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Monday July 30, 2012

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Despite million$$ spent…

Control Tower equipment not functioning effectively Equipment costing close to $1B which were installed over the past two years by government at the Civil Aviation Authority control tower, Timehri, are not functioning to full capacity, according to Flight Control Officers.

Though, admitting that their operations have improved with the communication and navigation equipment by at least 200 percent, they contended value for money is lacking. This is primarily because of the absence of real time surveillance capability and constant failures of programmes.

“The navigation aspect is fine, sending its signal…The communication is basically okay… The surveillance capability is there but they haven’t paid for the satellite service and did not install some key components that allow us to see aircraft in real time,” said a flight control officer.

According to Civil Aviation Authority Chief Executive Officer, Zulfikar Mohammed, modernization of equipment and building commenced in 2010. It primarily focused on the enhancement of equipment that were installed about 30 years ago. The upgrade has about two more years and will require Government to spend about $500M more.

“In the end we will have modern equipment that is compatible to what is required

by International Civil Aviation,” Mohammed said.

He related that under Civil Aviation Authority’s Communication Navigation and Surveillance plan, communication and navigation equipment have been purchased. The surveillance equipment is yet to be in place but the platform exists. The surveillance equipment is proposed in Civil Aviation Authority’s budget for next year.

“So far, we have changed all our communication equipment-radios which communicate with the aircraft; also the data and voice links between contiguous states- Suriname, Trinidad, Venezuela and Brazil… The equipment allowing the transfer and receipt of data has been changed.”

“The navigation aspect is VOR/DME. We had the VOR but no DME. The VOR gives the aircraft direction- it’s a homing beacon that aircraft tunes into and it could fly towards that. The DME tells the distance away from that homing device. The DME is

used by aircraft controllers to narrow down you separation standards, distance and time as well as altitude,” Mohammed said.

It is projected that by 2014 the tower will be at the level of surveillance capability where aircrafts will be seen in real time. In the interim, estimates and mappings, which require manual input of data to show the position of aircrafts, are being used.

Flight Control Officers, who believe that the project is being poorly managed, said this is unacceptable. They contended that all components of the project could have been met if money was used to purchase equipment for each component.

“There were some officers who observed where things were heading but warnings were not heeded. We end up in a predicament where we have the equipment but they do not function to its full capacity,” one officer stated.

He lamented, “We haven’t gotten value for money. We could have gotten more. They can’t even commission the equipment yet because it is not functioning effectively.”

It was noted that equipment were installed in April 2011 but still changes are being made to modify the

equipment. Intelcan, the company that was awarded the contract, constantly has to rewrite programmes for the equipment which are mainly computer base.

“We don’t know if the programme manager didn’t explain to the people properly because some of the programmes don’t function as they should. Everything we have to call the people and make changes and these changes are not simple changes, they have to go back and write computer programmes. When you put in one command you are getting another. It’s all computer based so it takes time. It is not a one size fit all,” they stressed. There is a twoyear warrantee on the equipment but there is a possibility the warrantee will be up and the company will still have to write programmes, which will be costly.

Another problem that affects operations at the control tower is limited human resources.

With the implementation of the new equipment, officers had warned Civil Aviation Authority that more staff members were needed. But, again their requests were not heeded and as such staff cannot focus on flight control.

The Private Sector Commission, reeling from the effects of the Linden standoff, is urging the Government to take prompt action and set target closure times for the implementation of several proposed projects and interventions in the mining town, where there have been accusations of promises made but not kept.

In a statement issued recently, the PSC wants the government to liberalise television broadcasting in the Linden area in keeping with democratic norms, giving particular support to Trade and Skill development programming.

It also wants the government to create a skilled, qualified and empowered team of civil society leaders with the vision to deal with the issue of economic development in the Linden area; a team that will work along with people of Linden and the appropriate government ministries to turn Linden into the Manaus of Guyana. Additionally the Commission is calling for the re-establishment of a Micro-

Finance scheme using the successful SEBRAE management and outreach model.

To facilitate this, the PSC said it is committed to working closely with the Government of Guyana and Region Ten stakeholders to help create the management structures and also to promote agricultural development in that region.

This position follows meetings between the private sector and other stakeholders on the linden matter.

Over the past week the PSC has had meetings with the Government of Guyana, APNU, the AFC, the Chairman of Region Ten and the Parliamentary representatives for Linden.

On Thursday last, a Private Sector team led by the Chairman of the PSC also travelled to Linden to meet with stakeholders and business interests there.

“We wish to record our appreciation to all individuals, institutions and political parties who met with us and shared information and voiced their concerns and the

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Staffing process for Family Court underway Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall has announced that two contracts have been awarded for the provision of necessary furnishings for the newly constructed Family Court.

Nandlall made the announcement while responding to a question posed by APNU’s member Volda Lawrence.

According to the Nandlall, the other aspects required for the operationalisation of the court, such as staffing and presiding judges are matters that have to be addressed at the levels of the judiciary and the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).

In terms of staffing, the Minister noted said that a process has been activated between the Registrar of the Supreme Court and the Public Service Ministry for the creation of new posts for persons who will be serving in the Family Court.

He said that the process is ongoing; vacancies are being created and persons are being shortlisted for interviews.

The responsibility of the appointment of judges does not fall under the ambit of Central Government but rather with the JSC, and according to Nandlall that body is already in the process of interviewing prospective

- JSC interviewing prospective judges candidates.

Moreover, the Judiciary is responsible for identifying the date and time frame for cases to be heard.

Nandlall noted that in making the court operational, an important prerequisite is the completion of the Family Court rules.

That, he said, has also been completed and transmitted to the Clerk of the National Assembly to comply with the formal requirements of gazetting and would be subsequently laid in the House.

Nandlall had stated that the Family Court will help agencies such as the Child Care and Protection Agency to function more efficiently. It will allow adults and children to seek redress and for family law issues such as divorce, division of property, domestic disputes, adoption, guardianship and custody to be discussed in a specialised manner.

According to the Minister, he has no doubt that having a specialized court to deal exclusively with family and children-related matters would be a tremend ous boost for the entire justice system.

“With a specialized court, it would certainly bring speed to the resolutions of family-

- urges removal of blockades positions of their parties and institutions. Whilst the issue started with the dissent over electricity tariffs, Guyanese have since lost their lives and suffered serious injuries. The issue of tariffs has now taken second place, to investigations into the fatalities, but still requires a collective resolution by all interest groups, supported by sound technical data,” the PSC said.

Arising out of the rounds of meetings, the Private Sector Commission urged the President of Guyana to have a Commission of Inquiry, and an independent Pathologist as well as to personally address the nation.

All of this was done, the PSC said. The body also met with the Commissioner of Police who, together with his team, provided his views on the serious nature of what transpired at Linden. “The private sector has resolved to respect the findings of the independent Commission of Inquiry.”

“The PSC wishes to stress that the present action to block access roads to the interior and industrial activities in Linden is causing businesses to lose millions of dollars each day in local and export revenues and will ultimately result in a loss of employment opportunities that may take years to regain.

Ordinary Guyanese people and employees in Linden and adjacent areas are not being paid and are already suffering and facing severe hardships.

Although what has transpired is most unfortunate certain key steps have been agreed

related disputes, which, unless they are resolved quickly, normally have devastating consequences on the lives of the persons involved, especially the children, which could cause social problems that pervade our society, including crime.”

Nandlall said that in recognition of the importance of having a speedy resolution of these cases, the Executive, in conjunction with the Judiciary, decided to establish the court.

Additionally, he noted, in the Ninth Parliament, the administration passed legislation to modernize the statutory landscape in Guyana with regards to children.

These include the new Adoption Act, the Custody Act and the Guardianship Act. Former Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Priya Manickchand, had said that the initiative of a Family Court was prompted by the awareness that the family unit is severely affected by societal demoralization. In early 2009, Cabinet granted a two-fold approval to establish the court and erect a structure in the compound of the Supreme Court where the entity would be housed.

to and the time has come for this situation to be speedily resolved. We therefore urge the immediate and voluntary removal of the roadblocks.

The future of our country and the economic well being of the people of not only Linden but also all the four regions being affected are at stake.

Job creation requires the investment of private capital in a low risk environment,” the PSC stated.

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Editorial

Coalitions anyone?

Mention the word “coalition” and most Guyanese think ‘politics’. This might be quite understandable in light of the central place that politics plays in our national life but in the big picture, it is unfortunate. Coalitions are a mechanism for telescoping the achievement of almost any social goal that one may conceive.

Beyond a shadow of doubt, there are any number of worthwhile goals outside the political realm that need to be achieved so that we may become a more cohesive and fulfilled society. Right off the bat we can think of addressing violence – be it domestic or criminal - alcoholism, poverty, crime, etc. As a thought exercise, one can conjure up any of the various ailments that are exposed daily in our newspapers and we will quickly appreciate the benefits of pooling our efforts in order to root them out.

A coalition is merely a coming together of various groups in a temporary alliance to tackle a problem or to achieve a common goal by engaging in joint activity for a period of time. Very few coalitions are permanent and, typically, when the goals are achieved, the partners go on with their agendas that may differ in other regards. At the most mundane level, the formation of coalitions enables the resources available for tackling the identified problem to grow. This increase is not just the arithmetic of simple addition but through the possibilities and benefits of reaching a critical mass, it becomes exponential. There is always strength in numbers.

In the US, an object lesson in the power of coalitions can be seen in the growth and success of the environmental movement. Sprouting up in various locales, especially since the sixties when the effects of environmental pollution was literally coming to the surface, these groups formed coalitions that effectively challenged the corporate world that was behind the environmental degradation in their unbridled pursuit of profits. In this effort, they showed that they could play the same game – and better – as big business in getting behind and backing political candidates that were supportive of their interests.

The whole welter of environmental legislation that has so profoundly altered the way US corporations can do business is a direct result of the efforts of the coalitions of environmental groups in that country. In the last couple of decades, there has been the internationalising of such coalitions and they have also succeeded at the global level.

Coalition building is not black magic: it just needs that some prerequisites be satisfied. There are three basic steps.

In the beginning at least, one of the groups must recognise that they share similar or comparable goals and that secondly, working not only in tandem but together will enable all of them to easier achieve those goals. Thirdly, and as importantly, the initiator will have to demonstrate quite clearly that the benefits of the coalition will outweigh the costs. These costs are rarely material since coalitions typically increase the physical and financial resources while opening up the number of contacts available to each group.

The costs go mainly to the matter of ego: most activist groups are dominated by individuals that would rather remain as big fishes in small ponds. One can only think of our several consumer advocacy groups.

In a more principled vein, some groups may have problems with the modus operandi of other groups and even be at variance on issues outside the one in which a coalition is being sought. The leaders of these latter groups can comfort themselves that at least a portion of their agenda is being advanced by the possible coalition and that in any case, the latter is temporary.

Another major hurdle that has to be overcome is the “disequilibrium of size”. The larger groups may see the smaller ones as not their equals and even as “free riders” and adopt a dog-in-the-manger approach in working relationships.

These issues may be addressed by the incentive of the greater legitimacy conferred by the wider agglomeration of groups but ultimately it comes down to the maturity of the leaders of the larger potential or actual coalition partners.

In the real world, however, the scorecard clearly demonstrates that the benefits of forming coalitions far outweigh the disadvantages. We hope that our groups in Guyana take heed.

Monday July 30, 2012

Letters... Where your views make the news

Ralph Seeram should ask whether it is the PPP that wants to take Guyana back to the sixties DEAR EDITOR, Ralph Seeram, sitting in his perch in North America, plays a good blame game. His piece titled “Does the opposition want to take Guyana back to the sixties” (KN, July 29, 2012) is the kind of dastardly intellectual revisionism and fraudulence that frightens this country.

When Seeram states he doesn’t want to talk about the sixties, he is refusing to discuss the PPP’s role in the ethnic tension and despair of the sixties. He wants to talk about the nasty PNC racialism but doesn’t want to address the PPP’s dirty Apaan Jhaat politics. He forgets the PPP brought itself down from power by its rank ideological senselessness where diehard communists failed to see the PNC monster they would create by their ideological selfishness and foolishness.

They have also created through this communist party the greatest pack of monstrous thieves and corrupters too.

That selfishness by the communist illusionists enraged the real power brokers in Guyana (British and Americans) and they worked overtime to democratically remove the PPP from power. I hear nothing of Cheddi Jagan’s hasty and reckless decision

to endorse proportional representation as the system of voting in the 1964 election.

Cheddi Jagan’s communist dreamers felt that somehow a divided country where he won just 42.6% of the vote in 1961 would vote for his communist bilge in 1964. This ideological hauteur came back to haunt Indians who were left in the wilderness for 28 years because of these dreamers and their misguided delusions.

Uncompromising PPP communists led to the PNC dictatorship. Ideological blindness and childishness led to Indian victimization for 28 years. Same goes for the PNC socialist dreamers who ended up with empty power, hollow fancy titles and economic destitution.

Cheddi Jagan did not stand a chance against the British and the Americans while playing communist in their backyard.

