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Late Chief Librarian interred amidst poignant expressions of deep grief

By Shirley Thomas THE body of Gillian Merle Thompson, late Chief Librarian of the Guyana National Library and Member of the University of Guyana’s Prize for Literature, was yesterday laid to rest at the Methodist Cemetery at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, following a moving Thanksgiving Service for her life at the Trinity Methodist Church at High and Leopold Streets in Georgetown.

Earlier in the day, her body lay in state at the Merriman Funeral Home at Lime

and Bent Streets, and hundreds filed past in quiet reverence to view the body and pay their last respects.

T h e l a t e G i l l i a n M e rle Thompson had been the daughter of Clement Sylvanus Thompson and the late Joyce Lucille Valerie Thompson.

She had been sister to nine siblings. She died on December 24, 2013 (Christmas Eve Day) in a horrific motor vehicle accident at the junction of North Road and Shiv Chanderpaul Drive in Georgetown.

Conducting the service, which attracted a crowd that literally overspilled the church pews and solemnly

inched their way to get an opportunity to view the body, were Reverend Noelsaint Badette and Reverend Glenna Spencer, Superintendent Organist was Ms. Lynette Cunha.

There were several messages and tributes acknowledging the life and good works of the late literary icon, who had lived her life in service to God as a staunch member of the Bedford Methodist Church, where she had also served as a Sunday School teacher.

She had been dedicated to the work of the National Library and to assistance of the

John Beveney, driver of the National Library bus, weeps as he pays his final respects to a beloved former boss. reading public of Guyana; her father and siblings, whom she had cherished, and to whose upliftment she had dedicated her life; and the myriad young children who cause she had championed by helping to enrich their lives through her involvement in humanitarian organizations across Guyana.

Those offering tributes included Ms Emily King, Deputy Chief Librarian of the National Library; Ms. Donna Chapman, Assistant Chief Education Officer; Mr. Pitamber Persaud, Chairman of the National Library Committee; Dr. Roland Aaron, who read the Eulogy; and the Bedford Methodist Church, where she fellowSee page 6

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ANPU ‘social contract’ proposal ...

Action! Not ‘fanciful’ words!

By Vanessa Narine

THE call for a new ‘social contract’ by the grouping, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has been met with strong criticism in some quarters.

In an interview with the Guyana Chronicle yesterday, one source, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “I am not impressed by these statements of grandeur. Action has to be demonstrated, not statements coined in fanciful words. Tangible actions are what have to be demonstrated.”

APNU proposed Friday that a new ‘social contract’ be agreed upon in order to address Guyana’s pressing political, economic and social problems, and to foster greater unity, security and progress.

This new contract that APNU has proposed focuses on allowing major sections of society – including the Government, political Opposition, trade unions, private sector,

and civil society – to settle on a broad national programme to move the country forward in relation to reaching a consensus on the goals of national development; establishing a sustainable institutional architecture, and creating an effective policy instrument for achieving the objectives of this ‘contract’.

In a statement, APNU said: “A ‘social contract’ could be the main means of combining the talents of a wider constituency and of creating the conditions for social cooperation and economic progress.”

While our source acknowledged the need for political dialogue and wide consultations, he made it clear that there is evidence of this at each level of the Government structure.

He said: “We recognize that there is much more work to be done, and there are problems to solve. We recognize the need to have political dialogue, and (we) have been working with the relevant stakeholders, both

at the individual and organizational levels, in the move to build a modern and united Guyana.”

NOT RECIPROCAL

Noting that while the Government has been engaged in consultations, and will continue to so do, our source, who has strong ties with the ruling People’s Pregressinve Party, lamented the absence of reciprocal actions from the Opposition.

“What we see are examples of authoritarianism, and evidence of political dictatorship clearly evident in their approach,” he said.

To bolster his argument, he referred to the repeated slashing of the national budget, and the lack of support for developmental projects and important pieces of legislation. “What we have seen,” he said, “is the lack of support for major development projects, on the basis that if they are realized, it will result in

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political kudos for the PPP/C (People’s Progressive Party/ Civic). Projects like the specialty hospital, the Marriot Hotel, the modernization of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) and Amaila Falls.

“What we see is lack of support for important legislation like the AML/CFT (Anti-Money Laundering & Countering the Financing of Terrorism) Bill for infantile political reasons, caring not how damaging it will be on the country and lives of the Guyanese people.”

Another source, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said its is the Opposition parties’ position over the last two years that has contributed to creating the crisis their ‘social contract’ now hopes to address, thereby “ensuring human safety and fostering economic development in Guyana” as the contract says.

“We have seen the Opposition reject the voices of thousands in the business community with the rejection

of the Private Sector’s petition to the National Assembly on

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GUYANA CHRONICLE Wednesday January 1, 2014 SUNDAY SUNDAY CHRONICLE CHRONICLE December December 29, 22, 2013 SUNDAY CHRONICLE January 5,2013 2014

U.S. Midwest, Northeast government, brace for Arctic blast, record lows South Sudan rebels Iraq troops arrest leading From crime to cigarettes, Bloomberg leaves his mark on New York set for New Year’s Day talks Sunni MP in violent raid

By Victoria Cavaliere

Plains and Great Lakes regions, 60 (minus 45 to minus 51 Celal Airport in New Jersey among forecasters said. sius) on Sunday night over secthe most affected, according to NEW YORK -(Reuters) “The last really Wall big Arctions of the north-central states,”

By Ellen Wulfhorst former firm headFlightAware.com. of the New York tactic, seen as targeting young tracking The former Street ex- Many parts of the U.S. Midtic outbreak was 1994, said including Minnesota and WisMolly Cox,Union. who was in minorities, amounted to “indi- Civil Liberties ecutive and founder of a media west braced for a blast of Bob Oravec, a forecaster with consin, the National Weather New York City for New Year’s NEW YORK(Reuters) rect racial profiling.” company that bears his name Arctic air this weekend that the National Weather Service.

Service said in a statement.

Eve, said she missed her Friday (Reuters) -him SOUTH Sudan’s in our hands andtopartly in the sionleaves in South Sudan said Love some or the hate him, one ‘CEO MAYOR’ Overall crime rates fell by a night a city with crime In those conditions, frostcould bring of cold“Outbreaks like this don’tlower occurethflight home Denver rebels are handsLaGuardia of the rebels,” Mayor nic-based atrocities, often car- bite can set in on exposed skin By thing Kamalisand Namaa estgovernment temperatures in twoNew de- set everyday.

They aren’t unheard because Airport was for sure: YorkBloomberg’s most telling third during Bloomberg’s three rates, more parks, and new for New Year’s Day peace talks of, ried Nhial Majak Nhial told Reuters out are against civilians theurban fighting included threeasby ofthe cades before advancing to the but they unusual.” within five minutes, forecasters “alegacy disaster.” abdomen. al terms, Qaeda-linked militants who in his ers will not forget outgoing may be,from in one a decrease reflected landmarks such in RAMADI, Ethiopia’s capital, Addis on the sense, governIraq(Reuters) - uniformed Alwani’s histaken sister warned.

Northeast, where residents This push bodyguards, ofmen, Arctichave air could “I Tuesday was toldimposed I wouldn’t be Authorities a cur-exhave gained a foothold there.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg himself, said Tom Wright, once-blighted neighborhoods Barclays Center, an indoor arena Ababa, to thrash out a ceasefire ment’s military headquarters place throughout the newly inIraqi security forces arrested are still digging out from a bringand record low temperatures Preparing for the dangerous ableintoAnbar get a province flight outafter until his brother. few Another potential flashto endanytime weeks ofsoon. ethnic bloodlet- in areas insidedirector Bor,said.

190 km miles) dependent South Sudan. ecutive of“With the (120 Regional that are now blossoming, and Sunday,” built over a Brooklyn train yard. deadly snowstorm. from Montana to Michweather, officials in several she all the a in prominent Sunni Muslim “Army troops with police arrest, sources point is around Sunni protests the ting theAs world’s newest state. north of security Juba by road.

“This can lead to a down perpetthe independent billionPlan Association, an urban retourism rates setting record “This will go as, Starting Sunday, the deep igan, and move to the Northeast states asked residents to use excancellations, all of the airlines lawmaker and supporter special forces were trying to Atoconvoy of charity army tanks, that have been held in Anbar said.

Both sides tonortha cease-ofwhere Medical Medecins ual cycle ofarrive violence that can freeze will bepolitician feltagreed in theprotests it will byhis early tra precautions when outdoors. seem be having thisgroup. kind of aire bids farewell search and advocacy highs. without question, one of the anti-government in arrest Alwani from house, fire onplains, Tuesday, mediators said, Tuesday, Sans vehicles Frontieres destroy the fabric of the new and(MSF) Hum- said since December last year. In a armored ern U.S. including North forecasters said.

Minnesota Governor Mark chaos.” a raid on his home in the but fierce fighting erupted. to City Hall by touting his acWhen he first ran for office, “That’s a fundamentally most influential and successful butSouth fighting between civilians had fled nation,” the United Nations Dayton has ordered all public began70,000 towas arrive in Ramastatement on state television on veesabout and Dakota, andgovernment through Chicago could be about Boston especially hardwestern province of to Anbar, Five bodies, one troops andLakes militias loyal forandfirst sought inof the warned in a statement.

About complishments during 12 years was anrefuge unlikely positive aspect that’sbehad dihitBloomberg mayoralties inincluding theCelsius), history of the byBor midday.

Friday, Maliki saidofitlife would the Great region and negative 20 (minus 29 schools in the state closed toby the major storm sparking clashes in which at 9,000 woman, were taken to Falluja mer Vice President Riek Machar town of Awerial in neighboring civilians are seeking refin office, academics, urban candidate with no political exvery far-reaching effect,” said But scores of people took city,” said David Birdsell, dean the “last Friday” the protests Ohio Valley, according to the he said. Pittsburgh could see morrow to protect children from 2014, logging about 18 inches leastinWeather five were of killed, raged Bor,people the capital the temperatures Lakes withwhile no uge the School U.N. in Bor. hospital,” onebase police source the streets carrying gunsaccess toHe to andJohn sit-ins would bedirector allowedoftothe toofperience National Service. about 11 degrees dangerously cold weather. snow onstate, some planning experts and political orFriday, constituency.

Mollenkopf, ofat the of Public Affairs vast Jonglei state said. and site of an below food, clean water orwitshelter.

The clashes erupted on Desources said. thenorth curfew, Reuters continue.

Itpolice will be some the coldFahrenheit (minus towns of aNew England’s pundits sayinof the mark he made cember spent more than $100 million of Center for Urban Research at defy atzero the15 City University of New Chicago schools will be ethnic massacre 1991.

Others were hiding in swamps. with fighting among The violent arrest of Ahmed No members of Alwani’s est weather to grip the is region in and 24 Celsius) byBaruch early Tuesday. open tomorrow despite the cold largest city saw close toin22001. feet ness said.

The military campaign on New York indelible his own fortune to win the City of New York Graduate York’s College.

“I’m worried that the con“Living conditions are vergsoldiers in Juba.

The violence al-Alwani is blizzard likely toconinflame “Incredibly, family couldit immediately two decades, with may feel as be but officials, in a statement, adof accumulation.

Adnan al-Muhanna, leader MSF and the arrest of Alwani may tinued fighting in might coldquickly ing on catastrophic,” spread half of the vised parents to “use their own strong.

Throughout his tenure, he Center.

Bloomberg - a version longtime tensions in in Sunni-dominated reached to give ditions expected theBor Central as negative 50 to totheir negative But lifethe has begun to return of the al-Bu Alwan tribe, a help Maliki boost his popularscupper start Bloomberg’s of these talks,” said. a in While final country’s showed continued willingness Anbar,the where protesters have who became a Reof Democrat events.10Parliament speaker to normal Boston.

The city tribe intoAnbar to Naity in the eyes of Shi’ites who major Sunni saidbeen Ethiopian Foreign Minister According United states,al-Nujaifi, dividing thea country demonstrating against lifted its snow emergency at 5 Usama Sunni, term was marred by awhat failed totions back his policy priorities with THROUGH publican in 2001 toofget on the Alwani belongs, called had STEERING called on him to crack which Dr.they Tedros Adhanom, who is figures, fighting across along the ethnic lines Machp.m. ongovernment Friday. see astomarginalization of called the and operation aPresident “blatanthis attempt outlaw large Insugary his pocketbook.

DISASTER, RECESSION later the todisplaced release at down on al Qaeda and on on chairman of the regional the country has ar’sballot, Nuer group and dropped New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio clears the New York City got about their sectand by the Prime violation” ofDinkas.

Iraq’s constitution within 12elected hours. politicians they accused of endrinks furorMinister overonstop- Salva “He was as aincluding CEO Bloomberg guided New Alwani party affiliation - ranked No. Supporters of the Muslim tergovernmental Authority least 180,000 people, Kiir’s Brotherhood sidewalk of snow inand front of his Brooklyn home 7 inches and was slammed Nuri al-Maliki’s Shi’ite-led and a “dangerous precedent”.

“Otherwise will not berefuge violence.

Elections Development bloc 75,000 who are his longNew York Mayor Michael Bloomberg walks from couraging and-frisk(IGAD) policing, he that stands 2Kiir mayor who ranwe ontemperatures aseeking platform of York through the years after the with on ahas listaccused of the greatest New ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shout overnight air in New York . government. is mediating talks. inside U.N. termYork political rival Machar,recently who slogans able to restrain thebases. angry masses due in April. the podium after theinterior 2014 city budget areSeptember against thedelivering military and ministry asAlwani one the ofbelongs the most successful keeping crime down, balancing 11, 2001, attacks, mayors published hovering under the freezing to the SunVIOLENCE RISING “Hopefully both delegations discretion in City deciding whether Schools will remain closed and The African Union said late he sacked in July, of starting while thatbudget, could lead to undesired in the Blue Room of New York’s Hall, in this amid holding his poster and gesturing with four Washington received mayorstomorrow in Newbloc York the and trying to takeand fears that the shakenuntil city’s mark.

City &inState, a website that Iraqiya andhistory, has the by willni-backed arrive (Wednesto2013. send their child to school.” in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday it was dismayed fighting an effort to seize consequences,” he told Reuters.

CURFEW IMPOSED file photo from May 2, thanof2the inches of snow in in.( Credit: REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dals) A South Sudan army soldier stands next to a machine gun mounted on amore they control schools.

And economy could beafter devastated. covers government and politics. been a contend. strong criticand of settle Maliki power.

Lieutenant-General Ali fingers day), start the talks In Pittsburgh, the transition Wednesday, a day winter disappointed by the bloodletting provincial coun-that theAnbar’s storm, Philadelphia roughly If a tie were permitted, he truck in Malakal town, 497km northeast of capital Juba, December 30, 2013 Experts can tick off a long an influential figure the Ghaidan, thisand problem once and for in all,” team for Mayor-elect Bill Peduto break was supposed to end, that came two years after South Machar has denied the wani was kind of it.

He really didn’t “It is easy to imagine ways commander of Iraqi well. We told him that we Sunnis and Shi’ites. Bombings, held anand urgent session and Many Sunnis in the region cil 5 inches Hartford 7 inches. a few days after retaking the town from rebel fighters. would havefortied with top-rankAdhanom told Reuters by phone said his of inauguration ceremony local officials said.

Sudan wonsaid independence charge, he has the had list accomplishments.

The protest movement. groundbut forces, toldtaken statetotelehave much,” Wright.

“Now, shootings and suicide attacks, a warrant his arrest, and that a less strategic mayor could called for Alwani’s release and from are meanwhile likely to see (U.S. snowfall: link.reuters.

REUTERS/James Akenaon Monday would be moved from Addis TheMuseveni stormincomes the its northern neighbor, Sudan. acknowledged PoliceAbaba. sources said a two- bush ing Fiorello visionand thathas security forces had arrested 10-year-old cammany staged byanti-smoking al Qaeda milhim,” heLaGuardia, said, addingsaid eri ononMonday The U.S. special envoy to Alwani’s com/zym75v) here he is leaving years later, have gotten the way ofexthat an investigation into12the death arrest assaid another Western and broke regional from the are steps of the local govof East a massive winter weath-had The AU’s Peace and Sesoldiers battling the that hour firefight outpowers on Sat- leading also tried to arrest Alwani’s massacred Dinkas in Bor.compile that African countries South Sudan, Donald Booth, Birdsell who helped itants, near-daily occurtwo of Alwani’s bodyguards paign isacredited with some heels of his brother, a copy of a stateample of what they portray as hailed as an urban visionary.” recovery,” said Birdsell. have pushed bothbodyguards sides to end the building to an indoor system the curity Council said it would There he have been were wounded urday when and government. andernment brother Ali, whom accused agreedthat to slammed move inminority andU.S. defeatmentWEATHER-RELATED said the commitment send er ingovernment thelist. operation, rence. theBoth City the & State LaGuardia, seen by Reuters said.on a crackdown against 10,000 fewer deaths andtoserved Bloomberg moves to his Bloomberg is credited as fighting thatofhas killed at least venue because of the weather.

Midwest and Northeast just “take appropriate measures, reports on whether the rebels said earlier on Tuesmembers Alwani’s tribe re- conflicting negotiators was an “important Machar if he rejected the ceaseof involvement in attacks that which DEATHS The Iraqi army this week he said was carried outjust in an Officials The statement also called Sunni leaders. so legendary that not as a blueprint for other cities; 1,000 people, cut South Sudan’s in Kentucky, which after New Year’s Day, causincluding targeted sanctions, Machar was in full control of new consulting firm Bloomberg well with helping steer the day that with theythe were offer,of threatening tolawturn theon all parties to exercise refirst step” towards a negotiated sisted police and soldiers who killed Iraqi soldiers in Anbar. launched a tomajor operation in ingfire law. sending A photo the arrested airport but atalks Broadway musical oil output and raised fears of a could see up 8850 inches of snow several deaths, grounding against all designed those who incite “White Army” militia accordance more than acres of land teams to start inisneighborhelpvicity through the recession that Associates, fighting into a regional conflict. settlement.

Theand weather was a tofactor went to arrest Alwani on charges the Nuer Ali was killed in the fightdesert areas of Anbar, a provViolence in Iraq at its straint urged parliament maker posted on Maliki’s Facefull-blown civil war in the heart and was freezing temperatures, were thousands of flights and forcing olence, including along ethnic fighting in Bor, though on Tuestook his name, governed the city ing Ethiopia, though Machar added to up citya parks; No other countries have con- inother several deaths and hundreds cities worldwide achieve began inpurportedly 2007.

Yet, showed his effort “terrorism” from his house in day ing,he as told well the as one Iraqi soldier, ince that makes third ofand schools levels since 2006-7, when warning and defuse ten-(and) book page of aoffragile region. people to avoid road andany government offices toofintervene lines, continue hostilities BBC they were worst told the BBC on Tuesday that firmed such an agreement.

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A the decade-old 311 call center the of the citywho of Ramadi.

Ghaidan the same accomplishments asinto capitalize thatwith success Iraq’sand territory and is populated to tens of thousands oftopeople It center was not clear constay indoors. close.

Alwani after town theon arrest a sion. undermine theinenvisaged part of hissaid. forces. heWorld was not prepared lay downtravel CONDITIONS” “The is still partly 22-year-old man ConnectiWar II. They said those killed in has grown to handle millions “Wefighting treated Ahmed al-Al- were mainly by Sunnis, to flush out killed in fighting between has New York. by arguing he was uniquely trolled Bor on Tuesday night “If you don’t need to be clusive dialogue.”

The has revived white bandage wrapped around weapons.

Ugandan President Yowcut died on Friday when his “Rarely are individuals in non-emergency after a day of heavy fighting that out, of stay in, stay home,”requests said MISSED FLIGHTS memories of the factionalism City votersa put their own suited to remain mayor de- car slammed Department started at dawn in the dusty town, Buddy in the 1990s within the Sudan any field recognized among eachRogers, year. spokesman for on Bloomberg’s spite term limits rankled some ofstamp Transportation truck,legacy state which was held by Machar’s Kentucky Emergency A total of 1,266 flights were People’s Liberation Movement, the greats of history during Crime is down, aMansuccess people. police said. InBill Ohio, authorities by electing de Blasio, who rebels for a few days at the start agement. “Take the pets inside canceled across the United the group that fought Sudan’s say least were their own lifetimes, so the fact credits in part States He willat be thetwo firstpeople Democratic a change of the conflict. Nearly 200,000 and that takeBloomberg the livestock inside andengineered 6,036 flights de-in killed army in the north for two deon Thursday in weaththat our panel ranked Michael to the New York Police Depart- layed civilians have been displaced. the and make sure your with Chicago’s cades. Machar led a splinter mayor incrashes.

20 years and could the yesterday, voter-approved term limits er-related Bybarns Paul-Marin Ngoupana Bloomberg nearly at the top of The United Nations Miselderly neighbors and friends Airport By Lesley Wroughton faction and fighters loyal to him ment’s stop-and-frisk strategy. O’Hare be more than law in International 2009 so he could run for scarcely In Green Bay,different Wisconsin, are looked after.” earlier this year and Newark Liberty Internationthis list while he is still in office But a judge the temperature to ernment was atplummeted least Muzzio, 29,083.

Bloomberg, said Doug a third term, but voters gave BANGUI(Reuters) Hun(Reuters) – THE DEATH toll In southeastern Baghdad, WASHINGTON- (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry will is striking,” City & State wrote. dreds Deaths among Syri18 degrees Fahrenheit ruled that the controversial in Syria’s civil warslim hasmargin risen to minus of mortar people tried to flee inprofessor of politics andthe public him a remarkably three rounds landed return to Israel and the Palestinian territories for peace talks next an armed forces andbreakfighters at least 130,433, more than a (minus 28atC) on Friday, ter-religious violence in Central near a housing complex, killing of opinion Baruch College. victory. supporting Assad weresetat in least week, a senior U.S. government official said yesterday, days after third of them civilians on both ing a record for the date four people, medics and police Republic on Saturday “New Yorkers elected a “That affected his legacy, 52,290, including 262 fighters (Reuters) - BOMBS exploded African sides of the conflict, but the Israel is due to free another group of Palestinian prisoners.

1979, according to the National sourcesemergency said. aboard flights to from the Lebanese Shi’ite group across the Iraqi capital on real figure is probably much mayor who presented himself because people will always Weather Service.

The U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Kerry A bombChad, attached a truck whiletonearHezbollah fromair other Tuesday, killing at least 15 neighboring higher, thehim Syrian ObservatoWith the and new286 frigid the driver and one pas- remember will visit Jerusalem and Ramallah late this week for more talks with people, police and medical bykilled and was correctly perceived as the person non-Syrian Shi’ite groups. to countries appealed for help ry for Human Rights said on in the mainly Shi’ite who got a third term against the moving in, Sunni a National FootIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President sources said, a day after po- tosenger be a repudiation inand many ways Both Shi’ite milTuesday. rescue their citizens in from the district of Basateen northern ballitants League wildthe card playoff Mahmoud Abbas, resuming his intensive shuttle diplomacy after a lice broke up a Sunni Muslim mounting from region have The conflict in Syria began of (Bloomberg),” Muzzio said. peoples’ will,” said Norman Siecrisis.

Baghdadhumanitarian and gunmen shot dead game between the Green Bay joined protest camp in a western Christmas break. in March as peaceful proVotersthe mayfight well on haveopposite tired one policeman and between wounded gel, a civil 2011 liberties attorney and Tit-for-tat violence Packers sides. and the San Francistests against four decades of rule The United States is seeking to broker an agreement on a “two- province. another in southern part of the Muslim Seleka rebels, who seized John Kerry of Bloomberg’s approach, such co 49ers today at Green Bay’s Many Sunni Muslim nations No group immediately

by President Bashar al-Assad’s state solution” in which Israel would exist peacefully alongside a new capital, in police March,said. and Christian Field wasrestaurants, expected the rebels, who are responsibility for any of powerPolice assupport his effort to bar family, but turned into an armed Lambeau and local officials in Palestinian state. Kerry wants the sides to agree to a framework for an claimed led by Syria’sand Sunni majority.

Tuesday’s attacks but al Qaeda’s self-defense rank among the coldest militiasinhave killed insurgency whose sectarian tomovie theaters other busiwestern Ramadi Anbar said interim accord ahead of a deal in April, which would launch another yearIraqi of talks aimedwhich at a full-blown Shi’iteon Muslim states affiliate, was forced more record, localback offi-Asthanbetween 1,000 people thisand dimensions have reverberated matches clashes gunmen nesses from selling large sodas peace treaty. A framework would demonstrate that progress is being made in talks that began in July, sad, who is from the minority underground in 2006-07, has month across the Middle East. cials said. in the riverside capital security forces are still continuaccording to U.S. officials.

Alawite sect, anbeverages. offshoot of reemerged this year, invigorated other sugary The anti-Assad Observato- and ing inside city onhundreds Tuesday. Personnel Bangui and the displaced Union peacekeeping Shi’ism. war Syria and ry, based infrom Britainthe butAfrican with a The A framework would touch on all the main issues, including security,by thecivil future of in Jerusalem andSunni the of thousands proposal failed in court, Sunnimore. outrage and the The Observatory said at at home. tosources Central Republic (MISCA) network of acrossAfrican Syria, fate of refugees. A major step in that process is the release of about tworesentment dozen Palestinian prisoners on violence Iraq French is likely mission which said Bloomberg had overFightingacross in the former least 17,000 people are being In the deadliest attack in put the number of women and control a fighting crowd near the airport, in December 30, the third group to be freed since talks resumed in July. The release is seen by the United colony to deepen already severe sechas surged in recent weeks hisgovernment authority. held in prisons Baghdad, seven people were children killed in the conflict so stepped capital Bangui yesterday.

(Credit: Reuters/ tarian rifts. More than 8,000 the States as a vital confidence-building measure. while thanidea 6,000 govkilled when two car bombs hit despite far at 11,709. presence 1,600 in Andreea “He more had this that peoplethehave beenofkilled Campean) But the plan for the release was overshadowed by an announcement by on Friday that it intendsof French ernment supporters are in the theIsrael Shi’ite neighborhood It said the death toll among peacekeepers and nearviolence this year. hecustody knew what was best for to build 1,400 homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank,Zafaraniya. a move Palestinian negotiator lysuch ofmany Islamist rebelsoffighting of rebels. those looting the andAssad killinggov- However, 4,000 African Union troops months

Kerry heads to Middle East this Hundreds seek to flee Central African monitoring group says Bombs across Baghdad kill at onAnti-Assad Republic emergency flights week for peace talks: U.S. official

Syrian death toll passes 130,000

least 15, clashes continue in Anbar: sources

Saeb Erekat said the would “destroy the peace process” and could be met with retaliation.

