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offer a mix use of housing, office and retail spaces,” a statement from the Office of the President explained.
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BRIDGE OPENINGS Demerara Harbour Bridge Sept 13 – 04:00 –05:30h and Wednesday, Sept 04:00h 05:30h.
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Meanwhile, President Ali, in his remarks during the presentation, empha sised on the impact of the “catalytical investment”. According to the President, “the aim is to create oppor tunities for 2030 and be yond.”
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In a subsequent release, she had said that the inland city, which will complement Georgetown, is designed to address growing climate change risks.
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Meanwhile, during the presentation, the President was accompanied by Senior Minister within the Office of the President with re sponsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh; Housing and Water Minister Collin Croal, Public Works Minister Juan Edghill and Tourism, Industry and Commerce Minister, Oneidge Walrond.
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Also present were Minister within the Housing and Water Ministry Susan
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Rodrigues, as well as rep resentatives from the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission and the Guyana Office for Investment (GOInvest).Last month, Rodrigues had visited the site ear marked for Silica City’s first phase development within the vicinity of Kuru Kururu on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway. On her visit, the Minister was accompanied by Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Andre Ally, CHPA Chief Development Planner Germene Stewart, Director of Projects Omar Narine, Deputy Director Intakab Indarjeet, Deputy Commissioner of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) Michael Hutson, and other technical staff.
Innovation Village within Silica City will connect business startups with leading companies
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The Innovation Village concept within the Silica City was on Monday solidified when the Guyana Innovation Group and representatives of Dar Consultants made a presen tation of the masterplan to President Dr Irfaan Ali and Cabinet.Themasterplan was pre sented by the team at State House. During the presen tation, they explained what the Innovation Village will accomplish. For one, it will connect start-ups and busi ness incubators to estab lished companies, maximis ing their technically-wiredcompact,ators.”nessconnectanding-edgedigitaledbethe“Accordingopportunities.tothegroup,InnovationVillagewillageographicarea,locatwithinSilicaCity,whereandinnovativeleadanchorinstitutionscompaniesclusterandwithstart-ups,busiincubatorsandacceler“Itwillbephysicallytransit-accessible,andwill
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She presided over a sys tem of doing monarchy that in some ways felt timeless, but which was in fact adap tive and distinctive. Her staying power and her skill at keeping her distance have bequeathed a model of monarchy that will not be easy for Charles III to repli cate, especially if, as is dis tinctly possible, he fails to earn the breadth of respect that Elizabeth enjoyed.
To quote the Minister: “There are a number of bad habits that we have. They include consumption of alcohol and smoking cigarettes. We eat the wrong food and move away from fresh, healthy foods. We eat a lot of fast foods and drink a lot of sugarsweetened beverages. These contribute to diabetes and we have to change them. In addition, a lot of our population has moved to an inactive way of living.”
he death of a mon arch is an entire ly foreseeable event, the solemn formalities hardwired into the rituals of dynastic succession. But it is also an event that is difficult, partly for the sim ple reason of good manners, to anticipate with any accu racy at any particular time.
Even monarchy evolves, albeit slowly. It evolved un der Elizabeth, as it evolved under George VI. It will certainly evolve further under Charles, who is de termined to slim down the numbers of working roy als and who is also certain to find himself ceasing to be head of state of many Commonwealth coun tries. Yet, outside the pal ace walls, a collective ta boo seems to have evolved when it comes to discuss ing the future of British life without Elizabeth.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating impacts on individuals and communities as a whole are yet another stark reminder that both the health authorities and citizens must continue to take the issue of NCDs very seriously.
Every year in September, Guyana joins with regional countries as part of a unified response to promote health, and prevent and control the epidemic of Non-Communicable Diseases or NCDs.
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This is the moment, nevertheless, for which the new monarch has long prepared, and it will be marked by change at least as much as hallowed conti nuity. But it is a process of change in which the many institutions of British soci ety, not just the palace, are entitled to have their say.
The loss of the Queen will test a divided Britain
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Based on what the medical professionals have found so far, most of the persons who have died as a result of contracting COVID-19 had had some kind of underlying health complication, many of which are related to NCDs.
Wellness and lifestyle choices
Research has shown that the numerous media campaigns on HIV/AIDS prevention and care, stigma and discrimination have impacted positively on attitudes and lifestyle changes; and messages in a similar fashion should be created towards addressing non-communicable illnesses such as hypertension and diabetes, or dealing with overweightness and obesity.
gious but revealing ex ample of this habit as re cently as January. During the Partygate furore, Keir Starmer stood up in the Commons and drew a con trast between the lax at tention to Covid rules in Boris Johnson’s Downing Street and the punctilious and poignant observance of those rules by the wid owed Queen at the funeral of Prince Philip during the pandemic in 2021.
The Queen delivers her speech in the House of Lords during the state opening of Parliament on May 5, 2021 (Photograph: Chris Jackson/PA)
We agree with the Health Minister when he said on Monday, “the earlier they (children) learn healthy behaviours, then they would have lifelong benefits from this type of behaviour. If we teach children the right thing, more than likely they would go through life using these techniques.
ly ominous yesterday. It is unusual for Buckingham Palace, normally so tightlipped and uncommuni cative on such matters, to volunteer the kind of frank statement on the monarch’s health problems that it put out. It is even more unusual for the scattered and some times warring members of the royal family to descend en masse to the monarch’s bedside at Balmoral.
To begin with, we believe that there is need for greater awareness and knowledge in the society about the dangers of chronic illnesses. On this basis, we urge that there be continuous public education and awareness campaigns across the country, to address various health issues.
It was a contrast that millions had grasped for themselves, but it drew an immediate reprimand from the Commons Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, who told Starmer: “We normally would not, and quite right ly, mention the royal fam ily. We do not get into discussions on the royal family.”This is an infantile stance for a senior par liamentarian. Parliament may not be supposed to get into discussions on the roy al family, but everyone else in the country does. So, of course, do the press, which knows that the royals –whether in the form of the exemplary Cambridges, the troubled Sussexes, the dis graced Andrew or the con tinuing allure of Diana –sell. It passes belief that parliament should have such a pointless self-deny
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ing ordinance on the sys tem of constitutional mon archy on which its own supremacy rests.
Even before the pandemic, poor lifestyle choices such as tobacco use, alcohol abuse, unhealthy diets, and physical inactivity had resulted in large numbers of people falling sick and dying.
For example, evidence suggests that half of all cancers could be prevented by following a healthy lifestyle.
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Guyana joins with the rest of the Region to observe Caribbean Wellness Day along with the week of activities, Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony has pointed to the fact that Guyanese have bad eating habits.
With the death at Balmoral of Queen Elizabeth II, a prepared but nevertheless shocked nation finds itself at such a moment, and it is import ant that our troubled poli tics and our wounded civil society face up to it as calm ly and sensibly as possible, because this event will res onate politically and con stitutionally for years to come.Elizabeth was on the throne for so many years that, through no fault of her own, she made this pro cess difficult. She reigned longer than any other mon arch in British history, and by a considerable margin. She is the only one to have reigned for more than 70 years, a span that is un likely to be repeated in the foreseeable future. Until yesterday, she was the only monarch that the vast ma jority of us had ever known – you have to be at least 75 to have had any memory of George VI’s reign. This is a big, big event for Britain.
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According to PAHO/WHO, people with underlying health conditions such as NCDs, including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer, have a higher risk of severe COVID-19 disease, and are more likely to die from COVID-19. Risk factors for NCDs can make people more vulnerable to becoming severely ill. For example, smokers may have reduced lung capacity, which would greatly increase risk of serious illness.
The Government, even though it must take the lead as it relates to policy drafting and implementation etc, cannot do it alone. The entire society must be actively involved.
Further, NCDs come at a high cost to individuals and nation states in terms of human suffering, expensive treatment, and loss of production. It is estimated that the direct and indirect cost of treating NCDs in Guyana is over 10 per cent of the Gross Domestic ProductWhat(GDP).isnoteworthy is the realisation that most cases of chronic NCDs are avoidable, and it is within our individual power to prevent these diseases from affecting our lives.
It is also believed that around 40 per cent of Guyanese are either overweight or obese, and of that number, the majority are women.Health experts say that chronic diseases result largely from bad food choices and low levels of physical activity. Reducing the risk of developing chronic illnesses, including Type 2 Diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and various cancers, is associated with living a healthy lifestyle, which includes such factors as nonsmoking, a healthy diet, regular physical activity, moderate alcohol intake, and a sense of mental well-being.
The idea that Britain’s way of doing a monarchy is the only possible model is nonsense. Ours is the only European monarchy that is also the head of an es tablished church. Partly for that reason, ours is the only one that has an elab orate coronation to mark a new reign. If Liz Truss had been a Swedish polit ical leader, she would have travelled to see the speak er of the Riksdag this week to be appointed as prime minister, not the monarch. Sweden’s king has no role in summoning or dissolv ing parliament either, and he does not give royal as sent to Theselegislation.areamong the many terms and conditions of constitutional monar chy that a grownup coun try might reasonably dis cuss, particularly at the end of a long reign such as Elizabeth’s. The list would certainly include the many forms of royal prerogative powers that are exercised by Britain’s prime minis ter, but which the Johnson era helped to make contro versial.Donot underestimate the upheaval in British life that this dynastic moment will trigger. Elizabeth II spent 70 years as a lowkey but extremely effective unifying force in a nation that is visibly pulling itself apart. Her passing will re move that force, which her heirs cannot assume they will be able to replicate. In its way, this succes sion will be one of the big gest tests to face modern Britain. Politics needs to be involved. (Adapted from The(MartinGuardian)Kettle is a Guardian columnist)
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So how do we make the breakthrough when it comes to getting our citizens to adopt healthy lifestyles, considering the fact that some persons still operate with a high degree of ignorance?
It is well accepted that better health is central to human happiness and well-being. It also makes an important contribution to economic progress, as healthy populations live longer, are more productive, and save more. Everyone should, therefore, aim to live a healthy and full life, and to avoid becoming trapped by NCDs.
While these plans are in motion, land acquisition for phase two is also in progress
While this publication was unable to make con tact with EPA Head Kemraj Parsram and the agency is yet to make an official state ment on the issue, a source confirmed to this publica tion that the agency visited theAccordingsite. to the source, EPA officials visited the Liza Unity on Sunday, to do an independent check of the situation.OnFriday, Exxon had said that the leak occurred
had begun discussions on Silica City as a secondary city. He had explained that the Government was looking at an area on the LindenSoesdyke Highway that would be connected to the new four-lane bypass road.
“We are aggressively pursuing plans for the con struction of Silica City [and] we are here today to ad vance the planning and de signs for the area, so that we can bring this city to an ear ly realisation,” the Minister hadShestated.added, “Silica City will have in its first phase about 3000 acres of land, but we are starting to do the land-clearing for the first 185 acres, which will fea
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that the contractors tilled what they were paid to do then it must be stated con clusively that if these con tractors were not paid by hour, they would have with drawn their services and the 130 hectares would not have been tilled, hence no benefits accruing.
Internal Audit was complet ed.
On Friday, ExxonMobil subsidiary Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) had an nounced that a drum of oil, from its Liza Unity FPSO vessel, had leaked into the ocean. At the time, Exxon had assured that the leak was contained and all agen cies, including the EPA, had been notified.
