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Letters... Where your views make the news

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Publisher: GLENN LALL Editor: Adam Harris Tel: 225-8465, 225-8491. Fax: 225-8473, 226-8210

EDITORIAL

Education Defensiveness In response to our editorial “Education Hypocrisy”, Chief Education Officer (CEO) Mr. Olato Sam, found it necessary to respond with a claim that the said editorial was “highly insulting and fraught with inaccuracies.” We believe that Mr. Sam is being more than a tad defensive and certainly ‘protesteth too much.”

But since we believe that a very important issue is at stake here – the education of our future, our youth, we will examine Mr. Sam’s claims.

The CEO claims our editorial “suggests” that the “(Education) Ministry conspired to dupe the public in the dissemination of this year’s CSEC results” and that this “is untrue and highly disrespectful.” What we actually said was, “The Ministry of Education (MoE) felt it necessary to ask the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) to release the names of those students who passed more than eight subjects with Grade One. From the approximately 13,000 that sat the last CSEC exams, 175 names were submitted.

This is a shame and a disgrace from several angles.

Firstly why does the Ministry continue with this farce of focusing only on the one percent “high flyers” that would do well in any random sample? Do they want to take the credit for their success? We’re sure they do. Has the Ministry taken note that every one of the ‘high flyers’ from Queen’s College – the premier school in the country , collecting the top 1% from the 6th Grades – mentioned that they had to resort to ‘outside lessons?”

Mr. Sam did not deny that the MoE made the above request but proffered two reasons for its deployment. Firstly that, “one has to accept, whether we agree or not, that the nation has grown used to the practice of recognizing the “high flyers”. So the Ministry in charge of the nation’s education just goes with the flow?

This betrays a sad lack of leadership. Secondly, the CEO says, “these students do deserve praise for their hard work and above average achievements.” Of course they do – but why ask for their results ahead of the other 13,500 students who took the exams? Wouldn’t they be “praised” then? Call us “cynical” but not ‘insulting” when we conclude the MoE wanted to mask the overall atrocious results, unlike what occurred in Jamaica.

The CEO also took exception to our claim that eight subject passes were “the Ministry’s cut-off criterion for what is a ‘good’ result”. He indignantly pointed out that the Ministry had always emphasised that passes in five subjects was the ‘matriculation’ requirement. That may be so; but why did not the MoE, if it just had to innocently get a peek at the results, ask for passes at five or more subjects?

Making a very cavilling complaint, the CEO says we implied in the above quote that the 1% of high flyers at CSEC mentioned above were the same as the 1% of high flyers at the Grade Six assessments that ended up at Queen’s. As an English ‘comprehension’ exercise, we think it is clear we were referring to 1% of two distinct and separate aggregates. But the point about some CSEC high flyers coming from outside the ‘elite’ schools should remind the CEO of the MoE’s stated but evidently abandoned goal of doing away with such schools.

In response to our recommendation in light of Saraswati Vidya Niketan’s success (91% passes in Maths and English) because of extra tuition on the school’s premises by teachers at no extra cost, the CEO claims that “the Ministry of Education has never prohibited” such an approach.

Never prohibited? What about recommending and facilitating this approach? We recommend to him and the MoE the move by the Jamaican MoE, after digesting their CSEC results that were better than ours, to enact legislation towards this end.

The demonstrated success of the MoE’s ‘pilot school’ project to improve performance in Mathematics and English, which includes extra tuition as a component, should suggest to the CEO that he should be less defensive and more proactive.

We remind him that respect is earned not demanded.

Rose Hall Estate is a very inconsiderate entity DEAR EDITOR, Death is a must. All good books have echoed this truth since creation. Disposing death should this be an issue.

It is with displeased emotions that I penned this letter in an attempt to highlight the current state of the access road leading to the Reliance Cemetery and Crematorium. This burial site has been in existence over decades and has been the chosen site for almost 85% of residents living in the populated East Canje Area for their deceased relatives.

Additionally, it is imperative for me to mention that the crematorium site is the only one in the area; the closest alternative being Babu John Cemetery, miles away. Basically, it can be said that this crematorium serves residents from the East Bank Berbice, to West Canje, to New Amsterdam, to East Canje, and East Coast Berbice.

The current state of the access road is disgraceful, impassible and represents negligence of the Rose Hall Estate to assist the community in which most of its employees reside.

It is impossible for a bicycle much less a funeral procession to traverse this path. It is no longer an issue of potholes. Can someone advise me how to traverse swamp lands?

The buck stops at this entity because firstly it is its machinery that has repeatedly destroyed the track way. It is this entity that destroyed the reasonable state it once enjoyed. It is this entity that erased where a street once stood in the settlement of Reliance. It is this entity that destroyed the street before the bridge and after the bridge on both sides.

The problem is simple, not complex as scholars may want to believe. The “track”, note the word, “track” being used to describe an access way for a cortege procession, is simultaneously used by Rose Hall Estate to carry out its punt-pulling exercise. This exercise is mostly done by tractors.

Instead of the estate using a piece of the dam, (as has been done in Lochaber), the mess is all over. Only last week, the body of an overseas-based Guyanese was returned for cremation and as expected the entire dilemma replayed. The family hired a tractor to transport the body, however, as expected, the tractor stuck in the “slushy” section.

The family had to deal with the unpleasant ordeal of lifting the body through the muddied conditions, notwithstanding the tormenting distance before reaching the site. It was a sad scene, as Guyanese returning

home wondered if this is how Guyanese must be treated.

Is this the respect we have for the living and the dead?

Worst yet, people started to question the meaning of the word tourism and its applicability to Guyana. One needs to understand that not only the buildings and fancy resorts make people return to Guyana, but times of sorrow too.

Such state sends a bad impression of Guyana’s cremation grounds. Tourism must be understood in a holistic sense; proper roads, clean drinking water, full-time electricity, reduced bureaucracy and red tape, availability of proper citizen security, etc. No doubt basic infrastructure needs to be in place. It was heartening to see the priest’s condition after this cremation. Why do our religious leaders have to endure such unfair treatment on a regular basis, since almost every day this drama unfolds?

Does the management of Rose Hall Estate ever use the track to experience this plight, we, the helpless people stomach?

One reading this letter may ask why not blame the NDC instead of the Rose Hall Estate. Answer simple! “You bruck it, you mek it.” It would be shameful if a question as to the ownership of the track arises as this matter of life and death transgress beyond all thoughts.

Why can’t Rose Hall Estate express its rightful corporate responsibility and build a decent street and bridge to alleviate this issue?

I am not saying that Rose Hall

Estate should cease its operations, instead I am pleading on the relevant managers to work on a fair and decent solution. Restore the streets you destroy and build a separate bridge for us!

You would only be exercising your rightful corporate responsibility you owe to all your employees, their children, their grandchildren and the next generation to come.

Another issue that disturbs me and the residents of the East Canje community is the nasty state of newly built roads in the Canje area.

It is very dangerous to traverse on the roadways after Rose Hall Estate machinery has moved from Point A to Point B. The amount of mud that is released from the wheels of these machines makes our roads unsightly and definitely leaves room for a major disaster.

Solution? Install a washing pump nearby and wash the mud off before these machines are allowed to travel on the roads. Option Number two, acquire a trailer to piggy back the machines.

Option three, wash the roads afterward. By doing this you would join the other residents in caring for our roadways and reduce the likeliness of a major accident that can be caused by the heaps of mud on the road (imagine a scenario where it is raining and the driver attempts to apply brakes and slides because of the mud and runs into the market, or worse, the school nearby…. Ponder….).

We hear every day about environment pollution. Well what we should do with this

culprit? Every day, the residents have to put up with the dust that emanates from the estate. I personally see housewives sweeping their yards, washing their houses sometimes thrice daily. This problem I understand is a complex one. The dust cannot go away because it is what is produced from their operations. Hence, I am not sure if it can be reduced or collected by a receptor. There are two sources of dust; from the cane fields (this may be difficult to contain), and from the chimney (maybe controlled). Therefore, compensation must be given to residents, it is compulsory.

The compensation I am speaking of is merely reminding Rose Hall Estate of its moral, social, and environment obligations and responsibilities - Fix the two previously discussed problems!

The residents of Canje I am sure will welcome these changes if Rose Hall Estate starts to behave responsibly to live up to its obligations.

We are praying for the day when funeral processions will no longer be forced to halt because of bad roads. The access road must no longer be a Berbice disgrace. Help us! Become caring!

We anticipate the fulfillment of your obligation.

Before I end my letter, can someone explain why safety brackets have been installed on the public road from Rose Hall Estate Primary School onwards on such a narrow road, believe me this is hazardous, and not a safety move.

Concerned Resident

Challenge to Freddie on Bisram’s polls DEAR EDITOR, I am responding to Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s column (Aug 5) again attacking my NACTA polls as he did so often in the past. I have not done or published a poll in Guyana since November. Yet Freddie attacks me and the poll. Freddie makes allegations about the NACTA poll and its findings but like virtually all of his writings he makes claims without offering any evidence to substantiate them.

Freddie’s topic (as per the heading) in that column is supposed to be on Mr. Nigel Hughes, who Freddie loves, but for some inexplicable reason my polls’ findings pop up in the prose.

The poll or its findings bear no relationship with anything else that is the subject of discussion in the column – it is a strange piece of writing for someone in academia where researchers’ writings are supposed to substantiate the topic and irrelevancies excluded. But not so for Freddie, who cannot differentiate between academics and ignorance. It raises serious questions about his academic training and how he was able to get away with such poor writings for so long.

I was in Guyana recently spending almost three weeks conducting a NACTA poll.

Everywhere I went people praised my writings and the NACTA polls. They urged me not to pay heed to Freddie or respond to his idiotic arguments in his columns. Most of them

(lawyers, doctors, professionals, university students, business people, and even ordinary folks, etc.) stated that they read Freddie for entertainment.

They view him as someone who is not well informed about topics and who seeks to impress people with name and topic droppings with which he is not familiar. They urged me to ignore him. I have decided to heed their advice. But I feel constrained to respond to his latest attack on my surveys to correct the record. For the umpteenth time for Freddie’s benefit, my polls are professionally conducted and most of the findings on elections correspond with actual results and they reflect the views of people. If Freddie has evidence or contrary findings, he should present them to the public. That is how academic works. It is a pity Freddie does not understand academia.

Freddie claims the polls are bogus and fictional. If Freddie can provide any evidence to substantiate his claims, I will desist from conducting further polls or writings in the media. In addition, I shall fund polls to be conducted by Freddie.

If Freddie cannot prove his allegations, then he should terminate his columns and letter writings and compensate me for my work on opinion polling. I await his response to this simple challenge.

Vishnu Bisram

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Fire hydrants… whose responsibility?

DEAR EDITOR, Over the past few years a number of articles were published in all the daily newspapers with regards to fire hydrants in the city of Georgetown, and it seems that no solution is in sight, this resulted in the fire service bearing the brunt of criticism for failing to control fires in their early stages.

It must be noted that most of the tenders carry a maximum of 450 gallons of water to the scene of a fire, with pumps capable of discharging it in less than two minutes.

Any fire officer in charge of an appliance approaching the scene of a fire in an area where the risk of fire spreading is great, would do his best to get that fire under control with the limited capacity of water that is available to him, or seek to quickly supplement that resource from the fire

hydrants or any other source which is available in the vicinity, such as a canal.

But when the hydrants are not functional, then the big question is what happens next. In the meantime the fire is consuming everything in its path. Valuable minutes are lost, which dictates whether the fire would become a major conflagration or one which is quickly extinguished. The million-dollar question is who is responsible for the fire hydrants?

Let us delve into a little of history. As early as 1929 untreated water was pumped around the city from the Lamaha Conservancy via mains .This water was at that time used primarily for nondomestic use; watering plants, washing the streets and for fire fighting. Water for domestic use was collected and stored in large vats by householders during the

Freddie Kissoon must be given protection DEAR EDITOR, It has been reported that Freddie Kissoon was assaulted by a man who threw blows at him some time around midnight on Tuesday.

Kissoon was said to be attempting to board his vehicle after he had participated in a vigil on High Street.

I deem this recent violence as part of a general plan to target Mr. Kissoon, a man who has been a regular critic of the PPP/C government and the opposition. This situation I find very troubling. Not so long ago Kissoon had feces thrown in his face while he was sitting in his car.

A few days ago he related in the press how he and his family are being victimized by the PPP/C government.

When I read of the recent attack on his person I am left to ask what next?

I call on all right-thinking Guyanese to condemn this violent and targeted attack on Freddie Kissoon and urge us to be valiant. I call on the Guyana Police Force to act swiftly and rein in those who have made Freddie their ultimate target.

May be the time is right

for Freddie to be given personal protection by the Police. We cannot take for granted that Ronald Waddell, once regular critic of the PPP/ C government, was slain in front of his house when unknown gunmen unleashed a hail of bullets on him. We cannot forget that George Bacchus, self-confessed death squad informant, was killed in his bed mere days before he was scheduled to testify to the Disciplined Services Commission. We cannot forget that David ‘Biscuit’ Leander and Paul ‘Kerzorkee’ Thomas were killed before they were allowed to give evidence in court, regarding the death squad operation. These facts must never escape our minds.

