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Dumped body of US citizen on C’tyne ...

See pg 8

Four months after

marriage, US wife

confesses to killing husband Murdered Abdul Majid

- victim had taken out million $$$ insurance policy

Bobby Ramroop paid only $4M Pg 6

on agreed $50M lease fees for Sanata Complex in 2009

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Tuesday May 22, 2012

Kaieteur News

Art icon Philip Moore to be buried in Berbice - AFC says Seven Ponds burial would have been fitting

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rt icon Philip Moore, who is celebrated for his incredible sculptures, will be buried today, even as there are conflicting views of how he should have been honoured.

Guyanese, particularly those from the art community in Georgetown, would have a first chance to view Moore's remains from 08:00 hrs at Square of the Revolution.

Square of the Revolution is the site of Moore's most celebrated work – the 1763 Monument which is a tribute to the man who led the 1763 slave rebellion that saw the first independent state in the western hemisphere.

Moore designed the 33foot high bronze statue, which was unveiled in May 1976 by then Prime Minister Forbes Burnham.

From first carving a head out of a piece of wood in the backdams, Moore went on to teach at Princeton University and at the Burrowes School of Art, the local art school.

Moore is the recipient of the Cacique's Crown of Honour, the country's third highest national award.

The Alliance for Change (AFC) felt that Moore was deserving of a burial at Seven Ponds, Place of Heroes where some of the country's heroes are laid.

“We are appalled that a national treasure of the standing of Philip Moore would be denied the appropriate tribute and honour that is due to a fallen national hero,” the AFC stated.

“The spirits of the departed who rose in 1763 must now be restless and very disturbed that their

Phillip Moore blood and sacrifice seem unworthy of national acclaim some two and a half centuries later,” the party added.

Moore's son, Phillip M o o r e J r. , s a i d t h a t representatives of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport and of the African Museum met with them and discussed whether Seven Ponds, Place of Heroes would be the burial place.

“We feel those at 'the top' should have made a decision and not ask us what would be appropriate,” Moore's son stated.

As a result, the funeral would go ahead as planned in Berbice.

After the viewing at the Square of the Revolution, Moore's body would be taken to his home at Lancaster Village and then to the Liverpool Community Centre for funeral service.

Moore will be interred at the Auchlyne Cemetery.

Tuesday May 22, 2012

Kaieteur News

Boxing champ gets five years for chopping wife, mother-in-law Former bantamweight and Caribbean Boxing Federation champion, Dexter Marques, will be spending the next 59 months behind bars for wounding two females last year.

The sentence was handed down by Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

According to the facts, Marques had wounded two females to cause them actual bodily harm. The man had chopped the mother of his children and his mother-in-law after an altercation. When the mother-in-law intervened in a matter with his partner, she was wounded.

Marques was sentenced to five years on each count. However, the sentences would run concurrently.

The prosecution had proved its case against the defendant and the Magistrate handed down the sentence.

Marques is a well known figure in the boxing world having won prestigious boxing matches.

Dexter Marques

Murder accused fight in prison van, remanded for miner’s death Three men were remanded to jail for murder, yesterday, after they appeared before Magistrate Hazel OctiveHamilton. They were not required to plead to the indictable charge.

Fizal Moore called “Hard Mouth’, Stephan Campbell called “Burnham”; and Roy Yokum called “Ray Ray” were accused of murdering Glen Xavier at D’ Urban Street, Werk-en-Rust, on May 8.

However, the charge read in court however stated that the incident occurred on May 19.

The court prosecutor requested that the accused be remanded to jail and the application was granted. The three will return to court today.

Prior to the men appearing in court, a fight broke out between Yokum and Moore while they were being transported to the court via the prison van. It is understood that the two men were in disagreement after Moore reportedly implicated Yokum in the robbery-murder.

Yokum was heard saying that Moore had cuffed him to the mouth while they sat in the prison van. He also denied any affiliation with the accused. In court, both men had a story to tell. One

One of the robbery/ murder accused claimed that he was wrongfully accused and the other claiming he was beaten.

Yokum completed a jail term last Thursday after being in state custody for six months on another criminal matter.

Yokum and Moore were later escorted from the courtroom to the holding area with clothes torn, evidence that the two had been involved in a fight. Later the two were again heard going at it. They were also heard making threats to each other, promising to finish their altercation behind bars.

The three accused are charged with murder that stemmed from a robbery that

occurred at the Corn Bread Mini Mart, located at D’Urban and Lime Streets, Werk-enRust. It is alleged that on the day in question, around 21:00 hours, the victim, Glen Xavier, and Orin John, both miners, were attacked by two masked men as they sat drinking at the corner shop.

The attackers while armed with guns reportedly walked into the shop and headed straight over to the men. They ordered that the two miners hand over their money. But according to eyewitnesses, the miners hesitated to hand over the cash and that enraged the gunmen. Both miners were then shot.

The masked men then made good their escape via two CG motorcycles. Xavier and John were taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Xavier succumbed to his gunshot injuries the following day.

The victims were said to have had a large sum of money in their possession.

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Govt to ask Appeal Court to review Chief Justice ruling

By Gary Eleazar The Government’s Legal Advisor and Guyana’s Attorney General, Anil Nandlall disagrees with the recent ruling by Chief Justice Ian Chang on the composition of the Parliament’s Committee of Selection.

As such the Attorney General says that this week the government will be filing an appeal to Chang’s ruling that the High Court had no business interfering in the internal workings of Parliament.

Chief Justice Chang had ruled that Nandlall had been complaining to the wrong place about the composition of the Parliamentary Committee of Selection.

This body is essentially an umbrella body for the various Parliamentary Committees as it relates to their composition upon reconstitution of the committees as the 10th Parliament gets down to work.

Chief Justice Ian Chang dismissed the government’s case, saying that Nandlall made his complaint to the wrong forum and that the court cannot inquire or interfere in the proceedings of the National Assembly.

“The forum for a complaint of this nature is the National Assembly,” Chang said in a 30-page decision.

The Chief Justice ruled that there was nothing constitutionally wrong about opposition parties moving to change the composition of the Parliamentary Committee of Selection from having ten members compared to government having nine members.

Nandlall is convinced that the government has a strong case. There are at least two interpretations of the relevant legislation under question, he added.

He says that the Chief Justice chose one

Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang interpretation and he is looking to move to a more superior court in a bid to convince the Judges there that the alternative decision is correct.

Asked if that bid fails, whether the Caribbean Court of Justice will be the next avenue, Nandlall said, “We will cross that bridge when we get to it.”

Following the opening of the 10th Parliament the combined Opposition, using its one-seat majority and by way of a parliamentary motion, reduced the number of persons to sit on the committee to nine.

The Motion which was approved by the Parliamentary Majority meant that on the committee the Governing Peoples Progressive party Civic would hold four Seats; A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) would hold four; and

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall the Alliance for Change would hold one seat.

The Opposition argues that this would reflect the composition of the Full House where the Parliamentary Opposition holds the majority on the Committee.

The government was annoyed that the opposition, which has controlling power in the National Assembly, moved to give it one seat less on the committee of selection.

This committee is responsible for nominating all other committees of the Parliament.

When the ruling PPP/C held control of the Parliament, it had five seats on the Committee. Unable to convince the opposition, the government, through the Attorney General, moved to the court, (continued on page 16)

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Kaieteur News

Tuesday May 22, 2012

Letters... Where your views make the news

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EDITORIAL

Money spent but the deaths continue Every maternal death is a cause for concern. Childbirth is a natural phenomenon and every minute some woman, somewhere in the world, is giving birth. Most of these women will deliver their babies naturally, but some would have to be assisted.

There are those who would deliver by Caesarean section, but all in all, for the most part the mothers would survive.

In cases where they die there were complications. Most women become hypertensive during pregnancy and some become diabetic. However, the medical experts all say that these conditions could be controlled. Because of these conditions that could lead to complications, pregnant women are asked to check with clinics.

These routine checks help the woman determine whether there would be complications at birth. In the past, when medical facilities were not as pervasive, indeed the people who undertook to deliver these mothers would try their best, and in odd cases, some women did die. Investigations reveal that maternal deaths are more prevalent in the underdeveloped societies. The more improved the society, the greater the chance of women doing naturally what they have been doing from the time of creation.

Guyana has been boasting of its expenditure in the medical sector. At every opportunity the government would compare what operates now against what operated prior to 1992. It talks of better facilities, more medical practitioners, and the wider distribution of clinics and hospitals.

Yet for all this, more women seem to be dying. Two years ago, eight women died in a cluster. Most of them died at a Berbice hospital. The government set up a committee to investigate these deaths and found that procedures were not adhered to. There was also the promise of condign action.

The truth is that there have been no reports of the findings. Certainly, there has been no sanction, although Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said that there was blatant disregard for medical procedures.

There were other deaths—at least three from Linden.

More recently, a young mother died after she had given birth and was being transferred from one medical institution to another better suited to deal with medical complications.

We find this situation rather alarming. It means that despite the increased investment in the medical sector, there is not a corresponding improvement in the people who must manage the system. The move to set up the clinics away from the centre was to better help those mothers there.

Before their establishment the society relied on the travelling midwife, more often than not, an older woman who seemed versed in delivering babies but who was not necessarily qualified. Those were the days when women for the most part delivered their babies at home. The clinics have come and one would expect even safer deliveries. But this seems not to be the case.

The spate of maternal deaths is cause for concern. We would expect that there would be meaningful investigations and the findings revealed. It is not surprising that whenever there are maternal deaths the relatives of the victims would weep, dry their eyes and pick up the pieces. They do not contemplate legal action because in Guyana it is almost impossible to gain a conviction of medical malpractice. No medical person is known to testify against a colleague in the profession.

For example, there was the case at the West Demerara Regional Hospital where a mother was given a transfusion and died. The woman was given the wrong blood type.

There was no attempt to seek recourse in the courts because one doctor advised the husband that while blood-typing and cross matching are now routine, errors do occur; that every year people die of homiletic reactions caused by faulty transfusions.

The courts would have found a clinical error rather than malpractice. But hospitals do pay some form of compensation to the relatives of the victims. In Guyana, anticipating some form of compensation is like anticipating blood from stone.

So we can only ask that the authorities put measures in place to ensure that the money spent to improve the sector does just that. To ensure the improvement, there must be the insertion of skilled professionals. And above all, there must be close monitoring of the health sector. Less women will die for sure.

The PPP government and its AG exude unbridled ignorance and arrogance DEAR EDITOR, After reading KN’s news articles, “AG challenges Opposition to move to courts on NICIL,” and “Anil Nandlall defends Brassington brothers,” (May 21), I am convinced that the PPP government and its AttorneyGeneral make for a perfect fit, as they exude unbridled ignorance and arrogance, thinking it will somehow pass for governance substance.

Take the Brassington brothers’ issue for starters.

Without rehashing all the details surrounding the transaction that allowed for NICIL’s Executive Director, Mr. Winston Brasington, to act on his brother’s behalf to buy 2.25 million shares valued at GY$225M from a company that NICIL had acquired, this has conflict of interest written all over it.

What’s rather telling, though, is that at no time at all did the brother ever leave the United States to sign off on the purchase. How on earth can Mr. Jonathan Brassington decide to invest over US$1M in Guyana and not be present at the time of signing off on the investment? In fact, where did he find over US$1M from to invest in Guyana?

Did he have that kind of money to invest or did he borrow it from a bank in America or a bank in Guyana?

I hope the Feds don’t go

ringing his doorbell wherever he lives in America, because NICIL is going to blow like a volcano and spill ashes on some people.

Mr. Winston Brassington, meanwhile, emerged as both the seller of the shares and the power of attorney for his brother who bought the shares, yet Attorney-General Mr. Nandlall sees no conflict of interest here!

This combination of ignorance and arrogance has long come to pass for acceptable governance substance in the PPP government, but neither Messrs. Nandlall nor Brassington is the final arbiter of what constitutes a conflict of interest.

I challenge anyone to present this matter as a case study at the University of the West Indies or the Hugh Wooding Law School to determine if it is a conflict of interest and I will wager US$1000 it will deemed as such. As a layman, I did a quick research on what constitutes a conflict of interest and this is one definition from Tufts University’s Finance Division.

It says, “A conflict of interest exists when an employee or a family member is in a position to benefit personally, directly or indirectly, from his or her relationship with a person or

entity conducting business with the University.

All employees have an obligation to avoid conflict, or the appearance of conflict, between their personal interests and the interests of the University and to avoid any situation that affects, or potentially could affect, his or her independent, unbiased judgment in the discharge of his or her duties to the University.

An employee should recuse himself or herself from making any decision relating to University business, when the employee is aware of circumstances that might reasonably cause his or her impartiality to be questioned.”

Another definition from WiseGeek.com says a conflict of interest exists if, for example, “a city councilman awards a lucrative contract to a company owned by his brother. It would not be illegal to award such a contract…even if that company was owned by a relative, but the councilman himself could not be part of the decision-making process.

There would be an obvious conflict of interest, because the councilman’s own family would benefit financially from his position of power.”

So, in both the Tuft University and WiseGeek references, the key to avoiding a conflict of interest

is to recuse or remove one’s self from any proceeding where self or relative or even a close friend can benefit.

For example, it was reported some time back that President Bharrat Jagdeo walked out of a room with government representatives negotiating business matters related to Queens Atlantic Investments Incorporated, because that company was owned by his friend, Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop.

Why did he walk out? To pretend as though he was giving the appearance he was avoiding a conflict of interest.

At least Mr. Jagdeo played the game right, even if his intentions were already a foregone conclusion here!

And this was what Mr. Brassington was supposed to do: recuse himself from selling the shares directly to his brother. Well, he did say he consulted with the Finance Minister and the then Attorney-General, but honestly, who in that entire cabal would tell him to recuse himself?

Anyway, not only did he fail to recuse himself, he sank deeper into his own quagmire when he functioned as his brother’s power of attorney.

You can pretty much say he sold himself the shares! He did all the paper work preparation and signed all the (Continued on page 7)

Encouraging signs for animals in distress DEAR EDITOR, There is something about animals in distress that tugs at our heart strings and makes many of us want to take action. I used to think the majority of Guyanese didn’t care about animals but happily those thoughts are being proven wrong. One only has to look at some of the recent positive events.

In February 2011 our now First Lady, Mrs. Ramotar, took decisive action that led to the rescue of a young dog abandoned in a trench (with a chain around its neck) in front of her residence.

Last month the Fire Department responded to cries for help from a Good Samaritan at the High Court that led to the rescue of Bam Bam, the High Court’s pet cat and top rat catcher, from the Court’s roof.

Since August 2011, Soraya Arjune, Mr. Richardson and I have been going to the Sparendaam Police Station pound to lend help and sustenance to the impounded animals.

We clean the pound, move the animals around and untangle those tied with ropes, then feed and water

the animals and, most importantly, we lobby with the relevant authorities to get early release of the animals.

In the past two weeks “Bully” the purebred ram was returned to his harem at the Guyana Livestock Development Authority after 9 months of incarceration and “lil boy” a magnificent dray cart horse was released after only one week in “jail”. Many times our work with animals could not be done without the help of Noreen Gaskin, who provides major assistance including grass, food and manpower to assist us.

Most recently, GPL workers came to the rescue of a bird tangled in kite twine hanging on electrical lines.

I got a call around 9:00 am on May 14, 2012 from my friend Desiree who was travelling in a taxi west along Thomas Lands just past Albert Street. She noticed a bird caught up and dangling from a twine attached to GPL wires. Fearing the worst for the bird, she asked the driver to stop and called me from her cell phone, begging me to bring a long stick to rescue the apparently injured bird.

Outfitted with my rescue

tools, I rushed to the site and saw the poor thing swinging in the wind. Her fellow birds were close by, making loud noises, apparently asking for help. My rescue pole turned out to be too short but as fate would have it, a convoy of GPL vehicles just happened to be passing. We flagged them down and explained what was happening.

The men quickly jumped into action, driving one of their vehicles under the bird and using their pole to catch the twine and lower the bird. I loaned them my knife to cut the twine from the bird’s wing and got my dog kennel ready

to insert the injured animal.

Happily for the bird, she had no broken bones and once the twine was removed she was able to fly over to her friends who seemed to be cheering her on.

On behalf of our voiceless friends I want to give a big thanks to the GPL crew, Desiree and the taxi driver, Soraya , Noreen, the First Lady and all the rest of you who, when seeing animals in distress take action.

We look forward to many more positive stories with happy endings – about people helping animals in distress.

Syeada Manbodh

DEAR EDITOR, In a recent letter to you, I saw a stirring plea to women to turn away from abortion, for mainly biblical reasons.