According to Persaud, EEPGL’s incident man agement team also has the Regional Response team to back them up in real life. Additionally, the regional
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(EPA) has been relatively quiet since news broke on Friday that a drum of oil had leaked in the Stabroek Block operations of ExxonMobil, the agency has since visited the site of the leak.
There is also another le gal principle which states that, ‘nullum crimen sine lege’ - ‘a person should not face criminal punishment except for an act that was criminalised by law be fore he/she performed the act. This idea is also mani fested in laws that require criminal acts to be publi cised in unambiguous stat utory text’. It is clear from an email (Appendix 3) from the CEO stated that ‘he will be holding the Estate Managers and Agriculture Managers accountable for any variation from the cost per hectares’. This means
The National Emergency Oil Spill Plan was craft ed with valuable in puts from the Guyana
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Marine Conservation Society, Guyana Wildlife Conservation and Management Commission, the Ministry of Legal Affairs, Shipping Association of Guyana, ExxonMobil, Tullow, GuyOil, Repsol, Shell, GAICO Construction and other stakeholders.
There is a common law principle which states that, ‘nobody should profit from crime; this fundamental moral principle is uncon troversial’. This supports the fact that if benefits ac crued from the ‘overpay ments’ then that will ne gate any ‘losses’ perceived. Furthermore, if it is argued
“On Friday, September 9, 2022, the team on the Liza Unity FPSO observed a sheen on the water in the vicinity of the vessel. Initial investigations indicate that approximately one barrel of crude oil was released during a maintenance activ ity on the vessel.”
pany takes matters such as crisis response serious ly, hence the regular train ing. She had explained that several similar training sessions were done during this year and another ma jor training exercise will be done by this year end.
In his first year in office in 2020, President Ali had revealed that Government
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“The activity was im mediately stopped and the leak isolated. Earlier to day (Saturday), addition al surveillance by helicop ter confirmed that there was no sheen in the area; only a light sheen was per ceptible approximately 20 km (13 miles) North West of the vessel,” the company said, also assuring that its response teams will contin
The Minister had stat ed that the Ministry has al ready begun shortlisting persons for the homes. First phase development of the city is also expected to fea ture a number of commer cial and industrial develop ments, as well as hospitals.
At the time, EEPGL Media and Communications Manager Janelle Persaud had explained that the com
The United States has also been providing tacti cal and operational support to Guyana, when it comes to advancing and fortifying Guyana’s national response to oil spills. In June, the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) provided a recap on the series of training and support provided to 231 per sons from over 30 agencies by the United States Coast Guard in building capacity to handle such matters.
ue to monitor the situation closely.There has never been a serious mishap involv ing oil exploration efforts in the Stabroek Block. Nevertheless, Exxon has been doing training sessions throughout the year, aimed at improving their response capabilities.Onlylast month, a twoday emergency response training exercise was con ducted for EEPGL staff at the Marriott hotel. During the training, EEPGL worked with The Response Group, a United States company spe cialising in crisis manage ment. Among the areas that the training covered, is re sponses to different levels of crisis in EEPGL’s offshore activities, such as oil spills.
response team will be arriv ing in Guyana for the final training session by this year
From June 2021 to April 2022, these efforts have ad dressed gaps in Guyana’s management of any oil spill. (G3) within Silica City
during maintenance activ ities on board the vessel. They said that as soon as it was discovered, all activity was halted while the leak was isolated and dealt with.
EPA visits site of Liza Unity oil leak – source
It had previously been explained that the city will initially cater to just over 3000 households in the first five years and eventual ly grow to house more than 12,500 households. (G3)
through collaborative efforts withTheGLSC.establishment of Silica City was proposed in 2013 by Dr Irfaan Ali during his tenure as Minister of Housing and Water. It is in keeping with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the New Urban Agenda, the Housing Act 36:20, and other guidelines.
that it was only then that clear guidance was given by the CEO with regards to the ambiguity contained in the contracts approved by GuySuCo. This retroactive directive was given after the
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Dear Editor, With reference to the on going conversation on the ‘overpayments’ of contrac tors’ payments at Rose Hall Estate, GuySuCo claimed that they suffered ‘losses due to the overpayments’ to contractors. GuySuCo claimed ‘losses and dam ages’ resulted from the 130 hectares tilled. The tilled land is planted and expected to yield over 700 tonnes of sugar. This clearly showed that the corporation did not suffer any ‘losses and dam ages’ but instead will gain exponentially in the process.
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end.There is also a National Oil Spill Contingency Plan, which was handed over in October 2020 by the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) to Prime Minister, Brigadier (ret’d) Mark Phillips. The plan was months in the making and involved the input of many key stake holders including the Maritime Administrative Department (MARAD), Guyana Energy Agency (GEA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Energy, Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and the Civil Defence Commission (CDC).
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magine a tiny house tucked into the woods, the perfect size for a little creature. What fun to find—and even more fun to make!
Gather the goods. Twigs, bark, pine cones, leaves, stones, acorns, flower petals, and many other objects make perfect building materials. You can pick flowers from your own yard, if you ask first.Pick a Place. A hidden site is usually best to keep your house safe—unless you want to put it where passers-by might spot it and
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In backyards and woodlands and other out-of-the-way corners, kids and their families are busy building fairy houses. What’s a fairy house? It’s a very small dwelling that’s big on imagination—and it’s all made from things you can find in nature.
smile.Build away! Twig walls? A roof of bark or one thatched with leaves? A pebble path? A pine-cone fence? The options are endless. You might even furnish your house with, say, a nutshell bathtub, acorn lanterns, or a leaf hammock.
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Look ahead. Time and weather will take a toll on your house, so you may want to take a photo to remember it. Of course, you can always make more—anywhere you go! At the beach, driftwood, shells, and seaweed can become a sandy village. When winter comes along, snow and icicles turn into new building supplies. (rangerrick.org)
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Will fairies really move in? Well, build one and see! Or you could build for another kind of creature. A mouse house, toad abode, cricket cottage, or beetle bungalow would be just as much fun to make. Here is what you do:
Witter argued that un der Article 154A of the Constitution and Article 25 of the Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, he has a fundamental right to politi cal participation in the con duct of public affairs. He, however, argued that this right was violated with the passage of the Bill. In light of this, the trade unionist is asking the court to declare that pursuant to Article 154A, the Government in formulating an NRF policy, had a responsibility to en gage in consultation.
Opposition Chief Whip Christopher Jones and Trade Unionist Norris Witter, ear lier this year, filed a Fixed Date Application which was converted to a Statement of Claim by Justice Singh, ar guing that due to the ab sence of the parliamentary Mace – the most significant symbol in the National Assembly and some mem bers not being seated—the Act cannot be regarded as being lawfully passed.
Trial proceedings
Of the three witnesses Jones and Witter (the claim ants) intend to call, two of them testified on Monday. They included Opposition parliamentarian and Attorney-at-Law Khemraj Ramjattan and Witter, him self. Jones, the final witness, will testify when the trial re sumes in RamjattanNovember.wasthe first to take the witness stand in the trial which commenced minutes before 10:00h. Based on the contents of his witness statement, he was cross-examined by Attorney General Anil Nandlall, SC, who asked him a series of questions, including wheth er his fellow Opposition par liamentarians were blow ing whistles in the National Assembly.Ramjattan did admit that some APNU/AFC Members of Parliament (MPs) blew whistles, walked around, and were not in their seats because they were not in support of the Bill.
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On the night of December 29, 2021, Members of the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) had dislodged the Mace from its position
at the House Clerk’s desk and protested in an attempt to prevent the Natural Resource Fund Bill from be ing passed.
At one point in the National Assembly proceed ings, the Speaker’s Personal Assistant was seen latching onto the Mace while lying on the floor in an attempt to se cure it, while the Opposition parliamentarians stood by hurling racial slurs and taunts at him.
In his Affidavit in Defence, Nandlall contended that the claim is an abuse of the court process and with out any legal basis. In light of this, he has urged the court to dismiss the matter. According to the Attorney General, there is no princi ple known to the law, nei ther does the Constitution nor the Standing Orders of the National Assembly re quire that the Mace must be present and in place for Parliament to exercise its constitutional power to make laws for the peace, or
NRF Bill were illegal. They argued that this is contrary to constitutional values of the rule of law, democracy, inclusive governance, and the Standing Orders of the National Assembly.
However, the Opposition’s protest and its mounting calls for the Bill to be sent to a Special Select Committee had no effect as the Government passed the Bill.House Speaker Nadir is, however, adamant that the NRF Act was lawful ly passed, noting that a replica Mace was in place. He had explained that al most all Parliaments in the Westminster System have two Maces in case one is not being found or is stolen.
Opposition parliamentarian and KhemrajAttorney-at-LawRamjattan
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Since objections raised by Opposition MPs to the Bill were ignored by the Speaker, Ramjattan, the Leader of the AFC, said that his colleagues resorted to be having in that manner.
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In response to certain questions put to him by Nandlall, Ramjattan either replied that he could not re call or gave an indirect re sponse, and therefore re lied on the video recordings of the events that happened
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Excluded from consultations Jones and Witter, in their claim, are seeking a number of declarations in cluding one that the con duct of the business of the House without the Mace and the later passage of the
Lawyers for the Government and Opposition battled for nearly five hours on if the controversial Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Act was legally passed by the National Assembly last December, as the civil trial commenced on Monday be fore Justice Navindra Singh at the Demerara High Court.
In any event, Nandlall ar gued, too, that the Mace has “no relevance and place” in the exercise of Parliament’s constitutional power and au thority to make laws.
The Opposition’s position is that civil society bodies were excluded from consul tations on the Bill.
He argued that, wheth er the Mace is in place or not, or whether an instru ment can be used as a Mace, the purpose of the Mace and matters connected to Parliament are matters over which the High Court has no jurisdiction, as they consti tute procedural matters of Parliament over which the Parliament has exclusive ju risdiction under Article 165 of the Constitution.
Govt, Opposition battle in almost 5 hours of arguments on NRF Act’s legality
…Ramjattan experiences ‘memory lapse’ during AG's cross-examination …had to rely on video footage
The Natural Resource Fund Act which was assented to by President Dr Irfaan Ali
on that night. Those record ings have been tendered as exhibits.During the afternoon session, Witter was called to testify but several objections were raised by Nandlall concerning what was de posed in his witness state ment. To amplify his objec tions, the Attorney General argued that most of what is stated in Witter’s statement amounts to hearsay evidence and is consequently inad missible. Senior Counsel Roysdale Forde, Witter’s and Jones’s lawyer, howev er, asked that Witter’s evi dence be relied on to prove the truth of the matters as serted. But Justice Singh upheld Nandlall’s objec tions, stopped Witter’s tes timony, and adjourned the trial. The trade unionist will continue his testimony on November 8, while Jones will begin his testimony the next day. Nandlall has asked the Judge to dismiss the challenge.
Attorney General Anil Nandlall, SC
Gomes, who was arrest ed on September 9 with an alleged quantity of co caine, appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Gomes and his father, Andre Gomes also called ‘’Zipper’’, 61, were arrest ed last Friday after an op eration was conducted at Lots 32 and 34 Craig Street, Campbellville, Georgetown.
Respect for Mother Nature??Respect for Mother nature??
was observed as a passen ger in Gomes’s vehicle when CANU ranks confronted them. The cocaine was sub sequently found.
almost six pounds of cocaine on March 29, 2018.
