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- in search of Corentyne ‘Black Gold’

‘CONGRATULATIONS!’

The Journey is just beginning! Proud graduates of the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) programme from the Nations University/Australian Institute of Business pose last evening after their graduation ceremony outside the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, Georgetown. (See details in tomorrow’s edition of the Chronicle)

NCN demands PPP pay up owed $13.5M - for political advertisements aired Page

Go-Invest to undergo major reform Page

- strong emphasis to be placed on fairness, transparency, wooing investors

GPHC staffer killed

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as bandits rob Western Union outlet

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DEAD: Beau Allison

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SUNDAY CHRONICLE June 21, 2015

Scouting is best means of bringing ethnic groups together

By Leroy Smith PRESIDENT David Granger, while addressing members of the Scouts Association of Guyana (SAG), said he believes scouting is the best means of bringing people of various ethnic groups together and gainfully engaging young people.

The President was at the time delivering the feature address at the Annual Awards Ceremony of the organisation, which has been in existence for more than 100 years now and is regarded as the single largest and longest-standing body that engages young people.

At the event, the Guyanese Head of State speaking

specifically to scouting in Guyana, encouraged the young people and their seniors to remain and learn about their country and` explore this beautiful land.

The administration of the SAG was also encouraged to move scouting beyond the coastland of Guyana and ensure that it becomes far-reaching, since this one nation is made up of 10 Administrative/Geographic regions.

The President also re-committed the annual subvention that is given to the scouting association, something they have been receiving over the years through the former Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport by the

- says President Granger

Scouting association member Hatty Anthony delivers welcoming remarks at the event last evening previous Government.

That however, is likely to increase since, according

to the Chief Commissioner of the SAG, Zaida Joaquin, the organisation has been receiving $120,000 annually, something that they have asked to be increased.

The chief scout explained that no request has been made to this new Administration for an increase, but the association is very optimistic that the present Government will understand that there is very little that could be done with $120,000 annually.

“I want to renew the commitment of the Administration to provide an annual subvention to the Scout

Scouts awardees pose with Retired Brigadier and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, His Excellency President David Granger Association to continue their work,” President Granger said to loud applause from the gathered scouts.

President David Granger is flanked by Chief Commissioner of Scouting in Guyana Zaida Joaquin and Chief Scout Ramsay Ali He was however quick to lightly remind the scouts: “Don’t clap too hard, I got to bail out GuySuCo…and that is real money, but we will continue to provide financial assistance because I like to see the Scouts Association, Scouts movement far beyond the coastland.”

The President congratulated the persons who received awards last evening as he expressed his personal expectation and encouragement that the award would not be seen as the end or a prize or reward, but rather an incentive to continue serving the great movement of scouting.

“There is no more difficult task in the world than to be a leader and I am glad that these awards are for leadership, because this is the time of your life when you need

to be trained in leadership. A leader must make decisions; a leader must set an example; a leader must make choices; a leader must be able to accept criticisms. But a leader must learn from his mistakes; a leader has to choose; a leader has to teach and the longer training you have in leadership, the better you are to become the President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana; so this is the right place to start,” the Head of State noted.

He reminded the audience that scouting covers the years which is perhaps the most difficult time in the lives of young people; but he was quick to point out that people make so many mistakes at this adolescent stage of their lives that sometimes their whole lives are affected.

Awards were handed out to scouts and friends of scouting for their five, 10 and 20 years of service in addition to service of exceptional nature and devotion to duty, acts of courage, endurance, initiative, suffering without risks and contributions to scouting.

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CGX forks out US$320M more - in search of Corentyne ‘Black Gold’

…it’s an exciting time; the Geology makes sense - Professor Suresh Narine

By Gary Eleazar RECENT news of a significant, local crude oil find by ExxonMobil, grabbed attention internationally and also resuscitated a Guyanese conversation on the country’s entry into the oil and gas sector of the global economy.

There is, however, even more exciting news on the horizon; exciting enough to have convinced Government to grant CGX Energy Inc. an extension to spud another exploration well in its Corentyne concession.

Co-Chairman of CGX Energy Inc. (Guyana), Professor Suresh Narine, on Friday last made the announcement during a special briefing held at the Cara Lodge international hotel in Georgetown and spoke of plans to invest at least US$320M in the near future by the oil company, in the Guyana oil basin.

This is in addition to the US$350M already invested by CGX in search of the Corentyne’s “black gold.”

The Canada-based CGX Energy Company, according to Dr. Narine, has no reason to believe that its exploration commitments in any of its licences will be affected in any way, since its operations are in undisputed waters, unencumbered and unaffected by Venezuela’s recent claims to sections of Guyana’s offshore territory.

The company is now currently pursuing a joint venturearrangement or alternative sources of financing to complement its drill campaign; and according to Professor Narine, the preliminary data for the area surveyed in the Corentyne Block for exploration, provides downright exciting prospects.

CGX is currently exploring for oil exclusively in Guyana’s jurisdiction and with its board comprising a number of key players who have held positions throughout the global sector over the years, Professor Narine explained the optimism in prospects for the Guyana basin, the millions of US dollars spent and the several hundred millions more projected for expenditure.

- much closer to each other physically.

This means that the raw material that went into creating the large oil reserves on the West African coast are the same that created the oil reserves along the northern coast of the South American continent, including the Corentyne Block where CGX is operating and the Stabroek Block where ExxonMobile made its discovery.

“Replete with oil and gas,” was the description afforded

by Professor Narine, to describe the oceanic canyon shared by the two continents, between which Guyana is positioned.

Drawing the nexus, Professor Narine pointed to the “giant finds” across the South American continent and said, “When we examined the wells that we and others have drilled in this basin [Guyana], the petrochemical fingerprints are very similar.”

GEOLOGICAL SENSE According to the CGX Chairman, “it’s an exciting time because the geology makes sense.”

With all the studies undertaken thus far, collated with the data from the African coast, exploring in the Guyana basin has become a lot less risky for investors, Professor Narine intimated.

He said oil exploration in Guyana is no longer in a “frontier” basin, but rather the reserves are more predictable.

According to Professor Narine, because of the recent developments not only by CGX but also by others in the

OIL RESERVES He pointed to the West African coast, which has yielded some of the largest oil CGX Co-Chairman, Professor Suresh Narine, explains the relationship between finds in the world, particularly the South American and African continents and the oil they share around the Mauritania area, namely Senegal, Liberia and Sierra Leone. industry, over the course of the next five years, more than The sedimentation systems that have created those three times the number of exploration wells spud over the petroleum reserves along the West African coast, according past five years will be dug, “across the entire South American to Professor Narine, are the very systems that have created equatorial margin.” the petroleum reserves along the Guianas coastline, stretching Professor Narine said too, it must be noted that the “who’s across also the Trinidad and Tobago belt along with oil giant, who,” of the oil and gas sector in the world, are currently neighbouring Venezuela. exploring in the Guyana basin in addition to CGX. Simply put, the tectonic plates upon which the South He pointed to ExxonMobil, Anadarko, Repsol, Chevron American and African continents sit, were several hundred and RWE among others operating in the equatorial margin. million years ago - the time it takes for the earth to make oil Operating with the third largest acreage offshore Guyana,

some 3.3 million acres, Professor Narine reported that all indications so far point to the equivalent of some three billion barrels of oil.

This amount of oil, according to Professor Narine, is almost unimaginable.

Should the CGX probabilities be realised, it would literally change “how futures for oil and gas are handled in the world, not just in this hemisphere,” said the world renowned professor.

TARGETS LOCKED CGX has to date already spud two wells, Eagle Shallow and Jaguar. Light oil was recovered by CGX in the Jaguar well but this had to be capped and abandoned because of the high pressures encountered.

The CGX Eagle Shallow well had also yielded promising results and according to Professor Narine, with CGX having the most developed prospects in the basin, the company will be forging ahead with its well campaign.

Expanding on the well campaign to be embarked on by CGX on the Corentyne Block, he confirmed that five targets have already been identified with the two major ones being the Kabukalli and Eagle Deep.

He said that cumulatively the five targets identified by CGX represent “a really astounding amount of reserves.”

Professor Narine surmised that industry heavyweights are poised to spud between six to eight wells in the Guyana/ Suriname Basin between now and the end of next year.

Apart from boasting the highest level of Guyanese employed in its operations than any of the other oilexploration companies operating locally, Professor Narine also used the opportunity to remind his audience that of all the oil-exploration companies operating locally, CGX has invested the most.

The Guyanese-born CGX Co-Chairman told stakeholders, “we have spent more money than any other oil and gas oil exploration company in the basin…We’ve spent US$350M.” To give an idea of what US$350M entails, think building the modern Skeldon Sugar Factory at a cost of US$200M and the new Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) at US$150M together, meaning CGX’s investment could have funded both these projects or think about 15 Amaila Falls access roads.

According to Professor Narine, over the next three years CGX will be looking to spend another US$320M in the Guyana Basin.

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AG Williams says five days, $17M for final sitting of Rodney Commission

By Derwayne Wills

Ramotar in 2013, the commission has been deemed a “witch-hunt” against the pre-1992 People’s National Congress (PNC) Government.

Since assuming office as Attorney General, Williams disclosed that the

- former AG Nandlall disagrees

Commission had racked up a total expenditure in excess of $325M. Meanwhile, Williams’s predecessor, former Attorney General Anil Nandlall, has opposed assertions made by the AG regarding the life of the Rodney CoI.

ATTORNEY GENERAL “The Commission of Inand Legal Affairs Minister quiry Act,” posited Nandlall, Basil Williams has reiterat“vests the commission with ed that Cabinet has decided the sole legal authority of that the Rodney Commisregulating its process and sion of Inquiry would have procedure. It is an unlawful one final sitting, which he estimates would last for five days and cost some $17M. While the actual completion date is subject to consultation with the commissioners, lawyers and other parties, Williams told reporters the Commission could conclude its work by late July.

That sitting, the AG continued, could spread across five days, as two days would be set aside for submissions and the other three for compiling statements and evidence.

Since its conception by Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams former President Donald (right), with his predecessor, Anil Nandlall, in October 2014

ment of the Commission of Inquiry.”

Coming out of that discussion, according to Nandlall, the two parties disagreed on the commission’s terms of reference, which included financing.

Nandlall said the Government should not be surprised by the cost of the commission up to the time of Williams’s announcement of a $325M expenditure, since monies spent were already approved in the National Assembly, which Nandlall maintained was controlled by the APNU+AFC partnership.

Nandlall said requests for monies for the Commission were approved every three months by the National Assembly up to the time that body went into suspension in late July.

He challenged the fiveday proposal made by Williams to wrap up the Commission’s work. “Having regard to the number of witnesses who are still to be called, and number of witnesses who are to be recalled to give further evidence, it

interference by any other authority which seeks to dictate how the commission should conduct its business.”

Nandlall lamented, “The PNC sat with the [then] Government and we had discussions regarding the establish-

may be impossible to complete the taking of evidence in 5 days,” Nandlall said.

“When the taking of evidence aspect of the commission seizes,” he continued, “the commissioners will need another few months to write their reports, and the arrangement which is in place guarantees them payment for that period as well.”

Nandlall served as Attorney General under the 2011-2015 Donald Ramotar Administration during the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic’s (PPP/C) 23 years in Government.

For his part, Nandlall was asked to comment on the lifespan his party had intended to give the commission. He said: “We had expected that the commission would have sat for about a month after the [May 11] elections. It would’ve taken evidence within a month, and then they would have been given a two-to-three-month period maximum to present their report to the President.”

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THE prosecution has closed its case in the septic tank murder trial, making way for the defence to begin making no-case submissions.

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Ms Forrester’s body was found in a septic tank in a yard in William Street, Campbellville, Georgetown.

The accused have all made caution statements, which trial judge Madame Justice Roxane George, has already ruled were freely and voluntarily given to the police.

The accused are represented by attorneys-at-law George Thomas, Madan Kissoon and Melvin Duke.

Representing the prosecution are Miss Diana Kaulesar, Miss Stacy Goodings and Miss Sawnett Austin.

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GPHC Berbice Bridge Company honours phlebotomist fathers in its employ killed

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BEAU Allison of Louisa Row, Georgetown died at about 02:00 hrs yesterday after the motor cycle he was allegedly driving, CH 2105, crashed into motor car PMM 4904, which was travelling in the opposite direction on the public road at La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara.

A police statement said the 27-year-old Allison and his pillion rider friend, whose name was given as Akeem Constancelly of West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, had the accident with the car after DEAD: Beau Allison it attempted to overtake another vehicle.

After the accident, the men were left lying on the road for some time before they were picked up and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corparation, where Allison was pronounced dead on arrival and Constancelly was admitted in a critical condition.

When this publication visited the home of the deceased yesterday, his mother was too distraught to speak, but close associates of the family confirmed that Allison had fathered two children, aged 2 and 5, and had, for several years, been working at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corparation as a Phlebotomist.

The driver of the car, allegedly a rice farmer, was up to late last evening still in police custody assisting with investigations into the matter.

Police sources confirmed that the man was not under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident, since a test carried out by ranks had provided a negative reading.

(Leroy Smith)

CELEBRATED on the third Sunday in June every year, Father’s Day is a celebration to honour fathers and their influence on society.

In light of this occasion, the Berbice Bridge Company Inc. (BBCI) held a Father’s Day Programme last Friday with the fathers working with the Company and three elderly fathers residing within neighbouring villages where tokens of appreciation were given out to each father.

The Berbice Bridge Handing out tokens of appreciation, at the Berbice Bridge Company Company, in a statement, Inc Father’s Day Programme last Friday noted that it not only plays the role of collecting tolls In the past, the Company pointed out that it has sponand facilitating vehicles crossing the Berbice River Bridge sored many events that benefited the communities both and vessels transiting through the Retractor opening and on the eastern and western sides of the Berbice River under the High Span but also discharges its corporate Bridge. Now, for the year 2015, the Company has so far responsibilities and, more importantly, plays an integral received 95 Public Relation requests and managed to appart in the development of education, sports, supported prove 81 of these requests comprising of sponsorships of national events and made donations to charitable and Mashramani 2015 events, donations of trophies to various non-charitable organisations in close proximity of the non-profit and educational institutions, facilitated tours of Bridge or in Regions 5 and 6. various schools and waivered toll charges for tour buses, The Company had also sponsored events in other counties sponsored cricket tournaments, together with others too and as far as the hinterland. numerous to mention.

Winston Felix jailed for causing death by dangerous driving WINSTON Felix, a 60-year-old lorry driver of Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara, was on Friday jailed for three years on a causing death by dangerous driving conviction.

City Magistrate Ann McLennan found him guilty of driving motor lorry GKK 8663 in a manner dangerous to the public on November 28 last at Agricola Public Road, East Bank Demerara, thereby causing the death of Fatima Jamal.

The prosecution’s case was that, on the day in question, Jamal was crossing the street on the pedestrian crossing whilst Felix was driving the said lorry. Felix admitted to seeing Jamal

crossing the road, and that his right front bumper collided with her.

Felix was represented by Attorney-at-Law Mr Rabindra Rooplall, who said the defendant has been driving for more than 14 years and has no prior convictions or pending matters.

Felix had pleaded not guilty to the charge on his first appearance in court, and had been granted bail in the sum of $800,000.

Magistrate McLennan, in her ruling, stated that the prosecution had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt, and that the judgment was made taking into consideration the seriousness of the offence. (Geeta Rampersaud)

JAILED: Winston Felix (Stabroek News photo)

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Editorial

Guyana

This big challenge for CARICOM heads

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NE of the very pressing political issues that Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders would have to seriously address when they meet in Barbados next week for their annual summit, is the recurring plight of thousands of Dominican nationals of Haitian descent currently facing imminent deportation from that Spanish-speaking nation of this Region.

This is the nightmare facing at least some 200,000 immigrants of Haitian origin in the Dominican Republic (DR) where they are being frustrated by the authorities to regularise their status under a new law.

The problem requires a speedy and practical response by CARICOM. This challenge has been engaging the attention of regional and international human rights agencies and organisations for more than a year but with both the Governments in the DR and Haiti seemingly incapable, or unwilling, to find a practical resolution within the framework of international law.

Indeed, both CARICOM and the DR - the latter has Observer status with the Community -- have been accused by human rights groups of failing to demonstrate any consistency in collectively advancing initiatives to end the threatened stateless nightmare facing the thousands of immigrants of Haitian origin.

Neither CARICOM nor the wider hemispheric body, Organisation of American States (OAS) has managed to move, separately or together, to influence the DR authorities into ending this humiliating, race-based problem affecting the thousands of fellow nationals of our Caribbean Community Yesterday, an ‘Open Letter ’, addressed to the outgoing chairman of CARICOM, Prime Minister Perry Christie, expressed “deep disappointment and outrage over the silence from CARICOM” on this most urgent matter involving thousands of Dominicans of Haitian origin in the DR. The ‘Open Letter ’ from the

Stop beating a dead horse SO, what further nonsensical tomfoolery is this? How does the Editor-in-Chief allow one of his writers to display such ad hominem hostility and misleading untruths? I refer to the headline in the Guyana Chronicle of June 19, 2015 which read: ‘PPP/C invokes 200,000 votes to oust Dr Surujbally.’

Firstly, Dr Surujbally is a Constitutional Office Holder, with well-defined legal elements associated with his tenure and with specific prerequisites anchored in the Constitution relating to his demittance from Office. 200,000 votes do not represent one of those conditions.

I have no doubt that Dr Surujbally, who led the team which many (a lot more than 200,000) believe carried out the best elections ever in Guyana, will in due course demit Office. In fact, I do remember when asked during a press conference (after the elections) what change he would like to

see, he said emphatically that, as a septuagenarian, his leaving GECOM would be the first change. So, the PPP threatening “he will go; it’s only a matter of time” is a ludicrous self-fulfilling prophesy.

The PPP, knowing this fully well, is now presenting itself as demanders of that which is already quite well known and which is naturally inevitable.

How pathetic? How idiotic?

How counter-productive? Are these people so collectively blind that they cannot see how ‘jokey’ their performances are being perceived by their own party members and the nation as a whole?

But there are other artificial fulminations which the PPP knows to be incorrect but which they continue to peddle for reasons known to all, namely to make their supporters believe that the PPP is doing something on their behalf and to keep them in a state of tension. This is a dangerous game. But the PPP

seems not to care.

One example of the wickedness is to state that it is the GECOM Chairman who gives the general orders and directions to the Secretariat. Really? And what do the other policy making Commissioners do (including those nominated by the PPP, who are described by the PPP as ‘their’ representatives and ‘their’ Commissioners)? Do they all just sit there and accept the “bullying”, “browbeating”, “threatening” and “intimidating”? You mean to tell me that Surujbally can bully and browbeat the likes of Mohamood Shaw - the tough Head of BASS, the strong and courageous Vincent Alexander who challenged Robert Corbin for the PNC leadership, the bright and capable Arun Mangar and Sase Gunraj; the accomplished Sandra Jones and Charles Corbin? And what of those previous Commissioners like Haslyn Parris, Lloyd Joseph, Moen McDoom, Dr Mangal, Robert Williams, Jaya Manickchand? Did Surujbally

human rights group ‘Jouvay Ayiti’ recalled strong objections made since November 2013 to the ruling by the Dominican Republic’s courts to revoke the citizenship of Dominicans of Haitian descent as far back as 1929.