A few weeks ago I read in a UK newspaper that aborted foetuses are used in the furtherance of medical research in such fields as IVF experiments, the possible

production of synthetic blood, etc. No doubt, like other ‘harvested’ organs, each foetus earns someone ‘in the trade’ a good fee; so, the more the merrier.

Perhaps, abortion is a free operation to the ‘donor’ but a nice little - or big - earner to others. The things we do for money!

Geralda Dennison

The things we do for money!

Tuesday May 22, 2012

Kaieteur News

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Letters... Where your views make the news Letters... Where your views make the news

Bisram doesn’t care about the Linden issue or the people DEAR EDITOR, Response is made to Vishnu Bisram’s letters, “Lincoln Lewis inaccurate on racial coding complaint” and “Indians did fight for right to vote” (KN, May 13 and 18).

He is reminded that the situation in Linden is one of seriousness and he will not be allowed to reduce and mischaracterise the livelihood of a people to that of his devious interviews/polls.

Let me say, Forbes Burnham died 27 years ago, and when he was alive he was held accountable, as such diversion from the living to engage in jumbie politics will not tolerated.

This nation is living the horrors of Jagdeo and Ramotar’s cruel, divisive, dishonest and incompetent management and while they are alive they must account.

For the record, both Cheddi Jagan and Forbes Burnham were held accountable by the trade union community I participate in. Ramotar and Jagdeo will not escape similar scrutiny, for while elected on a party’s ticket, as Chief Public Servant their responsibility was/is to serve all the people, including managing the nation’s

resources consistent with the Constitution they took an Oath to uphold, and are paid by all the people to so do.

The enablers of wrongdoing and fabricators of history who think they will use Burnham’s name to escape accountability by pitting races against each other, engaging in the good/ bad dualism to propagate the misplaced notion of superiority/inferiority, they too will have to account.

I stand by my statement that President Donald Ramotar is pursuant of a divide and rule strategy, to escape having the executive account to the people. His and the PPP’s fan-out exercise on the budget issues bear testimony.

The president failed to make known his administration is proposing a 19 to 30 percent increase in electricity tariff, when the mismanaged GPL is wasting approximately 40 percent electricity in line loss. Rather than have the GPL incompetence corrected, the government is seeking to pass on the burden to consumers.

Workers are already too overtaxed and underpaid to have to be saddled with

Don’t expect dogs to sing, even if birds bark DEAR EDITOR, The other day, a highly respected compatriot expressed in a letter to the Editor his understandable disappointment at the misuse of the platform provided at Highbury, East Bank Berbice on the 5th of May to celebrate Indian Arrival Day. I also attended that function and, like that writer, I felt uncomfortable with the ‘political overtones’ that dominated the entire proceedings.

However, unlike my friend, I believe culpability rests more with the organizers of such programmes, than those who use such occasions for political gain. I believe it is difficult for politicians to avoid ‘politicking’ I am told that the sight of a microphone induces their vocal cords the same way Pavlov’s dog instinctively

salivated at the sound of a gong. Therefore, it might be easier to ‘solve the problem’ if the organizers resist the unhealthy habit taking root in Guyana of ‘worshipping’ the politicians (those garlands!!!) at every nook and cranny, at every turn, in all walks of life in this unfortunate land of ours!

I strongly believe Professor Samad’s excellent presentation along with the rich cultural programme was quite enough; the politicking really detracted considerably from the event. Let’s have more drama, dance, music and other cultural items and leave the political posturing for the street corner meetings.

Nowrang Persaud

another burden, moreso given they are also paying the electricity bills of the president and government officials.

This is unconscionable.

GPL says it is seeking a 19.5 percent increase (KN February 6). Roger Luncheon says a 19 percent (KN February 6). Guyana Chronicle, in its April 19 editorial says a 20 percent.

The PPP and Office of the President say between 25-30 percent (SN May 13).

To escape fixing the problem or being held accountable to fix it, Linden becomes the prop to create division and put in the citizens’ mind that Linden is getting preferential treatment.

Linden gets no preferential treatment from this government, neither is its electricity tied to the national grid. This community always had an independent generation of electricity and shared its excess supply with the national grid.

The sweat equity (deferred wages/salary) of bauxite workers, the country’s non-renewable resources/the citizens’ property and the bauxite company was sold by the PPP for US$1.

This government refused to facilitate US$14 million to rehabilitate the industry yet at the same time they gave in excess of US$200 million to sugar. This government refused to sell the industry to the workers for the US$1 it sold Cambior for.

Let the PPP tell this nation who benefitted from this US$1 deal. Let them tell this nation why they ignored the

Privatisation White Paper, passed in parliament under Jagan’s presidency that says if government privatises property, 10 percent of the shares must be put aside for workers. Let them come clean on their shenanigans and backroom deals on the people’s sweat and with the people’s resources.

Let Bharrat Jagdeo, Donald Ramotar, Sam Hinds, Ashni Singh, Roger Luncheon and Winston Brassington lay before this nation the whole matter of the bauxite industry and the Linden electricity history.

Let them tell us what the government did to bauxite workers and their sweat equity, the number of bauxite properties sold by NICIL and the prices they were sold for.

Let them come clean on NICIL’s financial relationship

with the Linden Electricity Company and Bosai bauxite company. These are crimes against humanity and the culprits must be held accountable.

Bisram has the prerogative to believe the claim Hinds makes on the Linden’s diesel engines and steam turbines. He has no prerogative to percolate this dishonesty on the nation.

He is re-directed to Hinds’ letter that he quotes, but ignores the part where Hinds admits, “And yes, two of the abandoned engines were transferred to GPL in 2009 and were totally rebuilt and installed at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice and Versailles, West Bank Demerara” (KN May 11).

The PM continues to mislead, for while he calls the engines ‘abandoned’ to

justify their removal, suffice to say we now know the engines were not only taken to Berbice, but are in two regions the PPP won.

The government is still to come clean and tell this nation where is the steam turbine bought under the stewardship of Guymine CEO Dunstan Barrow - that was removed from Linden.

On who fought for the right to vote, let the record be set straight. Before there were Cheddi Jagan, J.A. Luckhoo, E.A. Luckhoo, A.E. Seeram, J.B. Singh, K. Peer Bacchus, C.R Jacob, Ayube Mohammed Edun, the Ruhomon brothers etc., Bisram refers to; there was a trade unionist named Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow.

In 1926, Jagan was eight years old, when Critchlow and (Continued on page 7)

DEAR EDITOR, With respect to the forensic laboratory that is being established, does Guyana have persons in that field that are qualified enough to take up positions there?

We need people who have qualifications in the field of Forensic Science and there might be a few qualified individuals, who have the knowledge in this area or work. Forensic Science has played an important role in solving criminal acts such as homicide, cyber crimes, arson etc. Many countries face threats of cyber crimes. In fact, 70 percent of firms rank viruses and hacking ahead of fraud and physical break-ins as their biggest threats.

Given this fear and the insidious nature of today’s threats, placing IT security high on the risk management agenda is vital.

Failing to adequately protect against such dangers can result in sensitive information being leaked or destroyed, financial data being stolen, legal action or embarrassing headlines—all of which can severely damage a company’s bottom line.

Guyana has now joined the world in using this revolutionary method in solving crime, but do we have the available resources? That laboratory needs to be outfitted with all the necessary equipment to get the job done correctly, as well

as persons who are actually qualified in the field of forensic science and computer forensics.

We have seen many cases in Guyana go unsolved due to lack of evidence. I remember reading an article where a Bank Teller was robbed of her cell phone and to date no DNA evidence was ever received. I hope the Minister of Home Affairs, whose office this project falls under, uses his best interest and ensures that in fighting criminal elements we employ professional people in this area of work; people who are qualified and capable enough to get the job done in a competent manner.

G. Sankar

Do we have the resources?

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Kaieteur News

Tuesday May 22, 2012

QAII paid only $4M on agreed $50M lease fees for Sanata Complex in 2009 Having negotiated with the government to pay some $50M per year, to initially lease the Sanata Complex at Industrial Site, Ruimveldt, by Queen’s Atlantic Investment Inc (QAII), the company in 2009, one year prior to purchasing the property paid only $3.9M. At least this is according to the Company’s official Financial Statement of Expenditure filed with the Deeds Registry for the financial year ending December 31, 2010.

No lease payments were catered for in the statement of expenditure for 2010 having acquired the property but the previous year’s records reflect the paltry $4M (in comparison to the $50M negotiated) paid as lease charges. QAII is headed by Dr Ranjisinghi ‘’Bobby’

Ramroop who at the time of the announcement to the lease had also committed to creating some 600 permanent jobs.

This, he said, would have been done by the end of 2008 but according to the Statement of Expenditure for the group of companies, employment cost for 2010 was some $96.3M. For 600 employees this employment cost would work out to just over $13,000 per month. For 2009 which is the year just prior to when the 600 jobs were supposed to have been created, QAII has reflected as employment costs for that year $9.5M. QAII is said to be an investment company consisting of five subsidiary companies, namely, Global Printing and Graphics Inc.; Global Hardware Inc.; Global Textile (Guyana) Inc.; Health

International Inc.; Healthcare Life Sciences Inc. This publication reported on Wednesday that following the acquisition of the Sanata Complex property from the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), QAII reported that its assets more than doubled.

The company’s 2010 Financial Statements, which were inked by the Group’s head and best friend of former President Bharrat Jagdeo, Dr Ramroop, verified that the group’s total assets for 2009 were $3.6B. It skyrocketed to $7.9B in 2010.

In that 2010 Financial Statement it is illustrated that appreciation of assets came from the realization of ‘tangible fixed assets.”

According to the report, QAII’s ‘tangible fixed asset’

Dr Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop

Bharrat Jagdeo

for 2009 was worth some $1.2B and by the subsequent year that figure appreciated to $5.2B. Queens Atlantic Investment Inc. was incorporated in Guyana in 1999

and is run by a board of directors.

Following invitations to lease the Complex along with some components of the dye factory it housed, the Government of Guyana in

2008 approved the privatization of the Sanata Textiles Complex (Sanata), Industrial Site, Georgetown to QAII for the purpose of establishing a multi-purpose investment complex.

NICIL’s Executive Director, Winston Brassington, and the Executive Chairman of QAII, Dr Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop, in a joint missive, had stated that the privatization of Sanata had taken the form of the issuance of a 99-year lease at a substantive rental of approximately $50M per year.

Dr Ramroop, at the time, had intimated that he envisaged an overall investment of US$30M and the creation of 1200 jobs of which 600 new, permanent jobs would become a reality by the end of 2008.

Ramnarine’s transfer politically motivated - retired officer The recent move to strip Assistant Commissioner David Ramnarine of his Commander posting was too harsh and an inefficient use of scarce manpower, according to a retired senior officer of the Guyana Police Force.

The retired officer is of the view that the time has come for officers to stand up, and be professional in the execution of their duties.

In an apparent move to silence the outspoken Assistant Commissioner, Ramnarine has been banished to the Department of Development, an obsolete police office with very little work to do.

His position as Commander of the police East Coast Demerara division has been taken by his former deputy, Senior

- embattled Assistant Commissioner maintains he did the right thing Superintendent Owen Trotz.

Ramnarine had initially accused the force administration of not adequately providing for the ranks under his command in the Interior division during the November 2011 elections.

This angered the Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee and led to a verbal confrontation between the two.

Rohee subsequently declared publicly that he had lost confidence in Ramnarine and requested Commissioner of Police (ag) Leroy Brumell to discipline the outspoken officer. This led to Ramnarine being relieved of his command of the East Coast Demerara Division.

In an invited comment, the

David Ramnarine retired senior police officer who asked not to be named, told this newspaper that the Ramnarine issue could have been dealt with in a different manner.

“You can’t have a force that is telling itself it is short on manpower and you banish an officer for a simple thing like that, that can be dealt with

otherwise. You can’t disrupt the force by leaving a less senior and inexperienced officer in a command when you have a senior man languishing in a corner,” the retired officer declared.

And with the fact that there has been no promotion so far this year in the Guyana Police Force, the decision is all the more puzzling, the retired officer pointed out.

Acting Commissioner of Police Leroy Brumell could not be reached for a comment as this newspaper was told he was out of the country.

Ramnarine for his part remained defiant, breaking his silence after initially refusing to comment on him being relieved of the commander post.

“The authorities whomsoever they may be can do as they please. That in no way changes who I am or the fact that I David Ramnarine, through my personal endeavours, funded in E&F

Division over 70 percent of whatever it would have cost to feed the policemen, women and auxiliary. That cannot and will not change,” Ramnarine stated.

Ramnarine maintained that throughout his career he is aware that he has no transport for anything in law enforcement.

He stated though that he believes that wherever he has worked within the Guyana Police Force he has brought about “significant changes and positive development much more than others in their entire career can talk about”.

The officer said that the change in responsibility can be a reward, “in the sense that you don’t have to answer the telephone all hours of the nights.”

The retired officer told this newspaper that disciplinary action against Assistant Commissioner Ramnarine should have been the Commissioner’s call and not influenced by the Minister of Home Affairs.

“Even if they wanted to charge Ramnarine, that should have been the Commissioner’s decision. If

the Commissioner decided that Ramnarine should have had a letter of censure, that is another way of dealing with it. But you don’t have to banish him for that. At this particular time you have divisions running without that grade of officers,” the retired officer said, adding that a transfer is not a punishment.

“Given the circumstances, it was just that it was politically motivated and the Commissioner wants to comply, that’s all…I know in this instance here, there is interference,” he added.

But the transfer took place at a time when Ramnarine was on annual leave and he was only officially informed of it on the day he was to resume duty.

Although Ramnarine indicated that he sensed that the transfer was coming, he proceeded on leave because according to him, it was the honourable thing to do.

“Many felt that I should not have gone on leave, since the opportunity would have been created for me to be relieved of command, but I disagree. That was the least of my concern,” Ramnarine stated.

Tuesday May 22, 2012

Kaieteur News

Letters... Where your views make the news

Guyana should push hard to have a Turkish Embassy

DEAR EDITOR, Turkey and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in 2011 signed a memorandum of understanding on consultation and cooperation. The agreement was signed by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmed Davutoglu and CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque in New York.

“We will have a more systematic cooperation with the Caribbean Community, with which we have a close cooperation for a long time,” Davutoglu said during the signature ceremony.

Turkey is planning to open two new embassies in the Caribbean Community, Davutoglu said. “This will strengthen our presence in the region,” he also said.

Is Guyana one of them? Guyana has a few advantages, it is home of the CARICOM Secretariat. Guyana is a member of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) like Turkey. Guyana should push hard to have a Turkish Embassy in Georgetown.

The secretary general also said they were aware of Turkey’s increasing role and influence in international relations. Turkey is quickly becoming a major political and economic power in the region and beyond in its own

right, and its foreign policy is now far more proactive and multifaceted.

Today, Turkey is active in mediating conflicts, developing economic relations, and liberalizing the movement of people in an effort to promote regional peace, stability, and prosperity. Its economy has grown tremendously and it is a leading investor in Africa today.

Relations between Turkey and Guyana are proceeding in a problem-free manner according to the Turkish Foreign Ministry.

The two countries have signed an Economic and Commercial Cooperation Agreement during the 6th Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization held in Hong Kong on 13-18 December 2005. In October 2009, President of Guyana Bharrat Jagdeo and Minister of Finance Ashni Singh visited Turkey in order to attend the World Bank 2009 Annual Meeting.

According to 2010 data, Turkey’s exports to Guyana totaled approximately 5.5 million USD and its imports from Guyana were around 2.5 million USD. The Turkish Embassy in Caracas is accredited to Guyana.

Raymond Chickrie

Bisram doesn’t care about...

From page 5 other Caribbean leaders met in the hallowed halls of the Legislature (Parliament), in Georgetown, Guyana, to chart a course for the right to selfdetermination for the Caribbean’s peoples, via internal self-government, which included the struggle for one man one vote (universal franchise).

The other individuals Bisram named were not at the 1926 Conference.

Bisram is also wrong in his claim that, “it was Cheddi Jagan who led the struggle for universal franchise and political independence.” The structured struggle for both of these started in 1926. Let us get our history correct and give jack his jacket.

Conscience can be a hell of a thing. For as devious as Bisram’s polls and writings are, he admits, “There were several prominent Indians

who were engaged in the battle for increased voting rights [and] widen the franchise.” This pollster does not know or forgets the importance of words in coding information or he would have known that his statements of “increased voting rights [and] widen the franchise” are clear admittance that the names he mentions did not participate in the colonised acquisition of the universal right to vote.

The right to vote would obviously come before any increase or widening of this right.

Bisram doesn’t care a heck about the Linden issue

or the people of Linden. Had he any care he would have told Ramotar and others that they must respect the rights of Lindeners, which are enshrined in the Guyana Constitution they took an Oath to uphold.

