Guyana Times - Monday, September 5, 2022

WHAT'S INSIDE: Issue No. 5122 Nationwide coverage from the best news team in Guyana THE BEACON OF TRUTH guyanatimesgy.com PRICE $100 VAT INCLUDEDMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2022 P8 Page3 PagePage7 13 See story on page 10 …total production expected to reach 93.6M barrels by year end Guyana projected to earn US$1.1B from profit oil share in 2022 …students can access grades online from 18:00h Tax collection grows by 12.5%, fuelled by corporate taxes …reduction in VAT, excise tax reflects policy efforts to cushion consumers Laluni to benefit from $50M in road works …will create employment in community – President Ali Lethem workssubstandardtoldContractorsbustleadsAssaultguttedsupermarketChinesebyfirereporttoganjatoredoroadinRegion6 Suspected murder-suicide DPP 7deathsinquestordersintoofRegioncouple CXC, CAPE results to be announced today Work to be done on over 4000 community roads – VP Jagdeo Pedestrian dies after leg severed in hit-and-run accident Barge, tug collide with DHB; shift bridge’s alignment …only light traffic permitted on bridge …company to pay “full restitution” Page5 PPPP9141112P12

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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 Monday, Sept 5 – 11:30h –13:00h and Tuesday, Sept 6 – 13:00h – 14:30h.

uyana is expected to earn a whopping US$1.1 billion from its total share of profit oil for 2022, with the Finance Ministry mid-year report revealing that the country has already earned US$307 million in profit oil revenue for the first half of the year. The mid-year report, which was released over the weekend, explains that during the first half of 2022, there were five lifts of profit oil from the Liza Destiny and Unity Floating Production and Storage Offloading (FPSO) vessels. Apart from the US$307 million that Guyana earned from its share of profit oil, the country also received US$37.1 million in royalties in the first half. Considering the over US$100 price per barrel of Brent crude, Guyana’s earnings are ex pected to exceed US$1 bil lion by this year end.

WEATHER TODAY There will be thundery showers and light rain showers during the day. Expect light rain showers and partly cloudy skies at night. Temperatures should range between 22 degrees Celsius and 31 degrees Celsius.

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The Demerara Harbour Bridge will be closed to vehicular traffic on: Monday, Sept 5 – 23:00 – 00:30h and Tuesday, Sept 6 – No retraction. 5, 2022 |

“Government antici pates 13 lifts of profit oil for 2022, and subject to the evo lution of world market oil prices, now projects US$1.1 billion from the sale of the country’s share of profit oil, and US$147.7 million in royalties,” the mid-year re portWhenstates.it comes to the money in the Natural Resource Fund (NRF), the report explained that the cumulative balance on the NRF, inclusive of inter est income, was US$753.3 million at the end of the first half. This is after the Government would have withdrawn US$200 million in May, to fund its national development pertogasexplainedMeanwhile,projects.thereportthattheoilandsubsectorisestimatedhaveexpandedby73.5cent,whencompared with the first half of 2021. In the first half of the year, 34.6 million barrels of oil were produced, compared with 20.2 million barrels during the same period last year.“Given the outturn in the first half of the year, to tal production is expected to reach 93.6 million bar rels by year end, and with elevated prices supporting the sector, annual growth for 2022 is now targeted at 113 per cent,” the report states.Another component of the mid-year report is trade. According to the re port, merchandise trade balance improved in the first half of 2021 by US$1.8 million, growing to US$2.6 million at the end of June. “This substantial in crease is a reflection of growth in export earnings in the first half of 2022. Notably, total export earn ings more than doubled over the review period, growing by US$2330.2 mil lion to US$4352.3 million, and outweighed the 41.2 per cent growth in import payments. This is largely attributed to a robust per formance from the oil and gas sector, as well as a mar ginal increase in non-oil ex ports.”“Export earnings from crude oil amounted to US$3612.3 million at the end of the first half of the year, compared with US$1296.6 million over the same period last year. This is the result of an increase in the average export price of oil, combined with the in troduction of the Liza Unity FPSO to local oil produc tion,” the report also states.

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The oil rich Stabroek Block, which is producing the oil, is 6.6 million acres (26,800 square kilometres). Exxon, through subsidiary EEPGL, is the operator and holds 45 per cent interest in the Block. Hess Guyana Exploration Ltd holds 30 per cent interest, and CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC Limited, holds the remain ing 25 per cent interest. So far, Exxon’s total in vestments in Guyana total GY$1.3 trillion on its own and over GY$3 trillion with its partners. Additionally, the joint ventures explora tion and production plans up to 2025 will likely in crease their investments to more than GY$6 trillion. ExxonMobil has said it anticipates at least six projects offshore Guyana will be online by 2027, with production having already started in the second phase, with the Liza Unity FPSO vessel in operation. The third project –the 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 turn out to be the sin gle largest development so far in terms of barrels per day of oil, with a mammoth 250,000 bpd targeted. (G3)

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Employees of the Guyana Bank for Trade & Industry Limited Corriverton, Berbice branch on Sunday morning painted four pedestrian crossings beginning from in front of the GBTI Corriverton branch all the way to Skeldon High School (GBTI photos)

In our editorial yesterday (RSS and Crime) we introduced the “Caricom Crime and Security Strategy”, which was adopted at the 24th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government on February 18-19 2013 in Haiti. More than nine years have elapsed and we honed in on Goal 7 of the strategy that focused on specific initiatives that were to be operationalised as a priority. It is clear from the alarming crime statistics that emanate from our territories that as a region, and as a country, we have lapsed in providing the fundamental raison d'être of the State itself – security for itsWecitizens.summarise the remaining initiatives of Goal 7: to “Strengthen the Effectiveness of Criminal Investigation through Modern Technologies and Scientific Techniques”. These are more macro-based, but are important especially since the trafficking of narcotics through Guyana and the islands pose one of the greatest challenges to professional crime-fighting: vi. The development of model legislative framework governing the use of forensic evidence in criminal proceedings, in particular implementation of legislation to support the taking and use of DNA samples will be pursued; vii. Caricom will also work towards establishing model legislation to govern the handling of physical evidence, particular in relation to chain of custody, storage, packing, labelling security of the evidence, and the transfer of evidence; viii. The establishment of National DNA Databases should be supplemented by legislation for the maintenance of forensic databases and provision for the sharing of information held within databases through a centralised automated Caricom DNA database; ix. A Caricom DNA database ought to be pursued and established within a clear framework that protects individual privacy and takes due account of the protection of legitimate personal data; x. The Community will pursue the establishment and implementation of a secure regional criminal database of fingerprints network; Caricom Automated Fingerprint Integrated System (CAFIS), which maintains individual privacy rights. Fingerprint data can reveal vital connections between people and crimes, and allow the identification of anonymous traces left at crime scenes, which will significantly increase the criminal detection rate; xi. The CAFIS will be complemented by the establishment of regional legal regulatory instruments to facilitate the sharing of automated digital fingerprint information, collection, and exploitation in law enforcement investigations and judicial actions; xii. The Region will take all necessary steps to enhance forensic and ballistic capabilities to prevent and solve gun crimes. The marking and tracing of guns are essential steps in mapping the gun problem, identifying routes and modes of illicit gun trafficking and curbing increasing gun violence in the Region. The Regional Integrated Ballistic Information Network (RIBIN), established within the context of the UN PoA, is a proposed ballistic informationsharing mechanism to track guns and ammunition used in crimes and to make this information available to law enforcement, customs and other security agencies. RIBIN will provide support to those Caricom territories that currently lack the requisite forensic capacity to identify the ballistic ‘fingerprint’ of ammunition used in crimes and to record the ballistic ‘signature’ of the firearm used. This will increase Member States’ capacity to link firearms used by specific gangs and also allow them the capability to trace the connections in the organised trade in illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons and ammunition;xiii.RIBIN, once fully incorporated, will eventually link with other systems, including inter alia the European Integrated Ballistics Identification System (Euro-IBIS), Canadian Integrated Ballistics Identification Network (CIBIN) in Canada and the United States National Integrated Ballistics Identification Network (NIBIN). This could be achieved through the establishment of protocol agreements to connect RIBIN to these other international networks; and xiv. Caricom will encourage the establishment of a Regional Investigative Management System (RIMS) to support difficult and protracted investigations. The team would be stood up when required to support a Member State in a complex or protracted investigation or an investigation into an incident spanning regional borders.”There must be a report by the authorities on where we stand in reference to the realisation of Goal 7. Since we called in the RSS to “assess” the Fagundes investigation, can we surmise that RIMS was established and is functional?

The Jamaica Productivity Centre (JPC) reported that Jamaican labour pro ductivity had declined by an average of nearly 1.5 per cent per year (Labour Market Dynamics, 2018), meaning the average Jamaican worker has been progressively contributing less to national economic wealth. This situation is not only untenable but un sustainable.Moreover, the Jamaican Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate was re ported to be two per cent for 2018 and had aver aged roughly one per cent for the last 40 years. This was below the desired tar get of five per cent and the required eight per cent needed to significant ly transform the economy, according to the Economic Growth Council (EGC) of Jamaica. This conflu ence of factors could be ac counted for by low organi sational growth and could be the result of several fac tors, including inadequate ly skilled and competent employees and suitable Government policies to ad dress the Additionally,situation.atthe ter tiary level, studies have shown that the ratio of females to males was al most six to one, while in management up to 80 per cent of the team was typ ically made up of females (UNESCO). These figures demonstrate that there is a low number of males in tertiary institutions and the workforce. While it cannot be guaranteed that more male presence in ter tiary-level institutions will cause an increase in eco nomic performance, the disparity and under-repre sentation of males can be reviewed as a phenomenon requiring further analysis andThisexplanation.situation should be treated as more than just a problem in need of a res olution but rather an un usual phenomenon that necessitates additional ex planation and understand ing. Part two in this series will explore the role of so cialisation in helping to achieve these imperatives. (Jamaica(JacquelineObserver)Coke-Lloyd is founder and manag ing director of Make Your Mark Consultants. She is a transformational lead er, coach, organisation and people development spe cialist, and national pro ductivity ambassador)

By Jacqueline coke lloyd I n seeking to explain the paucity of males in tertiary institutions and management posi tions in Jamaica, this first in a five-part series of ar ticles assesses the statis tical underpinnings of the claims that there is in deed a dearth of males in these critical institutions in Jamaica and males are underperforming in com parison to females. Based on statisti cal data provided by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), fe males hold most of the managerial positions in Jamaica. Further research by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (Statin) has also highlighted that males have a low matriculation rate in Jamaica's tertia ry educational institu tions. These two phenome na seem to be connected as the relative lack of males in these institutions may possibly feed into the lower number of males in mana gerialDatapositions.fromthe World Bank (2020) highlighted a 20 per cent attendance rate of males at tertiary-level institutions in Jamaica as of 2015. Furthermore, ILO (2018) noted that approx imately two in five man agers in the country are male.The data highlights two principal phenomena that served as the basis of re search done by Coke-Lloyd in 2020. On the one hand, the data showed that few er males were matriculat ing to the tertiary level in comparison to their female counterparts. And, like wise, there seems to be a lower presence of males in managerial positions in both the private and pub lic sectors.Without sufficient ex planation to the contrary, these postulations can present an image of male underachievement; howev er, such a conclusion would be misleading as deducing the phenomena of male un derachievement is depen dent on more variables than just matriculation rates. In some instances, it may be socially construct ed. The low male presence in the universities indi cates that fewer males are gaining qualifications at the university level in Jamaica, which would like ly lead to these lesser qual ified males being ineligible for managerial positions in theAworkplace.pertinent ques tion that must be asked is whether males are more likely to go into the non-professional sector. This might justify the sta tistics showing that fewer males are studying at uni versities. A related ques tion could then be whether or not the Jamaican educa tion system actually facil itates male learning. One must, therefore, be careful in drawing the conclusion that male under-represen tation at the university level reflects male under achievement.Thephenomenon of male under-representation in tertiary education and managerial positions must ideally be analysed as a social issue in Jamaica. Several authors have com mented on this phenom enon within this context, generally. Some have not ed that the problem of im balances in educational outcomes for males is re lated to the stereotypes associated with what they each should study, while others argued that a defi ciency in educational at tainment among males in the workforce would hin der the realisation of the full potential of the econo my. However, there is lit tle literature that supports the notion that this type of stereotyping is related to the under-representation of males in managerial po sitions in AccordingJamaica.tothe data, low male enrolment at the tertiary level and, conse quently, low retention and graduation rates may lead to a decimation of the tal ent pool. Whereas the for mer may indeed lead to the latter, more explora tion needs to be done on this phenomenon. The low rates of male retention and graduation from tertia ry-level institutions may have negative implications for the country's macroeco nomic growth in general.

