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Education Minister to announce 2015 NGSA results today

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fficials of the Ministry of Education were tight-lipped about the identities of the top performing pupils yesterday as final preparations were being made to announce the results of 2015 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA). Reports are that the identities of the top performers have not even been revealed to some senior education officials.

This development

suggests that there was an internal 'gag order' preventing any Ministry official from disclosing even the Education District of the top performers ahead of the official announcement today.

The 2015 results will be announced by recently appointed Minister of Education, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine.

The results, the Ministry in a statement issued last week said, will be unveiled

during a televised press conference at the Kingston, G e o rg e t o w n , N a t i o n a l Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD).

While pupils from the Georgetown District have often led the list of top performing candidates, there have been occasions that out of town pupils performed exceptionally too.

In recent years too, private school pupils have been claiming the top

Father of four charged with fraud

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father of four was yesterday remanded to prison on two counts of fraud after he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates' Court before Chief Magistrate, Priya BeharrySewnarine.

It is alleged that between May 1 and May 31, last, Quinton Greene, 45, of Kuru Kuru, Soesdyke- Linden Highway, with intent to defraud, received $300,000

from Ramlall Sancharie pretending that he could obtain a firearm licence, knowing that he was not in a position to.

It was further alleged that he received a sum $2000 from Clive Lee also for the same purpose, 'to defraud'.

He wasn't required to plead to the first charge because it was indictable, but pleaded not guilty to the second charge.

His Attorney, Bernard Da Silva, asked for reasonable bail.

He said that the defendant is a father of four and has no prior charges or convictions.

The Prosecution did not oppose to bail which was set at $150,000.

The Magistrate instructed that the statements in the matter be presented at the next hearing on July 1.

performing place. Last year it was Jorrel DeSantos of the privately operated New Guyana School who was named the top performer with a score of 533. The previous year it was Salma Majeed, a pupil of yet another private school, the ISA Islamic Academy, who copped the top spot with a score of 548. A year earlier it was a private school (Mae's) pupil, Sachin Ghir, who took the lead with a score of 547.

Sharing the coveted top spot that year was Michael Bhopaul of Graham's Hall primary.

And there have been concerns vocalised about the varying scores that top performing pupils have secured over the years. This saw former Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, last year attempting to clarify the state of affairs. She pointed out that while the highest possible score in 2014 was 540, in 2013 it was 560 and 563 in 2012.

Moreover, last year she observed that “this year people got 530 something

and they topped the country but it depends on how many children write the examination, the standardisation formula and a number of factors that have changed over time.�

Candidates of the NGSA are required to undertake assessments in the subject areas of Mathematics, English Language, Social Studies and Science and the scores of these are added to help make up the final score.

The total NGSA score is a combination of the NGSA and the Grades Two and Four Assessments. This translates to five per cent of each candidate's Grade Two score in Mathematics and English and 10 per cent of the Grade Four Score in the same subjects being added to 85 per cent of each candidate's score.

The combined scores in Mathematics and English are added to the scores gained in Science and Social Studies.

Approximately 15,200 candidates wrote the NGSA this year.

This assessment is one

Minister of Education, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine that serves as the placement examination offered at the end of the primary cycle to determine at which secondary school each child will be placed.

Four subjects are usually assessed, namely English Language, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies.

Each subject consists of two papers. English Language and Science were administered on April 1, 2015 while Mathematics and Social Studies were done on April 2, 2015.

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EDITORIAL

The dangers of grandstanding The People’s Progressive Party continues to refuse to accept the results of the 2015 elections, despite those elections were given a clean bill by every foreign observer mission that came to Guyana. Further, the major powers that have diplomatic missions in Guyana contended that the new government was duly elected.

It is not unusual for the losing political party to contend that it was cheated. In fact, as far back as 1964 the PPP, in the face of the coalition between the then People’s National Congress and the United Force, refused to accept that under the electoral system the coalition was mandated to form the government.

This is the second time that the PPP is being voted out of office in fifty years. Further, it has been in power for 23 years on a ticket that was heavily favoured on an ethnic vote.

This vote actually caused the PPP to believe that it would never lose an election in Guyana. Therefore, to lose an election is a bitter pill to swallow.

Of interest is the fact, that the PPP claims that the actual voting was without flaw and this had to be the case, especially since it raised complains of perceived irregularities. But the observers checked these so-called irregularities and found them to be false.

The next thing, then, was to contend that the forgeries occurred outside public view, within the chambers of the Guyana Elections Commission. The Commission comprises three members selected by the government, and three by the political opposition. The Chairman is identified by the President. The Commissioners would have surely spotted any irregularity. The votes were tallied in their presence. When false Statements of Poll were inserted into the system, these were immediately detected and put aside.

But the PPP says, not so, that it wants a recount. The limited recount it sought and was granted did not uncover any irregularity and produced the same result as the initial count. One can only claim that the PPP is refusing to accept the results because it finds that losing is hard. In fact, it had led itself into believing that it would never lose an election in Guyana. As much was said by former President Bharrat Jagdeo during his tenure.

The PPP is refusing to take up its 32 seats in the National Assembly. But even this is not finding favour among its members. Just this past week some of its members began to take issue with the refusal to enter the National Assembly. They say that the party has a duty to represent those who voted for it.

By its action, the PPP has stilled the voice of almost half the population of the country. These are people who want the government to do things for them and they could only be heard through their representatives.

From the inception, there were those Ministers who acknowledged the results and to their credit, have refused to join in any protest action. These are the voice of reason.

Guyana knows what it is like to have people reject the results of an election. In 1992, 1996 and 2001 there were street protests that set the country back. Businesses were burnt and the protesters were blamed. Today, the authorities know that arson on the part of people other than the protesters, was responsible for the large fire in the wake of the 2001 elections.

Whenever the party shows dissent, the supporters allow their emotions to get the better of them and they do untoward things. The PPP knows this and one can only assume that it is playing on the emotions of the supporters. It wants anything to happen so that the government is unable to rule. It wants to see a state of anarchy.

We still remember the late Desmond Hoyte’s chant of ‘Slow fyah, Mo’ fyah’. That might not have been the call to arson, but different people receive messages differently.

The PPP must also realize this. When it mounts its protest it must realize that although it is grandstanding some of the supporters could take its actions very seriously.

work from political cronies DEAR EDITOR, The new government is on record as stating that it will not be adopting a posture of witch-hunting of persons in the public service.

Witch-hunting is the “searching out and deliberate harassment of those (as political opponents) with unpopular views.” However, we should not blur the lines with the cleansing of the public service of political cronies that are not professionals and experts. Cronyism is the “appointment of political hangerson to office without regard to their qualifications.”

Many known political cronies were hired in the public service by the former government as part of an organised operation in various state agencies and ministries to ensure public servants’ obedience and discipline to the former government and its policy directives as a form of intimidation, shut-out dissenting opinions towards the former government, constraining the professional growth of public servants with contract workers and attacking and shutting out political opposition. These political cronies’ appointment significantly de-professionalised the public service and disenfranchised many professional Guyanese of work, and that compounded the brain drain trend.

Further, the appointment of political cronies would have led to the underperformance of the public service of meeting the needs of citizens effectively, with an unhealthy environment for public servants to

thrive resulting in the lack of upward mobility and promotions and the demoralisation of employees who should focus on policy matters rather than political shenanigans.

President David Granger has stated that he wants a professional public service and has taken steps to this end.

Which brings me to the debate on removal of political cronies of the former government from the public service.

The restoration of the image and integrity of the public service starts with the removal of political cronies who have compromised the system to the peril of professional standards and ethics. Their removal will restore public trust and confidence in the system and the dignity and credibility of public servants. This must be complemented with a sound policy and commitment by the government of continuous on-thejob training for public servants, improving the physical working environment with the necessary tools for required work and better remuneration and emoluments. I see no witch-hunting in this.

The coalition has won the elections and it has a political mandate to fulfill. It would be absurd for the David Grangerled administration to invest full trust in a system compromised with political cronyism and nepotism, with personnel strategically placed by the former government, to move forward policies.

His administration will be greeted with policy derailment and sabotage, insubordination and contempt, and limited to no movement of work. His

administration will be hamstrung and blackmailed because of the lack of professional employees to respect and follow through government policy directives. President Granger ’s administration, and as a matter of fact all governments, require a professional public service.

A return of a fully professional public service also means a return of the public servants right to breathe free air to express their views and grievances on the job. The death knell of the practice of contract employment and a return to full employment of all public servants under the rules of the public service is urgent. This is to remove the threat of arbitrary sanction and discipline of workers based on trumped-up cases and using dismissal and termination clauses in one’s contract than employers’ application of public service rules that is worker-friendly for redress and complaints.

Contract employment, as a mechanism of hiring political cronies, has also emasculated the public services of professional growth, with discriminatory hiring of persons at whim and favouritism rather than on a credible procedural process that brings dignity and buttresses a trustworthy image of the body politic.

Contract employment has also destabilized the performance of many state agencies with the prerogative payment of income tax and national insurance by some contract workers.

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The naming and shaming of these women in the newspapers is not right DEAR EDITOR, Everything is right that Guyana would have laws and systems in place to ensure that no woman or man is held against their will and coerced or forced into doing any kind of labour. Every person should have their passport and be free to go to get their stamp renewed or to come and go when they want (including the nurses and teachers).

The well publicized ‘sweep’ in Bartica last weekend, with all the innuendo, left no doubt as to the kind of labour the people, the women especially, might have been involved in.

What is not right though, is the naming and shaming of some women in the newspapers for “overstaying their welcome” in Guyana.

While reports might have been clear to not link the two incidents, the public is now very aware and many persons are disgusted that the women could not be given their passports and allowed safe passage home.

There are complex

realities facing persons who are involved in sex work. In Guyana, people might have known that sex workers themselves are not criminalised. However, it is a crime to own a brothel or to be a ‘pimp and to pay for the services. There are more nuances to the law.

In Guyana, however, there have never been raids which have been publicized which have resulted in people, mostly men, who

procure sex work services, even from unwilling sex workers, having their pictures and names published in the media.

Many Guyanese have overstayed their welcome abroad. There is the movement of people who seek better living as they deal with the stigma of being ‘illegal’ persons even as they uphold other laws in their countries and try to send money back home to support

their families. There is no need to publish the names of women and men in the Guyanese media whose only crime has been to “overstay their welcome” especially if they did not have their passports in their possession.

While the law must do its work, the media and the society can also be compassionate and give space for ‘illegal’ migrants to recover themselves.

Vidyaratha Kissoon

I hope that there will be no need for me to further comment on this matter DEAR EDITOR, Please allow me to refer briefly to Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s article: “I drove up to Anil Nandlall’s wife” (Wednesday June 10 Edition), in which these sentences appear: “According to her close colleague, Raymond Azeez…Mrs. Hassan needs to be exposed.

My advice to him is that he should do so and do it immediately”.

In this regard here are my comments. a) I did have a conversation with Mr. Kissoon last Saturday. b) I did mention that both the CEO and I (as Manager) were given political directives

which we could not have easily ignored. c) The CEO has been a good team leader and she has had a good working relationship with her Junior-Managers. I, as part of that team, have always enjoyed a good working relationship. d) Other than the fact that we were both subject to political directives, there was nothing else to “expose”. e) I have been attached to this entity (GBC/NCN) for the past thirty-four years.

It is my fervent hope that there will be no need for me to further comment on this matter.

Raymond Azeez

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It is important for the nation To deprive anyone of to embrace a new culture employment is inhumane DEAR EDITOR, The APNU/AFC government wasted no time dismissing Guyanese from their jobs, in spite of the fact that unemployment is sky high and job mobility is virtually nonexistent, particularly for professionals.

This situation has hurt Guyanese and signaled a callous tone.

Throughout history, our governments have been brutal and this coalition is no exception.

Understandably, government wants to insert its own candidates in certain jobs, but it must balance its actions, so as to benefit all, not just its inner circle.

Even though Guyanese have been groaning in response to this harsh situation, government has been pressing ahead.

It has claimed that it has unearthed and axed twenty employees who were secret workers, on an alleged gravy train. Government wasted no time painting all on board, as monsters, so as to justify dismissing them, and it failed to realize the obvious moral dilemma embedded in this situation.

We all know these workers were forced under dire circumstances to engage in such employment because job opportunities are scarce.

What are these people supposed to do? They need to make a living.

Given this situation, it is morally wrong to fire them.

Instead, government needs to

reach out to these folks; irrespective of who they are and render help.

Our leaders should be considerate like President Reagan who gave outright amnesty to millions of people who illegally crossed the American borders in search of a better life.

It was a moral dilemma presented to President Reagan and he took the humane approach.

Further, a grip on the understanding of the Heinz dilemma will help us understand this moral situation, we are faced with.

We need leaders with minds like President Reagan who has shown respect for humanity - to lead our country.

Government wasted no time touting that it will engage professionals from the diaspora, which seems to be pure poppycock.

How can this be when government is axing existing employees so it can bring on board its own, leaving many in utter misery?

Who would want to work under a climate of uncertainty, particularly when they can be easily dismissed and marginalized?

Dismissing these employees, creates fear, disunity, low self-worth, low self-esteem, sadness, distress, despair, depression, anxiety, panic, insecurity, hunger, crime and turmoil.

Further, it deepens the brain drain, and pushes the country deeper into poverty,

while forcing many in search of basic food.

Government needs to understand that its people cannot self-actualize under these conditions and thus cannot be productive members of society.

It is crystal clear that this government has done more harm than good, when it dismissed so many Guyanese, and is leaving them high and dry.

This Government has also been engaged in inconsistent and ugly patterns of dismissals, indicating that it is on a witch-hunt. A glaring case that comes to mind is the disrespectful dismissal of Ms. Carol Sooba.

I am now convinced more than ever that Guyana has no place for women and it is a situation that has injected fear into so many. It is to be remembered that the country is swamped with situations that are responsible for creating fear.

It is not fear mongering, but is the actual fear that is largely responsible for derailing unity and this was echoed at the polls.

Government needs to know that it is inhumane to deprive anyone and to this end, it needs to halt dismissing Guyanese and improvise mechanisms, reintegrating all of the unemployed into the workforce without being marginalized or else it stands to be branded, as an uncaring and an authoritarian leader.

Annie Baliram

We call on Pres. Granger to honour his promise DEAR EDITOR, Young people call on President David Granger to stop treating Region 10 the way the colonial masters treated the colonised by dictating who will be their leaders.

Mr. Sharma Solomon encouraged us to work for and support the party of his choice which is the PNCR. On the formation of the coalition, he urged us to work to support APNU+AFC. The youths did so because we believed in his wisdom and guidance.

We went out in the streets and worked hard, at great sacrifice, without looking forward to any payment, because all we wanted was a change in government and to

have our leader continue as Regional Chairman. Now to hear rumours that Mr. Solomon will not be returned a regional chairman is disheartening. It is a blow.

Young people are being cast aside and are only being used to put people who don’t care about us in power.

The youths make up a majority in the population, but having worked hard for a change of government all we are seeing is that we are being sidelined.

Young people call on President Granger to honour the promise made by him on a public platform that we will get our chairman, Mr. Sharma Solomon.

Sheon Arthur

DEAR EDITOR, Practicality and accountability must be applied to secure meaningful growth in our body politics post-2015 elections.

National unity is a realisable concept if there is acceptance that it has to be premised on principles guided by international conventions, charters, constitution and laws.

The elections of 2015 have given the nation a result where the APNU+AFC controls the Executive and has the majority in the National Assembly, unlike the 2011 elections where the PPP controlled the Executive and the opposition controlled the National Assembly.

The figures tell us it is important for the nation to embrace a new culture where we appreciate the right of every Guyanese and their organisation to involvement in the management and decision-making processes of the state and their development, consistent with Article 13 of the Constitution which stipulates inclusionary democracy as the nation’s principal political objective.

Ours is a representative democracy and where the PPP, APNU+AFC or any other group or individual proposes sound idea(s) to develop the nation and advance citizens’ wellbeing, such must be acknowledged, ventilated and where necessary embraced.

The urge to disregard idea and/or shut out others because they are perceived as not belonging to the particular group has to cease.

