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US$18M Specialty Hospital…

Govt. to re-evaluate award of contract p.

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Carpenter killed as pick-up slams into bicycle

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- Son, 4, hospitalised

Linden Inquiry …

Four of five commissioners sworn-in p.

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Bibi Shadick to chair Broadcast Authority p.

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$80M house lot scam…

Property owner claims death threats from ‘ringleader’ p.

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The body of Rajendra Sugrim (inset) being removed from the scene

Jagdeo’s palatial home…

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Former President accountable to Guyanese for his actions - AFC

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Jagdeo’s palatial home…

Former President accountable to Guyanese for his actions - AFC The circumstances under which former President Bharrat Jagdeo acquired his two-acre plot of land at Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara, is an issue of accountability and not security, the Alliance For Change (AFC) insisted yesterday.

According to the Parliamentary opposition party, the fact that Jagdeo has demitted office does not prevent him for being accountable for his “acts” and “omissions” when he was President of Guyana.

Over the weekend, the party got into a bruising public battle with the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic during a segment of the corruption debates on NCN’s Channel 11.

During the live debate, AFC’s Chairman, Nigel Hughes argued that it is evident that Jagdeo garnered more wealth than any other president in Guyana.

Government on Tuesday came out heavily in defence of the right of Jagdeo to his sprawling home, and blasted an aerial shot of the seaside compound, equipped with pool and all, which was published

by Kaieteur News. According to the government, quoting an unknown, unnamed senior police officer, the (continued on page 18)

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Bibi Shadick to chair Broadcast Authority

Sherwood Lowe

Bibi Shadick

Charles Ramson Jr.

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Police still stumped on motive for Crabwood Creek killing Police continue to detain three men in separate locations as they probe the murder of 25-year-old Madan Ramkerat of Crabwood Creek.

Ramkerat’s charred body, with suspected wounds to the chest, was discovered on Tuesday in a burnt out camp at an area called Tiger Creek, approximately 24 kilometres (15 miles) from the mouth of the Corentyne River.

The three men, a 39-year old businessman who owns the farm, his 60-year-old brother and the brother of the victim, were the last known persons to see Ramkerat alive.

According to reports, Madan Ramkerat had been working for one of the men in custody for the past seven years.

Reliable sources have informed this newspaper that Ramkerat called ‘Rakesh’ or ‘Pencil’, was taken to the farm by the owner sometime on Saturday last. He was left there in a camp to overlook

what the owner described as a citrus farm.

The owner told police that he had taken the labourer to clear a portion of the farm which was previously abandoned.

One source disclosed that the owner and Ramkerat’s brother returned to the farm Tuesday and reportedly found the camp burnt to the ground.

Further checks revealed Ramkerat’s partially burnt nude body, a short distance away. Police recovered a sixgauge spent cartridge from the scene.

So far police have not come up with a motive for Ramkerat’s killing.

The victim’s mother, Savitri Hira, told this newspaper that she learnt of her son’s death on Tuesday afternoon. The woman said that her son would usually spend days away from home, but she was unaware that he was working on a farm that

Dead: Madan Ramkerat far up the Corentyne River.

She said that her son’s employers have undertaken to take care of all funeral expenses.

Kaieteur News understands that Ramkerat had previous brushes with the law and there is still a pending court matter that he is involved in.

Linden tariff concerns…

Technical team’s activities imminent Dr. Dindyal Permaul

Margot Boyce

Applications for broadcasting licences pending at the National Frequency Management Unit (NFMU) may be processed shortly.

Cabinet has approved the appointment of the Governing Board of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority subsequent to the commencement order identifying that the Broadcast Act of 2011 has come into force.

Dr. Roger Luncheon made this announcement yesterday during post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the President.

Former Minister and Attorney-at-Law Bibi Shaddick will be chairperson of the board, while the other six members are UG lecturer, Sherwood Lowe (nominee of the leader of the Opposition) and presidential nominees, Project Manager of the One Laptop Per Family Project, Margot Boyce; Captain Gerry Gouveia; former army chief, Major General Norman McLean (ret’d); Head of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA), Dr. Dindyal Permaul and Charles S. Ramson Jr, a lawyer at the Office of the President.

Dr. Luncheon related that the Board is tasked statutorily with licencing in the Broadcast Sector and ensuring compliance of

broadcasters with the provision of the Broadcast Act. Unaware of the number of applications for broadcasting licences that accumulated over the years, he opined that there have been a “tidy few” sent to the NFMU for processing.

Dr. Luncheon added that the initial location for the Governing Board would be the National Frequency Management Unit, but there are plans to establish an office. It would house the Broadcasting Authority and provide office space for the Governing Board.

“The opportunity would of course be used to build, to accommodate expanded services to be offered by the successor to the National Frequency Management

Gerry Gouveia

Norman McLean Unit, but that would be a matter subsequent to legislation that is before Parliament right now - the Telecommunications Amendment Bill,” he said.

The technical team tasked with recommending the way forward for electricity tariffs in the town of Linden will be commencing soon.

This assurance was given

by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday at the Office of the President. He revealed that Cabinet has approved funding and the stage is now set for the team to begin activities.

The establishment of the team was agreed to during

negotiations between the government and the people of Linden, being represented by a team headed by Region 10 Chairman Sharma Solomon, in August.

Intended electricity tariff increases by Government in the town sparked a protest which prolonged for a month.

Three Linden residents were also killed on the first day of the protest.

Meanwhile, facilities and staffing are also in place for the technical team focusing

on the economic situation in Linden.

However, the chairperson for this team is yet to be appointed.

The members will be located at Colgrain House, Camp Street.

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Letters... Where your views make the news

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Publisher: GLENN LALL Editor: Adam Harris Tel: 225-8465, 225-8491. Fax: 225-8473, 226-8210

EDITORIAL

Making an issue out of nothing There is a lot of talk about the publication of photographs of the home of former President Bharrat Jagdeo. People closely associated with the former president have conspired to contrive a news storm over the aerial shots.

Some claim that the publication reflects the invasion of the former president’s privacy; that it represents a security threat to the former president and that it is something that should attract legal proceedings. This is one of the strangest reactions to the publication of photographs.

Certainly the spin doctors who appear to be reacting to anything that appears to feature the former president have gone overboard. It is no secret that the former president has been in the spotlight from the time he began to flaunt what many thought was untold wealth. The Attorney General, in a press statement, described the former president as perhaps the only head of state in Guyana who did not own property before he acceded to office.

The nation has been exposed to the residences of the former presidents. Forbes Burnham was touted by the then political opposition as one of the richest men as attributed to Forbes magazine, in the days when the information superhighway was not as pervasive as it is today. That rumour was allowed to flourish.

Burnham built a house that was modest by any standards.

That house is now owned by ‘King’ Solomon and stands along the East Coast Demerara public road. That house stood in full public view and did not appear to have all the security features that adorn this mansion that the former president now has.

The Jagans also had a modest home in Bel Air village.

Again the public hardly paid any attention to the home because it was unpretentious. The same could be said of the home owned by the late Desmond Hoyte. It stood in full public view along North Road in close proximity to Bourda Market. Again there were no major security considerations.

Former President Jagdeo happened to attract national attention after he sold a prior home for $120 million, far more than any of the homes owned by his predecessors. As the Attorney General said, this was not the first instance of anyone building cheap and selling dear.

What he did not say was that under the conditions that the land was sold by the Ministry of Housing, there could not have been any sale until a prescribed time had passed. The Ministry, however, turned a blind eye to that sale, although the former President Jagdeo had breached the rules.

One would assume that with the money from that sale he set about constructing this new home. There is nothing to stop the former president from building a home of his choice and there is nothing to stop the nation from wondering at the cost of the structure.

And it is the same with the news media that opt to show the nation the home of the former president. By his own standards, he is a private person, but to make it appear that he is a cloistered virtue, that he is the essence of secrecy, is really stretching the national mood.

It was Jagdeo who reminded former President Janet Jagan of her status when she became involved in the Stabroek News advertising issue. Mrs Jagan had contended that withholding Government advertisement from the newspaper was wrong. When this was pointed out to the then President Jagdeo, he said that Mrs Jagan was a private citizen.

Jagdeo is by his own admission a private citizen and is therefore not entitled to any special considerations. Ordinary people have had their homes photographed without a peep from any section of the society. Why must Jagdeo be seen in a different light? Being a former president does not make him any different and does not make his home any special security concern.

Surely, President Donald Ramotar’s home would not attract any such attention. For people to make an issue of the photograph of Jagdeo’s home something of monumental concern, is to seek to place Jagdeo in a realm that only his sycophants could create.

Cheddi Jagan won power younger than Jagdeo and he acquired no wealth in office DEAR EDITOR, The problem with the debate on Jagdeo’s pension and his massive accumulation of wealth while in power is not the truth, which every Guyanese knows. It is the lapdogs who have no integrity and decency and are so blinded by the pettings of their master they cannot stand up for themselves and tell the bloody truth.

It is the miasma the PPP has become where men with no soul are going on public television and singing for their master like mindless poodles.

We have heard all kinds of defences by these worshippers. Some are so crassly ignorant and deliberately deceptive, they don’t even pretend it is logic.

Anil Nandlall reportedly said: “The difference between Mr. Jagdeo and every other President in this country is that he took power in his 30’s.

He didn’t own anything, he came back from studies, he worked and he acquired as he was working.

He was the only President that is distinguished in that respect.” Absolute swill.

Complete hogwash. Utter trash.

Cheddi Jagan was Premier of Guyana in 1953 at age 32.

He became Premier again at age 37 in 1957. Cheddi Jagan didn’t own anything when he

got into power. He had just returned to Guyana a few years earlier and spent most of his time fighting for freedom of the Guyanese people rather than making money from his dentistry practice. Cheddi was a dentist.

He ran his own business, unlike Jagdeo, who returned to Guyana in October 1990 and who right away, despite his affiliation to the PPP, secured a quality position as a state planning economist under Desmond Hoyte and Carl Greenidge.

From there, Jagdeo kept getting promoted by virtue of political patronage to ever higher positions where he earned more pay than 90% of this country. Cheddi Jagan never earned anything from politics and government.

Unlike Jagdeo, Jagan had a family to care for.

Despite these economic challenges, Cheddi’s personal record of work in the trenches, backdams and canefields of this country dwarfs the work of the entire lazy, arrogant and elitist PPP since 1999.

Cheddi Jagan did not own anything when he came to power in the 1950s. He owned just a home and probably modest savings when he became President in 1992. He arrived in the office of the presidency with nothing. He took nothing as his pay was

laughable compared to what Jagdeo paid himself. He left with nothing and he asked for nothing.

Cheddi Jagan’s own son wrote that Cheddi Jagan was homeless and broke when the PPP lost power in 1964.

This is a man who founded the party of these vagabonds now defending pillage and outright usurpation of this nation’s resources by handing outlandish pensions to their master.

Desmond Hoyte came to power with nothing and left with nothing. Janet Jagan came to power with nothing and left with nothing.

Forbes Burnham took heavily during his rule but he used it during his rule.

Even that tyrant Forbes Burnham was not this tyrannical in his sense of entitlement as Jagdeo who has his minions defending this absurd pension.

That these PPP henchmen would be running around this country barking like rice eaters while their master sits in the plantation house pulling and tugging the leash reminds us of who is really the power and who is really the masquerader prancing around with the costume.

‘Massa’ days are not done with the PPP. Men singing like sparrows for ‘Massa’ on the big tube reminds us that ‘Massa’ days

Licencing services are available at GRA’s regional offices DEAR EDITOR, Reference is made to a letter published in your newspaper dated August 30, 2012 and captioned “Passport office and the Berbice Bridge.”

The letter written by Mr. Ray Chickrie, stated that “Berbicians are bitterly complaining about the long journey to Georgetown to the passport and motor vehicle offices’ and further, that ‘unless one is not willing to bribe, the process can’t be expedited quickly and that they are intimidated not to do so”.

Mr. Editor, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) applauds Mr. Chickrie on bringing the issue to the public’s and by extension, the GRA’s attention.

Notwithstanding this, the GRA believes it is an unfair assessment of the process for obtaining documents for motor vehicles from the authorised motor vehicle licensing authority which falls under the purview of the GRA. The GRA cannot speak for other entities mentioned

in Mr. Chickrie’s letter.

However, as it relates to GRA’s Regional Integrated offices countrywide, including New Amsterdam, these offices have been dealing with motor vehicle related services for some time now and have been providing other licensing services in their respective locations to facilitate taxpayers.

Despite publications and advertisements released by the agency, it seems the general public is still unaware that they can access the aforementioned services at our regional offices.

In the case of the bribery allegations, the GRA has a zero tolerance policy against bribery.

In fact, the agency recently published notices that members of the public should desist from offering incentives, in the form of cash or kind, to its officers.

Officers requesting such must be reported by members of the public. The only monies members of the public are expected to pay are the fees charged for licensing

services or applicable duties or taxes, as is necessary.

When such payments are necessary, it must be made to a GRA cashier and a receipt must be obtained.

The GRA hereby wishes to inform the general public that should any officer solicit incentives to expedite or process transactions, they can contact the Enforcement Hotline on 226-2060.

Khurshid Sattaur Commissioner-General

are still alive and well in the PPP. I’ll tell you this, Forbes Burnham would be proud. He is probably telling Cheddi right now how ‘Massa’ remind him of him back in his heydays from 1964 to 1985 and why did PPP supporters reject him then when they are allowing themselves to be battered by Massa now?

Cheddi Jagan ruled Guyana for one year in 1953, then from 1957 to 1964 for 7 years then from 1992 to 1997 for 5 years. In 13 years, Cheddi Jagan acquired nothing in office. In 12 years, three months, if Jagdeo got $1M per month, he would have earned $147 million tax free.

If Barack Obama, Chancellor Merkel, PM Persad-Bissessar, Stephen Harper, Portia Simpson-Miller or David Cameron ever built a house for X and sold it for five or six times that price to a diplomat directly under and answerable to any of them when that sale price was clearly above fair market value, there would be a Parliamentary investigation and possibly more.

If Jagdeo did not own a property when he came to the presidency and despite serving as advisor and finance minister for several years, where was he living?

Was he renting or was he living in accommodation paid for by the state? Did Jagdeo buy and sell any properties between 1990 and 1999 when he became president? What does Jagdeo not owing a property have to do with his entitlement to a bizarre pension package?

