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Monday January 12, 2015

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Indian nationals have made not an Government’s false declaration of ‘progress’ iota of improvement at Skeldon Estate DEAR EDITOR, A few days ago, during Old Years, I was engaged by a few friends in a lengthy discourse on the popular rhetoric used by Ministers of this government to intentionally misguide the public, with the intent to circumvent analytical examinations of our physical existence, our living standards, coercing us in some ways to even blame ourselves for functional marginalization directed against us by the state, in many cases intentionally, but in the majority from mismanagement as a result of placing political expertise, commanding cavalier expediency, where tact and professionalism should be applied.

Time and time, the facade of ‘conspicuous consumption’ of motor vehicles, gadgets and attendance at popular entertainment concerts and night spots and the offering of expensive government house lots in undeveloped vulnerable areas, is used to equate ‘progress’ to deceptively placate public opinion.

These consumer ‘like de Jones’ factors are driven by social trends; housing is muddled and ill conceived, and has severe shortcomings in respect to clinical affordability.

The reclaim of vehicles by sale entities are not published, but we have all been approached at some stage by friends with a vehicle for pawn. As well, we know people who have died or have been robbed for or because of their vehicle or smart phone.

How then, does progress in addressing the Organic state be defined? Guyana no longer can boast of having an economy based on commodity or traditional exports; Rice, Sugar, Bauxite, Gold are all glories of another day, at least today.

No efforts are made to facilitate cottage industries and small businesses, IPR’s are not enforced nor are participants in those areas given an audience, That the President appealed to the U.N to waiver copyright to Guyana so his Government and their pirate friends can infringe on what is a civilized ‘Human Right’ by printing other people’s Intellectual Property, in the School text case, should have been enough to demonstrate the clueless unconsciousness of proper conduct that pervades the nature of this administration, though callous enough to practice the most vulgar and shameless nepotism , attributing tens of millions to themselves through inadequately capable relatives employed in Public facilities, while robbing this nation of billions through misfeasance.

The economy strives on taxes, on money laundering and drug money; we lose more people to vehicular deaths than crime, we have no roads to accommodate the continued import of cars but importation taxes constitute

the new economy, which Guyanese will persist to pay for with their lives.

Many Guyanese, including myself and my friends, are categorized in real terms as ‘Poor Rich.’ We pay our bills, including the extortionist GPL 60% increase Bill, then we have nothing left. Many citizens live on the streets, mainly men, because; with an average monthly income of no higher than $50,000, there is no cheap housing to accommodate them.

Hundreds, including drug addicts, and some with nervous tensions resulting from stress, now sleep in our public places. We imprison people addicted to cocaine and marijuana while providing no medical recourse for these addictions.

Progress, living standards and levels of civilization, culture sports etc. is measured by effective health services, education and after graduation, access to employment, with salaries that service the basic needs coupled by a justice system of supported checks and balances.

None of this is happening; recently the commercial court came up for public perusal. I have visited that court with a matter through a P.A status, over a three year period. One Judge, hundreds of contentions, one cannot ask more of court [8].

There is no intention of the State to positively affect our standard of living , even the right to parliamentary representation is offensive to this Government.

The last and biggest close of year scam perpetrated against the people of the capital was the Clean up Georgetown swindle, which in its completion leaves main alleyways untouched, drainage remain clogged, and the floods commence after the shortest spats of heavy rain, as before. An analogy was made in reference to the usages of time, to measure gainfully engaged citizens.

Well, recently, a poverty release $10.000 was given to parents through the Ministry of Education. Parents, mainly women, stood quietly in those lines, for hours outside the Western Union host businesses. Had they other engagements, with other days to cash these vouchers, there would have been less stoic lines. Of the Regent street locations I witnessed, I was assured that it was the same elsewhere, living in Guyana has become stressful through hopelessness.

Our final conclusion is; that we have experienced, through the PPP, all that Governance should not be. It must be noted that there are people locked in that political group who know better, but fear the isolation many of us outside are enduring. However, it’s time for this PPP, in this dispensation, to say goodbye, forever.

Barrington Braithwaite

DEAR EDITOR, I am a sugar worker attach to Skeldon Estate and note with interest our Excellency, President Donald Ramotar, on his recent visit to Cuba requesting the Cuban government to assist with our ailing sugar industry, and on his current trip to India, as reported in your January 11th edition, requesting the Indian Government to provide similar assistance.

The Indian Prime Minister is quoted, in a previous edition, as being amenable to the request, to the extent that he has asked our President to visit a sugar mill in Gujrat, which he did, and according to the Times of India “Ramotar flew in to the Valsad Sugar Factory on an Indian Air Force chopper where he was “impressed with the functioning of the sugar factory and praised the state-of-the-art technology” used to crush the sugarcane in order to make the crystals”.

Editor, I don’t know if our President is aware that at Skeldon there are several Indian nationals working on the estate in the field and factory for a considerable time, and their contribution so far is negligible. Their presence has not added an iota of improvement in the functioning of the field and factory.

Several months ago, the Factory Manager from Enmore Estate, an Indian national, was transferred to Skeldon Factory as Factory Manager, with lots of publicity on the estate that the gentleman will make a big difference with his presence. Lo and behold, he was sent back to Enmore because of poor performance. Is it a case therefore that the Indians who are at Skeldon now are the wrong Indians that were sourced from India?

