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Who had the most to gain from Rodney’s death?

DEAR EDITOR, Please permit me space to add to the debate about whether or not LFSB should get, or is qualified for the Oliver Tambo Award. I have read with interest the many points of view.

Two struck me most, the piece done by one of Burnham’s fiercest critics, Mr. Freddie Kissoon, and the one done by Ms. Ulele Burnham, the daughter of the man at the center of this controversy.

Ms. Burnham’s piece was a stark reminder of the oratory skills of her father. I just loved it. I read it four times. She was simply brilliant. · I will start with a poem I learnt eons ago, with an insertion of my own: · I wonder why the grass is green, and why the wind is never seen; · Did Burnham really kill Rodney, or was it the 3P/C? · I WONDER! · I know what I am about to write will cause mayhem all over. Some may even accuse me of desecrating the name of that great scholar, but I am quite prepared for any critism. · In law the accused is presumed innocent until found guilty. The burden of proof, most times rests on the prosecution, who has to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the accused is guilty as charged. Also the issue of circumstantial evidence has to come into play. · The late, great legal luminary, Mr. Donald Robinson, once explained circumstantial evidence. He said if a cat chased a mouse into a box oven, and the cat emerged with blood on its whiskers, then it is logical to assume that the cat ate the mouse, even though no one actually saw that happen. · I know also that Mr. Burnham was accused of many things. For one he was once touted as one of the richest black men in the world to the extent he drew the attention of Forbes Magazine.

Stories were told about his big bank accounts in a Swiss Bank. None of these stories were true as can be attested to by Mr. Halim Majeed who was doing research for a book on Burnham’s legacy. Even Mr. Freddie Kissoon had to admit that those stories were false.

So what other rumours were false about this brilliant son of the soil? · Isn’t it possible that the accusation that he was responsible for Walter Rodney’s death also false?

That Rodney was killed by other forces who planted the evidence on Burnham? · Let us examine the political landscape at the time.

Rodney had formed the WPA as a pressure group to force electoral reforms, among other things. He openly criticized Burnham and the PNC. His many rallies were held on the Merriman’s Mall, and attracted huge crowds. I was a mere third former at the time but my classmates and I would sometimes skip school to get a glimpse of what was happening. We were very limited in our knowledge of politics at the time. · The throngs of people gathered at those meetings were as diverse as the Guyanese population. So how come only Burnham was blamed? · During that period, Burnham was at the pinnacle of his powers, having recently given the mandate via a referendum to change the Constitution to accommodate an Executive President. I will not pronounce on the merits or demerits of that episode of our history. · Burnham had the military forces behind him: he had the Guyana Defence Force, The Guyana People’s Militia and The Guyana National Service.

He also had a very effective and efficient intelligence apparatus. Thus he had no reason to fear an armed insurrection from any local quarter. His biggest fear I think was the threat that Venezuela had posed to out territorial integrity; and he

was able to rally the entire nation in preparation for that threat.

Hence it would have been fool-hardy for anyone, even Walter Rodney to try his hand at armed revolution. There would have been grave consequences. So to say Burnham killed Rodney because he feared an armed uprising is utter nonsense, and I don’t think that Mr. Rodney was a stupid person. · I don’t think Burnham was stupid either. He certainly would have known that any attempts on Rodney’s life would have attracted venomous criticism from around the world. He may have been a demagogue, but Burnham was no fool. · On the other hand let us examine the psyche of the PPP at the time. Arnold Rampersaud was recently incarcerated on charges of treason; Vincent Teekah and Rangi Chandisingh had defected to the PNC. The PPP was in turmoil with distrust spreading through its ranks at the thought of who is next to defect. Scores of young East Indians from academia and High Schools were flocking to hear the message of the man they thought was the only one with the gall to challenge Burnham.

And they loved what they heard. Many of them became members of the WPA.

· Isn’t it possible then that the PPP panicked and decided that the only solution to this problem was to get rid of Rodney? Isn’t it possible that they fear losing their grip on what they feel is their birthright – the Indian vote?

Isn’t it possible that Rodney trusted the man with the bomb because he would have met him before through his political links to the PPP? Isn’t it possible that Cheddi Jagan fear the post of Opposition Leader would slip through his grasp should the WPA be accorded Political Party status as a result of large, mainly young East Indians, defecting to the WPA? Isn’t it possible that Jagan was fearful of Rodney who was compared to Burnham in terms of intellect and oratory delivery? · If these questions are answered honestly, then the PPP had more motives for ridding the political landscape of Rodney, and any investigator worth his salt first looks for motives.

To say that Burnham killed Rodney because he hated him cannot hold water in a court of law. At some point

in our lives we would have wished someone dead.

Should that person eventually die, and in questionable circumstances does not mean that we had killed that person.

For example, we knew that Sash Sawh had denied Roger Khan a large forest concession. Shortly after, Mr. Sawh was killed.

Using the arguments that have been used to link Burnham with Rodney’s death, then we can conclude that Mr. Sawh was killed by Roger Khan because he was denied a chance at a business venture.

Similarly, using the same argument, we can say the PPP killed Burnham on the on the operation table, or the United States Government killed Chavez. · The point is we just cannot accuse people without the benefit of a trial.

We have to provide empirical evidence to that effect and so far, that evidence is lacking.

We have a set of people who just hated the man, making accusations and none of them has so far produced one iota of evidence to

support that accusation. It is all pure speculation. .

If anyone out there has the answers to the questions asked, I will be too willing to learn, for as I have said, my understanding of politics at the time was hazy; but these questions have always been on my mind.

Now is the opportune time to raise them. The answers I would prefer must have empirical evidence to support them.

In this regard, I will support Ms. Ulele Burnham’s call for an independent, international inquiry into Rodney’s death.

The PPP’s suspected involvement is even more pronounced when they have failed for twenty years, six months to hold that inquiry, something that was promised to the Guyanese nation leading up to the 1992 elections.

Why have they reneged on this campaign promise? Is there something to hide?

I will also support Mr. Kissoon’s call for the award to be conferred on a worthy man of the African Liberation Struggles.

Carl Parker

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The opposition should not pass any government bills if the President does not sign those passed by the opposition DEAR EDITOR, Guyana is in a total mess and is likely heading towards a Constitutional crisis, thanks to Mr. Ramotar and the Jagdeoites who have hijacked his political agenda and in the process have ignored the will of the people by not assenting to the two bills passed by Parliament.

We remind the President and his minority PPP regime that it is wrong for them to govern as if they have a majority in Parliament.

Mr. Ramotar and PPP continue to disrespect the decision of the people in the 2011 elections which reduces the PPP to a minority in Parliament.

We want Guyanese to know that the Jagdeo/ Ramotar cabal does not believe in accountability. In the 2013 budget the opposition saw that there were some breaches of accountability by the government, and after not giving proper answers the budget was cut.

The government claimed that they had met with various stakeholders on the 2013 budget but they have failed to meet with the largest and most important stakeholder, the opposition, before the budget was presented so as to give it a smooth passage.

The PPP/C government must know that it is a new dispensation now in governance and in parliament; the old must make way for the new.

The PPP minority government cannot present a budget and expect the majority opposition to endorse and pass what is wrong.

This would make a mockery of parliament and the constitution and give no role to the majority in parliament.

Under Article 146 of the Constitution, no person shall be hindered in the enjoyment of his freedom of expression and thus like all Guyanese we see the Office of the Presidency as that institution that is supposed communicate ideas and information that will contribute to the mental, economic and social growth of our people.

President Donald Ramotar, by way of letter, has informed Speaker of the National Assembly of his decision to withhold his assent to two laws piloted by the majority opposition in the House. As the Head of State, the President is expected to be the custodian of moral values, fairness and the law.

He cannot be a political animal, when making decision in the nation’s interest. To assent or not to assent is the nation’s business not a Freedom House decision. He should be guided by what is good for Guyana which may not necessarily be good for the PPP. When Desmond Hoyte got rid of Hamilton Green from the PNC, he was clearly looking after the welfare of all the people of the country.

That decision did hurt the PNC politically since Green was an extremist

political strongman in those days and whose rough actions were hurting the healing process among our people.

What Hoyte figured out was that the overwhelming majority did not subscribe to Green’s politics of fear and tyranny. Hoyte made a bold decision based on the needs of the nation; not the party.

Green was bad for business; he was bad for national healing; he was bad for the moral and spiritual revival of the nation; he was bad for the PNC; he was just a bad public official.

Today, the President has conducted himself most unPresidentially by pandering to the political strongmen in the PPP as he fail to assent to those bills approved by the majority in the National Assembly.

This is a revelation of the political backwardness the PPP cabal has embarked on as they continue to violate the Constitution leading to the nation’s meltdown– politically; socially and economically.

The first thing we observed is that the relationship between the Presidency and the National Assembly has been hijacked by agents provocateur who diverted these bills away from the desk of the President for months in clear violation of the Constitution.

The National Assembly sent these documents in February 2013 and the President ONLY received them in May 2013; he got “snail mail.” This is tantamount to treason.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction; what will the Alliance for Change do with this political reality?

Clearly, Parliamentary

business cannot continue as normal anymore; the Office of the President has changed the terms and condition of the relationship between the National Assembly and the Presidency and between the PPP and the APNU/AFC. Will the AFC continue to go to Parliament and support the PPP bills? Should all PPP bills not be put into Select Committee for interrogation as a means to send a clear and strong message to the regime that “things nah regula” because of the actions of the President?

Will they vote down the two PPP bills as an equal and opposite reaction to the President’s actions?

We recommend that they vote down the present bill before them that deals with money laundering and terrorism.

The reasons the President provided for not assenting to the “Fiscal Management and Accountability (Amendment) Bill” was that “it sought to remove the agencies from the schedule of the FMAA without first implementing an alternative set of arrangements to govern their financial management and

provisions of financial allocations.”

President Ramotar further stated that “it is a violation of Article 171 (2) of the constitution, in that it cannot be tabled in the National Assembly by a private member, only by a Minister with the consent of the Cabinet.”

His legal advisor is a “juridical dunderhead” or a dunce in Guyanese parlance.

Now we know how valuable Doodnauth Singh, Bernard DeSantos and other legal scholars who were Attorney Generals (AG) were to Guyana. T he position is too important for the current AG. For the want of space we will have to explore this point in another letter but we have to clearly outline that Article 171 (2) make reference to Parliament “shall proceed upon any Bill ….. in the opinion of the person presiding” which increases taxes, impose charge on the Consolidated Fund unless to reduce that charge, increasing payments to the Consolidated Funds, and remitting debt.

Even a UG first year law student will know that the

person presiding is the Speaker and these bills were actually reducing the charge on the Consolidated Funds by reducing the list of benefits that the current retired President get which compute to some G$3 million a month.

In other words, the bill seeks to cap the various benefits and thus prevent the reckless spending of the taxpayers’ money on Government functionaries by the PPP regime as exhibited over the past twenty years.

We shall deal with the other bill later, however this action by the President is highly suspect and clearly deserves a firm and decisive action from the National Assembly.

We therefore urged the opposition to vote down the two government bills before Parliament.

Simply put, the opposition should not support and pass government bills if the government does not assent to bills passed by the opposition. Yard bullies must be treated with accordingly and the PPP cabal are yard bullies.

Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish S. Singh.

DEAR EDITOR, With keen interest I have followed the unbelievable dispute on whether Forbes Burnham should be granted an award for his contributions to the struggles against Apartheid. That Forbes Burnham made enemies in his pursuit to change British Guiana/Guyana’s post independence colonial society with its effective caste system and heal the incredible wounds and racial divide as a result of the preIndependence civil war waged by the PPP along racial lines cannot be argued with.

But the question of his

commitment to the liberation of South Africa remains unblemished.

The hesitation of the South Africans to bestow this honour is not Guyana’s shame.

The South Africans must consider that Burnham’s devotion to their struggle defied the local opposition of Jagan’s PPP, the prominent cold war Nations who then politically supported the South Africa of the Afrikaners as a bulwark against the influence of Communism in Africa. Nations that we shared a closeness of language, cultural heritage

and blood with. With curiosity and interest in a young lady I was drawn to the public rally where Mr. Oliver Tambo spoke and was convinced that Forbes Burnham was morally doing the right thing.

Burnham allowed [as Aubrey Norton cited in Stabroek OS, May and Halim Majeed outlined in Kaieteur News 10 August 2010] Cuban troop planes to be refueled here on their way to shed blood for South Africa, the GDF will one day state if our personnel were committed as many of us felt then. Burnham waged war against artistes and sportsmen who violated [Colin Croft and Jimmy Cliff] when directed pressure on Venezuela raised the specter of the border issue causing an American investor to back out from our Hydro project which would have placed this country 50 years ahead, causing this country to lose some three to five hundred thousand US$, plunging us twenty years back; and then the hard times followed.

We were told by confidents in ‘the know’ that this was partly as a result of the folly of our heroic political stance in collaborating with (Continued on page 7)

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Continued Government evasions about Bai Shan Lin...

From page 4 not spell out the criteria for Presidential approval or rejection, and the process which Commissioner Singh states was followed from the early 2000 period has not been posted to the GFC website.

The Commissioner refers to the recent acquisition by BSL of the State Forest Exploratory Permit (SFEP 01/2007) acquired initially by Sherwood Forrest Inc. The 1997 revision of the Forests Act did make provision for changes of SFEP ownership but the Commissioner does not say if that procedure was followed. In the absence of more specific information, it

is reasonable to conclude that BSL has not acquired control of logging concessions by fully legal processes.

I then posed seven numbered questions, and again the Commissioner failed to answer them directly.

1. Exactly what are the foreign direct investment arrangements for the various BSL enterprises?

The Commissioner does not say what are the FDI arrangements, nor does he engage with GO-Invest to provide such information. I did not ask how many machines have been imported. What citizens are entitled to know are the details of the tax and

other concessions which the Cabinet has approved for BSL, and the conditionalities for such generosity.

2. Exactly what wood processing will take place, where and when (investment schedule)?

The Commissioner repeats what BSL has stated as its manufacturing intentions but does not give the time schedule. His Minister will recall the problems of failures to implement investment promises in 2006/7 by Bai Shan Lin’s earlier incarnation as Jai Lin, and Barama running its plywood mill at 11 per cent of designed capacity during January-June 2012 but receiv-

From page 6 Cuba. We grumbled, stood in the Guy-lines, lit our flambeaus’, became suitcase traders and endured the blackouts when OPEC raised the price of Oil from 3$US to 7$US. Knowing and admiring Burnham’s convictions while angry at him for what we were enduring.

Now the question of Walter Rodney’s untimely death and the questions about the guilt of the Burnham state raised by my brother Ogunseye on May 07, Kaieteur News. We have discussed Rodney’s death, myself and Ogunseye.

I knew and admired Rodney.

He would stop at Bourda Market where my late friend ‘Bone Dry’ Parker sold dry coconuts and chat with us.

We were never in agreement.

He felt Burnham was not going far enough with Socialism; by that time I was convinced that Communism nor the Juhe Idea of Korea was relevant to us, though I agreed with the socialist practices of free health care etc. I bought a picture of Rodney at the mortuary from the late Wilfred Lee for twelve dollars, back then that was a lot of money.

With what I understood then and learnt later, the WPA’S revolution was happening around us. Men in Defense Force uniforms burning down Government buildings; some officers under Special Branch watch. With

the recent publication of Sergeant Gregory Smith’s book, which cannot be easily dismissed because it provides ample cross comparisons to his data, I am convinced that Walter ventured out into unchartered territory and was the victim of a terrible miscalculation.

Walter Rodney is a Guyanese Hero but his death has been used long enough as a symbol to damn Burnham.

The evidence is not conclusive and should not be used as it is currently flaunted.

In his letter on May 04.

2013 in the Stabroek News, Rishee Thakur enlightened me that Cheddi Jagan also received this award, Cheddi Jagan who engineered a racial civil war. Were there such protests my brother[Ogunseye]? Or does the allegation of Walter Rodney outweigh the same even more convincing allegations and inquests concerning the Abraham family, Young Teixeira, and the passengers of the Sun Chapman?

I will not spend time on the pathological racism of Vishnu Bisram, whose lonely life is given purpose through the perverted vice of racist obsessions.

However, one should recognize that Australian Intelligence officers had in 1988, concluded that after seizing a shipment of arms in Sydney Harbour destined for ethnic Indians in Fiji [during

the coup] that India’s Research and Analysis Wing, its top Foreign Intelligence Agency, was responsible.

Thus a possible perspective to the funding and Asian visits of the noted lndoextremists letter writers who mostly live abroad, and why they cannot seem to employ logic but an obvious static and consistent employed racist position.

I conclude by stating that if Burnham’s overwhelming contributions to the struggle for South Africa’s well being cannot be viewed by our South African brothers without passing swift misguided judgment prompted by Dr. Horace Campbell, and others on Burnham, then for many of us whose dedication lies beyond mere intellectual speculations would rather our brothers keep that award.

I have witnessed how such speculations defined Ronald Waddel as a mastermind in the recent 2002/ 2006 insurrection that became based in the Buxton backlands, ,and Bharat Jagdeo made use of those speculations and not long after the narco-militia under Roger Khan had Ronald murdered, and to that there is a clear line of evidence.

Barrington Braithwaite

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ing 100 per cent of tax concessions from Guyana.

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What raw materials will input to these wood processing facilities – species, dimensions, volumes, qualities of timbers?

The Commissioner utterly fails to answer this question, other than saying that additional products from Lesser Used Species ‘can also be produced’.

4. What kinds of products will be produced which are not already milled in Guyana – species, volumes, values, intended markets?

The Commissioner fails to answer this question, other than saying that flooring will be produced and that finger jointing will be used. The other products are or have been milled in Guyana already, so BSL would be adding nothing new.

5. What is the agreed schedule to phase out exports of unprocessed logs (such exports being contrary to national policies and to PPP election manifestos in 2006 and 2011) – species, dimensions, volumes, qualities of timbers?

The Commissioner says only that BSL ‘intends to do in-country processing of over

80% of BSL’s leased concessions’, without mentioning any time schedule. And why 80%, why not 100 per cent?

6.What is the training programme for Guyanese at all operational and managerial levels of BSL to replace imported staff?

The Commissioner says that BSL is in discussion about comprehensive training of current and potential employees, and such statement must be welcomed. BSL/Jai Lin has been in Guyana for over six years, so one could have expected that by now its operations would be fully staffed with Guyanese, but clearly they are not. So again it is reasonable to ask for the time schedule for the new training programme.

7. How many foreign workers have been brought into Guyana, and how many more visas are being processed?

The Commissioner evades answering this question, and our diplomats in Beijing also do not know the answer. In summary, Mr Editor, Commissioner Singh apparently knows, or has been authorized to disclose, little more than is available in BSL’s publicity video. This dribble

of information is incompatible with the assurances given by the Government of Guyana in items 10 and 23 of the REDD+ Governance Development Plan agreed with Norway in June 2011. If the Government and its agency the GFC are serious about acquiring a Voluntary Partnership Agreement with the European Union under the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade action plan of 2003 then a freer flow of information will have to become a habit for government agencies.

It is time that the Natural Resources sectoral committee of the National Assembly asked serious questions of the Ministry and GFC and Bai Shan Lin, and insisted on full disclosure in the answers as the committee is entitled to under the Legislative Bodies (Evidence) Act (cap. 01-08).

The Natural Resources sectoral committee can require testimony under oath.

This would be one way of getting at information currently not accessible because of the failure to implement the Access to Information Act. Yours faithfully Janette Bulkan

DEAR EDITOR, With regards to the world news of the three kidnapped women (Cleveland,Ohio) who were rescued by neighbors and police, CBS News reported thatabout 45% of such victims have been found or rescued. That is arelatively high success rate compared say with Guyana where few, ifany, are freed after being victims of kidnapping or disappearance. Somany cases of disappearance have gone unanswered in Guyana for decades.In the U.S, hundreds disappear every year whereas in Guyana, only

ahandful are reported missing and fewer kidnapped. Yet the Americanshave a significant success rate compared with Guyana. Guyanese police need to do a better job in finding the disappeared andkidnapped. Guyana needs to emulate the American model, as exemplifiedin the Cleveland rescue case, when neighbors heard screams and rushedto free the hapless victims while calling in police support. Policequickly moved in to rescue the victims who were held in confinement forten years. Guyanese need to stop taking this hands off approach.

Th eyshould keep a watchful eye on their

surroundings for criminalactivities and call in the police for help. Team work and cooperationbetween people and the police will help to bring down crime in our country.

Vishnu Bisram

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US$840M hydro project on shaky grounds?

Government’s flagship project, the US$840M Amaila Falls hydro, may be on shaky grounds with indications earlier this week that negotiations for finances might not be going too well…or at least not where the administration wants it to be.

Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon, questioned about the project on Thursday, admitted that there is not much clarity at this time.

“I don’t believe that the work on Amaila is at a stage where we could be definitive.”

He, however, assured that things are not that bad. “I think all of the indicators- as we sit here today- all of those

indicators are promising,” the official said. Dr Luncheon is also Head of the Presidential Secretariat and a key figure under the previous government, with intimate knowledge of the details.

The statement would be a cautious one by the administration after a series of delays over the access roads leading to the Amaila Falls site in Region Eight.

The Bharrat Jagdeo-led administration had been hopeful for financial closure since 2011 but this had hinged on the successful completion of the roads.

However, continuous delays by the contractor,

Synergy Holdings Inc., stalled the process of closing the deal. Synergy was fired in January last year after an exasperated government under the new Presidency of Donald Ramotar decided it had had enough. This was after several protests, and news reports that Synergy did not have the experience for the roads. Several of his equipment were lost in the swamp as poor planning, weather and harsh terrain plotted against the works.

ROAD DELAY The roads, some 270 km of them, were considered crucial to move construction and other materials to the

-Govt. says no “definitive” word at this time planned work site. The roads include existing “trails’ and new ones through forested, swampy areas. Not having these completed was unthinkable.

Despite dividing the incomplete roads into smaller lots and awarding contracts, they still remained unfinished today. As a matter of fact, government was forced to take back a section from two new contractors who, too, fell behind. That final, troubled section of 185 Km has since been awarded to China

Railway, the contractor of the hydro project, in a bid to speed up works.

Government has already made the critical importance of the road to the project known to closing the deal.

The hydro project is being funded in parts by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), China Development Bank, Sithe Global and the Guyana Government.

Another reason for the delay in financial closure was the demand by financiers for the state-owned Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) to ready its infrastructure for the 165 megawatts project. GPL has been battling technical losses from faulty lines and equipment for years now.

IDB was reportedly watching what improvements GPL would be embarking on to ensure that the power generated by the hydro facility would not be largely lost in transmission.

GPL problems As it is now, GPL’s losses, both from theft by customers and from technical standpoint, are at a worrying 30 per cent of total power generated.

A US$40M-plus project is currently underway to fix these problems by running new transmission lines, build substations, and linking the Berbice and Demerara system.

Also being addressed is the standardization of GPL’s systems to the 60 hertz cycle.

These GPL projects ran into problems after the Opposition in April slashed $5.2B (US$26M) from that state company’s budget claiming there was no immediate clarity how the funds were to be spent.

GPL’s management immediately slammed the reduction to the investments which they say would impact the hydro financing by IDB as it had no money to correct the problems.

According to Dr. Luncheon, there are not any immediate objections to major issues involving the proposed infrastructure, financing or the Chinese contractor.

“We do not have any significant differences or problems or obstacles in seeing this project to closure and to having our strong anticipation to fruition.

We continue to be optimistic. We even, and you might quote me, are progressively optimistic about the project.”

Regarding that critical access roads, almost US$10M ($2B) was spent prior to 2013.

This year, Government has allocated $2.3B (US$11.7M)

for the roads and other infrastructural works and for an environmental study.

Initially, the roads were budgeted for US$15.4M, a clear indication that almost $1B more is being spent to ensure the roads are completed, in a race against time.

The hydro’s manager, Sithe Global and its local subsidiary, Amaila Falls Hydro Inc, have been largely silent on the project this year.

In September last year, the company which says it has successfully developed over 70 power projects in 10 countries, representing more than 18,000 MW of generating capacity, announced on the access roads leading to the Amaila Falls hydro project site. that it has signed construction agreement with China Railway. It also signed agreements for due diligence to begin by IDB. “This sets in motion the next phase of lender due diligence and documentation needed to reach project financial closure and begin construction, which is scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2013.

The milestones demonstrate the hard work and commitment of all parties in making the project a reality for Guyana,” Sithe Global said. But there has been silence since then.

Government would only say that it is now eyeing closure before year end so that construction can begin sometime after.

Costs The Engineering, Procurement & Construction (“EPC”) Contract with Sithe Global is valued at US$506M, representing the largest infrastructure contract ever executed for Guyana.

“Signing the EPC Contract provides price certainty, avoiding the risk of commodity price adjustments for a period of nine months, during which AFH will secure the project financing. The pricing is subject to adjustment in currency fluctuation until financial closure is reached, at which time the pricing will be fixed.”