If a man is earning more than 95% of the rest of the population since 1993 as Junior Finance Minister and he chooses not to buy a property, it does not mean he is not financially capable of buying a house.

How does a man who has been a minister of government for six years before he became President earning income at the highest brackets in (Continued on page 5)

Drugs on the ferries to North West DEAR EDITOR, As a passenger and cargo shipper to North West District, I am getting worried about the amount of illegal drugs, both marijuana and cocaine that are being shipped to the North West Districts by government ferries.

Based on information that I received, government employees on the ferries are working along with others.

Recently, an employee of

the department was held with drugs in the North West District and he and other employees were not charged.

The rumour is that $200,000 was paid to ensure this.

The employee is still on the job.

It is time for the Transport and Harbours Department to start putting measures in place to stop the flow of drugs to North West.

Concerned Resident

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

Start by teaching the people to be good DEAR EDITOR, I live in the USA, and enjoy keeping abreast of the politics of my country. I found the article by Peeping Tom in your September 5th edition to be very interesting. I had some knowledge of Paul Ryan, because of the debates over the debit this nation is accumulating. His fiscal arguments are forceful and well thought out. In all the years that he has been a political figure on the national level, I have never heard anyone make a connection to objectivism and Ayn Rand.

So I did some research, and found that in the early years of his national attention, some have tried to make that connection. It is a false connection.

Even Yaron Brook, president of the Ayn Rand Institute states that Ryan is not a Rand disciple. Paul Ryan is a devote Catholic, and objectivism does not support the idea of a personal God. The connection that Peeping Tom makes to objectivism is maybe because of his misunderstanding of capitalism. His description of capitalism maybe is accurate for some who say they are capitalist, but it is not a good description of what our founding fathers knew as capitalism.

Our founding fathers thought that

capitalism was best for the collective good.

Capitalism would release the energies of the individual to benefit all. Under capitalism the individual would be free of government interference to do the things that the collective needs. No political party or committee would stop or interfere with the individual doing those things that the collective needs.

This idea only works when the people of a nation are taught that they are not an end unto themselves. Thomas Jefferson taught that capitalism would only work if the people felt that they were accountable to a higher power.

This higher power had to be above government. It had to be the power by which government gets its power. It has to be a power greater than the collective. In the USA we are seeing the results of a nation that is teaching its citizens that they are the highest power. We have a breakdown in morality, and in government. In order for governments to be good, the people who elect those governments must be good. I have learned that it is more important to teach people to be good, and then everything in the collective will be good.

Robert L Froman USA

A TEACHER AND POLITICS DEAR EDITOR, I am ashamed and totally angry at the selfishness of some political activists posing as teachers. It has come to my attention that a senior teacher attached to a West Coast Demerara secondary school receives preferential treatment due to her political affiliation to the present PPP/ C administration. As the Ministry of Education moves to import Mathematics and Science teachers and our students continue to perform poorly in both subject areas, this particular Mathematics teacher is granted time off from school to attend to matters that are political in nature, at the expense of the students and taxpayers.

The students are left without a teacher while she receives her full salary as a teacher as well as benefits from her political portfolio as a RDC Councilor and the Head of an IMC in the area.

If one was to check on the amount of occasions that she has been absent from school it is evident that our children are being robbed. How can our children perform when their contact time is shortened? How can their weakness be identified and corrected? It should be noted that this teacher is trained

graduate. My child was in her Grade Eight class and could not understand her lessons and had to seek help from other Mathematics teacher. This particular teacher handles her classes on the corridor of the school and in the school yard without the aid of a blackboard. How can Mathematics be taught without demonstration?

I have no problem with individuals, more so teachers, getting involved in politics…it is their democratic right.

However, when one is a teacher, teaching should be the first priority. I wonder is this the kind of professionalism that Minister and Ministry of Education and the Government of

Guyana encourage?

This kind of “professionalism” will contributes more to failures in Mathematics, more indiscipline in our classrooms and more disunity among our people.

CXC results are now available and our children have done badly once again.

How can the children of Guyana improve academically when we encourage and condone poor attitudes in this profession?

The Ministry of Education should root out these instances wherever it exists if they are truly concerned about our students’ performance.

William Tell

Cheddi Jagan won...

From page 4 Guyana secure a houselot for $58,000 at Pradoville 1 and land at Pradoville 2 at $5 million per acre?

Cheddi Jagan ruled this country for 13 years during times when Guyana was no backwater but one of the top fifty richest countries in the world. Cheddi Jagan did not become rich in office.

Cheddi Jagan never had his minions running around like headless chickens fighting for his ability to rape

this destitute land.

Debauched power had not only rotted the minds of the yes-men and sycophants, it has rotted their sense of truth and history.

M. Maxwell

John Gimlette’s book on Guyana is indeed contentious

DEAR EDITOR, Without wishing to take up any cudgels on behalf of Major General (ret’d) Joe Singh, there may well be ‘observers’ who will support the view that the ‘Wild Coast’

by John Gimlette is indeed contentious.

The word ‘observer’ is deliberately used, as the author splashes ink over five centuries on a canvas that pretends to portray Guiana and Guyana simultaneously, in a manner that results more as an abstract painting than the reproduction of recognisable features of the scenario of 2008 when he set out from London (pg 10 of Wild Coast).

There is no question that Gimlette concocted this vista of the ‘colony’ for consumption elsewhere but 21st century Guyana.

His persistent efforts to make the country and its parts exotic to foreign strangers merely teem with an instinctive arrogance.

Amongst the 20 or more photographs in the ‘Guiana’ portion of the book, there is not a single sight of any edifice in 2008 Georgetown, the capital city of Guyana – no Pegasus Hotel, no Bank of Guyana, no Cathedral, no public buildings, not even the Victoria Law Courts which he eloquently describes as follows: “Soon after my arrival in the city I read about one of these trials and went along to watch. It was held in the Victoria Law Courts, a

lingering fantasy of tropical Gothic. On the outside it looked like a vast tin palace, with corrugated gables and pillars made of iron. Inside, it seemed bigger still, and was richly inhabited by long-dead solicitors now whiter than ever in marble.”

Then the author supplements the contempt with the following imagery of the day’s court proceedings: “In every other sense, however, the trial was like a snapshot of modern life in Guyana. The side walls of the court were open, and so the parrots sat in the palms outside, chattering through the evidence. Then the rains came early, and sounded like horses on the tin. Defence counsel, meanwhile, was – like almost half the population – Indian, and wore a black silk suit and robes. Whenever he could, he’d pound around the court, thundering away in a rich Creole, well larded with Dickens and Donne.

The other races too played their part that day.

The judge and all the constables were — like a third of all Guyanese — ‘African’, while the jurymen made up the rest: ‘the mixed races’. There, in their twelve furrowed faces was the story of Guyana, a hotchpotch of displaced souls: slaves, Amerindians, Dutch conquerors, ‘Chineymen’, Irish adventurers, Scottish cattlemen, pirates, pioneers and Pathans. Together, this

volatile mix made up a population barely big enough to fill a little phone book. All that were missing were the whites, whose share of the whole was now a slice of 1 per cent.”

There are many more embellishments. But to end this first installment, readers are invited to savour this perception of Georgetown in 2008: “Of course, almost all the civic buildings were notionally British – although they didn’t always look it.

Often even the queen’s most loyal architects had let heat and fantasy go to their heads.

Father Scholes’ City Hall looked like a runaway doll’s house, and Blomfield’s cathedral had used up so many trees that, even now, it was at risk of vanishing into the mud. It was only in the details that Georgetown’s streets were still lingeringly British; the Hackney carriages, the EIIR letter boxes, the statue of a great sewage engineer and a pair of Sebastopol cannons.

Once, however, I did see a large building site called Buckingham Palace, although – sadly, perhaps – before any resemblance had taken shape, the financing had failed.”

There are lots more flavourful ‘insights’ about religion, food, etc, but to follow-up on these subjects will require the editor’s permission to report on a whole series of insults.

E. B. John

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Linden Inquiry …

Four of five commissioners sworn in Four of the five members of the Commission of Inquiry into the July 18 shootings in Linden which left three persons dead were sworn in yesterday before President Donald Ramotar.

Justice Lensley Wolfe O.J., Mr. K.D. Knight S.C and Ms. Dana Seetahal S.C along with Guyana's former Court of Appeal Judge, Claudette Singh, CCH, yesterday pledged their integrity to the commission. Former Chancellor of the Judiciary and the current Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority Cecil Kennard was absent from the ceremony.

The Head of State expressed his gratitude to Caricom for the interest shown in the commission. He said that he hoped the findings of the commission could be known very speedily so that the speculation could end.

This newspaper was told that Kennard is currently on annual leave and will return in mid-September. Attorney General Anil Nandlall informed Kaieteur News that works in the commission will

From left, former Judge Claudette Singh, Justice Lensley Wolfe, President Donald Ramotar, Ms. Dana Seetahal S.C and Mr. K.D. Knight S.C. begin sitting with the next 14 days. He said that Justice Wolfe will be the Chairman Nandlall said that the commissioners proceeded to the secretariat for a meeting to familiarise themselves with the location. He said that based on the agenda, they will be engaging in discussions regarding the procedures that they would adopt.

Once the commission is at its full complement (with the swearing of Justice Kennard) the members will proceed with

the task at hand. They will be sitting in the upper flat of the Supreme Court, but it was noted that this is subject to

change.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, had disclosed that

some $80M has been budgeted for the inquiry which is expected to last 30 (continued on page 9)

$80M house lot scam…

Property owner claims death threats from alleged ringleader The owner of a property that was used by a gang to carry out their illegal activities, which saw dozens of persons falling prey to a house lot scam, claims he is now receiving death threats from the alleged ringleader of the gang.

The man said ever since the news broke about the scam and having realised that his property was being used he changed the locks on his property and secured it.

The man who asked not to be identified told this publication that he began receiving threatening phone calls from the male individual whom he rented his property to.

“The man keeps calling

from (number provided) and telling me I must open up the place, because if I don’t, he can put up one million dollars and get me killed.

I told him that he got up to today (yesterday) to remove his stuff from the property and later in the day (yesterday), I was told that a female and a truck driver were ready to remove the items from the house.”

The property owner said all of the items were removed by the female. In the meantime, the man said he did not take the threats lightly given the magnitude of the matter. He visited Brickdam’s Criminal Investigation Department to make a report.

He said while there he was

sent to the Enquiries Section, but was subsequently informed that he would have to go to Grove Police Station to file a report.

Feeling frustrated and fearful for his life and that of his family, the man said he went to CID Headquarters Eve Leary, and was again turned away after being advised that he should make a report at the Providence Police Station.

Eventually the man said the ranks there facilitated him and took a written statement.

Over the past few days the police began to unravel the major scam to which dozens have fallen prey. Two persons have been detained.

Investigators are also examining a secretly recorded conversation that a victim reportedly made of the alleged mastermind and his accomplices outlining the house lot deal.

Kaieteur News understands that some victims have identified the 25-

year-old man, who was arrested Tuesday, as the person who introduced them to the alleged ringleader. They are claiming that he also accompanied them when they met with a woman who posed as a Housing Ministry employee.

A source said that at least 16 people are claiming that the suspect introduced them to the ringleader as someone who could help them to acquire house lots. The sums handed over for the documents varied from ‘down-payments’ of $250,000 to $500,000 and $1M. Police and Housing Ministry officials have so far been unable to locate the ringleader, who fled from a Grove, East Bank Demerara house last Friday night.

Housing Ministry officials subsequently placed a sign outside the building indicating that it was the Ministry’s property.

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Guyanese woman found burnt in her NY home…

Democratic National Convention...

Michelle’s personal story a political triumph (CNN) — After Michelle Obama’s speech Tuesday night, it will be very difficult for her critics to portray her as angry or aggrieved. She rarely raised her voice. She smiled, she charmed, she seemed to tear up. She said not an unkind thing about her political opponents. Indeed, she never mentioned them.

Yet she eviscerated Mitt Romney and everything he represents by stunning contrast, by recounting her modest upbringing and reminding her audience that President Obama shared her unassuming roots. It was a bravura political performance cloaked in an apolitical narrative.

After Tuesday night, it will be very difficult for the Rush Limbaugh League to accuse the first lady of being unpatriotic, of failing to sufficiently love America.

From her introduction by one of the nation’s military supermoms — Elaine Brye, mother of four military officers — Obama spoke of schoolteachers, of firefighters, of wounded warriors and their sacrifices.

Given Romney’s failure in his convention speech to even acknowledge men and women in uniform, Obama’s salute to them was another striking contrast, served up without venom or bile.

From their first

Michelle Obama

presidential campaign, Michelle Obama’s role has been at least as difficult to navigate as her husband’s.

As the first black woman to represent the country in a job with few defined duties but generations of cherished symbolism, she has had to endure relentless vicious attacks. She has been caricatured, as she has noted, as an “angry black woman.”

She has been cast as hostile to whites. And her campaign against childhood obesity has earned cruel denunciations from the right, including a remark from an overweight GOP lawmaker that she has a “large

Powerful quake hits Costa Rica, two dead SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake rocked Costa Rica yesterday, killing at least two people, sparking landslides, knocking down buildings, and briefly triggering a tsunami warning.

Striking a tourist region popular with Hollywood stars, Costa Rica’s worst quake in over two decades sowed panic in the capital, disrupting power supplies and communications, and caused an entire hospital on the Pacific coast to be evacuated.

The Red Cross said two people died in Guanacaste, the northwestern province at the epicenter of the 7.6 magnitude quake, which split open tarmac roads, cracked gravestones and sent books tumbling off library shelves.

One of the dead was a man working on a construction site who was killed when part of a wall fell on top of him. The

other was a woman who had a heart attack.

Costa Rican television said 22 people were also treated for injuries, but the Red Cross could not confirm this.

Locals were shocked by the force of the earthquake, which was felt as far away as Nicaragua and Panama, and the biggest to hit Costa Rica since a 7.6 magnitude quake in 1991 left 47 dead.

Dozens of patients were stretchered or wheeled out of the Monsenor Sanabria hospital just metres (yards) from the Pacific coast after the facade of the nine-storey building began to crumble during the quake, police from the port city of Puntarenas said.

Local media said the building housed 218 patients and that all were relocated to other hospitals or sent home.

Some 21 hotels reported minor damage such as broken windows and fallen objects in Guanacaste province and the

posterior.”

She has had to suffer through that privately, never shedding her calm exterior in public. She has had to shield her children from scrutiny and attempt to ensure they enjoy something close to normality.