Editor, the problem at Skeldon, as with all other

estates, is the growing of canes in quality and quantity to meet the needs of each factory. Unless this issue is properly addressed, our President could bring the whole world to GuySuCo and it would just be a waste of scarce money.

The other issue with bringing in Cuban and Indian experts is what will be paid to them and what will become of the many local managers?

By requesting these foreign experts, has the President lost confidence in the local managers?

Most of these local managers worked with Booker Tate when production soared from the lowest in history of 129,000 in 1990 to more than 300,000 tonnes in 2004.

I am sure Booker Tate must have left behind a file on the best approach in managing the sugar company to take it from all-time low of 129,000 to 300,000 tonnes sugar.

Editor, permit me to comment on the comment by Region Six Chairman, David Armogan, which was carried in your January 10th edition captioned “Embattled estate manager was spoken to about

behaviour, says Armogan,” in reference to the Skeldon Estate Manager ’s not so “worthwhile behaviour”, who stated that the “errant manager” was spoken to by “Region Six Administration as well as officials of the Central Government”.

As an ordinary sugar worker, I have no problem with the manager being spoken to, if such intervention could help him, but I have a problem when ordinary sugar workers like me commit a fraction of the “not so worthwhile behaviour” and have to face serious disciplinary action.

It would appear, according to Mr. Armogan, who seemed to have taken the lead in managing the manager’s problem, that senior management is “spoken to” about “errant and not so worthwhile behaviours”, but the ordinary workers have to face grave consequences for committing a fraction of the same “not so worthwhile behaviours”. This reminds me of George Orwell’s famous book Animal Farm that says “all men are equal, but some are more equal than others”.

Estate Employee

Correction to Freddie’s letter on Prem Miser In last Sunday’s Edition, we carried a letter in which our columnist Freddie Kissoon stated, regarding Dr. Prem Misir: “This is a man who worked the past fifteen years in a full time job as a propagandist for the office of the President, yet miraculously calls himself a professor after he says he was awarded such by North Lancashire University, an institution no one has heard above.”

However, Dr. Misir earned his doctorate at Hull University in the United Kingdom.

Kaieteur News apologies for any embarrassment this assertion caused Dr. Misir.

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Free expression is seen as a threat to the powers in Guyana - Greenidge A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) Shadow Minister of Finance, Carl Greenidge has opined that it is clear that free expression is now seen as a threat to the powers that be in Guyana, and probably treated as a criminal offence by some.

This was after careful analysis of the horrifying massacre which recently took place in Paris, France, alongside the threats made against the Kaieteur News paper by the Attorney General, Anil Nandlall.

According to Greenidge, the importance of the press in the life of democracies cannot be exaggerated.

For the people of the Caribbean, he said, the wanton and callous murder of 12 journalists in Paris last week followed by the related murder of an additional five persons in a supermarket by terrorists hiding under the cloak of religion, should strike a special chord because satire, the idiom of the newspaper Charlie Bebdo, is a form well known to the English Caribbean people.

(Satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or

APNU’s Carl Greenidge ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.)

Greenidge said that the massacre at Charlie Hebdo is a further reminder, if one was needed, that all kinds of journalists, including cartoonists and satirists are also at risk on the front lines of the battle for press freedom and democracy. Although many in the government would tend to say otherwise, the Opposition member said that Guyana has not been

spared such excesses.

“The execution of TV journalist Ronald Waddell outside of his home on January 30, 2006 has not warranted any special attention by the authorities.

Indeed, a currently serving Minister has not only been fingered as facilitating a criminal who it is alleged was responsible for the execution but with giving instructions to the hospital to ensure that Waddell be left to die. A similar execution style killing of five pressmen, Eon Wegman, Shazim Mohamed, Richard Stuart, Mark Maikoo and Chaitram took place at the offices of Kaieteur News on August 8, 2006,” Greenidge said.

He went on to state that this disgraceful situation persists because some believe that somehow the cause or the political motives of those who perpetrated the atrocities were just.

Rather than resolving to ensure that there would be no repetition, the former Finance Minister emphasized that the nation then witnessed the Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil

Nandlall issuing a de facto threat on innocent employees of the Kaieteur News newspaper, and confirming in the process, the links between the PPP, the Government and major criminals in the community.

He reminded that the release of the recording of the alleged conversation on October 27, 2014 has merely served to prompt a set of despicable excuses from President Donald Ramotar and his associates, notwithstanding calls from

the Guyana Bar Association and the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) for the Government of Guyana, and even from their own, to deal properly with the matter.

He added that while some may opine that there are similarities to be drawn between what happened in Paris and the threats by Nandlall, the lesson to be drawn from those two events is that the excuse for the specific terrorist act is always going to be different.

“We should avoid therefore focusing too much energy on those narrow causes, such as religious differences and radicalism for example, but rather on their ultimate intent and impact which is to deny others and the majority in the society, the right to free expression and to voice their perception of the world. In Guyana, free speech is seen as a threat to the income and even influence of the powers in Guyana,” Greenidge concluded.

