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CARIBBEAN GRAPHIC

VOL. 7, NO. 13 July 10, 2013 Webs te: www.car bbeangraph c.ca Tel: 905.831-4402 Fax: 416.292.2943 Ema l: car bbeangraph [email protected]

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Partner for the Limacol Carib- bean Premier League T20, bringing its di stinctive tasteand spirit to the tournamentand guaranteeing an unforget-table and fun experience forcricket-goers.

Produced by DemeraraDistillers, El Dorado will notonly be the rum of choice forthis landmark event, but willalso sponsor the tournamentsCatch of the Match award.This award will go to one play-er in each of the 24 matches who makes a thr illing catch inthe game, demonstrating thespirit of the tournament andthe El Dorado brand.

DDL Vice President for In-ternational Marketing, KomalSamaroo, said The EldoradoRum brand embodies the

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El Dorado Signs As The Spirit Of CPLspirit of Guyana and theCaribbean - competitive-ness and fun, hard work

and enjoyment all atthe same time. This isthe spirit of the LimacolCPLT20 League, styledCarnival T20, making both a perfect match foreach other! The growingappreciation and fol-lowing of Eldorado Rumaround the world andthe global viewership of CPLT20 presents to the world the best that Guy-ana and the Caribbeanhave to offer.

We are delighted tohave the El Dorado brandas part of our sponsor family,said Jamie Stewart, CommercialDirector and Consultant to theLimacol CPLT20. The com-panys reputation for produc-ing quality, award-winning top

shelf products that are worldrenowned for their distinctiveavour means that we can offerthe best to our patrons. Both ElDorado and Limacol CPL sharesimilar value and aspirations; weare both proudly Caribbean, yet

with global a mbitions. Both of usseek to delight cricket followersall over the world.

The inaugural Limacol Carib- bean Premier League star ts on30 July in Barbados and con-cludes on 24 August in Trinidad.

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Guyanas President, Don-ald Ramotar is amongregional leaders whohave agreed to set up a Cari-com Repara ons Commissionto demand compensa on for

na ve genocide and slavery,the Caricom headquarterssaid in a statement. Caricomleaders took the decision attheir just concluded summit inTrinidad following representa-

on by St. Vincent and theGrenadines.

Na onal Repara onsCommi ees are to beestablished in each mem-ber state with the chairof each commi ee si ngon a Caricom Repara onsCommission. Under theChairmanship of Barbados,the other members of thecommission are the lead-ers of St. Vincent and theGrenadines, Hai , Guyana,Suriname and Trinidad andTobago who will providepoli cal oversigh

An gua and Barbudas PrimeMinister, Baldwin Spencer hailedthe Caribbeans call for repara-on as integral to the 15-na onCommunitys development.

Spencer lamented that theconstant search and strugglefor development resources islinked directly to the historicalinability of our na ons to accu-mulate wealth from the e ortsof Caribbean peoples duringslavery and colonialism. Urgingthat repara ons be directedtoward repairing the damagein icted by slavery and racism,the An gua and Barbuda leaderurged opposi on par es andcivil society organisa ons tosupport the Caricom ini a ve.He urged fellow poli cal lead-ers to encourage their variousrepara on agencies to con nueeduca ng Caribbean peoplesat home and in the Diaspora toenhance their awareness of therepara ons issue.


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in Jakarta, Indonesia in September.The prestigious Miss World Pageantfeatures contestants from 120 coun -tries, and is one of the most popularpageants in the world.

Munro, who has long been involvedin various social and charitablecauses, says she feels privileged to wear the Miss World Ca nada crow n.Miss World Canada is a woman whofinds joy in being of service to hercommunity and working with those who ca n implement po sitive cha ngesin a community, she says. To me,Miss World Canada is a humanitarian

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an opportunity to meet women fromall around t he world women who Imight not otherwise have had the op -portunity to meet. I will be represent -ing Canada and I hope I can makeCanadians proud.

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Integrate or Perish! In acknowledgement of Caricoms recent celebration of its 40th Anniversary, we thought it would be tting to publish the following excerpts from a Speech to the confer -ence of Of cials of the Commonwealth Caribbean Territories, Guyana, 1967 by the Late Forbes Burnham was former Executive President of Guyana.

P erhaps I will be forgiven for re -minding even this gathering thatthe Caribbean can no longer, likethe proverbial ostrich, hide its head inour beautiful sandy beaches and ignorethe trends and impelling forces of changein the world economic order. Either we weld ourselves into a regional groupingserving primarily Caribbean needs, orlacking a common positive policy, haveour various territories and nations drawnhither and thither into, and by, otherlarge groupings where the peculiar prob -lems of the Caribbean a re lost and where we become the objects of neo-colonialistexploitation, and achieve the pitiablestatus of international mendicants.

Hunger and poverty are not relieved by philosophical prating, or academicoutpourings.

No one can deny the need for action.It is that need which is itself the ratio -nale and raison detre of this conference.Today, we are where we were yesterday;precisely through our inability to con -cert and our incapacity to yield the formfor the substance; precisely because wehave failed to match words with action.