Meanwhile, back in October 2021, Andre and another man, Eon Joseph, were arrested by CANU af ter two kilograms of co caine was found at his Craig Street, Campbellville prop erty.
…colonial rebels
It helped precipitate the Soweto uprising of 1976, when some 20,000 secondary school students marched through the township. He was killed by SA Police on Sept 12, 1977 –he was just 30.
He pleaded not guilty to
Ranks of the Customs Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU) searched properties at Lots 32 and 34 Craig Street, aGeorgetown—theCampbellville,latterknowndrugyard—and
But sadly, the ANC has blanked his memory.
While Joseph pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to three years in prison together with a $6 million fine, Andre denied the charge and was remand ed to prison. He was sub sequently admitted to bail. <<<Guyana Times>>> is un aware of the legal status of the charge against him.
…heroes in British Guiana
Out of these last strikes came the PPP – and Independence!!
Mark Gomes
Kadir exited his vehicle tle, which he took to PMM 5807, where Gomes was seated in the driver’s side. A third man, Brian Fowler, who was also jailed for four years after pleading guilty to trafficking in narcotics,
Meanwhile, CANU, in a
In July 2018, Andre, af ter spending five months on remand, was freed on a charge which alleged that he trafficked 902 grams of co caine on January 30, 2018, at his Campbellville home.
Your Eyewitness had to smile when he saw a factoid circulating after the passing of Queen Elizabeth II: it was an atlas that answered the question, “What’s the most widely celebrated holiday?” And the answer was “Independence Day”!! There were so many European colonies that had to be freed!! The British, of course, led the lot with at least the 54 that are in the Commonwealth today. Nowadays the ex-colonised are slowly taking charge of the imperial-imposed and influenced narratives. In India PM Modi just unveiled a 28-foot statue of Subash Chandra Bose carved out of a single piece of black granite. And who’s Subash Chandra Bose?? Funny you asked!! Subash or “Netaji” – leader – as he was called, was one of the foremost freedom fighters in India – but disagreed vehemently with Gandhi’s satyagraha – non-violent method to achieve independence. You can glean his position from a few of his quotes:“Freedom is not given, it is taken”; “Life loses half its interest if there is no struggle — if there are no risks to be taken”; “It is blood alone that can pay the price of freedom. Give me blood and I will give you freedom”!! So how come we know about Gandhi and not Bose? Part of the answer is simply because the Colonial Brits loved Gandhi – since they were assured no harm would come to them!! And the second part is that since Subash was killed in an accident in 1945 –after he’d raised the Indian National Army to invade India with the Japanese – Gandhi and Nehru, who supported the Brits in the war, were “granted” independence in 1947 and went on to blank Subash’ contributions!! Subash’s philosophy was simple: the enemy of my enemy is my friend!!
Mark Gomes, the 38-year-old man who was convict ed of trafficking cocaine in 2018 and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, was on Monday granted bail on a similar charge.
But there’s still a lot of other colonial history that needs to be rectified. Over in South Africa, there was a young medical doctor by the name of Steve Biko who launched the “Black Consciousness” movement in the late 1960s when he was just in his early 20s. The leaders of the ANC and the PAC were mostly in jail or exiled when the young leader launched his movement in the University based on the ideas of Franz Fanon, the US Black Power Movement and Marcus Garvey. Fanon’s focus on the psychological damage of colonialism reverberated with Biko in apartheid South Africa. In a nutshell, his message amplified and operationalised Marcus Garvey’s: “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!”
the charge which stated that on September 9, he had 24.4 grams of cocaine in his pos session for the purpose of trafficking. The accused, who was represented by at torney, Siand Dhurjon, is scheduled to return to court on October 3.
The transparent glass tubes labelled lidocaine and quantity of cocaine that were discovered during last Friday’s search at the Campbellville, Georgetown properties
Three years before that case, Gomes was arrest ed and charged for the shooting to death of a taxi driver on Main Street, Georgetown. He had been charged with the May 10, 2015 murder of Nigel Isaacs of Roxanne Burnham Gardens, Georgetown, but the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) later withdrew the charge, citing insufficient evidence. (G1)
found several transparent glass tubes labelled lido caine and a quantity of co caine.At the time of the opera tion, Andre and Mark were at the locations. As such, they were arrested and es corted to CANU headquar ters along with cocaine and transparent glass tubes.
Mohamed Kadir were each sentenced to four years’ im prisonment after they were found guilty of trafficking
It was CANU’s case that on the day in question, its hicles on Sheriff Street, Georgetown, one driven by Gomes and the other by
…Amerindian Heritage Month
No charges were, howev er, instituted against Andre by CANU but he remains under probe.
Remembering…
Mark has since appealed his conviction and sentence and is currently on bail pending the hearing and de termination of that matter.
In addition to the jail terms, the three men were each fined $6 million.
Andre Gomes had pre viously been charged with drug trafficking, but was never convicted.
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But throughout our history, our people resisted their oppression. We all know about the famous slave rebellions going back to Cuffy’s in 1763 that led to Emancipation in 1838. But the Indentureds who were brought to replace them also rebelled– and were shot in cold blood by the colonial Police. This started in 1872 over in Essequibo and continued in Demerara in 1896, 1903, Berbice 1913; Demerara 1924, 1939 and 1948.
With sugar fading in Guyana, it’s already difficult for the young’uns to imagine when EVERYTHING that went on in this country revolved around sugar. Plain and simple – what was good for the sugar industry was good for sugar!! And the sugar barons were so avaricious that they not only left us “underdeveloped” – but dominate even the fledgling “light industries”. The largest sugar company, Bookers dominated shipping, shopping, pharmaceuticals and even the taxi business!! No wonder local wags insisted that BG meant “Bookers Guyana”.
Convicted drug trafficker granted bail over Craig St cocaine bust
Previous charges
Apart from Pres Ali, looks like most folks have forgotten that this is Amerindian Heritage Month. Have we been integrating aspects of their culture into our Guyanese mosaic – apart from pepperpot??
his argument, he remind ed that the legislation was a promise contained in his party’s manifesto for the 2020 National Elections –a document he has includ ed as an exhibit. He said that the manifesto itself was a product of five years of public consultations from 2015 to 2020, across all 10 regions, including a grand public consultation held at New Thriving Restaurant, Providence, on February 17, 2019.For the aforementioned
The Government has said that the NRF Act will ensure the security, trans parency, and accountability that Guyanese need in order to benefit from the oil and gasTherevenues.lawprovides for a governance structure of how these monies will be used with continuous public dis closures, audits, and parlia mentary approvals. (G1)
The defendants in the claim are the Attorney General, Finance Minister,
House Speaker, Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs, and the Parliament Office.
Since the passage of the legislature last December, the Government has gone on to establish the Natural Resource Fund Board.
Another building affected by the blaze was a two-storey wooden and concrete build ing located at Lot 67 Seaview, Anna Catherina, which is sit uated on the southern side of the building of origin. The building is owned by 47-yearold Mark Jelto, who along with his family of three oc cupy the top floor while the ground floor is a liquor restaurant.Duetoradiated heat, nine meters of PVC guttering, nine meters of facing board and
Additionally, a one-flat wooden and concrete building situated on the western side of the building of origin re ceived damage to nine meters of PVC guttering, nine meters of facing board and thirteen louvre panes. The building is owned by 56-year-old Sherina Mohamed and occupied is by herself and her family of two.
But Nandlall submitted that a lack of consultation does not in any manner af fect the law power and au thority of Parliament. He deposed, “It will be con tended that the debates among the elected represen tatives of the people in the National Assembly which is a component of the legisla tive process constitutes con sultation.” He said that the Natural Resource Fund Bill received widespread nation al consultations. To support
Witter are further asking the High Court to declare null, void and of no effect, all actions taken by any one, including the Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh, pursuant to the passage of the Bill, or the Constitution of any Board under the NRF. They are also seeking orders necessary to ensure that the NRF is replenished to the extent of all sums dis bursed from it.
Following parliamentary approval, the Government has made two withdraw als from the fund amount ing to $83.3 billion which were transferred to the Consolidated Fund to fi nance national development priorities.Thissum, which was taken out following par liamentary approval, has been transferred to the Consolidated Fund to fi nance national development priorities.However, Jones and
House, furniture workshop gutted by fire
Afamily of four have been rendered home less after their Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara home was com pletely gutted by fire, which also destroyed a furniture workshop.OnSunday evening at about 21:43h, ranks from the Leonora Fire Station re sponded to a fire at Seaview, Anna Catherina, WCD.
two small windows were se verely damaged.
Debris after the fire was extinguished at Anna Catherina
Govt, Opposition battle in almost 5 hours...
Manifesto promise
to another one-flat build ing located in the same yard, where Ravindra Balkissoon operated a furniture work shop. That building and its contents were destroyed due to radiated heat from the fire.
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reasons, the Attorney General submitted that he maintains “most resolutely” that the Natural Resource Fund Act was lawfully, val idly, and properly passed, and received the due as sent of President Dr Irfaan Ali in accordance with the Constitution.
Firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze using one jet from an open water source and another working from a tank. The purported cause of the fire is a break down in the electrical circuit resulting in sparking, which ignited nearby combustible materials. (G12)
Replenish
The flames then spread
The response team found that a flat wooden and con crete building – owned by 38-year-old Ravindra Balkissoon – was engulfed in flames and completely de stroyed. The man resided on the said property with three other family members.
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enabling students to find a niche or devel op existing skills that can lead to careers, the Education Ministry is look ing at ways to diversify the current education model at the secondary level.
Education Minister Priya Manickchand recently explained that diversifying education will provide a me dium for students to focus on their interests. Broadening the scope of their overall de velopment beyond just ed ucation, she added, can re duce the number of dropouts in the school system.
Burning of waste can re sult in the release of high ly toxic pollutants into your home and environment. It is illegal to openly burn gar bage in Guyana and this offence attracts a fine of $80,000 to $300,000 and perpetrators can face up to three months’ imprison ment.
“For me, if one child is absent, it is one child too many. We’re actually active ly pursuing with different partners, the pathway to find each of these children. We’re going after every child, whether they wrote the exam or not, to be able to place them into a second aryUntilschool.”NGSA students commence the new school year, the Ministry has pro vided worksheets and video
Jail time, up to $300,000 in fines for illegally burning garbage – GFS warns
The new school year has just commenced and the Minister outlined that absenteeism is being ad dressed. Students who wrote the National Grade Six Assessment will com mence their secondary ed
Education Ministry looking to diversify secondary education model – Manickchand
Education Minister Priya Manickchand
In
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The Guyana Fire Service on Monday cautioned citizens to desist from openly burning heaps of garbage or grass. This is after several recent reports of garbage and grass fires at various parts of the country.
urged that parents should emphasise to their children the dangers of playing with fire. Always keep a shovel, bucket of water, fire extin guisher, or other fire sup pression tools on hand.
ucation on October 3, but she pointed out that the Ministry will also place those children who did not write the exams.
Giving tips for controlling and preventing grass fires, the GPF noted, “do not throw cigarettes on the ground or out of a vehicle; and be ing mindful of parking cars, trucks or recreational vehi cles on dry grass or shrubs. Exhaust systems on vehicles can reach a temperature of more than 1000 degrees but it only takes about 500 de grees to start a fire during the dry Additionally,season.” the GPF
material online for them to prepare.
