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Monday September 03, 2012

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Family of missing boat cook to file wrongful death lawsuit Con-man’s female accomplice $80M house lot scam…

nabbed at highway resort - gang used demand for East Bank land to lure clients - woman posed as Housing Ministry employee - splurged money on vehicles and parties

By Michael Jordan and Abena Rockliffe Police appear to be closing in on a gang of confidence tricksters that has raked in some $80M from the sale of bogus house lots.

Officials confirmed last night that detectives have nabbed a female member of the gang and that the woman has been spilling the beans on the group that has been operating for about a year.

Kaieteur News understands that the woman, said to be the gang leader’s sister-in-law, was arrested yesterday afternoon at a popular highway resort after a man who had been fleeced by the group recognized the woman and contacted the police. A source identified her as the individual who posed as a Housing Ministry employee and collected money from the unsuspecting clients after handing them bogus Housing Ministry documents indicating that their house lot application had been approved.

Investigators have reportedly collected hundreds of the bogus documents. But the alleged mastermind, who barely eluded police on Friday, is still at large. The housing Ministry has since posted up a sign at the Grove, East Bank Demerara house where the suspect has been living.

Sources close to the investigation revealed that the fraudster, who goes by the aliases ‘Prem Persaud’, ‘Prem Rampersaud’ and ‘Jeff’, had three separate gangs, including one on the East Coast of Demerara and another on the East Bank of Demerara and the lower West Coast of Demerara.

Their main targets were people seeking house lots on the East Bank of Demerara.

The sums handed over for the documents varied from $250,000 ‘down-payments’ to $500,000 and $1M.

Kaieteur News was told that even prominent individuals, including one in real estate, were fleeced.

“Everybody wants a house lot on the East Bank of Demerara,” so people fall for it,” a source said.

HOW THE CON WORKED According to information, the gang would lure their potential victims by pretending to have a ‘contact’ in the Housing Ministry.

The potential homeowner would then hand over an initial down-payment to have the Housing Ministry documents processed. The ringleader would then take the ‘client’ to a Justice of the Peace to get a statement of income.

The client would then be taken to a woman in the gang who posed as a Housing Ministry employee. This meeting would take place at a Camp Street location.

Afterwards the ‘client’ had handed off the rest of the cash, the ‘Housing Ministry employee’ would give the ‘client’ bogus documents indicating that he or she was now in possession of a house lot. In other cases, some were given letters indicating that they were now approved to participate in the Housing Ministry’s ‘One Stop Shop’ programme, where house lots are given out to persons at locations such as the National Stadium at Providence, East Bank Demerara.

Kaieteur News was told that the gang splurged much of their ill-gotten wealth on expensive vehicles and parties. One of their favourite hang-outs was the highway resort at which the female member was nabbed yesterday.

VICTIM’S STORY One victim, who spoke to Kaieteur News, recalled that he became involved in May. He disclosed that he wasn’t approached, but met a gang member after learning of

house lot purchasing scheme by word of mouth.

“I hear de talks that people getting cheap cheap land from a man that get connection in the Ministry of Housing.

The man revealed that the first set of money paid was to the tune of $130,000 “to offset the paper work process”.

He then paid over 250,000, which was said to be half of the value of the land.

The agreement was for a two to three-week wait while the Ministry of Housing processed paper works after which the second half of payments will be paid. He was reportedly given two bogus lots. They were identified as Lot 193 Little Diamond.

Another was given as Lot 204 Little Diamond.

But after the two weeks elapsed, all contact stopped between the ‘client’ and “the man with Housing Ministry contacts.” The victim and family started doing their own investigations.

The one person they saw was a “red girl” that initially gave her name as Susanne.

“But that is not she real name, we eventually find out she real name and track she down now she get arrest.”

But it is estimated that the fraudsters fleeced some 150 victims before the scheme began to fall apart.

Housing Ministry officials began to get wind of the scam when several of the clients failed to acquire their lots and began enquiring at the Ministry. Investigators within the Ministry tried to track down the ringleader, who apparently heard about the development. This reportedly caused him to shut down his Lower West Coast Demerara operation.

Last week, he was eventually tracked to a house at Grove, East Bank Demerara. However, he reportedly managed to slip through a back window and flee in one of his vehicles.

Attorney-at-law Melvin Duke, who is representing the family of missing boat cook Gerald Fraser, will be filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Vijai Sankar, the owner of the capsized Miss Elliza cargo boat if a favourable conclusion cannot be met when the two parties meet today.

Duke spoke to Kaieteur News via telephone yesterday and said that he would be moving to the High Court on Wednesday to file the claim if a resolution cannot be met to compensate the missing cook’s family.

Duke explained that Sankar, who gave up the capsized boat to the Government, was liable to compensate Fraser’s family for his death since he owned the boat at the time of its mishap.

Duke said that as a result of Sankar giving boat captain Justin Bino instructions on the day in q u e s t i o n t o d e p a r t t h e M u n e s hwar Wharf ahead of the scheduled time, he was liable for the lives aboard his boat.

It was on those grounds the lawyer was claiming Fraser’s wrongful death.

Duke told Kaieteur News that three weeks ago, he was requested by Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) Harbour Master, Volton Skeete, to send in a formal letter plus $3,000 applying to the administration for the boat’s information; that would include the boat’s ownership and its insurance information.

In return, the lawyer said information pertaining to the boat’s ownership was provided, but he was told by MARAD that the insurance information would have to come from Sankar. The Attorney however said that two letters were sent to

Sankar but he has not responded.

The attorney stated that with the relevant information pertaining to the boat, he would have taken steps to make contact with the insurance company to find a feasible compensation fee to award Fraser’s family. He however said that it was difficult to make such steps since there has been no contact with Sankar.

Apart from that, Duke said the Government may also have questions to answer since they have taken over the capsized boat, and bought with it the liability and interest handed down from the previous owner.

Niece of the missing cook, Sharon Pickett had told Kaieteur News in a previous interview that the legalities came about since her family was having a hard time ascertaining what plans were being made to recover the cook’s body.

Pickett and her family maintained that contact was not being kept with the family and it seemed as if the relevant persons were not considering the family’s grief.

Fraser’s relatives also said that the cook was the breadwinner, and the family was not approached on the issue of monetary assistance.

Fraser’s daughter who resides in the United States secured Mr. Duke’s services to handle the family’s legal affairs.

Presumed dead aboard Miss Elliza: Gerald Fraser Almost three months ago, Miss Elliza, destined for Trinidad and Tobago with millions of dollars in trader goods capsized in the Demerara shipping channel.

Sixty-three-year-old Gerald Fraser who was performing cooking duties is said to be trapped in the boat. It is alleged that the man ran back into the boat for a haversack.

Miss Elliza reportedly left the wharf ahead of schedule and encountered weight problems soon after. The captain said the boat tilted on its starboard side and capsized when he tried to return to the wharf.

Marad had stated that in excess of $30M was needed to salvage Miss Elliza. Sankar said he was unable to pay the sum and thus handed the boat over to MARAD.

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Editorial

Education Month Today, the nation’s children return to school. But from reports in the press, it appears that a significant number will have to stay out for another week or two.

While most of these children would probably not mind an extension of their vacation, apart from the One Mile Primary School in Wismar, there is no excuse for this curtailment of the “Christmas Term”. Will the Ministry of Education (MoE) make provisions to make up for the time lost in teaching the curricula?

Traditionally, September has been designated “Education Month” by the MoE and by today a series of activities, under a named theme, would have been announced. We hope that the delay has been occasioned by a decision of the Minister to have her department tackle the abysmal results of the last CSEC exams ‘frontally”. They might have to recalibrate their interventions.

While not as bad as Guyana’s, the results in the region as a whole were shocking enough to precipitate calls for reform in most territories. CXC has also promised to collaborate with the various governments on remedial diagnostics of their pedagogical principles.

One suggestion that they have already made is that we must move on from the ‘chalk and talk’ methodology that has been in place since the abolition of slavery. The Information Technology tools are now ubiquitous in our society and the Ministry has to use them more effectively for imparting the curricula to its charges.

It is rather ironic that over the past decade there have been numerous outside interventions to introduce computers, for instance, into our school system, starting from the primary level. But in almost all instances, the donated equipment were utilized more in the breach than not.

The government itself recognised the need for schools to be plugged into the ICT world and brought in a new US$30 fibre-optic cable from Brazil, which, among other functions such as e-government, would have accomplished this goal. Since the last elections, however, there has been a studied silence on the status of the fibre-optic cable and the benefits the country should have received.

As we begin this “Education Month”, we hope that the Ministry has taken note of the caution sounded by the Registrar and CEO of CXC on the Pilot School program that was introduced last December to improve our flagging results in CSEC. This program was basically an intensification of the ‘teach to the test’ methodology that comes straight of the drilling and rote learning route we were handed almost two hundred years ago. Students, given past exam papers, books and a calculator for Mathematics and English by the Ministry were drilled an extra two hours daily by teachers.

The question is whether these students actually came away from these drills with any substantive knowledge of the subjects that would make them move on to perform effectively at the tertiary level or in a working environment.

We doubt it. We have to be careful of ‘quick fixes”. There is great wisdom in the folk saying, “rain can’t full wha dew na full”. Any remedial intervention must be conceptualised and executed in a holistic manner.

We have to use the new technology from the nursery level to present that materials in our curricula in a manner that would make the children want to learn.

The electronic media is ideally suited for bringing to life abstract subjects such as mathematics. A couple of years ago there was a buzz about a low-cost science kit sponsored

by UNESCO that was ideal for bringing home the concepts of the basic sciences. This initiative seems to have died on the vine.

But behind it all, teachers will have to be trained in the new methodology and the school administration will have to get behind the program.

The assessment tests that are now being given from Grade 2 must be modified to incorporate the new technology both in the substantive and procedural aspects.

Most importantly, the results of the assessments must be utilised for the purpose intended: to have the teacher intervene more directly in remedial action.

Monday September 03, 2012

Letters... Where your views make the news

Is the Linden struggle a damp squib?

DEAR EDITOR, The PNC/APNU and the AFC betrayed the Linden struggle. In betraying that struggle they betrayed their larger national constituencies and signal to the PPP to go ahead with their grandstanding of wanting to come to some form of compromise to benefit Linden.

President Ramotar’s PPP is a very young minority outfit that has as its actors the very men and women that sustained a brutal dictatorship under Mr. Bharat Jagdeo.

Equally, under the PNC/ APNU and the AFC the same ‘merry mice’ that were unable to reign in the excesses of the PPP throughout the years, still occupy the top floors of their respective political apartments.

We should also realise by now that the PPP may have a minority passport but are still in possession of the majority green card. They continue to get away with excesses they should never have after 2012.

We may have to admit that the AFC, by virtue of an alternative to the two major parties, helped by attracting Moses Nagamootoo to their fold and causing a temporary sway in the traditional voting

patterns. This was largely a single act that rendered the PPP its minority credentials.

It is the quiet fallout within the APNU between Aubrey Norton and the leadership and the strategic placement of a highly capable, solid and courageous young man, Sharma Solomon, as Region Ten’s Chairman, that may have torn down the new wall paper that covered some huge cracks and crumbling debris inside the house of APNU. The Linden struggle held the single key to reign in the PPP and caused its eventual demise, taking with it all its venalities and filth it poured over Guyana for decades. The flames of defiance that burned so promisingly at Linden were never allowed to spread across the land. Why? I was there at Linden when Norton’s clearly visibly work returned Linden solidly to his party.

It is this writer’s view that had Norton not played his part at Linden during the last elections, the PPP would have made inroads; liquid cash, a lot was being offered to Lindeners to vote for the PPP among other countless convincing but not to be

fulfilled promises.

