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SONS, DAUGHTER-IN-LAW HELD AFTER MON REPOS BUSINESSMAN FOUND STABBED TO DEATH The battered body of a Mon Repos businessman bearing several stab wounds was discovered at his home tuesday morning and his two sons and a daughter-in-law have been held by police.

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NOT A BLADE OF GRASS – GOV’T, OPPOSITION TELL VENEZUELA See Page 28

GOV’T TO TACKLE ‘ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE’, Granger says in address to Parliament

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CRIME FIGHTING STRATEGIES FOR REVIEW AFTER RISE IN SERIOUS CRIMES NEW CRIME CHIEF Following a 9% increase in serious crimes for the year, newly-appointed Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum says existing crime fighting strategies need to be revisited.

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Social Services probing case: Hospital won’t release baby Cecilia to parents

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Dennis gave birth to a baby girl, named Cecelia, on June 2 on the pavement at Curepe Junction. She was discharged from the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex on Monday. Photo: ABRAHAM DIAZ

“They are physically and sexually abused and I know of this through people I know personally and what I listen and read in the media.” “I do not want to know that my daughter will be faced with this if taken away from me.

I see people who are in worse off state than me have their children so why can’t I have my baby?” he added.

Abraham assured once the baby was released to his care, he would see about the welfare of the child or have one of his relatives take care of the child for him. “It is just I don’t want my baby to be placed in an institution by the State. I want to know that my baby is growing up safe and the best way is through me.”

When asked how he and Dennis ended up living on the river bank, he replied: “I used to

do electrical work for houses, working on my own and things happened and troubles came my way because of relatives and I am here today.” Asked how he had survived and taken care of Dennis, he replied: “I do odd jobs around for people and make sometimes $100 or $200 a day and with that I buy food and stuff to live on.”

When asked if both of them were drug users, they both denied such.

More info Contacted yesterday for comment, Minister of the People and Social Development Minister Christine Newallo-Hosein said her ministry would only be able to assist in minor house repairs and socially-related grants, such as baby grants and disability grants. Efforts to contact

Minister of Gender, Youth and Child Development Clifton De Couteau for comment were unsuccessful.

The Family Services Division and Social Services Unit falls under his purview. On June 3, Newallo-Hosein publicly disclosed that the Social Services Division had intervened in midMay to render help to Dennis, 34, who was assisted by passers-by in delivering her baby girl on the pavement in Curepe on June 2, but that she (Dennis) had refused the help.

Newallo-Hosein said a team from the ministry met with Dennis and asked her if she would like to be taken somewhere so she and her baby could have been cared for. Newallo-Hosein added that Dennis refused, saying that all they were interested in was taking her baby away and that she did not want any help.

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Rhondor Dowlat Officials at the Women’s Hospital in Mt Hope have refused to release baby Cecilia, who was born on the pavement in Curepe on June 2, into the care of her parents. The baby’s father, Anthony Abraham, 53, said in an interview yesterday that he went to the hospital on Tuesday expecting to collect his newborn child but was told by a nurse that the baby was not ready to be discharged.

The child’s mother, Crystal Dennis, 34, was discharged from the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC) on Monday. She was sent there days after she delivered the baby for further medical treatment and evaluation. But the T&T Guardian understands that the officials may be looking into whether the child should be made a ward of the state.

An official from the Ministry of Gender, Youth and Child Development, who wished not to be identified, confirmed yesterday that they were handling the investigations into the case. The official added that the ongoing probe was being carried out by officials of the Social Services Unit and added that it was possible the baby would be taken away from both parents on the grounds that they do not have a proper home for the child and sufficient finances to support her.

Abraham and his common-law-wife Dennis have been together for 16 years and already have three other children, Anna, 11, Amanda, six and Aaron, five. They are currently in the care of one of Abraham’s relatives. Yesterday, both Abraham and Dennis were in a one-room shack they call home when the T&T Guardian visited them. The live just off Farm Road, St Joseph, near the river bank.

Abraham said he would prefer baby Cecilia to be released into his care. “I want my baby. I want my baby here with me or by my mother.

I am responsible enough to take care of my child,” he said. Dennis, who seemed a bit disoriented, kept repeating she wanted her baby also and help with money to buy food and other things for her.

“I want help! I want my baby! I want money to buy food!” Dennis said. However, during the interview she was frequently told by Abraham to stay quiet and let him do the talking. Abraham, not wanting to divulge much information, said he felt sorry for Dennis. He failed to elaborate as to why. “I’m sorry for her (Dennis) but I have to take care of my children,” he added.

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Caribbean Star Newspaper Crime fighting strategies for review after rise in serious crimes - new Crime Chief

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June 12–18, 2015

ollowing a 9% increase in serious crimes for the year, newly-appointed Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum says existing crime fighting strategies need to be revisited.

In the first interview following his appointment, Blanhum, a 16-year veteran of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) who took up his new post , described the rise in serious crimes as worrying and he said his biggest challenge would be keeping the crime rate down.

Up to the end of last month, Blanhum said increases in murder, robbery, larceny from theperson and rape have been recorded.

“Definitely this is something we need to tackle as soon as possible,” he told Stabroek News, while noting that historically the June/July period normally sees an increase in crime because there are a lot of commercial activities coming on. “…If we have a 9% now and we are going into that period, we wouldn’t be looking too good,” he added.

As a result, Blanhum said he plans to meet with the divisional detective officers and revisit

some of the existing crime fighting strategies. He also said he has already submitted an outline of some of his own plans for fighting crimes.

Blanhum also said that he plans to focus on crimes around commercial banks in light of the number of cases where customers have been targeted.

Only last week, a rice farmer, Hardat Kissoon, was killed by a gunman, who tracked him from a city bank.

“This is something I plan to look into and we are going to try as much as possible to ensure that we don’t have such occurrences,” he said.

Towards this end, he said plain clothes ranks will be placed around banks as part of a plan to deter robbers.

He also urged all those conducting business at the banks to be conscious of their surroundings and to ensure that they secure themselves.

“In the meantime, citizens you need to be self-conscious. You reading the newspaper, you know some of these criminal elements, you know their modus operandi, and you know what they are ca-

pable of doing, so you need to take precaution. We are going to do our part. Our mandate is to prevent and detect crime,” he said.

Asked if there is enough manpower to deploy in the commercial district, he said that the force has done analyses and knows which banks it needs to conduct surveillance on.

In addition, he said that tackling armed robberies in which guns are used is high on his agenda.

“That is why we have been calling for… stricter penalties as it relates to gun robberies, firearms in general,” he added.

Blanhum urged all to assist the police by being cautious.

Experience Blanhum, who had been serving as Deputy Crime Chief since last November, expects the new post to be “an uphill task” but added that he strongly believes that he is adequately prepared.

Speaking about his career experience, he noted that he has spent 16 of his 17 years in the force in the CID, during which time he has worked on murder and robbery cases. He said he did the CID Induction Course fol-

Wendell Blanhum lowed by the Junior Investigators Course and was both times adjudged the best student. According to him, it was after these two achievements that his “journey began” and his superiors started to take notice of him.

He recalled that in 2004, he took part in the Standard Officers’ Cadet Course, based on recommendations, and was successful. The late former Police Commis-sioner Henry Greene, he said, sent him back to the CID, where he continued as a detective. Although he said he would not describe Greene as a mentor,

Blanhum noted that the now deceased Top Cop was always behind him because of his intellect.

Blanhum is a University graduate with a Degree in Public Administration and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Development Studies.

He also said he will complete his pursuit of a Commonwealth Master’s in Public Administration.

As part of training during his career, he has visited many countries, including the Republic of Korea, Colombia, Guatemala and Cuba. Most of the training, he informed, was in the area of organised crime.

Upon his return from these trips, he conducted training sessions both within and outside of the police force.

“To be honest it wasn’t a surprise… persons would have been touting me before… my superiors,” he said when asked for a reaction to his new posting. Blanhum said that along the way he has received support from many persons within and outside of the force.

He was at one time the division detective officer for ‘C’ Division and previously acted as Crime Chief when either the Crime Chief or deputy was away.

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Cop remanded on AK-47 charge

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police officer found himself on the wrong side of the law yesterday, charged with the illegal possession of an AK-47 assault rifle and several rounds of ammunition.

Orin Samuels pleaded not guilty to the charges which stated on June 5, at Mahaica, he had in his possession thirty-seven 7.62 x3 rounds of ammunition without being the holder of a firearm licence. It was further alleged that on the same day, he also had in his possession an AK-47 assault rifle without being the holder of a firearm licence.

According to the facts read in court, acting on information obtained by the police, the vehicle in which Samuels was travelling was stopped at a roadblock.

Samuels, along with other occupants of the vehicle, were ordered to exit so as to allow a search to be conducted. During the course of the search, the rifle and ammunition were discovered in a black haversack allegedly belonging to Samuels.

Prosecutor Bharat Mangru also indicated that the articles mentioned in the charge were not property of the Guyana Police Force.

Additionally, Mangru objected to bail being granted citing that special reasons had to be given. Having refused bail, Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry subsequently transferred the matter to the Mahaica Magistrate’s Court for June 16.

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Nagamootoo downplays President chairing Cabinet meetings

rime Minister Moses Nagamootoo is not making an issue of President David Granger’s chairmanship of Cabinet meetings, while noting that contrary to what is stipulated in the Cummingsburg Accord the duty belongs to the President.

The Accord, which formed the basis for the pre-election alliance of APNU and the AFC, had provided that the Prime Minister would chair Cabinet meetings.

However, President Granger has so far chaired all Cabinet meetings and when questioned Nagamootoo on Monday noted that the constitution states that the president performs the task.

Article 106(3) of the Constitution states that the President shall preside over Cabinet meetings although it also sets out that the Prime Minister shall do so in his absence.

Despite concerns being voiced that the key stipulation of the Accord is being breached, Nagamootoo like AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan played down the issue.

“I am not a negotiator. I didn’t negotiate the Cummingsburg Accord,” Nagamootoo said, when it was pointed out that it was stipulated in the Accord that the Prime Minister would chair the Cabinet meetings.

“It is not an issue that upsets me personally,” he noted.

“Because I think we are working as a team and while the President is in the country and the President has something to speak to the Cabinet then one wouldn’t expect the President to just move away into a side room,” he further said.

“We have an active President and we have to make this Accord work, make the coalition work, and for me the things that are minor ir-

ritants I would not elevate to any importance,” he added.

Last week, when asked about the issue Ramjattan had indicated he was certain that it would be worked out and that the Accord is going to be adhered to. He also stated that last week was the first official meeting and President Granger as Head of State would have had to address the ministers and he for one wanted to hear from him.

“We want this coalition to work. We know how fragile coalitions can be and we know how people out there who do not like the coalition will want to prick us with these little sensitive matters, so that they can literally take us over the brink,” he had told this newspaper.

Ramjattan also told Stabroek News that Chairman of the AFC Nigel Hughes had been tasked by his party with leading negotiations to ensure adherence to the Accord.

The Accord also provides that the president shall, among other things, delegate the responsibilities of domestic national affairs and the chairing of Cabinet. Other responsibilities delegated to the Prime Minister should have included recommending ministerial appointments and providing the organisational structures of ministries for the approval of the president; appointments of the heads of agencies and non-constitutional commissions with the required and agreed democratic mechanisms of consultation; and domestic security (Home Affairs).

It is not clear whether these duties are being performed by the Prime Minister.

The parties had also agreed that cabinet positions would be allocated on a 60/40 basis between APNU and the AFC, respectively.

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A Bright Beacon – GuruJi Shri Prakash Gossai.

Written with love by Davanie Singhroy and Ravina Vibart-Jadubans

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ahatma Gandhi once said, “To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”

Our beloved Guruji, the late “Shri Prakash Gossai”, departed this world on June 15, 2009. This year will be six years since he left this world to meet with Lord Rama. As a wellknown priest in the Hindu community, Guruji strongly believed that prayers moved mountains. More so, he lived up to the words of Gandhiji by giving pleasure to not only a single heart, but millions. He did so through his pragmatic teachings, melodious voice, and most notably, his humility and simplicity.

Guruji was famous for his profound knowledge, melodic chanting of the verses in the Ramayana and his fulfilling translations, always leaving his audience wanting for more. He even served as a Spiritual Advisor to the President of Guyana, making him a very prominent Hindu figure in society. Despite all of this, he was still a modest person, who practiced service to others through several humanitarian missions. These missions were many, including raising funds for poverty stricken families in Guyana, which provided them with much needed shelter, food and clothing. Moreover, Guruji donated school supplies to several charitable organizations and school districts annually in both Guyana and Jamaica, making it possible for many children from underprivileged families, to attend school every year. He has also worked in collaboration with various mandirs to donate medical supplies to the elderly and sick children in Guyana—to the extent that he was able to contribute sufficient funds to build a medical clinic in Coven John, Guyana. The list of charitable efforts of Shri Prakash Gossai is never ending.

He was a man on principles, that practiced what he preached, and he lived by the mantra, “The hands that serve are holier than the lips that pray.” Today he has many Godchildren, or “Chelas”, who are proudly carrying on his torch and living up to the teachings he embodied, particularly his practice of selfless service. Millions followed him when he was alive, but unfortunately his practices and teachings are only survived by a handful of his disci-

ples. His Chelas are many throughout the world and there is a number of them right here in the New York area that are currently uplifting his legacy. A shining example of his philosophy can be found at the Shaanti Bhavan Mandir in Jamaica Queens, New York. Here, his chelas have continued on his altruistic acts of service by feeding the homeless, donating to orphanages in Guyana, providing food for the elderly, smiles to the sickly and propagating his messages through their actions.

The Indo-Carribean and Hindu community were astonished at the news that this bright beacon of the Hindu community had left us forever in 2009. His simple teachings, catchy onomatopoeias, and soothing voice that lifted hearts and created smiles are deeply missed six years later. But through the continuance of his teachings and practices, his legacy is proudly kept alive, and in this way, he will live on forever. He believed in “Be Simple, Be a Sample, Be an Example”, let us hold this saying close to our hearts in order to pave a better life and lifestyle for ourselves and family.

A celebration of his life will take place on Sunday, June 14, 2015 at North Channel Beach sponsored by the Shaanti Bhavan Mandir (PLEASE WEAR WHITE IN HIS HONOR). The entire program will be streamed live www.swaarg.com. As we celebrate the great impact he made on us and so many people across the world, we invite you to please join the Shaanti Bhavan Mandir, at North Channel Beach, commemorating a great soul’s accomplishments, but most of all, keeping his footprints cemented in our hearts.

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Caribbean Star Newspaper Mother of five dies Gov’t plans ‘comprehensive’ housing solution following botched abortion for Lombard St residents -Lawrence June 12–18, 2015

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inister of Social Protection Volda Lawrence has assured residents living in a rundown section of Lombard Street that government intends to provide a comprehensive housing solution to meet the individual needs of families at an affordable cost.

During an outreach exercise in Lombard and Broad streets over the weekend, the minister told residents that their voices were heard at the recent elections and that government will make interventions, a report from the Government Information Agency (GINA) said. However, she cautioned them that the changes will not happen overnight as their challenges are wide-ranging and it will take strategic planning to adequately address them.

Lawrence further informed the residents, many of whom live in cramped shacks and sleep on the floor that the new administration will be working to establish better

One of the many dwelling houses located at Lombard and Broad streets which residents have been occupying for years. (GINA photo)

Minister of Social Protection, Volda Lawrence (left) lends a listening ear to residents who turned out to air their concerns. (GINA photo)

housing solutions that will cater to individual needs.

According to GINA, some residents told the minister that they had applied to the Housing Ministry several years ago and are still waiting for a response. Others disclosed that they were invited to the ministry and asked to pay $200,000 to acquire homes under a Food for the Poor initiative. However, for many of them that sum was exorbitant and they were not given any to obtain the money.

While acknowledging that some residents have difficulty paying for the house lots issued to them, and others can ill-afford the high mortgages, Lawrence said the new housing plans would see homes built to suit the individual needs of families at an affordable cost. In the meanwhile, she urged them to be patient and reiterated that the relevant authorities are working on new strategies to address their concerns.

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41-year-old mother of five is now dead after being subjected to what appeared to have been a botched abortion prior to admission to the GPHC, according to hospital sources.

Carol Bollers, a resident of Tucville, Georgetown died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) yesterday, despite doctors’ efforts to save her life.

According to a press release issued by the hospital, the woman who was less than five months pregnant was admitted to the GPHC on Monday due to pregnancy complications. “She visited the Accident & Emergency Unit complaining of abdominal pains and ruptured membranes and was treated for spontaneous rupture of membranes but subsequently died”, the release stated.

Meanwhile, Minister of Public Health, Dr. George Norton in a brief comment on the woman’s death told Stabroek News that he personally visited the GPHC late yesterday afternoon after he learnt of the incident where he spoke with the doctors and was provided with certain information. However, Norton added that by midday today he is expecting to receive a full official report on his desk about Bollers’ death and at the same time he is also awaiting a post-mortem examination to be performed to ascertain the cause of death.

June 12–18, 2015 Caribbean Star Newspaper PPP/C still undecided about heading to Parliament

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HE People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) remains undecided on whether or not they would be occupying their allotted seats on the first meeting of the 11th Parliament set for Wednesday, June 10. “I can’t say if the PPP/C’s list of MPs will be ready for Parliament – as no we have not decided on that as yet,” said the PPP’s General Secretary, Mr. Clement Rohee yesterday during a press conference at Freedom House.

According to Rohee, no decision has been taken as yet in respect to the extraction of names of persons that will be going to Parliament, as they are still in consultations among party members in order to decide who will be the 32 persons to occupy the seats.

He said that their members and supporters are in regular contact regarding their decision on heading to the National Assembly. “We have been travelling around the country, and our leaders have been consulting with members and supporters…we intend on making our supporters part and parcel as it pertains to the current debate in respect to the aftermath of the elections.”