In the Jamaican con text, the macroeconomic situation is even more per verse, possibly exacerbat ed by this phenomenon of male underperformance.

Jacqueline Coke-Lloyd

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As a result of the colli sion, the pedestrian fell on the southern side of the road and his left leg was severed and landed in a yard four houses away. The motionless body of the pedestrian was picked up by Community Policing Group members and the Police and placed into a CPG vehicle which took him to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where he was seen, examined, and pronounced dead. His body was also posi tively identified by his rel atives and later escorted to Ezekiel Mortuary for stor age, awaiting a post-mor temHowever,examination.in a subse quent report on Sunday, Commander for Regional Police Division Three, Assistant Commissioner Mahendra Siwnarine said that the vehicle involved in the hit-and-run fatal ac cident has been found, and the driver is presently in custody.The driver has been identified as 28-year-old Vickey Balgobin of Willem, WCD.The Commander said that the driver has since ad mitted to Police that he was the driver of the vehicle at the time of the accident, and the reason he fled the scene was that he “panicked”. (G9)

Dear Editor, Any political party con testing a general election would want a clean voters’ list, it is one’s sovereign right to contest in a clean and transparent system, however, when you anal yse the statements made by the Opposition PNC and their associated ac tion thereafter, you won der if they are truly inter ested in a clean voters’ list or obsessed by some other nefarious agenda. I will now walk you through a critical and detailed anal ysis of this latest call of theirs.So, I shall begin the unorthodox way by asking a few questions: What vot ers’ list are they talking about? Were they ask ing for a clean workable list that every contest ing party would be com fortable to work with? And the answer is a blunt no! Because they hastily started a house-to-house process in a region of their stronghold under the lead ership of a yes man James Patterson as GECOM Chairman. Their motive here was to compile a list of voters that they want ed to work with. They were secretly compiling a list that would bring them a sure win in the upcom ing general elections, the only obstacle that preclud ed them from succeeding was the time to do it, and there were too many inter national eyes all round. To buttress my point, I bring to your attention the brazen attempts at rigging and the voters’ list of Region Four, a strong hold of theirs. It was their planned objective to fiddle around with that list un til it brought them the de sired outcome. And no bet ter place to do it than in Region Four. The details of our discourse are there for your perusal. So, when the decision was made for a recount, all hell broke loose, because here they were caught in a bind, that is, how to get the numbers to add up. Having found themselves between the proverbi al rock and a hard place, there was a mad scramble to get the figures to add up, so the only option left was to cry foul, turn now and say there was a bloat ed voters’ list, dead voters voting, and those who vot ed were actually overseas! This old PNC tactic was resurrected in March 2020 to increase their chances to at least eke a win, but it failed misera bly. So, this latest call of a clean voters’ list before going into the next LGE and national elections is really a hoax or a charade. The PNC are not really in terested in a clean voters’ list as the reasons I’ve put forward earlier. In fact, in this the period of Claims and Objections, they have not come forward to show any cause of a bloated or a fraudulent list for reasons we all know fully well. But rest assured, they are put ting together their usual, “cry foul list,” after they would have lost the elec tions.Finally, gone are the days when a list was com piled in favour of the PNC and their shameful cha rade of an election. Those days when enumerators would ask of the regis trant which political par ty they would vote for. Gone are the days when there were more voters on the list than the actu al number of people living in an area. Gone are the days when you turned up to vote and you were told that you were dead or you have voted already, these days cannot be resurrect ed. So, cry your heart out Norton, you and your clap traps will not be afford ed the opportunity to get your filthy rigging appa ratus in action again, it is one man one vote from this time henceforth.

NeilRespectfully,Adams

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The car that struck the pedestrian down Dead: Azaad Khan Arrested: Vickey Balgobin

Apedestrian from Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara (WCD), was dealt a brutal death on Saturday evening after he was struck down and killed by a driver who drove away from the scene. Dead is Azaad Khan, 42, of Blankenburg, WCD. Police in Regional Division Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) said after receiving infor mation about the accident, which occurred at around 19:45h on Saturday, an in vestigation was launched. Reports are that a black Allion motor car, PTT 952, hit the pedestrian on the Blankenburg Public Road, in the vicinity of the Blankenburg Nursery School.Police said the motor car was proceeding west along the southern side of the public road at a fast rate of speed and collided with the pedestrian, who was walk ing across the roadway from north to south.

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Equality Property of Subtraction: If you subtract a number on one side of an equation, you must subtract the same number on the other side of the equation. Both sides will then still be equal. (4 + 2) 2 = (1 + 5) 2 Equality Property of Multiplication: If you multiply one side of an equation by a number, you must multiply the other side of the equation by the same number. Both sides will then still be equal. (4 + 2) x 8 = (1 + 5) x 8

Equality Property of Addition: If you add a number on one side of an equation, you must add the same number on the other side of the equation. Both sides will then still be equal. (4 + 2) + 6 = (1 + 5) + 6

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Equality Property of Division: If you divide one side of an equation by a number, you must divide the other side of the equation by the same number. Both sides will then still be equal. But you never divide by 0. (4 + 2) ÷ 9 = (1 + 5÷ 9

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V ehicular traffic was halted on both ends of the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) for several hours on Sunday after a barge ran into Span 9 of the bridge during the retraction period. According to the DHB Corporation, the incident occurred at approximately 11:31h. At the time, a ves sel named “Desal 1” was carrying two tugs – Alpha 1 and Chaka – with sand, and was northbound when it hit the edge of the re tractor span (Span 9) of the Demerara Harbour Bridge. The impact from the collision pushed the bridge out of alignment, causing the breakage of the con necting end post at Spans 8 and 7; this in turn resulted in a transom to be warped with a slight opening. The accident also caused several buoys attached to the floating bridge to burst. Minister within the Public Works Ministry Deodat Indar told Guyana Times more than 10 areas of the Harbour Bridge were damaged from the collision. “There were some struc tural damages to the bridge under, especially with the arms that are holding up Span 9. There is some trans and beams, and end posts, and other structures that were damaged, [as well as] about four of the anchor chains were burst. A num ber of damages had hap pened,” Indar explained. Since the incident Sunday morning, engi neers and technical staff attached to the DHB Corporation were working on getting the bridge back in alignment for several hours.Ina statement from the Harbour Bridge on Sunday, it was revealed that the col lision pushed Span 9 out of line and also caused break age of the connecting end post at Spans 8 and 7. “That caused a slight opening there and no ve hicle can be allowed on the bridge out of an abundance of caution, we are working to get this [bridge] back up as soon as possible, but right now it’s hard to give a specific time,” one engi neer stated mid-Sunday af ternoon.While Minister Indar was at the bridge over seeing the works for most of the day, President Dr Irfaan Ali also visited the site inspecting the emer gencySincerepairs.this incident, the bridge had been closed to vehicular traffic on both ends for over seven hours. Commuters were forced to use the ferry stelling to get across to either side of the Demerara River. The Demerara Harbour Bridge is a critical infra structure, linking Regions Three (Essequibo IslandsWest Demerara) and Four (Demerara-Mahaica).Nevertheless,the engi neers and technical staff were able to complete ini tial repair works including fixing the power module of the hydraulic system to al low the retractor span to reclose. This was done just after 17:00h thus allowing for vehicular traffic as well as pedal cyclists to flow bothInways.order to clear up backed-up traffic in an ef ficient manner, vehicles were allowed to cross the bridge without paying the toll.Public Works Minister Juan Edghill, who oversaw the reopening, explained that this was done as a compensation for having persons waiting for sever al hours as they repaired the bridge. However, this free pass lasted less than an hour since the bridge was reopened late Sunday afternoon.Meanwhile, due to the extent of the damages, only vehicles weighing 10 tonnes and under are being allowed to cross the bridge as of now. This means trucks above that weight will not be allowed to tra verse the bridge over the next few Accordingdays. to Minister Indar, remedial works on the bridge will be continu ing for at least three days in order to get the bridge fully functional again. “They will be working on a 24-hour basis to deal with the structures under the bridge but we cannot accommodate heavy traffic at this moment. And traffic has to come slowly on the part where the bridge was joined [at] Span 8. “We are looking at twothree days of work non-stop there. It’s a lot of damag es,” he told this newspaper. As a result, commuters are advised to take pre cautions over the coming days whenever they see the cones while crossing the bridge to not cause fur ther damages to the struc ture as the technical team works.Moreover, the DHB Corporation’s Management has also been in contact with the local consign ee of the vessel and tug & barge that crashed into the bridge.“The Government has already informed the com pany – the agents and ev erybody – that they will have to bring full resti tution to the Demerara Harbour Bridge about the damages. I’ve actually is sued an order to this ef fect,” the Minister within the Public Works Ministry related. Guyana Times under stands that the vessel in volved was headed to the Island of Sunday’sMartinique.accident has reenforced the imminent need for a new bridge across the Demerara River. The current PPP/C Government is looking to build a fixed 2.65-kilome tre four-lane high-span ca ble-stayed structure across the Demerara River. The bridge, which features a bi cycle lane, is expected to bring an end to closures to vehicular traffic with a 50-metre fixed high span to cater for the free flow of vessels uninterrupted. In fact, Government signed a US$260 million contract in May with a joint venture led by China Railway and Construction Corporation (International) Limited, for the new bridge to be lasttoway.forworksAlready,constructed.preparatoryarebeingcarriedouttheprojecttogetunderConstructionisslatedcommencesoonandwillforsometwoyears. (G8)

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The technical team conducting emergency repairs on the DHB following Sunday’s accident

…only light traffic permitted on bridge …company to pay “full restitution”

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Barge, tug collide with DHB; shift bridge’s alignment

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The gun that was discovered in the couple’s home

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Munishwar Ramkellawan and Marianny Martinez

T hree years after a fuel dealer and his reput ed wife were found dead in their home in a sus pected murder/suicide, an independent judicial officer has been assigned to inves tigate the deaths. A coroner’s inquest con ducted by Magistrate Dylon Bess will determine if any one should be held crimi nally liable for the deaths of Munishwar Ramkellawan and Marianny Martinez. The proceedings will commence on September 20 at 13:00h at the Kamarang Magistrate’s Court. According to a notice issued by the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Judicature, Sueanna Lovell, a total of 12 wit nesses will testify in the in quest.The bodies of Ramkellawan, 36, and his reputed wife, a 26-yearold Venezuelan national, were found with gunshot wounds to their heads at their Eteringbang, Region Seven 2019.Landing(Cuyuni-Mazaruni)homeonJune28,

Now one of your Eyewitness’s pet peeves about Indigenous Peoples’ Month (see?? The sky didn’t fall!!) is that most of the activities focus (pruriently?) on Indigenous youths dancing around in grass skirts and feathered headdresses. That’s all well and good….but how about their cosmology?? Or pharmacology?? So you didn’t think their healing herbs constitute “pharmacology”?? Have you forgotten that quinine – which can cure malaria –was first isolated in 1820 from the bark of a cinchona tree, which is native to Peru and the Andes?? And known to the Indigenous Peoples?? With the all-weather highway to Lethem finally looking like it’s gonna be completed, this will be the equivalent of the railroads that opened up the US. Within a few decades, folks are gonna be living all over the interior – and perhaps even sooner because of rising seas. Our Indigenous Peoples should decide how they’ll “integrate” (?) with the coast-landers!! …in Opposition?? Your Eyewitness had his popcorn out and thoroughly enjoyed the United Opposition Rally at Golden Grove on the East Coast. That it went on and on and on (and then some!!) didn’t faze him. He had some cold ones to wash down the popcorn. While it wasn’t quite the spectacle he’d been conditioned to expect after the rebooted Game of Thrones in the “House of the Dragon” – and its silver-haired, incestloving Targaryens – his expectations were tempered, what with Guyana just coming off COVID-19 and skittish with Monkey Pox!!

All the speakers were predictable and it was only the local adaptation of TV’s flashing “Applause” sign – the boom boxes suddenly exploding with some upbeat songs that added some energy. The one surprise of the evening for your Eyewitness was some small parties made two presentations. From the AFC were sole, undisputed leader (Raphael’s gone, isn’t he??) – Ramjattan and the inimitable Cathy Hughes. They were allowed TWO speakers after signalling they’ll be saying “sayonara” come December?? Inducement to stay on?? …but excluding?? Your Eyewitness waited in vain for Sarabo-Halley who’d founded the “Guyana Nation Builders Movement (GNBM), Jailall Sharma from the “Equal Rights and Justice Party” (ERJP), and Keith Scott from NFA!! Aren’t they still members of APNU?

