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Saturday November 14, 2015

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

Trade unionist says there I think President Granger’s slip is showing must be a Ministry of Labour DEAR EDITOR, I read that one-time political adversaries are poised to find homes with the new government. Even though word of these overtures for personal realignment had trickled out as early as May (the writing on the wall was already known back then), I still believe that this is a joke, or that I am hallucinating. If it is a trial balloon, it is a leaden one.

Already I hear the defenders saying, “baii yuh na know Guyana palahticks….” I agree; but I do know and recognize a step in the wrong direction with the wrong people at the wrong time, and which sends the wrong message.

This might help political cohesion, but it poisons social cohesion stirrings, for it emphasizes-again and again-the sordid,

opportunistic, self-serving nature of local politics, and its clubby, inbred nature.

Today, the nation observes that political incest extends to the newly adopted and even once loathed stepchildren. Yes, nothing is new under the soiled Guyanese canopy.

Editor, I understand that the floor-crawlers do not come empty-handed, and that they bring much needed intelligence, while fulfilling all quid pro quo elements. But what about the terrible record accumulated under their watch?

What about the timber barbarities? What about the old Radio Demerara building fiasco?

What about questions surrounding Curacao and new River?

What about ‘put up or shut up?’ I must concede that some do know how to shut up (publicly) while putting up

(privately).Who is next? I say, why not make it a bad job and reach out to the despised leader of the pack? Perhaps, that is on the cards too, if not already essayed.

In my book, this is the second huge mistake made by the government.

Its string is almost used up. Surely more palatable bodies could have been engaged, if not enticed.

Maybe, they would not sell.

Anyhow, this is the bottom of a shabby barrel, and will come back to trouble this government. Mark my words. I do hope that that much vaunted Code of Conduct has grandfather clauses; they will be needed to sanitize. Last, I think that President Granger’s slip is showing. It is not alluring.

Looks like business as usual, and it is a family business at the top.

GHK Lall

DEAR EDITOR, The ritualistic platitudes one has heard in relation to Road Safety month, every year for the last decade or more, constitute clear evidence that not only we are not listening to ourselves, but worse, to others who have previously repeated everything, but the new numbers.

Outstandingly, there has never been any published analysis which reveals the authorities’ comprehension of the factors contributory to what are loosely called ‘accidents’.

The very fact that the number of deaths keep increasing should impel those who pretend to manage road traffic to examine their ineffectiveness in doing so.

Surely by now it should have occurred to them that if they are incapable of thinking through some basic solutions, that there are places which they can go and learn of relevant remedial action already taken – like Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica, for example.

In the meantime they should seriously reflect on how their own virtual

negligence and that of such institutions as the GRA, contrive to actively contribute to the carnage which (euphemistic) ‘accidents’ wreak. Between these two institutions – the GRA and the Traffic Department – the sale of licences to amputee (onehanded) drivers have gone unabated over several years.

The latter, too great a proportion of whom are public transporters, i.e. taxis, minibuses, trucks, containers and other articulated vehicles, are subject to no training, nor exposure to the traffic regulations. For example, everyone, including the regulators, is unaware of the basic observation of the ‘right-of-way’. The latter has become a matter of discretion, and at times of dangerous indiscretion.

All these road users are unreasonably subject to the same speed limits. Just look at a sugar truck of twelve tons competing with a taxi – I nearly said to beat a red light.

But there are hardly enough traffic lights.

We insist in not subscribing to international standards and continue to

paint ineffectual ‘stop’ signs on muddy, dusty, pot-holed roads; the while being invisible at poorly lit junctures at night.

None of the platitudinists seem to appreciate the danger that such an inanity poses to strangers to the city, and to tourists of whom they expect many come next May, 2016.

Then poor lighting is compounded by the of lack pedestrian sidewalks. You just have to motor through Ganges Street, Sophia, along which GPL operates, to wonder at the total indifference to street lighting there – that threatens the lives of anonymous late homegoing workers and families.

Their deaths become Continued on page 23

Road Safety that kills

DEAR EDITOR, Issues of industrial relations are not about how one feels, but about a body of rules and application that guide the discipline.

The current approach in handling industrial relations grievances, be it in bauxite, sugar, public service or other, ought not to be done without regards to protected fundamental rights and freedoms, the constitution, laws and international trade agreements.

Thirty years ago rights and freedoms were not part of trade and development agreements. As such some actions within countries would have been overlooked by the international community, unlike what is taking place today.

The current trade agreement between the European Union and CARIFORUM, which Guyana has signed on to, has concretized a chapter that attends to the social responsibility of the parties, which includes protection of the right to join a trade union of choice and collective bargaining.

Given that the present approach to development is guided by a number of tools and not gut-feeling, unless efforts are made to identify and adhere to these tools, a country can likely be sanctioned at the international level for violations and transgressing of international protocols.

Perception that the impasse in the sugar industry is politically engineered has nothing to do with the rights of the workers to pursue, through their union, collective bargaining as protected in Section 23(1) of the Trade Union Recognition

Act and Article 147 of the Guyana Constitution. In pursuing justice in society, the Government has a greater responsibility and in industrial relations there are two agencies that the government is expected to deal with -the employer and the workers’ organisation (trade union).

It is not the role of government, however tempting it may be, to vocalise accusation that a trade union’s motive is political, because the government also risks being accused of seeking to trample the rights of workers under the guise of political accusation. Moreso such accusation creates the environment for pitting groups against each other.

The fact the GuySuCo has been able to say, without being upbraided, that it will not enter into collective bargaining with the union on a wage increase is in itself giving tacit support to breaking of the law.

Doing this is also giving support to the Jagdeo and Ramotar regimes imposition of wages/salary increases on public servants and their refusal to hold the Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BGCI) accountable to the law in regards to the outstanding grievances of bauxite workers.

GAWU’s wage proposal has been with the management of GuySuCo since March.

Management of an organisation is a day to day process and there exists a legal agreement between the union and company as to how grievances will be settled.

Management cannot take its own time to engage the union on matters of import.

The same principle holds true for public servants, bauxite workers and every management where unions exist.

The law expressly says a collective labour agreement between a company and union is legal unless otherwise stated.

While workers may not be downing tools protesting, the industrial relations climate is far from what is expected, since these are issues that impact rights and freedoms.

Guyana can be taken to the international forum and be censored for violating these sacred tenets.

For while the PPP got away with some violations, the fact that as a political organisation support is given to the posture and positions of GAWU, it is likely that the party will use their political clout at the international level Continued on page 23

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Any tax similar to a carbon tax does not make sense – Opposition Leader

Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo In response to Minister of Governance, Raphael Trotman’s revelation that Government is currently considering implementing a tax similar to a carbon tax, Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo says that Trotman “is absolutely clueless about these matters.”

Trotman had revealed the Government’s consideration in a recent interview with this publication. When faced with the question of how oil exploration synchronizes with Guyana’s position of being a green economy, he had stated that the two are not mutually exclusive.

“The government is currently looking at models around the world which shows that oil exploration and a green economy can be synchronized.”

Trotman had given the example of Norway which has through a combination of steep carbon taxes; careful management of oil wealth and innovative investments found a balance between a green environment and economic growth. The money garnered from their oil products are placed in a sovereign wealth fund named the “Pension Fund Global,” while all of its energy is run off of hydropower.

It was reported by the Guyana Chronicle in 2009, Bharrat Jagdeo had made a proposal to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for carbon tax to become part of the new global climate

change regime. However, Jagdeo in a recent telephone interview, said that his administration had never tried to submit such a proposal to CARICOM as “it would not make sense.”

He stated that instead, the administration had intended to focus on a low carbon development strategy.

As such, their mitigating actions to reduce greenhouse gases were confined to using renewable sources of energy such as wind, hydropower and solar. These, he said, would have mostly been small projects in areas such as Bartica and Wakenaam.

Jagdeo added that later on, his administration had planned to blend the country’s gasoline with ethanol. It would have been “like a 15-25% blend, but that was all we were doing on the mitigation side because our per capita emission is very very low,” said Jagdeo. “It’s about two tonnes per capita when the U.S is like 20 tonnes per capita. We are not required to do carbon tax or so, to lower our emissions as they are doing.”

Trotman said that the government is currently looking at a Trinidadian model of a tax similar to carbon tax which finances a “Green Fund.” He stated that if they choose to go in that direction however, Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, would have to make the decision.

When asked whether Government will charge factories for their carbon emissions, Minister of Finance, Winston Jordon said that he would not be able to say at this time.

Jagdeo said that Guyana does not have to implement carbon taxes or any similar tax as “we are not an annex one country. Trotman is probably mixing things up,” with relation to Trinidad’s green fund and labeling it as being similar to a carbon tax as it is not.“Trotman chooses concepts and throws them out in the public without understanding the full implications of these issues

or concepts themselves. We never planned to put in place a carbon tax as it would have been unnecessary. It would make our businesses uncompetitive. We are already getting funds from abroad for the help with mitigation. Nowhere, never once in our policy did we try to do that as it’s not part of our low carbon development strategy,” said Jagdeo.

When the Kyoto Protocol was signed, annex one countries such as Canada and the United States of America were provided with a target of reducing their carbon dioxide levels by 18 per cent by 2020. However, most developing countries such as Guyana do not have targets to meet since their carbon dioxide emissions are very low.

Currently, said Jagdeo, there are two ways in which developed countries meet their required target. These are carbon taxes and cap and trade systems. One is market based while the other, is a government imposition.

“Countries like ours,” he stated should not put in place carbon taxes or anything similar now as it will make the cost of doing business more prohibitive.

“Just imagine we have a carbon tax and let’s say Trinidad doesn’t have it, our manufacturers would have to pay the gasoline price plus the carbon tax. Their cost of production will go up and they will still have to compete in the same market with the goods from Trinidad and Tobago which has no carbon tax and will be able to subsidize their fuel,” said Jagdeo.He went on to say that there are several models around the world of a sovereign wealth fund in which oil wealth is stored. He pointed out that he is in favor of the Norwegian model as it is very rigid and cannot be manipulated by Government.

This would prevent the dreaded Dutch disease which could possibly see us becoming a mono-sector, he said.

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AG insists Guyana not blacklisted

Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General, Basil Williams, has re-emphasised that Guyana is not ‘blacklisted’. Statements made by some opposition members, prior to the country’s commendation by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) are nothing but erroneous and mischievous, he said. .

Speaking on a National Communications Network’s (NCN) programme recently, the Minister said, “When I came back from meeting with FATF: the International Coordinating Review Group (ICRG) and the FATF Plenary, at the recently concluded (October) Meeting in Paris, France, I was shocked to read a headline, in the Guyana Times, actually declaring that Guyana still remains blacklisted.”

Williams explained that after his ensuing press conference and the issuance of his press release on what actually transpired at the meeting, he thought that matters would have been grasped, and that retraction would have been forthcoming.

He added that the Public Service Commission (PSC) in stating that it is disappointed with where Guyana is at the moment, “is suggestive of corroborating what the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) stated, but still is not reflective of the truth.”

Minister Williams

reiterated that the Coalition Government “was actually applauded by FATF, for doing within four months, what the PPP/C government failed to do in 15 years.” He added, “In that release, it was clearly stated that the APNU+AFC Government came in for high praise, from both institutions of FATF (Financial Action Task Force); the International Coordinating Review Group (ICRG), and the FATF Plenary, at the recently concluded Meeting in Paris, France.”

He said the ICRG adopted the Assessors’ report of its regional arm, the Americas Region Review group (ARRG), which stated inter alia, that the main development in Guyana is the enactment of the AntiMoney Laundering/ Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Amendment Act 2015, which became enforceable on July 10, 2015.

Minister Williams said, “Guyana has demonstrated its commitment to comply with the action plan and is to be commended for having met most of the deadlines.”

The AG also alluded to the Guyana Chronicle of Thursday, December 2014, where the former AG had clearly stated that Guyana was not blacklisted. At that time, the FATF Plenary did say that Guyana ‘will maintain its status quo’ in the Compliance Document.

“Therefore, logically, the PPP/C is contradicting itself,” the Minister noted. In this regard overall, “Guyana is light years away from any kind of blacklisting; more so, that the current Government has manifested the political will to enforce all of FATF’s recommendations.”

“As soon as the governance of Guyana changed hands, the APNU+AFC Government’s first initiative was to pass the AML/CFT 2015 Amendment Bill, and also laid the requisite regulations in the House, and all of these are now law.”

The current Government was very concerned with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), since the then government brought its version of the Bill, but the manner of the appointment of the Director of the FIU was most compromising, since that position was to be enacted by the then Minister of Finance.

The AG noted, too, that this ‘appointed person’ could have only been fired by the President himself, and thus, “this would have meant that the whole exercise would have been a PPP/C’s.”

All of this has changed now and the FIU is totally independent, the AG detailed, “as it should be, without political interference and influence, and that is the main difference between them (PPP/C) and us, and so now accepted by FATF.”

GTT yesterday launched free WiFi service at Church’s locations across the country as part of the plans by the company to “do more” for its customers.

The launch took place at the Camp and Middle Street location but can be accessed at all Church’s fast food locations countrywide and Royal Castle, Sheriff Street,

the phone company announced yesterday.

“Several GTT customers who were present at the launch excitedly signed on the service and were enthused with the speed. The service will soon be extended to New Thriving Restaurant, Main Street, St Joseph’s Mercy Hospital, Parade Street, Kingston, the

Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, Guyana Revenue Authority and the University of Guyana,” GTT said in the statement.

Any GTT customer with an active data plan can access this service which offers speed up to 5Mbps and unlimited download capacity.

“They will be required to verify their GTT status for access and must have a credit balance greater than zero.

With this service, customers will be able to Do More web surfing, chatting, downloading of their favourite music, apps or games, streaming of their popular shows and much more while saving on their data service,” said Gert Post, GTT’s Chief Commercial Officer.

“GTT is pleased that the private and public sectors so willingly accepted our partnership offer to provide this service that will not only make our customers happier but will also make visitors to these locations more comfortable,” he said.

GTT gears up to launch free WiFi across city

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Britain, India sign over 9 billion pounds in deals despite protests (Reuters) - Britain and India welcomed more than 9 billion pounds in commercial deals during a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but his arrival was overshadowed by protests over a perceived rise in intolerance back home.

Modi got a warm welcome

by Prime Minister David Cameron, who has tried to cultivate closer ties with India to secure business opportunities in a fast-growing economy at a time when Modi has been prioritising other relationships.

For his part, Modi is seeking to restore his authority on the world stage after a defeat for his Hindu nationalist party in populous Bihar state on Sunday. He appealed to business to invest in a more transparent India in a speech at the Guildhall, a historic building in the heart of London’s financial district.

While Cameron said he wanted to support Modi in his efforts to transform India with improved infrastructure, the Indian leader signalled he wanted Britain to stay in the European Union, saying the country was India’s gateway to Europe.

“We want to become your number one partner for supporting the finance needed for this ambitious plan, making London the world’s centre for offshore rupee trading,” Cameron told him during a news conference, adding that plans were in place to issue more than 1 billion pounds in bonds.

He later said in a statement: “During this visit, British and Indian companies are announcing new collaborations, together worth more than £9 billion pounds.”

The British government listed more than 20 deals and collaborations, including a 1.3 billion-pound investment by Vodafone.

The two prime ministers also welcomed a package to promote clean energy worth 3.2 billion pounds of commercial agreements, joint research programmes and initiatives to share technical, scientific, and financial and policy expertise.