Our problems differ only in degree,not in kind. All our economies exhibitan unhealthy ratio of foreign trade tonational economic activity. Less than3 per cent of our total trade representsintra-Caribbean trade. The other 97 percent of that total trade is dangerously concentrated on commodities and prod -ucts controlled from outside the region,like sugar, bauxite, bananas, to takethree of the biggest earners.

We all have the persistent menaceof unemployment ranging from 10 percent to 20 per cent. Emigration outletsoutside of the Caribbean, in spite of high

moral posturings, are closed to us. Oursis one of the highest birth rates in the world. The pressure is bui lding up andunless we plan and act, the lid will soon be blown off the Car ibbean societ y withdangerous and world-shaking results.

Ours is a common problem of capitalde ciency, of shortages in the profes -sional and technological elds and of the ineligibility of nationally impor -tant social projects for internationalnance. In some cases, over the pastdecade, in spite of a few ashes of hopeand achievement, our economy in thisregion has been stagnating and in somequarters there have even been signs of slippage. Let us to our own selves betrue. These are the facts. This is thenaked truth. Either we integrate, or weperish, unwept, unhonoured.

A perfect so lution to, or institutionfor, integration cannot be hoped for.

We cannot expect to sta rt off withsome ideal or perfecarrangement.Neither can we hope to be so prescientof the future as to be able to determineall the consequences and dif culties of integration. We can and must, of course,try to analyse and anticipate as best wecan from available data, what the effectsof integration may be and can be madeto be, but it would be folly par excellenceto wait for perfect foresight.

Complete integration will take sometime and will involve a number of com -plex decisions at the highest levels but itcannot arise fullblown merely becausedecisive political agreements have beenachieved. In practice, arrangements will have to proceed step by step andtheir success will be dependent uponthe research and analyses of expertsand of cials like those present here this

morning. And that is why it has been de -cided that this conference should be theprecursor of the one of heads of govern -ments in October, in Bridgetown.

Doctors Brewster and Thomas intheir study have posited the need for aregional integration policy body to givecontinuous direction to the integrationprogress: I would add in the same way as the Central American Free Trade Area es tablished the Centra l AmericanCommittee in 1952 only that we shallhave to move with even greater despatchand speed. In our context Brewster andThomas have designated the body as aregional commission. The name may ormay not be acceptable to you and yourgovernments but the name is unimport -ant. What is of vital importance is theinstitution, its terms of reference andscope of activity. There can be no doubtthat it cannot function without a secre -tariat, that it must have access to or beresponsible for an institute of appliedresearch which can mobilize a widerange of professional skills - a sine quanon which has been referred to as thefourth and nal factor in the process of integration.

Heavy demands will be made on skillsand expertise especially in the elds of development administration where atthe individual territorial levels there is ashortage. Obviously, provision will haveto be made for advanced training andapplied development technology.

Finally, a key institution, perhapsaround which all other supportinginstitutions should revolve, is a regionaldevelopment bank. An important partof this conferences duty, therefore, will be to give consideration to therecommendations for the creation of a regional bank made by the U.N.D.P.team. In view of the unanimously strongsupport reported within the Common -

wealth Car ibbean, it is to be hoped that your deliberations will hasten the rapidimplementation of the proposals for thisinstitution.

One of the positive advantages of integration is that it enhances theinternational stature of the region: itincreases its bargaining power vis-a-vis the world. There are those whoprescribe O.A.S. status as a short-termsolution to our problems - and I empha -sise short-term: there are others whopropose an involvement in the Latin American Common Market which is to be established in 1985 (1 hope that theseproponents are not suggesting that we wait that long to take action as be tweenourselves), but whatever arrangementsmay be come to, our ability to get properand favourable terms will be dependentupon our acting as one group ratherthan a number of little specks in theCaribbean Sea. It is for you the techni -cians to analyze, evaluate and advise onthe various propositions. It is for you topropose new formulae.

Guyanese in common with other WestIndians expect from this conferenceaction and tangible results. We takethis question of integration seriously and do not look upon this conference asthe occasion for an exercise in debatingskills of which we have a surfeit in theCaribbean. As I have said before and inother places, Guyana is willing to placeits not inconsiderable natural and otherresources at the disposal of the regionas a whole. Our hinterland is not a mereshowcase for the passing admirationof curious anthropologists, archaeolo -gists and tourists but a vast place to bepeopled and developed. With whom better can we sha re our resources than with our neighbours, our brothers, oursisters? With whom do we already sharea common historical experience?

Time For One Cari to Come And Another To GoJ uly 1

st marked the Anniversary of the 1973 signing of the CaricomTreaty, intended as it was to foster

closer economic cooperation betweenCaribbean member territories. Here inToronto, July also heralds the launchingof the annual Carnival. Known formerly as Caribana, it now operates under its

relatively new title of the Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival.This year marks Caricoms fortieth

anniversary. For its part Torontos Ca -ribbean Carnival, the former Caribana, was rst introduced to the Provincesannual event calendar forty-six yearsago. As such it may now be argued thatthe time has come for the former totruly arrive at its intended purpose andthe latter, at least in name, to be nally let go!

