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GUYANA No. 104103 TUESDAY FEBRUARY 17, 2015

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‘I will never vote for the APNU/AFC coalition’, Assakata resident tells PPP/C meeting Page

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MMU draft media Code of Conduct circulated -working session to review document set for today

A DRAFT Code of Conduct for media practitioners has been circulated by the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) Media Monitoring Unit (MMU) with the intent of inviting suggestions that would inform an improved final document.

Measurable qualitative improvement in media reporting of social, political, electoral and governance issues during the 2015 election period topped the list of the six primary expected outcomes of the Unit’s operations.

GECOM will, today and tomorrow, host sessions to address the finalisation of the Code of Conduct, after which media houses would be invited to ratify and sign the document.

The draft code addresses stability in society during the election season; journalistic integrity and professionalism; fairness and balance; accuracy; full information and sins of omission; equitable coverage; the handling of opinion polls; and coverage on polling day.

Initially established in 2001, the MMU’s operations are expected to span a five-month period, and its activities,

according to the project proposal seen exclusively by the Guyana Chronicle, would include the following: Daily monitoring of Guyana’s mainstream print and broadcast media for conformity to best practices associated with professional journalism; informing media practitioners in a timely manner of instances of breaches; the production of periodic reports on the Unit’s findings on media practitioners’ compliance; compiling archival information on local media performance for referencing purposes; and providing informational and other support to GECOM’s Public Relations Department.

These are in addition to other undertakings which are outlined in a work plan for the Unit.

“The MMU intends to serve as a bulwark against the purveying of any form of extremism in the media that threatens to derail the electoral processes,” the project proposal said.

The document underscored the objectives of the abovestated activities of the Unit, once it has again become fully operational; those objectives include: promoting maintenance

of the highest professional standards in the media during the upcoming general and regional elections; nurturing a responsible media environment that is supportive to the country’s democratic processes; facilitating the building of harmonious relationships between and among GECOM, the media, the Government, political parties, and civil society – a relationship that results in peaceful elections; and positively influencing the process of self-regulation by local media practitioners. “(The goal of the MMU) is to contribute to the creation and maintenance of a media environment that is conducive to, and supportive of, the democratic processes in Guyana,” the project proposal said.

The Media Monitoring Unit was revitalised in 2006, and has since come to be “accepted as an objective and credible arbiter of media practices”, as the document highlighted.

At the last elections, more than two dozen stakeholders in the media corps had signed on to the MMU’s media Code of Conduct. (Vanessa Narine)

UGSS Special Committee urges students to ‘pressure’ Admin, staff to resume classes A RECENTLY formed University of Guyana Students’ Society (UGSS) Special Committee has called on students of the institution to “apply pressure” to both the University’s administration and the staff, in an

attempt to force a resumption of classes.

This call comes at a time when the two bodies are deadlocked following a series of collapsed negotiations.

The UG Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) and the

UG Workers Union (UGWU) embarked on an industrial action on January 26, the day the university was scheduled to reopen. According to the combined unions, the industrial action came as a response by the staff to the imposition of a workload policy by the administration, a refusal to increase salaries by 60 per cent, and the administration’s refusal to recognise the UGSSA as an official body.

However, despite a few attempts to recommence a negotiation process, the efforts proved futile as the two bodies could not come to a compromise, leaving the resumption of classes in limbo.

Against this backdrop, the Students Society has made several calls -- which have all fallen on deaf ears -for the immediate resumption of classes.

As a result, the UGSS Executive sought to establish a Special Committee with the

mandate to achieve 100 per cent class resumption as soon as possible.

The 10-member committee met last week, and two proposals of the same nature were presented to both the administration and staff members. The first proposal was detailed, “The return to normalcy for a week of negotiations from Monday to Friday. If by Friday there is no agreement, the parties to the labour dispute should expect the intervention of the Ministry of Labour through the mechanism of conciliation, pursuant to the statement of the Minister of Labour.”

The combined unions responded by noting that if an interim offer is made by the Administration, which the Unions are willing to “entertain”, they would agree to return to the student proposal.

The administration also responded by saying that, due to its not reviewing the agenda, it was unable to discuss

the proposal made. However, it is aware of the Union’s position, and openly recognises the common ground between both parties to be resumption of classes, as there is a burden being placed on students.

The second proposal entailed: “Close the University for one week in order to facilitate negotiations between unions and the administration for the primary reason of facilitating negotiations between unions and administration, as well as to reduce the level of student disenfranchisement and inconvenience.”

The administration responded this time by saying it believes that both proposals “have merit”, but no single party in the dispute has full control over all the factors in order to produce a “coherent package”, and thereby a solution to the problem at hand.

The administration then stated that, once the agenda has been perused, a response would be made.

The Unions, then represented by Dr. Thomas Singh, Head of the Economics Department, recognized the maturity shown by the student body, and expressed astonishment at the VC’s absence.

Dr Singh said he believes that the proceeding of “courses in a disjoint fashion” not only hinders learning, but also has implications on current efficiency and future finance.

He favoured the second proposal.

As such, the Special Committee, driven by the UGSS vehicle, made its call for the student population to “apply pressure” to both parties in order to achieve a return to the negotiating table and class normalcy.

“This will be done by pleading the case for the students in the media. Further, the students will plead their case to international organisations for intervention”, the committee informed students.

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Guyana’s successes reflected on ‘reputable’ global freedom indices - Teixeira says reports reflective of consistent upward trends

By Vanessa Narine GUYANA moved up five points on the 2015 World Press Freedom Index and currently ranks 62 out of 180 countries, with a rating of 27.21 – an important accomplishment, according to Presidential Advisor on Governance, Gail Teixeira.

“I think Guyana has done well, considering all that has been happening, a five-point increase is important for us and we urge media to ensure they uphold the tenets of a professional media corps,” she said in a recent interview.

Teixeira underscored that press freedom is an important indicator of freedom of expression and freedom of information.

“We have shown improvements,” she said, adding that there are a total of 20 television stations, 13 radio stations and four daily newspapers, which placed control of the mass media in the private sector.

The Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to a range of criteria that include media pluralism and independence, respect for the safety and freedom of journalists, and the legislative, institutional and infrastructural environment in which the media operate.

The 2015 World Press Freedom Index highlights the worldwide deterioration in freedom of information in 2014.

Beset by wars, the growing threat from non-state operatives, violence during demonstrations and the economic crisis, media freedom is in retreat on all five continents.

Topping the World Press Freedom Index list are three Scandinavian countries: Finland, which has been in first place for five years in succession, followed by Norway and Denmark. At the other end of the scale, Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea, in last place, were the worst performers. France is ranked 38th (up one place), the United States 49th (down three places), Japan 61st (down

two places), Brazil 99 (up 12 places), Russia 152 (down four places), Iran 173rd (unchanged) and China 176th (down one place).

The Presidential Advisor on Governance noted that the global decrease in press freedom standards is disconcerting.

According to the report, there was a drastic decline in freedom of information in 2014. Two-thirds of the 180 countries surveyed for the 2015 World Press Freedom Index performed less well than in the previous year.

She acknowledged too that a factor considered by the Reporters Without Borders report is the kind of reporting emanating from the countries under review. “The media itself is an important indicator,” Teixeira said.

Guyana was first included in the Reporters ‘Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Gail Teixeira Index in 2008, at which point it ranked 88 out of 188 countries.

DEEMED FREE Since the launch of the Press Freedom Index report, another body, Freedom House, also made public its report, ‘Discarding Democracy: Return to the Iron Fist’, which assesses the level of freedom globally.

Guyana was deemed free by Freedom House with an overall rank of 2.5 out of 10, with 10 being the worst.

Freedom in the World 2015 evaluates the state of freedom

in 195 countries and 15 territories during 2014. Each country and territory is assigned two numerical ratings - from 1 to 7 for political rights and civil liberties, with 1 representing the most free and 7 the least free. The two ratings are based on scores assigned to 25 more detailed indicators.

Guyana secured a score of 2 for political rights and three for civil liberties. “In the scores in terms of freedom we are considered high,” Teixeira said.

The average of a country or territory’s political rights and civil liberties ratings determines whether it is Free, Partly Free, or Not Free. The methodology, which is derived from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is applied to all countries and territories, irrespective of geographic location, ethnic or religious composition, or level of economic development.

The Presidential Advisor said, “The report is an indicator of whether countries are called free, in terms of press, partly free or not free. Guyana from 1973 to 1993 was viewed not free and we all know why. One has to take in context that from 1993 onwards to now, 21 years later, Guyana is called partly free and it has been constantly increasing its move upwards and improving its freedom.

“While a number of countries have gone down…many others have gone up. What is also interesting is that Guyana in the Americas is listed as 17 out of 35 countries…we came out sort of middle.”

Freedom in the World assesses the real-world rights and freedoms enjoyed by individuals, rather than governments or government performance per se. Political rights and civil liberties can be affected by both state and non-state actors, including insurgents and other armed groups.

Teixeira added that Guyana’s progressive advances are reflected on two reputable international reports and are reflective of consistent trends.

“It is important for Guyanese to note that Guyana is considered a free country,” she concluded.

Maha Shivratri is being observed today

- probably the deepest spiritual occasion on the Hindu calendar, says Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha HINDUS around the world will observe Maha Shivratri today. Maha Shivratri is observed every year on Chaturdasi in the dark half of the Hindu month of Phalgun.

Shivratri is not Shiva’s birthday as some may believe, it is the night specially consecrated for his worship.

The important features of this religious function are rigid fasting for 24 hours and vigil during the night, the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha stated in a special message.

The worship of Lord Shiva consists of flowers, bael leave and other offerings on the Shiva Lingam. Ling in Sanskrit means mark. It is the symbol which points to an inference. When you see smoke you infer there is fire.

When you look at the Ling your mind is at once elevated and you begin to think of the Lord.

Shiva is both Sagun and Nirgun. Those two words mean form and formless. In simple, he can be meditated upon as the all-pervasive

force, God Almighty, without knowledge of any image of him or an image itself.

This perception gives a wide scope for worshipping Shiva and provides innumerable modes through which he can be reached.

C o n s e q u e n t l y, t h e evolved yogi will retreat in deep contemplation from the early hour of Shivratri and remain in incessant dhyaan on both Triodasi and Chaturdasi. Other devotees will take part in akhand – unbroken recital of Om NamahShivaya, while a high percentage will invoke His Sagunroop and do puja before Shiva’s murti and yet an equally large number will offer arghya or dhaar to the Shiva Lingam. All these formulae done with deep affection and sincerity will yield equal results.

The Puranas proclaim Shiva as Mahadev or the Great God. In the Hindu Trimurti, he is described as Mahesha – the destructive power. The concept of the Trimurti point to the inte-

grated entity of creation, preservation and destruction.

Though identified by the names of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh, the absolute is really one in three. That Shiva is the destructive aspect of Trimurti should incur no fear or make you dread Shiva since he destroys evil, vices and what may be considered obsolete.

In Hinduism, it must be remembered that destruction implies reproduction. Shiva is the reproductive power which has been rapidly restoring that which has been destroyed. Shiva literally means auspicious. Shiva exists in us all but so many are unaware of it because of the predominance of negative tendencies.

Hinduism says that which is negative must first crumble before the positive, in which there is the full opportunity of human expression and satisfaction, can be established.

Maha Shivratri is probably the deepest spiritual occasion on the Hindu calendar.

Maha Shivratri, according to

the Maha Shiv Puran, was decreed by Lord Shiva himself.

It is seen as a day for divesting oneself of all negative tendencies and worshipping Shiva for the removal of impediments to a blissful life.

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha hopes that Hindus throughout the country will be given time from work and studies to attend their mandirs on this very auspicious and sacred day to engage in moments of devotion and prayer.

Meanwhile, the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha is inviting persons today to join Pandit Jagmohan Persaud for special Maha Shivratri Satsangh at the Dharmic Rama Krishna Mandir, Barr St. Kitty at 5:30pm and Shri Krishna Mandir, Campbellville at 7:00pm.

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha encourages all Hindus to observe this day with faith and devotion and to attend their mandirs and pray that Bhagawan Shiva will shower his blessings on all.

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Egypt bombs Islamic State targets in Libya after 21 Egyptians beheaded (Reuters) - EGYPTIAN jets bombed Islamic State targets in Libya on Monday, a day after the group there released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians, drawing Cairo directly into the conflict across its border.

Egypt said the pre-dawn strike hit militant camps, training sites and weapons storage areas in the neigh-

bouring oil-producing country, where factional fighting has unleashed virtual anarchy and created havens for jihadi Islamists.

While Cairo is believed to have provided clandestine support to a Libyan general fighting a rogue government in Tripoli, the 21 decapitations pushed President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi into open action, expanding his battle against Islamist militancy.

“And let those near and far know that the Egyptians have a shield that protects and preserves the security of the country, and a sword that eradicates terrorism,” the Egyptian military said in a statement.

Egyptian state television aired footage of fighter planes leaving a hangar with “Long live Egypt” emblazoned on their tails, followed by night-vision ae-

rial footage showing bomb explosions and the aircraft returning in early daylight.

Libya’s air force also participated in Monday’s attack, which targeted Derna, an eastern coastal city regarded as a base for fighters of the ultra-radical Islamic State.

“There are losses among individuals, ammunition and the (Islamic State) communication centres,” Libyan

air force commander Saqer al-Joroushi told Egyptian state television, adding that dozens had been killed.

Joroushi, who is loyal to Libya’s internationally recognised government, which set up camp in the city of Tobruk after losing control of the capital Tripoli, said there would be more strikes on Tuesday.

The rival Tripoli-based parliament, which is sup-

ported by some Islamist groups, said the air raids were an assault on Libya’s sovereignty. Omar al-Hassi, premier of the self-appointed Tripoli government, said three children, two elderly men and a 21-year-old woman were killed in the attack.

It was not possible to confirm either faction’s accounts of the number or nature of the casualties.

Icy storm encases central U.S., heads for nation’s capital (Reuters) – RECORD-BREAKING cold gripped the Eastern United States on Monday as an icy winter storm crippled the nation’s central states before it was expected to barrel toward the mid-Atlantic in time to snarl Tuesday morning’s commute.

Heavy snowfall and ice moving from the Southern Plains eastward pounded Missouri, Arkansas, southern Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, the National Weather Service said.

Freezing rain encased Nashville in ice, cancelling flights and closing Interstate 24, according to the Tennessee Department of Transpor-

tation.

Even the home of the king of rock ‘n’ roll - Elvis Presley’s Graceland mansion in Memphis - declared a snow day.

Sleet in Arkansas shut schools and Governor Asa Hutchinson told nearly all government workers to stay home.

Cars skidded off roads near Louisville, Kentucky, where there were six times the usual number of accidents and a fleet of more than 1,000 snow plows tried to clear slick roads, officials said.

“It’s been all hands on deck,” said Chuck Wolfe, spokesman for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.

Citing nasty weather, Kentucky’s state legislature said it would not reconvene until Wednesday at the earliest.

The storm, which dumped 10 inches (25 cm) of snow on Cincinnati, causing roadway accidents and closing universities, was headed for the nation’s capital later on Monday, with up to 12 inches of snow expected, said NWS meteorologist Brian Hurley.

“Washington and Baltimore - that’s where the bulls eye’s going to be,” Hurley said.

About 50 million Americans were under wind chill advisories as the mercury plunged to new depths, breaking records in New York, where it was 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15 Celsius) compared with the previous record for Feb. 16 of 9 F in 2003, and Washington, D.C., where it was 6 F compared with 11 F recorded in 1987,

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where it was minus 35 F but the winds made it feel chillier, Hurley said.

“We figure it’s probably 85 below with the wind chill - and that’s being conservative,” Hurley said.

Boston scrambled on Monday to clear more than a foot (30 cm) of snow that fell over the weekend, making February the city’s snowiest month ever, before the approaching storm comes its way. By Thursday morning, the Boston area could see another 8 inches of snow, Hurley said.

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Northern Argentina floods kill at least six in Cordoba

Colombian soldiers killed by roadside ‘rebel’ bomb

The ELN is estimated to have some 1,500 active fighters

Streets were turned into raging torrents after a particularly severe rainstorm

AT least six people have been killed in deadly flooding in Cordoba province in northern Argentina.

Three of them were swept away by strong currents in the town of Rio Ceballos when the local river burst its banks.

The river overflowed after 32cm (12.6in) fell in the space of 12 hours, trapping people in their cars.

Cordoba Governor Jose Manuel de la Sota said 1,000 people had to be evacuated from Cordoba city and the surrounding Sierras Chicas

area.

The governor tried to reassure residents saying that “as soon as the rain stops the water levels will drop rapidly”.

Soldiers have been sent to the area to help with the evacuation.

(Trinidad Express) NOW is not the time for the Ministry of Health to let its guard down.

This was the message sent by Public Services Association (PSA) president Watson Duke in a press briefing yesterday morning.

Duke noted that despite

the apparent diminished fear of Ebola, it was still a real and prevalent threat to this country and he slammed Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan for leaving the jurisdiction during this Carnival period.

“It’s still a clear and possible threat to Trinidad and

Tobago, simply because the Minister of Health is still taking Ebola as a laughing matter, a ‘gib gib’ matter.

Where is he for Carnival?

He’s not around. Hence we have someone acting. He’s out of here,” said Duke.

“It sends a strong signal that we have all these at-

(BBC News) THREE Colombian soldiers were killed on Sunday when an explosive device blew up the armoured vehicle they were in.

The army said the device was planted by Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN).

The attack happened in Norte de Santander province, near the border with Venezuela, where the ELN has its

stronghold.

The ELN announced last year that it was willing to enter into peace talks with the Colombian government.

However, formal talks between the two sides have not yet begun.

The ELN, a Marxist rebel group founded in 1964 to fight Colombia’s unequal distribution of land and riches, is estimated to have some 1,500 active fighters.

It is smaller and com-

mands less territory than Colombia’s other Marxist rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).

Peace talks between the government and Farc have been going on for more than two years, with the latest round ending last Thursday.

The two sides have reached partial deals on several issues but have not yet reached a definitive peace accord.

tacks against the Ministry of Health taking place, citizens complaining, we have the threat of Ebola and he is off.

Once we hear (cough gesture) and someone goes to Caura, then we will take our

necessary action as the case might be. That’s all it takes,” he added.

Late last year, the prevalence of the Ebola virus threatened to put a damper on Carnival and even caused

the authorities to go as far as placing a travel ban on five countries in west Africa, where the disease was concentrated.

Since then the ban has been partially removed.

Duke: Ebola still a real threat

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EDITORIAL

GUYANA

A union of convenience DR. WALTER Rodney, brilliant and charismatic leader of the Working People’s Alliance, had become a thorn in the side of Forbes Burnham and a threat to the PNC dictatorship, so he was eliminated out of the equation.

Dr. Rupert Roopnarine joined with the alleged (openly charged by many at the Rodney Commission of Inquiry) murderers of his former colleague, and has paid a price; a heavy price indeed. It is a price, in one form or another, that those pledging loyalty to the PNC has paid. Here, one needs to take cognizance of the fate of Vincent Teekah, Peter D’Aguiar, and even stalwarts who joined the PNC ranks, such as Vanessa Kissoon, the late Winston Murray, the Lindeners, Vincent Alexander, Faith Harding, Aubrey Norton, Sharma Solomon, et al;

even Raphael Trotman, all of whom were treated as “collateral damage” by the PNC leadership.

Rupert Roopnarine has become the latest statistic in a long line of persons discarded for political expediency by the PNC. Some are saying that it serves him right for putting his hand in the jaws of the tiger that ate Rodney’s aspirations for a better, united and progressive Guyana, because history does not lie; and Roopnarine has lived that history, and experienced the sharp sword of the PNC, thus his being discarded for someone who is expected to ‘bring more Indian votes’ to the PNC should have been expected.

Wolves can camouflage their reality with name changes, but they cannot change their nature of the ferocious, feral predisposition of a carnivorous creature; so Roopnarine’s

Prime Ministerial position (sic!) has been devoured by a union of convenience, formulated to fool the voting public into thinking that the PNC’s new combo has reconstituted and reinvented its dark and destructive reality through this infusion of Nagamootoo and company into its ranks.

However, the PPP/C needs to be on guard against the PNC’s propensity for rigging elections, given the fact that the PPP/C did not in actuality lose its majority at the last elections, but was robbed of it because votes from 19 polling stations in a PPP/C stronghold had been withheld from being counted by a PNC polling agent.

And what is more, this was known to GECOM. Even their own Party members have consistently accused the PNC of rigging internal elections at

their successive congresses, as is attested to in a subsequent media report, where Sharma Solomon complained bitterly about the lack of democratic processes in choosing Party leaders.

According to the report, “Region 10 Member of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNC/R), Sharma Solomon, a week after the conclusion of the Party’s 18th Biennial Congress, has stated that there was nothing democratic about the electoral process.

“Solomon released a statement to this effect (yesterday), and while he did not state definitively the lack of democracy in the election process, the series of events outlined by the politician pointed to that…. Solomon opined that with the PNC/R being a Party vying for the seat of government, it should stick to the philosophy of

its Founder Leader Forbes Burnham, which is that ‘there is no better way of leading than by example.’”

The Report continued, “According to Solomon, the Secretariat’s decision to approve the use of national identification card or passport as a means of identification opened the electoral process for manipulation, because these documents do not have the needed information to prove membership and eligibility as delegates.

“He said that the non-issuance of cards affected a significant portion of Linden’s members and delegates.

“Also, Solomon highlighted that he was nom-

inated for the positions o f L e a d e r, C h a i r m a n , Vice-Chairman (VC) and Committee Member. But the letter sent to him excluded the nomination for VC. “He claimed that the secretariat was advised of the oversight, with the accompanied evidence attached but this was never corrected as the nomination was not reflected on the ballot.”

It is rightly said that politics makes for strange bedfellows. This marriage of political convenience between PNC/APNU and the AFC has created one of the strangest concubinage ever in the history of this country.

Stabroek News’ skewed reportage I WAS taken aback by the headline: ‘PPP considered taking up arms against gov’t after Walter Rodney’s death – Rohee’.

This can be revisited in the Feb. 10, 2015 edition of the Stabroek News, which gave coverage of the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry, dealing with the assassination of Dr. Walter Rodney.

I boldly declare that Stabroek News, with the use of this caption, is guilty of that which is not merely misleading, but also quite evil. As soon as that title is met with the eye, the impression one is likely to get is that the People’s Progressive Party was at one time an aggressive and even violent Party.

As a matter of fact, I was riled on reading it in

the Stabroek News, and was moved to examine its content. However, the title was most misleading, as the actual content of the article did not lend support to what the title promised. This classic case of sensationalising is typical of so many media houses; it is suggestive of inherent mischief by those who subscribe to this kind of reportage.

