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Ramotar tells business community…

New commercial bank licences once re-elected - we have to start thinking ahead

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President Donald Ramotar addresses the business community in the ballroom of the Marriott Hotel

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‘No confidence’ – Jagdeo in MMU Page

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PPP/C manifesto launch for Saturday at Marriott Major catastrophe averted as gas station fuel tankers explode Page 14

German sailing from Africa to T&T on Page catamaran 15 might be missing

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Dangers in migration of 5 ex-military to APNU+AFC Page

– Jagdeo

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Axel Verlohr

3 Man dead, businessman injured in separate shootings Page

A public- spirited citizen assists in extinguishing the fire on one of the trucks

Former president, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, produces a copy of the 1992 budget detailing the monies appropriated for the armed services(Adrian Narine photo)

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Ramotar tells business community…

New commercial bank licences once re-elected - we have to start thinking ahead

By Gary Eleazar LICENCES for new commercial banks; the promise of cheaper air freight charged on exports for micro, small and mediumscale operators; the opening up of a free trade zone in Lethem and reduced “red tape” when transacting business are among the many priority items on the agenda of the Donald Ramotar Administration,

once re-elected to office come May 11.

President Donald Ramotar made the announcement yesterday in the ballroom of the Marriott Hotel, as he wrapped up the 2015 Pre-Election Business Discourse Luncheon, hosted by the Guyana Manufacturers and Services Association (GMSA).

Inaugurated by the GMSA ahead of the 2011 Regional and General Elections,

the private sector umbrella body president, Clinton Williams,prior to Ramotar’s announcement,reminded the audience of the importance of the forum, since it gives an opportunity to publicly and candidly discuss issues of concern to the business community with the presidential candidates ahead of polling day.

Presidential candidate of the coalesced A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC), Brigadier (rtd) David Granger, was the first to appear in this year’s two- part discourse, on March 17, last, when he

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President Donald Ramotar at the GMSA luncheon yesterday

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‘No confidence’ in MMU

By Vanessa Narine “I HAVE absolutely no confidence in the MMU (Media Monitoring Unit).” Former president, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo made the emphatic declaration yesterday at a news conference, where he charged that the Unit ought to report to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

Speaking from Freedom House, he said, “Unless the MMU reports to GECOM, because it is GECOM that receives funding for the MMU and GECOM should be able to have oversight of the MMU.” CONTROVERSIAL CONCLUSION The MMU in its first report, at the end of March, concluded that comments made by Jagdeo himself on March 8 were “racially divisive.”

On the day in question, at an event at Babu John last month, Dr Jagdeo was stressing that there is no place for division in the Guyanese society along racial lines, and in doing so pointed to an example of what was done during the 2011 General and Regional Elections.

He said: “They shout about racism of the PPP, but they practise racism. They whisper campaigns. In the last elections they went to some of the Afro- Guyanese villages and beat some drums at 6 O’clock in the morning and say let us throw out these coolie people. Get up, go out and vote, throw out the coolie people. That’s the kind of language they use. Anybody from our party who uses that sort of language, we will kick them out. This is our approach.”

This comment was the basis of the MMU’s controversial conclusion– although the Unit did say that this was “probably” not intentional.

The Unit said: “Taking into consideration the historically and politically influenced divisions that persist up to now between Africans and East Indians in this country, and which are usually more pronounced during elections periods, the Unit came to the conclusion that the anecdotal illustration used

by Dr. Jagdeo to make his point about racism, boomeranged disastrously, since it came over as a calculated exploitation, for political purposes, of the known fears and insecurities of one section of the population – East Indians.

“It is within the foregoing context that the Unit verily concluded that the remarks made by Dr. Jagdeo were racially divisive[though] probably, not intentionally.”

INCIDENTS IGNORED According to the former president, while his comment was singled out, the MMU’s unequal assessment has been

– Jagdeo

reflected in the fact that glaring infractions on the part of other individuals have been ignored.

“They are never going to deal with the issues. There are numerous cases of distortions,” he posited.

Dr Jagdeo added, “How come the Media Monitoring Unit doesn’t say anything that Adam Harris openly admitted here in the presence of a number of people that he changed a headline, that Glenn Lall told him to change; a headline that I said and Rohee [Clement Rohee] said that the PPP is a “coolie party.”

These concerns, first voiced by the Cabinet Secretary, Dr

‘Our supporters know what we are facing and I say to them understand what we are up against…we are never going to get a fair shake from a few people.’

– Dr Bharrat Jagdeo

Roger Luncheon, were expected to be communicated to the GECOM Chairman, Dr Steve Surujbally, who, in an earlier comment, told the Guyana Chronicle that he will address these once he is in receipt of such correspondence.

INTIMIDATION The MMU report was also the basis of legal action advanced against the former president by a vocal critic of the current Administration, Christopher Ram. Commenting on the action, which had its first hearing at the Whim Magistrates Court, Region 6 (East Berbice/ Corentyne) on Monday, Dr Jagdeo made it clear that he will not be intimidated.

He also warned on the dangers of such endeavours. “When your turn comes around, who is going to defend you?” Dr Jagdeo questioned the media practitioners, referring to the undemocratic practices of the former People’s National Congress (PNC), under which free speech was practically non-existent.

“Our supporters know what we are facing and I say to them, understand what we are up against…we are never going to get a fair shake from a few people,” Dr Jagdeo stressed.

The PPP/C, in addition to a formal complaint to GECOM, has also called on the MMU to review its decision at the earliest possible time and undertake a retraction of what was

Man dead, businessman injured in separate shootings

THE Guyana Police Force had its work carefully cut out yesterday dealing with three separate shootings and a major fire that threatened a gas station and nearby communities.

Last evening a father of one, Glaston George, was shot and killed while sitting in a minibus along the East Bank Demerara public road in the vicinity of Agricola.

According to information received, the man was heading home but was caught in a traffic jam that resulted from fire at the Eccles Gas Station.

Eyewitnesses reported that a lone gunman walked

up to the bus the man was in and shot him several times.

The man recently returned from Suriname and is said to be an interior worker.

Meanwhile in what appears to be an unrelated incident, businessman Abdool Nazir of Canal No.1 Polder, West Bank Demerara, was last evening shot after he was ambushed while driving his BMW motorcar. In what appears to be a carjacking, his attackers threw him from the vehicle and drove off with the Nazir’s friend still in the vehicle.

published.

The objectives of the MMU’s work include to: promote the maintenance of the highest professional standards in the media during the upcoming General and Regional Elections; nurture a responsible media environment that is supportive of the country’s democratic processes; facilitate the building of harmonious Former president, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo relationships between and among GECOM, the media, the Government, political parties and civil society – a relationship that results in peaceful elections; and to positively influence the process of self-regulation by local media practitioners.

PPP/C struggling on two fronts - against the political Opposition, media elements

THE struggle of the ruling People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) is an uneasy one against not only the political Opposition, but also against ‘hostile’ sections of the media.

Former president and PPP/C executive, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, made the charge yesterday, even as he appealed to members of the media corps to view issues with a clearer perspective, rather than through the lens of preconceived agendas.

“We are fighting two opponents now, the Opposition, the combined opposition, and elements of the media,” he said at a news conference yesterday.

Dr Jagdeo, less scathing in his review than in previous years, referred to the Kaieteur News, a local daily, and INews, online news site, as the most recent transgressors in his view.

He said, “Take for example the INews recently.

INews carried a report about ‘massive Opposition women’s rally’….it had not happened as yet, it was to take place the same night, but already the headline was ‘massive Opposition rally’. Then I looked at the same media house reporting our rally (at Anna Regina) speaking about hundreds. Clearly this cannot be accurate…I just singled out one, but there are several others.

“Today’s (yesterday’s) newspaper, the Kaieteur News said that I said that there is a $40M loss in the sugar industry; no it is not a $40M loss. It is $40M reduction in revenue because of cuts in the sugar prices. And I did not say that we were producing 900,000 tonnes of sugar and now we are down to 600,000 tonnes….I was speaking about the rice industry, not sugar and what I said was that it has moved from 90,000 tonnes to over 600,000 tonnes…there is a big difference…totally wrong.”

According to him, such inaccuracies are not novel.

“I suspect that they will continue doing this. They have done this in so many other cases,” Dr Jagdeo lamented.

The former president surmised that having negatives and perceptions of negativity accentuated in sections of the media, with influences from the political Opposition is undoubtedly an interlinked struggle.

“We are fighting two campaigns…fortunately the truth will prevail,” the former president posited.

(Vanessa Narine)

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declared that “Guyana is a land of jaguars led by a bunch of jackasses.”

COMPETITION President Ramotar in his engagement with the business community,promised that once the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C), under his leadership is re-elected to office, there will be continued focus on the business community, long recognised as the engine of growth of the economy.

According to the President, once re-elected, the administration will immediately pursue reputable overseas banks with a view to issuing more licences.

“We will search for reputable banks to bring to Guyana,” according to Ramotar.

This, he explained, will inherently lead to greater competition, driving down interest rates at which entrepreneurs and potent small and medium- scale business persons can access critical financing.

The ballroom of the recently opened Marriott Hotel served as the venue for the occasion and saw in attendance members of the diplomatic corps, representatives of key government agencies, representatives of the various private -sector umbrella bodies and key local business magnates—all paying keen attention and given the opportunity to publicly question the President on his plans, policies and proposals.

President Ramotar cautioned that while Government cannot at this time create a development-type bank, it can in addition to issuing licences to existing reputable foreign banks to operate in Guyana, also aggressively pursue development- type financing through fiscal measures with specialised institutions.

He pointed to programmes along the lines of the Women of Worth (WOW) initiative, which was run in partnership with a local commercial bank, meant to assist even on the micro scale, persons looking to get into business.

“We want to extend the experience into other sectors to stimulate small and medium- sized enterprises,” said Ramotar.

He told the business community new banking licences have not been issued since the 1990s, since the size of the economy, simply could not afford it.

Given the sustained economic growth over the years along with other favourable factors, government can now issue more commercial banking licences, according to Ramotar.

whether farmed or manufactured—micro, small, medium and large scale.

“A new airport is extremely important,” President Ramotar stressed, “not just for big companies but small farmers too.”

was not up to par.

Hotels such as the Marriott, according to Ramotar, will serve to be very important for the local business community and their international partners alike.

MARITIME HUB Continuing on the matter of critical infrastructure, the President pointed to the deep water harbour, planned for the mouth of the Berbice River.

According to Ramotar, he is cognisant of the fact that there may be some trepidation over this move in light of the Demerara harbour and assured that while the “Demerara harbour will

PPP/C MANIFESTO President Ramotar also used the occasion to take a few swipes at the political opposition, pointing out that many of the proposals he has heard coming out of the APNU+AFC camp will only lead the nation to a deficit, increase inflation and threaten stability of the foreign exchange rates.

Ramotar said that among those proposals he has heard, are a reduction in taxes coupled with generous increases, but none have spoken to how these will be financed.

He announced that in a matter of days, the PPP/C will be making public its 2015 Manifesto and in it, it is documented how each of the proposals will be financed, once re-elected to office.

According to the President, such fiscal matters have to be approached responsibly to ensure the preservation and macro-economic stability.

He reminded his audience that in recent years, whenever the economy could have afforded it, corporation tax was reduced, among other measures.

Ramotar also spoke to Government’s plans to invest more in human capital, meant to deliver a healthier and more educated workforce, in order to meet the demands of the business environment.

Guyana’s human capital must be developed to the point where it can take the country to higher levels, Ramotar espoused.

The President said too that greater focus will also be paid to security and government bureaucracy.

Once re-elected, Ramotar said the PPP/C Administration will also liberalize the telecommunications sector.

He said too that Government has no intention of competing in the industry, but rather to intervene on behalf of the vulnerable to ensure they are not left behind as the ICT field progresses in Guyana.

PRESIDENT Donald Ramotar with GMSA President Clinton Williams as he arrives at the Marriott Hotel yesterday

PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERS Raised by Williams ahead of the President’s presentation as one of the critical areas of concern, was the issue of energy and according to Ramotar, once re-elected he will aggressively pursue, with a view to commencing construction this year, the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project.

He reminded the business community that ever since 1997, government along with the private sector had recognised as critical to national development the harnessing of hydroelectric energy potential at Amaila Falls on the Potaro River.

This, President Ramotar reminded the audience, is well documented in the National Development Strategy of the time and today remains critical to Guyana’s development—cheap energy.

Ramotar was adamant that a re-elected PPP/C government will pursue this flagship project since it will mean saving US$3B over the course of two decades at which point in time Guyana will receive the generation plant free of cost.

Ramotar said, not only is there not a single cent of debt, but the electricity costs will initially be reduced by as much as 20 per cent, further going down as the years progress.

always be important…clearly we need a new harbour to deal with the new type of maritime trade.”

President Ramotar said, “we have to start thinking ahead,” and pointed out too that regional counterparts in the Caribbean are already forging ahead in preparation for the evolving maritime trade.

Guyana, he stressed, has a distinct geographical advantage that can be taken advantage of, in order to transform the nation into an aerial and maritime hub.

The ‘spin off benefits,’ will be tremendous for both the private sector and the country as a whole, according to Ramotar.

Utilizing a good portion of his presentation to speak to critical infrastructural projects, Ramotar spoke to the ongoing development of four- lane highways across the country and reminded the business community too of the need to pave the road to Brazil.

AERIAL HUB The President sought to assure the business community also that high on the agenda is transforming Guyana into not only a maritime hub, but also an aerial hub.

Expanding on his administration’s vision, Ramotar said that Guyana through the building of a new airport will not only see Guyana eventually being transformed into an aerial hub, but it will also have an immediate and direct effect to the local business community.

A new airport, according to Ramotar, will eventually mean cheaper rates charged to export products out of Guyana,

MARRIOTT STIMULUS The President also used the opportunity to again laud the advent of the Georgetown Marriott Hotel and said that while those affiliated will, and rightly so, speak about the benefits that will redound redound to the tourism industry, the business community also stands to benefit from the PPP/C Government- led initiative.

Providing a practical example, President Ramotar divulged that a business contingent had travelled to Guyana for an international confab, but flew off to Trinidad and Tobago the very evening since the accommodation in Guyana at the time

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Q&A Following the presentation to the business community, the floor was open for any and all to grill the President on his proposals, plans and policies.

Ramotar was questioned on, and defended his Government’s record on its fight against perceived corruption; dispelled rumours of a proposal from Trinidad and Tobagoto to land a submarine cable in Guyana to sell electricity locally; tourism; food security and even having to “get tough with our CARICOM partners.

GMSA/PSC HAPPY Following the close of this year’s Pre-Election Business Discourse Luncheon, GMSA President, Clinton Williams, in an exclusive interview with the Guyana Chronicle said “I think it went well.”

He explained that some of the major topics that were affecting the manufacturing sector were addressed.

Williams said too that the discourse that followed Ramotar’s presentation, during which members of the business community managed to pose questions to the President would no doubt also prove to be vital.

From a GMSA perspective, according to Williams, “I believe we have achieved the objective of getting the business community to put their positions out to the contenders and to get responses that would make sense in terms of the way forward.”

Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC), Ramesh Persaud, who was also on hand for the discourse, told the Guyana Chronicle afterwards, “We were happy that the business community was able to listen to the Opposition Leader a few weeks ago and to also have listened to the President.”

He did use the occasion to point out that the PSC would still like to see Ramotar and Granger “side by side in a debate.”

According to the PSC Chairman, even if it is a case of just the Presidential Debates, “I think it still has merit.”

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Dangers in migration of ex-military to APNU+AFC – Jagdeo

By Vanessa Narine

MOVES to subvert the professionalism of the armed forces by the former People’s National Congress (PNC) regime, a retrospective view of the fight against crime in the last decade and the recent migration of ex-military officials to the political Opposition can be linked.

And former president Dr Bharrat Jagdeo contends that the realisation that comes with making that nexus is worrying – more importantly it has implications for trust on the side of the Administration.

At a news conference held at Freedom House yesterday, he said: “In retrospect, I have a few instances that I can question…I am thinking that there was no real desire to go after the criminals, we were subverted…we could have avoided Lusignan and Bartica. “…the day you (ex-military members) leave, suddenly you shift focus….they are destroying trust in the executive. How can the executive trust anyone in the future?

REAL FEAR Dr Jagdeo expressed concern over a cyclical repeat of history if, “God forbid,” the alliance of A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) – headed by Brigadier (rtd) David Granger – comes to power after the May 11 elections.

“I believe that the army and police will come under serious pressure to go back to those days; and when illegal instructions come, like in the past, they will have to comply (contrary to the laws),” he said.

According to him, in the past “political commissars” were planted into the armed forces and executed the agenda relative to “party paramountcy” – in turn subverting the professionalism of the armed forces.

The former president added, “I know at that time what happened…I know also that the military was used to subvert democracy…and Granger’s personal involvement in that process…Granger has not changed, he is unapologetic about that past.I fear

‘Granger has not changed; he is unapologetic about that past. I fear a return to that in the future with Granger there…I believe we will return to those dark days and I say to people guard against that…that is my sincere belief.’

How can the executive trust anyone to act professionally?

That is what they have done.

That is what I am opposed to.”

a return to that in the future with Granger there…I believe we will return to those dark days and I say to people guard against that…that is

my sincere belief.”

According to him, the “language of fear and intimidation” is already being heard.

“I have no doubt they will subvert the professionalism of the army…they have a re-

istrations, according to him, have never issued “illegal instructions” to the armed forces, compromising their professionalism – as was done under the former PNC regime.

“We sought to rebuild

Former president, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, produces a copy of the 1992 budget detailing the monies appropriated for the armed services(Adrian Narine photo) cord, they did that,” he said.

Drawing a parallel, the former president underscored the efforts of the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) administrations in cultivating a high level of professionalism within the armed forces.

Successive PPP/C admin-

the army, the integrity of the army, the professionalism of the army. We never gave illegal instructions. We never asked them to come and support the PPP, as was done in the past when they had to pledge loyalty to the PNC that Granger defended,” Dr

Jagdeo said.

He highlighted too that the appointments of Mr Winston Felix and Mr Gary Best, among others, who have endorsed the political Opposition were done under his tenure as president.

“If we were so bad, why didn’t they refuse to serve under the PPP? Why did they serve? If you want to talk about discrimination, it was five Afro-Guyanese who were appointed, and this is what they want to talk about,” Dr Jagdeo lamented.

On the other hand, he slammed the APNU+AFC alliance for their “sudden love” for the military.

“When he (Granger) was there he did nothing for the army,” Dr Jagdeo stressed.

NUMBERS SPEAK “Let the numbers speak for itself.” A one-line defence was mounted by the former president as he also waded into the political Opposition for its ‘opportunistic’ profession of support for Guyana’s armed servicemen and women.

Producing a copy of the 1992 Budget, done under PNC finance minister Carl Greenidge, he pointed to the dismal level of resources that were allocated to the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).

According to him, in 1990, the amount allocated for Capital expenditures was a miniscule $300,000, while in 1991 it was 675,000, and then upped to $7M in 1992.

“Greenidge presented

this to the Parliament. This is not the PPP...today they love soldiers so much and say that we discriminate against soldiers and that we are not doing enough and this is their record, shameful,”the former president said.

Presently, Dr Jagdeo charged that the annual salary of a private amounts to more than the annual capital expenditure in 1990.

“You can check it yourself.

Ask Greenidge about it… ask Granger because he was national security advisor at the time,” he charged.

Fast forward to 1999, the former president disclosed that the total budgetary allocation for the GDF was a whopping $1.5B, which was consistently increased to $6.6B – a $5.1B increase in the years that he was Commander-in-Chief.

“In the last five years alone, it (the allocation to the GDF) was 2,000 times more than the capital budget (in the 1990’s)…these are the men that so love the army today, but their record does not prove that,” Dr Jagdeo said.

He added that the officer corps and the non-officer corps, as well as the prison, fire and police servicemen and women also benefited from other programmes where they received skills training or higher level education.

“Today to say that somehow I don’t respect military people, no, they had my full support…my support is reflected in the numbers,” the former president declared.

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EDITORIAL

GUYANA

Angels in the guise of mortals AN Online media site from the NY Daily News has reported that Michael Wagner of Ontario, Canada “… was forced to make the hardest decision of his life: Choose which of his twin daughters would receive a life-saving donation. In the end, Wagner chose to donate part of his liver to Phouc, since she was the weaker of the twins, but the Wagner family made a desperate appeal to the public to find a donation for her sister, Binh. The appeal was met less than three months later, after a mysterious donor stepped forward to save the toddler’s life.”

The report continued: “Phouc and Binh have a rare genetic condition known as Alagille syndrome, characterized by abnormalities in the liver, heart, and other parts of the body, and also causes distinctive facial features.”

Michael and his wife, Johanne, adopted the girls from Vietnam in 2012, knowing that they had the condition. After Phouc’s surgery in February, her parents used social media to appeal to the public in hopes of finding a liver donor for Binh. More than 400 generous individuals responded to the appeal, and according to the family’s Facebook page, their appeal was met

this month.