“If these fires do occur, they should never be left unattended as they possess the potential to spread and become major fire emer gencies. Persons desirous of using fire as a method of land clearing or for any oth er purpose must obtain per
Ranks from the GFS extinguishing a pile of garbage that was set on fire and left unattended
mission from the Guyana Fire Service before proceed ing further,” the GPF said.
Meanwhile, she reiter ated that education and Guyana’s quality of educa tion is still of paramount importance, now with the agenda of having ev ery teacher trained. It was pointed out that there is a direct correlation between good output and trained ed ucators, and the Ministry is looking in regions where there needs to be a turn around.Minister Manickchand underscored, “Linden has 100 per cent and more trained teachers and you see the children perform ing better. We see a direct correlation between trained teachers and good student output. This year, we’ve seen the most number of teachers from Region Eight coming to do the Associate’s Degree in Education and we are accommodating them at the Cyril Potter College of Education.”Sheadded, “Once those teachers are trained and go back in, you will see a dif ference in student output. We don’t want to wait until the teachers are trained and sent back in so we’re exam ining other means of getting trained teachers into the classroom.” (G12)
“I am happy to say that we’re working aggressive ly on making sure that chil dren who have different in terests and talents find a comfortable pathway in high school. We’re looking at a more diverse secondary education in an effort to ca ter more to our children but also to lose less children in the secondary school. We believe strongly that we are going to see results in that,” Manickchand expressed.
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During the convicts’ sen tencing hearing on Monday, Justice Kissoon condemned the senseless killing of Shivnauth, adding that the consumption of alcohol con tinues to wreak havoc and destruction in the Guyanese society.Inso doing, he alluded to the numerous lives lost be cause of excessive alcohol consumption at bars as well as fatal accidents caused by persons driving under the influence. In light of this, the Judge pointed out that the time has come to review the law regulating liquor li cences and the sale of alco hol under those licences to hold bar owners accountable when these tragedies occur.
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It was reported that Shivnauth, also called “Rupee”, was stabbed six times in the vicinity of his heart. He also sustained a slash to the lower abdomen, along with another to his hand.The argument broke out after Persaud accused the now dead man of “troubling” his Thesister.injured man was pronounced dead on arriv al at the Leonora Cottage Hospital.Atthe time of his demise, Shivnauth worked at the Uitvlugt Sugar Estate on the WCD.
Dead: Kawal Shivnauth
28, of Leonora, WCD, and Roopnarine Persaud, 23, of Matthew’s Ridge, Region One (Barima-Waini), were initially indicted for Shivnauth’s murder but opt ed to plead guilty to the less er count of manslaughter be fore Justice Sandil Kissoon
After the stabbing inci dent, Persaud fled the scene, but was later arrested in Matthew’s Ridge, where he resides. Following interroga tion, he implicated Lakhan in the fatal stabbing.
in July.They admitted that on January 9, 2017, at Edinburgh, WCD, they killed 38-year-old Shivnauth.
In his address to the court, Persaud said that he wants to be a better person and offered an apology to the family of the deceased man.
Lakhan told the Judge that being in prison has changed his life for the bet ter.In the end, Justice Kissoon ordered that both Persaud and Lakhan en rol in anger management, and drug rehabilitation pro grammes, and classes for al coholics and that they bene fit from trade classes offered by the prison to aid in their rehabilitation for reintegra tion into society. (G1)
“I would like to apolo gise for the death of Kawal Shivnauth. I would like to apologise to the relatives that I am sorry. I would like to apologise to the State… being a killer is not a part of me.”
…“I am sorry” – killer to victim’s family
Fishermen jailed for over 10 years each for killing estate worker
While Lakhan called “Pascal” was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the crime, Persaud called “Helicopter”
Wreak havoc
Lakhan, on the other hand, pleaded with Justice Kissoon for mercy.
Rum shop brawl
was imprisoned for 12 years and 10 months as the Judge adjusted his sentence up ward because of aggravating factors.State Counsel Muntaz Ali presented the State’s case while Persaud was rep resented by Attorney-atLaw Dexter Smartt, and Lakhan by Attorney-at-Law TeriqTheMohammed.murdertook place during a drinking spree at a bar.It was reported that Persaud began arguing with Shivnauth, and took out a knife, and chopped him. Shivnauth then picked up a beer bottle to defend himself, but Lakhan took the bottle away from him, lashed him with it, and told Persaud to “juck him”.
he fishermen who confessed to fatally stabbing West Coast Demerara (WCD) sug ar estate employee Kawal Shivnauth to death, were each handed varying prison sentences on DeonarineMonday.Lakhan,
Jailed: Roopnarine Persaud Jailed: Deonarine Lakhan
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“I am very sorry for the loss of a life. I am sorry to his [Shivnauth’s] mother, his father, his children, his wife, his brother. I’m sorry to this court how life turned off. It was not my intention to do something like this…I am pleading for mercy.”
President Dr Irfaan Ali speaking at Mocha on Sunday
“Leave the politics out, let the people work with us” – President tells Mocha NDC Chair
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take that and take it to the bank and bank it!”
During the commission ing ceremony, President Ali announced that some $192 million will be expended on road works within the com munity.Following the commis sioning ceremony, the Head of State and his team of Ministers hosted a commu nity meeting whereby res idents had an opportunity to raise their respective con cerns with the President.
“I am here as the President of Guyana and I dare not take my eyes and pass these people and tell them their lives are controlled by the PPP Government.”Moreover, the NDC Chair had also asked for a bobcat to be presented to the community to assist with the booming housing drive. But President Ali indicated that this request seemed un necessary.“We’re presenting you with roads, drainage, agri culture land, recreational
However, the NDC Chair
he received a letter of com plaint from a resident.
When his turn came around, the NDC Chair raised a number of issues with President Ali, who dil igently provided answers and explanations to the com munity leader’s concerns.
“There are many NDCs that can tell you we did not invest $192 million in their
facilities, all of those things, after providing the bobcat, we might need to provide fuel…so let’s deal with the issues that are priority is sues,” the Head of State as serted.Meanwhile, earlier in his address to the residents, President Ali reiterated his message of building a “One Guyana” and encouraged residents to be independent thinkers and not be swayed by political persuasions.
“It is an insult for you to tell these people that their lives are controlled by the coalition. No one life is con trolled by anyone but God,
Attempts by the Chair of Mocha toledthere.areerroadthatIrfaandismissedcommunityforcationciseRudolphDemocraticNeighbourhoodArcadiaCouncil(NDC)Adamstopolititheapparentnon-alloofa$4milliongrantpriorityactivitiesinthewasonSundaybyPresidentDrAli,whoremindedalmost$200millioninworksalongwithothtransformativeprojectsbeingdoneforresidentsPresidentAlionSundayahigh-leveldelegationthecommunitywhere
Mocha Arcadia NDC Chairman Rudolph Adams
community, we can be very idealistic and very selec tive about the type of argu ments we want to make, I am working with everyone, the NDC but more impor tantly the people are coming along with me on this jour ney, because the people of this country require leader ship.”In this regard, President Ali highlighted that, “we are going to be working with the villagers in this NDC be cause they have been asking us to work with them to have them involved in the small contracts for the cleaning up of the community. What this NDC Chairman is not tell ing the community is that the Ministry of Agriculture is working with farmers to create drainage for over 100 acres of Thoughland…”this was point ed out by the President, the NDC Chair made continuous attempts to discuss the mat ter of the $4 million alloca tion – trying to insinuate the an ‘APNU/AFC-controlled area’ was neglected for polit icalHowever,reasons. President Ali immediately interjected and there was a verbal exchange with the NDC Chairman.
“Leave the politics out of this, the people of this coun try want us to lead, let the people work with us on the development of the people.”
he officially opened the $59 million waswayBurnhamnewly-rehabilitatedBoulevardroad–aninitiativewhichembarkeduponafter
continued to raise the mat ter of Central Government’s allocation of $4 million to various NDCs and Mocha Arcadia’s exclusion from thisIninitiative.June2021, the Local Government and Regional Development Ministry dis tributed grants valued at $4 million to several NDCs in Region Four (DemeraraMahaica) to assist with is sues in the respective neigh bourhoods.President Ali pointed out, however, that though Mocha Arcadia did not re ceive that allocation, the community has been bene fitting in different ways.
dit escaped with the money and the items which he had pickedFollowingup. the incident, investigators were able to obtain an image of the sus pect as he rode off on a bicy cle. Meanwhile, Police have not been able to retrieve the firearm. The suspect is expected to make a court appearance on Wednesday. (G4)
“Even before we came into office, we had promised the Guyanese people that we would reverse the tax
Suspect in NA shopping centre robbery caught, confesses
he teenager who re portedly robbed a 14-year-old ca shier at a New Amsterdam shopping centre has been caught.Regional Commander Shivpersaud Bacchus con firmed that Police were able to arrest the suspect and during questioning, he confessed to the crime.
This means that for just milk alone, the invoice tax exceeds $210 million annu ally. (G4)
suspension of the process ing fee should see the cost of milk and other dairy prod ucts being reduced on the shelves.Meanwhile, to ensure quality, the GLDA will con duct tests on samples of milk and other dairy prod ucts imported to Guyana.
Some of the lab tests are done overseas. Additionally, the GLDA visits manufac turers and producers over seas to ensure what they are producing is wholesome for Guyanese.
The teenager handed over $50,000 and the ban
es imposed on this nation by APNU. It is the import ers that pay the tax but it is passed on to the consumer,” he told this publication.
Former Finance Minister Winston Jordan had intro duced a series of new taxes in an effort to rake in more revenue for the then APNU/ AFC Government. Among these was a tax on the in voice on all imported dairy products.Thetax was to assist the Government with funds to monitor the quality of milk and other dairy products im ported to MustaphaGuyana.said the GLDA has been given a subvention from the 2022 Budget to cover those administrative costs.“We will not be taking that money back by taxing the importers who will pass it on to the consumer,” he explained while adding that the People’s Progressive Party Government is seek ing to reduce the cost and the price consumers pay for items.According to him, the
Sunday, the suspect went into Easy Shopping Enterprise and Document Centre, picked up a few items from the shelves, and proceeded to the 14-yearold Hecashier.reportedly pulled out a handgun and point ed it at the student and de manded cash.
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It is this cost the APNU/ AFC invoice tax was intend ed to cater to. Nevertheless, Mustapha assured that with the suspension of the tax, there will be no compro mise in the sanitary require ments for the importation of dairyMeanwhile,products. accord ing to the 2022 Agriculture Investment Prospectus, Guyana spends US$35 mil lion annually to import milk.
Reports are that on
Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha when contacted said the decision was taken as a move to ease the tax burden on citizens.
A release from the Ministry said it wishes to inform importers that the Government of Guyana has taken a decision to suspend, with immediate effect, the 3 per cent processing fee on the invoice price for milk and dairy products.
The tax on the invoices for the importation of milk and dairy prod ucts has been removed by theThisGovernment.announcement was made on Monday by the Agriculture Ministry, which stated that a decision has been taken to suspend the processing fee on the invoice price for milk and dairy products.InFebruary 2016, only a few months after taking of fice, the then A Partnership National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) Government imposed a three per cent tax on all in voices for milk and other dairy products.
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The release said that the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) has been instructed to discontinue the collection of the 3 per cent processing fee.“All sanitary require ments for importing milk and dairy products remain enforced,” the release added.
Govt suspends APNU/AFCimposed 3% processing fee on milk, dairy products
arettes. We eat the wrong food and move away from fresh, healthy foods. We eat a lot of fast foods and drink a lot of sugar-sweetened beverages. These contrib ute to diabetes and we have to change them. In addition, a lot of our population has moved to an inactive way of living.”
