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Friday October 30, 2015

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Vatican bracing for new revelations of mismanagement VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is bracing for more allegations of financial wrongdoing and mismanagement with the publication next week of two books that underscore the challenges Pope Francis is facing to reform the Holy See. Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi’s “Merchants in the Temple” follows his blockbuster 2012 book, “His Holiness,” based on confidential papal correspondence detailing corruption and political intrigue in the Vatican. The socalled Vatileaks scandal that ensued resulted in the conviction of Pope Benedict XVI’s butler for leaking the documents, and some say, to Benedict’s historic resignation.

Italian journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi is releasing “Avarice: Documents Revealing Wealth, Scandals and Secrets of Francis’ Church.”

Fittipaldi writes for L’Espresso newsweekly, which has published some of the most damaging leaks of Francis’ papacy, including most re-

cently the letter by 13 cardinals warning Francis about his family synod.

The publication of the books, both on Nov. 5, will no doubt set off a new flurry of speculation about the depth of opposition to Francis’ reform agenda, given both are purportedly based on leaked documents and internal information to which only Vatican officials would have had access.

Ye s t e r d a y, Italian newsweekly Panorama hinted at the dangers to come with a cover story “ S a b o t a g e i n Va t i c a n , ” noting the pending financial revelations and detailing the recent intrigues surrounding the just-ended synod on the family, which exposed internal battles over the direction Francis has set for the church.

Francis was elected on a mandate from his fellow cardinals to reform the Vatican’s outdated bureaucracy and clean up its scandal-marred bank. But Francis’ reform agenda has gone much farther — to the dismay of

some on the right — by refocusing the church as a “field hospital for wounded souls” rather than a doctrinaire club of the righteous.

Opposition came to the fore during the synod with conservatives and liberals squaring off on issues about marriage, sex and gays.

The Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, confirmed Wednesday that Francis would write a document of his own about the family following the bishops’ deliberations.

As Francis mulls how to press ahead, the new books threaten to uncover more trouble of the sort that undermined Benedict’s papacy.

In a press release yesterday, Nuzzi publisher Chiarelettere said the documents and recordings of internal discussions would reveal the real reasons why Benedict resigned, while also examining the funding required to get a saint named, of misdirected charitable donations and the “black hole” of the Vatican’s pension system.

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Tewarie withdrawn as T&T supports Sanders for Commonwealth SG Trinidad Guardian - The Office of the Prime Minister has announced that it is withdrawing T&T’s candidature for the Office of Secretary general of the Commonwealth, a position for which former Planning Minister Dr Bhoe Tewarie was recommended.

In a statement released yesterday morning, the Office of the Prime Minister said it will now be supporting the candidate from Antigua and Barbuda. It says this comes in light of three candidates coming out of different Caricom countries.

The following is the full statement from the Office of the Prime Minister: “Over recent months several reports have appeared in the media surrounding the fact that CARICOM Governments have not been able to reach consensus on a single candidate to stand for election to the Office of Secretary General of the Commonwealth. The election to that Office will take place, in caucus, when Commonwealth Heads of Government met in Valalia, Malta, over the period 27th – 29th November, 2015.

There exists a broadly held view that by virtue of rotation among the geographic regions comprising the Commonwealth, it is the Caribbean’s turn to assume the mantle of leadership of the Commonwealth Secretariat.

Considering that the African region has endorsed a single candidate, the Caribbean’s best chances of prevailing in this contest would be to coalesce around a single strong candidate.

Dr Bhoe Tewarie

Sir Ronald Sanders

Unfortunately, the situation in our region is quite different, with three Members of the Caribbean Community having mounted candidates, namely, Sir Ronald Sanders of Antigua and Barbuda, Baroness Particia Scotland of Ashtal, a Dominican - born sitting life Peer in the British House of Lords , on behalf of Dominica and Dr. Bhoendradatt Tewarie, the Minister of Planning and Sustainable Development in the former Government of Trinidad and Tobago.

As we enter the period of heightened focus on the detailed preparations for Trinidad and Tobago’s participation in the CHOGM, in which we intend to play an active role consistent with our long standing policy of engagement, I consider it appropriate to clarify the position of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago in this matter.

In that regard, I should like

to advise that through the appropriate diplomatic channels, the Secretary General of the Commonwealth has been today advised, by letter, that Trinidad and Tobago has exercised its discretion to formally withdraw its candidature for the Office of Secretary General.

After careful consideration of all pertinent aspects of the matter, it is the decision of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago to give its full support to the candidate of the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, who we believe is best placed to execute the responsibilities of the Office of Secretary General in a manner that would be a tribute to the Peoples of the Caribbean Community.

It is our hope that others in our region will in the limited time left, make common cause by unifying our region around Sir Ronald’s candidature.”

Caribbean Airlines (CAL) CEO quits Trinidad Guardian - Chief Executive Officer of Caribbean Airlines (CAL) Michael DiLollo has quit after just 17 months on the job. The 48year-old Canadian national, citing personal reasons, resigned with immediate effect.

His resignation has been accepted by the state-owned airline’s board of directors.

CAL staff were informed of the resignation via a memo from the airline’s chairman Phillip Marshall who also announced that chief financial officer Tyrone Tang will act as CEO until a permanent replacement is found. DiLollo was appointed CAL CEO in May 2014 following the sudden resignation of Robert Corbie in September 2013.

In an interview with T&T Guardian earlier this month,

DiLollo said CAL did not need a bailout just yet. He said the airline had benefited from extremely patient shareholders for years and he believed the airline was strategically positioned to break even in three years. In early February, then finance minister Larry Howai told Parliament that unaudited accounts for 2014 showed the airline made a loss of US$60 million, inclusive of its Air Jamaica operations, and the airline planned to break even by 2017.

Howai had also told the Parliament that a five-year strategic plan had been completed and was in the process of being approved for implementation. It outlined the transformation of the business model through reassessment of the product, includ-

ing fleet and network planning, revenue management, pricing and customer service.

Speaking to members of the media, in early October, DiLollo was confident, giving no hint of any issues affecting his term of employment, saying: “When I look at the investment that has been afforded to the airline and compare that with my experience in the private sector, it is absolutely astounding. ‘“All of the shareholders, whatever the political affiliation, have been extremely patient and extremely committed to this airline over the years.”

DiLollo, a pilot, said then he was ready to land the airline in a break-even financial position and that the airline was “well on our way, very well on our way to achieving that target.”

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Suriname takes lead in Islamic banking within CARICOM PA R A M A R I B O , Suriname — In an effort to expand its economic partners, Suriname has forged strong ties with the Islamic world by accelerating its engagement with the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) over the past five years.

Paramaribo has now positioned itself as the leader in Islamic banking in the region in and is looking to exploit this lucrative industry that has gone global.

Experts on Islamic banking, Mohammed Mannai, Dr Said Bouheraoua, Dr Ibrahim Al Saywed and Louai Khojali, sent by the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI) of the Islamic Development Bank Group, are this week in Suriname conducting classes on Islamic banking at the request of Paramaribo.

They will also visit neighbouring Guyana, whose ties with the OIC have always been shaky. Guyana rarely attended OIC meetings and knows little about the OIC and its organs. The previous government failed to capitalize on OIC funds. The four-member delegation will hold talk with the new government of Guyana on Islamic banking this week in Georgetown.

Jim Rassam a business-

man, who holds a majority share in the Trust Bank of Suriname, has been in the vanguard of initiating the Islamic financing (Sukuk) industry.

The Trust Bank has been certified as the first Islamic financial institution in Suriname and the Caribbean.

The staff of the bank is currently being trained to take up their positions soon.

Suriname’s deputy governor to the Islamic Bank, Dr Anwar Lall Mohamed, said the bank is “good for farmers and small entrepreneurs. It is industrial and production friendly.” He added that his government is happy of the growing collaboration with the bank that “leads to the economic development of Suriname.”

Acting head of the Central Bank of Suriname, Ingeborg Geduld-Nijman, said in a press release that “Islamic finance has the potential to be a greater financial integration. It can provide support to small and mediumsized enterprises, because it prohibits speculation and based on risk sharing.”

With the support of the government and the private sector, Suriname wants to position itself as the financial

centre for Islamic banking, and also as the financial hub for the region according to Wilfred Leeuwin of United Suriname.

Suriname has been tapping all the help it can get from the OIC and its organs, the Islamic Development Bank, the OIC Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC), and the Statistical Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic countries (SESRIC).

The Bouterse administration, which is back in power and had initiated this relationship some decades ago, has renewed and expanded ties with the Islamic Bank.

Suriname has secured many interest free loans from the bank in the past five years and is looking to double that amount soon.

Suriname has had some economic hiccups recently due to the decline in commodity prices, and OIC financial experts are assisting the country in dealing with these setbacks. OIC financial officials meet in Suriname next month, and they will hold several workshops to address economic problems facing the group of 57. (Caribbean News)

IDB to support Jamaica’s social protection strategy KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is providing $50 million in support of the government of Jamaica’s efforts to help alleviate poverty.

“Integrated Support to Jamaica’s Social Protection Strategy” the IDB investment loan will support consumption and protect and promote human capital development of poor families that are beneficiaries of the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH).

Implemented by the ministry of labour and social security (MLSS), PATH is one of the initiatives implemented by the government of Jamaica within its social safety net (SSN) aimed at alleviating poverty and promoting advancement of the poor.

The IDB’s “Integrated Support to Jamaica Social Protection Strategy” project will help finance cash transfers to eligible beneficiaries of PATH including children and pregnant women; finance the modernization of social services such as the capacity of

Therese Turner-Jones the MLSS to oversee a network of social services; and support implementation, monitoring and evaluation activities.

Therese Turner-Jones, IDB country representative for Jamaica said that “the integrated support to Jamaica’s social protection strategy

project is a continuation of support by the IDB to the reform of Jamaica’s SSN.” She noted that, since 2000, in partnership with the World Bank “the IDB invested in SSN to achieve greater equity, efficiency and effectiveness.” (Caribbean News)

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Abuse survivor decries actions of Landlord

Mother of two Neisha Crawford cries as she shows her rent receipts proving that she is not in rent arrears.

A mother of two has accused her landlord of trying to evict her by removing her door and sending gunmen to terrorize her, even though she has paid three months’ rent.

On Wednesday, the landlord reportedly sent men, armed with a gun and crowbar, to terrorize Neisha

Crawford, 42, and remove the door of her lot 554 East Ruimveldt ‘Front Circle’ house.

Police have confirmed that they have received the report, and have made repeated efforts to locate the landlord.

Fresh out of divorce

court, the woman has been living at the address for almost three months. She expressed fear for her safety and that of her children aged 11 and 13.

“I rented this house and paid three months rent totaling $90,000. He told me he was going to give me lights but two days after I moved in GPL took away the meter.”

That however was a red flag that she ignored as she desperately needed a place for herself and children.

“I came out of an abusive relationship where my ex husband used to hurt me in many ways and even broke my hand among other things which I’m trying to forget so I even sold my television to pay the rent.”

The woman who grew up in Suriname said all seemed well as she started working as a washer woman around the village.

However, things took a turn for the worse. She alleged that on Tuesday at about 15:00hrs as she was home resting she heard a knock on her door. When she answered, it was her landlord, she said.

“I was in my towel so I opened the door slightly and he barged in, saying that the house has been sold and that he has brought the new

owners to see the place.”

She alleged that the landlord “pushed his way into the house, and showed me his .38 weapon and scared my two children, then two men and three women walked around the house then they left.”

That incident was reported to the Ruimveldt Police station.

“I don’t owe he any money, yet he sent three men Wednesday night while I was coming out the bathroom naked and the men opened the door with a crowbar.”

She said one of the men brandished a gun while some others stood on the road with a truck.

The men allegedly told her that the landlord had sent them.

“They told me to put on my clothes and then they took off the door and carried it away.”

The matter was reported to ranks at the East Ruimveldt Police Outpost and the woman was escorted to the landlord’s home on Vlissengen road but he was not at home.

Relaying her story she tearfully said “the police called him on his phone and he said he was coming but never came.”

Since then she has not

slept and has been unable to work, as the door was still off of the house.

“I can’t leave to do my washing work because the house has no door and my few things could get thief and this is really frustrating for me and my children.”