“BINH RECEIVED HER GIFT!!!” the family wrote this month on a Facebook page they designed to document the experience. “There are not enough words to thank the amazing and so unselfish donor.”

Binh is now recovering from her liver transplant, and according to their parents, both girls are doing well.

In the human condition of this world, where there is so much conflict and adversarial approaches to problem-solving, these moments and these humane actions stand out like rare and exquisite gems in the diadem of the human family.

PPP/C has made it possible for youths to choose wisely THERE is a lot of talk about the decisions by young people to endorse the PPP/C, but it is important to understand that the youths that chose to “RISE UP” and be heard are making a decision that is informed and conscious. It is a decision that is rooted in the development of our country, and an independent understanding of where Guyana has come from, and the direction of growth we are heading to.

The Opposition would want us to believe that they can do better, but let them go and tell their young followers exactly why they blocked or negatively impacted the progress of over 17 initiatives or projects that are vital for Guyana’s development in just three short years. Can we really trust them to do anything better for five years to come?

Apart from everything else this Government has done for Guyana, they have made a special effort to enlighten young people to use their freedom to make the right decision for their country’s future; it is a foundation the PPP/C has built from the vision of Dr. Jagan, who’s main intention was to have a country where youths will think freely, be creative, own businesses, travel the world, and become what they dream to be. It is also ironic that it is this same foundation that the current Opposition is making use of to peddle their propaganda and false news.

Never before in our history have you seen so many brilliant and self-driven young Guyanese “RISE UP” and take a stand to defend their freedom to choose. We

are more outspoken; we are speaking to tangible and real issues that we care about; we are defending our right to vote; and we are defending our country’s future.

We see that our future rests squarely in the PPP/C camp. We support the institution of the PPP/C that is rooted in progressive thinking, and a better place for all Guyanese to live and develop in peace and prosperity.

On May 11, we are coming out in our numbers to defend what the PPP/C, as an institution, stands for, because we have seen the signs of a great future with this Government.

Moving forward with the PPP/C! MALCOM WATKINS

As the political fray in the land escalates, Guyanese need to take a deep, collective breath and reflect on what makes us unique as a people; and that special quality that identifies us as a Guyanese nation descended from a tapestry of various cultures has evolved into a rich blend of acculturation, whereby neighbours live, except for elections season, with much affection and care for each other’s welfare.

This is too precious to sacrifice, and invaluable to our national pride and identity. This is our real treasure, among a plethora of God-gifted bounties that the Lord bestowed on our land

that could take our country completely out of the realms of poverty, and transport us into the realms of unsurpassing development.

But for this to fructify, we first must recognise the imperative of working together to achieve our optimum potentials, first as individuals, then as family units, followed by the societal construct of our country, then finally, in this global village now fully interconnected by modern telecommunication linkages.

It is this human connection of the world that saved the lives of the beautiful twin girls, when angels in human form, Michael and his wife Johane adopted the desperately ill children and provided them with an opportunity for a better quality

of life, and life itself; and the stranger who so unselfishly did what even some family members would not do to save the life of a child, with no divides being considered.

The bonding factor that created the linkages in the family of humanity from different parts of the world to save and enhance the lives of two precious children is the humanity that resides in everyone of the human family, for we were created in the Lord’s mould, but left to make choices.

Every person needs to reflect on the choices they would take in the course of the journey on the pathways of the world – to build or destroy: To take lives or to give to enrich lives.

Time is against Moses and his bag of tricks --May11 is almost upon us

THE PNC has once again returned to it’s bag of tricks to remove the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) from government.

The trick is to accept the AFC as a new addition in its never-ending game of ‘we are more diverse than the PPP/C and therefore we represent change’.

The same was said when the WPA was accepted into the PNC’s fold, only to be placed on the back burner to be paraded every once in a while to prove that they are alive.

Moses’ initial thrust into the PPP/C’s stronghold has now lost it’s appeal. Moses has singlehandedly destroyed that appeal when he denied his identity, which was the major reason for the PNC/APNU to

be so excited about the merger.

Moses’ failure to put together a programme that shows in detail how he can change the makeup of the Armed Forces is another glaring example of the AFC being a talk-shop.

Does Moses have any detail as to how to make the sugar industry more profitable? We would like to know?

The PNC/APNU and the AFC have been trying desperately to convince us that we must forget the past in order to move forward. Does this mean that Cuffy’s statue should be torn down because it represents the distant past?

Cuffy was not even a Guyanese, so why should we decorate the country with his statue? Taxpayers’ money was spent on a foreigner’s statue.

Is this right?

The PPP/C continues to be the only beacon of hope for the Guyanese people.

In 2008, when the United States and the other Western Industrial countries suffered near collapse of their financial systems because of poor management, Guyana was unaffected. Guyana was unaffected because of the sensible financial policies of the PPP/C government.

Granger has now declared that the war is over. Does this mean we should prepare the groundwork to bring the war criminals to trial? Does it mean that this election result will not be contested, once the winner is declared?

LATCHMAN MOHABIR

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URP adds voice to campaign sabotage fight --says party’s materials replaced by APNU+AFC posters

ELECTIONS campaign materials of the alliance of A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance For Change (AFC) have replaced those belonging to the United Republican Party (URP) at several locations along the coast.

U R P l e a d e r, Vi s h n u Bandhu, in an invited comment bemoaned the act and stressed that each political party ought to enjoy space in Guyana’s democratic system to be able to make its bid, as effectively as possible, at the upcoming polls.

According to him, the most recent incident was reported in the vicinity of the Demerara Habour Bridge.

“Our posters were completely covered by APNU+AFC posters,” he said.

Bandhu added his strong condemnation of such actions.

“Each party must be able to conduct its campaign without having to deal with these kinds of actions,” he said.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) continues to make public advertisements that warn against

such transgressions. The law governing activities such as removing, damaging or defacing any election campaign material is clear: those acts are criminal.

On a lighter note, when asked about the progress of his party’s campaign to date, the URP leader expressed confidence in being able to secure support.

He stated that the URP over the weekend has held public meetings in Regions 2 (Pomeroon/Supenaam) and 3 (Essequibo Islands/ West Demerara).

Cane harvester hacks friend to death …over slur about his mother

FIFTY-YEAR-OLD Sean Pestano of 2nd Street, Rose Hall Town was reportedly killed yesterday morning by his friend who chopped him twice about his body during an argument while they were having a social drink.

This publication was informed that the two men, labourer Sean Pestano and cane harvester Leon Larose were with other friends drinking at a spot in Rose Hall when an argument broke out.

During the argument, Pestano reportedly told Larose about his mother and that angered Larose who left the drinking spot in a rage.

He reportedly went home and armed himself with a GuySuCo issued cutlass and returned to the location where he dealt Pestano two chops one to the left foot in the region of knee and the other to his left hand before fleeing the scene.

Persons at the location told the police that after the

chops Pestano fell to the ground and began bleeding profusely and by the time he was picked up and rushed to the Port Mourant Hospital he died from what doctors said was due to haemorrhaging.

Larose is said to be a resident of Williamsburg Village, Corentyne, Berbice. Yesterday efforts to secure comments from the relatives of both of the men were futile but according to the police investigations into the matter are ongoing.

In the coming week, the URP leader said the party’s campaign will be taken to Regions 4 (Demerara/ Mahaica) and 6 (East Berbice/Corentyne).

“We have held a number of bottom-house meetings, but presently we are increasing our presence with the public meetings,” he said.

Bandhu maintains that the URP, whose symbol is a cow’s head, is focused on building a stronger and more

supportive education system, providing more support for farmers and instilling good moral values in the citizenry.

The URP will also be campaigning on a number of issues including shared governance, the need for a better health and education system, affordable housing and a new capital in the hinterland, the need for a unified trade union movement and the creation of more and better

paid jobs.

Bandhu’s party will be contesting the General and Regional Elections, the latter contest relative to all the regions, except Region 1 (Barima/Waini).

The party which has been resuscitated, was established in March 1985 in the US, but was launched in Guyana in May, 1987 and was formally registered on April 26, 1988.

(Vanessa Narine)

Constable ‘accidently’ shoots girlfriend in Albouystown POLICE Constable Charles is now being sought by his colleagues while his 19-year-old girlfriend Shaquina Massiah of Albouys Street, Albouystown is hospitalised with a gunshot wound to her abdomen.

The Guyana Chronicle was informed that Constable Charles and two other ranks from his squad had abandoned their foot patrol duties in the Albouystown community and found themselves in a house where the girl was staying.

According to information

received, Charles and the young woman are intimate friends and he would usually visit the home whenever he is on patrol duties in the community.

Yesterday just before lunch the man and his friend were in the house and according to sources close to the investigation, Charles who is the rank authorized to carry the service revolver was at the time playing with the weapon inside the house when it reportedly went off ‘accidently’ and the woman was shot in her abdomen.

She was immediately rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where doctors made efforts to

have the bullet removed.

Meanwhile as the woman was being rushed to the hospital, the rank who was in possession of the gun dropped it and sprinted from the home and up to late last evening was not located by police investigators.

The weapon the man was carrying at the time according to the police was a .38 revolver, property of the Guyana Police Force.

The other two ranks who were in the building with him at the time of the incident were placed under close arrest and are assisting the police with their investigations.

Political opportunism has no place in the PPP/C’s make-up THERE is a saying that those who look for faults can find nothing else. As the elections fever picks up momentum, the Opposition parties will go on overdrive to paint the ruling PPP as inept and unsuitable to continue in office for another term.

The fact is that there is no government known to Man that could be considered flawless. The same is true for individuals. We are all prone to making mistakes.

As the great Russian leader and revolutionary V I Lenin once said: “He is not wise who makes no mistakes.

There are no such men, nor can there be. He is wise who makes not serious mistakes and who corrects them easily and quickly.”

Life is all about making choices and having to adjust and re-adjusting plans and

strategies. In the final analysis, it is the extent to which we are successful in overcoming obstacles and confronting challenges that really matters and defines us as individuals.

The same is true of organisations, including political organisations.

It is in this context that the PPP has to be judged. In and out of office, the PPP has consistently championed the cause of a free and democratic Guyana. The PPP has always fought for and remained a strong advocate for parliamentary democracy, based on the principle of one man, one vote.

Indeed, no other party in Guyana suffered as much from the denial of democracy and democratic rule like the PPP. In 1953, the PPP was removed from office in what could be described as a constitutional

coup. In 1964, it was engineered out of office as a result of what former British Minister Harold Wilson described as a “fiddled constitutional arrangement.”

In the ‘elections’ of 1968, the PPP was cheated from office in rigged elections which persisted until October 1992.

In the elections of 1997, the PPP was forced to give up two years of its elected mandate, despite winning a decisive victory in certified free and fair elections.

This repeated itself in 2014 when President Donald Ramotar was forced to initially prorogue and then dissolve parliament following a no-confidence motion by the Combined Parliamentary Opposition. In every instance, the PPP was the victim of an aberration of democracy and the democratic process for

which it has always been the major proponent.

There are some who accused the PPP and Dr. Jagan of having made tactical mistakes during the 1950s and the 1960s which resulted in his being out-manoeuvred by Forbes Burnham into losing political office in the elections of 1964.

Similar accusations were made with respect to the signing of the Duncan Sandy’s Agreement which paved the way for the introduction of Proportional Representation as opposed to the First Pass the Post method which resulted in the PPP losing power to a PNC-UF coalition in the elections of 1964.

Our present Constitution does not allow for a post-election coalition government as in 1964. Had the electorate known in advance that the

United Force and the PNC would have entered into a coalition to unseat the PPP, voting preferences might have been different, and the votes for the right-wing United Force which came mainly from the Amerindian and East Indian segments of the voting population significantly reduced.

One positive feature of our present Constitution is that it removes any doubt as to any likely post-election political configuration, as voters go with their eyes wide open as to which party or combination of parties they would like to form the next government.

The APNU- AFC coalition is analogous of the PNC-UF coalition, except that in the case of the former, it is a pre-election marriage with an uncertain future insofar as its chances of acquiring political office is concerned. Indeed,

there are many who felt that the AFC has taken a big political gamble, given the dismal record of the PNC both with respect to coalition politics and governance credentials.

The PPP has always regarded political power, not as an end in itself but as the means to a greater end, namely to create a free, democratic and just society. This explains the PPP’s approach to the politics of the 1960s alluded to earlier. Indeed, this is the defining characteristic of the PPP and the PPP/C administration.

Political opportunism and dancing to the music of the rich and powerful has never been a part of the PPP’s political make-up.

This is why when it comes to principles and trust, the PPP remains unmatched.

HYDAR ALLY

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How’s life in Guyana?

HOW’S life in Guyana?

For many Guyanese citizens, life’s a progressive movement, with us feeding, housing, clothing ourselves, with us driving nice cars and watching flat screen TVs and making our homes comfortable, easy living environments.

Out in the country, we plant kitchen gardens and farms, rear livestock, enjoy our days under the tropical sun, our kids attending school in neat, bright uniforms.

In the hinterland far-flung communities dream of big city life with our young people educating themselves for an assured future.

Life as a Guyanese today is a nice experience.

Of course, as in any society of human beings, full of flaws and imperfections inherent in human nature, we find ourselves facing challenges and issues that subtract from our enjoyment of the blessed land we so peacefully live in.

In fact, the feeling that we complain too much, that we’re prone to negativism, that we constantly blame Government for everything we see not working in our lives, is a national sentiment.

How we see our world, is how we experience our world. If we see darkness, we would forever grope about feeling our way around, depending on someone somewhere bailing us out and guiding us, although we may not even be aware of a destination we want.

Drifting, aimless, without a vision or a personal passion for achieving in life, we resort to the scapegoat phenomenon, blaming Government, or history, or the world, for our problems.

This is normal in human society, except when it becomes the national way of being of a people.

When too many of us sit around idle refusing to read literature, refusing to study at free evening courses at the University of Guyana, at adult classes around the country, when too many of us refuse to self-develop and prog-

ress, something’s wrong with our culture, with how we approach life, with how we see and feel about being Guyanese living and owning this lovely land.

We don’t take ownership of our nation, and exercise the positive posture to make a difference.

Instead, many of us sit back and languish in inactivity, our minds lost in idleness.

We wait for some vague abstraction like ‘government’ or ‘fate’ to make things happen for us.

But life calls for active participation. We can’t just sit around and expect great and extraordinary and powerful performance to just show up. Life calls for preparation, studying and personal development, cultivating a vision or passion, and focusing on achieving something of note.

We’re a small population, with a big massive land mass, fertile, sunny, open, with great rivers and an abundance of water. What’s our excuse?

In this elections season, we see campaigns from Opposition leaders who claim everything about Guyana is bad. Using lots of ugly words, demotivating and demoralizing their hearers, these leaders don’t realize that in their choice of words they are branding themselves as negative, unprogressive and uninspiring and demotivating.

Words make human society.

It’s in language that we develop and evolve into a people of high culture and cultivated nobleness.

It is in our choice of language out in the public square that we construct our social space and our national psyche and our emotional landscape.

And so for anyone to use words to paint a self-image of the Guyanese nation that reeks of under-development, poverty, corruption, a stupid people with a dumb government, such talk only labels its proponent as a destroyer of the Guyanese identity. In seeking to bring down our freely and fairly elected Government with talk that

destroys the way we see and feel about our country, these leaders aspire not to develop us and move us forward, but to tear us down and make us fall.

These things we must be careful of, how we talk to our nation, how we motivate and inspire our fellow Guyanese, both here in the homeland, and in the Diaspora.

Those disgruntled souls who want to tear down Government must find a way to convey their messages without use of language that damages our national psyche.

Even in rampant talk of corruption, when anyone requests evidence, these naysayers descend to a level of cussout and character assassination that is ugly to behold.

We’re not saying Guyana today is a utopia, but we’re not such a bad nation, are we? Our Government is building roads all across the nation, fuelling home ownership with easy bank loans and affordable house lots, operates a macro-economic landscape where we could import anything, resulting in the lush availability of food, clothes and all manner of goods and services.

We look to the 21st centu-

ry with such an outlook, facing forward, thinking progressively, pointing our people to the future we are creating, inculcating a national mindset that focuses on that indomitable Guyanese will and resolve to overcome whatever obstacle we may face.

We’re a unique people on the world stage, with our British background, and our population center sandwiched between the vast openness of the muddy Atlantic Ocean stretching out to the unknown horizon, and the deep mystery of the lush green Amazon forests holding ancient unexplored secrets. Our very landscape may cause us to feel small and insignificant, that we’re mere pawns in a grand scheme of wild nature.

Coming out of slavery and indentureship and colonialism, we may harbor deep in our national DNA a feeling of helplessness, that our fate lies in the hands of mysterious and superior forces over which we have no control.

But since we became a nation, since we took our lives into our own hands and became self-governing, since we declared ourselves a nation in the United

Nations, with our own flag and national anthem and motto and national symbols, we took on this idea that we could make ourselves into a world class people, a nation outstanding in the annals of humanity.

That’s how life is for us Guyanese. We’re our own people, a nation being formed, a society developing with rapid growth, repairing the structural breakdowns that cripple us for decades, envisioning big projects and ambitions national plans.

Life for Guyanese today is a beautiful experience, even for those caught in human tragedies and going through a hard time, simply because the opportunity for self-development and for individual progress is second to none in the 21st century global village.

In the world today, Guyanese stand as empowered as any human being anywhere on the earth.

In that powerful possibility, life for us is an exciting adventure, open to any possibility, once we’re willing to roll up our sleeves and see that Guyana iss one of the most peaceful, pastoral, blessed nation on the earth.

Tourist arrivals up by 13.9% in the first quarter of year ‘GUYANA – South America Undiscovered’ is fast becoming the destination of choice for visitors.

The Ministry of Tourism and the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) have reported a record high of 46,369 arrivals in the first quarter of this year.

This translates into a 13.9 percent increase over last year’s arrivals.

In a brief interview with Tourism, Industry and Commerce Minister Irfaan Ali, he explained, “It is clear that the country’s interest in tourism is very aggressive at this moment. This steady increase

is testimony to the continued investment in the country’s tourism sector and the aggressive marketing strategies used.”

It is evident from the figures and the overall trends that visitor arrivals keep climbing, and according to Minister Ali, it is expected to continue along this trajectory. He noted that the growth in the sector will be supported by several major investments, including the recently opened Marriott Hotel and the expansion of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, among many other initiatives.

Mr Indranauth Haralsingh, Director of the GTA, said the increase in arrivals from Central and South America, which accounted for 15% of total market share, was a result of the boost in airlift from Conviasa, Copa Airlines and Insel Air, and the marketing initiatives of the Guyana Tourism Authority, THAG and the Private Sector.

He explained, “Conviasa continues flying to Guyana from Venezuela, Insel Air has also commenced flights direct from the Dutch Caribbean, such as Aruba and Curacao. In addition, with the introduction

Tourism Minister Irfaan Ali

of direct flights by COPA, we have seen an increase in airlift to Guyana.”

The third and fourth biggest generating markets were Canada and Europe, with 13% and 6% respectively, the Director noted.

The current year-to-date (January to March 2015) summary indicates that visitor arrivals increased by 26.1% with a total of 18,464 visitors, compared to the 14,648 for the same period in 2014.

According to the GTA Director, these figures can be attributed to Guyana continuing to attract more international recognition through films and documentaries.

The country has main-

tained attendance at key travel and trade shows, and the Guyana Tourism Authority has intensified its marketing strategies. Haralsingh also noted that Guyana is in talks with more reputable airlines.

“This is a tangible return on our investments,” he pronounced.

The Unites States (US) remained at the top market for a share of 39 % of the total tourist arrivals during first quarter of this year, while visitors from the Caribbean accounted for 24% of the total arrivals. (Rebecca Ganesh)

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RAMOTAR TELLS BUSINESS LUNCHEON...

No special treatment for ‘Asian companies’ in Guyana …I ensure that there is a level playing field

By Gary Eleazar THERE are no foreign companies operating in Guyana-Asian or otherwise- that enjoy any advantages in terms of concessions and incentives, over any other company. Simply put, the playing field is already level and further, government is not looking to place a ban on the exportation of logs anytime soon.

These were the positions articulated by none other than Head of State, Donald Ramotar yesterday, as he engaged members of the business community at the now annual Pre-Election Business Discourse Luncheon, organised by the Guyana Manufacturers Association (GMSA) and venued at the Marriott Hotel.

ASIANS Managing Director of Bulkan Timber Works, Howard Bulkan, during a question and answer segment of the proceedings, suggested to President Ramotar that more needs to be done to make the playing field more level and pointed to unfair incentives and concessions being granted

to Asian companies operating locally.

Bulkan said too that when the late Dr Cheddi Jagan assumed Office in 1992, he had lamented the continued export of primary products, such as logs, but “we are in 2015 and I have to lament, the same thing continues.”

In fact,Bulkan told the President, “The Asians are here in a big way and they are controlling the industry, just logs, logs and more logs, no in-country processing, no transfer of skills.”

According to Bulkan, the Asians were simply logging and exporting Guyana’s prime species and as such, he wanted to know what the position would be, for a re-elected Ramotar Government.