Coming together…

Suspected murder-suicide DPP orders inquest into deaths of Region 7 couple

In this month – designated as “Amerindian Heritage Month” to honour them – isn’t it time we jettison that colonial moniker and name it “Indigenous Peoples’ Month”?? What’s stopping us?? Those sourpusses who want to deny what being “Indigenous” implies in the modern world – and stress that SOME of the Indigenous aren’t really Indigenous since they migrated here later than the colonials – have shown their hand?? It isn’t just some pedantic exercise to “set the record straight” – but actually one to deny the Indigenous Peoples their land!! But the sourpusses are too consumed by jealousy and envy to acknowledge that it’s not just their “indigenousness” that gave the Indigenous People 18% of Guyana. It’s the same positivist law Europeans used to arbitrarily take over entire continents like Australia – by declaring them to be “terra nullis” (empty land) but couldn’t repeat it here because they acknowledged the existence of the Indigenous Peoples by signing treaties with them!!! Like treaties to trade or hunt down escaped African slaves, for instance. Couldn’t very well then turn around and say as they peered into the jungle, “Nobody there!!!” So when Burnham and crew went up to London – with Indigenous Leader Stephen Campbell – to negotiate for independence, the British acknowledged the Indigenous Peoples’ right to the land they occupied in Annex C of the independence agreement!! The Indigenous Peoples’ right to their lands in Guyana are on par with the Guyanese state’s rights to its Crown Lands!! How about THAT??!! All we can do is argue about “usufructuary rights” like mining and such like – as is happening at Chinese landing. How about the irony of that latter name?! In the meantime, the powersthat-be should get on with giving title to the Indigenous Peoples’ villages once they satisfy the criteria of the law laid down!!

A senior Police offi cial had told this publi cation that investigators were treating the couple’s death as a murder/suicide case and it is believed that Ramkellawan shot his wife to her head once before turning the gun on himself moments after they had a dispute at their residence. Reports are that the couple had been involved in a common-law relationship and operated a fuel busi ness from their residence along the Eteringbang Landing.Aneyewitness had said that hours before they were found dead, Ramkellawan and his wife were seen im bibing alcoholic beverages at their residence. This publication was told that after some hours of imbibing with each oth er, persons observed the man and woman engaged in a heated argument. Their row is said to have lasted quite a while before they eventually retreated to the inside of their home together.Shortly after the duo had entered their resi dence, persons in the area heard two loud noises, which sounded like gun shots, but could not ascer tain from which direction theySometimecame. later, their lifeless bodies were found lying next to each other on a bed in the home. It was an employee who worked for the couple that made the gruesome discov ery when he turned up at the residence/business and did not locate his bosses. Ramkellawan was dis covered bearing a gunshot wound to the right side of his head while his wife bore a single wound to the left side of her Additionally,head. a 9mm Taurus pistol along with eight live rounds were found on the bed between their two bodies, and two spent shells were discov ered in the bedroom. Their cause of death was given as gunshot inju ries to the head.

…Indigenously

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While the 2022 midyear report shows that tax revenue collections grew by 12.5 per cent largely due to corpo rate tax collections, the cor responding decline in Value Added Tax (VAT) and excise tax reflects Government ef forts to cushion consumers from inflation.

…reduction in VAT, excise tax reflects policy efforts to cushion consumers

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According to the report, internal revenue collections were recorded at $88.6 bil lion. The growth in internal revenue collections, the re port notes, was fuelled main ly by higher collection of corporate tax from private companies including those within the oil and gas sector. Taxes were also collected from financial institutions, retail sale, beverages, and the telecommunications sec tor. Additionally, both with holding and personal income tax collections increased mainly on account of the oil and gas sector. The report notes that withholding tax collections were $22.8 bil lion, while personal income taxes collections amounted to $26.8Anotherbillion.area that showed increases was customs and trade collections, which in creased by $1.1 billion to $13.4 billion in the first half of the year. The higher col lections, according to the re port, were primarily due to an increase of import duties of $807.6 million and envi ronmental levy of $154.3 mil lion.These stats, however, are in sharp contrast to VAT and excise tax collections, which the report notes declined by $6.9 billion to $43.2 billion, when compared with the cor responding period in 2021. “Over the review period, VAT from imported goods and services reduced by $1.4 billion, reflecting the impact of implemented budget mea sures, while VAT from do mestic supply grew by $2.2 billion. Excise tax collections declined by $7.8 billion to $15 billion during the first half of “This2022.”was primarily from reduced collections of $7.4 billion from imported petro leum products, which result ed from the policy measure to further reduce the excise tax rate to zero. This was implemented in an effort to cushion the effects of the ris ing fuel price due to the war in Ukraine and related geo political tensions,” the midyear report states.

The rise in food prices across the world was large ly influenced by Russia’s in vasion of Ukraine earlier this year. However, back in May the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations had reported a decline in some world food commodity prices, after costs soared in the earlier weeks of theInternationalyear. wheat prices were strongly affect ed by continued blockage of ports in Ukraine, concerns over crop conditions in the United States of America, larger shipments from India and higher-than-expected exports from the Russian Federation. This increased by 0.2 per Internationalcent. rice pric es increased by 2.3 per cent from their March levels, buoyed by strong demand from China and the Near East. Meanwhile, the Sugar Price Index increased by 3.3 per cent due to higher etha nol prices and concerns over the slow start of the 2022 harvest in Brazil, the world’s largest sugar exporter. FAO had meanwhile pre dicted that global wheat pro duction would grow in 2022, to 782 million tonnes. That forecast incorporates an ex pected 20 per cent decline in harvested area in Ukraine as well as drought-driven out put declines in Morocco. When the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Government pre sented the $383.1 billion 2021 budget, themed “A Path to Recovery, Economic Dynamism and Resilience”, it had announced a number of sweeping relief measures. Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh had announced the removal of VAT from a slew of food items and house hold necessities to alleviate the burden on taxpayers. It was also announced that the Government would re store to the zero-rated sta tus all of the food items and other basic household neces sities that were previously zero-rated in 2015 before the last PPP/C regime demitted office. These items include basic wheaten flour, basic breads, oats, unflavoured cracker biscuits, cooking oil, locally produced bed sheets and pil lowcases, toothbrushes, etc. This, he had noted, is in ful filment of another one of the PPP/C’s manifesto promises. (G3)

Tax collection grows by 12.5%, fuelled by corporate taxes

The Government’s policies to cushion consumers from rising food prices are reflected in the midyear report

CXC, CAPE results to be announced today …students can access grades online from 18:00h

marksResults.AdministrationExaminationandInadditiontorefromtheEducation Ministry and CXC offi cials, attendees will also be treated to a cultural perfor mance. The event will be streamed live online at cxc. org/cxctvThe CXC has estab lished a helpdesk service to provide support to can didates accessing their results via the student portal. For assistance, candidates may contact the CXC Helpdesk ser vice in Barbados at 1-246227-1700 or in Jamaica at 1-876-630-5200, between the hours of 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm (AST) on Monday. The regional exam ination body is remind ing stakeholders that re sults are preliminary and that candidates who may have questions about their grades, may submit re quests for reviews and/or queries. The deadline for submission is October 7. Official figures show that across the 16 partic ipating territories, CSEC candidates numbered 105,078, CAPE 25,429, and the CCSLC According4736.toCXC, it has been in contact with region al and international high er education institutions to communicate the timing of the release of results in order to minimise the pos sibility of students being disadvantaged during the matriculation process.

10 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2022 | GUYANATIMESGY.COM NEWS E ducation Minister Priya Manickchand is set to announce the results of the 2022 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) to day.This announcement will take place at the Anna Regina Multilateral School, Region Two (PomeroonSupenaam), today at 14:00h.

Meanwhile, students in Guyana and 15 other Caribbean territories who sat the various examina tions administered by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) will be able to access their results on line via their student por tal from 18:00h (6:00 pm) Atlantic Standard Time (AST) today, Monday, September 5. The student portal can be accessed here: www.cxc.org/student-rehttps:// sults. The official release of re sults ceremony for the CXC May/June 2022 regional ex aminations, will take place today at 10:00 am AST, at the Gros-Islet Human Resource Development Centre in Saint Lucia. That country’s Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology, and Vocational Training Minister, Shawn Edward will deliver the feature ad dress.Remarks will also be delivered by the CEO and Registrar of CXC, Dr Wayne Wesley, and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training, St Lucia, Michelle Charles.

Review Candidates who may have questions about a grade and would like to have a script reviewed, may submit a request for a “Script Review”. A script review may result in an overall Grade either in creasing or remaining the same.Ifthe review results in an increase in an overall grade, the candidate will receive a refund of their re view fee. Reviews may be submitted through schools for in-school candidates or through the Ministry of Education for private can didates. The cost per re view is US$30. (G1)

Meanwhile, the Director of Operations, Examination Services Division, CXC, Dr Nicole Manning will de liver a presentation on the 2022

peat of such a significant loss by fire. One of the issues that will soon be addressed is the certification of build ings in the commercial area to ensure that they are in keeping with the building codes, since the design of the China Star Supermarket as well as the materials used in its con struction hampered fire fighters from gaining ac cess to the building. Additionally, a fire pre vention plan will be devel oped for the township of Lethem and more fire hy drants will be planted in the area in efforts to stay ahead of the curve. This initiative will extend to all regions.Thefamous China Star Supermarket, according to residents, was a landmark in the commercial zone as the first mega Chinese store built in Lethem. One resident in a Facebook post said “Lethem definitely needs more fire trucks and firemen, there was nothing much they could have done. Assistance was given to them by the Brazilian company. This is a very sad situation for the businessMeanwhile,community.”Mayor of Lethem John Macedo praised firefighters, Police, and Guyana Water Incorporated for their ef forts to fight the fire which destroyed the China Star store.

T he Guyana Fire Service has launched an investigation into the cause of a fire that gut ted the famous China Star Supermarket in Lethem, Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo), on Saturday night. Reports are that the fire started at about 20:15h at the supermarket, which is located in Lethem’s com mercialAccordingzone. to the Guyana Fire Service, the structure was a wooden and concrete building of two floors which was operated as a gener al store and served as the living quarters of Wuumo Cheng and Wuujian Giun.

Lethem Chinese supermarket gutted by fire

The Fire Service noted that one water tender and crew from the Lethem Fire Station, along with auxilia ry firefighters, immediate ly responded to the scene and with the use of a pres surised fire hydrant, they were able to extinguish the blaze and save sever al buildings in close prox imity to the China Star Supermarket.However, the China Star Supermarket was de stroyed, leaving two per sons homeless and more than ten persons unem ployed. Hundreds of residents also came out in their num bers to assist the owners, but despite their efforts, the building was complete ly destroyed, resulting in millions of dollars in losses. Meanwhile, on Sunday, Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn, Chief Fire Officer (ag) Gregory Wickham, Fire Prevention Officer Sheldon Sauns and a team of investigators vis ited the location to assess the damage and ascertain what caused the fire. According to the GFS, the team met with John Macedo, the Mayor of Lethem, operators of the China Star berequiredtheotherbusinessrepresentativesSupermarket,ofthelocalcommunity,andresidentstodiscusswayforwardandthestepsthatmusttakentopreventare

Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn along with firefighters at the scene of the fire on Sunday The aftermath of the fire

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“It is with deep regret that we have lost one of the first buildings in the com mercial zone… I would like to take this opportunity to compliment the Lethem Fire Service team for a job well done in preventing the fire from destroying nearby buildings.”“There wasn’t anything they could have done to save the China Star store. Under the circumstances, the offi cers of the Fire Service did their best. Special thanks for the assistance rendered by Coema Guyana, the Lethem Police Force, GWI, LMPCI,” he said. (G9) The fire that destroyed the China Star Supermarket in Lethem

A quantity of narcotics was found by Police ranks on Saturday evening at about 19:55h at a house in Hendricks Street, Triumph Front, East Coast Demerara (ECD), as they were responding to a report of anRanksassault. from the Beterverwagting (BV) Police Station said they were on mobile Anti-Crime Patrol, when they were de tailed to respond to the report of an alleged as sault somewhere through Hendricks Street, Triumph.