However, the nine months is up next month. Government says that the construction could take up to three and half years.

IDB is being asked to issue a loan for US$175M. There are indications that 70 per cent of the total funding will be coming from the China Development Bank and the IDB. China Development Bank will be providing some US$413.2M. Guyana’s (Continued on page 13)

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Kaieteur M@ilbox SOME QUESTIONS FOR GAPE AND GCCI DEAR EDITOR, I note that President of the GCCI, Clinton Urling, has joined GAPE in expressing dissatisfaction with graduates from the University of Guyana (SN, May 11). The university’s official spoke-persons will, I hope, publicly respond in due course.

I however use this opportunity to raise some queries for both GAPE and the GCCI to consider: (i) First, how many public and privatesector entities in Guyana scout, as an organizational strategy, for the best talent at UG? Every year, the university’s valedictions and other top graduates struggle to find good jobs in the market place. Last year’s top engineering graduate ( the university’s valedictorian) is probably not known to any

of the local engineering firms, (ii) our engineering graduates are sought after by firms in Trinidad and Tobago.

Is this something to take note of? And (iii) how many firms have a structured or any internship program for new graduate-employees?

I pose the questions not to divert attention from the real problems and shortcomings of the university.

I raise them to help broaden the discussion of the problem and to prevent a limited search for solutions.

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Town Clerk tells M&CC staff, function or go home Acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba on Thursday warned staffers of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to carry out their functions effectively and within the confines of the law or risk being fired.

Sooba, at a press briefing, said that the staffers of M&CC are not doing all in their power to effectively carry out their duties, while taking note and agreeing that there are hindrances in their ability to function.

She said staffers will have to function or leave, “because there are other persons who want work.”

The Town Clerk was at the time talking about the various departments where she said persons “were not performing the task for which they are paid for.”

She spoke extensively about the current garbage situation in the city and cited several reasons for the current state of affairs. One reason she said was the decision by the Mayor to allow for “illegal vending on street corners and roadways,” and another being the disregard by the electorate of the Council to abide by the law.

Sooba said that the City Engineer’s office, Solid Waste Department, City Constabulary office and other departments have not been performing to standard. This has been contributing to the poor performance by the M&CC. Sooba also noted that she would be doing everything in her power to clamp down on indiscriminate dumping, but especially stressed on the

vending situation which in her view has contributed immensely to the current garbage situation.

Sooba said that the position taken by the Council some years ago to allow persons to vend on the street corners with the payment of a small fee has to some extent been the source of the garbage problem and has further contributed to the deterioration of the city.

Sooba said that former Chancellor Desiree Bernard had ruled that there should be no vending on the streets.

She added that Justice Bernard had mentioned that the whole of the M&CC should be jailed for allowing the vending situation to escalate.

Despite this, she said, the Mayor has allowed vending to continue in the city.

But Sooba is adamant that she will see to it that vendors are removed, citing the wanton building of illegal structures and indiscriminate vending.

When asked about the socio-economic situation that has caused the Mayor to allow these persons on the street, Sooba said that wanting to ensure a livelihood does not mean that persons could break the law or have the right to do so.

Mayor Hamilton Green said that the vending situation is more than the Town Clerk who is in his view speaking out of an abundance of ignorance.

Green said that there are several serious issues surrounding the current

garbage situation. Before highlighting those issues, Green reiterated that persons have to live; many of the vendors on the streets are single parents.

He highlighted that when these persons are taken off the street there is nowhere to put them.

He continued that numerous moves have been made by the Council to have the government rectify the vending issue. One of these, he said, was a letter that was written to the Local Government Minister requesting that he ask his colleagues at the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) to sell no more state land without considering the allocation of a place in the City where the vendors could ply their trade.

On that matter Green said that one would have to know how vending came about to understand the issue.

He however said that apart from the Council being financially unable to deal efficiently with the garbage situation, there needs to be total re-education towards the garbage matter.

He continued that since the removal of the dump site at Le Repentir Cemetery, the garbage situation has worsened.

Haags Bosch, he noted, is some eight miles away.

He said unlike Le Repentir site which operated round the clock, the Haags Bosch site is closed at certain times.

This means that a businessman wanting to dispose of his waste after closing time in the evening would have nowhere to dump his trash and thus do the unthinkable.

Green said that until an alternative is found for the vendors the garbage situation will exist.

Sunday May 12, 2013

ImmigrationINFO Immigration News For Our Community

Overview of proposed registered provisional immigrant (RPI) status The Senate Judiciary Committee has begun “markup” of S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act. Although 300 amendments have been filed, it is our hope that these amendments will improve the Bill and not undermine it. One major aspect of the proposed immigration Bill is the creation of the Registered Provisional Immigrant (RPI) status for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.

The RPI immigrant status would be created to adjust the status of undocumented immigrants to a legal immigrant status. The requirements are as follows: (1) residence in the United States prior to December 31, 2011 and maintenance of continuous physical presence since then; and (2) paid a $500 penalty fee (except for DREAM Act eligible students), and assessed taxes, per adult applicant in addition to all applicable fees required to pay for the cost of processing the application.

Applicants will be found ineligible for RPI status if they were convicted of an aggravated felony; convicted of a felony; convicted of 3 or more misdemeanors; convicted of an offense under foreign law; unlawfully voted; and are inadmissible for criminal, national security, public health, or other morality grounds.

The GOOD aspects of the proposed RPI status include the following: 1. Spouses and children of people in RPI status can be petitioned for as derivatives of the principal applicant (but must be in the

United States at the time).

2. Immigrants in RPI status can work for any employer and travel outside of the United States.

3. Individuals outside of the United States who were previously here before December 31, 2011 and were deported for non-criminal reasons can apply to re-enter the United States in RPI status if they are the spouse, or parent of a child who is a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident; or are a childhood arrival who is eligible for the DREAM Act. 4. Individuals with removal orders will be permitted to apply, as will aliens currently in removal proceedings.

The BAD aspects of the proposed RPI status include the following: 1. The Application period will be for one year with the possibility of extension by the Secretary for an additional year. In my opinion, the application period should be for at least three years so ensure that all 11 million undocumented immigrants are able to apply.

2. RPI status shall last for a six-year term that is renewable if the immigrant does not commit any act that would render the alien deportable. Another $500 penalty fee is applicable at this time. In my opinion, the total wait to adjust from RPI status to permanent resident should be no longer than five years.

3. After 10 years, aliens in RPI status may adjust to Lawful Permanent Resident Status through a proposed Merit Based System. In my opinion, the 10-year wait is too long and is unreasonable – it should be a five-year wait.

Gail Seeram 4. RPI status immigrants demonstrate they worked in the United States regularly and demonstrated knowledge of Civics and English before they can adjust to permanent resident status.

In my opinion, these two requirements are unreasonable since employment may not be available for a person with RPI status since the individual is not a permanent status and a person should not be penalized for being unemployed and the declining market conditions. The Civics and English requirement should continue to be required for U.S. citizenship and has NEVER been required for permanent resident status.

In my opinion, these two requirements should be eliminated.

Immigration Attorney Gail Seeram has been practicing law for 14 years and dedicates her legal practice to immigration law. She is the President of the American Immigration Lawyers Assoc – Central FL and Vice-President of the Caribbean Bar Assoc – Central FL.

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Ravi Dev Column

Indian Music and Identity During the Arrival Day activities, more than one nonIndian commentator remarked on the “survival” of Indian singing in the country. It’s part of the surprise at the “persistence” of Indian cultural forms, that I kept hearing about in school.

But the question and its generalisation have an unspoken premise: these Indian customs were not supposed to “survive” or “persist”.

Those that express the sentiment expected the customs to disappear as Indians shed them and adopt the putatively superior “Guyanese culture”.

So the question could be posed another way: how is it that with all the pressures on the Indian-Guyanese to jettison their “Indian songs”, so much of it survives?

This is my personal answer. My earliest memory is of my mother singing me to sleep. I discovered, when she sang those same songs to my younger brothers and sisters, that they were old Hindi “filmi” songs. As we grew older, we would “shake” the younger ones to sleep in our hammocks, to the newer songs. There was no need to understand what the lyrics

I have been talking about the madness that has gripped the land, but life goes on because people always believe that they are immune.

And this should be expected because people always that they believe that they are out of the loop, in other words, out of harm’s way.

More of the madness will continue. There is going to be another violent death because some people are out for vengeance.

Some time back a group defrauded a man who was into the same kind of

meant or the principles of “ragas” - one apprehended directly whether the songs meant love or comfort or warmth or fun or pain.

Every home had a radio in those days, but Indian songs were relegated to those hours when other groups were assumed to be sleeping: early in the morning before 5am and late at night after 9pm. We would tune in for those songs, but for the rest of the day, the radios were stuck at Radio Radica, from Suriname.

I could leave my home listening to, say, Mohamed Rafi (my favourite singer then and my favourite singer now), and follow the song all the way to the shop on the Public Road to which I might have been sent.

But when I started primary school (Lil ABC) at Uitvlugt Church of Scotland School I discovered a strange thing.

My new friends who were from the section in which the school was located, didn’t know any of the songs I sang.

In fact because of their snickering and the teacher’s attitude of sufferance, I gradually understood that these were (among a host of other customs) a “coolie thing” and should be indulged when I was at home,

or better yet, not at all.

On Wednesdays, we’d be marched to the big Church behind the school where we were taught to sing hymns to the accompaniment of Miss La Rose on the organ.

As I grew older, I learnt and sang my friends’ American soul, (Sam Cooke was my favourite), Ska which morphed into Reggae, and calypsos - and even the Beatles and Stones - but they never listened to, much less sang, my Indian songs. I had no difficulty knowing Gladys Knight from Aretha Franklin but they could never distinguish Lata from Asha.

So I, along with my fellow Indian students, developed what I later learnt the US Black intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois describe as a “double consciousness”.

We would still sing our Indian songs at home, but we would view it not only from our own consciousness but also from that of our African friends.

From the latter perspective, Indian songs were not “kosher” in public and one had to be at least slightly guilty about enjoying it.

So what kept the songs alive? The Indian movies.

From the age of six or so, I

nefarious activity. That man is paying good money to hit back. He just collected a lot of money to support his campaign. ** A love gone wrong is going to rob a young woman of her life. It would result from a classic case of a man not

knowing that the woman has had enough of boorish behaviour.

Manly pride or plain arrogance would lead to a killing and the society would once more raise its voice against violence against women. ** Another car accident is going to occur on the route that leads to the interior.

This accident would put a damper on plans that one family had. Of course the impact would not be realized until one notices that a house construction has ground to a halt.

lived with my Nani and Nana and they allowed me to go to the Wednesday Indian movie.

There was an old lady, Aunty Sampat, who would take me in the beginning, but I soon graduated to the peer group from school.

The swashbuckling hero, who always got the girl in the end, invariably did so through the medium of song. This gave a great fillip to my singing aspirations.

Wedding houses were also a great preserver of the local Indian music tradition with its filmi focus. My boyhood friends and I would crowd the mandatory “jukebox” to literally get the full “blast” of the music. The arguments as to who were the

best singers were legion - and were taken very seriously.

Fights would sporadically break out between the aficionados of Mukesh and Rafi.

By the time I hit high school, I remember my friends and I discussing very animatedly that it couldn’t be right for us to hide the songs we loved. Transistor radios had arrived and we had a way to take our Indian songs public - and we did.

These Hindi filmi songs have become a part of my very being and there is not an emotion that I cannot relate to some song of Lata, or Mukesh or Rafi or Kishore etc. When I went after high school to study in New York, there was no community

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there - and I do believe that it was through listening to my Indian music that I kept my sanity.

Kant and Rawls might have made satisfied to my intellect, but it was Rafi and Lata who soothed my emotions.

And so my wife and children, brought up in the same tradition, had a blast last week at the Alka Yagnik and Udit Narayan show.

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Hururu Council submits new proposals to RUSAL

By Michael Jordan Following a seven-hour meeting with officials from the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, members of the Hururu Village Council on Thursday submitted new

proposals to the Russian firm, RUSAL, regarding the leasing of land and access to a key roadway.

Deputy Toshao Victor Walker and Minister of Amerindian Affairs Minister, Pauline Sukhai, later

expressed optimism that an end to the current dispute is in sight.

Walker told Kaieteur News Thursday evening that among the proposals submitted in writing to RUSAL was that RUSAL pay

- Deputy Toshao optimistic end to dispute in sight increased costs for the land that it has leased from the village; that the bauxite firm constructs a new roadway that will provide residents

with access to logging concessions, and that villagers be allowed to use the roadway it has leased to RUSAL until the new one is completed.

The Deputy Toshao said that RUSAL had already promised to carry out a number of developmental projects in the community.

The proposals were submitted after Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai, and other senior Ministry officials met for several hours with members of the Hururu Village Council and a few villagers.

Minister Sukhai said that the meeting was held to discuss proposals that the Council and RUSAL made on May 3 regarding the dispute.

These centered primarily on the leasing of land to RUSAL and the blocking of a key roadway.

“This meeting is to reexamine the proposals made by both parties on March 3.

They are closing in on a decision… at the end of this meeting they will be responding to the company in writing.”

Ms. Sukhai told Kaieteur News that she was there to provide “guidance and advice” to the Village Council regarding the leasing of land.

“I am representing the Village Council and the villagers; there are positions on which the community needs guidance.”

However, similar optimism was not expressed by some of the villagers. One resident expressed concern that the villagers will fail to get some of their key demands. The resident said he was also unhappy that no Regional officials were present at Thursday’s discussions.

He alleged that officials from the Amerindian Affairs Ministry “turned down” a suggestion from villagers that

Region Ten officials attend the meeting. However, Ms. Sukhai said that this suggestion was never made.

The dispute between RUSAL and the Upper Berbice residents escalated in late April after RUSAL set up a checkpoint at a roadway that villagers had been using for decades, but which the Council had leased to RUSAL. Residents alleged that this had prevented them from having access to logging concessions and harvesting millions in already cut logs.

Residents had responded by blocking the roadway and stringing coils of rope across the Berbice River to prevent RUSAL barges from traversing the waterway.

Deputy Toshao Victor Walker and other villagers had blamed former members of the Village Council of entering into an agreement which was more advantageous to RUSAL than to their community.

He had explained that around 2005, members of the previous Council leased several acres of land at Kurubuka (located some seven miles from Hururu) to RUSAL for $1.2M per month.

They also leased the Hururu roadway for $1.1M per month.

This money is paid to the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs and some $1M is deducted and paid to RUSAL monthly for electricity.

Walker also explained that the former Village Council also agreed that logging near the mining site would cease once RUSAL commenced mining. Minister Sukhai had confirmed these agreements but charged that the unrest in Hururu is at the foot of a handful of loggers refusing to adhere to the previous arrangements which the community and RUSAL had entered into.

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== THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN ==

The second time I almost killed my wife It is a tragic picture you see when you gaze into the collective mind of this nation.

The letter columns of the Kaieteur News and Stabroek News tell a sad tale of a country without a moral compass. Read these letter columns and people agonize about the most inconsequential things. Guyanese avoid any mention of life’s moral nastiness in their country.

It is only the politicians in the opposition and maybe two or three stakeholders that continue to reject the most sickening manifestations of immoralities in this land. Pick up the letter columns and people will carp incessantly on an old tree that will fall any minute; on mud that runs on the roadway when it rains; on stray dogs on the roads that people need to take care of.

This is the moral scene you have to live with in Guyana.

Few persons express disgust at the award of a million dollars (five thousand American) to a policeman’s family who died in the line of duty. This has occurred several times in the past. There has never been a comment from society on this atrocity.

Contrast this kind of compensation with bail money that is placed on accused people in the courts. A policeman could be awarded a measly one million, but bail carries a heavy sum. When it comes to compensating the families of people killed wrongly by State officials like policemen and soldiers, the sum is appallingly

insignificant. It is obvious to me that life has no value in this country. And we as a people have become numb to that.

Here now is an example of a real dirty, nasty act of immorality in Guyana that so far no Guyanese has had the decency to denounce.

I will not name the company, because I don’t want a libel suit which will be filed simply to shut me up.

Last Wednesday, this newspaper carried information about horrible industrial relations practices at an outlet (which was named) owned by one of the richest families in Guyana. I feel angry that I cannot name this family.

Readers were told that every employee has to pay three hundred dollars weekly towards purchase of toilet paper for the washrooms.

Is it not an act of decency, basic human decency to provide toilet paper for your employees? This is a business family that is worth millions in American dollars, but can sink to the gruesome (which is a mild word) level of demanding their employees pay for toilet paper.

After today, I will bet my last dollar that no business firm, no Government Minister will comment on what this family has done or is doing.

Will we boycott the family store? I doubt it, even though all, I repeat all the products sold there can be had at all the major supermarkets, including three in close proximity to this family unit. I lived abroad, and I say without fear of

contradiction that had a prominent family faced this kind of exposure, the newspapers would have been inundated with angry reaction.

I move now to another disgrace, in my opinion of course. What I will describe here will fall on deaf ears. But this is Guyana, and I know what a caricature my country has become.

On Wednesday afternoon I almost killed my wife not too far (a few yards) from the spot where I almost killed her a few years ago. In the first incident, I made a right turn traveling

east on the seawall road into Camp Road. It was dark and my wife yelled out, “Look out, look that thing.” It was a huge front-end loader parked right in the middle of the road in the dark outside the CID offices of the Eve Leary police.

Had she not shouted out, I would have crashed into it.

Last Wednesday, we were traveling north on Camp Road and I continued straight instead of swinging into Carifesta Avenue. I noticed a huge billboard of Hand-InHand Insurance Company on the fence of the Everest Sport

Club. What I saw dazzled my eyes and for a moment I took my eyes off the road and almost drove into the eastern trench of Camp Road.

This billboard had a white man dressed in necktie and suit beckoning readers to patronize Hand-In-Hand.

Why a white man?

The next morning, I called the office of the CEO, Keith Evelyn. His secretary said he was at a meeting. All the Guyanese CEOs are at meetings all the time. I told the secretary about my complaint.

She said he would get back to

Frederick Kissoon me. I gave her my cell number.

At 16:00 hours Leonard Craig and I went to his office. His SUV was there but they said he was not in office. I guess life goes on in this hell hole.

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Book and PANDIT PROMOTES RACIAL UNITY Art Review: THROUGH SERVICE AND PRAYER

By Dr Glenville Ashby In an era when the mention of religion raises tormentous images of strife and sectarianism, Pandit Shivananda Gosine has emerged like a rose among thorns.

Tapped by T&T Consul General in NY, Rudrawatee Nan Ramgoolam as a boon for that country’s overseas Interfaith Council, Pandit Gosine immediately proved his salt. His counsel in the area of education and technology gave the “Council” a much needed shot in the arm as it laboured to globalise its mission. His enthusiasm, assiduous work ethic and people-centered philosophy resonated with the executive branch of the Board.

In a twinkle of an eye, Pandit Gosine was installed as a board member and its education liaison. For all the good karma he has reaped recently, Pandit Gosine remains humble, self effacing and dedicated to uniting Indo and Afro-Trinidadians, the two largest ethnic groups in the Twin Island state. It’s a delicate task, capped with

political mines and knitted brow exclusionists who are mired in distrust and resistant to change at any cost.

“The divisiveness is very sharp in New York, a far cry from what I’ve observed in Trinidad,” Pandit Gosine said.

“When we leave our homeland we gravitate to our own,” he explained, trying to make sense of the cultural gulf between the two groups. He played down race as the only determinant of interpersonal relations.

“It’s more territorial.... our natural response to identify with those who are similar to us. Trying to pigeon-hole racism can prove complex, he said.

“There are always shades of grey involved.”

He used the tenuous relations between IndoGuyanese and IndoTrinidadians in New York to bolster his argument.

“We are Hindu and Indian, but there is no real camaraderie there.”

Pandit Gosine who left the shores of Trinidad two decades ago is passionate about “building bridges.” The former Penal resident who credits a number of Pandits

for his training, was initiated as a “Ghri Gosine” with Vishva Hindu Pariishard of Trinidad and Tobago.

He conceded that emphasis on religion and ethnicity has stymied the creation of a “Trini” identity.

He made a distinction between religion and spirituality, touting the latter as “the way forward,” and “the key to a future of genuine love and respect for each other. He assailed religious leaders who promote “tribalism,” and “exclusiveness,” especially by those who hold considerable influence. While he believed that both racial groups have shown mutual distrust, he decried the notion that “Hinduism is about Indianness. ” He envisioned a more embracing Hinduism that is true to the concept of Sanatan Dharma or ”Eternal Ethics.”

Using the title “Guru” and “Pandit” interchangeably, “because the former is more universally appealing and in tandem with his inclusive philosophy,” he recently formed the organisation, “Peace Yoga” to promote healthy living through

Pandit Gosine and members of the Spiritual Baptist community. (Photo by Mervyn Bamby) spiritual therapy and Aryuvedic medicine. He explained that ‘PEACE’ is the acronym for Powerful Emotional Awareness Cultural Experience.

“Again, spirituality is about cultivation and growth.

Sometimes the opposite is true of religions, at least how it is spun by so called leaders.”

A week ago, Pandit Gosine was given his biggest platform to date, to spread his universal message. In an event organised by the Trinidad and Tobago

Interfaith Council at the Lady of Lourdes Yoruba Spiritual Baptist Church, he held court amid a sea of Shouter Baptist and Orisha devotees. Leading the meditative chants and singing rousing bhajans, he compared Lord Hanuman to Shango and St Michael, the saints of the Orisha and Spiritual Baptist movement.

“I am amazed by the commonality between these religions,” he said, with a sense of conviction.

He described his “baptism” among the Baptist and Orisha faithful as “awe

inspiring,” and educational,” adding that “there was such a genuine outpouring of love.”

He considered the event, titled “A Day of Atonement,” as seminal and prophetic; as a defining moment for Indo and Afro-Trinidadians.

“There will be change despite the naysayers,” he opined, pondering for a moment, before he continued: “The only true race is the human race, and the only true religion is love for all of God’s creation.” glenvilleashby@gmail.com www.glenvilleashby.com

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My column

I made my mother cry on Friday When I was a child I got into problems with my mother more times than I can remember. I suppose my case was like every young boy. For some strange reason, young people seem to detest members of the opposite sex.

Parents and siblings and cousins are the exception.

I still remember her taking me to school one day and I was somewhat embarrassed because I wanted my friends to see me as a big boy. Boys who go to school with their mothers are known as mother’s boys. Then there was our poverty. My mother could not dress as flashily as some of the other mothers.

Then there was the question of her age. In my eyes she was old but as I look back, she was no more than thirty-four when I was ten.

Then there was my first day at secondary school.

Again it was my mother who took me. When we reached Georgetown, having travelled from Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara, she took my hand.

As far as I was concerned I was a big boy… so why should my mother want to treat me like a child and hold my hand in the city streets?

That hand was to fall on me so many times, as recently as when I was in my forties and had been involved in a spat with my then wife. My mother came over because my wife called her in tears, listened to my wife, then slapped me without even hearing my side of the story.

But she was not always a tyrant; she taught me to love life and to appreciate every day. People would say to me that they never saw me angry.

I thank my mother for that. She taught me to ignore insults and there were many of those when I was growing up. Being poor was a crime.

Because of that poverty I

learnt to swim, to climb a coconut tree, and to do so many things that people take for granted. I had to climb coconut trees to get the branches to fashion coconut brooms that I sold with my mother to put food on the table.

I learned to swim because there was food in the backlands and more often than not I had to cross canals.

Today I treasure every moment I spent with my mother. Before she left Guyana a few decades ago, I would take her to Winfield James’s Mother ’s Day concert.

I enjoyed hearing her singing along and then she would be talking about the event for days. Come to think of it, she could not have been much older than I am now.

I remember leaving home for the first time. I was heading to Bartica, because the first job offer I got came from St John the Baptist Anglican School. I did not know where Bartica was, except that I had to go there by boat.

The year was 1966 and I would be eighteen on November 1. The letter from the school said that I should report for the job so that I could be confirmed when I was eighteen. I did not know that I could have begun working earlier.

On October 29, my mother got me up, prayed with me and with a five-dollar bill that she borrowed, escorted me to the wharf at Kingston. We left home in Beterverwagting about three that morning. I did not know that I could have got up later, cross the Demerara

River and head to Parika and catch the boat later.

I began my adult life with that five dollars. I paid the steamer fare of about three dollars and landed on Bartica with the change. That was when life changed for my mother and siblings; I sent home money despite the distractions. The rent was paid and food landed on the table.

Today I share an unbreakable bond with my brothers and sisters to the extent that we call each other at the drop of a hat or for no reason at all.

On Friday I made my mother cry. There was a

woman who started me off in school. Enid Bart could not have been more than twentythree when I entered the doors of the kindergarten school where she taught for the first time. The year was 1952.