Reading the entire lengthy presentation, it can be noted that the theme of it was really about the nature and intent of the then ruling People’s National Congress, under Forbes Burnham, and certainly not about any kind of hostile attitude of the PPP. As a matter of fact, during the hearing (at the CoI), the major thrust was about a murderous regime, which

reigned terror on the nation, during the late 70s.

Mr. Editor of Stabroek News, I am horrified by your brand of journalism.

The desire to besmirch the good name of the PPP overwhelmed you to the point that you dispensed with a very basic tenet of good writing. I presume you know that the title is a story’s first impression and dominant motif. The article in question is over 1,600 words, and just a sixth of it deals with your headline. Evil or dumb? I can posit both.

I am cognisant, too, that you self-debunked, even in that small portion that you tried to naughtily and puerilely use. You ended up acknowledging that the late Dr. Cheddie Jagan, Founder (and Leader at the time) of

the PPP, was a man of exceptional quality. You admitted that he never tolerated hostile measures; not even against tyrants, and that he was most peaceful during the height of physical violence thrown at those who were opposing the PNC at the time.

I inform you that stories make first impression with their titles. So I think titles are extremely important, and should be carefully used. Titles also build anticipation and expectation, and should live up to their intimations. It is so patent to spot your nefarious purpose. You don’t have a hidden agenda; your intentions are crystal clear, but don’t achieve much.

RAGHUNANDAN SINGH

Consensus politics can be practised BEFORE we all get too carried away by the upcoming elections of May 11, 2015, may I take this opportunity to inform Guyanese that whoever wins the next General Election and forms the Government will still need to work with the Political Opposition, unless an outright majority is won.

So, if the PPP/C wins the next General Election, they will still need to work with the Opposition APNU/AFC coalition. Similarly, if the APNU/AFC coalition wins the next General Election, they will still need to work with the PPP/C in Opposition.

As a supporter of the PPP/C, I say CONSENSUS POLITICS can be practised; CONSENSUS POLITICS is looking at where we can work together, promoting TRUST, MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING and RESPECT. SEAN McLEAN

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GUYANA CHRONICLE Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Gov’t acted in compliance with constitutional provisions and CJ ruling AT ALL TIMES...

ON THE 11th day of December, 2014, Mr. David Granger filed a general indorsed writ against Dr. Ashni Singh in his capacity as Minister of Finance, the Attorney General of Guyana and Mr. Raphael Trotman in his capacity as Speaker of the National Assembly. A number of reliefs were prayed for in the Indorsement of Claim.

An ex-parte application by way of affidavit was filed simultaneous with the said Writ of Summons in which the Applicant, Granger, prayed for a Conservatory Order “to stay all spending and/or any further spending by the first-named Defendant or other Ministers on programs disapproved or not authorised by the National Assembly until the hearing of the substantive action herein”. In the Court it was agreed by the parties that this application will not be heard ex-parte and it was thereof by consent converted into an inter-partes application.

In the result, the Respondents were granted leave to file an Affidavit in Answer to the application and the Applicant was granted leave to file an Affidavit in Reply thereto. The next procedural step which was taken in the matter was that submissions were made by all sides.

I must emphasise, therefore, that the only matter which was before the court was the application for a Conservatory Order. Nothing else. All the legal arguments presented by the Attorney General in person and by Mr. Ashton Chase, S.C for the Minister of Finance related and were confined to the only issue which was before the court and that was, whether or not the Conservatory Order should be granted.

THE CONSERVATORY ORDER WAS REFUSED The Chief Justice (Ag) refused the application for the Conservatory Order. In so doing, he upheld the submissions of the Attorney General that the application for the Conservatory Order, because of the time that it was made, can only relate to spending for the year 2015 and therefore, the application for the Conservatory Order did not relate to spending for 2014. That in relation to spending for 2015, a finan-

cial year for which there has been no Appropriation Act, a combination of Article 219 of the Constitution and the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act 2003 expressly provide how moneys are to be spent for this period, for what purpose those moneys can be spent, and in what proportion, and the Court cannot interfere with the Government’s Constitutional authority to spend in accordance with this formula. The gravamen of the Chief Justice’s ruling is captured in the following seminal passage which appears at page 32 of his written ruling: “As the learned Attorney-General correctly submitted, the court has no jurisdiction to prohibit or restrict the exercise of any authority conferred by the Constitution or an Act of Parliament since so to do would be to violate the doctrine of separation of power which indubitably inheres in the Constitution of

“That ought to have brought an end to the matter since that application was all that was before the Court.

Unfortunately, the Chief Justice chose to express his views on a number of other matters.”

– Anil Nandlall Guyana. Only if the Respondents are acting or are likely to act ultra vires the power or authority conferred by or under the Constitution or by or under an Act of Parliament that a prohibitory order in the nature of a Conservatory Order can be issued against the Respondents…The Court cannot nullify or limit in any way, whether directly or indirectly, the effect of the application of the Constitution which it has sworn to uphold.

It is absolute that there can be no judicial subversion of the Constitution directly, indirectly or consequentially.”

Another significant ground upon which the Conservatory Order was refused was, “If granted in the form as prayed for, it would be in effect an injunction against Government spending permitted by the Constitution and the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act…”

Anil Nandlall

(p34) The final and decisive words of the Chief Justice in his ruling at page 36 read thus: “For the above reasons, the application for an interlocutory Conservatory Order cannot be granted in the circumstances of this case and accordingly refused.”

OBITER DICTA PRONOUNCEMENTS That ought to have brought an end to the matter since that application was all that was before the Court.

Unfortunately, the Chief Justice chose to express his views on a number of other matters which were not issues that were before him for determination. They are issues that will have to be determined at the hearing of the substantive action and only after pleadings have been filed and evidence led.

These fundamental and mandatory procedural requirements did not take place. Indeed, no legal submissions were made either by the Attorney General or Mr. Ashton Chase, S.C on these matters. The reason is simple. They were not live issues before the court since they did not relate and were not relevant to the application for the Conservatory Order, which was the only application that was before the court. The pronouncements of the Chief Justice on these matters are, therefore, obiter dicta and are not binding aspects of the ruling. In short, they do not constitute the ratio decidendi, or the reasons for the ruling.

The Chief Justice embarked upon an examination and interpretation of Articles

“The only matter which was before the court was the application for a Conservatory Order. Nothing else. All the legal arguments presented by the Attorney General in person and

by Mr. Ashton Chase, S.C for the Minister of Finance related and were confined to the only issue which was before the court and that was, whether or not the Conservatory Order should be granted.”

– Anil Nandlall 217 and 218 (3) of the Constitution. Again, I emphasise that the only matter with which the court was seised at this point and time was whether or not a Conservatory Order should be granted in relation to spending for the year 2015, only Article 219 of the Constitution and the relevant provisions of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act 2003 were relevant.

In this factual matrix, Articles 217 and 218 have no relevance. The Chief Justice nevertheless examined them.

Article 217 of the Constitution provides: “(1) No money shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund except(a) To meet the expenditure that is charged upon the Fund by this Constitution and by an Act of Parliament; or (b) Where the issue of those moneys has been authorized by an Appropriation Act; or (c) Where the issue of those moneys has been authorized under Article 219.”

Article 218 (3) of the Constitution provides: “If, in respect of any financial year, it is found(a) That the amount appropriated by the Appropriation Act for any purpose is insufficient or that a need has arisen for a purpose for which no amount has been appropriated by this Act; or (b) That any moneys have been expended for any purpose in excess of the amount appropriated for that purpose by the Appropriation Act or for which no money has been

appropriated by that Act,a Supplementary Estimate or, as the case may be, a Statement of Excess showing the sums required or spent shall be laid before the Assembly by the Minister responsible for finance or other Minister designated by the President.”

In interpreting Article 217 of the Constitution the Chief Justice noted that except where expenditures have been charged upon the Consolidated Fund by the Constitution or an Act of Parliament, moneys cannot be withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund without authorisation by an Appropriation Act (except under Article 219).

As regards Article 218 (3) the Chief Justice found that there can be an avoidance of a breach of Article 217 by the utilisation of a

“Between the time of the preliminary and final ruling the Minister of Finance, in almost identical circumstances, withdrew moneys not approved by the National Assembly and used the same and utilised Article 218 (3) to do so, laying Statements of Excess before the National Assembly in relation thereto in compliance with the said Article of the Constitution.”

– Anil Nandlall Supplementary Estimate.

Fundamentally, he also found that a breach of Article 217 can be cured or remedied by utilising a statement of excess as authorised by Article 218 (3). This mechanism he described as a “curative measure” to a violation of Article 217. Therefore, the Constitution itself provides a curative measure to remedy its violation.

However, and I dare say strangely, the Chief Justice then proceeds to draw a distinction between “advertent” and “inadvertent” expenditure for which Statements of Excess can be laid. He further pronounces that if the over expenditure or over withdrawal was “advertent” then it cannot be remedied

by the curative aspect of Article 218 (3).

I respectfully part company with the learned Chief Justice on this aspect of his interpretation. Article 218 (3) in its width, ambit, and latitude makes no distinction between “advertent” and “inadvertent” expenditure or over withdrawal. Indeed no

“Government awaits the hearing and determination of the substantive action where the opportunity will be provided for its legal advisers to present arguments on the issues which are the subject of the obiter dicta remarks of the Honorable Chief Justice.”

– Anil Nandlall such or similar words of limitation are either expressed or can be implied in the language of Article 218 (3).

Therefore, that restrictive interpretation runs afoul of the express language of Article 218 (3).

PREVIOUS RULINGS It is instructive to note that this was not the first time that the Chief Justice had cause to interpret Articles 217 and 218 (3) of the Constitution in this very context and for these very reasons.

He did so in a 34 page written ruling dated 18th July 2012, “preliminary ruling” in the “Budget Cut Case” filed by the Attorney General.

He did so again in his twenty-one pages final ruling in the very case on the 29th day January 2014.

Importantly, between the time of the preliminary and final ruling the Minister of Finance, in almost identical circumstances, withdrew moneys not approved by the National Assembly and used the same and utilised Article 218 (3) to do so, laying Statements of Excess before the National Assembly in relation thereto in compliance with the said Article of the Constitution.

ROLE OF THE MINISTER OF FINANCE Another important factor Turn to page 8 ►

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Mahaica residents welcome rehabilitation of landmark bridge

Students of the Bygeval Secondary School are using the temporary footpath of the bridge under construction even as workmen effect repairs to the structure

Some of the steel materials which are being used for the bridge’s foundation (Photos by Delano Williams)

Residents of Central Mahaica and frequent visitors thereto are expressing satisfaction at the decision to rehabilitate the old Mahaica Bridge, which has been in a deplorable state for several years following commissioning of the new structure several years ago.

During a visit to the community on Monday afternoon, persons told this publication that among the many benefits the project would entail are conservation of both time and fuel.

School children would also benefit from the completed structure, they opined.

Francis Barns who resides in the community said he has seen a lot of development in the area, and he hopes it would continue. he noted that he was especially pleased with the rehabilita-

that were on the bridge had been damaged, and said the work tem had been forced to replace almost all of the six-inch wooden beams from the bridge, since those had rotted.

He explained that replacing the beams had not been part of the original works in the contract, but after the work had been ongoing, they realized that the beams had to be changed.

“Our original scope of work was to take out wood and cap; and when we started doing that, we saw (that) the six-inch beams were extremely rotted, and that is now taking up most of our time, because we have to replace them. We use back some, and the (Works) Ministry provided the rest,” Persaud explained.

The foreman also told the Chronicle that the bridge

tion works being undertaken on the bridge, since children attending the Bygeval Secondary School, situated on the eastern side of the bridge, will no longer have to risk their lives and limbs crossing the new structure, which sometimes see them competing with vehicles.

He explained that, of recent, the buses which are not too keen on crossing the concrete structure which replaced the bridge that is now under rehabilitation would drop students off at the western side of the bridge, and this would usually see the students walking a very far distance to access their school.

Godfrey Rodrigues, another resident, said he does not envision many problems with the works being conducted on the bridge, although he raised concerns

regarding some of the old materials from the structure being mixed with new ones to effect the rehabilitation.

He also questioned the integrity of the bridge and its ability to facilitate heavy-duty vehicles which would be crossing from time to time. He nevertheless expressed satisfaction that the bridge would be able to serve the community, especially its pedestrians, and more particularly the school children.

Defending the integrity of the bridge, foreman of the works, Mr Jinarine Persaud, who was engaged in welding steel together when this publication visited the location, said the materials being reused from the existing structure to rehabilitate the bridge have been tested.

He explained that a very little amount of materials

has been lifted twenty inches, and that the work was going beyond the specified amount of casting for the structure -- from seven inches of concrete to nine inches of concrete.

Persaud explained that the reason the beams were rotted was because the bridge was originally made of steel and wood, and whenever it rained, the water would seep through the surface of the bridge and lodge on the beam, which absorbed it and became soft, hence the decision to make the surface of the bridge into concrete to protect the beams.

Persaud did point out that the bridge is not affected by water from the Mahaica River, since that water never found itself to the height of the belly of the bridge.

Gov’t acted in compliance with... which must be highlighted in this factual matrix is that the very lawyers who appeared in the instant case appeared in that case and advanced the identical, if not strikingly similar argumentations and objections. Indeed, in that case the Attorney General specifically prayed for an order that the Minister of Finance be at liberty to make the said withdrawals.

The Chief Justice declined to make that order. In so doing, he cites Article 217 and reminds of the prohibition which it contains against spending without Parliamentary approval. Immediately

following using the preposition “BUT”, he cites Article 218 (3) and sets out its provisions verbatim. Speaking of the role of the Minister in that provision he notes: “The application of Article 218 (3) is premised on a finding of insufficiency of an appropriated amount for a stated purpose or of no amount for a purpose for which a need has arisen and which has received no appropriation or a finding of an excess of spending for a stated purpose or for a purpose which has received no appropriation. Article 218 (3) enables the Minister

of Finance to lay before the Assembly a Supplementary Estimate of expenditure or statement of excess spending for its approval on the basis of a finding of insufficient funding, no funding, or overspending.” (page 29).

In conclusion, the learned Chief Justice then proceeded to make the following pivotal observations: “It is not for this Court to substitute itself for the Minister of Finance.

It is he who must make the pre-requisite “finding” under Article 218 (3) of the Constitution and it is he who must be “satisfied” under Article 220 (1) and section 41 (3) of

the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act 2003 and not the Court.

“Since the court cannot substitute itself for the Minister for the purposes of Article 218 (3) and Articles 220 (1) and section 41 (3) of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act 2003, the court must decline to order any interim relief in relation to reductions or cute to those line items to which the Appropriation Act applies.

“Even if those cuts and reductions were constitutional but have resulted in insufficiency, it is the Minister and not the Court in whose

Project Engineer Khiraj Bisesar, who also spoke with the Guyana Chronicle, said the bridge would have been completed earlier, had there not been a delay owing to the very works which were pointed out by the foreman.

He said completion date of the project may be extended, but, thus far, the Ministry of Public Works and the Works Services Group have not received any official request for an extension of the project by the contractor.

The Bridge will maintain its iconic colonial steel rails, some of the original steel work which the Mahaica Bridge was known to sport during its existence, and the servicing of the community of Mahaica; while bridging the communities to its east and west.

The Mahaica Bridge is being rehabilitated at a total cost of $39.9 M dollars.

From page 7

hands remedial action lies.

The court cannot usurp the constitutional functions of the executive Minister just as the National Assembly cannot usurp the constitutional function of the executive Minister.” (Page 32) It is these words of the very Chief Justice by which the Government guided itself in the manner in which it acted. In short, The Minister of Finance made “the finding of insufficiency” under Article 218 (3) and acted, as the Chief Justice opined.

As I stated above, all that has been determined in the case thus far, is the appli-

cation for the Conservatory Order. That application was rejected as misconceived and accordingly dismissed.

Government awaits the hearing and determination of the substantive action where the opportunity will be provided for its legal advisers to present arguments on the issues which are the subject of the obiter dicta remarks of the Honorable Chief Justice.

MOHABIR ANIL NANDLALL M.P, ATTORNEY GENERAL AND MINISTER OF LEGAL AFFAIRS

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‘I will never vote for the APNU/AFC coalition’, Assakata resident tells PPP/C meeting A S S A K ATA r e s i d e n t 77-year-old Ignatius Joseph has assured the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) that he would never vote for the APNU/AFC coalition.

He said, moreover, that he is confident his community, located some 25 miles 1, Barima/Waini, will vote solidly for the PPP/C on May 11 at the general and regional elections.

The pensioner, a former toshao and member of the United Force party in the sixties, said the PPP/C is a party that cares for the people.

He said Assakata has been transformed into a bright and thriving village under the PPP/C, and the Government has constructed a new primary school so students can pursue their education there.

He said the village has a health centre staffed with trained health workers from the village, and residents are getting excellent health care, which shows that the Government has its people at heart.

He said the community also has its own tractor and trailer, which were presented

by Government to help villagers in the development of their community.

The pensioner said the Government must be commended for all that it has done for the people, and he called on villagers to support the PPP/C at the upcoming elections, so development can continue.

Toshao Errol Charles said he is very thankful to the Government for the investments that were made in his community over the past 22 years.

Mr. Charles said development is evident in his community, and he assured that neither the APNU nor the AFC would be entertained in his community with their lies.

He said his community is fully backing the PPP/C, and would fully support the party on elections day because progress must continue.

Senior PPP party representative and Chairman of Region 2, Mr Parmanand Persaud, in an address to the community, said residents

now have access to clean, potable water through the solar-powered well that was set up by Government. Mr Persaud said that under the PNC’s 28-year dictatorship rule, the community suffered because residents had to drink water from the creek, because there was no well. Under the PPP/C Government, residents now have access to solar-powered electricity in their homes at Assakata, and there is no use for the famous PNC” jumbie” bottle lamps anymore.

Mr Persaud said the PNC,

Ignatius Joseph of Assakata, Moruca, Region 1

PPP representative Steve Stanley addressing a meeting at Assakata, Moruca

Senior PPP representative and Chairman of Region 2 Mr Parmanand Persaud addressing a public meeting at Moruca, Region 1

Region 2 Chairman Mr Parmanand Persaud and PPP representative Mr Steve Stanley on a newly built walkway to the stelling at Assakata, Moruca

now renamed APNU, has destroyed the country, and he called on residents to reject the APNU/AFC coalition. He said the AFC is looking for votes to give to the APNU to fight the PPP/C at the general

and regional elections on May 11.

PPP/C representative in the Moruca Sub District of Region 1, Mr Steve Stanley, told residents in a blistering attack against the PNC [APNU] and AFC that the

APNU is the same old PNC that destroyed the country in its 28 years of dictatorship rule.

Calling on residents to reject the APNU/AFC coalition, Stanley said the same PNC which had banned basic

Residents of Assakata community in Moruca, Region 1 at a PPP meeting

Water from a solar powered well at Assakata, Moruca, Region 1

food items, including wheat flour, sardines, potatoes, split peas and bread, causing great suffering to Guyanese, is looking for power to rule Guyana again.

He warned residents to beware of the Opposition, and vote solidly for the PPP/C on elections day, so progress can continue. (Rajendra Prabhulall)

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Sugar production reported -weather conditions helpful at 2,450 tonnes for rice crop

By Vanessa Narine FIVE of the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuCo) eight estates have commenced grinding and to date the corporation has reported a production of 2,450 tonnes of sugar.

“Uitvlugt, Wales, Blairmont, Rose Hall and Albion have started operations,” said GuySuCo’s Industrial Relations Head, Jairam Pitam.

GuySuCo operates eight estates, located at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara; Wales, West Bank Demerara; Enmore and La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara; Rose Hall, Albion and Skeldon on the Corentyne Coast in East Berbice; and Blairmont, West Bank Berbice.

Pitam indicated that Enmore and La Bonne Intention are expected to commence operations within the week.

“The Skeldon estate is expected to start operations in the first week in March,” he said.

The production being targeted by GuySuCo for 2015 is some 240,000 tonnes.

In 2014, GuySuCo recorded a production of 216,147 tonnes - the first crop having surpassed the 75,000-tonne target, bringing in about 80,000 tonnes.

DROP IN SUGAR PRICES The calamitous drop in sugar prices on the global and preferred market scene, which challenges all sugar industries,

coupled with the dramatic fall in earnings and, by extension, cash flow; and the prevailing weather conditions were among several of the difficulties that affected the local sugar industry during 2014. The industry saw a dismal sugar production level in the past years, but Guyana has since been taking steps to turn around its sugar industry, and hopes to soon meet a 300,000-tonne target. There is also a projection that the sector would reach a 400,000-tonne goal by 2020.

“We are optimistic that the target will be met…harvesting and grinding are progressing well,” Pitam stated confidently.

GOOD WEATHER Meanwhile, in the rice sector, the weather has been reported as helpful for the current rice crop.

Head of the Guyana Rice Producers’ Association (RPA), Dharamkumar Seeraj, said, “The crop looks good. It is going well. The weather is good.”

Of the rice producing regions, Seeraj noted that rice farmers in Region 6 (East Berbice/Corentyne) are having minor challenges with irrigation.

“While the weather overall is good, Region 6 needs some rain, because there are a few challenges with irrigation, but systems are in place to ensure that the crop is not affected,” he said.

Some 62,159 acres in Region 6 are under cultivation. Altogether, some 238,698 acres are currently under cultivation

RPA’s Seeraj says rice payment challenges being addressed - Region 6 farmers to be paid in full by Thursday; others before end of February

FOLLOWING meetings held with aggrieved rice farmers and other stakeholders, a number of initiatives have been taken to address the issue of late payments in Regions 2 (Pomeroon/Supenaam) and 6 (East Berbice/Corentyne).

Head of the Guyana Rice Producers Association (RPA), Mr Dharamkumar Seeraj, told the Guyana Chronicle yesterday in an interview that both the RPA and representatives of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) met with rice farmers in Black Bush Polder over the weekend to address their last week protest over late payments being made by the Mahaicony Rice Mill.

“We met with the farmers and the representatives of the Mahaicony Rice Mill. Farmers there will be fully paid by Thursday,” he said.

Seeraj explained that the miller has been experiencing difficulties with his banker, and if those challenges are not resolved, the monies would be passed through the GRBD, which would make the payments directly to the farmers.

“The Mahaicony Rice Mill is the only mill that owes farmers in Region 6. The total sales to that mill were $178M, of which $56M (are) left to be paid out,” the RPA Head said.

BY MONTH END Seeraj noted that almost all of the small scale rice farmers in Region 2 have been fully paid.

“The other farmers will be paid by the end of the month,” he said.