The Palestinians see the Jewish settlements as an obstacle to achieving a viable state in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, territories Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war. Most countries consider Israel’s settlements there illegal.

During his last visit to the region on December 13, Kerry said both sides remained committed to peace talks and were on course to wrap up an interim deal in April.

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SUNDAY CHRONICLE January 5, 2014

CARICOM pledges continued support for Haiti

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC) – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping says its French-speaking member, Haiti, remains a integral part of the bloc and that it could continue to count on it in the future.

Haiti, regarded as one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere celebrated its 210th anniversary of political independence earlier this week, and CARICOM Secretary General Irwin La Rocque “Haiti’s pride of place in history is unquestionable”.

He said January 1 “ is a day that is etched in the hearts and psyche of Haitians as the day when dignity, courage and the inexorable quest for freedom, equality and betterment that reside in the human spirit soared triumphantly in Haiti, searing an indelible mark on the trajectory of human civilization.

Haiti no longer US imminent danger area

WASHINGTON, (CMC) - The United States Department of Defense (DOD) says Haiti is no longer among some locations designated as “imminent danger pay (IDP) areas”.

The DOD said that the earthquake-ravaged, French-speaking Caribbean country, along with eight other “land areas” would no longer be designated as an IDP, effective June 1, 2014.

The others are East Timor, Liberia, Oman, Rwanda, Tajikistan, United Arab Emirates, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

The DOD has also said the Persian Gulf would no longer be a “water area and air space” for IDP purposes and that IDP would remain in effect for Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Jordan, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, and Egypt within the US Central Command area of responsibility.

But the DOD said it kept Guantánamo Bay in Cuba on the IDP list.

“A periodic review and recertification was conducted for Imminent Danger Pay purposes and was made in coordination with the joint staff, combatant commands and military services.

“The combatant commands conducted in-depth threat assessments for countries within their areas of responsibility,” the DOD said in a statement.

Following the review, the DOD said “it was determined that the imminent threat of physical harm to US military personnel due to civil insurrection, civil war, terrorism, or wartime conditions has been significantly reduced in many countries”.

“The spirit and virtues of this historic achievement have consistently motivated the people of Haiti over their two hundred and ten years of independence. In the face of daunting and trying challenges and natural disasters they have never wearied, responding with purpose, valour and resilience.”

He reminded the grouping’s only French-speaking member state that in its forward march towards its social and economic development, it is not alone, saying Haiti “can count on the solidarity of the fellow member states of the Caribbean Community”.

Haiti is recovering from a 2010 powerful earthquake that destroyed most of the country’s infrastructure and killed an estimated 300,000 people, while leaving more than a million others homeless.

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The Government/ Opposition Tango

THE Guyanese public would have experienced a classic example yesterday of the difference between a propaganda offensive by Opposition Leader of the People’s National Congress (PNC) and the reaffirmation of a political reality as outlined by Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh.

The comparison came in separate assessments, as reported in sections of the local media.

For a start, the PNC’s leader Granger, chairman of the coalition of parties under the banner of APNU—in which the once militant WPA is one of the insignificant segments—told a media conference on Friday of his hope for parliament in this New Year to be “free” of the political collisions that characterised meetings in 2013, and reflect, instead, on the need for “cooperation and transparency”.

Mr Granger deserves applause for reflecting such matured political thinking, the moreso as 2014 seems likely to be faced with perhaps even more daunting economic and other challenges than in 2013.

Pity is that the applause had to be shortlived, as the retired Brigadier of the Guyana Defence Force quickly shifted gear to move into his customary attacking mode.

Knowing, as he does, what it means to abide by the once heinous PNC doctrine of “party paramountcy” that had pushed Guyana down on its knees as one of the internationally rated highest indebted and poorest countries of the world, Granger was now ready to also roll out his litany of perceived political, social and economic woes for which he blamed the PPP-led government.

That’s not all. He made a spirited call on the Executive President of Guyana, Donald Ramotar, to become involved in

the establishment of a “new social contract” that would pave the way for national unity, guarantee human safety, and foster economic development and growth.

Further, he said that if President Ramotar favours removal of “obstacles” to Government/Opposition “cooperation”, then “he must come to the negotiating table, sit down with the opposition, and let us decide how the country will move forward…”

At this point, readers may well ask whether Mr Granger, the parliamentary Opposition Leader, is for real, or simply hallucinating about political power? Has the PNC leader forgotten the opposition politics of obstructions in 2013 that had resulted, in some cases, in costly physical destruction, loss of lives, and grave fiscal and economic setbacks?

Think, for instance, of the human and economic tragedies of the “Linden disaster”; the torpedoing of the Amaila Falls hydro-electric project -- Guyana’s biggest ever economic programme -- and, of course, the political collusions that were to prevent parliament’s approval of the “Anti-money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism ‘ Bill.

In both of those cases, the PNC and AFC had shown utter contempt for the pleas from the Private Sector Commission (PSC) for cooperation in the national interest.

As Finance Minister Ashni Singh has pointed out in an interview with the “Guyana Times”, the 10th Parliament in 2013 proved to be a story of lost opportunities, and misguided politics by the opposition when it came to cooperation with the government.

Irrespective of political allegiance or persuasion, Guyanese

Late Chief Librarian interred ...

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shipped for approximately the last 20 years.

Messages were also received from E.R. Braithwaite, and there were tributes in song and dance by Desmond Thompson, Tyson, Natalie and Charmaine Cort, among others.

Amidst a deluge of glowing and emotional tributes,

Ms. Thompson, a graduate of the University of the West Indies with a Masters Degree in Library Sciences, and who had been Chief Librarian for the last nine years, was remembered as a literary icon; one who worked at the National Library for over two decades, beginning from November, 1, 1991.

In 2004, she became

Chief Librarian, and worked tirelessly for the advancement of the National Library and her staff, until her untimely passing on December 24, 2013.

She was alluded to by the Ministry of Education as a consummate professional mandated to promote literacy in Guyana, who dedicated her time, energy, and professional

training in library science towards the advancement of reading locally.

Moreover, Ms. Thompson was described as a woman with a radiant smile; quiet, caring and compassionate; a friend in need and a friend indeed; a mentor, one who possessed great leadership qualities; and a great source of inspiration to others with

From left are father of the deceased, Mr. Clement Sylvanus Thompson, and other bereaved family members during the Thanksgiving Service at Trinity Methodist Church (Photos by Adrian Narine)

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could well recall how the PNC/AFC tango in 2013 to frustrate both the hydroelectric project and passage of the ‘anti-money laundering’ Bill had even involved hostility towards the broadly-based Private Sector Commission, including some crude personal attacks on leading officials.

In the circumstances, it would be a leap of faith to believe that Mr Granger is now indeed interested in avoiding “collisions” with the government in parliament and to strive, “for cooperation and transparency…”

As the saying goes, “It takes two to tango”. Our own preference is for the “cooperation” agenda to begin when the parliament gets down to the challenging Work Programme for 2014.

On his own part, President Ramotar could perhaps begin with an invitation for consultations with a delegation of representatives from the PNC and AFC, and follow up with consultations with representatives of the private sector and labour movement. After all, It is better to hope than dwell in despair. whom she came into contact.

In private life, she was remembered by the Deputy Chief Librarian as a very private person; a friend, confidante, well respected, calm, soft spoken, committed, and a woman of great integrity.

She was also a stickler for discipline.

In his message, E.R. Braithwaite said he was eminently impressed by Ms. Thompson’s calm demeanour, but had cause to contrast it with what he called her ‘persuasive power’ in getting things done. He said he was deeply saddened at the death of one he referred to as a mentor and effective leader, but was thankful for his professional encounter with her on his visit home to Guyana a few years ago.

And Chairman of the National Library, Petamber Persaud, amidst expressing his grief, had one thing to pleasantly reflect on: He took pride in relating that just a few days before Ms. Thompson’s demise, during a meeting at the Library, staff took the opportunity of expressing to her what a wonderful person she was.

“We were able to pay tribute to her while she was alive, and that is a moment we will all remember,” he added rather emotionally.

And amidst a deluge of tearful tributes, Gillian Thompson’s siblings lamented the loss of a wonderful sister, a friend and a confidante, even as they shared cherished memories of the impact she had made on their lives and on the

lives of her many nieces and nephews. For them, Gillian was possessed of fine motherly qualities, even though she had no children of her own; and she had reached out to all, always with words of wise inspiration and sage counsel.

Essentially, she used to admonish them to place a high premium on higher education; and fortunately, she had lived to see the benefits pay off.

Sherie, an elder sister who resides abroad, recalled travelling home to Guyana just two months ago for Gillian’s 47th birthday and experiencing a memorable moment then.

She urged family members and others whose lives Gillian had touched not to focus on her death, but on those wonderful moments during which she would have touched others’ lives.

Likewise, her eldest brother, Colin, had memories of Gillian’s warmth, tenderness, and deep loyalty to the family.

Colin recalled being deeply touched by his sister’s gentleness and calm demeanour; and moreover, he reflected on the words of a Christmas card she had sent him just a few days before her tragic passing. He said the words in that card were powerful and inspirational.

“She was simple, gentle, but powerful, just like those words were. She had that human touch, and showed she cared for and loved us all,” he said.

Now that Gillian is gone, the family will redouble their efforts to be even more caring and compassionate to each other, Colin said.

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‘Muri Brasil’ scraps local investment venture in New River Triangle

By Vanessa Narine

MISINFORMATION, prejudice and hostility were the key factors influencing the decision of Muri Brasil Ventures Incorporated to scrap its local investment venture.

The company will no longer pursue its geographical and geophysical survey under the Permission for Geographical and Geophysical Survey (PGGS)in the New River Triangle area, which was granted by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).

In a statement, Muri Brasil Ventures, said: “Although the process was legal and transparent, this decision is due to the misinformation, prejudice and hostility to this proposed survey by persons and agencies, which are fostering an adverse investment climate in Guyana.”

The decision made on December 30, 2013 makes the company the latest major investor Guyana has lost.

The company, a local company registered in Guyana under the Companies Act with local shareholders, expressed its appreciation for those who supported the project CONTROVERSY The project was the feature of controversial debates over the last few weeks. The PGGS document signed between the GGMC and Muri Brasil Ventures Inc. was leaked to the press, and led to allegations that Natural Resources and Environment Minister, Robert Persaud, had not been forthright in supplying information for public consumption – an allegation he has denied. Minister Robert Persaud was among signatories for the PGGS, which had been issued on November 7, 2012 for several types of minerals in the New River area in south-eastern Berbice.

Muri Brasil Ventures Inc. itself joined the debates, making clear that there was nothing “opaque” about its deal with the Natural Resources Ministry in acquiring the PGGS. In a statement issued in mid-December, the company had made clear that it had applied for

the PGGS following an advertisement by the Government.

In clarifying its activities, the company had said: “Exploration activities have not commenced because permission is being awaited for the construction of a small airstrip to facilitate the airborne aspect of the survey. Other research activities have taken place.”

The clause within the PGGS that paves the way for the granting of at least 18 prospecting licences is the main bone of contention, since the Natural Resources Ministry had indicated that no mining activity was being done in the New River Triangle.

However, Muri Brasil Ventures Inc. explained that these kinds of exploration activities cost millions of U.S. dollars, which can only be sourced as exploration investments from outside of Guyana.

The company said: “No such investments would be available if the investor is given no assurance that he will be granted prospecting licences. The investor takes a risk. If he or she is not assured of a potential return, investment capital will dry up, and so will Guyana’s mining industry.”

According to the company, constant exploration activities are essential to accelerate the mining industry. However, before a prospecting licence is issued, a work programme and financial and technical capabilities of a company must be supplied.

The company said: “A prospecting licence does not necessarily lead to a mining licence, because minerals in commercial quantities may not be available.

“It has been asserted that there is an impropriety inherent in the fact that the PGGS is issued for seven different minerals, rather than a single one.

“The Mining Act permits the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission to issue permits or licences over the same area to different persons for different minerals. The company made it clear that a PGGS is “qualitatively different” from a mining permit.

Amidst the controversy over activity in the New River Triangle area, Muri Brasil Ventures Inc. had expressed hope that there would be no adverse impacts on the PGGS.

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the passage of the AML/CFT Bill, and again the thousands of stakeholders with the rejection of the petition on the Cricket Bill,” he said.

This caused him to question APNU’s current call, after clear demonstrations of disinterest in real consultations that could have seen parties reaching consensus positions, and in the face of an authoritarian approach.

Noting that the selfish motives of Opposition factions have been laid bare to the public with their support of the $300M USAID-funded Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) project, which was rejected by the Government, and which “threatens” Guyana’s national sovereignty, Source Number Two said: “The (joint) Opposition has supported this project because they perceive (themselves receiving) some political benefits, and so (they) have sacrificed national interest at the altar of selfish politics.”

FACING A CRISIS And, responding to APNU’s charge that the current administration is “incapable of solving the country’s current crisis” on its own, when it made the call for the ‘social contract’, a third source, who has a paralegal background, stoutly declared: “I reject any notion that suggests the PPP/C is incapable of effectively addressing any problem confronting the people of Guyana.” He said the current administration has a 60-year-old legacy under which it won freedom and independence for the Guyanese people, and was the vanguard in the struggle against political oppression, brutality, economic sabotage and stagnation and underdevelopment – all events that occurred under the rule of the People’s National Congress (PNC), now the majority stakeholder in the APNU coalition.

“When we left power in the 60s” he said, “Guyana was a leader in the Caribbean economically, and we boasted the most educated people.

When we took over in 1992, what we inherited was a bankrupt State, with a people whose spirit was broken and every aspect of social and economic, as well as the physical infrastructure, was in tatters.

“Now here we are, 21 years later, and we have rebuilt this country; we have transformed the political, economic and social infrastructure of this nation, and Guyana is once again a leader in the Caribbean in terms of economic growth -- a fact recognized by international agencies as well as leaders in the region.

“Once again, our children are topping the region at CXC. We have a housing drive that is unrivalled, with over 130,000 house lots already issued, and another 6,000 to be issued this year. We have a programme to equip our people with ICT (Information and Communication Technology) training to bridge the technological divide through the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project.

“We have also reduced poverty from 80 per cent to within the vicinity of 15 per cent, and we have universal healthcare and access to education. And these are only some of the work we have done in the last two decades!”

And, querying the audacity of the Opposition to charge the Government of incapability when the records on progress and development are clear, he said: “How can they ever say we are incapable of solving the country’s problems when we have moved this country from a state of economic bankruptcy to a modern and progressive nation where our people enjoy a reasonably high standard of living?”

In light of the fact that APNU’s ‘social contract’ centres on a consultative move forward, he, like our first source, said any interest in real consultations must be expressed by way of action, and not mere words.

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The big teen-pregnancy challenge facing CARICOM Analysis by Rickey Singh

CARIBBEAN Community Sates, including Guyana, are understandably quite depressed over the scourge of gun-related killings and general awful criminality.

However, the very challenging problem of teen pregnancy, which has compelled a shift in CARICOM’s work agenda, may now require all countries to pay closer attention to this major social problem in this region.

Over the past week, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) disclosed, in its latest annual report, what is widely known by citizens across the Caribbean/Latin America region: Namely, that 2013 was not a good year for economic performance.

Additionally, that the forecast for 2014 is an estimated less than three per cent growth in gross domestic product (GDP).

But it is the assessment of a serious human rights threat facing teenage girls of our Caribbean Community, as assessed by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and CARICOM Secretariat, that’s the primary focus of this article.

With an estimated one-third of Caribbean teenage girls being married before their 18th birthday, among them those compelled to do so by unexpected/unplanned pregnancies, this very challenging problem had engaged the attention of CARICOM’s Council for Human and Social Development (COSHOD) during 2013.

The result was the commissioning of “a strategic framework on adolescent pregnancy” that subsequently provided a most useful report to inspire initiatives for action.

fertility rate, adolescent birth rates remain relatively high. As pointed out by the CARICOM Secretariat, among girls aged 1519 years old, the birth rate ranges from 26 to 97 per one thousand adolescents.

Guyana, Belize, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda and Suriname are reported to have the highest teen pregnancy in the Caribbean region.

NEW T&T MOVE As governments and agencies like UNFPA ponder initiatives to address the social and economic consequences of teenage pregnancy, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bisseasar has raised a related issue that’s a problem for more than Trinidad and Tobago.

A former Attorney-General in a previous administration, she has

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has a different concern, involving the spreading regional problem of teenage pregnancy.

She wants priority attention to be given to amend the law to end the current contradiction of Jamaica having 18 years as the “adult age”, while both boys and girls are legally able to have consensual sex at 16.

Therefore, when she addressed the CARICOM/UNFPA consultation last month, Minister Falconer took the opportunity to focus

MAJOR CONSULTATION Information Minister, Sandrea Falconer

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bisseasar

fingered as a challenging problem that requires “urgent attention”, the need for mandatory schooling up to 16 years of age for both male and female students, instead of the current school-leaving option at age 12.

Last month, the Prime Minister disclosed her intention to introduce legislation, early this year, to make it mandatory for school enrolment to begin at the age of five years, and end at 16.

Currently, school enrolment, nationally, is from six to 12 years.

The Prime Minister’s intention, as she said, is to ensure “equality in education” with girls in mind who are often influenced, for varying reasons, to leave school too early…”

She, of course, would be aware that this is partly a related cultural problem in plural CARICOM societies, like Guyana and T&T in particular, where ethnic and religious norms often influence early marriage for teenage girls, as well as leaving school.

JAMAICA’S PERSPECTIVE Meanwhile, in Jamaica, Information Minister, Sandrea Falconer,

on the necessity for ending this contradictory situation as part of Jamaica’s own efforts to deal with the problem of teenage pregnancy.

Sex, she argues, should be “an adult thing”, and the “adult age” in Jamaica is 18 (as recognised in some other CARICOM states).

Therefore, it’s time to put an end to encourage, by existing law, having consensual sex at the age of 16.

Now that we have moved into 2014, amid much apprehension over economic and social problems, particularly gun-related criminality, incidence of rape and rising teenage pregnancy, there would be anxiety to learn of progress in the initiatives to flow from last month’s CARICOM/UNFPA consultation.

The negative consequences of rising teenage pregnancy are simply too challenging to ignore by ANY member State of our Caribbean Community.

There was one exception, twelve years ago, when foreign terrorists did manage to get into the United States and carry out an attack. However, the 9/11 attackers were using a brand new technique. Such innovations are very rare, and are only a surprise the first time. No subsequent terrorist attack, in the US or anywhere else, has been remotely as ambitious.

The NSA has certainly not prevented ten 9/11s in the past decade; it’s very unlikely to have prevented even one. But let us accept, for the sake of the argument, that the NSA’s activities have really saved 759 American lives in the past decade. In fact, let’s round it up to 1,000 lives, to make the calculations easier.

That would mean that over the past decade, the NSA has spent around $100 billion to save 1,000 American lives. That works out at $10 million per life saved (on the heroic assumption that without the NSA, the American terrorism problem would have been even worse than the Russian).

Economists talk about “opportunity cost”: when you spend the money on one thing, you are foregoing whatever benefits you might have gotten from spending it on something else. Are there other ways of spending that $100 billion that would save more than a thousand American lives?

Consider spending some of it on better pre-and-post-natal care for poor Americans. Just a billion dollars a year – an extra $250 per baby – would enable the US to get its infant mortality rate down below Cuba’s, maybe even as low as Portugal or South Korea. Over ten years, that would be 60,000 more American kids who lived to grow up.

Or, take highways. Highway engineers can estimate how many people will die each year on a given stretch of highway fairly accurately. It depends on the width and surface of the road; how many sharp curves and blind hills there are; whether there are guard rails,

etc. All those things depend on how much money you have to spend on that stretch of highway.

Around 34,000 Americans died on the roads in 2012. Another $5 billion a year, spent on making highways safer, would probably reduce that toll by an extra thousand people each year. Over ten years, it would save around another 60,000 lives.

That’s 120,000 lives saved, and there’s still $4 billion a year left to spend on other life-saving improvements. You almost certainly end up saving at least 150,000 American lives with your $100 billion investment. That’s at least 150 times better than your return on investing the money in the NSA – and we haven’t yet even considered the cost in alienated allies and violated civil rights of giving the NSA all that money.

Unfortunately, Americans dying in infancy or on the highways don’t make headlines, whereas victims of terrorism do. Politically, their lives are much more important, and so that’s where the money goes. Indeed, even making calculations of this sort about the relative values we assign to human lives is thought to be in poor taste.

Never mind. As Herman Kahn, the dean of American nuclear strategists, said when people criticised him for making cold-blooded estimates of how many millions of Americans would be killed as a result of various different US strategies for fighting a nuclear war: “Would you prefer a nice, warm mistake?” (Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist, and military historian.)

Opportunity costs IF RUSSIA spent as much on intelligence agencies as the United States does ($52.6 billion in 2013, according to the ‘black budget” published by the Washington Post last August), would it have been able to stop the suicide bombers who killed 31 people in two attacks in Volgograd early last week? Can you solve the problem just by throwing money at it? And how big a problem is it, anyway?

Russia doesn’t really have that kind of money to spend on “intelligence”, so let’s narrow it down to the $10.6 billion that the US National Security Agency spends each year. Of the sixteen intelligence agencies working for the US government, the NSA is the one that places the most emphasis on its alleged ability to stop terrorist attacks, through monitoring everybody’s communications.

Would the NSA’s $10.6 billion, spent in the same way by the Russians, have stopped the Volgograd bombers? We cannot know for sure, any more than we can know if another billion dollars spent in the United States would have stopped the Boston marathon bombers last June. So, maybe we should reformulate the question.

A total of 785 people have been killed in terrorist attacks in Russia in the past ten years, and Moscow does not pay for an operation remotely comparable to the NSA. In the US, a total of 26 people were killed by terrorists in the same period. So, does this mean that the NSA has saved 759 American lives in the past decade?

Probably not. Russia has a far worse terrorism problem than the United States, because some 6 million citizens, living in the Muslim-majority republics of the northern Caucasus, belong to various ethnic groups who see themselves as living under Russian occupation.

The United States has no comparable domestic groups, and its ferocious border controls make it very hard for foreign-based terrorists to slip into the country.

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It has already resulted in at a major consultation, jointly organised by the CARICOM Secretariat and the UN agency in Port-ofSpain early last month, and involving participation by representatives from the region’s private sector and non-government organizations (NGOs).

CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General, Dr Douglas Slater, has noted in an overview of the challenge to be faced, that “adolescent pregnancy and births should not be seen merely as a reproductive health issue...”

“There are,” he contends, “substantial economic, social and human cost attached to them and tackling this issue should be a priority in every member state of the Community.”

The promise arising from last month’s consultancy -- a partnership initiative of CARICOM, UNFPA and the Trinidad and Tobago Government -- was the development of what has been presented as a “new holistic approach to minimise the occurrence of adolescent pregnancy that draws on the experience and strengths of all regional stakeholders.”

According to the UNFPA’s ‘State of the World Population Report’ for 2013, “motherhood in childhood is a huge global problem, especially in developing countries where, every year, some 7.3 million girls under the age of 18 give birth...”

In the case of CARICOM, despite an overall fall in total

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Mandela: Prophet, Liberator or Both (The Conclusion) (Two weeks ago, we began this essay by looking at Mandela’s meteoric rise to world renown, from humble birth in the tiny village of Mvezo, on the banks of the Mbashe River in Transkei, to a life of privilege as the adopted son of the acting regent of the Thembu people, and being groomed for ‘high office’ and beyond. Now for the conclusion.)

By Horace Cummings

IN 1961, Mandela orchestrated a three-day national workers’ strike. He was arrested for leading the strike the following year, and was sentenced to five years in prison.

In 1963, he was brought to trial again, this time, for political offences, including sabotage. At his trial (the one that changed South Africa forever, and was held at the Palace of Justice in Pretoria, in a segregated courtroom filled on one side with plainclothes police officers and on the other side with relatives and friends of the accused), the prosecutor referred to the case as the “ The State versus the National High Command and Others” (The Rivonia trial).

Standing in the dock, Mandela, foregoing cross-examination (which meant that his testimony would be given little weight), said in what would come to be regarded as his most infamous trial speech ever: “…During my lifetime, I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against White domination, and I have fought against Black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony, and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

GAOL Mandela and 10 other ANC leaders were sentenced to life imprisonment for political offences, including sabotage. Nelson Mandela would spend eighteen of his twenty-seven-year sentence at a penetentiary on Robben Island, just off Cape Town. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, Prisoner #46664 was forced to do hard labour in a quarry. He was allowed one visitor a year for 30 minutes. He could write and receive one letter every six months. But Robben Island became the crucible that transformed him.

Through intelligence, charm and dignified defiance, Mandela eventually bent even the most brutal prison officials to his will, assumed leadership over his jailed comrades, and became the master of his own prison.

According to fellow prisoner, Neville Alexander, “He always made the point, ‘If they say you must run, insist on walking. If they say you must walk fast, insist on walking slowly.’ That was the whole point. We are going to set the terms.”

Freedom at last!

Robben Island and Pollsmoor Prison in suburban Cape Town redefined for Mandela the struggle against Apartheid. It is behind those prison walls that he was able to subtly develop method in strategy. He was tempered in the fire of adversity.

And as he dug deep into prison life, he would be troubled by the separation of family, especially when he learnt that his then wife, Winnie was arrested and detained for 17months as she continued the struggle against Apartheid, and for a democratic South Africa. This meant that their daughters, nine and ten respectively, were left behind, and there was nothing he could do to help his wife and children.

His long imprisonment gave him new depth; helped him to be more understanding of the foibles of others; to be more generous, more tolerant, more magnanimous; it also gave him an unassailable credibility and integrity, so that when he finally emerged from prison, he was willing to extend a hand of friendship to his former adversaries and be generous when they were vanquished. He lived out the understanding that an enemy is a friend waiting to be made. During his time in prison also, he used his knowledge of the law to full effect and advantage. His answer to brutality and bullyism, as well as harassment and abuse was to turn to the law, whether it

Doing hard time on Robben Island

was on his own behalf or to assist fellow inmates. He would threaten to take action or to institute legal action; it became an essential protection.

INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN Mandela continued to be such a potent symbol of Black resistance that a coordinated international campaign for his release was launched, and this international groundswell of support exemplified the power and esteem that Mandela had in the global political community.

Thus, in 1985, President P.W. Botha offered to release Mandela in exchange for renouncing armed struggle; but Mandela flatly rejected the offer. With increasing local and international pressure for his release, the government participated in several talks with Mandela over the ensuing years, but no deal was made.

By the time Nelson Mandela turned 70 and was still imprisoned, by then transferred to Victor Vester prison, the campaign for his release had reached virtually every corner of the world; and every medium was used to push, coerce and encourage anyone and everyone to do their bit to help free him -- from students and concert goers to politicians and bankers. Medium used included: Boycotting South Africa at sports; economic sanctions, both trade and financial; political and diplomatic sanctions; and an arms embargo with the passing of Resolution 418 by the UN Security Council in 1977.

It was however the account of his prison experience that moved commentators to indulge, in the domain of exuberance and, perhaps, reverence for the man, in positing that Mandela must have been a prophet besides being the obvious liberator.

A more contemporary aggregate of a prophet refers to someone who speaks up and takes a stand for what they believe in, even if it makes them unpopular. Thus, writers and commentators in their fervour to revere Nelson Mandela have not failed in attributing such a lofty ideal to his inspirational advocacy.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a fellow South African, referred to him as “the prophet of tolerance”; Raul Castro, called him a “prophet of unity and peace. Ruby Sprott, in her article Nelson Mandela: A Prophet for the Twenty-first Century writes, “I see Mandela, the prophet. I see Mandela as much of a prophet as any in the Bible. I see him as a prophet like Habakkuk…Perhaps Mandela’s life didn’t start out as a prophet, but became one, as he suffered trials, watched his brothers and sisters who believed in justice suffer and die for the sake of what was right

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Finance Minister...

New $5,ooo note elicits strong positive feedback

By Vanessa Narine FINANCE Minister Dr. Ashni Singh has dismissed widespread concerns over the use of the new $5,000 note, making clear that feedback has been positive since introduction of the note in December 2013.

Dr Singh said: “I did a short walkabout on Christmas Eve, and I met no less than 20 people who highlighted the fact that they were immensely pleased (with) the introduction of the $5,000 bill. I can tell you that there are dozens, probably hundreds, out there who said to me they welcome the introduction of the $5,000(bill).”

Dr Singh explained that many in both the public and private sectors have pointed to the benefits of not having to carry around large sums of cash, particularly relative to the possibility of their falling victim to robbery.

Minister Singh said the concerns are unfortunate, as the matter is a “non-issue” that is being harped on. “You hear of one or two stories of skepticism, but what does not get highlighted is the hundreds of business persons who welcome the new bill,” he stressed.

He opined that it is only a matter of time before the wider Guyanese populace makes use of the new note.

The minister said that, on the competitive front, the few isolated businesses that have said they are not accepting the new bill will discover that customers wishing to make use of the $5,000 note are taking

their business elsewhere. “It is an ill-conceived policy,” he said.

Dr Singh maintained that, whatever the outcome, Guyana remains a free country; and if persons do not wish to use the $5,000 bill, they are not obliged to, but can continue using the $1,000 bill as the main currency denomination.

“All the bank notes in current circulation are legal tender,” he said.

When the new note was introduced, Dr Singh had stressed that the economic growth Guyana has seen since 1996 -- the year when the thousand-dollar note was introduced -- has warranted the introduction of the new note. The Finance Minister also made it clear that the value of the Guyana dollar remains the same, and is unaffected by introduction of the new note, which is expected to positively impact transactions -- from a reduction in the handling costs of particularly large transactions, given that one five-thousand-dollar note will replace five one-thousand-dollar notes; to the increased convenience of consumers handling cash.

The private sector has weighed in on concerns over the new note, calling for an advisory to guide the use of the new $5,000 note, which went into circulation on Monday.

Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC), Mr Ronald

Webster, contends that while legal “enforcement” of regulation for the note may not be possible, an advisory can assist in avoiding challenges for the small entrepreneur.

The position of Mr Clinton Urling, President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), is that there should be a minimum limit for which the new bill should be used, in light of the fact that a “change demand” may feed inflation.

“As it stands, business people are at the mercy of consumers who present the $5,000 note for small transactions. What we will end up with will be a change demand, and we may end up printing more $1,000 bills,” he explained.

Both private sector heads stressed their support for the note’s introduction, but maintained their concerns of the “change demand” in relation to its use. However, like the Finance Minister, they agreed that the situation now is a “wait and see” one.

Mandela: Prophet, Liberator ...

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During his first trial for treason in 1956

and just; baked in the hot sun breaking rocks on Robben Island; and contracted tuberculosis while in prison.” An exegesis of the Bible’s account of Habakkuk, the prophet, will reveal that, unlike the other prophets being a representative of God to the people, Habakkuk was a representative of the people to God as he pleaded and complained on their behalf. Ruby Sprott may just be spot on. Mandela, nevertheless, dispelled the concept of himself when he said – “…I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people…”

Perhaps it was by providence Botha suffered a stroke and was replaced by Frederik Willem de Klerk.

What ensued was that Mandela’s release was finally announced. De Klerk also unbanned the ANC, removed restrictions on political groups and suspended executions. So on February 11, 1990, the angry jaws of prison released its victim - prisoner #46664 Nelson Mandela. Upon his release from prison, Nelson Mandela immediately urged foreign powers not to reduce their pressure on the South African government for constitutional reform. While he stated that he was committed to working toward peace, he declared that the ANC’s armed struggle would continue until the black majority received the right to vote. In his Address to a rally in Cape Town on his release from prison he stated, “…Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.”

And indeed he did, for in 1991, Mandela was elected president of the African National Congress.

Mandela continued to negotiate with President F.W. de Klerk toward the country’s first multiracial elections. White South Africans were willing to share power, but many Black South Africans wanted a complete transfer of power. The negotiations were often strained and Mandela had to keep a delicate balance of political pressure and intense negotiations amid the demonstrations and armed resistance.

In 1993, Mandela and President de Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work toward dismantling apartheid. And due in no small part to their work, negotiations between black and white South Africans prevailed: On April 27, 1994, South Africa held its first democratic elections.

Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the country’s first black president on May 10, 1994, at the age of 77, with de Klerk as his first deputy. At his inauguration speech he bellowed, “Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.”

From 1994 until June 1999, Mandela worked to bring about the transition from minority rule and apartheid to black majority rule. He used the nation’s enthusiasm for sports as a pivot point to promote reconciliation between whites and blacks, encouraging black South Africans to support the once-hated national rugby team. In 1995, South Africa came to the world stage by hosting the Rugby World Cup, which brought further recognition and prestige to the young Republic.

Mandela also worked to protect South Africa’s economy from collapse during his presidency. Through his Reconstruction and Development Plan, the South African government funded the creation of jobs, housing and basic health care. In 1996, Mandela signed into law a new constitution for the nation, establishing a strong central government based on majority rule, and guaranteeing both the rights of minorities and the freedom of expression. By the 1999 general election, Nelson Mandela had retired from active politics.

At the time of his death, on December 5, 2013, at the age of 95, South Africa had given to the world a legend. Some may call him prophet; to all he was the ultimate liberator of his people, from a political system that made diminishing one race to another; yet to others he was both the prophet and liberator.

But for the modesty of the man he would rather be referred to as “A humble servant of the people”.

Rest in peace Nelson Mandela

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Finance Minister: Guyana’s phenomenal economic success is self-evident countrywide

By Vanessa Narine FINANCE Minister Dr. Ashni Singh maintains that the story of Guyana’s economic progress over the last eight years has been replicated in the successes of individual Guyanese persons across the country.

He said: “This story (of economic improvement) has been replicated everywhere in thousands of Guyanese homes….(There are) people who are acquiring education, getting jobs, accumulating savings, becoming a home owner, buying their own means of transportation, growing their small businesses, accessing loans… It is a story that represents improvement.”

He noted, however, that this reality requires a conducive environment in which it can be fostered, and real and sustained effort at individual and national levels.

“We recognize how inextricably linked economic growth is to the well-being of our people.

An economy that is growing is an economy that is creating jobs, an economy that is improving income and improving lives. We are FINANCE Minister working hard to ensure a policy Dr. Ashni Singh framework for sustained economic growth,” the minister said.

In the last two years, he said, Guyana has seen not only growth in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but growth in all the correlating factors of economic growth.

“We see strong foreign direct investment, we see a strong private sector, and we see all of our other key macroeconomic fundamentals remaining on a favourable trajectory…all pointing to growth,” he said.

Dr Singh said this achievement has, by no stretch of the imagination, been “accidental”.

He said: “There is no doubt in my mind (that) if one were to make an analysis of the economic performance of the last two years, the inescapable conclusion of that analysis (would be) that our economy has performed outstandingly.

“Looking at recent economic performance in the Caribbean region, there can be no doubt at all that the achievement of real growth in our GDP of a five per cent -- not only in the last two years, but in the last eight years -- has been an absolutely outstanding achievement.”

He reiterated his confidence that the circumstances of the people

of Guyana have been improving steadily. Dr Singh said: “Guyana has emerged as the envy (of the Caribbean region) in the areas of housing and ownership…. No one in Guyana can dispute that over 100,000 lots have been distributed…. Every year, another 5000 or 6000 (persons) are becoming owners of property, and their lives are improving.

“If you look at the story of jobs being created, we realize the investor confidence…. It has taken us a long time to regain investor confidence, and we are at a point where investor confidence is at the highest it has ever been, political circumstances notwithstanding.”

He lauded the contribution of the private sector and other stakeholders working within the environment that Government is working to strengthen and improve to foster greater economic successes.

DISPARAGING COMMENTS On that note, Dr Singh lashed out at the “disparaging” comments coming from the political Opposition. He acknowledged the references made in the Opposition quarters to the recent report from the World Bank that addressed Guyana’s per capita GDP. According to him, the lack of objectively in considering the report is disconcerting.

“The World Bank study is a tabulation of per capita GDP…. It is no secret that it (Guyana’s per capita GDP) is lower than some countries. It is something that has been known for a long time,” Dr Singh said.

However, he made it clear that this statistic must be considered in the wider context. The minister explained that while, 20 years ago, Guyana’s GDP was on par with Haiti’s, of note should also be the rapid growth and steady progress in raising the per capita GDP in the last 20 years.

He charged that the lack of objectivity and the narrow considerations that were the basis of the “disparaging” comments are an indictment on hard working Guyanese people who have contributed to Guyana’s economic success.

“We have an unfortunate circumstance in that those competing for political space are selective and not as objective as they should be,” Singh stressed.

He added that the current Administration’s focus is on improving the per capita GDP through better education, more jobs, and increased output – all aimed at improving the livelihoods of Guyanese across the nation.

“This is the surest way to grow the economy,” the minister said.

PROPER AUTHORITY As it relates to pronouncements on Guyana’s economic performance, Dr Singh said the “authoritative institution” for monitoring economic performance is the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

He pointed out that in addition to underscoring the areas where work still needs to be done, the IMF report arrived at favourable conclusions on Guyana’s performance.

“Our political detractors ignore the report, but that report exists,” the minister said. “If you were to compare what the IMF is saying about us and comparable countries, you will see favourable conditions take on even greater significance.”

The report, released in December, 2013, stated that Guyana’s “strong macroeconomic performance” has contributed to a reduction in both public debt levels and sustained poverty reduction, according to a report from the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The report said: “The Directors commended the authorities for the progress (achieved) so far in poverty reduction.”

The IMF called for the current Administration to build on existing efforts to ensure a more even distribution of the benefits from economic growth. “In this regard, efforts to lower the cost of energy, address skill mismatches, and improve the business environment represent important policy initiatives,” the report said.

The IMF also underscored the need for steps to be taken to increase productivity in traditional sectors, such as agriculture and mining, which should also be part of a strategy to foster more inclusive growth.

The report also noted that the economy had experienced seven years of uninterrupted growth averaging about four percent annually. It said: “The key pillars of the macroeconomic resurgence have been sustained reforms, in particular the implementation of VAT, favourable commodity prices, significant inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) and debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC) and Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) initiatives.

“Real economic activity expanded by 4.8 percent in 2012 on the back of broad-based growth in agriculture, manufacturing, construction, mining and other services. Twelve-month inflation remained low at 3.4 percent, notwithstanding higher energy and food prices.”

Considering the pronouncements of the IMF, Singh said, the last two years have not been without their challenges, particularly in the current political environment.

He said: “The current Administration has had to deal with the unprecedented situation where the Executive does not have a majority in the Legislature, and this political reality has proven to be a test of the constitutional and legislative framework, and a stern test to the work of the Legislature and how it affects the work of the Executive.

“It is not a reality that daunts us, it is a reality that exists, and one we have to contend with. We are unprepared to let it affect our work in growing and developing Guyana,” the Finance Minister said.

Dr Singh made it clear that Guyana’s thrust in the direction of growth and development will continue to reflect its commitment to the people of Guyana in 2014.

Finance Minister warns...

‘Political gangsterism’ of the past will not work in 2014

By Vanessa Narine FINANCE Minister Dr. Ashni Singh, commenting on proceedings of the National Assembly, made it clear that the ‘political gangsterism’ that was a feature in the 2013 sittings will not bode well for 2014.

He said: “We have witnessed attempts by the Opposition to use this dispensation to extract political rent and inflict wounds, even if it meant inflicting damage on Guyana’s domestic economy and international credibility.”

Dr Singh said the Parliamentary experiences of the last two years have vindicated the caution he urged in relations at the beginning of the Tenth Parliament, in 2012.

“In my first budget speech of the Tenth Parliament, I made the point that much was being said of the new dispensation, and I exhorted that, as a nation and Parliament, we ought not to be naïve in forming expectations of the new Parliament. And (I said that) while there were some who heralded the new dispensation for the opportunities it presented, we should be mindful of the challenges,” Dr Singh said.

The minister added that the display of “raw politics” was discouraging, as the National Assembly has been reduced to a place where political plays for power outweigh the national interest.

Dr Singh said: “The construction of a specialty hospital is a public good for all of our people, and cannot be excised from the national budget by a Parliamentarian who is responsible and who is concerned about the well-being of our people. I give this only as an example, but they’re many other examples.”

This and other “glaring incidents” of the Opposition parties’ Parliamentary disposition reflect a lack of commitment to development of Guyana and a lack of concern for the well-being of the Guyanese people, according to Dr Singh. He said: “With the benefit of two years of experience in the Tenth Parliament now, we have witnessed cutting of the budget -- cutting of successive annual budgets; we have witnessed attempts to withhold approval of legitimate funding needs for developmental projects and initiatives; we have witnessed attempts by the opposition to frustrate and stymie major developmental projects.”

UNDAUNTED Despite the challenges, the Finance Minister made it clear that the current Administration will not be daunted.

He said: “The last two years have not been without challenge, the least of which is the current political environment.

“The current Administration has had to contend with the unprec-

edented situation in the country where the Executive does not have a majority in the legislature, and this political reality has proven to be a test to our constitutional legislative framework, and a stern test to the work of the legislature and how that affects the work of the Executive…. We have not been daunted by this reality.”

Dr Singh stressed that Government is “unprepared” to let the political environment slow efforts to grow and develop Guyana. He said: “Our experience has shown that the sum of the actions taken by the Opposition in the Parliament has not lent itself to growth and development, and can even be described as inimical to development.

“We remain committed to working with stakeholders. We remain committed to the preservation and further enhancement of the environment that is so critical to growth and development, and to improving the lives of people in Guyana.

“Notwithstanding the political environment, we will not be swerved in our commitment.”

Dr Singh also lauded the maturity of the private sector and other major stakeholders in making their positions clear. “We do not enjoy the luxury to disregard the views of the entire private sector…no Parliamentarian should enjoy this luxury,” he stressed.

The Finance Minister acknowledged that moving into 2014 will not be without challenges. Parliament is expected to next meet on January 16.

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The Cuban Revolution: 55 years on

By Eddi Rodney LAST Wednesday (January 1, 2014) marked the 55th Anniversary of the end of the Cuban Revolution (July 26, 1953 – January 1, 1959), an event that has transformed this Caribbean territory from an outpost of North American imperialism into a Socialist State system.

The distinction between the State apparatus and a still undeveloped civil society has yet to be re-examined in depth in the Cuban history, as theoretical post-Cold War issues have tended to converge on the overall dynamic of a viable Anti-Imperialist strategy (Giovanni Arrighi and James Petras, 2001-2002).

Sufficient to note, however, that Cuba’s transformation has been severely constrained as a direct consequence of the American Empire’s blocade.

Certainly, were it not for the criminal embargo, the socio-economic transformative process would have been much more impressive than has been recorded.

Compared to other developing countries, Cuba’s education and health sectors, as well as its biotechnology, and, to a lesser extent, construction sectors, and services (especially tourism/hospitality) would have been amongst the top rated on a worldwide scale, were it not for Helms-Burton/Torricelli.

WAR AS A MEANS OF DEFEATING SOCIAL REBELLIONS Writing in one of his regular columns published in the October 28, 2010 edition of Granma, captioned ‘Reflections of the Commandte’, Fidel Castro cited the War Crimes of US Lt. General Stanley McCrystal, the Commander appointed by President Barack Obama responsible for the war in Afghanistan.

At that time, the Cuban leader had already indicated where he stood on the issues of the US Guantanamo Base and detention camp for mainly Islamic militants accused of terrorist crimes, as well as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Killer Drones described as Predators I and II. Cuba’s position on the War on Terror had long before the launching of the Arab Spring at the end of 2010 in Tunis, sought to have the Bush Administration declare as Crimes Against Humanity those operations conducted by the US CIA, and other covert agencies working under the control of the National Security Agency (NSA) condemned.

The terrorist bombing of a Cubana airline, Flight 455, off the coast of Barbados in October 1976, in which all passengers and crew were killed, has long been presented as a major terrorist atrocity, for which the CIA was responsible through its agents and anti-Cuba, anti-Castro extremists (See as reference Cuba, USA and the hypocrisy of the WoT Latin America Symposium, London 2006).

It was at least, in part, a response to the challenges created by the Bush Administration’s protection of the convicted terrorists Luiz Posada and Orlando Bosch, that Havana took the entirely justifiable measure of recruiting the Cuban anti-terrorists who have become known as the Cuban Five after these were framed by the FBI. In assessing the progress made by Cuba there is a need to review not only the education process (including higher and special education) and the health or social medicine progress, but also the political and organizational advances made through People’s Committees for the Defence of the Revolution. All of this requires an above-party focus despite the fact that the PCC (Parti Communist of Cuba) has embarked on a stage or phase where internal democratization has broadened enormously the scope or, if we like space, for participation in the decision making institutions.

This is the ultimate principle opted for by the political directorate to safeguard socialism. To improve the quality of work, to change the relationship between clericalist or Cuban office staffers and labour units engaged in weekly or monthly remunerated work. To boost support for high capitalisation infrastructure partially by shifting the tax burden to those subsectors that can access micro credit and anticipate seasonal demands.

The short to medium objectives of the ‘socialist conversion’ of centrally directed state capitalism it would appear, is to create an intensification of social property collaboration with self-employed sectors and provide material incentives that reward instead of penalise the ability and capacity for income generation over and above all in the agricultural or rural based sectors.

‘Haciendo Possible Otro Mundo (Making a Better World Possible)’

THE MEDICAL BRIGADES AS A RENEWABLE ASSET Globalisation and the engagement of socialist Cuba in several

Fidel Castro (far left) and Ch? Guevara (centre) lead a memorial march in Havana on May 5, 1960 for the victims of the La Coubre Latin and Caribbean countries has evolved over the past five (5) more trained doctors and health workers. years amidst a crisis of international finance monopoly capitalism.

But historically the Medical brigades were inaugurated as early A crisis that Noam Chomsky and others believe cannot be solved as 1963 in various parts of the still colonialized world, or prior to even with the waging of expensive wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sothese same countries becoming independent. Cuban medical teams malia, Central Africa, Colombia as well as that in Mexico against were engaged in South Yemen, in the territories of the Sahel, Ethithe narco cartels. opia, Mozambique and Eritrea as well as the East African littoral of In an earlier frame and as a direct result and response to the Tanzania (inclusive of Zanzibar) for at least a decade before the mid United States Commission for a Transition to a Free Cuba Report, 1970s and the dreadful Ethiopian/Sahel famine. and which was elaborated by the administration of George W Bush, Cuban internationalists provided basic medical training for the Cuban authorities announced as early as 2005 that the Medical clinical services in parts of Congo-Brazzaville as from the period Brigades would spearhead the component of solidarity that characduring the regime of Messemba-Debat in the mid-1960s. after terises Havana’s Foreign Policy. In other words Cuba would counter Please see page 13 the dispatch of conventional weapons and other armaments with

Thousands of Cubans greeting Rebel Army guerrillas as they ride victoriously into Havana

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Gillian Thompson: Discovering the true meaning of secular professional service

By Eddi Rodney IN the human experience peculiar to the Guianas, the emergence of culture sub-elite defined in the ‘Gramsican’ perspective, has been constrained as well as sustained by the struggle for Independence, Constitutional Rights and Intellectual Sovereignty.

Both Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, as celebrated Afro-American authors, have used the novel to explore its evolution, as it pertains to the development of women, particularly Black women in the United States.

Lady Gaga, in one of her recent albums, actually discloses that in lyrical dynamic manifest in the sphere of the printed word when she intones that “some of us just like to read”.

That universality, however, is incomplete unless one reappraises the totality of settlement colony/communities within that environment, influenced in whatever shape or form by the Indigenous People (Jan Carew and Gordon Rohlehr).

The process at the Pan-Caribbean level has also been described most recently by the Trinidadian writer, Lakshmi Persaud when she delivered the acceptance address of an award extended to her by the St. Augustine UWI Graduates on October 25th 2013. (Stabroek News, December 30: The Beauty of Integrity and the and the Zeal to Learn).

THE INCREMENTALIST MODEL AND VISION Gillian Thompson, who died in a most tragic and horrendous accident on Xmas Eve Day, could be described as a reform progressive.

The actual location of the accident involving a speeding car being pursued by traffic law enforcement (on North Road and Shiv Chandarpal Drive, formerly New Garden Street) used to be, in the era of the Plantocracy and the Court of Policy, the easternmost boundary of Joseph Bourda’s estate.

North Road itself consisted of a canal that extended into those of East Street, Camp Street, as well as Main Street, all now transformed into roadways.

These service canals crisscrossed Georgetown, and flowed into waterways leading directly into either the Demerara River at Kingston, or directly into the Atlantic, via outlet facilities at Kitty, Vlissengen Road or Thomas Lands.

It is at times such as nowadays, when several city roads are virtually transformed into shallow waterways after showers of rainfall, that one is obliged to contemplate as to what kind of vision the ruling circles would have had for surface transportation in the mid to latter 19th Century, and up until say 1914 -1916.

Miss Thompson herself only earlier this month and during the latter part of No-

vember would have had to journey from her North Ruimveldt residence through sections of flooded streets before reaching the Church Street location of the National Library.

So, it is not the case that she and her driver had no experience of difficult and at times hazardous intersections such that which obtains at Church, North and Vlissengen Roads at the best of times.

The policymakers of the Georgetown City Council, who are responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the entire Georgetown, certainly must share some of the culpability for the insecure state of inner-city surfaces whenever there are heavy rains, or even when rainfall is imminent.

The movement from one stage to the next, and how that impacts on traffic monitors (is the Guyana Police Service traffic department) is not a fundamental, but more of a degree, an attitude, if we like.

What is certain is that Miss Thompson would have been alive today, were it not for some irrational and possibly criminal breach involving a traffic police intervention.

So, when people are as glib as to conclude that accidents happen, this is not entirely untrue; but accidents such as those that resulted in the deaths of Princess Diana and her beau, Dodi, in a Paris tunnel, and that of last Xmas Eve that caused Miss Thompson’s death, require

Ms Gillian Thompson and Literary Enabler, Mr Petamber Persaud at a recent book launch a deeper and much more profound scrutiny.

THE MEASUREMENT OF LOSS As head of National Library, Gillian Thompson assumed the position from Karen George sometime in 2004 as Chief Librarian Acting. As of January 1, 2006, she was appointed Chief Librarian, and over the ensuing years has strove to emulate others such as Miss Joan Christiani

and Gwyneth Browman.

Privileged to have participated in a number of Library Association conferences in the Caribbean, she was also involved in exchanges with institutions such as UNESCO that programmes seminars that address Library and Archival concerns and requirements.

The development of the local library community takes a lead from the National Library, despite the different purposes these, such as that of the Uni-

versity of Guyana, the Geology and Mines Commission or the CARICOM Secretariat would have served.

As a service provider for local as well as a limited set of foreign students, the National Library gained meaningful publicity on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary during 2010.

At the centre of this Centenary Observance was the staff, the Committee, as well as the Chief Librarian herself. She will always be remembered.

The Cuban Revolution ...

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Havana today

the emergence of Marian N’Gauabi these teams were upgraded to full Medical Brigade status as from 1969. Similar patterns of service provision and health care training developed in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean in the latter 1970s with countries such as Nicaragua, Grenada, Jamaica and Guyana establishing relations with Cuba and opting for Cuban Medical Assistance.

Perhaps with the exception of Soviet era technicians, engineers, agronomists and doctors (of human medicine as well as veterans) there has been no other comparative initiative, no other example of an international humanitarian outreach than those of the Cuban Medical Brigades. Today countries including Yemen, Pakistan, Mongolia and Central Asian Republics Uzbekistan and Tajikistan share partnerships that are not dissimilar to those worked out between Cuba and the 5th Bolivarian Socialist Republic of Venezuela.

It is in this set of historical circumstances that Cuban Medical Missions are to be provided to cater for health care demands in Brazil. The socialist revolution has proceeded to the stage where the reproduction of health care providers and doctors has become a renewable asset rivalling tourism as a source of foreign exchange.

This process has been criticised as being exploitative, for denying the doctors themselves the full value of the services these contribute.

What these negative slants ignore of are ignorant of are factors such as cost of training, capitalisation for risk insurance, procurement of suitable living accommodation as well as the fact that in countries such as Venezuela for instance payment for Cuban doctors is met by the supply side of oil exports to Cuba and not in monetary paper. Yet these doctors are paid and have a standard of living that supports the status they have gained over several decades.