I plead for Freddie Kissoon’s protection. Failing to do this, Guyanese are likely to find the PPP/C government a reasonable suspect responsible for perpetuating these terror acts against him.

Lurlene Nestor

rainy season.

To make matters simple, in order to access the water for fighting purposes via water mains and fire hydrants, the Superintendent /Chief Fire Officer of the fire brigade would forward a request to the fire advisory board with specifications for the installation of fire mains and fire hydrants at specific points to serve the growing business/commercial, industrial or residential areas.

The board, on approval of the request, would forward it along with the relevant information to the Ministry of Works, which was the agency responsible for the procurement, installation and maintenance of all fire hydrants.

As far as is known this system was never changed, and over the years it continued, until the sixties, when the fire advisory board ceased to function During 1987 /1988 the Chief Fire Officer instructed that a survey of the available water supply and fire hydrants of Georgetown be conducted.

After the survey, and at a meeting with the Chief Fire Officer and other senior officers to discuss the reports (two documents), in one it was pointed out that after the fire service conducts its operational tests of the fire hydrants and forwards the reports (as regards defects found) to the city council, and that there is no arrangement

whereby the city council is responsible for maintenance works or the installation of fire hydrants - whereas those reports should be sent to the Ministry of Works for attention and copied to the city council as a matter of courtesy.

However, despite being armed with this information, it was advised that the existing system of sending the reports to the city council should continue, as they are/ were not aware of any such or new arrangement to that effect.

The source of the problem in relation to where the responsibility lies could have resulted from the early 1970s with the new development and rehabilitation of the water system within and around the cities of both Georgetown and New Amsterdam. This was done on contractual terms, whereby the contractor would install the fire hydrants (and maybe with the lack of foresight) with no arrangement for maintenance put in place.

On several occasions the fire department was only notified when the contractor(s) on completion of the installation process would request that a test of the hydrants be carried out to ensure that they are operational.

I trust having this little background information will be of some help.

Mohan P. Harry

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Tenants challenge Govt.’s bid to repossess the First Federation Building - WPA, AFC issues condemnation

The First Federation Building The Guyana Government has moved to repossess the First Federation Building which for decades served as offices for several prominent Attorneys-at-Law. Occupants of the building, which also houses a private school, have been issued notices to remove by

October 1, but lawyers have since challenged the move.

Kaieteur News understands that several of the Attorneys, with offices in the building, have already commenced filing injunctions to stay the eviction notices.

This publication visited the building yesterday where several occupants of the building were clearly distraught. There were speculations that the building has already been sold.

Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, who is currently overseas, confirmed that Government through the Ministry of Legal Affairs has moved to repossess the building.

Nandlall, the Minister of Legal Affairs, explained that

the building will be used to provide expanded judicial services.

According to the Attorney General, the building is being managed through the “Public Trustee”, an organ of his Ministry.

He explained that the move to repossess is but a first phase given that there will have to be an assessment.

He did not rule out the possibility of the structure being demolished but a decision on its physical fate has not yet been concluded.

The building will be used to house a number of critical offices in the judicial system including several registries.

These include the Land, Deeds and Corporate, among other departments.

The police are once again being called upon to investigate another physical attack on popular Kaieteur News columnist and former senior lecturer of the University of Guyana, Frederick Kissoon.

Just after midnight Wednesday, a man walked up to Kissoon and dealt him several cuffs to his head and body before jumping into a waiting Sport Utility Vehicle, PPP 1395, and speeding off.

The brazen attack was carried on in the plain view of several persons and occurred outside the Parliament buildings at the Brickdam and Avenue of the Republic junction.

It bore a sinister resemblance to a previous attack on the columnist a few years ago when a bucket of feces was thrown into his face. No one has been arrested for that attack and it is hoped that since the licence number of the vehicle linked to the recent attack was given to the police, swift justice will prevail.

Only hours earlier, Kissoon had been one of the speakers at a Working People’s Alliance (WPA) meeting at the Stabroek Market Square, which dealt with the Linden crisis.

He told this newspaper that after the meeting, which ended at around 21:00 hours, he, together with well known WPA and AFC activists went over to High Street just outside Parliament buildings where he kept vigil with some Red Thread activists.

“I knew it was a security risk to leave my car alone in the dark for over four hours while I was not near to it. I do not make those mistakes.

Unfortunately, I did last Thursday…,” Kissoon said.

He said that at midnight he decided to leave. Two other colleagues, Dr. David Hinds and Michael Carrington departed in different directions to their means of transportation while Kissoon headed

towards his car which was parked in the DEMICO lot on Brickdam.

“As I crossed over from northern Brickdam to get my car…, this figure came towards me and pelted a cuff in front of my face. I moved my face and it caught the right side of my head. I screamed and he continued. I fell and he appeared to be going into his waist when Carrington ran towards him screaming.

Dr. Hinds, the Red Thread women and some other persons at the vigil converged on the scene.

Carrington and two gentlemen from the vigil gave chase but the man ran into a black SUV which was circling the vigil the entire night.”

Kissoon described his attacker as being about six feet tall and clean shaven with short hair. He said that while he has become accustomed to these attacks, he is fearful that it could cost him his life.

“I believe there is someone high up the chain of command in the corridors of power that has an obsession with me in the mistaken belief that I am Guyana’s greatest threat to the PPP Government. I don’t think I am but how does one deal with an obsession?”

Meanwhile, Kaieteur News has learnt that the motor vehicle licence number, PPP 1395, is registered to former police Divisional Commander, Steve Merai.

When contacted, Merai admitted that the licence number is registered to him but it is the licence number of a car he owns and not that of a Sport Utility Vehicle. He said that he was asked by investigators to prepare a statement on his whereabouts at the time of the incident.

Meanwhile, both the Working People’s Alliance and the Alliance For Change have strongly condemned the recent attack on Kissoon.

The WPA in a statement said that the attack, according to eyewitness accounts,

Freddie Kissoon seems to have been well orchestrated.

The party is of the view that Kissoon seems to have been singled out for special treatment by the “rulers”.

“WPA views this as yet another manifestation of the intent by the ruling class to silence its critics at all cost.

We have reached the point where political protest against the government is a crime which attracts the full force of the state and its phantom forces. Despite persistent harassment, including loss of employment at the University of Guyana, Kissoon continues in the frontline of the resistance against oppression.

WPA stands in solidarity with him and calls on the powers that be to respect the right to protest.”

And Attorney-at-law Moses Nagamootoo, speaking on behalf of the AFC, described the attack as a “crude and cruel one on someone who is an outspoken critic of the government.”

Nagamootoo recalled the first attack on Kissoon two years ago and warned that these acts should not be allowed to continue.

“It has to be traced back to the earlier attack. The first time we shrugged our shoulders but the second time, this is a pattern,” Nagamootoo said. “Whoever is behind this should know they cannot shut people up. It is an attack on all who believe in constitutional rights,” Nagamootoo declared.

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CXC Registrar calls for educational reforms The Education System was likened to the ecosystem yesterday by the Caribbean Examination Council’s (CXC) Registrar, Dr. Didacus Jules, at a forum to ceremoniously hand over the 2012 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate Examination and CAPE Results to Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand.

Venued at the Guyana International Conference Centre, this is the first year that the auspicious event has been held in Guyana.

In presenting remarks to the gathering of mainly education stakeholders, Dr. Jules said that “we are meeting at a time of crisis” even as he pointed out that the Region is currently at a historical juncture where education needs to be redefined. According to him “we need whole systems reform because tinkering with education can no longer work. We need to change our whole conception of what this education system is...it is

... lauds Manickchand’s improvement programme like an eco-system – everything else is interdependent and inter-related to everything else.”

He categorically asserted that “we cannot expect that students will perform at university if they have not performed at secondary level; we cannot expect good performance at secondary level if primary level, which is the level that contributes to secondary is weak...we cannot expect them to do good at primary if early childhood is non-existent...”

Dr. Jules pointed out that the picture that has been painted of this year’s results reveals a general decline in overall performance which points to foundational weaknesses in English and Mathematics. “What we have to understand is that if core literacies are weak, basic capacities are affected. So if I am not able to read properly and to understand and to express myself properly how

then can I have a platform on which to tackle every other subject?”

He said that literacy, numeracy and Information Technology are now considered the foundational literacies of life in the 21st Century. “...People are getting hot and frenzy over the Mathematics results...these results didn’t happen overnight! We have always had a challenge with English too although there was always a trend of improvement in the last two years that has now taken a dip.

And what is the solution to that? Not the blame game that some of us are seeking to undertake. The solution to that is to understand what do we need to do to get beyond this?”

He noted though that an historical condition does not necessarily have to be a permanent condition which is in fact the challenge that is

being faced. He made this assertion even as he showcased graphs which indicated the dramatic performance gap between the period 2010 through 2012 stressing that “we have a long way to go to bridge that gap. What is needed? Less lamentation and more decisive action! The blame game is not going to solve anything...” he confidently asserted.

According to Dr. Jules, the move to blame teachers, ministers or whoever can be easily reached to blame, is a development that “is not going to change that empirical reality one iota. What is going to change it is (for us) to buckle down and do the things that need to be done.”

Policymakers of the Region, he said, have a huge challenge on their hand even as he revealed that these are difficult economic times. “...the worse things get economically, the more

important education becomes as a way of getting us through these challenges.”

In recognising that there are no “quick fixes” to the existing challenge, the CXC Registrar noted that there are shortened gains that are possible. He explained that there are investments that can be made to help remedy the situation. It was at this point that he turned his attention to Minister Manickchand’s ambitious four-month long programme which was introduced last year to improve CSEC performances at just over 20 pilot schools locally.

Through a government allocation of just over $85M, the local Education Ministry was able to procure materials to aid students’ participating in the 2012 examinations.

Dr. Jules commended the efforts of the Minister who since assuming office, pointed out that CXC has made it its business to monitor education activities in all territories it operates and had taken keen note of what

Ecuador defies UK threats, grants Assange asylum LONDON/QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador has granted political asylum to WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said yesterday, a day after the British government threatened to storm the Ecuadorean embassy in London to arrest the former hacker.

Britain has said it is determined to extradite him to Sweden, where he is accused of rape and sexual assault, but Assange fears he will ultimately be sent to the United States which is furious that his WikiLeaks website has leaked hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic and military cables.

Ecuador’s decision is likely to deepen a political dispute over Assange’s extradition with Britain, which said it was “disappointed” with the ruling, and sets the stage for possible further confrontation between the two countries.

Patino said Ecuador feared for the safety of the Australian, who had lodged an asylum request with President Rafael Correa, a self-declared enemy of

Julian Assange “corrupt” media and U.S. “imperialism”.

“Ecuador has decided to grant political asylum to Julian Assange following the request sent to the President,” Patino told a news conference in Quito.

Patino said Assange’s extradition to a third country without proper guarantees was probable, and that legal evidence showed he would not get a fair trial if eventually

transferred to the United States.

“This is a sovereign decision protected by international law. It makes no sense to surmise that this implies a breaking of relations (with Britain),” Patino added.

Assange has been holed up inside Ecuador’s embassy in central London for eight weeks since he lost a legal battle to avoid extradition to Sweden.

Even after yesterday’s decision his fate is still far from clear: Britain has promised to extradite him and the removal of the Ecuadorean embassy’s diplomatic status would expose him to immediate arrest by the British authorities.

“We are disappointed,” a Foreign Office spokesman said.

“Under UK law, with Mr Assange having exhausted all options of appeal, the British authorities are under a binding obligation to extradite him to Sweden. We shall carry out that obligation.”

Outside the Ecuadorean embassy near London’s famed Harrods department store, supporters relayed the announcement about his asylum request over a loudspeaker to cheers and clapping from protesters who had gathered outside the building.

Supporters shouted: “The people united will never be defeated”, waving Ecuadorian

flags and holding posters showing Assange’s head, reading “no extradition”.

A Reuters reporter saw at least three protesters being dragged away by police before the decision was announced after tussles with police.

It was unclear how long Assange could stay in the small embassy - housed on the ground floor of an apartment block - which is under 24-hour surveillance by British police.

CXC Registrar, Dr. Didacus Jules was occurring in Guyana.

“Textbooks and technical materials, geometry sets, science kits and so on ...these things are vitally necessary...but they are not the whole and entire solution but these are some of the measures that we should and can put in place immediately to get some short-term gains.”

He alluded to the fact that the pooling of resources can make a huge difference, stressing that “too often as a people we overlook our own strengths and possibilities and look outward for solutions when we have the answers in here.”

He explained that CXC as an examination board is different from every other board operating in the Region. He believed that there is currently a need for a paradigm shift and move to recognise what can be done to realise the desired improvements.

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Questions over delay of Caribbean Airlines crash report Trinidad and Tobago – Newsday - After more than a year, regional aviation observers are questioning the non-appearance of an “official report” on the Caribbean Airlines (CAL) crash of July 30, 2011 at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Guyana.

Although the aircraft split in two, there were a few injuries but no fatalities.