Ours is a nation of One People with the aspiration of One Destiny and we can only get there when we commit to exercise tolerance and respect for each other and adhere to the tenets for achieving these as grounded in our Constitution.

This 11th Parliament, the nation’s highest decisionmaking forum, must set the tone of a deserving new

dispensation.

And with regards to shared governance, this does not mean having all the political parties in the Executive.

To do this opens the people for abuse, in that a group of privileged persons would be dictating to the masses.

Competition is a healthy feature of democracy; it serves as checks and balances on political rivals/ aspirants, and rewards parties whose programmes and politics are in the people’s interest. Democracy also guarantees the right to freedom of association and protection from discrimination on the grounds of said association (Article 147 and 149 in the constitution).

An application of shared governance in our society would see respect for the voice (input) of the people through their elected representatives in the national assembly and other political organs.

It also means activating all strata of government and giving these bodies the requisite resources/support to manage for the people and by the people.

The spirit and intent of this is reflected in the constitution that allows for three tiers of government (national, regional and local) but its realisation has been hampered by the masses being kept in ignorance, inclusive of some leaders, as to what is prescribed in the constitution, due to political greed and lack of political will.

The regional system is a constitutional requirement and is there to give authority to the people of the region to identify their leaders, conceptualise, develop and

implement programmes in their interests. The will of the people in the last two regional elections must now be given true meaning and respect.

This society still awaits laws to deepen and strengthen the administration of the regions to conduct their activities as outlined in Article 76 and 77 of the Constitution.

The act establishing regional government in 1980 was the first step towards decentralised government and putting power in the hands of the people at the grassroots level.

Thirty-five years after this process we should have been further along the development continuum.

At local government level, for years the people have been denied their right to have this tier of government function in their interest. For too long the citizenry have been denied being integrally involved in managing their towns, villages and districts.

The refusal of President Ramotar to assent to all the Local Government Bills is indicative that the PPP did not want to empower the local communities to make decisions on their behalf.

The 11th Parliament and President Granger are urged to right these wrongs at the soonest.

The constitution in its stipulated various tiers of government informs us that when applied in its totality, such allows for citizens inclusion and respect for their decisions.

The period when decisions are made in Georgetown for outlying regions must end. Laws must now be put in place to strengthen Neighbourhood Democratic Councils and (Continued on page 23)

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Govt. retrieves almost $10B from disused bank accounts The new Government has managed to retrieve almost $10B lying in “old” bank accounts, a senior Government official confirmed yesterday.

In the past weeks, the Ministry of Finance and its departments have been conducting exercises to determine the state of the country’s finances.

It is unclear why the previous People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/ C) government kept that amount of money lying around in virtually unused accounts.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan admitted, yesterday, that the “old” accounts could have potentially been open to fraud. As a result the monies were transferred.

According to Minister Winston Jordan, the sum is estimated to be between $8B and$10B. The issue of public funds not being deposited in the treasury has been raised over time by the coalition Government when it was in Opposition.

Financial analysts have argued that billions of dollars belonging to taxpayers were not captured in recent national budgets, in essence robbing Guyanese.

By not depositing it in the Consolidated Fund, the billions of dollars did not come under the oversight of the National Assembly and as such questions were raised over the spending.

The Opposition had vowed to correct the situation when it was elected.

Dr. Ashni Singh

Finance Minister, Winston Jordan

There are billions of dollars lying, also, in several accounts of state companies that Government is working to transfer into the Consolidated Fund.

These include accounts belonging to the Lotto Fund, the Guyana Forestry Commission, the Guyana Gold Board, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, the Guyana Energy Agency and the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL).

Last weekend, Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, disclosed that the process to transfer monies from a few accounts to the central account-- the Consolidated Fund-- has seen a number of transfers taking place.

The Minister made the disclosure shortly before the official opening of the 11th Parliament yesterday.

The issue had reportedly

been raised in the last Parliament by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), an oversight body that is empowered to examine the report of the Auditor General.

The former administration had been allowing the funds to be managed under the Board of Directors of the different state companies.

However, there have been questions over the use of some of the funds.

In the case of GGMC, earlier this year the entity was preparing, based on a Cabinet decision of the PPP/C Government in January to transfer almost $3B to the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA).

The transaction was blocked by the court but it was a clear indication of the amount of monies that are not included in the Consolidated Fund, which is used as a basis to prepare the National

Budget.

The Lotto Fund itself has been coming up for scrutiny because of the absence of an explanation of how those monies, which are Government’s share from Lotto sales, were being used.

The Lotto fund had been under the direct control of what was formerly known as the Office of President.

Perhaps NICIL had generated the most anger.

That entity, under the direction of Winston Brassington, and by extension a number of former Ministers who were sitting on the Board of Directors, allowed billions of dollars to be spent on projects without the authority of the National Assembly.

It is believed that NICIL is holding onto billions of dollars also. It was headed by former Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh.

The new administration under President David Granger has initiated a number of audits into entities like the Guyana Gold Board, NICIL, the Guyana Revenue Authority and GGMC. Some 30 state companies are also scheduled for audits to determine their financial health and determine the true state of the country’s economy.

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Sahoye-Shury sacked after failing to report to Minister - Harmon

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon

Sacked: Philomena Sahoye-Shury

Government has defended its dismissal of the National Director of the Community Development Council (CDC), Philomena “Fireball” SahoyeShury, yesterday insisting that she failed to report for duty after the May11th elections.

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, who heads the Ministry of the Presidency, made it clear that the Director, a close supporter of the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C), has the responsibility to report to him.

Sahoye-Shury was recently issued a letter by

Minister Harmon indicating that she was being dismissed for not reporting for duty since May 12th.

CDC has its offices on North Road. The Director is reported as saying that she will not be paying attention to the letter from the Minister and would be seeking advice from her lawyer.

She reportedly said that it was not her duty to report to the Ministry of the Presidency as her office is elsewhere and there is no evidence to indicate that checks were made to determine she was not at her office. As a result of her dismissal, the Director will lose her benefits.

But Minister Harmon yesterday was clear about the dismissal. He said that Sahoye has publicly admitted that she has not reported or had any communication with the Minister in charge. He said that the Director has reporting responsibility.

“Wherever your office is, you have to report to your boss at some time. And so she cannot sit down in Lethem or wherever, and decide she is not going to report to me or report to the Government because she is a power unto herself. She is not a power unto herself, she is acting on behalf of the people of Guyana; she is paid by the people of Guyana and she will respond to me.”

As Director of CDC, Sahoye-Shury was in charge of spearheading a number of poverty alleviation projects including sewing classes.

A number of other candidates and supporters of the former ruling party were dismissed by Government or sent on leave for a number of violations to their contracts, Government says.

These include Permanent Secretaries, Chief Executive Officers and some 20-plus contractual employees who were secretly hired by Office of the President to monitor Facebook and newspapers critics.

Education Ministry to investigate humiliating corporal punishment The Ministry of Education is conducting an investigation into an incident in which at least two students, one from the Awarewanau Primary School and the other from Lethem, in Deep South Rupununi, were given humiliating corporal punishment in the presence of the other students.

From a video clip that was first posted on Face Book several months ago and recently re-posted, it appears that the two female students were partially stripped and whipped, whilst being restrained, as other students looked on.

According to the post,

the girls, who are 13 and 15 years old, were beaten with “broad cow skin belt and hospitalised” subsequently.

According to Minister of Education Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine, himself, “in collaboration with the Ministry of National Security and the Ministry of Social Protection, is investigating the matter, and will take appropriate action.”

The video, which actually surfaced several months ago, was reported to the Education Ministry. A full report on the incident will be made public once completed, according to the Education Minister.

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Obama orders deployment of up to 450 more U.S. troops to Iraq

U.S. President Barack Obama President Barack Obama yesterday ordered the deployment of up to 450 more U.S. troops and establishment of a new training base in Iraq’s Anbar province to help rebuild Iraqi forces in preparation for a battle to retake territory lost to Islamic State.

The plan to expand the 3,100-strong U.S. contingent of trainers and advisers in Iraq marks an adjustment in strategy for Obama, who has faced mounting pressure to do more to blunt the momentum of Islamic State insurgents.

Obama decided on the new troop deployment in response to a request from Iraqi Prime Minister Haider alAbadi, the White House said.

The two leaders met on the margins of the G7 summit in Germany earlier this week.

But with Obama sticking to his refusal to send troops into combat or even close to

the front lines, it is unlikely to silence critics who say the limited U.S. military role in the conflict is not enough to turn the tide of battle.

U.S. officials hope that a strengthened American presence on the ground will in Anbar would help Iraqi forces devise a counter-attack to retake the provincial capital Ramadi, which insurgents seized last month in an onslaught that further exposed the shortcomings of the Iraqi army.

“To improve the capabilities and effectiveness of partners on the ground, the president authorized the deployment of up to 450 additional U.S. military personnel to train, advise, and assist Iraqi Security Forces at Taqaddum military base in eastern Anbar province,” the White House said in a statement.

Obama also ordered “the

expedited delivery of essential equipment and materiel” to Iraqi forces, including Kurdish Peshmerga troops and Sunni tribal fighters operating under Iraqi command, the White House said.

It made the announcement two days after Obama said the United States did not yet have a complete strategy for training Iraqi security forces to regain land lost to Islamic State fighters, who have seized a third of Iraq over the past year in a campaign marked by mass killings and beheadings.

The fall of Ramadi last month drew harsh U.S. criticism of the weak Iraqi military performance and Washington has begun to speed up supplies of weapons to the government forces and examine ways to improve the training program.

U.S. forces have already conducted training at the alAsad military base in western Anbar but the new training facility would be at Taqaddum, which is closer to Ramadi in the eastern part of the province U.S. officials had said earlier that planning was underway for a new installation A new site would allow U.S. trainers to provide greater support for Sunni tribal fighters, who have yet to receive all of the backing and arms promised by the Shi’ite-led government in Baghdad.

Suicide bomber attacks tourist site in Luxor, four Egyptians wounded

Police and others stand near the scene of a foiled suicide attack in Luxor, Egypt (REUTERS/STRINGER) A suicide bomber blew himself up near the ancient Egyptian Karnak Temple in the southern city of Luxor yesterday, security sources said, a possible sign that Islamist militants are shifting focus to try to derail Egypt’s economic recovery.

Although officials said no tourists were wounded, the attack was the second in just over a week on a major attraction in Egypt, where tourism is a vital source of income and

foreign currency.

Since the military toppled Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in 2013, Islamist militants have killed hundreds in a campaign targeting mostly police and soldiers.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who as army chief ousted Mursi after mass protests against his rule, has promised Egyptians he will revive an economy battered by turmoil ever since Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in 2011.

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JURIDICAL SETTLEMENT IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE TRADITIONAL POSITION OF GUYANA The idea of a juridical settlement of the border dispute with Venezuela has come as a big surprise, especially emanating from the new government.

Just before the PPP/C demitted office it expressed its frustration with the Good Officer Process instituted under the Geneva Convention. It stated that it would move towards a juridical settlement of this dispute.

That position was most likely influenced by commercial interests. These commercial interests want a legal settlement of the dispute so that their investments would not be jeopardized.

A legal settlement may have been acceptable to Suriname, but there is no reason to believe that it will be acceptable to Venezuela.

For one, Suriname is not a major oil producing nation.

It may have been keen to agree to go to arbitration over its maritime dispute with Guyana because it too may have seen the practical benefits to its exploration activities by having its maritime boundaries

delimited.

Venezuela is a different kettle of fish. Venezuela is a major oil producing nation. It not only has oil but it is also the largest exporter of oil to the United States of America.

It therefore is not likely to be inclined to go the route of a legal settlement of this dispute.

The previous government must have overlooked this fact when it said that it wanted to move towards a juridical of the dispute with Venezuela.

Based on reports on Demerara Waves, an online local news service, it does seem as if the new APNU+AFC administration is on the same wavelength and may be contemplating a similar move towards a legal settlement.

The very idea of a juridical settlement of the dispute is however inconsistent with the line that Guyana has traditionally taken.

This line is that the border issue was conclusively settled by the Arbitral Award of 1899.

Now, legally, if you accept that there is no dispute over the border and that the issue

Dem boys seh ...

De audit find Bam-bye money When Soulja Bai announce that he gun start fuh audit all dem place that tek money from de treasury and from de people and can’t account fuh de money, Donald tell de Hard Times paper that he ain’t frighten.

But when he seh suh de reporter he was talking to hear he belly rumbling. Irfaat been wid he at de time and like name and nature he start fuh release gas. De search ain’t gone nowhere yet and dem find $10 billion already. Somebody did hide de money in some old account.

Wha dem does do is hide de money in dem old account till people forget. Then dem does go in and tek de money and nobody don’t know. De Auditor General was always calling pun dem to close dem old account but dem use to refuse.

GT&T and Digicel report brisk business last night.

De news come out that dem boys find de $10 billion.

Suddenly everybody inside calling one another. People call de old Finance Minister who call a former president who cuss de whole team fuh being slack wid de money.

Dem boys certain that by weekend de team gun find more money. Dem already see people writing check and passing it to one another.

One man collect people money fuh house lot and he try fuh bribe he boss. De boss send back de money to him. Dem boys know de story.

People want to know how de $10 billion ain’t disappear. De people who was trying to move it couldn’t ship it to de States and dem couldn’t send so much to India and China because talk fuh rain and talk fuh sun, dem two countries does jail corrupt people.

De next set of money deh hide up in Bank of Baroda and in Republic Bank. Chris Rum was waiting fuh a chance to do a forensic audit. He try to start one wid de Sugar packaging plant and Rob de Earth don’t him.

Now he got a chance fuh do all dem audit, including one pun Jagdeo.

Talk half and watch how dem gun find money wha some people hide.

was already definitively settled in 1899, then you cannot be moving to the courts to ask for a legal ruling on the legality of the claim by the Venezuela. This is a contradiction.

If you believe there is no dispute, it is not for you move towards a judicial settlement; it is for the other side to do this because as far as you are concerned the other side has no valid claim.

By moving towards a juridical settlement, you are in fact conceding that there is a dispute between the sides which needs to be settled. You are not at all asserting that

there was a prior legal settlement in 1899 which was conclusive.

Guyana therefore has to tread carefully lest it be seen as conceding that there is indeed a case to be defended or answered.

But the situation gets more complicated. If Guyana is to move towards a judicial settlement, it will have to do so under the auspices of the Geneva Convention which as signed just before Independence and which the PNC government has consistently denied, amounted to a reopening of the border controversy.

Now if under the grievance settlement mechanism of the Geneva Convention there is provision for going to judicial adjudication, it effectively means that the Geneva Accord makes accommodation for the judicial determination of the validity of the Venezuelan claim.

In effect, therefore, what this position would mean is that the Geneva Convention signed by Burnham makes provision for the simultaneous settling of the border dispute. But since the border dispute can only be

settled if it is reopened, then this will mean that the Geneva Convention effectively makes provision for the reopening of the Venezuelan claim, something that the Guyana authorities have denied since the Geneva Agreement was signed.

Guyana therefore must tread carefully in this matter.

It needs to go back to the drawing board and rethink its options.

Police nab suspects in four killings in five days Amidst all the killings that have been committed within the past two weeks, the Guyana Police Force can breathe a little easier with the arrest of several of the suspects over the past five days.

Kaieteur News understands that at least five suspects in at least four separate killings, one dating back as far as 2001, were rounded up over the past three days.

Among those detained is the suspect in the murder of La Parfait Harmonie taxi driver Dennis Narine.

Narine was shot dead on the morning of May 31 when he got up to investigate an attempted break-in at his house. Investigators had suspected that Narine’s killer was known to him and was on the lookout for him.

Police say the suspect was apprehended at La Grange yesterday.

According to reports, the police on the West Coast of Demerara received information that a car with suspicious looking characters was seen circling in the La

Grange area.

Ranks intercepted the vehicle and to their surprise, the murder suspect was one of the occupants. He was positively identified by a person who police say is a main witness in the matter.

The suspect’s arrest comes a few days after Errol Kesney called ‘Shortman’ was detained in New Amsterdam, Berbice for the 2011 murder of fireman Patrick Ivor Daly.

