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Monday June 10, 2013

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Woman’s body found Culture Minister answers questions on Caribbean Press with belt around neck “The (Caribbean) Press has no fixed entity or physical set up that one can simply walk into. The Caribbean Press is a nonprofit organization.

Though there is no fixed place for the Press at the moment, the work of writers is emailed from the Ministry of Culture to Dr. Dabydeen who is the editor and current manager of the Press. Dabydeen along with a panel of other writers review the work sent and after editing they would make contact with the author , informing him or her if anything else needs to be added and when publishing would take place.”

This was Dr. Frank Anthony’s response to the question, “Where is the Caribbean Press?”

It was one of the many questions put to the Minister by members of the public regarding the Caribbean Press. In a candid interview with this publication yesterday, the Minister of Culture Youth and Sport explained that at this point in time they are “even short of staff.” “Everything that is being done for the Caribbean Press is done voluntarily. No one gets paid and it should be noted that it is funded by the government.”

The Minister disclosed that 60 books have been published by the press, 36 of which have been distributed to schools, libraries and at Austin Book Store; a list of these books will be provided as soon as possible.

He added, “We are now working on parliamentary speeches and we are also encouraging publications from young writers.”

Minister Anthony explained, “Anyone that wants to contact the Caribbean Press can do so via two ways; one, by simply emailing Dr. Dabydeen and his email address can be found on the press’s website www.caribbeanpress.org or just forward your work to the

Ministry of Culture and it will be sent to Dr. Dabydeen.”

One of the questions asked to the minister was, ‘Are writers informed when their work is ready for publication and is there any signed document between the writer and the press to show that the writer’s permission was given for the work to be published?”

To this, Dr. Anthony explained “About two years ago, myself along with others met with some young writers of Guyana. During that time we explained that we have no money to give them for their work and it was agreed that at least they would be able to get their stories and poems published. Mr. Pitamber Persaud, who worked along with the young writers, was responsible for getting their consent. Now what is supposed to happen, is that we normally have a discussion and once permission is given, the work is then sent to Dabydeen and others for editing. Once they are ready to go ahead with publishing, the author would be contacted and a document would be given to the writer to sign. This serves to solidify the agreement. This is the procedure and this is what must be done. With regard to Ruel Johnson’s contention about his work and the work

of others being published without their knowledge. I have asked about this but I haven’t gotten word as yet.

However, when this meeting with the young writers occurred, Mr. Pitamber Persaud was responsible for ensuring that they signed a document confirming their permission.”

In addition, “I also wish to reiterate that it was agreed that no money will be made by the writers when their work is published.

For each publication, only 400 copies are made and most of them are given to the schools and libraries and the rest are given to Austin’s Book Services.

The proceeds of that sale would go back to the funding of the press and even that is a negligible amount of money.”

The Minister was then asked to give his comments on the accusations of there being an obvious mismanagement of the Press and its funding. He explained, “We have received money and we have accounted for it, and on this basis I don’t see how this can even be a fair accusation. We have received money from the government and we have 60 books to show for the money thus far.

This has never been done and it should be seen as an achievement. There is no publishing company in Guyana that does this. It is remarkable that over the past three years we have been able to get 60 books published but instead we are attacked. We will only take constructive criticisms and try to improve as such.”

The Minister also expressed, “The management of the Caribbean Press is done

by Dr. Dabydeen. I won’t be able to say who has been published in the recent anthology or what poems or stories it consists of because I am not in charge of its day to day management. That is done by Dabydeen and a number of other people.”

houses from where he resides) just before the accident.

Yesterday, when Kaieteur News visited the man’s home, neighbours said that Singh’s wife and children were in the United States of America and will be returning home today.

No one in his neighbourhood seemed to know what transpired.

A distant relative of Singh, Indira Singh told this publication that she was informed that the man had already crossed the public road to go home when the car

“picked him up and pitch him over to the fish shop.

“I can’t say what really happened but I hear that he had already crossed the road, he wasn’t drunk, and the car that hit him, I am not sure which direction it was driving in, but the car struck him and tossed him in the air,” Indira said. She told Kaieteur News that the father of two died on the spot. The driver of the car has been identified as Mervin Mangro. He is in police custody at the Kitty Police Station.

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DDL Manager struck dead by speeding car A 57-year-old Finance Manager attached to the Demerara Distillers Limited was killed on the spot at around 10:30pm on Saturday at Sheriff Street and Campbellville.

Harry Singh, a father of three of Garnett Street, Kitty was struck down by a car while crossing the busy thoroughfare on his way home.

According to information received, Singh was drinking with two of his friends at Francine’s Fish shop, (a few

- husband claims suicide Police on the East Coast of Demerara continue to hold on to a 34 year old truck driver as they probe the highly suspicious death of his 31 year old wife Vanessa Seeram.

The woman was discovered around 23:00 hours on Saturday, sitting in a chair with a belt tightly wrapped around her neck at her De Hoop, Mahaica home.

The woman’s husband is claiming that his wife who has been described as a suicidal alcoholic took her own life.

However the woman’s relatives are convinced that she was murdered judging from the position in which her body was found, and investigators have not ruled out foul play.

Seeram’s husband told police that he and his wife had a misunderstanding earlier on Saturday after which he left the house and went to the outdoor toilet.

He said that when he returned later that night, he found Seeram sitting motionless in a chair with her son’s belt wrapped around her neck and tied to one leg of a bed.

None of their three children was at home at the time of the incident.

Seeram’s husband immediately raised an alarm and he and his 15 year old son who had also returned home rushed to inform Seeram’s relatives The husband reminded investigators that his wife had attempted suicide on a previous occasion by dousing her body with kerosene and then setting it alight.

The woman’s brother Ganesh Maye, is not buying his brother in law’s story.

Vanessa Seeram He said that he was at home watching a movie when Seeram’s son came and told him that the woman had hanged herself.

Maye said he contacted the police at Mahaica and was subsequently invited there.

He, along with his sister’s husband went to the station where they made an official report before going to the dead woman’s home.

By the he reached there, several police were already on the scene.

“When I go in, I see me sister sitting on a chair with all she tongue out of she mouth. I turn to de police and say officer dis is a murder’,” he explained, although he did not see the belt around her neck at that time.

According to Maye, while in the house, his dead sister’s husband became very aggressive and was even involved in a scuffle with one of the policemen.

It was only when the undertakers came that Maye observed that the belt was tightly wrapped around his sister’s neck and tied to the bed.

“I want even the public

come and tell me dat me sister hang she self, that is impossible. She can’t hang she self like dat; sit down in a chair with de belt tie pon a bed foot below she neck,” Maye told this newspaper.

He said that apart from constant quarrels with her husband, his sister also suffered physical abuse at the hands of other relatives.

Seeram and her husband have been living together for close to 15 years.

The woman’s teenage daughter Dhanwattie told this newspaper that she was attending a religious function a few miles away from her home when her father came and informed that her mother was dead.

The news was so shocking that she lost consciousness.

“I didn’t get to speak to anybody; it was like I was wiped off completely, they had to take me to Mahaicony Hospital,” the girl said.

She admitted that her mother drank a lot and this caused a lot of problems in the home.

“My mom was always like that, she’s the one that is always wrong. The last time she put me out late in the night. Normally she drinks, every day,” the dead woman’s daughter explained.

Investigators are awaiting a post mortem examination on Seeram’s body to assist them with their investigations.

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EDITORIAL

Justice Delayed Last week in an historic out of court settlement, the British Government agreed to pay £20 million to some 5000 Kenyan citizens who had fought for independence of their country but had been tortured by the colonial government. Foreign Secretary William Hague said the British Government admitted they had tortured many of the 25,000 Mau Mau fighters detained during the State of Emergency they had declared in 1952. Mr. Hague averred that they did not condone “acts of inhumanity”.

“I would like to make clear now and for the first time, on behalf of Her Majesty’s Government, that we understand the pain and grievance felt by those who were involved in the events of the Emergency in Kenya.

The British Government recognises that Kenyans were subjected to torture and other forms of ill treatment at the hands of the colonial administration. The British Government sincerely regrets that these abuses took place, and that they marred Kenya’s progress towards independence. Torture and ill-treatment are abhorrent violations of human dignity which we unreservedly condemn.”

Most in Guyana have forgotten that the struggle for independence after WWII for many British colonies was not only the flowery speeches and firm handshakes that we hear about. The PAC, which was the precursor to the PPP, supported the cause of the Mau Mau, and the PPP cell that continued to monitor and give support to them included Forbes Burnham and Ashton Chase. What is most interesting in the delayed reparative justice done in the Mau Mau cause is that it was brought privately and not by the government.

In 2011, the British High Court in London had rejected the veterans’ claims that the British Government should accept the liabilities of the colonial regime. However, it permitted demands for compensation to proceed and this was appealed by the government. The decision of the British government to pay the veterans changes the entire situation, not only in relation to the claims of the Mau Maus but to claims for reparations made against the British government for what they did to Africans and their descendants, who they brought as slaves to the “New World”.

Millions were killed in their capture; their transportation across the Atlantic and on the plantations.

Their labour contributed to the enrichment of Britain and to its development as an industrial nation that created an empire on which “the sun never set”. No one can deny that this was not genocide on a scale so colossal as to boggle the imagination. In this century, the Jews have pressed their case for reparative justice for the murder of five million of their people by the Nazis.

They have been successful. After WWII, the allies, which included Britain, pressed for reparations against Germany. But in the case of reparations for slavery, Britain and the US have steadfastly denied the claims.

While those claims have been made by private groups since the late 19th century, in 1993, the Organisation for African Unity (OAU) officially took up the call in their Abuja declaration. But there was never much enthusiasm from official quarters in pressing the demands for reparations - primarily because these leaders wanted to pander to western countries to collect “aid”. In the 2001, UN Durban Conference against Racism, the Final Document declared: “We acknowledge that slavery and the slave trade… are a crime against humanity, and should always have been so, especially the transatlantic slave trade.” There is no statute of limitations against genocide.

Sadly however, the matter of reparations was again placed on the back burner. At the official celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the formation of the OAU (now the African Union -AU) last month, not a word was mentioned. But in the side conferences, it is to the credit of the Caribbean that Professor Hillary Beckles from UWI delivered a powerful lecture based on his book ‘Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide’. In detailing undisputed facts relating to the harms of slavery, he reiterated the necessary first step to securing reparations.

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The Colonial system wanted all Guyanese to send their children to school DEAR EDITOR, It was with great interest that I read Frederick Kissoon’s letter “Jagdeo’s theory is pure nonsense” in your paper of Sunday 2 June.

It would appear that Dr. Jagdeo is reported as saying that the colonial system didn’t want Guyanese Indians to send their children to school.

If he did it is unfortunate. The British colonial powers recognized, after World War 2 that British Guiana would want its independence from Britain. More importantly, it was saddled with the expenses of two world wars, the cost of rebuilding Britain and a USA anxious for her to shed her colonies.

By the end of the 1940s, with new ideas and new ways of looking at things, the British colonial administration recognized also that it lacked the ability to penetrate into the lives of a majority of our population and were therefore having minimal effect on them. Whereas the French colonialists were extremely effective in producing a kind of ‘French African’ in their colonies, the British enjoyed far less numerical success in this regard. By the 1950s, British policies and programmes for education were highly influenced and based on English ideas and institutions and on mass education countrywide without ethnic

or other differentiation.

In the 1950s, it was assumed that an educated Guyanese directing the country’s education could raise a significant part of the BG population from their largely uneducated state. By this time it was intended that at least some of the newly educated subjects would fill subordinate administrative posts.In 1960 Duncan Sandys was appointed Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations. That same year my father, F.W.E. Case, was appointed BG’s first local Director of Education (DOE).

At the appointing interview my father was told that he would have a relatively free hand in running BG’s education with support from the Colonial Office in London.