The closest thing to a report were excerpts from a “preliminary” report published in that prestigious United States newspaper, the Wall Street Journal at the end of April last. Part of that report was carried in the Business Day of May 03 2012.

The article quoted from two interviews with the Head of Guyana’s Civil Aviation Authority, Zulfikar

Mohammed and claimed the preliminary report pointed to pilot error as the cause of the accident. The report added that crash investigators believed excessive speed and other suspected lapses in landing procedures caused the aircraft, with 163 passengers aboard, to skid off the runway, which is the shortest of all the destinations served by CAL’s jet fleet.

According to the Wall Street Journal article, industry and government officials hinted that the preliminary findings by investigators pointed to pilot error, rather than mechanical or other system malfunctions.

Guyana is officially in charge of the investigations with the United States National Transportation

Judge orders re-trial in Muslim leader’s case PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - CMC - The judge hearing the sedition trial of Muslim leader Yasin Abu Bakr, has ordered a retrial after the jury failed to reach a verdict on the charges against him yesterday.

Bakr, 70, had been charged with communicating a statement having seditious intention, two counts of inciting to demand with menaces with intent to steal and endeavouring to provoke a breach of the peace. The charges arose out

of comments he made during an Eid-ul-Fitr sermon delivered at the compound of the Jamaat-Al-Muslimeen group on November 4, 2005.

His lawyers had argued that the charges were politically motivated but the State countered indicating that no evidence had been brought before the court to support the allegation.

In 1990, Bakr led a group of more than 100 followers in an unsuccessfully attempted at overthrowing the ANR Robinson government.

The damaged Caribbean Airline plane shortly after it crashed last year July Safety Board (NTSB) and the US aircraft manufacturer, Boeing, providing great assistance to the Guyanese authorities. The NTSB had an unusually large contingent of seven persons during the initial investigations, for a crash that accounted for not one single death. One industry observer said the incident was relatively straightforward and he was at a loss to understand why it was taking so long for a final report on the crash to be released. He added the purpose of an accident investigation was “to determine both the proximate cause of the accident (whether pilot error or otherwise) as well as the cause of such cause.”

Giving an example, he said, “If it was pilot error, was it attributable to deficiencies in Caribbean Airlines’ crew training? Did the CAL simulator have a visualisation of a late night landing in mist at Georgetown in its system; and were the pilots trained on such tricky landings specifically?”

He described as “deplorable” the fact that for such a simple incident, since the aircraft, for all intents and

purposes was intact, as were both black boxes (FRD and CVR), why has it been allowed to rest for more than a year with no interim conclusion and recommendations to correct the deficiencies behind it?

He added that it was well below the standard which the public has a right to expect. It was their safety that was put at risk in the incident and continues to be at risk until the causes are identified and

measures put in place to minimise the possibility of a recurrence.

Meanwhile, senior officials at Iere House, Piarco, Headquarters of Caribbean Airlines said they had not heard anything about a final report, neither have they received any official notification that one was on the way. They did confirm, however, that both the pilot and the co-pilot had not resumed flying. It is

understood however, that the co-pilot was pursuing other career options. They refused any further comment.

Ramesh Lutchmedial, Director General of the TTCAA, when asked about the final report told Business Day “the final report is being written by the Guyanese authorities as we speak”. He forecast that it should be released and become available to the public by November 2012.

Life sentence for firebomber The Campus Trendz killer will give up the rest of his life for Tiffany Harding.

He will also do the same for Kellishaw Ollivierre.

In fact, 22-year-old Renaldo Anderson Alleyne has been ordered to spend the rest of his life behind bars for all six of the girls killed when he firebombed the Tudor Street boutique almost two years ago.

The six concurrent life sentences were handed down yesterday by Justice Elneth Kentish in a comprehensive hour-long determination in the No. 2 Supreme Court.

The last time multiple life sentences were handed down by a local High Court was in 1995 when then Justice Elliott (now Governor General Sir

Elliott) Belgrave ordered Oral Andy Devere Cummins to spend three life sentences for kidnapping a nine-year-old schoolgirl from her Christ Church school on October 10, 1994; raping that girl in Bawdens, St Andrew, and wounding her with intent to do her serious bodily harm.

It was on September 3, 2010, that the Friday evening robbery, firebombing and resulting conflagration of the clothing store sent shock waves through the island.

Alleyne, of Prescod Bottom, Hindsbury Road, St Michael, was later held and, at last year’s Session of the Continuous Sittings, threw in the towel and said that while he did not murder the girls, he did unlawfully kill Harding,

Ollivierre, Kelly-Ann Welch, Shanna Griffith, Nikkita Belgrave and Pearl Cornelius.

Three of the girls were employees at the boutique, while the others were customers.

Stressing repeatedly that the girls’ deaths were untimely, ghastly, painful and horrible, Justice Kentish told Alleyne only life sentences would be commensurate with the gravity and seriousness of the offences, especially since she felt he was a danger to society.

She said the question for her had been what was the appropriate length of sentence “having regard to the chilling circumstances surrounding these deaths”.

(Barbados Nation)

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Diplomatic asylum is not universally accepted as part of customary international law The idea of spectacular and spine-chilling entry into the grounds of a foreign embassy by someone seeking refuge in a foreign embassy is the stuff of movies. And there have been many movies in which heroes and heroines are being chased by both official and unofficial persons and who manage to make their way into the foreign embassy and therefore towards freedom.

Such is the stuff of movies; reality is a little different. Ever since the late 1980’s when shots were allegedly fired from inside the Libyan embassy, the idea that foreign embassies are extraterritorial sovereign territories has long gone through the window. If the Ecuadorians have not yet realized this, they soon will. They are holding tightly to the idea that any invasion of their embassy in London is tantamount to an act of aggression against their country, a violation of their sovereignty under the Vienna Convention and a breach of customary international law.

The Ecuadorians now find themselves at the center of a major diplomatic spat between themselves and the British Foreign Office. The

British Foreign Secretary had made it clear that Britain has a binding obligation to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning into sexual assault allegations.

Assange sought asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy after having lost his appeal to overturn an order for him to be extradited to Sweden. That country is a member of the European Union and therefore the authorities in London are legally bound to ensure that Assange is extradited.

Obviously, the decision of the Ecuadorian left wing government to grant him political asylum complicates this arrangement. If the asylum was granted in another foreign country or in Ecuador itself there would not have been a problem but the problem arises precisely because Assange is holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and the authorities are at the embassy’s doorsteps waiting to arrest him as soon as he leaves.

The Ecuadorians feel that he should not be arrested because he has been granted asylum. The British on the other hand indicate that they do not recognize the principle

of diplomatic asylum.

This principle as has been reported is not universally acknowledged as being part of customary international law. Because it is hinged on the principle of extraterritoriality of the foreign embassy premises, it is not likely to find traction with the British because Assange had exhausted his appeals and was not being prosecuted in Britain.

The Ecuadorians have indicated that their decision to grant him asylum was invoked because of the risk of him being deported eventually to the United States where he could face the death penalty. However Britain is saying that the present dispute has nothing to do with the United States but with Britain’s obligations under its extradition laws.

Britain says it does not accept the principle of diplomatic asylum, and since that country has provisions under its law that allows it to de-recognize the special extraterritorial status of embassies in its country, there is a real diplomatic crisis brewing because to derecognize the extra-territorial status of the embassy would create unease internationally and raise other

Region 10 Chairman says President’s visit a mere “photo opportunity” Sharma Solomon, who is leading negotiations with the government for the people of Linden, described President Donald Ramotar’s visit to the town yesterday as a mere photo opportunity, and wants the government to withdraw the security forces from the town.

Solomon said he was not informed of the visit by the President, even though his team was locked in negotiations up to the evening before the visit.

Another of the Linden negotiators, Vanessa Kissoon, a Member of Parliament for the town, went as far as describing the President as being “disrespectful”.

She explained that it is a normal practice of courtesy for the President to inform leaders of areas he plans to visit ahead of time. Sharma said that while the President is free to visit any part of Guyana at any time he chooses, those in the community would have been able to describe for him “the vibes” on the ground.

On the first occasion Ramotar planned to visit Linden, Solomon said guidance from on the ground caused his security team to advise him against visiting the community.

Regional Chairman, Sharma Solomon and Parliamentarian, Vanessa Kissoon Solomon repeated frustrations about the fact that the security forces continue to fire at Lindeners and have been harassing young men and women, almost driving them off the road at certain hours of the night as if a curfew is in place.

While young men of the town have been placed before the court for using obscene language, Kissoon said she personally witnessed members of the security forces hurling vulgar abuses and threats against Lindeners, including women.

She wanted to know who would be charging the policemen. Lindeners say they will come off the streets

when their demands are met, and that includes an immediate cessation of activities by the security forces and their complete withdrawal from the town.

The Region 10 officials expressed alarm that even though residents are the ones who identified the alleged arsonists in the burning down of the school in the town, the Police are claiming they do not have any evidence to charge him.

That notwithstanding, the Region Ten Chairman said the people of Linden are determined to rebuild the One Mile Primary school, and that work would start this Sunday.

issues of international law.

But Britain has also made it clear that it will not allow Assange to leave the country. In fact it is widely speculated that he will be arrested as soon as he leaves the embassy or tries to get on a plane. Britain has said he will not be allowed safe passage. Britain is not likely to invade or derecognize the special status of the Ecuadorian embassy. That would risk international condemnation. What it will do is to apply a great deal of pressure on the authorities in Quito.

The Ecuadorians are not going to be allowed to shuttle Assange out of Britain. This leaves them with only one other diplomatic option: to

grant Assange diplomatic immunity by making him a member of the diplomatic staff. However, since these appointments have to be confirmed by the Foreign Office, this is an option that is not a realistic possibility.

As such, Ecuador’s case boils down to the degree to which diplomatic asylum is accepted as part of customary international law.

There is no universal acceptance that it does.

Ecuador does not have the political muscle internationally to fend off the pressures that are going to be applied. That is unless it can gain the support of other countries particularly in Latin America. It has had two months to obtain opinions on

Assange’s request for political asylum and would have had to consider all the political ramifications. It seems that it may have missed the larger picture. It will now have to devote a great deal of its time to try to wriggle out of this one because its case is quite honestly very weak and given its overall lack of international clout, it is not going to be easy for it to succeed in shuttling Assange out of Britain, at least not as long as its decision to grant the asylum can be argued as being in breach of the protocol of interfering in a country’s internal affairs.

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THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN

I was attacked again!

I take extreme measures with my security. I definitely do not drive late. I do not park my car in dark, lonely spots. I am very careful when strangers try to befriend me.

I honestly believe, and I am most sincere in my mind about this feeling, that my life has been in danger for the past five years. I honestly feel that physical attacks are a distinct possibility. For this reason, I take extreme measures not to give dangerous people a chance to harm me.

I would never leave my soda or food unattended when I am in public places.

Last Wednesday night, a terrible security lapse almost cost me my life. At 6 pm on Wednesday, I drove into an area where thousands of persons pass each day. I was a featured speaker at a WPA

public meeting at the Stabroek Market Square. I parked directly opposite Parliament Building, but on the northern side of Brickdam, which is commonly referred to as Demico parking. This is in front of the church next to Demico on Brickdam, right opposite Parliament.

At 9 pm, the WPA meeting concluded. Together with a number of well-known WPA and AFC activists, we joined the Red Thread vigil in support of Linden. This was right outside Parliament, but on the eastern side of High Street where a public park was recently built. At 11pm, I told myself that my car was just alone in the dark for over four hours and I should move it and bring it in close physical proximity to the vigil. Three times I told myself it was time to do so. But each time I got

sidetracked by conversations. I also knew that Dr. David Hinds’ car was near to mine. His vehicle was directly opposite mine, but on the southern parapet in front of Parliament.

I knew I should not have left my car unattended. I am meticulous in this attitude after I discovered burnt newspaper under my vehicle a few years ago. I wrote about this at the time. I was told by my mechanic that where the newspapers were found, there could not have been burnt out parts of the newspaper. It appears the paper was stuffed under my car then lit, but it burnt itself out.

On the stroke of midnight, I decided to leave the vigil for home. Dr. David Hinds and Michael Carrington of the AFC made the same decision.

David’s daughter went ahead of us. Carrington and I walked together and David was a little bit at the back. David’s daughter was already reversing her car when Carrington moved ahead of me in search of a minibus that was going on the Linden highway.

As David’s daughter drew away from me and I stepped on the parapet outside Parliament to go to the other side of the road, this figure appeared in front of me. He threw a cuff in the direction of my face and I moved aside and it struck my head He repeated that direction again and again as I put my face out of the way. By this time I was screaming very loudly so Michael Carrington had to hear. As I fell on the parapet, I heard the voice of Carrington screaming vociferously and

A 25-year-old wanderer was yesterday reprimanded on a common assault charge after the Court found that the “sound thrashing” he received from the victim was good enough to weigh the offence.

Magistrate Hazel OctiveHamilton, who presided over the matter at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, allowed defendant, Sookraj Ramnarine, off with a warning when he faced her for biting a security guard during a scuffle.

The defendant was accused of committing the offence on August 14 against Wilbert Horatio at Prashad Nagar, Georgetown.