When Kesney was detained last Sunday morning, he had in his possession of two grams of marijuana for which he was charged.

Investigators recognised Kesney as one of the suspects in Daly’s killing and duly informed him of the offence.

He told investigators that he had been living in Cayenne, although several sources claimed that he was frequently seen in New Amsterdam.

Although he was only fined $10,000 and ordered to do five weeks of community service, Kesney was kept in custody and subsequently transferred to Georgetown,

Two remanded on robbery charges Two suspected bandits were on Tuesday remanded on two counts of robbery when they appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Sherwin Roberts, 18, and Travis Alves, 24, both of ‘B’ Field Sophia, appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry-Sewnarine to answer the charges.

It is alleged that on June 7, last, at the Kingston seawalls, in the company of

others, they robbed Alfonsino Sutton of one cellular phone valued at $70,000.

Also at the same location, they robbed Nikita of one Blackberry cellular phone valued at $26,000 and one purse.

They both pleaded not guilty to the two charges. The duo’s next appearance is scheduled for June 26 at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Dennis Narine

Farouk Ghanie Hamid where he will face the murder charge.

Police say he was positively identified yesterday by an eyewitness to the murder.

Daly, a 29-year-old firefighter of Lot 99 Esau Street, Land of Canaan, was doused with acid and then

hacked to death by three men who had cornered him in a backyard toilet at his home.

He was chopped nine times with a cutlass and a machete while his reputed wife looked on helplessly. He collapsed and died from gaping wounds to his back and limbs. Police said that the ferocity of the attack left one of his legs partly severed.

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=== The Freddie Kissoon column ===

Could the facts below prove a case of racism?

Last Sunday morning while in conversation with one of my friends (we go back since our days at Stabroek News), Bert Wilkinson, Bert said that someone has to write about the witch-hunt against African Guyanese after 1992.

I yelled out: “Bert, I did just that yesterday” My column was on that very topic the day before.

Titled, “Burnham, Jagan, Rodney: Time for revisionist history,” I wrote; “Jagan in office after 1992 saw immense touches of unfairness. There were witch-hunts, vendettas, incestuous politics, ethnic preferences that erased the positive legacy he was once associated with.”

The scale of Jagan witchhunt cannot escape the label of racism? The first seven of

the Customs hierarchy were removed. Their names are on the top of the list. The remaining names are not offered in order of seniority at the time of dismissal.

1 Clarence Chue, 2 Harold Bahadur (African), 3 Lorice Blliam Holder, 5 Patrick Hyman, 6 Douglas Linton, 7 Ayola Issacs, 8 Walter Roberts, 9 Rose Kirton, 10 Lawrence Dundas, 11 Brentnol Hickens, 12 Christopher Mathias, 13 Shelly Brian, 14 Paul Prescod, 15 Michelle Mathias, 16 Georgiana Patrick Roberts, 17 Steven Daniels, 18 Hatty-Ann Scotland, 19 Yonette Austin, 20 Richard Prince, 21 George Beaton, 22 Dexter John, 23 Watson Grey, 24 Assaye Greenidge, 25

Gordon Watson, 26 Rhonda Glad, 27 Rayanne Van Lewin, 28 Paula Caleb, 29 Ewart Austin, 30 Howard Paul, 31 Karen Bobb-Semple 32 Simone Herod, 33 Fitzroy Thomas, 34 Paula Sampson, 35 Vanita Bovell, 36 Keon Price, 37 John Cameron, 38 Julian George, 39 Colin Moore, 40 Dawne Benn, 41 Gem Callender (demoted) and 42 Jackie Payne (demoted) The pattern of decimation at Customs and Excise was replicated at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. African Guyanese were systematically removed from that Ministry. Some of the names include long standing Foreign Service officers who served Guyana with distinction and without

involvement in party.

Dismissed or harassed or bypassed for promotion included the following names: Ronald Austin, Arnon Adams, John Hutson, David Hales, James Matheson, Rawle Lucas, Aubrey Norton, Cedric Grant, Paulette James, Sharon Collins, Donna Culpepper, Janice Benfield, O. McMillian, Colin Davies, Frank Goodman and Elizabeth Kingston One very blatant dismissal was the then Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Hubert Thompson. Before joining the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Thompson graduated from Jackson State University with distinction in Financial Studies.

He was removed from the Ministry and transferred to the Office of the President and suffered the humiliation of having to perform the duties of approving applications for use of the swimming pool at Castellani House.

The following African Guyanese took the Jagan Government to court over their sacking; Bridgette Hinds, (Palms); Gemme

Hinds (Palms); Feubia Monfort (Palms); Dionne Jones (Palms); Christine Barlow (Palms); Brian Belgrave (Min of Human Services); Glendon Fogenay (Min of Human Services); Denise Jones (Office of the President) Opposition Leader Desmond Hoyte in an eight page dossier wrote; “Having studied the available abundant evidence, I cannot but conclude that the PPP regime has mounted and is executing in a systematic and ruthless way, a project to harass and marginalize persons of African descent…Not only were over fifty officials of African descent dismissed summarily and unlawfully but, as an act of sheer (spite, they were denied their termination benefits…

In every government Ministry the same policy of ethnic cleansing has been pursued with varying degrees of intensity.

Reacting not only to racist processes in the public service, Mr. Hoyte focused his attention to racism against African people in general. He went on to state; “The major enterprise now being accelerated in every Region (is) to evict persons of African descent from state

Frederick Kissoon lands…the policy entails the revocation of state leases and the denial of new leases to them…I am not talking only about large leases but, also houselots and small farmsteads…as the occupants are ousted or threatened with ouster, PPP supporters are being brought in from distant geographical locations to replace them…on the Essequibo Coast where I visited a few Sundays ago, I found many persons greatly agitated and distressed, their occupancy of state lands had either been terminated or threatened …”

These statistics and names tell the tragic story of Cheddi Jagan’s politics after he became President in 1992.

I have consistently polemicized in the columns that what the post-Jagan protégés became when they got power under Jagdeo, they inherited from Cheddi and Janet Jagan.

The Jagan underlings that took over after 1999 when relentless protests from the PNC forced Mrs Jagan out of office, knew that what they were doing was right because they saw their leader, Dr. Jagan doing it.

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Banks DIH reports $1B increase for first six months of financial year Chairman and Managing Director of Banks DIH Limited, Mr. Clifford Reis, has reported that the Group’s third party revenue for the first six months of the financial year has increased by 7.8 percent.

The Group recording $14.07 billion compared with $13.05 billion, an increase of $1.02 billion over the corresponding period in 2014.

Mr. Reis said the unaudited profit before taxation for the Group for the six months ended March 31, 2015 was $2.55 billion as against $2.31 billion achieved in 2014, an increase of $234 million or 10.1 percent.

The unaudited profit before taxation for Banks DIH Limited was $1.86 billion compared to $1.59 billion, an

increase of $274.0 million or 17.0 percent, while the unaudited net profit after taxation was $1.15 billion compared to $1.05 billion achieved in 2014, an increase of $100.0 million or 9.5 percent.

Mr. Reis reported that Citizens Bank Guyana Inc. achieved an unaudited profit after taxation of $459.3 million compared to $500.6 million in 2014.

“The results of the Company for the six months were influenced by increase in revenue due to better physical sales turnover and a reduction in other operating expenses,” he reported.

According to Mr. Reis, the Company continues to realize the benefit of better efficiencies resulting from

modernizing its production capabilities, especially in the Brewery, Soft Drink, Water, Rum and Wine and Ice-Cream production facilities.

“These were complemented by the support services upgrade of the power generation, CO2 production, steam generation and water supplies systems,” the Chairman reported.

He said that during the first half of the financial year major capital expenditure was directed towards the acquisition and installation of a new Trisco biscuit oven and other equipment across the Company. The new Crème Select Ice-Cream Outlet on Main Street was completed and opened for business in December last year.

Guyanese scientist on global sustainability fellowship in Australia Guyanese scientist, Michelle Kalamandeen is among 14 marine scientists and managers from the Caribbean, Pacific and Indian oceans, who are now in North Queensland, Australia for three weeks to exchange knowledge and learn about innovative coral reef science and management.

Ms Kalamandeen, who is the Protected Area Coordinator of the Guyana Marine Turtle Conservation Society (GMTCS), highlighted that, “while Guyana does not have coral reefs, the techniques which will be discussed at the workshop are connected to managing both the land and ocean resources.

Such a strategy will be valuable to managing and protecting our own marine and coastal resources in Guyana such as sea turtles, mangroves and fishes.”

The Caribbean and Pacific fellows are part of a n A u s t r a l i a Aw a r d s Fellowship titled “ I m p r o v i ng coral reef management for sustainable development in the Caribbean and Pacific”.

Australia Awards are prestigious international Scholarships and Fellowships funded by the Australian Government to build capacity and strengthen partnerships.

By providing short-term study, research and professional development opportunities in Australia, mid-career professionals and emerging leaders can tap into Australian expertise, gaining valuable skills and knowledge.

Michelle Kalamandeen The fellows will travel from Townsville to Port Douglas and visit government departments, research stations and reefdependent businesses.

They will meet the people and visit the habitats that make the Great Barrier Reef so special.

Ms Kalamandeen further noted that she was very excited about the opportunity to exchange ideas, experiences and practical social and ecological tools with persons from different parts of the world who are all working on similar issues for the sustainable management of the oceans.

“Oceans are such an integral part of our lives – they provide us with jobs, food, are important to our GDP and many indigenous cultures are linked to oceans.

Imagine that every drop of water you drink, every breath you take in, you’re connected to the ocean.

Almost half of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean, yet we understand little about how to sustainably manage these vast ‘living spaces’.

No matter where you live, you will have an effect on the ocean, so ensuring healthy oceans takes every one of us doing our part.”

Actions such as not dumping garbage in the ocean, using less plastic bags, and advocating that oceans are also within protected areas, are some of the ways the public can help.

Adjunct Associate Professor Paul Marshall and Dr. Adam Smith, who have extensive experience with marine management in Australia and elsewhere, are coordinating the Fellows visit.

“We have observed the global decline of coral reefs and see that training of future leaders is essential for turning the tide towards a more sustainable future. Australia is the world leader in marine resource management. This Fellowship is a chance to share Australia’s expertise with the world.”

The Fellowship is being hosted by Reef Ecologic Pty Ltd with the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP), Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), G r e a t Barrier Reef Marine Park A u t h o r i t y ( G B R M PA ) , University of Queensland, James Cook University (JCU) and local industries and marine groups.

“I would also like to advise you of the completion of the construction of the New Amsterdam Branch of Citizens Bank. The Bank was opened for business in November 2014, as part of our ongoing objective of offering state of the art facilities in pursuit of higher level of service to our customers,” he added.

Mr. Reis said that in the second half of the year, capital works will be continued with the installation of an In-line blow moulding machine for the water production facilities, a new filler for the Beer Plant, the acquisition of additional trucks and forklifts and further upgrade of Demico House facilities.

In addition the Company will continue to monitor its production processes to derive better efficiencies, manage its financial resources and control expenses in order

Chairman and Managing Director of Banks DIH Ltd., Clifford Reis to sustain profitability.

Mr. Reis declared, “We will continue our programme of ‘Refreshing Partnerships’ by furthering the engagement

with all of our stakeholders including customers, suppliers, employees and shareholders in pursuit of higher stakeholder satisfaction.”

The Directors have approved an interim dividend of $0.17 per share unit to all shareholders whose names appear on the register as at May 14, 2015. This will result in a dividend payment of $170.0 million.

The shareholders’ Equity was increased to $23.781 billion which value equates to $23.78 per share.

The Chairman thanked fellow Directors for their support and guidance and expressed sincere appreciation to the Group’s loyal customers, shareholders, suppliers, employees for their continued confidence reposed in the Group during the aforementioned period.

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Health policy training necessary to improve awareness in ‘Abortion’ Act The training of medical practitioners should take into account all the policies and legislations Guyana has regarding health, to properly implement the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1995.

This is according to Executive Director of the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA), Patricia SheerattanBisnauth. She said that it is a necessary step to improve awareness of the 1995 Act

within the medical profession.

Bisnauth’s comments came during a recent interview when she addressed the troubling issue of medical professionals practising the medical termination of pregnancies (abortions), outside the legal framework as outlined in the 1995 Act. In light of reported cases of “botched abortions” such as that of Kamili Arjune, Bisnauth said that the implementation of the Act still needs to go a long way.

In Arjune’s case, she died following a procedure not more than five months after a previous abortion by a doctor who was not licensed to do so. She died on Good Friday at the Dr. Rahaman Medical Clinic.

The GRPA official said that with cases like Arjune, it indicates that the Act has not been properly gone through especially in terms of the medical system, despite being designed to protect people’s lives and their rights.

“It means that the Act was passed and there was no will to follow through with the implementation. So it wasn’t mainstreamed in any procedure and training for the doctors,” responded Bisnauth when asked what the lack awareness in the Act meant.

Since the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act outlines the appropriate guidelines for pregnancy termination, Bisnauth said that it is the responsibility of the Medical Council, under the Ministry of Public Health, to ensure that the public and especially doctors are aware of such legislation.

“I think it is very important that it be given immediate attention for Guyana,” said Bisnauth.

According to the GRPA Director, the agency had received support from the Health Ministry in strategic training for some 20 doctors and nurses in counselling and procedures pertinent to medical termination of pregnancies. These training sessions, she said, were carried out in Regions Three, Four, Five and Six. “The approach of that was to provide comprehensive care for women who have an abortion, which would take the women’s whole wellbeing into consideration,” said the

Executive Director of GRPA, Patricia Sheerattan-Bisnauth health professional.

However, she noted that it was difficult to find the right trainers in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology given that specialists are limited in Guyana.

Bisnauth said that such strategic training allowed licensed doctors to be able to perform medical termination of pregnancies outside an emergency procedure or following a botched abortion.

Given Guyana’s high rate of teenage pregnancy, with latest records showing that the country has the second highest rate in the region, such strategic training

sessions are beneficial in addressing the issue of teenage abortion, said Bisnauth.

That being said, she stressed the importance of having comprehensive contraceptive education, to prevent early pregnancy, for young girls rather than wait until they seek unsafe methods of aborting the pregnancy.

Last month Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Shamdeo Persaud, said that he was at a loss to find the reason why some doctors were unaware of the 1995 Act, despite desperately working on raising awareness on its existence.

Govt. to restore subvention to Critchlow Labour College A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Government will restore the annual subvention to the Critchlow Labour College l o c a t e d o n Wo o l f o r d Avenue, Georgetown.

T h is was revealed yesterday by President David Granger as he addressed the Eleventh Parliament.

The President said that Government has an obligation, over the next five years to fulfil the aspirations of “our founding fathers.”

He said that the new government seeks first and foremost to eliminate extreme poverty.

“Our Poverty Reduction Plan will adopt a ‘One Nation’ approach, reducing inequalities, removing obstacles to education…We shall introduce social policies that will harness and develop the creative energies of our people, and that will support the holistic development of our women and youth,” said Granger.

Granger added, “Government will revise relevant

labour legislation to support all legally constituted and functioning Trade Unions to enable them to better represent the needs of workers. We shall towards this end, give effect to the Motion passed in the 10th Parliament to restore the annual subvention to the Critchlow Labour College.”

Almost a decade after Government stopped the annual subvention to Critchlow Labour College, the way was paved, during the life of the Tenth Parliament, for the assistance to resume.

This was after an Oppositionpiloted motion, in an intense debate, was passed in the National Assembly.

The institution has been struggling since 2004 when the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic administration pulled the assistance, more than $30M annually, claiming that the College has to get its accounts in order.

The respected tertiary education facility had then fallen on hard times, at one time closing for several months because of the cash situation. The

restoration of the subvention would spell good news for its fortunes.

The motion for the restoration of the funds was tabled by former Member of Parliament, Trevor Williams, of the Alliance For Change (AFC), himself a former student.

Many young people who attended the college are now productive members of society.

The college guides its students to a stage where they can successfully sit Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate (CSEC). It caters mostly for those who need a second chance—those who dropped out of secondary school for one reason or the other, and those who maybe hadn’t a chance at secondary education, maybe due to extreme poverty.