The RPA Head explained that three millers owe farmers in Region 2: Wasir Hoosein, the Golden Fleece Rice Mill, and the Ramlakhan Rice Mill.

“The millers still have stocks in hand, and once those are liquidated, payments will be completed,” he said.

Seeraj said paddy sales in Region 2 were valued at some

$3.8B, of which $3.4B were paid out. Until the remaining sums have been paid off, Seeraj noted, a number of initiatives would have to be taken, among which are making fertiliser and seed paddy available to rice farmers to ensure that their replanting of a new rice crop would not be affected.

“So far, we have had $300M in fertiliser provided by the GRDB and an additional $50M in seed paddy and fertiliser provided by the RPA, to help farmers. This is in addition to the interventions of the Government,” he said.

Seeraj noted that, as the rice industry advances, challenges will arise; but he expressed optimism that, in 2015, challenges with payments would be less of a problem.

Last year’s production was another record-breaker for the rice industry, with a production of 635,238 tonnes, 501,208 tonnes of which were exported.

Production in the final crop of last year surpassed that of the first crop, which recorded just over 300,000 tonnes. Production for 2013 was 535,212 tonnes, which was far above the original target of 413,000 tonnes, and reflected a 27 per cent increase over the production in 2012. The average Dharamkumar Seeraj production per hectare was some five tonnes.

The rice production target for 2015 is 618,000 tonnes.

(Vanessa Narine)

across Guyana: 37,710 in Region 2 (Pomeroon/Supenaam); 22,047 acres in Region 3 (Essequibo Islands/West Demerara); 8,757 in Region 4 (Demerara/ Mahaica); 107,224 acres in Region 5 (Mahaica/ Berbice); and 800 acres in Region 9 (Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo).

The target for rice production is 618,000 tonnes. Last year was another record-breaking year for the rice industry. Production was recorded at 635,238 tonnes, of which 501,208 tonnes were exported. Production in the final crop of 2014 surpassed that of the first crop, which recorded just over 300,000 tonnes.

EXPORT AGREEMENTS Additionally, the export target for 2015 has been set at 521,000 tonnes. Guyana currently has export agreements with several countries in the Caribbean as well as with Venezuela and Panama. He said arrangements to ship rice to countries in West Africa are still being finalised, but this was delayed by the Ebola epidemic. Also, given the continuous success of the rice industry, efforts are being made to secure a greater foothold in Nicaragua and other Central American countries, including Belize.

Together the rice and sugar sectors remain important to Guyana’s economy, considering their role in providing employment and contributing to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Extraditing Deokaran Sanasie has its challenges - police source A SENIOR police source yesterday indicated to this publication that so far there have been no steps to ensure Deokaran ‘Ram’ Sanasie’s presence here for questioning in relation to investigations into the execution style killing of his wife, Patricia Sanasie.

Patricia Sanasie was executed while attempting to enter her yard at Atlantic Gardens, while in the presence of one of her daughters.

According to the police source, the investigations are still ongoing and the recent recording which was handed over to the police by the brother of the dead woman, along with his statement, are being reviewed by the investigators.

It was pointed out that Guyana’s extradition treaty only covers extraditing persons from Commonwealth countries but Deokaran is in the United States.

Last week the brother of the dead woman held a press conference where he released a recording with the voices of four persons, allegedly the voices of his now dead sister and would be hitman, together with another recording with the woman’s husband and another man with whom a plan to kill the woman and her brother were insinuated.

The police up to yesterday were still reviewing the recording and this newspaper was told that investigators are looking to do a voice recognition analysis, which is very critical in the probe.

The Guyana Police Force had a challenge in the past when it tried to extradite alleged drug trafficker Bobby Dataram from the United States to answer drug trafficking charges. Back then, his lawyer, who is now deceased, argued that attempts by the police to extradite his client were only valid if the man was living in a Commonwealth country at the time.

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Minibus, taxi operators not sharing benefits of lower fuel costs with commuters

By Tajeram Mohabir

the situation with prices of fuel on the world market is volatile.

WHILE Government has lowered fuel prices in light of the drop in prices on the world market, President Donald Ramotar has reiterated his disappointment with many operators in the transportation sector who are not passing on the benefits to commuters.

The prices for oil have fallen drastically since June 2014, resulting in the Government dropping gasoline and diesel costs by 30 per cent respectively, and kerosene by 42 per cent.

With the reduction in fuel prices, it was expected that the fares charged by operators of public transportation would have been lowered, but this is yet to happen.

Minibuses fares for drops at different stages of a route remain at $80, $100 and $120 per person, while there have been no lowering of the various taxi fares, even though there have been calls from several quarters, including the private sector bodies, for the benefit to trickle down to the travelling public.

The United Guyana Minibus Union is contending that it is not practical to reduce the fares for public transportation, since

ONE-WAY ENGAGEMENT The fact that public transport operators justify an increase in fares when fuel prices go up was underscored by the Head of the Presidential Secretariat, and he noted that there seems to be a “one-way engagement” between fuel prices and fare structures.

“When fuel prices go up, there is a demand for increases in fare, but when fuel prices fall, it’s like pulling teeth to get fare increases to be rolled back,” he had said.

President Ramotar, speaking at the recent commissioning

“Unfortunately, many of those involved in the transportation sector have not passed on the benefit that they are getting at the pump to the consumer and I still urge them to do so, so that our people can benefit from this cheaper fuel price that we have” – President Ramotar

Despite the drop in prices for gasoline and diesel, minibus and taxi operators have refused to lower their fares. of the Vreed-en-Hoop power station, noted his displeasure about the situation.

“Unfortunately, many of those involved in the transportation sector have not passed on the benefit that they are getting at the pump to the consumer and I still urge them to do so, so that our people can benefit from this cheaper fuel price that we have.”

Ex-CANU Officer slapped with additional charge EX-CANU officer Kenroy Joseph, who allegedly assisted a couple in trafficking cocaine to Canada, had another charge read to him on Friday.

On his second appearance before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, he pleaded not guilty to the charge that said on January 20, at Charlotte Street and Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, Georgetown, he uttered a false document knowing it was forged, to defraud the public.

The letter, according to the prosecution, was to allow him access to the VIP lounge at the airport.

Bail was refused by the Mahendra Ramsuchit and chief magistrate and the Rohbina Basdeoram matters against him were transferred before Magistrate Judy Latchman for report and fixture and for trial.

He made his first appearance in court on February 6 last, to answer the charge which detailed that on Friday, Janu-

ary 30, at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, East Bank Demerara, he trafficked in narcotics; that is to say, he aided and abetted a couple to traffick 21.360 kilogrammes of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking in narcotics.

The prosecution’s facts against Joseph stated that he obtained a forged letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and presented same to the Fly Jamaica airline, intending to allow Mahendra Ramsuchit and Rohbina Basdeoram to enter the VIP lounge when they were not supposed to so do.

Also, the couple that he is alleged to have aided and Defendant abetted with trafficking coKenroy Joseph caine was also assigned before Magistrate Latchman for their trials.

It is reported that Joseph has secured $1M bail from the High Court for the aiding and abetting in trafficking narcotics

charge and also managed to secure $100,000 surety by Magistrate Latchman on the forgery charge.

Joseph is represented by attorney-at-law Mr. James Bond, and the couple by attorney-at-law, Mr. Lennox Hanoman.

The couple first appeared before the Chief Magistrate on February 2 and pleaded not guilty to separate offences, details of which alleged that on January 30 at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Ramsuchit had 10.392 kilogrammes of cocaine and Basdeoram had 10.969 kg.

On January 30 last, at CJIA, the couple was asked by an air hostess to re-board the plane and follow the customary procedures, after their names had not been found on the VIP list.

Ranks then saw them acting suspiciously and they apprehended them and carried out a search of their bags.

A white substance, suspected to be cocaine, was found concealed in each of their laptop bags and their suitcases.

The drug was tested and proved to be cocaine, and they were accordingly arrested and charged.

On Friday, the pregnant woman was also granted $400,000 bail by the High Court, while her husband was remanded to prison.

All three defendants will make their next court appearance on March 4 before Magistrate Latchman.

Trio remanded for unlawful possession of firearm, ammo

A TRIO slapped with unlawful possession of firearm and ammunition charges were on Friday refused bail by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Father of two, Ivan Johannis (no address given); father of three, Nirroin Bissoondayal, 44, of Lot 43 West Coast Berbice; and Arjune Niranjan, 52, ( no address given) all pleaded not guilty to the joint charge. It is alleged that on February 10 at Waraputu Backdam, they had in their possession one 12-gauge shotgun when none of them were licensed firearm holders.

Additionally, Johannis and Bissoondayal denied another joint charge that was read to them. Particulars of that charge said that on the same day, at Waraputu Backdam, both of them had in their possession four 12-gauge cartridges without being the holders of firearm licences.

It is also alleged that on the same day, at Waraputu Backdam, Bissoondayal was charged for having in his possession

four 12- gauge cartridges without being the holder of a firearm licence.

Representing the trio was attorney-at-law Mr. Jerome Khan,who requested reasonable bail after stating that his clients are workers of a logging camp, and have been there over three weeks.

Defence counsel told the court that Johannis is the captain and that the gun is used for protection, since the three men are exposed to the wild.

Police Inspector Michael Grant, prosecuting, said that on the day in question around 13:00hrs, the police were on patrol when they stopped and carried out a search on Bissoondayal. The court heard that at the time he was wearing a black coat which had four 12- gauge cartridges in the pocket. Subsequently, he was arrested and taken to the Mahdia Police Station.

Grant said later, around 14:00hrs,the police were still on

patrol when they saw Johannis coming out of a boat with a 12- gauge shotgun in hand. The police confronted him and enquired whether he was a licensed firearm holder and he responded in the negative. After questioning at the station, both of them were taken to the camp site and a further search revealed another four 12- gauge cartridges.

After Niranjan was made aware of what had transpired, he went to the Mahdia Police station and told the police he had bought the gun in Suriname.

The police prosecutor opposed bail on the grounds of the nature and gravity of the offence and the penalty attached.

He further objected to bail on the basis of the prevalence of the offence and fact that no special reasons were given by the defence.

The prosecution’s objection was upheld and the matter was transferred to the Mahdia Court for April 20.

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Police raid lands construction worker on cannabis trafficking charge A CONSTRUCTION worker who was reportedly found with 318 grams of cannabis during a police raid was refused bail last Friday by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Navendra Narine Persaud, 38, pleaded not guilty to the charge that alleged on February 11 at Canal Number 2 he had in his possession narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

Representing Persaud was Attorney-at-Law Peter Hugh who told the court that his client resides at Lot 22 North Section Canal No.2 with his sickly mother.

Police Prosecutor, Inspector Michael Grant told the court that on the day in question police acting on information went to defendant’s home around 16:00 hrs and requested to con-

duct a search on the premises for narcotics in his presence.

The court heard that ranks found the drugs concealed in plastic bags that were hidden in a fridge.

Grant noted that Persaud under caution from the police admitted ownership of the illicit drugs. He was then taken to Criminal Investigation Department Headquarters where the drugs were weighed in his presence and he was then arrested and charged for the offence.

The prosecutor objected to bail on the grounds of the nature, gravity and prevalence of the offence and also the fact that no special reason was raised by the defence counsel. Bail was refused and the matter was transferred to Wales Magistrate’s Court for February 20.

Berbician gets six months community service, $3,000 fine for cannabis possession A BERBICIAN was fined $3,000 by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry for the possession of five

grammes of marijuana and he was also ordered to do six months community service.

Kellon Williams, 20,

pleaded guilty to the charge during his appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court last Friday.

The court heard that at Lancaster, East Berbice, Corentyne, he had five grammes of marijuana in his possession Representing the d e f e n d a n t w a s A t t o rney-at-Law Jerome Khan who told the court that his client is a miner and works at a camp site.

Food vendor remanded over cocaine trafficking A CHARLESTOWN food vendor was last Friday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on a charge of possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

The allegation against Keith Messiah is that on February 12 at Georgetown, he had 10 grammes of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

Messiah denied the allegation and Attorney-at-Law Adrian Thompson who represented the vendor told the court that the defendant was riding a motorcycle and was stopped and searched by a police rank on the day in question.

According to Police Prosecutor Michael Grant, on the day in question at around 19:30 hrs, police acting on information received stopped the man and requested to conduct a search. The police reportedly found a plastic bag which contained the illicit substance. The defendant was told of the offence and was arrested and charged.

The prosecutor objected to bail being granted on the grounds of the nature, gravity and prevalence of the charge and the fact that no special reason was raised by the defence counsel.

Bail was refused and the matter was transferred to Magistrate Fabayo Azore’s court.

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Measures in place to ensure order and safety on Mash Day – Lennox Canterbury

By Navendra Seoraj APART from the usual measures that are normally in place during Mashramani celebrations, there have been a few enhancements and additions to ensure that there is order and safety for participants as well as spectators on Mash Day, a public holiday on Monday.

Head of the Mash Secretariat, Lennox Canterbury gave this assurance last Friday during a meeting in the boardroom of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport.

Canterbury said that every float, for every 10-15 persons, should have a properly identified marshal who is officially a part of that group, and charged with the responsibility of security for the revellers.

“Marshals ensure that good order prevails, by not encouraging outsiders to come in and disrupt the order of the float,” he said.

Moreover, he advised revellers to discourage their friends from coming into their float parade and they should also avoid exiting because it disrupts the order and takes away from the display.

The various marshals are also there to help if anything happens to anyone, and he noted that each organisation

is given two vehicle passes to have two extra vehicles in the parade to take around necessities such as water and so forth.

AVOID DEHYDRATION, SUN BURN The Head of the Mash Secretariat also advised that persons should have lots of liquid on that day to avoid dehydration and the necessary sun screens to avoid sun burns.

He emphasised that “organisations should make sure that the clothes that the revellers are wearing are comfortable, no matter what size the individual may be.”

Representatives from some of the participating organisations, who were present at the meeting last Friday, highlighted that there are usually persons sitting along the routes and so it was suggested that there should be more barriers along the parade route.

The individuals also emphasised that at the corners of Church and Irving Streets, because of the narrowness of the road there, persons should be prevented from standing there. Last year there was an incident when a person was hit down by one of the float parades.

A view of the Mashramani crowd one year ago

NO VENDING ON PARADE ROUTE Canterbury in reply to the statements by the individuals, disclosed that they have partnered with the Guyana Police Force to maintain order, especially ensuring that there will be no vending along the route (North Road-Church Street-Irving Street-Thomas Lands), so as to avoid the usual congestion and make more room for the parades.

Meanwhile, speaking at the meeting, a police rank

disclosed that they had a walk along the route which the parade follows and identified areas which will be barricaded to prevent persons from going into the path of the floats.

The rank disclosed that all of the intersecting roads along Irving and Church Streets will be blocked and supervised by police to ensure that vehicles cannot enter into the path of the parade.

“At the head of Lamaha

Street leading into the intersection of Irving Street there will be a double barrier and also at Sandy Babb Street into the turning point at Thomas Lands,” said the rank.

PERSONAL SAFETY He also advised persons not to sit on top of the music boxes, because a person can slip and fall, and one death is not good for the country.

Apart from that the

wheels of large vehicles involved in the parade should be covered, because the driver can’t see at the side.

Also persons involved in the float should pay attention and ensure that persons stay away from the vehicles.

In closing the rank emphasised that if persons follow the procedures and stick to all the arrangements there should be a smooth flow on Mash Day and a better Mashramani this year.

Girl, 14, contracts STI allegedly following rape by TSU rank A 14-year-old girl who resides on the West Bank of Demerara is reportedly being treated for a sexually transmitted disease (STI), allegedly contracted after she had been raped by an officer of the Guyana Police Force.

The Guyana Chronicle understands that the police constable, who operates under the Tactical Services Unit and was stationed in the Police D Division, was first placed under close arrest, and, following expiration of the 72-hour detention period, has since been placed on open arrest and is being held at the Police Headquarters at Eve Leary.

Sources close to the investigation said the police, who had genital warts at the time he committed the act on the child, may have transmitted those to her, since it is now being reported that the child also has

genital warts.

The Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) yesterday confirmed investigating a report of rape of a 14-year-old girl by a police officer. Child Care Director Ann Green said the department has not yet taken the

child into its care.

It was reported to this publication that the last sexual encounter between the policeman and the female adolescent occurred recently, while her mother was out of the country.

Other sources yesterday

confirmed that the child admitted to having an intimate and sexual relations with the police constable, saying they would usually have sex.

The source explained that the child has since been showing reluctance to offer

any evidence against the police constable, but the source explained that the police are still continuing their investigations into the matter, since the child is below the age of consent and the sexual acts between herself and the cop amount

to statutory rape as defined by the Sexual Offences Act of 2010.

Crime Chief Leslie James confirmed on Monday that the matter is engaging the attention of the Guyana Police Force.

(Leroy Smith)

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GUYANESE PEOPLE HAVE THEIR SAY…

Issues that should make the campaign trail

By Vanessa Narine POLITICAL campaigns are yet to be officially launched and manifestos – parties’ roadmaps outlining their vision for the country – are yet to be made public.

However, Guyanese people have expressed their views on what they consider as new and hot-button topics which should form part of the parties’ campaigns.

At the top of the list of issues outlined by several persons who spoke to the Guyana Chronicle yesterday is the legalisation of marijuana.

Debates of this moot were fuelled by a nod given by the Opposition – first A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), then the Alliance For Change (AFC). Both expressed an inclination to advance the legalisation of weed in Guyana.

Some politicos contend that this may be an attempt to sway the new generation of voters, as well as be part of the historic rethinking of the herb by national leaders – the latter having been evidenced most recently in Jamaica. Either way, there is support for this move.

MARIA BLACKMAN said: “The legalisation of weed has more good than bad. You

support for this move. She said: “Jamaica has done it. The U.S. has done it. We should do it too. It would not be a bad thing to consider.”

Another major social ‘swing issue’, in light of global trends, is that of securing rights for persons of different sexual persuasions.

SEAN RAMCHARRAN said: “Freedom and rights is something everyone should have.

Gay rights are a global issue and in other

Another significant grassroots issue raised was that of jobs. SHERON CARRYL said:

ALLAN RAMKISSOON said: “We need rapid development. The big projects, Amaila, the airport, the new specialty hospital and countries people’s rights are legal. It is not like this is something that is not happening in Guyana. It is. So why not make it legal.

Everyone has his life to live. It is an issue that is important just like the need to raise salaries and increase pensions.”

Another supporter of the move, MARLON DA SILVA said: “They (politicians) should consider legalising it. Gay rights are nothing new in bigger countries. Everyone

“We need more jobs. Good paying jobs, because some people have children, rent and other bills. They have to eat too.”

PATRICK BOURNE said: “Taxes should go down. VAT (Value Added Tax) should go down, or the PAYE (pay as you

should have the right to freedom of choice.

Everyone should be allowed to live free.”

A three-week-old remigrant to Guyana, BERESFORD TAYLOR, had his eyes on other, not exactly new issues, in particular the garbage situation in the capital city. He said: “The programme they have in place is not working properly. More has to be done.

Georgetown needs to be cleaned up. It is a mess. The Clean Up Guyana campaign needs to be strengthened.”

even the deep water harbour. This is what we need. More development means more benefit for the people. We keep the money here then life will get better.”

On another note, there was also a call for peace and an inclusionary approach to the progress of Guyana and the Guyanese people.

EUNA DANIELS said: “We have to have peace and unity. Development means that.

The focus has to be on the country. We have to work together if we are to make progress.”

The Guyanese people have made clear their demands from their political representatives and decisions on what issues will form part of political parties’ campaign platforms are left to be seen.

never heard someone dying from it. There are many medical benefits you get from weed.

There is more good than bad to it.”

BARBARA DE CRUIZE, also expressed

start back National Service to get them off the road and let them do something useful with their lives, rather than have them on the road and getting in trouble.”

Continued development was another point raised during this reporter’s interactions yesterday.

earn income tax) should go down. Either way it is too much tax. People should take home more money so they can do more things.”

Many other suggestions were offered by the Guyanese people. A particularly strong one was the suggestion to have the National Service corps reestablished.

COLLEEN JONES said: “They have too many young boys on the road. They should

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Rohee denies claim that PPP had any hand in Rodney assassination

…dismisses ‘special branch’ documents as trash

By Gary Eleazar Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, yesterday wrapped up his evidence to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the June 13, 1980, killing of Working Peoples Alliance (WPA) Leader, Dr Walter Rodney, and dismissed outright any claims that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) had any hand in the ‘assassination.’

Rohee returned to the witness stand yesterday following bouts of in-camera sessions by the Commissioners and was grilled by Attorney-at-Law Basil Williams, who is representing the interest of the Peoples National Congress (PNC) in the hearings.

POLICE TRASH Under cross examination by the PNC Attorney, Rohee dismissed the contents of a number of documents presented and referred to by Williams during his cross examination.

The documents were tendered by Crime Chief Leslie James, and were held out to be files from the Guyana Police Force’s Special Branch Unit from the period in time when Dr Rodney was killed some 34 years ago.

The Home Affairs Minister denied knowledge of any of the contents of the allegations contained in the documents referred to by Williams. The documents also accuse PPP leaders of warning its party supporters to be careful in its dealings with the WPA. Williams, who on numerous occasions had to be cautioned by COI Chairman, Sir Richard Cheltenham, over the relevancy of his line of questioning, re-introduced to the hearings an alternative theory to the death of Dr Rodney.

He suggested that the PPP also had motive for Dr Rodney’s demise.

Williams put the notion to Minister Rohee that the PPP had become worried that the WPA was eating away at its support base, a charge that Rohee, also General Secretary of the PPP, vehemently denied.

In fact, Rohee spoke of a cordial working relationship between the late Dr Cheddi

Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee in witness box as he is cross examined by PNC Lawyer, Basil Williams

From Left:- Commissioners Seenauth Jairam, Sir Richard Cheltenham and Jacqueline Samuels – Brown

Jagan, the party’s co-founder, and the slain WPA leader.

“You are dead wrong again,” were among the many responses provided by Rohee, as Williams continued to press his case that since the WPA had been eroding the support base of the PPP, then it would have had an interest in Rodney’s death.

Rohee questioned the source of the documents that Williams repeatedly referred to and when informed that it was the Police’s Special Branch’s, he dismissed it as ‘trash.’

“Special branch again, with the usual trash,” was one response proffered by Rohee, since according to him, none knew how the police unit operated or gathered intelligence.

Most of the Special Branch police notations at the time were based on hearsay and speculation.

CUBAN SPIES The Minister instead called for Williams to produce documents from the PPP which could substantiate his allegation that the party was mortally afraid of the WPA hijacking its support base, including those workers in the sugar belt.

Rohee said the documents referred to by Williams, purportedly to be from the Special Branch files, can suggest anything, but this does not mean it to be true.

