WHAT'S INSIDE: Issue No. 5099 Nationwide coverage from the best news team in Guyana THE BEACON OF TRUTH guyanatimesgy.com PRICE $100 VAT INCLUDEDSATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2022 Acting Top Cop’s appointment Social campaignanti-bullyingMinistrySecuritylaunches accusedLabourer of raping woman at COVID-19succumbsRegionUnvaccinatedremandedsleepover7manto …45 new cases recorded manKwakwanijailed for 3 years, fined $17M for traffickingganja …relative released on bail US$44 million loan signed to AwardsScholarshipFulbrightprestigiousselected2atcocaine,PolicehumanenhancecapitalfindganjaEBEhouseGuyanesefor …US Govt pleased to support local capacity building – Ambassador Dayas15SeptemberdeclaredCensusPres Ali says will tap into cultivation skills of Canje residentsCreektogrow hemp …welcomes High Court ruling on lawfulness of President’s decision AG proposes losing APNU/AFC Chief Whip pay $3M in legal costs See story on page 10 Personal growth, leadership take focus as Youth Parliament returns See story on page 9 Page7 P16 PPPPP81412P151111“We need youths critically integrated in national policymaking,processimplementation–PresAli …as inaugural Presidential Youth Advisory Council is launched See story on page 3 See story on page 9
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Chief Education Officer, Dr Marcel Hutson detailed that with the development of debating skills among the student population, such av enues create the necessary discipline and order in their personal life. “I think this activity has its place even in the school system. Even as our chil dren attempt to navigate through life, I get the sense that they will be familiar with parliamentary laws and procedures. These ar eas could only serve as our students attempt to engage in activities that will cause them to be disciplined and organised. Obviously, their debating skills will also be developed,” the CEO shared.
Those participating in Youth Parliament
The 7th Annual Youth Parliament will be held from August 12-18 with the motto “Our Generation, Our Voice to Inspire, Encourage, Impact”. This year, there will be 40 participants in the junior category and 46 in the seniorDevelopingcategory. elocution skills, ensuring young peo ple are involved in parlia mentary democracy, and ed ifying the population about the function of Parliament are the reasons Youth Parliament and other initia tives were implemented by the Parliament Office. Participants will be re sponsible for selecting mo tions for their robust de bates. Those motions will deal with matters prevalent in society. (G12)
223-7230-1(Ext55) Youths from around the country will be testing their debating and persuasive skills, as the Annual Youth Parliament returns.The 7th Annual Youth Parliament was opened on Friday, as Guyana joined in celebration of International YouthMinisterDay.
British High Commissioner Jane Miller underscored that this Youth Parliament provides the platform for the younger generation to articulate and share how they wish to see the world. “I am delighted to know that you’re going to be taught about good argu ment, good debate and how that is so important to de mocracy and Parliament… This International Youth Day is about generation al dialogue, which is about old people telling young peo ple how things should be. It is about your energy, youth, inspiration, ideas and how we can listen to see how you would like the world to be.”
of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson divulged that this is an important avenue to build networks and acquire important skills for personal development.“Forumssuch as this is an opportunity for you to channel your energies to wards your ambitions and your personal goals, but it is an opportunity to grow, learn and immerse your self in understanding what is the right pathway for you and how you can develop the important skills,” Minister Ramson said in his address. He added, “Development of yourself and development of your society, country and our civilisation can only happen in that environment of order and structure. And it’s being able to be part of a process like this where you understand and be part of the rules that are there for the benefit of yourself, your society, country and our ci vilisation is important for it to have that continuity.”
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Pres Ali …as inaugural Presidential Youth Advisory Council is launched
The Guyana Government is look ing to have young people actively participat ing in every level of the de cision-making and imple mentation process across all sectors in the country. This is according to President Dr Irfaan Ali, who made this disclosure on Friday as he launched the Presidential Youth Advisory Council at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) at Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown.The multi-member Council comprises young professionals from various fields ranging from medicine to academia to science and environment to legal to mil itary to sport, and students from throughout Guyana. According to the Head of State, political and poli cy decisions affect everyone, and it is therefore important to have the youths involved in this process, which is not only geared towards nation al development, but is also setting the foundation for their“Theyfutures.are here because I believe strongly that we need our young people to be critically integrated into pol icy-making and into the pol icy implementation of our country; so they can have a thorough understanding, an in-depth understand ing, as to how policies are determined, why they are determined; and they can contribute in the finalisa tion of the policies and pro grammes that will take our country forward,” he stated. To this end, President Ali posited that every policy decision made at the munic ipal, regional, and nation al levels in Guyana would be reflective of the involve ment of the Youth Advisory Council. This, he explained, is to ensure that those poli cies and programmes bring the type of goods and ser vices the Government wants to deliver to people. “What they will do is they will work with our communities (including) our hinterland communities, in developing plans and proj ects. They will do feasibili ty studies so that we are al ways in a state of readiness to have support for projects for young people,” he ex plained.“One of the outputs is for us to sit down with the banking system and identi fy opportunities from a busi ness perspective that young people can engage in… working with people with disabilities… working with our former national football players, cricketers, hock ey, squash and integrating them into the development path of pushing sports and using sports as a tool to em power people and bring new talents. They will be doing a lot of this type of work,” he outlined.
President Dr Irfaan Ali addressing the gathering
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Working with agencies/Ministriesstate The Council would also be working with state agen cies and Ministries to ad vance the interests of young people, build capacity, and motivateFurtheryouths.pointing out that they are the next generation of policymakers, the Head of State told members of the Youth Advisory Council that they are now in the real world of problem-solving. As such, he charged that they can no longer stand by, but need to start taking control of their futures by actively participating in the policy formation and implementa tionInprocess.theinitial stage, the Council would comprise 29 young, skilled Guyanese, over 50 per cent of whom are female professionals. This number is expected to grow in theSimultaneously,future. the President pointed out that the country is losing its males, who are not pursu ing high goals – something which he noted must be re versed.“…[We have to] ensure that as we advance the in volvement of women in the development path of our country, that we are not los ing males in the process… We need to nip this in the bud too, because we can not lose the males going forward. They have to step up and take responsibility, they have to be part of the development processes and programmes of our coun try,” Ali noted. The Head of State went on to implore membership of the Youth Advisory Council to do their best and focus on achieving the goals they were brought together for. This Presidential Youth Advisory Council was launched on Friday, when the world observed ‘International Youth Day’. The body is being Chaired by Josh Kanhai, who has com mitted to not only advanc ing young people in Guyana, but to have their needs iden tified and addressed, so that they can achieve their full potential.
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Strengthen ties with India
Support for cricket in Caribbean is encouraging, administrators must be pro-active
National Youth Day 2022: Dancers performing at the official launch of the President’s Youth Advisory Council at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre on Friday afternoon (OP photo)
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Dear Editor, As India celebrates her 75th anniversary of inde pendence in 1947, we should consider expanding rela tions. Our ties are deep-root ed. India has been a longtime eternal friend of Guyana, and has rendered continued devel opmental support for Guyana. And Guyana has been very supportive of India’s causes and concerns. Culture, inter national politics, financing, and trade were instrumen tal in strengthening our rela tions.India-Guyana relations are not based on regional geo-polity, but have a founda tion in strong cultural (ethnic) bonds, historical experiences and traditions, shared heri tage, sports, democracy (1992 onwards), freedom struggle, and international political bonding.India-Guyana relations were officially established in 1966, but India had main tained contact with Guyana while both were colonies, and before Guyana obtained inde pendence.May5 marks the day when the ships Hesperus and Whitby, carrying the first batch of Indian indentured la bourers, docked in Guyana’s territory. This day is now ob served in Guyana as Arrival Day. Cultural relations, which started from the mid1800s with imported labour from India, have continual ly deepened. The presence of Indians, descendants of some 240,000 indentured labour ers (between 1838 and 1917), today some 40% of the pop ulation whereas it was 55% during the mid-1970s, has led to close cultural, political, eco nomic, and technical relations between India and Guyana. Indentured labourers brought their language, cus toms, traditions, cuisine and religious beliefs to their new abode, and that has led to cul tural diffusion among the eth nically diverse population. And politically, India has had influence over Guyana at in ternational bodies and fo rums. India was a founding member of the Non-Alignment Movement, in which Guyana was a leading member and champion. The bust of India’s first Prime Minister and initi ator of the NAM, Jawaharlal Nehru, is at the Non-Aligned Monument between Church Street and North Road in Georgetown.Successive Guyanese lead ers since independence have treated India with signifi cance and importance in our foreign policy, especially at international platforms, and the diaspora linkage between Guyana and India has been growing. Our economic rela tionship has also been very strong and growing over the years. It is a matter of satis faction that trade between the two countries is growing. Since 1966, when Guyana gained independence, there have been diverse areas of cooperation between India and Guyana. The rich bilat eral relations could be seen from our wide range of agree ments and MoUs, which in clude so much assistance to Guyana in science and technology, medicine, agri culture, environment, edu cation, sports, cultural ex change, loans, among others. The result is that India en joys love, affection and sup port from most of the popu lation and the Government of Guyana, regardless of par ty. The economic and political feeling in India for Guyana is mutual also, cutting across Government and Opposition. Thus, the presence of the 9,000-mile distance does not really separate us. While our relations are close, they can be deepened. I am sure India and Guyana can explore the possibilities of working together in a variety of areas besides those men tionedGuyanaabove. is a re source-bountiful country which recently found oil and a variety of rare earth minerals. Guyana should look at how India can help our country in the blue economy (oceanic re sources and coastlands), ener gy (hydrocarbons and renew able), mining, tourism, etc.
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Simmons’s recent outburst, that “We can’t beg people to play for the West Indies”, is utter nonsense. As a lead er, and particularly a head coach, he must be able to communicate with the play ers and win their respect. The Caribbean people are waiting to hear why the West Indies Captain Kieron Pollard dropped a bomb shell when he walked away from the West Indies team.
The United Nations General Assembly has designated August 12 as International Youth Day. Since it was first observed in 1999, the day serves as an annual celebration of the role of young women and men as essential partners in change, and provides an opportunity to raise awareness of the many diverse and complex challenges young people face. According to UN estimates, there are some 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10 and 24 in the world. This is the largest youth population ever. But 1 in 10 of the world’s children live in conflict zones, and 24 million of them are out of school. The UN notes that political instability, labour market challenges, and limited space for political and civic participation have led to increasing isolation of youth in societies.Here, in Guyana, there are many social ills affecting citizens, especially the younger segment of the population, and programmes and support services to help address these issues could never be enough. For example, the use of illegal drugs and alcohol, crime, suicide, domestic and other forms of violence, lack of jobs, and so on are having a huge negative impact on communities. And now, more than ever before, there is need for a genuine collaborative approach, with inclusive planning and coordination, where volunteerism is a key element, to help find practical and lasting solutions to these many ills. While the Government must play a crucial role in designing the relevant policies and putting in place the necessary legislative framework and other support mechanisms aimed at addressing these issues, this burden must also be shared by other stakeholders; such as religious groups, the Private Sector, and other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) etc.It is therefore empowering that President Dr Irfaan Ali used the day to launch the Presidential Youth Advisory Council. At the launching, Ali gave the commitment that this direction would see young people actively participating in every level of the decision-making and implementation process across all sectors in the country. To quote him, this group of young professionals has formed the Advisory Council, since: “They are here because I believe strongly that we need our young people to be critically integrated into policy-making and into the policy implementation of our country; so they can have a thorough understanding, an in-depth understanding, as to how policies are determined, why they are determined; and they can contribute in the finalisation of the policies and programmes that will take our country forward.”
Simmons’s mouthing that Andre Russell hasn’t made himself available for selec tion, and saying that the status of Sunil Narine is a mystery, should follow with his Evinresignation.Lewis and Oshane Thomas, along with sev eral other players, such as Fabian Allen and Chandrapaul Hemraj, are players on whom the selec tors must keep a watchful eye.It is indeed sad to know that the West Indies will have to play in the firstround matches so as to qual ify to play in the Super 12 of this year’s T20 World Cup. The West Indies’ humilia tion at the hands of India, and their current struggle against New Zealand, are a poor reflection of the Team.
President Ali’s administra tion should consider strength ening ties with India; it would lead to further growth, great er prosperity, modernity, and all-round development under his able and dynamic leader ship. Yours Vishnutruly,Bisram
Dear Editor, As the West Indies try desperately to put togeth er a team to play in the T20 World Cup, which is only two months away, the selec tors and the administrators are in deep trouble. Phil Simmons, the Head Coach, is certainly at a loss. Phil Simmons is the per son who made bad choices in guiding the preparation for the West Indies team.
This commitment means that youths will be involved at all levels of decision- making. However, while Government is moving in the right direction to include the young professionals, the role of the Private Sector should never be underestimated. There is need for funding for many crucial programmes aimed at creating better opportunities for young persons. Such programmes, once effectively implemented, would see our children and young people become well equipped with the necessary skills to develop themselves, and in turn contribute to the overall development of the country. The Private Sector is one of the main beneficiaries of an educated and skilled workforce, and it should seek to invest in, and help to build, the pool of talent it wishes to draw from. It is well accepted that progressive countries in the world have strong systems for engaging youth in policy formation, and in creating or altering programmes designed to support youth. One of the most effective ways to create a sense of belonging and give youth a voice is through national and local youth councils, which aim to create platforms for young people to discuss and debate relevant issues and influence policyWedecisions.therefore commend and support President Dr Irfaan Ali on the formation of the Youth Advisory Council.
