WHAT'S INSIDE: Issue No. 5117 Nationwide coverage from the best news team in Guyana THE BEACON OF TRUTH guyanatimesgy.com PRICE $100 VAT INCLUDEDWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2022 Page3 PPP81413P7P16See story on page 9 Digicel’s Summer Cash Vault 5 customers walk away with over $500,000Ministercases2betweenNoVillage,foundSkeletalreputedmurderarraignedBusinessmaneachforofwiferemainsatSistersWBDrelationGuyana’smonkeypox–Health Govt part-time workers More stipulatednotasbemeasuresstringenttoapplied,personsworking10daysRiceproductionlowthiscrop–Region6Chairman …deplorable dams yet to be repaired AG writes GECOM on ‘confidential’ data APNU/AFC submitted alleging voter fraud 2020 General and Regional Elections Businessman slaps Sergeant Dion Bascom with $200M lawsuit for defamation …UK MP unable to take up post, replaced by former CDB President Prof Compton Bourne Oversight of oil monies now bolstered with appointment of NRF Board Guyana a leader in women, peace and security – US Southern Commander …GDF Chief of Staff says women now being deployed to border locations President Ali meeting NRF Board Chairman Major General (retired) Joe Singh (2nd from right); Executive member of PSC, Ramesh Dookhoo (right); Dunstan Barrow (left); former CDB President Professor Compton Bourne (2nd from left) and Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett at Office of the President on Tuesday Page7 P15
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The Investment Committee follows a make up of seven members who will advise the NRF Board on matters that concern investing the oil funds, in a way that maximises the benefits to
P resident Dr Irfaan Ali on Tuesday offi cially appointed the Natural Resource Fund Board, saying that this will bring true value to the sector while adding that these positions must be undertaken by people who are not political in nature.
David Lammy United Kingdom Member of Parliament (MP) with Guyanese roots, David Lammy was initial ly selected to serve on the Board. However, Dr Ali said that Guyanese-born Professor Bourne is an ex cellent replacement for the role.However, the President updated, “We all know the circumstances and envi ronment in which he’s op erating has changed. Due to changes in his require ment at home in the UK, he asked us not to have him play a part on this Board at this time because it would not be keeping with what his priorities are in the UK.”
The Public Accountability and Oversight Committee and the Investment Committee were also appointed to serve in their respective roles after taking the oath of office.TheNatural Resource Fund Board will be chaired by Major General (Retired) Joe Singh. Other members are Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett; for mer MP for the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Dunstan Barrow; longstanding ex ecutive of the Private Sector Commission (PSC), Ramesh Dookhoo; and former CDB President, Professor Compton Bourne. These appointees will serve for a period of twoAsyears.they received their instruments of appoint ment at the Office of the President, the Head or State underscored that in fulfilling this responsibili ty to the oil sector, Guyana will have persons who demonstrate capacity and capability.“Wepromise, that in administering our respon sibility to this sector, we will have persons who demonstrate the capacity and capability to manage but more importantly, that the Government would have an arm’s length rela tionship and would have a group of people not polit ical in nature,” Ali posi tioned.
Oversight of oil monies now bolstered with appointment of NRF Board …UK MP unable to take up post, replaced by former CDB President Prof Compton Bourne
WEATHER TODAY There will be sunshine and thundery showers during the day. Expect light rain showers and thundery showers at night. Temperatures should range between 22 degrees Celsius and 31 degrees Celsius. Winds: West South-Westerly to Westerly between 1.78 metres and 4.02 metres. High Tide: 06:55h and 19:10h reaching maximum heights of 2.7 metres and 2.67 metres. Low Tide: 12:46h reaching a minimum height of 0.58 metre.
Other committees The Public Accountability and Oversight Committee will be chaired by former Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Clement Sealey.The other six members are Wendell Jeffrey, Abu Zaman, Ryan Alexander, Dawn Gardener, Teni Housty, and Aslim Singh. Meanwhile, the Investment Committee was handed their instru ments of appointment by Senior Minister within the Office of the President with responsibility of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh.
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The Public Accountability and Oversight Committee was also appointed
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Section 3 (1) of the NRF Act 2021, Act No 19 of 2021, which was assent ed to by President Ali on December 30, 2021, estab lishes the NRF to man age the natural resource wealth of Guyana for the present and future bene fit of the people in an ef fective and efficient man ner and in accordance with the principles of good governance, transparen cy, accountability, and in ternational best practic es, including the Santiago Principles.Section 5 (1) of the Act provides for a Board of Directors of the Fund com prising not less than three and not more than five members, who shall be ap pointed by the President, inclusive of a Chairperson. In accordance with Section 5 (2), these Directors are to be selected from per sons who have wide expe rience in legal, financial, business, or administra tive matters, one of whom shall be nominated by the National Assembly and one of whom shall be a rep resentative of the private sector.
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For example, based on media reports at the time, the minister discovered that the designated unit that was supposed to fasttrack the Amerindian land-titling projects produced little to no results, while exhausting large sums of money. As a result, communities are still waiting for these titles to be issued. In essence, there is little outcome to show for the work done under the five years of APNU/AFC Government in relation to the land-titling issue. It was reported that, for almost one year, the project had been put on pause as the Amerindian Land Titling Board did not facilitate any meeting to discuss or move forward with their plans.
It is clear there was an absence of a proper vision by the previous Coalition Government as it relates to Amerindian development.
The Indigenous Peoples Commission (IPC) also has a role to play in seeing the development of Amerindian communities.
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It is quite unfortunate that the then Coalition Government did not see it fit to continue some of these projects, even though they were proven to be successful, and funding was allocated to see their completion. Fortunately, these were restored by the Irfaan Ali-led Administration after taking office in August 2020. There is certainly need for more collaboration between the Government and other development agencies, to support and fund similar community development projects which would see Amerindians enjoying a better quality of life. Poverty in these areas could be tackled only if persons are empowered to change theirAlso,situations.therelevant Ministries, such as Amerindian Affairs and Labour, along with the responsible NGOs, must step up their efforts to ensure that Amerindians are not exploited in any way. Over the years, there have been several complaints that these persons are being forced to work in terrible conditions, sometimes even being abused by their employers.
It is an invasive tool – and for those fleeing authori tarian regimes or suffer ing the effects of trauma or poor mental health, the intrusion can be particu larlyThedistressing.HomeOffice can access all the informa tion, unfettered, upon a suspected breach of im migration bail, such as the device running out of charge, or the wearer fail ing to report to the Home Office at the time spec ified. Government guid ance says that it may be used, without the person being informed, for pur poses that extend beyond bail enforcement, includ ing to inform immigration applications. And the data may also be retained for many years, long after the device has been removed. Charities have been sounding the alarm about this practice since it was introduced. There is sig nificant concern about the lack of safeguards in place, the reliability of the data, and the poor battery life of devices. It is a condition of bail that the devices do not run out of battery, but many fail to retain charge, and can malfunc tion, triggering false alerts of breaches of bail –a serious matter that can lead to arrest, re-deten tion, a fine, or even crimi nal prosecution. The inde pendent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration found that almost 70% of breach reports had been for battery problems. His conclusion? Tagging “can not yet demonstrate it is achieving its aims”. Our firm and others have now issued court proceedings for clients challenging the legality of the GPS regime. The limited number of tag ging devices available to the Home Office acts as a practical constraint on the practice to some degree. Home Office guidance on bail states that priority is to be dictated by the level of risk of harm to the pub lic. It is perhaps a reflec tion of the Government’s commitment to the Rwanda plan, then, that in June the Home Office announced that electron ic monitoring would be ap plied to asylum seekers who have committed no crime, but who have been identified for a possible re moval to Rwanda. The UK’s intake of asy lum seekers remains mod est at best (as ever, it is developing countries that continue to host the over whelming majority of the world’sTwentyrefugees).years ago, I worked with detained asylum seekers held in a former army barracks in Cambridgeshire. At that time, the number of asylum claims was ris ing, and the “bogus asy lum seeker” loomed large in the rightwing press. It was a Labour Government that introduced the de tained “fast-track” system in which asylum seekers were detained despite hav ing committed no crime, in order to have their claims determined. It was also Labour that introduced the automatic deportation regime in 2007 – for my money, one of the toughest pieces of legislation on the statutePolicybooks.inthis area has for too long been propelled by the need to be seen as tough on immigration, with the Rwanda plan and GPS surveillance sitting at the more extreme end of that spectrum. In my 20 years of practice, neither of the two largest parties has found a way to hold a mature debate on this subject. It is beyond dis appointing that the rheto ric has remained stuck in this loop for so long, when the human cost of this po litical failure is so great. We need to have a conver sation that treats the fun damental rights of indi viduals who happen to be migrants as worthy of the same respect as the need to control our borders. Until then, as lawyers, we will continue to do our job and protect our cli ents from the worst ex cesses of the state, as we are duty-bound to do. (The Guardian)(JanetFarrell is a part ner at Bhatt Murphy solic itors)
President Dr Irfaan Ali meeting with the Commander of the United States Southern Command, four-star General Laura J Richardson, at the Office of the President on Shiv Chanderpaul Drive on Tuesday afternoon. General Richardson, who assumed duty as SOUTHCOM’s Commander 10 months ago, is in Guyana on a two-day visit to meet with the Government and defence leaders of the country. She was accompanied by US Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch (OP photo)
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If one can recall, immediately after taking office in 2020, Amerindian Affairs Minister Pauline Sukhai conducted a brief review of the work done by the then Indigenous Peoples’ Ministry over the five years of APNU/AFC rule as it relates to land titling and other development-related issues for Indigenous Peoples. What was found was not surprising when compared to the other sectors of development under the then APNU/AFC Administration. Like in other sectors, there was no real effort made to embark on projects which would have resulted in seeing real development in communities.
Tomorrow, Guyana will begin its month-long observances of our first peoples as we celebrate Amerindian Heritage Month, themed: “Celebrating our traditional culture while building One Guyana.”
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The Irfaan Ali-led Government had to return to the process, and bring the project back on track, as Amerindians have been waiting for years to have their lands demarcated and titled. The Amerindian land-titling process was facilitated by the Amerindian Act of 2006, which catered for land-titling and extensions. This led to the establishment of the Amerindian Land Titling Project, which commenced in 2013 and was scheduled to end in 2016. This was a US$10.7 million project.
By Janet Farrell I magine arriving in the UK to seek asylum to day. You are confused, terrified and traumatised by the events that led you to leave your home coun try. Your journey here likely involved breath taking risks and unimag inable abuse. You prob ably found out the hard way that, for you, there is no such thing as what the Government calls a “safe route” for refugees to the UK.You are locked up on arrival, and told you may be relocated to Rwanda. You are released here, but shackled with a bulky an kle tag, and told you are now subject to GPS sur veillance by the state 24 hours a day while on bail. This is the welcome we provide to refugees in the UK in 2022. As it stands, lawyers have issued proceedings on behalf of clients facing removal to Rwanda, de laying the first planned flight. Those cases will be heard in the autumn. But, in the meantime, an immi gration or asylum appli cant can be detained with out time limit. And those granted their liberty are subject to immigration bail, which could require them to submit to invasive electronic monitoring. GPS surveillance was first used as a means of monitoring those on immi gration bail in 2021, first via ankle tags but with plans to introduce devic es such as smartwatch es from this autumn. This monitoring makes it pos sible to obtain a complete history of where a person has been and when, min ute by minute 24 hours a day. The data collected can construct a nuanced picture of a person’s hab its, religious and political beliefs, relationships and health issues, as well as the private lives of people the person interacts with.
Ankle tags and 24/7 surveillance –this is how new migrants are treated
Prior to 2015, there were several crucial, development-related projects which were started under the PPP/C Government, but these were either put on hold or disbanded altogether. In addition to land-titling and demarcation, there were quite a few other initiatives aimed at improving and reviving village economies, improving healthcare delivery, improving access to education, providing electricity through the distribution of solar panels etc. For example, the National Secure Livelihood Programme, which was carried out in collaboration with Volunteer Services Overseas (VSO) International, was a fine example of how the Government and NGOs could collaborate to ensure improvements in the living standards of Amerindians. This project was aimed at addressing the challenges of economic development in Amerindian villages and hinterland communities. The initiative was meant not only to expand production of the locally-grown produce, but also processing of value-added products. Additionally, there was the Presidential Grant Initiative, which was a monetary award allocated to Amerindian communities to help them establish income- generating projects to advance their growth and development.
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Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo is call ing on the members of the said International Decade of People of African Descent Assembly– Guyana (IDPADA-G) “…to explain how Afro-Guyanese have ben efited from the $468.438 mil lion that it has received from the Government …$68.438 million in 2018 and $100 million in each successive year, including 2020, 2021 and 2022 budgets under the PPP/CNow,Government.”Icangoon and on ad infinitum, but I will leave Lincoln Lewis’s balderdash, and now quickly address this festering sore of Guyana be ing deemed an ‘emerging apartheid’ state. For this, I turn to what were some of the happen ings in Guyana just before the 1968 National Election. History shows that the PNCdominated Government made several self-serving, fox-like fundamental chang es in the electoral system, bringing the electoral ma chinery tightly within its con trol, and reversing the open and free process which had prevailed until then. As re ported in 1985 by Americas Watch and the British Parliamentary Human Rights Group (BPHRG), the entire electoral machinery -- that is, from ‘voter regis tration’ through polling and counting -- was removed from the direction and con trol of the previously indepen dent Elections Commission. Then, in 1967, the National Assembly passed the National Registration Act ostensibly to establish a national system of registration and identi ty cards. This was a clandes tine and subtle move, as it fa cilitated significant pro-PNC changes. So, instead of bas ing the ‘voter rolls’ on a reg istration process conducted by the Elections Commission, the new elections statute, the Representation of the People Act, provided that the ‘vot er rolls’ would be “extracted” from the national registration list. However, (Mr Lewis), since that list was creat ed by the PNC Government, under the supervision of the (PNC) Commissioner of Registration, the Elections Commission effectively lost control of the registration pro cess.Moreover (and you can check the independent re port), the Commissioner of Registration became direct ly responsible, subject to the general direction and author ity of the (PNC) Minister of Home Affairs, for all aspects of elections, from the extraction of voter lists through the op eration of polling places and the counting of ballots. His title became Commissioner of Registration and Chief Elections Officer. What was this? (In a syn opsis) It was that the role of the Elections Commission was therefore reduced to “oversight,” and its impotent standby and listless perfor mance of that function caused it to be aptly characterised by Lord Avebury in 1980 as “the toothless poodle of the PNC.”