In regards to Caricom, Guyanas thenPrime Minister, Linden Forbes Samp -son Burnham was one of the signatories

of the 1967 Treaty. Unfortunately forGuyana, if not the entire Caribbean,Burnham subsequently squanderedthe opportunity he had been granted todevelop Guyanas enormous potential.Instead he chose to engage in politicaland economic practices which resultedin the transformation of his government

to that of a much despised dictatorship.Practices that caused hundreds of thou -sands of Guyanese to ee their nativeland and which ultimately transformedGuyana, from a country of hope andpromise to one of economic despair.

Yet for all his despotic acts, there wasno denying Burnhams intelligence orhis eloquence. As much as one may de -spise him for his ultimate betrayal of hisfellow Guyanese, one must still howeveracknowledge his grasp of the futurerealities for Caribbean countries, even back then in the mid-six ties.

His 1967 Speech Integrate or Perish

is still as relevant today as it was back then. Hence our decision to republish itas a Guest Editorial in acknowledge -ment of Caricoms 40 th Anniversary.

Here at home, its now been seven years since administrative control of theannual Carnival was wrested from itsformer governing body, the Caribbean

Cultural Committee (CCC) , and placedin the hands of a City appointed FestivalManagement Committee (FMC) . Fartoo many of the almost forty years thatCCC managed the Festival, under itsCaribana title, were characterized by al -most inevitable annual public scandalsand reported nancial mismanagement.In contrast the past six years of FMCcontrol have been almost completely devoid of such.

Legally forced by to discontinue itsuse of Caribana as the Festivals namethree years ago, the FMC has sincerebranded the Festival as the Toronto

Caribbean Carnival. The subsequentacquisition of Scotiabank Title Spon -sorship resulted in the addition of theBanks name to the of cial title as theScotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival.

Under Joe Halsteads initial andDenise Herrera-Jacksons subsequentleadership, the FMC has slowly but

surely managed to re-establish much of the Festivals lost credibility. Its actually now only been a few years for the Fes -tival under its new name and manage -ment. Certainly not anywhere close toforty and hardly the time for anyone to be overly critical of any shortcomings onFMCs part, perceived or real.

Herrera-Jackson and her team de -serve the time needed to get the Festival back on even keel. As for Car ibana, itshould remain in its now rightful place,as a piece of history.

Come Cari(com); Go Cari (bana)! Tony McWatt


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NeededSpeaking at the end of a nationaleconomic consultation at Hilton Bar - bados, Governor of the Centra l Bank of Barbados, Dr. Delisle Worrell saidthe amount of foreign reserves cominginto the island for the rst six monthsof this year was signi cantly less than what was expected.

So it means there is going to be aneed to readjust the expenditure. So theGovernment is going to have to reducethe scal de cit, Worrell suggested.

Noting that the level of foreign re -serves was a little higher at the end of December last year, than at the timeof the crisis, he said what has hap -pened is, in the rst six months of the year, the amount of foreign exchangethat has been coming in, is signi -

cantly less than was expected. Worrell also pointed out that apart

from expenditure, the consultation ex -amined economic growth and the kindof investment which was required by the Government and private sector.

Minister of Finance Chris Sincklersaid the adjustment in expenditure was needed unti l the economy picked back up. He added that the adjustmentin spending of $370 million would bespread over time and could be deter -mined according to what the adjust -ment period was.

Of course Finance (Ministry) andCentral Bank, Economic Affairs andthe various line ministries and thesector stakeholders are looking at thenumbers to see how we get there andthe combination of measures requiredand over what duration.

The Finance Minister also suggest -ed that the issue was not only the typeof adjustment on the de cit, but thekind of measures and period of time.

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over CLashBRIDGETOWN, The upcom-ing Caribbean Premier League(CPL) cricket will not inter-fere with Crop Over events; itwill even enhance them, saidNational Cultural Foundationchief executive officer Cran -ston Browne.

Browne, speaking to the me -dia on July 5, a er the o cialpromo on/launch of Pan In DeCity And Cruise: Pan In Two Cit-

ies in Speightstown, said the CPLmatches were being marketedto coexist with Crop Over.

They are actually billing theircricket as Calypso Cricket, so Ithink they are marke ng it aspart of the fes val and I think

Path Of SinBRIDGETOWN, A Baptist Ministerhas torn into his fellow church lead -ers, accusing some of taking bribesand refusing to speak out against the wrongdoings of politicians or polit icalparties they favoured. Reverend Vincent Wood made the charges during a July 6 live morning broadcast of the Em -manuel Baptist Churchs Sunday serviceon CBCs Q100.7.

He said the majority of church lead -ers were against each other, competingamong themselves to be the best, while boast ing about the ped igree of theircongregations.