Further, that a few Heads of Government - among them the Prime Ministers of Trinidad and Tobago and St. Vincent and the Grenadines -- had openly addressed the challenges to be overcome in the interest of justice and freedom.

The question of immediate relevance is what, if any, practical ACTION would now be pursued

by CARICOM Heads of Government at their summit meeting next week in Barbados?

Desecration of our home: Pope Francis speaks for the nature

manhandle these very capable and strong personalities in their own right? Did he collectively intimidate them and make them quiver? Surely, this is highly unlikely. If Surujbally could do this, then he is a powerhouse, exactly the type to lead GECOM in the midst of those Party loyalists who masquerade as independent Commissioners.

I really don’t think that the nation believes that bit of hogwash.

Finally, may I suggest that (the reporter who wrote the diatribe) and the PPP leadership stop beating a dead horse; stop being national laughing stocks; go into Parliament; and defend/ represent the people who gave them the 49.3%.

By the way, it must have occurred to others that if the elections were rigged, why would the riggers carry out such a foolish job as to have the final numbers be so close (just over 1%)?

THIS planet earth is our home away from our home.

This home of ours is to be kept clean and liveable not only for ourselves but for the generations to come.

The twelfth century St. Francis of Assisi acclaimed the planet and its entities as brother and sister. “Praised be you, my Lord, with all your creatures especially Brother Sun, who is beautiful and radiant splendour; Sister Moon and the stars, who are formed clear and precious and beautiful; Brother Wind, through air, cloudy and serene and every kind of weather, we get our sustenance for our living; Sister Water, which is useful and humble and precious and chaste; Brother Fire, from whom we get light and who is playful and robust and strong.”

Has it ever crossed your mind this wonderful way of expressing our love for the nature? If we did not, I think we can think about it now and treat our natural brothers and sisters as we treat our own biological siblings. Pope Francis in his encyclical (letter) “Laudato Si” (Praised be to you) categorically warns the world addressing our nature and its creatures including human beings as sister.

“This sister of ours cries out to us because we have inflicted harm on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her. We have come to see ourselves as her lords and masters, entitled

K. WILLIAMS

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Venezuela’s meretricious and flagrant display of contempt for International Law VENEZUELA is alleged to have looked with disfavour on the so-called interference by the British High Commissioner, Mr Gregory Quinn, in the current controversy between Venezuela and Guyana.

If this allegation is correct, it merely operates to substantiate the contempt or ignorance competent authorities of Venezuela display for the applicable rules of International Law. Failure by such authorities to recognise the right of the United Kingdom’s duly appointed representatives to comment on an issue arising from the Geneva Agreement 1966, to which the United Kingdom is a principal party, ranks in ignominy with its refusal to recognise its obligation to abide in good faith with the award of the Arbitral Tribunal 1899 which was established pursuant to the Treaty of Washington between the United Kingdom and Venezuela in 1897.

As a principal party to the Geneva Agreement, 1966, the United Kingdom is fully entitled to comment on the perceived breaches of this agreement by Venezuela. In point of fact the United Kingdom may even be perceived to have an obligation to do so where such breaches by Venezuela appear to compromise the territorial integrity and political independence of Guyana, successor in title to the United Kingdom, and the stability of the Caribbean Region.

By attempting to confine the current controversy exclusively to the “sovereign” and “brotherly” states of Venezuela and Guyana, Venezuela must be seen as attempting to exclude all other states of the international community which have a legitimate concern in this controversy.

For, although applicable rules of International Law entitle all states, as an attribute of

sovereignty, to unilaterally determine their maritime space, compliance of such delimitation with the applicable rules of International Law is a fundamental requirement for its validity and recognition by other states of the international community.

Venezuela, by disingenuously attempting to exclude other states with legitimate interest in this controversy, hopes to confine relevant negotiations which may ensue between itself and Guyana to two states parties where its superior negotiating strength, or more appropriately, bullyism, will hopefully prevail in Venezuela’s favour.

And, to the extent that the United States was instrumental in coercing the United Kingdom to agree to arbitrate the relevant territorial dispute with Venezuela and in ensuring its own nationals with a seat on the Arbitral Tribunal and as agents to espouse Venezuela’s claims before the said tribunal, to that extent the United States must be perceived as an interested party in any juridically misconceived allegation that the determination of the Arbitral Tribunal was tainted by fraudulent conduct. Indeed, would it were that the United States was more viscerally forthcoming on this issue of considerable juridical and political significance for the international community as a whole!

In endorsing our Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs assertion that Venezuela’s decree of 26 May, 2015 was baseless and shameless, it is also recognised that the aforementioned decree marked the culmination of a series of reprehensible acts which defined the scant respect of Venezuela for International Law, as exemplified by its reneging on its initial agreement with the determination of the Arbitral Tribunal 1899, its agreement that the

award would be a full and perfect settlement of the dispute, its subsequent rejection of the validity of that award based on an unsubstantiated allegation of fraud, its failure to abide by the terms of the Geneva Agreement 1966 and the issuance of a decree by President Leoni egregiously claiming Guyana’s territorial waters, its encroachment on the Exclusive Economic Zone of other Caribbean states, its refusal to sign and ratify the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea 1982, and the infamous decree of President Maduro purporting to claim sovereignty over Guyana’s maritime space contrary to the applicable rules of International Law. In short, the conduct of Venezuela today avails no plausible expectation of a peaceful settlement of the controversy and Guyana must, unfortunately, resign itself to living with this ‘Amazonian monkey on its back’ for the rest of its existence. In the meantime the present Administration must not only continue to protest Venezuela’s illegal occupation of Guyana’s part of Ankoko island but must enlist the support of all political groups in Guyana in defence of its national sovereignty over every inch of territory in the words of Dr. Cheddi Jagan, and every blade of grass in the word of Mr Forbes Burnham, not to mention the felicitous, resonating incantations of the Tradewinds.

This medium of communication does not allow for an exhaustive examination of the contempt for international law meretriciously and flagrantly displayed by Venezuela. Suffice it to state, however, that Guyana’s strongest armour in the struggle to secure its territorial sovereignty and political independence as a state is to be found in its commitment to good governance and reliance on relevant rules of

International Law. And, its foreign policy must be informed accordingly whether in relation to territorial disputes of other states, international human rights issues, and other emerging issues of international concern.

And this brings me to the principled policy Guyana has adopted until recently in respect of the Falklands issue.

In this context it is important to enquire whether Guyana’s destiny is indeed continental such as to prompt flirtation with UNASUR. Diplomatic and political entanglement with UNASUR may isolate Guyana in a maelstrom of Spanish-speaking, pseudo-imperialist states, which, when the crunch comes, are likely to empathise with Venezuela, oblivious to the legitimacy of Guyana’s sovereignty in respect of the Essequibo and the self-serving omission of Venezuela to advance a similar claim to Brazilian Essequibo, an area of approximately 6,000 square miles ceded to Brazil by Britain around the middle of the twentieth century. Not unlike Guyana, Britain’s claim to the Falklands is grounded on International Law, as exemplified in conquest (1831), effective occupation and acquisitive prescription.

In the premises, considerations of principle coupled with an uncompromising commitment to International Law must be accorded pride of place in the reordering of our foreign policy as intimated by the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Professor Justice Duke Pollard BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) LLM.LLM LEC.JCCJ (rtd.), Department of Law, University of Guyana

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to plunder her at will,” Pope Francis wrote.

Can we hear the groan of our sister nature which has been desecrated to the extent that we will be unable to live in our home nature because of the drastic climate change in the last few decades.

It is significant to treat our nature as our own home.

It is not fair to think the public land does not belong to me, hence, I can do whatever I like on that land. It is simple logic, as the Pope says, if we consider nature and its creatures as our own family members, I am sure we will be caring for it by keeping it spruce and healthy.

This way we can be happy to get the utmost from the ecosystem. We need to upkeep our ecosystem because we are mutually dependable. The life cycle needs every creature and each one us. Therefore, we have to keep our natural diversity alive by caring for it. Our nature home needs to keep clean just like our own home. We cannot live in the filth for a long time. By doing this we contribute significantly towards a healthy ecosystem.

We have been trying our best in different ways to keep our nature alive by various means but as the Pope says: we have to do some serious work and a serious debate as to how we can control global climate change.

FR. JERRY MELWIN DIAS, SJ Diocese of Georgetown

THE Caribbean Community is currently characterised by acute unemployment, underdevelopment and heavy indebtedness, with poverty level among the lowest in Latin America. Regional leaders must now dance to the same rhythm to ensure national progress, forgoing sovereignty for development. Solitary approach to development has been attempted during the last two decades yielding only minimal results.

It is time for a genuine effort towards integration, lip-service to the movement must be scorned. Regionally, Governments should be placed under the spotlight in terms of examining their willingness to seriously contribute to integration and development of our people.

Development in the

Region is dependent on the success of the Caricom Single Market. Thus, consultations by the Caricom Secretariat on establishing a Single Jurisdiction for business must be commended.

The Single Jurisdiction is to facilitate opportunities for companies, creating possibility for economic growth beyond the boundaries of individual territories and increased employment in member states.

As the consultations take place during this first phase in St Lucia, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago; I urge the business community to truly consider the pros and cons of operating outside of the limitations of national boundaries.

Prepping for the second phase scheduled to begin during August in the

remaining territories, the respective chambers of commerce should take the time now to have a national conversation and awaken the ideas of entrepreneurs willing to seek out the potential of regional markets.

Mr Roderick Rainford wrote in the Journal of Caribbean Affairs 1992 Vol. 5 No. 1, “It is this creation of a single domestic market of the whole CARICOM – from Belize to Guyana – that needs to be conveyed and demonstrated to the business community of the Region, current members of that community as well as new entrants alike”.

At the time of his article there were 12 member states. Two decades later, there are 15 member states; widening of the Region but no significant deepening

has taken place over that period.

Regional Governments have failed to create the enabling framework for a common economic space and has restricted entrepreneurial talents to narrow boundaries. The presence of this failure is most evident in the Region’s high unemployment.

Entrepreneurs should take these consultations optimistically; understanding the economic implications of doing business within a wider geographic space, with greater access to traditional and non-traditional financing, increased availability to human capital and access to technology from more advanced territories.

DENNIS MAYERS

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SUNDAY CHRONICLE June 21, 2015

Fathers are the foundation of the family WE are presently making preparations to honour Fathers all over the world today (Sunday June 21), which is a very special day for fathers. Let me give a brief history pertaining to father’s day which I believe would be of great interest to readers.

Sonora Dodd, of Washington first had the idea of ‘Father’s Day’. She thought of the idea of Father’s Day while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. President Calvin Coolidge, in 1924 supported the idea of a National Father’s Day. Then in 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father’s Day. President Richard Nixon signed the law which finally made it permanent in 1972.

Father’s Day has been a very old tradition since the beginning of time. About 4000 years ago a young boy named Elmusu wished his Babylonian father good health and long life by carving a father’s day message on a card made out of clay. No one knows what happened to Elmusu or his father, but the tradition of having a special day honouring fathers has continued through the years in countries across the world.

The fifth commandment in the Bible is: ‘Honour thy Father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.’ (Exodus 20:12) The word father in the Hebrew is ‘Abba’ meaning father along with the following definitions in Hebrew for Father: ‘’source, sustainer, nourisher, supporter, foundation of that which comes out’’.

From this Hebrew definition we can surely say that the Father is the source and foundation of the family. The family is something very sacred before the eyes of God and must not be taken for granted as many do today in ‘live home & common law relationships’.

We cannot separate the father from the mother or separate the husband from the wife.

Marriage is a very sacred institution ordained

by God since the beginning of time. God cre-

ated marriage to be an expression of Himself.

When God created marriage he created it absolutely perfect. Man failed God because of sin. Man is really and truly the spiritual foundation of the family.

The first man created by God Adam was fathered and mentored by God himself. When Adam disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden, God came down in the Garden and called for Adam not the woman Eve. That was because God gave instructions to Adam and not his wife Eve. Because of the sin of disobedience since the beginning of time man died spiritually, physically, and eternally.

Adam died spiritually because he was expelled from the presence of God, he died physically because of disobedience to God, and he died eternally by being separated from God eternally.

Today we have seen a great moral breakdown in the home and family. We have seen domestic violence caused by so many drunken and immoral fathers. We have seen family separation where husbands and wives are going their separate ways.

Divorce and more divorce every day.

Child abuse by parents, poverty and separation of children from parents. Why all these social ills?

It’s because men have turned their backs on God. They have failed to take up their responsibility as a father who is the source and foundation of their family income.

A woman is not looking for a sex champion to be a husband. She is looking for a father in her husband, the source and sustainer of her financial and emotional needs. A true father doesn’t only just produce; he sustains, protects, nourish, love and supports.

No marriage becomes great if either the husband or the wife is nothing but a taker.

Great marriages are built by great givers. Both partners have to learn how to truly love one another according to holy scriptures. When you get married you don’t automatically live

happily ever after.

In fact if you and your spouse refuse to change wrong attitudes after you get married, you won’t live happily for two hours. Marriage is supposed to be a covenant relationship in which two people learn how to complement each other.

This kind of marriage is achieved when both marriage partners maintain a sense of love and compassion for one another.

Husbands need to show their wives that they are important, they must show them that they care and concern for them as well as their children. Wives need to be loved not beaten and abused. Our wives need to be loved. They need to be cared for. They need to be given security and closeness without sex. The driving force in a marriage is not sex, that’s why most marriages failed.

Love and affection and sex will work together. Wives need conversation from their husbands. When a married couple is continually conversing with each other, they are forming a closer bond between them. That should always be their goal, because God did not call them to live two separate lives in one house.

The Father’s role as well as the wife is:’ “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 21:6). The word ‘train’ in this verse of scripture means to instruct, educate, discipline, etc. Every father should remember that one day his children will follow his example.

Parents are teachers of their children. When I see a child ‘cussing’, I realise he learn to cuss from his parents. I read a quotation by Anne Geddes: “Any man can be a father but it takes a special person to be called dad”.

That is quite an interesting quotation because there are so many running fathers in the world today. It takes a special person to be called dad. I feel very special when I go shopping with my wife and children. My children see me as their financial source.

My daughter can pick up a lot of stuff

in a supermarket when we are shopping and just have to say ‘daddy will pay for it’. It’s because she has her trust and confidence in me as her father, nourisher and sustainer.

William Shakespeare wrote: “‘It is a wise father that knows his own child”. A father will only know his child when he takes on the responsibility to care for that child. Father’s day will be a very sad day for many fathers because they really don’t know their children.

They will not get love and affection from their children because they have deserted them from a very tender age.

Some father’s will be blessed by their heavenly Father because they have taken up their responsibility to care for their family.

The true essence of fatherhood is for fathers to take up the leading role in their homes because they are the foundation of their families.

Bad fathers will produce bad children and bad children will create a bad society and bad societies will create a deplorable country all because of poor fathers who are the foundation of their families.

I am very happy when I stand on my church stage looking at fathers coming into the house of God with their wives and children.

If every father would attend church regularly and involve with their priests and religious leaders in church activities we would have a more morally upright society and stronger family values. Modern psychologists have proven that children that came from good families are the brightest in schools; they also discovered that children that came from broken homes perform badly at schools.

It’s about time our fathers of this country start leading their families and become better role models for their children. I realise that I am getting old because I begin to look just like my father. May God bless all our fathers in Guyana. My prayers are with you.

REV. GIDEON CECIL

I have a great plan to tackle flooding in Guyana!

IN the good year of 2000, I had an audience with Mr Walter Wills, the Government engineer in the office of the former Minister of Public Works, Anthony Xavier, who was also present in the hearing of my outlined proposals, which were for us to re-introduce the construction of inter-locked, compressed concrete plates revetment and land reclamation alongside distressed sea and riverine/riparian areas in Guyana. This is in addition to all drainages in and around Georgetown.

I had forewarned of consequences of flooding in Region Five, (the Abary/Mahaica-Berbice areas) because the right hand side of the tributary (mouth) of the Abary Creek was blocked up with sea/foreshore bed brown sand.

I also met with Mr George Howard, (Chief Sea and River Defence Officer) and his subordinate, Mr Mahadeo Persaud, respectively at their Kingston-based office relative to the above matter.

As a Dutch trained, qualified and oriented Hydrological-Engineer in such a capacity (Hydro-concrete, water and civil engineering), my complaints and advices were resented and ignored, by the PPP Government in Guyana.

As a consequence, not long after I had

returned home here in the Netherlands, my native Guyana was under siege by flood water, in 2005, especially in Region Five, of which I had foreseen and forewarned of such graved danger.

While Guyana was under the siege of unprecedented flood water, the statement “this Government was forewarned, prior to 2005 flooding, by a Guyanese Dutch-born Hydrological-Engineer” was debated in Parliament by respective Parliamentarians, in particular the honourable David Patterson (now Minister of Public Infrastructure) whom I have had very close consultations with on such a matter. Refer to many relevant newspaper articles in the Guyana’s media (SN, KN and GC) and “acknowledgement letters” of 09-05-2000 and 18-08-2004 from the then Office of the President.

Today, I am still endeavouring to pursue this course of action and I persist with such similar warnings to our respective and relevant Guyanese officials, outlining and claiming that it is and would be very dangerous and hazardous to once again venture in the dumping of garbage-waste disposal in open atmospheric air at another site adjacent to residential and populated areas (such as the Haags Bosch new dumping site).

I am once again proposing that we har-

ness and allocate a portion of the water front land at Grove Village, on the East Bank of Demerara, with the aim of constructing inter sections with inter-locked, heavy compressed concrete piling and plates revetment in the event of re-cycling all garbage-waste disposals.

I am not an English-oriented intellectual to constantly be writing English texts and project plans, as I was born Dutch in Guyana and my second language (English) expression has been suppressed for more than 30 years.

I am much more technically skilled with an innate knowledge to embark and to venture on sustainable development in the fields of sea/river defences and garbage-waste disposals, where revenues of such can beneficially and immensely be earned. I hope that our relevant and newly appointed Guyanese officials in the APNU-AFC would summon and grant me an audience in the event of eliminating sea/river defence breaches, assisting in combating the flood crisis and to innovate modern technologies in the event of sustainable usages of garbage-waste disposals in this modern 21st century day and in the days of our civilised world.

Thus, I propose for us to set-up a “concrete-based” factory in the advent for manu-

facturing pre-fabricating heavily compressed concrete products, such as pilings and plates/ slabs for revetment and land reclamation, and for Georgetown internal drainages, drainage gutter-liners for internal drainage, solid blocks, tubes for shallow wells, tiles (2-sq. m. x 15-cm), beams, culverts, ‘L’-shape road edges, etc.

The Demerara river can be dredged and de-silted, revetment can be installed alongside its channels and water front land can be made available from Timehri’s dock on the East Bank Demerara to Kingston, where it is feasible and accessible. Georgetown can be raised up to 1-meter from its current geographical/hydrological elevation.

If modality be reached between my Caribbean Outlook Foundation, Inc. (Guyana affiliates) and this newly elected APNU-AFC coalition Government, nothing will come short for pitching my venture in Guyana as early as April, 2016.