PI into Foulis spare parts dealer’s killing nears close Nine months and 40 witnesses later, the Prosecution charged with providing enough evidence for the High Court trial against the five men named for the murder of Enmore businessman Rajendra Singh, is inching closer to closing the State’s case.

Last year, on April 5, Singh was kidnapped from his Foulis, East Coast Demerara business place and four days later, he was found dead in Le Repentir Cemetery. Cops subsequently launched a manhunt for those responsible for the businessman’s killing and five men were later hauled before the courts charged with his murder.

Now, Magistrate Ann McLennan will decide whether there is enough evidence for Adony James, 31, of Roxanne Burnham Gardens; Sheldon Chase, 34, a miner, of Pike Street, Kitty; Doodnauth Ketwaroo called “Pumpkin”, 27, of Good Hope, ECD; Tony Thomas, 27, of Bel Air, and Michael Lewis called “Jet Li”, 37, of Sheriff Street to stand trial in the High Court.

The five men are accused of murdering Singh sometime between April 5, when he was kidnapped, and April 9, when his body was found. At this stage, they have not been required to enter pleas since the offence is indictable.

The men were remanded to prison by the said Magistrate ever since their first appearance on April 17, last. The public hearing, which started seven months ago, is designed to test the strength of the prosecution’s case.

Sergeant Neville Jeffers, a Prosecutor attached to the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), is presenting the State’s case against the five accused.

Forty witnesses have

Accused: Doodnauth Ketwaroo

Accused: Sheldon Chase testified since the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) began in June last, including police officers, a forensic scientist and medical experts.

Five more witnesses are slated to testify in the PI this week. Four high profile Attorneys are representing the accused. Attorney-atLaw Peter Hugh is representing Ketwaroo and James; Attorney-at-Law James Bond is Thomas’ lawyer and Nigel Hughes is Lewis’ lawyer. Attorney-atLaw Adrian Thompson is representing Chase.

On Friday last, as the case continued before Magistrate McLennan, Sergeant Jeffers called Forensic Technologist Tameka Henry, Detective Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Julius Wright, Sergeant Bailey from the Enmore Police Outpost and Detective Constable Paddy,

Dead: Rajendra Singh

Accused: Tony Thomas

Accused: Adony James to testify.

Five more witnesses are slated to testify in the matter before Jeffers closes the State’s case this week. The case will be called again on Wednesday (January 21).

On April 5 last, Singh, his wife Heema and two employees were about to close his business to go home (Continued on page 12)

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Sri Lanka’s new government promises end to repression (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s new government promised a tolerant era of harmony and political freedom after years of mounting repression under a decade-old administration that unravelled in electoral defeat this week.

In a speech yesterday, President Maithripala Sirisena vowed to end corruption and nepotism that marred the reputation of his predecessor Mahinda Rajapksa, who stepped down on Friday after his shock election loss. Speaking from the highland jungle city of Kandy, the seat of Sri Lanka’s last Sinhalese kingdom, Sirisena asked for continued support of religious minorities who helped him win the election.

“While protecting the country’s main religion Buddhism, we also protect the rights and freedom of Hindu, Muslim, and Catholic people in practicing their religion and create consensus among them to build up this country,” he told a large crowd.

Sirisena’s speech came as the country prepares to receive Pope Francis, who is expected to deliver a message of inter-faith dialogue on a trip starting tomorrow.

Rajapaksa became a hero to many for ending Sri Lanka’s

Maithripala Sirisena 26 year civil war with a crushing victory over Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009. But critics accused him of crimes at the brutal end of the war and he also oversaw censorship and persecution of minorities, political rivals and journalists.

He ignored pressure to address rights issues and ensure media freedom even after a U.S.-backed United Nations resolution in March urged the country to prosecute war criminals.

Sirisena, who was acting defence minister under Rajapaksa in the final stages of the war and only defected to the opposition in

November, is unlikely to accept a U.N. war crimes probe. But he vows to rein in graft and rights abuses.

“I will take all the steps to eliminate corruption, loopholes, and bribes completely from this country,” he said, adding that he would make the police force politically neutral.

A power struggle has broken out over control of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, which both Sirisena and Rajapaksa belong to. Several lawmakers defected to Sirisena’s group yesterday.

Sirisena has ordered the Te l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n Regulation Commission (TRC) to lift a ban on all news websites blocked under his predecessor. “They will be given full freedom,” a spokesman said.

Rajitha Senaratne, a lawmaker who acted as spokesman for Sirisena during the election campaign, called on exiled dissidents and journalists to come home, and said the media will be free to criticise the new government.

“Media houses will not be torched,” Senaratne said. “All the past killings and attacks of journalists will be probed.

Also there won’t be any phone tapping as in the past.”

Iraq may need three years to restructure and rebuild military – PM (Reuters) - Iraq may need three years to rebuild and restructure its military, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said yesterday, as the country battles Islamic State militants who pose the biggest threat to its security since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

The ultra-hardline militant group seeking to redraw the map of the Middle East swept through the north last June virtually unopposed by the army, raising alarm bells among Baghdad’s Western allies and in Arab capitals.

Corruption is widely blamed for the near collapse of the army, which received billions of dollars in support from the United States during the American occupation but has failed to stabilise Iraq, a major OPEC oil producer.