Williams was at this time reminded by Commissioner Seenauth Jairam that James, the person who submitted the files to the hearing, did point out that the notations by ranks of the Special Branch surveillance operatives do contain certain levels of inaccuracy and as such, are usually analysed.

Rohee, under continued

cross examination, testified to being unaware of any directive by the PPP’s leadership to any of its membership in relation to being wary in its dealings with the WPA. Rohee repeatedly dismissed as total rubbish the allegation that the WPA was eating away at the support base of the PPP, to the point where it felt threatened by Dr Rodney, and as such would have had an interest in killing him.

Williams also alleged that the WPA and PPP, through Dr Rodney and Dr Jagan, with the help of Cuban spies, were working covertly in Guyana to overthrow the then PNC Government.

Rohee also canned this allegation and countered by saying the two parties were instead working together on a common struggle.

Williams based his allegations on the files ten-

dered by James, files rejected

by Rohee who claimed no knowledge of what was being suggested.

“Special Branch as usual, they could write anything,” was Rohee’s response when told of the source of the allegation.

Rohee refuted as nonsense a plot where Dr Jagan was supposed to ‘lay low,’ while Dr Rodney and the WPA were supposed to have overthrown the PNC Government.

The WPA was supposedly to have then turned over power to Dr Jagan and the PPP to which Rohee replied, “Nonsense, I don’t agree with nonsense.”

COMMON STRUGGLE The PPP General Secretary also dismissed claims put to him that the WPA was in fact the formidable opposition at the time, and not the

PPP, and added that the two parties were working together in a common struggle.

This common struggle, he said, was not to oust the then Forbes Burnham- led administration, but rather “to improve the life of the people.”

The PNC Government led by the then President, Forbes Burnham, has widely been accused of being behind the bomb explosion that killed the WPA Leader, but Williams, the current Chairman of the PNC, and appearing on its behalf, suggested too that the ‘imperialists’ may have had a hand in the 1980 assassination.

The affairs of the ‘imperialists (White Expatriates)’ were also another forte where the two senior functionaries of the PPP and the PNC differed on.

Williams suggested that the economic hardships that had been felt at the time came in part from the nationalisation process which then led to instances where foreign powers retaliated through acts, such as the blockade of the sale of flour to Guyana.

Rohee, under oath, dismissed this notion that the exogenous factors led to the decline of the economy at the time, but rather directly blamed those who inherited the nationalised industries.

He said items such as flour, which could not be had in the country, was not as a result of any decision by a foreign power to not sell to Guyana.

According to Rohee, it was simply a case of the country not having enough foreign currency to buy the flour for import.

CRITICAL SUPPORT This notion appeared to have found some credence with Commissioner Jairam, who pointed out that even if Guyana were to have problems with one or two countries over its nationalisation policy, then it could have surely been able to purchase the staple from some other market.

Addressing those gathered at the High Court Building for the hearings officiated by Sir Richard, Queen’s Counsels Jairam and Jacqueline Samuels – Brown, the Minister was also challenged Turn to page 17 ►

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on the PPP’s then support of Forbes Burnham’s policy, to nationalise industries such as bauxite and sugar.

Rohee responded affirmatively but pointed out that it was not a case where the PPP provided full support, but rather ‘critical support.’

He said the PPP subsequently found difficulty with the way the decisions taken and supported were being implemented.

According to the Minister, it was this nationalisation process that led to the ‘Parasitic, Bureaucratic, Bourgeoi-

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sie’ class.

The Minister said that these were the persons at the helm of the nationalised industries. He said that it was these persons through their incompetence that led to the decline of the various industries.

Rohee dismissed the claims by Williams that countries were not buying bauxite from Guyana at the time, which contributed to the hardships.

According to Rohee, it boiled down to the simple fact “there was no bauxite to export.”

CRIME SCENE The public hearings into the 1980 assassination of Dr Rodney will continue today when Holland Yearwood is expected to take the witness stand.

D o n a l d R o d n e y, t h e brother of the slain WPA Leader, who was in the car on the night of the explosion, will return to continue to give his evidence-in-chief.

The hearing is also slated tomorrow to visit the site of the crime scene where the explosion occurred on the night of Friday June 13, 1980 killing Dr Rodney and leaving many to speculate for 34 years as to culpability.

Dr Rodney was killed instantaneously when a bomb exploded in his lap while he was seated in the passenger seat of his brother’s Mazda Capella motor car, PBB 2349, in John Street, between Hadfield Streets in the vicinity of the Georgetown Prisons’.

ARIES All aspects of love and romance will go especially well today. You might take this opportunity to make a bold move toward the object of your affection. Go with an unconventional approach and move fearlessly. Your relationships will go well. Nurture your romantic side and communicate your feelings. Love will act suddenly and unexpectedly. Go with the flow.

TAURUS Your connection with others is especially strong today. You will enjoy an important nurturing role. Reconnect with your mother and let her know how you're feeling. Curl up with loved ones tonight and surprise someone with a romantic gesture. Try something unconventional. Your feelings may be strong and erratic. You may be feeling like pulling back into your protective shell. If so, do it.

GEMINI You might feel especially playful today. You can expect to feel a great deal of love and affection from others. Be aware that you will have a strong tendency to indulge in food and drink, so try to keep things in moderation. You may have an aversion to work and lack self-discipline. Overcome this by looking forward to intimate plans with someone tonight.

CANCER The bizarre nature of the day may leave you feeling a bit bewildered. Don't sweat it. Focus on your romantic nature and incredibly nurturing heart. Use your instinctive healing abilities to care for a close friend in need. Today is an especially good day to connect with others and openly share your feelings.

Confide in people you trust. Consider calling your mom.

LEO You will be in an especially affectionate and loving mood today. Your romantic nature is heightened and your nurturing qualities are strong. You're extra sensitive and receptive. You might find that you have no problem communicating your truest feelings to others. Connect with those you feel especially close to, and enjoy an intimate evening.

VIRGO Annoyances of daily life may rub you the wrong way today. Other people's strong opinions and odd quirks may be difficult to swallow and your fuse may be a bit shorter than usual. Emotions could also run high, and you may do battle with the feelings in your own heart. Perhaps someone you care about deeply is creating unnecessary friction in your relationship.

LIBRA Be open and honest about your feelings toward others today. Your receptive nature should be ready. Take a break and let others come to you. Unexpected events may pop out of nowhere. Opportunities for new growth in love and romance are definitely at your fingertips as long as you're ready to receive them. Don't try to force the issue if the time and place aren't right. Let it flow.

SCORPIO Your heart beats extra strong today, but it may not seem like anyone knows it but you. You may feel like you aren't really fitting in with the energy of the day. Don't get down on yourself for it. Realise that not everything is going to go according to your plans. Let things come to you. The unexpected is bound to happen, so don't try to resist the impending change.

SAGITTARIUS This is a fantastic day for you. Join close friends and share a night on the town and fine meal. This is a chance to begin a new cycle of romance.

Reflect on past relationship problems, examine their causes, and toss them away so you can invite in a new, uplifting energy for the next cycle of romance. Start a new relationship or strengthen the one you're in.

CAPRICORN Your warm, sensitive nature is perfectly suited to today's aspects. Your emotional energy is strongly tied to your heart, and you will find that there's a longing to be close to others. Indulge in conversation with close friends and let your imagination run wild. Your creativity is especially piqued today, so start an art project or write a song that inspires or perhaps changes the world.

AQUARIUS You will enjoy a great deal of affection from others today. You radiate an air of love and beauty. Love will come in strong, erratic bursts and you should be on the alert to expect the unexpected. New people will pop out of the woodwork to share their feelings. All group activities are favoured, and you're sure to be the life of any party.

PISCES Your heart may be especially sensitive today. You may feel a bit vulnerable.

Your romantic nature is particularly strong, so treat yourself to a pampered evening, including a good meal with someone you love. All relationships with women will go smoothly now. You might want to give your mother a call if you haven't spoken with her in a while. She would love to hear from you.

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Georgetown, Guyana office :(592)6515220, 6800632  Now! At Foundation 7, learn to play the keyboard, guitar and drums. Voice t r a i n i n g a l s o a v a i l a b l e . Te l : 6 1 7 - 4 2 0 0 , 2 2 5 - 11 5 1 .   Supp o r t worker/caregiver (to l i v e and work in Canada under the Canadian live in care giver P r o g r a m ) . C a r e f o r t h e E l d e r l y, care for the Children, First Aid and CPR.  Guyana Training Colleg e 227-48 8 1 . A regist e r e d i n stituti o n with the M i n i s t r y of Education Accreditation C o u n cil .                                     o f Academic Excellence, 194 Camp Street (between Church and Quamina Streets): Register for full time, day, afternoon, weekend and evening CXC/CSEC classes. Subjects offered are POA, POB, HSB, English A, B i o l o g y, I n t e g r a t e d S c i e n c e and Social Studies. Call 6835742, 223-0604.

HEALTH HEALTH/FITNESS  doctoring stroke, fits ERD problems and face c l e a n i n g . Te l : 2 3 1 - 0 7 7 4 , 670-9450 (Bush Doc) HERBAL MEDICINE

HERBAL MEDICINE

 treatment for all chronic sickness and diseases.

Te l : 6 0 4 - 6 2 6 9 .  LEARN TO DRIVE  Driving School, 287 Albertto w n , Q u e e n s t o w n . Te l : 6 5 0 - 4 2 9 1 , 6 5 2 - 6 9 9 3 .  Driving School - 2 Croal Street, S t a b r o e k ; e n joy 20% disc o u n t - Te l : 2 2 7 - 3 8 6 9 , 2 2 7 - 3 8 3 5 , 622-8162, 644-7052.                                               ' s I n s t i t u t e o f M o t o r i n g Learn to drive at an affordable cost. Professional, C o u r t e o u s a n d P a t i e n t Driving Instructor. For more d e t a i l s c o n ta c t A n n m a r i e / Va n e s s a a t 1 7 2 Light and Charlotte S t r e e t s , Bourda. T e # 2 2 7 5 0 7 2 , 2 2 6 - 7 5 4 1 , 2 2 6 - 0168. www.rksinstituteofmotering.webs.com\ PEN PAL

PEN PAL

 MASSAGE. Call for appointments, out calls only. Anna 661-8969.

NOTICE NOTICE   that there will be a Public Auction at the Georgetown Magistrate's Court, 1 Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown (Brickdam Entrance) on Thursday 26th February, 2015 at 10:00hrs. The following items will be sold to the highest bidder. 1. One Kenmore Sears sewing machine (electric), 2. One Eaton sewing machine (electric), 3. One Singer sewing machine (electric model no. 145H644, 4.

One Black & Decker steam press iron, 5. One Juki sewing machine model No. 816 class F16 with Kindson clutch (electric), 6. One Mitsubishi sewing machine DB130GM (electric), 7. One Dell computer set with keyboard, mouse and CPU, Hansraj Rajkumar Plaintiff -and- Brenda Culley Agaman Defendant.

Terms of Sale - Cash, plus 3% auction Sale Duty. Rashid Mohamed Registrar (ag.) Supreme Court of Judicature.   that there will be a Public Auction at the Georgetown Magistrate's Court, 1 Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown, (Brickdam Entrance) on Thursday 26th February, 2015 at 10:00hrs. The following items will be sold to the highest bidder. 1. Ten (10) decorative dolls, 2. Seven (7) pairs curtains tic. 3. Fourteen (14) pieces of short drapes curtains on wood. 4. Twelve (12) pieces of long drapes curtains on wood 5.

Nineteen (19) pieces of curtains 6. Eighty (80) pieces of curtain raw materials. 7. One (1) executive table with a typist chair. 8.

Seven (7) flower vases with artificial flowers. 9. Six (6) curtain holders. 10. Twelve (12) pieces of curtains (raw materials). 11.One (1) flower vase with artificial flowers.

12. Five (5) headwear (African) with (3) head bands. Hansraj Rajkumar Plaintiff -and- Brenda Culley Agamah Defendant.

Terms of sale - cash. Plus 3% auction sale duty. Raschid Mohamed Registrar (ag.) Supreme Court of Judicature. s e r vSERVICES ice       t o P l a s m a , L C D , LED televisions. Abdul Electronics 225-0391.  rates for all income tax, VAT, payroll, financial statements etc.

Phone 227-6355, 673-2896.       & s p a r e s t o fridges, freezers, AC, washers, gas stoves and microwave.

Call Nick 683-1312, 627-3206. RENTALS FOR ALL YOUR SPECIAL OCCASSIONS :WEDDINGS, PROMS, BIRTHDAY, ANNIVERSARY, FUNERALS, ETC. CHEAP RATES - CALL 671-0056  efficient repairs to washing machines, refrigerators, gas stoves etc. Tel: 2270060, 609-8550, 694-1778, Freezezone Enterprise.        f o r c o n f e r ences, retreats, wedding, reunion, family fun day and special events. Phone 2642946-8.

SERVICES

SPIRITUALITY

 problems with pests!! We can solve your problems. Sanitise your premises after floods/disaster. Tel: 6245857, 226-9162.

 persons with stroke and physical disabilities, we have herbal baths and spiritual massage medicine. Call 220-0708, 687-5653, 6126417.

         : For all your auto windscreen problems cracks, chips, bulls-eyes, stars and craters. We can do it all!! Come in or call for a free quote by our expert technician   Constructions: Excavator & Bobcat rentals.

Specialised in the construction of buldings, swimming pools, renovations, drawing of plans etc. Call: 628-2330, 225-1499 Mohamed.    all general cons t r u c t i on, contact Mohamed.

Specialised carpentry, masonry, plumb i n g , power-wash, painting, troweltex, varnishing. Call 2 3 3 - 0 5 9 1, 667 - 6 6 4 4 , ( o f fice), 216-3120.  INK & RUBBER STAMP ON THE SPOT TROPHY STALL BOURA MARKET, TROPHY STALL CITY MALL, TROPHY STALL 241 SOUTH ROAD & BOURDA STREETS. EMAIL: trophystall@hotmail.com   provides quality designs & construction of terrazzo, also regrinding & polishing of existing terrazzo floors.

Contact Athlone Bacchus, 6607486, 642-2289.     Visa Service. Professional Visa app l i c a tions to the US and Canada. Fees USA VISA $3000, Canada $4000, Plaza Computer Service, 245 Sheriff Street, C/ville.

225-7 3 9 0 , 6 1 8 - 0 1 2 8 , 6 8 8 1 874. Open Monday to Sunday 09:00hrs 21:00hrs   & Associates Financial Services - Services: Taxation (VAT, income & property tax, cash flow projections, business development plan, personal financial adviser, accounting and consultancy - 190 Church Street, South Cummingsburg, Georgetown, Guyana (two buildings east of Austin's Book Store).

Tel: 223-2105, 662-7467, joseph.je75@gmail.com                                    .

Spirituality

SPIRITUALITY

 Spiritualist: resolving all problems, blockage, love, and money, etc Tele: 223-6834, 600-7719.  spiritual help in removing evil spirit, bad lucks, evil sickness, spells, reuniting lovers, bring ing prosperity to businesses etc. Tel: 612-6417, 2200708, 687-5653. works done to bring peace, finance, success, enhanc e p r o s p e r i t y, r e mo v e evil, blockage, reunite families, lovers, etc. 610-7234, 644-0058.        r e a d i n g , o ther works done. For fast results - reuniting lovers, removing evil and all blockages, etc.

Call 696-8873, 673-1166.

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

TAXI

TAXI

        

TOURS TOURS                  

VACANCY VACANCY  cars with drivers to work taxi, preferably from ECD. Call Chungman - 628-7440.  machinist, specialised in fitting and machining and milling. Contact 2204165, 623-1001.  to work at Good Luck Chinese Restaurant on night shift. 31 Providence EBD.  Accounts and Sales clerk: Apply in person to Alabama Trading, Georgetown Ferry Stelling. -trained assistant chef/cook, Call 600-7388, 2257933 or visit us at 173 Sheriff Street.  Clerk: Minimum 3 CSEC subjects. Apply Avinash Complex, Water Street, 226-3361, 227-7828.  Homes: Security Guard to work at LBI location, Kersaint Park. Contact Mr Danesh Tel: 627-4381.  Gas Station - Pump Attendants required. Send applications to: The Manager, Vlissengen Road, Georgetown.  Clerk, CXC English/ Mathematics, live-in, l i v e - o u t babysitter/domestic, labourer.

219-5354.  Apply in person to Oasis Café, 125 Carmichael Street, Georgetown, Guyana or contact us on 226-9916.  Sincere, hardworking, honest. Able to work flexible hours. Handsome salary & incentives. Apply Aagman Restaurant. Tel: 219-0161.  cashiers and cooks to work shift. Written applications compulsory. Energy Plus Service Station, Chateau Margot Public Road, ECD. Contact 220-2821.  to work in computer store, between ages 18 and 25 years. Experience in the use of computers would be an asset.

Send application to the Manager, 105 Regent Road, Bourda, Georgetown. Salesman: Apply with written application to: The Manager, N.S Trucking, 257 Section A, Block X Diamond Housing Scheme, EBD. Tel: 216-3152, Police Clearance and reference required.

VACANCY

 young, energetic, computer-savvy and sales personnel to work. Send in application to tonyreidrealty@hotmail.com.

For more information, call Mr Budram 626-4180.  45 years and over to work in anSSd around Georgetown part time $4,000 per day. Must be able to drive Truck Call 265-7550 between 10:00 AM & 2:00 PM"  Guards (12-hr shift system). Apply in person with written application and one passport-size picture. The Manager, Regency Suites/Hotel, 98 Hadfield Street, Werken-Rust, Georgetown. /Trainee to operate offset printing press, must be 20-25 years, qualification 3-5 subjects (CXC). Apply in person to 21 Seaforth Street, Campbellville. Tel: 226-1877.  for interior location. Must know to cook and bake a wide variety of items. Strictly nonsmoker. Applicants must be e x p e r i e nced with verifiable references and must be at least 40 years old. Others need not apply. Call 618-2020.  One general domestic/baby-sitter to work in Better Hope North, ECD, Mond a y - F r i d a y, . 0 7 : 0 0 h r s 15:00hrs. Must be able-bodied, within 30-45 years. Applicants preferred from the East Coast area. For more information call 626-2080.  supervisor for Housekeeping Department, age 35-55, must be able to work shift. Requirements: Application, Reference Letter, TIN, Police Clearance. Apply 233 South Road, Lacytown 225-0198.  for Housekeeping Department, age 24-48 years, Handyman, Security Guards (males), must be able to work shift. Requirements: Application, Reference Letter, TIN, ID. Apply to 233 South Road, Lacytown. Tel: 225-0198.  Accountant/Internal Auditor- must be computer literate, must have knowledge of Peach Tree, Certificate in Accounting, at least 1 year experience in this field, and must have knowledge in Vat Returns, Payroll and NIS Submissions. Salary negotiable. Apply in person to RK's Security Service 172 Light and Charlotte Street Bourda.  work as an Accounts Clerk at a Taxi Service. Applicants must be well qualified, no experience needed, Requirements: computer-literate, Principles of Business, Office Procedure, Principle of Accounts. Age range 1720 years. Applications can be sent to 317 East Street, North Cummingsburg, Georgetown.

Call or visit for more information (office 225-9698) or Mr Abdul 613-5657, 680-9333.

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LAND FOR SALE

LAND FOR SALE

LAND FOR SALE

       

  Land with foundation and columns.

Size 110x64 - .$9M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.

 acres transported land going at $4.5M neg. per acre at Land of Canaan, Water front land at Soesdyke $75M neg., Bel Air $25M neg., Norton Street $25M neg., Kitty $30M neg., & $95M neg., Robb St r e e t $ 1 2 0 M n e g . , A m pa c R e a l E s ta t e Te l : 6 8 4 - 1 8 9 3 , 610-3666.

 in commercial area, 130x125 $10M. 684-6266.   of land behind Emerald Tower. Call 622-0860.  1-¼ ACRES $25M. Call Carol 623-0070.  No.2, 138ft. x 1722 ft. - $15M. Phone 227-7734.  Air Village 1 acre $50M. Call Carol 623-0070.  Street 35x117 $26M. Call Carol 623-0070.  25x100 $55 M. Call 611-0315, 690-8625.  land, Coverden, 3 acres - $160M Call Carol 623-0070.  compound Versailles, 50x80 - $10M neg.

Call Carol 623-0070.  house lot: Belle West Plantation, $1.6M - 618-2317 - Must sell.  Commercial lots at Eccles, EBD. Tel: 227-2913, 683-3033.  , Success Line Top. Lusignan ECD. Contact 638-3636.   Street land, double in length, already fenced, $20M front lots 600-4343.  Land of Canaan, EBD transported land. Please call 266-0014, 669-8139.  in Republic Gardens, Peter's Hall, EBD. Interested persons contact 231-5359, 672-7189.  60 x 90 ft Boodhoo Housing Scheme $9.8M Contact 624-0058.  306 Republic Park, double corner lot, Subryanville.

Contact 648-1037.  income land, La Parfaite Harmonie, size 53x100 - $2.5M. Call 697-5378.  double lot located on corner of Regent and Albert Streets 113x81 - 223-8479, 6473768.  FOR SALE BY OWNER, 60 X 90. Boodhoo Housing Sche $7 $8.5 mil. Contact: 227-0176, 225-3048, 651-4578  in La Grange, size 1200 ft. x 40 ft. and one house lot in Diamond 18th Avenue. Call Amar 621-6037.  land measuring 90x165ft, facing Atlantic Ocean, half of a mile from Sheriff Street on highway. 600-6681 - Shiv.   of gold mining land in Ekereku, Mazaruni mining district 3. Call 686-1029, 667-4387 for more details. Price neg.   of land (former Speed-way Hotel) at Land of Canaan (road - riverside) Contact R. Alladin: 263-5300, 6280200, 615-2346.  120 acres fenced for sheep large creek, access by car from highway 5 minutes. Many more. Call 4446589, 694-1888.  Gardens, EBD (gated community): Size 5000 sq. ft - $9M, $11M and $13M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.  Street: Double lot, prime business spot. (Size 12 500 sq. ft) US$1.3M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665 -7400.     R o a d , B o u r d a : Corner lot $42M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.  EBD: Land with concrete fence. Size 110x64 $7.5M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.   Land size 55x110 (gated community).

Price $13.5M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.

 Street, Newtown: Size 135x 31. Price $31M. Royal Real Estate 2257276, 665-7400.  Street: Double lot ideal for apartment building, bond or any business G$22M. 600-4343.   Parika (the market area) size 115x50. Price neg. Contact 644-9520, 2230816.  2 lots $28M, EBD public road $70M 55x300, LBI $25M, Mon Repos $5.6M. Troy 626-2243.  Scheme Paradise 50'x100' land $1M Diamond 7th Avenue $4M, 19th Avenue $4M with foundation.