Yes, a better world is possible!

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Recent discoveries in the WPO extends warm New Intermediate Savannahs Year wishes to peak international interest all Guyanese

By Clifford Stanley

RECENTLY discovered pre-historic mounds in the Intermediate Savannahs of Upper Berbice have generated a great deal of interest at the international level, and the Ministry of Culture will this year take steps to protect those archaeological sites even while allowing international scientists access to them for purposes of research.

This was disclosed by Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony, while discussing last week some of the work the Culture Department has done in 2013.

The Intermediate Savannahs are located some sixty miles from the mouth of the Berbice River, and cover over 2,000 square miles of territory. Several man-made structures which appear as mounds that have apparently been made centuries ago have been found in these savannahs. Dr. Anthony said these mounds have been the most exciting archaeological findings made locally to date.

He disclosed that Government has since received a number of requests from foreign universities to partner with locals to do archaeological research in these Intermediate Savannahs, and he added that Government and the Culture Ministry regard the area as so sensitive that the ministry had started working on demarcating the area. ”We have done some preliminary maps, and we want to work to put some rules in place so that not just anybody came come willy-nilly and go in there,” Dr Anthony has said. He said that anyone intending to do archaeological research in the Intermediate Savannahs would first have to get permission from the

Culture Ministry to enter the area. Additionally, any team going in the area would have to include Guyanese among its numbers, and any artifact found would have to be handed over to the Government of Guyana.

“We want to be custodians of these artifacts rather than foreigners,” he stressed, even as he informed that the archaeological site is a part of the Guyanese heritage that will help Guyanese to better understand their past and to learn from that past.

Those who would be allowed access into the Intermediate Savannahs to do archaeological research would be expected to do their work with the preservation of Guyana’s heritage foremost in mind, Dr Anthony advised.

With respect to the mounds, Dr Anthony said, preliminary carbon dating had indicated that some may be over three thousand years old; apparently pre-dating the birth of Christ, and also indicating the existence of a civilization that is as old as those of the Egyptian and Indus valley civilizations.

He said, too, that the kinds of settlement patterns observed in the area have been discovered not only in Guyana, but also in Suriname, French Guiana and northern Brazil; and that preliminary evidence suggests the epicentre of that civilization to have been located in Upper Berbice.

He added: “But we have to allow the research to proceed before we pronounce definitively on these hypotheses.”

He said the Culture Ministry will this year be signing memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with a number of foreign universities, allowing them to excavate, recover and analyse data collected to learn more about Guyana’s past.

NCC to undergo substantial physical upgrade

By Clifford Stanley THE old-fashioned lighting system at the National Culture Centre will be replaced with a digital one, while the decades-old air conditioning units will be replaced with new ones; the audio system will also be upgraded.

The Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports will be expending an estimated Gy$80M to complete the upgrades on the Centre this year, Minister Dr. Frank Anthony has disclosed.

Contracts for installation of the lights and the audio system have already been awarded, while one for the “retiring” of the old air conditioning units, estimated at $56M, will be awarded shortly, he said.

Commenting on recent criticisms about high rental costs for the Centre, Dr Anthony stressed that the ministry heavily subsidizes the cost of its operations. “When we put on the air conditioning unit to cool the centre for a

show or a three-hour activity, it costs. Sometimes, the $80,000 or so that we charge for renting the place to producers all go back to electricity bills for the ACs.” He said that those complaining should know that if the ministry were to charge market prices for the rental, many producers would be unable to stage their shows there.

He disclosed that the ministry will be removing from the centre some staffers who have been underperforming.

The NCC, the premier auditorium for cultural presentations, is located on Homestretch Avenue, D’Urban Park in Georgetown, and was built between 1972 and 1976.

Falling under the Ministry of Culture, the NCC is the forum for staging, developing and promoting the performing arts. It was officially opened on May 16, 1976.

Most of the AC Unit now being replaced, as well as the sound and lighting systems, have been in place since construction of the NCC, and have, in recent times, been in urgent need of repair.

THE Women’s Progressive Organisation (WPO) has extended warm and sincere wishes to all Guyanese on the occasion of the New Year.

“While some may have welcomed the New Year with much rejoicing and merriment, others have used the opportunity for introspection and reflection of the year we have left behind,” WPO said in a statement.

It noted that some would have lost their loved ones, while others would have welcomed their new born into the world. “The joys, the sorrows, the realisation of dreams and the despair of unfilled ones characterise the dialectics of our lives on a daily basis. Whatever the circumstances of our lives we must always believe that the human spirit will always find ways and means to overcome the challenges of everyday living.”

The WPO also encourages all to work harder and to make whatever sacrifices that are required to make their lives better.

“We are heartened by the continuous growth of the economy and the steady improvement in the social sectors. We are concerned, however, with the actions of the joint Opposition that have caused setbacks in relation to major developmental works such as the Amaila Falls Hydro-power Project, the Specialty Hospital and the International Airport,” WPO stated.

The Organisation called on the Opposition in this New Year to “desist from such unpatriotic acts and to support these and other projects as we continue to modernise Guyana”.

“In the sphere of inter-personal relationships, we wish fervently that this year will see less murders and violence ‘Let us all work against women and that the to make 2014 atrocities of 2013 should be a better year a thing of the past. The WPO also wishes to use this opporfor our beloved tunity to call on all Guyanese country and all of -both citizens and officialsits citizens’ to take bold steps to resolve among others, two burning issues which are vexatious to almost all Guyanese and visiting foreigners.

“The first is the garbage menace which is a sore embarrassment particularly in the city of Georgetown where the incompetence of the Council compounds the problem. We urge the Mayor and City Council to do the decent thing and resign. We also call on all citizens to play their part by ending the dirty practice of littering and dumping of waste.

“The second is the noise nuisance which seems to become more and more excessive in some parts of Guyana. We urge the authorities to take strong action against the offenders and to make the necessary changes to the law as a matter of urgency.

“We encourage all those who are guilty, whether in places of entertainment or worship to control the volumes of their noisy instruments. Most annoying are the loud music sets and the increasing number of money-making events involving DJs, who believe that screaming in the middle of the night and the early hours of the morning is entertainment.”

According to the WPO, “all residents deserve the right to quiet and peace in their lives and we see this intrusion as a violation of their human rights”.

The WPO also called on all Guyanese to join in the discourse and actions to rid our country of these and other vexatious issues and to create a more harmonious environment based on greater tolerance and mutual respect.

“Let us all work to make 2014 a better year for our beloved country and all of its citizens. We extend best wishes to all and may God continue to guide and bless you,” the organisation said.

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Miss Guyana Universe touched by warmth, love of Linden children

By Alex Wayne

MISS Universe Guyana 2013/2014, Katherina Roshana, who is also the reigning Miss India Guyana 2013, said it was a most exhilarating and exciting experience for her to treat the children of the Cheshire Home-Young Voices in the mining town of Linden, Region 10, recently.

She said that on receiving the invitation to contribute to the Christmas Fund of the Chesire Home–Young Voices, she felt a desire to do more than just make a contribution of money or of some article.

Katherina said she decided to treat those kids as she is the spokesperson for The Step by Step School, which educates children who suffer from Autism (a neurological disorder), and she has been speaking on the disorder locally and internationally to make people aware of the need to love these children and to give them a sound education.

Katherina cares deeply and strongly for disabled children, who usually need more love and attention than normal children. She said she stands educated and humbled by the Chesire Home-Young Voices children. She says that despite their disabilities, which include sight impairment and even outright blindness; cerebral palsy; voice impairment and other ailments; their being deaf and mute, these beautiful children are bubbling with ambition and are full of zest for life; and many wish to one day serve humanity and be useful members of society.

Katherina said she became extremely emotional -- especially when it was time for her to return to her home at Atlantic Gardens -- when the children clung to her with pleading eyes supplicating that she should not leave so soon. She promised to return to visit them one day, and told them that this memory of their love, their drive for life, and their beautiful personalities would linger forever in her soul.

Katherina Roshana, Guyana’s celebrated beauty queen, is popularly referred to as ‘Guyana’s Diamond Girl’. She decided to use her personal funds to treat all the Linden kids that are members of the Chesire Home-Young Voices. Her only regret is that she had not been able to meet more of Linden’s people and their leaders.

She would be delighted to return if invited, and she would also like to visit Linden on her own as a visitor. While there, she learned that Linden is ‘a family’, and that Lindeners look out for each other, a philosophy she cherishes, as she is also an International Ambassador

Excitement among the children was evident as they mingled and interacted with the beauty queen. of World Peace who firmly believes in the oneness of mankind. She also believes in harmony, peace and love.

The Linden children were fed with a wholesome and delicious meal, complete with drinks and juices, snacks and other condiments.

They played games, sang songs, and were jubilant throughout her stay.

But most of all, they were excited to meet in person the Miss Guyana Universe who is sponsored by the New GPC/Limacol, decked in her sash and crown as she told them stories, played, and danced with them. They were excited to take pictures with her, and were amazed at the glitter and glamour of her crown. The beauty

queen excited them further by placing the crown on some of the females’ heads, and this evoked squeals of delight and jubilation.

Many songs were sung, but two were specifically dedicated to Guyana’s Miss Universe by Young Teshawn Rodney (17 years old), who had even partaken in the GT&T Jingle and Song Competition.

He sang for Katherina the song ‘Christmas Holiday’ and his own favourite song, ‘Gallery,’ which caused her to shed a loving tear.

The vote of thanks was given by Shewan, one of the students and a facilitator of the event.

The Miss Universe Guyana/New GPC/Limacol Queen says it was difficult for her to leave when it was time for them to part.

Katherina Roshana distributing food and snack packages to children living at the Cheshire Home in Linden.

How lucky this child is to wear this prestigious crown, even if just for a moment.

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                In the matter of the Money Lender Act, Chapter 91:05 and in the matter of an application for a Certificate pursuant to Section 4, thereof.                  The application of Walter Roberts and Georgeana Pryce-Roberts of 21 Owen Street Kitty, Georgetown, Guyana humbly sheweth. That the applicants are desirous to obtain a Certificate under Section 4 of the Money Lender Act and refer to the information furnished under the following heads. 1. Whether Applicants desire grant of a new Certificate; Grant of a New Licence.

2. True names of Applicants: Walter Roberts and Georgeana Pryce-Roberts. 3. Private Address of Applicants: 21 Owen Street Kitty Georgetown Guyana. 4.

Name under which it is desired to carry on business as Money Lender: Fast Cast Western Union and Pawn Brokerage 5. Address of which it is desired to carry on business at Lot 1 D'Urban & Louisa Row. 6. True name and address of partners if any: No partners. 7. Name of person or persons (other than the owner or partners) responsible or proposed to be responsible for the management of the business: Travis Shepherd. 8. Date of issue of any previous certificate under the Money Lender Act granted by a Magistrate and name and address authorised by such certificate None 9. If formally registered under the Money Lender Ordinance Chapter 335, date registered and name and address under which registered: None 10. If registered under the Business Names Registration Act, Chapter 90:05 date of Registration and name and address under which registered: None. 11. Particulars of any conviction under the Money Lender Ordinance, Chapter 335 of the Money Lender Act of the Applicant, their partner of any person responsible or proposed to be responsible for the management of the business: None. 12. Particulars of any Order Section 8 of Money Lender Act suspending or cancelling and certificate of or disqualifying from obtaining a certificate the applicants or their partner or any person responsible proposed to be responsible for the management of the business: None. 13. Particulars of any refusal of a certificate to the Applicants or their partner or any person responsible or proposed to be responsible for the management of the business: None. Walter Roberts (Applicant) Georgeana Pryce-Roberts (Applicant) dated at Georgetown, Demerara, this day of July, 2011.

  The application of Walter Roberts and Georgeana Pryce-Roberts of 21 Owen Street Kitty, Georgetown, Guyana humbly sheweth. That the applicants are desirous to obtain a Certificate under Section 4 of the Money Lender Act and refer to the information furnished under the following heads. 1. Whether Applicants desire grant of a new Certificate; Grant of a New Licence.

2. True names of Applicants: Walter Roberts and Georgeana Pryce-Roberts. 3. Private Address of Applicants: 21 Owen Street Kitty Georgetown Guyana. 4.

Name under which it is desired to carry on business as Money Lender: Fast Cast Western Union and Pawn Brokerage 5. Address of which it is desired to carry on business at Lot 21 Owen Street, Kitty. 6. True name and address of partners if any: No partners. 7.

Name of person or persons (other than the owner or partners) responsible or proposed to be responsible for the management of the business: Travis Shepherd. 8.

Date of issue of any previous certificate under the Money Lender Act granted by a Magistrate and name and address authorised by such certificate None 9. If formally registered under the Money Lender Ordinance Chapter 335, date registered and name and address under which registered: None 10. If registered under the Business Names Registration Act, Chapter 90:05 date of Registration and name and address under which registered: None. 11.

Particulars of any conviction under the Money Lender Ordinance, Chapter 335 of the Money Lender Act of the Applicant, their partner of any person responsible or proposed to be responsible for the management of the business: None. 12. Particulars of any Order Section 8 of Money Lender Act suspending or cancelling and certificate of or disqualifying from obtaining a certificate the applicants or their partner or any person responsible proposed to be responsible for the management of the business: None. 13. Particulars of any refusal of a certificate to the Applicants or their partner or any person responsible or proposed to be responsible for the management of the business: None. Walter Roberts (Applicant) Georgeana Pryce-Roberts (Applicant) dated at Georgetown, Demerara, this day of July, 2011.

of which it is desired to carry on business at Lot 156 Alexander Street, Kitty. 6. True name and address of partners if any: No partners. 7. Name of person or persons (other than the owner or partners) responsible or proposed to be responsible for the management of the business: Travis Shepherd. 8.

Date of issue of any previous certificate under the Money Lender Act granted by a Magistrate and name and address authorised by such certificate None 9. If formally registered under the Money Lender Ordinance Chapter 335, date registered and name and address under which registered: None 10. If registered under the Business Names Registration Act, Chapter 90:05 date of Registration and name and address under which registered: None. 11. Particulars of any conviction under the Money Lender Ordinance, Chapter 335 of the Money Lender Act of the Applicant, their partner of any person responsible or proposed to be responsible for the management of the business: None. 12. Particulars of any Order Section 8 of Money Lender Act suspending or cancelling and certificate of or disqualifying from obtaining a certificate the applicants or their partner or any person responsible proposed to be responsible for the management of the business: None. 13.

Particulars of any refusal of a certificate to the Applicants or their partner or any person responsible or proposed to be responsible for the management of the business: None. Walter Roberts (Applicant) Georgeana Pryce-Roberts (Applicant) dated at Georgetown, Demerara, this day of July, 2011.

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                In the matter of the Money Lender Act, Chapter 91:05 and in the matter of an application for a Certificate pursuant to Section 4, thereof.               

         In the matter of the Money Lender Act, Chapter 91:05 and in the matter of an application for a Certificate pursuant to Section 4, thereof.              The application of Walter Roberts and Georgeana Pryce-Roberts of 21 Owen Street Kitty, Georgetown, Guyana humbly sheweth. That the applicants are desirous to obtain a Certificate under Section 4 of the Money Lender Act and refer to the information furnished under the following heads. 1. Whether Applicants desire grant of a new Certificate; Grant of a New Licence.

2. True names of Applicants: Walter Roberts and Georgeana Pryce-Roberts. 3. Private Address of Applicants: 21 Owen Street Kitty Georgetown Guyana. 4.

Name under which it is desired to carry on business as Money Lender: Fast Cast Western Union and Pawn Brokerage 5. Address

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       t o r e f r i g e r a tors, washing machines, g a s s t o v e s , A C u n i t s . Te l .

666-2276, 223-7975 (Kirk).  repair AC units, refrigerators, washing machines, gas stoves, freezers, microwaves, etc. 683-1312, 627-3206 (Nick)..  installation: Cutting, polishing and profiling to all your granite c o u n t e r t o ps . A l s o b u i l d i n g of cupboards and closets.

C o n t a c t R a w l e 6 11 - 7 0 3 1 , 667-7963.    Ass o c i a t e s F i n ancial Services Chartered Accountants Services: Taxation, Consultancy, Accounting, Income tax, Vehicle and Building Compliances. Office located at 190 Church Street, South Cummingsburg, Georgetown.

Tel. 223-2105, 662-7467, or Email at joeastman2001@yahoo.com

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 reading, other works done. For fast results - reuniting lovers, removing evil and all blockages, etc. Call 696-8873, 673-1166.

 exist for Sales Clerk, Bond Clerk, Accounts Clerk and Pharmacist at Roy's Pharmacy.

Interested persons can send in applications along with Curriculum Vitae and one passport-size photograph to Roy's Pharmacy Stall #3233 and 64-65 Bourda Market. Tel. 2260693, one cleaner call Samantha 2236072.

Scholarship and internship 2014.

We are offering two journalism scholarships and two technical internships. Please apply in writing, stating any experience, qualifications - visual or written. Sample of work or work in progress. Apply to MBC, 228 'C' Camp Street, North C/Burg Georgetown.

 three-bedroom tiled and concrete apartment for rental. Call 234-0843, 622-5223.

                             

 spiritual help in removing evil spirit, bad luck, evil sickness, spells, reuniting lovers, bringing prosperity to business, etc. Tel: 612-6417, 220-0708, .6875653.

 land is going to solve your business need, in Smyth close to Brickdam 120 x 60 the only land available for $55M neg All lands that would give you the same return on your i n vestment $95M, talking of 5storey complex. Phone Lady Boston 684-2244, Lady Racel Jones 688-3434 lady Davi Dyal 697-9377, Master Darindra 615-0069, 6180000, 623-2591, 225-2626, 225-3068, 226-1064 , Email : tonyreidsrealty@hotmail.co m

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 works done to bring peace, finance, success, enhance prosperity, remove evil, blockage, reunite families, lovers, etc. 610-7234, 644-0058.

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 Receptionist and Cleaners at Sunset View Hotel , David Street, Kitty. Tel. 223-6416.  Receptionist and Cleaners at Sunset View Hotel , David Street, Kitty. Tel. 223-6417.  maid must be from country and know to cook, age 35 - 50. Tel. 611-0200, 662-1124.  Sales Girl. Apply In Person At Clipper Barber And Beauty 140 Camp St  Canter driver. Apply in person at Alabama, Georgetown Ferry Stelling, Stabroek. , Wood-Mizer Sawmill Operator, Grant Manager, Chain saw Operator, Moulder operator, one Skid operator. Call Richard 609-7675, 233-2614.  REPAIRS and Services: We fix all desktops, laptops and tablets. We sell laptop screen as cheap as $16 000. Set up office and business networks and internet café. Quality, reliable and affordable service, trained technician, The PC doctor 6962602, Get 20%       Save your life or prevent injury!, Save your vehicle from being hijacked!, Save your valuables from being robbed!, Know where your vehicle is 24/7!, Kill the engine by the owner or controller!, Get/ send panic button sms messages if held up!, Know if vehicle is out of route sms messages sent, Personal Tracker available!, Personal Tracker can transfer from vehicle to vehicle by self. Personal Tracker can transfer person to person, Both Systems full mapping, Record kept for months of all movements, etc, etc. Comprehensive Insurance Discounts. RK's: 172 Light and Charlotte Streets, Bourda. Tel: 22-67521; 2260168 (Ask for Dr. Net).

PRIVATE INVESTIGATION PI  spouse, polygraph testing, background checks, locating missing persons, bodyguard service, private + criminal investigation, any other (Worldwide). Contact Strategic Advisory Services. Tel. 592-651-3508, 592-668-9532 Email: s a s m i 5 @ h o t m a i l . c o m M e m b e r of National Association of Investigative Specialists (USA) (All assignments treated as top secret 

PEN PAL

 Indian male, 43 years old, seeks female from USA or Canada between he ages of 30 and 43 years for relationship.

Call 686-5886.  a Friend! Get educated!

Get Married! Migrate!..through the CFI. Telephone Friendship Link.

Call 592-261-5079, 654-3670, 688-8293,261-6833 twenty-four hours  you a single, lonely, easy-going woman, non-smoking, kind and loving and looking for a serious relationship, 50 years old, independent? East Indian man is looking for someone like you.

689-7007.

 Hardware, 244 Regent Street, Lacytown., wants experienced sales clerks, porters.

Please apply in person with written application. for a receptionist at local hotel. Interested persons, please bring in application to Sun Flower Hotel, 229 Cummings and South Road. Tel. 225-3817 Must be 20 years and older.  the following positions: Cashier, Waiter, Waitress, Bill Clerk and Kitchen Assistant. Send application to Kam Boat Restaurant, 51 Sheriff Street, Campbellville. Georgetown.  Attendants, Handyman. Must be able to work shifts.

Requirements - application, reference last place of employment TIN, NIS#, ID#. Apply 233 South Road Tel. 225-0198. : Relief Cashiers must be able to work shift. Requirements - application reference last place of employment. TIN NIS#, ID#.

Apply 233 South Road. Tel. 2250198. Benefits. Meals allowance, uniform allowance.  Chef, male preferred, with grilling experience, Carnegie training would be an asset. Good salary, comfortable environment. Call 2257933 or visit 172 Sheriff Street next door to Survival Supermarket.  Must be able to work shift. Requirements application, reference last place of employment, TIN, NIS#, ID#.

Apply 233 South Road. Tel. 2250198. Benefits - uniform allowance. exists for the following positions at : Managers, waiters, waitresses, supervisors, cashiers, bartenders, cleaners, hostesses, security personnel. Send applications to P.O. Box:101848  Must be able to work shift. Requirements - application, reference last place of employment Food Handler's Certificate TIN, NIS#, ID#. Benefits - meal allowance, uniform allowance.

Apply 233 South Road. Tel. 2250198. exist for security guards to work at Land-ofCanaan East Bank Demerara.

Preference given to applicants from the East Bank Area. Send written applications to May's Shopping Centre, 98 Regent Street, Georgetown. Call 6672767 for further information.

 opportunity: Experienced customer service-oriented person to manage apartment complex. Kindly address handwritten applications to Apartment Management Vacancy PO Box 101161, Georgetown, Guyana.   Highly motivated and energetic person with secondary education, 2 years min. experience in retail sales. Starting at $40,000. - $45,000. per month.    Highly motivated individual with excellent analytical abilities needed for inventory control and marketing .Diploma in Business or Marketing field is required. Working knowledge of MS Office, Quickbooks plus 1 year experience is needed.

LAND FOR SALE

Land For Sale

  of lease land at Yarrokabra. Tel. 601-9297, 616-8193.  $50M Keyhomes: 223-1765 /-6158734  in Eccles 50 x 100, $6M neg. Tel. 616-6000.  Public Road W.C.D, 38x150, 16M, 6663619.  , Republic Drive, Betterverwagting, East Coast. No Agent. Tel. # 684-3009, 667-3953.  commercial land on the East Coast Public road. Tel 671-1997  at 14 Kersaint Park 50 x 90, sale by owner $15M, No reasonable offer refused. 699-9201.

 are seeking highly motivated, professional, courteous, efficient and committed individuals for the position of    Successful applicants must have excellent work ethics, good verbal skills and be service-oriented. Applicants should send their photo and CV to the Human Resources Manager, Caribbean Smile Makers, 79 'A' Cowan Street, Kingston.

  cultivated citrus, house, fish pond, storage, 2 acres cultivated,    ACRE cultivated Parika. Contact 226-7968.

      - W i t h a v e r s a t i l e personality of exemplary leadership with material and capacity for training. Be prepared to work beyond the call of duty and have own vehicle o r d r i v e r ' s l i c e n c e . Female also welcomed to apply. Top salary, benefits, allowances. Minimum rank of Sargeant in the GDF or Police or Private Security Experience, exposure and qualifications.    For shift work as Dispatchers. Females also welcomed to apply. Private Security Experience; Police or Military an asset but not a necessity. General Supervisory persona or ability acceptable also. Discipline, honesty and personal organization a must. Live in accommodation available for out of town personnel.   Drivers with car, van and lorry licenses for general security transport and supervision using company lorry, canters, cars, vans and 3 wheelers or 2 wheel motorcycles. Honesty and respect for procedures and rules a must. Excellent salary, allowances and insurances and benefits. Former employees of decency, respect and professionalism are welcome to reapply.  : Team Leader and Trainer of staff for our Elite Armed Team for Cash Transport in our Air Conditioned Vehicles, specialized high ranking sites and response team. Excellent benefits, wages and conditions.    To supervise teams at various locations requiring a supervisory staff.  Guards in Georgetown, East Coast and East Bank for various quality locations. Government wages fully approved, and where applicable more is paid. Active, youthful and dynamic male and female guards required. Retired personnel also welcome for sites requiring such personalities. Part time employment also available. Contact: Mr. Desmond Leitch, GM; Mr. Raghubir, Security Cons; or Miss Abrams, Special Projects Officer;or Mr. Roshan Khan :           Media

              

 Lodge, ECD 10th Street, size 50 x 110. Price $12M neg. Tel. 220-8596, 6439196, 686-1091.   100 x 50 only $14M, Call 231-2064, 225-2626, 227-6863, 615-0069, 627-0288, 226-1064.

 in Queenstown 165 x 60 over $100M. Phone Vice President Alysious Pereira 6232591, Vice President Darandia 615-0069, 618-0000, 225-2626  land in Duncan St. for 4storey office complex, bond, school, apartment $31M. Phone 627-0288, Mr. Ramsayoe 618-0000, Mr Alysious Pereira 623-2591, Mr. Darindra 615-0069.  Vreed-en-Hoop double lot 80x160 on Public Road $36M, Highway land on Public Road 30 acres $15M, Providence EBD $3M, Diamond 1st Street $11M. Tel. 225-3737, 225-4893, 651-7078.  for bond, hotel, apartment complex, Blygezight 120 x 60 - $36M, neg, Austin St. 134 x 56 - $36M, Kitty 8 000 sq ft $22M, Phone Vice President 2252626, 618-0000, 225-2626, 623-2591, 226-1064, 227-6863, 615-0069  with 20ft driveway Dennis Street $17M, Sec. 'M' 90 x 50 plus reserve $17M, Kitty 8 000 sq. ft - $19M, one house in McDoom close to main road $9M. Phone Mr Darindra 615-0069, 618-0000 V i ce President Alysious Pereira 623-2591, 2276863, 226-1064, 225-2626.    land in Bel Air Village for hotel, bond, 5-storey, students' dorm - $42M. Phone Vice President Patrick Pereira 669-3350, Vice President Ramsohoye 618-0000, 6232591, 227-6863, 225-2626, 667-7812. lot in Dennis St, with driveway 20 feet $17M, Sec. 'M', 80 x 60, plus reserve for bond $19M, Da Silva St 80 x 50 $13M, Kitty Railway Embankment 8 000 sq. ft $20M, land has 20 ft driveways.