NeilSincerely,Kumar Opposition proving ineffective and innocuousChinese Landing: a problem of resolving and reconciling the conflicts
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06:00 (Sign on) H.E Ali Baracara community meeting 07:00 Evening News (RB) 08:00 Stop Suffering 09:00 Movie - Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) 10:30 Indian Movie - Fanaa (2006) 13:30 Movie - The Story of Love (2022) 15:00 Movie - The Tiger Rising (2022) 17:00 Payless Power Hour 18:00 Evangelistic Hour 18:30 Hepzibah 19:00 The Evening News 20:00 Islam for Guyana 20:30 Movie - The Wedding Fix (2022) 22:00 Movie - The Siege of Robin Hood (2022) 00:00 Sign off Saturday, August 13, 2022 Dear Editor, Development inevita bly brings changes, new ar rangements, new views, and hence is full of contradic tion. More often than not, the conflict is between differ ent rights. Often, too, certain improvements are required, but not some of the features that accompany the improve ments.The “legalities” must be taken into account as the base on, and from, which some reconciliation is sought. In consideration of the “tra ditional/natural” rights of Amerindian villages, recall that at Independence, when the British left, there were sixty-five Amerindian villag es listed. It was towards the end of the 1980s that move ment from coast to hinter land generated amounts of evident contradiction that required resolution. Dr Jagan and his PPP/C administration moved to de marcate, and mark on the ground the original 65 villag es, whilst opening the door to the proclamation of new Amerindian villages. Now more than 150 are listed, and the door has been opened to extension of earlier villages. In the extension and procla mation of new villages, con flicting situations with ex isting mining and forestry rights were inevitable, and in the case of the Kaieteur National Park, somewhat reversed. The Park was ex tended to the village bound ary, while the village wanted to be expanded to the earlier KNP boundary. Most of the conflicting mining and forestry situa tions were resolved general ly by encouraging the miner/ logger to accept alternative areas, but a few intractable knots remained, and the par ties approached the courts, as they were free to. Was it noticed in a recent news paper one article denounc ing the mining at Chinese Landing, and another by some resident women vil lagers bemoaning no oppor tunities in that area to earn money? With all protections in place, a win-win solution is a possibility if mutual re spect could be attained and retained.President Ali’s proclama tion of, and urging the devel opment of, a sense and real ity of “One Guyana”, within what many sense as “One World”, would be a good starting point. History is full of wrongs that could not practically be righted today. Mutual understanding, re spect, and reasonable accom modation are what are called for, and are possible now. The case could be made that all Guyana was Amerindian, just as all the Americas were held by the Indigenous Peoples. We must go forward. We can hustle forward under a banner of “One Guyana”, a part of “One World”.
terchangeably, noting that “…the High Court could not declare that there was no consultation, because at the time there was no Opposition Leader through no fault of the President. Therefore, outside of be ing egregiously noisome, ob noxious, presumptuous and unethical, the Opposition and their blind flowers are being illegal, and thus ill-advised. I hope that “On the point by the applicant Christopher Jones, Chief Whip of the Opposition for A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change, pay attention as the his ‘re sort to court’ action was deemed “vexatious and an abuse of the process of the court.” For his enlighten ment, he must absorb that fact that the Public Service Commission rules do not strictly bind the President to appoint the next most senior officer, in this case Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Williams, to act as Police Commissioner after then acting Police Commissioner Nigel Hoppie had proceeded on pre-retirement leave.” In short, but quite succinctly, “Guyana’s Constitution per mits the President to act in his own deliberate judgment and according to the provi sion, and not on the advice or a recommendation of any one or any entity. In closing, I pay due re gard to the Anil Nandlallled team of the PPP/C. The AG Anil Nandlall continues the fight for ongoing democ racy that was led by People’s Progressive Party starting back in March 2020. We all know that it is the Rule of Law that must prevail, and so the courts, leading all the way up to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), are the ones with the final say. Yes, it is costing money, as the AG recently pointed out, but ‘justice is priceless.’
Yours truly, H Singh
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SamuelSincerely,AA Hinds Former Prime Minister and Former President Dear Editor, It comes as no surprise that the High Court has now ruled that the “President’s (Dr. Irfaan Ali’s) appoint ment of Clifton Hicken to act as Police Commissioner (is) constitutional.” The de tails show that President Irfaan Ali’s appointment of Mr Clifton Hicken to act as Police Commissioner was “out of necessity and his “own deliberate judgement,” and therefore was very con stitutional, as there was no Opposition Leader and Police Service Commission (PSC) at the time. So, let me revisit a few things, as I feel strongly that the exercises of otiosity from the Opposition must be denounced.Igoback to April 2022, and remind readers that it was four months after be ing elected Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) (the main component of APNU+AFC coalition), that Aubrey Norton was finally elected unopposed (almost by de fault) to fill the vacancy of Leader of the Opposition. On the occasion, he did pledge to hold the PPP/C Government accountable. Mind you, the Irfaan Ali-led PPP/C Government took of fice in August 2020. I remind readers, too, that it was in late March 2022 that President Irfaan Ali, coerced almost to act, finally appointed Deputy Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken to the post of Commissioner of Police (as Nigel Hoppie, who was hold ing the position in an acting capacity, was heading into pre-retirement leave). I have still another re minder on the dilatory and negligent behaviour of Aubrey Norton and the Opposition. I go back to late May 2022, when His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali had to condemn “…the unexplained ab sence of Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton, who was expected to meet with the Head of State today, for a second round of consulta tion…” That meeting was to discuss the appointments of statutory and constitutional bodies, as mandated by the Constitution.However, the Opposition Leader was a no-show. This was not defence and irre sponsibility, and Dr. Ali was so right in stating that Norton had “demonstrat ed his immaturity” in deal ing with important matters when he failed to show up without explanation.” For his exact words and a glimpse into the President, he noted that “These are im portant national issues, and I want them completed in an environment of respect and an environment of dig nity, because as I have said before, I am pursuing ‘One Guyana.’ It is clear to me that those aspirations of mine may not be shared by Mister Norton, because he did not have the dignity, the professionalism, to even re spond orally or in writing to theSo,invitation.”thevery ethics of Norton are ‘well-below-par’, and are quite inimical to anything worthwhile for the country.Now concerning Norton’s action, I go directly to the ruling. In the notes proffered by Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire, it is said “There could be no disregard of, and thereby a breach of, the requirement for mean ingful consultation when it was impossible to so engage. The applicant therefore is relying on an impossibility to ground the claim of un constitutionality.” She was, of course, referring to the claim from the Opposition that the President breached the Constitution. She add ed that the use of the words “act” and “perform the func tions of” could be used in
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The West Indies are un able to put together core players in the team. The Coach cannot name the pos sible opening batsmen, and both the top order and mid dle-order batting are diffi cult to name. The bowlers are also not certain of their places in the team. Fielding is getting more important, and the superb fielding of the likes of Hetymer is in deed most encouraging. The West Indies selectors must identify the core players, and let them play together to build much-needed team spirit.Time is not on the West Indies’ side, and it is nec essary for the West Indies cricket administrators to get down to serious business and build a possible winning team.Nicholas Pooran, Shimron Hetymer, Shai Hope, along with some good all-rounders could put enough runs on the board for the bowlers to bowl at. However, Pooran must be the wicket-keeper. The play ers’ confidence must be in their team spirit. This year’s Caribbean Premier League (CPL) would bring out the best in our players, and ex pectations are sky-high that our cricketers would be at their best. The support for cricket in the Caribbean is most encouraging, and our administrators must be ob jective and pro-active.
Copy the Moon Watch Log template below 30 Overtimes.the next month, draw your observations of the Moon each night, using the circle to record what you see. Note the date, time, and weather each night as you make your drawing. Some nights you may not get a clear view of the Moon because of clouds. You can always check online to see what the Moon looked like that night. If the Moon looks a little red or orange one night, draw this too. You might want to use some coloured pencils to make an accurate picture of the Moon.
Once you've completed 29 days of observations, you are ready to make your Flip Book. Cut each page of your journal along the dotted Makelines. sure they're in the right date order, with the earliest day on the bottom. Line up each slip of paper so the Moon circle is on the right side, and the date, time, and weather information is on the left. Clip or staple the pages together on the left side. You can now see the Moon pass through all its phases in just a few seconds. Talk about instant replay! (startwithabook.org)
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Remember: A rounded decimal will not exactly equal the fraction you started with. By The BroThers Grimm Just as eleven of them had done blessing her, a great noise was heard in the courtyard, and word was brought that the thirteenth fairy was come, with a black cap on her head, and black shoes on her feet, and a broomstick in her hand: and presently up she came into the dining-hall. Now, as she had not been asked to the feast she was very angry, and scolded the king and queen very much, and set to work to take her revenge. So she cried out, “The king’s daughter shall, in her fifteenth year, be wounded by a spindle, and fall down dead.” Then the twelfth of the friendly fairies, who had not yet given her gift, came forward, and said that the evil wish must be fulfilled, but that she could soften its mischief; so her gift was, that the king’s daughter, when the spindle wounded her, should not really die, but should only fall asleep for a hundred years. However, the king hoped still to save his dear child altogether from the threatened evil; so he ordered that all the spindles in the kingdom should be bought up and burnt. But all the gifts of the first eleven fairies were in the meantime fulfilled; for the princess was so beautiful, and well behaved, and good, and wise, that everyone who knew her loved her.
Attorney General Anil Nandlall, SC, has wel comed Thursday’s ruling by Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George, SC, that President Dr Irfaan Ali did not violate the Constitution when he appointed Deputy Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken to act as the country’s Police Commissioner.APNU/AFC Opposition Chief Whip Christopher Jones had asked the High Court to nullify Hicken’s ap pointment, primarily on the ground that, prior to the ap pointment, the Head of State failed to “meaningfully con sult” with the Opposition Leader as is required by the Constitution.Article211 (1) of the Constitution mandates that “the Commissioner of Police and every Deputy Commissioner of Police shall be appointed by the President acting after mean ingful consultation with the Leader of the Opposition and the Chairperson of the Police Service Commission [PSC] af ter the Chairperson has con sulted with the other mem bers of the Meanwhile,Commission”.provisions for a person to act in the office of the Police Commissioner are outlined under Article 211 (2) of the Constitution, and the provisions contained in Article 211 (1), shall apply to such an appointment as they apply to the appointment of a person to hold that office. When Hicken’s appoint ment took effect on March 30, the Office of the Opposition Leader was vacant follow ing the resignation of Joseph Harmon on January 26. Aubrey Norton—Leader of the PNCR—was appoint ed Opposition Leader on April 13. The PSC’s previ ous Commission expired on August 8, 2021. It was recon stituted on May 31. In light of the unusual circumstances that confront ed the President, Justice George, in dismissing Jones’s case, held that President Ali could not be faulted for mov ing ahead with the appoint ment because, at that time, there was no Opposition Leader with whom he is con stitutionally required to con sult. In the absence of an Opposition Leader and the PSC, she ruled that the Head of State acted “out of necessi ty”, and in the interest of na tional security, adding that it was reasonable for him to take action in his “own delib erate judgement”. National security at stake
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Acting Top Cop’s appointment AG proposes losing APNU/AFC Chief Whip pay $3M in legal costs …welcomes
High Court ruling on lawfulness of President’s decision
$3M in legal costs Considering her findings, the Chief Justice conclud ed, “There could be no disre gard of and thereby a breach of the requirement for mean ingful consultation when it was impossible to so engage. [Jones] therefore, is relying on an impossibility to ground the claim of unconstitutional ity…this application is vexa tious and an abuse of the pro cess of the court.” In the end, she dismissed Jones’s application, declar ing that Hicken was appoint ed lawfully. Accordingly, all actions taken by the acting Police Commissioner, includ ing the recent promotion of dozens of junior Police ranks, were saved. Jones was or dered to pay court costs to the respondents, namely, Nandlall, and Hicken, to be assessed, if not agreed upon by August 31. “Cost can run into mil lions of dollars,” the Attorney General has explained. In fact, in a letter to Jones’s lawyer, Roysdale Forde, SC, Nandlall has proposed $3 million as costs. Forde was given seven days to respond to this pro posal.According to Nandlall, the Chief Justice, in her judge ment, used the word disin genuous thrice to describe Jones’s challenge, and also “incongruous”. “I say all of that to demonstrate the type of case that they presented. No sensible person would file a proceeding in relation to an appointment when the person to be consulted is not present or not appointed,” he added. Regrettable Meanwhile, Forde has sig nalled his intention to appeal the Chief Justice’s “regretta ble”Inruling.astatement, he, among other things, expressed, “The decision delivered by the act ing Chief Justice must be cause for great concern and it is regrettable that it is to be considered as a judicial green light to unilateral appoint ments by the presidency and of course by Irfaan Ali, the current President.” He said that the impact of the judge ment is too grave for it to be left standing. (G1)
Attorney General Anil Nandlall, SC President Dr Irfaan Ali Police Commissioner (ag) Clifton Hicken Opposition Chief Whip Christopher Jones Senior RoysdaleCounselForde
The Attorney General has always maintained that the President acted lawfully. During an interview short ly after the Chief Justice’s rul ing, he noted, “There [was] no Opposition Leader through no fault of the President but because of their [APNU/AFC] own infighting between [then Opposition Leader Joseph] Harmon and Norton. And even after Norton won the contest at their party level, they took another few months to make him the Opposition Leader. Again, the people of Guyana are not at fault, the Government of Guyana is not at fault.”After then Police Commissioner (ag) Nigel Hoppie proceeded on retire ment leave, he said that the Police Force, which has never been without a head in its 183 years of existence, could not have been left without a lead er, and as such, the President after “looking around” and finding no one to consult, had to make a “judgement call” to appoint someone to fill the post.“The President of Guyana is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. He is the Minister with responsibili ty for national security and the defence of Guyana. The Minister of Home Affairs is the one who has responsi bility for the Police Force. The Police Force has statu tory and constitutional re sponsibility for the defence of Guyana, for the enforcement of all laws, and the prose cution and detection of all crimes committed. The Police Commissioner has a multi tude of functional responsi bilities under the Police Act and dozens of pieces of leg islation. National security and internal security are at stake,” said Nandlall as he defended the President’s de cision. Wrong and strong In light of the vacuum in the office of the Opposition Leader, the Attorney General reiterated that Jones’s case should have never been filed. He, therefore, called out the APNU/AFC for refusing to accept when it is wrong, not ing that the party is always quick to file lawsuits against the Government. He stressed that there is a modus ope randi evident in the way the Opposition approaches many matters, including litiga tion. “They have this wrong and strong attitude, this ap proach of attempting to bully their way through any given matter,” he reasoned. But this does not surprise him since it has been un ending. Alluding to former AFC member Charrandas Persaud’s “yes” vote on the PPP/C-sponsored NoConfidence Motion in 2018 which led to the collapse of the former APNU/AFC Government, Nandlall said that despite this, the coali tion, determined to still rule, challenged the legality of the motion of no-confidence in the courts. He pointed out that as a result of the passage of the motion, the then ruling party was supposed to resign and call general elections within threeButmonths.instead, he said, the party remained in Government and challenged the No-Confidence Motion on the “ridiculous proposition” that 34 is the majority of the 65-member Parliament and on the ground that Persaud, who is a citizen of Guyana and Canada, was not al lowed to vote in the National Assembly because of him holding dual citizenship. Fast forward to 2020, he reflected on the protract ed national elections that the APNU/AFC tried to “rig” in front of the whole world. “Each time they were caught red-handed, they became con frontational, rushing to the court. Of course, they lost,” added the Attorney General.