Abadi acknowledged that creating a more effective army could be challenging while he fights Islamic State, seen as far more dangerous than al Qaeda, its predecessor in Iraq.

“The most difficult thing is to restructure and build the army while you are in a state of war,” Abadi told Reuters in an interview during a visit to Cairo.

“Our aim is to create a balance between both, restructuring the army in a

Haider al-Abadi way that will not impact the fighting,” added Abadi, a British-educated engineer.

U.S.-led air strikes have helped Iraqi military forces and their Shi’ite militia allies as well as Kurdish fighters seize back territory from Islamic State.

But the militants’ effective use of suicide bombers and improvised explosive devices often slow

down government forces.

“Restructuring the army could take three years,” said Abadi. “This does not mean that the fighting with Islamic State will last for three years.”

U.S. military officials say the conflict could last for years and that defeating the group hinges on Iraq’s ability to create a more effective army.

In Cairo, Abadi discussed regional efforts to stamp out militancy and other issues with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, whose country also faces Islamist militant insurgents based in the Sinai Peninsula who have pledged allegiance to Islamic State.

Abadi has sacked army officers accused of corruption in his drive to reform the institution and stabilize a country that has suffered from Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, numerous wars and United Nations sanctions. He has told the defence minister to lead a probe into corruption within the military.

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Indonesia confident AirAsia fuselage discovered, zero in on black box (From page 19)

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A section of the tail of AirAsia QZ8501 passenger plane is seen on the deck of the ship Crest Onyx, yesterday. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

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From page 9 the sector. It was important to note, Minister Benn said, that the financial agencies are now funding the programmes and projects by allocating monies to government, directly, rather than stand alone projects which were overseen by the EU. This move signals confidence in government’s ability to manage and execute these works, in a transparent and fair manner.

The CDB’s US$24 million loan and contract being worked out at present will encompass the Sea Defence Resilience Project. All these interventions are part of efforts to ensure that Guyana continues to be an export driven economy, particularly for agricultural products such as sugar and rice, Minister Benn said.

The region’s food security is assured by the local export of rice, sugar and other produce to regional markets and further afield, he added. Lessons have and are being garnered by local engineers by visiting overseas locales such as the Louisiana and Mississippi Delta, in the United States, Holland’s sea defences and even further afield to Bangladesh.

As a result of these visits, it is understood that the current sea and river defence

structures can be built much higher eventually, Minister Benn explained. He referred to the notion that Guyana’s coast should be abandoned and residents move to higher ground such as Soesdyke, Timehri and Linden.

“The investment that is already in place on the coast is an enormous one, and it will take a very long time to replicate the fertility or the investment to be able to move people to that area… we don’t think that it is necessary, we know that at the engineering level we can build higher, incrementally as we have been doing as we go forward.”

Some 6 mm of annual sea level rise is being catered for by the ministry, with respect to sea defence works, he added, and if building is done continuously at those levels, and better engineering methods are employed, this will reduce costs, per linear meter for the infrastructure put in place.

It would be critical to work with other interventions such as using cheaper, but still effective methods, he stated.

As the ministry goes forward, Minister Benn said that local engineers are more confident and capable in their abilities, hence they will be doing “greater things with respect to this area, out of our own efforts, not necessarily by importing efforts.” (GINA)

(Reuters) - Indonesian search teams believe they have found the fuselage of an AirAsia (AIRA.KL) airliner that crashed in the Java Sea two weeks ago, and divers hope calmer waters on Monday will allow them to retrieve the black box flight recorders.

Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic control in bad weather on Dec. 28, less than halfway into a two-hour flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore. None of the 162 people on the aircraft survived. Searchers have also been hearing pings, believed to be from the aircraft’s two black boxes near where the tail of the Airbus (AIR.PA) A320-200 aircraft tail was raised on Saturday.

Supriyadi, operations coordinator for the National Search and Rescue Agency, said yesterday a sonar scan had revealed an object measuring 10 metres by four metres by 2.5 metres on the sea floor.

“They suspect it is the body of the plane,” Supriyadi told Reuters in the town of Pangkalan Bun, the base for the search effort on Borneo.

“If it is the body of the plane then we will first evacuate the victims.”

Forty-eight bodies have been found in the Java Sea off Borneo and searchers believe more will be found in the plane’s fuselage.

Strong winds, currents and high waves have been hampering efforts to reach other large pieces of suspected wreckage detected by sonar on the sea floor.

Three vessels involved in the search have detected pings about four km (two

miles) from where the plane’s tail was raised on Saturday, in water about 30 metres (100 feet) deep.

“The black boxes are in a crushed part of the aircraft debris, making it very difficult for the team of divers,” said Tonny Budiono, a navigation director for the transport ministry. “Because of time constraints, (we) have decided to retrieve the black boxes tomorrow morning (today) by gradually shifting these layers of aircraft body debris.”

But if that fails, Budiono said divers would lift the debris using inflatable balloons, the same technique used to lift the tail section on Saturday. Navy spokesman Manahan Simorangkir, however, denied that the black box had been found, saying divers could not confirm its exact location due to poor weather and visibility.

If and when the recorders are retrieved and taken to the capital, Jakarta, for analysis, it could take up to two weeks to download data, investigators said, although the information could be accessed in as little as two days if the devices are not badly damaged.