I will be so proud to return and to serve my country of origin, my beautiful Guyana, under this newly elected Government.

REV. SURUJLALL MOTILALL (Retired Hydrological Engineer from the Netherlands)

SUNDAY CHRONICLE June 21, 2015

Status of the NCN demands PPP ‘Rodney inquiry’ pay up owed $13.5M

ON the sixth of this month, Mrs Patricia Rodney, widow of the assassinated historian and political activist, Dr Walter Rodney, released a statement to the regional and international media expressing deep disappointment over an earlier announcement of the Guyana Government’s intention to discontinue the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the circumstances of her husband’s death in a bomb blast in Georgetown in June 1980.

Mrs Rodney’s press statement, as reported by the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) and various sections of the regional print and electronic media, including the ‘Guyana Times’, was prompted by an official announcement that due to rising cost and unavailability of funds, MRS PATRICIA DR WALTER RODNEY the Government of RODNEY President David Granger would have to bring an end to the COI. According to the published CMC report, “newly appointed Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister, Basil Williams, said that the COI, which is chaired

by Barbadian jurist, Sir Richard Cheltenham, has so far cost taxpayers Gy$325 million”.

But in her brief media statement, Mrs Rodney said that the “Rodney family believe that the Commission of Inquiry is critical to determine the truth as to what happened and to contribute to healing a society which has lived under the shadow of this terrible period in history. The Commission’s work is too important to abandon without completing its original mandate…”

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- for political advertisements aired

THE People’s Progressive Party (PPP) owes the National Communications Network (NCN) in excess of $13.5M for political advertisements aired and the State owned media entity is demanding the political party pay up.

The Chronicle understands the PPP has been called upon to make the payments on more than one occasion but the party is yet to make good.

The monies owed to NCN by the PPP, are for political advertisements aired during March and May of this year.

Guyana held its General and Regional Elections on May 11, 2015, and the PPP had inundated the State owned television station with campaign advertisements at the time.

On May 27 last, NCN’s Marketing Manager, Raymond Azeez, was forced to write to the party’s Executive Secretary, Zulfikar Mustapha, reminding of the outstanding $13.5M owed to NCN by the PPP. At the time, Azeez, the NCN Marketing Manager, directed that the sum owed, be paid as soon as possible.

This did not materialise causing Azeez to last week again write to the PPP demanding payments.

Azeez, this time in a correspondence seen by the Chronicle yesterday, and addressed to the PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee, pointed out that the matter had previously been raised with the party’s General Secretary to no avail.

NCN as a result demanded of Rohee that the PPP make the payments by Friday last. The PPP has since not made any payment.

Each of the correspondence to the PPP, were copied to NCN’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Molly Hassan; Finance Controller, Shabana Singh; and Amanda Sookram, the entity’s Customer Service Supervisor.

Rohee, in an invited comment, told the Chronicle that while he was not familiar with all of the details, the party is currently still in the process of tabulating its arrears at which point in time the appropriate payments will be made.

Word of the demands by NCN of the PPP for monies owed comes just after the announcement that the State owned entity had fired its Berbice Coordinator, Faizal Jafarally, who incidentally is one of the party’s Candidates.

This publication understands Jafarally’s dismissal stems from his purported underperformance since being appointed as the NCN Berbice Coordinator a year ago. (Gary Eleazar)

Businessman shot as bandits rob Western Union outlet TWO men yesterday morning pounced on a threecompartment store on Duncan Street, Georgetown where a Western Union outlet and Internet Café are also housed, and robbed the owner of that business before shooting him in the leg.

According to the Police, the incident occurred around 10:20 hrs when two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, entered the business place and held up the proprietor Gordon Nestor, 52 years, and staff member Fernandes Ally, 18 years, of East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, and took away over $400,000 before escaping in a waiting motor car.

The Police said Gordon Nestor was shot to his left foot during the incident and was admitted to a City hospital.

The Chronicle was also told by a business partner in a store nearby that the two men were seen entering the premises and, before they knew it, they realised that the men had shown up to carry out a robbery.

The men, who showed up in a green vehicle which was parked a short distance from the location where the robbery occurred, held up Nestor and demanded the cash from him.

Reports indicate that although the businessman had cooperated with the bandits’ request, and handed over the cash, the bandit carrying the weapon still decided to shoot the man during the robbery.

An 18-year-old staff member at the facility was also held by the bandits, even as they tried to rob a nearby store whose staffers managed to lock themselves in another section of the store, making it impossible for the bandits to get to them.

The bandits carted off approximately $400,000 while persons quickly telephoned the police and ambulance services, which responded promptly.

- in Duncan Street, G/town

Unconfirmed reports have suggested that the police were able to recover some amount of video footage from the surveillance cameras which are mounted around the premises.

It is, however, unclear whether any suspects had

been detained up to late yesterday. The bandits were not wearing masks at the time of the robbery, this publication was told. Police are continuing their investigation of the matter. (Leroy Smith)

Police and members of the public gathered at the Duncan Street location after the robbery yesterday

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SUNDAY CHRONICLE June 21, 2015

Go-Invest to undergo major reform - strong emphasis to be placed on fairness, transparency, wooing investors

By Tajeram Mohabir

GUYANA’s premier investment agency, Go-Invest, is set to undergo major reform, with strong attention being placed on fairness, transparency, good governance and aggressive promotion of the agency, both locally and abroad.

Under the new Government, Go-Invest will cease being an agency under the Office of the President and will now fall under the purview of the Ministry of Business.

In an exclusive interview with the Chronicle last week, Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin said the focus and mandate of Go-Invest at the time it was established are still relevant, but the agency has been beset by a number of challenges.

Go-Invest, he said, was not adequately resourced to achieve what it was designed to achieve, and as minister he would pay strong attention Minister of Business to performance and not to Dominic Gaskin anecdotal information, but hard, reliable data.

“One of the things I want with Go-Invest and the ministry is to have data that is reliable and regularly made available to the public that would indicate performance and inform investors and the business community.

“Transparency has been very dear to us over the years.

We constantly lamented the lack of information available to the public and we realise too that in the absence of hard data, it gives rise to speculation and most of the time speculation is not healthy. It does not help Guyana; it does not build confidence in the system and in our institutions. The thinking is if people have information, people can know what we are doing,” a confident Gaskin said.

For the time being, the challenges facing the entity are being identified. These will be fixed and the agency will begin to set benchmarks to be achieved. It will be guided by a strategic plan, which will soon be developed by Go-Invest Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Keith Burrowes and his technical team.

Minister Gaskin is not pleased with the way Go-Invest is currently operating, more particularly the level of investment it has attracted over the last decade.

But he pointed out that he is not certain if Go-Invest is to be blamed directly for this, noting that this happened probably because the agency was not adequately resourced and by virtue of this, it was unable to operate as it should.

To increase and promote investment here, Guyana will be moving to ensure Go-Invest has a vibrant presence in all the major countries where it has diplomatic representation. It will also establish investment desks at all its foreign missions.

CANNOT SIT BACK “We can’t sit back and wait for people to show an interest in Guyana, we have to go out there and sell Guyana as a venue for doing business and as a venue for making profits. The agency responsible for doing that is primarily Go-Invest. We need to be strategic; this is something that we will be working

towards to achieve over the next five years,” Minister Gaskin told this publication.

These efforts will be aided by a strong online and social media campaign, publication of magazines and a closer relationship with all private-sector agencies.

Go-Invest is not too well known outside of Georgetown, and the various chambers of commerce will be targeted, so as to get their members sufficiently informed about Go-Invest and what it does.

The intention is also to get them to spread the word on the services of the investment agency and how businesses can benefit from it.

Under the former Administration, the handling of Go-Invest was criticised; all investors did not go through Go-Invest. The then Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) also engaged investors.

Go-Invest CEO Minister Gaskin told the Keith Burrowes Chronicle that this will stop, stressing that the first stop for all potential investors will now be Go-Invest. There have also been allegations of Government interference in Go-Invest.

Instead of some investors’ applications being processed by the investment agency and other lawful agencies, the potential investors went to higher authorities and instructions were then passed down to Go-Invest and other agencies to see these applications through. Some of those Go-Invest was unaware of.

“It should not matter if you are investing in the extractive mineral, banking or manufacturing sector and you are looking for an investment agreement and if you want certain concessions, Go-Invest needs to be your first stop,”

the minister said, pointing out that there have been a lot of allegations over the last few years about the lack of transparency in the awarding of concessions to certain companies, which on the surface looks more generous than what were received by other companies in the same line of business.

LEVEL PLAYING FIELD “We need to look at this and have a level playing field for investors. A lot of what attracts investors has to do with investors’ confidence, which is brought about by fairness, transparency and good governance and respect for the law.

Respect for these contributes to a more investor-friendly climate,” Minister Gaskin noted.

Go-Invest does not have the authority to issue tax concessions, grant duty waivers, lands for development projects, mining concessions or any other leases.

Granting of these concessions is spelt out in legislation and they are administered by designated agencies such as the GGMC, the Lands and Surveys Commission, the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).

The minister emphasised that it is important for Go-Invest to have a close relationship with these agencies, so that there will be harmonisation in the interpretation of the law to avoid confusion in the granting of concessions.

“Go-Invest has to be familiar with the laws, so that it can say to the investor, this is what you are proposing, these are the requirements under the law and these are the agencies that need to process our applications or endorse your application in order for you to access whatever concession you want.

“All of these should be confirmed by Go-Invest at the first interaction, thereafter, they should advise the investor on what supporting documents are required to get the concession.”

Efforts will be made to process those transactions electronically to speed up reliability in service, Minister Gaskin said.

Guyana’s premier investment agency, Go-Invest, is set to undergo major reform

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SUNDAY CHRONICLE June 21, 2015

Most maternal deaths at GPHC result from late referrals - says Head GPH Maternity Ward

By Leroy Smith HEAD of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) Maternity Ward, Dr Lucio Pedro on Friday stated that many of the patients who come to the department and die before, during or after treatment are those who had been referred to the facility from other hospitals across the country, both public and private.

Dr Pedro was at the time speaking after a visit

by Minister within the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Karen Cummings. According to the head of department, the result of the practice of referring patients whose health is very poor is that the deaths occur at the GPHC, so they have to be recorded as happening there.

In most cases he added, the deaths could be avoided only if the other hospitals act responsibly and make proper judgments in ensuring that they transfer the patients in a timely manner to the GPHC. Dr Pedro said the staff work very hard to save the lives of patients who arrive there in critical condition, DR LUCIO PEDRO but it is sad to say that they cannot work miracles.

“When something bad happens we are not happy, the whole department is really sad when things happen. Every maternity death that happens here we are unhappy about; but people should know that we deliver over 6,000 persons here a year,” Dr Pedro explained.

Dr Pedro told the Chronicle that he was pleased that the minister had visited his department as it is always good when the persons responsible for the administration of facilities visit to get first-hand experience of the challenges being experienced.

The senior doctor made it clear that he was not pleased with the fact that patients who are transferred to the GPHC in critical condition could be been transferred earlier.

“I would like to have some of these things get out there; let midwives and doctors know and to say to them that if you have a problem, try to transfer those patients earlier rather than later,” he urged.

Over the years there have been many reported cases of maternal deaths at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, but the issue of late referrals has never really been brought to the fore.

What the GPHC had spoken about in the past, was the practice of several health centres and persons in communities who choose to make the GPHC their choice when seeking medical attention, when the same treatment could be done at health centres within those communities.

Berbicians to benefit from cataract surgeries - as National Ophthalmology Centre re-commences operations

By Navendra Seoraj AFTER ceasing operations due to a massive fire approximately one year ago, the National Ophthalmology Centre at Port Mourant in Corentyne, Berbice has been restored and is ready to re-commence cataract surgeries tomorrow.

As of Monday, the centre will provide services to residents of Berbice, but just one theatre will be functional for the time being.

This was according to Minister of Public Health, Dr George Norton, who deemed the institution ready

following his inspection of the newly refurbished facility yesterday.

"Surgeries will begin on Monday, but only one theatre will be working because one of the bulbs is overused and another microscope is damaged,” he said.

The minister noted that he is appalled that something so trivial, as a light bulb not working, could halt the functions of a theatre.

Nevertheless, he emphasised that the hospital is well equipped, but there is still a need for more human resources, in particular doctors, and that

is an issue that needs to be addressed.

Meanwhile, speaking to the Chronicle, the doctor in charge of the hospital, Dr Videshri Kaydar, said the fire last year had destroyed one of their theatres and also other parts of the building.

This, she noted, was a major setback because they were forced to spend almost an entire year sterilising the facility and replacing damaged equipment.

However, Dr Kayday said she is glad to have the facility back in operation, as they commence their operations tomorrow.

Prosecution closes case in septic tank murder trial

- Defence to make no-case submissions tomorrow THE prosecution has closed its case in the septic tank murder trial, making way for the defence to begin making no-case submissions.

The accused, who have all pleaded not guilty, are Ralph Tyndal, also called ‘Nick’; Anthony DePaul Hope, also called ‘Papa’; and Kevin O’Neil. They are charged with the murder of Ms Colleen Forrester, allegedly committed between December 27, 2007 and January 6, 2008.

Ms Forrester’s body was found in a septic tank in a yard in William Street, Campbellville, Georgetown.

The accused have all made caution statements, which trial judge Madame Justice Roxane George, has already ruled were freely and voluntarily given to the police.

The accused are represented by attorneys-at-law George Thomas, Madan Kissoon and Melvin Duke. Representing the prosecution are Miss Diana Kaulesar, Miss Stacy Goodings and Miss Sawnett Austin. (George Barclay)

Jury frees wife killer Charles - finds him guilty of Woolford of murder manslaughter by majority verdict

By George Barclay JUSTICE Brassington Reynolds has, on Friday, ordered a probation report on manslaughter convict Chares Anthony Woolford after a Demerara assizes jury found him not guilty of killing his wife Latoya, but guilty of the lesser count of manslaughter.

The probation report is expected to be presented on June 30th, when Justice Reynolds would impose sentence on the manslaughter convict who claimed he had caught his wife at home in a compromising position with a man named Andy.

A witness from Texas, USA testified that, when she was in Guyana, Andy had been a visitor to the Woolford home, but when questioned by Prosecutrix Miss Mercedes Thompson, it was discovered that this witness did not know Andy’s surname. This resulted in the prosecutrix concluding “that is because this particular Andy does not exist.”

On resumption of the trial on Friday, Justice Reynolds summed up the evidence to the jury in just over two hours.

After spending three hours deliberating, the jury returned to the court room for further direction in relation to the mystery man ‘Andy’ and the two small children of the deceased, who had not been called to give evidence.

When the jury returned to deliver its verdict, the foreman

Manslaughter convict Charles Woolford on his way to court on Friday. He was later found not guilty of murder but guilty of the lesser count of manslaughter

kept looking to a certain member of the jury for guidance. He told the registrar that the accused was not guilty of murder and not guilty of manslaughter, but had to be reminded by one of his colleagues on the panel that, for manslaughter, the verdict was a majority of 11 to one guilty.

This caused the judge to point out that he did not appreciate what was going on, and he advised the jury to further retire and then come back with its verdict. They retired as advised, but within 15 minutes, they returned with a not-guilty verdict in relation to the offence of murder and a majority verdict of 11 to 1 guilty for the offence of manslaughter.

Woolford had gone on trial for the alleged killing of his wife Latoya on February 8, 2009. One witness, a cousin of the dead woman, who lived at the top flat, said she was attracted by screams from the children, and had rushed downstairs in time to see the woman holding her abdomen and walking away crying.

The witness said she enquired what had happened, and was told by Latoya that “Tony bore me.” Latoya later died in hospital.

Attorney-at-Law Mr. Peter Hugh will, for the defence, make a plea in mitigation on June 30th.

Prosecuting for the DPP were Miss Mercedes Thompson, Miss Orinthea Schmidt and Mr. Michael Shahpoud.

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SUNDAY CHRONICLE June 21, 2015

A good servant or a bad master?

BATTLING THE FLOODS, RAIN AND COMPLACENCY

- in the city

By Neil Primus ‘WATER, water everywhere…’ The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge must have visited Guyana. I am neither referring to the mushrooming drinking water business, nor am I trying to bring attention to my country -- Guyana, Land of Many Waters. I am addressing the vexed issue of frequent flooding experienced by most Guyanese.

I can still remember the first flood I have witnessed, and there has since been a consistent series of this problem; and each time the public is offered all sorts of excuses: the pump is down, the gutters are cogged, torrential rain has fallen, the tide has been very high, this is the effect of spring tide, the waves have overtopped the seawall, the kokers have malfunctioned

Water - will it be a good servant of the Guyanese people, or a bad master?

Royston King

The GPL office on Middle Street surrounded by water on Friday

markets and other places of business are closed, families are relocated, and the poor are severely impacted.

We seemingly have The record levels of precipitation and to accept that floods will resultant flooding in various parts of be an intricate part of our the capital Georgetown and low lying lives. Is Guyana fast becoastal communities over Thursday coming the ‘flood capital night and yesterday is being closely of the world?’ Is there no monitored by officials of the Ministries end to this; no solution to of Public Infrastructure and Agriculture, save us from the maraudthe latter through its National Drainage ing waters? and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), and I sat down with Mr the Georgetown Mayor and City Council Royston King, PRO of (M&CC). the M&CC of Georgetown, and he explained in detail the factors that cause flooding, and what or have been neglected; and goods are damaged, houses we are up against. The picthe list goes on. are swept away, homes be- ture he painted was daunting.

Each time the water come inundated, utility poles According to the PRO, the makes its destructive incur- fall, trees come crashing factors that contribute to the sion into our lives, some of down, schools are closed, regular flooding we experi-

(6) feet below at high tide.

Spring tide is another matter.

2. There is a network of canals leading to sluices or

rainfall, a crisis is born: The kokers must be kept closed so as to keep out the water from the Demerara River and Atlantic Ocean. The flood created by heavy rainfall during this period must remain until there is low tide. That is when the sluice gates are raised to allow the necessary outflow.

the following occur: properties are destroyed, livestock die, crops are destroyed,

This was a scene on Thomas Street

Cummings and Downer Canals, leading to the Liliendaal outfall

Sandbags placed at the entrance to this Middle Street store to keep the water out, on Friday last

ence are as follows: 1. Georgetown and the coastlands are four (4) feet below sea level, and this becomes approximately six

kokers that allow the water to flow out into the Demerara River and the Atlantic Ocean. Whenever there is high tide and very heavy

3. Over the years, canals and drains designed See page 13

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Minor improvements for Fort Wellington Hospital - water supply woes to be addressed

By Navendra Seoraj FORT Wellington Hospital is set to receive minor improvements in areas such as the services offered and occupation of facilities, along with a better water system

Minister Dr George Norton interacts with a staff member

Minister Norton interacting with one of the younger patients at the institution

Dr. George Norton ‘checks out’ the back-up generator at the Fort Wellington hospital

for the hospital.

This was highlighted by Minister of Public Health, Dr George Norton, subsequent to his inspection of the institution

BATTLING THE FLOODS...

From page 12

to hold or capture excess water have been filled in to make roads and housing areas. Some parts of Cummingsburg, the Merriman Mall and Punt Trench Dam are prime examples.