K ing Arthur and his Knights of the Roundtable spent their entire lives looking for the Holy Grail – said to be the cup that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper – supposedly it’d give them whatever they desired!! They could just throw back and yet have infinite wealth, eternal youth; or wine, women and song, all by possessing that cup!! Well, in Guyanese politics, the Holy Grail’s a Third Force!! It gotta be – the way it’s been pursued!! In the beginning, there was one – the PPP! Then there were two – PPP (Jaganite) and PPP (Burnhamite), which soon became PPP and PNC. They represented the splitting of the country racially. And the search for the Third Force Holy Grail began - to force the biggies to work together for the “good of the people and country”. One was launched in 1960 by business magnate Peter D’Aguiarbut he was totally consumed by hatred for the PPP, so he really wasn’t the real deal!! His UF was soon swallowed up by machinations of the USA, and was used and then dumped by the PNC. Burnham then made the search moot when he started rigging elections - and dared the PPP to stop him!! After a decade, the WPA was launched, but with continued rigging, they didn’t make a difference - as far as stymieing the PNC. But they showed that a Third Force might just be the vehicle to flip either the PPP or PNC. But came 1992, and the WPA collapsed like a supernova into a Black Hole - no pun intended!! And then there were two again; the quest for the Holy Grail resumed with a slew of aspirants for the role – which boiled down to the AFC in 2006. The Holy Grail was found – or so a whole lotta folks thought, based on the promises they’d made. They’d be standing up for Guyana – and NOT for either of the PPP or PNC. Whichever one of them had an initiative that was good for Guyana, they’d support the idea – and not necessarily the party!! Sounded good, didn’t it? By 2011, they had the opportunity to put their money where their mouth was when the PPP squeaked into the Presidency on a plurality - and not a majority - in Parliament!! But sadly, they signalled their non-neutrality when their leader was made Speaker by the PNC (now APNU), and they moved in sync with the latter!! They went the whole hog in 2015 when they coalesced with the PNC, and the two won the elections. But the ideal of a Third Force was damaged when they accepted being the PNC’s doormat – because of the lure of lucre!! Ain’t gonna be no Third Force soon!!
Labourer accused of raping woman at sleepover remanded
Accused rapist Deqwan Norton
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The difference between politics between nations and WITHIN nations – we’re told – is that, in the latter, the rules of the game in the struggle for power are agreed upon, typically in a Constitution that everyone has signed on to. In the former, notwithstanding the UN organization, nations are still free to do as they please –as is happening in Ukraine!! But what happens when one or more of the parties INSIDE a country refuse to follow the constitution?? Well, typically, they don’t ever say they’re REFUSING TO FOLLOW the Constitution. They pretend to “interpret” the particular clause they’re violating for their own benefit, and go to the Courts – which are constitutionally authorised to settle such matters. And this is what happened recently when the President appointed an acting COP on his own, because there was no Opposition or Police Commission in place to consult, as is constitutionally mandated!! The PNC went to Court, and their claim was thrown out as “vexatious” and a waste of the Court’s time!! …of a roof over every head During the Great Depression, US President FDR promised Americans “a chicken in every pot”. Looks like our own President Ali – a former Housing Minister – is promising a roof over every head!! And keeping it!!
…of mature politics
…of Guyanese politics?
The views expressed in this column are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Guyana Times’ editorial policy and stance Holy Grail...
A25-year-old man accused of rap ing a woman four years older than him at a house party has been charged and remanded to prison. Deqwan Norton, a labourer of D’Urban Backlands Squatting Area, Georgetown, was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. He was not required to plead to the indictable charge which stated that on August 7, in Georgetown, he engaged in sexual penetration with a 29-yearold woman without her consent. During the in-camera hearing, Norton was refused bail. His next court date is August 26. It is the prosecution’s case that the virtual complainant was at her friend’s house party. Because “it was getting late”, instead of going home, she decid ed to sleep over at her friend’s place. The woman stayed alone in her friend’s bedroom. She was, however, awakened by Norton, who allegedly touched her about her body, before rap ing her against her will. The woman raised an alarm and persons in the home came to her res cue. According to the prosecutor, Norton attempted to escape but was caught, beaten, and handed over to the Police. He was positively identified by the complainant as the person who sexual ly attacked her. (G1)
President Dr Irfaan Ali on Thursday con ducted an outreach at Baracara along the Canje Creek, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) where he told residents of the mul tiple opportunities that would become available with the recent passage of the hempAccordinglegislation.tothe Head of State, there is need to edu cation the population on the returns that the hemp in dustry“Weproduces.havepassed the Hemp Bill in Parliament and this now advances the opportunity to use hemp. Because hemp is a future crop; it is a crop that is im portant for pharmaceuticals, for the construction indus try, and the research is con tinuing. There is a multi-lay er of possibilities, fabric and everything,” he stated. To this end, President Ali further said to the residents of Baracara and surround ing communities along the Canje Creek that he wants to tap into their cultivation skills to establish a viable hemp industry here. “So, we are going to come back in this community and we will have a closed-door meeting with all these peo ple here. I want a closeddoor meeting with all those people who are planting things that they have to hide and do because it’s against the“Somelaw.” people show that they have tremendous abili ty in getting high yields and high production. We just have to use that existing knowledge in an area that will be within the boundar ies of the law and will give you the type of return that will help you to uplift your community and family,” the President stated. On Monday, the National Assembly passed the hemp legislation, which now paves the way for the cultivating and manufacturing of indus trial hemp and hemp-relat ed products; and conduct ing of research on industrial hemp or any other activity concerning industrial hemp. It further provides for the establishment of a Guyana Industrial Hemp Regulatory Authority.Hempis a botanical class of Cannabis sativa cultivars grown specifically for indus trial or medicinal use. Under the new legisla tion, a person shall not cul tivate or manufacture hemp or hemp-related products; or conduct research or any oth er activity related to indus trial hemp without a licence issued by the authority un der the Act. In the case of a violation, a person is liable on summary conviction to a fine of $500,000 or imprison ment for one year. The framework states, “The Board shall consider the impact on public health, safety, security, commerce and agriculture and need for the orderly development of the sector including exclu sivity when considering an application for the issuance of a licence under this Act.” After the licence is grant ed, a person is not allowed to plant any seed or plant; or harvest any cannabis plant before a sample of the seed or plant is analysed by an analyst to ascertain whether it confirms with the allowed tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration.President Ali has long been pushing decriminalise hemp production and label ling it as a viable industry. In fact, he had previously ar gued that the industry is not only about hemp production but having the processing and value-added facilities here in Guyana. To this end, Government had floated the idea of leas ing lands in Regions Six and 10 (Upper DemeraraBerbice) to persons for hemp cultivation.Hemp is a multibil lion-dollar industry which can lend to the production of hundreds of items. While hemp does contain THC, ad vocates have argued that this is in very low amounts, below 0.3 per cent, which is too low to be psychoactive. In Guyana, the THC lev el needs to be below 0.3 per cent for it to be considered legal. Hemp is a source of fibre and the oilseed is grown in more than 30 nations. Some uses for hemp include rope, textiles, clothing, shoes, food, paper, bioplastics, in sulation, and biofuel. It is rich in protein, unsaturated fats, fibre, minerals and vi tamins. Hemp protects the brain, boosts heart health, reduces inflammation, im proves skin conditions and relieves rheumatoid arthri tis. Hemp seeds are particu larly rich in healthy fats, in cluding omega-3 and ome ga-6 fatty acids that are known for improving heart health by reducing choles terol, blood pressure, and triglycerides. (G8)
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Pres Ali says will tap into cultivation skills of Canje Creek residents to grow hemp
President Dr Irfaan Ali engaging residents during his outreach to Baracara, Canje Creek
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Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh has signed the Census Order, declaring September 15 as Census Day in Guyana. It was published on Friday in the Official Gazette. The signing of this order followed the approval for supplemental funding in the National Assembly this week, for $2 billion to aid in the execution of the census. The declaration of Census Day allows the Bureau of Statistics, an agency of the Ministry of Finance, to count the population at a specified point in time and marks the commencement of a threemonth long enumeration pe riod for the 2022 National Population and Housing Census.A Population and Housing Census is a com plete count of the population, which is conducted every 10 years and provides detailed data on population size, age structure, education al attainment, labour force, housing, and many other so cio-economic characteristics. Guyana’s last census was conducted in 2012, and since then, there have been many changes across the length and breadth of the country. These changes include the population size, composi tion, economic activities, ac cess to social services, ma ternal health, food security, agricultural activity and ed ucation attainment, among other areas of change.
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Civil engineer Bayeeshmaal Ramsundar (left) sharing a photo with US Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch, and Keesha St
Police in Regional Divisional Three (Essequibo IslandsWest Demerara) on Thursday unearthed a quan tity of cocaine and marijua na at an abandoned house at Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo.Atabout 17:00h, a party of policemen, acting on intel ligence, went to the two-sto rey wooden abandoned build ing, where a search was conducted. In the lower flat of the house, the officers met a 45-year-old man who hails from Uitvlugt New Scheme, West Coast Demerara. A search was carried out on the premises in his pres ence and a large black bulky plastic bag was found which contained Cannabis sati va, along with another black plastic bag containing co caine.He admitted ownership of the narcotics and was taken to the Leonora Police Station along with the nar cotics where the cannabis and cocaine were weighed in his presence. The canna bis amounted to 3558 grams while the cocaine amounted to 242Thegrams.suspect was placed into custody pending charges. Only two days ago, Police went to Bourda Street, Georgetown, where a 29-year-old male was searched and a cigarette pack was found in the crotch of his pants which contained a quantity of whitish rocklike substance weighing 3.9 grams suspected to be co caine. (G9)
Fortify, amplify voice of young people Culture, Youth and Sport Minister Charles Ramson Jr, in brief remarks, said the establishment of this Youth Council is yet an other demonstration of the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) administra tion fulfilling its promise to the people of Guyana. He noted that this move would fortify and amplify the voice of young people in the decision-making pro cess at the highest level of the“ItGovernment.isveryvery import ant that you understand why you’re here, and how important it is that you’re here. The country is going to transform, but we get to define how the country is going to transform… We are more than having our voice heard, we are at the seat of the table,” Minister Ramson told the Council members.
The Fulbright Foreign Student Programme gives Guyanese the opportuni ty to complete a Master’s or PhD at a higher education institution in the United States. Founded in 1946, the Fulbright Programme now operates in 160 coun tries and has provided over 400,000 people from all backgrounds and in all fields the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas, and con tribute to finding solutions to complex global challeng es. Over 120 Guyanese have benefitted from Fulbright scholarships since the early 1960s, many of whom are in the public sector, academia, the arts, business, civil soci ety, media, and education. 2022
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According to Kanhai, such a Council has been long in the making. In fact, he noted that the body would be a representation of all facets of youths across the country – something that has been missing. “I can assure you that we will touch each and ev ery region… I can assure you (that), with the leader ship of His Excellency and with the leadership of the Council and its members, we will ensure that each and every youth can see a vision that we present to them, and they can tell us also what they would like to do. They can tell us, meet with us, talk to us; we will listen, and we will under stand to our best, and we will work with them. And we are sure that we will be able to do so, given the facil ities that we are now being offered,” the Council Chair asserted.