The Linden struggle appeared to be a slap in the APNU’s face. Granger would have quickly killed the inevitability of what was to come through his deliberate agreement with the PPP to see the electricity tariff implemented.

Sharma Solomon was having none of it. I remembered Solomon’s statement about burning all green T Shirts. Granger backpedaled.

The PPP understood clearly well that Norton had the capability to create a national unrest like never before; they knew that he had the support of the people and leaders at Linden. They also knew that APNU and AFC would not support any extra parliamentary struggle that would impact negatively from the strategic outlook from the business class and one ethnic group’s vantage point.

They banked largely on the Norton/ APNU rift.

It allowed them to focus on what they saw as not such a great dilemma that would pose a threat to their rule. To quickly put a stop to the Linden protest, they killed and injured people. It did not work to stop what was to

come. The struggle reached the peak to have national and international support but not to have the direct involvement of Georgetown and other non PPP constituencies. How ironic.

The dust is now settled, if only temporarily. There are no spoils to count. There is the ‘back to square one’ promise game. Rohee is still in office and we are importing foreign experts with the millions of taxpayers’ money to have talk shops. The same millions that would have served better to compensate the families of those killed and the injured.

I don’t think the PPP has ever lost a political war since they have been in power. The opposition parties have always helped them to win.

Where do we go from here? I see the same Chevy Chase roundabout in the serious comedy of a political tragedy called Guyana.

I still salute Mark Benschop, Lincoln Lewis, Gerhard Ramsaroop, David Hinds and a few others who stayed and continue in the forefront of a national struggle for justice and fair play. They are the real opposition.

Norman Browne

The Moleson Creek School is a rat hole, where the rats infesting the PPP should be residing DEAR EDITOR, Only with the PPP you get Marriott hotel before Moleson Creek School and DPP office before Passport Office in Berbice Every single day, people across this country wake up sucking their teeth. They live in such an exasperatingly corrupt and deficient country where their government is mindless, vindictive, clueless and motivated by selfinterest, nepotism and cronyism. We have a school in Moleson Creek in the heart of Berbice, a PPP stronghold.

The school could be something out of the Jungle Book. It is surrounded by snakes, bats and a forest. The road to this school is scarier than Fright Night.

The charlatans running the PPP do not see it fit to fix this school. The bandits dominating the PPP see it fit to build a Marriott Hotel instead in a country saturated with hotels and always suffering from high vacancy because no right-thinking foreigner considers this shameful paradise the PPP built as visit-worthy. The Marriott Hotel is being built from taxpayers’ money held

by NICIL, a state corporation the PPP government refuses to allow any kind of independent audit of, has refused to adhere to a

parliamentary motion on and which the opposition claims is missing over $40 billion.

The PPP wants to use billions of the Guyanese people’s money to build a white elephant hotel just like it handed out lucrative contracts to build the white elephant Skeldon Sugar Factory and the Enmore Packaging Plant, yet it leaves a school just down the road from the Skeldon white elephant sugar factory looking like an oversized latrine in the Amazon. This is called putting the horse before the cart mentality. It is called looking after the rich, powerful and the upper crust while neglecting the lower classes of this country.

It is called dumb and reckless decision-making.

How could the PPP practice this kind of discrimination against the poor people of this country? How could this party that received 32,360 Berbician votes in the 2011 election kick and mistreat Berbicians in this fashion?

How could they neglect a school that will be filled by children of poor people in that community while fighting to build a hotel that will remain empty for most of the time?

No government in its right mind unless it is motivated by self-greed and personal enrichment and not the

interests of the people will ever waste taxpayers’ money in this fashion. These shamans refuse to pay cane cutters and sugar workers in Berbice or to treat them with dignity but they prefer to build fancy white elephant hotels. This version of the PPP is a foul and bastardized version of Cheddi Jagan’s party and dream. Cheddi Jagan would never be rushing to build hotels while the children of this country are learning in hovels. The pigs who have hijacked the PPP have no problem leaving poor people’s children learning in a pigsty. Their children attend private schools and overseas universities.

The Moleson Creek School is a rat hole, exactly the place where the rats infesting the PPP should be residing. Now the reprobates want to build a DPP office in New Amsterdam rather than return the Passport and Driver Licence office back to Berbice. There is nothing wrong in having an office of the DPP in Berbice but it is unprincipled to build this office in Berbice before a passport and driver licensing office. Every single day, we have dozens of Berbicians having to disrupt their lives and running around in Georgetown like headless chickens while baking in the

hot sun in that cow pen that passes for a structure in the passport and driver licence offices.

In order to get a passport or a driver’s licence in this country, already struggling poor people must leave their homes, put their livelihoods on hold, lose money and huddle like prisoners in a POW camp to get a sordid piece of paper. The PPP closed the offices in New Amsterdam to drive the people of Berbice into Georgetown in a mercenary assault on their dignity. The intent was to fill the pockets of the private owners of the Berbice Bridge by sending Berbicians scampering back and forth over that bridge to Georgetown. The PPP, controlled by the Jagdeoites, favours the rich and powerful over the poor and the powerless.

This is the recurring theme of the PPP, the constant nightmare; it always favours the rich over the poor. The dilemma for Berbicians is they feel like political hostages.

They are disgusted and saddened by the PPP but are deathly afraid of a return of the PNC and rightly so. They feel trapped, hurt, angry and ashamed. They never thought back in 1992 that they would be at this crossroads Continued on page 5

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

Minister Persaud’s concern cannot be overstated

DEAR EDITOR, Kindly allow me to add a comment on the several articles that are being published in the Kaieteur News with regards to observations by the Honorable Minister of Local Government, Ganga Persaud and several other contributors on Local Government Administration in Guyana.

Minister Persaud’s concern cannot be overstated. He lamented, and with some foresight of an impending failure, or failed Local Government System in Guyana, posited correctly that, “when a system fails, becomes non-responsive, less than effective….the weaknesses are often not inherent in the laws and principles, they are often inherent in us humans…. It is for that reason that we recognize that accountability and transparency at the level of Local Government must be righted, boosted and consistent across the country”. That, Mr. Editor, directly relates to answers, why the NDC’s are in such a bad state across the country.

The observations raised by the Honorable Minister are the truth and he has splendidly summarized the situation correctly. Here it is that for all the pomp and ceremony that is being given to Local and Regional Development, on the East Coast, specifically within the Buxton/Foulis Community, something disturbing is taking place. “The Buxton/ Foulis Neighbourhood Democratic Council and NDC Officer (s) are being used as a conduit to populate that strip in the Buxton/Foulis Neighbourhood Democratic Council Community, called

Section C, Enterprise, East Coast Demerara, with purely Indian Guyanese, while at the same time pursuing a policy of frustrating or denying Guyanese from acquiring land and building homes in that area’’. One example is stated hereunder.

I presented a complete set of original documents to the Buxton/Foulis Neighbourhood Democratic Council on August 4, 2011 for the processing of a set of house plans for a building to be erected on plot 99, Section C, Enterprise, East Coast Demerara. To date I have not been officially informed in any way or form, as to whether those plans have been approved or not.

Is this a mistake or an oversight?

I say no! During this same period, while I wait for approval or disapproval, another person presented documents to said Buxton/Foulis Neighbourhood Council requesting approval to construct a building on the said Lot 99 Section C, Enterprise, East Coast Demerara, and the request was entertained. It did not matter that the Council had my application. Not only did this person annex the property, but had signs put up threatening prosecution to trespassers, while he was in fact the trespasser, he carried out revetment work on said property thinking that he had bought it. Is there no record keeping, administrative or otherwise, to determine what is taking place in the Buxton/ Foulis Community? Who owns what? Who laid paperwork with the Council? Or was it, according to the Honorable Minister, “the NDC Officer (s) …. have modified and adopted the system to operate in a manner they want it to”. Four properties were up for sale at the time I bought my plot of land. I am the only one today still waiting on approval.

Others are living in their houses today. Is this just a coincidence?

While to date I have made no formal complaints as yet to the Ministry of Local Government, or any other Government Agency on this or any other issue, that’s because I am presently living in the United States of America, and probably to those concerned I am not within the reaches for justice in Guyana. Probably it is felt that I am not even entitled to the right, title and interest of said property. But while this letter is to support the Honorable Minister in his quest for some sort of effectiveness in the management of the NDC’s, my matter is far from over. Yes! I intend to formally make my complaints to the Authorities concerned, but I also intend to take legal action against the Council and the NDC Officer (s) involved in the detention of my house plan.

There are known problems with several NDC’s, but I also know that the problems with this particular Neighbourhood Democratic Council is out of control.

Things are happening within the villages and communities that this Council supervises, and those communities are decaying as a result, and decaying at a rate that I am certain this Council’s ‘dysfunctional and nonproductive behavior ‘ makes it, either unwilling ,or is incapable of correcting the problems that exists.

Good luck Mr. Minister, I hope that you are not only willing to speak about dysfunctional and nonproductive behavior but rather take decisive actions as a result.

Adrian (Rudy) Coppin

The plight of our senior citizens in Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, A Non-Governmental Group is convinced that the absence of “Home Care” service for the elderly is a serious problem which can lead to other social problems in the community. This therefore needs to be addressed with urgency.

With no care and attention, there are people living longer than 75years are suffering from a number of illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension and loneliness. From investigation conducted, we are convinced that the lack of “Home Care Service” is a very serious social problem Therefore it is crucial that the society demonstrates its concern by showing some interest in improving the living standards and social wellbeing of the elderly.

Many surveys have been undertaken, the results of which have been most astonishing.

This non-governmental, non- profit group is desirous of creating a project with the objective of alleviating the often tragic circumstances of the elderly.

In an effort to bring this project into fruition the group proposes to establish an “Assisted Living Centre” for the elderly on

the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

The group proposes to approach the Government through the Guyana Lands & Surveys Authority for an allocation of state land to facilitate building living quarters for the elderly, with the co-operation and approval of the Ministry of Health.

Investigations also show that senior citizens are still able to participate in productive activities but due to neglect their rapid degeneration is evidenced.

The “Faculty for Assisted Living” aims at providing the social conditions conducive for social and physical wellbeing as seniors approach their twilight years FINANCING AND SPONSORSHIP- is hoped to come from families of the seniors and concerned members of the business community and charitable organizations both overseas and local. An invitation is now extended to all those who share this concern for the plight of our senior citizens within our community to make contact with me on Cell # 645-8047or email ladyp_ladyc@yahoo.com Pauline Clarke

A legal mockery at UG

DEAR EDITOR, The Jamaican consultancy on the restructuring of the governance edifice at UG has been submitted. I will forward a copy to Chris Ram’s Plain Talk, the independent dailies, Prime News, Capitol News and Demerara Waves. There is the recommendation that the predominance of governmental (read that to mean PPP) appointees on the Council be drastically reduced.

When the consultants met with the leadership of the unions and the wider public, I made my submissions and I stressed the curtailment of political input in the Council because it was such a fact that eventually led to the complete loss of morale at UG. My letter here is to fill an omission. I did not speak to the issue of the nature of the Academic Board decisions.

I hope when the report is to be discussed by UG and the wider Guyanese society, my particular point here will be aired. Under the rules governing many legal organizations, for there to be an adoption of a decision or a motion or a vote to change the Constitution, there has to be a two thirds majority of those present.

In some organizations, once there is a quorum, the meeting is legal and the decisions are legal never mind if at the last in ten minutes only three voting members

remain. Here is what obtains with the Academic Board at UG and under the administration of Dr. James Rose; the thing became an extreme farce. This is what would happen. The Board consists of around fifty voting members.

Once a quorum is achieved, the Board goes into legal session. By the time, you reach the last item on the agenda, “Any Other Business,” almost ninety percent of voting members would have left. What Rose and maybe three others of his acolytes did was to raise issues for which there was no opposition or detailed discussion. And the minutes recorded the emanations as decisions of the Academic Board.