However, he was warned that should any problems arise “Do not be surprised to find a bowler hat standing on your doorstep.” His remit, made clear by the Colonial Secretary, was “to ensure that ALL BG children of school age attend school and benefit from sound education at both the primary and secondary levels at least.’

It had also been made clear that his performance as DOE would be measured almost entirely by his success in raising school attendance throughout BG. The Question of ethnicity or socioeconomic status was never

raised. It was clearly understood that ALL Guyanese meant exactly that.

Over the years, efforts to encourage education were more than satisfactory from the British point of view and never was it necessary to send a bowler- hatted inspector from the Colonial Office to my father ’s Georgetown office. At one stage my father was advised by the Colonial Office to “find suitable ways to admonish and punish parents of truant students as well as parents who elected not to send their children to school for whatever reason.” He subsequently reported that there was no serious level of unwillingness from urban and semi-rural Guyanese, but admitted that a problem may exist with remote Amerindian communities and a clutch of agriculture-based families who saw their male offspring as factors of farm production and their female offspring as unworthy of a sound education. He explained these cultural imperatives to Duncan Sandys who by this time was also Secretary of State for the Colonies and advised Sandys that the indigenous communities and agri-families of both African and Indian, but mainly Indian ethnicity, needed to be convinced that there was real benefit for the community as a whole in educating all their children particularly the

females who would in time be able to educate their own offspring. Consequently, the DOE was allowed to pursue a policy of gentle persuasion.

He was aided by a small group of enlightened and highly respected Amerindians— mainly Catholic nuns. Where the farming-families were concerned, he pursued an aggressive policy of sensitizing parents and elders to the importance of having qualified doctors, lawyers, dentists and teachers within their own families. This policy worked so successfully that Guyana achieved 91percent literacy, which was considerably higher than many Eastern European countries at that time.

In 1961 the DOE sent out an official directive to regional education officers and school inspectors that “Though you should use all your best efforts, energies and powers of persuasion to get parents to send their children to school, no harsh or oppressive measures would be tolerated.” He called this his “drip, drop” policy. For a very long time copy of this detailed 1961 and other directives were to be found in the archives at London University’s Education department, Senate House where my father studied under the internationally acclaimed Professor of Education H.R. Hamley.

F. Hamley Case

Where did this $4.3 billion go in 2008?

DEAR EDITOR, I have a few comments in relation to the allegations by the unions that there are not enough canes in the fields of GuySuCo to offset the disaster which was the first crop. The Guyana Sugar Corporation came into being when the then Bookers sugar estates were nationalised and added to the previously nationalised Sandbach estates of Diamond and Leonora in May 1976. Since that time we have never had a first crop with such a low production of less than 48,000 tonnes of sugar, which was also significantly less than the crop’s initial target of 71,000 tonnes.

In a Stabroek News article of June 3rd 2013 captioned “GuySuCo not tackling poor cane quality” Mr. Komal Chand tells us that from the feedback of the workers of the industry [that’s clearly where he gets his information on how much canes are in the fields] there is not sufficient cane for the corporation to meet its local and overseas market obligations of 148,000 tons in 2013, much less the 170,000

tons required to meet this year’s annual production target.

In view of the ridiculously low 48,000 tons achieved in the first crop of 2013this industry which has been in free fall since 2004 when we produced 325,433 tonnes compared to 2012 when we produced 218,141 tonnes. The only significant thing in terms of management which has happened during all of that time, as far as I can tell, was that Robert Persaud fired Booker Tate as our managers, and put a completely incompetent set of people to manage the corporation. Can’t that man do anything right? I am still asking myself why Mr. Errol Hanoman, a very competent former finance director of the corporation, resigned from this job as CEO after only about year in office! I was told by those who know to ask Robert Persaud, since it is alleged that it was he who caused Hanoman to resign.

As a result of its dismal performance, Mr. Ramjattan, Mr. Roopnarine, Mr. Earl John and numerous other people, including myself, have asked

for some sort of public enquiry to be conducted into this industry to expose where the problems of the corporation lie, since it is clear for all to see that it is going down the drain at supersonic speed.

Recently the total contempt which this government has for the public was demonstrated when Minister of Agriculture Dr Leslie Ramsammy told us in the Chronicle, 14th May, 2013, “that the corporation was deliberately curtailing this year’s first crop in an effort to achieve, in the next crop, a better yield from canes which had not ideally matured!!”

I was born into the sugar industry and performed as a Bookers and then Guysuco manager with substantial field experience since 1966 and I have never heard such nonsense. Since 1493, when Columbus brought sugar cane to the Caribbean and Brazil the sugar canes grown in Guyana and in other parts of the world were bred to mature in one year, so this not maturing nonsense referred to by the minister is not clear to me and someone should ask

him in Parliament what it means! But in case he can’t answer, I will tell you what my field sources had told me.

GuySuCo was so short of cane in the first crop of 2013 that they started bringing forward canes scheduled to be reaped in the second crop.

This means that the corporation was reaping the canes from the second crop of 2013 at approximately 6 months old. My father, probably the greatest Guyanese sugar cane planter in our history, had a name for this act of reaping the cane at 6 months instead of 12 months. He called it rape! This man Ramsammy therefore insulted our intelligence by telling us that he is waiting for the canes to be ideally matured!

To confirm that an enquiry is essential and that the corporation is in confused and incapable hands we have to look more closely at the Stabroek News article of June 3rd 2013 captioned “GuySuCo not tackling poor cane quality –Komal Chand”.

We are doing this not to see what Chand is saying, but (Continued on page 5)

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Where did this $4.3 billion ... Gaskin has finally returned to his natural habitat – the PPP

From page 4 to see the responses of the CEO Bhim to Chand’s accusations.

Bhim’s first response to Chand’s challenge is unbelievable and we see this in June 2013 “currently the corporation was conducting cane estimates for all seven estates”. He noted that going into the second crop of the year, GuySuCo had to ensure that enough cane was planted to produce the yield necessary to make the original second crop target of 170,000 tonnes.”

Mr. Editor, this is the CEO of our biggest industry telling us in June 2013 that he has yet to see if enough cane was planted to produce the yield necessary to make the original second crop target of 170,000tonnes!! He should have known this before he made his corporation estimates at the beginning of this year when the finance Minister gave the projections in Parliament, not now.

A few weeks before the start of the second crop he is saying that he still doesn’t he know how much cane was planted in 2012 second crop, and how much cane he will have available for reaping in 2013. Any private company would have fired this man immediately. But the stupidity does not end there. He goes on to say: “we are not looking at importing sugar as yet because the second crop needs to be finished…but we have had to import sugar in the past” This article in the Stabroek News appeared on June 3rd 2013. You mean to tell me, Mr. Editor, that the CEO of the corporation in June does not know how his second crop will do? But he projects that it will start earlier than usual in the third week of June, in the rain, and that he has to wait for the crop to finish before he decides if it will be necessary to import sugar for

the local market or not?Has it escaped everyone’s notice that the two packaging plants at Enmore and Blairmont which, like the Skeldon project, were predicted by the PPP to boost the earnings of the industry are not in operation, since there is no sugar to be refined for bagging and that we are only producing bulk sugar? Now remember that when we took the people’s money to build the second packaging plant at Enmore for $12.5 million US, we already had the Demerara Gold packaging plant at Blairmont? Which in over 10 years of operation has never delivered on the promises we got from the corporation?

Why then, one could legitimately ask, did we build a second one at Enmore?

Whilst Chand is saying that there is no cane in the fields, the CEO is saying “we have to look at the fields…the estimates need to be done before we go ahead or make any judgments and assumptions.” I repeat, this is June. Mr. Editor, the crop will start in two weeks and he is saying that he doesn’t know what’s in his fields? Is that any way to run an industry, especially one as important as this one is to this nation?

In the Chronicle of 14th May, 2013, the CEO had this to say: “a target has not yet been set for the second crop.”

This is the CEO of a major National corporation who is telling us, four weeks before our sugar industry is about to start the second crop for the year, that he has no idea what sugar he will make from it! Mr. Editor, all of this is very wrong, and if you will grant me the space I will tell you why. At the beginning of the year the estates give their estimated levels of production to the head office, which then makes a budget for the industry, and so

from January 1 of that year, work commences based on the level of income the corporation expects to collect from its production. Now, if you say that you will be producing 71,000 tons in the first crop and 170,000 tons in the second crop of 2013 a total of 240,000 tons, it is on that level of production which the budgeted expenditure will be based. You can’t come in October or November and tell us [the people who own this corporation] that you spent too much, according to a flawed estimate of producing 240,000 tons but you only made 214,00 tons. It is a completely unacceptable situation and will bankrupt you and this nation in no time.

This has happened year after year since the PPP got into power in 1992; these highly unrealistic and misleading industry estimates, which are revised from month to month after the money has already been spent. That is the real danger of this frequent revision of the budgeted production and it shows very poor management.

Finally, I come to the last straw, and to examine it in all of its glory we have to look at the last annual report we have seen from GuySuCo in 2009 where we see the following: “There was an improvement in the corporation’s financial performance, in 2009 the corporation made an operating loss, after taxes, of 1.9 billion dollars compared to an operating loss after taxes of $6.2 billion in 2008!

This, the CEO of the corporation is telling us in the 2009 annual report, was caused by increased and improved financial management. Sic. Mr. editor, this a very mysterious situation, and I want to clarify it so let me put it this way, in 2009 the corporation produced 233,736 tonnes of sugar compared to 226,267 tonnes in 2008, but with only an extra 7469 tonnes of sugar produced in 2009, the industry made a loss of 4.3 billion less than in 2008!

At this point we have to leave this matter until the Commission of enquiry, since it is impossible to explain this nonsense! The only question we could possibly have at this time is to ask where did this $4.3 billion dollars go in 2008!

Tony Vieira

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to Ramon Gaskin’s letter of May 21, 2013 advocating the removal of the Georgetown City Council.

This is a self-serving analysis from someone who has reentered the kingdom of the PPP. The letter is notorious for the facts it left out as for the misanalysis it contains. First, this is the same Gaskin that freely condemns elected City Councilors (they were elected and no one from a minority government can replace them; only Parliament can do that) but was the agent employed by Evan Persaud, who was hauled before a UG disciplinary for engaging in the expression of sexual vocabulary in his classroom over a ten year period. Gaskin acted as Evan Persasud’s defence attorney. Maybe UG Registrar should comment on the style of Gaskin’s defence. How I regret I was not on that committee Both Gaskin and Persaud are names on a PPP list to be on an IMC to replace the City Council, with Gaskin being slated to be the Chairman.

Gaskin left out that acting Town Clerk, Ms. Sooba, worked closely with him May last year when Gaskin’s

friend, Minister Wittaker put him as head of a committee to reform the City Council (who elected Gaskin?) and who gave him a consultancy last year which was not advertised so others could have applied.

Ms. Sooba is a PPP supporter and never hid that fact as a student at UG. During the industrial unrest at UG in January last year, she was very vocal in open support of the PPP and was involved in an incident at the Law building that was demonstrative of her political loyalties. Ramon Gaskin knows this very well and his letter is a PPP inspired act to help a discredited Sooba.

Gaskin has finally returned to his natural habitat – the PPP. In his missive he likened the Council’s attitude to Sooba to the AFC/APNU boycott of Rohee, which he used cynical semantics to describe. Maybe we will see a consultancy for Gaskin from Rohee’s Ministry

soon Gaskin claims the City Council is illegal. This is an egregious mischief from Gaskin. On Thursday night, I spent two full hours with Michael Carrington at Demico House in which he produced a plethora of documents and Bills to show me how the PPP has frustrated local government elections. Carrington is theAFC’s point man on local government, having sat for a full term as a Region 4 councilor. Carrington also showed me how year after year Parliament has postponed the elections. I am grateful to Michael Carrington for the knowledge he provided me on the history of local government legislation. I did not know it was the Hoyte Government (Continued on page 6)

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Government must take blame for the lapses in Health care delivery DEAR EDITOR, Recently, the Health system has come in for a lot of criticism from the media, Stabroek and Kaieteur News WhiIe some of the issues are inexcusable, there has to be a root to all of the problems – lack of effective stewardship and this has to come from the Ministry of Health, which has complete

oversight over the Health Sector. The Government must take blame for the lapse in the delivery of health care, since we have overnight Doctors being left to manage wards unsupervised, nurses who did not necessarily want to do nursing messing with patients’ lives, and the Diamond Diagnostic Centre which has virtually become a

rest shelter for some privileged Doctors.