In the 1980s, the college was acknowledged as the busiest labour institution in the Caribbean.

‘Critchlow Labour College’, named after ‘Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow,’ was established over 40 years ago. (Abena Rockcliffe)

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Security crisis hits Police constable remanded Anna Regina market after illegal AK-47 find

One of the bandits captured on camera

To foster better security services in the Old Anna Regina Market, a meeting was held between security officers and head of the Interim Management Committee, Mrs. Diane Critchlow. This meeting was prompted by a recent act of vandalism of a businessman’s stall.

The businessman, Anil Singh lost over $3M worth of cell phones and computer gadgets.

Critchlow, who met with the team of security officers, addressed the disorderly behaviour practiced by some members of the security

fraternity, those culpable of executing their duties while under the influence of alcohol and those leaving the locations with permission.

The city councillor noted that while Singh’s stall was broken into early Sunday morning, a guard was seen approaching Singh’s stall with what appeared to be a bottle in his hand.

Critchlow mentioned that while the guard stood outside of Singh’s stall having heard a noise, he probably was not aware that the thief was already in the stall.

Critchlow said that proper

security is inevitable for the effective management of the Anna Regina Old Market which over the years, has had numerous break-ins.

Singh said that the thieves gained entry by removing boards from the back of his stall.

He said that surveillance footage revealed a man who covered the lower part of his face removing gadgets from his stall. The recording has since been lodged with the police.

Two security offices operate during the nights in the Anna Regina Old Market.

A serving member of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) was shackled and brought before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry to answer charges of illegal firearm and ammunition possession.

Orin Sergeant, a Police Constable stationed at the East La Penitence Police Station, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Particulars of the first charge alleged that on June 5, at Mahaica, he had thirty seven 7.32x3 ammunition in his possession, when he was not the holder of a firearm licence.

It was further alleged that on the day in question, at the same location, he had an AK 47 rifle in his possession without being the holder of a firearm licence.

Murder accused: Charles Anthony Woolford charge.

Woolford is facing his second retrial in the matter. The previous two trials ended in hung jury verdicts. The accused stands indicted before Justice Brassington Reynolds and a 12-member mixed jury at the High Court in Georgetown.

He is being represented by Attorney–at–Law, Peter Hugh.

Prosecutors Mercedes Thompson and Michael Shahoud are presenting the

State’s case. Yesterday, the victim’s daughter Marciana Conway was further questioned by the Defence Attorney, Peter Hugh, with regard to the incident.

During cross -examination, the witness was asked to provide an explanation for inconsistencies in the evidence she provided to the court.

Hugh, in particular pointed out that in the previous trial, Conway related that on the day of the stabbing, she had showed police investigators around the home but in this trial, she said that she could not remember showing the police around the house.

Asked to give an explanation for this, the witness simply told the court that she just couldn’t remember at the time.

The teenager also disagreed with suggestions by the Attorney, that her mother had a friend named “Andy,” who would visit the home, in the absence of her stepfather.

It was also suggested to the witness, that she along with her aunt and cousin,

Sergeant of 44 CC Eccles, East Bank Demerara, was remanded to prison until June 16, when he will appear at the

Two remanded for possession of marijuana A 23-year-old miner, Sherwin Stanford, of 101 President’s College Road, East Coast Demerara was on Tuesday remanded until June 15, after he was refused bail on a drug trafficking charge.

Particulars of the charge stated that at Arau Landing, Stanford had 300 grams of cannabis in his possession for the purpose

Daughter of murdered Festival … as trial City beautician testifies continues The 17- year old daughter of murdered beautician, Latoya Conway Woolford concluded her testimony yesterday maintaining that she was present at the time that her stepfather stabbed her mother.

Charles Anthony Woolford is indicted for fatally stabbing his wife on February 8, 2009.

The incident took place at the couple’s Lot 2041, Hummingbird Street, Festival City, North Ruimveldt home, allegedly during a heated argument.

The hairdresser, and mother of three, is said to have had her stomach sliced open during the ordeal. She succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) while receiving treatment.

The accused, who was a self-employed construction worker at the time, tried to end his life by ingesting what was believed to be a poisonous liquid, a few hours after learning of his wife’s demise. He was hospitalized but was later released to face the murder

Orin Sergeant

Mahdia Magistrate’s Court.

Police Corporal, Bharrat Mangru, stated that the defendant was on surveillance by his coworkers for some time.

He said that on June 5, a road block was set up at Mahaica, which resulted in a motor car being stopped.

The defendant and the other occupants were asked to exit the vehicle with their belongings and they complied.

Mangru said that a search was carried out on the defendant’s bag and the guns and ammunition were found.

As a result, investigations were carried out and the charges were instituted. It was also noted that the firearm is not the property of the GPF.

(Talia) had discussed the matter before she gave statements to the police.

Conway disagreed with the suggestion but, recalled that she was present when the incident took place. She told the court her younger siblings were also there.

Conway, who currently resides in Queens, New York, commenced her evidence, via audio-visual link (Skype) last Monday.

She related to the court that on February 8, 2009 her stepfather, Charles Anthony Woolford, plunged a knife into her mother’s stomach.

The teenager was just 11years -old when she witnessed the stabbing. In her evidence, she recalled that on the day of the incident, her mother was in the bedroom when her stepdad entered, turned her mother around and stabbed her with a shiny brown handle knife.

Conway related that her mother began to scream and stumbled across the room in the direction of a window.

The trial will continue today.

of trafficking.

The police, acting on information, went to the home of the defendant and conducted a search.

During the search a black plastic bag containing a quantity of transparent ziplock bags with leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be cannabis was found on the bed of the accused. It was later weighed in the defendant’s presence and amounted to 300 grams.

His lawyer, Jerome Khan, petitioned for his client to be released on bail. However, his attempts were futile.

In his bail application, he argued that his client is being victimized because of a previous charge. He contested that there is no connection between Stanford and the alleged drug.

The Prosecutor o b j e cted to bail on the ground that no special reasons were advanced by the Attorney. It was also noted that while the defendant was out on bail for another offence, he allegedly committed this offence.

This matter was transferred to the Kamarang

Magistrate’s Court.

In another case, Natoya Fraser, 27, of 41 Ketley Street, Charlestown was also remanded until June 30 for drug trafficking, when she appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore.

It is alleged that on June 5, at Princes Street, Fraser had 28 grams of cannabis in her possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Her Attorney, Mark Waldron, stated that his client was only a passenger on the motorcycle and that the substance was not found on her person.

He asked that the matter be further investigated since the other woman, who was driving the motorcycle was not charged.

The Prosecutor told the court that on the day in question, the defendant was a passenger on a motorcycle when it was stopped and searched by police officers, some 28 grams of marijuana was found and the charge was instituted.

The Prosecutor indicated that additional statements and an analyst’s certificate are still outstanding. He requested two weeks for completion.

Guyanese woman thought coke was diamonds New York (New York Daily News)- A woman who was busted for smuggling 10 kilos of cocaine to the U.S. from Guyana, told authorities she thought the contraband was diamonds, a Brooklyn Federal Court complaint says.

Alizah Henry, a U.S. citizen, was arrested over the

weekend at Kennedy Airport after U.S. Customs and Border Protection cops found in her suitcase, four bags of white powder labeled “Champion Baking Powder” and determined the substance was drugs.

She said her dad said it was diamonds.

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Repairs & spare, fridge, freezer, A/C, washers, stoves. Contact Nick: 6831312, 627-3206 Your Dream Yard Today!

Stunning designs, Assortment, colourful plant choices, Professional Landscapers Tel: 219-0468/ 648-1821 Balloon decorating for birthdays, weddings, anniversary etc, make your event extra special! Tel Maya: 642-6664 EAGLE’S FRIDGE RE-GAS - $8,000 & WASHING MACHINE REPAIRS. PHONE: 697-2969, 6460966 Platinum Party RentalsTents, tables, chairs, limousine service etc.

Lowest prices guaranteedCall: 602-4396, 693-3320 INNOVATIVEMARKETING & PUBLISHING INC –TEL: 600-4212: We create Artworks, logos, business cards, posters, etc, placements of ads included.

REPAIRS AT LOW COST: FRIDGES, AIRCONDITIONERS, WASHING MACHINES, TVS, MICROWAVES, FREEZERS- CALL:6294946 OR 225-4822 We repair fridge, freezer, AC, washer, dryer Call Omar:2310655,683-8734

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FOR SALE

Make Up Courses with Mac, Bare Minerals, Black Opal and Sacha cosmetics. Call: 647-1773/660-5257

Unregistered fully loaded, Toyota IST $2M - Call: 6917475

Residential lots ad houses for sale at Eccles, E.B.D $7.5M. Tel:592-227-2913 or 689-3033

LARGE QUANTITIES OF HIGH PURITY MERCURY (QUICK SILVER) 99.99995% PURITY$19,000 PER POUND CALL: 592-227-4754.

WANTED 1 Maid, 40years and older to work in SurinameContact: (+597) 322-5442; (+597) 651-6666 One cook to prepare breakfast- Please call: 6642805 Need an advisor to help with setting up a new Private School, email details to mozatart@yahoo.com

LAND FOR SALE Commercial lots available at Eccles E.B.D $14M - Tel:592227-2913 or 592-689-3033 50 Acres titled farm land @ The Belle, Upper Dem, River Front -reasonable offer accepted, serious enquiries only! - Tel: 695-3493 Waterfront land at Eccles 7+ acres- Contact: 954-769-0576, email: 1belair@mail.com

Staff for plant shop, Located in Georgetown, Plant knowledge an advantage.

Tel: 643-4049

Prime land in Corriverton 1.3 acres roadside land suitable for Gas station, hotel, Shopping mall etc.- Call: 6266245, 335-3347 Parfaite Harmonie $1.3M, $1.5M. Tushen $1.6M. We buy all low income landsCall: 689-3339, 611-7223, 2231443

Cook must know to bake, able body cleaner, housekeeper & general domestic, waitress Tel: 679-5993

76ft X 52ft land at Triumph railway embankmentCall:220-6799, 657-4969

Experienced pastry makers, Roti/Puri & Curry, cook, cleaners, apply @ Hack’s Halaal, 5 Commerce Street.

Luxury gated communitypool, mall, swipe card entry, underground irrigation.

Selling @ $6USD per sq.ftCall: 609-0783

Contract cars and driversCall: 231-0002, 231-0316, 2310006

Salesgirls and porters, apply to Best Buy Food Supplies, at 1E Dennis & Middleton Street, Campbellville with written application.

MASSAGE Relaxing massage serviceCall: 674-8147 American Style Massage Service: Heaven on Earth Massage, relaxation awaits you. Call: 678-7499

Attractive live in waitressCall:327-0252/674-4665

CAR RENTAL PROGRESSIVE AUTO RENTAL:CARS&SUV FOR RENTAL- $4,000 & UP PER DAY- CALL: 643-5122, 2193900, EMAIL: PRO_AUTO RENTAL@YAHOO.COM DOLLY’S CAR RENTALCALL: 225-7126/226-3693 DOLLYSAUTORENTAL@ YAHOO.COM/WWW. DOLLYSAUTORENTAL.COM Aidan’s Car & Pickup rental, cheap rate, low security - Tel: 698-7807

1 General domestic to take care of guest house in Interior. Must know how to cook- Tel: 231-0363 1 Live- in domestic, salary $50,000- Call: 688-5409, 6741767 Female assistant for interior.

Salary $80,000 monthly- Call: 674-1767, 688-5409, 664-5199 Maid/ cleaner- apply at Wieting & Richter Ltd. (1)Mechanic to work in the interior.

Must have knowledge with perkins engine Call: 611-4495, 629-0037

WANTED

Transported concrete property for sale at Lot 458 Block “8” Mon Repos, E.C.D, Top flat 2 bedrooms, bottom flat 2 bedrooms $20M. Tel: 625-1514

Great Deals on video games & all gaming consoles. PC, phone games & applications. Delivery also.

Call: 672-2566; 265-3232

Honda Accord 2003: 31,000KM, 2L, leather interior, touch screen TV, DVD, 6 CD changer & radioCall: 689-1194

Property for sale, Grove $18M neg. Tel: 625-5461.

FOR SALE IN CENTRAL GEORGETOWN: SPACIOUS HOUSE IN DESIRABLE BEL-AIR, NEWHAVENRESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD. CALL: 647-8851 169 Thomas St. Kitty, double lot, vacant possession ideal for business or commercial purposes – Call Zeena: 2203348; 611-8222

Massey Ferguson 399 Contact: 601-9903

Property at Agriculture road $15 million negotiable- Tel: 612-2522

Electronic and battery operated snow cone machines- Call: 266-2711, 609-4594

Two storey wood and concrete business building located at 35 Ketley and Howes Street Charlestown Tel: 623-9679

One two stroke 90 Yamaha outboard, one 14ft aluminum boat, one 25 Yamaha 4 stroke outboard – Contact: 601-1138

Property at Kersaint Park LBI, price $13M negotiable Contact: 664-1865; 698-5713

XBOX One, XBOX 360, PS2, PS3, PSP and Nintendo DS system, plastic barrels $6,000-Call: 603-8643; 6217497; 649-3277

Star Cars Auto Sales: In Stock, Premio, Vitz, Bluebird, IST, Alteeza, Benz C200, Spacio - Tel: 679-3140 Toyota Hilux 5L Manual $2.350M negotiable –Tel: 684-1776; 617-8188

One Toyota Allion 2004 Model & 1 new & unregistered Mazda Axela, excellent condition -Tel: 649-0956 2004 Spacio -$2M 2008 Fielder (new shape) -$2.5M unregistered –Tel: 617-2891 We buy & sell vehicles for cash, also parts available & 30 seater buses; Extra Cab pickups; 2006 Tacoma - Call: 680-3154 Sale! 2007, 2008 Allion $3.3M, Bluebird Sylphy $2.6M, fully loaded Belta $2.6M, Tacoma 4x4 $3.8MTel: 639-7101 Toyota Prado, Price$4.4M Neg. Call: 643-2403

Eden Bar & Lounge in Garden of Eden, E.B.D. Looking for experienced bartenders & waitressesCall for appointment 694-6247 Truck drivers, security guard, office staff: 5 CXC subjects minimum & computer literate, to work in Georgetown - Tel: 218-5105

1 L-Touring Wagon, excellent condition - A.C Alarm & Remote start, flair kit, CD player, 16" mags, price -$1.3M - Tel: 626-2884 V8 Titan (2005) KIA SPORTAGE 2003 - Call: 275-1230

1 Honest driver salesman must have lorry license & experience in sales- Contact: 233-3512. Email: prestige foodsguyana@gmail.com

1 Diesel mechanic to work in backdam. Experience in repairing perkins, MWM, duetz, lister engines- Contact Kurt- 661-4265

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Toyota Rav4 2012 model, 4WD in very good condition. Low mileage, alarm system installed - Call: 665-5509

Concrete house for sale in Eccles new scheme $35 million neg- Call: 611-1018, 622-0722 Property @ Lot 63 West Ruimveldt, Estate Housing Scheme Georgetown – Contact Mark: 618-9744 2 STOREY 2 BEDROOMS HOUSE ON LARGE LAND 300’X40’ CLOSE TO MAIN ROAD, CANJE BRIDGE, BERBICE. $11M- CALL: 609-8132, 672-8569

One Noah registered in BTT series, never used. Reasonable price- Call:698-8617

CANTER DRIVER AND SALESMAN, SECURITY GUARDS FOR LAND OF CANAAN, E.B.D BUSINESS. POLICE CLEARANCE REQUIRED. 676-6700

TO LET Prime office space @ lot 239 Quamina Street, Central Georgetown, parking available in Private yard. Tel: 592-227-2913, 592-689-3033 Four storey building located on Robb Street next to Bourda market- Tel: 623-7731, 629-0636 Furnished executive one or two bedroom suites in Diamond.

Ideal for foreigners- Call: 609-2466

FOR SALE/RENT

Pure breed pitbull puppies 7 weeks- Call: 661-1715 or 6692434 Roxie’s fashion sale on black leotards, tights, dance shoes, dance costume dresses etc.- Call: 227-8538

Sony PlayStation 4 (brand new factory sealed) $100,000.