And she has had to carve out an official portfolio of suitable causes. But she has done all that with aplomb, racking up an enviable approval rating.

If she was once a reluctant political wife, she seemed Tuesday night to have found a way to enjoy her role. She was relaxed and confident.

She was warm and approachable. north of the country, but none reported serious damage, said Alcides Mora, spokesperson for the Costa Rican Tourism Institute.

The small Central American nation may have been spared worse destruction due to the fact the quake struck fairly deep, coming in some 40.8 km (25.4 miles) below the surface.

The epicenter was about 87 miles from San Jose, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.

A mother’s tale of separation and reuniting In 1996, Bhagmattie Singh had her four children taken away by her alleged abusive and alcoholic husband, who migrated to the United States of America with the kids at a very tender age.

The 22-year-old Guyanese mom, Felicia Cassadean who was found burnt in her New York home on Monday, was the eldest of Singh’s four children.

When the now dead woman first left her mother, she was only six, while her siblings were four, one and eight months.

Yesterday, in tears, Singh, who now resides at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara, said that she had a miserable life living without her children. She said it was only a week ago her daughter left her to return to her newly rented home with her two sons, ages five and two.

The highly upset woman explained that when her husband took her children away from her, he told them that their mother had passed away. “He tell them that I fall and died so they grow up thinking that I was dead.”

It was only when her now dead daughter turned 12 that she learnt that Singh was alive, because a relative explained the situation to her.

“After her aunt tell her about me we use to secretly call each other and messaged each other. I even created an email address for us to chat,” the mother said.

According to information received from Singh, her four children grew up in a miserable home, two of them, including the now dead woman were sent to foster homes, while the other two were relocated recently to the homes of their relatives.

“Felicia was my favourite daughter, she is the only one I have seen so far, she was the one who promised me that she will take me over there to be with her sisters and brother.

When she was 15 years she got pregnant and her father sent her here to do an abortion and he took away her green card (Residency Card) so that she wouldn’t get to go back.”

“When she come I didn’t allow her to do the abortion, she gave birth to a baby boy, and couple days before her residency in America would have been expired, I sold everything I had in my name and I fight and sent her back over there and she stay at a Catholic home for unwed moms,” Singh related.

The mother said that it was while her daughter was staying at the home for unwed moms, that she met her husband, Loventino Cassadean, who is now accused of ending her life.

“My daughter was going through a lot and she was also facing a lot of problems at the home so she married Cassadean because she had nowhere to go and she was looking for comfort.”

She was married to Cassadean for two and a half years.

Dead: Felicia Cassadean “As a child she went through a lot and when she married him he used to abuse her, but she never told me, the last time she came she told me that we should write our life history in a book and she started to write her experiences in her diary.”

Kaieteur News was told that when Felicia was pregnant with her second child, her husband locked her out of his house in the rain along with her other child.

Loventino Cassadean, 49, who is charged with killing the 22-year-old woman, was busted in April for a third-degree criminal sex act, the New York Daily News reported on Tuesday.

It was in April, when Felicia brought her two sons in Guyana to stay with their grandmother so that she could go back and build a life for her sons and herself. “After she left her sons, she went back over there and was staying in the same home with her husband because she had to use his car to go to work,” the mother said.

She related that it was only last week that she came back to collect her children and took them to Queens, NY where they all stayed together.

“Whenever she leaves for work she would text me, she would text me during the day and in the nights. The last message I got from her was at 12:41 Monday morning. I heard they found her at her Long Island home but she was not living there,” the mother claimed.

“Right now I am pleading with the US Embassy to allow me to go see my daughter for once. I am begging them to allow me to go for her funeral.” (Romila Boodram)

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Muslim leader not prepared to New IMF agreement for testify before Commission of Inquiry Jamaica by year end?

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - CMC - A Commission of Inquiry probing the events of the 1990 unsuccessful coup against the Trinidad and Tobago government yesterday ruled that Muslim leader Yasin Abu Bakr will have to give his testimony in public even though he has already indicated he has no intention of doing so until his court case on sedition charges is determined.

In addition, the Commission, chaired by prominent Barbadian jurist, Sir David Simmons, also said it had referred to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) “for such actions he may consider appropriate” the matter of Bakr ’s failure to obey a summons “duly served on him” to appear before the Commission.

In a letter sent to the Commission yesterday, Bakr, 67, said while he is willing to testify before the Commission “I have no intention of answering any question at the inquiry until I am discharged of the matters before the High Court”.

Bakr said that whilst he is grateful to the offer made by

Yasin Abu Bakr the DPP, Roger Gaspard, for the Commission to consider him testifying in camera and none of the evidence used in his sedition trial, “I am not impressed as I have been taught the hard lessons over the years that one must place little faith in the promise of state officials.

Earlier this week, Gaspard suggested that the Commission of Enquiry hear in camera, the evidence of Bakr, who led more than 100 men in the failed attempt at overthrowing the government on July 27, 1990.

At least 24 people, including one legislator, Leo Des Vignes, were killed during the six-day

insurrection and although Bakr and the members of his Jamaat-Al-Muslimeen group were tried for treason, the Court of Appeal upheld an amnesty offered to secure their surrender, and they were released.

However, The Londonbased Privy Council, the country’s highest court, later invalidated the amnesty, but the Muslimeen members were not re-arrested.

In his letter Bakr said that following the events of 1990 he was given an amnesty and given the “assurance that I and my brothers would not be prosecuted. The state reneged on that promise.

“I was also given the assurance by two sitting prime ministers that the state would not enforce the civil judgement against me, but less than two weeks before the judgement was made statute barred, enforcement proceedings were brought against me.”

Bakr also told the Commission that he had been given an assurance by “a sitting prime minister” that the lands where the Jamaat Al Muslimeen has many of its schools and mosque would be regularised “only to have that prime minister publicly renege on that agreement.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - CMC - Jamaica could conclude a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by year end, Finance and Planning Minister Dr. Peter Phillips has said.

“We hope to take something to the (IMF) board before the end of the calendar year. There is a view that has developed that there is a delay of discussion with the Fund and there is nothing of the sort,” Phillips told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) yesterday.

The Finance Minister, who is attending a high level IMF sponsored closed door high-level forum on low growth and high debt in the Caribbean, said a negotiating mission from the Washington-based financial institution will arrive in Jamaica on September 25 until October 5.

He confirmed that despite a meeting on May 30 to review Jamaica’s 2011 Article IV consultation, which, among other things, provides an insight into the issues that will be of concern to the IMF’s board when it is asked to consider approving a

successor programme to the aborted Stand-By Arrangement, no agreement had been reached regarding the terms or date of that publication.

“There were issues that we were in discussion with the Fund about, not to alter the terms of the findings, because we don’t have a dispute with them about that, but we want to make certain that based on uncertainties in the market that there we both agree, that is the Fund and ourselves, as to the timing in a way that does not complicate our negotiations or the market responses.

“So up to when we left Jamaica, there had not been an agreement as to the terms or the date of that publication,” he told CMC, adding “we are in continued discussions, but (It will be published) before the end of the year.

The former government resumed a borrowing relationship with the IMF in 2010 but was unable to meet several of the targets under the Stand-by Agreement (SBA) and in July this year, Phillips indicated that the Portia Simpson Miller government intended to

Dr. Peter Phillips renegotiate the US$1.47 billion agreement with the IMF which expired in May. Phillips told CMC that there is need for the IMF to recognize the need for flexibility in its programmes of adjustment as he commented on the outcome of the twoday forum here.

But he said overall, Caribbean countries appreciated the effort being made to look at specific effects of the global crisis on small states and to define a particular understanding of the structure of these economies, the implications for adjust programmes, consequential on the fact of small size.

“I think this represents an advance in the thinking of the Fund; they have already had a discussion in the AsiaPacific region where there is another significant aggregation of small states and now on the Caribbean.

COP motion: Fire Jack Warner or we quit PP Trinidad Guardian Government’s coalition partner, the Congress of the People (COP), is to debate a motion calling on Prime Minister Kamla PersadBissessar to remove National Security Jack Warner from Cabinet. Failing that, the COP will “distance itself completely” from the People’s Partnership Government. Party vice chairman, Vernon de Lima, told the COP executive of the motion at Monday night’s executive meeting when the agenda for Sunday’s council meeting was formalised.

Also at Monday’s meeting, the executive, without calling names, noted Warner’s recent statement he was exploring buying a

controlling interest in two newspapers and added that admission was contrary to the PP’s values. The executive issued a two-page statement demanding all ministers choose between personal commercial and the public interests.

Meanwhile, the upcoming motion calling for the Prime Minister to remove Warner is being presented by De Lima, who will pilot it at Sunday’s meeting. Contacted Tuesday, De Lima confirmed a motion in his name would be debated.

“If the motion fails to be passed by the COP National Council on Sunday, I have made it clear I will resign as COP vice chairman,” he said.

De Lima declined further comment or to say whether he

would remain in the party if the motion failed. He has chaired several COP executive and national council meetings over the past few months since COP chairman Joseph Toney has been unwell.

The motion states the COP’s position of two years ago that Warner should not be a Cabinet member until he was cleared of FIFA allegations.

The motion also says the situation is now “worse than it was two years ago” since the International Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) in a July 24 judgment on its Web site made public certain issues surrounding Warner, including a “secret US bank account,” his

trustworthiness and truthfulness. The motion, stating Warner is “at present under investigation by the TT police,” and pointing to COP’s position on transparency, truthfulness and decency, said: “It must continue to be our position that Jack Warner should not be a member of the Cabinet at this time.

“Therefore, be it resolved that the Congress of the People calls on the honourable Prime Minister to remove Jack Warner from the Cabinet, failing which the COP will distance itself completely from the People’s Partnership.” COP’s leader Prakash Ramadhar and other executive members were at Monday’s meeting, when the motion was read.

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THE HAND THAT STEADIED THE CRADLE Donald Ramotar could have walked into any of the PPP governments since 1992.

That he was not part of any of those governments has nothing to do with the lack of confidence in his ability, but more to do with an important role to which he was assigned: tending to the affairs of the party.

The PPP had learnt from its experience in the 1950s and 1960s, when the demands of government affected party organization.

The PPP did not do as well as it ought to in 1964, partly because of the unrest at the time, but more because organizationally it was weakened, given the demands placed on its leaders by having to govern the country.

Were it not for the superb organizational talents of Janet Jagan the PPP would never have been able, after it lost power, to develop and keep its party machinery intact.

From experience the PPP

knew that holding the reins of political office would deplete the human resources available for party work and that this could be costly.

Burnham understood this, too, because he also had felt the effects of having most his party’s leaders be part of his governments. In order to counter this and allow for the use of State resources to finance his party, Burnham fused the office of General Secretary of his party within the Ministry of National Mobilization.

When the PPP came to power in 1992, there was pressure on Cheddi to have his wife become a Minister.

But Cheddi was not keen on the idea of a husband and wife team being part of his new government, even though his wife was part of the pre-independence PPP governments. He also knew that because of the passage of time, Janet Jagan was no longer the formidable political

Dem boys seh ...

Gee Nah and brown nose Gerry There is a saying in Guyana; “What is sweet in people mouth does be bitter in dem tail.” Nuff people get a lot of sweetness. Gerry is one. He get Duke Lodge and just as dem boys predict he get de annex because dem put a man fuh bid knowing that de man couldn’t find de money.

Dem threaten de other man who shoulda get it and Gerry get it. Now he got he nose right in Jagdeo bottom that anything that Jagdeo do does cause Gerry head to go up and down. That is why people seh that he is a yes-man.

He jump and talk bout Jagdeo security like if Jagdeo is some special person. Even Jagdeo, when Auntie Janet talk to he, tell de nation that she is a private citizen. Suh wha mek he different? That is wha dem boys want to know.

Dem boys laugh when dem hear that Bharrat Jagdeo should be afforded the respect that comes with the office. He didn’t have no respect. He put out he wife, he cuss everybody like a bad woman during de elections campaign, and pick up wha he didn’t put down like a common criminal.

One thing, though, while everybody talking he ain’t saying a word. Dem boys seh that people mustn’t get fool, though. He is de one who orchestrating everything but he always behind de scene.

Dem boys seh that he don’t have b(e)lls like most men. He didn’t even tun up in court fuh represent heself. Dem boys seh that he didn’t respect heself.

Imagine Gee Nah got the nerve fuh talk bout decency.

Dem create a policeman fuh argue Jagdeo case. This policeman ain’t got name and he ain’t got a face. But dem boys seh that if he had to resemble anybody he woulda resemble Jagdeo.

Talk half and tell Gerry to clean he nose.

Four of five commissioners ...

From page 6 days. Luncheon further stated that authorities would use the next several days to call on witnesses to appear before the commission.

In August, the Government and the Opposition came to an agreement on a foreign component being added to the Commission of Inquiry into the Linden protest killing.

On July 18, 24-year-old Shemroy Bouyea, 46-year-old Allan Lewis, and 17-year-old Ron Somerset were killed on

the first day of a planned-five day protest by Lindeners.

The deaths stretched the protest for a month, as Lindeners pressed for a full investigation and opposition parties called for an international inquiry.

On August 21, Government and the Opposition finally signed an agreement paving the way for the beginning of a Commission of Inquiry into the unrest. The signing also saw the mining town returning to normality.

organizer that she was in the 1950s and 1960s.

However, she could still play a key role in ensuring that the propaganda aspects of the party, through editorship of the Mirror newspaper, were maintained. As such she was assigned this role, but needed someone to shoulder the organizational burden of the party.

That role could only be entrusted to a competent loyalist. And Donald Ramotar was the person so identified and thus to be groomed as the eventual successor as General Secretary. This is how highly he was thought of within the PPP. His personality was suited to that role. He has always been a mender of fences and was seen by the

entire PPP leadership as trustworthy. This is obvious.

There were many other leaders of the PPP who were far senior in terms of membership and recognition within the party.

There were quite a few political heavyweights within the PPP at the time, and since they were around longer than Donald Ramotar and were not old men, they would have been given the edge in any competition for ministerial positions.

However, there was no competition within the PPP for ministerial or government positions because of two factors.

The first was as a result of the fallout with the WPA after they made “styles” with Cheddi’s offer to have Clive Thomas as his Minister of Planning and

Development. The absence of a multi-party government effectively removed any competition within the ruling party for government jobs.