These and other issues tell of a Ministry that is like a rudderless ship. It is e v e n a l l e g e d t h a t s ome doctors use the public health institutions to admit their private patients. More will come out but, Editor, expect a can of worms.

Concerned Citizen

Gaskin has finally returned to...

From page 5 that removed the authority of the Minister to name the date for local polls and that the PPP government restored that authoritarian mandate. I mean no insult to Gaskin, but his knowledge of the City Council’s legal travails is infinitesimal in comparison to Carrington’s. Finally, on the abominable omissions in Gaskin’s letter. Nowhere has this man mentioned the virtual strangulation of the City Council by a power lustful government since 1992 that is hell bent on destroying local power and is inflexible on maintaining centralized control over all locally elected bodies. Only a fool does not know that the City Council has absolutely no authority to raise its own revenue. Only a fool does not know that the Georgetown City Council is a victim of Guyana’s traditional dinosaur – power lustfulness and race. Can GHK Lall please send Gaskin a complimentary copy on his new book on the race monster in Guyana?

Now for the equally

obnoxious contents of his letter. Mr. Gaskin will find Ms. Sooba a natural companion.

They are both authoritarian figures. Gaskin, known for his Stalinist deportment when he served the PPP, will get a rude awakening if and when he becomes the IMC chairman. The people of Georgetown will not accept further PPP domination. I hope Mr. Gaskin tells his PPP friends about the anger out there but I doubt he knows about it because Gaskin does not mix with the ordinary folks. Mr. Gaskin wrote that the City Council is annoyed that Sooba was chosen by the Minister instead of someone the Council wanted. So why not?

Why must Wittaker choose Sooba? And why must Wittaker chose to replace elected NDCs with IMCs that consist of PPP members? Gaskin is silent on that depravity. Gaskin went on to opine about the unpopularity of the C i t y Council. I live in Guyana and I see an equally unpopular government, the very government that

awarded Gaskin a consultancy to study the books of City Hall.

Gaskin laments the demonstrations and pickets against Sooba by the City Council. But how glad we should be that the protest mentality has reached another section of the Guyanese society. We are too silent and sheepish a nation Maybe Gaskin should seek a consultancy to investigate the amount of recipients receiving old age pension during the tenure of Minister Manickchand. Chris Ram, who Mr. Gaskin knows very well, twice publicly said that given the census the numbers are way too high. He wrote about this in a Stabroek News letter and repeated it at a TUC symposium in April 2012. We will see how popular political parties are when city council elections are held. I can assure Mr. Gaskin that I will be up against him in the campaign Frederick Kissoon (Editor’s note: This letter was inadvertently cut in our Sunday Edition)

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UK says eavesdropping is legal, defends U.S. spy links LONDON (Reuters) Britain said eavesdropping by its GCHQ security agency was legal and no threat to privacy but would not confirm or deny reports it received data from a secret U.S. intelligence programme.

British and U.S. newspapers have suggested that the U.S. National Security Agency handed over information on Britons gathered under the PRISM programme.

In his first remarks on the subject, Foreign Secretary William Hague said the two countries did share intelligence but that GCHQ’s work was governed by a very strong legal framework.

“The idea that in GCHQ people are sitting around working out how to circumvent a UK law with another agency in another country is fanciful,” Hague told BBC TV yesterday.

“It is nonsense”.

Promising he would give a statement on the subject to the lower house of Britain’s parliament today, Hague said there was no threat to privacy or people’s civil liberties.

He said was limited in what he could disclose.

“Of course we share a lot of information with the United States,” he said, adding that the two countries enjoyed “an exceptional intelligence sharing relationship”.

“But if information arrives in the UK from the U.S. it’s

William Hague governed by our laws.”

Britain’s two-party coalition government is under pressure to reveal more details of how Britain and the United States share intelligence after the reports, based on a leak, suggested such cooperation ran much deeper than was previously known.

Critics said the collaboration amounted to a “snoopers’ charter by the back door”, accusing the security services of having much greater access to Britons’ phone a n d e l e c t r o n i c communications than allowed under British law thanks to the clandestine U.S. programme.

But Hague said such fears were misplaced.

“Intelligence gathering in this country, by the UK, i s g o v e r n e d b y a v e ry strong legal framework so that we get the balance right between the liberties and privacy of people and the

security of the country.”

Any intelligence gathering was “authorised, necessary, proportionate and targeted,” he added, saying he personally authorised GCHQ intercepts “most days of the week”.

There is public debate in Britain about giving the security services more powers to eavesdrop after a British soldier was brutally killed in London last month in an incident the government described as a “terrorist” attack.

Douglas Alexander, the opposition Labour party’s spokesman for foreign affairs, welcomed Hague’s promise to address parliament on the subject, but said he needed to be more open.

“I will be asking the Foreign Secretary in the House of Commons tomorrow to clarify the role of his Department in overseeing those legal frameworks,” Alexander said in a statement.

“It is vital that the Government now reassures people who are rightly concerned about these reports.”

Britain’s parliamentary intelligence and security committee has demanded a report from GCHQ on the subject. By coincidence, its members are due in Washington today to conduct talks with lawmakers and officials in the U.S. intelligence community.

Hague said most Britons had nothing to fear.

New lobbying scandal hits parliament, Conservatives (Reuters) - A lobbying scandal that has tarnished the reputation of Britain’s parliament widened yesterday after a newspaper secretly filmed a senior MP from Prime Minister David Cameron’s party making what is said were improper remarks.

A series of media sting operations has already thrust the issue into the limelight and forced one MP, Patrick Mercer, to resign from the ruling Conservative Party.

Three members of Britain’s upper house of parliament have also been covertly filmed offering to ask parliamentary questions, lobby ministers and host events in exchange for cash.

In the latest covert recording, Tim Yeo, a former minister and the chairman of a powerful parliamentary energy committee, appeared

Tim Yeo to admit he had told a representative of a firm that is a subsidiary of a company he is paid to work for, what to say in front of his own committee.

Such conduct does not break rules which forbid MPs

from taking cash for questions, but the Sunday Times newspaper said it had also got Yeo on camera explaining “how he could secretly help push private business in parliament for cash”.

Yeo said he “totally rejected” all the allegations.

“The Sunday Times has chosen to quote very selectively from a recording obtained clandestinely during a conversation of nearly an hour-and-a-half in a restaurant with two undercover reporters, who purported to be representing a client from South Korea,” he said in a statement.

Shaken by such scandals, the coalition government has promised to bring forward tighter rules in the coming weeks to ensure lobbying is more transparent.

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TEACHING RESPONSIBILITY Going to school is all about learning. It is about learning to read and write and do Maths. It is about learning about the birds and the bees and what comes in between.

But it is also about appreciating the importance of discipline, having the right attitude towards life and respecting your elders.

This is why parents send their children to school. They send them to not only gain knowledge but also to develop good habits such as working hard and achieving things through hard work.

One time there was this kid called Little Johnny. He was awful in his school work.

The parents tried everything they could with him. They even had private tutors come over. However, nothing changed because Little Johnny was not willing to

study. He had the wrong attitude towards his schoolwork.

One day, someone suggested that the parents send Little Johnny to a strict Christian school in the community. Not knowing what else to do, the parents consented and enrolled him into the school.

After the first day, Little Johnny came home with a very serious look on his face.

He didn’t even greet his parents. He went straight to his room and started studying. Two hours after when his mom peeped in on him, he was still hitting the books. His mom was stunned.

She even had to call him down for dinner. The moment he finished eating he headed straight back up to his room and began studying again.

This went on for weeks and

his parents began wondering what it was about the Christian school that had caused this dramatic transformation in Little Johnny’s attitude.

At the end of the term, Little Johnny brought home his Report Card and when the parents opened it they found that he had scored A’s in every subject.

His mom could no longer hold back her curiosity. She went to his room and said, “Little Johnny, what was it that caused this change in your school performance and attitude? Was it the teachers?

Little Johnny shook his head.

“Well then,” his mom asked “was it the discipline?”

Little Johnny shook his head.

“So what was it?” his mom pleaded Little Johnny looked at her

Dem boys seh...

Sink de Kimbia, it too old When a contractor don’t get wuk, he does always add on to de new job suh that he can mek up fuh when he wasn’t wukking. But while de contractor trying to mek money, de people who want to give out a new contract does try fuh cut corners because dem want to avoid spending.

Guyana got some boat wukking pun de river since de Man above mek de river. Dem boat suh old that now that Transport want to fix dem is better dem buy new boat but dem ain’t got de money to buy new boat.

One man ask fuh an estimate to patch de boat name Kimbia but every time he see one plate fuh patch he realize that he got to tek out five.

In de end, dem boys seh that dem carry in de Kimbia to GNIC and hope fuh a reasonable estimate. GNIC did give one estimate but when de wuk start de estimate get more and more. Wha start off as a patch became a repair and what was fuh repair tun a new job. Transport now seh that GNIC

over charge and it can’t pay. GNIC decide fuh hold on pun de boat. Dem boys seh that de amount of money can buy three new boat—two fuh wuk and one fuh put down.

This is wheh de trouble deh. Is every week a boat got to go in fuh repair. This one wha GNIC hold up nearly sink in de Atlantic couple weeks ago. That is why it end up in de dockyard.

But dem boys want to know is who price de wuk. If is Robeson then he trying fuh cut corner fuh mek up fuh pay fuh de hydro road.

GNIC losing pun de wharf because people not shipping out dem cargo like dem use to. De cargo getting expose.

Now de matter got to go to Donald because Ah Kneel done threatening to go to court fuh get back de boat. And of course, Chang seh that dem should sink de boat and done de whole story.

Talk half and wait fuh de end of de boat story

and said, “Well, on the first day of school when I saw that guy nailed to the plus sign, I knew they weren’t fooling around.”

Today the attitude towards schooling has changed. Many parents send their kids to school solely for knowledge and knowledge alone.

They are not interested in the school inculcating in their children respect for authority or developing a responsible attitude towards life.

And many children have the same approach. They view the role of their teachers as being concerned solely with imparting skills and knowledge and not about teaching them to be responsible, courteous and tidy.

In fact there are some cases when if a teacher upbraids a child for not papering his or her text books, the child will become defensive and ask why they

should have to do this. If the teacher tries to explain that the child needs to paper the books so to protect them and ensure that they can last a long time, there are some kids who make it known that if their books are damaged their parents can afford to buy new ones.

And t h e r e a r e s o m e private schools where some students will refuse to lift furniture and move them from one classroom to the next. They will claim that their parents are paying for their education and they are not lifting anything.

The act of assisting in moving things from one part of a school to another has never been about who was paying and who was not. In the old days, children were asked to do these things because it encouraged an ethic of responsibility. Not only were children asked to move furniture but they were also at time asked to sweep the classrooms. There was even

a roster of duties Parents then encouraged their children to do these things because it helped develop responsibility in the children.

Today there is a breakdown in responsibility in the school system because too many children are being encouraged to feel that the school auth o r i t i e s a r e responsible for the administration of the schools and children should not be asked to do any manual labour during school hours. As a result of this, the school system is producing very brilliant students some of whom do not know how to tie their shoe laces.

Well known drug dealer remanded to jail A man who was described as a well known drug dealer has been nabbed by Berbice police and charged after they made a surprised raid on his premises.

The man, Godfrey Daniels, 31 of Lot 17 Ferry Street, New Amsterdam, Berbice was refused bail and remanded to jail by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo when he appeared before her at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s court and pleaded not guilty to the charge of possession

of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking. He had 1KG 903 grams of Marijuana.

