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Corrupt cops given ultimatum…

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“Turn in your badges

by Monday”- Brumell Hotel Tower up for sale P. 52

Problematic Kumaka water front project, Mabaruma P. 17

Sufficient evidence of corruption - Dr Roger exists Luncheon P. 12

BK Int’l clashes with Grenville Augustus Felix,

One of our oldest-living engineers,

Govt. over dump site payments ‘Vets’ seek President’s P. 49

intervention over severance/salary

P. 13

is a 'Special Person’ P. 18

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Sunday July 08, 2012

The paradox of our time

By George Carlin The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorces, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say, ' I love you ' to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away

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‘Home alone’ boy bound, gagged by burglars - jewellery, liquor among items stolen Burglars bound and gagged a 14-year-old boy who was left at home alone last Friday afternoon before carting off jewellery and other valuables from the family’s Diamond New Scheme, East Bank Demerara property.

The Nineteenth Street, Diamond New Scheme home is that of popular taxi driver, Michael Harris, called ‘Jakey’ who was out with his wife when the robbers struck.

Harris, who is still trying to assess his losses, said that the robbers took some $400,000 in jewellery, two computer speakers, and bottles of liquor and colognes. However, a computer and printer were left untouched. The men were reportedly unarmed save for a claw-bar, which they allegedly used to prise open a briefcase.

Kaieteur News understands that the robbers escaped in a dark-coloured vehicle. Harris believes that the robbery was planned by people who are familiar with his movements.

The lad told Kaieteur

One of the ransacked bedrooms

News that he was sitting watching television at around 15:30 hrs when the three men entered through the unbolted front door. One of the men had dreadlocks while another, who was carrying a haversack, was wearing a white shirt, blue trousers and a pair of blue

slippers.

“The first one came in and hold my mouth down and tell me don’t say nothing,” the lad recalled. According to the boy, the thieves then took a roll of tape from the haversack and proceeded to bind and gag him. They then proceeded

National Assembly sponsors Independence Exhibition and lecture The Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman hosted an Independence Exhibition, and the first of a series of Lectures at the Lawns of Parliament Buildings, on Friday.

Noting that “history is important and knowledge of our own history is vital for survival,” Trotman said that he saw the utmost need to execute such an event.

The exhibition displayed pictures of every significant event soon after independence; including the changes of parliament buildings, the independence arch, the mace used to introduce the speaker and the raising cannon.

Friday marked the first in a series of lectures to come.

The lecture was delivered by

Opposition Leader, David Granger, and was titled “The legislative Assembly of British Guiana and the Independence movement 1946- 1966.”

Trotman quoted the late Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King that “We are not makers of history but we are made by history,” therefore he said, “history is very important”.

Rupert Roopnaraine, in his remarks, said that he sees the importance of the initiative and noted that he can recall the troubled 20 years preceding independence; “the turmoil, disappointments and bitter political struggles are still remembered.”

He said that even back then there was a call for national unity and noted that

it remains an elusive ambition.

Roopnaraine said that A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is committed to achieving national unity.

Granger said that his lecture examines the independence movement. He specified that the lecture would inform in more detail the origin of the independence movement and how the independence movement (continued on page 55)

to the bedrooms which they ransacked for valuables.

After gathering up their loot, they men exited through the front door. They reportedly then escaped in a vehicle that was parked some distance away. The lad managed to free himself before his parents returned.

Harris’s wife arrived home first and realized something was amiss when she noticed that the computer box, which they had left in a bedroom, was now in the living room.

She then observed that the rooms had been ransacked.

Her son, who was sitting in a living room chair, then recounted his ordeal.

The family has lodged a report at the Golden Grove Police Station.

Harris has been living in the area for eight years. His home was broken into some time ago.

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Editorial Higher Education at UG? In the past year, UG has been in the news, but for all the wrong reasons, mainly ‘industrial action’ by staff.

In many countries, especially in the developed world, there has been an intense debate as to the role of the university in the 21st century. Our issues have been as mundane as getting a roof repaired and painting some buildings.

But buried in the agitation by the unions of the UG the question of purpose and standards for the university has been raised, albeit peripherally. In addition to tuition, what exactly was the academic staff supposed to be doing to lift the standards and justify the designation “university”?

At independence, the cornerstone of our thrust for the development was to be achieved through education, which was made free from nursery to university. Standards in the last institution gradually plummeted and the blame was laid at the feet of ‘lack of funding’.

The multilaterals said “free education” was the problem and that once students began paying their way through UG, funds would be available for “raising the standards”. Tuition was introduced but standards continue to plummet.

We believe that most of the past promises to raise standards floundered and eventually withered on the vine because the powers-that-be put the cart before the proverbial horse. If any reclamation effort is to stand a chance of success it must start at the source of the raison d’etre for higher education – the creation of knowledge.

And this means research – especially research by faculty and graduate students. It is only when UG demonstrates that it has a product that is valued will it attract buyers for that product and funding for new research to create a virtuous circle of growth. That product is knowledge – which has the highest value in the modern world.

It would be interesting to list the result of a survey to find out the research that the present staff of UG has conducted or are conducting right now and the relevance of that research to national issues.

We are sure the result will not take up a single type-written page. This is criminal: the staff is pretty much acting like high school teachers by regurgitating texts to degree acquisitive students. But they are drawing University-level pay – albeit small by international standards but yet attractive within our local means.

Research is simply a systematic inquiry towards the creation of a body of knowledge or addition to it in any of the several fields the university purports to teach. Generally the research is broken down into three areas - pure sciences like chemistry etc, applied sciences such as engineering or agronomy and social sciences such as history etc. They each have numerous sub-branches. While the usual stereotype of “research” is one of inquiries into arcane and esoteric areas, it does not have to be this way.

This is where the relevance of research to national issues comes in. And we do not have to be cutting-edge in this effort: countries such as India, with which we have excellent academic relations and our neighbour to the south, Brazil, have led the way in harnessing research to national development and we can simply fall into line.

Take, for instance, the soil chemistry of our savannahs – whether the intermediate or interior ones. Why is it only after forty-nine years after the formation of UG that we are now looking to collaborate with Brazilian institutions for such basic information?

Then there is the vexed nature of our fractured politics.

Why is it, for instance, that there has been no consistent polling of the attitudes of our voting population by our UG social studies departments rather that uninformed fulminations in the national press that do precious little to shed any light on our politics, much less creating new knowledge to explain our dilemma?

The answer is that the UG administration has not applied the maxim of “publish or perish” that is standard for all teaching staff in any reputable institution of “higher” learning.

It is therefore not surprising that our standards are rather disreputable.

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APNU’s ineptitude on the PAC allowed the appointment of Gitanjali Singh as Audit Director DEAR EDITOR, Is the Carl Greenidge who sits as Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) the same Carl Greenidge who was runner-up PNC/APNU presidential candidate and the same individual who wants to become Leader of the PNC after Robert Corbin departs?

Because if it is the same individual, his rank exhibition of ineptitude and misjudgement at the PAC meeting that led to the PPP PAC members voting for the wife of the Minister of Finance as the Minister’s chief auditor is overshadowed only by the blundering judgement of the PNC/APNU party that almost picked him as its presidential candidate.

Carl Greenidge is a man who is in the twilight of his career. The fact that he is the second most dominant and popular leadership figure in the PNC/APNU and could win the leadership of the PNC emphasizes the nadir of the PNC, its palpable lack of talent and its inability to intellectualise a future for its bread and butter supporters; Africans.

Carl Greenidge is the man who reportedly relied upon the advice of his political adversary, the PPP, to abstain from voting.

By abstaining, Carl Greenidge handed the PPP a majority on the PAC and the PPP committed brazen skulduggery.

I find Greenidge’s conduct and

actions deplorable.

Greenidge is not just a member of PAC but its Chairman. As Chairman, he is supposed to intimately know the rules inside out.

Greenidge is no Johnnycome-lately. He has been sitting in Parliament for longer than the majority of Guyanese have been alive. Even if he was a newbie on the Parliamentary circuit, the mere fact that he is the Chairman of a vital committee in a oneseat majority Parliament should generate hypervigilance to the potential for connivance from the PPP. In such a Parliamentary high-stakes game, one must always err on the side of your group and abstinence is no option.

Taking advice from charlatans with deceitful agendas is to make a complete fool of oneself, your party and those who voted for change.

Greenidge devalued the majority of voters of this country when he heeded the advice of political scoundrels to enable an act of malfeasance.

I am a simple fellow with no stellar qualifications like Carl Greenidge and even I know it is downright dumb to rely on the advice of an adversary to weaken my position when such a selfinflicted blow would allow the adversary to not only get his way but to get his way with ramming down an immoral, treacherous and conflicted Continued on page 6

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Kaieteur M@ilbox We Should be Designing Energy Efficient Buildings DEAR EDITOR, The adoption of building designs, which are totally unsuitable for our hot and humid climate, has been an increasing trend on the coast of Guyana over the last few decades. Building designs are being adopted, primarily on aesthetic considerations, without regard to the environment. The result is that buildings are now requiring a significant amount of air-conditioning, as internal conditions would be extremely uncomfortable without it. Some designs even increase the need for internal artificial lighting during the day. Accordingly, there is a sharply increasing demand for electricity for cooling, and to a lesser extent, lighting.

At this time when we are promoting energy efficiency and preservation of the environment, our focus should be on erecting buildings that are energy efficient. This means adopting designs and developing buildings that are appropriate for our climatic conditions. Designs should, as much as possible, utilise passive cooling and ventilation, and natural lighting.

Until about the mid 1970s, our buildings use to be more energy efficient. Buildings were primarily made of wood, a material which has a low thermal mass. Buildings had roofs with the apexes high above floor level and no ceiling. Roofs were fully boarded before being covered with zinc sheets; the boards acted somewhat as thermal insulation. The buildings had a lot more windows - some even had roof-windows. Internally, there were several feet of space between the top of a wall and the roof. In addition, there was usually a 4-inch or so space between the floor and the bottom of a wall.

Invariably, our buildings were white in colour to reflect most of the sunlight and reduce heat transfer to the inside.

These and other design features facilitated (i) proper ventilation and air circulation; (ii) reduced solar heat gain; (iii) passive cooling; and (iv) the admittance of sufficient natural light in buildings. As such, there was little or no need for air-conditioning to cool the buildings, or for electric lighting during the day.

In contrast, our buildings today are made predominantly of concrete, a material with a high thermal mass. The switch to concrete was based on economics; concrete lasts longer than wood and requires less

maintenance. Apart from the use of concrete, building designs now incorporate lower roofs with ceiling.

Typically, ceilings are placed just about 9 to 10 feet above the floor. Internal walls, particularly bedroom walls in houses, no longer have any space above or below them.

Perhaps, this is an effort to improve bedroom privacy, but internal air circulation is restricted. Also, white buildings are less dominant; buildings are now of every colour except, maybe, black.

I recently saw a dark-blue building. It appears that people are painting their buildings with their favourite colour. The heat transfer effect the colour of the paint has on a building is not a consideration.

With the prevailing building designs, the concrete would absorb significant solar heat during the day, transferring some heat to the inside air in the process. At nights, the absorbed heat is slowly released to the atmosphere in and out of the building. As a result, thermal comfort inside the building is rather difficult to achieve, even during the sleeping hours at nights, without some auxiliary system. What exacerbates the thermal discomfort in our Continued on page 7

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Applying the Albert Speer case to the Ramkarran controversy

DEAR EDITOR, I would like to add my analysis to the ongoing debate on Ralph Ramkarran. I studied philosophy at the university level and if there is anything one learns from a class in philosophy is that it is extremely difficult to pinpoint what is morally good from what it ethically unacceptable.

The danger with fitting moral values in nice pleasant slots and throwing out ones that you frown upon is that the ones you embrace may not be inherently workable at all. One of civilization’s greatest thinkers of all time, the 18th Germany philosopher, Immanuel Kant has done some brilliant work on this topic (see my article in which I made use of Kant’s philosophy; “What is Moral Judgement Stella?” Kaieteur News, Sunday, November 6, 2005; my argument in this 2005 essay where I applied Kant on why Trotman, Ramjattan and Holder should not resign from Parliament because they left their respective parties will vary substantially if Kant is to be applied to Ralph Ramkarran) If there is any given moment for the intellectual community to polemicize on what is morally good and morally bad is now, this

present conjuncture in Guyana’s evolving political culture given the influx of opinions on how good is the character of Ralph Ramkarran. Why is Ralph Ramkarran a man of quality and integrity whose character is one of the best in the PPP? I would like to see the letterwriters avoid broad statements and argue a case using moral philosophy for the open assertion that Mr. Ramkarran is someone that is of sound moral principles What are the factors that go into making a person someone of good character?

What are the variables used when you condemn someone morally? The case of the latter is more easily proved. Moral reprehension can easily be proved when a man has the habit of harassing women for sex in the work place using the power of employment.

The grey areas arrive when you as a friend recommend that man for a job where he will have to function with a work force that is predominantly women. Can you be judged harshly for condoning your friend’s deportment?

Let us take another example. A man says he doesn’t like purple people and he will not work with a purple secretary. He fires her

unjustly and at the same time used all sorts of subtleties to get rid of a few more purple persons. You are his friend and his superior on the Board of Directors and he jokes with you over coffee that he had to get rid of his purple employees. What kind of moral condemnation we should assign to you if any.

After all, you didn’t discriminate against anyone.

Your friend did it so why should society castigate you This is where moral arguments get tangled up in perplexing, esoteric polemics.

I believe the people who have labeled Ralph Ramkarran as an honorable gentleman with integrity need to debate the role of moral values in human existence with the intention of deciding if Mr. Ramkarran can be blamed for the terrible governance of the PPP especially under Bharrat Jagdeo and the appalling atrocities that have occurred under the PPP regime.

The seminal case in such a discussion ought to be the Albert Speer trial in the Nuremberg tribunals after the Nazis were charged for war crimes. What the judges had to say about Speer should guide us in judging Mr. Ramkarran. There was no evidence to point to Speer’s involvement in the Nazi

practice of human rights violations. In fact, based on evidence of wrong-doing, Speer as a Minister in the Nazi Government should not have been convicted of war crimes.

There was simply no proof that he ordered the dismissal, torture, imprisonment or murder of anyone. Speer was not of the same sordid cloth as the other Nazi Ministers What the Nuremberg judges did in convicting Speer and jailing him was to situate him in the holistic picture of Nazi dictatorship. Here is where philosophy of morality and the morality of philosophy came in.

The Nuremberg judges jailed Speer because they defined the Nazi regime as a depraved dictatorship that was powered by those who were involved in its existence.

They argued that Speer had a moral obligation to civilized conduct to de-link himself from a brutal assault on the German people. Not only did he choose not to do so but was happy to participate in a government that was killing people.

If I were to judge Ramkarran, it would be a harsh one using the knowledge of epistemology, and moral reasoning that I learned in my philosophy classes Frederick Kissoon

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APNU’s ineptitude on the PAC...

DEAR EDITOR, I presented a letter to the Stabroek News editor on the 26th, June, dealing with the subject of the Editorial published on the 28, June.

My letter was published on 29, June. “This society has gone on an anti-male crusade”. The editorial justified the sentencing of a father to jail for beating his delinquent daughter who had left one afternoon and returned the next day. This is a fourteen year old child, and I reiterate that he did the right thing, and that the Magistrate was insensitive.

The writer of the editorial is obviously not a father, nor does the writer even reflect that this man has in his care two other daughters younger than this one. No way in the editorial are they even considered so I am to assume that the writer is also neither a parent; so hurrah for the pen of the Stabroek editorial.

Now Magistrate Hazel Octave Hamilton has gone on the rampage for on the day following your editorial she sentences another young man [ Morris Cox] to six weeks in jail for threatening his ex.

What erroneous hogwash of stuttering logic will constitute the next editorial to justify

that?

History has taught us that only a proper stream of agreed principles addressing any social phenomenon can serve it with justice. Postulations on self righteous causes led to the Christian Inquisition, the Islamic destruction of valuable artifacts and the suppression of women in the Middle East, and cause millions to suffer to tribalism in Africa and to the Hindu caste system in India. That same mood of self righteous detachment from the ‘ Specific ‘reality is growing out of proportion in Guyana as it relates to domestic abuse.

I, like many other men have crossed the line in school and at home and have received the six lashes of the ‘wild cane’ or the broad belt at home. I denounce the pseudo psychology based on speculations that the child was unloved at home or she is in the shadow of Cinderella’s step mother, because no evidence has informed us of that. A father cannot bond with her as a mother now that she has physically arrived and has discovered and is exploiting the newly found attention of puberty; it’s just that, for the same reason most school

boys get their hearts broken by older teenage boys. A young female child has to be protected from herself, twist it or turn it they are prey, and fathers seldom compromise the way some mothers I have known have done.

Like 90 percent of the men in Guyana I have had my allotment of relationships over the years; I have lied, they lied, I caught and got caught. But I have never beaten a woman or assaulted a woman with any instrument, though growing up I was whipped at school and at home. Children have to be coaxed, delicately reasoned with; and when they proceed to test you, punished and whipped. The private demons of those in authority must not be let loose on society under the guise of marauding causes, as the editorial concluded in reference to my letter: “In both of her rulings, Magistrate Octave-Hamilton dispensed Justice tempered with mercy, as well as a means by which both the defendants and the complainants could learn from their errors and move forward.”

Easy to write with the Continued on page 7

From page 4 act down the throat of an entire nation.

I, as a celebrated dunce, know that even if I was unsure about my authority, there was simply too much at stake to not exercise it to the advantage of my party and my constituency. My philosophy would have been you can overturn it later if you wish but I am voting against this obscenity. How could the four PNC/APNU members sitting opposite the four PPP members be so intellectually shallow to think that the Chairman cannot exercise his vote when the PAC is comprised of nine members including the Chairman?

To know that Carl Greenidge is the man who brought the motion to bring NICIL to an independent audit sickens me even more because Carl Greenidge knew NICIL had not delivered audited reports since 2004 and to put Gitanjali Singh as the auditor of those reports to be filed by Ashni Singh is absolute tomfoolery.

That the PNC/APNU representatives ineptly allowed this travesty to pass is clear reminder of the danger APNU/PNC poses to the votes of this country and specifically to those Africans who voted for it.

APNU should stop blaming the absence of the AFC’s Trevor Williams for this fiasco. It is APNU’s bald

incompetence and shocking bumbling that has caused this damage. While the PPP exploited the naivete, ignorance of Parliamentary rules and incompetence of APNU/PNC in the PAC meeting, the PPP acted in bad faith by misapplying and insisting on the misapplication of parliamentary procedure when the PPP knew it was about to commit an egregious act that contravenes the constitutional requirement of good governance, transparency, accountability and integrity of officers of parliament.

Knowingly misleading a parliamentary committee to impose a conflict of interest on a situation upon which Parliament has already pronounced by majority motion is obstructionist and violates the constitution.

NICIL cannot be properly and independently audited if Ashni Singh’s wife is auditing his financial reports.

Using a nine-member committee to obstruct a motion passed by the majority of Parliament is a transgression of Parliament and its internal rule-making authority, something the courts have already approved.

Even if it was preying on amateurish and weak PNC/ APNU leadership on the PAC, the PPP’s wicked and vindictive actions have damaged its ability to rely on this PAC decision. In any event, the entire National Assembly could revoke the appointments. Geetanjalee

Singh acting as auditor to her spouse is a clear conflict of interest. It is against the constitution’s call for fairness, equality and good governance.

I have stated time and again that the PNC/APNU is a sordid pantomime of an organization pretending to play a lead role in politics in Guyana. That APNU/PNC is a lazy, incompetent, shallow and hollow organization.

The fiasco on the PAC vote that gave Gitanjali Singh auditing oversight over her husband is yet another shining example of why APNU/PNC has shamefully failed Guyanese in general and Africans in particular.

This is a fraudulent organization pretending to be a political party representing the interests of its constituency. In 1992 the PNC/APNU left intact for the PPP a constitution with draconian powers that enable abuse, marginalization and decimation.

The cost and consequence to Guyanese including Indians unconnected to the PPP hierarchy and to Africans in general over the past 20 years has been dehumanizing and destructive.

This PAC fiasco is another marker to a tragic story of a failed PNC/APNU organization that continues, like the PPP, to fool its constituency that it is up to some good when nothing but bush-league inadequacy ever comes from it.

M. Maxwell

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Mr. Ramkarran should be given a free hand to seek patriots to lead a Government of National Unity

We Should be Designing Energy...

DEAR EDITOR, In recent days, two important factors have entered into the political arena.

First was the resonating resignation of Mr. Ralph Ramkarran from the PPP. The simple lesson is that a good man does not resign from a good party.

The second factor, more important, is the headline set out at p. 10 of the Stabroek News of Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 which states, “Despite advances, more transparency needed in PNCR elections process - Alexander”.

Mr. Alexander also found it necessary to make the alarming pronouncement, “There must be a correlation between the number of people at the Congress and the number of votes cast”.

Also troubling is the comment of Mr. David Granger who declared, “…. the process …. has been progressing smoothly and he has heard no complaints about it”. So the concerns of transparency and fairness, patent in the eyes of Mr. Alexander are non existent in the eyes of Mr. Granger, who is an aspirant to Presidential power.

If the PNCR cannot be trusted with the conduct of its own internal elections, how can it be trusted with the conduct of National Elections?

In this historical moment, political power either falls to the PPP or the PNCR. In the PPP there is a combination of racial power and executive power. The PPP has already lost legislative power. The PPP never enjoyed military power.

The single withdrawal of Ralph Ramkarran from the PPP

has created an exodus and opens up the real probability of a victory of the PNCR at the polls. This would result in a combination of racial power, executive power, legislative power and military power. And these powers would be placed in the hands of a party which cannot be trusted with “transparency and fairness” in its own electoral process.

Things do not exist in black or white, they exist in processes. For instance the Aristotelian method of logic wherein a thing either is or is not cannot determine the issue of when a beard becomes a beard. Is it after one hour’s growth of hair, one day’s, two days’? If two days’, then why not forty seven hours? The simple truth is that the coming into being of a beard is a process.

So too, the coming into being of the Golden Age of Guyana is a process. But those into whose hands transparency and fairness in the electoral process are not safe cannot be part of the march into the Golden Age. The integrity of the electoral process is the elemental gate way to the Golden Age. Wherein then lies the

solution?

I make bold to urge a self examination of all those in the PNCR, AFC, the decent in the PPP and all patriotic Guyanese to make a determination as to which person is best suited to hold the Office of Presidency.

In my humble view, Mr. Ralph Ramkarran towers above all. In Mr. Ralph Ramkarran there is a pregnant possibility for National unity and a path away from the exploitative and self induced quagmire of racial insecurity.

The present historical context demands that Mr. Ralph Ramkarran returns to the PPP with him having a free hand as a Vice President for Governance, to deal with corruption and reconciling the National insecurities. And for him to be entrusted a free hand to seek out a combination of patriots from the PPP,APNU, PNCR,AFC and others in and out of Guyana to lead into elections a Government of National Unity.

Of course, there is another path. One which leads to the destruction of Guyana. We are all endowed with free choice. Let there be no gnashing of teeth.

V.V. Puran

With this father...

From page 6 indifference of the self righteous, removed from the daily struggles of an underprivileged family. But from the letters of Leon 0 Rockcliffe (June 30) and Neal Adams (July2, 2012, both Stabroek News,) I am not the only citizen observing this obvious temperament of vindictiveness in the courts in respect to the frequent outbursts of domestic murders, but if you pay attention we have an epidemic of murders. Yet, what mental process can justify a criminal record as in the case of this father, to be described as ‘Justice tempered with mercy.’

Who is extending mercy to his three daughters now, without the shepherd; surely the door is unguarded and it’s happy hour for the comforting wily wolf.

Barrington Braithwaite

From page 5 concrete buildings is the use of high concrete fences around the buildings, and the paving of large areas of surrounding yard space with concrete or similar materials.

The retention and radiation of solar heat from these structures contribute to higher temperatures within the buildings.

Generally, the use of highmass, concrete building construction is not recommended for hot, humid climate as ours, particularly with the limited diurnal temperature range. Passive cooling in our climate is normally more effective in low mass buildings. However, with innovative designs, comfortable indoor conditions can be achieved in concrete buildings using passive cooling. The key is to use well insulated and shaded thermal mass designs to reduce solar heat gain. In addition, the designs should facilitate adequate ventilation and air circulation.

In a paper entitled “Cooling Buildings in Hot Humid Climates – a Decision Model for Ventilation” by J. C. Bonetti, H. Corvacho and

F. Brandão Alves, the following design strategy is recommended: 1. “Solar protection of windows and walls; 2. To consider high and large openings to promote ventilation and indirect lighting; 3. To enhance air circulation with high ceiling levels; 4. To promote ventilation through the roof and to choose reflective roofs with separate and insulated ceilings; 5. To adopt elevated floors to allow for its cooling and to reinforce ventilation; 6. To design an open internal layout; 7. To choose lightweight constructions duly insulated; 8. To strengthen new urban design solutions which may facilitate natural ventilation of the area, considering namely wind corridors (Brandão Alves, 2003): to design both building and landscaping in order to use in the best way the available cooling winds and, if necessary, to deflect them; 9. To plan the use of shade-producing trees since they filter the sunlight, reduce

air temperature and reduce glare from bright overcast skies.”

A change in building design practice should be part of the promotion of energy efficiency in this country. This means encouraging the design of buildings that are appropriate to our climate, reducing the need for air conditioning and daytime artificial lighting.

The optimised use of natural ventilation for cooling buildings should be the first consideration in any design. The use of natural lighting should also be optimised. Ensuing buildings would, therefore, be more energy efficient with little or no electricity demand for cooling, or for electric lighting during the daylight hours.

This does not mean that buildings should not be aesthetically appealing. Local architects and building designers should be conducting research to develop buildings that meet certain economic, aesthetic and energy efficiency considerations.

Mr. Horace Williams Electrical Engineer

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CARICOM 33rd Summit ends…

Leaders want deeper relations with countries other than its traditional allies CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC - Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have ended three-days of a “productive” summit Friday night agreeing on a new foreign policy direction that would allow the 15-member trading bloc to establish deeper relations with countries other than its traditional allies in Europe and North America.

Host Prime Minister and CARICOM Chairman, Dr. Kenny Anthony told reporters that it was imperative for the region to embark on the new foreign policy co-ordination given the “profound geopolitical and geo-economic changes taking place in the global environment and their implications for the Community’s external relations and its economic and developmental well-being.