Before the visit, diplomats said the Indian leader was keen to buy 20 more BAE Systems Hawk trainer aircraft to be made in Bengaluru.

Cameron has visited India three times since taking office

in 2010 to try to climb up the diplomatic pecking order, but Modi is the first Indian head of government to pay an official visit to Britain, the country’s former colonial ruler, in almost a decade.

His visit comes at a time when a debate is raging in India over accusations that Modi is failing to rein in Hindu zealots trying to impose their values on all Indians.

POMPAND PROTESTS As Modi and Cameron shook hands for the cameras outside Number 10 Downing Street, a crowd of about 200 protesters could be heard shouting anti-Modi slogans nearby.

“Our main concern is that minorities are not safe in India,” said Sikh protester Kuldip Singh.

The demonstrators held up banners with messages such as “Modi you are killing Indian democracy” and “Stop religious persecution in India”.

Asked about these concerns at his joint news conference with Cameron, Modi said India was a vibrant democracy in which individual rights were guaranteed by the constitution.

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St. Kitts launches new initiative Oil ties did not protect Venezuelan as part of aggressive crime fight drug suspects nabbed by U.S. in Haiti BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – An initiative geared towards curbing rising crime and delivering justice has been launched in St. Kitts and Nevis.

The Criminal Justice Strategic Board (CJSB), part of the six-point plan which was implemented year by the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force (RSCNPF) earlier this year, will develop protocol for the judiciary, to ensure that certain cases are disposed of in a timely manner in order to bring perpetrators to justice speedily, and enforce curfews.

Sirah Abraham, Criminal Justice Advisor to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, congratulated the Government for launching the Board and said it is one of the most important steps to criminal justice reform.

“Internationally, Criminal Justice Strategic Boards have been recognized as establish-

Sirah Abraham ing a whole system approach to tackling issues in the criminal justice board,” she said.

“They overcome operational barriers and ensure that the country’s criminal justice system can work effectively.

Across the world these boards have managed to reduce crime, reduce re-offending punished offenders, increase public confidence and ensure that a country has a fair criminal justice system which delivers justice for the victim of crime and protects the public.”

She pointed out that she, along with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), was willing to assist the Government in establishing various programmes including witness protection, a serious crime court, special measures for witnesses and criminal procedures to help reduce the delays in court.

An important aspect of the launch was the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the members, committing themselves to the work and responsibilities of the CJSB. (Caribbean 360)

Clico preparing to sell more assets The Guardian - Payments to creditors outside of Clico’s statutory fund will be made after sale of the company’s Republic Bank Limited (RBL) shares and other assets are completed. That’s the word from the Central Bank which gave an update on its resolution plan for the failed insurance giant in full-page newspaper advertisements.

The bank said at the end of October $695 million was paid out to 486 non-assenting Short Term Investment Products (STIP) policyholders—representing 68 per cent of the total value of claims to 34 per cent of those policyholders. The remaining non-assenting STIP policyholders are yet to submit claims to Clico for processing.

Commenting on the progress of the resolution plan, chairman of the Clico Policyholders’ Group Peter Permell said while the group welcomed the statement by Central Bank they are concerned because “it seems to be conspicuously silent on the balance owed to 15,000 assenting policyholders, or those policyholders who accepted the former administration’s offer of zerointerest bonds and Clico Investment Fund units.”

Permell is calling on the Central Bank to clear the air on this matter and for Minister of Finance Colm Imbert to look into it.

On other aspects of the plan, the Central Bank said consultations were ongoing

Peter Permell with Imbert on the valuations of Angostura Holdings Ltd (AHL) and Clico World Brands Limited (CWBL).

Clico hired Miami-based Investment banking firm, PAF Securities, to conduct independent valuations of those shareholdings.

On August 12, the company received the final independent valuation reports from PAF Securities which were forwarded to then Finance Minister Larry Howai.

The Central Bank said Clico was instructed last May to update a November 2014 valuation on Methanol Holdings International Limited (MHIL) which had been done by global financial advisory and investment banking firm Duff and Phelps. The final independent valuation report on MHIL was completed in August and forwarded to the Minister of Finance. Consultations on that matter were completed on September 28.

On October 27, Clico was instructed to proceed with sale

of its shareholding in MHIL to a suitable buyer, consistent with the independent valuation and requirements of the shareholders’ agreement.

“This agreement regulates the relations among Consolidated Energy Limited, Clico and CL Financial, the three shareholders of MHIL,” the Central Bank said.

In the case of Home Construction Limited (HCL), local chartered valuation surveyors GA Farrell and Associates Limited and PAF Securities were engaged on September 8 and 21 respectively “to conduct an independent valuation of Clico’s shareholding in HCL.” The final valuation report is expected to be completed and submitted to the Central Bank in early 2016, following which consultations will take place with the Minister of Finance on the sale of that company In addition, Clico and the Central Bank have engaged international firm Oliver Wyman as advisor to assist with the sale of Clico’s traditional insurance portfolio.

In January 2009, Clico experienced a liquidity crisis that resulted in a bail out agreement with the T&T Government to safeguard the interests of the company’s policyholders and creditors and prevent a major disruption in the country’s financial system. In March the Central Bank embarked on a threephased resolution plan to repay the company’s debts through the sale of its assets.

P O RT- A U - P R I N C E (Reuters) - The close ties between Venezuela and Haiti were not enough to stop U.S. law enforcement from arresting two relatives of Venezuela’s president when they flew into the Caribbean nation this week, showing the United States still exercises significant influence in the region.

Venezuela is one of impoverished Haiti’s main benefactors and the Latin American country has won allies on Haiti and across the Caribbean by offering cut-rate petroleum exports.

The two men are nephews Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores. They were arrested by Haitian anti-narcotics police and turned over to U.S. agents who had an arrest warrant issued by a New York judge, a senior Haitian official told Reuters.

Hours later they were flown out of the country with the blessing of Haiti’s Justice Ministry and accompanied by agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the official said.

The two Venezuelans, Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas, 30, and Efrain Antonio Campo Flores, 29, were

charged in a one-count indictment filed in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday.

They were caught in a sting operation as they allegedly tried to arrange the sale of a cocaine shipment that was to be sent to the United States via Honduras.

Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas and Efrain Antonio Campo Flores The United States and Haiti have an extradition treaty dating back to 1905 but it does not appear to have been applied in this case.

That helped expedite the transfer of the two men to the United States as extradition requires a series of legal steps, including informing foreign consular officials of the arrest, experts said.

“This was what you call an expulsion,” said David Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor in Miami who has handled a number of Haiti drug cases.

“It’s a gentleman’s agreement to provide assistance.

B a s i c a l l y, H a i t i s a i d i t didn’t want them and the U.S. could have them, simple as that.”

Venezuela’s ambassador to Haiti, Pedro Canino, told Reuters that he was in the dark. “We have been told absolutely nothing here,” he said.

Venezuela has been a gen-

erous ally of Haiti over the last decade, including the preferential oil agreement known as PetroCaribe.

The programme allows beneficiary nations to buy fuel from Venezuela at favorable rates and with easy payment plans.

This week’s operation was the latest in a string of arrests of high-profile drug suspects wanted in the United States and sent there under expedited legal proceedings, experts say.

In May, the son of former Honduras President Porfirio Lobo, was arrested in an antidrug operation and flown to New York by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.

The expulsion policy dates back more than a decade when Haiti began to emerge as a major cocaine corridor to the United States. Haiti’s weak political institutions and corruption made it fertile terrain for South American drug traffickers.

Be Vigilant, Zika Virus Detected In The Region The G l e a n e r - T h e Health ministry is urging Jamaicans to be more vigilant in cleaning up their environment and destroying mosquito breeding sites following the detection of the zika virus in the Caribbean.

The Caribbean Public Health Agency made the announcement of the detection of a case in the region Thursday.

Chief Medical Officer Dr Marion Bullock DuCasse says the Ministry of Health is continuing its preparedness activities for the possible introduction of the zika virus in Jamaica.

She says the Regional Health Authorities have increased the frequency of fogging in several areas and will continue to pay close attention to high risk communities.

However, Dr Bullock DuCasse points out that fog-

ging is a temporary solution and cannot by itself solve the problem of mosquito breeding.

The Chief Medical Officer is calling for Jamaicans to destroy mosquito breeding sites by looking for anything around the home, school, churches and business places that may collect water and either cover it, keep it dry or dispose of it.

She says persons should also repair leaking pipes and outdoor faucets, cut grass short and trim shrubbery, clear roof gutters and eaves to prevent water from settling and fill in and drain any places where there are usually puddles when it rains.

Dr Bullock Ducasse also says persons should protect themselves from mosquito bites by using insect repellent containing DEET, putting mesh on windows and doors

and wearing long sleeved clothing where possible.

The zika virus is spread via the Aedes aegypti mosquito which is also the vector for chikungunya and dengue.

The symptoms of zika v i r u s i n c l u d e f e v e r, muscle and joint pain, headache, nausea, eyeball pain, inflammation of the eye, vomiting, diarrhoea or abdominal pain, weakness, swelling of the lower limbs and rash consisting of small bumps.

Symptoms last approximately four to seven days.

The virus has previously been reported in Brazil, Colombia and suspected in the Dominican Republic.

The Pan American Health Organization has indicated that it has been confirmed in Suriname.

The zika virus has not been detected in Jamaica to date.

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THE POLICE MUST BE CAREFUL WITH ITS INTERPRETATION OF STATISTICS The assurances given by the police are not reassuring at all. The police are in denial about the crime wave because they are looking at statistics and are attempting to make spurious associations.

For example, it is said that the seizure of cocaine is down and this has always been the trend whenever there are increased prosecutions.

So have there been increases in the number of drug-related prosecutions?

And how does this not relate to the decline in seizure of drugs?

How is the public to know that the decline in the number of seizures is not a case of a

decline in drug interdictions or is related to some other spurious factors?

The police cannot use statistics to make whimsical and fanciful associations.

Another glaring example of this, is the contention that the present level of crime is below what existed in other post – election periods.

There is a reason for this; the reason is that there is not at present the level of political instability as what existed in previous post- election periods, so obviously the level of crime will be less, because less of crime in the past included incidents of political unrest, rioting, mugging and looting.

People are not going to be impressed with the figures quoted by the police and the interpretations that are being out to these numbers.

The experiences of people are that crime is on the loose and there have been terrifying incidents of criminal activities.

Can you imagine that in the middle of the city bandits would invade the home of a man who along with his family were lighting their diyas?

These bandits of today seem to have a penchant for gun- butting their victims, oblivious to the serious injuries, including permanent disability which can result.

Dem boys seh...

Bandits hit short time place fuh nutten Thiefing get so rampant that these days people don’t care wheh dem rob and who dem rob. De bandits don’t care who see dem.

Dem boys suspect this since de group rob dem money changer in America Street. To this day de police ain’t sure if dem hold de right people.

De other night a group of dem go to a soldier house. De man house got grill. De bandits force open de door and when dem meet up wid de grill, dem rock it till it fall apart.

Firemen does talk bout how house so heavily grilled that dem can’t enter. From, now dem should employ bandits.

Well dem bandits tek things to a new level. Dem got people who does get away fuh some cozy time. Some of dem men got wives and some of de women got husbands.

Dem boys know de story of de husband who going to meeting and de wife who going either to she mother or she friend.

Well some gunmen threaten even that li’l cozy corner pun de East Coast. This place got branch at Agricola. De bandits walk in and one stand up by de door. Up comes two

people and de one by de door chase dem away.

De people get vex and dem tell de police who tun up and ketch all de bandits. But wha people didn’t know was that some policemen been in de place too having a nice time.

Dem boys seh that if was a robbery dem woulda clear out a long time ago but all of dem had interest in de activities in de place.

Some of dem ask fuh de keys fuh de room and set up a peep show. In fact, de story was so nice that when de police arrest one of dem he tell de policeman to wait because he coming just now.

De Crime Chief seh that crime gone down, that it ain’t so bad but from wha dem boys seeing, things bad. Every day is a robbery and de victims often don’t got nutten.

People know that dem bandits want money fuh Christmas. All of dem coulda get a job to ketch dem hand instead of robbing people and spending Christmas in jail.

Talk half and watch how you visiting de short time place.

Bandits also invaded the family of a former member of the Guyana Defence Force.

They broke down the door and began to rip away the grill that acts as a second line of defence.

The family was forced to retreat into a bedroom. Calls to the police did not help because by the time the police arrived, the bandits had taken away a large number of items from the house.

It is good to learn that the police plans to take a more proactive approach to crime.

Instead of waiting to respond, the police are going to be more proactive in going after criminals.

This is sorely needed because the bandits are seemingly fearless; they are

operating with impunity.

Something has to be done.

What should not be done is to pretend that there is not a problem and that it is becoming worse.

No one expects miracles from the Guyana Police Force, but no one also wants to see the police in a mode of denial.

This will only lead to further paralysis.

Police reform is needed but that will take too long.

People want immediate action and this is why greater attention needs to be paid towards involving communities in police work and actually paying community police to work fulltime. Instead of doing this, the government has actually

sought to deemphasize community police. Such an approach is counterproductive.

The criminal gangs are creating fear and uncertainty in Guyana.

This will not aid in the business recovery because people are not going out as much as before for fear of the criminals. The police need to get down to some serious work but that alone will not help.

Social controls need to be put in place to ensure greater discipline in our society.

Without these social controls, the police will be hard pressed to reduce crime.

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== THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN ==

Only one pathway can save the PPP Canadian-based educator Harry Hergash enumerated several occasions during the minority government of President Donald Ramotar where the PPP refused to make concessions to and seek accommodation with the opposition which had the parliamentary majority.

There have been several delineations like Mr. Hergash’s since the 2011 General Elections results.

There will be more.

I would suggest what is needed in these analyses is an explanation for the PPP’s refusal to reach out which it has never done despite the claims of many PPP stalwarts that throughout its history it has.

I think the history shows that it hasn’t. It is left to independent minds to trace that history of this truculence.

Many in the Working People’s Alliance have.

Tacuma Ogunseye wrote about Jagan’s obduracy in

talks in the Patriotic Coalition for Democracy (PCD).

I saw for myself how the PPP completely tossed aside its comradely intimacy with the Working People’s Alliance after the PPP’s election victory in 1992. In fact, a creeping hostility came over the PPP leadership as the years wore on.

By the time he died in 1997, Dr. Jagan’s relationship with the WPA’s leadership was non-existent.

One theoretical explanation about communist in-fighting is that when fraternal communist parties quarrel among themselves after power is achieved a bestial level of viciousness creeps in and there is more violence directed against “old comrades” than toward the right-wing detractors.

The history books are replete with scholarship supportive of this theory.

The Bolsheviks in Russia literally imploded after Lenin died. Stalin literally killed off most of the founders of the Russian Revolution.

Joshua Nkomo was more viciously attacked by the Mugabe Government than any white organization that

opposed Mugabe. General Ochoa was made a hero of the Cuban Revolution for his victory in Angola. But in a fallout with Fidel Castro he was executed while many antiCastro critics were jailed rather than killed.

The PPP became bitter with the WPA to the point where the PPP leaders were saying the most unpleasant things about their former comrades.