In Guyana, he pointed out that many persons have adopted an inactive way of living coupled with poor choices and the Ministry is aiming to change this trend.
Caribbean Wellness Day is celebrated by Caricom countries on the second Saturday in September, as part of a unified response
“There are a number of bad habits that we have. They include consumption of alcohol and smoking cig
Dr AAnthony.major focal point is an adequate period of rest every night and exercise. Holistically practicing such habits, he shared, can con tribute to a healthier wellbe ing and have a disease-free population.“Wewant people to ex ercise on a daily basis. The CDC in the United States would have recommend ed that every day, persons should do at least 30 minutes of vigorous exercise, which helps with keeping their car
Caribbean Wellness Day
inferred mineral resources averaging 1.50 grams of gold per tonne for 940,000 ounces of gold.”
Goldmines will be finalising a new resource estimate for the site by October that will guide their future endeav ours.In a statement on Monday, the company an nounced “significant” re sults from several drill holes on the western end of the Wenot pit, holes which Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Elaine Ellingham said con firm the continuity of the gold finds in the western end and the grade of gold, on a grams per tonne (g/t) basis.
By engaging companies and other agencies, author ities are directly target ing the workforce. The in tention is for the country to lead healthier lives by mak ing the right choices.
tional drill holes completed on Wenot this year. More significantly, the resource estimate is expected to be augmented by the inclusion of an additional gold deposit, hosted within the adjacent Omai Stock, located less than 400 m north of Wenot,” sheOmaisaid. further explained that their drilling in 2021 and 2022 confirms the sig nificant gold potential on the south side of Wenot, while drilling this year aided in understanding the potential in the prime target areas immediately east and west of the past producing pit. They noted that when drill ing resumes, work will focus on expanding exploration in theseNowareas.that the company has completed this phase of their 2022 drilling with 23 holes totalling 5896 m, they noted that they will start a programme of soil geochem ical sampling and mapping, focused on the eastern ex tension of the Wenot shear corridor, next week.
“These gold-bearing shear structures at the west end of Wenot are particular ly important since they come to surface and are now iden tified to a vertical depth of at least 320 m, which is expect ed to allow the expansion of the constraining pit for the
Additionally, the first round of drilling on Broccoli Hill, totalling 690 metres, intersected gold minerali sation with four of the six holes, returning assays greater than 1 g/t Au and as high as 4.04 g/t Au over 0.9 m and 0.91 g/t over 6.8 m. (G3)
…will start mapping eastern Wenot extension next week
The Wenot pit in Region
Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony shared on the occasion of Caribbean Wellness Day on Monday that promoting a healthi er lifestyle is a preventative measure against illnesses and health complications.
to promote health and pre vent and control the epidem ic of ulationiningthatDiseasesNon-Communicable(NCDs).DrAnthonyexplainedtheMinistryistargetbothadultsandchildrentheseefforts.“Wewantthewholepoptoembracethisbe
The Canadian compa ny only returned to the Wenot and Fennell pits at the Region Seven (CuyuniMazaruni) site in 2020 af ter leaving Guyana in 2015.
After a successful drill ing campaign in the Wenot pit in Region Seven Canadian(Cuyuni-Mazaruni),companyOmai
She went on to note that they have not seen any lim itations at this point in time on the depth and poten tial for gold strikes in the Wenot zones. As such, Omai remains optimistic that with additional drilling the gold zones can be expand ed. Additionally, she noted that an updated resource es timate report is being pre pared.“We expect to deliver our new NI 43-101 mineral re source estimate in October, which will incorporate re sults from the eleven addi
Bad eating habits, poor food choices prevalent in Guyana – Health Minister
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By signing onto a new charter, the Health Ministry will be sign ing engaging agencies and companies to promote well ness and lifestyle changes among the population.
diovascular system active. We also want to get people to sleep well. It is recommend ed that you should have at least eight hours of sleep.”
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updated resource. Only the surficial saprolite cover was historically mined in this area,” Ellingham said.
“Geophysics and histor ical work have confirmed that the Wenot shear corri dor continues at least 3.9 km further to the east, with au ger holes assaying 0.83 g/t and 0.98 g/t Au at the east ern-most projection of the zone,” Omai said in their statement.According to Omai, most of the area along this projec tion has seen little to no ex ploration and they believe there is excellent potential for new discoveries along this trend. In total, the prop erty covers over 7 km of the projected Wenot shear.
“Holes 22ODD-051 and 052 were designed to in-fill and confirm the continui ty of the gold mineralised shears at depth below the western end of Wenot and proved extremely success ful with wide intersections, including 33.9 m averag ing 2.27 g/t Au and 20.3 m at 1.92 g/t Au, in addition to multiple additional subpar allel gold zones.”
“The company’s drilling has confirmed gold miner alisation within the Wenot shear along a strike of 2.7 km, which hosted both past-production of 1.4 mil lion ounces1 of gold plus the company’s resource of 16.7 million tonnes of indicated mineral resources averaging 1.31 grams of gold per tonne for 703,300 ounces of gold, and 19.5 million tonnes of
They had announced in December 2020 that they would be pressing forward with the 5000-metre drilling programme.InJanuary 2022, Omai Gold Mines had announced the discovery of significant gold values during initial trenching and drilling on the Broccoli Hill target at their Region Seven holdings. The company had disclosed that trenching exposed a quartzrich shear zone with sam ples assaying 29.3 g/t Au, 7.8 g/t Au, 5.0 g/t Au and 2.2 g/t Au along a 40-metre strike.
to get people to eat the right things, reduce their risk fac tors like prevention of smok ing and alcohol. We want people to reduce their trans fats that they’re consuming. So, these are the risk factors that we’re hoping to reduce,”
“We want to do more of the preventative aspect, try ing to prevent people from getting sick and the way that we can do that is for people to embrace a differ ent type of lifestyle. We have
cause with children also, the earlier they learn these healthy behaviours, then they would have lifelong benefits from this type of be haviour. If we teach children the right thing, more than likely they would go through life using these techniques,” he revealed. (G12)
Omai concludes drilling in Wenot; to finalise new resource estimate by October
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told reporters that “there is tremendous pressure now internationally with re spect to production in oil
Brazil’s electoral au thority on Monday said there was no deal for the military to con duct a parallel vote count during October’s election, while a military source also said there was no plan for a count that President Jair Bolsonaro has pushed for.
The US energy com plaint, which Canada im mediately joined, is argu ably the biggest dispute to surface under the fecttradesinceAgreementStates-Mexico-CanadaUnited(USMCA)theNorthAmericandealcameintoefin2020. (Excerpt from Reuters)
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Jose Williams, a former Head of Peru’s armed forc es, is a recurrent critic of Castillo’s Administration. He is a member of the con servative Avanza Pais party, which is headed by economist and former presidential candidate Hernando de Soto.
Impeachment at tempts are not rare in Peru. Congress has car ried out six impeachment trials since 2016, ousting former President Martin Vizcarra in 2020. Another former President, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, resigned in 2018 minutes before an impeachment vote which he was set to lose. (Excerpt from Reuters)
The Prime Minister told reporters that T&T’s oil and gas production in re cent years declined signifi cantly and that production systems around the world were also being challenged with the market place now being “where certain criti cal decisions are to be made now”. (Excerpt from CMC)
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The President, a far-right former army captain, has made unfounded accusations of electoral fraud and urged the armed forces to conduct their own vote count, as part of a campaign that crit ics warn is setting him up to refuse to concede defeat. Bolsonaro currently trails in opinion polls to his leftist ri val, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
he Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) in Jamaica has revealed that an inves tigation is ongoing in a sus pected monkeypox-related death.The Ministry made the disclosure in its latest up date on the virus in which it reported five new cas es of the disease locally, bringing the country’s total number of infections to 12.
Lopez Obrador told a regu lar news conference, refer ring to a letter he said he had received from Biden.
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eruvian lawmakers on Monday elect ed a new Head of Congress from an Opposition party, after his predecessor was oust ed over influence-ped dling allegations and amid tensions with left-wing President Pedro Castillo.
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Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley said on Monday that it was neces sary to meet with those of ficials who were making de cisions in a changing global environment characterised by tightening of finances for oil and energy produc tion.“I am pleased with the responses from those who make the decisions with respect to investment in T&T,” he told a news con ference.The Prime Minister, who led a two-member delegation that includ ed his Energy and Energy Industries Minister, Stuart Young for talks with the energy giants in the United Kingdom and Switzerland
“It’s the Government’s decision that will deter mine how T&T comes out of this environment and we are seeking to make the best of the opportunities and to stave off the dele terious developments that could harm us in the medi um and the long term.”
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Bolsonaro’s stance has prompted a delicate dance between the ultimate arbi ter of elections in Brazil and the military during an in creasingly fraught election that is providing the stern est test of Brazil’s young de mocracy since the end of the 1964-1985 military dictator ship.The statement by the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) came after newspa per Folha de S Paulo report ed that military technicians made arrangements to vis it 385 voting sites across the country and take photos of the final readout from the ballot boxes, which would be sent to a cyber warfare unit in Brasilia to verify the re
and gas and funding and marketing places and so on”.“We as a country where the Government, not the lo cal Private Sector, is in fact the player in T&T among these international compa nies,” Dr Rowley said.
However, on Monday he said he would no longer re fer to the energy dispute during his Friday speech because US President Joe Biden had responded to his concerns attitude.tone.“There’spositively.adifferentThere’sarespectfulRather,it’sare
Brazil’s election court denies deal with military for parallel vote count
Lopez Obrador, who has said his energy policy is a matter of national sover eignty, at the time respond ed defiantly, saying he would defend Mexico’s po sition at an Independence
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Williams replaces Lady Camones, whom lawmak ers voted to remove af ter pressure from Castillo over leaked audios that showed her discussing how to use her position to bene fit her party.
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affirmation of respect for our national sovereignty,”
The plan, Folha report ed, citing unnamed military officials, “would guarantee with 95 per cent confidence” the final result of the vote.
A senior army officer with knowledge of the talks between the TSE and the armed forces also denied the military planned a paral lel count, but said it would check final readouts from electronic voting machines. (Excerpt from Reuters)
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador during his fourth state of the union address at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, September 1, 2022 (Reuters/ Henry Romero file photo)
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His election is unlike ly to change the political landscape in the world’s number two copper produc er, which remains highly polarised amid mounting allegations of corruption against Castillo and close allies.
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year.Williams has in the past voted in favour of impeach ing Castillo. While a sector of the Opposition is public ly organising a third im peachment attempt, it has acknowledged it currently lacks the votes to win.
The newspaper said that Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, cur rently the head of the TSE, had reached a deal with the armed forces on August 31 allowing military technicians access to the results.
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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday struck a conciliato ry note on a major dispute with the United States over Mexican energy policy, say ing Washington had adopt ed a “different tone” and respectful attitude toward his Heposition.spoke on the same day senior US officials led by Secretary of State Antony Blinken were hold ing the so-called HighLevel Economic Dialogue (HLED) with Mexican offi cials in Mexico City.
a delivery only option in Tobago, is expected to be es tablished to other countries in the Caribbean Airlines network.For now, the service has two locations at the Caribbean Airlines’ car go office in Piarco and the Parkade Building, Port of Spain.The release also report ed that a smart technology locker would be introduced soon to allow for more pickup locations in T&T.