It was a tearful time because I had to leave Mommy. I learnt that I cried so much that my mother had to come and sit in school with me. It probably happened for two or three days. Enid Bart put an end to the tears with some slaps on my behind.

She always saw me as special and for years she was there for me and my siblings and my mother. In my adult

years I always took time to visit her in the house she always lived at Den Amstel.

When my mother came home on some vacation, I would take her to visit Enid Bart so that they could roll back the years.

Enid Bart died on Wednesday. She was eightyfive. I informed my eightynine-year-old mother who is now in Staten Island with one of my sisters. I think what bothered her a lot was the fact that she was here for the Christmas holidays and I had promised to take her to visit Miss Bart, as was always the case when she came to Guyana. I did not this time

Adam Harris around.

I made my mother cry two days before Mother’s Day. I will talk with her today, though, as has always been the case.

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A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH DEATH...

‘Sister’ Ronnie is grateful that her life was spared

‘Sister’ Ronnie tells of being rescued from a watery grave

By Sharmain Grainger The notion that ‘God don’t come but he sends’ suggests to those who live by it that the Supreme Being is always ready to send help in some form or the other when it is needful.

This belief is one that resonates well with Kawlapattie Jairam of Belle West, West Bank Demerara, who believes that a hero was sent her way just in time to rescue her from a watery grave.

Although it is now more than a decade since her “near death” encounter, ‘Sister’

Ronnie, as she is popularly known, reminisces almost daily on how blessed she is to still be alive.

She was born and raised at Crane, West Coast Demerara, and even attended Primary school there before undertaking her secondary education at the privately operated Muslim Trust College at Brickdam, Georgetown.

It was soon after this she ventured into nursing, a field in which she has been practicing for 36 years. And since she had completed a Medex Course she was

assigned by the Ministry of Health to manage the Hog Island Health Centre in 1997.

During an interview with me she recalled that it was on a rather cold day of that same year that she experienced her “near death” encounter.

‘Sister’ Ronnie and her family were housed at the upper flat of the health facility but she was required from time to time to attend meetings at the West Demerara Regional Hospital. But the night before travelling to one such meeting she remembers having one of the most disturbing dreams of her life.

In the dream, which remains vivid to her even today, ‘Sister’ Ronnie recalls how she was trapped in a dark tunnel with three curves. And as she tried to manoeuvre her way through the darkness, the word abyss would appear to her.

She was jolted out of her sleep after seeing the word and immediately went to find a dictionary to determine its meaning. She knew the word, of course, but perhaps there was some other meaning, something that would dispel the peculiar feeling that was overshadowing her being.

Aside from being described as a flat area on the ocean floor and a deep, immeasurable space, it is also said to be anything profound, unfathomable or infinite.

Consumed with a feeling that was swiftly developing into actual fear, ‘Sister’ Ronnie would start preparing for her meeting that day. She remembers praying for protection before leaving home, but that did not prevent her from thinking that she was going to encounter something dreadful, perhaps even fatal, that day.

She recalled how she quietly boarded a farming boat laden with goods to be transported to the Parika Stelling and that the entire journey saw her being gripped by a sense of uneasiness.

“I prayed all the way... but the boat was so loaded that I kept thinking something was going to happen.” Nothing happened.

By the time she arrived at Parika, it had started to rain, adding to her concerns as she joined a bus to take her to Vreed-en-Hoop.

“I was wondering ‘would the bus end up in an accident?’ In my mind I had this feeling of death that just was not going away,” she disclosed.

And although all went well that day, by the time she commenced her return trip the sensations all came rushing back again. But it was less compelling, as by then she was sure that it was only just a feeling, after all, she was heading to the safety of the place she called home.

Again a farming boat would be her mode of transportation back to Hog Island, and as the captain of the vessel navigated his way in the river the strangest conversation started. The captain along with the passengers started talking about what each would do if

there was an accident. Not wanting to be left out of the verbal exchange, which was quite lively, ‘Sister’ Ronnie confidently informed that despite her not knowing to swim, were there an accident she would simply slip into a water tank that was on the vessel and nothing would happen to her. Others said that they would flip the boat and hold on until they were rescued.

There were no boat accidents to report on that day as the boat sailed safely to its intended destination.

However, at the time when she was thinking nothing of the anxieties with which she awoke to that day, misfortune would strike. As she, aided by the captain, scaled various articles of items laden on the vessel, including the water tank she had spoken of earlier, to make her exit , something went terribly wrong, and her planned step saw her slipping into the river.

The tide had just begun coming in and her desperate attempt to find some footing in the water was in fact useless.

“I remember somersaulting about three times in this water as I tried to find my balance...” There was no balance for her though, but rather her ears and eyes started burning and she had the unbearable desire to cough. She was drowning.

And even as she went down, the captain of the vessel moving merely on instinct plunged into the river in hopes of rescuing ‘Sister’ Ronnie.

He found her, but as he tried to pull her up her weight seemed to increase under him, a state of affairs that became apparent to the many onlookers who converged at the scene. And instead of

rendering assistance, some were urging the captain to desist from his noble deed as they were of the belief that “once somebody get heavy they are going to die.”

Defying the warning, the captain continued his mission, which to the dying ‘Sister’ Ronnie took several minutes. He would succeed and before long she was mounted to the stelling wharf.

The minutes immediately after the incident are still not clear to her, but after recollecting herself, a terrified and trembling ‘Sister’ Ronnie was only too anxious to head to the safety of her home.

“I was afraid and people kept asking me if I wanted them to do anything for me but I just wanted to go home.”

Upon her arrival there she immediately took a bath and headed for bed, and it was under the security of the covers that the gravity of her encounter with death was evoked.

“All I could have done was thank and praise God for sparing my life,” said ‘Sister’ Ronnie as she expressed confidence that the captain had been sent as her hero for that day.

“I do believe in God because it was he who saved me,” asserted ‘Sister’ Ronnie recently. As such she believes that it is her role to encourage persons to believe in God too since “once you put your faith in Him, He will direct your path and see you through any circumstance.”

Today the wife and mother of two children is the Medex in Charge at the Versailles Health Centre and is only too happy to be celebrating yet another Mother’s Day, having had her life dramatically saved so many years ago by a simple boat captain.

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The miracle of motherhood

It is a modern-day miracle that many mothers manage their families on their meagre earnings in the face of massive impediments in Guyana today. Mothers’ wellbeing is under serious

stress. Measured against five indicators –poverty level, cost of living, household income, children’s formal schooling and children’s post-schooling employment – the quality of life of many mothers and their

families can be described as low. Poverty is growing. The number of homeless and destitute persons continues to rise. The People’s Progressive Party Civic administration, instead of

introducing measures to reduce poverty, seems bent on increasing the number of institutions to house the poor.

These include building dropin centres for street children, night shelters for the homeless and, most recently, the Venezuelan-funded ‘Centre for Rehabilitation and Integration’ for the destitute.

Poverty impacts significantly on the wellbeing of mothers and babies across the country. It is a well known fact that children born to mothers living in poverty – among whom are mothers who head single-parent households are prominent – face the greatest challenges to everyday survival.

Poverty reduction ought to be an important measure to lift the living standards of women and children in the poorest communities, but this has not been an important feature of government policy.

The cost of living continues to soar. The PPPC administration, however, has rejected the demands of A Partnership for National Unity for across-the-board salary increases to public servants – some of whom can still be described as “the employed poor.” The administration has also refused to reduce the rate of the value-added tax and raise the threshold for personal income tax. The reduction in the tax rate to 30 per cent might benefit a few middle-income earners, but will have no impact on poor

people’s pay packets.

The cost of caring babies and children consumes most poor mothers’ monthly wages.

Little is left for medical and other emergencies and nothing at all for savings.

The decrease in public sector employment where women account for over half of the total workforce; the increase in casual, marginal low-paid work – as cleaners, domestics, security guards and waitresses and the proliferation of street vending – has worsened women’s position in the labour market.

Women, moreover, live longer than men. They are most likely to spend a great part of their lives as pensioners today.

The miserly increase in old-age pension at a stage of life when medical costs are highest, will ensure that they will be more likely than men to live in poverty in their mid-60s and beyond.

Women, mostly mothers, are also daughters and are liable to get stuck in an intergenerational rut between husbands and children on the one hand and elderly parents on the other. Women are more likely than men to feel obliged to give up work to look after aging or disabled parents.

Guyana’s population is aging and, with more persons living beyond 70 years, the need for caregivers will grow, not shrink.

Many women cannot find jobs in Guyana’s peculiar

economy, which the government claims is growing, but where employment opportunities are shrinking.

Young mothers in increasing numbers have been travelling to the Eastern Caribbean in search of work.

Their contribution of ‘remittances’ to support their families and as an element in the gross national income is substantial, but is also a symptom of social issues which could have an adverse, long-term impact on their children’s upbringing.

Young school leavers might have been given academic education, practical skills and a social orientation.

The economy, however, does not provide employment opportunities for them.

The problem of the relatively high rate of teenage pregnancies aggravates the ‘motherhood’ problem.

Schoolgirls who become pregnant and bear children are likely to find it more difficult to get good jobs and to rear their offspring. The jobs crisis is real and is only getting wider and deeper. Working mothers, once they receive their wages, have to stretch and spread their earnings thinly just to afford food as expenses rise.

A poor mother is obliged return to work soon after her baby is born in order to retain her job, but doing so risks impairing the child’s prospects in later life. Children of poor mothers or in singleparent households are more likely to do worse at school and to become involved in juvenile delinquency than youngsters whose mothers are comfortable enough to be able to stay at home to bring them up.

They are more likely to drop out of primary and secondary school and will be at greater risk of unemployment as young adults after their partial or interrupted schooling.

It is no wonder that the Director of Prisons last year disclosed that young people comprise 75 per cent of the prison population. Guyana is cramming its prison with hundreds of young inmates.

Magistrates compound the problem by incarcerating several young mothers convicted of minor marijuanarelated offences. The cost of ignoring the issues of motherhood today will be an expensive social catastrophe in the not too distant future.

Guyana, perhaps, has become one of the worst countries in the Caribbean for poor mothers. Getting by is really a miracle!

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Govt. cleared UG $50M security service debt - Institution still has numerous other liabilities A $50M debt incurred by the University of Guyana, for security payment was paid off by the government Friday morning. The money was paid directly to Neal and Massy after the security service had threatened to halt services provided at the institution.

This publication was informed that soon after the tertiary institution became aware of Neal and Massy’s threat to withdraw the guards from the campus, the information was circulated to all Council members and relevant Government officials.

Sources at the University said that the payment has completely cleared the institution’s debt owed to Neal and Massy.

However, the source added that the University is still indebted to many other entities “We still have many other liabilities, including outstanding utility payments.”

This newspaper understands that the University has been “broke for a long time

now. We just simply need more funding.”

Kaieteur News has also been told that for “many years now University of Guyana has been operating on a deficit budget.”

The source said that there is nothing in the pipeline “known to us” to address the financial situation, “it’s like we were being ignored until today.” Another source said that “it is ridiculous what is going on, they (the government) know we’re not getting enough, but before they budget adequately they wait to play super government.”

There have been several cases of university students being attacked and robbed. Students have also complained of their cars being burglarized.

A possibility of a hike in tuition fees had been announced by the Vice Chancellor so that the institution can better help itself.

Government is yet to rule out the increase.

(Abena Rockcliffe)

‘Pedestrians most vulnerable road users’

- NRSC reports during pedestrian safety week observance

Students of Stella Maris Primary during a national school safety patrol exercise

By Rehanna Ramsay “Pedestrians are the most frequent victims of fatal traffic accidents in the world, an average of 5,000 pedestrians are killed on the roadways around the globe, each week.” This was reported as Guyana concentrated on Pedestrian Safety Week, where more emphasis was placed on the safety of those most vulnerable on the roadways.”

Nigel Erskine, Chairman of the National Road Safety Council (NRSC) said last Wednesday as he outlined the aim of this week’s campaign, “Pedestrian safety should be given priority because throughout the Americas pedestrians account for 23 per cent of all road deaths.” “In Guyana 38 persons including five children have been killed so far in the year, due to road accidents.”

According to the NRSC chairman, it is quite a common practice of Governments and road safety agencies to cater for the protection and guidance of motorists.

“The roads are designed with safety signs, traffic lights and various demarcations to protect motorists. However, little emphasis is placed on pedestrians. In Guyana there is a lack of sidewalks, appropriate signs and symbols to guide pedestrians.”

The council will seek to persuade government to place more emphasis on the safety of pedestrians while law enforcement agencies will be asked to insist on the regulations that will guarantee improved safety of pedestrians. The implementation of additional laws that ensure protection of pedestrians will also be encouraged. The NRSC will be collaborating with various agencies including the Pan-American Health

Organisation, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Guyana Police Force.

Several public awareness programmes are scheduled while several existing pedestrian crossings in regions across the country will be repainted. Ramona Doorgen, coordinator of the NRSC reiterated that although pedestrians top the list as the most vulnerable on roadways, in Guyana the motorcyclists have been leading the death toll.

“We are calling on motorcyclists to take precautions; look out for yourselves, wear a helmet… Even the laws of Guyana say this, don’t wait until something detrimental happens before you do.”

The NRSC which consists of 19 executive members and 350 volunteers, Doorgen says, will continue to lend support in diverse capacities to those affected by mishaps that occur along the roads.

Doorgen vowed that NRSC as an advisory body will continually make suitable recommendations to various administrations for valuable execution of policies that will ensure the safeguarding of all pedestrians and road users. Doorgen says that every citizen should take responsibility for their actions, practice caution and be aware of the safe practices that will decrease misfortune on the roads. She added that “the media’s involvement in raising awareness about road safety is important.”

Eric Benjamin, an executive member of the road safety committee, called on the private sector for their involvement and financial support to council as it reaches out to raise awareness and propel improved road safety practices.

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Sparendaam plane crash

GCAA to meet with Sithe Global on liabilities

FLASHBACK: Labourers clearing the rubble at the crash site.

Concerns about the insurance of the ill-fated American registered aircraft that crashed into a Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara house on April 13 may soon be put to rest.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) is trying to arrange a meeting with Sithe Global in relation to liabilities caused when the twin-engine Piper Aztec, with registration N27-FT crashed.

The two-man crew was on a technical survey mission for the Amaila Falls Hydropower project. Apparently, Sithe Global, responsible for managing the construction of the project, subcontracted Digital World Mapping to conduct surveys.

This is according to Paula Mc Adam, GCAA’s Director of Aviation Safety Regulation, who was at the time responding to queries about a press release the regulatory body issued on the matter Thursday.

According to GCAA’s press release, “Approval was given to Digital World Mapping to operate the specific aircraft to conduct a LiDar Survey for the Amaila Hydropower Project. In that approval the operator was advised that the aircraft must be insured against third party risk.

“Detailed examination, based on information provided by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) of the USA has revealed that the insurance

coverage for the aircraft did not include coverage for operations in South America.

As a consequence the liability issues resulting from the aircraft crash are viewed as devolving to the charterer of the aircraft.”

However, the regulatory agency did not definitively say whether the aircraft operator acted on the advice and insured the aircraft against third party risk.

According to a source, no checks were made to confirm if the operator complied with GCAA’s advice and insured against third party risk. The source said that GCAA’s Air Transport Management Department did not verify if the aircraft was insured and breached protocol by not informing the Aviation Safety Regulations Department about the aircraft’s presence in Guyana’s airspace.

The aircraft, just after taking off from the Ogle International Airport, crashed into Florence Tyndall’s house on April 13, last. It also burnt a section of her neighbour, Michelle Belle’s house.

Tyndall escaped unharmed but the aircraft’s owner and pilot Pierre Angiel and his passenger Canadian Scientist Nick Dmitriev perished.

Tyndall and Belle are patiently waiting for the investigations to conclude and the reconstruction of their properties to commence.

Tyndall, whose house was completely destroyed, is

optimistic that the “insurance company” would come forward and rebuild her house.

It was only after the incident that some senior officials and Aviation Safety Regulations Department became aware of the aircraft, the source said. As such, the department was unable to carry out ramp inspection or examine the aircraft’s logbook which would have indicated the date of the last inspection.

This incident has raised concerns among members of the local Aircraft Owners Association who have written to President Donald Ramotar.

The Association is worried that the aircraft entered Guyana without proper due diligence being carried out by the GCAA. The letter pointed out that GCAA should not be the body conducting the investigations since it is also the subject of investigation.

And the regulations provide for the President to direct the investigations.

Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon during his post-Cabinet press briefing Thursday at the Office of the President said that Government has been in receipt of many letters making similar observations and they would be attended to.

Dr. Luncheon indicated that the letter from the Aircraft Owners’ Association may incite an engagement with the President.

MAN TORCHES OWN HOME DURING ROW

The police at the Charity outpost have apprehended a Johnstown, Westbury man, who allegedly torched his two-flat concrete house, early Friday Morning.

One neighbour said that her husband awoke and saw raging fire. The fire service at Anna Regina was alerted and assisted in extinguishing the fire.

According to reports, the husband and wife had a heated argument when one of the partners threw a lighted lamp and started the blaze.

The couple was arrested, however only the male remains in custody, at the Charity outpost.

And police have apprehended a 54-yearold Westbury man who alleged sexually assaulted his seven-year-old granddaughter on Tuesday.

The Grade Two child related the incident to one of her teachers who later informed the police.

Police have since taken the man into custody.

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Brazil mob may have executed Guyanese couple over stolen cache - two of Mootoo’s ‘business associates’ also slain this year

EXECUTED: Jason Wills

EXECUTED: Intaz Roopnarine

Executed cambio dealer Totaram Mootoo and his wife appear to be the most recent targets of a bloody, longrunning vendetta involving members of an incensed Brazilian mob and a group of Guyanese accused of fleecing them.

This is the view of police sources who believe that the feud has already claimed the lives of at least two of Mootoo’s close associates; Intaz Roopnarine and JasonWills, who were gunned down this year within the space of one week.

Roopnarine was shot dead on January 24 in the compound of the Cool Square Hotel, while 33-year-old Wills was riddled with bullets a few days later in a Meadowbrook residence. Wills was reportedly watching television in the living room when gunmen armed with high-powered weapons entered via the open front door and shot him dead.

Roopnarine, Wills and Mootoo are said to have been business partners as well as close friends.

According to reports reaching Kaieteur News, the vendetta stems from a dispute

over a soured transaction, allegedly involving some Brazilians, who were fleeced of a cache believed to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

This newspaper was told that the three Guyanese and their associates are being blamed for the loss incurred by the foreigners.

Police have received reports that Mootoo had been attempting to make amends for his part in the soured deal. He reportedly recently sold a plot of land for some $40M, allegedly with the intention of paying his debt.

However, the individual to whom he sold the property failed to pay him immediately.

The businessman was still waiting for payment when he was executed.

Close associates of the couple had confirmed that he had complained of being owed large sums of money but they also said that he had not appeared to be worried or expressed fear for his safety.

Police sources suggested that the Brazilians became impatient and opted to kill Mootoo rather than collect their debt.

EXECUTED: Totaram Mootoo, called ‘Beer’, and Bagmattie Mootoo, called ‘Dolly’ One source likened Mootoo’s demise to the still unsolved murder of the late Herman Sanichar, who was gunned down some 19 years ago at his Herstelling, East Bank Demerara residence.

Sanichar’s killers allegedly threw foreign currency notes on his bulletriddled body.

“They (mobs) say they want their money and (after a while) they say they don’t want it anymore,” a source said.

Investigators believe that Mootoo’s killers arrived at his home around 23:00 hrs on Thursday. It is believed that the men were individuals that the businessman considered to be his close friends, so he let them in.

Police sources say that from evidence at the crime scene, the men conversed at a table and even had refreshments. “It looked like they had a decent conversation before they killed him.”

Some sources believe that after that ‘decent conversation’, the men took Mootoo and his wife to their bedroom, where they used

GPSU gives mixed reaction to new minimum wage In the same breath deeming the new minimum wage of $35,000 monthly for fulltime employees outside the Public Sector insufficient, the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has welcomed the initiative wholeheartedly.

The Union in a press release one day after Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon announced that the new national minimum wage would be implemented on July 1, said it wholeheartedly welcomes the introduction for the workers who are in receipt of earnings below $35,000.

According to the Union, “While in the prevailing economic environment in Guyana, this amount is neither ideal nor sufficient, this development is viewed as the most meaningful contribution to the economic wellbeing and welfare of the employed poor nationally for the last 20 years and considers

it as very encouraging and commendable.”

According to Dr. Luncheon, full-time workers outside the Public Sector would be paid no less than $35,000 monthly, $8,000 weekly, or $200 (US$1) per hour.

“The new national minimum wage does indeed take into consideration other provisions some statutory… perilously close to statutory. They have been in existence and so hallowed for so long they almost become statute,” he added.

The new national minimum wage was agreed upon by Government, Labour and the Private Sector, he added.

Dr. Luncheon said that Cabinet noted that since 1977 when the Public Service minimum wage was promulgated the country did not have a national minimum wage. The Public Service minimum wage exceeds this new national minimum wage.

duct-tape to bind the businessman’s hands behind his back. The police sources believe that the men tortured Mootoo, before placing the couple on their bed and shooting them. It is also believed that the hit-men forced Mootoo to open a money-safe in his bedroom.

From evidence at the scene the killers then placed a 20-pound gas cylinder on the bed and caused it to ignite. The ensuing explosion blew a hole in the bedroom wall and the subsequent blaze destroyed the house.

Police officials said yesterday that while some of the houses in the upscale neighbourhood known as Guysuco Scheme have surveillance cameras, none of them appear to have recording equipment. The sole surveillance camera on the slain couple’s home was destroyed during the fire.

Detectives are expected to return to the scene today.

At least two individuals alleged that they saw the occupants of a car driving from the area shortly after the blaze started.

The charred bodies of 54year-old Totaram Mootoo, called ‘Beer’, and 48-year-old Bhagmattie Mootoo, called ‘Dolly’, were discovered early Friday morning in their master bedroom.

The businessman’s hands were bound behind his back with duct-tape while his wife was lying nearby with an arm around her husband.

Fragments of a gas cylinder were found at the head of the bed. Other fragments were also found in the yard, having blasted through a massive hole in the bedroom wall. The blast also blew off the roof and several windows.

The couple’s two sons, who reside overseas, were expected in the country yesterday. A postmortem is likely to be performed on the victims tomorrow.

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Dem boys seh

Amaila falling to sleep Amaila was coming like a truck now it look like it going nowhere. Jagdeo build up people hopes when he talk bout a regular power supply. People start fuh picture life without blackout. Dem see big industries starting to operate in Guyana and of course de see people still thiefing but in de end de light bill woulda get smaller.

Of course when dem boys hear de price de first time de seh that things ain’t too bad. But then de price jump up two more times and dem boys get giddy. De project that start off costing US$500 million soon cost nearly double.

But even then was alright till dem boys hear that China gun change its exchange rate which mean that de price gun pass $1 billion.

Is everything pun de road getting more and more expensive. De road start off at US$15.4 million now dem done spend nearly US$30 million and de road ain’t done.

Dem change three contractor and it look like if dem run out of contractor and if dem run out of contractor then it mean that dem run out of road. And if dem run out of road then dem gun run out of hydro. And that got some people smiling.

One man seh that wid all de corruption he was worried that half of de money fuh de hydro gun end up in people pocket. Already Fip was planning to collect US$10 million and dem boys know some other people who woulda collect three times wha Fip is to collect.

One man seh that it better that de country cut its losses and let de US$30 million go down de drain than fuh let de project continue and $100 million go down de drain or into people pocket.

But if de project go down de drain is another story.

People gun talk how de money waste in de jungle.

That money coulda repair most of dem road wha got people complaining and it coulda hire teachers to teach some of dem people who reading de news pun Hen See Hen. Talk half and keep you eyes pun Amaila.

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Born Loser

Garfield

Non Sequitur

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Hair Care for Men Basic Scalp Care: A healthy scalp is required for good hair growth. Use a mild shampoo to clean your scalp . It is better if you use an acid based shampoo instead of alkaline based shampoos. Use various hair care products like shampoo with contains pH of 4.5 – 5.5.

Shampoos with Sodium Myreth Sulfate are more suitable for the hair. Use an exfoliating scrub once or twice a week to get rid of dead skin or dirt from your scalp. A good massage and a good moisturizing conditioner keep the scalp healthy. Always dry your hair before combing.

Most of the cases, men suffer from hair damage because they try to dry off hair with towel. The point is wet hair is prone to damages and suspected to hair problems. While drying hair with towel, the hair is harshly rubbed that causes damage to cuticle and results in frizzing of hair and split ends. The proper way to dry your hair is to ensure that you have squeezed out the excess water and gently stroking in hair growing direction.

Remember, depending on your hair cut drying process varies from person to person. Avoid chemical treatments Perming or coloring hair is a part of hair style for men.