Prosecutor Burgett Grant, in addressing the court, said that the defendant is a known character to the police and herself. She said the defendant has no permanent place of residence as he would usually hang around the vicinity of the Stabroek Market.

Grant said that on the day in question, the victim around

04:30 hours, was on duty in Prasad Nagar, stationed in his guard hut. She said that he heard a strange noise, looked around and noticed the defendant pushing his hands through the guard hut louvers window trying to grab his hand.

The security guard, Grant said, raised an alarm and the defendant jumped the fence and started to run away. Grant further said that the victim gave chase and subsequently caught up with him. She said a scuffle ensued between the victim and the defendant who subsequently bit the guard on his left hand.

The matter was later reported to the police station.

The defendant, however, defended himself by saying that he would work for the owners of the house where the guard worked. He said that on the day in question, he went to the location and was calling the guard to ask him for something to eat.

He said the guard, however, attacked him and started to beat him up. “He hold on pon me and start beat me,” the defendant said.

“Then he tell me is only thief man does deh round dis hour.”

The defendant then showed the court the marks about his body and it was determined that the man’s marks and bruises were consistent with him being beaten up.

The Magistrate described the man’s condition as receiving a “sound thrashing” and that she said was his penalty. The Magistrate advised that she could not give the defendant more than what he already received. She also advised that it is a known Guyanese notion that “thief man walk late.”

The Magistrate, however, reprimanded the man on the charge and urged him to stay out of trouble.

coming towards my attacker.

From the High Street end of Brickdam, Dr. David Hinds, Fitz Ralph of the AFC and the Red Thread women were running toward me.

Carrington pursued my attacker and so did Fitz Ralph and two other males at the vigil.

My attacker raced with lightning speed east on Brickdam and headed straight into a brand new, black SUV. That vehicle was passing the vigil the entire night and it parked on High Street, a block away from the vigil. This was a second terrible security lapse on my part. Once the vigil-keepers made note of that black SUV, I should have collected my car and left at 11pm.

I thank Michael Carrington most sincerely for coming to my rescue. He saved my life and also Fitz Ralph for pursuing my attacker. My appreciation

Frederick Kissoon goes out to Dr. David Hinds and the Red Thread contingent who helped to scare away my assailant. If they were not there I don’t know if that guy would have killed me.

So what explanation do I have? I was asked by one media house to explain why I think it happened. Here now is what I deeply feel about the constant oppression against me – someone very high in the power establishment has an obsession with me out of their mistaken belief that I am probably the greatest threat to the Government. How do you deal with such an obsession?

Dem boys seh...

Donald: kick dem around yuh, and den kick yuh damn self Well so much ah ting happenin’ dem boys confuse.

Everyting start wid Uncle Freddie, de chief protester. He talk a set ah ting at de Stabroek Market Square at a meeting and had everybody laughin’ and biggin’ he up. After dat he decide fuh breeze out by Parliament Building at a vigil.

Dis man know he is a frighten man and he doan want deh pun de road when dem jumbie come out. He does always tuck in by eight o’clock de latest. Fuh some reason he choose fuh stand up outside Parliament till midnight, like if he is de Speaker.

Well he pick de wrang night. A fancy jeep circle de place bout forty time, and people seh dat look funny. Uncle Freddie ent want nobody know he frighten, suh he start fuh puff up he chest.

When everybody ready fuh cut out, Uncle Freddie walk in de middle, but people start fuh branch off, and he lef by heself. Dat was when de action start.

A strong man jump out from de jeep dat been circlin’ and run to Uncle Freddie. De man pelt a cuff and Uncle Freddie barely move he face, but he headback lef’ out and it get topup like is a cell phone.

De man throw bout eight mo’ cuff fast, fast, but Uncle Freddie bob and weave like a Olympic boxer. All miss. Uncle Freddie start holla and de cuff man lef’ stupidy. He loose Uncle Freddie and speed out de place.

Dat is just like Uncle Donald. He finally get up to Linden, but nobody ent see he! He walk wid forty people - Gale de Sharer, Hammer man Benn, Old Dinga, De five Geenuh staff wha lef’, twelve bodyguard, and twenty soldier in two pickup. But only sixteen Linden people come out and twelve had picket. Uncle Donald should kick dem advisors around he, and den kick he damn self fuh being so stupid.

Dem boys shame. But dat wasn’t all.

Uncle Donald ask wha happen wid all dem big wood wha’ been cross de bridge. De people tell he dat if he did come since last month he woulda see dat. He ask wheh de Regional Chairman Sharma deh. Is den he remember dat he ent tell de man dat he going to Linden. And dey meet couple hour before!

Gale de Sharer tell he dat is okay because Geenuh could always find a picture wid Sharma and stick he next to Uncle Donald like if de two ah dem move together in de town like buddy padna.

Is dem kinda bareface move de Rat use pun people when dem did want fuh debate he. De scampishness could never done.

Talk half and stop bobbin’ and weavin’

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Police evicts campers, demolishes CXC records decline in overall CSEC performance tent outside Parliament Building There has been an overall decline in the students achieving Grades One through Three at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examination this year.

This revelation was made

by Caribbean Examination Council’s (CXC) Senior Assistant Registrar, Examinations Development and Production Division, Dr. Gordon Harewood, yesterday as he offered an overview on the CXC body’s 2012 examinations.

According to him, this year, 69 per cent of the candidates obtained such grades (Grades One through Three) at CSEC. Grades One through Three are usually regarded as the grades that stakeholders accept, Dr. Harewood noted, adding, “you would notice that I am not saying that these are passing grades because we don’t talk about passing or failing at CXC...”

However, the performance at CAPE, according to Dr. Harewood, can be regarded as very stable. At CAPE, Grades One through Five are considered to be acceptable with the CXC body recording an 89 per cent of candidates obtaining such grades over the years. Speaking on the difference between the two examinations, Dr. Harewood said that CSEC takes into account all the improvements that are taking place in education in terms of making it universal throughout the Caribbean. “CSEC is a very exciting population; it is a dynamic population but it does contain some students who really should not be writing CSEC but they choose to do it rather than some of the other offerings that we have...it is more volatile than CAPE, and historically it has a selective

...but CAPE remains stable population base having been successful at CSEC,” he explained.

He sought to deliver a brief assessment of the examinations, pointing out that CXC has set out in its syllabuses, specific objectives and content through which students are graded. CXC has also adopted a multi-trait, multimethod approach which entails SBAs, multiple choice and structured questions. Dr. Harewood said that “we like this because it gives our examination system something that we like to call robustness...”

He is satisfied that the performance, though indicating a decline in Mathematics and English grades, should not be seen as “despairing.” Meanwhile, Senior Assistant Registrar, Examinations Administration and Security Division, Mrs Susan Giles, said that CXC this year observed a six per cent increase in its CAPE entry. This, she said, was characterised by the registration of some 28,000 candidates of which 9,300 were private entrants. This is a new record since there were over 110,000 subject entries.

Though the increase can be considered moderate, Giles said that CXC views it as fairly good since those who undertake the CAPE examination are normally those who represent the top 30 per cent CSEC performers.

Guyana’s 2012 CAPE entry, according to Giles, represent an 18.8 per cent increase in candidates which represents the second largest increase moving from 627 to 741 candidates with females (445) outnumbering the males

(296).

“We feel pretty good that this increase is moving in the right direction and we expect that they will continue to grow because we are introducing new examinations in the next two years for digital media and agriculture science and performing arts...” Also CSEC, the CXC body’s flagship examination, saw an increase in candidates amounting to just fewer than 157,000, with about 57,000 representing private candidates. Giles said that while this only represents a three per cent increase “we recognise that it is levelling out” adding that the subject entries this year were a total of 635,000 which represented an eight per cent increase.”

Guyana had 13,494 candidates who registered for the examination this year representing an increase of over eight per cent.

CXC this year added a new subject, Additional Mathematics, and according to her “we had just about 1,900 candidates writing. That is what I personally call a niche examination where those very bright students would write and we expect that to increase as well.”

The forum also saw remarks from Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand and CXC Registrar, Dr. Didacus Jules and was certainly not short of cultural presentations from pupils from a number of local schools. This year’s top CXC examinations performers as well as past top performers were in attendance yesterday as well as Ministers of Government and senior education officials and parents.

Police ranks evicting the campers who had been there since Wednesday afternoon.

A gathering at a park established overnight Wednesday just east of Parliament Buildings, led by Red Thread, was yesterday dismantled by ranks of the Guyana Police Force.

The group had erected a tent which they called the ‘People’s Parliament’ where they had been camping out since Wednesday afternoon.

This was, however, demolished and removed by ranks of the Guyana Police Force yesterday. Sherlina Nageer, more familiar for her work as an LGBT activist and spokesperson, and longtime member of the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) slammed the police’s actions.

She explained that the grouping, inclusive of other rights organizations, “came out to this location and we set up a tent- the People’s Parliament”.

She explained that the

Guyana national parliament is currently on “holiday as if there is no work to be done in Guyana and we say that this is madness…there is a lot of work still to be done in Guyana.” Nageer explained, “We are out here talking to our fellow Guyanese to get opinions on the situation in Linden and get ideas on what can be done”.

Yesterday morning, less than 24 hours after the group would have set up camp, ranks from the Guyana Police Force descended on the locale and indicated that the grouping would have to remove since there was no permission granted to conduct the exercise.

Nageer claimed that she was threatened by one of the female ranks that should she not remove from the tent she would be arrested.

The social activist said that she is yet to be informed as to the nature of the

charges that were to be laid against her.

“We are dialoguing with our fellow Guyanese on what needs to be done and getting people’s ideas in solidarity with Linden but we are also looking beyond Linden”.

She is adamant that the “fact is the police have no right to remove us…we are not protesting, we are not blocking the roads, we are not blocking the streets we are just assembled here peacefully soliciting views from our fellow Guyanese”.

She pointed out that the locale is a “public park” with no signage erected to indicate that the “camping out” was prohibited. “We seem to be a threat to them (police) simply because we are talking to our fellow Guyanese about solutions,” Nageer said.

The grouping has vowed to keep up their actions in solidarity with the plight of Lindeners.

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Wife sets self afire to stop husband from returning to America A Cane Grove resident is in the Georgetown Public Hospital after setting herself alight following a domestic squabble.

Rohini Ramsood yesterday set herself alight after her husband said that he was preparing to return to the United States where he had been living for the past two years with their two children.

The man told Kaieteur News that he awoke around 06:00hrs yesterday and his wife asked that he lie in another bedroom so that she could clean do some cleaning.

He said that he had been “gaffing” with her from the other room, and reminded her

that he would be booking his flight to go back home soon.

“When I tell she that, she tell me that she ain’t allowing me to go back, and that I definitely can’t go nowhere”.

The husband told this newspaper that during the past two years, he had been traveling to and from the US on a regular basis, and that his wife never wanted him to leave. He added that soon she was due to be with him and his two children in the Queens, New York but apparently did not want to wait anymore.

Shortly after, he heard his wife screaming and tramping on the floor.

“I hear that, and when I run into the room, fire went

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Remains of the old N/A Hospital

all over and I hustle get she out de house and put she in the reservoir. I even forget that de bed and de carpets burning.”

The man, who sustained burns to his body while trying to put out the fire on his wife, said that he managed to extinguish the blaze on the bed and carpets, and immediately rushed her to the Woodlands Hospital.

She was later transferred to the Burns Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, where she is nursing first, second and third degree burns on most parts of her body.

An investigation has been reportedly launched into the incident.

Two wanted for Mango Creek murder Police have issued wanted bulletins for two suspects in the July 29 murder of 24-year-old Terry Warren at Mango Creek, Pomeroon.

A wanted bulletin identified the suspects as Ramprashad Singh called “Kamal” or “Cully Boy,” and Anthony Miguel.

Ramprashad Singh is said to be 30-years-old, of East Indian ancestry with his last known addresses are Karawab, Mango Creek, Upper Pomeroon River and Foulis, West Coast Berbice.

Anthony Miguel is said to be 19-years-old with his

last known addresses given as Karawab, Mango Creek, Upper Pomeroon River and Foulis, West Coast Berbice.

According to police, Warren and a group of men were imbibing at a home at Mango Creek on July 29, when Warren decided that he was leaving with his electrical generator that he had brought with him and which was providing power.

It is alleged that his other companions became annoyed and beat and stabbed Warren about his body. He succumbed shortly after.

Police have urged anyone with information that may lead

A mini health check is the first step to donating blood

The once famous New Amsterdam Public Hospital is no more, with only a few bricks remaining. Workers from GuySuCo seen here were helping to remove the broken concrete which, reportedly, would be used to repair a number of access dams in the East Berbice area.

President Ramotar rebuffed...

Wanted: Ramprashad Singh to the arrest of Ramprashad Singh and Anthony Miguel to contact the police on telephone numbers 225-2227, 225-8196, 771-4010, 771-5360, 225-6411, 911 or the nearest police station.

(From page 3) among Lindeners was that the President’s visit was a little too late.

Many were of the view that had President Ramotar met with and engaged in consultations with Lindeners during the last budget presentation, the lives of the three that were killed would have been

saved, and the subsequent torching of buildings would have been avoided.

