WHAT'S INSIDE: Issue No. 5129 Nationwide coverage from the best news team in Guyana THE BEACON OF TRUTH guyanatimesgy.com PRICE $100 VAT INCLUDEDMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2022 Page2 Page9 PP1211P11P2P10Page3…150 land titles to be issued by year end …drilling begins today Nearly $200M in road upgrades for Mocha Arcadia Exxon exploring for oil in new Banjo-1 well in Stabroek Block8000 more house lots to bebydistributedyearendLonegunmanrobsNAshoppingcentreSwimmingcoachonbailforwoundingTaxidrivernabbedwithillegalgun,ammoremanded2ECDmenslappedwithDUIchargesTeachercommendsretiredexcavatoroperatorwhohelpedpreparegrandsonforNGSA …“teachers can only do so much”, parents need to help – father of top student …Education Ministry launches investigation “I’m tired!” – student on alleged abuse, discrimination by teachers, students over sexualityGranger to be left alone as head of the list for now – Norton …says status quo works; does not want to “pick a fight” Teen fixing skidder wheel dies after tyre explodes President Dr Irfaan Ali and other Cabinet members commissioning the rehabilitated “Burnham Boulevard” road in Mocha Arcadia See story on page 9 See story on page 7 P8
“It’s not an issue I would want to make an issue of. So far, when the party makes their nomi nations and send them to Mr Granger, he has act ed and there are people in Parliament now who we’ve identified, sent to the rep
for appointing MPs, the Speaker of the National Assembly is required to write the Representative of the List, who then writes the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) identifying the names of the persons on the candi date list of the party to be extracted to fill the seats.
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Henry, who served as Education Minister un der the David Granger Administration, had an nounced her resignation as a parliamentarian in February, to make way for Norton to join the National Assembly and be appoint ed Opposition butforweeksformallyNationaltentionheParliament.wouldhadthesteppedPNCingthisOppositionresignedMeanwhile,Leader.HarmonasLeaderofonJanuary26year,followingmountpressurefromthenewExecutive.ThoughhedownasLeaderofOpposition,HarmonindicatedthatheremainaMemberofButinMarch,alsoannouncedhis“intoresign”fromtheAssembly,anddidsoabouttwolater.HarmonhadcontestedleadershipofthePNC,losttoNortonwho
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supermarket in New Amsterdam, Region Six (East BerbiceCorentyne), was on Sunday afternoon robbed by a lone gunman.Reports are that the suspect went into Easy Shopping Enterprise and Document Centre and picked up a few items from the shelves and proceeded
to the 14-year-old cashier. He reportedly pulled out a handgun, pointed it at the cashier and demand ed cash.The teenager handed over $50,000. The bandit then escaped with the mon ey and the items which he picked up from the shelves. The Police are investi gating. (G4)
Lone gunman robs NA shopping centre
won by a landslide victo ry last year. Granger, who was the immediate past Leader of the PNCR, did not contest for re-election. In fact, neither Harmon nor Granger was elected to the Central Executive Committee of the PNC –the highest decision-mak ing body of the party.
Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton
he current sta tus quo, where by Aubrey Norton is leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and the Opposition but former President David Granger is the Representative of the List, is one that Norton is prepared to leave intact.
tary Opposition, while the joinder list - comprising A New and United Guyana (ANUG); the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) and The New Movement (TNM) - occupies the re maining seat. The govern ing People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) holds a one-seat majority in the 65-seat House, having won 33 seats. (G3)
Easy Shopping Enterprise and Document Centre
The Opposition Leader made this comment during a recent appearance on Globespan, where the con trast was pointed out to him. According to Norton, however, the arrangement currently works and he is unwilling to rock the boat.
Granger to be left alone as head of the list for now – Norton …says status quo works; does not want to “pick a fight”
Representative of the List, former President David Granger
resentative of the list and he acted in the correct way. They are there in Parliament.”Thisislikely a ref erence to himself and Volda Lawrence. They were extracted from the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) list of can didates in April of this year and sworn in as new Members of Parliament, to replace Joseph Harmon and Nicolette Henry. As Norton put it, there is no need for him to “pick a fight”.“And I don’t believe there is need for me to pick a fight on every issue or any issue at this stage, unless something happens to suggest the will of the party wouldn’t be man ifest. I would use other methods to achieve our ob jective,” Norton said.
The APNU/AFC Opposition accounts for 31 of the 32-seat parliamen
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Norton was elected as Opposition Leader in April, following his swear ing-in as a Member of Parliament (MP) by Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs, under the watchful eyes of Speaker of the House, Manzoor Nadir.The Representative of the List of Candidates is a critical position, since their cooperation is nec essary when selecting persons to fill seats in the National Assembly. According to the process
Monday, Sept 12 – 05:25h – 06:55h and Tuesday, Sept 13 – 06:05h – 07:35h.
lights installed in the com munity. In fact, he related that as soon as in two weeks’ time, they will see new lights along the roads to en hanceMoreover,security.the Head of State outlined that Culture Youth and Sport Minister Charles Ramson Jr, who was also present at the out reach on Sunday, will re turn to Mocha with his tech nical team to assess the playground at the Mocha Primary School.
WEATHER TODAY
BRIDGE OPENINGS
There will be sunshine during the day. Expect partly cloudy skies at night. Temperatures should range between 22 degrees Celsius and 31 degrees Celsius.
High Tide: 17:54h reaching a maximum height of 2.78 metres.
The Demerara Harbour Bridge will be closed to vehicular traffic on:
Monday, Sept 12 – 03:45 –05:15h and Tuesday, Sept 13 – 04:00h – 05:30h.
Residents of Mocha Arcadia and sur rounding sections of the East Bank Demerara (EBD) community will be benefiting from major infra structural upgrades - espe cially its roadways - to the tune of almost $200 million.
The Guyanese leader also promised concerned res idents that his Government will work on having street
Nearly $200M in road upgrades for Mocha Arcadia
The signing of one of the contracts on Sunday for additional road upgrades in Mocha Arcadia
In response, President Ali assured that that a team of engineers will be sent to the village to conduct an as sessment. “They'll give us a report and once that report comes in, we'll see to have some of those roads included in the new budgetary cycle [next year],” he stated.
President Dr Irfaan Ali addressing residents of Mocha on Sunday
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
This was revealed during an official visit by President Dr Irfaan Ali, who commis sioned the newly rehabili tated Burnham Boulevard in Mocha on Sunday. A res ident had written the Head of State informing him of the deplorable state of the roads in the community, especially during the rainy season.
Winds: West South-Westerly to Northerly between 1.78 metres and 4.91 metres.
“So, together with those two [contracts] and Burnham Boulevard and Grace Avenue that we just repaved as well, it’s about $192 million that we’ve put into the community so far. So, we continue to work with you… [But] all I'm ask ing is that we care the road,” Minister within the Public Works Ministry, Deodat Indar,Indar,stated.who was among several Cabinet Ministers and other Government of ficials joining the Head of State on the visit, further indicated that works for the two road upgrades will commence soon and he en couraged the contractors to ensure that they source ser vices and resources such as labour from within the com munity.Additionally, during the engagement with the
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Months later, tenders were issued and a contractor selected to rebuild Burnham Boulevard, which had not been upgraded for decades. This project cost $59 million.
In fact, two contracts were signed for road rehabil itation in the area. The first contract was for upgrades to
President Ali joined pu pils from the Mocha Primary School to declare the up graded road after which he had an outreach with resi dents, who were informed of additionally works to be car ried out in the community.
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…150 land titles to be issued by year end
Low Tide: 11:31h and 23:48h reaching minimum heights of 0.46 metre and 0.41 metre.
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President and his team, Mocha residents also asked for upgrades to the currently deplorable Section B Road.
the Barnwell North Road to the tune of $46.2 million for over 400 meters of works. Another contract, val ued $49.1 million was also signed on Sunday for 400 meters of Cemetery Road, which is an extension of Burnham Boulevard, to be upgraded to concrete road.
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Nor was the Queen the only mon arch around. In 1960, Coronation Street began and with it the reign of Ena Sharples and Elsie Tanner. People are always going on about how the Queen gave the Beatles their MBEs. But to me, there is even more joy to be found in the fact that she awarded Violet Carson, who played Sharples for 20 years, an OBE.We all know what followed thereaf ter: progress, in short. And through it
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A feminist? Perhaps not. But the Queen helped to show women what was possible
past is sometimes less of a foreign country than you might imagine. On Friday morning, when my husband wondered aloud if we should get a new television “for the funeral” (ours is comically small), my mind turned not to the John Lewis web site, but to the coronation, the genera tions connected, even now, by the allure of an outside broadcast.
President Dr Irfaan Ali participated in the beach volleyball at Mainstay/Whyaka on Saturday afternoon during the village’s Amerindian Heritage celebrations. The volleyball game was with members of his staff from the Press and Publicity, Protocol and Presidential Guards departments (OP photo)
Queen’s College was founded not coincidentally in 1847 for boys and Bishops’ in 1870 for girls by the Anglican Church to cater to the educational needs of the elite to run the Civil Service or enter “the professions”. The Portuguese indentured labourers quickly decamped the plantations to establish businesses in Georgetown and their Church formed the Catholic Grammar School in 1866 which grew into St Stanislaus College by 1907. Their nuns formed St Rose’s High School as early as 1847 for females. It is a shame that even though all schools were nationalised in 1976, all schools have not been raised to the same level and these schools are still considered the premier schools that receive the top performers of the NGSA from across the entire country.
Finally, we must now aim for all students to complete at least three CAPE subjects for matriculation.
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Some years ago, the Ministry of Education (MoE) had announced that it was going to rectify this situation by bringing all secondary schools across the country to the same standards in terms of qualified personnel and equipment. Primary schools would then send their graduates to the nearest secondary school. That such an approach is feasible is demonstrated in the performance of a Government secondary school –Anna Regina Multilateral School (ARMS) – and a private secondary school – Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) –over the last few years. The MoE should craft a plan –including a timeline – for equalising the resources of all secondary schools. All secondary schools must offer a CAPE
a significant marker on the road to sec ond wave feminism.
all, the Queen was there, looking on. If it is, as many believe, a blessing to have a Head of State who does not express political opinions, then how much more propitious if that figurehead is also a woman. At first, this had to do with rar ity value; at least there was always one female in the official photographs. But down the decades, her gender was, in my eyes, a valuable thing in itself.
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NGSA, which offers four subjects – English, Maths, Social Studies and Science – for assessment of the performance of our children, the results in Mathematics continue to be abysmal – more than half of the graduates fail the exam. This has been going on for far too long, and there have been several interventions, which have obviously also failed. The MoE will have to keep on working on this. Finally, the NGSA must be used for what it was designed: identify strengths and weaknesses of the students entering our secondary schools, where appropriate attention can be provided.Inthe equalised, CAPE-equipped secondary schools there should be a complete overhaul of the curriculum to cater for the new economy and lifestyles in the globalised world that we are entering. Take, for instance, the “Humanities” subjects which the colonial state gave much attention: in the developed countries, these are being jettisoned exponentially. The focus must be on the subjects that are technologically oriented and those that train graduates to actually work with both their hands and brains. The old colonial disparagement of working with one’s hands must be reversed. “Practical” subjects must not be viewed as only suitable for those who cannot excel academically.
The first decade of the Queen’s reign was replete with firsts for wom en, though some choose not to remem ber this now. In 1955, Dame Evelyn Sharp was appointed the first female Permanent Secretary (at the Ministry of Housing) and Barbara Mandell be came the first woman to read the news on ITN. Three years later, in 1958, Hilda Harding became Britain’s first female bank manager (at a branch of Barclays in Mayfair) and following the passing of the Life Peerages Act, three women took their seats in the House of Lords: Barbara Wootton, the crim inologist; Stella Isaacs, the founder of the Women’s Voluntary Service; and Katharine Elliot, the Conservative pol itician.
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he dust is settling down from the reactions to the results of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), and the CXC’s CSEC and CAPE exams released last week. Rather than parsing the specific performances, some comments on the form and content of those exams are in order. The passing of Queen Elizabeth II should remind us of their provenance – Britain, which ruled us from the beginning of the 19th Century. The Christian missionaries, in charge of the educational system from the beginning, generally modified the contents of the curricula to help ensure that the newly-freed slaves and the indentured labourers who replaced them in the plantations (which were the raison d'être for the colony) saw that the order in the colony were “for their own good”, since they were being tutored for their own upliftment.