ShamshunSincerely, Mohamed
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Lincoln Lewis’s sophistry is tantamount to his lies that is, 30 of the 53 seats, thus making a coalition with the UF no longer necessary. As candid observers and read ers would later find out, there was a planned pattern of fraud. The PNC Government succeeded in registering tre mendous growth in the num ber of ‘enrolled voters,’ totally out of proportion to popula tion growth. This inflated list made overseas, postal, and proxy votes possible in sig nificant, albeit highly ques tionable, numbers. For exam ple, when two British groups investigated the lists of Guyanese voters supposedly living in the United Kingdom, they found that somewhere between 50 and 75% of these ‘supposed voters’ never did exist. These overseas votes, as expected, went overwhelm ingly to the PNC. So, it is grossly ludicrous to even think that you, Lincoln Lewis, are saying that con tempt for the African race is a part of the PPP Government today. Up to 1992, when ‘fair and free elections were forced on the Hoyte regime, African leaders were targeting East Indians, and members of the African community did not publicly condemn the con duct. That epoch, to me, de fined an ‘apartheid’ state.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Sugar Corporation is aware of pro test action taken by some of the Re-cleaners (employees cleaning drainage and ir rigation waterways) work ing in the Albion Section of the cultivation of the Albion/Port Mourant Estate this morning. On August 25, 2022, the workers ex pressed their dissatisfaction with management’s deci sion to temporarily cease all re-cleaning operations and offer them alternative em ployment.Inkeeping with the GuySuCo/GAWU ex tant agreement, the Estate’s Management, on Wednesday, August 24, 2022, held a meeting with the GAWU Field Secretary on the estate, two employ ees from the Albion Section and the Shop Steward from the Port Mourant Section of the cultivation to dis cuss the matter. All present were informed of the tem porary changes, and were encouraged to inform their colleagues to take up the al ternative work offered, so they can continue to earn and provide for themselves andThefamilies.meeting was ad journed with a common un derstanding that, as em ployees, we all have to be responsible, conscientious, and continue to work to gether for the success of the Albion/Port Mourant Estate. The Re-cleaners were of fered alternative work in the following areas of oper ation.1) Manual planting 2) Fertilizing 3) Hand weeding and relief (removal of grass and trash in harvested fields) 4) Chemical weed con trol5) Cane harvesting On the morning of Thursday, August 25, 2022, management personnel were present at both or der-lines (Albion and Port Mourant) to answer ques tions and provide further clarity that the employees may need regarding the al ternative work being of fered. They were informed that they needed to com municate with management which alternative work they prefer.Nevertheless, while the Re- cleaners of the Albion Section of the cultivation are protesting, their col leagues at the Port Mourant Section are cooperating, and have taken up the offer of al ternativeManagementwork. hopes that the Albion protest ing employees reconsid er the options placed be fore them, and resume normal duty like their Port Mourant colleagues. Also, the Corporation is expecting that the GAWU leadership would encourage the Albion Re-cleaners to take up the alternative work offered.
CommunicationsAbraham-ParksAngelaSincerely, Officer
Clarity to protest action by some Recleaners at the Albion/Port Mourant Estate
On the whole, private busi nesses are just that. They are individualistic. And then, back in July 2018, un der ‘their’ and ‘his’ APNU/ AFC Government, “AfroGuyanese entrepreneurs, during a Government-funded business conference organ ised by the “International Decade for People of African Decent Assembly Guyana (IDPADA-G),” uttered a clarion call. This came from African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) Executive Eric Phillips, who “…advised them (Afro-Guyanese) to steer clear of the naysayers after re minding them that entrepre neurship is in their blood.” Then this was reiterat ed by IDPADA-G Chairman Vincent Alexander, who urged the participants to work together to “pursue the ideals of the decade,” mean ing in the area of business, as attendees were allowed to in teract with key organisations such as the Guyana Revenue Authority, Go-Invest Guyana, Credit Info, and Small Business Bureau, etc. Imagine this was un der the aegis of ‘their’ Government.Nowonder
Yours truly, H Singh GuySuCo in the news again for the wrong reasons
Dear Editor, Lincoln Lewis’s Aug 28, 2022 letter, “Govt must avoid repeating the fundamental mistakes that led to justifying the oppression of Africans”, really stinks. It is filled with unadulterated lies. It self-de bunks and reflects a poor and failed attempt at soph istry. In fact, his sweeping statement that “By virtue of the sheer numbers, Africans have been the single largest group that has not only kept the nation’s wheels of produc tion turning, but financed the state’s spending through tax es” highlights Lewis’s toxic verbiage. I mean, if this group were at any time ‘shut out,’ then how come it was “…the single largest group that has kept the nation’s wheels of production turning and has financed the state’s spending throughNow,taxes?”Idohave some com ments for this angry man, who seems bent on spewing putrid and racist sewage in Guyana.First, concerning Government’s “…engag ing in acts to shut Africans out of the Public Sector on claims of ‘ethnic balancing,’ or GECOM’s reflecting the re ality of Guyana…,” I find this to be most ludicrous. I inform Lincoln Lewis that, going back to Aug 13, 2021, Adron Pieres penned that he saw “…the list of scholarship awardees from the GOAL programme, and according to his obser vation, of the 6,000 names published, there was an even spread between names which I believe are Afro-Guyanese and those which I believe are Indo-Guyanese.”Hedetailed further that “From what I have gathered, I would say that around 39 percent and 40 percent of the scholarships were awarded to Afro-Guyanese and IndoGuyanese respectively, and the remaining 21 percent to the Indigenous Peoples and those of mixed race… (there fore) the spread is a represen tation of the population, and there appears to be no dis crimination in terms of geo graphic location.” So, where is this ‘shut out’ of Africans? And I add, as it is with GOAL awardees up to this day, so must it be in every sphere - Guyana Police and Defence Forces, Government Media, all the Government Ministries, the Public Sector, etc.As for the Private Sector, and there being “…no corre sponding policy to see eth nic balance…,” I say ‘bull.’
While the workers’ claims and concerns seem reasonable, there is a theme running through their cries: it appears the workers are not amenable to stepping out of their comfort zone to try different types of work. They are set in their ways, and are opposed to any work or challenges outside of what they know or have been doing for a long time. Hence the current situation. It must be recognised and accepted that the work of the organisation is big ger than the employee, and it is the organisation which makes the ultimate decision on worker utilisation. The sugar entity is in the news again for the wrong reasons.
So, I ask, what kind of state was the PNC creating then? Is this happening now with the PPP Government? Let me go on, and bring back to readers that in this effort to create its own ‘apart heid’ state back in the pre1992 era, several significant changes were also made in the electoral law itself. Two new methods of voting were authorised: (1) postal voting “if it is likely to be impractica ble or seriously inconvenient because of the general nature of [the voter’s] occupation, service or employment, or for other good cause, for [the vot er] to go in person to the poll ing place”, and (2) overseas voting, in which Guyanese living abroad could vote through ballots ostensibly ob tained from (PNC) Guyanese officials in foreign countries. These new voting methods were obviously ripe for sub version by those in control of the election machinery, and ultimately proved to be so ‘transparently abused’ that they had to be abolished in 1985. By that time, howev er, the PNC had firmly estab lished its position in power. These and many other changes were in place for the 1968 National Elections, and what were the results? For the first time, the PNC was able to achieve a clear major ity in the National Assembly; Dear Editor, The sugar entity is in the news again. One report gives a detailed account of how an estate overpaid two con tractors. Cash-strapped but overpayment, the outcome due to poor decisions. It has to be wondered whether this is how the frequent cash in jections into the industry are being managed. One manager resigned after the report recommended disci plinary action against him andAnotherothers. report tells of the downing of tools by workers at a different es tate, with fingers pointing in a certain direction as to responsibility, as their sub stantive work could no lon ger be supported, even though alternative work on the estate was found for them (INews August 28).
When dropping zeros in a decimal, you may not drop any zero that has a number anywhere to its right.
Shallow Toothpicks, chopsticks, forks, or other items scratch the Directions Cover your work surface — things are going to get messy! Tape the backs of the cards to the work surface. Use the painter’s tape to cover the edges of each postcard. Leave about a 1/2” border on all sides.Cover the entire postcard with crayon. (You don’t need to stay in the lines!) This is an import ant step. Use one or more coloured crayons. Mix the paint and detergent together using a 1:1 ratio. Pour the liquid into a shallow bowl. If you are using India ink, pour it directly into a bowl or tray. Use the roller brush to cover the entire card with the paint-detergent mixture. The paint will need to dry before scratching the art paper. Once dry, peel the painter’s tape off the cards carefully to avoid ripping the card stock. Now, use the toothpicks, chopsticks, forks, etc. to scratch the cards and make drawings. Let your imagina tion run wild with different designs! (pbs.org)
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Exercises: Convert to scientific notation (round to six decimal places to the right of the decimal)
Step 3: Count the number of places you moved the de cimal point. An easy way to do this is to count the number of places to the right of the decimal. In this case, 8 places.
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Example: Express in 640, 500, 000 in scientific notation.
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Step 4: Drop all zeros at the right end of the number: 6.405Step 4: Express the original number in scientific notati on: 6.405 x 108 When day broke, and the battle was to begin, all the fourfooted animals came running up with such a noise that the earth trembled. The willow-wren with his army also came flying through the air with such a humming, and whirring, and swarming that everyone was uneasy and afraid, and on both sides they advanced against each other. But the willow-wren sent down the hornet, with orders to settle beneath the fox’s tail, and sting with all his might. When the fox felt the first string, he started so that he stood on one leg, from pain, but he bore it, and still kept his tail high in the air; at the second sting, he was forced to put it down for a moment; at the third, he could hold out no longer, screamed, and put his tail between his legs. When the animals saw that, they thought all was lost, and began to flee, each into his hole, and the birds had won the battle.
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Then the willow-wren flew to the bear’s hole and cried: “Growler, you are to come to the nest to my children, and beg their pardon, or else every rib of your body shall be broken.” So the bear crept thither in the greatest fear, and begged their pardon. And now at last the young wrens were satisfied, and sat down together and ate and drank, and made merry till quite late into the night. The end Black Liquid laundry
Step 2: Move the decimal point left until you create a number that is greater than 1 but less than 10: 6.40500000
For example: In 2.00010, you may drop the final zero, but you may not drop the zeros between the 4 and the 1. Remember Scientific notation is a way to express any number as a decimal greater than 1, multiplied by a power of 10. For example: 2500 can be expres sed as 2.5 x 103 and 5,230,000 can be expressed as 5.23 x 106 How do you find a power of ten to use? Look at the number in standard, or regular, notation. Place a decimal point at the far right of that number. Move the decimal point left until you create a number that is greater than 1 but less than 10. Then count the number of places you had to move the decimal point. That is the power of 10 to use for a particular number.
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Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall has written the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), seeking informa tion on how private citizens’ data was provided to it by A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) during the con troversial 2020 General and Regional Elections.
“Perhaps we should have done it before, but it is not too late. These con cocted and fabricated alle gations continue to be made by that rigging cabal who tried relentlessly to pervert those elections. They man ufactured records from the Immigration Department and the GRO office,” the Attorney General had said. Nandlall had pointed out that back in 2020, when APNU/AFC first made its er roneous claims, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) did investigations of its own. During its investi gations, the PPP/C was able to find many of the persons that APNU/AFC claimed were out of the jurisdiction or dead.Infact, many of these per sons came forward to protest against and dispute APNU/ AFC’s claims. This publica tion published several such persons, who had been ac cused by the then ruling par ty of being either dead or
2020 General and Regional Elections AG writes GECOM on ‘confidential’ data
APNU/AFC submitted alleging voter fraud
It is a first step in the di rection of an investigation that the AG had announced last week would be held into how immigration and regis tration data of citizens end ed up in the hands of the then ruling APNU/AFC par ty; data it then submitted to GECOM in an effort to dis credit the voters’ list. According to his let ter addressed to GECOM Chairperson, Retired Justice Claudette Singh, Nandlall noted that APNU/AFC de livered to GECOM, docu ments claiming to show that dead people and persons who were overseas on Election Day, voted at the elections, as well as documents to claim that there were cases of multiple voting. “These allegations contin ue to be peddled in the public domain by leaders and rep resentatives of the aforesaid political entity. At the time and until now, the impres sion conveyed is that these documents and/or data were generated by and obtained from the official lawful re pository of the specific infor mation, for example, the im migration department, the Guyana Police Force and the General Registrar’s Office.” Nandlall noted in his let ter that these were grave allegations that proved to be baseless and unfounded. This is especially so since several of the persons who were included in APNU/ AFC’s list as dead or migrat ed voters, actually came for ward to dispute that party’s allegations.“Itisimportant that the relevant State agency en quires into the source of this information, upon whose di rections they were sourced and, perhaps, most impor tantly, to officially reconfirm their inaccuracy, for public record. In the circumstanc es, I hereby request a copy of these documents to initi ate this process,” Nandlall wrote.Last week, during an edi tion of his programme “Issues in the News”, Nandlall had announced that an investi gation would be launched into the fact that data which should have been in the cus tody of the authorities, were used by APNU/AFC to make false and politically charged claims against citizens.
Govt part-time workers
More stringent measures to be applied, as persons not working stipulated 10 days out of the jurisdiction, when their vote was recorded. “Well, the Police or the relevant agency will have to investigate and tell the pub lic where that documents came from and who was re sponsible for compiling it and upon whose directions they were compiled. That will happen very shortly, in a matter of days,” Nandlall hadAnothersaid. frequent point of contention by the APNU/ AFC, is how 49 boxes in Better Hope/LBI were miss ing statutory documents following the elections. According to Nandlall in his show, however, it is on GECOM to investigate this issue.“Now, as I have estab lished the matter is now within GECOM. Call [GECOM] if [there are any] doubts… is to call Mingo and call Lowenfield…and ask them to come out publicly and contradict me…raise it as a matter for the commis sion to interrogate because it’s a GECOM issue,” the Legal Affairs Minister had saidNandlallsternly. had also point ed out that it was the APNU/ AFC while in power, who were the custodians of the electoral process and would therefore be better able to answer to the whereabouts of the missing statutory doc uments, than his party. (G3)
Armogan pointed out that inaccurate information was submitted in some instances. This, he explained, caused a further delay in Accordingpayments.tothe Regional Chairman, some persons would have worked eight days and nine days but the submissions that were made were for ten days. He pointed out that those records were subsequent ly adjusted and a recording system has now been put in place whereby each one of these agencies that have persons working are now required to have a register and record the part-time workers’ presence at work.