Prosecutor Sergeant Phillip Sheriff told the court that on Thursday 30th May, around 12:30 hrs the police were on mobile patrol in the New Amsterdam area when they saw Daniels and three other men in his yard acting in a suspicious manner.

The police stopped and entered the yard and conducted a search on the premises where they found

what appeared to be leaves, seeds and stems of the Marijuana plant. The men were arrested and the substance was seized and taken to the Central Police station.

The herb was weighed and tested and found to be 1 KG 903 grams of the prohibited plant.

A file was prepared and sent to the Director of Public Prosecution for advice and it was recommended that Daniels be charged.

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It is said that “Catches win matches” but that may not be entirely true. If you want to understand why male athletic teams perform so well you have to look elsewhere— on their glistening bodies and the running rivulets of sweat.

Instead of sweating the small stuff, smell it.

It is the commingled odour of the sweat, not the blood and tears, which inspire the teamwork that is the stuff of victory. Sweat wins the laurels. Sweat is the basic ingredient of the sweet smell of success. Sweat is what makes the goals score, the Heat rise and the champagne flow. Sweat Spurs on the team. Sweat keeps Manchester United.

Science Now (the daily news service of the Journal Science) says, “Take a whiff, men. A chemical component of other guys’ sweat makes men more cooperative and generous, new research says.

The study is the first to show that this pheromone, called androstadienone, influences other men’s behaviour and reinforces the

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developing finding that humans are susceptible and responsive to these chemical signals.”

Researchers from the University of Turku, in Finland, led by evolutionary biologist Markus Rantala found the effect androstadienone has on men when they carried out tests among computer game players.

They discovered that if men breathed in the pheromone they were much more likely to cooperate with players to do better at the game. The researchers speculate that their finding may hearken back to a time when cooperation between males conferred a survival advantage.

It has taken a long time for Science to catch up with the conventional wisdom and with what we have known for generations.

Certainly when our progenitors were told, “By the sweat of your brows thou shalt eat bread” the hidden truth was essentially that people had to work together

to survive. Or as the Almighty might have said today, “Make them sweat for it.”

Colin Powell understands the sweat factor, “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” General Patton did too, “A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood”; as did General Schwarzkopf, “The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.”

David Hume the Scottish economist and philosopher, despite being a skeptic, realized almost two hundred years ago how important sweat is to teamwork, “It’s when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it’s when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.”

It is interesting, though, that the research about sweat and teamwork came from Finland where sauna is almost a religion. Finland has an average of one sauna per household. WIKIPEDIA says, “For Finnish people the

sauna is a place to relax with friends and family, and a place for physical and mental relaxation as well. Finns think of saunas not as a luxury, but as a necessity. Before the rise of public health care and nursery facilities, almost all Finnish mothers gave birth in saunas.”

Given the amount of sweating that goes on in Finland one would expect the Finns to do well in team sports. Finland has won the ice-hockey world championship twice but the irony is that in such cold conditions they did it without working up a sweat.

There is an upside or bonus to all the male sweating and is a kind of “sweat equity”, a term increasingly used by development agencies to mean that beneficiaries of capital contributions to projects have to put in some hard work (or “sweat equity”) in the project. This is their “in-kind” contribution.

In addition to finding out that sweat helps male bonding, the research has

GPL engages Berbicians in Network Rehabilitation Project meetings The Guyana Power & Light Inc (GPL) held a series of community meetings over the weekend in Berbice to educate customers about the upcoming Network Rehabilitation Project.

The meetings, which were held at Lochaber and Cumberland, entertained questions from customers on aspects of their electricity services.

Speaking with Kaieteur News after the Cumberland meeting, Mr. Kumar Sharma, Director of Loss Reduction, stated that the project is part of a $5M loan from the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB), which seeks to build capacity and energy conservation, rehabilitate the low voltage distribution network and commercial loss reduction actions.

This new distribution system is designed to reduce losses by the company due to illegal connections and substandard network, and to enable customers to become more energy conscious through the use of the Prepaid Metering System.

The new system will be implemented in 18 other communities: La Grange, Canal Number Two, East La Penitence, North East La Penitence, Mon Repos, Enmore, Victoria and Helena in Region Four, Windsor Forest in Region Three, Now or Never, Cotton Tree and Rosignol Housing Scheme in Region Five and Edinburg,

Mr. Cush, Technical Consultant and GPL Berbice Manager, Mr. Bacchus

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revealed that male sweat helps them to bond with females.

Despite what George Carlin the comedian said about sweat (Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things) brain scans of women exposed to male sweat showed that the smell of the ‘sexy’ sweat stimulated different parts of the women’s brains, including the regions linked to emotion, pleasure, sex and reproduction.

A study carried out at the University of Northumbria asked a group of female students to judge the attractiveness of men shown in photos. Another group of women were set the same task - but this time, unknown to them, a cloth soaked in male sweat was hidden nearby. All the men were given higher ratings when the male sweat was nearby.

In fact, some perfume companies have even incorporated pheromones into their products, hoping to add an extra emotional punch to colognes and perfumes.

A Swedish Professor is now making a perfume from the sweat of glass blowers.

Maybe it will help you to see through the intentions of other people. He can make it mandatory for Swedish politicians so there will be more transparency in Government.

C O S M O P O L I TA N magazine also found that female sweat with a little help from some perfumes is also a potent stimulant and advises, “Sometimes, a tiny bit of sweat can help release your sultry powers and reel him in.

‘When I’m out dancing at late-night parties, it gets pretty hot and sweaty,’ says Eric, 18.

‘One time, I smelled Glow

by J.Lo on a girl, and all I wanted to do was groove closer with her...all night.’

Encourage him to work up a sweat too. Research shows that the chemicals in male perspiration stimulate sexual desire in women (no wonder he looks oh so appealing post-exercise).”

According to experts, the top perfume that men go for is Joy by Jean Patou. At US$155 per ounce the price is nothing to sniff at and most of us would have to put in a lot of sweat equity to earn the money. However, the reward is that you can then spread joy (or whatever the name is) all you want. In fact, there is a website that offers 150 ways to do it. *Tony Deyal was last seen talking about the man who put blood, sweat and tears into the opening of his new restaurant. Then the environmental health department closed it down.

Candle light vigil held at GPHC for deceased mother

Lochaber, Canje, Rose Hall, Miss Phoebe Port Mourant and Springlands in Region Six. According to Sharma, GPL is introducing a social management programme component, which means that the company has to engage the communities, “so we come in and meet with them and see how it will affect them during construction and after construction.”

Sharma stated that after the project would have been completed, the company will return to do an evaluation.

There are two parts to the programme, he stated. There are close to 100 areas that

may need upgrading, “because of the increase in the number of customers in those areas and quality of lives—people are using more ACs [air conditioners] and stereos, the network cannot handle the load and customers may be affected by low voltage, etc, so this programme consists of going into the communities and redesigning the entire network.”

The programme will begin in Berbice within the next two months and be completed before the end of the year.

Customers, he stated, will be affected with power outages, but these will be

done in isolation, meaning that small areas within villages will experience blackouts for 12- hour periods (or less), perhaps once or twice per week.

“At the end of the day, they will be re-connected, so it will be a phased process and every day a different set of customers will be affected but the end result will be that they will be getting a better quality and service.”

Also present at the meetings were GPL Berbice Operations Manager, Mr. Ayube Bacchus, Technical Consultant, Mr. Cush; and Mr. Mark Ross, Social Coordinating Officer.

“Jesus loves the little babies of the world…” This was just one of many songs sung at the candle light vigil in memory of the late Luan Rodney who died while in labour at the Georgetown Public Hospital on June 4.

Although Nigel Rodney was not present, dozens of family members and relatives of Luan Rodney stood opposite the Maternity Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital and read scriptures, sang hymns and lit candles which drew a crowd of spectators.

One woman recited the oath of nursing.

A friend of the deceased, Cheryl Joseph told this publication, “we are hurting family and friends today for the deceased. We thought that if love was shown by the institution we would not have the outcome of what happened with Luan.”

Unata DaSilva another friend of the late Rodney said that the vigil was not held to condemn or attack any

individual of the institution but just to show love. “We want to see something different happen at this hospital. I realize that not many persons have the finances to go to a private institution,” the woman said.

DaSilva added, “We hope that there is some change in the system because we don’t want another mother to go through what happened or even die, it must stop.”

GPHC in a press release said that the woman of mixed race died at 07:50hrs on June 4, and that an investigation had been launched into the circumstances surrounding her demise.

Luan Rodney leaves to mourn her husband and daughter.

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How big a challenge is the Modernisation of the Guyana Police Force?

Senior reporter Dale Andrews’ exclusive interview with Patrick Mentore, Head, Strategic Management Department The Head of the Strategic Management Department that is overlooking the Guyana Police Force’s strategic development plan, Patrick Mentore, believes that changing an ingrained organisational culture that has been in place for decades will not happen overnight.

He is convinced that if given the time, the unit could achieve its task of transforming the force into a modern police entity.

Last week he sat down with Senior Reporter Dale Andrews for an exclusive interview on how the unit plans to achieve its goals.

Continued from yesterday…

KN: Coming out of your audit did you determine any areas which are in need immediate reform; and if so what areas have you identified?

PM: I think it is a bit too early to pronounce on that; what I can say is that the SMD will be making our findings

known to Force administration along with our recommendations on the relevant best practices in the areas so identified.

KN: You mentioned strategic priorities, can we have some brief idea of what these entail?

PM: I am not sure that any answer on that aspect can be brief. However I will try to be as brief as possible by identifying the individual priorities and a few of the deliverables under each core priority area.

Under operational priorities the focus is on drugs; firearms; domestic violence; traffic; cybercrime and international money laundering; piracy; people trafficking; Office of Professional Responsibility; and transparency. Among the objectives the GPF hopes to achieve with regard to drugs is an increase in the number of drug trafficking prosecutions; and the initiation of an educational programme for vulnerable groups in society. The

deliverables refer to specific the examples of youth, convicted persons and the unemployed. The Force would like to increase the number of weapons and ammunition seized and destroyed. In the results oriented framework these objectives have been assigned a percentage based on baseline data which the GPF expects to achieve during the implementation period. With respect to domestic violence one goal is to increase the public’s trust and confidence in the Force’s ability to deal with reported incidents of DV robustly and effectively. As I said just now there really is no brief way to explain the deliverables the strategic plan identifies and we are working on presenting a summarised version with which we hope the public can identify.

KN: You mentioned Office of Professional Responsibility; in light of the constant criticism and complaints about professional misconduct, do you see the OPR playing a role in ensuring that ranks conform to established professional standards? Is the OPR in its present state capable of making an input in that regard in view of widely held beliefs that even that body is not as professional as it should be?

PM: One deliverable in respect of the OPR is that it is to be upgraded to perform functions similar to that of an internal affairs unit with full authority and I daresay autonomy. I cannot comment on its capability or on the

professionalism of its members. I am sure that those issues will be addressed at the appropriate time.

KN: Just as a follow up, what assurances can anyone be given that the OPR officers’ integrity can withstand scrutiny particularly when there are allegations that that office intervenes in matters outside of its jurisdiction?

PM: On the question of integrity I can only point to the fact that among the deliverables is one which speaks to setting up a process for integrity testing of ranks.

I am not sure that the OPR would be excluded from such tests.

KN: What are your immediate plans for the short term?

PM: The Strategic Management Department proposes to conduct an analysis using a series of one day workshops at different levels of the GPF. We also propose having a session with external stakeholders who can provide vital information regarding opportunities and threats in the environment affecting the Guyana Police Force.

Key recommendations and next-steps will be highlighted, and where necessary, projects or other interventions will be designed to address key issues. We will also be conducting a survey which will focus on ethics in the Force.

Depending on the logistics we hope to engage the community in the various divisions to get residents’ perceptions on their expectations of the police role among other matters. We hope to be able to design risk mitigation strategies for anticipated threats to implementation.