Using 1 Samuel 8: 19-20 as the basisfor his sermon, When Mans ChoiceFalls Shor t of Gods Way, Wood saidthat just as the sons of Samuel, a judge, took b ribes a nd pe rver ted jus -tice in biblical times, so too did todayschurch leaders.

the two will come together andbe an overall bene t to thecountry in terms of visitor arriv -als and so on.

I think the cricket will bringpeople here and there will be aspin-o for the fes val as well.We will get the cultural enthusi-asts coming to the island and wewill get the cricket enthusiastscoming and it should turn out tobe bene cial, he said.

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BumPer CroPBRIDGTOWN, Its shaping up to be agreat Crop-Over Festival. If the soldout audiences at most of the NationalCultural Foundations events are any in -dication, recession or no recession, Bar - badians are coming out to suppor t theirculture. Not only was the July 5 LIMECrop-Over Gospel concert sold out, butso too were the Scotiabank Junior Mon -arch Calypso tents, the First CitizensCrop-Over Heritage Walk, the First Citi -zens Heritage Lecture and Tour, there were big crowds at t he Cava lcades, at theCrop-over Preview, and the opening galahad a bumper crowd, the NCFs Corpo -rate Communications Specialist SimoneCodrington has indicated..

Whi le addr ess ing a Ju ly 5 pre ssconference to launch the Neal & Massy Pan Pun De Sand at Weisers on Bran -dons Beach, Chief Executive Officerof the NCF, Cranston Browne alsorevealed that bookings for the festivalare so high, the Barbados Tourism Authori ty had asked some air lin es toadd flights for this islands premierecultural event.

So the ights are heavily booked, and we are expec ting very good vi sitor turnout at these events, Browne announced.

He said the BTA had been marketingthe festival throughout the diaspora andfor foreign visitors.

Browne said packaging the festival that way had worked, and the bookings forCrop-Over are very, very high. I think infact, the BTA is actually asking some of our airlines to put on some extra ights.

He rejected suggestions that the localturn out at some of the major competi -tions would decline, due to the absenceof star power from crowd- appealerssuch as Red Plastic Bag, Lil Rick, Edwin Yearwood and Gabby.

Browne reasoned that the music, whichhe said was sweet enough, would com -pensate for those crowd favourites miss -ing from the Pic-O-De- Crop contest. He believed the Sweet Soca and Par ty Mon -arch competitions would draw massivecrowds with acts like Mikey and Blood.

The NCF chief noted that the absenceof those performers would make way forother top artists to emerge. He suggestedthere was not always a Lil Rick andpeople still turned out in their numbers.So as far as he was concerned, music wasdynamic and continued to evolve.

Yearwood outBe Quick About Almond Beach,Govt. Advised.BRIDGETOWN, Make it happen sooner, not later! Thats theadvice for Government from the Barbados Hotel & Tourism Association (BHTA), on the news that the st ate has decided

to purchase and reopen Almond Beach Village in St Peter.President of the BHTA, Patricia Affonso Dass, is inpositive spirits since the news, but wants the deal to b ecompleted, and the hotel to be opened as so on as possible. And she a lso wants Government to come up w ith invent ive ways to at tract i nvestors in an effort to reopen a numberof smaller, cash-strapped hotels which have been forced toclose their doors in the past 18 months due to the cripplingeconomic times.

The BHTA believes that having the rooms at AlmondBeach Village back in operation will be positive for theindustry and every effort should be made to ensure that thishappens sooner rather than later, Dass told reporters.

BRIDGETOWN, Four big names are out of Crop Over this year butthe cultural authori es do not believe it will have a nega ve

e ect on the fes val.Edwin Yearwood, the countrys rst ar ste to winthree crowns in one year when he copped the Pic-O-

De-Crop, Party Monarch and Road March in 1995, isthe latest entertainer to announce a sit-out of thisseasons compe ons.

He stated on his Facebook page on June 30that he would not be taking part in the o cial judging events.

Admitting he had thought about it and myvibe is not there at the moment, Yearwood,the long-standing lead vocalist of krosfyah,said he had so far entered the Sweet Socapreliminaries but had not made it to thenext round.

His withdrawal follows those of Lil Rick, Gab -by and reigning calypso king Red Plas c Bag,all of whom opted out for varying reasons.


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SOUFRIERE, St Lucia, Oneof the worlds leading travelmagazines con rmed that thesouthern town of Soufrire inSt. Lucia is home to the toptwo resorts in the Caribbean.

Travel + Leisure (T+L) maga-zine reports that the superluxurious Jade Mountain resortand its elegant sister property, Anse Chastanet, are the number one and number two hotelsin the Caribbean region respec tively, andnumber 14 and 21 in the world.

The accolades were headlined withthe release of the Travel+Leisures Worlds Best Awards r eaders survey which reveals which hotels deliver themost extraordinary ex periences.

For T+Ls 18th annual poll, the magazineasked its discerning readers to cast their votes for the hotels, destinations, and com-panies which de ne the very best in travel.

The result? One of the most robustlists developed in the travel industry.

