170 runs from 20 overs) Kyle Mayers c du Plessis b Joseph 33 Quinton de Kock †c †Dickwella b Chase 0 Corbin Bosch c Kuggeleijn b Joseph 81 Azam Khan c Auguste b Joseph 13 David Miller (c) not out 24 Jason Holder not out 7 Extras(lb 3, nb 2, w 7) 12 TOTAL 18.1 Ov (RR: 9.50) 170/4 Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Quinton de Kock, 0.6 ov), 2-91 (Kyle Mayers, 8.6 ov), 3-117 (Azam Khan, 12.1 ov), 4-148 (Corbin Bosch, 15.5 ov) BOWLING O-M-R-W Roston Chase 3-0-30-1 Alzarri Joseph 4-0-32-3 Mark Deyal 2.2-0-26-0 Scott Kuggeleijn 3-0-33-0 David Wiese 3-0-20-0 Roshon Primus 3-0-26-0
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The Davids, Tim David and David Wiese added 79 runs together to take Kings to a good total
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On Wednesday night, the Lucozade Indoor Hockey Tournament semi-finals concluded with several teams registering en tertaining victories, thus pav ing the way for several en thralling finals, set for today, Friday, September 9.
Kyle Mayers extended his golden form again with 33 Oshane Thomas bowled with good pace
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ping would have echoed at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground after Charles held out to Jason Holder at longon for a 25-ball 29. He struck two sixes and three fours, exiting the crease at 63-3 in 8.2 Wicketsovers. continued to fall for Kings despite a glimpse of Mark Deyal's touch. Chase was removed by Oshane Thomas for 10, while Deyal made 21. The lit tle Trinidadian was caught by a diving Greaves. The Kings had lost half of their side for 90 runs, in 12.5 overs, and a strong finish was required for the home team. The Davids – Tim David and David Wiese – then added 79 runs together. David, who is set to play for Australia at the upcom ing T20 World Cup, enter tained the crowd with his strokeplay. He ended with a top score of 40 from 23 balls when he was dismissed at the last ball of the innings. He struck two sixes and four fours. His partner, Wiese supported with 28 from 21 balls, with four boundaries. wasWalshthebest bowler, claiming 2-19 in four overs while Greaves, Holder, Obed McCoy and Thomas had one wicket each as Kings posted 169-6 when 20 overs expired. The tournament will continue on Saturday, September 10 in St Lucia with Jamaica Tallawahs taking on Trinbago Knight Riders at 10:00h and Guyana Amazon Warriors battling St Lucia Kings from 19:00h at the Daren SammyCricket Ground.
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Corbin Bosch led the batting charge for Royals
Sonia Jardine takes a shot at goal in a penalty corner against Woodpecker Hikers
Acareer-best T20 knock from South African Corbin Bosch en sured Barbados Royals won four from four in the 2022 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL). The Royals won by six wickets against St Lucia Kings in Match 11, played at the Daren Sammy CricketRoyalsGround.ended on 175-4 in 18.3 overs, on the back of Bosch's 81 from 50 balls while Kings had posted 1696 in 20 overs batting first. In the chase of 170, Barbados Royals lost Quinton de Kock for a gold en duck when he edged a Roston Chase delivery be hind at 7-1. Kyle Mayers, who got going with a straight six off Chase, con tinued his rich vein of form. He was joined by Bosch and the duo took Royals past 50 in the fifth over, his maiden T20 fifty from 23 balls.Mayers was then dis missed for a 26-ball 33, which had three sixes. He and Bosch added 84 runs for the second wicket, a partner ship that set the tone for the chase. Azam Khan came and went for 13; he was removed by the tournament's leading wicket-taker, Alzarri Joseph at 117-3 in 12.1 overs. Bosch's bossy innings of 81 came off 50 balls and included 10 fours and one six. He was caught at deep mid-wicket to give Joseph his third wicket of the match, ending with 3-32 from four overs. Captain David Miller ensured no further hiccups as Royals closed out the match. Earlier, the Barbados Royals won the toss and opt ed to bowl first. Kings open ers Niroshan Dickwella and Johnson Charles showed early intent, playing some brave shots. Dickwella was the first dismissed, caught for 18 at 31-1 at the end of four overs. Captain Faf du en from 10 balls, and he was caught on the boundary off the bowling of The sound Bosch bosses the chase as Royals crush Kings
