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

Examining Kwayana’s defence of Dr. David Hinds

DEAR EDITOR, Without any hesitation Mr. Eusi Kwayana rushes to defend his fellow Buxtonian Dr David Hinds, mimicking God as if to say “Behold My Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, in whom I have glorified my Name.”

Why is the same firebrand who failed to instigate harassed Buxtonians to dig up and destroy the pristine PPP/C-built roads in the village so favored by his mentor, and they both living in America?

What informs our ‘saintly elder-in-exile pleasures when rabble rousing politicians such as Dr Hinds were busy fanning the flames of violence in Linden which resulted in three Guyanese being unfortunately shot dead?

What is Mr. Kwayana’s continuing nexus with an expired agenda associated with death, destruction, doubt, damnation and racial divisions all constantly opposed to that which is good, peaceful, progressive and fair in Guyana?

Why has a justifiable equality for all Guyanese to pay the same electricity rates only again emphasized Mr. Kwayana and company’s disconnect with Guyana’s realities?

Without any doubt Mr. Kwayana’s letter, “OP discredited Hinds when he complained of harassment instead of discouraging it” in the SN of 11-9-12 indeed exhibits a nagging

disturbance about Dr Hinds activities.

Should a foreign university’s infamous full time faculty member, evidently busy creating chaos to justify an unfair demand for unequal electricity payments, be rightfully censored because it exposes both to shame and ridicule? Should Guyana’s President become unnecessarily preoccupied with a single visiting Guyanese?

Still, there is neither bite nor credibility whether Mr. Kwayana writes that “it is public knowledge that the PPP/C moved against academics at the University of Guyana and then dismissed some of them for life.” It follows the policy of “our academics” and “those other academics.” There are no academics, as such. In what ways are these (PPP/C) rulers better than those they succeeded (?)”, he inquires.

With a self-admitted “primary and high school” teacher status Mr. Kwayana cannot fail to comprehend that no academic has been assassinated (e.g. Dr Walter Rodney) or been maimed for their entire lives (e.g. Dr Joshua Ramsammy) or fired (e.g. Dr Mohamed Insanally) for unjustifiable causes under the PPP/C’s watch compared to what occurred under the PNC. Those are significant differences in today’s democratic Guyana with its free press.

Urging Buxtonians to

destroy their roads while being in the midst of Linden ‘s death and disturbances certainly cannot be a flattering image to which any good American educational institution would be pleased when it employs the foreignbased national, Dr Hinds.

Yet while the university reportedly championed Dr Hinds’s right to free speech in America, it has no jurisdiction nor can it be held responsible to either defend or guarantee those rights in Guyana.

“All cannot be equal with some being more equal than others”, (George Orwell’s 1984) even when President Ramotar is also expected to comply.

Did anyone really expect Mr. Kwayana to be openly pointing a finger at APNU and its leaders? Why shouldn’t he? Former PNC leader Mr. Robert Corbin did warn of “wild men in our midst”. Since Dr Hinds and that opposition party are at loggerheads what else does explain why they have rejected and abandoned him?

The proof of the pudding can only be in the eating.

Guyanese cannot and must not be condemned constantly and forever by visits of racial violence, death, destruction doubts and divisions when democratic avenues are available. So what are we to expect when Mr. Kwayana warns:”Look out Citizens….”

Sultan Mohamed

Guyana and the upcoming South America Arab Summit - Where are the diplomats?

DEAR EDITOR, The Third Summit of South American and Arab Countries (ASPA) will be held in Lima, Peru on October 1, 2012 and will bring together leaders of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the Arab League, including 12 and 22 countries respectively.

As of now, the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI; the Emir of Qatar, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani; the Prime Minister of Kuwait, Jaber al Sabah; Lebanon’s President Michel Sulaiman; Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas; and the Secretary General, of the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Abdul Latif Bin Rashid Al Zayani; and the Arab League Secretary General, Nabil El Araby have confirmed attending.

Indications are strong that the new President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, who is keen to diversify Egyptian relations, will be in Peru.

According to Peruvian Deputy Foreign Minister, Jose Beraún Aranibar, the two-day summit will focus on political dialogue and cooperation. A business

forum and bilateral meetings between the leaders of South American and Arab countries will be held on the first day of the summit.

This is why it is essential that Guyana is represented in Peru at the highest level, and at the foreign ministerial meetings prior to the heads of state summit. The Foreign Minister of Guyana, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, herself should participate in this summit.

Interestingly, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Guyana can’t confirm whether President Ramotar will travel to Peru.

Since this is a heads of government summit in Guyana’s backyard, South America, it is expected that Ramotar will attend and given the fact that he is new in office, this is the forum to expand bilateral ties with member-states and especially in the areas of trade and investments.

If indeed President Ramotar is keen to advance ties with UNASUR and GCC countries- Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman, one would expect him in Peru.

NCN needs review

DEAR EDITOR, It’s quite clear that the method used by the National Communications Network(NCN) for broadcasting should go through a comprehensive reform in order to represent its purpose of being a National Communication Network by motto.

To say your are national and then differ is insignificant; to be national first of all you must have a coalition of political views and transmit these without prejudice and partiality.

Gilbert Morrison

The AG and the Chancellor earn what the President...

From page 4 Head of the Judiciary or the Attorney General who sits in the President’s cabinet receiving such a salary but Mr. Jagdeo as Head of State, according to Maxwell, is exhibiting ‘bullyism, insolence, intimidation and entitlement’ just because he receives not more but the same salary as one of his Ministers.

The nonsense articulated by this letter writer clearly shows the contempt he has for the intelligence of Guyanese as he is quick to pull out the 2011 GDP per capita figure of US$2869 but then boldly states as fact that former President Jagdeo destroyed this nation during his tenure in office.

Mr. Maxwell and his opposition colleagues would do well to state what the GDP per capita was in 2009 when Mr. Jagdeo assumed the Office of President of Guyana and compare it to what it was when he left, some 12 years later.

Just as a reminder, the GDP when the PPP/C came to office in 1992 was somewhere around US$300 US.

The greatest fraud by Maxwell and his opposition colleagues is not only reserved for the people of Guyana but also Americans as the opposition in Guyana have apparently rewritten the Congressional report on what the former US President’s benefits are.

Maxwell is keen to compare what he believes is the figure of the total package of President Jagdeo’s pension to that of what he believes will be Mr. Obama’s when he demits office.

Maxwell appears to be an expert when he pronounces that the former Guyanese Head of State will receive more than his American counterpart and his usual semantics follow. According to him, President Jagdeo’s pension and other benefits will add up to approximately US$180,000 per year while President Obama will receive US $127,129 per year.

His blatant lie is exposed in a 2008 report to the US Congress on former President’s Federal Pension and Retirement Benefits

where entitlements for former President Bill Clinton for that year amounted to US$ 1.162 million. This does not include security and other costs and the figures were provided by the US Office of Budget, General Services Administration.

But it does not end there as it is clear that all the figures Mr. Maxwell bundles around regarding the former President’s salary and pension are merely guesstimates as in reality Jagdeo’s pension would be around US$72,000 annually.

It was actually funny to observe no other than AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan on television recently attempting

to justify his misinformation that the President’s Pension was $3M per month or as Maxwell parroted and came up with the grand sum of US$180,000 US annually.

In reality the former Guyanese President’s pension is but a mere fraction of what former US Presidents receive— another lie by the opposition exposed.

Now we know what method was used by the AFC when it crafted its manifesto and publicly paraded financial plans to cure all the ailments of Guyana and then some, in the lead up to the last elections.

What they are not telling the Guyanese people is that the same set of benefits for former President Jagdeo was also afforded to former President’s Arthur Chung, Hoyte and Janet Jagan. Why are they so obsessed with only former President Jagdeo?

I conclude by noting that the arrogance of this letter by Maxwell is a reflection of the mentality of the opposition who believe that they can blatantly lie to the Guyanese people about the PPP/C Government and they will never be held accountable.

Romel Roopnarine

This could very well be the best opportunity for Dr. Odeen Ishmael, Guyana’s Ambassador to Kuwait, to familiarize himself with the leaders of the region, since he will be appointed Ambassador to Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Ishmael participated in the last preparatory meeting in Cairo where they drafted the final text of the final declaration of the upcoming summit. However, the section on Syria is yet to be finalized, since the situation there is “fluid and on-going.”