This means that whenever there is the expected excess water, there is nowhere to store it; thus it becomes a flood.

4. There is a sharp increase in the number of residents concreting the surfaces of their yards. This reduces the capacity of the earth to absorb a large amount of water. This excess water then flows into drains that lack the capacity to hold it.

5. The capacity of existing canals has been radically reduced by the indiscriminate dumping of garbage into them. They now hold far less water, and the dumped garbage restricts the outflow of water from them.

6. Seventy (70%) per cent of blockage to drains and canals is done by plastic and styrofoam materials.

7. There is also the heavy aquatic growth in the canals.

This is due to squatters using these waterways as toilets.

The human refuse encourages rapid growth of aquatic weeds.

8. Approximately seventy (70%) per cent of the city’s drainage reserve is occupied by squatters. This means that these areas cannot be cleaned. This has a

Desilting of the Cummings Canal ongoing

negative effect on the capacity and flow of water, because the drains become heavily silted.

9. The thirteen (13) outfall channels are heavily silted. These have not been dredged for long periods.

This silt is caused by the deluge of sling mud being pumped down our coast by the mighty Amazon River.

That is why all our coastal waters are muddy.

There is also the scourge of derelict boats and ships left in close proximity to the outfalls. These block the progress of the water and add to our problems.

10. In some parts of the city, contractors have built concrete bridges over existing wooden bridges. Whenever a wooden structure collapses, it falls into the canal and causes blockage.

11. Businesses and pri-

vate citizens build very wide bridges without constructing any manholes to facilitate cleaning of the underlying gutter. This causes heavy blockage.

Mr King suggested that a multi-agency approach would be the only sure way to effectively tackle the flood situation. Agencies like EPA, M&CC, T&HD, Ministry of Infrastructure, CH&PA, Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Agriculture (Meteorological Department) should be involved in this exercise, he opined.

The PRO disclosed that, in 1999, a senior engineer, upon the request of the M&CC, estimated that it would take approximately $1B to completely overhaul the Georgetown drainage system. The situation had

since gotten progressively worse.

This means that cost has gone up tremendously.

According to King, the city’s budget is about $1.2B. This means that the council can’t finance such a critical venture.

King opined that the city needs to find ways of raising money. Over the last two decades, the city was restricted from embarking of a number of revenue raising activities, such as * A City lottery * Environmental Tax * Container Tax * Charging utility companies for planting posts on the City’s parapets.

Each time there is a flood, it causes untold hardships and damages estimated at millions of dollars. The famous 2005 flood left damages estimated at US$465M. Flooding is something Guyana could ill afford.

Over the past decade, millions have been spent on/or have been borrowed for the purpose of fighting floods.

When will Guyana come to grips with this potentially devastating phenomenon? Will water be a good servant of the Guyanese people, or will it be a bad master?

on Friday.

According to the minister, one of the major issues that would be addressed is the water supply. “The availability of water at this hospital is an issue which needs to be looked after as soon as possible, because this is a factor that is hindering the operations at the hospital,” he said.

He also expressed disappointment at the fact the hospital has a theatre which is not functioning. He therefore urged the Regional Health Officer (RHO) for Region 5 (Mahaica-Berbice), Dr Gavin Persaud, to try his utmost to get the theatre up and running.

This will, in turn, spare persons the inconvenience of having to be shifted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) when they can use the facilities in the area.

The minister also observed that there is need for additional equipment in the Rehabilitation Department so that practitioners there could execute their tasks more efficiently.

“While there are facilities here that are in need of more equipment, there are some which need to be used more, such as the Audiology Department,” asserted Dr Norton.

He further pointed out to the RHO that there is need for a permanent paediatrician at the hospital, so that children could be attended to in the area.

Minister Norton nevertheless lauded staffers at the hospital for promoting cleanliness and for performing most of their services efficiently and effectively.

Sunday June 21, 2015 - 05:30 hrs Monday June 22, 2015 - 08:30 hrs

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Former Minister, other senior Gov’t officials under probe - in alleged scam to transfer State assets

By Gary Eleazar FORMER Minister Dr Jennifer Westford and two senior Government officials were this past week implicated in the questionable transfer of State Assets to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, including a still to be accounted for high-end luxury vehicle.

The two Government officials from the Ministry of Public Service - since subsumed into the Ministry of Social Cohesion - are its personal officers, Margaret Cummings and Yohan Taylor, who have since been sent on leave and the police called in to launch an investigation.

Cummings and Taylor’s signatures were reportedly emblazoned on a number of pieces of documentation seeking to facilitate the transferal of the vehicles.

The Chronicle understands the suspicious transactions

were flagged by Permanent S e c r e t a r y, H y d a r A l l y, who reported it to the new Administration.

This publication has since seen copies of a letter, bearing the signature ‘Margaret Cummings’ in place of, or, on behalf of Permanent Secretary Hydar Ally, dated April 14, 2015 and addressed to the Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur, requesting the change of registrations of eight State owned vehicles, to a number of individuals including the then Minister Dr. Westford.

Others named for the vehicles’ registration to be transferred to their names include, Wayne Walker, Delroy Lewis, Gary Beaton, and Osbert.

The copy of the letter seen by the Chronicle bears a stamp acknowledging receipt by the GRA Commissioner General Secretariat at 14:00 hrs on

May 18 last, eight days after the General and Regional Elections.

Commissioner General Sattaur, when contacted by the Chronicle last evening, said it would be unfair of him to comment on a purported document he has not seen.

He was at the time asked what, if any, action was taken

by GRA since its receipt.

Commissioner General Sattaur denied having seen such a request and as such refused to comment on the matter. He did indicate that such transfers as intimated are not an unusual occurrence in Government entities, adding “it depends on the circumstances.”

The Chronicle has however, also seen copies of a letter purportedly inked by Sattaur and directed to Ally, in reference to the request for transfers since the vehicles once owned by the ministry were reportedly sold.

Sattaur, in the letter seen by

the Chronicle, dated June 10, 2015 in response to the April 14, 2015 request, advised the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary to reissue the request, since GRA “has the policy of not granting requests for transfers occurring before the new

just on vehicles but across the institution.

He said, what was returned to him, in his words “was not adequate,” and as such he probed further. Ally told the Chronicle he noticed a number of vehicles were unaccounted for.

Officer and was responsible for the management of the ministry’s fleet of vehicles.

Ta y l o r, t h e o t h e r employee implicated in the investigation, also worked in the Administrative arm of the

GRA CommissionerGeneral, Mr Khurshid Sattaur

Former Minister Dr. Jennifer Westford

Permanent Secretary Mr Hydar Ally

Some of the vehicles he said were noticeably absent from the Ministry’s compound, and not a part of the fleet, according to the Permanent Secretary.

Ally recalled that during his checks for the vehicles, checks were also made with GRA, since according to him, that agency would be in possession of the corresponding registration documentation.

Ally said he was subsequently contacted by GRA, when he learnt of the request for the transfers of registration, something which he said “I was totally unaware of.”

Cummings, one of the Government officials sent on leave was the Minister Westford’s Chief Personal

Ministry.

According to the Permanent Secretary, when he learnt of the transactions he reported his findings to the Minister of State, Lieutenant Colonel (rtd) Joseph Harmon, who has since ordered that the two implicated Government employees be sent on leaving pending an investigation.

The Guyana Police Force has since launched an investigation into the matter.

In documentation seen by the Chronicle, the Permanent Secretary replied to the GRA Commissioner General indicating that the request for the transfer of vehicles to the former Minister and other named individuals be halted since, “to the best of my knowledge no documentation relative to the sale of the said vehicles has been seen.”

The Permanent Secretary’s response to Sattaur was also copied to Minister Harmon and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Presidency, Omar Sharief.

This publication was told that the Former Minister has since been requested to provide assistance in locating the vehicles belonging to the Public Service Minister and those loaned to the Ministry by the Ministry of the Presidency.

Dr Westford, the former PPP/C Public Service Minister was also asked to provide assistance “to locate a vehicle purchased from Rudisa Motor Company (Guyana) Inc for the sum of nine million dollars ($9,000,000).”

That vehicle, according to the Public Service Ministry’s records, was purchased in July 2013, a brand new Kia Sorento, for the Minister’s use.

Government took office, unless a letter is issued during the current Administration.”

Permanent Secretary Hydar Ally has also since denied any involvement in the suspect transfer of the state assets.

In fact, Ally claims to have had no knowledge of the transaction when contacted by the Chronicle.

Ally indicated that since it was a Police matter he did not want to elaborate much on the details but that it emerged as a result of a general inventory at the Ministry following the just concluded elections.

During a brief interview with the Chronicle last evening, Ally said following the elections, he requested that an inventory be conducted, not

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GeoTechV re-launched

R A section of those in attendance

EGIONAL geospatial intelligence company, GeoTechVision, has re-launched one of its franchises in Guyana last Thursday evening after being out of operation since 2012.

Specialising in innovative spatial technologies and business information and communications technology (ICT) solutions, this company was birthed in Jamaica by female entrepreneur Ms Valrie Grant, a University of the West In-

which the ministry has expressed intention to pursue have already been discussed with Ms Grant.

Additionally, a task force which is currently being created by the Infrastructure Ministry will source GIS services from this company.

To this end, Minister Patterson congratulated the company on its re-launch, and reiterated his vision for a more developed Guyana, aided by companies of this nature.

Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patter of GeoTechVision last Thursday evening dies trained Geologist, who also holds a Masters degree in Geographic Information Systems and Environment.

Officially welcoming the company to Guyana was Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, who immediately seized the opportunity to underscore the importance of entrepreneurship steered by females.

Noting that Guyana would have been further advanced had women played a more integral role in business, the Minister lauded Ms Grant’s persistence and stressed the need for Guyanese women to follow suit.

Relative to the company’s role in Guyana, Patterson explained that modernisation has forced all ministries within Guyana to recognise the importance of geographic information systems (GIS); consequently, the services provided by GeoTechVision are highly anticipated.

The minister further related that several initiatives

The spotlight was then shifted to Ms Grant, managing director of the company, who, capitalising on the opportunity to provide a historical account of the GeoTechVision, detailed the nature of the company. She said the company, which delivers innovative technological solutions designed to overcome challenges, is one which is much needed in Guyana, given that no other company currently provides most, if not all, of the services available.

Geospatial information and intelligence, she said, is one of the critical elements underpinning decision-making in addressing some of the Region’s most enduring challenges, including economic development, environment and resource management, climate change, and environmental and disaster management.

She said it is for this reason that she opted to establish a base in Guyana, which is now regarded as the com-

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Vision has d in Guyana pany’s “second home.”

With much of its work having to do with supporting the development of “shore zone management systems” designed to help monitor and manage the local sea defence structure, the company is currently working along with the Guyana Mangroves Management Project, providing geographical services for the protection and maintenance of Guyana’s sea defence.

Prior to this, the GeoTechVision team had served

ects Regionally. The first, launched some time ago in Jamaica, involves development of specially made Geo brand Android-based tablets which serve as part of a classroom management solution for the digitial classroom experience.

The second project involves delivery of an entrepreneur incubator programme, which is one of only 10 incubators selected across the Caribbean to be part of the Accelerate Caribbean Business Incubation

rson, addressing the gathering at the relaunch

as a rescue team for Guyana, working in the employ of the Ministry of Public Works a few years ago.

With an almost impossible deadline of three months for the Public Works Ministry to execute a project, the institution opted to source Regional services (that of GeoTechVision), which managed to successfully complete the project.

Additionally, the company has also worked with the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) on the mapping of its assets as part of a needs assessment exercise.

GeoTechVision, as a Regional company, serves more than just providing technological solutions to highly complex problems. In fact, one of the aims of the company is to assume some amount of responsibility for regional integration, aiding in the development of the Caribbean.

Not limited to GIS services, the company has embarked on two major proj-

Clinic by Infodev (a World Bank Group).

The incubator offers new and start-up business assistance by providing services such as management training and entrepreneurial guidance to grow a company to a successful state.

Now located at Lot 50 Brickdam, GeoTechVision will, through the GeoTechVision Academy, seek to offer institutionalised training programmes for public and private sector persons.

Some products offered by the company are the RTK UAV/Drone Surveys; Trimble solutions; Mobile GPS receivers; branded mobile storage devices; Geo-tablets; and data products.

Services provided by the company include the GeoTechVision Academy; geospatial consultancy and advisory services; GIS technical services; IT services; Geomatic solutions; classroom management solution; and GPS tracking. (Ravin Singh)

The GeoTechVision is located on Brickdam

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The happy youth participants of the ‘YouthLink’ event

Global Shapers event boosts cohesion among youth groups, NGOs

SEVERAL Youth Groups and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) participated in the Global Shapers Community (Georgetown Hub) recent ‘YouthLink’ event that was geared at boosting cohesion among groups to aid in further developing Guyana.

The event provided a forum where youths from different groups had the opportunity to not only work together but to also realise that regardless of the mandate of their group, if come together, faster results would be realised.

The event’s activities were planned under the theme of ‘sustainability’ as part of the Global Shapers Community's ‘SHAPE Sustainability’ initiative.

Participants began by forming "the human knot" and making animal sounds to find their team members.

Te a m s t h e n h e a d e d into the National Park for a treasure hunt where they participated in activities to earn points that would eventually be used to buy materials to build a “sustainable city”.

While teams were away on their treasure hunt, team leaders remained at the venue to create a blueprint for the building of the sustainable city. This was the primary task of the day.

Ten teams worked on ten different blocks of the city blueprint using all sorts of recyclable craft materials like cardboard, plastic bottles, Styrofoam and even natural materials likes plants, leaves and sand.

After the city blocks were put together to form a complete city with roads, housing, a hospital, school, alternative power supplies, a dock and a hotel, participants engaged in a

vibrant discussion about sustainable activities and practices.

YouthLink 2015 ended with a Lottery draw. During registration that morning, participants were encouraged to donate $100. Those funds, in addition to some funds from the Georgetown Hub, were awarded to one of the participating organisations.

All the names were placed in a box and one was picked at random. The Leo Club of Ruimveldt won $10,000 which will go to one of the great projects they are working on.

This was the first event of its kind held locally and aimed to assist in building relationships between many youth organisations, including those with youth involvement through social networking, while fostering a sense of community among participants.

The Georgetown Hub, in a statement, also extended its most sincere gratitude to the sponsors that made the event possible: W&T George Group of Companies, GMR&SC, Zoon, Southland International, German’s Restaurant, Caribbean Containers Inc., Food For T h e P o o r, S o c i a l R a n k Media, and Everything Makes Craft.

The Global Shapers Community is a worldwide network of more than 400 city-based Hubs developed and led by promising young leaders between the ages of 20 and 30, who want to build on their achievements and entrepreneurial drive to make a positive contribution to their communities.

Together, they embody the “community of the future”, bringing together empowered youth in a community that is diverse, decentralised, and digitally hyper connected.

The Global Shapers

Community is an initiative of the World Economic Forum and is independent, neutral, non-political and not for profit.

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 classes: Age 4-17 years ($5 000). Congratulations to my top Grade 6 students Aselah Najab with 518 marks. (Queen's College). CXC Adults, classes for January 2016 exams. Phonics classes/computer classes. 2311209, 690-5008, 657-7398, 6197911.  in furthering your education or rewriting CXC subjects - English, Mathematics or Business? Register with Achievers' Academy - trained teachers, atmosphere conducive, a registered centre. All in one package, Certificate and Diploma - England with City & Guilds offered. Call for information 613-2928, 683-4667,  School: Professional Achievement Classes registering Forms 1-5 students for a unique summer school programme that caters for a variety of skills and subjects.

Enrol now to be a part of this rewarding and dynamic programme, starting July 7, 2015 - August 12, 2015. Call 225-3931, 641-4030, 218-0126.

 person determined for success and prosperity or freelancer. Call 225-2626.

PENPAL

PENPAL

 Must be attractive and between the ages of 18 and 30, to work at a bar on the East Coast. Tel: 685-0511.

 Indian male seeks female between ages 30 and 40 years for a serious relationship.

Call or text 686-5886. s e r vSERVICES ice

 to fridges, washing machines, gas stoves, air condition units etc. Contact Kirk 666-2276.

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 car drivers to work and keep cars. Contact 654-7510 for more information.

 Albert, kindly check with Ministry of Housing and Water Region 6 Office.

 Chowkai Construction: Building of homes, building, renovations, carpentry, masonry, tiling, lacquering, painting. Call: 682-4533.

 , a high science spiritual healer solves all purpose problems such as reuniting lovers, husband/wife, marriage, blockage, prosperity, pregnancy, overseas, court, land, removal of evil, enemies, jobs, money, bad luck, visa, sickness, clearing of and dredge operation, etc. Tel: 671-3204.

 & semi-skilled w e l d e r / f a b r i c a t o r. Te l : 2 2 0 4165, 623-1001.

NOTICE

 body repair, complete professional service offered. Contact Neshal Tel: 2332811, 679-5120.

 help: You suspect something is wrong but you are not sure, I will seek God's divine leading to help you. Whatever is wrong, God has an answer for every problem. Call mother 661-2456, 2191141.

 driver and porters. Salary and commission. Tel: 226-5473.

NOTICE

 custom brokerage & break bulk cargo to USA, Canada & UK etc. 223-6056, 231-7185.

 Spiritualist: resolving all problems, blockage, love, and money, etc - Tele: 2236834, 600-7719.

 part-time Phonics & Reading teacher Tel: 654-6021.

 1000 HP & barge 1 200 tons. Contact Blacky on 6234045, 227-5500.

 repair refrigerators, freezers, AC, washers, dryers 2310655, 683-8734.

Spirituality SPIRITUALITY

    

RENTAL/HIRE

Classes: Enrol now at Monar Educational Institute, 192 Lance Gibbs Street, Queenstown. Call 223-7226, 227-3338, 227-4798, July 7 - July 31, 2015.

 care at home Essential Care Agency offers care for the elderly, nanny/baby sitting services, housekeeping, counselling, physiotherapy. Need any of these services at home? Contact Essential Care Agency, Guyana's foremost home care company with an amazing track record of sensitivity, respect and understanding. Call us on 684-2418 or e m a i l essentialcare@qualityservice.com We are located at 87 Barrack Street, Kingston, Georgetown.

VACANCY

RENTAL/HIRE

 Albert, kindly check with Ministry of Housing and Water Region 6 Office.

 your Composition, Mathematics, Gramm a r and Handwriting Skills.

Call Full Benefit Academy on (592) 651-5220.

SERVICES

MASSAGE

e d uc a t i o n a l

 Academy is offering classes for all ages in both theory and practical music.

Enrol now!! Call (592)6515220, 680-0632

HEALTH HEALTH

instudyingintheUK? We can help with all preparations.

Contact us locally. Call 627-4566.

Full and detail information :Face book page - "Coming to the UK"  Bookkeeping Service: Bookkeeping using Quickbooks Pro Plus 2011, Bank statements for mortgages and loans. Reasonable rates. Phone 231-0340, 673-7572 - email berrue123@yahoo.com .   Visa Service. Professional Visa applications to the US and Canada. Fees USA VISA $3000, Canada $4000, Plaza Computer Service, 245 Sheriff Street, C/ville. 225-7390, 6180128, 688-1874. Open Monday to Sunday 09:00hrs 21:00hrs

 moulder and r i p s a w o p e r a t o r, c h a i n s a w owner, any operator. Call Richard, 609-7675, 233-2614, 674-1705.  Engineer, Bond Clerk, Office Clerk, Security Officers, Chef/Cook, Kitchen Assistant, Waiter/Waitress, Labourer. Contact 603-4094.  Sales Clerks.