Call 655-8361, 699-6811.  Street, Newtown: Land with concrete fence, size 135x31. Price $23M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400. land located on Duke Street (120x39) and D'Aguair's Park (800 sq.) ready to be built on 223-8479, 647-3768 www.spaceseek.gy .   on the Saganang creek in Kurupung area, with good accessibility & feasibility study. Contact 6571414 Monday - Friday, 08:00hrs 16:00hrs.  Gardens semigated 42x80 $3.6M neg., 54x90 $4.3 neg., Charity Housing Scheme $2.8M n e g . , K u r u Kuru residential 100x200 - $2.6M, 623-4790, 222-5116, 624-4790.  $10M, Republic Park $12M, Da Silva Street $13M, Dennis Street $20M, Lodge, Mon Repos, Ogle, Triumph, Earl's Court (LBI), $17M, Eccles $6M. Contact MK'S Realty, 676-3405, 652-2595.   of land situated at Plantation Sarah on the East Coast of Demerara suitable for housing and agricultural purposes, 10 acres laid out in lots for housing, Price neg. Phone 629-5293, 2271322 for further details.  Herstelling EBD $5M, $6M with foundation $8M, Annandale ECD $5M, Enterprise ECD $6M, Triumph ECD, Dr Miller Road $10M, Diamond EBD $8M, $10M, Providence EBD $5M, $6M, Da Silva Street Georgetown double lot $20M, $26M, Garden of Eden EBD $3M, Friendship EBD river front 115'x41.0.' Price $70M. Tel: 2253737, 225-4398, 651-7078.  House lots in one of Guyana's top luxury, gated communities, conveniently located at Eccles, EBD, 60x100, lots at $7.5M. Special pre-construction prices for a limited time only. Tel: 227-2913, 6833033 .  Diamond 2nd Street $8M, $10M, Herstelling $6M, $7M, Linden Highway 45 acres $15M, gold claims S h e r i m a 1 2 0 0 acres $20M, Mazaruni 1200 acres $20M, Winiperu 800 acres $20M. Tel: 225-3737, 225-4398, 651-7078.  Street we l l - d e v e l o p e d , fully fenced land measuring 100 feet x 62 feet next to Scotia Bank - $150M. Serious enquiries only - C all 227-5407, 658-2686.  land 52x165 in Kingston US$499 000 (four hundred and ninety-nine thousand US dollars). Phone Mr Boodram 692-3831, Mr Pereira 669-3350,623-2591, 6690943, 225-2626, 225-2709, 225-3068, 226-1064, 2312064.

 business land 125x50 neg., in S m y t h S t r e e t o p p o site Jumbo Jet. Valuation $85M Asking price $75M, 3% refund on agent commission earned. Call Lord and Harold Anthony Reid's Realty 627-0288, 667-7812, 2253068, 225-2626, 231-2864, 2255198, 225-2709, 669-3350, 2261064, 227-6949, 646-1712.  invite you to purc h a s e t h e f o l lo w ing land for bond , Chandra & Gange 125x120 corner lot $65M , William Street, Kitty 120x45 for bond, Gange 125x62 in Pras h a d Nagar for bond . Phone Mr Boodram 6923831, Mr Pereira 623-2591, 6690943, 226 - 1 0 6 4 , L a d y Herc u l e s 2 2 5 -3 0 6 8 , 2 2 5 - 2626, 225-5198, 225-2709.  away land East and Quamina Streets corner 120x100 US$1.7M neg., Hadfield Street opposite new expected GGMC $115M, South Road close to Wellington Street 30x112 $65M, Newtown 75x32 $14.9M, Willi a m St r e e t 11 4 x 4 5 $ 2 8 M , Prashad Nagar $26M, 125x62 Blygezight box 80x75 $ 3 2 M , Phone Mr Boodram 692-3831, 225-2626, Mr Pereira 225-3068, 226-1062.     l a n d d i s c o u n t 100x50 Republic Gardens $8.5M, Newtown 80x33 $12.9M William Street, Kitty for bond 120x50 - $27M, Prashad Nagar 135x62 - $28M, Meadow Garden 100x45 - $12M, Lamaha Gardens $38M, 8 000 on Mandela main road, compared to Sheriff Street for 5storey apartment complex US$290 000. Phone Mr Boodram 692-3831, 227-6863, 225-2709, Lady Hercules 6611952, Mr Pereira 669-3350, 6 2 3 - 2 5 9 1 , 6 6 9 - 0 9 4 3 , 6 6 77812.  you are buying this land that God has ordained for you to build the 4-storey apartment complex that will pay your mortgage and give you surplus monthly income of $400 000, 21% 21% 21% discount, Newtown Kitty 75x33 - $12.9M, Meadow Gardens $12.9M neg. 5 000 sq. ft., Middle Road La Penitence,\ 130x50 $11.5M, Sophia close to Cummings Lodge 120x60 $4.2M, Da Silva Street 140x33 $19M close to Bel Air Park, Lamaha Gardens 120x60 - $32M, Blygezigt Gardens 60x100 $28M, Prashad Nagar 125x65 $28M, William Street Kitty 120x60 - $27M. Phone Mr Boodram 692-3831, Lady Hercules 225-3068, Mr Pereira 6693350, 623-2591, 669-0943, 2276863, 225-2709, 225-2626, 6677812, 226-1064.

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 flat unfurnished 3-bedroom. Please call 623-8496. -bedroom apartment for single or couple. Call 678-3228.  hair and nail station.

Contact 673-9166.  built two-bedroom house, safe environment - 698-6496  apartment business space to rent. Call 621-5282.  - US$1500.

611-0315, 690-8625.  Grocery & Off Licence. Phone 256-3173, 622-2349.  One-bedroom, furnished - $60 000. 6228109.  on Sheriff Street, only for offices. Contact: 6276740.

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 space in Kitty, Campbellville and ECD. 684-6266.

 3-bedroom, furnished, long term or short term, one room AC and internet ready. Call 2268689, 227-3203, 660-4016

 Street: New executive offices. Size per unit 1650 sq. ft. US$2200.

Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.

for rent 3 large bedrooms US$ 1500 neg. Contact: 684-1634.  2-bedroom apartment in Triumph Agriculture Road. Call 698-3854, 220-7937.  3-bedroom upper flat $50 000, 1-bedroom lower flat $25 000 - 684-6266.  building in Kitty, 3 bedrooms US$800 - 6846266. floor business $160 000 neg. Camp Street between Church and Quamina Street.  bottom flat, 2-bedroom apartment at Triumph, ECD. Call 609-9232.  -secured business place, centrally located. Phone 665-6453.  furnished 2-bedroom apartment with AC, long term and short term 609-5810.  2-bedroom and 3bedroom in Diamond, $55 000 & $65 000. 684-6266.  at 96 Triumph, East Coast Demerara, semi-furnished.

Contact 623-1387.   apartment at farm EBD. Call 685-5306, 6435220. for Diplomats US$1500 - US$3500. Call Carol 623-0070.  of office space in central Georgetown. Call Carol 6230070.  Springs: 3-bedroom house $120 000 Call Carol 623-0070.  place at Enterprise, ECD. Contact 229-6533, 613-2798.  for rent/ for sale newly built three-storey. Lot 3940 Broad Street. Call: 623-4706, 226-3810.  New 3bedroom top flat unfurnished $60 000. 646-1712, 693-8532.  shop or salon space in Diamond 7th Avenue 655-1829.  apartment at Triumph Village Call 220-7937, 698-3854, 670-3743  at Eccles Young Professional Scheme. For more information, please call 683-6506.  and unfurnished 2-bedroom apartment on East Coast Demerara. Call 6246772. -bedroom furnished apartment in Cummings Lodge.

Call 222-3014, 222-0516.  floor & building available in Georgetown and ECD. 684-6266. -contained 2-bedroom apartment in Wortmanville. Tel: 602-3387.

 room, water, light bed etc, reasonable rate, single person, Georgetown. Tel: 683-7410, 227-4422.  property Regent Road, Bourda, Georgetown (near to Cummings Street). Call 2237511 (business hours). -contained rooms and apartment, daily $3 500 to $8 000, rooms weekly $18 000.

Julian's Guest House 226-3552, 638-4505.  hous e s / a p a r t m e nts and commercial spaces and 3 storey Building to rent. Call: 2163120, 667-6644. -bedroom apartment situated at Lot 319 East Street, North Cummingsburg, Georgetown $30 000 monthly.

Call 226-3387.  fully furnished apartment, 115 Thomas Street, Kitty. 225-0071, 674-7420, 600-5473.  Street, Kitty: Fully furnished one- and two-bedroom apartment from U S $ 2 0 daily.

227-5852, 638-4404.  completed shortterm apartment and rooms in Herstelling, EBD. Contact Handel 621-6862.  2-bedroom house in Diamond, grilled, water, electricity, parking, fenced $45 000 monthly. Call 622-1343.  two-bedroom bottom flat $90 000 monthly or two rooms renting $3 500 daily per person. Call 682-3813,  Street one-bedroom $45 000, Diamond 2-bedroom $50 000, Kitty 4-bedroom $90 000.

Troy 626-2243, 694-3652.  One- and 2-bedroom upper flats, furnished from US$25.

681-2499, 679-0757.  three-bedroom house in Diamond, fully grilled. Call Amar 621-6037.  Gardens: Executive large 3-bedroom, 2 bathroom, semi-furnished, large yard. Tel: 2270972.  bedroom, fully furnished executive-style, top flat $120 000, one-bedroom furnished $80 000, Campbellville.

227-8451, 642-7794.  3-bedroom, 2 two-bedroom, three furnished air-conditioned, internet cable apartments.

Call Carol 682-3733.  3-bedroom house with self-contained master room and parking in LBI, ECD. Contact 220-3530.  flat at 14 Hugh Ghanie Park, Cummings Lodge, $62 000 with parking space. 6947210, 222-3981.

 snackette located at Cummings and Regent Streets Contact 618-9092, 679-6800.

 3-bedroom lower flat at Uitvlugt New Scheme, West Coast Demerara. Call 2773743, 626-0150.

 Springs: Fully furnished, modern 4- bedroom house,parking and all amenities,Call 218-3827, 610-1273.

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Two flats to rent. Next to Republic bank, Cotton Field, E/bo Coast Call 690 -1530,658-6599.

 4- and 3-bedroom, Kitty US$800 & US$600, 3-bedroom Campbellville US$700. 684-6266.

 building suitable for business or living quarters parking available at 26 Garnett Street, Delph Avenue 684-3998, 687-0431, 653-9570.

 3-bedroom upper flat, parking for 1 vehicle $75 000. 681-2499.  three-bedroom apartment with overhead tank. No pets, no parking. $55 000 monthly. Tel: 226-7810.            3-bedroom South $80 000, Diamond 3-bedroom $55 000. 684-6266.   & 3-bedroom apartments, fully grilled, 24-hour camera, water system. Call 2252431, 666-6612, 650-1867.

 New four-storey concrete building in 'Hot Spot' commercial area. Price neg., Tel: 2253737, 651-7078.  3-storey concrete building suitable for school. Building size 10,250 sq. ft. US$5000. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.  EBD: 2-bedroom semi-furnished bottom flat US$$700. Royal Real Estate, 2257276, 614-0166.

 Ruimveldt Park: Unfurnished 3-bedroom top flat. $85 000. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 614-0166.  Gardens, ECD: Unfurnished 2-bedroom bottom flat. $45 000. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 614-0166.  Street, Alberttown: Secure concrete bond $270 000 neg. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 6657400.  Road: New 3storey 10-room hotel, restaurant and bar. US$4000, Royal Real Estate 225-7276, 6657400.  semi-furnished bottom flat (back house) at Lot 4 Norton Street, Wortmanville.

Preferably single or mature couple. Contact 668-7896, 227-8479.  Air Park: Furnished 4bedroom executive house with modern amenities. US$2500 neg. Royal Real Estate, 2257276, 665-7400.  apartment and furnished house in Diamond.

Price US$400 and US$1200 monthly. Tel: 643-6064, 2162469, 684-1618.  $65 000, Campbellville (house) US$1000, East Street business US$700, Alberttown $55 000, Bel Air US$700. Diana 227-2256, 6269382.  houses and apartments await you. Contact us today or visit our website - 2238479, 647-3768 www.spaceseek.gy .  one- & twobedroom apartments for overseas tenants, long & short terms, AC, grilled, parking, walking distance to UG & CARICOM. Call 6233404, 222-6708.  furnished, large 1bedroom apartment in Alberttown, AC, grilled, parking.

Available. Suitable for overseas guests. For details 231-9086.  3-bedroom upper flat furnished, fully grilled, 24 hours water supply, parking. US$700 at 57 Austin Street, Campbellville Call: 643-1414.    furnished and unfurnished apartments $85 000 to $160 000. Business space.             residence: centrally & beautifully located in Bel Air Springs, Georgetown, for immediate occupancy Phone 226-6229, 226-5903.  bedrooms apartment, Industry ECD, parking, Furnished;19” television, beds, stove, suite, refrigerator, microwave, washing machine, $60,000 monthly, Call 628-2866  furnished air-conditioned apartments/rooms for local/overseas persons.

Monthly $100 000$60 000, weekly $20 000. Tel: 668-0306, 694-7817. -bedroom flat concrete house with inside toilet and bath, telephone and light, fully grilled, parking, at E Field Sophia, Price $46 000 monthly.

Tel: 686-4066.  furnished 1-bedroom apartment $80 000 & 2-bedroom apartment $120 000 at Duncan & Sheriff Streets & 24 hours to rent a room for $6 000 daily. Call Dev 673-3427, 656-3542.  upper flat apartment with self-contained bedroom, prepaid meter, internet access, $36 000 monthly, at Cummings Lodge. Call 222-4326.

20 20 TO LET  bedroom, bottom flat furnished apartment, front building fully grilled, internet, parking place. Lot 1 Station Street, Kitty US$600. 227-6046, 621-7519.  2-bedroom, fully furnished with security camera $150 000, Kitty 2-bedroom US$1000, business spot Kitty public road US$1000 - Troy 626-2243.                Springs house $140 000, D'Urban Backlands $110 000, Kitty 3-bedroom $75 000..Troy 626-2243, 6943652.   & Texila, fully furnished apartment, internet ready, includes electricity and water - $70 000, US$350. 6004343.  two- or four-bedroom concrete house, inside toilet and bath, living room, kitchen, verandah, water and electricity in Canal #2 $30 000 or $50 000 monthly.

Tel: 685-9590, 223-6941.  3-bedroom upstairs $100 000, 3-bedroom downstairs $70 000, one bedroom furnished, AC $80 000 (neg. unfurnished).

Tel: 603-4646.         l o c a t e d spaces, suitable for office, seamstress, tailor, mash camp, salon or other. Call: 628-7589, 227-3064 -bedroom unfurnished apartment. Single working person preferred, Public R o a d , K i t t y. Te l : 2 2 7 - 0 7 2 0 , 661-0999, 622-6211.    vacant spaces located in Kitty, suitable for any type of business or bonds For further details, kindly contact Ms Persaud. Tel: 227-5637, 672-4104.  at Lot 8 Railway Embankment, Better Hope, ECD. Contact Mr Ram c/o Ram's Auto Spares.-Tel: 226-6325, 227-1454.      Margot, ECD: Two fully furnished and 1 unfurnished 2-bedroom apartment. Call 660-0943.    commercial building on Regent Street, D'Urban etc. 218-0121, 638-9116, 669-4713.  furnished and unfurnished one- and two-bedroom apartments in residential neighborhoods with AC, hot and cold, generator parking etc. 218-0121, 638-9116, 669-4713.  Office, business spots, central area, whole bottom flat with equipment, fixtures and stocks, mechanic or spare parts shop. Prices neg., Tel: 225-3737, 651-7078.  New two-bedroom furnished, self-contained r o o m s w i t h A C u n i ts , f u l l y grilled, car parking. Price $100 000, $120 000. Tel: 225-3737, 651-7078.  newly-built house located in Atlantic Gardens, six bedrooms with ample yard space, negotiable price of US43500 monthly 2238479, 647-3768 www.spaceseek.gy.  property located in the busiest section of Regent Street, three floors (22x100). Asking price of US$25 000 monthly neg. 2238479, 647-3768 www.spaceseek.gy .  house, L a m a h a G a r d e n s U S $ 11 0 0 , furnished 2-bedroom apartment US$900 neg. AC, Wifi, swimming pool. Contact Mr Pereira 669-0943, 623-2591.

TO LET  fully furnished, 2-storey house in Campbellville, complete with AC, DSL cable, fully secured and parking. US$1500 neg.

Contact 626-4487, 660-7672.        G a r d e n s : Large executive property bottom flat, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, lots of yard space, furnished. Campbellville Garnett Street - large 2-flat building, 2 bedrooms, 1 master room, 3 bathrooms. Furnished. Call 695-4447.

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 (one-bedroom apartment) $55 000, Bel Air Park (furnished 2-bedroom apartment) US$800, Campbellville (unfurnished house) US$900, Campbellville (furnished house) US$1000, Kitty (top flat, 4 bedrooms) US$800.

Diana 227-2256, 626-9382.

-bedroom fully furnished apartment Sixth Avenue, Diamond, EBD, telephone, internet, parking, etc, available for long term ,short term rental.

- $6 0 , 000 per month (negotiable). Short term rental for overseas visitors US$25 per day. Tel:658-1523, 638-3622, 231-8 5 6 7 .      B a b b S t r eet, Kitty: Prime business location, two-storey building with big yard space, grille and two shops to rent, parking for customers, ideal for wholesale or retail business. Call Natashia on 692-4223 for more information.     Atlantic Gardens split level two-storey, 4 bedrooms, all self-contained.

Meadow Brook Gardens twostorey, 3 bedrooms. Both with all modern conveniences.     top flat $40 000, Diamond 3-bedroom top flat $120 000 Kitty, 2-bedroom with AC $120 000, bottom flat for business Queenstown $75 000, 4-bedroom house Bel Air Park, Eccles US$1000, furnished/unfurnished, AC swimming pool. Contact Mr Pereira 669-0943, 623-2591.  3-bedroom upstairs house situated at 2nd Avenue Diamond. Master bedroom, self-contained with Jacuzzi, hot and cold water, AC, security cameras and alarm system installed, telephone and parking available - $140 000 monthly. Call 604-0819.

 $25M. Call Carol 623-0070.  Public Road $70M. Call Carol 623-0070.  Street huge property US$1.3M. Call Carol 623-0070.

 Street near Nigel's S u p e r m a r k e t - $ 3 5 M - 6 11 0315, 690-8625.  house for sale and removal in Kitty - $600 000. Tel: 227-1979.  HOTEL - $75M neg. - 611-0315, 6908625.  in Cumberland, East Berbice, Toyota Ipsum. Call 685-3832, 332-0205. -storey concrete building Chateau Margot , $28.5M. 661-9431, 663-3531.

 2-bedroom, self-contained bottom flat apartment, fully grilled, large sitting & dining areas, parking, separate gate & driveway.

Section 'A' Diamond, EBD $55 000. Call 616-1598.

 apartments in gated compound, 3-bedroom, 2-bedroom, 1-bedroom, all self-contained, AC, hot/cold water with fridge, stove, washer, dryer, microwave, living room set, dining room chairs, etc. Call: 678-6887.

 Public Road. Tel: 604-0334, 687-5455.

  $42M. Call Carol 623-0070.

 Storey house: three-bedroom upstairs a n d 3 - b e d r o o m 3 bedroom downstairs renting separately, sp a c i o u s l i v i n g r o o m , t o i l e t a n d b a t h i n s i d e , telephone, grille. Parking. EBD. Contact 668-5384, 648-3342

 Gardens: Onebedroom apartment, fully furnished with all amenities, including electricity, water, AC, telephone, well secured with own driveway and parking.

Available long- or short-term basis. Tel: 624-5857, 6214622, 226-9162.

 

 house $25M neg. Contact 611-0315, 690-8625.

 spacious bottom flat, 2-bedroom apartment, vacant from last month end or March 1. Call for more information. Tel: 223-5934, 6489226 Nanda between 08:00hrs and 20:00hrs.

 Road WCD $50 000, Queens t o w n o f f i c e s p a c e 3 rooms $60 000, Bel Air Park top off 3 bedrooms US$500 monthly rental US$1000, phone 226-1064, 227-6863, 225-2709, 225-5198, 2276949, 623-2591, 669-3350.

PROPERTY FOR FOR SALE PROPERTY SALE

 concrete property Somerset Court, Herstelling $36M - Tel: 625-1359.                   n e a r R egent Street, existing parts store.

641-1800, 220 3452. /unfurnished 2-flat house with 3 bedrooms included, one master room, 2 washrooms area, AC units, pressure system with hot and c o l d f i l t e r e d w a t e r, g r a n i t e top kitchen cupboards, garage, landscaping at Lot 6 Section 'D' Non Pareil ECD, U S 1 9 0 0 / $ 9 0 0 m o n t h l y. 2 2 0 4 8 0 4 , 6 6 2 - 1 8 93 .  609-8233: Commercial spaces in Atlantic Gardens 5-bedroom US$2500, Crane shop, barber shop $75 000, N o r t o n & L o u i s a R o w, D i a mond 2-bedroom apartment $50 000, South fully furn i s h e d U S $ 6 0 d a i l y, 3 - b e d room new apartment Diamond $75 000, Diamond whole house US$800.  unfurnished 2-bedr o o m b o t t o m f l a t i n K i t t y, clean and quiet surroundings, ideal for single working persons, university or college stud e n t s , p r e pa i d m e t e r, w a t e r tank, pressure pimps, kitchen fixtures. No children, no pets $ 6 0 0 0 0 m o n t h l y, p l u s 2 months' security deposit. Call 664-5296.    W o r l d # 1 R e a l t o r M i s t e r Te r ry Redf o r d R e i d 6 6 7 - 7 8 1 2 , 2 25 - 6 8 58 , 2 2 5 7 1 6 4 , 226- 1 0 6 4 , 2 2 5 - 2 6 2 6 , 231-20 6 8 , 6 1 9-7945. Ha ve t h e execut i v e r e n t a l r e d u c e d by 35%, Prashad Nagar U S $ 1 0 00, J a c a r a n d a A v e .