I remember I met Donald Ramotar at the Bakewell outlet when he was GeneralSecretary of the PPP. Ramotar’s opinion of Andaiye was so inelegant that it annoyed me because I strongly disagreed with his pronouncement.

From Mrs. Janet Jagan right down, the WPA was scorned. Mrs. Jagan openly declared that the WPA couldn’t win an election but wanted power through the backdoor. President Jagdeo had harsh words to say about Clive Thomas after the Globe Trust fiasco.

Rupert Roopnaraine’s appointment as Registrar of Critchlow Labour College further heightened the eagerness to stop the state’s subvention to

the College. Let us for the sake of polemical exchanges posit that the PPP will win the minority presidency in 2020.

The same attitude will be adopted as in the 10th Parliament.

The same ancient mindset that proved stubborn in the PCD confabulations; that ostracized the WPA, that refused to dialogue with the AFC and APNU in 2012 will be at Freedom House. What is the explanation? The curse of mythology.

The PPP will remain imprisoned in that curse unless it breaks away.

Whether it can do so is up for discussion but what is not debatable is that unless it chooses a new pathway, it will remain haunted by the myths that Cheddi Jagan and Mrs. Jagan planted in its collective psyche. What are those myths?

Jagan is the essential hero

of Guyana. The PPP is the most historic political entity Guyana has been blessed with. PPP leaders were never allowed to implant there futuristic ideas because of envy, conspiracy and hatred.

The PPP must be made to fulfill its destined role in Guyana and the PPP must forever be watchful of those who resent it. PPP leaders are of a superior character to their opponents.

One of the most obnoxious examples of this culture of mythology is contained in the PPP’s press release on the rejection of Government’s intention of turning Red House into the libraries of all past Presidents.

The release said Red House should house the papers of the PPP Presidents and not Burnham and Hoyte who do not belong in the same category. In other words, Jagdeo is in the same

category with Jagan.

Any honest academic would find that unpalatable.

But it is simple to understand.

Jagdeo was a PPP President therefore he stands above any other non-PPP President.

It is a sad situation. But unless future PPP leaders accept that the PPP and its leaders are mere mortals and are just like any other organization and leaders with strengths and faults, an uncertain future awaits the PPP.

The Guyana Police Force has a unit that is monitoring dangerous repeat offenders.

This was revealed by Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum yesterday at the Police Officers’ Training Centre, Camp Road.

“We are well aware that many of the high profile persons who are arrested are repeat offenders,” the Crime Chief said. He declined to go into details about the

operation of the Unit.

“The media is accustomed that when they call (me) and query about a suspect whom we have arrested, I would usually tell them that indeed the person is known,” Blanhum said.

He alluded to a suspect who was arrested on numerous occasions and was eventually convicted on a firearm charge.

“We thought that he

would be off the streets for three years. Lo and behold, he appealed the matter, and he came out back and was involved in a murder.

“If he had been spending his time in prison where he belonged, maybe this murder would have been prevented.”

He also referred to another individual who committed a murder while on bail.

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Frederick Kissoon

Serial offenders Unit to monitor dangerous criminals

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Unwise and reckless to grant Bai Shan Lin two-year extension – says Clive Thomas

By Kiana Wilburg Presidential Advisor on Sustainable Development, Dr. Clive Thomas, is of the firm belief that it would be a rather “unwise and reckless” move for Chinese logging company, Bai Shan Lin, to be granted any further extension on the construction of a long awaited wood-processing facility in Guyana.

“I feel it is time that sanctions be imposed,” the economist added.

Word of Bai Shan Lin’s request for a two-year extension to fulfill its promise first came to the forefront during a press conference with Governance Minister, Raphael Trotman last week.

It was there that Trotman was questioned about his threat some months ago to reveal the action to be taken by the end of October, should Bai Shan Lin and others fail to make any moves to add value to Guyana’s lumber exports.

Trotman said, “In terms of Bai Shan Lin, we had met with them on successive occasions and we have had discussions with other foreign companies that have been in the forestry sector. Bai Shan Lin as we know and I don’t think it’s a secret that it

Presidential Advisor on Sustainable Development, Dr. Clive Thomas has not complied in its entirety. I have met with representatives of the China Development Bank who of course are financing Bai Shan Lin. “I am led to believe that the company itself is in the process of restructuring.

Then it will reengage with the government, but as for now there has been a pause because there has been a process of restructuring its corporate activities and

seeking new financing from China Development Bank.”

The Governance Minister also said that when he last spoke with the company (and this was three weeks ago), he was informed that the Chinese logging company was in no position to have the mills that it said it would have imported within the next ten months.

As a result of this sad situation for the company he said, “They have asked for two years and we have had discussions with them about an alternative mill and that is on board. But as I said, much depends on Bai Shan Lin securing the financing.”

Yesterday, Dr. Thomas said that it would be highly “reckless” should Bai Shan Lin’s request be approved.

He said, “Given their horrible track record, as the Presidential Advisor on Sustainable Development, I would deem it unwise to grant them this. They had ten years to get it done. What’s their excuse for not getting it done then?

“It was clear that it was not priority for them and now they cry financial difficulties.

I do not agree with any further pardon because they have shown utter disregard over

Police still hunting Berbice bandits Even though a few persons had been arrested and investigations are ongoing, no one has been charged. Police are still looking for five masked armed bandits who on Tuesday evening, broke and entered the dwelling house of businessman and Jeweler Vickram Mahadeo, 36, and his wife Sophie Mahadeo, 32.

The couple lived at Lot 1475 Glasgow New Housing Scheme, East Bank, Berbice with their children.

The thieves, whilst brutalizing the couple, robbed them of a quantity of cash and jewelery. Vickram was robbed of one gold chain and one Samsung Galaxy phone.

Sophie was relieved of two gold chains, (one with a

diamond pendant) one Samsung phone, one finger ring and $25,000 in local currency.

The bandits were armed with a sawn off shotgun, a cutlass and a crowbar.

According to information, about 21:30 hrs the victims secured the two main doors to their house and went to bed. Around 23:45 hrs he was jolted out of his sleep by the sound of his wife screaming.

As he got up to investigate, he was attacked by one of the bandits armed with a crowbar.

The invader dealt him a lash to his head.

The bandits overpowered them and began to demand cash and jewelry.

They also ransacked the house and took other articles

Serial offenders Unit...

From page 10 “He was recently acquitted, and came out and shot and killed one of his former cell mates.”

Also mentioned was another career criminal who Blanhun said, “Deserved a Master’s or Doctorate in crime”, as well as a young man, who allegedly executed another man one week after being released from jail.

There is also a post office robbery suspect, who is out on bail, “And we have

already had two armed robberies in the area where he lives. We are currently pursuing him,” Blanhum said.

But Crime Chief Blanhum alluded to the backlog of court cases as one of the setbacks for the Force.

“Witnesses are reluctant to attend identification parades. Because of the postponement of these matters, after a time, the witnesses become frustrated and do not attend court and the matters are dismissed.”

before making good their escape on foot through a southern door of the house.

It was later observed that the bandits gained entry through an open window on the northern side of the building. The police were contacted and immediately went to the area, but the bandits had already escaped.

The injured Vickram was taken to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where he was treated by a doctor and sent away.

Investigations are continuing.

the years for the country’s laws and have benefitted from millions worth in concessions.

“I believe, too, that some amount of order needs to be injected into the logging industry. It is time that companies, whether local or foreign, get the message that value added production is important and that the government will no longer compromise on this.

“Besides, you cannot have a playing field where one company is making efforts to start, as is the case with Vaitarna and then Bai Shan Lin is making requests to get started later. It would not send good signals in that area.”

Mr Thomas had said that the behaviour of the logging companies that have benefitted significantly from Guyana’s forest resources is absolutely “unacceptable”.

He said, too, that he will be recommending to the David Granger-led administration for some of Bai Shan Lin’s concessions to be taken away.

“Guyana cannot continue to be giving out hundreds of millions of dollars worth in these tax breaks or concessions and we aren’t benefitting from value added operations.

If companies make a commitment to do so then the ethical thing to do is to deliver what was promised. If not, their concessions should be taken away,” the economist had said.

Bai Shan Lin had given conflicting reasons in the past to justify the delay for establishing this woodprocessing facility. In fact, Commissioner of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC), James Singh a few months ago had also revealed that the company indicated to him that the current holdup is as a result of “financial difficulties.”

Singh had explained, “They told us that they have

been experiencing some financial difficulties in the sense that they were unable to meet some bench marks for certain lending agencies…

“We met with them and they had some concerns.

They indicated to us that they met with some government officials and are expected to submit a revised programme in relation to the facility to them and wait for it to be reviewed.”

He had said, too, that a team from the China Development Bank also accompanied the Chinese company to the meeting. The Commissioner said that he told Bai Shan Lin to make the wood processing facility their “priority.”

Singh said that the company promised that once the “financial difficulties” are over, it will also submit the revised programme on the facility to the Commission.

A few months ago, Trotman had told the media that the companies this time around will not escape sanctions for should they fail to make good on their promise then their contracts will be reviewed for termination.

Trotman who is also vested with some responsibility for the natural resources of the nation had explained that Government will be looking at the concessions that have been granted to certain, if not all companies in the forestry sector.

In 2014, BaiShan Lin blamed the Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) for delaying its application for its wood processing factory. In one of its advertisements, the company stated that in 2008, it applied to the “Government of Guyana, through the Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) and other agencies, to lease lands to set up a factory to process logs and engage in value-added production, such as the

making of furniture, craft and hardwood flooring.”

It had said then that it was experiencing delays.

Kaieteur News later reported that GO-Invest had no such application.

BaiShanLin had nothing to say when this was revealed.

This caused many, including the then opposition, to challenge the government to make public the investment agreement it signed onto with the Chinese logging company. This was never done.

In April, the company then blamed the “hostile” media reports during 2014 for dispiriting financiers.

The Chinese company had said that it is concerned about the apparent “misrepresentations and false reports” being carried in some sections of the media on its operations in Guyana. It identified Kaieteur News as the leader of the “hostile” campaign and even cited a KN article with the headline: ‘BaiShanLin delays US$70M wood processing factory for gold, housing, logging.’

But in its statement, it did not deny that it was approved ‘US$70M’ for certain activities.

With regard to the wood processing plant in the Linden area that was to be constructed, BaiShanLin, one of the largest exporters o f t h e c o u n t r y ’s p r i m e s p e c i e s o f wood, had complained that it has indeed suffered major setbacks in completing its wood processing facility that will create hundreds of jobs for Guyanese.

It claimed that these “setbacks” directly relate to lack of adequate funding from its financiers, who, since last year “when these sustained attacks began,” became concerned about the “soundness of investing further in what appeared to be a hostile environment.”

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Guyana can’t monitor compliance with environmental regulations - Minister of Governance

A fisherman inspects a dead California gray whale covered in oil from the Valdez spill on the northern shore of Latoucha Island, Alaska Given the recent allegations against oil giant, ExxonMobil, of promoting and funding climate change denials, the question of whether the state has the capacity to independently monitor compliance with environmental regulations is now an issue.

Minister of Governance, Raphael Trotman, revealed that Government is only now beginning the process of preparing for those

possibilities.

Currently, he said, the capacity of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is being increased.

“More Guyanese are being trained by the EPA in the area of management of the oil industry.”

Trotman said that while they do not have the capacity now, Government is “quickly trying to learn and catch up.”

It is hoped that within five to ten years, they will be able to

monitor compliance of companies such as ExxonMobil with environmental regulations.

In October, ExxonMobil had allegations leveled against it by U.S senators Ted Lieu and Mark DeSaulnier along with Bernie Sanders and Sheldon Whitehouse, of promoting and funding climate change denials despite knowing that the burning of fossil fuel is one of its major drivers.

The Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) yesterday ended its 41st meeting, rolling out plans for the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy application processing system and a proposed establishment for a Caribbean regulation framing system for medicines.

The meeting was closed

by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados Maxine Mc Clean yesterday at the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. Mc Clean said the Member States benefited from “fulsome” discussions that will help to further develop the Region.

The convention discussed several critical issues, such as inter-regional trade; the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) application system; advancing regional public procurement regimes; the CARICOM Development Fund; and the state of trade negotiations amongst partners, including Cuba.

Mc Clean stated that the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy application processing system (CAPS) will begin on a phased basis next year.

She said CAPS is an information technology tool that is integrated among the

12 Member States that are actively participating in the CSME. Under the CAPS CARICOM, she explained, nationals can use their computers and portable communication devices to apply for skills and services certificates from anywhere in the world. “The CAPS is part of an effort to make our systems and procedures more efficient and user-friendly,” she indicated.

A special session was held for the private sector, with issues of cost and ease of doing business in the Caribbean, competitiveness, the quality assurance, security and all its ramifications, human energy, community rights, media as part of the private sector, communication, and economy being deliberated.

Mc Clean stated that the private sector issues were the first to be discussed since CARICOM acknowledges the “business community as the engine of growth as our first order of business.” She said it focused mainly on investment promotion, challenges and priority for the business community, conducting business in the Caribbean and the successes of various private sector development interventions.

She added that the

Ministers recognized that a response to the private sector should be strategic and coherent, addressing areas such as concentration, risk factors, use of cash limits for official transactions, including customs, access to finance and the development of an effective communication strategy.

“The CARICOM Secretariat will establish a matrix on the actionable point of the discussion and draw up an implementation schedule on those matters,” she disclosed.

CARICOM SecretaryGeneral, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque on Thursday, during the opening of the meeting, said he has been advocating for the private sector’s greater participation in the Council. He said that the significance cannot be over-emphasized since CARICOM’s commitment to increase development and employment as highlighted in the strategy plan.

She added that COTED recognized the need to address matters impacting the Region’s health. She stated that there is a need to confront non-communicable diseases that are affecting the workforce and affecting its competitiveness. She said that COTED agreed to have Continued on page 24

COTED targets more efficient trading systems

Democratic presidential contender Senator, Bernie Sanders, in a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch according to the New York Times said, “It appears that Exxon knew its product was causing harm to the public and spent millions of dollars to obfuscate the facts in the public discourse.”

The oil giant had come out in condemnation of the claim labeling it as “inaccurate and deliberately misleading.”

In 2014, the company had also faced allegations of abusing human rights in Indonesia.

They were before the court on charges of abuse carried out by the Indonesian military between 1999 and 2004 against villagers in Aceh.

The military guards were hired by ExxonMobil as security for the gas fields in the province.

Aside from these allegations, ExxonMobil has over the years had several oil spills, most of them becoming

a lasting part of the ecosystems in which the oils have entered.

Wildlife from every part of the food chain is ultimately affected by an oil spill as oil coats and clings to everything it touches. As such, it is responsible for damaging nesting grounds, interrupting migratory patterns and damaging and killing of birds that often dive for food.

If coastal marshes and wetlands come into contact with it, these absorb the oil and are irreparably damaged.

Oil also has disastrous effects on marine life as in contact with it, they are either killed or contaminated.

Some 25 years ago, ExxonMobil, then known as Exxon Valdez was responsible for one of the largest oil spills in the United States of America.

The ship had struck a reef which tore open the hull and released 11 million gallons of oil into the environment.

The oil spread so widely that more than 1,000 miles of coastline were fouled and hundreds of thousands of animals perished. Today, it still ranks 36th as one of the worst oil spills in history.

Despite cleanup efforts, oil from the Exxon Valdez spill still remains a few inches below the surface of many of Alaska’s beaches. To this day, land and marine life are still being affected.