Apply with written application to 2J's General Store, Lot 148149 E½ Regent Road, Bourda, Georgetown. Phone 225-2350.  for interior location; must know to cook and bake a wide variety of items.

Strictly non-smoker. Applicants must be experienced with verifiable references. Others need not apply. Call 618-2020.

VACANCY

 Educational Institute, 192 Lance Gibbs Street, Queenstown: Trained/experienced teachers for Primary, Secondary & Nursery. Registration ongoing for the new term for fulltime classes, pre-school, nursery, primary & secondary. Fees are affordable. Call 223-7226, 2273338, 227-4798.  Clerk highly motivated and energetic person with 3 subjects CXC and 2 years min. experience in retail sales. Must be computer literate. Apply to Lens 136 Sheriff Street, G/town. Call 227-2486.  experienced security guards, supervising site inspectors, qualified vehicle drivers, speed boat operators. New wage structure in force, applicants must be between 20 and 45 years old. Apply to: GEB HQ, 10 Providence, EBD with (2) authentic references & Police Clearance. LORRY LICENCE REQUIRED,  TO SELL COOKING GAS,    WORKING 12 HRS FOR UP TO $4,000 PER NIGHT, PART TIME             266 4427  Accounts Clerk, Sales Clerk and Bond 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 Roy's Pharmacy Stall #32-33 & #64-65 Bourda Market, Georgetown. Also Packing Clerk/Cleaner, age 35-50 years. Please call 223-6072.   - Minimum subjects Mathematics, English - Grades 1-3, knowledge & experience with Corel 15, Adobe CS5 Suite, National ID, TIN Certificates, NIS card, Two character references including one from last employer.      Minimum three years experience as Heidelberg KORD Operators, Minimum subjects of Mathematics and English with Grades 1-3, two character references. Must have Police Clearance.  materials stores.  - three years experience in Materials Stores handling, issuing and preparing Materials Consumption reports, Maths and English Grade 1-3 CXC- F & H Printing Establishment 90-92 John Street, Campbellville, Greater Georgetown. Tel: 225-7114 to arrange for interview 09:00hrs 16:00hrs daily, Monday to Friday.

Land For Sale

LAND FOR SALE

  

GUYANA CHRONICLE, SUNDAY JUNE 21 2015 22 LAND FOR SALE    $11M. Contact 600-0762, 604-0459.    Street, Georgetown lot with incomplete fence. Call 663-1728. , and Versailles WBD, gated compound     at Parfaite Harmonie, size 45x80. Price $3M neg. Contact 693-3317, 660-0171, 216-0094.   land, 5 minutes drive from circuit area, Timehri. For information, call 626-7684 (Ally).  1200ft x 40ft. La Grange, Unity Street. Price $7.5M. Call Amar 621-6037.  lots available at Eccles, EBD - $14M Tel: 592-227-2913, 592-689-3033.  Street: Commercial land near Nigel's Supermarket.

Call 654-1382.  single cab pickup, needs engine. Asking $1M, bush truck $4M. Contact 654-1382.   Residential lots 50'X100'. Interested persons can contact 2251787, 231-5359   EBD $7M, $5M, Non Pareil $3M, Diamond $8M. Tel: 225-3737, 651-7078.  Pradoville 2, five lots together, large lots $60M. Tel: 225-3737, 651-7078.  Parika (market area) 50x105 size. Price neg., Contact 644-9520, 2230816.  Street business spot 120x45. Price $70M neg.

Contact Town to Country 6727390, 616-3200.  Street, Alberttown 45x110. Price $17.5M. Contact Contact Town to Country 6727390, 616-3200.  transported land at Belle West, Canal No.2 Polder.

Price $1.5M neg. Tel: 689-9059.  Providence 55x100 $4.5M EBD, $3M Friendship.

Contact 604-0459, 698-2064.  business spot, land 350x40 - $48M. Contact Town to Country 672-7390, 6163200.  Street land between Alexander & Camp, big land 83x130 - $3.9M. Contact Town to Country 672-7390, 6163200.  Ocean View lands. All located in Triumph, ECD. 622-7097, 624-7111, 220-2130.   10 acres $2M neg., Long Creek 20 acres $9.5M neg. Tel: 220-8596, 6439196, 686-1091, 610-7998.  Diamond Third Avenue/ Providence, land with concrete fence, land filled to road height, size 110x60 & 100x50. Tel: 624-7684.  lots at Republic Gardens very close to main entrance, 50x100 - $12M. Call 624-6069.  land at Princetown, Corriverton. Ideal for any commercial business, church, bond etc Price neg. Contact 638-5993.  land at Continental Park/Republic Park, a high-income residential area. 233-0570.  lots and acres of land at Parika, Orangestein, Essequibo. Contact 655-0546, 675-8834, 691-6733.  location land Lama Avenue, Bel Air Park. 166 ft. frontage x 34ft Tel: 225-4413, 2250283, 621-2677, 669-1113.  $12M, $8M, Diamond $12M, Ogle $30M, Kingston $85M, Dennis Street $21M, D'Urban Backlands, Sheriff Street $180M, Charlotte Street $75M. Contact MK's Realty 676-3405.

SUNDAY CHRONICLE 22 June 21, 2015

LAND FOR SALE

TO LET

TO LET

 Non Pareil ECD - Parcel of developed land 45'x110', good road, water, electricity, phone, nice neighbourhood. Price $4M. Tel: 225-3737, 651-7078.

 property in Hadfield Street, behind Brickdam Station. Call 654-1382.

 Da Silva Street, parking for 2 cars, fully grilled - $80 000. Call Eric 616-5914.

 Estate Road, just off public road, land 90'x550'. Price $30M, Pradoville 5 lots $85M, land on public road 100'x250'. Price $35M. Tel: 225-3737, 651-7078.

 space $35 000, Duncan Street, Bel Air Park 225-2709, 2312064, 227-6949, 225-2626.  house Diamond EBD $14.5M. Contact 6040459, 698-2064.

 for office space at Carmichael Street opposite Bishops' High School. large three-storey historic building at Crown and Albert Street, Queenstown. Contact 676-8827, 6456828, 629-6584, 697-4800, Diamond $8M, $10M, Linden Highway 35 acres on main highway $15M, house lots in gated compound, Schoon Ord WBD $8-10M, Leonora land $3M. Tel: 225-3737, 651-7078.

 Business space to rent on Regent Road. Tel: 6412419.

 WCD, Corner property overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Also property at   Call: 269-0020  in Lama Avenue, Bel Air Park for apartment, 166x39 - $60M. Phone 692-3831, Ms Sookdeo 6105350, Ms Mohan 644-0408, Mr Mohan Lall 660-2600, Mr Boodram 626-4180, Mr Pereira 225-2626, 225-3068, 226-1064.

 Gardens 2-bedroom, furnished US$800, nice.

616-5914, Eric.

 $3.5M, Vreed-enHoop 41x320, Linden Highway 16 acres, Leonora WCD, Hague 75x300, La Parfaite Harmonie $1.3M, Alberttown Georgetown, Best Village, Cornelia Ida $2.3M, Haarlem WCD, Canal No. 2 Polder, Kitty 50x145 - 629-8253, 615-3728.  invite you to purchase the followinge land for bond , Chandra & Gange 125x120 corner lot $65M, William Street, 120x45 foefr bond, Gange 125x62 in Prashad Nagar for bond. Phone Mr Boodram 692-3831, Mr Pereira 6232591, 669-, 226-1064, 225-3068, 225-2626, 225-5198, 225-2709.  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 $32M, Phone Mr Boodram 6923831, Mr Pereira 225-3068, 2261064.   Georgetown $25M (1 acre) Crane New Scheme $6M, (Foundation 45x110), Yarrowkabra 16 acres include 3-bedroom house and one maid's quarters $20M, Herstelling 60x120 $14M, Herstelling Fourth Bridge 50x100 $5M, Republic Gardens (2 lots) $20M, Railway Embankment (Better Hope) $15M 686-3153, 225-8101, 225-8103, 678-3230.

TO LET TO LET       on earth: Massage service. 678-7499. Property for rental/ sale.Tel. 220-5095, 628-1242.  bedroom apartment with parking - $65,000 per month.  2-bedroom house in Kitty area. Contact 644-8074.  large self-contained apartment in Triumph. 220-2760.  business place to rent in Regent street .Call : 665-6453.  spaces at the corner of Albert and Fifth Streets.

Contact 690-0213.  executive apartments US$700 and US$900.

Contact 604-0459, 698-2064.  executive US$800, Lamaha Springs. Contact 604-6459, 698-2064.

 unfurnished bottom flat, two bedrooms $45 000. Call 226-1064, 2276949, 669-3350.  upper flat on East Bank by Harbour Bridge near M&M Snackette, $55 000 monthly. 642-8436.

 Park 2-bedroom, nice - $80 000 Call Eric, 616-5914.

 junction. Prime commercial land 58'X86';    single and double lots. For serious enquires please call 2690020 during office hours.

 for bachelors only, inclusive of bed, table & chair located at D'Urban Street, Lodge.

Call 231-7166, 226-2135.

 furnished two-bedroom apartment, next to UG. Tel: 680-7622, 222-4635.

  - $150 000 monthly. Contact 600-0762, 6040459.    apartments, spacious $45 000 & $60 000. Contact 600-0762, 6040459.  Street Campbellville 3-bedroom US$500. Eric 616-5914.  two-bedroom apartment at 51 Better Hope South, ECD. 650-1319.  bottom flat furnished at 226 Good Hope ECD. Contact 661-9193, 234-0641.  2-bedroom furnished & unfurnished $75000 $90 000. Eric 616-5914.  upper flat at Vryheid's Lust Public Road $65 000 monthly. 220-4243.  and unfurnished apartment at LBI. Call 624-6772.  Area, business place.

Contact Bevan 259-3027, 6153548.  apartment, fully furnished, Atlantic Gardens, ECD. Call 621-1738.  new two-bedroom apartments at Block 8 Mon Repos.

Contact 652-5668.  bedroom apartment at 248 Area J Industry, ECD, Two-bedroom apartment at La Parfaite Harmonie. Tel: 666-8585.  apartments from US $900, US $1000, US $1200 and upwards . Tel:6461712, 693-8532.  shop & hair salon, 245 Sheriff Street, Campbellville $100 000/monthly Call 671-2543, 225-3805.  executive apartment US$750 per month, electricity included, Lamaha Park.

Contact 604-0459, 698-2064. -bedroom apartment furnished in central Georgetown. Asking $65 000 monthly. Call 226-2833/ 678-9525 for further information.  ft, Earl's Court LBI, ECD. Contact 6768827, 629-6584, 697-4800, 6456828.  bottom flat in Diamond, First Bridge. Contact 684-0051, 676-4061.

 apartment with internet access, generator and parking. K. Raghubir. Tel: 6420636, 677-8176.  place, King Street: Large and fully secured ground floor. No renovations. Tel: 642-0636.  three-bedroom top flat with all conveniences. K. Raghubir. Tel: 6420636, 677-8176.  /office space Albert Street, East Street, Kitty.

Tel: 226-8148, 625-1624.  Sheriff Street furnished $90 000, 3-bedroom Sheriff Street, furnished $120 000.

Call Eric 616-5914. /restaurant, central location, with all fixtures and fittings. Tel: 225-0545.

TO LET  furnished apartment, AC, hot & cold water, internet US$25 daily & also monthly.

Call 621-1524, 231-6061.  3-bedroom upstairs, grilled, toilet and bath inside, telephone, parking, spacious living quarters at EBD. 6685384, 648-3342.

 Furnished two-bedroom apartment, self-contained, AC, fully grilled, parking area.

Price $120 000 monthly. Tel: 2253737, 651-7078.

 Fully furnished 1- & 3-bedroom apartments, AC hot & cold, internet, parking etc. Suitable for overseas visitors, short term 226-5137, 227-1843.

 21 McDoom, EBD: 3storey concrete building, strong security 35x100 size, fully steel door window. Call 619-4483, 667-8841.

 3 bedroom apartment (upstairs) self-contained, in Atlantic Gardens, un-furnished, A/C. Tel.: 690-3484, 226-5351, 697-3621

 modern 1-, 2- & 3- bedroom, starting from US$400, fully grilled, semifurnished, air-conditioned & secure parking. Contact 623-4861.

 ST MALL - $4M MONTHLY, NEW HOME $US1000, HOUSE $1000, TUSCHEN HOUSE-$45,000, TEL:223-1765/615-8734.

-flat apartment, single room, toilet and bathroom.

6 Seaforth Street, Campbellville.

Tel: 227-8073, 670-1537.

 fully furnished Kitty $60 000 - $80 000, 2-bedroom fully furnished Kitty $100 000, 3-bedroom fully furnished Kitty $120 000. Call Eric 6165914.

 semi-furnished 2-bedroom apartment, one self-contained, 2 wash rooms at 125 4th Street, Alberttown. Tel: 227-3087, 616-7318.

  2-bedroom furnished $120 000, Meadow Bank furnished US$1500, houses between $80 000 and $200 000. Executive rentals available. 686-3153, 225-8103, 658-3928, 225-8101, 678-3230.

 constructed short-term apartment/rooms in Herstelling, EBD. Contact Handel on 621-6862, 655-3065, 514-430-7764.

 Mining 231-9488: Mining positions to operate or mine. Mabura, Monkey Mountain, Merume, Semang, Imbaimadai, Chi Chi, Yarakita, Berbice - 10% rental.

   2 - 2-bedroom apartments, 32 Earl's Court, LBI, ECD, AC rooms, parking space Tel: 616-1914.

   furnished and unfurnished apartments $85 000 to $160 000. Business space.     bottom flat apartment on East Coast Public Road, includes electricity - $40 000. 2201630, 638-1829.  fully furnished apartment, 115 Thomas Street, Kitty Georgetown 225-0071, 6747420, 600-5473.  places suitable for office, snackette, salon $100 000, $90 000, $60 000. Contact 600-0762, 604-0459.  10ft. x 45ft for boutique, office, beauty salon, snackette etc. Prepaid meter. $50 000. Contact 685-7566.

-bedroom unfurnished apartment in Thomas Street, Kitty.

Price $40 000. Contact 639-2728.

 Repos: One-bedroom bottom flat, inside toilet & bath, single person preferred. $20 000 monthly Tel: 613-4536

 spot North Road & Orange Walk. Price $85 000.

Tel: 220-8596, 643-9196, 6861091, 610-7998.

 self-contained apartment, telephone & parking, situated at 2nd Avenue, Diamond $35 000 monthly (rent). Contact 604-0819.

-bedroom apartment, Plaisance Public Road, ECD $60 000. All amenities included. Parking available. 673-1445.

 house in Prashad Nagar area, furnished, new kitchen US$1800 monthly neg. garage etc. 628-7884.

 Public Road: 2storey concrete building each floor 90ft x 35ft with existing supermarket, Western Union, snackette etc. $1M monthly neg., Naresh Persaud, 225-9882, 681-2499.  Khan Real Estate office at First Federation Life Building, Croal Street. If you want to buy, rent, sell, we do background check before we give your keys.

Also property management service. Tel: 696-9289, 689-3147.

 furnished room for single working female $20 000 monthly, Sheriff Street, Georgetown. Call 621-7707.

 vacant business place at Alexander Street and Shell Road, Kitty. Call 227-5637, 6724104. Interested persons only.

 fully grilled, spacious two-bedroom apartment $45 000 monthly. Contact 225-8461, 6772542. Ask for Shirley or Soldier.  -Spacious 3 & 2 bedrooms apartment. Back building, no parking $80,000/ $60,000.     

 apartment situated in Section 'A' Diamond H/ Scheme, EBD. Contact 658-9986 between 09:00hrs and 16:00hrs.

 Office/ business space 400-6000 sq. feet, available parking etc from US$350 neg. Tel: 624-4225.

  luxury houses in Bel Air Park, master rooms fully AC, brand new kitchens/baths US$2200, US$1600 m onthly.

Please call 231-4172, 231-7839.

 office space at Lot 239 Quamina Street, central Georgetown. Parking available in private yard. Tel: 592-227-2973, 592-689-3033.

 Acres US$2000, Atlantic Gardens US$5000, Bel Air Park US$3000, US$500 Contact MK's Realty 676-3405.

 5-bedroom house at C6 Happy Acres, ECD. Large parking space, AC, hot & cold, alarm. Tel: 616-1914.

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 Court, EBD: 4-bedroom 2-storey concrete house with large parking area.

Ideal for company - $140 000.

Naresh Persaud 225-9882, 6812499.  2-bedroom US$800, 3-bedroom US$1000, 1-bedroom US$400, Prashad Nagar 3-bedroom US$2000. Tel: 220-8596, 610-7998, 643-9196, 686-1091.  apartment situated at 68 Campbellville, Royal Drive $100 000 monthly. Contact 650 6515, 222-2070.  2-bedroom apartment furnished/unfurnished, fully tiled, water & electricity. Readily available. Contact 611-0777, 231-1876. 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.  apartment, semi-furnished, situated at AA, Eccles, peaceful and quiet for couple./Price US$600 neg Call Pete's Real Estate, 227-2487, 226-9951, 623-7805.   furnished 3bedroom house including one master room, hot and cold water system, yard space and parking, located at Eccles Young Professional H/S, EBD. Tel: 623-2035, 220-4804.  3-bedroom, newly constructed house with large yard space at Non Pareil Public Road.. fContact 5 9 2 - 6 00-6023. Price US$600 monthly.

                                     on Regent Street (next to City Hall) 2 Storey Rental Units: 1000 sq. ft, 1450 sq. ft, 1350 sq. ft. Suitable for Retail/Wholesale Store & Warehouse For more information: 226-2344 between 8am to 5pm  Covent Garden, EBDm large two- storey concrete building, nice for supermarket or other business. Price $300 000.

Church and Thomas Streets large top floor, good for office or business. Price $200 000. Tel: 2253737, 651-7078.  UG and Teachers Training Training College students, one 2-bedroom with built-in toilet and bath on a lower flat at 16 Area Q Turkeyen, Guysuco Gardens. Price $40 000 to $45 000 monthly. Can negotiate. Contact 222-0335, 6449613, 663-3958.     Atlantic Gardens split level two-storey, 4 bedrooms, all self-contained.

Meadow Brook Gardens twostorey, 3 bedrooms. Both with all modern conveniences .    

SUNDAY CHRONICLE June 21, 2015 23 TO LET                      , spacious 2-storey 3-bedroom semi-furnished house, Section A, Block X, Diamond, one master bedroom with AC, 2 living rooms, study room, garage, dining room, parking for multiple cars, modern kitchen with granite counter top. Price $140 000. Please contact us at 225-9527, 223-4184 email sizwe9890@yahoo.com.  Gardens: Onebedroom apartment, fully furnished with all amenities including electricity, water, phone, AC. Extremely well secured with grille/mosquito mesh, own driveway and parking. Suitable for visiting consultants or overseas visitors. Available on both long- and short-term basis. Tel: 624-5857, 621-4622, 226-9162.  one-bedroom apartment available which is ideal for student, couple or single persons looking for a place in the South Ruimveldt area that is affordable, peaceful and with available parking, wireless internet etc. Price US$400 monthly. Serious enquiries. Please call 649-2251, 601-9323.  Furnished upstairs two bedrooms, self-contained rooms with grille, MMC. Hot & cold, generator overhead tank with pump and water filter system, solar, AC. Very close to seawall and all main roads.