The second and most instructive factor that led to his absence within the government was that having had to devote so many of its senior leaders within the government, the PPP needed a steady hand to control the party.

This was an important task, because the PPP understood that their future electoral chances would be weakened if they did not keep the party intact while they were in government. When it came to someone to entrust the management of the party’s affairs to, Donald Ramotar was the favoured

choice. He never objected. He never asked for high office.

This shows his unselfish attitude towards power and prestige.

Donald Ramotar did an excellent job in keeping the party intact, in attending to its businesses while the other senior leaders were preoccupied with the work of government. He was successful at this task and therefore was virtually elected unopposed as General Secretary of the party.

Today he is the President of Guyana.

US$18M Specialty Hospital …

Govt. to re-evaluate award of contract Government will be reassessing the award of the US$18M contract to Surendra Engineering Corporation Limited of India to build a specialty hospital at Turkeyen.

Construction Firm, Fedders Lloyd Corporation Limited, which submitted one of the lowest bids for the project, has protested the award of the contract.

Dr. Roger Luncheon at his weekly post-Cabinet press briefing yesterday, confirmed that the aggrieved bidder lodged a protest with the procurement entity, Ministry of Health.

He noted that this is in accordance with protest provisions under the Procurement Act. “With the provisions in law, I see no other alternative than to have this entire award reassessed and the basis for the protest examined,” Dr. Luncheon stated.

The hospital is being funded with a line of credit from India of US$18 million.

Government intends to staff the hospital with specialists from India to do complicated surgeries, ranging from heart

operations and organ transplants to cosmetic surgery.

Fedders Lloyd had asserted that Surendra Engineering should have been disqualified as a bidder.

“As per the bid opening readouts, we noticed that the Bank Guarantee submitted by Surendra Engineering was on the Indian bank letterhead and it was never confirmed by any local bank in Guyana…

This outrightly disqualifies Surendra Engineering and makes them a non-responsive bidder in the first place.”

Five bids were opened on June 26, last: - Surendra Engineering - US$18,180,000 (submitted with design); Fedders Lloyd US$17,679,000 (submitted with design after a discount of 23%, discount letter provided); Shapoorji Pallonji - US$42,473,600 (submitted with design); Jaguar Overseas Limited – US$18,650,000 (submitted with CD); Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research of India – US$19,500,000 (no design submitted).

Fedders Lloyd said that

during the bid opening they observed that despite their discount letter being attached in the financial bid, the Chairman of the Tender Committee refused to announce the discount letter.

“It was only on the repeated insistence of our representative, Mr. Ajay Jha, that the discount letter was finally read out and the discount announced as 23 percent quoted price, thus making our final price as US$17,679,000.”

The company had insisted that it is unaware what government is talking about when it said Fedders Lloyd had been rejected on “Administrative Grounds’. It said that disqualification was

always the technical aspect or the financial aspect, and on both grounds, it was ahead of Surendra Engineering.

Fedders Lloyd said it participated in the tender process by forming a consortium with Nous Hospital Consultants, which has expertise in building and commissioning specialized hospitals and has already commissioned more than 90 hospitals in India and abroad.

Furthermore, Fedders Lloyd pointed out that it has experience in almost 30 countries around the globe in the sectors of education, health, agriculture and power, and with an annual turnover of around US$700M.

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THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN

The bling, bling President The French press had dubbed one of its leaders, “the bling bling President.”

Nicolas Sarkozy (who lost power no doubt because the French frowned on his bling, bling image) just loved la dolce vita and never hid that fact from the French people.

Here in Guyana, a more subdued media chose to avoid such descriptions. But the mansion President Jagdeo was building did attract enormous attention. It has been photographed and

is now in the media. The pictures of it have become buried in the comical background of a GINA report on the thoughts of an anonymous police officer.

Twice I reported on this page that Jonathan Mann, a television journalist working for CNN International, said that after speaking to Colonel Gaddafi, he couldn’t understand how Libyans accepted him as President.

It is the same in Guyana.

We have become the most hilarious nation-state in the

world for the asinine things that flow out of our government and the mouths of its leaders.

GINA is not a private or public media house. It is the information arm of the Ministry of Information, headed by the President himself.

When GINA speaks, it announces the opinions, judgements, feelings, beliefs, policies and actions of the complete public realm and the complete State system.

When GINA speaks, it is the Government of Guyana that is talking.

It is utterly stupid, for the Government of Guyana to announce that a certain police officer said so and so and did this or that.

This is beyond belief and totally clownish. If there is a police officer that holds the opinion that Kaieteur News compromised the security of the former President, his/her views cannot be transported through GINA. It is only when the officer is speaking on behalf of the police force that GINA can carry his/her position. How imbecilic that the Government of Guyana, through its Information Ministry, cannot boldly quote an identifiable police official and chose to let the person remain anonymous.

If this security officer is speaking in his/her official capacity then why would the Guyana Government not want that person, a public official, to be known. The secrecy obviously leads to the circus, meaning that the whole thing was planned in the circus, and there was really no police officer that spoke those words.

How can any modern Government be so silly? If it wanted to claim that Jagdeo’s security was breached then the commonsensical thing to do was to let the State media carry the item. So who is this

senior police officer, in what capacity was he/she speaking, and why is he/she afraid to identify him/herself?

Before we return to the bling, bling president, it fascinates a person to know why Mr. Jagdeo gets so much praise from the letter pages of the Chronicle and all are fictitious names.

Surely, there must come a time when Mr. Jagdeo would wake up and say to himself, “I want real, living, actual people to say to me that I have been a great President?”

Would you like me, a real, living, actual person by the name of Frederick Kissoon, to say that Sir? I can actually get a real, living Guyanese to do it.

I don’t read the Guyana Times but I was told that in its edition yesterday, it quoted voices from civil society as denouncing the Kaieteur News for the publication of the Jagdeo mansion, but again no names were published. I seriously hope that Mr. Jagdeo does not write those things himself. Back to the bling, bling President.

But wait a minute! How can anyone be so foolish to

Frederick Kissoon talk about security violation with the publication of that mansion when any former leader or serving leader can find his/her house on Google Earth or Google Maps? Of course, Mr. Jagdeo’s mansion was on the World Wide Web a long time ago.

Mr. Jagdeo would know about things on the web, because some nasty characters operating out of the Office of the President have been posting very dirty things on the internet a long time now. Anyway, back to the bling, bling President.

I honestly didn’t know Mr. Jagdeo had such a luxurious home, which will now be partially upkept by public funds. I hope the opposition does a hatchet job on all those perks he gave himself.

Mr. Jagdeo was not too concerned about the cost he sold the other house in Pradoville fo r a n d t h e mansion he built in Pradoville Two. He had no opposition during his authoritarian reign. So he did what he wanted, when he wanted, how he wanted.

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Eusi Anderson admitted to the Bar Later becoming a PostGraduate, Anderson obtained a Graduate Certificate in Public Finance at the world renowned London School of Economics and Politics, with special emphasis on Pension Funds and Public Sector Expenditure.

He later received a Graduate Certificate in Strategic Management from the Goldsmith International Business School obtaining the highest mark in England and Wales in the 2009 exams.

In law school, Anderson received a Post Graduate Certificate in the Bar

Attorney-at-law, Eusi Alvon Anderson

Twenty five-year-old Eusi Alvon Anderson was yesterday admitted to the Bar after having his petition presented by Attorney General Anil Nandlall before Chief Justice Ian Chang.

Mr. Anderson, in 2005 was Guyana's top "A" Level Student and was awarded a Guyana Scholarship to study Law and Politics at the University of London. The Bachelor's Adventure, East Coast Demerara resident commenced his academic life at the Stella Maris Primary School and later landed himself a spot at Queen's College.

In 2002, Anderson was Guyana's National Debating Champion at the J.O.F Haynes Debating Competition. In 2004, he was the first winner of the Cheddi Jagan Memorial Essay Competition and in 2005, he was the top A- Level student.

The scholarship that was awarded to Anderson earned him a spot at the Queen Mary and Westfield College of the University of London. At the time, the undergraduate received a BA (Hons) in law and politics obtaining Upper

Second Class Honours in 2008.

While at the university, Anderson was a prolific mooter and debater. That formed the foundation for his nomination by Inner Temple to trial to represent England and Wales at the World Debating Championships in 2009.

Vocational Course at the College of Law London UK 2009-2010.

He was awarded top marks in advocacy in crossexamination and examination –in–Chief.

Anderson was also ranked among top performers for Criminal Procedure at the Bar Exams of 2009-2010.

He later graduated from MPhil Education with special emphasis on Politics, Development and Democratic Education at the University of Cambridge.

At Cambridge, Anderson specialised in the education policies of Premier Jagan

and Prime Minister Burnham in the colonial p e r i o d a n d t h e underachievement of AfroCaribbean males in education systems in the developed world and in the Caribbean.

AG Nandlall spoke highly of Anderson while making reference to his (Anderson's) parents whom he said he knew personally, and praised for their hard work and dedication towards their son's efforts.

Chief Justice Chang later gave pertinent advice to Anderson before welcoming him to the Bar. He advised

the young attorney to use his achievements for the good of his vocation. He also cautioned him about getting caught up in the prestige and public attention stemming from the profession. He charged Anderson to use his academic skills and apply it for guaranteed success.

Anderson told media operatives present that he was thrilled to see his years of hard work and dedication pay off. He thanked Jesus for his achievements and expressed appreciation to his parents for the strength and courage that they gave him during his endeavours.

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1 experienced cook, must be over 35 years, 2 waitresses, contact: 638-3925 1 General Domestic- Must know to cook also, East Bank area, call: 614-4358 Dispatchers, Cleaners, wash bay attendant ( apply) Sheriff Taxies Service. Call: 6551717/638-8452 One live in/ live out Maid 668-3985, 253-3149, 264-3356 One cook & one cleaner, must know to cook Call: 6477432/223-5798 Domestic to work Mon-Sat, East Bank area and must cook well Call: 660-5805 1 cook to work in the interior Call: 616-8512

Persons to work in kitchen to fry cutters Call: 225-0963, 626-0189

One Salesman with driver’s license, salary plus commission. Call: 641-4626 / 220-1500

Survival Shopping Complex, 173 Sheriff Street needs supervisors, evening cashiers and cleaners Call: 227-5286-90

Coolers for rent Call: 622-4271

Security officers male & female; salary $2,000-$2,500 daily, depends on qualification. Call: 680-0515

Family to live and work on farm, near East Bank Public Road. Free House Call: 6117777 or 226-0011

Prime Business spot; bottom flat on the main road, Logwood, E.C.D. Call: 2563769 / 677-8600

Required: One Maid, should be good in cooking. Contact: 227-4799, 223-5451

1 Salesgirl to work in Snackette, age 18-25, 1 kitchen assistant. Call: 226-2320

Attractive females who are interested in becoming waitresses and bartenders Call: 226-7054

VACANCY Vacancy exist for Internet café assistant, Call: 686-4004

One live in Domestic, Call: 658-9495

1 Handyboy to work in the interior Call: 688-0197

One salesgirl, one cleaner/ packer for shop on E.C.D, Age 17-24, salary negotiable Call: 615-8121

FOR RENT Taxi Base rental at a popular West Side Hotel Call: 638-1627

1 planner operator, 1 portable sawmill operator & labourers Call: 619-9143, 221-2196

EDUCATIONAL ACADEMIA: CXC lessons forms 1-5 & Adults. Only $1000 per subject per month.

Call: 600-3775 Princeton College, Forms 15, CXC adults classes for slow learners, reading classes for children Call: 6905008, 611-3793 Imperial College- Register Now. CXC 2013. Fulltime/ Lessons/Adults classes.

Excellent Results Call: 6835742, 227-7627 Prepare your child for the National Exams: Grades 4, 5, 6. After school classes & adult evening tutoring, Queenstown, tel: 684 7403 CXC Physics Lessons. Call: 615 – 2881

Drivers to work labour lorry at L.B.I estate, call: 628-1756 / 228-5655

Community College, Seats available at forms 2,3 and 5, Pay only $28,000 per term at form 2. Call: 227-0218

One (1) Domestic help needed to work Sommerset Court, Herstelling, East Bank Demerara, preferable E.B.D area, call: 681-6185

Learn to do hand embroidery smocking, honey comb, cross stitch & other crafts. Call: 604-5381 8:00am to 4:00pm.

One porter, one Sales Clerk, Call: 225-2313

Introduction to Esthetic course. Pedicure, Manicure & Facial. Basic makeup application by overseas therapist starting Sept. 17th.

Call: 696-2295 / 618-8536

Drivers and Porters, apply at Survival, Lot 10 Vlissengen Road

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Roofing Shingles 15-15-15 Fertilizer Call: 266-2711, 6094594

Leading Technology, Toshiba Laptop-wholesale & retail Call: 648-6600

One horse & cart Call: 6504421

Brandnew American made Crosely 10.5 cu ft Refridgerator for sale $75,000 Call: 697-5677

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2 bedroom apartment, fully furnished for overseas guest only. Call: 665-2548 Public Road Herstelling bedrooms, $70,000 furnished $100,000 Call: 612-8879, 6782918 PARTY RENTAL Trampolines and Bouncy Castle Call: 225-2598, 6410784 DATING SERVICE Immediate link-Singles 18-80 yrs. Confidential: Tel: 2238237, 648-6098. 8:30am5:00pm Mon-Sun (Both phones same hours) NO TEXTING

Imported Umbrellas 10ft & 12ft Call: 645-0870

Live chickens for sale at E.C.D $ 220 lb, call 691 – 8021

Going cheap 1400x20R foreign used truck tyre Call: 648-2413

New Generac 2700 PSI & Honda 3100 PSI Power pressure washer Call: 6148564, 680-0862

1 Gas stove $45,000, 1 bed frame $15,000 Call: 615-7132

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Call:665-7769 FOR SALE / RENT American Pool Table Call: 277-0578 LIBRARY Sale! Novels, Texts, UG, others from $100 to $3,000 Call: 223-8237 (Continued on page 20)

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Municipality’s modus operandi irks union - deep-seated financial problem takes on new life The deep-seated financial problem at the Georgetown Municipality has taken on new life, a development that has led to some employees being denied the privilege of securing loans from the Guyana Public Service Credit Union. This development has been linked to failure on the part of the municipality to make payments to the financial institution on behalf of workers.

Senior municipal workers have since taken their grievance to their union, the Guyana Local Government Officers’ Union (GLGOU).