“Heads of Government emphasised that foreign policy co-ordination is not only a guiding principle for CARICOM,

Heads of Government, CARICOM Secretary-General and Heads of Delegation. but it is a necessary tool to achieve effectiveness in foreign policy outcomes.” The regional countries have said they will now look to deepen their relations with the so-called BRICS countries, namely, Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa and China while not pushing aside the traditional partners such as Europe, the United States and Canada.

But he said the region is concerned at new European

Union development policy which seeks to “alter the dynamics of the relationship between the EU and the ACP (African Caribbean and Pacific) and also has the intention to limit severely the level of grant funding to middle income countries which include many Caribbean states.

“They noted that such funding had been instrumental in many development projects in our region and welcomed the support of the ACP Secretary General (Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, who addressed the leaders) in efforts to encourage the EU to reconsider its position.”

Anthony said that the regional leaders, who met for

almost two days in closed door caucus, had also examined the global economic and financial situation and its impact on the Caribbean and “agreed that the major focus at this time should be on economic growth and development.

“We identified tourism, agriculture and construction as economic sectors that offered prospects for early resuscitation of economic growth,” he said, adding “we think the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) needs to structure its lending products and processes in such a manner that they would assist in efforts at growth and sustainable development.”

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Grenada re-affirms commitment to China ST GEORGE’S, Grenada - CMC - Grenada says it is looking forward to the visit next month of a senior official of Taiwan’s Export Import (EXIM) Bank as it welcomed a 20 member delegation headed by Chen Changzhi, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China.

Acting Prime Minister Nazim Burke said that the Tillman Thomas administration was pleased with Beijing’s level of assistance to the island at a time of global economic recession and a challenging environment.

“China has been and continues to be a partner in Grenada’s development. We have enjoyed excellent relations and we look forward to further strengthening and deepening those relations,” he said, adding that a “firm foundation for a strong and lasting relationship” has already been developed.

But Burke said that Grenada, which recently won a court battle in the United States against the EXIM

Bank, said he was looking forward to the visit next month of the bank’s chairman.

Last month, a United States court freed Grenada from an earlier court order that allowed the EXIM bank to seize tourism-related revenues to pay off approximately US$30 million in loans.

Taiwan’s governmentowned EXIM Bank had loaned the money for infrastructure projects at a time when Grenada gave the island diplomatic recognition. It was part of Taiwan’s battle against Chinese attempts to strip it of international recognition.

China sees Taiwan as a breakaway province that is still rightfully part of China.

In 2005, Grenada’s government dropped Taiwan and recognised Beijing.

Taipei’s foreign ministry accused Grenada’s leaders of “extortion-like behaviour” and the Export-Import Bank sued the island in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to get back concessionary loans offered when the two countries were allies.

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A beautiful smile sometimes fences the deepest pain

By Abena Rockcliffe She referred to the early years of her life as a series of unfortunate events when I finally got the opportunity to ask her how she always managed to wear a beautiful smile.

Because she prefers her name not be published I will refer to her as “Destiny.”

For quite a while I admired Destiny’s optimistic approach to everything she does. I hardly knew her but saw her around. Finally, I approached her and as Destiny revealed her life story; I was ever so sorry that I asked.

Destiny disclosed that at the age of 11, her father died in a motorbike accident. The accident occurred the day before she sat her Secondary Schools Entrance Examination.

Destiny managed to write the exam and qualified for one of the top schools in Georgetown.

As time went by, Destiny’s mother saw the need for a father figure in her life. She engaged herself in a common law relationship when Destiny was 14.

As Destiny reached this part of her life story, she closed her eyes for a while and then began to speak again.

The now 28-year-old vividly remembered the first time she was molested as if it happened yesterday.

Destiny’s mom was a policewoman and had to work alternative shifts.

“I can vividly recall that Friday evening; my mother

was working night shift. He came in, I was watching TV and he ask what is there for dinner, I told him I ate a bread and jam sandwich and he asked for me to prepare one for him. I got up, and did as he requested. As I was making the sandwich, I felt a weight behind me; I turned around only to see him.

Destiny said in all candidness, she didn’t really suspect anything foul until he said, “You really getting big you know.”

She said as she turned to hand him the sandwich he started to rub her down. “I resisted and that’s where it got ugly.”

She showed me a small yet deep cut imprint on her forehead that she received during the scuffle.

However the mark back then was not enough to convince her mother of what really happened that evening.

Destiny said that when her mother returned home from work the following morning, she was hesitant, and didn’t know exactly what to say, but eventually she told her that “he touched me how you told me no one should and he… but she hit me and told me to stop , in her exact words, fabricating things.”

Destiny said that she and her mother never spoke about the incident again until “I hit him to the head with a kero lamp.”

Destiny said that when all was said and done she was thankful she didn’t severely harm her stepfather but her intent was to cause “serious damage.

“Destiny said that that

instant, was the fourth time he molested her in a three week span. “I was frustrated and the same motion he came to me, the same motion I pulled the glass part of the lamp and lash he.”

After some time, I realized that Destiny never called the name of her abuser. I asked her if there was a particular reason she held back his name, even then she smiled and said “No, I just scorn to even think of him moreover to call his name.”

Destiny said that after the incident, her mother asked “him” to leave but still maintained a relationship with him. “That thing hurt me.”

Destiny said she soon developed disdain for her mother, so I became eager to move out. At 19, she tied the knot with a man she thought “did no wrong”.

“I thought that was the end of my horror story and was looking forward for the happily ever after but it was not time” She said that early in her marriage, her husband abused her “mostly because of jealousy”. One night Destiny recalled, her husband she was a successful entrepreneur, went home with a “well wrapped gift.”

“I didn’t open it cause of the licking I got the night before for talking to an old male friend… but he thought I should have been grateful for the gift.”

What Destiny thought was luckily; he looked past her not wanting to open the gift and proceeded to bed.

However, according o Destiny, her husband wanted

to have sexual intercourse that night and she refused as she was still upset.

“He forced me into it and those memories that I tried so hard to block out just came flushing right back into my brain… He broke my defense, I just lost it had to get out.”

Destiny said that the following day she left her home taking only her clothes and “decided I had to start a new life depending solely on me as I realized I was the only person I could trust.”

She said that for the almost two years she stayed in her marriage she attended University of Guyana and only had two months remaining for a diploma certificate after she walked out on her husband.

Destiny finished her Diploma and got a job to support herself.

She said as she “got on her feet”; she found the need for a social life and joined a youth group that in her opinion “really helped.”

After some time, Destiny got comfortable with herself and decided to be a role model to young girl who “been through as much as I did…to let them know that there is always a way out, we don’t have to take the shape of life people try to mold us into.”

During her revelation of her life story, I asked little questions as I felt it would be insensitive, but I couldn’t help but ask if her past continued to haunt her to this day and about the current relationship with her mother.

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Dem boys seh

Benn want fuh mek heself important Nutten should surprise this nation no more. Private hotel a shut down or sell out but de government tekking US$60M taxpayer dollars fuh build a US$20M Marriott.

Dem renting US$900,000 generator fuh US$720,000 a year. Now dem want indebt de very taxpayer US$800M fuh give everybody hydro seed when the thing can only cost US$300M. Suh people mustn’t be surprised if dem hear Benn seh that he putting up a skyscraper suh high that plane got to fly round it.

When dem boys ask he bout de airport project he tell dem that de Chinee do a study and that he and he engineer dem do a li’l one too and after intense negotiations, back wid he engineers and de Chinee contractors he satisfy wid de price and he grab de deal and sign it.

Pun top of that he tell de nation that de law provide fuh sole tendering. Dem boys want tell him that he shoulda do sole tendering fuh Ketaconazole cream and all dem drugs wha dem buy fuh de hospital. He woulda pay $80 fuh a tube instead of $2,000 from a supplier. Nobody in this country can do a study fuh any airport, not Benn, Twist up or Bruck up. Benn can’t even do a study fuh he old age rocking chair. He couldn’t do one fuh de Supenaam stelling wha he and Bay Kay do. That stelling brucking down all de time.

Dem boys gone back to de deal wha he seh he sign. Dem boys want tell he fuh guh to Uncle Eddie Home and tell dem old people how he sign deal. Everybody else including dem boys know that he couldn’t sign fuh a bicycle without de approval of Bharrat Jagdeo. Not even he own pay cheque he coulda sign and he want people believe that he is some big boy and he sign airport deal. He really want mek himself important or feel important when he tell people that.

Dem boys want tell he and Jagdeo some things but this is not de forum. Maybe dem boys gun meet dem two pun de road.

Dem boys notice that throughout de deal Jagdeo keep he mouth shut because was he going out package. This airport deal too big fuh dem to lose. Dem don’t care if Donald got to go pun he belly dem got to see this deal through, even if dem got to sell dem Mooma.

Talk half and tek back dem millions.

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Political leaders and civil society activists are calling for a reform of the stateowned Guyana Chronicle and the state media in general.

They say that the Guyana

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Chronicle is being used by the ruling party to peddle fabrications and misinformation, and to make personal attacks against those who share a different

view of the government.

For Gerhard Ramsaroop of the Alliance for Change (AFC), the Guyana Chronicle crossed the line in its July 2, 2012 editorial claiming that

“Black youths are socialised by opposition leaders to think that Indians robbed them to get rich, so they automatically feel that they have to wrest by force, even murder, anything Indians have.”

Ramsaroop said that in all his years of witnessing the abuse of the state-media by the former PNC-government and the current PPP/C government, the editorial was the “worst” he has ever seen.

“It is high time that there be a reform of the Chronicle and the entire state media apparatus,” Ramsaroop told Kaieteur News.

He said that the state media should be run by independent boards comprising professionals.

According to Ramsaroop, while the government is allowed to use the state media to disseminate its policy and programmes, the state-owned newspaper, radio and TV must not be used for “gutter journalism” that castigates any who opposes its views.

He said that the state media should give a voice to the citizens of the country and that all stakeholders,

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including political parties, should have equal access.

Academic, Freddie Kissoon also wants to see change at the Guyana Chronicle. Kissoon joined Ramsaroop and others to protest the offending editorial on Friday.

Kissoon said that while there was an abuse of the state media in the days of the PNC Government, what has been perpetrated by the current PPP/C government is much graver.

He said the level of depravity and propaganda being spread by the Chronicle has never been seen before.

“You had excesses in the days of (former Presidents) Burnham and Hoyte, but they have never been so abominable and depraved,” Kissoon stated.

He said that while it is acceptable for the executive branch of the government to have an information arm, other branches of the government must not be ignored.

Kissoon stated that the Office of the Leader of the Opposition is a constitutional office and hence its activities

should be highlighted by the state media.

In recent times, the Chronicle has been making overt attacks on opposition political parties, especially the AFC. In June alone, several articles were published castigating the opposition.

On June 9, there was an editorial calling the AFC and opposition coalition APNU hypocrites. On that very date, another article was entitled “Opposition stumbling blocks to national development.”

On June 25, a letter belittling AFC chairman Khemraj Ramjattan was titled “Imagine Ramjattan bleating about constitutional crisis.”

Another provocative headline was published on June 26, charging “APNU signals intention to create unrest.”

According to Ramsaroop and Kissoon, the state media should be used to foster greater harmony in society and not the kind of “gutter journalism” that the Guyana Chronicle has been guilty of.

The Justice of the Peace Association of the Roman Catholic Church in condemning the July 2, 2012 editorial cautioned against such comments from any source in a plural society with a continuing history of delicately poised race relations.

“The JPC believes that the reckless posture taken in the editorial represents a patent ethnic appeal and could encourage incitement.”

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Can’t afford to die, funerals are too expensive

By Romila Boodram It will be the last thing that most people will think about, but death is inevitable.

And Guyana is no different from the rest of the world. It can prove quite a hassle or an expensive event for family members when

their loved ones pass away.

A funeral can run family members into hundreds of thousands of dollars.

According to a local funeral home, the least it will cost to keep a body for three days is $110,000. This does not include the wake nights and transportation cost.

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From page 9 stepfather are both dead. She said that months after she moved she contacted her ex husband and they worked things out and “we have a good platonic relationship now.”

She then smiled as she mumbled, “Life is a funny thing.”

At that moment I realized that one of the most beautiful smiles I have ever seem was simply a fence for all the pain Destiny had bottled inside.

The owner of the local parlour said that the $110,000 is the cheapest package offered by his funeral home.

With that, family members are provided with three days storage, a simple coffin and a tomb at the Le Repentir Cemetery.

If people wish to leave the body of their relatives at the funeral home beyond those three days, an additional $3,500 will be added to their bill daily.

Also, the funeral home only provides burial at the Le Repentir Cemetery, so if relatives want their dead to be laid to rest elsewhere, they are required to either build their own tomb or pay the parlour additional money for the adjustments.

I contacted a middle class family, who recently buried one of their relatives.

According to the family, the total cost of the event was close to $325,000.

They claimed that they had to purchase clothes and

other items for their dead, and provide refreshments for the wake nights.

“We serve coffee, koolaid, biscuits and cook-up-rice to people and we had to pay the parlour extra money to keep the body for three more days because we were expecting overseas relatives,” the sister of the deceased stated.

Another woman, Bibi Rehanna Khan, said she wanted to give her aunt a decent funeral so all of her relatives came together and organized a six-day wake. The cremation was done on the seventh day.

“The wake nights weren’t too big; they were reasonable. We served coffee and cherry juice and biscuits.

The wake alone came up to $35,000, and we provided three buses to take people to the cremation ground. That cost us a further $11,000.”

She said that the cremation cost $41,000 and she was required to pay the parlour $111,000.

“We are Hindu so we had our 10 days and 13 days religious work.”

On April 26 last, a contractor, Yudashram Dookhie, died after a collision with a truck.

Yesterday, Dookhie’s wife, Debbie, told Kaieteur News that she spent $478,000 for the funeral. This included the cremation, wake nights and the religious work.

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Expired NCN board delays internal probe Dr. Luncheon Investigations at the state-owned National Communications Network (NCN) have been delayed because the life of the Board of Directors has expired.

According to Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon, during the government’s weekly press briefings yesterday, a new board is being appointed.

“The probe, I must admit, has been interrupted because of the life of the NCN Board of Directors ended on June 30.

The (new) board is being appointed and one can anticipate that the investigations and recommendations would be concluded.”

The official was at the time responding to requests by the media for the report on the NCN probe to be made public. The report has found a number of glaring deviations from procedures at that state agency following a cheque payment scandal that triggered investigations at both NCN and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T).

The previous NCN board, led by the then Chairman, Prem Misir, had suspended Programme Director, Martin Goolsarran, for three months.

The network’s Chief Executive Officer, Mohamed Sattaur, has since handed in his resignation.

Dr. Luncheon yesterday

disclosed that once the investigations and the board activities would have been concluded and are addressed by the Office of the President and the President, who is the Minister of Information, the report would be divulged.

NCN came under the spotlight earlier this year after Sattaur disclosed during the Parliamentary debate that the entity raked in almost $500M in revenues last year.

The opposition had accused the entity of heavy bias toward Government and both AFC and APNU used their one seat majority to reduce the government subsidy of over $80M to $1.

The cut had triggered protests by NCN staffers and then came the startling revelations.

Goolsarran had received almost $4M from GT&T in his name for payments to NCN crew used to record the popular Jingle and Song Competition. The two cheques later were deposited in his personal account.

The board had launched an investigation.

The scandal had also prompted internal auditors at GT&T to launch its own probe. Three persons, including its Chief Financial Officer, Royston Rachpaul, were sent home.

Chief Executive Officer, Yog Mahadeo, also handed in his resignation.

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Sufficient evidenence of corruption exists - Dr. Roger Luncheon Corruption is said to be a disease that eats away at the confidence, a people have in their Government, and while the government isn’t denying the outright existence of corruption in Guyana, it is questioning the motivation behind those on the ‘corruption crusade bandwagon.’

This was expanded on by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon during a post Cabinet Press briefing at Office of the President, yesterday morning.

He was speaking mere hours after Head of State Donald Ramotar sought to castigate those whom he says label every project being undertaken by Government in its developmental drive, as being tainted by corruption.

Ramotar’s comments were made at the opening ceremony of the Third Annual

International Building Exposition, being held at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

Hundreds packed the tarmac of the National Stadium to listen to the President launch the Expo.

Ramotar as he delivered his verbal vitriol said that “There seems to be a mentality created to try to criticize projects that can transform our country and bring a better standard of living for our people” He said that “there seems to be a crusade, a direct attack and a crusade to taint everything with corruption to say everything is corrupt.”

Ramotar cautioned that, “we cannot live with such negative feeling around us…We must be determined to push ahead.”

His official spokesman in the person of Dr. Roger

Luncheon, during his press briefing yesterday at Office of the President was hit with a direct question on whether there is any corruption in Guyana.

“I can’t believe that you could seriously be asking if corruption exists…I think there is sufficient evidence,” was the response of Dr. Luncheon.

After conceding the existence of corruption in Guyana, Dr. Luncheon said that what the administration has been focusing on recently “is what is behind the crusade.”

He told media operatives that there is talk of domestic violence and while no one questions its existence there is also none questioning the administration’s emphasis on the issue.

Dr. Luncheon emphasized that in the current discourse on corruption the

administration is seeking to emphasize to the Guyanese what is behind the crusade.

He said that they were seeking to address the anti-government machinations.

Dr. Luncheon says that there are those that are seeking to imply that there is something significantly wrong with Government, its developmental thrust and its implementation of its strategies.

“That is what we are bringing to the attention of the Guyanese people…We are pointing to the major projects

and asking what is the intent in crusading against these projects.”

The most recent voice to be added to call against corruption in Guyana is that of Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran.

His comments against corruption in Guyana attracted the ire of some people in the ruling party.

Up until his resignation he was one of the most senior functionaries of the ruling Peoples Progressive Party and a member of its Central Executive Committee.

Head of State Donald Ramotar takes a swipe at the corruption crusaders

Miner alleges $6M robbery by neighbourhood police group

….calls on Commissioner of Police to investigate corrupt ranks A gold miner is alleging that he was robbed $6M by two neighborhood police group personnel who collaborated with the police in ransacking his house after stealing the cash.

The miner, Jairam Persaud, of 71 Aurora Essequibo Coast who is at present in the interior said that the event transpired on June 22, last, and he is urging the Commissioner of Police and other relevant authorities to investigate the circumstances under which he was taken advantage of and robbed.

The man lamented that on the day in question he was confronted by a corporal from Suddie Police Station called “Madray” who visited his home with others and said

that they were searching for a large quantity of gold. The corporal was in the company of two persons who worked with the neighbourhood policing group.

He explained that they then commenced tumbling his home without a warrant. The trio then found a large quantity of money, some of which belonged to him and some to his employer which was documented and signed for. The two sets amounted to $6M which was taken from his home.

Persaud said that the female police rank then told him that “she ain’t want to hear nothing” that she wanted the money!

He explained that the police forced him to sign a

statement while threatening him that he would be remanded to prison if he did not do as told. With this fear he decided to cooperate.

“I know you don’t even have to do anything and the police could frame you, and you could go to jail.”

He explained that the policewoman then took him to a Justice of Peace where another document was given to him to sign, and it was explained that he should return in the morning for his money.

He continued: “The following day she (policewoman) told me that the paper that I signed the previous night handed over all the money they found in my Continued on page 13

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Several staffers of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) are calling for the President’s intervention to resolve long standing complaints about working conditions and outstanding severance pay.

Several Artificial Inseminations (AI) technicians who work at the Mon Repos office and in the various regions are said to be affected.

While Kaieteur News could not immediately make contact with the Chief Executive Officer, Dindyal Permaul, several staffers claimed that that more than 18 months after they were taken on by the GLDA, they are still to collect severance pay from the National Dairy Development Programme, the predecessor of GLDA. The staffers were afraid to speak out, citing possible discrimination.

“Every time we raise this

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issue, they keep telling us it is by this department or the Ministry of Finance. We are scared to even ask about it.

Bringing it to the newspaper is the only way we can get some action.”

GLDA is the body established to regulate and increase exports of the country’s fledging livestock industry. It was launched last year January at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara.

Several departments, including Animal Services, NDDP and the Livestock Division, were all merged to form the GLDA. The workers claimed that they were told that they would be paid their severance with the closure of NDDP. A majority of the staff were rehired by GLDA. Some had been working at the NDDP for as long as 20 years, when it was under the direction of Dr. Steve Surujbally.

Several allowances, including telephone and

travelling allowances, were also slashed, the workers said.

“Many people got to use their own money to travel and they asking the people to have a phone and always be available to be contacted but they not giving them phone allowance. There are people who on the road every day working with farmers. You tell me how they gun do their job properly if you don’t equip them properly?”

The establishment of GLDA was in keeping with G u y a n a ’s A g r i c u l t u r a l Export and Diversification Programme.

The country has signed a loan with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), to increase Guyana’s livestock exports, stabilizing both local and foreign markets at the same time.

According to the complaining staffers, in 2010 they had met with an IDB consultant who was helping with the establishment of the GLDA.

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From page 12 house and even the speedboat that I own over to them.”

“I had $6M which I signed for in a contract with my employer Ramoutar, $4M belonging to me. I signed a contract because the last time I bore a large amount of gold for my previous employer they robbed me and didn’t pay…Now look what happen; the police now robbing me,” Persaud lamented “Is (two names provided), one of them claim to be liaison to the Home Affairs Minister.

They threatened me that I would go to jail if I didn’t sign a paper they were forcing me

to sign.”

Adding that he visited the commander of ‘G’ Division, he said the situation was explained and the commander promised to investigate. He also visited the Office of Professional Responsibility

(OPR) and also placed the issue in the hands of a lawyer for advice.

However, the man claims that he wants the authorities to return his money and deal according with the corrupt police.

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“He tell we that the GLDA would be taking us on and paying us more in keeping with the work we do,” one angry technician said yesterday.

However, the workers were rehired by GLDA and many of them still receive the same pay.

“When dem big boys travel, they walking with hundreds of thousands of dollars…and they starving us from resources for doing the job for the country.”

The employees claimed, also, that they were made a sign the new contract with much chance for negotiations.

“Dem basically call us and tell us this is the new contract and we had to agree.”

The signing was done following meetings with the former Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud.

“We don’t know if they get the money from IDB to increase our salaries and dem not paying us.

We have to work and we scared to talk.”

Kaieteur News called GLDA’s office and left messages for Permaul, the

CEO, but the calls were not returned.

More than 30 staffers

would have been transferred from NDDP to GLDA, the newspaper was told.

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APNU presents signed petition What is an Affidavit of Support? to disband Corriverton IMC ImmigrationTALK

By Attorney Gail S. Seeram An affidavit of support is a document that must be completed by all petitioners for family-based and some employment-based sponsorship. In the affidavit of support, an individual signs to accept financial responsibility for another person, usually a relative, who is coming to the United States to live permanently.

The person who signs the affidavit of support becomes the sponsor of the relative (or other individual) coming to live in the United States. An affidavit of support is legally enforceable; the sponsor ’s responsibility usually lasts until the family member or other individual either becomes a U.S. citizen, or can be credited with 40 quarters of work (usually 10 years).

If you filed an immigrant visa petition for your relative, you must be the sponsor. You must also be at least 18 years old and a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident. You must have a domicile in the United States or a territory or possession of the United States.

Usually, this requirement means you must actually live in the United States, or a territory or possession, in order to be a sponsor. If you live abroad, you may still be eligible to be a sponsor if you can show that your residence abroad is temporary, and that you still have your domicile in the United States.

In some cases, the

Gail S. Seeram sponsor/petitioner does not have the income required by law and would have to get a joint sponsor to also complete an affidavit of support. A joint sponsor is someone who is willing to accept legal responsibility for supporting your family member with you. A joint sponsor must meet all the same requirements as you, except the joint sponsor does not need to be related to the immigrant.

The joint sponsor (or the joint sponsor and his or her household) must reach the 125% income requirement alone. You cannot combine your income with that of a joint sponsor to meet the income requirement.

When you sign the affidavit of support, you accept legal responsibility for financially supporting the sponsored immigrant(s) generally until they become U.S. citizens or can be credited with 40 quarters of work. Your obligation also ends if you or the individual sponsored dies or if the individual sponsored ceases to be a permanent resident and departs the United States. Note, divorce does

NOT end the sponsorship obligation.

The following individuals are required by law to submit an Affidavit of Support, completed by the petitioner to obtain an immigrant visa or adjustment of status: 1. All immediate relatives of U.S. citizens (which include parents, spouses, and unmarried children under the age of 21) 2. Relatives who qualify for immigration to the United States under one of the family based preferences such as: unmarried, adult sons and daughters of U.S. citizens (adult means 21 years of age or older); spouses of permanent residents and the unmarried sons and daughters (regardless of age) of permanent residents and their unmarried children; married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens, their spouses and their unmarried minor children; and brothers and sisters of adult U.S. citizens, their spouses and their unmarried minor children.

3. Employment-based preference immigrants in cases only when a U.S. citizen or permane n t r e s i d e n t relative filed the immigrant visa petition, or such relative has a significant ownership interest (5% or more) in the entity that filed the petition.

Failure of a sponsor/ petitioner to submit an affidavit of support or to meet the income requirement would result in denial of visa issuance or denial of adjustment of status.

If you change your address after you become a sponsor, you are required by law to notify the USCIS within 30 days by filing Form I-865, Sponsor’s Notice of Change of Address. If you fail to notify the USCIS of your change of address, you may be fined.

....says body is illegal and unconstitutional

Ms. Agnes Macdonald Reading the Petition to the Town Clerk, Narendra Sookram, before handing over documents.

By Leon Suseran A team from A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) descended on Corriverton on Friday and handed to the Town Clerk of the Interim Management Committee (IMC), Narendra Sookram, a Petition signed by over 600 persons of Corriverton calling for the removal of the body (IMC).

The team comprised Mr. Ronald Bulkan, former Corriverton Councilor; Ms Agnes Mac Donald, Everette Harewood, Verna Lyken, Jagdip Persaud, Fitz O’ Brien and Dr. Rishee Thakur of the APNU Secretariat.

APNU Corriverton office has also issued a statement calling on the government to disband the IMC, referring to it as an illegally-constituted body. APNU’s Ronald Bulkan stated that the party is highly dissatisfied with the manner in which Corriverton Mayor, Roy Baijnauth, was ousted from office of Mayor in which position he served for nearly two decades.