Offer valid while stocks last - Contact: 693-4777 10 Acres of land roadside at Kuru Kururu for business.

Cheap price- Call: 601-3369 1 farm, 2 boats and engine.

Also 1 sound system (3m)Call:265-3586 Full breed German shepherd puppies, black & brownCall: 682-5664 1 Ford econoline van (left hand drive) in excellent condition. Sale price $2.2 million - Contact: Ms. Rooplall 233-3512

AT192, 212, Allion, unregistered Premio, Hilux Surf, BNN, RZ & Pit-bull, 7 seater super custom. Cash / terms - Call: 680-3154 Cheapest: manual & Automatic buses, Rush, Hilux, canter, Model M Truck, front view property in Bougainvillea Park – Call: 616-7635

Spare for washing machine, microwaves, fridges, stoves, timers, gearbox, motors, etc call: 225-9032, 647-2943

Salesgirls to work in Grocery stall in Stabroek market.

Experience is an asset- Call: 226-9800

For Sale: Rush, household items: TV, etc. For Rent: house. Tel: 628-7884

Newly constructed apartment/ house in healthy and safe environment at W.C.D- Call: 698-6496

1 female to work in snackette & bar. Must know to cookCall: 647-7432/ 223-5798

3 Storey established business at 220 south roadCall: 601-3369

One bedroom apartment at Mon Repos, no ChildrenTel: 662-9043

52" LED light bar for bush trucks & 4x4 pickups. 300 watts & 12/24 volts- Call: 601-4640 One complete music system Tel: 699-5790, 221-2817 Ingersol rand compressor, mig/ark welder, roneo desk, generator steel cage, bottling machines, 220 motors essences freezerCall: 225-8183 Short foot mix breed puppies Call: 611-2497 PS3 with games $35,000, 32 inch flat-screen TV $48,000Call: 664-7014 3 plastic injection mould machines in excellent condition. Sale price $8 million for all 3- Contact: Ms.Rooplall 233-3512 Continued on page 23

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Letters... Where your views make the news

I can account for my stewardship as Regional Chairman DEAR EDITOR, Let me from the outset state the statements circulating alleging financial impropriety on my part have no basis in fact.

It is unfortunate the Region has returned to an era where those who disagree find being disagreeable an appropriate conflict resolution tool. In the three years as APNU-elect Regional Chairman and a member of the PNCR, I have been accused of receiving millions of dollars from the PPP and other sources.

I can say to you this much, my people: With very little resources given to me as Campaign Manager, Region 10 had the best showing for the coalition at the 11th May Elections in votes, turnout and reducing the PPP numbers.

The people of Region 10 have stood tall and have been a formidable force against those who threatened our tranquility and sought to trample our rights.

Despite our political diversity on regional matters we have operated as One Region. An understanding of how the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) functions would reveal the administrative line of authority is the Regional Executive Officer, who is the RDC’s chief financial officer and administrator of all

executive duties.

The Regional Chairman is the political head and presides over the Council in developing policies, deliberating on the execution of the programmes and the management of the region.

The Regional Chairman represents the Region’s interests at national level such as the Drainage and Irrigation Board.

During my stewardship, every effort has been made to keep government honest and accessible to the people.

This was done through walk-abouts, community meetings, an open-door communication policy, regional media programmes and having the media present at RDC meetings.

The RDC was manned by councillors from the PPP, AFC and APNU. These meetings were robust and none was spared scrutiny and accountability, including me.

On the Rebuild Our Future Programme (ROFP), this was

conceptualised out of the cooperative spirit exhibited during our 2012 struggle and the need to keep it alive in furtherance of the Region’s development.

This programme includes the burial of our three Martyrs on 1st August, 2012 and some support for their families, also Rebuild One Mile Primary School, establishment of the Linden Martyrs Monument Park and the establishment of the television station.

The ROFP has a Working Committee and is administered outside of the day-to-day administration of the Region which is independent of this management and is with the participation of stakeholders.

The money garnered for this Programme is accounted for by professional Accountant of Wilson’s Consulting Service (Linden), deposited at Citizens Bank and audited by D. Bahadur & Co. Chartered Accountants (Georgetown), this was at the

It is important for the nation to...

From page 5 Regional Democratic Councils.

Given that the councillors in these two tiers of government were voted for by the citizens of the regions and neighbourhood, the people must be allowed to identify

their leaders, formulate their plans, raise their own taxes, develop their own programmes, receive their own subventions from central government, and given the latitude consistent with the laws and based on their regional/local profile, to

You cannot expect professional...

From page 4 the working class with taxes, we cannot allow some to escape their responsibility of paying taxes to meet national needs.

The abysmal state of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is compounded by tax evasion and a system where some government contract employees do not make their contributions. Contract employment, in other words, has created a national systemic conundrum. Significantly, contract employment by the former government was a conduit for the hiring of political cronies. It was their entrance

insistence of the Council which was made up Councillors of all three of the political parties.

There is no need to assassinate my character to justify to Guyana and the people of Region 10 the purported exclusion of my name from the Regional List.

I have served the people of this Region with pride, integrity and humility and in this Information Age my record is easily verifiable.

I remain humbled and grateful for the opportunity presented to serve the people. Though some may think I am extinguishable, Region 10 and those who desire a politics of development and not a politics of destruction and tear down, rest assured you will hear from and see Sharma Solomon.

I am Guyanese and will continue to play a positive role in the development of our people and this dear land.

Sharma Solomon

into the public service through the back door.

A professional public service is paramount. Governments come and go, but the public service always remains as the engine that operationalises the state machinery - from NICIL to GuySuCo, to the many government Ministries and Agencies - be it the police force and the military, customs and immigration, and schools and hospitals. In other word, public servants as professionals should be ready to work diligently and respectfully with any political party that forms a government.

To conclude, the appointments of political cronies over time has contributed to a bloated public service, a burden on the public purse, a politicised professional environment, an underperformance of the public service to meet the public good, and a demoralisation of public servants. Their ill conduct has significantly contributed to official malfeasance and corruption.

You cannot expect professional work from political cronies. Thus, these political cronies or square pegs in round holes have got to go!

Jermaine Grant

attract business into their regions and communities.

National unity and shared governance are not proposed or unrealistic expectations; they are realisable here and now, since the mechanisms to make them real are already enshrined in the Constitution.

Lincoln Lewis

FOR RENT

GT TOOL RENTALS: COMPACTOR; CHIPPING HAMMER RANSOM & FLOOR SANDER, JACK HAMMER, CONCRETE SAW & MORE- CALL: 6750767, 627-5098 Fully furnished apartment with 2 bedrooms, hot & cold, cable, A/C. 1 bedroom unfurnished apartment.

Rooms- Call: 689-5877 3 Bedrooms fully furnished apartment at 266 Atlantic Gardens, E.C.D for Overseas guests only- Call:220-3735 Store/ boutique, two bedrooms space- Call Simone: 626-5317, 227-0501 12 Offices $60,000 at 220 South road- Call: 601-3369 One bedroom fully furnished apartment at Diamond, Housing Scheme. Price $40,000 negotiable- Contact: 661-4842 3 Bedrooms top flat apartment at Broad St. Charlestown, Georgetown.

10 minutes walk to Stabroek market- Call: 692-0828 1-8000 sq ft modern warehouse/ manufacturing facility centrally located @ Eccles industrial site. $5,000US per monthContact: 233-3512 HEALTH Follow-me male enhancers, diabetic, hypertension and more. Sickness free sample treatment- Tel: 696-2957 DRESSMAKING

EDUCATION Register now with Alpha foundation for child care, care for elderly, cosmetology, dressmaking, cake decoration & more –Phone: 264-1052; 663-7930

Morning and evening classes also dressmaking service. Call Sharmie (Canadian trained): 6262629, 676-6312

Super Deal for CXC 2015 Students: 9 Course in Computer studies -$30,000 @ Micrographics –Tel: 2643057 Kids Summer computer classes, age 5-16 @ Micrographics Technology –Vreed-en-Hoop –Tel:2643057 (Register Now!)

VACANCY Cutter/straight stitch/ button tack/hole operators.

Call: 222-2541 (8:00am4:00pm Mon-Fri) One male technician with complete secondary education, electrical knowledge & fluent in Portuguese, email: v a c a n c y @ g s a t connection.com Work from home, earn $5,000-$20,000 daily Call Monday-Friday 9am-5pm #233-6517, 638-0595 www.jobfairworldwide.com I N T E R N AT I O N A L EMPLOYMENT: NURSE, TEACHERS,CARPENTERS, ELECTRICIANS, COOK, WAITERS, BELL BOYS, HOUSEKEEPERS, STOREKEEPERS, SECURITIES. CONTACT: 231-6296; 650-9880/ www.plzrecruitme.com Male security guards, male desk staff & male supervisorcall: 225-0198 or 233 South road, Lacytown Handyman- Call: 600-7388, 225-7933 or visit us at 173 Sheriff Strett Accounts clerk/ office assistant: Maths, English, Proficiency in Excel & Microsoft Word.

Technician (basic networking skills- Tel: 6014697, 219-2226 Salesmen, cashiers, salesgirl, porters- apply @ Survival lot 16 Duncan & Vlissengen road, with application & passport photo Security- apply at Alabama Trading Georgetown ferry stelling Dental Laboratory trainee technicians- Tel: 639-5577 (between 5:00pm-8:00pm)

CXC Adults classes: day & evening. Phonics class, grade 2,4,6,9 lessons- Call: 231-1209, 690-5008, 657-7398 Computerized Accounting 4 Courses @ $30,000: POS Quick Books, Excel 2013, Peachtree. Micrographics Vreed-en-Hoop–Tel: 2643057

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PLANNING AN EVENT? BIRTHDAY PARTY, GRADUATION,WEDDINGS, ANNIVERSARY, ETC. CALL DIAMOND TENTS: 216-1043; 677-6620

Porters, moulder & re-saw operators, Eccles Industrial site, E.B.D- Call: 609-7675, 233-2614, 674-1705 LEARN TO DRIVE Soman Son & Outar Driving School at Maraj BuildingTel:644-5166; 622-2872; 6150964; 689-5997 FOR SALE Stainless steel 16 cu.ft fridge, 40" Sony TV & other household items- Call: 6185641 VACANCY One welder/ fabricator- Tel: 642-7898

Serviceman, experienced river dragga operators, labourers.

Interested persons kindly call: 6008812 between 1pm-3pm Vacancy exists for (1) one DJ/ Entertainer/ Promoter to work at a club in EssequiboContact: 226-9768, 615-6172 Male driver, 3 years experience. Age 21-35 from Timehri/Turkyen. Valid driver’s license- Call Alice: 668-7104, 261-2280

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Territorial claim...

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Venezuela plans to up pressure to weaken Guyana’s resistance - Greenidge warns

By Abena Rockcliffe “For 49 years we have lived in the shadow of Venezuela’s illegal claim and attempts to despoil our country. The sword of Damocles, for the most part unseen, hangs over our heads. Unless removed, it will be the legacy that will be inherited by our children. It is time to end this cycle. A definitive solution has to be found that will put to rest Venezuela’s contention of nullity.”

So said Foreign Affairs Minister, Carl Greenidge in an address to the National Assembly, yesterday.

Greenidge was at the time speaking to Venezuela’s claim to Guyana’s territory. While Greenidge spoke, he had the attention of Venezuela’s ambassador to Guyana, Reina Margarita Arratia Diaz, who was there yesterday to witness the convening of parliament.

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on May 27,

2015 issued a decree, extending Venezuela’s claim to Guyana’s territorial waters.

A map which was issued, accompanying the decree, shows that the claim includes the area where the US giant oil company, ExxonMobil is currently drilling for oil.

Yesterday, Greenidge said that the decree has given notice that Venezuela intends to continue increasing the pressure on Guyana and to weaken this country’s resistance to Venezuela’s illegal claim. “We will not waiver in our resistance,” he said.

He told the House that the issuance of a decree is well within President Maduro’s constitutional right. But it is not within his right to utilize the sovereign territory of Guyana to generate maritime territory to meet Venezuela’s “illegal” ambitions which, Greenidge said is exactly what the decree purports to do.

Greenidge noted that the decree mandates the Venezuelan Navy to secure

Foreign Affairs Minister, Carl Greenidge in the House yesterday

the disputed area and the resources of the area.

Greenidge described the decree as a baseless and shameless act intended to deny Guyana its legitimate right to continue the pursuit of existing developmental initiatives.

The Foreign Minister said that the decree negates the

Drug dealer jailed for ganja possession

Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry sentenced a drug trafficker to six years imprisonment yesterday, after he pleaded guilty to two drug trafficking charges.

Telbert Devonshire of Lot 13, Hibiscus Housing Scheme, Blankenburg, West Bank Demerara, admitted to the court that on June 9, he had 115 grammes of cannabis in his possession for the purpose of trafficking.

His mother, Minelva Devonshire was also charged with this offence. However, in light of her son’s guilty plea the charge was withdrawn against her by the Prosecution based on advice given by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

Telbert was also convicted for having 524 grammes of cannabis in his possession.

He was given a three year sentence on each charge which will run concurrently.

The convict was also ordered to pay a fine of $30,000.

The man’s Attorney, Charles Ramson Jnr., asked the Magistrate to exercise leniency when handing down sentencing. He told the court that Telbert is the sole breadwinner of his family with no antecedents.

The Attorney also stated that his client pleaded guilty because he did not want to waste the court’s time.

Police Corporal Bharrat

very commitments assented to by Venezuela in numerous international and regional fora regarding the peaceful settlement of disputes.

“Guyana condemns this decree in the strongest possible terms.”

Greenidge made note that the Venezuelan Government is claiming that it has done nothing wrong in issuing the decree.

“What then really is Venezuela’s intention in taking this illegal step?”

The Minister chronicled the long line of similar encounters that Guyana has had with Venezuela.

He noted as well Venezuela’s illegal occupation of Guyana’s half of the island of Ankoko—an Essequibo island in the Cuyuni River—and “the many attempts at hindering development of this region several of these acts of military, para military and economic aggression have been well documented.”

Greenidge recalled that in 2013 a Venezuelan naval vessel seized a seismic vessel conducting surveys in Guyana’s maritime space on behalf of Anadarko, a Company that had been granted exploration rights.

Nevertheless, Greenidge said that, even after all of that, no reasonable observer could have possibly anticipated that Venezuela could ever regard the position where the Deep Water Champion is located as even remotely falling within the areas claimed by Venezuela.

“Clearly we all underestimated Venezuela’s appetite for territory,” said Greenidge.

The Minister told the House that efforts at getting Venezuela to do the logical and reasonable thing, namely, sitting down to discuss the issue of maritime delimitation have to date proved futile.

He added that Guyana has always sought the principled

route in response to Venezuela’s persistent and continuing acts of aggression and will continue to do so.

“We have been in contact with several members of the international community and have made special approaches to other Member States of the Caribbean and of the Commonwealth from whom we have consistently received support in the past to our just cause.

“Other steps are being taken to ensure that Guyana’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are not compromised in any way and, that our sovereign right to develop this great country free from threats and acts of economic aggression remains untrammelled.”

Greenidge said that the Geneva Agreement of 1966 remains the best hope for keeping the issue between Guyana and Venezuela from going totally out of control.

“The mandate of the Secretary General of the United Nations under this Agreement is quite clear.

Greenidge noted that for more than 25 years, “the Good Offices Process, as one of the chosen means of peaceful settlement, has been in operation. Unhappily, it has signally failed to resolve the issue.”

Nevertheless, Greenidge said that Guyana stands ready to continue discussions with Venezuela with respect to bilateral relations while “we” pursue a peaceful settlement within the framework of the Geneva Agreement where the UN Secretary General has a defined role.

Police nab suspects in ...

Minelva Devonshire and Telbert Devonshire Mangru told the court that on the day in question, at around 15:30hrs, the police went to the home of the defendants at Blankenburg, West Bank Demerara, to conduct a search after receiving certain information.

Upon seeing the ranks, Telbert jumped out of a bedroom window and ran to the back of the yard jumping a fence in the process. He was seen throwing a black plastic bag over the trench.