Vice President Drandia 615-0069, Vice President Alysious Pereira 623-2591, Vice President Ramsayae 618-0000, Vice President 225-2626, 226-1064, 667-7812.   to Brickdam, $75M suitable for 5-storey complex, hotel Mr Ramsohoye 618-0000, Mr Pereira 226-1064, M r.

Darindra 615-0069, 2252626, 227-6863, 225-5198\

 businesses must think out of the box. They must adopt a new strategy. The Chinese are moving in so m e l o c a t i o n s t h a t l a n d for bond/factory is cheap, 20 000 sq ft land close to the Chinese embassy for bond. $58M, 8 000 s q . f t o n the main road close t o t h e C h i nese Embassy $54M for 4-storey fast food/supermarket 200car parking. 1½ acres of land in Turkeyen for hostel, school, university, bond, Buy now, be decisive. Present, you have a boss, now decide. Phone Mr. Danhandri 615-0065, Mr. Patrick Pereira 669-3350, Mr. Alysious Pereira 623-2591, 225-2709, 225-2626, 225-3068, 226-1064, 227-6863, 225-5198 Seven days of h o t m ail: tonyreidsrealty.com.  wish to advertise all land was made by the creator for different purposes. Go as high as you can to enjoy economy of height. Earl's Court LBI double lot 120 x 90 - $17M, Happy Acres parallel to the Main Road 100 x 50 - $16M, for business or 4-storey apartment land for bonds on the East Coast $28M, Kitty 8 000 sq. ft $20M, Da Silva St 70 x 35 - $14M, 9 000 sq. ft on Main Road 500 yards south of Chinese Embassy, Turkeyen 1.4 acres $38M, Campbellville 80 x 60 with lots of reserve $16M, Republic Park $16M, Continental Park d o u b l e l ot $35M, Croal Street 75 x 50 - $32M, 3 lot s a t ' A A ' Eccles with massive unfinished structure $98M, plus reserve. Friendship $3.5M, Pearl 5 acres for gated c o m m u n i t y $45M neg. Phone cell 697-9377, 225-3068, 226-1064, 227-6863 , 227-6964, 225-2626.  Park double lot $19M, LBI large lot $14M, Happy Acres $14M, Republic Park $9M, and double $15M, Duncan Street 140 x 33 for 5-storey $34M neg, South Road between Camp And Wellington Streets 80x36 $38M, for 4-storey, Brickdam land 70x40 $60M, Charlotte Street east of Citizens Bank $46M, Section 'M' Campbellville 45x80 plus reserve $15M, Houston land $12M, Da Silva Street Kitty 140x33 $20M, Alberttown 120x30 $30M, Queenstown 8 000 sq. ft $50M, Mandela Avenue by Chinese Embassy 8000 sq. ft $58M, by Gymnasium 50x60 and reserve also with strong concrete structure $90M, D\Urban Street 120 x 100 $70M, Smyth Street 120 x 60 $75M, 1 ¼ acres Turkeyen for bond school or any other business $60M, East Ruimveldt land $7.5M, Bel Air Gardens 100x140 US$600 000, one house lot, Bank executive compound US$395 000. Phone Mr Pereira 2276949, Mrs. Hercules 661-1952, MR. Darindra 615-0069, Mr Ramsahoye 225-2709, 231-2064, 225-2626, 225-5198, 225-3068, Mr Budram 692-3831, 226-1064, 227-6949, 669-3350. to let

TO LET

Gardens $US1100 Keyhomes: 223-1765/ 615-8734  and apartments 621-5282.    Shop. Merriman's Mall. 642-6381, 223-6862.  Park Phase 2.

681-5631, 626-7263. Gardens: 3-bedrooms apartment exclusive. 6139033.  bottom flat at Tucber Park, New Amsterdam.

333-3838, 626-9002.

 furnished apartments, 1 and 2 bedrooms. Longand short-term Contact 645-0787  space - 2500 square feet- Lamaha and Carmichael Street. Call 225-8915 (office). for salon with 3 work stations. Price neg. Tel. 2273626, 231-6972.  2-bedroom upper flat $45 000 monthly. Married couple preferred. Tel. 653-7654. -BEDROOM bottom flat apartment at 94 Shell Road, Kitty. fully grilled. Tel. 643-6552  in Cummings Lodge for UG student. Contact 601-6486. -bedroom apartment in Kitty $50 000 monthly. 6262990, 687-7566.  female to share house in La Parfaite Harmonie, WBD, $25 000. Call 695-7808. : New modem 5-storey building for sale or rent. Studio apartments. Tel. 226-0025, 648-3171.         f o r r e n t from January 1, 2014, walking distance to UG. Call 222-6708.  floor, Camp Street area, for offiiceor other type of business. Call Richard 609-7675, 233-2114. -room self-contained apartment. 226-5778, 613-9139, 619-2136. -BEDROOM top flat in Dennis Street, Campbellville US$600. Tel. 672-5933. & TWO bedroom apartment in Campbellville suitable for business also. 621-3661.  two-bedroom bottom flat with inside toilet and bath.

Call 690-2758, Chateau Margot E.C. Demerara. -bedroom bottom flat, fully grilled, AC, hot and cold, parking and phone. Tel. 2265400.  room and apartment $3 000, $4 000, $5 000, $6 000 daily. Call Julian - 638-4505, 225-4709.  and bar available from January 1, 2014, UG Road, also area for any kind of business. Call 623-3404.  BEDROOM apartment at Da Silva Street $70 000. Tel. 610-2021, 629-4337.  for overseas visitors, US$30 per day. Tel. 6506231, 697-0480.  floor and second floor space on Duncan Street. 6218198.  3 BB Eccles New Housing Scheme: Furnished home for decent single working girls or UG. Tel. 233-2249, 613-7488.  property, Industry Front $50 000 monthly, parking available. Tel. 6271275, 621-4038.  apartment in Bent Street, Wortmanville, US$30 per day. Contact 2263309, 218-1033, 678-4267.  apartment in Bel Air Village, internet and electricity included. 222-0515., 6144862.  office, suitable for storage, salon, computer or other.

Call 628-7589, 227-3064. property on the corner of Fourth and Light Streets, Alberttown, perfect for business. Interested persons, please call 617-8255.  place" Furnished, suitable for restaurant in Albert St. Tel. 621-5282. : One-bedroom apartment semi-furnished daily or monthly. 650-1471.

22 22 TO LET  self-contained semifurnished room located in Norton Street, Lodge $18 000 monthly, electricity included. Tel. 2615611, 687-2825 , WBD: (31 bus zone), Bedroom, inside toilet, bath, $20 000. 10 minutes to Georgetown, Churchyard - 6281567, 628-5738. Bus Deryck. -BEDROOM house by itself, in Sophia $40 000 monthly. Fully furnished 2-bedroom, executive apartment with security, parking, AC, generator US$700 neg. 6389116, 603-0976.  Street: One- & two-bedroom furnished apartments. with hot & cold, AC & Internet from US$20 daily. Rates neg. for monthly visitors. Phone: 227-5852/638-4404.  3-bedroom upper flat in 'CC' Eccles, parking available, Price $100 000 monthly. Contact 639-2728.  three-bedroom, fully furnished and fully grilled middle flat, long-term or long-term. Tel. 225-0071, 674-7420.  $100 000, Bel Air $80 000 - U$1800, Atlantic Gardens US$900, Greenfield Park US$1250. Diana 227-2256, 626-9382.  of large house, master bedroom, two guest rooms (large), telephone, etc. Call 2208770, 616-0427.  3-bedroom house, D\Urban Backlands. AB's Real Estate. 223-6524, 6280747, 666-3402.  $65 000, 1bedroom $50 000, spacious newly built apartment. Tel. 6506231, 697-0480. -bedroom (apartment), fully tiled and furnished with AC, hot and cold internet, US$25 daily (No private calls). 2316061, 621-1524.  building Shell Road, Kitty 3 bedrooms, toilet/ bath, dining upper flat, kitchen, dining lower flat $80 000. 2269548, 666-6714.  furnished house located at 1134 Crane Place, South Ruimveldt Park.

Rates neg. Contact 611-6880, 225-9229.  3 bedroom & 2 bedroom apt with hot & cold, ac, self contained etc. Location, Mon Repos ECD, prices $110,000 & $90,000. Tel: 6180626.  US $100,000, Atlantic Gardens US $900, Greenfield Park US 1250.

Have Properties to rent or sell? Then call Diana 227-2256, 626- 9382.  Street, Bourda: Fully furnished two-bedroom upper flat with AC, internet, hot and cold, all inclusive US$35 daily. Rate neg, for monthly visiting. Phone 623-9308, 227-5852. ,: Fully furnished 1- and 3-bedroom apartments, hot and cold, AC, parking, internet, etc. Suitable for overseas visitors, short term. 2265137, 227-1843.  with bottom, fully furnished, 2 bedrooms, toilet, bath.

Unfurnished bottom 2 bedrooms, toilet, bath at Chateau Margot ECD. Tel. 660-0943.  Coast (house) $40 000, Kitty $65 000, Bel Air US$2000, Campbellville $100 000, Atlantic Gardens US$900, Greenfield Park US$1250. Diana 227-2256, 626-9382.  furnished two-family house top flat three bedrooms $40 000 neg.

Bottom flat one bedroom $20 000 neg., situated at Ruby Village near Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo. Tel. 686-2800, 661-1987. /unfurnished two-bedroom apartment, AC, hot and cold, security, parking, located Republic Park $60 000/$80 000. Phone 621-6888, BBM 22DAB38D

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/unfurnished newly built 2-bedroom apartment, fully tiled, grilled, insect proof, AC, parking, security cameras, located Eccles $80 000/ $100 000. 621-6888, BBM 22DAB38D

/executive rental: Wonderful 7-bedroom property for office & residence at Atlantic Ville, East Coast Demerara. Price US$2000. Call Mr Darin 615-0069, 225-2626, 2255198, 225-3069, 225-2709, 2312064.

 classrooms available for rental. Rent as you need. One day a week, two days week, suitable for day classes, lessons, evening classes, lectures. Rates from as low as $10 000 monthly, 71 Croal Street, stabroek. Tel. 624-5741.

World #1 Realtor Miste r Terry Redford Reid 667-7812, 2256858, 225-7164, 226-1064, 2252626, 231-2068, 619-7945. Have the executive rental reduced by 35%, Prashad Nagar US$1000, Jacaranda Ave. Bel Air Park US$2000, Barima Ave Bel Air Park US$1800, Bel Ai r S p r i n g s US$1000, large bond for rental office small form US$375,10000sq ft office space for technologybusiness, Lamaha Gard ens US$1500, Lama Ave, Bel Air Park US$1800, Bel Air Pa r k o n t he round about US$1000, Prashad Nagar US$1500, land from $11 million, riverside land hotels w i t h U S $ 3 5 0 0 0 m o n t h rental a nd office space US$40 000 month properties from $14 million. 2252626, 225-5198, 226-1064, 6232591, 669-3350

 Air Park, furnished two-bedroom apartment US$700, Republic Park large 3-bedroom upper flat US$800, Bel Air Park 2-bedroom unfurnished US$650 and many more. Phone 6216888, BBM 22DAB38D.  for rent suitable for hair salon, offices, etc, located at Charlotte Street and in Kingston $50 000, $60 000, $85 000. Phone 621-6888, BBM 22DAB38D.   : 3-bedroom unfurnished top apartment $100 000, 2-bedroom unfurnished bottom apartment $80 000, or whole house. Republic Gardens well appointed furnished house, Ogle 2-bedroom unfurnished AC, $120 000, Campbellville 2-bedroom furnished apartment. TEL. 226-8148, 625-1624.  Furnished 3-bedroom house by itself US$800, Kitty 3-bedroom unfurnished upstairs $80 000, North Ruimveldt newly refurbished 2bedroom downstairs $55 000, Eccles unfurnished 2-bedroom apartment $80 000. Call 6558361, 699-6811, Fabulous Homes Realty. -bedroom furnished apartment telephone, internet, parking, tiled and carpeted floors, Diamond, East Bank Demerara, available from January 1 2014, $60 000 per month.

Call 638-3622, 658-1523, 2318567, 216-3333 after 17:00hrs.  Street, Kitty: 3-bedroom front house, 1 self-contained room, tub, washroom, hot and cold, 2 washrooms, 2 AC, ceiling fans in all rooms, breezy verandah and all rooms beautifuly lacquered fully grilled, private driveway for 3 vehicles. Suitable for foreigners.

Call 225-3262, 678-6948.  5-bedroom concrete house with hot and cold, AC etc.

One 3-bedroom apartment with hot and cold, AC and one 2-bedroom apartment with hot and cold, AC etc. Price $200 000, $110 000 and $90 000. Location Mon Repos ECD. Tel. 6180626.  concrete 2-flat house at 47 Happy Acres ECD, fully furnished. 3 bedrooms top flat, hot and cold bath, big yard space. Can be used for domestic or office purposes.

Call 225-2902, 673-1095.  Bel Air Gardens unfurnished four bedrooms, one master with study and patio, one guest bathroom, two guest toilets, open plan living dining area, builtin closets, lounge with bar area meeting room, servant quarters, multiple parking, secure and secluded, Suite Corporate Executives. Tel. 6679367.  Real Estate & Property Management Services 204 Charlotte Street, Bourda Tel. 225-8241, 227-4950, 2267829, Fax: 227-1537. Ogle 5bedroom furnished, swimming pool US$5000, Bel Air Gardens (unfurnished) US$2000, Republic Park (unfurnished) $75 000.

New one and two-storey apartments in Georgetown US$1200 and US$1500 monthly. All prices are negotiable.

  BSc h a s more than 20,000 hrs in Real Estate In v e s t m e n t a n d E c o nomic Transformation of People Economic Gr o w t h . W e h a ve r ental from U S$1500, in Bel Air Park, ambassador's residence in University Gardens Le Resouvenir, Lama Ave with pool, Jacaranda Ave. with large lawns US$2000, Pras h a d Nagar US$1000, apt. f r o m U S $ 7 0 0 , b o n d 8 0 0 0 s q ft, small an d l a rge office space up to 15000 sq foot; state of the art hotel and office c o m p l e x w i t h inc o m e o f U S $ 4 0 0 00 mo n t h l y ; 2 acres of land in the city for hotel, and any complex Main Street 2 ½ acres US$5M, Water Stre e t 4 a cres for hotel, hotel on 5 acres of land overlooking the sea U S $ 5 M ; another overl o o k i n g t h e s e a U S $ 1 . 5 M , i n come US$15000; riverside land r e s i d e n t ial land at LBI - $10M; Republi c Park $8M, Dia m ond $7M, Sec. ' K ' $ 20 M , B e l A i r P a r k $ 2 5 M , G a r n ett double lot $42M, Phone 225-2626, 231-2064, 225-2709, 226-1064, 2276949, 227-6863, 667-7812. 619-7945.  have rental from US$800 in    beautiful 2-storey concrete property, 4 self-contained rooms, large den, large living room, family room, television room, beautiful kitchen, fully air conditioned, hot and cold facilities, land space. Price US$ 2 5 0 0 , u n f u r n i s h e d .     2-storey concrete property, master room, 2 bedrooms, kitchen, family r o o m , den, verandah, hot and cold facilities, semi-furnished, secur i t y c a m e r a s, land spac e US $ 1 5 0 0 .     2-storey concrete property, fully air conditioned 3 bedrooms, unfurnished US$2000, (neg).   2storey concrete property large l i v i n g a r e a , 4 s elf-contained rooms hot and cold facilities, generator, unfurnished US$1500 neg.   middle floor suitable for business $175 00 0 . : Beautiful 2-storey concrete property in perfect cond i t i o n , 4 b e d r o o m s , h o t a nd cold facilities, master room, family room, den, air-conditioned, parking space for vehicle US$2500. Do call u s o n Tel. 225-6858, 2257164, 688-1885 Call Terrence 667-7812. We are situated at 247 'D' Forshaw &Oronoque Sts. Queenstown.

PROPERTY FOR SALE PROPERTY FOR SALE  Gardens $75M Keyhomes : 223-1765/615-8734  Acres $45M 2231765/615-8734  Coast, ocean front small wooden house. Tel. 657-8086.  Street $350M Keyhomes: 223-1765/ 615-8734  Street $60M and $245M Keyhomes: 223-1765/6158734

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 3-bedroom house at Herstelling New Scheme. Must sell,, deal $8.5M. 688-1657.

 property in Bent St - $16.5M, Phone Mr. Darindra 615-0069, 226-1064, 618-0000, Mr Pereira 6232591, 225-2626. 225-5198, 231-2064, 226-1064.

  house in 995 Perry St. Tucville recently renovated. ppkissoon@hotmail.co.uk  property in Turkeyen Gardens. Serious enquiries only. TeL. 662-9771.  property at 25 Public Road, Mon Repos, opposite market, 220-1882, 220-9889  'A' Diamond: 3bedroom house $45M. Fabulous Homes Realty. 682-4362.  at Pearl EBD. Tel. 626-4131.  house at Eccles EBD. AB's Real Estate 223-6524, 628-0747, 666-3402.  property in Alberttown on the corner of Fourth and Light Streets. Interested persons, please call 617-8255.

 $35M, East Bank $13M, Alberttown $32M, East Coast $11M, Section 'K' $55M. Diana 227-2256, 6269382.  Adelaide and Evans Streets Charlestown, Georgetown, Georgetown, Lot No. 41 Section 'A' Corentyne, Berbice. Contact 233-6811, 679-3448.

PROPERTYFORSALE : Sandy Babb Street business property 2-storey concrete with land space. Price $70M. Plantain Walk, Vreed-enHoop, Public Road nice spot for business, $35M. Tel. 225-4398, 225-3737, 651-7078.  Homes Int'l: Kitty $19M $28M neg, South Ruimveldt $19M, $20M neg, Enachu Street $48M neg, Mon Repos $36M, neg, Colingen $16M, Paradise Public Road $12M neg, Land Herstelling $3M, Grove $3.$6M, Diamond $4.5M. Contact Theresa 648-6033.

 (land) $8.5M, 28 acres at $400 000 per acre East Coast $12M, Eccles $25M, Quamina Street $72M, Alberttown $31M, Section 'K' $55M. Diana 227-2256, 6269382.

-STOREY concrete house in Eccles, 3 apartments downstairs $20M neg. Tel. 223-4242, 6553817.  flat house at 18th Avenue Diamond Housing Scheme. Tel. 226-5778, 6139139, 629-6351.  Ruimveldt Park: Two-storey concrete/wooden four bedrooms, two bathrooms, parking, etc, $26M. Tel. 618-3635.  new concrete twostorey, Kitty property, vacant. $36M, Mr Boodram 692-3831, Mr. Darindra 615-0069, 623-2591.

 constructed commercial/residential building on Water Street, Strand, New Amsterdam. Potential wharf facility, 2 acres land zone commercial. Price $125M. Tel# 6260017, 627-1865, emailCLondon219@hotmail.com.

 two-bedroom lower flat for immediate rental $50 000, 2 months security. Call 685-0659.  Gardens, Ogle, East Coast: One two-storey building, double lot, residential, fruit trees. Call 642-4926, 222-2783.  Real Estate: Enterprise $6M, La Parfaite Harmonie $3.5M. 628-1567, 6285738.  nice 2-flat concrete house in Section 'K', going cheap $40M. Tel. 638-9116, 603-0976. Large property on Light Street suitable for commercial use. Tel. 644-0530.

Air Park $57M, Roxanne Burnham Gardens $15M, East Bank Grove (Public Road) $50M, Craig two buildings $16M, Alberttown two-storey wooden second building $13M, Etc. Tel. 618-3635, 664-5731.   20% on all executive properties $60M, 30% discount on $24M, and below, 15% discount on land $18M. Phone 667-7812, 227-7164, 2252626 Terrence Reid.

Real Estate and Apartments: Enterprise lot with house $6M, La Parfaite Harmonie $3.5M. 628-1567, 628-5738.

     Home Int'l Coldingen $12.5M, $16M, David Street Kitty $13M, $21M, Shell Road $20M, Station Street $28M, South Ruimveldt $18M, $20M, Land Grove $3M, $6M, Diamond $4.5M. etc, etc. Contact Theresa 648-6033.  Best Price Real Estate! Equipment for sale: New trailer for mini excavator $2.5M, CAT 518 Skidder and A.M. General 6x6 Tractor with pole trailer. Entire package $24M. Tel. Ms Reshma 6139589, 686-1048 after hours (233-3422) Don 686-1853.

 concrete building at Chateau Margo,t E C D $ 3 2 M . Tel. 661-9431.  wooden building, Agricola Public Road $9M neg.

Land with foundation $6.8M Tel. 216-3120(office), 667-6644.  you have a house, farmland or business to rent or sell?

Contact AB's Real Estate 2256524, 628-0747, 666-3402, 6917618. : Fully furnished 5-bedroom house, all rooms self-contained, modern facilities including generator. Beautiful landscape in gated community. Tel: 592-624-8704, 592-684-9203.  concrete building with land, suitable for business can also be converted into home, located at Better Hope ECD. Tel. 601-9297, 616-8193.  and land Subryanville, 3rd Avenue corner spot, just off Embassy turn, beautiful location. Call 617-3642.  COMMERICAL PROPERTY, ALBERTOWN, 3 LOTS WITH BUSINESS, (NUT CENTRE) best offer . TEL 6214000, 2273939  concrete building bordered by 3 Main Streets in central Georgetown. Ideal for offices, school, bond, etc., 4 flats 130ft x 35 ft each, land 250ft x 50 ft. 227-0190, 693-5610.  2-storey building wooden and concrete in Norton Street, five buildings from Camp Street, second house in yard, $20M neg. Call 628-0972. Ideal for two families.

 : Three bedroom concrete building 28M; Diamond - concrete and wooden twostorey building - 16M; Guyhoc Park - two-storey concrete and wooden building- 11M. Tel # 2253737, 225-4398, 651-7078.  and Bar Cody's Place 345 East and Middle Streets, North Cummingsburg, For sale by owner only. Tel. 656-9835, 908-456-6683. : Grove EBD - Large concrete three-storey building with going hardware store and bond. Price $100M. Tel. 2254398, 225-3737, 651-7078. : Providence - just off public road, corner lot with two concrete buildings with good land space. Price $40M. Tel. 2254398, 225-3737, 651-7078.

 and Land for Sale Two Storyed Wooden and Concrete House, Sixth Street Alberttown Georgetown. $35 Million Dollars Negotiable. Contact: Mr. George Teekah Tel: 231-6278 Or Dr: Thasana Teekah Tel: 626-0993  Strathspey ECD: Flat three-bedroom concrete building $6M, Eccles two corner spots, concrete buildings $25M, Canal No. 2 two-storey 4-bedroom concrete building on 9 acres of land $25M, Tel. 225 - 3 7 3 7 , 2 2 5 - 4 3 9 8 , 6 5 1 7078.

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: Campbellville twostorey concrete building $50M, Atlantic Ville furnished two-storey building with generator, overlooking Atlantic Ocean $55M. Tel. 2253737, 225-4398, 651-7078.

         Norton Street, Carmichael Street, North Ruimveldt, South Ruimveldt, Craig, Republic Park, Diamond, Alberttown Section 'K', Melanie Damish a n a , Campbellville, Thomas Street business spot, Robb Street business spot, D\urban Street business spot.

LAND: Friendship land size 115 x 450 (wharf side) $65M, Meadow Brook Gardens $8.5M, Non Pareil.

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Good Hope PUBLIC Road East Coast (land - 675 x 92) $150M, Agriculture Rd, Triumph (land 600 x 45 ft) $ 1 4 M , C h i m ney Road, Chateau Margot - (4 bedroom self cont) $29M, Atlantic Ville 5 bedroom self contained $53M, Diamond 2nd Ave- 5 Bedr o o m $40M, Queenstown 5 bedroom self-contained (back lot - 80x60) $48M, Oleander Gdns $40M, Alberttown 6th St $52M, R e p u b l i c P a r k $ 4 0 M , L/Gardens $55M, Atlantic Ga r d e n s $ 45M , D u n c a n S t $ 30M , A l e x a n d e r S t $ 50M , R o b b St $60M,Barr St $65M , E a r l ' s C o u r t $ 3 5 M , Meadow Brook Gardens $50M, Queenstown $70M, South Road $85M. Republic Gdns Land (100x100) $24M. Tel. 2194399, 610-8332.

 us at Raphael's Real 204 Charlotte St. Bourda Tel. # 225-8241, 227-4950, after hours 226-7829 Fax 227-1537 Execut i v e O g l e $ 11 5 M , D i a m o n d $20M, $13M, Queenstown, Versailles $25M, Good Hope $27M, Subryanville 7 bedrooms with swimming pool US$2.5M, Continental Park (exquisitely furnished) $70M, Wismar Burnham Drive $8M, Breda St, Werk-en-Rust $20M, Plaisance (2-storey concrete) $23M, Dazzell Scheme $27M, Atlantic Ville $19M, John Street, Campbellville $55M, North Ruimveldt $12M, La Parfaite Harmonie $16.5M. LAND La Grange $3M, 157 acres river to Linden Highway $30M.

 concrete 2-flat house at 47 Happy Acres ECD, fully furnished. 3 bedrooms top flat, hot and cold bath, big yard space.