With respect to fiscal concessions, Bulkan suggested, “here again the Asians get everything…We in the GMA have always advocated a level playing field , the playing field is not level at the moment.”

Bulkan further alleged, “these [Asian] companies can bring in hundreds of trucks, all sorts of things, we don’t get those concessions.”

As a result Bulkan used

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh in discussion with Howard Bulkan following the GMSA forum

the forum to enquire as to whether a re-elected PPP/C Administration would level the playing field and asked, “Can we get the same sort of fiscal incentives that the Asians who are here that just come for our logs?”

ILL-INFORMED But President Ramotar believes Bulkan’s views to be ill-informed and sought to set the record straight.

According to the President, cheaper energy, as can be provided with the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric project but

was blocked by the political opposition, would have made value- added products more feasible for export.

“We have committed ourselves to preserving our forests,” Ramotar also reminded his audience, but pointed out too that with some 99 per cent of Guyana forests preserved, the nation will earn money from it.

The remaining forests he said, are still under harvested.

President Ramotar told the gathering of business magnates that Guyana does not have all of the processing

facilities for wood and this is compounded by the fact that some of the markets currently have a ban on imports of finished products.

As a result, he said, the export of logs become important for the thousands of Guyanese across Regions, 6, 10, 3 and others that depend on it for their livelihoods, “so banning the export of logs at this time I believe, will not be the best thing.”

To do so would create a lot of hardships and suffering for a lot of people involved in the sector, according to Ramotar.

CONCESSIONS On the matter of fiscal concessions and the supposed preferential treatment to Asian companies, the President told Bulkan “I don’t agree with you.”

In fact, Ramotar told the gathering, including Bulkan, “I don’t think that the Asian companies have any more concessions than any other foreign company will have in our society.”

The President said, “I have been speaking to our finance people all the time to ensure that there is a level playing

field according to the level of investment that we have within our society.”

He told Bulkan, “Such a broad statement that they [Asians] enjoy more concessions than other people making the same kind of investment, I do not accept.”

Bulkan persisted however and in a follow- up round of questions, told president Ramotar, “I have to disagree with you Mr President,” and repeated his allegation that the Asian companies “get more concessions than us.”

President Donald Ramotar however made it pellucid: “As far as I am aware, as far as the policy of the government is concerned, that no foreign company should have any advantage over another investing in our society, that is our policy, this is where we stand on this matter and I have no information that any foreign company gets more benefits than another one.”

In recent months, Chinese logging company Bai Shan Lin had come in for increased criticisms over its concessions granted among other bones of contention by sections of the society.

Voir dire finds that caution statement in Shakir murder was voluntarily given

By George Barclay PRESIDING judge in the Shakir Mohamed murder trial voir dire, Justice Brassington Reynolds yesterday ruled that the caution statement by the accused was freely and voluntarily given to the police.

And the judge ruled that it be tendered in evidence at the trial.

According to the caution statement, the accused had told the police that the killer was Mark Singh who because of some financial problem with his aunt who had him paying rates and taxes he had murdered her.

And the big caution statement that landed Shakir in trouble came after Assistant

Superintendent of Police David handed Shakir a copy of a caution statement that Mark had made to the police.

After reading Mark’s caution statement, Shakir wrote his own statement and dictated same to ASP David, under caution and in the present of a witness.

It turned out that Mark Singh and Shakir Mohamed were charged with the murder of Shewraney Doobay, called Monica.

But as fate would have it, Singh died during the preliminary hearing and Shakir alone survived to face trial.

Apart from David, another witness who testified yesterday was Dr. Ramsundar Doobay of the George-

town Public Hospital. He is the husband of the ill-fated ‘Monica’.

He told of going home at 5th Street Campbelville and finding that his wife had been killed.

He admitted to defence counsel Mr. Jainarayan Singh (a former High Court judge) and Mr. Moti Singh from Berbice, that although he was interviewed by the police and were accompanied by a lawyer on each occasion, he did not consider himself a suspect in the matter.

According to ASP David, sometime after he served a copy of Singh’s caution statement on Shakir, Shakir dictated to him a story which read- “I look

at this man Mark story, and dat is nah wah really happen.

About two weeks back he start to tell me dat he aunty get he ah pay rates and tax and like dat get into he and he plan fuh kill she.

“De Tuesday he tell me he want me to drop he off by she fuh gee she some money.

I drop he off with me car HB 9260 and he tell me to park away from she house and we walk and go by she. He had a hammer wrap up in a black plastic bag. When we reach the house, she open the kitchen door, we got in and he told she that we got a work in de area and we hungry. She said she ain’t cook, but she gon gee we sandwich and drink. She make three sandwiches, with cheese, jam

and a thick butter. Me eat one, he eat one and she gee Mark the other one for a fren.

“Out de house, me in front and he went little behind me, he tek the hammer which was still in the bag and lash she wan good set a lash to the mole or base ah she head. She scream one time and he lash she one more time and she fall on me and I ease she down to the ground in de kitchen. She head de facing north. She de still moving when I rest she pon the ground and he gee she one more lash to she head and she stop moving. Mark then tell me wait and he rush in the hall area spent some time and he came back with a cotton bag. Something been inside but he ain’t show me

but I think it is money.

“When we reach at the flatshop at Success, E.C.D. he pay off de bill. He tell me he gon deal with me later, but I ain’t know whether he gon gee me money or kill me.

When we left the house we walk together to Stone Avenue and he turn on the street that running east to west. I think is Fourth Street. He tell me pick up me car and come an reach he . Ah see he throw the black bag wid de hammer in de gutter at the corner of Stone Avenue and Fourth Street.

The hearing continues today when the prosecution will call its last witness before closing its case.

The defence will begin today.

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PPP/C manifesto launch for Saturday at Marriott

By Vanessa Narine GUYANA 2.0 will be made public in its entirety on Saturday at the Marriott Hotel, according to former president, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, at a news conference held yesterday at Freedom House, Robb Street.

According to him, the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) vision for the next five years ought to form part of the considerations of the Guyanese electorate, moving forward.

“I want to urge Guyanese to read the documents we have put out so far…(our manifesto) will outline our vision for taking Guyana forward,” he said.

Excerpts of Guyana 2.0 were made public recently and details programmes, policies and legislative advances expected to be advanced over five years – the term of office after a General and Regional election.

The central themes of ‘Guyana 2.0’ include: Eco-

‘We have a strong track record and we are clear on where we are taking the country. The Opposition, so far, has focused on corruption and not much more…there has been very little on policies.

In fact, they have had severe policy contradictions among different members.’ – Dr Bharrat Jagdeo

President Donald Ramotar

Elisabeth Harper

Dr Bharrat Jagdeo

nomic Growth: Jobs, Income & Wealth Creation; Transformative Infrastructure; Enhancing the Well-Being of Our People; Fighting Crimes & Protecting Our People; Fair Governance; and Guyana in a Modern World. The preview of the PPP/C manifesto details a vast number of policies and measures that are centered on these themes, which will be pursued.

Guyana 2.0 is a play on the ‘tech’ term that translates to mean an upgrade – in this

case a better country for the Guyanese people.

much more…there has been very little on policies. In fact, they have had severe policy contradictions among different members,” he said.

Dr Jagdeo quipped that while the PPP/C had touted its vision for Guyana, as well as its track record, the political opposition cannot attempt such

APNU+AFC VISIONLESS The former president used the announcement to deliver a jab at the alliance of A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC).

“We have a strong track record and we are clear on where we are taking the country. The Opposition, so far, has focused on corruption and not

GECOM awaiting word from CJ on issuance of employment certificates AN originating summons, relative to Election Day certificates of employment, was filed by Senior Counsel Ashton Chase on Monday and the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is presently awaiting word from the Acting Chief Justice, Ian Chang.

The Commission’s legal officer, Ms Juanita Barker, told the Guyana Chronicle that the court was approached for a definitive pronouncement, given the call for the certificates to be issued to a wide cross- section of E-Day staffers.

She said, “We are seeking an interpretation of arti-

cle 162:1B of the Representation of the People’s Act. It would determine whether GECOM has authority to issue certificates of employment outside of what is stated in the law.

“Currently, the law states that certificates of employment can be issued to election officials only – meaning the Chief Elections Officer, the Deputy Chief Elections Officer, the Returning Officers, the Deputy Returning Officers, Election Clerks, Presiding Officers, Assistant Presiding Officers and polls clerks. Members of the disciplined services who are working on Election Day are

also issued with certificates of employment.”

Additionally, GECOM Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally, assured that the Commission decided to go the “route of the law” to ensure that the Commission has a legally binding position on the matter of issuance of Certificates of Employment.

“We are seeking legal advice from Chief Justice and legal luminaries to have greater clarity,” he said.

Enquiries on the matter were first raised by the alliance of A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance For Change (AFC). (Vanessa Narine)

a feat, and has not attempted to do so either.

“While we do speak about their (political opposition) track record, a lot of what we talk about is what we want to do for the country,” he said.

The former president added, “I would urge people, those who are focused on the negatives of the campaign, we have not only been talking about the past, or the present or even our track record. We have been speaking extensively about where we are taking Guyana.”

He bemoaned the fact that plans for the future more often than not has been “drowned out by the noise” of sensational

quips made on the campaign trail.

“We have clearly outlined our vision,” Dr Jagdeo said.

He assured that he will continue to support his party and do all he can to ensure that his party is successful at the May 11 General and Regional elections.

“We are campaigning on the vision, the track record and the quality of our candidates. Donald Ramotar, our presidential candidate, will remain the President of this country and Mrs Elisabeth Harper will be the Prime Minister,” the former president declared confidently.

ELECTIONS FLASHBACK A history of significant elections

THE August 1961 general election – over 50 years ago – was one of the most significant in the pre-independence period.

Between January and July 18, when the new self-governing constitution came into effect, British Guiana was administered by the Governor, Sir Ralph Grey, KCMG, KCVO, OBE. General elections took place on August 21, 1961. A new right-wing party, The United Force (TUF), led by Peter D’Aguiar, entered the scene and contested along with the People’s National Congress (PNC) to unseat the People’s Progressive Party (PPP). The result was that the PPP won 20 out of the 35 seats in the Legislative Assembly and Dr. Jagan was appointed premier.

The next General and Regional Elections of major significance was in 1964 and then in 1992.

Pictured is Dr Cheddi Jagan, at the head of the table, with other local political leaders at a meeting in 1961.

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MARAD hands out FFTP facilitates release of non-violent nearly 200 lifejackets prisoners for Easter to schools in Pomeroon River

– seeking to inculcate maritime safety consciousness THE Maritime Administration Department (MARAD), as part of its continuous safety campaign, travelled to Region 2 (Pomeroon-Supenaam) last Friday to distribute life jackets and erect safety signs.

The Department said that a total of one hundred and ninety-two children’s lifejackets were distributed to four schools in the Pomeroon River; Martindale Primary

School, Marlboro Primary School, Lilydale Primary School and the Hackney Primary School.

The Heads of the recipient schools gleefully accepted the lifejackets on behalf of their students and expressed their gratitude for this timely initiative. The officers from the Department demonstrated to the students and teachers the proper way in which the lifejackets are to be worn, and stressed the importance

of wearing a lifejacket every time they are in an open boat.

Meanwhile, safety posters were erected at the Supenaam and Charity Stellings.

MARAD will continue with campaigns of this nature throughout the country with the hope that it will inculcate a maritime safety consciousness in Guyana, an attitude of wearing a lifejacket, and most importantly saving lives on the country’s waterways.

A MARAD officer demonstrating how a lifejacket should be worn

FIVE non-violent prisoners from the Georgetown and Timehri prisons were released from prison through the intervention of Food For The Poor (FFTP) on Monday 23rd March, 2015 in time to spend the Easter holidays with their

families.

The prisoners were informed of their release only on the said day and that FFTP had paid their fines and they emotionally expressed their appreciation and gratitude to FFTP Florida and Guyana for the kind

gesture.

Twice a year, during the Christmas and Easter seasons, FFTP facilitates the release non-violent prisoners who were incarcerated due to their inability to pay the requisite fines for committing minor offences.

East Ruimveldt man denies assaulting his ‘child mother’

By Geeta Rampersaud A MAN of Lot 591 East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was Tuesday placed on $20,000 bail by Magistrate Dylon Bess for assaulting the mother of his last child.

Mark Solomon, 37, made his appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to the charge that said on April 20 at East Ruimveldt, he unlawfully assaulted Anita Roberts.

In his explanation, the defendant told the court that he was on the road sitting when Roberts came up and

tried to take his daughter.

Solomon said he refused to give her the child since it was after 18:00 hrs and the child had to go to school the following day. He added that Roberts went up to him but he denied assaulting her.

The defendant told the court that everyone who was present at the shop said that he did not beat her.

Roberts then told the court that she went for her daughter and she called Solomon and after she did not get an answer, she went up to him. Subsequently, they had an altercation and Solomon chucked her.

No objection to bail was raised by Police Prosecutor Tracey May Gittens.

When asked by Magistrate Bess if he had any prior conviction or pending matter, the unrepresented man responded in the negative.

However, while trying to secure a lesser amount of bail, Solomon told the court that he had a narcotics matter before Magistrate Bess in Bartica.

After bail was granted Solomon told the court that only he has access to his money. The matter was adjourned to May 4, for commencement of trial.

Grass cutter accused of stealing bicycle, horse saddle, bridler, cash

MARAD’s Public Communications Officer handing lifejackets over to Lilydale Primary School

A grass cutter of North Sophia, Greater Georgetown, was Tuesday placed on bail in the sum of $80,000

by Magistrate Dylon Bess on two counts of simple larceny charges.

Wa z i m P e r e i r a , 2 2 , pleaded not guilty to both charges, one of which said that on April 12 at Deobira-

ma Street, Prashad Nagar, Georgetown, he stole one bicycle valued $20,000, property of Stephen Joseph.

Particulars of the other charge said that on April 17 at North Sophia, he stole one horse saddle and bridler together valued $10,000, and also $10,000 cash, property of Lakeram Ga-

nesh.

The prosecution’s facts were not revealed to the court and Police Prosecutor Tracey May Gittens did not object to bail.

H e w a s o r d e re d t o post $40,000 bail on each charge and the matter was adjourned to May 12 for commencement of trial.

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GUYANA CHRONICLE Thursday April 23, 2015

AQUACULTURE: A value-added option GuySuCo could explore – says Dr Chin

By Tajeram Mohabir SEASONED private and public sector manager Dr Leslie Chin has said that although the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is in the business of sugar, it should consider looking beyond sugar in its diversification plan.

Dr Chin told the Guyana Chronicle in a recent interview that a possible area of GuySuCo investment could be in aquaculture. He pointed out that the Corporation can test the viability of this option during the periods when fields are flooded.

Every five years, GuySuCo flood-fallows its fields to im-

prove soil fertility to enable high quality sugar cane; and according to Dr Chin, perhaps it might be feasible for the Corporation to exploit this time for aquaculture production.

Dr Chin explained that it would not be taking away from sugar, but would help GuySuCo to gain maximum benefits from its fields while supporting value-added. And if successful, he said, the option would aid in GuySuCo’s diversification drive.

GuySuCo has been produc-

ing packaged sugar for export to Europe, and has also been trying its hand in the production of ethanol. Dr Chin said aquaculture would not be a competing product, but a complementary one; and if successful, it would contribute to the success of the Corporation.

He suggested that for a start the Corporation could, at a small fee, rent the flooded fields to aquaculture farmers for a period of six months, or allow them to use the fields for free, just to see how things would develop.

The objective is to see how the business works, Dr Chin explained, as he pointed out that it would be a win-win situation for all involved.

The farmers would gain, he said, cultivating on rented lands at cheap rates; while for GuySuCo, it will be a first-hand experience of how the business works, and an opportunity to know what to do to improve it.

Once successful, he said, GuySuCo could retake the

Dr Leslie Chin

fields and get into production using the expertise at its disposal.

NOT LOSING “It will be a case where you are not losing money but are learning, being innovative and approaching things in a different way,” Dr Chin said. He pointed out that he had approached GuySuCo with the plan, but it did not receive a favourable review. Perhaps, he said, the Corporation can review its

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decision.

Dr Chin said the corporation had told him that it was in the business of sugar production and was contented to focus its energies on ensuring the viability of the industry.

About a decade ago, aquaculture was touted as a new emerging industry, enjoying the full support of the Government with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Poor management and internal wrangling had prevented the industry from taking off, but it has not fizzled out.

There are, currently, about 12 significant players in the industry, who, combined, operate an area of about 3,000 hectares. Dr Chin said that with better management and support, the industry can regain momentum and become a force to be reckoned with.

He pointed out that energies will be channelled in this direction.

He said that focus would be placed on rearing Tambaqui, also known in Guyana as Fresh Water Pacu, which is accepted in European markets; and less attention will be given to Tilapia, as the market for this fish is very competitive.

Guyana is blessed with an abundance of land, water and an ideal climate for aquaculture, and according to Dr Chin, if rearing of these two species is successful, attention will be expanded to include shrimp and crayfish.

Today, aquaculture is the fastest growing sub-sector in agriculture, and aside from tourism, it is the second fastest growing sector globally.

More than 50 per cent of all fish consumed worldwide come from artificial ponds on land and marine cages, compared to some 7 per cent 45 years ago.

According to Dr Chin, some Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) experts have unofficially estimated that, in the next 50 years, some 99 per cent of all fish consumed would come from aquaculture.

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GUYANA CHRONICLE Thursday April 23, 2015

Allisia McPherson was victim of physical abuse by boyfriend

ALLISIA McPherson, 18, of Lot 612 ‘C’ Field, Sophia, Georgetown, who was stabbed about the body 41 times had been a victim of physical abuse by her 19-year-old boyfriend, who has gone into hiding since the murder.

McPherson’s life ended tragically early on Sunday morning when she was stabbed to death by her boyfriend, who has been identified as construction worker, Shivnarine Roopnarine, called “Shiv” of Grove, East Bank Demerara, while they were at a party at ‘B’ Field, Sophia.

The teen’s mother Denise McPherson told this publication that she had once observed a bite mark on her hand and had asked her daughter about it and she said she got injured.

She stated that Allisia was the kind of girl who bore it alone and would not talk about what she was going through in that relationship, although she had questioned the teen several times but she refused to talk about it.

The grieving woman added that Allisia and “Shiv” had been together for two years and during that time he was a regular visitor to her home, because he had approached her and told her that he was interested in her daughter; and instead of them having to meet on the streets, he would like permission to visit her at home and she agreed.

Murdered: Allisia McPherson

Mrs. McPherson said the young man was respectful and had a quiet demeanor and her daughter seemed happy with him, but deep down she knew all was not well; but whenever she brought up the subject, the girl would not talk about it.

The mother of four told the Guyana Chronicle that on Saturday afternoon her daughter said she was going to a party at Cappy’s Place and she would meet her boyfriend at the location and left home with a male neighbour.

It is believed that, that move angered the jealous “Shiv,” who met her at the gate and upon seeing her with the young man she had grown up with, he started to quarrel with her since persons observed he was slapping her.

Allisia’s bloodied body

was found at about 04:00hrs on Sunday morning aback the property where the party was held in the washroom area by a patron, who had gone to use the facility and alerted others there.

The mortally injured teen was placed in a taxi and taken to the GPHC where she succumbed.

A post- mortem on Monday revealed that the teen’s body bore 41 stab wounds and the cause of death was given as haemorrhage and shock due to multiple stab wounds and punctured lungs, relatives said.

Mrs. McPherson said when she reached the hospital after getting a telephone call saying her daughter had been stabbed, she was unable to see her until after an hour ,but her daughter was unresponsive and covered in blood.

At the time Allisia was not working and had met “Shiv” through a friend, after which they began going out regularly. She however noted that he was jealous and policed Allisia’s movements and would do so via cell phone on a daily basis.

Shiv was observed in a minibus heading to Mahdia after the murder and it was reported that after the stabbing incident, he went and told the disc jockey that he should stop the music since somebody “get stab up.” He then fled the scene.

Allisia will be laid to rest on Monday.

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GUYANA CHRONICLE Thursday April 23, 2015

Major catastrophe averted as

gas station fuel tankers explode

Fire Chief Marlon Gentle manning the situation last evening

A firefighter attends to the second truck which had its entire front section roasted

By Leroy Smith QUICK responses from the Guyana Fire Service and the Guyana Police Force averted what could have been one of the most catastrophic events on the East Bank of Demerara last evening.

Just after 19.00hrs, a truck loaded with barrels, some loaded with fuel and others that were being filled burst into flames at the Two Brothers Gas Station at Eccles, East Bank Demerara, sending most of those residing nearby into panic mode.

According to information reaching this publication, the truck is one of the regular trucks which shows up at the service station to have dozens of barrels filled with fuel, had recently drove into the loading depot when suddenly it burst into flames while being loaded.

After the truck burst into flames, another truck, this time a fuel tanker which belongs to the service and which was nearby also caught fire with the entire cabin of that truck being burnt beyond repair.