He would have pointed them to the ‘Principles and Bases of the Political, Economic and Social System’ which, “encourage and support the self mobilisation of citizens; and provide appropriate support to any group which is, or is claiming to be, under threat of marginalisation” (Article 38A 3, 4).

Lincoln Lewis

From page 4 signatures!

Now we have AG Nandlall breaking his silence by saying there is no conflict of interest. But this should come as no surprise, given the Jagdeo era culture when right became wrong and wrong became right, Messrs.

Nandlall and Brassington may honestly believe they are right, and may only realize their error when a judge tells them in a court of law.

In my next letter, I will address Mr. Nandlall’s amateurish defence of the NICIL debacle and asinine challenge to the parliamentary opposition to take NICIL to court. AG Nandlall has to love embarrassment to be this willing to hear NICIL’s questionable deals exposed in court like the troubling revelations in another wellpublicized trial.

Emile Mervin

The PPP government and its AG exude...

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Dumped body of US citizen on C’tyne...

By Michael Jordan The wife of US-based Guyanese Abdool Shakeel Majid has reportedly confessed to murdering her spouse, whose battered body was found last month on the Number 56 foreshore, Corentyne.

The 37-year-old woman was arrested on Sunday after she returned from the United States and reported to the New Amsterdam Police Station to identify her slain husband’s body.

Kaieteur News has confirmed that the woman’s brother and a male cousin have also been detained and that charges are likely within

Four months after marriage US wife confesses to killing husband

a few days. The suspects are all Corentyne residents.

Police have also impounded the vehicle in which the killers allegedly transported Majid’s body.

Bloodstains and sand were found in the car trunk.

Detectives reportedly also retrieved the woman’s driver’s permit from the car.

Evidence indicates that the grisly crime was motivated by greed.

Close relatives of the victim said that 43-year-old Majid had taken out a milliondollar insurance policy in the United States last March. He had also been awarded a hefty settlement after being injured in an accident.

Majid’s battered body,

- victim had taken out million $$$ insurance policy with scalp missing, was found on April 27 at the Number 56 Village, Corentyne foreshore.

The remains were only identified on May 16 last, when a brother visited Guyana after becoming suspicious about the wife’s behaviour.

Kaieteur News understands that at no time did the man’s spouse inform the police that he was missing.

Police believe that the former New York taxi driver was murdered shortly after he arrived in Guyana for one of his many visits.

Abdool Haseeb Majid, the slain man’s brother, revealed

Vigil held for murdered schoolboy

A few of the students last night at the vigil There wasn’t a dry eye last night as family, friends and teachers of the late Shane George, held a vigil at the Morgan Learning Centre.

President of the Guyana Teacher’s Union, Coretta Mc Donald, who was present last night, said that society isn’t just losing one young man, but two. She said that it appears that violence has become the new trend and this should be a cause for concern.

Mc Donald said that she has been lobbying for more emphasis to be placed on how children are behaving in and out of school. She said that they have recognized that children are coming from single parent households and broken homes.

She told Kaieteur News that unless the various issues that children bring into school are address, these institutions will continue to lose children. She added that parents also share some of the blame. According to her some parents have failed their children and they need to make a wise choice and decide to take their children back.

She said that parents

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need to be more vigilant, and more concerned in their children’s school work, and have better relationships with teachers and most importantly their children.

Further she said that both parents and teachers should do random checks of children’s school bags. She also lobbied for counselors to be present in every school.

Mc Donald noted also that police also play a part in guiding the youths. She said that the police should be more vigilant and make periodical stops at schools. Mc Donald posited that unless the Ministry can come up with a better method than corporal punishment they should not take it out. According to Mc Donald the children have become so pompous because they recognize that teachers have relatively no power in the classroom.

George was stabbed outside of the Morgan Learning Centre last Wednesday allegedly by a fellow student. George, a student of St. George’s High School, was stabbed several times about the body. He was

pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Kaieteur News was told that George, who was preparing to sit this year’s Caribbean Examination Council (CXC), and his assailant, were seen arguing.

Eyewitnesses said that the two teenagers were in a row over “brand name” clothes. A scuffle ensued and George was stabbed.

Persons who claimed to be eyewitnesses said that the suspect attempted to run but was nabbed by other students and handed over to the police, who arrived shortly after the incident.

This is the second schoolboy murder for the year.

In February last, 17- yearold Anfernee Bowman was fatally stabbed by an 18-yearold in a row over a girl. It was reported that both teens attended lessons on Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt.

His attacker turned himself in several hours later.

He was subsequently charged with murder and is awaiting his day in court.

that the victim and prime suspect married last December. After the marriage, she reportedly made frequent visits to Guyana.

On April 22, the couple visited Guyana for a holiday, and stayed at Majid’s sister in Diamond Housing Scheme.

On April 25, Majid and his wife travelled to Berbice in a car that the victim often rented from a young friend.

It is alleged that the following day, Majid telephoned his sister who resides in Diamond and informed her that he was heading to Suriname.

According to the brother, on April 28, Majid’s wife returned to the US. “She appeared at my door…she was happy, she gave me a hug.” He said that Majid’s wife told him that she had returned to the US after hearing that one of her daughters from another relationship had been injured.

The woman also reportedly told the brother that her husband had travelled to Suriname.

The brother said that their father, who lives in the US, celebrated his birthday on May 1, and on that day the father received a phone call from a male whom the father assumed was Majid. The caller wished the father ‘happy birthday’ then abruptly hung up. However, the brother was suspicious.

“I said ‘Dad, you hear from Shakeel?’ and he said ‘Yes’. I say you sure is Shakeel, and he say ‘yes, but like he not well, he voice sound sore.’”

According to the brother, Majid’s wife, who was nearby, then received a call on her telephone. After, she alleged that her husband had called.

“She say is Shakeel, is

Shakeel, he having fun in Suriname.”

But according to the brother, at around May 6, the woman began to ‘drop hints’ that she was not hearing from her husband. The brother said that his wife eventually suggested that the woman return to Guyana to look for her spouse. The suspect then returned to Guyana on May 9.“On May 10, she called me and say that she needed money, and I asked her if she had found my brother.” He alleged that a strange man then spoke on the phone. “I said that ‘you are not my brother’, and she came on (the phone ) again and I say ‘where is my brother’ and she hung up the phone. A chill ran through my body.”

Around Saturday, May 12, the brother said that he made a report at the New York Police Department and was advised to return to Guyana and make a report to local police.

He returned to Guyana on Sunday, May 13. Unknown to him, Majid’s wife returned to the US on the same day.

Kaieteur News was told that on Monday, May 14, the brother made an official missing persons report at the Brickdam Police Station.

The brother said that his fears about his brother’s safety escalated when he visited his sister at Diamond Housing Scheme and discovered that the wife had left a bag containing his brother’s US passport. The brother said that he gave the document to officials at the US Embassy.

Then last Thursday, the brother said that he received a call from a relative from the West Coast of Demerara, who had read a recent article about an unidentified body being

found on the Number 56 Village foreshore.

On Saturday, he traveled to New Amsterdam, Berbice and positively identified his brother ’s body at the mortuary.

Meanwhile, detectives were alerted that a car that the victim usually rented while in Guyana had been used to transport the body.

Kaieteur News understands that when the wife had returned the car, the owner observed that the vehicle had several dents.

The wife had reportedly left some money to have the damaged vehicle fixed but did not pay for the rental.

Police forensic experts observed sand and bloodstains in the car. The wife’s driver’s permit was also reportedly found in the car.

Detectives subsequently arrested the wife’s brother and a cousin. But the wife was still in the US. “On Thursday, she called my sister and I told her that the body had been discovered.”

Last Friday, detectives learnt that the wife was scheduled to return to Guyana. They staked out the airport but the suspect did not turn up.

However, on Sunday, Majid’s wife returned to Guyana. She reportedly then visited the New Amsterdam Police station and informed the ranks that she had come to identify her husband’s body. Police promptly took her into custody.Majid’s brother complimented the detectives at the New Amsterdam Police Station for their professionalism.

“The New Amsterdam CID did an outstanding job; they were very co-operative. I got results and I am happy.”

Reanno Gordon aka ‘Busy Signal’

after The Gleaner broke the story that a prominent entertainer was under the radar of the United States to be extradited.

‘Busy’ is said to be linked to the operations of extradited West Kingston crime lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.

Coke is now awaiting sentencing in the United States on racketeering charges.

His sentencing hearing is to begin today.

According one of the law enforcement officers who spoke with The Gleaner, ‘Busy’ has been on the run since 2002.

‘Busy Signal’ arrested on extradition warrant

(Jamaica Gleaner) Law enforcement agents have arrested another high profile figure from the West Kingston community, on an extradition warrant.

Popular dancehall artiste, Busy Signal, whose real name in Reanno Glendale Gordon, was picked up at the Norman Manley International Airport, immediately after he stepped off a flight from the United Kingdom yesterday afternoon.

The Gleaner/Power 106 News understands that the entertainer was returning from a tour in Amsterdam.

His arrest came months

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THE WISDOM OF SEEKING SECOND AND THIRD OPINIONS The principal legal adviser to the government is the Minister of Legal Affairs who also happens to be the Attorney General. When the President needs advice on legal matters, it is expected that he will source this foremost from the Minister of Legal Affairs.

After all, why have a Minister of Legal Affairs if he is not going to be the government’s principal source of legal advice? But does this mean that the President is constrained from seeking legal advice elsewhere.

The President may open himself up to criticism, including criticisms about a lack of confidence in his Minister of Legal Affairs if he seeks advice outside. On the other hand, there is nothing in the law preventing the President from seeking legal advice from sources outside of his Cabinet, and from doing so consistently.

There may be questions if this “outside” advice or second opinion has to be paid for by the State. But on important matters there is absolutely nothing wrong with persons outside of the Ministry of Legal Affairs being asked to tender legal

advice to the President or to the government.

Especially when it comes to important legal challenges, it is highly advisable for such second, third and fourth opinions to be sought from those learned in the issue area.

Law has many branches.

There are specialists in the various branches of the law.

Thus, if there is a constitutional issue that the President needs a second opinion on, he should seek out some of the better known constitutional experts and then compare these opinions with that which he is receiving from his principal legal adviser.

No President should confine himself to only receiving advice from one main source. The good leader should always be open to listening to diverse opinions and then act in his own deliberate judgment.

The President should seek different opinions and allow himself to be guided by those who in his judgment are the most cogent and persuasive. This is especially so on important legal issues such as the composition of parliamentary committees.

The President of Guyana

Dem boys seh ...

Uncle Donald peep Irfaat and Rob Bert bank account You brother always come first. Nobody got to go to school fuh learn that. Blood always thicker than water. Then you friend come next. Is alright to hold you friend close. Brazzy hold he friends close.

He hold Evelyn very close. Dem drink out of de same glass and suck de same cane.

When dem privatise de old bank is Evelyn who get it.

Dem boys believe that Evelyn was a front fuh Brazzy money.

Evelyn keep de old bank fuh a while because dem had a bigger plan.

At de time Brazzy keep a li’l piece fuh de country. He seh that is good investment. Then, according to dem boys, dem up de shares and Brazzy buy one li’l piece moh fuh de Guyanese people. The he call in he buddy and send he to Evelyn fuh buy out one-third of de company. That is what you call brotherly love. It stronger than love fuh country or anything else.

Imagine that he got de nerve fuh get Anil fuh support he that there was no conflict of interest, how he buddy very rich and he got he own money.

Uncle Donald got to wake up and smell de coffee. Too much thing happen, and he nah know. He got to talk to people who can open he eye.

Dem boys hear he open he eyes li’l bit and see something at de airport when he was going out. He put he ears and he hear two of dem talking bout dem account. Was Irfaat and Rob Bert. Dem was going wid Uncle Donald fuh check dem bank account.

When dem meet de airport Uncle Donald ask dem fuh de account number and he tell dem don’t worry travel wid he, that he gun check de account fuh dem. He send dem back from de airport. Well dem boys seh that dem vex till now.

One forget fuh change he pool water and de other one bully de lady from GGMC. When Uncle Donald tek long fuh come dem two, Irfaat and Rob Bert seh that Uncle Donald find dem money and tek all and abscond.

But Uncle Donald come in last night and dem boys a watch he strong, strong.

Talk half and wait leh Uncle Donald tell we de other half.

obviously believed or was led to believe that the government had a case in respect to the composition of parliamentary committees. As such, a decision was taken to challenge the failure of parliament to abide by the principle of proportionality when it came to the composition of parliamentary committees.

The basis of the government case rested on application of the principle of proportionality to the composition of the committees. Those who felt otherwise rested their case on the constitutional dictate that parliament sets its own rules and that the constitution in fact speaks to this fact; proportionality on the other hand is applicable to the

determination of the members of the House.

The Court has ruled against the government and a decision has been taken by the government to appeal this decision.

It is the government’s right to do this as it is the right of all those who feel they have grounds for appeal in relation to the court ruling in the matter involving former Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene.

But before the government engages into what will again be protracted legal arguments, the President may wish to seek opinions from sources other than that which he has already received so as to assure himself that the government is on good grounds when it comes to this

appeal. Certainly there can be no harm in doing this.

In fact we have all manner of legal experts around these days including some Peeping Toms who exhibit their legal learning.

There are also politicians who are apt to argue their cases in the newspapers and letter columns but who do provide some interesting insights into the interpretation of legal principles. Non-government organizations are now chipping in and offering their perspectives, often from a legal standpoint. There is no shortage of legal advice.

Government, however, has to go the traditional route and ask learned counsels for their opinion on a matter.

When these counsels lie

outside of the State, it does provide a measure of independent legal advice.

The government has taken a decision to appeal an important decision of the courts. It is hoped that in making this decision, the government is simply not reacting to the fact that it lost the original case and is seeking to save face.

It is hoped that there is some solid basis for this appeal and that in arriving at this decision, the government and particularly the President would have benefitted from varying opinions on the question.

More midwives get enhanced neo-natal training at GPHC As staff members at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) continue to benefit from extensive training, nine more midwives attached to the hospital’s Maternity Unit completed a three-day training in a Neo-natal Resuscitation Programme on Thursday, last.

Kaieteur News understands that this is in accordance with the guidelines of the Canadian Paediatric Society and Obstetrics Emergency Drill: Shoulder Dystocia.

This three-day training was a collaborative effort between the GPHC and the Guyana Burn and Healthcare Charitable Foundation Inc. (GB&HCFI) It was facilitated by Vernie Ally, RN, BScN, SCM, Certified NPR of the GB&HCFI. The participants were assessed in both written and practical exams. The highest overall score obtained by a midwife was a 98 per cent pass.

According to a press release from the GPHC, this training will also better enable the midwives to efficiently care for all neo-natal admissions which are warded in the newly furbished Neo-natal Unit of the hospital.

“The Hospital strives to further build the capacity of all its medical and nursing staff.

Management is very proud of the Midwives and the dedication they continue to exhibit towards the provision of quality healthcare.”

The GPHC also expressed its gratitude to the Guyana Burn and Healthcare Charitable Foundation Inc. for its continued partnership with the hospital through invaluable contributions, both tangible and educational, towards nursing education and the hospital in general.

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THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN

Heidegger, Derrida, and a Guyanese pretender In one of the great philosophical books ever written since the ancient Greeks attempted to understand and explain the meaning of human existence, “Being and Time,” the early 20th century German thinker, Martin Heidegger wrote; “The life of actual language consists in multiplicity of meanings.

To relegate the animated, vigorous word to the immobility of a univocal, mechanistically programmed sequences of signs would mean the death of language and the petrifaction and devastation of Dasein.” (Dasein is a philosophical concept that cannot be expressed in one word in the English language, the closest is “Being”) What Heidegger meant is

that a word does not have a single determinate meaning or connotation. It’s meaning rests and is subjected to variation within the world in which it is used by people. To put it another way a word does not have an “a priori” existence or inherent substance independent of the world and of entities with whom the word interacts. As one of the biographers of Heidegger puts it; “Words and their meanings are already world-laden,” (Michael Inwood, Heidegger.

Oxford University Press: London, 2000) From the fifties onwards, Heidegger’s “Being and Time” became the Bible of the great philosophical thinkers specializing in ontological studies. In the seventies, the

brilliant French philosopher, Jacques Derrida developed Heidegger’s pronouncements on language into the philosophical methodology of “Deconstruction.”

There need not be any prolonged explanation of what deconstruction means.

In simple language it is the stripping of a word, or poem or text to decode its alternative epistemological foundations.

The former Guyanese politician, Ravi Dev, has no use for Derrida. For him words have their congenital substance. So he disregards items and their slippery meanings like, for example, “hate,” “evil” etc and applies them lavishly as a baby playing with a brush and ink.

Two weeks ago, Dev penned a column on me termed,

“Keeping Hate Alive.” I replied to that. Dev is at it again.