But, it is best to avoid these as it contains harsh chemicals that ends up damaging hair and making it rough, dry and unmanageable. But there are situations where these kind of treatments becomes necessary. Thus, it is advisable to seek the help of good professional hair stylist.

At present there are many men's hair care products are available safe to use and made from less or zero chemicals.

The result from trained professional is always better as it looks natural and not an artificial one. Your hair will also remain safe and will not suffer from any kind of damages.

Use natural hair care products which are devoid of harmful chemicals. Natural hair care products reduce hair loss and increases hair beauty.

Diets containing vitamins and minerals are also required for healthy hair. Select the right tools for hair care Always use the right hair care tools.

Instead of using a narrow comb, select one that comes with wide tooth. Make sure that the end points are rounded and not sharp ones. Comb your wet hair with wide toothed comb as it will prevent your hair from breakage and help untangling them without causing any kind of damage.

Use a brush which has natural bristles and a blow dryer to style your hair. There are various type of hair style products like gels, hairsprays and mousses . These products help you to maintain your hairstyle all throughout the day.

Trim your hair on regular interval Trimming keeps your hair healthy and nice and helps in enhancing the healthy growth of hair. Trim after every three months or twice in a year. In fact the interval of hair trimming is dependent on the texture, conditions and extent of damage of your hair.

Visit your stylist as this concerned person will be able to guide you in right way about trimming. Eat healthy and follow sound lifestyle A healthy hair reflects your eating habits and the kind of life you lead. It is advisable to take healthy diet and exercise regularly to help the body in getting rid of toxins.

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M O T H E R H O L L E

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nce upon a time...

There was a widow who had two daughters; one of them was beautiful and industrious, the other ugly and lazy. The mother, however, loved the ugly and lazy one best, because she was her own daughter, and so the other, who was only her stepdaughter, was made to do all the work of the house, and was quite the Cinderella of the family.

Her stepmother sent her out every day to sit by the well in the high road, there to spin until she made her fingers bleed.

Now it chanced one day that some blood fell on to the spindle, and as the girl stopped over the well to wash it off, the spindle suddenly sprang out of her hand and fell into the well.

She ran home crying to tell of her misfortune, but her stepmother spoke harshly to her, and after giving her a

violent scolding, said unkindly, 'As you have let the spindle fall into the well you may go yourself and fetch it out.'

The girl went back to the well not knowing what to do, and at last in her distress she jumped into the water after the spindle.

She remembered nothing more until she awoke and found herself in a beautiful meadow, full of sunshine, and with countless flowers blooming in every direction.

She walked over the meadow, and presently she came upon a baker's oven full of bread, and the loaves cried out to her, 'Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago.' So she took the bread-shovel and drew them all out.

She went on a little farther, till she came to a tree full of apples. 'Shake me, shake me, I pray,' cried the tree; 'my apples, one and all, are ripe.' So she shook the tree, and the apples came falling down upon her like rain; but she continued shaking until there was not a single apple left upon it.

Then she carefully gathered the apples together in a heap and walked on again.

The next thing she came to was a little house, and there she saw an old woman looking out, with such large teeth, that she was terrified, and turned to run away. But the old woman called after

For my Mother Mommy, I will always love you For all that you have done and still do; I will hug you and kiss you Because I know you love me, too.

You feed me and clothe me And teach me to play and pray, So smile because I love you On this your own special day.

her, 'What are you afraid of, dear child? Stay with me; if you will do the work of my house properly for me, I will make you very happy.

You must be very careful, however, to make my bed in the right way, for I wish you always to shake it thoroughly, so that the feathers fly about; then they say, down there in the world, that it is snowing; for I am Mother Holle.' The old woman spoke so kindly, that the girl summoned up courage and agreed to enter into her service.

She took care to do everything according to the old woman's bidding and every time she made the bed she shook it with all her might, so that the feathers flew about like so many snowflakes. The old woman was as good as her word: she never spoke angrily to her, and gave her roast and boiled meats every day.

So she stayed on with Mother Holle for some time, and then she began to grow unhappy. She could not at first tell why she felt sad, but she became conscious at last of great longing to go home; then she knew she was homesick, although she was a thousand times better off with Mother Holle than with her mother and sister.

After waiting awhile, she went to Mother Holle and said, 'I am so homesick, that I cannot stay with you any longer, for although I am so happy here, I must return to my own people.'

Then Mother Holle said, 'I am pleased that you should want to go back to your own people, and as you have served me so well and faithfully, I will take you home myself.'

Thereupon she led the girl by the hand up to a broad gateway. The gate was opened, and as the girl passed through, a shower of gold fell upon her, and the gold clung to her, so that she was covered with it from head to foot.

'That is are ward for your industry,' said Mother Holle, and as she spoke she handed her the spindle which she had dropped into the well.

The gate was then closed, and the girl found herself back in the old world close to her mother's house. As she entered the courtyard, the cock who was perched on the well, called out: 'Cock-adoodle-doo! Your golden daughter's come back to you.’ (To be continued next week)

Thing to DO This heart basket is beautiful and easy to make (once you get the hang of it).

You can make it out of paper or felt (for a longlasting basket). Younger kids need help doing this project.

These baskets can be used as party favors, filled with candy, or even as a craft to make during a party (you may want to do the marking and/or cutting before the party if younger children are involved).

To make a woven Heart Basket, you will need: Two pieces of paper, each a different color (or use felt) a pen or pencil scissors glue or a stapler.

For each basket, you'll need 2 strips of colored paper (use 2 different colors). Fold each piece of paper in half.

Cut the folded paper into two halves (along the dotted line), into long rectangles. The exact dimensions of the paper rectangles don't matter as long as the two pieces that make a basket are the same size.

Place the 2 folded rectangles on top of each other, rotated 90° from each other. Draw a thin pencil line along the edge of one side onto the other rectangle.

Place the rectangles exactly on top of each other, making sure that the folds are on top of each other.

Mark each strip as shown in the picture. The number of strips you cut and their width doesn't really matter; just make each strip at least 1/2 inch wide so they don't break too easily. Cut along the new dotted lines.

In regular weaving, strands are woven "under" and "over" each other; in this basket the weaving is "through" and "around."

Start the weaving by weaving strip 1 through slit A, around strip B, through slit C, etc., until the row is finished. Push this row to the back, where the slits end.

Continue the weaving with strip B. Weave it through slit 1, around strip 2, through slit 3, etc., until this row is finished. Continue until all the rows are done.

Cut a strip of paper (about 1/2 inch by 6-7 inches) for the basket's handle. Glue or staple it to the front and back of the basket.

Solve the clues, write the answer in the boxes provided and when you read down the first column of each group of answers, you will reveal a special message.

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TEEN TIME

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Make Mother’s Day the most My Mother is important celebration in your Life my Life Line To d a y w e a r e celebrating what many feel is one of the most important occasions in any person's life.

Apart from the fact that we could not have been here without our mothers, we should be finding as many ways as we could to thank them for all they have done for us.

The majority of parents do not really need their children to give them anything in return for all the sacrifices they made towards their children's

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK The genuine gratitude you show your mother will be returned many times by your own children

upbringing and welfare, and you will find that the things that would give them most satisfaction would be to know that you have done your best to make the best of yourself.

It would be hard to estimate the work of the 15 or so years of care, hard work and selfsacrifice, not to mention the money and other resources that your mother has expended on you from infancy to near adulthood. In reality, she gave to you something you can never hope to match in return.

While a child is first indebted to his Creator as the source of his life, a child owes his mother a deep debt of gratitude for playing her part in starting his life and all the joys and happiness that would go with that.

How then can a child express this gratitude?

We know that all the world's possessions cannot buy life, and you cannot put a price on human life.

Children should therefore feel obligated to give their mothers what they can, and one of the first things is that they should endeavour to love them as long as they live.

In this way they can help to make their life worth living when they may be feeling useless and not wanted.

More than anything else mothers have a natural desire to be able to take pride in what their children do and become, in how they have learnt the lessons that they have tried to teach them in their growing years, and in living according to the values which they have

tried to impart to them.

In a practical sense, children should be obedient to their mothers, but of course this does not include anything that you have come to believe is wrong.

If this happens, then you should be careful to show respect to them in telling them of your disagreement while giving them a reason. It would be good to remember when this occurs that you will one day be a parent, and try to deal with your mother as you would want your own child to treat you.

Try to do what is in your power today to make your mother happy, and also plan to act in the future in ways that would make her proud of you and satisfied that she has done her duty and nurtured a good person.

My mother is my lifeline, she is my complete savioUr, She does everything she can for me, and for that I praise her, She went without when I was younger so I could have nice stuff, She worked herself to the bone, but never did she give up.

My mother is my lifeline, she is truly my best friend, she help me through the good and bad, she stayed there till the end, she pick me up when I was down and wiped the tears away, she will be there when I need her every night and everyday.

My mother is my lifeline, she's completely a shining star, she has never made me feel alone, no distance is too far, she'll travel to the moon and back, if I ask her to.

My mother is my lifeline, this poem I wrote for you.

Solutions to last week’s LEARNING TO PLAY Eddie is older than the friend who is learning the violin and younger than the one learning the trumpet, so he is 10 years old and is learning the drums (clues 1 and 3).

The 9 year old is learning the violin and the 11 year old is learning the trumpet (clue 1). Emma is younger than Eric, so she is 9 years old and Eric is 11 (clue 2 and above).

HOW MANY TRIANGLES? ANSWER: 14:- (ABE, ACE, ACF, ACG, ADE, AEF, AFG, BCE, CEG, CFG, DEF, EFG, EFH, GEH)

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Country Profile: OVERVIEW Famous for its spectacular mountain scenery, Austria is no longer the dominant political force it was in Central Europe under the Habsburg dynasty which ruled until the first world war.

However, its position at the geographical heart of Europe on the key Danube trade route enhances its strategic importance.

After being joined to Nazi Germany from 19381945, Austria was occupied by the Allies, who divided up the country and the capital Vienna into separate sectors.

However, the 1955 State Treaty - signed by the Allies guaranteed Austria's unity, ensuring it did not suffer Germany's fate of being split between the Soviets and the Western Cold War blocs.

In return, Austria declared permanent neutrality, to which it still adheres.

There were some questions surrounding this when two thirds of voters supported EU membership in a referendum in 1994 and entry followed in 1995.

The entry into Austria's coalition government of the far-right Freedom Party in

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Austria

Life expectancy: 78 years (men), 84 years (women) (UN, 2010) Monetary unit: 1 euro = 100 cents Main exports: Machinery, metals, paper, textiles, food, livestock GNI per capita: US $47,060 (World Bank, 2010) Internet domain: .at International dialling code: +43

President Heinz Fischer February 2000 sent shockwaves across Europe.

Austria's relations with the EU were severely strained after some states imposed sanctions in protest. These were lifted some months later.

The capital, Vienna, is home to key international organisations, including the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Opec, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

Austria has a very rich cultural heritage.

Wo l f g a n g A m a d e u s Mozart occupies a place of his own as composer of some of the best loved European classical music while the works of Franz

Chancellor Werner Faymann Schubert enjoy great popularity too.

In the world of philosophy and ideas, Sigmund Freud still provokes controversy while Ludwig Wittgenstein was one of the major influences in 20th century thinking. In fine art, the paintings of Gustav Klimt are widely admired.

FACTS Full name: Republic of Austria Population: 8.4 million (UN, 2010) Capital: Vienna Area: 83,871 sq km (32,383 sq miles) Major language: German Major religion: Christianity

LEADERS President: Heinz Fischer Austrian President Heinz Fischer President Heinz Fischer is a former science minister Heinz Fischer, a centrist politician committed to the welfare state and Austrian neutrality, was elected to the largely ceremonial presidency in April 2004 and again 2010.

In the 2010 poll he warded off a challenge by Barbara Rosenkranz of the anti-foreigner and antiEuropean Union Freedom.

He has spent most of his life in politics. After graduating with a law degree from the University of Vienna in 1961, he took a position in the Social Democratic Party (SPO), entering parliament as a

deputy in 1971 and staying on until 2004.

During this time, he served as science and research minister between 1983 and 1987, before being elected parliamentary president in 1990. He was reelected three times.

Between 1992 and 2004, he was also a vice-president of the European Socialist Party.

Once in office, he officially renounced any party membership to become independent.

Chancellor: Werner Faymann A new grand coalition government was sworn in in Austria in December 2008, two months after snap general elections.

It is made up of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPOe) and the conservative People's Party, whose previous coalition collapsed during the summer.

Social Democrat leader Werner Faymann took the job of chancellor, while

Michael Spindelegger of the People's Party (OeVP) serves as vice chancellor.

The Social Democrats won the September elections with 30% of the vote. But they, and the People's Party, with 26%, had their worst results since 1945. Far-right parties won nearly 29% of the vote, doubling their support since the 2006 elections.

Although Austria has weathered the economic downturn that began in 2008 better than many other European countries, the government's austerity measures left it struggling to retain the support of the electorate.

The coalition suffered a further setback in the Viennese municipal election of October 2010, when the far-right Freedom Party won 26% of the vote, placing it second only to the Social Democrats.

Mr Faymann is a former Vienna city councillor and was transport and infrastructure minister in the cabinet of his predecessor, Alfred Gusenbauer. He is seen as a pragmatist with a populist streak.

MEDIA Austria's public b r o a d c a s t e r , Oesterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), has long-dominated the airwaves. Lately, it has faced competition from private broadcasters, particularly in Vienna.

Private broadcasting in Austria is a recent development. Local commercial radio was given the green light in the 1990s.

A national TV licence was granted to commercial station ATV - which opened in 2000 - and local TV stations have sprung up.

Cable or satellite TV is available in most Austrian homes and is often used to watch German stations, some of which tailor their output for local viewers.

A daily newspaper is a must for many Austrians.

National and regional titles contest fiercely for readers.

There were 6.14 million internet users by June 2010, around 75 per cent of the p o p u l a t i o n (InternetWorldStats.com).

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Ex-dictator convicted of genocide in Guatemala GUATEMALACITY(AP) — Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt’s conviction of genocide is a historic moment in a country still healing from a brutal, three-decade civil war and his trial offered Guatemala’s oppressed indigenous communities their first chance to be heard, human rights activists said.

Relatives of those killed and activists celebrated the 80-year sentence handed down by a tribunal to Rios Montt on Friday, a sweet moment in their long struggle to punish the former dictator who presided over one of the bloodiest chapters of a war that killed some 200,000 people, mainly indigenous Mayans.

During the trial Ixil Mayans, who have long suffered discrimination, stood up and testified about mass rapes, the killings of women and children, and other atrocities that authorities had often denied took place.

“It’s important that victims were given a voice, that they were given an opportunity to

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be heard, to feel vindicated, to show they are not crazy and that what they went through did happen,” said human rights activist Helen Mack, whose sister Mirna was killed in 1990 while documenting abuses against indigenous communities during the war.

“It’s a painful process for

Guatemala but we need go through it if we want to heal our wounds as a society,” said Mack.

But she warned that it remains to be seen if justice will be served in the case, despite the conviction of the 86-year-old ex-general for genocide and crimes against humanity.

“This sentence is still not firm because Rios Montt’s lawyers have already said they will work to nullify it,” she added.

The ruling was the state’s first official acknowledgment that genocide occurred during the 36-year civil war that ended with peace accords in 1996. It was also the first time such a sentence for genocide was ever handed down against a former Latin American leader in his own country.

For Guatemalan Nobel Peace laureate Rigoberta Menchu the unprecedented trial was an opportunity for Ixil Mayans to show other indigenous communities how to exercise their rights.

Caribbean restates position on rum subsidies

Kingston Jamaica – CMC - The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) has reiterated the need for an amicable solution to the rum dispute with the United States.

The Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat, in a statement following the meeting of regional trade and economic ministers, said the matter had been extensively discussed during the COTED meeting in Guyana last week.

According to the CARICOM statement, COTED “is determined to seek a satisfactory solution to the matter of trade-distorting subsidies being granted to USVI (United States Virgin Islands) and Puerto Rico rum producers that threaten the long-term viability of the rum industry in the Caribbean”.

It added that “ministers agreed to explore all avenues to address this serious matter with the United States and other relevant parties”.

Last December, COTED said the region continued to have “serious concerns” regarding the competitiveness of Caribbean rum in the United States.

“In addition to being the largest agriculture-based export industry in CARICOM, the rum industry is a substantial employer and a

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major contributor to foreign exchange earnings and government revenues,” COTED said.

Last August, the UKbased Diageo reportedly warned that should CARICOM mount a complaint to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over the alleged subsidies it would “reevaluate” its Caribbean interests.

Diageo has denied ‘flooding’ the US market and has defended the US government’s 100-year-old ‘cover over’ programme, which it said granted the USVI and Puerto Rico much-needed revenues to promote economic stability and fiscal autonomy.

In March, USVI Governor

John de Jongh wrote regional leaders urging CARICOM governments to back down on their plans to take their ongoing rum dispute before the WTO. de Jongh, in his letter to the prime ministers of Antigua and Barbuda, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, Dominica and St Lucia, urged them to avoid the WTO, claiming that this could lead to a prolonged legal case that could also be divisive and difficult to win.

He also warned that going to the WTO could “inflict damage on all of our economies”.

Earlier this year, Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart said that rumproducing countries had been holding high-level talks with the United States on resolving issues surrounding the rum industry in the region.

Stuart said the discussions, which were also attended by officials from the Dominican Republic, were necessary since, within recent times, subsidies had been given to rum producers in the USVI and Puerto Rico, much to the disadvantage of Caribbean rum producers, including Barbados.

He said the situation is so serious that Barbados is prepared to take its case to the WTO if a solution is not forthcoming.

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NY City Council weighs bill giving noncitizen Caribbean immigrants right to vote NEW YORK (AP) - Agha Saleh came to the United States inspired by democratic ideals, but it took him years to achieve a basic one here: voting.

He’d lived through political upheaval in his native Pakistan and was eager to be part of America’s storied “government of the people.”

But for the eight years until he got citizenship, it struck him as “a dream, perhaps, this democracy of the United States,” recalls Saleh, 51.

Now a cafe owner and community group leader in New York City, Saleh is among a roster of immigrant activists, voting rights advocates and lawmakers championing a proposal to give an estimated 800,000 green card and visa holders the right to vote in city elections.

The proposal, aired at a City Council hearing Thursday, would mark the biggest expansion yet of efforts to enfranchise immigrants. It may amplify a decades-long debate over whether voting rights should be reserved for citizenship or embrace newcomers on the

premise that they also have a stake in the society.

In a country that describes itself as a nation of immigrants, many states once let non-citizens vote, but those policies changed by the 1930s.

The idea has had something of a renaissance in recent decades. A half-dozen Maryland cities now allow it, and four Massachusetts towns have OK’d it but are awaiting state approval. But immigrant suffrage initiatives were defeated at the polls in San Francisco and Portland, Maine. Immigrant and voting rights advocates see noncitizen suffrage as a matter of taxpayer fairness and civic engagement. But some officeholders and others view the vote as a fundamental province of citizenship, a privilege to hold out as a goal for new arrivals.

“Voting is the most important right we are granted as citizens, and you should have to go through the process of becoming a citizen and declaring allegiance to this country before being given that right,” New York

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said through a spokeswoman.

No vote has been scheduled on the New York measure, which faces legal as well as political questions.

Non-citizens were able to vote for the city school board for three decades, until the board was disbanded soon after Bloomberg took office in 2002.

Councilman Daniel Dromm’s proposal would open all city elections to foreigners who are in the country legally and have lived in the city for at least six months. They would register as a separate category of “municipal voters” but would vote alongside citizens.

Jose Torrero left Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to join his daughter in New York four years ago and has a green card. He was active in politics in his homeland, and he’d like to vote for New York candidates who share his views on immigration, job creation and other issues. The 70-year-old is preparing to apply for citizenship, but it’s likely years away.

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G7 says Japan playing Rafsanjani’s last-minute by currency rules entry transforms Iranian race AYLESBURY, England (AP) — Finance leaders from the Group of Seven leading industrial economies say Japan’s stimulus policies are directed at boosting its economy out of a two-decade period of stagnation, not an attempt to drive down its currency to make Japan’s exports more competitive.

At the conclusion of a two-day meeting of leading financial representatives from the G-7 countries — the U.S., Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada and the U.K. — host British Treasury chief George Osborne said there was a formal acknowledgement that each member needed to secure their own countries’ growth by balancing austerity measures with growthenhancing policies. The officials also agreed on the importance of finding measures to deal with failing banks and working collectively to stop companies and individuals from dodging their tax bills.

The global recovery from recession over the past few years has been patchy. While the U.S. economy, the world’s

largest, appears to be gaining traction, many European countries are in recession as they try to get a grip on their public finances through deep spending cuts and tax increases.

“The will is still there to reduce the deficits but there is certainly a change of tone,” said Pierre Moscovici, France’s finance minister at the conclusion of the two-day summit at a country house around 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of London.

Japan, the world’s number 3 economy has been in focus in recent months. The new government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promised aggressive steps to restart the country’s postwar boom, which effectively ground to a halt in the early 1990s. As part of that effort, the Bank of Japan plans to double the amount of cash circulating in the Japanese economy and held as bank reserves.

One of the offshoots of the policies has been a dramatic fall in the value of the yen. On Thursday, the dollar rose above 100 yen for the first

time in over four years. The yen has weakened by more than 20 percent against the dollar since October, when it was trading at around 78 yen.

As well as potentially boosting economic growth by making its exports more competitive, the flipside of a lower yen is that it can also stoke inflation by increasing the price of imports. For a country that’s seen prices fall for much of the past 15 years, that’s important.

The rapid slide in the value of the yen has sparked fears of a “currency war” — where countries use their exchange rates as an economic weapon. If other countries respond to the falling yen by debasing their currencies, Japan will be back at square one and the world economy could suffer. Sharp fluctuations in the value of currencies can hurt business confidence and investment.

So far, the argument presented by Japanese officials that it has been targeting monetary stimulus and not its exchange rate has been accepted by Japan’s G-7 partners.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani threw himself into Iran’s election race on Saturday as a flurry of heavyweight candidates rushed to beat the registration deadline in the most unpredictable contest for decades.

Iranian media reported that Rafsanjani - a relative moderate - had registered for the June 14 presidential election with just minutes to spare. His candidacy radically alters what was previously seen as a contest between rival conservative groups.

The former president could scupper the hopes of ‘Principlists’, loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who are aiming to secure a quick and painless transition and paper over the deep fissures between the opposing camps.

Rafsanjani, 78, who was president from 1989 to 1997, is expected to draw some support from reformists because he backed the opposition movement whose protests were crushed after the last, disputed election in 2009.

The election comes at a critical moment, as Iran reels from international sanctions over its disputed atomic program and faces the threat of attack by Israel if it crosses what the Jewish state calls a ‘red line’ towards acquiring a nuclear weapon. Tehran strenuously denies it wants an atomic bomb.

A vast field of more than 400 candidates have thrown their names into the ring as potential successors to outgoing president Mahmoud

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Ahmadinejad, who has long been at odds with the supreme leader.

Shortly before Rafsanjani’s announcement, Saeed Jalili, a hardline conservative who is seen as close to Khamenei and has led rounds of so far unsuccessful nuclear talks with world powers, entered his name as a candidate.

Soon afterwards Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, an aide to Ahmadinejad and a man viewed with intense distrust by conservatives, registered for the race, gripping Ahmadinejad’s hand as the two flashed peace signs for photographers.

Khamenei’s camp sees Mashaie as leading a “deviant current” that seeks to set aside clerical influence in favor of a more nationalistic doctrine.

The presidential vote is the first since Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election four years ago, when mass “Green movement” protests erupted

after the defeat of reformist candidates Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi.

Dozens were killed in the worst unrest since the 1979 revolution.

The outcome of next month’s contest will signal the extent of Khamenei’s control at the summit of power in the Islamic Republic.

It will also show whether he feels the need to reach out to opposition groups and whether the reformists are capable of making a comeback.

Proponents of greater social and political freedoms have been suppressed or sidelined: Mousavi, his wife and Karoubi have been under house arrest for over two years.

After a day of intense speculation about his intentions, the last-minute entry by Rafsanjani was a moment of political drama.

Iranian television showed him smiling and waving as he sat in the crowded office where he registered his candidacy.

“He knows if he runs he can have both the reformists’ vote, and have some of the principlists. Rafsanjani is not the type to put aside power,” said Mohammad Hossein Ziya, who campaigned for reformist Karoubi in 2009 and now edits Karoubi’s website from the United States.

Another reformist expresident, Mohammad Khatami, endorsed Rafsanjani on Friday.

“Rafsanjani is a pillar of the Islamic Revolution, whereas Khatami is a standard bearer of the reform movement,” said Yasmin Alem, a U.S.-based expert on Iran’s electoral system.

IAEA chief backs sending experts to check Iran’s Bushehr plant (Reuters) - The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it would be a good idea to send experts to check the safety of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor, a day after Iran said its facilities were safe following a nearby earthquake.