Baijnauth had revealed that neither he nor his seven councilors of the Corriverton Municipality ever received a formal notification or correspondence from the Local Government Minister or Ministry with valid signatures, informing them of the termination of their [the mayor and his councilors’]

services in the town.

Baijnauth showed Kaieteur News two faxes which were sent to his office and received by the Town Clerk a few weeks ago ‘informing them that an Interim Management Committee (IMC) had been formed to replace the council.

The faxes both titled ‘Public Notice’ bore no signatures and were not addressed to anyone in particular from the Corriverton M&TC, not even the Mayor.

It has been revealed that an investigation and inquiry into the affairs of the M&TC were carried out a few months ago and it was alleged that the findings were damning, hence the move to formulate an IMC to manage the border- town’s affairs.

Bulkan stated that other than the manner in which Baijnauth and his councilors were ousted, the party has unearthed several other illegalities allegedly perpetrated by the Ministry of Local Government and intends to actively pursue them.

Bulkan stated, too, that the former Corriverton M&TC was performing their duties normally and held statutory meetings. “No meetings were missed; the sub committees of the council were functioning and meeting.

There was no public call for

the disbanding of the M&TC”.

He said that “what citizens have been denied since 1993 to do was to elect their own councils, so the point has been made before and is being made again that we don’t deny that indeed, the life of these councils needs renewal but the fault for that not happening is not the fault of the council itself, rather, the government to hold Local Government elections”.

Bulkan said that what the Local Government Ministry is doing is “violence to the constitution and citizens of this country, so it is acts of provocation which will not lead anywhere beneficial or assist in creating social stability and social cohesion that we badly need”.

The political opposition, APNU and AFC, have been playing “a very mature and responsible role but there is a limit to how much provocation you can visit upon stakeholders, because we run the danger that we will lose face with our constituents and supporters if we are seen to be silent in the face of these acts of indecency and vulgarity”.

At the last tripartite talks, he said, a commitment was given by President Donald Ramotar to APNU “when our representatives highlighted the acts of illegality, the dismantling of the NDC’s that were taking place. The President gave a commitment that they will stop that campaign”.

He said that the members of the current Corriverton IMC were “selected and hand- picked” and now is not the time for that. The citizens, he said, should have been given the opportunity to do so.

When contacted on the recent move by APNU, Minister Ganga Persaud said that it is illegal for Bulkan and APNU to go in Corriverton and “threaten the town clerk and deem anything illegal”.

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Today's media is prominent in Guyana’s democracy - US Ambassador U

.S. Ambassador to Guyana, Brent Hardt, has charged the US embassy in Guyana to find creative new ways to achieve shared goals between Guyana and the US. Ambassador Hardt is determined to forge a mutually beneficial partnership between the countries to help build a safe and secure, democratic, prosperous and healthy Guyana that would see the United States as a friend and ally.

He made those remarks on the occasion of American Independence Day at the U.S. Ambassador's Residence, on July 4.

Speaking on Guyana's political climate, he expressed confidence that Guyana will continue to come together as a nation and find ways to work in the national interest, even as it debates and discusses different approaches and priorities.

Ambassador Hardt arrived in Guyana last September in the midst of a heated campaign trail leading up to National E l e c t i o n s . Wi t n e s s i n g elections proceedings in Guyana, Hardt said he is pleased that the US was able to continue its longstanding tradition of support to help ensure a free, fair and peaceful election that yielded an historic result-Guyana now has a minority Government.

Hardt believes that this has given Guyanese a renewed sense that they have a seat at the democratic table and that their voice can be heard.

“And voices are being heard in the National A s s e m b l y, i n t h e newspapers, and on the streets. That is just the way it should be in a vibrant democracy. Certainly that is

the way it was in the American colonies before agreement was secured on a D e c l a r a t i o n o f Independence in 1776, and even more so thereafter when the democratic experiment threatened to come apart at the seams,” he said.

Celebrating 236 years of American Independence, Hardt said that the American history teaches how the human spirit finds a way to rise to meet the challenge so that all people can enjoy their inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

He emphasized, “The

economic, and religious differences. That is why we are highlighting the theme of the American Tapestry.”

The principles “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are what binds the US together as a nation,” Hardt said.

However, the US did not get where it is today, easily.

There were many hurdles that the country overcame such as a bitter Civil War, and the stain of slavery.

Looking at the US's history

United States road to independence and national unity was fraught with dissension, division, debate and uncertainty. It was a messy process – as democracy always is. In fact, our country has always had – and will continue to have – a contentious and conflicted history, marked by political, regional,

Hardt said it could be useful to reflect on in the context of Guyana today.

“Many people look at current events, the heated debates in the Assembly and the sharp points and counterpoints in the media, and wonder where it will lead. To me, as a student of history, this “messiness” is the medley of democracy in

action.

“As in the United States two centuries ago, progress will require compassionate leadership, a spirit of compromise, and a sense of a national interest to move forward.”

“When we arrived in Guyana last September, I was determined to forge a mutually beneficial partnership between our countries to help build a safe and secure, democratic, prosperous, and healthy Guyana that would see the United States as a friend and ally. I was convinced that our countries shared goals that we could best advance

US Ambassador to Guyana, D. Brent Hardt

by working together, and I have lead our Embassy team

to find creative new ways to work in that spirit.”

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Argentine vessel pays cordial visit to Guyana

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he Argentine navy vessel “Libertad” is visiting Guyana with another endeavour of continuing to progress diplomatic ties with the country. This is the ship's second voyage to the Guyana to endorse harmony between the two South American Nations.

While paying a visit to the vessel, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds yesterday, thanked the fleet for the opportunity to go abroad.

The prime minister noted that there is need for the two countries to learn more of each other but he expects that the international relationship between the two nations to grow stronger with time.

Media operatives and members of the diplomatic corps, other government officials and special guests were also afforded the opportunity to go aboard the 4000-ton vessel.

The ship was moored some 14 miles offshore. It was unable to dock at Port Georgetown due to the shallowness of the water.

However it was noted that the vessel came closer to Port Georgetown than last

year.

The journey to the ship took approximately one hour; visitors were transported by chartered jet boats. Some of the passengers fell ill during the “bouncy” ride to the vessel.

Libertad provides handson training for navy personnel who wish to experience life at sea. The training is said to enhance maritime experience. This training is intended to continue foster international naval relations and strengthen expert and comradeship bonds with foreign navies. The vessel was designed to promote the Argentine republic's geographic, cultural and natural riches by showing its maritime vocation.

Last year, “Libertad” visited Guyana to promote peace and solidarity, while saluting the Presidency of Guyana at the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR).

This year the ship is paying a cordial visit to Guyana en route to crossing the South Atlantic Ocean.

This visit is seen as one meant to enhance the friendship and cooperation

ties between the two countries, as well as the bonds of mutual trusts between both nations.

The ship which sailed from Buenos Aires on June 2 makes an annual trip around the world for the graduating naval cadets who completed their four years of training.

The Argentine vessel is

set to cover 19,000 miles has since covered 3000 miles with the stop at Georgetown.

It is scheduled to spend two days in Guyana's waters after which it will venture for neighbouring Venezuela before leaving for Europe and Africa after which it will return to its homeland in South America.

The ship houses 329 crew members, of whom 37 are women. The crew comes from nine countries.

The ship made its maiden voyage in 1963. The special feature of the three-mast frigate ship is the wood carving made by the Spanish sculptor Carlos Garcia Gonzalez who lived in the

city of Buenos Aries. His inspiration had been his wife who passed away before the figure was placed on wood.

The ship which sails the world has been awarded prizes such as the “Great Medal” in 1966 when establishing a world record for tall ships crossing the North Atlantic.

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We are pleased to introduce you to beautiful Makyla Jabour. She is currently pursuing studies in Behavior Science. Her hobbies include playing the violin and traveling and modelling.

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One of our oldest-living engineers,

Grenville Augustus Felix,

Grenville Felix

is a 'Special Person’

By Leon Suseran Guyana, today, does not have many engineers. It is a field that has seen a dearth of talent but it is a rather lucrative profession.

Grenville Augustus Felix is one of Guyana's oldest living engineers.

He began his career as a Factory Engineer Foreman at the Booker's Sugar Estate back in 1954, where he supervised the maintenance of the factory's machinery.

He moved up the ranks not too long after. He has trained countless engineers across the country to sharpen as well as master their skills in the field.

Felix is not only talented for his engineering skills, but for adroitly making iron

chairs and other kinds of chairs, which he enjoyed doing up to a few years ago.

He is also a very staunch 'family man' who loves and cares deeply for those closest to him.

The entire gang, i r o n i c a l l y, w i l l b e congregating in just over a week's time at his Canefield, East Canje residence for a big 95th birthday anniversary celebration.

His family realises that he is a special person amongst them. They have been treasuring his presence and have been celebrating his birthday in a real big way every five years.

It was the beginning of a new day, July 16, 1917, when a loud cry of excitement was heard in

Betsy Ground Village. He related that everyone in the village wanted to know what was causing all the raucous and the villagers wondered.

As they (the villagers) drew closer to Mr and Mrs Thomas Felix's home, they were delighted to discover that little Grenville had entered the world. His father, Thomas, was a balata bleeder and his mom, Rachel was a housewife.

During his tender age and years, he recalled scrubbing floors “until your fingers can no longer hold the brush and sanding furniture until the desired results are achieved, as well as washing large bundles of clothes using a wooden beater or a scrubbing board”.

He also recalled “leaving to

go catch 'conga' fish when free from the demands of school and to prepare dad's lunch before the factory whistle blows as well as cleaning the yard until there was no more paper or straw”.

He vividly recalled riding his bicycle for two hours to New Forest, Canje, then walking for about an hour to North Cumberland Farm (150 acres), “and then spending three hours planting rice, and two hours harvesting pumpkin and cassava.

These produce were then carried on our backs for the return journey of one hour through puddles of mud and pimples, in order to bypass the fearful stump in the Canje Creek”.

Grenville attended Elementary School in East Canje, and at age 13, he received a partial scholarship to attend a Secondary School in Georgetown and upon completion, he returned to St Patrick's Anglican School (where he graduated) to complete his secondary education.

He quickly learned and enjoyed to do cycle repairs “and from cycle repairs, I went to the estate and started to work there as an apprentice at the age of 16”.

When asked why he went into apprenticeship at the sugar factory, Felix related that “my intention was that I wanted to do a trade, so I started doing a little cycle repairs and from there, I got into the factory where I worked my way up to senior engineer”.

In 1958, he warranted a promotion to Senior Factory Engineering Foreman after which he was promoted to Assistant Engineer in 1967 where he performed administrative duties and liaison to the Senior Foremen.

Amazingly, at the age of 94, he can still vividly remember things very well

and recalled a horrible incident at the Rose Hall Estate which took place on January 13, 1970, whereby seven workers in the boiler section all drowned. It was Felix's first day back on the job after a vacation in the Caribbean and he was there when his colleagues were drowning.

“Seven men drowned in a clarifier...these men-- they usually do cleaning after

cane juice before evaporation. After a period of time, toxic substances called mud builds up in the clarifier. Hence, clarifiers need to be periodically cleaned to purge the toxic substances. It was during this cleaning phase that the seven workers met their demise.

He was around and turned out the same day to work “…and in coming I

“My intention was that I wanted to do a trade, so I started doing a little cycle repairs and from there, I got into the (sugar) factory where I worked my way up to senior engineer.” operations-- and they stopped grinding (sugar) and they didn't bother to do any cleaning on Sunday, until Monday and by Monday, the (sugar cane) juice was like stale, you know, and the men went there and the fellow who was the foreman for them left and went to ask for some pipe, which he wanted for his house, and when he came back the workers were all missing.

That clarifier was something else; when that juice stale, you can hardly take the scent and they tried and eventually, seven men died there.” He related that the men actually drowned in the clarifier and “nobody could have helped them because they go in from the top, you couldn't get them out and nobody could have gone inside to help them”.

Clarifiers are large tanks that are used to settle heated

saw people running, coming towards the boiling house side and I thought something happened and I, too, started to run and then someone told me some men drowned and I was shocked”.

Felix said that he made every effort to save the men's lives “but we couldn't do anything with them and I knew one fellow, he died and his brother-in-law died too, who went to see if he could save him… but ended up dying”. Felix did his utmost to render assistance to the dying men but was not successful.

As a result of the fatal accident, Sir Edward Luckhoo, the acting Governor General of Guyana, ordered a Commission of Inquiry. Sir Kenneth Stoby headed the Commission. A report was issued in May 1970. It (continued on page 47)

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IS THE PNCR WILLING TO CEDE THE LEADERSHIP OF APNU?

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or a party that has not won a free and fair election in over twenty years, and which on its own may never win such an election, it is surprising that the PNCR is yet to recognize the wisdom of having someone other than its leader head A Partnership for National Unity (APNU).

The PNCR is the dominant partner in APNU. Without the PNCR, APNU is a mere shell comprising of small marginal parties and groupings with insignificant electoral support. The PNCR is, therefore, the lifeline to APNU. If the PNCR hopes to have any chances of being part of a government, it would need to invest in building APNU into a more broad-based alliance of parties, with the PNCR reducing the amount of influence that it wields within the grouping.

One of the main failings of APNU during the last election was its inability to have civil society groupings and organizations join the partnership. But the leadership of APNU cannot really be totally faulted for this, since it is in the nature of Guyana politics for such groupings to not be cautious in becoming embroiled in political movements contesting political office.

Such groupings would need encouragement to come on board, and this can be facilitated by no one party or grouping having a dominant influence within the partnership. In this way, a more balanced alliance would emerge.

Given the political realities of Guyana, alliance politics is expected to be a permanent feature of the

politics of the PNCR. This is all the more reason for there to be one person to be its leader and another to head APNU. If the leader of the PNCR is the leader of APNU, it can turn-off groupings that may be interested in being part of the partnership, because they may feel they are going to be marginalized by the overwhelming electoral, financial and membership superiority enjoyed by the PNCR. It therefore makes practical sense for there to be one leader of the PNCR and another for APNU. Based on the report of the nominations in the media, it does seem as if the contest for the leader of the PNCR is a two-person race. But it need not be, because one of them can agree to take over the leadership of the party, while the other devotes his energies towards heading the partnership.

Having the same person heading both outfits can lead to problems since that person may feel obligated more towards promoting and imposing the positions of the PNCR within the partnership, as opposed to having to moderate such positions within the larger partnership of APNU. There is, however, another option. APNU is not a one-party or a one-man show. One of the persons who has contributed in no small measure to the public appeal of APNU was its Prime Ministerial candidate.

Perhaps if the present leader of APNU becomes the Leader of the PNCR, then the Prime Ministerial candidate of APNU can be elevated to the position of Leader of APNU. This would obviously test the level of trust that the PNCR

has in an APNU without one of its own as leader, but it is a test that the PNCR needs if it is to convince Guyanese that in a national unity government it will not hog political power.

Come this month when the PNCR holds its congress, this is one of the issues that will no doubt be considered.

The election of a Leader of the PNCR is however not just going to be the only highpoint. This congress will also have to chart the way forward and perhaps

reshape the PNCR's position on shared governance.

It does seem at present as if the PNCR is in a combative mood, in so far as the government is concerned.

This may have to do with the fact that APNU, of which the PNCR is a central member, is pouring most of its energies into parliamentary politics and a unified position with the AFC, and less in trying to find middle ground by engaging the government

directly.

The PNCR's position has of recent been that even if it had won the elections, it would have had to incorporate the PPP into any national unity government.

The fallout from the Budget and the PPP's own historical suspicions and insecurities over national unity governments with the PNCR may have, for the time being, placed such a government way on the backburner.

But if the PNCR remains serious about national unity,

it has to use this opportunity to demonstrate that middle ground can be found between the government and itself, because unless the PNCR can show this, then it will have very little chance of convincing its delegates that a national unity government involving the PPP is the way forward.

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SUNDAY SPECIAL RALPH RAMKARRAN RESIGNS FROM PPP Senior Executive Member of the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Ralph Ramkarran, tendered his resignation to party General Secretary, President Donald

Ralph Ramkarran Ramotar, last week Saturday.

The move, according to party sources, was triggered by abuses from party insiders following Ramkarran’s comments on the need for the party to address allegations of corruption. He recently authored articles to this effect in the party newspaper, The Mirror In a one-line letter addressed to President Donald Ramotar, who is the party’s General Secretary, Ramkarran said that the resignation is immediate.

“I tender my resignation from the Peoples Progressive Party.”

It was signed “Yours fraternally, Ralph Ramkarran”.

Ramkarran and his family have been around for decades in the party’s hierarchy.

He has been with the party since 1962, becoming a Central Committee member in 1974 and a member of the Central Executive in 1975. He had left Guyana in 1972 to pursue further studies overseas.

His father, Boysie Ramkarran, was a founder member of the PPP.

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MV TORANI MOORS ON WAKENAAM STELLING The M.V. Torani crashed into the Wakenaam Stelling, last week Saturday causing panic among passengers. The vessel ripped the decking from the stelling and sent zinc sheets that formed the wall of the structure flying on board.

No one was harmed, however.

It is alleged that the speed of the vessel increased as it approached the Stelling in an attempt to moor and crashed into the structure shortly after 13:30 hrs.

The vessel was still operational to continue its journey to Supenaam.

According to a passenger, after a one and half hour delay at Parika Stelling, the vessel departed at 11:30 hrs for Supenaam, making the first stop at Wakenaam. The journey to Wakenaam was proceeding smoothly until the end when disaster struck.

Vessels would usually moor against the tide.

Something went wrong because the vessel sped directly into the stelling, mooring in a most unusual manner.

People, especially the youngsters on the stelling ran ‘helter skelter’ as the vessel approached with speed. “Zinc sheets from the stelling paste up on the boat,” one passenger said.

MONDAY EDITION CJIA CONTRACTOR’S SNUB ANGERS APNU, AFC A missive has been directed to China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) from the Office of the Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition expressing anger at being snubbed by the Chinese Company during the recent visit of several of its officials to Guyana.

Zhongdong Tang and a team of CHEC Officials travelled to Guyana two Thursdays ago and told media operatives that the company

Part of the wrecked Wakenaam Stelling

has given to the Board, “the Ministry of Works, and the Government of Guyana explanations of the issues which have again been brought to public attention.”

Tang was at the time speaking to allegations of corruption leveled against the Chinese company by the World Bank.

The company has been contracted for the US$150M Expansion of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport The missive from David Granger’s Office said that, “A Partnership for National Unity being together with the Alliance for Change the Majority in the National Assembly takes umbrage at being ignored by your company on its visit to Guyana to review a Major Infrastructure Project as the CJIA Expansion.”

The strongly worded missive emanating from Granger’s Office but bearing the signature of Joseph

Harmon said too that, “A full engagement with us would have ensured a better understanding of the project that could have conditioned our support for it, as it is, we feel that a major opportunity has been missed.”

He did sound the warning to CHEC that “as representative of the people we will continue to carefully scrutinize this project and any other project of such scale and magnitude as it relates to infrastructural works in Guyana.

TWO ESCAPE FROM MAZARUNI PRISON Two inmates escaped from the Mazaruni Prison last Sunday after scaling the walls of the penitentiary.

Kaieteur News understands that prisoners were on recreation, playing a game of cricket and when a head count was made at around 15:00 hrs, prison warders realized that the two were missing.

An alarm was then raised.

Sources identified the escapees as Sean Hopkinson and Carlton Sampson.

TUESDAY EDITION PPPAPOLOGISES TO RAMKARRAN

The Guyanese and CHEC Officials sign off on the CJIA Expansion Contract last November

The ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is still pinning hopes on the return of Ralph Ramkarran, saying it intends to engage him “in further discussions with a view of reconciling the matter.”

On Saturday, June 30, Ramkarran resigned from

the party which he served for 50 years.

Ramkarran tendered his one-line resignation after what the PPP described as a heated discussion at the Executive Committee Meeting two Fridays ago.

The Party’s Executive said it hopes Ramkarran will reconsider his action “as there is no fundamental disagreement on any policy issue.”

The PPP related that Ramkarran felt insulted by the remarks of another member and left the meeting before it concluded.

“The offending remark was withdrawn by the member and an apology was also offered,” The PPP stated.

The discussion at the time is believed to have centred on Ramkarran’s recent article in the party newspaper, The Mirror, in which he stated that corruption was pervasive.

SHOOTING VICTIM SUCCUMBS 10 DAYS AFTER INCIDENT After battling for life for more than 10 days, Abiola Edie, succumbed to gunshot wounds in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) early Monday.

Edie’s mother, Pamela Edie, said that a staff member at the hospital called her around 06:00 hrs and gave her the tragic news.

On June 20, last, Abiola Edie and her son, Martin Barker, of McDoom, East Bank Demerara (EBD) were shot by their neighbour.

Barker was accused of putting his game cock to fight

his neighbour’s roosters.

The young man’s mother came out to defend him but the argument got heated and their neighbour went into his house, collected his gun and shot Barker twice. Edie was also shot in her face.

Barker was treated at GPHC and was eventually discharged but unfortunately, his mother succumbed to her injuries.

WEDNESDAY EDITION ROBESON BENN DEFENDS SOLE TENDER FOR AIRPORT PROJECT The entire process leading to the signing of the contract in November last year is above board and falls within the laws of Guyana, Works Minister Robeson Benn, has asserted.

He was discussing Guyana’s second largest investment in this country in 20 years.

Speaking with the press in his Kingston location Tuesday, Benn disclosed that his office is in the process of preparing advice to the Cabinet of the findings “…and there are no hurdles.

The financing is already in place”.

The government official insisted that the US$150M price was arrived at after “torrid” negotiations and “back and forth” meetings between China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), the contractor; Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) officials; engineers and administrators of the Public Works Ministry Continued on page 37

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Ravi Dev Column

A childhood friend of mine is visiting from Toronto.

He’s a psychologist and family therapist by training and specialises in “anger management’.

I showed him the letter by Lincoln Lewis, “Don’t expect silence or compliance on my part, Mr. Dev. Not now, not ever!” He assured me that this was a very angry man.

Now I don’t have a problem with Mr Lewis being angry. Anger is a natural human emotion that arises out of frustrated or thwarted desires/goals.

The problem is when we allow it to become excessive and allow it to subvert or reason. Mr Lewis after all is head of the TUC: his anger issues can have wide repercussions.

All I’ve suggested is perhaps Mr Lewis’ approach to addressing the African Guyanese condition in Guyana is not perhaps self defeating. Responding to my column “For a future peace”, he divined that “(Dev’s) interest is in keeping the races divided to pursue the agenda of racial dominance by demonising and labelling the African race.” I was shocked:

These are trying times, with the politicians keeping the nation on tenterhooks with their shenanigans. The language in the media is what is going to fuel the pace of the conversation, and in the end the nation would be split along political lines, something that has never done anyone any good.

There are going to be a few bright spots, all determined by employment opportunities presented by some foreign employers who have already attracted unwanted attention. **** People are extremely

had I been transported to some sort of parallel universe, where everything is the opposite? I went back to my column, which actually was a modification of one that had addressed a similar polemic several years before.

I’d written that Lewis’ call for a confrontational approach by African Guyanese to address their problems came out of a violent ‘revolutionary’ approach, honed to deal with colonial oppression. I suggested: “Our “problem space” – the threats and opportunities that confront us in our (present) sociohistorical conjuncture is radically different.

At a minimum, our “us” and “them” within the old narrative is not a unified “us” versus the “them –British”, whom we hoped to kick out – the “us” and “them” are now “all-ah-we” that have to coexist in our common homeland.” To say that our races/ethnic groups are now “all-ah-we” and we must “coexist in our common homeland” is to ‘divide the races’ and ‘demonise’ Africans?

I then proposed that when we make critiques of our

present, we always do so with an eye towards a future we want to create: the present is unsatisfactory and we want to rectify that.

I called this our ‘horizon of expectations”. I said that while we may differ in specifics, all peoples want “a more harmonious society”. I wrote, “I am suggesting that with the privilege of hindsight, we should connect the past with the present in a broader narrative that is healing rather than destructive?

We cannot change the past but we can certainly change the future.” Is this divisive and ‘labelling’ to Africans?

I also pointed out: “Another way our problem space is different even from our immediate postindependence period is that the demographics now deny any built-in ethnic majority and so opens up the possibilities of a working democracy. A constructive narrative cannot then picture our opposing groups locked in mortal combat.” Is this divisive and racist?

Asserting that the details of the narrative we use is

careless when it comes to road use. It is not that we have not had more than enough road accidents; it is just that everyone believes that he is immune.

This time the car accident is going to be caused by a driver attempting to overtake another vehicle. It goes

without saying that people would be incapacitated. **** Another murder will occur and a family dispute plus alcohol would be the cause. People have lost all respect for themselves and for human life. They act precipitately to the detriment of those around them.

And this would be followed by an armed robbery which would see the police chasing after the perpetrators. People will be caught and in the ensuing days there will be a lot to talk about. One of the perpetrators would be from the neighbourhood.

crucial to provoking either violence or peace, I vouchsafed that: “Hegel’s famous interpretation of Antigone as the paradigmatic Greek tragedy might be particularly apt to our situation.

In this narrative both “sides” are morally right: the conflict is not between good and evil but between “goods” on which each is making exclusive claim.” To say that Africans and Indians et al all are ‘morally right” is divisive? I ended “For a future peace” by pleading to Lewis: “Let us use our newspapers for nation building rather than tearing it apart by narratives that are fighting long-gone terrors.” “Racist and divisive”?

Lewis warns: “(Dev) is advised while it is his right to agitate on behalf of any group; it cannot and will not come at the cost of disrespecting

another and engaging in act/ actions to deny them their rights.” I really do believe that this is the crux of Lewis’ (and for that matter, several other Afro-centric activists): While it is okay for them (and even myself) to agitate for African rights in Guyana – but I am certifiably racist if I defend Indian interests or speak from an Indian perspective – contrary to the protestation of Lewis.

Back in 2009, Mr Lewis had also accused me of ‘racism” against African Guyanese. Inter alia, I answered: “Racism, of course, is the articulation of practices designed to place or keep a group in subjugation solely on account of their race. The fact that over the last two decades I identified the imperative for African voting behaviour as the consequence of an Ethnic Security Dilemma rather than

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being just “evil persons”; called for affirmative action in entrepreneurial activities for Africans to compensate for historical discriminations, an Ethnic Impact Statement on all government policies and program and for Equal Employment Opportunity legislation; supported a temporary shared executive arrangement as a precursor to more permanent mutually agreed to constitutional arrangements; etc. does not cut any ice.”