The rate of death and defects amongst marine and land life around the polluted area have significantly increased since the spill.

Asi d e f r o m t h a t , t h e oil giant has over the years had numerous oil s p i l l s , t h e m o s t recent ones happening in 2010 in Delta, 2011 in Yellowstone, 2013 in Mayflower and June of this year one in California.

All of them were due to ruptured pipelines; all of them affected thousands of humans, animals and plant life.

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Letters... Where your views make the news

Former President, Donald Ramotar says to stop...

From page 4 monopoly on the technology (they started in the 1960s).

Today, many other countries are in the business of producing ethanol.

Indeed, there are some Indian companies engaged in such processes in Brazil as well as India.

The US also, is a big producer as well as other sugar producing countries.

Therefore, where we procure such technology is not confined to one place.

That would depend on where we could get the best deal, which may not necessarily mean from the inventor of the product.

However, the main focus is that we should continue to push in that direction as fast as possible.

I did not say that explicitly in the Stabroek News interview, but I suggested to both the government and Guysuco to move as fast as possible in that direction. I was aware that in an earlier statement on behalf of the APNU, Mr Vieira had suggested the closing of estates

and using the land to grow tilapia. I want to urge him to abandon that notion, particularly now that he is a member of the Board. He also seems to have gone into a frenzy when I suggested that Guysuco and Guyoil could create a joint venture to blend the gasoline with ethanol to use in motor vehicles.

The point I made then was that both those entities are state-owned and therefore, they could come to an agreement quickly.

The negotiation process need not be prolonged. And yes, the ethanol has to be blended if it will be used in vehicles.

Like all those persons now trying to be critical of the PPP/ C when in office, the financial crisis at Guysuco is often referred to.

But from that quarter, nothing is being said about the reasons for that situation.

Let me briefly recap this scenario for Mr Vieira’s benefit.

Guysuco is experiencing this situation for two main reasons. One was the severe flooding in 2005 and 2006 and

the second was the change in the trading with the EU and ACP countries.

In 2005 and 2006, the fields on the estates were flooded for weeks due to heavy rainfall. In 2005, the Demerara Estates were the worst affected.

In 2006, the Berbice estates were the worst hit.

These natural disasters cost the industry a lot in terms of revenue and other costs.

The other issue was the fact that in 2010, the EU slashed the price paid to Guysuco by 36%.

Few other companies could have survived such a financial tragedy. In passing, let me point out that that the Board was anticipating this and this is one of the major reasons why it took the decision to build the new factory at Skeldon to produce at higher volumes in a bid to bring down unit cost.

The Board, even though it anticipated the cut, did not expect it to take effect so soon (in 2010).

Moreover, at that time, our country’s economy was doing very well. Rice, construction,

From page 5 to have this government censored. To avoid these unpleasantries and a tarnished reputation the government has to proceed judiciously.

This requires an understanding of roles. For while an attorney-at-law in a court has responsibility to defend/represent his client and presents arguments to the effect, in government the role becomes applying the

law, in its strictest sense, including respect for its spirit and intent.

Respect for fundamental rights and freedoms ought to guide and be the cornerstone in applying decision and recommendation, particularly by government and government institutions. The tenuous industrial relations climate reinforces the need for a Ministry of Labour, whose traditional task has been to

develop and implement policies that would impact on a number of cross cutting issues, including the accumulation of unresolved grievances. Further, the minister of labour is the nation’s chief conciliator in issues pertaining to industrial and labour relations.

Government is duty bound to do what is right for the society and its people.

Lincoln Lewis

Trade unionist says there...

Road Safety that kills

From page 5 ‘accident’ figures. Meanwhile, it took the killing of one noble lady in an auto-crash in Kitty for humped one-way streets to be established. A grand posthumous initiative!

Nor can the Traffic Chief’s imperviousness to the written pleas for establishing the same precautious humps at the main exit from Sophia,

be understood. He only needs to monitor the traffic at the peak morning school hour to appreciate the potential danger of what will be callously termed an ‘accident’.

What is perhaps most palpable is the scenario in which one group is talking at, and not with critical stakeholders – insurers, doctors, lawyers, and most importantly, not only the

families of the deceased; but also the forgotten maimed whose lives and livelihoods have been so substantially disfigured. They certainly do not sympathise with the view that such a dislocation was an ‘accident’. They, and we, have waited too long for a redeeming strategy to curb this preventable curse.

E.B. John

gold, among other resources, were booming.

That created a big competition for labour.

All of this tells us that the industry had to be restructured. The EU recognized that and agreed to assist the ACP countries to restructure their industries.

A lot has since been done in this area. Conversion of the field is in progress and much was achieved at Skeldon and Enmore, however, more investments are needed for the factories.

Another important aspect of transforming the industry was to move from just producing raw sugar to creating other revenue streams such as a refinery, electricity generation, ethanol production, distillery, etc. the plan was to convert the industry into a complex.

What is needed now is investments and government assistance to overcome the obstacles during this period.

The sugar industry can prosper and make an even greater contribution to the livelihood of its workers and the country as a whole. I t needs people at the helm who believe in sugar – therein lies the key to success.

Donald Ramotar Former President Republic of Guyana

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Teen motorcyclist dies after crashing into cow Despite the best effort of law enforcement officers, road accidents continue on a regular basis on the roadways, claiming the lives Guyanese.

The latest causality is

Romain Beharry, 18, of 679 Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme and an employee of the Nand Persaud Communication Centre (Blue Sky), an International call Centre situated at Tain,

Corentyne, Berbice.

According to information, the teen a former student of the New Amsterdam Multilateral School, was on his way home from work around 19:30 hrs on his motor

cycle CH2940. He was reportedly in the vicinity of Don Robin, East Coast Berbice when he allegedly collided with a cow.

He was picked up and rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Sources reported that

the East Coast (No.19) Berbice road is bereft of street lights. Residents usually loose their cows and other animals to roam wildly on the dark stretch of road.

Numerous accidents have occurred on that stretch of road which is considered the longest straight road in the

Caribbean.

The body is at the New Amsterdam Hospital Mortuary awaiting a post mortem examination. Beharry leaves to mourn his parents and siblings, many relatives and friends.

Investigations are ongoing.

Govt. drops ball on diabetic health

Today is World Diabetes Day under the theme, “Health Living and Diabetes.”

Recently, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic opposition hosted a press conference which focused on health issues facing Guyana.

At that forum, shadow Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, expressed grave disappointment as he put forward his view that the new government has dropped the ball on diabetic health care and prevention. In this regard he called on the government to do more in addressing the high prevalence of diabetics in Guyana. Diabetes is a chronic non-communicable disease.

Dr. Anthony recalled that during the budget deliberations the PPP was asked to approve $81.2M for a chronic Disease Risk Factor Surveillance. He pointed out that months later, the opposition and the rest of the nation are still awaiting the outcome of that survey. Dr.Anthony told the media that he wishes to know when the survey started? Whether or not it has been completed? Where are the findings?Andhowwerethefindings being used to craft next year’s program in Chronic Non

…More attention needed in face of high mortality rate- PPP Communicable Diseases?

He said that the survey is an important tool, the results of which can give a better understanding of Chronic Non Communicable diseases.

Dr. Anthony told the media that it seems to him that the Ministry of Public Health has abandoned “giving serious technical leadership in these matters and is more comfortable doing walks to raise awareness.”

He said that while awareness is vital, the technical work is equally or even more important.

Dr. Anthony added that there is much work to be done in Diabetes. The International Diabetic Federation estimates that there are 60,000 diabetics in Guyana. Approximately 62 per 1000 persons ages 20 to 79 are diabetic and approximately 15 per 1000 person ages 20 to 79 who are diabetic remain undiagnosed.

Dr. Anthony noted too, that Guyana has an estimated prevalence of 14.26 percent— one of the highest in the Caribbean with the annual mortality rate being 1,025

persons.

The PPP spokesperson on health said that in order to reduce the prevalence, Guyana has to aim to reduce the incidence of new cases. He said that one of the most effective ways is to get people to adopt a healthy lifestyle since that can prevent up to 70 percent of type2 diabetes. Dr. Anthony said that the consumption of fruits, vegetables and lean meats can help. He told the media that the Ministry of Public Health needs to move to promote healthy living. In doing, Dr.Anthony said that the Ministry has to provide nutritional counseling services at every hospital as well as therapy.

He said that some healthy living programs also need to be developed. Dr. Anthony also recommended an expansion of the Diabetic Foot Clinic and said that there needs to be an all-time availability of Glucometers for each diabetic patient with monthly supplies.

Even further, Dr. Anthony said that the Ministry has to make available ophthalmologists services for diabetic patients.

Aircraft seizure proposal an int'l measure...

From page 13 Aviation Organization (ICAO) regulations.

During the NATA press conference, which was held at the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) office on Waterloo Street, the members forming NATA were announced to be Air Services Limited, Roraima Airways, Hinterland Aviation, Oxford Aviation, Wings Aviation, Fenix Aviation, Domestic Airways, Hopkinson Mining Aviation and Jags Aviation.

The only abstaining op-

erator was Trans Guyana Airways.

The operating agreement, seen by Kaieteur News, had indicated that if fees, charges, costs or other liabilities for which a lien (possession of debtor's property) is exercised remain outstanding, the OAI may deliver by hand to the operator a notice demanding payment within 14 days, to the registered owner of the aircraft at his address.

“In the event that payment remains outstanding thereafter, OAI may, at its entire discretion, sell, dispose of,

remove or destroy such aircraft or equipment,” the document had also read.

It had added that a lien shall not be lost by reason of the aircraft departing from the Airport but shall continue to be exercisable at any time when the aircraft or any other aircraft or other equipment owned by the Operator has returned to the Airport after having left it for as long as any of the said fees, charges, costs or other liabilities, whether incurred before or after such departure, remain unpaid.

From page 21 further consultations on matters affecting the region’s health.

Mc Clean noted that COTED was considering a presentation on a proposed establishment of a Caribbean regulation framing system for medicines.

She said such a system would lead to improve access to medicines and facilitating manufacturers’ access to our markets and products surveillance in the region.

She said the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) was highly recommended by the council for human and social development to oversee this system.

Mc Clean also stated that COTED had commenced deliberations on the region’s future economic t r a d e strategy and agenda, taking into account the request from other countries in the wider Caribbean and the

hemisphere to conclude trade agreements with CARICOM. “In noting that the specific studi e s and assessments of potential benefits were expected to be completed by the second half of 2016, Member States agreed to continue their discussions in further meetings of the COTED in order to make appropriate recommendation to Heads of Governments in a timely manner on future engagements,” she said.

COTED targets more efficient...

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BLOODBATH IN PARIS -

At least 150 dead in series of terror attacks: Dozens massacred after hostages are taken at theatre.

AK 47-wielding gunman opens fire in restaurant.

Two suicide bombers strike near football stadium Gunfire at shopping centre

A series of coordinated terror attacks in the heart of Paris have left as many as 149 dead and paralysed the French capital with fear.

French police arrested one man who claimed to have been recruited by ISIS alongside three other extremists, it has been reported.

Around 120 were massacred at the Bataclan concert hall alone, where terrorists were holding people hostage, and another 11 at a restaurant shootout yesterday evening.

Police raided the theatre at around midnight, killed the three terrorists inside and freed the remaining hostages, numbering at least 100.

Just five miles away, two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the Stade de France sports stadium where the French football team was playing a friendly match against Germany.

President Francois Hollande declared a national state of emergency following what he called ‘unprecedented terror attacks’ and shut its borders with immediate effect.

Terrorists launched a total of six coordinated attacks at high profile sites including the Louvre art gallery, the Pompidou Centre and Les Halles shopping centre - all of which have been threatened by extremist groups in recent months.

A man who was inside the Bataclan concert hall when the gunmen burst in told a French radio station that the men shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they opened fire.

He added: ‘The men came in and started shooting. Everyone fell to the ground. It was hell. I took my mum, and we hid. Someone near us said they have gone, so we ran out.’

They also shouted, ‘this is for Syria’, another witness inside the theatre claimed.

Gilles Avel, who was at the Bataclan where the band Eagles of Death Metal were playing, said: ‘We are all terrified, and have been told to get away as soon as possible.’

A wounded hostage inside the theatre described how terrorists were killing people ‘one by one’. Benjamin Cazenoves wrote on social media: ‘I’m still at the

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U.S. “reasonably certain” British IS leader Jihadi John killed in Syria

Mohammed Emwazi, known as Jihadi John, was Islamic State’s “lead executioner” and a symbol of the militant group’s brutality

Victims lay on the pavement outside Paris restaurant following a terror attack in the French capital tonight Bataclan. 1st floor. Hurt Bad! There are survivors inside.

They are cutting down all the world. One by one.’

In another post, he added: ‘Alive. Just cuts... Carnage...

Dead bodies everywhere.’

The two explosions in a bar near the Stade de France stadium were detonated by suicide bombers.

A witness said the explosions were loud enough to be heard over the sound of cheering fans. Sirens were heard immediately and a helicopter was seen circling overhead.

Players briefly stopped in their tracks when they heard the twin blasts. Following news of the attack, thousands of fans - too scared to leave the stadium - poured onto the pitch. Machine gun fire and screams were heard from inside a restaurant on Rue Bichat at around 9pm An AK47 gunman attacked a Korean restaurant in the Bastille area of the city, while grenade blasts were also heard.

Police and other emergency services were immediately at the scene, which is close to where the Charlie Hebdo attack happened in January.

Images posted online showed the cracked windows of what appeared to be the restaurant under attack.

Dozens of people were standing outside their cars on the junction opposite and the

lights of police cars could be seen above them.

Eyewitness Ben Grant, who was in a nearby bar with his wife at the time, said he saw six or seven bodies on the ground.

He told the BBC: ‘I was told people in cars had opened fire on the bar. There are lots of dead people. It’s pretty horrific to be honest.

‘I was at the back of the bar. I couldn’t see anything. I heard gunshots. People dropped to the ground. We put a table over our heads to protect us. We were held up in the bar because there was a pile of bodies in front of us.’

Emilioi Macchio from Italy was at a bar close to where the restaurant shooting took place, and said it ‘sounded like fireworks’.

Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to be publicly named.

President Hollande said: ‘France needs to be strong.

Terrorists want us to be scared. In the face of terror we must be united.’

Paris’ deputy mayor said the attacks were a horrific reminder of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in January, adding: ‘It’s a heavy recollection of what happened in January (C. Hebdo). Now we are struck again. This is harder. I am shaken.’

U.S. President Barack Obama last night branded the carnage in Paris an ‘attack on

humanity’ and claimed it was an ‘outrageous attempt to terrorise innocent civilians’.

David Cameron said that he was ‘shocked by events in Paris’ and pledged to do ‘whatever we can to help’, adding: ‘Our thoughts and prayers are with the French people.’

The restaurant targeted yesterday, Le Carillon, is in the same general neighborhood as the Charlie Hebdo offices.

France has been on edge since ISIS extremists launched a bloody attack on the satirical newspaper and a kosher grocery that left 20 people including the three attackers - dead.

The attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo left 13 dead when two Paris born terrorists slaughtered its cartoonists and general staff members.

Four Jewish shoppers were also murdered in the same set of attacks inside a Kosher supermarket in nearby Vincennes.

The French capital has been on a high state of alert ever since, with security services warning that another attack was always likely.