According to its President, Dale Beresford, “they are not remitting to the point where persons have applied for loans and they can’t get them, and this is because of no fault of theirs...”

He revealed too that the union is disappointed that the Council has refused to honour a decision to halt an Officers’ Deposit, which translated to some four per cent being deducted from each officer’s salary.

It was expected that the Officers’ Deposit would have ceased in lieu of the introduction of the National Insurance Scheme deduction, Beresford explained, adding that the Council had six months ago promised to terminate the Officers’ Deposit.

“First of all they are taking out persons’ money and they are not remitting it to the bank. Officers are supposed to have a monthly bank deposit slip and they are not receiving that...They are supposed to have a quarterly statement and they are not receiving that, so we don’t know where the money is.”

Monies are even coming out from the Acting Town Clerk (Ms. Carol Sooba)’s salary, Beresford said, even as he speculated that “she herself would want to know where her money is going, unless her money is going into a special account.”

The union has had cause to raise the issue of the Officers’ Deposit in the past and had even sought to have the deductions placed in a bank account outside of the normal Council account. The opening of an account at Citizens Bank was recommended, but no such action has been taken, Beresford intimated during an interview with this publication.

He said too that the Union has been looking closely at the conduct of the recently appointed Acting Town Clerk, who according to him

GLGOU President, Dale Beresford “is victimising employees.

We understand that she is saying that certain persons have crossed paths with her as Legal Officer and she is going to be dealing with them.

We have word that she is now trying to move several persons and only yesterday (Monday) sent a letter to the Personnel Officer for inappropriate behaviour.”

SUPER SESSION OF OFFICERS The GLGOU, along with the Guyana Labour Union (GLU), which represents the rank and file, together instigated an all-out strike at the municipality on Friday last. Beresford revealed that while the industrial action was prompted by the nonpayment of salaries last month, the move is meant to have a number of other concerns addressed.

Primary among the concerns, he revealed, is the super session of a number of officers to allow Municipal Legal Officer, Ms. Sooba, to be placed in the capacity of Acting Town Clerk.

According to Beresford, there are several persons who are qualified and experienced including Public Relations Officer, Royston King; Chief Meat and Food Inspector, Kenneth Stephens; Acting Clerk of Markets, Simon McKinnon; Director of Day Care, Paulette Bollers; Acting Assistant Town Clerk, Valerie Clark-Chichester, among others.

“There are several persons who have achieved tertiary education who are acting and managing sections...Ms. Sooba only managed a section of one person – herself – for about 10 years.”

Added to this, Beresford said that the union sees Sooba’s appointment as a political move, pointing out that “the (Local Government) Minister said that the appointment was not based

on qualifications but character, attitudes and traits.

This is a slap in the face of all those persons who would have made sacrifices to qualify themselves to be part of the whole modern era of tertiary education to head an organisation.”

According to Beresford, the position of Town Clerk requires an individual equipped with a Degree in Public Management and eight years’ experience or a Diploma in Public Administration and 10 years experience or a qualified attorney-at-law.

“The present Town Clerk acting has none of those... all the Minister is saying, having positioned Ms. Sooba, is that all you have to be is a glorified office assistant to run the municipality.”

Beresford said that the Union has assessed Sooba’s performance since being placed in the capacity of Town Clerk, and found her conduct thus far to be poor. He revealed that since assuming the post, the union has sent no less than four correspondences to the senior functionary requesting a meeting to discuss issues concerning workers. To date, he said, she has not acknowledged receipt, a state of affairs which was compounded this past weekend when attempts were again made to meet her.

“She said she had more pressing issues to deal with.

I don’t know if workers’ concerns are irrelevant,” Beresford mused.

The union leader said that the current modus operandi of (continued on page 17)

Thursday September 06, 2012

Education Month launched in Berbice

By Leon Suseran Education Month celebrations in Region 6 kicked off in the Ancient County yesterday at the Berbice High School in New Amsterdam. The celebrations this year are being held under the theme, “Transforming the nation through inclusive education” and the launching saw the attendance of dozens of educators, students and senior education officials.

Professor Daizal Samad of the University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC) delivered a stirring address as the main speaker at the event and he expounded on the transformation referred to in the theme.

“Resounding words indeed. But what does it all mean to you and to me?

Transforming this nation from what to what? From petty politics, insularity, isolation, racist sentiments, gender bias, narrowness, greed, moral turpitude, rape, breaking bottles on roads after I finish a beer, beating my wife to vent my frustrations, driving in the most irresponsible fashion, coming to work without any thought of work, if we show up at all? We shall transform our nation if and only if we cure these ills.”

“We can only transform the nation if we transform ourselves first. This nation will not be transformed if we take things from elsewhere and simply import it wholesale like pieces of machinery. A nation is not transformed with the buying of brains or computers or mechanical components.”

Inclusive education, he believes, involves every

Professor Daizal Samad single child. “To me inclusive education has to do with including each and every child, each and every citizen into the warm bosom of Guyana.

It is everyone or no one.

Inclusive education means that all the disabled will find a home in our system; that we shall educate our drivers on the road to be cautious, and not go on drunken sprees that may result in the slaughter of our children. It means that all are considered to partake of the supper table of this Bountiful Land.”

“Inclusive education means taking into our interest all schools, kindergartens, primary, secondary, CPCE, IDCE, FAPC, technical schools, private enterprise, the Chambers of Commerce, religious and social groups, public libraries, private schools, and the University of Guyana. I know that you can add to this list.

The problem is that we do

not even know that there must be a list of everyone!

And because we do not know that we are part of this inclusive education, we will continue to drive the way we do, beat our partners the way we do, conduct the affairs of law and order the way we do, care for our sick and elderly and handicapped the way we do, and it goes on.”

“Many people believe that UG is a failed enterprise because of money or a lack of money…or failed for any number of reasons. They may all be right, to some extent.

But let me tell you that UG Turkeyen has failed because it knows not about inclusive education. It knows not in its heart the meaning of service to this Nation—in real and measurable terms.

Any institution that serves only itself, any individual or group that serves itself only is doomed to fail, to be forgotten, to be buried in the hot sands of time. This goes for all of us, for all our schools, for all our lives.

This is why Nelson Mandela will live for all time and for all people! This is why Mohandas Gandhi will live for all time and all people! And those of us that serve with nobility shall be as their children, walking on the road of righteousness and goodness in the name of God himself who smiles at each goodness that we do, even when we do not mean to do it,” Samad added emphatically.

Remarks were also made

by Region 6 Education Officer, Mrs Shafiran Bhajan.

Several activities have been planned for the celebrations in the region.

Equity in Trade depends on verification of devices - GNBS Commerce cannot exist without Legal Metrology, as the mandatory checking of devices is a fundamental component of the conduct and sustenance of trade, according to the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS).

Devices verified by the GNBS include scales, masses and measures, storage tanks, flow meters, measuring rules, electricity meters and petrol pumps.

Also included are devices used at shops, markets, supermarkets, rice and sugar industries, manufacturing companies, hospitals and health centres, airlines and shipping companies, post offices, petrol stations and bulk terminals.

The entity has noted that it is essential for the

manufacturers, suppliers and consumers of goods and services to have mutual confidence in the accuracy, precision and reliability of the measurements made at every level.

“In our everyday lives, people make many purchases that rely on confidence in a system that ensures accurate weighing and measuring of goods.

Likewise, businesses need to know that they are also trading in a fair market place where no one company has an unfair competitive advantage,” the Bureau stated.

The entity underscored that the accuracy of measurements made in commerce - for example, the weight of one kg of potatoes or chicken determined by a

scale in the local market, is ultimately traceable to physical standards used by the GNBS, which are traceable to International Standards.

Adding that this traceability allows for accurate and reliable measurements on the local and international markets, GNBS stated that this provides for consistency of measurements worldwide.

Consumers can therefore have confidence in the accuracy of the local systems of weights and measures.

All importers of weighing and measuring devices are also obligated to ensure that devices imported are verified by the GNBS as required by the Weights and Measures Act before offering them for

sale.

Vendors and Shopkeepers must ensure that the devices they are using are recommended for commercial trade.

Persons using various devices to transact business can submit those devices for verification at the GNBS Head Office, Sophia and Suboffices in New Amsterdam, Anna Regina and Lethem.

In Guyana, a legislative and practical enforcement programme governed by the 1981 Weights and Measures Act is in place to ensure that consumers receive the correct quantity of products purchased.

This objective is achieved by ensuring that all weighing and measuring devices used in commercial trade are verified

by Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS.)

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Acting Town Clerk, Burrowes peeved at non-implementation Council clash over of recommendations for City Hall Regent St. vending - Clean-up campaign at standstill

By Abena Rockcliffe With all that the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has on its plate, including a workers’ strike and ongoing investigations, another “situation” has arisen as Mayor Hamilton Green sanctioned against acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba’s order to remove all vendors from Regent Street.

Speaking to this newspaper yesterday, Sooba disclosed that due to the clean-up campaign that was launched in collaboration with Keith Burrowes’ Implementation Committee, it was imperative that vendors be removed for the exercise to be effective.

Sooba claimed that as the Regent Street area was being cleaned, vendors continued dumping their garbage and therefore “it was looking like nothing is being done.”

She said that it was because of the aforementioned reason that she ordered the city constabulary to clear the vendors off Regent Street.

However, Sooba disclosed that the following day after the exercise was completed, the Council, through its fortnightly statutory meeting, voted to allow vendors to remain.

Green, when contacted yesterday, said that the issue of vending on Regent Street is a complex one which has engaged the Council for years. “It is also a political issue. The Council has to deal with political issues,” the Mayor stated.

He said that Sooba’s instruction to the constabulary without consultation with him or Deputy Mayor Patricia ChaseGreen is a breach of protocol.

However, Sooba affirmed that she hadn’t the need to consult with “the Mayor, Deputy Mayor or Minister to do my job.”

The Town Clerk (ag) noted that vending on Regent

Acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba Street is illegal and the issue was taken to the court before, with then Chancellor, Desiree Bernard, pronouncing that “the M&CC is breaking its own laws and persons should be jailed.”

However, Green expressed that “a little before elections Jagdeo himself went down to those vendors and told them that they will be allowed to continue, so I don’t know what is really going on now.”

At a press conference earlier this week, Minister of Local Government, Ganga Persaud, inferred that the Mayor is encouraging “lawlessness.”

He stated that vendors on Regent Street pollute the environment with the garbage they leave after vending. “Business owners on Regent Street complain on them and they cause obstruction of traffic when they take over the pave, causing pedestrians to enter the flow of traffic.”

In the past, the Council had argued that vending is the livelihood of some and they met an agreement to allow it “moderately.”

Meanwhile, the clean-up campaign that was launched about two weeks ago, and was supposed to result in “a massive change” as it relates to garbage around the City, remains at a standstill as workers are on strike.

Municipality’s modus ...

From page 16 the municipal administration has been constantly affecting the payment of salaries, which caused the GLGOU, along with its counterpart, GLU, to initiate strike action.

“Last month we had said enough is enough. We gave an ultimatum that if they don’t pay on the last working day, or on the first working day of the month we will take industrial action and that is exactly what we have done,” Beresford said.

A Collective Labour Agreement currently exists

between the unions and the Council which requires that any grievance should be brought to the attention of Council before any action is taken.

Failure on the part of the Council to react could result in industrial action, which is then followed by mediation, conciliation or arbitration.

Having gained the attention of the Ministry of Labour, a conciliation meeting was planned for Tuesday but was not convened, since the Acting Town Clerk did not make an appearance. The meeting is now to be held today.

Failure to implement the recommendations of the Municipal Implementation Committee has allowed for continued financial irregularities at City Hall, and Chairman of the Committee and recently appointed Presidential Adviser on Financial Matters, Keith Burrowes, has expressed his displeasure in this regard.

“It is high time for us to become frustrated. I am frustrated because we did this comprehensive review and nobody has told me that the review and the recommendations were not suitable, so I assumed that everything was okay.”

Burrowes’ sentiments were amplified on Tuesday when he met with several municipal officers and their union representatives at the Sleep Inn International Hotel, Brickdam.

He said that he learnt that none of the recommendations were implemented following a perusal of the municipal system by Ramon Gaskin upon his (Burrowes’) request.

Not only were none of the recommendations implemented, but Gaskin was also able to uncover matters that have since necessitated the involvement of the Police

Force, Burrowes emphasised.

“We saw what we consider deliberate efforts to keep municipal trucks off the road.”

He mentioned cases where invoices bearing no letterheads, addresses, telephone numbers or email addresses were discovered at the municipality. One such invoice amounted to almost $3M. Attempts to verify that existing entities were associated with such invoices proved futile, as according to the Presidential Adviser, even the Supreme Court Registry, which is tasked with granting licences to businesses, could not substantiate their existence.

Having examined such an invoice, Burrowes said that he was immediately prompted to commence calculating how many lower level municipal workers could have been paid with that sum.

The municipality has adopted a protracted record of failing to pay its workers in a timely manner, a development that has on several occasions forced industrial action. Strike action was in fact engaged on Friday, last, for this very reason, among others.

“I have always argued that with its limited resources the municipality should be paying in a bottom-up instead of a top–down (manner) and the main reason for that is that those at the bottom are the ones that are struggling a bit more,” Burrowes said.

In addition, he related that once the bottom – top approach is used, more workers can be paid, even as he speculated that some senior officers’ salaries could facilitate the payment of at least 10 lower level workers.

“That is not being done and I even understand that the councillors are being paid before staff. I don’t know how true it is, but I will have to check that out.”

In voicing his concerns about the nonimplementation of imperative recommendations for the municipality, Burrowes stressed “it is only prudent on the Council’s part to support the recommendations...after putting all these hours of work...they did not.”

According to him, several persons were even brought on board and were willing to

A 31-year-old barber was yesterday remanded to jail for the death of 43-year-old Yohan Hunte known as “Man on the roof”.

Alvin Barkley of Lot 1778 Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, was accused of murder when he faced Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The allegation is that Barkley murdered Hunte in Georgetown on September 2.

He was not required to plead to the indictable charge. He was later remanded.

Police information stated that on the day in question, the accused and the deceased had a confrontation over the use of electricity to ply their trade as barbers. The men who usually operated their businesses on the sidewalk in the Stabroek Market area ended up in scuffle where the deceased was wounded in the chest area.

The police said that Hunte reportedly attacked Barkley about three times before he was wounded. Barkley reportedly engaged the accused on the first occasion with a brick and then with two broken bottles. The third

attack saw Hunte allegedly getting more broken bottles.