This is not only immoral but a distortion of history.

Fifty years from now, when researchers read those minutes, they would actually think that those were legitimate decisions of UG. Here now is a great piece of misleading news that the Stabroek News reported on.

It was not that the Stabroek News committed an error.

The fault is the nature of the Academic Board. What the Stabroek News reported on did have legal backing but it was completely devoid of any moral content. The Academic Board in full session discussed the faulty leadership of former Chancellor, Dr. Compton

Bourne. There was no formal decision. Few persons spoke.

There was hardly any defence of Bourne. When most voting members had left, a certain academic raised the Bourne issue again under “Any Other Business,” The Office of the Acting Vice Chancellor, Marlyn Cox, then published a press release saying that the Academic Board rejected Bourne’s resignation. This was completely untrue. One academic spoke in the dying moments of the session.

This farce at the Academic Board should stop. We need to change the statutes of the University to ensure that any formal decision of the Academic Board carries a two thirds approval, a simple majority or maybe even a third.

But we have to stop the nonsense of three persons having a chat at the end of the meeting and because there was no voting or no rejection, what they ruminated on passes as a decision of the Academic Board.

The masquerade is quite simple. Wait until everyone is gone, air an unpopular subject, make sure the Secretary records that it was ventilated and there was no opposition, and it becomes a decision of the Academic Board.

This legal and administration masturbation, the Guyanese stakeholders must put an immediate stop to.

Frederick Kissoon

The Moleson Creek School is a rat...

From page 4 facing this deep moral predicament where they hate and revile the very party they support simply because the alternative is another beast known as PNC/APNU. The PPP hacks know how Berbicians are tormented and trapped.

They think Berbicians will grin and take the insult and the shame that this group controlling the PPP heaps upon them.

They believe in their twisted minds that Berbicians are too afraid to do better.

They see Berbicians as sheep willing to fold under the whip of the Jagdeoites who control the PPP for the sake of preventing the rise of the PNC. But people have had enough.

Some have already left and are never returning to the PPP, no matter how fearful they are. Others are leaving every day from the party of their ancestors.

In this repulsive country the PPP has created, it is difficult to reconcile one’s inner morality with political support for the PPP. Some will choose saving their soul rather than saving the political souls of inveterate

sinners. This is what has happened to some PPP supporters.

The final nail in the coffin for some Berbicians and other PPP supporters is the PNC/APNU practices more democracy and internal accountability than the PPP. That brings great shame to some supporters of the PPP who knew how despotic and malevolent the PNC was when it destroyed this country.

Other PPP supporters have realized a long time now that

this is not about race but really about class. That the Jageoites and their friends in charge of the PPP have benefited from racial voting and used that benefit to create a specially favoured new upper class in this country at the expense of the majority working class poor.

The handwriting is on the wall for the PPP and like every arrogant government that has fallen heavily from grace, it cannot even recognize it.

M. Maxwell

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Barber stabbed to death with Mechanic dies in Goed Fortuin crash scissors -suspect turns self in A 27-year-old mechanic was killed last night after he was struck by a car while riding a motorcycle on the Goed Fortuin Public Road, West Bank Demerara.

Dead is Kenrick Roach, a father of five from Roxanne Burnham Gardens.

Kaieteur News understands that the two vehicles were traveling in opposite directions when the collision occurred.

The mangled motorcycle was still in the grass and the driver of car had already been apprehended and taken into custody at the La Grange Police Station when this newspaper arrived at the scene.

The victim’s friend, Leon Howard who was on another motorcycle witnessed the

mishap.

“We going like 80 kilometers; this man (the driver) was speeding when I look all I see this man overtake three vehicle, miss me, come in pon me lane and collect (struck) me friend.

All I hear is ‘blam’; when I look I see me partner in a pool a blood I see he tek he last breath,” the sobbing man said.

Howard told Kaieteur News that he and his friend were heading to Middle Street Pouderoyen while the other vehicle was traveling in the direction of the Demerara Harbour Bridge.

Relatives and friends, who converged at the scene later, were obviously traumatized by the news.

They seemed confused about

The vehicle which struck Roach

Dead: Kenrick Roach the circumstances surrounding the man‘s death.

His friends described Roach as a helpful individual who did not deserve such a sudden cruel death.

Samuel Roach, the dead man’s brother told this newspaper that his sibling who was living with his parents, had recently rented a house on the West Bank of Demerara because he had planned to wed sometime next February.

Kaieteur News understands that another sibling had died in a crash in the vicinity of the Demerara Harbour Bridge several years ago.

Roach leaves to mourn his five children, fiancé, parents and siblings.

A mini health check is the first step to donating blood

An argument between two barbers yesterday at the Stabroek Market Square ended with one stabbing the other to death with a pair of scissors.

Yohan Hunte, 43, known as ‘Man on the Roof’, was stabbed in the chest at around 09:30 hrs, allegedly while arguing with another barber over the use of electricity to ply their trade.

He succumbed at around 18:00 hrs.

Kaieteur News understands that the suspect fled the scene but subsequently turned himself over to the police.

Hunte, of Lot 123 Laing Avenue, had numerous brushes with the law, and earned his nickname after staging a one-man protest some time ago on the roof of the Georgetown Prisons.

According to reports, Hunte and the suspect were plying their trade in the vicinity of the Stabroek Market Square when they

Dead: Yohan Hunte began to argue over the use of electricity, which is reportedly supplied to them by a nearby business entity.

It is alleged that Hunte, who was the aggressor, armed himself with a knife but came out the worse during the encounter with the suspect, who was armed with a pair of scissors.

Hunte’s brother, Marlon

McLeod, said that he received a call from a neighbour, who informed him that his sibling had been stabbed and was being treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

McLeod explained that when he reached the hospital, his brother was undergoing surgery.

“I hear that he (Hunte) and this boy were arguing and the other boy pull the scissors and stab him and get away.”

And a female neighbour of the slain man said that her daughter called and informed her about the stabbing.

The neighbour said when she arrived at the hospital, she saw Hunte lying on a bed while bleeding profusely.

“Five doctors circled him and then they wrap him take him to the theatre.”

The 43-year-old man was then transferred to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of GPHC, where he later succumbed.

Court upgrades under the Justice Reform Project Attorney General Anil Nandlall has disclosed that a commercial registry is to be established which would migrate away from the Deeds Registry commercial matters that are being dealt with at the Registry.

According to the Minister, the new registry would deal with matters such as the incorporation of companies’ bills of sale, the

filing of bills of sale, filing of debentures, filing of business registration, amongst other types of transactions which are now being done at the Deeds Registry.

The Minister explained that the new fixture to the judiciary will exclusively deal with such activities, and will be physically housed away from the Deeds Registry. He said that central Government has approved the lower flat of the building owned by CLICO at Parade and Lamaha streets.

The Minister also announced that the Deeds, Land and the Commercial registries will be converted into semi-autonomous agencies, delinking them from Central Government so that greater efficiency can be obtained. In this new regime, a new fee structure will also

be implemented at the Deeds Registry, as the current one being charged for services is out of sync with reality.

These reforms all form part of Government’s initiative and policy to improve efficiency, not only in the justice sector, but also in the public sector and in the quality of services which Government is rendering to its citizens.

Moreover, the Minister also disclosed that law decisions dating back from the 1800’s from all courts in Guyana will now be published.

“Decisions which were given by the courts of the Appeal and High court from 1932 to 2010 are currently at the publishers and are being printed... Also consolidated index is being compiled and that would be published too” (Continued on page 18)

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Rebels hit army headquarters in Damascus AMMAN (Reuters) Syrian rebels said they planted bombs inside the Syrian army’s General Staff headquarters in central Damascus yesterday as President Bashar al-Assad’s forces bulldozed buildings to the ground in parts of the capital that have backed the uprising.

Syrian state television said four people were wounded in what it called a terrorist attack on the General Staff compound in the highly guarded Abu Rummaneh district, where another bomb attack killed four of Assad’s top lieutenants two months ago.

“The operation targeted officers in the Assad army who have been planning and giving the go ahead for the massacres against the Syrian people,” said a video statement by the Grandsons of the Prophet brigade, a division of the Free Syrian Army.

“Bombs were planted inside the army

headquarters,” said the video statement, which was broadcast on Arab satellite channels.

But as the rebels demonstrated they could strike at the heart of the security apparatus, residents said army bulldozers moved on al-Zayat and Farouk neighbourhoods to the west, and destroyed at least 20 buildings in the Sunni Muslim areas that have sheltered the insurgents.

In the eastern Damascus neighbourhood of Hazza, footage taken by activists yesterday showed several buildings on fire. Opposition sources said the army had earlier stormed the area and executed 27 young men.

“Any youth of fighting age seems to have been captured and killed,” said activist Obadah al-Haj, who had fled the area.

Activist video footage from the area showed a young man lying dead beside a yellow taxi, shot in the face.

Another dead youth was in

the driver seat, blood covering his head and chest.

Assad belongs to the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam that has dominated power since members of the sect led a military coup in 1963. Assad’s father took power in 1970.

Loyalist forces killed at least 25 men yesterday when they shelled and stormed alFan, a Sunni village in the province of Hama, opposition campaigners said.

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said most of the men appear to have been killed by shelling, but an unspecified number were executed when troops stormed the village later. The official state news agency said a military operation on Fan targeted “terrorists who were scaring citizens”.

Video footage from Fan taken by activists showed women and family members crying over bodies wrapped in white sheets and placed in a row on the floor of a mosque.

Netanyahu urges international “red lines” to stop Iran JERUSALEM (Reuters) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged world powers yesterday to set a “clear red line” for Tehran’s atomic programme that would convince Iran they were determined to prevent it from obtaining nuclear arms.

Netanyahu’s remarks suggested a growing impatience with Israel’s main ally, the United States, and other countries that have been pressing him to give diplomacy and sanctions more time to work and hold off on any go-it-alone strike on Iran.

Recent heightened Israeli rhetoric has stoked speculation that Israel might attack Iran before the U.S. elections in November, believing that President Barack Obama would give it military help and not risk alienating pro-Israeli voters.

“I believe the truth must be stated: The international community is not placing a

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Relax and re-energise.

Take time out to feel the peace of silence.

Benjamin Netanyahu clear red line for Iran and Iran does not see international resolve to stop its nuclear programme,” Netanyahu told his cabinet.

“Unless Iran sees this clear red line and this clear resolve it will not stop moving forward with its nuclear programme, and Iran must not have nuclear weapons,” he said, repeating his view that sanctions so far have not curbed Tehran’s atomic ambitions.

Although Netanyahu did not single out Obama in his criticism, Israeli officials have said they hope for stronger language from the president about possible U.S. military action.

Obama, who has had a frosty relationship with Netanyahu, has insisted he will not allow Iran to build atomic weapons and that all options are on the table.

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South Africa withdraws miners’ murder charges for now

Striking platinum mine workers gather for a report back on negotiations.

(REUTERS/Mike Hutchings) JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African prosecutors provisionally withdrew murder charges yesterday against 270 miners who had been accused of killing 34 striking colleagues shot dead by police, but said they could be recharged when investigations are complete.

Public anger had been mounting at the charges, made under an apartheidera law under which the miners were deemed to have had a “common purpose” in the murder of their co-workers.

The police killing of the strikers last month at the Marikana mine, run by platinum producer Lonmin, was the worst such security incident since the end of white rule in 1994, and

recalled scenes of state brutality from that era.

“Final charges will only be made once all investigations have been completed. The murder charges against the current 270 suspects will be formally withdrawn provisionally in court,” Nomgcobo Jiba, the acting national director of prosecutions, said in a televised news conference.