ISIS’s online supporters have already started to celebrate the devastating attack in Paris, using the hashtag ‘Paris in fire’ on social media, but it has not been confirmed whether the terror group is behind the attacks.

(Reuters) - The U.S. military said yesterday it was “reasonably certain” a drone strike had killed Jihadi John, Islamic State’s “lead executioner” and a symbol of the militant group’s brutality.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said he could not yet confirm the death of Mohammed Emwazi, who had become known as Jihadi John after appearing in videos showing the killings of U.S. and British hostages.

But his foreign minister, Philip Hammond, said in Prague that Britain believed Thursday’s strike in the northern Syrian town of Raqqa had been successful and U.S. Army colonel Steve Warren said in Washington that intelligence indicators allowed for “great confidence” that the figure targeted was Emwazi.

“If this strike was successful — and we still await confirmation of that — it will be a strike at the heart of ISIL (Islamic State),” Cameron said in a statement broadcast live on British television from outside his London residence.

Describing Emwazi as a “barbaric murderer” and Islamic State’s “lead executioner”, he said: “It was the right thing to do.”

Experts said Emwazi’s death would have symbolic importance but questioned whether it would have much impact on Islamic State as he is not seen as a senior military figure. Emwazi took part in videos showing the murders of U.S. journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley, U.S. aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, British aid workers David Haine s a n d A l a n Henning, Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, and other hostages. Shown in the videos dressed entirely in black, a balaclava covering all but his eyes and the bridge of his nose, Jihadi John became a menacing symbol of Islamic

State brutality and one of the world’s most wanted men.

He used such videos to threaten the West, admonish its Arab allies and taunt U.S. President Barack Obama and Cameron before petrified hostages cowering in orange jump suits.

“A car carrying four foreign Islamic State leaders, including one British Jihadi was hit by U.S. air strikes right after the governorate building in Raqqa city,” Rami Abdulrahman, Director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, told Reuters.

He quoted sources in Raqqi as saying Emwazi’s body, and those of his three militant comrades, had been blown apart.

U.S. AND BRITAIN WORK “HAND IN GLOVE” The British government said it had “been working hand in glove with the Americans” to defeat Islamic State.

Cameron, who said earlier this year he would use all means at his disposal to hunt down militants such as Jihadi John, said his death would show “we have a long reach, we have unwavering determination and we never forget about our citizens.”

Obama had also promised justice after the deaths of American hostages, and the United States is seeking to increase pressure on Islamic State fighters, who have seized parts of Syria and Iraq and who Obama has vowed to defeat. The pressure includes U.S. plans to deploy dozens of special operations forces to Syria, deliver more weaponry to U.S.-backed Syrian fighters and to thicken U.S. air strikes against the militant group.

Born in Kuwait in 1988, Emwazi was brought to Britain by his family when he was six years old and graduated in computer programming in London.

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Petama Enterprise/ Motor Trend Softball cricket continues tomorrow Play in the Petama Enterprise/ Motor Trend Softball cricket tournament continues tomorrow with two matches at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground in Queenstown.

Starting at DCC Ground from 9:30am - Regal Masters face Park Rangers, while at 12:30pm -Fishermen Masters take on Parika Defenders.

Meanwhile, in results for matches played last weekend; Fishermen Masters def: Enterprise Legends by 10 wkts.

Enterprise Legends made 153-

8 in 20 overs. N. Roopdeo 24, S. Yadram 20; Jagdesh Persaud 4-24, David Harper 224. Fishermen Masters replied with 159-1 off 18 overs. Ramo Malone 63 N.O. and J. Persaud 55 N.O. Park Rangers def: Floodlights Masters in super over: Park Rangers 24 & Floodlights Masters 8.

Park Rangers and Floodlights Masters played to a tie.

Floodlights made 188 All Out. Imtiaz Mohamed 45, R. Singh 22, A. Beharry 21; Talesh Ramoutar 2-24, R. Narine 2-20.

Park Rangers replied with 188 All Out. Mohamed Rafeek 65, R. Narine 28; Richard Kellawan 5-28 and Wayne Jones 2-19.

Parika Dedenders def; Floodlights Legends. Parika 150-10 off 20 overs. D. Kannan 47, Kabesh Persaud 37; Hardat 3-15. Floodlights Legends 143 All Out. Mohamed 4-24.

Wellwoman def; 4R Lioness by 47 runs. Wellwoman 112-8 in10 overs. Reneka Issacs 28, Susan Davanand 25, Latoya Smith 22;

UPPER CORENTYNE/4R BEARINGS 20/20 FINAL...

(From page 31) Challitar (captain), Errington Lionel Seegobin, Quadeer Khan, Bisram Sukhram, Mahendra Bhola, Dwight Holder, F. Hussain, Mahesh Toolsie, Lakeram Tamasar, Naresh Deo, B. Singh, Devendra Chandradat& Humesh Harrylall. The Manager is Mr. Dennis De Andrade

No. 48 Challengers: Joshua Brijblas (captain), Balram Persaud, Balram Samaroo, Muneshwar Lallu, Alvin Diaram, NarineBoodnarine, Akesh Homraj,C. Persaud, H. Homraj, JaipaulSeenauthDavid Itwaru, J. Baijnauth, T. Persaud, P. Shaw, P. Budnarine & M. Ramnarine.

The manager is Chaitram

Persaud.

The UCCA would like to take this opportunity to thank Crabwood Creek born Ricky Deonarain of 4R Bearings of Georgetown for sponsoring this competition. The competition was the biggest ever played in the Upper Corentyne and was well organized by the Upper Corentyne Cricket Association.

Gangadai Singh 3-24. 4R Lioness 65-9 off 10 overs, Amanda Semple 3-12 and Joan Vansertima 2-2.

Regal Masters def: Savage Masters XI. Regal Masters 174-8 off 20 overs, Fazleem Mohamed 41, Rudolph Bakee 66, M. Chunilall 22; Rudolph

Perreira 2-14 and Eon lovel 319. Savage Masters 94 All Out. T. Ramsayawak 26, E. Lovel 13, Fazleem Mohamed 3-22 and A. Boodhoo 2-15.

Regal def: Farm. Regal 83 without loss in 8.1 overs.

Navin Singh 34 and K. Joseph 13. Farm 78-9 in 12.4 overs. P.

Khan 16, W. Yusuf 15; Rohit Dutchin 2-8, FazalRafeek 3-5 and R. Latiff 1-19.

Wolf Warriors def: Young Guns by 8 wkts. Young Guns 95 All Out. Narine Bailey 315. Wolf Warriors 96-2 off 7 overs; Amit Rai 43 N.O and A. Karim 34.

Future of football at stake as GFF stages Electoral Congress today at Marriott Hotel Guyana’s football has suffered a lot over the past three decades causing many to point to greedy officials spurred on by selfish aspirations as the root cause for its sordid state, so every time an Electoral Congress comes around to elect a Body to run the affairs of the Sport it is usually described as a landmark occasion.

If a stakeholder of the sport view today’s General Congress as another such instance it certainly would come as no surprise. Today, at 11:00 hrs at the Marriott Hotel, Team Integrity led by Fruta Conquerors President / Businessman Wayne Forde and Team Unity

with Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes as its Presidential candidate go head-to-head for the right to lead the GFF over the next four years.

The Congress to be supervised by the NC will also have in attendance officials of CFU and CONCACAF and voting will be done among the twenty-two affiliates which had increased following FIFA recommendations to amend and adopt a new constitution.

The new affiliates include the eight Elite teams as well as the Guyana Futsal Association and the Guyana Beach Football Association.

The Elite clubs are Alpha

United, Slingerz FC, Pele FC, Georgetown Football Club, Guyana Defence Force, Monedderlust FC, Buxton United and Fruta Conquerors.

Team Integrity also includes 1st Vice-President- Bruce Lovell (Retired Brigadier), 2nd VPresident- Rawlston Adams and 3rd V-President- Thandi McAllister, while Dion Inniss has been named as a committee member.

Team Unity comprises 2nd V-President- Mark Waldron, 3rd V-President- Aubrey Major, while Troy Cadogan, Javid Ali and Robbie Rambarran are among the committee members.

Lindener weighs in on football...

Saturday November 14, 2015 ARIES (Mar. 21–Apr. 19) Take the time today to consider your health, Aries.

Living a long, healthy life is something we all want. Start now to take care of your body.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) Your mother may be on your mind today, Libra. Your mother probably affects how you think, act, and feel, both in the past and now.

TAURUS (Apr. 20–May 20) Today you may emphasize organizing things and managing your life, Taurus.

Take a look at your time management.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) Take note of your health. You probably know that this is something you must take care of always, not just sometimes.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) One day, I want to be….

When you were little, how did you finish that sentence, Gemini? See what your memory and imagination come up with.

SAGIT(Nov.22–Dec.21) No dream is too big or too late to fulfill. You may be thinking about your special dreams today, perhaps you aspire to do something really great, be a pioneer in some field, or be a prominent figure.

CANCER (June 21–July 22) If you feel cautious today, Cancer, don't be alarmed. This can be a good thing, Cancer, as you can be too trusting at times or forget to take care when going into something new.

CAPRI(Dec.22–Jan.19) Chances are good that you will receive a helping hand or comfort from someone many years your senior who cares about you, Capricorn.

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22) Leo, personal dignity may be important to you today. This may come about when things go wrong or if you're accused of something you didn't do.

AQUARIUS(Jan.20–Feb.18) Today, Aquarius, you may think about competition and possible future goals. Take time to think such things through and, if need be, get back on the right track.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) It could indicate that it's important for you to maintain control over most things these are all things that conservative people tend to closely monitor.

PISCES (Feb. 19–Mar. 20) You may think about your finances today, Pisces. It's never too late to learn about saving and investing, especially if there's something you really want to do, like travel.

(From page 27) at a forum overseas on constitutional matters, he was also on the FIFA appointed Electoral Committee for the last elections a few years ago.

Just because you found no fault with Mr Waldron you just thought it prudent to mention his name.

Mr Fiazal Khan is of indo Guyanese descent as we all know. Mr Odinga Lumumba’s outburst was most unfortunate, but all the fences have been mended with the apologies and acceptances in place.

But wait, what is the purpose of releasing the tape, is this a personality thing or football

World rated boxer, Clive Atwell...

(From page 29) mood and the extra cash would come in nicely. He extended gratitude to Mr. and Ms Atwell while noting that they have not relinquished their roots. The Councilor warned those comprising the work force that the task requires commitment and hard work and urged them to rise to the challenge.

Popular villager, Joseph Williams delivered a vote of thanks and assured Atwell that his gift is well received.

He also urged his colleagues to remain committed to the task until the goal is achieved. Kurt Jordan offered up prayers while beseeching the Almighty to guide the process.

development we are trying to ascertain.

Finally, in her last paragraph Ms Anabelle continued on her personality rampage and character assassination instead of telling us what her Team Integrity has to offer to the nation and the developments it will pursue.

What I am seeing here is fear and confusion in their ranks. Mr Matthias did the

same with sweet words, plenty promises and so called proper plans and then what, football confusion. The rest is History. Mr Forde is the splitting image and replica of Mr Matthias. Beware voters, save Guyana Football.

Vote UNITY because there is no future with INTEGRITY. Monette McKennon Real Football Enthusiast Linden Community

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GTT Round Robin / KO Football Competition

Saturday November 14, 2015

ECDCA/Tropical Springs Water U19 tourney

Waterton’s shocking stealth Wins for Enterprise, Lusignan Enterprise and Lusignan Vivian Albert slammed 77 mustered 197-8 off their bomber seals Topp XX victory recorded victories when the and Afzal Rohoman 26; reduced quota of 35 overs.

-Winners Connection also in winners’ row

East Coast Demerara Cricket Association (ECDCA)/ Tropical Springs Purified Water U19 40-over tournament continued recently.

At Enterprise, the home team defeated Lusignan by 40 runs. Batting first, Enterprise posted 169-6 off their reduced 30 overs.

Satesh Jainarine claimed 2-16.

Fairfield were sent packing for 125 in 26.3 overs. Ramnarine Chatura struck 60 and Vish Ramlakhan 20. Rohoman snared 4-12, Bhaskar Deodat 2-19 and Pradesh Balkissoon 2-23.

At Lusignan, the host beat Better Hope by 23 runs.

Lusignan took first and

Timothy Mc Almont stroked 85, Gavin Boodwah 23 and Kedar Amsterdam 18; R. Mohamed snared 3-27 and J. Mana 2-40. Better Hope were bowled out for 174 in 26 overs.

Rajendra Dhanraj scored 64 and Prakash Debidyal 20; Tamesh Motiram captured 434, Boodwah 3-10 and Mc Almont 2-41.

St Rose’s overcome Bishops’ to claim schools volleyball title Topp XX marksmen (from left)- Shawn Daniels and Travis Watterton pose for a photo op following their win over Milerock on Thursday.

Topp XX Travis Waterton’s shocking release of a stealth bomber after just 15 seconds in their encounter against counterparts Milerock erased the previous record of 17 seconds as the fastest goal registered in the inaugural GTT Round Robin / Knockout Football Competition which continued on Thursday night at the MSC ground in Linden.

Playing in front of a large crowd in the feature clash of a double header, Waterton ran on to a loose ball shortly after the whistle sounded to start the match and delivered a thunderous strike from about 30 yards out that beat the Milerock backline and surprised the goalkeeper to give his team an early 1-0 advantage.

However, despite the early ascendancy, Topp XX who evidently dominated ball possession were guilty of squandering a few chances and went to the break clinging to a slim 1-0 lead.

After the resumption, Milerock, who remained the only team yet to register a point in the tournament, mounted a couple of threatening incursions into the Topp XX side of the field, but found the well co-ordinated defence too organized to penetrate.

Topp XX on the other hand, initiated severalcounter attacks and should have increased their lead with Watterton’s effort landing inches outside the left upright, while Shawn Daniels, who netted the other goal, hitting just over the crossbar much to the dismay of their supporters.

Milerock had a great opportunity to level the proceedings, but Topp XX goalkeeper tipped a corner over the bar.

Eventually Topp XX’s superior technical ability and hunger for more goals paid off when Daniels beat an opposing defender to a corner taken on the right side and hit a glancing header past the left hand of the goalkeeper in the 75th minute of play for a 2-0 lead.

Both teams had chances to score after, but visible tiredness and poor finishing put paid to those ambitions until the final whistle sounded.

In the opening encounter, Winners Connection battled to a 1-0 triumph over a determined Victoria Kings courtesy of a 41st minute strike off the boot of Keon Sears.

After a frenetic opening burst from the Kings who’re no strangers to success in the Mining Town, the game settled down with the battle

for mid-field dominance taking centre stage.

Sears’ goal came after he raced on to a ball from the right flank and struck a low fierce right-footer past the stranded keeper into the far corner in the 41st minute.

The half came with no team able to adjust the scoreline.

The second period was littered with mistakes as players gave up possession with ease, but the Kings were also guilty of poor finishing, while Winners Connection despite the partisan support were unable to create many opportunities and the game ended

with the latter barely hanging on to their 1-0 advantage, but more importantly

the three guaranteed points.

It now means that both Topp XX and Winners Connection head the respective groups with maximum points from two matches.

The competition resumes Tuesday with another double header, at the same venue.