Because of her fears, police officers have been patrolling the area while one stood guard of the house on Wednesday night.

She said she is willing to move but has no place to go and while it is almost due she does not owe any rent. “I applied to housing for a house lot in 2011 and nothing till now. Its advantage and very

frustrating as a single parent mother who divorced to escape an abusive relationship.”

She said she is originally from Kuru Kururu, on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway but was fleeced of her home.

The woman says she can speak English but can only read Dutch as she has spent all her life in Suriname.

This publication visited the home of the landlord for his comment but was told by some workmen who were in the yard that he was not at home.

Repeated efforts to reach him by phone were also unsuccessful.

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== THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN ==

The US Embassy needs to ask the police a question In Guyana, violence against women is a “federal” offence, meaning it is not confined to geographical location of a police station.

The world has frowned upon men bullying women. The courts worldwide have a policy of tough sentencing.

When Zenita Nicholson went to a police station to report domestic abuse, she was told that she had to document the incident to the station within the jurisdiction where she resides. There aren’t words in any vocabulary to describe this moral outrage.

That station official took bureaucracy to insane levels.

His/her immediate reaction

should have been to make contact with the police personnel in Nicholson’s jurisdiction and transport her there. If there was no vehicle available (as is the case with many stations), then Nicholson’s report should have recorded and the alleged abuser summoned for an explanation. It is possible that Nicholson was perceived as a Lesbian or bi-sexual by the presiding officer so she was flippantly dismissed?

There are large elements of homophobia in the Guyana Police Force and it has allowed killers of homosexuals to remain free.

There is a homophobic killer out there. Barrington

Braithwaite and I have put together a plausible sketch of him after painstaking journalistic investigation. At the wake of Troy Kellman (of People’s Parliament) on Wednesday night, Barry presented to the table he was at, his sketch.

The police hierarchy reads my columns. I will wait to see if they will make contact with me or Barry. Both of us are easy to contact.

My opinion is that the police show little, if any interest in investigating homicides committed against male homosexuals. It is the homophobic instinct that may be the reason. A group of us from the People’s Parliament

went to Leopold Street to speak to the relatives of one such victim whose body was badly lacerated.

We knew the victim who would stop and chat with us while passing to go on the “lady of the night” business.

The victim’s aunt found his cell phone when they discovered the corpse at St. Philip’s Green on Smith and D’Uurban Streets.

She showed us the phone.

As she stretched out her right palm with the phone on it, I was speechless. Such a fundamental approach in detective investigation was overlooked. The police were not interested in serious detective work. How else do you explain that the phone was not labeled as evidence?

Any schoolboy would know at a murder scene, the mobile phone of the victim has to be bagged for testing.

There have been three other similar styled killings of homosexuals and to date no one was ever interviewed as a suspect. One was the foster brother of KN’s editor in chief, Adam Harris.

He was killed on the Kingston seawall at the back of what is now the Marriott Hotel, the very night that

police were guarding the EGovernance cable that ran under the Atlantic at the back of the Pegasus. I interviewed the two policemen who were stationed at the cable site that night. They said they didn’t hear screams. Harris’s brother was murdered in the still of the night, that is, the early hours of the morning. Yet they told me they didn’t hear screams.

Here now is the shocking dimension. Three days after I went back to the security hut to see those two policemen.

Three days after Harris’s brother was murdered, the detectives didn’t interview the two ranks who were stationed yards away from where a brutal murder was committed. The police simply weren’t interested.

Then, there was the actor in Maria Benschop’s theatre company. He was murdered in identical fashion to our friend from People’s Parliament and Harris’s brother in the uncivilized hours of the morning on the Liliendaal seawall. My opinion is that he couldn’t be there at that hour with a complete stranger.

He knew the person he was with. He was bi-sexual.

His girl friend, a pumpkin

vendor, told me that the police had no serious discussion with her about the company he kept. The police knew he was bi-sexual and weren’t interested in solving the crime I am surprised that the US Embassy that has been consistently assertive in the condemnation of discrimination against Guyanese citizens that are from the LGBT sphere, has not zeroed in on this egregious neglect of the Guyana Police Force.

There is a strongly built man with military skills that is killing homosexuals he befriends. LGBT people are humans. They have a right to life. Maybe Zenita Nicholson could have been saved if she wasn’t turned away by the police.

Guyana’s DNA shortcomings will certainly be amplified with the discovery of yet another human skeleton, this time at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara.

The remains, believed to be that of a male, were found in an unused plot of land near a canefield at Better Hope at around 06.30 hrs yesterday.

The area is close to Plaisance Squatting Area.

From all appearances, the remains were at the spot for sometime but were left undetected because no one

had used that area.

However, it was yesterday while cane cutters were preparing to work in the area for the first time that they noticed the skull.

They then found human bones nearby.

A green hat, a pair of black pants with red stripes and a shirt was discovered nearby.

Judging from the clothes, one cane cutter suggested that the victim was a young person.

One of the workers, who saw the remains said that it was two cane cutters who first

saw the skull.

“They noticed it and raised an alarm and other workers went. We saw the human skull and around the area, there were bones.”

He added that the police were summoned and they took away the remains.

According to the worker, a few years ago, workers came across a decomposed body at a canefield in Ogle.

“People would usually dump bodies in these areas because it’s not populated,” the worker opined.

Frederick Kissoon

Human skull, bones found in canefield at Better Hope

Dem boys seh...

Doan mek life hard fuh yuself De colonial masters put measures in place to mek dem wuk easy. Dem build jail fuh hold prisoners because dem couldn’t spend dem time sitting down and watching de criminal all de time. Wid a jail he can go home and sleep.

De same colonial people mek car and bicycle and motorbike because dem know that dem didn’t have to walk all that distance.

And besides, dem could cover distance in labba time. That is how people living to this day. But Scotty ain’t learn because he behaving like he and Jagdeo been to de same school.

When Jagdeo was President he was everything. He had a Finance Minister but he been to all de Finance Conference. He use to run all dem Ministry. That is wha dem people does call micro-managing.

Scotty deh in de same position. He hear

some people digging up de side of de road and carrying away de material. Dem boys seh that de people operate like if de roadside was dem mother own because dem bring truck.

And was no ordinary truck.

Instead of Scotty carry de police or call some staff, he go heself and arrest de people.

De people freeze in shock when dem see Scotty. If that didn’t happen somebody woulda give Scotty a good cut-tail.

But he who do stupid thing does live to do more stupid thing. That is why Jagdeo still doing more stupid thing like telling people to tek dem money out of de bank and keep it under dem pillow. Dem boys want to know if in this day and age people so stupid, knowing that bandits coming in you house to thief when you ain’t even got nutten.

Talk half and watch how people does mek life hard fuh demself.

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Readying for oil: Key seminar set for this weekend Additionally, this forum is expected to build on the foundations of an effective governance framework for the oil and gas sector, which will be drawn from the Draft National Upstream Oil and Gas Policy; being created with support from the Commonwealth Secretariat.

The seminar is expected to benefit both policy makers and stakeholders involved in

Guyana is to host a key oil and gas seminar this weekend to talk about its progress to ready for production.

In light of ExxonMobil’s significant oil find in Guyana, the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), will host a workshop on Building Capacity for Managing the Hydrocarbon Sector for Development in Guyana.

The workshop will commence on October 30 at

the Arthur Chung Convention Centre.

According to the Ministry of the Presidency, focus will be placed on key elements for the design and implementation of the legal and regulatory frameworks to effectively govern the petroleum sector.

“It will address participatory and consultative decision making processes,

revenue management as well as the human, social, physical and financial capital development needed to support economic diversification,” the ministry said yesterday.

The sessions, while drawing from international experience in this sector, will also focus on the lessons learnt that will be most relevant to Guyana.

Two testify at PI into sex worker’s murder

Murdered: Nephi Noel The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of transgender sex worker, Nephi Noel commenced yesterday before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Ron ‘Andel’ Forde, 43, of Lot 31 Rahaman’s Park, East Bank Demerara is currently facing a summary trial for the murder of Noel, which

occurred on July 27, at Quamina and Carmichael Street, Georgetown.

Forde is being represented by Attorney, Peter Hugh.

When the case was called yesterday, Police Prosecutor, Sergeant Neville Jeffers called his first witness, Joy Noel to the stands. She is the mother of the deceased and resides at Lot ZZ Durban Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown.

Joy became emotional while testifying and was given a few minutes to recuperate.

After the mother had testified, attorney for the accused declined to crossexamine her. The next witness was a colleague of Nephi, Joseph Fraser, called ‘Peaches Carolina’ of Lot 62 Norton Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown. Fraser is also a sex worker, who plies his trade in the vicinity of Quamina and

Carmichael Street.

When Fraser concluded his evidence, he was grilled

by Forde’s Attorney.

Thereafter, the matter was adjourned until Monday, when Fraser is expected to be further cross-examined.

Four other witnesses are slated to testify when the matter continues on that day.

Days after Nephi was gunned down the police had issued a wanted bulletin for Forde and Kanand Ojha in connection with the killing.

However, Ojha of Lot 2 First Street, Meadow Bank, EBD, is still on the run.

According to reports, Nephi, 20, of ZZ Durban Street, Wortmanville, was shot once to his chest during a confrontation with two men, believed to be Forde and Ojha.

The incident occurred in the vicinity of St George’s Cathedral.

the natural resources sector in Guyana, enhancing their knowledge to provide them with the capacity to make informed decisions and implement reforms.

Earlier this year, USowned ExxonMobil announced that it has found significant evidence of oil in its concessions offshore Guyana.

It would have been the

first good news for Guyana after two recent attempts, involving CGX Energy and Repsol, failed.

Guyana has been importing fossil fuel to meet its energy needs despite a strong suspicion that oil lies within its lands and maritime boundaries.

ExxonMobil is reportedly preparing for a 2017 date for commercial activities.

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Guyanese are using “pirated” computer software The Guyana National Computer Incident Response Team (GNCIP) is advising that many Guyanese computer home users are using Microsoft Windows in an unlicensed manner.

The GNCIP, which falls under the purview of the Ministry of Public Security, is affiliated to the Computer Incidents Response TeamGuyana (CIRT-GY), which oversees the local cyber landscape, and lends technical assistance, sends advisories and alerts regarding cyber attacks and provides literature and tips on cyber security.

In a statement issued through the ministry, the GNCIP said that Guyanese computer home owners risk not being able to benefit from Microsoft security updates.

According to the GNCIP, most Guyanese computers are fitted with pirated or cracked software, which is a process of reverse engineering done by local computer experts to make up for the absence of license keys provided officially by Microsoft.

The local cyber watchdog body explained that the Software can be classified as either proprietary or open source. Proprietary software is protected under copyright law. Typically, to use proprietary software such as Microsoft Windows, license keys need to be acquired from the vendor to properly activate the software.

The GNCIP said that these license keys are acquired by purchasing a license to use the software.

According to the GNCIP, some individuals can determine this license key by a process called reverse engineering and offer a version of the software free for download online.

This is referred to as ‘cracking’ or ‘pirating’ of software. It is illegal in many countries to use and distribute pirated software.

Distributors of ‘pirated’ or ‘cracked’ software, modify the original software produced by

vendors like Microsoft.

The GNCIP warned that in modifying the software, they can introduce malware and backdoors which expose corporate and personal data.

“Typically, the average Guyanese personal computer user purchases a desktop, laptop or tablet and the cost for the operating system and software installed on the device is usually included in the total cost for the system. Problems typically arise when the computer develops a hardware or software problem or if the hard disk fails. Under these circumstances, an operating system reload becomes necessary and some computer technicians will download a ‘cracked’ version of Microsoft Windows and other Productivity and Utility Software to get the system back up and running,” the GNCIP explained.

The problem with using cracked operating systems/ software is first and foremost an ethical issue, because it is theft and violation of intellectual property and copyrighted material.

Secondly, the operating system/software that is being downloaded is not authentic and often does contain malware which infects a user’s system and can open a host of backdoors for stealing of information.

Microsoft is currently offering a free Windows 10 Upgrade and eligible users should consider upgrading their systems.

Some home users and some small businesses are still using Microsoft XP and since

this is a discontinued (no support, no new updates or patches) version of Microsoft Windows, XP users are at risk of being upgraded to a cracked new version of Microsoft Windows together with a cracked version of Microsoft Office if special attention is not paid to copyright issues during the reloading and upgrading of their computer system.