The PPP played a heavy hand in toppling itself from power in 1964 with its idiotic moves. The PPP played a major role in Burnham’s rise to power. The PPP’s failure to compromise or even pretend to compromise like Burnham did to gain power showed its ideological blindness, political naiveté and horrendous decision-

making. Indians paid a price for this incompetence and are doing so today for this ineptitude all over again.

These PPP actions that caused its downfall are no different from the utter stupidity of the PNC in leaving that 1980 constitution monstrosity intact when it knew it was going to lose power and that the PPP would use that constitution to brutalize this country and marginalize Africans. These are the political ignoramuses we have been saddled with since 1950. They have not changed.

The monster of racial trepidation that we cannot control today is not from the PNC and UF only; the PPP had an equal hand in racial tension in this country. The so-called monster of Linden was created by the PPP. Before three men were shot by forces loyal to the PPP government, there were seemingly calculated and racially charged acts in this country up to that point.

Seeram seems to obliterate the following from his mind (1) the PPP accused the PNC of rigging the election when the PPP controlled the election machinery (2) the PPP’s mouthpiece, the Guyana Chronicle, publish a searingly racist editorial which enraged Africans

throughout Guyana (3) the PPP bigwigs never apologized to this day for the editorial (4) some PPP barkers sought to defend it as factual (4) the PPP did not have heavily armed forces at a sugar workers’ protest in Albion that started before Linden but it did so for Linden (5) the PPP sent forces from Georgetown to Linden but sent none to Albion (6) the racist editorial specifically referenced Linden (7) shortly after the election, the PPP blamed Indians for voting in a manner that could have caused it to lose power to the PNC (8) a top PPP leader stated before the election that no Africans were qualified for ambassador posts and (9) the PPP failed to listen to Lindeners begging for tariffs to be gradually increased while it imposed this abrupt hike triggering the protest.

Linden never demanded freeness of the kind that those humongous salaries paid through OP to shocking incompetents represent.

Outright jokers are collecting a sultan’s sum from their friends on taxpayers’ backs.

Why didn’t the PPP stop their subsidy? Seeram has to be an absolute fraud if he believes the opposition is to be blamed for inciting peaceful protest. How the hell Continued on page 5

We must dismantle the racist victim themes now used for sinister political agendas DEAR EDITOR, I have known Hubert Edwards and his wife Parvati for some thirty years. The complex implications of an interracial marriage though somewhat common with other Guyanese was always back then a contention with the rural Indo Guyanese communities whose attachments to arcane and atavistic dogmas and their interpretations had fermented extreme dictates that left no room for individuality and the complex chemistry that governs relationships. I cannot describe ParvatiPersaud except to say over the years I had decided to keep a safe distance from her as she seemed to possess a strange nondescript personality.

Adam Harris captured her as I knew her over the years in his May 27, 2012 kaieteur News article. More important than Parvati is the July 3, 2012 editorial she wrote in our supposed to be national newspaper the Chronicle, that challenges us to rise to the responsibility and recognize that there exists a ready ‘Stock reference file’ of ‘Racist Victim Themes, cultivated through a

mythic memory’ that have been utilized effectively by the PPP in the early years of its political advent realizing the power of belief and the mammoth task to dispel such beliefs, rather than just use them. The same was used over the last fifteen years by GIFT, ROAR, CHANNEL 69 and GIHA to demonize Afro Guyanese and keep these groups in distinct political camps through sustaining the existence of fear.

Though the accusations of these ‘ Racist Themes’ have always been proven without substance, yet the same Themes reappear. Because the roots of these belief systems rest in the archetypical imprints of another age. My early childhood was spent with my godparents at Mahaica, This was a mixed rural community and next to us lived a dynamic Indo Guyanese woman named ‘Buck Mai’ who was a practicing Hindu. Sheila was her granddaughter and of mixed heritage, and a big sister to me. Of the many stories she had interpreted from the Hindu narratives was the origin of the African race,

and précised it goes like this; “The epitome of Hindu womanhood ‘Sita’ was stolen

by Ravana the king of Lanka and Rama her husband sent Hanuman the Monkey man to rescue her, with his tail he burned down Lanka [ Ceylon/ Sri Lanka] in the process of burning down Lanka the fire was responsible for changing the hair of the populace to that of the tight knit curls of Africans and their complexion to the ebony and browns of the African.” Thus the perception of the African man through a myth in relation to the Indian woman, and a clarification for a specific type of mutilation inflicted on murdered Afro males during the crisis of the sixties. The complete narrative of this story can be found in the Ramayana. I have never read the original story in the Ramayana; I have read adaptations in other publications and no such definitions mentioned above were alluded to.

But I am certain that its influence inspired racist notions about African peoples as it was used as a derogatory reference by my

Indo Guyanese peers from the next village back then on the Coast. I can recall raising this before I left that area with an Indo Guyanese who was highly respected by almost every one; he was a WW11 veteran and was called ‘Yogi’.

He confirmed it as an interpretation and gave me some explanations and some experiences he had endured in trying to become a Pandit ; he was darker than most Afro villagers. He explained the existence of the caste system to me and the preoccupation with ‘Varna’ as related to pigmentation that possessed the consciousness of his people.

Cheddi Jagan in his biography ‘The West on Trial’ dealt with the aberrations and injustice of the Caste consciousness active on the Estate communities, himself being a victim of it. He also narrated his metamorphosis into the Creole world that enveloped him and then embraced him on the levels of common ideas, but according to Eusi Kwayana, when Indo Guyanese PPP supporters Continued on page 5

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Letters... Where your views make the news... Letters... Where your views make the news Mr. Seeram: What if three cane-cutters were killed by the police in a similar scenario?

DEAR EDITOR, I enjoyed reading Ralph Seeram’s article titled: “The Opposition wants to take Guyana back to the Sixties” (KN, July 29th).

Seeram makes nicesounding arguments: Opposition must share the blame, their backing out of the negotiations led to protests which in turn led to deaths of three protesters; no condemnation of so-called “peaceful protesters” who are engaged in banditry etc.

Seeram also raised the specter of the 1960’s racial conflict: Opposition in that bygone era created a “monster” which they could not control.

The reality is that a repeat of the Sixties is not likely to happen. Why not? Those disturbances of the Sixties were designed and paid for by the CIA and had a clear objective, namely, to bring down the government. Today no foreign govt. is interfering in anything.

Still, could a purely internal political matter lead to racial conflict today? This is still an open question.

And, Seeram, as a weekly columnist has great responsibilities in helping to shape public opinion to avoid the possibility of racial

conflicts re-emerging in Guyana. All of our politics are still openly racial. Those recent campaigns were all about ethnic voting for ethnic parties.

We still have ethnic parties openly practicing racial politics today, long after their founder-leaders for life have passed on. If Seeram would use his powerful pen to help end the existence of ethnic parties – and if it does come to an end - then we would be able to guarantee that racial conflict would never return to the fatherland.

I also think Mr. Seeram has studiously and deliberately avoided the core issue of this “Linden crisis”.

The core issue is : Should police use live bullets and shoot to kill peaceful protesters, even if they blocked a bridge and disregarded police warnings?

Tear gas and water cannons have been proven to be effective weapons to disperse protesters the world over.

So why did the police shoot to kill? Who gave the order? Home Affairs Minister Rohee has to take personal and collective responsibility for these deaths. He does not understand his basic

Ministerial responsibility. He lacks the education and training to understand it.

Rohee created the anythinggoes culture in law enforcement that allowed these killings of peaceful protesters to take place.

Rohee and his staff should have been monitoring the event in realtime on cell- and I-phones, and should have been in communication minute-byminute with the Police Commander on the scene. In any event a Police Commander cannot give shoot-to-kill orders when he is dealing with protesters.

Such decisions should have been above his pay-grade; these are decisions that can be made only by the HomeAffairs Minister or the President.

Minister Rohee must resign today and let the president appoint a welleducated and trained professional to take over the law enforcement portfolio.

One last question for Mr. Seeram: Would you make the same nice neat arguments to defend the government, if three cane-cutters were killed by the police in a similar scenario?

Mike Persaud

Ralph Seeram should ask whether it is...

From page 4 does one incite peaceful protest? Does Seeram know the violence came in the aftermath of the senseless killings of their own? Did Seeram know that when Lusignaners saw their own slaughtered they violently protested?

Where does Seeram believe opposition politicians should be - in government support areas? Lindeners planned to protest for five days. Senseless killings occurred by PPP-commanded police before the five days were completed. Now, we have protests and blockades lasting longer over those killings. The actions of the police led to this. The PPP either directly commanded the PPP to shoot or the PPP deliberately left the police to do its own thing knowing full well that to do either act could lead to killings which could escalate conflict and racial tensions in Guyana.

Seeram is truly wrong.

When it took those steps and actions I have outlined and in particular that nasty editorial and its stunning silence to it, the PPP may have sought to create a monster that it now realizes it cannot control. The monster is not the one some ethnic entrepreneurs expected and wanted. The complete racial explosion of this country some may have wanted did

not materialize. Instead, peaceful protest is killing the plans of the race dividers seeking to return their own to the ethnic fear trap.

Taking isolated incidents of a handful of vagrants from a community of tens of thousands to use to depict an entire community is the kind of filthy generalization and gross depiction that the Chronicle editorial masqueraded. Seeram should know better. Should the banditry within government and the corruption and magnificent salaries paid for no or little work be used to generalize an entire ethnic group or community?

Where has Seeram seen the breakdown of law and order in Linden except for the blockades? Again, if he could provide us with evidence of a pattern of sustained lawlessness, we will allow him this point. There is more lawlessness, thievery, looting, robbery, corruption, wrongdoing and skulduggery occurring on a daily basis in the PPP’s government offices by PPP agents than there is in Linden.

Lindeners will have to remove the blockades but

Seeram has not called for the Albion sugar strikers to remove their blockade. Some will peacefully protest more than others and if you kill their own, their resolve to protest will harden more than others. Not because some refuse to protest injustice or protest less, it means others must do so.

When you forcefully strike at people, you must comprehend their capacity to strike back in protest. Seeram cannot wave his wand and expect everyone must and will subscribe to the same grief, hurt, pain and sense of outrage over anything.

People express their pain differently. The same applies to those who may seek to inflame ethnic tensions in this country for short term political gains; some will suffer more than others while all will suffer and this country becomes a land of suffering.

M. Maxwell

We must dismantle the racist victim...

From page 4 complained to him about Africans employed at Freedom house he resorted to tell them “I employ Africans at Freedom house because Indians cannot work the Linotype machines.”

Kwayana contended that Jagan could not say to Indians that “African people are there brothers.” Kwayana declared that “He cannot even fight against his own slavery; cannot even carry out a revolution within himself” Eusi Kwayana was correct , because Jagan’s communist agenda was an extension of Janet’s quest, and she did not come to British Guiana to sing Chowtal or Queh-queh songs.

They both accommodated the antique prejudices that were a pool of readymade fanatical support.

Some years ago I met and implored an historian and writer of Indian heritage to conduct a programme that would explore the pre Aryan civilizations of India before the caste system and the eventual Aryan arrival and impositions through ‘The Laws of Manu’ as I had bought this book and had digested its frightening tenets [The Nazis used these codes as a guide to develop their 1933 racial laws; ] this would create a timeline that would provide a reference and understanding of the archetypes of a three thousand, five hundred year colonization and its impediments for those still contained by the same religious and political influences.

He told me that politicians, religious leaders and certain business enterprises benefited from these bigotries. He understood that towards a more democratic nation this type of enlightenment would be liberating, I did refer to an article written by a brethren ‘Abu Bakr’ Sept. 11, 2004 Stabroek News, that pronounced “ Once the idea of ethnic exclusivity goes so does Roar.” He agreed, but the learned historian just didn’t need the conflict. I do hope he reads this letter because

eight years later an Indo Guyanese colleague after a fact finding visit to the National Archives’ declared to me that he was ‘nothing’ upon discovering that he was a Chamaar, I proceeded to explain to him that the Dravidian darker peoples of India were its forerunners of civilization and that the Brahmins were nomadic barbarians.. I got that look of disbelief, he had never heard that stuff before and was confused because most of the literature prized by Indians were the glorification of the Aryan colonization period; I even made a copy of a University of Guyana History Gazette publication, Jan.1990 by E. Sa Visswanathan, titled ‘A Preliminary Study of the Madrasis of Guyana’ but he seemed in-between about the sudden line of study.

Clem Seecharan deals with the subject of discussion in his book “India and the Shaping of the IndoGuyanese Imagination 1890’s-1920’s”, thus the privilege by the PPP to exploit the ‘Racist Themes’ which have conveniently never been debunked remain intact, though eroded by human contact and assimilation, but a useful tool to communities culturally isolated from the mainstream, like the Indo Guyanese Lusignan resident that shouted in the face of Minister Robeson Benn “ How yuh’s Minister wuh mek yuh Minister?/?” in the wake of the Lusignan massacre.