Excellent for diplomats and overseas business personnel. Price US$1200 neg. monthly. Contact 226-9929.   "Have Faith in Christ, Today" 231-5244/623-6431/657-8887/ 6 6 8 0 2 3 8 jewanalrealty@gmail.com               2/1)-US$7000 with pool/US$2500;   (fully furnished)US$2500;   3 storied-US$3000/ 2 storiedUS$2200/US$1500;  -US$2500/US$1500/ US$800/ US$500;    -US$2000/ US$1500;  Fully Furnished US$2500;  US$2000;    (house)-US$2500/$1000;  -Upscale and spacious 3 bedrooms upper with balcony-$150,000; REPUBLIC GARDENS (Gated community) spacious 1 bedroom lower $65,000;    Semi-furnished (water & electricity included)$120,000;  ,B.V-Furnished US$900.      (3200 sq ft ideal for Offices, Bank,etc)- US$4,200/ Executive Middle Floor (formerly call centre ideal for office/business/etc)-US$1500;   (2 floors for schools, etc)- US$1500;  Above Sankar's- Restaurant, Church, School)-Upper US$1500/ Lower Back US$800;         (spacious bond): ,US$2500;  (ground floor)US$3000;   ideal for lawyer's office $80,000/ Travel Agency US$1000;    "Spaces at Time Square Mall"1st Floor- US$700/ 2nd FloorUS$500/ RoofGarden-US$2000;  Commercial Public Road-US$5000;    3 classrooms with A/C - US$800;    (any type of business)-US$800;  $100,000; BAGOTSTOWN business$120,000.

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  W o r l d # 1 R e a l t or Mister Terry Redford Reid 6677812, 225-6858, 225-7164, 2261064, 225-2626, 231-2068, 6197945. Have the executive rental reduc e d by 35%, Prashad Nagar US$1000, Jac a r anda Ave. Bel Air Park US$2000, Barima Ave Bel Air Park US$18 0 0 , Bel Ai r S prings US$1000, large bond for rental office small form US$3 75, 10 000 sq ft o f f i c e space for te c hn o l o g y b u s i n e s s . 22 5 2626, 225-5198, 226-1064, 6232591, 669-3350.

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 Avenue: Large fourbedroom executive concrete building, no repairs. Vacant possession.

Tel: 642-0636.

 F-G Vryheid's Lust ECD Better Hope double lot 10 000 sq. ft. good for factory. Lot 37 Better Hope South, Lot 48 Light Street Alberttown. Call 619-4483, 667-8841 anytime.

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 FOR SALE $26M. TEL:223-1765/6158734. -flat concrete and wooden house in Annandale.

Call 613-0557.  when buying, selling or letting. Call 644-6551 anytime.  two-storey house in Eccles $32M. neg. Tel: 611-1018, 639-1216.

 & wooden building in Campbellville, sold by owner. Tel: 225-1376, 613-9461.  Backlands: Twostorey concrete house, well kept $31M. Contact Town to Country 672-7390, 616-3200.  Park: Two-storey house, big yard, needs repair $40M. Contact Town to Country 672-7390, 616-3200. -storey concrete and wooden house, Alberttown, big yard, double lot $35M - Contact Town to Country 672-7390, 616-3200.  Flat concrete house, 3 bedrooms, new house $14.8M. Contact Town to Country 672-7390, 616-3200.  Flat house, super condition with extra land at side, must be seen - $35M. Contact Town to Country 672-7390, 616-3200.

 . Serious enquiries only. No agents.   

 Scheme, EBD: Flat house 3 bedrooms, newly built $17M. Contact Town to Country 672-7390, 616-3200.

 with land 100x50, ideal spot for any business on East Coast Demerara. Call: 694-6932.

 Park: 2-storey concrete house, 4 bedrooms $39M. Contact town to country 672-7390, 616-3200.

 building situated at 51 AA, Eccles. Contact 621-7603.

 Embankment near CARICOM: Two-storey concrete/ wooden building. Price $50M. Tel: 225-3737, 651-7078.

 lots and houses at Eccles, EBD $7.5M. Tel: 592-227-2913, 592- 6893033.  $26.5M Granville Park $26M neg. Tel: 2208596, 610-7998, 643-9196, 6861091.  business spot, 216 Public Road, Montrose, ECD. Call 621-0140.  Street, Newtown, $19M neg. Contact Town to Country 672-7390, 6163200.  in La Parfaite Harmonie. Phase 2. Please call 674-9376.  Road business place: Large two-storey concrete building. Vacant possession. Call: 225-0545.  place, North Road: Large concrete and wooden building. Vacant possession. Call: 225-0545.  newly built two-storey house at Success, 2 master rooms, AC, fully grilled, garage for 3 vehicles 624-3187, 6490755.  NO.48 Village, Corentyne formerly Dazzling Diamond Liquor Restaurant. Tel: 325-5205.  Ruimveldt Festival City, two-storey concrete unfurnished house $14M. Contact Town to Country 672-7390, 6163200.  Realty, We value, buy, sell or rent your property. Tel: 694-3875, 6546198, 649-0353.  house Crane Scheme, WCD $6M. Contact 604-0459, 698-2064.  - 100 acres Mahaica Creek, bank security, tourism, cattle rearing, aquaculture. Call 644-6551. Avenue, Bel Air Park: Large concrete building with three self-contained apartments.

Strictly no flooding. Tel: 6420636.  place, Sandy Babb Street: Newly constructed two-storey concrete building. Vacant possession.  Street: Transported front building with four bedrooms, no repairs. Vacant possession. Tel: 642-0636.

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 two-storey wooden and concrete property in Norton Street, five buildings from Camp Street $19.M neg. Call 628-0972.  4-flat commercial concrete building in central Georgetown 130ft x 35ft x 4 flats. 693-5610, 2270190 Ext. 100, 616-9727.  investment corner lot at 3rd Avenue Diamond. Incomplete building for 20-room hotel, 10x17.

Price $24M. Call 660-8775.  Park, LBI: 3-bedroom 2-storey wooden house. Price reduced from $16M to $12.5M. Naresh Persaud 225-9882, 681-2499.  your property for sale or rent and get listed on our website and be seen by an international audience. Call Chromium Investments: 672-4090, 225-8061.  executive house on 10,285 sq. ft. of land, situated in a gated community in Versailles, West Bank Demerara. Call 592-6248704, for further details.  Dam, La Parfaite Harmonie, Herstelling $7M, WBD, Leonora, WCD Crane Village. 6298253, 615-3728.  property at Good Hope, ECD, property at Anna Catherina, WCD, property at Diamond/Grove, EBD, proeprty at Ogle ECD. Contact 622-6448, 6735546, 222-3066.  Junction: Land 40-350, Robb Street 45115. House & land, Robb Street 40-115, 2 properties. 626-2689, 692-3124.  Eccles two-storey concrete building $35M, Providence two concrete buildings on land $30M, Eccles building on land 50'x200', nice for bond. Price $40M - Tel: 225-3737, 651-7078.  Annandale ECD - Large concrete building on double lot, nicely tiled yard with benab and enclosed parking. Price $35M Tel: 225-3737, 651-7078.  Canal No. 2 Polder, two-storey concrete/wooden building on 7 acres land. Price $13M. New two-storey concrete building on 8 acres land, part cultivated Price $24M. Tel: 225-3737, 651-7078.  North Sophia near Railway Embankment - Two-bedroom concrete and wooden building. Price $10M, Non Pareil ECD three-bedroom twostorey concrete building. Price $14M. Tel: 225-3737, 651-7078.

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PROPERTY FOR SALE 15 vehicles. Ideal for Students/ Auto body workshop/ Mechanic/ Auto Sales rental,etcSale:$35M neg.      

  require repairs in Brickdam, land size 120x38 - $44M was $60M. Phone Alysious Periera 623-2591,225-2626, 225-2709,2253068, 669-0943 Mr. Pereira. -storey commercial building, 39 Broad Street, Charlestown, opposite Gafoors bond, inclusive of a convenient store and bar and lounge - $80M neg. Call 691-1521 Delmar. Sophia Gardens, close to Lamaha Gardens - fully concrete, 6-bedroom giveaway. Price $14.5M. Phone Mr Pereira 623-2591, 226-1064,2253068, 669-3350, Mr Boodram 6923831, 225-2626, 667-7812, 669-0943...  and land, length 560x33 ft,. one-storey, 3-bedroom wooden house at Triumph Agriculture Road, ECD - $14M or double land for $19.5M. Tel: 642-7370, 602-9415. , 2-storey concrete house at Block 8 Mon Repos.

Land fully fenced and tiled, 2 selfcontained rooms, good condition. Phone 623-9713, 638-0689. $55M, Diamond $50M, North Road $140M, Cummings Lodge $35M, Good Hope $13M, $8M, Lodge $18M, Land of Canaan $15M, Da Silva Street, Continental Park. Contact MK's Realty 676-3405.

 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 692-3831, Mr Pereira 623-2591, 669-3350, 669-0943, 225-2709, Mohan La ll- 227-6863, 2252626, 225-3068.

 built two-storey house in Mon Repos, modern kitchen, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms and laundry room $40M neg. Call 691-1521 Delmar.  supplies, we specialized in building homes, Real Estate services, residential land & properties located on EBD, land located on West Bank Demerara.. Attractive prices and they are neg. Call us now 675-2147, 669-2030. E-mail builderssuppliers2015@gmail.com.  Atlantic Gardens Five-bedroom two-storey concrete building on double lot. Price $63M, Better Hope ECD threestorey concrete building. Price $50M, Bel Air Village two-storey concrete/wooden $35M, Prashad Nagar old building on land. Price $26M. Tel: 225-3737, 651-7078.  2-storey property located in Soesdyke, suitable for food court or fast food chain with area for fun day, party rental, play area or apartment complex, bed and breakfast. Serious calls only 653-8745.  & Son Real Estate, Lot 185 Charlotte & King Streets, Maraj Building Tel: 227-0265, 227-1881, 627-805., Croal Street, Robb Street, D'Urban Street, Non Pareil, Norton Street. Land: Friendship, Diamond, Plaisance, Truimph, Queenstown.

 fully concrete business and residence in Garnett Street close to Lamaha Gardens reduced from $44M to $34M. Mr Budram 692-3831, 626-4180, 225-2626, 225-3068, Mr Pereira 225-5198, 667-7812, 6 1 0 - 5 5 5 0 , 660-2600, 6693350, 226-1064.

 new 3-bedroom twostorey concrete building situated in Fifth Avenue, Diamond Housing Scheme. All modern amenities, furnished kitchen, AC, hot & cold water supply, fully grilled & fenced, spacious yard for parking with external security, washroom and storage bond - $49M. Contact 662-9335, 612-3244 for inspection.     Service Scheme $75M neg., La Parfaite Harmonie Schoon Ord $20M neg., Zeelugt Scheme WCD $15M neg., Republic Park $22M, Aubrey Barker (main road) $28M, North Ruimveldt $15M, Newly built 3-storey building $70M Charlotte Street, Mandela Avenue (property & land) $30M, Montrose $65M. Tel: 686-3153, 225-8101, 225-8103, 678-3230, 658-3928.    Meadow Brook Gardens two-storey, 3 bedrooms, modern conveniences.

Atlantic Gardens split level two-storey, 4 bedrooms, all self-contained, fully air-conditioned, water reservoir. La Bonne Intention ground floor business, first floor 3 bedrooms, lots of land space.

  in April, 2storey Punt Trench Dam $9.5M with large land reserve for any type of business. Business&Residence Bent Street $16.5M, 2-storey Guyhoc Gardens $14M, Guyhoc 2storey concrete $14.5M, Lodge 2storey $14M, Meadow Brook concrete ranch $13.5M. Land 130x50 Middle Road, La Penitence, new concrete Middle Road, La Penitence, Da Silva Street 85x35 Land $15.9M, Campbellville Scheme 80x50 plus reserve $15M, Hadfield Street east of Cuffy 120x50 $18M, Republic Park $14M, Continental Park 104x54 plus 3000 sq. ft reserve all land to build dream house $22M, 7 000 sq. ft by the Cultural Centre 280 000 s q . ft, Lamaha Gardens $58M, Prashad Nagar $34M, South Ruimveldt Gar dens off A u b r e y Bark er Street. Phone Mr Boodram 6923831,225-5198, Mr Pereira 62325 9 1 , 226-1064, 6 6 9 - 0 9 4 3, 225-2709, 225-3068,227-6863, 225-2626             -$400M; -$70M;  $58M/$45M;     - $50M;  Gated Community, Furnished $50M;   furnished-$45M;   furnished- $95M/ $75M/ $55M/ $45M;   close to Royal Castle$48M;  near Polly Clinic,10,000 ft ideal for school, supermarket, church, mechanic workshop, bond, etc -$45M;   (tenanted)$32M/ $70M (3 storied);GROVE 3 storied- $70M;  Furnished - $40M;   -$40M;    $20M;  Agriculture Road -$28M/$19M;  8 -$28M;    -$35M/ $20M;    -$17M;  $25M;  (unfinished) $16M/ $12M;   -$15M;  ,W.C.B-Furnished $14M;  $9.5M FOR SALE FOR

    discount ply 2 % commission on selling commission: Concrete two-storey 4000 sq. ft, 80% complete on double lot in D e l p h Avenue $36M. Joint Services new 4bedroom 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, 225-2 6 2 6 , 6 6 9 - 0 9 4 3 , 2 2 5 306 8, 627-0288, 667-7812.

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   -week-old Pitbull pups. Contact 651-6347 Dexter.  (Diesel). Contact 661-6161.  Terrier with curly hair. Call 621-7766.  Deutz welder (diesel). Contact 661-6161.  125 Geele motorbike in parts. Call 629-1659.

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 medjool & seedless. Call 628-8354.

 - 25KVA industrial single phase $375 000.

Pad mounted 480/240/120V USA. Call 623-9761.

 AE 100 Sprinter, mag rims, PJJ. Contact 652-5668.

 Canadian-made ½ x 5' x 8' $7 000. ½ x 5' x 9' $8 000. 5/8' x 5' x 9' $9 000. Call 623-9761, 616-4403.

 Allion, PNN series, $74 000 km $2.1M. Contact 6162126.

  Contact 600-3399.   8" river dredge. Contact 661-9431.  nose Pitbull, vaccinated and dewormed. Contact 6536191.  items, combo guitar amplifier. 665-5001, 604-0700.  Jewellery stall, Stabroek Market 690-0213.  breed Rottweiler pups. Call 671-7450, 626-5306. -bred Rottweiler pups Tel: 220-2277, 220- 8904, 6291471.  PS3 systems with games, 23' flat screen televisions etc. Contact 639-7114, 219-1225.  Mixed breed Mastiff, vaccinated & de-wormed, Call 644-8958.  house lot in La Parfaite Harmonie, one Blackberry Bold 9930, Tel: 683-4946.  complete 4" land dredges. Price neg. Contact 6684565, 679-0756.  boats, excellent condition, fully equipped. Contact 661-6161.  outboard engine 1-4 inch dredge contact 683-0632. made Perkins engine and diesel welder. Baksh Auto Spares 649-0755.  pups, vaccinated and dewormed. Contact 226-0931, 6190585.  birds, ducks, ducklings Lot 1 L'Oratoire, Canal No. 1, WBD. Call 655-1284.   very good condition. For more information, 626-7684 (Ally).  65KVA Perkins, 4236 engine - $1.6M. Call 623-9761.    5sp.

Turbo quad lights - $850 000 neg., One owner. Contact 6091905. -ton road roller, diesel welder/generator on wheels, good for interior Call: 623-3404.  M 35 tractor and plough ; No reasonable offer refused. Contact 691-7167;   600 F3 motorcycle. Asking $400 000. Contact 622-0216.   new in box, unlocked $80 000 679-7899, 617-6556.   long-foot outboard engine, band saw, 2½ hp motor. Contact 220-3883, 6286409.  NZE, owner is leaving.

Any reasonable offer accepted.

Contact 614-8960, 663-2257.  arch door, double frame, double door with glass. 7½ ft height, 6 ft width. Purpleheart. Price $145 000 neg. Contact 685-7566.  gold, Frigidaire stove and fridge, stainless steel. Very excellent condition. Call 660-3753, 688-2944.  new Jialing motorcycle, JL 110-3 free helmet and warranty included. Price neg. 612-3668.  louvre doors, Canadamade, from $8 000 up, 25% off regular price. Call 233-0608, Monday to Friday (08:00hrs to 17:00hrs)..  furniture etc. Price neg. Owner leaving. Must sell! Phone 226-2014, 663-8663, 611-4173.  sale/hire: One enclosed canter. Contact Sharma on 219-3199, 674-6528.  Knight Rider Scrambler motorbike, digital speedometer, less than 1 year old $400 000 neg. Call 643-6947.

 model Spacio, PSS series. Contact 625-0345.

 Ruckus, 2009 model. Price neg. Contact 6185509.

 60' x 110', clear span, 7 metal thrusts with greenheart 4 178 BM, complete with zinc sheets 102 pcs - 30', Price $3.2M. Tel: 623-9761.

Ceres, PHH series $700 000 neg. 615-8499.

 pure breed Rottweiler pups (vaccinated)..Tel: 603-5445, 227-2958, serious enquiries only.

 wagon, flair kit, alarm. Excellent condition. 222-4763.  double cab pickup with 3Y engine, excellent condition $3.3M. Call 624-6069.

 smart TV along with 4pc living room set, TV stand, rug etc., like new. Price neg. Must see to appreciate. Owner leaving Tel: 628-7884.

 Premio, 250 Honda Night Hawk, 600 CBR Honda F4.Call: 674-3953.

     fridge 100v with freezer 18" x 30". Owner migrating. Call 616-3419, 604-0532.  flat bottom wooden boat, 31 feet in length, 300-lb net (bangamary seine), one Yamaha outboard 40 engine. Price $700 000.

Contact 694-7143. s/steel fridge, steel grills, c/custom wheels, 305 x 40 x 22 Sony desktop computer, N/Pathfinder fender flairs, wardrobes, food warmers. 223-1885, 642-3722

 double cab pickup with 3Y engine, excellent condition $3.3M. Call 624-6069.  used Jacuzzi, excellent condition $85 000, one used bathroom vanity with double sink made by Fibre Tech with faucets, three drawers, 2 cupboards - $145 000. Call 624-6069.

 car yellow L-Touring wagon, HB series. Price $700 000 neg. Contact 699-2863.   unregistered, fully loaded. $2M. Call 610-8005, 697-6096.  Burgundy RZ minibus.

Asking $1.5M. Serious enquiries only. 672-4090, 229-6264.

 of BMW X6 20-inch rims, clean condition and 1 set of 20inch spokes rims, good for pickup trucks. Contact 643-5306, 6597034, 226-7855.