GECOM Chairperson, Justice (retired) Claudette Singh Attorney General Anil Nandlall, SC Asystem that will en sure that Governmentpart-timeworkers in Region Six (East BerbiceCorentyne) are paid for their work is to be imple mented in the region. This follows allegations that some workers did not work the stipulated ten days for the Regionmonth.Six Chairman David Armogan on Tuesday said that systems will be put in place to eliminate a reoc currence.The programme com menced in July and saw some 4000 persons em ployed in Region Six un der the Government’s 10day, $40,000 per month part-time employment pro gramme.Referring to initial pay sheets, Region Six Chairman David Armogan pointed that there were someScoreshiccups.of persons had turned up at the Regional Democratic Council claim ing that they were not paid after having worked during the month of July. Those persons were told that their names were not submitted on the initial pay sheets.The regional administra tion subsequently discov ered that some department heads were late in submit ting the required informa tion.Those persons were sub sequentlyHowever,paid.
“So what we will be do ing in order to monitor the situation in a better way, we will be arranging to have monitors in different geo graphic areas, persons who are employed in the same 10-days scheme; we will en gage some of them to be able to do monitoring work so that we have accurate infor mation,” Armogan added. He noted that some of the agencies to which per sons are being sent have not been keeping accurate re cords.“This can lead to prob lems of people under-receiv ing money or over-receiving money,” Armogan said. (G4)
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Hijinks... …in US
…in Pakistan It’s known politicians will sink to any depth to get back into power. But to arrange to have one-third of their country to be under water?? You don’t know Imran's Pakistan ally China is a “rainmaker”??
Abusinessman who has been charged for the murder of his 28-yearold reputed wife, whom he allegedly stabbed about her body some 16 times, has been remanded until October 14. Businessman Quincy Roache was on Tuesday morning remanded to pris on after his arraignment be fore Sparendaam Magistrate Rushelle Liverpool on a charge of brutally murder ing his reputed wife Tacina Dazzel, the mother of a sixyear-oldRoacheboy.was not required to plead to the charge, which stated that on August 26, 2022, at La Bonne Intention, ECD, he murdered Tacina Dazzel.Dazzel, a former clerk of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC), had shared a two-year relationship with Roache, and had confided in family members about the constant abuse she was re ceiving.The Police reported that Dazzel and the suspect had shared a common-law re lationship, but would often have domestic issues, which she had never reported to the Police.Ithas been reported that on the night of the murder, Dazzel’s cousin, who was also her neighbour, was awakened by loud screams coming from Dazzel’s home. As such, this cousin immediately opened her door, and saw Dazzel run ning out of her yard and onto a bridge, where she collapsed and remained motionless. Soon after, Roache exit ed the house and boarded his minibus, and she heard him shout: “Now y’all can call the Police! I done do what I had to do!”The injured Dazzel was picked up and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.Roache, according to the Police, went to the Turkeyen Police Station and confessed to killing the woman. He sub sequently told detectives that he went through the wom an’s mobile phone and saw a conversation between her and another male. This, he claimed, led to an argument, during which Dazzel picked up a knife and cut him on his left middle finger, and he, in retaliation, took away the knife and stabbed her several times about her body. A close family member later related that Dazzel had constantly been subjected to physical abuse by Roache, and that Dazzel’s entire fam ily had been aware of the sit uation. The relative stated that Dazzel usually confided in them, and had told them on many occasions that she had been severely beaten by the suspect. They said the abuse had been so bad that, only two months ago, the sus pect had battered the woman brutally to the point where he had broken both her nose and jaw.The relative added that even though the now dead woman had been beaten, she had never made a report to the Police, because she was terrified of the suspect, and was covering the shame her family would have to endure because they are respected Christians in the community. “He was very controlling. She couldn’t do anything or go anywhere, he has to be there; if not, when she goes home (it would result in) a problem. Or, he would just show up where she was…it is not like she didn’t try to come out… he manipulated her, he made her move out from her moth er’s house, and she was pay ing the rent for the house in which they lived. It is not two cents she was going through. “When she left one time, he went and bram down her mother’s door, it was only for him to kick it down. “It came to a point that he was jealous of her son. He told her why she has to love her son more than him. Why must she love him more than her son?!” the relative asked. This relative explained that the suspect had become so obsessive that, unknow ingly to Tacina, he had linked her phone to his, and he was able to monitor all her conver sations with her friends and family members. When she found out, she was unable to cry for help. It is also alleged that this is not the first woman this suspect had been abusing. In fact, this publication was told that he was married be fore meeting the late Tacina, and he had been in the habit of constantly controlling and abusing his previous wife, which had caused her to leave him.
Anywhere?? But one development in our dear mudland politics (mud??) made him smile in admiration: the claim by the PNC that the PPP rigged the last elections!! Now, that takes some brass balls, and that must be acknowledged!! Here’s a political party – the PNC – that’s studied in postgraduate schools when the subject is “elections rigging” –and the PPP beat them at their own game??!! While they were out of Government?? If it took the hijinks of two thieves to make God laugh, then this claim should trigger some gales of laughter from beyond the clouds!! So, in 2011, with the PPP holding the reins of office, they didn’t rig to prevent the Opposition controlling the National Assembly? And even forewarned, also didn’t rig to prevent being thrown out in 2015!?! Yet pulled it off by remote control in 2020?? With all these crises, we do need a good laugh!!
…in Guyana Far be it for your Eyewitness to claim that there aren’t many paragons of virtue in our local politics!! Any politics??
The views expressed in this column are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Guyana Times’ editorial policy and stance
Businessman arraigned for murder of reputed wife Murder suspect Quincy Roache
Ever since the 13 colonies on the American eastern seaboard decided to poke the British Monarch – at that time the “mad” George III - in the eye and declare themselves independent, they set themselves up as a beacon of freedom against tyrannical rule. But even though the British had as many colonies in the West Indies, THEY looked at the move with horror, since the tiny minority White ruling planters here needed the Crown to protect them from the wrath of the Africans they’d enslaved and were working to death. It would take more than 180 years for those slaves’ descendants – who’d been freed in the meantime – to demand the same freedom those “Americans” had enjoyed since 1776!! And we looked at the US as the “City on the Hill” we hoped to become. Sadly, we were derided as “Third World”, compared to that “First World” city, and one recent President – Trump – even referred to us as “shithole countries”!! That was undoubtedly their majority opinion, but it took Trump - whose mouth, as we say in the local vernacular, “doesn’t have licence” - to say it out aloud!! But if we’re honest, most of us hold that same view of our countries. We declare it “performatively” when we stand in the sun for hours to get that American visa. Or make our way to the Bahamas or the Rio Grande in Mexico to be smuggled over to the “City on the Hill”!! But the selfsame President Trump has demonstrated that “what goes around comes around”, and “nothing lasts forever” – especially when it comes to “great powers” and their place in the world. Wasn’t Egypt a top dog once?? Or Greece? Or Rome?? Or even Britain, on “whose empire the sun never set”?? There is, history has shown, the ephemeral nature of political power!! The Brits’ own Shelley had written ironically about a massive fallen and broken statue in the sand, “And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” But there’s another saying to the effect that “those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad”. It would seem that as the US begins its inevitable decline into “Third Worldism”, the indignity is personified in its upper echelons as madness. And so, today, we see the house of that mighty ruler of the US being raided to recover “top secret” documents that he took with him after he was voted out of office. Why would he take these documents?? Some say it was to sell to the Russians?? Others to protect his previous transgressions against the “deep state”? Ah…how the mighty has fallen!! And this is said with NO schadenfreude!!
The deceased Tacina Dazzel is seen with Quincy Roache in happier times
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Businessman Azruddin Mohamed has filed a multimillion-dol lar lawsuit against Guyana Police Force (GPF) Sergeant Dion Bascom, for defam ing him when he made alle gations of a Police cover-up in the investigations into the 2021 murder of Ricardo “Paper Shorts” Fagundes. According to the Statements of Claim filed by the businessman through his attorney Naresh Poonai, Mohamed is seeking a judgement for damages in excess of $100 million, ex emplary, punitive and/or ag gravated damages in excess of $100 million and an in junction restraining Bascom or anyone acting on his be half from repeating the de famatory statements he had made about MohamedMohamed.pointed out that he and his father oper ate Mohamed’s Enterprise, a business known region ally and internationally for gold trading, adding that he is well known for his philan thropy, his practice of the Muslim faith and his suc cessful car racing and sports team.According to Mohamed, his reputation has now been besmirched because the de fendant made “several un true, dangerous, disingen uous, malicious, irrational, unfair, unsubstantiated, un founded and baseless state ments that were defamatory of the claimant.”
The businessman also noted that on August 12, he sent Bascom a written letter demanding the Sergeant re tract his statements, apol ogise and compensate the claimant. Far from doing that, Mohamed said that Bascom further defamed him and refused to back down from his earlier state ments, claiming to have ev idence of the cover-up. In fact, Bascom went on to claim that Mohamed only started doing his philan thropy after Paper Shorts’s murder.According to Mohamed, Bascom also defamed him at a press conference on August 19, 2022, which was also at tended by his Attorneyat-Law Nigel Hughes. Mohamed included the ver batim quote of Bascom claiming that Mohamed’s employee was in contact with him before the shoot ing. Mohamed noted that all of this would be broadcast during the trial. “These words, state ments, and utterances made by the defendant are all untrue, false, dangerous, disingenuous, malicious, irrational, unfair, unsub stantiated, unfounded and baseless, thereby tarnish ing and lowering the repu tation of the claimant. They were published and broad cast without justification and have caused and contin ue to cause significant harm and injury to the claimant, his good name, his repu tation and has also signifi cantly lowered his standing in the Guyanese, Caribbean and international communi ties.”Initially, Mohamed had threatened a $25 million lawsuit against Bascom, if he did not retract his de famatory allegations, is sue an unqualified apology approved by the claimants and pay monetary damag es agreed upon within seven days for defamation of char acter and goodwill. That was since August 13. Prior to his public accu sations, Bascom was among
Police Sergeant Dion Bascom AzruddinBusinessmanMohamed Ricardo “Paper Shorts” Fagundes
Businessman slaps Sergeant Dion Bascom with $200M lawsuit for defamation …over repeated accusations of his involvement in “Paper Shorts” murder
Mohamed document ed Bascom’s verbatim de famatory claims during his Facebook broadcast on August 11, 2022, including Bascom’s claims that one of Mohamed’s employees was implicated in Fagundes’s murder and that Mohamed had paid an over $30 million bribe to a senior figure in the GPF to cover up the murder. “Sometime thereafter, the defendant removed the broadcast and video from his Facebook page/profile, how ever, by that time, the broad cast and video were already seen by members of the pub lic, downloaded, shared and disseminated widely locally, regionally and internation ally and the claimant will rely on portions of the said broadcast/live video at tri al,” Mohamed documented in his Statement of Claim.
five people who were arrest ed when the Customs AntiNarcotics Unit (CANU) raided a Norton Street, Georgetown house. Reports are that CANU officers con ducted an operation at a Norton Street residence, where a known drug traf ficker resides. A subsequent search of the premises led to the dis covery of four parcels con taining suspected cocaine. The known drug trafficker along with the cop and three persons were arrested at the premises. While Bascom has not been charged for this, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has rec ommended charges against him.Ricardo “Paper Shorts” Fagundes was killed exe cution-style in March 2021 outside a popular Main Street, Georgetown night spot. Reports are the man was partying with a group of friends at the bar when his phone rang and he exited the club to take the call, but soon after, several gunshots were heard. Reports are that the now dead man’s friends rushed out to enquire, but found Fagundes lying mo tionlessly in a pool of blood close to his motor car. Investigative help Following the allega tions made by Bascom, the Guyana Government en gaged the Regional Security System (RSS) to seek ex ternal assistance in its ef forts to solve the murder of Fagundes.TheRSS is a defence and security alliance of the Eastern Caribbean Region. RSS Headquarters are lo cated in Barbados and is the Coordinating Secretariat of the Caricom Security Assistance Mechanism. As a result, it has additional re sponsibilities to the wider Caricom Region. (G3)
Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh meeting with incoming members of the Income Tax Board of Review, the Value Added Tax (VAT) Board of Review, and the Customs Tariff Tribunal at the Finance Ministry
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Income Tax Board of Review, VAT Board of Review & Customs Tariff Tribunal appointed
Senior Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh on Tuesday met with the incoming members of the Income Tax Board of Review, the Value Added Tax (VAT) Board of Review as well as the Customs Tariff Tribunal at the Finance Ministry. These Boards and the Tribunal were appointed in accordance with Section 78 (2) and (3) of the Income Tax Act Cap 818:01, Section 39 A of the Value Added Tax Act Cap 81:05 and Section 22 (1) of the Customs Act Cap. 82:01,Therespectively.members of the Income Tax Board of Review and Customs Tribunal will serve for one year while the members of the VAT Board of Review will serve for two years.The Boards of Review and Customs Tariff Tribunal are Boards governed by the Laws of Guyana and deal with specific tax matters for which a taxpayer is object ing. The taxpayer can ap peal to these Boards for a re view of taxes. The Income Tax Board of Review (ITBOR) is a Board set up under the Ministry of Finance appointed to consid er Income Tax Assessment appeals.Meanwhile, should a tax payer be dissatisfied or is of the opinion that their Value Added Tax is incorrectly as sessed, they can file an ob jection with the VAT Board of Review (VBOR). The objection must be lodged with the Commissioner-General in writing within twenty (20) days of receiving their no tice of assessment. An ex tension can be granted to a taxpayer if they are unable to file an objection within 20 days due to any reason able cause such as not being in the country at the time or due to illness. In making a decision, the VAT Board of Review may make an order to af firm, reduce, increase, or vary the assessment under appeal or remit the assess ment for reconsideration by the Commissioner in accor dance with the directions of the VAT Board of Review. Further, a company dissat isfied with the VAT Board of Review’s decision can appeal to the Judge in Chambers, within twenty days of the service of the notice of the decision.
With regard to the Customs Tariff Tribunal, it is a tribunal which adjudi cates disputes with respect to the determination of the rates of duties of customs and excise on goods as well as the valuation of goods for the purposes of assessment of such duties based on the Laws of AppointedGuyana.asChair of the Income Tax Board of Review was Emily Dodson while its members are Nizam Ali, Kim Kyte, Shaleeza Shaw and Rajaindra Singh. The VAT Board of Review will comprise its Chairman Ronald BurchSmith, Shawn Gurcharran, John Seeram, and Nizam Ali while the Customs Tariff Tribunal compris es its Chairperson Atherley,DorindaRoopchand-Edwards,SharonShako,LancelotRamdeoKumar, Keoma Griffith, Malisa Nokta, Dowlat Parbhu and Richard Collymore.