To conclude this aspect of social analysis we must also identify that the two major groups evolved from different social orientations, MatriarchalAfrican; Patriarchal- Indo-Guyanese; two opposing systems of social management. This data would serve to clarify elements of domestic abuse, homophobia, Industrial relations etc. Had the ERC been properly constituted with a serious agenda and the adequate expertise, the above would have surely met its attention for discussion and dissemination. Anthony [Bishop Edghill j Cummings did not have the integrity,

understanding or humanity to manage an Ethnic Relations anything, for example; Then leader of the PNC-R Robert Corbin had on the 11, July, 2006 at the city hall described Cummings as “Bishop Edghill is a PPP house slave who has disenfranchised African Guyanese during the floods.”

The ERC contended that this was a racist remark that needed investigation. Six years later the most vicious racist editorial penned by Parvati that defines all people of African blood as envious and psychopathic emerged in the public domain and this same Bishop Edghill endorses its content.

This person has demonstrated an obliviousness to principles and character and a banal treacherous opportunism. An organizational concept like the ERC, if it must exist, cannot persist in the hands of many of its previous staff.

In concluding I must add that the sojourn into the New World of Afro Guyanese has also been filled with mutations; Golly wags, Colonial Jumbies, House and Bedroom slaves and Petty Chieftains, mutations it took the Afro community some two hundred years to understand and identify.

Interactions with Continental Africans in relation to our differences and common links have been very inspiring. In doing research on the Orisha back in the 80’s I approached a Professor from Nigeria then at UG, the man snapped at me in a guttural African accent “I am not a Yoruba man”, and walked away, I got the data later from another African , Prof. Mrs. Odeala James. Eddy Grant once told me that “We’re the Steel who’ve survived the holocaust, the brothers on the continent are still iron ore”.

We in Guyana are in a unique state of social evolution, thus we must dismantle °The Racist victim Themes’ now used for sinister political agendas.

Barrington Braithwaite

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Beware of ‘Wild Men’ in our midst - Corbin tells PNCR Congress

Party Leader Robert Corbin, delivers his final address in that capacity

Phillip Bynoe

PNCR’s Robert Corbin, in his final address to his party as Leader, decided that he would “bare his chest,” and singled out former Executive Members Joe Hamilton and Phillip Bynoe, as “the Wild Men in our midst.”

Even as he hinted at a “tell all” Memoirs, Corbin ‘walked’ into Bynoe and Hamilton as the party’s 17 th Biennial Congress got underway on Friday last at Congress Place.

“Beware of the Wild Men in our midst who have their nefarious agendas,” roared Corbin, even as he directed a message to Lindeners to maintain “the struggle” and warned party activists to “be aware of, and not be misled by those who seek to use the genuine problems of the citizens of Linden to satisfy their own partisan, political agendas or to achieve public recognition.”

Repeatedly referring to Bynoe as the “Wild Man,” Corbin warned of others that would pose as soldiers in “when in fact they are agents of the enemy.”

“The PNCR has had a wealth of experience in these matters…These Wild Men have sometimes caused the unnecessary deaths of our comrades in various struggles,” said Corbin as he laid the deaths during the invasion of the Office of the President several years ago, squarely at the feet of Bynoe, who was “acting on behalf of the enemy.”

Corbin in his attempt to connect the dots using his hindsight vision of what had occurred, said “It is significant that the main

misleader of the struggle, waged a few years ago for better economic conditions across the country, deliberately violated the agreed plan and took a group of our marchers into the compound of the Office of the President.”

This, action according to Corbin, “led to the deaths of eight of our loyal comrades” who erroneously believed that they were carrying out Party instructions. “That wild man,” he said, “is equally as guilty for the death of our comrades as those who fired their guns that day.”

Corbin said that it was this “indisciplined act, or more correctly, the premeditated act of an enemy agent, that prematurely brought that struggle to an end.”

The Party leader who demitted office yesterday, told those gathered at Congress Place on Friday that, “It is known that the PNCR never planned to invade the Office of the President that day, but our Party had to bear the consequences of the indisciplined act of a few.”

The veteran politician told the party’s highest forum that, “In hindsight, we have to ask ourselves, how is it that the main ‘wild man’ was never captured for five years?….During this period, he boasted of having direct telephone contact with then President (Bharrat) Jagdeo.”

Corbin implored on his party and its supporters that “We also have to also ask ourselves how this same ‘wild man’ ended up as a Candidate and main campaigner in Region #10 for

Joe Hamilton, former PNCR Executive member turned PPP/C Executive the PPP/C at the 2011 General Elections.”

Speaking directly to the Region 10 mining town, which is currently described as “under siege”, Corbin said that they must remember that, it is this same ‘wild man’ who as a PNCR Member of Parliament voted with the PPP, “against his own Party’s position and facilitated the PPP’s sale of the Electricity generation facility at Linden to a private company called Texas Ohio.”

Corbin announced that this ‘Wild Man’ eventually became its Chief Local Executive Officer and Corbin said that “He too, with Prime Minister Mr. Sam Hinds, must answer for the electricity situation at Linden, which the PNCR warned about since then.”

The Former Opposition Leader in Parliament, who was recently honoured in the Chambers, told his party that as they reflect on the “Office of the President martyrs, it is also significant that in the midst of that debacle, another ‘wild man’, then a leading Executive Member of the PNCR, who knew differently, wrote a letter to the press under his own name with the caption, “The Mad Men at Congress who sanctioned the break-in at the Office of the President should hang their heads in shame.”

Corbin was on this occasion drawing reference to Joseph Hamilton the party’s former Executive Member.

“He knew that there was no such plan at Congress Place, yet he sought to create confusion and damage the image of our Party at a time when the Party needed unity and solidarity to rally in support of our fallen comrades who had been misled.”

Corbin revealed that it was no surprise to him that “he (Hamilton) too like the ‘wild man’ from Linden ended up being a Candidate for the PPP/C at the last elections and is now a non-voting Member of Parliament for that Party.”

Monday July 30, 2012

Justice eludes parents of child killed almost six years ago Six years after the driver of a speeding car killed his nine-year-old son, Deodat Loaknauth remains angry, despondent and bewildered that the culprit will never spend a single day behind bars.

He feels betrayed by the police, let down by his lawyers, and frustrated that an appeal he made to the highest office in the land came to naught.

If ever there was a case of justice delayed and denied, it might be this one.

On August 7, 2006, Ramesh Loaknauth was struck down by a hire car driver in front of his parents’ home at Dryshore, Essequibo Coast. He never regained consciousness and died seven days later in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

Mr. Loaknauth has said that their son was heading to a nearby shop when the car struck him. They alleged that the driver stopped momentarily but then drove away.

Deodat Loaknauth said it was left to him to take his unconscious son to the Suddie Public Hospital some three miles away. He was then advised to take the child to Georgetown, and that meant that he had to hire a plane to take his boy to the city.

After a CT scan at the Woodlands Hospital, Ramesh Loaknauth was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the GPHC. On August 14, he passed away.

Mr. Loaknauth alleged that the driver was eventually arrested but was released on $35,000 bail the same day.

“They told me that they can’t charge the man. They never gave me a reason why they couldn’t hold the man the 72 hours.”

At the very least, he had expected that the case would have been heard in the courts within a few days. But a month passed and the accused driver had still not been charged. Mr. Loaknauth took his case to the Police Complaints Authority.

Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority Cecil Kennard contacted former Police Commissioner Henry Greene requesting a response on the matter. Four months passed without a response.

Mr. Kennard again contacted Commissioner Greene. In a letter dated January 2, 2007, he stated: “The complaint was lodged at my office since 6th September 2006. Despite a lapse of four months the relevant report has not been forwarded to this office.

“I am of the view that someone is dragging his (her)

feet on the matter. This is not good for the image of the Guyana Police Force. One is left to conclude that an attempt is being made to shield the driver of the vehicle involved in the accident. In order to avoid this impression, every effort should be made to have the relevant report forwarded to this office as soon as possible,” Kennard’s letter stated.

The following month, Mr. Loaknauth received a letter from a police official who apologized for the delay in communicating with the stillgrieving father. The letter also informed the couple that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) had advised that an inquest be held into their son’s death.

Mr. Loaknauth also received a letter from the Police Complaints Authority informing him of the inquest.

However, Chairman of the Complaints Authority, Cecil Kennard advised the father that “it would be in your interest to seek the help of a lawyer with a view of bringing a civil action for damages for the death of your son as an inquest is likely to take an exceedingly long time to start.”

On January 11, 2007, Mr. Loaknauth wrote to then President Bharrat Jagdeo.

The office of the President acknowledged receipt of his letter.

In a correspondence dated January 12, 2007, an attorney for Mr. Loaknauth informed the accused driver that he was preparing to seek damages in excess of $1M, “for the loss of the life of his son by the fatal accident involving you.”

The correspondence noted that this was “separate and independent to any criminal proceedings which may be taken against you by the police.”

But it was still a case of delayed justice for the Loaknauths.

Almost 11 months after their son had died, the inquest had still not begun.

Mr. Kennard informed Police Commissioner Henry Greene that the witnesses were not turning up. He appealed to Greene to ensure that the witnesses appear at the next hearing.

By then the Loaknauths had already filed criminal charges against the driver.

In 2010, the inquest ended, and a five-member jury ruled that the hire car driver was culpable in the death of nine-year-old Ramesh Loaknauth.

“We ruled that the man must be charged for causing death by dangerous driving,” one juror told Kaieteur News.

Dead: Ramesh Loaknauth The source also said that the severity of the child’s injuries, which included fractured ribs, suggested that the driver was speeding when the accident occurred.

But to Mr. Loaknauth’s dismay, he was informed that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) had advised that the accused driver could not be charged for causing his son’s death.

In a letter, DPP Shalimar Ali-Hack explained that Mr. Loaknauth had filed private criminal charges against the driver before the completion of the inquest.

“A person can only be charged once for an offence.

Since a private charge has already been instituted, the police cannot now institute a second charge,” the DPP’s statement said.

Mr. Loaknauth told Kaieteur News that even the private criminal charge he had filed brought the family no justice.

According to him, the case was thrown out after some of the police witnesses repeatedly failed to turn up.

He expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the work of the attorney he had retained for this case.

What is still unclear is what caused the police investigation to be delayed to the point where Mr. Loaknauth became so frustrated that he had to resort to filing private criminal charges.

But there is now nothing that the still grieving father can do, even though he still occasionally sees the driver who snuffed out his son’s life.

To add to his sense of injustice, Mr. Loaknauth claims that the driver sometimes grins at him.

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Kaieteur News

Romney talks tough on Iran during visit to Israel JERUSALEM (Reuters) Republican candidate Mitt Romney, presenting himself as Israel’s best friend in the November 6 presidential election, said yesterday that “any and all measures” must be used to keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

A top aide said Romney would support an Israeli military strike if all options had been exhausted, but the candidate himself balked at repeating that position.

In a foreign policy speech in Jerusalem, Romney voiced strong support for the alliance between the United States and Israel and seemed to suggest that President Barack Obama had let the relationship flounder.

“We cannot stand silent as those who seek to undermine Israel voice their criticisms. And we certainly should not join in that criticism. Diplomatic distance in public between our nations emboldens Israel’s adversaries,” said Romney,

Mitt Romney the walls of the Old City lining the hilltop behind him.

The former Massachusetts governor was in Jerusalem on the second leg of a trip to strengthen his foreign policy credentials in his race to unseat Obama.

“We should employ any and all measures to dissuade the Iranian regime from its nuclear course, and it is our fervent hope that diplomatic and economic measures will

do so. In the final analysis, of course, no option should be excluded. We recognize Israel’s right to defend itself, and that it is right for America to stand with you,” he said.

Though he adopted an aggressive tone, Romney did not go as far as his senior foreign policy advisor, Dan Senor, who said earlier: “If Israel has to take action on its own, in order to stop Iran from developing that capability, the governor would respect that decision.”

The aide’s comments put Romney at odds with Obama’s efforts to press Israel to avoid any preemptive strike before tough Western economic sanctions against Iran run their course.

The failure of talks between Iran and six world powers to secure a breakthrough in curbing what the West fears is a drive to develop nuclear weapons has raised international concern that Israel may opt for a military strike.

Eurogroup chair sees decisions soon in debt crisis

BERLIN (AP) — The German and Italian leaders issued a new pledge to protect the eurozone, while the influential eurogroup chairman was quoted yesterday as saying that officials have no time to lose and will decide in the coming days what measures to take.

The weekend comments capped a string of assurances from European leaders that they will do everything they can to save the 17-nation euro.

They came before markets open for a week in which close attention will be focused on Thursday’s monthly meeting of the European Central Bank’s policy-setting governing council.

Last Thursday, ECB President Mario Draghi said the bank would do “whatever it takes” to preserve the euro — and markets surged on hopes of action.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and

Italian Premier Mario Monti “agreed that Germany and Italy will do everything to protect the eurozone” in a phone conversation Saturday, German government spokesman Georg Streiter said, a statement that was echoed by Monti’s office.

That was nearly identical to a statement issued Friday by Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, which followed Draghi’s comments.