The accused thus armed himself with a cutlass.

Following the scuffle, Hunte was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he immediately underwent surgery. He however succumbed to his wound while in the Intensive Care Unit.

Barkley had reportedly fled the scene after the fight, but later turned himself into the Brickdam Police Station.

After admitting his involvement in the matter to the police, Barkley was arrested and charged for murder.

Eyewitnesses told Kaieteur News that Hunte was stabbed in the chest at around 09:30 hrs. They said that the electricity was being supplied by a nearby business place and the men had a disagreement over who should get access to it.

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.

Barkley will return to court on October 25.

$50,000 fine or alternatively serve 6 months in jail after he faced Magistrate Judy Latchman on a charge of obtaining money by false pretence.

Jermaine Henry admitted to collecting $150,000 down payment from Mila Salick under the pretext that he was the authority to rent her a house located at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara.

Police information indicates that on May 9, 2012, the virtual complainant contacted the defendant and told him that she was desirous of renting a house.

Henry told the woman that he was the power of attorney for a house located at Lot 38 Area Q Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara, and as such would rent her the premises for $350,000. They agreed, and the defendant collected $150,000 from the complainant as an advance for the property. However when the woman went to the property with the keys that she collected from Henry, she

volunteer their services to the different municipal units to help implement the recommendations. He however noted that most of the volunteers have since become frustrated.

Among the departments that are in dire need of addressing, Burrowes was most emphatic about developments in the Accounts Unit.

“I have been saying over and over, you guys need to clean up your balance sheet.

It has some figures in there that don’t tie-back with nothing. I have never seen something like this before!”

In light of this, he said that a new database was designed for the municipality, in hope of having only new transactions undertaken. This move, according to him, would see the onus now being on the public to ascertain whether figures are correct or not.

“The burden of proof will be on the business people and the residents. If that had started a number of things would have happened, among them, we would have gotten a good sense as to who is paying and who is not.”

Burrowes asserted.

$50,000 fine for bogus “Man on the roof” landlord father of murder accused oneAwho32-year-old, pretended to be a property owner was remanded yesterday ordered to pay a

Jermaine Henry discovered that the house had been sold.

A report was lodged at the police station and Henry was later apprehended and charged. However, the virtual complainant stated that she did not wish for the matter to continue but wanted to be reimbursed the $150,000 which she was told had been lodged at the CID headquarters.

The Magistrate then made a ruling and asked the defendant if he had anything to say to the plaintiff. In response Henry stated that he was sorry for the inconvenience he caused and would not want such an incident to recur.

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Thursday September 06, 2012

Santo Domingan with false Carpenter killed as US passport remanded pick-up slams into cycle

A native from the Dominican Republic, who was found in possession of a false US passport by local immigrant authorities, when he attempted to use it to travel to Suriname, was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Judy Latchman for uttering a forged document.

The charge states that on Friday August 31 at Moleson Creek, Springlands, Kelpin Vilmidir Espinal presented a United States of America passport in the name of Jerome Amberley, to an immigration officer in an attempt to enter Suriname. The passport also bore a stamp which implied that it (the stamp) was issued by an immigration officer at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

However the bogus passport was detected and the officers later discovered that the immigration stamp affixed to it had been forged.

Espinal was not permitted to plead to the charge when appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

His attorney Paul FungA-Fat, made a request for bail and stated that his client knows very little English, but has indicated that he is innocent of the charge. The

Kelpin Espinal being escorted to court lawyer further said that Espinal had been previously stamped in by immigration authorities when he traveled from Suriname to Guyana.

However prosecutor Gordon Mansfield asked that the bail be refused as the

defendant is likely flee the country since he does not have a local address and further has no ties to Guyana.

The magistrate then ruled that the accused will remain in custody and return to court today.

A father of two met his demise at Mon Repos, East Coast of Demerara (ECD), after a pickup slammed into his cycle while he was returning home with his fouryear-old son last evening.

The victim, said to be a carpenter, was identified as 29-year-old Rajendra Sugrim, called Navin, of 61 North Mon Repos, ECD. His son Lakeram Sugrim known as Krishna was also injured, and was taken to Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) by public spirited citizens, where he was admitted.

The man’s body was in a pool of blood in the corner of the road. It was taken to the Lyken Funeral Parlour a little over an hour after the accident.

According to reports, the accident occurred about 18:30hrs and the driver of the white pick-up (PMM 607), was heading towards the city. The driver reportedly even attempted to escape the scene after hitting Sugrim who was heading in the opposite direction- several feet from the junction near the market, and dragged him with the cycle.

Former President accountable to Guyanese for ...

From page 2 publication was a breach of security.

The government statement even contemplated “legal proceedings” over the publication.

Yesterday, the AFC hit back, citing the case of former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair who was made the subject of and compelled to testify at the inquiry into his involvement in taking Britain into the Iraq war after he left office.

“There must be no immunity of persons after they demit office,” said AFC. The party has seven seats in the National Assembly.

Lawyers and police officials yesterday noted that there is no law that they are aware of that prevents members of the public from taking photos of the homes anyone, be it public officials or otherwise.

“The era of ‘Google Earth’ has long removed the concept of privileged locations immune from public scrutiny.

Even the royal family (England) has suffered more invasive intrusions into their personal life.”

In addition to this, there are thousands of photos on the net of the homes of public officials, including present and former Presidents.

Jagdeo’s sale of a house in Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara, while he was

in office, for a whopping US$600,000 ($120M) had raised eyebrows.

There were criticisms when an entire area off north Sparendaam was cleared and plots of lands were sold to several government officials in somewhat secret circumstances. An antenna belonging to the NCN had to be moved at enormous expense across the river to La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, to facilitate a posh new housing area catering to

abuse of power which was not unknown to the Jagdeo regime.”

AFC said that Jagdeo is accountable for his actions.

“The fact that President Jagdeo has demitted office does not prevent him from being accountable for his acts and omissions while he acted as President.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was made the subject of and compelled to testify at the inquiry into his involvement in taking Britain

“It is a fact that no other former president other than Jagdeo demitted office with an increase in his asset base of in excess of 1000%. None.

Presidents Desmond Hoyte, Cheddi Jagan and Janet Jagan left office with the same assets with which they assumed the office.” a chosen few.

Together with a controversial pension package for former Presidents that was passed under the tenure of Jagdeo, the opposition had been highly critical.

AFC said yesterday that there should be clear explanations about matters that concern the taxpayers of Guyana.

“The Alliance For Change maintains that there must be no ambiguities in the law and the benefits that are given to Jagdeo or any former president must be clearly identified both in description and in quantity so as to avoid the

into the Iraq war after he left office. There must be no immunity of persons after they demit office.”

According to the party, for government to “defend Jagdeo and attempt to spin the newspaper’s coverage into some kind of security breach is totally ludicrous”.

AFC also said yesterday that it has taken note, with amusement, of the attempts by “the usual suspects” to shift focus off the evidence of corruption highlighted by its Chairman, attorney-at-law, Nigel Hughes, during the “NCN so-called debate”.

“What Hughes did was to highlight the fact that former President Bharrat Jagdeo left office a considerably more wealthy person than when he first took office… a feat not achieved by any of his predecessors.

It is a fact that no other former president other than Jagdeo demitted office with an increase in his asset base of in excess of 1000%. None.

Presidents Desmond Hoyte, Cheddi Jagan and Janet Jagan left office with the same assets with which they assumed the office.”

The party also slammed statements by Minister of Labour, Dr. Nanda Gopaul, which “suggested that somehow once one is afforded the privilege of being elected to the High Office of President of this Republic, the person must “fix” himself up”.

“This is repugnant and must be rejected by all right thinking citizens,” the AFC said.

“The privilege of being president is about service to the country and not about enriching oneself.

It is a matter of considerable significance that despite being afforded several opportunities to indicate where citizens of Guyana can purchase an acre of ocean front property for $5M, the goodly doctor and the Attorney General were unable to provide the citizenry with any answer.”

- Son, 4, hospitalised

Dead: Rajendra Sugrim The man failed to escape after his vehicle did not restart. Persons then gathered around the vehicle, and police were summoned to the scene. He was taken into custody and detained at the

Beterverwagting Police Station.

“This man had to die on the spot with the force the vehicle knock he with, his son was crying and people take him to the hospital,” one resident said.

Residents in the area gathered at the scene and expressed their shock at what had transpired. They noted what was even more worrisome was that the driver did not even care to render assistance but wanted to escape the scene.

“Every Wednesday he (Sugrim) does take out he family to buy chicken at Chester Fries, and he don’t normally use his bicycle, now look what happened,” one relative lamented.

Neighbours gathered at the home of the deceased to offer condolences. The man’s relatives were inconsolable.

Ex-salesman faces embezzlement charge A former salesman of Continental Agenies, accused of fraudulently converting in excess of $800,000 worth of goods which was entrusted to him to market for the said company, was yesterday placed on $1 million bail after he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Donovan Vickerie, 22, a resident of East La Penitence, was not required to plead to the charge which read that between June 27 and August 2, he fraudulently embezzled a large quantity of goods valued over $800,000 property of Continental Agencies.

Reports are that between the two dates, Vickerie was scheduled to sell the commodities and return the proceeds to the entity but did not. He was later contacted by representatives of the company and he admitted to utilising the sum of money.

Vickerie was subsequently arrested and charged. His attorney asked the court to grant bail at a realistic sum.

The prosecution did not oppose the lawyer’s application and the accused was granted bail. He is scheduled to make his next court appearance on October 24.

Student fined $25,000 for store theft A 17-year-old student of St. George’s Secondary School was yesterday ordered to pay a fine $25,000 or alternatively spent 12 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to stealing $4000 worth of items from Baxani’s Trading.

The charge is that the teen, a resident of Sophia, allegedly stole a music set, 5 earpieces and a belt from Baxani Trading Enterprises while he was employed as a labourer at the store during the summer vacation period.

He admitted to the crime immediately after it was read to him by Magistrate Judy Latchman.

The facts of the case is that on August 28, a supervisor of the store observed the defendant with a belt that is sold by the store

affixed to his pants waist, after the defendant could not give a logical explanation as to how he got the belt, the police were called in. A search was later conducted at the defendant’s home and other stolen items were recovered. He later confessed to the crime.

Attorney at Law, Terreen Haynes-Anthony who entered an appearance on behalf of the lad, told the court that her client has no antecedents, comes from a humble home, and promised to never commit a felony again.

The lawyer asked her client be granted leniency as he had not wasted the court’s time.

Before the magistrate made her ruling she recommended that the teenager acquire professional counselling.

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Hilaire: Hunte was my ‘calming influence’ He has been much criticised for his tough love methods of running West Indies cricket. But outgoing West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) CEO Ernest Hilaire says his “shake up” of regional cricket could have been more forceful but for the “calming influence” of WICB president Julian Hunte.

Hilaire was speaking during an exclusive interview with Observer Radio in Antigua—where the WICB headquarters also stands— of which the Express was also a part.

In the interview, he hailed Hunte as “a remarkable man to work with”. “It’s not by

accident that he was foreign minister (of St Lucia), ambassador, president of UN General Assembly,” Hilaire said. “He has stature; he has a certain capacity to work and to reason. In many ways he was the calming influence on me. Trust me, if it was not for Julian Hunte, I would have tried to shake up a lot more than has been shaken up.”

Hilaire, whose tenure as WICB CEO concludes at month’s end, when he will take up a position as St Lucia High Commissioner to London, stated that contrary to rumour, he never managed Hunte’s failed political campaign years ago in their

native St Lucia.

In fact, Hilaire revealed he was campaign manager to Hunte’s opponent, to whom the now WICB president lost.

“It is a statement of the kind of person Julian Hunte is, that there is somebody who helped engineer his downfall in the political circles, but (he) held no animosity or acrimony (towards me),” Hilaire stressed. “(He) never did.

That tells you about the kind of person Julian Hunte is.”

Asked about his term and approach as WICB CEO, Hilaire said he had no choice but to take “painful” and “brutal” decisions to turn

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“In a sense we started off knowing that we had to go through a difficult period.

And (my tenure) was that difficult period; the next few years you would find all the elements of the foundation have been put in place already.

Hilaire continued: “Some very tough decisions have been taken about the future of West Indies cricket, and the next CEO will have to take it to the next level.”

His most “tremendous success” during his threeyear stint, Hilaire noted, is the Sagicor High Performance Centre. He was proud to get the Centre up and running “within six months”, a project he said the Board struggled with for six years because of the “complicated” decisionmaking process in the WICB that previously stymied its progress.

Other problems he inherited, Hilaire pointed out, were a lack of player selection policy and no permanent head coach. Australian John Dyson had quit, and current T&T coach David Williams was acting in the position when he (Hilaire) took over.

Of the selectors, Hilaire said: “You had selectors saying ‘we’re not sure exactly what the policy is. We select players and we are criticised.

We change the players and the selection committee is changed, because people don’t like the fact that the team is not performing and they don’t like who is being picked on the team’. And there was no structure to it.”

The WICB went ahead to draft a five-year plan from 2011-2016 (sic) that involved a strict selection policy, that also drew strong criticism.

About the coach matter, Hilaire claimed that it was in fact the senior West Indies players—who he declined to name—that selected

Barbadian Ottis Gibson, then England bowling coach, as West Indies coach.

“The senior players had already had discussions with (Ottis Gibson) in England to become coach,” said Hilaire.

“I took over negotiations with Ottis, sat down and spoke with Ottis, he sold his vision, it coincided with the particular historical points where the board was, and it meshed.

And all that was done within six months of becoming CEO.” (Kern De Freitas k e r n . d e f r e i t a s @trinidadexpress.com)

Ernest Hilaire

Pistorius second quickest for 100m final BBC Sport - Defending T44 100m Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius qualified with the second quickest time for Thursday’s 100m final in his first appearance since his surprise defeat in the 200m.

Pistorius was outraged by the length of his opponent’s blades after losing to Brazilian Alan Olivera in the 200m. The South African looked focused for the 100m, finishing in 11.30 seconds.

Great Britain’s world

record holder Jonnie Peacock qualified quickest in 11.08 secs.

World champion Jerome Singleton finished behind Peacock and his time of 11.46 secs was the slowest of the automatic qualifiers.

Olivera, the 200m champion, qualified as one of the two fastest losers for Thursday night’s T44 100m final and he, Singleton and Pistorius are due to return for the 4x100m relay final later this evening.