When asked about the petition for a recount, Rohee added that data and evidence have been collected and included

Hon. Joseph Harmon, Minister of State PPP/C General Secretary, Mr. Clement Rohee in the petition as more evidence is being collected, and it will be submitted at the appropriate time by the party’s legal representatives to the court.

As it pertains to an inclusionary Government on the other hand, the PPP’s General Secretary asserted that they had received a letter from Mr. Joseph Harmon in his capacity as General Secretary of A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) and as a Minister of State and as a political party he announced that they are soon to respond to the letter.

However, Rohee highlighted that APNU is not referring to a Government

of National Unity but mostly referring to Parliament.

Meanwhile on Sunday last Minister of State Mr. Joseph Harmon said that “Thousands of persons voted for the (PPP/C), and it is their duty to ensure that those persons are represented in the National Assembly.”

He explained that this is not the first time the PPP/C will not be taking up their allocated seats in the National Assembly.

“The PPP/C has been known for doing this; they have done it before. This is not the first time they will do it.” However, with some optimism, he disclosed his

hope that “good sense prevails”.

“We trust that better sense will prevail, and that they will understand the importance of taking up their seats in the National Assembly.”

Minister Harmon explained: “I have written, under the directions of President David Granger, to the PPP/C in my capacity as the General Secretary of the APNU (A Partnership for National Unity) and also with the approval of the AFC (Alliance For Change). I have written to the General Secretary of the PPP, inviting them to conversations and to have some discussions as to how best we can move this country forward.”

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- calls for end to hostility, start of collaboration

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aying that his administration would endeavour to eradicate the enemies of the people, such as crime, disease, ignorance and poverty, President David Granger in his inaugural address to the National Assembly yesterday announced steps the new administration plans to take the country forward.

Among these are the creation of jobs for young people, better education, an increase in police salaries, a moderate increase in public service wages, improving the country’s infrastructure, creating better investment opportunities, tax reforms, autonomy for the Parliament Office and revising the relevant labour legislation. On the legislative agenda are the capping of the benefits in the controversial Former President’s (Benefits and Other Facilities) Act and the Anti-Money-Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill.

Speaking to a packed National Assembly, with only the 32 PPP/C opposition seats empty, President Granger declared the 11th Parliament open by calling for his peers to leave the hostility and rancour of the campaign trail behind them. He called on the PPP/C to join the coalition government in the House to serve the people, reminding them that a month ago, thousands of Guyanese elected them all to craft a collaborative approach to confront the challenges facing the country.

The PPP/C is yet to publicly state whether it would be occupying its seats as it maintains that the May 11 polls were rigged and is still calling for a recount of all ballots.

President David Granger addressing the National Assembly The empty seats mirrored 1997, when the PNC—led by Desmond Hoyte—did not take up its 22 seats for months after Janet Jagan was declared president. What followed those elections were weeks of violent protests and it had taken the intervention of the international community via the Herdmanston Accord and St Lucia Statement, which saw the crafting of an agreement between the two sides and reduced Janet Jagan’s presidency to three years. She had subsequently cut it even shorter by naming Bharrat Jagdeo—who was then minister of finance—to complete her tenure.

“This is the time for collaboration, not confrontation. This is the place—the halls of the National Assembly—where we will conduct the great debate on Guyana’s future,” the President said.

As has become the norm, the President arrived to loud applause from the hundreds lining the street outside and seated under tents thrown up in the newly reopened People’s Park.

As he almost sprang out of the car and briskly made his way to dais,

taking long strides and outpacing Prime Minister Moses Nagmootoo and others walking beside him, the crowd cheered with many also occupying the buildings around in an effort to get a glimpse.

Speaker of the 11th Parliament, Dr Barton Scotland (inset) presiding during the sitting. (Arian Browne photo) With the surroundings and the compound of Public Buildings sparkling from the recent clean up exercise that has gripped the nation, Granger took the salute before inspecting the Guard of Honour. His erect back and precise steps, an advantage of his military background, brought more cheers and many on the Parliament corridors were heard commenting on this.

Dressed in what might now be described as his trademark black suit, Granger was escorted by the heads of the disciplined forces and his arrival was greeted by a rendition by the police band.

Introduced by newly elected Speaker Dr Barton Scotland, the President then moved to the rostrum set up for this purpose and began his just over half-an-hour speech, which included two jokes, but while others laughed he did not even crack a smile.

The President pointed out that the National Assembly had not met for 11 months – since July 2014.

“This is a consequence of a combination of the recess, prorogation and dissolution. No democracy should tolerate such perversity,” he said.

The empty opposition benches are to the left. (Arian Browne photo) Joking that he had lost his seat as Leader of the Opposition, he said he was not standing there as leader of a partnership or coalition but of the entire nation and of an administration that is committed to doing the greatest good for all Guyanese.

‘One nation’ policy Saying that his government is guided by a ‘one nation’ policy, Granger said it envisages the elimination of one-party domination of the government; enhancement of local, municipal and parliamentary democracy; elimination of ethnic insecurity; expansion of economic enterprise; enrichment of cultural life and deepening of national consciousness.

“Your government seeks first and foremost to eliminate extreme poverty. Our Poverty Reduction Plan will adopt a ‘one nation’ approach, reducing inequalities, removing obstacles to education, opening opportunities to the disadvantaged

and uniting coastland and hinterland. We shall introduce social policies that will harness and develop the creative energies of our people and that will support the holistic development of our women and youth,” the Head of State said.

He said government is aware that too many young and old people are classified as ‘extremely poor’ but that poverty can be eradicated with good governance and the sensible public policies which shall be introduced.

However, he warned that the fight against poverty cannot be won through handouts or trickle-down economics but rather through providing jobs, which would be one of his government’s priorities.

“Many of our young people are leaving school and university but are unable to find jobs. Without jobs they cannot escape from the cycle of poverty,” the President stated.

Measures to establish young people’s economic independence and to improve their livelihood by promoting micro-enterprise development would continue to be introduced. A war against poverty would be waged, the President said but through an inclusionary process that would boost national confidence and allow for the mobilization of the material and human resources needed. He also announced that in conjunction with the private sector, a forum will be organized that will bring together businesses, trade unions, political parties and civil society. This forum would see the development of a social contract that will guide the economy for the next five years.

Further, Granger announced that his government would implement measures to institute inclusionary democracy and social cohesion in every municipality, neighbourhood, region and in the National Assembly.

And in stating that his government would revise the relevant labour legislation to support all legally constituted and functioning trade unions, Granger said it would give effect to the Motion passed in the 10th Parliament to restore the annual subvention to the Critchlow Labour College.

Last year the Guyana Trades Union Congress had rejected the terms for the restoration of the subvention to the college which had been cut by the previous administration nine years ago following accountability concerns. The major bone of contention for the GUTC was the then government’s proposal for rival body, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guy-

ana (FITUG) to have the same number of members as the GTUC on the college’s board. It had argued that government could not dictate who should sit on the board of the private institution.

Equitable access Granger also announced his government’s plan to ensure equitable access of all Guyanese to good health care, arguing that the primary health care system is failing women, children and the aged.

The empowering of womenfolk is also on the agenda and building a country in which women and girl children can expect to live in safety and be protected from abuse and violent crime.

Economic stability will be of paramount importance and this will include the crafting of a longterm national economic strategy.

Amendments to appropriate laws to reform taxation would be introduced and this would include value-added tax, income tax concessions to wage earners and offering fiscal incentives on an equitable basis to all investors.

The government would also place the important diamond and gold-mining industry on a sound and stable basis with the establishment of a Sovereign Wealth Fund, derived from revenues from the forests, mines, waters, lands and other natural resources to benefit future generations.

One of the big promises by the coalition on the campaign trail was the creation of jobs and Granger said his government would introduce measures to provide more people with job security. Also there are plans to intensify education in the sciences, technology, engineering, mining, agro-processing and the arts to expand employment and promote economic growth.

“Your government will ensure that as a general rule, people who are paid only the national minimum wage will not be required to pay income tax. We shall ensure, also, that there will be no increases in income tax rates, value-added tax or national insurance contributions for this financial year [FY 2015],” the President said.

He announced that there will be moderate increases in salaries paid to public servants and in pensions.

These were included in the coalition’s list of things to do in the first 100 days in office.

According to the President, measures would be introduced to curb the rate at which so many primary school children are failing to qualify to enter secondary school or are dropping out of primary and secondary school every year.

Autonomy To desk thumping from MPs, Granger announced his government’s intention to ensure that the National Assembly is granted administrative, institutional, political, and financial autonomy. To this end the government would ensure that

the 11th Parliament is equipped with its own budget office and its own Parliamentary Counsel based right at Parliament. The Office of the Clerk of the National Assembly Bill would be introduced to establish an independent office of the Clerk of the National Assembly that would allow greater independence in the appointment of all staff of the Parliament Office.

Also on the legislative agenda, the President said government would introduce a Constitution (Amendment) Bill, to amend the constitution to add certain entities, such as the service commissions and the Guyana Elections Commission that ought to enjoy financial autonomy as constitutional bodies.

The Fiscal Management and Accountability (Amendment) Bill, and the Constitutional Offices Commission Bill would also be introduced.

Prefacing with “Hear this”—much to the amusement of those listening keenly—the President said the Former Presidents (Benefits and Other Facilities) Bill would be introduced to cap benefits, including tax-free concessions and to specify some conditions under which the benefits are to be enjoyed.

The long awaited Telecommunications Bill would be tabled along with the Public Utilities Commission (Amendment) Bill, the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill and the Local Government (Amendment) Bill to allow the setting of the date of local government elections, which were last held in 1994.

Also, Granger said government would do everything in its power to secure the country’s borders, to build and strengthen relations with its neighbours and continue to work towards the adherence to agreements that respect the country’s territorial integrity.

Importantly, measures would be introduced to reform the defence and security sectors to ensure that the country’s defence and police forces protect citizens and the territory, allowing Guyana to feel safe.

“Your government will refashion the Guyana Police Force into a more professional and better equipped law-enforcement agency. We shall pay policemen and women better so that they are not easily led into temptation,” Granger said.

“We shall reduce other everyday crimes – including banditry, murder, piracy, fatalities on the roads and interpersonal violence that are scaring foreign investors, driving away the educated élite, stifling the manufacturing sector, strangling local enterprise, scuttling the economy, undermining economic growth and impeding social development,” he promised He ended his speech by praying that the National Assembly will debate, deliberate and determine the matters that will be brought before them without cowardice or malice.

The next sitting of the National Assembly would be on June 25.

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Dave Martins – the story behind «Not A Blade of Grass»

June 12–18, 2015

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What has become of this missing woman?

Tradewinds - Dave Martins -“Not a blade of grass & Is we Own” NOT A BLADE O’ GRASS There are all sorts of strange tales about my song Not A Blade O’ Grass.

Some I’ve heard second-hand, but some folks, believe it or not, have actually come to me directly to categorically assert that they know exactly how the song came about. A couple times, I’ve been told, “Burnham pay yuh to write dat song.” One fellow, fully blocked, told me that Mr. Burnham had even suggested some of the words. In fact, while Brother Forbes certainly used the song for his own ends, he had nothing whatsoever to do with its creation.

For that, you have to go to the late Pat Cameron.

Here’s the story, unabridged: Tradewinds were in Guyana on tour in the ‘70s while the Venezuela border row was brewing. I had done a long interview with Pat at the radio station in High Street; chatting off the air afterwards, she said to me, “Dave, Guyanese follow your music; you should write something about this Venezuela story, man.” I said to Pat, “Girl, I don’t write those kinds of head-on songs, and this is a delicate subject. Somebody else should do it.” But Pat Cameron was a persistent lady.

She followed me out to the car continuing to make her case, so I drove off with her notion in mind. On the way back to the hotel, I was thinking about the border issue and its impact on Guyana, and for some odd reason my mind ran to a famous speech by one of the Indian chiefs resisting the white man’s invasion of the American west. The Indian spoke about his people’s love for their land; that they would not give up one river, not one buffalo, not one valley, not even one blade of grass. In a flash, it hit me; that was the way to write the border song – it should talk about Guyanese love for Guyana and not mention Venezuela at all.

I got back to the Pegasus, borrowed an acoustic guitar from Bobby Hunter, locked myself in the hotel room, and shut off the phone. Some songs can take weeks or months to write; I wrote Blade O’ Grass in about an hour.

That’s the first interesting aspect; I had not written a song that fast before, and I haven’t since. The other aspect is that I didn’t fully grasp the reach of what I had written. I knew it was a concise piece, and it was emotional, but those ingredients don’t always result in a great work, so I left Guyana pleased with the song but with no inkling of what was to follow.

Back in Toronto, with Pat Cameron’s premise in mind, we went into the studio and recorded the song, as a single. In addition to the Tradewinds guys, I got my daughter Luana to do the flute part and we played the song with a slow drum beat. Remember that we were a Caribbean band playing mostly win’ down music, but it just felt right to do it at that slow tempo. I pressed a few copies, 45rpm recording – remember those? – and sent them off to Freddie Abdool, our man in Guyana .

If you’re a Guyanese, you know the rest.

The song took off like a savannah fire. At one point, it was the first song played on the radio station every day, and people

began referring to it as “Guyana’s second anthem”. Like any successful song, Blade O’ Grass had gone straight to the heart of something Guyanese felt; it was a song they could sing and not offend; it became a craze.

Two weeks after it was out, I got a call from the Guyanese Consul in Toronto (Vic Persaud, if I recall) saying that the Mr. Burnham wanted to buy 100 copies of the song, and I of course agreed to provide them at cost. I should check on this part of the story some time, but I never got to know precisely how the Kabaka distributed the recordings. I do know that when we came to Guyana around Mash, again on tour, he invited the band to the Culture Centre for a private session in the meeting room upstairs. In our chat, he told me he loved the song – his favourite line was “not one cuirass” – and at one point he turned to Viola and suggested she “make some curry for the boys”, but that’s another story for another time.

When you write a song, as I mentioned recently with Hooper and Chanderpaul, most of the time you never know where it’s going to go. Blade O’ Grass immediately went to a special place and in a special way, and it has become a song for Guyanese like no other. Thirty-plus years after it came out, Guyanese know the words and even the arrangement – they will “lala” the introductory flute lines and they will stand up and sing the chorus word for word. Many times when we perform it, I move the band away from the mike and let the crowd sing the chorus; it’s their song in their language about their place, and they own it.

They will sing some of my other songs – Cricket in the Jungle; Honeymooning Couple; You Can’t Get; Boyhood Days; etc. – but not like Blade. That one they stand together, arms around each other, and send it up like an anthem. To see a crowd of people, sometimes far from their homeland, in that state from a song, is a very special experience. Almost every time it happens it gives me goose bumps; a couple times it has brought water to mi eye.

A final piece: when the song was raging, on one of our trips here, the Government asked Tradewinds to play at the Square where Philip Moore’s wonderful Cuffy monument stands. The song was like gasolene and match with the crowd – you only had to play the intro line and they were off – so there was this eruption when we started it, and there were thousands ringing the stage, many of them singing with us. It was live on radio; it was euphoric. As we got to the second verse – “We love the open country of the Rupununi…” – I spotted a kinky-haired youngster in front, about 10 years old or so, singing his heart out with us, so I pulled him up on stage, lowered the microphone and got him singing the chorus by himself.

When he got to the end he sang, “Not one cuirass; we guh bus’ dey ass.”

There was an enormous explosion from the crowd; they must have heard the roar all

by Bourda. People were jumping up; a few were literally rolling on the ground.

So to Pat Cameron, “Whatever part of Heaven you are, take a bow – you had a hand in this.”

MISSING: Ashma Zalima Naimool

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T has been more than a week since Tacarigua nail technician Ashma Zalima Naimool has vanished, but her family remains hopeful that she will return to them.

Naimool told her sister, Nia Naimool, that she intended to end her relationship with a man, and she would discuss it with him over a meal.

Naimool, 32, was last seen by her family leaving home dressed in a cream top and leggings with a matching handbag and entering her boyfriend's car on June 3.

Nailmool's boyfriend told her sister that on that day he took her shopping in Tunapuna, then for drinks at Arima Old Road.

The man told the sister that he later dropped her off at the Arouca Government Primary School at Golden Grove

Road, Arouca, to meet a friend named "Stacy".

Naimool's sister told Express: "Someone called Stacy contacted us and said she is not really a friend of hers, she is a client. But Ashma worked at her home, not outside".

When she did not return that night, her sister thought she might have spent the night with her boyfriend, as she had done on previous occasions.

A missing persons report has been filed at the Arouca Police Station.

Police officers claimed that they saw Naimool, who appeared exhausted and wearing no make up, walk into the station on June 3 clutching a wallet under her arm.

However the station's diary did not reflect any report was made by her.

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“When I saw you visit BOSAI, I wondered when you would visit,” the joyful man said as he explained that he was surprised when he saw her walking down the road.

He complained that there are eight workers who are forced to work 12-hour shifts. He also said workers have been enduring the hazardous conditions as they are without other options.

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Upon entering the building, the team found a floor covered in puddles of oil.

Long metal pipes and machine parts that blended with the oil-covered floor demanded that members of the team move slowly and cautiously through the facility. They found heavy duty machinery with oil seeping, loose wires and smaller equipment lying around. The oil spillage was so prominent it seeped outside of the compound and into the workshop at the back.

Region Seven Chairman Gordon Bradford explained that the situation has been atrocious for a very long time and the only effort made was a plan to relocate the power plant. He said his efforts in this regard have been in vain as most of the possible alternative locations are privately owned.

“It is in the interest of all of Bartica to have the problem solved. We need bigger units,” he said, while noting that power outages have been a prominent problem in the community as available generating units are small and outdated to meet the needs of the area.