Though they didn’t pledge any specific action, the comments raised expectations that the ECB might step in to buy Spanish and perhaps Italian government bonds to lower the countries’ borrowing costs, which have been worryingly high in recent weeks. Another possibility might be for the eurozone’s temporary rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, to buy bonds.

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Syria says it recaptures Aleppo district after battle ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian troops said they had recaptured a district of Syria’s largest city Aleppo, after heavy fighting against rebels who remain in control of swathes of the commercial hub despite being pushed out of the capital Damascus.

The past two weeks have seen forces of President Bashar al-Assad struggle as never before to maintain their grip on the country after a major rebel advance into the two main cities and a July 18 explosion that killed four top security officials.

Government forces have succeeded in imposing their grip on Damascus but rebel fighters gained control of parts of Aleppo, a city of 2.5 million people, where Reuters journalists have toured neighbourhoods dotted with Free Syrian Army checkpoints flying black and white Islamist banners.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said attacks on Aleppo were putting the nail in the coffin of Assad’s government, showing he lacks the legitimacy to rule.

“If they continue this kind of tragic attack on their own people in Aleppo, I think it ultimately will be a nail in Assad’s own coffin,” Panetta said, speaking to reporters at the start of a weeklong trip to the Middle East and North Africa.

“What Assad has been doing to his own people and what he continues to do to his own people makes clear that his regime is coming to a n e n d . I t ’s l o s t a l l l e g i t i m a c y, ” h e s a i d , adding, “It’s no longer a question of whether he’s c o m i n g t o a n e n d , i t ’s when.Reuters journalists in the city were not able to approach the district after

Members of the Free Syrian Army stand near weapons they say were gained from forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. (REUTERS/ Shaam News Network/Handout) nightfall on Sunday to verify whether rebels had been pushed out. The proopposition Syrian Observatory for Human rights said fighting was continuing there.

The government also declared victory on Sunday in the battle for the capital, which the rebels assaulted in force two weeks ago but have been repulsed in unprecedented fighting.

When we pause and experience silence, we discover answers that activity does not have time to reveal. During your day, take threeminute “vacations”. Relax and re-energise.

Take time out to feel the peace of silence.

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Opposition renews calls for dismissal of National Security Minister PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - CMC - The main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) yesterday renewed its call for the dismissal of National Security Minister Austin ‘Jack’ Warner after it was recently revealed that he administered a secret account in which he mixed personal and football funds.

The allegation was contained in a ruling by the Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) that was also harshly critical of statements Warner made before the body during the life ban appeal imposed by the International Football Federation (FIFA) on Mohammed Bin Hamman.

In a resolution adopted by its General Council, the PNM said it was calling on Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, who has in the past publicly backed her embattled senior Cabinet minister, to dismiss him from the coalition government.

The PNM’s resolution cites the CAS report as saying that Warner, a former

Austin ‘Jack’ Warner FIFA executive, who resigned at the height of the controversy surrounding the cash-for-votes scandal involving Caribbean delegates in the lead up to the FIFA presidential elections last year, as being an unreliable witness who practiced an “economy of truth.”

“Mr. Warner was a central figure in the distribution of cash “gifts” to delegates of the Caribbean Football Union in breach of FIFA’s rules,” the

PNM two-page resolution noted, adding that it had also taken note of Warner’s stated position that he would not respond to any concerns raised by the Opposition and media on any of the matters.

But speaking at a news conference here yesterday, Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley said that Warner is a public figure and as such should be held accountable.

Rowley again called on the police to investigate whether or not the island’s exchange controls law and customs act had been infringed during the whole football scandal.

He recalled that when the FIFA matter first became public, Prime Minister Persad Bissessar had stood by her embattled minister and insisted she would act only when all the evidence had been produced.

But Rowley told reporters that instead the Prime Minister has elevated Warner to the position of National Security in ‘charge of the very police who have to investigate him.”

Bruce Golding flown to the U.S. for medical treatment RJR News - Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding was flown out of the island early yesterday morning to seek additional medical treatment in the United States.

RJR News has learnt that Mr. Golding recently had back surgery but there were some complications which resulted in a secondary procedure being performed.

It’s believed the second surgical procedure did not result in significant improvement in former Prime Minister’s condition. Sources tell RJR News that Mr. Golding left the island

yesterday morning for Florida for some tests and possibly more surgery next week.

On Saturday evening several statements of support were posted on the social media website for the former head of government. In one posting on Facebook, former president of Generation 2000, G2K, Delano Seiveright said: “Get well soon Bruce Golding.

Get well soon. I am sure the Doctors will get it right once and for all this time around.”

Other postings on Facebook offered prayers for his early recovery.

The Jamaica Labour Party

Bruce Golding was expected to issue a statement on the matter yesterday.

Bruce Golding has kept a low profile since he demitted office in October last year, when he resigned and Andrew Holness became Prime Minister. He has made very few public appearances since leaving Jamaica House.

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US hospitals concerned about cuts in fund for illegal Caribbean immigrants WASHINGTON - CMC An increasing number of hospitals in the United States say President Barack Obama’s health care law is putting tremendous burden on them by cutting aid they use to pay for emergency care for Caribbean and other illegal immigrants.

The hospitals – which range from prominent public ones, like Bellevue Hospital Centre in Manhattan, New York, to neighbourhood mainstays like Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, and Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, California – say many of their uninsured patients are illegal immigrants.

The hospitals lament that their large pools of uninsured or poorly insured patients are not expected to be reduced

significantly under Obama’s Affordable Care Act, even as US federal aid shrinks.

The federal government says it has been spending US$20 billion annually to reimburse these hospitals — most in poor urban and rural areas — for treating more than their share of the uninsured, including illegal immigrants.

Health experts say the estimated 11 million people now living illegally in the United States are not covered by the health care law; and legislators, seeking to sidestep the contentious debate over immigration, say they excluded them from the law’s benefits.

As a result, so-called safety-net hospitals said the cuts would result in a severe blow to their finances.

All hospitals in the US are

obligated under federal law to treat anyone who arrives at the emergency room, regardless of their immigration status.

The Affordable Care Act establishes state exchanges to reduce the cost of commercial health insurance, but people must prove citizenship or legal immigration status to take part.

In some states, including New York, hospitals caring for illegal immigrants in lifethreatening situations can seek payment case by case, from a programme known as emergency Medicaid.

But health executives and immigration advocates say the programme has many restrictions and will not make up for the cuts in the US $20 billion pool.

T&T Top Cop and his Deputy to be axed - Cabinet sources Trinidad Guardian Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs and his deputy Jack Ewatski are reportedly under the gun.

Cabinet sources confirmed yesterday Guardian that the contracts of both men are under review, as they have failed to meet the expectations of the public and get a handle on the spiralling crime situation.

On Friday, the contracts and performances of the top cops were reportedly discussed at a meeting that included Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, chairman of the Police Service Commission Prof Ramesh Deosaran, National Security Minister Jack Warner and a senior police officer.

The man being tipped for the job, if Gibbs’ three-year contract is terminated before it expires, is deputy commissioner of police Stephen Williams, wellplaced sources told Sunday Guardian. The meeting took place at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s. Sources said Warner was expected to

Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs, right, and his deputy Jack Ewatski attend another meeting Saturdayday morning with the PM. .

On the local election campaign trail, the PM had warned that a “specific clause” in Gibbs’ contract allowed him to be terminated if he did not perform.

The performance of Gibbs and Ewatski has come under scrutiny from Warner since he was sworn in as the new National Security Minister.

Gibbs and Ewatski are currently challenging the

unsatisfactory appraisals they received from the Police Service Commission. Both men had refused to sign the appraisals.

Sources told Sunday Guardian that even if a decision is taken to terminate the contracts of the men, they still stand to receive hefty payments.

Gibbs is paid a monthly salary of $108,992 ($1,307,900 a year), while Ewatski receives $104,000 a month ($1,248,000 annually).

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MITTLEHOLTZER NEEDS TO BE HONORED Six more editions have been added to the Guyana Classics Series. This series is perhaps the most important development in Guyana’s literary history, far more important and beneficial than the hosting of CARIFESTA which was successfully done a few years ago; and far more important than the Guyana Prize for Literature which has failed to stimulate local literary output.

The Guyana prize for Literature has become a fishing expedition for writers in the Diaspora who have gobbled up most of the awards. But the Guyana Prize for Literature is now going to be overshadowed by the publication of the Guyana Classic Series.

The recent additions to this series now mean that there are some twenty six works about Guyana that form part of this significant addition.

The Guyana Classics is by

far the most important literary event in our country’s history since Independence. It allows important works which would otherwise have been left to gather dust on the shelves of libraries and in private collections to become part of the local repository of literary history.

This collection is part of our literary heritage. In the future, other important works will be added.

Guyana has produced outstanding literary personalities amongst which Edgar Mittleholtzer must be ranked as our greatest novelist.

He was by far the most prolific local novelist at a time when there were not many local writers. His prose was simple and dealt with many local themes unlike many of our present day crop of writers who bypass the local setting in their publications.

The Guyana Classics has also given recognition to

Martin Carter who is referred to as our national poet. A country should never have a national poet. There should be many national poets whose works should all be given the recognition that they deserve.

In the case of Martin Carter, he owes the title of national poet more to his middle class roots and the fact that his output though sparse and erratic, reflected a perspective of one who was involved in the events that gave rise to his poetry.

This is what makes his poetry special. It reflected his personal bitterness and frustrations, his middle class outlook, his friendship with key political figures and their politics.

His work is showing promise to be dwarfed by other local poets in the future but it is hardly likely that any local novelist could match the feats of Mittleholtzer.

Mittleholtzer deserves a

Basil Williams is new PNCR Chairman

- Granger and Greenidge in dead heat for leadership post Attorney at law Basil Williams was last night declared the new Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform.

Williams replaces long standing party member Cammie Ramsaroop, who also contested the post along with Dr. George Norton.

Up to press time last night counting of votes for the position of Party Leader was still taking place, but reliable sources had indicated that Opposition Leader David Granger was in the lead against his main opponent former Finance Minister Carl Greenidge.

The PNCR this year celebrates its 55th anniversary and yesterday’s 17th Biennial Congress concluded with voting for the various executive positions.

It was not a typical PNCR internal election that is usually characterized with boisterous bitterness being on full display. Logistics did pose a problem yesterday as both Candidates for the Leadership post reportedly expressed concerns over the process.

Voting was delayed for a bit and contrary to reports that there was a ruckus, it proceeded fairly smoothly throughout the day, taking into account limitations on the part of the organizers.

Previous party leader Robert Corbin did not contest the post, but rather than

“abandon ship”, he sought a post on the Central Executive.

Shortly before the conclusion of yesterday’s vote, which went late into the evening at Congress Place, Granger sat with this publication where he had expressed confidence in the arrangements for the Election.

As the party undertook last minute verifications, Granger had indicated that he believes that adequate measures had been put in place to address the necessary concerns, but he stressed that the problems that would usually be encountered don’t actually affect the Congress, but rather the selection of persons that head to the event.

He brushed off the notion that last minute verification could be seen as a negative

Basil Williams indicator and explained that, “it speaks well from the point of view that the party’s administration is leaving no stone unturned.”

He told this publication that “this” reflects that the party’s administration exercised an abundance of caution as it relates to this year’s internal election.

special place in our literary collection. In fact he deserves posthumous recognition as our greatest writer despite the dark forces that possessed him and which led to his suicide. He deserves to be honored by the government of Guyana. A fitting monument and reading park should be erected in his memory and all his major works should be included in the Guyana Classic collection.

Guyana should be proud of this collection. We should be proud to show it off. It should be available to both locals and foreigners to purchase.

This of course is easier said than done. The poor man may not be inclined to purchase this collection. It is affordable but not cheap. But the poor man can have access to those copies that

are available in the libraries.

There is however a better way in which this collection can become more widely disseminated. It is through radio.

Many, many years ago there was a drama adaptation produced for radio of Edgar Mittleholtzer’s My Bones and My Flute.

This is the sort of work that lends to such dramatic productions and there is no reason why this particular adaptation cannot be dug out of the archives and replayed for radio lovers in Guyana.

There is no reason why other works, including nonfiction and poetry, cannot be serialized for radio. This would allow tens of thousands of Guyanese to learn more about these works.

It would be a useful way of ensuring that the Guyana Classic collection reaches the

small man.

Today when you turn on the radio, there are very few programmes of any educational content. It is mostly music and more music.

So how about special readings dedicated to these classic works so that more Guyanese can partake of this rich heritage that Guyana has and which are now being published as part of the Guyana Classic Collections.

The serializing of selected works of this collection will also help to boost sales of the classics because those who hear the serials will eventually want to read them in full.

Dem boys seh

Everybody want to be Baby Burnham

Everybody want lead de PNC. And is funny how de whole country sit down and wait fuh see who gun end up de leader. Corbin cause de problem. He sit down and mek people believe that dem had to train like how people does train fuh de Olympics.

David and Carl decide that dem want follow in Burnham footsteps. De party people mek a decision and de winner now calling heself Baby Burnham.