According to GNCIP, the issue of cracked, pirated and unlicensed software being used in Government Ministries and Agencies was highlighted at the public hearings of the Public Service Commission of Inquiry.

Guyana National CIRT wishes to advise the general public that there are free alternatives to using cracked Operating System / software.

“We are of the view that if citizens become aware that there are other software on the internet which are free of cost and can provide similar functionality and are more secure, that they would choose these options over stealing software and using insecure Operating System / software.

Two months ago, CIRTGY in collaboration with the Ministry of Home Affairs hosted a workshop, which was aimed at building capacity to detect, prevent and fight cyber crime.

That workshop was sponsored by the Organization of American States (OAS).

A man who was wanted for a murder at Gaetroy Village, Berbice, has turned himself in to the police.

Kumar Bowham called “Roy,” 23, of Lot 94 Theatre Alley, New Amsterdam, Berbice is accused of murder committed on Curtis Harris, which occurred on October 10, 2015, at Gaetroy Village, Berbice River.

Bowham, who was in hiding, turned himself in to the police at around 09:30 hrs on Tuesday in company with

attorney at law Mursalene Bacchus at the Central Police Station.

The police subsequently took the suspect to the scene of the crime. It was reported that Harris, who was said to be an alcoholic, was killed following a cutlass fight at his home.

The 58-year-old cattle farmer was pronounced dead on arrival at the New Amsterdam Hospital.

It was alleged that on the day in question, Harris reportedly went home and

there was an altercation between the two men.

Harris had reportedly employed Bowman to renovate his home and a fight subsequently ensued, during which Harris was chopped on the right arm. He collapsed and was being transported by his son via boat to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where he died before receiving medical attention.

Police later visited the scene and recovered the cutlass.

Man wanted for Berbice River cutlass killing surrenders

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Potential for occupational therapy untapped in Guyana

By Desilon Daniels Each year, Guyana joins the rest of the world in celebrating World Occupational Therapy Da. However, an American specialist in the field believes that the potential in the area remains untapped in Guyana.

The American specialist, Janet Finesilver, is a volunteer with the United States Peace Corps and has been in Guyana since early September. Finesilver has more than two decades of experience in occupational therapy (OT). She has also been responsible for providing training at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) to students of the University of Guyana Medical Rehabilitation programme.

In an interview with Kaieteur News, Finesilver explained that OT is one of the allied professions in the US. It entails experts working with people who, because of illness and injury or some kind of disability, are unable to carry out the occupations of daily life that they enjoy and need to perform.

“The term occupation in occupational therapy does not refer to the work that you do. It refers to being occupied purposefully,” Finesilver elaborated.

“There’s a very large body of research that proves that we need this as human beings for our well-being, so when illness and disability interfere with those activities that you need to perform to maintain yourself and your family or the things that you enjoy doing, you’re not in a state of well-being.”

- OT Specialist

United Nations Peace Corps volunteer, Janet Finesilver She said that occupational therapists therefore work with the client, find out what are their needs and interests, and work towards their goals.

“They are our partners; we do not impose a treatment on them. We find out what they want and work with them to bring them to the highest level of function that they can achieve, given their circumstances.”

She explained that OT often sees the use of adaptive equipment such as reaching devices or sticks with hooks for persons who have problems with everyday activities such as dressing.

“We all feel best when we can do things for ourselves and injury and illness can take that away from us. So, we look to help people to do as much for themselves as possible.”

However, while OT is a thriving field in other nations, it is still fledging in Guyana.

According to Finesilver, there is not enough widely circulated information on OT in Guyana, thus leading to

misconceptions on just what it is.

She explained that, besides the misconception that OT is related to work, other misconceptions pervade. She explained that even medical students have misconceptions and related that one student had believed that OT involved someone moving into the home of someone with a disability.

Furthermore, she said, while many different settings for OT are available in the United States, the settings in Guyana are limited.

“In Guyana, from my understanding, we essentially have three settings at this point in time; there is here at the hospital [GPH]; in Ptolemy Reid there are some services that are not very well developed at this point, and there’s at the Palms [Geriatric Home] for long-term care,” she said.

“In the US and other countries, we work in the school systems with early intervention cases such as babies that might have issues; we work in psychiatric hospitals; we work in transitional facilities; we work with drug and alcohol rehabilitation...we work with home health agencies where services are provided to f o l k s a f t e r a h o s p i t al discharge.”

She added that OT is also now breaking into working in the prison system. She further said that OT also does not extend only to individuals but entire bodies such as corporations to deal with

workplace related injuries such as carpal tunnel system as well as education on how to take precautions.

“There are so many places you can find use for occupational therapy and it keeps growing and we keep finding new roles. So, it’s wherever there are barriers to functional, skilled performance in the activities that you want and need to do, there’s a role for an occupational therapist,” Finesilver said.

“Occupational Therapy is still in its infancy here in Guyana and I’m trying to prepare these students to really become pioneers in their fields. I’m trying to give them a vision of what’s happening in other places of the world so that they can help to move the country forward; they need to know what’s happening in other countries so that they can bring that here.”

Meanwhile, when questioned on what can be done to improve OT in Guyana, Finesilver stressed that there is need for more professionals.

“There’s not a regular presence of therapists in those settings at this point in time; we have only a few rehabilitation assistants at the Palms and that’s true here at the hospital as well. So, when students graduate, as they gain experience and expertise, when they begin they will actually be reliant, to a degree, on the rehabilitation assistants who have lots of experience,” she said.

However, she said, over time the graduates will take over and practice as they gain more hands-on experience.

She stressed that OT is a research-driven profession so therefore the graduates will require both experience and knowledge in the field.

She said too that development will require the pumping of more resources

into the field. “We’re all limited everywhere in the world by the resources available so we can’t do pie in the sky; we can’t meet every ideal that we have, but we need to have those ideal visions and then slowly, over time, move towards those visions.”

As part of Occupational Therapy Day, professionals in the field made a number of appearances as well as conducted a sensitisation exercise. This exercise was conducted in the City Mall and saw medical rehabilitation students sharing information on occupational therapy and how it can add to everyday living.

World Occupation Therapy Day is celebrated each year on October 27.

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Still no trace of taxi driver...

Bus driver recalls being “hailed up” at Flour Mill Road Police may have gotten their first lead into the disappearance of 33-year-old taxi driver, Sherland Dalloo.

Dalloo was reported missing by his mother earlier this week after he failed to return home on Monday. The woman said that she last saw her son when he left their Lot 55 Parika, East Bank Essequibo home on Monday to solicit passengers at the Parika Stelling.

But police would learn for the first time yesterday that Dalloo might have summoned help from a friend on the very day that he went missing.

Dalloo’s mother informed this publication yesterday that a “bus driver” friend of her son told police that he had passed Dalloo in his parked taxi in Flour Mill Road Street, Eccles, East Bank Demerara.

The “bus driver” she disclosed, said that he noticed two other persons were in the car at the time. He said that Dalloo called for him and showed him some sort of a signal. He however assumed that Dalloo was just “hailing him up,” said Dalloo’s mother. “‘He said that the car de just park in the street...and the boy (the bus driver) said that he hear this boy shout for him but he didn’t stop because he had a lot of passengers in he bus.”

“Anytime me son pass any of he friends he does shout for them...you know hail them up; so the guy said that he didn’t tek it for nothing. Now he wondering if was some sign he de showing, and he seh me son shout two times to he,” disclosed the woman.

But the “bus friend” only got word yesterday that Dalloo was missing.

“He said how this thing haunting he...he say he couldn’t sleep last night (Wednesday) because Sherland might’ve been calling him for help and he just passed him straight,” related the worried Bhanmatty

Missing: Sherland Dalloo Dalloo.

The friend yesterday gave a statement to the police.

Yesterday too, police ranks visited the home that Dalloo shared with his mother.

There they took a statement from Bhanmatty Dalloo. She had given ranks at the Parika Station a similar statement earlier this week when she filed a missing person’s report.

Police ranks, the woman added, had promised then to check with other stations to find out if her son had been arrested or involved in any accident.

A senior police officer on Wednesday confirmed that a missing report was made and an investigation into the man’s disappearance had commenced. Yesterday, a police official said that police were working to locate the missing man.

The distraught Bhanmatty Dalloo said that her son left home around 07:30 hours on Monday for the Parika Stelling. Around lunchtime she said that she called Sherland, the younger of her two sons, on his cellular phone to tell him that his lunch was ready.

“I always call him at lunchtime and if he is not on a long work he would come home and eat...” said Bhanmatty Dalloo.

However, she related that when she contacted her son,

who is a father of two during the lunch period on Monday he informed her that he had to transport a passenger to Georgetown.

Bhanmatty Dalloo said that she again called her son around 14:30 hours but he said that he was still in the city with his passenger. He was still not home by late afternoon, the woman recounted, as she pointed out that another call at 17:30 hours went unanswered.

In fact subsequent calls to her son’s cellular phone went to voicemail. “No matter what he does, he always calls and let me know or at least answer he phone when I call...so I feel something bad happen to he,” said the evidently worried woman.

According to the worried mother, she is not aware of anyone who would want to hurt her son. She is however convinced that her son’s last passenger(s) might have answers to his sudden disappearance. No one at the Parika Stelling, she related, has been able to shed light on the identity of the passenger(s) her son transported last.

The woman disclosed on Wednesday that even her son’s “taxi friends” were worried enough by his disappearance to start their own search which saw them reaching as far as the East Coast of Demerara. The search was fruitless. “They went about asking people to find out if anybody see a strange car and they give people numbers so they could call if they have any information to help us find him,” said Bhanmatty Dalloo.

She disclosed that efforts were also made to check several hospitals for the missing man. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Sherland Dalloo, or of the circumstances that led to his disappearance is asked to make contact with the nearest police station or his mother on 660-1940.

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Education Ministry honours top performers at 2015 awards ceremony They came from schools in and out of Georgetown and were drawn from both public and private schools, but were all the same honoured for their outstanding performances yesterday when the Ministry of Education hosted its 2015 National Awards Ceremony.

Venued at the National Cultural Centre, the event, which was held under the Education Month theme: “Quality Educational Leadership: Improving Schools from within,” was laced with cultural presentations by students that kept the audience, including President David Granger; Ministers of Education, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine and Nicolette Henry, other senior education officials, students, parents and other well wishers entertained.

Named among the outstanding performers were Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) Best performer Cecil Cox of Queen’s College (QC).

Cox has also been named the 2015 Best Overall regional CAPE Candidate by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC).

Cox secured passes in seven subject areas including: Communication Studies Unit 1, Applied Mathematics Unit 1, Chemistry Unit 2, Pure Mathematics Unit 2, Physics Unit 2, Digital Media Unit 2 and Computer Science Unit 2.

He secured six Grade Ones and 1 grade three respectively. He is currently pursing studies in Informatic at a university overseas.

His awards were accepted by his proud Principal, Ms Jackie Benn.

Also receiving an award yesterday for being the Most

President David Granger is flanked by Ministers of Education, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine, and Ms Nicolette Henry, some of the top performers, QC’s Principal Ms Jackie Benn (second from left), Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Ms Delma Nedd (extreme left), and Chief Education Officer, Olato Sam. Outstanding in Business Studies at the CAPE level was Shontay Noel of St Rose’s High. She claimed six grade one passes and one grade two.

Also lauded for outstanding performance at CAPE were QC’s Larissa Whiltshire (six ones) and Sasha Woodroffe (six ones).

Those receiving awards for outstanding performance at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) level were: Victoria Najab (of the Swaraswati Vidya Niketan (of SVN) Hindu School), the national top performer and the Region’s Best Performer in Business Studies; Aliyah Rasheed (of

Anna Regina Secondary) the Region’s Best Performer in Technical and Vocational Studies; Joshanna Hopkinson (of QC) the Region’s Best Performer in Humanities and Shannon Woodroffe (of QC), the Region’s Best Performer in Science.

Among those receiving awards for being the Best Performers of Junior Secondary Schools at CSEC this year were: SVN’s Victoria Najab (20 ones), Anna Regina Secondary’s Aliyah Rasheed (19 ones) and Jagindra Persaud (16 ones and 2 twos) and SVN’s Mohanie Sudama (14 ones, 1 two).