It may be true that for many people, the 1960s began, as they did for Philip Larkin, in 1963, the year Friedan pub lished The Feminine Mystique. It was, however, a decade earlier that things, in terms of equality, started to change dramatically, a shift facilitated by the important work they did in the war, just like the Queen (she had joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, where she trained as a mechanic).
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The adroit way she wielded her in fluence, if not her power – dealing calm ly and delicately with male egos, for instance – was a lesson some of us ab sorbed, almost from childhood, by some strange form of osmosis. Is it fanciful to suggest that, like most women, she learned to work around the obstacles thrown up by sexism? To do what she could rather than worry about what she couldn’t? Even if it is fanciful, the thought is encouraging. “Funny busi ness, a woman’s career,” says Margo Channing, the character played by Bette Davis in “All About Eve”, that great film of 1950. Projection, in any case, is half of the point of monarchy. As I wrote at the time of the platinum jubilee, in the absence of facts, we made the Queen what we wanted her to be; her personality was ours to create. And here, perhaps, she scored again by be ing a woman, in full possession of the subtle emollience and extreme capa bility and stoicism I associate with my grandmothers and many of my female friends and which feels so reassuringly steady.Awriter in one of our more republi can-inclined journals suggests that the media, with its talk of broken hearts and bewildered crowds, has turned her death into a mere concatenation of our larger feelings, something to which he objects. But isn’t it supposed to be that? Wasn’t the Queen always a repository for our emotions? My own large feel ing, in a week in which a female Prime Minister decided not to appoint a min ister for women to her cabinet, is that we were lucky to have a Queen for so long; that even if (unlikely) he takes to reading Laura Bates or Caroline Criado Perez, a king won’t be half so important to women in a world in which things are still hard against us and likely to grow ever more so in the years to come. (The Guardian)(Rachel Cooke is an Observer colum nist)
In 1953, the question of how and where events at Westminster Abbey might be watched was, for most of the population, somewhat pressing. As the year began, fewer than two million peo ple owned a television set.
In other ways, it’s unrecognisable, for all that my parents inhabited it. If every one of the more than 500,000 TV sets sold in the six months before the coronation told a story of aspiration, for many women this stretched far beyond the material. When she was crowned, they could not take out mortgages in their own name, nor could they be fitted with a diaphragm without producing a marriage certificate. No wonder, then, that so many were half in love with the new Queen. Her youth, her beauty, her glamour. What might these things mean? Was a different future about to become possible?
In 1953, a girl had plenty more to think about than what kind of gown Norman Hartnell might be designing. Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex had been published in English for the first time and female teachers such as Miss Moss had been recommended for equal pay. When the press referred to the New Elizabethans, it didn’t only mean men such as Nye Bevan and Henry Moore. It was a generation that included Barbara Ward, the econo mist; Rose Heilbron, the QC; Alison Smithson, the architect, and Sheila van Damm, the rally car driver and theatre manager.
Her spell fell not only on women like Miss Prudence Moss, a Wirral teach er whose new Pye tabletop set cost her more than 10 per cent of her salary, but even on those who might ordinari ly have been more cynical (or less roy alist). In her memoir The Centre of the Bed, Joan Bakewell, then a Cambridge undergraduate, recalls the dreamy ef fect its prospect had on her circle: “… a woman on the throne and one not much older than ourselves. There was a sense of light-heartedness about that: it felt, well, sort of contemporary, the turn of ourItgeneration.”wouldbepreposterous to describe the Queen as feminist. If she ever ut tered the word, it is not recorded; in The Uncommon Reader, the novella by Alan Bennett in which the Queen dis covers the charms of a mobile library, he has her reading Anita Brookner and Thomas Hardy, but no Betty Friedan or Germaine Greer (a story has to be be lievable, after all). But this isn’t to say that her ascension to the throne wasn’t
Workplace incidents
will be extended to all chil dren, including children living with disabilities, but also to make the per sons who are providing the service more comfortable to cater for and cope with children living with dis abilities and also to put the parents’ mind at ease that when they are taking their children to these facilities, they will have persons who are capable of looking after their undergoegoryerytheing‘hodgepodge’toforefront,organisationsAgencyChildingNetworkInnovationtomentumes,goals,withThechildren.”overallprogramme,itsloftyandnecessaryisinitsincipientstagandweneedtolendmoandgivesupporttheMinistry’sWomenandInvestment(WIIN)trainprogramme,andtheCareandProtection(CC&PA),asthesewillbeattheandaccordingtheMinister,nothingwillbetakplace.Thisisbecausewomeninvolvedatevstageandineverycatofworkwillhavetocomprehensive
Dear Editor, Plaudits for the Human Services and Social Security Minister, Dr Vindhya Persaud, who is at it again. This time, in con tinuing to tread unchar tered and ignored territo ries, she is talking about the “Safe Space” facility to accommodate children liv ing with disabilities. The good news is that services will be available 24h dai ly, so that parents and guardians of children liv ing with disabilities, “… can rest assured of their children’s safety while at work … (Why? It’s because of) … the extension of the Government’s “safe space” day and night care facili ty. This is big and must be heralded.You see Editor, the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report summary on disabilities and education is an in sightful read. It speaks to issues related to children living with disabilities and education. And I am happy that Guyana is addressing
“Build and upgrade edu cation facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, nonviolent, inclusive and effective learning environ ments for all.”
Dear Editor, Two recent workplace incidents are worthy of com ment. In the first incident, it has to be queried why was it not recognised cash on hand was vast and the need for the security agen cy to clear before the sched uled time? To have millions of dollars on hand at that time of night was reckless and a security/safety haz ard.It is hoped all who suf fered during this terrible ordeal will overcome soon enough.The second incident
I repeat, based on what I have just stated, that all commendations are in or der as the “safe space” care initiative was conceptual ised by the Human Services and Social Security Minister, “… to protect the nation’s children while cre ating avenues for women to be gainfully employed”. So, it is a double blessing.
I remind all Guyana that it is a mark of prog ress that the new educa tion goal in the Sustainable Development Agenda con tains a reference to disabil ity in two Targets; first, “By 2030, eliminate gen der disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, includ ing persons with disabil ities, Indigenous peoples and children in vulnera ble situations,” and second,
ShamshunSincerely, Mohamed
“Safe Space” facility (ies) in the making
cognisant that “The UN Secretary General has said that “… no person should be denied access to good quality education and life long learning due to factors such as disability.”
training, catering to all the children’s needs, and so in the end, we will have “… trained and licensed child care providers, registered with the agency…” doing the actual work.
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I am glad to note too that the initiative is also part of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic’s 2020-2025 manifesto in which there is a commitment towards “… empowering women and taking care of children and vulnerable groups and en couraging and assisting in the establishment of daycare centres for working women in the social sector.”
Minister Persaud de tailed that “The day-care and night care facilities
highlighted another work place death, where a tyre exploded, killing a labourer. From the report, it was stated the labourer was “airing up a skidder tyre. He was using an air com pressor from a motor lorry when the tyre exploded”. It has to be wondered just how skilled, experienced and knowledgeable the labourer was to undertake and exe cute this task?
Even as all of this plan ning and training are un folding, we need to be
Yours truly, H Singh
Overall, the report states that “Disability is strong ly linked with poverty and marginalisation (and) chil dren and youth with dis abilities are among the most marginalised, exclud ed people in the world.”
My condolences to the grieving family.
the matter. In fact, what we need to internalise is that any failure to address inequalities, stigmatisa tion and discrimination, linked to wealth, gender, ethnicity, language, loca tion and disability is hold ing back progress towards quality education for all.
Think up a slogan you would like to have on your T-shirt. Dip a stick or your finger in the mud and write your slogan on the shirt.
By The BroThers Grimm
What you need: blank T-shirt (white or light colour) old newspapers 4-5 handfuls of dirt
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Place several layers of newspapers inside the shirt to keep the mud from soaking through to the back of the shirt.
In a bowl, mix the dirt with water to make mud that is about as thick as paint.
You can also coat items such as leaves and sticks with mud and use them to make prints on the shirt.
WORD SEARCH Page Foundation 6 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2022 ◄ 1) (– 12 ) + 4 = 2) ( – 15) + 19 = 3) (– 8) + 12 + 12 + (– 8) = 4) 56 + (– 28) = 5) 120 + (– 33) + 17 6) 61 + ( – 45) + ( – 3) = 7) ( – 20) + ( – 20) + 6 = 8) 75 + (– 57) + 1 = Exercises: Solve Adding with negative numbers THE END
and leaves (optional)
What you do:
Let your artwork dry. Shake off any caked-on mud before proudly wearing your dirt shirt. The design will fade in the wash. But you can reapply! (rangerrick.org)
Celebrate the earth, make a dirt shirt!
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The MODU Noble Stena DrillMax is currently be ing used in this drilling ex ercise, which will last from
that are expected for 2022. Additionally, the Natural Resource Fund (NRF), housed at the New York Federal Reserve Bank, re flected a closing balance of US$845 million as of July.
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Back in April 2022, for the first time in Guyana’s short oil production history, it had had as many as two oil lifts in one month, with lifts from the Liza Destiny and Liza Unity FPSO ves sels crossing paths.
…drilling begins today
and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), is pres ently continuing its drilling for oil in the Banjo-1, a new well in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana.
ExxonMobil has said it anticipated at least six proj ects offshore Guyana would be online by 2027, with de velopmental drilling recent ly starting on the second one, the Liza Phase 2 proj ect. Production has already started in the second phase, with the Liza Unity FPSO vessel in operation.
September 12 to November 30, 2022. Mariners were warned to stay clear of the vessels being used for the exercise and navigate with “extreme caution” whenever in theThevicinity.Banjo-1 well site, ac cording to MARAD, is situ ated approximately 93.4 nautical miles (173 kilome tres) off Guyana’s coast, cov ering an area of 0.29 square nautical miles (1 square ki lometre).Backin June, it was re ported that EEPGL was looking to ramp up pro duction on the Liza Unity Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) ves sel four months after startup, by starting up new
In March, Natural Resources Minister Vickram Bharrat had explained that the country got approxi mately US$95 million for the previous lift. And with Brent crude prices averag ing US$120 per barrel at that time, Guyana would have ended up making over US$100 million for each lift, if both lifts were completed in April.The historically high oil prices (oil prices have not exceeded US$100 on the global market since 2014) are part of the fall out from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Brent crude is currently averaging around US$100.Guyana, with US oil gi
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The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) announced in a Notice to Mariners that EEPGL is continuing ex ploration drilling opera tions at the Banjo-1 well site “within the Stabroek Block of Guyana’s Exclusive Economic Zone”.
The third project – the
ant ExxonMobil as the oper ator, began producing oil on December 20, 2019, in the Stabroek Block. The first-ev er payment of US$54.9 mil lion for an oil lift was re ceived in February 2020.
ExxonMobil makes weekly lifts, Guyana’s crude entitle ment of one million barrels occurs monthly from the two FPSOs. The Natural Resources Ministry has said that Guyana is expected to get 12 lifts for the year. This comes from the over 90 million barrels of oil
wells.This is with the aim of the FPSO realising its full capacity of 220,000 bar rels per day (bpd) by the third quarter of this year. Production from both the Liza Unity and Destiny have since reached a com bined 340,000 barrels in to tal and weekly lifts are be ingWhilerecorded.
Exxon exploring for oil in new Banjo-1 well in Stabroek Block
Payara Development – will meanwhile target an es timated resource base of about 600 million oil-equiv alent barrels, and was at one point considered to be the largest single planned investment in the history of Guyana.Meanwhile, the Yellowtail Development, which will be oil giant ExxonMobil’s fourth devel opment in Guyana’s waters, will be the single largest de velopment so far in terms of barrels per day of oil, with a mammoth 250,000 bpd tar geted. (G3)
The Stena DrillMax
But seems like the Pegasus is rising like the Phoenix from the ashes – and is about to regain bragging rights as “the best ole huh-tel in Guyana”!! Your Eyewitness just saw the announcement of a rather posh restaurant going up at the ground floor of the massive, black-rock modern that now complements the still distinctive, avant-garde polygonal structure that was the Peg. He can’t wait for the opening!!