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Although a sign stating “Safety starts here” greets visitors on the front wall of the power station, Junior Minister of Social Protection Simona Broomes and a team of Occupational Health and Safety officials found evidence to the contrary, including spilt oil across the floor of the entire facility.

“They did not care about Bartica,” Broomes said, blasting the previous government. “It’s our duty now… If I condemn, as a minister now, it tells you something. The change that we were speaking about is here now. We have to start it and that is why we are checking the length and breadth of Guyana,” she added, while calling the new administration a “government of solution.”

As Minister Broomes toured the power station, her team checked on the equipment and adherence to safety regulations.

From the moment the team stepped into the compound, the members were hit by the sharp smell of crude oil and the deaf-

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As you step into the bar, you are greeted with a stifling scent of beer and cigarettes. The two garbage bins at the entrance of the door and at the bar added to the pungent smell. The ventilation was poor and the lighting absent. Most of the lights were faulty and did not work.

“It’s designed for what is being done here. You can see it,” Broomes said as she cited the conditions of the place.

Earlier in the day, Broomes paid a visit to the BK International Quarry. She expressed her delight in the working conditions that the company offered its staff. “It would be an insult to even compare here [BK] to BOSAI,” she said. “There can little changes here and there but overall it’s exceptional,” she added, while recalling the terrible working conditions she found at BOSAI. Broomes explained that she will continue to undertake surprise inspections of major companies around the country as she aims to improve working conditions.

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ISLAM

Peace / submission to the will of our creator Fasting Q&A Question.

Does the use of an injection break the fast?

Answer; The fast is not nullified. (Fatawa Raheemiya vol. 2) However, injecting directly into the stomach will nullify the fast.

Question If I have a wet dream at night or whilst fasting is my fast still valid?

Answer; Yes, the fast is still valid.

(Shaami) Question Is it permissible for a husband and wife to kiss whilst fasting?

Answer; It is permissible, provided that: 1. One does not swallow the saliva of his/her partner; 2. One has control over his/her desire and is not driven by desire to sexual intercourse or ejaculation.

(Fataawa Hindiya) Question Is a fasting woman allowed to breastfeed her baby?

Answer; Yes, this is permissible.

Question Can I have a blood test done whilst fasting?

Answer; Yes, you could do so provided that you do not become so weak that fasting becomes difficult.

Question Can I visit my gynecologist or have a pap-smear during Ramadhan?

Answer; The fast would be nullified if medication is inserted into the private part. It would therefore be advisable to delay the appointment until after Ramadhan. (Fataawa Hindiya - vol. 1, pg 204) Question If rain water enters my mouth and swallowed, is my fast broken?

Answer; Yes. (Fatawa Hindiya - vol. 1, pg 203; Fatawa Shaamiya vol. 2, pg.

403) Question Does a woman have to keep qadha (make up) of fasts missed due to menstruation?

Answer; Yes, Aisha (Radiallaahu Anha) reports from Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) that a menstruating woman will keep the qadha of missed fasts but there is no qadha for salaah missed during menses.

(I’laaus Sunan vol.1 pg. 372)

Question I am a diabetic and not in a position to keep fast. How do I compensate for the missed fasts?

Answer; Allah Ta’ala has granted permission to people like yourself to compensate the fast with contributions for poor Muslims for each day that you cannot Fast . The Jurists have equated this amount to that of Sadaqatul Fitr (money given on Eid day to the poor) approximately (US $7) it could be paid at the beginning of Ramadhan or at the end.

(Shaami). This money may not be discharged before Ramadaan.

Question Is it permissible to apply oil to the head whilst fasting?

Answer; Yes it is permissible to do so. (Fataawa Raheemiya) Question I need to insert medication into my eye on a daily basis. What is the status of my fast?

Answer; The fast is not affected by inserting medication into one’s eye, whether the medicine is liquid or non-liquid. (Fataawa Hindiya, vol. 1, pg. 203) Question I am writing exams during Ramadhan and find it difficult to concentrate whilst hungry. Can I delay my fast until after Ramadhan?

Answer; It is not permissible to do so.

Keep your fast and pray to Allah Ta’ala to make it easy for you. (Fataawa Raheemiya Vol. 2. pg 34) Question I am an asthmatic. Does the usage of the pump break my fast?

Answer; It is advisable that you use your pump at Sehri Time and Iftaar time.

However, if you do have an attack then you could use your pump. This will break your fast and a qadha will have to be kept.

Question Is it permissible to swim whilst fasting?

Answer; It is not advisable to swim whilst fasting. If water is swallowed by mistake or enters through the nose and reaches the brain then the fast will break and a qadha will have to be kept. (Tahtaawi Alaa Maraaqil Falaah, pg. 672)

Question Does masturbating break the

fast?

Answer; One is not allowed to masturbate, whether fasting or not. However if one does this act whilst fasting then the fast will break and a qadha will have to be kept. (Shaami vol. 2, pg 399) Question What is the status of sehri in Ramadaan?

Answer; Sehri is a sunnah practice. Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) is reported to have said, “Partake of sehri, for verily there is barakah (blessings) in Sehri.” (Bukhari and Muslim) However the fast is valid without sehri.

How one breaks his daily fast It is important to hasten breaking the fast as soon as the sun sets because this was the practice of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) and his companions.....

When a person lawfully breaks his fast “Then complete the fasting until the night “[Qur’an Baqarah 2:187] The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) explained this to mean the coming of the night and the going away of the day and when the disk of the sun disappears.

Hastening the breaking of the fast It is important to hasten breaking the fast as soon as the sun sets because this was the practice of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) and his companions.

‘Amrun Ibn Maimoon Al-Awdee said: “The companions of the Messenger were the fastest people to break the fast (at Maghrib) and the last to eat the Sahoor (i.e. they used to try to take it at the last possible moment).” [Abdur Razaak in the Mussanaf] Hastening to break the fast also has other benefits that can be included under this heading.

• Hastening to break the fast earns good Sahl Ibn Sa’d (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger (peace be upon him) of Allah the all-Mighty said: “The people will continue to be in good condition as long as they hasten to break the fast.” [Bukhari and Muslim] • To hasten the breaking of the fast is the Sunnah of the Messenger (S.A.W)

If the Muslims hasten the breaking of the fast this would help them to keep on the Sunnah.

Sahl Ibn Sa’ad said that the Messenger (peace be upon him) of Allah the all-Mighty said: “My nation would continue to be on my Sunnah as long as they do not wait for the stars to come out before breaking the fast.” [Ibn Hibbaan] • Hastening the breaking of the fast is a way to differentiate the Muslims from the Christians and the Jews.

Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah the all-Mighty said: “The Deen will be uppermost/ manifest as long as the people hasten to break their fast because the Jews and the Christians delay (it).”

[Abu Dawood and Ibn Hibbaan] From the above Hadeeth we must not think that our practicing this hadeeth alone would be responsible for the Deen to be manifest.

This hadeeth must be understood along with all those verses from the Quraan and the Hadeeth of the Messenger (Sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) that deal with the issue of being different from the disbelieving people and making the Deen uppermost.

Breaking the fast before the Maghrib Salaah It is reported that “The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) used to break his fast before the Maghrib Salaat.” [Ahmad and Abu Dawood] What is recommended to eat, to break the fast?

The Messenger (peace be upon him) of Allah the all-Mighty used to incite the breaking of the fast with dates and if he did not find any, he would then break it with water.

Anas Ibn Maalik said: “The Prophet (peace be upon him) used to break his fast with fresh dates before he prayed. If he did not find fresh dates then he would use dried dates. If he did not find that also he drank a few sips of water. [Ahmad and Abu Dawood] What should be said at the time of breaking the fast?

The fasting person should know that Allah the all-Mighty listens to his supplication and answers it.

Abu Huraira said the Messenger (peace be upon him) said: “The supplications of three groups of people’s are not rejected; the du’aa (Supplication) of the fasting person when he is breaking his fast, the du’aa of the just Imam and the du’aa of the oppressed.” [Tirmzi, Ibn Majah and Ibn Hibbaan] So the fasting person should make use of the time when he is breaking his fast to ask Allah Taala for all those things that would make

his life easy in this world and the next. However, although any Du’aa can be made at that time the Messenger (peace be upon him) also used to make a specific one which we should make sure we supplicate with, along with whatever other supplication we desire.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) when he broke his fast used to say: “The thirst has gone and the veins have recovered and the blessing is established if Allah wills” [Ahmad, Al-Baihqee] Feeding a fasting person It is imperative for the believer to always try to do righteous deeds.

From among these righteous deeds is the feeding of the fasting person because of the numerous rewards for this act.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “Whoever gives someone something to break the fast with, he would have the same blessings as the fasting person and this would not reduce the blessings of the fasting person in any way” [Ahmad and Tirmidhee] If someone is invited to break his fast then he should respond to the invitation. If he refuses then he has disobeyed the Messenger (peace be upon him).

It is also recommended for the person invited to supplicate for his host after finishing eating his food as was the practice of the Messenger (peace be upon him).

The Messenger (peace be upon him) used to make the following supplications: “May the righteous eat your food may the angels send salaat unto you and may the fasting person break their fast with you.” [Ahmad, An-Nasaaee] “O Allah! Feed the one who fed me and give drink to him who gave me to drink” [Muslim] “O Allah! Forgive them and have Mercy on them and bless whatever you provide for then” [Muslim] Question; Can we brush our teeth while fasting?

Answer; Cleaning one’s teeth with a Miswak or with a dry brush (i.e. not containing tooth paste) is allowed during a fast. However, one should not use paste during the fast because it is makruh. Nevertheless, if nothing is ingested past the throat the fast is not broken.

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PM’s official office, residence unfit for occupation – Nagamootoo

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rime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has said he cannot occupy the office and the official residence of the Prime Minister because they are both in poor condition.

According to Nagamootoo, the Wight’s Lane office which was occupied by his predecessor in the previous administration Sam Hinds is not suitable. Presently, he noted, there are two other ministers at the building since it houses the Ministry of Public Infrastructure.

“When I went there, there are two min-

isters occupying that building and upstairs Mr Hinds didn’t even have a desk.

He [sat] in a boardroom and the windows [were] opened. There are no curtains at the windows,” the Prime Minister told this newspaper.

He said he has since taken up office space in the Ministry of the Presidency’s complex—he occupies what is known as the Office of Climate Change—and he was not definitive on whether he would occupy the office at Wight’s Lane.

“They are going to be refurbishing it.

Prime Minister Residence (Ian Mackenzie, Wikipedia commons) Or, somewhere else, wherever they may find an office for the Prime Minister. I am not in a hurry. What is more important is not where I live or what office I occupy, it is what work I do and so the work is being done,” he said.

As to why he is not occupying the Prime Minister’s official residence, which was just vacated by Hinds and his family, Nagamootoo said when he visited the “first thing I was confronted with was dead rats in the oven.”

He also disclosed that there is plastic in the roofing to catch water which might have leaked in when it rained “and they got these wide scotch tape in the sitting room to prevent… granny sugar from falling on your head.”

“That is the state of the place and I couldn’t see the barrack room there that they had for guards; I probably wouldn’t even put my dogs there, I think they would die,” he added.

He explained because the building has heritage significance he has indicated that all the time that is needed to repair should be taken as he wants it “to be fixed in its proper way, don’t try to do some slap dash job on it.”

“Take your time. In the meantime, I am comfortable home,” Nagamootoo said.

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US Embassy to host college fair

he United States (US) Embassy will be hosting a College Information Fair at Queen’s College next Wednesday and graduates from 15 US universities will be sharing their experiences about studying in the United States.

The event will be held in the main auditorium at Queen’s College and is open to all students and their parents, the Embassy said in a statement.

It noted that the fair would allow attendees an opportunity to learn about financial aid resources and preparing for student visa interviews and that alumni from the universities will be available to answer questions about studying in the U.S. “The U.S. Embassy in Guyana is committed to continue working with potential students to guide them with the admissions, visa, and financial information they need in order to successfully prepare and apply for study in the United States through its Education USA Advising Center,” the statement added.

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Guards in custody over bad drive shooting

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WO security officers who shot a man after the man attacked their service vehicle following an alleged, “bad drive,” remained in custody at the St Joseph Police Station up to last night. The man who was shot remained at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in stable condition. The incident occured on Monday around 4 a.m.

Police said that around that two security officers were heading west along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway when they almost collided with another car driving by Felix Ramper-

sad of Enterprise Chaguanas.

Rampersad allegedly followed the van and caught up with the two security officers at one of the traffic lights in Valsayn. He got out the car and fired two chops at the van.

One of the security officers became angry as well and shot Rampersad once as the 33-year-old man was driving off in his car.

Rampersad crashed into a ditch.

Police officere arrived on the scene and took Rampersad to hospital and the two security officers to the St Joseph Police Station.

Accused in bystander killing freed

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ndre Gomez, who was charged with killing a bystander while firing at another person during an altercation outside Palm Court last month, has been freed.

When Gomez made his second appearance before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court 1 yesterday, Prosecutor Bharat Mangru made an application to have the charge withdrawn. He stated that the application was based on the advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). The court, in addition to this, heard that there was not enough evidence in relation to the matter.

The magistrate subsequently grant-

ed the application and dismissed the matter.

The charge against Gomez had stated that on May 10th, at Middle Street, Cummingsburg, he murdered Nigel Isaacs.

Isaacs, 39, of Guyhoc Gardens, succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital hours after he was admitted in an unconscious state. He was said to have been brain dead on admission.

No facts were presented in court but attorney Mark Waldron had previously told that court that the police were informed that someone attempted to rob Gomez, who ventured outside of the Palm Court to see what was transpiring before the shooting occurred.

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FTER surviving a murderous attack which left her common-law husband dead, grandmother Bhanwarie Ramoutar, 83, who bravely fought off the intruders is now in a safe house.

Relatives yesterday confirmed that Ramoutar was placed in protective custody amid fears her husband’s killers would return to finish the job. Ramoutar, also called Dolly Sooknanan of Quarry Village, Siparia was discharged on Saturday from the San Fernando General Hospital where she was warded since May 31, for stab wounds to her chest and back, one of which punctured her left lung.

She received a total of 28 stitches, relatives added.

The elderly woman was not allowed to return to the flat she shared with her common-law husband Balkaran Dookie, 73, for the past eight years.

“The killers are still roaming the streets and we don’t know who they are. The police thought it was prudent to move her to a safe house. We don’t even know where she

is,” a relative said.

It is believed that Dookie and Ramoutar were attacked on May 30 or 31 at their home.

The couple was discovered — Dookie already dead and Ramoutar barely clinging to life — by neighbours who called out to them and got no answer.

Newsday was allowed to contact Ramoutar via cellular phone and she spoke for a few minutes about her ordeal.

“The people who came in the house, they real kick and beat me up and then they stab me,” Ramoutar cried. “I not good at all. I doh have anything again and I worked real hard for what I had. They killed my mister (husband) and I eh get to see him for the last.

That real hurting me because I loved him bad, bad, bad and I am really missing him.”

Describing Ramoutar as an independent woman, relatives told Newsday following the murder, she has being going through alot of emotional and physical pain — made all the worse by her not being able to attend the funeral for

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“She didn’t get to see him for one last time. She did not get to say goodbye and that has been eating away at her,” said a relative who asked not to be identified. “When she is released from protective custody we will not let her go back to live in that house by herself,” the relative added.

Police believe robbery was the motive behind the murderous attack. Yesterday relatives told Newsday that a large sum of money and a quantity of jewelry including some which Ramoutar had worn for decades, were stolen from the house.

“She was one woman who never like putting her money in the bank, she used to keep it home and some persons who were close to her knew of this,” said the relative.

Investigators yesterday said they have no new leads in the case but are hopeful of making a breakthrough with the aid of a sketch artist’s rendering of the suspects based on the description given by Ramoutar.

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June 12–18, 2015 Caribbean Star Newspaper ExxonMobil reminds oil search contract is with Guyana … as Gov’t responds swiftly to Maduro’s threats

President Nicolas Maduro

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ENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro, in a glaring about turn of foreign policy from predecessor Hugo Chavez, has signed an official Presidential Decree, in the neighbouring South American country, claiming just over two thirds of Guyana’s territory, including its offshore jurisdiction.The Guyana Government has since swiftly responded to Maduro and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela’s attempt to annex maritime spaces pertaining to the Cooperative Republic of Guyana as downright illegal, and an act that will be resisted.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Granger-led Administration, yesterday, by way of public missive, dismissed the Maduro decree, saying it “cannot be applicable to any part of Guyana’s territory and any attempt by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to apply that instrument in an extra-territorial manner will be vigorously resisted by the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.”

The Guyana Government said it will spare no effort in bringing to the attention of the international community this aggressive and illegal act by Venezuela.

Maduro issued the decree on May 27 last, which seeks to violate Guyana’s territory.

The Guyana Government has since dismissed the Maduro presidential decree as a flagrant violation of international law.

The Guyana Government maintains that the decree “is inconsistent with the principle that all states should respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other states, large and small.”

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement, “The Cooperative Republic of Guyana rejects this illegality which seeks to undermine our efforts at development through the exploitation of our natural resources off-shore.”

Mere days before the Maduro decree, ExxonMobil, an American company contracted to search for oil offshore Guyana, in its Stabroek Block—now claimed by Venezuela—announced a significant discovery of the crude.

The Guyana Chronicle understands that a high level meeting was arranged between senior Government officials and the Exxon Mobil team yesterday, but this was cancelled.

Calrton James, Exxon Mobil’s Public Relation’s Officer, told this publication the reasons for the cancellation were not communicated to him, but reiterated the position of the company when Venezuela had initially objected to its search.

James reminded that ExxonMobil is under

settled for over 60 years, having also participated in the demarcation of this established boundary which was completed in 1905.