Call 225-2902, 673-1095.. EBD, new 2-storey concrete house 30 x 45, 2 self-contained bedrooms plus one and half baths, 5 bedrooms with built-in closets, spacious living and dining rooms, large kitchen with cupboards, laundry room. Carport and gazebo. Asking $40M neg.. Contact 644-1736. are ) JANUARY bargains: Se c . ' K ' $23 million, Meadow Brook $28M, and $35M, K i t t y $ 2 3 , Al b e r t t o w n c o n c r e t e massive for hotel $45M, Bel Air Park in great condition $52M, Happy Acres executive $58M, Alb e r t t o w n $ 3 0 M , S e c . ' M' Campbellville $34M now, Phone 225-2626, 225-5198, 227-6863, 227-6449, 225-2709, 231-2064, 226-1064, 667-7812 tonyreidsrealty@hotmail.com.  property in Independence Boulevard La Penitence - $7M g i v e a w a y, o w n l e a v i n g b e fore Christmas. Phone 2261064/692-3831/623-2591/ 615-0069/225-2626.

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K I T T Y$ 17M , $32M&$35M, Good Hope $15.5M, Garnett St $31M, SEC K C/ville 4 bedroom self-contained $44M, Carmichael Street 2 storey back house $22.5M, Montrose $16M, Mon Repos Block CC $22M, $10.5M & $9M, Ganges St. P/Nagar - 5 Bedroom $58M, Granville Park $31M, Lusignan business property $13M, Durban St $21M, Ogle A/Strip Road $55M, Better Hope Pub Rd $37M, Cummings St $37M, New Market St $55M, East St $60M, Happy Acres $30M, North Road $70M, Bel/A/ Park $60M, P/Nagar $28M, L/Gardens $75M,Regent St. $1.2MUS. Diamond - 2nd Ave, 5 Bedroom $38M. Tel. 2194399, 610-8332

   m o d e r n P i k e North Ruimveldt ranch with master room $17M, Meadow Brook Gardens $35M, Tucville concrete new $27M, Providen c e $ 2 5 M , new ranch $13M, Bel Air Park $45M, Prashad Nagar $37M, Duncan St. $23M, Sec. 'M' Campbellville requires repairs $14M, D'Urban St. $15M, Bent St. busine s s residence.

Phone Lord Johnny Ramsohoye 225-2709, 618-0000, 227-6949, 2252626, 226-1064, 22 7 - 6 9 4 9 , 2 2 5 5198.   on all properties for this summer only.

UG Gardens $140M, Republic Park $30M, Nandy Park 4 apartments $32M, Middle Road La Penitence land size 140 x 60 $17M, second Street Alberttown business and residence $45M, 5th St. Alberttown massive concrete $48M, Eccles $14M, Kitty Sandy Babb St. two properties on double lot $38M, Lamaha St Queenstown apartment complex $58M. Phone Vice President 231-2064, 225-3068, 227-6863, 226-1064, 227-6949, 225-2626.

 Subryanville Ocean View concrete and wooden building $120M, Leonora WCD twostorey beautiful concrete building $48M, Canal No. 2 new 4bedroom concrete building on 8 acres part cultivated farm land.

Price $24M. Tel. 225-3737, 2254893, 651-7078. : Saffon Street on Public Road, large commercial property on land in excess of 16 000 sq. ft with three concrete buildings thereon. Price neg. Large commercial properties with ongoing business on large expanse of land in prime area. Price neg. Tel. 2253737, 225-4893, 651-7078.  Street, Albouystown 2-storey, 2-family front building. Vacant possession, transported, parking for 2 vehicles. Upper flat 2 bedrooms, telephone, water pump, GPL meter; lower flat extension telephone, GPL meter, one bedroom, toilet, bathroom, back yard about 15'. Tel. 611-8912. : Little Diamond EBD three-bedroom concrete building $15M, Providence EBD two buildings on land $40M, Kitty large business place $70M, Vreed-en-Hoop Public Road property $35 million. Tel. 2253737, 225-4893, 651-7078.  Non Pareil ECD, two-storey concrete building $14M, Campbellville two-storey concrete building $50M, Diamond two-storey concrete buildings $32M $35M, $40M, Covent Gardens EBD on public road $38M. Tel. 225-3737, 225-4893, 651-7078.

 $4.5M neg, Grove $8M, Non Pareil $10M, D\Urban Backlands $30M, Campbellville $35M neg, Leonora $38M, Section 'K' $40M, Shell Road Kitty $16M, Middle Road, La Penitence $12M, Rentals Republic Park, Bel Air, Lamaha Springs US$500 - US$2000. Call Corretta on tel. 697-7842, 6716653, 231-7052.  HUGE 3-STOREY BUILDING WITH GOING BUSINESS AND LOTS OF LAND SPACE. MUST SEE. WITH GREAT POTENTIALS FOR STORE, FACTORY, BOND, SUPERMARKET, SCHOOL, DAY CARE, OR GOING BUSINESS AND LOTS OF LAND SPACE MUST SEE WITH GREAT POTENTIALS FOR STORE, FACTORY, APARTMENT, BOND, SUPERMARKET, SCHOOL, DAY CARE, OR APARTMENT. SERIOUS ENQUIRIES ONLY. 684-3718.  Marketing and Realty.

Middleton St C/VIL L E 5 bedroom self-contained back house 15ft driveway $ 28M , Kitty business property $44M, L B I E m b a n k m e n t $ 2 4M , Good Hope P/Rd (land 2 8 0 x 1 4 0 ) $ 9 0 M , Sheriff & Enachu Sts. $ 7 5 M, Vlissengen Rd. (land) $75M, $11 0 M , $ 1 4 0M, S h e r r i f S t , $50M, S o u t h Ruimveldt $ 1 6 M , D i a m o n d $ 9 M , $12M, $22M, East R/veldt $10.5M, E c c l e s $ 30M , $ 3 4 M , A / t o w n $ 3 6 M , Tr i u m p h $ 1 4 M , Agriculture Road, Triumph $ 2 0 M , S h e r i f f S t . $150M, Subryanville $58M, B r i c k d a m $ 1 0 0 M , O g l e brand ne w 2 storey, 5 bedroom house $80M, Lamaha St, Queenstown, 3-storey, corner proprty $85M. Tel. 2194399, 610-8332

 built two flat concrete building at Diamond New Scheme. The upstairs consists of two self-contained bedrooms with bu i l t - i n c l o s e t s , a s p a c i o u s k i t c hen, dining and living rooms along with a large verandah at the back. The lower flat has a two-bedroom apartment and a large area that could be used as a bond or for any business. The yard has a concrete fence with spikes and razor wire above it. There is also a laundry and a generator room downstairs along with a fully tiled carport. A complete water supply is available including six tanks and pump. Asking price: $42M. Interested persons can contact owner at 693 2531.  b a r g a i n s Norton Street - $14M, Bent Street business andresidence-$16M,executivePrashad Nagar mansion double lot - $85M, 8 apt. apartment complexwas-$120M, now - $85M, Sec. 'K' Campbellvile - $23M, Alberttown concrete 5 bedrooms - $46M, other for - $19M, and - $30M, South Ruimveldt Gardens-$19M, FestivalCity - $14M Charlotte Street business and residence by BourdaMarket- $26M, Cummings Street $34M, Meadow Brook - $28M, D'Urban Street for double lot for 5-stor e y - $25M, Phone Lord Alysious Pereira - 623-2591, 2276949, 225-2709, 231-2064, 227-6863, 2261064, 227-6 8 6 3 , 2 2 5 - 5 1 9 8 , 6 6 7 7 8 1 2 tonyreidsrealty@hotmail.com  Homes International Realty: Coldingen $14M neg, Ras v i l l e $ 1 4 M n e g , Enmore $8M neg, Campbellville $15M neg, Diamond 2 for 1 deal $15M neg, Cove and John 2 homes 5 b e d rooms $12M, 4-bedro o m $10M, McDoom Solid conc r e t e $20M, North Ruimveldt 7-bedroom fixer u p p e r, Nismes $6.5M, La Parfaite Harmonie $8.5M, 6-bedroom apartment (4 2-br, 2 1-br) only $21M neg), corner lot 89x80 Albouystown. Ready to go now! And many more, call Ahaziah 613-3018

         Bargains in Guyana: Full concrete D'Urban Street b u s i n e s s $ 1 9 M , b u s i ness and residence Bent Street 16M, Gordon Street business & residence $23M. Waterloo Street business a n d residence ( n e w ) $ 3 5 M .

S o u t h R o a d L a n d $ 3 6M, Charlotte Street 2 building s 2 houses by Light $32M. Land 140 x 60 by Russian E m b a s s y $30M. L a n d at T u r k e y e n 1 4 0 x 6 0 $ 32M. L0 Ressovenure Land 126x60 $20M. Cam p b e l l v i l l e flat house needs repairs $13M. Section K $19M n e e d s r e pa i r s , 3 - s t o r e y Quamina Street for hotel US $ 5 9 9 0 0 0 , B e l A i r P a rk $49M Lamaha Gardens valued $85M now $ 7 0 M .

R ental of a p a r t m e n t s f r o m U S $ 7 0 0 , R e s i dence US$1 2 00 upwards. Phone Lord Patr ick Pereira 227-6863, 2252709, 227-6949, 226-1064, 6693350.

7 d a y s a week tonyreidsrealty@hotmail . c o m  concrete Section 'K' $44M, 7-apartment William St. concrete building reduced from $60M to $50M, Kitty house requires. repair on 8 000 sq. ft $19M, Mi d d l e R o a d L a P e n i t e n c e $ 1 6.5M, a l m o s t Regent and Oronoque St. $36M, Charlotte Street East of Orange Walk $28M, South Ruimveldt Gardens $66M, Meadow Brook concrete $45M, e x e c u t i v e R e public Park $48M, Lamaha Gardens 3 self-contained $70M, Prasha d Nagar 6 - bedroom $58M, business 3-storey Quamina Street $85M, Bel Air Gardens on double lot $140M, S u b r y a n v i l l e $58M, Alberttown concrete business $40M, New Haven 4 selfcont a i n e d $ 8 0M, 3-be d r o o m new concrete Ogle $ 4 8 M , Bel Air Park $52M, Croal St. 3-storey require repairs $30M, 4 lots in AA Eccles wi t h i n c o m p l e t e cathedral-style st ructure r e q u i r e s $20M to complete, plus reserve and place for lake $90M neg. , M r.

Darendra 615-0069, Vic e Presiednt Alysious Pereira 6232591, Vice President Jhonny Ramsahoye 225-2709, Vice President Darindra 615-0069, 225-2626, 225-3068, 227-6863, 226-1064, 667-7812, facebook Tony Reid Realty 7 days a week 24 hours a day all holidays and all prices are negotiable.  3-storey concre t e b u i l d i n g , P r i c e $ 1 00 M .    property in good condition. Price $18M.         b e a u t i f u l 2-storey concrete property 3 s e l f - c o n t a i n e d , 1 m a s t e r, l i b r a r y, t e l e v i s i o n r o o m , l i v i n g room, upstairs back verandah, do w n s t a i r s d e n , f u l l y m a r b l e stone tile, family room patio, garage parking space, for 3 cars, needs cosmet i c s , l a n d s p a c e P r i c e $ 9 0 M, O g l e b e a u t i f u l p r o p e r t y $90M,  $36M neg,   $120M beautiful home excellent condition i n       $ 5 5 M n e g , Queenstown property $100M. Do call us at Joy R e i d ' s R e a l t y. We a r e l o c a t e d a t 2 4 7 (D) Forshaw and Oronoque Streets, Queenstown.

Tel. 225-6858, 225-7164, 6677812, email: joyreid.realty7@yahoo.com

PROPERTYFORSALE          location  Street, Kingston opposite the American Embassy. One (1) huge four storey concrete and steel building, 2 bedrooms on each flat, AC< hot water, refrigerator and stove one ach floor and fully furnished, generator. Can be used for embassy, office, apartments or residence. Price $180M. Property being sold with all equipment and furnishings inclusive. Serious enquiries 223-8634, 646-3251, 227-0464'   on all properties for this summer only. Sale!

Sale! Sale! Business property immed i ately: East of Orange Walk in Charlotte Street $28M, 3-storey business property in Croal Street requires repairs $32M, Bent Street almost new 2-storey business property $!6M, South Ruimveldt Gardens residence $16M, Ogle fully concrete new $49M, Tucville new $26M, Prashad Nagar executive $55M, Bel Air Park $55M, Kitty business or residence requires repairs, on 8 000 sq. ft - $19M, Forshaw old house $21M, 3-storey business close to Main Street $55M, Meadow Brook $45M, fully concrete D'Urban Backlands $30M, New Section 'K' $42M, Lamaha Gardens executive $68M, one ranch-style Section 'M' 3-bedroom suites for elderly $50M, fully concrete with excellent interior work, Bel Air Gardens $130M 231-2064, 225-3068, 227-6863, 226-1064, 227-6949,

  your year for 28% discount on all properties. Happy Acres 2-storey concrete $24M, Providence Stadium new $16M, concrete Republic Park $36M, Eccles concrete $34M, South Ruimveldt Gardens $12M needs repairs, Middle Road La Penitence 4-apartment $14M, La Penitence two-storey $11M, D\Urban Backlands concrete $28M, Meadow Brook $12M, D\Urban Street concrete residence and business $28M, Lamaha Gardens executive $68M, Prashad Nagar 8000 sq ft land $60M, Lama Avenue, Bel Air Park $83M, Bel Air Park $45M Dowding Street Kitty $29M, and $19M, David Street Subryanville from $19M, back with 12ft driveway $14M, Section 'K' Campbellville $40M, Garnett Street ranch concrete $38M, Owen Street Kitty concrete 2-storey $39M, Camp Street business and residence.

Phone Mr Darindra 615-0069, Mr Carlos Budram 692-3831, Mr. Alex Pereira 231-2064, Mr. Ramsahoye 225-2709, 225-2626, 225-3068, 227-6949, 225-5198, 627-7812, 226-1064. Best Price Real Estate!

Property for sale: Tuschen EBE concrete building with 2- x 3-bedroom apartments $20M, Blankenburg 6-bedroom, 2-flat concrete building $20M, Grove Housing Scheme land with foundation and columns $6M, Land with unfurnished flat concrete building $4M, Diamond Housing Scheme fenced land $10M, land with concrete structure $9M, land with unfinished concrete building $7M, Herstelling Housing Scheme house lot $4M, Norton Street 2flat concrete and wooden building $22M, Camp Street land $40M, Hadfield Street Werk-enRust 2-flat concrete and wooden building $80M, Charlotte Street land $50M, Alberttownn 2-flat concrete and wooden building $78M, Alberttown double lot $100M, Waterloo Street 2-flat wooden and concrete building $50M, Sheriff Street land with 2 buildings $70M, Campbellville new 2-flat concrete building $45M, Vryheid's Lust ECD land with 2 buildings $15M, Montrose ECD 2 flat wooden and concrete building $16M, Coldingen ECD corner lot wooden concrete structure $9M, Enterprise ECD 2-flat wooden and concrete building $16M, Foulis ECD land with wooden cottage $3M, Land of Canaan EBD 20 acres land $6M, per acre, Long Creek Linden Highway 10 acres $4M, Amelia's Ward, Linden Highway 97 acres $40M. Tel. Ms Reshma 613-9589, 6861048 after hours 233-3422 Don 686-1853.

VEHICLES FORMISC. SALE AGRI. EQUIP.  & Ranjah Import and Export. For all genuine truck parts and accessories new and used for Leyland, DAF, ERF Bedford Model M and TM etc from the UK, also foreign used Cummins and Perkins engine from the UK We currently have transfer boxes (power box) for 6x6 TM. Tel. 592-660-9152, 592-6102873.

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       laser printer $55 000, Contact 658-4009.  360 games, $2 500 each. 672-8212.  new 26 cu ft fridge, still sealed. Tel. 674-4649.  stall in Stabroek Market. Tel. 658-0115, 718-7578031.  and pitbull mixed. 625-0345.  Rottweiler pups, $10 000 each. Tel. 645-1789.  brand new 6" water dredge. Tel. 222-6678.  165 KVA generator with very low hours. 6562350. Frost free commercial upright freezer $90 000.

Contact 622-9589.  internet café setup.

Serious enquiries only. Tel. 6772085.  female pit bull 16 months, fully vaccinated, powerful build. Call 654-5461.  Cadence G5.9 Threadmill $90 000. Contact 6229589. -AN ATV's Evinrude, Seadoo Jet Ski, new household appliances. 26-0025, 648-3171.  MICHELIN tyres for sale, like new, great price. Call 611-5414.

 MALE pure-bred German Shepherd, 7-week-old pups. 6295289, 254-0608 after 18:00 hrs. HYDRAULIC jack hammer to break very strong concrete and rock, can work on 320 and 324 CAT and also Kobelco and Doosan excavators. 656-2350.  and Decker 1.7 cu. ft refrigerator, 21 Precision TV, new PS3 console with games.

Contact 639-7114, 674-5625.  Games Games: Xbox 360, PS2, PSP, games and mod, starting at $500. Contact 684-3025.  AC, 12.6 and 18 000 BTU, 220 volts.

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24 24 FOR SALE  backhoe 3 CX, caterpillar backhoe, 10-ton toad roller, portable welder on wheels. Call 623-3404.  quality 16" Michelin (German) tyres with new American-made rims, 16" 5-hole $320 000. Tel. 626-0595, 670-4161.  table, imported and local and accessories such as cues, balls, cloth, rubber, spot chalk, etc.

Tel. 609-3311, 614-4841, 2204298.  Hermetic air condition compressors (12000 BTU - 24,000 BTU). All for only $50 000. Tel. 667-9367.  at Tain opposite Tain Campus, RZ bus, BMM series $1.4M neg, new model Raum teacher-driven $2M neg.

653-2868.  Hatchery (Robbins), 28,000 eggs capacity fully ready, $ 5.5 million or CREDIT available TEL: 2273939 621-4000  Generator, 3 cylinder Lister pitter (England) key start, 15,000 watts $595,000 cash 227-3939, 621-4000  Generator 15,000 watts , portable, $475,000 cash Tel 227-3939, 621-4000  forklifts 3 pcs 2000, 3000, 4000 Lb, lifting capacity $350,000 AND UP TEL: 227-3939, 621-4000  Generator silent 28,000 watts SDMO John Deere engine, missing Fuel Pump, Panel, Avr $850,000 cash 2273939, 621-4000   40" TO 73" SOME WORKING AND OTHERS NEEDS CHECKING ALL, SOLD AS IS TEL 621-4000, 227-3939 new, just released in 2013 Xbox one and play Station 4. Low prices guaranteed.

Tel. 668-1906.  equipment, complete GYM, heaters, ab machine, and more 621-4000, 2273939  set model D 343, 250 kva, 3 Ph, 415-240, 220/127v, AC 60 Hz. Call 2270190, 693-5610, 616-9727.   imported complete with Ques, baals racks $80,000, also kids pools table $75,000 Tel: 621-4000, 2273939  Antenna (Mass) for Radio, TV, Cellular, with cables, brackets, sky light $400,000 2273939, 621-4000  ft decking 120x39 13 shts 11', 976 ft decking 120 x 39 61 shts 16', 350 ft decking 120 x 39' 25 shts ,14'.

Tel. 696-9529, 669-1113. Price - reasonable.  cell phone, 9650 model, Blackberry Bold excellent condition (like new) $12,000. 624-6464, 675-3062.

Keith.  Galaxy Tab 3 (2013 Edition) and Beats by Dre Studios (over-ear) headphones.

Very affordable prices. 6713320, 690-2739.  ball guns, balls and accessories. Alpha black, Tippman Project Salvo, Kingman MRX Spyder, Sp y d e r s t o r m e r. C a l l 6 7 0 9606. 8 Channels video Security kit, with 500 GB Hard Drive and 8 Night Vision Cameras. Viewable on Smartphones and tablets, Motion activated recording; contact: 6229589.   lace mini size 'L', 1 mesh cutouts size 'S', 1 Moca black leopard print strapless, size 'M' and 1 multi zig zag print belted size 'M'. To see dresses, prices and features Email classofj@yahoo.com Tel. 220-8596, 610-7998.

FOR SALE -PIECE dining set (wholesale/retail) $35 000/$45 000, 30, 32, 34, 36 purpleheart panel doors, $28 000 each, 30, 32, 34, 36 Kabakali panel doors $20 000 each. Tel. 6889712, 651-0717, 669-1448.  Honda Rebel motorcycle 250cc clean, black $450 000 neg, CG 9345, Samsung Galaxy Tablet 2, $70 000 new, Honda Falcon motorcycle 400cc, clean, $350 000 neg, CF 8636.

Both bikes in GT, owner leaving country. 673-7734.  2004 Toyota Allion equipped with TV, reverse camera, CD, DVD, like new $2.2M. Mobile canteen/juice bar with generator, cooler, cupboards, Vita mix pro blender $20M neg.

638-9116, 603-0976. mitre saw, DeWalt circular saw, DeWalt saw zall, Milwaukee band saw, Makita hammer drill, HP office jet pro printer, 6-light chandelier, 6-cylinder Cummins engine with turbo, AC energy saver LG. Tel. 673-9501. OWL 8 channel surveillance camera systems with 8 out door/indoor cameras (30 feet clear night vision), DVR with 500 GB hard drive, all cables and power adaptors, remote, mouse, and software CD, internet ready with motion detection email alert. $150 000. Contact 689-1957.  equipment: Styling chair $40 000, shampoo chair $10 000, nail compressor $50 000, nail file and dryer $3 000, foot spa $6 000, 2 shampoo sinks $15 000 each, lighting sign $5 000. Tel. 652-5168.

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VEHICLES FOR SALE

VEHICLES FOR SALE

 10-seater bus, BMM 1832 in perfect condition. Tel. 6142878.

 Sprinter PMM series, excellent condition. Phone 2261476.

 black Titan 4WD, fully loaded $3.5M. Tel. 678-2814, 6992322.

 Carina AT 170, 1 Overlock sewing machine. Contact 619-8788, 225-6001.

    Silver Premio dark blue 2003 Raum with alloy wheels, TV/nav, excellent condition.

624-7684/617-2378

 212 PNN series, AC, CD, mags, very good condition. Call 617-9507.

 long base minibus, in excellent condition $1.2M. First owner.

Call 666-4999, 698-6898.

 Toyota Town Ace minibus, BMM series. Price $1.2M. 6645593.

   Wagon, PKK series, $1 050 000, mag rims, ac, never worked hire, 4 BF Goodrich mud terrain tyres 33x10.50x15, 95% thread $220 000. Contact 223-8780, 669-3741.

 F 150 2000 model $2.5M. Tel. 662-7905.   A-4 2007 model, excellent condition. Asking $4.7M. Tel. 661-6161.  Mark II, gear, PFF series, $850 000 neg. Tel. 6441354.  Spacio, music, rims, excellent condition. Tel. 689-3881. LN 170 Hilux Pickup, excellent condition. Tel. 663-3537.  212, manual transmission, excellent condition. Call 643-5052.   tractor, foreign-used, in excellent condition. Price neg.

Contact 644-1004.     RR 600 motorcycle, like brand new. Contact 682-0384.

VEHICLES FOR SALE VEHICLES FOR SALE

 Daf truck with hyab. Tel.. 626-5706.  minibus, BKK series 5413. Tel. 612-2517.   Carina (gold) $650 000. Tel. 255-0800, 625-4028.  Corolla G-Touring Wagon. Tel. 644-0530.  Hilux Vigo fully loaded, lift kit, music system, etc. 638-8930.  Mirage Bingo AC, mags, deck, in excellent condition. Tel. 641-6637, 6013696.

DAF Hauler trucks also 1 CF Daf for parts. 656-2350.  G-Touring Wagon.

Price $900 000 neg. Tel. 664-5545.   S C R A P 3 1 2 B C AT excavator - 656-2350.

 Civic, black, mag rims, CD, AC, etc, drives very well. Tel. 220-8770, 616-0427. 192 gold, auto power, mags rims, Bargain $890 000. Tel. 2208770, 616-0427.  Bblue mags, loaded.

Best buy $2M. Tel. 220-8770, 6160427.  diesel Turbo GRR plate. Must be seen $2 5M. Tel. 220-8770, 616-0427.  Runner. Must be seen.

Bargain $1.2M. Tel. 220-8770, 616-0427.  Axela PRR series $2.05M excellent condition. 6157526, 653-4560.  model NZE Corolla AC, TV, DVD, mags, excellent condition.

Priced to go - $1.8M neg. Tel. 6820274, 625-8775.  Wagon excellent condition, 15" rims, remote start, alarm, hid, DVD, TV, etc, $1,300,000 neg. 667-9013, 231-3709.

 Verossa, leather interior, HID lights, rims, TV, PPP series, $3.3M. Tel. 618-7618.   Carina; AE 100 Corolla. Contact City Taxi Service 6601100.  Mitsubishi Lancer, AC, mags, deck, in good condition. Tel. 662-3700.  3-ton Mitsubishi Canter late GPP series, in perfect condition. Price neg. Tel. 626-4632.  3-ton Mitsubishi Canter late GPP series, in perfect condition. Price neg. Tel. 626-4632.  double cab Nissan Pickup $700 000 neg. Tel. 233-0591, 6676644, 216-3120(office).    Hilux Surf Extra Cab 5L diesel pickup -excellent condition. 656-2350.  Premio NZT 260 2007 year model, unregistered, press start, TV, reverse camera, etc.

Tel. 644-0530.   350 MERCEDES BENZ. ONLY 26,000 MILES. FULLY LOADED. $12.5 MIL CALL: 651-4578   TACOMA AUTOMATIC 4 X 4, EXTRA CAB. LIKE NEW, LOW MILEAGE. $4.1 MIL CALL: 227-1511, 651-4578 F150 1994 model, GKK series, new pressure plate, clutch plate, clutch cylinders, battery, all documents current. $750 000. Contact 689-1957.

 Toyota Super Custom 3Y bus in good working condition, double coil spring, perfect for any hustle, music and mags.

Tel. 660-4739, 686-1237, 2550914.

series Super GL minibus, fully loaded in excellent condition, VVTI engine. Tel. 628-0513, 6119336.

 Silver Honda CRV PMM series, year 2001, $3M neg. Tel. 641-5670, 677-7666.

  bus 3Y engine, PJJ series; 1 Hilux Surf 4x4 3Y engine, PHH series. Call 610-0514.

, open and enclosed canter trucks with lift, and 4x4 Super cab pick up - 61 Dennis St., Campbellville. 227-0190, 6935610, 616-9727.