Former President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo’s attempt to visit Qatar was cancelled twice and there is much talk about Guyana seeking investments from the Qatar, one of the world’s richest countries.

Rodrigues-Birkett and Odeen Ishmael should already be setting the groundwork for a bilateral meeting between the Emir of Qatar and Ramotar in Peru given the fact that Ramotar sent a letter immediately after taking office to the Emir of Qatar expressing Guyana’s desire to forge stronger economic and political cooperation with Doha.

However, Guyana is not serious about foreign direct investments.

If Georgetown is keen to solicit investments, it must build institutions, end the bureaucracy and corruption, and employ homegrown talent regardless of race and political affiliations to improve the foreign ministry.

R. Chickerie

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US$840M Amaila Falls Hydroelectric Project...

The construction agreement of what would be Guyana’s costliest infrastructural project – the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric Project (AFHEP) – has been signed, government announced yesterday.

Construction is expected to start in mid-2013.

According to a statement issued by the Government Information Agency (GINA), the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) agreement for the construction of the Amaila Falls Hydro project and Transmission Line was yesterday executed in Xian, China, by Sithe Global, the developer, and China Railway First Group (CRFG), the construction company.

There were no indications before yesterday that a government team had left for China for the signing.

The contract, valued at US$506M, was signed by Bruce Wrobel, Chief

Executive Officer (CEO) of Sithe Global, and Dr. Sun Yonggang, Chairman of China Railway First Group (CRFG).

According to GINA, speaking at the signing ceremony, Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh described the occasion as a historic moment for Guyana and for Guyana-China relations. He alluded to “the strong historic relations between the two countries and the increasing role that Chinese enterprises are playing in the development of Guyana.”

According to the Minister, the Amaila Falls project presents an opportunity for these relations to enter a new phase as the project represents the single largest investment in Guyana and one of the largest Chinese investments in the Caribbean.

Also in China for the signing were Chairman of the Guyana Power and Light, Winston Brassington; Office of the President Advisor, Steven Grin, along with representatives of the Province of Shaanxi, the China Development Bank, China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation, the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB), and other representatives of Sithe Global and China Rail. ”This transformational project is the single largest investment in Guyana and will allow Guyana in one single

Sithe Global’s CEO, Bruce Wrobel

GPL’s Chairman, Winston Brassington

step to move from being almost entirely dependent on costly fossil fuels to being supplied almost entirely by renewable energy. We are delighted to have such credible partners recognize the importance of the project and be ready to invest private capital in Guyana,” Minister Singh said.

Wrobel stated that, “We are pleased to be associated with this project, long in the making, that will make a huge difference to the people of Guyana and is representative of the globalised world that we inhabit, a project with many important players, such as the CRFG, CDB, IDB, the Government of Norway, and the GoG.” The Chinese construction firm, CRFG, was founded in 1950 and is a state-owned

entity, with over US$9B in annual revenue. It is part of China Railway Engineering Group, a company with over US$90B in revenue and the third largest construction company in China and one of the top 100 construction companies in the World, GINA said.

CRFG is headquartered in Xian, China.

Sithe Global is a fullyowned subsidiary of the Blackstone Group.

Blackstone is said to be one of the largest private equity funds in the world with over US$120B under management.

China Development Bank is one of the largest commercial banks in China with assets in excess of US$900B. The project is being led by the Shaanxi branch of the CDB, in Xian.

Dr. Sun Yonggang, Chairman of China Railway First Group (CRFG) The IDB is one of Guyana’s oldest development partners in the energy sector and an institution with over US$171B in capital.

In June, Sithe Global said that it was hoping to have financial closure on the project by March 2013. It has established a local company, Amaila Falls Hydro Inc. (AFH), to handle the project in Guyana.

There were no details in the statement yesterday as to whether there was financial closure for the project and how the US$840M will be spent.

During meetings in Guyana earlier this year, Sithe Global officials had offered a detailed look into the project costs, timelines and issues leading up to the financial closure of the project.

The company had also warned of cost increases.

“One risk of delay is that the project’s construction contract price could increase.

Such increases could result from changes in foreign

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Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh currency exchange rates or other factors. While previous currency adjustments resulted in substantial cost increases, the US Dollar to Chinese Yuan Renminbi foreign exchange rates have not moved significantly in the first half of 2012.”

The project has been marred by concerns over the high costs which started from US$600M and has risen to over US$800M without a stone being laid or a screw turned.

It was also hampered by the scandalous US$15.4M road project contract awarded under controversial circumstances to Makeshwar ‘Fip’ Motilall. The contract was terminated earlier this year because of the absence of a performance bond.

The Amaila Hydropower Project, (approximately 165MW capacity), to be located in western Guyana, in Region Eight, will include a new 270 km transmission line and new substations leading to Georgetown. Currently, nearly all electric generation in Guyana is provided through small units burning either diesel or heavy fuel oil.

A significant portion of the country’s foreign exchange is spent on importing fossil fuel.

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In unusual snub, Obama to ANC rebel calls for national mine strike in South Africa avoid meeting with Netanyahu

Former African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) President Julius Malema addresses striking miners outside a South African mine in Rustenburg, 100 km (62 miles) northwest of Johannesburg August 18, 2012. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (Reuters) - ANC renegade Julius Malema called yesterday for a national strike in South Africa’s mining sector, stirring fear of an escalation in the labour unrest already buffeting the platinum and gold industries in the continent’s largest economy.

The flagship sector has been hit by a walkout that culminated in mid-August in violence between striking miners and police that killed 44 people. Of these, 34 were miners shot in a single day by police at the Marikana mine of Lonmin, the world’s No. 3

platinum producer.

The so-called “Marikana massacre” has brewed a political storm for President Jacob Zuma and his African National Congress (ANC) government. Detractors accuse them of neglecting the working masses who fought and shed blood to help achieve the end of whiteminority apartheid rule in 1994.

The industrial trouble rocking the platinum belt has spread to gold, with a second illegal strike in as many weeks at a mine run by world No. 4 bullion producer Gold Fields,

where 15,000 workers downed their tools on Sunday night.

“There must be a national strike in all the mines,” Malema, who has previously led calls for the nationalization of South Africa’s mines, told Gold Fields strikers yesterday at a stadium in Carletonville west of Johannesburg.

Malema is the disgraced former head of the ANC’s youth wing who was expelled from the party earlier this year for indiscipline. A skilful political operator with a populist touch, he and other opponents of Zuma have been trying to use the mine unrest to pressure the president ahead of an ANC leadership conference in December.

The labour upheaval is damaging the ruling ANC’s claim to be a champion of worker interests, even as it tries to promote stable growth in the world’s top platinum-producing state.

There was no end in sight to the month-long strike that has paralyzed Lonmin after thousands of protesters armed with sticks and machetes marched in a show of force on Monday, vowing to hunt and kill strikebreakers.

WA S H I N G T O N / JERUSALEM (Reuters) In a highly unusual rebuff to a close ally, the White House said yesterday that President Barack Obama would not meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a U.S. visit later this month, as tensions escalated over how to deal with Iran’s nuclear programme.

The apparent snub, coupled with Netanyahu’s sharpened demands for a tougher U.S. line against Iran, threatened to plunge U.S.-Israeli relations into crisis and add pressure on Obama in the final stretch of a tight presidential election campaign.

An Israeli official, who declined to be identified, said the White House had refused N e t a n y a h u ’s request to meet Obama when the Israeli leader visits the United States to attend the U.N. General A s s e m b l y, t e l l i n g t h e Israelis, “The president’s schedule will not permit that.”

White House spokesman Tommy Vietor denied that Netanyahu’s request had been spurned, insisting instead that the

two leaders were attending the General Assembly on different days and would not be in New York at the same time.

Netanyahu has had a strained relationship with Obama, but they have met on all but one of his U.S. trips since 2009. The president was on a foreign visit when the prime minister came to the United States in November 2010.

By withholding a meeting, the Democratic president could alienate some Jewish and pro-Israel voters as he seeks a second term in the November 6 election.