Guyana says it is concerned that the decree disregards international law, constitutes a threat to regional peace and security, and breaches the Geneva Agreement of 1966.

“It is therefore imperative that Venezuela adheres to the principles of international law in seeking to delineate its maritime boundaries with neighbouring states, pending actual delimitations.”

Meanwhile, the recently ousted People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) yesterday joined in condemning the actions on the part of the Venezuelan President.

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Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Af-

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“Guyana denounces this decree which is a violation of international law…It is international law that must reign supreme, and not the ambitions of a larger state which wishes to trample upon the rights of a smaller country in order to obstruct the sovereign right of Guyana to develop its natural resources.”

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THE STONE THAT CONQUERS ALL The Old Testament Book of Daniel provides revelations from God that predicts the ages from the time of the Prophet Daniel until the end of the present age on the earth and runs into eternity.

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any of these prophecies have proved accurate in human history, and it is sure that future prophecies will be fulfilled as predicted.

That is one reason I believe the Bible is the Word of God. It is reliable and inspirational. The Bible presents God’s plan to redeem lost mankind through His Son Jesus Christ. In Chapter 2, Daniel records the progression of five kingdoms ending with the final Kingdom of the Stone.

A dream disturbs a king.

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had a dream that troubled him. He felt the need so badly to be reminded of that dream and find its interpretation. The king used every power he possessed to try to obtain his desire in this regard.

The Book of Daniel records in chapter 2: “And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation. The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.”

You can sense the desperation in the king to recall all the details of the dream and understand its meaning. None of the Babylonians could respond to that demand. “The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.

And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods,

whose dwelling is not with flesh.” (v. 1011) God has a man for every season.

When Daniel heard of the king’s decree to destroy all the wise men, he requested extra time to wait upon God in prayer for knowledge of this dream. He and his support group went to God in prayer.

God who knows all things revealed it to Daniel in a night vision. So young Daniel approached the king and offered the solution.

God always has someone who would surrender to Him so He could use them.

Our support group is vital. There are many more that God will place in strategic positions to influence their world for Him if they would only give up selfish ways and be obedient to the voice of God. I thank God for young people who are available and brave like Daniel.

The vision was of utmost importance to the entire world.

The king’s dream was of a statue, the image of a man. The head was made of gold, the chest and arms of silver, the belly and thighs of brass, legs of iron, and the feet of iron mixed with clay. A Stone appeared without being cut by someone and with speed smashed the image. The statue crumbled and was scattered as dust. The Stone grew and engulfed the entire earth. What a strange dream! No wonder the king was troubled. Daniel gave the interpretation as God revealed it to him. Notice the value of the metals diminished gradually. This means an inferior kingdom conquers the previous one. This is exactly what happened in actual history. The Bible is accurate. The golden head represented the Babylonian kingdom which was powerful. Daniel was brave to declare to the king that another kingdom will defeat Babylon. The silver chest and arms represented the second kingdom, the Medo-Persian empire, which conquered Babylon. The brass belly and thighs represented the third Grecian empire that followed Medo-Persia.

The Iron and iron-clay mix represented the fourth kingdom, the Roman Empire.

Since the fall of the Roman Empire, no other world dominating empire has arisen. According to this prophecy, the next great thing to happen is the Coming of the Stone who will conquer all and dominate the world. In correlating other Bible prophecies, we are sure this is the soon coming Kingdom of Jesus Christ. By all appearances, the world seems ready for the soon return of Christ.

Are you ready for the Kingdom of the Stone?

The king was amazed when Daniel presented God’s revelation. “Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him. The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.” Can you imagine the feeling that God visited the king and revealed His plan for the ages?

Daniel’s presence and boldness added glory to God. The king of Babylon made a stunning declaration that our God is greater than all the gods he worshiped, our God is personal and knowledgeable, and He cares enough to reveal His plan.

This means we are fore-warned.

As sure as the previous prophecies were fulfilled, be sure the predictions of the future will become reality. When Jesus returns, He will defeat the Antichrist and his false prophet. Jesus will rid the earth of all evil. God’s wrath will be poured out on the earth on all people who reject God’s offer of salvation through the death and resurrection of Christ. How else can we be saved? How can we atone for our sins before a holy God? He is giving grace now and invites every soul to call upon Him for forgive-

ness, then dedicate our lives to living for Him. God will respect our choices, but we must be responsible for the consequences of those choices.

You are invited!

This great and wonderful God loves us so much that He takes the time to show us things to come, thus preparing us for the future. We ought to repent of our ways and make firm decisions to live for Jesus Christ. When Jesus comes back, would you be ready to face Him? This invitation stands: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” (John 3:16-17) The time is now short. The call is urgent. Come to Christ and serve Him before it is too late.

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Caribbean Star Newspaper Sons, daughter-in-law held after Mon Repos businessman found stabbed to death

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June 12–18, 2015

he battered body of a Mon Repos businessman bearing several stab wounds was discovered at his home tuesday morning and his two sons and a daughter-in-law have been held by police.

Dead is Pooran Lalchand, 59, called ‘Sparrow’ of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, who lived alone.

Police said three persons, who they did not identify, were taken into custody as part of the investigation. Stabroek News

was told thatLalchand’s two sons, Curt and Shawn, as well as his daughter-in-law were the persons taken into custody.

Pooran Lalchand’s home, where his body was found with stab wounds tuesday.

A source indicated that Lalchand’s body bore at least five stab wounds and a knife was removed from the man’s body at the hospital while his head appeared to be bashed in.

Neighbours told Stabroek News that they did not hear anything strange nor did they notice any suspicious actions.

“I come out about 6:30AM and I hear the big man coughing but I notice all over was close up. At the time, it had a drunk man called ‘Dentist’ in front the man yard, so, I tell he fuh call fuh Sparrow,” a neighbour recounted.

He said Lalchand responded to the call and indicated to ‘Dentist’ that he was in the washroom.

The neighbour said he was saddened about the news, since he knew Lalchand well. He described him as a quiet person who did not interfere with anybody.

The neighbour noted that he is very sorry that he was not given a chance to offer any help to Lalchand. The man said he left for work and heard about the discovery during the course of the morning.

It was not normal for Lalchand to have his house locked at that time of the morning, since the businessman, who operates a shop under his house, is the first to open in the village, the neighbour added. Other villagers said they were also at a loss over the discovery, since it was doubtful that the motive might have been a robbery.

“It can’t be robbery, is far more than that… they gat deep, deep problem, is a family thing,” one villager noted. Some pointed out that the man’s property was the subject of a dispute that was before the court.

When Stabroek News visited Lalchand’s home, it was cordoned off and locked but a party of police arrived and entered the home, where they made checks and took photographs. The businessman had lived alone since his wife died about three years ago.

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2 women vanish

MISSING: Ashma Zalima Naimool HE search — by police and worried relatives —continued last night for two women who have been missing for several days. Relatives are begging anyone who may have seen Ashma Zalima Naimool and Sonnera Campbell — who disappeared in unrelated incidents — to contact

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them or the nearest police station.

In the first incident, Naimool, 32, of Dinsley Village, Tacarigua, was last seen by her relatives on Wednesday June 3. Her older sister, Nia Naimool, told Newsday, “She lives with me and last week Wednesday she said she was going out with a man whom she knew well.

“She normally comes back after liming with him around midnight. But this time she didn’t come back. Twice before she spent the night with this man so when she didn’t return home, I thought she stayed the night with him. But she didn’t come home the following day and I tried calling her phone but got no answer.”

A closed circuit camera at the family’s home showed the woman dressed in a cream coloured top and leggings and a matching handbag. She was in good spirts, laughing and talking as she entered the man’s Nissan B14 car at 4.28 pm, relatives said.

Naimool said she contacted the man in whose car her sister was last seen entering. “He told me that they went shopping in Tunapuna and then went to have some drinks at the Arima Old Road. But Ashma didn’t drink any alcohol.

“He claimed that he last dropped her off at the Arouca Government School. He also said he too was trying to call her but didn’t get any answer.”

Naimool said she went to the Arouca police station to file a missing person report when officers recognised the woman in the photograph. “Four officers said my sister walked into the Police Station at about 6 pm on June 3. They said she did not have the handbag, but clutched a wallet under her arm. She was not wearing makeup and looked exhausted,” Naimool said. But the Police Station diary showed no report was made, the worried sister added. She said the family had tracked Naimool’s cellphone up till Friday last and it showed that it was in the Biche area.

Police picked up an Arouca man in connection with Naimool’s disappearance, but he has since been released. The family appealed to anyone with information on Naimool’s whereabouts to contact the Biche police at 668-9044, Arouca Police Station at 640-6138 or relatives at 776-5009.

In the other incident, 30-year-old Sonnera Campbell, 30, an employee of Massy Ltd in Morvant was last seen by relatives on June 6. A missing person’s report has since been filed and all efforts at locating her have been in vain. Campbell is a mother of a nine-year-old boy and she never stayed away from her home for such a lengthy period of time. Anyone who knows of Campbell’s whereabouts are asked to call 352-1281, 706-6298 or the nearest police station.

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hree men were held yesterday after robberies at Anna Catherina and Hague Backdam on the West Demerara and at least one of the men is believed to have participated in both.

The police say that at about 0545h. yesterday, two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, entered the home of Wazim Khan, 54 years, of Anna Catherina, WCD, through an open door and held him at gunpoint. They took away a video camera and a cell phone and fled.

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Not a blade of grass –Gov’t, Opposition tell Venezuela

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AIN Opposition party, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has thrown its support behind the Government as it dismissed the decree by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on a new claim to Guyana’s territory as spurious.The main Opposition party, in a statement, said when in Government, it resolutely defended Guyana’s territorial integrity, and in Opposition, the fervour has not waned.

“The PPP maintains its rejection of the Venezuelan spurious claim and condemns, in the strongest possible terms the May 27, 2015 decree of the Venezuela Government,” the party in a terse statement declared.

President Maduro on May 27, issued a decree creating the “Atlantic coast of Venezuela”, which now includes sovereignty over Guyana’s territorial waters in the Atlantic Ocean off the Essequibo Region.

It covers the area where US oil company, ExxonMobil, recently announced it has made a significant oil discovery.

A map, issued to coincide with the decree, indicates that Venezuela is now claiming all the territorial waters within the 200 miles range and blocking Guyana’s access to its resources in this area of the Atlantic Ocean.

The new extension of Venezuela’s claim to Guyanese territorial waters was made official in the Presidential decree, No. 1787, and published in the Ordinary Official Gazette No. 40,669, dated May 27, 2015.

Former Guyana Ambassador to Guyana to Venezuela, Dr. Odeen Ishmael, writing in online news outfit, Caribbean News Now, explained that the decree is the second from the neighbouring country asserting a claim to Guyana’s territorial waters.

The first, he noted, was issued by President Raul Leoni in July 1968, some 47 years ago, which purportedly claimed sovereignty over a 12-mile strip of Guyana’s continental shelf along the Essequibo coast.

The Maduro decree is set amid Venezuela’s objection over oil exploration and concessions granted by Guyana to ExxonMobil, to explore 23,000 square kilometers of the Stabroek Block located within the area, and a recent announcement by that company that it has made a significant oil discovery in that area.

The neighbouring country had earlier this year objected to ExxonMobil drilling in Stabroek Block, claiming that it is part of Venezuelan territory.

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Last month, ExxonMobil announced a significant oil discovery on the Stabroek Block, located approximately 120 miles offshore Guyana.

“By this decree, the Venezuela Government has also created the so-called ‘Areas of Integral Defence of Marine Zones and Islands,’ thus ratifying its maritime sovereignty over the waters of the parts of the Caribbean and off the coast of Guyana. In doing so, it now claims sovereignty over the continental shelf and a projection of the Atlantic Ocean off the Essequibo Region of Guyana, and even stretching into part of Suriname’s maritime space,” Dr. Ishmael pointed out.

Flagrant violation The Government of Guyana said Decree No. 1.787 is a flagrant violation of International Law and is inconsistent with the principle that all states should respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other states, large and small.

“The Cooperative Republic of Guyana rejects this illegality which seeks to undermine our efforts at development through the exploitation of our natural resources off-shore.

The Government noted that the land boundary between Guyana and Venezuela which was defined by the Arbitral Award of 1899 is recognised by all states.

It was also pointed out that Venezuela had recognised its border with Guyana as settled for over 60 years, having also participated in the demarcation of this established boundary which was completed in 1905.

The genesis The unjustified claim by Venezuela to Guyana’s territory can be traced to rivalry among European nations during the period

of the 16th and 19th Centuries, as noted in the booklet “Never This Land” by Allan A Fenty, published in 1982.

Spain, Holland, Britain, France and Portugal, all fought against each other for the right to establish and own colonies in North, Central and South America, many of which later fought and gained independence.

In South America, in some cases, boundaries and borders were not properly defined and had to be done after the nations had gain independence.

Great Britain, by 1814, had won the colonies of Essequibo, Demerara and Berbice from the Dutch, but during the 19th Century, both Venezuela and Britain claimed each other’s territory.

At that time, there was no properly-defined border and Venezuela claimed nearly all of what was the original Dutch colony of Essequibo, while Britain claimed much of what is now the eastern and northern regions of Venezuela.

As stated in the Fenty booklet, and widely reported, both Venezuela and Britain agreed to settle the matter by international arbitration, and on February 1897, both parties signed the Treaty of Washington, agreeing that the tribunal would define the boundary between then British Guiana and Venezuela and the results and findings of that body would be accepted as “A full, perfect and final settlement of all the questions referred to the arbitrators”.

In October 1899, the tribunal made its decision known, and though it very much agreed with Britain’s case, the borders of then British Guiana were defined in such a

manner that Venezuela gained some 5000 square miles of land, an award it hailed as a victory. The tribunal also gave Venezuela control over the mouth of the Orinoco River, which it always wanted.

Recant In 1941, Venezuela through her Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that the territorial matter was “judged and finished”; but in 1962, when British Guiana was in the final stages of her struggle for independence, Venezuela notified the United Nations that she no longer accepts the finding of the tribunal, claiming to have found evidence of a deal between Russia and Britain.

Declaring the tribunal award null and void, Venezuela notified the UN of re-opening her claim to the Essequibo. As British Guiana was proceeding to Independence in May 1966, Venezuela intensified her claim to Essequibo, and against this backdrop, the United Kingdom and British Guiana signed an agreement with Venezuela, called the Geneva Agreement.

The agreement signed in 1966 set up a Guyana-Venezuela Mixed Commission to find “satisfactory solutions for the practical settlement of the controversy”.

It was given four years to complete it work, but during these meetings, Venezuela did not even try to prove her contention that the 1899 Arbitral Award was null and void, but instead, wanted to find out how much land Guyana would give to her and talked about “joint development”.

Guyana, as noted in booklet “Never This Land”, refused to consider these approaches when it realised that Venezuela was just planning strategies to control the territory of Essequibo.

The action by Venezuela comes at a time when Guyana has elected a new Government, and the announcement by ExxonMobil of a significant oil discovery in Guyana’s waters. The Maduro Government has been plagued by a host of problems, including rising inflation, shortage of basic food items and a spate of protests.

Making it clear, the Government of Guyana yesterday declared that Decree No. 1.787 cannot be applicable to any part of Guyana’s territory, and any attempt by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to apply that instrument in an extra-territorial manner will be vigorously resisted.

By Tajeram Mohabir

Warning signs before murder/suicide

Samantha Darbassie and Clayton Charles in happier times.

HE sister of Clayton Charles, who hacked to death his girlfriend, Samantha Darbassie, before hanging

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himself last Friday night, has apologised to the woman's family.

Anna Charles, Charles' younger sister, said both families were mourning the loss of loved ones. "And I wanted the family to know that people grieve in different ways and if they were offended by anything said I apologise. I met the mother and I apologised to her and extended condolences to the family," she said.

Darbassie, 22, was chopped multiple times in the face and her 30-year-old boyfriend was found hanging by an electrical chord.

The incident occured at Darbassie's family home at Knolly Street, Princes Town.

Darbassie's mother, Cherly, said the couple had an argument on Friday.

She said her daughter was slashed across the face and chopped on the head.

An autopsy performed at the Forensic Science Centre by pathologist Dr Hughvon Des Vignes found that Darbassie bled to death from multiple chop wounds.

Darbassie's friends and relatives would say goodbye at a funeral service on Saturday. Her mother said, "I am planning a service for her. The body would come at our home and we would have a nice service," she said.

The elder Darbassie said her daughter's death could have been prevented, as she was warned about the man's personality.

"He was a jealousy person and that led to this, but we never thought he would kill her" she said.

Charles would be laid to rest following a service at a church in Moruga this afternoon. "We printed jerseys and will have a simple service. The girl's mother said she wants to come to the funeral and I told her we will open our arms to her. And again I apologised to her should in case anybody say anything to offend her," Anna Charles said.

Charles said her brother and Darbassie shared a unique relationship. "They had ups and downs. But everytime they argued they would make up back in five minutes," she said.

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ment on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Western governments tighten the noose on anti-terrorist financing, aid groups say the crackdown is exacting a toll on humanitarian programs in war-torn regions.

NAJRAN, Saudi Arabia - After 11 weeks of air strikes that have failed to change the balance of power in Yemen, Saudi Arabia is running out of options to restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s exiled government to Sanaa.

ROME/MILAN - Hundreds of migrants brought to Italy after being rescued at sea camped on streets near Rome’s Tiburtina train station and gathered in Milan’s main terminal on Thursday, making a brief stop on their journey to northern Europe.