The top senior secondary

school performers at the CSEC level were all drawn from Queen’s College with the exception of Shawn Shewram of St. Rose’s High School. He secured 14 grade ones and two twos. The QC top performers were: Joshanna Hopkinson (18 ones), Ashley

Anthony (17 ones), Abigail Somrah (16 ones), Kadesh Daniels (14 ones, 3 twos), Paige Carter (14 grade ones), Shannon Woodroffe (14 ones) and Michael Jagnanan (14 ones, 1 two).

The Outstanding National Grade Six Assessment

(NGSA) performers who were honoured yesterday were: top 2015 NGSA candidate Solomon Cherai and his classmate Shania Eastman both of Success Elementary; Celine Farinha of Peter’s Hall Primary School; Shreya Persaud and Isabella Hussain of the Academy of Excellence.

Also securing awards yesterday were the top performers of the Carnegie School of Home Economics, the Guyana Technical Education Examination, the Most Improved Senior Secondary at CSEC (Berbice High School); the Most Improved Junior Secondary School at CSEC (Fort Wellington Secondary and the Beterverwagting Secondary); the Most Improved Primary School (Sparta Primary) and the Best Graduating Student of the Cyril Potter College of Education (Mr Tameshwar Mohabir).

The inaugural Desrey Fox award, which was announced earlier this year, was presented yesterday to Trishel Torres of the Santa Rosa Secondary School.

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Goldfields makes first sale as declarations creep upwards - GGDMA warns gold sector not out of woods yet It appears that gold declaration is picking up again but Guyana is not out of the woods yet when it comes to performance of the sector.

As of last weekend, the declarations were over 317,000 ounces, just a couple of thousand less than for the corresponding period last year. With just over two months left of the year, the country would be hoping to overtake the 387,508 ounces recorded last year. The recovery in declarations would be remarkable if it is considered that only in June, declarations were down 20 percent when compared to the corresponding period.

The situation has been somewhat positively affected by the start of operations by Canadian-owned Guyana Goldfields Inc. (GGI), the country’s only large-scale mining operation.

The Aurora gold mine which started operations a few months ago, yesterday announced its first sale of the refined product of 1,400 ounces at an average price of US$1,179 per ounce.

According to Scott

Caldwell, President and Chief Executive Officer, “Plant ramp-up is progressing well and we expect to reach commercial production in the first quarter of 2016 and still hold an untouched US$52 million of overrun facility.”

The executive, in the statement, said the first gold sale for the company is a true testament to the quality of the construction team as Aurora ramps up to becoming Guyana’s newest large-scale gold producer.

GGI staff have taken over the full operational control of the entire plant including the primary crusher. The entire plant has now been commissioned with saprolite (soft) ore.

Hard rock will not be available until late this year.

The company, the first operation to be classified as a large-scale one since the departure of Omai Gold a few years ago, said its grade control drilling and mining reconciliation to date have continued to demonstrate that the ore-body is extremely robust, showing improved grades and tonnage as rock previously modelled as waste

Guyana Goldfields Inc. has made its first gold sale of 1,400 ounces, the company announced yesterday. is returning as ore.

The company is projecting commercial production will be declared, once Aurora has the ability to mine and mill an average of 75% of the designed capacity without significant interruption. “Initially, the tonnage requirement was fulfilled with only soft rock ore, however with the inclusion of the hard rock

component and its unavailability until later in the fourth quarter, the company now believes it is expected to declare commercial production at Aurora during Q1 (Qaurter 1) 2016.”

All sales prior to commercial production will be credited against capitalized project costs, rather than recorded as revenue.

GGI said that its Aurora Gold Mine has a total gold resource of 6.54 million ounces in the measured and indicated categories.

Yesterday, President of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association

(GGDMA), Patrick Harding, warned that it is too early to say that there is a turnaround.

With world prices still under US$1,200, hovering at US$1,147 per ounce yesterday, the mining official noted small and medium scale miners are facing tough times.

Taking into account that Australian-owned Troy Resources is set to commission operations within weeks, one has to take into account the impact these large mining operations have as against the smaller, less financed local ones.

Last year, after a four-year run as a result of high prices,

gold exports earnings declined a worrying 27.6 percent to US$470M. The gold rush over the last five years and its subsequent price descent has left scores of miners in a lurch, many of them owing banks and suppliers.

Hundreds of mining workers have been sent home with the drought in recent months not helping the situation. The David Granger administration has announced a number of measures including a reduction in fuel tax and concessions on spares and supplies.

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THE VOICE OF THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS

Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Bill No. 10 of 2015 called the Financial Institution (Amendment) Bill wishes to advance the position that the GRA, can make “lawful requests” for customer information from licensed financial institutions (mainly banks).

Reacting to this Bill, the Russian-trained, Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo has declared that such a law can “spell economic doom” and can have “serious repercussions in the economy”. Is Jagdeo now admitting that under the PPP the economy was propped up by the narco-traffickers who never paid taxes? Is Jagdeo now admitting that under his watch there was political interference in the work of the GRA? There is enough empirical evidence to support the position that underground economic activities occupied a fairly large share of the economy under the PPP. This situation continues to undermine the work of the GRA today. This new amendment to the law was designed to cause these players who operate outside of the official economy to shape up or ship out.

The teachers and nurses have no choices but to pay taxes on their small wages before they can access their paychecks. It is only fair that this burden be shared more equitably across the society by all eligible taxpayers.

I was advised that this proposed amendment in the law was designed to ensure

that additional streams of economic activities are taxed more fairly. I was further advised that the vision was that bank information will be request on a case-by-case basis driven by “red-flagged” tax audits. Thus it is imperative that the Board of the GRA clearly explain itself to the public so that all can be assured of the intent of the law, especially the small business houses.

In Guyana, a TIN (tax identification number) is not a mandatory prerequisite in opening a bank account and this is a big gap in the law. In more mature taxation societies like the United States, unless you have a TIN or a Social Security Number, you cannot open a bank account.

Everyone has a number in the United States, so everyone is on the radar and has no choice but to contribute to the Treasury. The law should be further amended to ensure that all banks declare interest payments quantified above $10,000 on deposits. This information should then be cross referenced to the tax records to ensure that the “well-off” are making accurate tax declarations. But there should be an ironclad process around how information is obtained from the banks, how it is stored and how it is utilized. It is time we take the GRA to the next level.

Mr. Khurshid Sattaur may be a good human being but it does not negate the fact that under his watch, many of the basic codes of ethics required by a tax collection agency

were grossly violated.

It is absolutely clear that under Sattaur’s watch the public trust in the GRA has reached an all time low, yet the Coalition Government seems to be at a loss on how to reform this agency.

This is not how a Revenue Agency ought to operate.

With Mr. Sattaur at the top of the GRA, people will always be second guessing the revenue collection strategy of the coalition government since there is a breakdown of trust between the public and the GRA because the people who committed the past misdeed against the victims are still calling the shots. So why then did we advocate for change in May 2015, when it is more of the same at the GRA? What confidence does the public have today that such practices will not continue?

I suspect once Mr. Sattaur remains at the helm of the GRA, even many law-abiding citizens may consider taking their money to countries like Trinidad as a result of the GRA having access to their bank information. The earlier the Minister of Finance acts and reforms the leadership of the GRA, the better for Guyana since implementing this amendment in the law under the leadership of Mr. Sattaur presents a clear and present danger to depositors.

In June 2015, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo had cause to publicly reprimand Mr. Sattaur for the release of private tax information but it is most

surprising that to date the Minister of Finance have not yet taken corrective remedial action. Who really is in charge of domestic affairs as prescribed in the Cummingburg Accord?

Holding on to Mr. Sattaur is a most sub-optimal decision and it is hoped that President Granger will use his executive powers and bring sanity to this situation at the GRA. The common taxpayer expects that the GRA will help them to understand and meet

their tax obligations in an environment of fairness and integrity. That relationship has to be crafted in an environment of mutual respect; not fear. The empirical evidence to date has illustrated that the concept of fairness, confidentiality and integrity are not synonymous with the current leadership at the GRA. So Jagdeo’s statement may have some merit since, if Sattaur stays, then yes many business houses may start shipping

Sase Singh their saving overseas to jurisdictions with tax authorities that they can trust.

Such a situation will have a “serious repercussion in the economy”. (Sase Singh)

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Letters... Where your views make the news

Congratulations to Minister Ramjattan for his Diwali date stance DEAR EDITOR, Please permit me space in your newspaper to congratulate Swami Aksharananda for his succinct and cogent articulation of the 2014 Diwali celebration in Guyana that seems to have the Hindu populace in a tizzy. His letter was published in another newspaper on 10/28/2015. I perused many writers’ postulations/ lamentations in the various media outlets, attempting to validate the 10th or 11th as the correct date and decrying the one they think not. Most of the arguments they used to advance their position can easily be Googled so that was a “no brainer”. Some even

made the situation even cloudier with their invalidated opinions, thereby exasperating the public even further. In New York, the Hindus are in a similar conundrum whereby religious calendars are hastily printed in November of any given year-to be given as gifts for, ironically, the Christmas Season - to clients of businesses. This is advertisement for the businesses. They are also replicated en masse, by numerous religious organizations, with scant attention to legitimize the dates involved- just so that they can sell them first to the Mandir worshippers.

Swami Aksharananda’s comprehensive diagnostic of this

Hindu festival, as celebrated in India,(including the time difference) and the historical relevance as to how it arrived at the shores of Guyana and how and when it was/ supposed to be celebrated in Guyana (including the time difference) with pellucid corroboration of the date(s) involved - must be greeted with a sigh of relief and deep gratitude. His revelation that Minister Ramjattan was instrumental in defining the date of November 10th as Diwali, by consulting with various religious bodies and luminaries must be lauded. There should never be a monopolistic dictate as consensus is optimal, especially when action by a nation’s

population hinges on the proclamation. So thank you, thank you, Swamiji for your erudite dispensation and kudos to you, Honorable Minister Ramjattan, for standing up for what is right, and, not necessarily immediately popular. On another tenor, personally, I endorse the proposal of Swami Aksharananda, for the government to set up religious bodies (Hindus, Muslims ,Christians) to discuss important issues likened to the current experience, even if only to avoid arbitration and deteriorating sanctity thereof.

Jonathan Subrian

From page 5 Guyanese Tri-state Alliance, who hails from Queens, also collaborated. Guyanese police officer Khayume Khan, a Guyanese, assisted in establishing the vigil and he joined the police in mourning the loss of Holder Jr. Guyanese Deodat Urprashad (Deputy Inspector and Commanding Officer of the 102 Police Station) was put in charge by the Police Department to coordinate the police aspects of the vigil. Although the vigil was held in 106 Precinct, Urprashad was called in to coordinate the memorial because of his community link and leadership skill. But it was largely organized by RHEDC. Candles donated by a local business-

man were lit. The vigil was helpful as it allowed people to mourn and vent their anger at the killing of this young Guyanese police officer. The Guyana flag flew at the memorial as well as outside at the funeral; many sported umbrellas with the flag’s colors. Response at the vigil was overwhelming drawing hundreds that reflect Guyana’s population. Community leaders from Richmond Hill turned out in their numbers. All potential political candidates for seats in Richmond Hill made their presence known. The Punjabi community leaders also supported the vigil.

At the vigil, there were prayers from various denominations and glowing tributes including words

from Holder’s family. Holder Sr. talked about his part Indian ancestry. The organizers thanked Cookie, owner and manager, of Sybil Restaurant who was very eager to get his business site to host the vigil; he provided normal refreshments. There was a large police presence. A banner hangs above between lamp posts of Officer Holder in front of Sybil.

Speakers applauded the family for displaying courage in this period of grief. They paid tribute to him as a remarkable man. They commended the officer for risking his life to protect others.

One person at the vigil said the officer’s killing breaks the heart. Another said: “We have to support each other in times of tragedy”. The Holder family members gave full support behind the RHEDC effort to memorialize their son. Holder Sr. expressed appreciation to the organizers of the memorial. It was such a success that

it led a second memorial on Sunday night in Brooklyn.