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Grenadian, Walter Simmonds with 10.8 seconds.

In the 200m final, Jefford won bronze with E. Maitland of Grenada winning gold with 22 seconds while Alphonso won Silver. In the 400m finals, Jefford won silver with Maitland winning gold and Grenadian E. Trumpet winning bronze.

Countries that participated in those Games were host, Grenada, St. Lucia, Cuba, Barbados, Martinique, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Guyana.

Jefford was also outstanding at his next international meet the following year, May 1982 at the Hampton Games in Trinidad and Tobago, competing against a starstudded cast including former World Champion, United States of America, Steve Reddick and former Olympic Games gold medalist, Haseley Crawford.

In the 100m finals Jefford won silver, clocking 10.52 seconds behind American, Reddick, who took gold in 10.4 seconds; Crawford had to settle for Bronze with 10.53 seconds.

In the 200m finals, Jefford won bronze with 22.3 seconds with Reddick winning gold with 21.65 seconds and W. Alexander silver with 21.66 seconds.

His next international meet was July 1982 also in Trinidad, Jefford placed fourth in the 200m finals with

22.15; American E. Quow won gold in 20.34 seconds with James Wren Gilkes taking silver with 21.12 seconds.

The 100m finals were won by the legendary American, Carl Lewis in a time of 9.83 seconds with Quow taking silver with 10.2 seconds.

Trinidadian, A. Bruce had to settle for the Bronze with 10.3 seconds.

Former World Champions Steve Reddick and Steve Williams failed like Jefford to qualify for the 100m finals.

Guyanese Gilkes qualified but withdrew from the event.

After the July international meet in Port of Spain, Jefford won the 100m at a St. Vincent and the Grenadines International Meet.

His winning time was 10.00 seconds. This event took place in October 1982. Now for the records, the Guyana record books are showing that James Wren Gilkes and Earl Haley’s time of 10.2 seconds are the fastest 100m ever recorded by a Guyanese at an International Meet. That is not correct.

Jefford’s last international meet in 1982 was at the Antigua and Barbuda Invitational Meet in St. John’s.

He missed Guyana’s 1983 international programme and a US Scholarship because of a serious leg injury. He returned to the track in 1984 but failed to regain the form that made him a world rater in 1982.

(Charwayne Walker)

Suspension ends but Bin Hammam investigation goes on (Reuters) - The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is continuing their investigation into sidelined president Mohamed Bin Hammam despite his provisional suspension ending on Tuesday.

The AFC is investigating claims of financial wrongdoing

by Bin Hammam during his tenure. The regional governing body, which Bin Hammam headed for nearly a decade, provisionally suspended the Qatari for 30 days on July 16 and then invoked a one-time clause which allowed them to extend that ban by 20 days last month.

Despite the suspension ending, the 63-year-old Qatari remains banned from taking part in any soccer related activity because of a 90-day ban handed out by world governing body FIFA on July 26, the AFC said in a statement released on

Wednesday.

FIFA handed Bin Hammam a life ban for bribery during his failed bid to become president of world soccer’s governing body last year but the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturned that ruling on July 19.

FIFA then slapped the 90day suspension on Bin Hammam after CAS said the decision was not “an affirmative finding of innocence” for the Qatari, and that the case could be re-opened with new evidence.

Bin Hammam has denied the charges levelled by the AFC and FIFA and said he would announce further steps to challenge ‘this clear abuse of power and process at the hand of FIFA’.

Zhang Jilong has headed the AFC while Bin Hammam has been banned.

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Sharapova beats Bartoli to Guyana’s Junior riders outstanding at Bigi Bergi 4 Stage Road Race reach US Open semi-finals BBC - Third seed Maria Sharapova recovered to beat Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli and reach the semi-finals of the US Open.

Play resumed on Wednesday with the 2006 champion trailing 4-0 in the first set, which she proceeded to lose 6-3. But Sharapova took the next two sets 6-3 6-4 to set up a last-four encounter against top seed Victoria Azarenka.

Italy’s Sara Errani beat compatriot Roberta Vinci 6-2 6-4 to set up a semi-final against either Serena Williams or Ana Ivanovic. Three-time champion Williams was to play 12th seed Ivanovic late yesterday.

Sharapova said: “The rain break gave me a few hours to think about things. I came out so flat yesterday. She’s so tough and she was on fire. I’m so happy to get back to the semi-finals.”

Not since her third-round loss to Flavia Pennetta at Flushing Meadows 12 months ago has Sharapova lost a three-set match, winning 12 out of 12 this season.

And the initial signs were not good for Bartoli as Sharapova won the first two games after the resumption, which was again twice delayed by showers. But

Maria Sharapova Bartoli held her nerve to clinch the first set before her Russian opponent was forced to save four break points in the third game of the second.

However, Sharapova broke to lead 5-3, levelled the match with her fifth ace and broke the Bartoli serve again to lead 2-1 in the decider.

Bartoli broke back only for Sharapova to strike a major blow in the ninth game courtesy of another break, after which she served out for the match.

The 25-year-old Russian kept alive her hopes of a second major title of the year, having completed a career Grand Slam at the French Open in June. It is the first time Sharapova has reached the last four of the US Open since she won it six years ago

and her semi-final is a rematch of this year’s Australian Open final, which Azarenka won 63 6-0.

Tenth seed Errani , 25, was playing in her third Grand Slam quarter-final of the year while best friend Vinci, four years older, was making her last-eight debut at a major.

The pair have won seven doubles titles in 2012, a haul which includes the French Open, but it was Errani’s greater big-match experience that proved decisive.

“It’s always hard to play against a friend and it was strange seeing her on the other side of the net,” said Errani, who has four singles titles to her name this year. “I am happy to get to the semifinals. Can I win the title? I will tell you in three or four days.”

Adams guides Good Success to victory over Lusignan in T\20 fixture Visitors rebound to take 30-over affair A fine all-round performance by national U-19 player Ricardo Adams guided host Good Success Sports Club of Wakenaam to a comfortable 8 wicket victory over Lusignan of East Coast Demerara in a feature twenty\20 match played on

Saturday at the Wakenaam Community Centre ground.

Lusignan took first turn at the crease and were never allowed to score freely but still managed to post 125-9 off their allocation of overs.

Rajendra Naikbarran topscored with 53 (2x6,3x4) as

Horseracing has hectic schedule for rest of the year A number of horserace meets are slated to be held before the end of the year making it a busy season of racing. While all the clubs have dates on their calendar, some of the dates might be subjected to change.

A look at the clubs and the date will see The Rising Sun Turf Club meet next in line. That meet is scheduled for Sunday September 23 at the club’s track, to be followed by the Bush Lot United Turf Club race meet on September 30.

The full list reads - The Rising Sun Turf club will go

racing on the September 23 and November 25.

Kennard Memorial Turf club has two dates set for October 14 and December 26.

Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf club has a solitary date set for November 18.

Port Mourant turf club has three race dates slated for October 7, December 9 and 30.

The Norman Singh Memorial Turf club has one race slated for October 21.

Bush Lot United Turf club of West Berbice will see action on September 30 and November 4.

pacer Chandreka Ragnauth bagged 3-8 off 4 overs, while left arm spinner Imran Khan took 3-20 and Adams who appeared as a guest player 2-18.

Good Success in reply made light work of the target winning the game in 15.5 overs ending on 127-2.

Adams hit three sixes and a similar number of fours his unbeaten 61 and Shoaib Ali chipped in with 20 (3x4).

Meanwhile on Sunday at the same venue, the visitors rebound to win the 30 over match by 4 wickets. The home team batted first and scored 131-9 off their 30 overs, Shoaib Ali and Latchman Dindyal made 31 each as J. Jainarine picked up 3-21.

Lusignan replied with 132-6 in 27.3 overs. S. Ramdass was their leading run getter with 40, while Roopnarine Persaud had 2-6 and Nazeer Mohamed 1-17 for the host. PRO of the Good Success S. C. Nazeer Mohamed told Kaieteur Sport that the game was organised as part of their preparation for the new season.

(Zaheer Mohamed)

Guyana’s Junior cyclists continues to turn in excellent performances this season, their latest exploits recorded at the Bigi Bergi 4-Stage Cycle Race which took place in neighboring Suriname last weekend.

Reigning National Junior Road Race Champion Raynauth Jeffrey representing Team Coco’s Guyana placed second overall in the junior category as well as 9th overall in the senior category. His fellow Team Coco’s Guyana teammates, juvenile, Raul Leal competing in the junior division placed third overall ahead of Paul DeNobrega, Guyana placing 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

Based on reports from Suriname by Team Roraima Bikers Club Manager, Brian Allen, the systems employed by the host country to record times and placing were very flawed which led to confusion and mix-up throughout the race.

Despite those hiccups, the Guyanese riders did their best and with better systems, Allen is of the view that Guyana would have dominated all the top positions.

“I am of the firm conclusion that the Guyanese contingent did better than was reported by the Bigi Bergi officials. Alonzo Greaves should have been on the podium, and the juniors, Jeffrey, Leal and DeNobrega made a clean sweep of the junior places.” Guyana’s best placing in the overall category was recorded by the Differently Able cyclist Walter Grant Stuart (Team Coco’s Guyana) who finished fourth just ahead of Senior National Road Race King, Orville who represented the Linden Bauxite Flyers Cycle Club (LBFCC) in Suriname.

Alonzo Greaves (Roraima Bikers club) placed 7th overall with Jeffrey 9th and Rastaff O’Selmo also of

- seniors hold their own

Raynauth Jeffrey

Raul Leal

Walter Grant Stuart

Alonzo Greaves

LBFCC, 11th.

Gratitude is being extended to Team Coco’s Manager; Miami based Guyanese Ian ‘QB’ Davis for sponsoring the team to Suriname. Roraima Bikers Club

is extending thanks to Marcos Trading, CIDI and Ansa Mc al Trading.

Following are the full results of the overall positions and the four stages.

Overall Winners Elite NAMES COUNTRY TEAM 1) Moses Ricketts Suriname Cl. Nrd 2) Eric Vincent Fr. Guiana ECG 3) Michel Sebico “ “ Crdu Sud 4) Walter Grant-Stuart Guyana Coco’s 5) Orville Hinds “ LBFCC 6) Jean Michel Clet Fr. Guiana ECG 7) Alanzo Greaves Guyana RBC 8) Shane Meerberg Suriname Trek 9) Raynauth Jeffrey Guyana Coco’s 10) Steven Saibou Fr. Guiana Crdu Sud 11) Rastaf Oselmo Guyana LBFCC Juniors 1) Shane Meerberg Suriname Trek 2) Raynauth Jeffrey Guyana Coco’s 3) Raul Leal “ “ 4) Paul De Nobrega “ “

First Stage Friday August 31, 2012 – 95 km Started @2:45pm NAMES COUNTRY TEAM TIME 1. Alanzo Greaves Guyana Roraima Bikers Club 2 : 21 : 37 2. Rastaf Oselmo “ LBFCC 2 : 21 : 39 3. Walter Grant-Stuart “ Coco’s 2 : 21 : 41 4. Raynauth Jeffrey “ Coco’s 2 : 22 : 01 5. Enzo Matthews “ RBC 2 : 22 : 01 9. Paul DeNobrega Guyana Coco’s 2 : 22 : 01 10. Raul Leal “ Coco’s 2 : 22 : 01 Second Stage - Saturday September 1, 2012 – 105km Started @9:00am 1.

Moses Rickets Suriname Cl. Nrd 2 : 29: 57 5.

Orville Hinds Guyana LBFCC 2 : 30: 38 6.

W. Grant-Stuart “ Coco’s 2 : 30: 44 7.

Raul Leal “ Coco’s 2 : 33: 05 9.

Alanzo Greaves Guyana RBC 2 : 33 :12 10.

Rastaf Oselmo “ LBFCC 2 : 33 :12 11. Raynauth Jeffrey “ Coco’s 2 : 33 :12 12. Paul DeNobrega “ Coco’s 2 : 33 :12 Third Stage - Sunday September 2, 2012 – 10km Time Trials Started @7:30am 1.

Moses Rickets Suriname Cl. Nrd 0:12:22:7 6.

Raynauth Jeffrey Guyana Coco’s 0:13:13:4 11.

Alanzo Greaves Guyana Roraima 0:13:28:1 Fourth Stage - Sunday September 2, 2012 - 90km Started @ 1:30pm 1.

Raynauth Jeffrey Guyana Coco’s Group Time 1: 52:00 (unofficial) 2.

Alanzo Greaves Guyana Roraima Group Time- 1: 52:00 (unofficial) 3.

Marco Pont Fr. Guyana ECG Group Time- 1: 52:00 (unofficial)

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Kaieteur News

Thursday September 06, 2012

Amla & De Villiers help Annual Youth Review Magazine of the RHTY&SC launched Proteas draw series BBC Sport - Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers hit half-centuries as South Africa cruised to a seven-wicket victory to tie the one-day series with England 2-2.

Amla stroked a majestic 97 not out and De Villiers cracked an unbeaten 75 after James Anderson (2-41) helped reduce the tourists to 14-3. England were guilty of poor shot selection in their 182 all out.

Alastair Cook top scored with 51, while Robin Peterson took 3-37 and Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel took two wickets each.

It was fitting it was Amla who helped South Africa level the series, in a summer in which he has dominated the England bowlers.

England’s total may have been inadequate but South Africa were wobbling early in their reply after Jade Dernbach induced a Graeme Smith edge to second slip, before Anderson had the nervous Faf du Plessis and Dean Elgar caught behind.

However, another assured and classy innings by Amla, complemented by a counterattacking knock from De Villiers, saw the tourists to a comfortable victory. After scoring 482 runs in the Test series, which South Africa won 2-0, Amla took his run tally to 335 in the one-day series and 817 for the summer.

England could only blame themselves for posting such a disappointing score in good conditions on a pitch which did nothing out of the ordinary for the bowlers. The tone was set when opener Ian Bell, who looked in good form, missed a straight one from spinner Robin Peterson in the fourth over.

Ravi Bopara followed soon after when he was dismissed for a second-ball duck by Steyn - meaning he ends the five-match series with an average of 5.5 from his four innings. The

Essex batsman was elevated to number three in the absence of the injured Jonathan Trott, but his dismissal was one of a man shorn of any confidence as he edged a routine delivery behind while standing rooted to his crease.