Game-1 Winners Connection-1 vs Victoria Kings-0 Keon Sears-41st Game-2 Milerock vs Topp XX Travis Watterton-15 seconds Shawn Daniels-75th

St. Rose’s defeated Bishops’ two sets to one to win the final of the schools volleyball competition which was contested yesterday at the National Gymnasium.

Both teams display a high level of expertise, but St. Rose’s prevailed 21-11, 27-25, 15-13. St. Rose’s defeated Queen’s College in straight sets 15-8, 15-8 in their semi final encounter, while Bishops’ beat Marian Academy 15-9, 15-11 in their match up.

Mellisa Gonsalves of Marian Academy took the best setter award, Patrice Agrippa of St. Rose’s pocketed the best server prize, Keegan Howard of St. Rose’s the best play trophy and Leon Ross of St. Rose’s the most valuable player accolade.

Each school received two balls and a certificate of participation while the finalists took home trophies and medals.

St. John’s College was the

other team that took part in the tournament which was organised by St. Rose’s High School Physical Education and Sport CAPE Unit two class of 2016.

It was sponsored by Guyoil, Banks DIH, Republic Bank, Real Value Supermarket, Allied Arts Department of the Ministry of Education, Churches, H and H Hallim General, National Sports Commission and the Guyana Volleyball Federation.

WICB: Take a lesson from de Klerk’s...

(From page 30) honour its commitment.

One gets the impression that Cameron and some of the members of the Board will renege and fight to the bitter end to keep the Board intact in order to preserve their power and status. The words of Cameron in an internet post some time ago in response to widespread public criticism are not those of someone who is prepared to compromise or give up power easily. He said: “They’ve criticized you. They’ve doubted you.

They’ve lied on you.

They’ve done all they can do, but one thing they can’t do is stop you.”

The Board seems to thrive on crisis and destructive conflict. After all, most of its disasters are self-inflicted. It has been in perpetual warfare with its players, the West Indies Players Association (WIPA), the president of WIPA, and even its head coaches.

Let’s hope that the Board is not preparing for warfare with regional prime ministers who are the elected representatives of the Caribbean people. Such an approach could and probably would be disastrous.

In a recent article in Cricinfo Tony Cozier asked the question: “Will Cameron give up power for the sake of reform?” This is a serious question that Cameron should constantly ask him-

self, and think through very carefully.

During the apartheid transitional period, Prime Minister Sandiford and I went to South Africa as guests of President de Klerk, the leader of South Africa’s apartheid government. The day after Prime Minister Sandiford left South Africa, President de Klerk invited me to his office in Pretoria. We spoke for about thirty minutes after which he took me into the Cabinet room and said to me, “This is where apartheid was born and this is where it will die.” I told him that although a large proportion of the white population did not agree with what he was doing, his decision to give up his power for the peaceful reform and transformation of his country was a sign of great leadership. He admitted that the alternative, bloodshed and possible civil war were too painful and horrifying to contemplate.

Soon afterwards, Nelson Mandela took over the leadership of the country and a new South Africa was born. Without de Klerk’s co-operation this smooth transition would not have been possible.

Mandela’s job would have been much more difficult.

Later on, they were both awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their commonsense, wisdom,

co-operation, actions and common purpose.

The meaning of any situation depends on the way you look at it. When you change your perspective of a situation you automatically change its meaning and with that, your thoughts, decisions and actions.

Cameron and his directors should take a leaf out of President de Klerk’s playbook. They should as a matter of urgency change the way they look at the current crisis and its possible outcomes. It would then be easier for them to change their thinking and attitude and give up their power and position for peaceful reform and the common good of West Indies cricket.

This unselfish action would not win them a Nobel Peace Prize but history would view them kindly and portray them as the saviours and redeemers of West Indies cricket, not the destroyers.

Let’s hope that the WICB agrees to the holding of the urgent meeting that the prime ministers have requested. Let’s pray that commonsense and wisdom prevail. Let us also remind the WICB that the true measure of wisdom is the ability to see and understand things from many different perspectives as well as the capacity to respond sensibly and appropriately.

Saturday November 14, 2015

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GCB/BANK DIH/DIGICEL NSSCL…

Camille’s Institute and Covent Garden book place in final Camille’s Institute and Covent Garden Secondary registered victories to book their place in the final of the East Bank Demarara Zone of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) National Secondary School Cricket League (NSSCL) sponsored by Banks DIH Ltd’s Coco Cola, Rainforest Water and Digicel.

At Thirst Park, Camille’s Institute batted first and scored 197 all out in 24 overs.

Andsuegay Rodrigues top scored with a well played 69, Bhognarine Singh scored 39 and D. Fernandes 30. Bowling for Diamond Secondary, Jante Thomas returned impressive figures of 4-34.

Diamond Secondary in reply fell short by 30 runs as they were dismissed for 167 in 24.1 overs. M. Araun struck 65 and S. Hassan made 27; Bhognarine Singh and N. Evelyn took four wickets each.

In the second semi-final of the East Bank Zone, Covent Garden Secondary prevailed against Friendship Secondary by 53 runs. Batting first, Covent Garden Secondary amassed 202 all out in 27 overs. Sagar Hetheramani stroked 48; Anthony Antonio hit 37 and Scott Singh 22.

Bowling for Friendship Secondary Orlando Ghisiawan took four wickets, while Shem Zaman had two.

Bhojnarine Singh In reply, Friendship Secondary were limited to 149 all out. Orlando Ghisiawan’s got 29 and Shem Zaman’s hit 24; Scott Singh had four wickets, K. Kaisie three wickets and Antonio two.

Meanwhile, in the North Georgetown Zone, St Stanislaus College defeated Brickdam Secondary by 101 runs. Batting first, St Stanislaus College reached 156-7 in 27 overs. Kennard Moonsammy slammed 48 and Joshua Bankay 40. Kempton David grabbed 3-20.

Brickdam Secondary in

reply were blown away for 51 in 19.1 overs as Moonsammy, Joshua Bankay and Travis Thomas captured three wickets apiece.

At Everest, Bishop’s High School brushed aside The Business School by five wickets. After being inserted, The Business School were bowled out for 82 in 18 overs.

David Sears bagged 6-15 and Troy Persaud 2-13.

In reply, Bishop’s High School overcame a shaky start to complete a five wicket victory thanks to a level headed 34 not out from Sachin Ramroop. A Singh and D. Rhonohan had two wickets each.

The final game of the first round of matches in the North Georgetown zone was played between Christ Church Secondary and St Mary’s High School where Christ Church Secondary won by 58 runs.

Christ Church Secondary managed 174 all out in 25 overs. Alphius Bookie hit 54 and Aaron Beharry struck an even fifty.

Bowling for St Mary’s High School, Enos Brathwaite returned excellent figures of 6-34.

In reply, St Mary’s folded for 116 in just 19 overs.

Beharry returned with the ball to bag 4-15. Junior Phillips had 3-28 and Bookie 2-18.

National players for exhibition games at Annual Souvenir Ramndyal TT Tourney today Preparations have been completed and all systems are in place for a day of smashing Table Tennis action as the best beginners’, junior, school and C class players in Berbice take to the tables today at the New Amsterdam Technical Institute (NATI).

The occasion is the much anticipated competition sponsored by overseas based Guyanese, Berbician Souvenir Ramndyal; a 2009 Hall of Fame Realtor of Queens NY, will be played in the New Amsterdam Technical Institute, auditorium, beginning at 09:00 hrs. The tournament is expected to include all schools and school age children in the East Berbice area.

Added incentives for those in attendance will be the attendance of a number of national players from Georgetown who will be making the journey with President of The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) Godfrey Munroe to showcase their skill and help in the

officiating of the tournament.

Throughout the past week racquet wielders in the ancient county were busy fine tuning their techniques at all available venues for the big day.

Over 60 entries have been received. Incentives will be presented to the top four finishers in each division, while prizes will also be awarded to the most outstanding player, most promising, and most improved among others.

This is the fourth year that Mr. Ranmdyal is sponsoring the tournament which over the years has taken different formats. Apart from the individual school children category and C class players that will be feature this year, a number of categories will be contested including U10, U13, U15, U18 and U20. A special category will be played for C class players and is expected to see most of the best Berbice racquet wielders in action.

In an effort to whip up interest in the game, an inter school team competition has

been introduced for the Alton Holder Straker Memorial trophy. The team tournament is expected to feature teams of three and should include a teacher or female players. In addition special incentives will be given to schools that enter players in the team events.

Play is expected to be for both males and females in all the categories.

Special invitations have also been sent to the Guysuco Training Centre the University of Guyana and recruits from the Guyana Police Force.

The Sponsor along with members of his family and company are expected to be on hand to meet the players, declare the competition open and distribute the prizes at the end of the competition.

Apart from Ramndyal, others contributing towards the sponsorship of the tournament are overseas based former players Patrick Narine and Lanny Anthony. Floyd Conway is the coordinator.

(Samuel Whyte)

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Letter to the Sports Editor

Lindener weighs in on football election Dear Sports Editor, I saw an interesting letter supposedly sent by one Ms Kristine Anabelle, a passionate football enthusiast from the Mining Town of Linden on the Golden Jaguars Facebook Page. For an unknown in the football world this madam has lots of inside information, I guess she did a lot of research, probably on the internet, Google, Wikipedia, facebook, twitter and the whole works. Although the letter is riddled with grammatical and spelling deficiencies I was attracted by the headlines but somehow I was successful in comprehending the ramblings.

Ms Anabelle, however, is treading on dangerous grounds and is bordering on character assassination and with the law firm she alluded to that Mr Odinga is setting up, she could very well result in a law suit coming her way (If there is really a Ms Anabelle in existence). What I know is that I am a real person and I am well known in Linden as you will see my name hereunder.

She was high in praise for TEAM INTEGRITY which is headed by businessman Wayne Forde, highly respected with tremendous technical and managerial experience from his professional career. She went on to say that Mr Forde has the right temperament to create an inclusive atmosphere within the football fraternity. Mr Forde is the President of Fruta Conquerors and his club is fortunate to have its own ground yet the seating accommodation is deplorable, the pitch is definitely not the best playing field around the established grounds, the so called club house with the dressing rooms not acceptable. When Mr Lumumba was the Presidential Advisor a few years ago he was instrumental in all the teams acquiring $500,000.

A game in the Elite League had to be moved because the pitch was unacceptable. How can someone who claims to have all these qualities not ensure that his club not be top of the line, is this the man we are entrusting with the leadership of Guyana football, are we serious. During the tenure of Mr Forde at Fruta Conquerors, can he say if he won any major tournaments, what is his resume in the football world, can he get a job with it.

THE DREAM TEAM, yes somebody got to be dreaming. Retired Brigadier Bruce

Lovell was touted to be a member of Team Unity but some undermining led to him being urged to join Team Integrity. Mr Lovell was asked a few years back to get involved but he choose not to because of the stigma associated in football, has that since changed. Mr Rawlston Adams, as we know, his actions showed weakness, he ran when he was on Mr Matthias committee, will he do so again if his team wins. Well Ms Thandi McCallister you are new so just be careful.

Now Ms Anabelle you have tried to discredit Mr Hughes and his slate, you said that the team represents everything that is wrong with football. Well here are the real facts that you have failed to unearth in your research.

You castigated Mr Lumumba in no uncertain terms. Not knowing the facts on how Mr Hughes was approached, you attempted to get personal and concluded that Mr Lumumba maneuvered the Team and hired Mr Hughes to be the face on the campaign with the intention of him handing over the reign to Mr Lumumba. You have something coming to you very soon, so just be patient.

Let me edify you on some of the contributions that Mr Lumumba made to football. Ø In 2004 he took over the running of Alpha United FC eventually paying the players with his own resources, In excess of 100 players have since passed through the club and have been compensated appropriately exceeding millions of dollars. Ø When the GFA had no funds to run football he funded the GFA League and Futsal Tournaments amongst others. Ø He used to fund the running of the GFA Office and paid the staff and other amenities. Ø His club participated in the CFU Club Championships and had to travel overseas on numerous occasions which were costly, yet he somehow got the teams to participate. Ø He imported players from overseas to be a part of his team which lifted the standard of play in Guyana and caused other teams to lift their performance. Ø His initiative caused the birth of Slingerz Football Club which is funded by Mr Javed Ali. Ø His love for the game and the need for him to

see the game develop was the prime reason for his contribution with him getting no gains or returns. Ø He could be considered the pioneer of initiating a professional club in Guyana.

I challenge anybody from Team Integrity to say what they have done for football; match what Mr Lumumba has done for the youths from the “ghetto”, instead of mouthing up their mouth, put your money where your mouth is.

Is Mr Lumumba so bad that he should be struck out of the Administrating of football?

Mr Troy Codogan through his company has been sponsoring numerous football tournaments and with his involvement football will be the winner. For your information Mr Nigel Hughes has already addressed that issue with the use of Banks DIH Ltd as a contributor to football and there would not be any conflict of interest whilst he is leader of the GFF. So Ms Anabelle you are not prophetic to know what is in the mind of Mr Codogan or anybody on Team Unity so you must be more realistic in future. By the way Mr Codogan is not the owner of Ansa McAl. Not having your facts correct, Mr Aubrey Major is not a proposed committee member, he is a Vice President.

There you go again getting in to the minds of persons.

The contribution made by the Kashif & Shanghai Organisation is tremendous and insurmountable. Highlighting their achievements will be another presentation.

With regards to contracts to run off GFF tournaments, please be informed that tenders were submitted and they won because they have the expertise, organizational skills, experience and commitment to make things happen in the most professional manner. Do you know the other bidder for the Stag Elite League cannot account for in excess of 1 million dollars from the GFF after they organized and promoted a World Cup Qualifier between Suriname and Guyana at the National Stadium a few years ago?

Mr Mark Waldron is a respected Lawyer with administrative skills, what does him having no relationship with football do with him being an executive, he is a shrewd administrator. For your information and edification Mr Waldron represented Guyana (Continued on page 25)

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MOBILE WIZARD 10/10 SOFTBALL UPDATE

Saturday November 14, 2015

WICB PCL First-Class cricket

Top individual performances Singh hits unbeaten 111, Shiv makes 65 as highlight fourth week of competition Jaguars crawl to 218 against Hurricanes Wins for Speedboat, Wolf Warriors, Settle XI and Crossbreed XI

The fourth weekend in the Mobile Wizard 10/10 Softball Cricket tournament organized by the Guyana Softball League in collaboration with the West Demerara Softball League produced some fine individual performances that left spectators buzzing at the forthcoming clashes. The Man of the day from Settle XI, Nazim Azeem, led from the front as captain in his performance by firstly taking 5-5 then returning to open the batting and guiding his team to victory by scoring 40 not out.

Settle XI defeated Superstreet Reloaded by 9 wickets: Superstreet XI won the toss and batted and were routed for 87 in 9.5 overs with Ganesh Persaud scoring 18 (1x6; 1x4). Nazim Azeem produced the figures of his life with 5-5 in 2 overs. In reply Settle XI opening batsmen Ameer Nizamuddin dropped off the first ball in the innings made them pay by scoring a brisk 37 (5x6) and Azeem 40 not out (6x6) in a partnership of 84 which sealed the match for the team.