At the funeral, there were blocks and blocks of mourners; thousands of police officers from various parts of the country as well as the police commissioners of Australia, New Zealand, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, etc. Commoners turned up in spite of heavy wind and tropical showers to pay their final respects. Thousands, including hundreds of Guyanese, had to wait in the heavy persistent showers because the church could not accommodate them. They were drawn simply by respect for the young man’s sacrifice to make New York safe from thugs like the career criminal who killed him.

They watched the procession and service as tears welled the eyes.

New York appreciates Officer Holder’s service. We empathize with his family on their loss.

Vishnu Bisram

Guyanese in New York turned up in...

Swami Vidyanandji...

From page 4 provided me not too long ago in the successful reshaping of my professional life.

I am sure the thousands of devotees whose hearts he has touched the world over will miss him, and the many hundreds whose life he has positively changed will forever adore him, but the great

beyond beckons that guruji leaves this earthly planet to continue his spiritual work hand-in-hand with another pious saint, Swami Purnanandji, in the heavenly abode of Guru Maharaj, Swamis Vidyanandji and Purnanandji’s Spiritual Master.

Jai Petam

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Detective tracks down bandits who robbed rice farmer

Police are combing several areas on the East Coast of Demerara for a Toyota Spacio that was stolen from a Mahaica rice farmer during a daring robbery yesterday afternoon.

This was after a lone detective constable, using his personal vehicle, bravely tracked down the bandits, and with the assistance of a colleague, managed to capture two of them and recover a part of the loot.

Kaieteur News understands that around 15:00 hours, three armed bandits stormed the home of rice farmer Gansham Jorree at Prospect, Mahaica and held him, his wife and daughter at gunpoint.

The men threatened to kill their victims, while demand-

ing cash, jewellery and other valuables.

This newspaper was told that the men ransacked Jorree’s house and carted off an undisclosed amount in cash and jewellery.

They then took the keys for his blue Spacio PPP 1050 and escaped.

Almost immediately after the bandits left, the police at the Mahaica Police Station were contacted.

In the absence of a Force vehicle, the detective on duty had no other alternative but to use his personal vehicle to respond.

He spotted the bandits somewhere in Mahaica and trailed them all the way to Ann’s Grove, a few miles away.

Bravely, he challenged the

escaping bandits, forcing three of them to flee from the car in a bid to getaway.

The driver of the car sped away.

The detective who was accompanied by another general duty constable, managed to apprehend two of the fleeing bandits, while another one, taking advantage of the extra number, made good his escape.

A search of the captured bandits unearthed some of the stolen jewellery which was positively identified by the victims at the Mahaica Police Station.

Police sources at Mahaica informed this newspaper that the hunt is still on for the other suspect, while those in custody will be placed before the court very soon.

U.S. sticks to demand Assad leave power at first peace talks to include Iran Reuters - Washington stuck to its demand yesterday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leave power, ahead of peace talks which will include Assad’s main ally Iran for the first time, reflecting his stronger position since Russia joined the war on his side.

Throughout four years of war that has killed 250,000 people and driven more than 10 million from their homes, Assad’s main ally Tehran was locked out of a succession of international peace conferences, all of which ended in failure.

But four weeks after Russia began bombing Assad’s enemies on the ground, the countries that demand he leave office, including the United States, European powers and Saudi Arabia, have agreed to give Iran a seat at the negotiating table.

“Those who tried to resolve the Syrian crisis have

come to the conclusion that without Iran being present, there is no way to reach a reasonable solution to the crisis,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on his arrival in Vienna yesterday ahead of today’s conference.

Zarif met U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday in Vienna for talks on other issues including the July nuclear agreement between Iran and global powers. Kerry also met Russia’s Sergei Lavrov and the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

State Department counsellor Tom Shannon said in Washington Kerry would use the conference to see whether Tehran and Moscow were willing to accept a change of leadership in Damascus, and also gauge their commitment to fighting the Islamic State group.

Kerry would assess the

extent to which Iran and Russia “are prepared to work broadly with the international community to convince Mr Assad that during a political transition process he will have to go,” Shannon said.

The United States and its European and Middle Eastern allies have demanded Assad agree to leave power as part of any peace deal. He refuses to go, and Russia and Iran have consistently rejected any such demands.

Russia’s 4-week-old air campaign on Assad’s behalf, which has been accompanied by an Iranian-backed ground offensive, makes the prospect that Assad’s insurgent foes can force him out of power on the battlefield look more remote than ever. Some Western officials have spoken lately of temporary arrangements under which Assad could remain for a certain period.

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Narendra Modi: India pledges $600m to help Africa BBC News - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced $600m (£393m) in assistance for development projects in Africa at a major summit in Delhi.

More than 50 African leaders are attending the IndiaAfrica Forum Summit, unprecedented in scale, in the Indian capital.

Although India’s trade with Africa has more than doubled to $72bn since 2007, it is still comparatively small.

The meeting is being seen as an attempt by India to improve ties with Africa.

A record number of African leaders, including South Africa’s Jacob Zuma, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, President Sisi of Egypt and Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir are attending the summit - part of India’s big push to increase its presence in Africa.

Reports say the summit represents the highest number of foreign dignitaries to descend on India since 1983 and is thought to be the biggest ever overseas gathering of African leaders.

Welcoming them, Mr Modi described India and

Mr Modi described India and Africa as the ‘two bright spots of hope in the global economy’ Africa as the “two bright spots of hope in the global economy”.

“The hearts of 1.25 billion Indians and 1.25 billion Africans are in rhythm. We are united by youth - two thirds of India and Africa are below 35. And, if the future belongs to the youth, then this century is ours to shape and build,” Mr Modi said.

The BBC’s Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi says India is using its historic ties with the continent, where a large number of Indians migrated during colonial times, to strengthen its economic links.

India is interested in

Africa’s natural resource while African countries want to benefit from Indian expertise in high-tech sectors such as IT and mobile phones.

Much of central Delhi has been shut down as the African leaders are being ferried across town in limousines and on Wednesday night, they turned out wearing colourful Indian turbans and jackets at an official dinner.

The first ladies, in the meantime, are being taken sightseeing and given Indian cooking lessons as India pulls out the stops to make the summit a grand success, our correspondent says.

Newly elected speaker Ryan promises to fix ‘broken’ House Reuters - Newly elected U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan yesterday promised to sweep away Republican Party differences and repair a “broken” House of Representatives by returning legislative power to committees and rank-and-file members.

Ryan won 236 votes among the chamber’s 247 Republicans to be elected speaker, abandoned by only a handful of conservatives who mounted repeated revolts that pushed out his predecessor, John Boehner, who retired.

Ryan said in a speech after the vote that infighting in the Republican-majority House had been counterproductive and added to the legislative gridlock in Washington.

“We’re not solving problems, we’re adding to them and I am not interested in laying blame,” Ryan said.

“We are not settling scores, we are wiping the slate clean,” Ryan added to applause.

Ryan said the House would tackle tough issues, including reducing budget deficits and

reforming taxes, saying this would help raise incomes and bring people out of poverty.

The Wisconsin congressman said he would return control over drafting legislation to committees and rank-andfile members, adding: “If you know the issue you should write the bill”.

A constant source of friction among conservatives had been Boehner’s practice of drafting major spending legislation in secret, often in negotiations with Democrats as fiscal deadlines loomed.

Ryan’s main Republican challenger, Representative Daniel Webster of Florida, received nine votes from members of the right-wing Freedom Caucus and other conservatives who frequently battled with Boehner by pressing for quicker progress in shrinking government.

But most Freedom Caucus members, including chairman Jim Jordan, voted for Ryan. One vote each went to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Representative Jim Cooper of Tennessee, and

Representative John Lewis of Georgia.

Ryan now moves to the number two succession spot for the presidency behind the vice president, a position he sought in the 2012 election as Mitt Romney’s running mate.

Previously the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Ryan has served in Congress since 1999. He is the architect of conservative budget plans that sought to slash social safety net programs, including effectively privatizing Medicare health benefits for seniors, while cutting tax rates for the wealthy and boosting military spending.

As the 54th speaker, Ryan’s first challenge will be to avoid a government shutdown on Dec. 11 when funds for an array of federal agencies expire. Boehner, in an emotional farewell speech before the vote, said: “I leave with no regrets or burdens.” In what could be a warning to hardliners, Boehner advised: “Real change takes time ... So believe in the long, slow struggle.”

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Mexican GP - Fernando Alonso and FIFA’s ‘big players’ were behind 2018 Russia agreement Jenson Button handed penalties The agreement to hand Russia the 2018 World Cup before the vote took place involved “big players” in FIFA, says president Sepp Blatter’s adviser. Klaus Stohlker said there were “behind-the-curtain” talks involving members of the FIFA executive committee.

The suspended Blatter has suggested there was an agreement to give the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and the USA respectively.

The 2022 event was later awarded to Qatar after a swing in the voting. ”Before the decision was taken, in the case of Russia and the USA there were ‘behind-the-curtain’ talks,” said Stohlker, who is acting as Blatter’s spokesman during

his 90-day ban. “It was not everyone in the FIFA executive committee but it was the big players that had these talks.”

The bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments is the subject of an ongoing Swiss criminal investigation. It was begun alongside a US inquiry following the arrest and indictment of several top executives by the US Department of Justice on corruption charges.

Swiss Blatter, 79, is serving a 90-day ban alongside UEFA president Michel Platini, 60. Both deny any wrongdoing.

FIFA members ‘lied through their teeth’ The Football Association spent £21m, including £2.5m

of public money from local authorities, on England’s attempt to host the 2018 tournament. Hugh Robertson, sports minister at the time of the vote in 2010, has accused FIFA of having been “dishonest” with England.

He said: “We were encouraged to run by FIFA and we have now found that the whole thing appears to have been cut up beforehand. FIFA were effectively dishonest with us. “A considerable amount of time and expense went into preparing the bid, we had the best inspection report quite easily out of all the bidders. “It also means a considerable number of FIFA executive committee members lied through their teeth to us.”

(BBCsport)

Friday October 30, 2015 ARIES (Mar. 21–Apr. 19) A long journey to a distant place could be uppermost in your mind today. You may be getting ready to take off, or the trip might still be in the planning stages.

TAURUS (Apr. 20–May 20) A lot of your time today could be spent working on financial matters on the computer, phone, or other form of technology. This could have to do with your job or it could concern personal finances.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) A business or romantic partner could either contact you or return from a long trip with great news. Perhaps your friend has had a lucky break of some kind that betters life in general for both of you.

CANCER (June 21–July 22) Work that needs to be done could center on money, investments, and other financial matters. Your mind is especially quick, and you're likely to get everything done well.

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22) Love and romance are very much on your mind today. This is a perfect day to concentrate on this part of your life, for all signs indicate that relations with romantic partners are going to be happy, stimulating, and passionate. evening together!

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) Matters involving work and home should be going very well. Physically, you're feeling well and strong in spite of your recent overindulgence.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) A passionate letter or call from a romantic partner could have you longing for an encounter.

You're likely to make a night of it this evening.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) Unexpected financial benefit could leave you speechless today. It could be an unanticipated bonus, gift, or even a small lottery win. This is the day to seek the improbable.

SAGIT (Nov. 22–Dec. 21) You're probably getting a lot of great news today. Business and personal success are coming your way. A project that you've hoped would turn a profit may finally be moving that way.

CAPRI (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) Special information that comes to you either from within - your intuitive insights or without - information received from books, TV, or the Internet - could pave the way for career advancement and financial gain.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18) You should feel happy and enthusiastic today.

Whatever you strive for should be successful, whether it's job related or creative inspiration.

PISCES (Feb. 19–Mar. 20) Your personal and professional relationships should benefit from today's energies. This is a day to strengthen all your relationships, especially friendships.

McLaren’s Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button face starting Sunday’s Mexican Grand Prix from the back of the grid after their latest engine penalties. Both will have new engines for the race, having already used well over the permitted number for the season.

Alonso will have a new version of the upgraded specification Honda unit he used at the US Grand Prix last week. Button will use the upgraded engine for the first time - and will have two fitted over the course of the weekend.

Alonso will suffer a total grid penalty of 15 places, 10 for the new engine and five for a replacement gearbox - and Button 20, with each of the two engines costing him 10 places. It is possible Button will have further penalties if other parts of the engine are changed, but they will be academic as the 20 places will already be enough to ensure he is last.