B e l A i r P ar k U S $ 2 0 0 0 , B a r im a A v e B e l A i r P a r k U S $ 1 8 0 0 , B e l A i r S p r i ng s US$1000, la r g e bo nd for rent a l office s mall form U S $ 3 75 , 1 0 0 0 0 s q f t o f f i c e s p a c e for t e c hn o l o g y b u s i n e s s . 22 5 2626, 225-5198, 226- 1 0 6 4 , 6 2 3 - 2 5 9 1 , 6 6 9 - 3350. bedroom unfurnished, Duncan Street $60 000, one furnished one-bedroom apartment Bel Air $80 000, three-bedroom furnished upper flat D'Urban Street $120 000 neg., three-bedroom unfurnished upper flat Granville Park, BV $120 000, unfurnished one-bedroom Granville Park $50 000, shop to rent, internet and mini bar $100 000. Houses and apartments - US$1500. Call Ms Sherry Yahya 644-5128, 6628969.

    148 Leonora Seafield, WCD. 689-3881. , Foulis, ECD. $15M neg. Call 691-0869, No agents.  Ruimveldt Gardens: 4-bedroom house on double lots $35M. Call Carol 623-0070.     Gardens $75M, Prashad Nagar (posh) $100M. Call Carol 623-0070.  for sale and removal in the Bel Air Springs area. Contact 613-4065.  Park fully furnished property US$1.1M. Call Carol 623-0070. , Republic Park, Nandy Park, Diamond and many more. Call Carol 623-0070.  Street (back house) $8M. Call Carol 623-0070.  2-storey wood and concrete house (needs repair) $25M neg. Call Carol 623-0070.  3-bedroom wooden & concrete house in Annandale.

Contact 613-0557.  at 271 Forshaw Street, Queenstown. Tel: 6149505. Call between 09:00hrs and 18:00hrs.  sale and removal: 2bedroom greenheart house 20x30, 2000 BM, located at Craig Buzzbee Dam, EBD. Contact 673-2727.  wooden building with concrete downstairs, furnished upstairs $16M. Call 337-1875.    $3.1M, La Grange Old Road 53x223 land, house 30x60ft. with attic $50M. Call Shawn 231-7805, 618-7483.  ready business place, 2 storey, new 48x90, back road and land at C/ville 48x80.

Tel: 684-5868.  house lot at Stewartville, West Coast Demerara. Contact 268-4041, 664-3033 for more information.  5-bedroom concrete house $40M. Have properties to sell? Call Diana's Realty for professional services. 2272256, 626-9382.

PROPERTY FOR SALE  Houses and house lots in one of Guyana's top luxury, gated communities, conveniently located at Eccles, EBD. Tel: 227-2913, 683-3033.    -storey properties (commercial/domestic) in Eccles - (wooden/concrete) Agricola, Alberttown, Sheriff Street etc.

Tel: 216-3120, 667-6644.  3-store y building 26x65 on land 40x161ft business, school or bond. Land a t C a m p e l l v i l l e 4 8 x 8 0 . Te l : 684-5868.  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.  Street land $30M, Eccles $20M property, Continental Park $56M, Agriculture Road $20M, Queenstown $28M, Enmore $10M. Foundation Realty, 618-0000, 615-0069.  and land at Success Railway Line. Contact Narine 347-701-0244, Rakesh 610-1305, Home 220-4832, 220-3349.  incomplete commercial building, suitable for school, offices, apartments or bond. Price neg. Call 220-1806, 624-8195.  $40M, Alberttown $30M, Eccles $35M, Queenstown $60M, North Ruimveldt $14M. Tel: 225-0545.  Street Kitty $16M, LBI Embankment $23M, Mon Repos $32M, Eccles $32M, Kitty $36M, Mon Repos $11M, $15.5M, Diamond $38M, Alberttown $48M. Tel: 219-4399, 609-9232.  3-bedroom semi-furnished concrete building located at Somerset Court, Herstelling, East Bank Demerara. Selling price $40M. Contact 657-9013, 628-2044.  3-bedroom wooden and concrete building opposite Providence Stadium Public Road. Selling price $40M. Contact 6579013, 628-2044.  3-bedroom upper flat furnished, fully grilled, 24 hours water supply, parking. US$700 at 57 Austin St, Campbellville. Call 618-3706.  Street, Alberttown: Secure concrete bond $270 000 neg. Royal Real Estate, 2257276, 665-7400.  EBD: Executive concrete house, 3 bedrooms up and 2 apartments downstairs $53M. Royal Real Estate, 2257276, 665-7400.  Road, Kitty: Commercial/residential property $45M. Royal Real Estate, 2257276, 665-7400.  ECD: Modern 4-bedroom concrete property $32M. Royal Real Estate, 2257276, 665-7400.  Road: New 3-storey concrete building with roof garden. Can be rented as hotel and bar.$110M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.  Street, Kitty: Commercial/residential property on corner $65M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400 Hope EBD (gated community): Executive four-bedroom concrete house with swimming pool $33M neg. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.

PROPERTY FOR SALE  Gardens: Executive 5-bedroom house with swimming pool $150M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400. - investment property, 3 bedrooms upstairs and 2 two-bedroom apartments downstairs $34M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.  Street, Bourda: Fully furnished 20-room hotel, restaurant and bar US$1.2M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.   6-bedroom executive concrete house $36M. Royal Real Estate, 2257276, 665-7400.  Backlands: 3bedroom concrete house, repairs needed. $13M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.  3-storey Investment Property. Currently renting as apartments and offices. $85M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.  Backlands: 2family concrete house. $33M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.   4-bedroom concrete house $28M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.  located in residential areas such as Bel Air Park, Ogle, Atlantic Gardens.

Starting price $28M 2238479, 647-3768 www.spaceseek.gy .  property in Ogle, one 3-bedroom in 3rd Street, Anna Catherina, WCD, Tel: 222-3066, 622-6448.  Street, Bourda - investment property, suitable for business. US$1.2M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.  Avenue, Diamond, EBD: Incomplete house on corner lot. $25M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.  Gardens: 3bedroom wooden and concrete house. $50M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 6657400.    5-bedroom furnished executive concrete house. $48M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.  Gardens: Brand new executive 5-bedroom concrete house $120M. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 6657400.  Furnished 4-bedroom executive house with modern amenities.

US$2300 neg. Royal Real Estate, 225-7276, 665-7400.   Fully furnished 3-bedroom executive house. US$2300 neg. Royal Real Estate 225-7276, 6657400.  Gardens: Executive 3-bedroom concrete house currently renting for US$2500 per month. Price $85M. Royal Real Estate, 2257276, 665-7400.  3-bedroom wooden and concrete building located at Da Silva Street, Newtown, Georgetown. Selling price $27M. Contact 657-9013, 628-2044.

  Erven, New Amsterdam, Berbice, Lots 1 & 28 Soesdyke (road to river), EBD, Lot 61 Section C, Nabaclis, ECD. 648-1037.

 Gardens, Bel Air Park, Alberttown, 3 beautiful properties, WBD, Diamond front $16M, Gordon Street Kitty $30M, Broad Street $90M - GME R e a l t y 231-2199, 618-7483, 2317805.

  2-family house, 4 bedrooms upstairs, two-bedroom apartments downstairs. Repairs needed. $13.8M neg. Royal Real Estate, 2257276, 665-7400.

 Charlotte St r e e t : Tw o - s t o r e y w o o d e n and concrete building and old wooden building on land 31'x11 8 ' . P r i c e $ 5 5 M n e g . , Tel: 225-8561, 618-2915.

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  luxury house 5-bedroom with sports bar $36M, Lusignan 3-bedroom $16M, 7-bedroom Diamond $26M. Troy 626-2243.

    Meadow Brook G a r d e n s t w o - s t o r e y, 3 b e d rooms, modern conveniences.

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

these inexpensive properties: Guyhoc Park $12M, Lamaha Park $14M, South Guyana excellent house $16M, Bent Street $16.5M, Punt Trench Dam $11M, Meadow Brook Gardens $12M, requires repairs. Land in Sophia 130x60 $1.8M, Stone Avenue Campbellville $21M Phone Mr Boodram 692-3831, Mr Pereira 669-043, 623-2591, Lady Hercules 661-1952, 225-2709, 227-6863, 225-2626, 225-3068.

 nose pit bull, vaccinated and de-wormed. Contact 222-9077, 653-6191.

 bond 40x80 steel structure with land space 70ft x 270ft, 18 900 sq. ft. Contact 675-5559.

 shrimps, export quality, very clean also big straw hats, beautiful. Going cheap. Tel: 6746779, 639-9914.

 at Linden, cheap electricity running water, 5x22 cu ft. freezer and plucking machine.

Call 444-6589, 694-1888.

 refrigerated Mitsubishi, 3 tons, GNN, hardly used, full cool storage, excellent condition. Tel: 674-6779, 639-9914.

 for sale, also tools, clothing, foot wear, cosmetic jewellery, clothes racks, mannequin etc. Tel: 614-5982.

 invite you to buy these bargains Craig Street 2-storey $45M new $34M, Dowding S t r e e t was $42M now $32M, Pere Street Kitty $34M, S e c t i o n M r a n c h - t y p e was $60M now $48M, Prashad Nagar $30M, South Ruimveldt $10M, Roxanne Burnham G a r d e n s $12M, D'Urban Backlands $23M, Camp Street & D'Urban South half $30M Phone Mr Budhram 692-3831, Mr Pereira 669 - 0 9 4 3 , 6 23-2591, 2 2 6 1064, Lady Abundance 225-30

 Playstation 2 & PSP game disc and modification contact: 256-3640, 684-3025.

           Farm Land at Laluni 80 acres surrounded by creek, 3 fish pond, 1 dwelling & 2 Farm Houses, Coconut, Citrus & Fruit trees. 22 & 30 RB dragline, 1 Discrovery Range Rover-Contact 261-5027, 670-8282

 to accommodate two houses at 20 North R o a d , B o u r d a . Vacant possession (no tenants) $55M, business or residential location. Owner - 225-5727.  Springs: T r a n s p o r t e d p r o p e r t y, , f u l l y f u r n i s h e d 4 b e d r o oms (one self-contained), 3 toilets/ baths, lots of land space, parking for vehicles. Price neg.

Call 625-1684, 226-0891, 6517538, 218-3827 & 610-1273.  newly built twostorey house in Success, two master rooms with hot/cold, fully AC and grille, house size 45x30, garage for three with plenty of yard space. Contact.

649-0755, 624-3187.         require repairs in Brickdam, land size 1 2 0 x3 8 - $ 4 4 M w a s $ 6 0 M .

P h one Alysious Periera 6232591, Lady Khan 225-2626, 2252709, Lady Abundance 225 3068, 669-0943 Mr. Pereira.  Vacant possession, owner leaving, Diamond New Scheme, 20th Avenue, complete 3-bedroom flat concrete house. Price $9.5M neg.

Contact 623-3348, 612-5631  Cecilia, Essequibo Coast: New 1-flat concrete building with foundation for 3-storey, 150ft x 80ft, with additional land space, ideal for big company or any large investor $140M neg., Ogle land 100x50ft, good area for business $33M neg. Naresh Persaud, 225-9882, 681-2499.  for sale in gated compound opposite seawall, ½ mile from Sheriff Street. Description as follows: Approximately 3 000 sq. ft., 4 bedrooms, 4 washrooms with all modern conveniences, too numerous to mention. Call Shiv, 600-6681.  this now! One almost new 3-bedroom Lamaha Park $65M. Phone Mr Boodram 6923831, Mr Enmore 227-6863, Mrs Harte 225-2709, Mrs Hercules 225-3068, Mr Pereira 226-1064, 227-6949, 231-2061, 225-2636. Sophia Gardens, close to Lamaha Gardens - fully concrete, 6-bedroom giveaway, vacant for Christmas.Price $14.5M. Phone Mr Pereira 623-2591, 226-1064, Mrs Abundance 225-3068, 669-3350, Mr Boodram 692-3831, 225-2626, 667-7812, 669-0943.  Air Park $110M neg., $80M neg., US$3.5M neg., Kitty $30M neg., Bent Street $17.5M neg., Lamaha Gardens $95M neg., David Street, Kitty $65M neg., S/ville $55M neg., Eccles $27M neg., Ampac Real Estate 610-3666, 684-1893.  $10M, $8M, D'Urban Backlands $15M, Ogle $30M, Diamond $50M, Lodge $18M, Cummings Lodge $30M, Success $10M, Sheriff Street $180M, Norton Street $35M, Land of Canaan $15M. Contact MK's Realty 676-3405, 652-2595.  two-storey four-bedroom concrete house, 2 toilets and bath, living room and kitchen upstairs and downstairs, water and light, verandah on 0.6502 acre (28,323.0) sq ft on land in Canal 2. Tel: 685-9590, 223-6941 by owner.  executive twostorey residential/commercial situate at Blossom Scheme, Enmore, 3 bedrooms and living room, fully air-conditioned, 1 master, full kitchen, toilet and Jacuzzi bath, all amenities, fully secured and grilled, lower flat business/office-ready, parking 6 cars, no a g e n t s . G $ 4 0 M . Te l : 6 2 3 0102.

    2-storey, 3bedroom concrete and wooden house on massive land 40ft. wide x 300ft long, can fit 3 more houses comfortably. Ideal for investor or family, located near the Canje Bridge, Berbice. Transported, immediate possession, no encumbrances, only $11.5M. S e r i o u s e n q u i r i e s o n l y. C a l l 'MAX', 609-8132, 672-8569.  and land, length 560ft x 33 ft., one-storey 3-bedroom wooden house at Triumph, Agriculture Road ECD $13.5M or double land for $19M. Tel: 6029415, 642-7370.  Park 4-bedroom concrete $49M, Brickdam 4-bedroom requires repairs $45M, Bent Street business and residence reduced $19M to $16.5M, Punt Trench 2-storey big house with 140 x 8 0 r e s e r v e f o r c h u r c h , computer centre to transform young leader 6 years to 26 years old, adult lives $9.6M, concrete M e a d o w B r o o k Gardens requires repairs $11.5M, North Ruimveldt $14M, New Guyhoc Gardens $11.8M, Joint Service Scheme almost new $16M , Prashad Na gar 4 self-contained $40M, Lamaha Gardens $48M, Section M Land $16M, Blygezigt Garden $40M by Big G, phone Mr Terrence Redford Reid, BSC 667-7812, 225-6858, 225,2626, 225-7164 for great d i s c o u n t a n d refund the new methodology of the international world/new currency live KFC with love only.  in February, 2storey Punt Trench Dam $9.5M with large land reserve for any type of business. Business & Residence Bent Str e e t $ 1 6 . 5 M , 2 storey Guyhoc Gardens $14M, Guyhoc 2-storey concrete $14.5M, Lodge 2 -storey $14M, Meadow Brook concrete ranch $ 1 3 . 5 M. Land 130x50 Middle Road, La Penite nce, new concrete Middle Road, La Penitence, Da Silva Street 85x35 Land $15.9M, Campbellville Schem e 8 0 x 5 0 p l u s reserve $15M, Hadfield Street east of Cuffy 12 0 x 50 $18 M , Republic Pa r k $14M, Continental Park 104x54 p l u s 3 0 0 0 s q . f t r e s e r v e all land to build dream house $22M, 7 000 sq. ft by the Cultural Centre 280 0 0 0 s q . ft, Lamaha Gardens $5 8M, Prashad Naga r $ 3 4 M, South Ruim v e l d t G a r d e n s off Aubrey Barker Street. Phone Mr Boodram 692-3831, Mr D'Aguiar 225-5198, Mr Pereira 62 3 - 2 5 9 1 , 226-1064, 6 6 9 0944, Mr Herc u l e s 225-2709, 225-3068, Lady Jones 227-6863, 225-2626.   Harmonie $22M, neg., Zeelugt Scheme WBD $17M neg., Diamond $27M neg., Republic Gardens $60M neg., Alberttown $60M neg., Providence $25M neg., Providence (2 houses in yard) $45M neg., Supermarket available Nandy Park East Bank Public Road, Republic Park $50M neg., Eccles Park $40M neg., Kaow Island located Essequibo River 388 acres of land, 4 sawmills, airstrip, 7 properties for US$22M, Non Pareil $55M neg., Drysdale Street $17M neg., Hadfield Street (front property) $25M (2-family), Festival City $26M neg., Thomas Street (corner lot) $70M neg., in Linden 31 Bent Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown 686-3153, 225-8101, 6583928, 2 25-8103, gavinberesford@yahoo.com, www.bettervaluesrealty.com.

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 property in High Street, Kingston by the Red House 260x80, land size US$750 000.

Business land 125x60 opposite Jumbo Jet in Smy t h c l o s e t o Brickdam $70M, one land for the purpose for 60-apartment co m plex 10x120 at East & Quamina Streets, corner lot with reserve at the corner and parking in John Ford car/park US$1.7M neg., on Mandela Avenue opposite gymnasium new for offer and business US$640000, one 8 000 sq. ft land by the Chinese embassy for 6-storey apartment complex, Donald Trump says you d o n ' t h a v e t o p a y for height anymore and put gloss US$300 000 only for Christmas, Bel Air Springs 5 storey apartment complex 5-apartment overlooking the sea, rental of 2500 each apartment US$800 000 now US$600 000 . P hone Amanda Lam 651-5428, 623-2591, 6090943.  2015 14% + 20% discount ply 2 % commission on selling commission: Concrete two-storey 4000 sq. ft, 80% complete on double lot in Delph Avenue $36M. Joint Services new 4-bedroom concrete $21M was $28M, New Haven on 7 000 sq.. ft land $52M, Bel Air Park two-storey $52M, Bel Air Park. Phone Mr Boodram 6923831, 623-2591, 225-2626, 669-0943, 225-3068, 6270288, 667-7812.

HEAVY DUTY

HEAVY DUTY EQUIP.  110-90 4x4 tractor, Massey Ferguson 175, 275 tractor, Ford 7700, 4 WD tractors, 416 Caterpillar, 4x4 L/backhoe, Cummings Bridge Port Milling machine. Tel; 667-3611, 6992563., 671-1809.

FOR SALE FOR SALE  Guiana and other rare stamps - 617-5727.  Night Hawk motor bike.

Price $350 000. Tel: 676-9160.  stall, Bourda Market.

Call 627-3902.     mobile canteen and a pools table. Call 693-1250.  drinking water bottles $1 300. Call 684-8231.  of rims and tyres. Call 667-0355, 629-7016.  machine & 1 gas 4-burner gas stove with oven. Tel: 686-1368.  car alarm with optional installation. Tel: 6911300.  condition, ocean going containers 20' & 40' contact: Meena - 677-3352, 266-3173/6.  gas: 407C-25 lbs. Phone 233-0608 (8am-4pm) Mon Fri.

 Shepherd pups and Canter parts Tel: 621-6002, 223-8033.   swimming pool tablets - Phone 233-0608 (8am4pm) Mon - Fri.  and female European champion adults Rottweiler. Call 665-9140, 639-1431.

 food warmer, 4 large compartments on stand. Tel: 2319086.  at Bourda Market going at $9.5M neg. Ampac Real Estate, 610-3666, 684-1893.  flat screen 32" TV & DVD (almost new) $80 000 neg.

Call 254-0519, 695-0858. -gallon water bottle caps $25, 800 pieces per box.

Call: 614-8957.  wooden boat, priced for quick sale. Tel: 6488341. Quattro razor set for women, Swiffer mops, toolsets, fans. Tel: 648-8341.  puppy already vaccinated and de-wormed.

Call 690-2739, 665-7982.   with all requirements available and ready. (EPA & GGMC permit) Ampac Real Estate 684-1893, 610-3666.      truck, IV eco tipper, ERF EC 11 hauler, Seddon Atkinson twin steer tripper - Contact 609-7803.  air condition unit 12 000 BTU, 110 volts, 6o cycles. Call 233-0608 Monday to Friday, 08:00hrs to 16:00hrs.  breed Tibetan terriers, lively and fun-loving, fully vaccinated, 9 weeks old, 617-9476, 641-7743, 264-2210.  Icom-718, Maglite LED 2-cell, Garmin GPS map 78S for mining purpose. 6216534.  Bold (new) $10 000, flash camera, Iphone 3 $35 000, Sony camcorder $25 000. Call 691-7304.  with Microrise 3.8 cubic per bag $10 000 Contact Raymond 615-2346, 628-0200, 263-5300.  and plucked chicken, also liver, giblet and foot. Contact 650-4421, 669-2512.   In stock 3x4, 4x6 & 5x7. Special orders available also. Contact 266-4166, 6662361, 656-5616.  paint, oil paint, 1-gal. & 5 gals Pails, many colours, also 250 gallons Tote water tank Phone 220-1014.  air condition unit 12 000 BTU, 110 volts, 6o cycles. Call 233-0608 Monday to Friday, 08:00hrs to 16:00hrs.  gas: 22, 410, 134A & 404A, also Argon gas and helium gas for balloons - Phone 233-0608 (8am-4pm) Mon - Fri.  aluminum boat (Hull) 30ft. x 10ft., one 340 Yanmar engine (perfect condition), one trailer. Contact 623-1387, 2204507.  dresses and tops for the holiday from the USA, sizes 8-16 - Call 625-5951   at Bourda Market, 6 stalls at Stabroek Market.

Contact 675-5559.  of used Toyota, Nissan starters $150 000. Call 6246069.  Sale! Sale! - Slatwall panel, cash register, cupboard, shades rack, island display. Contact 611-7893, 674-4796, 6099089.

 shepherd pups, available February 5, 2015.

Please contact Joan in Republic Park to book in advance. Tel: 2335783, 600-7871.  soda, 55 lbs; soda ash, 50 lbs; sulphuric acid, 45 & 5 gals; granular chlorine, 100 lbs; alum, 55lbs - Phone 233-0608 (8am-4pm) Mon - Fri.      7 4 3 B , g o o d Kubota engine, hydraulic pump needs servicing. $700 000. Tel: 233-3025, 690-6946.  quantities on Nivea cream, Delon lotion, body wash & fabulous fruit shampoo.

619-5784, 667-7512.  Timber harvester 30 TH 25 electric motor, fully hydraulic, cut 28ft. 261-2553.  and used HP computer, new & used 20x20 tents, 18" RCF speakers with box and amplifier & deck & XT44 horn. Contact 2296533, 613-2798.  end Ashley furniture, household articles and appliances all imported from the U.S. Call 623-1763. Owner leaving.  track and glass $15 000 each 212, 192, 1RZ etc., park lights as low as $2550 each & lots more lights, Tel: 269-0534, Lot 3 La Jalousie Public Road, WCD. double stall (existing business) centrally located next to Robb Street, Bourda Market. For serious enquiries, please call Ram 600-9161 or Miss Singh 225-0405.     - H y m a c 19ton: Rebuilt Perkins 6-cylinder comes with spare track chains & pads. $1.7M. Call 2333025, 690-6946.     a n d a c e t y l e n e g a s e s , f a st and efficient service, 10-11 McDoom, Public Road, EBD - Phone 233-0608 (8am-4pm) Mon - Fri.  items: Fridge, TV, large and small 3piece sofa, microwave, bed & mattress, wall divider etc., selling cheap. Serious enquiries only. Contact 618-9295. set, wireless mike, Samsung camcorder $35 000, Mavado his/hers $120 000 and MK watch $30 000. Tel: 679-2450, 692-3880.    Slatwall panel, cash register, cupboard, shades rack, island display.