You can set standards for a hoteloperation, but the standards need to be carr ied out by a team that whole-heartedly embraces them and has theambition to excel in everything they do, remarked Karolin Troubetzkoy, theresorts executive director of marketingand operations.

Mrs. Troubetzkoy, who along withher husband Nick will accept the awardat an upcoming presentation dinner in

New York, congratulated her St. Luciateam for playing an integral part in JadeMountain and Anse Chastanets successthroughout the years:

Mr. Troubetzkoy, architect and de- veloper of Jade Mountain, created oneof the worlds most unique and mostsustainable resorts. The bold design fea-tures individual br idges leading to hugedoors carved by local artisans from treeshand-picked and susta inably cut fromGuyanas rainforests. No two rooms arealike and all contain exquisite in nity pool sanctuaries with tiles molded fromrecycled glass and rugged stoned-facedcolumns reaching towards the sky.

A de ning architectu ral touch, howev-er, is the fact all rooms have only three walls. In stead of a fourth wa ll guestsare treated to stunning, uninterrupted views of the iconic Piton mountains, aUNESCO World Heritage site, and theglimmering Caribbean Sea.

Travel + Leisures Worlds Best List will be published in the August is sue.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Prime MinisterDr. Kenny Anthony says his govern-ment will hold talks with Britain inkeeping with the islands constitution,as it seeks to join the Trinidad-basedCaribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)established in 2001 to replace theLondon-based Privy Council as theregions final court. The CCJ, whichalso acts as an international tribunalinterpreting the Revised Treaty of Ch-

aguaramas that governs theregional integration move-ment, has both an appellateand original jurisdiction.

But while most of theCaribbean Community (CARICOM) countries aremembers of the original jur isd ict ion, only Ba rba-dos, Guyana and Belize aresignatories to the appellate

jur isd ict ion. Anthony told the Caribbe -

an Media Corporation (CMC)that his administration has

always been committed to membershipof the CCJ and at the appellate level.

The problem is that for some therehas been a debate in St. Lucia as to whether we needed a referendum toamend the Constitution to pave the way for accession to the CCJ.

He said there was a school of thought that there was a genuine er-ror in the constitution enabling accessto the CCJ.

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CHARLESTOWN, Nevis, Police havedenied any involvement in the deathof Adrian Springette saying they werenot engaged in any operation in thearea on the day he was shot and killed.

In a statement, Assistant Commis -sioner of Police with responsibility forcrime, Ian Queeley, said he was assur -

ing the public that there is no truth tothe reports circulating on the islandthat police were somehow involved inthe June 22 shooting.

Further, the statement said, law enforcement of cials had no opera -tion underway in the area at the timeof the incident, and that there wereno police of cers pursuing anyone, inparticular the deceased, before duringafter the shooting that took place atGrove Park.

Queeley said he was urging mem - bers of the public to refrain fromperpetuating what he refers to as

derogatory rumours, that will only bring doubts about the police and may discourage citizens from cooperating with the law enforcement authoritiesin ghting crime.

In March, the public blamed forthe police for the death of TrevorDouglas, who was shot and killed

on March 27th while he was fleeingthe scene after smashing the win -dows and windscreen of a vehicle inBasseterre.

In a statement issued then, thepolice said they had concluded a thor -ough investigation into the circum -stances surrounding Douglas deathand had forwarded the case le to theDirector of Public Prosecutions (DPP)for her consideration.

The statement said the police wouldabide by, and adhere to, whateverdecision the DPP made based on herreview of the case le.

Liat ticketS tO incLudeSecurity SurchargeST. JOHNS, Antigua, The regional airline, LIAT, which is in the process of acquir -ing a fleet of new aircr aft, has announced plans to increase the cost of its ticketsto include a security surcharge. A s tatement from the Antigua-based airline saidthat the surcharge on tickets is in response to rising se curity demands and spi-ralling security costs.

The new security surcharge of US$1.25 per one way trip applies to all passengers,including children and infants, on all LIAT ights.

LIAT said heightened airline and airport security over the last 10 years has resulted

in rising security demands on airlines. The airline said it was joining more than 100airlines worldwide which have introduced similar charges since 2001.Earlier this month, LIAT introduced the rst of its French-manufactured ATR in a

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But Baron, a former poli cian says the surplus of 28 milliondollars is no reason for celebra on.

He says instead government needs to be concerned that itsrevenue collec on declined between January and March. Ata recent news conference nance minister Harold Lovell an -nounced, the na ons scal performance had increased 500per cent. Baron has said however that people will know thatthe economy improves when their spending power increases.

ST. GEORGES, Grenada, The UnitedStates Immigration and Customs En -forcement (ICE) agency says a Gre -nadian is among 67 child predatorsarrested in operation carried out inNew York. On July 6, ICE reported thatthe unidentified 36-year-old Grena -dian man was convicted of statutoryrape with a female who was under theage of 14.