Republican rival Mitt Romney has already accused Obama of being too tough on Israel and not hard enough on Iran.

The White House’s decision could signal U.S. displeasure with Netanyahu’s intensifying pressure for Obama to set specific red lines on Iran.

Obama aides say privately

they believe Netanyahu favors Romney, a fellow conservative, although the Israeli leader has been cautious to avoid being seen interfering in the election campaign.

Word that the two men would not meet came on the same day that Netanyahu said the United States had forfeited its moral right to stop Israel from taking action against Iran’s nuclear programme because it had refused to be firm with Tehran itself.

Netanyahu has argued that setting a clear boundary for Iran’s uranium enrichment activities and imposing stronger economic sanctions could deter Tehran from developing nuclear weapons and mitigate the need for military action.

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T&T Government to repeal controversial sections of new legislation PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - CMC - The Trinidad and Tobago parliament will meet today to repeal the controversial section 34 of the Administration of Justice (Indictable Offences) Act 2011 that allowed two prominent financiers of the ruling United National Congress (UNC) to petition the Supreme Court to dismiss a multiple of corruption charges against them.

The unpopular law calls for dismissing court cases 10 years or older that have not gone to trial in the Caribbean nation.

Many Trinidadians oppose the law because it would drop charges against former prime minister Basdeo Panday and other government officials accused of receiving millions of dollars

in bribes and kickbacks from a U.S. contractor in the 1990s.

U.S. authorities have long sought to extradite two of the suspects and have condemned the law as well.

Two business executives, Ish Galbaransingh and Steve Ferguson in the case pleaded guilty in a U.S. court in 2006.

The main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) yesterday called for an urgent sitting of Parliament “within 48 hours” to amend legislation that allowed two prominent financiers of the ruling United National Congress (UNC) to petition the Supreme Court to dismiss a multiple of corruption charges against them.

PNM and Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley told a news conference that if the government fails to convene a session of Parliament, he

Opposition calls for AG and Justice Minister to resign over Section 34 of the Justice Act

has already written to the Police seeking permission “to stage a demonstration of citizens outside the office of the prime minister tomorrow morning”.

He said citizens would march to the official residence of President George Maxwell

Richards “to present to him a signed petition on behalf of traumatised citizens…who seek protect from the vulgar and corrupt action of the Kamla Persad Bissessar government”.

In addition, Rowley said the PNM is calling for the immediate resignation of Attorney General Anand Ramlogan and Justice Minister Herbert Volney for their roles in the passage of the Administration of Justice (Indictable Offences) Act 2011 which takes effect from January 2, next year.

The new legislation replaces the Preliminary Enquiry Act and negates the need for a preliminary enquiry to be held in relation to

ensure that ACP countries can carry out key projects that can boost development, but cannot be financed by the existing channels, for whatever reasons.

“Research already shows there are significant gaps in trade financing and SME (small to medium business) financing, for instance – areas which are absolutely essential to ACP economies,” said Chef de Cabinet of the ACP Secretariat Dr Obadiah

Mailafia, who is coordinating the BITI project.

The Secretariat said that ACP countries will be the dominant shareholders in the institution, although investors may include European countries, international banking firms such as the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the BRICs partners.

The ACP Secretariat said that the original idea for such a bank stemmed from an ACP Council decision taken in 1980, which called for an exploration of the issue, but had lost steam.

Dr. Keith Rowley

ACP countries to establish own bank to help in their development BRUSSELS - CMC - The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States says it has launched a study to examine the feasibility of opening a trade and investment bank to service 79 member states.

The ACP Bank for International Trade and Investment (BITI) is intended to address gaps in existing financing methods which prevent valid projects from being realised, the ACP

Secretariat said.

It said the six month European Union (EU) funded study that ends in December, will result in a team of experts analysing financing gaps, conduct a market survey in ACP regions, and propose an implementation framework for the bank including its structure, membership and location, sources of capital and operational activities and financial instruments.

“The global objective is to

matters filed indictably.

However Section 34 of the Act which addresses “discharge on the grounds of delay” states: “(1) Where proceedings are instituted on or after the coming into force of this Act and the Master is not, within twelve months after the proceedings are instituted, in a position to order that the accused be put on trial, the Master shall discharge the accused and a verdict of not guilty shall be recorded” except in certain cases such as the accused evading the process of the Court and after the expiration of 10 years from the date on which an offence is alleged to have been committed.

B u s i n e s s m e n Galbaransingh and Ferguson have been facing fraud and laundering charges relating to the re-development of the Piarco International Airport in 2001.

The men are also wanted in the United States on a number of related charges and last year Washington said it was “disappointed” that the Trinidad and Tobago government had decided not to appeal a High Court ruling against extraditing the two financiers of the UNC, the biggest partner in the fourparty coalition People’s Partnership.

In a brief statement yesterday, the US Embassy here said Washington “is concerned by reports the Ishwar Galbaransingh and Steve Ferguson fraud case

Kamla Persad Bissessar may be dropped” It reminded that the two men “were first indicted in 2005 in a Miami Federal Court on numerous fraud and money laundering charges stemming from alleged bid rigging between 1996 and 2005 on contracts for the Piarco International Airport.

“The United States continues to seek their extradition despite the ruling last year by the Trinidad and Tobago High Court. They remain under indictment in the United States. Mr. Galbaransingh and Mr. Ferguson are accused of committing fraud involving millions of dollars. It would be highly disappointing if, after years of investigation, their case was not brought to trial.”

On Monday, attorneys for the two men petitioned the local court to have the charges against them dismissed citing Section 34 of the Administration of Justice (Indictable Proceedings) Act 2011.

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WHY ARE THESE ISSUES BEING IGNORED? Whether it is two, twenty or thirty, it is not feasible to have a nursery school with any of those numbers of students. You cannot have a school with two students, or with twenty students or even with thirty students.

A nursery school has to have at least two levels with at least two classes per level.

With fifteen students on average per class, at the minimum there should be no less than sixty students before a school can be properly constituted.

To have a school population of twenty students will mean that only one teacher can be gainfully employed. It makes no sense to have one teacher and one headmistress as part of the organizational chart of any school.

These are the practicalities of having schools in areas where the student population is small.

It would in fact in such instances make better sense for the students to go to another school since they would be part of a large student environment and more students. If, however, the other school is too far away, then alternative measures would have to be put in place.

On the issue of alternatives, the Ministry of Education must be congratulated for the prompt action they took to deal with the reassignment of children who were affected by the destruction of the school at Wismar by fire, during the unrest in Linden last month.

After the protests ended, there was a commitment by residents to rebuild the school with their own

resources. This was a fantastic gesture by the community. In fact, at the end of the protests, there was a massive cleaning-up of the debris by a group of residents.

By now one would have expected that the work of rebuilding the school would have progressed significantly.

But there have been no reports in the media about the progress of this initiative by the people to rebuild the school with their own resources. So just how far have the works gone and when is the school expected to be completed? How are funds being raised, and if so, how much has been raised overseas?

The Ministry of Education should allow the community to rebuild the school with their own resources. These are initiatives that should be encouraged.

While the Ministry did indicate that it was their responsibility to rebuild the school, it would be good to encourage the community in their efforts to rebuild the school and perhaps to set the sort of example of community spirit that can be imitated throughout the country.

APNU should make a statement on this issue. Some of its members have been making all kinds of statements, but strangely on certain issues, no statements have been forthcoming and the media seem not too concerned with finding out what is the state of play on a number of issues.

One of the strangest comments recently from persons within APNU was about wanting a meeting with the Commission of Inquiry. It seems that those who want this meeting do not appreciate just what they signed on to.

Dem boys seh Laugh, cry or complain to Uncle Donald De world will always remember 9/11. That was de day in 2001 when terrorists knock America so hard that dem change up nuff of dem policy. 9/11/2012 knock Guyana hard. That was de day when Jagdeo saddle de country wid a project that all aweee pickney, great grand pickney and great-great grand pickney gun holler and suffer to repay a debt. Dem gun pay through dem nose.

The project is one that Jagdeo and Brazzy and Shaatie design fuh enrich demself. Is de hydro seed project. Just like how dem terrorist pay and still paying is suh dem who saddle Guyana wid this debt gun pay and pay dear. That is wha dem boys wish pun dem and dem offspring, dem Mooma, dem Daddy, dem buddy and plus dem sissy too.