According to the Police, after being arrested, the driver told the ranks that he had bought the firearm in the interior for his protec tion. As such, he was taken into custody at the East La Penitence Police Station and later prosecuted. (G1)
Dexter Thompson of East La Penitence, Georgetown, appeared before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly on Friday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Taxi driver nabbed with illegal gun, ammo remanded
ome might’ve thought that Pres Ali’s “Silica City” announcement two years ago was just a gimmick. But it should now be clear that unlike Burnham –who talked about having a new city on higher ground in the then North West District – this president isn’t just full of ideas like the departed dictator. Ali isn’t a “talk man” like his predecessor, but a “do man”!! It appears that Pres Ali has long nurtured this dream – since 2013 when he was Minister of Housing, to be exact. Maybe that’s the reason he did his PhD dissertation at UWI on urban planning?? And now that he’s got the authority to make his dream a reality he’s going full steam ahead!! Silica City here we come!!!
Thompson, who denied both charges, was remanded to prison.
So what makes Silica City right – apart from its alliterative ease on the tongue!? Well, it’s far from the madding crowd (and stench!) of Georgetown, but being near CJIA, it’s actually as close as you can get to the international investment crowd we’re trying to attract into our country!! And with the Highway to Lethem soon to be completed, it’s closer to both Linden and that behemoth in our south – Brazil – to which we’ll be strengthening our trading links!! Silica City’s also gonna be closer to the Intermediate Savannahs where we’re diversifying our agricultural base away from sugar and rice!!
Unrepresented by le gal counsel, he appeared be fore Senior Magistrate Leron Daly in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts and pleaded guilty to the follow ing offences: having a .38 revolver when he is not a licensed firearm holder; hav ing five matching rounds of ammunition, and having spent shells.
Meanwhile, last month, William Ramsey, a 38-yearold taxi driver of B Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown, who was nabbed by the Police with an illegal firearm and ammunition, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.
taxi driv er was remanded to prison after he was al legedly caught with an ille gal firearm and ammunition.
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It was further alleged that on the same day at the said location, while not li
censed to carry a firearm, he had three .38 live ammuni tion in his possession.
Jailed: William Ramsey
The ranks searched the driver and discovered the revolver with the matching rounds on his person. Asked if he was the holder of a fire arm licence, the driver re sponded in the negative, and as such was arrested.
What can you lose but the power to be crippled by strikes??!!
The prosecutor’s facts re vealed that at around 01:25h on the day in question, ranks on a Police patrol observed Thompson liming near a ho
He was arrested with the items on August 22 at Mandela Avenue in Georgetown.
A clip of a stadium of Irish football fans singing “Lizzie in a box” to the tune of KC and the Sunshine Band's hit song, “Give It Up” went viral upon hearing of the passing of Queen Elizabeth.
The President just reiterated the incentives that are available for “pioneers” as we begin to “bust open” our interior!! Now your Eyewitness feels we gotta speak frankly to those who’ll soon be hollering “discrimination!!” when Silica City’s off and running. Let them apply NOW for housing or business – or whatever – permits!! And if they don’t, too late shall be the cry!! Linden with its Opposition supporters are in the best position to take advantage of this opportunity – and the PNC should encourage and organise this initiative!!
Your Eyewitness is from the generation that remembers when the Pegasus (the “Peg” to insiders, thank you!!) was the pride of the GT crowd!! Hanging out at poolside, wolfing down hors d'oeuvre as discreetly as possible – while quaffing some cold Banks with Sly and the Family Stones crooning in the background – was the height of cool!! Anyhow, time and tide wait for no man – and evidently no hotel!! The edifice, where Elizabeth II had slept (Is there a sign “Lizzie slept here” in the room??) fell on hard times.
Remanded: Dexter Thompson
…back to #1?
Can he recapture some of that ole time feelin’?!!
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Now, there’s many reasons why Ali’s locational choice is so appropriate. First of all, there’s the question of practicality: which investors and pioneers were going to move all the way to the now Region 1 to set up a new city?? Jim Jones II?? Hasn’t the Government been trying with Mabaruma for the longest while? Let’s face it – that idea wasn’t sustainable – like most of Burnham’s big ideas – and that’s why it never got off the ground – pun intended!! The time will come for Reg 1 to have its city – but not now!!
But your Eyewitness has a suggestion for Pres Ali. Why not move the Government’s administrative infrastructure to Silica City. That’s what Brazil did when they created Brasilia in the middle of the Amazon during the 1960s!!
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There, two charges were read to the accused.
The first charge alleged that on September 6 at Robb Street, Georgetown, he had a .38 revolver in his possession when he was not the holder of a firearm licence.
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tel and approached him.
Ramsey had told the court that he bought the fire arm and ammunition while he was in the interior a few months ago. He claimed that he bought the gun for his protection because he was robbed while working. After considering Ramsey’s early guilty plea, Magistrate Daly sentenced him to two years in prison on each of the three charges, and ordered that the jail times run concurrently.
Reports are that Police ranks, acting on informa tion received, went to Norton Street and Mandela Avenue, Georgetown, at about 06:30h on the day in question, and intercepted a white Toyota 212 motor car with registra tion number HB 9112, which was being driven by Ramsey.
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Police ranks then searched his person and found the gun in the crotch of his pants. Questioned by the ranks if he was licensed to carry the firearm, the taxi driver responded in the neg ative, telling them that he bought the gun for his pro tection.
read.When contacted on Sunday, Education Minister Priya Manickchand said that the matter was brought to her attention and an in vestigation has been launched.“Assoon as I saw it, I asked my staff to get on top of it, to investigate…so, they are investigating the issue,” sheShesaid.also said that upon the completion of the inves tigation she will receive a report and the matter will be dealt with from there. (G9)
This newspaper was told that the teen along with his father, 43-year-old Hemant Kumar Daonarine, worked at the logging con cession which is owned by a businessman of Crabwood Creek,DaonarineCorentyne.told investi
The man recalled that the teenager was airing up a skidder tyre using an air compressor from a mo tor lorry, when the tyre ex ploded, causing him to be flung about 15 feet into the air.Henry then reportedly fell onto the ground and be cameDaonarinemotionless.said that his son’s entire face received injuries, his right hand was broken and blood was flow ing out from his mouth.
Teen fixing skidder wheel dies after tyre explodes
gators that at the time of the incident, he was about 40 feet away from his son.
Berbice, Region Six labourer is now dead after the tyre he was changing on a skidder ex ploded.Dead is 17-year-old Urick Glen Henry of Evelyn Landing, Corentyne River, Region Six (East BerbiceCorentyne).Reportsare that the in cident occurred on Friday at a logging concession at Evening Creek, which is about 300 miles up the Corentyne River.
The Education Ministry has launched an in vestigation into the allegations of discrimi nation and abuse made by a fifth form student of a Georgetown secondary school.
makes derogatory remarks at me anytime he sees me in and out of the classroom, and when reports are made to the HM [Head Mistress] I’m not given satisfaction.”
The fifth form student in a social media post detailed what he described as “five years of torture” and his “worst nightmare” as he al leged that he has been con stantly abused by his peers and teachers because of his sexuality.InaFacebook post on Friday, the student shared
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Dead: 17-year-old Urick Glen Henry
“I’m tired!” – student on alleged abuse, discrimination by teachers, students over sexuality
“I’m being told that if my name wasn’t called it wasn’t for me. I can vividly remem ber my sir coming into my classroom saying ‘I’m not teaching no auntyman’ loud in front of the classroom and I was“Recently,humiliated.”asof yester
…Education Ministry launches investigation
The teen also alleged that a particular teacher had refused to teach him be cause of his sexuality.
day [Friday], around 10:30 am I was physically abused by a classmate for no appar ent reason. I’m tired of being abused and misused in that school, I’m just praying for the couple more months to sweep by so I can write my exams and get out of there. The Ministry needs to look into situations like this.”
a video recording of him sit ting at his desk, when an other student walked up to him and cuffed him in the face.The teen said that was not the first time he was physically assaulted at the school, and despite mak ing several reports, they all went“Myunanswered.schoollife is like the worst nightmare ever. I’m being abused physical ly, mentally, and verbally by both teachers and stu dents because of my sexu ality. I’m tired! There’s this specific male teacher who
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“I’m not asking no one to like me or let me be their fa vourite but just let me live and be at peace like every one other student,” the post
Henry was escorted to Skeldon Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on Policearrival.areinvestigating. (G4)
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Persons awaiting their house lot allocations during the Building Expo
It is expected that a fur ther 8000 lots will be dis tributed by the end of the year.”“A total of 449 land ti tles and transports were issued in the first half of 2022, and an addition al 5600 are scheduled for the second half of the year, bringing the projected to tal to 6049, exceeding the 6000 land titles and trans ports targeted for issue in 2022,” the report stated.
“Approximately 10 ki lometres of roads were up graded in existing hous ing areas at Uitvlugt, Belle West, La Parfaite Harmonie, Herstelling, Ordinance Fortlands, Bath, Balthyock, Good Hope, Mon Repos, Section D Non Pareil, Tuschen and pletedtionelectricitytheacrossstreetlampsAdditionally,Onderneeming.750LEDwereinstalledthecountryduringfirsthalfoftheyear.”“Theinstallationofanddistribunetworkswerecomat12housingareas
Work was also complet ed on 25 core homes at La Parfaite Harmonie in the first half of the year, while another 25 are slated for construction by the end of the year. In the Sophia Housing Area, 25 core homes are currently be ing constructed, while con struction of a further 25 is expected to commence by year-end.
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“Additionally, the con struction of another 21 core homes is expected to commence by the end of the year, along the East Bank and East Coast of Demerara. Also, con struction was complet ed for 100 low-income homes at Hampshire/ Williamsburg, 150 mod erate-income homes at Cummings Lodge, and 125 houses for young profes sionals at Providence and Prospect, in the first half of the year,” the report ex plained.Itwas explained that
in order to accelerate Government's “Dream Realised” housing drive, the CH&PA launched a home construction assis tance programme during the first half of the year in Regions 3, 4, 6 and 10 with the aim of providing access to financing for persons building their own homes. In the first half of the year, 399 persons registered for assistance.“Thisprogramme allows applicants to choose from three pre-designed units at a cost of $7 million, $9 million or $12 million, and pre-qualify for loans with financial institutions such as Republic Bank and New Building Society to meet the cost of next50,000toingmadePPP/Cportthesubsidiesquarter,bevaluedimprovementofplannedprovementtribution“Additionally,construction.”thedisof800homeimsubsidiesisforthesecondhalftheyear,with121homesubsidies,at$60.5milliontodistributedinthethirdandafurther679beforetheendoffourthquarter,”therestates.Sincetakingoffice,theGovernmenthasitclearthatitisaimtofulfilitsmanifespromiseofdistributinghouselotsoverthefiveyears.
in Regions Three, Four and Six, with similar works in 14 new housing areas slat ed for the second half of the year,” the mid-year re port also said.
Centralthroughovernment,theHousing and Planning Authority (CH&PA), distributed al most 2000 house lots during the first six months of the year and is projected to distribute a further 8000 house lots by this year end. This is according to the Ministry of Finance 2022 Mid-Year Report, which states that in the first half of the year, 1843 house lots were distributed. This means that since the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) entered of fice in 2020, they have al located 11,680 house lots.
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It was explained that of the $11 billion allocated to continue infrastructure works in CH&PA hous ing areas, the sum of $7.4 billion was spent during the review period. To this end, infrastructural works are ongoing in housing ar eas in Regions Two, Three, Four, Five, Six and 10.
“In the first half of 2022, Government expend ed $8.1 billion of the $12.4 billion allocated to further develop the housing sector.
8000 more house lots to be distributed by year end
…$8.1B spent in 1st half of 2022 on housing development
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say he is knowledgeable because sometimes when I am teaching the child would tell me that he knows that already. A few times when the grandfa ther comes to the school, I will make jokes with him and tell him that he might have to come and help me with the classroom be cause he is knowledgeable,
“From 6 o’clock I would get him up with his books,” he said.Parents’ involve ment in their children’s performance has been on more than one oc casion emphasised by Education Minister Priya phasisedManickchand.Parents’involvementThishasbeenreembythefatherof
charged if, when tested, their blood alcohol content is found to exceed the pre scribed limit of 35 micro grams of alcohol in 100 mil lilitres of breath, and their blood alcohol concentration exceeds 80 milligrams of al cohol in 100 millilitres of blood.Two weeks ago, two per sons were arrested and charged for allegedly driv ing while they were above the prescribed alcohol limit.