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The US Embassy an nounced on Friday the selection of two Guyanese scholars for 2022 Fulbright Scholarship Awards. Guyanese educa tor Keesha St John and civ il engineer Bayeeshmaal Ramsundar will embark upon graduate level pro grammes in their respective fields at universities in the United States. St John will pur sue a Master of Science in Agribusiness Economics at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, while Bayeeshmaal Ramsundar will pursue a Master of Science in Construction Management at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. During a courtesy call at the embassy on Thursday, US Ambassador to Guyana Sarah-Ann Lynch extend ed congratulations to the awardees on their selection from a highly competitive group of Ambassadorcandidates.Lynch noted that the US Government is pleased to support Guyana’s development by building lo cal capacity through higher education. She further not ed that both areas of study are vital to Guyana’s growth as it takes centre stage on the world market and sup ports the Government of Guyana’s efforts in food se curity, and oversight of pub lic infrastructure projects.
Kwakwani man jailed for 3 years, fined $17M for ganja trafficking released on bail
C arlon Causeway pleaded guilty to a charge relat ed to Wednesday’s drug bust at Kwakwani, Region 10 (Upper DemeraraBerbice), admitting to trafficking 25 pounds of marijuana.Heappeared on Friday before Magistrate Wanda Fortune at the Linden Magistrate’sCauseway,Court.of Third Phase Kwakwani, was sen tenced to three years’ im prisonment, together with a fine of $17,009,700— three times the street val ue of the illicit drug. Meanwhile, Devin Causeway, his relative, pleaded not guilty and was placed on $100,000 bail with the condition that he lodges all travel docu ments and reports to the Kwakwani Police Station on the first Monday of ev ery month until the hear ing and determination of his Histrial.case has been ad journed until October 7. On the day in ques tion, Police ranks were re sponding to a noise nui sance report. At about 04:00h, the ranks went to Lamp Island, Kwakwani Water Front, Berbice River. While there, they observed motor car HD 673, with two occupants driving away upon seeing them.This led to ranks giv ing chase and the driver of the motor car drove into a nearby trench, causing the vehicle to come to a halt. As a result, a search was conducted on the vehicle, and two transparent par cels containing a quanti ty of compressed leaves, seeds, and stems suspect ed to be Cannabis sativa were found in the trunk of theBothcar. the driver and the passenger were told of the offence committed, but both pointed fingers at each other. They were tak en to the Kwakwani Police Station and then to the Mackenzie Police Station where the suspected nar cotic was weight in their presence and amounted to 25 pounds which is just over 11Kg. (G1)
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The marijuana that was found Carlon Causeway Devin Causeway
Four men are now in Police custody after they broke into two cars that were parked in front of Space Gym, which is located on Mandela Avenue, Georgetown.Thevictims are a 26-yearold man of Eccles; a 21-yearold male of Campbellville, Georgetown, and a 36-yearold male of Ogle, East Coast Demerara. The robbery oc curred on Thursday at about 19:50h. Police said the first vic tim reported that he lost $275,000,00 and a num ber of documents. The sec ond victim had one black Nike gym shoulder bag, one brown Dockers wallet val ued at $8000, two GBTI cards and a bunch of keys. Meanwhile, the third victim has been robbed of $80,000 and an HP ProBook valued at $315,000. It was reported that the victims parked their motor cars in front of the gym, and just before 20:00h they were making checks on their mo tor cars when they observed that the back right side glass for the vehicles were broken. The locks on the doors were also opened and the ar ticles mentioned were miss ing.Investigators said CCTV cameras were viewed at the said building and it cap tured when three male per petrators committed the act before leaving the scene in a red Pitbull minibus. Checks were made by the Police, and the minibus was inter cepted at Leopold Street. At the time, the bus was driven by a 37-year-old male with two men, a 22-year-old male, and a 29-year-old as the occupants. A search was conducted and $23,000 was found in one of the suspect’s pants pockets and $22,000 was found on the other sus pect.They were both arrested and questioned and they ad mitted to breaking into the cars and stealing the items. Information provided by the men led Police to a property at D’Urban Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown, where a search was conduct ed and the HP ProBook was recovered along with a num ber of cellular phones and other items. A fourth man, 39, of the same address, was arrested. The suspects were all placed in custody as further investi gations are in progress. (G9) The minibus that was involved in the robbery
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The cellular phones that were found at the home in Wortmanville
4 men arrested for breaking into cars parked at city gym
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“The census, Guyana’s largest national data collec tion exercise is more than just a headcount, as it plays a critical role in evaluating the aforementioned chang es and data collected during the 2022 census will contrib ute significantly towards chartering the course of na tional development over the next ten years. This data is extremely valuable to us ers at all levels, including Government, the private sector, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), stu dents, researchers and in ternational agencies,” a statement from the Finance Ministry detailed. The Population & Housing Census is an ex tremely important exer cise that produces a large amount of socio-economic and demographic data that is used for planning and na tional development. All of these changes have an impact on the demand for social services, such as health, housing & educa tion. This information is in great demand by the policy makers for planning and de velopment, private sector, students, researchers and donor agencies. It should be noted that census data is collected, ana lysed, and made available in an aggregated format, while ensuring that individual in formation is treated with the strictest of confidence. Provisions under Chapter 19:09 of the Statistics Act ensures that the data is only used for analytical purposes and that any individual data is protected and never made public.Meanwhile, among some of the preparatory works being undertaken by the Bureau of Statistics are the establishment of temporary regional offices, finalisa tion of data collection tools, training of approximately 3000 temporary personnel and the rolling out of a pub lic education and awareness campaign.Allpersons in Guyana are being encouraged to ful ly participate in the 2022 census by providing accu rate information and coop erating with the ators/census-takers,enumerwho are scheduled to visit every household and building in Guyana.Guyana’s popula tion count in 2012 stood at 746,955, a decline from the previous census in 2002 which saw a count of 751,223. (G12)
September 15 declared... FROM PAGE 10 GUYANA COVID-19 DASHBOARD AUGUST 12, 2022 UPDATE GET MEDICAL ADVICE ON COVID-19 FROM MOH 24/7 HOTLINE NUMBERS: 2311166; 226 7480; 624 6674; 624 2819; 624 3067 OR 180/181. NUMBER OF NEW CASES 45 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN INSTITUTIONAL ISOLATION 13 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN HOME ISOLATION 481 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN COVID-19 ICU 1 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN INSTITUTIONAL QUARANTINE 3 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES BY GENDER (FEMALES) 38,159 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES BY GENDER (MALES) 32,239 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES IN GUYANA SINCE 2020 70,398 NUMBER OF RECOVERED CASES 68,628 TOTAL 1st DOSE VACCINATED 445,440 FULLY IMMUNISED 345,089 TOTAL NUMBER OF DEATHS 1275 DISTRIBUTION OF TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES SINCE MARCH 2020 REGION 1 2683 REGION 2 3108 REGION 3 8666 REGION 4 35,062 REGION 5 2563 REGION 6 6750 REGION 7 2630 REGION 8 909 REGION 9 4324 REGION 10 3703 HERE IS HOW YOU CAN BE SAFE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Wear a face mask. Keep a physical distance of at least 6 feet. Wash your hands or use handsanitizer If you have any symptoms, call the COVID-19 Hotline.
The Health Ministry has announced one more COVID-19 fatal ity as of Friday, taking the confirmed death toll to 1275. A 52-year-old from Region Seven died on August 8. He was not vacci nated.Additionally, 45 new cas es were reported, taking the confirmed cases up to 70,398. This translates to 32,239 males and 38,159 fe males.One patient is in the Intensive Care Unit, 13 in institutional isolation, 481 in home isolation and three in institutional quarantine. Additionally, 68,628 per sons have recovered. About 500 active cas es are being monitored, of which 14 are hospital ised. Eight patients are be ing housed at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Liliendaal.Abreakdown of active cases is five for Region Nine, 14 for Region Two, 60 for Region Three, 275 for Region Four, 28 for Region Five, 52 for Region Six, 13 for Region Seven, 24 four Region Eight, four for Region Nine and 25 for Region 10. Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony on Friday expressed that the current BA.5 wave is still causing infection among the popu lation and authorities are monitoring the progression of this strain. “It’s more contagious, meaning that if people are not wearing their masks, they can easily get infect ed. Another characteristic is that in persons who might have been infected before with one of the subvariants of Omicron, you can get re infected with BA.5. People would have to take the pre cautions,” he detailed. Dr Anthony provid ed some insight into the COVID-19 vaccination up take among pregnant wom en, as he recommended they take the jabs. The Health Minister re layed that myths have been circulating in the public do main, hinting that preg nant women can be affected if they take the COVID-19 vaccines. However, as he de bunked such information, Dr Anthony said take the vaccines mean added pro tection for the child. “That’s totally untrue. On the contrary, the vaccine would help both the infant and the mother. It is advis able that they take the vac cines. Even after delivery, a mother can take the vac cine. If they didn’t have one during the pregnancy, they can still take the vaccine,” he shared in the COVID-19 update. The Health Minister re iterated that COVID-19 vac cines are completely safe for women and their newborn. Since jabs are not available for young children and in fants, he advised that the mother be protected – of which some antibodies can be passed on to the child. “These vaccines are safe and they are protective. So, if a pregnant woman got the vaccine in their last tri mester, the antibodies they would build in their system would pass on to the infant and help to protect that in fant.” “We don’t have any vac cines that are currently available for small children and one way of protecting small children and infants would be that the mother be vaccinated so that the anti bodies can pass through the breastmilk to the child. This is a very positive thing,” Dr Anthony added. He is urging persons to get vaccinated, since rein fection is still a high possi bility among the vulnerable and unimmunised. Vaccination Vaccination figures show that so far, 445,440 or 86.8 per cent of adults have tak en a first dose, while some 345,089 or 67.3 per cent of persons are fully vaccinated. For the 12 and 17 group ing, 35,487 first doses or 48.7 per cent and 25,981 or 35.6 per cent second doses have been administered. Vaccination for chil dren in the five to 11 cate gory shows 7049 first doses or 6.9 per cent. Only 2159 or 2.1 per cent have returned for their second shot. In ad dition, 71,696 persons have returned for their booster shots thus far. According to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recent figures, some 585 million confirmed cases were reported globally along with over 6.4 million deaths. In the Region of the Americas, that is Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has in creased to 172 million while the death toll in the region has gone up to 2.7 million. If anyone is displaying any of the symptoms asso ciated with COVID-19 or needs any additional in formation, they are asked to contact the COVID-19 Hotline 231-1166, 226-7480 or 624-6674 immediately or visit www.health.gov.gy. (G12)
Unvaccinated Region 7 man succumbs to COVID-19 cases
AUS$44 million loan agreement was signed on Friday with the World Bank as part of the Guyana Strengthening Human Capital through Education Project. The project focuses on the expansion of access to quality education at the sec ondary level and improv ing technical and vocational training (TVET). The agreement was signed in the Finance Ministry’s boardroom by Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh and World Bank Resident Representative for Guyana and Suriname, Diletta Doretti. In brief remarks, Education Minister Priya Manickchand stated that this project aligns with the Education Ministry’s goals to improve and expand ac cess to quality secondary ed ucation while simultaneous ly developing the country’s TVET“Thesector.Government of Guyana is very aware that this new Guyana has to be people-centred. Each human being must develop along with the beautiful resources our land is benefiting from,” the Minister is quoted as saying in a release from the EducationFinanceMinistry.Minister, Dr Singh shared similar sen timents. He noted that the signing of the US $44 mil lion agreement for the devel opment of human capital is a significant part of a much broader and comprehensive policy agenda. He explained with the rapid transforma tional development taking place, there is a great need for human capital develop ment.“We believe that there is no investment that is more important than the invest ment in the people.”
Following a Facebook live video that was posted by a Guyana Police Force (GPF) Sergeant, Dion Bascom, making sev eral allegations against the Police Force, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) said it has since been instructed to commence an investigation.OnMonday, Bascom was among five people who were arrested when Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) raided a Norton Street, Georgetown house. Reports are that CANU officers conducted an opera tion at a Norton Street resi dence, where a known drug trafficker resides. A subse quent search of the premises led to the discovery of four parcels containing suspect ed cocaine. The known drug trafficker along with the cop and three persons were ar rested at the Meanwhile,premises.in a Facebook live video which he has since deleted, Bascom claimed was his “wrong fully” arrested by CANU. He was heard making alle gations that there is a ma jor Police cover-up going on within the Police Force. He also said he believes he is being targeted for call ing out the wrongs in the Guyana Police Force. The Sergeant claimed that on the night CANU agents turned up at the Norton Street home and conducted the search, he was visiting a friend. He claimed that he had no knowledge about the co caine while stating that the friend that he went to vis it was one of the persons charged for the offence. Bascom was not charged and has since been released. In his Facebook live broadcast, the cop claimed that there has been a mul timillion-dollar bribe that was paid to senior ranks in the GPF with regards to the investigation into the mur der of 42-year-old Ricardo “Paper Shorts” Fagundes. Fagundes was killed ex ecution-style in March 2021 outside a popular Main Street, Georgetown night spot.Reports are the man was partying with a group of friends at the bar when his phone rang and he exit ed the club to take the call, but soon after, several gun shots were heard. Reports are that the now dead man’s friends rushed out to en quire, but found Fagundes lying motionlessly in a pool of blood close to his motor car.Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) arrived shortly after the shooting and pronounced Fagundes dead. Following the inci dent, Police recovered at least 15 spent shells from a high-powered rifle at the scene.Less than 24 hours after the shooting incident, Police found a white wagon, which is suspected to have been used by the killer, on fire at Swan, Linden-Soesdyke Highway.However, investigators have not confirmed if it was the same car but based on CCTV footage, the car was of the same model as the one seen outside the nightspot, in which the killer escaped following the shooting. Bascom said a securi ty agent for a popular city businessman was the prime suspect in the murder inves tigation while noting that during the probe which he was part of, one of the inves tigators was able to track the phone used by the main suspect in “Paper Shorts” murder.Thecop now claims that the security officer was the last person who called the dead man before and af ter the shooting incident. Bascom said the matter was placed on the back burner.