KN: Have you encountered any challenges so far, and if you have, what

Patrick Mentore are they and how is your team coping?

PM: You know, Dale, life is one big challenge. I think that the biggest challenge thus far has been one of sloth.

This may sound unkind, but the reality is that an organization which has been around for one hundred and seventy-four years is to all intents and purposes, set in its ways.

It is not unknown that there will be an almost unhealthy fear of the unknown which change often brings. Being accustomed to operating in a certain way means that resistance must be overcome by education and awareness sessions.

It is my belief that the commitment expressed at the top must be transmitted downwards, and there must be some indicator which informs how successful the need for, and benefits of reform have been passed on.

Having said that, for the spoken word to have an impact it must be accompanied by appropriate behavior at all levels and not be seen in the context of “do as I say and not as I do.”

We plan to engage officers and ranks in focus groups to address concerns and fears in

Guyanese accused in fatal 'Philly'...

From page 3 owner Richard Basciano should have picked a more qualified and competent contractor to do the work, said Robert Mongeluzzi, another of White's attorneys.

“This is the most egregious construction accident I think I've ever been involved in,” said Mongeluzzi, who has represented hundreds of plaintiffs in construction accidents and is considered a top lawyer in the field.

The collapse has brought swift and mounting fallout in a city where demolition contractors are lightly regulated.

Officials have begun inspecting hundreds of demolition sites citywide, and a city councilman charged that dangerous, under-the-radar teardowns are taking place throughout Philadelphia.

Sean Benschop The city is also preparing to implement sweeping changes in its regulations of building demolition, Mayor Michael Nutter said Friday, adding that every active demolition site is being inspected for safety.

“We will not accept the status quo in the face of this tragedy,” Nutter said.

(Leighvalleynews) Meanwhile, here in Guyana Mark Benschop issued a statement on a social network expressing condolences to the families of those who suffered as a result of the incident.

“I wish to express deep regret at the injuries and loss of life caused by the construction crane accident in Philadelphia, involving a member of the Benschop family, who has since been arrested and charged for causing the accident. The extended Benschop family reaches out with love and support to all families involved. Our hearts ache for the needless loss of life, and the damage and the pain suffered by so many.”

Senior Reporter Dale Andrews a frank manner; to hear their views and to outline their role and the role of the Strategic Management Department in moving the reform process forward. I would like to reiterate that as much as we appreciate the expectant mood of all stakeholders, reform will not come overnight; we all have to work at making the strategic plan a success; the nation deserves no less.

KN: Finally, has the police reception to the SMD team’s advent in the police environment been one of encouragement?

PM: As in everything there will always be speed bumps which we have to take in stride. Our effectiveness will depend on whether the culture of the GPF has evolved enough to accept unsworn professionals.

If the organisational culture is dismissive of professional expertise and opinions, and is one which fosters the belief that civilians have to constantly prove themselves we will get nowhere just as fast.

Thus changing the overall police culture will be one of the critical factors in reforming the force because a positive culture grounded in high professional standards underpinned by sound and moral values promotes public confidence and a sense of harmony in society.

I would like to share this thought that I picked up somewhere “Refusing to improve one’s self even when one is stuck in a fairly dismal state constitutes doing a grave injustice to oneself. Shutting out any possible avenues for change and betterment when someone else is counting on you is an even graver offence.”

The process of reformation, modernisation and improving the performance of the Guyana Police Force will not be an easy task. Change will require strong and inspired leadership, strong and sustained political will on the part of Government, and members of the Force to welcome, embrace and champion it.

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Guyanese sociologist and writer Kampta Karran dies of heart attack Guyanese sociologist and author, Mr. Kampta Karran died of a heart attack last Wednesday at the Skeldon Hospital. He was 56 years old.

Karran, who was ordained Lutheran pastor just weeks ago in New Amsterdam during the Lutheran Convention, was recently appointed the pastor of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church at Skeldon.

Karran is a graduate of the University of Guyana and the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.

He taught at the University of Guyana, and lectured at the University of Birmingham from 1999 to

2002, before joining the U n i v e r s i t y o f Wa r w i c k Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations as the Wa r w i c k P o s t g r a d u a t e Research Fellow in 2002.

He was working on the completion of his doctorate degree. He also worked for the Guyana State Planning Commission in the 1980s, the Peace Corps, School of the Nations University; the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC), and the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM).

He has a distinguished record in the service of local publishing in Guyana, where he edited and published the journal

Offerings and was active in working towards a r e s o l u t i o n t o G u y a n a ’s ethnic conflicts. He edited the anthology Race and Ethnicity in Guyana: An Introductory Reader.

According to his longtime friend, Dr. Jerry Jailall of the New Millennium Ministries, Pastor Karran had plans to make the Emmanuel Church a hub of education and training to meet the needs of the Upper Corentyne Community.

“Karran was a person who always had many creative ideas and a big vision, and was in a hurry to a c c o m p l i s h t h e m , ” D r.

Man on attempted murder charge after rescuing mother A man who severely wounded a man who threa t e n e d t o s h o o t h i s mother has been charged with attempted murder.

Kevin Mohabir, 18, of 1 9 8 S u k h u Street, No.2 Village, East Canje Berbice was remanded to jail by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo when he appeared before her at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court on a charge of attempted murder.

He is accused of wounding Clifton Ramcharran called “Witch”,39, of Lot 102 No. 2 Vi l l a g e , E a s t C a n j e Berbice on Sunday 02nd June.

Ramcharran, who is well known to the police was admitted a patient in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.

According to information Ramcharran,

Clifton Ramcharran who was recently released from jail went to his former lover’s home, in an effort to reconcile their relationship.

The woman, perturbed by his constant bad behaviour and regular runins with the law, refused his latest conciliatory moves.

Her snubs apparently

angered Ramcharran and he threatened to shoot her if she does not make up with him.

The woman became afraid and raised an alarm. Her son, Mohabir, was in the house and h e a r d h e r screams.

He armed himself with a cutlass and dealt Ramcharran chops to his head and other parts of his body.

Ramcharran was picked up and rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital and subsequently transferred to the Georgetown Hospital where he remains warded in a critical condition. The police were informed and Mohabir was arrested and subsequently charged.

Ramcharran has been charged and jailed on a number of occasions, for among other things, escaping from lawful custody; break and enter and larceny; possession of marijuana and simple larceny.

Drug dealers walk free after police fail to produce exhibit Three men who were before the court jointly on cocaine and marijuana charges were all freed after the police failed to produce the necessary exhibits.

The men, Gordon Bruce called ‘Joe’, 26, a father of two of 18 St John Street, Christopher Chatterpaul, 25, a taxi driver of Smythfield and David Leung Awah, 36, of Kent Street all of New Amsterdam, Berbice, were charged with being in possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

They were allegedly found with two grams of cocaine and two grams of marijuana on January 16, 2013 and subsequently appeared in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s

Court before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo.

The prosecution’s case was that on the day in question, the police raided the house at St. John Street New Amsterdam and found the trio in a room. The room was searched and a whitish substance suspected to be cocaine was found wrapped in a plastic bag in a corner.

Further searches unearthed what looked like leaves, seeds and stems of the marijuana plant.

The men were arrested and taken into custody. The items were tested and weighed and found to be portions of the marijuana plant.

In court they were placed on $100,000 bail on the

cocaine charge and $25,000 on the marijuana charge each.

During the trial the men were represented at various stages by Attorneys at law Charrandass Persaud and Mursaline Bacchus.

At the conclusion of the prosecution’s case, the police failed to produce the exhibits.

The defence in their no case submissions had argued that there was no case for the men to answer as there was no proof that the men had anything, because no exhibits were presented to the court in the matter and that the men should be set free.

The Magistrate concurred with the defence’s submissions and freed the men.

Jailall said.

He added that Karran used terms such as “community engagement,” “ w o r k i n g s m a r t e r, n o t h a r d e r, ” “ 2 1 s t c e n t u r y vision and methods,” and “integrating technology in church ministry.”

According to Pastor Hemchand, head of the Emanuel Lutheran Parish, they are very saddened at the unexpected passing of their new P a s t o r. “ We were happy to have him o n our team, and were looking forward to working on several projects together,” he said.

Former President of the Lutheran Church in Guyana, Errol Inshanally, said Karran’s passing is a big blow to the Lutheran Church at such a time as this.

Karran is survived by his wife Deoranie Gobin Karran, and children Kiran Karran, Keoma Karran, Pollita Persaud, and Kavita Karran.

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These are the subconscious forces and influences you may be feeling now. There could be an opportunity to assemble with many different personalities today and for the next few days.

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Alleged Kuru-Kururu wife killer remains unconscious in hospital

Ramdat’s body on the ground while investigators look for evidence

Shameer Ali and Shaneza Ramdat in happier times A Post Mortem Examination (PME) is expected to be conducted sometime today on the remains of 25-year-old Shaneza Ramdat called ‘Reshma’ who was murdered, allegedly by her reputed husband, 40-year-old Shameer Ali who later attempted suicide.

At around 11:00hrs on Saturday, Ramdat’s lifeless

body was discovered lying face down in the front yard of her brother’s Kuru Kururu Squatting Area, Soesdyke/ Linden Highway home where the couple had been residing for the past three weeks.

The woman’s body had a stab wound to the neck, and others about the body.

Neighbours armed with pieces of wood put up a search for Ali who was later

found in a clump of bushes aback of the house, with a bleeding neck.

He was subsequently rushed to the GPHC, where he is currently being closely monitored by the police.

Kaieteur News was told that the murder may have stemmed from an argument the couple had over Ramdat’s alleged infidelity.

Speaking with this newspaper yesterday, the suspect’s daughter “Meno”, said that the news of her father’s actions has left her and her siblings puzzled, as the man has never been known to be violent.

“For all the 20 years of my life, my father was always

loving and caring. He never even hit me and my two other siblings. We still confused. I was so shocked when I get the call because I know my father, but still, I don’t know what happened yesterday (Saturday),” the young lady said.

She added that about four years ago, her father walked out on her mother without giving any explanation, and she never heard from him since. He subsequently moved in with his brother and sister-in-law, and started a relationship with the now dead woman.

A neighbour and close family friend, Inez John, told Kaieteur News that an hour

before the killing, the couple was at her house, and all had seemed well.

“They left here good, good. Not an argument or nothing. They were even making jokes and laughing and so…so I don’t really know what went wrong,” John said.

She added that she has known the couple for the four years that they were together and never got the slightest hint that either of them was unfaithful.

However, shortly before the murder, another neighbour heard them arguing about “some phone call, and another man”.

Ramdat mothered two

young children from her first marriage, while Ali is the father of three. Their children remain in the care of their exes. They have no children together.

The woman’s brother Gewan Ramdat told this newspaper that while he spends most of his time in the interior and does not know much of what goes on in his sister’s life, he finds it hard to believe that the woman was cheating on Ali, as the two always shared a good relationship.

He added however that Ramdat did share a good relationship with her exhusband, and would usually visit her children “somewhere on the West Side”.

Kato schoolchildren fetching logs for hot meals…

Regional Admin. was informed on three occasions As controversy continues to surround the feeding programme at Kato Primary School, the Regional Democratic Councilor, RDC at the centre of the issue, Neim Mohammed Gafoor is maintaining the credibility of his claims.

“I have proof to support what I’m saying… the matter was brought up to REDO and subsequently to Minister Ganga Persaud but he didn’t pay heed to what was happening. I do not have the Education Minister’s number so I took it upon myself to expose this sort of exploitation of young children,” he said.

Last Thursday, Alliance For Change (AFC) Parliamentarian Ms Valerie Garrido-Lowe backed Gafoor’s claims. Lowe revealed in an invited comment yesterday that contrary to what was written in a Stabroek News article, the issue of the children fetching the logs was brought before the administrative body, at least three times.