A retired excavator operator was the main person assist ing his grandson Martin Jagmohan of Rose Hall Estate Primary to be one of the top students at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) with 513 marks and being in the top one per cent of the country.Martin also placed sec ond for Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).Accordingtothe Rose Hall Estate Primary stu dent, who wants to become a doctor, his grandfather was very instrumental in his “Hesuccess.aided me by help ing me with the newer stuff like the new Math formula,” Martin who was
Charged: Bheesham Persaud Charged: Vishnu Bickram
I can say that,” Ms Arjune said.According to the 63-year-old Jagmohan, he was expecting Martin to gain a place at QC, not ing that even though Math has changed since his days at school, the concepts re main the “Modernsame.Math is not much different. I under stand it quickly, it’s not difficult so I always boost him up and give him some corrections,” Jagmohan said, adding that he is more than happy that he is now retired, affording him the time to assist his grandson with his studies as he prepared for NGSA.
awarded a place at Queen’s College (QC) said.
2 ECD men slapped with DUI charges
According to the child, he was aiming for a spot at the Berbice High School (BHS). His school teach er, Banmattie Arjune, said she was impressed with the support Martin’s grandfather provided.
They were Sachin Singh, 19, of Second
Charged are 42-yearold Vishnu Bickram of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD), and 32-year-old Bheesham Persaud of Third Street, Montrose, ECD.
Teacher commends retired excavator operator who helped prepare grandson for NGSA
“That grandfather is very dedicated and I would
Street, Belmonte, Mahaica, ECD, and 27-year-old Ryan Dabyram of Supply, Mahaica, ECD.
Police said Bickram was arrested at the Mon Repos Public Road, ECD, charged, and processed to attend the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court on riesinfluencefencetractsprescribedonMagistratetendPublicwasMeanwhile,Wednesday.PersaudarrestedatMontroseRoadandwillattheSparendaamCourt,ECD,alsoWednesday.Drivingwhileabovethealcohollimitatachargefortheofofdrivingunderthe(DUI)whichcarafine.Personscanbe
…“teachers can only do so much”, parents need to help – father of top student
raffic ranks on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) have arrested and charged two persons for driving while they were above the pre scribed alcohol limit.
Over the past few months, the Police Force has been advising persons to de sist from driving under the influence.Thiscomes on the heels of Police statistics showing that driving under the influ ence of alcohol and excessive speeding are the leading causes of accidents, includ ing fatal ones, in Guyana. (G9)
Region Six top NGSA per former Angelica Subryan, who along with two others gained 518 marks to hold the top spot ouringthatthanksworkthatexceptionaldid.thoseMinistrybytheworkedSubryan,Accordingnationally.toJermainehiswifeSharronwithAngelicaonworksheetsprovidedtheEducationMinistry.“WearegratefultotheforprovidingworksheetsthattheyHermotherplayedanroleduringperiodoftimetowithher.Imustsaytomywifeforbeingextrasupportanddotheteachingforbothofkidsduringthattime.”Hesaidparentsneedto
be supportive.“Everychild is differ ent; every child has their own ability. As parents, we need to be supportive and we need to put in the work at home; the teachers can only do so much. It makes a big difference when you work with them at home. Fortunately, my daughter has had that support all of the time and I think that is what made her excel the way she did,” the Guyana Power and Light employee said.Subryan is advising all parents to work hard at home with their children.
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Martin Jagmohan and his grandfather
Angelica Subryan with her parents Sharron and Jermaine Subryan
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charged with wounding follow ing an alleged assault on a woman has been granted bail. James Campbell, a swimming coach, appeared on Friday be fore Senior Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
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On bail: James Campbell
Campbell, a father of two, was also bonded to keep the peace.
The 54-year-old man pleaded not guilty to the charge which alleged that on August 25 in the Georgetown Magisterial District, he unlawfully and maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm on Roseann Chow. He was re leased on $60,000 bail.
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Swimming coach on bail for wounding charge
His case has been adjourned until September 30. (G1)
al technology that will give us higher yields with less land. Sometimes we love to know we own large plots of land, but the new form of agriculture is higher yields even with less land. In that way, we get more people involved [and] we get more young people involved.”
“Now that the plan and oc cupational surveys are com pleted, we have to now do the adjustments to fences and palls. Once that is completed, we are working to have these 150 households or pieces of land get the title before the end of the year,” the Guyanese leader stated.
Scores of Mocha Arcadia residents attended Sunday’s outreach with President Ali and his team
“We are going to start working on this ground with in six weeks or less,” the President committed after a teacher expressed the hope of using the facility for the up coming school sports. This, it was further explained, will also benefit the community sportTeachersteams. of the primary school, where Sunday’s out reach was held, also high lighted a number of issues which were addressed on the spot by the Head of State, who promised to provide electronic fans and two flatscreen smart TVs. He also said that a team from the Office of the Prime Minister will be dispatched to the school to fix the internet service there as well as anoth er team from the Education Ministry to explore expanding the building and also make provisions for students with disabilities as well as increas ing staff.
He also addressed ag ricultural issues as well as drainage and irrigation con cerns. The Head of State in formed Mocha residents that Government is working on the development of 100 acres of land for the area.
In the same breath, how ever, he outlined that the farmers in the community need to change the way they do things.“Wehave to also rethink our agricultural strategy. We have to use science, we have to use research, we have to use the new forms of agricultur
areas across the country, to extend this initiative to Mocha Arcadia.According to President Ali, these and other initia tive being rolled out by the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) Administration are not only geared towards ensuring the lives of all Guyanese improve but align with his “One Guyana” man tra.On this note, he urged per sons to not be swayed by nega tive influence especially by po litical players.
“Leave the politics out of this. Let the people work with us on the development of the people,” the President de clared in response to reports of the Opposition calling on res idents to boycott the meeting with him. (G8)
“So, agriculture is going to be a main area for economic activity here. We are going to work on a strategic food pro duction plan for you in this community,” the President disclosed.Tothis end, the Head of State said that he will ap proach Demerara Bank, which has been offering low-interest loans with no col lateral to farmers in certain
cy anywhere in this country stop me from bringing the peo ple along with me. No bureau cracy, nowhere will stop me. I will go, I will target and I will approach the people and I will bring the people and lift them up and lead them because the people of this country require leadership, the people of this country want us lead and we are going to lead with the peo ple, that is what we are going lead with the people.”
Nearly $200M in road upgrades for...
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In addition to infrastruc tural upgrades, President Ali also reassured residents that
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Government will be address ing their land titling concerns. He pointed out there are cur rently some 150 titles for land that are being processed. The plan and an occupational sur vey for these have already been completed, he noted.
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“I am working with every one… [and] most importantly, the people are coming along with me on this journey. I am not going to let any bureaucra
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In his Notice of Appeal against the Chief Justice’s ruling, Jones has advanced over 30 grounds in which he contends that she erred in law and wants the Court of Appeal of Guyana to set aside her entire ruling and award him costs. In a mo tion filed last week, Jones, through Roysdale Forde, SC, has asked the appellate court to exercise its discretion to permit and facilitate an early
“As in effect, they amount to the appointment of a per son to fill a position in what should be a temporary or holding situation. Thus, whether appointed to act or to perform the functions would amount to the same thing, a person would be per mitted to carry out the duties and responsibilities of the post,” she added.
Meanwhile, the Chief Justice had concluded in her ruling that, “There could be no disregard of and thereby a breach of the requirement for meaningful consultation when it was impossible to so engage. [Jones] therefore, is relying on an impossibility to ground the claim of unconsti tutionality…this application is vexatious and an abuse of the process of the court.”
Appointment of acting Top Cop Opposition files motion for “swift” hearing of appeal against CJ’s ruling
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Meanwhile, provisions for a person to act in the office of the Police Commissioner are outlined under Article 211 (2) of the Constitution, and the provisions contained in Article 211 (1), shall apply to such an appointment as they apply to the appointment of a person to hold that office.
to the office of Commissioner of Police was a temporary appointment is an improper conclusion as the said expla nation did not emanate from the President at the time of making the said appoint ment.”The appeal documents list Attorney General Anil Nandlall, SC, and acting Police Commissioner Hicken as the respondents.
AG Nandlall had al ways maintained that the
On August 11, Justice George dismissed Opposition Chief Whip Christopher Jones’s application in which he had sought to nullify Hicken’s appointment pri marily on the basis that the Head of State failed to “meaningfully consult” with the Opposition Leader as is required by the Constitution, to make such an appoint ment.But Justice George, in dismissing Jones’s case, held that President Ali could not be faulted for forging ahead with the appointment be cause, at the time of Hicken’s appointment on March 30, there was no Opposition Leader with whom the President is constitution ally required to consult. In the absence of an Opposition Leader and the Police Service Commission (PSC), she ruled that the President acted “out of necessity”, and in the in terest of national security, adding that it was reasonable for him to take action in his “own deliberate judgement”.
In dismissing Jones’s ap plication, she deemed its vex atious and an abuse of the process, while declaring that Hicken was appointed law fully.The Chief Justice also awarded costs against Jones to Nandlall and Hicken, which is to be assessed, if not agreed upon by August 31. Costs for the respondents, jointly, have since been pro posed at $3 million by the Attorney General. (G1)
In addition, Jones is claiming that CJ George also erred in law when she did not direct her mind proper ly to Article 232 (2) of the Constitution which provides that the terms of Article 232 (2) of the Constitution were only applicable “unless it was otherwise provided or re quired by the context”.
Article 211 (1) of the Constitution mandates that “the Commissioner of Police and every Deputy Commissioner of Police shall be appointed by the President acting after mean ingful consultation with the Leader of the Opposition and the Chairperson of the Police Service Commission (PSC) af ter the Chairperson has con sulted with the other mem bers of the Commission”.
JonesCommissioner.hadsubmitted that the President could have ap pointed someone to “per form the functions of” Police Commissioner as was done in 2020 with Nigel Hoppie, in stead of appointing someone “to act”, until an Opposition Leader was appointed. Justice George, in her deci sion, however, explained that the language of “to act” and “perform the functions of” are interchangeable as they are “one and the same thing”.
He argued too that in the circumstances of the instant case the Constitution did ex pressly otherwise provide or require by its context that the President’s power to ap point a person to the office of Commissioner of Police to act was conditional on meaning ful consultation as required by Articles 211 and 232 of the Constitution.Anotherground listed in the appeal stated that the Chief Justice also “…erred in law by finding that the President could have made an acting appointment to the office of Commissioner of Police without meaningful consultation is destructive to the specific Constitutional design and principles under pinning the pointmentclusionthatMoreover,Constitution.”itwasarguedJusticeGeorge’s“…conthattheactingapbythePresident
When Hicken’s appoint ment took effect on March 30, the Office of the Opposition Leader was vacant fol
lowing the resignation of Joseph Harmon from the post on January 26. Aubrey Norton, the current Leader of the PNCR, was appointed Opposition Leader on April 13. Additionally, the previous PSC had expired on August 8, 2021, and was not reconsti tuted until May 31 this year.
President acted lawfully. He contended that after then Police Commissioner (ag) Nigel Hoppie proceeded on retirement leave, the Guyana Police Force, which has nev er been without a head in its 183 years of existence, could not have been left with out a leader, and as such, the President after “look ing around” and finding no one to consult, had to make a “judgement call” to appoint someone to fill the post.