Meanwhile, Doretti high lighted that the funding aims to prepare citizens to excel in emerging sectors of the economy including cli mate-resilient agriculture, low-carbon technology, and digital“Activitiesdevelopment.under the project are expected to ben efit at least 60,744 students and 2128 teachers and prin cipals at the secondary lev el. At the TVET level, a min imum of 600 students and 140 secondary and post-sec ondary TVET trainers will benefit from professional de velopment activities.” The project will support the piloting and nation al rollout of a new curric ulum for Grades Seven to Nine and finance textbooks for Grades Seven to Eleven. It will also see the develop ment of a new TVET sector policy for 2022-2030 and im prove the delivery of TVET at secondary and post-sec ondaryPresentinstitutions.forthe signing were Education Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Alfred King; Chief Education Officer, Dr Marcel Hutson; Deputy Chief Education Officer (TVET), Dr Ritesh Tularam; Chief Planning Officer, Nicola Johnson along with officers from the Finance Ministry.
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Just after going live, the cop deleted the video from his Facebook page. With respect to the drug bust, Bascom claimed, “I was set up and continue to be set up and sidelined in the GPF after taking so many weapons off the streets and solving so many crimes…. I stand by my words and any one of them could challenge me in a court of law or at a CoI…. I Am Ready”, he said. (G9)
Education Minister Priya Manickchand with Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh and World Bank Resident Representative for Guyana and Suriname, Diletta Doretti
US$44 million loan signed to enhance human capital
Dion Bascom, the cop arrested in the Norton Street cocaine bust
OPR launches probe into cop arrested during drug bust bribe allegations
Many months af ter the Human Services and Social Security Ministry launched its “Every Child Safe Campaign”, fittingly, their “Anti-Bullying Campaign” (ABC) – along with a mot to, “Do Good, Be Good, Live Good” – was launched on Friday, as the world cel ebrated International Youth Day 2022 themed “Intergenerational solidar ity: creating a world for all ages.”Minister Dr Vindhya Persaud, while attending a ceremony held by the United Bridge Builders Mission in Guyana (UBBM) at the Bookland Gardens, Woolford Avenue, Georgetown, spoke extensively on the issue of bullying amongst children. She massively highlighted the issue of cyberbullying, which is slowly becoming a norm in today’s society of so cial media domination. Hazel Success, a social worker who delivered an outline of the UBBM – in col laboration with the Human Services and Social Security Ministry – said that bully ing in schools, workplaces, in the home, and online is on the rise and “if left un checked can destroy our community.”Shenoted that it is im perative that we all try and strive to curb this practice of bullying in Guyana’s so ciety. Safe space Over the past six weeks, she revealed that the UBBM held a programme with chil dren to provide a safe space for them to talk and open up about the many issues trou bling our children today. She said that many in teractive group sessions were held to educate the children on the cause and consequences of bullying and the various types of bul lying. However, it was the one-on-one sessions with the children that dug up some of the issues that are facing. Issues such as child rape, child abuse, and child drink ing were brought up in those one-on-one sessions. “There were also oneon-one sessions which also dealt with a number of is sues, as well as brought out serious problems faced by children as a consequence of social factors influencing their lives, including but not limited to, child rape, child abuse at home, child run ning away from home, child drinking and all of these things,” the social worker said. Very engaging Chief executive offi cer and founder of UBBM, Bonita Montaque, while de livering brief remarks at the ceremony, said that the ses sions were very engaging and the children were very receptive of what was being taught to “Thesethem.two days ses sions, engage participants in various areas from selfcare to understanding the role in the prevention of bul lying and developing pro ductive professional rela tionships with the children in their care. They were very engaging, and recep tive and have pledged to be great gatekeepers. Most of the participants expressed appreciation for the oppor tunity to benefit from the training and were very clear in calling for similar ongo ing training and support,” Montaque said. She also expressed that children are the future of to morrow and we should pro tect them at all costs, shar ing similar sentiments with Dr Persaud who noted that at no point a child who feels as though their safety is threatened should be afraid to come forward and speak up about it. “And their safety is of such importance that at no point in time when that safe ty is threatened, they must be afraid of speaking out be cause we are here to listen. We are here to help. We’re here to work with you to re ally enjoy the safety. That is your entitlement. And I see it as clearly as that because children are entitled to safe ty at all times. Whether it’s at home, at school, in their communities, or yes in State care,” Dr Persaud said. Every Child Safe Campaign Meanwhile, Dr Persaud, who reminded the audience of the “Every Child Safe Campaign” said that the campaign targeted not only children but the role of their parents in their lives who play a major role in main taining their child’s safety. “The competence of work ing with communities is an important and essential com ponent of the Every Child Safe Campaign because I have always known that we cannot from the level of the State or any one institution make a significant impact on children’s life without in volving their parents and the widerWithcommunity.”thisinmind, the Minister, with the help of her Ministry, devised a par enting manual that is in tended to foster better par enting skills in a child’s life. Now, the “Anti-Bullying Campaign” intends to tar get bullying not only at the State level but also at the community level. As such, the Minister urged persons to report acts of bullying. “So, let’s start report ing bullying. Let’s call it out. You know, they have a Cyber Crime Act in this country. So many things are crimes so it might cross the line from just being plain old bullying to being a crime. So we should not encour age cyberbullying in any of its forms. We need to call it out,” she charged. “Lunch Buddy” Additionally, Dr Persaud said that there will be up coming activities under the ABC initiative, like the “Lunch Buddy” activity which encourages children to eat with a friend at lunch to decrease their chances of being bullied. Another activ ity is the “Tree Note” activ ity which encourages chil dren to write a note and pin it on a tree on a specific day that is yet to be announced. Further, children who are under State care will receive free music lessons of their choosing from the Music School of Guyana and also free memberships to the Guyana Cricket Club. “We are going to be link ing with the Music School of Guyana for all the children in State care to have ac cess to diverse training be it steel pan to dance to singing whatever it is you think you want to learn that arrange ment has already been made for “Andyou. to those boys and girls who told me that crick et was the thing they want ed, arrangements have been made for you to go to crick et clubs free so that we can have you in Guyana so these are things that I feel chil dren in here must have ac cess to,” she said.
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Human Services and Social Security Minister, Dr Vindhya Persaud Chief Executive Officer and founder of UBBM, Bonita Montaque
Social Security Ministry launches anti-bullying campaign
The way is now cleared for non-nation als to practice med icine in Guyana with the passage of the Medical Practitioners Amendment Bill after the second reading in the National Assembly on Monday.Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony told the Assembly that the amend ment removes the criteria where one has to be a citizen or married to a citizen to be considered for proper regis tration in Guyana. “By removing that, we are opening up the coun try to a pool of expertise that is urgently needed if we are going to continue with the transformation of the healthcare sector,” Dr Anthony is quoted as saying in a DPI Anthonyreport.noted also that Guyana is undergoing a rap id transformation in the health sector, and the mis sion is to create a worldclass health care service for all citizens to enjoy the best medicalTherecare.isalso an expec tation that persons living in the diaspora will want to re turn home, or even non-citi zens, for medical care. “To train a doctor takes quite a long time, and to train a specialist, even lon ger time, so the amend ment that we have for the Medical Practitioners’ Bill, allows for us to change the existing law, non-nation als to allow for coming into Guyana, and practice med icine and to be registered by the Medical Council,” Dr Anthony stressed. The Health Minister said that the amendment was made in the interest of ac celerating the pace of devel opment in the health sector. According to Anthony, “the transformation has al ready started with signifi cant investment in the hos pital infrastructure and equipment”.“…Andso in the next few years, we will see this infra structure transformed, but one of our challenges would be with human resources, and while attempts have been made to increase train ing, to expand our training programme, it would still take a few years for us to complete this process and to have all the staff that is nec essary,” Dr Anthony said. According to the PractitionersMemorandum”,“ExplanatorytheMedicalAct,current ly sets out five requirements for persons applying to the Medical Council wishing to be registered as a medical practitioner. The first requirement is that the person must be a citizen of Guyana, a resident of Guyana, or a Caricom na tional.Clause Two of the Bill seeks to remove this re quirement of registration for persons who want to be reg istered to practice medicine or surgery in Guyana.
I nfrastructural works are progressing in the Amelia’s Ward Phase 4 Housing Scheme, which will soon be ready for some 400 Linden families to take up residence.Housing and Water Minister Collin Croal on Thursday visited the loca tion to examine the pace of theAwork.release from the Housing Ministry has said that, to date, a massive por tion of the land has been cleared, and preparatory work is ongoing for the con struction of access roads. Following the first phase infrastructural works, the other amenities, including drainage, water and electri cal networks, are expected to be installed. In July last year, the Ministry, through its ‘Dream Realised’ house lots’ allocation exercise, distrib uted 400 house lots in the Amelia’s Ward Phase Four Scheme. Some $364 mil lion has been allocated for the infrastructural works in that area. While there were some delays in the land-clearing process as a result of squatting, during the Minister’s visit, he not ed his satisfaction with the work done so far. To date, all the illegal structures that were imped ing the development pro cess have been removed. However, the Ministry is pleading with residents to desist from carrying out construction of any kind in the area, as there have been reports of squatting taking place in some sections of the scheme.Also, while in Linden, the Minister visited Millie’s Hideout, the newest area identified for housing de velopment. Land-clearing is also ongoing in that area, which spans approximate ly 250 acres. That area has been identified for the con struction of the first batch of three-bedroom hous ing units, another hous ing option for the Region. Mobilisation for the con struction would commence shortly.Todate, a large portion of the area has been cleared and levelled to facilitate the installation of road net work. This projects forms part of President Dr Irfaan Ali’s commitment to see the construction of 1000 hous ing units in Linden, to ad dress the housing needs of Region Ten. The commit ment was made back in January 2021, during the first outreach the President and his Cabinet made to the miningAlready,town.some 40 elevat ed two-bedroom units are at various stages of construc tion, and most have been completed and allocated in the Amelia’s Ward Phase Two Scheme.
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort is seen in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., February 8, 2021 (REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo)
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FBI seized top secret documents at Trump’s home; Espionage Act cited
Linden Housing development, infrastructural plans progressing – Croal cleared for non-nationals to practise medicine in Guyana
FBI agents in this week’s search of for mer U.S. President Donald Trump’s Florida home removed 11 sets of classified documents includ ing some marked as top se cret, the Justice Department said on Friday, while also disclosing it had probable cause to conduct the search based on possible Espionage ActTheviolations.bombshell disclo sures were made in a search warrant approved by a U.S. magistrate judge and ac companying documents re leased four days after agents searched Trump’s Mar-aLago residence in Palm Beach. The Espionage Act, one of three laws cited in the warrant application, dates to 1917 and makes it a crime to release information that could harm national securi ty. Trump, in a statement on his social media platform, said the records were “all de classified” and placed in “se cure“Theystorage.”didn’t need to ‘seize’ anything. They could have had it anytime they wanted without playing pol itics and breaking into Mara-Lago,” the illegallytigationoutcianbusinessman-turned-politiRepublicansaid.ThesearchwascarriedaspartofafederalinvesintowhetherTrumpremoveddocu ments when he left office in January 2021 after losing the presidential election two months earlier to Democrat Joe Biden. Although the FBI on Monday carted away ma terial labeled as classified, the three laws cited as the basis for the warrant make it a crime to mishandle gov ernment records, regardless of whether they are classi fied. As such, Trump’s claims that he declassified the doc uments would have no bear ing on the potential legal vi olations at issue. FBI agents took more than 30 items including more than 20 boxes, bind ers of photos, a handwritten note and the executive grant of clemency for Trump’s ally and longtime adviser Roger Stone, a list of items re moved showed. Also includ ed in the list was informa tion about the “President of France.”Thewarrant showed that FBI agents were asked to search a room called “the 45 Office” - Trump was the 45th US president - as well as all other rooms and structures or buildings on the estate used by Trump or his staff where boxes or documents could be stored. The Justice Department said in the warrant appli cation approved by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart that it had prob able cause to believe viola tions of the Espionage Act had occurred at Trump’s home.That law was initially enacted to combat spying. Prosecutions under it were relatively uncommon un til the Justice Department ramped up its use under both Trump and his prede cessor Barack Obama to go after leakers of national se curity information, including leaks to the news media. The law’s section cited as the basis for the warrant prohibits unauthorized pos session of national defense information. It did not spell out the details about why in vestigators have reason to believe such a violation oc curred.The Justice Department has used the Espionage Act in high-profile cases in re cent years including former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, former military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning and WikiLeaks founder JulianTheAssange.application also cit ed probable cause of possi ble violations of two other statutes that make it illegal to conceal or destroy official U.S. documents. “Top secret” is the highest level, reserved for the most closely held U.S. national security informa tion. Such documents usu ally are kept in special gov ernment facilities because disclosure could gravely damage national security. FBI agents on Monday collected four sets of top-se cret documents, three sets of secret documents and three sets of confidential documents, it was disclosed on Friday. Agents were re vealed to have collected a set of documents labeled “clas sified/TS/SCI documents,” a reference to top secret and sensitive compartmented material.Trump has not been charged with any wrong doing. It remained unclear whether any charges would be brought. An Escalation Monday’s search marked a significant escalation in one of the many federal and state investigations he is facing from his time in of fice and in private business, including a separate one by the Justice Department into a failed bid by Trump’s allies to overturn the 2020 presi dential election by submit ting phony slates of electors. Trump on Wednesday declined to answer ques tions during an appearance before New York state’s at torney general in a civil in vestigation into his family’s business practices, citing his constitutional right against self-incrimination.AttorneyGeneral Merrick Garland on Thursday an nounced that the depart ment asked Reinhart to unseal the warrant. This fol lowed Trump’s claim that the search was political ret ribution and a suggestion by him, without evidence, that the FBI may have planted evidence against him. Legal experts said Trump’s claim that he had declassified the materials would not be a useful defense should he ever face charges. “The statute does not even strictly require even that the information be clas sified so long as it is relat ing to the national defense,” Northwestern University law professor Heidi Kitrosser said, referring to the Espionage Act.