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A n early morning fire that is suspected to be an act of arson has left a family of eight home less. Reports are that fire fighters responded to the fire at the home of 39-yearold Joshua Campbell and his family at Parika Façade, East Bank Essequibo (EBE), at about 09:30h on Friday. By that time the two-storey wooden and con crete building was fully en gulfed. As a result of the fire, the building and its con tents were destroyed, leav ing Campbell and seven othersAlsohomeless.affected by the blaze was a one flat wooden and concrete building which is situated on the northern side of the fire, owned and occupied by 31-year-old Derrick Bhagwat, and his family of four. Due to radiated heat, windows on the neighbour ing house were destroyed. “The purported cause of the fire is that it was mali ciously set by person(s) un known,” the Fire Service said in a report.

8 homeless after fire destroys Parika Façade home

The ganja that was found at Triumph Assault report leads to ganja bust

Regional Vice Chairman Zamal Hussain, who heads the Regional Works Committee, inspecting road work on the Corentyne

The fire that gutted the home at Parika Façade

T he Works Committee of Region Six was forced to ask contrac tors to redo road repairs in Region Six (East BerbiceCorentyne).Thiswas revealed by Regional Vice Chairman Zamal Hussain. He was at the time addressing the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) at their monthly statutory meeting on Thursday.“Weareasking contrac tors to ensure that they do their work properly because we went very hard on some of the contractors – myself and the engineer,” Hussain said as he presented the Regional Works Committee report.He told the RDC that some of the roads checked by the Works Committee were not done to the expect ed standard.“Weasked them to redo it. There is one road in Liverpool where we only had money to do a certain part but we were asked to do the entire street and are doing that with the help of the Ministry of Public Works.”Hussain pointed out that all works are being monitored as he called on all Regional Councillors to also monitor all of the proj ects taking place within the region.Meanwhile, work is ex pected to commence shortly on the repairs to 268 roads in the region. The tenders closed on Wednesday. “That would bring the figure to well over 400 roads to be repaired in that region this year,” Hussain said. “This is a record, some thing that had never been achieved in this region be fore.”According to the Vice Chairman, who also heads the Works Committee, ca nal maintenance is continu ing and the quality of work has improved but there are still some problems with some of the work being done in theTheregion.ViceChairman took the opportunity to thank the Regional Executive Officer and the Works Committee for works done to the stan dard needed for the reopen ing of schools today. He pointed out that they were able to get assistance from Government part-time workers who are employed under a 10-day per month work programme earning $40,000 monthly. The pro gramme was implemented by President Dr Irfaan Ali. According to Hussain, there were some challeng es getting Vryman’s Erven Secondary ready in time for the reopening of school. Nevertheless, he assured the RDC that it would be ready for students to enter the classroom this morning. (G4)

The ranks immediate ly ventured to the location where, on arrival, they ex ited the vehicle and walked into a partially fenced yard situated on the northern side of the street. With the aid of a phone’s light, one of the ranks observed a branch resting on a bulky The rank immediately took possession of the bulky plastic bag and examined it, where he discovered 64 transparent zip-lock plas tic bags containing leaves, seeds, and stems suspected to beThecannabis.cannabis was then taken to the Beterverwagting Police Station where it was pho tographed and weighed, amounting to 121.73 grams. Only a week ago, Police arrested a 41-year-old man following the discovery of a quantity of ganja at his Granville Park, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home. It was reported that be tween 14:00h and 16:00h, a party of policemen acting on information received, went to the suspect’s home where a search was con ducted. During the opera tion, several transparent plastic wrappers contain ing the cannabis were found.The cannabis and the suspect were taken to the Beterverwagting Police Station where the cannabis was weighed and amounted to 204 grams. (G9)

Contractors told to redo substandard road works in Region 6

One water tender and crew from the Leonora Fire Station responded to the scene and one jet working from the original tank sup ply aided by a light pump working from an open wa ter source was used to ex tinguish the fire. Further investiga tions are being carried out by the Fire Prevention Department to confirm the cause of the fire. Only two days ago, a fire of unknown origin erupted at Romulus Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara (EBD), and completely de stroyed two buildings in the Greater Georgetown com munity. That fire also left four persons homeless, and the origin is yet to be deter mined. (G9)

that the inclement weath er has caused some de lays in implementation of the Hinterland Roads Programme. However, it is expected that the works will be accelerated during the second half of the year, with anticipated dry weath er,” the mid-year report also said.At present, the Government of Guyana is embarking on a massive, countrywide road-widening project. This is due to the fact that the existing width of roads is not adequate for the ever-increasing traffic. This was announced by Minister within the Public Works Ministry, Deodat Indar, back in June. He had noted that with the mas sive development Guyana is projected to undergo from its oil and gas sector, the Government will invest in opening out those choke points and constructing con nector roads, so that people can move freely. For example, the Minister explained, road widening works will com mence on the road at Grove leading to Good Success, East Bank Demerara (EBD), and it will be paved all the way to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, EBD. According to the Minister, by the end of this year, the Government is hoping to finalise funds to put out tenders for the pav ing of the Soesdyke-Linden Highway. The choke point at the La Penitence Road which leads into Albouystown, Georgetown will also be widened to three lanes. Widening works will also be done at Cemetery Road, Georgetown, which will see the addition of two to three more lanes to ac commodate more traffic onto the Back Road. Similar works will be done on the road by the Russian Embassy in Georgetown, which when completed would allow for four lanes of traffic to come from Conversation Tree, Greater Georgetown and onto Durey Lane, Campbellville Georgetown. (G3)

A ll systems are in place for the safe reopening of schools in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) today. This assurance was giv en by Regional Chairman David Armogan when the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) met on Thursday.Apartfrom the physi cal structures, the regional administration is also fo cusing on the safety of stu dents when they return to the classroom for the new school“Weyear.are in a state of readiness and prepared ness to ensure that there is no difficulty when Monday (today) comes,” Armogan said.He pointed out that electricians and plumb ers have been visiting all school buildings to ensure that all the plumbing and electrical works are func tional.There are 70 nursery, 57 primary and 16 second ary schools in Region Six. Just over 7000 students at the secondary level and in excess of 11,000 at the primary level, while at the nursery level there are just over 3000. At Thursday’s RDC meeting, concerns were raised over the safe ty of schools in the wake of monkeypox being con firmed in Guyana and ac tive COVID-19 cases being on the rise in the region.

Over the next few years, the Government plans to do remedial works on be tween 4000 to 5000 commu nity roads across Guyana, including roads that were previously neglected. This is according to Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, during a recent interview that was broadcast on social media. He explained that while the Government has been focused on getting the bigger road projects out of the way, they will be transi tioning to doing more work on community roads. “We’re now transitioning back to community roads that were neglected. So, in the next two, three years, we’d have to do maybe 4000 - 5000 community roads across the country. Good, solid roads so that when people come out from their houses, they can see the benefits.”

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Work to be done on over 4000 community roads – VP Jagdeo …as $3.1B spent on community roads in 1st half of 2022

Region Six Chairman David Armogan Region 6 schools ready for reopening today – Regional Chairman

“Because for a man who in the morning has to come out on the road in a mud dam, you know, building the highway may not have such a big impact, personally, on him as his community road. But we had to get the pro gramme started,” he said. $3.1 billion Meanwhile, it was re vealed in the Finance Ministry’s recently released mid-year report that for the first half of 2022 the sum of $3.1 billion was spent to rehabilitate and con struct community roads in Regions Two, Three, Four, Five, Six and 10, under the Miscellaneous and Urban Roads“TheProgramme.Hinterland Roads Programme also saw $1.2 billion expended on projects including the rehabilita tion of Moruca Main Access Road Phase 3, Mabaruma to Hosororo, Orealla to Kwakwani, 5 Mile Housing Scheme Road, Mahdia Main Access Road, Tabatinga Drive (internal roads), and Mabura to Mango Landing.” “It should be noted

“Preparation in terms of disease prevention in relation to the reopen ing of schools is that we continue to adhere to the measures as agreed to by the Ministry of Health in terms of avoiding the pos sibility of getting COVID. The number stands at 30 right now in the region. On Monday it was 30. That is still a lot. Then we have two cases of monkeypox. That is another big prob lem although it is not le thal. We will be making sure that our teachers are apprised of these condi tions that can possibly lead to a serious epidemic in the region in terms of mon keypox. I am sure that the Ministry of Health will be working very closely with the Regional Educational Department to ensure that the measures that the Ministry has asked to be put in place, have been put in place for the reopening of schools on Monday,” the Chairman assured. (G4)

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo

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President Dr Irfaan Ali holding his son Zayd while interacting with a resident of Laluni on Saturday

T he farming commu nity of Laluni on Soesdyke-Lindenthe Highway will benefit from major upgrades to its road network with the award over $50 million in contracts for preliminary works. This was revealed by President Dr Irfaan Ali during a visit to the commu nity on Saturday to partici pate in its Heritage Month celebrations.According to the Head of State during brief remarks, these upgrades will be done in phases.“Iknow that you have tremendous difficulties with the road and I am pleased to announce to you that only this week, we awarded three contracts to the val ue of $50 million to start phase one of this road,” he informed the residents. Phase one of the road up grade involves grading and shaping works in prepara tion for phase two to get un derway.President Ali noted that personnel from the Public Works and Local Government and Regional Development Ministries will be visiting Laluni soon to ascertain the capacity available in the village to work on the second phase of theThis,project.he explained, will create employment in the community while ensur ing residents are involved in the development of their village.“In phase two of this road, we will be examin ing ways in which we can involve the community be cause one of the quick est ways in which we can have the road completed is to have concrete paved roads,” the Head of State disclosed.ThePPP/C Government has placed heavy emphasis on improving the country’s infrastructure. In Budget 2022, a whopping $76.7 bil lion was earmarked for the construction of roads and bridges throughout the country.Meanwhile, the upgrade of the roads in Laluni was welcomed by residents who said the road has been in a deplorable state for a num ber of years. They are also grateful because it will play a major role in boosting food production in the communi ty. “The road had been in this state for probably over five years and it has had a tremendous effect on the transportation for farmers who has been finding it im possible to reach out to the different areas,” Laluni res ident, Anthon Abrams, told DPI.He added that, “the road had many setback and I trust that with this new ini tiative it will be appreciated a lot not only by the farmers but the other Meanwhile,residents”.Chairman of the community, Julian Mohabir also expressed similar“Farmerssentiments.havebeen pun ishing with the road as well as the school children to at tend the secondary school and this help we will get with the road, it will help the farmers 100 per cent,” he stated.Rabindranauth Doobay, the community’s largest producer of cherries, said as a farmer, he is elated about the announcement made by President Ali. “I am very much glad for the promise today which I heard from his mouth that we will be getting the road at a first phase because it had been a long time… We are all farmers in here and the road is 100 per cent needed,” Doobay told DPI. President Ali, during his remarks, had expressed his intention to make the small farming communi ty a major food production hub for the country. To this end, he said the Agriculture Ministry would work along with farmers in Laluni to develop a resilient and sus tainable food production system.“I'm going to ask the Ministry of Agriculture to come and work with you on a programme through which you can develop a resilient and sustainable food production system. One in which you can ex pand your production with the help of the banking in stitutions and private in vestors to see how we can lead this community to be come an important and ma jor food production hub for our country,” he posited. The Head of State re iterated that the idea is not only to make Guyana food secure but the en tire Caricom (Caribbean Community) Region as well with the involvement of the entire country. To this end, he handed over sever al pieces of farming equip ment to Additionally,Laluni. the President further outlined that he is calling on every Guyanese, especially the youths, to bring their ideas forward to find the best formula to enhance food production and they will receive Government’s sup port.Moreover, Ali went on to recommit his Government’s “hard work, support and collaboration” to building a more sustainable and resil ient“Wecommunity.aregoing to contin ue to invest in you, we are going to continue to invest in this community, and we will continue to expand our services. But more impor tantly, we must bring the people along with us.” He added that he is com mitted to keeping his prom ise of spending time in ev ery community regardless of its size and to listening to the concerns and sugges tions of “Andresidents.Isayto you today as you celebrate this her itage, that we are togeth er. We are building a ‘One Guyana’ stronger than ever together, here in Laluni and all across the country,” the President stated. (G8)

President Dr Irfaan Ali handed over several pieces of farming equipment to Laluni during Saturday’s visit

Laluni to benefit from $50M in road works

…will create employment in community – President Ali

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Oral arguments into challenge of quarry operations set for Sept 28