Police had used tear gas on a number of occasions to quell the crowds.

A candlelight vigil was scheduled for last evening, for the three men killed on the July 18th, at the Mackenzie Wismar Bridge.

Tomorrow, residents will

gather at the site proposed for the erection of a monument to commemorate a month of their passing.

Allan Lewis, Ron Sommerset and Shemroy Boyea have been declared martyrs by Lindeners and a monument is to be erected on the unused West Watooka Farmers Tarmac.

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Linden not under curfew...

Brassington, McLean named to Linden electricity - President apologises for not visiting review team Government has named a team to review the electricity situation in Linden.

During a surprise visit to the community yesterday as tensions remained high and members of the security forces hover in the background, Presidential Advisor on Governance, Gail Teixeira, disclosed to residents that the sevenmember team, including three from the region, has been formed.

Professor Clive Thomas, former Deputy Prime Minister, Haslyn Parris and Lloyd Rose will be representing the region while Chairman of the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL), Winston Brassington, Chief Executive Officer, Bharrat Dindyal and former army chief, Norman McLean, will be on behalf of the Government. The special committee will examine critical issues like generation, distribution, conservation, tariff and subsidy and they will liaise with each other every two weeks.

The team was agreed on Wednesday evening during a meeting with Regional Chairman, Sharma Solomon, and his team during a meeting held at the Office of the

President.

According to Teixeira, soon the community will be able to submit applications to the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority board for television licences.

Teixeira, speaking to a poor turnout of Lindeners at the Watooka House, also announced that Sherwood Lowe has been nominated by Opposition Leader, David Granger, to sit on the board.

TV LICENCES She said that the President is about ready to start establishing the Broadcast Authority board which overlooks the processing of TV licences.

“The government has committed to this and we have no objections to them acquiring the necessary equipment so the region will be free to submit documentation application… all in keeping with the broadcast laws and guidelines.”

Issues raised at the meeting also included jobs and land distribution.

Meanwhile, the President assured the small gathering that it was always on his agenda to visit the community but he did not want his visit to be used as

an occasion for more persons to be injured.

Ramotar told the gathering, which comprised more members of the media than residents, that he and his government are hurt by the killing of the three Lindeners on July 18th. He also took the opportunity to express his condolences to the relatives of the slain men.

“There has been word that I didn’t want to come to Linden but I always wanted to come and I made an attempt to come about three Saturdays ago on July 28th but I didn’t want people to use the opportunity to mobilize and block the road, and I thought I didn’t want my visit to be used as occasion to have anyone getting hurt.”

NO CURFEW The President also insisted that the community was not under a curfew. This was in response to questions from members of the media who informed the President that residents said they are being ordered off the roads after a certain hour by ranks of the Joint Services.

Also responding to questions about his (Continued on page 24)

There is no curfew in Linden, President Donald Ramotar said yesterday.

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East Berbice man to face trial over 2010 stabbing of neighbour

Z

azir Khan, 46, of Lot 50 Lord Street, Number Two Village, East

Canje Berbice has been committed to stand trial in the Berbice High Court for a 2010 stabbing incident.

Khan, who was reportedly convicted and jailed before on a charge for manslaughter, was on trial

for attempt murder committed on Junior Bacchus, a neighbour, on March 2nd, 2010.

Khan was on trial before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo who conducted the Preliminary Inquiry at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court.

The prosecution’s case was that on the day in question, Khan was seen standing in front of Bacchus’ yard with a knife in his hand.

Bacchus noticed him and inquired into his reason for standing there. Khan said that one of the neighbours was becoming a nuisance to him and that he (Khan) was waiting to burn down that neighbour’s house.

Bacchus, the court was

told, asked the accused man to move. Khan became angry and took a knife and stabbed Bacchus across his head, jaw and back before escaping.

Bacchus collapsed and was picked up and rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital in an unconscious condition, before being transferred to the Georgetown hospital.

The accused was later a r r e s t e d a n d c h a rg e d .

However, the matter was discharged when it was first tried. He was rearrested and charged in September 2011.

Khan was unrepresented.

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September 15 declared Census Day 2012 Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh has signed the mandatory Census Order and Regulations declaring September 15 as Guyana’s 2012 Census Day. Guyana’s impending Census is part of the global round of Population and Housing Censuses for the current 2010 Round whereby almost all countries which are members of the United Nations have conducted and completed their national Censuses during the period which commenced in 2005 and conclude in 2014, the demarcated period for the 2010 Round of Censuses.

In fact during the Meeting of 43rd Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission, the highest global body for policy making in Statistics, held at the UN Headquarters in February of this year, a resolution was passed on behalf of the Secretary-General urging all Governments which had not yet executed their National Population and Housing Censuses under the current 2010 Round, to make every effort to so do before the end of the 2010 Round in 2014.

Because of the massive, demanding and costly nature of the Census exercise, this activity in most countries is held just once every ten (10) years.

Guyana has traditionally organized its Census exercises with the rest of the other CariCom group of countries, under the coordination of the Statistics Division of the CariCom Secretariat.

For this round, except for Haiti which has been unable

to mount a Census because of its devastation by natural disasters in recent years, all other countries, except for Guyana and Suriname, conducted and completed their National Censuses in the years 2010 or 2011.

Already, eight days of intensive training have been completed for approximately 100 Regional Census Coordinators and Assistants, Area Coordinators recruited from and assigned to all ten (10) regions of Guyana and other Bureau staff who will be in the front line of training and management of the enumeration activities in every area and Region of Guyana.

In fact these core persons just trained will now disperse to all 10 Regions to train the 3,000 plus enumerators from all walks of life who have applied and have been selected for training as enumerators and supervisors.

For Guyana, the issuance of the Ministerial Order and Regulations declaring Census day in one month’s time, signals that all of the myriad preparations for this Census which began more than three years ago, are in their final stages of completion and those Guyanese who have opted to be a part of this mammoth national exercise, managed by the Bureau, will be ready to commence their work in four week’s time.

The Census is the only national exercise where every building is counted and every household within every building or any economic activity within each building

are enumerated and/or recorded, at the same period in time. The Census is and has always been much more than a headcount, it is a check and evaluation of the changing size, composition, quality of life, economic activities, maternal health, fertility rates, housing stock, qualification and education levels, foreignborn population, access to basic social services, just to name a few. The plethora of information that will be collected will assist the policy makers in determining whether Guyana is on track to achieve several of the MDGs. Census 2002 put Guyana’s population at 751 thousand.

All wait to see what it is ten years later.

Upon signing the Census Order and Regulations, Minister Singh stated that “Census 2012 represents our latest efforts to update the vast array of data we compile on national life to inform policy-making by Government and decisionmaking by other stakeholders such as the business community. I have no doubt that the 2012 census will prove equally valuable in this regard, and I wish the Bureau of Statistics every success in executing this important national activity.”

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Carpenter dies after Vreed-en-Hoop accident A 48-year-old carpenter who had his leg amputated after being struck by a car last Saturday has succumbed to his injuries.

Relatives said that Devanand Nauth, of Vreeden-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, died at the Georgetown Hospital at around 05:00 hrs yesterday.

However, they only learned of his demise at around 13:00 hrs when his mother went to visit him at the hospital.

A family member expressed shock at the carpenter’s death since his condition had not appeared to be life-threatening and doctors had transferred him from the High Dependency Wa r d t o t h e A c c i d e n t Ward.

According to reports, Nauth was cycling out of Kidram Street, Vreed-enHoop at around 18:30 hrs last Saturday when he was struck by a car.

The driver reportedly took Nauth to the West Demerara Regional Hospital, where he was admitted with injuries to his back and legs.

But a relative also alleged that the driver who struck her brother gave the police a

The Amputee: Devanand Nauth at GPHC false cellular number.

“When we went to Best Hospital I saw his head bandaged and his two ankles bandaged, so I asked the nurse how serious it was, and she said he got a gash on his head and ankles and there was no real laceration,” a sister of the victim said.

The sister said Nauth told her he had no feeling in his body, and a nurse related that this was because the carpenter had alcohol in his system.

According to the woman, the West Demerara staff discharged her brother without him having an X-ray.

He was told to visit the hospital daily for an injection and to have the left leg dressed.

But last Tuesday, relatives reportedly became alarmed after the leg began to smell.

They took Nauth back to the West Demerara Hospital where a doctor examined the leg and ordered that the patient be admitted to the GPHC. The leg was then amputated.

Relatives also said that another X-Ray revealed that Nauth’s spinal cord was damaged.

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E.C.D four-lane extension…

Gafoors authenticates invoices

The company supplying steel to the controversial contractor of a section of the East Coast Demerara fourlane expansion has authenticated several bills that were questioned by the Public Works Ministry.

This further supports the contractor’s claims that his transactions with the Ministry were above board, contrary to claims by the Ministry.

Recently, the contractor of Falcon Transportation and Construction Services, claimed that his contract was terminated because of his constant refusals to give bribes to Ministry officials.

The Ministry maintained that the termination was based on the fraudulent submissions of documents and non-performance by the contractor. The Ministry has since signaled its intentions approaching the police to investigate the matter.

In a press release the Ministry had said, “Five of 11 invoices submitted by the contractor from suppliers had blocked out invoice numbers and claims for the same items (steel) twice.” However, the Ministry never made checks with the company to confirm whether the invoices with blocked out numbers were authentic. In fact, in a cover letter attached to the invoices, The Manager of Gafsons Industries Limited, Parika branch, has since invited the Ministry to verify the receipts.

According to the Manager, Gafsons Industries Limited issued the invoices with blocked out numbers to the contractor. Without offering specific details, it was explained that the branch received the invoice books from the company’s head office with the blocked out numbers.

According to the

The stalled road works on the East Coast Demerara.

contractor, “they (the Ministry) claimed that the invoices that I obtained from Gafoor were duplicated. But Gafoor gave an explanation for the appearances of the invoices. The Ministry could have easily verified it by just making a phone call or even contacting Gafoor, but they are too important to do that.”

He stated that the Ministry refused to acknowledge a document from Gafoors authenticating the bills. According to the contractor, the same invoices were approved by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) when he made claims for a refund of his Value Added Tax. “These bills went to GRA and were checked…and I was refunded the VAT from it. It was accepted by GRA as authentic,” the contractor said.

It was on these perceived discrepancies that the Ministry wrote to the contractor informing him that

his contract was terminated.

He noted that it took the Ministry five months after

they queried the discrepancies to terminate the contract.

The road works are ongoing between Montrose and Sparendaam.

Brassington, McLean named... satisfaction with the Police’s probe into the killing of the three Lindeners, the President said he will not sanction the way the police should do their job, especially in light of the fact that they have been in existence for over 100 years.

The Head of State added that he has confidence in the inquiry which will be held into the killings.

While the President and his team said their visit to the mining community was extensively announced, some residents are of the view that it was a ‘pop in surprise’. The Presidents told media operatives that his visit was advertised on the television as well as the radio.

He however noted that

the poor turnout was a result of a Blackberry message which was circulated earlier in the day before his arrival in Linden.

The message ”LINDENERS: this is the ultimate protest, DO NOT GIVE THE PRESIDENT A HEARING, let him speak to the bridge and the roads he so cares about, let him speak to the shells littered on the road and the coward police officers that shot innocent people, do not picket him, do not heckle him, run from him like he has the plague...please rebroadcast.”

The President lamented the fact that there was noise about him not visiting the restive community and now that he has reached out to the community the people were not ready to hold discussions.

Some residents insisted that that it was the Joint Services who were preventing persons from entering Watooka House to attend the meeting.

The President’s visit came some 29 days after the crisis in the community started, resulting in three Lindeners Ron Somerset, Shemroy Bouyea and Allan Lewis being shot and killed.

Dozens of other persons have also been injured during confrontations with the Joint Services. Several buildings, including a school and other government buildings, have also been damaged during the protest which the Government has given an undertaking to fix.

The protest action was sparked by a proposed electricity hike tariff which has been suspended.

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E’bo to get two new landfill sites While on a visit to Region Two yesterday, Minister within the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, Norman Whittaker, told vendors at Charity, that two landfill sites are soon to become operational on the Essequibo Coast.

He indicated that two sites have already been identified.

According to Whittaker, bids have been circulating in the newspapers and so far, three prospective contractors have already shown interest in collecting garbage from homes on the Coast, stretching from Charity to

Supenaam.

Whittaker said that because markets were recognised as one of the most significant contributory factors for the disposal of solid waste, the initiative to establish landfill sites, especially on the Coast, was aimed at regularising the poor practice of disposal by residents.

Whittaker stressed that systems are already in place to penalise residents for dumping garbage anywhere and everywhere.

At present, the Anna Regina Town Council collects garbage at a cost of $200 and $300 per bag.

Norman Whittaker Junior Minister of Local Government

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Data entry clerk, must have access to computer Call: 233-0606 Experience roti/puri cooks, Pastry makers, Counter servers, Cleaners, Apply Hack’s Halaal Restaurant 5 Commerce Street.