The ranks gave chase, apprehended him and

retrieved the bag which contained a quantity of seeds, leaves and stems.

The ranks then searched the house and Minelva was seen pushing a black plastic bag inside of a mattress. A search was conducted on the mattress and a black plastic bag was found in which were 101 small black zip lock bags containing cannabis.

They were told of the offence committed and cautioned. Telbert admitted that he usually sells the drug and not his mother.

From page 9 machete near his mutilated body.

Police had arrested two men and a woman in connection with Daly’s murder.

One of the men, Curliegh Goodluck was charged with Daly’s murder but was eventually acquitted.

And also yesterday, police detained three suspects in the April 16 murder of popular businessman Farouk Ghanie Hamid.

The 56 year- old businessman who operated the Hamson’s General Store on Regent Street, was found lying in his yard at Nandy Park with stab wounds to the left side chest and under the chin.

The gruesome discovery was made by the victim’s reputed wife, who found the father of five lying next to the kennel where he kept his

German Shepherd dog.

Police say that acting on information received they swooped down on the three suspects yesterday who are being interrogated.

Meanwhile, the suspect in the shooting of well known character Manu Durant was released from police custody yesterday.

The suspect, a Jamaican known as “Lion”, was detained in the interior last Sunday.

“We sought legal advice on the matter and were advised that an inquest will be held,” a senior police official told this newspaper.

Manu Durant was shot dead in the Baroombar, a popular strip club on North Road, during an exchange of gunshots.

The incident occurred around 04:30 hours, just when the bar was about to be closed for business.

A police source had told this newspaper that Durant became annoyed after his alleged killer told him that the music had to be turned off.

According to the source, an upset Durant, who had a glass with liquor in his hand, approached the man and began arguing with him.

A brief exchange of words escalated and it led to Durant whipping out a gun from his waist and discharging a round which narrowly missed the man with whom he was arguing.

He did not cater for the man having a gun too.

A few seconds later, the man pulled out a gun and aimed it at Durant’s chest and squeezed the trigger several times, sending the bullets into Durant’s body. The man then calmly walked out of the bar and disappeared, while Durant lay motionless on the floor.

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Burundi opposition figures call for boycott of delayed vote

Protestors who are against Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza and his bid for a third term march in Bujumbura, Burundi (REUTERS/GORAN TOMASEVIC) Several leading opposition figures in Burundi called yesterday for a boycott of next month’s presidential vote, saying it would be impossible to hold it during unrest triggered

by President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to seek a third term.

The poll has already been delayed by almost three weeks to July 15 after repeated clashes between security services and crowds who say the president’s move breaks the constitution and a deal that ended an ethnically charged civil war in 2005.

“We call to the boycott of all elections, from now ... Such a calendar in this political unrest is nonsense,” Charles Nditije from the opposition UPRONA party said in a statement.

“We want dialogue to discuss on disarmament, medias re-opening, return of refugees, political leaders security, and elections,” said the statement, which was cosigned by the MRC opposition party.

Presidential spokesman Gervais Abayeho said this week that any debate about Nkurunziza’s re-election bid was “closed”.

A month and a half of protests have plunged the nation into its deepest crisis for a decade, alarming a region with a history of ethnic conflict, particularly next door Rwanda, which has the same ethnic mix and suffered a genocide in 1994.

The electoral commission CENI proposed the new date after east African leaders called for a delay, government officials have said.

Opponents have criticized the election body saying it has not acted neutrally and no longer has legitimacy since two of its five members have quit.

Officials dismiss charges of bias. Frederic Bamvunginyumvira, leader of the opposition party Frodebu, said CENI had not respected the leaders demand for a delay of at least 45 days from the original date of June 26.

Protests have subsided recently, after almost daily clashes between demonstrators hurling stones and police who have fired teargas and shot at protesters. Civil society activists say more than 30 people have been killed.

Thousands flee into Turkey from Syria as Kurds fight Islamic state Thousands of people fled from Syria into Turkey yesterday as moderate rebels and Kurdish forces fought Islamic State insurgents holding the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad.

A Reuters photographer at the scene said the refugees had entered Turkey through a makeshift border crossing overseen by Turkish gendarmerie officers, and that many of them were women and children.

A Turkish official said 2,000 refugees were being registered yesterday after more than 6,800 were admitted in the area last week.

He said they were fleeing advances by Kurdish YPG forces as well as aerial bombardment by the United States and Arab allies trying to help the Kurds push back Islamic State.

The northeastern corner of Syria is important to the radical Islamist group because it links areas under Islamic State control in Syria and Iraq.

The group last week

launched an offensive on the provincial capital, the city of Hasaka, which is divided into zones run separately by the government of President Bashar al-Assad and a Kurdish administration.

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Jack Warner publishes more EU commits $133 million for evidence showing he spent money Latin America, Caribbean on prime minister and UNC

Jack Warner PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - His secrets about FIFA are yet to be disclosed, but Jack Warner continues to dish out the evidence to support his claim that he spent money on Prime Minister Kamla PersadBissessar and her 2010 election campaign.

The latest edition of Warner ’s Sunshine newspaper has published an article with supporting copies of April 19 and May 25, 2010 cheques showing that the former United National Congress (UNC) chairman paid a total of TT$54,810 (US$8,667) for a three-month lease on a house for UNC leader Persad-Bissessar while she was campaigning.

The newspaper said the St. Augustine property at which Persad-Bissessar and her sister, Wattie, stayed was leased because the then Opposition Leader had complained of being too tired

Kamla Persad-Bissessar from travelling from her home in the south of the country to join Warner on the UNC campaign trail in Trinidad’s east/west corridor.

The First Citizens cheques and email Warner used to show he paid for leasing a house for Prime Minister Kamla PersadBissessar when she was Opposition Leader.

According to Sunshine, in addition to leasing the secluded property from Your Move! Real Estate Limited, Warner paid for food and cable at the house.

Also in the publication is a purported June 7, 2015 email which Joanne Mora, the secretary of Warner ’s company, Jamad Limited – with which the tenancy agreement was signed – sent to real estate broker Liane Ifill asking her if she recalled that her agency was used to get the rental property; as well as a reply from Ifill the following

day stating simply, “Yes, I recall.”

Jamad Limited is the same company which paid just over TT$1.7 million to Ross Advertising that handled the party’s election campaign.

The Trinidad Guardian yesterday reported that Ifill had confirmed, in a telephone interview, that after being contacted by Mora, she suggested several options to Warner, some of which he viewed himself, before he settled on the St. Augustine property.

Persad-Bissessar has not yet responded to the article.

She previously insisted on several occasions that neither she nor her UNC ever benefitted from Warner’s money.

Meantime, the Sunshine article promised that more disclosures about Warner funding the UNC between 2001 and 2010 would be forthcoming.

Venezuela must pay $3.7 B owed to airlines, says IATA MIAMI, USA — Venezuela should urgently seek a solution to the $3.7 billion it owes to several international airlines, CEO of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Tony Tyler, said during the annual

meeting of his organization in Miami. Tyler said that all countries which are members of IATA adhere to international payment agreements, except one: Venezuela. The South American country has been blocking the payments to

foreign airlines for tickets bought by Venezuelans for many years now, including oil workers working in the region.

The government in Caracas uses an intricate system, after which all payments for tickets go through a single office. And there are large payment arrears totaling $3.7 billion.

This goes against international treaties. One of the affected airlines is InselAir in Curacao. Many carriers have now ceased their flights to Venezuela or greatly reduced service.

“This must stop at once,” said Tyler. “Venezuela is bringing its own economy and those of other countries in danger. I urgently call on the Venezuelan government to find a solution to the aviation sector, once and for all.”

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has committed 118 million euros ($133 million) in investment support for Latin America and Caribbean nations at the start of their two-day summit. The European Commission said yesterday that the combination of loans, grants and other financial operations would seek to enhance transAtlantic cooperation.

The executive of the 28nation EU said the support will center on the transport, energy and environmental sectors in the nations.

The EU also initialed agreements with Peru and Colombia that will enable citizens of the two Latin American countries to travel to the EU without a visa for stays of up to 90 days.

The agreements are likely to enter force in late October.

Visa-free travel will be possible in almost all EU nations, excluding Britain and Ireland.

Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, center, is greeted as she arrives for the EUCELAC summit in Brussels yesterday. European leaders and their Latin America and the Caribbean counterparts meet on a biannual basis in an effort to maintain international and economic ties. (AP Photo/Francois Walschaerts)

J’ca sugar sector concerned about manufacturers’ failure to meet pre-season projections The Gleaner - The 201415 sugar crop year is not proving to be as sweet as some stakeholders in the local industry had anticipated as all manufacturers, except for the Worthy Park Estate in St Catherine, are failing to meet their preseason projections.

This is in contrast to popular sentiments at the start of the season when it was widely felt that despite a late start to the season, local manufacturers would match, or surpass, the 154,000 tonnes of sugar produced last year. That figure was almost 26,000 tonnes more than the 128,196 tonnes produced the previous year.

“I am very disappointed and I am very concerned ...” said Karl James, general manager of Jamaica Cane Product Sales (JCPS), the marketing agent of the Sugar Industry Authority. “We have had to revise our projected output (from 154,000) to 146,000 tonnes for the 2014-2015 crop year.

According to James, last year’s drought and the recent rainfall during the time of harvest was a “bad combination” for the sector, affecting sugar quality and factory efficiency. “... We really wanted to maximise the earnings on this crop, seeing that it is our final

A worker beside a truck laden with cane at the Worthy Park Estate in Luidasvale, St Catherine, which realised their projected 25,000 tonnes for the 2014-15 sugar crop year. year on our supply deal with Tate & Lyle,” said James. “My hope is that the rain we are having now will result in a more improved crop for 20152016.” The disappointment is understandable as last year, three factories - Appleton Estate (33,600 tonnes), Worthy Park (27,000 tonnes), and Golden Grove (19,300 tonnes) - recorded their highest-ever productions.

The positives of last year created an expectation that

the local sector was poised for more impressive results, especially with reforms to the European Union’s common agricultural policy looming.

However, of the local stakeholders, only Worthy Park Estate realised its projected 25,000 tonnes.

Appleton Estate could only muster a disappointing 26,475 tonnes, while the Seprodowned Golden Grove had one of the biggest fall-offs, with a mere 15,747 tonnes.

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LeBron steers Cavs past Warriors to close in on NBA title CLEVELAND (Reuters) LeBron James turned in another virtuoso playoff performance in leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to a thrilling 96-91 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday and a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven NBA Finals.

James had a game-high 40 points to go along with 12 rebounds and eight assists in front of a raucous crowd of red T-shirt-clad fans, as Cleveland grabbed the upper hand in the championship series against the top-seeded Warriors.

“I didn’t see (James) take bad shots at all. I thought he was great,” Cleveland head coach David Blatt said of James, who went 14-of-34 from the field.

“I thought he controlled the game and helped his team to play the way that we wanted to play.”

Cleveland never trailed in the game and led by as many as 20 points late in the third quarter but were put to the test as Golden State clawed back within a point with under three minutes remaining.

The league’s reigning Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry had a horrible start to the game for Golden State but used a strong fourth quarter to finish with a team-high 27 points.

But Curry made a costly error with two minutes to play and his team down by four points when he sent a behindthe-back pass out of bounds with no team mate in sight.

On Cleveland’s ensuing possession, James drained a three-pointer that put the Cavaliers ahead 87-80 and brought the delirious towelwaving crowd to their feet.

Golden State, with Curry finally finding a groove,

looked ready to take a stab at tying the game when they were awarded the ball with 17 seconds to play only to have game officials reverse a call and give Cleveland the ball.

From there, James drained a pair of free throws to put the game out of reach.

“I didn’t like our body language for much of that first three quarters,” said Warriors head coach Steve Kerr. “This is what we have to fight through. Things aren’t going our way, it doesn’t matter, you’ve got to fight through.”

The Cavs, who were already heavy underdogs before losing All-Star guard Kyrie Irving to a knee injury in the opener, are suddenly two wins away from a maiden NBA title and ending the city’s 51-year drought in major sports championships.

Game Four is on Thursday in Cleveland.

Thursday June 11, 2015 ARIES (Mar. 21–Apr. 19) Good intentions at work are not enough to get you through a busy day; you must make a plan and stick with it.

TAURUS (Apr. 20–May 20) You don’t want to do things today in the same manner as you did them before.

In fact, you’re interested in trying a new approach to nearly any activity you start now.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) You may be so bored at work today that you check out for the weekend early.

However, even if you’ve already escaped in your mind, you might have to stick around anyhow until it’s actually time to leave.

CANCER (June 21–July 22) Your friends may be counting on you now and expecting you to join up with them later.

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22) You might start the day with your head in the clouds of your imagination. But your impractical approach to the day begins to shift as the changeable Moon enters your 3rd House of Immediate Environment.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) It’s challenging to concentrate this morning, making it harder to complete whatever you start. However, LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) The Moon’s entry into

your sign today shifts your attention from the rational world toward a more subjective perspective.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) If you think that you’ve been missing a significant piece of information, today might be the right day to do some serious research.

SAGIT (Nov. 22–Dec. 21) You might be unsure of your current destination, but a lack of clarity today won’t stop you from continuing on a road to somewhere.

CAPRI (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) Today’s timing may be frustrating because you have high hopes about accomplishing a lot at work.

However, the day gets off to a slow beginning, making it harder to finish what you start.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18) It’s hard to keep your

feet on the ground today, even if you have very practical goals at first.

Hopefully, you can fulfill most of your obligations before you lose focus because you won’t want to look back once your key planet Uranus tempts you to cut loose.

PISCES (Feb. 19–Mar. 20) You might struggle to pay attention to your everyday affairs today because your imagination is running wild.

Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) reacts after winning game three of the NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors at Quicken Loans Arena. Cleveland won 96-91. (David Richard-USA TODAY Sports)

Dhawan’s comeback 150 lights up rainy day CRICinfo - He could have been carrying drinks had KL Rahul not fallen ill or if India had taken the expected option of opening with Cheteshwar Pujara once they decided to play five bowlers.

He could have been out for 1 on a quicker pitch, he should have been snapped for 73, but Shikhar Dhawan was destined to score a third Test century, against an insipid attack missing both strategy and execution.

The ad campaign of “they are not kids anymore” will draw jokes about Bangladesh’s wicketless performance on the first day, but no Test century can be written off; and Dhawan’s came at a crucial juncture in his career, in a comeback Test, and its pace helped India make up time in a Test played on a slow pitch and during the monsoon. Only 56 overs were possible, but Dhawan’s unbeaten 150 off 158 meant India got a score that teams at times take on a full day’s play. The established opener, M Vijay, put his head down, determined to not throw away his wicket against innocuous bowling, complementing Dhawan with a more sedate 89 off 178.

India’s intent will take all the headlines: they picked five bowlers, including three quickest bowlers in their squad, and sat out the least aggressive of their batting contenders, Pujara. The story of the day, though, will be Bangladesh’s rather strange selection and bowling plans thereafter. Not only did they select Mohammad Shahid to

play his third Test, they selected him as the only specialist quick ahead of the promising duo of Rubel Hossain and Taskin Ahmed on an overcast day and with cloud cover expected throughout the Test. It seemed they had put all their eggs in the toss basket packing their side with batting and spin, and losing out on helpful conditions with the new ball on the first morning. It all went wrong for them from the moment Kohli won the toss.

India’s luck didn’t end at the toss. There was no bounce in the pitch, which should have got them Vijay’s wicket in the second over and which also cost them Dhawan’s scalp in the third.

Soumya Sarkar, already developing a cult following as the little Ganguly with his classy off-side shots and military medium bowling, thought he had Vijay trapped right in front with a short-ofa-length delivery, but seemingly umpire Kumar Dharmasena thought it would have sailed over the stumps.

On a pitch with good bounce it would well have, but this was a slow and low track, evident in how Dhawan’s regulation edge off the only fast bowler fell short of slip in the next over. India could well have been 1 for 2 then, but Bangladesh gave up the ghost after that.

Scores: India 239 for 0 (Dhawan 150*, Vijay 89*) v Bangladesh.