Iranian officials and the Russian company that built Bushehr, Iran’s only nuclear power reactor, said it was unscathed by last month’s earthquake.

But that has not stopped fears about safety in a country that sits on major faultlines, especially as Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation said just hours after the earthquake that more reactors would be built there. “(I think) it is better to

send experts to check on the safety of Iran’s Bushehr reactor,” Yukiya Amano was quoted as telling the Bahrain News Agency in Manama yesterday.

It was not immediately clear which experts Amano was referring to. The IAEA was not immediately available for comment.

“What I can say about this is that the centre of the earthquake was away from the Bushehr reactor which was designed and built in the 1970s ... in a way that qualifies it to withstand an earthquake of that magnitude,” Amano told BNA. Iran’s environmental protection chief said on Friday the country’s nuclear and hydropower facilities were well protected from cyber

attacks and even the most powerful earthquakes.

Iran is the only country operating a nuclear power plant that does not belong to the 75-nation Convention on Nuclear Safety, negotiated after the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl which contaminated wide areas and forced about 160,000 Ukrainians from their homes.

Inspectors from the IAEA visit the Bushehr plant occasionally to check the nuclear material kept there, but not to conduct safety inspections.

Yesterday, a smaller 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck southeast Iran, about 89 km (55 mi) southeast of Minab, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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40 dead in Turkey car General signals Egypt army staying out of politics bombings near Syria

People carry a woman injured in a blast in Reyhanli, near Turkey’s border with Syria, yesterday. (AP Photo/Anadolu Agency, Lale Koklu) TURKEY OU

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Two car bombs exploded in a Turkish town near the border with Syria yesterday, killing around 40 people and wounding 100 others, officials said. Turkey’s deputy prime minister said Syria’s intelligence and military were “the usual suspects” behind the bombings, but said authorities were still investigating the attacks.

The blasts, which were 15 minutes apart, raised fears that Syria’s brutal civil war violence was crossing into its neighbor.

One of the car bombs exploded outside the city hall while the other went off outside the post office in the town of Reyhanli, a main hub for Syrian refugees and rebel activity in Turkey’s Hatay province, just across the border. Images showed people frantically carrying victims through the rubblestrewn streets to safety.

Deputy Prime Minister

Bulent Arinc said about 40 people were killed and 100 others wounded in the blasts and linked them to Syria.

There was no immediate information on the identities or nationalities of the victims.

“We know that the Syrian refugees have become a target of the Syrian regime,” he said.

“Reyhanli was not chosen by coincidence.”

“Our thoughts are that their mukhabarat (Syrian intelligence agency) and armed organizations are the usual suspects in planning and the carrying out of such devilish plans,” he said.

Arinc said Turkey would “do whatever is necessary” if proven that Syria is behind the attack.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier also raised the possibility that the bombings may be related to Turkey’s peace talks with Kurdish rebels meant to end a nearly 30-year-old conflict.

Syrian mortar rounds have fallen over the border before, but if the explosion turns out to be linked to Syria it would be by far the biggest death toll in Turkey related to its neighbor’s civil war.

Syria shares a more than 500-mile border with Turkey, which has been a crucial supporter of the Syrian rebel cause. Ankara has allowed its territory to be used as a logistics base and staging center for Syrian insurgents.

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu vowed from Berlin that Turkey would act.

“Those who for whatever reason attempt to bring the external chaos into our country will get a response,” he said.

The main Syrian opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, condemned the “terrorist attacks” in Reyhanli, saying it stands together with the “Turkish government and the friendly Turkish people.”

Pakistan’s Sharif declares election victory ISLAMABAD (AP) — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared victory following a historic election marred by violence yesterday, a remarkable comeback for a leader once toppled in a military coup and sent into exile.

The 63-year-old Sharif, who has twice served as premier, touted his success after unofficial, partial vote counts showed his Pakistan Muslim League-N party with an overwhelming lead. The party weathered a strong campaign by former cricket star Imran Khan that energized Pakistan’s young people.

Sharif expressed a desire to work with all parties to solve the

country’s problems in a victory speech given to his supporters in the eastern city of Lahore as his lead in the national election became apparent based on vote counts announced by Pakistan state TV. The results, which need to be officially confirmed, indicated Sharif’s party has an overwhelming lead but would fall short of winning a majority of the 272 directly elected national assembly seats. That means he would have to put together a ruling coalition, which could make it more difficult to tackle the country’s many problems.

“I appeal to all to come sit with me at the table so that this nation can get rid of this curse of power cuts, inflation and unemployment,” Sharif said.

Despite attacks against candidates, party workers and voters that killed 29 people Saturday, Pakistanis turned out in large numbers to elect the national and provincial assemblies.

The high participation was a sign of Pakistanis’ desire for change after years of hardship under the outgoing government, and it offered a sharp rebuke to Taliban militants and others who have tried to derail the election with attacks that have killed more than 150 people in recent weeks.

“Our country is in big trouble,” said Mohammad Ali, a shopkeeper who voted in Lahore. “Our people are jobless. Our business is badly affected. We are dying every day.”

CAIRO (Reuters) - The army is not the answer to Egypt’s political problems, the army chief said yesterday, urging Egyptians to find a way to get along in comments that appeared to rule out any military intervention in the country’s political standoff.

General Abdel Fattah alSisi, in comments reported online by the state-run AlAhram newspaper, called for “a framework for consensus”.

“The alternative is extremely dangerous,” he said.

President Mohamed Mursi’s most extreme critics have been urging the army to remove the Islamist head of state elected last June, demanding the type of intervention that led to Hosni Mubarak’s removal from power at the peak of an uprising in 2011.

But Sisi’s comments appeared one of the clearest indications to date that the army intends to stay out of a deeply polarized political landscape split between Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood, other Islamists and secularminded parties.

“With all respect for those who say to the army: ‘go into the street’, if this happened,

we won’t be able to speak of Egypt moving forward for 30 or 40 years,” Sisi said.

“No one is going to remove anybody, and nobody should think that the army has the solution,” he said, in an apparent response to those calling on the army to remove Mursi.

He was speaking at a military training exercise attended by public figures including artists and media personalities.

The divide between Mursi and his opponents has grown deeper since the president issued a decree late last year that was seen by critics as a power grab and allowed his Islamist allies to fast track a new constitution into law. The tension has fuelled spasms of street violence.

Following violence in late January, Sisi warned that the struggle between Egypt’s rival

parties could lead to the “collapse of the state”. He added that the army would remain “the sold and cohesive block” upon which the state rests.

Diplomats have said the army has shown no interest in taking back the executive powers it handed to Mursi last year.

The opposition has been demanding that Mursi establish a neutral government to oversee parliamentary elections due later this year. Instead, Mursi swore in a reshuffled cabinet on Tuesday that expanded the Brotherhood’s share of seats and brought no opposition voices into cabinet.

In a sign of the army’s support for the political transition being led by Mursi, Sisi said queuing for 10 or 15 hours to vote was “better than destroying the country”.

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‘No massive crime problem in T&T’ ...widespread publicity to blame, says Richardson Trinidad Express Deputy Commissioner of Police Mervyn Richardson says there “is no massive crime problem in Trinidad and Tobago”.

Just days after Prime Minister Kamla PersadBissessar said during the United National Congress’s (UNC) Monday Night Forum that serious crimes decreased by 36 per cent during the first quarter of this year, Richardson is blaming what he calls the “widespread publicity of crime” for creating a fear of crime in the country.

Richardson made the comment in an interview with TV6 News, in response to questions on new anti-crime initiatives announced by the Prime Minister on Thursday.

Those plans, approved by the National Security Council which the Prime Minister chairs, include the acquisition of 300 new police vehicles, the creation of a new rapidresponse unit and special training for 2,500 special reserve police (SRP) to work alongside their colleagues in

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the Police Service.

Saying these are welcomed by the police, Richardson then gave his assessment of the State’s war on crime.

“There is no massive crime problem in Trinidad, you know...yes, we have had some murders and we have had some crime that makes the headlines, but crime is at an all-time low in Trinidad and Tobago right now,”

Richardson said.

“We are at a 36 per cent decrease in serious crimes in Trinidad and Tobago, so anything, any initiative, any piece of equipment that we could use to further dampen crime is appreciated.”

But TV6 News asked Richardson if he realised his declaration that there was “no massive crime problem” would be controversial, given the homicide rate.

“Well, even homicide is down on the last-year figure, year-on-year homicide is down. So that crime, there is no massive (problem), I’m saying, as people making it (out to be). What is happening is the fear of crime people see because of the wide publicity that crime gets is what generates this in the communities,” Richardson said.

He also spoke of the crime-detection rate which has been a challenge in the past few years Richardson gave no specific figures but said the Police Service is improving its crime-detection rate.

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Jamaica senate president resigns; emigrating to Canada Jamaica Observer - The Senate Friday said goodbye to its president, Rev Stanley Redwood, only 16 months after he took over the chair with the change of government in January 2102.

As soon as the Senate completed debating the 2013/ 14 Appropriations Bill, Senator Redwood, in a brief statement, informed the members of his immediate resignation and his decision to move to Canada with his family on May 20.

His resignation letter to Parliament, which was read by the Clerk Heather Cooke, stated that as a consequence of his decision to emigrate with his family to Canada, he was resigning with immediate effect.

“I count it as a privilege to have served this nation in that position of honour over the past 16 months. This privilege has been accentuated by the support I have received from

all the honourable members of the Senate. I am supremely confident that the shared goal that this will be remembered as the most productive Senate since independence will be realised,” Redwood’s resignation letter said.

“My confidence is

anchored in the statesmanship and patriotic commitment I have encountered among the members. There is also a particular camaraderie often reflected in the spontaneous, good-natured humour across the aisle, which also augurs well for the success of the Senate.

“I am deeply grateful for the warmth and cordiality that was shown to me by everyone of you. Kindly accept the assurances of my highest regard,” the letter added.

On behalf of the Senate, the Leader of Government Business Senator A J Nicholson acknowledged the letter, which immediately came into effect in accordance with the Jamaican Constitution.

After it was read, Senator Redwood left the chair.

Veteran member, Senator Navel Clarke then temporarily took charge of the sitting.

Trinidad Guardian Canadian assistance has been obtained towards operationalisation of T&T’s new Forensic Science Centre and for local defence, security and related infrastructure using Canadian products and services, says Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran.

Dookeran, in a statement to Parliament Friday, outlined benefits from the Prime Minister’s recent trip to the US and Canada.

On the PM’s meeting with US deputy secretary of state William Burns, he said discussions concerned the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance act designed to combat tax evasion by US citizens holding overseas

investments.

Dookeran said it required foreign banks and financial entities to disclose the balances, receipts and withdrawals of American account holders to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or be subject to a 30 per cent withholding tax on income from US financial assets held by the banks or financial entities along with other requirements “which are a cause for concern” he added.

“This is a topic (Finance Minister Larry) Howai and the Bankers Association will meet to discuss next week,” Dookeran added. On the Canadian visit, Dookeran said heads of both states

expressed satisfaction with the launch of negotiations between T&T’s Air Guard and provincial Aerospace Ltd of Canada with respect to two long range multi-mission aircraft which “would allow the Air Guard to be more effective in the fulfillment of its security, surveillance and search-rescue mandate.”

Dookeran stressed: “As of now, there’s neither a formal contract nor any other agreement for purchase between the parties.” He said memoranda of agreement were signed on Canadian military training and cooperation providing training in peace support, communications and leadership.

Rev Stanley Redwood

Canada pitches in on T&T’s forensic science improvement

Subsidy given to CAL

by T&T Govt. violates Chaguaramas treaty – LIAT Jamaica Gleaner - The regional carrier, LIAT, has charged that the subsidy given to Caribbean Airlines (CAL) by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago is a violation of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas.

However, St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves, who made the assertion, says he does not want to pick a fight with the Kamla Persad Bissessar administration and instead will pursue dialogue in Port of Spain later this

month.

Speaking at the end of a shareholders meeting of the Antigua-based LIAT Airlines, Dr Gonsalves, said that the subsidy to CAL is also a violation of the Common Air Services Agreement among CARICOM member countries.

He says this has resulted in substantial losses to LIAT. Citing one example, Dr Gonsalves says between 2008 and 2012 LIAT spent more than US$106 million on fuel.

He says if LIAT was able to purchase fuel at the same

Dr. Ralph Gonsalves

price as CAL over the same five year period, it would cost US$43 million.

Sunday May 12, 2013

SUNDAY SPECIAL GLENN LALL HIGHLIGHTS BROADCAST LICENCE ISSUE IN CURACAO …REGIONAL MEDIA EXECUTIVES TO MONITOR LEGAL CHALLENGE Kaieteur News proprietor, Glenn Lall, staged a one-man picketing demonstration in Curacao two Fridays ago to highlight the current campaign to regularise the granting of radio broadcast licences in Guyana. Lall’s demonstration took place in the presence of regional journalists from 17 countries, academics, activists and media law experts observing World Press Freedom Day at the Renaissance Curacao Hotel.

Lall received expressions of solidarity from several regional journalists in attendance and was warmly greeted by members of the Curacao Media Organisation (CMO), including its President, Stanley Ignacio.

Guyana’s current broadcast licencing conflict featured throughout the day’s proceedings with indirect reference made by President of the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM), Wesley Gibbings, who asked in his opening remarks: “Are broadcast licences opening the doors or shutting them in our faces?”

Executive Director of the International Press Institute (IPI), Alison BethelMcKenzie, fresh from a recent visit to Guyana, said that her organisation was “concerned” about the issue.

WORRY FOR GUYANESE AS DELTA FLIES OUT Almost five years after adding the Guyana/New York route to its flights, US-based Delta Airlines stopped its operations in Guyana, putting pressure on the

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administration to now scramble to attract other operators. With the folding of EZjet and RedJet last year, only the Trinidad & Tobagoowned Caribbean Airlines is left. Suriname Airways has signaled intentions to start flights along that same route in July.

Last week Saturday, Delta’s local Sales Manager, Junior Horatio, confirmed that a Delta flight would arrive at 07:00 hrs Monday at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), and leave one hour later – for the last time.

Delta touched down in Guyana for the first time in June 2008, conducting three to four flights weekly between JFK and Timehri. The number of flights during peak periods became daily. The New York/ Guyana route has been a lucrative one for airlines with thousands of Guyanese living in especially the triState area. This was especially so for Caribbean Airlines. The situation of one airline would worry both the government and the flying public who fear high fares will return again with only one player in the market. It will also put Government in a defensive position, especially as Guyana has sealed the deal for a new US$150M CJIA expansion which is set to start by mid-year. This latest development would also add fuel to the opposition who cut funding for the expansion from the National Budget.

MONDAY EDITION CHARGES EXPECTED AGAINST US SENATOR LINKED TO EDAHMAD A prominent Brooklyn state senator is the latest politician snared in a longrunning federal corruption probe. According to the Daily News, Sen. John Sampson (DBrooklyn), once among Albany’s most powerful

politicians, is the senator identified in court papers as asking ex-Sen. Shirley Huntley (D-Queens) to wield her influence on behalf of a businessman holding a Kennedy Airport lease in March 2012.

The businessman wanted to expand his lease, and Huntley allegedly arranged for him to meet with Port Authority officials, according to sources familiar with the case. She allegedly took $1,000 in bribes, court papers state — and then wore a wire to record meetings with seven elected officials while working as a federal informant.

According to the sources, the FBI is examining a $100,000 “loan” to Sampson from one of his legal clients, Queens businessman Edul Ahmad, who is charged with mortgage fraud in an unrelated case. Ahmad also delivered a $40,000 “loan” to U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks (DQueens) in a deal first exposed

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by The Daily News. Ahmad’s attorney, Steven Kartagener, told the House Ethics Committee that the loan had no written terms regarding interest or payment schedule.

Meeks made no payments on the loan for two years until the FBI began looking into it, the lawyer had acknowledged.

RADIO AND CABLE LICENCES DISTRIBUTION…PRESIDENT RAMOTAR MUST CORRECT THIS WRONG - Enrico Woolford Veteran broadcaster Enrico Woolford is maintaining his strong stance against how radio and cable licences were distributed by former President Bharrat Jagdeo. In a recent television interview, Woolford described the radio frequencies as a natural resource of the country and said that one must defend what it is being used for.

According to Woolford, there is the need for guidelines to be put in place. He explained that the problem lies with the management and the people who are at the forefront of the distribution. Woolford said that those people know nothing about the issue and the people who know about it are at a different end of the political spectrum. Woolford dismissed claims of him being bitter, saying that Guyanese need to understand that the former President did not use his discretion when handing out the licences. He further stated that the entire process was “badly administered,” adding that the wrong has to be corrected by President Ramotar.

Meanwhile, Parliamentarian Cathy Hughes described the entire situation as a travesty which was done to Guyanese, adding that President Donald

Ramotar should immediately review and reverse it. Hughes further noted that if the Private Sector Commission and Chamber of Commerce have an important role to play, “this is when we need to hear them say the licences need to be revoked”.

TUESDAY EDITION ED AHMAD SINGS, SINKS US SENATOR TO SHORTEN JAIL SENTENCE …COOPERATED WITH FBI In a closely watched case in the US and Guyana, Brooklyn’s State Senator, John Sampson, Monday turned himself to the FBI, appearing in court hours later and pleading not guilty to two counts of embezzlement, five counts of obstructing justice and two counts of lying to agents.

Sampson, whose father is a Guyanese, was released on $250,000 secured bail bond.

However, it would be the details of the indictment filed by the US government and unsealed Monday that highlighted the role that Guyana-born, New Yorkbased businessman, Edul Ahmad, played in the FBI’s investigations that led to the charges.

According to the indictment, Ahmad who was referred to as the “Associate” and was not named, lent US$188,500 to Sampson, to repay US$440,000 the Senator had allegedly embezzled from a number of foreclosure sales he had handled. Newspapers reportedly identified the “Associate” as Ahmad.

The Senator later promised to “take out” the witnesses in a major fraud case against Ahmad. Ahmad is a well known Guyanese with a hardware outlet at the former Mirror newspaper in Industrial Site, Ruimveldt. He

is also a prominent real estate operator in the Queens, New York area, well known to the Guyanese Diaspora there, until his arrest in July 2011 while he was boarding a Delta flight to Guyana.

WEDNESDAY EDITION PRESIDENT FORMALLY REJECTS OPPOSITION BILLS AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL Only after receipt of a letter, by the Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman, which served to remind or inform that the constitutionally mandated time for his assent to two Bills that were passed in the National Assembly had “undoubtedly elapsed, has President Donald Ramotar formally stated that he will withhold his assent. The President has premised his decision not to assent to the two opposition-proposed Bills on the base that both of them have breached several sections of the Constitution.

This move comes after the Attorney General had unequivocally stated that he would advise the president not to assent to the Bills. The Bills that are now in limbo are the Fiscal Management and Accountability (Amendment) Bill and the Former Presidents (Facilities and Other Benefits) Bill, which Trotman stated were sent to the Office of the President since February 25.

Trotman’s letter, dated May 3, stated that the Constitution mandated the President to return a Bill to the Speaker within “twenty-one days of the date when it was presented to him for assent.”

The Speaker penned that he hoped that it is understandable that he is anxious to ensure that there is a strict compliance with the constitutional requirements regarding the passage of the (Continued on page 67)

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Experienced drivers and dispatchers, also contract vehicles for a Reputable Taxi service- call:645-0025 One live-in or live out maidcall: 668-3985/ 264-3355/ 6837936 2 Wash bay attendants living in G/Town- Contact:227-5169 Wanted to buy, small living trench fishes, Patwa, etcTele:644-8381

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LEARN TO DRIVE

Cook, waitress & Bar man: Singh’s Restaurant & Bar 5th St Cummings LodgeCall:600-6053/614-6053

Soman & Sons Driving School , First Federation Building Call 225-4858, 6445166,622-2872,615-0964

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FOR SALE

FOR SALE

LARGE QUANTITIES OF HIGH PURITY M E R C U R Y (QUICK SILVER) 9 9 . 9 9 9 9 5 % PURITY - $20,000 PER POUND CALL:604-6108

Khemraj & Son landscaping - Call: 6275969; 18 months coconut tree, plant for sale, mould for sale, trimming plants

187.5 KVA Cummins Generator 3 phase- volt 208460: silent working $5 million Neg. Contact Daniel: 6221165/220-9889

06 Toyota Avensis, European model: New tyres, hands free alarm, TV: Excellent conditionCall:677-1237

HID lights call: 642-2850 Live/pluck chicken call:6504421,220-9203

Pitbulls for sale- call:674-1186

One male pure-bred Rottweiler 12 weeks, 1 female pure-bred German Shepherd 7 months- Call:220-6879

Diving suit call: 613-5158 M.Khan

Tibetian Terror for sale, fully vaccinated- call:225-4780 or 686-0509 Dell laptops & desktops complete computers from $55,000 Futuretech, call: 2312206

15-15-5 fertilizer call:2662711,609-4594

3 Fridges: 2 Kenmore & 1 GEcontact:616-2338

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

1 Rigid Pressure Washer, 130gl Air Compressor, 1-300 Amp bus bar, filing cabinetCall:627-7835

Rock star hollow blocks available in large quantity in 3",4" & 6" call: 269-1406, 617-9230

Marine parts, engines 120400HP Cummins/ Perkins, GM. Propellers, Transmissions, Shafts, All electronics, GPS, Radios- call:674-3735/652-8970

1-225 Miller Welding Generator, 1- Big 40 Miller Welding Generator- call:6165424 or 220-4818

Lumber Sales, dressed (B) grade quality at Lumber Master Sawmill- Tele: 684-5868 Tibetian & Dashan PupsCall:680-0192/216-3408/2252958 1 Printer copier (cannon 420)$30,000, Flat Screen TV 20"$35,000/ 27"-$50,000, IBM computers-$120,000, Lenova$40,000- Call: 650-9999 Brand new car radio’s complete with antennas, low frequency: Good for taxi services- call:216-0781/6900066 1 (one) Kubota Diesel 4 CYL engine (V2003 model)Tel:666-4000/666-9455 8 Weeks Pit Bull: Fully vaccinated and de-wormed: Call:622-7057/668-4377/2182170 Pat-Cell-Phones, Vreed-EnHoop: Motorolla (L6 $6,000); W205 $4,000; BB $13,000; 8GB $4,000; 4GB $2,200call:650-9999 1 Complete 2 base music setTele:669-9055/674-1291 Sale in Dell Dual Core Computers with LCDcall:691-2077 Hilux 2L Gear Box, Leaf Springs, Fenders, Lampscall:691-2077 Cannon IR 400 photocopying machines call 649-0956 Cheap Earth delivery to spot ECD & EBD call:627-9977, 698-0182

MF 1085 Tractor $2.5M USA; Miller Diesel welder $650,000; Hobart gas welder $495,000, $125,000- Call:6196863/601-8276 50 panes of steel scaffolding, 75 Norton street- call:2268100 4 Cylinder Perkins Engine and 45 (gal) Plastic Barrelscontact Nicky @ tele:2267948 or 646-6000 1-MF 185 $2M, 1-MF 394 4WD $6M, 1 fiat F150 4WD $7M- callL699-2995/276-3701 Solar and Hand Crank water proof LED flash lights $4000 each- call:697-3430 Clean Garden Earth builders waste, also Bobcat rental, excavating, clearing & leveling- call:616-0617 or 663-3285 Lister pitter generator from UK 10KVA, with tank and exhaust system $950,000call621-4000, 690-6000 Bay liner boat 18ft with trailer inboard mercury 10 seater $2.4M neg. 621-4000,6906000 Chicken hatchery robbins 26,000 eggs capacity with trays, racks, complete system, sold as a package call:621-4000,690-6000 IPhone 4s-$110,000; Blackberry Bold4 -$74,995; PSP with games-$59,995; PS2 with 10 games-$59,995call:225-4631

SERVICES Vehicle lights restoration service on the spot, 297 Independence Boulevard LaPenitence Georgetowncall:624-6471 Repairs, sales & spares air conditioning, microwaves, washer, fridges & stoves.

Ultra Cool, c a l l : 2 2 5 9032,647-2943 We repair fridge, freezer, AC, washer, dryer call:2310655,683-8734 Omar ONLINE SHOPPING ZERO COMMISSION, WEEKLY S H I P M E N T S , AFFORDABLE RATES, FREE PRIVATE MAILBOX. CALL:231-5789, 225-9030.