The changes will take the number of internal combustion engines each driver has used so far this season to 11, when they were permitted only five. Honda have struggled with both performance and reliability with the sport’s complex new turbo hybrid engines in its first season back in F1 since 2008.

Alonso’s engine suffered a problem in the closing laps of last weekend’s race in Aus-

Singh, Arinda lead Camille’s Institute...

(From page 38) introduced in the 14 over.

The pint-size off spinner grabbed 5-49 as Soesdyke were bowled out for 190 in 22 overs. Sachin Lim took 3-44.

In the West Berbice District, No. 8 Secondary thumped Ash Secondary by 239 runs at the De Edward ground. No. 8 Secondary decided to bat first and rattled up 303-9 from their allotted 30 overs.

Dishan Phillips scored 53 which included nine fours and two sixes, while lower order batsman Chitram France contributed a valuable 40 (6x4 1x6). Jamal Hemerding took 325. Ash Secondary were never in the hunt and were sent packing for 64. Dishan Phillips captured 6-34 and Nigel Deodat 3-13.

Tomorrow, St. George’s Secondary and St John’s College clash at the Everest ground, Zeeburg Secondary host Saraswat Secondary and St. Johns Secondary meet Stewartville Secondary also at the Zeeburg ground.

McLaren tin, Texas, which was instrumental in dropping him from fifth place with seven laps to go to an eventual 11th, out of the points.

Honda said that was caused by an injector problem, which has now been fixed, but that he was being given a new engine for strategic reasons. Honda wants both drivers to have two of the new-spec engines available for the remaining three races this season, and they know that the Mexican race will be a difficult one for them - so the team prefer to take the grid penalties at a track

where they are not expecting a good result in any event.

The Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez track has a high percentage of full throttle over the lap and the high altitude puts the engines under more strain than at any other circuit on the calendar.

“It will be a very difficult weekend for us because of the altitude,” said Button.

“Because of our compressor, it’ll hurt us more than other teams.”

The compressor has been one of the biggest weaknesses of the Honda engine.

(BBCsport)

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New Zealand v Australia

Scott Sio recalled by Wallabies

Scott Sio

Australia have recalled prop Scott Sio in their only change for Saturday’s (tomorrow) World Cup final against New Zealand. Sio is fit after missing the semi-final win over Argentina with a damaged elbow and replaces James Slipper.

Full-back Israel Folau, who has been battling an ankle injury and only lasted an hour against Argentina, has been cleared to play. Veteran inside centre Matt Giteau, who hurt his groin playing against the Pumas, is also able to start.

Giteau, 33, is the lone survivor from Australia’s last World Cup final - the 2003 defeat by England. The Wallabies are preparing for a

record-equalling fourth World Cup final. “We’ll be doing our best to make Australia proud of its rugby team,” said head coach Michael Cheika. ”This week we’ve had a strong focus on improving certain areas in our game where we feel we haven’t been at our best in the previous matches. “We still have lots of scope to improve and we’ll work on that before this next match against New Zealand.”

Australia’s match-day squad of 23 has a combined 1,205 caps, compared to New Zealand’s 1,339 caps. With Sio fit, reserve prop Toby Smith misses out on a place

on the bench. The Wallabies are looking to win the World Cup for the third time after previous successes in 1991 and 1999.

Australia team to face New Zealand: Israel Folau; Adam Ashley-Cooper, Tevita Kuridrani, Matt Giteau, Drew Mitchell; Bernard Foley, Will Genia; Scott Sio, Stephen Moore (captain), Sekope Kepu, Kane Douglas, Rob Simmons, Scott Fardy, Michael Hooper, David Pocock.

Replacements: Tatafu Polota-Nau, James Slipper, Greg Holmes, Dean Mumm, Ben McCalman, Nick Phipps, Matt Toomua, Kurtley Beale.

(BBCsport)

All-round Dottin hands Windies lead St George’s, Grenada, CMC – Deandra Dottin took centre stage for the first time on the tour as West Indies barely broke a sweat in disposing of Pakistan Women by eight wickets in the opening Twenty20 International of the three-match series here yesterday.

Opting to bowl first at the National Stadium, West Indies Women restricted the visitors to 74-9, with seamer Dottin taking 2-10 from her two overs. She then returned to stroke a fluent unbeaten 38 as the hosts cruised to their target with 22-balls remaining, to take a 1-0 lead in the series.

West Indies Women were slumping at 24-2 in the sixth over after losing openers Hayley Matthews (9) and Stafanie Taylor (8) cheaply but Dottin partnered with former skipper Merissa Aguilleira, 15 not out, in an unbroken 54-run third wicket stand, to pull the innings

around.

The right-handed Dottin was the dominant partner, facing 39 deliveries and stroking three fours and a six while Aguilleira consumed 28 balls without striking a boundary.

For Dottin, the knock was her first one of prominence on tour after getting a string of low scores during the preceding four-match One-Day International series, and it earned her the Player-of-theMatch award.

Earlier, she took key wickets and was supported by fast bowler Tremayne Smartt who finished with 2-13, as Pakistan Women never really got going. Aliya Riaz, batting at number seven, top-scored with 16

and was only one of only three players to reach double figures.

Pakistan were off to a horrid start when the usually prolific Javeria Khan was run out in the second over for one and wickets continued to tumble to leave the visitors tottering on 24-5 in the ninth over.

West Indies Women were briefly held up by a 36-run, stand between Riaz and Nida Dar (13) but once the partnership was broken, the innings went into decline once again with Dottin helping to ensure a swift collapse.

The second T20I is scheduled for tomorrow at the same venue.

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Doping becoming criminal offence being examined - Tracey Crouch The government is looking into the possibility of making doping a criminal offence, says sports minister Tracey Crouch. Athletics has been the subject of allegations of widespread doping, with the likes of Italy and France having already criminalised the use of prohibited substances. ”It is an interesting idea,” Crouch told the BBC. “I’ve asked officials in my department to have a look at the issue.” She added: “We will make a judgement based on that in the near future.”

Crouch said in August that current sanctions were tough enough for Britain not to have to criminalise doping.

The new world anti-doping code, which came into effect from 1 January 2015, means offenders now miss at least one Olympic Games.

A first major offence carries a four-year ban, increased from two, with athletes banned for life if they test positive again.

Crouch added: “UK AntiDoping (Ukad) are just one member of a world anti-doping movement and that is

something we have to take into consideration.

“There are some interesting ideas for and against it.

Whatever we do we have to make sure people who compete for this country are clean. ”Ukad do an excellent job in terms of education and awareness and I have confidence in their ability to assess athletes in terms of their cleanness but I want to make sure we do look at all the options going forward.”

(BBCsport)

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NSC Tour of Guyana 5-Stage Cycle Road Race

Team Coco’s Carlos Ospina starts Third Stage today as Overall Leader Columbian Carlos Ospina, a member of Team Coco’s will start the third stage of the National Sports Commission (NSC) five-stage Tour of Guyana cycling race today from Wales on West Bank of Demerara as the Overall Leader (4:00:50) after the first two stages were completed yesterday.

Ospina pedaled to victory in the first stage, winning the 46-mile contest from Skeldon to New Amsterdam in a time of One Hour 37 Minutes 58 Seconds.

The second stage which saw riders matching pedals from Rosignol to Carifesta Avenue in the City produced a winner in Jaime Ramirez, another Team Coco’s member.

He stopped the clock at Two Hours 22 Minutes 57 Seconds.

Riding in the second stage in hot conditions from Rosignol, West Bank Berbice to Carifesta Avenue in the city, Andrew Hicks broke away from the pack and led for about 15 miles before he was caught with everyone attacking each other. When the riders reached the Mahaicony Bridge the riders from Team Coco’s took the

lead, riding as a pack.

Marlon ‘Fishy’ Williams, riding for Gillette Evolution and Team Coco’s Darren Matthews broke away but were caught at Strathspey on the East Coast of Demerara before Williams and Ramirez again separated themselves from the others.

The pair led until they reached Plaisance when Williams was dropped. The pack caught up with Ramirez at the turn near the ‘Russian Embassy’ before he {Ramirez} out-sprinted the second bunch which finished in cluster, to reach the finish line.

The third stage starts at 09:00hrs from Wales on West Bank of Demerara and proceeds to Bushy Park, East Bank Essequibo for the finish.

Results for the 1st Stage of the Tour of Guyana 2015 1st - Carlos Ospina (Team Coco’s) 1:37:58 2nd - Darren Matthews (Cocos) 3rd - Alonzo Greaves (Roraima) 4th - Raul Leal (Gillette Evolution) 5th - Geron Williams (Continental)

6th - Hamzah Eastman (Team Coco’s) 7th - Marloe Rodman (Heatwave) 8th - Marlon Williams (Gillette Evolution) 9th - Paul DeNobrega (Alanis) 10th - Mark Harris (Team Coco’s) Results for the 2nd Stage 1st - Jaime Ramirez (Team Coco’s) 2:22:57 2nd - Geron Williams (Continental) 3rd - Marloe Rodman (Heatwave) 4th - Darren Matthews (Team Coco’s) 5th - Alonzo Greaves (Roraima Bikers Club) 6th - Raul Leal (Gillette Evolution) 7th - Paul DeNobrega (Alanis) 8th - Carlos Ospina (Team Coco’s) 9th - Marlon Williams (Gillette Evolution) 10th - Raynauth Jeffrey (Team Coco’s) Overall results for first five riders: Carlos Ospina (4:00:50), Darren Mathews (4:00:50), Geron Williams (4:00:51), Alonzo Greaves (4:00:53) & Marloe Rodman (4:00:55).

Friday October 30, 2015

GBSA to launch league in December Throws support behind Team Unity for GFF Elections The Rollin Tappin led Guyana Beach Soccer Association (GBSA) is working towards launching a national beach soccer league by mid December that will attract 10 teams from Linden (5), East Coast (2), Georgetown (2) and East Bank (1).

Speaking with Kaieteur Sport, Tappin said that the recently elected five-member executive has met twice since being in office on October 16, last. He noted that there are working assiduously towards getting their secretariat functional shortly. ”We are in the process of engaging potential sponsors for the league which will further develop this format of the sport here in Guyana. We have been around a while, competing locally and overseas but we are now a fullfledged affiliate of the GFF and we are very proud of this since it will allow us to spread and develop the game further.”

Expanding on the spread of the game, Tappin informed that this coming Sunday, they will be taking the sport to the East Bank Football Associa-

Rollin Tappin tion and Kuru Kururu on the Linden Soesdyke Highway has been identified to host a few familiarization matches. ”We spoke with the new EBFA President who recommended the Kuru Kururu Warriors club. Contact was made with its Vice President Mr. Dale Roberts and I personally made a visit there and was impressed with what I saw in terms of the playing area. The GBSA intend to work closely with this club and others on the East Bank

to develop this segment of the sport.”

Tappin further disclosed that the National Beach Soccer League will be played in Linden and at Kuru Kururu.

Meanwhile, President Tappin informed that his executive met on Tuesday night last and after extensive discussion took the unanimous decision to throw their support behind the Nigel Hughes led Team Unity for the upcoming Guyana Football Federation elections, set for November 14. ””We had in-depth discussions on what is necessary for Guyana’s development right now and believe that Team Unity has the necessary depth that is needed to continue the great work that the FIFA appointed Normalisation Committee has started.

We further believe that Team Unity has the ability to be all inclusive and will work assiduously towards building a solid foundation for the yout h s a n d w o m e n o f this nation in the coming years, beginning from November 15.”

Team Unity begins Association visits, UDFA was first Presidential candidate for the Guyana Football Federation elections on the Team Unity slate, Nigel Hughes and a team of other executive hopefuls on Wednesday last

visited the Bauxite Mining Town of Linden to meet with the Upper Demerara Football Association executive.

Hughes took the opportunity to brief the UDFA on

Team Unity’s vision for the sport of football as he encouraged the new executive to continue working for the development of the sport in Linden.

STAG Elite Teams Battle For Play...

(From page 36) league. Monnederlust has two solid centre backs in Kevin Layne Jnr. and Travis Henry but their ploy of playing a high line with no pressure on the ball continues to cost them goals and valuable points.