T&T Govt defends talks with energy producers
In July, the US trade representative demanded dispute settlement talks with Mexico, arguing Lopez Obrador’s drive to tight en State control of the en ergy market was unfair to US companies and likely in breach of a regional trade deal.
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Day military parade taking place this coming Friday.
France, Britain and Germany on Saturday said they had “serious doubts” about Iran’s intentions to revive a nuclear deal. Failure to revive the 2015 deal would keep Iranian oil off the market and keep global supply tight.
ment with over 300 urgent requests for food, medicine and sanitary pads was wide ly circulated.
“They have been con structing firelines away from the active fire edge, along roads and trails, where they have a better chance of successfully stop ping the fire,” NWCG said.
In more bearish news for markets, China’s oil demand could contract for the first time in two decades this year as Beijing’s zero-COVID policy keeps people at home during holidays and reduces fuel consumption.
In Xinjiang a weeks-long lockdown in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture near the border with Kazakhstan has seen desperate residents appeal for help on social me dia.
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The G7 will implement a price cap on Russian oil to limit the country’s oil export revenue, seeking to punish Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine, while taking measures to ensure that oil could still flow to emerging nations.
US emergency oil stocks fell 8.4 million barrels to 434.1 million barrels in the week ended Sept 9, its lowest level since October 1984, according to data released on Monday by the US Department of Energy (DOE).
ture, as later partial results put the right-wing group ahead, with a projected 176 of 349 seats in Parliament after 94 per cent of elector al districts were counted.
The European Central Bank and US Federal Reserve, meanwhile, are prepared to increase interest rates further to tackle inflation, which could strengthen the US currency and make dollar-denominated oil more expensive for investors. (Excerpt from Reuters)
out of flour, rice, eggs. From days ago, we run out of milk for kids,” said one resident in western Xinjiang.
Global oil supply is expected to tighten further when a European Union embargo on Russian oil takes effect on Dec 5.
The policy has prompted rare public dissent from cit izens and has also been ac cused of stifling economic growth.
“The lingering presence of headwinds from China’s renewed virus restrictions and further moderation in global economic activities could still draw some reservations over a more sustained upside,” said Jun Rong Yeap, market strategist at IG.US domestic oil output is also set to rise in coming months. Oil output in the Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico, the biggest US shale oil basin, is due to rise 66,000 barrels per day (bpd) to a record 5.413 million bpd in October, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its productivity report on Monday.
Ukraine kept the coun teroffensive momentum in its war against Russia go ing on Monday.
It is the world’s last ma jor economy attempting to entirely stamp out COVID outbreaks, claiming this is necessary to prevent wid er surges of the virus which could overwhelm hospitals.
Whatever the result, the far-right Sweden Democrats have made sig nificant gains, appearing to become the country’s sec ond-largest party behind the Social Democrats.
“I think, by and large, that we simply relaxed our efforts. We’ve taken our eye off the ball when it comes to forced labour,” ILO Director General Guy Ryder told the Reuters news agency, calling for improvements in recruit ment practices and labour in spections. (Excerpt from Al Jazeera)
On Sunday, Russia’s Defence Ministry published a map showing Russian forces had almost entirely abandoned the Kharkiv re gion.
Russia insisted on Monday that it would achieve its military goals in Ukraine.
of Izyum and Kupiansk, where the Kharkiv region’s Russian-appointed admin istration had been based.
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The US Treasury, however, warned that the cap could send oil and US gasoline prices even higher this winter.
The EU’s executive European Commission is due on Wednesday to unveil a package of measures to help power firms facing a liquidity crunch.
ILO Director General Guy Ryder said it would be a mistake to believe that forced labour is solely the problem of poor countries [Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters]
The situation had been ex acerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which worsened conditions and swelled debt levels for many workers, as well as armed conflicts and climate change, leaving peo ple in extreme poverty and forcing more to migrate, the agency said.
The Creek Fire is the latest to hit the western United States, where doz ens of blazes in California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington state have scorched more than 3100sq km (1200sq miles) so far thisAboutsummer.1200 firefighters and other personnel are working to put out the fire east of Eugene, Oregon, ac cording to the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG).
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- even if just a handful of cas es are reported. On Monday China recorded 949 new COVID cases across the en tire country.
Steep terrain has com plicated efforts to contain the blaze, and evacuations
Exit polls at first pre dicted victory for the in cumbent left-wing coa lition, but results later suggested the right-wing bloc could narrowly win.
Sweden election: Result could take days as vote too close to call
It could take until Wednesday for all votes to be counted.
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“The military operation continues and it will contin ue until the goals that were originally set are achieved. Of course any actions of the military that they per form as part of the special operation are reported to the Supreme Commander,” Peskov said, referring to Putin.
The Creek Fire has grown to more than 35,000 hectares (86,734 acres) –roughly twice the size of Washington, DC – and it was zero per cent contained as of Monday.
However, its leader, Jimmie Akesson, is un likely to become Prime Minister even if the rightwing bloc wins the largest number of seats. Instead, Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson is likely to take that role, with the Sweden Democrats hop ing to become part of his Government. (Excerpt from BBC News)
In Oregon, even for those not directly threat ened by the flames, the fire has made its presence felt: smoke has enveloped the region, creating poor air quality and health risks.
In south-western Guizhou province, author ities locked down an area of the provincial capital Guiyang without warning, stranding 500,000 residents at home without any chance to prepare.
Vitaly Ganchev said Ukrainian soldiers cap tured previously Russianheld settlements in the region’s north, breaking through to the border with Russia, and “about 5000” ci vilians had been evacuated to Russia.
Crime and integration of communities were ma jor issues in the campaign, and the far-right Sweden Democrats look set to be come the second-largest party.
Soon after polls closed, an early exit poll by Sweden’s public broadcast er suggested Andersson’s coalition of four left-wing parties would narrowly win, with 49.8 per cent of the vote compared to 49.2 per cent.
Thousands evacuated as wildfires spread across western US
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The number of people trapped in forced labour or forced marriage and other crises has swelled by a fifth in recent years to about 50 million on any given day, the United Nations’ International Labour Organisation (ILO) said on Monday.
But the left’s celebra tions were perhaps prema
Ganchev told the stateowned Rossiya-24 television channel on Monday “the sit uation is becoming more difficult by the hour”, add ing the border with Russia’s Belgorod region was now closed.
The study by the UN agen cies for labour and migration along with the Walk Free Foundation found that at the end of last year, more than half of those had been forced to work against their will and the rest forced into marriage, the ILO said.
One post showed a video of an Uyghur man overcome with emotion, saying his three children had not eaten for three days.
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The Biden Administration is weighing the need for further SPR releases after the current programme ends in October, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told Reuters last week.
That means nearly one out of every 150 people in the world are caught up in mod ern forms of slavery, the re portBothsaid.came under its defi nition of modern slavery as they involved people who “cannot refuse or cannot leave because of threats, violence, deception, abuse of power or other forms of coercion”, it
krainian forces out numbered Russian troops by eight times during the rapid Ukrainian counteroffen sive in the north-eastern Kharkiv region, a Russianinstalled official said.
Brent crude futures settled up US$1.16, or 1.3 per cent, at US$94.00 a barrel. US West Texas Intermediate crude settled up 99 cents, or 1.1 per cent, at US$87.78.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to answer directly when asked by a reporter if President Vladimir Putin had confidence in his mil
During the weekend, Ukrainian forces overran the key Russian supply hubs
Ukraine troops “outnumbered Russia’s 8 times” in counterattack
Residents under COVID lockdowns in areas across China are complaining of shortages of food and essential items.
Tens of millions of people in at least 30 regions have been ordered to stay at home under partial or full lock downs.
il prices settled higher on Monday, shaking off weaker demand expectations as supply concerns mount heading into the winter.
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have been ordered for Lane and Deschutes counties. Authorities say more than 2000 homes are at risk.
China’s zero-COVID pol icy requires strict lockdowns
Meanwhile, the National Interagency Fire Center re ported that more than 90 fires are currently burn ing across seven states in the west: California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. (Excerpt from Al Jazeera)
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Lifts were switched off in buildings to stop people leav ing, the Guardian newspa per reported.
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As the race is so close, the final result may have to wait until all votes, in cluding postal and advance votes, are counted over the next few days.
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In Yining city, the capital of Ili, a shared online docu
Extreme heat and with ering drought have helped create a highly combustible risk of fire in the western US, which experts say has been worsened by climate change.
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Authorities are scram bling to contain local out breaks ahead of the Communist party’s congress in October.
US President Joe Biden in March set a plan to release 1 million barrels per day over six months from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to tackle high US fuel prices, which have contributed to soaring inflation.
The UN had set a goal to eradicate all forms of mod ern slavery by 2030, but the number of people caught up in forced labour or forced mar riage ballooned by 10 million between 2016 and 2021, ac cording to a new report.
“In some areas of the front, our defenders reached the state border with the Russian Federation,” said the regional governor of the north-eastern Kharkiv region, Oleh Synyehubov. Russian troops crossed the border in the region on February 24, the first day of the invasion. (Excerpt from Al Jazeera)
Russian army vehicles move through the Kharkiv region last week [Russian Defence Ministry via EPA-EFE]
housands of people have been evacuat ed from their homes in the US state of Oregon, as a massive wildfire shoots clouds of ash and smoke into the air and threatens entire towns.
weden’s election was too close to call on Sunday night, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said.
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“This is what we do and this is what we’re accustomed to –pressure,” Sparta Boss player Jeremy Garrett told <<<Guyana TimesWhenSport>>>.quizzed about whether or not any extra consideration went into opposing Slingerz, who now have a formidable club structure, Garrett indicated that Sparta were not worried.
“We have a support system that does a tremendous job in helping and supporting over the “Yes,years.”Sparta has talent, both old and young, but the support that we receive off the field should be commended,” he maintained.Assuch, Garrett believes that characters like Edwards are necessary for the development of the sport, especially in underprivileged communities.
While the victory over Slingerz is remarkable, it is an achievement that has shown the time and effort that have been placed into the Sparta team. After all, coming up against a fully-fledged professional club is no easy feat.
Police v Blairmont at Blairmont: Blairmont won by 7 wickets. Police scored 106 all out off 18 overs. Kedar Amsterdam 31. Bowling for Blairmont: Shabeer Baksh –4 for 16 off 4 overs, Waqar Hassan – 3 for 8 off 4 overs,
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Community Centre was Shahab Rasheed – 2 for 19 off 4 overs.
“It is no secret who is responsible for the success of Sparta’s team, over a decade now. For me, that person is Dennis Edwards, the owner, CEO, Coach … you name it,” Garrett
better.Karthik has shown sparks of the same ability in India colours as well, notably against West Indies in July when he came in to bat in the 15th over, with the score only 127 for 5, and took it up to 190 for 6. The 37-year-old who hadn't played any T20Is between February 2019 and June 2022 will now turn up for his third T20 World Cup, and may well be the only survivor from the team that played the inaugural edition way back in Yuzvendra2007. Chahal, the top wicket-taker from the last IPL, will lead India's spin attack with support from R Ashwin. Ravi Bishnoi is among the reserves. All teams can make changes to their T20 World Cup squads until the first match they play, which in India's case is on October 23, 2022. (ESPNcricinfo)
6 teams advance to 2nd round of BCB/Ivan Madray 20/20 First-Division tournament
Sparta’s success more than what meets the eye – Garrett
Blairmont Blazer – Shabeer Baksh (left) and Waqar Hassan (right) Suresh Dhanai
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“It wasn’t nerve-wrecking.