The immigra on agency said itsEnforcement and Removal Opera ons(ERO) o cers arrested 93 foreign-bornconvicted sex o enders in June througha targeted enforcement ini a ve knownas Opera on SOAR (Sex O ender AlienRemoval). Of the 93 people arrested, 67were child predators convicted of sexo enses involving minors.

The remaining o enders were convict -ed of vic mizing adults. Opera on SOAR,which began June 17 and ended June 28,was conducted by ERO Fugi ve Opera -ons teams based in New York with sup -port from the US Marshals Service.

This opera on was speci callydesigned to target and arrest criminalaliens who have been convicted of sexcrimes, said Christopher Shanahan, eldo ce director for ERO New York.

By removing these criminal aliensfrom our streets and our country, we im -mediately improve public safety in thesecommuni es, he added.

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GEORGETOWN, Re-migrant Cecil Ga- jadhar, who decided to open a relatively small lling station on the East CoastDemerara, narrowly escaped death onJuly 8 but his employee was shot deadduring an GUY$8 million heist. Gajad-har, 71, of Foulis, East Coast Demerarasustained a gunshot injury to his fore-head and was rushed to the GeorgetownPublic Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where he received treatment. However,

Victor Red Man Da Silva of CoventGardens, East Bank Demerara wasfatally shot to his chest.

Investigators said the two men were ina vehicle on their way to a city bank about8:15 AM when two men in another motor vehicle blocked their path in the vicinity of Water and Cowan Streets, Kingston.

The two men exited the vehicle and began discharging rounds at Cecil Ga- jadhar, who was struck to his forehead,

seX For visasGEORGETOWN, The State Departmenthas launched an investigation at the U.S.Embassy in Guyana amid claims that aforeign service of cer was offering visasin exchange for sex with local wome n andalso visas for bribes of up to $40,000.

The employee has been removed fromhis post at the embassy in Georgetown -two months before his tour was sup-posed to end - and was sent back to hishome in Falls Church, Virginia, accord-ing to Agence France-Presse.

Local news media reports from theSouth American country claim that theemployee was in charge of the marr iagesand visas section of the U.S. Embassy and he often denied legitimate visa appli-cation s from tourists and journalists who was applying to visit the United States.

A local news site reported that theemployee conducted business at theHibiscus Restaurant, where he was seen working with shady characters. Thenews site claimed that embassy employeehas been selling visas since his arrival inthe country of 750,000 in July 2011.

Fox News reports that the employeelikely worked with black market back-trackers, who Guyanese paid to helpensure a visa request would be approvedonce it was submitted.Fox News claims

that the employee had sex with severalGuyanese women who had applied for visas, a s well.

Sources cited by local media and AFPclaim he also sold visas for anywherefrom $15,000 to $40,000 each.TheDaily Caller claims that the employee isalso suspected of working with humantraf ckers in neighbouring Surinamto give Chinese migrants visas to theUnited States.The embassy in George-town issued a statement saying: TheDepartment of State is aware of al-legations of improprieties relating to aConsular Of cer formerly assigned toGeorgetown, Guyana.The Departmenttakes all allegations of misconduct by employees seriously. We are reviewingthe matter thoroughly.If the allegationsare substantiated, we will wor k with therelevant authorities to hold anyone involved accountable.The allegations a reespecially troubling in Guyana, a formerBritish colony, because they come nearly 15 years after another U.S. embassy employee was convicted in a cash-for- visas scheme.

In 2000, Thomas Carroll was arrestedand charged with selling up to 800 visasfrom Georgetown for about $15,000 apiece. He was released from prison lastmonth.

visa raCketiNvestiGatioNGEORGETOWN, The United States Wednesday con rmed it is inves ga nga visa racket involving an o cial at its embassy in Guyana. In a brief state-ment, the State Department said it is aware of allega ons of improprie esrela ng to a Consular O cer formerly assigned to Georgetown, Guyana.

While it provided no details of the allega ons, Washington said theclaims against the o cer are being taken seriously.

The Department takes all allegations of misconduct by employeesseriously. We are reviewing the matter thoroughly. If the allegationsare substantiated, we will work with the relevant authorities to holdanyone involved accountable, it added.

Media reports here said that the un-named Consular Officer hadbeen taken into custody by federal agents several weeks ago and ishelping in the investigations.

In 2000, a consular o cer was arrested for selling a substan al numberof visas for entry into the United States. The o cer later pleaded guiltyand was sentenced to 21 years imprisonment by a Federal Court in Chi-cago, Illinois. The sentence was later reduced a er he appealed.

A Guyanese national was also given a lengthy jail term for his rolein the scam.

One Killed, Another Injured In Murder Robbery and Victor Da Silva, who was hit to hischest, police said.Despite his injury, Gajadhar drove

his vehicle in an alley between Repub-lic Bank and GTM on Robb Street. DaSilvas body was seen slumped in the leftfront seat of the vehicle.

The left window of the grey CRV wasshattered and what was believed to be a bul-let hole was seen in the front windshield.