In the other semi-fi nal of the women's divi sion, Woodpecker Hikers beat GCC Tigers after the game went down to a penal ty shootout. At the final whis tle, the women were 1-1 after a hard-fought game on both sides. Rene James, Latacia Chung, and Maria Munroe all converted for the Hikers. In contrast, the lone scorer for GCC was Sonia Jardine while Vanessa Pieres was denied by the Hikers goalkeeper Anesa Permaul. What can be considered one of the most compelling games of the night in the men's B group saw Bounty GCC Pitbulls advancing to the finals after edging Pepsi Hikers 6-5. The fast-paced, high-intensity match between the two saw GCC’s Kevin Spenser boring the Hikers net four times. Playing with out a goalkeeper, the Hikers men tried to defend their goal, but the Bounty GCC capital ised on their opponents’ mis fortune and scored at every opportunity. The game was tied 5-5 in the 40th minute; however, as seconds counted down, a penalty corner was awarded to GCC. With no keeper in the goal, the GCC men made light work by hit ting the backboard easily. In the final semi-final of the evening, the YMCA Old Fort outscored Hikers Cadets 4-3. Warren Williams, Simeon Moore, Daheron Wilkinson and Vice Captain Shaquan Favorite all scored for Old Fort. Colonel Heywood, who played beautiful defence, netted a goal for the Cadets along with Devin Munroe and Shane Samuels. Other teams to advance to the finals on Friday are Saints Conquerors and GCC Spartans in the Under 20 girls category and Saints S7N and YMCA Old Fort in the Under 20 boys. We look forward to see ing you all tonight to witness some competitive finals.
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The venue will be the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) on Homestretch Avenue, Georgetown, with the first game set to begin at 17:00h (5pm). In the women's divi sion, the leading team, GCC Spartans, went up against the YMCA Old Fort Igniters, beating them 6-3. The um pires called a technicality against the Old Fort wom en, and a penalty stroke was awarded to GCC. Madison Fernandes took the shot for her team and delivered as was expected. Romichelle Brumell responded almost immediately in the ninth minute. However, this tie did not last long as the GCC Spartans did not hold back and netted four more goals before the Igniters could re spond, with Julia Gouveia converting all two penalty corners. With one minute on the clock, the GCC’s Alysa Xavier netted the final goal for her team.
GAW Innings Paul Stirling c Cottrell b Jansen 1 Chandrapaul Hemraj lbw b Dananjaya 43 Shai Hope c Jaggesar b DJ Bravo 20 Shimron Hetmyer (c) c †Fletcher b Jansen 46 Heinrich Klaasen †c DJ Bravo b Jaggesar 10 Romario Shepherd st †Fletcher b Dananjaya 3 Odean Smith not out 17 Keemo Paul not out 1 Extras (lb 3, nb 1, w 17) 21 TOTAL 20 Ov (RR: 8.10) 162/6 Fall of wickets: 1-6 (Paul Stirling, 1.3 ov), 2-75 (Chandrapaul Hemraj, 11.2 ov), 3-79 (Shai Hope, 12.2 ov), 4-96 (Heinrich Klaasen, 13.6 ov), 5-105 (Romario Shepherd, 15.3 ov), 6-152 (Shimron Hetmyer, 18.6 ov) BOWLING O-M-R-W Sheldon Cottrell 2-0-6-0 Duan Jansen 4-0-37-2 Jon-Russ Jaggesar 3-0-31-1 Dwaine Pretorius 3-0-29-0 Akila Dananjaya 4-0-28-2 Dwayne Bravo 4-0-28-1 Patriots Innings Andre Fletcher †c Hetmyer b Shepherd 41 Evin Lewis c Motie b Shepherd 10 Dewald Brevis lbw b Shamsi 13 Darren Bravo b Smith 21 Sherfane Rutherford st †Klaasen b Imran Tahir 6 Dwayne Bravo (c) c Hope b Smith 4 Dwaine Pretorius not out 27 Duan Jansen not out 23 Extras (lb 5, nb 1, w 12) 18 TOTAL 19.4 Ov (RR: 8.28) 163/6 Fall of wickets: 1-14 (Evin Lewis, 1.3 ov), 2-61 (Dewald Brevis, 8.3 ov), 3-88 (Andre Fletcher, 12.6 ov), 4-95 (Sherfane Rutherford, 13.2 ov), 5-108 (Dwayne Bravo, 15.1 ov), 6-108 (Darren Bravo, 15.2 ov) BOWLING O-M-R-W Paul Stirling 1-0-7-0 Romario Shepherd 3.4-0-42-2 Chandrapaul Hemraj 1-0-5-0 Keemo Paul 3-0-23-0 Gudakesh Motie 3-0-17-0 Imran Tahir 4-0-41-1 Tabraiz Shamsi 2-0-13-1 Odean Smith 2-0-10-2