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BRAZIL WINS, but doesn’t A draw away from home is still good - Shabazz impress in World Cup opener SVG Head Coach Huggins believes his side deserved to win Jamaal Shabazz

By Franklin Wilson in St. Vincent compliments of: Crown Mining Supply, Stag Beer, Lens Craft Optical and Fitness Express

Marta #10 of Brazil celebrates a goal on a penalty kick with teammates in the second half during the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Group E match against Korea Republic at Olympic Stadium on June 9, 2015 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images) (Yahoo Sport) MONTREAL, QC - Brazil had a chance to assert itself as the darkhorse team to watch Tuesday as the Women’s World Cup heads into its first rest day.

However, the Brazilians weren’t nearly as sharp as many expected and the whole final day of opening group games left soccer enthusiasts wondering whether a nonfavorite could have a chance to hoist the cup this year.

Brazil won 2-0, but it wasn’t a convincing victory.

South Korea had an odd gameplan of allowing Brazil to dictate the pace.

It wasn’t until after Marta netted Brazil’s second goal on a penalty kick that South Korea started pushing forward and putting pressure on the Brazilians.

While the South Koreans came away empty handed it wasn’t due to a lack of chances. They had several goal-scoring opportunities in the final 30 minutes, including a ball that went rolling across the face of the goal right before the final whistle blew.

If South Korea had played

with that kind of energy throughout the game, the result likely would have been different, and all of the teams in Group E could have been even across the board.

As it stands, South Korea now is in last place with the only loss of the group and will have its work cut out for it against an upstart Spain and a Costa Rican team with renewed confidence.

As for Brazil, many thought this might be the year it broke out of its World Cup slump. The Brazilians notched two World Cup records Tuesday – the oldest player to score when Formiga, 37, slotted home the first goal, and Marta’s World Cupleading 15 goals.

But those records mean nothing without a World Cup trophy to go with them.

Brazil was the third-place finisher in 1999 and the runner-up in 2007. In 2011, the United States came from behind to force penalty kicks and ultimately won them 5-3.

That was a Brazil team many believed to be the favorite. And here we are, four years later - four years older -

and they don’t look a whole lot better.

The problem with Brazil, at least against South Korea, was a lack of selfishness.

Yes, normally selfishness and Brazilian futbol go handin-hand, but on Tuesday there were too many passes, too many attempts to be pretty and not enough shots.

Both of Brazil’s goals came because of South Korea mistakes. On the first goal, a South Korea defender didn’t put enough steam on a back pass and Formiga intercepted it for a breakaway.

The second goal was the exact same mistake only the South Korean defender tripped the Brazilian player to set up the penalty kick.

Brazil didn’t do anything spectacular in the game, it just capitalized on a team that had never earned a World Cup point in its history.

And spectacular is really what’s going to take this tournament.

Germany was spectacular in its 10-0 thrashing of the Ivory Coast. Outside of that, it’s hard to pinpoint a favorite or darkhorse that has impressed. Honestly, outside of the Germans, Nigeria has looked like the best team in the tournament. Yes, all of this is a rush to judgment after one game, but it only takes seven to hoist the trophy.

Brazil is running on old, tired legs and if it doesn’t make a big move this year, it might be two World Cups before we see it in this position again.

Golden Jaguars Head Coach Jamaal Shabazz believed that their opening World Cup Qualifying game against St. Vincent & the Grenadines yesterday afternoon at the Arnos Vale Play Field in St. Vincent was a tough one for his team, noting the Vincy Heat side were quick but his defence did well to hold them.

“We kept taking the lead and I was a bit disappointed that we were not able to hold the lead. I thought the second goal was a soft goal, but all in all it is good still to come away with a draw away from home.”

For the return game, Shabazz is of the view that St. Vincent would have to come and win given the fact that the away goals advantage is in favour of Guyana as it stands. Lots more work would be done on winning the ball higher up field while trying to press more in midfield, the tactician informed.

“Once we do our homework I am very confident that we can get forward from here.”

The Golden Jaguars could have done well with the experienced players Shabazz stated,

Cornelius Huggins - SVG Head Coach referring to the absence of Neil Danns and Matthew Briggs as well as Samuel Cox and Marcel Barrington who missed the game due to not having their passports issued in time.

“At times in the game we needed that little experience, but all in all we can’t cry over spilt milk.We hope that we’ll be able to get them for the next game.”

Shabazz’s opposite number, Cornelius Huggins said he believed that his side should have defeated the Golden Jaguars. Huggins said that his charges threw away too many goals especially in the first half and should have been 3-1 up by the end of the first 45 minutes.

“In the first half we were supposed to be 3-1 up, too many one on one opportunities were missed.”

He noted that they were fully prepared for the game having spent two weeks encamped.

Touching on the return game on Sunday, Huggins said that all they have to do is go out there, play and execute their game plan.

“We don’t have to worry about Guyana, we just have to take care of ourselves and we will reach far.”

Assuria Insurance 5 Overs Knockout Tournament...

RHTYSC Names Strong Bakewell A and B Teams Plans for the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club Silver Jubilee Anniversary Assuria Insurance 5 Overs Knockout Tournament are forging ahead as the hosting club declared two strong teams for the much anticipated Second Division Tournament.

The tournament is being sponsored by Assuria Insurance, which would be opening its Berbice branch soon in the township of Rose Hall Town and is being coordinated by the Cricket Development Committee of the RHTYSC as part of its yearlong celebration of its Silver Jubilee Anniversary.

Twelve teams would be part of the tournament – Blairmont, D’Edward, Young Warriors, Albion, RHT Bakewell ‘A’, RHT Bakewell ‘B’, Yakusari, Port Mourant, Tamarind Root, Courtland, Block 4 and Whim.

The winner of the tournament would receive $70,000 and trophy, the runner up $30,000 and trophy and the losing semifinalist $20,000. Clubs have until the 15th of this month to submit the fifteen member team to the organisers.

The Rose Hall Town Bakewell ‘A’ team would be led by veteran cricketer Major James

Fraser and would include Delbert Hicks, Vidal Crandon, Akshay Homraj, Brandon Prashad, Shemaine Campbelle and Erva Giddings.

The Bakewell ‘B’ team would be led by allrounder Simeon Lawson and would include junior players like Junior Sinclair, Jason Anderson, Kevlon Anderson, Brandon Corlette, Keith Simpson and Surendra Budhoo.

Rose Hall Town Bakewell ‘A’ James Fraser - Captain, Vidal Crandon, KhemrajMahadeo, Delbert Hicks (player/ coach), Mark Papannah, AkshayHomraj, Sylus Tyndall, Rondell Lewis Erva Giddings, Mark Fernandes, Sherain Murray, Brandon Prashad, Joshua Wilson, Justin Gobin, ShemaineCampbelle.

Rose Hall Town Bakewell ‘B’ Junior Williams, Kevlon Anderson, Denzil Sinclair, Jason Anderson, Simeon Lawson Captain, Sunil Madrimootoo, Brandon Corlette, Keith Simpson, Azam Khan, Joshua Gobin, Surendra Budhoo, Surendra Kissoonlall, Ronston Lawson, Calvin Jeffrey, Samuel Lewis, Manager – Keith Hicks. Coach - Ronston Lawson.

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5th Annual Schools Football Competition...

Digicel here to invest in Guyana - Kelly - over 160 schools to compete in this year’s competition

By Rawle Welch The fifth edition of the highly popular Digicel Schools Football Competition which is traditionally played nationwide was launched yesterday, during a simple ceremony that was conducted, at the Beterverwagting Secondary School, East Coast Demerara.

In attendance at the occasion was Digicel CEO Kevin Kelly, Marketing Executive Jacqueline James, Events & Sponsorship Manager Gavin Hope, Director of Sport Christopher Jones, Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Normalisation Committee Chairman Clinton Urling, Tournnament Co-ordinator Lavern Fraser, teaching staff of the school and members of some of the schools from the community.

James, who has been in the forefront of the organisation of the tournament since its inception in her remarks gave a brief oversight of the competition which according to her has enjoyed a significant increase in participating schools.

She informed that over 160 schools will be vying for top honours in this year’s competition, adding that once again a few new venues will host matches, a feature that has been adopted since the start.

The Marketing Executive said that among the new venues earmarked is the National Track & Field Centre at Leonora.

The tournament, which commences on June 17 and is slated to conclude on August 2 at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, will see twelve regional champions secure berths to the national playoffs.

Chairman of the NC Urling in his presentation first lauded the efforts of Digicel, adding that the Company’s endeavour is a clear demonstration of what the Private Sector should be and a clear expression of what social responsibility is.

He then spoke of some of the achievements that the NC has been able to attain to date, giving as examples the resuscitation of the women’s programme, the Under-23 preparations among others as ample proof of the amount of work that was done.

Urling added that the efforts of Digicel must be highlighted, especially since it help to make the work of the NC easier in terms of unearthing talent and allowing the players to compete in a competitive environment.

He wished the Organisers and the schools every success. Kelly then spoke of the first meeting they held to discuss the possibiity of hosting such an enormous undertaking after former CEO Gregory Dean had broached the idea to them.

He said sport is critical to national development in a country and assured that

Digicel is fully committed to investing in Guyana.

Kelly also talked about the passion that erupts among players, teachers and coaches whenever this time comes around, a facet he reminded helps to bring out the best in the participants. He promised to take the tournament to even more communities this time around.

Jones, who acted in the absence of Junior Sports Minister Nicolette Henry, first gave an excuse for her nonattendance which he said was due to her participation in the first session of the 11th Parliament yesterday, before

The beautiful trophies including the Lien Trophy (centre) which will be up for grabs in this year’s tournament on display.

telling the gathering that the Government of Guyana wished to acknowledge the contribution of Digicel towards the support for sports.

He too commended the

Company for the work that it has been doing for the development of sport and youths across the country.

Meanwhile, fixtures will be published shortly.

Brazil legend ZICO wants Fifa presidency

Floyd Mayweather is highest-paid man in sport, according to Forbes BBC Sport - Boxer Floyd Mayweather was the world’s highest-paid sportsman of the past 12 months, according to figures from business magazine Forbes.

The annual sporting richlist showed Mayweather who also topped last year’s list - earnt US$300m (£196m).

Most of that came from his ‘super-fight’ with Manny Pacquiao, whose $160m (£103m) takings made him the second-highest earner.

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo was third with $79.6m (£51m).

His Barcelona rival Lionel

Messi is fourth on the list, while golfer Tiger Woods remains in the top 10 thanks to his $50m (£32m) worth of endorsements after poor form and injury saw him earn just $600,000 (£387,000) in winnings. The figures include salaries, bonuses, prize money and appearance fees, plus estimates of endorsement income for the past 12 months.

Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy appears at 12 on the list with his two majors wins in the last 12 months bringing in $48.3m (£31m) on top of his sponsorship earnings.

Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton is 15th with $39m (£25m) - although he recently signed a lucrative new contract that could push him up the list next year.

Wales and Real Madrid player Gareth Bale is the highest-placed British footballer on the list, with his $25.5m (£16m) earnings putting him at 18.

Other notable entries include England football captain Wayne Rooney, 34th, with $26.9m (£17m), and Scottish tennis player Andy Murray at 64th with $22.3m (£14m).

Brazil legend Zico. (Getty Images)

Floyd Mayweather certainly lived up to the ‘Money’ moniker. (GETTY)

Floyd Mayweather tweeted this picture with the message “welcome to my world” in January 2015. (FloydMaweather)

BBC Sport - Brazil legend Zico intends to stand for the presidency of Fifa after admitting the corruption crisis in the sport’s governing body has saddened him.

The 52-year-old, whose full name is Arthur Antunes Coimbra, said it was his “duty” to stand.

Current president Sepp Blatter announced he would stand down just four days after being re-elected last month. It came after twin corruption probes into Fifa were launched by United States and Swiss authorities.

Speaking at a crowded press conference at a football skills centre he runs in Rio de Janerio, Zico said: “It’s sad for our sport to see what is happening in football today the corruption... and the hard work of many other good people wasted - and I see it as my duty to use my experience and knowledge to try and stand for the presidency.”

Although he has played

and managed in countries around the world, Zico has little experience in football administration at any senior level. Blatter has said he would step down once a successor is chosen - likely to be in December.

US officials have indicted 14 Fifa officials and associates on bribery and racketeering charges, with seven of those arrested just two days before Fifa members re-elected Blatter.

Swiss prosecutors are also investigating how Fifa awarded the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar respectively.

Zico is regarded one of the greatest players in Brazil’s history and appeared at three World Cup finals with the national side, in 1978, 1982 and 1986.

Domestically he won 12 titles with Flamengo before embarking on a coaching career that included spells with Japan, CSKA Moscow in Russia and Turkish side Fenerbahce.

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CONCACAF / FIFA WCQ Russia 2018

Vincy Heat claw back twice to draw with Golden Jaguars

By Franklin Wilson in St. Vincent compliments of: Crown Mining Supply, Stag Beer, Lens Craft Optical and Fitness Express Guyana’s ‘Golden Jaguars’ gave up the advantage twice which allowed St. Vincent & the Grenadines to claw their way back twice to earn a 2-2 draw when the two nations clashed yesterday afternoon at the Arnos Vale Play Field in St. Vincent & the Grenadines.

It was the first taste of World Cup Qualifying for the two countries in Round 2 of CONCACAF qualification for the FIFA World Cup, Russia 2018. Yesterday’s result sets up what is anticipated to be an enthralling return game on Sunday at the Providence Stadium in Guyana.

It was the home team that looked as if they were going to net first, bringing Golden Jaguar custodian Akel Clarke into action on the first run down after kick off.

The pacey Vincentians popularly known as ‘Vincy Heat’ sought to drive home the early advantage on an afternoon where the sun was out in all its glory with a strong wind blowing across the ground from the Airport end.

The home team did create early chances and could have taken the lead from as early

Captain Chris Nurse and teammates celebrate Beresford’s opening goal.

as the 17th minute but the shot went straight into the grasp of Clarke. Missing four of its overseas based players did not deter the Jaguars from matching their opponents and taking the fight to them.

Graceland University student and midfielder Brandon Beresford, who is one of the surviving players from the 2014 World Cup Squad, showed his class and maturity.

The 23 year-old picked up the ball in midfield dribbled his way past two defenders before letting off a right foot shot from inside the area that sailed over goalkeeper

Winslow Mc Dowell into the back of the nets in the 28th minute for the opening goal.

The stunned home crowd was silenced as the Guyanese, who lost to the Vincentians the last time they met by a 2-1 margin in 2012, cantered into the lead.

The home team never let up and kept pressing. They hit the post around the half hour mark to the relief of the Golden Jaguars who could have doubled the advantage in the 38th minute, forward Sheldon Holder placing his shot just wide of the target.

Up until the half, Guyana enjoyed the lead by a 1-0

margin. On resumption it didn’t take long for the home crowd to be brought to life again. In the 51st minute, a ripping right foot skidder off the boot of Cornelius Stewart sailed past Clarke for the equalizer and the game was now on.

The crowd kept on shouting and urging on their team even as both sides introduced fresh legs into the game. The pace of the home team continued to create challenges for the Golden Jaguars. The introduction of Ricky Shakes for Sheldon Holder proved to be a master stroke by Head Coach

Guyana suffer heavy loss TO JAMAICA, BARBADOS

Shabazz. The experienced Shakes, who also played in the last WCQ competition, settled in almost immediately as he made his presence felt.

Eon Alleyne came in for Vurlon Mills who had a good game and it was the combination of Alleyne, Beresford and Shakes that put the Golden Jaguars ahead once again in the 77th minute.

Alleyne collected the ball on the right side deep in the attacking third, passed across goal to Beresford who found Shakes on the left side who put the ball into the back of the nets calmly.

Happy to have taken the

lead once again, the Golden Jaguars became a bit complacent at the back three minutes later, letting in a soft goal which came off the boot of substitute Tevin Slater in the 80th minute.

Dwain Jacobs had made way for Adrian Butters at the right back position as the Guyanese sought to close up shop. St. Vincent also made their full complement of changes, fans including a few Guyanese living and working on the island enjoyed an exciting game of football in sunny and breezy weather.