As I concluded then: “But this is the way of the binary: for one side to be all light, the other must be all darkness.”

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The Leonora axe murders - he lured his family into the house, and slaughtered them one by one…

By Michael Jordan This is part horror story, part ghost story, and now that I have your attention, let me tell you what happened at Lot 118 Sharp Street, Leonora, West Coast Demerara on Thursday, May 29, 1980.

They say that it was raining that day, but several workmen were repairing the roadway, when 13-year-old Isardi Haripaul returned from school.

She rapped on the door and her father, 32-year-old Devakaparsaud Haripaul, opened it.

Things were not going well in the Haripaul household. Mr. Haripaul had been unemployed for several weeks and there were frequent arguments between the man and his wife, Rajdai.

But everything had appeared to be normal that day. At around 14:00 hrs, Mr. Haripaul had visited a shop in the neighbourhood, where he bought a ‘half’ bottle of rum and a pack of cigarettes.

The couple had six children; Ganesh, 16, Isardi, 13, Ramdar, 12, Naresh, 10, Chandradai, six, and threeyear-old Savatri.

Isardi was about to enter the house but then her father informed her, in a rough v o i c e , “ Yo u r m o t h e r,

brothers and sisters packed and moved out.”

The teen was about to enter the house, but her

father’s forceful tone of voice made her pause. She peered into the house and saw something that made her very uneasy.

There was a polythene rope dangling from a beam in the sitting room.

Isardi would later recount that her father then tried to grab her.

She managed to elude him and run all the way to an aunt, who lived nearby.

Isardi’s story made the aunt uneasy and she decided to contact the police.

A party of policemen then arrived at the Haripaul’s residence. After calling repeatedly and getting no response, the policemen forced their way into the house.

There, they found Haripaul hanging from a polythene rope in the hallway.

Someone had also soaked the house with kerosene.

They searched the house further, and it was then that they began to find the bodies.

In the last bedroom in the house, covered with clothing, lay the mutilated corpses of Mrs. Radjai Haripaul and three of her children. They found a fourth mangled body in another bedroom.

A fifth child, the eldest, with similar mutilations, was found in a chicken pen under the house.

Mr. Haripaul had apparently used an axe to slaughter all, except one, of his family members before taking his own life.

Police would later learn that Haripaul had made repeated threats to kill everyone in his household.

From all indications, Haripaul killed his wife and infant daughter first.

He then killed the other children, one by one, as they

returned home from school.

But like I said before, this is also a ghost story.

Residents claim that one day, a Guyana Electrical Corporation employee, unaware of the tragedy, visited the premises to read the meter.

He left the yard grumbling, and some villagers sought to find out what had annoyed him.

The meter reader explained that he had called and rapped and no one had answered.

But just as he was about to leave, he looked into the house and saw a man, wrapped in a towel, emerge from one of the bedrooms.

But the man never came to the door.

The villagers then explained the history of Lot 118 Sharp Street, and explained to the meter reader that the house had remained empty since then.

A post-girl reportedly had an even more scary experience. She reportedly went up the stairs to deliver mail, peeped in the house, and saw a man, his wife and children going about their business inside.

She promptly fainted when villagers told her that the property was empty.

The property was eventually torn down and another rebuilt.

If you know of any unusual cases please contact us at Kaieteur News. We can be reached on telephone numbers 22-58465, 2258491, and 22-58458. You need not disclose your identity.

You can also reach Michael Jordan at his email a d d r e s s mjdragon@hotmail.com.

SEEKING HELP TO LOCATE RELATIVES OF EIGHT CHILDREN KILLED BETWEEN 1969-1970 Michael Jordan is trying to contact relatives of eight children who were murdered between March 20, 1969 and June 1970, by Harrynauth Beharry, also known as Harry Rambarran, Charles Bissoon, Charles Pereira, Anant Persaud and Maka Anan.

Some of the victims are Basmattie, an eight-year-old schoolgirl from Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara. David Bacchus, 15, of Tucville, 11-year-old Mohamed Fazil Nasir, of Number 78 Village, Corentyne, Mohamed Faizal, of Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, Jagdeo Jagroop, Mohamed Nizam Ali; Paulton of Hogg Island, Essequibo; Orlando Guthrie, of Grove Village, East Bank Demerara.

Please contact him via his email address mjdragon@hotmail.com., or on telephone numbers 22-58458, 22-58465, or 22-58491. HeI can also be contacted on 6452447.

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== THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN ==

Ethnic power and ideological racism: Comparing presidencies in Guyana This is the title of an eighty-page research I did over a two-year period that looked at the practice of racism by the Guyana Government during the tenure of Bharrat Jagdeo.

It will be tendered by my lawyers in the Jagdeo libel suit. I cannot discuss the case because it is before the courts.

What I can do is describe the testimonies that have been made public since the hearing began.

I am entitled to do so by the principle of fair comment.

Contempt of court comes in when one strays from what is already published.

The most salient characteristic of this libel hearing is the deliberate decision of Mr. Jagdeo not to testify. In this context Mr. Jagdeo’s stance is extremely unusual in the world.

Which Cabinet Minister, Prime Minister, President, army chief sues a national commentator for slander of character and refuses to attend court to explain to the court how he felt and why his accuser was wrong.

Mr. Jagdeo did not come from one reason only – he believed and knew that he could not have matched wits with Mr. Nigel Hughes, Khemraj Ramjattan and Christopher Ram. There wasn’t a person in Guyana that thought for a fleeting moment that he would have attended court.

That was the consensus throughout this country. And people knew why – Jagdeo is not capable of intellectual heights.

Mr. Jagdeo felt unsure of his intellectual ability since 1999 when he became President. It was predictable that after he became President, he would spend his career running from any debate with his detractors. After twelve years in power in which he faced two national elections, Mr. Jagdeo insanely avoided any debate, no matter what the format was.

I first met Bharrat Jagdeo at the Castellani swimming pool when he was introduced to me by Malcolm Harripaul.

He was junior Finance

Minister then. He said stupid things to me when we were in the sauna that I thought was unbecoming of a Minister.

Then there was a flurry of bad-mouthing of UG. I knew there and then that Jagdeo would not be a person to hold Ministerial status. When I heard that he had become Senior Finance Minister, it confirmed for me that Cheddi Jagan was always a fool. But the presidency? No that was unthinkable.

Jagdeo always came across to me as a nincompoop and non-entity, but it was an incident involving my duty free letter and President Jagdeo that convinced me that this man was not even fit to run a small state agency dealing with animal cruelty, much less a troubled nation like Guyana where brilliance and leadership qualities are priceless factors for Guyana’s survival. Jagdeo had none.

He didn’t even have an ordinary grasp of things. Mr. Jagdeo’s twelve years of power have set this country back by more than fifty years.

This writer is saying unambiguously that APNU and the AFC, should they come to office, cannot undo this damage even in ten years.

I wanted to change the model of my car as stated in my letter. I went to the Finance Minister who told me that President Jagdeo wanted to make that decision himself and required that I see him. I went to meet with him. After half an hour of his schoolboy asininities, Mr. Jagdeo sent me to Mr. Nirmal Rekha, Secretary to the Treasury, to sign the new letter.

I suggested he write a note to Rekha. Jagdeo waved his hand and said to me. “Tell him I ordered the change.”

Rekha refused. I went back to Jagdeo, Jagdeo sent me back to Rekha. And so it went for days. Then I became angry with this unbecoming leader and said to him, “Telephone Mr. Rekha in my presence so Mr Rekha can no longer refuse.” Mr. Jagdeo replied; “You go back to Rekha; Rekha has to do his job.”

It was all a game and Mr. Jagdeo was the head clown.

Mr. Jagdeo had no intention of changing my letter by a signed document.

He and Rekha were deliberately pushing me around. There and then I knew this man was unfit to hold any position of importance. I knew he would fail as a leader and become a spectacle for Guyanese to laugh at. It happened. People began to laugh at Mr. Jagdeo for a certain reason and the nation lost respect for him. From the

smallest child to the most elderly, Guyanese joked about Mr. Jagdeo and he brought it on himself.

He demonstrated to Guyanese that he was unfit to be their President. Arif Bulkan published a photo in the Stabroek News of President Jagdeo with hand on his crotch in public in New York City at an India Day parade.

I knew he would never have testified. He cannot and

will not because he knows he cannot answer intellectual giants like Nigel Hughes, Khemraj Ramjattan and Chris Ram. He sent Roger Luncheon to prove to the court that I had libeled him.

After Nigel Hughes was finished with Luncheon, Guyanese facetiously referred to him as “Luncheon meat.” He had looked for that.

His advice to Jagdeo was to drop the case. Jagdeo didn’t and now I am going to

Frederick Kissoon prove to the world that Mr. Jagdeo was one of the most racist leaders the 21st century produced anywhere in the world.

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Corrupt cops given ultimatum…

“Turn in your badges by Monday”- Brumell Commissioner of Police (ag) Leroy Brumell has given his ranks up to tomorrow (Monday) to turn in their badges if they cannot control the urge to continue their corrupt practices.

Speaking at the conclusion of the force’s 173rd anniversary route march through the city yesterday, the acting top cop said that he was irked by a recent item in the press which called for the fight against corruption to start with the Guyana Police Force, which was described as the most corrupt organization in the country.

In declaring what he described as an amnesty, Brumell who was presiding at his first anniversary celebration as the nation’s top lawman, acknowledged that there is need for much work to be done to repair the damaged image of the force in terms of its integrity.

“By Monday, if you cannot stop besmirching the image of this force, bring in your resignation. We want this stigma removed,” Brumell told a gathering of close to 1000 ranks and civilians at the Tactical Services Unit (TSU) Drill Square.

Yesterday’s parade was one of the largest seen in years, with 28 units and three bands, made up of 33 Officers, 32 Inspectors and 883 other ranks.

Police Scout groups from Linden, Agricola and Mahaicony, in addition to members of the Community and Neighbourhood Policing groups, were all part of the parade.

So impressive were the turnout and display that judges of the parade were hard pressed to separate the various units vying for the

top prize.

In the end it was the slicklooking Tactical Services Unit and the Felix Austin Police College (Georgetown) who captured the top male and female prizes respectively.

The TSU also carted off the best overall unit trophy.

“When I saw the turnout today, I must say that I am proud to be a part of this as the Acting Commissioner of Police” Brumell said.

He commended his Divisional Commanders for the work they have been doing to reduce crime and traffic lawlessness. However, he stated that every crime and every accident is one too many.

Brumell said that he welcomes criticisms of the force, which according to him, will always be directed at the Guyana Police Force, especially if attitudes within the organization do not change.

He referred to the way some ranks speak to members of the public, even in the presence of their supervisors.

“We have upgraded buildings and our attitudes must be upgraded to match those buildings,” Brumell declared.

The Force’s anniversary celebrations will continue with a Night of Boxing on Friday, July 13, at the TSU Drill Square, Police Headquarters.

The much anticipated Awards Ceremony will take place on Friday, July 20, also at the Drill Square, where police ranks, members of Community Policing Groups and Neighbourhood Policing Groups, will receive Awards/ Incentives for outstanding work performance. The force will remember its ranks who were killed in the line of duty at a special wreath-laying

Commissioner of Police (ag) Leroy Brumell takes the salute during the Force’s 173rd anniversary route march through the city.

Police Officers salute Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee outside the Ministry’s Brickdam office yesterday.

Ceremony at the Force’s Monument for Fallen Heroes on Sunday, July 22.

The anniversary events will continue with a Handgun Shooting Competition on Thursday, July 26, at the TSU mini-range, while there will be

a Scouts Day at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary, on Sunday, July 29.

The Force’s Annual Athletics Championships, which will be held between July 24 and 27 at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve

Leary, are also part of the anniversary celebrations.

In addition, the Force will be holding several other events which fall under the ambit of its Anniversary celebrations, but which will be conducted in subsequent

months.

These include a number of Gymkhanas in the Policing Divisions, the Force Drill Competition, the Force First Aid Competition, Debating Competition and Essay Competition.

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My column

Silence is not golden for the government The attacks against the government are unending and apparently unceasing. It would seem that the last days of President Bharrat Jagdeo sparked these attacks. Indeed he pursued the development of the country with a vengeance, undertaking a number of projects with the assistance of the Chinese Government.

I still remember President Desmond Hoyte being restrained from undertaking any project in the run-up to the elections. US President Jimmy Carter had been involved in those 1992 elections.

The then opposition PPP had mounted a vigorous campaign against the PNC Government, accusing it of rigging and creating a situation akin to apartheid where a minority was ruling a majority.

Hoyte also had plans for Guyana. He had just divested the Guyana Te l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s Corporation (now Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company). He had brought Omai Gold Mines, Barama Company Limited, and he had secured loans to reconstruct the Soesdyke/Linden Highway and the Essequibo road project.

However, the then political opposition was accusing his government of corruption, and it lobbied successfully for a halt to all financing. It was certain that it would win the elections.

The international community did halt funding until after the elections.

President Cheddi Jagan came in and he reviewed all the contracts that Hoyte had negotiated. He found that they were all above board and it took every ounce of media pressure to get him to acknowledge that there was nothing corrupt about the deals.

There was a bit of a flurry of noise when the government found out that GT&T had funded a trip to South Africa by the now former President Desmond Hoyte. One of the most strident voices to protest the allocation of a petty sum of money was Moses Nagamootoo.

Fast forward to today. The Chinese have come and they have repeatedly funded trips for Government officials and there has not been a squeak.

Similarly, if they were to fund visits by any member of the opposition there will be a lot of noise. Such is the nature of the local politics. There seems to be a marked dislike for each other.

Anyhow, the issue at hand is the undertaking of projects in the run-up to

elections. Bharrat Jagdeo entered into many contracts and attracted the criticisms that now dominate the political landscape.

I remember talking to him about the pre-election contracts, and he simply said that national development cannot be stalled for elections.

It would have been interesting to see what the new government would have done had the PPP lost the elections. Surely with the brouhaha there might have been a review of the contracts.

And although the incumbent remains, there are calls for these contracts to be reviewed. The argument is that they are too high priced; that somewhere along the way there have been kickbacks.

I am not one to make accusations readily. I try to investigate, and although information is often difficult to come by in this electronic age, one can get a reasonable idea of what a project should cost. There has not been too much investigation by the media, with the result that accusations are made on whims and fancies.

Under pressure, the Donald Ramotar administration released details of some of the contracts with a view to easing the criticisms, but the pressure did not lessen. The international contractors eventually got involved and they answered as many questions as they could. For the first time the locals were able to actually threaten the projects.

Of interest is that as soon as the answers are provided the rhetoric ceases. There is no more hostility, at least not yet, against the Amaila Falls hydro project. And pretty soon the noise surrounding the expanded Cheddi Jagan International Airport will subside.

The big question is would the government not take the nation into its confidence? If only the government can talk to the people, then a lot of the tension that exists now will not be there.

Governments are known to inform their people of their plans; there is transparency because governments know that people are fickle, and it would not take much to get them riled.

There is another thing at this stage and that is the focus on corruption. From the look of things, the PPP government is emerging as the most corrupt.

It all started with the contractors. A simple look found that they were shortchanging the nation; they were doing slipshod

work and collecting top dollars.

When this came to the fore the government did nothing. I was not aware that any contractor was blacklisted. This is what prompted the spotlight on the government itself.

Today, there is Donald Ramotar. He is not being given

a chance because he has stepped into Jagdeo’s shadow. Had I been in his shoes I would have sacked some of his public relations people. They are the ones who should be providing answers to the queries.

Instead they pen vituperative assaults against the critics of the government.

I may still live to see the day when the government does get a proper public relations unit going and perhaps, only then will the strident cries that we hear today die. A limited public relations response did set the records straight in the case of the wife of Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh.

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We, too, have our work cut out

By Khemraj Ramjattan AFC Chairman I wish to publicly apologise to the many supporters, members, and the public at large who rightly felt frustrated and angry at the absence of Trevor Williams at the Public Accounts Committee meeting of June 25th. Indeed he should have made better arrangements, notwithstanding his work commitments, to find himself out of the Essequibo River and at that very important meeting.

The young man is definitely tormented by this faux pas and has been contrite after the verbal chastisement he got from the AFC’s Management Committee last Monday. Our leadership impressed upon him and all MPs the critical positions they hold and the trust placed upon them by the people of Guyana.

I am confident that Mr. Williams will not ever see any recurrence of the sort, and will represent the AFC and the people of Guyana as best as he could. Here is a hope that

he develops into a fine parliamentarian.

But I must say that this instance reveals how pressured life is for the Opposition Parliamentarians.

We have to be there always and all times in the Committees and in the larger Assembly. This wolf-pack, the PPP, is going to hound you down at every opportunity and ensure that an advantage is taken at your absence.

And the pressure will be all the more on the AFC members when work in the sector committees begin. This is so because there is no alternate granted to it.

Alternates were granted only to the PPP and APNU. An alternate is that named person who is entitled to attend and vote at meetings in these Committees when a substantive member from the PPP and/or APNU is absent.

Though myself and Sheila Holder in the last Parliament fought hard to change the rules to get an alternate for the AFC, realizing that there will be occasions when for good reasons the substantive

member will be absent, both the PNC and PPP denied us that change. At that time we were told that the AFC will not be in existence after the next elections, and so the rules must not be changed just at a party’s request.

Well the AFC is here to stay. And we will have to change it this time, and I am hoping that APNU now will shed the thinking of the PNC then. It is APNU who will have to support the AFC on this issue, as I fear the PPP never will.

I wish to point out that the process which transpired in the Committee Room of the PAC on 25th June 2012, was riddled with mis-advice, which then realized an improper approval of the request sought by the Audit Office.

Pressure was brought to bear by the four PPP members, and especially Ms. Gail Teixeira, on the four APNU members that the Chairman, Mr. Carl Greenidge, did not have an original vote. There is every indication that the Clerk to the Committee meekly submitted too. That Mr. Greenidge was not allowed to vote was as

demeaning as the advice was erroneous.

I have given an opinion to my Party on the issue and I want to restate some points therein.

The Public Accounts Committee, PAC, is a Standing Committee of Parliament and not a Select Committee. The PAC was created by Standing Order 80, and by Rule 5, thereof every member of this Committee “shall have the right to vote therein.” Indeed, there is a proviso stating that unless the vote is otherwise taken away by these Standing Orders, this entitlement to vote will remain in every member. Nowhere in the Standing Orders is this original vote of each and every member of the PAC, and hence Mr. Greenidge’s was taken away!

The mischief however was done by PPP members misapplying a Rule under a different Standing Order which is applicable only to Select Committees, namely, Standing Order 102 Rule (3) which indeed provides for no original vote for the Chairperson, but gives him a casting vote in the event of an equality of votes.

The Select Committees which this Rule applies to include the Standing Orders Committee, Committee of Privileges, Statutory Instruments, Assembly Committee, and those Special Select Committees set up under Standing Order 93.

This Rule disentitling the Chairperson of Select Committees has no

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application to Standing Committees which are distinct and separate committees.

Standing Committees include the Committee of Selection, the Public Accounts, Committee of Appointments, Parliamentary Management Committee, and all the Sectoral Committees.

The limited application of Standing Order 102 can be discerned by its actual title and words: “Divisions in Select Committees”. It never said Standing Committees.

This misapplication of the law and norms by the PPP members to squeeze an advantage, the AFC sees happening elsewhere, even our High Court.

It means that the Opposition, which fought hard for the 4-4-1 arrangement, will see its 4 in these Standing Committees really mean 3! This absurdity I never contemplated, and I rather suspect neither did right-thinking members of Parliament!

What this means is that the members of the PAC and

moreover its Chairperson, acted upon a mistake if not a blatant misrepresentation, and thus got misled; which ought to thus vitiate the decision of the PAC. Its 4 PPP votes for and 3 APNU votes against on the appointments of managers and Directors were thus not proper, or legitimate or valid. It should be recalled and the matter wholly reviewed. The process was infected with an illegality. Hence, the final product, namely the approvals sought by the Acting Auditor General, must per force of logic and commonsense, be contaminated. And hence void and invalid.

Moreover, the main issue of the conflict of interest arising has not been addressed. A matter as important as this, with constitutional and ethical implications, ought not to have been the subject of a PAC vote as engineered by the PPP representative in the absence of the full committee of the PAC.

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Halt to new river mining licences…

Severe threats to livelihoods, environment prompted decision - Govt.

Constant complaints by Amerindians and other groups led to government’s decision to halt the issuance of any new mining permits for river claims.

According to Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud, there are several health and other environmental risks associated with river mining, and hinterland riverain communities are also under threat facing a loss of livelihood.

Many communities also depend on the waterways for food and even for drinking water.

While the almost 4,000 river mining operations will continue to be allowed, there will be increased monitoring, the official said in a press conference on Friday.

River mining activities are currently being conducted in Regions 1, 7, 8 and 9.

Under regulations, mining claims can be made for land and river or in the tributaries.

Government on Thursday

said that the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has been overwhelmed by reports from a wide cross-section of stakeholders, of damage caused by increasingly irresponsible mining in Guyana’s rivers and tributaries.

As such, in a review of the measures being taken in the mining sector to crack down on illegal mining, the environmental aspects of mining were also thoroughly examined.

“As a consequence of the reports, and a review of the far reaching negative impacts of river mining, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, through the GGMC, took the position of not accepting any new applications for river claims until further notice and consultation, especially, with Amerindians and riverain communities.”

There was widespread damage to the river banks which cannot be reclaimed within a short period and

which will usually take several years to mitigate.

Some of the negative effects also include the widening of the river channel and weakening of soil at river banks resulting in toppling of trees into the river course.

Blockages and changes to the main river channels result in un navigable channels in the dry seasons. This has implications for navigation and safety on the waterways, the Ministry said.

There were also “complaints from communities downstream of active river dredge operations, highlighting their inability to undertake subsistence fishing and hunting, washing and bathing and to access potable water in proximity to settlements.”

There were fish deaths, too, and unsightly and huge sand and gravel islands created in the river resulting in restriction of water flow and flooding upstream.

According to the Ministry, there is a review of

A river dredge in operation current fees and fines associated with environmental degradation.

“Studies are also being done to determine the extent of the environmental damage done by river mining and especially by the sophisticated river dredges, many of which are operating

on a 24- hour basis.”

Due to high prices of gold in recent years, there has been a rush to Guyana’s gold fields.

Last year, since the departure of Omai Gold Mines, Guyana recorded its highest declarations.

This year, government’s

target is in line to surpass even last year’s with 187,000 ounces already declared or 8% above projections.

Government has recently announced a crackdown in illegal mining, conducting raids to several mining camps and ordering Brazilians to get registered or face arrests.

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The Turnip-tailed Gecko (Thecadactylus rapicauda)

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he Turnip-tailed g e c k o (Thecadactylus rapicauda) is a species of gecko widely distributed from Mexico southward through Central America and into South America as far south as Brazil, and on many is lands in the Les s er Antilles.

It is a large gecko, reaching a length of 120 millimetres from snout-tovent. Its colour varies from pale to dark gray to deep orange. Individuals can also change colour. It can vocalize a series of chirps, which it mainly does while active at night. Its name comes from its swollen tail, which is used to store fat. It also waves its tail as a sign of aggression, and can shed its

tail to distract predators.

Thecadactylus rapicauda can be distinguished from all other Panamanian geckos by a thick conical tail (turnip shaped), large size, and wide head.

The limbs are robust and digits are strongly flattened and expanded. The toes are connected by a basal webbing with the distal twothirds of the digits free.

A double series of large subdigital scales (lamellae) extend the length of each digit and form friction pads.

The split tip of each pad contains a retractile claw.

Males have 1 to 3 postnatal spurs on each side.

The large eyes have vertical elliptical pupils and no eyelids. There are 4 to 5 spine-like scales on the

upper rear margin of the eye.

The dorsum is covered in granular scales and the venter has small, flat, imbricate (overlapping) scales.

Capable of changing colour, the ground colour may be dorsally dark or light gray-brown to yellowish with dark brown markings in the form of cross-bands.

The venter may be cream to white and may be mottled with brown pigment. The labial scales are white with black edges. The tongue is blue, while the interior of the mouth is orange. The regenerated tail has typical (turnip) shape: swollen and wider than the base of the tail.

The adult snout vent length is 90-126 mm. The

lamellae on the feet of this gecko allow it to climb even apparently smooth surfaces, like glass.

Primarily nocturnal, this arboreal gecko occurs in primary and secondary wet, moist, and dry forests in trees up to 20 metres.

It may be found in open areas with scattered trees, or on man-made structures adjacent to forests. Its diet consists of small invertebrates including grasshoppers, beetles and scorpions. T. rapicauda has a vocalization of high pitched “chick” repeated in rapid succession 15-25 times. In the daytime, this gecko may be found under dead palm fronds, bark crevices, or in vine tangles.

It has been observed

when sleeping, in a coiled position, possibly mimicking (and looking quite like) a small viper.

These geckos are oviparous. A clutch consisting of two eggs, laid separately (possibly days apart) can be found under a

tree bark or in tree trunks during the dry season. While its conservation status is not known it has been noted that habitat destruction threatens reptiles worldwide.

(Source: Wikipedia – The Free Online Encyclopedia)

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This is no time for a weaker Caribbean Community

By Sir Ronald Sanders

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t the opening of t h e 3 3 r d Conference of the 15-Nation Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), the incoming Chairman, St Lucia's Prime Minister, Kenny Anthony, called on governments of the region to “develop a common policy and programme for engagement with new and emerging global partners”.

The words “common policy” are especially significant, and it has to be assumed that he did not use them lightly.

As small, vulnerable countries, lacking in military capacity or economic clout, effective diplomacy is the best tool available to them.

And, while, from time to time, these small countries have scored impressive diplomatic victories in the international community, they have been most successful when they have adopted common policies and pursued them jointly.

The St Lucia Prime Minister was also careful in stating that the terms of engagement with new and emerging global partners “must be defined by our strategic interests”.

Again, it is assumed that by the use of the word “our” in this context, the Prime Minister meant the collective strategic interest of all CARICOM countries, and not just the interests of individual nations. Where

individual interests have been pursued in the past, only short term objectives have been served, and individual countries have found themselves subject to the dictates of external forces over the longer period.