The miners will be released from prison starting this week.

In all, 44 people were killed in the wave of violence stemming from an illegal strike and union turf war.

Top members of the ruling African National Congress had also expressed dismay at the charges as a public backlash gathered.

“We are all surprised and confused by the National Prosecuting Authority’s legal strategy,” the ANC’s chief whip in parliament said on Friday.

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Jamaica seeking closer relationship with US military KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica and the United S t a t e s a r e s eeking to strengthen military relationship as part of the National Guard State Partnership Programme.

A government statement last week said that Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Antony Anderson, and senior Jamaica De f e n c e Force (JDF) officers have returned from the US where they held discussions with the counterparts on improving relations between them.

The visit included meetings with senior officials of the US Department of

Defense, US Army and District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG) and tours of the Pentagon and DCNG training facilities, the statement said.

DCNG Commanding General, Major General Errol R Schwartz, is quoted as saying that the visit is a way to strengthen professional bonds between the National Guard and the JDF. “This is our time to discuss continued mutual support through the State Partnership Programme and plan what kind of subject matter and expert exchanges between our forces would be mutually beneficial,” he

added.

The National Guard State Partnership Programme provides capacity-building resources to combatant commanders and US ambassadors through partnerships between American states, territories and the District of Columbia, and foreign countries.

The 20-year-old programme is a key US security cooperation tool, facilitating cooperation across all aspects of international civil-military affairs and encouraging people-to-people ties in 65 countries.

(Jamaica Observer)

Former Allen Stanford executives to be charged St. John’s Antigua - The Wall Street Journal is reporting that former Stanford executives will be charged within days for their part in the scheme that landed Allen Stanford in jail.

Their former boss has been sentenced to more than a hundred years in jail after being found guilty of running a US$7-billion Ponzi scheme.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission SEC is reportedly going to announce charges against the Stanford Group Company’s former president Danny Bogar and former chief compliance officer Bernerd Young.

The Journal says other former company officials may also be charged.

Allen Stanford The news organisations’ sources said the SEC is expected to accuse the Stanford Group officials of misleading investors about whether there was

government insurance covering the CDs. The agency also is expected to charge officials with not disclosing to investors that they weren’t able to verify what senior officials at Stanford International Bank told them about the bank’s holdings.

A lawyer for Young, the former chief compliance officer, said he intended to fight the charges.

The SEC has declined to comment. In March, Stanford was found guilty of stealing billions of dollars of investor money and plowing much of it into unprofitable private businesses he controlled.

He was sentenced to 110 years in federal prison in June.

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President moves to end preliminary court enquiries Trinidad Express President George Maxwell Richards has proclaimed “The Administration of Justice (Indictable Proceedings) Act 2011” in a move to end preliminary enquiries in the local courts.

The Act was proclaimed last week.

The Sunday Express was reliably informed that this Act also paves the way for a number of high-profile cases which have dragged on in the local courts to be dismissed.

The Sunday Express understands that some parts of the 35-clause Act came into force on August 31 while other parts will come into effect on January 1, 2013.

The Sunday Express was told the President’s proclamation was gazetted on August 30.

The Act, which aims to repeal and replace the Preliminary Enquiry Act and provide for a system of pre-

George Maxwell Richards trial proceedings relating to indictable offences and other related matters, was one of three brought to Parliament

by Justice Minister Herbert Volney. The Act bears a controversial clause— Section 34(2).

It states: “On an application by the accused, a Judge shall discharge an accused if the proceedings were instituted prior to the

coming into force of this Act and the trial has not commenced within seven years after the proceedings were instituted, except— (a) in the case of matters listed in Schedule 6; or (b) where the accused has evaded the process of the Court and the trial on indictment has, for that reason, not commenced.”

Diego Martin North/ East MP Colm Imbert told the Sunday Express Saturday that he found this provision “extremely dangerous”.

“It is almost unheard of to have a limitation on indictable offences in the Commonwealth. It’s just not done,” he said.

He said while the Parliament was debating abolishing preliminary enquiries, that clause “came out of the blue”.

He told the Sunday Express it will affect money laundering cases.

Former Haiti PM, Smarck Michel is dead PORT AU PRINCE CMC - Smarck Michel, a businessman who served for almost a year as Haiti’s prime minister in the mid-1990s, died Saturday. He was 75.

Michel was appointed prime minister in 1994, one month after Jean Bertrand Aristide resumed the presidency after three years in exile.

Michel resigned almost a year later over opposition to his economic reforms, which advocated a privatization plan that was unpopular with Haiti’s poor majority.

After his brief stint in politics, Michel returned full-

time to the family grocery store until he closed it in 2010 and retired Meanwhile, Haiti’s President, Michel Martelly and Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe, are saddened by the passing of the former Prime Minister.

“In this painful circumstance, the Head of State, on behalf of the Haitian people, salute the departure of Michel and address its sympathies to the family and friends of the deceased” said Martelly.

The Prime Minister sent sympathies to the family and friends of the former Head of

Smarck Michel Government who has served his country with patriotism.

Govt. promises to ease Cave Hill’s financial strain Barbados Nation Principal OF THE UNIVERSITY of the West Indies’ Cave Hill campus, Sir Hilary Beckles, has assured new students that once the Barbados Government follows through on its commitment to clear its $150 million debt to the university, they and everyone at the

institution “will go through this semester feeling much more secure”.

He was addressing a matriculation ceremony Friday evening at the Roy Marshall Teaching Complex to launch the new semester.

He told students and campus officials the debt had risen from $30 million to $150

Sir Hilary Beckles million, but he was confident about Government’s pledge to ease Cave Hill’s financial strain.

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PIPE DREAMS OF TIMEHRI The opposition finds itself in a knotty situation regarding the airport extension project. On the one hand, the opposition has approved appropriations in the Budget for this project, and on the other hand the opposition is raising concerns about the technical aspects of this project.

It seems to be a classical case of putting the cart before the horse for the opposition to have approved funding for this project only to now raise questions about the environmental impact assessment (EIA) and the social impact assessment

(SIA) of the project.

One would have presumed that the opposition would have satisfied themselves on these questions before approving the estimates.

It must be recalled that a number of projects were initially cut from the 2012 Budget.

Most were subsequently restored by supplementary provision after the funds from Norway had been released.

It therefore seems a bit strange that the funds for the airport project were approved without satisfactory answers being given to the opposition

Dem boys seh

Everybody conning poor people A lot of people conning poor people all over de country. Imagine a man can tell poor people that he can sell dem house lots. People deh suh bad fuh get a house that dem fall fuh de con. And every day Irfaat telling people how he giving out house lots.

He tell people how he buy land from GuySuCo and he selling but it look like if whatever he buy from GuySuCo ain’t reaching de people who want. So this con man collect $80 million from poor people.

When de police go fuh he, he jump through a back window. Dem boys seh that somebody from Irfaat office had to call he to tip he off. Is who he sharing this money with? How come he get stamp from de Housing Ministry?

One man seh that de whole of Guyana is con. Dem got a big con wid this specialty hospital to de point wheh de Minister telling reporters fuh shut up when dem ask questions.

Dem had a con before that. De New GPC tell de whole nation how it mekking AIDS drugs. Leslie get in on de con and dem actually tell de lady who responsible fuh

drugs fuh shut she mouth. Is a good thing dem outside people was watching. That con fall through but de Health Ministry pay some good money fuh de li’l bit dem produce.

Dem got a con wid de people who got to get CT scan. Imagine de main hospital ain’t got no machine fuh do de scan but dem other hospital got; even Woodlands wheh Leslie got a share. Since somebody got to get a scan Leslie mek sure that dem got to go to he hospital.

Uncle Donald ain’t seeing these things because he and all get con.

Talk half and pray that dem con man end up in pumpkin jump suit.

about the technical aspects or without any justification provided as to why there was no competitive bidding for the contract.

The opposition now finds itself in the unenviable position of having to rail against a project for which it has already approved expenditure in this year’s annual Budget.

This said, the concerns of the opposition cannot be dismissed lightly. Or can they?

One of the main concerns is the reported use of a twelve year old environmental impact assessment.

Apparently, the argument was made that there was no need for a new environmental impact assessment for this project even though the last EIA was done 12 years ago.

The opposition is concerned about the use of an outdated EIA. But should they? The airport project is not a new project. A new airport is not being constructed; the plan is simply for the runaway to be lengthened and for other facilities to be put in place.

What we have is a substantial expansion/ renovation but not the construction of a new airport.

There were always plans to expand the airport and since not much would have changed environmentally since 12 years ago, there seems to be no justification

for a new EIA. In fact most of the lands that are going to be used for the expansion are already lands owned by the airport authority and therefore there hardly seems to be the need for a new environmental impact assessment for this expansion of the airport.

Where the difficulty may lie is with the social impact assessment because over the past 12 years the number of squatters has increased tremendously around the airport and last year ’s incident involving a Caribbean Airlines plane shows that there is an urgent need to remove every single squatter from around the perimeter of the airport.

These squatters pose a threat not just to the plans for the expansion of the airport but to themselves.

They are placing their lives at risk by residing so near to the airstrip. There needs to be safe perimeter around the airport and therefore these squatters will have to be removed.

The government did try to do this some years ago but was met by fierce resistance.

In one emotional scene, the driver of a bulldozer refused to break down the house of a squatter.

The failure of the government over the years to stop the encroachment of persons around the airport has now created a serious

problem because the numbers have grown and there is going to be the usual resistance to relocation.

T h i s i s s ue is going to become a political one.

A way therefore has to be found to deal with the relocation issue because there is no way that any compromise can involve allowing the existing squatters to remain there. It is simply not in their safety to do so now much less when the runway is extended.

The government therefore should meet with the stakeholders, including the opposition, and hammer out a solution. It is going to take some time and there is going to be stern resistance to the government’s proposals but regardless of whether the airport is renovated, the squatters will have to be removed.

This still leaves unanswered the issue of whether a case has been made out for the expansion of the airport. Merely pointing to the length of the runway in Barbados and other countries does not necessarily mean that Guyana needs to expand its airport.

The other arguments justifying the need for the airport have been made before and are unconvincing.

Guyana is never going to become a major air transport link with Brazil. We will have a major land link with that

country but the idea of massive amounts of air cargo being passed through our airports to Brazil is a pipe dream that will never happen.

What will also never happen is Guyana being a hub for flights to West Africa.

That is not going to happen either and it may not even be in Guyana’s interest for that to happen. It is much better if one of the larger countries such as Brazil or Venezuela undertake that role rather than a small poor nation like Guyana.

That link to West Africa was another pipe dream since independence and was never pursued with any seriousness. It is usually resurrected every time there is need to justify spending money on our airport.

And this brings us right back to the central question.

Does Guyana need an expanded airport? To answer that question what is needed is not an environmental impact assessment or a social impact assessment. What is needed is a feasibility study.

This is what the opposition should be debating. But how can they debate this now when they have already approved funding for the airport project?

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‘Garbage police’ to target Litter Former athlete battles - business entities linked to littering cervical cancer bugs from today could have licences suspended - appeals for financial assistance

By Abena Rockcliffe Litter-bugs beware!

Uniformed enforcers will be roaming the city from today to ensure that areas from where garbage heaps have been removed remain clean.

This is the promise from officials of the Local G o v e r n m e n t ’ s implementation committee, who, in collaboration with the Mayor and City Council (M&CC), have hired enforcers to keep an eye out for those involved in the wanton disposal of refuse.

Chairman of the implementation committee, Keith Burrowes, said that the enforcers are tasked with observing and monitoring the situation on the ground. The Chairman disclosed that his enforcers will contact city constables if they spot anyone littering.