WE FILLOUTVISA FORMS: USA, UK & CANADA & CREDIT CARD SERVICES CALL: 231-5789 Services and repairs to Gas stoves, washing machines, electric stoves call:686-6209

VEHICLE FOR SALE Toyota Allion 2.6 Million Negotiable- Tele:616-3001 Nissan wing road Ryder wagon call:612-2522 Toyota Spacio $2.350M, 4WD Fielder $2.250M, 2001212 $1.950M- Tele: 617-2891 1- F150 XLT in excellent condition, 22" Mag fully loaded- call:690-6520/6420110 Smart Choice Auto: Unregistered Runx, Allion call:652-3820,665-4529 1 Toyota Land-cruiser Prado PMM series- call:225-0188/ 225-6070 1- Toyota 4 Runner surf, EP82 & EP71 Starlet, AT192, 1-Honda Civic, BMW 318I, 1-Nissan Van E24- Tele:6445096/697-1453 1 EFI Long base Mini Bus, BJJ- RZ Call:277-0042 First Class Auto (03 & 06) Allion, (03 & 04) Spacio, (01) Carina, (07) Axio, VerossaCall:609-8188/226-2689

PERMANENT& VISITORS VISA APPLICATIONS, PROFRESSIONAL IMMIGRATION CONSULTANT ROOM D5 MARAJ BUILDING CALL: 225-6496, 662-6045, 2238115

1-F150 Ford $1.2M, Spacio $2.3M, Raum $2.2M unregistered- contact:6416516 or 264-2644

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Unregistered Toyota Sienta 2004, 7 seats, 1500cccall:617-5536

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Repairs to walk in cool room, fridge, washing machines, ice making machines etc: contact:666-2276

Leading Auto- Unregistered: Allex, Runx, Spacio, IST, Allion, Premio, Tacoma (06), F150 (06)- Tele:677-7666/6107666 Tractor MF 285 $24M, Pick up red Ford Ranger sport $1.7M: Just arrived from Canada - Call: 628-9596/ 6825230

We Refill HP cartridges for $1800 call: 650-7699 Looking for a job & need assistance? Contact: N&A Establishment: na.estab@ yahoo.com or 694-0096 Repairs to Fridge, Freezer, AC, Washers, Stoves, TV, DVD Call 683-1312,627-3206 (Nick) Do you have Spur in your heel? Conquer your Spur without surgery- call:6458046 or 270-1835

One Nissan canter, needs minor repairs- call:228-5655/ 628-1756 (1) 2003 Toyota Tundra 4×4 immaculate condition: Owner resides overseas: :Low miles: Never driven offroad: call:627-0700 Unregistered: Raum with reverse camera $2.150M; Solid DEF 4×4 Pick-up; 2 Ton Dump canter $2.3Mcall:227-1737

FOR SALE 7 6x6 TM Dump Trucks, good condition, $6.2M each.

Call 600-6335.

Salon equipment, serious enquires only- Call Roxie622-4386 Clarke forklifts 2000 to 4000 lbs lifting capacity needs $375,000 and up-690-6000

(2) F-150 Trucks, blue-$1.8 million, white-$2.5 million: Both in very good working condition- Call:674-3735/ 652-8970 1 AT 192 Carina Car: Good condition, good price, negotiable- contact:6269735 or 697-8947 White Rav4: Excellent condition- Call:624-3950/ 225-5568/219-3972 (Continued on page 65)

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CAR RENTAL Progressive Auto Rental cars from $4000 per day. Call 643-5122, 225-8711; email w w w. p r o g r e s s i v e a u t o rental.com Untouchable Car Rental: Low Rate , Low Deposit call:2318653,621-6827 Adian’s car rental- Tele:6987807 Car Rental- Tele:643-1131 Premio, Vitz call:679-7139, 639-4452 Adian’s car rental/PickupTele:698-7807

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VEHICLE FOR SALE Mercedes Benz 190E fully powered, flair kit, mag wheel, needs repairs sold as is $650,000 call:621-4000 Cherokee Jeep, automatic, mag wheel, projection, LCD lights transmission needs checking otherwise perfect $1.2M cash call:621-4000, 690-6000 Hummer H2 SUT model, 22" rims fully leather, sound system, lots of up-grades call:645-9977 Brand new trident car 250cc 5 passenger petrol 5-speed, CD player, special offer $850,000 cash call:621-4000, 690-6000

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SERVICES Brian Moe @642-3543: Computer Technician, Home and Office visits at your comfort!!

Computer repairs, upgrades, customization and more contact 664-8660 Do you have a property to rent/sell: Then contact 6876647/639-8207 Spraying of Call:681-6603

Vehicles-

LAND FOR SALE House lots 50"x118" New Hope EBD serious enquires only 266-2711, 609-4594 Parfaite Harmony- $900,000$1.5M Call:675-7292 13 Acres land; Behind Emerald Tower Madewini call:6220860 Golden Grove East Bank Demerara- Call:610-5761 House lot for sale: Friendship EBD & drafting of house plans call: 223-0733, 223-0730 Providence Prime developed land, available in ¼ , ½, 1, 2,4 & 7 acres plots- call:6683100/615-8810 Transported land, Lot 44 South of the Central Dam Pouderoyen, W.B.D $1.5M – Contact:685-3874: Serious enquires only 7 Acres cultivated with house, 2 Acres cultivated, 2-1 Acres cultivated contact:226-7968

Sewing done in 48 hours upstairs Rayon house of fashion & Roxie’s Fashion 122 Merriman’s mall- call:6224386 FOR RENT Rooms to rent- Call:225-9223/ 225-3234 Furnished short term apartments- call:646-5147 Commercial Building to rent at Adventure, Stelling road Essequibo Coast- contact: 693-3751: email: indiisingh @yahoo.co.uk 2 Bedrooms apartment $55,000-Newly renovated – Call:674-3735/652-8970 Furnished/unfurnished houses to rent from US$700.

Phone: 6216888

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Courses in cake decoration, pastry making & cookery, Call: 670-0798. Also Wedding dresses for sale EDUCATIONAL LEARN TO DANCE LATIN STLE:SALSA, MERENGUE, WALTZ, TANGO, ETC. COME & FEEL THE EXCITEMENT CALL: 6126475, 629-8842

1 Toyota Ceres series PJJ: Good working condition $950,000 Neg. call:653-6419 Mitsubishi Pajero (Immaculate condition); automatic, fully loaded, 4×4, price $2.8M- Contact Rocky:225-1400 or 621-5902 AT170 Toyota Carina (private), automatic, fully powered, mags, CD player, price $675,000- contact Rocky:225-1400 or 621-5902 AT212 Carina (private), automatic, fully powered, A/ C, CD player, price $1.375Mcontact Rocky:225-1400 or 621-5902 Toyota extra cab pick-up (22 R engine) manual, (EFI) 4×4, (GPP series) price $2.5MContact Rocky 621-5902/2251400 1-Toyota SV32 Camry, automatic, fully powered (excellent condition) price $700,000- contact Rocky 2251400 or 621-5902 1-Suzuki (RI) Jeep, automatic, fully powered, A/C, Immaculate condition price $1.1- contact Rocky 225-1400 or 621-5902 Mercedes Benz S300 armored, powered, leather seats, Auto, 19" rims, CD player, sound system $3.5M cash call:621-4000, 690-6000 Mitsubishi 3000GT, 3000cc sports car, CD player,18" rims, very fast, must see price neg. call:621-4000, 690-6000 Suzuki Swift Car, working condition-$350,000- Tele:6165424/641-6217 or 220-4818

PENPAL Male seeking intelligent broad-minded ethnic & cultural diverse female pen pals call:698-6391

Learn about your mind and how it can help you; Lot 281 4th Street Craig EBD Prepare your child for form 1 with computer skills- call Micro Graphics Technology Vreed-en-Hoop: 264-3057 Advanced Diploma in Micro-computer studies: Enroll today @ MicroGraphics Technology Vreed-en-Hoop- 264-3057

Is your car TV getting error “insert map disc”? Software reload available- call:6436565 Tacoma park lights & bumper lights, BMW park lights, Toyota BB rear lightscall:643-6565

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CAKES & PASTRIES

PROPERTY FOR SALE Two storey business property Agriculture Road call:612-2522 (1) Stabroek $130M (2) Regent street $35M (3) Eccles AA $55M & BB $25M (4) Enmore $15M (5) Diamond $60M (6) Ogle $33M- contact:615-8810/ 668-3100 Diamond- $6M-35M; Anna Catherina-$11M; Prospect$13M; Charlestown-$40MCall Diana:227-2256/ 6269382 Versailles 5 Bedroom House with modern facilities and beautiful landscape- Call: 592-684-9203 / 592-624-8704 Parcel 877 of Block XXXIII public rd., Bachelors Adventure E.C.D opposite Guywa:0.585 acre- call Pearl Realty:689-9991 Charlestown property with Business potentialTele:673-5882 House for sale- Contact: 6090062 0.12 acres Transport land with 2 houses Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara: Price negotiableCall:628-9411

VACANCY Administrative support.

Excellent English skills. Fast, accurate typist. $140K per month www. capitaltyping. com/gyjob to apply Popular 24 hour East Coast Guyoil needs day & night pump attendants, sales girl, cleaners/maintenance- Tele: 698-5559/ 684-2838 Vacancy exist for computer literate person: Apply with written application to :Manager @ Trophy stall, Bourda Market Medical Clinic seeks driver/ office assistant: Please send applications to PO Box:26022 Hair Stylist & nail technicians at TJ’s Barber shop, Grove E.B.D- contact Christine @266-0864/642-9139.

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TAKE CARE OF YOUR FEET!

By Krista Brooks There has been plenty of rain falling lately. I am amazed if I make it to work completely dry. In fact, I have to get through a huge puddle in front of my work if it rains.

Every time my feet get wet and muddy because of that puddle I think about people living with diabetes.

I tell Nursey every time I come in, “now what would I do if I had diabetes?” She always looks at me like I’m talking like a mad woman, but she nods her head. It is true.

People living with diabetes need to take special care of their feet. There are always animals and things out on the road so you never really know what is in that water. If you have a small cut on your foot, cracked skin, or a blister, nasty water can cause an infection in your foot.

Why do people living with diabetes need to take extra care with their feet?

When you have diabetes, it means that you can have too much sugar in your blood.

This extra sugar in your blood can cause problems.

Normally, blood can help provide oxygen and food for different parts of your body.

These blood vessels can help heal cuts and sores on your feet. They also help keep nerves, things that help us feel pain and pressure, alive.

When you have too much sugar in your blood it can block up the small blood

vessels in your feet. This means that it takes much longer for any cuts or sores to heal on your feet and you won’t have proper feeling in them as well. You might not know if you cut your foot, stub your toe, or are wearing shoes that are too tight for you. How can you take better care of your feet? The number one thing you can do to make sure you don’t run into these problems is either to prevent diabetes or manage you blood sugar properly. Of course, this is not always the easiest thing to do. If you are living with diabetes, it is important that you know your feet very well. They are very far from your eyes so you’ve got to take the time to really look at them. Make sure to clean any sores or cuts with soap and water or rubbing alcohol. You should also bandage them with a clean plaster or Bandaid.

Always cut your toe nails straight across to avoid them growing into your skin.

When you bathe, wash them

with soap and water and make sure to dry between your toes.

When buying shoes, make sure you buy ones that are closed toed to prevent your feet from getting cut or soaked with water. Your shoes should be a little bigger so the blood can circulate properly in your feet.

If you have a sore or cut that is not healing or you have tingling sensations in your feet, you should go to a medical professional. Most clinics have a chronic disease day where they deal with diabetics, especially foot care.

As Nursey says, take care of your feet, especially if you have diabetes. I also wanted to take this opportunity to wish Nursey and all of the nurses in Guyana and abroad a very happy Nurses Week!

Nurses work extremely hard.

They deliver great care to their patients as well as their families when they are not on duty. If you get a chance, thank a nurse for choosing a very caring and noble profession. Not everyone could do the job of Nursey!

If you have any questions about diabetic foot care or any other health issues please e-mail nurseysaysguyana@gmail.com.

Krista Brooks is a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer working with the School of Nursing, which trains Nursing Assistants, Professional Nurses, and Midwifery Students.

Sunday May 12, 2013

The Surprising Inspiration Behind the ‘Fast & Furious’ Franchise Now 12 years old, the Fast & Furious” franchise has certainly traveled down the road and back again.

One could even argue its heart is true and that it’s been a pal and a confidant to its loyal and expanding fan base.

Oh, we could keep going.

Jokes aside, “Fast & Furious 6” director Justin Lin, who has now helmed four of the car-themed action films, has revealed an unexpected, if not quirky, inspiration that informed his vision for the popular movie series: a very special episode of the hit ’80s show “The Golden Girls.”

Yes, before Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, and a slew of other “Fast” stars ever conceived of going behind the wheel, it was Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty, and Bea Arthur who were blowing Lin’s mind.

Let us explain.

Remember “Hurricane Night”? It was a television event at the time that linked three separate shows on NBC — “The Golden Girls,” “Nurses,” and “Empty Nest.”

“They had Hurricane Saturday night, this gimmicky thing where the hurricane hit all three shows. It blew me away as a kid: They all live in the same universe!” Lin recently told Entertainment Weekly.

When he took over the series for 2006’s “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift,” he knew he had to spice it up

with some of that hurricane action. “That was a critical point in the direction of the franchise,” Lin said. “We were talking about the mythology, how all these characters are connected.”

Diesel was in the first “Fast” film, and Eva Mendes — along with a whole new cast that included Tyrese Gibson and rapper Ludacris — was in the second. (And Walker has been in every “Fast” film except for “Tokyo Drift.”) In “Drift,” Lin blew everyone’s mind with that “Golden Girls” hurricane episode effect when Diesel showed up in the last scene, reprising his role as Dominic.

Lin rounded out that worldexpanding effect by doing something similar with Eva Mendes’s character in 2011’s “Fast Five” — putting her in a post credit scene and dropping the bombshell that Rodriguez’s character Letty is in fact alive. He also added

Dwayne Johnson aka the Rock to the mix in that installment — which further expanded the universe of “Fast” heroes.

In “Fast 6,” due in theaters May 24, it’s no secret that Letty is indeed back from the grave. And her jaw dropping resurrection is explained. Meanwhile, Johnson’s character Luke joins forces with his former foe Dominic (Diesel) to battle a whole new villain for even more, bigger, badder action.

As he has done in past installments, Lin drops another giant Easter egg at the end of “Fast 6” on his fans.

We won’t spoil it for you, but we will give one hint: It’s a whole new character who’s being introduced in “Fast & Furious 7” — which is currently in pre-production.

Indeed, the mythology and the series continue to expand. Thank you “Fast and Furious” for being a friend.

Bacteria in Baby’s Belly May Influence Growth, Study Says Mike Tyson, with pigeon sidekick, Infants’ early growth is influenced by the types of bacteria in their digestive system, a new study says.

A variety of bacteria quickly populate the sterile digestive tract of a newborn. Norwegian researchers identified connections between specific types of bacteria and infant growth rates. For their study, published May 9 in the journal PLoS Computational Biology, the researchers examined stool samples from 218 babies and developed a method to identify specific points in time when the presence of certain bacteria is associated with growth.

For example, the study found that detection of Bacteroides species when a male infant is 30 days old is significantly associated with reduced growth. In contrast, the presence of E. coli species between ages 4 days to 1 month is linked with normal growth in male and female infants.

“We have created a new way of looking at the development of gut microbiota [the body’s microbial ecosystem] over time and relating this development to health outcomes,” the researchers wrote in a journal news release.

“This is useful to the scientific community as it is difficult to characterize, in a meaningful way, how the gut develops over time,” according to principal investigator Dr. Merete Eggesbo, of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and colleagues.

to star as TV cartoon detective

“After applying our new method, we found an indication that the composition of early life gut microbiota may be associated with how fast or slow babies grow in early life although there is also the possibility that factors early in life affect both gut microbiota and how fast the baby grows,” the authors explained. In other words, although the study found an association between gut bacteria and babies growth rates, it did not prove a causeand-effect relationship. Knowing how the ideal composition of gut microbiota develops over time is necessary in order to make changes to it, the researchers said.

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson will star as a cartoon detective, with a pigeon as a sidekick, in a new animated series, U.S. cable network Adult Swim said on Friday.

Tyson, who recently toured his one-man autobiographical stage show, “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth,” will give voice to his cartoon character on the “Mike Tyson Mysteries” crime-solving series.

Tyson, 46, will be aided by a magical tattoo on his character’s face and a foul-mouthed pigeon as a partner on the 15-minute show, Adult Swim said. Tyson in real life owns racing pigeons.

The network, which is known for its zany youth-oriented programs, did not say when the show would premiere.

Some plot lines include attempting to defeat a super computer at chess and why an author/werewolf cannot finish a novel, Adult Swim said.

Tyson, who became better known for his erratic behavior and 1992 rape conviction than for his skill in the ring, has seen his reputation rise following a cameo in the 2009 hit comedy “The Hangover.”

Tyson retired from boxing in 2006 and began a second career in entertainment,

Mike Tyson

including a 2011 television documentary series about his flock of racing pigeons.

Adult Swim is owned by Turner Broadcasting System Inc, a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. (Reuters)

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THURSDAY EDITION CRUELTY IN SOUTH SOPHIA …MASON BEATEN TO DEATH, TIED TO UTILITY POLE The sight of a dead man, naked and tied to a utility pole greeted residents of ‘B’ Field Sophia early Wednesday morning much to their shock at the level of treatment meted out to a fellow human being.

According to a police report, the body was discovered about 06:00 hours by residents of the area. The dead man was identified as Nigel Roy Lowe, 40, called ‘Harry’, a mason of Joe Singh Drive, Sophia.

Reports are that the man was beaten, tied to the utility pole, and left to die by a group of men.

Residents said that the attack on the man started around 02:00 hours Wednesday after a resident of ‘A’ Field Sophia saw him in his yard and began shouting for thief. Some of the man’s relatives, who asked not to be identified, said that they heard the noise when the attack started but did not venture out of their homes to see what was going on. It was only after sunrise that they started to get telephone calls about Lowe’s gruesome death.

A relative identified as ‘Junior’ said ever since Lowe’s father died some time last year he was hardly seen in the area. “After he father died he left, but we know he use to work as a mason, building blocks in Lodge and when that work ease up, he would come in here and pick coconut from his mother yard and sell.” Junior said he has never heard Lowe being involved in stealing from people although he had turned to the streets.

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FRIDAY EDITION COUPLE FOUND DEAD IN CAR AT PEARL, E.B.D - MURDER-SUICIDE SUSPECTED Police were Thursday night probing a suspected murder-suicide after the bodies of a young couple, with gunshot wounds, were found at around 22:00 hrs in a car at Pearl, East Bank Demerara.

Relatives identified the victims as Vijay Arjune called ‘Kevin’, 24, an auto electrician, of 4 Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara, and Parbati Raghoo, 19, of Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara.

Kaieteur News understands that Arjune was found slumped in the driver’s seat of the white rented car, PNN 9189, with a bullet wound to the body and a handgun near to his right leg, with Ragoo slumped in the front passenger seat.

According to reports, Arjune had returned from Suriname a few days ago and the couple was planning to get married. However, there are reports that Raghoo was pregnant and that the family of the victims had planned to call off the wedding.

Arjune’s parents told Kaieteur News that they had expected him to return home at around 16:00 hrs, and became worried after failing repeatedly to reach him on his mobile phone. Ragoo’s relatives also reportedly attempted to reach her without success.

The young man’s parents launched a search for him, and at around 22:00 hrs, they eventually spotted the vehicle that he had rented, parked in a desolate area near Pearl Village, on the East Bank Demerara Public Road.

Relatives then looked inside and saw the dead couple.

BODY FOUND IN GUTTED HOUSEAFTER GUNSHOTS, EXPLOSION In what appeared to be a brutal execution-style killing, police and firefighters early Friday morning located the charred body of a man in the bedroom of a two-flat concrete house at Guysuco Scheme, East Coast Demerara, after a fire of mysterious origin gutted the Lot 22 property. Sources said that the victim is popular businessman Totaram Mootoo, called ‘Beer’, who, along with his wife, Bhajmattie Mootoo, were the sole occupants of the building.

Eyewitnesses said that the fire started at around 23: 00 hrs on Thursday, after gunshots were heard near the premises. A resident said that the blaze started after a loud explosion occurred in the building.

The explosion blew a large hole on the wall facing the roadway. A resident said that the blaze started in the same master bedroom in which the body was found.

In the wee hours of Friday, detectives and firefighters were still trying to locate Mootoo’s spouse. A close friend described Mootoo as an individual who owned several businesses, and who was also in the fuel business.

The friend told Kaieteur News that he was at a shop some distance away when he heard two gunshots. He said that he then heard a loud explosion. The man said that he hurried to the area and saw Mootoo’s house ablaze. The friend said that he became concerned when he saw both of Mootoo’s vehicles parked near the premises, since that seemed to indicate the couple was still inside the burning house. He then forced the gate open and smashed a window to gain entry.

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SATURDAY EDITION GAS CYLINDER ‘BOMB’ CAUSED BLAST IN EXECUTED COUPLE’S HOME -KILLERS DUCT-TAPED BUSINESSMAN’S HANDS Totaram Mootoo’s killers duct-taped his hands and placed him to lie near his wife, Bhagmattie, in their master bedroom, before exploding a crude home-made bomb, fashioned from a gas cylinder, in the victims’ Guysuco Scheme, East Coast Demerara home.

A senior fire official told Kaieteur News Friday that a 20-pound gas cylinder was part of a device that caused the massive explosion and subsequent fire that gutted the two-storey property.

The official said that the cylinder was “blown to bits.”

Chief Fire Officer Marlon Gentle and his team were later seen scouring the surroundings for possible traces of the device.

The charred bodies of 54year-old Totaram Mootoo, called ‘Beer’, and 48-year-old Bagmattie Mootoo, called ‘Dolly’, were discovered early Friday morning in the couple’s master bedroom after firefighters extinguished the blaze that had engulfed the house.

Kaieteur News was told that the businessman’s hands were bound behind his back with duct-tape while his wife was lying nearby with an arm around her husband.

Fragments of a gas cylinder were found at the head of the bed. Other fragments were also found in the yard, having blasted through a massive hole in the bedroom wall. The blast also blew off the roof and several windows.

Because the corpses were so badly burnt, detectives were unable to immediately ascertain whether the victims were shot or if they died from the blast. Some residents had recalled hearing sounds like gunshots before hearing the loud explosion, which shook some nearby homes and blew a large hole in the northern bedroom wall of the concrete structure.

But people in the immediate vicinity could not recall hearing any gunshots.

Police officials said that their investigation was hampered by the lack of surveillance cameras on any of the houses in the immediate area.

The sole surveillance camera on the slain couple’s home was destroyed during the fire. Guysuco Scheme is one of the upscale neighbourhoods in suburban Georgetown.

DRIVER NARROWLY ESCAPES PLUNGING INTO DEMERARA RIVER A driver narrowly escaped plunging into the raging Demerara River around 20:45

hrs Friday after his car veered off the Demerara Harbour Bridge during a light shower.

The vehicle, PPP 6079, was left dangling precariously on a pontoon beneath the retractor span.

The driver, who identified himself as A. Hunter, told Kaieteur News that he was heading west down an incline on the bridge during a slight drizzle, when he applied his brakes in an attempt to slow down.

He said that the vehicle immediately began to skid on the slick surface.

“I try to control the car, but it keep skating,” he said.

According to Mr. Hunter, the car then ‘jumped’ over a low rail near the retractor span before dangling just a few feet from the river.

A shaken Hunter said that he managed to exit the vehicle without sustaining any injuries. He was the sole occupant of the car.

MURDER/SUICIDE COUPLE WAS SCHEDULED TO BE MARRIED - TEEN WAS PREGNANT WHEN KILLED As police investigate a murder/suicide case involving Vijay Arjune, 24, and his pregnant girlfriend, Parbati Raghoo, 19, Thursday evening, relatives are blaming each other for the shocking deaths as the couple had planned on getting married this month.

The couple was found dead in a rented car, PNN 9189, on an isolated spot at Caledonia Public Road, East Bank Demerara (EBD) with apparent gunshot wounds to the head.

Relatives of Arjune, called ‘Kevin’, a popular auto electrician, said he had relationship issues but they never suspected that it would lead to such an end.

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Marc Gasol scores 20 as Grizzlies scrape past Thunder Stephen Curry hurts ankle as Spurs go up 2-1 on Warriors USA Today - Zach Randolph had an off night. So did Mike Conley and Tayshaun Prince. The Memphis Grizzlies rode Tony Allen in the first half and Marc Gasol in the second half to pull out an 87-80 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder and take a 2-1 series lead in the Western Conference semifinals yesterday.

In the low-scoring first quarter, Memphis’ defense denied Oklahoma City of opportunities at the basket, but the Thunder kept it close by taking advantage of a 5-2 turnover discrepancy in the quarter.

After missing the final nine minutes of the first half due to foul trouble, Gasol was spectacular the second half, scoring 12 of his 20 points in

the third quarter and neutralizing Kevin Durant at the rim. Durant ended the night with 25 points on 9-of19 shooting.

A three-pointer by Thunder guard Derek Fisher tied the score at 81 with a minute remaining in the fourth quarter, but two Gasol free throws—and two Durant misses at the line—sealed the game for Memphis.