While, even as a collective, the small size of CARICOM countries and their markets do not make them powerful, they are able to bargain more strongly together than they can individually.

That was the lesson of the Lomé and Cotonou agreements signed with the European Union (EU). In negotiating those agreements, Caribbean countries worked in lockstep with the countries of Africa and the Pacific – something that it did not manage to achieve in the more recent negotiations with the EU for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).

Prime Minister Anthony expressed the hope that the CARICOM countries would d e d i c a t e t h e i r e ff o r t s “towards a dynamic and outward stance of engagement with third states, particularly with Africa, Latin America and other emerging economic regions”.

He was right to do so, for the two regions offer both diplomatic and economic opportunities if they are pursued in the context of an overall CARICOM plan.

He did not mention by

name the most important region – Asia – where two large developing countries, China and India, have emerged as global economic players.

This may be because he is conscious that CARICOM countries have no “common policy” with regard to China and Taiwan, since five of them (including his own) are tied to Taiwan and nine to China (the 15th CARICOM country, Montserrat, is a British colony with no authority for foreign policy).

This particular issue is not likely to be settled any time soon. The countries that are tied to Taiwan are dependent on the Taiwanese government for much needed financing and infrastructural development, and unless an arrangement could be worked out in advance by which China assumes the Taiwanese undertakings on similar or better terms, they will resist change.

This means that CARICOM will be unable to develop a long-term, predictable arrangement with China covering economic, political, cultural and scientific relations.

One solution to the problem would be for CARICOM to agree to a parallel track approach to Asia, with all of them collectively developing relations with India, while relations with China and Ta i w a n a r e p u r s u e d separately by the nine and

five countries with coordination of their activities by the CARICOM Secretariat. The fly in this ointment is that China and Taiwan might not agree.

But, China is now too crucially important a global player not to be fully engaged by CARICOM countries. Something has to be done to break this lockjam, and soon.

As Prime Minister Anthony emphasized: “This is not the time for a weaker Community”.

He has identified the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group and the Commonwealth as two fora where CARICOM countries can enhance their global reach and relevance.

He is right. But, the task will require a well-thought out vision and strategy, and its implementation will need joint machinery including joint overseas diplomatic missions, directed by an engaged Ministerial council.

The strength and purposefulness of the Community is about to be tested by the European Union (EU) which, through the European Commission, has indicated that it may take as many as eight Caribbean countries to arbitration under the EPA signed in 2 0 0 8 f o r n o n implementation of tariff cuts on EU goods entering their markets.

It is safe ground to say that the EU can determine that the failure to make the

tariff cuts constitutes a dispute and, therefore, can take the matter to arbitration.

The EPA does provide for a consultation process, and no doubt this will be invoked by the EU with each of the eight countries.

While Jamaica has been identified by the EU as one of the eight countries, the others are yet to be officially named. Reliable sources indicate that Suriname is among the remaining seven.

But, consultations will not necessarily lead to leniency by the EU. Indeed, because of their concern about on-going negotiations with some African countries for EPAs, the EU is most unlikely to want to give any quarter lest it serve as a precedent for the bigger African countries whose markets are more significant to Europe.

It is important to recall that each of the eight Caribbean countries will have to engage the EU, through the European Commission, on their own since the EPA was signed between the 27-nation EU collectively and the Caribbean countries individually. Some of them will not have the resources to represent themselves in the consultations, and certainly will find arbitration proceedings prohibitively expensive.

A strong Caribbean community would establish joint machinery to support each of the 8 countries in the

Sir Ronald Sanders consultation process to avoid arbitration. It would also assemble the means now to effectively review the EPA in October 2013 (and not early 2013 as I inadvertently stated in my last commentary) to make it realistic in present conditions, and fairer.

(The writer is a Consultant and former Caribbean diplomat) Responses and previous c o m m e n t a r i e s : www.sirronaldsanders.com

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Taiwan President promises to redouble his anti-corruption efforts (Taipei Times) Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday urged top government officials to reinforce anti-corruption measures in the wake of the allegations involving former Cabinet secretary-general Lin Yi-shih, and instructed government ethics agencies to conduct thorough background checks on new personnel and ensure their integrity.

Speaking at an integrity forum organized by the Ministry of Justice’s Agency Against Corruption, Ma described the scandal as a humiliation for the administration and vowed to

regain the public’s trust with a renewed determination to combat corruption.

“I was shocked and saddened to learn about Lin’s corruption case, but what’s important is for us to show determination and take actions to defend our integrity ... Faced with possible corruption cases, government officials must take the initiative to uncover the truth, deal with the case immediately and cooperate with investigators,” he said at Taipei’s Foreign Service Institute.

He said he expected the executive branch to learn from Lin’s case and regain the

public’s confidence by reinforcing anti-corruption measures, including establishing a transparency mechanism for lobbying.

As most government officials at the forum mentioned the issue of legislators’ lobbying during the forum, Ma said he agreed that the government should establish a lobbying mechanism to systematize the process and make it transparent, with the aim of holding responsible parties accountable if corruption cases arise with links to lobbying. He also instructed the Executive Yuan to finish designing the mechanism

within two months.

“Lin’s corruption case did damage the administration’s reputation, but we should take it as an opportunity to think about ways to regain public’s trust. I expect the forum to be the beginning of more efforts to combat corruption because building a clean government remains our goal,” he said, while acknowledging that he could not “guarantee 100 percent” that all officials in his administration would be free of corruption even with the measures in place.

Premier Sean Chen said poor implementation of the Lobbying Act added to the difficulty of eradicating corruption and he promised to strengthen efforts to implement the law.

Quoting former US president James Madison, Chen said: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” as he stressed the importance of auditing systems in combating bribery.

The forum was the Ma administration’s latest attempt to repair the damage caused by the scandal.

A total of 52 top-level government officials, including Ma and Vice President Wu Den-yih, attended the two-hour event.

Issues addressed during the forum included preventive measures against corruption, reinforcing the function of government ethics agencies and crisishandling skills in response to corruption allegations.

Discussions were also

held on the government’s handling of the Lin case, in which Lin is accused of accepting NT$63 million (US$2.1 million) in bribes from a businessman to help him secure a contract from a subsidiary of China Steel Corp.

The corruption scandal has sent Ma’s already weak support to a new low, as the latest poll released by TVBS last week showed that Ma’s approval rating dropped to 15 percent after the scandal broke out late last month.

Vice Premier Jiang Yi-huah dismissed criticisms of the government’s crisis-handling skills in the Lin scandal and presented a document to demonstrate that Lin did not interfere with the personnel appointment in China Steel.

Latin Am, Caribbean officials meet to review region’s fight against hunger Representatives of governments throughout Latin America and the Caribbean will meet in Guyana at the International Convention Centre, between 12 and 14 July, to review the progress in the region in the fight against hunger and the new challenges of the Hunger Free Latin America and the Caribbean Initiative 2025, which seeks to eradicate malnutrition in the region.

The Initiative, which was adopted in 2006, is a commitment by countries in the region to end hunger by 2025. The Working Group meeting of the Initiative (GT 2025), is an annual event in which governments analyze the progress and remaining challenges of this commitment.

The Initiative is supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO. The FAO Regional Representative, Jose Benitez, stressed the importance of this commitment to the region: “One of the first things required to eradicate hunger is political will. There must be a joint effort by all countries, since it is a multidimensional problem, which does not respect national borders.”

José Graziano da Silva, Director General of FAO, noted that Latin America and the Caribbean was the first region to adopt the objective of eradicating hunger through the Initiative: “Regional food insecurity has its origins in a problem of access to food. For this reason, hunger can and must be eradicated,” he said.

Benitez said governments in the region have made significant progress, strengthening

their social safety nets, especially with cash transfer and school feeding programs and support to small farmers. He also highlighted the significant progress that has been in terms of the legal recognition of the right to food, through the Parliamentary Front Against Hunger, which is driven and supported by the Initiative.

The meeting of the GT 2025 in Guyana will be attended by parliamentarians, representatives of international organizations, regional integration organizations, International cooperation agencies and civil Society.

RIGHT TO FOOD AND FOOD SECURITY The FAO project to support the Hunger Free Latin America and the Caribbean Initiative has been crucial for achievements such as the creation of nine Parliamentary Fronts against Hunger (Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Dominican Republic, Uruguay) and the formation of the Right to Food Observatory in Latin America and the Caribbean.

FAO has assisted countries in the development, implementation and evaluation of legislation and policies relating to food and nutrition security. An example is the support given by FAO to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in the preparation of the CARICOM Regional Food Security and Nutrition Policy Action Plan.

This work of the Initiative has been a critical input in more than 30 FAO projects which have been financed by the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Fund and the SpainFAO Programme.

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From page 20 and the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA).

Benn insisted that sole tendering, the method by which CHEC was awarded the contract, is not illegal and allowed for in law.

Change, instituted budget cuts, which triggered a financial probe at NCN. According to Greenidge, there is enough for there to be a prosecution of the two men implicated in the NCN scandal thus far.

FARMER’S DISEMBOWELLED BODY FOUND IN SHALLOW GRAVE

THURSDAY EDITION

For the second time in less than a week, police on the East Coast of Demerara have dug up the body of a murdered individual from a shallow grave.

This time it is in the village of Foulis, where the badly mutilated body of 51-year-old Gangaram Bharat called ‘Gumpy’ was pulled from a three feet deep grave at the back of a yard in 14th Street.

The discovery was made Tuesday around 17:00 hours by ranks from the Enmore Police Outpost, who had accompanied the dead man’s sister, Eunice Joe-Samuels, to the house.

Bharat’s body bore marks of a savage killing with several chops visible on both feet while he appeared to have been disembowelled.

SATTAUR, GOOLSARRAN SHOULD BE PROSECUTED “The slap on the wrist handed to the National Communications Networks (NCN) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mohamed ‘Fuzzy’ Sattaur (now resigned) and its Programme Manager Martin Goolsarran (suspended) in the face of glaring financial irregularities, aptly demonstrates an unacceptable level of financial irregularities and criminal activity.”

This assertion was expressed by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU)’s Carl Greenidge, whose party along with the Alliance For

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BODY BURIEDAFTER ATTEMPT TO BURN IT FAILED A Foulis, East Coast Demerara man has provided police investigators with details of how he tried to burn the body of 51-year-old Gangaram Bharat before burying it in a shallow grave in his 14th Street backyard.

The man, Joel Persaud, was captured Wednesday afternoon at Hampshire, Corentyne, where he and his wife had fled on Tuesday, a day before the decomposing body of Bharat was pulled from a three-foot deep grave.

Persaud reportedly confessed to bludgeoning Bharat with a sledgehammer following a row over alcohol.

He was apprehended when he tried to collect $30,000 from his mother to enable him to flee to neighbouring Suriname.

Kaieteur News understands that the suspect had contacted his mother and requested that she bring the money to Berbice where he and his wife were hiding out.

But instead of taking the money to her son, the woman contacted the police and a plan was hatched to capture him.

Accompanied by police ranks the woman travelled to the Corentyne where she identified her son and his wife who were waiting patiently for the cash.

MAZARUNI PRISON ESCAPEES RECAPTURED Two prisoners who had escaped from the Mazaruni Prison on Sunday had their

freedom cut short after three days, by members of the joint services.

The men, Sean Hopkinson and Carlton Sampson, were recaptured hours apart on Wednesday near Sherima, Essequibo River, about 23 miles from the prison.

The men had scaled the fence of the interior penitentiary and managed to remain at large despite a massive manhunt which was launched hours after the escape by ranks from the Police Force and Army as well as prison authorities.

Police in a statement Wednesday said that “about 11:30 hours yesterday, Seon Hopkinson was recaptured in a swampy area at Sherima, Essequibo River; while Carlton Sampson was later recaptured in the same area about 15:15 hours by the Joint Services.”

COME CLEAN ON AIRPORT CONTRACT – MOSES NAGAMOOTOO The Alliance for Change (AFC) is insisting that the government comes clean on the US$138M contract to expand the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

AFC Parliamentarian, Moses Nagamootoo, said that the party is not against the Chinese contractor or the involvement of any Chinese firm in infrastructural projects here.

He said that the party has no evidence that the contractor, China Harbour Engineering Corporation (CHEC) is involved in corruption. What the AFC is concerned about is the manner in which the project was handed to CHEC.

He said the AFC has noted the publicity blitz by CHEC seeking to establish its reputation, but he said that the bigger concern is if the project contract was signed in a transparent manner.

FRIDAY EDITION AIRPORT CONTRACTOR HAS MANY MORE QUESTIONS TO ANSWER A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) insists that the contractor China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has a number of outstanding questions to answer in relation to the US$150M Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project.

Speaking to the media yesterday during APNU’s weekly press conference, Joseph Harmon, the coalition’s Shadow Public Works Minister, asserted that the Chinese company “missed an excellent opportunity to clear the air with the Parliamentary Opposition”.

CHEC officials were in Guyana recently to defend several allegations of corruption dogging the firm and its parent company, China Communications and Construction Company (CCCC).

According to Harmon, APNU wanted a “full explanation of the project” so that the concerns of Guyanese citizens could have been raised.

Among these issues include conditions under which Guyana will be granted the massive loan, along with details of the repayment. It should also include details like

interest rates, Harmon stressed.

“China Harbour has not given us a grant… it is a loan, and what we need to know is the what are the terms and conditions of the loan… will the number of passengers in years to come help repay the loan?”

FOULIS SHALLOW GRAVEMURDER ACCUSED REMANDED Clad in three-quarter pants with a checkered shirt and a pair of rubber slippers, a shackled Joel Persaud made his first court appearance, charged with the murder of Gangaram Bharat.

Persaud, 26, was not required to plead to the charge which was read to him by Magistrate Nyasha Williams-Hatmin at the Vi g i l a n c e M a g i s t r a t e ’s Court Thursday.

The police are alleging that between June 28 and July 3, Persaud clubbed Bharat to death and then attempted to burn his body before burying it in a shallow grave in his backyard at 14th Street, Foulis, East Coast Demerara.

The young man who was unrepresented by counsel stood in the dock and stared intermittently at the prosecutor’s desk while the charge was read to him.

SATURDAY EDITION CHINESE REAL ESTATE COMPANY TO INVEST US$2B While a number of international booths are being featured at this year’s

Building Expo, the Suihua Runhui Real Estate Development Company,of China, plans to execute three housing projects in Guyana at a cost of US$2B. According to a representative from the company, they already have the approval from the Chinese Government to go ahead with plans. However; they are awaiting the approval from the Guyana Government.

The official stated that the first project in mind is for the establishment of a modern wood processing plant.

With such an introduction in Guyana this would also provide a number of job opportunities for the locals.

Kaieteur News was further told that the second project is an economic trade cooperation park which will be modern and a “top class community.”

This will be established in Providence, East Bank Demerara.

The third project which is termed a “new life community” entails a focus on a “green environment” or an “eco environment”.

This project is solely focused on using the solar energy so that there will be no pollution or harm to citizens nearby.

“We are also planning to apply for land of a total area of five square kilometres to build a modern industrial park in a modern community. We already got permission and approval from the government of China.

The total construction will be five years and US two billion dollars and employment opportunity will be for 20,000 Guyanese,” said the representative.

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Country profile: OVERVIEW A landlocked country with Turkey to the west and Georgia to the north, Armenia boasts a history longer than most other European countries.

Situated along the route of the Great Silk Road, it has fallen within the orbit of a number of cultural influences and empires.

After independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Armenia quickly became drawn into a bloody conflict with Azerbaijan over the mostly Armenian-speaking region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

One of the earliest Christian civilisations, its first churches were founded in the fourth century. In later centuries, it frequently oscillated between Byzantine, Persian, Mongol or Turkish control, as well as periods of independence.

Its rich cultural and

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President Serge Sarkisian architectural heritage combines elements from different traditions. The Armenian language is part of the Indo-European family, but its alphabet is unique.

Divided between the Persians and Ottomans in the 16th century, eastern Armenian territories became part of the Russian Empire in the early 19th century, while the rest stayed within the Ottoman Empire.

Between 1915 and 1917, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Armenians died at the hands of government troops in the Ottoman Empire.

Yerevan wants Turkey, and the world, to recognize the deaths as genocide, and some countries have done so.

However, Turkey says that there was no genocide and that the dead were victims of World War I, and that ethnic Turks also suffered in the conflict.

The governments of the two countries agreed to normalise relations in October 2009, although Turkey has said opening the border will depend on progress on the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.

An independent Republic of Armenia was proclaimed at the end of the first world war but was short-lived, lasting only until the beginning of the 1920s when the Bolsheviks incorporated it into the Soviet Union.

When Soviet rule

collapsed in 1991, Armenia regained independence but retained a Russian military base at Gyumri.

TERRITORIAL DISPUTE In the mid-1990s the government embarked on an economic reform programme which brought some stability and growth. The country became a member of the Council of Europe in 2001.

Unemployment and poverty remain widespread.

Armenia’s economic problems are aggravated by a trade blockade imposed by neighbouring Turkey and Azerbaijan since the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh.

Despite these problems, Armenia’s economy experienced several years of double-digit growth before a sharp downturn set in in 2008.

The conflict over the predominantly Armenianpopulated region in Azerbaijan overshadowed Armenia’s return to independence.

Full-scale war broke out the same year as ethnic Armenians in Karabakh fought for independence, supported by troops and resources from Armenia proper. A ceasefire in place since 1994 has failed to deliver any lasting solution.

Armenia receives most of its gas supply from Russia and, like some other republics of the former Soviet Union, has had to face sharp price rises. Russian gas arrives via a pipeline running through Georgia.

Armenia has a huge diaspora and has always experienced waves of emigration, but the exodus of recent years has caused real alarm. It is estimated that Armenia has lost up to a quarter of its population since independence, as young families seek what they hope will be a better life abroad.

FACTS Full name: The Republic of Armenia Population: 3.1 million (UN, 2010) Capital: Yerevan Area: 29,743 sq km (11,484 sq miles) Major languages: Armenian, Russian Major religion: Christianity Life expectancy: 71 years (men), 77 years (women) (UN 2010) Monetary unit: 1 dram = 100 lumas Main exports: Processed and unprocessed diamonds, machinery, metal products, foodstuffs GNI per capita: US $3,200 (World Bank, 2010) Internet domain: .am International dialling code: +374 LEADERS President: Sarkisian

Serge

In presidential elections held in February 2008, Prime Minister Serge Sarkisian was declared winner in the first round with 52.9% of the vote.

But thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets to protest the poll, which they say was rigged.

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Mr Sarkisian and Europe’s main election monitoring

body, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), said the vote had mostly met international standards.

Outgoing President and close ally, Robert Kocharian, handpicked the prime minister to succeed him after Sarkisian’s Republican Party swept parliamentary polls in May 2007.

Serge Sarkisian was a Soviet soldier and later worked in the defencecommittee of the selfproclaimed NagornoKarabakh Republic. He was then appointed Armenia’s minister of defence. He had a spell as minister of national security and head of the presidential staff before returning to the defence ministry.

Mr Sarkisian faces the challenge of restarting stalled talks in the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh. He has also pledged to use his time as leader to improve living standards for the Armenian people.

In 2009, he signed signed a historic deal to re-establish diplomatic ties with Turkey, but the pact broke down when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted it depended on Armenia resolving its dispute with Azerbaijan first.

Mr Sarkisian was born in Nagorno-Karabakh in 1954.

MEDIA Television is Armenia’s dominant medium. There are more than 40 private TV stations, operating alongside the two public networks. The main Russian TV channels are widely available.

Few Armenians rely on newspapers as their primary source of news. Print runs are small and most publications are owned by wealthy individuals or political parties.

Censorship is prohibited under a 2004 media law.

However, libel and defamation are punishable by prison terms and journalists have been sentenced under these laws. The authorities use “informal pressure” to control broadcasting outlets, Freedom House said in 2010.

Violence against journalists is a problem, it added.

There were 1.4 million internet users by June 2010 (InternetWorldStats.com).

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You Can Prevent Cervical Cancer! FDA Approves First

By Krista Brooks Nursey and I were talking about how we spent the long CARICOM weekend. I mostly caught up on cleaning and relaxed. Nursey told me she was liming with some friends who work with an organization that helps to lower the number of women with cervical cancer. I was curious, “You can prevent cancer?”

Nursey said “Absolutely! Cervical cancer is very preventable.” I had no idea!

Nursey explained that cervical cancer is when cells in a woman’s cervix grow in a strange way. The cervix is a ring of tissue that is located between the vaginal canal and the uterus. The cervix helps to hold up the uterus and it is the thing that gets bigger or dilates when a woman gives birth to a baby. Almost all cervical cancer or abnormal growth of cervical tissue is caused by HPV or the Human Papilloma Virus. HPV can be spread through sexual contact (semen or vaginal fluid).

There are many different types of HPV, some can cause genital warts or do nothing at all. Many can stay in your

body for years and eventually cause cervical cancer.

Just knowing that cervical cancer can be caused by HPV (a sexually transmitted disease) helps us figure out how to prevent it. First, we can wear condoms or limit our number of sexual partners to try not to get HPV at all. There is no cure for HPV but there is a vaccine that young girls (ages 9-11) can get that prevents getting certain cancer causing types of HPV when they are older. Boys can also be vaccinated, but health centres are focusing on girls right now. There are three injections for the vaccine, so make sure to get all three!

The problem with HPV and early stages of cervical cancer, are that there are no big signs or symptoms if you have it. Some types of HPV can cause small genital warts, but not many. One symptom of cervical cancer can be bleeding when you are not supposed to have it, but this is when the cancer has grown a lot. Not having symptoms makes it hard to know that something is wrong, but luckily women can go to the doctors to get a regular Pap smear. A woman should start

going to get Pap smears when she first becomes sexually active. If she is not sexually active, then she should go once she reaches the age of 20. During a Pap smear, cells from the cervix are swabbed and looked at for abnormal growth. If there is abnormal growth, those cells can be removed and then the woman will follow up with regular Pap smears. There is also something called VIA, Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid.

During VIA, the health professional swabs the cervix with acetic acid (which is actually vinegar!). Cells that are abnormal turn white (no waiting for lab results) and

then the health professional can remove them.

If you go to get your regular Pap smears or VIA, and your health professional finds abnormal cells, they can be removed and your risk to have cervical cancer is very very low. If you don’t go and do have the abnormal cells, they will most likely turn into cervical cancer.

It looks like Nursey gave us three ways to prevent cervical cancer: by practicing safe sex by wearing condoms and limiting number of partners, getting the HPV vaccine, and getting regular Pap smears or VIA. I am so glad she told me about this because it is hard to know the causes of cancer and even harder sometimes to treat it.

Any little thing we can do to prevent it will go a long way.

As Nursey says “you can prevent cervical cancer!” I will be back next week to tell you more interesting things that Nursey says. Until then!

If you have any questions about cervical cancer, or other health issues please email nurseysaysguyana @gmail.com.

Krista Brooks is a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer working with the School of Nursing, which trains Nursing Assistants, Professional Nurses, and Midwifery Students.

At-Home HIV Test

(HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first do-ityourself HIV test that would give people their results in the privacy of their own home.

The test, called OraQuick(R) In-Home HIV Test, involves swabbing the gums, placing the swab into a vial, and then seeing the results within 20 minutes, the agency said in a statement.

The test kit’s approval could herald a new era in HIV prevention, experts say.

The move comes two months after a 17-member FDA advisory panel voted unanimously that the benefits of the test were greater than any possible risks.

OraSure Technologies Inc., which makes the overthe-counter test, already sells a version of it to doctors and other health professionals.

Studies have shown the test was less accurate when used by consumers, but the FDA advisory panel agreed that the benefits of expanding HIV testing still outweighed a small drop in test accuracy.

The test, which looks for signs of HIV in oral fluid, is already used at hospitals and doctors’ offices where medical professionals administer it.

The FDA first approved that

use in 2004.

To take the OraQuick test, people swab their outer gums and put the swab into a vial.

After about 20 minutes, the test device will reveal two reddish-purple lines in a small window if there are signs that the body’s immune system has geared up to battle HIV. The test uses oral fluid, which is not the same as saliva. Its results are considered preliminary, and should be confirmed by a blood test.

OraSure had nearly 5,700 people take the at-home version of the test. The tests found that 114 thought they were HIV-positive; 106 of them actually were. That means that positive results were accurate 93 percent of the time.

Negative results were accurate 99.98 percent of the time, the company said.

Experts have expressed concern for people who learn at home, possibly alone, that they are probably infected with the virus that causes AIDS. In a news release issued Tuesday, Orasure said it expects that the OraQuick test will become available in October at more than 30,000 retail outlets nationwide, as well as online. Orasure has also said that it will offer a 24hour, toll-free number that people can call to get support regarding their test result.

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Look Younger with Facial Treatments Looking younger is an endeavor for which we try various methods and don’t hesitate to shell out money from our purse. Various skin treatments and facial treatments are available that can assist to take off years from your face and skin. Facial treatments can range from a simple facial massage at home to exotic treatments at the spa and beauty parlors.

The objective behind a facial or any facial treatment is to take off the dead skin cells through exfoliation, proper cleansing and toning of the face and massaging to enhance blood circulation.

These further strengthen the facial muscles and tissues underneath thereby rejuvenating and revitalizing the total face value.

FACIALTREATMENTS TO LOOK YOUNGER Facial treatments are anything that you do to take care of your face as a whole which means skin care, proper cleansing, toning, exfoliation and massaging to get rid of fine lines, wrinkles, enhance blood circulation, skin tightening and strengthening the facial muscles and tissues. You can do facial treatments at home using expensive creams and lotions or with herbal and natural products.

Facial treatments can also be done under expert hands at professional places and spas. The choices are many and you can select according to your preference, comfort level and spending capacity. Facial treatments can be done by anybody at any age to look younger, pretty and feel great.

Facial treatments partake to give total care to your facial skin thus enhancing your youth manifold.

TYPES OF FACIALTREATMENTS Though facial treatments can be of various types yet we can try to broadly classify them into three types namely the at-home facial treatments, physician-administered facials and spa and salon facials.

You can cut off a lot of expenses by doing at-home facial treatments. Spa treatment results can be achieved at home also and the results can get better if you can use natural or organic products. You should cleanse and moisturize your skin daily while scrubbing and exfoliation can be done once a week.

You can also do steam treatments at home to open up facial skin pores which reduce blackheads as well. Always use good quality skin care and beauty products, take off makeup completely before going to bed and use a sunscreen while going outdoors during the day time.