Speedboat SC humbled Power XI by a huge 131 runs: Speedboat SC won the toss and batted scoring a massive 173 -5 in 10 overs with Anand Bharat 62 ( 7x6;3x4) and Wazir Hussein 54 (8x6) in an opening partnership of 103 in 6 overs deflated the power XI team with sixes raining down on them to all parts of the field. Power XI having a huge target to chase and under pressure from the start of their innings couldn’t quite measure up and folded for 42 all out in 7.3 overs with most of their batsmen caught on the boundary going for big hits.

Wazir Hussein took 2 wickets for 5 runs off one over to put the final nail in their innings.

Omesh XI powered their way past Ocean View XI by 8 wkts: Ocean View XI lost the toss and were inserted by Omesh XI and made a challenging 110-7 in 10 overs.

Skipper Avinash

Nazim Azeem in action during his man of the day performance in the Mobile Wizard 10 ten.

Shradanandan made 29 (2x6; 1x4) and Amir Azim contributed 25(2x6; 2x4) down the order. Omesh XI were indebted to Avinash Persaud 4-19 from 2 overs in the bowling department. In reply Vickram Kissoon continued where he left off against Linden All Stars last week by clobbering 47 (5x6;1x4) off 18 balls before he was stumped after getting careless and Ricardo Adams 24 (3x6) putting on a brutal display in batsmanship in a partnership worth 96 made Ocean View XI bowling look innocuous.

Wolf Warriors won by walkover from Young Guns: Wolf Warriors won their match by a walkover after the team Young Guns failed to show with the required amount of players to take the field.

Crossbreed XI destroyed Bonasika Challengers by a massive 101 runs: Crossbreed XI batted first and made a huge 149-7 in 10 overs.

Narine Shaw batting at number 7 and with just three overs left and with the score on 91 left the Bonasika Team in shock by attacking every

GASA short course to start November 23 The Guyana Amateur swimming Association (GASA) will be hosting the National Short Course Swimming Championships at the National Aquatic Centre,

Liliendaal, Georgetown from the 23rd - 26th November.

Athletes will compete in Freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, Butterfly and individual medley.

bowler and scored 46 off 12 balls laced with 7 sixes and he was especially severe on Pooran Ramcharitar whom he took 26 runs off in the ninth over. Crossbreed XI took 45 off the last 2 overs. All the Bonasika Challengers players couldn’t come to terms with the onslaught and it reflected in their batting as they limped to 48-7 in their 10 overs.

ZONE B: A& Z Sports Club Ground: Bonasika XI defeated Shattaz XI by 8 wkts: Shattaz XI won the toss and batted scoring 78 all out in 9.4 overs with Pooran Singh scoring 28. The bowling of Bonasika XI Haniff Hussan took 3-12 from 2 overs. In reply Bonasika XI made 79-2 in 4.2 overs with Kester Norton racing to 31 not out with 4 sixes.

Meanwhile, in the one ball “Manto” for spectators, Assalam Zaman won the inaugural game with a display befitting a seasoned pro. The game which dictated that “you put your money where your mouth is” saw most of the top players entering and being disappointed.

He defeated Imtiaz Hack in the final and he received one thousand dollars in credit compliments of Miss Love Trading.

This prize is up for grabs every week. The game was deemed a success as some 28 persons entered.

Other prizes were also handed over to individuals in Man of the day Nazim Azeem receiving a bottle of champagne compliments of V&P supermarket of Leonora. Mobile Wizard TShirts were also handed out to spectators.

The tournament which is creating waves on the West Demerara is sponsored by Mobile Wiz a r d , Tr o p h y Stall, V&P Supermarket, Miss Love Trading, Imtiaz Hack and Imran Hack trading.

Additionally, teams on the East Bank of Demerara who wish to be part of the tournament can contact the East Bank representative Mr. Shafeek Mohamed on 6572300/265-4729 all other teams can contact the following persons: Halim Khan – 6128367; Miss Selena Azeez – 268-2458/646-0568; Ammiel Azeez – 629-0844; Leonard Harprashad – 6460568;Ravendra Ramgobin276-1381; Asif Azeez – 65722220; Mobile Wizard (Parika) – 260-4967.

By Sean Devers Vishaul Singh (111*) and Shiv Chanderpaul (65) rescued the Guyana Jaguars from a precarious 21-3 with a slow but important 171-run partnership as the hosts crawled to 218-5 from 95 overs against the Leewards Hurricanes by end of the opening day of their second round of the WICB PCL four-day First-Class cricket tournament at Providence yesterday.

After inserting the Jaguars on a slow track, 18-yearold West Indies U-19 pacer Alzarri Joseph blew away the first three batsmen in 39 minutes with just 21 runs on the board.

The lively Joseph ripped out Test batsmen Rajendra Chandrika (7) and Leon Johnson (0) off consecutive deliveries to slip catches to leave the score on 16-2 before the Antiguan pacer trapped Assad Fudadin (5) LBW as he played around the ball five runs later.

However, the left-handed pair of senior statesman in the side Chanderpaul and his Vice-Captain joined forces to take their team to Lunch on 72-3 with a sedate but valuable 51-run stand from one hour and 20 minutes between the diminutive Singh (45), who dominated the partnership with Chanderpaul (7).

After the interval the fans which included many school children who expecting t20 like entertainment would have been bored by the battle of attrition that unfolded but which would have delighted the cricket connoisseurs as the level-headed pair started ‘operation rebuild’ with resolute batting on the fast and lush green outfield.

If there was a criticism of partnership it would be that

the batsmen, Chanderpaul in particular, did not make more use of the bad balls and rotated the strike by picking up singles as they were kept in shackles for most of the day.

Singh, who made 48 in the first round, stroked the ball confidently but could not pierce the field, while, Chanderpaul, who has been playing at this level since 1992, struggled to get the ball off the square against bowlers, especially the burly off-spinner Rahkeem Cornwall who operated with immaculate precision.

The 100 was posted in 47 overs as Singh found the boundary a few times with crafty stroke-play as conditions became overcast and by Tea Singh had reached 135-3 after Singh had got to his sixth 50 from 107 minutes, 244 balls with nine fours.

Chanderpaul was on 40 and 63 runs were scored in the second session from 36 overs as the Hurr i c a n e bowlers continued to keep the batsmen on a tight leash.

Chanderpaul pulled offspinner Jacques Taylor for four before dancing into Taylor and stroking him gloriously past mid-on for another boundary two balls later as the 41-year-old with the most Regional First-Class hundreds after Stuart Williams accelerated.

After the break both batsmen came out with a more positive mind set and Chanderpaul swept the impressive Cornwall for four to move to 49 before again reaching the ropes two balls later to bring up his 132nd First-Class 50 from 160 balls.

With batting bonus points available for scores over 200 in the first 110 overs, the batsmen made a consorted effort to change gear and

Chanderpaul used his feet to Taylor and dispatched him to the cover boundary before the 26-year-old Singh reached his second century and first on home soil at this level from 270 minutes, 244 balls with nine fours.

Chanderpaul, at the top of his game would have sent shivers down the backs of the bowlers after being set on 65 and he would have been very likely to have progressed to his 72nd First-Class ton. But this was not the fluent Chanderpaul of five years ago and he soon drove Taylor the extra cover after batting 279 minutes, 210 balls and reaching the boundary six times to leave the Jaguars on 192-4.

In the context of what transpired in the first round when the Jaguars lost their last six wickets for 61 runs, the pair could have had that fact in the back of their minds and opted not to take any chances instead of trying to press for bonu s b a t t i n g points and the pedestrian paced 171 stand from 279 minutes was understandable.

Raymon Reifer (0) was bowled by a perfect arm-ball from Cornwell a run after Chanderpaul’s untimely demise, while Chris Barnwell played in his usual aggressive manner and got going with consecutive boundaries to be unbeaten on 19 by the close.

Singh was the other not batsman after facing 294 balls, batting for 330 minutes with 10 fours and if Barnwell can find the form which saw him getting a maiden century in the last round of the inaugural PCL against the Windwards in Dominica, the Jaguars could hope to get two points by reaching 250 in the next 15 overs.

Today is the second day and play will start at 09:30 hrs.

Bush Lot New Generation whip Monedderlust in U19 cricket On a perfect day for cricket, Bush Lot New Generation U19 team whipped their Monedderlust U19 counterparts in the game which was played on Tuesday at the Bush Lot Ground.

Bush Lot New Generation won the toss and took first strike and hammered an imposing 267 for 6 wickets from their allotted 25 overs.

Leading the way for the

host was Hanskumar Singh with a swashbuckling 139 which included 14 fours.

He was well supported by Yuvendra Budhu with 41 with 5 fours and Winston Joseph with 21 with 3 fours.

Bowling for Monedderlust, Richard Daniels picked up two wickets.

In their turn at the crease Monedderlust were unsettled

by some penetrative fast bowling from Winston Joseph and Imran Khan.

They were skittled out for a paltry 54 in 10 overs.

Doing the damage for Bush Lot New Generation U19 was national U15 off spinner Nivendra Prasad with 3 wickets, while Winston Joseph snared two.

There was one apiece for Imran Khan and Akeem Miller.

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Team Unity Launches Manifesto Trophy Stall Doubles

Tennis serves off today

Members of team Unity at the press conference.

Wi t h t h e G u y a n a Football Federation elections set to be held today, team Unity on Thursday night launched their manifesto at the Water Crest Hotel, Waterloo Street, Georgetown.

Speaking at the function, head of the team Attorneyat-law Nigel Hughes said that one of their plans is to engage the government so that football can become a regular element of the schools’ curriculum which will lay the foundation for the future.

He added that everyone must be involved for the benefit of the sport and his team is willing to work with all stakeholders to move the game to another level.

Hughes spoke about the importance of coaches and that the hinterland needs to be involved frequently. He

explained that more emphasis needs to be placed on female football and they have a 10-year plan which will ensure the growth of the sport in Guyana.

Among the objectives of team Unity are to empower associations so that they can become self sufficient and play a more effective role in the future, to make football a level playing field with access and participation by all stakeholders without discrimination, to ensure a high level of transparency and integrity, to use the power of football to improve lives and create a more stable society and to establish a foundation for Guyana to become a force in CONCACAF. Another member of team Unity Faizul Khan highlighted the importance of proper facilities and

coach education. He said that Guyana does not have a home for football and international games are being played on a cricket pitch which is not good for 2015.

Khan, who is the General Secretary of the Georgetown Football Club, pointed out that one of the major areas for concern is goalkeeping.

“We need more local coaches and to establish sister programmes with professional clubs overseas so local talent can gain exposure,” he stated.

Robbie Rambarran touched on sports medicine, w h i l e Tr o y C a d o g a n stressed on the importance of marketing.

Other members of team Unity are Aubrey Major, Karen Williams, Javed Ali, Odinga Lumumba and Mark Waldron.

World rated boxer, Clive Atwell, supports Agricola clean up exercise Rested and recovering after sustaining an injury during his recent bout against Dexter Gonsalves, world rated boxer, Clive Atwell, has extended his benevolence to residents of Agricola yesterday afternoon.

This is the community where he was birthed and spent the majority of his adolescence years honing his skills at the Donald Allison Ricola Boxing Gym (DABG), also situated in that village. Yesterday afternoon, Atwell and his wife, Altavi, journeyed to the above mentioned institution and joined (M&CC) Councilor, Ranwell Jordan and other villagers and presented a set of tools and other paraphernalia to facilitate a three weeks clean-up campaign of the alleyways in the village.

The items included rakes, spades, shovels, trash bags, cutlasses, and mackintoshes among other items and were received by Mr. Jordan who in turn

Guyana’s top doubles Tennis players are looking forward to this weekend’s serve off of the Annual Trophy Stall Doubles Tournament which is scheduled for 8:30am today at the National Racquet Centre.

G TA’s P R O J a m a l Goodluck received the symbolic trophy from Devi Sunich on behalf of Trophy Stall as she recounted the good relations that the Trophy Stall has enjoyed with the Tennis Association over the years and expressed the intention of the company to continue its support for tennis and sports development.

Mr. Goodluck noted that the tournament has become the feature doubles event on the GTA’s calendar with 34 registered participants in 2 0 1 4 . H o w e v e r, t h e association feels that participation will increase substantially as more tennis facilities and clubs evolved since clubs have more recreational players who predominantly play doubles.

This is evident in the fifth annual event which now features players who were once in the Novice Categories just over 3 years ago.

Once again spectators will be treated to keen competition in the Men’s Open Doubles Category as

PRO Jamal Goodluck (left) collects some of the trophies from Trophy Stall co-owner Devi Sunich. shared 3 times Men’s Doubles Champions Jason Andrews and Anthony Downes have split their partnership in this tournament.

This creates a more leveled playing field as Downes will partner with top veteran, Harry Panday and Andrews partners with top junior, Daniel Lopes.

They hope to pose a great threat to defending champions, Nicolas Fenty

and Leyland Leacock.

The tournament will be coordinated by coaches Leyland Leacock and Andre Erskine.

Most matches will be played at the National Racquet Centre, however, some matches will be played at Nash and Le Ressouvenir Tennis Clubs.

All players and officials are asked to assemble at the National Racquet Centre by 8:15am today.

ECDCA/Banks Premium Beer T20

Arjune, Chanderpaul guide Tiger’s XI to victory

Atavi Atwell is all smiles as she hands over the gift to Mr. Jordan in the presence of her husband, Clive. passed them over to the two coordinators of the project, Paulette Lo’Hing and Samantha Roberts.

More than two dozen members of the village graced the occasion and Atwell in brief remarks thanked them for attending.

He said that the gesture was birthed after he had held discussions with Mr. Jordan where he (Atwell) had indicated an interest in making a tangible contribution to the village. A devoted Christian, Atwell said that he had prayed that

God use the tools for his purpose. He implored his fellow villagers to inculcate clean habits in an effort to restore the village to its pristine state. “Let’s aspire to show off our village as a clean, green place worthy of kudos,” exhorted Atwell.

Meanwhile, Mr. Jordon said that the project is an extension of a similar exercise being conducted in other parts of the city by the M&CC. He noted that this is the time of the year when citizens are in a celebratory (Continued on page 25)

A four-wicket haul by Vishal Arjune coupled by a half century from Tagenarine Chanderpaul guided Tiger’s XI to sixwicket victory Perseverance when the East Coast Demerara Cricket A s s o c i a t i o n (ECDCA)/Banks Premium Beer T20 tournament continued on Sunday.

Perseverance took first strike and managed 117-9 in 20 overs at Lusignan. Ronale Bourne scored 33 while extras assisted with 25.

Arjune grabbed 4-29 and Tagenarine Chanderpaul 29. Tiger’s XI responded with 118-4. Chanderpaul struck 52 and Azeemual Haniff 17.

At Fairfield, the host overcame Strathavon by six wickets. Batting first, Strathavon were bowled out for 79 in 17.5 overs.

Chanderpaul Hemraj hit 32;

Alex Marshall snared 4-16 and Richard Chatura 2-14.

Fairfield replied with 83-4 in 1 8 . 2 o v e r s . Wa s s i m Mustapha made 45; Ken Alphonso had 2-15.

Lusignan A got the better of Enmore by nine wickets.

Enmore took first strike and scored 109-7. Ameer Khan led with 37 and Rudolph Singh 27. Rajindra Naikbarran and Steve Ramdass took two wickets each.

Lusignan A made 110-1

in 19.1 overs in reply. Brian Sattaur stroked 68 not out and Ramdass an unbeaten 38.