Burrowes revealed that the main areas where garbage dumping takes place are business oriented areas “in the heart of the city,” and he promised that business

By Abena Rockcliffe

Garbage around the city owners who litter will also be charged.

If fact, his team is exploring the possibility of suspending some business licences if garbage dumping is linked to the entity.

Plans are already in motion to establish a hotline where citizens can call and

notify of littering.

The implementation committee Chairman admitted that the “culture” of dumping garbage poses a challenge to any attempts to restore Georgetown to the ‘Garden City’ it was once touted to be.

“This is a major problem that we are facing. As workers clean one area today, tomorrow rest assured that garbage will be dumped right there.”

Burrowes indicated that workers have already cleaned approximately 75 percent of the city. But this labour may not be evident since “dumping” continues.

In a previous interview, the Chairman had referred to this “culture” as “pure lawlessness.”

However, yesterday he said that “since the situation exists, we have to deal with

it.

In that same vein, Burrowes revealed that a number of persons have recently been charged for related matters. “We have to charge people, it is the only way,” he stated.

The implementation Committee, in collaboration with M&CC launched the cleanup campaign two Saturdays ago. Burrowes had indicated that M&CC, with its one tractor and truck, is incapable of cleaning the city.

Burrowes solicited assistance from the business community for the cause. He mentioned that they responded well.

The initiative came after the Ministry of Local Government mandated the implementation committee to have a more hands on input within the City Council.

Not knowing which is more of a bother to her, whether it is the excruciating physical pain that currently consumes her, or the emotional hurt that comes with knowing she has an approximate 10 months to live, Patina Augustin is appealing for financial assistance to aid in the purchase of daily medical supplies.

The 34-year-old mother of three disclosed Friday that she was diagnosed four years ago with cervical cancer at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Barbados. Then, in December of last year, she was told by doctors at Mount Hope Women’s Hospital in Trinidad that she has 18 months to live.

The former Guyana Defence Force athlete said that doctors at Mount Hope explained that the cancer has taken over 75 percent of her body.

Therefore, any attempt at surgery would have caused her to die in a month’s time.

Also, the woman explained that she was born with sickle cell anemia and doctors explained that the ailment, coupled with cervical cancer is double jeopardy She said that it costs her $7000 daily in medication to suppress the pain and she is appealing with the public for assistance to purchase her medication.

There are two injections

Patina Augustin that each cost $3000 and she also has to consume over 20 tablets at a cost of $840 to $1000, depending on which pharmacy the drugs are procured from.

Daily, she has to get prescriptions for the injections needed since they are considered “dangerous drugs” so at no time can she access her medication from home.

“If I didn’t get it myself there is no one that can get it for me,” she stated.

In pain yesterday, she explained that at times she is alleviated from some amount of financial burden, when the drugs are available at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

However, on Friday, the GPHC could not fill her prescription due to unavailability of the (Continued on page 15)

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Pass the port and other delights I once told a Trinidadian friend that I love old jokes.

He replied without the slightest hesitation, “It looks your wife likes old jokes more than you.” Then to my quizzical expression he added, “Well she married one.”

I suppose, as Trinis would say, I “look for that”. There is a story about two famous Americans, Joseph H. Choate and Chauncey Depew, that illustrates why you need to beware of saying things to people who are as sharp or sharper than you. The two gentlemen were invited to a dinner at which Mr. Choate, a diplomat, was the feature speaker and Mr. Depew, a US Senator, was the Master of Ceremonies.

When it was time to introduce the speaker, Mr. Depew said, “Gentlemen, permit me to introduce Ambassador Choate, America’s most inveterate after-dinner speaker.

“All you need to do to get a speech out of Mr. Choate is to open his mouth, drop in a dinner and up comes your

speech.” Mr. Choate warmly and effusively thanked the Senator for his compliment, and then said: “Mr. Depew says if you open my mouth and drop in a dinner up will come a speech, but I warn you that if you open your mouths and drop in one of Senator Depew’s speeches up will come your dinners.”

Depew once tried to turn the tables on, of all people, Mark Twain (Samuel Longhorn Clemens) and was still unable to get away with it. Mark Twain and Chauncey M. Depew once went abroad on the same ship. When the ship was a few days out they were both invited to a dinner.

Speech-making time came.

Mark Twain had the first chance. He spoke twenty minutes and made a great hit.

Then it was Mr. Depew’s turn.

“Mr. Toastmaster and Ladies and Gentlemen,” said the famous raconteur as he arose, “Before this dinner Mark Twain and myself made an agreement to trade speeches.

He has just delivered my speech, and I thank you for the pleasant manner in which

you received it. I regret to say that I have lost the notes of his speech and cannot remember anything he was to say.” Then he sat down.

There was much laughter.

Next day an Englishman who had been in the party came across Mark Twain in the smoking-room.

“Mr. Clemens,” he said, “I consider you were much imposed upon last night. I have always heard that Mr. Depew is a clever man, but, really, that speech of his you made last night struck me as being the most infernal rot.”

In addition to old jokes, I also like port which remains my only after dinner alcoholic indulgence except when occasionally I am asked to make a speech. Needless to say that I like “Port” jokes and after-dinner stories. When asked about why I chose this particular type of wine, I always reply, “I am like the sailor who wherever he docked gave his girlfriends a bottle of this same wine. He liked to have a little port in every sweetheart.”

Sometimes, when I feel a little

Widow still to collect benefits...

(From centre) to which her husband would have been entitled are being frustrated. Beephan told this publication that her husband worked 21 years with the Mayor and City Council, and had a pending six months overtime benefit.

“They didn’t even give me the December month salary and since in January, I applied to NIS for Survivor’s Benefits but although I send in all the paper work they ask for, up to now I can’t get a cent,” Beephan related.

The widow said she has spent a lot of money running around to get all the neces-

sary paper work together.

“Sometimes I feel it don’t make sense trying to get this money. Every time I go is a different document they asking for and now that I submit all the documents they ask for I’m still waiting.”

The woman added that since her husband’s death she is forced to take care of their two children on her own and face further financial challenges preparing the children for the new school term, which begins today. Beephan is employed as a sanitation worker at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

In addition to waiting for

the benefits, Beephan said that Cevons has never offered her any form of compensation.

“I have a number for this man and he never takes my calls. Every time the matter call in court the lawyer says that he is out of the country but I see the man walking around Georgetown every day.”

According to reports, Chisholm, a part-time employee of Cevons Waste Management, and full-time employee with City Hall, was urinating behind a company truck when the driver reversed and crushed him.

Former athlete battles cervical...

(From page 10) medications the former athlete was left with no other choice but to endure the pain.

The woman related that counting down the days is no easy task. However, she uses the opportunity to spend time with her three children.

Also, she wishes to visit schools to sensitize females of her ailment. Augustin said that she hopes that she can be an example to young girls so that they can see the need to be aware of the early signs and symptoms and for them to know that checking for such ailments and an early diagnosis could be life saving.

As she held on to her stomach, Augustin muttered that some days are worse than others; yet, each day is an extreme challenge. She

shared with this reporter that some days she has to force herself into doing some form of household duty just to ignore the pain since “there isn’t much I can do about it.”

The patient said that she has received assistance from the Ministry of Human Service though a $10,000 food voucher and a $4000

assistance airport tax as she travelled the last time to Trinidad for medical attention.

Augustin is soliciting assistance from the public “in any little way possible” as for the reminder of her life, she has to live on medications.

Persons interested in making a contribution can contact her on 223-2019.

nautical, I tell a joke about “port” – not Port-of-Spain because things are too tense there these days to elicit any humor, or Port Royal because after they eat their cassava people there get a bit bammy.

The joke goes like this.

Once upon a time there was a famous sea captain. This captain was very successful at what he did; for years he guided merchant ships all over the world. Never did stormy seas or pirates get the best of him. He was admired by his crew and fellow captains.

However, there was one thing different about this captain. Every morning he went through a strange ritual.

He would lock himself in his captain’s quarters and open a small safe. In the safe was an envelope with a piece of paper inside.

He would stare at the paper for a minute, and then lock it back up. Afterwards he went about his daily duties.

For years this went on and his crew became very curious.

Was it a treasure map? Was it a letter from a long lost love?

Everyone speculated about the contents of the strange envelope. One day the captain died at sea.

After laying the captain’s body to rest, the first mate led

the entire crew into the captains’ quarters. He opened the safe, got the envelope, opened it and...

The first mate turned pale and showed the paper to the others. Four words were on the paper, two on two lines: Port Left, Starboard Right.

Recently I rediscovered an old favourite of mine called “Pass The Port”. It is a collection of after-dinner stories told by famous Englishmen. Because I like old English Detective stories almost as much as I love British humour, the book has been alternating for my nocturnal affections with a Ngaio Marsh collection that I have been “Kindling” with in my pad – my Asus Eee pad, a really touching experience.

This one came from Sir Godfrey Agnew, Clerk of the Privy Council. A woman commissioned an artist to paint her portrait for a fee of £300. She immediately wrote out a cheque and handed it to him. The artist was concerned, “I thought we had agree a fee of £300 but you made out your cheque for £400.” The woman replied, “Yes, I know; but I find it a bit

embarrassing. Would you have any objection to painting me in the nude?”

The artist smiled, “None whatsoever madam provided that I can keep my socks on as I must have somewhere to put my brushes.”

There are several priceless cricket stories in the book and this is a sample.

Harold Larwood the famous fast bowler was playing in a charity game and hit the batsman squarely on the pads. He appealed for L.B.W. and the umpire turned it down. Larwood bowled a faster ball, wide of the off stump and the batsman snicked it into the wicketkeeper ’s gloves. Not out again. This time Larwood took his longest run and bowled his fastest ball. The stumps were spread-eagled and Larwood said to the umpire, “I darned near bowled him that time.” *Tony Deyal was last seen saying that even the greats love their corny jokes.

Lord Fortescue of the Coldstream Guards asked, “How do elephants make love under water?” They first remove their trunks.

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Visitors treated to thrilling Wakenaam Night and Expo 2012

The President engages the booth holders.

By Rehana Ashley Ahamad People from all walks of life flocked the island of Wakenaam for the fifth annual Wakenaam Night and Expo held last week Saturday.

Nature lovers, tourists and those who were just looking to experience a simple but extraordinary Guyanese lifestyle, were all present at the island’s “Community Centre Ground” for the expo and grand concert featuring both winners of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T)’s jingle and song competitionBrandon Harding and Gail Ann Singh;

the Guyana ‘Baboo’ himself, Mr. Terry Gajraj; and the Angel’s Caribbean band.

But many hours before the show, the 20 persons who purchased the $10,000 package from the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) were transported to the island and taken around to do some sightseeing.

The package catered for meals, accommodation, transportation, a tour and the grand concert.

While the group, including several foreigners thoroughly enjoyed the 25 minute speed boat ride from Parika to the island, they especially enjoyed the twohour tour around Wakenaam, which sits at the mouth of the Essequibo River occupying about 17.5 square miles.

Even as the sun unleashed its scorching glory, the visitors were determined to see as many of the great things which make Wakenaam unique.

They were taken to the island’s rice factory and given a brief, yet detailed account of the milling process before the grain is packaged for sale.

The visitors were also able to see the way coconut was being processed into what the older folks on the island would term “the best food for your skin”.

Despite seeing a coconut tree shaped like a semi heart, the most memorable experience of the tour was evidently a stop made to the Joti’s household. They are the only family on the island that makes pottery, and one of the very few people who make it using the manual wheel.

As the tourists started to stare in amazement at Mr. Joti speedily creating a perfect piece, his five year old daughter totally blew them away.

Little Debby is currently in the learning stages of pottery making, but her concentration and determination was the talk of the tour.