DUBAI - Eighty percent of Yemen’s population, or more than 20 million people, need some form of humanitarian assistance as Arab air strikes and civil war ravage the impoverished country, aid agency UNICEF said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON - The U.S.-led coalition targeting Islamic State forces have launched 29 air strikes against the group since early on Wednesday, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the operations said in a state-

SEOUL - A deadly outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) forced South Korea to cut interest rates on Thursday in the hope of softening the blow to an economy already beset by slack demand,

as authorities reported 14 new cases and a 10th fatality.

killed over 400 people five years ago and still divide the nation.

BOGOTA - Colombia’s FARC rebels attacked an energy pylon in the southern province Caqueta, leaving 500,000 people without electricity, the military said on Thursday as the Marxist group steps up attacks on infrastructure amid stumbling peace talks.

BEIRUT - Syrian rebels said they had shot down a military jet on Thursday in southern Syria, where insurgents fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad seized a major army base earlier this week.

GENEVA/VIENNA - Swiss authorities have searched a house in Geneva and seized computer material in connection with a possible cyberattack on nuclear negotiations between Iran and major powers in the city, Switzerland’s attorney-general said on Thursday.

BISHKEK - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged Kyrgyzstan on Thursday to hold an impartial investigation into ethnic clashes that

BEIJING - China sentenced its powerful former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang to life in jail on Thursday, after he was found guilty at a secret trial of bribery, leaking state secrets and abuse of power, in China’s most sensational graft scandal in 70 years.

BEIJING - The sentencing of China’s former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang to life in prison on Thursday exposed his alleged links to a mysterious fortune teller and healer who

forged close ties with powerful figures in the country’s political elite.

TRIPOLI - The militant group Islamic State said on Thursday it had blown up two warplanes at an air base it seized near the central Libyan city of Sirte.

ATHENS - Employees at Greece’s state television ERT hugged each other and cried on Thursday as the channel aired its first broadcast in two years, after it was shut down under one of the previous government’s most drastic austerity measures.

SKOPJE - Macedonian police have detained 128 illegal migrants from Syria, Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries sheltering in five houses in a village near the border with Serbia, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

Save our Planet

By Tivanie Singhroy

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ai Shree Ram! My name is Tivanie Singhroy. I am a proud member of the Naujavaan Mandalee Youth Group of the Shaanti Bhavan Mandir. Today I would like to tell you why we should take the time to care for our planet. The earth is the only home we have, and if we don’t take care of it, we are the ones who will suffer.

One of the easiest ways that we can help save the planet is by keeping it clean. We can do so by not littering and by picking up trash, even if it’s not ours.

Our mandir practices this by cleaning up the beach in the summer. Don’t litter!

You may think one wrapper or one tissue is no big deal, but if everyone thought that way, we would be walking in garbage up to our knees!

The earth has a lot of natural resources for us to use like water and fossil fuels.

If we don’t use them carefully, we’ll use them all up. To conserve water, we can do things like turn the faucet off when we’re brushing our teeth, take shorter showers, and make sure to fix any leaky pipes. We can save fossil fuels by conserving electricity. Make sure to turn off the lights when you’re not in the room, and to unplug electronics when they’re not being used. I always make sure that my family follows these rules!

Trees might be the most important natural resource to save. They provide shelter for many animals and they produce oxygen for us to breathe! When we cut down forests full of trees, we take

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We can help to protect trees by reusing and recycling paper and wood.

Another important way to take care of the earth is to recycle. If we reuse old objects, we won’t waste natural resources to make new ones. Things that can be recycled are aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and even paper! This also prevents more trash from building up in our landfills. It’s not hard to just have a separate container next to the garbage for recyclables. It’s a small price to pay to prevent the earth from being covered in trash.

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It is not the movement that destroys the machine, it’s the friction — Vp Premier WEEKLY HOROSCOPE

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Monday is not the sort of day when you get much done. And the more you don’t get done, the more frustrated you feel. But here’s something you can do, no matter the circumstances: flatter someone else with attention. That’s a good ‘when in doubt’ thing to do. Tuesday and Wednesday, you aren’t in doubt about anything. You’re the first person to think of the great idea and the first person at the party -- in any situation, you’re first. Thursday and Friday, you hold back a little bit. You have to catch your breath.

This weekend, catch up with people over email. You might get a flirtatious note from someone.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

Monday isn’t great for any tasks involving minute details, but it’s perfect for big-picture stuff. Plus, you’re swimming in free time. If a friend asks for help, definitely do it. Even if they don’t ask for help but you see there’s something you could do that would make their day, go for it.

Tuesday and Wednesday you’re thinking quickly (and possibly talking quickly -- careful not to put your foot in your mouth!) but Thursday and Friday are easygoing. You might find yourself at a dinner party with some fascinating people. It’s time to come out of your shell. This weekend, surprise someone.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Keep your attention on the small things on Monday, and the bigger issues will sort themselves out. On Tuesday and Wednesday, taking extra care with your relationships is important. Give anyone you’re talking to 10 percent more energy and attention than you usually would. If you’re sending an email, take the time to make it funny and sweet. Thursday and Friday, watch out for overindulging -- speaking of sweet -- and try to remain neutral territory between two friends in the throes of a dispute. Saturday and Sunday are dual-natured.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

You sit down to write an email on Monday, an email you’ve been nervous about writing, and somehow it comes out incredibly well: funny, self-deprecating, supportive and compassionate. Only a creative mind like yours could create an email like that. Tuesday and Wednesday provide no outlets for your creativity -- your family is top of mind, and mostly you’re worrying about them.

But Thursday and Friday find you on an adventure not unlike camp. Your friends are involved, creativity is involved and romance is likely. Awesome! This weekend, check in with a pal who needs you.

The weekly horoscopes are updated on every week to gives you an in-depth insight into your family, your love life, any career opportunities, friends and money issues.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Suddenly, on Monday, a solution to a problem that’s been bugging you for a while dawns on you. Run it by a friend and they’ll most likely endorse it. You sleep on it, and on Tuesday and Wednesday, you’re not so sure it’s so brilliant after all. You think things through constantly -- your world almost can’t bear the weight of all your thinking -- but Thursday and Friday, all thinking goes out the window. You’re in the presence of someone beautiful, and you can’t help yourself but be totally distracted. Saturday and Sunday, someone wants you to sign some paperwork, but you can’t be bothered.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

Monday is hard to get a handle on.

You can tell what people are saying and you know what things you have to get done, but you almost feel like you’re walking around in a dream. It doesn’t feel disconcerting, but you feel distant. Tuesday and Wednesday help the world to solidify again -- mostly thanks to a good chat with a friend. It’s amazing how much friends can help.

Thursday and Friday you’re conducting a number of secret missions. You’re collecting facts -- possibly on a potential love interest or future business partner. It’s fun. Saturday and Sunday are full of new faces.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Keep your money in your wallet on Monday. As much as you’d love to be richer than you are, the make-money-quick scheme that catches your attention this week isn’t going to bring that about. You’re better off applying your energy to creative pursuits (where the chances of making quick money are pretty much nil). Tuesday or Wednesday, you have a brief conversation with someone that radically alters your opinion of something. Thursday or Friday, you are named ‘Employee of the Month’ (or else you’re given some other deserved but embarrassing attention). This weekend, be around friends.

It’s easy to see where a friend is going wrong on Monday, but that doesn’t mean you should weigh in with your inexpert advice.

Consider all the people already giving your friend advice, and the fact that none of them really knows what they’re talking about. Be a supportive, noncritical pal.

It’s really a no-brainer. Tuesday and Wednesday, the people around you seem intent on being combative, but you have a sense of higher calling. You barely participate in the proceedings. Thursday and Friday are more about fun than work -- try a restaurant you’ve never been to.

The weekend is work-heavy.

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SAGITTARIUS

Monday is easily the best day of your week -- the most fun, the most romantic, the most creative -- so throw your all into it. That’s not to say that Tuesday and Wednesday don’t have great things to offer, too, but they’re days on the edge. A minor conflict could become ugly at this time. Thursday and Friday, don’t worry about any of your goals; instead, focus on the people around you. Figure out who you want by your side and make it known. Your loyalty will endear them to you. Saturday and Sunday, as much as a business opportunity is tempting, something in you just knows it’s not the right time.

You wish you could just take off like a bird on Monday. You want to flap your wings and fly high over everyone, but you can’t get off the ground. You have a yearning to expand your horizons, but it’s not going to happen like that.

Tuesday and Wednesday, you’re a lot more comfortable in the here and now. Masculine energy figures strongly.

So does creativity, productivity and romance. Thursday and Friday, the key to success is communication. Even if something goes embarrassingly awry, be upfront about it. Saturday and Sunday, there’s a lot going on, but the conversations in between interest you most.

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

You’re a big-picture thinker, especially on Monday, and you have the sense that there will come a time when you won’t have to worry about money. Unfortunately that time hasn’t quite arrived yet. Put yourself first, but don’t spend a bunch of money on yourself. Tuesday and Wednesday, your mind is expanding into fields of interest you know almost nothing about. It makes your brain tingle to be around someone who knows a bunch about something you don’t, so make it happen. Thursday and Friday, you make a discovery that lights you up like a light bulb.

Your weekend is incredibly romantic.

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20)

You’re in a process of transformation on Monday, but somehow you’re not nervous about it. Change is always a weird thing, even when it feels right, so you’d be smart to take a friend out to lunch and just talk about it. You’ll be glad you did, because Tuesday and Wednesday plunge you into a sudden fog of uncertainty. Thursday and Friday, you’re still a bit disoriented, but writing down you feelings in an email to someone gives you a startling amount of clarity. Your own words weirdly give you something to hold onto. This weekend, take it easy and don’t analyze things too much.

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Entertainment News

Kolkata Knight Riders go west: Shah Rukh Khan buys CPL team

Shah Rukh Khan is the first owner of an Indian Premier League team to own an overseas cricket franchise. (Getty Images) UMBAI: Bollywood royalty is now set to rub shoulders with Hollywood glamour, following the purchase of the Trinidad & Tobago franchise in the Caribbean Premier League by star actor and Kolkata Knight Riders owner Shah Rukh Khan.

Hollywood stars Mark Wahlberg and Gerard Butler already own CPL franchises. Wahlberg owns reigning champions Barbados Tridents, led by Kieron Pollard, while Butler owns Jamaica Tallawahs, captained by Chris Gayle.

Khan's company Red Chillies Entertain-

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ment Pvt Ltd -along with KKR co-owners Juhi Chawla and her husband Jay Mehta -has invested in the T&T franchise. The next edition of the tournament is scheduled to run from June 20 to July 26.

Khan is the first owner of an Indian Premier League team to own an overseas cricket franchise. He told TOI: "This is in line with our vision to expand globally .

We are thrilled to become part of the cricketing tradition of Trinidad & Tobago."

"The passion for franchise cricket in the Caribbean is evident with the success of CPL and we hope to bring all the best practices of KKR to the T&T franchise," Khan told TOI on Tuesday .

KKR, IPL champions in 2012 and 2014, have been ranked the most valuable IPL team with a brand value of $86 million (over Rs 500 crore).

KKR's chief executive Venky Mysore, who runs Khan's sports business, added, "KKR has been fortunate to be recognized as one of the most professionally managed franchises in IPL. That experience has encouraged us to expand globally .The idea is to replicate our success in

the CPL, keeping the growing interest in this (T20) format in mind."

Trinidad & Tobago has a population of about 1.3 million, with people of Indian origin comprising almost 38%, making them the single largest ethnic group.

KKR's investment strategists are hoping that their star owner will draw in the crowds when the team plays its home matches at the historic Queen's Park Oval between July 14 and 19.

The islands are also an hour's light away from Miami, which could help T&T draw members of the Indi an diaspora for their matches. If Khan's attempt to tap the Indian expat audience turns out to be success ul, "the game will move entirely to a new level," said Mysore.

T&T's stars include Dwayne Bravo (who was the highest wicket-taker in this year's IPL, playing for Chennai Super Kings), Darren Bravo, Samuel Badree and Kevon Cooper. Overseas signings include Kamran Akmal and Johan Botha. Former South Africa and KKR allrounder Jacques Kallis, who is now the IPL team's mentor, will also be a part of the T&T franchise this year.

Following Khan's investment, the CPL may seek ways to connect with India. The Indian diaspora in the west is a huge fanbase which Indian cricket is yet to explore as far as in-stadia action is concerned.

A brief look at the new owners and the Caribbean Premier League...

Owners of new T&T team: Shahrukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, actor Juhi Chawla and husband Jay Mehta Other celebrity owners in CPL: Hollywood actors Mark Wahlberg and Gerard Butler.

Star players in the T&T franchise: Dwayne Bravo, Jacques Kallis, Darren Bravo, Johan Botha, Kamran Akmal and Kevon Cooper among others.

Other franchises in CPL: Antigua Hawksbills, Barbados Tridents, Guyana Amazon Warriors, Jamaica Tallawahs, St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, St Lucia Zouks, T&T (to be now owned by Khan).

No. of CPL editions so far: 2013 & 2014. 2015 begins later this month.

Top cricketers from T&T: Brian Lara, Dwayne Bravo, Learie Constantine, Gus Logie, Ravi Rampaul, Lendl Simmons, Sunil Narine and Kieron Pollard

Sofia-Joe to tie George Clooney scared The Duff star Mae the knot soon Whitman’s ex-boyfriend with tough talk!

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ctress Sofia Vergara will soon tie the knot with fiance Joe Manganiello.

The "Hot Pursuit" actress said that her wedding with fiance Joe "is going to happen soon" in a "very secret place where nobody is going to find us," reported E!Online.

"It's going to happen soon.Very far away (in a) very secret place where nobody is going to find us.It is on a plane," she said.

The actress looked all set to start a family with her fiance.

"Joe is younger than me. He is 38. He has never had kids.

How am I going to say no? I tell him if we are going to do this, we have to do it, like, now, because I don't want to be 50 with a baby," Vergara said.

Vergara, 42, and 38-year-old Joe began dating in July 2014. The Colombia-born actress opened up about her relationship with the "Magic Mike XXL" actor during an interview in August last year.

Clint Eastwood mocks Caitlyn Jenner Did that trigger their break-up?

Do you remember the cute young kid from the George Clooney-movie One Fine Day? Well, that kid is Mae Whitman and she is now a pretty young actress, now headlining a movie on her own. The DUFF (that’s an abbreviation for DESIGNATED UGLY FAT FRIEND) will be releasing this Friday in India, where she will be playing the titular character (Going by her looks, she is anything but that! Little plump, yes…but definitely not fat!)

The DUFF is said to be on the lines of the cult classic teen comedies like Mean Girls and 10 Things I Hate About You. She plays this DUFF of her friend circle, who decides to get out of her forcefully tagged identity and make her own. As a child, she had been at the receiving end of bullying, which actually helped her prepare for her character. She said, “I’d be like, ‘Sorry you don’t like the shoes I wore, but I have to get up tomorrow and go to work, and I don’t have time to let

that affect me.’ ” If you remember, Mae also had major role to play in the critically acclaimed comedy series, Arrested Development, where she played Michael Cera’s on-off girlfriend, Ann Veal, whose presence everyone ignores!

She also let in on a little secret about her One Fine Day co-star, George Clooney. “He’s the coolest, nicest guy on the planet.” She says. “I saw him a few years ago, when I was dating my now-ex-boyfriend, and he took the guy around the corner and gave him a talking-to — he warned him not to break my heart. He’s really the best.” Now, who will take pangas with a girl who has the protection of Danny Ocean himself?

That romance is over, and now she has moved on to a better relationship. She says, “I’m dating a musician who’s really smart and nice, and it’s a cool adult relationship. I realize I sound like I’m 10 years old, but it feels really healthy and respectful. I have been in a lot of tumultuous relationships.”

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ollywood actor-filmmaker Clint Eastwood poked fun at Caitlyn Jenner at the Spike TV Guys' Choice awards.

Eastwood, 85, poked fun at the former Olympian - who was known as Bruce Jenner before her gender transition - while introducing Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson to the stage at the ceremony at California's Sony Pictures Studio, but the gag reportedly fell flat, reported Hollywood Life.

Eastwood compared the wrestler-turned-actor to former athletes who have become actors, "like Jim Brown and Caitlyn Somebody..."

However, the network have confirmed the joke will be axed when the ceremony is broadcast on June 18.

David Schwarz, Spike TV senior vice president of communications, told USA Today, "We will remove the reference in the version that will air."

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Whoa! Shahid Kapoor to host his bachelor’s party in Greece!

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s per this latest update, Sasha has shifted his wedding destination from Greece to Delhi. And will celebrate his bachelors’ party in Greece!

Read on to know more…

Shahid Kapoor and Mira Rajput were initially speculated to tie the knot in

Greece, today (June 10). However, that obviously isn’t happening. Word is that Sasha has postponed his wedding date to July 8 and decides to keep it very private, only for a selected number of friends and family. Reveals a source, “Shahid has asked us to block dates between July 5 and 8 for his sangeet and wedding ceremonies. I think the nuptials will take place on July 8 unless I have got it wrong.”

While the wedding will be a private affair. Shahid plans to host a grand bachelors’ party in Greece, by this month end. He is currently busy arranging and re-arranging his date diary for the same because despite his best efforts, he has too many personal and professional commitments to meet. Adds another source, “Sasha is going round the bend. He has to complete a schedule for Udta Punjab and shoot for the promotional material of his next film. He has also been approached to judge a dance reality show. And in between, he has a bachelor party planned overseas.”

From what we hear, Shahid also plans to throw a starry reception in Mumbai for the B-townies, soon after the wedding.

However, he’s likely to cut short his honeymoon period as he’ll have to quickly return back to the promotions of Alia Bhatt starrer Shaandaar, which is releasing in September!

Keep watching this space for latest updates on Shahid-Mira’s wedding!

Caribbean Star Newspaper Brothers trailer: Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra win round 1!