Staff members at the service station quickly activated their standard operating procedures and safety mechanisms kicked in as the fire service was summoned.

Present at the location

were Fire Chief Marlon Gentle and ‘A’ Division Commander Clifton Hicken. Speaking with the media, Marlon Gentle said that the Fire Service began receiving calls through its emergency lines about a fire at an Eccles Gas Station, where the callers indicated that a truck was on fire.

The Fire Service immediately raised its alarm to Level Three and fire tenders responded from two fire stations initially, namely West Ruimveldt and the Central Station, Gentle stated. He added that when the first tender arrived it reported heavy smoke emanating from a truck at the service station and requested additional, special support.

The special support included a large water boozier and new chines special water tender which also has the capabilities of discharging foam. The foam he said has chemicals which are used to counter fire that is being fuelled by flammable liquids such as fuel.

The Fire Chief told reporters that from what they have been told, the emergency mechanism at the fuel station kicked in immediately after the fire alarm was raised. The system was automatically shut down and the underground fuel tanks were shut down also

to prevent any explosion.

It was noted that the firefighters were engaged in a risk that was different from any other firefighting that they would have done in recent times and they handled themselves well, the top fire officer stated.

The investigations into the fire are in progress, according to Gentle and that would determine what went wrong prior to the arrival of the firemen and what may have caused the fire.

Meanwhile, Commander Clifton Hicken who was also on the ground supported by dozens of police ranks controlling the crowd and keeping the traffic flowing, also spoke with the media.

He said that the police began receiving information about the fire simultaneously with the fire service and noted that they received their first call from passersby who telephoned the operations room. Hicken added that when they got on the scene they immediately cut off the traffic from passing in the proximity of the gas station and diverted them to a back street in an effort to avoid injuries and to allow the fire service to carry out its firefighting exercise unhindered.

He said that the police activated its Standard Operating Procedures immediately after arriving on the ground.’

The two trucks and the section of the gas station which was parched following the fire

‘A’ Division Commander Clifton Hicken(second from right) and staff of the gas station after the fire

One of the two fire trucks which responded promptly to last evening’s fire

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Dr Jagdeo urges PPP/C supporters to stay strong against intimidation GUYANA CHRONICLE Thursday April 23, 2015

FORMER President Dr Bharrat Jagdeo addressing a large gathering of supporters at Success, East Coast Demerara, last evening, when he urged them to stay strong against Opposition intimidation and vote resoundingly for the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) on May 11, to ensure progress and development continue. (See story in tomorrow’s issue)

German sailing from Africa to T&T on catamaran might be missing

By Leroy Smith The Maritime Administration Department of Guyana, MARAD, yesterday confirmed that the catamaran which washed up on the Essequibo island of Wakenaam was manned by a German national, Axel Verlohr of Nuremberg.

According to a release from MARAD, the man’s ID card and a telephone number were found on the vessel, and on dialling the number, a woman who claimed to be the man’s sister answered. She told MARAD officials that her brother was travelling from the West Coast of Africa to Trinidad and Tobago.

It could be that the German was attacked by pirates, as the vessel was vandalized.

The catamaran was discovered on Saturday morning on the Wakenaam shore and is presently moored at a boating facility on the island.

Missing German National Axel Verlohr

The Catamaran as it is moored at a boating facility in Wakenaam

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TOURS TOURS  tour return May 1 to 5 - sightseeing of dolphins, shopping, malls etc. 639-2663, 644-0185, 665-5171.

VACANCY VACANCY  Middle age, able-bodied male individual for night duties. Call 226-9810. Gas Station - Pump Attendants required. Send applications to: The Manager, Vlissengen Road, Georgetown.  to clean & wash; honest, reliable in Georgetown. Tel: 622-6335, 223-4598. , hauler 4 x 4 driver, Woodmizer operator grant manager. Call Richard 609-7675, 674-1705, 233-2614.  cashier/salesgirl at Energy Plus Service Station, Area 'P' Chateau Margot, ECD, to work shift. Contact 220-2821.

 in the fast food industry - cooks, cashiers, etc. Send applications to 70 New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, WCD. Call 645-8518.  General Store, 116 Regent Road Bourda: Maid must know to cook and clean, handyman to care for dogs.  Officers, excavator/skid steer operator, kitchen assistant, waiter, waitresses. Contact 603-4094.  Point Snackette and Bar, 42 Orange Walk, Bourda. Phone: 226-7147, Waitress (working day shif t& night shift) kitchen assistant, supervisor for a shift. Apply in person.  and Supervisor, DEV Grocery and Variety, 152 Albert and Sixth Streets, Alberttown, Apply in person with written application. Tel: 6255322.  611porter and driver. Experience will be an asset. Apply in person with written application to: The Manager, Household Plus, 131 Regent Road Bourda.  hiring: Servers, pastrymakers, drivers with bus licence, cashiers roti/doubles maker, delivery guys, cleaners, waitresses, bartenders. Call 603-4444 for more information.  guards to work at locations in Georgetown/ lower East Coast & Republic Gardens on the East Bank. Call 2251787, 231-5359 for appointment during office hours. /Trainee to operate offset printing press, must be 20-25 years, qualification 3-5 subjects (CXC). Apply in person to 21 Seaforth Street, Campbellville. Tel: 226-1877.  Cruise line and Cargo - Cooks, waiters, waitresses, receptionists, storekeepers, cleaners, etc.. Contact Professional Recruitment Agency.

231-6296, 650-9880.  Employment in the USA, the Bahamas & other Caribbean countries for trained teachers and registered nurses. Contact Professional Recruitment Agency 231-6296, 650-9880. /Baker for interior location. Must know to cook and bake a wide variety of items, strictly nonsmoker. Applicants must be experienced, have verifiable references and must be at least 40 years old. Others need not apply. Call: 618-2020.  and male janitors/ cleaning staff needed by international company. Previous experience working in hotels, factories, hospitals etc. is highly desired. Must be physically fit and must possess recent Police Clearance. Excellent pay offered. Call 618-0085, 627-3822.  Highly motivated and energetic person with secondary education, 2 years min. experience in retail sales.Must be computer literate.

Knowledge of Daceasy will be an asset. Apply to LENS 136 Sheriff Street, G/Town. Call: 227-2486, 227-0176. Email: michelle_lensdecor@hotmail.com

- Energetic person with seconary education including Maths and English.

Minimum 2 years experience. Must have a valid driver's licence.Police clearance is required. Apply at Len's Decor 8 Sheriff Street Georgetown call 227-0176 or Email: mitchelle_lensdecor@hotmail.com  female Manager to manage mall between ages 25 and 45 years, must be computer literate, knowledge of Quickbooks and preparation of VAT and NIS, must be able to work with little supervision and multi-task when the need arises. Pleasant personality and customer-friendly. Contact 621-2677, 671-8883, 225-4413, email sharonsbuilding@aol.com          Acc ounts Clerk, Sa l e s C l e r k a n d B o n d Clerk. Interested persons must have at least three (3) subjects at CXC. Please send application and Curriculum Vitae along with a passport-size photograph to R o y ' s P h a r m a c y S t a ll #32-33 & #64-65 Bourda Market, Georgetown. Also Packing Clerk/Cleaner, age 35-50 years.

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Land For Sale

LAND FOR SALE

  Omai and Lethem. Call 680-6348.        mining block in Puruni district. Contact 650-8289.  and diamond lands in Potaro.- Tel: 609-2815, 231-8702.  land at Great Diamond, Block X, EBD. Tel: 337-4298, 654-6350.             house lot at La Parfaite Harmonie $1.1M neg. Call 6044174.  at Parfaite Harmonie, size 45x80. Price $3M neg. Contact 693-3317, 660-0171, 2160094.      60 X 90, Boodhoo Housing Scheme, 7.5 mil.Contact: 2270176, 225-3048, 651-4578  Located on the First Half of 12 St. Foulis,East Coast Demerara. Price 5M Neg.Tel No. 652-3667 or 643-2928 .  lot at La Retraite in the Stanleytown Village District, West Bank, Demerara. Phone 641-9342.  Gardens, residential lots 50'x100'. Interested persons can contact 2251787, 231-5359.  Third Avenue/ Providence land with concrete fence, land filled to road height, size 110x60 & 100x65 - 624-7684.  lettered 'E' being part of east half of Quamina Street, South Cummingsburg, in the city of Georgetown. Contact: 6039767.

 14 acres lot No. 1566, 1567, 1571, 1572, 1695, 1696, 1702, lots 147 & 152 No. 72 Village Corentyne Berbice.

Call 660-2215.  Street: Well developed, fully fenced land measuring 100 feet x 62 feet, next to Scotiabank - $150M. Serious enquiries only. Call 2275407, 658-2686.  Good Hope ECD very developed area land $4.5M, just off publi c road. Providence EBD, $6M, $7M, Diamond $8M, $10M, Schoon Ord WBD gated compound $8M, $10M, Tel: 225-3737, 651-7078.  junction p r i m e c ommercial land 58'x86', corner lot Parika opposite market tarmac 120'x147', Ruimzeight Gardens double lot.

For serious enquiries please call 269-0020 during office hours.  Gardens semigated 42x80 $3.6M neg., 54x90 $4.3 neg., Charity Housing Scheme $2.8M neg., Kuru Kuru residential 100x200 - $2.6M, 6234790, 222-5116, 624-4790.  Diamond 2nd Street $8M, $10M, Herstelling $6M, $7M, Linden Highway 45 acres $15M, gold claims Sherima 1200 ac r e s $ 2 0 M , M a z a r u n i 1 2 0 0 acres $20M, Winiperu 800 a c r e s $ 2 0 M . Te l : 2 2 5 3737, 225-4398, 651-7078.  house lot just behind the Princess Hotel, gated c o m m u n i t y, s i z e 5 5 ' x 1 0 0 ' $14.5M. This is currently a booming Guyanese community with malls, water, park, Providence Stadium etc.Call 647-4997, 645-9266.  land from public road to reserve. Asking price $55M neg., plot of land in Ogle $35M neg. Mining blocks in Mazaruni mining district $2M per block. Call: 6899222 for more information.  invite you to purc h ase the follow inge land for bond , Chandra & Gange 125x120 corner lot $65M, William Street, 120x45 foefr bond , Gange 125x62 in Prashad Nagar for bond. Phone Mr Boodram 6923831, Mr Pereira 623-2591, 669-, 226- 1 0 6 4 , 225-3068, 2252626, 225-5198, 225-2709.  business land 125x50 neg., in Smyth Street opposite Jumbo Jet. Valuation $85M Asking price $75M, 3% refund on agent commission earned. Call Lord and Harold Anthony Reid's Realty 627-0288, 667-7812, 2253068, 225-2626, 23 1 - 2 8 6 4 , 225-5198, 225-2709, 669-, 226-1064, 227-6949, 646-1712.  away land East and Quamina Streets corner 120x100 US$1.7M neg., Hadfield Street opposite new expected GGMC $115M, South Road close to Wellington Street 30x112 $65M, Newtown 75x32 $14.9M, William Street 114x45 $28M, Prashad Nagar $26M, 125x62 Blygezight box 80x75 $ 3 2 M , P h o n e M r Boodram 692-3831, 225-, Mr Pereira 225-3068, 226-1064.

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GUYANA CHRONICLE CHRONICLE, Thursday THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015 GUYANA April 23, 2015 LAND FOR SALE  transformation of Guyana be our conversation equal 360 degrees turnaround and the 83 000 square miles space be filled with dynamic leaders and entrepreneurs with divine creative implemented ideas now today, East and Quamina Streets 120x120 plus reserve US$1.6M, Waterloo Street 40 000 sq. ft. land for hospital US$2.9M, Carmichael and Quamina US$1.1M, Coverden 600x100 residential land for retirement residence condo style $40M, Smyth Street for 6-storey school, hotel opposite Jumbo Jet vacant $68M, Hadfield Street 300x90 for any purpose close to Cultural Centre plus reserve US$650 000, Turkeyen 1¼ acre for bond $69M, LBI/BC 10 acre for gated retirement homes US$1.2M, Land of Canaan 200 acres for gated executive posh home US$1.9M, Lamaha Street 10,000 sq. ft. US$1M, New Market Street 15 000 sq. ft. $1.4M, 2 acres of land in Bel Air Park for financial and technology centre US$3.9M, Earl's Court 120x67 $13M, Phone Lord & Harold Anthony Reid Realty Mr Budram 692-3831, Mr. Shaw 628-1361, 669-3350, Ms Mohan 644-0408, Ms Harte 627-0434, Miss Enmore 225-2626, 225-3068, 6677812 after hours 225-2709, 2252626, 225-3068, 669-3350.

TO LET TO LET  in Regent Street.

Phone 665-6453. -bedroom apartment.

Tel: 687-1662.  apartment at Industry Front. Call 670-9606.  house with all amenities. Call 222-3059.  2-room apartment Tel: 602-3387.  South Road $60 000. Call Eric, 616-5914. -bedroom apartment.

Tel: 687-1662. -bedroom apartment at Parfaite Harmonie. Tel: 666-8585.  to rent at Uitvlugt, WCD. Contact No. 6662442.  business place on Regent Street. Contact: 6412419. -bedroom bottom flat in residential area contact 6671310.                                   land space at Supply, EBD. Call 227-1744, 657-9237.  business place $40 000 - $60 000 Contact: 6271893, 694-4148.  tiled and secure apartment at Herstelling, EBD. Tel: 668-2369. - and two-bedroom apartments at Industry, ECD. Tel: 666-8585.

TO LET  apartments, Lot 7 -8 Plantain Walk, Vreed-enHoop. 264-2639, 264-2743. -bedroom downstairs at Lot 6 Cherry Plot, LBI, ECD - 6772814, 699-1541.  furnished flat, Middle Street, Cummingsburg, Georgetown. Call 662-6875.                                1- and 2-bedroom furnished upper flat from US$25 up. Call 681-2499, 679-0757. house lots in Soesdyke, size 50x100. Contact 261-5027, 670-8282. -storey building located on Robb Street next to Bourda Market. Tel: 623-7731, 629-0636.  top flat, Middle Road, La Penitence, $55 000 monthly. Tel: 225-5533.  for a single, decent, responsible working female. Call 622-5371, 602-1076 .  space for supermarket and living quarters, Lot 22 Public Road, Covent Garden, EBD. 682-7490, 685-9284.  place Camp Street: Large and fully secured ground floor, no flooding. Tel: 642-0638.

 bottom flat, grilled, overhead tank, parking, Parfaite Harmonie, WBD. Call 220-4538 after 16:30hrs. Call 653-8871 Roy.

 and spacious 1-bedroom apartment location in Prashad Nagar. Will be vacant from April 15. Please call to view.

Tel 223-5934, 648-9226.

 building in Eccles & Bel Air for residential use, 3 bedrooms, US$800 & US$1600.

Tel: 684-6266.  2-bedroom in Kitty $50 000, 3-bedroom in Thomas Street $80 000, 1-bedroom $30 000 Tel: 684-6266.  3 bedroom flat house in Georgetown fully grilled, alarm, parking, water tank $65 000 monthly. Call: 624-4733.  apartments from US $900, US $1000, US $1200 and upwards . Tel:6461712, 693-8532.  apartment, newly renovated, 136 Fifth Street, Alberttown, Georgetown. Tel: 6640829. Price $60 000 monthly.  located, space suitable for doctor, insurance, consultant, classes or other.

Call 227-3064, 628-7589. -bedroom fully furnished, 2-bedroom fully furnished, 115 Thomas Street, Kitty Georgetown 225-0071.  houses/apartments and commercial spaces and Building to rent.

Call: 216-3120, 667-6644.  apartment with internet access, generator and parking Tel: 642-0636, 225-0545.  building: Large concrete building with parking. Price US$1300. Tel 642-0636.

-bedroom, fully furnished apartment with AC, in Campbellville for overseas guest.

Tel: 648-0303 .

 two-bedroom apartment with parking Tel: 225-0545, 642-0636.

         fully-furnished 2-bedroom apartments in Queenstown, US$600.Tel: 6389116, 669-4713.

 3-bedroom furnished house) US$1000, large 3-storey building for bond etc US$2700 Diana 227-2256, 626-9382.

 new furnished and unfurnished studio apartments in Queenstown from $60 000 monthly. Call 638-9116, 669-4713.

 apartment, one bedroom, prepaid meter inside washroom at Cornelia Ida, WCD. Tel: 602-5332.

 upper flat three bedrooms, one master room, at first bridge, Grove New Housing Scheme. 642-0550.

 top flat at 484 Diamond New Scheme, EBD (Tenth Avenue). Contact 2160720, 651-7696, 699-2338.

 house, 2 full baths, large kitchen located at 54 Bent Street, Wortmanville. 2315380, 663-8500.

 2-bedroom apartment, fully grilled, inside toilet & bath in Kitty. 1- & 3-bedrooms apartment in Herstelling. 693-0213, 641-3374.

 place in Cummings Street & North Road and living flats. Tel: 612-5063.

 2 bedroom apartment (top flat, front view) in residential Land-of Canaan. Decent couple preferred. Price:$45,000.

Tel#.652-6720.

 floor and building in Georgetown starting from US$1500 Tel: 684-6266.  house, toilet and bath $50 000 monthly. Industry. Contact 222-3194.  space 10ft x 30ft in central Georgetown. For enquiries, contact: 226-2833 asking $90 000.  house, toilet and bath $50 000 monthly. Industry. Contact 222-3194.  top flat house with self-contained room, kitchen and living room space. Call 6117138.  3-bedroom apartments in Kitty and Campbellville US$500 & US$600. Tel: 684-6266.

 New Scheme: 3bedroom bottom flat. 664-9062, 622-9248.  for rent/for sale: Newly built 3-storey, Lot 39-40 Broad Street. Tel: 623-4706, 226-3810.

 new furnished and unfurnished studio apartments in Queenstown from $60 000 monthly. Call 638-9116, 669-4713.

 bottom flat in Werk-en-Rust (unfurnished) $65 000 per month. 689-9222.

- "AA" Upscale property US$1500; "BB", "CC" 3 bedrooms property $80,000/ $75,000. : 2271988/ 623-6431.

 - $US 1000,KEY HOMES. TEL:2231765,641-2664.

TO LET

 top flat 3-bedroom located in South Ruimveldt Gardens.

Price $60 000. Tel: 662-2589.

         fully-furnished 2-bedroom apartments in Queenstown, US$600.Tel: 6389116, 669-4713.

 centrally located in Georgetown, suitable for business. Call 225-7131, 664-7525.

TO LET

 - Ideal for Resturant,Church, School- Above Sankars jm -Upper-US$1200/ Lower Back US$800.

- & one-bedroom apartments in Kitty with parking facilities, $65 000 & $35 000. Decent individuals. Call 618-9117, 227-1354.  spot formerly mining trading Bagotstown: opposite former KFC outlet. Call owner, 671-7114, 233-6987.       U n f u r n i s h e d 1 - b e d room apartment $30 000. 6140166, 601-6639.  2-apartment located at 3151 Cane View Avenue South Rumiveldt.

Call 698-2884.  constructed short-term apartment/rooms in Herstelling, EBD. Contact Handel on 621-6862, 655-3065, 514-430-7764.  space, various sizes, Vreed-en-Hoop Junction. Tel: 254-0373, 621-1576.  one & tworoom apartments at Seaforth Street Campbellville. Long or short term. Call 621-3094.  floor, Camp Street area. Ideally suited for office or business. Call 609-7675, 6741705, 233-2614.  Office/ business space 400-6000 sq. feet, available parking etc from US$350 neg. Tel: 624-4225.

bedroom apartments for overseas visitors, fully furnished, AC, hot & cold water, internet US$25 daily. Monthly also. Tel: 231-6061, 621-1524. -bedroom, front downstairs apartment with parking in Da Silva Street, Newtown, Georgetown Tel: 227-5748, 629-3996.  Street $55 000, Campbellville US$1000, 3-storey building (suitable for bond) US$2700.

Diana 227-2256, 626-9382.  for residential or business purpose at Carmichael Street, opposite Bishops' High School, thr ee-storey building at Albert and Crown Streets, Queenstown. Contact 676-8827, 629-6584, 645-6825, 697-4800.  Street, Kitty: Fully furnished one- and two-bedroom apartment from U S $ 2 0 daily.

227-5852, 638-4404. -contained rooms and apartment, daily $3 500 to $8 000, rooms weekly $18 000. Julian's Guest House 226-3552, 638-4505.  fully furnished, grilled single-bedroom, spacious apartment $40 000 per month. Contact 648-3374, 225-6965.  buildings available in prime areas. 223-8479, 647-3768. www.spaceseek.gy. -bedroom apartment for short term rental - US$60 daily rate. 223-8479, 647-3768. www.spaceseek.gy. - four- five-bedroom houses & apartments available, furnished & unfurnished 223-8479, 647-3768, www.spaceseek.gy.  located Bel Air Park, Diamond, Kitty, ECD & EBD 223-8479, 647-3768, www.spaceseek.gy.  and 2-bedroom apartments in Kitty $35 000 and $65 000 neg., parking available. Decent people 227-1354, 618-9917, 234-0579.  3-bedroom upstairs, grilled, toilet and bath inside, telephone, parking, spacious living quarters at EBD 668-5384, 6483342.  flat, two bedrooms, Campbellville, two months advance (1) Im Serious enquiries 225-2382 & 686-4134. Prefer couple. 09:30hrs - 18:30hrs.   bottom flat 36 First Street, Alexander Village.