Achievers v Young Warriors at Bush Lot: Young Warriors won by 8 wickets. Achievers made 86 all out off 16.5 overs; Shamal Angel 20, Leon Andrews 17. Bowling for Young Warriors: Trevon Stanislaus – 3 for 9 off 4 overs; Suresh Dhanai – 2 for 14 off 3 overs, Kassim Khan – 2 for 20 off 4 overs. Young Warriors –87 for 2 off 10.2 overs; Suresh Dhanai 40 not out and Trevon Stanislaus 16. Bowling for Achievers was Jayden Samuels (2 for 13 off 2 overs).
They've also placed a considerable amount of trust in young Arshdeep Singh, who only made his India debut in July 2022, but has been picked ahead of the likes of Deepak Chahar and Mohammed Shami, who only find a place in the reserves.
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“Yes,revealed.Spartadoes have the talent, we do have good players on the team that are capable of winning championships; however, the support that we receive from Dennis over the years, with him not looking for any reward, just to be known that he’s number one or have the winning trophy, is something that cannot be easily replaced,” the national footballer went on to expound.
“I mean, he’s a guy that does not like the spotlight and what not, however, he’s always there with the team. If he’s away, he video calls, he’s into it. You know, he gives good advice and is always willing to support the players in any way they need,” the baller shared.
“I would be so happy if we could have more like him, to support, empower, motivate youths in these rural communities around Guyana. Whether it is football or any other sport, just support them,” Garrett said, likening
He explained, “We didn’t look at Slingerz as anybody that we should be afraid of, we judged them like we would judge any normal opponent. We got there to play the brand of Sparta. We’ve been working hard throughout this tournament and I’m not sure how many teams would have used facilities and practised together but we had several sessions, trying to execute things that we wanted to implement.
Port Mourant v Upper Corentyne at Port Mourant: Port Mourant won by 7 wickets. Upper Corentyne – 64 all out in 14.5 overs; S Searro 20. Bowling for Port Mourant: Joshua Harrichan – 4 for 3 off 3.4 overs, Salim Khan – 3 for 5 off 2 overs, Vinood Samaroo – 2 for 10 off 4 overs. Port Mourant made 65 for 3 off 11.2 overs. Joshua Ramsammy 15, Rampertab Ramnauth 11,
BCB President Hilbert Foster and Competition Committee Chairman Leslie Solomon visited each of the matches to make sure that all arrangements were in place and used the opportunity to hand over coaching equipment to Coaches working in the area. The tournament is being sponsored by Chandradat Chinatami in memory of his uncle Ivan Madray, a former player who played two Test matches for the West Indies in the 1950s. The opening round attracted sizeable crowds as cricket restarted after a five-
Josh Harrichan, Shabeer Baksh, and Trevon Stanislaus. Scores from the matches were:
scored 139 for 5 off 20 overs. Former West Indies Test player Sewnarine Chattergoon 65 not out, Kelvin Umroa 25, Leon Cecil 16. Bowling for Skeldon
Seon Glasgow – 1 for 19 off 4 overs. Blairmont, in reply, made 110 for 3 off 11.2 overs, Kevin Jawahir 27, A Khan 24. Bowling for Police: Travis Drakes – 2 for 22 off 4 overs, K Mentore – 1 for 10 off 1 over.
However, Garrett believes it is the result of the behindthe-scenes playmakers and supporters of Sparta.
he has pushed that strike rate up to 155.85.Hooda's presence may also have become necessary with India losing Ravindra Jadeja to a knee injury. Axar Patel takes over the role of lead left-arm spinner in the squad, but it remains to be seen if that means he gets a place in the India XI. At the Asia Cup, where Jadeja picked up the injury, the team management preferred Hooda's batting ability overDineshAxar's.Karthik, meanwhile, has forced the selectors to make his "dream come true" by taking his game as a finisher to a whole new level. At IPL 2022, where he first began to make his case for inclusion, he had a deathovers strike rate of 220. Among batters who faced at least 50 balls between overs 17 and 20, only Jos Buttler (236.53) fared
him to Henry Chase, Principal of Chase’s Academy in Georgetown.Garrettis firm in his belief that the current crop of Sparta Boss players are capable of maintaining and carrying on the team’s “Sparta’slegacy.legacy is not only about winning titles. Sparta’s legacy is also about uplifting and motivating, developing young men. This group that
Sparta Boss receive the championship spoils after the “Keep Your 5 Alive” tourney
We knew that once we did what we were working on, it would have been rather easy, or easier for us to come out victorious.“Weweren’t panicking,” he added with a smile.
Boss is one of the popular names – if not the most – attached to futsal in Guyana.Overthe years, the team, even when they have changed players, have managed to remain consistent victors and feared opponents in the sport.
India have, over the past few months, been investing heavily in super specialists. Arshdeep fits into this category having displayed exceptional skills as a death bowler in the Indian Premier League (IPL). In fact, last season, with a minimum of 40 balls bowled between overs 17 and 20, only Bumrah managed a better economy rate than the 23-year-old left-arm quick. And that too by a mere 0.2 points: 7.38 vs 7.58.
The Berbice Cricket Board’s 2022 Ivan Madray 20/20 tournament has started in a blaze of glory and good weather, with five matches being played across the county.The tournament is one of at least three that the proactive Cricket Board is aiming to successfully complete before the end of the year. Albion,
v Skeldon Community Centre at Albion: Albion won by 69 runs. Albion
is here now, we intend to continue doing, implementing what Sparta would have been teaching us from day one, to continue to add to the legacy,” he declared.“KeepYour 5 Alive” is the second futsal tournament that Sparta has won this year. In January, they carted off the Kashif and Shanghai-Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Futsal championship. (Jemima Holmes)
Tucber Park, Port Mourant, Young Warriors, and Blairmont won their first-round matches to advance to the second round.
India will have a full-strength fast-bowling attack to take to Australia for the T20 World Cup with the return of Jasprit Bumrah and Harshal Patel.
Recently, Sparta were able to lift the “Keep Your 5 Alive” trophy, downing Slingerz FC 9-5 in the much-anticipated final.
Rose Hall Canje v Tucber Park at Albion: Tucber Park won by 5 wickets. Rose Hall Canje scored 72 for 8 off 20 overs. Raymond Vankenie 12, Devindra Ramkishun 12, Extras contributed 20. Bowling for Tucber Park, Qwesi Mickle had 3 for 9 off 3 overs and Nial Smith – 2 for 10 off 3 overs. Tucber Park in reply scored 73 for 5 off 17.1 overs. Zeynul Ramsammy 20, Martin Singh 9, Extras contributed 21. Bowling for Rose Hall Canje was Sanjay Algoo, who grabbed 2 for 13 off 2 overs.Albion
Skeldon Community Centre made 70 all out in 15.5 overs; Zakel Gordon 26 and Noland Richard 14. Bowling for Albion: Kelvin Umroa – 3 for 13 off 3 overs; Gourav Ramesh – 2 for 6 off 3 overs; Leon Cecil – 2 for 11 off 1.2 overs.
“What he would have done for Sparta is beyond my imagination. From helping youths in certain communities, giving them a chance to play the game they love, with the support that they require or deserve, is wonderful, when you think about what he would have done behind the scenes for Sparta Admittedly,Boss.”Edwards is not one who is keen on taking the limelight, but Garrett remained adamant that without his support, Sparta Boss would not be where they are now.
Madhan Budhan 11 not out. Bowling for Upper Corentyne: Omesh Mathura – 1 for 14 off 4 overs.
A lot of the squad picked themselves, including the top four of Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, and Suryakumar Yadav. India then turned to their all-rounders with Deepak Hooda's ability to provide a few overs of offspin pushing him into the main squad ahead of other contenders like Shreyas Iyer, who only found a place among the Hoodastand-bys.is another of the bolters in the squad. He too played his first game for India in 2022, following a breakout season with Lucknow Super Giants for whom he made 451 runs at a strike rate of 136.66. Although his sample size is smaller – nine innings as opposed to 14 in the last IPL – in international cricket,
month break caused by the rainy season. The opening round saw outstanding performances from former Test player Sewnarine Chattergoon,
Brian Hackett receives his trophy from a Massy representative
work on their short game as the greens were expected to maintain their level of challenge.“Forthe condition of the course, the LGC is right now continuing … maintenance on the drainage and ensuring we have good drainage in the event we have any intermittent rains, so it doesn’t affect the games and the course as well,” Persaud shared.
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had enabled the sessions to achieve the desired positive impact on children in Guyana.
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* 1st – Brian Hackett, HC 20, Gross 90, Net 70
The futsal initiative builds on an existing collaboration between the GFF and the Guyana Beverages Inc, launched in 2018, to run weekly grassroots sessions with qualified coaches for young children across Guyana.
* 3rd – Rackesh Harry, HC 9, Gross 82, Net 73
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ricket West Indies (CWI) on Monday announced a 17-member provisional squad to take on New Zealand Women in three CG United One-Day Internationals (ODIs) from September 16-September 22 at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Newly-appointedAntigua. Captain Hayley Matthews leads the squad, which sees the return of the experienced Natasha McLean. The squad was selected with the consideration of performances in the recently- concluded Skyexch 6IXTY and the Massy Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL) tournaments.
Persaud also stated that while there were improvements, among the areas that would need to be tweaked would be the short game of the players. He noted that the greens were fast and running well and this would link directly to persons having to put in some extra
CWI’s Lead Selector for women’s cricket, Ann BrowneJohn, said “The New Zealand series is very important on the women’s cricket landscape not only because it starts a new cycle, but also because it is part of the preparation leading towards the T20 World Cup in SouthBrowne-JohnAfrica.”
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? The CG United ODI Series is scheduled for September 16, 18 and 22, with matches starting at 09:30h local time, 08:30h Jamaica time. The T20 Internationals (T20Is) are scheduled for September 25 to October 6. All of the T20Is will start at 13:30h local time, 12:30h Jamaica time, other than the fourth T20I on Tuesday, October 4 which will start at 10:00h local time, 09:00h Jamaica time.
grassroots level. The parents are very upbeat and did not want this programme to stop.”
leader board. The high point of the tournament would have to be the anticipation of results as players were making their way in from the field. We would like to extend much thanks to Massy for their sponsorship and their pledge to continue to support the LGC in the coming years. The LGC going forward is expected to have more tournaments leading up to the Guyana Open.”
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Mandy Mangru and Kaysia Schultz have also joined the players in Antigua for a 10day training camp led by Head Coach Courtney Walsh.
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he action continued on Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) as the Massy Golf Tournament got off to aThebang. medal play over 18 holes and shotgun-start tournament brought the heat as many of Guyana’s top golfers battled on the course. But in the end, it was only one man that stood on top of the pinnacle and that was Brian Hackett.
(82)At the end of the tournament, speaking on behalf of the Club was Captain Videsh Persaud, who said, “The tournament was a great success, it saw 31 players registered, with 30 taking the field. The course played as expected and provided the ideal conditions for a high level of competition in the tournament once again, seeing very close scores on the
The sessions were managed by the GFF Technical Department, with senior men’s national team Assistant Coach Wayne Dover playing an instrumental role. Dover shared that more than 200 children had participated over the six weekly sessions.