Sometimes you can also consider facial treatments that are done medically by physicians. Physicians are experts who can perform various complex treatments or inject collagen, botox or fillers into the skin. These techniques are used to get rid of fine lines, wrinkles and crow feet and the effects can be short term or long term depending upon the specific techniques used.

Spas and salon facial treatments serve the dual purpose of facial treatments and relaxation. If you are looking for an exotic facial treatment and also some pampering to yourself then spas and salons are the right places for you. You get variety of options of facial treatments to choose from that will take care of your special need. Paraffin facials, anti-oxidant facials, aromatherapy facials, acne facials, bio-lift facials, gold facials are some of the unending list of options that you get in spas and salons.

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Born Loser

SMARTEST MAN IN THE WORLD A lawyer, a priest, and a young boy were in a plane that was going to crash, yet they only had 2 parachutes. The lawyer proclaimed that since he was the smartest man on the plane, that he deserved to survive. He took a chute and jumped.

The priest looks and the young boy, and reflecting back on his life, told the young boy to take the last parachute since he had already lived a wonderful and full life.

The boy replied, “You can have the other chute because the smartest man on this plane just jumped out with my bookbag!” ******************** LAST LAUGH A plane was taking off from Kennedy Airport. After it reached a comfortable cruising altitude, the captain made an announcement over the intercom, “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Welcome to Flight Number 293, nonstop from New York to Los Angeles. The weather ahead is good and therefore we should have a smooth and uneventful flight. Now sit back and relax—OH MY...!”

Then silence.

Soon, the captain came back on the intercom and said, “Ladies and Gentlemen, I am so sorry if I scared you earlier but while I was talking, the flight-attendant brought me a cup of very hot coffee and she spilled it in my lap. You should see the front of my pants!”

A passenger in Coach said, “That’s nothing. He should see the back of mine!” ******************** THREE AUSSIES ON A TRAIN Three Kiwis and three Aussies are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three Aussies each buy tickets and watch as the three Kiwis buy only a single ticket. “How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?” asks an Aussie.

“Watch and you’ll see,” answers a Kiwi.

They all board the train. The Aussies take their respective seats but all three Kiwis cram into a bathroom and close the door behind them.

Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the bathroom door and says,”Ticket, please.” The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand.

The conductor takes it and moves on.

The Aussies see this and agree it was quite a clever idea. So after the conference, the Aussies decide to copy the Kiwis on the return trip and save some money (being clever with money,and all that). When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the Kiwis don’t buy a ticket at all.

“How are you going to travel without a ticket?” says one perplexed Aussie. Watch and you’ll see,” answers a kiwi. When they board the train the three Aussies cram into a bathroom and the three Kiwis cram into another one nearby. The train departs. Shortly afterward, one of the Kiwis leaves his bathroom and walks over to the bathroom where the Aussies are hiding.

He knocks on the door and says, “Ticket, please.”

Garfield

Non Sequitur

Peanuts

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H O B B I E S: Dancing, listening to music, and travelling.

NAME: Isabella Elizebeth Edwards AGE: 15 A D D R E S S : 53 Block ‘CC’, Mon Repos, E.C.D., Guyana H O B B I E S : Reading novels, travelling, indoor and outdoor activities.

NAME: Ravindra Mangal

aka Ryan AGE: 15 ADDRESS: 5 Plantation Rose Hall, East Canje, Berbice.

H O B B I E S : Reading novels, bike riding and indoor and outdoor activities.

N A M E : Ariel Kimberly Jess AGE: 15 ADDRESS: 14 Mon Repos Railway Line, E.C.D., Guyana H O B B I E S : Listening to music, dancing and travelling.

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BK Int’l clashes with Govt. over dump site payments - Government's Project Manager G recommends funds be withheld

By Rabindra Rooplall

overnment and Contractor BK International clashed over the management and operation of the Haags Bosch Sanitary Landfill, resulting in the contracting company threatening to suspend services if it is not paid the US$121,866 owed to them.

These issues were ventilated at a press conference at the Landfill Site at Eccles, East Bank Demerara yesterday. In attendance were Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud, Minister in the Ministry of Finance Juan Edghill, Minister within the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development Norman W h i t t a k e r, M a n a g i n g Director of BK International Brian Tiwarie and other stakeholders.

The Georgetown Solid Wa s t e M a n a g e m e n t Programme is being funded with $4B under the Government of Guyana and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Programme Execution Unit.

The first cell at the Haags Bosch landfill site was officially opened in February 2011.

The site has four cells; each with an area of 6.5 hectares (16 acres). Each cell has the capacity to accommodate garbage for a period of 10 years from locations stretching from Timehri, East Bank Demerara to Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara.

This will cater for 15 Neighbourhood Democratic Councils and the City of Georgetown. It is currently receiving and disposing waste at an average rate of over 325 tonnes per day.

The landfill site opens from 7:00 hrs each day and closes at 17:00hrs daily. This can extend depending on request made and the closing hours extended to 21:00hrs in December.

BK International was contracted in 2010 to construct the Haags Bosch Sanitary Landfill and to operate the facility.

According to BK's Project Manager, Lloyd Stanton, the Haags Bosch Landfill was designed to accommodate 250 tons of garbage waste per day but already the facility has to dispose of as much as 600 tonnes per day at peak

because of incomplete works

The first cell at the Haags Bosch landfill site being used by two trucks periods, and generally averaging just under 400 tons per day.

He explained that this has hugely increased the scope of work for which the facility was designed and contracted to operate.

However, the company is being paid a significantly reduced rate for handling the additional tonnage.

“I should point out that the original design for the Landfill did not provide for hazardous waste disposal and, as yet, the client's Project Manager, Walter Willis, has not approved a design for the construction of the hazardous waste cell,” BK's Project Manager Lloyd Stanton.

In keeping with the contract, the sum of US$1M was assigned for the purchase of specific equipment to be used for 10 years before it is handed over to the Government of Guyana, He said to date this has not been done and the matter is still engaging the attention of the Attorney General's Office.

He underscored that at present the site is only able to accept domestic, commercial, markets, green, construction and demolition waste, along with hazardous waste confined to medical and abattoir hazardous waste.

Dangerous chemicals, lead and asbestos waste cannot be accommodated.

“We are also still to receive approved drawings from the client for the

construction of the leachate (liquid waste in landfill) and compositing areas. We continue to face a number of serious challenges with regard to completing the construction of the project, which arose from the very beginning of the project being inadequately designed,” Stanton explained He said that another major delay still affecting the project is a decision on the part of the employer on the use of “A” stone instead of sand as the ballast layer.

BK's Project Manager explained that the Contractor's Environmental Engineer, Ms. Marie Dalsan, has recommended stone because of better percolation of the leachate material.

The use of sand will cause clogging and will prevent the free flow of leachate resulting in fouling and environmental distress.

Noting that the Government has since approved the “A” aggregate for use as the ballast layer, BK's Project Manager said they are still to receive approval from the Project Manager to proceed with the placement of this material.

Underscoring that the project has been subject to ongoing design changes resulting in continuous delays, dependent upon the approval of the client's Project Manager before the changes can be implemented, Stanton said the contracted company cannot build anything until

the client's Project Manager approves the design changes.

“In spite of these challenges to the satisfactory completion of the construction and the resultant operational shortcomings, BK managed to have the site operational to meet a deadline set by the client.

“In fact, as we speak, the client has withheld all operation payments for over six months on the entirely e r r o n e o u s a n d unsubstantiated claim by the Project Manager that the minimum compaction requirements of 600 kilogram per cubic metre (kgm3) are not being met.

The contractor, however, in the presence of the client's representatives, has calculated that a compaction of some 800 kgm3 is in place, which is well over the required minimum,” Stanton noted.

However, according to documents, Government's Project Manager, Walter Willis claimed that due to Non Compliances pertaining to the project no payment should be approved by the Bank (IDB) It was noted that the non compliances include; Clay cover to open face of land fill not done on a daily basis, Wheel wash area not functional, Contractor has not built composting area to date, Internal roads not maintained, Notice Board to be relocated to new main gate, Dust control not being done, Pumping quantities for

Leachate not recorded, Cleaning of public access road to site not done, Evidence of BKI personnel lighting fires on site as a vector control, Vector and Vermin control not done as required, Warning sign for current Leachate holding pond not in place, Regular maintenance not being

carried out for buildings and structures and a number of directional signs are currently not in place.

According to the three Ministers at the event, issues pertaining to payments and the development of the Landfill will be dealt with while taking the necessary steps will be implemented.

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Another good year for Enterprise Primary School - physically challenged girl among top Grade Six performers

W

hile many are pulling out all the stops to have their children attend special schools in and around the city, the little known Enterprise Primary School on the East Coast of Demerara continues to blaze the trail with another outstanding Grade Six Assessment overall result.

This year the school has produced 33 students who gained places at the country's top secondary schools, with one top 100 placement.

Vishwanauth Persaud, with 530 marks, was the school's top performer, earning a place at the country's premier secondary institution, Queen's College.

The second best performer was Anurada Sukhram who gained a place at Bishop's High School with 521 marks.

Three students gained places at the St. Stanislaus, while St Roses and St. Joseph's High School will both welcome three more students each from Enterprise.

Five students gained places at President's College and a further 18 will attend the Annandale Secondary School.

Among the school's top performers is Rajni Persaud, a physically challenged girl who scored 507 marks to earn a place at the St. Joseph's High School.

For their outstanding performances, the students were presented with cash awards by the Enterprise Support Group, USA Inc. The US-based group is made up of former residents of Enterprise who have been rewarding students who by virtue of their performance have been keeping the Enterprise Primary School flag flying high.

This year they have increased the award to $200,000 with the top performer receiving $20,000.

“The main purpose of this group is to raise funds and help the underprivileged people in the community,” said Videsh Lall, a member of the group's local steering committee.

He said that the Enterprise Support Group USA Inc. is so impressed by the results that they have decided to implement new initiatives with the aim of further improving the performance of the students of Enterprise Primary School.

Kuru Kururu fatal accident…

The children of security guard Ronville Roberts are having second thoughts about the financial package their mother received from the truck driver who allegedly caused their 58year-old father's death six months ago.

When the accused, Sahid Ali, appeared in the Providence Magistrate's Court in late January, Ali's attorney, Vic Puran, told Magistrate Sobers that his client had agreed to give Roberts's family $2.5M. The court was also told that the accused had already made an initial payment of $200,000 to the dead guard's family.

The victim is survived by eight children.

In the presence of the court, Ali had handed over a further $500,000 to the dead man's reputed wife, Ingrid Schmidt. At the time,

Local steering committee members of the Enterprise Support Group, USA Inc. Videsh Lall (left) and Parmanand Dindyal (right) pose with this year's top grade six performers of the Enterprise Primary School.

Lall explained that the group proposes to pay for the extra tuition for students in specific subjects areas where their weaknesses are

identified.

“We will be looking at their weak points and the ESG group will take them out and pay for them to

attend extra classes. So at the end we should have better results, every child should pass the grade six examination,” Lall

explained.

“The group is amazed by the results but they are still looking for betterment,” he added.

Dead guard's children displeased with financial compensation

Ronville Roberts Robert's wife, Ingrid Schmidt, had indicated to Magistrate Sobers that she was willing to accept the money and would not pursue the matter further if the payment was made.

A daughter of the victim

told Kaieteur News yesterday that her mother has since collected a total of $2.2M. She is to receive a final $300,000 in court next Friday. But now the children have indicated that the sum cannot compensate for their father's death.

A daughter of the dead man told Kaieteur News on Friday that the family has to sign a document indicating that they will not pursue the matter in court. According to the daughter, she and her siblings want a further $1.3M before they sign any agreement.

The sister said that they plan to take legal action if the accused fails to make the further payment.

“Let them give us $1.3 more; we still have small children to send to school,” the daughter said. “If they don't want to pay we will

sue.”

She said that two of the victim's eight children still attend school and their mother is unemployed.

A son of the victim expressed the view that the sum being offered was insignificant, given that a man had been killed.

“The $2.5M is not enough for a man's life. If they (the other siblings) want to sue for more, then I am with them.”

Responding to questions

by Kaieteur News in January, Puran had argued that $2.5M “could build a 30×20 threebedroom concrete house with a toilet and bathroom.”

The prosecution has alleged that security guard Ronville Roberts, of Kuru Kururu, was cycling along the Soesdyke/Linden highway near his home around 08:15 hrs on January 25, when

Sahid Ali, who was driving motor lorry GLL 319, reversed and crushed him.

The prosecution also alleged that the 29-year-old accused drove off, leaving the injured man on the roadway. He reportedly abandoned the truck about four miles from the scene.

Sahid Ali was subsequently identified and charged with causing death by dangerous driving and failing to render assistance.

He first appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates Court last Friday.

But attorney-at-law Vic Puran denied that his client had fled from the scene of the accident. According to Puran, Ali had driven away because he was unaware of t h e a c c i d e n t .

Puran also denied that his client had abandoned his vehicle, and said Ali had

gone to buy something to eat.

The attorney also argued that it is difficult for a cyclist on the move to collide with a reversing vehicle unless the person sought to commit suicide.

The attorney added that a passenger riding with Ali had told police that at the time of the incident, he was instructing the driver to reverse, and during such time the truck had not been involved in any accidents.

Puran said the police arrested Ali because they noticed blue paint on the bottom of the truck, which appeared to be similar to the blue paint on Robert's bicycle.

The prosecutor subsequently rebutted Puran's claim and said that the truck had been identified by eyewitnesses. The prosecution had objected to granting Ali bail.

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Govt. will not pronounce on Ramkarran’s resignation The Guyana Government will not be making any pronouncements any time soon, on the resignation of Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran, from the ruling Peoples’ Progressive Party (PPP).

At least this is according to official Government spokesman, Dr Roger Luncheon, yesterday.

He was at the time hosting a Saturday morning post Cabinet press briefing at Office of the President.

According to the Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Ramkarran did not hold a position with the government or within the Administration and as such, it is not a matter for the government to speak on.

He said that “because Mr. Ramkarran, the former Speaker was not holding a position in the administration, the resignation is more a matter of the governing party and not necessarily a matter for the administration.”

Dr. Luncheon contended,

…Dr. Luncheon says it’s a Party matter

Senior Counsel and Former Executive Member of the PPP, Ralph Ramkarran “What has been said by the official spokespersons for the governing PPP is out there in the public domain.”

He said that the resignation, according to the spokespersons for the PPP, is something that they would like to see reversed.

Dr. Luncheon said that he was not in a position to make any pronouncements on whether the party and

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon Ramkarran are engaged in any talks.

Efforts to contact Ramkarran yesterday proved futile but during the course of the week the Senior Counsel has refused to comment on the matter.

This publication understands that the Central Executive of the party has been meeting weekly and ever since the resignation it has been a matter actively engaging its attention.

At the end of last month, in a one line letter addressed to President Donald Ramotar, who is the party’s General Secretary, Ramkarran said that he had resigned with immediate effect.

“I tender my resignation from the Peoples Progressive Party.”

The party subsequently responded by apologizing and extending an ‘olive branch.’

The President when asked to speak on the matter initially said that Ramkarran made his decision “at the spur of the moment.”

As a result, he said he hopes that when Ramkarran’s anger subsides he would return to the party which he served for five decades.

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Former GRA accountant says that she was not missing Raajnee Baldeo, 22, contacted this publication yesterday to clear the air on an article published in yesterday’s edition of Kaieteur News, which stated that she had been missing since last Tuesday.

The mother of the young woman had stated that Raajnee has been involved in an abusive relationship for the past two years and that she is not allowed to have any contact with her daughter because her husband does not approve of it.

She also claimed that she has reported to probation officers at the Ministry of

Human Services and Social Security that her daughter has been the victim of physical abuse and has not gotten any assistance from them.

However according to Raajnee Baldeo, all of these allegations that are being made by her mother, are false.

The young woman and her husband spoke with Kaieteur News yesterday. The girl said that her mother is causing a number of problems in her marriage and has been trying to get her to leave her husband for a while now.

She added that she is not a victim of physical abuse and that her husband has never

abused her. Raajnee said that when she was living with her mother she was the sole bread winner of the home and that she had to leave the house because her mother put her out.

She also said that she has contacted the Vigilance Police station and that there was no missing person report filed there as alleged by her mother.

Baldeo said that she shares a great relationship with her husband and her in-laws and is pleading with her mother to desist from making false allegations.

- Princess Hotel offers to buy but price tag rejected

The owners of Hotel Tower are looking for a buyer for the Main Street hotel. The only thing stopping the sale is an acceptable price tag.

Kaieteur News understands that the owners of the Princess Hotel have

expressed an interest but their price offer was not accepted as it was below what the owners are looking for.

The hotel was bought by businessman Salim Azeez and US-based Guyanese contractor James Manbahal

for US$3.5 million.

The new owners set about an extensive remodeling project billed at US$6 million.

Manbahal confirmed to Kaieteur News that he is looking to sell.

He said that neither owner has the time to oversee the running of the hotel.

He denied that the intended sale of the hotel has anything to do with business. According to Manbahal, hotel occupancy has been at an acceptable rate and the other businesses such as its nightclub, salon and restaurants have ensured a reasonable cash flow.

However, he said that the owners face a challenge in managing the staff of about 180 and that is the main reason for wanting to sell.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

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PRESIDENT DONALD RAMOTAR IS PRESIDING OVER THE DEATH OF THE PPP

By Ralph Seeram Some years ago on a visit to Guyana, I had the misfortune of experiencing a relative dying. It was not pleasant, but it was an experience that remains indelibly in memory. He had an enlarged heart and was told he can die any day. The night after he received the news, he had a transformation, a total 180 degrees change in personality. The spirit of death had visited him. You would have to see this to believe what I about to say.

The spirit of death was transforming his personality.

One could tell there was an internal battle going on between his conscious self and the shadows of death, his illogical utterances interspaced with some logical conversation, his unbelievable display of strength, the constant back

and forth conversation between himself and the spirit of death, all totally out of character with the person I knew.

A few hours later all was quiet; the spiritual battle was finished; death had won. And as he lay on his death bed in the final throes of life he began to”travel”. The physical battle began. Death starts at the sole of your feet and works its way up. His feet were cold then lifeless, same for his legs and waist. The Pastor said even though he appeared unconscious he could still hear.

The Minister whispered something in his ears and we saw a trembling reaction from his hands and head. He was conscious. It must be a terrible thing to know you are dying and incapable of doing anything about it. Finally the numbness reached his heart

A female Educationist/ Pastor has been left traumatized after she was robbed, beaten and raped by an unknown perpetrator.

The teacher is said to be attached to the HamptonCourt Primary School and also performs the duty as a pastor of the Elim Pentecostal Church in Devonshire-Castle.

The woman has lodged a statement with the police.

According to reports, on Thursday night last the victim was suddenly awakened to see a man standing over her bed. The rapist had gained entry through a window.

Added reports have suggested that the man broke one of the lights attached to the church building before gaining entry to the apartment that is adjoined to the church building where the Pastor

resides.

As the rapist successfully gained entry inside the building, he reportedly switched off all the lights before committing the act.

Reports are that the man carried a torchlight which he used to shine on the victim’s face.

“He slapped her and beat her about her body,” one resident exclaimed.

After learning about the incident many villagers were saddened. They said that the victim is a very respectable person and she did not deserve to be humiliated in that manner.

This is the second occasion the victim was robbed. On this last occasion, the bandit carried away money, a cell phone and other items.

Bandit rapes Essequibo educator

and his journey was over. His journey however, did not happen overnight, the neglect to his health started years before.

Like my relative, the PPP as a political party has been dying for years. However the resignation of the highly respected former Speaker of the House and PPP stalwart, Ralph Ramkarran, has put the PPP in death throes, the likes of which the PPP will not be able to recover from unless President Donald Ramotar can show some fortitude, display strong leadership and take drastic measures to resuscitate the PPP. It doesn’t matter if Ralph Ramkarran returns to the PPP fold that is irrelevant at this stage. His outspoken article about corruption within the Government, and his subsequent resignation have hastened the death of the party. Death is working its way to the heart of the PPP. President Ramotar has the power to stop it.

The question - is he going to take any action or will he let the patient die?

I am sure some may ask about the symptoms which are showing the PPP is in demise. In 1992 the PPP received 162,000 votes from roughly 300,000 vote cast.

Moving on to the 1997 elections, with a voter turnout of nearly 400,000 the PPP got 220,000 a gain of 58,000 votes but the PNC also picked up

33,000 new votes for a total of 161,000 votes.

Of note, the cast votes had increased by 100,000 new voters in 1997. Moving on to the 2001 elections the PPP dropped to 210,000 votes a loss of approximately 10,000 supporters while the PNC gained 4,000 vote for a tally of 165,00 votes. Then came Bharrat Jagdeo elections in 2006 where the PPP made its biggest gains in Parliamentary seats, but this was also deceiving because the PPP dropped to 182,000 votes, a loss of 28,000 votes.

It gained more seats because the PNC did worse garnering only 114,000 votes.

This steady decline made me predict long before the elections last year that the PPP could lose the elections.

No one at that time even conceived such a thought.

When I brought my views to former President Bharrat Jagdeo on a fundraising trip to Orlando last year, he said that they “ran the numbers” and will win the elections.

The 2011 elections saw the PPP slumped to 166,000 votes a loss of 16,000 votes despite an increase in voter turnout of 7,000. In 2011 the PNC under the banner of APNU pulled in a gain of 25,000 votes for a total of 139,000 votes... Just 27,000 votes separated the two major parties.

The PPP has been in steady decline for the past

three elections, the PNC has shown increase.

The point I want to show here is that the PPP supporters are disenchanted, frustrated with the constant revelation of corruption, and are staying away from the polls.

There are some in the PPP hierarchy who are aware of this while some are in denial.

One senior executive of the PPP told me flatly that Bharrat Jagdeo divided and destroyed the PPP and there may be a lot of truth to that.

The PPP Government must realize that you can build the best roads, airport, hydropower or whatever grandiose plans you may implement.

Every Guyanese can own a car and a house. At the end of the day no one, even PPP supporters, likes people to steal his hard earned money, be it one’s personal money or one’s tax dollars. Nobody likes a thief.

Instead of confronting the truth the thieving elements in the PPP viciously attacked this decent man for telling the truth. Problem is what Ralph Ramkarran said was nothing new or revealing to the Guyanese public.

Every “rum shop drinker”

knows who the crooks are; who is getting rich overnight.

There is talk of a snap elections. Take it from me; the PPP will not dare call a snap elections. It will lose the Presidency if it does. The resignation of Ramkarran made sure of that.

So where does the President go from here?

Begging Ralph Ramkarran to come back will not solve the PPP problem, the damage has been done.

The question is what life saving measures the President can make to resuscitate the PPP. The President has to demonstrate that he can make bold decisions regardless of what others think. The end must justify the means. A firefighter in Orlando will cut a car in seconds to save the life of the driver.

The destruction of the car is his least concern. The surgeon will amputate both legs of that driver in the hospital to save his life, the legs are unimportant at that point. So what decisions will President make to save the PPP? Ralph Seeram can be reached at email: ralph365@hotmail.com

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The Abigail Column Two-timing husband sent packing

Dear Abigail, My husband, ‘Mike’ divorced me three years ago.

Afterward, I found out he was with a 28-year-old woman he had met at a club. After she took him for what little money he had, he came crawling back to me. Like a fool, I stupidly took him back because I still had feelings for him.

Recently, I caught Mike on the Internet inviting a 23year-old woman to a club for a drink. Then I discovered

another email indicating he had actually met her.

I kicked him out, of course.

Mike never supported me; I always paid my own way. We were together since I was 16 and I am now 35.

I wish I had every one of them back. Why do old men search for young women to run around with, and why do young women think all old men have money?

Used Dear Used, Older men like young women because it helps them forget, for a little while, how old they really are. Also,

young women tend to be more naïve and less judgmental, assuming that gray temples are a sign of wisdom.

They also assume that after decades in the workforce an older man has money.

You are not the only woman who has listened to her heart and made the same mistake twice - or more.

Consider yourself ahead of the game because you are not economically dependent on your husband.

Take the lessons you have learned, move on and have a happy life. You deserve it.

You’ll be fine without this compulsive two-timer.

Sunday July 8, 2012 ARIES (Mar. 21- April 20) You should get into some of those creative hobbies that you always said you wanted to do.

You may find that family members may not be too easy to get along with.

TAURUS (Apr. 21- May 21) Look into any educational activities involving the whole family. Stubborn about making changes around your home.

Deal with the needs of children and get into groups that deal with self awareness.

GEMINI (May 22-June 21) Don't cause a scene, but when you get home let your partner know how you feel and why.

You will be a real chatterbox today. Don't be afraid to push your beliefs and attitudes.

CANCER (June 22-July 22) Find ways to mellow out. Your interest in helping others may take you back to school. You need an outlet that will not only stimulate you but also challenge your intelligence as well.

LEO (July 23-Aug 22) Situations you can't change should be forgotten for the present. Business trips will be more productive than trying to fight the red tape facing you.

Don't let relatives make demands of you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 -Sept. 23) Assist a relative or good friend by setting of a budget for them.

Your high energy will enable you to take the role of leader in group functions. You could pick up valuable knowledge through conversations with experienced individuals.

LIBRA (Sept. 24 -Oct. 23) You can make changes to your living quarters that should please family members. Stick to travel or do things in conjunction with groups. If you try to manipulate emotional situations you will find yourself alienated.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) Someone you work with could have a personal interest in you. You will have the getup and go to contribute a great deal to groups of interest. Get promises in writing or you will be disappointed.

SAGIT (Nov. 23 -Dec. 21) You can offer your help to others but back off if they appear to be offended by your persistence. You can make a serious attempt at quitting those bad habits that you've picked up over the years.

CAPRI (Dec 22.- Jan. 20) Your lover will cost you dearly if you let them. You can expect changes in your financial situation as well as in your status. Your pilgrimage may end up being fruitless.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 -Feb. 19) Avoid getting trapped in internal disputes. You can become obsessed with detail and must be sure to divide your time appropriately. Make love, not war, and all will be fine.

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) Take some time to change your house around. Romance will develop through work.

Don't get involved in other people's private doings.