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Guyana a leader in women, peace and security – US Southern Commander …GDF Chief of Staff says women now being deployed to border locations
She also spoke to the military partnership be tween Guyana and the US. According to Richardson, in tegrated deterrence is im portant to the security of the hemisphere, hence the need for these partnerships. “I look at integrated de terrence as a deterrence, a strong network, every thing coming together, all the partnerships, the secu rity forces, the defence forc es, non-governmental or ganisations, industry, the joint force, everybody work ing together for a free, pros perous western hemisphere. A whole of Government ap proach for how to tackle these hard problems of to day. It takes everybody,” sheMeanwhile,said. Brigadier General Bess in responding to questions from the media, described various ways the GDF has improved working conditions for female sol diers. He also revealed that women have started to in tegrate ranks into border patrols, in Lethem (Region Nine) and Mabaruma (Region One). He explained that they deploy close to a dozen female soldiers at a time, alongside their male soldiers.“What we do for our fe male soldiers that are work ing and are parents, one of the initiatives that we would have included over the year is being able to assist to take care of their children while they are at work,” Bess said. “There are issues of our female soldiers needing ad equate time to be with their families. We’re very fami ly-oriented and we believe in families. And we ensure that our female soldiers are given adequate time to be there for their families, as is necessary.”Richardson is visit ing Guyana ten months af ter assuming duties as SOUTHCOM’s Commander and nearly five months af ter meeting with Caribbean defence and public securi ty leaders during the 2022 Caribbean Nations Security Conference in April in Bridgetown, Barbados. During her two-day stay in Georgetown, she has met with US Ambassador to Guyana Sarah-Ann Lynch and President of Guyana Dr IrfaanRichardsonAli. also joined Guyana’s First Lady Arya Ali and Ambassador Lynch in welcoming participants of the Caribbean Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Conference, which Guyana is hosting from August 29-September 1 in part nership with the Florida National Guard. The United States and Guyana have a longstand ing history of security coop eration. The defence part nership between the two countries includes collab oration against regional threats and challenges, ca pacity-building exercises, bilateral training, expertise exchanges, events foster ing the inclusion of women in defence and security mis sions, and professional de velopmentSOUTHCOMengagements.isone of the Department of Defence’s six geographically focused unified commands with responsibility for securi ty cooperation with de fence and public securi ty forces in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.
GDF Chief of Staff, Brig Godfrey Bess US four-star General Laura Richardson
United States (US) four-star General Laura Richardson has described Guyana as a leader in the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) mat ters, the theme of the twoday conference being held by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and the (US) military that she is present ly attending.General Richardson held a joint press confer ence with GDF Chief of Staff, Brigadier Godfrey Bess, on the sidelines of the Women, Peace and Security Conference on Tuesday. During the press confer ence, Richardson lauded Bess and the role he has played in making the GDF a more inclusive space for women.“I’d like to say that Brigadier Godfrey Bess is a leader amongst his de fence forces, amongst the region with WPS. And just the changes and the poli cies that are put in place to integrate women into the defence forces, has really been a game changer. And the change agent for that is Brigadier Bess. I’m really, really proud of him.”
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No relation between Guyana’s 2 monkeypox cases – Health Minister 23 new COVID-19 infections, over 230 active cases being monitored GUYANA COVID-19 DASHBOARD AUGUST 30, 2022 UPDATE GET MEDICAL ADVICE ON COVID-19 FROM MOH 24/7 HOTLINE NUMBERS: 2311166; 226 7480; 624 6674; 624 2819; 624 3067 OR 180/181. NUMBER OF NEW CASES 23 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN INSTITUTIONAL ISOLATION 7 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN HOME ISOLATION 225 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN COVID-19 ICU 3 NUMBER OF PERSONS IN INSTITUTIONAL QUARANTINE 3 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES BY GENDER (FEMALES) 38,456 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES BY GENDER (MALES) 32,549 TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES IN GUYANA SINCE 2020 71,005 NUMBER OF RECOVERED CASES 69,492 TOTAL 1st DOSE VACCINATED 446,000 FULLY IMMUNISED 345,757 TOTAL NUMBER OF DEATHS 1278 DISTRIBUTION OF TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES SINCE MARCH 2020 REGION 1 2688 REGION 2 3136 REGION 3 8726 REGION 4 35,329 REGION 5 2573 REGION 6 6913 REGION 7 2655 REGION 8 921 REGION 9 4346 REGION 10 3718 HERE IS HOW YOU CAN BE SAFE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Wear a face mask. Keep a physical distance of at least 6 feet. Wash your hands or use Ifhand-sanitizeryouhaveany symp toms, call the COVID-19 Hotline.
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The number of confirmed coro navirus positives in Guyana is now pegged at 71,005, after 23 new persons were infected as of Tuesday.Thisdata was included in the Health Ministry’s daily dashboard showing 32,549 males and 38,456 fe males testing positive to date. Some 69,492 have recovered, leaving more than 750 active cases. The death toll from the virus has remained at 1278, but three persons are being monitored in the Intensive Care Unit. There are seven persons in institutional isolation, 225 in home isolation and three in institu tional quarantine. To date, 687,557 test samples have been processed. Some 235 active cases are being monitored, inclusive of 10 in hospi tals. Tuesday’s vaccination figures show that so far, 446,000 or 86.9 per cent of adults have taken a first dose, while some 345,757 or 67.4 per cent of persons are fully vaccinated. For adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17, 35,588 first doses or 48.7 per cent and 26,091 or 35.7 per cent second doses have been admin istered.Vaccination for children in the five to 11 category shows 7844 first doses or 7.7 per cent. Only 3105 or three per cent have returned for their second shot. In addition, 72,526 persons have returned for their booster shots thus far. In the Region of the Americas, that is, Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has increased to 175 million while the death toll in the Region has gone up to 2.8 million. Globally, there are 596 million confirmed positives with 6.4 million deaths.Ifanyone is displaying any of the symptoms associated with COVID-19 or needs any addition al information, they are asked to contact the COVID-19 Hotline 2311166, 226-7480 or 624-6674 imme diately or visit www.health.gov.gy. (G12)
here is no relation between the two individuals who contracted the monkeypox virus and are being monitored by healthHealthauthorities.Minister, Dr Frank Anthony shared on Tuesday that the two persons who tested pos itive for monkeypox, a man and woman, respectively, are being treated. However, the data shows that these persons are unrelat ed. However, it has been report ed that both persons hail from Region“TheyFour.don’t have any rela tions…We’ll continue to moni tor them and at the appropriate time, we will be able to discharge them. Since we have diagnosed our first case, we have had many suspected cases but when we ran the laboratory test, it was not monkeypox.”Fornow, the Minister is cau tioning the population to be ob servant and avoid coming in close contact with persons who have rashes.“With monkeypox, what we need to do is be more observant. We don’t want people having close contact with persons with rashes. If you are in very close contact with somebody who has rashes on their skin and if that person is confirmed to be infect ed with monkeypox, you can get infected. In most cases for a per son who is infected, within 14 to 21 days, they should be able to recover but there have been more severe cases in the world,” he shared. In this current wave of mon keypox, 15 persons have died globally. However, it was clari fied that skin lesions – one of the identifiable symptoms of mon keypox – can suggest another condition or disease.
“To be on the safe side, it would be good to come in to one of the hospitals or one of the health institutions where a doctor can be able to examine the skin and help to make a more definitive diagno sis. We are able to confirm wheth er that person has monkeypox or not by doing a PCR test.” The first individual, in his 50s, tested positive for the disease on August 22 while the second indi vidual tested positive this week. Guyana has been treating the disease by targeting symp toms experienced or presented in the patient. While countries like the United States have specific antiretroviral medications, the Minister expressed that it would be difficult to access. “The treatment for monkey pox is basically symptomatic, meaning that if you experience fever, we’re going to treat you for fever. If you have pain, we’re going to treat you for pain. In some countries, like the United States, they have special an tiretroviral medicines that they give to very severe cases. Those medicines are under Emergency Use Authorisation licensing. We don’t have access to those med ications,” the Health Minister shared on Monday when the sec ond case surfaced. (G12)
Armogan said. On Sunday, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha commissioned a $24 million grader in the region. The equipment will be used to as sist with the maintenance of dams in rice farming commu nities.According to the Agriculture Minister, $84 million is to be expended for access dam maintenance for 2022.He noted that the longterm objective is to double rice production in the region. However, Armogan point ed out that there is less acre age under rice cultivation this crop when compared with the last crop in Region Six. “So we are working very closely with farmers to en sure that they can take out their paddy so that we don’t lose too much in this crop. We have already had a shortfall in terms of acreage when it comes to a comparison with previous crops. We have planted just over 50,000 acres this crop. Previous crops we have over 64,000 acres. So it is a reduction. We have to be able to take out the paddy to make sure that we get enough supply for export and for local consumption as well.”
Work has already start ed on repairing dams. The re gion has budgeted to spend $45 million on that project. “The $45 million may not be adequate so we are ask ing farmers to assist as well to see how they can utilise their equipment and to assist with the making of the dams as well,” the Chairman urged. (G4)
Speaking with the media on the issue, Armogan said Government will be spending close to $50 million to repair those“Thedams.rainy season is still with us, it has not rally stopped although we are in August and coming to the end of August and August is sup posed to be the driest month of the year. Unfortunately, due to climatic changes, what we find is that August too has become a very wet month. So, we are spending over $45 million on the repairs to dams through the Ministry of Agriculture. Dams are be ing repaired in Black Bush Polder; dams are being re paired in 52/74, in Crabwood Creek, in the front land ar eas, in New Forest and many other places where rice cul tivation is taking place,”
…deplorable dams yet to be repaired
The state of some on the dams on the Corentyne and in the Black Bush Polder
There is less acreage of rice under culti vation in Region Six (East commencethisductionthesaidChairmanBerbice-Corentyne),DavidArmoganwhileindicatingthatintentiontodoublepromaybeunachievablecrop.Asricefarmerspreparetoreapingpaddy,the
Regional Chairman posited that the Central Government is obligated to repair dams to allow them to be able to bring their produce out of the fields. Many of the dams which the rice farmers use to get to and from their fields have been destroyed during the prolonged rainy season.
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Rice production low this crop – Region 6 Chairman
The five Digicel Summer Vault winners, along with CEO Gregory Dean
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Iwas in South Georgetown recently, still an area in which the PNC maintains an insurmountable support base. One lady said: “Doc, I did not vote for you guys. Me and my family might not vote for you guys ever, but we glad you deh in Government”. Others expressed similar sentiments. Amidst pessimism and obstructionist behaviour of the PNC, their own supporters are joining with other Guyanese citizens in hailing the positive development in our country, and the ONE GUYANA movement inspired by President Irfaan Ali.
“I always top up; because of my job, I always have to have credit,” Goring said, “So, this one day I’m under my car…a phone call (came) and the caller said, ‘Do you (know) that you spelled the word CASH?’ and I said, ‘Hello, me in (in) no spell ing classes.’ They said, ‘no. This is Digicel.’ And, today I’mGoringhere.” explained that he would be putting his money to “goodMelessause.”Dabydeen said she almost did not enter the promotion, after she was having a difficult time get ting all of her letters. But the lucky woman made it to the final stage of Digicel’s Summer Vault, and she’s calling it an “unexpected” turn of “I’veevents.gotsome repairs to do, so I’m going to be doing those repairs.” That’s where Dabydeen’s winnings will be going.After being launched at the Pegasus Hotel in July, the promotion ran for six weeks.Digicel Communications Manager Vidya Sanichara explained that the company had formulated the easiest way to enter the promotion.
Ramsammy’s Ruminations
One Sunday afternoon in 1995, I thought I saw Dr. Cheddi Jagan on Carmichael Street, not far from Lamaha Street. I took a second look and it was Cheddi, in short pants. I looked around for his security; they were a distance away. I asked him why he meandered so far from the security, reminding him that he was President Cheddi. He said basically that if a president of a country is not safe among his people, he does not deserve to be their president. Cheddi was a simple, humble man. He was comfortable among his Guyanese sisters and brothers; and among them he was most happy. Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo walked among his people, and worked with them. No citizen anywhere in Guyana, no matter which political party they supported or voted for, ever felt they could not come close to BJ, as he is familiarly referred to among Guyanese. BJ followed in the footsteps of his own hero, Cheddi. In 1997, many asked what would happen if Cheddi was no longer there. The worst fear that Cheddi may not be among us came to pass in 1997. BJ answered the question many asked, and showed that the PPP serves as an incubator for leaders. Today BJ is a world-renowned leader, loved by the supporters of the PPP and supporters of other political parties. The handful of those who hate BJ have proven they are consumed by hate for a leader that began the transformation of Guyana into a modern country. After BJ could not run for the presidency again, many thought that the PPP would be in trouble, because there was no person whom they saw as capable of stepping into the PPP leadership. Again, those who had thought the PPP had no one to step in and lead the PPP and the country like BJ and CJ are now surprised that, almost seamlessly, Dr. Irfaan Ali has brilliantly taken up the mantle. It is only two years since President Irfaan became Guyana’s 9th Executive President, but he has made such an emphatic impression on Guyanese at home and abroad, and on people across the world, that his praises ring out from even among the enemies of the PPP. President Irfaan Ali is the People’s President, a humble man, comfortable in his own skin. Irfaan, as most Guyanese refer to him, is truly admired and loved across his country. Every single day, in every single corner of this beautiful land, Irfaan is somewhere among his people. He speaks to them about their lives, their needs, their families and their communities. He plays with them, whether it is dominoes or cricket. He sings and dances with them. He even cooks with them and for them. He hugs his elders; he hugs the children. With young children, he embraces them as he embraces his own son. His smile lights up the dark nights. He brings hope and he inspires belief. The Guyanese people believe that, in Irfaan, we have a leader that truly genuinely cares. While he plays his cheerleader role to perfection, he is an intelligent and competent economist, with a doctorate in urban development from the University of the West Indies. He is full of ideas about development in his country, and acts as if it must be completed today, not tomorrow. He is impatient to see his country move now from a low-middle-income country to one that is a high-middle-income country during his presidency. His housing programme promises to ensure that every Guyanese family lives in their own home. His road and bridge infrastructure seeks to modernise and expand the Guyanese physical landscape in ways that few Guyanese could have imagined possible. His education initiative is ensuring that every Guyanese has a chance to earn an education unmatched in the dreams of most Guyanese. His health agenda promises to transform health in our country. His food security programme ensures that no Guyanese would ever go hungry, but he finally brings hope that our destiny to be the bread basket of the Caribbean is achieved now. In just two short years, like BJ, he has become a Guyanese President that other Caribbean leaders look to. Cheddi was admired around the world, BJ commanded the respect of leaders around the world, they named him the “Champion of the Earth”. Today, leaders around the world are paying close attention to Irfaan. Yet, it is not what others around the world think of him. His mission, his dream, is a country in which our people live together as one. His ONE GUYANA dream and mission have become a movement, and people of all ethnic groups, all political persuasions, everywhere in our country, believe that ONE GUYANA is possible. As we watched President Ali in Region 9 this week, we know he is the real thing, he is the People’s President.