While the cause of the crash is not known, the national weather bureau has said seasonal storms were likely to be a factor.

President Joko Widodo said the crash exposed widespread problems in the management of air transportation in Indonesia.

Separately yesterday, a DHC-6 Twin Otter operated

by Indonesia’s Trigana Air crashed on landing at Enarotali Airport in Paniai, Papua, yesterday.

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(From page 14) the Buddhist…. But how could you change from an authoritarian, despotic regime that was going for third consecutive term in power? By unity,” he expressed.

The AFC Parliamentarian further noted that Sri Lankans not only obtained a new government but defeated a party which shared similar policies of the current PPP administration.

“Rajapaska in Sri Lanka had the same tendencies and the same notoriety as the Jadgeo and Ramotar Government. They are both corrupt, prone to nepotism and have their cronies and families occupying strategic places in state and taking control of the resources,” he explained.

Moreover, Nagamootoo said the former Sri Lankan President had abused state resources to carry out his campaigns for a third term in

office by utilizing the state owned transportation and by dominating the media.

“I would have expected early on that the elections would have been free but not fair… And I would say so about the one in Guyana because I have seen the manner in which the resources in Guyana are being used by the political party in power, the PPP, hence the reason for saying there is no level playing field in Guyana.”

Nagamootoo essentially called on all Guyana to follow the example in Sri Lanka at the upcoming elections.

He expressed that weeks before elections, nobody thought that the Rajapaska regime could be defeated, but Sirisena, a former Defense and Health Minister from his own party who had resigned after witnessing the excess spending and corruption, was able to obtain victory.

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Haiti protesters clash with police in anti-Martelly march

Many protesters say they will only stop when President Martelly resigns Protesters in Haiti have clashed with police in a demonstration calling for the resignation of President Michel Martelly over longdelayed elections.

Police in the capital, Portau-Prince, fired tear gas and sprayed water on hundreds of demonstrators.

Haiti is facing a major political crisis, as the mandates of its lawmakers expire at midnight today.

If there is no agreement to extend their mandates, Haiti will be left without a functioning government.

Mr Martelly would then have to rule the country by

decree.

The opposition accuses him of abusing his powers.

Two weeks ago, Mr Martelly announced he had reached a deal with the Congress to solve the crisis.

Under the agreement, Haiti’s deputies would keep their seats until 24 April and senators until 9 September.

But the Senate is yet to vote on the proposal.

The Haitian government has faced months of protests over the delayed elections.

Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe resigned on 14 December and was replaced

by Evans Paul, a former radio

journalist.

But street protests have continued, with renewed calls for Mr Martelly’s resignation.

Mid-term Senate elections had been originally due in May 2012, while the municipal poll is three years behind schedule. They were postponed again on 26 October - the day they were due to be held - because of an ongoing stalemate between the government and a group of opposition senators over an electoral law.

Today Haiti marks the anniversary of the earthquake that left much of the country devastated in 2010. (BBC)

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Trinidad’s Attorney General -

Help us bring hangman back PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - As the country grapples with a murderous start to 2015, Government is seeking to bring back the hangman by once again returning the death penalty legislation to Parliament.

There have been 16 murders in the country in the past ten days.

In February 2011, the controversial “Hanging Bill” failed to secure a majority vote in the House of Representatives as the Opposition raised concerns over provisions in the legislation.

The bill was defeated as 29 Government members voted for the bill and 11 members of the Opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) voted against it.

As the People’s Partnership’s tenure of office comes to an end this year, the ruling party intends to once again make another effort to ensure the death penalty is carried out in the country.

Prime Minister Kamla P e r s a d - B i s s e s s ar had signalled last year her Government will again try to work with the Opposition to make this a reality, given the high murder toll.

At the Parliament sitting

last Friday, at Tower D, International Waterfront Centre, Port of Spain, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan handed Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley a letter, requesting the PNM make proposals to ensure the Constitution (Amendment) (Capital Offences) Bill, 2015 is passed this year.

Ramlogan stated in his letter the intention of this bill is to allow the State to carry out the sentence of death imposed by the courts on convicted murderers, regardless of how long they take to exhaust the various appellate procedures.

Ramlogan pointed out that in 2011 when the bill was brought to Parliament, the Opposition supported the death penalty as the mandatory sentence for murder.

He further noted Opposition MP Marlene McDonald indicated the Opposition was in agreement that the death penalty is good law and had stated, “The position of the PNM is that we support the law of the land, and the law of the land is in Section IV of the Offences Against the Person Act, which says, ‘Every person convicted of murder shall

Anand Ramlogan suffer death’.”

He reminded that the Opposition voted against the Constitution (Amendment) (Capital Offences) Bill, 2011 although the Government made a major concession by removing the categorisation of murders.

“Again, the Government would be happy to remove the categorisation of murders if the Opposition finds this objectionable, and would support the measure,’’ stated Ramlogan.

He stated subsequent to the last debate, he wrote on two occasions to solicit legislative proposals from the Opposition that supports the execution of convicted murderers who are sentenced to death.