1 person 35 or over - $24 000 Available from Mid April. Contact Dularie 08:00hrs - 15:00hrs.                  Nagar US$1500, US$1200, Eccles US$2500, Greenfield Park US$1500, 1, 2 & 3 bedrooms in residential areas from $80 000 to $160 000. 2222300, 618-0000, 615-0069. house $75 000 monthly in Providence. 3-storey building with living quarters and business, must see, very good price. 6843718, 610-0575.  unfurnished bottom flat in Da Silva Street, Kitty. Parking for 2 cars, overhead tanks, fully grilled. Price $80 000. Call 625-5897.  square feet modern warehouse in the Eccles Industrial Site. Asking price US$5000 monthly. Contact Annie Rooplall 233-3512 or Gimpex@gmail.com bedroom front building, furnished bottom flat apartment, fully grilled, internet, AC, parking place. US $600 monthly US$40 daily .Lot 1 Station Street, Kitty, 227-6046, 621-7519.

TO LET  house, fully furnished, diplomat rental, residential at US$2500. Call 664-5105.  two-bedroom apartment (bottom flat) at 447 Section C, Block Y, Grove H/Scheme second bridge. Contact Desiree or Navin at 36 First Street, Alexander Village 225-8783.   in Bel Air Park, all rooms air-conditioned, immaculate and recently renovated, beautiful kitchen & modern baths US$1600 monthly, US$2200 monthly. Serious enquiries only.

Please call 231-4172.  Street, C/ville Recently renovated, 3 bedrooms, upper flat Appropriate for small family. $120,000.00 .Serious Enquiries only.  2267541, 226-0168 Mon to Fri 8am to 4:30 pm or 641-9888.  609-8233. 4 - 2-bedroom, Sophia $40 000, 4 - 1-bedroom $30 000, three-bedroom $50 000, Diamond 2-bedroom $65 000, Diamond 3-bedroom US$700 Alexander Village, fully furnished $75 000.          apartment Kitty fully furnished $100 000, 1-bedroom Atlantic Gardens $55 000, 3-bedroom Atlantic Gardens $120 000 & 2-bedroom Alberttown $85 000. Zinctop Homes Realty.

Tel: 231-4041, 226-35-95, 6725403, 654-9464.  houses from USD$1200-USD$4000, furnished 2 bedrooms USD$500, 1-2 bedrooms aprtment USD$800-USD1,000 and office spaces $75,000 - $USD$2,000.

Tel: 226-3595, 231-4041, 661-1952, 672-5403, 684-2244, 654-9464.  of one newly built bottom flat, 2-bedroom apartment with living and kitchen areas, tiled flooring, cupboard, inside toilet and bath, grille and parking. Located at 645 Block 8 Mon Repos, ECD $45 000 monthly. Tel: 6232035, 662-1893, 220-4804. -bedroom fully furnished apartment Sixth Avenue, Diamond, EBD, telephone, internet, parking, etc, available for long term ,short term rental. - $55,000 per month (negotiable). Short term rental for overseas visitors US$35 per day.

Tel:658-1523, 638-3622, 231-8567. -bedroom bottom flat apartment, self-contained, working couple or single person preferred $35 000 monthly Tel: 672-3699. -bedroom lower flat in pristine condition, entire floor tiled also with large kitchen in Georgetown $75 000 monthly, three-bedroom, tiled in well kept compound $60 000 monthly, three-bedroom whole house $50 000 monthly East Coast, two-bedroom Alexander Village $40 000, two threeroom buildings centrally located for office use only US$2500 at Wills Realty 227-2612, 627-8314.    , 197 Cummings Street, 2232153, 624-7777, 668-7419, Facebook: nexgenglobalrealty, nexgenglobalrealty@gmail.com.

Furnished and unfurnished Diamond and Grove: 2- & 3-bedroom from $40 000, houses from $70 000.

Eccles: 2- & 3-bedroom from $50 000, houses from $120 000. Central Georgetown: 1-, 2-, 3-bedroom from $45 000, houses from $200 000, East Coast Demerara: 2- & 3-bedroom from $40 000, houses from $100 000, West Coast Demerara: 1-, 2-, 3bedroom from $30 000, houses from $80,00, West Bank Demerara: 1- & 2bedroom newly-built apartment for $30 000-$40 000.   W o r l d # 1 R e a lt or M i s te r Terry Redford Reid 6677812, 225-6858, 225-7164, 2261064, 2 2 5 - 26 2 6 , 231-20 6 8 , 619-7945. Have t h e executive r e ntal re du c e d by 35%, Prashad Nagar U S$1000, J a c a r a n d a Av e . B e l A i r P ark U S $ 2 0 0 0 , Barima Ave Bel Air Park US$18 0 0 , Bel Ai r S prings US$1000, large bond for rental office small form U S $ 3 75 , 10 000 sq ft o f f i c e space for technology bu s i n e s s .

22 5 - 2626, 225-5198, 226-1064, 623-2591, 669-3350.

TO LET    Atlantic Gardens split level two-storey, 4 bedrooms, all self-contained.

Meadow Brook Gardens two-storey, 3 bedrooms. Both with all modern conveniences.       & 24 hours service for executive properties, Jacaranda Avenue on 1 acre US$4500, Queenstown wooden executive 4-bedroom US$2500, 10 000 sq. ft. Queenstown on triple lot for an embassy US$8000, Houston executive on 2 acres US$4000, one apartment complex over looking the sea, 7 classy well-furnished going to one direct foreign investment company or executive staff house 6-storey with balcony to entertain, overlooking the beautiful Atlantic in Bel Air Springs US$2500, Forshaw Queenstown fully furnished apartment 2 bedrooms US$1100, 1 bedroom US$700, Alberttown new 5-storey apartment US$800 monthly, 92 Middle Street state-of-the-art 9600 sq. ft. parking for 20 cars US$14000, Kingston 20 rooms fully furnished US$8000 Phone Mrs Samuel 6947372, Mr Mohan 644-0408, Mrs Roberts 678-4958, 225-2626, 225-3068, 667-7812 after hours.   Gardens E.C.D, Fully furnished, 2 bedrooms Serviced Swimming pool and generator and maintained compound Excellent for Diplomats and Overseas Business personnel Serious Enquiries only.  2267541, 226-0168 Mon to Fri 8am to 4:30 pm or 641-9888.

PROPERTY FOR SALE

PROPERTY FOR SALE

 Rupa Avenue, Bel Air Park, Georgetown. Phone 673-3601.  Gardens: 2storey concrete house, 60'x100' lot $42M neg. Contact 667-7126.  , Success Line Top. Lusignan ECD. Contact 638-3636.   -$80M,KEY INVESTMENT.TEL: 2231765,641-2664.   Street, Kitty Georgetown - $25M. Call 6579013, 628-2044.  and an empty lot at D'Urban Street, Lodge. Contact 674-6278, 679-3508. -storey building at Lot 58 Lime Street, Werk-en-Rust.

Contact 616-1567, 693-8700. , opposite the stadium 8 bedrooms, 4 bedrooms - $30M. Michelle 617-6917.  $35M, Cummings Lodge $30M, Alberttown $30M. Tel: 642-0636.  Eccles $40M, Kitty $23M., Have properties to let or sell? Then call Diana 227-2256, 626-9382.  place, Sandy Babb Street: Newly constructed two-storey concrete building. Vacant possession. Tel: 642-0636.  Avenue: Large twobedroom concrete building, no repairs. Vacant possession. Tel: 642-0636.  Street: Newly constructed four-bedroom, executive concrete building. Vacant possession. Tel: 225-0545.  Street $90M, for sale or lease Moblissa chicken farm, 100 acres Mahaica Creek, Timehri river front 644-6551 Agents welcome.  Street (front property) $38M, BB Eccles $40M, Campbellville $23M, Kitty $23M. Diana 227-2256, 626-9382. -bedroom flat concrete house, Block 8 Mon Repos, ECD. Contact 697-1269, 6843375.    -storey properties (commercial/domestic) in Eccles (wooden/concrete) Agricola, Alberttown Garnett Street, Nandy Park, Diamond etc. Tel: 216-3120, 667-6644.

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PROPERTY FOR SALE

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 2-bedroom 3rd property, 1st Street Alberttown $12.5M, Tel: 692-3831, 225-2626, 225-3068, 227-6863, 626-4180.

 fully concrete, executive building in Bel Air Park, requires minimum improvement, reduced from $56M to $39M. Owner leaving the country. Mr Shaw 628-1361, MrBoodram 6923838, Mr Pereira 226-1064, 6677812, 225-2709, 227-6949, 2252626, 225-3068.

     require repairs in Brickdam, land size 120x38 - $ 4 4 M w a s $ 6 0 M . P h one Alysious Periera 623-2591,2252626, 225-2709, 2 2 5 - 3 0 6 8 , 66 9 - 0 943 Mr. Pereira.

 $50M, Ogle, Section 'K' Lamaha Gardens $50M Bel Air Park posh house US$2M. Newtown Kitty $26M, South Rumiveldt $12M, $18M, Diamond EBD $30M, seaside property WCD $18M, Canal #1 $16M. Call Mrs Jordan on 663-1728 for an appointment or visit our office in Royal Castle building Vreed-enHoop.

 Perkins engines 4236, 6354 and 1004 also rebuild engines on bed contact: 649-0755.

unfinished concrete house at Better Hope South. Price $13.9M Tel: 642-7898. No agent please.  Realty, We value, buy, sell or rent your property. Tel: 694-3875, 654-6198, 6490353. -bedroom flat concrete house, Block 8 Mon Repos, ECD. Contact 697-1269, 684-3375. property on Regent & Robb Streets, & other prime areas - 223-8479, 6473768, www.spaceseek.gy.  Bank double lot land, $9.5M e-mail rnarine64@yahoo.com - Tel: 551-482-1026, 592-681-9928.  Park: two-storey wooden/concrete, four bedrooms, 2 self-contained, three baths, four toilets, reservoir, overhead tank. Contact 639-0135.  lot with unfinished concrete structure in Sukhu Street, No. 2 Village Berbice. Going cheap. Owner leaving country.

Contact 665-5776.    for sale in gated community, security system with comfort in your home. Interested persons, please make contact on Tel: 675-2147.  newly built house at Success, ECD, two master rooms with hot/cold shower and AC, garage for 3 vehicles and plenty of land space Tel: 649-0755.  concrete building bordered by 3 Main Streets in central Georgetown. Ideal for offices, school, bond, etc., 4 flats 130ft x 35 ft each, land 250ft x 50 ft. 227-0190, 693-5610.  concrete building, 3 bedrooms upper & 2 apartments lower flat. 3-storey building in Herstelling H/ Scheme.

693-0213, 641-3374.  Courbane Park, Annandale ECD - Large concrete building on double lots, tiled yard to benab, enclosed car parking area. Price $40M. Tel: 225-3737, 225-4398, 651-7078.  4-bedroom property in Lamaha Gardens with pool, 3 years old $69M. Mr. Mohan 6640408, Mr Shaw 628-1361, Mr Boodram 692-3831, 225-3068, 231-2064, 225-2626, M. Pereira 669-3350, 623-2591, 669-0943.     Meadow Brook Gardens two-storey, 3 b e d rooms, modern conveniences.

Atlantic Gardens split level two-storey, 4 b e d r o o m s , a l l self-contained, fully air-condit i o n e d , w a t e r r e s e r v o i r. L a Bonne Intention ground floor business, first floor 3 bedrooms, lots of land space.     Park $55M, Bel Air Park $50M, Atlantic Gardens $65M, Enmore $9M, Republic Park $65M, Kitty $32M. Land (65x200) $70M in Good Hope, LBI $5M. land in gated compound $12M. 2222300, 618-0000, 615-0069.  609-8233 Eccles land $6.5M, Providence opposite the stadium 8 bedrooms and 4 bedrooms $30M, Tucville 4 bedrooms $27M, Charlotte Street 4 bedrooms $32M, Coldingen 4 bedrooms $5M, West Ruimveldt 2 bedrooms $3.5M.  property, situate on a double lot, Public Road, Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, Guyana. For further information please contact Kamta Persaud on 220-6634 or Bibi at 226-2885 or 657-0902. No agents please.  Two-storey concrete building Section 'K' - $38M, Better Hope $32M, Republic Park $50M, $40M, Queenstown $90M, Windsor Forest WCD new concrete $22M, Non Pareil ECD - $18M. Tel: 2253737, 225-4398, 651-7078.

 Park $55M neg, double lot in Da Silva Street, Newtown $25M, Duncan Street $32M, Bel Air Park $50M neg., Lamaha Garden $60M neg., Enmore $9M neg., Coldingen $6M neg. Foundation Realty 6180000, 615-0069, 222-2300.  Atlantic Ville double lot with large five-bedroom concrete building, concrete fence, bridges, AC units, solar heater water purification system and pressure system, together with all furnishings (fully furnished). Price $65M. Tel: 225-3737, 225-4398, 651-7078.  flat concrete house, built-in wardrobes, 1 selfcontained room, tiled floors, grille, overhead trestle with two tanks, front and back patios, concrete yard and driveway, garage for vehicle, back garden, prepaid GPL, spacious house & yard, located at Samatta Point, EBD. Call 6434096 for more information.  Best Offer - South Ruimveldt large two-storey concrete building $20M, Providence flat concrete house $12M, Little Diamond EBD two-storey concrete house $14M, Diamond flat concrete house $11M, Sophia $15M, Providence two houses on land $30M. Tel: 225-3737, 651-7078.  Sophia Gardens, close to Lamaha Gardens - fully concrete, 6bedroom giveaway, vacant for Christmas.Price $14.5M. Phone Mr Pereira 623-2591, 226-1064,2253068, 669-3350, Mr Boodram 6923831, 225-2626, 667-7812, 669-0943..  of portfolio of properties: 4 000 acres on Berbice River (river front land), 5 acres in Abary Creek with large building. Office buildings on Croal Street (opposite High Court), 3 residential buildings, (Section 'K' Campbellville).

Contact 638-9116, 669-4713.     discount ply 2 % commission on selling commission: Concrete two-storey 4000 sq. ft, 80% complete on double lot in Delph Avenue $36M. Joint Services new 4-bedroom concrete $21M was $28M, New Haven on 7 000 sq.. ft land $52M, Bel Air Park two-storey $52M, Bel Air Park. Phone Mr Boodram 692-3831, 623-2591, 225-2626, 669-0943, 225-3068, 627-0288, 667-7812.  invite you to buy these bargains Craig Street 2-storey $45M new $34M, Dowding Street was $42M now $32M, Pere Street Kitty $34M, Section M ranch-type was $60M now $48M, Prashad Nagar $30M, South Ruimveldt $10M, Roxanne Burnham Gardens $12M, D'Urban Backlands $23M, Camp Street & D'Urban South half $30M Phone Mr Budhram 692-3831, Mr Pereira 669-0943, 623-2591, 2261064, 225-3068.

 & Son Real Estate, Lot 185 Charlotte & King Streets, Maraj Building. Tel: 227-0265, 227-1881, 627-8057. PROPERTY: Republic Park, McDoom Public Road, Robb Street, D'Urban Street business spot, Charlestown, Queenstown, Diamond, North Ruimveldt, New Road West Coast 65. LAND: Croal Street, Non Pareil, George Street, Hadfield Street-South, Friendship land size 115 x 450 (wharf side), Diamond.  us at Raphael's Reality, 204 Charlotte Street, Bourda Tel: 225-8241, 227-4950, after hrs 2267829, Fax 227-1537. Executive Ogle $115M, Diamond $35M, Queenstown $65M, $75M, $90M, $150M, $70M, Plaisance (2-storey concrete) $23M, Mahaicony $22M, $65M, Light Street Alberttown $30M, Prospect $20M, Mon Repos $35M, Enterprise $12M, $15M, South Ruimveldt $30M, La Parfaite Harmonie $6M, $15M, Callender Street $12M, New Amsterdam US$1.2M, Soesdyke $4M, Tuschen $50M, $15M, Lamaha Gardens $80M, North Ruimveldt $32M, $40M, George Street $30M, Norton Street $9M, Chateou Margot $140M, Sophia $4M, Mahaica $15M, Glasgow Housing Scheme $9M, Edinburgh Public Road $1.8M, Diamond $28M, Essequibo Hotel $116M, Bartica $12M, $9M, Timehri (business place) $85M, Fyrish $500 000, Meadow Brook Gardens $18M, D'Urban Backlands $18M, Eccles $34M, Cornelia Ida $27M, Continental Park $50M, Leonora $15M.  157 acres river to highway, Linden Highway, $30M, Garden of Eden $3M, Bel Air Park $60M, Vigilance $1.5M, Eccles $16M, Pouderoyen ½ acre $5M, Parika $95M, Queenstown $40M, South Ruimveldt $8M, Paradise WCB $18M, Mc Doom $6M.   Ogle 5-bedroom furnished, swimming pool US$4 000 per month 5th Avenue Diamond 3bedroom $90M per month. New one- and two-bedroom apartments in Georgetown US$800, US$1200 & US$1500 monthly, New Amsterdam US$5500 & US$6500, Charlotte Street, 3-storey building US$4000, South Road 2-bedroom apartment $65 000 per month. All prices are negotiable..  two-storey, four-bedroom concrete house 2 toilets and baths, living room and kitchen upstairs and downstairs, water, electricity and verandah on 0.6502 acres of land in Canal #2. By owner Tel: 685-9590, 223-6941. Price $15M neg.  this business & residential complex: Fully concreted with room for expansion over 10 000 sq ft, suitable for insurance complex gold complex located in Bel Air Park US$599,000 Agents are welcome. Phone Mr Boodram 6923831, Mr Pereira 623-2591, 6693350, 669-0943, Madame Harte 225-2709, Mr Enmore 227-6863, 225-2626, 225-3068.  before the rush is on!

New gated executive house Republic Gardens $40M, Republic Park $55M, Eccles $50M, Continental Park executive with pool US$800 000, massive Atlantic Gardens double lot new $120M neg., Lamaha Gardens $60M, Bel Air Park 4-apartment reduced from $58M to $40M, another requires lots of repairs $45M not neg., Blygezith Gardens $45M, Prashad Nagar $70M executive land in Bel Air Springs $65M, Meadow Brook full concrete $52, new house by VIP stadium $17M, Bent Street business & residence $16.2M, La Penitence concrete residence & business with reserve $9M, new executive residence & office in Cross Street $16M Phone Mr Pereira 623-2591, 669-3350, 669-0943,2261064, Mr Budram 692-3831, Mr Shaw 628-1361, Ms Mohan 664-0408, Ms Roberts 678-4958, 225-2626, 225-3068, 225-2709, 231-2064.

 concrete house, 3 bedrooms (including master), 2 ½ baths, secure 2vehicle garage, 11th Avenue, Diamond. Price $27M neg.

621-9479, 665-4537   in April, 2storey Punt Trench Dam $9.5M with large land reserve for any type of business. Business & Residence Bent Street $16 . 5 M , 2 storey Guyhoc Gardens $14M, Guyhoc 2-storey concrete $14.5M, Lodge 2-storey $14M, Meadow Brook concrete ranch $ 1 3 . 5M. Land 130x50 Middle Road, La P e n i t e n c e , n e w c o n c rete Middle Road, La Penitence, Da Silva Street 85x35 Land $15.9M, Campbellville S c h e m e 8 0 x 5 0 p l u s r e s e r ve $15M, Hadfield Street east of Cuffy 120x50 $18M, Republic Park $14M, Continental Park 104x54 plus 3000 sq. ft reser ve all land to build dream house $22M, 7 000 sq. ft by the Cultural Centre 2 8 0 0 0 0 s q . f t , Lamaha Gardens $58M, Prashad Nagar $34M, South Ruimve l d t Gardens off Aubrey Barker Street. Phone Mr Boodram 6923831,225-5198, Mr Pereira 6232 5 9 1 , 226-1064, 6 6 9 - 0 9 4 4 , 225-2709, 225-3068,227-6863, 225-2626 FOR FOR SALE SALE  delivery on spot 6175536.  for sale Tel: 2580394.   $90 000 698-0582, 225-0630.            F4 Honda 250 Night Hawk 613-1207.      tyres 16, 17 & 18 inches. Contact 690-4357.  plucked chicken, wholesale and retail, really affordable price. Call 667-3118.  track glass $15 000 each. Contact 269-0534 & 675-6401.  puppies, Boxer puppies, Rottweiler puppies. Tel: 2238033, 621-6002.  nose, pure Pit-bull, dewormed and vaccinated. Call 6536191. -week-old German Shepherd pups Tel: 233-4130, 6633495.  Mini Marine tanker, capacity 11 500 gallons. 227-1744, 657-9237.  and Crank waterproof LED flashlights only $1 000. Contact 645-1744, 642-2589.  operations, Perkins engines. Contact 614-7768, 6686671.  gas: 407C-25 LBS. Phone 233-0608, 08:00hrs16:00hrs, Monday to Friday.  S5 display black & white, $12 000 each. 604-8145.   laptop 2000 Notebook PC. Call 643-0963, Otto.  plucked chicken available daily $300 per lb. Tel: 225-4156.  Kinlow J-410 motorcycle and a Yamaha Rava 125 motor scootor. Contact Sheldon 615-6474, 682-3942.