“One of the Region’s Councilors had asked if tractors or trailers can be provided by the Region to

Students of Kato Primary carrying the logs to be used for cooking carry the wood instead of the children but was told that the Ministry of Education was responsible for supplying fuel for transportation. However due to inactivity on the Regional administration side, the matter was to brought the attention of the press,” Lowe said.

The AFC gained the majority of votes in the region at the last General Elections.

The issue raised concerns countrywide with some persons and organizations

offering to assist.

Education Minister, Priya Manickchand moved to further give a valid explanation into the circumstances of which several students from Kato Primary School were seen fetching firewood to facilitate a School Feeding initiative last Friday.

A preliminary investigation has been launched in response to the photos that surfaced in which a group of students from the Region Eight facility was seen

carrying logs from beyond the far reaching Paramakatoi Mountains.

Minister Manickchand said that based on the statement from the Regional Educational Officer (REDO), Ms Carla Prescott to whom radio contact was made, “on Wednesday 17th April 2013, the kitchen staff noted that they were out of firewood and asked Teacher in Charge at the time –Ms Andrea Pereira— to organize the children to aid in the gathering of firewood from a

nearby clump of bushes. The teacher agreed to same and gathered the children who came early to school to assist.”

“During this time, statutory meeting of Regional Democratic Council Region # 8 was being held in Sub District 1 Kato Village. Mr. Nieem Gafoor who is a Regional Councilor had attended this meeting and asked the children to pose for these pictures.

The unsuspecting children complied.”

Her response came amid criticism from the main opposition party, A Partnership for National Unity, APNU, which urged that Government stop their denial of the poor state of affairs in the hinterland regions and to seek immediate redress for the problems plaguing its residents.

According to the party, the graphic illustration shows the plight of hinterland school children and exposes a wider problem which is the dysfunctional nature of this Government which has its priorities all wrong.

“It is hell bent on central control when it should be meaningfully engaging dulyelected Regional Democratic Councils (RDCs) and, in keeping with constitutional provisions, empowering them. Sadly, however, the opposite is happening and the Government has deliberately set about to handicap and undermine the work and proper functioning of RDCs, thereby making them ineffective in delivering on their duties and responsibilities to residents who voted for them,” APNU stated.

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Mayor challenges Local Government PAC members’ trip to Canada…

Minister to public debate on City Hall Real accountability and transparency do City Mayor Hamilton Greene has lashed back at negative statements made by Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud about the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) at a People’s Progressive Party press briefing last week. In what now appears to be a battle between the M&CC and the Local Government Ministry, Greene rejected the notion that “government is being forced to assume responsibilities of M&CC,” while dismissing the “lethargic approach” charged by the Local Government Ministry.

The Mayor challenged the Local Government Minister to a public debate on City Hall after accusing him of lying over statements made about taxes paid to City Hall and the incompetence of the municipality. PPP Executive Secretary Zulfikar Mustapha had also chimed in on the apparent row, telling reporters that despite high levels of support to the Municipality and accompanying relief on the Council’s budget, it seems that little is being done by the Municipality.

Mustapha said that excuses are the order of the day for the Municipality, while the Mayor instead of dealing with issues affecting citizens, continues to focus his energy on rows with the “acting Town Clerk regarding who has more power in the Council.”

Minister Persaud said that more than 80 per cent of those required to pay taxes to the Council did so last year. He

Mayor Hamilton Greene continued that City Hall wants to say that the near $3B it collected in taxes was inadequate. He reminded that the government pays in excess $150M for Stateowned buildings in the city.

But the Mayor said that 50 percent of taxes were collected last year and not the 80 percent the Local Government Ministry purports.

Mayor Greene said, “They are all lies. The biggest lie was when he (Minister Persaud) empathically stated that the government had given to the Municipality $150M. The government has not honored its legal obligations to the city by paying their taxes.”

Greene charged that already for the year, “the government is in default of taxes for the first and second quarter of 2013.”

City Hall has continued to defend that they are strapped for cash and there is little or no aid coming to the Council

from the government.

He said that the measures forwarded to the government by the Council to assist itself, has not been put in place.

Greene pointed out that it was a sad and sorrow state last week when “the new guru at City Hall organized a program, and neither the Mayor or Councilors were involved. That is the level of indecency, vulgarity and madness that we face.”

Mayor Greene also explained that the government has written to the Council saying that it has put in the budget money for tipping fees. This he said is “the fee attached to an agency- in this case the Municipality- for weights of garbage deposited to Haag Bosch, eight miles outside of Georgetown.”

“The government knows full well we are cash strapped, they have kept us this way.

For every initiative taken by this Council to raise money, it was frustrated.” In terms of Local Government Elections, Deputy Mayor Patricia ChaseGreen was confident in her call for it to be held. She opined that, “none of us -APNU, AFC and quite sure the PPP is not afraid to go to the polls... so bring on elections, don’t bring an IMC.” Local Government Election has also stirred much debate and arguments with blame being laid on the opposition for not wanting it.

Similarly, the opposition has tossed blame back at the government who they say, are the ones who fear local polls.

not exist in Guyana- Opposition MP

By Abena Rockcliffe Four members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have returned home following a beneficial fourday training exercise spearheaded by Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC).

The training was held in Ottawa, Canada and was facilitated as a result of a request by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, to the Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana, David Devine.

It allowed primarily for an examination on how to strengthen the process of estimating for annual budget.

The PAC is an arm of parliament that is mandated to review the report of the Auditor General and make relevant recommendations, while GOPAC is an international network of parliamentarians dedicated to good governance and combating corruption throughout the world.

It is an independent body which helps parliamentarians across the world to improve scrutiny of their budget estimate process with an aim of safeguarding taxpayers improving tax transparency.

Since its inception, GOPAC has provided information and analysis, established international benchmarks, and improved public awareness through a combination of global pressure and national action.

GOPAC Canada has provided both financial and organizational assistance to send the delegation of four Guyanese Members of Parliament (MP) to Canada.

The delegation included People Progressive Party/

AFC Member of Parliament, Trevor Williams Civic (PPP/C), MPs Bibi Shadick and Manzoor Nadir and two representatives from A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and Alliance For Change (AFC)—Volda Lawrence and Trevor Williams respectively.

Ms. Sonia Maxwell, Clerk of Committees attached to the Economic Services Committee, also accompanied the delegation.

A participant’s review Williams who is a first time Member of Parliament, when contacted by Kaieteur News said that the team was privileged to witness, firsthand, a system that is subjected to real transparency and accountability.

On the trip, the four visited the Canadian National Assembly during one of its sittings. Williams said that the actual proceedings were not much different to Guyana’s as the Opposition MPs were grilling the government. What he found different was in the responses given.

Williams said that the government provided all documents that the

opposition requested “which is unlike what happens in Guyana.”

“We were able to see some of the critical documents that they use in the review of the estimates process—it was good to see what transparency is all about.”

The MP said that he and his colleagues also attended a sitting of the Senate Committee of Finance. The Senate Committee of Finance is one that deals mainly with the granting of supplementary allocations. It oversees legislation impacting the expenditure of state funds.

In some jurisdictions, the Committee is responsible for balancing the State’s operating and capital budgets.

Guyana, however, doesn’t have a Senate Committee; instead when it comes to approving supplementary allocations, the National Assembly simply goes into a committee of Supply.

Williams said that the team also visited GOPAC global executive and GOPAC Canada. They also sat in on a PAC hearing where crown corporationa state organization- went before the committee.

The Guyana PAC members had a chance to share experience as PAC members in their country.

Williams said that Canada has a well trained and professional team that is attached to parliament with the mandate to help MPs understand budget estimates in detail—a luxury that doesn’t exist in Guyana.

He said that the resources given to MPs are given in a timely manner which strengthens the chance of having a good critical review of the estimates.

Williams opined that the trip was very informative and much can be used from it to strengthen Guyana’s system in that regard.

Kaieteur News learnt that a Consultant attached to GOPAC Canada suggested that the four Members form a Sub-Committee of the Public Accounts Committee and submit a report containing recommendations following their visit.

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More benefits for T&T – Chinese Ambassador Huang Xingyuan Trinidad Express Caribbean countries with the best projects will get the opportunity to access US$3.1 billion in concessional loans from China, says Huang Xingyuan, Chinese Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago.

Huang, in an interview with the Sunday Express at the Chinese Embassy in St Clair last Tuesday spoke about how the Caribbean stood to benefit from the economic powerhouse and how this country’s friendship with China could yield much success.

In his recent visit to Trinidad and Tobago, Chinese President Xi Jingping indicated that Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries that support the People’s Republic of China’s “One China” policy, including Trinidad and Tobago, are to benefit from US$3 billion in concessional loans from that country.

Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Suriname,

Montserrat, Guyana, Barbados, The Bahamas, Grenada, Dominica, and Antigua and Barbuda support the One China p o l i c y, i n w h i c h t h e People’s Republic of China does not recognise a separate entity called the Republic of China which administers Taiwan.

Belize, Haiti, St Vincent and the Grenadines, St Lucia, and St Kitts and Nevis maintain relations with Taiwan.

In response to questions from the Sunday Express, Huang explained that there was no fixed allocation for any Caribbean country.

He said the concessional loans can be accessed on a programme or project basis.

Huang said this country stood to benefit not only from the loans.

This measure will also aim to boost trade relations between China and Trinidad and Tobago.

He said there had been a decrease in the level of trade,

as in 2011 trade between the two counties stood at US$600 million but fell to US$450 million in 2012.

Huang praised Government’s move to establish a diplomatic mission in Beijing, saying this would fuel further growth and deepen the friendship and diplomatic ties.

“Next year marks the 40th anniversary of the People’s R e p u b l i c o f C h i n a ’s diplomatic ties with Trinidad and Tobago so it is very convenient to have this move to establish an embassy in Beijing,” he said.

“I have many friends who are CEOs of Chinese companies. When they heard that I came here as the Ambassador they wanted to come here for investment,” he added.

An embassy in Beijing, he said, will make the process easier.

“I think shortly after you establish a diplomatic mission in Beijing we will see three increases.

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Raynauth Jeffery soaks Canadian GP: Sebastian Vettel field to win Aqua Mist water wins ahead of Alonso and Hamilton cycling event in Berbice Raynauth Jeffery returned to winning ways when he journeyed to Berbice and beat the field to capture the fifth annual Banks DIH Limited Aqua Mist Water 60 miles cycle road race held yesterday in Berbice.

Jeffery led a field from Demerara as they made a clean sweep of the first six positions in the senior category in the event organised by the Flying Ace Cycle Club of Berbice.

Jeffery rode home in a time of two hours twenty five minutes and twenty eight seconds (2hrs:25:28).

Occupying the other top positions were Michael Anthony, Paul DeNobrega, Hamza Eastman, Alex Mendes and Geoffrey Pollydore in that order.

The race, which got started in from of the Banks DIH New Amsterdam Branch at Main and New Streets, saw some 35 cyclists riding off from the starting line around 09:10hrs and journeyed to the No43 bridge on the Corentyne before turning back and heading to the place of origin for the finish.

With the cycling season in full flow and all the riders

in top form, the cyclists were off to a fast start with Michael Anthony, Paul DeNobrega, Michael Anthony, Junior Niles, Andre Abdool, and Delroy Hinds taking an early lead as they looked for the early advantage. Jeffery soon started to work his magic in pursuit of the leaders and caught up with the front pack as they battled away towards the turn back point at rapid pace.

The front bunch was almost always together even as a few of the riders made a break for it, but were quickly sucked in by the pack.

On the down ward journey, Jeffrey decided to up the ante and went for an early break. Anthony came after him and soon connected and the two Team Coco’s riders continued to work in tandem at a fast pace and kept going until the finish line.

The top junior was Michael Anthony who came home ahead of Eastman and Shaquille Agard. On the distaff side, of the four females to start Hazina Barrett made sure her journey from Linden was not in vain as she came home first ahead of Marica Dick, with Crystal

Lambert trailing in third. The females turned back in front of the University of Guyana Berbice campus at Tain.