DTV CHANNEL 8 09:25 hrs. Sign On 09:30 hrs. Turning Point 10:00 hrs. Kickin’ It 10:30 hrs. Lab Rats 11:00 hrs. The Ultimate Spider-Man 12:00 hrs. Movie: Jodi Picoult’s Salem Falls 14:00 hrs. Movie: Accused at 17 16:00 hrs. Movie: Fugitive at 17 18:00 hrs. Faith in Action 18:30 hrs. Know Your Bible 19:00 hrs. Greetings and Announcements 21:00 hrs. DTV’s Summer Movie Fest 23:00 hrs. Sign Off CHANNEL 11 02:00 – NCN Late Edition (R/ B) 02:30 – Late Nite with GINA 03:00 – Movie 05:00 – Inspiration 05:30 – Newtown Gospel 06:00 – NCN News (R/B) 06:30 – Tomorrow’s World 07:00 – Voice of Victory 07:30 – Voice of Islam 08:00 – Lifting Guyana to Greatness 08:30 – President’s Diary 09:00 – Ravi D Show 10:00 – Homestretch Magazine 10:30 – Weekly Digest 11:00 – Bollywood 60 Mins 12:30 – GRA in FOCUS 13:00 – Dharma Vani 14:00 – Int’l Building ExpoVisit to Booths 14:30 – Catholic Magazine 15:00 – The Naked Truth 15:30 – Int’l Building ExpoVisit to Booths 16:00 – Family Forum 16:30 – Shape 17:00 – Farmers’ Connection 18:00 – NCN Week in Review 18:30 – Guysuco Roundup 19:00 – Inside the Government 19:30 – Round Table 20:30 – Kala Milan 21:00 – Between the Lines 21:30 – African Moves 22:30 – Movie NTN - CHANNEL 18/69 0500h - Sign on with the Mahamrtunjaya Mantra 0500h - Timehri Maha Kali Shakti Devi Mandir Presents Krishna Bhajans 0515h - Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital Inc Presents 0530h - Queenstown Masjid Presents Quran This Morning 0600h - R. Gossai General Store

Presents Krishna Bhajans 0615h - Jettoo’s Lumber Yard Presents Krishna Bhajans 0630h - Muneshwar Limited Presents Krishna Bhajans 0645h - Double Standard Taxi Presents Krishna Bhajans 0700h - Ramroop’s Furniture Store Presents Religious Teachings 0730h - The Family of The Late Leila & David Persaud Presents Krishna Bhajans 0745h - Sankar Auto Works Presents Krishna Bhajans 0805h - Sa Re Ga Ma (Musical Notes) A Live Call-In Program 0930h - A Time To Remember 1030h - L’il Masters 1130h - Guyana’s Entertainers Platform 1200h - Hinduism in a changing world presented by Pt. Ravi 1230h - LET’S TALK with LAKSHMEE

1300h - DVD Movie-: ANJANA (Eng: Sub:) *ing Rajendra Kumar & Babita 1600h - Teaching of Islam 1630h - A Time To Remember 1730h - Ganesh Parts Presents - BHAGAVAD GITA ( Discourses in English) - Serial 1745h - Birthday Greetings / Death Announcement & In Memoriam 1800h - Lil Masters 1900h - Geet Gaata Chal Live with Joel 2000h - Indian Soap - Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch Bahuyien 2030h - Indian Soap - Yahaan Mein 2100h - Indian Soap - Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke 2130h - Indian Soap - Pavitra Rishta 2200h - Indian Soap - Punar Vivah 2300h - Sign Off with the GAYATRI MANTRA

National Assembly...

From page 3 developed in the years after the Second World War. He noted that the content included the roles of trade unions and constitutional change in the legislature as the name was modified on numerous occasions. He said that the National Assembly had names like the Seat of Council, House of Assembly, Legislative Assembly and finally its present name, the National Assembly.

Granger said that very importantly, he cared to note the legislation introduced over that 20-year period which saw the introduction of political trust that came from constitutional change.

The opposition leader said that before 1952, people who didn’t possess property or were literate in English weren’t allowed the now democratic right to vote.

Granger said that is only in 1952 after the introduction of Universal Adult Suffrage, that the ordinary people were empowered.

He said it is also during that 20-year period that the country saw numerous attempts at coalition. They all collapsed.

Asked about his vision for shared governance, Granger said that he sees power sharing in the near future and an end to winner take all politics.

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Sunday July 08, 2012

Good gallops anticipated as Kennard Memorial TC stages Pre-Emancipation horserace meet The second half of the horserace season is upon us and administrators of the Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) are committed to the qualitative events of which they are well known. On Sunday August 5, Turfites can troop to their Bush Lot, Farm Corentyne facility for an equally qualitative event when that entity stages the Pre-Emancipation Race meet.

The event will be staged in collaboration with beverage giants, Ansa McAl and as is customary, the nation’s top horses, straddled by top jockeys will take to the tracks in several exciting races.

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Nine events are carded for the day and will comprise the nation’s best thoroughbreds battling for honours over varying distances.

As usual, the feature attraction among the 3 year olds over 7 furlongs is expected to attract the attention of the betting boys since this race will feature horses that are Guyana and West Indian bred. The battle is set for a 7 furlongs stretch for a winning prize of $600,000. The other three prizes are $300,000, $150,000 and $75,000 for the second to 4th places respectively.

Then there are the G and Lower over 7 furlongs; the I2 and Lower over 6 furlongs; the H and Lower over 6 furlongs and the K & L Class event over 5 furlongs. The winning stakes in this race is $150,000 with a second place

prize of half that amount. The third and fourth place finishers win $38,000 and $19,000 respectively.

Jockeys would be competing for lucrative monetary prizes and the respective owners are advised that a fee of $4,000 must be paid for each animal entered.

This payment is due at the time of entry.

Horse owners are also advised to take their animals to the identified vet to have them examined. All entries close on Sunday July 29 and late entries would not be accepted.

The owners/trainers may have their animals entered by contacting Justice Cecil Kennard (226-1399, 225-4818 or 623-7609); Roopnarine Matadial (325-3192), Ivan Dipnarine (331-0316) or Isabella Beaton (325-3007 or 693-7812).

German MotoGP: Casey Stoner takes pole in wet conditions Reigning world champion Casey Stoner again showed his mastery of wet conditions to take pole for today’s German MotoGP at Sachsenring.

The Australian had the last word in a frantic last 10 minutes of qualifying once the rain had relented. Stefan Bradl, Dani Pedrosa, Ben Spies and Cal Crutchlow all exchanged quickest laps before joint world championship leader Stoner

prevailed. Spies and Pedrosa made up the front row with Britain’s Crutchlow in fourth.

Local favourite Bradl had set the pace in atrocious conditions before the rain stopped with around 15 minutes left and the leading riders headed back out to improve on the earlier modest times.

Stoner later revealed he was forced to use his spare bike, which had a different setup, but still managed to claim his fourth pole of the season.

Alonso takes pole at soaking wet Silverstone Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso took his first pole position for nearly two years as he beat Red Bull’s Mark Webber at the British Grand Prix.

In a thrilling wet session, which was interrupted for an hour and a half for torrential rain, Alonso beat Webber by just 0.047 seconds. Mercedes driver Michael Schumacher was third with Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel fourth and Lewis Hamilton eighth.

Hamilton’s team-mate Jenson Button will start down in 18th.

It was a tough session for the McLaren duo, who will have it all to do today as they bid to give the home fans a first British winner at Silverstone since 2008.

Ferrari’s Felipe Massa was fifth ahead of Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen and

Williams’s Pastor Maldonado.

There was controversy aplenty as Alonso, the world championship leader, was given a lifeline by a decision to stop the second session with six minutes to go at a time when both Ferrari drivers were not in a position to get into the top 10 shoot-out.

And when the session did restart, Alonso only just made it through with his final lap, set when there were yellow caution flags at the penultimate corner. But race officials decided not to punish him as he did not set his fastest time in that final sector and they felt it was clear he slowed down sufficiently.

Once into the top 10, Alonso won a thrilling battle with Webber to take pole for the first time since the 2010 Singapore Grand Prix.

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Guyana celebrated 36 years of WC participation; July 4, 1976 to June 2012 The Cooperative Republic of Guyana recently achieved another milestone in the world of sports. The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) which is a 100+ years old celebrated 36 years of playing World Cup Football.

Kaieteur Sport is pleased to inform you our readers that Statistician Charwayne Walker will be featuring a number of the players who represented Guyana at World Cup Football through the years.

Our first featured player is Earl O’Neal, Guyana World Cup player 1976-1980.

Earl O’Neal - Guyana International 1971 to 1980; two time Caribbean selectee 1973 and 1978.

Although he never represented the Land of Many Waters as a junior, Earl O’Neal still realized his dreams of wearing the National colours. His moment of truth occurred September 1971 when he was selected as one

of Ken Gibbs’ defence men against Suriname at the National Stadium in Paramaribo, his International debut was dreadful as Guyana lost 4-1.

But he was outstanding in the return fixture in Georgetown which Guyana lost 3-2. The Caribbean Football Union Club Championship was his next International engagement in October of 1971 and although he was under the leadership at Ken Gibbs this time, it was for Thomas United FC; his opponents this time were Suriname’s Top Club, Transvaal.

The Guyana top Club lost both matches home and away leaving Earl O’Neal winless in four International matches.

O’Neal’s next International assignment was in French Guiana October 1972 and he tasted victory for the first time as a national player when the Ken Gibbs led squad won two (2) matches and drew one.

Bradley Wiggins...

From page 59 is something to be savoured.

It is a childhood dream of mine. “I’d sit on the home trainer watching my hero, my Tour de France hero, Miguel Indurain. “ Wiggins started Saturday’s stage, a 199km race in eastern France from Tomblaine to La Planche des Belles Filles, in second place, seven seconds behind Fabian Cancellara who had led since the opening prologue seven days ago.

However, the Swiss time trial specialist was not expected to keep pace with the main contenders and he duly dropped away on the final climb, a 5.9km category one ascent.

Seven riders who had broken clear just 15km into the stage were soon hoovered up as Australian Porte set a blistering pace up the mountain to split the peloton wide open, dropping established climbers such as Russia’s Denis Menchov and Spain’s Samuel Sanchez.

Pacemaker Porte eventually dropped away with 2km remaining, leaving 27-year-old Froome, who finished fourth behind Wiggins at this year ’s Dauphine, at the front.

Wiggins continued to be paced up the mountain with Evans, Vincenzo Nibali and Rein Taaramae also in the hunt for the stage win.

Evans attacked on a flat section near the summit but

Wiggins followed and Froome launched a counterattack on the 20% gradient 500m from the line before riding away for an unexpected victory while Wiggins followed the Australian over the line to take the race lead.

Kenyan-born Froome, who finished second at last year’s Vuelta a Espana, one place ahead of Wiggins, also collected 20 points in the king of the mountains race and will wear the polka dot jersey on Sunday.

“It’s a dream come true, I never thought of winning the stage, I’m chuffed to bits,” said an elated Froome, who grew up in South Africa and has only ridden for Britain since 2008. “From the start we were controlling the race.

The guys did a fantastic job, Richie [Porte] set a blistering pace [up the final climb] and got rid of a lot of guys.

“It wasn’t the plan to go for the stage but I’d seen the finish before and I thought ‘I’ve got the legs’ and I gave it a small nudge. I couldn’t believe it when Cadel didn’t follow. And having Brad two seconds behind, we couldn’t ask for more.”

Today’s stage eight features seven categorised climbs as the riders race 158km from Belfort to Porrentruy in Switzerland. The final climb of the day is the category one Col de la Croix, although the race does not finish at its summit.

Haiti then visited the land of the Majestic Kaieteur Falls for two Internationals in January 1973 and although O’Neal was spectacular in defence, Guyana lost both matches at the Guyana Sports Club Ground.

His next International opponent was the Trinidad and Tobago’s Soca Warriors who paid a courtesy call February of 1973 for two matches. Earl O’Neal’s stubborn work in defence earned Guyana a draw in the first match but faulty goalkeeping by debutant custodian Clarke allowed the Soca Warriors a 3-1 victory in the series decider.

O’Neil’s hectic (1973) calendar continued when Guyana reciprocated and hosted French Guiana for two matches they surprisingly lost the opening encounter at Malteenoes 1-0 but rebound to win the final game 2-0.

Hull City the English second division team then visited in May 1973 and thrashed Guyana 5-0 at the once World famous GCC Ground, Bourda. In the next game against Hull City he made his debut for the Caribbean Football team and in a memorable performance at the back, the Caribbean side held the visitors to a 1-1 draw at GCC Ground.

O’Neal, Maurice Enmore, Ken Gibbs then shut down Jamaica under lights at GFC Ground after Carlton Smith scored to send the Reggae Boyz ahead in the 15 minute, but goals by Godfrey Norville and Rudolph Hunte complimented the work of the defence quartet as Guyana triumphed 2-1 in October 1973.

However, the Caricom Championship hopes of the Guyanese were dashed when Suriname eliminated the boys from the Land of Many Waters 2-0 in the next game.

Guyana failed to play any International matches in 1974 so Earl O’Neal had to settle for Thomas United and Georgetown Sub Association matches to ply his trade.

His next International engagement was to Brazil with the World Cup Squad in 1975 and as Guyana intensified its World Cup preparations in 1976 he marshaled the defence against Bare of Boa Vista and Texaco of Trinidad.

Cuba was O’Neal’s next opponent, May 1976 although Castro’s Men won all four (4) Internationals at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground in Linden, Burnham Park New Amsterdam, GCC Bourda; these games gave the Guyana 1976 World Cup

Earl O’Neil squad a tremendous boost.

Sir Alex Ferguson’s St. Mirren Scottish first division team deplaned at the Timehri International Airport unbeaten on their first Caribbean tour but O’Neal and company spoiled Sir Alex’ slate by stopping the Scotsmen at GCC in June 1976.

His {O’Neil} childhood dream was realized on the 4th of July 1976 when Guyana made its World Cup debut, O’Neal stood firm in defence as the Land of Many Waters behind goals from Vibert Butts, and Keith Niles defeated Suriname 2-0. He would not forget his next World Cup game, September 1976 in Paramaribo; Guyana lost 3-0, a result that eliminated them from the 1978 finals in Argentina.

With little time to recover from the Suriname debacle, O’Neal was marshaling Thomas United’s defence in the CFU Club Championship against Palo Seco of Trinidad.

United lost both matches home and away September in 1976.

His final International engagement in 1976 was against Curacao in two Internationals October 1976.

Guyana playing without the Pele FC members drew the first match 1-1 with debutant 17 year-old Camptown School boy Colin Hinds scoring. In the series final, O’Neal and company lost 4-1, Hinds again was Guyana’s goal scorer.

In the following year, 1977,

O’Neil took over the National Captaincy from Santos’ Maurice Enmore. He started his first series as National Captain with a 2-1 Victory over T&T at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground; Patrick ‘Labba’ Barton’s penalty and a Trinidad own goal finalized proceedings Guyana’s way.

O’Neal’s men drew the second game 2-2 at GCC, but lost the final encounter 2-0 at the same venue losing the series on goal difference.

He won his next International series at the helm. Playing against Barbados October, 1977 Guyana triumphed 2-0 in the opening encounter at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground. Goals came from the boots of Yam Prince and the skipper himself. Ironically this was O’Neal’s only International goal of his illustrious career. Guyana drew the next two matches to lift the American Life trophy.

Cuba’s National Under-23 team was the next opponent for O’Neal’s men. Castro’s National Reserves won the first three games but a double

by Maurice Enmore forced a 2-2 draw and denied the visitors from Havana sweeping the series which concluded in December, 1977.

The Thomas United defensive stalwart was again entrusted with the National Captaincy in 1978 and O’Neal’s men started the 1978 campaign in Bridgetown losing 1-0 and 3-0 in two Internationals they also lost both matches to Trinidad and Tobago in Port of Spain.

Suriname continued their {Guyana} dismal showing in 1978 by knocking them out of the Caribbean Nation’s Cup by winning both games home and away. O’Neal’s next International outing in 1978 was for Thomas United in the CFU Club Championship against Trinidad’s Defence Force.

Thomas won the first game 1-0 at GCC behind Ferdinand ‘Stary’ Hodge’s goal but lost the return fixture 3-1 in Trinidad. The Chinese provincial team Kwang Tung then visited in September of

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1978 and thrashed the Guyana team 5-0.

O’Neal was also selected in the Caribbean team that played against Kwang Tung in the next game. The National team under O’Neal also lost 5-0 to the Russian touring Textile team in December 1978.

Guyana, after naming O’Neal as National Captain in 1979 withdrew from the CFU Nations Cup. When Guyana returned to the World Cup stage in 1980, Earl O’Neal was unanimously named Captain.

Unlike 1976, this time, their opponents was Grenada playing in front a capacity crowd at the world famous GCC Bourda Grenada scored two early goals that caused a panic amongst the partisan crowd.

However, goals from Clyde ‘Oiler’ Watson (a brace), Clyde ‘Wooly’ Forde, Ashton Taylor and Gordon ‘Ultimate Warrior’ Braithwaite eased Guyana to an emphatic 5-2 Victory. In the return fixture Guyana behind another double from Clyde ‘Oiler’ Watson silenced the Spice Isle 3-2 and O’Neal became the first Captain to lead Guyana to the second round of World Cup qualifiers.

Guyana lost their second round matches home and away to Suriname 1-0 at GCC and 4-0 in Paramaribo; they also lost home and away to Cuba 1-0 in Havana and 3-0 at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground.

Strange enough that was O’Neal’s last match in National colours, his next National duties was as Coach of the successful Inter Guiana Games team in 1993-94. He was also Guyana’s Senior National Coach in 1997.

The Million dollar question still being asked, is why O’Neal was unceremoniously omitted from the 1983 National squad?

With O’Neal marshalling the defence there is no way Everton Gonsalves of Antigua could have scored 4 goals alone.

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GRFU Seven’s Club League…

Female Pepsi Hornets make crucial comeback; Yamaha Caribs on top Pepsi Hornets female team and Yamaha Caribs male team came out victorious with 26 and 43 points respectively yesterday afternoon in the National Park after playing round robin matches on the rugby field to win the first round of the Guyana Rugby

Football Union (GRFU) Seven’s Club League.

Hornets’ female team rebounded from a hard fall from game 6 which could have been costly for them in the opening round of the League after facing a 10-7 defeat from the rivals Yamaha Caribs in the

ECB thanks Ahmad for his services The Essequibo Cricket Board is expressing its gratitude to former president Sheik Ahmad for his dedicated services given to the institution over the years. Ahmad resigned his position on the 21st of June 2012.

Secretary of the ECB Aotto Cristiani said that Ahmad services will be missed since he has worked tirelessly for the development of cricket in Essequibo. The Board would like to wish Ahmad all the best in his future endeavours.

When asked as to what prompted his resignation Ahmad told Kaieteur sport that it’s time for someone else to take over the mantle. Ahmad also served as treasurer of the ECB and the Guyana Cricket Board. (Zaheer Mohamed)

first match (game 3). Karen Skeete late entry of two tries for the Yamaha Caribs in the second half of the first game placed the Hornets girls at a major disadvantage as their account was untouched at that time. An earlier substitution of one of the players for Guyana sprint queen, Alicia Fortune would have been the right move but that late substitute cost the team the game with little time on their hands to fashion profitable passes to surpass their rivals score line. Fortune receiving the ball on the left wing from one of her teammates, stormed down the field untouched to register a try in the last minute of the game; Tricia Munroe successfully converted before the final whistle was sounded by the referee.

Retuning with vengeance

in the second female matchup, the Hornets girls cataloged a 19-5 drubbing on their rivals to paint a clean picture of what they can do.

Fortune along with Niketa Davis and Tasha Andrews each successfully scored one try for their team; Monroe converted 2.

Yamaha Caribs turned out to be the winners of the male segment of the League despite forfeiting game 7 to the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) after being unable to field a team.

They first defeated Pepsi Hornets ‘A’ team 14-0 in game one and trashed Pepsi Hornets ‘B’ team 29-12, which mainly comprised of young players from University of Guyana in their second game.

Theodore Henry was the only player in the first game to make two tries of which both conversions were

Pepsi Hornets female team, winners of the first round of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) 7’s Club League. lucrative. Scoring in game 4 (second game) were Kevin Jordon, Akeem Fraser and Theodore Henry. Lawrence Adonis and Rondel McArthur scored for Hornets.

Pepsi Hornets ‘A’ team, 31

points is runner up to Yamaha Caribs, while Pepsi Hornets ‘B’ third with 27 points.

The club league continues on Saturday in the National Park from 3:00pm.

(Juanita Hooper)

Serena Williams wins 5th Wimbledon... Gayle and Samuels pummel New...

From back page and it was delayed by rain for a short time after the first set.

Radwanska would have taken over the No. 1 ranking with a win. Instead, Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka will reclaim the top spot from Maria Sharapova. ‘’Serena played too good today, but I’m just very happy to be here in the final,’’ Radwanska said. ‘’It was not my day. I’ll try just next year.

We’ll see.’’

A little more than a month ago, many started writing Williams off for good. She lost in the first round of this year’s French Open, the first time she had ever exited a Grand Slam tournament

that early.

But at Wimbledon, she looked every bit a champion again. She broke her own tournament record for aces in a match with 23 against Zheng Jie in the third round.

Less than a week later, she eclipsed that mark with 24 against Azarenka in the semifinals.

On Saturday, she finished with 17 aces - including four in one game - and a record 102 for the tournament.

It was Williams’ first Grand Slam title since she won at the All England Club two years ago. Shortly after winning that title, Williams cut her feet on glass at a restaurant, leading to a series of

health problems, including being hospitalized for clots in her lungs. ‘’I never dreamt of being here again, being so down,’’ Williams said. ‘’Never give up. You can continue.’’

Williams is the first woman in her 30s to win a Wimbledon title since Martina Navratilova, who won at the All England Club in 1990 when she was 33.

In the men’s final today, six-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer will face British hope Andy Murray. The fourth-seeded Murray is trying to become the first British man to win the title at the All England Club since Fred Perry in 1936.

From back page their line to Gayle, targetting the middle and leg stump as they managed to slow him down a touch. Still, there were the gentle offerings of an array of part-time slow bowlers for Gayle to feast on. A murderous straight hit off Daniel Flynn took him to 98, and a tickle down to fine leg for four off Kane Williamson in the 30th over brought up his century. He did a celebratory jig, before sinking to his knees with his hands aloft as the Jamaican crowd cheered their biggest cricketing idol.

Gayle had plenty of time to go on past his career-best score of 153, but in the 38th over, one of his shots - finally - didn’t carry past the rope, landing instead in the hands of deep midwicket. That only allowed the other Jamaican batting star, Marlon Samuels, to take centrestage.

Unlike Gayle’s boundary-

filled innings, Samuels’ knock was more about the singles taking 51 of them, and even pushing Gayle to come back for several quick twos.

Though Samuels didn’t maintain as high a strike-rate as Gayle, he wasn’t too far off a run-a-ball.

He reached his half-century off 57 deliveries, though he had hit only a couple of fours and a six.

Even when Samuels started finding the boundaries regularly, there was a marked difference to the Gayle style - three consecutive cover-driven fours off Tim Southee in the 39th over were all about timing and placement, and little about powerhitting.

Two of West Indies’ middle-order powerhouses, Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Bravo, failed to make an impact, and New Zealand managed to shackle the scoring

as Samuels slowed down in sight of the century. Samuels scored only in singles in the last seven overs of the innings before finally reaching his first ODI hundred since 2006 in the final over. Despite Darren Sammy’s quickfire 31, West Indies gathered only 33 runs in the final five overs, but the total still proved far too much for the inexperienced New Zealand batsmen.

The chase got off to a reasonable, though not explosive, start. Rob Nicol fell early after hitting a couple of boundaries, Daniel Flynn played an edgy innings before departing in the 12th over with the score 62. New Zealand then lost momentum as their two senior batsmen, Martin Guptill and Kane Williamson, struggled to pull off the big hits. When Guptill was dismissed midway through the innings, the asking-rate was nearing eight, and the game looked lost.

Williamson and Watling tried to revive the innings through a quick 70-run stand, but though both compiled half-centuries, they had too much to do.

Williamson was done in by a full swinging ball from Rampaul in the 37th over virtually ending the contest, though Watling improved his highest score in ODIs for the second game in a row and kept fighting till the end.

Scores: 50 overs West Indies 315 for 5 (Gayle 125, Samuels 101*) beat New Zealand 260 (Watling 72*, Williamson 59, Guptill 51, Rampaul 3-51) by 55 runs.

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Scottsburg wins Corriverton Bradley Wiggins Links U15 football Challenge Cup takes yellow jersey

The Scottsburg Football club of Corriverton, Upper Corentyne recently won the Corriverton Links U15 football competition and took home the Challenge cup when they squeezed past No 28 Village in the final which was played on Monday July 2at the Scottsburg ground for teams in Berbice.

Scoring for Scottsburg were Kerwin Lester with a double and Anthony Lynch one, while Dornell London and Cordel Nicholson scored for No28.

The competition which was played at three venues saw matched being contested at New Amsterdam, West Berbice and Corriverton, with the two top teams in each group advancing to the next stage. The West Berbice qualifiers were Rosignol

United and No 28 All Stars.

The Two New Amsterdam teams that made it through to the next round were Hearts of Oak and New Amsterdam United, while Corriverton Links and Scottsburg were the top teams from the Corriverton leg.

The next leg of the competition saw West Berbice and New Amsterdam competing. The results saw Hearts of Oak winning from Rosignol United 3-1 on penalty kicks after with game ended 1-1 after full time.

Shane Granger scored for Rosignol, while Hearts of Oak got theirs through a defence error. In the next game No28 got the better of NA United 4-2 on penalty kicks after that game also ended 1-1 after full time. The goal scorers were Cordel Nicholson scoring for

No 28, while Jamal Butts responded for N/A United.

In the semifinal playoff, Scottsburg first whipped Hearst of Oak 4-1 to advance to the final with Malvin Burnett 2, Anthony Lynch and Kevin Lester one each leading the way for the winners, while Treviette Grimmond netted a consolation scored for Hearts of Oak. In the second game NO28 hammered Corriverton Links 4-0 with Kizy Campbell, Deril London, Clayton Wilson and Cordel Nicolson being the men on target.

In the third place playoff, Hearts of Oak with a goal from Glenroy Henry and Corriverton Links through Shadrick Pratt played to a 1-1 draw. However Heats of Oak won the ensuing penalty shootout 3-1.

In the presentation ceremony which followed, Scottsburg received the winning trophy and 15 gold medals, while No28 United settled for the runner up trophy and 15 silver medals.