Dem boys telling de nation that dem got nutten against de hydro. Even Uncle Donald want hydro. But at wha’ cost? Dem boys want fuh tell Uncle Donald that want is something that every human being know about. Every day somebody want something, but at wha’ cost?

Some want car but wha’ dem gun pay? None of dem gun pay $8 million fuh a $3 million Allion. Children does want bicycle, but no parent gun pay $100,000 fuh a $15,000 bicycle.

Nobody gun pay $10,000 fuh a $500 underwear.

Is like man. He does want woman but fuh sure he nah gun indebt heself or go in ee bank account fuh a li’l piece. Rob Earth, Irfaat, Carl and Joe from de Palm 3 party know that well.

Dem does go in dem pocket but not in dem bank account. Dem boys hear that Irfaat does cheat dem poor li’l gyal.

But dem boys know fuh sure that de hydro is like a pole fuh all aweee. You don’t have choice ‘bout how much you gun tek.

You have a choice fuh grin, smile, laugh, cry or complain.

Talk half or complain to Uncle Donald.

A Commission of Inquiry (COI) is a not a committee. It is a fact-finding body that bases its conclusions on evidence. The work of an inquiry involves formal hearings. There is therefore no place for any sort of meeting between anybody and the commission. Those who have something to say have to do so in the hearings.

The COI has judicial powers, including the power to sanction witnesses who are found lying.

As such the work of the COI is serious business, and therefore the idea of a meeting between persons and the Commission seems misplaced.

Interestingly, no attempt has been made by the media

to advise those wanting a meeting that this would not be appropriate and that they should hold what they have to say for the hearings.

The media has also been strangely silent as to why there were delays in polling for the positions on the Executive of the PNCR and why the elections went so late into the night. Why was there no post – Congress rally at the Square of the Revolution as is the norm? And what has been the reaction to reports that by the end of the voting only a small fraction of the total registered voting delegates were present.

This raises an important issue as to how representative

can it be said about some, not all, of those elected, especially those elected by only a small fraction of the total registered voters. Or was it that there was no controversy? Could it be that there was a high voter turnout of delegates right through the process at the Congress? Why is the media so disinterested in these issues?

When the issue of conflict of interest of the wife of the Minister of Finance was raised there were many voices railing against the confirmation of the young lady? But now that a conflict of interest charge has also been raised in respect to the AFC’s position on the award of the specialty hospital,

some of the very vocal watchdog bodies seem to have gone silent. How come?

If the notion is accepted that one can speak professionally and at the same time politically on an issue without being in a conflict of interest, why then can’t a similar claim be made in respect to conflict of interest in the audit office?

And why the indifference and silence by the media?

What is good for the goose must be good for the gander.

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THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN

Do the Maths on Jagdeo’s house The story of the mansion (using the word literally, I believe that description is not an exaggeration) has begun.

I don’t think it is going to fade away. That edifice is just too elaborate, luxurious, majestic and extravagant, for it not to continue in the news and among commentators.

If a case could have been argued for Mr. Jagdeo, the statement by the AttorneyGeneral (AG) has completely blown away any logic that could have come Mr. Jagdeo’s way.

The AG said that when Mr. Jagdeo came into power, he did not have properties and assets in his name.

Immediately, it brings into focus, mathematics. It is when you do the maths against the AG’s announcement that we see that Mr. Jagdeo has some formidable questions to answer.

One fact stands out conspicuously - in Mr. Jagdeo’s twelve years as President, he did not have any other full-time or part-time occupation that brought in an

extra income. It figures then that all expenditures by Mr. Jagdeo had to come from savings or loans or gifts.

In all the controversy over his first house in Pradoville One, he did not speak about loans and gifts. So we start with the first house. He sold it for $120 million. Let us say that he made a whopping profit; maybe about $30 million, it still leaves you with a construction that cost between eighty and ninety million dollars.

In ten years of his

presidency at a million dollars a month in salary without loans and gifts, could Mr. Jagdeo have accumulated so much when you consider that he had other expenses that go with living in a modern world?

He got $120M for the Pradovile One outfit. We come now to Pradoville Two. Assessing the price of a house in any country is as simple as looking up at the skies. Just gaze upwards with your eyes and you will see the Milky Way. Take a calculator and work out with Jagdeo’s

salary for twelve years and determine whether he could have afforded that mansion.

So what is the cost of his edifice? I went to see it for the purpose of this column. In my estimation at current international market rates, Mr. Jagdeo’s home will fetch around US$3 million ($600M).

Those kinds of houses are owned by wealthy sports and entertainment stars.

Mr. Jagdeo got $120M for an ordinary layout in Pradoville One. If he can get that price for a normal upper middle class domicile, then surely his current Pradoville Two is worth five times what the first home cost. What the opposition needs to do is confront the Jagdeo defenders with a challenge.

Let a Caribbean real estate agent come to Guyana and assess the value of the house.

Whatever value they come up with, Mr. Jagdeo will still be in hot water when you take out your calculator and add up his salary over twelve years. The dilemma with authoritarian regimes is that the drift into cruel dictatorship becomes inevitable, because with each day a sin is committed for which there is the fear that if the government changes there will be investigations into those vices.

What happens, then, is that the regime fights each day to stay alive in order to prevent the fall of power. In so doing, more vices are committed with the specific purpose of prolonging power.

A full-fledged dictatorship evolves because everyday

Frederick Kissoon energies are spent on weakening opposition organizations.

It is this writer’s inflexible view that the PPP will not accept the loss of power, either electorally or through a Velvet Revolution, because the greatest trepidation will be the inquiry into wrongdoing. A judicial commission is likely to recommend prosecution and loss of questionable assets.

I predict that if there is a successful no-confidence motion in Parliament, the PPP will not resign but will go to court. Can any citizen in this land see the PPP Government quietly leaving office because it lost a no-confidence motion in the National Assembly?

The first reaction would be to question the legitimacy of the process that led to the motion in the first place. Then the actual legality of the motion will be challenged.

Of course, all this can take months or years in the courts.

If the general election results in defeat, all kinds of obstacles will be erected to prevent a new government from sitting. The brutal reality in Guyana is that power has been used in horrific ways, especially to accumulate wealth, and the incumbent office-holders simply will not accept the legal loss of power.

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$1.1B engineers’ estimates for roads, drains pure water network at Kilcoy/ Chesney

Under the Ministry of Housing and Water several bids were submitted for the construction of roads, drains and structures and installation of pure water distribution network at Kilcoy/ Chesney, Berbice Region six.

The bids were opened by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), Ministry of Finance, Main Street yesterday.

The bids were divided into seven lots and the engineers’ estimates were: Lot (1) $144,501,467, Lot (2) $157,176,003, Lot (3) $143,692,313, Lot (4) $183,027,735, Lot (5) $202,896,634, Lot (6) $193,902,852, Lot (7) $92,931,300.

Bids were also opened for the procuring of brochures for the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) The 30,000 brochures will cover five areas of energy conservation in households; this will be distributed through the country.

With a budgetary estimate of $800,000 the bids were:

The Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport also received bids for the repairs to roads at New Opportunity Corps.

The engineer’s estimate is $1,870,000 and the bids were:

The Supreme Court also received bids for the upgrading of a walkway, driveway, drains and corridors of the High Court in Georgetown, Region Four.

With an engineer’s estimate of $7,986,995 the bids are as follows:

After four years remains finally...

(From page 2) remains is important for any further analysis and if it costs a million dollars a day to ensure proper storage we have to do it,” the Minister had declared.

Rohee added that his Government and the police would have come under more scrutiny if they had failed to properly store the remains.

“If we were not doing that (storing the remains at a parlour) and these remains were left stored in a box where rats and cockroaches were interfering with it, we would have been worse off and we would have been accused of being delinquent,” Rohee added.

“This is the price we have to pay if we want serious results.”

But Yonette Torres is less than convinced that everything was done by the administration to bring closure to the saga that has been eating away at her heart for the past four years.