The sprint point prizes went to Paul DeNobrega who took three, Michael Anthony two, with Delroy Hinds, Andre Abdool and Jeffrey taking one each.

This was the first year the event was extended to cyclist outside of Berbice and the largest field to assembly for the race.

Banks DIH Berbice Sales Manager Joshua Terrazzo and coordinator and Coach of the Flying Ace Cycle Club, Randolph Roberts, were both happy and expressed appreciation for the support.

Terrazzo expressed his joy and stated that Banks DIH will continue to support community based and sports events and plans are on stream to make it bigger next year. Club Official Eli Hazel also spoke a few words at the event.

The police led by Superintendent Calvin Brutus, Sergeant Thomas and Corporal Alli were commended for doing a splendid job.

(Samuel Whyte)

Vettel extended his lead at the top of the F1 Championship (AP) BBC Sport - Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel took a dominant victory in the Canadian Grand Prix as Fernando Alonso beat Lewis Hamilton to second place.

Vettel led all but three laps to take his first win in Canada as Alonso’s Ferrari, which started sixth, passed Hamilton’s Mercedes with nine laps to go. Alonso moves into second in the championship, 36 points behind Vettel and eight ahead of Lotus’s Kimi Raikkonen.

The Finn was ninth after a difficult race as Red Bull’s Mark Webber took fourth.

Raikkonen was lapped before half distance by Vettel,

Bryan twins make it a good day for the 30-somethings PARIS (Reuters) - The 30somethings have enjoyed themselves at the French Open this year and American twins Bob and Mike Bryan continued the trend by winning a recordextending 14th grand slam doubles title at Roland Garros on Saturday.

Just a few hours after 31-year-old fellow American Serena Williams

h o i s t e d t h e w o m e n ’s trophy, the Bryans broke French hearts by beating Nicolas Mahut and Michael Llodra 6-4 4-6 7-6(4) in an entertaining final.

When the 35-year-old identical twins captured the Australian Open title this year, they broke the record of 12 grand slams they had shared with Australians John

N e w c o m b e a n d To n y Roche.

L i k e Wi l l i a m s , w h o ended an 11-year wait for a second Roland Garros title, the Bryans also endured a long delay before adding to their 2003 success. “ I t ’s g r e a t w i n n i n g slams with your brother.

Just we really wanted to win another French. It’s been 10 years. This is the

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From page 22 order that is packed with lefthanders, he can be expected to make an impact again.

Team news Dale Steyn’s fitness is South Africa’s most pressing concern ahead of this match and it looks unlikely he will play, although they are holding out faint hope. They also have other selection issues to consider.

Chris Morris is certain to make his ODI debut in place of Morne Morkel, and South Africa may toy with the idea of including a second spinner in Aaron Phangiso.

Colin Ingram should get another chance at the top of the order and South Africa

may look to lengthen their batting line-up by pushing Robin Peterson up in a pinchhitter role.

Pakistan’s bowlers almost defended 170 on Friday so they will not want to make any changes to that department.

Even though the top-order batting let them down at the Oval, they don’t have too many options to bolster that.

Umar Amin is the only spare batsmen but it’s unlikely he will replace anyone in the current line-up.

PITCH AND CONDITIONS Ian Bell, who top-scored in the match between England and Australia that was played at this ground on Saturday,

said the pitch became harder to bat on as the match progressed. Scoring slowed towards the end of the England innings and the Australian batsmen found it difficult to get going.

He said it was a very different surface compared to the usual one-day wicket at the ground because it was so much drier.

That will become more noticeable as the tournament goes on and spinners can look forward to assistance in the later stages.

Overhead conditions will also be good for the quicks with a mostly cloudy, mild day with a high of 15 degrees forecast and no rain expected.

first one we won back in the day and kind of launched our career,” said Mike, who is now half way towards completing a calendar grand slam.

“This is the toughest slam to win.

“I think 24 grand slam finals in 10 years is great. We lost a bunch of them early and we have won a bunch late.

“You never fathom that you’re going to hit that many slams and add a gold (from the Olympics) to it. It’s just been kind of a fairytale.”

Things have certainly changed for the brothers since their last win at Roland Garros.

“I just remember we were sleeping on the floor at the Pierre et Vacances. We were trying to save a buck staying at the junior hotel,” recalled Bob, whose bank balance now boasts $10 million in prize money alone.

“The lights, I remember you walk down the hall and it’s all like motion sensors, so it would be dark and it could be light and then be dark behind you. It was just kind of a creepy roach motel.

“Now we have the suite at the Claridge.”

whose performance revived memories of many of his dominant wins in 2011.

The three-time world champion was in a league of his own, building a 2.8second lead after two laps and driving off into the distance.

“Great race. I had a very good start and then I was able to really go with the car,” said Vettel. “On the super-soft we saw the tyres were falling apart but we were as good as everyone else and I was able to build a gap. “A very important race for us to win finally we get it off the list and I’m very proud of that. Great car by the team and we were able to pull away from the rest and control the race.”

Vettel lost the lead only for three laps after making his first stop earlier than Hamilton, but was a pit-stop’s margin - 15 seconds - ahead of the Mercedes before half distance.

He had only two scares a brush with wall on the exit of Turn Four early in the race and an off-track moment at Turn One on lap 52, which cost him four seconds.

Vettel’s advantage in the championship is now equivalent to more than a clear win and fifth place, underlining his position as a clear favourite to win his fourth consecutive world title.

Hamilton trailed Vettel from the start, initially from team-mate Nico Rosberg, who held off Webber and Alonso through the first stint.

But after Mercedes chose super-soft tyres for the German’s second stint while Webber and Alonso fitted the more durable mediums, he came under increasing pressure.

Webber finally passed the Mercedes into the final chicane on lap 30, with Alonso following him through at Turn One on the next lap. The Australian then suffered front wing damage when tangling with the Caterham of Giedo van der

Garde when he lapped the Dutch, who received a 10-second stop-and-go penalty for the incident.

The collision cost Webber some front downforce and Alonso was able to pass him into Turn One on lap 42.

Webber made his final pit stop for fresh tyres a lap before Alonso, with the Spaniard coming in the following lap.

They rejoined with Hamilton six seconds ahead of Alonso and Webber four seconds down on the Ferrari.

Initially, the trio began to close up but as Alonso piled on the pressure trying to close on Hamilton, Webber dropped back, leaving the battle for the final two podium places to the former McLaren team-mates.

Alonso, benefiting from the Ferrari’s better tyre usage, closed in on Hamilton and finally passed him using the DRS overtaking aid on the pit straight heading into lap 63.

Hamilton fought back against Alonso, but had to settle for third.

Webber was fourth as Rosberg fell back to finish fifth, ahead of an impressive Jean-Eric Vergne in the Toro Rosso, who gained one place on his career-best seventh place qualifying spot.

The Frenchman made a final stop at the same time as Force India’s Paul di Resta, trying to cover the Scot who was on a one-stop strategy.

Di Resta took seventh and team-mate Adrian Sutil was on course for eighth before being given a drive-through penalty for holding up Hamilton as the Mercedes driver tried to hold off Alonso and dropped to 10th.

Raikkonen struggled for pace with his Lotus on a onestop strategy and was passed for eighth by Ferrari’s Felipe Massa on the penultimate lap.

Williams driver Valtteri Bottas, who starred in a wet qualifying to take third on the grid, dropped back to 14th in the uncompetitive Williams.

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Rafael Nadal captures Lima Sands Rising Suns geared to eighth French Open crown play competitive hardball cricket PARIS — Scrambling into corners and unleashing topspin-laden winners, Rafael Nadal used his favorite surface to show his fragile knees are far from done.

Nadal cruised past compatriot David Ferrer of Spain 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 to win his eighth French Open title yesterday. “Is one of the more special ones,” said Nadal, who returned in February after a seven-month layoff to rest his ailing knees.

Nadal is the first man to win eight Grand Slam titles at any major. With 12 majors overall, the 27-year-old Spaniard moves into a tie for third place with Roy Emerson.

He trails only Roger Federer (17) and Pete Sampras (14) and is the second youngest, after Federer, to reach a dozen Grand Slam titles.

“Rafael, in important moments, he’s the best,” Ferrer said.

Nadal’s march to the title started fitfully. He lost sets in the first two rounds for the first time in his career, but then rounded into form just in time for a clash with Novak Djokovic in the semifinals.

Nadal prevailed against the No. 1 Serb 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-7 (3-7), 9-7 in a match that lasted nearly five hours.

Nadal is now 59-1 in Paris, his only loss coming to Robin Soderling in the fourth round in 2009.

Following his layoff, Nadal planned his return so that he could return on his preferred clay, which is easier on his knees. He quickly found his feet on

dirt. The Mallorca native has reached finals in all n i n e t o u r n a m e n t s h e ’s entered, winning seven.

Noisy protesters, including one who briefly entered the field of play with a fiery flare, interrupted play in yesterday’s 2-hour, 16minute final. A light drizzle also fell at times, but nothing deterred Nadal from maintaining his hegemony at Roland Garros.

About the pretests, French Open tournament director Gilbert Ysern said he was happy with the response of security personnel.

“At least we could see that when something happens our security are pretty efficient,” he said.

“They acted efficiently and quickly and handled it very well. In a certain way you feel a bit more comfortable in an incident like that.”

The players appeared to be rattled. Both lost serve immediately after the incident.

“I didn’t lose my focus,” Ferrer said. “Rafael, he was scared a little bit. But nothing happened, so it’s OK.” Nadal upped his record in major finals to 12-5. Ferrer, 31, was contesting his first Grand Slam final. When the rankings come out today, Ferrer actually will move ahead of Nadal, No. 4 to No. 5.

Both finalists grinded away from the baseline, with one rally lasting so long fans began to buzz, then started to shush each other.

The 5-foot-9 Ferrer, who was playing in his first Grand Slam final at age 31, often wins

points by extending them with his dogged defense. But Nadal matched his retrieving skills, and the torque on his groundstrokes eventually had Ferrer reeling.

Trophy presenter Usain Bolt watched from the front row wearing sunglasses, even though the day was gray with occasional drizzle.

Nadal misfired more than usual in the early going, perhaps adjusting to slow conditions and feeling the effects of his 4½-hour win over Djokovic.

He gave back an early service break and had to erase two other break points in the opening set.

It was the first set Ferrer had lost in the tournament, and at that point, he knew he faced a daunting task. Nadal is 146-3 when he wins the first set in Grand Slam tournaments.

Nadal broke again early in the second set, and then came Ferrer ’s best chance to reverse the course of the match.

At 3-1 he had four break points, but Nadal erased them all, the last with a backhand winner to end a 31-shot rally, longest of the match.

In the final set, Ferrer double-faulted for the fifth time to lose serve and fall behind 5-3, and Nadal n e e d e d o n l y f i v e more points to close out the victory.

Nadal broke the record for most men’s victories at Roland Garros he had shared with Federer and Guillermo Vilas. He improved to 20-4 against Ferrer and has won 17 consecutive meetings on clay.

Guyanese boxers fail to medal at 41st Giraldo Cordova Cardin Int’l Boxing tourney Guyanese boxers, Imran Khan and Eon Bancroft failed in their attempts to procure any medals after surrendering point decisi o n s to their respective opponents when the 41st Giraldo Cordova Cardin International Boxing tournament concluded at the Havana’s Ramon Fonst Multi-Sports Hall, Havana Cuba, Saturday afternoon.

Khan lost h i s 5 6 k g s bout to Cuban, Norlan Yera, 30-26; Yera also defeated Australian Ayden Hansen on points but failed in the finals against his countryman and Cuba’s national champion, Vicente Paul by a 25-22 margin.

Welterweight pugilist, Eon

Bancroft, also failed to get past Maimatti Tusunqiong of China in the 69kgs class, dropping a point decision.

Earlier, Dennis Thomas had lost out to Venezuelan Rafael Hernandez to seal the fate of the Guyanese.