At home in Berbice they are quick and deadly in attack with the diminutive attacker Kevin Cottoy always posing a danger to opposing defenders. Yet if they continue to be so square at the back, they will give up more goals than one of the mining companies

in the interior.

With Pele, Slingerz and Alpha opening up a gap the battle is now between Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and Conquerors for the 4th playoff spot. Both teams are having a roller coaster season.......playing well against the top teams but faltering against the seemingly ......lesser ones. In the case of Conquerors Eon Alleyne and Jermain “Panky” Junior is showing the quality to unlock defenses but needs more coordinated efforts when they reach the attacking third.

However their defenders insistence on following the man with disregard for the position of the ball has made them vulnerable at the back.

The heroics of goalkeeper Alex Martin have kept Conquerors in many games and if they are to grab the 4th spot they must improve their individual and collective defending.

So the coming weekend should bring us closer to deciding the four playoff spots, but the league has been a great learning experience for me.

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Good Hope are Ram Slam champs Good Hope defeated Annandale by three runs to win the final of the Ram Slam limited overs cricket competition played on Sunday last at the Lusignan Community Centre ground.

Good Hope bated first and were bowled out for 95 in their allotted 15 overs.

Kumar Bishundial struck 33 (2x4 2x6) and Vishnu Ramjeet 16 (2x4).

Ferron Kadir snared 212 and Shazam Ali 2-24 for Annandale who were limited to 92-7 in 15 overs.

Davanand Samaroo scored 22 (2x6) and Ali made 15; Navin Persaud took 2-14.

In the first semi final, Good Hope defeated Mon Repos by 24 runs. Good Hope posted 106-4 in 15 overs, batting first with Naikbaran scoring 41 not out

and Ramjeet 21.

In reply, Mon Repos managed 82-7 off 15 overs.

Nadir Baksh hit 33 not out; Gajanan Suknanan claimed 3-10, Ramjeet 2-16 and Naikbaran 2-19.

Annandale got the better of Lusignan by six wickets in their semi final encounter.

Lusignan made 89-8 off the 15 overs, taking first knock.

Steve Ramdass got 28 and Harrinarine Hira 17.

Shazam Ali picked up 312, Tameshwar Motiram 2-9 and Devindra Bishram 2-18.

Annandale scored 90-4 off 13.2 overs in reply. Gavin Boodwah stroked 51 and Leon Morgan 25. Kumar Bishundial received the man-of-the-match in the final award, Gavin Budwah the Best Batsman accolade, Leon Morgan the Best Fielder prize and Tyrese

Better Hope overcome Ogle

Vickram Paul hits out

Rajendra Dhanraj cuts Better Hope defeated host Ogle by 52 runs when the East Coast Demerara Cricket Association (ECDCA)/Tropical Mist Water Under-19 40-over tournament commenced last Saturday. Better Hope batted first and posted 256-9 off their reduced quota of 30 overs.

Rajendra Dhanraj blasted 88 (8x4 8x6) while Vickram Paul made 39 (6x4 2x6) and M. Nandalall 36 (4x4 1x6). V. Madramootoo captured 2-45. In response, Ogle seemed on track to overhaul the target but were eventually limited to 204-8. Devraj Chunilall got 46 (6x4 1x6) while Travis Marcello and Arvinda Gainda made 38 and 32 respectively.

Paul claimed 2-14 and Chandra Mohan 2-39.

Usana the best Catch trophy.

The event was sponsored by Penko Steel Fabrication, Hanso Trading, Miracle Optical, PY Taxi Service, B.M. Soat Auto Sales, Selina Auto Sales, Singh’s Grocery and Bicycle Store, Pretty Love Sound System, Jagdeo General Store, Iron Construction, Peppy Food Products, Two Sisters Car Rental, A. Bipta Grocery, Atlantic Southern Trading and Ansa McAl Trading.

Members of the victorious Good Hope Cricket Team.

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Elizabeth Styles EECB cricket

Friday October 30, 2015

The National Coach Speaks

Woolford’s 121 powers STAG Elite Teams Battle Golden Grove to victory For Play Off Spots

Richard Woolford Powered by a disdainful 121 from 20-year-old Richard Woolford, Golden Grove defeated Mon Repos by 157 runs on Sunday at the Buxton ground in the East Coast Cricket Board’s Elizabeth Style 40-over cricket tournament.

Woolford utilized a good track and fast outfield to

smash nine fours in his ton and added 152 for the second wicket with Terrence King after opener Terry Gardner (5) departed at 5-1.

King batted in royal fashion in an entertaining 86 decorated with 10 fours and a six while Keshon DeSilva (15*) and Ishun Gardener (12) rallied Golden Grove to

Kishun DeSilva an imposing 259-4 in the game which, in sunny conditions, was reduced a 25-over affair.

Mon Repos were bowled out for 102 in 17.1 overs; 21year-old DeSilva snatched 4-4 in a tight spell. He got support from Orin Gardener (3-39) and Woolford who took 2-15.

Pele has emerged as the runaway horse in the Stag Elite League and with the return of experienced midfielder Konata Mannings, they are definitely the team to beat in this competition.

Gregory “Jackie Chan” Richardson’s effort on the field has been tireless and his attitude reflects a player hungry for success. Thus far he has been a huge inspiration to his teammates, Pele fans and the league.

On the field, Richardson receives good service from Travis “Zorro” Grant but we have also seen flashes from Omalo Williams and Darren Harris which means Pele is not a one man band. Their attack has been supported by some capable defending especially in their twin Under-23 centre backs, Jermane Somerset and Mark McLean.

While young goalkeeper Bevon Charles has really pulled off some big saves for Pele, if he can improve his handling of crosses and general command of the 18 yard box, Pele will be an even more potent force.

Slingerz however is showing an air of professionalism in their play and the signature of veteran Coach Joseph Wilson is scribbled all over his team’s attacking and defensive patterns. With national defenders Colin Nelson, King Solomon Austin and Joshua Brown, Slingerz have been able to build up from the back, stretch their opponents and create scoring opportunities on a consistent basis.

Their finishing lacks the potency of Pele but as they have shown against GFC, Vurlon Mills, Dominican Julian Wade and the elder Anthony “Awo” Abrams can click and when they do...... it rains goals.

Alpha continues to be in the top three despite

Dellon Lanferman rebuilding without half of the dream squad that made them the dominant force over the years. Coach Wayne Dover put together a well organized team in defense but very tentative and at times unsure in attack.

Lack of mobility at the heart of his midfield has not helped, as both Philbert Moffat and Anthony Benfield needs to work on their agility and the quality of their service. And speaking of service, the poor crosses by William Europe and inconsistency of Daniel Wilson has not helped Alpha’s cause at a time when these youngsters need to step up and establish themselves at club and international level.

Grenadian Kitson Bain is getting some rough treatment from defenders and it is the goal scoring feats of Dellon Lanferman that creates the balancing act for Alpha. While Lanferman is no Jackie Chan in terms of intelligent movement off the ball, he certainly has a knack for scoring goals and something that I have underlined as National Coach.

Buxton, GFC and Monnederlust have been typical amateur teams showing glimpses of good play but lacking consistency

Gregory Richardson

Colin Nelson and organisation to really be a title threat. GFC impresses me with a squad that is mainly Under-20 and they had an impressive draw against Slingerz and wins against Buxton and GDF. Yet while Faizal Khan and his staff has done a good job getting GFC to the level to participate in the Stag Elite League, it will take more than promise to keep them there. Buxton shows good fighting spirit but their play is based on a lot of good individual efforts rather than coordinated patterns in attack and defense.

Naive defensive tactics is robbing Monnederlust of being the Cinderella team of the Stag sponsored (Continued on page 34)

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Boxers vie for international representation as National Open Championships commence October will soon be a memory and amateur boxers are expected to hit top gear in preparations for the ‘Back to the Future’ Caribbean Boxing card, scheduled for the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH), November 26-29.

A l r e a d y, s e v e r a l countries have confirmed their participation and the organisers of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) will soon select the team of local boxers to represent this country. The process gets underway this afternoon when the National Open Championships get underway at the Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis Boxing Gym (ALBG) starting at 15:00hrs.

The tournament was

initially scheduled for the M&CC Municipal Centre, East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, but that venue is not available forcing the organisers to make the switch. Notwithstanding, fans can look forward to the competitive encounters between the nation’s top boxers especially since they are vying for a place on the team to represent Guyana at the impending Caribbean Championships.

There are many big names that will be on show including Policeman, Dennis Thomas, who is expected to spearhead Guyana’s challenge. Diwani Lampkin has also been in terrific form recently and following sojourns in French Guiana and Mexico will be

out to stamp his authority.

Lampkin has already shown great improvement and had copped the best boxer’s award in the just concluded National Intermediate Boxing Championships.

Jason Phillips had represented Guyana at the Pan American trials in Mexico.

He recently returned from Venezuela and will also be among those boxers vying for selection.

Republican boxer, Nankumar Singh, will also vie for a place on the national team.

An aggressive boxer, Singh has proven himself as a worthwhile contender in previous instances. His most recent outing was at the Atwell/Gonsalves encounter

Diwani Lampkin when he pounded out a unanimous decision over Kellon King. Provided he continues in that same vein, he will surely earn his place in the Caribbean championships.

Jason Phillips

Dennis Thomas

Several other top notch boxers will be on show during the 3 days of fistic action. They include Dexter Wray, Clairmont Gibson, Desmond Amsterdam and Clifton Graham among

others. The action gets underway at 15:00hrs today but starts at 13:00hrs tomorrow and Sunday.

Boxers are asked to convene at the ALBG for weigh in starting at 10:00hrs today.

Female racer from Reggae Land Alpha and Bakewell Slingerz expected for CMRC final leg in Guyana Jamaica’s female car Natahsa Chang notch comfortable wins racer Natasha ‘Chiney Dolly’ SEL double header on today at GFC

As the action in the inaugural Stag Elite League winds down in this the first half, Genesis, two more potentially exciting matches are slated for the Georgetown Football Club ground today.

Leaders, Pele Football Club, sitting on 21 points will be going all out to nail the home team GFC in tonight’s feature match from 20:30hrs. Pele have been lethal in the final third and this evening they will seek to increase their tally of 23 goals in 10 matches.

Gregory Richardson will again be leading their quest for full points but GFC cannot be counted out just yet. This young bunch of players will be at home and one can expect a tough fight from them.

The opening game pits Bakewell Slingerz Football Club against the Guyana Defense Force in what is

Anthony Abrams anticipated to be a classic with both sides eager to prove that they are the best.

While Slingerz has been very consistent and solid in both attack and defense, the Army which has been running hot and cold seems to be on the hot path of recent and this match-up will be a mouth watering affair.

Sunday at the Tucville ground, another two matches are slated, GFC will engage

Fruta Conquerors while Alpha come up against Monedderlust.

Meanwhile, in latest play on Wednesday evening last at the GDF ground, Alpha United blanked Fruta Conquerors 2-0 compliments of leading marksman Delon Lanferman in the 63rd minute and veteran Stellon David who rocked the nets three minutes t o f u l l t i m e .

The win for Alpha keeps them in second place on 19 points behind Pele’s table topping 21. Conquerors lay f i f t h w i t h 1 2 .

Slingerz continued their solid performances with a clinical 4-0 win over Buxton United. Veteran Anthony ‘Awo’ Abrams led the victory charge with a brace in the 77th and 89th minute with earlier goals coming off the boot of Colin Nelson in the 36th minute and Dextroy Adams, three minutes later.

Chang will be among the travelling contingent that will descend on these shores to participate in the final leg of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) scheduled to be staged on November 15, at the South Dakota Circuit.

Chang, who drives a Honda S2000, is expected to light up the South Dakota Circuit as she competes against the men in the Group 3 category where she will face the likes

of Guyana’s Afraz Allie and Rameeze Mohamed in their Toyota Starlets.

The Jamaican beauty, whose attractiveness could

make her a strong contender for Miss Jamaica, made her debut in the CMRC last year at Bushy Park in Barbados.

Elizabeth Styles U-19, 50-over

Port Mourant through to Quarter Finals Port Mourant beat Rose Hall Town Pepsi by 3 wickets in the deciding Zone D preliminary match to win the group and qualify for the quarter-finals of the Elizabeth Styles Under-19, 50-over cricket competition in Berbice.