Durant wasn’t the only Thunder scorer who struggled to knock down shots. Serge Ibaka and Kevin Martin each scored 13 points on 6-of-17 shooting, and Oklahoma City shot 36.4% from the field and 27.8% from three-point range as a team.

The Grizzlies lead the series 2-1 after the win. Game 4 is scheduled for tomorrow

at 9:30 p.m. Eastern time in Memphis, and will air on TNT. OAKLAND — This wasn’t quite vintage San Antonio Spurs, but it was good enough for them to take a 2-1 lead in the Western Conference Semifinals.

The four-time champions who entered Oracle Arena with an identity crisis of sorts exited with a 102-92 win over the Golden State Warriors because their old reliable reappeared.

At least most of them did.

While Manu Ginobili continued to struggle, Tim Duncan had 23 points and 10 rebounds and Tony Parker had 32 points on 13 of 23 shooting. The Spurs, who had trailed big in the first two games of the series, controlled the game

Sunday May 12, 2013 ARIES (Mar. 21–Apr. 19): You have a bounce to your step and a mischievous twinkle in your eye today because you believe that you can put one over on reality.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): You may feel distant from the real nitty-gritty of today’s events, but it isn’t because you have consciously withdrawn.

TAURUS (Apr. 20–May 20): Your current mental agility has you fox-trotting around facts and tap-dancing to tall tales t o d a y.

Unfortunately, you could be so hypnotized by your own smooth style that you don’t even notice when the music stops.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): Your special gift today is being able to discuss a challenging personal experience in a manner that doesn’t make others feel awkward.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): Your thoughts are racing a mile a minute and there’s no simple way to slow them down. Normally, you might consider this adrenaline rush to be exhilarating, but now it’s more of an irritation than anything else.

CANCER (June 21–July 22): You are preoccupied with your fantasies today, but thankfully, no one needs to know what’s going on within your brain.

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): You want to relax with a small group of friends or family, but you still have to fulfill your responsibilities in the real world.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): People may look to you for acknowledgment today, but you don’t believe that you should have to put your stamp of approval on everything that happens.

SAGIT (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): A close friend might talk your ear off today but you can’t seem to find a graceful way to stop them.

You are known to speak your mind without realizing that your direct approach may offend those with thinner skin than yours.

CAPRICORN(Dec.22–Jan.19): You might secretly freak out for a moment when you realize you have a wild tiger by the tail today.

AQUARIUS(Jan.20–Feb.18): You believe that you are due a real day off as a reward for your recent hard work.

You’re ready to schedule a bit of rest and relaxation today, but unexpected complications may get in the way.

PISCES (Feb. 19–Mar. 20): Rather than running around in circles trying to accomplish something, retreat behind the walls of your home today.

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throughout and finally slowed a Warriors offense that had scored 100-plus points in six of its last seven playoff games. Golden State shot just 39.3% from the field, and the dynamic backcourt of Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson were held to a combined 12-for-37 from the field.

As was the case all night long, the Spurs responded when they needed to. After Golden State cut San Antonio’s lead to one with a Draymond Green runner midway through the fourth quarter, the Spurs’ Danny Green and Parker hit back-toback threes before Duncan applied even more pressure.

His fall-away jumper from the right wing was good despite contact from Warriors center Andrew Bogut, and his subsequent free throw pushed the lead to 88-79.

Curry not only struggled on a 5-for-17 shooting night,

but also turned his ailing left ankle in the fourth quarter.

Curry, who had become the darling of these playoffs with his dynamic play, sprained the same ankle in the first round.

The Spurs, who were 50.6% from the field with just 11 turnovers, got back to the basics that coach Gregg Popovich had talked about before the game.

The Spurs finally looked like themselves again in the first half, leading 57-48 at the break after Parker exploded for 25 points on 11 of 14 shooting. He hit runners, stepback jumpers, and even buried a circus shot falling to his left in the lane that banked in and was one of the many signs that the Warriors were in trouble.

Duncan added 10 points of his own, and Boris Diaw (nine points during his matchup with Draymond Green) made up for Ginobili’s series-long struggles.

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“Happy Mother’s Day” to all mothers; Great respect and appreciation too, to a famous sporting father!”

Colin E. H. Croft “Mama – You know that I love you; you are the Queen of my heart! Loving you is like food for my soul” - Boys to Men. “Dear Mama – Ain’t a woman alive who can take your place. You always were the Queen. Sweet Lady, don’t you know that we love you?”

– Tupac Shakur.

Special days and people come around so that we could fully celebrate and appreciate them, allowing us to deviate from standard stuff of wars, stress, money, religion and politics!

For female parents, this is your very special day, the only one in 365 just for you; absolutely!

Even if you are male, especially if you are doing twin jobs of both father and mother; “Happy Mother’s Day!” As my ‘Queen’ often joked; “I can tell you that anyone is your father. I am very sure that I am your mother!”

Or, in stark, open, logical warning, if she was in a bad mood; “I made you.

Therefore, I can kill you!”

You really have to love mothers! They are the most precious, unique beings!

Revere them!

Sylvia has been “away” since June 1993, but I still have other mothers to salute; Lynette, Gail, Marcia, Lydia, Shelisa; for being actual parents of my two off-springs, and as very best friends!

Thanks, Mommies!

Anyway, Sir Alex Ferguson is, like me, a donator to parenthood, but he is much more fortunate. He has his own biological family, but also, he has that other family, including me, that is Manchester United.

Strangely, I was among few who were not surprised that he had decided to retire this year. Somehow, I really expected it, and said such to others, even before MUFC had won its 20th Premier League title.

Sir Alex had been badly stung last year, unbelievably embarrassed, after his archenemies, the blue side of Manchester – City – had won English Premier League championship by only better goal difference.

Sir Alex Ferguson Ironically, as things have transpired this last week, it was Everton, with a tremendous come from behind 4-4 draw last season, which saw to United’s goal difference being inferior; agonizingly so!

“The Boss” had to take one last repair shot. Having already “been there, done everything else”, he had to

redeem himself this year; fitting finale; by winning 2012/13 English Premier League. He did!

Now, another manager who also has much respect coming his way, David Moyes, of said Everton, is to take over at MUFC. Ambition is always a very good trait; made of sterner stuff. So let it be with Dave!

CPL ANNOUNCES TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE CPL - BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS - The muchanticipated schedule for the inaugural Caribbean P r e m i e r League (CPL) tournament has been announced by CPL organisers, and as expected,

matches will be played in six franchise countries – Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia and Trinidad & Tobago - in the months of July and August.

Kicking off in Barbados

FIXTURES: Tuesday 30th July - Opening Ceremony & BAR v SLU (Barbados) Wednesday 31st July - GUY v T&T (Guyana) Thursday 1st August - BAR v ANU (Barbados) Friday 2nd August - GUY v JAM (Guyana) Saturday 3rd August - BAR v T&T (Barbados) Sunday 4th August - ANU v JAM & GUY v SLU (Guyana) Tuesday 6th August - SLU v ANU (Saint Lucia) Wednesday 7th August - T&T V JAM (Trinidad) Thursday 8th August - SLU v BAR (Saint Lucia) Friday 9th August - T&T v GUY (Trinidad) Saturday 10th August - SLU v JAM (Saint Lucia) Sunday 11th August - BAR v GUY & T&T v ANU (Trinidad) Tuesday 13th August - ANU v BAR (Antigua & Barbuda) Wednesday 14th August - JAM v GUY (Jamaica) Thursday 15th August - ANU v SLU (Antigua & Barbuda) Friday 16th August - JAM v T&T (Jamaica) Saturday 17th August - ANU v GUY (Antigua & Barbuda) Sunday 18th August - SLU v T&T & JAM v BAR (Jamaica) Thursday 22nd August - Semi-final 1 (Trinidad) Friday 23rd August - Semi-final 2 (Trinidad) Saturday 24th August - Final & Ceremony (Trinidad)

on Tuesday, 30 July with an opening ceremony followed by a Barbados vs St Lucia match, games will be played on various days throughout the four week period.

There will be a three-day break before the two semifinals, the final match and the closing ceremony which will take place in Trinidad & Tobago on Saturday, 24 August.

Sundays through the tournament will feature a doubleheader with matches taking place at 3pm and 7:30pm.

CPL organisers emphasised that in putting together the schedule, the goal was to make it as fair as possible for the franchise countries but also ensure that there would be many exciting games between neighbouring and rival countries.

In addition, the fixtures had to work logistically in terms of elements such as travel for the teams and CPL staff and the transfer of TV equipment and crew from

venue to venue.

The result is a schedule that is workable and one where all teams will play three home games, three away games and one game in a neutral franchise country, for example Antigua vs. Jamaica in Guyana.

The CPL team is pleased to get the fixtures out in just under three months in advance, giving both local fans and prospective tourists the chance to plan their trips to and around the Caribbean to witness what is expected to be the biggest and most exciting sporting event in the region.

The 2014 and 2015 CPL tournaments will take place from 5 July to 10 August and 21 June to 26 July respectively.

Next on the CPL agenda is the announcement of details for the players draft event, confirmation of which teams the franchise players will be assigned to and many more exciting elements of the tournament.

Sir Alex has been staggering at MUCF. To replace, in some minds, another legendary Manchester United manager, Sir Matt Busby, is a tremendous achievement all by itself!

I have even heard suggestions that Sir Alex coming to that club, back in 1986, had sporting similarity to Nelson Mandela coming out of prison, in 1990, to later lead South Africa, or, indeed, Mahatma Gandhi leaving that very country, in 1915, to return home, to lead India to its independence in 1947!

Uncanny!

SAF’s statistics at MUFC are extraordinarily incredible; 26 years of real, total genius, winning an unprecedented 38 trophies overall!

13 English Premier League championships, 5 Football Association (FA) Cups, 4 Football League Cups, 2 European Champions League trophies, one each of Cup Winner’s Cup, FIFA Club World Cup, EUFA Super Cup, Intercontinental Cup, and 10 Football Association Charity/ Community Shield championships.

Whew!

What an astronomical haul! I am betting that no-one, but noone, in the rest of history, will do that well. Even the stock market reacted badly, MUFC’s shares falling slightly on the NYSE! That is power!

But the crowning glory year for MUFC must be 1999, a year that had many other noted firsts too! That was also the very same year when, for the very first time ever anywhere, “Wisden – CricInfo”, the superlative cricket web-site, broadcast international cricket commentary, ball by ball, over the world-wide-web, covering ICC Cricket World Cup 1999, with yours truly also included

Colin E. H. Croft in the broadcast team!

I can also clearly remember where I was on Wednesday 26 May, 1999, when Manchester United beat German team Bayern Munich in Champions League Trophy Final, culminating that treble for “Red Devils”.

Scotland and West Indies were to meet the next day at Leicestershire’s cricket ground, Grace Road, where present Ireland head coach Phil Simmons played. Few paid any attention to cricket stuff that afternoon! We were all around televisions, all computers paused or completely downed, cricket journalistic work ignored, especially if you were a Man U supporter, as I was, and am.

That evening was absolute magic!

MUFC scored two goals in what is now known as “Fergie’s Time”, those last few minutes in any game where oppositions, even if ahead, relax enough to let United in. What a game that was!

Several of Sir Alex’s MUFC “prodigies” have given open homage and total credit to their “father”.

David Beckham, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Andy Cole, Paul Ince, Eric Cantona, Mark Hughes, Dwight Yorke, Gary Neville, Steve Bruce have all lauded the man’s worth, bringing tears to eyes.

Few mothers have ever developed such talent.

Enjoy!

Mumbai go No. 2 by...

From page 76 stunningly, those sixes were the last boundaries hit in the hosts’ innings. The Mumbai death-bowling was tight, rather than extraordinary, and the pitch was a little difficult, but the Warriors batsmen never adjusted to the pace of the surface and swing after swing, they continued to mistime their shots into the deep, or miss the ball completely. Mitchell Johnson finished with the best figures in the match, having taken two wickets for eight runs in his four overs. ( (

Ashok Dinda, who was among five changes to the Warriors side, bowled a peach to uproot Dwayne Smith’s off stump first ball, but with so few to chase, Mumbai could afford to regroup safely. Ajantha Mendis was the best of Warriors’ bowlers, taking 1 for 15 from his full quota, but no one was able to deliver the spell that would cause a serious scare in the opposition dugout.

Scores: Mumbai Indians 116 for 5 (Rohit 37) beat Pune Warriors 112 for 9 (Yuvraj 33, Johnson 2-8) by 5 wickets.

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Wiltshire siblings, Jason... Watson sinks City with lastFrom page 75 against Alec Melville. After losing the first game 11-4 he caught himself and won the next three games 11-0, 11-7, 11-6.

The match of the morning on day five was between two Caribbean champions, Jason Ray Khalil and Nyron Joseph.

These two players three weeks ago, in the final of the Ansa Mc Al sponsored Senior Easter tournament, had gone the full distance of five games with Jason winning 3-2.

Nyron was hoping to turn the tables on him this time around. Jason won the first game 11-9 with neither player having more than a two point lead in this game. In the second Nyron jumped out to a 7-1 lead only for Jason to come to within two points at 5-7.

Nyron, however, won the next four points and closed out the game 11-5. Game three was a sea-saw affair until Jason moved from 6-4 to 104. Nyron, however, kept coming back and got to as close as eight before Jason played an amazing shot and won the game 11-8. This game seemed to take the steam out of Nyron as Jason moved out to an 8-3 lead in the fourth game.

Nyron got to five then Jason moved to 10-5. Nyron could only get as close as seven before Jason Ray scored the next point and took the match by three games to one.

Results on night four are as follows: Boys Under-11 Gianni Carpenter beat Michael Alphonso 11-2,11-2 Zachary Persaud beat Daniel Lowe 11-8,6-11,11-7 Demetrius DeAbreu beat Liam Carpenter 11-2,11-2 Dominic Collins beat Ethan Jonas 11-3,11-3 Gianni Carpenter beat

Gareth DaSilva 11-0,11-2 Rajiv Lee beat Liam Carpenter 11-5,11-1 Zachary Persaud beat Rajiv Lee 11-2,11-4 Dominic Collins beat Michael Alphonso 11-6,11-4 John Phang beat Lucas Jonas 11-8,10-12,11-9 John Phang beat Gareth DaSilva 11-1,11-2 Shomari Wiltshire beat Ethan Jonas 11-4,11-3 Demetrius DeAbreu beat Nathan Rahaman 11-4,11-0 Shomari Wiltshire beat Nathan Rahaman 11-0,11-0 Lucas Jonas beat Daniel Lowe 11-0,11-4 Girls Under-13 & 15 Rebecca Lowe beat Sarah Lewis 11-4,11-4,6-11,11-2 Taylor Fernandes beat Maya Collins 11-3,11-0,11-2 Savannah Mendes beat Makeda Harding 11-0,118,11-4 Boys Under-13 & 15 Ben Mekdeci beat Jael Gaskin 11-1,11-2,11-1 Shomari Wiltshire beat Michael Ramroop 11-6,115,11-7 Daniel Islam beat Anthony Islam 11-3,11-6,11-6 Matthew Phang beat Alex Cheeks 11-8,11-4,11-5 Girls Under-17 & 19 Mary Fung A Fat beat Kristina Cheeks 11-1,111,11-1 Larissa Wiltshire beat Taylor Fernandes 11-7,5-11,3-11,119,11-8 Ashley DeGroot beat Akeila Wiltshire 11-3,11-5,9-11,11-5 Boys Under-17 & 19 Nyron Joseph beat Steven Xavier 1-5,11-9,11-5 Ben Mekdeci beat Alec Melville 4-11,11-0,11-7,11-6 Day five morning results Boys Under 11 Shomari Wiltshire beat Rajiv Lee 11-4,11-1 Gianni carpenter beat John Phang 13-15,11-9,12-10 Lucas Jonas beat Demetrius DeAbreu 11-4,11-7

John Phang beat Daniel Lowe 11-1,11-2 Gianni Carpenter beat Liam Carpenter 11-0,11-0 Daniel Lowe beat Michael Alphonso 11-6,7-11,11-6 Nathan Rahaman beat Liam Carpenter 11-6,36-34 Shomari Wiltshire beat Michael Alphonso 11-2,11-1 Gianni Carpenter beat Zachary Persaud 11-0,11-5 Ethan Jonas beat Liam Carpenter 11-4,11-4 Ethan Jonas beat Rajiv Lee 11-9,10-12,11-9 Lucas Jonas beat Ethan Jonas 11-7,11-5 Zachary Persaud beat Demetrius DeAbreu 9-11,1210-11,8 Daniel Lowe beat Rajiv Lee 11-6,11-7 John Phang beat Dominic Collins 11-5,12-10 Shomari Wiltshire beat Zachary Persaud 11-1,11-1 Dominic Collins beat Nathan Rahaman 11-2,11-1 Demetrius DeAbreu beat Michael Alphonso 11-1,11-5 Girls Under-11 Makeda Harding beat Halley Carpenter 11-3,11-0 Boys Under-13 & 15 Daniel Islam beat Jael Gaskin 11-7,14-12,11-8 Alex Cheeks beat Anthony Islam 11-1,11-3,11-3 Matthew Phang beat Michael Ramroop 11-6,115,11-5 Ben Mekdeci beat Shomari Wiltshire 11-7,11-2,11-2 Ben Mekdeci beat Michael Ramroop 11-0,11-3,11-1 Girls Under-13 & 15 Rebecca Lowe beat Savannah Mendes 11-4,115.11-1 Sarah Lewis beat Maya Collins 11-4,11-5,11-9 Girls Under-17 & 19 Akeila Wiltshire beat Kristina Cheeks 11-3.111,11-4 Boys Under-17 & 19 Jason Ray Khalil beat Nyron Joseph 11-9,5-11,11-8.11-7

LeBron James, Heat survive...

From page 72 93-86, and Cole’s three with 1:48 made it 96-88.

James’ driving layup for a three-point play made it 9990 with 1:23 left, just enough of a cushion to hold off Chicago. He also was 5-of-5 on free throws in the final 83 seconds.

James had 12 points, Bosh eight and Cole seven in the fourth quarter when Miami outscored Chicago 3424 after the third quarter ended with the scored tied at 70.

James, who was 11-of-11 from the foul line, finished with another decent line — eight rebounds, seven assists and two steals in addition to

LeBron James his scoring. But again, the Bulls didn’t let James have anything easy.

James, who shot a career high 56.5% from the field this season, made just 6-of-17 (35.3%) in Game 3. It was just

the third time season he shot less than 36% from the field.

James scored in the paint often and early in Game 2, and the Bulls were intent on keeping him out of the lane and away from easy shots at the rim. Six of James’ seven baskets in Game 2 were at the rim on layups or dunks. In Game 3, he made just 3-of-6 at the rim.

But he persevered and delivered with the game on the line.

Forward Carlos Boozer led the Bulls with 21 points, and center Joakim Noah had 15 points and 11 rebounds.

Both teams were hot early — the Heat shot 61.1% in the first quarter and Bulls 52.6%.

minute header to win FA Cup for Martinez’s underdogs

Wigan celebrate their win on the Wembley pitch (AP)

Daily Mail - Ben Watson’s last-minute header won Wigan the FA Cup for the first time in their history as they provided one of the competition’s great upsets by beating Manchester City at Wembley.

Watson turned home Shaun Maloney’s corner to flatten 10-man City, who had Pablo Zabaleta sent off near the end.

It was a deserved triumph for the Latics, for whom Callum McManaman was outstanding, and completed a personal dream for chairman Dave Whelan, who broke his leg in the 1960 final.

But for City, it means a trophyless campaign, and raises further questions over the future of Roberto Mancini, who it is rumoured will be replaced by Manuel Pellegrini in the summer.

The pre-match touchline conversation between Mancini and chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak would have been interesting considering the rumours flying around about the potential recruitment of Pellegrini.

When the half-time whistle blew City could claim most of the best chances.

But in Joel Robles,

GDA tourney set for tomorrow

The newly elected executive of the Georgetown Dominoes Association (GDA) will be hosting their first competition starting tomorrow at Dynasty.

The winning team will

take home $100,000 and a trophy while the runner up will receive $50,000 and a trophy and the third place team $30,000 and a trophy.

Entrance fee is $6,000 per team.

GCA\ Hadi’s World Inc 1st Division 2 day tourney

GCC in control against GNIC on rain affected day Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) are in control against the Guyana National Industrial Corporation Sports Club (GNIC) as the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)\Hadi’s World Inc first division 2 day competition continued yesterday. At the GCC ground Bourda, GNIC batting first closed the day on 88-5 in 48 overs after heavy overnight

and early showers caused play to start at 14:00 hrs. Ryan Shun is unbeaten on 26 while Matthew Marques is not out on 10.

Earlier the visitors lost Mark Nicholson (03), Ronale Bourne (05) and Jermain Grovesnor (04). Leon Johnson has so far taken 224, Bernard Bailey 1-6 and Devon Lord 1-18. The game continues today.

preferred in goal to Ali Al Habsi, Wigan had a keeper in form. The Spain Under-21 star turned away an early effort from Yaya Toure and denied Sergio Aguero and Samir Nasri later in the half.

In the middle was the best of the lot as Wigan’s notoriously flaky defence partnered to let Nasri through, which allowed David Silva to set up Carlos Tevez. The Argentina star looked certain to score as his effort headed to one corner as Robles plunged towards the other.

Wigan had chances to get their noses in front during that opening period too.

Emmerson Boyce got a vital touch to Aguero’s near-post flick and Jack Rodwell had a long-range effort charged down as Mancini excuted a tactical rejig to counter Martinez’s attacking intentions.

It was Wigan who hit the woodwork though, albeit unintentionally as Maloney’s intended far post free-kick bounced off the bar with Joe Hart stranded. And they had an extra man six minutes from the end when Zabaleta chopped down McManaman to collect a second yellow card and follow Kevin Moran and Jose Antonio Reyes into the FA Cup final hall of shame.

It was the signal for another Wigan assault, and by now no-one could deny they deserved something from the game. Two free-kicks came and went before another McManaman burst forced Gael Clichy to concede a corner. Maloney swung it to the near post and Watson rose to power it into the corner and carve Wigan’s name into history.

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Zimbabwe hold nerve for tense win ESPNcricinfo - The firstever Twenty20 at the Queens Sports Club ground in Bulawayo was a thriller with the home team squeezing home by six runs. Zimbabwe fought back mightily when it mattered and Bangladesh imploded just when they could smell the win. The visitors collapsed from 120 for 1 in the 15th over to being kept down to 162 for 8. Tinashe Panyangara bowled a terrific final over, giving away just three runs as the Bangladesh lower-order failed to play smartly.

Zimbabwe had earlier made 168 for 5 after deciding to bat first. Hamilton Masakadza struck his seventh fifty while captain Brendan Taylor made a quickfire 40 as they put Zimbabwe on course for a big total. Bangladesh were brought back into the game by their spinners after the Ta y l o r- M a s a k a d z a partnership ended, with Shakib Al Hasan getting both wickets and bowling economically in between.

Shakib was doing the job with the bat too, hammering 65 off 40 balls and helping add 118 for the second wicket with Shamsur Rahman. He struck eight disdainful fours and two sixes while Shamsur ended up with his maiden fifty, after a slow start.

Hamilton Masakadza scored 59 off 48 balls (AFP) The pair had taken Bangladesh to within 49 of the target with 34 balls to go, but the moment Shakib was dismissed, the Bangladesh batsmen started to make a meal of the chase.

Shamsur fell two balls later and it was down to the Bangladesh captain, Mushfiqur Rahman, to steer the chase. He began badly though, involved in two mixups that ended in run-outs of

Nasir Hossain and Mahmudullah in the 16th over. Nasir was inches short of safety as Tinotenda Mutombodzi broke the stumps. Mahmudullah was far from the crease at the other end after he got mixed calls from Mushfiqur; Mutombodzi swooped on the ball to his left and scored a direct-hit.

Then the pressure got to Ziaur Rahman, the Twenty20 specialist who had a torrid time connecting bat on ball.

He frustrated Mushfiqur, with whom he almost had a collision, before falling to Panyangara’s clever length in the 18th over. This wicket, and the eight runs from the over, perhaps swayed Taylor into picking Panyangara to bowl the last over.

Mushfiqur hit two sixes in the melee of wickets, before holing out to deep square-leg off the first ball of the final over when 10 runs were required. Panyangara was more resourceful in his last two overs than his first two, keeping it full to choke the runs. Sohag Gazi has some batting credentials but looked out of his depth towards the end of the chase while Abdur Razzak missed everything even though he was given room to swing.

Panyangara took three wickets while Prosper Utseya broke the Shakib-Shamsur

LeBron James, Heat survive physical Bulls in Game 3 USA Today - CHICAGO — The magic, Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau likes to say, is in the effort.

And as the gallant Bulls have displayed over and over, they turned in another A-plus effort.

They just failed to complete the trick.

The Miami Heat defeated Chicago 104-94 in Game 3 on Friday, taking a 2-1 series lead in their best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series.