 GX 90 MARK 2, auto fully powered, mags, etc. $850 000. Tel: 642-6159.

  Fully Automated and Turn Key water purification systems supplied and installed. Call us now for a quotation and start selling drinking water on 623-7212.

Toyota BB, first owner $1.1 neg. Contact Ron, 610-4291.

 your copies of the Swearing-in Ceremony and Inauguration of His Excellency President David Granger, the 2015 Flag Raising Ceremony and Opening of the 11th Parliament, Pixel Entertainment. 672-4090, 229-6264.  9000 watt remote start generator $500 000, 2 Perkins 4-cylinder engines, bedded $1.8M, 2 DIRECTV system 18" and 36" $40 000, Night Watcher Security camera $60 000, Garmin 76s GPS $90 000, Coleman 10-person tents $80 000, Airbed Queen $40 000. 6812341, 218-4466.        6 3 5 4 , 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, 416 Caterpillar backhoe and Air brush equipment . Tel: 691-2921.  Perkins generator comm e r c i a l 3 5 K VA 60c, 120-240 prime power, 5-phase, no repairs, good condition $2.3M, one 410 air-conditioner evaporator 4-ton 60c, 50c, 230v - $180 000, electric motor 3HP 50c, 60c - $120 000, sold party ice and water, repair air conditioners and refrigerators. 227-1287, 696-6540, 627-2216.    with 250HP inboard engine $1.2M, diesel engine 4-cyl.. - Izuzu (Japanese) $220 000, Mercury 125HP outboard engine $350 000, Evinrude 125HP outboard engine $125 000, t r u c k r a d i a t o r $ 5 0 0 0 0 , Jacuzzi (used) $50 000, tankless water heaters $190 000, 25 KVA generator (no engine) $225 000, industrial motors various sizes. Contact 6231392.

VEHICLES FOR SALE

    $2.2M. Contact 231-5191, 6440273, 603-1915.

Ford F150 pickup truck, year 2006, not registered, all accessories. Price neg. Contact Terry. Tel: 682-8817.

Turbo Starlet, manual, 16 mags, spoiler.

Ray's One Stop Auto Parts, 74 Sheriff Street. 225-6356/7.

 Ceres $600 000, Toyota Raum $1.2M, PRR. Call 616-5914.

 3S, 6-speed, 17 mags, full works $2.1M - Ray's One Stop Auto Parts, 74 Sheriff Street.

225-6356/7.   99 model, auto 3S must be sold $1.3M. Ray's One Stop Auto Parts, 74 Sheriff Street.

225-6356/7.  , 212, Allion, unregistered Premio, Hilux Surf, BNN RZ minibuses, Pitbull buses & Super Custom bus. Contact 680-3154.   womendriven, AC working, good condition. $600 000. Contact 662-5052.  wagon, excellent $1.05M. Owner leaving c o u n t r y. C o n t a c t 6 9 5 - 0 3 7 7 , 337-2733.  F150 pickup truck, 2004 model, mags, AC, low mileage, 4x4. Price neg. Call 6286819, Toyota Camry SV40, in good working condition. Price $850 000 neg. Contact 642-0068, 683-8565.

  $2.9M, Honda CRV $1.6M. Tel: 6162733, 220-3935.

 290 tractor, excellent condition 2wd Tel: 684-6661, 669-9315.

 9" 6 head moulder complete with compressor and extractor. roundamat pattern making machine.

25HP Edger, can edge 30" width 9" thick. 190 KVA 3-phase Cummins generator. All in top condition. Priced for quick sale. 652-5601, 613-8740.  110-90 4x4 tractor, Massey Ferguson 175, 275 tractor, Ford 7700, 4 WD tractors, 416 Caterpillar, 4x4 L/ backhoe, Cummings Bridge Port Milling machine. Tel; 667-3611, 699-2563, 671-1809, 677-7402.

VEHICLES FOR SALE

 RZ bus, long base, in working condition BLL series.

Price $1.3M neg. Tel: 645-4141.   tankers GRR 2140, GRR 2129, 20,000 LTR. Owner leaving country. Call 641-0519.

 of Vintage Home System such as Pioneer, Kenwood, Sansui, Marantz, JVC, Toshiba, amplifier and speakers turners, Pioneer SA 500, 600, 900, 6800, Kenwood K. A. 305, 3500, 7100 AKA1 4000 reel to reel, AKA1 GX82 8-track deck, Pioneer Tuner TX 7800 TX 900.

All equipment look almost new.

Call 600-7242, 623-7242, 2266527, Leonard.

VEHICLES FOR SALE VEHICLE FOR SALE  Titan in excellent condition Tel: 649-8888.  Pitbull bus, new, not registered. Tel: 668-7816.  Price $250 000. Tel: 698-1425.   SPRINTER $400 000 neg. Contact 619-8283.    American dump trucks. Contact 661-6161.   Price $600 000. Contact 679-5120.  Integra sports car 649-8888.         model Toyota Axio, unregistered. Call 642-6079. Series Super Custom RZ bus. Tel: 654-6395. Price $1.9M.  212 Carina $875 000, one Nissan Canter $750 000 call 677-1177. PJJ series. Price $675 000.

Tel: 220-8596, 643-9196, 686-1091.  car, working nice - $750 000 neg. 626-1170.   2004 model, Toyota Tacoma. Call 233-2488  Model M truck $4M. Tel: 644-3201, 231-5577.  Raum $700 000 neg. Tel: 625-4273. , extra cab, GMM series, excellent condition. 641-1883.

Ipsum, sun roof and racks, spoiler, excellent condition.

Priced to go Tel: 612-2258.   Prado and 2003 RX 8, very clean vehicles.

Terms available Tel: 641-8647.  minibus, 15 seats, excellent condition, hardly used.

Must be seen Call 678-5311.

          driven Toyota 212, PPP 6243, mag rims, alarm, AC, etc. Tel: 665-6634.  Toyota Cami fully loaded, $1.5M neg., one Toyota Vios $1.3M neg. Both in excellent condition. Tel: 642-6159.

  army truck 6 CTA Cummins engine. Contact 2642524, 624-7088.  Frontier, lefthand drive, V6 engine, black $2.2M neg. Tel: 617-8316.  Civic (2002) 1700 cc, good condition, woman-driven $1.3M neg. Tel: 642-1156.  Mitsubishi two-ton canter, immaculate condition, GSS series. Contact 623-1300. Hilux Vigo, GPP series, 2003 model, excellent - $5M neg. Contact 610-3707.  Grand Vitara 2007, Dodge Dakota Sport, BMW 323I, Toyota Picnic. Tel: 650-8393. 2005, 2007 & 2010, manual & auto 4 x 4, fully loaded.

Call 227-1511, 668-5171  double cab, never registered, duty paid, 2003,. 4300 km.

Price $6M neg. Tel: 627-6000.  Kobelco excavator 17SR in perfect working condition.

643-5306, 659-703, 226-7855.  Prado year 2001, 150 000km, automatic, white pearl, perfect condition. Price $8M. Call 642-5245.  Toyota Voxy, fully loaded, flair, TV, mags, etc. late BSS series, never worked hire. Tel: 642-6159.  minibus, BPP 6370, excellent condition. Call Nizam on mobile 694-3719, 649-1846, 643-3007.  Titan GSS series immaculate condition. Contact 629-4392, 662-1445.

 Toyota Runx, PNN series, lady-driven, excellent condition. 624-7684.    automatic, burgundy. Price neg. 6481332, 264-1521.  wagon in excellent condition. Price $950 000 (neg.). Contact 651-2277.

 Benz CLK200 compressor, pearl white 2005, mileage 70 000, like new condition. Price neg. 623-5492.

 Rush, white, TV, rims etc., PRR series. Must sell. $2.6M neg. Owner leaving. 628-7884.

 Model 'M' truck with winch, one Massey Ferguson double-drive tractor. Contact 683-0632.

 Alex, PMM series, excellent condition. Contact 6666680, 617-1777.

 Hilux Solid Def, 4x4, 2 doors, manual long base. Excellent condition. Tel: 603-3384.

 AE 91 Corolla Hatchback, 2-door stick shift, ideal for racing $550 000 neg. Tel: 642-6159.

 wagon, unregistered, dark interior, TV, CD, mags roof rail, spoiler. Tel: 227-0613, 645-7248.

 Carina 212, yellow, HB series, in excellent working condition, AC, etc., Tel: 227-5866, 225-0267.

 buy and sell vehicles for cash. We also do trade-in of vehicles 2006 Tacoma, AE 100. 680-3154.

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Tridents beat Warriors England win thrilling ODI by 49 runs in CPL opener series thanks to hero Bairstow THE Caribbean Premier League (CPL) defending champions Barbados Tridents got their 2015 season off to a near-perfect start with a thumping 49-run victory over last season’s runners-up the Guyana Amazon Warriors in front of a packed Kensington Oval crowd last night.

The Amazon Warriors lost star-man Lendl Simmons in the second over of their run-chase when he was run out by Jason Holder and once they lost Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Denesh Ramdin within the Powerplay they were well behind the game and the capacity crowd urged the home team onwards.

Kieron Pollard then brought himself and Peterson onto bowl and the Tridents’ choked the Amazon Warriors middle-order as the required run rate quickly spiralled and the pressure built. Wickets fell at regular intervals and the fervour in the stadium grew with every over as the Tridents’ victory became increasingly certain.

Pollard himself took 2-20 but all the Tridents’ bowlers were impressive as the Warrior’s run-chase wilted, leaving the crowd to celebrate during the final few overs before the last rites were concluded Earlier on it was Pollard who played a key role with the bat, his 26-ball 48 was the fulcrum of the Tridents’ innings and hauled his team from a slow start which saw them record just 30-2 in the Powerplay to what ultimately proved to be a winning total of 158-6.

Pollard was assisted ably by Shoaib Malik who although never cut loose played a valuable role in steadying the Tridents innings when it could’ve folded, scoring 39 from 35 balls.

The Amazon Warriors started the match excellently, bowling very well in the Powerplay. Veerasammy Permaul in particular bowled some canny lines and made the Tridents work for their runs.

It was Sunil Narine who was the pick of the Guyana Amazon Warriors bowlers however, taking 2-22 including the wickets of Malik and Jonathan Carter, who scored 25. Narine’s mastery threatened to derail the Tridents’ recovery in the middle-overs but in the end Pollard scored enough runs before his bowlers bowled well enough for it not to matter.

Scores: Barbados Tridents 158 for six off 20 overs (Kieron Pollard 48, Shoaib Malik 39, Jonathan Carter 25; Sunil Narine 2-22), Guyana Amazon Warriors109 all out off 18 overs (Brad Hodge 26, Tillkaratne Dilshan 24; Ravi Rampaul 3-16, Robin Petersen 3-31, Kieron Pollard 2-19

LONDON, (Reuters)-Jonny Bairstow bludgeoned a brilliant 83 not out in Durham to lead England to a three-wicket win over New Zealand on the Duckworth-Lewis method yesterday, earning a 3-2 victory in the five-match series of one-dayers.

In a rain-affected final game, Bairstow’s classy knock and a hard-hitting 41 in 30 deliveries from Sam Billings helped England chase down a revised total of 192 from 26 overs with six balls to spare.

World Cup runners-up New Zealand hit 283 for nine off 50 overs and looked to be heading for a comfortable victory after taking several early wickets.

Wicketkeeper-batsman Bairstow, replacing the injured Jos Buttler, then produced an innings worthy of a thrilling series that yielded more than 3,000 runs for the first time in a five-match ODI encounter.

“It’s been fantastic to come back in. The guys have put in some great performances in this series ... to top it off is very special,” he said.

England, who won the toss and opted to bowl, broke through in the first over when New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum (6) played on to a delivery

Sweden 4-1 to reach quarters

By David Ljunggren OTTAWA ,(Reuters)-Top-ranked Germany hammered Sweden 4-1 to reach the quarter finals of the Women’s World Cup yetserdayy, overcoming the heat to brush off their European rivals in a second round game in Ottawa.

The quick and powerful Germans, who showed why they are one of the tournament favourites, will play the winner of Sunday’s France-South Korea match next Friday in Montreal.

Celia Sasic scored in each half against an overwhelmed Swedish side with Anja Mittag and Dzsenifer Marozsan also netting.

Sasic and Mittag now both have five goals in the tournament.

Sweden’s only consolation was a late header from Linda Sembrant.

“We were clearly the better team and that’s why we won ... I think (Sweden) did well but we didn’t allow them to make much of it,” said coach Silvia Neid, who played down talk of her side reaching the final.

“It won’t be easy. We played well but we’re not world champions yet ... we’re human beings, not robots,” she said.

Germany, who won the title in 2003 and 2007, were knocked out in the quarter finals when they hosted the tournament in 2011. Sweden came third in that World Cup. Neid’s side attacked the fifth-ranked Swedes from the start, spurning a good chance after just 15 seconds.

Mittag broke the deadlock in the 24th minute, firing in a curling 22-yard drive that took Swedish goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl by surprise.

Sasic easily converted a spot kick in the 36th minute and then headed home from close range in the 78th as the pace of the game slowed in the second half with the temperature rising.

Sembrant grabbed one back four minutes later before Marozsan looped the ball over Lindahl in the 88th minute.

“Germany are a very good team and deserved to advance,” said Swedish coach Pia Sundhage.

“We fought and we tried but it was not good enough unfortunately.”

from Steven Finn.

Martin Guptill (67) and Kane Williamson (50) then shared a stand of 94 before Ben Stokes dismissed the pair and the Kiwis were reduced to 155 for four when leg-spinner Adil Rashid bowled Mitchell Santner

with a flourish when Ben Wheeler blasted a quickfire undefeated 39 that included 16 runs off the last three balls of the innings.

After a rain delay England’s reply got off to a dismal start with spinner Santner removing Alex

five.

An unflustered Bairstow, however, turned the game around with his 60ball innings.

“Credit to England they held their nerve under pressure,” said McCullum.

“They had the series on the

England’s captain Eoin Morgan celebrates with the trophy and team mates after winning the Fifth Royal London One Day International. Action Images via Reuters / Phil NobleLivepic (2).

Grant Elliott was on 35 when he was stumped and the tourists looked to be in trouble when left-arm seamer David Willey removed Ross Taylor (47) and Luke Ronchi (2).

New Zealand finished

Hales (1), Joe Root (4) and Eoin Morgan (0) to reduce the hosts to 20 for three.

Stokes (17) quickly came and went and New Zealand were in complete control when opener Jason Roy was dismissed for 12 to leave his team 45 for

line but managed to stay true to their attacking philosophies.

“It’s been a tremendous series.”

England and New Zealand will now contest a one-off Twenty20 match in Manchester on Tuesday.

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Shafiq, Sarfraz give Pakistan control against Sri Lanka (REUTERS) - ASAD Shafiq’s seventh hundred and a belligerent 96 from Sarfraz Ahmed helped give Pakistan a sizeable lead against Sri Lanka on the fourth day of the opening Test at Galle yesterday.

Sri Lanka had hoped for quick wickets in the morning when Pakistan resumed on 118 for five but a sixth-wicket stand of 139 between Sarfraz and Asad Shafiq (131) put paid to their chances.

Another 101-run stand for the ninth wicket between Shafiq and Zulfiqar Babar (56) gave the visitors the upper hand in the match. Pakistan were finally all out for 417 with a first-innings lead of 117.

Pakistan then piled on the pressure and picked up two wickets in the remainder of the day’s play as Sri Lanka reached stumps on 63-2 in their second innings, still trailing by 54 runs.

Kaushal Silva (five), a centurion in the first innings, and the experienced Kumar Sangakkara (18) were the batsmen out.

Opener Dimuth Karunaratne (36) and nightwatchman Dilruwan Perera (nought) were at the crease for the hosts.

Earlier, wicketkeeper-batsman Sarfraz caused disarray in Sri Lanka’s disciplined attack with his innovative batting and hit 13 fours in his 86-ball knock.

His downfall came when he tried an

unorthodox sweep against fast bowler Dhammika Prasad, with the ball catching the inside edge and going on to hit the stumps.

Asad Shafiq celebrates after scoring his century against Sri Lanka v Pakistan on the 4th day in Galle.

SCOREBOARD SRI LANKA 1st innings 300 (K. Silva 125, K. Sangakkara 50) Pakistan 1st innings (Overnight: 118-5) M. Hafeez c Karunaratne b Prasad 2 A. Shehzad lbw b Prasad 9 Az. Ali lbw b Herath 8 Y. Khan b D. Perera 47 Misbah-ul-Haq c Sangakkara b Pradeep 20 A. Shafiq st Chandimal b D. Perera 131 S. Ahmed b Prasad 96 W. Riaz b D. Perera 14 Y. Shah c Chandimal b Pradeep 23 Z. Babar c Vithanage b D. Perera 56 J. Khan not out 6 Extras (lb-1 nb-3 w-1) 5 Total (all out, 113.1 overs) 417 F a l l o f w i c k e t s : 1 - 2 M . H a f e e z , 2 - 11 A .

Shehzad,3-35 Az. Ali,4-86 Y. Khan,5-96 Misbahul-Haq,6-235 S. Ahmed,7-273 W. Riaz,8-302 Y.

Shah,9-403 Z. Babar,10-417 A. Shafiq Bowling: D. Prasad 24 - 4 - 91 – 3, N. Pradeep 19 - 1 - 71 - 2(nb-2), R. Herath 30 - 4 - 99 – 1, D. Perera 31.1 - 3 - 122 – 4, A. Mathews 6 - 1 - 12 - 0(nb-1), K. Vithanage 3 - 0 21 - 0(w-1).

SRI LANKA 2nd innings K. Silva c Az. Ali b Riaz 5 D. Karunaratne not out 36 K. Sangakkara c Az. Ali b Shah 18 D. Perera not out 0 Extras (b-4) 4 Total (for 2 wickets, 21 overs) 63 Fall of wickets: 1-18 K. Silva,2-63 K. Sangakkara To bat: L. Thirimanne, A. Mathews, K. Vithanage, D. Chandimal, D. Prasad, R. Herath, N. Pradeep Bowling: W. Riaz 6 - 3 - 11 – 1, J. Khan 4 - 0 - 19 – 0, Y. Shah 7 - 1 - 21 – 1, M. Hafeez 4 - 1 - 8 – 0.

Paraguay draw puts them top ahead of Argentina game LA SERENA, Chile, (Reuters)-Paraguay drew 1-1 with Uruguay at the Copa America to go top of Group B, one point ahead of Argentina before the tournament favourites take on eliminated Jamaica later yesterday.

Centre back Jose Maria Gimenez put holders Uruguay in front after 29 minutes with a header from Carlos Sanchez’ corner, the ball going in off the post.

Paraguay equalised on the stroke of halftime from a corner taken by Edgar Benitez that striker Lucas Barrios nodded emphatically past Fernando Muslera.

The Paraguayans have five points from three matches while Uruguay, sure of a berth in the quarter-finals at least as one of the two best third-placed teams, and Argentina have four apiece.

Jamaica will finish bottom even if they manage to get an upset win over Argentina.

“I’m happy with Paraguay’s strength, we’re a good team,” Barrios told reporters.

“We were a goal down and drew against tough opponents.