5 customers walk away with over $500,000 each
The views expressed in this column are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Guyana Times’ editorial policy and stance
Goring told Guyana Times that he has been a loyal Digicel custom er for some time. The man said he usually tops up his phone, due to his nature of work. He was unaware of the promotion, the man said, so he was surprised when he got the call from a Digicel representative, telling him that he had won.
Excitement masked the chill atmosphere at MovieTowne Parking Lot on Saturday evening as Digicel wrapped up their Summer Cash Vault, which saw five lucky customers each walking away with overAfter$500,000.sixweeks of intense letter grabbing, five lucky Digicel customers stepped into the cash vaults, where they had a chance of win ning $3 million each — to tally $15 million in cash. Though none of the cus tomers was able to reach that million-dollar mile stone, they all left that night much richer than how they came.In the vault, Maveline Johnson of Linden (who had someone enter the vault on her behalf) was able to grab $88,000; Bartica’s own Preston King’s represen tative held onto $119,000; Sherwin Goring bagged $151,000; Melessa Dabydeen of the West Coast of Demerara secured $187,000 from the vault; and Abigail Garrett of Soesdyke bagged a whopping $219,000. After their winnings were revealed that night, a Digicel representative an nounced that each of the five customers would receive an additional $500,000, adding to what they had won while in theSherwinvault.
Digicel’s Summer Cash Vault
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Dr Leslie Ramsammy
Dr Irfaan Ali, the people’s President, inspiring the One Guyana movement
The skeletal remains found at Sisters Village, WBD
Skeletal remains found at Sisters Village, WBD
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Body of young vendor found on Friendship bridge
The motionless body of a market vendor was on Tuesday found on a bridge at Brush Dam Road, Friendship, East Coast Demerara (ECD). The dead man has been identified as 28-year-old Oneil Issacs of Friendship, ECD.
After being stabbed, the relative stated, Tacina, draped in blood, began screaming and running for her life; and, in the process, she tripped and fell at the gate.“She held on to the gate, and he come behind her and he took the padlock and start ed lashing her in her head, and stabbed her.” She be came motionless, as her son stood at the scene looking at his mother’s lifeless body. This publication was told that the child turned to his mother’s killer and asked, “Uncle, uncle, you gon kill me too?”“He (the suspect) look at him and said, ‘No, I wouldn’t kill you’. When he finished, he said he done do what he had to do”, the relative recalled. The child remains trau matised and is screaming in his sleep, “Uncle! Uncle! leave mommy alone!” The family member said that after committing the act, the man went to a friend, who turned him over to the Police.
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To enter, customers had to top up their phones with $1000 in Digicel credit to spell out Those‘C-A-S-H’.whowere success ful were given a chance to enter a vault, where they could grab the money. To de termine if they had collected the letters, customers texted GRAB to Previous1441.winners, who also walked home with over $500,000 in cash, were Germain Knight of Georgetown, Ramdai Ramnand of Berbice, Trudy Ramberan of Georgetown, Amar Persaud of Grove, and Sheneza Caesar of Kwakwani.AstheCash Vault show concluded, Digicel’s Chief Executive Officer, Gregory Dean, announced that with the upcoming Cricket Carnival, Digicel customers would have a chance to win more prizes, as the company has plans to host other pro motions during that period. The crowd that gathered that night was entertained with a special musical per formance from Vacardi Singh. (G2) 5 customers walk away...
Voice Messages Earlier this month, Dazzel, in voice messages heard by this publication, re ferred to the suspect as a ‘nar cissist’, while crying that she could not continue to live with him because of his abnormal behaviours.“…aveil just come off my eyes in the past couple of days, and I need the first door out of this relationship. The manipulation is too much…a word came to me while I was sleeping: ‘narcissist!’ and two or three times this word keep waking me out of my sleep. When I researched the word, my jaw could have dropped. That is everything that he is right now…I can’t live with a mad man,” she was heard ex plaining.“Everybody is telling me I should be wise enough to leave, that they expect bet ter from me; but, trust me, when you are in it, it is differ ent from when you from the outside looking in”, the late Tacina had stated in her mes sages to relatives. The relative said that, im mediately after sending that voice message to her, Tacina had received a random mes sage from the suspect, telling her he cannot fight for their relationship anymore. This, they said, convinced them that he indeed had access to herTheyphone.also debunked the claims made by the suspect that the woman was messag ing another man; because, according to them, she was aware that he could have seen her messages. What led to the mur der, they contend, is that two weeks before the fate ful night, she had built up the courage to tell her abus er that he had to leave her home, because she could not deal with his behaviour any longer. This, according to the relative, had caused a rift be tween the couple, and they had not been speaking to each other for days. After realising that the woman was serious about her decision, the man had al legedly proposed marriage, but she had turned him down. However, hours before committing the act, another relative had gone to Tacina’s home and had found it ran sacked, with everything bro ken. When asked, Tacina’s six-year-old son had related that it was his stepfather (the suspect) who had ransacked the home. The man was not at home at the time. The relative said that at around 17:00h on that same day, Tacina and her son had gotten dressed and had gone to an ice cream banquet at their church — an annual event organised by Tacina’s father.“Tacina goes every year because her father is one of the organizers, and they usu ally stay there sometimes un til 2 in the morning, because when everything is finished, the merry-go-round and so on would be there and it has to be cleared up…,” this relative explained.“She went home late and changed into her paja mas; her son didn’t even ful ly change at the time. Shortly after, we get a call that she got stabbed up. It was not be cause of no man; it was be cause she went to church and went back home late. Based on what we heard, he was hiding in the house, and was waiting on her; and as soon as she changed, he started beat ing and stabbing her,” the rel ative detailed. Child begging for his life
Police stated that Isaacs was found lying on the bridge by a resident of the community. An alarm was raised and the Police were contact ed. The Emergency Medical Technicians from the Melanie Fire Station who responded to the scene pronounced him dead.There were no marks of vi olence seen on the body. The body was taken to Jerrick’s Funeral Parlour awaiting a post-mortem examination. Investigations are ongoing. Only two months ago, the partially decomposed body of 46-year-old Shelton Henry, of Lot 202 Area G Strathspey, ECD, was found floating in a trench on the eastern half of Company Road, Buxton, ECD.The discovery was made by villagers in the area, ac cording to a statement from the Guyana Police Force (GPF). The body was subse quently identified by Henry’s uncle, Gavin Buxton,lyingtwoployed,thatInvestigationsMcPherson.revealedHenry,whowasunemwaslastseenalivedaysbeforehewasfound,onCompanyRoad,ECD.
Officers of the GPF ex amined Henry’s body, but no marks of violence were seen on the exposed areas. Henry was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where he was pronounced dead.
“That is not true what the Police said that he turned himself in. He did not turn himself in, he went to his mother, and she send him away. He went to a friend, and the friend told him that he can’t stay there. And when he went to the second friend, the friend called the Police and told them that he was there in Sophia, and the Police were able to apprehend him right away,” the relative explained.Therelative added that the suspect had premeditated to murder the mother of one.
The skeletal remains of a human were found on Monday in the vi cinity of Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara (WBD). The discovery was made by a doc tor and his friends while they were catching crab along the foreshore.Assuch, the Police were contacted and a team of in vestigators from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Headquarters Crime Laboratory along with in vestigators from the Police Regional Division were dis patched to the area. Upon arrival, the bones were found scattered among the mangroves. Based on re ports received, the remains were completely skeletonised, meaning that it was there for quite some time. In addition, Police are working on the the ory that the remains might have washed up from the Demerara River. The bones recovered in cluded a skull which did not have any evidence of injuries after it was examined by the Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) team. The skull report edly had six teeth but the mandible (lower jaw) was not recovered.Further, several other bones were recovered at the location including three ver tebrae, and eight pieces of rib bone.The left and right humer us (arm bone) were recovered as well as the bones of the pel vic girdle (the hip structure). The left tibia (bone of the leg) was also found at the scene. Several other bones that make up the human skeleton were also missing, including the shoulder and feet. The skeletal remains were escorted to the CID Lab where it is stored awaiting further examination. On Saturday last, the skeletal remains suspect ed to be that of a missing Surinamese fisherman were found along the Corentyne foreshore in the vicinity of Eversham, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).Thediscoverywas made by a farmer who was travers ing the area. The farmer re lated that he observed a flock of vultures feasting on what he at the time thought was a dead animal. However, he reportedly went closer to in vestigate when he made the gruesome discovery. The Police were immedi ately contacted and a team of investigators arrived at the scene a short while after. Police in Berbice con firmed that there was no missing person’s report and as such, are working on the theory that the body could have floated from elsewhere and ended up at the fore shore.However, back on August 9, Surinamese news net work, Actionnieuws report ed that Wazir Shaw also called “Buddy”, a fisherman of Nickerie, had gone missing without a Followingtrace. the discov ery of the body on Saturday, family members of the miss ing Surinamese fisherman reached out to authorities in Guyana and provided them with information about the missing man. It was reported that Shaw was last seen wearing a tracksuit and had steel plates in his leg. This, relatives say, should assist the Police in confirming whether or not the remains found on Saturday are those of Shaw. At the time of the discov ery, the remains were par tially covered in a black or dark blue sweat suit. To date, the Police have not been able to confirm if the re mains are that of the missing Surinamese fisherman.
Unidentified motorcyclist dies after losing control of bike
thealonghome.ing,andwerehedent,statedtime,wasPouderoyen,Adriantrench.Forty-five-year-oldNelsonof18WBD,whothepillionrideratthesustainedinjuries.Police,inarelease,thataftertheacciNelsonreportedthatandthenow-deadmanatadanceinWales,asthemanwasleavhesolicitedadropWhileproceedingthewesternsideofWalesPublicRoad,
GPS distributes school supplies to children of inmates
Kenya’s Supreme Court on Tuesday laid out questions it will an swer when it rules on this month’s disputed presiden tial election result, includ ing whether the commission’s website was Oppositionhacked.leader Raila Odinga, who is seeking the presidency for the fifth time, is contesting the result of a tight vote after which the elec tion commission chairman declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner. Four out of the seven com missioners disowned the re sult.The situation has raised fears of possible violence like the episodes after disputed polls in 2007 and 2017. Kenya is a key western ally in an unstable region and it hosts the regional head quarters of many global com panies and Odinga’sorganisations.legalteamlodged a case alleging that a team working for Ruto hacked into the election system and re placed genuine pictures of polling station result forms with fake ones, thus increas ing Ruto’s share. Ruto denied the allega tions.The election commission has filed competing respons es, with three commissioners supporting the process and four questioning it. The Supreme Court will decide if the polling station returns were interfered with and whether the postpone ment of eight gubernatorial and legislative elections dis advantaged any candidate, said Chief Justice Martha Koome, the president of the seven-member court. The court, whose deci sion on presidential election petitions is final, will consid er whether there were unex plained disparities in votes cast for presidential and other races such as those for mem bers of parliament, Koome said.
The court will also decide whether the tallying of pres idential votes met constitu tional standards, and whether Ruto attained the constitu tional threshold of 50 percent plus one of the votes cast and whether any irregularities were substantial enough to nullify the poll, Koome said. The court will issue its verdict on those questions on Monday.In2017, it ordered a rerun of the presidential elections due to irregularities, but up held the victory of President Uhuru Kenyatta, who won af ter Odinga, then his rival, boy cotted them. (Reuters)
Kenya's Chief Justice Martha Koome addressing members of the judiciary during a reception after her swearing-in ceremony, outside the Supreme Court building in Nairobi, Kenya on May 21, 2021 [File: Monicah Mwangi / Reuters]
Twitter.willaer”“trustedonLeyenPresidentEuropeanworld.”CommissionUrsulavonderlaudedGorbachevTuesday,callinghimaandrespectedleadwho“openedthewayforfreeEurope”.“Thislegacyisonewenotforget,”shewroteon (Al Jazeera)
the driver of the motor cycle was going at a fast rate, and in the vicinity of Clarke’s Turn, he lost con trol of the motorcycle and it ended up in the trench. The pillion rider recalled jumping off the motorcycle before it ended up in the trench.According to Police, the men were taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital, where the driv er was pronounced dead, while the pillion rider was admitted as a patient suf fering from a fractured leg. The body of the motor cyclist is at the hospital’s mortuary awaiting identi fication and post-mortem examination.Investigations into the circumstances of this fatal accident are continuing.