The trailer of the Karan Malhotra directorial is just out and we’re sure you wouldn’t wanna miss this one

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harma Productions’ upcoming action drama, Brothers has been in the news for the changed looks Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra have been sporting in the film. While Sidharth is all bulked up, Akshay shed 17 kgs for his role… quite an effort isn’t it?

After a lot of wait, the makers have now released the trailer of the film which also stars Jacqueline Fernandez and Jackie Shroff in pivotal roles.

And here’s what we thought about it…

What’s hot?

The trailer gives a glimpse of all the characters and establishes a little something about all of them. Akshay as David Fernandez- a troubled son, a mature elder brother and a helpless father looks very convincing. Sidharth pulls off the fighter avatar as Monty Fernandez and a hateful brother very well.

In fact it is easy to say that this one will be more grey than his Ek Villain avatar ever tried to be. The trailer treats you to some really hot body show by Sidharth, enough to make girls go weak in the knees.

Akshay of course is at his hot best!

What’s not?

Considering that it is an official remake of Warrior, the trailer serves the entire story in this two minutes fifty odd seconds first trailer which leaves little to look forward to; apart from fight sequences. While we do get a glimpse of all characters. The music, that we heard so far, is just about average. But again it will be too soon to judge, right?

Directed by Karan Malhotra, Brothers is an official remake of the hit Hollywood film, Warrior.

The promising trailer of this film has won the first round and gotten us all even more excited about this movie which will release on August 15 this year! Watch and tell us what you think of it…

You HAVE to see how Fukrey actress Vishakha Singh reacted to a man’s vulgar comment on Facebook! a victim of a vulgar comment passed on by a male fan. Check out this picture which the beauty posted on Facebook:

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man posted a lewd comment on Vishakha’s FB picture and he the way she shot him down is nothing short of epic. Read on!

We all remember the tiff between Deepika Padukone and India’s leading publication, the Times Of India. The actress lashed out at TOI, after a picture of a her cleavage was sensationalized in the media.

She took to Twitter and wrote,” “YES! I am a Woman.I have breasts AND a cleavage! You got a problem!!??” After the Dippy episode, starts another one where Fukrey actress Vishakha Singh became

After seeing this picture, a male fan decided to test Vishakha’s patience and pass on a lewd comment, thinking that maybe she wouldn’t react? Here’s what he said:

Well if MD Mustakif thought he could get away

with this one, he didn’t see Vishakha’s wrath coming! Check out the picture above again to see how the actress reacted to the man’s comment. Isn’t it epic? We are sure that must have shut him up right away!

The cyber war however, didn’t end there. Another creep soon joined in, where he blamed Vishakha for wearing a tee that had text written on the chest!

Here’s how she reacted to this:

We salute Vishakha for her epic comebacks and hope the men out there have received the message!

Caribbean Star Newspaper Gwyneth Paltrow wants Brad to redecorate home?

Laverene Cox to get wax statue at Madame Tussauds

Laverene Cox to get wax statue at Madame Tussauds

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ctress and reality TV star Laverene Cox will be the first transgender to have her wax figure displayed at Madame Tussauds.

The "Orange Is the New Black" star's wax figure will make its debut on June 26 during Pride Weekend festivities, reported Aceshowbiz "I am so deeply honored to have been asked to be part of the Madame Tussauds legacy," said Cox, after being announced to have her wax figure displayed at the museum.

Cox's likeness will sit at the Madame Tussauds in San Francisco with wax figures of other celebrities including Lady Gaga, George Clooney and Anne Hathaway.

The "Grand Street" actress was grateful for the honor.

"I am so deeply honored to have been asked to be part of the Madame Tussauds legacy.

"When I think about being who I am, a black trans woman from a working class background raised in Mobile, Alabama, this honor feels even more improbable and extraordinary," said, the LGBT advocate.

Madame Tussauds San Francisco also posted a video on its YouTube channel showing Cox working with the museum's studio artists for her upcoming wax figure.

Cox has been the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the acting category.

She has been an outspoken advocate of LGBT community.

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Govinda's daughter: Dad didn't ask Salman for my B'wood launch

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ron Man" actress Gwyneth Paltrow reportedly wants Brad Falchuk to redecorate his home before she decides to move in with him.

Paltrow, 42, is growing increasingly serious in her relationship with the "Glee" co-creator, Falchuk, 44.

She asked him to "neutralise" some of the colour schemes in his Hollywood home, reported Contactmusic.

"Brad's been telling friends that there need to be changes to the interiors to accommodate Gwyneth's taste. She seems to like more neutral colours and won't stay over too often until the place has been changed." according to sources.

June 12–18, 2015

Tina Ahuja

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ollywood actor Govinda's daughter Tina Ahuja, who is making her acting debut with Second Hand Husband, dismissed reports that her father

had asked superstar Salman Khan for her launch into the industry.

In 2007, Tina had accompanied Salman during the IIFA Awards, which had triggered speculations that she would enter Bollywood. There were also reports that Salman would launch her in Dabangg, a 2010 blockbuster.

"It was said that my dad asked him (Salman) to launch me. But it is not true. That was just a rumour. I was never going to be launched by him. It was all created by media," Tina told PTI here.

Salman is known for promoting newcomers in Bollywood, including Katrina Kaif, Arjun Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Sooraj Pancholi and Athiya Shetty.

Since Salman launched actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha's daughter Sonakshi in Dabangg, things had reportedly turned sour between him and Govinda.

When asked about Salman, the upcoming actress said, "I have met him (Salman) just two-three times. I was too shy to talk to him...I don't know what to talk to him.

He is my father's friend, not mine."

Her debut film Second Hand Husband is being directed by Smeep Kang and also stars Gippy Grewal, Dharmendra among others. It is set for a release on July 3.

Tina has expressed her desire to work with actors like Akshay Kumar and Hollywood star Tom Cruise.

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Caribbean Connections

12-year-old girl first in the Caribbean to contract the Zika virus

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ANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Tuesday June 9, 2015 – The mosquito-borne Zika virus, also referred to as ZIKV, has now reached the Caribbean, with a 12-year-old girl in the Dominican Republic becoming the first person to contract the virus.

The pre-teen has been hospitalised in a private clinic.

ZIKV Enters The Region – Mosquito Attack Has Residents Running For Cover This development comes a month after cases were reported in Brazil, prompting the Pan American Health Organization to issue a warning about its potential to spread to other countries.

Caribbean countries subsequently put their residents on alert.

Health Ministry embarks on vector control training programme http://t.co/ b8sCD133q1 #ZIKV #ZIKAVirus #JamaicaNews pic.twitter.com/JQqPrWXxtr — JamaicaObserver (@JamaicaObserver) May 30, 2015 #trinidad TT now on ZIKV alert!: There is a new mosquito-borne disease, the zika virus (ZIKV), and cit… http://t.co/

TuNUDDqCOf #tobago — All Trinidad Tobago (@atrinidadtobago) May 22, 2015 The Zika virus is transmitted by the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito, the same mosquito that transmits Chikungunya and dengue.

The virus is similar to dengue with symptoms that include fever, joint and muscle pain, conjunctivitis, headache, weakness, rash and swelling of the lower limbs.

After the bite of an infected mosquito, symptoms usually appear following the incubation period of three to 12 days.

They last for four to seven days. #Zika virus is the first insect-borne disease that has been shown to pass from human to human by sexual contact. http://t.co/u7j2UkX6WH — L. Arias (@lariastt) June 5, 2015 No deaths due to the Zika virus have been recorded worldwide to date.

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'Theft, not fraud' Petrojam checking accuracy of PSOJ study

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HE authorities are now investigating what appears to be a case of aircraft fuel theft at Jamaica Aircraft Refuelling Services (JARS), rather than fraud at Petrojam as claimed by Opposition spokesman on energy Robert Montague yesterday.

Montague had released a statement saying that the Opposition has information

that police and the Customs Department have made a breakthrough in the alleged fraud which, he said, involved the theft of thousands of litres of petrol at Petrojam.

He also said the Government's silence on the matter has raised some questions.

"Is the artificially high price of petrol being used to cover the loss from the alleged fraud? Montague asked. "Is the company alleged to be involved co-operating with the authorities? Have the overseas partners in the alleged entity been notified? What does the board know about these allegations and when did they know it, if at all?"

He also asked: "Has anyone been charged? And for what? What is the extent of the alleged fraud? Who else is alleged to be involved?"

But yesterday evening Petrojam boss Winston Watson told the Jamaica Observer that what was being investigated was a case of theft.

"There's no fraud, it's a theft," Watson said. He explained that on May 10, Customs officers saw a JARS refueller loading a fuel tanker at the JARS plant at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay. The Customs officers immediately became suspicious because the refuellers are only used to refuel aircraft.

JARS is a joint venture in which Petrojam owns a 49 per cent stake, while Air BP -- one of the world's largest suppliers of aviation fuel products and services -holds 51 per cent.

Watson told the Observer that the Cus-

toms officers seized the tanker and found 4,000 litres of fuel.

The matter was reported to the JARS board, and Petrojam fired the driver of the JARS refueller and his supervisor, and has also launched its own investigation.

Customs, the Observer learnt last night, have brought in the police as they seek to determine how widespread the thievery is and who is behind it.

It was not clear last night whether Customs had arrested anyone in the case and an attempt to reach Commissioner Major Richard Reese was not successful as his cellphone rang without answer.

The Observer was also told last night that BP Air is sending its own investigators to Jamaica.

Healthy ocean, healthy planet

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N observance of World Oceans Day — Monday, June 8 — Sandals Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Sandals Resorts International, took the message of ocean preservation to some 600 students across 12 schools in the territories in which it operates in the Caribbean.

The sessions focused on the various ways mankind uses or benefits from the ocean, the practices or phenomena that threaten it, and what can be done to protect it.

Among the Jamaican schools that participated

were Jones Town Primary in Kingston; John Rollins/ Success Primary, Chetwood Memorial Primary and St James High in St James; Cove Primary in Hanover; Ocho Rios Primary in St Ann, and Mearnsville All-Age School in Westmoreland.

Cedar Grove Primary in Antigua, Christ Church Girls' School in Barbados, Gros Islet Primary in St Lucia, Westerhall Secondary in Grenada, and Enid Capron Primary in Turks and Caicos were also part of the Caribbean-wide event.

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Sandals Foundation volunteers and guests from Sandals Barbados join students at Christ Church Girls Primary school for a photo following the World Ocean's day activity.

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Guyana puts up a fight as Venezuela claims territory where oil discovered

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EORGETOWN, Guyana, Tuesday June 9, 2015 – Guyana has declared it will fight Venezuela’s president Nicholas Maduro who issued a presidential decree claiming more than two-thirds of its territory, including the maritime area where ExxonMobil recently found a significant oil deposit.

A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday said the decree issued last month is a “flagrant violation of international law” and Guyana “rejects this illegality which seeks to undermine our efforts at development through the exploitation of our natural resources offshore”.

“Any attempt by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to apply that instrument in an extra-territorial manner will be vigorously resisted . . . In light of this Guyana will spare no effort in bringing to the attention of the international community this aggressive and illegal act by Venezuela,” it said, adding that Maduro’s decree is “inconsistent with the principle that all states should respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other states, large and small” and presents a threat to regional peace and security and breaches the Geneva Agreement of 1966.

“It is international law that must reign supreme and not the ambitions of a larger state which wishes to trample upon the rights of a smaller country in order to obstruct the sovereign right of Guyana to develop its natural resources.”

The ministry pointed out that the boundary between Guyana and its larger neighbour was determined ages ago.

“The land boundary between Guyana and Venezuela which was defined by the Arbitral Award of 1899, is recognized by all states. Venezuela also recognized its border with Guyana as settled for over 60 , having also participated in the demarcation of this established boundary which was completed in 1905,” it said.

The main opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) has supported the government’s position.

Venezuela’s claim on Guyana’s territory “spurious” – PPP. Read More: http://t.co/VloY8rO55c — iNews Guyana (@iNewsGuyana) June 8, 2015 Maduro’s decree was issued just days after American oil giant ExxonMobil announced it had found a “significant” amount of oil in the Stabroek Block, some 120 nautical miles offshore Guyana.

Former Foreign Minister of #Guyana Rashleigh Jackson yesterday called Caracas’ claim “preposterous.” Jackson called #Venezuela a bully.

— Iana Seales (@ianaseales) June 7, 2015 Venezuela had objected to the oil search, writing to ExxonMobil to warn that it would not accept the interference of a multinational company in the disputed territory.

The Guyana Chronicle newspaper reported that ExxonMobil’s public relations officer Carlton James as saying that the company’s contract with the Guyana government would not be affected by Venezuela’s pronouncements.

The statement issued by the ministry yesterday made it clear that Guyana had no intention of allowing Venezuela to stop its exploration, saying that the government would continue undeterred to access and develop its resources in line with the principles of international law.

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Caribbean Star Newspaper Security guard critically injured in shooting outside school in the Bahamas

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ASSAU, Bahamas, Wednesday June 10, 2015 – A school in the Bahamas was placed on lockdown yesterday after a gunman wearing a school uniform opened fire on a security guard.

No students were injured but the guard at L. W. Young Junior High School in New Providence has been hospitalized in critical condition.

Police say the male security guard was on duty around aound 12:30 p.m. when a white Honda vehicle pulled up to the school gate.

A male clad in a school uniform and armed with a handgun exited the vehicle and walked up to the security booth where he fired several shots at the security officer, hitting him in the thigh and chest before speeding off in the vehicle.

The security officer was rushed to hospital in a private vehicle.

In a statement issued shortly after the shooting, director of education Lionel Sands said the school was quickly placed on lock-down as senior education officials and police began investigations, and the gunman did not have access to the

The Closed Gates Of The L W Young Junior High School Where The Shooting Took Place. campus.

“The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology wishes to remind parents, students and the community that student safety is always a top priority and during today’s unfortunate incident no students were harmed,” he said.

Police are continuing investigations but have indicated they do not yet have a motive for the shooting and cannot confirm that the assailant was a student even though he wore the uniform of another school.

Investigation shows Jack Warner used FIFA money for personal loans, debt payment

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JACK WARNER ORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Sunday June 7, 2015 – Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner used US$10 million from football’s governing body to pay credit card debt, give himself personal loans, and also laundered some of the money, according to a BBC investigation.

BBC reported today that it had seen documents detailing three wire transfers on January 4, February 1 and March 10, 2008 from FIFA accounts to the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) accounts.

Trinidadian Warner was president of CONCACAF at that time and controlled its accounts.

The money had been sent by FIFA on behalf of South Africa and was intended to be used for that country’s Caribbean diaspora legacy programme which was aimed at developing football in the region.

However, the report indicated, of that money, almost US$1.6 million was used to pay Warner’s credit cards and personal

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loans.

It said the 72-year-old football executive made several personal loans to himself – the largest being US$410,000 – and paid credit card debt. The largest payment made for the latter purpose was US$87,000.

Some of the money was also moved around, the BBC report stated.

It said JTA Supermarkets, a large chain in Trinidad, received US$4.86 million between January 2008 and March 2009; and US$360,000 of the money was withdrawn by people connected to Warner.

Warner is among 14 people – nine of them current or former FIFA top officials and five sports marketing and broadcasting executives – accused of racketeering, wire fraud, money laundering, bribery. United States prosecutors allege they offered and accepted more than $150 million in bribes and kickbacks over a 24-year period.

He has denied all allegations and plans to fight his extradition to the US to face the charges.

Warner has also promised to reveal “an avalanche” of secrets showing the link between FIFA, its funding and him; the link between FIFA, its funding and the United National Congress and the People’s Partnership government in the 2010 general election in Trinidad and Tobago; his knowledge of financial transactions at FIFA including, but not limited to, FIFA president Sepp Blatter; and matters involving Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

Blatter, who was not named in the indictment that was unsealed in a federal court in the United States, has since announced his decision to resign.

June 12–18, 2015 37 Caribbean Star Newspaper Venezuela says Guyana taking dangerous, New pest hurting agriculture production provocative stance in border dispute in Dominica

Venezuela minister for foreign affairs Delcy Rodriguez

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ARACAS, Venezuela, Wednesday June 10, 2014 – Venezuela has responded to Guyana’s declaration that it intends to fight that country’s move to claim territorial waters, warning that the government should rectify its “dangerous, provocative policy” immediately.

Guyana on Monday said it would not stand by and allow its rights to be trampled, after Venezuela’s president Nicholas Maduro issued a presidential decree claiming more than two-thirds of its territory, including the maritime area where American oil giant ExxonMobil recently found significant oil deposits.

“Any attempt by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to apply that instrument in an extra-territorial manner will be vigorously resisted,” the statement said, as it described the decree as a “flagrant violation of international law”.

However, Venezuela said the decree was “an administrative norm directed at organizing the everyday work of maritime supervision and protection”.

Venezuela in oil spat with Guyana: Venezuela demands that neighbouring Guyana stop US oil compan… http://t.co/ oue0xtwxIa <–Full Story — Uk News Depot (@uknewsdepot) June 10, 2015 It accused Guyana of trying “to create an artificial crisis, inventing irrational situations against a brother country like Venezuela, and using highly offensive language”.

“It is unacceptable that the new government of Guyana take this position with a territory that is under dispute,” Venezuela’s foreign affairs minister Delcy Rodriguez said.

She added that the new David Granger-led government showed “a dangerous provocative policy against a peaceful Venezuela, backed by the imperial power of a US transnational, ExxonMobil, which should be rectified immediately”.

While Guyana said that Maduro’s May 27, 2015 decree presented a threat to regional peace and security, Rodrigues said “the only surprising threat is that the government of Guyana allowed a powerful transnational [company] such as Exxon Mobil to venture into territory disputed between two countries”.

Venezuela had objected to ExxonMobil’s oil search, writing the oil giant to warn that it would not accept the interference of a multinational company in the disputed territory.

Rodrigues has invited her Guyanese counterpart to dialogue to resolve the matter.