 Carina Wagon backwheel drive. Price $600 000 neg. Tel. 626-7979.

 crashed Toyota Vios slightly damaged, sold as is. Price $750 000. Tel. 685-0659.

 wooden boat 155 ft oil tank, inboard engine, fully certified and licensed maximum (200 grams), can be converted for fishing 5 - 15 model 'M' tyres. Double cab LN 170, double cab pickup Hilux, one model 'M' truck GMM series with winch, one hydraulic water drill rig, maximum depth 400ft. Tel. 615-5922.

  diesel Perkins 4cylinder $580 000, Whitney American wood shaper (large) $240 000, crescent wood morticer $180 000, Hunter wheel alignment machine P611 US$3000, Monroe shocks $3000 - $6000 new fits, 4x4 bus, canter, etc, large voltage regulator $90 000. Large drill press $190 000, Hobart arc welder 6-cylinder Ford $480 000, 2 large steel doors (double) for house $60 000. Tel. 619-6863, 601-8276, 226-3883.

 AUTO BLOWOUT SALE! Unregistered Mazda Axela $2,295,000 Pioneer CD, crystal lights, remote start alarm. 643-6565, 226-9931.

 Ceres PGG series, immaculate condition, lady-driven.

Call 664-7525, 225-7131.

 Rover County, 4 cylinders, Turbo 4x4. Diesel (very economical) $3.5M, Mitsubishi Canter 1.5-ton box truck (hardly driven) $3.5M, Mitsubishi Lancer, 2004 Model $1.2M, Mitsubishi Shogun just finished 50 000 miles $5.8M All vehicles are in excellent condition.

Inspect before you buy. Contact 2272174, 226-0351, 227-7865

machines: 1- large Canadian Band Saw 240v, one large De Walt Rip Saw or Cross Cut Saw with large arm and table, move in any direction- 240v. 1 Edge sander with 12 inch disc 240v, to sand wood edge, 1 Wadkin adjustable up and downcross cut saw on table - 240v, 1- Wadkin 12 inch plane with blades- 240v. All machines are in good working order.

Owner leaving 664-3368.

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 Ceres in good condition $575 000 neg, Honda CRV in excellent condition $2.8M neg. Tel. 698-7632.  192, PKK series, in excellent condition, mags, AC, remote start, etc. $875 000 neg. Tel. 6096252, 670-8594.  Toyota Voxy GSS, AC, DVD, TV, remote, chrome rims and 2 sunroofs, 15 000 km. Call 688-1657.  212 Carina, old and new models, one Toyota IST, excellent condition with mags, AC and TV. Price neg. Tel. 628-1682.  Premio PNN series, in excellent condition (lady-driven), 17" chrome rims, alarm, automatic start, ac, CD player etc. $2.3M neg.

Tel. 649-2541.  new model 212 Carina motor car, one AT 176 Toyota Carina wagon both in excellent condition. Price neg. Contact 3374544, cell 626-1525.  Mitsubishi Canter 4D32 engine (non-electronic) enclosed insolated box for cold storage purpose, $1.55M neg. Contact 6546166.  Leyland Daf enclosed truck, GPP series, Ac, CD deck, power windows etc. in excellent condition, Price $3.7M. Tel 663-4979, 6744724.    sale unregistered TOYOTA IST $2,295,000 body kit, TV camera, spoiler, fogs, HID, alarm. 643-6565, 226-9931.

  Hiace BRR1, RZ Super Custom Hiace, PKK. both excellent condition, never worked hire. Tel. 612-1718, home 325-3057.  gold-color Nissan Cefiro with AC, 10CD music system, mag-rims, and very good condition. No reasonable price refused. Contact: 6583363  black and grey, early model, Honda CRU in excellent condition with AC, four band remote controlled sound system, and excellent seats. No reasonable price refused. Contact: 6583363  Auto Dealership: 2008 Toyota IST (silver), 2008 Toyota Belta (white), 2008 Nissan Bluebird Sylphy (gold), 2007 Toyota Allion, press button start (black). 648-9566. Auto blowout sale!

Unregistered Toyota IST $2 250 000, body kit, TV< camera, spoiler, fogs, HID, alarm. 6436565, 226-9931. Auto blowout sale!

Unregistered Mazda Axela $2 295 000 Pioneer CD, crystal lights, remote start, alarm. 6436565, 226-9931.

VEHICLES FOR SALE  4x4 Tundra extra cab, AC, CD player, alarm, automatic silver grey, hard cover, bed liner, GPP series, lifted crash bar, fog lamps, 9000 wrench, 5 new B.F. Goodrich all terrain tyres. Call Eddie - 6118912.                  We buy and sell used cars and trade in your car for another All prices are negotiable. USED RZ bus $850 000, Range Rover des 5L eng SolId Def $5M, Land Cruiser $4M, Honda Accord $1M, 318 BMW $2.9M, Nadia $1.7M, Toyota Gaia (7-seater) $1.7M, Allion $2.15M, Lancer $1.2M, Honda Civic $1.2M, Mitsubishi Galant $1.3M, Caldina Wagon 3S Turbo, 5-speed manual $2.6M, small bus $1M, AT 192 $950 000, 210 Corolla $1.4M, AE 110 Corolla $1.5M, 212 $1 25M, Vios $1.6M, Raum $1.25M, new model Raum $1.7M, Premio $2.8M (unregistered), Tundra bubble back 4-wheel drive $3.4M, Tundra square back $2.4M.                 We buy and sell used cars and trade in your car for another. All prices are neg USED Mitsubishi Galant $1.3M, Caldina Wagon 3S turbo, 5-speed manual $2.6M, small bus $1M, AT 192 $950 000, 210 Corolla $1.4M, AE 100 Corolla 10.50 212 $1.25M Vios $1.6M, Raum $1 250M, new model Raum $1.7M, Premio $2.8M (unregistered) Tundra bubble back, 4-wheel drive $3.4M, Tundra square back $2.4M, RZ bus $850 000, Range Rover des 5L eng Solid Def $5M, Land Cruiser $4M, Honda Accord $1M, 318 BMW $2.9M, Nadia $1.7M, Toyota Gaia (7-seater) $1.7M, Allion $2 15M, Lancer $1.2M, Honda Civic $1.2M.

WANTED WANTED  domestic. Call 227-5138.  cars to work.

Tel. 644-0530.  seats for big bus -6753062, 686-0900  housekeeper/nanny, must have reference. 644-7711.  for Friday and Saturday.

Call 6005810. work man to spray motor cycles apply in person Guyana Variety Store Tel 227-3939

 Toyota Axio $2.8M neg, 2008 Suzuki $2.8M neg, 2003 Allion $2 55M neg, All with TV, push start, fully loaded. Tel. 648-1000.    private Town Ace bus $1.2M, one Toyota Raum 2000 model $1.4M, one Mercedes Benz Smart $2.5M, one Honda Zest Sport unregistered $2M. Contact Peter 6642100, 260-4323. 'S Auto Sales, Lot 2 George Street Werk-en-Rust back of Camp and Brickdam church. We buy and sell used vehicles, we also trading yours for another, RZ buses, Tundra, CRV, RAV-4, Premo, Allion, NZE, AT 212, Spacio, Vios. We have all models of used vehicles - 231-3690, 649-0329, David.  & Ranjah Import and Export. For all genuine truck parts and accessories new and used for Leyland, DAF, ERF Bedford Model M and TM etc from the UK, also foreign used Cummins and Perkins engine from the UK We currently have transfer boxes (power box) for 6x6 TM. Tel. 592-660-9152, 592610-2873.

 persons to work in a pharmacy. Call 227-4992, between 08:00hrs and 17:00hrs.  Drivers with 3 years experience, job on ECD. 6218198.  dispatchers, contract cars. Tel. 231-0316, 2194086.

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Classy Arsenal beat Spurs in FA Cup, Villa crash out

By Tim Collings

LONDON, England –(Reuters) - Premier League leaders Arsenal showed their class as they comfortably beat north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 to book a place in the FA Cup fourth round in an electric atmosphere at the

er sides Everton, Southampton, Stoke City, Crystal Palace, who won 2-0 at West Bromwich Albion, and Cardiff City, 2-1 victors at Newcastle United in their first outing under new manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, in progressing.

But seven-time winners Aston Villa crashed 2-1 at

carried off and the Gunners comfortably played out the final minutes with 10 men.

“I thought we played well in defence and in attack and controlled the game which was played at quite a pace,” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told reporters. “Our game was based on quick, sharp passing and we were dangerous.”

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Blackburn Rovers’ Jason Lowe (back) challenges Manchester City’s Alvaro Negredo during their FA Cup third round soccer match at Ewood Park in Blackburn, northwest England yesterday. (Credit: Reuters/Phil Noble) Emirates Stadium yesterday.

Goals from forward Santi Cazorla and midfielder Tomas Rosicky, after 31 and 62 minutes respectively, sealed a smooth passage for the 10-time winners after an open contest in which the visitors played their part in a stirring contest.

Arsenal joined fellow top-ti-

home to third tier Sheffield United in their third round tie.

Cup holders Wigan Athletic, relegated from the top flight last term, were held to a 3-3 draw

by League One (third tier) MK Dons, while losing finalists and league title favourites Manchester City drew 1-1 at second tier Blackburn Rovers.

Arsenal, missing several first-choice players, took control against Spurs with some typically fast-flowing attacking play before Spaniard Cazorla scored his first FA Cup goal.

Arsenal’s French right back Bacary Sagna initiated the move with a surging run and pass inside to 18-year-old German winger Serge Gnabry who, after a run that drew three defenders, set up Cazorla for a thunderous left-foot drive from 20 metres.

Tottenham, urged on by their pocket of fans in a noisy crowd, rallied but their response stalled when Rosicky caught left back Danny Rose in possession and ran clear before scooping the ball over advancing French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.

It was the Czech’s first goal of the season.

“I always try to put the opponent under pressure and it paid off - my first goal and against our main rivals, so it feels very good,” said Rosicky.

“I think we played collectively and we played very well.

It was important not to make mistakes and we know that always we have the quality to score goals.”

Arsenal might have added a third after 77 minutes, but England winger Theo Walcott shot wide from 15 metres before suffering a knee injury. He was

Earlier, on an afternoon of few major surprises, League One (third tier) Sheffield United knocked out Villa, whose manager Paul Lambert had said beforehand that the FA Cup was little more than “a distraction” for most Premier League clubs.

League Two (fourth tier) Rochdale similarly made light of the 45 places separating them from Championship side and 1972 FA Cup winners Leeds United by beating them 2-0 to reach the fourth round for the first time since 2003.

Villa’s defeat, courtesy of a fine goal in each half from Jamie Murphy and Ryan Flynn, who scored with a magnificent 25-metre shot before substitute Nicklas Helenius responded, heaped more pressure on under-fire manager Lambert.

After trudging up the tunnel at Villa Park with the wrath of the home supporters ringing in his ears, he conceded: “I don’t think we did enough to go through and that is me being honest.

“We had a lot of the ball and huffed and puffed. It was one of those kind of games...”

United, 51 places below Villa in the English league pyramid, reached the fourth round for the sixth time in seven seasons.

“The players were incredible today,” manager Nigel Clough told reporters. “You can fluke a result in a cup, but I thought we deserved that win. We played some magnificent stuff at the start of the second half.

“We like to be positive and the lads like to enjoy it, as they did, while working incredibly hard. We’ve had a rough six months so this puts a smile on people’s faces.”

Rochdale also had plenty to enjoy after their pulsating display against Leeds.

Manager Keith Hill said: “It’s a tremendous win. We had a gameplan and the players executed it superbly. They trusted me and each other. No-one can argue we didn’t deserve that win.”

Leeds boss Brian McDermott told the BBC: “I would probably say that is my worst moment in football.”

There are six more ties today including Chelsea’s visit to Championship side Derby County, Manchester United at home to Swansea City and Liverpool against third tier Oldham Athletic.

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Coach Crandon says...

From backpage pendability to the table, but what was heartening to me and the fellow coaching staff, was the camaraderie these guys exhibited during the sessions.”

The former national all-rounder gives credit to his fellow coaching team which comprises Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Chairman of Selectors Rayon Griffith and Berbice Cricket Board’s head coach Julian Moore for the welcome goodwill in the camp.

According to the 32-yearold Crandon, Griffith, Moore and himself decided to place the players into two squads prior to the commencement of the drills and make it a competitive one, where the team finishing their drills last, were given a punishment in the form of push-ups, sit-ups or shuttles, by the winners.

“Having done that, the guys from both sides were cheering and encouraging one another on, despite it being a competitive one. I think they understood the seriousness

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“Ravi is a tough guy and I think when we get to Hamilton as long as there is no pain …” said Gibson. “It’s his left hand so it would not affect his bowling that much. Obviously only his fielding comes into play and batting at the end he bats at 11.”

“We are still waiting for the results on Darren Sammy.

At the moment he’s still limping around a bit so we’re not sure how he’s going to travel but he’s staying here with us a little longer. So if it gets down to next week we still have 10 days. At the moment he is on the injured list.”

The fifth and final ODI will be played in Hamilton on Wednesday (Tuesday afternoon Caribbean time) followed by the two T20 matches on January 11 and 15.

behind being fit and are giving it their all and when we look at where they were on the first day and compare it to the present, there is a remarkable improvement,” stated Crandon.

He was hoping to get in much needed practice in the middle, but the inclement and unpredictable weather pattern has forced them to alter their plans, hence the use of the country’s lone concrete facility at GYO and the indoor facility at LBI> Nevertheless, the squad which has been trimmed t o 2 6 h a d a m u c h - n e e ded three-hour session in the middle at the Everest Cricket Club yesterday afternoon, with only Jason Sinclair (knee) and Devendra Bishoo (influenza) being absent.

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Serena fires her way to victory

By Ciaran Baynes

Serena Williams of the U.S. holds the Brisbane International trophy after defeating Victoria Azarenka of Belarus in the women’s singles final in Brisbane, yesterday. (Credit: Reuters/ Jason Reed)

BRISBANE, Australia – (Reuters) - Serena Williams laid down an imposing marker ahead of the first grand slam of the year by powering to a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka at the Brisbane International.

The American won the battle between the world’s top two players to pick up her 58th career title.

In the men’s draw, Roger Federer will be chasing a 19th win over home favourite Lleyton Hewitt when the two 32-year-olds renew their friendly rivalry in today’s final.

Both players needed three sets to reach the final with top seed Federer beating Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 6-3, 6-7 (3-7), 6-3 and Hewitt downing Japan’s Kei Nishikori 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 in stifling conditions.

The women’s final lacked the intensity of Williams’ victory over Maria Sharapova on Friday but lived up to its promise in a pulsating second set.

The world number one’s serve was far more consistent than in her previous match and she did not face a break point in

taking the first set.

She was gifted the only break in the seventh game when Azarenka blasted a forehand wide down the line.

The American then sealed the set with an ace and an early end to the match seemed likely when she broke the Belarusian in the first game of the second set, but instead it brought her opponent to life.

Azarenka broke Williams twice to take a 4-2 lead but lost her own serve to restore parity.

In the crucial 11th game, Williams hit a vicious backhand down the line to secure her third break of the set and then served out for victory.

Her second-set efforts showed Azarenka is not far off from toppling Williams, with

… Federer sets up Hewitt showdown

whom she split four matches last year, and after the match said: “I hope to meet you in Melbourne.”

Williams is also eyeing another meeting between the pair before they leave Australia.

“I hope we do play in Melbourne too because that would mean we’d be going the farthest,” Williams said.

Conditions were far easier for the women finalists than for the first men’s semifinal between Hewitt and Nishikori, where both players struggled as the temperature reached 42 degrees.

“When you just come off the court it feels like it’s the worst you’ve played in,” Hewitt

said.

“It was a really heavy humidity feel out there. I was sweating just walking out to have my warm-up.”

Federer was far from his best against Chardy, losing the second set in a tiebreak. However, crucially as his French opponent’s serve fell apart in the third set, Federer swooped to set up a 27th meeting with Hewitt.

“Jeremy has a great serve and made it tough for me,” said Federer, who has won 16 of his last 17 meetings with the Australian.

“It will be very different against Lleyton. He has the game to cause me a lot of problems.”

Schumacher’s condition critical but stable - agent PARIS, France (Reuters) - Michael Schumacher’s condition remains critical but stable yesterday, the German’s agent said nearly a week after the seven-time Formula One champion suffered brain injuries in a skiing accident in the French Alps resort of Meribel.

“Michael’s condition remains critical but stable. We would like to clearly stress that any information regarding Michael’s health not coming from the doctors treating him or from his management must be treated as invalid and pure speculation,” Schumacher’s agent, Sabine Kehm, said in a statement.

Kehm added that Schumacher’s “helmet camera was voluntarily given to the investigating authorities by the family”.

Kehm made the comments after former Formula One driver Philippe Streiff, a friend of Schumacher’s, told Sky TV he had been told by surgeon and friend, Gerard Saillant, who is at the Grenoble hospital, that the German’s life was “out of danger”.

The retired motor racing great slammed his head on a rock while skiing off-piste on Sunday morning.

He has been in an induced coma for six days since being transferred to a Grenoble hospital, where he has undergone two operations.

Schumacher, who turned 45 on Friday, is the most successful Formula One driver of alltime with a record 91 race victories.

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Dominant Aussies on course for series sweep … Early blitz leaves England reeling

By Nick Mulvenney SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) - A dominant Australia looked firmly on course for a 5-0 Ashes series sweep when they reached 140 for four, a lead of 311, at the close of play after skittling England for 155 on a dramatic second day of the fifth Test yesterday.

Chris Rogers, who had made 73 not out, and George Bailey, unbeaten on 20, will resume on day three looking to further inflate the lead before Australia unleash their pace attack on the hapless tourists.

England’s bowlers made inroads into the Australian batting order in the final session to contribute to the 13 wickets to fall at the Sydney Cricket Ground but the day was defined by a first hour that left the tourists reeling at 23-5.

While a dispirited England had once again contributed to their own batting downfall, Mitchell Johnson (3-33), Ryan Harris (3-36) and Peter Siddle (3-23) played decisive roles with another display of top quality pace bowling.

“It’s obviously not a done thing yet, we’ve got to make sure we bat well in the morning and get some more and bowl like we did today to bowl them out again,” Harris told reporters.

“We sort of figure they are going to fire at some stage, we hope they don’t but ... I don’t think the wicket’s getting any easier. If we bowl like we did today, I think we’ll go alright.”

Australia had made 326 in their first innings before reducing England to 8-1 overnight and drove home their advantage by ripping through England’s top order in the early blitz.

It was Harris who started the carnage with the second ball of the day, when England captain Alastair Cook inexplicably padded up to an in-swinger and was trapped leg-before for seven.

Harris could have had a second wicket with his next delivery when Ian Bell edged the ball behind, only for Shane

AUSTRALIA first innings 326 ENGLAND first innings (o/n 8-1) A. Cook lbw Harris 7 M. Carberry c Lyon b Johnson 0 J. Anderson c Clarke b Johnson 7 I. Bell c Haddin b Siddle 2 K. Pietersen c Watson b Harris 3 G. Ballance c Haddin b Lyon 18 B. Stokes b Siddle 47 J. Bairstow c Bailey b Siddle 18 S. Borthwick c Smith b Harris

1 S. Broad not out 30 B. Rankin b Johnson 13 Extras: (lb-1, w-5, nb-3) 9 Total: (all out, 58.5 overs) 155 Fall of wicket: 1-6, 2-8, 3-14, 4-17, 5-23, 6-62, 7-111, 8-112, 9-125.

Ben Stokes’s fighting innings ended when he left a delivery from Peter Siddle.

Watson to fluff a reasonably simple catch in the slips.

Nightwatchman James Anderson braved a couple of overs of short bowling before departing, also for seven, after finding the edge with a stab at a fuller length Johnson delivery, which Michael Clarke leapt to claim in the cordon.

Kevin Pietersen lasted just nine balls and 12 minutes before being dismissed for three courtesy of another edge to the slips from a Harris delivery, which Watson took this time after a juggle.

FOLLOW-ON SAVED With England now 17-4 after just 32 minutes of play, Bell did his best to dig in.

He took 42 minutes to get off the mark but had just two runs on the board 14 minutes later when a superb delivery from Siddle had him caught behind by Brad Haddin.

“We knew we had to start well and pick up early wickets, we didn’t think we’d get that many, I guess,” Harris added.

Debutant Gary Ballance

Bowling: Harris 14-5-36-3, Johnson 13.5-3-33-3 (nb-3, w-5), Siddle 13-4-23-3, Watson 3-1-5-0, Lyon 15-3-57-1.

AUSTRALIA second innings C. Rogers not out 73 D. Warner lbw Anderson 16 S. Watson c Bairstow b Anderson 9 M. Clarke c Bairstow b Broad 6 S. Smith c Cook b Stokes 7 G. Bailey not out 20 Extras: (lb-9) 9 Total: (for four wickets, 30 overs) 140 Fall of wickets: 1-27, 2-47, 3-72, 4-91.

Bowling: Anderson 10-4-36-2, Broad 7-1-26-1, Rankin 6-0-250, Stokes 5-0-36-1, Borthwick 2-0-8-0.

(18) went just after lunch before Jonny Bairstow (18) and Ben Stokes (47) offered some resistance in a partnership of 49 for the seventh wicket.

When they were dismissed in one Siddle over, though, England’s hopes of any kind of respectable score went with them.

England saved the follow-on and looked like they might just scramble to tea but Johnson returned to the fray and clean-bowled Boyd Rankin, the third of the England new caps, for 13 to end the innings and bring up the break.

Stuart Broad, welcomed to the crease by a chorus of boos, scored 30 not out in a late flourish but England needed him to shine with the ball if they had any hope of saving the test.

Anderson made the first breakthrough for the tourists, though, trapping Dave Warner lbw on his back foot for 16 and having Watson caught behind for nine.

Australia captain Clarke was Broad’s first victim, feathering an edge behind for six, before first-innings centurion Steve Smith (7) got a thicker edge on a Stokes delivery which Cook claimed in the slips.

Opener Rogers kept piling on the runs at the other end, though, and reached his sixth Test half-century in his 11th Test with a single before upping the run rate even further.

“I would say it is pretty disappointing today but 326 is way over par on this pitch in my opinion,” England batting coach Graham Gooch said.

“So once that score’s on the board it’s always going to be difficult and once we got the start we did and lost those early wickets ... it’s going to be tough from here on in from this position.”

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Hafeez, Shehzad score fifties as first Test ends in draw

(REUTERS) - Pakistan batsmen Mohammad Hafeez and Ahmed Shehzad scored fluent half-centuries as the first Test against Sri Lanka ended in a tame draw on the fifth day in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

Hafeez (80 not out) and debutant Shehzad (55) added 101 runs

SRI LANKA first innings 204 Pakistan first innings 383 SRI LANKA second innings (o/n 420-5) D. Karunaratne b Junaid 24 K. Silva c Akmal b Junaid

81 K. Sangakkara c Younus b Bhatti

55 M. Jayawardene c Shafiq b Bhatti

0 D. Chandimal c Rahat b Junaid

89 A. Mathews not out 157 P. Jayawardene not out 63 Extras: (b-4, lb-7) 11 Total: (five wickets decl; 168.3 overs) 480 Fall of wickets: 1-47, 2-146, 3-150,

4-186, 5-324.

Bowling: Junaid 36-3-93-3, Rahat 38.3-9-92-0, Bhatti 36-8-146-2, Ajmal 49-10-115-0, Hafeez 9-1-23-0.

PAKISTAN second innings K. Manzoor c P. Jayawardene b Lakmal 8 A. Shehzad lbw b Herath 55 M. Hafeez not out 80 Y. Khan not out 13 Extras: (lb-1, nb-1) 2 Total: (two wickets; 52 overs) 158 Fall of wickets: 1-24, 2-125.

Bowling: Lakmal 13-1-43-1, Eranga 11-0-38-0 (nb-1), Herath 21-8-371, Mathews 2-0-9-0, Senanayake 5-0-30-0.

for the second wicket to take their team to safety after Sri Lanka paceman Suranga Lakmal dismissed opener Khurram Manzoor (eight) early.

Pakistan reached 158 for two wickets when both teams agreed to a draw with first-innings centurion Younus Khan (13 not out) the other unbeaten batsman at the crease.

Lakmal troubled Manzoor on numerous occasions with his out-swingers before finding his edge for wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardene to complete the catch as Pakistan chased 302 for an improbable victory in just over two sessions.

Shehzad was out leg-before to Rangana Herath at the start of the final session and his attempt to overturn the umpire’s decision through a review also proved unsuccessful.

But the dismissal came a bit too late for Sri Lanka as both their spinners and fast bowlers failed to make any significant impact on a docile pitch.

Earlier, Sri Lanka declared their second innings on 480 for five wickets after batting for 90 minutes in the morning session to add 60 runs to their overnight score.

Captain Angelo Mathews remained unbeaten on 157, his highest Test score, while Jayawardene was not out on 63. The duo added 156 runs for the unbroken sixth wicket.

The second of the three-Test series will be played in Dubai from Wednesday.

Mohammad Hafeez celebrates his half-century on the final day of the first Test.

Afghanistan included, Asia Cup stays in Bangladesh

COLOMBO, (Reuters) - Afghanistan will be the fifth team in this year’s Asia Cup and Bangladesh will remain the host of the tournament despite political turmoil in the country, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) said yesterday.

A total of 11 games will be played in the February 25 - March 8 tournament also featuring Sri Lanka, India, defending champions Pakistan, and hosts Bangladesh.

“It will be held in Bangladesh as scheduled and Afghanistan have been added as the fifth team,” ACC chief executive Syed Ashraful Huq told Reuters.

“They (Afghanistan) have got the ODI (One Day International) status. They are playing in 2015 World Cup and they are playing the Twenty20 World Cup this year. This is to give them encouragement, experience, and exposure.”

Afghanistan will play their first 50-over World Cup in 2015 in New Zealand and Australia after they beat Kenya to finish second in the World Cricket League championship in October last year.

Violence continues in Bangladesh and nearly 60 polling stations were set on fire and three people were killed on the eve of Sunday’s election.

Pakistan are still to commit to the Twenty20 World Cup in Bangladesh in March and will consult their government about sending a team.

KMTC race meet now Ireland to face Sri Lanka set for January 26

in ODIs at Clontarf

IRELAND have announced that they will play two one-day internationals against Sri Lanka at Clontarf in May. “It’s a fantastic opportunity for our squad to face top players such as Kumar Sangakkara and Lasith Malinga,” said Ireland coach Phil Simmons.

“They’re going to be tough opposition but Irish conditions in May will be to our advantage.”