A n unidentified mo torcyclist lost his life at Wales, West Bank Demerara (WBD) in the wee hours of Sunday, after he reportedly lost control of his bike while negotiating a turn, and it ended up in a nearby
Inmates with their children during the exercise
A s the new school year is set to com mence on September 5, the Guyana Prison Service (GPS) has distrib uted school items to the children of several inmates via a “Back-to-School” ini tiative.The GPS believes that anticipation of a new school year can mean loads of ex citement, but at the same time it can also bring a feel ing of fear and anxiety for many parents and guard ians to provide the basic necessities for their chil dren to return to school. It is on this note that the GPS continues to show its compassion and altru ism to those breadwinners who are incarcerated by equipping their children with the much-needed sup plies for the new academic schoolTheyear.exercise was con ducted at all prison loca tions, where the children benefitted from backpacks, lunch bags along with day care bags stocked with sta tionery supplies, lunch bowls, water bottles, baby wipes, and flasks. The initiative was coor dinated by the Welfare and Corrections Department as a part of the Family Reconciliation Programme. According to Officer-in-
Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader, dies aged 91 Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Cold War [File: Allison Joyce/Reuters]
Conor O’Clery, a Moscow correspondent for The Irish Times newspaper from 1991 to 1996, said Gorbachev be came “embittered” after failing to keep the Soviet Union together and leaving office. “Gorbachev had be come friendly with the West, was seen as a reformer in the West, but he did try to keep the Soviet Union to gether and he failed in that,”
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Conor O’Clery, a Moscow correspondent for The Irish Times newspaper from 1991 to 1996, told Al Jazeera on Tuesday.“He’s reviled today in Russia because he’s associ ated with the breakup of the Soviet Union and the end of the leading role that Russia had in the
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, Russian news agencies reported, cit ing medical “Gorbachevsources.diedthis eve ning after a serious and long illness,” the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow said late on Tuesday, as quoted by the Interfax, TASS and RIA Novosti news invasionasmodernasEuropeandenceWarthatGorbachev’sSovietcollapseUnionGorbachevagencies.ledtheSovietfrom1985untilitsin1991.Thedissolutionofthebloc—markedbyresignationyear—endedtheColdandledtotheindepenofseveralEasterncountriesaswelltheestablishmentoftheRussianstate.Gorbachev’sdeathcomesRussiapushesonwithitsofUkraine,which has intensified tensions be tween Moscow and the West. He will be buried in Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery next to his wife Raisa, who died in 1999, state-owned TASS report ed, citing a source famil iar with the family’s wish es. After becoming the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985, Gorbachev pushed to revitalise the system by in troducing some political and economic freedoms. He also refrained from using force to
Kenya Supreme Court lays out issues in presidential vote dispute
Charge, Marielle BristolGrant, the time could not have been more fitting, and the items were carefully thought out to be most ben eficial to the recipients. The packages were pre sented to the children by their parents, and it was most important to have them feel a part of the pro cess and to create a positive memory for them, BristolGrantActingemphasised.Director of Prisons, Nicklon Elliot not ed that the initiative was aimed at ensuring that the beneficiaries are being pro vided with the basic ame nities to attend school. “I think it helps their self-es teem, despite their circum stances,” Elliot said. “We at the GPS recog nise the importance of ed ucation. We all know that the greatest asset that could be given to a child is education.” Additionally, the Prison Director ex pressed optimism that the initiative will motivate the students to get excited about returning to school and face-to-face learning.
subdue pro-democracy pro tests in the Soviet bloc na tions of communist Eastern Europe in 1989. But the Soviet Union began to fall apart over the next two years, and Gorbachev struggled to pre vent that collapse. “I see myself as a man who start ed the reforms that were necessary for the coun try and for Europe and the world,” Gorbachev told The Associated Press news agen cy in a 1992 interview short ly after he left office. “I am often asked, would I have started it all again if I had to repeat it? Yes, in deed. And with more per sistence and determination,” he said. Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Cold War, but many in Russia see him as responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the social and economic crises that the country wit nessed in the early 1990s. “The Nobel Committee just doesn’t know what it’s like here … Let them spend a couple of months living like Russians and see how they feel,” an unnamed teach er told the Reuters news agency after Gorbachev re ceived the Nobel Prize. “Is peace only for foreigners?”
Ecuador fears Galapagos tortoises were hunted and eaten Galapagos giant tortoises are protected, but more than a dozen have been hunted in recent years
St Lucia Prime Minister Philip J Pierre
Ecuador has launched an investigation into the killing of four Galapagos giant tortoises, which prosecutors fear were hunted and eaten. Remains of the reptiles were found in a national park on Isabela, the largest island of the Galapagos ar chipelago.Killing the endangered animals has been banned since 1933 but more than a dozen have been hunted in the last two years. Tortoise meat was once considered a delicacy, but those who hunt them now face up to three years in jail. In September 2021, park rangers found the remains of 15 Sierra Negra giant tor toises on PhotosIsabela.oftheir empty shells were widely shared on social media and caused out rage in Ecuador - of which the Galapagos Islands are part of - and beyond. Evidence gathered at the time suggested the 15 had been hunted for their meat. The recent discovery of remains of four more an imals has reignited fears that the practice continues despite the total hunting ban.Experts will carry out post-mortems on the re mains and a unit specialis ing in environmental crimes is collecting testimonies from national park agents. Galapagos giant tortoises have a lifespan of more than 100 years and were made famous by Charles Darwin, who pioneered the theory of evolution studying them. The ship Darwin sailed on, The Beagle, took 30 live tortoises on its long voy age from the Galapagos to Polynesia. Most of them were eaten by the crew. There are currently about 15,000 of the giant tortoises in the world, com pared to 200,000 in the 19th Century. (Excerpt from BBC News)
Atop court for nine eastern Caribbean nations and territo ries has ruled that sexual orientation and homosexual activity are protected under the right to privacy, invali dating colonial-era laws that criminalised homosexual be haviour in Saint Kitts and Nevis.Anti-sodomy laws were challenged in court by Saint Kitts and Nevis Alliance for Equality (SKNAFE) and Jamal Jeffers, a gay man, in January of last year accord ing to Loop, a Caribbean news“Thisoutlet.decision strongly establishes that a person’s sexuality should never be the basis for any discrimi nation. We welcome the rec ognition of this fact, one for which we have long advo cated,” said Tynetta McKoy, the executive director of SKNAFE, according to Loop. Gay people have faced discrimination in the region, and the ruling has been cel ebrated by gay rights groups as a step towards equali ty and freedom. SKNAFE and Jeffers had argued that the right to liberty includes the right to consensual sex and partnership with a per son of their choosing. They further argued that the right to privacy is not limited to protection against unlawful searches. The St Lucia-based court upheld that claim, with High Court Judge Trevor Ward stating that sections of the 1873 anti-sodomy law infringe upon the “right to determine the way they, as individuals, choose to ex press their sexuality in pri vate with another consent ing Wardadult.”said in the ruling those laws are “null and void and of no force”. The local government unsuccessfully argued that sexual orientation was not covered by freedom of ex pression guarantees. They also argued that toleration of gay activity would open “the floodgates to practic es that could alter and com promise survival of the cul ture and personality of the Federation”, which they ar gued was founded on “belief in Almighty God and the in herent dignity in each in dividual”. (Excerpt from Al Jazeera)
The heavy rainfall was the result of the passage of a Tropical Wave over the is land, although most of east ern Trinidad was unaffect ed. (Excerpt from Trinidad Guardian)
“Investors are showing a high level of confidence and interest in St Lucia’s eco nomic prospects. This is ev ident by the level of tourism investments which have been recorded for the peri od January to August 2022, Prime Minister Phillip J Pierre told the 58th annu al general meeting of the St Lucia Hotel and Tourism Association (SLHTA). He said during that pe riod Cabinet approved 20 projects for tourism incen tives “amounting to project ed investments of EC$326.6 million”.Pierre, a former Tourism Minister, said that the Jamaica-based Sandals group has started renova tions on one of its properties here, while another hotel has re-opened under new management. He said an other hotel under new man agement has “major plans for expansion just to name a few”.Pierre said he welcomed the opportunity to address the meeting because he wants the private sector to play a much more mean ingful role in the socio-eco nomic development of the island.
Brazilian aluminum producer Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio and green econ omy project developer Reservas Votorantim are is suing Latin America’s first carbon credits from the Cerrado biome, they said jointly on ReservasTuesday.Votorantim has certified an area cover ing 11,500 hectares (28,417 acres) in the state of Goias, where it can potentially gen erate some 50,000 carbon credits per year, according to their joint statement. Issuing carbon credits generated on preserved ar eas of the Cerrado, Brazil’s second largest ecosystem af ter the Amazon, is unprece dented, the companies said. Some 316,000 credits have been issued and will be sold at auction. Bids can be submitted between now and the end of September. The sale of this first batch of credits could gen erate around US$5 million, the companies said. “The initiative is a mile stone in the carbon credit market in Brazil as well as globally, once it unlocks val ue from forest assets in a new and deeply threatened biome as the Cerrado,” they said.The Cerrado savan nah, where Brazilian farm ers grow soybeans and corn for export markets and lo cal consumption, is being destroyed faster than the neighboring Amazon rain forest, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature. Strengthening volun tary carbon markets is par amount, as it compensates farmers who preserve trees where they can legally cut them.ERA, one of the compa nies running Cerrado car bon credit auctions, is try ing to persuade growers on more than 30,000 hect ares in Maranhao state to enter the market as a way to diversify their revenue, though planting commer cial crops remains attrac tive with high grain prices. (Excerpt from Reuters)
Colombia and Venezuela have re stored full diplomatic relations after a three-year break.Anew Colombian ambas sador, Armando Benedetti, arrived in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, on Sunday. “Relations with Venezuela should never have been severed. We are broth ers and an imaginary line cannot separate us,” the new envoy wrote on Twitter. Benedetti was welcomed by Venezuela’s Deputy Foreign Minister Rander Pena Ramirez, who tweet ed that “our historical ties summon us to work together for the happiness of our peo ples”.Colombia’s new left-wing President, Gustavo Petro, and Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro announced on August 11 that they planned to restore diplomatic relations, which were severed in 2019. Caracas had broken off ties with Bogota early that year after members of the Venezuelan opposition tried to cross from Colombian ter ritory with trucks loaded with food and medicine. It also closed the border, saying the aid masked an at tempted coup by the opposi tion with support from the United States. Embassies and consulates in both coun tries were shut down, and flights between the neigh bors were Bottomgrounded.ofForm
St Lucia PM optimistic about tourism investment
T he St Lucia Government said it is anticipating invest ments in the tourism in dustry to surpass EC$320 million as a result of nego tiations with various inves tors during the first eight months of this year.
S everal parts of north ern Trinidad expe rienced some of the worst flash flooding seen in recent years yesterday, amid heavy and persistent rainfall that started just be foreMajornoon. roadways and communities in Western Trinidad were among the worst hit, with the free flow of traffic prevented for over two hours in some cases. The rain began just be fore 11 am and continued for well over an hour. The heavy flow of wa ter from the hilly communi ties made the Western Main Road in Cocorite impassable by 12:15 pm, causing a back log of traffic deep into Diego Martin and Carenage. The gridlock persist ed for over two hours, with hundreds of vehicles backed up in the traffic. Those who were able to make it past Cocorite head ing towards Port-of-Spain found themselves stuck by more floodwaters under the Cocorite overpass, which prevented traffic from flow ing onto the Audrey Jeffers Highway.Theroute over the over pass towards St James also proved a fruitless option, as drivers were also met with floodwaters at the bottom of the flyover outside the St James Hospital.
Tourism officials said that visitor expenditure post coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic had exceeded EC$560 million last year and hotels and other proper ties collectively made in ex cess of EC$303 million. During his address, Prime Minister Pierre made an appeal for the thousands of workers in the tourism industry to be adequately compensated. (Excerpt from Nation News)
As traffic built up there as well, some drivers tried using a route along Fort George Road to bypass the flood but a landslip along that road stopped traffic from going any further. The rain also caused landslips that threatened homes in Carenage and Bournes Road, St James and further west, the road into Tucker Valley was also impassable as the river overflowed across its path.
The former President of Colombia, Ivan Duque, did not recognise Maduro’s re-election in 2019 and had instead backed opposition leader Juan Guaido’s claim that he is Venezuela’s inter im President.Tieshave warmed since Petro assumed office in early August. Petro, Colombia’s first left-wing President, said he will recognise Maduro and work with the Venezuelan Government on several is sues, including fighting rebel groups along the porous bor der between the countries. Maduro has also appoint ed Felix Plasencia, a former Foreign Minister, as ambas sador to Bogota. (Excerpt from Al Jazeera)
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“Heavy fighting” as Ukraine seeks to retake Russian-held Kherson region
Bottom of Form “They continued to force their way through. We had no choice but to defend our selves,” the officer added. (Excerpt from Al Jazeera)
Fierce battles have been reported as Ukraine tries to retake the Russian-occupied southern Kherson region - but military experts have told the BBC it “won’t happen quickly”. “Heavy fighting is con tinuing, our soldiers are working around the clock,” said Vitaliy Kim, who heads the neighbouring Mykolaiv region.Ukraine earlier said it had broken through Russia’s first line of defence. But Russia said Ukrainian troops had been defeated during a failed at tack. The Defence Ministry in Moscow also said there had been heavy casualties among the Ukrainian forces, but the claims by both Ukraine and Russia have not been inde pendentlyKhersonverified.became the first major Ukrainian city to fall into Russian hands in the opening days of Moscow’s invasion that began on February 24.
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Brent crude futures for October settled down US$5.78, or 5.5 per cent, at US$99.31 a barrel after touching a session low of US$97.55 a barrel. The October contract expires today and the more active November contract was at US$97.84, down 4.9 per cent. US West Texas Intermediate crude dropped by US$5.37, or 5.5 per cent, to US$91.64. With inflation near double-digit territory in many top economies, central banks could resort to more aggressive interest rate increases, slowing economic growth and fuel demand.TheEuropean Central Bank should include a 75-basispoint interest rate hike among its options for the September policy meeting, Estonian policymaker Madis Muller said on Tuesday.German inflation in August rose to its highest in almost 50 years, data showed. Hungary’s central bank raised its base rate by 100 basis points to 11.75 per cent. Bets on another oversized Fed rate hike also boosted the dollar. A stronger greenback makes dollar-denominated oil more expensive for buyers with other currencies. Prices tumbled after comments from Iraq’s state-owned marketer SOMO that the country’s oil exports had been unaffected by unrest, said UBS analyst Giovanni Staunovo. Baghdad’s worst clashes in years between rival Shi’ite Muslim groups continued for a second day before subsiding when powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his supporters to goSOMOhome.said it could redirect more oil to Europe if required. Prices felt more pressure when Russia’s fastest-growing oil producer, Gazprom Neft, said it plans to double oil output at its Zhagrin field in Western Siberia to more than 110,000 barrels per Investorsday.will watch the meeting of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allies including Russia, known collectively as OPEC+, on Sept 5. Saudi Arabia last week raised the possibility of production cuts from OPEC+, which sources said could coincide with a boost in supply from Iran should it clinch a nuclear deal with the InWest.another possible supply boost, Venezuela’s Oil Minister said the country was ready to move ahead with business with the oil major Chevron Corp, adding that progress to relaunch the operations depends on licenses from Washington.
Jackson, Mississippi has “no water to drink or flush toilets”
Displaced Afghan families spend time together after the heavy flood in the Khushi district of Logar province [Reuters]
P owerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr or dered his followers to end their protests in central Baghdad on Tuesday, eas ing a confrontation which led to the deadliest violence in the Iraqi capital in years.