Cook and Jonny Bairstow repaired some of the damage, putting on 55 for the third wicket, but, as they started to regain some momentum, they were separated. Bairstow was beginning to dominate the Proteas bowling when he went to 29 with a lovely pull for four off Morne Morkel, but the Yorkshire youngster got carried away next ball when he flicked one deep into the leg side and watched with horror as he picked out Justin Ontong on the boundary.

It was a poor way to lose a wicket, and almost as bad as Eoin Morgan in the next over.

The Irishman came running down the track to part-time bowler JP Duminy and hit the ball straight to Amla at mid-off.

England’s only hope of a big score rested with their skipper, but Cook was guilty of poor shot selection himself as he drove a full toss straight back to another occasional bowler in Du Plessis.

From there, wickets tumbled regularly as England struggled to form any good partnerships - Craig Kieswetter and Chris Woakes offering the only resistance with 33 runs each.

It appeared the total might be enough when Anderson and Dernbach exploited some early movement in South Africa’s reply, but once Amla and De Villiers took control there was only going to be one winner.

Scores: South Africa 186 for 3 (Amla 97*, de Villiers 75*) beat England 182 (Cook 51, Peterson 3-37) by seven wickets.

Members of the Rose Hall Town U-17 team display copies of the 2012 magazine The Educational and Public Relations Committee of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) has launched the 2012 edition of its Annual Youth Review Magazine; the 13th edition since the club’s first publication in 2000.

Club Secretary/CEO

Hilbert Foster, who was also the Editor of the 40 page Magazine, stated at the launching that its main aim is to inform the general public and sponsors of the work of Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation during the period under review – January 2011 to June 2012.

CAC Bodybuilding & Fitness Competition...

GABBFF still in need of funds to send 4-member team While they have garnered some of the funds to send a 4-member team to the Central American & Caribbean Bodybuilding & Fitness Competition scheduled for Puerto Rico later this month, the Guyana Amateur Body Building & Fitness Federation (GABBFF) is still pushing to raise some more cash.

The local body had initially selected 5 athletes to represent Guyana in San Juan Puerto Rico, September 20 – 22 but Kaieteur Sport understands that Reigning Mr. Guyana Clint Duke who was selected to represent Light Middleweight {166/176lbs – 80kg}, HRC Light Middleweight champion and a former CAC Silver medalist will no longer be part of the team.

The other athletes are Reigning Mr. Hugh Ross Classic Kerwin Clarke who will compete in the Welterweight {155/165lbs – 75kg} division; Lightweight Marlon Bennett {144lb/ 154lbs – 70kg} who won this category at the HRC and is also a former CAC Silver

Alisha Fortune

medalist; Bantamweight Devon Davis {143lb – 65kg} the Reigning National Bantamweight King and HRC

category winner and winner of the Ms. Physique category at this year’s HRC Ms. Alisha Fortune, who is also a former

Devon Davis CAC Bronze medalist.

Some time back, the GABBFF had stated that it was able to garner funding to

cover the costs of the top two athletes in order of priority (Clarke and Bennett) to Puerto Rico. The federation is still making efforts to ensure that they can realize the required funds to ensure that Fortune and Davis can compete at CAC. Three of the athletes were able to get their visas for travel to Puerto Rico, while the other athlete will know today.

All the athletes have been going through their training routine daily and are expected to be in the pink of condition for CAC. Guyana’s full participation depends on the support of corporate Guyana for the other two athletes.

Entities and persons wishing to make a contribution towards the participation of a full Guyana team can do so by contacting GABBFF Treasurer Jamie Mc Donald on 225-8044.

These athletes were selected by a competent panel of judges put together by the federation. The panel included current GABBFF Vice President Hugh Ross along with former GABBFF Presidents, Donald Sinclair and Frank Tucker.

The editorial committee also included Ravi Narine, Angela Haniff, Ronston Lawson and Sonia Leow.

A total of thirty-six articles are included in the magazine along with messages from Club Patron Beverley Harper, President Keith Foster and Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster.

Foster stated the Club was grateful for major sponsors, which included Ansa McAl, Banks DIH Ltd, Bank of Nova Scotia, Impression Printery, Bakewell, Republic Bank, Sterling Products Ltd and Farfan & Mendes Ltd for their contributions.

Other sponsors supporting were DTV-8, EZ Jet, F&H Printery, Diamond Fire & General Insurance, A.Ally & Sons, Commonwealth Youth Programme, Metro Office and Computer Supplies, Edward B. Beharry Ltd, The Trophy Stall, Ricks & Sari Ltd, New GPC Inc., Universal DVD and several other businesses in Berbice.

Executive Member of the Club Ronston Lawson explained that the Magazine would be distributed free to sponsors of the club, club members, Government Ministries, Sports and youth Clubs, NGOs, Guyana’s Overseas Missions, Libraries and the general public.

RHTY&SC, Lawson noted, strongly believes in documenting its history and has also produced four Annual Magazines for the Berbice Cricket Board.

The Club is also making plans to produce and publish a 140 page book on its entire history 1990-2012.

Persons interested in obtaining a copy of the 13th edition magazine can contact the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club Office on 337-4562.

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Guyana Baseball League launched

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he first ever Baseball league in this country was officially launched yesterday when the Guyana Baseball League (GBL) set things in motion for the sport at their ground at Area ‘A’ Turkeyen.

The 11 acre ground, which is leased to the GBL for five years, has been developed into a Baseball Diamond and is the only Baseball ground in Guyana.

“We are trying to get the bat in people’s hands to generate interest in this new sport here and we encourage folks to come in groups and play and have fun,” GBL President Robin Singh told Kaieteur Sport yesterday.

“It’s an unfamiliar sport in Guyana but we are confident that the prize money and novelty will attract people and many of them will stay with the game. We have got Coaches and from January a full time Coach from the Dominican Republic will be brought to live and coach here,” Singh said. Singh, who previously

First stage to develop interest says President Singh

Trophy Stall's Ramesh Sunish (left) presents winning trophy to GBL President Robin Singh. worked with the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), explained that because there is only one ground, entries for every category for its first annual Softball Home Run Derby “Swinging for the

Stars” at ballpark in Turkeyen from September 29, will be limited.

The Derby is being held to introduce the game to Guyana through a fun and action filled format that is

Inaugural Furniture World Cycle road race set for Sunday in Berbice

easy to play and understand.

Competition will be in 12 divisions of age and gender.

A first prize of $1.5 Million is available for the Male Open Division Winner with a similar amount up for grabs for the Female Open Division Winner.

A $300,000 Cash each for M/F Under-18 Winners, $250,000 each for M/F U n d e r- 1 6 Wi n n e r s ,

$200,000 Cash each for M/F Under 13 Winners, $150,000 each for M/F Under 10 Winners and $100,000 each for M/F Under 7 Winners will also be presented by the GBL. Singh said that the Berbice High School and the Marian Academy have already showed an interest in participating.

The GBL is supported in this venture by Electronic C i t y, t h e i r O f f i c i a l equipment supplier and The Trophy Stall, who will provide trophies for all divisions and facilitate entries.

“The goal of the derby is to provide opportunity for all to put a bat in hand and have a swing at winning a hefty purse and beautiful trophy.

The GBL wants to create a lifelong memory in hopes that one day these kids will fall in love with the great game of baseball,” Singh said.

He strongly believes in grassroots baseball and the necessity of the sport.

“Baseball fans are as important as baseball players.

GBL scouts will be talent

spotting during this hit fest and will be working to persuade players to sign onto various little league teams for the 2013 season,” Singh added.

An Entry fee of $1,000 is the cost to play in the Open Divisions, while a Fee of $500 is being charged for age/gender/ Divisions.

A contestant may enter multiple divisions, but can only win prize money in one division while proof of Date of Birth for all age divisions must be presented before prize money is collected.

A Pitching Machine will pitch the softball to the batter.

Registration can be done at Electronic City on Sheriff Street, The Trophy Stall, Bourda Market, in bulk via t h e i r w e b s i t e www.baseballguyana.com and at the Ballpark at Turkeyen.

Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), K J u m a n Ya s s i n , G B L’s Marketing Representative D o n S i n g h a n d Parliamentarian James Bond, who lives on the East Coast, were among those Present.

All information on fixtures and the rules can be uplifted from the organisers.

Usain Bolt may play for Manchester United in charity game

Sales Representative Ms Natasha Dey hands over the sponsorship amount to club captain Neil Reece, at left is credit officer Yvonne Croal, in the presence of other officials and cyclists.

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he Inaugural Furniture World Cycle road race will be held on Sunday for cyclist in Berbice. The race, which has been organised by the Flying Ace cycle club of Berbice, will be a 50 mile affair.

The riders will pedal off from in front of the popular Furniture World establishment at Main and King Street in New Amsterdam and race to No 35 Village before turning back in front of Nand Persaud business establishment and head back to its place of origin. The race is being staged against the scourge of Domestic Violence. Prizes will be awarded to the first six finishers. The first

six beginners while the top veteran and female will also be rewarded. There will also be six prime point prizes up for grabs.

The females and beginners will pedal off from Adventure on the downward journey.

The sponsorship amount was recently handed over at a simple presentation ceremony held at Furniture World at Main and King Street. Doing the honours for Furniture World was Sales Representative, Ms Natasha Dey, while Flying Ace Club Captain Neil Reece accepted on behalf of the club. The entity has vowed to make it an annual and bigger and better event in the future. The coordinator is Randolph Roberts.

Sir Alex Ferguson and legend Usain Bolt

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anchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson says sprint legend Usain Bolt could play for the club in a charity match next year.

Six-time Olympic champion Bolt, 26, has joked he wants a trial at the club.

“It’s interesting he says he’d like to play in a charity game,” Ferguson told Inside United, the club’s magazine.

“It could be brilliant and next year, when we play Real Madrid’s Legends again, there could be opportunities to bring him up and see how he does.”

Bolt, who won 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay gold at both London 2012 and Beijing 2008, is a big fan of the club and was paraded

at Old Trafford before United’s 3-2 win over Fulham. The Jamaican sprinter called on supporters to convince Ferguson to sign him for the club as he showed off his London 2012 medals.

Bolt has previously attended United’s Carrington training ground where he gave former player Cristiano Ronaldo tips on his sprinting. “He’s a bit of a character and a big United fan,” Ferguson said.

“The people from these small islands, like Dwight Yorke from Trinidad & Tobago, they all play football and he probably played at school level or youth level or something like that. It’d be nice to get him up here, I think it’ll be good.”

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Windies aim to get maximum out of today’s warm-ups -1st match vs Sagicor HPC at 1.30 pm, 2nd match under lights vs CCC at 6 pm

Bridgetown, Barbados — The West Indies players are in fine spirits and feeling on top of their game as they get ready for their first warm-up match today, at the 3Ws Oval at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies.

The Windies are preparing for the International Cricket Council’s T20 World Cup and will face Sagicor High Performance Centre, who are also preparing for a fourweek tour of Bangladesh.

First ball today is 1:30 pm (12:30 pm Jamaica Time). The West Indies will have a second warm-up match against Combined Campuses & Colleges under lights at 6 pm (5 pm Jamaica Time).

Speaking ahead of the matches, West Indies Assistant Coach Toby Radford said the players plan to use the matches as “quality and proper” preparations and also to put into play some of the strategies and techniques they have been working on in the nets.

“We have worked hard in the gym – the fitness trainer really pushed them, pretty much doing some fitness every single day; and then we are in the nets, indoor nets, bowling machines, outdoor nets,” said Radford.

“We are where we want to be at this stage and we will look to use the two matches on Thursday to get some more work in. We aim to play

UNITY! West Indies players and support staff gather for training on another very hot day in Barbados. (Windies Cricket). the matches as we would when we hit the ground in Sri Lanka. We will play these matches with intensity and purpose and we know the lads at the HPC and CCC will do the same. Everything is gearing up to flying off on Sunday in good shape.” Radford, a former Head

Coach of the Sagicor High Performance Centre, added: “We did some match scenarios so we hope whatever situation we find ourselves in we will have the confidence to get through it. I’m sure by the end of the week everyone will have had an

opportunity to perform and will be looking in tip-top shape for what will be a big tournament for us.”

The World T20 tournament, which features 12 teams, will be played from September 18 to October 7. The West Indies have been drawn in Group B alongside

Australia and Ireland and both first round matches will be at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.

Their opening match will be against the Aussies on Saturday, September 22 followed by a clash with the Irish on Monday, September 24.

GABBFF Seniors set for October 20 at CASH Digital Technology sponsors 32" TV for overall winner

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uyana’s best Body builders, male and female are gearing and toning up for the Guyana Amateur Body Building and Fitness Federation’s (GABBFF) Senior Men and Women National Championships that are set for Saturday October 20, 2012 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

This year has seen increased competition in the sport and athletes are eagerly awaiting their chance to shine at the federation’s premier competition which will also attract a male and female guest poser from North America.

While athletes have been hard at work, putting their bodies through the rigors of getting their muscles well ripped and toned, corporate support has also started to shape up. First on board with a sizable contribution is the Diamond East Bank Demerara based Digital Technology which has sponsored a 32" Flat Screen TV that will be presented to the winner of the overall competition on October 20.

Handing over the TV to GABBFF Committee Member Eustace Abraham was Chief Financial Officer of Digital Technology, Subrina Sukhu who said that the company was very excited to partner with the GABBFF in making seniors a success.

“We are elated to be on board with the body building federation with this venture and we trust that this is the start of what will be a very fruitful partnership. This is also our way of giving back to the development of society.

We would like to wish all the athletes the best and also encourage the supporters and fans to come out and support the GABBFF on October 20.”

Abraham in response thanked Sukhu and Digital Technology for pioneering with the federation to ensure that this year’s seniors is one of the best even as they seek to bring the sport to a higher level in Guyana.

Also on board as a sponsor of the competition is Fitness Express, located at Sheriff and John Streets Campbellville.

CFO of Digital Technology Subrina Sukhu hands over the 32" TV to GABBFF Committee Member Eustace Abraham.

Manager, Jamie Mc Donald disclosed that his entity, which has been supporting sports ever since they opened their doors for business, will be presenting Gift Certificates to the athletes placing first to third as well as the overall winner.

Mc Donald noted Fitness Express is always happy to encourage and support local

athletes since they recognize the many challenges that they {athletes}face on a daily basis in the various sports.

“We will continue to play our part and role in nation building especially in this area.

It is very tough for these guys and we will as long as possible continue to do our bit to help them along the way.”

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