Cabinet blanks request for Rowley: Govt. playing politics with crime ‘...meet conditions of Privy Council first’ $43M more for Carnival Trinidad Guardian Culture Minister Lincoln Douglas was blanked at Cabinet last week after he attempted to secure a further $43 million from Government for Carnival. The request for additional funding came even as the sum of $314 million has already been allocated for Carnival 2015 in the 2014 budget, and even as the country is facing a steep dip in the oil price beneath the initial budgeted figure and ministries are required to tighten their collective belts.

Douglas did not justify the need for that massive injection to his Cabinet colleagues, and the request was blanked. The National Carnival Commission (NCC) has authority over this year’s Carnival celebrations and is the only body that can request additional subventions from the Government. But in an interview yesterday, communications manager Kevon Gervais said the NCC did not request any additional money from the

Government.

Newly installed NCC chairman, Lorraine Pouchet, the deputy political leader of the Congress of the People, did not want to comment on the issue, saying instead that she was concerned that such information was making it to the media. When asked whether the NCC requested further cash injections, Pouchet demurred and directed all questions to Gervais. “I am not aware that the NCC made any such request of the minister,” Gervais said. He said the NCC was working within its $314 million budget. Douglas, in an interview with the Sunday Guardian, confirmed that the request for $43 million was made but refused to give details for the disbursement of such a sum. He also denied that the request was outrightly denied, saying he was “pursuing the various avenues.” “You have bits and pieces of the issue but not the whole story,” he said. “The NCC in general is never fully funded by the budget,”

Douglas said.

“The NCC tries to meet its commitment but there is a lack of quality with some of the things that they do.” Douglas said the additional money would have been used to support several national arts organisations, but could not name them. The subventions to the NCC covers its individual stakeholders including the National Carnival Bands Association for the bands and the parade, PanTrinbago for steelpan, and Trinbago Unified Calypsonians’ Organisation for calypso.

Douglas said up to 2013 the NCC was in debt but could not confirm who was owed the money. “I believe the NCC was owing $118 million, I reduced the debt in 2014 and tried to solve that problem,” he said. He said the money he sought would have improved Carnival, but the general public would not really notice the lack of the embellishments that additional money would have provided.

Trinidad Express Government is playing politics with crime by seeking to return the controversial “Hanging Bill” in an election year, says Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley.

He was responding to questions from the Sunday Express about a letter that was sent to him by Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, asking the Opposition to state proposals that would allow the passage of legislation to ensure the death penalty is carried out.”

Capital punishment is the law of the land, as we speak now, it is the written law. The punishment for murder is death by hanging, that is the existing law; it is the same law under which nine people were hanged one weekend,’’ said Rowley.

Rowley said the final court of appeal in this country had ruled this country’s death pen-alty law was proper law.

He said the Privy Council had indicated there were certain conditions that had to be carried out before the death

Dr. Keith Rowley penalty was carried out in this country.

“The Privy Council had ruled in response to appeals that the death penalty law was proper law; it had laid down conditions and the State had to meet those conditions,” said Rowley.

He said the State had not been meeting those conditions.

The first condition was to catch the criminals, Rowley said.

He said the State also had to win the appeals, and all this must be done within a fiveyear period. “Every time there

is an election or an upsurge in crime, the Government looks to bring the “Hanging Bill” to the Par-liament and play politics with crime,’’ said Rowley.

Government, he said, should try to meet the con-ditions of the Privy Council or make the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) the final court of appeal.

“On the verge of a gene-ral election, the Attorney General is talking about hanging people. How will that be received by the Privy Council and lawyers who will argue this is an election ploy?’’ said Rowley.

“The Opposition is not prepared to play politics with crime,’’ said Rowley.

He asked since when the United National Congress (UNC) wanted proposals from the People’s National Movement (PNM) as it never sought its advice on Section 34 and the run-off legislation.

Rowley said PNM lawyers will look at the bill and he will officially respond to the AG’s letter.

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Letters... Where your views make the news

A nation highly reminiscent of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ DEAR EDITOR, In 2015 and beyond, all of Guyana must seek to deepen its focus on national healing, reconciliation and forgiveness as it holds true to the tenet that development cannot take place without inclusivity and national consensus across all sectors irrespective of race, colour, creed or class.

In the meantime, I believe that you will find the recent, damning revelations of how corruption at the highest levels of the Government of Guyana, in cahoots with our ‘Chinese friends,’ literally robbed the second poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere of more than US $30 million in the so called Lethem to Georgetown Terrestrial Fiber Optic Cable with no one being held accountable. Even the proverbial road to hell has been paved with the best of

intentions.

It was not too long ago that the publisher, editor and reporters of the courageous Kaieteur News were allegedly threatened with physical violence by none less than the country’s Attorney General and whose utterances were recorded and released to the world at large. However, the nominal Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has said there is nothing to charge the Attorney General with. There have been strong demands for the state’s chief legal eagle to resign and this has come from the likes of the Guyana Human Rights Association, the local law association and civil society as a whole but to no avail.

If one ever thought that Afghanistan was a bad place then they could very much view Kabul as a sane prelude to Georgetown, Guyana. This place takes the crown so to

Despite this attack, our resolve to help the less fortunate is unshaken DEAR EDITOR, To the writer (Vishnu Bisram), thanks for the kind words.

Be assured that while we are discouraged from visiting Guyana, our resolve to help the less fortunate in Guyana remains untouched. We, the MMZ Canadian Community, stand strong together in our resolve to give back to our community.