The investigation into Trump’s removal of re cords started this year after the National Archives and Records Administration, an agency charged with safe guarding presidential re cords that belong to the pub lic, made a referral to the JusticeRepublicanDepartment.House of Representatives Intelligence Committee members on Friday called on Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray to release the affidavit under pinning the warrant, saying the public needs to know. “Because many other options were available to them, we’re very concerned of the method that was used in raiding Mar-a-Lago,” Representative Michael Turner, the committee’s top Republican, told reporters. If the affidavit remains sealed, “it will still leave many unanswered ques tions,” Turner added. The Justice Department’s request to unseal the war rant did not include a re quest to unseal the accom panying affidavit, nor has Trump’s legal team publicly made such a motion. Since Monday’s search, the department has faced fierce criticism and online threats, which Garland have condemned. Trump support ers and some Republicans in Washington have accused Democrats of weaponizing the federal bureaucracy to target him even as he mulls another run for the presiden cy in 2024. (Reuters)
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N icaraguan Police have banned a Catholic procession and pilgrimage in the cap ital of Managua today, cit ing internal security rea sons, the archdiocese said on Friday as the crackdown on the Church intensifies. In response, the archdi ocese called for the coun try's faithful to spend Friday in prayer and fast ing and to attend mass at the Managua cathedral to day, skipping the proces sion meant to be a closing ceremony for the country's Marian Congress and a send-off for the Portuguese statue of Our Lady of Fatima.Relations between the Catholic Church and the Nicaraguan Government have been tense since the Church tried to serve as a mediator in 2018 after an Ortega-backed social secu rity proposal sparked na tionwide protests. The Central American nation has accused several priests and bishops of con spiracy since the Church demanded justice for over 360 people who died during the protests, according to numbers compiled by hu man rights organisations.
P araguayan Vice President Hugo Velazquez on Friday said he would resign and withdraw his candidacy for the presidency, after being blacklisted by the United States for alleged "signifi cant" acts of Velazquezcorruption.denied the accusation but said that, to protect his party, he would submit his resignation next week."I speak with the calm that my behaviour gives me, because I did not do what they are accusing me of," he told local radio sta tion Monumental. "I am speaking with a clear con science."Earlier on Friday, the US State Department ac cused Velazquez of involve ment in significant acts of corruption.Astatement from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Valazquez' as sociate Juan Carlos Duarte had offered a bribe to a Paraguayan public official to "obstruct an investiga tion that threatened the Vice President and his fi nancial interests." The offered bribe was above $1 million, the US ambassador to Paraguay, Marc Ostfield, said in a statement.Responding to the news Friday, Paraguayan President Mario Abdo told journalists:"Giventhe circumstanc es, continuing the candi dacy of the Vice President was unacceptable ... I say it with pain because he is a friend, a Valazquez'colleague". associ ate, Duarte, told Reuters he had also resigned and would cooperate with au thorities, but did not com ment directly on the accu sations.Velazquez and Duarte's immediate family members were also blacklisted in Blinken's statement. The State Department in July accused former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes of "signifi cant corruption" and of ob structing a cross-border criminal investigation. He dismissed the ac cusations at the time as "unfounded and unjust." (Excerpt from Reuters)
Regional Mexican troops sent to border city after deadly cartel clash
Paraguay's Vice President Hugo Velazquez addressing the media after Foreign Minister Antonio Rivas took office in Asuncion, Paraguay, July 31, 2019
Paraguay VP Velazquez to quit after US accuses him of corruption
T he Climate Resilience Minister for the Caribbean is land nation of Grenada has been tapped to become the next United Nations cli mate chief, according to three sources familiar with theSimonselection. Stiell, who had served as Grenada's Minister for Climate Resilience and the Environment until this year, will replace Patricia Espinosa, who finished her second, three-year term as Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in July. The appointment was first reported by Climate HomeStiellNews.has been a visible figure at UN climate nego tiations, often calling for the world's largest pollut ers to set more ambitious climate goals and to deliver finance promised to vulner able countries, including small island nations. That funding is key to preparing for future climate impacts including extreme tem peratures, rising sea lev els, more frequent storms andStielldrought.would take the helm of the UNFCCC a few months before Egypt hosts the next UN climate con ference, COP27, the three diplomatic sources told Reuters on condition of an onymity, as they were not authorised to announce the news.COP27 will take place after a year of global eco nomic uncertainty and geo political issues have led countries to backslide on their climate pledges. With the summit being held on the African conti nent, diplomats from cli mate vulnerable countries plan to push for a focus on loss and damage, which would force historical emit ters in North America and Europe to compensate de veloping countries for eco nomic losses and damages resulting from climate-re lated weather extremes. (Excerpt from Reuters)
Argentina’s annual in flation surged past 70 per cent last month, one of the fastest rates in the world, after renewed po litical turmoil fuelled price spikes and a currency rout. Consumer prices rose 71 per cent in July from a year ago, the highest level in about 30 years, according to Government data published Thursday. On a monthly ba sis, the inflation rate spiked to 7.4 per cent, accelerating at the fastest pace in two decades and slightly above economists’ average expecta tions for 7.3 per cent. Galloping prices pushed Argentina’s central bank to life rates earlier in the day by the most in three years, jacking up borrowing costs by 950 basis points on the benchmark rate to 69.5 per cent. It signalled a tough er monetary stance against inflation, following anoth er large rate hike just two weeks ago. Policy makers had been only raising rates once a month Argentina’spreviously.already-high levels of inflation got super charged in July when then Economy Minister Martin Guzman abruptly resigned, blowing open a political cri sis long brewing inside the country’s ruling coalition. President Alberto Fernandez replaced Guzman with lit tle-known economist Silvina Batakis, who lasted only three weeks in the job before Fernandez tapped Sergio Massa, a seasoned political operator and one of the lead ers of the Peronist coalition, for the role. All the political turmoil added volatility to an al ready unstable outlook, with the black market peso losing about 15 per cent of its value in the month and local busi nesses jacking up prices 20 per cent overnight. (Excerpt from Al Jazeera)
Brazilians march in defence of democracy over Bolsonaro election fears
Thousands of Brazilians have taken to the streets amid concern President Jair Bolsonaro will try to stay in power even if he loses October's election. Protesters marched in several cities on Thursday in defence of democracy over fears the far-right leader would not respect the out come of the Bolsonarovote.has repeatedly sought to discredit Brazil's voting system. He has claimed that elec tronic voting machines en able cheating, because of the absence of a paper trail. A year ago, Bolsonaro tried to change the system to introduce printed ballot papers, but the proposal was defeated in Congress. Critics of the President have voiced fears that he is preparing to follow the example of former US President Donald Trump and allege widespread fraud if he loses the election. The demonstrations came on the same day that a citizens' manifesto was read out and signed by a million Brazilians.Themanifesto, inspired by a declaration from 1977 denouncing Brazil's dicta torship at the time, warned that the country's democra cy was facing great danger. Crowds protested in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and Recife, while thou sands gathered outside the University of São Paulo, where a petition "in defence of the democratic state of law" was read out.
Hundreds of Mexican soldiers were sent to the border city of Juarez Friday after a pris on face-off between members of two rival cartels caused a riot and shootouts that killed 11 people, most of them civil ians, authorities said. Los Chapos, members of the infamous Sinaloa Cartel formerly led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, and local group Los Mexicles clashed in a prison Thursday af ternoon, Deputy Security Minister Ricardo Mejia said. A riot then broke out, leaving two shot to death and four injured with bul let wounds, Mejia said, speaking alongside Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at a regular news conference. Another 16 were injured in the fighting, he said. Officials did not say what caused the Followingclash.the riot, the Mexicles rampaged in the city, authorities said, killing nine civilians. Among them were four employees of a ra dio station, including one an nouncer, Mejia said. Across town, convenience stores were shot at and set on fire. FEMSA, the parent company of the Oxxo chain, said in a statement that one of its employees and a wom an who was applying for a job were killed in the violence. Around 1 am Friday morning, six alleged mem bers of Mexicles were arrest ed by local Police, with help from the Army and National Guard, Mejia said. By Friday afternoon, some 300 Army soldiers were scheduled to arrive in town, with another 300 to follow.Thursday's attacks fol low clashes between car tels and the military in central Mexico, which led to taxis, buses and some 20 Oxxo stores being set ablaze, Lopez Obrador said. (Excerpt from Reuters)
The demonstrations came on the same day that a citizens' manifesto was read out and signed by a million Brazilians
Former Grenada Minister tapped as next UN climate chief Nicaragua Police ban Catholic procession in Church crackdown
The move comes just over a week after the Ortega Government took seven Catholic radio sta tions off the air. The stations were led by Bishop Rolando Alvarez, head of the Diocese of Matagalpa and Esteli, as well as an Ortega critic. Alvarez is the subject of an investigation for alleged conspiracy and has been trapped in the diocese's episcopal palace, surround ed by Police, for two weeks. The Police did not im mediately respond to a Reuters request for com ment. (Reuters)
Argentina hikes rate to 69.5% as inflation surges to 30-year high
People held up banners denouncing Bolsonaro and proclaiming "respect the vote, respect the people", while some were dressed as electronic voting ma chines, in a reference to the President's cheating claims. The President, in office since 2019 and flagging in opinion polls, denounced the petition, tweeting that the Constitution was the only letter that mattered in guaranteeing democracy. (Excerpt from BBC News)
Ukraine says it can hit “almost all” Russian supply lines in occupied south
First rigging claims emerge as Kenyan media slow votetally in tight presidential race
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Man arrested after author Salman Rushdie attacked on stage Drought in England, fires rage in France as heatwave persists Gunman kills 10 after family dispute in Montenegro
The surrealist, post-mod ern novel sparked outrage among some Muslims, who considered its content to be blasphemous, and was banned in some countries. A year after the book's re lease, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for Rushdie's execution. He offered a $3m (£2.5m) reward in a fatwa - a legal decree is sued by an Islamic religious leader.The bounty over Rushdie's head remains active, and al though Iran's Government has distanced itself from Khomeini's decree, a qua si-official Iranian religious foundation added a further $500,000 to the reward in 2012. (Excerpt from BBC News)
Firefighters from Germany, Romania, Greece and beyond were on the ground to help France battle the fire in the region – home to Bordeaux wine – as well as on other fronts, including in Brittany in the northwest. In central Portugal, a huge wildfire raged into its sev enth day, with 1600 firefight ers backed by 13 waterbomb ing aircraft, including one sent from Spain, combating the blaze that has destroyed about 15 per cent of the Serra da Estrela national park. Meanwhile, water lev els on the River Rhine in Germany have fallen again, with some vessels no longer able to sail, shipping operators and brokers said. Further north, in the United Kingdom, the heat wave was also hitting hard, with the Government formal ly declaring parts of southern, central and eastern England in drought after a prolonged period of hot and dry weather. (Excerpt from Al Jazeera)
European sanctions on Russian oil are due to tighten later this year while a six-month coordinated energy release agreed by the United States and other developed economies is due to run its course by the end of the year.On Thursday OPEC cut its forecast for growth in world oil demand in 2022 by 260,000 barrels per day (bpd). It now expects demand to rise by 3.1 million bpd this year. The IEA, meanwhile, raised its demand growth forecast to 2.1 million bpd, citing gas-to-oil switching in power generation The IEA also raised its outlook for Russian oil supply by 500,000 bpd for the second half of 2022 but said OPEC would struggle to boost production. In the United States, import prices fell for the first time in seven months in July, helped by a strong dollar and lower fuel and nonfuel costs, while consumers' one-year inflation outlook ebbed in August, the latest signs that price pressures may have peaked. US oil rigs rose three to 601 this week, energy services firm Baker Hughes Co said. The rig count, an indicator of future output, has been slow to grow with oil production only seen recovering to pre-pandemic levels next year. (Excerpt from Reuters) Ukraine's military said its artillery hit a Russian ammunition depot near a key bridge in the south on Friday and added it now had the ability to strike nearly all of Moscow's supply lines in the occupied region. The military said the at tack killed 11 Russian soldiers in the depot in the village of Vesele, about 80 miles (130 km) down the vast Dnipro riv er from the plant.ZaporizhzhiaRussian-occupiednuclearpower
Farmers and firefighters working to contain a fire in SaintMagne, as wildfires continue to spread in the Gironde region of southwestern France [Stephane Mahe/Reuters]
Firefighters from across Europe came to France’s rescue on Friday to bat tle an enormous wildfire, while fire also raged in Portugal and parts of England faced a se vere drought, as successive heatwaves renewed the focus on climate change risks. Much of Europe has faced weeks of baking temperatures that have also depleted water levels of the Rhine River in Germany and seen the source of Britain’s River Thames dry up further downstream than in previous years. High temperatures and a worsening drought brought a high risk of new fires breaking out in Gironde, in southwest ern France, local officials said, even after an overnight re prieve held in check the wild fire that has been burning for days, scorched thousands of hectares and displaced 10,000 people.