Game 4 is Monday in Chicago (7 p.m. ET, TNT).

The Heat wrestled away home-court advantage after losing it in Chicago’s Game 1

victory. The team with homecourt advantage is 91-25 (78.4%) in conference semifinal series games since the 16-team playoff format began in 1984.

The Heat should consider themselves fortunate. The Bulls contained Heat forward LeBron James and guard Dwyane Wade and relied on outstanding performances from center Chris Bosh and backup point guard Norris Cole.

Bosh had 20 points and 19 rebounds, and Cole added 18 points in another strong game for the growing second-year pro.

Chicago’s tenacious defence kept the Heat in check. James had 25 points on 6-for-17 shooting, and Wade scored 10 points on passive offensive effort. He took seven shots from the field, one in the first half. But the already depleted Bulls — with just seven players available after Nazr Mohammed’s secondquarter ejection — did not have enough left in tank in the fourth quarter.

The Heat outscored the Bulls 34-24 in the fourth quarter. James’ three-pointer with 2:35 left put Miami up (Continued on page 71)

partnership, taking both wickets. Brian Vitori was also excellent, giving away just 24 from his four overs and picking up the wicket of Tamim Iqbal in the first over.

This, after the Bangladesh spinners brought them back into the game with some control over the big-hitting in the last seven overs. Taylor and Masakadza put on 74 for the second wicket with the Zimbabwe captain severe on anything pitched on

legstump. He made 40 off 25 balls with six fours and a paddle-swept six. He fell in the ninth over, after which Masakadza tried to up the run-rate but wasn’t too successful.

He was dismissed after making 59 off 48 balls with four boundaries and a six. They failed to get the big hits away in the last five overs, with Shakib taking 2 for 20 and one wicket apiece for Gazi, Shafiul Islam and Mahmudullah.

GCA\NBS second division 40-over competition...

Gittens slams century as MYO beat GDF by 91 runs Muslim Youth Organization (MYO) hammered Guyana Defence Force (GDF) by 91 runs when action in the Georgetown Cricket Association\New Building Society second division 40-over competition continued yesterday.

At MYO, the visitors won the toss and asked the home team to bat after the game was reduced to 20 overs due to rain. Chien Gittens stroked eighteen fours and three sixes in an unbeaten 101, while

Zamal Khan supported well with 44 (8x4). The pair came together after the host lost Richard Latiff for 24 with the score 30 in the fifth over and featured in a second wicket stand of 161. Jeremiah Harris was the lone wicket taker for GDF with 1-22. GDF in reply were skittled for 100 in 19.4 overs. Damian Ross made 23 (4x4) and Harris 18 (3x4) as Gittens took 2-9, Imtiaz Pooran 2-15, Shafeek Ishmile 2-17.

Previously MYO defeated Gandhi Youth Organization

In Sammy’s next over, David Miller, Kings XI’s biggest hope, drove a length ball straight down cover’s throat.

Game over. R Sathish and Sunrisers’ fielders tried their best to keep the chase interesting, but Luke Pomersbach’s slow innings of 33 off 40 put paid to that.

Scores: Sunrisers Hyderabad 150 for 7 (Parthiv Patel 61, Perera 32*, Sandeep Sharma 3-21) beat Kings XI Punjab 120 for 9 (Sammy 4-22, Steyn 2-20) by 30 runs.

(GYO) by 31 runs at MYO. MYO took first strike and posted 215-7 off their allotted 40 overs with Zulfikar Ali top scoring with 62, while Gittens chipped in with 44 and Abdool Kadir 37. Vivian Albert and Kamesh Yadram took 2 wickets each for GYO who in reply were routed 184 in 34 overs. Yadram led with 48 while Shiv Gobin made 42 and Steven Sankar 26.

Parmanand Parsram bagged 538 and Shafeek Ishmile 2-21.

(Zaheer Mohamed)

Pepsi/Scotia Bank U-15 Football in Berbice

Twin hat-tricks highlight latest action Two hat-tricks, one

by Trevit Grimmond of New Amsterdam Multilateral School (NAMS) and the other

by Joshua Butts of Tutorial Academy Secondary School (TASS) highlighted play when the Berbice leg of the ongoing Pepsi/ Scotia Bank U-15 Inter Secondary Football competition continued with one match last Saturday at the All Saint Scott Church ground in New Amsterdam.

The game was keenly contested with both Grimmond and Butts showing

good skills and they led their charges forward to see the contest end in an exciting 3-3 stalemate.

The result allows NAMS to retain their unbeaten run in the competition so far with TASS holding on to the second spot.

In one game of the girls competition played at the same venue, Berbice High School (BHS) and TASS played to a 0-0 draw a result which helped BHS to hold on to the lead in the points standing.

Sammy helps Sunrisers stay hot... Sarwan shines in draw

From page 76 over and removing Mandeep Singh.

Shaun Marsh and Gilchrist kept the chase going with a 44-run second-wicket stand.

Along the way Gilchrist was missed by Parthiv Patel. Darren Sammy, however, came on and ended the chase for all practical purposes with three soft dismissals.

Marsh and Gilchrist pulled at balls that were not short enough, and fell to the first two balls Sammy bowled.

Bangladesh now have a final shot at redeeming the tour today. Mushfiqur will be under some pressure as he was in charge after the Shakib-Shamsur partnership broke, but couldn’t see the team through.

Scores: Zimbabwe 168 for 5 (Masakadza 59, Taylor 40, Shakib 2-20) beat Bangladesh 162 for 8 (Shakib 65, Shamsur 53, Panyangara 3-32) by six runs.

WICRIC news Ramnaresh Sarwan reached a sterling 79 as Leicestershire secured a draw in the basement battle at Worcestershire.

The visitors, resuming on 229-2, saw Ned Eckersley fail to build on his ton, out early for 122, but Sarwan passed 50 before falling on 287-5, 33 behind.

Shiv Thakor (52 not out)

make good running but Shaaiq Choudhry (4-111) took the final three wickets as the visitors declared 59 ahead on 379-8.

And shortly after the hosts surpassed the total on 61-1, the match was drawn.

After losing effectively a day’s play to rain, the draw appeared inevitable at New Road.

NAMS leads the points standing in the boy’s category with seven points followed by TASS and BHS on five and four respectively.

However, BHS has only played two matches to the others three.

In the girls’ category, BHS is out front with seven points followed by BEI on six and TASS on four. BEI has played one game less.

(Samuel Whyte)

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T&T collapse to hand Barbados the title CMC -BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Listless Trinidad and Tobago slumped to a heavy innings and 22-run loss in the Regional Four-Day final, to hand Barbados their 21st first class title here yesterday.

Starting the penultimate day at Kensington Oval on 140 for four and requiring nothing short of a miracle to stay alive in the contest, T&T folded meekly for 237, 25 minutes after lunch to complete a miserable outing and finish the season with

little to show for their efforts.

Attacking opener Lendl Simmons converted his overnight 111 into a top score of 140 while Stephen Katwaroo got 34, but the lower order was devoid of fight as T&T lost their last six wickets for 97 runs. Seamer Javon Searles was the pick of the bowlers, grabbing three for 31 while impressive fast bowler Miguel Cummins added one to his three from overnight to finish with four for 75. He was voted Man-of-the-Match for his nine-wicket match haul.

T&T captain Denesh Ramdin said afterward his side’s campaign had suffered because of the loss of key personnel, with the new players not performing up to scratch.

“It was an up and down season and we had to keep chopping and changing players, some going and some coming. We did not get that balance in our batting department so we were always struggling to put 200 runs on the board and our bowlers have done it throughout the season for us,” the West Indies wicketkeeper said.

“This is [one of the few times] we have gotten over 220 runs for the season. It is something we have to think about and we have to go back to our drawing board. The top five or six batters need to come to the party. They didn’t come consistently as we wanted them too in this tournament.”

He added: “Well played to Simmons this game. He got a hundred but coming from 260 behind it is a hard task to overcome that.”

Barbados coach Hendy Springer, meanwhile, was understandably elated by his team’s triumph.

“It feels great after you have completed a season after the kind of start we had, win a trophy and still look around and see some of the young guys improve as well. That is the definition of success for me,” he said.

“We had guys that were willing or fight, willing to prove their worth and that was important.”

With the script written since the first day after T&T’s batting meltdown, the result appeared all but a formality when the visitors resumed the third day still 119 runs adrift of making Barbados bat again.

Simmons picked up where he left off on Friday, slamming the second ball of the day from pacer Kemar Roach through cover for four, and repeating the shot in the bowler’s next over.

He stretched his fifth wicket stand with Ramdin to 83 before losing his skipper, lbw to Roach for 18 in the seventh over of the morning.

Ramdin never suggested permanence and had been put down at first slip by Sulieman Benn off Roach in the previous over on 17.

Simmons continued to play freely, carting Cummins over long off for his eighth six, as he added 25 for the sixth wicket with the diminutive Katwaroo, to hold up Barbados’ advance.

Running out of ideas, Barbados turned to part-time seamer Jonathan Carter and he got the breakthrough, having Simmons caught at the wicket, 50 minutes before lunch.

All told, the right-hander faced 114 balls in nearly three hours at the crease, and also counted 12 fours.

Katwaroo, who had batted cautiously for nearly an hour-and-a-half with three fours, then suffered a wild rush of blood in the final over before lunch and skied Searles to Roach at mid-off.

Perched on 217 for seven at the interval, T&T’s tail collapsed swiftly on resumption, leaving Imran Khan unbeaten on 14.

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WEST INDIES FULLBORE RIFLE SHOOTING CHAMPIONSHIPS INDIVIDUALS - DAY 1

Defending champ Braithwaite shoots well, does not drop a point

Reigning Individual Fullbore King of the Ranges in the Caribbean, Guyana’s Lennox Braithwaite, ended day one on a high, failing to drop a single point at the 300 and 500 Yards Ranges when competition got going in the 2013 edition of the West Indies Fullbore Rifle Shooting Championships at the Paragon Ranges in Barbados, yesterday.

Following a simple but symbolic opening ceremony and the first shot to officially signal the start of competition, which was fired

by Chief of Staff of the Barbados Defense Force, Alvin Clinton, shooters from 9 countries, Canada, Trinidad & Tobago, Australia, Channel Islands, Barbados, Antigua & Barbuda, Great Britain, Jamaica and Guyana got down to the business that they are all here for, shooting.

Subtle and tricking wind was the order of the day following overnight and early

morning showers, but nature had to take care of business as did the shooters.

Braithwaite shot with the second detail and recorded scores of 50 Points and 3VBulls at the 300 Yards and 75 Points and 10V-Bulls at the 500 Yards Range, the only two ranges that were contested yesterday.

Given the number of countries that are competing, the organisers decided to have morning and afternoon sessions to accommodate the large numbers.

Guyana Captain Mahendra Persaud commented on the performance of his charges: “At 300 and 500 yards there were changes with the wind but all in all from an individual point of view I think that Lennox had a fantastic day.

He had a 50 at 300 and 75 at 500, the other guys had a decent day, I don’t think we are doing that bad but I think from tomorrow (today) we will

see an overall improvement from the guys.”

Team Guyana suffered a scare when O-Class champion Leo Ramalho had to be rushed to hospital after complaining of feeling unwell.

Ramalho had to take saline and underwent checks for malaria after tests for dengue fever returned negative.

Ramalho returned to the team hotel in the early afternoon and was in high spirits and will be shooting today.

Persaud said that he was happy that Ramalho was on the recovery as he is a vital member of the unit for the Team Championships.

Scores of the day were not available up to press time; also, no details of the ranges that will be shot from today were available up to press time.

Meanwhile, Speaking on his opening day’s performance, the modest Braithwaite said that it was a good day’s work but he would not be surprised if someone else got more V-Bulls, even though he scored the maximum points, he fell down on V-Bulls. He also made mention that with shooters the caliber of those from Australia and Great Britain, the race will be tight.

Lewis Hamilton beaten to pole

by Mercedes team-mate Rosberg BBC Sport - Nico Rosberg beat Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton to pole position at the Spanish Grand Prix.

The German took his second consecutive pole by 0.254 seconds from Hamilton, with Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel third ahead of Lotus’s Kimi Raikkonen.

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso could manage only fifth on the grid in front of his adoring home fans, just 0.001secs quicker than teammate Felipe Massa.

McLaren’s Jenson Button was only 14th with team-mate Sergio Perez ninth.

Scot Paul di Resta was 10th as the top 10 was completed by Lotus’s Romain Grosjean in seventh and Red Bull’s Mark Webber in eighth.

Brazilian Massa was subsequently handed a threeplace grid penalty for blocking Mark Webber during the Red Bull driver’s timed lap in the second session, relegating the Ferrari driver to ninth on the grid. “Congrats to Nico really happy for the team,” said Hamilton. “It’s down to

Nico Rosberg

all the great work from the guys at the factory. But we’ve got to approach tomorrow with caution because it’s going to be tough. I didn’t have two option tyre sets, but I think Nico was quicker today.”

Since 1997, the Spanish Grand Prix has been won from pole position every year bar one, when Vettel won from second in 2011.

But Mercedes have struggled for race pace this year and team principal Ross Brawn sounded doubtful when asked if they could win the grand prix, admitting others had been in better

shape during the racesimulation runs in Friday practice.

However, world champion Vettel said: “Mercedes were in a league of their own. We were surprised by the pace they had today.

I am happy to sit in third right behind them because they were out of reach. “I expect them to be strong in the race because they have been quick all year on this track and I expect the people behind to put some pressure on, Lotus and Ferrari. We will have to look after ourselves and our own tyres and then see what we can do.”

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Squash Association Woodpecker National Junior championship

Wiltshire siblings, Jason Ray Khalil, Ashley DeGroot hunt titles today The Guyana Squash Association in collaboration with its number one corporate sponsor Digicel on Friday night and yesterday morning ran off night four and day five of its National Junior Squash tournament sponsored by Woodpecker Products Ltd at the Georgetown Club Courts.

In the Boys Under-11 category, where fourteen players are involved, each of these boys had to play two matches on Friday evening and then three matches yesterday morning.

Currently leading in this category having not lost a match are Shomari Wiltshire and Gianni Carpenter.

One of the feature matches of Friday evening matched Larissa Wiltshire against Taylor Fernandes and once again they did not disappoint with the match going the full five games with the young Wiltshire emerging winner in the close tussle.

In the first game Taylor

National Schools’ Basketball Festival

Last year’s runner-up, Marian Academy survive late scare

By Edison Jefford Marian Academy survived a late scare yesterday afternoon in a keen contest against Charlestown Secondary School to come away with an average win when the City Conference of the National Schools’ Basketball Festival (NSBF) continued at Marian’s Court.

Marian won 37-33 on their home court with Dale Beresford dropping 14 points that accompanied six steals on the defensive end.

Selvaughn Moseley had nine points with Jonathan Beaton scoring six points for Marian in the game.

Murtland Ward scored 14 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for a doubledouble for Charlestown, while Amoniki John, who landed a huge three-point shot to haul his school within two points of Marian at 3133 with two minutes left in the game, had nine points.

Beresford and Keiron Braithwaite opened the account for Marian Academy from downtown with back-to-back threepoint jumpers that triggered a hot offensive start for the school. Beresford drained another three-pointer to give Marian an 11-2 lead early in the 20-minute half.

But Charlestown’s Ward answered with a jumper from downtown when the school found some rhythm after going to their big men, which they possessed in abundance. Charlestown levelled the scores a 14-14, but Beresford penetrated in the dying seconds of the first half and released a floater high off the glass to give Marian a 16-14 lead at halftime.

Kaya Dover and Ward

Marian Academy’s guard, Jonathan Beaten skilfully manoeuvres between two defenders for a lay-up yesterday afternoon.

jumped out to an early lead moving to seven four before Larissa reeled off the next seven points and closed out the game 11-7.

Taylor changed her strategy in game two deliberately slowing down her game and this paid dividend as she won this game easily 11-5 and then after leading 5-0 in the third only allowed Larissa to get three points as she convincingly won the third 11-3.

The fourth game was one where neither of the two players were up by more than two points but after Larissa had moved into the lead and was two points from leveling the match, leading 9-6 Taylor fought her way back to 9-9, but then Larissa won the next two points to take the match into a deciding fifth and final game. Larissa went ahead in this game and was up 7-3 then 9-4. Taylor then moved to six then Larissa had match ball at 10-6, Taylor won two more points but Larissa then closed out this tense and exciting match 11-8.

Caribbean Under-17 champion Nyron Joseph showed his class while dispatching Steven Xavier in three straight games 11-5, 11-9, 11-5. Steven seems not

Shomari Wiltshire

Ashley DeGroot

Larissa Wiltshire

Jason Ray Khalil

to have fully recovered from the hamstring injury he suffered three weeks ago in the Ansa McAl Senior Easter tournament.

Caribbean Under-19 runner up Ashley DeGroot was stretched in her match against former Caribbean Under-15 Champion Akeila Wiltshire. After winning the first game 11-3 and the second 11-5 Akeila was able to get into the match and won

t h e t h i r d g a m e 11 - 9 .

However, Ashley prevailed in the fourth 11-5.

In a match-up of two of the top Under-15 girls, Rebecca Lowe defeated Sarah Lewis in four games.

Rebecca won 11-4, 11-4 611, 11-2.

Former Caribbean Under-13 champion Ben Mekdeci recovered from a slow start in his matchup (Continued on page 71)

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went to work for Marian in the first five minutes of the second half which helped them level the scores again at 22-22 as Marian fell into an offensive slump.

However, four straight turnovers from Charlestown in the middle of the period allowed Marian to recover for a 31-26 lead with four minutes left in the game.

Down 28-33 with two minutes left in the game, John drained a three-pointer to haul within two points, but Marian used some experience and played possession basketball to hold on for the win and keep their hope of a final berth alive.

In the other Under-20 game, Plaisance beat President’s College 34-28 in a Country Conference game that was also played yesterday. Nikkoloi Smith scored 15 points for

Plaisance with Wesley Forde adding 12 points.

Meanwhile, for President’s College, Devon Warren scored 10 points as Nyambekirie Bacchus added nine points.

The day also featured two Under-17 games where St. Roses High School defeated Bishop’s High School 24-19 with Anfernee Jervis scoring 14 points and grabbing six rebounds.

Daniel Ramlogan had six points and six rebounds for Bishops.

Marian Academy’s U-17 team defeated Brickdam Secondary 36-22 with Judah Stephney scoring 12 points and Christopher Joao scoring 10 points for Marian. Joshua Lee had 12 points for Brickdam.

Digicel, Banks DIH and Edward B. Beharry Company Ltd are the main sponsors of the 2013 NSBF.

Ninvalle, Saunders, Clarkston are early title holders

Nevaeh Clarkston

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Kaysan Ninvalle

on of the Deputy Permanent Secretary within the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport Steve Ninvalle, Kaysan Ninvalle, celebrated his eighth birthday yesterday with an Under-9 table tennis title in the Guyana Table Tennis Association/National Sports Commission (GTTA/NSC) Independence tournament at the National Gymnasium.

Ninvalle swept Isaiah Layne 11-6, 11-3 and 11-9 to win the title. Up and coming

Tyriq Saunders

phenom, Tyriq Saunders and Nevaeh Clarkston also won titles yesterday in the Boys’ Under-11 competition and Girls’ Under-13 contest, which were both round robins, respectively.

Saunders topped the group that included Terrence Rausch, Niran Bissu and Cole Dixon to win his title while Clarkston topped Simram Bissu then defeated Priyanna Ramdhani 11-7, 9-11, 11-3, 11-13 and 11-5 in the deciding game to win her title.

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Sammy helps Sunrisers Mumbai go No. 2 by stay hot on others’ heels trampling Warriors Parthiv Patel smacks one down the ground (BCCI)

Darren Sammy does a little jig with a pacifier after claiming one of his 4 wickets. (BCCI)

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SPNcricinfo - Sunrisers Hyderabad kept their bid for making the playoffs more than alive after their win over Kings XI Punjab took them level with Royal Challengers Bangalore, who are placed fourth on the table thanks to a superior net run rate. With 10 points from 13 matches, Kings XI were all but out of the reckoning.

It was a scrappy match full of dropped catches and missed chances and bad shots, played on a patchy pitch. If the bowlers hit the two patches of green on the track, they derived seam movement and varied bounce.

And the match began with the weaker suits of both sides coming against each other as Adam Gilchrist inserted Sunrisers.

The two youngsters who came into the match, Harmeet Singh and Sandeep Sharma,

benefited from a mix of poor strokes and the capricious pitch to reduce Sunrisers to 52 for 5 in the ninth over.

Parthiv Patel stuck in, though, to score his first IPL half-century in three years. His previous fifty, too, came against Kings XI, but for Chennai Super Kings.

The partnership between him and Karan Sharma wasn’t the prettiest thing going around, but they added 42 runs, and gave Thisara Perera some sort of platform to launch from.

Perera and Parthiv, helped by a drop by Gilchrist and some ordinary death bowling, added 56 in the last 5.1 overs to take Sunrisers to what looked like an above-par total. It proved to be one. Especially with Dale Steyn going for just two runs in the first (Continued on page 72 )

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SPNcricinfo - A subdued start and sorry finish to Pune Warriors’ innings set the scene for their 12th loss in 14 matches this season, as Mumbai Indians sauntered to second place on the table with a five-wicket win.

Having chosen to bat, Wa r r i o r s n e v e r r e a l l y spurred their innings towards an acceptable run rate, and although they were building towards a platform from which they could launch, a cluster of dismissals heralded a woeful end to their innings. They managed just 34 off their last eight overs and ended on 112 for 8.

The slow pitch made Mumbai’s chase a touch tougher than it ought to have been, but despite losing Dwayne Smith first ball, they were never really challenged. Rohit Sharma made 37, and his 54-run partnership with Ambati Rayudu effectively secured victory, which was achieved with seven balls remaining.

Their net run-rate put them above Rajasthan Royals, and the middling teams will struggle to deprive them of a playoffs spot.

Having been on 84 for 2 at one stage, Warriors seemed a side that had forgotten how to win, as they were derailed in a six-ball period that yielded three wickets. Manish Pandey hit a Lasith Malinga full toss straight to deep midwicket, before Angelo Mathews fell, responding to Yuvraj Singh’s poor call in the next over, before Yuvraj himself was caught in front by Harbhajan

Singh. The running between the wickets was ordinary, and had the Mumbai fielders hit the stumps half as often as their fielding coach Jonty Rhodes did in his career, Wa r r i o r s m i g h t h a v e struggled to make 90.

The only period Warriors seemed capable of making a competitive total was when Yuvraj Singh was at the crease, and even he, during his 29-ball stay, could not manage a strike rate better t h a n 11 4 . H e s t r u c k consecutive leg-side sixes off Pragyan Ojha in the 11th over, signaling an intention to shake Warriors out of their ponderous tempo, but he was out three overs later having done little else, and (Continued on page 70 )

Mitchell Johnson celebrates taking Aaron Finch's wicket (BCCI)

Rohit Sharma attempting a big hit (BCCI)

MUSCLE INVASION: GABBFF NOVICE & SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

Fitness Express sponsors Guest Poser; to present hampers to all 1st place athletes

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nce again, Manager of Fitness Express, Jamie McDonald has showcased his commitment to the sport of body building in tangible terms. Mc Donald and his business has made it possible for Guyanese fans and lovers of the sport to have a firsthand view of Mr. Barbados 2011, Stevenson Bell who will wow the crowd this evening at the Theatre Guild, venue for both competitions.

Bell and his Manager, both sponsored by Fitness Express paid a courtesy call on Mc Donald at his John and Sheriff Streets

business place on Friday afternoon, after they touched down in Guyana.

The athlete, who has been a dominant force on the bodybuilding stage in his homeland ever since his debut has promised to entertain the Guyanese fans this evening. He said that he was pleased to have been identified to be the guest poser at the GABBFF’s Novice and Intermediate Championships and thanked Mc Donald and the federation for making it possible.

Mc Donald in response said that he had no hesitation in

supporting the GABBFF’s choice for Guest Poser having himself done some research on Bell and his rise in the sport stating that he hopes Bell would be able to encourage and motivate the young athletes who will be on stage this evening.

And, as has been the norm ever since they opened for business over three years ago, Fitness Express will be presenting supplement hampers to all the first place winners in each category this evening.

Show time tonight is 19:00hrs and admission is $1,500.

Jaime McDonald with Barbadian Bodybuilder Stevenson Bell.

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Charles Dean is seen raising the Golden Arrowhead at yesterday’s opening of the Championships at the Paragon Ranges in Barbados.

WEST INDIES FULLBORE RIFLE SHOOTING C/SHIPS INDIVIDUALS - DAY 1

Defending champ Braithwaite shoots well, does not drop a point

The victorious Barbadians

T&T collapse to hand Barbados title Regional Cricket...

Squash Association Woodpecker National Junior championship

Wiltshire siblings, Jason Ray Khalil, Ashley DeGroot hunt titles today

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