The result sets up what will be an exciting second leg game on Sunday.

The English based quartet of Neil Danns, Marcel Barrington, Matthew Briggs and Samuel Cox should have their passports before then and should be available which would add further strength to the Golden Jaguars who must win at home to advance.

Home advantage must play a key role in propelling the team to victory which means the fans as the 12th man must come out by the thousands to cheer their side to the next round.

Vincy Heat however, would not be a walk in the park come Game time on Sunday is 19:00hrs or 7pm.

The Golden Jaguars are expected home this morning while the Vincy Heat side will arrive tomorrow.

Ninth annual Guyana Cup horserace meet fixed for Sunday 16th August Over $30M up for grabs

Jamaica shoots over Sonia Rodney (right) Tuesday night in Tortola, BVI. Defending Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Women champs, Jamaica beat Guyana’s ladies 70-43 Tuesday night while Barbados also whipped Guyana 81-61 yesterday afternoon that ensured a winless sojourn for the improved Guyanese team.

Tarika Gordon finished with 23 points for the Jamaicans while for Guyana, United States-based, Miriam McKenzie ended with 24 points and 13 rebounds. Yesterday afternoon against Barbados, McKenzie again led with 25 points, 11

rebounds and six steals. United States-based, Merisa Lewis scored 12 points and eight rebounds as Sonia Rodney and Nichola Jacobs added six points apiece. For Barbados, D. Cumberbatch had 29 points and nine rebounds while J. Studer scored 23 points and T. Atherley 10 points.

Hosts, British Virgin Islands had narrowly beaten Guyana 64-61 in their opening game Monday night. The losses to Jamaica and Barbados ensure that the Guyanese returns winless despite the improvement in offensive efficiency.

The ninth annual Guyana Cup Horserace meet, which arguably is the biggest sporting event in Guyana for the year, is set for Sunday 16th August 2015 at the Port Mourant Turf club beginning at 12:00hrs.

Known as the ‘Sport of Kings’ Horseracing is being dubbed as the number one sporting event in the country with by far the largest prize money on offer for any sport in the country.

Thus the Jumbo Jet conglomerate and friends are offering big winnings for the races.

The organizer has released the provisional programme for the event. 10 races are carded for the day and are as follows: A1&Lower - 9furlongs for a purse of $5.7M 3yr West Indies - 1Mile for $3.75M 2yr West Indies - 5Furlong for $2.25M E1&lower - 5Furlong for $1.875M 4yr West Indies Bred - 1Mile for $1.690M G1&lower - 7&1/2furlong for $1.5M H1&lower - 5Furlong for $845,000 2yr Guyana Bred - 5Furlong for $990,000 I1&lower - 5Furlong for $665,000 J1&Lower - 5Furlong for $470,000 The top Jockey along with the runner up, the top stable and champion trainer will all be rewarded for their performances. The coordinator is Nasrudeen ‘Jumbo Jet’ Mohammed Jr. The event will be launched shortly.

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GCB partners with Scotiabank for Coaching Education Programme 2015

Officials of the GCB, Ministry of Education, Child Care Protection and Scotiabank with participants at the launching yesterday

By Zaheer Mohamed Scotiabank has thrown its weight behind the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) for its 2015 Coaching Education Programme which was

launched yesterday at the National Resource Centre, Woolford Avenue.

The Demerara leg of the programme will continue tomorrow and conclude on Friday, while it will also be

done in Berbice and Essequibo in the coming weeks.

Participants, which include teachers and potential coaches, were given lessons on child

protection yesterday while they will undertake the West Indies Cricket Board coaching education foundation course today and tomorrow.

In announcing the

GBTI OPEN 2015 SET TO SERVE OFF JUNE 19TH

GBTI Marketing Assistant Jasmaine Payne (left) hands over the sponsorship cheque to GTA President, Grace McCalman in the presence of GTA Vice-President, Ramesh Seebarran.

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uyana’s premiere competitive tennis event, the GBTI OPEN 2015 is set to serve off at 5:00pm on Friday 19th June 2015 at the GBTI Recreational Club, Kaieteur Street, Bel Air Park. In its 6 consecutive year since its re-establishment in 2010, the event is the GTA’s highest valued activity with the largest number of entrants and spectators.

The categories featured are Men’s Open Singles and Doubles, Ladies Open Singles and Doubles, Men’s Over 35 Singles and Doubles, Mixed Doubles, Junior Boys and Girls Open Singles and the Novice Medley Singles and Doubles categories.

The format for all categories except th

the Novice categories is the best of 3 sets. The Novice Categories will play one set. Matches will be played from 17:00hrs every weekday of the competition and from 9:00hrs on weekends. Play ends at 10:00hrs.

GBTI’s Marketing Assistant Jasmaine Payne hosted the President of the GTA, Grace McCalman and VicePresident, Ramesh Seebarran at a recent meeting to discuss the tournament and to hand over the sponsorship cheque.

At the meeting, GBTI reflected on the fact that tennis remains their sport of choice and hopes that the partnership with the GTA can be further strengthened for the development of the sport locally. The Men’s Open Draw

will be favourable to four-time Men’s Open Champion Anthony Downes who has recently returned to Guyana to play in the tournament especially since number 2 seed Gavin Lewis has migrated to pursue a tennis scholarship.

However, the keenest competition is expected in the Men’s Over35 categories.

The Tournament Coordinators, Shelly Daly and Leyland Leacock have distributed entrant forms to tennis clubs. They can be reached at 642-5672 and 660-4011 respectively.

The due date for submission is Monday 15th June. Members of the public are invited to the facility during each day of the tournament to witness Guyana’s finest tennis players in action.

partnership, Scotiabank Marketing Manager Jennifer Cipriani said they are happy to use a cricket development programme to address child abuse. “We believe that children are truly entitled to a future where they can realize their full potential,” she added. Cipriani thanked the Child Protection Agency for their input.

G C B ’ S Te r r i t o r i a l D e v e l o p m e n t O f f i c e r, former West Indies fast bowler Colin Stuart said the GCB is proud to be associated with yet another cricket development activity adding that the aim is to target schools, clubs and other cricket enthusiast.

“The Programme has many modules including child protection, so coaches will understand the need to operate under a standard guideline which looks after the interest of children. We expect teachers to know what to look for when coaches are conducting their sessions,” he stated.

Gervy Harry of the Ministry of Education with responsibility for Sports expressed delight to see teachers involved and confident the programme will be successful. “Sports have an enormous positive effect on people, particularly children. Not only can regular activity maintain our heath and well being but it

can increase confidence, self esteem and develop us mentally, physically and emotionally.

However, these effects can be reversed if a child’s sporting experiences are negative,” he explained.

Harry said that it is vital that coaches understand their responsibilities. “As a coach you are in a unique position to spot signs of abuse in children and it is important that you are able to recognise this and know what to do if you suspect anything unusual. Our kids have the right to protection and it is my hope that the GCB and coaches ensure the safety and protection of the children through cricket one of our national sports,” he posited.

Chief Education Officer Primary Marcel Hutson spoke about the importance of knowledge and discipline.

He commenced Child Protection Agency for coming on board and Lauded the WICB and GCB, while Child Protection officer Taaliba Speede said child abuse is everyone’s business adding that adults must help to protect children.

She informed that they are happy to be part of the programme and said she looks forward to working with the coaches and teachers through out Guyana.

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Bishoo key as West Indies look to draw level ESPNcricinfo - After three days of Test cricket, this series is half over.

Australia retained the Frank Worrell Trophy in Dominica, where the highlight was an unbeaten hundred on debut from Adam Voges. Their fielding was sharp and their bowling solid, but it was still far from their most clinical performance. The reliance

on the lower order to bail them out of a batting slump was again notable, as has often been the case over the past few years, and a little more steel from the West Indian batsmen could have made a real contest of it.

Again Australia will be without opener Chris Rogers, who is still feeling the effects of concussion

GABF names national senior male team - Two overseas-based players included The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) yesterday named the senior national male team for the 2015 Caribbean Basketball Confederation ( C B C ) M e n ’ s Championships, scheduled for this weekend in Tortola, British Virgin Islands.

A release from the GABF said that the team leaves Guyana on Saturday, and will play Antigua & Barbuda on Monday, June 15. The other three teams in Guyana’s group are Bahamas, Bermuda and Suriname.

“In preparation for the Caribbean Championship, Guyana hosted Bermuda in an Invitational Series in March; Guyana won that series 3-0; then in early May, Guyana lost a Challenge Series in Suriname 1-2,” the release indicated.

The national federation stated that Guyana is seeking to improve on its fifth place at t h e 2 0 1 4 C B C Championships, where the Guyanese finished ahead of Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

The national senior team include: Guard/forward: Akeem Kanhai (Captain); Point Guards: Dave Causway, Travis Burnett, Jason Squires; Shooting Guards: Shelroy Thomas, US-based Kerron McKenzie, Chris Williams and Ryan Stephney; Forwards: J e r m a i n e S l a t e r, Ry a n Gullen, Europe-based, Gordon James and Rudy James.

T h e t e a m ’s management include: Darcel Harris (Head Coach); Marlon Rodrigues (Assistant C o a c h ) , Tr o y G r e e n e (Manager) and Junior Hercules (Assistant Manager).

after being struck on the helmet during training ahead of the first Test.

The best West Indies can now hope for is to level the series 1-1, but that would require their first victory against Australia in a Test for 12 years. The second-innings 70 scored by debutant Shane Dowrich was encouraging for West Indies, as was the six-wicket haul from Devendra Bishoo, but overall it was an inconsistent and dissatisfying performance.

They were sloppy in the field and the shot selection of several batsmen frustrated the coach Phil Simmons.

Now they move on to Sabina Park in Jamaica, where spin has been an effective weapon in first-class cricket this year and they will hope Bishoo again troubles the Australians.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT It is common to see Steven Smith dance down the pitch to spinners, but very rare to see him deceived in doing so. When Devendra Bishoo turned one past Smith’s bat in the first

innings in Roseau, it was just the second time in a 125innings first-class career that Smith had been out stumped.

Equally impressive was Bishoo’s legbreak that clipped the top of Brad Haddin’s off stump.

They were the two highlights of Bishoo’s 6 for 80, and given Australia’s susceptibility to quality spin, he will again be a key man in Jamaica. “He’s getting back to where he was when he became ICC Young Player of the Year,” coach Phil Simmons said of Bishoo, who in April returned to Test cricket after a three-year absence.

A second Test without Chris Rogers will lead to a second opening chance for Shaun Marsh, who would otherwise have expected to bat at No.5 in this series. But the success of Adam Voges on debut might also mean Marsh is also playing for his place in the side come the first Ashes Test next month, for it is hard to see Rogers being left out in the familiar English conditions. Marsh’s

Devendra Bishoo

best scores during the home Test summer were 99 and 73 and although he has been a useful contributor, he may need a big score to encourage the selectors to stick with him.

TEAM NEWS Kemar Roach, Rajindra Chandrika and Veerasammy Permaul are the three men in the squad who missed out in the first Test. Despite losing in three days, West Indies might retain the same XI. Wi t h R o g e r s s t i l l unavailable, Australia are unlikely to make any changes unless the pitch

looks like a raging turner.

Pitch and conditions Sabina Park has provided plenty of wickets for the spinners in first-class cricket this year, including an eightwicket haul from Barbados left-armer Jomel Warrican.

However, the teams will wait to see what they are faced with come the morning of the Test.

West Indies coach Phil Simmons said, “The next step is ... making sure that our shot selection is a lot better and our catching is a lot better. I think those are the two areas we need to make sure we get better.”

DDL supports GFF for return WCQ against SVG Kerron McKenzie

Assistant General Secretary of the GFF Diedre Davis addresses the media, while DDL Pepsi brand manager Larry Wills (left) and GFF Marketing and Communications Officer Rawle Toney pay attention.

Akeem Kanhai

Gordon James

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) under their PEPSI and Gatorade brands has announced their support for the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) for the return leg of the World Cup Qualifier (WCQ) against St. Vincent and the Grenadines slated for Sunday at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

Speaking at the launching yesterday at the GFF office, PEPSI Brand manager Larry Wills said they are pleased to be associated with the GFF Normilisation Committee

and the Golden Jaguars to host the game. “We are quite excited at the prospects of the Golden Jaguars and we are prepared to support them all the way. Already we have been giving them support by providing Diamond Mineral Water and Gatorade to ensure that they are properly and hydrated at all times,” he added.

“DDL has always been supporting sports in Guyana and football is no different.

We are proud to be part of the Jaguars during the last qualifying tournament and it is our responsibility as

corporate citizens to given them as much support they need so I am urging the fans to come out and back our team and let them know that we are proud of them.”

Wills feels the Golden Jaguars can do Guyana proud. “The Jaguars have it in them to go a very far way again in the WCQ. Our sponsorship is not just for one match but we are behind them fully and we hope that it will be a long, long run. We take this opportunity to encourage each player to execute great sportsman ship and be competitive in this

and every game,” he said adding that they do look forward to the exciting times ahead.

Assistant General Secretary of the GFF Diedre Davis thanked DDL for their support and noted the importance of their input.

She called on the fans to support the team.

The GFF was scheduled to meet with the Attorney General to iron out the issues surrounding the overseas based players who did not participate in yesterday’s game which ended 2-2.

(Zaheer Mohamed)

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Ishmail Poultry Establishment first sponsor of BCB Caricom Championship 2015

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shmail Poultry Establishment of Fyrish Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice is the first sponsor of the Berbice Cricket Board fundraiser “Caricom Championship” 2015.

At a simple presentation ceremony, Mr Sandeep Ramdass, Managing Director of Ishmail Poultry Establishment popularly known as Pampy, said that his Company is once again pleased to be part of an activity organized by the Berbice Cricket Board.

He said that he is always impressed with the work of

the board and the professional and transparent way they do business over the years. He added that he is happy to help develop the young people in our county and will always help in this regard.

Collecting the cash and trophy for the man of the match award in the final, Mr Mahendra Ramdihall speaking on behalf of the board, thanked Ramdass for his kindness and assured that he will get good mileage for his sponsorship. He called on others to help the BCB fulfill its mandate and to make sure that three day first division

cricket returns to Berbice.

Proceeds from this event will be used mainly to organise a very important three day cricket competition and will be played at the historic Albion Sports Complex on Sunday July 5, 2015, the day before Caricom Day. The Caricom Championship will see the top eight T20 first division teams in Berbice taking part in a ten over knockout competition with the final of 20 overs to be played under lights for a top prize of $80,000 and trophy.

The runner up will receive $40,000 and trophy with the losing finalists $15,000 each. Man of the match in every game will be rewarded. Action begins at 10am sharp.

The teams are: Upper Corentyne/Skeldon, Port Mourant, Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, Albion, Young Warriors/ Rose Hall Center, Police/ Bermine, Blairmont/West Berbice and Bush Lot/

Sandeep Ramdass, Managing Director of Ishmail Poultry Establishment presents trophy and cash incentive for the man of the match of the final to Mahendra Ramdihall, representative of the BCB. D’Edward. The board said that the teams were selected in such a manner so that all the top players in Berbice will be on show. The draw will be done one week before the tournament and the clubs are advised to submit the teams early for the press.

The board is appealing to

all cricket lovers in Guyana and in the diaspora to come on board with the BCB to further enhance the game in the ancient county.

The board is also calling on former Berbice players for assistance. Contact can be made on telephone numbers 333-2375, 655-

4140 and 623-6875.

Many gate prizes will be up for grabs for the fans with a well stocked bar and musical entertainment.

Games for the young and old will be there. To promote the game, fifteen passes each will be given to eight schools in the Lower Corentyne area.

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Vincy Heat claw back twice to draw with Golden Jaguars CONCACAF/FIFA WCQ Russia 2018

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Golden Jaguar defender Jamaal Smith challenges SVG Goalie Winslow McDowall in the air.

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5 Annual Schools Football Competition

Digicel here to invest in Guyana - Kelly - over 160 schools to compete in this year’s competition

Marketing executive Jacqueline James (3rd left) cuts the cake to symbolise the start of the Digicel Schools Football Competition yesterday.

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