Hearts of Oak received the third place trophy and 15 bronze medals.

The MVP award was presented to Kerwin Lester of Scottsburg, the best Keeper was Osbart Cain of No28 while, the most goals award went to Stafford Edwards of NA United with 7. They all received trophies while the top coach who hailed from Scottsburg United also received a trophy.

The teams were divided into two groups with matches being played on both the East and West Berbice.

(Samuel Whyte)

===Letter to the Sports Editor===

The youths are suffering; cease the squabbles in our cricket DEAR SIR, It takes a lot of faith to be a cricket administrator in Guyana as the current power struggle at the top is destroying the hopes and aspirations of every young cricketer in our beloved county. We have passed half of the year 2012 already and for the first time in my memory, there has been no Inter-county Tournament and this is heartbreaking for many youths (both male and female) who have always dreamed of playing for their county and country at their age groups.

Cricket Administrators have no limit of age but young cricketers do and they cannot play Under-15 cricket once they pass the age limit. There seems to be no end to the Guyana Cricket Board problems and the only losers in this sad saga is our poor, helpless young cricketers whose childhood dreams are being destroyed by men who should know better and who should be role models to these youths.

Since this sickening state of affairs started last year, many clubs including the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club are finding it very difficult to attract new youths for the sport as they feel it is a waste of time once they are unsure of the future. The time has surely come for one or both factions in this power struggle to back away and let us save our national game.

The most important thing here is not supposed to be

power in the Guyana Cricket Board or setting of personal hatred but rather the dreams and aspiration of our youths who want to emulate their heroes like Chanderpaul, Sarwan and Fudadin. Surely, this profound madness has gone on for too long and it beats me how leaders who claim to love cricket can be part of a power struggle to destroy it.

Personally, I have kept out of this saga because I strongly believe in working to develop the game rather than to look after personal ambitions. I am saddened that only the County of Berbice seems to have a

comprehensive programme of development which caters for every age group from Under13 to senior including females.

For 2012, the Berbice Cricket Board has already surpassed its target of 75 off the field activities and has completed a total of 102 up to the 3rd July, 2012, while the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club of which I have the privilege of serving as the Secretary has already completed 112 out of a target of 140 for 2012. This is what all other cricket organisations and administrators in Guyana are supposed to be doing – working to develop cricket.

Berbice Cricket is at its

highest level because of a properly planned structure and visionary leadership.

Mr. Editor, I would like to urge all the stakeholders in Guyana’s Cricket to start placing Guyana’s Cricket and its cricketers first and let us find a solution to this mess.

The West Indies Cricket Board does not seem interested in solving our problems and as such we have to do it ourselves. For the sake of our youths, please come together and save our beloved game of cricket. Let history judge you as healers and developers not as destroyers.

Hilbert Foster.

Team Sky rider Bradley Wiggins of Britain wears the leader's yellow jersey on the podium after the seventh stage of the 99th Tour de France

Britain’s Bradley Wiggins took the race leaders’ yellow jersey as Team Sky showed their power on the Tour de France’s first summit finish.

Wiggins and team-mates Richie Porte and Chris Froome ramped up the pressure in the final 5km with 2011 winner Cadel Evans sticking stubbornly with them. Briton Froome broke clear in the last 200m to win stage seven, with Evans and Wiggins finishing two seconds back.

Wiggins holds a 10 seconds lead over Evans in the overall standings.

It is the first time Wiggins, who is bidding to become the first Briton to win the race, has worn the yellow jersey in the Tour, following Tom Simpson (1962), Chris Boardman (1994, 1997, 1998), Sean Yates (1994) and David Millar (2000).

“It is an amazing feeling,” said the 32-year-old, who justified his pre-race favourite tag with a solid ride to the finish. “It just went perfectly for us, the boys put it on the line and did a fantastic job. “‘Froomie’ was mind-blowing - he is just going from strength to strength as a bike rider - and we got the yellow jersey so it is fantastic.

“This is what we have been training for all year, and I think it is fair to say we have peaked now.

“We are in the driving seat and we will look to consolidate in the coming days, more so in the time-trial [on Monday]. “Cadel is hot on our heels so it’s not something we’re going to accidentally try and lose to him. “It is not over but with everything that is to come, just to be in the yellow jersey (Continued on page 57)

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Horserace action on today Guyana Beverage company hands over at Bush Lot United Turf Club winnings for CARICOM Day cycle race All systems are in place and all roads lead to the Bush Lot United Turf Club at Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice today as a bumper crowd is expected to throng to the venue for the race club’s grand One day Horserace meet.

One more event has been added to the day’s activity which brings it to nine and the total entries mounting to 70. A whopping $6.5M in cash and prizes are up for grabs.

The venue is in excellent shape with more renovation works done to the Grand Stand, the track, the sanitary facilities, scale house and paddock, while more stables have been added and running water facilities have been improved.

A number of feature races are listed on the day’s card with races for A, E G, the three and two year old events being the top drawing cards.

The Feature race will be for horses classified ‘A’ and lower with the animals set to cover a distance of 1500M. The winner is set to take home a whopping $1M and trophy compliments of Jumbo Jet Auto Sales and Stables. Most of the top horses in the county are expected to compete including Who So Ever, The Message, Marathon Man, Donut Prince, Jet Set Go, Work Force, Who is on The Case, Fresh Again, Got to Go, Renia Del café, Gold Plated and California Strike.

The line up in the three Year old event for animals Bred and Born in Guyana and The West Indies features Strom in a Tea Cup, Red Cloud, Come Dance with me, Serenity, Rock Sonia, Happy Choice and Pride and Joy the winner will cart off $500,000 and trophy over 1200M compliments of BLUTC. The E and lower race also has a star studded line up with Ferry landing, Work Force, Super cat, Dubai Duchess, Majestic, Swing Easy, Stormy Lass, Miss Regina, The girl Them Sugar, Top Of the Line and Captain Crook all competing for the $450,000 and trophy compliments of Buddy Shivraj Auto Sales over 1200m.

The G class race will be a 1000M affair

with the animals running for a winning purse of $300,000 and the Dr. Brandeo Singh trophy.

Among the runners are Celebrating Love, Gold Plated, Sabrina Joy, Big Impact, Weekend Surprise, Miss Regina, Big Show and Gold Romance.

Flying Baby, The legend, Gold Princess, Silver Jet, The Wild Grinder, It’s My Time and Sent from Above are among those competing in the Banks DIH Limited sponsored two year old event for Guyana and West Indies Bred horses for the $400,000 winners money and trophy over 1000M. The H class event, which has been added to the list of events, attracts the likes of The Gump. Wicked Intention, Dream Girl, Savion, Princess Renuka, Pixie Fire and I want revenge will see them battling for the 200,000 top money and trophy compliments of the organisers over 1200M. There is the I3 and lower event over 1000M with Silver Kid, Mona Lisa, Little Trickster, Northern Junior, Silent Night, Romeo MacGyver, Flying Object and Royal Time among others racing for a winning purse of$150,000 and trophy compliments of Mohammed “Nankoo” Shariff .

The J class event, which is sponsored by Romel Jagroop Construction, includes She is Royal, Hard Running and most of the animals in the I, K and L races. The winner will take away $100,000 and trophy over 1000M. The finals event on the day card is for animals classified K and L with the winner set to pocket $80,000 and trophy courtesy of the BLUTC over 1200M. Among them are Pleasant Surprise, Royal, Star Boy and most of the horses in the J class event.

The individual performers including top jockey, stable and trainer will be presented with trophies compliments of The Trophy Stall, Bourda market.

Late enquiries can be made with Coordinator and Treasurer Lakeram B. Sukhdeo on Number 232-0558 or 672-0810 or president and President R. Jagit (tel 232-0231).

Race time is 12:30 hrs.

Robert Selman presents Dwight Holder with his prize, while other prize winners display their silverware.

The Guyana Beverage Company recently presented the respective winners with their prizes recently for the cycle meet which was contested on CARICOM Day in Berbice.

The 40 miles race, which was organized by the Flying Aces Cycling Club and was for cyclist of the club only, was held under the Company’s Island Mist Brand. Dwight Holder won the event in a time of one hour,

58 minutes.

The other top placers were Elijah Brijjader, Brian Harris, Neil Reece, Ray Millington and Rohan Persaud who rode in that order.

Brijjader was also the winner in the junior category with Brian Harris and Johan Crawford occupying the other two spots. Marica Dick took care of business in the female category.

Andre Hicks won from Adriel Ross and Sherwin Parks in the juveniles’

category, while Syborne Fernandes took home the veterans prize.

Aaron Hicks and Deance Welch were the winners in the respective BMX boys and girls under-12 category. The event was coordinated by Coach Randolph Roberts who thanked the Guyana Beverage Company for its support.

Managing Director Robert Selman and other company officials participated in the presentation ceremony.

Former cricket stalwarts stage Inaugural Andrew Lyght Memorial Cricket tournament Cricket fans that may have witnessed the exploits of their late colleague, Andrew Lyght, during his hey days will reenact memories of those days with two memorial matches slated for the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and the Everest Cricket Club Grounds, Saturday July 14 and Sunday July 15 next.

The competition is the inaugural of what the organizers hope to be a yearly feature and will feature past cricketers the likes of former WI players Faoud Bacchus, who will captain the foreign based team, Clayton Lambert and Milton Pydanna among other past stalwarts, dubbed ‘Friends of Former Guyana Cricketers’ will turn back the clock in two T20 encounters starting at 13:00hrs on July 14 and 15 at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and the Everest Cricket Club Grounds (ECC) respectively.

A release from the organizers said that the overseas team is looking forward to the tour and the opportunity to interact with local players while

A representative of Rockaway Auto Sales recently presented some T-shirts to the overseas players. entertaining local cricket lovers.

The overseas based team will also comprise such players as Derrick Kallicharran, William White, Ray Joseph, Ramcharitar and Tyrone Etwaroo, former Guyana & WI U19 player, Eyon Grant, former Guyana U19 player, Godfrey Edwards and Safraz Ally. Other past stalwarts also include Victor

Benjamin, Hafeez Ali, Lyle Wilson, Nigel Harper, Jerry Persaud, Saheed Mohammed, Selwyn Smith, Wazir Khan and Jai Sharma.

The players to comprise the local squad will be drawn from the membership of the DCC and will be announced soon. Trophies and other prizes will be donated by Rockaway Auto Sales and Car Rental and Cycle Store.

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Steven Finn stars in Annual TCL Cricket Academy & Republic record ninth straight win Bank Summer Camp starts tomorrow BBC Sport - Steven Finn took four wickets as a rampant England strolled to an eightwicket victory over Australia to win the one-day series with a match to spare.

Finn (4-37) twice took two wickets in consecutive balls as Australia could manage only 200-9 in seam-friendly conditions in Durham. David Hussey topscored for the tourists with 70.

England openers Ian Bell (69) and Alastair Cook put on 70 to cement England’s advantage, before Jonathan Trott (64 not out) and Ravi Bopara (33no) finished the job with 13 balls to spare.

It was a record ninth consecutive one-day victory for England, beating their previous best of eight, achieved on three occasions.

Since going down 5-0 in India last October, Cook’s men have won every match against Pakistan, West Indies and Australia to establish themselves as a real force in the 50-over game.

The dominance they have shown in three times dispatching their fiercest rivals can only bode well with the Ashes only a year away.

In truth, the Australians were a sorry sight by the closing stages at a raucous Riverside, their body language that of a beaten team. Their cause was not helped by injuries to bowlers Brett Lee and Shane Watson, who were forced off the field after bowling only 3.2 overs between them.

The match got under way on time after a phenomenal effort from the groundstaff to drain away heavy overnight rain, and it was no surprise to see England captain Cook opting to bowl after winning the toss in damp, overcast conditions. With the ball zipping around off the seam, England were soon among the wickets as Finn trapped David Warner and Peter Forrest lbw with successive deliveries.

Watson, often so destructive at the top of the

Steven Finn order, took 36 balls to find the boundary but was just beginning to find his rhythm when he played on to a ball from Tim Bresnan that jagged back sharply off the seam.

Bopara kept England on top by removing George Bailey with a near-unplayable delivery that pitched on middle and seamed away to clip off stump, before Australia were plunged further into the mire by another brilliant burst from man of the match Finn.

Skipper Michael Clarke, aiming across the line, was bowled for an 85-ball 43 and Matthew Wade was superbly caught behind off an inside edge by a diving Craig Kieswetter, who clung on at the second attempt.

Hussey helped the tourists

avoid total ignominy with an accomplished counter-attacking innings which included nine fours. Aided by a typically gutsy 27 from Brett Lee, Hussey brought up his fifty off 62 balls with successive fours off Samit Patel before holing out to long-off in the final over to give Bresnan a second wicket.

There were also two wickets for James Anderson, who became the second Englishman after Ian Botham to reach 500 in all forms of international cricket.

Cook got the England reply motoring with 11 runs off three balls in Lee’s second over and Bell followed his captain’s lead by tucking into a pair of leg stump half-volleys from seamer James Pattinson.

By the time Cook spooned a simple catch to cover, England had already sapped the tourists’ resolve and a second-wicket stand of 66 between Bell and Trott put the result beyond doubt. Bell struck nine fours each with the conviction of a man at the top of his game - in his 69, and looked on course for his third one-day century before he played on to the persevering Clint McKay. The dismissal merely paved the way for Trott and Bopara to see England home, the former batting in his usual unflustered manner to post his 16th one-day half-century and the latter tucking in to some dismal bowling from part-time spinner Hussey to further boost his case for selection in the upcoming South Africa Tests.

With the series in the bag, England will be aiming to wrap up a 4-0 victory at Old Trafford on Tuesday.

Scores: England 201 for 2 (Bell 69, Trott 64*) beat Australia 200 for 9 (Hussey 70, Clarke 43, Finn 4-37) by eight wickets.

The 15th Annual TCL (Guy) sponsored cricket Academy and 6th Annual Republic Bank sponsored Summer Camp for Grade 6 students organized by the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club is set to commence tomorrow, Monday, July 9 at the Area ‘H’ Ground.

The annual cricket Academy would be catering for 100 youths between the ages of 8 to 18 years and will be conducted by Coaches Michael Hyles Franco, Delbert Hicks and Senior Coach Winston Smith.

The Republic Bank Summer Camp caters for 60 students who recently wrote the Grade Six Assessment Test and would be facilitated

by Senior Teacher of the Port Mourant Secondary School Rohan Etwaru.

Students would be taught Mathematics, English, Integrated Science, basic Spanish and Social Studies and would also be involved in learning how to play cricket. Participants of both the cricket Academy and the Summer Camp would also be part of several lectures on topics of importance including the Importance of Education and Discipline, HIV/AIDS, Peer Pressure and Personal Hygiene.

Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster noted that the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club is confident that at the end of the 2012 TCL Academy the Club would be able to identify new talented players for its Under-13, 15, 17 and 19 cricket teams.

He also said that they would fully understand their roles as representatives of the Club

as no form of indiscipline is tolerated while expressing hope that the Grade 6 students at the end of the six weeks summer camp would be fully prepared for Secondary School and would be able to make a successful transition from Primary.

The club is urging all parents of young players in Berbice to take advantage of the cricket Academy and to send them on Monday July 9, at the Area ‘H’ Ground from 08.30hrs.

Meanwhile, RHTY&SC Executive Committee has informed that Mr. Franklyn Ross has been appointed as the Assistant Secretary/CEO (ag) of the Club.

Mr. Ross replaces Ms. Nermala Sewdat who resigned that position recently due to

her studies at the Cyril Potter Teachers College at Tain. The Club has expressed gratitude to Ms. Sewdat for her outstanding services over the last eighteen months and wishes her all the best in her studies at the Teachers College.

Mr. Ross would serve in this position until the next Biannual General Meeting scheduled for January. The Club would also like to inform the general public that Mr. Ross would be acting Secretary/CEO from July 7 to August 5, 2012 as Secretary/ CEO Hilbert Foster would be proceeding on annual vacation.

Ms. Angela Haniff has also been appointed as Assistant Secretary to the Secretary/CEO.

International 6 wins Jeet Brothers New York trophy Sponsor Soomday ‘Rico’ Jeet led the way with the maximum 18 games to guide International 6 to the top place in the Annual Jeet Brothers dominoes tourney which was contested at Everest Sports Club Pavilion on Friday last.

The game featured Canal 6, Wild Bunch and International 6 and was also used as a warm up for a three-leg series starting on Tuesday at Wild Bunch.

The second leg will be hosted at Strikers Sports Club on Thursday with the final leg set for Buddy’s Shop, Canal No. 1 Village.

International 6 coasted to victory amassing 75 games with Wild Bunch taking the second spot with 68 games, two ahead of third placed Canal.

The lone love bird of the evening was Manniram ‘Packer’ Shew. The members of the winning team were recipients of one NBA official cap each, while watches were given to the top payers of each team; Martin Premaul of International 6, Jermaine Jackson of Wild Bunch and Rajesh ‘Spoon’ Sukhai of Canal 6.

The three leg series will see much more tokens inclusive of brand name designer watches compliments of Jeet Brothers being awarded. All games are expected to start at 19:00hrs with the exception of the finals which will start at 14:00hrs at Canal.

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Somber atmosphere as former Liverpool touched many lives hockey stalwart interred - bball player laid to rest

Seasoned members of the Ravens Basketball Club including Ryan Gullen, Jermaine Slater, Rudy James, Dwayne Roberts and Kurt Sunich, swarm the coffin bearing the body of the late Damian Liverpool at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall yesterday afternoon.

Sills’ colleagues reverently lift their sticks over his casket as the body leaves the church for the LeRepentir Cemetery In a somber atmosphere, laden with sad faces and grief stricken hearts, former hockey stalwart, Elton G Sills was eulogized at the First Assembly of God Church, Durban Street Werk-en-Rust yesterday afternoon and the sports fraternity, friends and family turned out in their numbers to bid him ‘farewell.

Reverend Richard McDonald delivered a touching message, laden with anecdotes to a packed church as many reminisced on the glory days of the sports personality. President of the Guyana Hockey Board, Phillip Fernandes, also a former hockey player, was also in

attendance and he spoke of Sills’ impact on his sports life.

He said that he had practiced his trade alongside the fallen sportsman when Sills was an active member of the Max Ace Hockey Club.

Mr. Fernandes further spoke of the high level of respect engendered by Sills and dubbed him a teacher, student and friend. President of the Guyana Olympic Association, where Sills had served as an administrator, said that it was a privilege to work alongside Sills and the GOA was much the better for his input.

The former sports personality’s sending off was

Jamaica win WICB’s Under-17 Tournament Scarborough, Tobago Jamaica defeated Windward Islands by seven wickets in fifth and final round on Saturday to win the West I n d i e s C r i c k e t B o a r d ’s Under-17 Tournament.

The Jamaicans played unbeaten to take the title.

Please see below the scores from the final round of matches and final points standings.

Windward Islands v Jamaica Venue: Bon Accord, Tobago To s s : Wi n d w a r d Islands won the toss and elected to bat Result: Jamaica won by 7 wickets

Windward Islands 166-9 off 50 overs: Keone George 66, Preston McSween 28; K e v o n Wi l l i a m s 4 - 3 3 , Ramaal Lewis 2-36.

Jamaica 170-3 off 26 overs: Triston Coleman 76, Odain McCarthy 32, Romaine Morris 26.

Trinidad & Tobago v Guyana Venue: Shaw Park, Tobago Toss: Guyana won the toss and elected to bat Result: Trinidad and Tobago won by two wickets Guyana 157-8 off 46 overs: Shimron Hetmeyer 78, Tagenarine Chanderpaul 19; Bryan Charles 10-5-24-3, Jesse Bootan 2-1-2-2.

Trinidad & Tobago 158-8

graced by several other personalities including Vice President of the GOA, Charles Corbin, former Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Conrad Plumber, former President of the Guyana Hockey Board, Chris Fernandes, former West Indies cricketer, Roger Harper and former squash Champion, Garfield Wiltshire among others.

Later in the evening, hockey players and administrators formed an arch with their hockey sticks over the casket of their fallen colleague as he left the church for the LeRepentir Cemetery where he was interred. off 45.1 overs: Jeremy Solozano 56, Al Small 31, Camillo Carimbocas 13.

Barbados v Leeward Islands Venue: Plymouth, Tobago Toss: Barbados won the toss and elected to bat Result: Barbados won by 91 runs Barbados 245 all out off 45.5 overs: Kyle Hinkson 90, Jerome Jones 35, Jameel Stuart 22; Shane Venner 9.5-0-44-5, Shawn Tuitt 9-235-2.

Leeward Islands 154 all out off 40 overs: Shavon Moore 57, Jeremiah Louis 38; Jerome Jones 10-1-36-4, Demar Thorne 9-0-53-3.

Final Points Standings Jamaica 29.5 Trinidad 23.5 Windward 18 Barbados 18 Guyana 15.5 Leewards 4.5

It was obvious yesterday that Denzil David Liverpool was not the run-of-the-mill basketball player and customs officer, who was just haplessly aggressive. It was clear that Liverpool had touched many lives during his 34 years on earth.

Hundreds thronged the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall yesterday to bid farewell to the Ravens Basketball Club and former national forward, Liverpool, who was involved in a motorcycle accident last Friday while on his way to Suriname.

Denzil, also known as Damian, crashed into a tractor and was part of a group of bikers on the annual tour. Yesterday, hundreds from the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), local basketball fraternity, biker community and family and friends bid him farewell.

Liverpool was born on June 29, 1978 and attended St. Roses Secondary and Queens College. At the time of his death he was an Enforcement Officer at the Guyana Revenue Authority. He spent most of his senior basketball career at the Ravens Basketball Club.

Members from the biker community surround the hearse bearing the body of the late Damian Liverpool at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall yesterday

Mohamed cops MVP award as All Star takes Ramnarine Dominoes title Nazeer Mohamed marked 17 games, while Vijay Persaud chalked 17 to lead All Star, who totaled 80 games, to victory in the final of the Amit Ramnarine Dominoes competition which was played last Sunday at Carlosh Restaurant in Good Success, Wakenaam.

South Pole placed second

with 76, while Big Power who made 69 came third. Anand Dhanyshore scored 17 and Amit Ramnarine 15 games for the runner up team, while Mohamed Zafrull and Deonarine Gokool made 17 and 14 respectively for Big Power.

Nazeer Mohamed received a trophy and $5,000 for being the most

valuable player of the competition, while All Star collected a trophy and $20,000 for their effort.

Speaking at the presentation ceremony Amit Ramnarine who sponsored the tournament thanked the teams for participating and congratulated All Star on their performance.

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t r o Sp Serena Williams Gayle and Samuels wins 5th Wimbledon pummel New Zealand title in 3 sets destroyed New Zealand’s listless bowling to reach his 20th ODI hundred, a new West Indian record as he went past the great Brian Lara’s tally. It was also his fifth fifty-plus score in six innings since his international exile ended last month.

New Zealand’s bowlers were looking to exploit some of the early morning moisture in the track, but their only success was dismissing Lendl Simmons.

He fell for his sixth successive score under 20 after returning to the West Indies side, chasing an away-going delivery from Tim Southee in the fourth over. Any hopes of keeping the batsmen under pressure

Marlon Samuels takes a single.

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t is a rarity these days for West Indies to enter a series as overwhelming favourites but it hasn’t taken them long to show how much of a gulf exists between them and New Zealand. On the same Sabina Park track on which New Zealand stuttered to 190 two days ago, West Indies bludgeoned 315 in the second ODI. It was more comfortable win than the 55run margin suggests, and d e s p i t e B J Wa t l i n g ’s enterprising innings, New Zealand never really threatened to pull off a win.

Contrasting centuries from local heroes Chris Gayle and Marlon Samuels kept the Jamaican crowd

entertained in the morning, as the innings unfolded with the noisy chorus of vuvuzelas in the background.

In the blockbuster Jaws, the police chief memorably deadpans, “We are going to need a bigger boat,” on seeing the giant killer shark for the first time.

International bowlers will have similar sentiments on seeing Chris Gayle walk out to bat. Once again he made a cricket ground seem tiny as he hit nine sixes in another exhibition of his ability to make power-hitting look effortless.

With his father, sister and several other family members watching, Gayle

were swiftly and brutally dashed. In the next over, Gayle launched New Z e a l a n d ’s b o w l i n g spearhead Kyle Mills for three sixes over mid-off.

Though he repeatedly dispatched the ball into the stands, Gayle’s innings was not all slam-bang. There was plenty of discretion as he regularly let deliveries go through to the keeper or watchfully defended them.

When he did decide to attack, his shots were almost always in the V, unlike the Twenty20-era slogger ’s preferred thwack to midwicket.

After the early punishment, New Zealand’s quicker bowlers adapted (Continued on page 58)

Chris Gayle hits a boundaryto get to his 20th ODI century.

Serena Williams

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Serena Williams is back, and she looks almost as good as ever.

The 30-year-old American won her fifth Wimbledon title Saturday on Centre Court, beating Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 to claim her 14th major championship.

After hitting a backhand winner on match point, she fell onto her back to the grass. She then rose with a grin as big sister Venus - another five-time Wimbledon champion smiled and applauded, along with the rest of the crowd.

After shaking hands with Radwanska, Williams climbed into the box where her family was seated. She hugged her father, Venus, their mother and others. ‘’I can’t even describe it. I almost didn’t make it,’’ said Williams, who has battled health issues since winning the 2010 Wimbledon title. ‘’A few years ago, you know, I was in the hospital, and now I’m here again. It’s so worth it, and I’m so happy.’’

Out on court, Williams had little trouble at the start, using her hard serve and powerful groundstrokes to win the first five games and run Radwanska all over the grass.

Radwanska, who was playing in her first Grand Slam final, has been ill with a respiratory problem, making it difficult for her to speak. In the second set and already down a break, the third-seeded Pole was coughing and blowing her nose during a changeover.

But she broke Williams in the next game to even the score at 4-4, and then broke again to win the second set.

Williams responded in the third set, taking the last five games of the match. She finished with 58 winners to 13 for Radwanska, including an edge of 20-3 in the final set.

Williams lost only eight points on her first serve. ‘’Aggie played so well. That’s why she has had such a great career, and so young,’’ Williams told the crowd. ‘’You guys should give her another round of applause because she’s amazing and she did an amazing job today.’’

The match was played with the Centre Court roof open, (Continued on page 58)

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