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lenge to Hadi’s World – a company owned by prom inent businessman Nazar “Shell” Mohamed – be ing granted four quarry ing licences, have been set for September 28 be fore Demerara High Court Judge Gino Persaud. BK Quarries is con testing a decision by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) to grant the quarrying li cences to the company, which, in addition to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), are listed as the respondents in its judi cial review application filed in June. In initial filings, BK Quarries had also named GGMC’s Commissioner Newell Dennison as a re spondent.However, the Commissioner of GGMC ap plied to be removed as a par ty to the Justiceproceedings.Persaud grant ed the application on the ground that there was “no cause of action disclosed against him”. As such, he has been de leted from the proceedings and BK was ordered to pay him $250,000 in costs on or before September 20. Further, BK Quarries had filed an application for the GGMC to disclose sev eral documents, including documents submitted to it by Hadi’s World in its quar ry licence applications. That application, was, however, denied by Justice Persaud who held that “[BK Quarries] has not demon strated any exceptional cir cumstances to justify the disclosuresAccordingsought”.tothe Judge, “the application for disclo sure seems to be an attempt to obtain as much informa tion as possible to unpick GGMC’s decision and seems to be a fishing expedition”. “[BK Quarries] has come to court to challenge GGMC and is required to prove its case based on the informa tion in its possession not on what it hopes to acquire through an application for disclosure within a Fixed Date Application,” said the Judge in his ruling. With the dismissal of the appli cation, BK Quarries has to pay an additional $150,000 in costs to GGMC. Injunction In its application for ju dicial review, BK Quarries through its lawyer Siand Dhurjon, complained that despite raising several ob jections, the GGMC and EPA went ahead with the granting of the licences to Hadi’s World which has no expertise in the quarrying industry.Among other things, the company is seeking an in junction to prevent Hadi’s World from occupying or taking any steps to develop 16,500 acres of land recent ly awarded by the GGMC as four quarrying licences. Dhurjon said that BK Quarries applied for a quarrying licence for an area in Iteballi, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) in August 2018 and is still awaiting a response regard ing its Hadi’sapplication.World, BK Quarries said, only applied for its quarrying licence in December 2020. BK Quarries con tends that the EPA ille gally waived the require ment for Hadi’s World to be subjected to performing an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of four quarrying operations for the reason that the operations “would not significantly im pact the environment”. “This decision to award a company which does not own even a single crush er, 16,502 acres of land for quarrying was made al though BK Quarries had applied for a quarry licence since August 16, 2018, for a portion of the same area. BK Quarries Inc. was is sued a prospecting licence for the said portion in 2014, a licence which remains in force up to today,” BK Quarries said. BK Quarries’ legal doc uments outline that the Commissioner of GGMC had written to its owner, Brian Tiwarie, in December 2019 stating that his appli cation for the quarry licence at Iteballi was being pro cessed. It said it was even informed by GGMC that the area the company had ap plied for was “a considerable expanse of land” and that it would be required to reduce the acreage being sought. The said acreage was reduced by 50 per cent — from 9364 acres to 4680 acres, Dhurjon said, adding that on January 20, 2021, GGMC informed his client that all quarry licences ex tant and otherwise are to be reviewed by the GGMC’s Board of AccordingDirectors.to counsel, on February 6, 2021, as published in the Official Gazette, BK Quarries ob served that GGMC had published a notice of in tention to grant four quar ry licences to Hadi’s World of Lot 29 Lombard Street, Georgetown, over the areas which were covered by its [BK Quarries] prospective licences and 2018 quarry li cenceTheapplication.companysaid that it immediately protested the GGMC’s decision as unfair, unlawful, and unaccept able, and through its law yers, sent several letters to the GGMC that went un answered. The lawyer sub mitted that on February 18, 2021, several of GGMC’s Board members pointed out that the applications by Hadi’s World, which were still before the Board for consideration, had already been approved unilaterally by that it baffles the mind that the EPA would waive the re quirement for an EIA for the issuance of four contigu ous quarry licences that cov er a stunning 16,502 acres. “This is an area that is five times the size of the capi tal city of Georgetown and almost four times the 4500 acres that were approved for BK Quarries Inc in the same place.”According to Dhurjon, on June 15, 2021, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat hosted a ceremony for the signing of the four quarry licences along with related EPA permits which were personally hand ed over by the Minister to Mohamed.Assuch, BK Quarries complained that it did not benefit from equality of treatment under the law by State agencies in breach of the Constitution since the GGMC had “a serious” con cern that it “could not ac tually use and occupy some 9,000 acres for quarry ing operations whereas the GGMC has licensed Hadi’s World Inc to use over 16,500 acres for quarrying opera tions.”“This is in spite of the fact that Hadi’s World told the Government enti ties that its quarrying op erations would only utilise less than 1000 acres com bined across the four licens es covering the 16,500 acres of lands given to them for quarrying operations,” the lawyerDhurjonargued.also alleged that the Board of the GGMC was biased in its decision. Considering this, Dhurjon is asking the court to grant an order of manda mus to compel the GGMC to take all steps necessary to see to the 2018 application by BK Quarries for a quar ry licence over the area of 9364 acres designated by the GGMC. (G1)

…as Minister calls on more organisations to get involved in agriculture

Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha on Sunday visited the Plaisance Seventh-day Adventist Church to discuss developing the church's ag ricultural munitiesfieldsactivitiespersonsaboutisations.thatinstep.membersty.suringableagriculture,ganisationsotherthatriculture.tiativesationselatedthegagement,culturalofanceseekingwithleadershipMembersprogramme.ofthechurch'srecentlymetMustaphaathisofficetheMinistry'sguidindevelopingasectiontheircompoundforagripurposes.DuringSunday’senMustaphatoldmembersthathewastoknowthatorganiweretakingtheinitogetinvolvedinagHefurtherstatedwhenreligiousandprivateandpublicorgetinvolvedinGuyanawillbetoplayitspartinenregionalfoodsecuri“IwanttocommendthefortakingthisYou’veshowninterestdevelopinganinitiativeisnewinmanyorganWhenwespeakagriculture,manyonlyrelatethosetopersonsintheorthefarmingcombutifwecanhave

On Thursday, Amerindian Heritage Month kicked off with an ex plosive cultural extravagan za at the National Stadium where President Dr Irfaan Ali pledged to Guyana’s Indigenous people that his Government would ensure that they are a part of and benefit from the country’s development. He committed to stand by Indigenous peo ple from every community and take them on the path way to prosperity, telling them that they should cele brate this month with this in mind.

He said, “Celebrate with the confidence that your fu ture is going to be better. Celebrate with the confi dence that the opportuni ties of the future will come to you. Celebrate with the confidence that you will be an equal partner in the de velopment of our country. Celebrate with the confi dence that you are deserv ing people. Celebrate with the confidence that you are equal to anyone else. Celebrate with the confi dence that this Government is with you, for you, and by you.”This year’s Heritage Month is being held under the theme “Celebrating our Traditional Culture While Building One Guyana.” According to Sukhai, this theme is appropriate. Pointing out the impor tance of Indigenous culture, she noted that it is person al, unique, and sacred. (G2)

persons emulating what is being done here then Guyana can remain food secure. Even taking it fur ther, with these efforts, we can move closer to achiev ing Vision 25 by 2025,” the Minister is quoted as say ing in a release from the Agriculture Ministry. Further, he encouraged the membership to include the youth arm of the church in the“Whenproject.we think about agriculture, we see it as a labour-intensive job for older folks. Now, with the technological advances in the sector, younger people are expressing an interest and coming on board. Here is your opportunity to in tegrate your youth groups into the project so that they too can understand the im portance of agriculture to our country’s and the re gion’s development and growth,” he said. Alison WilsonHetsberger, one of the church’s directors, said given the emphasis be ing placed on developing Guyana’s agriculture sector and the Government’s call for organisations to get in volved, the leadership de cided to utilise some of the lands it had available to de velop an agriculture pro gramme.“Plaisance would’ve answered the call of the President and the Minister (of Agriculture) to get in volved in agriculture. We planned a project and be gan the process of putting together a proposal to com mence our shade house project. We’ve already com menced part of the process and received assistance in the form of virtual train ing from NAREI. We also partnered with the UNDP to get this project going. We are happy that the Minister is here and look forward to partnering with the Ministry to get this project going,” she explained. After assessing the avail able land space, Mustapha told the members pres ent that teams from the Ministry will be returning to the site during the week to see what is needed and develop a plan of action to move the process forward. Also present at Sunday’s meeting were MoA Director General Madanlall Ramraj; GLDA CEO (ag), Dr Dwight Waldron; NAREI CEO Jagnarine Singh, MoA Chief Technical Officer George Jervis, Chief Fisheries Officer Denzil Roberts, New GMC Senior Marketing Officer Asraf Narine and other officials from the GLDA and NAREI. A merindian youths are expected to ben efit from continuous training as the Government gears up to train some 650 Community Service Officers (CSOs) by the end of 2022. This was announced by Amerindian Affairs Minister Pauline Sukhai, on Thursday evening, at the Amerindian Heritage Month 2022 cultural ex travaganza.

Amerindian youths to benefit from CSO training

Agri Ministry to assist Plaisance Seventh-day Adventist Church to develop agri programme

Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha meeting with the Plaisance Seventh-day Adventist Church to discuss the church's agricultural programme

Amerindian Affairs Minister Pauline Sukhai

The Youth Entrepreneurship and Apprenticeship Programme (YEAP) has been reinstat ed by the Government, along with the rehiring of the 2000 CSOs who were fired by the former APNU/ AFC Government. The pro gramme has also been ex panded to include 500 CSOs.To date, approximate ly 466 CSOs have been trained in the theoretical and practical areas of com puter literacy, introduction to solar installation and maintenance, garment con struction, tourism and hos pitality, and field operation and tractor maintenance, among others, amassing some $1.85 billion in train ing“Leadersfees. will benefit from continued support to build leadership capacity and we remain committed to supporting transparency and accountability within villages for the best interest of the villagers,” Minister Sukhai said. She said the Government remains committed to bridging the divide between the hinterland and coastal areas and has injected mas sive revenue into villages across the hinterland. Earlier this year, the Housing and Water Ministry, in collaboration with the Amerindian Affairs Ministry and the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which saw over 200 CSOs being trained to maintain water supply systems in hinterland communities.

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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Cuba to hold referendum on Family Code peaceful and the streets have remained calm since. Tempers have mainly flared online, where Odinga and Ruto's partisans have bombarded social me dia with often outlandish claims and counter-claims. Fraud accusations Odinga, who was backed by the term-limited Kenyatta in this election, has alleged that a team working for Ruto hacked into the commission's sys tem and replaced genu ine pictures of polling sta tion result forms with fake ones, increasing Ruto's share."The evidence that has been presented by the pe titioner shows a well-or chestrated and fraudulent scheme that was executed with military precision," Odinga's lawyer, Philip Murgor, told the court on Friday.Odinga and the four dis sident commissioners also accuse commission chair man Wafula Chebukati of violating electoral law by unilaterally carrying out the vote tally and declaring the result. The official num bers showed Ruto receiving 50.49 per cent, enough to avoid a second-round runoff.Ruto and Chebukati have rejected all of these allegations. Ruto's legal team dismissed Odinga's claims as a "shock and awe" strategy that lacks concrete evidence. If the court nullifies the result, a new election must be organised within 60 days. The court's decision is final. Kenya is a key Western ally in an unstable re gion, contributing troops to peacekeeping mis sions in Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It also hosts the regional headquarters of many global companies andWhileorganisations.generally stable, it has seen repeated in stances of election-related violence, often along ethnic lines.More than 1200 were killed in clashes after the 2007 election, when Odinga accused then-President Mwai Kibaki’s party of massive rigging. (Reuters)

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K enya's Supreme Court will decide today whether to uphold or nullify the result of last month's presiden tial election, a ruling anx iously awaited in a country scarred by previous bouts of poll-related violence.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the attack as "horrific and heartbreak ing"."I'm thinking of those who have lost a loved one and of those who were in jured," he tweeted. At a news briefing on Sunday evening, police said there could be more in jured people who had taken themselves to hospital, urg ing them to contact author ities.Rhonda Blackmore, Commanding Officer for RCMP Saskatchewan said that some people may have been targeted by the two suspects, while others are believed to have been "at tacked randomly".