A testament to this would be the Computer Learning Centre we have setup in MMZ which provides FREE computer learning and educational activities for everyone, regardless of age, race, religion or any other distinction. ALL funded by the MMZ Community over here. Feel free to check it out by visiting the centre.

Daro Sharma (brother of Indira Singh)

Guyana needs a...

From page 4 among other things.

It also requires political will, leadership skills and a qualified and competent Minister of Home Affairs to create the conditions for the professionals in the police force to tackle the crime problem in an integrated, holistic manner.

The PPP regime which was elected in part on the promise to defeat crime, secure the nation and return a sense of security to the people in nothing more than another broken promise.

While the political opposition and the public at large seem to understand that

crime is a major impediment to their security and to economic growth and prosperity, the PPP regime does not.

Unless the people are prepared to change the government in the next election, the crime issue will not be solved by acrimonious politics and empty promises from the PPP cabal; it needs a real solution from a minister with leadership skills and who is competent and qualified in security related issues.

Asquith Rose Chandra Deolall Dr. Merle SpenserMarks

speak when it comes to unspeakable acts of corruption, nepotism, cronyism, misguided jingoism, necromancy, and one can even throw in necrophilia and reported acts of anthropophagy for good measure.

The recent utterances of none less than President Ramotar (‘El Loco Presidente’) about ‘slapping an Amerindian citizen because he was stupid’ is another sadistic display of the abuse of state powers against innocent, defenseless citizens and more so a racial minority group in a multiracial society. This is an assault on democracy and human dignity. In fact, the presidential guards at the public meeting in Aishalton reportedly slapped the poor Amerindian teacher and literally kicked him out of the meeting for merely exercising his democratic right to freedom of expression as enshrined in Guyana’s constitution. Word has it that he is now facing the serious prospect losing his job at worse or being transferred to some remote corner of the country at best.

Worst yet is that President Ramotar had the gumption and audacity to speak of the late Mahatma Gandhi in glowing terms at the recently concluded Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in India where he (Ramotar) was the Chief Guest.

Hopefully, he would have learnt at least something about the peaceful and nonviolent nature of “Bapu” which in turn inspired both the late Martin Luther King Jr. in his struggles for civil rights in the United States and the late Nelson ‘Madiba’ Mandela in his struggle

against apartheid for human justice and equality in South Africa.

The theme of the just concluded Indian Diaspora Day (PBD) in India was ‘Be The Change…You Want To See’ and hopefully President Ramotar will seek wise counsel in this recent visit to India by learning to be respectful to his fellow citizens, and failing which, he should be stripped of the recent award he has received from the Government and People of India. No ifs, ands or buts in this regard.

Please note that this latest vile act by President Ramotar will not sit well with the Amerindian community at large as they have grown tired of being the punching bag of every bloody politician in this God forsaken country.

We must continuously expose this latest act of brazen if not unparalleled grand larceny to the world at large as it relates to the disastrous US $30 million plus bogus telecoms undertaking spearheaded by one Alexei Ramotar whose only claim to fame is that he is the son of the President. to add insult to injury - the President’s daughter is now the General Manager of the Guyana Gold Board and better suited it seems from her utterances to ‘baking’ versus leading the once lucrative gold mining sector.

This country is highly reminiscent of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’.

Mother Sally

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Iran says to explore with U.S. ways to speed up nuclear talks (Reuters) - Iran and the United States will explore ways to give impetus to nuclear talks when their chief diplomats meet in Geneva on We d n e s d a y, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said yesterday.

Zarif and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will confer ahead of a fresh round of negotiations between Iran and six world powers on settling their 12-year stand-off over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.

L o w e r - l e v e l negotiators on both sides will meet at the same venue on Thursday to iron out technical details ahead of negotiations on Jan. 18 between Iran and the six powers grouped under “P5+1” - the United States, France, Germany, Russia, China and Britain.

Speaking at a Tehran news conference, Zarif said the purpose of the talks with Kerry “is to see if we can

speed up and push the negotiations forward”. “ We w i l l s e e h o w useful it will turn out. We are constantly gauging the benefits,” he told reporters, referring to recent dialogue with the United States after decades of hostility dating back to Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution.

Zarif said Iran-U.S. talks “will remain confined to the margins of the nuclear negotiations”.

“Talks with the U.S. take on a peculiar hue because we don’t have diplomatic relations.

With the others in P5+1, things follow their routine course.”

Under an interim deal reached by the six powers and Iran in 2013, Tehran halted higher-level uranium enrichment in exchange for a limited easing of the financial and trade sanctions which have damaged its economy, including access to some frozen oil revenues abroad.

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Jeffrey leads poll for Sportsman of the Year After winning the Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) title in his debut season, young motor racer Kristian Jeffrey made himself a strong candidate for Sportsman of the Year by virtue of his outstanding performances.

Jeffrey, who drives a Mitsubishi Evolution VIII, returned from Canada where he currently resides to represent Guyana in the regional championship and proved beyond the shadow of a doubt his undeniable class as he raced to the prestigious title, beating his more established counterparts from the rest of the Caribbean in an impressive display of daredevilry.

The former Squash standout was in a class of his own in the opening leg of the Series in Barbados, racing to three wins from as many starts to head to the second stanza in Trinidad and Tobago with a handy lead.