 German Shepherd dog. Good for breeding and guard purposes 669-9674.  dogs: German Shepherd and Rottweiler. Call 220-6879.   swimming pool tablets. Phone 223-0608, 08:00hrs16:00hrs, Monday to Friday. -week-old Rottweiler pups, vaccinated and de-wormed.

Call 227-8028.

FOR SALE  model 'M' Truck with winch, one Massey Ferguson double-drive tractor and one 25 Mariner outboard engine and one 4-inch dredge. Tel: 6830632.   Cat generator portable, hours 7115, 399 Massey Ferguson tractor, 110-90 Fiat tractor, 14 G3 Jon boat, 25 HP 4-stroke Yamaha, 580c Hymac long boom Tel: 601-1138.  arrived: wholesale only - area rugs sizes 210x320 cm, 240x340cm, 200x285 cm; special delivery from Georgetown to Rosignol, Georgetown to Parika Contact Tel: Rajin 656-9959.  15-ton truck, Bedford + 4cylinder radiators, Rolls Royce Perkins starter, Lister Petter water pump, Stihl chainsaw, 750 R 16 canter tyres, 15, 16, 17 car tyres at $2 000 each. Call 223-0050, 6769413.  4-cylinder engines, Champion 9000w generator, Husqvarna 20" chainsaw, Garmin 76s GPS, airbed, 165qt igloo cooker, Coleman raincoats, Coleman 10-person tents, security camera 692-2411, 218-4466.   Bold (new) $6 000,Blackberry Bold 4 $20 000 flash camera, Iphone 3 $15 000, Sony camcorder $10 000. Call 682-2861.

 360 Playstation 3 & 2 systems and games. Reasonable price. Contact 684-3025, 256-3640.           -bred Rottweiler pups, 6 weeks old vaccinated and dewormed. Call 627-1360.  forklift unladen weight 2500 2.5 model, horse power 90. Call 662-4801, 611-7034.  aluminum boat (Hull) 30ft. x 10ft., one 340 Yanmar engine (perfect condition), one trailer. Contact 623-1387, 220-4507.  - Slatwall panel, cash register, cupboard, shades rack, island display. Contact 611-7893, 674-4796, 609-9089  pressure washer 3400 PS1, Generac generator 7750 XL, Lincoln welding plan AC/ DC, lots of power tools - 644-0744.  25 Mariner outboard engine and one 4-inch dredge.

Contact 683-0632.  T.T.R 230 dirt bike in perfect condition contact: 6826123. Price neg.  gown and suit $55 000 for both, suit size L, gown L Contact Charles 619-5097, Alleyne 644-5569.  Kinlow J-410 motorcycle and a Yamaha Rava 125 motor scootor. Contact Sheldon 615-6474, 682-3942.  house amp, Yamaha house amp, Honda power washer 3000 psi, Briggs and Stratton power washer 2000 psi.     Solid Def , rear springs, steering grassknife, rear drive shaft, 205/80R16 wheels, lights, fenders. Tel: 691-2077.  gas: 22, 410, 134A & 404A, also argon gas and helium gas for balloons. Phone 233-0608 (08:00hrs-16:00hrs, Monday to Friday.

 brands Barbecue grills, refrigerators (Icemakers), gas stoves, Maytag, Whirlpool, Kenmore, Frigidaire $65,000 up.

Tel: 225-0571, 638-0787.  6354, 4236, 1100 and 1004 engines, model M with winch/320 BL and L Caterpillar excavator, Toyota, TCM forklift, pallet jacks, complete 6" land dredge, 4" and 6" fire hose, 4" flex hose. Tel: 691-2921. Perkins generator set com.

35 KVA 60c, 120v-240v, Prime Power, no repair, good condition $2.3M. One air condition evaporator 4 tons, 410 gas, new unit $190 000. One Electric-motor, 3HP 60c-120V-240v - $120 000. Tel: 227-1287.      For all Authentic Truck Parts and Accessories new and used for Leyland DAF, ERF, Bedford Model M and TM Etc from the UK. Also Foreign Used Cummins, DAF and Perkins Engine TM Transfer and Gear Boxes Please Call Dave Rameshwar Tel: 592660-9152, 592-610-2873    pressure washer has a 'CAT' pump with gear box, 50' heavy-duty hose with new gun, looks like new $590 000 661-2953, 332-0128. models: Caterpillar Bulldozers, D4, D6, D7, D8. All models: engines and spare parts available for Leyland trucks. Engine, gear box, diff. springs etc. Lincoln welder, 40 000-gal diesel storage tank, 2 stainless steel water and diesel tanks on chassis and 2000gal diesel tanks and a lot more.

Call 626-2884, Farm EBD.  music system, 60 Evinrude outboard engine, 80 Mercury outboard engine, 40 Tohatsu outboard engine, Yamaha outboard engine spare parts, Milwaukee chopsaw, TM sector box, Hilux fibre glass tray cover, Maudlim spare parts, TK Bedford spare parts, Caterpillar skidder spare parts 261-6634, 672-9272.

VEHICLES FOR SALE VEHICLE FOR SALE   212 HC 3606. Tel: 641-6388, 673-9364.

 and Acetylene gases, fast and efficient service, 10-11 McDoom Public Road, EBD. Phone: 233-0608, 08:00hrs16:00hrs, Monday to Friday.

  100 Ceres $625 000, one GX90 Mark 2. Tel: 6426159.

 soda 55 lb, soda ash: 50 lb, Sulphuric acid 45 & 5 gals, Granular chlorine:100 lb, Alum 55 lb.. Phone 233-0608, 08:00hrs16:00hrs, Monday to Friday.

 AT 192 Toyota, PKK series. Call 644-4131.

 Ceres for parts located in Georgetown, for sale and removal. Any reasonable offer acceptable Tel: 628-6819.

      

 Avensis, PPP series. Price $2.2M neg. 669-3658.  110 PKK series, good condition, Asking price  NZE, lady-driven $1.6M. Call 226-1122, 624-3404.

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   Contact Miss Adams, 233 Munipur Street, Prashad Nagar. Tel: 618-8438.

 loaded 2010 Nissan Juke, Bluebird BMW, excellent condition Tel: 638-9116, 669-4713.

 Toyota Hilux Smart Cab, excellent condition. Price $5.5M neg. Contact 675-4453, 621-0427.

  fully loaded , mags, DVD, CD, alarm, Price $1.350 M. Call Rocky 621-5902, 225-1400.

 owner, one Toyota Spacio, PPP series, blue, black interior $1.8M neg. Tel: 610-9221.

                     Street Bourda, Georgetown. Tel: 6295178, 223-8655. We buy and sell used cars and trade-in your car for another. All prices are neg. USED: Alexa, NZE Corolla, Toyota Rav 4, Raum, Premio, Marino, New model AT 212, AT 192, Allion, AE110 Corolla, Honda Accord, Cedia Lancer, Ta c o m a ( G R R s e r i e s ) , R a nge Rover DES 5L eng. Solid DEF and RZ bus.

 for private property. Good salary paid. Call 231-5992, 623-9308.

 3-ton Nissan Condor open tray. Tel: 671-7114, 233-6987.

 Voxy and Noah to be registered in 'G' series. Fully loaded and never registered $1.7M. 617-2891.

 new 3-ton Mitsubishi canter, Call 667-0355, 629-7016.           series, AC, alarm, 15" mag rim. Price neg. 618-5509.   Allion $3M, 2004 Audi A4 $4M. 642-2713, 231-1762.  192 Toyota Corona, working condition. Call 697-9691, 218-0904.  Regius, BNN series, never worked hire, excellent condition. Price $2M neg. Tel: 6115753, 673-2614.  Hilux LN 170 with diesel engine 2L, GKK series. Asking $1.7M neg. 254-2123, 6145142. (No air condition).  wagon excellent condition 15" rims, alarm, CD, AC, etc $1.05M neg. 6679013, 694-6609.  Toyota Corolla NZE car, PLL series. Owner migrating. Call 670-2608, 616-1422.  fully loaded 2008 Nissan X-Trail $5.5M neg. Call 611-1833.  trucks: one with box and the other with tray. Contact 264-2524, 624-7088.   in excellent condition $1.45M neg.

Call 642-2289.  - 1986 Nissan D21 GFF series 2WD $400 000. Tel: 233-3025, 690-6946.   E150 Cargo Van, Like new, 79K miles, 3.2 mil, 651-4578, 227-1511 Ceres Toyota car, finance available. Price: $600 000. Owner leaving. Call Denise 614-2039.  Corvette sports car, red convertible, fully loaded, very low mileage. Call 639-3100.  Toyota Avensis in excellent condition, mags, music, etc. Tel: 265-3694, 686-5158.  Cadillac Escalade in immaculate condition. Tel: 6717001, 612-2263.  hard-to-get spare pa r ts f o r To y o ta , N i s s a n , M a z d a , Mitsubishi, Honda, BMW, etc - Call 645-7800.  1 long base 1 RZ VVTI as low as $2.4M. Tel: 269-0534, 675-6401.  2005, 2007 & 2010 manual & auto, 4x4, fully loaded. Call 227-1511, 651-4578.  2006 20" rims.

Must go. Owner leaving country $2.6M Tel: 276-0797.    Allion, 2008 model, fully loaded, never registered. Call 641-2477, 621-5115.  Allion, PPP series.

Price $1.7M. Contact 665-4537  Massey Ferguson tractor in immaculate condition.

Call 671-7450, 626-5306.  Toyota Noah bus, colour silver, year 2000. Contact 689-9934.  Civic EK3, remote start, etc. Bid starts at $600 000.

Call Julian 615-7473.  Tacoma 4x4, stick shift, AC, bull bar, tool kit, high lift, in immaculate condition. call 671-7450, 626-5306. CRV,fully powered, AC, mag rims $2.2M. Contact Rocky 621-5902, 225-1400  F150 in perfect condition. For further information, call 626-7684.  Tundra good condition with 22" mag rims. Contact 650-8289.

Toyota Avensis in excellent condition, mags, music, etc.

Tel: 265-3694, 686-5158.  2005, 2007 & 2010 manual & auto, 4x4, fully loaded. Call 227-1511, 651-4578.  Toyota Allion, one Honda CRV both in excellent condition. Tel: 661-3010.   - $395 000 neg. Contact Ruth 684-1023, 2251318.     100 Corolla, AE 91 Corolla. Call 6838013.    yellow, working condition - $600 000 neg. Call 646-3777.  AE 100 Ceres $625 000, one GX90 Mark 2. Tel: 642-6159.   100 Sprinter, auto fully powered, mags, $775 000 Tel: 642-6159.  212, PSS series, $1 850 000. Owner leaving country.

Call 600-6282.  Toyota VIOS, PMM series, one Toyota CAMI both in excellent condition. Tel: 642-6159.

 212 Carina, PPP series, $1.5M and PMM series $1.2M. Call 658-4805.   Toyota IST fully customised, aero body kit, leather interior, 16" rims sports Tel: 696-4659.  Volkswagen golf, manual gear shift, 2000cc, PLL series, excellent condition. Priced to sell - $1.2M. Tel: 622-6932.  (open back) canter (diesel), manual, excellent condition, double wheel. Price $1.3M Contact Rocky 6215902, 225-1400.  Model 'M' truck with winch, one Massey Ferguson double-drive tractor. Contact 683-0632.  R6 in excellent condition, low mileage, tyres like new, alarm system. $1.3M neg. 661-2953, 332-0128.  wagon, unregistered, dark interior, body kit, mags, roof rack, spoiler. Price $2M. Tel: 227-0613, 645-7248.  Toyota Allex, excellent condition 15" mag rims, PSS series. Price $1.5M neg. Tel: 647-7722.

 AE 100 Sprinter, auto fully powered, mags, $775 000 Tel: 642-6159.

 in excellent condition, PNN series. $3.1M neg. For more information, call 624-5004, 2332665, 629-7439

 loaded 2010 Nissan Juke, 2007 Blue Bird Silphy, 2006 BMW. Best prices in town. 6389116, 669-4713.

 Ferguson 1085 tractor, imported from USA, needs small repairs $1.2M. 619-6863, 601-8276.

 Toyota VIOS, PMM series, one Toyota CAMI both in excellent condition. Tel: 642-6159.

 Leyland DAF 45 dump truck, Perkins engine, Thompson steel tray. $3.9M. Danny, 623-4790.

 Land Cruiser 3L four cylinder diesel engine Tel# 6707178. Price $300,000.  Cruiser, Mercedez Benz, Hilux pick up, 4-door Solid Def and Bluebird. Going cheap.

Owner leaving the country. Contact: 665-5776.  sale: Unregistered Pitbull minibus, stick gear, fully loaded. Affordable price. Call 668-8911. white Honda CRV in excellent condition, registration no.

PMM 6173. Owner migrating. Call 225-8640, 627-3390.    long base, stick gear, BMM series, in excellent condition Tel: 270-4098, 6869516.   Carina (private) automatic, fully powered, AC, mag rims. Price $960,000. Contact Rocky 621-5902, 225-1400.  212, yellow, HB series, AC etc. excellent condition. Price neg. Tel: 616-0773, 675-2811.  Hummer H2, very clean condition, low mileage, full chrome, leather interior. Call 6671116, 619-5400.  Mazda Axela, excellent condition 17" rims, Price $1.7M neg. Tel: 226-4356, 665 3038.    car - $590 000 neg. AT Caldina wagon - $650 000. Phone 268-3953, 665-8517.  Land Cruiser Prado used by DPL, $8M neg. Call 6234790.  extra cab pickup, set for off-road use. GMM. $2.5M neg.

660-3965.  Corolla AE110, in good condition PKK series, music, ac, etc. $800,000 neg. Tel: 658-9111  excellent condition, never crashed, teacher-driven.

Reasonable price. Call 618-5592.  Toyota Noah, BRR series, fully loaded, lady-driven, never worked hire. Price $2M neg.

Tel: 638-2959.  Allion car, yellow, good condition. Please call 6227135. C. Morris.

 Civic EK Sedan, HH series, projector headlights, LED tail lights, chrome mag rims, CD player - $1.5M neg. 615-8860.  A15, cheap & sweet, alarm remote start AC, mags. Excellent condition. One owner, 639-9914 Paul.  Toyota car, burgundy, in immaculate condition, AC, CD player, 17" rims. Price $1.55M neg. Owner leaving the country.

Tel: 650-6831, 639-6619.  AC, mags, deck, alarm. Excellent condition. Deal Price $1.4M neg, Contact Neekoomarie 655-7839, 259-3463.   Carina (private, new model) automatic, fully powered, AC, mag rims, alarm. Price $1,350,000. Call Rocky 621-5902, 225-1400.  2007 Toyota Fielder, immaculate condition, white, alarm, remote start.

Price $2.5M. Tel: 613-0502, 6816613.  Benz CLK 200 Kompressor pearl white, 2005, PRR, mileage 80 000, immaculate. Price neg. Serious enquiries 623-5492.  Tundra extra cab (unregistered) 4 doors, manual, fully powered, AC, V6 (4x4) 2003.

Price $2.9M. Contact Rocky 6215902, 225-1400. CANTER enclosed , long tray, side and back door, manual, 4D 32, diesel engine.Price $1.6M. Call Rocky 621-5902, 225-1400.  Fit 4-door wagon (hatch back) automatic, fully loaded, AC, mags, CD player, PNN series 1330 cc $1.7M - 225-1400, 621-5902.  Tacoma unregistered 2003 model, manual 4x4 3RZ 4-cylinder engine fully loaded, bedliiner $3.5M. Tel: 225-1400, 621-5902.  Cynos, stick shift, 2 doors, PKK 3177, year 1992, 1300cc Price neg. Tel: 231-9048.  Toyota Hilux smart cab stick gear 4x4 low mileage, October 2011 manufacture - Tel 6754453, 677-7592.

 1999 canter 8'x 17' tray with six-cylinder, turbo diesel engine. Call 673-5813, 690-4357  bush truck lifted, stick, four-cylinder, four-wheel drive 95 & 94. Call 673-5813, 690-4357   Toyota Hilux pick-up, excellent condition, no rust, off-road tyres, unregistered.

Price neg. Tel: 691-2077.  Hilux Vigo, 2005 year, silver, AC, mag rims, music, fully loaded. Price $3.2M - Tel: 602-2222   bus in excellent condition, fully loaded, next to new, hardly used. Call 2253304, 653-6836..  192 car PKK series $600.000, Toyota, NZE car in excellent condition Price $1.650.000 neg. Tel: 667-7010, 646-7777.   multipurpose vehicle, 2006 model, 7seater, 119 000 km, 1500cc. PSS series, sky blue. Price $2.3M. NEG. Contact 697-2483, 627-0936.  Premio/ Allion, Nissan Dualis, fully powered, all excellent condition. Contact Leonard, 226-9316, 617-1505.  192, 212, Allion, unregistered Premio, Hilux Surf, BNN RZ minibuses, Pitbull buses & Super Custom bus. Contact 680-3154.  2006 Mazda Axela in immaculate condition, 17" rims, sports grille, reverse camera, HID, sports head lights etc. Priced to go. 602-3294.  IO PMM series, 4door/4WD $2M neg., F350 diesel single cab pickup, PGG series, 4WD 8ft tray $1.8M neg. Call 662-5910.  Tacoma SR5 V6 4x4, mag rims, hard cover, built-in music, bull bar, side step, GMM series, full works excellent condition. Price $2.65M Contact 694-7143.  ck-Up in good condition, Turbo-charged engine, automatic transmission, 2002. Priced to sell - $1.5M. Owner leaving country. Call 647-4997, 645-9266.  Legacy, GT Turbo Luxury, Sports Sedan, PPP series, like new 40 000 km, McIntosh 10 speakers, CD, DVD, TV etc. $2.7M neg. 623-5492. Sale!! Unregistered Toyota IST $2,150,000, body kit, TV, spoiler, fogs, alloy wheels, crystal lights, alarm - 643-6565, 226-9931.  F150 2004 model Xtra cab, comes with metal rack for carrying goods, good for gold mining, rice farming, construction or family, rated best pickup in USA. Price $3.95M neg. - Tel: 628-6819.  truck 4-door, Mitsubishi pickup L200, Nissan Navara super cab, Toyota Liteace truck, and van. 61 Dennis Street, Campbellville 693-5610, 227-0190, 616-9727.

                                    Toyota Premio,Toyota Noah ;Toyota Voxy, Suzuk i S w i f t ; Daihatsu Move (660cc) Mercedes B e nz C200 Compress or; C o rolla AE100 W agon ; Pitbull Style Freezer Van; Land Cruiser ( f u l l y loaded); M az d a P r o c e e d 4 W D E x tra-cab p i ckup; To y o ta Hilux 4 W D E xt r a-cab p i c k u p s - 3RZ Off-road lifted, 5 L, 3 L S olid Diff e rential; Mits u b i s h i C a n te r T r u c k s 3 T O NS OPE N T RAY, 3 TONS TAILGATE HOIST, 2 TONS 4WD. 4 TONS Freezer,4TonsCraneHoist, ; P r e - O r d e r y o u r units early and get t h e b est prices.

Full after - sales s e r v i c e an d  f i n a n c i n g a v a ila b l e .                                                                  Motor Spares & Auto Sales - Sheriff Street 227-2322, 227-2330, Bagotstown 2335151. New shipment! Duty paid/ duty free -  New shape    Rush, New & Old models Premio, , Allion, Prado, Passo, Ractis, Cylpha, Vios, Vitz, Axio, 15& 19 seats Pitbull, wish, BB, Vigo pickup, Avensis, Cami, Allex, Spacio, Alteeza, 9 seats Voxy, Picnic, Corolla   Platz Townace & Liteace pickups, Hilux Xtra cab, AT212, 4Runner Land Cruiser, Ipsum, Caldina Fielder wagon,  , Bluebird-Sylphy, Datsun pickup, Vannette van, Wingroad wagon, Duualis,  Mirage, Lancer Colt, Dingo,  Escudo,  318,  Fit, Capa, Civic,  Demio, RX8, Axela.  Ford F150 4WD excellent condition. Lot of extras lift kit, flares, sunroof may more off road rims an tyres , extra set tyres (free), sound system, price very negotiable. Tel: 686-6058, 6239877, 684-1634.

WANTED wanteD    canter driver to work and keep. Call 677-1177.  . Contact City Taxi Service. Tel: 660-1100.\     

 Rav 4, silver, ladydriven PRR series, automatic, fully powered, AC, DVD, CD, TV alarm, remote start, reverse camera, mag rims etc. in excellent condition. $2.8M neg. For more information, call 676-7338, 629-1724.

 canteen attendants.