Last week it was; “Purveyors of Hate.” But this time, the words of mine that germinate hate are cited. Dev identifies as an example the adoption of the term “evil” in my description of the exercise of power by the PPP. Dev commits himself to the total acceptance of the traditional meaning of evil.

Dev’s lamentation is that I have committed the sin of inciting “evil” by applying it to the PPP. The concept of “evil” was long deconstructed before Derrida achieved fame by Heidegger’s student who later became after WW2, a top 20th century philosopher herself, Hannah Arendt.

Dev’s understanding is that “evil” is situated within a meaning that has a basis in a certain mind-set where death is committed for the sake of satisfaction. Dev said

that it was the use of the word evil that has led to so much destruction the past five hundred years to justify slavery and barbarism. There is the dishonest avoidance by Ravi Dev of the role the word “hate” has similarly played.

Dev can apply “hate” to describe my action but I cannot use “evil” to portray the PPP behaviour.

I will resort to Arendt’s understanding of the term (see two of her works; “Origins of Totalitarianism” and “Eichmann: The Banality of Evil.” For Arendt, evil is the commission of a violent (using “violent” in the deconstructed sense) crime by a normal mind that is not evil in the traditional sense of the word.

The evil mind according to Arendt is driven by an understanding of life based on indoctrination.

For Arendt, evil acts are likely to be committed when the exercise of power is driven by fear of those you feel are likely to take it away from you.

Evil acts are committed because you want to remove those whom you are indoctrinated to see as enemies. Evil in this sense then takes on a Machiavellian

Frederick Kissoon dimension in which Machiavelli suggested to his Head of State that once power is possessed it must be used in cruel ways to stop your opponents.

In analyzing the use of power in Guyana, particularly under Mr. Jagdeo, I have used evil in the deconstructed sense and I think that term is a plausible description for the existence of bad governance in Guyana. I make no apologies for employing it and will continue to apply it to the type of governance I see in places like Guyana, Russia etc.

For Dev “evil” is a bad word, very bad. But this same Dev sees nothing wrong in applying the label “advocate of hate” to me and others.

Isn’t “hate” an evil word?

The word that best describe the hateful mission of Dev is “pretender” to knowledge.

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At 104, Ina Holder eats anything and is on no medication Ina Holder

A

t 104 years old, Ina Holder, can still recognise a good-looking man when she sees one. She gave this indication when she saw Neil Marks, and he blushed profusely.

When a full-page photo of the devilishly handsome actor Mahadeo Shivraj appeared in the Stabroek News, he became the photo above her bed head.

But it's not Shivraj alone who grabs her attention. A delightfully charming woman, she is quick to point out your good side when she sees you – be it your eyes or your nose. At least those are the things she noticed about Shivraj.

What is perhaps more extraordinary about the beautiful Aunt Ina is her steadfast independence.

She never wanted to get married simply because getting married was something that she should do. And she wasn't interested in marriage for the so-called

security that is promised with having a husband.

“I was working for my own money,” she answers when her helper, Jennifer Benn, shouts in her ears the question of why she never got married. Strapped with her independent mind and her firm principles, she worked until she was 100years-old.

Her last job was as a librarian with the Anglican Diocese. On Sunday, her 104th birthday, her closest family and friends, together with members of the church, gathered at the Lamaha Gardens home where she now lives, for a party.

“It wasn't a lot of people. I don't like a lot of people chatting about me,” Ina relates, betraying her sense of humility.

Besides the usual complications to persons of her age, such as her failing bones and hearing impairment, Aunt Ina has no medical complications and (continued on page 17)

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Mining crackdown‌ Thousands of Brazilians are reportedly facing expulsion, but only a few have started to trickle in to apply for legal papers.

According to the nonprofit Brazil/Guyana Development Institute, since G o v e r n m e n t ' s announcement last We d n e s d a y t h a t n o n national miners will have to secure work permits before entering and operating in the hinterland's gold mines, slightly more than 150 persons have visited their Thomas Street offices.

The institute is the only third-party body recognized

by Government to act on behalf of Brazilians. The Brazilians have to either

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Private bodies move to help Brazilians avoid expulsion

Rogeria Ferreira present themselves or the application has to be made by the sponsoring company to the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission

(GGMC).

It is estimated that around 15,000 foreigners, most of them Brazilians, are working and living in Guyana. The majority are working in the interior. More than half of the Brazilians are believed to be without work permits. Quite a few have reportedly left for Brazil since the announcements of the new measures.

Last week, in sweeping measures to reduce illegal mining, the Guyana Government ordered Brazilians without legal documents to stop working.

It also said that it would not be accepting sponsorship of the Brazilians from

Brazilians applying for their legal documents at the Brazil/Guyana Development Institute yesterday.

“middlemen� or agents.

Instead, it would be working a l o n g w i t h t h e

B r a z i l / G u y a n a Development Institute.

The new measures would

stop Brazilians and other non-nationals from (continued on page 18)

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Cemetery Road Bridge reconstructed for $4.1M - Residents claim the materials being used are of 'poor quality' Residents of North East La Penitence, Georgetown, are claiming that the Cemetery Road Bridge, which is being constructed at an estimated cost of $4.1 M, is being built with “poor quality materials.”

The bridge which spans Sussex and Savage Streets, North East La Penitence on Cemetery Road, has been under construction for almost two weeks. It is expected to be operational within the next three weeks, according to the Engineer, Kelvin Clarke.

Despite numerous complaints of the deteriorated bridge surface, works only began after 16year-old Elbert Thorne, a

former student of Kingston Community High School and Zenon Academy, died when the vehicle he was in veered off the bridge two weeks ago.

Kaieteur News understands that he sustained head injuries, and that water had entered his lungs after he was trapped in the submerged car for several minutes.

The tragedy occurred after the car in which the mother and son were passengers hit a rut on the bridge and veered off into the La Penitence Canal.

Two days before the teen's death, a US-based Guyanese, Christopher Giles, almost perished after

The bridge which is under construction

his vehicle also toppled off the same bridge. He

managed to unbuckle his seat-belt and crawl through the driver's window.

Angry residents, in the wake of the second accident blocked the bridge and forced its reconstruction.

But now that the bridge is being reconstructed, concerned residents are faulting the materials being used in the reconstruction.

“When it complete, after a few months it (bridge) will give the same problem again

and a next set ah money will be spent again on that same bridge,” a concerned resident said.

Commenting on the cement mixture, the engineer said that the mixture is being procured from Readymix Concrete.

“We bought the cement from the company; our workers did not mix the stuff.”

Another resident, Akeem (only name given) said, “They making a bridge and

all we see is three spade and two wheel barrows and ten men. I don't know what they doing. I know they were supposed to have a compactor to press down the mixture but they don't have that so I don't know what they making.”

Kaieteur News understands that residents say that if the bridge surface deteriorates again, taxpayers' money will be wasted.

Tuesday May 22, 2012

WANTED One cook, must know to cook Roti & Puri. Call 6477432 Tailors. Contact Paul’s Tailoring, 14 Lombard St. G/ Town. Tel# 223-8266/6808046 Counter servers, roti/curry cooks, pastry makers & handy boys. Apply Hack’s Halaal, 5 Commerce St. Live-in domestic must know to cook and 1 waitress, salary 50,000 monthly.

Call:610-5043 Persons/family to live & take care of farm @ E.C.D, attractive salary offered.

Contact: 690-1943, 691-8021 Two male shop assistants to work in Georgetown & the interior, serious enquiries only. Call: 225-2940, 225-0305 Urgently: chainsaw operator to work in the interior. Call: 626-0006, 231-3159 1 male or female to look after layer birds in the interior.

Tele# 688-4905 1 driver to drive in the interior. Must have bus and canter license. Tel# 688-0197

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WANTED East Coast Guyoil pump attendants wanted (day and night), wash man, office assistant & sales girls. 6842838, 602-5031 Contract cars. Must be in Hire & Yellow. Base free. $3500 weekly. Call 660-9977 Waitresses @ Diamond Gate Liquor Restaurant and Bar, Lot 18 Belmont Mahaica.

Tel# 228-5013, 622-5599 Carpenter with own tools.

Apply at Guyana Variety Store, 68 Robb Street. Tel no.

225-4631

House plan drafting for only $10,000. Building estimate for only $10,000. Call: 6949843.

Sales boy and girl. 615-3090

ONLINE SHOPPING NO COMMISSION, WEEKLY S H I P M E N T S , AFFORDABLE RATES, FREE PRIVATE MAILBOX. TEL: 231-5789.

FREIGHTLINKEXPRESS@ GMAIL.COM

Girls to work as waitress , age 18 to25 in Bar. Call: 256-4096 Bulldozer operators, Excavator operators, Service men. To work in interior.

Previous experience an asset.

Contact: 226-9768, 629-0037 Assistant Manager. To work at an out of town hotel.

Contact 226-9768, 682-4387

Experienced Graphic Artist.

Tel# 233-2725, 233-2439

Taxi Drivers at Princess Hotel. Contact 616-5419, 2657075

Factory worker. Apply in person with written application @ Comfortsleep, 49 Eccles Industrial Estate, E.B.D.

Labourers to work at Jettoo’s lumberyard & Sawmill @ Coverden Public Road, East Bank Demerara. Call: 2615041, 261-5042, 226-2756 1 experienced welder to fabricate grill and other welding work. Apply to Alabama Trading, Georgetown.

Repairs, sales & spares, air conditioning, microwaves, washer, fridges & Stoves.

Ultra Cool: 225-9032, 6472943

1 General Domestic. Must know to cook, from East Bank Dem. Area. Tel# 614-4358

1 Diesel Mechanic, to work in the interior. Tel# 688-4905

Experienced House Keeper.

To work on the E.C.D (parttime). Tel: 648-3151

Visa and Immigration forms prepared for Canada, USA and UK. Also Passport forms. Call 626-9857

One live-in or out maid & experienced sales girl. Call: 264-3356, 253-3149, 668-3985

1 experienced hauler/truck driver. 1 able bodied male cleaner/gardener. Apply to Alabama Trading.

Experienced sewing machine operators. Tele no.: 220-4337

US & Canada VISA application services. Call 643-6630. Family discounts available.

We refill HP cartridges for $1,800. Call:650-7699

We repair fridge, freezer, AC, washer, dryer. Call: 231-0655, 683-8734 Omar.

Manager’s Assistant general duties including Custom and Bond, Security Guards, accommodation available. Call: 676-6700

Sales Girls & Porters. Apply with written application at Best Buys Food Supplies, 1E Dennis & Middleton Streets, Campbellville.

SERVICES Permanent &Visitors Visa Applications Professional Immigration Consultant Room E-4 Maraj Building 225-6496/223-8115/ 662-6045.

Sawmill workers. Tel: 2616412/653-9752

WE FILL OUT PASSPORT & VISA FORMS: USA, UK & CANADA. TEL: 2315789

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PROPERTY FOR SALE 20 X 40 two flat concrete building @ Kitty. All amenities. Price $28 M Call: 668 – 9512, 223- 2570 25 acre farm land with 4 bedroom concrete house.

Located Parika Backdam. Tel: 615-8046 1 three bedroom house Prashad Nagar, asking price $29M neg. Call: 227-2563, 684-2115 East Bank $12M. East Coast $20M. Linden $20M. Newtown $19M. Hotel $130M. Diana 227-2256, 6269382.

Lot 9 Johns St., Port Mourant, Berbice house with 12 rooms, on 16Acres Land. Call: 337-1500.

Laptop & desktop repairs in homes &offices Call:6704302 Do you need a female bahir (cook) to work in interior?

Call Andrea 692-1798, 6527355

SALON Make up courses, artist trained & certified in Trinidad: 660-5257,647-1773 Qualify yourself in Cosmetology or nails, make up, Register, Limited spaces.

Call Abby: 216-1950, 6197603, 666-5241 Seeta & Soma Salon.

Specialists in perming, relaxing, styling, manicure, pedicure, etc. Tel: 618-6346/ 644-7142

FOR SALE One Hilux Vigo (new) GNN series 231-5171, 619-7134 Toyota Starlet 2 E Turbo engine with gearbox and ECU: Call: 624-7155.

Driver for canter truck. $20,000. Full-time Porter & Mechanic to work part-time on W.C.D. Call: 684-8231

2x2x1.5MM, Hollow section $4500 VAT inclusive. Call: 220-6100, 680-5900

Skilled Arc/Acetylene Welder. Very good rates offered. Tel – 22-71830.

Female workers needed; 3 subjects or sound secondary education. Call: 225-7307.

Salesboys and Salesgirls at D. Singh & Sons. 226-1316, 226-0881

One (1) General Worker to work shift system in G/Town.

Tel# 225-6337.

One female bartender to live and work in Mahdia.

Attractive salary. Contact # 680-9473/616-7241

One Bond Clerk. Apply in person Alabama Trading, Georgetown Ferry Stelling, Stabroek.

Mill/Saw Doctors, Moulder Operators to work @ Jettoo’s Sawmill @ Coverden Public Road, E.B.D. Call – 261-5041, 2615042, 226-2756 1 cashier (3 subjects) 1 pastry maker/cook salary $60,000.

Waitress, salary $40,000. To work interior. Age 18-30.

Contact 616-7543 Porter Boys and Sales Girls.

Apply in person to 148 Regent & Alexander Streets.

Telephone #22-61892 or 2251365

1 G-Force Freezer $45,000. 2 AT192; yellow $825,000, white $790,000. 1 Desk top computer and accessories.

628-8354 or 231-3417 1 100-3 Motor Cycle, CF7191, $80,000. Contact 649-6144 10 KVA voltage stabilizer single phase 200 amp fuse switch, 300 amp bust bar. #627-7835, 600-5130.

Blu Ray DVDs. Perfume Dazzle 231-9485 Bag Neck Seal Tape. 231-8819 One Caterpillar D6 Bulldozer.

Call: 622-1957 Honda Pressure washers, 2700 PSI, 614-8564 One Blackberry Curve 9300, 60K. Call: 609-2466 Sale Sale. Big Blow Out Sale.

Lot 29 Croal Street, Enterprise E.C.D. Cell no. 6642209. Items as low as $100 Dell Laptops & Desktops.

Complete with 19" LCD. From $70,000. Future Tech – 231-2206

I need an apartment to rent; call after 06:00pm - 648-0797

WANTED

One 21 gallon Air Compressor. Contact Nicky – 646-6000, 697-9610

Brand new American made Crosely 10.5 cu ft Refrigerator for sale $75,000. 626-4452/ 697-5677

NARS lipgloss, eyeshadow & Clinique Chubby Stick. Tel: 669-8374.

Buying non working appliances such as fridge, washing machine, freezer, etc. 669-9427

American dog food; 44lbs$5,500; 33lbs - $4000; 4lbs $800. Call: 628-9119

Lenovo laptops brandnew $60,000 Call: 681-2111

Repairs in all types of Jet-Ski, stern-drive, inboard and outboard engine (2 & 4 stroke). Contact: 694-7949 Are you planning to do gold mining? Call:670-4302

FOR SALE One Massey Ferguson 399 Tractor. Call: 619-6093

Peking ducks, call: 266-2711 / 609-4594 Roofing shingles. Call: Mr. Skepmire . 227-5195 (8am to 5pm) Going cheap, foreign used Perkins Engines. 661-3043 15ft Fiber glass boat $170,000 call: 260-0301, 685-1233 Spares for washer, microwaves, fridges, stovetimers, gear boxes, pumps, etc. Contact 225-9032, 6472943 Brand new Blackberry Torch 9800, under $100,000. Call: 676-7443

Two Detroit Diesel series 50 engines, 300 HP. Call Troy 601-9004.

Household items for sale.

Call: 225-3079, 656-7864 Gold detector waterproof, headset, battery charger, Walki-talkis Call: 609-7625 1 Tundra, 1 Perkins engine & Welder 400 amps. Call: 6605462, 611-5114 Used Fridge $45,000 . Used cooler Lg $85,000. Used freezer small $27,000, Lg $65,000. Excellent condition.

612-1486.

Stainless steel sheet.

Excellent for table top, etc.

Call: 612-1486 Two 8ft Slate American pool tables, one Nissan Titan & variety of restaurant equipment. Call: 622-1957 Games for PS2 $900, XBox 360 $2600, PS3 $2600. Call Junior 672-2566, 265-3232 Original slimming green coffee 800 $1300 W/sale and original slimming green coffee 1000 $2300 w/sale Call:681-2111

VEHICLES FOR SALE Just arrived: Allion and Premio, tel: 624-2000, 6221610 2005 H2 Hummer, 38,500 mileage fully loaded, chrome kit etc. Call: 639-3100, 6195400 Hilux 4x4 solid def pick-up, diesel, long base, excellent condition Call: 623-0243 1 special edition Toyota Runx PNN. 2 Nissan Wingroad Wagon. Tel: 6122522 Corolla Fielder just registered, AT 170 Carina.