Eyewitnesses said the men wereattacked by the bandits shortly afterGajadhar turned from Cowan Streetsouth into Water Street. The assailants

ed the scene in a car that was parkedon Water Street facing north.

Gajadhar had been the victim of a robbery in March when banditssnatched a bag containing some $4mfrom him in front of the GRA of ce onCamp Street. Quick action by the policeled to the arrest of two men and therecovery of the mone y.

He owns the Gajadhar Filling Stationat Foulis, East Coast Demerara and hadlived for decades in New York beforereturning to his homeland more than 10 years ago.


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GEORGETOWN, The Guyana RevenueAuthority (GRA) has unearthed morethan (640 kilogrammes) 1,411 lbs of compressed marijuana inside a containerat the John Fernandes Container terminalon Mandela Avenue, Georgetown.

The consignment of narco c waspacked in several bags and was found

among a shipment of cars whichcame in the country from Japan viaChina and Jamaica. The bust wasmade around 10 am on July 4 by DrugEnforcement Unit (DEU) o cers of theGRA in the presence of the customsbroker, shipper and consignee.

According to reports, the containercame into the country on June 27 on

board the vessel , MV Vega Sachsen andwas expected to leave over the July 6weekend. It is suspected that the drugswere placed in the container while thevessel was in Jamaica since the seal onthe container was tampered with.

An -narco cs o cials are inves gat-ing this latest bust while the importer

of the container and broker are beingques oned.The agencys DEU was subsequently

informed and Customs An Narco csUnit (CANU) was subsequently called inand took possession of the drugs. Thetwo agencies are currently conduc ngexamina ons and inves ga ons, theGRA subsequently said in a statement.

siZeaBLe deLeGatioNGEORGETOWN, As the days draw near to thelargest single cultural event in the Region,the Caribbean Fes val of Arts (CARIFESTA),Minister of Youth, Culture and Sports, FrankAnthony, has announced that Guyana wouldbe taking the largest delega on to the fes -val, and the es mated budget will be $20M.

He told a July 4 press conference that sinceGuyana is a neighbour to the CARIFESTA X1host country, Suriname, the two states havee ected an agreement allowing Guyana tosend the largest con ngent. Minister Anthonysaid others are welcome to join the delega-on, but they will have to pay their own way.

He described CARIFESTA as a Caribbeanmarket which allows for culture to be a partof the new millennium goal, adding that italso enables regional assimila on wherethe people of the Caribbean can pool theirculture, talents and ideas.

CARIFESTA XI is being held under the themeCulture for Development: Celebra ng our di-

versity and promo ng the central role of culturein economic, social and human development.

Spearheading the Performing Arts sec onis Dr. Seeta Shah Roath. She said that thePerforming Arts will also contribute to theYouth Village in order to shape the minds of Caribbean youths through arts.

Meanwhile, Philbert Gajadhar, who is organ-ising the Visual Arts sec on, said that they aresending one established ar st, one emergingar st, one young ar st and an administra onar st, and they will be hos n g symposiumswhere the ar st would speak to the publicabout their art. He added that Guyana is notonly par cipa ng in the fes val but it is alsoseeking opportuni es for Guyanese Ar sts.

Guyana will be par cipa ng in the Perform-ing Arts, Visual Arts, Culinary Arts, Cinema-tography, Indigenous Fes vals, Fashion, andLiterary Arts sec ons of CARIFESTA.

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GEORGETOWN, At least six shots rangout in the wee hours of July 5 in the Al- berttown a rea after an unknown pe rsonor persons opened re on a taxi driver who had moments earlier droppedoff several female Brazilian dancers,

sources said.Twenty six year old Leslie Wood was

reportedly shot several times and left todie in a nearby drain but he was res-cued by police and rushed to a nearby hospital.

An eyewitness indicated that theshooting occurred around 4 AM.Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation(GPHC) sources con rmed that the man

arrived at the hospital ha lf an hour later.The eyewitness further stated that

after the shooting he heard the mancalling out for help. About ten minutesafter police arrived on the scene andtook the man to the Georgetown Public

Hospital. According to repor ts Wood had just

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During the argument one of the women rang someone on the phon e.Moments later, a green car appearedon scene and opened re on Woods carafter which they ed the scene.

Coconut WaterShipmentOn HoldGEORGETOWN, The saga of the Ador-ra, the Trinidad and Tobago cargo boatthat was said to have been shot at onJune 28th last and forced to leave Guy-ana after the captain refused to trans-port drugs into that country, has had anegative impact on the burgeoning localcoconut water industry. Mrs. VilmaDaSilva, Regional Democratic Council-lor and farmer in Region 2, (Pomeroon/Supenaam) disclosed that the vessel hadcome to Guyana to pick up a shipmentof 25,000 litres of coconut water to bedelivered to a company in Trinidad butit was discovered that its storage facili-

ties were unsatisfac tory.She said that to date that large

amount of coconut water is in cold stor-age still in her possession. The delay is also causing some dismay among

coconut farmers in the Pomeroon whoare ready and rearing to produce so asto cash in o n the new export venture.