He deposed therein that on advice from his lawyer, he believes that the impact and purport of Justice George’s decision amount to a “grave and fundamental miscon struction of the constitu tional provisions which pro vide for the powers of the President to appoint persons to act in office established by the Constitution as well as to perform the functions of an office established by the Constitution”.Jonesfurther deposed that his lawyer has advised him that the resolution of the issues raised in the appeal is of “great urgency and public importance”.Joneslodged the ap peal less than one week af ter the Chief Justice handed down her ruling; contend ing, among other things, that she erred in law when she held that the President was vested with the authority to make an acting appointment to the office of Commissioner of Police under Article 111 of the “TheConstitution.Learned Chief Justice (ag) erred in law when she found that the President of Guyana could have acted out of necessity and exercised his own deliberate judgement pursuant to Article 111 of the Constitution to make an ap pointment for a person to act in the office of Commissioner of Police,” he further con tended.Inanother ground of ap peal, he argued that Justice George again erred in law when she found that there
Roxane George’s vali dation of the President’s ap pointment of Clifton Hicken as Police Commissioner (ag) is a “grave and fundamen tal misconstruction of the Constitution”, the APNU/ AFC has filed a motion re questing a swift hearing of its appeal against Justice George’s ruling.
hearing of the appeal.
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was no material difference between an appointment “to act” and “to perform” the functions of the office of the Police
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For adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17, just over 35,600 or 48.9 per cent have received a first dose. Second doses for this age co hort stand in excess of 26,100 or 35.9 per Vaccinescent.are also be ing administered to children within five to 11 years, and
In the Region of the Americas, that is, Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has in creased to 176,342,137 while the death toll in the Region has gone up to 2,821,706.
The Health Ministry re ported on Sunday that five more persons have tested positive for the nov el coronavirus from 211 tests conducted within a 24-hour period.
As it relates to vaccina tion against COVID-19, the WHO also reported that a total of 12,540,061,501 dos es have been administered worldwide. (G8)
There are no patients in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nor anyone in in stitutional quarantine, ac cording to the Ministry’s up
the boat sinking around 40 miles further up the coast near Chebba, Mahdia.
maining eight persons in in stitutional isolation.
The Italian island of Lampedusa lies in between the eastern coast of Tunisia and Sicily and is often a des
Consequently, some 71,191 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in Guyana to date. However, only 171 of these are currently active cases, that is, 158 persons in home isolation and the re
5 new COVID-19 infections take active cases to 171
Back in March, the Guyana Government re
Of the five new cases re corded on Sunday, four were from Region Four (DemeraraMahaica) and the other two cases from Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).Therewerenonew cases recorded in the other eight re gions across the country with in the reporting 24-hour peri od.
(Excerpt from BBC News)
Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Guyana over two years ago, a total 691,077 tests have been con ducted countrywide and of this, some 32,631 males and 38,560 females were found to be positive.
A Tunisian national coast guard helps a child to get off a rescue boat back in April
tination for those attempt ing to reach Europe from northAccordingAfrica. to the EU border agency Frontex, there were 52,000 "irregu lar entries" via the central Mediterranean route be tween January and August this year, with the mi grants mainly from Tunisia, Egypt, and Bangladesh.
datedMoreover,dashboard. Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll re mains at 1279, while some 69,746 persons in the coun try have recovered from the life-threatening virus to date.
At least 11 people are thought to have died in a shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia, with 12 others still centralyeararetosays,thecoveredTuesdaymigrantsboat,rescuedTunisia'smissing.coastguard14peopleafterthewhichwascarrying37toItaly,sankonFivemorebodieswerereonSaturdaynight,statenewsagencyTAPbringingthedeathtoll11.Morethan1000migrantsthoughttohavediedthisattemptingtocrosstheMediterranean.
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The coastline around Sfax has become a ma jor departure point for people trying to cross the Mediterranean in the hope of reaching Europe.
so far, over 8000 of them or 7.9 per cent have taken a first dose, while more than 3600 or 6 per cent returned for their secondMeanwhile,jab. in excess of 73,000 persons have returned for their first booster dose.
The figures are from the UN agency, the International Organisation for Migration. Of the 1033 migrants classed as dead or missing, 960 are thought to haveThedrowned.Tunisian boat set off from the Sfax region, with
moved most restrictions as the country recovers from the pandemic and returns to nor malcy.Nevertheless, health au thorities continue to urge per sons to get vaccinated and for those qualified to get their booster shots as an added lay er of protection against the vi rus.The latest vaccination numbers show that so far, more than 446,200 or 87 per cent of adults have taken a first dose, while over 346,100 or 67.5 per cent received a second dose.
According to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recent figures, some 603,711,760 confirmed cases were reported globally along with 6,484,136 deaths.
16 GUYANA COVID-19 DASHBOARD SEPTEMBER 11, 2022 UPDATE GET MEDICAL ADVICE ON COVID-19 FROM MOH 24/7 HOTLINE NUMBERS: 2311166; 226 7480; 624 6674; 624 2819; 624 3067 OR 180/181. NUMBER OF NEW CASES 5 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN INSTITUTIONAL ISOLATION 8 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN HOME ISOLATION 158 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN COVID-19 ICU 0 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN INSTITUTIONAL QUARANTINE 0 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES BY GENDER (FEMALES) 38,560 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES BY GENDER (MALES) 32,631 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES IN GUYANA SINCE 2020 71,191 NUMBER OF RECOVERED CASES 69,746 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 3149 REGION 3 8743 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 face mask. Keep a physical distance of at least 6 Washfeet. your hands or use handIfsanitizeryouhave any symptoms, call the COVID-19 Hotline.
He told the Venezuelan media the agreement with Trini Flyer "comes to strengthen diplomatic rela tions."The boat will travel be tween both countries ev ery 15 days with departure and arrival from the pri vate port of Chaguaramas to Guiria, Venezuela, with a duration of two hours of travel.Blanco said they will ex pand this service with a new ferry-type vessel, with a ca pacity for 112 passengers, which is currently being built at the Dique Marino
Queen Elizabeth II: Queen's lying-in-state at Westminster Venezuela reopens maritime route to T&T
There will be a service and the coffin will rest at the cathedral for 24 hours for members of the pub lic to pay their respects, before it is flown back to RAF Northolt to then make its way on to Buckingham
The lying-in-state be gins at 17:00BST on Wednesday and will last until 06:30 on Monday, 19 September - the day of the Queen's funeral.
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ings those wanting to take apart in the historic occa sion may have to wait for hours and even overnight.
The Trini Flyer vessel received permits from the Venezuelan government to enter its territory and re turn to TT with passengers.
On Monday members of the Royal Family will follow behind the hearse as it trav els to St Giles' Cathedral in the Scottish city, where the Queen's coffin will lie under vigil for 24 hours.
Venezuela.Hesaid this maritime transport service "will en hance the exchange be tween two sister countries. This new achievement is framed within the integra tionist policy and peace di plomacy the President, Nicolás Maduro Moros, has promoted and has as a car dinal line of work of inter nationalBlanco,relations."speaking in English to the Trini Flayer crew, said: "Venezuela has open doors for any broth er of good will who wants to visit us. The guarantees are given and the legal se curity is also given to have them here in our country and strengthen peace and unity."Passengers must com ply with the immigration requirements required by Venezuelan law, including a valid passport and vac cination card or a nega tive PCR test more than 48 hours before departure. In the case of minors, travel documents for them must be processed through the consulate to protect the child or adolescent, in or der to rule out child traf ficking. (T&T Newsday)
shipyard in Sucre state, and is part of the Water Passenger Transport proj ect designed by the Great Mission Transportation
Large crowds are ex pected and there are warn
People are advised to bring food and drink as well as suitable clothing.
The last member of the Royal Family to lie in state in the hall was the Queen Mother in 2002, when more than 200,000 people queued to view her coffin.
ourners wish ing to pay their fi nal respects to the Queen have been warned to expect long queues.
The Queen's funer al will be "living tradi tion in action", the Dean of Westminster has said.
Palace.During the lying-instate period the Queen's closed coffin will rest on a raised platform inside Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament.
It will be open 24 hours a day between those times.
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The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle said it would be "an opportunity for us to give thanks for an extraor dinary life... and an oppor tunity, if you like, for us to
People are being warned that they will need to stand for many hours, possibly overnight, with little op portunity to sit down as the queue will be continuously moving.There are also expect ed to be delays on public transport and road closures around the Visitors,area.who will be re quired to go through air port-style security, are only allowed to bring one small bag with a single opening or zip per person and there are restrictions on what can be taken Peoplein.are asked to re spect the dignity of the event including by remain ing silent while inside the Palace of Westminster and dressing appropriate ly - with clothes "with po litical or offensive slogans" banned.People will be asked to turn off their mobile phones or put them on silent mode and to keep noise to a min imum.Filming, photogra phy and the use of mobile phones or other devices will not be allowed in the securi ty search area or the Palace of Westminster. (BBC)
Since the beginning of 2020, Venezuela has closed its borders due to the covid19 pandemic. The Venezuelan government has been opening air routes with some countries. Trini Flyer is the first maritime company with permission to enter and exit the South American country.
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enezuelan authori ties have reopened a sea route with TT.
The governor of the state of Sucre, Venezuela, Gilberto Pinto Blanco re ceived the boat in the Port of Guiria on this week with the first 57 passengers.
give the grief somewhere to go."Since the Queen died peacefully at her Balmoral home on Thursday thou sands of mourners have been leaving floral tributes at places she loved, includ ing at Buckingham Palace, Sandringham House and WindsorCrowdsCastle.gathered to watch the Queen's fu neral cortege travel from Balmoral to Edinburgh on Sunday, as her coffin began its journey to London ahead of the funeral.
Details have been re vealed about how people can attend the lying-in-state, which will take place at the Palace of Westminster.
Dr Yearwood said Government was “contra dicting” itself, claiming on one hand that the econo my was in good health and poised for growth, yet on the other hand, borrowing from the Fund to shore up the economy.Healso argued that the ruling Administration was carrying a heavier than normal foreign debt bur den, while leading an econ omy that was not generating enough foreign exchange to service said debt.
“What I found interest ing about the whole discus sion that the Prime Minister was trying to put forward, is the contention that the econ omy is doing so well. If the economy is doing as well as the Prime Minister claims, then why are we going into another IMF programme? This is one of the first ques tions that everyone should be asking themselves.
In a note to Reuters, the Ministry said Bolsonaro would travel to London to attend the Queen's funeral on September 19. (Reuters)
Brazil's Bolsonaro to attend Queen Elizabeth's funeral
And in Jamaica, the rul ing Labour Party says its goal is to hold a referen dum on becoming a republic. (Excerpt from BBC News)
“On one hand you have the Prime Minister claim ing that the economy is do
took part via Zoom.
their hair straight in the style of historic Argentine tangoKozoicons.Yamamoto, 74, a dancer from Tokyo, was delighted to be in the home of tango."It'smy first time and I just want to have a good time, because there are many good competitors. What I want most is to have fun and I will do my best," he said. (Reuters)
persons taking it. If there is no media pressure or media coverage, law enforcement don't want to look at it until it hits home or snowballs out of control. This is personal to me, because one of my family members actually took Molly and entered into a bit of a psychosis. Her brain wasn't functioning properly after that. We didn't know what was happening… You know when you see somebody and they are acting all jittery and paranoid? That was it at that time," the Constable said.
World tango dancers flock to spiritual home Buenos Aires
not match the suspect’s de scription.Justice for Migrant Workers said the case was the first in Canada to exam ine allegations of system ic racial profiling and dis crimination by the police towards migrant farmwork ers. (Excerpt from Trinidad Newsday)
The event is the first full festival since the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year foreign contestants
It also said the workers were targeted solely on the basis of their skin colour and their status as migrant farm workers.Some 54 of the affected migrant farm workers filed joint human rights applica tions with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.
"I think most people ha ven't even bothered to think about it," Browne told ITV News.Earlier, Australia ruled out a similar vote within the next four years.
"It is absolutely amaz ing, it is a dream for me to do this, just to be sur rounded by the whole at mosphere of the place. The best dancers in the world are here," said Emma Reyes, 37, a dancer from London.
DLP President, Dr Ronnie Yearwood
ver 500 tango danc ers from Argentina and the world are congregating in Buenos Aires for a major festival of the dance in its spiri tual home, with concerts, classes and a competition to compete for the interna tional tango crown.
Justice for Migrant Workers said the Police’s in vestigation was done with what appeared to be a total disregard for the detailed suspect description given by theThevictim.group said DNA sam ples were taken from Indo and Afro-Caribbean men from Jamaica and Trinidad.
While he expects to win that election – his party holds 15 of the 17 seats in the House of Representatives – he accepted that there hadn't been any major de mand to hold a vote among citizens.