Price negotiable. Call 6149623 One Toyota RZ Longbase EFI, hardly used BKK series $1.6M. Call: Rocky 621-5902 2004 Mazda RX8, body kit, black, unregistered, $3M. 617-2891 Unregistered Allion and Spacio. Tel# 697-0294 1 Premio PNN series, TV, camera. # 616-6000 International Tow Truck with flat aluminum bed; takes two vehicles. Call: 639-3900, 619-5400 Lexus LS400/Luxury, BMW 740IL/Luxury, BMW 635CSI/Sports. Bring mechanic, make offer. Call: 612-1486, 646-8326 Toyota Prado, 2004 Prado, 2005 Mark II, GX110, 2005 Tundra. All fully loaded, excellent condition. Call: 600-5759 One 2 ton, enclosed Canter, price $1.2M neg. One Tapir, price $160,000 neg.

Contact# 253-3349, 693-8830 2005 BMW 320i (new shape), just arrived. Tel: 6154114. www.facebook.com/ rashanautosales Jag’s Auto. Spacio, Premio, Wagon. Cheapest. Call 6167635 One unregistered new model Noah. Financing available. Price $3.6M. Tel: 629-2314 2 & 3 ton enclosed canter, unregistered. 617-2891 One Allion, fully powered, A/C, music, mag. Tel: 2590836, cell: 621-7838 Well kept, owner driven, Toyota Corolla AE100. Price $1.1 million. Telephone: 6615897. Serious enquires only.

2005-2007 Toyota Allions, with TV/DVD, back-up camera. Tel: 615-4114. w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / rashanautosales AT170 Carina. Price $550,000 neg. Call: 673-2945, 671-3020 (Continued on page 20)

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Fire destroys Pomeroon house, homeowner suspected of arson

Both the police and senior fire officers who were part of the investigation of the fire at Grant Buxton, Lower Pomeroon, yesterday, have concluded that the fire that destroyed a wooden building was likely to be as a result of arson perpetrated by the male occupant of the home.

By visiting the scene and from the information they would have received, both the police and fire service officers have assessed that Dexter Naitram, the male occupant may have deliberately set his house on fire Sunday night last.

Naitram is however

contending that he has no knowledge of the fire which has completely destroyed his two-bedroom wooden house.

According to the young man, he and his female partner were the only two occupants of the house and they were asleep when he discovered fire emanating from his front room.

Naitram added that he awoke sometime around 9;30PM, Sunday night last and asked his partner to go and get some drinking water for him.

It was then that she apparently discovered the fire emanating from the front

room and similarly alerted him and they evacuated the building unhurt.

Both the police and fire service officials are insisting that Naitram set fire to his house and fled.

One police officer who was conducting his investigation concluded that the house was unattended when the fire broke out.

Persons who informed the police of the fire also said that Naitram was not at home at the time the fire started.

Information also revealed that Naitram and his female occupant were in the habit of using a lamp at nights.

Colin Jones’s relatives refute Prison Chief’s comments Relatives of murder accused, Colin Jones, have said that they are not pleased with the statements made by Director of Prison Dale Erskine about a recent incident at the prison.

Jones’s mother, Allison Simpson, said that contrary to what Erskine has said, her son did sustain injuries about his body as a result of the fire which he set to his cell.

Simpson said that she saw her son at the Providence Magistrate’s Court yesterday during one of his appearances. She said that her son showed her burns to his ear, arm and leg.

“Mr Erskine said that he see Colin and he ain’t see no marks. When we see him at court and he had marks and he tell we that he ain’t see no doctor.”

Security camera leads suspect to jail The importance of a surveillance camera was forcibly demonstrated recently, when a known felon was caught on tape trying to break into a businessman’s home. The resulting effect is that he has been remanded to jail.

The man, Safraz Ally, 36, of Canefield, East Canje, Berbice, appeared on Monday before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court on a charge of attempting to commit a felony.

He was accused of trying to break into the premises of Shamshudin Hack of Lot 1816 Kent Street, New Amsterdam

on May 9, last.

According to prosecutor, Inspector Jairam Ramlakhan, Hack, whose house has security cameras around, secured his premises and went to bed. The following day when the surveillance system was reviewed Ally was caught on tape. He was seen in the yard, without permission to enter. He was also seen surveying the house and tampering with the lock on the door in an effort to gain entry.

The matter was reported and the accused was arrested and charged. In court he pleaded not guilty and was remanded.

The woman also said that her son again complained to her about being ‘tormented’ by prison officers.

“He say it got a prison officer name Selman who does tek away he food and throw it away when them other officers bring food fuh he.”

The woman said she would like the prison authorities to look into the issues of Jones being ‘tormented’.

On Saturday morning fire fighters were summoned to the Camp Street Prison to put out a fire which started in Jones’s cell. According to initial reports, Jones reportedly removed the bulb from his cell and used exposed wires to start a fire.

The man has since indicated to prison officials that he wanted to take his own life. In the meantime this publication was told that Jones may be in need of psychiatric help.

Director of Prison Dale Erskine said that efforts are being made to make treatment available for Jones. Jones is currently serving jail time for several charges including, possession of arms and ammunition, possession of marijuana among others.

Tuesday May 22, 2012

NDIA boss incurs ire of West Watooka residents Irate residents of West Watooka, Linden, waited in vain for more than four hours yesterday for Chief Executive Officer of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority, Lionel Wordsworth, to show up for a meeting with them that was scheduled for 10:00hrs.

The meeting was to address the current situation concerning the clearing of stagnant and silted up canals in the community. This led to flooding of farmlands and massive losses to farmers.

The disgruntled residents felt that the no-show by Wordsworth without explanation, was an act that was disrespectful to them.

“Imagine we out here since morning-- hungry and in this hot sun, and this man couldn’t put in an appearance, and not even an apology.

Instead, he sends the engineer Raphael Gravesande.”

However, the residents made their position very clearthey were not going to allow Pioneer Construction to execute any drainage works in the community.

“They could do other infrastructural works like culverts and so, but the canals, we gon deal with them; we been cleaning them a long time now, and we gon continue to clean them, Chairman of the West Watooka Development Group, Karen Wallace, asserted.

Gravesande told the residents that he had no problem with the decision they had taken, but that they would have to submit a proposal to the Regional Democratic Council.

“We have already done that, and right now, all we are waiting for is the go ahead,” Wallace said.

True to their word residents had turned out early Sunday morning and stopped Pioneer Construction workers, who had turned up to start drainage works, from executing any works. The

contractor subsequently ordered his equipment be removed from the location.

The residents had stated adamantly on Thursday last that they would not allow any mechanical clearing of the canals, because they themselves were prepared to do the job.

Region Ten Chairman, Sharma Solomon, along with Member of Parliament, Vanessa Kissoon, and Opposition Leader David Granger, later Sunday morning went into the area where they held an informal interactive session with the residents, and listened to their complaints.

Both Solomon and Granger supported the decision taken by the residents, and agreed that they should be given the job to clean the canals if they so desire.

MP Kissoon had already made her position clear since Thursday when she endorsed the position taken by the residents. Kissoon had said that the farmers who had incurred losses due to the recent persistent rainfall, should be given the opportunity to earn some money through the clearing of the canals.

“What affects yall affects the people of Region Ten, so we will stand behind the people of the community if they want the work- and they should be given the work,” Solomon emphasized.

The Regional Chairman said that the most common complaint of the farmers in the area is drainage, and as such they should be given the opportunity to help to rectify the situation.

He noted that his main concern was the stagnant canal with the dead fish, which he said residents should not attempt to clear manually, until the water is tested to determine what caused the fish to die.

According to Solomon, $20 million was approved to clear canals across Linden, with more than 300 persons

likely to benefit.

Opposition Leader Granger said that every single year there is recurring flooding in certain areas across the country, and people suffer losses. He pointed to the discrimination, adding that government is not doing enough for some areas, while freely giving equipment to other areas.

Granger told the residents that the position of his party is to find out what people need, and to try to find solutions to deal with their problems.

“If they treated you the same way they treat rice farmers you would be rich people. “What we are now doing is crisis administration; the regional chairman should not now have to be running around to find solutions.” Grainger added that resources should be provided at the level of the RDC to deal with these eventualities.

Karen Wallace, one of the farmers who suffered the greatest loss- actually running into millions, strongly objected to the canals being cleared mechanically. According to her the excavator would only create more problems for the farmers as the access roads to the farms would be further damaged.

Another concern which the woman pointed out was the threat to the stability of permanent crops by the maneuverings of the excavator.

West Watooka is one of the largest farming communities in Linden. It is home to more than 200 farmers. But these farmers are far from happy with what has been happening as it relates to the timely clearing of the canals.

They are faced with constant flooding, resulting in losses, despite the establishment of the canals which was a project financed by the Linden Economic Advancement Fund, to help boost agricultural development in the community, through drainage and irrigation. (Enid Joaquin)

Govt to ask Appeal Court to ...

From page 3 insisting that the composition of the committee should remain the same as it was prior to the November 28 polls.

In his arguments, the Attorney General said that the PPP and APNU could not have an equal number of seats based on a system of proportionality.

Nandlall argued that the composition of the Committee of Selection is “violative” of the principle of proportionality as contemplated by the Constitution since in this configuration; the PPP/C with 32 seats has the same representation on the Committee with APNU which only secured 26 seats.

The government wanted

the court to issue an order setting aside, revoking, cancelling or annulling the composition of the said Committee of Selection on the grounds that it is” violative” of Articles 60 and 160 of the Constitution of Guyana and in breach of the provisions of the Election Laws (Amendment)Act No. 15 of 2000.

Opposition Leader David Granger and Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, were named as respondents in the case.

In his ruling, the Chief Justice said that he was unable to read into the provisions of the constitution a mandate that the composition of the Parliamentary committees, particularly the Committee of Selection, must

reflect proportionately the number of seats allocated to the successful political parties in the National Assembly.

Chang held that the challenge by the Attorney General was “legally misconceived” and there was nothing in his arguments that could support his claim that there was a constitutional breach by the Speaker or the Opposition Leader.

“That being so, the court has no further jurisdiction to inquire into this matter,” Chang ruled, adding that “to do would be to inquire into the internal proceedings of the National Assembly, which the court has no jurisdiction to do.”

Tuesday May 22, 2012

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Suspension of Municipal Officers sparks confrontation between Town Council, Local Govt. Ministry …Deputy Mayor blasts Minister for presiding over injustice The New Amsterdam Mayor and Town Council is up in arms over what it called the high handed and callous behaviour of the Ministry of Local Government.

The Junior Minister of Local Government, Norman Whittaker, suspended two officers of the Council for one month. The Minister reportedly failed to respond to letters sent to him by both the Mayor Claude Henry and Deputy Mayor Harold Debydeen, seeking clarification of the situation.

Minister Norman Whittaker by way of a letter dated January 27, 2012 and addressed to Health Officer, Ackloo Ramsudh, and Sergeant Paul Beaton, suspended both of them from the council for one month without pay. The

suspension became effective February 1, 2012.

However, the council rejected that decision of the Minister and instructed both officers to remain on the job.

However, although the men worked they were not paid for the month.

The municipality had stated that the men had done nothing wrong and had also stated that they were unaware of any investigation carried out.

According to the letter sent by the Minister and seen by this publication there was an investigation following a report of misconduct.

According to the Minister’s letter under the heading “the Charge” the two men are accused of utilising the Council’s vehicle for a purpose other than which it was

intended, on November 16, 2011.

The Minister also accused the men of doing political work contrary to their official duties and without lawful authority.

They are accused of obtaining the signatures and National Identification Numbers of inmates from The Dharm Shala at Canje on proxy forms for the purpose of voting at the last general Elections held on November 28, 2011 without their consent and authority, a charge which both men denied.

Deputy Mayor Harold Debydeen, in a reply to the Minister ’s missive dated January 27, 2012; the Deputy Mayor accused the Minister of suspending the men without the Knowledge of The Town Council. He stated that at no

Nursing tutors balk at influx of late additions

time was the council aware of any purported investigation.

He added that the council should have been integrally involved, even with someone on the Investigative Committee if there was such a committee.

According to Debydeen, he has seen a statement allegedly submitted by the Health Inspector to the purported investigation which stated that on the day in question he was in the company of Deputy Mayor Debydeen doing Council business.

He remained in the vehicle while Mr. Debydeen went inside the Dharm Shala.

According to the Deputy Mayor, he is very alarmed that he was not called or contacted by the purported investigator to corroborate the allegations.

Debydeen in his letter stated categorically that, on the day in question or any other day, the two suspended officers while in his company as deputy mayor, were not involved in any such activity

as alleged by the Minister. He blasted the Minister for being involved in a serious miscarriage of justice.

The Deputy Mayor asked If, indeed, such offences as alleged by the Minister were committed whether it could be known of the names of the persons from whom signatures were procured on the Guyana Elections Commission forms.

He is also asking for the names of the “other persons not known to the inmates” who cast ballots and at which polling stations these votes were cast. He informed the Minister that the information is not secret as the law requires GECOM to publish such a list at the place of poll.

He is also asking if the said allegations were checked and substantiated by GECOM and whether GECOM took any action as required by law.

Since that letter, and one also written by Mayor Henry almost three months ago, there has been no response

from the Minister.

The matter was fully discussed by Council and they want the men to be paid their one month salary with full benefits and for the matter to be fully withdrawn. They feel enough time has elapsed, thus their decision to go public.

The Council says that it will go all the way to reverse the atrocity and injustice meted out to its officers. It is also prepared to take the matter to court.

The Deputy Mayor said that the government is double standard. He added that it should practice what it preaches.

He said that the very government used taxpayers’ money and government employees, including numerous public servants to campaign during the run up to the elections.

Among them were Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon, the various Permanent Secretaries, and right in Berbice, the head of the Berbice Regional Health Authority Dr Vishwarnauth Mahadeo.

Setal Samaroo, 38, of Lot 279 Number Two Village, Canje Berbice was arraigned before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, for the murder of Karamchand ‘Guru’ Panchoo, 71, on May 14 last.

Samaroo, who worked alongside Panchoo, on the night of the murder at ‘Tej Fowl Farm’ of Don Robin Farm, Number 19 Village, Corentyne, was arrested by law enforcement officials.

The man was on Monday charged with killing Karamchand ‘Guru’ Panchoo of Lot 24 Section ‘C’, Nigg Settlement, Corentyne.

Panchoo’s body was found on the farm on which Samaroo worked.

Samaroo was not required

to plead to the charge. The accused is being represented

by Senior Counsel Marcel Crawford and will return to court on June 25, 2012.

Samaroo, who told investigators that he is a farmer, is accused of killing the elderly watchman some time between Sunday May 13 and Monday May 14, 2012 at the ‘Tej’s Fowl Farm, Don Robin, Number 19 Village, East Coast Berbice.

Karamchand, on the morning of May 14, was found in a pool of blood on the poultry farm.

Panchoo who was formerly from East Canje and a staff at the Rose Hall Estate, lived with his daughter on the Corentyne. He had been working at the farm for the past eight years. His relatives had stated that on the day in

question they received a telephone call around 07:45 hrs from someone at the farm informing them that he had died.

They immediately rushed to the scene where they found him lying face down with blood pouring out from behind his neck. He also had cuts and chops about his face and other parts of his body.

Another guard was on duty during the night and he had stated that bandits had entered the farm Sunday evening around 21:00 hrs and tied him up and killed Panchoo.

Samaroo was picked out in an identification parade.

Meanwhile, a post mortem performed on Panchoo showed that he died of a fractured skull compounded with multiple injuries.

Farmer remanded for security guard’s murder

Georgetown School of Nursing Despite a public outcry by tutors of the Georgetown School of Nursing to stop the ad hoc admission of students, the Health Ministry, yesterday, admitted 65 students to the already overcrowded school.

The institution’s seven tutors did not lecture to the new attendees on the premise they work between 8:00 hrs and 16:30 hrs and because the new students are members of the evening classes. They believe that it is unfair for them to lecture both day and night shifts. During the day shift the tutors lecture to a student population of 494.

It is unknown how long the new students would attend classes without being taught but the tutors are determined not to teach until the Ministry and the Guyana Public Service Union reach a favourable decision on the matter.

According to a tutor, the school was formally made aware of the new students via a letter, last Thursday, from the Ministry. The school has written in response to that letter explaining why the school cannot accommodate more students. One of the primary reasons is the shortage of staff.

They claimed that the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Leslie Cadogan, visited the school yesterday and promised to talk with Health Minister, Bheri Ramsaran and Chief Executive Officer of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, Michael Khan on the issue of staffing.