She desperately wanted to look at the remains in the coffins but was obviously prevented by parlour officials who explained that such a proposition would be unwise.

“They never called us to see,” she said, adding that four years ago, the police passed her home at Kwakwani with the remains and didn’t even allow her to see them.

“They are so compromised. They don’t want nobody see it,” she cried as she was restrained by her hus-

band and parlour employees.

Mrs. Torres and her husband had traveled all the way from Kwakwani for yesterday’s occasion after they were informed by the police that the remains would have been buried yesterday.

She was not happy with the way the matter of the burial was handled, making it even more difficult for her and the rest of her family.

“I didn’t have any money and they gave me six thousand dollars alone to travel to town. That could not do for us because we had no money to buy any snack while we were in Georgetown and they say they were going to give us passage to go back,” Yonette Torres lamented.

She was adamant that she still needs answers to the heinous crime that took her son’s life.

But for Nigel Torres Sr., yesterday brought an end to the episode.

“I am satisfied, that’s why I come and see he bury,” the elder Torres said.

On June 21, 2008, dredge owner Leonard Arokium discovered the charred remains

of eight of his employees in a burnt-out camp at Lindo Creek, Berbice River.

Of course there is still controversy over who actually killed the miners, with the owner of the camp and the security forces coming up with different theories.

Leonard Arokium claimed that he had received a phone call from a woman who told him that “some soldiers” had shot and killed his men and burnt their bodies.

The Joint Services categorically denied the claims made by the dredge owner that soldiers committed the brutal crime.

Police had blamed the attack on Rondell ‘Fineman’ Rawlins and his gang, whom they said they had encountered during a confrontation at Christmas Falls a few weeks prior to the gruesome discovery.

Rawlins and members of his gang were subsequently hunted down and killed, and the security forces had eseentially intimated that the Lindo Creek case had died with them.

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Bel Air Park robbery…

Accused pleads guilty, gets 8 years Tw e n t y - y e a r - o l d Rabindranauth Seemangal was yesterday sentenced to an eight-year jail term after pleading guilty to charges stemming from the 2011 armed robbery committed at the Bel Air Park home of prominent businessman Malcolm Panday.

The accused and five others are jointly facing the robbery under arms matter that is being heard before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The charge against Seemangal, of 100 Sheriff Street, Georgetown, was that on July 12, 2011, he committed robbery under arms against Panday’s wife, Annie Ramsood. He received four years for the offence.

….refuses to testify on prosecution’s behalf

Rabindranauth Seemangal Seemangal received another four years plus a $100,000 fine for having a firearm in his possession while he had no

licence for the gun.

Before the sentence was handed down, the accused asked the court to be lenient and to consider that he had been imprisoned for 14 months. The court took several factors into consideration, including the ages of the young children who Seemangal had ordered his alleged accomplices to kill if Panday’s wife had not complied with orders.

Following a brief deliberation, the court determined that the mitigating factors in the matter were that the accused pleaded guilty and saved the court’s time.

Importance of academic success...

(From page 20) Initiative which targets outof-school youths and students who are falling behind in school. “We are not just leaving things to chance and we are not just ignoring those who have passed school age and have not acquired literacy. We are still targeting them.” According to Deputy CEO, the Ministry has decided to have the Literacy Showcase to amplify some of the things that could be done to help the country’s people become literate. She also underscored that parents have a very critical role to play in

ensuring that their children become literate, adding that research has shown that parents who are illiterate often raise children who are illiterate as well.

“The cycle can go on, but we have to end it. The Ministry of Education has pledged to end this cycle and that is why in Education Month we focus a lot on literacy. We are not only having this showcase today, but we will have spelling bee and essay competitions, debates and all the things that deal with literacy.”

The Literacy Showcase was supported by a number

of organisations including the Guyana Oil Company, Sterling Products, the National Library and the Guyana Book Foundation. It served to showcase the various methods of learning, including those utilised to deliver Special Needs Education, as was highlighted by the Ministry’s Special Needs Education Unit and the Guyana Deaf Ministry. The event yesterday was not without cultural activities which came in the form of dances and an admirable poetic rendition from visually impaired Mekyla Belgrave of St Agnes Primary School.

For the aggravating factors, the court took into consideration the prevalence of the offence, the fact that a gun was used, the family was duct-taped, the amount of money stolen, and that Seemangal ordered that the children be shot if the parent did not comply.

The sentence, however, came after special prosecutor Senior Counsel Bernard De Santos inquired whether the accused would offer evidence on behalf of the prosecution.

Seemangal gave a negative response.

The other accused sat with blank faces during the proceeding, only whispering to each other during sporadic pauses in the matter.

Panday’s mother-in-law,

Chandrada Rampersaud; Hardat Kumar, his wife’s cousin, Jermaine Mitchell, Aubrey Simon and Rayon Jones are those still facing the court in the robbery matter.

Several persons, including Panday’s wife, have so far testified in the matter.

De Santos told the court that the officer who took the confession statement from Seemangal was available to testify. He opined that the policeman’s testimony was obviously too much for the accused, causing him to change his plea for the third time.

De Santos cautioned the others on trial not to wait until the case is over to proclaim their guilt. He advised that it would be beneficial to them if

they saw it fit to take the same course as Seemangal.

This is however the third time that Seemangal is changing his plea since the initial stage of his court appearance. In early June, he pleaded not guilty to the offences against him when he realized that the prosecution was not going to bargain with him for a lesser penalty.

He had been in the lock ups ever since his arrest, while his alleged coconspirators were out on bail.

Seemangal was unable to post the $600,000 that was required.

The case against the other five accused will continue today. More police witnesses are expected to testify.

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North West man gets three years for narcotics

Jailed for three years: Ivor Rose

A coal miner from the North West District was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail after he pleaded guilty to trafficking in narcotics. Ivor Rose, 52, a resident of Mabaruma, had been held with six grams of cocaine and four grams of cannabis in his possession.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry presided over the matter which was presented at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Police prosecutor Gordon Mansfield furnished the court the details of the case.

The case stated that on the day in question, ranks acting on certain information detained Rose who was in the vicinity of the Mabaruma Police Station. The suspect was taken into the station

where a search was conducted of his person. The narcotics were found in hidden in his pants crotch wrapped in five aluminum foil parcels.

Rose was immediately charged with the offence.

An unrepresented Rose said that he accepted the police facts, but claimed that he was on his way home to Kumaka when he picked up a bag that he found on the road.

“I did not open it to see what was inside,” the accused claimed.

The Acting Chief Magistrate then ruled that Rose serve a three-year jail sentence along with a $30,000 fine for the cocaine charge as well as pay a $3,000 fine and serve six months of community service for the marijuana charge.

$150,000 bail for phony travel document Brentnol Bryan, of Linden Squatting Area was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail when he faced Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on two fraud charges, following his detention by immigration officials for allegedly being in possession of a counterfeit travel document.

Bryan, 33, pleaded not guilty to the allegation that between August 27 and September 9 of this year, he conspired with others to forge an Inter-Caribbean Travel Document and attempted to use the said document as a lawful way of traveling.

Reports are that on Sunday, September 9, Bryan was intercepted by a female

police rank of the immigration department on duty at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, as he attempted to use the falsified document to board a flight to Trinidad and Tobago.

Prosecutor Gordon Mansfield told the court that he had no objection to the defendant being given his pre-trial liberty but that the condition of bail be that Bryan report to the fraud squad department at the CID headquarters every Friday.

The magistrate granted the man bail and ordered that he report to the CID as requested by the prosecutor.

Bryan will return to court on October 8.

Kumaka businesswoman remanded on cocaine charge Eleanor Applewaithe, a seamstress from Kumaka, Region One, was yesterday remanded to prison for allegedly having one gram of cocaine in her possession suspected to be used for the purpose of trafficking.

The allegation is that Applewaithe was arrested by police officers after the cocaine was found hidden at a clothing stall which she owns and operates.

The woman pleaded not guilty to the charge which was read to her by the Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Reports are that on Sunday, September 9, police

officers acting on information went to the business place of the defendant and carried out a search of her person and premises.

They allegedly uncovered the substance “wrapped in silver paper” in the building that houses the woman’s business.