BREAKING NEWS: Let’s Talk… Venezuelan Government wants to sit and talk with “brotherly” Guyana following… http://t.co/OJQypLmdn3 — Gordon Moseley (@gomoseley) June 9, 2015

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OSEAU, Dominica, Wednesday June 10, 2015 – A new species of scale insects is causing extensive damage in the south of Dominica, affecting from fruit trees to herbs and vegetation.

Minister for Agriculture Johnson Drigo, other ministry officials and Petter Saint Jean, parliamentary representative for Laplaine which has been most affected, saw the extent of the problem firsthand and assured that efforts were being made to find a solution.

Saint Jean warned that the situation could affect the economic development of the community, and the country, if not contained.

He therefore called on residents to work together with the ministry.

“I have seen between March and May of this year, the kind of impact that the scale insect has had on production in the Balisier area. I am in the middle of the infested zone and I have been monitoring it on a daily basis for the past three months because I felt I had a responsibility to liaise with the authorities to find a solution to the problem,” Saint Jean said.

“I think we have to work together and cooperate with the authorities to do whatever it takes to protect the future of Laplaine and to ensure that this thing which is a problem for us does not become a national problem.”

Parliamentary Representative of the neighboring Morne Jaune constituency Ivor Stephenson agreed, saying that “no matter how many biological measures are put in place, if you don’t give the necessary support as an integrated approach towards pest management, we will not get anywhere”.

Drigo recognized the hard work of farmers and expressed confidence that his ministry would find a solution before the situation got out of control.

THERE ARE ABOUT 8,000 DESCRIBED SPECIES OF SCALE INSECTS AND THEY VARY DRAMATICALLY IN APPEARANCE. He said the ministry had eradicated similar pests in the past, including the Pink Hibiscus Millibug and the Citrus Black Fly, and it would take charge of the problem “in the same manner that we did with others”.

Head of Plant Protection and Quarantine Unit Ryan Anselm explained that the scale insects multiply quickly, lay a lot of eggs and feed on the sap from leaves. When the insects cover the leaves, the plants can’t photosynthesize and they dry and die.

Spray trials have already been conducted with bay leaf oil and olive oil, among others, with the former proving to be the most effective in killing the pest. However, it also burns the leaves of the plants. Chemicals are also not working since the scale insect has a waxy covering which protects it.

Anselm said using beetles for biological control appeared to be the answer.

“We have multiplied approximately four beetles . . . with the assistance of FAO [the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization] . . . I can give you the assurance that around this time next year we won’t be talking about scale insects,” he promised.

The ministry is also working with the FAO to get parasitoids – organisms that feed for all of its life, on a single host – that work more quickly than beetles.

There are about 8,000 described species of scale insects.

NASA responds to predictions of catastrophic asteroid impact and tsunami near Puerto Rico

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ONDON, England, Wednesday June 10, 2015 – End-of-time predictors have claimed that a massive asteroid hurtling towards Earth will destroy civilization as we know it in September.

They are predicting a cataclysmic event that will trigger a major earthquake and tsunami and will sound humanity’s death knell in just three months’ time, The Mirror reports.

The rapid proliferation of the prediction has now prompted NASA to speak out and dismiss the theory as unfounded.

“NASA knows of no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth, so the probability of a major collision is quite small,” a NASA spokesperson said.

“In fact, as best as we can tell, no large object is likely to strike the Earth any time in the next several hundred years.”

Conspiracy theorists on numerous blogs and websites have come up with the period between September 22 and September 28 as the likely time frame for the “impending

City on earth destroyed by meteor shower - 3D artwork -conceptua catastrophe.”

Some biblical theorists maintain that the events will initiate the Rapture and the start of the seven-year Tribulation.

Others believe the events will spark the emergence of the so-called Illuminati-sponsored New World Order (NWO), which will take charge of world affairs.

Despite NASA’s dismissal, the conspiracy theorists believe that governments of the world’s leading nations are aware of the “impending disaster” and are keeping the information secret to prevent mass

panic.

Veterans Today reports that self-proclaimed prophet Reverend Efrain Rodriguez made the original prediction back in 2010 after getting a message from God. According to Reverend Rodriguez, the asteroid will crash into the ocean off Puerto Rico during the night, triggering a massive earthquake and a tsunami that will advance at 400 miles per hour, destroying everything in its path.

The tsunami will go on to devastate the East Coast of the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Rodriguez added, urging NASA to issue an alert “so people can be relocated from the areas that are to be affected.”

US-based Veterans Today noted that such a disaster was “not an end-of-theworld event, but one that would likely kill millions this side of the Atlantic and send the world economy into a tailspin.”

Meanwhile, although the latest claims of a killer asteroid are apparently unfounded,

scientists have long said that these space rocks pose a major threat to Earth.

“There is an asteroid with our name on it and it will hit us,” Professor Brian Cox told Britain’s MailOnline.

Earth had a “near-miss” only a few months ago.

“We didn’t see it,” Professor Cox said.

“We saw it on the way out, but if it had just been a bit further over it would have probably wiped us out. These things happen.”

The bus-sized asteroid, named 2014 EC, came within 38,300 (61,637 km) miles of Earth in March, and it wasn’t the only one threatening Earth.

NASA is currently tracking 1,400 “potentially hazardous asteroids” and predicting their future approaches and impact probabilities, the Mail reports.

So serious is the threat that former astronaut Ed Lu has described it as “cosmic roulette” and said that only “blind luck” has so far saved humanity from a serious impact.

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Gayle still wants to be a West Indies force His impact with Somerset has reinforced his reputation as a roving T20 gun but Chris Gayle still considers himself to be the king of all formats

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hris Gayle may have taken the county circuit by storm in his hard-hitting introduction to the NatWest T20 Blast, but home remains where the heart is for a man who yearns for another chance to represent West Indies on the international stage.

With scores of 92, 151 not out and 85 not out in his three appearances to date for Somerset, Gayle has amassed 328 runs for once out, from 170 balls and with a remarkable 29 sixes - almost three times the tally of any other player in the competition.

Yet, with a Test series currently underway between West Indies and Australia in the Caribbean, Gayle cannot help but have half an eye on the fortunes of his team, for whom he scored an ODI career-best 215 against Zimbabwe in the recent World Cup. “I’d love to play a few more international games to be honest with you,” Gayle told ESPNcricinfo. “But we’ll have to wait and see. It’s tough, the travelling is very hectic, sometimes you have to know when you’ve reached the limit in life, sometimes you have to draw the line.

“But I will still push to play international cricket, when I go back home I will have a discussion with the coach and maybe with the board, so that we can work out Chris Gayle’s future, to see if they are still interested.

I am still interested so I’ll look forward to that and see how best it can work out.”

Throughout his stint with Somerset, Gayle has played with the number 333 on his back, a tribute to his highest Test score against Sri Lanka in 2010.

“People all say Chris is the king of T20, Chris is the this and that of T20, I am the king of Test cricket too,” he says. “I scored two triple centuries. And 21 ODI centuries. So I’m the

king of something. The king of all formats.

“A Test match is fantastic,” he adds. “It’s a test of character but the entertainment part of cricket is phenomenal. T20 has actually brought new cricket fans into the game, so we have to continue with this as well so that people who didn’t watch can eventually get to watch Test cricket.

“West Indies are in the middle of a Test series against Australia, so fingers crossed some youngsters get some opportunities and I hope they make the best use of it, we definitely have to look to the future sometimes.”

Gayle’s own future seems firmly mapped out as a Twenty20 gun for hire and the reception he has received in England after his long-awaited debut in England’s competition has confirmed his status as one of the iconic players of his age.

He has now scored 15 centuries in all Twenty20 competitions - the next most prolific is New Zealand’s captain, Brendon McCullum, with six - and has featured in domestic tournaments in seven different countries.

“It’s good to travel the world and share different dressing rooms with different players over the world,” he says. “you learn more about your culture and you make new friends, you gain more fans around the world as well. It’s been brilliant for me, it’s fantastic, and I’ve got a century for, if not all, then most of these teams. It’s great to achieve such things, but I never know which tournament is coming up next.”

Few players are better placed to assess the merits of England’s revamped Twenty20 competition, but Gayle’s initial verdict is that the quality falls a long way short of the standards he has

Chris Gayle has made a huge impact in his brief stint with Somerset © PA Photos encountered in the IPL, as well as Australia and the Caribbean.

“There’s no doubt there’s a big gap between other leagues compared to IPL,” he says.

“IPL is definitely No. 1, but the Caribbean Premier League is fantastic too and [Australia’s] Big Bash is up there as well.

Those three leagues are the top leagues.”

His opinion of England, meanwhile, is colored by the size of the venues he has so far encountered, with his initial matches taking place on two of the country’s smaller grounds at Chelmsford and Taunton, where one of his sixes landed in the nearby River Tone.

“Yeah, those two grounds are a bit small to be honest with you,” he says. “Especially Somerset, with a good track out there as well, so that’s even better. You can clear the boundary easily but anything can happen in cricket, you can get one and nick off early. When you do get a chance to score some runs you try and make the best use of it.”

“I’m looking forward to the CPL, that’s the party tournament. You can have a drink before and after the game - but, kids, don’t try this at home” Gayle’s determination to make the most of time in the middle was exemplified in his opening fixture against Essex, when his acclimatization to the conditions meant he was re-

stricted to five singles in the first five overs of Somerset’s run chase. However, he eventually opened his shoulders to set up a last-ball victory.

“I was trying to get a rhythm, but it just didn’t happen so at the same time I said I’m not going to panic, I know that if I bat a bit deeper I should be able to play catch-up and get it back in the bag, and that’s what happened.

It was my first game, I hadn’t had a net session, I struggled to get a feel for the conditions so it was just experience.”

“It’s a mind thing,” he adds.

“You have to prepare yourself mentally for these sort of situations. I knew it was going to be tough here, I knew it was going to be cold as well, so that’s always a trouble from a West Indian point of view. But I stuck to the task and got across the line.”

After all three of his starring roles, Gayle took time to sign autographs and take photographs with hundreds of fans who thronged to meet the superstar in their midst.

“The fans were fantastic in both games,” he says. “The first game was an away game but the fans were actually cheering for Chris Gayle which was very pleasing to see, and I’m glad I gave them something to cheer about. In England you always get that sort of reception, they like to make you welcome and feel at home.”

Gayle’s stint in England will be over all too soon, however a match sooner than expected, too - with his thoughts set to turn to the Caribbean Premier League in July and August.

“I’m definitely looking forward to the CPL, that’s the party tournament,” he says. “You can have a drink before and after the game - kids, don’t try this at home - but that’s the main objective of CPL, to have fun.

“The overseas guys come to the Caribbean, they go to the beach, have fun, chill, have a bit of rum, and then on the field we play hard cricket because we all want to win the tournament.

It’s only going to get bigger and better, the buzz is going off, it’s the third year, looking forward to getting back home and getting into it.”

For the second year running, one of the overseas players will be Kevin Pietersen, surplus to requirements for England’s Ashes summer despite a remarkable statement of form with a career-best 355 not out against Leicestershire last month. And Gayle had a personal message for his friend and foe.

“KP, England don’t want you?

Okay, come to the CPL. We’ll look after you there, if your own don’t want you, we’ll take you, we’ll accept you with both hands. You play for St Lucia Zouks, entertain the fans there, and it’ll be a cracker.”

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Dhawan’s comeback 150 lights up rainy day India 239 for 0 (Dhawan 150*, Vijay 89*) v Bangladesh

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e could have been carrying drinks had KL Rahul not fallen ill or if India had taken the expected option of opening with Cheteshwar Pujara once they decided to play five bowlers. He could have been out for 1 on a quicker pitch, he should have been snapped for 73, but Shikhar Dhawan was destined to score a third Test century, against an insipid attack missing both strategy and execution.

The ad campaign of “they are not kids anymore” will draw jokes about Bangladesh’s wicketless performance on the first day, but no Test century can be written off; and Dhawan’s came at a crucial juncture in his career, in a comeback Test, and its pace helped India make up time in a Test played on a slow pitch and during the monsoon.

Only 56 overs were possible, but Dhawan’s unbeaten 150 off 158 meant India got a score that teams at times take on a full day’s play. The established opener, M Vijay, put his head down, determined to not throw away his wicket against innocuous bowling, complementing Dhawan with a more sedate 89 off 178.

American Pharoah is 2015 Belmont Stakes winner, completes Triple Crown

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merican Pharoah made history on Saturday, winning the 2015 Belmont Stakes to secure horse racing’s first Triple Crown in 37 years.

The pre-race favorite at 3/5 odds, American Pharoah is the first horse to complete the Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978, and the 12th all-time.

American Pharoah started slowly out of the gate, but quickly recovered and then pulled away at the end. The horse finished the 1-mile race with a winning time of 2:26.65, holding off Frosted and Keen Ice down the stretch.

American Pharoah improved to 7-1 in its career, winning each of its last seven races. It was the first career Belmont win for jockey Victor Espinoza, and the second for trainer Bob Baffert, who also won in New York with Point Given in 2001.

The fourth time proved to be the charm for Baffert, who saw his horses win the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes three times previously -- 1997, 1998 and 2002 -- only to lose in the Belmont Stakes. Since Affirmed won all three races in 1978, 13 different horses won the first two legs of the Triple Crown before American Pharoah, only to fall short at the Belmont Stakes.

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Buttler, Root hundreds set up record England win

England 408 for 9 (Buttler 129, Root 104, Rashid 69, Morgan 50, Boult 4-55) beat New Zealand 198 (Taylor 57, Finn 4-35, Rashid 4-55) by 210 runs

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he proclamation of a new era in England’s one-day cricket has been a regular event for the last 20 years. The end results have usually been so underwhelming as to not get carried away by one performance, but never has a phase of rebuilding begun in such barnstorming style as they managed at Edgbaston. England secured their largest runs victory in

an ODI as rampant hundreds from Jos Buttler and Joe Root led them beyond the new watermark of 400 for the first time in an ODI. Buttler, who already held the record of England’s fastest ODI hundred with his 61ball ton against Sri Lanka, at Lord’s, last year slotted himself in at No. 2 as well with a free-wheeling 66-ball effort.

Barely an hour earlier, Root had stood at No. 3 on the list with an equally outstanding 71-ball hundred but by the end of the innings - which included a world-record seventh-wicket stand of 177 in 17 overs, between Buttler

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and Adil Rashid, and an En- ever going to attempt the gland record 14 sixes - he had chase in one way: at the end to be content with fourth. of the first over they had 11 The final total of 408 - runs on the board but Stesurpassing their previous ven Finn had won a personal best of 391 made against battle with Brendon McCulBangladesh at Trent Bridge lum when the New Zealand in 2005 - was the 16th to- captain charged and missed, tal over 400 in ODIs. Five of evening the scales somewhat those have come since the after the onslaught he inflictstart of 2015, encompassing ed in Wellington. Finn bagged the World Cup, highlighting, 4 for 35 and Rashid capped if any further evidence was England’s day by following required, just how far behind his maiden half-century with the pack England’s one-day 4 for 55. From the moment game had become. The mark Grant Elliott was run out by was passed when Liam Plun- a superb throw from debukett cleared the ropes in the tant Sam Billings at third man, final over.

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June 12–18, 2015 41 Caribbean Star Newspaper Australia win inside three days Former USA captain Orlando Baker retires

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Australia 318 and 47 for 1 beat West Indies 148 and 216 (Samuels 74, Dowrich 70, Starc 4-28) by 9 wickets

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n Wednesday morning Australia began their defence of the Frank Worrell Trophy. By Friday evening they had retained it. Such is the nature of modern scheduling that a two-Test series was all Australia and West Indies could arrange. Such was the nature of the Roseau conditions that this abbreviated campaign began with an abridged match, won by Australia within three days.

The third and final day began with West Indies on 25 for 2 and in danger of capitulating. They needed 145 more to make Australia bat again. Australia’s morning began perfectly when Darren Bravo was taken at mid-off by a diving David Warner off Josh Hazlewood for 5.

But then came the complication: Marlon Samuels and debutant Shane Dowrich ground out the highest partnership of the Test.

Their 144-run union threatened not only to take the match into a fourth day but to pull it out of Australia’s grasp and back into competitive territory. Only one wicket fell in each of the first two sessions. But then came the collapse. After tea West Indies lost their last six wickets for 27, set Australia a target of 47, and provided the rain and light held out, a three-day finish was on again.

David Warner had no intention of coming back on Saturday. He thumped a four and a six off Jerome Taylor’s first over, then another six off Shannon Gabriel in the second over. Warner edged Taylor to slip for 28 with five runs still needed, but Steven Smith joined Shaun Marsh and finished the job within the first five overs of the innings, a nine-wicket win satisfying the Australians ahead of the second Test in Jamaica.

In the end it looked clinical, but there were times throughout the match that West Indies were in the contest. When they reduced Australia to 126 for 6 on the second day, they sent some nervous moments through the Australian camp.

But the unbeaten 130 from debutant Adam Voges was the big difference, his

work with the tail giving Australia a comfortable first-innings buffer.

While Dowrich and Samuels were together there were also slivers of hope for West Indies. Both men were steady in the morning session before becoming more expansive after lunch. Within the space of three balls, Samuels lifted Nathan Lyon over mid-on for a four and a six, and his half-century came from his 115th delivery.

Dowrich also cleared mid-on for a six off Lyon and brought up his fifty from his 153rd delivery with a pull for four off Mitchell Johnson. Soon, West Indies were back into the lead. If Dowrich and Samuels could bat on, if they could set up a chase of 150 or 200 runs, who knows what might have happened. But it was not to be. Dowrich drove Hazlewood to a catching short mid-on for 70, and it signalled the beginning of the end.