The tutors stated that they care for the current students and want to see them excel.

The presence of the additional students would hinder current students from getting the adequate attention needed to pass their final exams.

At 104, Ina Holder eats anything ...

From page 11 uses no medicines.

In addition, she has no clear dietary restrictions, so she eats practically anything.

And get this – Aunt Ina reads the newspapers every day, and without her glasses at that!

These days, she spends her time quietly at the home of Dr. Claudette Harry, a family friend. Until last November, she lived with Noel Holder, her nephew, and his wife, Sheila Holder. When Sheila

died, Noel decided to leave her with Dr Harry.

Dr Harry also keeps her unmarried 94-year-old aunt Gertrude Harry. To keep the home going, they have employed Jennifer Benn, who Ina has renamed “Fatty.”

Benn recalls that last November, Ina was bed-ridden.

But now, she is back on her feet again, so to speak. She doesn't need anyone to feed her and tries to at least get from her bed to her window on her own.

She doesn't like “Fatty” leaving too late for home, so if she is taking a while to eat, she would tell “Fatty” to head on home and she will make her way to her room by herself.

Always with a delightful sense of humour, she would give “Fatty” a stern warming when she leaves the home: “”Don't be flirting with the boys on your way home.”

Aunt Ina's goal is to walk again, and “Fatty” is sure she would be able to do it.

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Shot gold miner Trini journalist, cameraman nabbed during liquor store robbery remains in critical condition The 46-year-old man who was found in his bathroom with two gunshot wounds to his abdomen is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s Intensive Care unit (ICU). Kenneth Melville, a gold miner was found at his sister ’s Lot 30 Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo home around 12:00hrs last Monday.

According to information, he was found in a pool of blood by one of his sisters, Margaret Melville. He was rushed to the Leonora Cottage Hospital and was subsequently transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he remains a patient in the hospital’s ICU.

Relatives, up to yesterday, were not aware of the circumstances leading to the gold miner being shot.

They were still trying to determine whether it was an act of attempted suicide or if someone went to the premises and shot him.

His sister, Carlotta Melville, claimed that she had spoken to her brother a few minutes before he was shot and he sounded “positive”.

He gave no clue that he was about to shoot himself.

She also added that her brother had “picked up a woman” who was not “letting go.” It is now unclear whether the act was done by the woman as “revenge” or whether it was attempted suicide.

Another teen goes missing Sixteen-year-old Cynthia Beria, who left her Leonora Pasture, West Coast Demerara, home to attend school, on May 14, has not returned home.

The teen is a student of the Leonora Vocational Training Centre. She was last seen on the Leonora Public Road in front of the school wearing a black skirt and black jacket.

The child’s mother, Geeta Bissoondial, is worried that something terrible might have happened to her daughter.

She noted that the police have questioned the teen’s boyfriend, who claims he does not know Beria’s whereabouts.

The mother claims that there was no family conflict that could have pushed her

Cynthia Beria daughter to run away from home. She is appealing to the public to contact her on 6701105 if anyone knows where Beria is.

Trinidad and Tobago (www.ctntworld.com) -A newspaper crime reporter and television cameraman are in custody after allegedly attempting to rob the K&A Liquor Mart located at Range Road, Five Rivers in Arouca.

The men reportedly stole over $185,000 from the owner on Sunday.

The incident took place around 8:30pm on Sunday and according to the police, the journalist and cameraman, who wore masks, and two accomplices were stopped in their tracks by officers attached to the Arouca CID. At yesterday’s Police

Press Conference, Sergeant Wayne Mystar, the Public Information Officer of the TTPS, said the men identified themselves as police officers and informed the Liquor Mart owner that they had a warrant to search his premises.

“The owner gave the men access when they pointed firearms at him and announced a hold up and relieved the proprietor of $185,807 cash, and US$28,067.”

Police officers attached to the Arouca CID, upon proceeding to the K&A Liquor Mart, observed that one of the accomplices was seated in what was expected

to be the getaway vehicle.

Reports say the vehicle had false number plates and a blue flashing light on the dashboard.

On enquiry, the CID officers realised that a robbery was in progress and attempted to arrest the men.

There was an exchange of gunfire and one perpetrator who challenged a police officer was injured in the foot.

Sergeant Mystar said: “The men were all arrested and two 9mm pistols and six rounds of 9mm ammunition were recovered. All the cash was also recovered. The injured man was taken to the

Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex where he is presently undergoing medical treatment.”

The other men, ages 24, 27 and 28 from Woodbrook are assisting police with investigations.

C News understands that several ski masks, four bulletproof vests, and two firearms, one of which is said to be the property of the Police Service, were found in the vehicle.

All four men are expected to be placed on an ID parade and will be appearing at the Arima Magistrates’ Court later this week.

Kitty Police Station in need of upgrade The state of the Kitty Police Station has many wondering if the millions of dollars being plugged into the modernization of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) are not properly utilized.

From all indications, that police station has not yet benefited from the GPF modernization project, which is part of the Citizens’ Security Programme funded by the Government and the InterAmerican Development Bank. It is expected to conclude this year.

Absence of vehicles, inadequate furniture, leaky roof, and a non-functional lock-up are some limitations of the station, which services one of the most populated areas in Georgetown.

Ranks are afraid to raise these issues at meetings because they fear victimization and possible transfer to another Region. They, however, claim that the situation is known but nothing is being done, except

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recently when the roof was fixed. But more work is needed.

For about two years the station has been without a vehicle. This has hindered ranks from promptly responding to criminal activities in the area.

Sometimes, ranks are forced to use a bicycle, go by foot or take public transport. In some cases, citizens have to

provide vehicles for ranks.

The station does not have a functional lock-up, as such; ranks are forced to take their prisoners to Alberttown or Brickdam Police Stations.

Apparently, the cell wall is cracking. To prevent the structure from collapsing with persons inside, it is left unused.

To ranks, the most appalling situation is the

absence of furniture. For a rank to take a statement from a citizen he or she has to wait until a seat is available.

Currently, the office that houses the Officer in Charge needs two chairs, the Criminal Investigation Department needs four chairs and the inquiries section needs about eight chairs. The station recently received two desks.

Private bodies move to help Brazilians avoid expulsion From page 11 switching employers as the work permits have specific conditions that are related to a particular employer and a particular mining district. This was a critical issue for the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission who in its monitoring role had complained of difficulty in knowing how many foreigners are in Guyana.

BRAZILIANS' WORRY The government during a special meeting last week with the Brazilians at Celina's Restaurant, Georgetown, also warned that it will not be tolerating corruption of its officers and that money, other than regular fees, should not be paid over to anyone else.

According to Rogeria Ferreira, a senior official of the institute, Brazilians are deeply worried by the news, with many of them fearing that the delays would force them to

return home.

Government last week said that there was widespread lawlessness including illegal guns, smuggling of gold, and prostitution in the hinterlands.

In recent months, as gold prices remain on a record high, there has also been an increase in the number of murders and violent crimes in those mining districts. Several Brazilians were killed also.

According to Ferreira, her organization was the brainchild of Excel Minerals, a mining company with operations in the city and in the interior.

The institute will not be charging a commission for processing the applications for work permits and extensions to stay. Rather they will be accepting the fees on behalf of the GGMC and the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Among other things, they will also be taking applications for the work permits, register-

ing them for contributions to the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) and their Tax Identification Number (TIN).

Brazilian businesses in the city have been increasing in number within recent years with Robb, Church, Light and Regent Streets becoming Brazilian business zones for that neighbouring country.

Across the country, places like Bartica, Cuyuni and Mazaruni in Region Seven; Port Kaituma in Region One and Mahdia in Region Eight, and Lethem in the Rupununi have become popular destinations for Brazilian businesses.

The businesses include transportation, spare parts, night clubs and restaurants, salons and clothing stores, among other things.

According to Ferreira, not every Brazilian in Guyana is involved in mining. But they are still required to pay the processing fee and the fee for the

three-year work permit which could add up to over $100,000.

RIPPED OFF Last week, Brazilians complained of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to middlemen or even mining companies to apply for their work permits. In many cases, they were ripped off and enticed to pay even more.

Ferreira yesterday said that there are indications that even some mining companies were involved in applying, for a hefty fee, for the Brazilians. In most cases, and amidst lax monitoring by GGMC, the Brazilians would use their work permits to switch to other mining camps.

There were also accusations last week of rampant harassment by police who would demand money from the hapless Brazilians, threatening to lock them up for the slightest infringement.

“In most cases, it is a fact

that the Brazilians don't know better. That is why they ended up paying other persons to help them process their documents. But the message is getting out,” Ferreira explained.

With many of the Brazilians still in the mining areas, it may take a while for the word to filter down those far-flung areas.

Last month, in a major crackdown, Government raided several mining camps, arresting a number of illegal Brazilians and seizing guns. Instances of mining breaches, poor records and poor conditions in the camps were discovered.

According to Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee, foreign nationals will have to produce work permits to enter the mining zones. No longer would their registration slips or acknowledgments of working permits' applications be accepted.

Yesterday, in relation to questions, the Ministry of

Natural Resources and the Environment, which is charged with mining, said that it is prepared to process the documents once they are in order.

“The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment's Guyana Geology and Mines Commission is ready and capable to commence the processing of applications from non nationals particularly Brazilians, once they have the necessary documentations and approvals from the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The Commission will expedite the issuance of Certificate of Registration, once valid documents are provided by the applicant, which would make the non-national/Brazilian eligible to work within a specified mining district. In addition, the Commission will monitor closely the number of persons being granted work permits as there are limits.”

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The Abigail Column Two sets of feelings in every relationship DEARABIGAIL, I’m going through an application process that could be pretty life-changing, in a positive way. If I’m successful, I would be moving away from my boyfriend. When I asked him a few weeks ago if he was upset about this, he told me no, because “he knew we could work it out.” He then proceeded to ignore the fact that anything was going on.

When I confronted him, he finally admitted he can’t get excited for something that will take me away. I feel angry and upset that he’s unable to be excited for me, even if it’s not exactly what he wants.

How to move past this?

Or has this kind of been an eye-opening deal-breaker about the support I’ll get from him in the future?

I feel like his behavior was passive-aggressive and cruel Paula

the third-degree you’re going to give him whenever his feelings don’t align perfectly with your expectations. He’s upset that you might be leaving!

He didn’t tell you that outright, quite possibly because he didn’t want to rain on your parade!

You confronted the truth out of him, and then got angry at him for it! How about: I’m touched that you’re upset.

Your support is really important to me though, so I hope what you initially said is still true, that ‘we can work it out’?

Dear Paula, He just got an eyeopening deal-breaker about

Tuesday May 22, 2012 ARIES (MAR 21 - APR 19): You may be attributing thoughts to a partner that he or she really doesn’t have.

At times like this, it’s important to stop talking and start listening. Repeat what your friend has just said so that the words will really sink in. ********************************** TAURUS (APR 20 MAY 20): Daydreaming could undermine your productivity, especially if you’re uninspired. Resist the temptation to fill an emotional void with junk food. There are healthier ways to meet your needs. You’ve been blessed with a vivid imagination. ********************************** GEMINI (MAY 21 - JUN 20): You and your friends have radically different ideas about what is fun. You’re interested in the arts, education and sports. Finding a companion for such activities may be difficult. ********************************** CANCER (JUN 21 - JUL 22): Be very honest in all things, particularly career matters. Even the slightest untruth could come back to haunt you later. You’re very eager to paint a rosy picture to your boss, but the fact is, some adjustments need to be made. ********************************** LEO (JUL 23 - AUG 22): You’ve got lots of general knowledge, but may lack specific skills and while you never like to admit that you need help, that may be necessary today. ********************************** VIRGO (AUG 23 - SEP 22): It’s important to avoid unnecessary extravagances, even if you feel you can afford them. Put some money away for a rainy day. It’s possible you will be hit with an unexpected

expense in the coming days.

LIBRA (SEP 23 - OCT 22): Be sure to ask for a partner ’s opinion before embarking on a course of action. It’s always been difficult for you to make decisions, so it will be helpful in getting a second opinion. ********************************** SCORPIO (OCT 23 NOV 21): Ignoring a loved one’s bad behaviour is setting up a dangerous dynamic. This person may be crying out for attention. Give them the time and attention they need to discuss their problems or things might just go from bad to worse. ********************************** SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 - DEC 21): Try not to give too much credence to what your friends think is best for you. The fact is, you’ve always had the most success by taking a lighthearted approach to work. ********************************** CAPRICORN (DEC 22 JAN 19): It’s important to treat everyone fairly, even if you dislike them. Using your power to discredit others will ultimately backfire. If you’re angry at someone who hurt your feelings, release your frustration at the gym or you may be tempted to do something unethical. ********************************** AQUARIUS (JAN 20 FEB 18): Although you’re usually the smartest person in the room, that may not be the case today. Be sure to give a young chatterbox a chance to express their views. ********************************** PISCES (FEB 19 - MAR 20): Cultivating wealth is all about setting financial priorities. Putting yourself on a budget will allow you to save money for a seaside cottage, exotic trip or high speed camera.

DTV CHANNEL 8 08:55hrs. Sign On 09:00hrs. Live! With Kelly 10:00hrs. The A-Team 11:00hrs. The View 12:00hrs. Prime News 12:30hrs. The Young and the Restless 13:30hrs. The Bold and the Beautiful 14:00hrs. The Talk 15:00hrs. Boy Meets World 16:00hrs. Beverly Hills, 90210 17:00hrs. The Wayans Brothers 18:00hrs. World News 18:30hrs. Awakening 19:00hrs. Greetings and Announcements 20:00hrs. Alliance on the Move 21:00hrs. Dancing with the Stars (The Finale) 23:00hrs. Sign Off NTN CHANNEL 18/ CABLE 69 05:00h - Sign on with the Mahamrtunjaya Mantra 05:15h - Meditation 05:30h - Quran This Morning 06:00h - R. Gossai General Store Presents Hanuman Bhajans 06:15h - Jettoo’s Lumber Yard Presents Hanuman Bhajans 06:30h - Muneshwar Limited Presents Hanuman Bhajans 06:45h - Double Standard Taxi Presents Hanuman Bhajans 07:00h - RRT Enterprise Presents Hanuman Bhajans 07:15h - M & M Fast Food Presents Raja Yoga Discourses 07:30h - Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital Inc Presents Hanuman Bhajans 07:45h - The Family of The

Late Leila & David Persaud Presents Hanuman Bhajans 08:00h - NTN This Morning Live with Reyaz Husein 09:30h - Indian Soap Yahaan Mein Ghar Ghar Kheli 10:00h - Indian Soap - Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke 10:30h - IPL Qualifier 1 DELHI DAREDEVILS v KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS 14:00h - Indian Soap Pavitra Rishta 14:30h - Indian Soap - Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch Bahuyien 15:00h - Indian Soap - Punar Vivaah 15:30h - Headline News 16:00h - Investigation Discovery 16:45h - Dying Tears 17:15h - World’s Hindi Teaching by Sanskar Bharati

International 17:30h - Ganesh Parts Presents - BHAGAVAD GITA ( Discourses in English) Serial 17:45h - Birthday Greetings / Deaths Announcement & In Memoriam 18:00h - TBA 19:00h - DECOR & GIFT GALLERY Live With Joel Ghansham 20:00h - Square Talk Live with Kwame McCoy 21:00h - Indian Soap Yahaan Mein Ghar Ghar Kheli 21:30h - Indian Soap - Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke 22:00h - Indian Soap Pavitra Rishta 22:30h - Indian Soap - Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch Bahuyien 23:00h - Sign off with the Gayatri Mantra

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VACANCY Kitchen assistant @ Charlestown- ages 18-35.

Call: 614-1020

LIBRARY Closing down sale; text, university, novels & others from-$100 up. Call: 223-8237

Salesgirls & Salesboys.

Apply: Avinash Complex, Water St. Georgetown. 2263361/227-7828 TO LET House @ Kingston concrete (2) storey 3 bedrooms $100,000. Nandy Park 4 bedroom, selfcontained US$1500 Contact GME Realty 231-2199,6187483 Four (4) bedroom apartment.

Contact: 682-8875 Short term apartments. Tel: 667-1549 (2) bedroom furnished house @ 31 Second Street, Liliandall Pump Road. Tel: 222-3838, 617-9004 Business place to rent, very spacious. Call: 226-2674/ 684-6360,223-1301,682-6822 Short term apartments, Eccles. Call: 679-7139 West Coast $35,000. South $100,000. Nandy Park US$2000, Accommodation, Hotel. Diana 227-2256, 6269382

Experienced Hair Dresser at Nalline Beauty Salon, Vreeden-Hoop Junction (Raymond Building). Attractive salary.