Attorney at law Latchmie Rahaman appeared on behalf of Applewaithe. The lawyer said that the information she gathered in regards to how the alleged narcotics was found, differs from what the police facts state. Rahaman then requested an early date for trial to further mitigate the claims of the prosecution.

Applewaithe will return to court today.

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New Amsterdam Prison is new champion

The winning New Amsterdam Prisons team pose with their silverware after their triumph.

The New Amsterdam Prisons astutely lead by its officer commanding Officer Assistant Superintendent Kevin ‘Show Stopper’ Pilgrim, upstaged defending champions the Georgetown Combination of Prison Headquarters & Georgetown Prisons to win the Guyana Prison Services (GPS) Annual

Inter Prison Athletics Championship which was held last Sunday at the Scot Church Ground, Princess Elizabeth Road, New Amsterdam, Berbice.

New Amsterdam Prisons, although sporting a smaller team, executed their plans well to upset the much touted and heavily favoured defending

champions to run away easy winners in the end.

At the end of the day of events New Amsterdam were way ahead with 363 points with the Prison HQ/ Georgetown Prison Combined team crawling in second with 281 points and the combined outstation locations of Mazaruni,

Lusignan & Timehri Prisons trailing in a distant third ending on 159 points.

The Championship was declared open by the Director of Prisons and the battle began in earnest amongst the three teams vying for championship honours in the 30 track and field events staged during the day.

The day’s preceding saw the New Amsterdam Prison athletes dominating the track events segments and holding their own in the field events.

The 100M male open race was won by Cleve Martin, who also blazed away with the 200M and 400M events.

The 100M female sprints was taken by Colette John of The NA prisons, while 200M was won by Marica Murray with A Gray taking honours in the 400M both of New Amsterdam. Ronda Lewis ran away with the female 800M. Assistant Superintendent Kevin ‘Show Stopper’ Pilgrim led from in front with a convincing victory in the 80M male senior officers’ race.

New Amsterdam blazed to victory in both 4x100 relay events. The field events athletes participated in the Shot put, Discus, Javelin and Long Jump. There were also a few novelty events with Georgetown winning both the male and female Tug O War events.

New Amsterdam also made a clean sweep of the male and female champion athlete trophies with Joel Jasper taking away the male

segment with34 points and a victory in the javelin event, while placing second in the 800M, Shot Put and Discus races.

However the most outstanding male participant on show was Cleve Martin with victories in the 100M, 200Mand 400M events. The top female athlete on show was Marica Murray who had victories in the 200M, 1500M and the Shot Put and Discus events. The day’s activity began with the march past and salute which was taken by the Director of Prisons, Dale Erskine, DSM. The respective teams were commanded by Cadet Officer A. Benjamin heading the combined outstation locations, Prison HQ/ Georgetown by ASP O. Cox and New Amsterdam by Cadet Officer T. Hemerding.

In the end combine outstation locations was adjudged the best team during the March Pass.

The athletes will continue training as they prepare to participate in the upcoming Joint service athletics champion ship.

(Samuel Whyte)

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Lennox Braithwaite bang on Defending Champs DHQ assume early lead target in GNRA recorded shoot Former National champion Lennox Braithwaite shot three possibles in a fine display of precision shooting at last Sunday’s Guyana National Rifle Association Recorded Shoot as the National squad continues preparation for the West Indies Fullbore championships to be hosted

by Guyana next month.

Braithwaite recorded a grand total of 150 points with 15 V-bulls out of a Highest Possible Score of 150 points and 30 V-bulls in a remarkable performance at the Timehri Rifle Ranges.

He shot 50 with five Vs at 300, 50 with four Vs at 500 and 50 with six Vs at 900 yards.

National Vice captain Dylan Fields secured

second position with 144 points and 13 Vs with 49.5 at 300, 48.5 at 500 and 47.3 at 900 yards.

Third place went to captain Mahendra Persaud with 142 points and 10 Vs, while Ransford Goodluck placed fourth with 141.9, Ryan Sampson fifth with 135.4 and Claude Duguid sixth with 120.3. Richard Fields, the other shooter in the X Class, only shot one range.

Lt. Col Terrence Stuart was first in the “O” class with 130.7, Peter Persaud second with 128.7 and Charles Deane third with 121.2.

Meanwhile, Vivian Grant of Durban Street, Lodge was the winner of the Guyana National Rifle Association

(GNRA) fund-raising raffle held last weekend at Olympic House.

Second place went to Dwayne Bancroft of Tucville with Alex Persaud of Brickery, East Bank Demerara claiming the third prize.

The other prize winners were S. Sawh of Mon Repos, Kevin Husband of GGMC, Cathyann Henry of C&V Shipping, Ravin of Grove, R. Chetty of Bel Air Village and Gloria Caesar of Waamard Village.

The GNRA would to express gratitude to all patrons of the raffle and BarB-Que as the association prepares to host the West Indies Fullbore championships next month.

The overall results were:

’X’ Class 300 YARDS 500 YARDS 900 YARDS

TOTAL

Lennox Braithwaite Dylan Fields Mahendra Persaud Ransford Goodluck Ryan Sampson Claude Duguid Richard Fields

50.05 49.05 50.05 50.04 43.01 44.02 45.03

50.04 48.05 8.04 45.03 45.00 46.01 47.03

50.06 47.03 44.01 46.02 47.03 30.00 -

150.15 144.13 142.10 141.09 135.04 120.03 92.06

‘O’ Class Lt Col Terrence Stuart Peter Persaud Charles Deane

42.02 44.01 40.01

47.02 45.06 37.00

47.03 39.00 44.01

130.07 128.07 121.02

Inshan Khan smashes...

From page 27 Herodeo Jailall 2 for 9.

Enterprise Legends def.

Better Hope by 58 runs.

Enterprise 215 for 7 in 20 overs. V. Gobin 69. N. Roopdeo 49. N. Jairam 26.

Better Hope 157 for 7 in 20 overs. D. Satro 55. R. Mottoo 36. R. Nankissure 4 for 29.

Bedi Ramjewan Masters def. Defenders by 30 runs.

Bedi 164 for 10 in 25 overs.

Jagdesh Persaud 44. Mukesh Persaud 30. K. Mohamed 5 for

29. Defenders 134 all out in 22.3 overs. N. Rambarose 31.

Doodnauth Sookram 3 for 11.

Mukesh Persaud 3 for 27.

Berbice: Memorex/ Celebrity Times def. Betsy Ground Triple Star by 8 wickets. David Lukenauth 19.

Roy Jafarally 16. K Sobhai 14.

R. Sobhai 14. Rajin Punwasi 3 for 23. Roy Jafarally 3 for 22.

K. Sobhai 2 for 11. R. Sobhai 1 for 5.

The tournament continues on Sunday.

- Men’s High Jump thrills on opening day

TECHNIQUE? NO WAY! But Madainey Humphrey, representing First Infantry Battalion, was effective, claiming the Men’s High Jump title on Day One of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Inter-Division Athletics Championships yesterday at Base Camp Ayangana Ground.

By Edison Jefford All the stars shone as bright as they could have on the opening day of the Guyana Defence Force InterDivision Athletics Championships, but it was the fierce competition that came down to the deciding tie-break in the Men’s High Jump that sent tongues waging.

The organisers could not have asked for better weather, and as such, the competition prevailed at the Base Camp Ayangana Ground yesterday with Madainey Humphrey and James Washington producing a scintillating contest in the Men’s High Jump, which has returned to the list of events in 2012 for the Inter-Services Track and Field Championships.

After the expiration of all their attempts at 1.70m, Humphrey and Washington had similar paths to the height, prompting officials to declare a tie that had to be broken with a jump-off at a height that both athletes consented to, which was 1.60m. Humphrey prevailed over Washington and had the better record for the gold

medal. Kevin Maynard (1.60m) was third.

Following the completion of the event, defending champions, Defence Headquarters (DHQ) had assumed the lead with 75 points; First Infantry Battalion and 21 Artillery was second on 46 points; 31 Special Forces and Training Corps was third on 31 points; Base Camp Ayangana was fourth on 30 points while Base Camp Stephenson and Air Corps was fifth with 25 points to close the first day of competition.