Driver/Salesman with clean Lorry Driving Record Call: 266-4427 Domestic to do house work only, no cooking, to live in, preferably from country area Call: 639-7700 Live in/ Live out Babysitter/ Domestic Call: 225-0188, 225-6070 Accounts Clerk with CXC Accounts and/or knowledge of Peachtree or Quickbooks Call: 266-4427 Maid required who should be very good in house keeping and cooking.

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Refrigeration A/C, Washer trainee Call: 231-0655, 6838734 One live in domestic, age 3545, salary $45,000 Call: 6925478, 661-1301

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VEHICLES FOR SALE Pickup trucks, Toyota Tundra, extended cab, $1.9M, Ford raye sports.

Extended cab $1.9M Call: 682-5230/621-4066 EDUCATIONAL ACADEMIA: CXC lessons forms 1-5 & Adults. Only $1000 per subject per month.

Call: 600-3775 Princeton College, Forms 15, CXC adults classes for slow learners, reading classes for children Call: 6905008, 611-3793 Live and work in Canada, Get Canadian Certification as a Caregiver Call: 227-4881 or 416-674-7973 Register now at Community College $15,000 per term at Form 1 Call: 227-0218 Learn Spanish easy Call: 673-1232 VYC, IDCE/UG presents Business Development Training, in Marketing, Financing and Communication. Contact 2271011-13 Register Now Register Now for computer classes, MicroGraphics Technology Grove 226-3976 Advanced Diploma in computer for 2012 CXC Student, MicroGraphics Technology Vreed-en-Hoop 264-3057 Register Now for Windows 7, Office 2012, Quick Books etc, MicroGraphics Technology Parika (Bollywood Building) 264-3057 SALON Summer special Cosmetology, Nails & Makeup Call Abby 216-1950,6665241,619-7603

One female to work in the interior, age 30-45, salary $80,000 Call: 661-1301, 6925478

Security/ Watchman Call: 225-6070, 225-0188 1 live in maid, must be from country and know to cook, Age 35-48 years Call: 6110200, 662-1124 One live in nanny, mature with Secondary Education, Age 30-50 years Call: 2269279, 614-6564 1 Drudge workers, scrap metal cutter, 1 Hiab truck driver, 1 mechanic, 1 whole day domestic Call: 667-5717, 650-4761 or 629-2912 Experience hairdressers to work at Misikko Salon.

Contact Mrs.Trecia Bathija on 666-5153

Toyota Tacoma GPP Series $4.5M, Unregistered Toyota Premio $2.9M Call: 688-9070, 619-2299 2003 Nissan X Trail PLL series, excellent condition $3.2M Negotiable Call:623-3839 Long & short base open back canter, call: 617- 2891 Blow Out Sale!! P & A Auto Sales, Unregistered vehicles, Premio, Spacio, IST, Raum etc Call: 661-9651 or 681-8474

One 15HP Yamaha (Long foot) Call: 689-5254, 643-0332

LEARN TO DRIVE Soman & Sons Driving School, First Federation Building Call: 225-4858, 6445166, 622-2872, 615-0964 Prudential Learning ‘’ Training to Pass’’ automatic also stick/manual Call: 6424827, 661-5028. We ‘re # 1.

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Leading Auto, Allion, Runx, IST, PLL Raum Call: 677-7666 One Toyota Marino, excellent condition $850,000 Call:265-3883 or 682-0567

6-weeks course in designing/ dressmaking.

Call Sharmela: 225- 2598, 6410784

1 2006 Bluebird, Unregistered Luxury car, fully loaded. Price $3.6M negotiable Call: 612-3858 GPP 6369. Tel: 613-3521.

AE 100 Corolla. Price negotiable. Tel: 694-4432.

2004 Toyota Avensis, 20052007 Toyota Allion & 2005 BMW 320I, (New body style) Call: 615-4114

1 Allion, 1 IST, 1 Rav4, 1 45150 Leyland Daff, 1 55-210 Leyland HIAB Call Archie 624-1343, 664-2755

Machine operators for Bobcat & Excavator.

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Unregistered Tundra tt 100 and Tacoma Call: 265-2103, 645-9860

Bus driver to ply zone 31 Call: 231-1561 or 664-9427

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Diving Suit, call: 613- 5158, 265- 3449 Large bobcat skid steer, 3000lbs capacity, $3.8M Call: 275-0028 American Eagle T-Shirt men & women Call: 266-5831, 6902174 Pressure washers : Dewalt 4200 PSI, John Deere 3800 PSI, 13HP, 4gpm Call: 6391423 Caterpiller backhoe model 426c. Call: 651- 8870, 233- 6161 Pure breed German Shepherd and Rottweiler pups, vaccinated and dewormed also 2 adult Rottweiler dog Call: 220-6879 (2) 6 inch/6 cylinder cummings turbo dredge engine already bed, never used in the jungle $2.2M Negotiable Call: 687-6244

1 Toyota Ceres, AT 192, AT 170, 212 Carina, EP 71 Starlet, 1 Alteeza PMM Call: 6445096, 697-1453 Massy Ferguson Tractors1-265, 1-275, 1-285, 1-298, 1399 4 wheel drive, 5000W Generator, Land Tillers, All Negotiable Call: 678-0224

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One Toyota Sprinter Contact Tel: 660-1141

1 male to work in the interior 25-40 years, $60,000. Contact 687-1414/675-7043

1 Watchman, 1 Truck driver, 2 Handy men for interior. Call: 627-6416/226-3799

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2001 Nissan Civilian, 30 seater, import condition, A/ C, tint, PNN Call Phillip 6169523, 683-7819

1 male sales clerk, 1 porter Call: 225-2313

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VEHICLES FOR SALE Jags’Auto: IRZ, VVTI Manual/Automatic, Buses, Wagon, Raum. Cheapest Call: 616-7635 1 RZ Minibus , BHH 683, $ 680,000 Neg. Call: 6011094,629-5946 Mercedes Benz S300, automatic luxury car, fully leather, fully powered 19’’ negotiable armoured $3.8M cash Call: 621-4000 2006 Toyota Tacoma 4 WD automatic, unregistered on wharft, need minor works sold as is $3.6M firm. Call: 621-4000, 227-3939 Grand Cherokee Loredo Jeep, automatic power windows locks, projection led lights cash $1.5M Call: 621-4000, 690-6000, 227-3939 2009 Trident car, brandnew, never registered $950,000, Guyana Variety Store & Nutcentre 621-4000, 227-3939 Generators Mitsubishi, silent diesel with storage tank 28KVA, key start next to new $1.5M Call: 621-4000, 6906000, 227-3939 Stretch Limousine Limcoln town car, perfect condition, perfect for rentals, wedding etc, realistic offer accepted Call: 621-4000 2005 H2 Hummer sut model, fully powered, leather, 22’’ rims system price negotiable 645-9977

One used central pneumatic 2 in 1 combination flooring air nailer/stapler, One used black & decker table saw Call: 680-8123 Set magrims 20’’, hot water pressure washer 3500 PSI, Sthil chainsaw, 1997 Ford Hauler Call Raj 686-7553 Fridge, freezer, music system, stove Call: 675-3093 1 3200 Hifonix Power Amp $160,000 Call: 678-3392 Used laptop computer $40,000 to $65,000 Call:2270095 5 clarke forklifts 2000-4000lbs lifting imported USA, need basic servicing, sold as is $400,000 & up Call 621-4000, 690-6000 2 complete music set Call: 220-1500, 614-4626 1 Plucking machine & Freezer, tel: 216-2363/6834700 Portable massage table with carrying case and brandnew towel warmer Call: 661-9245, 218-2867 Dousund with Terrier mix Call: 680-0192, 216-3408, 6294226 Projection television from 40’’ to 80’’ minor problems, sold as is price $75,000, make cash offer Guyana Variety Store Call: 227-3939, 621-4000 One used Vizio 26’’ HDTV, One used LG DVD Home theater system Call: 680-8123

FOR SALE 1 225 KVA Generator, 1 Hiace Canter, Premio, 3 light towers, car batteries Call:624-2000 1 Bobcat & trailor Call:6460101 Dell computers complete with 17&19 inch LCD from $50,000 Future Tech 2312206 Pressure washer Honda 3100 PSI $130,000 Call: 6148564 1 Pool Table, call: 669-9927 Toyota Starlet EP71 Call:6482075 Brand new 2.5ton Pallet Jacks Call: 614-8564 Precision Built Trailer Pump. Very reasonable priced. Tel: 227-1830 Quality imported new and used tools. Call: 220-3356/ 697-8411/643-3627 House and land, Nootenzuil South of Public Road. Tel: 256-3941/681-9879 Farm @ Yarrowkabra Soesdyke Linden Highway Call: 684-7957 MAC STUDIO FIX POWDERS $7,900, SACHA 2in1 $2,000 MAKE UP – top Brands, BLACK OPAL $2,700 Tel :647 -1773 Foreign used engines 55 DAF,332 Cummings 6BT Call Anil 615-3023 Male enhancer Viagra $4,000 Call: 638-1627 2000 Toyota Forklift, 600V Generator, Sets of trailer axle complete air breaks etc Call Raj 686-7553 V8 Titan 2004 4 wheel drive automatic $3.5M Call: 2750028 Used generators, 1 65 KVA, IPH, 120-240 Volts, Deutz Air Cool Genset, 1 194 KVA Onan Cummings Genset Call: 622-3940 100/212/192/170 Cars in yellow HB Taxi cars cheap Call: 698-7807 for inspection.

400 Amps Hobart, Miller engine welders $595,000, $350,000, wood work machines 8’’ jointer, radial saw, shaper, sander, 12’’ plaher Call: 226-3883 Kia sportage 2002 low milage $2M Call: 275-0028 Massy Ferguson Tractors, Model 188, Honda ATVS, Model 500, 2012 Call: 6886274 or 691-3851 SALON Make up courses, artist trained & certified in Trinidad: 660-5257,647-1773 (Continued on page 27)

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GTTA reschedules National Championships The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) yesterday announced a rescheduling of the dates for its National Table Tennis Championships. General Secretary of the GTTA, Godfrey Munroe issued the release on the postponement of the event.

Initially, the GTTA National Championships was scheduled for August 17-19 for the Junior competition and August 31–September 2 Senior competition.

“Given the magnitude of the tournament, and the role it plays in the GTTA’s calendar of events relative to the crowning of the

respective champions into the annals of history, a main selection criteria and the ranking of players, it is imperative that all details are finalised for the successful hosting of a tournament of such magnitude,” the release noted.

“Additionally, a very busy schedule, which saw us having to expend resources both financial and human to send teams to Cuba, Jamaica and Mexico, a small window of dates in which we could have had the tournament despite its critical importance existed,” it continued.

The release indicated that the executive decided to shift

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Godfrey Munroe the dates so as to accommodate better planning, preparation and finalising of arrangements with sponsors/partners to ensure that the high standards of the tournament are maintained. The GTTA said it will announce the new dates shortly.

Blake could join Bolt in Australia Twenty20

Yohan Blake rang the bell on the opening morning of the England v South Africa Test.

SYDNEY, Australia — Yohan Blake could join fellow Olympic sprint sensation Usain Bolt in Australia’s domestic Twenty20 Big Bash League, in a showdown between the world’s two fastest men on the cricket field.

The Sydney Sixers franchise are hoping to lure him for the December tournament, after Bolt made clear he wanted to turn out for the Melbourne Stars.

Like Bolt, Blake is cricketmad, and Sixers chief executive Stuart Clark said he was keen on setting up a clash between the close friends.

“For one he is a great athlete, and yes he would be a marketer’s dream, but from all reports he can actually play cricket and that’s better than anything else,” Clark told the Sydney Daily Telegraph.

“If he can do what he says he can do, and I have no reason to disbelieve him, Yohan would be a marquee player for me to sign. I would definitely be considering it.”

Earlier this week, Shane Warne revealed he was leading a campaign to bring Bolt to Melbourne, with negotiations under way with the Melbourne Stars, the

Australian former Test legspinner’s club.

Bolt played junior cricket before turning to the track and has long voiced a love for the game.

“Warne contacted me and asked me about if I am serious and if I really want to do it, then he can put in a few words that should get it done,” Bolt told Australian television.

“So we will see if I get the time off. I will try.”

Cricket is hugely popular in the West Indies with Jamaica one of its strongest teams, producing greats such as Michael Holding, Courtney Walsh and Chris Gayle.

According to the Telegraph, Blake, who took silver in the Olympic 100m and 200m events behind Bolt, says he is “a bowling machine”. “You guys need to see me in action. I am a bowling machine that can bat all day,” he reportedly said during the Olympics. “Cricket, that’s my love, that’s my passion.”

Clark said: “I will need to see some footage of him bowling, but he has been saying he can bowl 90 miles per hour. Very few people in the world can do that”.

“Usain Bolt is a great showman and entertainer, but he can’t play cricket as far as

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I’m aware, to the standard necessary. Yohan Blake can, it seems.”

The newspaper said Australian agent Tony Connelly was brokering the deal between Blake and the eight-team Big Bash, which was launched last year to attract a new youthful audience to cricket.

The season, where each side tries to blast as many runs as possible in a maximum of 20 overs, gets under way on December seven with the final on January 19.