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zy thoughts rummaging through her head. She felt like she was losing her mind," he added. The growing use of Molly pills at parties was first brought to national atten tion by the Sunday Observer in July this year through a series of stories and a video documentary entitled Molly Predicament.Theprint and video pro ductions featured health pro fessionals from the Heart Institute of the Caribbean, Pharmaceutical Society of Jamaica, and the South East Regional Health Authority warning that use of the drug poses serious threats to the heart and the brain. (Excerpt from Jamaica Observer)
Antigua and Barbuda will vote on whether to become a republic following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the country's Prime Minister, Gaston Browne has said.
At qualifying events, female dancers dressed up in heels and shiny dress es, while the men combed
But many countries are reconsidering the role of monarchy, with Browne saying becoming a repub lic would mark the "final step to complete the circle of Independence to become a truly sovereign nation".
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne
Victory for Caribbean migrant farm workers in Canada
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ac cepted an invitation to attend the funeral for Britain's Queen Elizabeth, the country's Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
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14 countries – Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu.
He made the comments after confirming Charles III as King and Head of State of the Caribbean nation.
Ahuman rights tribunal in Ontario, Canada, has delivered a his toric ruling in an almost de cade-old legal battle between 54 migrant farm workers and the Ontario Provincial Police.Last month, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) ruled that the farm workers were targeted by Police solely on the basis of their skin colour and their status as migrant farm work ers.In November last year, the tribunal heard the law suit by the migrant farm workers which included several Trinidadian and Jamaican men who alleged racist policing practices.
employed in the region.
Last year, Barbados swore in its first President after the Queen was re moved as Head of State by the country's Parliament.
Browne said he intended to introduce the referendum if re-elected next year.
Barbados’s Democratic Labour Party (DLP) President, Dr Ronnie Yearwood is accusing Government of not being upfront with Barbadians regarding the reason for taking the country into a second successive arrange ment with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
In addition to the United Kingdom, King Charles serves as Head of State in
Their Attorneys argued that the DNA sweep and the manner in which it was done was racial discrimination that violated their rights un der section one of Ontario’s Human Rights Code.
They were represent ed by the group Justice for Migrant Workers. Their lawsuit stemmed from an October 2013 sexual assault near Bayham, Ontario, when the Ontario Provincial Police did a DNA sweep to collect samples from approximate ly 95 migrant farm workers
Attorney Shane Martinez, who represented the farm workers
"She was feeling euphor ic and everything, and af ter that she stated that she had what is called a come down and she had some cra
He said a referendum could take place within three years – but empha sised that the move was "not an act of hostility".
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Antigua and Barbuda plans vote on King's role as Head of State
ing so well, and we are ex pecting 10 per cent growth etc, then on the other hand you are telling us that we need to go into another IMF programme to stabilise the economy. You can’t have your cake and eat it too,” Dr Yearwood said. (Excerpt from Nation News)
The tribunal found that the DNA samples were tak en from the farmworkers even if they had alibis or did
Other examples of uncertainty looming over the market include how long the Biden Administration will dip into the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve to boost domestic supply, whether sky-high natural-gas prices in Europe will prompt utilities to burn oil instead, and to what degree the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its market allies are willing to throttle back output to support prices.
Islamophobia – which is defined as the dislike of, or prejudice against, Islam or Muslims – remains a preva lent problem in the US.
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Moscow's almost total si lence on the defeat - or any explanation for what had taken place in north-east ern Ukraine - provoked sig nificant anger among some pro-war commentators and Russian nationalists on so cialAsmedia.the defeats unfold ed, the Russian Defence Ministry on Friday posted video footage of what it said were troops being sent to the Kharkiv region.
Decades after 9/11, Muslims battle Islamophobia in US
Much like what happened on the way up early this year, the decline in prices has been intensified by heightened volatility and diminished liquidity in the futures markets, which are meant to ease the movement of barrels around the world.
That has made it harder for businesses involved in producing, transporting and consuming actual barrels of oil to find counterparties in trades that help them manage their own risk.
The decline in trades has reduced liquidity—the ability to carry out transactions at expected prices without causing big moves in prices or disorderly trading—in markets that were already hampered by thin trading and prone to wild swings, traders said.
of Izium, a critical supply hub.But he conceded the cam paign was not going to plan.
The regional power grid, internet cables, and the re gional highway were dam aged, but the airport is oper ational, it said. Some of the injured were airlifted for im mediatePapuatreatment.NewGuinea res idents shared images and videos on social media of cracked roads, damaged buildings and cars, and items falling off supermar ket
Xi Jinping will leave China for the first time in more than two years for a trip this week to Central Asia where he will meet Russia's Vladimir Putin, just a month be fore he is set to cement his place as the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong.
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Traders cautious of tipping their hands or making big ripples in thin markets have been breaking trades into smaller transactions, making it harder to determine prices, said Shankar Narayanan, head of research at Quantitative Brokers LLC, which uses algorithms to trade on behalf of hedge funds, banks and asset managers.
Oil prices slump asfearsrecessiongrow Around the World
BofA Securities analysts laid out cases in a recent note to clients for oil prices to both rise and fall by as much as US$20 over the next few months. “There is simply too much uncertainty around fundamentals going into the winter,” they wrote.
Theshelves.UN report said peo ple had been injured by fall ing structures or debris, and there was damage to some health centres, homes, ru ral roads and highways. (Excerpt from Reuters)
Telegram messaging app, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a Putin ally whose troops have been at the fore front of the campaign in Ukraine, dismissed the loss
On Sunday the Defence Ministry said Russian forc es had struck Ukrainian po sitions in the region with airborne troops, missiles and artillery. (Excerpt from Reuters)
Xi to meet Putin in 1st trip outside China since COVID began
Bernard Drury, chief executive of Drury Capital Inc, a commodities-trading firm that uses momentum-investing strategies that follow prices up and down, said that between oil that is about twice as expensive as it was before the pandemic and the added risk of elevated volatility, speculators including him can’t take nearly as many positions in the futures market.
Russian national ists called angrily on Sunday for President Vladimir Putin to make immediate changes to en sure ultimate victory in the Ukraine war, a day af ter Moscow was forced to abandon its main bastion in north-eastern Ukraine.
A renewed nuclear deal between the US and Iran could bring Iranian petroleum back to the market. Lately, fears of recession and reduced consumption have overshadowed concern about inadequate petroleum supplies and pushed prices lower.
“Oil prices have been scraping the skies since February but on a very poor foundation of liquidity,” he said. “The price is not sustainable.”
Russian nationalists rage after stunning setback in Ukraine
China's President will
So-called quote size in US crude futures trading has shrivelled by about 50% from a year ago and is down more than 70% over the past three years, which has resulted in wider gaps between offers to buy and sell. Bigger spreads have helped boost volatility and reduced liquidity by more than half since 2019, Mr Narayanan said.
For Muslim Americans, the post-September 11 ramifications of Islamophobia continue as the 21st anniversary of the attacks is solemnly marked on Sunday.According to FBI sta tistics, hate crimes against Muslims in the United States skyrocketed imme
diately after September 11, 2001, and are still on an up ward“Muslimstrend. continue to be the target of hate, bully ing, and discrimination as a result of the stereotypes that were perpetuated by Islamophobes and the media in the years following the 9/11 attacks,” said Hussam
The trip, Xi's first abroad since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, shows just how confident he is about his grip on power in China and just how perilous the global situation has be come.Against a backdrop of Russia's confrontation with the West over Ukraine, the crisis over Taiwan and a stuttering global economy, Xi is due on a state visit to Kazakhstan on Wednesday.
Powerful quake hits Papua New Guinea, at least 4 dead
The unpredictability has boosted volatility, which has sent traders to the sidelines. Open interest, a measure of trading activity, has lately been about half what it was five years ago in the most active US oil futures contract and about 30% what it was last year.
Armoured fighting vehicles abandoned by Russian soldiers are seen during a counteroffensive operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, in this handout picture released September 11, 2022. Press service of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine/Handout via Reuters
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An earthquake of mag nitude 7.6 struck eastern Papua New Guinea on Sunday killing at least four people, injur ing others and damaging property and essential infra structure.Thequake hit about 67 km east of Kainantu and 80 kms north-west of Lae in the eastern PNG region, at about 9:45 am local time (2345 GMT Saturday), but was felt some 500 km (310 miles) away in the capital of PortTheMoresby.fullextent of dam age was not immediate ly clear as the location of the earthquake was re mote. Earthquakes are com mon in PNG, which sits on the Pacific Ocean’s "Ring of Fire", a hotspot for seismic activity due to friction be tween tectonic plates.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China February 4, 2022
the conduct of the special military operation, I will be forced to go to the coun try's leadership to explain to them the situation on the ground," said Kadyrov.
“We’ll trade maybe a third of the number of contracts we traded a couple of years ago and still get the same kind of risk exposure,” Mr. Drury said. “If everyone on the speculative side of things is acting like us, they might be participating more or less fully, but they’re trading fewer contracts.”
Traders and analysts said that an overwhelming number of variables—from calculating how much consumption will be reduced by China’s COVID-19 lockdowns to handicapping how many of Russia’s shunned barrels will make it to market—has made it unusually difficult to anticipate the direction of prices.
then meet Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's summit in the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the KremlinPutin'ssaid.foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, told re porters last week that the Russian president was ex pected to meet Xi at the sum mit. The Kremlin declined to give details on their talks. China has yet to confirm Xi’s travelTheplans.meeting will give Xi an opportunity to under score his clout while Putin can demonstrate Russia's tilt towards Asia; both lead ers can show their opposi tion to the United States just as the West seeks to punish Russia for the Ukraine war. (Excerpt from Reuters)
Over the past two weeks, price-trend-following hedge funds and trading algorithms that dominate the speculative side of the oil market have piled into short bets, or wagers that prices will fall, according to Peak Trading Research.
“The unfortunate reality is there are people and or ganisations that benefit from perpetuating Islamophobia, bigotry, and war,” he said.
The Swiss firm created a mathematical model to gauge the direction that momentum traders are betting, and it hit a rare perfect bearish score this past week for the first time since the emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 rattled energy markets in late 2021. Peak’s gauge in late August registered a perfect bullish score, meaning that momentum traders were basically all positioned for rising prices two weeks ago. (Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal)
turbulent week in oil markets carried crude prices to their lowest point since January, with thin trading and a blurry outlook for supply and demand driving a fitful 30% decline from this year’s highs.
A 5.9% gain since Wednesday notwithstanding, the main US oil benchmark has shed about US$35 a barrel since peaking above US$122 three months ago. West Texas Intermediate closed Friday at US$86.79. Brent crude futures, the primary international price gauge, ended at US$92.84.
Zahra Jamal, associate director of Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance in Houston, said 62 per cent of Muslims report feeling reli gion-based hostility and 65 per cent felt disrespected by others.She said the numbers related to discrimination against Muslims are alarm ing and show just how much Islamophobia has increased in the US over the past 20 years.Ayloush said the statis tics were not surprising con sidering the current vola tile political climate in the US perpetuated by former President Donald Trump during his term in office. (Excerpt from Al Jazeera)
The swift fall of Izium in Kharkiv province was Russia's worst military defeat since its troops were forced back from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in March.AsRussian forces aban doned town after town on Saturday, Putin was open ing Europe's largest ferris wheel in a Moscow park, while fireworks lit up the sky over Red Square to cel ebrate the city's founding in 1147.In an 11-minute-long voice message posted to the
Ayloush, executive director of the Los Angeles chapter of the Council on AmericanIslamic“Twenty-oneRelations.years after the attacks, Muslims contin ue to face the threat of tar getedAfterviolence.”September 11, Ayloush said, there was “a perfect storm of the American people and its Government needing a com mon ‘enemy’”.
(OCHA) in Asia and the Pacific said that at least 4 deaths and four injuries had beenOnereported.person died in a landslide in Rai Coast, Madang, with three others buried in Wau, Morobe, the OCHA's PNG disaster man agement team said in a re port posted on Twitter.
While the Government gave no death toll, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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If anyone saw the girls’ final was entertaining, then a more magnanimous adjective would be needed to describe the final affair between the boys of Charlestown and Ann’s Grove.