Cleveland Forde set the early tone for the completed finals, coming off his AinLim 10km win to ease to the 5000m victory for DHQ in a time of 15:19.8. First Infantry’s Tyshon Bentick came in second with 17:25.1 while Jamaul Chisholm (18:22.1) was third.

Letitia Myles, representing 31 Special Forces won the Women’s Long jump with a leap of 4.90m with DHQ’s Trimaine Sampson finishing second with 4.29m and Tanisha Dorway third with her mark of 4.00m for Base Camp

Stephenson.

DHQ Quacy Payne and Winston Haynes placed first and second respectively in the Men’s Long Jump with Payne leaping to 6.40m and Haynes 6.22m. B. Wallers was third with 6.03m. Pablino Cupiolo threw the Shot Putt 11.32m to give Base Camp Ayangana a win in the male event while C. Coppin was second with 10.88m and Troy Lewis (10.78m) third.

Defence Headquarters continued to enjoy a good day when Ann Doris won the Shot Putt with the best throw of 9.10m. Joycelyn Scott was second with 8.15m and Kim Daly third with 8.14m, both of the latter athletes represented First Infantry Battalion.

In other events of the day, Letitia Myles set up a 100m final with Tiffany Smith after both ran the top mark of 12.4 seconds in separate Heats yesterday. Akeem Stewart was the top qualifier in an impressive 100m Men’s lineup with 10.4 seconds. Patrick King was the next best qualifier with his mark of 10.6 while Davin Fraser and Winston Haynes ran 10.7 and 10.9 seconds respectively in their Heats to become the leading qualifiers in that race.

Darren Henry with 49.6 seconds was the top qualifier in the Men’s 400m with Leslain Baird who is better known for his Javelin throwing impressing with 49.9 seconds. King qualified third in his pet event with 51.5 seconds, setting up a thrilling final day on Friday.

The keen rivalry continues today with Day Two that include the male and female Discuss, 200m Heats, Triple Jump Final, 800m Medley Final, 1500m Medley Final and 3000m Women Final at 10am at the Base Camp Ayangana Ground.

Wednesday September 12, 2012

Inshan Khan smashes century in latest GFSCA Softball results Inshan Khan smashed a ton as Success Warriors crushed Super Street, while Floodlights turned back Dynamic Security Force in latest play of the Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) Tournament sponsored by Mike’s Pharmacy, Ariel Enterprise, Trophy Stall, Ramchand Auto Spares, Survival, Motor Trend and Petama Enterprise, which continued last Sunday Sept 9th.

Results are as follows: Rockaway def. Trophy Stall B by 1 run. Rockaway 85 all out in 9.3 overs. Jagdesh Deosaran 67. Trophy Stall B 84 all out in 15 overs. J. Deosaran 3 for 18. Richard Gomes 2 for 12. Sakichand Jagdeo 2 for 18.

Young Guns def.

Challengers by 5 wickets.

Challengers 109 for 9 off 15 overs. Randy Ketwaroo 51.

Omar Gaj 4 for 15. Young Guns 110 for 5. Ravendra Singh 42.

Success Masters def.

Savage Masters by 43 runs.

Success 153 for 7 off 25 overs.

Hakim Majeed 39. Savage 110 all out. Hafeez Samad 3 for 12.

Floodlights def.

Dynamic Security Force by 1 wicket. Dynamic 245 for 9 in 20 overs. Eric Thomas 92 (6x11, 4x4). I. Mohamed 63.

Wayne Jones 45. Ricky Deonarine 27 not out. ShazamAli 2 for 36. S. Hercules 2 for 38.

Jaguars def. Tornado by 8 wickets. Tornado 62 all out in 12 overs. J. Sooklall 3 for

17. L. Singh 2 for 12. Jaguars 69 for 2 in 6 overs. L. Singh 39 not out.

Herstelling def. Cena X1 by 6 wickets. Cena 147 for 3 in 12 overs. Herstelling 149 for 4 in 7.5 overs. Avinash Mohabir 84 not out. Omesh Narine 42.

Front Liners def.

Wellman by 9 wickets.

Wellman 94 all out. Aditya Ramnarine 35. R. Sankar 3 for 19. R. Narine 2 for 13. Front Liners 99 for 2. Rudy Rodrigues 44 not out. Linden Mc Coy 42. Success Warriors def. Super Streets by 135 runs.

Success Warriors 242 for 3 in 15 overs. Inshan Khan 106 (6x13).

Nandshyaam Boodhoo 63 (6x6). Super Street 107 all out. Vashish Ramnarine 33. Kapil Singh 4 for 12.

Rafman X1 def. Princess Hotel All Stars by 31 runs.

Rafman 199 all out in 15 overs.

R. Persaud 54. Mark Fumg 46.

P. Paruag 3 for 30. M. Guyadeen 2 for 21. Princess Hotel 168 for 7 in 15 overs. A Sukhram 90. R. Persaud 3 for 30.

El Commandante def.

Flashers by 8 wickets.

Flashers 62 all out in 10 overs.

Vicky Jaikissoon 4 for 4. El Commandante 63 for 2 in 3.4 overs. Safraz Hanif 23.

Ganesh Baljit 2 for 19.

Trophy Stall A def. J & J Bengal Tigers by 6 wickets.

Bengal Tigers 79 all out.

Navin Singh 3 for 8. Trophy Stall A 84 for 4 in 10 overs.

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Berbice Cricket Board/ Ricks & Sari pay tribute to outstanding cricket coaches in the region

BCB President Keith Foster poses with the six coaches.

The advancement of Berbice cricketers over the past months has been phenomenal and the general consensus suggests that the coaches have been making an extra special effort to prepare their charges for their respective encounters.

It was with this in mind that six coaches from the Ancient County were singled out for their phenomenal contribution in this department when the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) staged its annual ‘Tribute to Coaches’ at their office, Cheddi Jagan Street, New Amsterdam over the past weekend.

Those receiving commendation for their hard work are Michael HylesFranco, Renwick Batson,

Delbert Hicks, Winston Smith, Julian Moore and Adrian Amsterdam.

Chairman of the Berbice Cricket Boa r d S p e c i a l Events Committee, Hilbert Foster explained that the awardees had played integral roles in the development of young cricketers in the region.

He identified several of the youngsters that have benefited from the expertise of the coaches including Shawn Pereira, Romario Shepherd, Shimron Hetmyer, Gudakesh Motie-Kanhai, Kevin Ramdeen, Arif Chan, Shailendra Shameer and Linden Austin.

These cricketers have participated in several training programme organized by the BCB including the

Junior Elite Coaching Sessions, the Cricket Academy, Guyoil/Castrol Coaching Programmes and numerous cricketing clinics hosted by the BCB. Further, the awardees had successfully hosted a three day ‘Coaching of Coaches’ Programme at the Albion Community Centre where 30 aspiring club coaches were tutored in the intricacies of the sport.

Treasurer of the BCB, Anil Beharry, hailed the contribution of coaches and for the roles they played in the continued upward trend of cricket in the region. His sentiments were echoed by President of the subject entity, Keith Foster noted that the sport is now played with intensity and natural talent is

insufficient for success.

He said that this has prompted officials of his entity to organize several developmental programmes in an effort to harness the available talent.

In response, one of the coaches, Renwick Batson, expressed gratitude to their benefactor for noting their hard work. He stated that the gesture was indeed morale boosting and his colleagues have recommitted to redouble their efforts in the future.

The coaches further pledged to support future developmental programmes while identifying and nurturing new talents.

The BCB presented each coach with a hamper of Ricks & Sari Agro products along with other gifts.

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Lampard rescues England draw

Frank Lampard’s late penalty rescued a point for England. (Getty Images) Frank Lampard’s late penalty rescued a point for England in the World Cup qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley.

Yevgeni Konoplianka’s spectacular first-half strike gave a highly accomplished Ukraine side an advantage they protected until three minutes from time, when a prolonged spell of England pressure was finally rewarded.

Substitute Danny Welbeck - who made an impressive impact after coming on - saw his effort blocked in the area by Yevgeni Khacheridi and Lampard scored with trademark

composure from the spot.

England then suffered the blow of seeing captain Steven Gerrard sent off for a second yellow card, ensuring he will miss the qualifier against San Marino at Wembley in October.