Eighteen people have died after Police in Madagascar opened fire on what they called a lynch mob angered at the kidnapping of a child with al binism, a senior doctor has said.Dozens were also wound ed in the incident on Monday. “At the moment, 18 peo ple have died in all, nine on the spot and nine in hospi tal,” Tango Oscar Toky, chief physician at a hospital in southeastern Madagascar, told AFP. “Of the 34 injured, nine are between life and death,” said the doctor. “We are wait ing for a Government heli copter to evacuate them to theOncapital.”the large Indian Ocean island, people with al binism are regularly the tar get of violence. More than a dozen abductions, attacks, and murders have been re ported in the past two years, according to the United Nations.
A Ukrainian soldier firing a machine gun
A reported kidnapping of a child with albinism hap pened last week in the town of Ikongo, according to JeanBrunelle Razafintsiandraofa, a Member of Parliament for thatFourdistrict.suspects had been arrested by the gendarmes but the residents went to the gendarmerie barracks on Monday, demanding that the suspects be handed over, the lawmaker said. Some 500 protesters, armed with blades and ma chetes, “tried to force their way” into the station, a police officer involved in the shoot ing said, speaking on condi tion of Policeanonymity.firstfired tear gas and then rounds in the air to try to disperse the crowd, he said.
Iraqi cleric Sadr calls off protests after worst Baghdad violence in years
Several provinces across the eastern, central, southern and western regions of Afghanistan have been hit by heavy rains, re sulting in flash floods and landslides that have caused the deaths of more than 180 people, displaced at least 8000 others and damaged at least 3000 houses. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the provinces of Kunar, Laghman, Logar, Wardak, Nangarhar, Nuristan, Paktia and Parwan have been the hardest hit. The UN OCHA – in its latest update – said that in this month alone, at least 118 people died due to flash floods. Several provinces of Afghanistan have faced heavy rains and floods in re cent weeks. At least 20 people have been killed and 30 oth ers injured in Logar province. Afghanistan has been reeling from natural disas ters this year, including a drought and a devastating earthquake that killed more than 1000 people in June. The nation has been largely cut off from the internation al financial system since the Taliban took over a year ago. Mullah Sharafuddin Muslim, deputy minister of state for disaster manage ment of the Taliban govern ment, told reporters that the floods have caused major loss of life and assets. Speaking at a news con ference on August 27, Mullah Abdul Latif Mansour, acting minister of energy and wa ter, said that “750 cisterns, 329 small dams, and 441 ma jor water channels were dam aged in recent flooding across the country.” The acting minister of agriculture, irrigation and livestock, Mullah Ataullah Omari, said almost 600,000 acres (24,281 hectares) of land remains flooded and “cannot be used”. The Taliban officials said that the country is currently experiencing a “humanitarian crisis” and ap pealed for more international aid. (Excerpt from Al Jazeera)
With most producers already operating at or above capacity and growing signs that the global economy may be slowing, some reduction of supply is looking increasingly likely in the coming months, said Matt Weller, head of research at FOREX.com and City Index. US crude stockpiles rose, while fuel stocks fell in the latest week, according to market sources citing American Petroleum Institute figures on Tuesday. Crude stocks rose by about 593,000 barrels for the week ended Aug 26, according to the data. US crude oil stockpiles are likely to have fallen in the week to Aug 26, a preliminary Reuters poll showed on Monday.
Some 180,000 residents in Jackson, Mississippi have “indefinitely” lost access to reliable running water after excessive rain fall and Risingflooding.floodwaters over the weekend breached the city’s main water treatment facility, bringing it to the brink of collapse. A state of emergency has been declared, and schools, restaurants and businesses have temporarily closed. Raw reservoir water is coming through the pipes, residents were told. Both the city and state are distributing bottled drinking water to residents as well as non-potable water via tanker truck. Jackson residents are also experiencing low wa ter pressure and have been under a boil-water notice for the past month. “Do not drink the wa ter,” Governor Tate Reeves warned at a Monday news conference. “In too many cases, it is raw water from the reservoir being pushed through the Problemspipes.”at the OB Curtis Water Plant began after heavy rains caused the Pearl River to crest and spill over onto city streets over the weekend. City hall confirmed on Monday that river water had entered the facility, which treats more than 50 million US gallons (190 mil lion litres) per “Adjustmentsday.to the wa ter-treatment process are being made and have led to a temporary decrease in wa ter production for some ar eas,” it said in a statement. “This will remain an issue for the next couple days as we work to refill the tanks.” All public schools in Jackson shifted to virtual learning on Tuesday amid the crisis, while business es and restaurants reported needing to purchase ice and water jugs. (Excerpt from BBC News)
Top Ukrainian military officials have been tightlipped about giving too many details about its reported counter-offensive, urging the wider public to be patient. On Tuesday, Ukraine’s Operational Command “South” reported that “posi tional battles” continued. It said three key bridges across the Dnipro River had been hit again to make sure they were impassable. In recent weeks, Ukraine has also been using US-supplied HIMARS precision rocket systems to target makeshift Russian pontoon bridges, as well as command posts and ammunition depots. This is widely seen as part of a targeted effort to cut off Russian troops on the right (western) bank of the river, making it virtually im possible to send troops and weapons resupplies. However, officials in Kyiv have been cautioning against any expectations of a quick win, describing the offen sive as a slow grinding down of the enemy. (Excerpt from BBC News)
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Afghanistan reels from deadly flash floods and landslides
Apologising to Iraqis af ter 22 people were killed in clashes between an armed group loyal to him and ri val Shi’ite Muslim factions backed by Iran, Sadr con demned the fighting and gave his own followers one hour to “Thisdisperse.isnot a revolu tion because it has lost its peaceful character,” Sadr, a former anti-US insur gent leader, said in a tele vised address. “The spilling of Iraqi blood is forbidden.” As the deadline passed at around 2 pm (1100 GMT), Sadr’s followers could be seen leaving the area in the fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad where Government offices are located and where they had occupied Parliament for weeks. Monday’s clashes be tween rival factions of Iraq’s Shi’ite majority follow 10 months of political deadlock since Iraq’s October parlia mentary election. The clashes pitted loyal ists of Sadr, who has posi tioned himself as a nation alist opposed to all foreign and especially Iranian in fluence, against political and armed groups backed by Iran.Sadr emerged as the main winner in the elec tion but failed in his efforts to form a Government with Sunni Muslim Arab and Kurdish parties, exclud ing the Iran-backed Shi’ite groups.This week’s violence erupted after Sadr said he was withdrawing from all political activity - a decision he said was prompted by the failure of other Shi’ite leaders and parties to re form a corrupt and decay ing governing system. (Excerpt from Reuters)
Oil prices fell nearly US$6 a barrel on Tuesday, the steepest decline in about a month, on fears that fuel demand could soften as global central banks hike rates to fight surging inflation, and as unrest in Iraq failed to dent the OPEC nation’s crude exports.
The Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the US Department of Energy, will release its own figures at 10:30 am (1430 GMT) today. (Excerpt from Reuters)
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Klopp could not believe Scott Parker has been sacked by Bournemouth after losing 9-0 to his Liverpool side. He is suggesting “the right own ers” would not have made such a Saturday’sdecision. game at Anfield tied the record for the biggest defeat in Premier League history, with Bournemouth being com pletely outclassed. It was the third defeat in a row for the newly promoted outfit, who had also been comfort ably beaten by Manchester City and Arsenal without scoring.ABournemouth state ment confirming Parker’s departure on Tuesday ap peared to suggest his dis missal was not based on results alone, as it stated the head coach had to be “aligned in our strategy to run the club sustainably”.
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“Then (there are) other clubs who have other struc tures, like us or Arsenal or whoever, and then there are clubs like Bournemouth.
-after seeing “outstanding” Bournemouth coach Scott Parker sacked Region One T10 7-a-side tape ball cricket competition…
The victorious Mahdia Movements Family
Double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah was narrowly beaten by American Sha’Carri Richardson in the Women’s 100m at the Luzern World Athletics Continental Tour-Silver Meet in Switzerland on Tuesday. In -2.0 second winds, ThompsonHerah ran 11.30 to narrowly fin ish behind Richardson’s 11.29. The USA’s Celera Barnes ran 11.40 for third. Jamaica’s Natasha Morrison was victorious in the B-final in 11.42, ahead of Egypt’s Bassant Hemida (11.44) and Gambia’s Gina Bass (11.50). On the Men’s side, World Championship semi-finalist Ackeem Blake ran 10.22 for third, behind Commonwealth champion Ferdinand Omanyala of Kenya (10.18) and American World Championship sil ver medallist Marvin Bracy (10.17). (Sportsmax)
The Mahdia Movements Family are continuing to maintain their un beaten streak in the NorthWest District (Region One) T10 seven-a-side tape ball cricket competition, having registered two back-to-back wins respectively over 592 Moruca and Mabaruma in fixtures played at Moruca. In game one, against 592 Moruca, played at Sheba Ground in Region 1, Movements Family post ed 191 runs without loss in their allotted 10 overs, with Rajendra Singh and Ricardo Adams manhandling the 592 bowlers to end their innings on 65 and 100 respectively. Playing 592 Moruca on Moruca home turf, the Movements Family proved yet again why they are one of the top tape ball teams in the country, and must be treated as such.Needing 192 for victo ry, at a rate in excess of 19 runs per over, the over whelmed Moruca 592 fum bled and were bowled out for 99, losing by a whopping 92 runs. Keon La Rose topscored for his side with 35, while the standout bowler for Movements Family was Daniel Seegobin, who took 2 wickets for 17 runs. Ricardo Adams showed his all-round prowess by bagging 1-4. In game two, against Mabaruma, Movements Family batted first and showed their competence yet again. Ricardo Adams was the proverbial ‘beast with the bat’, following up his century in the first game with a su perb 127 not out. Adams was ably supported by Martin
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“We must also show be lief in, and respect for, one another,” it added. Parker had bemoaned Bournemouth’s lack of transfer activity since their promotion from the Championship, and had even suggested the Liverpool loss had not come as a surprise, and could be repeated with out action in the market. Regardless, Klopp felt this call was “really harsh”, referring to it as “unbe lievable” as a question on Parker was posed to him at a news conference later on Tuesday.“When I heard it today, that’s the moment where you realise how important the right owners are,” he said. “We all know there are different systems in the Premier League, how clubs are led. Some rules don’t al low them to do exactly what they want. If they could stretch their resources, that would be strange – they could do anything, because they are owned by countries.
Singh, who chipped in with 32. The dominant batting displayed by the Movements Family enabled them to post 178-2 in eight overs; and Heading into the chase, the huge target proved too much for Mabaruma, as they could muster only a meagre 56, thereby handing Movements Family victory by 122 runs. The top performers for Mahdia Movements Family were Martin Singh (2-120) and Ricardo Adams (2-6). At the end of the tournament, Adams walked away with 227 runs from his two games, and also picked up 3 wickets. In a statement made af ter the matches, Mahdia Movements Family owner Rajkumar Singh said, “It is basically a PPP/C fund raiser, held in Moruca to bring out the youths to be part of the activities. There were other sports as well as cricket. Movements Family just played a role in donat ing $60,000 to the male and female winners of the foot ball, and as well a role of $30,000 each in the cricket match.Behind everything, we are basically with the Government and support ing the Government, and that would be Movements Family.”
Mahdia Movements Family record back-to-back wins
Ricardo Adams top-scored with 127 and 100 in his two games
“You saw three teams coming up: Fulham, Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth. Nottingham is spending like…they spend. Fulham is doing some stuff. And I can’t re member that Bournemouth did a lot. That is obviously difficult if you come up from the Championship and ar rive in the Premier League. That is not easy, so I felt for Scott.“It’s not that his team are not good enough; not at all! I’m not sure where you get that idea if the first four games give you Arsenal, City and Liverpool. If you have nervous owners, that’s like set-up for a new manag er: ‘Let’s see how he can do.’ That’s why I was very surprised, very surprised. “I think Scott is an out standing manager, to be honest. What he did with Fulham in his first job, and now Bournemouth in the Championship, getting up. This is an outstanding achievement and really dif ficult; and then you get four games, and three of them are Arsenal, City and Liverpool, and your owner tells you, ‘See you later’. That’s really harsh.”That does not mean Klopp and Liverpool are al ways on the same page, as he explained there were also sometimes disagreements about the Anfield club’s ap proach, even if he is now ac customed to how they work. Asked if he had been backed, Klopp replied: “This summer? What does it mean (to be) ‘backed’? What I don’t like is that if I say, ‘I’m not sure’, we make a massive thing of it; but I realised as well it was always like this. Was it always easy? No.” He added: “Let me say it like this: from time to time, I would like to risk a bit more, but I don’t decide that. We have a great team, and we will really try to squeeze ev erything out of this season.” (Sportsmax)
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FOR RENT OR SALE I t was heartbreak time for Guyana’s National Under 17 boys, known as the Junior Golden Jaguars, in a CONCACAF Under-17 qualifier match played at the IMG Academy in Florida, USA, when Bonaire came from behind to hand them an upset 4-2 Itdefeat.was also Guyana’s first game in pursuit of a spot in the CONCACAF 2023 Under-23 Championships.WithDuguain Samuels being the goal’s custodian and Shakem Welcome wearing the captain’s armband, Swade Edwards, Gerry Burnette, Seon Cato, Kvist Paul, Omar Sam, Noah Kissoon, Matrim Martin, Andre Nelson and Bryan Wharton made up the remainder of Guyana’s starting XI, who for most of the first half managed to hold off the Bonaire competition, and even broke the deadlock first.Gerry Burnette of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) found the back of the net in the 38th, but at resumption of the second half, Guyana’s lead was nullified by the cardinal sin of an own goal scored in the 51st. And although a 52nd minute goal from Matrim Martin of the Slingerz FC quickly handed the Junior Jags the lead once again, that own goal opened the proverbial flood gates for Bonaire to flow.First, Mervin Dhishmey made it a 2-2 game for Bonaire in the 58th, then Freadven Michiel handed his team the lead in the 70th. Despite Guyana’s best efforts, they could not find another goal; whereas, in the 88th, Rhiordan Piar hammered home the last goal of the game, and Bonaire went on to defeat Guyana by a margin of 4 goals to Guyana’s 2. The Junior Jags will seek redemption on Thursday, when they compete in their second game of the tournament against Bahamas, beginning at 11am local time. Guyana has been drawn in Group A of the CONCACAF Under-17 qualifiers with Bermuda, Bahamas, Bonaire, Saint Martin and the British Virgin Islands. The Junior Jags will oppose each group member once in the Qualifier tournament.Thereare four groups in the Qualifying tournament, the winners of which will gain a spot in next year’s Under-17 Championships, scheduled for February 11th to 26th, 2023 in Guatemala City and Antigua Guatemala in Guatemala.