Contact 611-7893, 674-4796, 6099089.  4D56 engine, Nissan QD 32 engine $500 000 each, Toyota 1AZ engine $100 000. Call 624-6069.  heavy duty sewing machine operator, must know to operate all machine, experience in cover stitch. Contact: 660-2497.  used Jacuzzi in excellent condition $85 000, one used bathroom vanity with double sink, made by Fibre Tech with faucet, three drawers, 2 cupboards $145 000. Call 624-6069.  large breed pups six weeks old, vaccinated and dewormed, (mother Brazilian Mastiff and father Rottweiler). Contact 225-0301 weekends or after 18:00 hrs daily.  4285 backhoes, 1 working and 1 partly dismantled, 1 Bombardier Seadoo 1000, very good condition, one Bayliner 21ft. speedboat, excellent condition. $2.2M Call 444-6589, 694-1888

 arrived: wholesale only - area rugs sizes 210x320 cm, 240x340cm, 200x285 cm; s p e c ial delivery from Georgetown to Rosignol, Georgetown to Parika - Contact Te l : R a j i n 6 5 6 - 9 9 5 9 .  alarm kits, 1832 panel, LCD keypad, battery, siren, motion detector $39 500, UPS/alarm, 7 amp battery $6 000, transformer $3 000, DSC 30-watt siren $4 000, magnetic contact $500, alarm cable 500 ft 22/4 $12 000, cellular backup, wireless devices, electronic door bocks, & lots more. Guaranteed lowest prices. Call 231-5674, 225-4286.      For all Authentic Truck Parts and Accessories new and used for Leyland DAF, ERF, Bedford Model M and TM Etc from the UK. Also Foreign Used Cummins, DAF and Perkins Engine TM Transfer and Gear Boxes Please Call Dave Rameshwar Tel: 592660-9152, 592-610-2873                                         

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      Toyota Raum, and 212 new model. Call 650-4200.  Hilux Surf, Super Custom bus. Contact 638-3636.  320i, PNN SERIES. Contact 624-8802.    Vista 5V40, in good condition, $650 000 - 686-1668.  Hilux extra cab GKK 9632, first owner. 694-9692, 6841163.    minibus, BLL series. Contact 664-2808.  2RZ MINIBUS, BPP SERIES, $1.4M call 654-1382  Vitz mint condition, lady-driven $1.1M neg., 623-4790.  Mazda Demio. Call 600-0241, 619-1427.  Toyota Corolla G-Touring wagon. Call 667-4192.  Civic, sprayed in black, rims $600 000 - 622-8109.  in excellent condition $1.45M neg. Call 6422289.   minibus in private, immaculate condition. Tel: 6295208.  Toyota Allion, 1 RZ minibus. Contact: 618-2589, 6513295, 648-2856, owner.  canter $2M neg., 1 panel van $600 000 neg. 618-1948.  LAND CRUISERS, 1FJ 60, 2 FJ 62 - 616-9402.  NZE, lady-driven $1.6M. Call 226-1122, 624-3404.

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 black Suzuki Vitara jeep, PKK series. Contact 6490328.

   work needed, AT 100 $800 000 neg.

617-2466, 613-7113 anytime.

 626 car 1995 model, 1800cc - $480 000. 624-6069.

 Allion, 2008 model, fully loaded, never registered. Call 628-3940.

 Mitsubishi Lancer automatic, fully powered, mags e t c . $ 8 5 0 0 0 0 n e g . Te l : 6 4 2 6159.

 Canter 4M51 engine, mid GMM series, 16.5' tray in working condition, needs little work on brakes and tray. Priced to go $2M neg. 690-1004.

 Toyota Alex, excellent condition, CD, mag rims, $1.45M neg., one Toyota BB, excellent condition, CD, mag rims $1.1M neg., one Toyota Raum, excellent condition, CD, mag rims, $1,9M neg., one Toyota Supra full drag racing car $3M neg. 647-7722.

 will you buy one house lot in the heart of Meadow Brook Gardens , the executive area $12.5M neg., size 4,538 sq. ft. Lord and Reid Realty 225-2626, 227-6863, 225-3068, 226-1064, 6693350.

   t r a c t o r s 2 3 5 Massey Ferguson, Ford and John Deere Tractors double and single drive , 185 M a s s a y, 2 9 0 M a s s e y , 3 gear stick, 275 Massey , 4 2 4 0 M a s s ey , 5000 Ford , 6600 Ford , 6610 Ford , 6610 New Holland Ford , 7610 New Holland Ford , 7910 New Holland Ford , John Deere 4WD, used engines 4- & 6-cylinder Perkins, Cummins, Deutz, Ford & also used new parts. Cont a c t R a m ' s 6 1 9 -4483, 2266325, 227-1454.

  Just arrived - new shape RAV4, CRV, Rus h , P r e m i o , B B , Raum, Prado, 4 Runner, Land Cruiser, Vitz, Allion, Ractis, Cylpha, Vio s, A x i o , P i t b u l l b u s , I S T, C ami, AT 212, Voxy, P i c n i c , Alteeza, Spacio, Passo, A v ensis, Ipsum, Hi l u x , Platz, Wish, Vigo, Corolla, NZE 121, Cald i n a wago n , Dualis, Wingroad wagon, BluebirdSylphy, Townace, Liteace, XTrail, Datsun pickup, Vannette, BMW, M i r a g e , Lancer, Colt, D i n g o , E s c u d o , Honda F i t , Capa, Civic, Mazda Demio and more - Ray's Motor Spares & Auto Sales - S h e r i f f S t r e et.

2 2 7 - 2322, 2 2 7 - 2 3 3 0, 2335151.

 Mark 2 GX 90 $700 000. Contact 626-7983. Spacio in excellent condition - contact: 644-1712.  Minibus Noah, good working condition for $2M, contact: 674-8084.  canter, short base, never registered. $2.2M. 617-2891.  Premio, PNN series, mags, TV, back-up camera etc. Price neg. Tel: 679-2091.  Toyota Cami, auto, fully loaded, excellent condition. $1.6M, Tel: 642-6159.  model 212, rims, music etc. Price $850 000 neg., contact: 220-9770. , 2005 for $2M and Dodge Caravan 2002 $1.8M. Contact 225-3391.  Swift in immaculate condition. Price neg..

Tel: 629-9127.  Toyota Corona 190 excellent condition. Owner leaving country. Call 615-9975.   immaculate condition $1.1M neg., call: 254-0519, 695-0858.   M trucks with & without winch - Tel: 666-7734, 611-2706.  Prelude, as is, left hand drive $100 000. Call 2277607.  212, old & new, one Toyota NZE, excellent condition. Call 656-9041.  Avensis, PNN series, first owner, excellent condition. Call 627-4166.  PKK series, in good condition. - $1.45M. Call 6283653.  enclosed Dyna Lorry $900 000, diesel engine.

Call 600-7388, 225-0198.  Sentra runs great, no mechanical problems - $300 000. Call Raul 655-8361, 6996811.  Altezza PKK series music, AC, alarm, 17" mag rims, body kit etc. Price neg. Contact 618-5509.   minibus long base, BMM series, EFI with CD, mags, in working condition.-Tel: 2704098, 686-9516.  Mazda Axela, excellent condition. Asking $1.85M neg.

Contact 665-3038, 226-4356.   unregistered $3.550M, MF 290 tractor with everything . Quick sale. Call 648-1000.  200SX Sports car: turbo, automatic, like new, priced to sell - Tel: 616-0427, 689-3612.  truck with HIAB and dump, perfect working condition. Tel: 670-2948, 614-8374.  1999 canter 8'x 17' tray with six-cylinder, turbo diesel engine. Call 656-2634,690-4357  Allion 2008 model, fully loaded, never registered.

Contact 624-8802.  bush truck lifted, stick, four-cylinder, four-wheel drive 95 & 94. Call 6562634,690-4357  V.V.T.I RZ bus BMM 7345 serious enquiries Contact 255-0909, 653-8243.  Inn Apartments Premio, Vitz. Eccles New Scheme. Tel. 679-7139, 639-4452, 619-3660.  Hiace RZ Super Custom in private original PKK series, good condition. Tel: 612-2258.  - 1986 Nissan D21 GFF series 2WD $400 000. Tel: 233-3025, 690-6946.

 Hilux 4x4, 2-door manual long base, solid DEF, excellent condition. Tel: 6033384. bus, immaculate condition, never worked hire, must be sold. Tel: 6151643.  Toyota Raum, first owner, needs engine. Contact 233-5112, 693-6239.  RX8 PNN series, F150 GLL series, Vehicles are fully loaded. Owner leaving 617-2891.  sell! Owners leaving country. Price neg. One Toyota Picnic (7 seats) PLL series. Tel: 684-6938.  Toyota Corolla NZE motor car in immaculate condition. Price neg. Contact 3374544, 626-1525.  Hilux Vigo, 2007 year, silver, AC, mag rims, music, fully loaded. Price $3.6M Tel: 602-2222.

 Toyota Vios, fully loaded, silver, PMM series, excellent condition $1.35M neg. Tel: 642-6159.  new model Raum with mags, AC, CD music in excellent condition.

Price $1.8M. Tel: 625-6397.  grey AE 192, HC 4451 16-inch rims, music set etc. Price $920 000 neg. Contact 663-0971.   new model car with mags, AC & CD music, in excellent condition. Price $1.3M neg. Tel: 625-6397.  Pitbull BRR series, one RZ EFI BPP series, one car Vios, PPP series. Contact 229-6533, 613-2798.  BB, PPP series, excellent condition, music set, rims $1.6M neg. Tel: 685-5100, 6429003.  Blue Bird, 1 week old, rims, DVD, reverse camera, part time 4WD - $2.95M neg. 685-5100, 642-9003. series, never worked hire, first owner, rims, AC, music $1.2M neg. 685-5100, 642-9003.

 Toyota Hilux smart cab stick gear 4x4 low mileage, October 2011 manufacture - Tel 675-4453, 677-7592.

 Titan, fully loaded, four-wheel drive. Price $2.8M neg., Must go urgently. Call 6992322, 678-2814.

 truck - 1995 Subaru Sambar 650cc 4WD GLL series, $500 000. Tel: 233-3025, 6906946.

  2005, 2007 & 2010 MANUAL & AUTO 4 X 4, FULLY LOADED. CALL: 227-1511, 651-4578

 blue Kawasaki Ninja 600cc, 2009, CH series HID lights $1.6M neg. Call 685-5100, 6429003.

 Toyota Cami PMM series $500 000, one Toyota Vista wagon PSS series $3.65 neg. Call 6481000.

 Toyota Premio 2004 model PPP series, excellent condition Price Neg Call 6427813, 651-6862 Steve.

 excellent condition $2.250 neg., 1 jailing 110 $140 neg. Tel: 662-8029, 6833586.

  car in good condition, Toyota Hilux Surf, Town Ace minibus. Price reasonable Call 667-7010, 646-7777.

 Toyota Avensis 2008 model, excellent condition. Price neg. Contact 227-7002.

 BHH series 4177, excellent condition, mags, rims etc, colour green & black. Contact 697-6466.  Toyota Premio, 1500 cc, back camera, TV, DVD, CD, remote key, free registration etc.

642-9496, 699-9496.  Voxy to be registered in 'B' series, fully loaded, never registered, $2.1M 6172891.  Voxy and Noah to be registered in 'G' series. Fully loaded and never registered $1.7M. 617-2891.  bus TRH 112 Super GL, 14 seats, VVTI engine AT, AC, TV late BSS never worked passenger - $2.475M. Tel: 6778359.   Premio, mags, alarm, etc. $2M neg. Must sell urgently, owner leaving country. Tel: 676-6823.  model 212 motor car.

Price $1.125M, Mitsubishi Lancer. Price $650 000, Phone 268-3953, 665-8517.  old model Toyota Raum, AC, CD, alarm, good working condition, PMM series. Call 697-5378. Reasonable price.  loaded new model Bluebird with TV, camera, DVD etc. unregistered. Going cheap - $2.6M neg. 638-9116.

 long base, EFI. Price $875 000, AT 212 motor car new model. Phone 268-3953, 6658517.  Camry SV 32 PFF series, good condition. Asking price $850 000 neg. Call 623-8830.  Toyota Corona AT 170, one Mitsubishi RVR SUV - Owner leaving country. Contact 617-9419.  Fielder wagon 2008 model PRR series, excellent condition. Price $2.25M neg.-Call 6238830.

 Tacoma unregistered 2003 model, manual 4x4 3RZ 4-cylinder engine fully l o a d e d , b e d l i i n e r $ 3 . 5 M . Te l : 225-1400, 621-5902.  wagon, flair kit, AC, mags, CD, remote start, alarm. Price $1.45M neg. Excellent condition.

Te l : 6 2 6 - 2 8 8 4 .    s i l v e r g r e y To y o t a Vigo : f u l l y loaded with crash and tray bars, roof rack, excell e n t c o n d i t i o n - P riced to go call 6 2 3 - 5 5 5 0 .  sell! Owners leaving country. Price neg. One Toyota Picnic (7 seats) PLL series. Tel: 684-6938.   Frontier GSS series, mint condition, hardly used.

No reasonable offer refused. 6230786, 679-6042.                           , manual transmission, fully loaded, excellent condition, hardly driven, late LL series. Going very cheap $1.4M neg. Contact 688-8519.  Chief Auto Sales Te l : 6 2 3 - 0 7 8 6 , To y o ta I S T, Spacio, Allion. All unregistered, fully loaded.  Hilux 4x4 s i n g le cab, diesel, turbo, pick-up - Registration GRR, no reasonable offer refused - Tel: 616-0427, 6893612.  Hummer H2 low mileage, fully chromed, leather interior, sun roof, bow system. Call 619-5400, 667-1116.  Corvette 50th Anniversary convertible, chrome wheels, low mileage, computer chip, fully loaded. 619-5400, 639-3100.

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Stirling, Joyce lead Ireland to upset of Windies

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… Professional Ireland dominate game from outset

Man-of-the-Match Paul Stirling plays a sweep during his innings of 92 against West Indies in Nelson.

(REUTERS) - Paul Stirling and Ed Joyce came agonisingly close to centuries but still helped Ireland cause the first upset of the 2015 cricket World Cup with a four-wicket victory over West Indies at Saxton Oval in Nelson yesterday.

Opener Stirling scored 92 and shared in a 106-run partnership with Joyce (84) while Niall O’Brien added 79 not out to guide Ireland to 307 for six in 45.5 overs after West Indies had scored 304 for seven.

It is the third successive World Cup they have beaten a Test-playing team after victories over Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2007 and England in 2011.

“It’s obviously fantastic. The way we chased those runs was great. It sets us up for the next few games and it’s a great position to be in,” Ireland captain William Porterfield said.

“We know what we are capable of and we believed going out on the pitch today, that we could win not only this game but other games in the competition and we want to continue that.”

West Indies only posted a score in excess of 300 due to a counter-attacking century from Lendl Simmons (102), who combined with Darren Sammy (89) in a 154-run sixth-wicket partnership.

Jason Holder’s side had been in disarray before the tournament with

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off-spinner Sunil Narine withdrawing and the players involved in a bitter wrangle with their board over payments.

Few expected them to seriously challenge for the title and with the loss to Ireland in their opening match, they could be in danger of not making the quarterfinals from Pool B. Ireland also sensed they could upset West Indies before the game and were on top from the moment Porterfield won the toss.

None of his bowlers is above medium fast but they took advantage of the pitch conditions and bowled tight line and length to strangle the West Indies top order.

Spinners George Dockrell and Andy McBrine then clamped down on the scoring as West Indies failed to rotate the strike by accumulating singles and then lost regular wickets.

Simmons and Sammy were forced together at 87 for five in the 24th over after the top order failures.

They took their side through to the 45th over before Simmons and Andre Russell (27 not out) put on 61 to give West Indies a total they had never looked likely to achieve earlier.

“It was a tough loss, putting 300 runs on the board we backed ourselves to defend it,” said Holder. “We need to tighten up and be better in the games to come.”

Kashif and Shanghai ...

Smith had admirable support from fellow guard Ron Campbell and forward Trenton Woolford who both scored 12 points for the Guardians.

The Amelia’s Ward Jets, one of the semi-finalists of last year’s event, were led

by Adrian Webster with 15 points and 12 rebounds and his older brother Allister, contributed 13 points and 14 rebounds.

Former Junior National high jump record-holder Parish Cadogan also had 12 points in the Amelia’s Ward community club loss.

Pepsi Sonics and Half Mile Bulls collided in game one of the four-game card. The DDL-sponsored team were led by the sensational Jason Squires, who scored a game-high 23 points and also hauled in four rebounds and shovelled out four assists and five steals in the process.

Squires’ all-round performance was nothing short of brilliant and his teammate Trevor Smith

WEST INDIES innings D. Smith c Mooney b K. O’Brien 18 C. Gayle c K. O’Brien b Dockrell 36 D. Bravo run-out 0 M. Samuels lbw b Dockrell 21 D. Ramdin lbw b Dockrell 1 L. Simmons c Dockrell b Sorensen 102 D. Sammy c Dockrell b Mooney 89 A. Russell not out 27 J. Holder not out 0 Extras: (lb-1, w-9) 10 Total: (7 wkts, 50 overs) 304 Fall of wickets: 1-30, 2-31, 3-78, 4-78, 5-87, 6-241, 7-302.

Bowling: Mooney 7-1-59-1 (w3), Sorenson 8-0-64-1 (w-1), McBrine 10-1-26-0, K O’Brien 9-0-71-1 (w-3), Dockrell 10-050-3 (w-1), Stirling 6-0-33-0 (w1).

IRELAND innings W.Porterfieldcwkp.RamdinbGayle 23 P. Stirling c wkp. Ramdin b Samuels 92 E. Joyce c Bravo b Taylor 84 N. O’Brien not out 79 A. Balbirnie c Bravo b Taylor 9 G. Wilson c Gayle b Taylor 1 K. O’Brien run-out 0 J. Mooney not out 6 Extras: (b-4, w-9) 13 Total: (6 wkts, 45.5 overs) 307 Fall of wickets: 1-71, 2-177, 3-273, 4-285, 5-290, 6-291.

Bowling: Holder 9-1-44-0 (w-2), Roach 6-0-52-0, Taylor 8.5-0-713 (w-1), Russell 6-0-33-0 (w-1), Gayle 8-0-41-1, Sammy 3-0-250, Samuels 4-0-25-1, Simmons 1-0-12-0.

Points: Ireland 2, West Indies 0.

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responded with a good showing of his own; shooting lights out from ‘down town’ on his way to 22 points.

Kurt ‘Gipsy’ Elias, Sonics’ recent acquisition, gave an extraordinary performance, dominating the glass and pulling in 19 rebounds. He also added 11 points to his team’s total.

Half Mile Bulls’ youngsters Terron Welch and Dennis Niles tried everything in their power to fight against the city counterparts, but the duo who each scored 16 points on the night, could have done little by themselves as their teammates shied away under the lights at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

The Kashif and Shanghai Kings, one of the stronger teams from the mining town, saw Abdulla ‘Zico’ Hamid, a veteran himself, lead his side with 16 points and eight rebounds as his team were the lone side from Linden to stand sturdy against the

City teams.

Rolling back the years, Lugard Mohan scored 26, had eight rebounds and seven assists, Kenrick Thomas scored 16 and Juma Dennis netted 12 points, all in the losing effort.

The final game of the night ended just when it actually started, since Pacesetters ran a clinic against the Wismar Pistons.

Randy Richards’ double-double (11 points, 13 rebounds), along with Shawn Gillis’ 13 points and a complete effort from Pacesetters did more than enough to see them not only past Wismar Pistons, but also book a spot in the tournament’s quarter-finals.

The tournament continues tomorrow with another invasion from the mining town: Colts versus Bankers Trust Falcons and New Amsterdam Warriors playing last year’s runners-up Retrieve Raiders.

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Mayweather/Pacquiao: No deal signed yet WBC and WBA welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather says he is “hopeful” a fight with Manny Pacquiao can happen, but an agreement has not yet been reached.

American Mayweather, 37, and Filipino Pacquiao, 36, recently exchanged phone numbers at a US basketball game.

“I haven’t signed yet and he hasn’t signed yet,” said Mayweather Eight-division world champion Pacquiao, and Mayweather, a world champion at five weights, are considered the best fighters of their generation.

“It’s just been speculations and rumours,”

Mayweather added. “But I’m hopeful we can make the fight happen.”

Pacquiao’s publicist Fred Sternburg recently said a bout between the two still has “a long way to go” but that there has been movement “in a positive direction”.

It followed reports Pacquiao had agreed terms on a May 2 bout in Las Vegas.

One stumbling block has been Mayweather’s insistence on a strict blood-testing programme during training, but Pacquiao said those demands cast him in a bad light as a suspected cheat. (BBC Sport)

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Irish strike a blow for associates ahead of 2019 revamp

By Nick Mulvenney SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) - Ireland’s World Cup victory over West Indies yesterday was the kind of giant-killing that lights up any tournament but cricket fans should enjoy it while they can ahead of format changes for the 2019 version of the event.

It is the third straight tournament that Ireland have turned over one of the 10 “full members” of the International Cricket Council that play Test matches and occupy the upper echelons of cricket’s ranking system.

Ireland are one of four

ings as the quarterfinalists.

“It’s almost easy, barring the odd upset or someone really having a bad tournament, you can almost predict who the top eight will be,” former India skipper Rahul Dravid told ESPN Cricinfo in January.

Ireland may yet throw another hefty spanner or two into those works but from 2019 they will have to battle it out with the lower-ranked full members and the other associate members just to get to the tournament in England and Wales.

Depending on the results from the qualifying tournament in Bangladesh in 2018,

until they are ready to play at the top level.

Up to that point, he believes, they can only detract from what should be the showpiece event for the game.

“I feel that tournaments like the World T20 and Champions Trophy will be an opportune time to give these nations the chance to play,” he said.

“I think throwing them into an event like this every four years is a bit hit-andmiss and takes away from what is an iconic event for cricket.”

Ireland skipper William Porterfield, you can

Ireland’s George Dockrell is mobbed by team-mates after he had Marlon Samuels lbw, Ireland v West Indies, on Sunday. “associate members” with Scotland, United Arab Emirates and debutants Afghanistan in the 14-strong field at the tournament but in 2019 only 10 teams will take part, the top eight in the rankings and two qualifiers.