Mr. Joti, as he sat beside his manual pottery wheel, explained that the pottery making techniques were passed on to them by his grandfather who originated from India.

Joti says he is now in the process of teaching his youngest daughter the craft.

After a snack of coconut water and jelly, there was even more sightseeing. Then, at about 14:00hrs, it was time for lunch. That was a meal comprising delicious dahl, rice, coconut “choka”, fried fish, garden salad, ochro and calaloo, which satisfied the tourists’ every taste bud.

After lunch, some members of the group stayed on to tour while some wanted to rest. Eventually, at around 16:00hrs, members of the media, GTA and the tourists, reported to the respective homes where they would be staying, to get some rest and prepare for the grand concert later that evening.

As the sun went down a few hours later, persons were already seen entering the ground as the music was being blasted.

They live in what we call a “country area” and do not go partying much, but every year, the islanders ensure they come out in their numbers to celebrate the night- the night of the people of Wakenaam.

The exhibition booths were all stacked and ready, people decked in their finery were seen lining up in long lines to get into the ground.

As the show started, speeches were given by members of the Wakenaam Events Planning Committee who welcomed His Excellency, President Donald Ramotar, Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn, Acting Minister of Tourism, and Minister of Housing and Water, Irfaan Ali, along with Captain Gerry Gouveia.

The President who spent most of his teenage years on Continued on page 18

Little Debby attempting to follow in her father’s crafty footsteps.

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What has the People’s Parliament achieved?

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By Abena Rockcliffe Almost three weeks into the existence of the People’s Parliament, what has it achieved?

Faced with this question, active member of the People’s Parliament, Sherlina Nagar, responded in that with the aim being to converse with as many citizens possible to remind them that they have a voice and should ensure that their voices are heard, “our achievement has been, so far, significant.”

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repression.

“We are here to reach out, and brain storm to see how we can make our input in solving various issues like corruption, police brutality, lack of freedom of speech, poverty and violence of all form,” stated Nagar.

The People’s Parliament has been in existence since Aug 15.

Nagar stated that Guyanese need to be made aware of the power they hold.

The woman said that the members of the People Parliament’s are engaged in introspection to examine how each can be a greater asset to society.

Further, “we will like to help people in society to figure out their own ability and how we can change their lives and communities then together to hold politicians accountable.”

Nagar asserted that there are lots of things that politicians are not doing “that

they should be doing and they need to be held accountable.”

As she identified with the initial question asked, Nagar said that “transformation and changing people’s consciousness is not something that can happen over night or can be easily measured.”

However, so far “we have brought together Guyanese from all different backgrounds all different walks of life social class and races.

“We spend our entire day and night camping here, sharing our food as we engage in productive conversations.”

According to Nagar, few who are now involved knew each other before. “This is now a community formed; we didn’t know each other before. This is an organic spontaneous grouping of people that are trying to make a radical difference.”

Another ‘member of

parliament’, Simon Duggan, said that while the parliament has been pushed into formation by the “Linden situation, it was in thought a long time now.”

When the President asked for us to go back to normal is what hit me. What is normal?

Is normal the acceptance of violence and corruption in society?”

He opined that every aspect of society revolves around politics so much attention needs to be placed on it.

Reminded that Linden went back to “normal” and asked when they will close parliament, Nagar said that “we won’t see that as normal, we completely reject that.

Three people are now dead and several were left injured just because they chose to stand up for their rights.

“We will continue this until a significant transformation has been met.”

Court upgrades under the Justice...

(From page 6) the Minister disclosed.

Nandlall explained that the consolidated index would go beyond 1932 all the way to 1800’s and it would be a report of all decisions given by the courts of this country.

The Minister also noted that the Laws of Guyana project is still on. However, he said that the consultant had to return to England, but government has hired a new one to complete the project.

Nandlall said that they have negotiated a new price and it’s not a lot of work to be completed. Further the Minister said that Linden is also geared to get a new magisterial district. He said that currently Linden is part of the West Demerara district; therefore the office of the

magistrate court at Wismar is located at Vreed-en-Hoop. He said that when persons want to file actions or if women desire to uplift their maintenance payments from Linden district they need to travel to Vreed-en-Hoop to do so.

The building is being built in Linden and it would house those operations.

Nandlall said that more courts are being built in Bartica and Berbice. He told Kaieteur News that most of the courts in the outlaying areas will now have certain facilities and accommodate a magistrate.

There will be more frequent sittings which would ease the work load. In excess of $300M will be spent during the year to construct,

rehabilitate and maintain court facilities countrywide, especially in Bartica, New Amsterdam, Lethem, Wales and Mibicuri; whilst $25M would be spent to construct a new Mediation Centre in New Amsterdam.

In Lethem the court is almost completed and the magistrate will be there for a period of time, Nandlall said.

He explained that since the township in Lethem has grown significantly there is an increase in commerce, noting that they have to equip the judiciary for this.

The Georgetown magistrates’ court is to be completed and the issue of funds is being discussed. He expressed that every effort is being made to conclude the project, since funds have gone low.

Visitors treated to thrilling Wakenaam...

From page 16 the Island of Wakenaam, told residents that he is aware of the problems they are facing, particularly with the roads, and will soon find a solution.

Nonetheless, host of the concert, Joel Ghansham, was decked in a red sparkly coloured outfit as he initiated the start of an exciting night.

The man and his jokes might’ve been the reason for members of the audience not

falling asleep during some of the “not so entertaining” performances.

It was evident that some of the artistes should not have even been on stage.

Some of those who had the crowd awake and ready were Gail Ann Singh who sang a few chutney and Bollywood songs, and Brandon Harding who had the crowd on their feet as he danced and engaged the

audience.

He had the crowd gyrating as he did his renditions of “Cheater ’s Prayer” by Christopher Martin.

At the end of his performance, the talented Lindener said- “I don’t care what nobody said. I love the President”. He then sang the president a song, with the message being that every president should be like him.

After a few exciting dance pieces, and a fashion show by members of the Wakenaam African group, the “Guyanese Baboo” Terry Gajraj performed. Although dawn had broken, a large crowd gathered in front of the stage as Gajraj did Chutney, Soca, Reggae and Bollywood pieces.

By that time, the President and his Ministers of Government had left and the crowd started to “get on bad”.

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Monday September 03, 2012

Local Olympian remains on top in 400 meters The Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary was the centre of attraction yesterday afternoon as athletes and spectators flocked to see what was called ‘the clash of the titans’ in the men’s Under-23 400 meters that featured Guyana’s local Olympian, Winston George and the present 400 meters junior national holder, Stephan James.

The trials (Youth and Under-23), which was held by the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) to select a team for the upcoming South American Youth (October) and Under-23 (September) Games, saw the Olympian playing ‘look over’ games on the 400 meter track with his rival, James of Running Brave Athletic Club.

The most anticipated race for the day concluded with George of Police Progressive Youth Club (PPYC) outsprinting James on the homestretch in style after returning from the Olympics a few weeks ago to register 47.6 seconds on grass ahead of James’ 47.9 seconds.

George’s club mate, Shawn Semple crossed the line in 49.3 seconds to claim third position.

Alita Moore (11m30cm), who was second to Natrena Hooper’s 11m74cm leap in the females U-23 triple jump earlier in the morning, rebounded to cop a gold in the females U23/open 100 meters ahead of Letitia Myles of Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Ebony Nelson of Mercury Fast Laners (MFL) and Leota Bobb (open).

Moore, the champion of the Digicel’s U-23 100 meters clocked 11.8 seconds, opening a gap on the field.

Myles was second in the U23 category with 12.4 seconds, while Nelson was

Winston George

Tevin Garraway

Stephan James

Alita Moore

third in 12.9 seconds. Bobb who came second behind Moore in the race clocked 12.2 second to win the open women’s category. Moore is the first junior athlete for the year to break the 12 seconds barrier in the 100 meters dash.

Top sprinter Chavez Ageday (10.5 seconds) took his first victory on day two of the trials in the males U-23 100 meters ahead of GDF’s Akeem Stewart (10.8 seconds) and PPYC’s Terry Easton.

The men’s invitational 100 meters was equally impressive as the male and female U-23 100 meters with senior athletes like Patrick King, Keith Roberts and Leroy Bristol. The race which was mainly contested between the Joint Service athletes, King and Roberts saw both athletes neck to neck at the line, King (10.4 seconds) was adjudged as the winner as Roberts, 10.6 seconds was second. Bristol finished the race in 12.1 seconds.

Little bullet, Tevin Garraway, destroy the field once again in the youth boys 200 meters from start to the finish to register a new personal best time of 21.9 seconds. Samuel Doris and

Quacy Simpson were in distant second and third in 22.5 seconds and 23.5 second respectively.

Shoquane Daniels (26.2 seconds) ran away with the youth girls 200 meters from Tirana Mitchell (27.2 seconds) and Nicole Buchoon (31.4 seconds).

Arinze Chance, who lately returned to athletics, came out victorious in the youth boys 400 meters outclassing a field of four athletes in 53.4 seconds.

Rondel Austin (55.6 seconds) of PPYC and Jermaine Abrams (58.1 seconds) of MFL came second and third.

Neisa Allen claimed the females 400 meters in 57.5 seconds to pick up a double win at the trials ahead of Natrena Hooper (58.9 seconds) and Tiffany Smith (1:00.6 seconds).

Kevin Bayley of PPYC, who lately recuperated from food poisoning, won the males U-23 800 meters in 1:57.9 seconds ahead of Tyshon Bentick and Devon Barrington of GDF. The athletes finished the race in 1:58.6 seconds and 1:59.2 seconds respectively.

Cleveland Thomas (1:57.2 seconds) was the winner of

the Open men 800 meters.

Jevina Straker took another victory at the trials in the 800 meters in 2:16.9 seconds; Adama Roberts and Tisha Grimes both of PPYC settled for second and third in 2:37.2 seconds and 2:49.8 seconds.

Cleveland Forde continued to dominate in the distance events when he routed Dennis Horatio (35:43.6 seconds) in the men’s 10,000 meters in 34:07.9 seconds. Larry Josiah stalked behind in 41:48.2 seconds.

The youth boy’s Triple

Jenson Button wins at Spa for...

From back page went off it was pretty crazy, fortunately we came back with a fantastic strategy. “It was the right call, and the car was quite good in the race and we were able to pick up some places. “I had a lot of fun racing a lot of people, racing Michael [Schumacher]. I’m looking forward already to coming back here next year, this circuit is unbelievable.”

Raikkonen was caught up behind the Mercedes of Schumacher, who was slow around the lap but very fast in a straight line.

Once Raikkonen had passed Schumacher - in a brave move into the 180mph swerves of Eau Rouge - he briefly closed on Vettel but, realising he did not have

enough laps to make up a 13second deficit, was forced to settle for third. He was also hampered by not being able to use all his Kers powerboost system.

Schumacher’s hopes of a strong finish to a poor weekend for Mercedes were dashed when high tyre wear forced him to abandon his attempt to do only one stop.

That dropped him to seventh at the finish, behind the impressive Nico Hulkenberg’s Force India and Webber.

Toro Rosso’s Jean-Eric Vergne, who had a strong weekend after struggling in the first half of his debut season, was eighth, ahead of team-mate Daniel Ricciardo and the second Force India of Paul Di Resta. Williams

driver Bruno Senna was eighth heading into the last six laps but had to make a late stop because his tyres were worn out. He dropped to 12th behind the second Mercedes of Nico Rosberg.

It was a terribly unlucky day for Sauber after the strongest qualifying performance in their history.

Along with Perez, who was fourth on the grid, Kamui Kobayashi, who started second, was also caught up in the first corner melee and trailed home 13th.

Williams Pastor Maldonado, who failed to finish, has been given a fiveplace grid penalty for jumping start and another for colliding with Marussia of Timo Glock.