De thing is Baby Jesus who did really believe that he was de young Burnham gone to de AFC when he got to think bout Moses and Prakash because de other young Burnham is de Speaker of de National Assembly.

But de only person who ain’t care is Uncle Donald. He got a problem wid Linden. As fast as de security people clear de bridge de local people blocking it. Dem had a

policeman operating de bulldozer and he bruck up de Linden bridge. Robeson get vex because he seh that he is de only person who should bruck up anything.

Anyhow, de Linden people show that Guyanese strong and more of dem shoulda tek up weightlifting.

Dem people lift some wood that woulda mek a bulldozer back down.

Dem people not only lift de wood; dem fetch some log over some distance. Even Uncle Donald don’t know wheh de wood come from. He thought that all de log been in de forest or that de Chinee did export all wha cut.

That is why he listening to he advisor and believing that dem Chinee people at de bauxite company helping de protest. Dem left back some of de timber fuh block de road. That is wha Uncle Donald seh.

But he worrying bout something else. He want to know how dem Linden people feeding demself when dem complain that dem didn’t have money to start wid. He seh that if dem can protest fuh another week he gun raise de subsidy from wha he did propose because if dem can protest then dem can pay.

Talk half. Lef half.

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By Dale Andrews The Guyana Police Force failed to heed the words from the intelligence unit and plan effectively for the current protest actions taking place i n t h e m i n i n g t o w n of Linden.

This is according to a high ranking officer who informed Kaieteur News that the Force’s Special Branch unit had reported that the people of Linden were prepared for the long haul to press their demands for the government to withdraw the increase in electricity tariffs, and they should not be taken lightly.

From the events that continue to take place, it is now clear that the police intelligence was spot on.

By now everyone knows the police response was to send up a unit from force headquarters to confront the protestors, leading to the unwarranted situation where three persons were shot dead, further compounding an already volatile public order situation.

“At several high level meetings, the Special Branch was indicating that the people of Linden would be strong and that they were prepared to stretch out their protest action for days.

Nobody, not even the commander, came up with a proper plan,” said a senior police officer.

This is the first clear sign that the Police Force, despite past experiences, is illprepared to deal with protests and other potentially riotous situations.

This makes a mockery of the position put forward by Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee who recently informed the nation that he had held discussions with the police top brass and was assured that the situation could have been handled with little fuss.

“In the absence of a detailed plan from the police, the Minister was only fooling himself that everything was okay,” the officer told this newspaper.

From the inception, the

Policemen in Linden were forced to put down their guns and adopt a less confrontational role.

police did not deal with the situation as a protest and adopted a posture that suggested that they were dealing with an armed situation similar to their experiences in the village of Buxton a few years ago.

Not even the $37M water cannon, which was procured f o r p r e c i s e l y s u ch a situation, was even thought about.

According to another senior officer, the unit that should have been deployed to deal with the situation should comprise a frontline section with tear smoke grenades, followed by about six ranks with shotguns to fire pellets if necessary, another set of ranks with rifles in case the situation gets out of hand and at least two officers who are supposed to carry hand guns.

“From that explanation, it is highly possible that if indeed the three protestors were killed by police bullets, the fatal shots were fired from the weapon carried by an officer,” the source stated.

Following the post mortem examinations performed on the bodies of the three slain Lindeners, evidence strongly suggested that the fatal shots were fired from a handgun.

The handling of the Linden fiasco is a far cry from the way previous situations of similar nature were handled by the police.

The 1997 and 2001 elections violence were classic examples of how the police operated without the casualty that occurred in

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Linden.

But then again the force does not now have the caliber of officers that they had in those times. Operational experts like Paul Slowe, Larry George and Steve Merai have all left the Force.

Slowe led the operations that dealt with elections violence in 2007 as well as the 58-days Public Service strike.

Although Slowe came in for some public rebuke for the pellet injuries to several persons, there certainly were no deaths or even the threat of death.

In 2001, when almost the entire East Coast Demerara corridor erupted in unrest with several fires blocking the main carriageway, the much feared Target Special Squad was called into action by the then Commissioner of Police Laurie Lewis.

Despite their reputation, the unit led by Steve Merai and the now dead Leon Fraser cleared the entire road without inflicting a single

casualty.

This was after scores of riot police failed to even budge the angry villagers from Buxton, Haslington, Nabaclis and other communities.

“Now, these police in Linden had to only clear a bridge and they killed three people,” said a frustrated police officer who for obvious reasons asked not to be named.

Strangely enough, the officer in charge of the Force’s operations is proceeding on annual vacation leave despite the present crisis, leaving another officer who incidentally was the Commanding Officer in Linden at the time of the fatal shootings to take charge.

Earlier this year, Home Affairs Minister Rohee had ordered the slashing of the leave of all senior police officers, claiming that this was in the event that they were needed, since there was the possibility of violence.

Hindu school first to introduce CAPE in Region 3 The privately own Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) Hindu secondary school located at Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara, is slated to introduce Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) into its curriculum come 2013. With this implemented, SVN will be the only secondary school in Region Three to offer the programme.

CAPE is designed to provide certification of the academic, vocational and technical achievement of students in the Caribbean who, having completed a minimum of five years of secondary education, wish to further their studies. The examinations address the skills and knowledge acquired by students under a flexible and articulated system where subjects are organized in 1-Unit or 2-Unit courses with each Unit

containing three Modules.

Subjects examined under CAPE can be studied concurrently or singly.

SVN’s management disclosed that many parents whose children are currently enrolled in the school’s system, have signaled “strong interest” in the implementation of the exam and having their children be among the first to make use of the advanced stage of exams offered by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC).

Recently, SVN announced that all three of its students sent on scholarships to the United States of America have returned to Guyana. The last to return was Natasha Persaud who landed on June 17 last.

The other two students returned in 2011. These were Nirmala Singh and Kaminie Singh.

Persaud did a business degree at York College, City University of New York. She was among the best graduating students at SVN in 2006 CSEC examinations, in addition to being the first student to have officially enrolled in the school after taking a transfer from a prominent city school. She is now teaching at SVN. Also, Nirmala Singh was the SVN’s Best Graduating Student in 2005. She studied Mathematics Education at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Prior to returning, Nirmala taught in New York City schools as a requirement for her degree. She too is now a teacher at SVN. Kaminie Singh graduated from Lehman College with a degree in English Education.

Kaminie was SVN’s Best Graduating student in 2006.

She graduated from Lehman with honours. She now teaches English Language

and Literature at SVN. The School’s management said that all three of the scholars will be an asset when the school introduces CAPE in 2013 The scholarships for these three former SVN students were financed by a single extended USA-based Guyanese Hindu family, the Ramnarayans.

According to the founder and principal of SVN, without the intervention of the Ramnarayans, it would not have been possible to provide these scholarships.

This newspaper understands that the family has committed to supporting future scholarship programmes of the school.

In the meantime, Swami Aksharananda has indicated that the institution will continue to invest in the training and development of its young teachers.

Monday July 30, 2012

My Uncle Jacob had a shop in Calcutta Settlement, deep in the heart of the Central Trinidad countryside. In those days, electricity had not yet reached the village and we used a Coleman gaslamp for illumination. I remember having to pump it ferociously and fiddling with a fragile fishnet-like contraption called a “mantle”.

Some corners of the shop, particularly where Uncle Jacob stored the butter and sugar, were mysteriously shadowed, and I, wearing the mantle of the “Shadow” of the radio drama that lighted up my Friday evenings, struck whenever I could.

Armed with two crackers, I hastily covered them with lightly-salted, yellow ochre butter and translucent golden brown moscovado sugar, and made the world’s most delicious sandwich.

The different textures and sounds, the crackle-crunch of

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the Crix crackers, the crishcrush, crinkle of brown sugar, and the smooth, softness of biting through butter, all melded and merged into a veritable Valhalla. Keep your bread and honey, mead and manna, your fritters and critters, I go crackers over biscuits! My Uncle Jacob never mentioned my marauding in the butter bin but I suspect that my aunt, the business brain of the marriage, transferred the shortages induced by my appetite to her unsuspecting consumers.

In that she predated the predatory practices, including pricing, of the commercial agents who now rule the retail roost.

I also went crackers over peanut punch. It is a simple drink. Mix together copious amounts of peanut butter, milk and sugar, add lots of ice, stir, shake and serve by the jugful.

This was my Aunt Polly’s way

of doing it, although sometimes she used water and condensed milk supplemented by tins of Carnation evaporated milk to create a thick, rich, sludgy mixture that simultaneously filled your stomach and dental cavities.

Although I have been forced to reduce my salt butter and peanut butter intake because my narrow hips and broad mind have started to change places to the point that it has become a health issue, my Guyanaborn wife and Barbados-born children have not yet reached that advanced stage of development.

I was therefore surprised when my wife asked me to fix her something to eat and I suggested a small cheese sandwich. “Not butter,” she shouted to me from the living room after I had made the suggestion. Knowing that cheese is not butter although

they share the same bovine lactic origin, I said, “You want it grilled?” “Not butter,” she said. I became exasperated.

“Forget about cheese,” I said.

“What about a bread and jam, or do you want sardines with onion and pepper?” “Not butter,” she shouted.

I went to where she was sitting and stressed, “Cheese is not butter. Jam is not butter.

Sardines are not butter.” I spoke slowly, “I never offered you any butter. What you really want?” “Not butter,” she said maddeningly. I was losing my temper. “But they are not butter!” She got angry in turn, “I said ‘nut butter’ not ‘not butter’”. I was stumped. I expostulated, “But everything I suggest is not butter. How you mean not butter?” She explained patiently impatient, “Home we call ‘nut butter’ what you call ‘peanut butter.’” It was as simple as that. I couldn’t believe it was “nut butter” and

New Amsterdam Catholics issue strong statement on Linden situation

By Leon Suseran The Parish Pastoral Council of the Roman Catholic Church of the Ascension in New Amsterdam in a stronglyworded statement had added its full support to the people at Linden.

“We recognise your plight and the unfortunate response by the Guyana Police Force which resulted in the death of three individuals. We extend our condolences to the families and friends of the deceased.

We stand with you in your quest for justice,” said a statement which was signed by parish priest, Monsignor Terrence Montrose.

The Council expressed surprise that the Government was aware that Lindeners were going on strike “yet there was no effort on the part of the Government to resolve this matter at the early stages before it escalated into a major tragedy involving the loss of lives.”

The lack of proper information on these developments resulted in many people in other parts of the country being completely misinformed about the real issues. “The people of Linden are willing to pay phased increases in electricity rates but subject to gradual improvement in the economics of their community which is in a state of continued decline,” the statement mentioned.

“It is not the billions that is spent by the Government but the opportunities that are derived from these

Monsignor Rev Terrence Montrose investments that impact on the daily lives of the people…. Now it appears that with the T&T Pathologist findings, some trained person was planted in the crowd with instructions to kill; how else could one interpret this?

It is for this reason that the Commission of Inquiry should have independent members with unquestionable integrity,” it noted.

The Council stated that government is fully aware of the economic circumstances in Linden, with unemployment at 70 per cent and it is unbelievable at this time the government will impose increases. “We are therefore calling on the government not only to put the tariff on hold but also to identify experts and not cronies to do a review of a tariff structure to ensure that it does not include exorbitant profits.”

“The price should reflect the actual cost of generating electricity since Bosai’s main business is bauxite production, not generation of electricity for resale. If Bosai prides itself as a responsible corporate citizen, it would certainly sell its electricity at prices to recover its cost only since most of its labour supply is drawn from Linden.”

The statement mentioned, too, some recommendations that government should take into consideration to offer opportunities for expansion of businesses, development of new businesses and creation of job opportunities, especially for young people in Linden.

The “practical, and not cosmetic measures” include: low interest loans for start-up businesses; training; exemption from taxation for five years on all new enterprises; diversification of the local economy; encouraging foreign investors to invest a portion of their profits in the development of the community; and less political involvement in business opportunities.”

“We are looking for leadership from the opposition parties in helping all Guyana to address this tragedy as we believe that the Opposition parties are not doing enough for the people of Guyana. We need a

coordinated approach that will encourage all Guyanese to come out in support of the people of Linden and send a strong signal to the Government that ‘band- aid’ solutions cannot work, only well- conceived programmes that will make a difference to the lives of all Guyanese”.

Likewise, the statement added, Lindeners should protest within the laws and boundaries and the protests should be peaceful, not alarming and preventing others from going about their businesses. “Our hope is that a quick solution is arrived at to address the problems before it gets more out of hand.”

“We as Christians are calling on Guyanese to remain calm while helping the struggle. More importantly, Guyanese should not get involved in the destruction o f p r o p e r t y, l o o t i n g of stores or killing or injuring innocent people as these actions will only divide us as a people. Our mission is to work together for the collective good of all our brothers and sisters,” the statement ended.

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not “not butter”.

It was not the first time I had fallen victim to Guyanese dialect. A few years ago, as I walked through Georgetown, a little street urchin, to whom I had earlier given some money, followed me, his intelligent eyes, shy smile and sturdy gait contrasting with his torn clothing and bare feet. I walked into one of the Department stores and, seeing a shirt I liked at a good price, bought it.