Uruguay had most of the chances in a match that pitted the two finalists of the previous tournament in 2011 against each other.

Gimenez almost put the holders two up in the 37th minute but Justo Villar made a fine save, diving to his right to push the ball away.

Striker Diego Rolan latched on to the rebound and fed Edinson Cavani but the striker steered the ball past the outside of the far post.

In the second half Uruguay’s substitute forward Cristhian Stuani steered a header wide of the post when he had the goal at his mercy and Villar saved a volley from Cavani.

Paraguay nearly stole victory in added time when Muslera did well, diving to his right to push a shot from defender Bruno Valdez out for a corner.

“Unfortunately a loss of concentration cost us. I liked the team, we created the best chances,” said Gimenez.

The dismissal gave Prasad his third wicket of the innings.

Shafiq was calm and composed during the partnership and hit five fours in his 253ball stay.

He brought up his hundred with a boundary as the right-hander danced down the track to loft off-spinner Perera straight back over his head.

Shafiq continued to frustrate Sri Lanka’s bowlers with useful partnerships with the tail.

He added 38 with Wahab Riaz (14) for

the seventh wicket and another 29 for the eighth with Yasir Shah (23) that took Pakistan past 300.

The ninth-wicket partnership with Babar, who also posted his highest test score and first 50, took Pakistan’s lead into three figures.

Shafiq became the final Pakistan wicket to fall when he was stumped by wicketkeeper Dinesh Chandimal.

Perera was the most successful Sri Lankan bowler with four wickets while Prasad picked up three.

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TCL/RHTY&SC launch 4 annual cricket academy th

A TOTAL of 100 youths in East and West Berbice will benefit from the hosting of the 19th annual cricket academy at the Area H ground next month.

The event is a collaborative effort of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) and TCL Guyana Inc. The two entities unveiled its fourth Cricket Academy at TCL’s 2-9 Lombard Street Head Office last Thursday.

At a simple ceremony, the company’s Accounts Clerk Nirmala Ganga presented a cheque valued $220,000 to Secretary/CEO of the RHTY&SC, Hilbert Foster, in the presence of TCL’s Plant Manager Mark Bender and Marketing Representative Eric Whaul.

The academy will be conducted from July 6-18 with emphasis being placed not only on the core of the game but topics such as drug abuse, personal hygiene, education and other essential aspects of life.

Foster in brief remarks pointed out that over the last 20 years, a total of 1,674 youths

between ages eight and 18 have passed through the academy.

“The academy over the years has provided one West Indies Test player, one ODI player, two West Indies female cricketers, three Guyana senior players, 37 Guyana junior cricketers and a total of 93 for Berbice at all levels,” Foster highlighted.

Foster said he is confident the academy will fulfil its objectives and the RHTY&SC will continue to produce players to join the current band of Assad Fudadin, Royston Crandon, Delbert Hicks and Shawn Perriera.

Plant Manager of TCL, Mark Bender, applauded Foster and his team for their continued efforts in putting together yet another academy.

Bender further mentioned that his company is always willing to assist the club after the two entities joined forces in 2012.

Winston Smith and Delbert Hicks will perform coaching duties, while Foster will preside over the academic sessions.

TCL’s Accounts Clerk Nirmala Ganga presents her company’s sponsorship to Secretary/CEO of the RHTY&SC, Hilbert Foster

Lucrative Guyana Cup set for August 16 ...Over $30M up for the taking

THE annual Guyana Cup horse race meet this year has a mammoth $30M and over sponsorship package. The event is set for Sunday August 16 at the Port Mourant Turf Club.

Organised by business conglomerate Jumbo Jet Auto Sales and Racing Stables which has establishments at Bush Lot and Chester Villages West Coast Berbice, East Bank Demerara and Georgetown, Guyana Cup 2015 horse race meet is being held in collaboration with the Port Mourant Turf Club.

Organisers have recently released a provisional programme with ten races carded for the day.

The feature race is for animals classi-

fied A1 and Lower. A total $7.5M will be up for grabs in that race. The race will be contested over a distance of nine furlongs.

Other races listed on the provisional programme are: the Three-year-old race for West Indies bred horses, Two-year-old race for West Indies horses, E1 and Lower, Four-year-old for West Indies Bred animals, G1 and Lower, H1 and Lower, Two-year-old race for Guyana Bred horses, I1 and Lower and J1and Lower.

The top Jockey along with the runner up, the top stable and champion trainer will all be rewarded for their performances. The coordinator is Nasrudeen ‘Jumbo Jet’ Mohammed Jr. The event will be launched shortly.

Banned Neymar out of Copa America BRAZIL striker Neymar will miss the rest of the Copa America after being suspended for four games.

The 23-year-old Barcelona forward was shown a red card for clashing with Colombia players following Brazil’s 1-0 defeat in their most recent group game.

He was initially banned for one game, ruling him out of the final group match with Venezuela today.

But the South American Football Confederation has now reviewed the case and increased the punishment.

Neymar was shown the red card after kicking a ball at Colombia’s Pablo Armero in frustration after the final whistle before appearing to head butt another player who confronted him. Brazilian media reports suggested he had also confronted the referee before returning to the dressing room.

Colombia’s Carlos Bacca, who was also sent off for a retaliatory shove, has been given a two-game ban.

Both players have the right to appeal.

NEYMAR Neymar had already been shown a yellow card earlier in the Colombia game that would have kept him from playing against Venezuela.

In the 2014 World Cup Neymar was forced out of the tournament with a broken bone in his spine after he was kneed in the back by Colombia’s Juan Zuniga in a challenge that went unpunished. (BBC Sport)

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John, Jagdeo, Leung dominate Olympic Day five-race cycle programme JAMAL John, Johnathan Jagdeo and Alexander Leung dominated the Guyana Olympic Association’s (GOA) sponsored Olympic Day five-race cycle programme which was conducted by national cycle coach Hassan Mohamed yesterday in the National park.

John won the feature 10-lap race which was opened for junior and juvenile boys 12-14 years of age ahead of Raphael Leung and Brighton John respectively, while Alexander Leung won the BMX boys six-nine years old two-lap race and placed third in the BMX boys 1214 years three-lap event.

Jagdeo won the threelap event for BMX boys 9-12 years old as well as the three-lap race for BMX boys 12-14 years of age.

Christopher Goring was

Prize winners of the various categories strike a pose with national cycle coach Hassan Mohamed (extreme right standing) and race director Joseph Britton (extreme left). Second left standing is Johnathan Jagdeo, Jamal John is second right and Leung is standing at third right.

USA based quartet expected to face the starter for GCF’s national championships UNITED States based Guyanese cyclists Geron Williams, Hamzah Eastman, Alonzo Greaves and Scott Savory are all expected to face the starter on Saturday, when the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) stages its annual National Championships.

According to reports, Williams arrived back home on Wednesday last, while Greaves was expected over the weekend. Eastman and Savory should be arriving

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some time early this week.

Williams is the defending men’s road race champion, having won the 100-mile event last year in a time of four hours, 25 minutes .02 seconds.

The defending champions for the other categories in the road race event are: Andrew Hicks (juniors) who clocked one hour, 45 minutes 58 seconds; Stephano Husbands (juveniles) who returned two hours, 31 minutes 23 seconds; Raymond Newton (veterans) who stopped the clock at one hour, 56 minutes .06 seconds and Clair Fraser-Green (ladies) with a time of two hours, 00 minutes .13 seconds.

Raynauth Jeffrey won last year’s 20-mile individual time trial which was staged on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway in a time of 38 minutes 32 seconds.

The juvenile category was won by Romelo Crawford in 20 minutes .02.32 seconds.

Raymond Newton was the winner of the veterans’ category with a time of 24 minutes, 53.73 seconds, while Fraser-Green won the ladies’ category in a time of 28 minutes, 34.31 seconds.

second in the BMX boys six-nine years old, while Esau Jai-Singh placed third.

Goring also placed second to Jagdeo in the BMX boys’ 9-12 years old threelap event. Jai-Singh was third.

In the 12-14 years BMX boys’ three-lap race, Turan Garbarran was second.

Adrian Sharma won the three-lap open event for BMX boys. Second was Jagdeo, while Alexander Leung placed third.

The GOA was represented by race organiser Mohamed who congratulated the winners as well as those who did not fear too well stating that they are all winners as they are the ones that made the Olympic Day activity a success.

Several parents were on hand to witness the day’s activity.

Cram condemns ‘witch-hunt’ against British runner DOUBLE Olympic champion Mo Farah is the victim of a ‘witchhunt’, says former world champion Steve Cram.

Farah released a statement on Friday saying he had never taken performance-enhancing drugs.

It follows a BBC investigation which alleged that his coach Alberto Salazar had practised doping techniques with US athlete Galen Rupp.

“It has begun to look like a bit of a witch-hunt against Mo,” said Cram.

“It seems as if some people are deliberately going after him and that is a shame.”

It was revealed on Thursday that Farah had missed two drugs tests before he went on to win gold in both the 5,000m and 10,000m at the 2012 Olympics.

The BBC documentary made no suggestion that Farah had been involved in doping, while Salazar also denies the claims levelled against him.

But speaking on BBC Sport, Cram said he believed that the whole issue has become complicated.

“We have gone off on a couple of different tangents from the original set of allegations,” said the BBC athletics commentator.

“The allegations were against his coach. Now Mo has also had to come out give an explanation about the two missed tests. We need clar-

Double Olympic champion Mo Farah ification on that.

“Some sections of the media seem keen to make out that a missed

test means avoiding a test, which it does not.

“There is an individual here being targeted around his credibility as an athlete. In some quarters people are now saying he is a cheat.

“I can understand why Mo is annoyed and frustrated and all the other words he used in his statement.”

Cram - who won the world 1500m title in 1983 - says he is disappointed Farah’s two missed tests became public knowledge because they are supposed to be confidential.

In his statement, Farah said he had explained the missed tests - in 2010 and 2011 - without saying what his explanation was.

The athlete has been training in the south of France ahead of a scheduled return to the track at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco on 17 July.

“Running is the one thing Mo can control at the moment and the one place where he can be Mo Farah and get away from this to some extent,” said Cram.

“It can’t be easy but until something is proved against him we want to see him on track and racing because we don’t have many medal hopes.

“I bet he can’t wait to get back to racing.” (BBC Sport)

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Jeffrey posts record breaking time for Group 4 pole ... Guyana Secures Top Three spots in Group 3

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pionship’s Trinidad Leg at the Wallerfeild raceway.

Jeffery secured the pole in a record breaking fashion clocking 40.256 seconds in his session yesterday. Normally, that would

Kristian Jeffrey produces a hot lap during Qualification. (Photo by Devi Nath (Trinituner.com) Kristian Jeffrey will start on pole for today’s Caribbean Motor Racing Cham-

have erased the circuit record of the Trinidadian track 41.693 seconds set last year

Guyana finishes last at CBC Championship ... Cayman Islands sink Guyana 89 – 61 GUYANA’S horrid showing at the 2015 Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championship was capped by another loss yesterday when Darcel Harris’ men went down 61 – 89 to the Cayman Islands.

It was their fifth loss in as many games at the championship which is being played in the British Virgin Island (BVI).

Guyana finished fifth at the tournament last year and had high hopes of bettering their performance, but it was a different story when the championship got into action.

After an 80 – 60 lost to Antigua and Barbuda, followed by an 89 – 69 defeat to the Bahamas, Guyana also went down to Bermuda (74 – 65) and suffered a heavy defeat to neighbouring Suriname 81 – 48.

Yesterday’s game against the Cayman Islands was suppose to be one of redemption, but with the Caymanians also chasing their first win in the Championship, it meant that the Guyanese had to come out guns blazing.

Guyana tailed 18 – 10 after the end of the first quarter and 46 – 24 at half time. By the end of the penultimate period the scoreboard read 66 – 35 in favour of Cayman Islands as Guyana couldn’t keep up with the pace of the game.

Ryan Gullen had a team high 17 points from 8 – 15 shooting, while grabbing seven rebounds and two block shots.

Keron McKenzie shot his way to 12 points while point guards Travis Burnett (10 rebounds) and Shelroy Thomas both had ten points.

Cayman Islands Guard Jorge Ebanks led all scorers with 24 points, followed by Samuel Ogaro (20 points, eight rebounds) and Davion Cotterell 18 points, seven rebounds.

The tournament wraps up today and the Guyanese team is expected to return home tomorrow.

by Franz Verschuur, but Caribbean Motor Racing Association chairman Ray Rahaman told Chronicle Sport that under the new rules, records can only be broken and reset on race day.

Nonetheless, Jeffrey is confident of doing the same tomorrow and even bettering it if need be. “During qualifying we actually had a few glitches, we had a brake pulsation and a little miss which we think we can fine tune for tomorrow.

Again it’s just about bringing the car home, it’s about racking up as much points as possible and if we get two in the bag then we are definitely going for the record.” The defending CMRC champion starts ahead of his namesake and Trinidad’s Kristian Boodoosingh, Jamaica’s Peter Rae and Trinidad’s Gerard Carrington.

At the Group three level, Guyana came out firing, picking up the top three spots.

Danny Persaud secured pole after a time of 44.114 seconds ahead of Afraz Allie’s 44.196 seconds and debutant Motilall Deodass’ 46.364 seconds. Persaud, speaking after the

qualification indicated t to Chronicle sport that the hard work had paid off.

“We had made some changes after the first leg of the CMRC in Jamaica because we had difficulties there and we are seeing the fruits of the work. The car is performing nicely and we are going to go out there with the mentality to pick up some wins and points for Guyana.”

On the Group 2 front, Mohamed Roshandin (47.048 seconds) qualified second to Barbadian Mark Thompson (45.124 seconds) but has plans to improve. Roshandin said that it is a big gap but he has made some adjustments to the car to try and improve the corner speed.

“Two seconds is a bit difficult to close.

His (Mark Thompson) car is doing 115 miles per hour against mine that’s doing 110, so we hoping that we can capitalise on corner speed.” Ryan Rahaman will start 5th on the grid and will try to work his way back up the pack.

Today’s event begins at 09:00hrs with the final drivers’ briefing followed by the opening remarks of the various delegations.

ICC Annual Conference week starts in Barbados tomorrow THE ICC Annual Conference week will begin in Barbados tomorrow June 22 with the Associate and Affiliate Members’ meeting, and will conclude with the IBC Board meeting on 26 June.

The Conference is being hosted by the WICB with the support of the Barbados Cricket Association and Barbados Tourism Marketing Incorporated (BTMI).

This will be the first time the ICC’s annual meetings will take place in the West Indies and with delegates from over 50 ICC Members expected to attend, it will be the largest-ever gathering of cricket administrators in the Americas region to date.

The week’s schedule includes the following meetings: - ICC Associate and Affiliate Members’ meeting (Mon) - ICC Chief Executives’ Committee (MonICC Chairman Tue) Narayanaswami - ICC HR & ReSrinivasan muneration Committee, Executive Committee, Annual Conference, Governance Committee meetings (Wed) - Finance & Commercial Affairs Committee (Thu) - ICC, IDI and IBC Board meetings (Wed-

Fri) Key issues on the agenda of the meetings will include: - Amendments to the ICC’s Memorandum and Articles of Association - Investiture of new ICC President - ICC Associate Membership application from Serbia - Updates on the status of Sri Lanka Cricket and United States of America Cricket Association - A report from the Chairman of the Anti-Corruption and Security Unit - Recommendations on cricket and development matters from recent committee meetings - ICC strategy post-2015

CRICKET QUIZ CORNER (Sunday June 21, 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: 103 wickets 5 centuries

Today’s Quiz:

Who is the first cricketer to score a double-hundred and a century in the same Test?

Which two made their Test debut against Australia?

Jerome Taylor; Devon Smith; Dave Mohammed; Tino Best; Dwayne Bravo

Answers in tomorrow’s issue

SUNDAY CHRONICLE June 21, 2015

First Caribbean reviewing policies following FIFA controversy MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, (CMC) – CIBC First Caribbean International Bank says it is carrying out an ongoing review of all its policies and processes associated with money laundering and fraud, after being named among several regional financial institutions in investigations into fraud at the world football governing body, FIFA. According to allegations, one of the bank’s Bahamas- based executives travelled to New York to pick up a $250,000 cheque from one of FIFA’s top officials, Chuck Blazer, and returned to Nassau to deposit the funds into Blazer’s CIBC First Caribbean account.

Authorities investigating financial wrongdoing at FIFA claim the transaction was part of a $10 million bribe to influence which country would host the 2010 World Cup. Blazer has pleaded guilty to charges of tax evasion and failing to declare ownership of the CIBC First Caribbean Bahamas account to US tax authorities.

Blazer, the former general secretary of CONCACAF president the CONCACAF, the Jeff Webb ... indicted by football governing US authorities. body for North and Central America and the Caribbean, has also entered into a plea deal with US federal authorities investigating FIFA. Last month US authorities indicted several FIFA officials, including CONCACAF President Jeffrey Webb and his predecessor Jack Warner on corruption charges. Webb was also among six FIFA officials arrested by Swiss police as part of a US investigation into allegations of bribery over football tournaments.

CIBC First Caribbean CEO Rik Parkhill told a news conference here the bank has made strides over the last three to four years in ensuring it has “the most robust regime possible” to tackle any form of financial wrongdoing.

“Certainly we’re concerned when any financial institution is linked to FIFA or any other organisation where there are allegations of misconduct. But we are doing a thorough review.

“But you know it does impact on not only our bank’s reputation but the FIFA issues are not just Caribbean issues. There are a huge number of onshore banks that FIFA used as well outside of the Caribbean,” Parkhill said.

He added that while there were no fail-safe policies and processes, he was satisfied that CIBC First Caribbean has the right programme in place.

“We work closely with our regulators around the region and we cooperate with any investigations so when we look at our ‘know your client’ processes and policies… I think we’re reasonably satisfied.

“There’s always some room for improvement but we’re reasonably satisfied that our processes are being followed and they’re in place.”

Parkhill told reporters the US Department of Justice has not requested that CIBC First Caribbean cooperate with any investigation related to the indictment.

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Coach Shabazz names 20-man squad for Olympic Qualifier HEAD Coach Jamaal Shabazz yesterday named his 20-man squad for next week’s Olympic Qualifier in Antigua and Barbuda.

Guyana will play in Group 2 of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) leg of the tournament and will be joined by Aruba and Cuba, along with host Antigua.

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Anthony Whyte and Jason Cromwell were named as the goalkeepers in the squad, which also includes Daniel Whyte, Less Charles Critchlow, Joshua Brown, Clive Williams, William Europe, Sherwin Skeete, Stephan Ramsey, Jermaine Junor, Trayon Bobb, Kadell Daniel, Daniel Wilson, Leo Lovell, Kareem knights,

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Delon Lanferman, Jamaal Harvey, Shaquel Agard, Domini Garnet and Pernel Schultz.

The team will depart tomorrow from the Ogle International Airport and are set to play their first game on Wednesday June 24 at 15:30 hrs against Cuba, followed by a clash with Antigua on Friday June 26 and will wrap up

the tournament on Sunday June 28 against Aruba.

All matches will be played at the Antigua Recreation Ground in St John’s.

With only one team making out the group, Shabazz is high on optimism of moving on in Guyana’s attempt to feature at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil.

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