Contact: 687-3341, 639-9884 Be part of our world class customer care team. Join us now! Phone: 220-0401-3 Hire car drivers & dispatchers wanted from East Coast. Contact 220-1000 Male Sales Clerk. Hand written application. Perfume Dazzle, 137 Regent St., Lacytown, G/Town.

Fish cleaners. Eccles. 2332546, 675-5467 Vacancy exists for one (1) Domestic. Please call: 6777123 Garden Maintenance Crew.

No education needed. Must be neat and hardworking: 18 yrs-30yrs. Tel: 648-1821 For Porters. Apply in person Alabama Trading, Georgetown Ferry Stelling, Stabroek.

2 bedroom apartment. Self contained, for visitors @ Santa Cruise, Trinidad. Call: 0011-868-483-2495, 672-8771 Work Shop to do Mechanic Work on the West Coast Dem. Call: 684-8231 One bottom flat, 2 bedroom.

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Apartments/Rooms. Tel: 667-1549

VEHICLES FOR SALE Toyota Raum, black, bodykit, mags, year 2000, roof rack. 269-0432, 686-0323 2007 Toyota Axio & 2003 Toyota Premio & 2005 Toyota Belta W/TV/CD. Tel: 6 1 5 - 4 1 1 4 . w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / rashanautosales 2004 Toyota Avensis’s with TV/CD, Oz racing Rims, silver & green. Tel: 615-4114. w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / rashanautosales Top Notch Auto Sales. 2004 Mazda RX8, $3M. Free reg.

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Manual. 269-0432, 686-0323 One EP71 and 82 Starlet, 1Toyota Ceres and RZ Minibus, 1 – 192 Carina, Nissan Pathfinder, PMM. Call: 644-5096, 697-1453 Toyota Sprinter, fully loaded, TV, AC, CD, Alarm, single owner. For immediate sale.

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LAND FOR SALE Land V/Hoop 2 acre: school, housing, factory, etc. call: 658-0115 Bazaar St., Parika. No agents. 661-3043 West Coast $3.5M. North Road $45M. Continental Park $10M. Diana 227-2256, 6269382.

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Tuesday May 22, 2012

Inter Ministry/Corporation 7-A-side football competition kicks off this afternoon Football fans are in for a treat when the curtains go up on the Inter Ministry/ Corporation 7-A-side football competition this afternoon at the Banks DIH Thirst Park Ground starting at 16:00hrs.

Activities would be staged under the Powerade brand, a nutritional drink manufactured by main sponsors, Banks DIH Ltd and there will be 5 matches starting with GNIC up against GPL. Forty five minutes after the commencement of the first match, Neal and Massy will match skills with Lucky Dollar followed by Lotto up against Digicel.

In the other two matches, NIS will take on the Ministry of Public Works, while Banks DIH and the Republic Bank

will bring the curtains down on tonight’s activities.

The tournament continues on Saturday May 26 with 5 other enthralling encounters and would conclude on Thursday June 19 with the third place playoff and subsequently, the final.

A total 22 teams are registered for what has been touted as a tournament that promotes fitness in what the organizers said stemmed from the projection of Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Frank Anthony, in the physical fitness initiative.

The initiative will also serve to promote cohesiveness within the work place since it allows those within the corporate fraternity to engage in recreation even as

they maintain healthy habits.

Among those teams competing for a first prize of $250,000 and a trophy are GNIC, GPI, Neal and Massy, Lucky Dollar, Digicel, Amerindian Affairs Ministry, Republic Bank, Courtney Benn Contracting Company, Guyana Water Authority, GPL and NIS among others. The second place finishers win $175,000, while third and fourth places receive $75,000 and $25,000 respectively.

Several other corporate entities have joined with Banks DIH and contributed towards a successful tournament including Giftland Office Max, Talk is Cheap, Ross Gas Station and Hopkinson Mining among others.

Heat overpower Pacers to tie playoff...

From page 22 the Miami Heat when we play that way.”

Forward Danny Granger led Indiana with 20 points but the Pacers were powerless to curtail James and Wade in a

rampant third quarter.

“You get the ball out of one of those guys’ hands and it just gets to the other guy’s,” lamented Pacers coach Frank Vogel.

The Pacers led 54-46 at

Burnett, Forde, Fortune...

From page 21 1 Sinclair, Julio 25 Police Sports Club 34.86m 10 2 Haddaway, Obie 21 GDF 33.24m 8 3 Pollydore, Micheal 28 Police Sports Club 32.03m 6 4 Coppin, Cleon GDF 31.73m 5 5 English, Cordell 23 Police Sports Club 31.26m 4 Men Javelin Throw Games Record: 60.78m 5/22/2011 Leslain Baird 1 Bowman, Michael 20 National Park 44.42m 10 2 Baird, Leslain 25 GDF 40.65m 8 3 English, Cordell 23 Police Sports Club 40.31m 6 4 Sinclair, Julio 25 Police Sports Club 39.97m 5 RESULTS Women - Team Rankings - 14 Events Scored 1) Police Sports Club 175 2) National Park United 169 3)GuyanaDefenceForceTC774)UpperDemeraraSchools50.50 5) Unenhieghts 14 6) Overseas 10 7) Mercury Fast Laners 8.50 8) Trinidad & Tobago 6 9) Grenada AAA 5 10) Rising Stars TC 4 Men - Team Rankings - 14 Events Scored 1) Guyana Defence Force TC 148.50 2) Police Sports Club 138.50 3) National Park United 115 4) Upper Demerara Schools 78.50 5) Unenhieghts 23.50 6) Mercury Fast Laners 12 7) Trinidad & Tobago 8

halftime but James and Wade put the visitors in front when they combined to score the first 28 points for the Heat, who went on a 25-5 run.

“We had a terrible performance in Game Three,” said James. “We wanted to redeem ourselves.”

The teams return to Florida for Game Five today.

“It’s still going to be a dogfight,” James said. “It’s a three-game series now.”

Spurs sweep Clippers, advance to...

From page 22 night, to help give the home team a five-point edge with five minutes left but the Spurs battled back.

With Paul and Blake Griffin, who had 21 points, the Clippers have every reason to be optimistic for the future. “I told them ‘this should hurt,’” said Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro. “More is expected, and that’s a good thing.”

Cook and Bell deny plucky West Indies From back page got them going again. He completed a 78-ball fifty featuring eight fours when he late cut off-spinner Marlon Samuels and after lunch Bell followed him to the landmark in 84 balls.

That West Indies — who hadn’t won a Test match outside the Caribbean against major opposition since defeating South Africa in Port Elizabeth in 2007 and came into this game with a record of just two wins in 30 matches — started the last day with even an outside chance of victory owed much to Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

Officially the world’s best batsman, the Guyana lefthander made scores of 87 not out and 91 while spending more than 10 hours at the crease in this match.

Together with Samuels (86) he put on 157 for the fifth wicket in the second innings as the West Indies gave their bowlers a target to defend and a chance of a first win in 15 Tests in England.

For England, this match was a personal triumph for Stuart Broad.

The fast-medium bowler took a Test-best seven for 72 in the first innings and four for 43 in the second for a

match haul of 11 for 165.

Broad, who made 169 against Pakistan at Lord’s in 2010, became just the fourth player to take five wickets in an innings, 10 in a match and score a century in Lord’s Tests.

Only England’s Gubby Allen and Ian Botham, and Australia’s Keith Miller, had previously completed that ‘treble’.

Scores: England 398 (Strauss 122) and 193 for 5 (Cook 79, Bell 63*, Roach 3-60) beat West Indies 243 (Chanderpaul 87*, Broad 772) and 345 (Chanderpaul 91, Samuels 86, Broad 4-93) by 5 wickets.

Tuesday May 22, 2012

President’s / Jefford Track & Field Classic She was off the athletic scene for a little while due to the birth of her son, but US-based Guyanese track star Marian Burnett urged on by adoring fans from t h e L i n d e n co m m u n i t y where she resided before migrating, produced an astonishing turn of speed over the final 300 metres to win the marquee 1500 metres event on Sunday, at the President’s / Jefford

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Burnett, Forde, Fortune show superior class Track & Field Classic on a soggy Mackenzie Sports Club ground.

Watched by a capacity crowd that included representatives of sponsors, Deputy Permanent Secretary within the Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sport Steve Ninvalle, close relatives of the late Elton Jefford in whose memory the event was conceptualised, NICIL Executive Director Winston Brassington, well wishers and aficionados of the sport, the heavy

RESULTS Women 100 Meter Dash Games Record: 12.20 5/22/2011 Letitia Myles Name Age Team Finals Points 1 Fortune, Alisha 38 National Park 12.20 10 2 Allen, Neisa 22 National Park 12.50 8 3 Carto, Tiffany 18 Police Sports Club 12.80 6 4 Griffith, Shannon 17 Upper Dem 13.20 5 5 Smarth, Deja 16 Unenhieghts 13.30 4 Women 200 Meter Dash Games Record: 23.90 5/22/2011Aliann Pompey 1 Fortune, Alisha 38 National Park 25.60 10 2 Hooper, Natrena 21 National Park 27.10 8 3 Allen, Neisa 22 National Park 27.30 6 4 Smith, Tiffany 19 GDF 27.40 5 5 Carto, Tiffany 18 Police Sports Club 27.60 4 Women 400 Meter Dash Games Record: 58.70 5/22/2011 Shannah Thornhill 1 Allen, Neisa 22 National Park 1:02.30 10 2 Hooper, Natrena 21 National Park 1:02.70 8 3 Rodrigues, Nadine 21 Police Sports Club 1:02.80 6 4 Daniels, Shomane 16 National Park 1:03.30 4.50 4 Carto, Tiffany 18 Police Sports Club 1:03.30 4.50 Women 800 Meter Run Games Record: 2:22.80 5/22/2011 Jevina Straker 1 Straker, Jevina 18 National Park 2:30.80 1 10 2 Jonas, Jenella 19 Police Sports Club 2:38.40 1 8 3 Roberts, Adama 18 Police Sports Club 2:40.60 1 6 4 Grimes, Tisha 19 Police Sports Club 2:44.60 1 5 5 Albert, Natisha 16 Upper Dem 2:57.40 1 4 Women 800 Meter Run McLean, Odessa 18 National Park NT 1 Women 1500 Meter Run Games Record: 5:02.00 5/22/2011 Jenella Jonas 1 Burnett, Marian Overseas 5:05.60 10 2 Straker, Jevina 18 National Park 5:07.50 8 3 Nero, Tonya 24 Trinidad & Tobago 5:07.80 6 4 Pascal, Kenisha 25 Grenada Aaa 5:08.30 5 5 Morgan, Alika 22 Rising Stars TC 5:22.60 4 Women 3000 Meter Run Games Record: 11:09.00 5/22/2011 Alika Morgan 1 Straker, Jevina 18 National Park 12:03.70 10 2 Scott, Ashanti 28 GDF 12:09.60 8 3 Roberts, Adama 18 Police Sports Club 12:19.70 6 4 Chapman, Shenika 16 Upper Dem 12:46.80 5 5 Grimes, Tisha 19 Police Sports Club 13:09.00 4 Women 4x100 Meter Relay Games Record: 50.36 5/22/2011 Police Sports Club 1 National Park United ‘A’ 52.10 10 2 Police Sports Club ‘A’ 52.70 8 3 Mercury Fast Laners ‘A’ 55.50 6 4 Guyana Defence Force TC ‘A’ 56.10 5 5 Upper Demerara Schools ‘A’ 1:00.20 4 Women 4x400 Meter Relay Games Record: 4:23.00 8/29/2010 National Park United 1 National Park United ‘A’ 4:20.90 10 2 Police Sports Club ‘A’ 4:29.00 8 Women 4x400 Meter Relay 3 Upper Demerara Schools ‘A’ 4:40.60 6 4 Guyana Defence Force TC ‘A’ 4:47.30 5 Women 800 Sprint Medley Games Record: 1:54.00 5/22/2011 Police Sports Club 1 National Park United ‘A’ 1:57.40 10 2 Police Sports Club ‘A’ 2:02.70 8 3 Guyana Defence Force TC ‘A’ 2:16.30 6 4 Upper Demerara Schools ‘A’ 2:21.80 5 Women Long Jump Games Record: 4.76m 5/22/2011 Natasha Alder

- Police SC crowned overall champions overnight rain and intermittent showers that doused the outfield at the sporting mecca of Linden failed to dampen the spirits of athletes and fans as Burnett, running on Guyana soil after many years, produced a crushing run over the final lap to cruelly eradicate any thoughts Trinidad and Tobago’s Tonya Nero may have harboured heading to

the bell after leading for the most part.

She faded to third following the relentless assault by Burnett with young middle distance star Jevina Straker passing her in the process to grab second place.

Local and regional distance king Cleveland Forde was also in dominant form as he crushed the opposition en route to two convincing performances in

1 Moore, Alita 18 Police Sports Club 4.68m 10 2 Hooper, Juanita 20 Police Sports Club 4.60m 8 3 Moses, Tracy 20 Police Sports Club 4.53m 6 4 Forde, Mercedes 22 National Park 4.38m 5 5 Griffith, Shannon 17 Upper Dem 4.21m 3.50 5 Daniels, Shomane 16 National Park 4.21m 3.50 Women Triple Jump Games Record: 10.05m 5/22/2011 Natasha Alder 1 Hooper, Natrena 21 National Park 9.60m 10 2 Moses, Tracy 20 Police Sports Club 9.53m 8 3 Isaacs, Marica 19 Police Sports Club 9.44m 6 4 Adams, Shinalla GDF 8.70m 5 5 Hooper, Juanita 20 Police Sports Club 8.58m 4 Women Shot Put Games Record: 9.65m 8/29/2010 Natasha Alder 1 Alder, Natasha 27 Police Sports Club 10.19m 10 2 Bowman, Lisa 20 National Park 10.13m 8 3 Schwartz, Jenal 19 Upper Dem 8.44m 6 4 Byass, Onescia 16 Upper Dem 8.41m 5 5 Bowen, Chenille 31 National Park 8.27m 4 Women Discus Throw Games Record: 29.56m 5/22/2011 Phillycia Burke 1 Rodney, Latoya 25 Police Sports Club 27.75m 10 2 Whaul, Lawanda 19 Unenhieghts 27.23m 8 3 Burke, Phillycia 21 GDF 26.98m 6 4 Alder, Natasha 27 Police Sports Club 26.19m 5 5 Byass, Onescia 16 Upper Dem 25.62m 4 Women Javelin Throw Games Record: 39.47m 5/22/2011 Natasha Alder 1 Alder, Natasha 27 Police Sports Club 33.43m 10 2 Bowman, Lisa 20 National Park 31.57m 8 3 Burke, Phillycia 21 GDF 28.60m 6 4 Skeete, Morice GDF 26.36m 5 5 Rodney, Latoya 25 Police Sports Club 26.11m 4 Men 100 Meter Dash Games Record: 10.40 5/22/2011Rupert Perry 1 Ageday, Chavez 19 Unenhieghts 11.50 8 1 Stewart, Akeem 21 GDF 11.50 8 1 Easton, Terry 20 Police Sports Club 11.50 8 4 Haynes, Carlos 23 GDF 11.60 3.50 Men 100 Meter Dash 4 Ceasar, Winston 21 Upper Dem 11.60 3.50 4 Roberts, Keith 29 Police Sports Club 11.60 3.50 4 Noble, Drexel Unenhieghts 11.60 3.50 Men 200 Meter Dash Games Record: 21.20 5/22/2011 Rupert Perry 1 James, Stephan 19 National Park 23.40 10 2 Bollers, Elton 19 National Park 23.70 8 3 King, Patrick 23 GDF 23.90 6 4 Noble, Bevon 20 Upper Dem 24.00 5 5 Semple, Shawn 21 Police Sports Club 24.10 4 Men 400 Meter Dash Games Record: 48.10 5/22/2011Patrick King 1 Bollers, Elton 19 National Park 51.20 10 2 James, Stephan 19 National Park 51.70 8 3 Semple, Shawn 21 Police Sports Club 52.30 6 4 Noble, Bevon 20 Upper Dem 53.10 5 5 Foster, Selwyn 18 National Park 53.80 4 Men 800 Meter Run Games Record: 1:55.90 5/22/2011 Dennis Horatio PRELIMINARIES Herry, Kemon 21 Grenada Aaa SCR 2 1 Thomas, Cleveland 26 National Park 2:00.90q 1 2 Bayley, Kevin 20 Police Sports Club 2:04.60q 2 3 Scotland, Trevor 30 Police Sports Club 2:04.80q 1 4 Giddings, Nathaniel 19 Upper Dem 2:05.50q 2 5 Smartt, Shaquille 16 Upper Dem 2:05.60q 1 Men 800 Meter Run

the 1500 and 5000 metres events, while sprint queen Alisha Fortune was once again too fleet-footed for her contenders winning both the 100 and 200 metres races.