fifth presidential bid, says Deputy President William Ruto's narrow win was the product of massive fraud. Four out of seven election commissioners disowned the result announced by the commission chairman, saying the tallying had beenTheopaque.Supreme Court made history in the last election in 2017 by an nulling President Uhuru Kenyatta's victory over Odinga because of proce duralKenyattairregularities.prevailed in a re-run that Odinga boycot ted.About 100 people were killed in election-relat ed clashes that year. This time, protests briefly broke out in several Odinga strongholds after the elec tion commission chair de clared Ruto the victor on August 15, but Odinga urged supporters to stay

Kenya's top court to rule on disputed presidential election today

10 dead as Canada rocked by deadly stabbings

The first emergency call was made to police at 05:40 local time on Sunday (11:40 GMT) in the provin cial capital Regina, about 280km (173 miles) south of Weldon, she explained. This was quickly fol lowed by many more calls for help, developing into a "rapidly unfolding event". The suspects were last cited by members of the public in Regina at about lunchtime on Sunday. "The suspects may be in a black Nissan Rogue [ve hicle]," Ms Blackmore said, warning anyone who sees the men to stay away. "They are considered armed and dangerous... If you see the suspects or their vehicle, do not ap proach them, immediately leave the area and call 911." She said the suspects' "location and direction of travel is unknown", adding: "This is why we need every one in the province to stay vigilant." (BBC)

The seven-member court will rule following three days of oral argu ments last week by lawyers representing the two main candidates and rival camps of election RailaOppositioncommissioners.LeaderOdinga,makinghis

A t least 10 people have been killed and another 15 in jured in a stabbing ram page in Canada's central Saskatchewan province, po liceThesay.victims were found in 13 different locations, in cluding in the James Smith Cree Nation and nearby Weldon.Two suspects named as Damien Sanderson, 31, and Myles Sanderson, 30, are on the run and considered armed and Residentsdangerous.have been told to shelter in place, as a massive manhunt contin ues across the entire vast province."Donot leave a secure location. Use caution al lowing others into your res idence," Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Saskatchewan tweeted. Checkpoints have been set up, with police checking travellers' identification, and RCMP Saskatchewan have urged drivers not to pick up hitchhikers. A state of emergency has been de clared in the James Smith Cree Nation - an indigenous community north-east of the small village of Weldon. And a dangerous person alert was sent to all mobile phones across the provinces of Saskatchewan, Manitoba andCanadianAlberta.

C uban President Miguel Diaz-Canel says history will be created on September 25 when a national referen dum will be held on the new Family Code. On his Twitter account, the head of state said the new code adopted by the Cuban Parliament in July is the Code of Affection. The Referendum will ask the question “Do you agree with the Family Code?” and a simple majori ty of over 50 per cent of the votes for YES or NO will de cide if the new code is en forced or not. Final results are expect ed to be release September 30. Cuban authorities have described the new code as reflecting the social and family reality of Cubans. Some articles of the leg islation refer to equal access to legal-family institutions such as marriage, effective unions, adoption and assist ed reproduction techniques, parental responsibility, and the progressive autonomy of children. (CMC)

A Police Officer secures sealed ballot boxes at an Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) after the General Election, at the St Teresa Girls Secondary School tallying centre near Mathare in Nairobi, Kenya, August 11, 2022

Scientists make major breakthrough in race to save Caribbean coral

TEF Executive Director, Dr Carey Wallace said that the Fund had collected and already transferred to the Accountant General some J$2.42 billion, which rep resented a difference of about 19 per cent of the J$2.63 billion earned in 2019, the year prior to the start of the pandemic. “This indicates that we are performing well, and on the road to recov ery from the disruptions to the travel industry caused by the pandemic,” Dr Wallace said. (Excerpt from Jamaica Observer)

Elkhorn coral— so important because it provides the building blocks for reefs to flourish — once dominated the Caribbean

Legionella bacteria –which causes the illness –is commonly found in water sources such as rivers and lakes which sometimes find their way into artificial wa ter Ansystems.estimated 10 per cent of people who contract the disease die from complica tions arising from the infec tion.Argentinian Health Minister Carla Vizzotti said on Saturday that the au thorities were working to ensure the clinic was safe for all. (Excerpt from BBC News)

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Chile polls close in historic vote on progressive new Constitution

F ormer Prime Minister Basdeo Panday; his wife, Oma; former Minister Carlos John, and business man Ishwar Galbaransingh have failed in their bid to stop their decades-old Preliminary Inquiry into bribery charges arising out of the Piarco Airport ex pansion project from re starting.They had resisted any attempt by the prosecution to have the matter further adjourned.OnFriday, Magistrate Adia Mohammed refused an application by the four to stay the matter because of abuse. The four had re sisted the prosecution’s ap plication for an adjourn ment, pushing for their discharge and objecting to any further delay. In July, the State, repre sented by Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) George Busby sought an adjournment to get fur ther instructions from DPP Roger Gaspard, SC, on how to proceed with the Piarco III

Tourism Minister says Jamaica’s industry almost fully recovered from pandemic Health officials in Argentina have said that an infec tious pneumonia outbreak which killed four people may have been caused by Legionnaire's disease. Seven other cases have been found, most at a clinic in the northern province of Tucuman where the deaths occurred.Therelatively rare lung disease is commonly linked to contaminated water or unclean air-conditioning systems.The World Health Organisation was alerted earlier last week to the clus ter of Doctorsinfections.trying to deter mine the cause of the flulike symptoms ruled out COVID-19, flu and the han tavirus – a severe respirato ry disease carried by rodents –- after testing the patients in the city of San Miguel de Tucuman.Thesymptoms included high fevers, body aches, and breathingOfficialsdifficulties.saidthe symp toms first appeared in six cases related to the facili ty which developed between August 18 and 23.

Voting at a polling station during a referendum on a new Chilean Constitution, in Pozo Almonte area, in Iquique, Chile, September 4, 2022

Preliminary Inquiry, after Mohammed said she received authorisation to start the case afresh. The matter has been called periodically in the Port of Spain magistrates’ court since it landed in Mohammed’s docket in 2019 after she was assigned to the first court, which pri marily hears fraud cases. It now comes up for hearing on September 22 for case management. The Pandays were charged with corruptly re ceiving money while John and Galbaransingh were charged with corruptly giv ing £25,000 to the couple. John and Galbaransingh were accused of giving Panday the money as an in ducement or reward in re lation to the Piarco Airport expansion project. The Pandays and the others were charged in 2005.A Preliminary Inquiry began before former senior Magistrate Ejenny Espinet on May 31, 2006, and on February 12, 2008, the de fendants asked that she re cuse herself. (Excerpt from Trinidad Newsday)

Trinidad’s Central Division Police have made a breakthrough in a robbery incident involv ing bandits pretending to be Police Officers. A Police press release said on Sunday, that Anthony Hoyte, 30, of Roystonia, Couva was expected to ap pear before a Chaguanas Magistrate today to answer 11 charges, namely three counts of robbery with vio lence, two counts of assault with intent to rob, one count of robbery with aggravation, and five counts of false im prisonment.Hoytewas charged on Saturday. According to reports, five men all dressed in Police tac tical wear and all armed, held up a man at Derrick Road, Chase Village last week. The men took the man to a nearby house where they relieved him of his cellphone. The suspects then en tered the house where they confronted the three occu pants and tied up two of them. The three occupants were relieved of a quantity of cash and jewellery. The bandits also stole a white Toyota Fielder which they used in a bid to escape. The Police press release said the men were later forced to abandon the vehicle. One man was subsequent ly arrested. (Excerpt from Trinidad Newsday) S cientists at the Florida Aquarium have made a breakthrough in the race to save Caribbean cor al: For the first time, ma rine biologists have success fully reproduced elkhorn coral, a critical species, us ing aquarium technology. It's a historic step for ward, and one they hope could help revitalise Caribbean ecosystems and could pay humans back by offering extra protection from the fury of hurricanes. Elkhorn coral once dom inated the Caribbean. But, just as other vital coral ecosystems are degrading around the world, elkhorn are now rarely seen alive in the wild. This species — so important because it pro vides the building blocks for reefs to flourish — has been until now notoriously diffi cult to grow in aquariums. Which is why scientists were thrilled when they saw their reproductive ex periment was a success. "When it finally hap pened, the first sense is just sheer relief." said Keri O'Neil, the senior scientist that oversees the Tampa aquarium's spawning lab. "This is a critical step to preventing elkhorn coral from going extinct in the state of O'Neil'sFlorida."colleagues call her the "coral whisperer" because she has managed to spawn so many variet ies of coral. Elkhorn marks the aquarium's 14th species spawned inside the Apollo Beach lab, but the team ranks it as its most import ant yet. (Excerpt from CNN)

Regional Polls have closed in Chile, where vot ers turned out en masse Sunday to approve or reject a progressive new Constitution that would replace its current mar ket-friendly text dating back to the Augusto Pinochet dic tatorship.Chile's election agency expects to have results with in a few Votinghours.centres around the country reported long lines and high turnout as Chileans participated in a mandatory vote, which ex perts say adds uncertain ty to polls, which have con sistently showed voters are more likely to reject the new text.Diego Uribe, 35, a father of two who does not normal ly vote because he has lost faith in political parties, voted to approve the new Constitution in Puente Alto, a lower-income region in southern Santiago. "This one is different," Uribe said, adding he would have voted even if it was not mandatory. "Approval is real change for the fu ture, free education, digni fied healthcare, and more rights."The new text is the result of an agreement reached to quell violent pro tests against inequality in 2019 and focuses on social rights, the environment, gender equality and indige nousWhilerights.nearly 80 per cent of Chileans voted to draft a new constitution in late 2020, polls show public sup port for the new text has dropped amid fear of certain proposals and controversies surrounding the constitu ents elected to draft it. More than 15 million Chileans and residents were eligible to vote across more than 3000 voting centres. President Gabriel Boric voted in the southern city of Punta Arenas early on Sunday and vowed to pre serve unity regardless of the outcome. (Excerpt from Reuters)

J amaican Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says Jamaica’s tourism indus try is almost fully recov ered from the impact of the COVID-19Bartlettpandemic.saidthat the industry continued to show the signs of robust recovery, with the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) reporting that for the first half of 2022, it had collect ed J$2.42 billion in pas senger fees, compared to J$2.63 billion collected in 2019 which marked the start of the pandemic. Bartlett said that the result was that the indus try was now experiencing a 90 per cent recovery from the impact of the pandem ic, “which had threatened its very survival”. “Our recovery, in terms of arrivals this year is like ly to be well over three mil lion, and we are also ex pecting our earnings will be just about $100 mil lion, or so, below our best earnings in 2019 of US$3.7 billion,” the Minister ex plained at the Ministry’s mid-year performance re view retreat held at the Sandals Royal Plantation in St Ann.

Legionnaire's suspected cause of Argentina pneumonia deaths

Former T&T PM Basdeo Panday

Panday, 3 other accused fail in bid to stop restart of Piarco case

Fake T&T Policeman slapped with 11 charges

The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies including Russia, known as OPEC+, meets as demand faces headwinds and supply could be boosted by returning Iranian crude if Tehran secures a deal with world powers on its nuclear work. Brent crude has dropped to about US$93 a barrel from US$120 in June on fears of an economic slowdown and recession in the West. Iran is expected to add 1 million barrels per day to supply or 1 per cent of global demand if sanctions are eased although the prospect for securing a nuclear deal looked less clear on Friday. Last month, top OPEC producer Saudi Arabia flagged the possibility of output cuts to address what it sees as exaggerated oil price declines. Signals from the physical market suggest supply remains tight, with many OPEC states producing below targets and fresh Western sanctions are threatening Russian exports. Russia said last week it would stop supplying oil to countries which support the idea of capping the price of Russian energy supplies amid a military conflict in Ukraine. It also further cut gas deliveries in Europe, which will likely face a new gas price spike.