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Indies v Zimbabwe, ICC U-19 Turfites promised entertainment in 6th West World Cup, Townsville... annual Guyana Cup Horserace Meeting West Indies top Group Horseracing fans are gearing up for lots of fun and excitement when the officials of Jumbo Jet Auto Sales present the 6th Annual Guyana Cup Horserace Meeting at the Port Mourant Race Track, Corentyne Berbice, on Sunday August 26.

Sponsorship has been the major bugbear in the effective staging of these activities and the organizers have sought such support from the corporate community.

Yesterday afternoon, two organizations responded positively and donated cash and prizes towards the meet.

Coordinator of the event, Melissa Chattergoon, accompanied by her assistant, Compton Sancho and Public Relations and Media Specialist, Ajay Baksh visited the Trophy Stall, Bourda Market where Ramesh Sunich donated a trophy for the champion jockey.

Shortly afterwards, the

organizing group visited the offices of Hand in Hand Insurance Company Ltd where a member of staff, Mark Samaroo, handed over a cheque of an undisclosed amount to Ms Chattergoon.

The coordinator was especially grateful for the gift and expressed such sentiments to her benefactors.

Marketing coordinator of Hand in Hand, Andrea Jodhan Khan said that her company is pleased to be of assistance in keeping with its mandate to support local sports.

Mr. Sunich expressed similar sentiments even as he wished the organizers well.

Mr. Sancho acknowledged the kind gestures of the two business entities and assured them that their contribution would assist greatly in the success of the meet.

Meanwhile, the organizers have assured turfites that all systems are in place for an action packed day of

Monroe Road Masters beat GCA XI by 14 runs A fighting half-century from the in-form Sheik Mohamed could not inspire victory for a Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) XI, who went down by 14 runs to Monroe Road Masters of Trinidad and Tobago in a feature 20-over match at the Everest Cricket Club ground on Wednesday.

Chasing 191 for victory after restricting Monroe Road Masters to 190-5 from the allotted overs, GCA XI were then restricted to 176-6 when the overs expired with the lefthanded Mohamed hitting a topscore of 58 (6x4s).

The former national wicketkeeper/batsman a fortnight ago slammed a belligerent hundred to guide Everest Masters to victory over Floodlight Masters in a pre-Emancipation 25-over softball match.

Mohamed and Ron

Ramnauth, who cracked 33 apiece with four fours, gave GCA XI a blazing start of 86 in eight overs, but once Ramnauth was dismissed, a middle-order collapse slowed things down, thereby affording the visitors the opportunity of sneaking back into contention.

Khemraj Ramdial was the pick of the bowlers with 4-33, while Ramesh Singh bagged 2-24 to complete an excellent all-round performance.

Singh had earlier flayed the GCA XI bowlers to all parts of the outfield in a whirlwind knock of 93. He hammered nine sixes and eight fours to power the twinisland team to a comfortable and eventual winning total.

At the presentation ceremony which followed the game, Monroe Road Masters presented Mohamed with a trophy for his batting display.

The National Sports Commission (NSC) “Teach Them Young” development programme that facilitated the visiting Barbados Table Tennis Club, comprising cadet players at the beginners and at the intermediate levels, concluded on Wednesday.

The programme was hosted during August 8-15 at the National Gymnasium with

national coach Linden Johnson and International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Level I Coach, Gavin Lowe conducting the daily sessions.

Early in the programme Director of Sports, Neil Kumar, welcomed the team and urged them to have fun while learning new skills and making new friends. He noted

horseracing. There will be eleven exiting races among horses that are bred in North America and the Caribbean vying for over thirty million dollars in cash and other prizes. Ms Chattergoon has beseeched the support of the public even as she envisaged the excitement in store.

She urged the nontraditional fans to be a part of the day’s activities which would also include lots of family oriented events, while the popular Slingerz sound system would provide delectable music.

Mr. Sancho has been an integral part of the sport and has been organizing events for over three decades. He said that indeed the sport has improved immensely ever since the late Harold Tulsi, another horserace enthusiast, had increased the winning stakes to one million dollars.

“Presently, horses are competing for prizes well over that amount which is an indication of the strides made in the sport,” he intimated.

The feature attraction, the ‘A & Lower over a distance of 1400m, carries a first prize of 3 million dollars with a second prize of half that amount. The third and fourth place finishers will win $750,000 and $375,000

respectively. Then there is the race among the 3 years old horses over a similar distance where the winner receives 2 million dollars. The 2nd to 4th place finishers receive $1,000,000, $500,000 and $250,000 respectively.

The two years old animals will compete over a distance of 1000m and the winner rides off with one million dollars.

The second place finisher will get $500,000, while the 3rd and 4th places receive $250,000 and $125,000 respectively.

The other races on for the day are the E & Lower, F & Lower, G & Lower, 3 years Old Open, 2 years old Open, H & Lower, 13 & Lower and the Division 1, 2 & 3 event.

Several top notched thoroughbreds will be on show including Jet Set Go, Whosoever, Swing Easy, Night Crescendo, Gotto Go and Awesome Warrior among others.

Horse owners are required to lodge a 50% non refundable deposit not later than Monday August 20.

Entries can be uplifted from Chandu Ramkissoon (6249063/232-0633) or Chris Jagdeo (624-6123/322-0369).

Additional information could also be had from any of the above mentioned individuals.

C with easy win

The International Cricket Council has extended the deadline for World Twenty20 squads to be submitted by six days. The 15-man squads originally had to be handed in by Saturday, but the ICC has extended the deadline to the 24 August.

That decision potentially gives England more time to resolve tensions with Kevin Pietersen.

The 32-year-old recently apologised for “provocative texts” he sent to South African players.

Pietersen, who has 1,176 Twenty20 runs and was player of the tournament when England lifted the trophy in 2010, was not included in the original 30-man party after quitting limited-overs internationals in May. However, he effectively reversed that decision earlier this month, making himself available to play for England in all forms of cricket.

The World Twenty20 tournament begins in Sri Lanka on 18 September and runs until 7 October.

West Indies commanded top spot in Group C of the Under-19 World Cup, with another collective bowling performance setting up their third victory in three matches.

Their fast bowlers struck early and there was no easing of pressure from the spinners either, as Zimbabwe were limited to a below-par total on a small ground at Endeavour Park The West Indian chase, however, did not begin smoothly - they lost two wickets in the third over - but Kraigg Brathwaite stayed firm at his end to see the chase through.

The only Test batsman in the tournament, Brathwaite was undefeated on 70 when the target was achieved in the 36th over. West Indies will now face New Zealand in the quarter-finals.

“You don’t play four quicks to bat first,” West Indies coach Roddy Estwick said after his team had won the toss. Ronsford Beaton led the attack once again, giving away nothing at his end. In his fourth over, he produced a bouncer that reared up at Luke Masasire and kissed the glove on the way through to the wicketkeeper Sunil Ambris.

That was the only wicket Beaton would pick up during an incredibly economical spell of 9-4-9-1. Two balls later, leftarm fast bowler Jerome Jones got Matthew Bentley nicking to Ambris as well.

Allrounder Kyle Mayers could have had Ryan Burl in his first over but Kavem Hodge dropped the topedged hook at third man.

Mayers got Kevin Kasuza instead, bowled by a straight ball that the batsman played across to. Burl went on to play a proper hook against Justin Greaves, hitting the ball over the boundary of the adjacent ground, where India were batting against Papua New Guinea. He didn’t last long, though, and was caught

that such programmes have produced Caribbean champions in the past.

He made reference to the recently concluded Pre-Cadet Championships in Jamaica when Guyana came out on top with 5 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 10 bronze medals. Kumar noted that the programme has been valuable to the development of table

tennis.

At the conclusion of the programme Guyanese and Barbadians players were engaged in a goodwill tournament with results as follows: In the 13 years and under teams “A”, the host defeated the visiting team 5 games to 4 games; In the 13 years and under teams “B” the host

defeated the visiting team 5 games to 4 games and in the 15 years and under teams, the host beat the visiting team 5 games to 4 games.

The singles event attracted 36 players with results as follows: in the 9 years and under open, Barbadian Dasha Murphy beat Jadyn George (Guy) 3-0, joint third place went to Omari

ICC extends deadline for World Twenty20 squads to be submitted

behind for 13.

Zimbabwe continued to struggle against pace and also against spin. The left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein bowled three maidens in his 10-over spell of 2 for 16.

His first wicket was that of Malcolm Lake, who had scored a blistering century against India. Lake was Zimbabwe’s top scorer once again, making 31 before chipping the ball back to Hosein in the 32nd over.

The tail managed to survive through to 50 overs, finishing on 148 for 8. West Indies conceded 24 runs in extras, 18 of those through wides.

Brathwaite glanced the first ball of the chase off his pads to the fine-leg boundary, and then watched two of his team-mates play loose shots.

Sunil Ambris, who had destroyed Papua New Guinea at this venue, pulled a short ball from Kieran Geyle - who was bowling left-arm spin straight to deep-square leg.

The next ball, John Campbell slogged wildly across the line and top-edged to short third man. West Indies were 6 for 2 in the third over.

Although he took those early wickets, Geyle dropped far too short, allowing Brathwaite to pull him repeatedly to the midwicket boundary. The West Indies captain lost two more partners cheaply, but remained unfazed.

He was dropped during his half-century, by Andre Odendaal off legspinner Peacemore Zimwa at mid-on, but West Indies were well on course by then. Mayers struck powerful blows to accelerate the chase on the home straight and knock Zimbabwe out of the World Cup. Scores: West Indies Under-19s 150 for 4 (Brathwaite 70*) beat Zimbabwe Under-19s 148 (Hosein 2-16) by six wickets.

Hazlewood (Guy) and Roy Cort (USA).

In the open category, Guyanese Emmanuel Major beat Barbadian Donavan Griffith 3-0, while the joint third place went to Christopher London (Guy) and Matthew Wilson (Guy).

The NSC donated trophies and medals for the presentation ceremony.

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GCF selects team for Caribbean Present quagmire calls for exclusion Youth Road Racing Championships of certain Sport Administrators

By Rawle Welch

Raynauth Jeffrey

Paul DeNobrega

Raul Leal

The Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) has selected a strong team of six males and one female to contest the Caribbean Youth Road Racing Championship which is slated the Dominican Republic on August 25 and 26, 2012.

The GCF team for this Championship is a formidable one in both the junior and juvenile categories.

The junior team will led by the consistent duo of reigning National Road Race Junior Champion Raynauth Jeffrey and Paul DeNobrega both of whom have been riding most impressively this season, winning a number of senior races in the process. With the experience that they have had to date, they are expected to medal for Guyana.

The Guyanese are

Michael Anthony

Marica Dick

expected to be dominant in the juvenile division also led by the promising Raul Leal and Michael Anthony of Linden, who have both been enjoying a good 2012 season so far.

The lone female rider on the team is Berbice’ Marica Dick who is also expected to give a good account of herself in the Dominican Republic.

The full Guyana team: Juniors: Paul DeNobrega, Raynauth Jeffrey and Mario King.

Juveniles: Raul Leal, Michael Anthony and Akeem Arthur.

Female: Marica Dick.

Team Manager is William Howard, while former National cyclist Wayne DeAbreu has been appointed Coach.

Guyana President: Time overdue for Ramnaresh Sarwan’s return President of Guyana, Donald Ramotar, has signaled his intention to raise the continued exclusion of Guyana and former West Indies captain Ramnaresh “Ronnie” Sarwan from the West Indies Cricket team. This would be done at the next Prime Ministerial Sub Committee on Cricket.

It should be recalled that Mr. Sarwan has an outstanding batting record, scoring 5,842 test runs in just 87 test matches, this approximate 67.1 runs per match, and yet he has been kept out of West Indian cricket.

This exclusion has forced Mr. Sarwan to seek employment in England,

AAG Youth and U-23 trials postponed The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) has postponed its Youth and Under-23 trials that were scheduled for this weekend at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary.

The competition, which also had a senior invitational component to it, was being held to select a team for the South American U-23 Games.

The AAG President, Colin Boyce, briefly told Kaieteur Sport that the association was forced to postpone the competition since the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), one of the biggest clubs in Guyana, would not have been able to participate.

“The GDF athletes are out of town on an assignment and as you know, quite a few of them form part of the core U-23 athletes in Guyana. We cannot host the competition without them,” Boyce indicated.

He, however, said that there are some Trinidadian athletes in the country and the association will proceed with the invitational aspect of the scheduled meet on Sunday.

where he is the captain and a leading batsman for the English county team Leicestershire. Currently he is regarded as one of the leading batsmen in English county cricket with three magnificent centuries so far.

Sarwan has a strong track record of performance in Test cricket with thirty-one half centuries, fifteen centuries with his highest test score of 291 runs.

Yet despite these seminal performances he is being overlooked by the WICB. He is also an excellent one-day player with more than 5,000 one-day international runs at an average of 43.41. His track record on the field certainly earns him a place in the team.

The President is calling for a fair and transparent system in the selection of players. He would like the selection criterion to be known to all, and that this objective method be used, rather that unclear subjectivity. He hopes that with such a fair and transparent system that Mr. Sarwan would easily regain his place in the WICB team.