Despite suffering mechanical issue during the races, he still battled to crucial championship points and returned on home soil eager to give the local fans a real treat and a glimpse of his class and emerging ability amongst the best drivers in the Caribbean.

Jeffrey did not disappoint, carting off two of three races to be declared the overall winner in the individual category, while also gaining valuable points for Guyana which enabled the ‘Land of Many waters’ to retain the Country title.

The soft spoken athlete is a natural talent, an endowment conceivably gained from his father and mother Denise, who was a former Squash champion as well.

Jeffrey’s remarkable achievements on the regional circuit facilitated his selection to race against some of the best drivers in the world last December when Barbados hosted the ‘Race of Champions’ Meet, at the refurbished Bushy Park facility.

It is a testimony to his skill and ability and other contenders will be hard pressed to match or even surpass his accomplishments for 2014 so he is clearly in pole position when compared to other candidates.

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Monday January 12, 2015

Girls crush Roses 56-47 in 1st Test Jamaica Observer Jamaica’s senior netballers completed a comfortable 5647 victory over England in Saturday’s opening Test of the three-match Supreme Ventures Limited Sunshine series at the National Indoor Sports Centre.

Goal shooter Jhaniele Fowler came off the bench late in the third quarter to replace Romelda Aiken and guided Jamaica with 19 goals from 25 attempts. Aiken was 19 from 26, while Shanice Beckford hit 12 from 15.

For England, Jo Harten led the way with 24 goals from 31 attempts, while substitute Kadeen Corbin contributed 12 from 16.

“It’s a good win for us and that’s what we’ve been training for. We wanted to start on a positive note in game one and we had a victorious game,” an elated Minneth Reynolds told the Jamaica Observer after the encounter.

“We were a bit shaky at the start, I suppose because of nerves. But I spoke to them and told them this is what we trained for so keep their composure and stay in control and let the ball do the

Jamaica’s goal shooter Jhaniele Fowler-Reid (centre) catches the ball between the England pair of goalkeeper Eboni Beckford- Chambers (left) and goal defence Ama Agbeze. (PHOTO: GARFIELD ROBINSON) job,” she added.

England’s coach Anna Mayes said her team played “inconsistently” throughout the encounter and promised that “will have to be addressed” for today’s second match at the same venue.

Mayes added that players coming off the bench in the second half “did well” as England fought, in futility,

to cut the deficit late in the game.

Both teams began nervously, easily giving away possession on numerous occasions, but soon they settled to entertain fans with end-to-end action and they entered the first-quarter break locked at 13.

The Sunshine Girls, ranked fourth in the world, a place below the England

Roses, pulled away in the second quarter and reached the half-time break with a 3024 lead.

By the curtailment of the third quarter, Jamaica had scored 42 goals to England’s 34 and they consolidated in the final quarter to leave noisy home fans in a frenzy.

The teams played again yesterday, while tomorrow is the final clash of the series.

Promising cyclist presented with brand new cycle by veteran rider Promising and upcoming cyclist Sherwin Brusche, 16, of Rose Hall Town was on Friday given a fillip in his young cycling career when he was presented with a brand new racing bicycle.

Brusche, who only started riding recently, was presented with the bike by founder and coach of the Flying Ace Cycle Club (FACC) Randolph Roberts, courtesy of overseas based Guyanese and veteran cyclist Lloyd Williams of

Lloyd Williams and Associates of Main and Kent Street New Amsterdam.

Williams, who is an Immigration and Tax Consultant, still competes and is one of the oldest active cyclists in the Guyana circuit.

The presentation was done at Williams Office at the above address.

Roberts stated that he first saw Brusche competing at the Inter Scholl level, he was immediately impressed

YWCC launches Mash...

From page 27 young people to get involved in the game and keep them away from drugs and crime. He said that small pockets of development will lead to national development and he even emphasized that everyone has to place their role in the betterment of the communities.

He thanked the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Dr Frank Anthony for spending millions of dollars to improve playgrounds around the country and called on the cricket clubs to care the facilities. He also thanked the Regional hierarchy for their support as is evident by the presence of Vice Chairman.

The draw was also done with the host YWCC taking on Gangaram and Buski Eleven playing Kendall’s Union simultaneously from 9 hrs. Seawell will play Canefield, Rose Hall CC vs Betsy Ground and No 7 vs Goed Bananen Land.

Defending champions fittingly drew the bye. Musical entertainment and well stocked food and drinks bar will be available.

with his work ethics and attitude. He was also spotted

by Williams who saw great potential in the youngster and the gentlemen became interested in him and decided to help.

They also noticed that he hadn’t the correct and proper riding gear and equipment.

His bike was also not to up to standard. He was using a makeup track bike to ride on both the track and road.

Williams in consultation with Roberts decided that he will not allow such talent to be wasted. The businessman decided to donate a brand new cycle to Brusche.

Williams has also decided to sponsor Brusche for the next year.

Roberts took the opportunity to express his heartfelt thanks to Williams and his company and wished him well in his future activities.

A happy and contented Brusche was lost for words in his expression of appreciation to both Roberts and Williams. He plans to do his best and to make both gentlemen proud.

(Samuel Whyte)