Ivan Anderson’s century helped Ireland to a draw in Sri Lanka’s only visit to the island in 1979.

The one-day encounters will take place at the Dublin venue on May 6 and 8.

“Ireland need as many matches as possible against full member sides,” added Simmons, who by coincidence flew out to Sri Lanka on Wednesday with the Ireland A squad on a two-week tour.

“It’s how we measure ourselves now in terms of our cricketing progress.

“We’ll be gearing our preparation towards the 2015 World Cup, and this series is ideal.

“Last year couldn’t have gone much better in terms of the fact that we won three trophies and continued our domination against our fellow Associates.”

In more recent times Ireland lost their only ODI with Sri Lanka by eight wickets in the 2007 World Cup. The teams met again in a thrilling game at Lord’s during the 2009 World Twenty20, when Ireland lost by just nine runs to the eventual finalists.

Ireland are in action later this month when they tour the West Indies before competing in the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh in March. (BBC Sport)

PERSISTENT showers on December 26, left the Bush Lot, Corentyne-based Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) race track soggy and under water in some areas, forcing the organisers of the club’s annual Boxing Day meeting, to postpone the event.

That meet has now been set for Sunday January 26 at the same venue, where all races will be run under the auspices of the Guyana Horse Racing Authority and entries will be closed on January 19, with no late entries being accepted.

Events set for the day are: F1 and Lower W/A, J3 and Lower W/A, 3-year-old Guyana-bred, G3 and Lower W\A, J1 and Lower W/A, H and Lower W/A and A and Lower allotted WTS. The H and Lower race will go for 7 furlongs, while the A and Lower WTS is the main event on the cards.

The feature A and Lower event for the Deo Kharag Memorial Stakes and trophy will be sponsored by the Kharag family for the hefty pole position takings of S1.5M and trophy, covering a distance of one mile, with the co-feature event being for 3-year-old West Indian maidens and Guyana-bred horses also over one mile.

Several sponsors have lined up to be a part of the day’s proceeding, led by beverage distribution giants Ansa McAl Guyana Limited and Demerara Distillers Limited respectively, along with the Kharag Family of USA, owners of Metro Computer and Office Supplies in Guyana.

Among the others on board are: Republic Bank, Neal and Massy (Guyana) Limited, Mohamed’s Enterprise, Digicel, Pomeroon Oil Mill, Nand Persaud and Company, Berbice Bridge Company Inc, Goodwood and Horse Shoe Racing Services, P&P Insurance Brokers, Giftland OfficeMax, Ramesh Sunich of the Trophy Stall Bourda Market, City Mall and GUYOIL. The outstanding jockeys, trainer and stable will all receive trophies and other accolades, compliments of Trophy Stall.

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Gooch accepts England’s Ashes flops may have cost him his job GRAHAM Gooch wants to carry on as England batting coach, but after another abject display accepts that his hapless batsmen may cost him his job.

The former England skipper has spent a lifetime in the game and has seen it all before – and, as unthinkable as it is, he has seen worse than this current Ashes thrashing.

But the scale and nature of this series defeat, with a fifth and final loss just around the corner, Gooch accepts the brutal truth that heads may roll.

He said: “Everyone on this tour would not like to leave under the circumstances and the debris of this tour.

“Personally, I have total belief in the messages I give to the players, but we’ll have to look at it and see whether there’s a better way.

“The powers that be will definitely be reviewing everyone after this series and we’ll all be under scrutiny. That goes for coaches and the players. I’ve not had the effect that I would have liked in this series.

“If you don’t perform, ultimately you get left out. Our players have not met the challenge with the bat, obviously.

“We’ve not competed as we would have liked to and not shown the skills necessary. We’ve gifted too many wickets.

“Everyone has to look at themselves and we all have to take the criticism on the chin.”

Just two days into the Fifth Test England were already staring at a 311-run deficit thanks to being bowled out for 155 by tea and watching Chris Rogers guide Australia to the close.

Once again England’s first innings batting performance let them down and it was the senior men Alastair Cook, Kevin Pietersen and Ian Bell who were most culpable.

They should be showing the youngsters how it is done, but instead Gary Ballance showed skill and courage after being hit in the helmet by Mitchell Johnson on debut to reach 18.

Ben Stokes continued the fine start to his Test career with 47, before leaving a straight one.

Stuart Broad and Boyd Rankin avoided the follow-on, but that was hardly something to cheer when still behind by 171 runs.

Australia’s bowlers kept the upper hand they’ve had all tour and Ryan Harris, 34, who took 3-36, said: “I’d love one more trip to England to try and defend The Ashes. That would be amazing. (Daily Mirror)

Windies women to hold training camp in New Zealand ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – The West Indies women’s team will have a full camp in New Zealand ahead of their eight-match series next month The World Cup runners-up will arrive in New Zealand on Monday, February 10 for a one-week camp as they prepare to face the White Ferns in three One-Day Internationals and five T20 Internationals.

The series will form part of the preparations for the ICC Women’s World T20 in Bangladesh in March and April.

“It is great for us that we will have this camp in New Zealand before we play the matches there,” said long-standing captain and wicketkeeper Merissa Aguilleira.

“This will be the first time for most of the players playing in New Zealand and we don’t know a lot about the foreign conditions, so it will be very useful to get there early and get acclimatised”.

This is the second time the West Indies Women will face New Zealand Women in a short period.

Last October, the Windies came from behind to win the ODI series 2-1 at Sabina Park in Jamaica.

“We played well in both ODIs and T20s last year and we want to take that good work into 2014,”said Aguilleira.

“This will be the start of a really big year for us and this will be a major tour. We have the ICC World T20 in Bangladesh and we want to win that, so the time in New Zealand will be a crucial step towards that goal.”

TOUR SCHEDULE February, 2014 Tuesday 11th to Tuesday 18th: Training camp at Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln Saturday 22nd: 1st ODI at Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln Monday 24th: 2nd ODI at Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln Wednesday 26th: 3rd ODI at Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln March, 2014 Saturday 1st: 1st Twenty20 at Queens Park, Invercargill Sunday 2nd: 2nd Twenty20 at Queens Park, Invercargill Wednesday 5th: 3rd Twenty20 at Queens Park, Invercargill Saturday 8th: 4th Twenty20 at Bay Oval, Mt Maunganui Sunday 9th: 5th Twenty20 at Bay Oval, Mt Maunganui.

Brains trust: Graham Gooch with England head coach Andy Flower.

Lehmann gets backing from Simpson … Hall of Fame inductee says Boof has talent to make long-term impact

COACHING doyen Bob Simpson says Darren Lehmann has the talent at his disposal to make a long-

the most encouraging sign is the young players with ability coming through the ranks.

Lehmann has been the

tional side in the mid-1980s.

Test teams are currently struggling to win big overseas tours and Simpson says

ICC Hall of Fame inductees Debbie Hockley and Bobb Simpson with ICC president Alan Isaac at centre. . term mark in charge of the Australian Test side.

Simpson warns Lehmann’s challenge is still to come – winning away from home against stronger opposition than a dispirited England team in disarray – but says

driving force behind Australia’s revival this Commonwealth Bank Ashes series, praised for tapping into some of the old school methods implemented by the influential Simpson, who took charge of a floundering na-

it is Lehmann’s job to instil a culture of not being satisfied with home success alone.

One of Australia’s finest ever players before he transitioned into coaching, Simpson was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame on Thursday,

along with New Zealand’s Debbie Hockley.

He would like to see the motivation of players improve, but overall Simpson believes Australia’s future is bright under Lehmann.

“The reality is if you haven’t got the goods there’s not much you can do,” Simpson said.

“The lucky ones are those of us who have a very good group of youngsters whom you can work with and bring them on. If you didn’t have that talent you couldn’t make anything.

“He’s fortunate he has a really talented group and that’s half the battle ... but the challenge will come of course.

“Maybe (players) are content with the level a little below what they should be doing. “ T h a t ’s w h e r e a g o o d coach can really come through.”

Simpson, who came out of retirement to play international cricket at age 41, says age should be no barrier for veteran players Chris Rogers and Brad Haddin.

The 77-year-old former batsman was joined by former teammates Neil Harvey and Alan Davidson at his induction at the SCG on Thursday night alongside New Zealand Women’s great Hockley.

Simpson says he’d like to see his former opening partner Bill Lawry join him in the Hall of Fame. (CA)

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Sir Wes - Think like a champion

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - This article was written by Sir Wes Hall, former West Indies and Barbados cricketer, on Dr Rudi Webster’s book, Think Like A Champion.

It is with ebullient ecstasy that I share a few thoughts on the magnificent work done by my life-long friend, Dr Rudi Webster, in his book “Think Like A Champion”.

The book is required reading for millions of sportspersons worldwide.

It should adorn the shelves of boardrooms, schools, clubs, and sports associations, and would definitely quicken the minds of coaches, selectors and board members in the areas so crucial to the growth and development of their young players.

Dr Webster’s career as a sportsman, medical practitioner, West Indies cricket team manager, director of the Shell West Indies Cricket Academy and a mental skills coach easily qualified him to write his excellent first book ‘Winning Ways’, which I thought could only be equalled, but not surpassed.

I was wrong, for his second book “Think Like A Champion” is a masterpiece.

He has illuminated the dark corners of a sportsperson’s mind; even those who have great talents are well coached and strive to excel at the highest level.

Simply put, Dr Webster posits the view that to play like a champion, you must think like a champion. I concur; for I have never seen or indeed heard of a great sportsperson who was not a great thinker.

It is easy to train the body but harder to train the mind. This book places emphasis on mental skills, and rightly so, for whatever the body produces, the mind has already rehearsed.

This is the age of globalisation where competitiveness and adaptation to world-changing conditions are key elements of our survival and performance.

In cricket, adapting to the pace and bounce of the Australian and South African pitches; the prodigious spin of the Subcontinent pitches; the swing and swerve of those in England and New Zealand; they are all part of the steep learning curve for the players.

Dr Webster postulates that you must think like a champion to occupy the crease for hours and build partnerships. You must think like a champion and be disciplined enough to bowl a good line and length in order to put pressure on the batsmen to get them out.

This is also an age where players are paid commensurate with their ability; but there are now many more distractions - verbal harassment called sledging; ambiguous tweeting that gets them in trouble, and match-fixing.

This book equips all sportspersons with the mental skills to avoid such pitfalls. Furthermore, Dr Webster has provided us with the thoughts of some of the world’s greatest sportsmen, who have eloquently articulated their views on various aspects of their successful careers.

Among those interviewed are the greatest two all-round cricketers Sir Garfield Sobers and Jacques Kallis, Clive Lloyd captain of the world champion West Indies team, MS Dhoni, the successful captain of Team India, Dennis Lillee and Wasim Akram, two of the world’s greatest fast bowlers, Rahul Dravid and Greg Chappell, two of the world’s best batsmen, and world champion Australian golfers Greg Norman and Peter Thomson.

As a member of the Worrell/Sobers West Indies cricket team I delighted in the exploits of that world champion team from 1962 to 1968, and I was thrilled to be a selector and a manager during the reign of the Clive Lloyd/Viv Richards World champion West Indies team from 1980 to 1995.

The latter team is widely regarded as one of the best in the

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When and where did Brian Lara make his ODI debut?

Answers in tomorrow’s issue

Dr Rudi Webster Sir Wes Hall history of sport. In those days we had a support staff of manager, assistant manager and physical trainer/therapist.

Players of my generation played at the highest level without a coach and made it through by relying on instinct, a good work ethic, self-motivation, self-reliance, strong self-discipline, commonsense, clear thinking, mental alertness, and help from other players.

Currently the West Indies team can boast of a support staff of nine in their dressing rooms; however, no one who is an expert in matters of the mind is included.

With the advent of three formats of international cricket, which necessitates a large support staff, it is pellucid that the team should have an expert to help players with their mental preparation, mental conditioning and mental control.

It is an absolute requirement that players be trained to be mentally tough to deal with the many pressure situations they will face on and off the field.

Sporting life at the highest level is not a playground; it is a battleground. Sport tests how the player’s mind and body will react to pressure.

As Dr Webster states, “Pressure can be a friend or foe and can bring the best or the worst out of the player.”

Tiger Woods, probably the best ever golfer, won many championships with an injured (broken) body, but when his mind was injured (broken) by the pressure of off-field indiscretions, his game fell apart.

Tiger has since calmed and strengthened his mind and is playing like a champion again.

Recently, two England cricketers who were overwhelmed by the pressure of Ashes cricket in Australia withdrew from the team while the series was still in progress.

And to a lesser extent, some of the other players have also fallen victim to this pressure and have played below their normal standards.

Coping effectively with pressure is vital for success at the highest level. Rahul Dravid was well aware of this when he stated in the book: “When you understand that pressure is part and parcel of your life (and game) and that there are things you can do to control it, you will face up to it in a positive way and use it to your advantage.”

The problem in the West Indies is that emphasis is mostly on the physical, and the parts that really matter, the mind, the heart and the soul are regrettably ignored.

The importance of intelligent planning and high-quality preparation are also not fully appreciated. As the book says, “Preparation and desire can at times make up for a lack of skill, but skill alone cannot compensate for a lack of willpower, preparation or mental control.”

I agree with Dr Webster that cricket is a mind game and a game for thinkers for as I stated before, I have never seen or heard about a great player who was not a great thinker.

The mind is one of man’s greatest resources. “It is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.” This is precisely why we must constantly stimulate it and manage it sensibly and carefully.

Most of what I have learnt about performance in sport as a cricketer, coach, selector, board member, president of the West Indies Cricket Board and a minister of sport in the past 50 years have been so succinctly enshrined in the 363 pages of this book.

But the principles expressed in the book apply as much to other professions and other forms of life’s endeavours as they do to sport.

What a golden opportunity for the regional and West Indies cricket boards to embrace and employ the contents of this book to improve their own performance and to strengthen their support team by employing a permanent mental skills coach.

I congratulate Rudi on his signal contribution to the pursuit of sporting excellence.

(First Published in The Trinidad Express)

SUNDAY CHRONICLE January 5, 2014

Kiwis go 2-1 up with 58-run D/L win NELSON, New Zealand – New Zealand beat West Indies by 58 runs under the Duckworth/Lewis method to win the fourth One Day International (ODI) here at Saxton Oval and take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series.

Rain shortened play during the West Indies reply to New Zealand’s 285 for six off their 50 overs. West Indies were 134 for five in the 34th over when play was officially called off.

West Indies struggled from the start, losing both openers Chadwick Walton (0) and Johnson Charles (0).

Kirk Edwards and Lendl Simmons stabilised the innings before Edwards was run-out by Brendon McCullum for 24 and Simmons was caught on the boundary for 43 off 48 balls.

When the rain came, Dwayne Bravo (43) and Denesh Ramdin (17) were at the wickets but still short of the run equation.

Earlier, opener Martin Guptill set the stage for New Zealand with a knock of 81. Ross Taylor (49) and 47 each from Jesse Ryder and Kane Williamson ensured a challenging target for the West Indies.

Bravo finished with two for 35 and a wicket each for Sunil Narine, Jason Holder and Tino Best.

Best was the most expensive of the bowlers, conceding 22 runs off his final over to end with one for 70 off nine overs.

West Indies were down to 12 fit players after pacer Ravi Rampaul suffered an injured finger while batting the nets on Friday. This followed injuries to Marlon Samuels and Darren Sammy and the withdrawal of Darren Bravo due to personal reasons.

The fifth and final ODI will be played in Hamilton on Wednesday (Tuesday afternoon Caribbean time). The two teams will also contest two Twenty20 matches.

SRI LANKA first innings 204 Pakistan first innings 383 SRI LANKA second innings (o/n 420-5) D. Karunaratne b Junaid 24 K. Silva c Akmal b Junaid

81 K. Sangakkara c Younus b Bhatti

55 M. Jayawardene c Shafiq b Bhatti

0 D. Chandimal c Rahat b Junaid

89 A. Mathews not out 157 P. Jayawardene not out 63 Extras: (b-4, lb-7) 11 Total: (five wickets decl; 168.3 overs) 480 Fall of wickets: 1-47, 2-146, 3-150,

Dwayne Bravo hooks during his unbeaten 43.

4-186, 5-324.

Bowling: Junaid 36-3-93-3, Rahat 38.3-9-92-0, Bhatti 36-8-146-2, Ajmal 49-10-115-0, Hafeez 9-1-23-0.

PAKISTAN second innings K. Manzoor c P. Jayawardene b Lakmal 8 A. Shehzad lbw b Herath 55 M. Hafeez not out 80 Y. Khan not out 13 Extras: (lb-1, nb-1) 2 Total: (two wickets; 52 overs) 158 Fall of wickets: 1-24, 2-125.

Bowling: Lakmal 13-1-43-1, Eranga 11-0-38-0 (nb-1), Herath 21-8-371, Mathews 2-0-9-0, Senanayake 5-0-30-0.

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‘I thought long and hard before making decision to lead CCC’ - Jacobs

By Calvin Roberts “OBVIOUSLY, playing for your home team would be a player’s first preference, as home is the place you grew and know to love and it is always a pleasure representing Guyana and also the people of Guyana, but it was something I had to think about, talked over with my family and persons who have an influence in my career, so in short I thought long and hard before arriving at my decision.”

Those were the words of Guyana’s off-spinning all-rounder Steven Jacobs, who was recently released by the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), following a request from the Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) for the 25-year-old Jacobs to lead the side in the upcoming West Indies Cricket Board NAGICO Super50 tournament.

“Playing for CCC would not be any different for me, as I still plan to go out there and put in 100%, doing what I have to do to ensure my team win.

“Added to that, it can be seen as an improvement for my own cricket, as I really wanted to take it to the next level and I see this as an opportunity for me which I plan to grasp with both hands, so it will not be any different for me,” said Jacobs.

He added, “As captain of the team also, you have to lead from the front and by example, doing the necessaries required

Newly appointed captain of the Combined Campuses and Colleges, Steven Jacobs, celebrates a wicket during last year’s inaugural Limacol Caribbean Premier League, in which he represented the Ramnaresh Sarwan-led Guyana Amazon Warriors. of a captain and this is not something that I am now doing, since I captained Guyana’s Under-19 team to back-to-back titles and also the West Indies Under-19 as well.

“Added to that, I have led Malteenoes Sports Club at the Under-19 and first division level in Guyana so the

captaincy role is nothing new to me, for I know what to expect and it will not be difficult leading CCC, since I played with the players in the Barbados Cricket Association tournaments for University of the West Indies, so it will be a comfortable task for me.”

Jacobs played 14 first class

matches for Guyana, scoring 420 runs at an average of 18.26 with a topscore of 75 and he has taken 28 wickets at an average of 33.46, with his best returns being 4 for 61 against Jamaica last April, when Guyana faced that team in the WICB Regional four-day tournament at the Guyana National Stadium.

Sammy’s Six cart off Trophy Stall-sponsored dominoes SAMMY’S Six registered a runaway victory in the specially arranged dominoes competition, sponsored by Trophy Stall in honour of former Guyana Chronicle Senior Reporter and now Toronto correspondent Frederick Halley who ended a hectic two-week visit to his homeland over the weekend.

In a lopsided game, played at the Everest Cricket Club pavilion on Friday night, Sammy’s Six tallied 91 games to emerge winners over Colin Hicken’s Six with 75 games and Halley’s Six in the cellar with 64.

Kedar ‘The Swinger’ Seapaul led the way for the winners with 34 games out of a possible 36, playing through in the five-man team while Marlon ‘Shady’ Rodrigues and skipper Edmund ‘Mosca’ Sammy supported with 15 and 14 respectively.

The top players for Hicken’s Six were captain Colin Hicken with 16 games, Manniram ‘Packer’ Shew 14 and Hilbert ‘Bumpy’ Ali 13.

He is of the view that his absence from the Guyana team would make the way for another all-rounder like himself to come forward and hog the spotlight, but when quizzed on whether he felt hard-pressed to make his national side, hence his decision to take up the CCC offer, Jacobs replied in the negative without hesitation.

“Nope, I know I would have played for Guyana ... get it straight that I am not running ... I would have made the team ... so erase that talk that I know would surface that I am running because of the number of players who are pressing for a claim, since anyone who knows Steven Jacobs knows fully well that Steven Jacobs is a fighter,” said Jacobs.

He added, “This is for my leadership development. As I said before, I thought about it long and hard and sat down and spoke with certain individuals, even within the GCB and as everyone knows that I had captained my country at Under-15 and Under-19 and was very successful and also WI Under-19 and I know I would have made the Guyana team.

Playing for CCC does not mean I am shelving my plans to lead Guyana at the senior level, for having led my country at both the Under-15 and U-19 levels with success and later the West Indies, my next goal was to lead Guyana, so I say again, I am not running, I am a fighter.”

Earlier, Chronicle Sport learnt while speaking with Hon. Secretary of the GCB Anand Sanasie, the final decision was left to Jacobs to make, after consul-

tation between the player, who played for the Amazon Warriors in the inaugural Limacol Caribbean Premier League, and GCB’s Chairman of Selectors Rayon Griffith.

“A request was made from CCC to the GCB, for Jacobs to be released to lead that side in the NAGICO Super50 and same was granted, only after our Chairman of Selectors sat down and held a discussion with Jacobs, who had the final decision to make.

“Out of that discussion, it was noted that should Jacobs, who is currently undergoing studies at the Cave Hill, St Michael Barbados-based University of the West Indies, decide to take up the offer from the CCC, he will have the full backing of the GCB,” said Sanasie.

He added, “In that discussion, it was highlighted to Jacobs the positives (deriving out of) his leading the CCC can have on his cricketing profile as well as his leadership skills and we at the GCB do not have any intentions of denying any player under our jurisdiction, the right to have upward mobility in the sport, hence we consented to the request from the CCC, while giving Jacobs our full backing.”

Jacobs leaves for Barbados tomorrow, where he will be commencing preparations for this month-end’s WICB NAGICO Super50 tournament in Trinidad and Tobago.

CCC is grouped Barbados, Leeward Islands and host nation Trinidad and Tobago in Group B, with Group A consisting of defending champions Windward Islands, Jamaica, Ireland and Guyana.

LABA to look at GABF elections and Sunburst U-17 final tomorrow

Frederick Halley hands over the winning trophy to Sammy’s Six captain Edmund Sammy in the presence of other members of the winning team.

Navin ‘Sixes’ Samaroo and Jimmy ‘AC’ Shew were the top markers for Halley’s Six with 14 games each.

The lone lovebird was Ramroop ‘Spoon’ Sukhai of Hicken’s Six. The winning and sec-

ond-placed teams as well as the top players of each team were recipients of trophies.

The tournament was also a gesture for Halley’s upcoming birth anniversary to be celebrated on February 6 next.

Halley, who was also the

captain if the Guyana National Newspapers Limited (GNNL) team and a member of International Six handed over the trophies on behalf of the sponsor Trophy Stall of Bourda Market, City Mall and South Road, Bourda.

WITH the impending Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) Annual General Meeting and Elections set for this Saturday in Georgetown, the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) will be meeting tomorrow at 18:00hrs at the Mackenzie Sports Club pavilion, where this matter will be the main focus, along with setting a date for the completion of the Sunburst Under-17 Secondary Schools basketball championship which has reached the final stage.

Secretary of the LABA Joseph Chapman said at least one of the two presidential hopefuls has indicated a willingness to vie for the position of president of the GABF, while indications are that another is reportedly looking to make a shot at the top position in the GABF. However, Chapman said while this will be discussed, it is unlikely that a decision will be made at this meeting, while a definite date is to be taken as to when the Sunburst Under-17 Secondary Schools basketball final between Christianburg/Wismar Secondary and Mackenzie High School will take place.

He said, however, that the GABF elections will take centre stage and hopefully they will be looking at how to approach the elections, come Saturday.

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Coach Crandon says players in high spirits … Permaul, Chanderpaul join camp

By Calvin Roberts HEAD coach of the Guyana national cricket team Esaun Crandon last Friday afternoon told Chronicle Sport, the mood in the preparatory camp for the team ahead of the West Indies Cricket Board’s NAGICO Super50 tournament is warm and friendly.

Crandon was taking a drinks break during the t e a m ’s c o n c r e t e n e t s e s sions at the Woolford Avenue-based Gandhi Youth Organisation (GYO) ground, where players Christopher Barnwell, Leon Johnson, Rajiv Ivan, Anthony Bramble, Vishal Singh, Royston CranNational opener Trevon ‘Bugsy’ Griffith leaves don and Trevon Griffith, just alone a delivery during his session in the nets to name a few, were having a at the Everest Cricket Club ground yesterday go with the bat. afternoon. (Photo by Cullen Bess-Nelson) “In the mornings,

we conduct more core and strength work at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, once the weather is not kind to us, while in the afternoons we have some of the players here and another group at the Chetram Singh Centre of Excellence’s indoor facility undergoing batting sessions,” said Crandon.

The former national all-rounder said he was pleased with the cohesiveness being shown by players including Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Veer asamm y Per m aul, who recently returned from the West Indies present tour of New Zealand.

“It is always a good thing to have somebody like Shiv in your setup. He brings so much experience and deSee page 25

Three to join Windies squad for T20 series against Kiwis

NELSON, New Zealand (CMC) – West Indies selectors have called up three players to join the team in New Zealand for the two-match Twenty20 series.

Coach Ottis Gibson said that leg-spinner Samuel Badree, all-rounder Andre Russell and wicketkeeper-batsman Andre Fletcher are on their way from the Caribbean to join their team mates for the T20 matches.

Gibson confirmed the addition of the players during a post-match interview following the fourth One Day International (ODI) here Andre Russell yesterday.

“There are some guys coming in for the Twenty20s. There are three guys coming. Samuel Badree is on his way; Andre Russell is on his way and Andre Fletcher,” he said.

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“They are coming in for the T20s. We are down to the barebones and we’ll have to look at integrating them into this mixup and see how we go forward from there. They should be here Samuel in two days’ time.”

Badree West Indies lost the fourth ODI by 58 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis method to give New Zealand a 2-1 lead in the five-match series.

West Indies were 134 for five in the 34th over in reply to the hosts’ 285 for six off their 50 overs.

West Indies are down to 12 fit players after seamer Ravi Rampaul suffered an injured finger while batting in the nets on Friday. This followed injuries to Marlon Samuels and Darren Sammy and the withdrawal of Darren Bravo due to personal See page 25

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