Notwithstanding the salient points that Director of Sport Neil Kumar outlined in his ‘A Red Letter Day’ article that appeared in the Sunday Chronicle of August 12, the longstanding politician and sports official must know that Government has to take most of the blame for the current state of affairs as it relates to this country’s standing in the sports realm.

The Director must understand that the provision of a few facilities that are clearly not world class, even when compared to our regional counterparts, is woefully insufficient for the development of sports and our athletes, and rather what is imperative is a robust National Policy that receives the backing of all the relevant stakeholders.

Some of the points the Director highlighted such as the scant regard for Government’s input by some, if they are proven accurate, then the offending organisations that he alluded to should not escape harsh criticisms for their displays of disrespect, since meeting with the Government because of its position as being one of the acknowledged major stakeholders in the development of sports must be an unconditional requirement.

Despite its status, however, Government should not see itself as having the right to impose its will on the majority consensus since it could spell disaster and even spur noncooperation among stakeholders.

In nearly every story of success, the essential role of Government was pivotal for the eventual outcome, whether it be the provision of facilities, funds or even through bi-lateral agreements for the exchange of expertise such as coaches, consultants etc.

So, obviously, the absence of a working relationship between the Government and National Sport Associations / Federations and the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) as stated by Kumar, is frustrating the efforts of our athletes and their development, and this act of silliness must not be allowed to continue.

Every country has its own problems and we are no different, but unlike us, when it comes to attaining consensus for the national good it must be noted that a sense of maturity and patriotism takes centre stage ahead of pettiness and partisanship, dissimilar to what obtains in many instances here in Guyana.

In order for sports in Guyana to develop, there must be a clear cut Policy that involves all the important stakeholders with equal voices and not one that is guided by political leanings.

The Director urged that Government be included in an organized way to ensure that our athletes are thoroughly prepared to medal at the highest level and that is the right call, but how could such a plea be made when our

athletes struggle to maximize use of the few worthy facilities that we have.

There are numerous examples of our athletes being unable to properly prepare due to the lack of permission to use the ‘worldclass’ facilities, so when the Director pleads for inclusion, he must also know that one important aspect of preparations is getting the use of the best equipment and facilities.

The national rugby squad was given little use of the National Stadium, except for weekends, and clearly that was inadequate, due to the fact that the National Park has been in an unplayable state for more than two months owing to the inclement weather.

The squad has been preparing to participate in the NAWIRA Championships, where they are the multiple times champions, as well as the Rugby World Cup Qualifiers in Canada later this month.

These two tournaments are world class events, but the teams’ (Men and Women) preparations have been severely hampered by the poor conditions at the National Park.

Then there is the case of the suspension of playing activities at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall to facilitate the staging of a Science Fair, at the expense of the national table tennis squad.

These are just two illustrations of our athletes not being afforded an enabling environment to perform at their optimum and this scenario plainly contradicts the picture that is being painted.

Apportioning blame will not solve the many problems that beset this nation’s sports, but rather there is need for a National Forum, something similar to what was ordered when Guyana’s Golden Jaguars booted Trinidad and Tobago’s ‘Soca Warriors’ out of the World Cup not so long ago.

That defeat was so bitter that a national discussion was the only option to plot the way forward after the Caribbean powerhouse, who had benefitted from a substantial infusion of funding from the Government, succumbed to a team that did not enjoy even a quarter of their funding from its Government.

We have to sit and discuss seriously the entire sports chart and come up with comprehensive solutions to plug the gaping holes that have enveloped the sports fraternity.

Any solution must involve the resuscitation of sports in schools and that must be mandatory and not piecemeal with sizeable funding for its development, while financial support for prospective Olympians ought to be part of the Policy because it allows them to train and not study how they will earn to survive.

Additionally, the current set of sport administrators have not performed, they lack the necessary acumen to take us out of the present quagmire, and due to this deficiency, a strong case has emerged for their exclusion.

First week of coaching completed in Essequibo The South Essequibo Cricket Development Committee successfully ran off the first part of their coaching clinic at Zorg cricket ground on the Essequibo coast this week. The cricketers were thought about the basics of batting and bowling, Hiv\Aids and the importance of Discipline.

Head coach Forbes Daniels told Kaieteur sport that he was pleased with the

interest shown by the youngsters and stressed the need for more cricket to be organised in the county. He also called for better facilities.

“We have and abundance of young talent in Essequibo but we need better facilities to further develop the players strengths and weaknesses and to prepare them for competitions.”

Daniels was assisted by Andy Ramnarine and Melanie Brown. The clinic continues next week and Daniels is calling for more youngsters

and parents to get involved.

Nutrition, Game Sense and how to play Spin Bowling are some of the topics listed for the second phase of the programme.

Coordinator of the clinic Thakur Persaud expressed thanks to Indar Singh (General store), Gavin Trim (Hardware), Ishwar Deen and Clyde Gobin for their support.

At the end of the clinic a team will be selected to play Sans Souci Jaguars Sports Club of Wakenaam in a home and away limited over fixture.

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Race walkers gear up for 14th edition William France Fitness and Health Walk

P

opular amputee, William France has long dispelled the myth that persons of his ilk should be confined to a wheelchair engaging in minimal, unproductive tasks when he launched the William France 2 miles Fitness and Health Walk.

Now years later, Mr. France has put all modalities in place and on Sunday August 19 he will stage the 14 edition of the 2 miles fitness walk from the Two Brothers Gas Station, Eccles ECD to Mocha Road Head.

Mr. France recently spoke with Kaieteur Sport and intimated that this year’s activities will be graced by several important dignitaries including the Canadian High Commissioner, His Excellency, David Devine, members of the Voluntary Service Organizations and Government officials among others.

The able bodied amputee further disclosed that this year’s activities will witness participation from a record number of 13 individuals categorized as ‘differently able.’ th

Meanwhile, several members of the ‘differently able’ community will depart Guyana to participate in the Marine Marathon scheduled for Washington DC, USA on September 29.

Those shortlisted for the trip are John Antoo, Andre Richardson, Denis Burns, Audrey Bowlin and Yvonne DeAbreu.

The latter two individuals are wheel chair bound. These individuals will also participate in the imminent Fitness and Health Walk.

Several corporate bodies and individuals have teamed up to make the Fitness and Health Walk a success including President Donald Ramotar, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, Public Service Minister, Jennifer Westford, Director of Youth and Sports, Neil Kumar, Kenrick Auto Sales, GT&T, Banks DIH Ltd, Nigel’s Supermarket, Mings Products and Services and Ramchand Auto Sales. Walkers will be escorted by out-riders from the Guyana Police Force.

William France (left) and John Antoo show off two of the trophies to be won by winners of the event

South Africa rally after early losses (Reuters) - A battling half-century from JP Duminy and a test best 46 not out from tailender Vernon Philander led South Africa’s fightback as they closed on 262 for seven on the first day of the third and final test on Thursday.

Play ended early due to bad light and a power cut.

Three of the four floodlights were functioning when the players left the field with 14 balls left. Dale Steyn was

also unbeaten, on 21.

England must win the match at Lord’s to square the series and retain their number one status in the world rankings. South Africa will leapfrog them with a draw or win.

England shaded the day because of the placid nature of the Lord’s pitch that traditionally encourages first innings totals in excess of 400, but nonetheless, the tourists have posted a

competitive score.

Fast bowler Steven Finn wrecked South Africa’s top order with three wickets in seven balls, before they rallied.

Philander came to the crease at number eight with his team 163 for six, while Duminy scored 61 before he perished to the third delivery with the new ball in the last hour. The pair shared a seventh-wicket partnership of 72 until Duminy went to

the fourth catch of the day for wicketkeeper Matt Prior, off James Anderson. Finn ended with three for 68 and Anderson had three for 58.

Philander began fortuitously by edging two boundaries through third man off the edge but settled into his innings in which he had faced just 64 balls by stumps.

Scores: South Africa 262 for 7 (Rudolph 61, Philander 46*) v England.

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Barbados crowned champs of Three-Day Tourney Guyanese fight hard, but settle for second spot

Bridgetown, Barbados — Barbados were crowned champions of the West Indies Cricket Board’s Under-19 Three-day Tournament as they earned a fighting draw against Guyana yesterday. The Bajans ended with 45.5 points from five matches ahead of the Guyanese, who finished in second place with 38 points.

Playing at the Desmond Haynes Oval, Guyana recovered from 59-5 to reach 159 in the second innings.

Mohan Ramdeen batted with freedom to make 66 and withstood some quality fast bowling from Darnell Greenidge (3-35) and Akeem Jordan (3-22).

Barbados were set 85 for victory off a minimum of 16 overs, but they never took up the challenge.

Speaking after the match, Barbados captain Shai Hope said he was happy his team was able to win on home soil. The last time the tournament was played in Barbados, back in 2008, the Bajans also won the threeday title.

“It was a very good team performance and it feels very good to win the title at home for the people of Barbados,” said Hope, who made three centuries in five matches.

“We are very happy. Hats off to everyone who played a role and who helped us along the way. We kept our focus throughout and always

FINAL POINTS STANDINGS Barbados 45.5 Guyana 38.0 T&T 37.0 Windwards 36.0 Jamaica 29.0 Leewards 21.5

believed we would win, no matter what position we were in.”

Hope added: “We came into the tournament looking to win and we did just that.

We wanted to give all 14 players an opportunity and everyone chipped in when they got that chance to represent Barbados. We always kept our eyes on the bonus points and we benefitted a lot from our fast bowlers who were brilliant for us in this tournament.”

There was a run feast at Kensington Oval as Trinidad & Tobago made 443-5 to get first innings points over Leeward Islands, who made 423. Left-handers Brian Christmas (153) and Jeremy Solozano (128) put the Leewards bowling the sword in the first half of the day, while Vikash Mohan helped himself to 92 in the final session.

Solozano batted for six hours, faced 259 balls and hit 15 fours to record his second century of the tournament.

He added 184 for the second wicket with Christmas, who batted 6 ½ hours, faced 290 balls and cracked 16 fours and a six. Mohan then enjoyed himself, striking a six and ten fours off 92 balls as he added 143 off 149 balls with Christmas.

Over at the Weymouth Sports Complex, Windward Islands off-spinner Kenneth Dember got turn and bounce on a helpful pitch to take career-best 8-44 off 26 overs against Jamaica. This followed up his first innings six-wicket haul as he ended with match figures of 14 for 89.

The players will have a two-day break before the start of the 50-over tournament on Sunday.

Score summaries: At Desmond Haynes Oval: Barbados vs Guyana Match drawn Guyana 136 all out (Shawn Pereira 33, Tagenarine Chanderpaul 25;

Darnell Greenidge 3-28, Chad Williams 3-39, Akeem Jordan 2-24, Chaim Holder 2-34) and 159 all out (Mohan Ramdeen 66, Kamesh Ya d r a m 2 9 ; D a r n e l l Greenidge 3-35, Akeem Jordan 3-22, Chad Williams 3 - 4 4 ) . B a r b a d o s 2 11 (Shayne Moseley 65, Carlos Maynard 50, Gudakesh Motie 5-73, Romario Shepherd 3-34) and 28-0.

At Weymouth: Jamaica vs Windward Islands Match drawn Jamaica 116 all out (Delbert Gayle 38, Brandon King 20; Kenneth Dember 645, Preston McSween 2-14) and 122 all out (Delbert Gayle 55, Bryan Gayle 25; Kenneth Dember 8-44) Windward Islands 192 (Keone George 48, Tarryck

The Barbados players celebrate their victory to claim the U-19 championship.

Gabriel 37, Gibron Pope 26, Oshane Walters 4-47).

At Kensington Oval: Trinidad and Tobago vs Leeward Islands - Match

drawn Leewards 423 all out (Akeem Saunders 167, Deno Baker 109, Darren Hobson 53; Philton Williams 5-84).

Trinidad and Tobago 443-5 innings closed (Brian Christmas 153, Jeremy Solozano 128, Vikash Mohan 96).

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Smalta offers support for Caribbean Scrabble C/ships

P. 28 Kraigg Brathwaite pulls a ball towards mid-wicket.

Brand Representative for Smalta, Anjeta Hinds (left) hands over the sponsorship cheque to GASP’s Head of Finance & Fundraising, Moen Gafoor while member, Abigail McDonald shares the moment.

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NSA McAl Trading Ltd under its Smalta brand has once again shown its aptitude to support development through sport with the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) the latest entity to benefit from the company’s benevolence.

The GASP is preparing to host the Caribbean Scrabble Championships to be held from August 24-27. ANSA McAl and

Smalta hopes that its contribution will help to ensure GASP put on a successful Championship.

In addition, it is hoped that Guyana will claim the title of Champions in this year’s competition.

The competition is a biennial tournament and will involve three teams: Trinidad & Tobago (the defending champions), Barbados and Guyana.

Turfites promised entertainment in 6th annual Guyana Cup Horserace Meeting P. 28

Melissa Chattergoon and Compton Sancho show off the beautiful trophies donated by Trophy Stall (left), while Ms Chattergoon returned to collect the sponsorship cheque from Hand in hand Insurance representative, Mark Samaroo.

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