At Enterprise, Enterprise A beat Lusignan B by 91 runs. The home team took first knock and rattled up 148-5. Kamesh Yadram smashed 70 not out, Bhaskar Yadram 35 and Rohan Mangal 27. Lusignan B were skittled for 57 in 13.4 overs in reply. Kamesh Yadram and Vivian Albert had two scalps each.

Badri Prasad Memorial T20 starts tomorrow The annual Badri Prasad Memorial T20 competition is slated to commence tomorrow in Wakenaam.

In the opening fixture Sans Souci Jaguars will take on G Square Cavaliers at 09:00 hrs while Sans Souci will battle Noitgedacht at 13:00 hrs.

Both matches are slated for the Wakenaam Community Centre ground in Good Success.

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North West aiming for improved performance at National Schools’ Championships North West, District One is aiming to improve its overall performance at the National Schools’ Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships that will be held during November 23-27 at the National Aquatics Centre and National Stadium.

Sports Representative of District One, Laurence Emmanuel has a realistic goal for his squad: to finish higher than second to last.

“We are always second to last and we want to finish better this year,” Emmanuel said emphatically.

“We are bringing a full contingent; so we are confident, it is the first time that we have a full contingent along with a full teachers’ squad…we want to participate in every event in order to gain points so we expect to do better this year,” he continued.

The North West team will feature 102 athletes for the first time. In terms of their preparations, Emmanuel stressed that the squad is ready to compete.

“Preparations are going smooth, we are 100% prepared and everything is set… we are on track to achieve our goals,” he said.

Flashback! District One, North West (left) and District Two during the march-past in 2010 at the National Stadium.

Another first for the team is the fact that they were provided with some 60 pairs of track shoes that Emmanuel hopes motivates them to perform well. The team will be leaving North West on November 22 and is expected to arrive the same day.

The Swimming Championships will be held on Monday, November 23 at the National Aquatic Centre at Liliendaal.

In addition to the swimming competition, two field events, Long Jump and Shot Putt, along with the 10km road race, 40km and 25km cycle road races will

also take place on November 23.

The Games Village will be established on Woolford Avenue. Tutorial High, North Georgetown Primary and Secondary Schools and Richard Ishmael Secondary will house the 15 Districts from across Guyana that will c o m p e t e a t t h e Championships.

The Games Secretariat has been officially opened at GTU Headquarters, Woolford Avenue, with Districts submitting their entries. The Opening Ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday, November 24 at 10:30am.

Winston Murray memorial softball set for November 29

Saturday November 14, 2015

World Junior Badminton individual championships 2015 - Lima Peru

Guyanese players continue good showing After a great Team tournament where Guyana is now ranked 39th in the world, the players continued their good performance in the Individual World Junior Badminton Championships which started November 10th and continued on November 11th 2015 at the Centro De Alto Rendimiento “ La Videna” in Lima Peru.

The three players, Sun Burst Champion Narayan Ramdhani and Copa Airlines Champions Priyanna Ramdhani and Ronald Chang Yuen participated in the Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles where over 50 countries participated, totaled 128 top world ranked players.

T h e G u y a n e s e To p players Narayan Ramdhani and the youngest player in the tournament Priyanna Ramdhani got to the second round in Mixed Doubles after defeating the top pair of the host Country, Peru, Jose Guevara & Ines Castillo 2119, 21-17 in straight sets against a packed hall filled with fans that were backing the home players. They performed well against, not only the high level of the game, but also the home crowd, high altitude and first world juniors.

All three players will get higher world ranking points and this will be released at the end of the month.

Results of the other matches player were: Ladies Singles: Priyanna Ramdhani lost to

Narayan & Priyanna Ramdhani after they defeated PERU in Mixed Doubles.

Tiffany Ho of Austrilla: 218, 21-13 Men Singles: Ronald Chang Yuen lost to Martin Cerkovnik of Slovenia: 216, 21-9 Narayan Ramdhani lost to Umana Ruiz Mario of Guatamala: 21-12, 21-19 Mix Doubles Round Two: Narayan & Priyanna Ramdhani lost to Francisco Rafael Trevino Buenrostro & Anahi Paola De La Torre Martinez of Mexico: 21-14, 21-15 Men Doubles Round Two: Narayan Ramdhani &

Ronals Chang Yuen lost to No. 3 seeded players Kenya M i t s u h a s h i & Yu t a Watanabe of Japan: 21-9, 2111 Ladies Doubles Round Two: Priyanna Ramdhani & Monserrat Soto of Mexico lost to Erena CalderHawkins & Deborah Yin of New Zealand: 21-14, 21-16 The GBA would like to thank Continental Group of Companies, Copa Airlines, C & V Shipping, Bounty Farm and all our well wishers for making it possible for us to attend this Championship.

WICB: Take a lesson from de Klerk’s and Mandela’s playbook

Defending champions Regal will look to continue their winning ways.

The Georgetown Softball Cricket League Inc. (GSCL Inc) will be hosting the annual Winston Murray Memorial 10/10 knock out softball competition on November 29 at the Everest Cricket Club.

Eight teams are expected to battle for a top prize of a

trophy and $200,000; the runner up will take home a trophy and $100,000.

The GSCL Inc is asking the teams to provide their balls (small supreme), meals and water.

No entrance fee is required and the drawing will be done on November

24 at the GNIC SC at 17:00 hrs.

Defending champions and Guyana Softball Cup 5 open winner Regal, Speedboat, Leguan and Farm are the teams that have confirmed their participation so far; action gets underway at 09:00hrs.

By Dr. Rudi V. Webster At the April meeting in Grenada between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and Caricom’s Cricket Governance Subcommittee both parties willingly agreed to the establishment of an independent committee of eminent West Indians to examine the administrative and governance structure of the WICB. After long discussions and some touchy and contentious exchanges the WICB eventually agreed that it would accept and i m p l e m e n t t h e recommendations of that committee. WICB and

Dr Rudi Webster C a r i c o m ’s C r i c k e t Subcommittee jointly selected the independent committee.

After three months of

interviews, consultation and deliberation, the five-person Committee submitted its report in which it stated that the standards of corporate, collective accountability demand the immediate resignation of the entire management of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), the dissolution of the current Board structure, the appointment of an interim Board, and the adoption of a new governance framework.

This must have been quite a shock to the Board.

Looking at its recent record, one wonders if it will in fact (Continued on page 26)

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Seaboard Marine CMRC

GT&T Indoor Hockey Championships

Fight for pole on today at Time Trials

GCC, Old Fort serve-up exciting drawn encounter

Oliver Tjin Lip Shie with flag,

Kurt Thompson

Chet Singh with chequered flag

Shairaz Roshandin

Natasha Chang The fight for pole position in the respective categories is on today when the Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) final leg revvs up, at the South Dakota Circuit.

Defending Group 4 champion Guyana’s Kristian Jeffrey, who leads the Division, will be keen to grab the front spot on the grid, while opponents such as Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) Kristian Boodoosingh, who tracks Jeffrey in the points standing, will be aiming to prevent that happening.

Then there are Jamaica’s Peter ‘Zoom Zoom’ Rae, Barbados’ Mark ‘Rockstar’ Maloney and Guyana’s own

Stephen Vieira in Jamaica Kevin Jeffrey, Andrew King among others who will no doubt be harbouring similar ambitions.

The Group 4 seems set for a rivetting showdown even in the time trails, but so too are the other categories.

In the Group 3 division, Suriname’s Oliver Tjin Lip Shie, Paul Vieira, who represents T&T, Kurt and Mark Thompson out of Barbados, Guyana ’s o w n D a n n y Persaud, Afraz Allie, Ravi Singh, Rameeze Mohamed, lone female Jamaica’s Natasha ‘Chiney Dolly’ Chang are among the top contenders for pole. The Group 2 is another category that should bring much excitement with

Kristian and Kevin Jeffrey Guyana’s Shairaz Roshandin, Chet Singh, Ryan Rahaman, Kenrick Husbands and Mark Gill seen as the drivers who will be in the mix fighting it out for the No.1 spot on the grid.

The Superstock division should be dominated by Guyanese with ‘Valentino Rossi’ Vieira, Elliott Vieira, M a t t h e w Vi e i r a , J o e l Neblette set to fly the Golden Arrowhead with distinction, but Barbados’ Brook Miller and Shirley Scantlebury could spoil the party.

What is certain is that as early as today motor racing fans could have a great idea as o how exhilarating tomorrow’s Meet will be.

UPPER CORENTYNE/4R BEARINGS 20/20 FINAL SET FOR TOMORROW The Crabwood Creek Sports Complex will come alive tomorrow with the 4R Bearings 20/20 final organised by the Upper Corentyne Cricket Association. This will be the biggest final to be played at this venue for the last two decades.

This competition features 20 teams from Yakusari to Crabwood Creek and was played in four zones on a round robin basis home and away (IPL style).

The top two teams then advance from each zone to the knock out stages of the competition. The semifinals saw a huge crowd at the No. 69 Vikings ground and the final is expected to be even bigger.

The action will start with a rival encounter between Crabwood Creek Sports Club vs. No. 48 Challengers in a 15/15 at 9:30hrs then at

13:00hrs the two neighboring clubs No. 70 ‘A’ and No. 69 Vikings will battle for the 4R trophy and $100,000. The runner up will receive $25,000 and a trophy, man of the match in the final-trophy and cash incentive, MVP of the competition - trophy and cash incentive, trophy for all the batsmen who scored centuries and trophy for all bowlers who took 5 wicket hauls.

Admission is $200 and children under 12 years free.

There will be 50 gate prizes to be won as an added incentive for patrons. A popular sound system will be in the house with ball by ball commentary. There will also be a well stocked bar with lots to eat.

The full squads for all the teams are as follows: No. 70 ‘A’ Team: Omesh Khemraj

(captain), Naeem Yacoob, Rayan Yaccob, Tameshwar Ramoutar, Chris Bollers, O m e s h K u m a r , Thameshwar Kumar, Kumar Mathura, Devendra Jaggernauth m Alim Haniff (wicket keeper), Naresh Prashad, Akash Persaud & Kameshwar Ramjit.

The Manager is Niran Yacoob.

No. 69 Vikings Team: Sachin Ramrattan (captain), Viendra Gooniah, Wa d i k a r R a m r a t t a n , Totaram Persaud, Latchman Roopchan, Imran Khan (wicket keeper), Surendra Rajaram, Vishwanauth Lalbeharry, Deon Bramdit, Ya a d P r a h a l a d , TrishanNarinedat , Chandrakant Narsingh & Vivendra Gooniah.

The manager is B. Nandalall.

Crabwood Creek Sports Club: Darshan (Continued on page 25)

GCC and Old Fort squared off in the feature matchup of the men’s first division competition as the GT&T National Indoor Championships continued Thursday evening at the National Gymnasium at Mandela Avenue.

Both teams were undefeated and both seemed to be in top form based on their performances so far in the competition.

GCC would once again be leaning on their national midfield standout and leading goal scorer thus far in the competition, Orland Semple, while Old Fort’s Aderemi ‘Dove’ Simon, a sure candidate for tournament MVP at this stage has been wreaking havoc against all opposition.

The high level of energy brought to the match was evident as both teams scrambled around the floor searching for every opportunity to gain an advantage. After a scoreless nine minutes, it was an unlikely counterattack by left back Dwight Sullivan that separated the teams with a diving finish to resounding applause.

Old Fort would add a second through Jason Clarke who made a nifty deflection from a penetrating pass by Aderemi Simon in the 12th minute. Although Old Fort would take a 2-0 lead into half time, GCC seemed composed and created several attempts during the half only to be denied by the

fine goalkeeping of Andy Sampson.

Lady luck finally broke GCC’s way in the second half as veteran Dwayne Scott scored their opening goal eight minutes into the second half to decrease the Old Fort margin to 2-1. Less than a minute later, Kevin Spencer drew the match even at 2-2 by surprising goalkeeper Sampson with a quick rebound off his own shot from the right side. The match swung in GCC’s favour as Scott then fired in a bullet of a shot to give GCC its first lead of the match and eleven minutes remaining on the clock.

Tension built as the game saw several more chances miss the uprights by millimeters.

With four minutes remaining in the match Dwight Sullivan would be the hero for Old Fort as a GCC goalkeeper clearance fell perfectly onto his stick and he made no mistake with the opportunity.

After a keenly contested battle, both teams remained undefeated with the final score settling at 3-3.

The PEPSI Hikers being the third undefeated first division side at the beginning of the evening suffered a surprise defeat at the hands of the Pumas. With Pumas talisman Aroydy Branford scoring an early double and teammate Keon McKenzie adding one the Hikers would fail to meet the challenge.

Captain Robert France

managed to salvage a late goal for the Hikers but could not reverse the 3-1 outcome in favour of the Pumas.

The Jaguars rounded out the first division matches of the evening with a 3-2 defeat of newcomers Phoenix.

National under-21 striker Aliyah Gordon scored the lone goal in the evening’s ladies matchup to give her side its first victory at the expense of Old Fort.

T h e m e n ’s s e c o n d division competition saw pool leaders GCC and Old Fort face off with a different result from their first division counterparts.

G C C ’s Michael Craig and Trevon Smith were both on target to give their team a 2-0 victory.

Saints managed a 4-2 victory over Saint Stanislaus College, while Phoenix upstaged the Hikers by 3-1 to round out the evening’s second division matches.

Going into the fifth day of competition, the points standing are as follows: Men’s First division Old Fort – 10, GCC – 8, Pumas – 6, Pepsi Hikers – 4, Phoenix – 3, Jaguars – 3, Saints – 0 Men’s Second division Old Fort – 9, GCC – 9, Hikers – 6, Phoenix – 6, Saints -3, Saints Stanislaus College – 0 Ladies division GCC Tigers – 6, Panthers – 6, Hikers – 3, Under-21 – 3, Old Fort – 0 The four finals are set for tomorrow from 17:00hrs.

Old Fort executes a penalty corner against GCC.

Mix Up, TNT register quarterfinal victories Mix Up and TNT registered victories when the quarterfinals of the Faye Joseph dominoes competition were contested recently at Gaulding Place, South Ruimveldt.

Mix Up marked 69 games to beat C Point 65 and Impressers 49. Andre Foo

and Burtland Whyte scored 15 games each for the winners, while Paul Brushe and Colin Mc Ewan made 15 and 14 games respectively for C Point.

TNT notched up 71 games to win their match up against FIB 68 and Beacons 50.

Trevor Smith chalked 16 and Shawn Morgan 15 for TNT while Susan Collymore made 16 and Shellon Collymore 15 for FIB. Linden Bowman got 15 for Beacons.

The semi finals and final will be played tomorrow at the said venue.

t r o Sp WICB PCL First-Class cricket

Future of football at Singh hits unbeaten 111, Shiv makes 65 as stake as GFF stages Jaguars crawl to 218 against Hurricanes Electoral Congress today at Marriott Hotel

Nigel Hughes

Wayne Forde

Seaboard Marine CMRC Vishaul Singh tries to pull Orlando Peters during his responsible unbeaten 111 yesterday

St Rose’s overcome Bishops’ to claim schools volleyball title

Fight for pole on today at Time Trials GTT Round Robin / KO Football Competition

Waterton’s shocking stealth bomber seals Topp XX victory -Winners Connection also in winners’ row

GT&T Indoor Hockey Championships

The victorious St. Rose’s High School.

GCC, Old Fort serve-up exciting drawn encounter

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