Both will be applied in next weekend’s Italian Grand Prix.

Jump was won by Clarence Greene in 11m97cm. Maurice Gibson was the winner of the male’s U-23 triple jump with his best leap of 12m93cm; Yoel Benjamin’s 12m05cm was second. The open male was won by Troy Williams (13m). Ryan Scott, winner of the men’s Long Jump was second with 12m91cm.

Meanwhile, the AAG fund raising raffle (in aid of raising funds for the U-23 Games team) was drawn yesterday afternoon after the conclusion of the trials. The following are the winning ticket number: 1955 (Plasma TV), 4158 (Refrigerator), 3885 (Mini Sony Music Set) and 2877 (Microwave).

Ticket numbers 2903, 2897, 2055 and 4431 are winners of consolations prizes.

Winners can uplift their prizes at the Olympic House.

Paralympics 2012: Oscar Pistorius beaten by Alan Oliveira in 200m BBC Sport - World record holder Oscar Pistorius criticised the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) after he was beaten by Brazil’s Alan Oliveira in the final of the Paralympic T44 200m.

Pistorius said Oliveira’s artificial legs - known as blades - are too long. The South African was overhauled by the 20-year-old in the final 20 metres as Oliveira won in 21.45 seconds, with Pistorius second in 21.52. “We are not running in a fair race here,” Pistorius told Channel 4.

“I’m not taking away from Alan’s performance but I can’t compete with Alan’s stride length.

“The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) have their regulations and their regulations mean that some athletes can make themselves unbelievably high - his knee heights are four inches higher than they should be.”

The IPC immediately denied any wrongdoing had taken place and that all blades had adhered to their strict regulations. “There is a rule in place regarding the length of the blades which is determined by a formula based on the height and dynamics of the athlete. All athletes were measured today prior to competition by a classifier and all were approved for competition,” a spokesman said.

Pistorius is understood to have made similar suggestions about Oliveira during a press huddle after Saturday’s heats and went on to claim that although it is

standard procedure is for prosthetic blades to be measured before competition “the guys rarely do the measuring in the call room.”

Oliveira was also quick to defend himself. Speaking through an interpreter, he told Channel 4: “The length of my blades is all right, I went through all the procedures with the referees. Once I come inside the track it’s because it’s all been cleared up and I believe Pistorius also knows that.”

Asked if he had changed the length of his blades between the semi and the final, Oliveira added: “No. Since the first time I put them on they’ve been following the IPC rules and I’ve been using them already for a whole month, just the same blades.”

It is not the first time

Pistorius has been involved in a row about artificial aids and how they affect sporting performance - although previously he was the subject of complaints.

In 2008 he was banned from competing in ablebodied events by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), which ruled that his prosthetic limbs gave him an unfair advantage, but the ban was overturned later that year.

Pistorius went on to compete at the London Olympics but now his surprise defeat in the T44 200m final has reopened the debate surrounding technology in sport.

Pistorius still has the 100m, 400m and 4x100m to come.

Arsenal beat Liverpool to...

From page 23 should have brought a second Arsenal goal, only for Olivier Giroud to somehow sweep a simple opportunity wide.

Liverpool appealed for a penalty when Suarez clashed with Per Mertesacker, who had been booked early on after another collision with the Uruguayan, but referee Howard Webb angered The Kop by waving play on.

Reina needed to be alert to block a shot from Kieran Gibbs at his near post and from Carl Jenkinson’s long-range effort.

Suarez was fighting a lone battle against Mertesacker and Thomas Vermaelen but at least offered Liverpool some hope with a rising drive that was touched over by Vito Mannone.

This was snuffed out when Cazorla added Arsenal’s second after 69 minutes. The Spaniard’s shot carried plenty of power but Reina should have done much better than merely help it into the net.

Liverpool’s lack of threat will have alarmed Rodgers but at least substitute Jonjo Shelvey, on for debutant Nuri Sahin, was prepared to test Mannone, twice bringing saves with efforts from distance.

Anfield was deserting rapidly as the final whistle was blown - optimism for Wenger and a desperately poor start for Rodgers.

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NCN/BCB U-15 Inter Zone cricket Novak Djokovic beats New Amsterdam/Canje & Lower Julien Benneteau

BBC - Defending champion Novak Djokovic continued his ruthless progress at the US Open with a 6-3 6-2 6-2 third-round win over Julien Benneteau of France. The Serb has won all three of his matches in straight sets.

He said: “Usually I don’t like to play the first matches [of the day] but it was important for me to start off very strong and I played really well.”

Andy Roddick, who will retire after the tournament, beat Fabio Fognini and will face Juan Martin del Potro next.

Number 20 seed Roddick, the 2003 champion, had to work hard for a 7-5 7-6 (7-1) 46 6-4 victory over Fognini to extend his career by at least one more match.

Del Potro, the 2009 champion, beat fellow Argentine Leonardo Mayer 63 7-5 7-6 (11-9).

Benneteau, the 31st seed, almost beat Roger Federer at Wimbledon this year but he could do nothing to threaten Djokovic.

The Frenchman could not live with Djokovic’s power and precision from the back

of the court and time and again found himself outrallied, with the second seed winning in an hour and 37 minutes.

Djokovic will now face Swiss number 18 seed Stanislas Wawrinka, a 6-4 64 6-2 winner over 14th seed Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine.

There was a victory too for number four seed David Ferrer, who beat Lleyton Hewitt 7-6 (11-9) 4-6 6-3 6-0.

Hewitt, the 2001 US Open champion, had five set points in the first set against Ferrer but could not take them and lost 11-9 in a tie-break.

The Australian came back to win the second set, but eventually ran out of steam.

Roddick’s victory on Arthur Ashe Stadium made it a great start to the day for the home fans - and fellow Americans John Isner and Steve Johnson are in action later on.

Ninth seed Isner plays Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber, seeded 19th.

American wildcard Johnson, the first college champion to reach the third round of the US Open since Sargis Sargsian in 1995, takes

Corentyne advance to final

Novak Djokovic on French number 13 seed Richard Gasquet.

Number eight seed Janko Tipsarevic, of Serbia, faces Grega Zemlja of Slovenia.

In the men’s doubles third round, British pair Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins were beaten 6-3 6-4 by American brothers Christian and Ryan Harrison.

Britain’s Josh WardHibbert beat South Korea’s Kang Ku Keon 6-2 6-4 in the first round of the boys’ singles, but Luke Bambridge went out, losing 6-3 6-4 to Harrison Adams of the United States.

Robson’s US Open adventure ended by Stosur Eurosport - Laura Robson’s impressive run at the US Open came to an end at the hands of Sam Stosur, who beat her 6-4 6-4 in the last 16.

Robson, bidding to become the first British woman in the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam since Jo Durie reached the last eight o f Wi m b l e d o n , s t a r t e d brightly, earning an early break against the defending champion.

But Stosur grew into the contest bit by bit, and though Robson was more than a match for her in power, the 18-year-old hit too many unforced errors as the first set slipped away.

It was the same story in the second set, though there was late drama as Robson saved eight match points over three games in the closing stages.

Robson produced numerous individual winners, and demonstrated power and groundstrokes that were, at times, too much for the defending champion to live with - just as former Grand Slam champions Kim Clijsters and Li Na had discovered earlier in the week.

Laura Robson But Stosur, realising t h a t R o b s o n ’s u l t r a aggressive approach was leading to mistakes, looked to bide her time, draw Robson into rallies, and wait for the errors.

“I think Laura is a very good p l a y e r, ” the Australian said afterwards. “ S h e ’s v e r y y o u n g a n d she’s got a lot of years ahead of her. She hits the ball great and thinks things t h r o u g h . S h e ’s o n e t o watch.”

H a v i n g gone a break down early on, the seventh seed levelled immediately, and once she had fended off a break point opportunity for

her young adversary in game nine, she turned the tables by racing to three break and set points on the Robson serve.

Robson denied her on the first two, only to cede the opening set with a double fault.

The task grew more difficult for Robson when she dropped serve again four games into the second set once more, having missed out on break points in the previous game.

Stosur looked to be moving comfortably towards a showdown with either top seed Victoria Azarenka or Anna Tatishvili in the quarter-finals, only to spurn five match points in a 15minute epic game at 5-2 on the Robson serve.

Robson showed character to come through, and once more to overturn a 40-15 deficit on the Stosur serve to break back afresh.

In the end, however, Robson gave her opponent one chance too many, but she will take heart from what has been a breakthrough tournament for her, and one that will catapult her from a world ranking of 89 to a new high when the next set of standings are announced at the end of the US Open.

Pre-tournament favourites New Amsterdam/ Canje and Lower Corentyne will clash in the final of the National Communication Network (NCN) sponsored Berbice Cricket board (BCB) Inter Zone Under-15 tournament.

NA/Canje easily disposed of West Berbice on first innings while Lower Corentyne also won via the same route from Upper Corentyne.

Playing at the Blairmont Ground, New Amsterdam/ Canje rattled up a challenging 223 for 9 off their allotted 55 overs; Leon Andrews led with 73 (5x4 2x6), National Under-19 batsman Shimron Hetmeyer 40 and Jermain Henry 35 also chipping in.

Bowling for West Berbice, off spinner Parmanand Ramdhan took 3 for 51 off 12 overs and medium pacer Greisan Grant 3 for 46 off 14 overs. In response, West Berbice was sent packing for a paltry 82 in 30 overs; only Greisan Grant 17 and Akeem Miller 15 reached double figures.

Leon Andrews followed

up his leading score by returning with the ball to recorded figures of 5 for 33 from 14 overs with his off spinners, left arm spinner Gavin Moriah Jr. backed up with 3 for 2 from 5 overs.

In their second turn at the crease, New Amsterdam/ Canje reached 85 for 3 before the game was called off.

Hetmeyer made 30 with 5 fours and Clinton Lindee 26.

Off spinner Akeem Miller took 2 for 34 runs.

Over at Area ‘H’ Ground, Lower Corentyne which won the toss and took first strike raced to 69 without loss as openers Balchan Baldeo and Brandon Prashad tore into the opposition attack.

Prashad was the first to go after scoring 30 (4x4) and then taking over proceedings was Upper Corentyne Skipper Deon Esau whose off spin accounted for 7 of the Lower Corentyne’s batsmen for 23 runs off 20 overs.

Totaram Rajram took 2 for 45.

Lower Corentyne were bowled out for 191 off 51 of their allotted 55 overs. Baldeo led all batters with an

attractive 79 (9x4). Captain Daniel Lewis 21 and Joshua Holder 18 were the other main contributors.

In reply, Upper Corentyne could only manage 82 all out off 30 of their allotted 55 overs. Only Esau with 25, Jameel Jackman 14 and Rajiv Bickram 11 reached double figures.

Bowling for Lower Corentyne, Vemen Ramoo took 3 for 10, Joshua Harrichan 2 for 4 and Daniel Lewis 2 for 7. Batting a second time, Lower Corentyne with a first innings lead of 109 runs, reached 146 for 2 before the game was called off.

Baldeo notched up his second half century of the match, a stroke filled 92 that contained 16 boundaries. His opening partner, Brandon Prashad stroked a rapid even 50 (9x4).

New Amsterdam/Canje and Lower Corentyne will clash in the final, while West Berbice and Upper Corentyne will battle for third place. The matches are slated for next Saturday with the venues to be named.

Carib Beer Friends of cricket\GCA 1st division 2-day tourney

Bacchus (200 n.o), Sookdeo (102), Christian (119), Hassan (102) highlight latest action Georgetown Cricket Club, Malteenoes and Demerara Cricket Club registered victories as the Carib Beer Friends of cricket\ Georgetown Cricket Association first division two day tournament continued last weekend with three matches.