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On the boys’ side, the best goalkeeper and MVP, Hendricks, came from Charlestown. The highest goal scorer was Jason Sandiford with 13 goals accumulated over the past few weeks.While the Charlestown teams each walked away with $300,000, which will be given in kind for a school project, the female runners-up East Ruimveldt carted off $150,000 for a project, while third-place New Campbellville Secondary and fourth-place New Central High were rewarded with $75,000 and $40,000 respectively.
For the boys, the prize monies were the same, with Cummings Lodge and West Ruimveldt Secondary finishing third and fourth respectively.
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Naseem Shah c Karunaratne b Liyanagamage 4 Mohammad Hasnain not out 8 Extras (nb 2, w 12) 14
The ExxonMobil tournament was also supported by Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) through its Pepsi and Gatorade brands, and coordinated by the Petra Organisation.
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particular, was aggressive against pace and spin alike, and even hit Rauf for two consecutive boundaries before edging one to the keeper. Rajapaksa then took control, finishing with six fours and three sixes and helping his side add 53-0 in the last five overs. It was only the second time in eight T20Is in 2022 Sri Lanka managed 150+ batting first.
twice, first by Shadab Khan on 49 at long-on before he collided with Asif Ali at deep mid-wicket and made for another drop. In contrast, Sri Lanka took all the catches that came their way, which at Dubai's “Ring of Fire” stadium isn't always easy.
There were premature celebrations for Charlestown, but the team proved worthy in the end, connecting to three penalties as compared to Ann’s Grove’s 2.
BOWLING O-M-R-W Naseem Shah 4-0-40-1 Mohammad Hasnain 4-0-41-0 Haris Rauf 4-0-29-3
Bhanuka Rajapaksa not out 71
PAKISTAN INNINGS (Target: 171 runs from 20 overs)
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the game like any other in the tournament and learnt a bitter lesson for leaving their hustle on the sidelines.Everyone saw it coming, as Charlestown opted to fortify their front line and when they did, it was Hadassah Smith, who capitalised on the chaotic scenes in front of the goal, to slip in Charlestown’s firstNotgoal.too long after, eventual tournament Most Valuable Player (MVP) Chelysi Lupe made it a 2-0 game for Charlestown. The defending champions were left wallowing at the half.
Charlestown’s celebrations were short-lived; however, as Selwyn Peters levelled the scores
Azam's form and Mohammad Rizwan's slowcooked fifty that lacked impetus to chase something like 171 in a high-pressure final. Looking back, Pakistan weren't able to counterattack when they lost Azam (caught at short fine leg) and Fakhar Zaman (chopped on) off consecutive balls to Pramod Madushan (who finished with 4 for 34). Both Iftikhar Ahmed and Rizwan were slow to get
Wanindu Hasaranga de Silva 4-0-27-3 Chamika Karunaratne 4-0-33-2 Dhananjaya de Silva 1-0-4-0
Khushdil Shah c Theekshana b PWH de Silva 2
Pakistan and chase: what went wrong today?
While Charlestown’s Lupe was the female MVP, their goalkeeper was adjudged the best in the girls’ tournament. With two hattricks and another goal in the final, Wilson, East Ruimveldt’s skipper, was the tournament’s highest goal scorer.
Fall of wickets: 1-22 (Babar Azam, 3.2 ov), 2-22 (Fakhar Zaman, 3.3 ov), 3-93 (Iftikhar Ahmed, 13.2 ov), 4-102 (Mohammad Nawaz, 15.2 ov), 5-110 (Mohammad Rizwan, 16.1 ov), 6-111 (Asif Ali, 16.3 ov), 7-112 (Khushdil Shah, 16.5 ov), 8-120 (Shadab Khan, 17.6 ov), 9-125 (Naseem Shah, 18.2 ov), 10-147 (Haris Rauf, 19.6 ov)
Babar Azam (c) c Madushanka b Liyanagamage 5
Fakhar Zaman b Liyanagamage 0 Iftikhar Ahmed c sub (KNA Bandara) b Liyanagamage 32
BOWLING O-M-R-W Dilshan Madushanka 3-0-24-0 Maheesh Theekshana 4-0-25-1 Pramod LiyanagamageMadushan 4-0-34-4
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Just how did SL get to 58-5? Pakistan were just too
Almost immediately, Charlestown’s determined aggression was obvious as they skilfully, and sometimes forcefully, maintained possession. Polar opposites were East Ruimveldt’s girls, who seemingly approached
Sri Lanka celebrate their Asia Cup win
Dhananjaya de Silva c & b Iftikhar Ahmed 28
Yes. The pitch had good bounce for shot-making, but also had enough in it for the bowlers. But Azam instead of attacking Sri Lanka at fivedown, allowed RajapaksaHasaranga to get their eyes in against three overs of spin.
SRI LANKA INNINGS (20 overs maximum)
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good with their pace upfront. Naseem Shah, steaming in, rattled Kusal Mendis's stumps in the opening over, but more pace awaited them in the form of Harif Rauf, who notched up pace in excess of 150 mph and picked up the wickets of Pathum Nissanka (caught at mid-off) and Danushka Gunathilaka (bowled). Things went from bad to worse when Iftikhar Ahmed got rid of Dhananjaya de Silva, who had hitherto looked Sri Lanka's best batter.
Pakistan could have restricted them for fewer?
Double champions: Charlestown’s boys and girls revel in their championship wins with sponsor representatives
Azam b Haris Rauf 8 Kusal Mendis †b Naseem Shah 0
Dasun Shanaka (c) b Shadab Khan 2
The two outfits from the Howes Street-based school had spirited displays during Saturday’s finals, much to the dismay of their opponents, who were oblivious to what lay ahead of them.
Danushka Gunathilaka b Haris Rauf 1
The boisterous cheer “Charles is King”, embodying the monarchical change and Charlestown’s triumph, was bellowed by the team’s many supporters. The joyous celebrations were preceded, of course, by sweat and toil on the young teenaged players’ parts.
A glimpse of the boys’ final between Charlestown and Ann’ Grove
From the first whistle, the determination to lift the ExxonMobil trophy was apparent by the intense hunt for an opening goal. Fans did not have to wait too long to see fireworks, as Charlestown Captain Malcolm Hendricks came in clutch for his team.Stealing possession from Ann’s Grove, Hendricks played through the middle and fired a lightning shot into the goal, yards outside of the box.
Looking back, Pakistan were taken aback by that counterattacking partnership between Hasaranga and Rajapaksa. The duo added 58 runs off 36 balls for the sixth wicket. Hasaranga, in
Shadab Khan c Gunathilaka b Theekshana 8 Haris Rauf b Karunaratne 13
Clad in their school’s familiar green, Charlestown’s female team took to the pitch first for the girls’ final against defending champions East Ruimveldt Secondary School.
Indeed, East Ruimveldt’s girls returned from the break with fresh enthusiasm and a certain eagerness to equalise. In fact, they came close on multiple occasions, but misdirected kicks and squandered opportunities were as frequent.
Extras (b 1, lb 7, w 2) 10
TOTAL 20 Ov (RR: 8.50) 170/6
Pakistan's fielding in the last five overs didn't help either. Rajapaksa was dropped
off the blocks and it meant that Pakistan were only 68-2 at the halfway mark. To be fair to the duo, they had done well against Hasaranga, picking 25 runs off his first three overs, but his fourth, it can be said, all
Now let's talk about that partnership
Mohammad Nawaz c Liyanagamage b Karunaratne 6
Shadab Khan 4-0-28-1 Iftikhar Ahmed 3-0-21-1 Mohammad Nawaz 1-0-3-0
The goal seemed to inspire the talented Wilson, but her lone campaign for the equaliser was daunted by the sound of the final whistle. Charlestown had won 2-1.
Sri Lanka emerged Asia Cup champions for the sixth time with a 23-run win over the more-fancied Pakistan in Dubai.
Central to the title win was a counter-attacking batting effort from Bhanuka Rajapaksa (71* off 45) and Wanindu Hasaranga (36 off 21), who lifted Sri Lanka from 58-5 and set 171 for Pakistan, a target that proved too tall for Babar Azam and Co on the night. They were bowled out for 147 in 20 overs as Sri Lanka brought up five consecutive T20 International ` wins for the first time since April 2014.
Sri Lanka clinch Asia Cup for the 6th time after stunning win
but decided the match. Three wickets fell in that over; that of a well-set Rizwan (55 off 49), Asif Ali and Khushdil Shah, and it all led to Pakistan being bowled out for 147 in 20 overs. (cricbuzz)
for the East Coast outfit. He had kept his eyes fixated on the throw coming from the sidelines; with a perfectly timed leap and a welldirected head, he executed the goal-scoring header around the 20thWithminute.a1-1 deadlock at the half, an entertaining second segment was set up; however; regulation time escaped the young ballers without another goal being scored. Extra time was the same and as a result, the championship match went to penalties.
Asif Ali b PWH de Silva 0
Mohammad Rizwan † c Gunathilaka b PWH de Silva 55
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TOTAL 20 Ov (RR: 7.35) 147
Absolute pandemonium broke out at the Ministry of Education Ground, Carifesta Avenue, as Charlestown Secondary on Saturday achieved what no other team imagined they could: a double championship win in the ExxonMobil Under 14 schools’ football tournament – claiming the boys’ and girls’ divisions.
A penalty opportunity finally came East Ruimveldt’s way and it was taken by Captain Azaria Wilson, and they finally added something to their scoresheet.
New Campbellville’s girls burst into celebrations after winning the third-place play-off
How the toss spiced things up Coming into this final, Sri Lanka's only loss in the tour nament came when they bat ted first. To be fair, it wasn't a one-off instance of them failing to put a total on the board; since the 2021 T20 World Cup, Sri Lanka had lost all of the seven matches they batted first in. Furthermore, the venue only multiplied the challenge on offer – teams chasing in Dubai had won 26 of the last 30 games lead ing into this final. So when the coin fell Pakistan's way, it pitted Sri Lanka's bat-first limitations against Pakistan's grey chasing record, mak ing for a fascinating contest.
Runners-up – YMCA Old FortMost Valuable Player –Kareem McKenzie (Bounty GCC)
Oshane Thomas had an expensive day at the office
arbados Royals fought their way through to maintain their
In the men’s division, Bounty GCC and Old Fort squared off in the muchanticipated final. Each team had earned their place by defeating the mighty Hikers teams as GCC squeezed by the Pepsi Hikers in one semi-final and Old Fort, having a somewhat easier time, upstaged the Hikers Cadets.
Best Goalkeeper – Raoul Whittaker (SHC S7N)
Rovman Powell continued his purple patch
Tournament Most Valuable
Ashley DeGroot opened the GBTI account with a penalty layoff shot in the fifth minute with Makeda Harding adding a deflection field goal in the second quarter to see a 2-0 lead at half time for GCC.
In a brave and gutsy display of hockey, the Hikers managed to pull two goals back in the final quarter through their top striker Latacia “China” Chung in the 31st and 37th minute. This effort, however, would not be enough to prevent the GBTI ladies from lifting the ladies’ trophy in similar fashion to the men, with a 4-2 scoreline.
Most Promising Player –Shakeem Fausette (SHC S7N)
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Jason Holder and Corbin Bosch celebrate in an over. However, the innings finished on a tame note with just 10 coming off the final couple of overs bowled by Jason Holder and McCoy.Inthe chase, Barbados Royals got off to a flying start despite losing Kyle Mayers in just the second over when he was bowled by Chris Green. Corbin Bosch and Quinton de Kock started their association on a steady note right through, finding regular boundaries to stay ahead of the asking rate. As De Kock brought up his fifty off 37 balls and Bosch got his soon after, the 117-run stand had taken Barbados on the right course for victory. With 17 needed off the last two overs, David Miller hit a six and a four to ease things up before victory was brought up in the final over with a ball to spare and De Kock remained unbeaten on 64 off 53.in Lucozade
South African duo Corbin Bosch and Quinton de Kock
Best Goalkeeper – Anesa Permaul (Woodpecker Hikers)
Bounty GCC, GBTI GCC cart off prizes
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he final evening of the Lucozade Indoor Hockey Championships was enough to satisfy the greatest of thirsts for the sport. The Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) came out the big winners of the tournament with victories in three of the four finals while Old Fort secured the remaining victory in two final appearances.