At least 10 people have been killed in a shoot ing following a family dispute in the city of Cetinje in Montenegro. According to officials, a single gunman shot three members of the same fam ily dead before shooting at passers-by.Amother and her two children all staying in the shooter's house were killed, prosecutor Andrijana Nastic toldThejournalists.attackended when the gunman was shot dead by aAftercivilian.killing three mem bers of the same family who were staying at his house, officials said the 34-yearold gunman left the proper ty and fatally shot seven lo cal residents using the same hunting rifle. "For now, it is not clear what prompted [the suspect] to commit such a heinous act, on which occasion he himself was deprived of his life," Nastic told a press con ference on Friday evening. Another six people are currently being treated in hospital.Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic said the Government was declaring three days of mourning fol lowing the tragedy. "I invite all the citizens of Montenegro to be with the families of the innocent vic tims," he wrote on Telegram. The city of Cetinje is home to the picturesque Adriatic nation's former royal capital, and is sit uated in a mountainous valley around 36km (22 miles) west of the capital Podgorica. (Excerpt from BBC News) Without provid ing any proof, the Secretary General of Kenya's governing par ty has said there was elec tion rigging, fuelling public anxiety on Friday as media outlets significantly slowed down their unofficial tallies from Tuesday's tight vote. Only the electoral com mission is authorised to de clare a winner, but the tallies done by media were seen as a bulwark against the kind of rigging allegations that have previously sparked violence. While Kenya is East Africa's richest and most sta ble nation it also has a his tory of violent elections dis putes. More than 1200 people were killed after the 2007 elections and more than 100 after the 2017 elections. The race is to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta, who must step down after serving the maximum two five-year terms. Leading con tenders are former political prisoner and veteran opposi tion leader Raila Odinga and Deputy President William Ruto. Kenyatta has fallen out with Ruto and endorsed Odinga.Media tallies, which had nearly stopped by Friday morning, showed Odinga and Ruto neck and neck, just under the 50 per cent mark they needed to win. Less than a per cent was divided between two other marginal candidates.Ifnocandidate wins more than 50 per cent plus one vote, the two frontrunners will have a run-off. On Friday the elec tion commission chairman Wafula Chebukati blamed party agents for the slow pace of the official count, which has not yet topped 1.5 per cent of the vote. (Excerpt from Reuters)
There was no immedi ate comment from Russian authorities on the report of the attack in Kherson prov ince, or the purported reach of Ukraine's firepower. Reuters could not confirm the reports independently.Natalia Humeniuk, spokesperson for Ukraine's southern military command, said Ukraine has nearly all of Russia's southern supply routes under "fire control," meaning that Ukraine is able to hit them with ranged weap ons at "Ourwill.forces are controlling the situation in the south, despite the enemy trying to bring in reserves even though almost all their transport and logistical arteries have been hit or are under our fire con trol," she added in a national broadcast.Vesele - which is near the Kakhovskyi bridge, just me tres away from a large damis a vital crossing point that Ukraine has attacked to try to weaken Moscow's grip on a sliver of land it occupies on the Dnipro's western bank. Ukraine says it has been able to hit dozens of Russian ammunition depots thanks to Western deliveries of longrange multiple-launch missile systems, such as US- supplied HIMARS.Kyivhopes that by acquir ing new missiles capable of striking Russian logistics deep behind the front lines, it can turn the tide of the conflict in coming weeks. (Excerpt from Reuters)
Author Salman Rushdie, who suffered years of Islamist death threats after writing The Satanic Verses, has been at tacked on stage in New York state.The Booker Prize win ner, 75, was speaking at an event at the Chautauqua Institution at the time.
The writer Salman Rushdie being interviewed during Heartland Festival in Kvaerndrup, Denmark, June 2, 2018. [Carsten Bundgaard/ Ritzau Scanpix/via Reuters/File Photo]
Around the World OIL NEWS Oil falls 2% on expectations that US Gulf supply disruption will ease Oil prices plunged around 2 per cent on Friday, on expectations that supply disruptions in the US Gulf of Mexico would be short-term, while recession fears clouded the demand outlook. Futures, however, were still on track for a weekly gain. Brent crude futures fell US$1.45, or 1.5 per cent, to settle at US$98.15 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude fell US$2.25, or 2.4 per cent, to settle at US$92.09 a barrel. Both contracts gained more than 2 per cent on Thursday. "We are pulling back a little bit after the big run up yesterday," said Phil Flynn, an analyst at Price Futures group. Brent gained 3.4 per cent this week after last week's 14 per cent tumble on fears that rising inflation and interest rates will hit economic growth and demand for fuel. WTI rose 3.5 per cent. Crews were expected to replace a damaged oil pipeline piece by the end of the day on Friday, a Louisiana port official said, allowing for the resumption of production at seven offshore US Gulf of Mexico oil platforms.OnThursday, top US Gulf of Mexico oil producer Shell said it halted production at three deepwater platforms in the region. The three platforms are designed to produce up to 410,000 barrels of oil per day combined.
New York State Police said a male suspect ran up onto the stage and attacked Rushdie and an interviewer. "Rushdie suffered an ap parent stab wound to the neck," the Police statement said.Rushdie was tak en to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, by helicopter. He has been undergoing sur gery, his agent Andrew Wylie told the BBC's US partner CBSTheNews.interviewer who was also on stage, Henry Reese, suffered a minor head injury. Reese is the co-founder of a non-profit that provides sanc tuary to writers exiled under threat of persecution. The suspect was imme diately taken into custody, PoliceIndian-bornsaid. novelist Rushdie catapulted to fame with Midnight's Children in 1981, which went on to sell over one million copies in the UKButalone.his fourth book, in 1988 - The Satanic Verses - forced him into hiding for nine years.
The Amberjack pipeline, one of two stopped by the leak, has restarted at reduced capacity, Shell spokesperson Cindy Babski said. The Mars pipeline remained offline but is expected to resume operation later on Friday, she said. The market also absorbed contrasting demand views from the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the International Energy Agency (IEA). "We are seeing an economic slowdown, but it’s unclear if it's as big a slowdown as some of the recent outlooks have been predicting," said Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank. "The demand will ebb and flow, but supply is still the main concern."
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a well-deserved hat-trick coming from the Striker Darren Troyer. A consolation goal was scored by Agatash, but already having six on the board, the Wolves were untroubled by that development.Thegame ended 6-1, placing Wolves United on 10 points after 7 games.Action in this league will continue today with Beacons and Mil Ballers colliding for supremacy, and Rivers View attempting to discipline the Rising Stars.
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The experienced coach noted that, while he is not surprised, he is excited to see the talent that this Kool Kidz Festival has been bringing out. He noted that Guyana is blessed with tremendous talent, and it is always a matter of the right avenues being created to bring out suchParticipantstalent. have been exposed to basic coaching drills, and have been involved in game situations, and this has allowed them to showcase their talent. Dover stated that the level of participation has been encouraging to date.“Since the start of the GFF/ MCYS/GBI Kool Kidz Summer Festival, which kicked off three Saturdays ago, we have seen a steady and encouraging growth in numbers. There has been excitement from the first week of this festival. Over the first and second weeks, the children have been exposed to the fundamentals of the game, which is important at this early stage of their football life. I can assure you there was a lot of fun for the children who attended these sessions so far, and would like to remind parents that the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall is the place to be. The game situations have brought great enjoyment and energy from the players, with lots of talented kids performing with high-level technical ability in the gamesDoverplayed.”also pointed out that, to date, the support of parents and guardians has been very encouraging. “The parental support is remarkable, this is unprecedented. This kind of support for young footballers is much needed. It is something lacking in the fraternity, and we welcome those parents who attended every session with their children since the start of the festival.“Ienvy those lads, because I played organised football from being in a structured environment from 1986 to 1999, when I quit the game, and not one day did my parents ever see me play, despite my father himself playing the game. So, I want to thank those parents for coming out, and I want to encourage them to keep coming.”TheGFF/MCYS/GBI Kool Kidz Summer Festival will continue today at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall from 09:00hrs.
Wolves United FC took on Agatash United FC at the Bartica Community Centre ground last Monday, and dominated the game by playing positive and confident football throughout the encounter. Wolves managed to keep the ball in their possession, and created countless goal attempts. The Agatash team managed to clear and nullify some of the wonderful skills displayed by the Wolves, but that didn’t stop “the boys in white” from continually hunting for goals. The deadlock was broken by a cracking free-kick shot from the Wolves centre back Shain Rahaman. This unlocked a steady stream of goals, with a double coming from Rowen Lyken and Reigning world marathon champion Tamirat Tola has withdrawn from the London Marathon to be held in October. The Ethiopian has not fully recovered from his victory in the men’s race at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon last month. Tola, 31, set a new championship record of two hours, five minutes and 36 seconds, to go one better than the silver medal he won at the 2017 World Championships in London.“Unfortunately, since the World Championships, I have had problems with muscle fatigue, and have not yet been able to resume training,” he said. Britain’s Mo Farah will run the race for the first time since 2019, while Ethiopia’s Mosinet Geremew and Belgium’s Bashir Abdi - the silver and bronze medallists in Eugene - will also be on the start line on Sunday, 2 October, alongside defending champion Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia and compatriot Kenenisa Bekele. In the elite women’s race, Ethiopia’s Degitu Azimeraw, the runner-up at last year’s London Marathon, has withdrawn from this year’s event. World record holder Brigid Kosgei and reigning champion Joyciline Jepkosgei, both from Kenya, lead the entries in the capital.Charlotte Purdue is the fastest British runner on the women’s start list, while Eilish McColgan is set to make her marathon debut, after winning 10,000m gold at the Commonwealth Games. (Athletics) Tyson Fury has “finally decided to walk away” from boxing, after confirming he is staying retired. The undefeated WBC heavyweight champion, 34, had said he was retiring after beating Dillian Whyte in April, but on Tuesday he urged fellow Briton Derek Chisora to accept his offer of a trilogy bout; while in July he had said he would fight Anthony Joshua if certain conditions were met.“On my 34th birthday, I say bon voyage,” Fury tweeted on Friday.“Massive thanks to everyone who had an input in my career over the years and, after long hard conversations, I’ve finally decided to walk away.” In another tweet, he added: “See you all on the other side, you big dossers 2008-2022.” Since Fury beat Whyte in April, there has been a host of suggestions about what the champion could do next: another stint in WWE, an exhibition match against UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou, and a fight against the winner of Joshua’s rematch against Oleksandr Usyk have all beenJoshuamentioned.islooking to regain his WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO world titles when he fights Ukraine’s Usyk in Saudi Arabia on 20 August. Also on Tuesday, Fury claimed he had hired a new trainer, his long-time friend and fellow fighter IsaacAmericanLowe. SugarHill Steward has trained him since 2019, helping Fury overcome Wilder in their trilogy. (BBC) President of the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC), Brian Lewis, has expressed shock and dismay at the contents of a video showing Grenada javelin world champion Anderson Peters being beaten up and thrown off a boat on Wednesday.Theincident, which has caused uproar around the region, is still being investigated in his homeland Grenada, where it occurred. The Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF) is expected to hand a file to the country’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in short order. Details surrounding the cause of the incident, however, remain unclear. The company at the heart of the incident, Trinidadbased Harbour Tours Ltd, has also condemned the incident, and has promised a separate investigation. On behalf of CANOC, Lewis spoke of the feelings of disappointment upon witnessing the incident, and wished the athlete a speedy recovery. “There are no words to adequately express my regret, disappointment, and dismay at what was seen on the video of an altercation involving Grenada and Caribbean Sports Hero Anderson Peters,” Lewis said via the release. “We at CANOC wish Anderson a speedy and full recovery, even as the Grenada Police conduct a full investigation to ascertain the facts about what transpired,” he added. “In resolving and de-escalating conflict, acts of violence can’t be condoned.Wetrust that Anderson, with support from his family, friends, and the Grenada Olympic Movement, will fully recover. There are lessons from this unfortunate situation that we can all learn from as we continue to mentor and nurture and support our Caribbean athletes, youth, and young people to fulfill their potential and aspirations.” (Sportsmax)
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Exciting talent continues to emerge as the festival continues Wolves United reach double figures in points table World champion Tamirat Tola pulls out of London Marathon CANOC President Brian Lewis says body “shocked, dismayed” by attack on Peters Aimed at creating as many opportunities for youths between the ages of 6 and 10 years, in a conducive and safe space, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF)/ Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport (MCYS)/ Guyana Beverage Inc (GBI) Kool Kidz Summer Futsal Festival continues to see encouraging participation.Takingplace at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall from 09:00hrs to 12:00hrs every Saturday, the Festival enters its fourth week today. A total of 66 kids participated on Saturday last, and according to Coach Coordinator of the Festival, Wayne Dover, this activity has seen many talented youths coming to the fore over the past weeks.