Call 677-1230.

 Toyota Tacoma 2011 model, fully loaded, extended cab, rear wheel drive, four-cylinder engine, new model interior, abs traction/stability control. Excellent condition, no reasonable offer refused.

Tel: 621-2677, 671-8883, 225-4413 email nytech18@aol.com.

/Salesman cashier. Tel: 227-6659.

 Auto Sales, Lot 192 Duncan Street, Campbellville: We buy and sell used vehicles. We have all models of cars, RZ buses, pickups, wagons, unbeatable prices. Ask for what you may be looking for.

Credit can be arranged. Prices are neg. Call David 223-1239, 649-0329.  & Son Auto Sales.

Lot 185 Charlotte & King Streets, Maraj Building. Tel: 227-0265, 227-1881, 629-5178, 627-8057.

USED: Tacoma, (GRR series), AT 192, Toyota Rav4, Raum, Allion, Marino, AE110 Corolla, 212 Carina, RZ bus, Hilux, 4 doors.

 to work at bar in Kitty. Contact: 617-7005.      and

 general worker to work shift system. Tel: 665-7474.  Chefs. Please call 691-6348 for more information. -in family, husband driving, mechanical experience; wife light duties Tel: 227-1830.  at Bella Vita Hair Salon and Spa. Tel: 223-5655.  to sew. Apply 353 East Street, Georgetown opposit e Georgetown Public Hospital.  hairdressers, nail technician 219-3686, 6877566.  driver, 30 years plus, must have car, bus & truck licence. Contact 226-2228.

& Receptionist, 6 days per week. 2272186, 227-2189.    at Readymix Concrete Ltd. Tel: 233-2773, 233-2774.  to work at nights.

Excellent salary. Call 231-5992, 623-9308. experienced cook; must have food handlers certificate.

Call 683-1134.  live-in maid between 25 and 50 years old, Providence, EBD - 693-8880.  clerk CXC English/Mathematics. Live-in, live-out babysitter/domestic.

Te l : 2 1 9 - 5 3 5 4 .   to work in Suriname, must be between 40 and 50 years . Contact 675-0137.  Cabs Taxi Service: Cars with drivers. Call 2251370, 225-1320, 680-4150.  needed to manage snackette. Experience necessary. Call 644-0911, 661-2801.  hand, pastry-makers and cleaner. Apply in person.

Naraine's Bakery, 54 Sheriff Street, Campbellville.  home health care in Ogle, 5 days a week. Must know to cook and clean. Call 603-4444 for more information.  or girl to work in snackette.

Apply 352 East Street, Georgetown opposite hospital (Monday to Friday).  delivery staff to work in Georgetown must have your own motor cycle.

Tel: 672-0237. For more Info.  Technician with experience in networking, Universal ICT. Call: 692-1400.  Maid to work Monday Friday from 07:30hrs - 15:30hrs, Saturdat 08:oohrs - 12:00hrs. $15 000 weekly. Call 231-4172.  in High acres, West Berbice. Call us at 2235204, 225-2540, 223-8059, 628-7605, 661-1068.  Must walk with written application to Ramroop's Trading, 1 'C' Or ange Walk, Bourda. Call 2271451, 225-5998.  to work in Canje, Berbice. Preferably from the same area. For details, call 592-327-2360.  Contact R&T Taxi Service, 212 Lance Gibbs and Oronoque Streets, Queenstown.

Tel: 227-0183, 227-2435.  computer parts,mother board, cardless phones, cellphones,etc.Call :6158734/223-1765  guards to work at Meadow Bank, preferably from East Bank, Demerara, age 30-50 years old. Tel: 225-9304, 226-0772.  on Sheriff Street to do fast food business, will pay $US1M. Call :6158734/223-1765   to help with setting up a new private school.

Details or interest, mozatart@yahoo.com.  girls, porters, male sales clerks. Apply to Regent Household Electronics, 143 Regent Road, Bourda (The big blue store between Albert and Light Streets) Tel: 227-4402.  Supervisor, Counter Clerk, Cashier & Housekeeper, age (45-50). Apply in person at Escada Fragrance & Gift Express, First Floor, City Mall.

Contact 225-1322, 225-1328. Land to buy in Fort Ordnance & Glasgow (Berbice), Rosignol, La Parfaite Harmonie, Eccles, Herstelling 675-7292, 611-7223.

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GUYANA CHRONICLE Thursday April 23, 2015

England make solid start after Samuels century (REUTERS) - England openers Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott made a solid start in reply to West Indies’ total of 299 by reaching 74 without loss on the second day of the second Test yesterday.

Skipper Cook and Trott, returning after a lengthy absence from the team, failed to get scores in the drawn first Test in Antigua but will take much confidence from the final session.

Cook, who has not scored a Test century for nearly two years, finished on 37 not out with Trott on 32.

The West Indies attack lacked penetration in the absence of injured Jerome Taylor and with batting conditions improving, as the damp and overcast weather made way

for bright sunshine, Cook and Trott made good progress before stumps.

T h e re w a s t u r n f o r leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo on a pitch that should offer more on the final two days but West Indies will be disappointed they did not put the England openers under more pressure with the new ball.

England bowled West Indies out for 299 after Marlon Samuels made his seventh Test century and a last-wicket partnership of 52 pushed the hosts to a competitive total.

Rain showers disrupted the first session but after an early lunch, Samuels, 94 not out overnight, completed his ton.

The Jamaican made 103

from 228 balls in an uncharacteristic but valuable patient knock before he was caught

by Ian Bell at second slip off James Anderson.

The disappointment at losing Samuels just after reaching his century was intensified when skipper Denesh Ramdin went shortly afterwards, England wicketkeeper Jos Buttler snapping up an edge off Stuart Broad.

Jason Holder, who had looked in good form again after his century in the last Test, fell just after hitting Broad for a six when his attempted drive was edged to Buttler.

Broad, who finished with figures of four for 61, made good use of the second new ball and also claimed the wicket of Ke-

mar Roach who was comfortably caught by Joe Root after an edge on to his pad lobbed up to gully.

West Indies were 247 for nine but last pair Devendra Bishoo and Shannon Gabriel played positive strokes as the hosts again displayed their new-found resilience under coach Phil Simmons.

Bishoo’s 30, before he was trapped lbw by Moeen Ali, was his highest Test score and Gabriel’s unbeaten 20 was also his best in five-day cricket.

WEST INDIES 1st innings (o/night 188 for five) K. Brathwaite b Anderson 1 DM Smith c wkp. Buttler b Jordan 15 D. Bravo c Cook b Broad 35 M. Samuels c Bell b Anderson 103 S. Chanderpaul c Ali b Stokes 1 J. Blackwood lbw b Jordan 26 D. Ramdin c wkp. Buttler b Broad 31 J. Holder c wkp. Buttler b Broad 22 K. Roach c Root b Broad 1 D. Bishoo lbw b Ali 30 S. Gabriel not out 20 Extras: (b-5, lb-6, w-1, nb-2) 14 Total: (all out, 104.4 overs) 299

Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-28, 3-65, 4-74, 5-129, 6-223, 7-233, 8-246, 9-247.

Bowling: Anderson 24-10-47-2, Broad 24-9-61-4, Jordan 25-4-65-2 (w-1, nb-2), Moeen Ali 13.4-1-47-1, Stokes 17-7-66-1, Trott 1-0-2-0.

ENGLAND 1st innings A. Cook not out 37 I. Trott not out 32 Extras: (nb-5) 5 Total: (without loss, 26 overs) 74 Bowling: Roach 6-1-21-0 (nb-2), Gabriel 4-1-16-0 (nb-3), Holder 6-2-20-0, Bishoo 7-2-16-0, Samuels 3-2-1-0.

Position: England trail by 225 runs with all 10 wickets intact.

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African marathon runners top at Boston two years after bombing

By Scott Malone and Richard Valdmanis BOSTON, USA (Reuters) - Ethiopian runner Lelisa Desisa finished first in the Boston Marathon on Monday, reclaiming the top spot in a race he last won two years ago when it was struck by a deadly bombing attack.

Caroline Rotich of Kenya led the women’s field, affirming African athletes’ dominance at the race.

Desisa, who famously gave his winner’s medal to the city following the 2013 bombing, pulled ahead to sprint down Boylston Street alone, finishing with a time of 2 hours 9 minutes 17 seconds.

‘Strong Boston!’ Desisa shouted after he crossed the finish line, in a version of the ‘Boston Strong’ motto that became the city’s rallying cry after the April 15, 2013, attack that killed three and injured 264.

He has no plans to donate this year’s medal.

“This medal is, I think it is for me,” Desisa told reporters.

Kenya’s Rotich had a more dramatic finish, besting Ethiopia’s Mare DiBaba in a sprint down Boylston Street, turning in a time of 2 hours 24 minutes 55 seconds.

Caroline Rotich of Kenya crosses the finish line to win the women’s division of the 119th Boston Marathon, in Boston, Massachusetts, on Monday. (Reuters/Brian Snyder) Security was high near the start line in Hopkinton, along the 26.2-mile (42.16 km) course and around the finish line in Boston, in recognition of the bombing, one of the most visible attacks on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001.

Desisa unseated reigning champion Meb Keflezighi of California, whose 2014

victory marked the first time that a U.S. man had won the race in three decades.

Keflezighi, who finished eighth, crossed the line handin-hand with another U.S. runner, Hilary Dionne, who finished 15th in the women’s field.

“I’ve never met her. I had to sprint hard to catch up with her to do that,” Ke-

Sarkar’s maiden century powers Bangladesh to 3-0 sweep DHAKA, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Soumya Sarkar’s maiden century helped Bangladesh secure a 3-0 one-day series sweep against Pakistan after an eight-wicket win in the third and final match yesterday.

Chasing 251 for victory at the Shere Bangla National Stadium, the hosts cruised to their target with an unbeaten 127 from Sarkar and a fine 64 from his opening partner Tamim Iqbal.

Pakistan captain Azhar Ali (101) also hit a first ODI hundred but his young side imploded to be all out for 250 after losing their last eight wickets for 47 runs.

Azhar’s century was the first in ODIs by a Pakistan captain since Shahid Afridi

Soumya Sarkar strikes 13 fours and six sixes in his 110-ball 127. scored 124 in Dambulla in 2010 against the same opponents.

The 30-year-old, returning to the ODI fold after two years, added 91 for the first wicket with 19-year-old debutant Sami Aslam (45) and another 98 for the third with Haris Sohail (52) before being bowled by left-arm

spinner Shakib Al Hasan’s arm-ball in the 39th over.

In-form Tamim, who scored hundreds in the first two matches, continued his rich vein of form and the opening stand of 145 between the two left-handers put paid to any hopes that Pakistan had of avoiding another defeat.

Tamim fell leg-before to left-arm paceman Junaid Khan but Sarkar continued to make hay, hitting 13 fours and six sixes, one of which took him from 95 to his first international ton.

Sarkar and former captain Mushfiqur Rahim (49 not out) breezed to the target with an unbroken stand of 97 for the third wicket from 70 balls to complete an emphatic win for the hosts.

flezighi said afterwards. “It was fun to do that.”

The top U.S. male finisher was Dathan Ritzenhein, of Michigan, who finished seventh.

The elite men’s and women’s fields kept large packs for the first half of the race, with runners mindful of the early breakaway that set the stage for Keflezighi’s 2014 victory.

Desisa, 25, ran shorter events before switching his focus to marathons in 2013, when he surprised the field at Boston with his fast performance. He started the race in 2014 but walked off the course with an injury.

Rotich, 30, was born in Kenya but attended high school in Japan. She has posted top-ten performances at top marathons in Tokyo, New York and Chicago.

The top U.S. women’s finisher, Desiree Linden, led the pack for much of the race before Rotich passed her in the final miles, leaving Linden to finish fourth. Linden said the long lead was a strategic move intended to

winnow the field.

“I know a lot of people will question it, ‘Why did you run in the front and put yourself in the wind?’”

Linden told reporters. “But I think that’s how you have to run here. You have to be gritty and aggressive.”

CONTROVERSY ON BOMBER’S TRIAL The race comes during a pause in the trial of Dzohkhar Tsarnaev, convicted this month of killing three and injuring 264 in the 2013 bombing.

Prosecutors and defende attorneys on Tuesday are due to begin presenting another series of witnesses before the jury decides whether Tsarnaev will be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of parole.

The idea of putting Tsarnaev, a 21-year-old ethnic Chechen, to death remains controversial in Boston, where polls show a deeply divided public.

Four victims of the bombing, including the families of two of the people

killed by the bombs and a couple who lost legs in the blast, have now made public statements opposing seeking death for Tsarnaev.

“If there is anyone who deserves the ultimate punishment, it is the defendant.

However, we must overcome the impulse for vengeance,” said Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes, who both lost legs in the attack, in a statement. “We believe that the best way to move forward and achieve our goals is a life sentence in prison without the opportunity for parole.”

Last week, the parents of 8-year-old Martin Richard, the youngest to die in the attack, made a similar statement.

In both cases, the argument was not one of philosophical opposition to capital punishment but a practical one, that a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole could spare the families and public further weeks of emotionally charged testimony and possibly years of appeals.

Kenya ‘open-minded’ on appeal to increase Jeptoo ban NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya officials “followed due process” in suspending Chicago and Boston marathon winner Rita Jeptoo for two years for doping but are “open-minded” on governing body IAAF’s appeal to double the ban, Athletics Kenya chief executive Isaac Mwangi said.

The International Association of Athletics Federations wants the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to hand Jeptoo a harsher punishment due to “aggravating circumstances which it argues warrant an extended period of ineligibility.”

Jeptoo failed an o u t- o f - co mp etitio n tes t in September for the blood-booster EPO although she denies doping and has appealed to CAS, sport’s highest court, for the suspension to be lifted.

“We are open-minded about the matter but we shall wait for details to be able to comment further.

Kenyan marathon runner Rita Jeptoo arrives at the Athletics Kenya headquarters in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, January 15, 2015.

(Reuters/Thomas Mukoya) I think we followed due who are among the world’s process while making that best middle and long distance decision (to suspend Rita runners but have failed a Jeptoo for two years) and number of drug tests, with the we were guided by IAAF sports minister saying the rise rules,” Mwangi told Reu- in doping had “embarrassed” ters yesterday. the country.

Jeptoo, 34, won backAt least 36 Kenyan athto-back Boston and Chicago letes have failed dope tests titles in 2013 and 2014 -- as in the past two years. Kenwell as Boston in 2006 -- to yan government officials top the two-year World Mar- have blamed the growing athon Majors series standings doping cases on foreign last year. agents and AK’s failure to Jeptoo’s case has focused educate its athletes propattention on Kenyan athletes erly.

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GUYANA CHRONICLE Thursday April 23, 2015

Raina, Nehra send RCB to rock-bottom Final round Under-19 Inter-county action bowls off today

By Calvin Roberts

AFTER two rounds of exciting matches which saw the National Under-17 defeat Essequibo in the first before the Essequibians humiliated Berbice in their second-round matchup, the final round of matches in the Guyana Cricket Board/Raj Singh Insurance Under-19 Inter-county limited overs competition bowls off today.

At the Enmore Community Centre ground, defending champions Demerara who have already qualified for this Saturday’s final following their two victories, will oppose Essequibo while at Everest, Berbice, who lost both of their matches, will look to grasp the opportunity to qualify via net run rate, when they take on the Under-17.

The tournament’s lone centurion to date, Demerara’s Tevin Imloch, along with his skipper Travis Persaud and budding all-rounder Shurfane Rutherford who struck 10 sixes and two fours in his 19-ball unbeaten 70, will lead their team’s batting.

West Indies Under-19 player Kemo Paul, Keanu Harry, Akini Adams, Neyland Cadogan, the hard-hitting Nathan Persaud and Looknauth Chinkoo will be looking to hand the Essequibians another upset win, which will give them a place in the final.

Guyana’s first class batsman and West Indies Under-19 opener Shimron Hetmyer, who like Paul returned in time for the second round of matches in the three-day format, will lead the Berbicians, receiving valuable support from Balchand Baldeo, Kassim Khan, Daniel Lewis, Ritesh Omroa and Grisean Grant.

The National Under-17s, who performed badly in the three-day format by losing two of their matches, have rebounded in the limited overs and they will be looking to repeat their first-round heroics, by inflicting another shocking defeat on the Berbicians, which will guarantee them a place in the final, even if Essequibo defeat Demerara.

This is so, since their first-round head-to-head clash with Essequibo resulted in an 11-run victory for the Ronaldo Ali-Mohammed led Under-17 team, who also have within their ranks, Bhaskar Yadram, Raymond Perez, Adrian Sukhwah, Richie Looknauth, Ashmead Nedd and Gavin Boodwah.

SURESH Raina’s 32-ball 62 set Chennai Super Kings on course to 181 for 8, before Ashish Nehra’s four wickets for 10 runs sent Royal Challengers Bangalore’s chase into the Chinnaswamy Stadium dirt.

Not even a half-century from Virat Kohli could lift his team off the bottom of the table, as Super Kings caught superbly, and bowled with discipline to leave the hosts 27 runs short.

Dwayne Smith struck his customary early boundaries, blasting two successive sixes and a four in David Wiese’s seventh over, but it was when Raina began to accelerate that Super Kings appeared to be headed to a daunting score.

He had hit Harshal Patel for successive fours then launched Wiese into the sightscreen in the Powerplay, having arrived soon after Yuzvendra Chahal’s leg-spin undid Brendon McCullum.

Raina’s dominance of spin was the feature of his knock, and Iqbal Abdulla was his first slow-bowling victim.

Raina advanced to send Abdulla’s first ball way back into the stands beyond long-on, before cracking him for a four past point then lifting him into the long on stand again two overs later.

When Chahal came back into the attack, Raina became even more bloody-minded. A still outof-sorts MS Dhoni turned the strike over to him at the start of the 13th over, and Raina went on the rampage.

He ran down at the bowler and lifted him over long on, again, for six. He expected Chahal to drop the next one short, and stayed in his crease but, even when the bowler delivered a goodlength ball he swung it high

Annual Toucan Industries squash tournament served off last evening THE Annual Toucan Industries-sponsored Guyana Squash Association’s (GSA) 2015 squash tournament served off last evening at the Georgetown Squash courts with play in the open category.

The tournament is being staged in collaboration with its number one corporate sponsor Digicel and will conclude on Sunday.

According to a release, most of the country’s top junior players will be participating in this tournament as it’s the Association’s first junior tournament for 2015.

Forty-one players have entered the tournament and have been divided into eight categories with players of equal skill levels in each of the categories.

Players will use this tournament as a warm-up for the Junior National Championships which will be held next month.

Ashish Nehra finishes with a career-best 4 for 10. and hard over cow corner.

The next slog-sweep was struck less cleanly, but still comfortably cleared the rope.

His undoing came when he tried to hit his first six against the spin, next ball.

Rilee Russouw ran around from long off to pouch him comfortably.

At 124 for 3 after 13 overs, Super Kings may have had designs for a score over 200, but Royal Challengers’ bowlers claimed wickets often enough to rein in the

run rate. Dhoni holed out for a run-a-ball 13 attempting a big shot over cover, his promotion to No. 4 not having worked. Then Ravindra Jadeja and Dwayne Bravo both fell to Abdulla after mediocre knocks.

Faf du Plessis took a liking to Mitchell Starc towards the close, cracking two fours off the 17th over, while the remaining Super Kings batsmen gave him scant support.

His unbeaten 33 from 18 balls lifted Super Kings above 180,

even after Starc delivered a four-run final over.

Having dropped Chris Gayle for this match, Royal Challengers’ chase began brightly enough. Manvinder Bisla hit a boundary either side of the wicket in Ishwar Pandey’s first over, then he and Russouw plundered 19 off Mohit Sharma. Nehra struck twice in the fourth over, and the hosts’ run rate plummeted from there.

Virat Kohli began cautiously then freed his arms to hit two fours and a six off R Ashwin in the eighth over, but he could not hold onto his partners, thanks in part to Super Kings’ excellent fielding.

Dinesh Karthik was out to a good diving catch from Dwayne Bravo at long-on, then when AB de Villiers turned to take a second run three overs later, Dhoni turned a mediocre throw into a run-out, by flicking the ball briskly onto the stumps to catch the batsman short of his ground.

Kohli continued to watch wickets fall at the other end, and the chase foundered in the middle overs. With six overs to go, Royal Challengers needed 83 runs, with five wickets remaining. Kohli would battle on to 51 from 42 balls, but Nehra struck in successive balls to remove him and Harshal Patel in the 17th over, effectively sealing the game. (ESPN Cricinfo).

Warner slams 91 as Sunrisers beat KKR ISAKHAPATNAM, India (CMC) – West Indies off-spinner Sunil Narine continued to struggle in the new Indian Premier League (IPL) campaign as Kolkata Knight Riders plunged to a 16-run defeat to Hyderbad Sunrisers here yesterday.