After tea, the wickets began to tumble. Jermaine Blackwood advanced, missed a low full toss from Lyon and was stumped by Brad Haddin, who failed to take the ball cleanly but kept his head well enough to complete the job. In the next over, Samuels top-edged a pull off Johnson to Hazlewood at fine leg for 74, and it was all down to the wicketkeeper and bowlers.

Denesh Ramdin chopped on off Lyon, Jerome Taylor was lbw for a golden duck to a Mitchell Starc inswinger, and a few overs later Starc finished the job by bowling Devendra Bishoo and Gabriel from consecutive deliveries. Jason Holder was left not out on 12, and Australia were left with the task of beating the cloud and bad light if they wanted an extra day off between matches.

Warner made sure they did just that.

All that was left was a Man-of-the-Match presentation for Voges on debut, and a reworking of weekend plans for the Dominican fans, who reasonably would have expected cricket in their country on Saturday and Sunday. By collapsing before tea on the first day having chosen to bat, West Indies set themselves behind from the start of this game. And it was an advantage Australia were never likely to give up.

ormer USA captain Orlando Baker has officially announced his retirement at age 35. Baker was at the helm for USA in March 2013 when they posted an undefeated 8-0 record to win the ICC Americas Division One Twenty20 title for the second time. USA had previously won the inaugural regional Twenty20 title in 2010, with Baker being named Man of the Match in the final against Canada.

“I’ve played long enough and given everything that I have,” Baker told ESPNcricinfo. “I think it’s just time now for some younger guys to come up. I enjoy playing for the country. It’s an honour and a pleasure and something I enjoy but all good things must come to an end.

After speaking to my wife, my attorney and my boss, I decided it’s time for me to walk away.”

Born in Jamaica, Baker came through the local youth system and opened the batting for the same Jamaica Under-19 team as his close friend Chris Gayle.

After playing one first-class game for Jamaica, Baker migrated to New York in 2001 before transitioning to Texas in 2007 where his US domestic career took off at Dallas County Cricket Club under the guidance of Suhas Naik. He made his USA debut in 2008 and became arguably USA’s best allrounder of the last decade.

Baker’s career statistics highlight his durability and multi-skilled value to the team. He leaves as the second-most capped 50-over player for USA with 50 games and is one of only three players, along with Steve Massiah and Sushil Nadkarni, to have scored more than 1000 career runs in the format, finishing on 1019 at an average of 26.82. He also ends tied for fourth overall in 50-over wickets with 41 at an average of 24.05 and an economy rate of 3.99. He is the only USA player to be in the top 10 for both runs and wickets in 50-over cricket.

Baker was a similarly steady contributor in Twenty20 cricket for USA. He was their most experienced player in the format, with 33 matches until last month when he was overtaken by Steven Taylor, against Canada in the final of the ICC Americas Division One Twenty20. Baker is third on the list for most T20 runs for USA with 402, behind only Nadkarni and Taylor, at an average of 21.16 and ninth on wickets’ list with 15 at 22.27.

After a modest debut tour to Jersey as part of USA’s squad at ICC WCL Divi-

Orlando Baker led USA to the ICC Americas Division One Twenty20 title in 2013

sion Five in 2008, Baker’s major breakthrough for USA came against Canada later that year in the ICC Americas Division One Championship. Entering at 88 for 6, he scored 38 as part of a 105-run partnership with Aditya Thyagarajan and then ripped through Canada’s middle order by taking 5 for 31 in an 81-run win.

“That game really opened the door for me in terms of guys knowing what I could really do,” Baker said. “Even though I bowled well in Jersey, I didn’t pick up a lot of wickets. I was just economical.

Coming back against Canada on a good wicket in Florida, I had a point to prove. I batted at No. 8 in that game but it didn’t worry me because I was new to the team and whatever the game plan was and whatever the team required I was willing to do.

“I batted every position for the USA in my career. A few of the guys like Steve Massiah and some of the Jamaicans knew what I was capable of doing.

Rashard Marshall gave me the nickname ‘10 Straight’ because that’s what Massiah would call me to do, come on in the middle and bowl 10 overs straight.”

In addition to the century stand in that win against Canada, Baker paired with Thyagarajan for a series of other memorable partnerships. After being 25 for 6 against Ireland in the 2010 ICC World T20 Qualifier, the pair produced an unbeaten 99-run seventh-wicket stand that was a T20 record for more than five years until Harbhajan Singh and J Suchith put on 100 in April for Mumbai Indians against Kings XI Punjab. However, Baker and Thyagarajan still hold USA’s highest partnership record for any wicket in 50over cricket, putting on 213 for the fifth wicket against Argentina in 2010. Baker also produced his career-best score that day - 113 off 108 balls after opening the batting - in a 119-run victory.

However, he says one of his proudest achievements was captaining the USA squad to the ICC Americas Division One Twenty20 title in Florida in 2013. Baker was tasked with leading a very raw squad as most of the senior players were missing, but the team gelled quickly to go 8-0.

“Going into that tournament after I was selected and named as captain, I felt confident,” he said. “I knew the guys I was going to lead were a lot of younger guys but I had captained a lot coming through the youth ranks in Jamaica growing up.

I had captained my school team to a school boy championship. I knew what it took to lead young guys and the respect I had from the young guys wasn’t hard to get back. I just told them to go out and express themselves and be yourself. I tried to joke around with them because if you’re not having fun, you’re not going to do well. I didn’t want to put pressure on anyone.”

Baker made waves last November for his stinging criticism of USA Cricket Association’s leadership, following USA’s relegation from WCL Division Three in October. He said he hoped it would lead to the organization making earnest reforms toward supporting the players better but is disappointed that little has changed in the time since.

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Caribbean Star Newspaper The rebirth of Devendra Bishoo

He went from being the ICC’s best emerging player into oblivion, but he has worked his way back to the top. Now he must look after his vital spinning finger

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evendra Bishoo travelled a long and winding road on the way to his dismantling of Australia’s vaunted middle order in last week’s Dominica Test and the delivery that was instantly proclaimed “ball of the 21st century”.

The little legspinner from Berbice county, a hotbed of cricket in Guyana, travelled smoothly through his first year in the West Indies Test team, pausing briefly to accept the ICC’s award as its Emerging Cricketer of the Year in 2011, an honor he dedicated to the memory of his late father, Mohanlal.

“He played a great role in my life and encouraged me to play cricket,” Bishoo said at the presentation. “After he died, I made a promise to always give of my best and reach for the top.” That initially didn’t take long.

Bishoo immediately justified the selectors’ curious decision to send him to the 2011 World Cup in India and Bangladesh after one match as a replacement for the injured Dwayne Bravo - an unproven legspinner for an established batting allrounder. His 3 for 34 against England in Chennai was his first match in West Indies colors.

Back home, he marked his Test debut, at Guyana’s National Stadium in Providence a couple of months later, with 4 for 68 against Pakistan, including a spell of six overs in which he dispatched Misbah-ul-Haq, Asad Shafiq and Mohammed Salman with skidding flippers; in the subsequent Tests against India, VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid, MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina were among his victims.

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tional flying catch in the deep to end Harbhajan Singh’s swashbuckling 70 in Kingston, enhanced his value.

Such success was to prove a liability, though. The way suddenly became as potholed as a notorious Caribbean dirt track; Bishoo found it difficult to negotiate through it.

“You only had to see the bounce in his step to know that his confidence was back. Like any legspinner at his best, he is a wicket-taker, and that’s what our attack required” CLIVE LLOYD ON WHY BISHOO WAS RECALLED In five Tests in back-to-back series on typically unaccommodating pitches in Bangladesh and India in October and November of that year, he was given a heavy workload, averaging 43 overs a Test.

As India amassed 631 for 7 declared in Kolkata, with hundreds from Dravid, Laxman and Dhoni, Bishoo’s figures were 45-2-154-1. By the last Test, at the Wankedhe Stadium in Mumbai, Wisdenreported that Bishoo was “reduced to a fatigued hobble” as painkillers had to carry him through 40 overs on the third day and into the fourth.

It sapped his stamina and his earlier passion. The first Test against Australia, at Barbados’ Kensington Oval five months later, would be his last for three years.

One for 169 from 53 overs in the match meant he gave way to offspinner Shane Shillingford, who held the position until his crooked elbow on delivery

twice required remedial work; Sunil Narine, with his assortment of mystery balls, also featured briefly as a spin option until he was lured away by the IPL. Bishoo still gathered wickets for Guyana on spin-friendly pitches in the annual regional tournament, but it remained clear that he wasn’t the bowler he had been in his initial series.

Ottis Gibson, the head coach then, witnessed Bishoo’s promise followed by his decline first hand. He wasn’t prepared to give up on him, and arranged for former Pakistan offspinner Saqlain Mushtaq to conduct an instructional clinic for spin bowlers in Barbados.

“At the back of my mind, when I spoke to Saqlain about the clinic, was Devendra Bishoo,” Gibson said at the time. “I’ve been saddened by the way things have gone for him. Coming into the West Indies team and becoming ICC’s Emerging Player of the Year to where he is right now, I strongly felt I needed to get someone over here to give him the support and the belief.”

Gibson hoped it would be the spark to get the legspinner “back into the frame of mind” of his early Tests.

Bishoo’s rehabilitation included matches for the West Indies A team against India A in the Caribbean in 2012, and with the A team in Sri Lanka in 2014.

After a combination of left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn’s loss of form and his own 61 wickets at 17 apiece for Guyana in the 2014-15 regional season, the new selection panel, headed by Clive Lloyd, deemed Bishoo ready for a recall in the second Test against England in Grenada in April.

“You only had to see the bounce in his step to know that his confidence was back,” Lloyd said. “Like any legspinner at his best, he is a wicket-taker, and that’s what our attack required. “Once more, however, overwork took its toll: 51 overs (for 177) in England’s first-

Injury forces Prior retirement

ngland and Sussex wicketkeeper Matt Prior has announced his retirement due to the Achilles injury which required surgery last year.

Following the second Test against India, at Lord’s, Prior had an operation which ruled him out of the remainder of the 2014 season but retained hopes of resuming his career. However, he recently told ESPNcricinfo that his recovery was like “two steps forward and four steps back” and has been forced to concede he will not return.

“Today is a very sad day for me as I am forced to announce my retirement from the game I love,” he said. “I had been hoping and expecting to be fit for the start of the 2015 season. Unfortunately, this has proved impossible, and I have now had to reach this decision.

“I feel honored to have played for Sussex and England as many times as I have and shared so many great times with both teams. I also feel privileged to have been involved in an era of such success for English cricket.

“I would like to thank my family, team-mates, coaches and the people behind the scenes that have supported me throughout the years. I have created friendships that will last forever. It would also be remiss of me not to thank the fantastic support I have had from cricket fans both at home and abroad.

“I have always tried to play with pride and passion and have a deep belief that the team will always come first. A value that will never leave me whatever I go on to do. Although I haven’t achieved all the goals I had set out to, I feel immensely proud of what I have done in my career.

Sadly it is now time to move on.”

Prior, 33, played 79 Tests, scoring 4099 runs and claiming 256 dismissals which left him second behind Alan Knott in the list of England’s wicketkeepers. He was part of three Ashes se-

ries victories and was also part of the England team which reached No. 1 in the Test rankings in 2011.

He made a century on his Test debut against West Indies, at Lord’s, in 2007 and his top score of 131 not out came in Port of Spain in early 2009 following a recall to the side late the previous year after a gap of a year. That was one of seven Test hundreds - the last of which was the monumental rearguard against New Zealand in Auckland.Although he did not find the same success in white-ball cricket at international level, he played 68 ODIs and 10 T20s.

Overall he played 249 first-class matches and scored 13,228 runs at 39.25 while claiming 683 dismissals.

Andrew Strauss, the director of England cricket, said: “Matt has had a wonderful career as a wicketkeeper batsman for both Sussex and England. During a period where the Test team won three Ashes series and achieved the world No.1 ranking, Matt’s contribution, both on and off the field, was immense.

“It is a huge shame that his career has come to an end in this way, although his athletic wicket-keeping and counter attacking batting will live long in the memories of both his team mates and England supporters.”

Mark Robinson, the Sussex director of cricket, said: “It is a sad day when a cricketer of such talent and character and who has achieved so much, and has the ability to achieve so much more, is forced to retire through injury.

“Matt has done great things for the club but more importantly, has done what we all dream of, which is play for his country with honor and distinction. On behalf of all the current playing side of the club, but also on behalf of all those who have played with him in the past, we thank him for the memories and wish him all the luck for the next stage of his life.”

innings 464 stripped the skin off Bishoo’s spinning finger. It hadn’t healed five days later, so his place in the third and final Test went to left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul, a fellow Guyanese, also from Berbice.

The gap of a month before Dominica was enough for Bishoo to be ready once more for his 13th Test. He relished the challenge against powerful opponents with a strong batting order, and a turning, if slow, pitch assisted his sharp fingerspin.

It was a challenge accentuated by West Indies’ meltdown for 148 by tea on the opening day. Bishoo was up for it.

In two spells, the first carried over from the first day into the second, he brought them back into contention with six wickets in succession from high-class legspin. Among the victims were such eminent masters of spin as Michael Clarke and Steven Smith.

Smith was flummoxed by a classic piece of bowling. He danced down to hoist an overhead boundary one ball; when he advanced again a few balls later, he was stranded as Bishoo pitched his legbreak a bit wider. Denesh Ramdin might have completed the stumping with his eyes closed, whistling “Waltzing Matilda”.

“It was a mix of boric acid and calamine lotion that Richie [Benaud] said was effectively used by Australia’s aborigine population” LANCE GIBBS ON HOW HE PRESERVED HIS SPINNING FINGER The piece de resistance was Brad Haddin’s wicket. As the dangerous wicketkeeper-batsman carefully defended against a delivery touching down on a leg-stump line, a fizzing legbreak spun past the face of his bat to hit the top of off.

Instantly compared to Shane Warne’s famed “ball of the century”, to Mike Gatting in the Old Trafford Ashes Test in 1993, it became “the ball of the

21st century”. The bowler’s reaction afterwards was typically understated: “I don’t know what to say.” The media and the internet had plenty to say.

By then, Bishoo was once more seeking attention to the skin on his spinning finger, torn by another extended effort.

His effectiveness noticeably waned, the West Indies fast bowlers could strike nothing from either the sluggish pitch, nor could they faze the resilient Adam Voges as he advanced to his hundred on Test debut.

The three-day West Indies’ defeat has given the team doctor a few extra days to repair the crucial finger. It would be an idea for Bishoo to consult an even more illustrious spin bowler from Guyana on the matter.

Lance Gibbs, at one time Test cricket’s leading wicket-taker with 309 in his 79 matches, used his long fingers to give his offbreaks a vicious tweak. Advice from the late Australian legspinner Richie Benaud on the 1960-61 West Indies tour of Australia helped Gibbs deal with the problem that is now afflicting Bishoo.

“It was a mix of boric acid and calamine lotion that Richie said was effectively used by Australia’s aborigine population,” Gibbs, now an active 80, recalled from his home in Miami. “He said it worked for him and it certainly worked for me. What it does is that it keeps the skin from bursting.”

Gibbs’ one reminder of the strain he placed on his vital finger in a career spanning 18 years for West Indies, Guyana, Warwickshire and South Australia is a callous the size of a marble. “But it never burst,” he said.

Bishoo is right now at the peak of his powers. Now 29, he is unlikely to have a career as long or as prolific as Gibbs’.

But the application of Benaud’s aborigine remedy might just keep him going without the recurring bother of a sore finger.

My job is to get players to the next level - Dravid

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ahul Dravid has given a hint of his approach to dealing with India A players, saying he is ready to work with different mindsets and objectives. While the newly-appointed India Under-19 and India A coach feels that his mentor’s role at Rajasthan Royals will aide him in his new challenge, he doesn’t see himself “teaching” India A cricketers.

“The selectors and the senior team management generally have a vision as to what sort of players they are looking to pick,” Dravid said on the sidelines of the convocation ceremony of the International Institute of Sports Management in Mumbai on Wednesday. “Sometimes you pick young players in India A, sometimes you pick players who are looking to make a comeback and want to push for the national team.

Sometimes you pick players depending on what future tours are in mind.”

“So I think there are various parameters and you just can’t decide these kind of players should be selected or that kind.

I see my job as coaching the players they have selected and not in the selection side of things. My job is to coach the players and try to help them to get to the next level.”

Over the last couple of years, India A squads have consisted of fringe players alongside promising youngsters who have excelled on the domestic circuit. While the fringe players enter an A tour with an objective to continue knocking on the selectors’ door, the youngsters are more inclined towards facing new opponents in unfamiliar conditions to improve their skill sets and temperament.

Dravid admitted that his experience as a mentor with IPL franchise Royals will come in handy in his new avatar. “The fact that I have spent a couple of years at Rajasthan Royals in the role of a mentor, I have seen the other side of what the sport is. I have always seen it as a player and I have spent many years as a player,” Dravid said.

“The couple of years that I spent outside in the management and the coaching side of things, there is a lot of learning that you get all the time, and the more you do it, the better you get. It is like playing. I am looking forward to it.”

While Dravid reiterated that he was “looking forward to” working closely with Ravi Shastri and his support staff of the senior team, the former India captain echoed Sunil Gavaskar’s opinion of the senior team not requiring a coach. At a function in Mumbai recently, Gavaskar had said that the senior team needs more of a mentor than a coach. Agreeing with Gavaskar, Dravid stressed that he would not prefer to “teach” India A players, instead helping them bring out their best.

“There is no need for basic coaching at that level. You are looking for someone as the guiding factor or someone to create a good environment which helps to grow and share some of the experiences that we have,” Dravid said. “My philosophy is not going to be teaching. I don’t think you need to teach India A players how to play. They all know how to bat and bowl and they are there because they are successful. It is just about trying to help them to get to the next level.”

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