As I picked up my package, one of the ubiquitous, uniformed security guards walked up angrily demanding, “Who buy dah?” Astonished, I said calmly, “Me. I buy it” “Not you,” he said, pointing at the urchin.

“He.” I strove to correct him. “That is certainly not the case,” I said sharply.

“This is mine. I buy it.”

He was getting angry and raised his voice harshly, “Not you. I not talking to you. I want to know is who buy dah?” The little boy had become frightened and was hiding behind my right leg. A crowd had started gathering.

I took out my receipt and showed the guard.

“Listen,” I said, speaking slowly as to one mentally deficient, “this is mine. You see the receipt, that is mine.

Is me buy this.”

The guard shrugged,

satisfied or content to fight again another day. “Well, if was me buy dah, I wouldn’t dress up so pretty pretty and my buy look so nasty,” he said. Two women in the crowd chorused their approval of his observation.

Another woman said, “But the buy don’t look like him, maybe is somebody else own.

He look like he get good blow.”

Another chimed in, “He deserve it.” Fearful of blows being passed, and not realizing that “blow” was Guyanese for “horn” or being cuckolded, I waved my receipt again for all to see.

“Look this,” I said. “This is mine. I buy it. I pay for it.

Whether it nasty or not, is mine.” The crowd dispersed, still unbelieving, still murmuring about how I foolish to think is my buy, and still talking of blows.

I left mystified, the urchin following me to the hotel entrance, until the doorman chased him away saying, “Look buy, don’t trouble the guests you hear.” He then shouted to a female vendor across the street, “Mabel, look call you buy and tell him to stop bothering the guests, you hear.” * Tony Deyal was last seen following his wife to the mall to see what she meant about getting a “good buy” at the Ten-Dollar store.

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LCD, village governance for discussion at Toshaos’ Council confab The Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), village governance, legislative issues and resource management are among several issues to be discussed with President Donald Ramotar and Cabinet members, as the National Toshaos Council (NTC) confab approaches.

The National Toshaos Council (NTC) in collaboration with the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs is preparing to host the National Toshaos Council Meeting, which will commence from August 6th10th, 2012, at the Guyana International Conference Centre, Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara.

This was disclosed by Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai, who stated that approximately 190 Village leaders (Toshaos and Senior Councilors) and 13 Community Development Officers (CDOs) are expected to attend the conference.

The conference will be held under the theme “Establishing Strategic Approaches and Alliances for Sustaining Amerindian Development.”

The Minister explained that the swearing in of Toshaos as Rural Constables and Justices of Peace, and interactions and discussions with President Donald Ramotar and Cabinet members on developmental issues will also be items on the agenda.

Adding that the Ministry will also facilitate an educational tour for the Toshaos to various institutions, Minister Sukhai said the conference will culminate with the signing of the agreement between the United Nations Development

Programme (UNDP) and Government of Guyana on the Avoided Deforestation Partners (ADF) release of Funds.

Underscoring that Guyana continues to make its presence felt internationally, she said that the successes and challenges of indigenous development and their experiences were shared with other countries in the protection and promotion of indigenous peoples.

“Our representation at the international level was further strengthened with the appointment of Ms. Sharon Austin, former Projects Coordinator of the Ministry as an Indigenous Coordinator with the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) in

Brasilia, Brazil. Representation at the following conferences was made,” Minister Sukhai said.

The Minster added that in her capacity, she represented Guyana at the Fifth Session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples hosted by the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland during July 9-13, 2012.

She disclosed that the Seminar was based on strengthening partnerships between Indigenous Peoples.

“Issues discussed at the conference included the Study of the role of languages and culture in the promotion and protection of the rights and identity of indigenous peoples. Presentations on the

United Nations Declarations on the rights of indigenous peoples were also done,” Minister Sukhai pointed out.

Permanent Secretary within the Ministry, Nigel Dharamlall, who attended and represented Guyana at the Regional Workshop in Brasilia, Brazil during May 30 to June 1, 2012, said the event was aimed at developing a Strategic Framework for developing a regional agenda for the protection of indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation and initial contact and was facilitated by the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO).

Noting that the participating countries included Bolivia, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia,

Suriname and Brazil, the Permanent Secretary said Guyana’s presentations highlighted that there are no

records of the existence of isolated indigenous people.

The issue of identity and civil status of these populations was also addressed.

“For protection practices to isolated indigenous peoples and in initial contact to reflect specific legal frameworks on the subject available, the Member Countries discussed the need to allocate sufficient human and financial resources for implementation of such policies. Moreover, the training of technicians and the development of rigorous methodologies for field work were considered very important and the exchange of experiences among the Member Countries,” Dharamlall said.

(From page 14) protestors. A massive joint church service was also held at the spot yesterday. Ever since the shooting, women have been dedicating their time and energy towards providing meals for those fighting for their voices to be heard. The residents have also been kind to the army ranks who are stationed at the location, providing them with water as they carry out their duty.

However, they remain hostile towards the police who they blame for the bloodshed of their brothers and sons.

Residents' reaction to President's announced visit – The residents of Linden said the cancellation of President Donald Ramotar's visit to their community is a blatant insult.

The consensus in the mining town is that their rights are being trampled upon and

that there are seen as puppets to the government.

The President on the advice of the Joint Services cancelled a planned visit to the community on Saturday last.

One resident, Jacquelyn Bourne who was injured during a standoff between the Joint Services and the protestors at the Kara Kara Bridge on Saturday was very vocal on the situation.

Bourne, a journalist by profession, and who heads t h e Guyananewsnetwork.com, said that in her mind, the President's 'no show' is an insult. It took him more than 11 days after the incident to just announce his willingness to meet with the people of Linden.

Like other residents, Bourne recalled that it took the entire cabinet mere hours after the Bartica slaughter and

the Lusignan massacre to reach to the affected communities.

“When there is a protest with GuySuCo, the Minister run to those areas. Why are we being isolated? No one ever came to meet with the grieving families, no one. It took them 11 days just to make an announcement,” Bourne lamented.

The woman whose body bore abrasions and bruises which she sustained from the fracas at the Kara Kara bridge said that numerous residents have since indicated that they are not willing to meet with the President since he is “a little too late”.

“All the time we wanted to talk they were not coming and even if the President is willing to come we cannot stop him.

He has a right to come to any part of the country,” another resident lamented.

Some even expressed the view that they are being provoked by the police ranks who have been assigned to the location.

“We were told that the President wanted to come and it is obvious that the roads have to be cleared for his procession but the police yet again started this thing this morning (Saturday morning).”

Yesterday, there was much activity in the makeshift kitchens that were set up to help feed those involved in the struggle.

A tent stands in close proximity to the kitchens, near to the West Watooka Farmers tarmac.

Here many persons congregated yesterday for an interfaith service.

As could be expected a lot of prayers were said for the Town, and its leaders.

Another prayer service was also held on the Mackenzie shore, on the Amelia's Ward Hill a little distance from the Kara Kara Bridge.

Here persons gathered in the open air on the road and prayed and sang for more than an hour.

Meanwhile, late yesterday, President of the Guyana Women Miners' Association Simona Broomes, drove all the way to Linden to distribute over 40 food and vegetable hampers to the organization's members in Linden.

Broomes took time of off from distributing the hampers to speak with the media.

“Well my organization, we talk about commitment and we are committed to our members, in spite of their situations and we have women here in Linden that are very committed to the organization, and as President I bear them in my heart every day, in fact I pray to God that he keeps them safe, knowing that they are out here many days; and with the prob-

lems that they are currently faced with here, I know that things like food is necessary. So as President, we just don't want to come to our members and say 'well, look our prayers are with you'. We want to do something tangible, like distribute some food items. And last week we sent in some money to the ladies here to cook and feed over three hundred persons, right on the road here. So this is not the first venture, but this is my first visit as President since the protest started, because I wanted to come and see them, and see what the conditions are like, and hear what is really affecting them in this crisis, and how we could help.”

Broomes assured that her organization would always seek ways to alleviate the struggles of people.

Yesterday marked the twelfth day of protest against increased electricity tarrifs for the mining To w n . Tw o d a y s a g o Lindeners were told by Regional Chairman Sharma Solomon, that there was a proposal by Government that the increase would be put on hold, but this proposal has been rejected as unsatisfactory by residents, who have vowed not to retreat or surrender until the tariffs are withdrawn.

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Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai

Water cannon finally sent to Linden

Rift widens between Miners' Association...

(From page 2) illegal mining activities in some of these areas that are being withheld but the relevant agency is not executing its works effectively.

Crime, violence, trafficking in persons and other illegal activities were cited as the other hindrances in the mining industry. Harding assured that the Association had held talks with GGMC to ascertain how illegal shops could be tackled. The Association also met with the Guyana Police Force but that was unfruitful.

According to Harding, the police made it clear that reducing criminal activities in the

mining industry would be difficult since there are insufficient ranks available.

Swift actions by the Force and Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee are being demanded by GGDMA. He emphasized that GGDMA is ready to work with the police once they setup more outposts.

Other challenges to the industry are improper roads and infrastructure. He said that monies are being allocated yearly to rehabilitate roads but shoddy works are being delivered by contractors.

Harding stressed that it is time roads are constructed to acceptable engineering standards and proper maintenance is done.

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ACDA ready for 2012 Emancipation celebrations

With two days to go before this year’s Emancipation celebration, Eric Phillips of the African Cultural and Developmental Association (ADCA), yesterday stated that the organization is “well set for the events.”

Phillips said that although the association is yet to collect this year’s Government subvention, it usually receives “a variety of financial support from the private sector organization and other concerned groups for the celebration”.

The official said that this does not indicate that the group will not collect the

money from the government but it plans to do so at a later date. He said that they were unaware of the first handing over ceremony.

He noted that one the main features at this year’s celebration which will take place as usual in the National Park, will be the award winning ASCOD dance group from Jamaica.

Also at the National Park, there will be performances by other groups both local and international, children’s fun center, folk games, sporting activities, information booths, traditional dances, acrobatic displays and much more.

The Association will also feature an African Guyanese Village in acknowledgement of the “greatest” post Emancipation entrepreneurial achievement.

Over the years, Buxton and other such villages were featured; however, this year the attention is turned to Hopetown which i s l o c a t e d o n t h e We s t Coast of Berbice.

Similarly, ACDA yearly acknowledges an African country from which slaves were captured.

Thus Guyanese of African descent who are unaware of their ancestral origins will learn more about these

countries. This year the selected country is Ugandaa landlocked country located in East Africa.

This y e a r ’s emancipation will be observed under the theme “Reclaiming our rights through unified purpose.”

Last year was proclaimed by the United Nations to be year for people of African descent which was themed “People of African descent: Recognition, Justice and Development.”

There is also the anticipated designation of years 2013- 2022 as the United Nations decade for people of African descent.

Splashmin’s drowning…

Survivor still hospitalized Thirteen year-old Paramdev Nanan who was pulled from the creek at Splashmin’s Fun Park two Sundays ago is said to be on the road to recovery and is expected to be back home with his family soon.

The teen’s father Rakesh Nanan told this publication yesterday that his son was still a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation but his condition has significantly improved.

“Well, at least he walking about and talking but I hope they send him home soon,” Mr. Nanan said. He however noted that he has not pressed his son for information as to

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what really transpired on that fateful Sunday when another lad lost his life.

Fourteen year-old De Willem Secondary School Student, Kevin Ram died at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre while receiving medical attention after he was pulled out from the creek.

The two boys disappeared under the water at around 15:30 hours, moments after they had ventured out into the deeper part of the creek.

According to an

eyewitness, one of the boys first went into the water and as he went further out he encountered difficulties.

The other boy saw him and tried to assist and he too experienced trouble in the deep water.

Luckily, a life guard saw one of the boys splashing in the water and quickly realized that he was in danger, and together with another man who was on a jet ski went to his assistance.

They were able to pull him to land where a nurse and a

doctor who there at the time did routine resuscitation procedures that revived him.

He was subsequently rushed to the Diamond Hospital where his condition was stabilized.

But no one knew at the time that another boy had gone under.

It was not until someone said that another boy was missing that a search was carried out.

Kevin Ram’s body was later pulled from the creek but by then it was too late.

11-year-old girl missing Since Saturday last, Devika Selall went missing from her Bee Hive, East Coast Demerara community after being sent to the shop.

Kaieteur News understands that her recent disappearance is the second time within the last month that the child has disappeared, the last time being the first Saturday in this month.

A relative related that Selall was sent to a neighbourhood shop to purchase some groceries.

“She came back with most of the things and seh she forget to buy the rest. After she go back for the rest, she ain’t come back.”

The relative disclosed that the teen credited clothing

MISSING: Devika Selall from the same shop and said that she was authorized by her relatives to do so. The salesperson at the shop cannot recall exactly what

was taken by the child.

However, when she left the home, she was clad in a burgundy top and a flowered skirt. The relative described the missing girl as the “quietest child I ever come across, me ain’t know why she rebelling like this.”