Five OPEC+ sources said on Sunday the Sept 5 meeting could roll over existing policies. However, two sources out of five said the group could discuss a small cut of 100,000 barrels per day to bring production quotas back to August levels. One of the two sources said this would give the market "a sentiment of a symbolic cut." (Excerpt from Reuters)

Russia wants to de stroy the normal life of every European citizen, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said."It is trying to attack with poverty and politi cal chaos where it cannot yet attack with missiles," Zelensky said in his regular address on Saturday. He was speaking hours after Russia said that its main gas pipeline to Europe would not reopen as planned.Europe accused Russia of using its gas supplies to blackmail Europe amid the Ukraine conflict, which MoscowEnergydenies.prices have soared since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 and scarce supplies could push up costs even further. There are growing fears families in the EU will be unable to afford the cost of heating this Governmentswinter.across the continent are contemplating what measures to take to al leviate the Germanycrisis.-one of the countries worst affected by the Russian supply disrup tion - announced a €65 bil lion (£56 billion) package of help on ChancellorSunday.Olaf Scholz said Russia was no longer a reliable energy partner. The stand-off with Russia has forced countries to fill their own gas supplies, with Germany's stores in creasing from less than half in June to 84 per cent full to day.Europe is attempting to wean itself off Russian en ergy in an effort to reduce Moscow's ability to finance theRussia'swar. state energy firm Gazprom announced on Friday the Nord Stream 1 pipeline could be closed in definitely. Moscow denies using energy supplies as an eco nomic weapon against Western countries support ing ItUkraine.hasblamed the sanc tions for holding up rou tine maintenance of Nord Stream 1, but the EU says this is a pretext. (Excerpt from BBC News)

A n estimated 70,000 people protested in Prague against the Czech Government on Saturday, calling on the ruling coalition to do more to control soaring energy prices and voicing opposi tion to the European Union andOrganisersNATO. of the demonstration from a num ber of far-right and fringe political groups including the Communist party, said the central European na tion should be neutral mil

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), with the Orion crew capsule, is seen on launch complex 39B after its launch on the Artemis 1 mission was delayed, at Cape Canaveral, Florida, US September 3, 2022 [Thom Baur/Reuters]

Tens of thousands protest in Prague against Czech Government, EU and NATO

N ASA has aborted a second launch at tempt for its giant Moon rocket because of yet another fuel leak. Mission managers called off preflight operations on Saturday, about three hours before the 2:17pm EDT (18:17 GMT) liftoff time tar geted for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its Orion capsule from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The previous attempt on Monday was also marred by escaping hydrogen, but those leaks were elsewhere on the 98-metre (322-foot) rocket, the most powerful ever built by NASA. The latest setback could delay the inaugural flight of NASA’s Moon-to-Mars Artemis programme for weeks, if not months. The uncrewed test flight, aimed at launching the cap sule to the Moon and back, was to have marked the in augural voyage of both the SLS and Orion a half-centu ry after the last Apollo lu nar mission, the forerunner of the Artemis programme. The countdown was scrubbed after Kennedy Space Center technicians made three failed attempts to fix a “large” leak of super cooled liquid hydrogen pro pellant being pumped into the rocket’s core-stage fuel tanks. Officials said the leak was too tricky and time-con suming to finish trouble shooting and fix on the launch pad before the cur rent launch period allotted to the mission expires on Tuesday.This means the ear liest opportunity to try again would come during the next launch period that runs September 19 to 30, or during a subsequent October window, an asso ciate NASA administrator, Jim Free, told reporters at a late-afternoon briefing. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson stressed that safety is the top priority, es pecially on a test flight like this where everyone wants to verify the rocket’s sys tems “before we put four humans up on the top of it”. (Excerpt from Al Jazeera)

Al-Shabab is fighting to overthrow Somalia's Government

OPEC+ to weigh rollover or small cut at today’ssourcesmeeting,say

In his address, President Zelensky said: "This winter, Russia is preparing for a decisive energy attack on all Europeans."

Somalia is facing what experts call its worst drought in a decade. Threat from al-Shabab militants, who want to overthrow the Central Government, also contin ues to Somalia,southerngroupThegrow.al-Qaeda-linkedcontrolsmuchofandcentralbuthasbeen able to extend its influ ence into areas controlled by the Government, which is based in the capital Mogadishu. Two weeks ago its fight ers stormed a hotel in the city and killed more than 20 people.The Governor of Hiiraan, Ali Jeyte Osman, said the death toll from Friday's attack could rise amid reports that up to 27 people had been killed. Osman accused the mil itants of being at war with the civilian population in the region, accusing them of burning villages and de stroying water wells. Local clan leader Mohamed Abdirahman de scribed the attack as hor rible, adding that such an atrocity had never hap pened in the region before. Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud vowed that his Government would "leave no stone un turned" in the fight against "terrorism" in the country. An ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa has dis placed hundreds of thou sands of people in Somalia with the UN warning re cently that worst was yet to come. (Excerpt from BBC News)

Ukraine war: Russia wants to destroy Europeans' normal life, Zelensky warns

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Prime Minister Petr Fiala, who leads the cen tre-right, five-party coali tion, told CTK news ser vice on Saturday that the protesters did not have the country's best interests at heart."The protest on Wenceslas Square was called by forces that are pro-Russian, are close to extreme positions and are against the interests of the Czech Republic," he said. (Excerpt from Reuters)

OPEC+ is likely to keep oil output quotas unchanged for October at a meeting today, five OPEC+ sources said, although some sources would not rule out a small production cut to bolster prices that have slid due to fears of an economic slowdown.

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A t least 20 people, in cluding women and children, have been killed and food aid de stroyed after militants at tacked several vehicles in Somalia's central Hiiraan region."They put a bomb while people were in the car and blew it up," the region's Governor told the BBC SomaliIslamistservice.militant group al-Shabab has said it was targeting a Governmentaffiliated armed group.

itarily and ensure direct contracts with gas suppli ers, including Russia. Police estimates put the number of protesters at around 70,000 by mid-af ternoon."The aim of our demon stration is to demand change, mainly in solving the issue of energy pric es, especially electricity and gas, which will destroy our economy this autumn," event co-organiser Jiri Havel told iDNES.cz news website.The protest at Wenceslas Square in the city centre was held a day after the Government sur vived a no-confidence vote amid opposition claims of inaction against inflation and energy prices. The vote showed how Europe's energy crisis is fuelling political instabili ty as soaring power prices stoke inflation, already at levels unseen in three de cades.

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Mohammad Nawaz stunned India with the bat after helping restrict them with the ball after a rampant start to give Pakistan a thrilling win in their Super 4 match. A week after India chased successfully in a thrilling groupstage finish, Pakistan returned the favour, asking India to bat and getting home with just one ball to Awarespare.of the historical advantage for chasing sides in Dubai, India batted ultraaggressively in the first half of their innings, but kept losing wickets, which meant Virat Kohli, who made significant moves towards his best with a 44-ball 60, had to play a little cautiously in the second half. On a belter, despite the good start, Pakistan conceded just 88 in the last 10 overs.Mohammad Rizwan anchored the chase with 71 off 51, but it was Nawaz who provided the desperatelyneeded impetus. Promoted to number four in the batting order, he smashed 42 off 20 balls to put Pakistan back on track. Asif Ali and Khushdil Shah then saw them home, but not without a flutter.

India Innings KL Rahul c Mohammad Nawaz b Shadab Khan 28 Rohit Sharma (c) c Khushdil Shah b Haris Rauf 28 Virat Kohli run out (Asif Ali) 60 Suryakumar Yadav c Asif Ali b Mohammad Nawaz 13 Rishabh Pant †c Asif Ali b Shadab Khan 14 Hardik Pandya c Mohammad Nawaz b Mohammad Hasnain 0 Deepak Hooda c Mohammad Nawaz b Naseem Shah 16 Bhuvneshwar Kumar not out 0 Ravi Bishnoi not out 8 Extras (b 4, w 10) 14 TOTAL 20 Ov (RR: 9.05) 181/7 Fall of wickets: 1-54 (Rohit Sharma, 5.1 ov), 2-62 (KL Rahul, 6.1 ov), 3-91 (Suryakumar Yadav, 9.4 ov), 4-126 (Rishabh Pant, 13.5 ov), 5-131 (Hardik Pandya, 14.4 ov), 6-168 (Deepak Hooda, 18.4 ov), 7-173 (Virat Kohli, 19.4 ov) BOWLING O-M-R-W Naseem Shah 4-0-45-1 Mohammad Hasnain 4-0-38-1 Haris Rauf 4-0-38-1

It is not as though Pakistan didn’t have a specialist lefthand batter in the middle order, but they still promoted Nawaz.

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persistent wide lines. Bishnoi, who had an over left, bowled a superb 18th over, conceding just eight, bringing the equation down to 26 off the last two overs. India were right back in with a chance, but they had also made a mistake. Arshdeep Singh had dropped a sitter from Asif before he had scored a run. Asif and Khushdil proceeded to cancel out Fakhar’s fielding errors by taking 19 off Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s 19th over, his second-costliest at the death in T20 internationals. Then Asif hit Arshdeep for a four in the 20th to leave Pakistan needing two off four balls. Arshdeep came back to trap him lbw, but with two required off the last two, Iftikhar Ahmed found the winning runs off a low full toss. (ESPNcricinfo)

Perhaps because the asking rate was high, they felt the need for a low-cost hitter to keep it in check. Also, Nawaz is no stranger to big hits; he has pulled them off in domestic cricket and in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). Quite possibly, Nawaz would have been in good hitting form in the nets because he came out and started middling everything, taking pressure off Rizwan. The next six overs went for 9, 10, 10, 11, 12, Nawaz16. steered the second ball he faced for four. The third ball he faced went for a huge six off Pandya. Now errors started to creep in. Yuzvendra Chahal offered Rizwan a full toss, which went for six. The quicks missed their lengths a bit. And the cameo went on for long enough to bring Pakistan within 46 of the win, with 27 balls left. The nervy finish Pandya got Rizwan out with

Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul, both under the scanner a little bit for being a bit conservative at the top, were anything but conservative. In the first over itself, Rohit gave Naseem Shah the charge and hit him over midoff for four. Then he stayed back and pulled him for a six. Rahul responded with some intent of his own, hitting Naseem for two sixes in the third over. The two brought up India’s secondquickest fifty batting first in T20 internationals, in just 4.2 overs. India were in no mood to consolidate. What followed will provide a stern test of their belief in their method. Haris Rauf bowled a slower ball at the start of the sixth over, and Rohit ended up skying it. Rahul tried to hit the first ball after the powerplay for a six, and picked the wrong’un too, but ended up hitting Shadab Khan straight to long-on. The intent still didn’t ebb. Suryakumar Yadav hit the first ball he faced for a boundary, the seventh time he has done so in 24 T20I innings. However, Nawaz and Shadab made it difficult for India to keep hitting boundaries.

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Mohammad Nawaz 4-0-25-1 Shadab Khan 4-0-31-2 PAKISTAN INNINGS (Target: 182 runs from 20 overs) Mohammad Rizwan † c Yadav b Pandya 71 Babar Azam (c) c Sharma b Ravi Bishnoi 14 Fakhar Zaman c Kohli b Chahal 15 Mohammad Nawaz c Hooda b Kumar 42 Khushdil Shah not out 14 Asif Ali lbw b Arshdeep Singh 16 Iftikhar Ahmed not out 2 Extras (lb 2, w 6) 8 TOTAL 19.5 Ov (RR: 9.17) 182/5 Fall of wickets: 1-22 (Babar Azam, 3.4 ov), 2-63 (Fakhar Zaman, 8.4 ov), 3-136 (Mohammad Nawaz, 15.3 ov), 4-147 (Mohammad Rizwan, 16.5 ov), 5-180 (Asif Ali, 19.4 ov) BOWLING O-M-R-W Bhuvneshwar Kumar 4-0-40-1 Arshdeep Singh 3.5-0-27-1 Ravi Bishnoi 4-0-26-1 Hardik Pandya 4-0-44-1 Yuzvendra Chahal 4-0-43-1

Max Verstappen held onto victory in a captivating 2022 Dutch Grand Prix amid a strong showing from the Mercedes and late safety car drama at Zandvoort, as George Russell and Charles Leclerc completed the Verstappenpodium. seemed to be assured of victory having taken a second pit stop during a Virtual Safety Car on Lap 48, with Hamilton second and Russell third as both had extended their opening stint on medium tyres (their rivals having started on softs) to pit for hards, on which they were rapid. The events after a Lap 55 Safety Car dashed any hopes of victory that Hamilton harboured, however. The seven-time champion stayed out on mediums to inherit the lead while Verstappen came in for softs, followed by Russell and Leclerc, for the restart on Lap 61. In that restart, Verstappen swept past the Mercedes for the lead, with Russell and Leclerc following suit to pry Hamilton away from the podium. Hamilton ended up fourth at the flag as Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez – the former held back by a calamitous Ferrari pit stop earlier on, before a fivesecond penalty for an unsafe release in a later stop – battled late on for P5. That allowed Fernando Alonso and Lando Norris to close in too, and when the penalty kicked in, Sainz was dropped to eighth, promoting Perez to fifth, Alonso to sixth, and Norris to seventh. Esteban Ocon finished ninth, just ahead of Lance Stroll – who started and finished 10th for Aston Martin. Pierre Gasly missed out on the points in P11 for AlphaTauri while Alex Albon finished 12th from 15th on the grid.