The problem with the current format, according to its many critics, is that the first month of the tournament is played out merely to confirm the top eight in the rank-

the next World Cup might go ahead without a single associate member.

Striking the balance between encouraging nations where the sport is growing and enduring a string of unsightly one-sided results in the early rounds can be tough.

Some, like former South Africa skipper Graeme Smith, favour investing heavily to allow the developing nations to grow in strength

be certain, would disagree and yesterday he suggested tearing up the whole system of “full” and “associate” members altogether.

“I don’t see why a team has to be an associate and a team has to be a full member,” he told reporters in Nelson.

“It’s like sure you’re ranked or whatever. It’s not like that in any other sport, so I don’t see why it has to be like that in ours.”

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Brathwaite, Best deal Red Force heavy defeat BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Barbados Pride produced an incisive display after lunch to cripple Trinidad and Tobago Red Force, and seal a massive 222-run victory on the final day of their sixth round WICB Professional Cricket League contest here yesterday.

Resuming the day on 17 without loss in search of 336 for victory, T&T made it to 91 for three at lunch but collapsed thereafter, to be bowled out for 113 in their second innings, nearly 40 minutes before the scheduled tea break at Kensington Oval.

They were stunned by seamers Carlos Brathwaite (3-17) and Tino Best (3-19) while off-spinner Ashley Nurse picked up two for 34.

Carlos Brathwaite Evin Lewis top scored with 38 - Imran Khan and Marlon Richards, both hitting 22. Opener Jeremy Solozano was unable to bat because of injury.

The victory put Barbados on 77 points in second spot while Red Force continued to languish one from the bottom of the six-team table on 30 points.

There was no sign of a collapse when overnight batsmen Khan and nightwatchman Richards pushed the first-wicket stand to 55.

Khan struck three fours and faced 62 balls in nearly an hour-and-a-half at the crease while Richards, who started the day on one, also hit three fours and a six off 41 balls.

Nurse eventually got the breakthrough, having Richards caught by Carlos Brathwaite at leg slip and two balls later in the next over, Khan followed to a catch at second slip by Nurse off Brathwaite, at 59 for two.

HACC president bemoans lack of action by SCA

By Frederick Halley

TORONTO, Canada – Despite savouring their fifth unprecedented fifth consecutive victory in the Scarborough Cricket Association (SCA) Premiere League, Hawaiian Arctic Cricket Club (HACC) president Archie Mohan is still perturbed and upset that to date no action has been taken against East/West Cricket Club for their unruly behaviour in last season’s final.

The outspoken Mohan made know his feelings last Sunday when the SCA held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Agincourt Community Centre here in Scarborough, Toronto.

According to Mohan, the 2015 season is fast approaching and he’s still waiting to see what action, if any, will be taken against the perpetrators.

Mohan’s comments were directed at the SCA officials who he claimed seemed to have put the issue on the back-burner following the aborted final, played at the Ashtonbee ground on October 5 last year.

The long-standing Guyanese president also questioned why no disciplinary action was taken against the offending players whose atrocities were conducted in full view of the SCA president and other executive members.

Acknowledging that

HACC president Archie Mohan they had received the report from the presiding umpires, SCA vice-president Besham Singh, whose portfolio the disciplinary committee falls under, assured that the matter will be dealt with prior to the commencement of the 2015 season.

Seemingly staring certain defeat at the hands of HACC, East/West staged an unbelievable display in full view of the hundreds of spectators who had flocked the ground to witness what had promised to be a keenly contested final between the two top teams.

Irked by a decision which saw the umpire rule not-out to a vociferous caught-behind appeal off number three batsman Reyaz Prahalad, the East/ West players proceeded to display unsportsmanlike behaviour, storming and pleading with the umpire to change his original decision.

When this was not

accomplished the players turned their attention to the stumps at the batsman’s end, uprooting them in the process.

The behaviour forced the umpires to award the game to HACC with the score on 27 for one in pursuit of the paltry 127 all out in 42.1 overs made

by East/West. Former Guyana opener Krishna Arjune was undefeated on 14 when the game was abandoned.

The victory catapulted HACC to an unprecedented fifth consecutive title while soaring to 17 wins in a row this season.

A similar incident occurred in the 2011 final, which featured the same two teams, and according to a very reliable source the league apparently failed to act.

According to the source East/West vehemently protested a run-out decision which went against them, and again uprooted the stumps and even went further by allegedly making contact with one of the umpires. The source further pointed out that after intervention by the police, HACC agreed to continue the game although it was awarded to them and went on to win quite easily.

The source disclosed that the league failed to take any decisive action and this may have given East/West licence to continue their unsportsmanlike attitude.

When Yannick Ottley top-edged a sweep at Nurse to wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich for two, Red Force were sliding at 72 for three but Lewis and Yannic Cariah, who made 13, steadied the innings with a stand of 28 for the fourth wicket.

The left-handed Lewis, who had retired hurt on four the previous evening, stroked seven fours off 72 balls in 98 minutes at the crease and appeared to be leading a T&T fightback.

After lunch, however, T&T collapsed, los-

ing their last six wickets for 22 runs. Lewis fell in the seventh over after the break, edging Best behind at 100 for four and two balls later in the same over, captain Jason Mohammed missed one and was lbw without scoring.

Brathwaite delivered the death sentence when he struck twice in one over. He ended Cariah’s 76-minute vigil by gaining an lbw verdict and then trapped wicketkeeper Steven Katwaroo lbw next ball, as the innings tailed away quickly.

Scoreboard BARBADOS PRIDE 1st innings 275 Trinidad & Tobago Red Force 1st innings 218 Barbados Pride 2nd innings 278 for five decl.

T&T Red Force 2nd innings (target: 336) (o/n 17 without loss) E. Lewis c wkp. Dowrich b Best 38 I. Khan c Nurse b C Brathwaite 22 M. Richards c C. Brathwaite b Nurse 22 Y. Ottley c wkp. Dowrich b Nurse 2 Y. Cariah lbw b C. Brathwaite 13 J. Mohammed lbw b Best 0 A. Hosein lbw b Warrican 4 S. Katwaroo lbw b C Brathwaite 0 D. Davis c Nurse b Best 1 S. Gabriel not out 2 J. Solozano injured out Extras: (b-4, w-2, nb-3) 9 Total: (all out, 50.3 overs) 113 Fall of wickets: 1-55, 2-59, 3-72, 4-100, 5-100, 6-109, 7-109, 8-110, 9-113.

Bowling: Cummins 10-1-28-0, Warrican 3.32-1-1, Nurse 14-2-34-2, Chase 3-0-10-0, Best 9-4-19-3, C. Brathwaite 11-5-17-3.

Points: Barbados Pride 17, T&T Red Force 4.

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Windies must buckle down or face early exit, warns Sammy NELSON, New Zealand (CMC) – Former one-day captain Darren Sammy has warned his teammates their campaign in the ICC Cricket World Cup will be short-lived unless they begin to execute properly in all three aspects of the game.

West Indies crashed to an embarrassing four-wicket loss to Ireland in their World Cup opener at Saxton Oval yesterday, despite piling up 304 for seven.

“If we continue to play like that, we won’t be here for long for sure,” Sammy tersely told reporters following the game.

West Indies recovered from 87 for five in the 24th over to top 300, thanks to Lendl Simmons who stroked 102 and Sammy, who slammed an exhilarating 89. They put on 154 for the sixth wicket.

However, the Windies seam-based attack then bowled poorly and Ireland got stuck in, with opener Paul Stirling (92), Ed Joyce (84) and Niall O’Brien (79 not out) all striking high class half-centuries to see

their side home with 25 balls remaining.

“I always believe cricket is played on the day. Like we saw today, 300 was not enough against Ireland.

We have to put all three disciplines of the game together on the cricket pitch in order to win matches,” Sammy warned.

“So when we bat well, we’ve got to bowl well and field well and right now we’re only doing one of those three disciplines and if we don’t correct that ASAP, we will be on a flight back to the Caribbean and won’t be in the quarter-finals.”

The defeat extended the Windies’ recent run of poor form. They were hammered 4-1 in the fivematch ODI series in South Africa last month and then crashed to a nine-wicket defeat to England last week in their first official warm-up match.

They piled up 313 against Scotland a few days later in their second warmup but narrowly escaped with a three-run victory.

Sammy conceded that yet again yesterday, the

Darren Sammy bowlers had struggled to get it together.

“We didn’t bowl well at all. I think half-way through we went into the dressing room with the momentum in our favour and we just needed to pick up wickets with the new ball and that is something that has been plaguing us for the last few series,” he pointed out.

“Credit must go to the Irish the way they came out and they were positive.

They had a game plan and they stuck to it. It still shows we can learn from our opposition. We didn’t

put enough balls together to create pressure and we ended up on the losing side.”

He continued: “It’s tough. We have not been playing the brand of cricket that allows us to win matches. To recover from (87 for five) to score 300, we really thought we were in with a chance.

“But we didn’t start well, our bowlers have been going for some stick over the last few games and today was no difference against and experienced Irish team.”

Sammy, however, praised the Windies

fightback and underscored the role of the big-hitting lower order.

“We batted really well and it was good to see at least one of us carrying on to get a hundred,” he pointed out.

“The number six, seven and eight in this team we call ourselves the engine room and even through the top four don’t fire we believe that the engine room in myself, Simmons and (Andre) Russell, once we play our role we will get big scores and today was a perfect example of the way the engine room fired.

“Hopefully we can continue with that in the tournament and hopefully first, second and third gear can kick off for us.

“It is very disappointing to lose our first game and we need to dust ourselves off very quickly and play well in all three disciplines against Pakistan.”

West Indies square off against Pakistan in Christchurch on Saturday.

`Hurry up’ for IBO title

LEON `Hurry Up’ Moore’s

LEON `Hurry Up’ Moore’s career has been given a jump start after he signed to fight Frenchman Karim Guerfi in St Maarten on April 4.

Moore’s manager Seon Bristol said that a contract was signed on Saturday to fight Guerfi for the International Boxing Organisation super bantamweight title.

“I see this as a very bright opportunity for Leon. His career has been stagnant for some time and a victory here would be a very big plus for us. This has put us back into the big time,” Bristol said yesterday.

Moore fought three times in 2013 but

only once last year. He has racked up a record of 31 victories and three defeats and over the past three years has been campaigning in the USA. Bristol disclosed that Guerfi would be moving up from the bantamweight division to tackle the Guyanese.

“Leon is a natural super bantamweight.

His opponent will be coming up to meet him. All of this will work in our favour as I know that Leon has enough skills to be an outright winner. We have waited a long time for this and wouldn’t allow this opportunity to go to waste,” Bristol added.

Guerfi is 27 and nine years younger.

25th Kashif and Shanghai tournament to be launched today ONCE considered Guyana’s premier sporting event, the Kashif and Shanghai Football tournament had over the last four years fallen out with their fans and some clubs, but this time around, with things mended, the tournament is back.

This year marks 25 years for the tournament which started in Linden and today, the event will be launched at the 704 Sports Bar at 11:00hrs.

The tournament will feature 16 teams and will kick off on March 20 and final on April 5, 2015. Organisers were tightlipped about the competing teams this year and only stated that further information, along with proposed prizes, will be disclosed at the launching today.

He has been defeated three times in 25 fights and was the former European bantamweight champion and the flyweight champion of France.

NOTABLE DATES FEBRUARY 12, 2001 is the most treasured day in Guyana’s boxing history. It was on that day that our pride and joy Andrew `Six Head’ Lewis captured the world title that had eluded this country for decades.

Brimming with confidence, Lewis twice knocked down American James `Mighty Quinn’ Page on the way to a seventh round TKO win and claiming the WBA welterweight title.

The fight was held at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas and televised live by Home Box Office (HBO). A right hook sent Page to the canvas with the seventh round one minute old. The American rose at the count at seven.

However, the failed to respond when referee Kenny Bayless enquired if he wanted to continue. This forced Bayless to halt the contest at one minute and 13 seconds of the round. The win caused unprecedented celebration in Guyana and then President Bharrat Jagdeo, who watched the fight in Lewis’ hometown of Albouystown, granted a public holiday.

The southpaw Lewis succeeded where Patrick Ford, Lennox Blackmoore, Terrence Alli, Wayne Harris, Andrew Murray, Anthony Andrews had failed and was showered with gifts when he returned home months later. He defended the title twice before losing it to Ricardo Mayorga in March 2002.

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Hikers/Tigers hold on to Bounty Farms/Digicel Sevens titles

By Leeron Brumell HIKERS Men maintained their unbroken streak of wins and in the process held on to the Bounty Farms Digicel One-Day Seven-a-Side Hockey Title with victory of GCC ‘A’.

But it was no easy victory, winning 2-1 in penalties.

In Female GCC Tigers remained unbeaten in recent play to retain their crown.

At the National Stadium and under fading light, the winner of the Hikers/ GCC ‘A’ clash was decided after two rounds of penalties.

In the first 10-minute period both teams were cagey with attempts to score but there was no conversion.

In the second half a bad clearance by Brian ‘Bull’ Asregado was intercepted

by GCC ‘A’. They made no mistake in slotting home; Kevin Spencer drawing the defence and keeper Jason Hoyte out on the right side.

His shot slammed into the

Hikers rushed the GCC ‘A’ defence; national Jamarj Assanah collected the ball down the right wing and guided it along the baseline and with the challenge of custodian

Hikers Jamarj Assanah feeds the ball to team mate Robert France (partly hidden) at right for the equaliser. back of the box; Advantage GCC in the 11th minute.

But Hikers would not be undone, two minutes later,

Eric Hing and two defenders, tapped it across the face of the box, Robert France tapping it in. One-all the score

GCC ‘A’s Kevin Spencer is on the ground at right watches as his shot goes into goal and the tone of the match ‘colourful’ language. He was not pleased and an animated changed. immediately green-carded by Hoyte got in the face of umBoth teams charged each umpire John Abrams. pire Allen. other’s goal in search of the It didn’t end there. Team With Xavier mere mewinner. The first green card mates tried to calm Hey- tres from the box, his shot to be issued – dangerous wood, but he would have on goal was dead in the play.- was to Alan Fernandes none of it. A yellow card face of Hoyte who slapped it as the clock ticked away ended his participation for the down and on the rebound, Play continued and rest of the game. kicked it out of the danger a penalty in favour of The penalty corner was area; victory for the Hikers GCC ‘A’ was awarded for not converted; the Hikers 2-1 on penalties.

Hoyte’s challenge on Or- defence mirrored that of Earlier; Tigers claimed land Semple. The Hikers the Germans at the last the narrowest of victories were not happy with the world cup – solid. over their club-mates Spice. call. Hoyte though denied It ended 1-1 in regula- One goal decided the winner Spencer the opportunity. tion time. and it came off the stick of Play resumed and a penalty With three penalties to Sonia Jardine in the 12th corner was awarded soon shoot – both teams scored minute of play. after by umpire Dwayne twice. A second round of H i k e r s l a d i e s w e re Allen. three penalties: Hikers up 2-1 awarded the third place The reason, dangerous with Stephen Xavier looking spot. Old Fort were the play – collecting an air-ball for the equaliser. Hoyte chal- other female team in the over one’s shoulder. lenged, lying flat on the turf Hikers’ Colonel Anthony between Xavier and the ball; competition and GCC ‘B’ Heywood made his displea- a direct penalty was awarded were 4-1 winners in the third place playoff over Old sure known – slamming his for the obstruction. stick to the ground and using Again the Hikers were Fort in male play.

Westbrook leads West to All-Star victory

Western Tigers, Fruta Conquerors through to Mayor’s Cup semi-finals

NEW YORK, New York (Reuters) - Russell Westbrook exploded for 41 points to lead the Western Conference to a 163-158 victory over the East in the 64th NBA All-Star Game on Sunday.

The Oklahoma City Thunder guard showed off his dazzling athleticism with a series high-flying dunks, once slamming home an alley-oop pass from Chris Paul with his head above the rim.

Having set a first-half scoring record with 27 points in just over 11 minutes, Westbrook went on to hit 16 of 28 shots - including five three-pointers - and added three steals as he was named the game’s MVP. Westbrook came within one point of the All-Star record 42 points scored

by Wilt Chamberlain in 1962 and finished one point better than Michael Jordan’s 40 scored in the 1988 game.

“It’s definitely an honour to be grouped with those two guys, especially in an All-Star Game,” said Westbrook. “We were just trying to win the game and close it out.”

Leading the way for the East was four-time NBA most valuable player LeBron James, who posted 30 points.

James praised the talented Westbrook.

“He’s unbelievable,” the Cleveland Cavaliers forward said. “He’s an unbelievable talent in our league. His

SLINGERZ FC and Pele were on Sunday night joined by Western Tigers and Fruta Conquerors in the semi-final round of this year’s Mayor’s Cup Football Tournament.

Fruta Conquerors defeated home side Georgetown Football Club (GFC) 2-0 in extra time, following their 0-0 score line at the end of regulation, while Western Tigers ousted the perceived ‘giant killers’ Ann’s Grove United 3-0.

Tomorrow at the GFC ground, Western Tigers will face Fruta Conquerors and Pele come up against the finalists of the previous Mayor’s Cup and ‘West Side’ champions Slingerz FC. Winners of the event will receive $1M and the championship trophy while the runners-up will pocket $300 000 and the respective title. The third- and fourth-positioned teams will walk away with $200 000 and $100 000 respectively and the corresponding accolades.

Western Tigers had to wait until the 103rd minute for a goal which came from Randolph Wagner and ten minutes later from Michael Pedro who netted the other two goals.

Meanwhile, national player Daniel Wilson, on loan from Alpha United, scored the first goal of the game for the Continental Group of Companies-sponsored team in the 95th minute against a sturdy GFC unit.

After playing a classical defensive game, the home team were reduced to ten men in the 106th minute when Steve Wilson was sent off for a foul on Conquerors’ Travis Thornhill.

Sheldon Holder, another import from Alpha United, used by ‘Juice Men’, utilising the guest player ruling, then put the icing on the cake when he teamed up with Wilson in the 119th minute.

Faizal Khan, the person who is credited for reviving GFC team, told Chronicle Sport, “If we are all honest with ourselves, GFC were beaten by Alpha United, not Fruta. It was the Alpha contracted men that won Fruta the game. GFC versus Fruta had in the past 12 months become quite a rivalry. I welcome Fruta to come back and play GFC again on our ground any time without the four Alpha players in their line-up. I think that is a game all the fans want to see happen.”

By Larry Fine

Western Conference guard Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder (0) wins the MVP trophy after the 2015 NBA All-Star Game at Madison Square Garden. The West defeated the East 163-158. (Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports) motor, his athleticism, his demeanor coach Steve Kerr said. “Just to see them about how he approaches the game, jumping against each other and to think it’s all great. It’s great for our league.” about them growing up in Spain.

Kyle Korver of the Atlanta “Whoever would have guessed Hawks added 21 points for the that one day they would jump cenEast hitting 7-of-12 from three- tre at the All-Star Game at Madison point range, while James Harden Square Garden. That was a special matched him from beyond the arc moment.” in scoring 29 for the winners.

With the players on both sides The game made All-Star histo- enjoying free-wheeling dashes up and ry right from the start as the Gasol down the floor, turning floating feeds brothers lined up for the opening tap into thundering dunks, the sides comas the first siblings ever to start the bined for 321 points, most ever in an midseason classic.

NBA All-Star Game.

Pau Gasol of the Bulls won the Besides bragging rights, the wintip from younger brother Marc of the ning West team players pocketed Grizzlies and the game was on. $50 000, double the amount taken “The opening tip was fun,” West away by the losers.

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Kashif and Shanghai Kings stand alone ... Guardians upset Jets; Pacesetters and Sonics advance THE Plaisance Guardians Basketball Club sounded early alarm bells as a team not to be taken lightly when they created the first upset of this year’s National Basketball Club Championships; defeating Linden’s Amelia’s Ward Jets 66-56 last Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) showpiece dubbed ‘The Road to Mecca’ bounced off at Guyana’s premier indoor facility with a Linden invasion, but, in the end, the city teams

had the final say.

Apart from the Guardians, Pepsi Sonics advanced when they downed the Half Mile Bulls 77-60, Trinity Grid Holdings (TGH) Pacesetters dismantled Wismar Pistons 72-36 and the lone team from Linden to pick up a victory, the Kashif and Shanghai Kings, won 77-61 over the Georgetown Masters.

Sparked by the return of point guard Nikkoloi Smith, who flew back to the nest of the Guardians, leaving Colts, the Plaisance team seemed hungry to make an im-

Guardians guard Nikkoloi Smith goes airborne to score over Jets’ Adrian Webster during his team’s 66-56 victory last Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. pression to not only the rest of the competition, but also to the recently appointed National coach Darcel Harris who was sitting in the stands

paying key attention.

The Guardians point guard poured in a game-high 19 points and also showed off his superior

defensive skills, picking up five steals, all of which turned into baskets.

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Seaboard Marine, Fly Jamaica on board with CMRC … Airline to offer special rates to Jamaica

Team Guyana, along with representatives from Fly Jamaica Airline and Seaboard Marine at yesterday’s Press conference (Adrian Narine photo)

By Rawle Toney ual and country titles in the 2015 Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC), when they handed FLY Jamaica Airlines yesterday ensured that Guy- over 40 tickets to ‘Team Guyana’. ana will have a chance to defend both their individThe first leg of the championship will take place

at JamWest Speedway in Kingston Jamaica from February 28 to March 1 and Guyana will be spearheaded by last year’s CMRC Champion driver Kristian Jeffrey and a team of experienced racers who were all instrumental in their winning the over-all championship.

Seaboard Marine yesterday also reaffirmed its commitment to getting the competitors’ machines around the Caribbean for the event which is held in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Guyana.

President of the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) John Carpenter showered both entities with praise, stating that it would be unfair to put a value on the kind gesture since it also shows their commitment to the development of motor racing in the Caribbean.

Fly Jamaica’s representative Nadine Hing also thanked

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the racers for approaching Fly Jamaica, stating, that she hopes the initiative fosters a close relationship between the company and the GMR&SC. She also pleaded with the competitors to do Guyana proud, adding, “I urge that you all proudly fly the Guyana flag and do us proud.”

Jeremy Fernandes, representing Seaboard Marine, spoke emphatically about his company’s involvement in motor racing and the will to see the Caribbean unite through the sport.

Once again the father-andson will be joined by Danny Persaud in the Group 4 Category while Afraz Allie and Rameez Mohammed are down to contest in the Group 3 class.

Chet Singh is the lone Group 2 racer and the Super Bikes racers are Stephen ‘Valentino Rossi’ Vieira, his cousin Elliot Vieira, Paul Yearwood and Kevin Persaud.

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