This newspaper understands that the child’s mother died since she was two years old and her father is regularly “at sea.”

“The first time she got away we find she round by fish shop side and up to now she can’t say why she did it.”

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Devika Selall is asked to report it to the nearest Police Station or call 685-1970.

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Chaos, shocks as young Georgian wins gold

(Reuters) - Georgia’s Lasha Shavdatuashvili, the youngest competitor in the event, grabbed Olympic gold in the men’s -66kg judo category on Sunday in a tournament spiced with shock results and an extraordinary refereeing volte-face.

The unheralded 20-yearold, the world number 32, defeated Hungary’s Miklos Ungvari, 31, in the final to send a small but incredibly noisy group of fans from his homeland wild as he secured Georgia’s third ever judo gold.

“I’m happy to continue the Olympic gold medal list from Georgia and of course this medal belongs not only to the athlete but to the country,” said the delighted winner, grinning broadly throughout a later press conference.

His success was overshadowed though by bizarre and chaotic scenes which followed the quarterfinal clash between Japan’s Masashi Ebinuma, the world champion, and South Korea’s Cho Jun-Ho. After the match finished scoreless following extra time, it was left to the referee and two judges to call the result and they duly raised their blue flags to indicate Cho had won by showing the more attacking intent.

The crowd at London’s ExCel Centre, which included a large number of Japanese,

France’s David Larose fights with Georgia’s Lasha Shavdatuashvili (on top) in their men’s -66kg elimination round of 16 judo match at the London 2012 Olympic Games. (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon) erupted in a cacophony of boos and jeers with the disgusted Japanese coach looking utterly flabbergasted.

The reaction clearly had an impact as the startled judges decided to refer their verdict to a reviewing jury which took the unprecedented step of overturning the result.

“I thought I was going to lose,” Ebinuma told reporters later, adding he thought the support from the spectators had played a role. “I’m feeling a bit bad for the Korean.”

PERPLEXED Cho, who had looked perplexed at events but left the mat without any dissent, refused to criticize the referees. Both men went on to earn bronze medals, helping to alleviate any hard feelings “I thought I had won,” Cho said. “We both won bronze medals so I’m very happy.” The governing International Judo Federation, which confirmed

a flag decision had never been overturned before, said they wanted to ensure the right man won.

Officials are desperate to avoid any repeat of the furor which followed controversial refereeing decisions such as in the 2000 Olympic heavyweight final in Sydney when French judoka David Douillet took gold from Japan’s Shinichi Shinohara amid angry protests from the Japanese camp.

It was an eventful day on the mat as well as the youthful Shavdatuashvili powered to victory as older and higher ranked judokas crashed out well before the final stages.

The raucous crowd went wild when Britain’s Colin Oates, 29, dispatched Mongolia’s Tsagaanbaatar Khashbaatar, the world number two and bronze medalist in Beijing, in the last 16.

However, Oates could not repeat that success, losing

Roach sets up crushing win for West...

From back page shower forced the players off the field for 20 minutes. Roach struck two balls after resumption, pitching it outside off and angling it into Ross Taylor, who was trapped on the pads just in front of the leg stump.

Taylor went for the review, but the on-field umpire’s call was upheld. Roach struck again in his following over, uprooting Kane Williamson’s off stump with a beauty that held its line and beat the bat.

West Indies had struck twice in 11 balls for no run.

The pressure was on Dean Brownlie, who took 19 balls to get off the mark. In a ten-over period, New Zealand managed just five runs, showing just how much control West Indies had had over them.

Roach, now armed with the new ball, struck in the first over after the lunch break

when he removed the resolute Wagner caught behind, trying to drive. Wagner’s 103-ball vigil as nightwatchman should serve as a lesson to the specialist batsmen, who failed to hang around long enough to frustrate West Indies.

Ravi Rampaul removed Brownlie the following over, inducing an edge to Chris Gayle at slip. Darren Sammy was tempted to take Rampaul off the attack and bring back Narine, but a fired-up Rampaul convinced his captain to change his mind, and he responded with Daniel Vettori’s wicket.

Narine too had some success after lunch, though, when he trapped Doug Bracewell plumb in front of the stumps. Kruger van Wyk farmed the strike with Chris Martin and played some enterprising reverse sweeps to take the lead past 100, but

Roach had the last laugh when he knocked back van Wyk’s off stump to take his fifth five-wicket haul.

A target of 102 was never going to test the hosts, with the in-form Gayle at the helm.

He helped himself to an easy half-century to crown his return to the Test side after an exile of one and a half years.

New Zealand only managed Powell’s wicket with the score on 77, but at that stage the game was all but over. Assad Fudadin knocked off the winning runs and West Indies went into the second Test with an unassailable lead in the series.

Scores: West Indies 522 (Gayle 154, Powell 134, Deonarine 79) and 102 for 1 (Gayle 64*) beat New Zealand 351 (Guptill 97, Narine 5-132) and 272 (Guptill 67, McCullum 84, Roach 5-60) by nine wickets.

out to Shavdatuashvili, who then reached the final by beating Ebinuma by hurling him to the ground for an automatic winning ippon half way through their encounter.

Ebinuma took bronze by beating Poland’s Pawel Zagrodnik, 24, with an ippon, and enjoying another bit of luck when an ippon awarded against him was overturned.

Cho also grabbed bronze but this time being on the right side of the referees’ decision after his match with Spain’s Sugoi Uriarte had ended all square.

Monday July 30, 2012

Olympics football: Spain eliminated at group stage Spain are out of the Olympic men’s football competition after suffering a shock 1-0 defeat by Honduras.

The Hondurans, who won thanks to Jerry Bengtson’s early goal, progress from Group D along with Japan, who beat Morocco 1-0.

Brazil beat Belarus 3-1 to qualify from Group C, while Egypt drew 1-1 with New Zealand.

In Group B, Mexico picked up a 2-0 victory against Gabon and South Korea secured a 2-1 win over Switzerland.

Bengtson, who scored both goals in his side’s opening 2-2 draw with Morocco, found the net against Spain after eight minutes in Newcastle.

Spain, who lost their opening game 1-0 to Japan, hit the woodwork three times in the second period. Japan secured their place in the knockout phase when Kensuke Nagai’s late effort earned them victory against Morocco.

Renan Bressan opened the scoring for Belarus against Brazil at Old Trafford but Neymar crossed for Alexandre Pato to head in, curled in an impressive free-

kick and then laid on a third goal for Oscar.

Egypt must now beat Group C’s second-placed team Belarus on Wednesday to progress after a 1-1 draw against New Zealand.

Chris Wood give the All Whites the lead before Mohamed Salah equalised from close range just before the interval. South Korea’s win over Switzerland came courtesy of goals from Park Chu-Young and Kim BoKyung, either side of Innocent Emeghara’s effort.

The victory moves South Korea level with Group B leaders Mexico, who beat Gabon thanks to two goals from Tottenham’s Giovani dos Santos.

A Spanish player reacts to them being booted

U.S. men in joyful romp over France in basketball

(Reuters) - The U.S. men’s basketball team launched their Olympic title defense with a joyful display of high-flying skill fuelled by camaraderie, soaring past France 98-71 on Sunday.

No-look assists, alley-oop passes for thunderous dunks and sublime ball sharing drew oohs and ahs from a packed Olympic Basketball Arena crowd appreciative of their electric team play on the opening day of action in the men’s basketball tournament.

“The thing that we have going for us is continuity,” said U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski, who has compiled a 55-1 record in international competition after taking over the team in 2006.

“In Beijing (2008) I had not coached those guys in the Olympics and now I have coached five of them,” he said. “I coached five (others) of them in the world championships in Istanbul, so there’s a familiarity with our staff and our players that lends itself to greater camaraderie.

I think we have that on this team. I think it’s even better now.”

EuroBasket silver medalists France, whose preparation for the Games was hampered due to an eye injury to star guard Tony Parker and contract concerns with Nicolas Batum and Boris Diaw, kept the game close early before the U.S. team cut loose. The Americans blew it open after a 22-21 first quarter by scoring the first 11 points of the second quarter and then raised their game even higher.

Kevin Durant led the way with 22 points, with Kevin Love coming off the bench to contribute 14 inside points. Ali Traore led France with 12 points, and Parker scored 10.

“This is the first game of the tournament, it is not the last game,” said Florent Pietrus,

who had eight points for France. “We are disappointed, but not frustrated.”

LeBron James only put nine points on the scoreboard, but had a hand in a number of highlight moments, making a jaw-dropping bounce pass through traffic covering twothirds of the court to hit Kevin Durant going to the basket. After one nifty, no-look drop off pass from James Harden, “King” James finished at the hoop with a ferocious slam that moved him to hang swaying from the rim for an extra few seconds to celebrate.

“We don’t want anyone on the team to change,” said James, about the collection of NBA All-Stars coming together as a team.

“Everyone’s here for a reason and we just want them to be themselves. We don’t want them to change, we do want them to adapt.

That’s going to make this team very dangerous.”

French coach Vincent Collet bemoaned his team’s poor shooting (2-of-22 from three-point range) and credited the U.S. team’s quickness and pressure defence. Collet also said he thought meeting the United States in the opening game of the men’s tournament was bad timing. “We had the chance to play them first and they want to show everybody that the tournament will be their tournament,” Collet said. “And I think they did it today.

“But they will have some other games to play and other teams will try to do better than we did today and for our sake I hope we have a second chance against them,” added the French coach, who could get another crack at the Americans in quarter-finals.

Next up for the U.S. team will be Tunisia, while France play a key game against Argentina on Tuesday.

Monday July 30, 2012

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Brazil, Japan through, Uruguay stumble

LONDON (Reuters) Ten-man Senegal caused a huge upset when they beat Uruguay 2-0 at Wembley on Sunday while title favourites Brazil, inspired by the dazzling Neymar, swept into the quarterfinals after coming from behind to beat Belarus 3-1.

Japan, who stunned Spain 1-0 in their opener, also secured their place in the last eight from Group D with a 1-0 win over Morocco at Newcastle’s St James’ Park.

Uruguay, back in the Olympics for the first time since winning their second successive soccer gold in 1928, had never previously lost an Olympic match but found no answer to first half goals from Moussa Konate even though Senegal played for 10 men for an hour after Abdoulaye Ba was sent off for hauling down Uruguay’s skipper Luis Suarez.

The result put Olympic debutants Senegal top of Group A with four points, followed by Uruguay on three, at least until Britain plays the United Arab Emirates at Wembley last evening. Senegal were worth their victory which makes a place in the last eight alongside Brazil and Japan a real possibility.

Japan left it late to beat Morocco with Kensuke Nagai scoring the winner in

Brazil's Neymar fights for the ball with Belarus' Denis Polyakov during their men's Group C football match at the London 2012 Olympic Games at Old Trafford in Manchester. (REUTERS) the 84th minute when he lofted the ball over advancing goalkeeper Mohamed Amsif.

INSPIRED PERFORMANCE Brazil became the first side to qualify for the next stage thanks to their comefrom-behind win against Belarus thanks to an inspired performance from Neymar, who scored and made the two other goals.

B r a z i l ’s v i c t o r y, courtesy of a header from Alexandre Pato, a 30 metre free-kick from Neymar and a brilliantly-taken third by Oscar after being set up by a backheel from Neymar, meant Brazil have six points from their opening two Group C matches.

Brazilian-born Renan Bardini headed Belarus in front after eight minutes but although they lost they will go through if they beat

Egypt on Wednesday.

Egypt were in action in the other Group C match played earlier at Old Trafford in Manchester and wasted plenty of chances in a 1-1 draw with New Zealand which did neither team’s hopes of advancing much good.

C h r i s Wo o d p u t t h e Kiwis ahead after 17 minutes before Mohamed Salah equalised after 40 minutes for his second goal of the tournament. In other early action, Mexico beat Gabon 2-0 in Coventry with two goals from substitute Giovani Dos Santos, who lives in the Olympic city of London and plays for Tottenham Hotspur.

Mexico have four points in Group B and look set to advance to the last eight, probably with South Korea who beat Switzerland 2-1 and also have four points.

Ryan Giggs inspires GB win over UAE BBC Sport - Great Britain beat UAE 3-1 at Wembley to ensure a draw against Uruguay in their final group game will take them through to the quarter-finals.

Skipper Ryan Giggs headed the opener and Tom Cleverley hit the post as GB led at the break.

Rashed Eisa equalised with a composed finish in front of an increasingly

anxious Wembley crowd.

But substitute Scott Sinclair struck a minute after coming on and Daniel St u r r i d g e ’s d e f t c h i p sealed the win.

However, it was a far from comfortable match for Stuart Pearce’s team and there were times after UAE’s second-half equaliser when the occasional boo could be heard inside the stadium.

MEDAL TABLE Country China United States Italy Korea France DPR Korea Kazakhstan Russia Australia Brazil

Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Gold 6 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1

Silver 4 5 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 1

Bronze Total 2 12 3 11 2 7 2 5 1 4 1 3 0 2 3 4 1 3 1 3

The mood changed completely when GB struck twice in three minutes but there is room for improvement for Pearce’s team when they play Uruguay in Cardiff on Wednesday.