Rose Hall Town Pepsi took first strike and reached 215-9in their allotted 43 overs. The total was built around a half century from former national Under-19 batsman Akshay Homraj (75), Guyana Under-17 all-rounder Baskhar

(52) and 46 from Brandon Prashad. Bowling for Port Mourant, Samuel Krishnasammy took 3-35 and off-spinnerArif Chan, 2-43.

Port Mourant in their response stuttered early and were 15-2 at one stage. However, the Cameron brothers both hit fifties, Nicholas 78 and Dimitri who represented Berbice at the Under-19 level this year, 61 not out. They reached the target ending on 216-7 with just one ball to spare in 42.5overs.Yadramtook2-43forRoseHallTown.

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Carlos Brathwaite, Russell counterattack steals D/L win A breakneck 193-run eighth-wicket stand between Carlos Brathwaite and Andre Russell transformed West Indians’ position from dire to dominant in the Colombo practice match, which the visitors went on to win by 43 runs.

The Sri Lanka Board President’s XI’s chase was cut short by rain at 21 overs.

Their response of 103 for 3 to West Indians’ 318 was found to be well short via the Duckworth-Lewis method.

West Indians had been 109 for 7 after 30 overs, before Brathwaite walloped seven sixes and 10 fours to make a 58-ball 113. Russell struck six sixes to make 89 from 54, helping propel West Indians beyond 300, before both batsmen got out in quick succession, and the innings ended in the 49th over.

The President’s XI began poorly when Danushka Gunathilaka, who is in the ODI squad, was dismissed for 13 by Ravi Rampaul.

Recent Test debutant Kusal Mendis hit 32 from 46, and Lahiru Thirimanne hinted at a return to better form, in his preferred format, with 41 from 48.

Andre Russell and Carlos Brathwaite run a single ©AFP Russell and Jason Holder took the other two wickets.

Earlier, left-arm seamer Isuru Udana and legspinner Seekkuge Prasanna seemed to have West Indians pinned, when they claimed two wickets each by the end of the 26th over.

Only Darren Bravo, from among West Indians’ top seven, made it past 20.

Seamer Binura Fernando was expensive, but claimed

three wickets - including those of Brathwaite and Russell - towards the end of the innings.

Suraj Randiv delivered five overs for 20 runs and took one wicket.

West Indians 318 (C Brathwaite 113, Russell 89, B Fernando 3-71) beat Sri Lanka Board President’s XI 103 for 3 (Thirimanne 41, K Mendis 32) by 43 runs (D/L method).

(ESPNcricinfo)

Friday October 30, 2015

GCB/Scotiabank Progression one tourney

Wins for St. Ann’s and Mocha St. Ann’s and Mocha Primary Schools recorded victories when the Guyana C r i c k e t B o a r d (GCB)/Scotiabank progression one tournament continued yesterday at Thirst Park. St. Ann’s defeated Eccles by seven wickets.

Batting first, Eccles were restricted for 66-11 in 14 overs. Krishna Singh made 12 as Joel Lakhan and Bevon Clarke picked up two wickets each. St. Ann’s replied with 67-6 in 12 overs.

Ryan Adams slammed 19; Anthony Harris took 2-15.

Mocha overcame Peter’s Hall by 49 runs. Mocha posted a respectable 106-9 in 14 overs, taking first strike.

Devon Watson stroked one four and three sixes in a top score of 24 while Demare Ellis got 20 with one four and a six.

Isiah Cardis, Timon Daniels and Nezel Henry claimed one wicket apiece.

Peter’s Hall could only muster 57-11 in 14 overs in response. Soloman Austin cracked three fours and a six in scoring 18; Jamal Browne c a p t u r e d 2 - 1 4 .

According to the

Solomon Austin

Ryan Adams

Demare Ellis (left) and Devon Austin competition regulations, each team shall be comprised of 14 players (eight males and six females), and each

player must bowl one over.

Two runs shall be credited to the batting side for every wide and no ball.

GCB/BANKS DIH/DIGICEL NSSCL…

Singh, Arinda lead Camille’s Institute victory; No. 8 Sec. also wins Mentore’s 78 pushes Hopetown Primary Formertonational Under15 batsman Bhognarine into final of West Berbice District Singh stroked a stylish GCB/Scotiabank Kiddy Progression One Cricket…

Kemol Mentore stroked a brilliant unbeaten 78 to push Hopetown Primary into the final of the West Berbice District in the Guyana Cricket Board/Scotiabank Kiddy Progression One Cricket yesterday.

Hopetown Primary defeated Belladrum in the first semifinal by 25 runs.

Hopetown batted first and amassed 154-3 in their full complement of overs.

Mentore blasted eight fours and six sixes while M a c k o r d e l l Wa l t e r s contributed 30 which included five fours and one

Kemol Mentore six. In reply, Coin Noble struck an unbeaten 41 (4x6) and Russel Wilson made 32 (4x4) but Belladrum were limited to 129 when their overs expired. Meanwhile, in a second round match of

the New Amsterdam/Canje District, Rose Hall Primary defeated Sheet Anchor Primary by 55 runs. Rose Hall Primary posted a challenging 145-5, batting first. Vivic Cyril scored an impressive 30 not out.

Sheet Anchor Primary reached 90-8 off their allocated 14 overs. Parsram Doobay and Farvesh Mohabir had two wickets each. Tomorrow, No.5 Primary and Blairmont Primary will clash in the second semi-final of the West Berbice District at the No. 5 ground

century and spinner Alex Arinda bagged five wickets to lead Camille’s Institute to a comfortable 62-run victory over Soesdyke Secondary when the Guyana Cricket Board/Banks DIH/Digicel a n d R a i n f o r e s t Wa t e r National Secondary School Cricket League continued y e s t e r d a y .

Camille’s Institute managed 252 all out in 25.5 overs batting first at Thirst Park.

Bhognarine Singh punished all the bowlers, smashing 12 fours and eight maximums, before being dismissed for 115. Leg spinner Neeraj

Bhojnarine Singh

Alex Arinda

Khan who took the last 6 wickets to fall finished with 6 5 8 .

Soesdyke Secondary’s reply got off to a flying start as they posted 110 in just 12 overs

with openers Noel Bradford and Ronaldo Blair scoring 23 respectively. However, Alex Arinda made scoring difficult when he was (Continued on page 32)

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Digicel Guyana Open Golf Tournament

Persaud, Deo will have to be at imperious best to retain titles; over 80 entries expected

Sponsorship and Events Manager Luanna Abrams (left) and PRO Vidya Sanichara (right) pose with members of the Lusignan Golf Club at yesterday’s Launch of the Guyana Open Championship.

By Rawle Welch Defending champions in the Men’s and Ladies categories of the prestigious Digicel Guyana Open Golf Championships Avinash Persaud and Joann Deo will have to be at their imperious best to stave off what is anticipated to be the largest and strongest fields in this year’s event.

During the launching of the Championships which was conducted yesterday at the Digicel Head Office in Kingston, it was disclosed that the Organisers are expecting over eighty (80) entries including both local and overseas-based players

to enter the two-day competition which starts tomorrow, at the Lusignan Course, East Coast Demerara.

Speaking at the occasion which had in attendance Sponsorship and Events Manager Luanna Abrams, PRO Vidya Sanichara, President of the LGC Carl Ramroop among other officials, Club Captain Chatterpaul Deo said that so far over sixty (60) entries have been received and he anticipates that just around another twenty will seek entry by the time of tee-off which is scheduled for 05:30 hrs.

According to the

Captain, the Greens and the Fairways are in excellent condition and judging from the high quality of the field, he believes that this year’s event will produce a close finish.

He told the media that in the Men’s competition, the Best Gross will determine the overall winner over the two-day period, while in the Ladies Division, the player with the Best Net will be declared the winner. ”For the very first time in the tournament’s history, there will be a competition for the senior players over the age of 60 years and this Flight should also produce some exciting golf as

well.”

Ramroop in his remarks said that the LGC was extremely grateful to Digicel who’ve returned for the fourth year as the exclusive sponsor of the Guyana Open, adding that the Company is an epitome of what good corporate responsibility represents.

He wished the Company every success in all of its endeavours, before extending an invitation to the general public to come out and witness some of the best local golfers on show over the two days.

Abrams speaking on behalf of Digicel told the gathering that the occasion

Marketing Executive Jacqueline James (centre) poses with winners Avinash Persaud and Joann Deo last year. marks another great moment for sports in this country.

She pointed to the regularity of tournaments that are being hosted by the Club and posited that that might be the primary reason for the sport’s growth in popularity.

She said that the mere fact that golfers are expected from Suriname, French Guiana, USA, Trinidad and Tobago and Canada is indicative of the status the event now holds on the local sports calendar.

Canada-based Roger Rajkumar in brief comments extended gratitude to Digicel

for remaining on board over the years, while also paying tribute to the word being done by the Organising Committee.

Mo Saffie speaking on behalf of the USA-based contingent also was full of praise for the support Digicel has offered over the years not only to golf, but the sporting community at large.

Saffie, who has been attending the tournament for the past ten years admitted that the event is getting bigger and better, adding that it is for that reason it is becoming more competitive and popular.

NEE launches second Stag Beer/Cell Smart Futsal Tournament L i n d e n ’s p r e m i e r promotion company, New Era Entertainment (NEE) launched its second Stag Futsal Knockout tournament yesterday at 704 Sports Bar with sponsors and stakeholders making it clear that the event is entrenched in the Linden community.

According to one of the NEE Directors, Kenrick Noel, the tournament commences on November 6 at the Mackenzie Sports Club Hardcourt and continues on November 7, 11, 13 and grand finals on November 21 at the same venue.

Noel thanked the sponsors present and informed that the winners will pocket $250,000 while the second place team takes home $150,000. The third and fourth place teams in the 16-team contest home $75,000 and $50,000 along

Stag Beer Brand Manager, Lyndon Henry (fifth, right) hands over the Championship Trophy to NEE’s Winston Fraser while other Directors, sponsors and stakeholders share the moment at the 704 Bar yesterday. with trophies respectively.

In addition, prizes will be awarded to the Best Goal Keeper and Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the tournament. “You all are always supportive of us. You are always there for us when we need you the most,” Noel told the sponsors present at the launch.

The NEE Director stated that there will be exhibition games for schools, and mining companies, during the competition. The 16 participating teams were required to pay a $5000 registration fee. New Era first hosted the initial Stag tournament last year.

Stag Brand Manager,

Lyndon Henry said that the Beer with the slogan ‘A Man’s Beer’ is not any stranger to football and more definitively, Futsal. “This is a fitting tournament for out supporters in Linden,” Henry said, before encouraging fans to support the event.

According to him, Ansa McAl under its Stag Beer

brand has just launched a new promotion that requires the submission of Stag caps (corks). He stated that tournament is a good opportunity for Lindeners to pile up their crowns for chances to win.

Other sponsors present, who also gave brief remarks included Cell Smart

representative, Lenford Malcolm and Bumper to Bumper representative Toshawna Allicock. Guyana Football Federation representative Rawle Toney and Guyana Futsal Association President, Henry Chase were present as well.

“I am new to football. We need a change in the society, a new breed and fresh air; when you look at Guyana sometimes you wonder what is happening here. I am looking for diversity and to grow sport at the schools level,” Chase said.

In that context, he informed that the Futsal association will be aiming to have Futsal a part of the schools from the pee wee stage. Toney said that the Football Federation’s “doors are open” to the organisers and Futsal association to lend support at anytime.

t r o Sp NSC Tour of Guyana 5-Stage Cycle Road Race

Team Coco’s Carlos Ospina starts Third Stage today as Overall Leader

Jaime Ramirez of Team Cocos approaches the line to win Stage 2 unchallenged. (GCN)

All-round Dottin hands Windies lead

Digicel Guyana Open Golf Tournament

Persaud, Deo will have to be at imperious best to retain titles; over 80 entries expected SEL double header on today at GFC

Alpha and Bakewell Slingerz notch comfortable wins GCB/Scotiabank Kiddy Progression One Cricket…

Deandra Dottin receives the Player-of-the-Match award from Assistant Secretary of Grenada Cricket Association Michelle Bideau WICB Media/Randy Brooks of Brooks Latouche

Mentore’s 78 pushes Hopetown Primary into final of West Berbice District

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