Playing at the ACA-VDCA Stadium, Hyderabad piled up 176 for four off their 20 overs, with David Warner slamming 91 from 55 balls and Shikhar Dhawan, 54 from 46 deliveries, in an opening stand worth 130.

The left-handed Warner counted nine fours and four sixes while Dhawan hit four fours and a six before being third to fall off the bowling off West Indies pacer Andre Russell, who took one for six from his lone over.

Not for the first time this season, Narine went wicket-less in four overs that cost 38 runs, and has taken just two wickets in five outings, at an average of 73 and an economy rate of seven.

David Warner goes on the attack during his innings of 91 from 55 balls.

Narine grabbed 21 wickets in 16 matches last season at an average of 19, as KKR won their second IPL title.

However, just months later, he was twice called for a suspected illegal action while bowling in the Champions League Twenty20 and suspended for the final.

Though he was subsequently cleared by the ICC after un-

dergoing rehabilitation, he was mandated by the Indian Cricket Board to undergo their own tests earlier this month, before he could be cleared for the IPL. Chasing a revised target of 112 off 12 overs yesterday following a rain break, KKR finished on 101 for four with Robin Uthappa hitting a top score of 34 and Manish Pandey getting 33 not out.

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GUYANA CHRONICLE Thursday April 23, 2015

Hernandez late show ends Real’s Atletico jinx

By Iain Rogers

MADRID, Spain (Reuters) - Javier Hernandez’s late strike kept Real Madrid on course for a record-extending 11th European Cup crown with a 1-0 win over 10-man Atletico Madrid in a tense quarter-final at the Bernebau yesterday.

The first leg ended 0-0 and the tie appeared to be heading for a first goalless draw after two legs in Champions League knockout history until James Rodriguez slipped a pass through to Cristiano Ronaldo in the 88th minute.

The Portugal forward unselfishly squared for Hernandez and the Mexican striker stroked the ball past Atletico goalkeeper Jan Oblak to seal a 1-0 aggregate victory, Real’s first

Javier Hernandez scored a late winner for Real Madrid to see them through to the Champions League semifinals. win over Atletico in eight matches this season.

It was a bitter blow for Diego Simeone’s men, who

went toe-to-toe with the team that beat them in last year’s final until playmaker Arda Turan was dismissed for a

second booking 14 minutes from time and Hernandez applied the killer blow.

“It was my turn to score

but this is for everyone,” an emotional Hernandez, who is on loan at Real from Manchester United, told with Spanish television.

“Atletico are worthy opponents,” added the 26-yearold, who was playing only due to an injury to Karim Benzema. “Thank God, we were the worthy winners.”

Real coach Carlo Ancelotti, missing injured regulars Gareth Bale, Benzema and Luka Modric, started with Hernandez up front with Ronaldo and centre back Sergio Ramos pushed forward into a defensive midfield role.

Seeking to become the first team to retain the trophy in the Champions League era, Real had the upper hand in terms of possession and chances in a cagey first half.

Ronaldo forced a good save

from Oblak with a 32nd-minute free kick before racing through with a clear site of goal a minute before halftime.

Oblak was again equal to the challenge, racing out to block Ronaldo’s fierce shot and deflect the ball away for a corner. Real threatened immediately at the start of the second period when Isco threaded a pass through for Hernandez but he scuffed his shot wide of the far post.

Atletico hopes suffered a massive blow when Arda picked up a second yellow for a foot-up challenge on Ramos and he was distraught as he trudged off to a cacophony of whistles.

The draw for the semi-finals is on tomorrow, with Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Juventus joining Real in the pot.

Juventus do perfect Italian job to knock out Monaco MONACO, (Reuters) - A trademark display of grit and resilience earned Juventus a goalless draw at Monaco as the Italian side qualified for the Champions League semi-finals for the first time since 2003 with a 1-0 aggregate victory yesterday.

Juve, the first Italian team to reach the last four of Europe’s premier club competition since Inter Milan in 2010, were under the cosh throughout.

Chances were scarce, however, and the visitors held firm against a Monaco side, who lacked the experience and cutting edge to overturn the deficit from the quarter-final, first leg.

Monaco’s Jeremy Toulalan (L) challenges Juventus Alvaro Morata during their quarter-final second leg Champions League soccer match at the Louis II stadium in Monaco, yesterday. (Reuters/Eric Gaillard)

The hosts, who eliminated Arsenal in the previous round, dominated possession and Geoffrey Kondogbia was a big influence in midfield but Leon-

ardo Jardim’s side did not have the guile to penetrate Juve’s massed defensive ranks.

It was a case of youth versus experience as Ju-

ventus’ Andrea Pirlo and Patrice Evra had 30 more Champions League appearances than the whole home side’s starting team and Monaco’s lack of nous was exposed as the match wore on. “ We w e n t t h r o u g h thanks to our desire to sacrifice, to fight, to reach our goal,” Juventus keeper Gianluigi Buffon told BeIN Sport.

“I think Juve deserved their qualification. Maybe not for today’s game but for that mindset.”

Monaco were well on top in the early stages and Kondogbia hit a fierce 20-metre strike that flew just over the bar, while Bernardo Silva’s low cross was almost deflected into his

own net by Andrea Barzagli in the 15th minute.

Kondogbia continued to shine in mid field and had another chance but shot straight at Juve keeper Gianluigi Buffon, before the visitors, who were without injured midfielder Paul Pogba, began to awake from their slow start as the match wore on.

They nearly found a way through when Pirlo’s pass looked bound for Stephan Lichtsteiner on the edge of the box before Danijel Subasic snatched the chance away from him.

Juventus began to look increasingly fragile on the left side of their

defence and Chilean midfielder Arturo Vidal was lucky not to concede a penalty when he appeared to bring Kondogbia down in the box, but referee William Collum waved play on.

Jardim replaced midfielder Jeremy Toulalan with Dimitar Berbatov at halftime and added fresh blood up front by switching Anthony Martial with Valere Germain 14 minutes from time, but it failed to unsettle Juventus, who saw the game out comfortably.

The last time Juventus reached the last four they went on to make the final in 2003, before losing to AC Milan on penalties.

Guardiola charged by UEFA for ‘#JusticiaParaTopo’ T-shirt (REUTERS) - Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola has been charged by UEFA after wearing a T-shirt in a news conference before Tuesday’s Champions League victory over Porto demanding justice for a journalist who died Bayern Munich during the World Cup. coach Pep uardiola

Argentine sports reporter Jorge Lopez, known as ‘Topo’, was killed in Guarulhos, Sao Paulo in July in a road accident during last year’s tournament.

G u a r d i o l a w o re a T-shirt with the slogan ‘ # J u s t i c i a P a r a To p o ’ ahead of Bayern’s 6-1 quarter-final, second leg

win and was charged yesterday by European soccer’s governing body for an “incident of non-sporting nature”.

It was initially reported that Lopez was killed after his taxi was hit by a stolen car fleeing police, but suspicions have since been raised about the ac-

cident and there has been a campaign to investigate his death.

Lopez’s widow, Veronica Brunati, thanked Guardiola for his support.

“Pep Guardiola knew he was running the risk of being sanctioned,” she said on Twitter.

“And he decided to do it anyway. My gratitude is infinite. Thanks!”

Porto coach Julian Lopetegui was also charged following their 7-4 aggregate defeat for being dismissed from the bench.

Both cases will be dealt with by UEFA’s disciplinary body on May 21.

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Glory Guys romp to another resounding win TORONTO, Canada – Glory Guys settled the opposition’s hash, to emerge winners of the Canadian Dominoes Association (CDA) annual aggregate tournament, which concluded recently at Jacks Bar and Restaurant in Scarborough here.

Apart from a brief period when Demerara overtook them and threatened to derail their process, it was all Glory Guys as they amassed a grand total of 2785 games, 70 more than Demerara who had to settle for the first runners-up spot on 2715 games.

Essequibo occupied the third place with 2 675 games while Better Hope were one game behind, claiming fourth on 2 674 games.

The other participating teams were Thunderball (2 673 games), Cougar (2 653), Young Blood (2 615), Titans (2 569) and Empire (2 556).

The Most Valuable Player award went to Glory Guys skipper Ryan Chung who totalled 500 games while Demerara’s Neville Dhanai and Glory Guys’ Seeram Singh both totalled 483. Cecil Seeratan of Demerara also had a fine season with 474 games while last year’s MVP William Primo of Cougar had another consistent year with 464 games.

Dhanai also had the honour of sharing the most loves (nine) while Zakir Khan (Cougar) and Seeram Singh (Glory Guys) shared seven

NOTABLE DATES

FEMALE, light heavyweight boxer, Gwendolyn `The Stealth Bomber’ O’Neil, had the fourth and final fight with Margaret `Chico’ Walcott on April 22, 2006.

O’Neil won by TKO in round four. Of the four times the two female gladiators met in the ring O’Neil won thrice while the other ended in a draw.

In May 2003 Walcott was also TKOed in round four while the draw occurred in August 2001. The judges gave O’Neil the nod in the first encounter staged in December 1999. An ageing warrior, O’Neil will turn 46 in August.

She last fought in October 2011. That contest ended in victory as she defeated Pauline London.

In May 2004 `The Stealth Bomber’ snatched the Women’s International Boxing Association light heavyweight title after beating American Kathy Rivers at the National Park in Georgetown. The win afforded Guyana its first female world champion and earned O’Neil the title as the first Guyanese to win a world title on home soil.

At present the `Stealth Bomber’ resides in the USA and is being trained by former Commonwealth lightweight champion Lennox Blackmoore at the Gleason’s Gym. She is scheduled to make a comeback in St Maarten on May 30 against Sonya Lamonakis.

CRICKET QUIZ CORNER (Thursday April 23, 2015) Compliments of THE TROPHY STALL-Bourda Market & The City Mall (Tel: 225-9230)& AUDREY’S TASTY SNACKETTE-176 Charlotte Street, Georgetown (Tel: 226-4512) Answers to yesterday’s quiz: 36 Tests; 139 wickets Jacques Kallis (KKR) Today’s Quiz: Who is the first WI to register a triple-hundred in Test cricket? Where and when?

Who is the first player to be capped 100 times in IPL games?

Answers in tomorrow’s issue

GLORY Guys skipper Ryan Chung (right) and three other members of the victorious team pose with their winnings at the presentation ceremony. each. Chung also featured with five, completing a fine all-round effort.

Special mention was made of Becki of Young Blood, one of two females

involved in the tournament, for sharing a double and single love in one

game. She was one of the several recipients at the impressive presentation ceremony held last Saturday.

The victory also marked an incredible and amazing 10 out of 11 seasons that Glory Guys have emerged as champions. The only other team to stop their unprecedented march were Cougar in the 2012-2013 season when they finished second.

Apart from receiving trophies and cash incentives at the final presentation ceremony, winning and runner-up teams as well as MVPs were awarded trophies on a weekly basis.

Meanwhile, the CDA will be staging a one-day tournament on Saturday, April 25, at the same venue and according to organiser Zakir Khan, the proceeds from the venture will be donated to charities in Guyana. (Frederick Halley).

Allen wins by knockout

GUYANESE light heavyweight Lennox `2 Sharpe’ Allen picked up the second knockout victory for the year following a sensational win over American Paul Gonsalves last Friday.

Allen stopped Gonsalves in the seventh stanza of a fight scheduled for eight rounds.

However, the event was not all smooth sailing for the Guyanese who suffered a flash knockdown at the end of round six.

Allen returned in the following round and halted his opponent’s charge with a straight left to the chin.

Gonsalves weighed in at 170 pounds while Allen was one pound lighter.

The contest was held at Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut and was Allen’s second for the year.

A former CABOFE super middleweight champion, Allen secured his 18th professional win in January after knocking out Kojo Issah in the second round.

The Ghanaian, the holder of the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Africa middleweight title, was

Part of the action in the fight between Lennox Allen and his American opponent Paul Gonsalves.

Caribbean Boxing FedThe southpaw Allen is eration (CABOFE) title stopped at 51 seconds of the round. Gonsalves, four years yet to taste defeat in 20 in 2011 following a unanAllen’s senior, has now been fights and has won 12 by imous 12-round decision defeated four times in his knockouts. The 29-year- over Kwesi Jones at the last five fights, with the other old secured the vacant Cliff Anderson Sports World Boxing Council, Hall. ending in a draw.

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PETRA/BUSTA SOFT SHOE FOOTBALL

Sparta emulate Bent Street and Ballerz to finish unbeaten

By Calvin Roberts

THE DEVON Millington-led Sparta Boss lineup last Tuesday night emulated Bent Street and Ballerz, by finishing their preliminary round matches in the inaugural Petra Organisation/Guyana Beverage Inc. Busta soft shoe football tournament, which is being contested at the Georgetown Football Club ground, unbeaten.

Having seen Ballerz top Group C and Bent Street do the same in Group D, Sparta Boss whose lineup includes

Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson, faced Alexander Village in their last group match and thanks to a Sheldon Shepherd brace, came away with a 3-2 victory.

Shepherd scored his double in the 9th and 21st minutes while Dennis Edwards added his solitary strike in the 22nd to hand Sparta the win, even as Leon Yaw (16th) and Shem Porter (24th) tried to keep Alexander Village in the hunt for an upset victory.

The night’s action commenced with Sophia and D’Urban Street playing to a

2-2 draw, with goals coming off the boot of Dwayne Lowe who got a double for Sophia in the 4th and 12th minutes, after seeing Jermaine Gilbert register the tournament’s fastest goal with his 23-second strike for D’Urban Street along with Quincy Ashby’s 30th minute goal which earned them the draw.

North East La Penitence finally managed a win, saving the best for last when they defeated Holmes Street-Tiger Bay 3-2, thanks to goals from Shaquille Browne (1st and 12th) and Omari Wilson (19th)

… Knockout stage commences tonight

even as Jahaal Greaves (10th and Joel Bond (23rd) responded for the losers.

North Ruimveldt ensured Back Circle finished the tournament badly, by edging them 2-1, Nichosie Barker (10th) and Gerald Gittens (28th) being their goalscorers, with Devon Harris (18th) notching one back for Back Circle.

Charlestown and California Square played to a 3-3 draw, even as West Back Road

were held to a 1-1 draw by Queen Street-Tiger Bay. In the round-of-16 action teams will be given the boot from here onwards once they lose.

The tournament will continue tonight at the same venue with four matches.

Cross Street/Werk-enRust, who qualified as one of the best third-placed teams, will look to do much better when they face Alexander Village in the opening fixture for

the night, followed by Ballerz meeting Queen Street-Tiger Bay, who finished second to West Front Road in Group A. Up next would be West Front Road who will battle North East La Penitence, another third-place qualifier, this time out of Group D. The night’s action culminates with Group F leaders Festival City and Group D runners-up Albouystown taking the field.

Chronicle Sport photographer Samuel Maughn captures part of Tuesday night’s action for our viewers’ pleasure.

Opportune time for local-based players’, coach Shabazz THE Golden Jaguars football team on Tuesday afternoon began their preparations for the upcoming International Friendly against Suriname later this month.

This comes as the squad continue their preparations for the 2018 World Cup qualifiers.

Speaking with head coach of the national side, Jamaal Shabazz, it was disclosed that the game presents an opportunity for members of the squad.

The Trinidadian-born coach said, “This is an opportunity for the boys based locally to get some playing time against a strong Suriname team and it gives us the opportunity to widen the pool.”

Jamaal Shabazz, He added, “It’s an opportune time to give more of the Guyana-based players the opportunity to play 60, 70, 90 minutes in international football.”

With the qualifiers drawing closer and several mem-

bers of the team away on club duties, Shabazz believes his team have the camaraderie necessary to put forth a strong performance.

Shabazz mentioned: “This is the fact of life in world football now; the players are

owned by clubs not by the national team, so you would always have limited time to prepare the team, but the fact that we’ve brought them over a period it means that a certain understanding is built.”

He continued by saying, “A certain camaraderie, a certain approach; and hopefully we will get them at least two weeks before the games in June and two weeks would be good for us.”

The Jaguars are coming off two wins in three games after a lengthy break.

They tackle St Vincent and the Grenadines as visitors on June 10 at the Arnos Vale Stadium then return home to battle at the Guyana National Stadium on June 14.

Ministry of Sport to audit TTBBC

THE Ministry of Sport has commissioned an independent financial and procedural audit into the operations of the Trinidad and Tobago Boxing Board of Control (TTBBC).

The move comes as members of the Board approach the end of their tenure with the TTBBC. The results of the audit will be used to draft procedural frameworks and processes that will map the approach future boards will prescribe in terms of operations.

This will ensure that all tenets and guidelines of the State Enterprises Performance Monitoring Manual (SEPMM) are followed, with strict adherence to statutory compliance and performance monitoring.

As part of this overall review, the Ministry is also conducting an evaluation of its own delivery of various national projects with a view to improving performance.

The Ministry is calling on all National Governing Bodies, duly affiliated to their respective International Federations, to keep building on the foundation already laid.

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GFF Technical Director rolls out `Next Generation Project’ T

ECHNICAL Director of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Claude Bolton yesterday rolled out a comprehensive plan for development of the game captioned, ‘Next Generation Project’.

Bolton, who inked a fouryear deal with the GFF in January, addressing the Media at a Press Conference hosted at the Federation’s Headquarters, pointed out that the ‘Project’ is one which is mandated by FIFA – the sport’s world governing body – to put Women’s Football, Grassroots Development and Youth Football at the forefront of their plan moving head, since Guyana is seen as a development nation.

First, in helping to get around the proposed plans faster and efficiently, the GFF broke down Guyana into three blocks/districts.

Georgetown, Bartica, Es-

GFF TD Claude Bolton displays the ‘Next Generation Project’ developmental programme.

WBC unveil $1M emerald green belt to be given to mega-fight winner

Mauricio Sulaiman, president of the World Boxing Council, unveils the $1m emerald green FLOYD Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao were given a glimpse of the WBC emerald winner’s belt on

Tuesday when it was unveiled in Mexico City.

The emerald green, diamond encrusted belt was

unveiled by World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman who was joined by former world heavyweight champion Larry Holmes.

Current WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson was also on hand as the $1M creation was put on show.

Boxing fans worldwide voted for the traditional emerald green belt, which will be handed to the winner of the mega-fight, over an Onyx belt of a more unusual design earlier this year.

In a statement the WBC said: “This exquisite masterpiece is espeSee Page 22

sequibo and West Demerara Football Association will fall under District One, while Upper Demerara, East Bank, East Coast and Berbice Association fall under District Two. District Three will be made up solely of the Rupununi Football Association.

The lengthy document, handed out to the media yesterday, was also delivered to the Federation’s member associations, imploring them to ‘get on board’ with the GFF’s initiative.

Apart from the aforementioned areas mandated

by FIFA, the ‘Next Generation Project’ also focuses on Beach, Futsal as well as Coaching Development, Coaching Education and Mentorship programmes are also on the cards.

WOMEN’S FOOTBALL Bolton said that the country has the potential to develop the sport, noting that females must be given the same opportunities as males to reach their potential. He noted this is the main emphasis of the programme.

According to the document, emphasis will be placed on the younger age groups through the respective youth academies and that a twopronged approach will be taken to revitalise and invigorate the women’s game.

The document further noted that by gathering, recruiting and educating all those involved in the women’s game, a foundation will be created for the staging of a competition that will focus on the targeted objectives.

GRASSROOTS “Many persons have opinions on how things should be done in Guyana but we will take it from the players’ standpoint and make decisions that will be beneficial for the players,” said Bolton, speaking on how important it is simply to let children, especially those 6-12, feature.

An 8-10 week plan was mapped out and will be held twice yearly by the GFF’s Youth Development Officers.

The document, with regard to youth development, said that the GFF has a responsibility to create a quality programme from a foot-balling legacy perspective, adding that the Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) is a guide for formulating optimal player performances at all stages of their evolution.

The GFF TD opined that national youth academies for both males and females will also be commissioned, noting that the federation will commence the venture this year with the Boys’ U-15 age group and an U-12 category which he (Bolton) deemed as an important age-group due to their long-term future within the national circuit.

COACHING EDUCATION According to Bolton, coaching development directly impacts player development and that the lack of properly trained tacticians at

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all levels is a major hindrance to the development of the discipline and its practitioners.

He noted that while many individuals understand the game in depth, the country has lacked the guidance and tolls to impart the knowledge in developing players. According to the technical plan, the GFF will create a national coaching licensed structure that can support and sustain a minimum coaching level.

The document further said the programme will be structured with guidance from other CONCACAF nations to create parity with minimum international standards and it will also strive to achieve accreditation outside of the country.

The levels that will be a part of the programme are the D, C, B and A Licences as well as a Schools’ Certificate.

There will also be an Elite League Module for seasoned tacticians, coaching at the highest level locally to sit and discuss training methods and practices.

England make solid start after Samuels century See Story on Page 22

Marlon Samuels celebrates his seventh Test century on day two of the second Test West Indies v England at Grenada National Cricket Stadium, St George’s, Grenada, yesterday

THRURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015