As it relates to the local contingent and the highlyanticipated Guyana Open, Persaud explained that it was
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added, “With a few senior players unavailable at this time, for different reasons, like the experienced Anisa Mohammed, Kycia Knight and recently-retired Deandra Dottin, the selectors were still able to get a blend of senior and developing players including Under-19 player Jannillea Glasgow and returning players Natasha McLean and Sheneta Grimmond. Ultimately, we believe that Captain Hayley Matthews, in her first series, will have a promising squad of players to start building with.”
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The results for the tournament were as follows:
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* 2nd – Guillermo Escarraga, HC 18, Gross 90, Net 72
A match-day squad of 13 players will be selected ahead of each CG United ODI.
Girls and boys show off their GFF Kool Kidz Summer Futsal Festival medals with the GFF technical team, led by national coach Wayne Dover
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“It was remarkable,” he said. “This programme is a step in the right direction, because it helps us see the next generation of players from the
he Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has successfully concluded its summer futsal festival, with more than 200 children participating in fun, weekly sessions made possible by a ground-breaking partnership with the Guyana Beverages Inc and the Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Sport.
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“This is nothing short of an extraordinary experience for the GFF, the Guyana Beverages Inc, the Government of Guyana and the young boys and girls from the community,” said Forde. “What struck me and our technical team is the
Hackett keeps Escarraga at bay to take LGC/Massy Golf Tourney
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… LGC working to improve course as Guyana Open approaches
He also went on to state that minor works would also be done on the rough so as to get the course in tip-top shape as the Guyana Open looms.
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More than 200 “Kool Kidz” enjoy GFF Summer Futsal Festival
A unique private-public sector initiative, the GFF Kool Kidz Summer Futsal Festival was staged across six Saturdays this summer at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in Georgetown, enabling girls and boys between the ages of five and ten to experience the joy of football in a safe, age-appropriate professional coachingUnderliningenvironment.thesuccess of the first phase of the festival, the three parties have agreed to stage the programme every year, and include the development of an Under 11 futsal“Itournament.amveryelated – the programme is a first in Guyana, and the Guyana Beverages Inc is happy to be a part of it,” said Guyana Beverages Inc General Manager Samuel Arjoon. “But, more important than that are the young kids who have been exposed to football – we want to see this programme running for the next four years, and we want to see you all again next year.”GFF President Wayne Forde said he had been impressed by the support given to the programme by parents, which
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level of talent we saw. We really have a good platform to build on.”One satisfied parent, Deji Aderemi said he had looked forward to attending the festival every week. “It’s a wonderful programme,” he said. “It gives kids the opportunity to express their talent and love for football. It’s a window for kids to come together to sharpen their skills and develop their passion for football.”Hisson, Joshua, described the experience as “exciting” and “It“fun”.was a good experience to play with different players from all around Guyana,” he said.
his belief that the local golfers were shaping up well as has been seen in tournaments hosted by the Club over the past weeks. He noted that it has been very competitive and everyone was improving their games as they prepare for the upcoming tournament.
For the CG United ODI series, West Indies will be looking to build on the progress made after reaching the semifinals of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand earlier this year. The team will then look to the five T20I matches as part of their preparations for the 2023 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa in January.
Fans can purchase tickets for any of the matches at tickets.windiestickets.com, the official Windies Tickets service presented by Mastercard,. For all matches, adults can purchase general admission tickets online at US$5.00, with free admission for children under the age of 16 when accompanied by a paying adult. Seniors benefit from half-price tickets. The stadium ticket office will open on the day of the first CG United ODI with printed tickets available for EC$15.00/US$5.00Alleightmatches will be streamed live on the Windies Cricket YouTube channel. Live ball-by-ball scoring will also be available on the ? www. windiescricket.com Match Centre.
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a no-look six over midwicket –a candidate for the shot of the season – Forde generated a bit of extra bounce to have him splicing a catch to David for 11 off 9 balls.
There's no stopping Barbados Royals
Upon a visit from <<<Guyana Times Sport>>>, it was evident that work has been completed to remedy this problem, not only in the washrooms but in some parts of the concession areas, that are also located under the stands.
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It's hard to look past Bosch who has lit up the league with his all-round contributions. After bagging five catches in a game in the opening week – a CPL record matched by Kings' Tim David this week – Bosch cracked back-toback fifties and backed up Royals' decision to play him at number
Forde was so pumped that he leapt and then took off on an Imran Tahir-esque celebratory run, with the home crowd cheering him on. (ESPNcricinfo)
Ramson Jr further stated, “If you go today, it is as smooth as a billiards table, it’s beautiful. We have really put a lot of effort into getting our facility in a great condition.”
So, we’ve just been able to restore 80 per cent of the seats or maybe 89 per cent of the seats.”“We just brought in some additional seats, some new seats, that just cleared from the wharf, it’s at the Stadium right now. So, we’ll be getting those installed in the next day or two.”
and stabilised his run-up to claim 3 for 24 in his four overs against Tallawahs, including the prized scalps of Rovman Powell and FabianRoyalsAllen.will be bolstered further by the arrival of Afghanistan mystery spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman for the next leg of the CPL.
Now, as Guyana is only one week away from welcoming the CPL’s six franchises for 11 games at the Providence venue, the Stadium’s rehabilitation work is almost completed.
Star-studded TKR fade
A look at the preventative measures in the washrooms (Jemima Holmes Photo)
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GrosRoyals'Islet. top order was central to their next two victories as well, against St Lucia Kings and Jamaica Tallawahs. South African all-rounder Corbin Bosch made contrasting fifties to lead those chases for Royals.
In his first CPL season as Captain, Shimron Hetmyer got a lot of moves right until the very last over of the game against Patriots, who needed 22 off the last six balls with four wickets in hand. Odean Smith, who had pounded the pitch with his heavy lengths and high pace, seemed the natural choice to bowl that final over for Amazon Warriors.
The Minister expanded on the necessity of this exercise, stating, “There was a lot of decay that started to happen over time, especially in relation
“If you would’ve gone to the National Stadium, maybe about three weeks ago and you looked at the field, you would’ve been concerned, because of the scientific process that we have applied to getting the Stadium, the ground ready,” subject Minister Charles Ramson Jr said after being quizzed about the Stadium’s preparedness last week.
since it was announced that Guyana would host, in addition to its quota of home games for the Guyana Amazon Warriors, the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) semi-finals and finals, there has been work ongoing at the Guyana National Stadium to get it ready for the Biggest Party in Sport.
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three – a role he had performed in the inaugural 6IXTY as well.
From managing all of three wins last season, Barbados Royals have rattled up five wins in five games this season and are the only unbeaten side in the tournament so far. Royals were particularly dominant against Trinbago Knight Riders in a rainhit game. After punchy halfcenturies from Kyle Mayers and Captain David Miller carried them to 194 for 4, Oshane Thomas, the fast bowler, and Devon Thomas, who bowls part-time offspin, triggered a TKR collapse as Kieron Pollard's men lost seven wickets in the first seven overs of their chase. There would be no way back for TKR, despite the rain in
Dwaine Pretorius struck three back-toback sixes to pull off an unlikely win
to the seats, because of it just being exposed to the weather.
Matthew Forde leaps for joy
The St Lucia leg of CPL 2022 ended on Sunday, with the hosts trumping defending champions St Kitts & Nevis Patriots. ESPNcricinfo brings you the highlights from the second leg of the tournament.
going to pay serious attention to, including looking to see how we can expand the National Stadium,” the Sport Minister promised.Assuch, Ramson Jr went on to reveal that other initiatives for the National Stadium are being explored, such as a super sopper and an electronic scoreboard.Healso expounded on the need to maximise the capacity of Guyana’s premier cricket facility.Heexplained, “If you are in a situation where you put out on your first day and you run out of tickets. Then that’s a signal, that’s an immediate signal that says there’s a need for more supply in the system. So, we’re going to be really starting to explore how we can get some more seating capacity and VIP capacity into the National
The Media Center also came in for some rehabilitation work (Jemima Holmes Photo)
“As far as the public facilities are concerned, the public washrooms, because of how the stadium was built, the constant seeping of rain through the creases, started to accumulate over those years, into the public washrooms, etc, and it just really started the decay, internally,” Ramson Jr explained.“So,we’ve had to deploy a number of engineering initiatives that would’ve seen that stop now and now we’re just restoring the washrooms.”
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In their quest to get ahead of the DLS score against Royals, TKR suffered an irreparable collapse, which Head Coach Abhishek Nayar brushed off as an off day. However, even in their next game against Tallawahs, TKR collapsed to 97 for 8 in their pursuit of 154. It might not be panic stations yet for TKR, as they have played at least one game fewer than the other teams, but there are serious concerns around their batting.Opening the batting, Sunil Narine has managed only scores of 6,7 and 0, and Tion Webster's transition from the regional level into Lendl Simmons' role at the CPL hasn't been smooth. The problems seep into the middle order as well: Nicholas Pooran, Pollard, and Andre Russell are yet to fire like they can. To add to their woes, spin-bowling allrounder Akeal Hosein hasn't featured for them since he injured his groin in TKR's opening game on September 1.
Shepherd has conceded 91 off 48 balls, but Hetmyer still took a risk, which cost Amazon Warriors the game.Dwaine Pretorius, who had been plucked out of the Indian Premier League (IPL) by Dwayne Bravo, went 6,6,6 to pull off an unlikely victory for Patriots. It was so unlikely that it was the first time that a side had successfully chased down more than 20 runs in the last over of a CPL match.
The Hero CPL action will head to Guyana next week, with the first game at Providence being played between the Barbados Royals and the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, from 10:00h (10 am) on Wednesday, September 21. Later that day, the Guyana Amazon Warriors will take on the Jamaica Tallawahs from 19:00h (7pm). (Jemima Holmes)
Just as Smith got ready to bowl it, Hetmyer belatedly changed his mind and instead tossed the ball to Romario Shepherd, who has a tendency to leak runs at the death. In the last overs alone, since his CPL debut in 2018,
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He also fronts up to bowl at the death though that aspect of his game is still a work in progress. Bosch has grown so much with the Royals that he is also part of their set-up in the IPL (Rajasthan Royals) and the SA20 (Paarl Royals).
Corbin Bosch has been in excellent form in CPL 2022
Left-arm seamer Obed McCoy had a fairly low-key start to CPL 2022, and then struggled with his run-up and rhythm in the game against Kings, conceding 41 runs in his four overs. He, however, tightened up
At the moment, the seats in both the Red and Green Stands have been completely refurbished, with the Orange Stand almost completed.
Also getting a facelift at the Stadium will be the washroom areas that have been notorious for leakage whenever it rains.
“We are going to continue working to get it up to scratch by the first game, but I can also say that it’s something I’m
Against Kings, Bosch smashed 81 off 50 balls to turn a potentially tricky chase into a canter for Royals and then made a more sedate fifty against Tallawahs. When on song, Bosch can be particularly brutal with his ball-striking on the leg side.
As it stands, TKR also have the worst run-rate in the league and are at the bottom of the points table, with just one win in four games.
In only his third official T20 game, 20-year-old Kings seamer Matthew Forde ripped through Patriots' top order with figures of 3 for 19 in his three overs. After Dewald Brevis had hit Forde for
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Stadium.”
Why did Hetmyer do that?
The Red and Green Stands are vibrant and in tiptop shape (Jemima Holmes photos)
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