Shimron Hetmyer shows his class yet again
CPL 2022: Patriots steal win from Warriors in final over
The winless Guyana Amazon Warriors suffered a four-wick et defeat against St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in match 10 of the Hero Caribbean Premier League, played at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground.Patriots were down and out, requiring 22 runs from the final over, but Romario Shepherd again had a bad outing with the ball, as South African Dwaine Pretorius took him to the cleaners. Patriots regis tered their first win of the season, ending on 163-6 in 19.4Theovers.Warriors began their defence with a sur prise package, opening the bowling with Paul Stirling serving up his gentle rightarm spin. Evin Lewis slammed him for a mon ster 101-metre six. Shepherd, bowl ing from the me dia centre end, was struck for a bound ary, but in the same over, he got rid of Lewis (10), who got a ball that climbed and was caught at mid-on. The Warriors rung in the bowling changes, but Andre Fletcher held things togeth er. Dewald Brevis slammed his fellow South African Tabriz Shamsi for a six, but the spin wizard trapped Brevis at the crease for 13 with Patriots on 61-2 in 8.3 overs.The spiceman held things together in his 41 from 38 balls, an innings that included four bound aries. He fell to mid-wick et to give Shepherd his second wicket. Sherfane Rutherford took Tahir for a six in his first ball, but was out stumped the next ball as Patriots were re duced to 95-4 after 13.2 overs. Odean Smith then re moved both Bravo broth ers in consecutive balls as Patriots crumbled to 1086 after 15.2 overs. The old er Bravo, who was caught at long-on, made four while the younger brother, who had his furniture destroyed, made a 22-ball 21. After the passing shower, Warriors bowlers, especially the spinners, kept it tight in the death overs. With Smith, Shamsi, and Paul having overs in the bank, Warriors Captain Shimron Hetmyer went with Shepherd, whom he described at the post match, as the "go-to-guy at the end". Pretorius ended on 27 not out, from 12 balls, after hitting three six es while Player of the Match, Duan Jansen made an unbeaten 23 from 15 balls. Smith had 2-10 from two overs while Shepherd had 2-42 from 3.4 Earlier,overs.the Warriors had won the toss and elect ed to bat first, playing an unchanged team. Openers Chandrapaul Hemraj and Stirling had slow starts. The Irishman, Stirling (01) lost his wicket when he topedged one and was caught by Sheldon Cottrell, who ran back and claimed a top catch at 6-1 in 1.3 overs. Shai Hope and Hemraj then joined forces, but found it difficult to find the boundaries at regular in tervals. The duo took the score to 41-1 in the power play and featured in a 69run stand. Hemraj depart ed when he was trapped leg-before by Sri Lankan spinner Akila Dananjaya at 75-2 after 11.2 overs. Hemraj, who was not at his fluent best, made 43 from 38 balls, an innings that in cluded four boundaries and one six. Hope continued to struggle to score quickly as he departed four runs later for a 27-ball 20, which had a solitaryHeinrichsix. Klaasen (10) and Shepherd (03) fell quickly and Warriors were reduced to 105-5 in 15.3 overs. The Warriors Captain then came in and showed his class, enter tain ing the handful of specta tors with his brisk 46 from 21 balls. He slammed four sixes and one four in the Warriors' top score. Odean Smith made an unbeaten 17 from 16 balls, as he also found it difficult to clear the ropes.Warriors ended on 162-6 in 20 overs. Dananjaya was the pick of the bowlers with 2-28 in four overs, while Jansen had 2-37. The Warriors’ next oppo nent will be the home team, St Lucia Kings on Saturday, September 10 from 19:00h at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground.
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