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out. I took three days off from the gym and did some home therapy, and then I got back onto the weights. But what was challenging was that I had to change the way how I do chest press and overhead press. I had to do some re search to know how to work around that shoulder injury, but the training was every day, from Sunday to Sunday. Some days were intense while some were not, but training wasHegood.”also relayed that he is proud of the package he por trayed on stage, as he knows how hard it was for him and how strict he had to be with his Regardingdiet. what moti vates him, this robust athlete explained that his goal is to always be the best in every thing he does, hence motiva tion for him is easy. In the closing stages of the interview, Sinclair said, “I would like to thank The Almighty, my family, and all my sponsors for their help to wards CAC 2022.”
…Aiming to defend title and earn PRO card
Guyana is placed in Group B, alongside Iran, Maldives, Mauritania and Uganda. Other teams in the competi tion are: *Group A: Jordan, Libya, Palestine, Senegal, Qatar *Group B: Iran, Guyana, Maldives, Mauritania, Uganda *Group C: Azerbaijan, Gabon, Mali, Morocco, Turkey *Group D: Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, Sudan, Suriname.Team Guyana would comprise Stanton Rose Jr., Nikkoloi Smith, Harold Adams, and Travis Belgrave. The 3x3 Coordinator joining the team is Junior Hercules.
22 GUYANATIMESGY.COMSATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2022 5th Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya, Turkey… GOLD AT CAC IS TESTAMENT TO HARD WORK, says Julio Sinclair
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The Guyana Men’s 3x3 National Basketball Team will begin their campaign to earn 3x3 basket ball gold at the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya, Turkey on Sunday, August 14th, when they come up against Mauritania at 11:15AM (Turkey time) at the Karatay Sports and Congress Center.The men’s 3x3 basket ball competition will have 20 teams playing in a leaguestyle (round robin comprising 4 groups with 5 teams each) that leads directly to sin gles’ elimination. The top two teams of each group would ad vance to the quarter-finals, while the third-place team of each group would play for 9th–12th places. The bottom two (2) teams of each group would be clas sified based on wins, headto-head records, and points scored for 13th–20th places.
The Ricky Skerritt-led Cricket West Indies (CWI) board has been given a failing grade by for mer West Indies fast bowl er Sir Andy Roberts, who be lieves the body has done little to improve the standard of cricket in the region. Speaking on the Good Morning Jojo sports show, Sir Andy said he would strug gle to give the current board a score of four out of 10, given the current state of cricket in the “Iregion.wouldn’t judge him based upon what he’s done for the governance of the game, I have to judge him based on what he is doing for the devel opment of the cricket, because it is a cricket board, it’s not a Government you’re running. So, if the cricket is not devel oping, then it means that you are not doing your job in the way it should be done. You’re supposed to have hands-on, and I am not saying you have to go and do the job, but you should be looking and telling the director of cricket that. ‘I see that as a problem, and we are not solving this problem, so you have to get up off your butt to go and find ways for our cricket to im prove,” he said. Sir Andy believes that if action is not taken to address all the issues, the situation would only get worse. “We have been having more reviews than FIFA, we’ve been having more re views than when they go up stairs (to the third umpire), and we have not seen any thing change. Everything has just remained the same, so in stead of having a review, we need to have a reshuffle, be cause decisions have to come from“Whoupstairs.appoints the ones around the team? And why do you (not) want to review the ones who have been making all of these reviews over the years and we still end up at the same place?” he asked. West Indies were recent ly beaten in both their ODI and T20 series against India here in the Caribbean. The regional squad was also re cently beaten by Bangladesh. (Antigua Observer)
Group B Schedule: (all times are in Turkey local time)*Aug. 14 - 11:15 – Guyana vs Mauritania*Aug.14-12:40 – Uganda vs Guyana*Aug.16 - 17:45 – Iran vs Guyana*Aug. 16 - 20:25 – Guyana vs Maldives.
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The CAC ChampionshipsBodybuilding2022staged in Barbados have been done and dusted, but that tall and strapping Guyanese athlete Julio Sinclair, who has a very commanding presence among his peers, has still not got ten over the surreal moment when he copped gold in the heavyweight category. Sinclair notes that earn ing a gold medal is testament to all the hard work he has been putting in over the years in regard to body building. In an interview with this publication, he was asked how it felt to cop gold, and he re sponded, “Winning the gold at CAC was an overwhelming experience that meant a lot to me, for I have been working for years and years towards this competition. The experi ence was “Meetinggreat.athletes that have been in the game longer than I (have been), and shar ing different experiences and knowledge…”Sinclairexplained that, for him, the high point of the competition was when he was able to step on the stage and showcase his ‘A’ game. He di vulged that, for 2023, he will definitely be pushing in the overtime and working on his condition, as he seeks to re tain his gold medal. Sinclair has said that once he is able to defend his title, he would receive what every bodybuilder seeks, and that is the coveted PRO card. Commenting on his train ing, Sinclair said, “Training for CAC was tough. I actu ally trained for this with a shoulder injury three weeks Julio Sinclair (centre) showcasing his gold medal Sir Andy Roberts CWI President, Ricky Skerritt T he Guyana Football Federation on Friday confirmed that the U14 boys’ nation al team was forced to pull out of the 2022 Caribbean Football Union Boys’ U14 Challenge Series due to a lack of available travel op tions.The lack of seats on suitable flights to the Dominican Republic meant that the squad would have arrived too late to compete in their first scheduled match this month. The GFF reported this issue to the CFU earlier this“Weweek.are obviously dis appointed that we could not secure the necessary flights for the squad into the Dominican Republic,” said GFF President Wayne Forde. “This is a perennial problem when there is high demand for seats at the time of these important tournaments.“However, we do not want the boys to miss out on the op portunity of play ing against their region al peers, and we tiveintolyurgentarelookingalternaoptionsfor match time,” he Detailsadded.ofthe al ternative competitive fixtures would be an nounced in due course.
GUYANATIMESGY.COMSATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2022 23 New Zealand vs WI, T20I Series: Game 2 of 3… 2000 children invited to watch Hero CPL matches at various venues
NEW ZEALAND CLINCH T20I SERIES WITH 90-RUN WIN
WEST INDIES INNINGS (Target: 216 runs from 20 overs) Kyle Mayers c Phillips b Santner 4 Shamarh Brooks b Santner 7 Nicholas Pooran (c) c †Conway b Bracewell 1 Devon Thomas † lbw b Bracewell 1 Shimron Hetmyer run out (Williamson) 14 Jason Holder c Guptill b Bracewell 11 Rovman Powell lbw b Sodhi 21 Romario Shepherd c Williamson b Santner 18 Odean Smith c Phillips b Southee 9 Hayden Walsh not out 10 Obed McCoy not out 23 Extras (lb 4, w 2) 6 TOTAL 20 Ov (RR: 6.25) 125/9 Fall of wickets: 1-11 (Shamarh Brooks, 2.1 ov), 2-12 (Kyle Mayers, 2.5 ov), 3-12 (Nicholas Pooran, 3.1 ov), 4-19 (Devon Thomas, 5.6 ov), 5-28 (Shimron Hetmyer, 7.4 ov), 6-40 (Jason Holder, 9.4 ov), 7-75 (Rovman Powell, 13.6 ov), 8-80 (Romario Shepherd, 15.3 ov), 9-87 (Odean Smith, 16.1 ov) BOWLING O-M-R-W Trent Boult 4-0-21-0 Tim Southee 4-0-34-1 Mitchell Santner 4-0-15-3 Michael Bracewell 4-1-15-3 Ish Sodhi 4-0-36-1
Glenn Phillips struck a half century from 31 balls to propel New Zealand to a 90-run win over the West Indies in the second T20I, played in Jamaica; New Zealand clinching the three-match series with a 2-0 lead. After reaching his fifth T20I half century, Phillips went on to score 76 from 40 balls, and led New Zealand to 215 for 5, exceeding the 185 for 5 that was a winning total in the first match of the series. His innings included six sixes and four fours. West Indies managed only 125 for 9 in reply, lack ing the partnerships that underpinned a New Zealand total -- the highest by a vis iting team against the West Indies in a T20I in the Caribbean.Phillips put on 71 for the third wicket with Devon Conway, who made 42 from 34 balls; and 83 with Daryl Mitchell, who made 48 from 20, the latter partnership coming off just 34 balls. In all, New Zealand scored 130 off their second 10 overs. West Indies' best ef forts were two stands: 35 for the seventh wicket be tween Romario Shepherd and Rovman Powell, which began when the home team was 40 for 6 and the match already lost; and 38 put on in an unbroken stand for the last wicket between Hayden Walsh and Obed McCoy. Phillips made good use of his knowledge of conditions at Sabina Park, his home ground in the Caribbean Premier"ComingLeague.back to Sabina Park is amazing. I've got great memories here," Phillips said in a televi sion interview. "Being able to get a 50 for my country over here in front of a crowd which I really love is defi nitely very special for me. "Credit to the West Indies for the way they bowled up front with the new ball, which was real ly, really good in terms of taking the pace off the ball when it was new and hard er. As it got older, the pitch became a bit nicer to bat on." Seven West Indies wick ets fell to spin bowling, in cluding the first four of the innings.Mitchell Santner, ad judged “Player of the Match” for his 3 for 19 in the first game, took a wicket with his first ball, and two wickets in his opening over, to set back the West Indies' run chase.
Mitchell Santner (left) picked up 3-15
Off-spinner Michael Bracewell, who replaced fast bowler Lockie Ferguson in the New Zealand lineup, also took a wicket with his first delivery, dismiss ing captain Nicholas Pooran as West Indies slumped to 12 for 3 at the start of the fourthSantnerover. and Bracewell both finished with 3 for 15. Tim Southee took the only wicket which fell to a fast bowler, removing Odean Smith at the tail. Shimron Hetmeyer was the first batter not to fall to a spin bowler; he was run out by a direct hit at the bowl er's end by New Zealand captain Kane Williamson. West Indies were 28 for 5 at that point, and couldn't re cover."We just didn't show up today," Pooran said. "They batted us out of it, and we couldn't see our way with the bat. We had to stay in the game. It just didn't start well for us. We are strug gling, but the more crick et we play, our performance will grow." The final T20I will be played on Sunday at the same venue, followed by three ODIs. (Cricinfo)
The Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL), Massy Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL) and The SKYEXCH 6IXTY would be working with schools and children-fo cused charities and founda tions to bring kids even clos er to the action during the 2022Uptournaments.to2000 children would be invited to attend the games free of charge, al lowing them to come and watch world-class cricket and partake in a unique fam ily occasion packed with en tertainment.Withup to 100 young people attending all five days of the SKYEXCH 6IXTY and for games across the Hero CPL and Massy WCPL, it would be a great chance to inspire the next generation to fall in love with cricket. In Saint Lucia and Guyana, Hero CPL will be working with Republic Bank to bring young cricketers in volved in their 5 for Fun pro gramme to play a game on the outfield during the inter val between innings of all the 10amThisgames.fantastic opportuni ty for young players would give them a chance to walk on to the field at internation al venues.The Samuel Badree Academy of Sport Education and the Daren Ganga Foundation have been in volved in planning these ac tivities, as both Badree and Ganga look to inspire the next generation of Caribbean sportingSamuelstars.Badree, former West Indies cricketer, said: “It is so important that we bring our young people into the sporting world. I have seen first-hand, as a player and an educator, how sport can be life changing for our children.The Samuel Badree Academy of Sport Education is delighted to be working with CPL and their related tournaments that are incor porating all these great ini tiatives.”Daren Ganga, former West Indies captain, said: “This is a great initiative, and all of us at the Daren Ganga Foundation are delighted to be involved in bringing young people to these match es. I know that when I was a youngster going to watch cricket, it was inspirational for me and helped drive my ambition to become a profes sional cricketer. What CPL has created is an opportunity for the same thing to happen for these boys and girls.” Chris Watson, Hero CPL’s Head of Marketing, said: “We are delighted to be able to partner with organi sations across the Caribbean to bring kids closer to the action than ever before. These initiatives, combined with the great family activ ities we will be putting on at these selected matches, will truly make these games the Biggest Family Party in Sport.” (CPLT20)
NEW ZEALAND INNINGS (20 overs maximum) Martin Guptill c Pooran b McCoy 20 Devon Conway † lbw b Smith 42 Kane Williamson (c) c †Thomas b McCoy 4 Glenn Phillips c Powell b McCoy 76 Daryl Mitchell b Shepherd 48 James Neesham not out 9 Michael Bracewell not out 4 Extras (b 1, lb 6, w 5) 12 TOTAL 20 Ov (RR: 10.75) 215/5 Did not bat: Mitchell Santner, Ish SodhiTim Southee, Trent Boult Fall of wickets: 1-31 (Martin Guptill, 3.3 ov), 2-36 (Kane Williamson, 3.6 ov), 3-107 (Devon Conway, 11.4 ov), 4-190 (Glenn Phillips, 17.2 ov), 5-208 (Daryl Mitchell, 19.2 ov) BOWLING O-M-R-W Kyle Mayers 2-0-17-0 Romario Shepherd 3-0-26-1 Obed McCoy 4-0-40-3 Jason Holder 4-0-40-0 Hayden Walsh 4-0-55-0 Odean Smith 3-0-30-1
-Glenn Phillips strikes 76 from 40 balls
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