G uyana’s youth boxing team did well to recapture the overall title at the Winfield Braithwaite School Boys and Juniors tournament that was hosted over the last weekend. To make matters even better, 50-52kg class boxer Jeremiah Duncan was adjudged best boxer, adding to the accolades that Guyana carted off on Sunday evening. The tournament, which commenced last Friday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH), witnessed Guyana clinch another Winfield Braithwaite title
Belle Vue Sports Club of the West Side battled St. Cuthbert’s Mission in a thrilling T20 encounter played last Sunday in St Cuthbert’s Mission; and, thanks to Vice Captain Dyal Rajpat, who played a handy unbeaten knock of 35,emerged victorious by 6 wickets, with 21 balls to spare. Having won the toss, St Cuthbert’s batted first and posted 139-8 in their 20 overs, showing great control of the proceedings although Belle Vue managed to chip away at their batting to set themselves a modest total for victory. Their top-scorer was Timothy Andrews, whose 30 not out included 2×4 and 3×6. Avinash Poonsammy contributed 27 not out (2×4, 1×6), Raydon Austin, 24 (1×4, 2×6); and 21 (2×4, 1×6) came from Shavez (only name given).Safraz Baksh, Dev Seepersaud and Lucian Sam of participation from Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, and the Bahamas, apart from Guyana’s 17-member team. Given his accolade at the end of the three-night competition, Duncan led the charge for Guyana with an entertaining victory over Andre Curtis of The Bahamas in the 50-52kg class. The closest thing the Guyanese could get to a knockout was the referee stopping the contest in the third round with things set in the Guyanese teenager’s favour. Earlier in the competition, Eon Bancroft Jr of the Young Achievers exhibited great skill in his victory over St. Lucia’s Harve Charlemagne. Bancroft did enough for the referee to stop the fight early in the 6063kg bout. Joshua Thambaran of the Rose Hall Jammers gym was also among Guyana’s victors, this time in the 5760kg category. Opposing Prince Charles of Trinidad and Tobago, Thambaran got a heated start, and capitalised on it enough for the referee to stop the bout just over a minute into the contest. Emanuel Pompey was another of Guyana’s shining stars on the final night of the Caribbean youth tournament. Pompey defeated Bahamian Elijah Smith in the 91+kg class to add to Guyana’s gold medals. And Elijah Smith’s teammate Jailen Younge exacted revenge for Smith’s defeat when he thumped Guyana’s Tiquan Sampson. Another Bahamian, Jaden Younge, also tasted victory when he defeated Guyana’s Dwayne TrinidadEarlierBaptiste.inthetournament,andTobagohad much to celebrate when Chris Persaud thumped Juhuan Haniff of Guyana in a 60-63kg bout. the Belle Vue Sports Club each bagged 2 wickets, while Dyal Rajpat and Colin Boucher each took one wicket. The highly anticipated chase saw Belle Vue reply with 144-4, made in 16.3 overs. The visitors made light work of the St Cuthbert’s total as they were always in control of the game. They were led by Vice Captain Dyal Rajpat, who made 35 not out (1×4, 4×6), and under-17 player Alex Parag, who made a quick 28 not out (2×4, 3×6). Captain Randy Ramrup also contributed a solid 26 (2×4, 1×6), and Ryan Seecharran supported with 21 (1×6).Bowling for St. Cuthbert’s, Rahul (only name given) bagged 2 wickets, while Ronnie Simon and Timothy Andrews each took one wicket. After the cricket match, Belle Vue boys put on a show by playing the Pakuri Boys in a game of football. The Pakuri Boys won that contest 6-3. The Belle Vue Sports Club is extremely grateful to St. Cuthbert’s for hosting them to such a fun-filled and eventful day. national anthem and see the flag on the top step of the podium; and yes, that’s my goal all the time: to represent Barbados,” he added. His F3 season, already highlighted by the fastest lap in Bahrain in March and achieving pole position at Imola in April, ends in mid-September, and he is now targeting a top-five finish in the championship standings. Before this year’s F3 campaign, Maloney had contested the Formula Regional European Championship in 2021, and had secured podium finishes that included a victory in Monaco from pole position. (Sportsmax)
Zane Maloney of Barbados celebrating Belle Vue defeat St Cuthbert’s in T20 encounter
The National U17 team prior to their departure from Guyana
Bonaire come from behind to defeat Junior Jags 4-2 Buoyed by a win in his dramatic Formula 3 feature race in Belgium this past weekend, 18-year-old Barbadian driving sensation Zane Maloney is targeting a strong finish to the 2022 FIA Maloneyseason.rallied from a scary crash during Saturday’s Sprint Race to triumph in the feature race at the Spa-Francorchamps on Sunday for his first victory in F3. That win has vaulted Maloney to seventh in the F3 Drivers’ championship standings heading into the last two races in this year’s campaign – at Zandvoort in the Netherlands this weekend, and the season finale in Monza, Italy from September 8-10.
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“We have two more rounds. There’s still a chance at doing very well at the championship,” Maloney, who drives for the champion Italian team Trident, has said. After seven races in the season, Maloney is seventh on 74 points, 32 points off the lead, held by the Frenchman Isack Hadjar (106). He is only six points off sixth-placed American Jak Crawford (80), and 22 behind current No.5, Roman Stanek (96) of the Czech “Hopefully,Republic.I’llhave a good two rounds, and I will keep pushing as hard as I can,” Maloney has said. Maloney had been forced to retire from Saturday’s Sprint, after being involved in a massive two-car crash that triggered a red flag to stall the race. That dreadful crash, involving 17-yearold team Campos driver Oliver Goethe and Maloney, had seen both junior F3 stars collide as they came out of a bend at highspeed. Maloney had been trying to power his way up the inside, but miscalculated and failed to make the bend. The collision had flung Maloney and Goethe off the track and into the safety barrier. To return the following day for his maiden F3 win was an immense coup for the Barbadian teenager and his team. “An amazing feeling. The team did a great job to get the car back ready, everything was new. Fourteen hours of work, zero sleep. I am very sore today, but it was well worth it,” Maloney said after Sunday’s victory.
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Fabian Allen (Jamaica Tallawahs) Allen has made himself available for national selec tion ahead of the T20 World Cup, following a statement about his father's death. He had declined a central con tract with West Indies earli er this year, and had taken a break during the internation
Oshane Thomas's fitness and form have taken a hit, but he can be a handful with his height
Lewis has since got gigs in the Lanka Premier League (Jaffna Kings) and T10 league (Bangla Tigers), and on Sunday he captained St Kitts and Nevis Patriots to the in augural men's 6ixty title. With Chris Gayle mak ing himself unavailable for CPL 2022, Patriots will look up to Lewis for the opening salvos. He hasn't played for West Indies since the 2021 T20 World Cup, and needs a bumper CPL season to force his way into the T20I side for the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia.
Seven West Indies players who could use the CPL as a for a T20 World Cup spot
Like Chase, Cottrell missed the 6ixty, and has dropped down the pecking or der, with McCoy establishing himself as West Indies' front line left-arm seamer during the home season. While McCoy can hit speeds north of 145kph, and also cut it down with his collection of varia tions, he isn't a genuine swing bowler like Cottrell, and is not as useful in powerplays.
al homeAllenseason.hadmarked his re turn to competitive crick et with a 33-ball 82 not outthe highest individual score in the men's 6ixty - and finished as the tournament's highest run-scorer.
Sheldon Cottrell (St Kitts and Nevis Patriots) Cottrell is another player who is working his way back from injury and hoping to prove his fitness in the leadup to the T20 World Cup.
All in the past!
GAW Captain Shimron Hetmyer
The absence of West Indies' top players during their recent in ternational home season cre ated a stir, but they will now return to action for CPL 2022. According to Desmond Haynes, the chief selector, CPL performances will be considered for selection for the T20 World Cup, in which West Indies will play the first round to qualify for the Super 12s. ESPNcricinfo has picked out seven players for whom this CPL season could be a big deal.
Hetmyer optimistic for better CPL season for Amazon Warriors
Hayden Walsh Jr (Barbados Royals) Akeal Hosein has estab lished himself as West Indies' frontline fin ger-spinner -- with or with out Sunil Narine -- but there are questions over leg-spinner Walsh's poten cy (or the lack thereof). During the home se ries against India and New Zealand, Walsh struggled for control, and often let the opposition batters hit with the wind. Walsh's wrong'un, how ever, can be deceptive as it skids off the pitch, and despite his patchy form, it is quite hard to see a side travel to Australia for the T20 World Cup without a wrist-spinner.In2019,it was the CPL that propelled Walsh into the international spotlight. He now returns to the scene of his emergence in his quest to re launch his international career. (Cricinfo)
CPL, Allen has a chance to return to the T20I XI as the spin-bowling allrounder.
Andre Fletcher (St Kitts and Nevis Patriots) The self-styled 'Spiceman' was a notable omission in West Indies' recent whiteball squads, with the selectors leaning towards Shamarh Brooks, who is more of a Test and ODI batter, as the backup opener, and Devon Thomas as the back-up keeper. Fletcher is set to open with Lewis for his new franchise, Patriots, and recently also won a deal with Mumbai Emirates in the UAE's ILT20. Fletcher has also had a stint in the BBL with Melbourne Stars, and al though that didn't go too well, he appears to be a better option than Brooks or Devon Thomas.
Roston Chase (St Lucia Kings) Chase is another play er vying for the spin-bowling allrounder's spot for the T20 World Cup. He is recover ing from injury though, and has not played competitive cricket since turning out for WICB XI against the touring Bangladesh side in a threeday fixture in June. He was picked as West Indies' anchor for the 2021 T20 World Cup, but form and fitness issues pulled him down the pecking or der. With Kings letting go of
players down at the end. “So, it’s really for me to try as much as possible to just stick around as the cap tain and as a batsman of the team; more so to really try and get as much as I can out of our team,” he related. Still on the topic of the team, Hetmyer voiced the thoughts of many who have looked at the GAW comple ment of spin bowlers. The GAW captain figured that the Caribbean pitches may create an avenue for spin to domi nate later in the tournament. He opined, “I think it will be a big factor actual ly, especially going down to the end, because we know how the pitches are in the Caribbean: they’re quite slow, and they get slower and slower as the games go on and as we progress longer in the tournament. I think they will play a massive part in actually restricting teams for us, bowling teams out; and if we’re bowling sec ond, for us to cross the line.” Hetmyer will captain his first CPL match on Saturday, when the Warriors take on the Jamaica Tallawahs from 10am local time. However, the first ball in the 2022 CPL will be bowled tomorrow, in a match between the Tallawahs and the St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots. (Jemima Holmes)
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GUYANATIMESGY.COMWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2022 23 Every year, expecta tions are placed on the Guyana Amazon Warriors (GAW) team as they contest the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL), and 2022 is no differ ent.Especially because the finals of this tournament would be played in Guyana, there is even more pressure for the Warriors to perform. And adding to this mounting pressure is the fact that the GAW Men suffered an ear ly exit in the recently con cluded SKYEXCH 6ixty T10 tournament.However, GAW Captain Shimron Hetmyer does not want to dwell on those things.Addressing those circum stances and the importance of the team putting on a great performance this year, he has expressed hope of en couraging his teammates to do their best, rather than dwell on their past short comings.“It’s always important! It’s been that way for quite some years, since the begin ning of the CPL. It’s been important for us to win the tournament,” Hetmyer an swered a probe about the importance of the Warriors winning the tournament this“It’syear.very important, but it’s something we’re not try ing to think too far ahead about, because this (team) that we’re playing with right now, it’s not the same team that we played with last year and the year before that, and so on,” he declared. Then he continued, “It’s just for us to not think about what happened in the past, and for us to focus on what’s to come. And I’m trying as much as possible to let the guys be comfortable and be calm in how they go about their roles in this team, and to rally and to, most of all, enjoy what they do. “Because, at the end of the day, if you can’t enjoy it, you wouldn’t really get the best out of each other,” Hetmyer concluded on the topic.Speaking via virtual press conference on Tuesday morning, Hetymer readily admitted that the Warriors didn’t perform as expect ed in the recently conclud ed SKYEXCH 6ixty, but he shared a solution of his own. “We didn’t play to the best of our abilities,” Hetmyer bluntly admit ted regarding the T10 com petition that concluded on Sunday last. He went on to explain, “It was still a learning curve for us as a team, because I think most of the guys didn’t real ly have experience playing 10-overs before. So, I think, going ahead, it’s something we can put a little more em phasis on in terms of how we go about planning the in nings and planning how to get to a specific score and stuff like Turningthat.”his attention to the CPL, which begins to morrow, Hetmyer did not attach his name to a fixed batting role, but shared in tentions to lead well. “It’s to be decided, to be honest,” he said about his batting role in the GAW set up. “It’s mainly for the team, how the balance of the team is. I think in this team it would be much easier for me to bat a little higher, because of the fact that we have so much power down to the end, and being in a team like that, you wouldn’t real ly want to disrupt the power
McCoy,ObedKeemoPaulandRahkeemCornwall, they would also want more from Chase with the ball in conditions that could aid the slower bowlers.
Evin Lewis (St Kitts & Nevis Patriots) Lewis didn't appear for the fitness test that had been arranged for him by Cricket West Indies (CWI) during his IPL stint with Lucknow Super Giants, according to Haynes.
Oshane Thomas (Barbados Royals When on song, Thomas can consistently hit speeds above 140kph, and can also gener ate extra bounce with his tall frame. He was a potent force for West Indies when they ran through Pakistan in the 50over World Cup in 2019, but fitness issues have since seen him fade Thomasaway.has played just 15 white-ball internationals since that ODI World Cup, and has not played a T20 game since December 2021. He will have to compete with Alzarri Joseph for one of the fast bowlers' slots in the West Indies side.
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GUYANA TIMES - www.guyanatimesgy.com, email: news@guyanatimesgy.com, NEWS HOTLINE: 231-8063 EDITORIAL: 223-7230, 223-7231, 231-0544, 225-7761 SPORT: sport@guyanatimesgy.com SALES AND MARKETING: 231-8064 - marketing@guyanatimesgy.com - PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY GUYANA TIMES INC. Sport is no longer our game, it’s our businessWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2022 Bonaire come from behind to defeat Junior Jags 4-2 CONCACAF U-17 Qualifiers… The National U17 team prior to their departure from Guyana Guyana clinch another BraithwaiteWinfieldtitle Action at the CASH over the weekend Captain Hetmyer hopes for a successful CPL 2022 season with the Warriors