At Bourda, GCC hammered GYO by an innings and 139 runs. GYO batted first and were restricted to 114 all out in 46.1 overs. Abdool Rahim 32, Surendra Heeralall 15 and Anthony Ifill 14 were the only batsmen that reached double figures as Winston Forrest bagged 4-22, Raj Nanan 3-22 and Bernard Bailey 2-22.

GCC in their turn at the crease lost their first and only wicket with the score at 40 when Winston Forrester was removed for 21. Robin Bacchus and Jitendra Sookdeo then took the score to 333 before they declared after 66.3 overs. Bacchus hit thirty fours and two sixes, while Sookdeo accounted for one six and thirteen fours.

GYO in their second innings were never allowed to score freely and were bowled just after lunch on the second and final day for 80 in 36 overs.

Tagenarine Chanderpaul made 33 as Forrester captured 4-17, while there were two wickets each for D. Lord and J. Wade.

Robin Bacchus At Malteenoes the host defeated Police by an innings and 103 runs. Police took first turn at the crease and were bowled out for 114 in 37.5overs. Shameer Fazal made 27, while Ryan Rajmangal contributed 24 as Danny Narayan claimed 4-20, Deon Ferrier picked up 2-13 and Steven Jacobs 2-19.

Malteenoes in their first and only innings piled up 354-8 declared off 53 overs.

Imran Hassan led with a fine 102 (14x4, 5x6) while Steven Jacobs made 59(5x4, 1x6) and Carlos LaRose and Orin Forde 53 each. Leon Crawford was the pick of the bowlers for Police with 3-41

and Vishal Jaigobin had 2-71.

Police in their second innings managed 137 all out in 38 overs. Crawford and Trevor Benn scored 27 apiece, while Imran Mohamed and Shameer Fazal supported with 26 and 22 respectively.

Anthony Atwell 3-9, Jacobs 2-28 and Narayan 2-37 were the chief wicket takers for the winners.

At DCC the home team outclassed Transport Sports Club by an innings and 175 runs. Transport were skittled out for 75 in 15.4 overs after batting first. Carl Rambarose was the only batsman that offered any resistance with 20 as Christopher Barnwell bagged 5-7, Paul Wintz 2-17 and Totaram Bishun 2-16.

DCC then responded with 353-7 declared off 50.2 overs.

Derwin Christian led with 119 (13x6, 4x4 off 70balls), while Andrew Lyght who faced 54 balls made 99 (7x4,10x6).

Kenny Ross and O. Batson claimed 3 wickets each for Transport who were bowled out just before lunch on the second and final day for 103 in 34.1 overs in their second innings. Q. Proctor made 20 as Bishun grabbed 3-39 while Andrea Stoll took 2-8 and Christian 2-0.

(Zaheer Mohmed)

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Southee’s seven gives New Zealand slender lead PA Sport – New Zealand boast a lead of 244 runs over India with one wicket remaining heading into the fourth day as the outcome of the second Test in Bangalore remains in the balance.

The tourists closed on 232 for nine in their second innings having earlier dismissed India for 353, with bowlers Tim Southee and R Ashwin doing much of the damage for their respective sides.

New Zealand paceman Southee finished with Testbest figures of seven for 64, including the wickets of overnight batsman Virat Kohli for 103 and Mahendra Singh Dhoni for 62, as India added 70 to their 283 for five.

India spinner Ashwin then took five for 69 in the Black Caps’ second innings as most of the tourists’ batsmen made starts without any managing to get past 50.

Jeetan Patel (10 not out) and Trent Boult (nought not out) were the men at the crease at stumps after decent contributions from middleorder quintet Ross Taylor (35), Daniel Flynn (31), James Franklin (41), Kruger van Wyk (31) and Doug Bracewell (22).

Southee was almost unplayable in the morning, accounting for four of the five wickets to fall. Kohli completed his second Test

Tim Southee hundred but was dismissed just three runs later, trapped lbw by Southee, while Dhoni went the same way soon after.

Zaheer Khan (seven) and Pragyan Ojha (nought) also did not last long, edging Southee’s short deliveries to wicketkeeper Van Wyk, before Boult cleaned up last man Umesh Yadav (four) to hand New Zealand a 12-run

lead with Ashwin finishing unbeaten on 32.

India edged ahead in the second session with four wickets, Yadav making his first breakthrough in the first over after lunch with an inswinging full toss that Martin Guptill (seven) inside-edged onto his stumps. In his next over, Yadav got Brendon McCullum to edge a delivery to Dhoni behind the stumps before Taylor and Kane Williamson (17) struck a 38run partnership.

Taylor was also involved in 42-run stand with Flynn before being the next man out, trapped lbw to Ojha while going for a sweep for the second time in the Test.

Flynn and Franklin were comfortable in the middle and looked to be taking the match away from India before the former cut Ashwin straight to Virender Sehwag at first slip.

While India had an opening to take control of the match, Franklin and Van Wyk were defiant and put on 55 runs to put their team in a strong position. But India struck late in the day, claiming the last three wickets for the addition of 27 runs to leave the Test on an even keel.

Scores: New Zealand 365 and 232 for 9 (Franklin 41, Ashwin 5-69) lead India 353 (Kohli 103, Dhoni 62, Southee 7-64) by 244 runs.

Golden Jaguars name squad for El Salvador World Cup Qualifiers Georgetown, Guyana The Technical staff of the Guyana national football team, has announced the 21-man squad for the upcoming Group B, 2014 Wo r l d C u p Q u a l i f i e r s , double header versus El Salvador.

T h e Golden Jaguars head to El Salvador for the first game on September 7th, before returning home to host the C e n t r a l A m e r i c a n ’s o n September 11th.

Members of the staff and players who are part of the squad that have been in camp in Guyana over the past week, will depart early Sunday morning.

They will link up with coach Shabazz and other foreign based players in short camp in Panama before heading off to El Salvador.

Coach Shabazz will make a statement assessing the contingent selected in due course.

Football fans are reminded that the Guyana

Football Federation will be allowing free parking at the National Stadium up to 19:00hrs or 7pm for the home game against El Salvador on September 11.

Thus national football fans are once more being encouraged to be at the Stadium an hour before kickoff to set the perfect atmosphere for the home team and inversely an intimidating atmosphere for visiting Salvadorans.

Tickets for that fixture are currently available at Ashmin’s, High Street at $3,000 each. For Private Boxes persons can contact the Guyana Football Federation on 2252906 or 2278758.

Guyana squad: Richard Reynolds, Colin Edwards (Goal-Keepers), Charles Pollard, Walter Moore, Colin Nelson, John Paul “JP” Rodrigues, Jamaal Smith (Defenders), Chris Nurse (captain), Kayode McKinnon, Konata Manning, Nick Millington, Dwight Peters, Dwain

Monday September 03, 2012

Bell and Trott lead England to easy victory (Reuters) - Ian Bell and Jonathan Trott shared a second-wicket partnership of 141 to lift England to a comfortable six-wicket win over South Africa in the fourth one-day international at Lord’s on Sunday.

South Africa were restricted to 220 for eight but when England captain Alastair Cook was bowled lbw

by Dale Steyn for just two that total looked a long way off for England.

However, Bell and Trott, who was struggling with a hand injury, recorded their fourth century partnership to set England on their way to reach their target with 20 balls to spare and take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series.

South Africa’s Dean Elgar broke the partnership when he trapped Trott lbw on 48.

The original appeal was turned down but South Africa reviewed it and were vindicated.

Ravi Bopara only survived 14 balls, scoring six, before he was sent back to the pavilion after edging behind off the bowling of Ryan McLaren. The Essex batsman has only scored a total of 22 runs in three innings this series.

Bell survived a dropped catch when his attempt to hit Lonwabo Tsotsobe over the top went all wrong but fortunately for the batsman Robin Petersen was off balance and the ball slipped through his fingers.

Bell went on to make 88, his 23rd one-day half century, before falling to Steyn, edging behind, with England needing 35 off 40 to win. Eoin Morgan (36) and Craig Kieswetter (15)

Ian Bell was in fluent touch. (PA Sports) wrapped up the victory with the latter hitting a six off Steyn to clinch it and delight the Lord’s crowd.

A seventh-wicket partnership of 40 between Petersen and Elgar helped South Africa salvage a respectable total. Petersen came to the crease with the visitors on 174 for six and little over six overs remaining but the 33-year-old hit a quickfire 31 off 20 balls to lift the touring side.

An 51-run partnership between captain AB de Villiers and Elgar had steadied things for the South Africans after they were reduced to 115 for four in the 29th over.

James Tredwell continued to make the most of his chance in the team, finishing with figures of three for 35, and Bopara did considerably

better with the ball than the bat by claiming two wickets in three overs including that of Hashim Amla.

The opener scored 45 having been dropped on five

by Tredwell who also failed to hold on to an edge by Graeme Smith on 26 but England did not pay too dearly for those missed chances.

England extended their lead at the top of the ODI rankings with the win and South Africa, the world’s topranked test teazm, slipped to third.

The final match of the series is at Trent Bridge on Wednesday.

Scores: England 224 for 4 (Bell 88, Trott 48) beat South Africa 220 for 8 (Amla 45, Tredwell 3-35) by six wickets.

Tenelec Inc./BCB 50 overs tourney

RHT Gizmos & Gadgets bang Port Mourant to remain unbeaten

Jacobs, Kester Jacobs, Ricky Shakes, Trayon Bobb (MidFielders), Carl Cort, Gregory Richardson, Vurlon Mills, Anthony Abrams, Shawn Beveney (Strikers).

Coach: Jamaal Shabazz, Assistant Coach: Wayne Dover, Trainer: Americo Falopa, General Manager: Rawle Adams, Assistant Manager: Mark Xavier, Equipment Manager: Trevor Burnett, Goal-Keeper Coach: Andrew Hazel, Physiotherapist: Debita Harripersaud.

A fiery spell of fast bowling by former National Under-19 all rounder, Clinton Pestano propelled Rose Hall Town Gizmos and Gadgets to an easy 8 wicket win over home team Port Mourant Cricket Club (PMCC) in the last round of the Tenelec Inc. Division One tournament in the Ancient County.

The victory meant that RHT Gizmos and Gadgets kept their unbeaten record intact in the tournament; winning all nine (9) matches to date, booking a semifinal slot along with Albion, Young Warriors and Bermine.

Port Mourant, which won the toss and decided to take first strike, soon found themselves in trouble at 16 for

2 in the third over as Devindra Thaurdin was trapped LBW by medium pacer Renwick Batson for one whilst his opening partner Joshua Ramsammy was dismissed by Pestano for 7.

Zamal Khan was then caught off Pestano for 2 at 33 for 3 in the 6th over and PMCC never recovered, eventually being dismissed for a 97 off 26.2 overs, Yogindra Harrinarine made 33. Pestano claimed 5 for 46 from his 10 overs, Batson 2 for 13 from 6 and Captain Shawn Perreira 3 for 28 from 3.2.

In reply, Rose Hall Town Gizmos and Gadgets were given a solid 67 run opening stand from Jason Sinclair and first division debutant Devin

Baldeo before Baldeo was dismissed for played 21 in the 14th over.

Sinclair was then caught off the bowling of off spinner R. Prasad for 40 (5x4). Veteran Batson was unbeaten on 23 (2x6) and Loyydel Lewis 10* when victory was achieved in the 20th over with the visitors strolling to 100 for 2.

Port Mourant’s best bowlers were Yogindra Harrinarine 1 for 22 and Prashad 1 for 32.

Rose Hall Town Gizmos and Gadgets will clash with the Young Warriors at the Area ‘H’ Ground while Albion will be at home to Bermine.

The semifinals are scheduled for next Saturday bowling off at 09:30hrs.