The Cordova Cardin is the most prestigious Cuban boxing championship and more than 146 competitors from 21 countries and regions competed for honours.

Initially, 7 local boxers were shortlisted to attend the tournament but the squad was eventually downsized due to insufficient funds.

Khan and Craig benefitted from the largesse of the Guyana Police Force which

donated their airline tickets while Bancroft enjoyed similar benevolence of Sterling Products Ltd. Director of Sports, Neil K u m a r, f a c i l i t a t e d t h e airline tickets of Cuban coach, Francisco Hernandez Roldon and l o c a l c o a c h , Te r r e n c e Poole, while Government waived the requisite taxes at the port of departure.

Those boxers that failed to make the grade are GDF representative, welterweight Ro n Smith, light/ middleweight Bert Braithwaite and light/ weight, Clairmont Gibson, featherweight, Delon Charles (FYF) and lightweight, Stephon Gouviea (HE).

Lima Sands Rising Suns display some of the trophies they have won.

Secretary of the Lima Sands Rising Suns, Mavis Ferreira, is convinced her female cricket team is prepared to play hardball cricket competitively whenever the occasion arises.

The Lima Sands Rising Suns is an emerging female cricket team, operating in the remote Lima Sands. The area is some seven miles from the township of Anna Regina.

The female team, comprised of young women, some who attend school, have competed competitively with other female teams, in especially Amerindian Communities, in Mainstay, Capoey and Tapakuma for the

past four years throughout the Essequibo Coast and are the recipient of numerous trophies as they continue to maintain winning.

Ferreira explained that while the team continues to exhibit the zeal to currently emerge into hardball cricket matches, she informed that they started out by playing circle tennis. But as the young women talents began to blossom, the game shifted to cricket.

The Secretary said while the team is still vying for a manager and sponsors, funds to offset their traveling expenses are undertaken through fund raising activities by them.

The Lima Sands Rising Sun will play competitive matches against two female teams from Charity on Saturday 15 next at Lima Sands.

For that upcoming match on Saturday, Sheneigh Calvan informed that businessman Nizam Barakat has contributed the uniforms for the team.

The team members comprise of Onika Williams (Captain), Alesha Gouviea, Sheneigh Calvan, Zeneal Joseph, Nekisha Gouviea, Desiree Marcus, Fiona Hendricks, Akeena Adams, Mayfield George, Mavis Ferreira, Rheena Marcus and Melisa Ferguson. (Yannason Duncan)

Kamta Ramnarine rules the roost as GASP qualifiers conclude Kamta Ramnarine of the Enterprise Scrabble Club (ESC) scored 3 points with a positive spread of 626 to finish at the top of the heap when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) staged the qualifier among the lower rated seeds, for participation in the impending national championships, at the Malteenoes Sports Complex yesterday morning.

Michael Benjamin dropped one of his games to Dwain Alberts but secured victories over Wazeer Dilipchand and his brother, Wazim, both of ESC to secure 2 points and a positive spread of 587 to finish second, while Romario Gonsalves also chalked up two points but

with a lower spread of 163 to seal off the podium spots.

Those three players were among 6 others that have qualified to play in the National Scrabble Championships, slated for June 29-July 1 next at the Bank of Guyana Sports Club, Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown.

The other qualifiers are Chetnauth Persaud, Mitra Persaud, Mohanram Ramnarine, Dwain Alberts and lone female, Karen Bobb Semple.

They will join those that had already qualified, by dint of their top rankings, to compete in the impending championships.

Those that have earn automatic qualifications by dint of top rankings are

defending champion, Abigail McDonald, Leon Belony, James Krakowsky, Moen Gafoor, Frederick Collins, Colin Chichester, Orlando Michael, Yvonne Murray, Ruby Cummings, Wayne Cave, Devraj Deonarine, Maurice Munro, Julian Skeete, Anand Mohabir and Robert Williams.

The winner of this year’s Nationals 2013 will represent Guyana at the Wo r l d Scrabble Championships in Prague, Czech Republic, December 3 rd - 8 th next.

Courts (Guyana) Ltd is the exclusive sponsors of this year’s tournament and has already handed over a cheque of more than $250,000 to the President of GASP, Leon Belony.

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New Zealand deny Sri Lanka in classic BBC Sport - New Zealand battled to a one-wicket victory against Sri Lanka in a magnificent low-scoring Champions Trophy Group A encounter in Cardiff. Kyle Mills struck with the first ball of the match and the Sri Lankans soon slipped to 34-4 in the ninth over. Kumar Sangakkara made 68 but Sri Lanka were all out for 138 in the 38th over.

The Kiwis lost three wickets for one run in eight balls but despite 4-34 from the mercurial Lasith Malinga they edged to victory in the 37th over.

Both teams gave further examples of their ability to inspire and implode in almost equal

measure and Group A, also including England and Australia, looks likely to be keenly contested over the next week.

Perennial over-achievers New Zealand, winners in 2000, semi-finalists in 2006 and runners-up in the last tournament four years ago, have already beaten England this summer and seemed certain for victory after dismissing Sri Lanka for the lowest ODI total at Cardiff.

Sri Lanka came close to achieving the lowest defence of a total in an ODI in England and Wales but were made to pay for another dire batting display at Cardiff, scene of their 82 all out on the final afternoon of the first

Test against England in May 2011.

While the team has witnessed several changes in recent years, the retirement of star spinner Muttiah Muralitharan with his 1,334 international wickets the most notable, the bulk of their high-calibre batting remains in the form of Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mahela Jayawardene and Sangakkara.

But on the pitch used for Thursday’s opening match of the tournament between India and South Africa they found it difficult to settle from the very first delivery when Brendon McCullum leaped full length high to his left at slip to grab Kusal

Perera’s edge.

Daniel Vettori dismissed Jayawardene in his last one-day international more than two years ago and a one-over spell was all he needed to remove the prolific batsman again. The effects of his Achilles tendon troubles left the 34-year-old less than balletic in the field but his shrewd slow left-arm bowling gave the Kiwis an important extra ingredient.

When Lahiru Thirimanne was run-out after finishing at the same end as his partner, Sangakkara angrily dispatched the following three balls to the boundary.

However, pressure from

Pakistan v South Africa, Champions Trophy, Group B, Birmingham

Desperate teams face off in crucial match today ESPNcricinfo - The Champions Trophy will only be five days old today but already it’s crunch time.

Defeat at Edgbaston will leave either South Africa or Pakistan on the brink of exit.

Neither team is ready for that reality yet, so expect a toothand-nail affair between two desperate units.

The numbers are in South Africa’s favour. They beat Pakistan 3-2 in a series in March and, even though they lost the warm-up match last Monday, they are in better shape after their opening match against India. South Africa ensured their net runrate remained high when they ran India close and they showed they could bat deep.

Pakistan did the opposite.

Junaid Khan

They were woeful against a West Indies attack that challenged with pace and spin, and only Nasir Jamshed and Misbah-ul-Haq showed any fight. However, even though they only scored 170, their bowlers kept them in the game until the last 10 overs, showing they could defend as long as there was a reasonable total.

The battle lines have been drawn between South Africa’s batting and Pakistan’s bowling and has been evened out by South Africa’s pace pack being depleted.

Although neutrals would want to see Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel in action, without them the contest should level. That promises a

match of spit and sizzle, rather than just steam.

In the Spotlight Colin Ingram has yet to look like he belongs in bigmatch situations and will have to make the most of what could be his last opportunity to nail down a spot. Ingram will face a stern challenge against an attack which has been spoken about as the most difficult to face in this tournament, because of their variation.

He is confident against spin but will have to survive the early onslaught first and Junaid Khan will cause the most problems. The left-armer troubled South Africa in their warm-up match at the Oval last week and, with a middle (continued on page 20)

the New Zealanders ensured the former captain was left with the quandary of merely playing out the overs with the tail or trying to accelerate the dwindling run rate, and he sliced Nathan McCullum to point as the innings swiftly folded.

Such was the alacrity of Sri Lanka’s demise that the New Zealand innings was required to begin half an hour before the scheduled interval and in that time paceman Shaminda Eranga tempted Luke Ronchi to edge behind.

In bright afternoon sunshine it seemed the Kiwis would comfortably tick off the remaining runs but a slower ball full toss from unorthodox paceman Malinga completely perplexed Kane Williamson, who was plumb lbw, and triggered a collapse.

Martin Guptill, who made successive unbeaten centuries against England, was caught at slip for 25 and Ross Taylor was lbw without scoring but after two more wickets fell, man-ofthe-match Nathan McCullum struck two fours in three balls to alleviate some pressure.

He made a crucial 32 and the McCullum brothers took their team within 24 runs of the target in a 10-over partnership of 35 that seemed like a century in the circumstances, before the

irrepressible Malinga returned for a third spell.

Varying between express pace and disguised slower balls at a fraction of the speed, all delivered with the unique angles of his action making the ball appear from behind the umpire’s back, Malinga dismissed both in consecutive overs with unbeatable inswinging yorkers.

Numerous decisions would have been referred in the tension but both teams had used their one review some time previously, although the umpires called for a replay to determine Kyle Mills had been run out with five still needed.

Tim Southee negotiated Malinga’s final over and the Kiwis edged over the line courtesy of a leg-side wide from Dilshan.

Scores: New Zealand 139 for 9 (N McCullum 32, Malinga 4-34) beat Sri Lanka 138 (Sangakkara 68, McClenaghan 4-43, Mills 214) by 1 wicket.

Remaining Group A fixtures 12 June: Australia-N Zealand, Edgbaston 13 June: England-Sri Lanka, The Oval 16 June: England-New Zealand, Cardiff 17 June: Sri LankaAustralia, The Oval

CHAMPIONS TROPHY GROUPA STANDINGS NZ Eng Aus SL

P 1 1 1 1

W 1 1 0 0

L 0 0 1 1

N/R 0 0 0 0

Pts 2 2 0 0

R/R +1.05 +0.96 -0.96 -1.05

MCYS / NSC / Al Sport Primary Schools Windball Cricket C/ships ...

Redeemer and St. Agnes reach final Redeemer advanced to the final of the Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sport (MCYS) / National Sports Commission (NSC) / Al Sport & Tour Promotions Primary Schools Windball Cricket Championships after defeating West Ruimveldt in a super over in semi-final action recently, at the National Park.

Redeemer won the toss and sent West Ruimveldt into bat first and they made 44-2 with Alexandra Mc Rae 18, Aliya Mc Lennon 10, being the principal contributors.

Aveisa Bess picked up 2-4 bowling for Redeemer, who replied with 44-3, Natasha Thomas hit 19 not out.

In the super over, West Ruimveldt batted first and made 7-1. Redeemer replied with 8-1 off three balls.

In the other semi-final, St. Agnes beat St. Pius by 10

The two finalists Redeemer and St. Agnes pose for a photo op following their respective wins. wickets. St. Pius batted first and compiled 39-4, with Serena Hope 18. Deslyn Leitch 3wkts.

St. Agnes chasing 40 for victory closed on 41-0 with Nakyra Jerrick hitting a topscore of 30. West Ruimveldt and St Pius will battle for the third

place trophy while last year 4th place team will come up against Redeemer.

Earlier in quarter-final actionWest Ruimveldt beat Thomas More by 19 runs.

West Ruimveldt made 59-

0, Alexandra Mc Rae slammed 31. Thomas More 40-2.

St. Agnes then defeated North Georgetown by 10 wickets. North Georgetown 29-5. Deslyn Leitch took 2 wkts bowling for St. Agnes, who replied with 31-0,

Shemika Edwards 10. Mae’s failed to make it to the semis after losing to St. Pius by 10 wickets. Mae’s after electing to bat first made 38-6 with Aaliyah Wade 12. Jessica Jemmott and Askakie Niles each grabbed 2 wkts bowling

for St. Pius, who reach their target off 3 overs, ending on 40-0 with J. Jemmott 18, Serena Hope 11.

NSC Admin Officer Gervy C Harry was among the many parents who witnessed the day’s matches.