McCoy, De Kock and Bosch make it 5 out of 5 for the Royals
of wickets: 1-17 (Kyle Mayers, 1.6 ov), 2-134 (Corbin Bosch, 17.1 ov) BOWLING O-M-R-W Mohammad Amir 4-0-26-1 Chris Green 4-0-24-1 Migael Pretorius 4-0-37-0 Imad Wasim 4-0-31-0 Joshua James 2-0-18-0 Fabian Allen 1-0-10-0 Rovman Powell 0.5-0-4-0 CLASSIFIED ADS Bus Service: Need a bus? Call us. Planning a Tour? Call us. Matthew’s Bus Service and Tours. Call or WhatsApp: 639-2663 or 673-2348. BUSTOURSSERVICE Suriname Tours: Suriname Weekend Tours, Return Trip, Sep. 16th – 19th. Call or Whatsapp: 639-2663 or 673-2348. Tours: Planning a tour or planning a trip? Call Matthew’s Bus Service and Tours. Call or WhatsApp: 6392663 or 673-2348. WANTED Domestic - to work in Georgetown from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm (mature). Truck Driver - experience with can ter and truck. Telephone: 6236383 (7:00 am – 7:00 pm)
GCC Spartans’ Sarah Klautky was the leading goalscorer for the girls’ Under-20 final and indeed the entire evening with five goals to her name against the Saints Hockey Club Conquerors. The Spartans stormed to the largest margin of victory for the evening with a 9-2 defeat of Saints. Most promising player Claysa Bobb produced two moments of brilliance to score the Conquerors’ pair of goals in an otherwise one-sided match.
Women: Winners – GBTI GCC
In spite of their loss in the senior division, YMCA Old Fort would taste sweet victory, coincidentally by the themed 4-2 margin of the evening, over Saints Hockey Club S7N. In the
Most Promising Player –Claysa Bobb (SHC Conquerors)
Player (MVP) Alysa Xavier piled on the pressure in the third quarter with two penalty corner putback goals, taking the GCC tally to 4. With the initial shots being very well saved by the tournament’s best goalkeeper, Anesa Permaul of the Hikers, Xavier used her skills and guile to score on the deceptive putbacks.
The GBTI GCC Spartans were not prepared to leave anything to chance as they stormed out of the gates from the opening whistle to dominate the play against the Woodpecker Hikers.
Results and accolades were as follows: Under 20 girls: Winners – GCC Spartans Runners-up – SHC Conquerors
For the second day in a row, Jamaica Tallawahs skipper Rovman Powell
Boys’ U20 winners YMCA Old Fort Girls’ U20 winners GCC Spartans Men’s winners Bounty GCC
Classified Ads $5+VAT per word Call: 223-7230-1Ext50 22 GUYANATIMESGY.COMMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2022 SCOREBOARD Tallawahs Innings Brandon King c Holder b Mayers 0 Kennar Lewis c DC Thomas b Bishop 1 Amir Jangoo †c Walsh b Holder 30 Rovman Powell (c) c Mayers b McCoy 52 Raymon Reifer c McCoy b Holder 41 Fabian Allen c Holder b McCoy 20 Imad Wasim c O Thomas b Bosch 3 Chris Green c Miller b McCoy 0 Migael Pretorius not out 2 Joshua James not out 0 Extras (b 1, lb 1, nb 1, w 4) 7 TOTAL 19.6 Ov (RR: 7.80) 156/8 Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Brandon King, 0.3 ov), 2-7 (Kennar Lewis, 3.3 ov), 3-64 (Amir Jangoo, 10.4 ov), 4-98 (Rovman Powell, 13.2 ov), 5-141 (Fabian Allen, 16.5 ov), 6-146 (Imad Wasim, 17.6 ov), 7-151 (Chris Green, 18.6 ov), 8-156 (Raymon Reifer, 19.5 ov) BOWLING O-M-R-W
The first quarter of the men’s final was almost through before the high-paced match saw its first goal off a penalty corner from GCC’s Mark Sargeant. The match shifted into high gear, however, in the second quarter as Orland Semple put GCC up by two with a penalty corner two minutes after the quarter break. Old Fort’s prolific striker
Kevin Spencer and Semple would score a field goal each in the third and fourth quarters respectively to lead GCC to a 4-2 victory and the Men’s Lucozade Indoor Championships trophy.
top-scored for them with a fifty. The skipper walked in inside the powerplay after the openers were dismissed cheaply. As Amir Jangoo stemmed the wickets’ flow with a 36-ball 30, Powell provided the attacking intent from the other end. Their 57-run stand steadied Jamaica by the halfway mark.Powell stepped on the pedal immediately after Jangoo’s dismissal, taking on Oshane Thomas and picking 20 runs off him in the 12th over. However, soon after getting his fifty, Powell chipped Obed McCoy to deep mid-wicket, becoming the first of the pacer's three victims.Taking Jamaica forward from then on was Raymon Reifer, who hit Joshua Bishop for a couple of sixes
Under 20 boys:
unbeaten record in CPL 2022, winning five in a row after defeating Jamaica
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reverse of the senior men’s result, Old Fort would take a 2-0 lead only to see it squandered as Saints would draw even at 2-2 in the third quarter. The inexperience of Saints, however, showed as Old Fort capitalised on a few defensive errors in the final quarter to score two more goals to finish the match.
Mayers 3-0-11-1 Teddy Bishop 3-0-25-1 Jason Holder 4-0-24-2 Oshane Thomas 2-0-31-0 Hayden Walsh 3-0-35-0 Obed McCoy 4-0-24-3 Corbin Bosch 1-0-4-1 Royals Innings Kyle Mayers b Green 12 Quinton de Kock † not out 64 Corbin Bosch b Mohammad Amir 56 David Miller (c) not out 17 Extras(lb 7, w 1) 8 TOTAL 19.5 Ov (RR: 7.91) 157/2
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Warren Williams and veteran Ascofu Simon would bring Old Fort storming back with two counterattacking field goals to level the scores at 2-2 by the half.The second half saw GCC taking greater precautions to quell the explosive and effective Old Fort counterattacks and stifling their free-flowing attacks with a half-court defence. Former nationals
Tallawahs by eight wickets at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground in St Lucia.
With GCC seemingly having the game all sewn up by the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Hikers were out to prove that the game was not yet over.
Winners – YMCA Old Fort Runners-up – SHC S7N
Men: Winners – Bounty GCC
Best Goalkeeper – Paul D’Andrade (YMCA Old Fort)
SpartansRunners-up – Woodpecker HikersMost Valuable Player – Alysa Xavier (GBTI GCC Spartans)
Kyle
Best Goalkeeper – Empress Charles (GCC Spartans)
Women’s winners GBTI GCC Spartans
third wicket when Brevis (11) skied one to wide long-on at 39-3 in 4.1
Captain cool, Faf du Plessis led the charge for Kings, scoring a scorching 60 while hometown
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The St Lucia Kings ended the St Lucia leg of the 2022 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) on a high note, crushing the defending champions St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in Match 15 at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground. An almost packed stadium danced away as the Kings won the match by 61 runs.
screws tight. After Lewis’s 24, Bravo made a 25-ball 20, but that was all she wrote for the
His experiment had failed as he was also caught by the younger Bravo for three at 952. Du Plessis was then dropped on 49, and he reached his fifty off the next ball. He took 31 balls to reach the milestone. After blazing a six and a four off Sheldon Cottrell, he held out to deep cover for a 35-ball 60. His top knock was laced with five sixes and three fours.
Faf du Plessis got a breezy fifty
GUYANATIMESGY.COMMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2022 23 SCOREBOARD Kings Innings Johnson Charles c Bravo b Pretorius 41 Faf du Plessis (c) c Rashid Khan b Cottrell 60 Tim David c Bravo b Pretorius 2 Roshon Primus c Rashid Khan b Dananjaya 2 Niroshan Dickwella †lbw b Cottrell 0 Roston Chase lbw b Dananjaya 11 David Wiese run out (Carmichael) 12 Alzarri Joseph c Carmichael b Pretorius 0 Matthew Forde lbw b Rashid Khan 15 Larry Edward not out 6 Kesrick Williams not out 1 Extras (lb 2, nb 1, w 8) 11 TOTAL 20 Ov (RR: 8.05) 161/9 Fall of wickets: 1-86 (Johnson Charles, 8.5 ov), 2-95 (Tim David, 10.4 ov), 3-101 (Roshon Primus, 11.4 ov), 4-112 (Faf du Plessis, 12.4 ov), 5-113 (Niroshan Dickwella, 12.6 ov), 6-123 (Roston Chase, 13.5 ov), 7-124 (Alzarri Joseph, 14.3 ov), 8-146 (Matthew Forde, 17.2 ov), 9-156 (David Wiese, 18.5 ov) BOWLING O-M-R-W Sheldon Cottrell 4-0-41-2 Duan Jansen 3-0-22-0 Jaden Carmichael 1-0-17-0 Rashid Khan 4-0-12-1 Akila Dananjaya 4-0-30-2 Dwaine Pretorius 4-0-37-3 Patriots Innings Andre Fletcher †c David b Forde 0 Evin Lewis (c)c †Dickwella b Forde 24 Dewald Brevis c David b Forde 11 Darren Bravo c David b Joseph 20 Sherfane Rutherford b Wiese 9 Dwaine Pretorius c Joseph b Primus 9 Rashid Khan c David b Primus 0 Duan Jansen c & b Wiese 3 Sheldon Cottrell b Joseph 2 Akila Dananjaya c David b Wiese 10 Jaden Carmichael not out 2 Extras(w 10) 10 TOTAL 19 Ov (RR: 5.26) 100 Bowling O-M-R-W Alzarri Joseph 4-1-19-2 Kesrick Williams 2-0-11-0 David Wiese 4-0-17-3 Larry Edward 1-0-4-0 Roshon Primus 3-0-12-2
hero Johnson Charles scored 41 to take Kings to 161-9 in 20 overs. In response, Patriots managed only 100 all out in 19 overs.In pursuit of the target, Patriots lost the wicket of Andre Fletcher early to the impressive 20-year-old Barbadian Matthew Forde. Evin Lewis, who made 24 from nine, came and bashed three fours and two sixes, but Forde produced a beauty and found the outside edge at 28-2 in 2.5
quick Alzarri Joseph for a six, but Forde, bowling from the media centre end picked up his
Patriotsovers.had 48-3 in the powerplay with Sherfane Rutherford and Darren Bravo rebuilding. The duo found it difficult to score boundaries and Rutherford’s misery came to an end when he was bowled with a yorker from David Wiese for nine from 19 balls, at 66-4 after 9.3
Johnson Charles continued to shine bright at home
On Tuesday, September 13, one match is scheduled: TKR will play the table toppers, Barbados Royals at 19:00h.
Earlier, the Patriots won the toss and opted to field first. They were without the services of Dwayne Bravo, who was ill, but the dangerous Rashid Khan came into the team. Kings had a blistering start, posting 61-0 in the eventful powerplay. The skipper, who was given a life while he was on 18 off a Jaden Carmichael no-ball, had made the Patriots paid the price.
Compliments of
Matthew Forde had three wickets in the powerplay
At 112-4 in 12.4 overs, things slide downhill for the Kings as wickets fell at regular intervals. They lost the last five wickets for 49 runs as the lower-middle order lacked intent. Kings ended on 1619 in 20 overs. The Patriots’ collective bowling effort was led by Dwaine Pretorius, who claimed 3-37 from four overs, while Akila Dananjaya and Cottrell had two wickets each. The magician, Khan had 1-12 in four testing overs.
Wicketsovers. continued to tumble for Patriots as the Kings’ bowling group kept the
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The opening wicket stand was broken at 86 when Charles held out to Darren Bravo at long-on for 41 from 32 balls, an innings decorated with four boundaries and two sixes. At the half-way stage, Kings were 89-1 after 10 overs with du Plessis on 44 from 25 balls and Tim David, who was promoted to three, yet to score.
CPL 2022: Kings rule at Daren Sammy Cricket Ground with important victory
The teams will now travel to Trinidad and Tobago today for the Trinidad leg of the CPL.
Patriots did well to restrict the Kings
Patriots. Forde ended with 3-19 while Wiese had three wickets and Roshan Primus had two wickets.
Southovers.African Under-19 star Dewald Brevis slammed the
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