The South Americans, one of the pre-tournament favourites, were stunned 2-0 by 10-man Senegal at Wembley earlier in the day.

The impressive Moussa Konate scored twice for the African side, who had to play for more than an hour with 10 men after the dismissal of Aboulaye Ba following a professional foul on Luis Suarez.

Senegal, like GB, now have four points and take on a UAE side who have lost both of their games when they meet in their final Group A match.

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Olympics swimming: Cameron van der Burgh wins 100m breaststroke South Africa’s Cameron van der Burgh set a new world record to win the 100m men’s breaststroke final.

Van der Burgh blazed away from the rest from the start and could not be caught as he clocked 58.46 seconds.

Australia’s Christian Sprenger claimed silver and Brendan Hansen of the United States was third.

Japan’s Kosuke Kitajima was bidding to become the first male swimmer to win the same event at three successive Games but he finished fifth.

Van der Burgh, 24, had qualified fastest for the final when he set the quickest time of 2012 and an Olympic record on Saturday. He continued in the same vein to win the gold as he shaved 0.12 seconds off Brenton

Rickard’s 2009 record.

The victory meant Van der Burgh became the first South African man to win Olympic gold in an individual swimming event. The 100m breaststroke was the event of Norwegian world champion Alexander Dale Oen, who died of heart failure last April.

“I just have to pay tribute

LONDON (Reuters) Dana Vollmer ended a lifetime of frustration and battles with her health to win the 100 metres butterfly gold medal in world record time at the London Olympics on Sunday.

The American, swimming like a woman possessed, powered her way through two laps of the Aquatic Centre to win in 55.98 seconds, slicing 0.08 off the previous mark set by Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom at the 2009 world championships in Rome.

China’s Lu Ying finished second while Australia’s Alicia Coutts, a gold medallist in the 4x100 freestyle relay on Saturday, was third and Sjostrom fourth but all the plaudits went to Vollmer.

While Vollmer won a relay gold medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, the 24year-old had never competed in an individual event at the Games before London.

In 2000, she was a bright-

eyed 12-year-old at the U.S. trials and did not qualify for the Games at all. In 2004 she was a surprise qualifier, but only in relay, and was earmarked as a future champion.

In 2008, however, the combination of a mystery illness and the weight of expectation got the better of her and she failed to make the American team.

In 2003, she underwent heart surgery to correct a condition which produced a faster than normal pulse and forced her to take a defibrillator to all her races and training sessions.

But it wa s an allergy to eggs that held her back for many more years. When it was finally diagnosed, after missing out on the Beijing Olympic team, she was put on a new gluten-free diet.

Her results in the pool quickly started to improve and in 2011 she won her first individual world title at Shanghai.

Cameron van der Burgh

to Alexander Oen,” said Van der Burgh. “I know he has been with me this year. I think he helped me finish the race in such a strong manner.

“Alexander pushed me in training. It made me realise I had to go faster to win the gold medal - that is what we trained for and that is what we have achieved.”

Vollmer wins women’s 100m butterfly gold

Dana Vollmer of the U.S She had come close to breaking the record before only to run out of puff in the final few metres but swam a more even race this time, reaching the halfway point in third place then surging away on the last lap.

France defeat US in men’s 4x100m relay Michael Phelps was denied his first gold of the London Olympics as France pipped the United States to win the men’s 4x100m relay.

France were behind the reigning Olympic champions heading into the last leg but Yannick Agnel passed Ryan Lochte down the final 100m to triumph. Russia earned the bronze, while favourites Australia finished fourth.

Phelps’s silver takes his Olympic medal tally to 17 overall, one short of Russian gymnast Larisa Latynina.

The expected duel between the United States and the Australian team of James Magnussen, Matt Targett, Eamon Sullivan and James Roberts never materialised in a pulsating race. World champions Australia

were out of the medal places after the first leg, while Nathan Adrian handed over to Phelps for the second leg for the US. Phelps established a two-metre lead, which was maintained by Cullen Jones on the third stint, but when Agnel took to the water he clawed back America’s lead within 50 metres.

Lochte’s turn into the final length reestablished the US in the lead, but Agnel burst past him in the final 15 metres to seal a stunning victory for the team of Amaury Leveaux, Fabien Gilot, Clement Lefert and Agnel.

The French - who lost out in Beijing by 0.08 seconds in 2008 - won gold in 3:09.93, with the US second in 3:10.38 and Russia third in 3:11.41.

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Kaieteur News

CFU Under-17 WCQ

Junior Jaguars lose to T&T 2-0; Suriname thrash BVI 17-0 Guyana’s Junior Jaguars lost their final group game in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) CONCACAF World Cup Under-17 Qualifying competition to Trinidad and Tobago 2-0 when group action in this first round ended at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain on Saturday evening.

Competing in the feature game of the night, the Guyanese played their best game of the competition but goals either side of play saw them losing their second game in three matches; going down to Suriname in their opening game on Tuesday last 3-1 before whipping the British Virgin Islands 13-0 on Thursday.

In Sunday’s opening game, the BVI’s baptism of goals continued when they faced another thrashing, this time at the hands of Suriname 17-0.

The feature match-up saw Guyana looking much more composed and confident as they matched their more experienced opponents play for play in the first 25 minutes of the match. T&T, having been together as a unit for the past two years enjoyed the better of possession as they kept a good shape and passed the ball around.

The Junior Jaguars were not intimidated by the Junior Soca Warriors and their vociferous supporters as they stuck to the task of keeping them at bay admirably until a defensive blunder in the 25th minute saw the home team taking the lead through a Josiah Trimmingham goal; the entire Guyanese defence was caught flat footed.

However, despite giving up the lead, the young Guyanese kept their focus at the back and while not being punchy up front, were still able to hold their own.

While the T&T team enjoyed the better exchanges now, Guyana’s goalkeeper Jason Cromwell was enjoying an excellent game, bringing off some brilliant saves.

The score-line remained unchanged at the break and on resumption, T&T made their first change in the 46th minute.

Ten minutes later, Guyana made their first change, Kelon Primo making way for Keron Solomon.

Guyana did not look as punchy in this half as the first but nonetheless were still able to keep the Trinis at bay.

Goal number two was scored from a corner, a well calculated header from Brendon Creed

Jason Cromwell

in the 70th minute doubling the advantage for the home team which took their tally of goals in this round to a whopping 27 in three matches.

Head Coach Sampson Gilbert introduced fresh legs in Robert Christiani for Keron Solomon in the 75th minute as the Guyanese kept in the hunt for their first goal against T&T but as it turned out that was not to be.

No more goals were scored and this was due to some excellent goalkeeping again by Jason Cromwell who was at his best, parrying and punching the ball away much to the delight of his teammates and the crowd which applauded the efforts of the young player.

When the final whistle sounded, Trinidad and Tobago won the showdown 2-0 as well as topped the group with three wins from as many matches. They will now advance to the CONCACAF round of qualifying to join Haiti and Cuba; the other two teams that have qualified so far from the CFU. Head Coach Sampson Gilbert complimented his charges for a satisfying display despite the loss, noting that with more time they could have given a better account of themselves.

Nonetheless, he said he was heartened by the fight they showed.

Head Coach of Guyana’s senior team, ‘Golden Jaguars’ Jamaal Shabazz who watched the game, also complimented the team for a fine performance; he took the opportunity to have a chat with the players and management after the game.

Shabazz encouraged the players to aim high and to remain disciplined to the game which can create great opportunities for them. He challenged them to work towards maintaining their place in the team and look towards making the Under-19 team but told them that that will be dependent on how hungry and willing they are with regard to working and training hard.

The team were expected to arrive home last evening.

Monday July 30, 2012

Hungarian GP: Lewis Hamilton takes victory in Hungary McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton took his second victory of the season as he beat Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen in the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Hamilton led throughout but had to fend off a determined challenge from both Raikkonen and the Finn’s team-mate Romain Grosjean, who was third. Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel was fourth ahead of Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso and McLaren’s Jenson Button.

Alonso extended his title lead over Red Bull’s Mark Webber to 40 points.

The Australian was ahead of the Spaniard after their second stops, but Webber suffered a failed differential and made a third stop for fresher tyres with 13 laps to go, which dropped him back down to eighth place at the flag. Webber is two points ahead of Vettel in the championship, with Hamilton a further five points adrift and one ahead of Raikkonen as F1 heads into its mid-season four-week break before the Belgian Grand Prix on 2 September.

Jenson Button, slower and harder on his tyres than team-mate Hamilton, finished the race sixth, ahead of the Williams of Bruno Senna, Webber, Ferrari’s Felipe Massa and Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg.

Hamilton’s win came as a result of a controlled defensive drive, not dissimilar to Alonso’s victory in Germany a week ago. The McLaren driver led from pole position and measured his pace ahead of the faster Lotus cars.

The 2008 world champion said: “There is a long way to go and we have a lot of work to do, but we are going to give it everything.”

Grosjean was his main opposition for the first twothirds of the race, as Raikkonen bided his time fighting up from sixth place on the first lap, after he dropped a place to Alonso at the start after a temporary

Ramnarine is new WCC Chairman

Moses Ramnarine replaced Sheik Ahmad as Chairman of the Wakenaam Cricket Committee when the body held its Annual General Meeting and Elections Saturday evening at the Wakenaam Community Centre Pavilion in Good Success.

Trevor Stewart is the Vice Chairman, while Nazeer Mohamed replaced Zaheer Mohamed who did not seek reelection as the Secretary. Bhawanie Persaud and Lennie Mohamed retained their positions as Treasurer and Assistant Secretary Treasurer respectively. Keval Persaud was elected as the Public Relations Officer.

Ahmad, who did not seek re-election, encouraged the executive to work together towards the development of cricket on the island while Ramnarine thanked the clubs for electing him as the Chairman. (Zaheer Mohamed)

problem with his Kers powerboost system.

But clever strategy by Lotus, founded on their car’s excellent tyre usage, gave Raikkonen clear air in the middle of the race before his second and final stop and put in an impressive sequence of laps to make up enough ground to pass Button, Alonso, Vettel and Grosjean.

The two Lotus cars were side by side rounding the first corner when Raikkonen emerged from the pits but the Finn legitimately pushed the Frenchman to the outside of the track on the exit of the corner and consolidated second place, before setting off after Hamilton.

He quickly closed on to the McLaren’s rear, and the question then became which driver’s strategies would work out best - and would Hamilton’s tyres last when he had made his final stop five laps before Raikkonen.

But the extra wear generated by following another car took the edge off

Raikkonen’s tyres, and he had to settle for second place as Hamilton took his first win since the Canadian Grand Prix in June and became only the third driver after Alonso and Webber to win more than one race this season.

Grosjean was left to fend off Vettel, a problem that removed itself when the German made a third stop for tyres late in the race with 10 laps of the 69 remaining.

Vettel used his fresher tyres to try to close a 15second gap on the Lotus but ran out of time.

Button ran third in the early laps, but his heavier tyre wear forced him on to a threestop strategy, one more than Hamilton’s.

Button’s race was further hindered by coming out from his second stop behind Senna, although the Briton managed to rejoin ahead of the Brazilian after his final stop having made up ground following Senna’s second and final stop.

WICB Under-19 Tournament Roundup Guyana, leading by 71 on first innings, were 114-6 in their second innings at the close on the second day of their opening round clash with Leeward Islands in the Regional Under-19 Championship yesterday.

Following are the summarised close-of-play scores: At Bayfield: GUYANA 202 (Chanderpaul Hemraj 102; Tristan Hanley 6-48, Shevon Moore 2-30, Baker 225) 114-6 (Ricardo Adams 42, Shervon Moore 2-29, Tristan Hanley 2-37) LEEWARD ISLANDS 131 (Ashawn Hodge 49, Colin Archibald 40 not out; Gudesh MotiKanhai 7-31, Romario Shepherd 2-32) A t Q u e e n ’s P a r k : Windwards trail Barbados by 40 runs overall.

WINDWARDS 206 (Jerlani Robinson 75, Horlice Blair 33, Roland Cato 29; Aaron Jones 4-24, Chad Williams 3-41, Darnell Greenidge 229) and 32 for one (Jerlani Robinson 21 not out) BARBADOS 278-8 decl.

(Shai Hope 101, Kemar Brathwaite 51, Darnell Greenidge 28, Jameel Stuart 21; Kenneth Dember 2-43, Larry Edwards 2-53) At Friendship: Jamaica lead T&T by two runs overall.

JAMAICA 187 (Brian Gayle 35, Raghni Francis 31, Odane McCatty 25, Christopher Powell 25, Oshane Walters 24; Jovan Ali 4-59, Anthony Simmons 2-43) and 18-1. T&T 203 (Jeremy Solozano 84, Brian Christmas 24, Andy Gobin 23, Vikash Mohan 23; Oshane Walters 5-49, Brian Gayle 4-29)

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