The rivalry between the future stars in the sport Stephan James and Elton Bollers continued with them splitting the 200 and 400 metres events.

James won the 200 metres from Bollers, who returned the

favour in the 400 metres and from all indications this trend seems to have all the hallmark of an ensuing battle that could last throughout the athletic season.

In the end, Police Sports Club were declared winners after amassing a total on 313.70 points to relegate National Park United on 284.40 and the Guyana Defence Force Track Club in third place with 225.90.

The presentation of prizes will be held on Thursday.

Games Record: 1:55.90 5/22/2011 Dennis Horatio FINALS 1 Thomas, Cleveland 26 National Park 2:00.90 1:58.80 10 2 London, Mark 18 Trinidad & Tobago 2:00.30 8 3 Bayley, Kevin 20 Police Sports Club 2:04.60 2:01.70 6 4 Scotland, Trevor 30 Police Sports Club 2:04.80 2:03.70 5 5 Halley, Carlon 22 GDF 2:12.30 2:09.50 4 Men 1500 Meter Run Games Record: 4:07.40 5/22/2011 Cleveland Forde 1 Forde, Cleveland 27 GDF 4:15.70 10 2 Thomas, Cleveland 26 National Park 4:20.80 8 3 Scotland, Trevor 30 Police Sports Club 4:30.20 6 4 Giddings, Nathaniel 19 Upper Dem 4:32.30 5 5 Bayley, Kevin 20 Police Sports Club 4:36.20 4 Men 5000 Meter Run Games Record: 16:25.20 5/22/2011 Cleveland Forde 1 Forde, Cleveland 27 GDF 16:35.80 10 2 Giddings, Nathaniel 19 Upper Dem 16:43.40 8 3 Bentick, Tyshon 21 GDF 17:18.30 6 4 Chisholm, Jamoul 21 GDF 17:38.80 5 5 Josiah, Larry 31 Police Sports Club 17:52.20 4 RESULTS Men 4x100 Meter Relay Games Record: 44.20 8/29/2010 Guyana Defence Force 1 Guyana Defence Force TC ‘A’ 46.90 10 2 National Park United ‘A’ 47.20 8 3 Police Sports Club ‘A’ 47.60 6 4 Mercury Fast Laners ‘A’ 47.80 5 5 Upper Demerara Schools ‘A’ 48.80 4 Men 4x400 Meter Relay Games Record: 3:25.10 5/22/2011 Guyana Defence Force 1 National Park United ‘A’ 3:34.10 10 2 Police Sports Club ‘A’ 3:36.90 8 3 Guyana Defence Force TC ‘A’ 3:46.90 6 4 Upper Demerara Schools ‘A’ 3:59.30 5 5 Mercury Fast Laners ‘A’ 4:09.80 4 Men 1500 Sprint Medley Games Record: 3:29.90 5/22/2011 Guyana Defence Force 1 National Park United ‘A’ 3:38.20 10 2 Guyana Defence Force TC ‘A’ 3:44.00 8 3 Upper Demerara Schools ‘A’ 3:49.90 6 4 Police Sports Club ‘A’ 3:50.50 5 Men Long Jump Games Record: 6.72m 8/29/2010 Leon Bishop 1 Ceasar, Winston 21 Upper Dem 6.54m 10 2 Payne, Quincy 26 GDF 6.22m 8 3 Bishop, Leon 25 GDF 6.08m 6 4 Garraway, Tevin 16 Police Sports Club 5.96m 5 5 Cadogan, Parish 18 Upper Dem 5.86m 4 Men Triple Jump Games Record: 13.73m 5/22/2011 Parrish Cadogan 1 Ceasar, Winston 21 Upper Dem 12.40m 10 RESULTS Men Triple Jump 2 Cadogan, Parish 18 Upper Dem 12.18m 8 3 Scott, Jamol GDF 11.82m 6 4 Williams, Troy 25 Police Sports Club 11.42m 5 5 Bishop, Leon 25 GDF 11.30m 4 Men Shot Put Games Record: 12.30m 5/22/2011 Michael Pollydore 1 Sinclair, Julio 25 Police Sports Club 12.58m 10 2 Haddaway, Obie 21 GDF 12.02m 8 3 Coppin, Cleon GDF 11.53m 6 4 Pollydore, Micheal 28 Police Sports Club 11.29m 5 5 Johnson, Terrence 30 Unenhieghts 10.41m 4 Men Discus Throw Games Record: 38.46m 8/29/2010 Ronald Payne (Continued on page 20)

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Sammy leaves Gayle door ajar ESPNcricinfo - West Indies’ captain Darren Sammy did nothing to quash the theory after his side’s defeat at Lord’s that Chris Gayle should be invited to strengthen his side in the rest of the Test series against England, as well as the one-day matches that follow.

Gayle’s involvement in IPL is over after Royal Challengers Bangalore were eliminated from the tournament and such has been his troubled relationship with the WICB that any emergency dash to the UK in time to play in one or both of the remaining two Tests seems hard to imagine.

But Sammy refused to close the door on the possibility after West Indies’ five-wicket defeat against England at Lord’s put them 1-0 down in the series, suggesting that both he and the coach, Ottis Gibson, would be content to accommodate Gayle’s late arrival.

“Whatever happens outside this squad takes its own course,” Sammy told Sky Sports.

“Whoever comes in we will welcome them into the team and hopefully they will help. It is up to the selectors to select the team.

“I think Chris has said he is available for Test cricket, one-day cricket and T20 so it is up to the selectors. We have been having some difficulties at the top of the order and if he comes in we would all welcome him, myself, Ottis and all the guys.”

One change West Indies will consider for the second Test at Trent Bridge on Friday, and one which needs no political machinations, is the inclusion of Shane Shillingford, the Dominican who took ten wickets in his last Test, against Australia on

Chris Gayle's involvement in the IPL with Royal Challengers Bangalore is now over

his home ground in Roseau in April.

Shillingford, according to Sammy, had been omitted at Lord’s partly because he could not cope with the cold weather - and with higher temperatures forecast in the build-up to Trent Bridge that could change.

“Shane was experiencing a bit of difficulty gripping the ball but in the course of this Test match he has done some work and hopefully his fingers will be warm enough and ready for him to play for us in the next match,” Sammy said. “He played a crucial role in the last series and once he is ready to master the cold we will have him in.”

Ramnaresh Sarwan: West Indies to blame for my team absence Ramnaresh Sarwan claims the negative actions of “certain individuals” in the West Indies coaching set-up have been behind his absence from the team.

Sarwan averages more than 40 in Test and one-day internationals but has not played for the Windies since July 2011. He was told by selectors in September 2010 to get in shape after failing to earn a central contract for that year.

However, batsman Sarwan told BBC Sport: “[The coach] said some negative stuff that hurt me mentally and emotionally.”

The 31-year-old refused to name the coach or coaches involved, but added: “Mentally I was broken down, not from the stress of playing, it’s just certain individuals have drained me mentally. “It took a toll on my confidence and the way I play. Everything went away.”

Sarwan, who captained West Indies in four Tests including two on their 2007 tour of England, joined Leicestershire as their overseas player for the 2012 season and has returned to form, scoring two centuries and two half centuries in the opening few weeks of the season.

“The fact that I’m away from all those problems, my mind is at ease and I have

nothing to worry about, no coach to say any negative things,” he continued.

“At one point I didn’t know which was my back foot and which was my front foot.

Now I’m much better, more precise with my movements, everything crystal clear in my head.”

In 2010, West Indies said Sarwan’s “extremely indifferent attitude and sporadic approach towards fitness” was the reason behind not awarding him a central contract.

But Sarwan sees the story differently. “[The coach] said some very negative stuff about me, things that were hurtful, hurt me mentally, emotionally,” he said. “I never spoke about this because I was caught up in a shell and I used to not come out of my house for up to three days.

“My dad was the one to inspire me to start back playing. I was going to stop because they were getting the better of me but when I saw him break down emotionally that inspired me. “I’m thankful to [Leicestershire] for giving me the opportunity.”

However, even if his form prompted a recall to the national squad, Sawran is adamant he would not be rushing to return. “I need to play a full season to find my

feet and I owe [Leicestershire] because they’ve invested in me,” he said. “I’m big on principle and when I was in the dust being kicked by my own people I was given an opportunity by this club and I will not forsake that or betray anyone.

“I don’t want to find myself in a situation where I was two years ago, where I couldn’t have fun.

“My happiness is utmost and the most important thing to me. I want to stay focused and forget about [what has gone before].”

Sarwan’s international career Tests: 87 (debut May 2000) Runs: 5,842 Highest: 291 Ave: 40.01 ODIs: 173 (debut July 2000) Runs: 5,644 Highest: 115 not out Ave: 43.41

Tuesday May 22, 2012

Bishoo among eight Windies A selectees with international experience St John’s, Antigua – Leg spinner Devendra Bishoo is one of eight players with international experience named in the West Indies A squad for the First Digicel ‘Test’ against India A at Kensington Oval starting June 2.

Bishoo, who won the ICC Emerging Player of the Year for 2011 after he burst onto the international stage, has so far appeared in 11 Tests, 13 One Day Internationals and four Twenty20 Internationals.

The other seven players who have played for the West Indies senior side in various formats are Kraigg Brathwaite, Tino Best, Lendl Simmons, Donovan Pagon, Devon Thomas, Leon Johnson and Nkrumah Bonner.

The 19 year old school boy batting prodigy, Brathwaite (9 Tests) who played recently against Australia, Best (14 Tests, 12 ODIs), Simmons (8 Tests, 36 ODIs, 11 T20Is) and Pagon (2 Tests) have all tasted Test cricket action.

Antiguan wicketkeeper/ batsman Thomas (9 ODIs, 1 T20I), Johnson (3 ODIs) and Bonner (2 T20Is) have played

in the limited overs formats for the senior regional team.

Best the energetic and fiery fast bowler last appeared for West Indies in whites in 2009 but was named in the West Indies ODI squad against Australia this year. He did not however make the playing eleven in any of the five Digicel ODIs. Opening batsman Simmons is making a comeback following a finger injury which he sustained while playing for Trinidad & Tobago in the Regional 4 Day Tournament in February last.

(Reuters) - The San Antonio Spurs steamrolled into the NBA Western Conference finals after a 10299 win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday gave them a clean sweep of their seven-game series.

The West’s top seeds rolled to their 18 consecutive victory going back to the regular season as the Clippers fell to the same fate as the Utah Jazz in the first round, exiting the playoffs after being swept 4-0.

Sunday’s game was tight, and San Antonio trailed by one with two and half minutes remaining, but Tony Parker answered with a pair of clutch baskets and the visiting Spurs showed the nerve that has seen them dominate the NBA over the past month.

“We needed a game like that,” Parker told reporters.

“That was a great game for our young guys to get some experience. At the end of the game we executed our plays and made big baskets.”

Tim Duncan scored 21 and Parker finished with 17.

The Clippers’ Chris Paul recorded 23 points and 11 assists, but he committed a turnover and missed a potential game-tying shot on two of his team’s final possessions.

Mo Williams failed to get a final desperation shot off as the Staples Center crowd fell to hush and the Clippers saw their season come to a close.

San Antonio’s postseason march is in contrast to last year when they were stunned in the first round as No. 1 seeds. It also has them positioned to make a run at their first NBA title since 2007.

Devendra Bishoo

Veerasammy Permaul will resume his role as captain of the side and will have Barbadian all rounder Jason Holder as his deputy. Delorn Johnson, Jonathan Carter and Kyle Corbin complete the 13 man squad.

West Indies A Squad for First Digicel ‘Test’ Veerasammy Permaul – Captain Jason Holder – Vice Captain Tino Best Devendra Bishoo Nkrumah Bonner Kraigg Brathwaite Jonathan Carter Kyle Corbin Delorn Johnson Leon Johnson Donovan Pagon Lendl Simmons Devon Thomas – Wicketkeeper The Digicel Series includes three ‘Tests’, two Twenty20s and three One Day matches and will be played in Barbados, St Vincent, St Lucia, Trinidad and Grenada.

This is the first assignment for WindiesAin 2012. Their last engagement was against Bangladesh A in the Caribbean in November 2011.

Spurs sweep Clippers, advance to West finals

“I know how good this team was last year, and we’re healthier and deeper,” said guard Danny Green, who finished with 14 points. “I know what we’re capable of.”

San Antonio will play either Oklahoma City or the Los Angeles Lakers for the Western Conference title.

‘THIS SHOULD HURT’ The Clippers, playing in the second round of the playoffs for the first time since 2006, were outclassed in every department by the seasoned Spurs.

A day earlier, Los Angeles squandered a 22-point advantage to lose Game Three, but this time they fell behind by 12 in the second quarter but fought to make it a test.

Reserve guard Eric Bledsoe scored 10 consecutive Clippers’ points in the fourth, he had 17 on the (Continued on page 20)

Heat overpower Pacers to tie playoff series (Reuters) - LeBron James and Dwyane Wade combined for 70 points as the Miami Heat recovered from back-toback defeats to grind down the Indiana Pacers 101-93 on Sunday and level the NBA’s Eastern conferencesemi-finalat2-2.

The Heat, who struggled

in their previous games after Chris Bosh was ruled out with an abdominal injury, trailed by eight points at halftime but snatched the momentum when James and Wade took control in a dominant third quarter.

“This is what the playoffs are all about. It’s just

survival,” said Heat coach Erik Spoelstra.

James, named last week as the NBA’s Most Valuable Player, scored 40 points, with 18 rebounds and nine assists.

Wade, who was subdued in Game Three, responded with 30 points, nine rebounds and six

assists as the Heat sparkled in a stunning return to form.

“Me and ‘Bron had it going,” said Wade. “We played off of each other very well.

“We both were aggressive at the same time.

That’s beautiful basketball for (Continued on page 20)

Tuesday May 22, 2012

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Morgan completes Telesur 10K sweep

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istance star Alika Morgan completed a sweep at the Telesur 10K Road Races after cruising to victory in a time of 40 minutes 33 seconds to claim the second leg that was staged in Nickerie, Suriname on Saturday.

The leading female athlete speaking with Kaieteur Sport yesterday said she was always confident of winning after assessing the opposition during the first leg of the Series which was held in Paramaribo some three weeks ago.

“I am happy that I won the race, but a little disappointed that I did not match or even better my time from the previous race due to the lack of top class competition and a strong wind that made the conditions difficult for me to improve on my time set at the opening leg,” Morgan stated.

She added that taking everything into consideration it wasn’t a bad performance and now has her sights set on this Saturday’s Independence Day Half Marathon which she disclosed should bring her another victory.

“I am now pointing myself to this Saturday’s Independence Day Half Marathon and I’m feeling confident because it covers a distance that I routinely run during my training,” Morgan disclosed.

Leading distance athlete Alika Morgan poses with her trophy won at last Saturday’s Telesur 10K which was held in Nickerie, Suriname.

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Cook and Bell deny plucky West Indies Alastair Cook

Ian Bell

Ramnaresh Sarwan: West Indies to blame for my team absence Pg. 22

Ramnaresh Sarwan

AFP – Alastair Cook and Ian Bell led England to victory in the first Test against the West Indies at Lord’s here on Monday.

England, set a target of 191 to win, were faltering at 57 for four before lunch on the fifth and final day. But Cook (79) and Bell (63 not out) shared a fifth-wicket partnership of 132 that saw England, the world’s number one ranked Test side, to the brink of victory before left-handed opener Cook was out with two runs needed when caught in the gully off West Indies captain Darren Sammy.

Bell though struck the winning boundary for a win that gave England a 1-0 lead in this three-match series heading into the second Test at Trent Bridge starting Friday.

England resumed Monday on 10 for two after Kemar Roach had taken two wickets for seven runs in eight

balls to remove England captain Andrew Strauss - a first innings century-maker - and nightwatchman James Anderson on Sunday.

Both left-handed opener Cook and Jonathan Trott had yet to score.

Roach struck again Monday to remove Trott for 13 with a good length ball that squared him up and took the edge with Sammy, diving to his left, holding a good catch at second slip.

And 13 also proved an unlucky number for Trott’s fellow South Africa-born batsman Kevin Pietersen.

He had just pulled Test debutant Shannon Gabriel’s third delivery of the innings for four when, to the fast bowler’s next ball ball, he tried to repeat the stroke and got a bottom edge to wicket-keeper Denesh Ramdin.

England were in trouble but Cook (Continued on page 20)

Kemar Roach

Burnett, Forde, Fortune show superior class - POLICE SC CROWNED OVERALL CHAMPIONS Pg. 21

Guyana best Marian Burnett crosses the finish line ahead of local runner Jevina Straker and T&T’s Tonya Nero (fourth in picture) on Sunday.

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