India shackle Pakistan India may not have the pace of the Pakistan bowlers, but their accuracy frustrated the Pakistan top three at the start. Babar Azam chipped Ravi Bishnoi to midwicket much like Pandya had done earlier against Mohammad Hasnain. Fakhar Zaman, who had conceded seven extra runs in the field, was denied any freedom by the accuracy of the bowlers, and he was eventually left with no option but to take risks. When Fakhar was out for 15 off 18, Pakistan needed 119 off 68 balls.

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Eventually, Suryakumar looked to sweep in the air, but was done in by the length and holed out. Rishabh Pant, stifled at the start, fell to a reverse sweep. Hardik Pandya fell to a chip to midwicket, and it became 131 for 5 in the 15th over.

Pakistan close out superbly The spinners went for just 56 runs in their eight overs, taking three wickets too. The fast bowlers were not having a great day, and Kohli was around at the death, where his strike-rate is exceptional, especially when he has got himself in. However, Kohli was now batting with the last recognised batter, Deepak Hooda, with no six-hitters to follow. So Kohli possibly had to tone down his aggression. The fast bowlers bowled superbly too, giving Hooda few opportunities to hit. Then a slower ball went straight to long-on, leaving Kohli to farm the strike in the end. Only two misfields off the last two balls took India to 181.

Sebastian Vettel started 19th and finished 14th, losing out to Mick Schumacher –who lost out due to a pair of slow pit stops. The four-time champion was given a fivesecond penalty for ignoring blue flags earlier in the race. Kevin Magnussen hit the barriers on Lap 2, but continued to finish 15th, behind his Haas team-mate. Daniel Ricciardo pitted first out of the pack and couldn’t make up ground, finishing 17th for McLaren behind Zhou Guanyu, who served a five-second penalty for speeding in the pit lane. Valtteri Bottas was classified 19th for Alfa Romeo, his car stopping on track to bring out the late safety car. Yuki Tsunoda stopped on track on Lap 48 after reporting a driveshaft issue, the AlphaTauri driver having previously reported that his tyres were incorrectly fitted before a lengthy pit stop.

Virat scored a fine half-century for India

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President Wayne Forde has met Culture, Youth and Sport Minister Charles Ramson Jr to present the Federation’s 2021 audited finances and to thank him for providing financial support for the recently-concluded annual FIFA referee training course. The Ministry partnered with the GFF and offered financial support to offset the costs for this annual FIFA capacity-building course, which was held at the GFF National Training Centre in August, as well as the GFF’s ongoing referee development work and recruitment drive.

Mangal goes back to back in BK International win

BK International, Office Manager Egan Bazilio said the company was happy to support the club as part of diversifying its sponsorship of sports.Also sharing his sentiments after the tournament was LGC Public Relations Officer (PRO) William Walker who said, "The BK tournament showcased a competitive field or 28 golfers taking the field, each improving their game for the upcoming Guyana Open. However, the next tournament we have in the line-up is sponsored by Massy Group and is set for this Saturday, 10 September." Walker also relayed that despite the heavy rain that affected parts of Guyana, the conditions at LGC were not affected as much and remained favourable for the tournament. He also explained that the LGC s making great strides in preparation for the Guyana Open in terms of having the course at its peak condition and also with the schedule of events.Walker explained that avid golf fans can look forward to the Club launching the Open – its first major event, which is expected to be held within the next few weeks.

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“The Government of Guyana is committed to continuous investment in the future of all sports, including football, and that must include the capacity building and upskilling of match officials, who play a vital role on the field of play,” Minister Ramson Jr said. At the same meeting between the GFF and the Ministry last week, President Forde handed over the GFF’s audited financial statement for 2021 to the Minister. The audited statement is available for public viewing at org/financial-statements/.https://www.guyanafootball.“TheGFFcontinuestoset a leading example in good governance in sports, by having its finances audited by an independent auditor and then publishing the results for all to see,” Ramson Jr said. “The Government of Guyana wants to see greater responsibility and accountability from national sports organisations, both in terms of publishing financial documents but also in the sensible and transparent use of funding.” Forde said the GFF was required to independently-auditedpublish finances as part of its compliance obligations under FIFA funding regulations. “We are obliged to share our audited finances publicly, so that all our stakeholders can see how we manage and invest our funding,” Forde said. “Our commitment to laying a sturdy foundation for a culture of good governance is underpinned by openness, transparency, and accountability, and goes well beyond the compliance requirement of FIFA – an example we encourage all our fellow sports disciplines to follow."

T he action continued at the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) on Saturday as Mike Mangal kept up his good form by winning the BK International Golf Tournament.Mangal, who won the Barefoot tournament last week, shot a net of 68 (HC 9 and a Gross 77), while Rabindra Persaud took second with a net 71 (HC 14 and a Gross of 85). An improving Ronald Bulkan was third with a net of 73 (HC 19 and a Gross of 92). Mangal also took trophies for Best Gross with a score of 77 and Longest Drive. Nearest to the Pin went to Kassim Khan. Speaking on behalf of

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GFF President Wayne Forde presents the Federation’s audited financial statement to Culture, Youth and Sport Minister Charles Ramson Jr Team Alanis cyclist Paul Choweenam makes a presentation to champion rider Christopher Griffith G Commonwealthuyana's Games cyclist and Team Evolution's Christopher "Chicken Legs" Griffith won the Team Alanis/Carl's Construction Inc cycle race on Sunday morning at the outer circuits of the National Park, Georgetown. Griffith stopped the clock in one hour, 57 minutes, and 27 seconds in the 22-lap affair. Griffith was followed by the consistent Briton John, who rode in second in the seniors' category, followed by Deeraj Ghabarran (third); Robin Persaud (fourth); Curtis Dey (fifth) and Walter Grant Stuart (sixth). Berbician Mario Washington was the top junior rider while Alexander Leung came in second, followed by Ajani Cutting.Team Evolution's veteran, Robin Persaud emerged as the winner in the Masters Under-50 category, while Grant Stuart placed second, followed by Segan Hubbard. Meanwhile, in the Masters Over-50, Ian Jackson rode in first, followed by Talim Shaw and Kennard Lovell. Marica Dick was the top female rider.

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BOWLING O-M-R-W Geetika Kodali 1-0-6-0 Sheneta Grimmond 4-0-22-2 Hayley Jensen 4-0-18-2 Lee-Ann Kirby 1-0-1-1 Anisa Mohammed 3.4-0-16-3 Sune Luus 4-0-17-2 Deandra Dottin 1-0-9-0

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Acaptain’s knock from Deandra Dottin and bowling brilliance from Anisa Mohammed steered the Trinbago Knight Riders to a 10run victory over Barbados Royals to see them crowned champions of the inaugural Massy Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL).With her team put in to bat, it was the Knight Riders’ Captain who shone, scoring the maiden half-century in WCPL history and helping her team to a defendable first innings score of 100-7. Hayley Matthews was pick of the Royals’ bowlers taking three wickets in the 19th over to finish with 3-22, including the key wicket of Dottin. In response, Aaliyah Alleyne and Britney Cooper went early in the chase, while Matthews dug in and looked to be the key to leading her team home. But wickets fell around her, and when she went for 46, the run chase was all but done. With just the tail to clean up, Knight Riders had the momentum and it was only fitting that Anisa Mohammed should take the final wicket and finish the game with 3-16 as her side cleaned up the Royals for 90. With their male counterparts watching on and the eyes of the world on the game, it was a massive moment for the Trinbago Knight Riders and for women’s cricket after a groundbreakingWhentournament.theKnight Riders were put in to bat, it wasn’t the explosive start they might have hoped for and just as the boundaries began to flow, LeeAnn Kirby was dismissed cheaply. Dottin and Sune Luus began to accelerate before Luus’ South African team-mate Chloe Tryon, who hadn’t yet bowled in the tournament, dismissed her national captain to put the Royals in the driver’s seat with the Knight Riders on 43-2.

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In true Deandra Dottin style, the World Boss was the lynchpin of the innings, playing shots to all parts and bringing up her halfcentury from just 54 balls. Bragging rights went to her counterpart, Matthews who removed her for 59 off 62 in an over that also claimed the wickets of Kyshona Knight and Jannillea Glasgow. The Royals openers came out of the traps flying, reaching 14 from the first two overs, but when Alleyne fell for 7 and Cooper soon after departed without scoring, the chase looked more tricky. When Tryon was stumped just as the rebuild was on, the game was in the balance and all hopes rode on Matthews with the Royals on 36-3.

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TRINBAGO KNIGHT RIDERS WOMEN INNINGS (20 overs maximum) Deandra Dottin (c) c Paul b Matthews 59 Lee-Ann Kirby c †Boyce b Joseph 3 Sune Luus c & b Tryon 12 Natasha McLean †c †Boyce b Fletcher 3 Hayley Jensen b Selman 2 Kyshona Knight c Selman b Matthews 8 Jannillea Glasgow c Alleyne b Matthews 0 Sheneta Grimmond not out 1 Geetika Kodali not out 2 Extras (lb 1, w 9) 10 TOTAL 20 Ov (RR: 5.00) 100/7 Did not bat: Mohammed,AnisaCaneisha Isaac Fall of wickets: 1-14 (LeeAnn Kirby, 3.4 ov), 2-43 (Sune Luus, 9.4 ov), 3-58 (Natasha McLean, 12.5 ov), 4-61 (Hayley Jensen, 13.4 ov), 5-93 (Kyshona Knight, 18.2 ov), 6-93 (Jannillea Glasgow, 18.3 ov), 7-96 (Deandra Dottin, 18.5 ov) BOWLING O-M-R-W Chinelle Henry 2-0-11-0 Qiana Joseph 4-0-14-1 Hayley Matthews 4-0-22-3 Afy Fletcher 4-0-17-1 Chloe Tryon 2-0-11-1 Shakera Selman 4-0-24-1 BARBADOS ROYALS WOMEN INNINGS (Target: 101 runs from 20 overs) Aaliyah Alleyne Hayley Matthews (c) Glasgow Mohammed Britney Cooper Kirby Chloe Tryon Mohammed Chinelle Henry Luus Qiana Joseph & Luus Reniece Boyce †c Isaac Grimmond Snigdha Paul c Mohammed b Grimmond Afy Fletcher lbw b Jensen Shakera Selman not out 5 Mandy Mangru b Mohammed 0 Extras (lb 1, w 8) 9 TOTAL 18.4 Ov (RR: 4.82) 90 Fall of wickets: 1-15 (Aaliyah Alleyne, 2.5 ov), 2-16 (Britney Cooper, 3.6 ov), 3-36 (Chloe Tryon, 7.4 ov), 4-48 (Chinelle Henry, 10.3 ov), 5-53 (Qiana Joseph, 12.1 ov), 6-56 (Reniece Boyce, 13.3 ov), 7-71 (Snigdha Paul, 15.5 ov), 8-74 (Afy Fletcher, 16.3 ov), 9-89 (Hayley Matthews, 18.2 ov), 10-90 (Mandy Mangru, 18.4 ov)

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W hat ended up looking like a pretty one-sided thrashing was actually becoming a real nail-biter of sorts. It took a bout of rain to spice the game up, and in a reduced contest, Barbados Royals only just held their nerve to avoid what would have been a proper jailbreak.Things were almost about to end in heartbreak for the Royals, when at the end of a fiery four-wicket spell from Kyle Mayers that had the Kings on the mat at 10-4 in four overs, the heavens opened up without the mandatory fiveover quota being completed, and nearly robbed them of victory. But after a 45-minute break, that left Saint Lucia with 93 runs to win in 30 balls, Faf du Plessis, who watched his top order crumble from the other end, was joined by Alzarri Joseph, and together, they went ballistic. Joseph started off with a couple of sixes in the fifth over, before Faf took over and smashed a couple himself in the next. However, despite getting 63 runs off 24 balls, the DLS target – thanks to the four wickets lost early – was a mountain too steep for them to climb. With 30 runs needed off the last over, Faf bought the equation down to 18 off the last three balls, but Corbin Bosch held his nerve, bowled full, quick and straight, and closed out the innings. Earlier, Barbados got off to a blazing start in the powerplay with both openers – Rakheem Cornwall and Mayers – getting their team to 50 in five overs. But the bowlers pulled things back a bit in the middle overs, with off-spinner Mark Deyal picking up a couple of wickets and conceding just 15 runs in his four overs, to help restrict the Royals to 162. (Cricbuzz)

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