The relief in the reaction of England manager Roy Hodgson was obvious as he accepted a point was the best his injury-and-illness hit team were going to get from a tough night’s work that was a far cry from the ease of the 5-0 win against Moldova in Chisinau on Friday.

Ukraine dominated possession for long spells in

the first half, although Manchester United’s Tom Cleverley wasted two clear chances to score and challenge the supremacy of Oleg Blokhin’s side.

In scores from other matches: Serbia 6 - 1 Wales Northern Ireland 1 - 1 Luxembourg Scotland 1 - 1 Macedonia Cyprus 1 - 0 Iceland Israel 0 - 4 Russia Georgia 0 - 1 Spain Romania 4 - 0 Andorra Bosnia-H 4 - 1 Latvia Bulgaria 1 - 0 Armenia Norway 2 - 1 Slovenia Turkey 3 - 0 Estonia

Senior citizens honoured as BCB hosts 3rd annual Senior Players Charity Trust Fund Four senior players out of the Ancient County of Berbice, Assad Fudadin, Veerasammy Permaul, Tremayne Smartt and Shemaine Campbelle, were lauded for their integral role in a fund raiser that accrued money to purchase a 21 inches television set for the Dharam Shala Senior citizens home in that region Thursday afternoon last.

This is the third edition of the programme and was hosted by the Special Events Committee of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB). The venture is supervised the Special Events Committee under its chairman, Hilbert Foster with an objective of improving the fortunes of the less fortunate.

Mr. Foster said that the Charity Trust Fund endeavours to highlight the roles of senior players in the region and for them to understand those roles as sport ambassadors and agents of change. He said that the venture also provides them with an opportunity to touch and change lives.

The television set will be used by the senior citizens for entertainment and relaxation and will provide cricket

Representative of the Dharam Shala Stanley Porter receives a television set from BCB. entertainment whenever such matches are aired especially with the West Indies team.

Over the years the Charity Fund has donated TV sets, microwaves, washing machines, DVD players, bales of cloth, kitchen utensils, educational materials and household items to numerous orphanages, schools, senior citizens homes and government agencies.

Chairman of the Committee Hilbert Foster stated that the main aim of the Charity Trust Fund is to expand the understanding of the senior players so that they understand their roles as

sport ambassadors and agents of change. He said the initiative also provided an opportunity for them to effect requisite changes in the lives of beneficiaries.

Mr. Stanley Porter accepted the gift on behalf of the Dharam Shala and hailed the gesture as remarkable. He said that the BGB is not only transforming cricket in the region but is also making a positive impact on the lives of the less fortunate. He expressed delight at the contribution of the West Indies players even as he wished them well.

Wednesday September 12, 2012

Berbice cricket stalwart, Assad Fudadin, honoured for sterling cricket accomplishments To date, sixteen Berbicians have earned selection on the West Indies cricket team but Assad Fudadin is the first resident of Rose Hall Town to do so and for that, the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) and Gizmos & Gadgets First Division Cricket Team acknowledged this feat at a special ceremony at the Area ‘H’ Ground, upon completion of a 50-Overs Semi-finals encounter between Tenelec Inc and the Young Warriors cricket teams recently.

Fudadin received a plaque from proprietor of Trophy Stall, Ramesh Sunich and a commemorative cap while a colored poster, donated by the RHTY&SC, would decorate the many classrooms of schools in Berbice. The poster was produced by the RHTY&SC and featured Fudadin’s career

statistics and the message ‘Say No to Drugs and Yes to Education’ emblazoned at the bottom. The cricket stalwart also received a collection of gifts from his teammates.

Secretary/CEO of the RHTY&SC, Hilbert Foster handed over the gifts and told Fudadin that his entity was very proud of him. Mr. Foster said the executives of the RHTY&SC has worked diligently, ever since its formation in 1990, to produce a test cricketer and Fudadin’s achievement was delightful recompense.

He urged the young cricketer to stay focused as attaining a top ranking spot could be a difficult task devoid of such an attribute.

The veteran administrator who has served as Fudadin’s mentor for the greater part of his career urged him to share his experiences with his younger teammates while

ascribing to be a role model to other youths.

National U-19 captain, Shawn Pereira offered congratulations to his colleague on behalf of his teammates and wished him success in his career. Mr. Pereira further reassured Fudadin that the organization he leads would continue to support him (Fudadin) in all his future endeavors.

The WI middle order batsman expressed gratitude to his benefactors and committed to diligent work even as he promised to exemplify the sports ambassadorial concept for the RHTY&SC and all Guyana. He also expressed gratitude to all the sponsors while singling out Farfan & Mendes Ltd, Bakewell, Courts, GT&T, Gizmos & Gadgets and Pepsi, firms that have for invested heavily in his career.

Heroes Cup GCA 1st Division 2-day tourney

DeSouza hits century in GNIC victory, Malteenoes beat Everest by 8 wkts Sean DeSouza slammed a fine century as Guyana National Industrial Corporation defeated Transport Sports Club by an innings and 63 runs when play in the Carib Beer Friends of Cricket Heroes Cup\Georgetown Cricket Association first division two day tournament continued in the city last weekend with two matches.

At DCC, GNIC batted first and totaled 379-9 declared off 64 overs. DeSouza slammed eight sixes and nine fours before he was dismissed for 140, while Marc Nicholson supported well with 80 (8x4, 5x6) and Ronale Bourne 40.

Ewart Samuels took 3-65, while there were two wickets each for Leon Peters and Shai Chase.

Transport in their turn at the crease were routed for 187 in 43 overs. Quinn Proctor 37, Sunil Singh and Steven Alves with 24 each were their principal scorers as leg spinner Bourne bagged 5-23 and Orlando Fraser 4-30 for GNIC. Transport SC following on in their second innings were dismissed for 129 in 35.3 overs before lunch on the second and final day. Peters top scored with 45, while Sherwin Lovell contributed 37 as pacer Raul Muriel captured 5-23 off 10.3 overs for the winners.

At Malteenoes, the home team got the better of Everest Cricket Club by 8 wickets.

Everest took first turn at the

crease and could only muster 99 all out in 25 overs. Dianand Roopnarine and Rajendra Chandreka made 16 apiece as Kellon Carmichael grabbed 340, while Seon Daniels took 2-33 and Steven Jacobs 2-14.

Malteenoes in their turn at the crease scored 177 before they were bowled out in 43.2 overs. Imran Hassan led with 52 (11x4), while Jacobs and Carmichael chipped in with 28 and 26 respectively. Javed Rasheed claimed 4-40, while leg spinner Amir Khan picked

up 3-53 and Damien Vantull 2-36.

The visitors trailing by 78 runs managed 152 all out off 46.1 overs in their second innings. Khan showed his all round ability by top-scoring with 68, while Jacobs claimed 3-24, Steven Sankar 3-22 and Daniels 2-25.

Malteenoes then hit off the required target in 12.4 overs as they ended on 75-2.

Orin Forde was their leading batsman with 57 (7x4, 3x6).

(Zaheer Mohamed)

Persaud, Premnauth guide Maryville to victory in opening game Former Essequibo U-17 player Sunil Persaud grabbed 3 wickets and Tulsieram Premnauth made a fighting unbeaten 28 as Maryville overcame a determined Falcons team to win the opening game of the Phyllis Carter memorial twenty\20 cricket competition played last Sunday at Enterprise in Leguan.

Falcons won the toss and decided to bat in front of a fair sized crowd and were restricted to 70 all out in 19.3 overs in brilliant sunshine.

Parmanand Pariag, the only batsman who offered resistance hit three sixes in a topscore of 35 as Persaud who maintained a tidy line and length finished with 3-15 off 4 overs and was ably supported by Royan George 2-16.

Maryville in response lost a few quick wickets, but Premnauth held his nerves to take his team to victory in 18 overs as they finished on 71-7. He hit two sixes and one four in his unbeaten innings while Rick Stephen captured 2-10 off 4 overs for Falcons.

Before the game, Chairman of the Leguan Cricket Committee Viren Chintamani thanked the Carter family for assisting in the development of the game on the island and urged the cricketers to continue training on a regular basis.

The competition continues on Saturday.