Mrs. Da Silva said she had struck adeal with the Trinidad and Tobago Agri- business Association (TTABA) to supply it with 50,000 litres of coconut waterevery month - a business with a potentialfor income of over $17million per month.

She said that the new market had thepotential to help coconut farmers in thePomeroon in terms of improving their live-lihood and creating more employmen t.

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KINGSTON, The Jamaica Associa-tion for Transpor t Owners and Op-erators (JATOO) said its members wou ld operate thei r vehicl es wit h-out insurance or end public passen-ger service, if insurance companiesrefused to renew their policies.

We are giving Advantage Gen-eral Insura nce Company (AGIC)and other insurance companies 14days to rev iew their decision [not toinsure public passenger vehicles].If it is not reviewed, JATOO opera-tors will continu e business withoutinsurance or do no business at a ll,JATOO President Egerton Newmanhas threatened.

But head of the Traffic Depart-ment Superintendent RadcliffeLewis immediately rubbished theJATOO threat as damn foolish-ness!, saying he would have noneof it.

This is damn foolishness. JA-TOO knows they cannot take the bul l by the ho rns ; t hey need to go,and meet with the people from theinsurance company and deal withtheir drivers, Lewis said.

Newman told the Media that theinsurance companies, particularly AGIC, the mai n in sur er of such vehicle s, were using t ax is and othe rpublic transportation vehicles as acover for high claims from vehicu-lar accidents in the past yea r.

The JATOO president accused AGIC of b eing afr aid to reveal thereal perpetrators, claiming: Theinsurance company is afraid to say that it is the doctors and lawyers who a re ma king these cla ims, andcausing the losses. PPV licenseddrivers are always seen as undis-ciplined when an accident takesplaces, but it is ok when its thelawyers and doctors.

He noted that some accidents werenot reported as the drivers repairedthe damaged vehicles themselves.Only three per cent of road accidentsare our fault, so why are we beingtargeted? Tell the public what the realproblem is, Newman declared.

He maintained that JATOO wastaking the issue seriously and wasadamant that a revie w must be made within two weeks.

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KINGSTON, The Jamaican minister who heads the power ful Baptist World All iance (BWA) has advised Chr istiansnot to be angry or afraid if others donot share their beliefs. Instead, Rever-end Dr Neville Callam, general secre-tary and chief executive of cer of theUnited Nations-recognised BWA, urgedChristians to show the truth throughtheir lifest yles.

We do not need to be angry; we do notneed to be afraid, because the gospel we

have is so powerful, and if Christiansonly let the light of Christ shine, many people who are disaffected will come tofaith, he said.

Callams reassurance comes at a time when Jamaican Christ ians have beenembroiled in several controversial is-sues, such as the gay campaign for therepeal of the Buggery Act and calls forthe abolition of abortion by pro-lifers.

Dr Callam and the BWA president,Rev Dr John Upton, were in Jamaicafor its July 1-6, 2013 conference of the Allia nce which was held this year at theSunset Jamaica Grande Resor t in this

tourist resort town. The BWA, whichmeets yearly in different countries, alsohosted its ve-yearly theological confer-ence in the island from June 28 to 30.

Dr Callam, who is the rst Jamaicanand Caribbean national to hold a topposition in that major internationalchurch organisation, suggested thateach individual was created by God witha right to their own beliefs.

In an interview the local media hesaid that rather than be angry withpeople who think differently, Christiansshould offer them the opportunity tosee Christ through us.

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KINGSTON, Melissa Clarke, the Jamaica Observer Mogul in the Making nomineewho was murdered at her gate in Washington Gardens, St Andrew on July 5 , wasexpected to take part in a photo shoot as part of the forthcoming award ceremony.

Clarke was a acked and shot several mes inside her BMW motorcar as shewas about to leave home Eyewitnesses said that a white car drove up and oc -cupants immediately opened re, hi ng Clarke several mes.

She was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead.Clarke was the owner of the Lavish Lashes cosmetology store in Half-Way-Tree.

During an interview conducted with the Observer last month, Clarke expressedthe ambi on that her business would expand beyond eyelashes.

She hoped to own a studio that focused on the en re face. I want to do eye -brows, facials, makeup and waxing, she said during the interview.

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arMS, aMMOSeizedKINGSTON, The police have reportedthat 28 rearms and 1,428 rounds of ammunition have been seized in eightoperations since the start of the week.

In emphasizing their position on thecontroversial stop-and-search policy the police in a July statement said thatof the eight seizures, ve were during

such activities using the Firearms Act.The seizures have led to the arrest

of several individuals who have beencharged, some of whom are knownrepeat offenders who were reportingon condition of bail for major crimesincluding murders, shootings and rob -

beries, the police statement said.The gure highlights the value of

conducting these stop-and-searchoperations, the police added.

KINGSTON, Jamaica has furthercemented itself as the preferredtourist des na on for Canadians,with the historic choice of Kings -ton for the inaugural ight of AirCanada rouge, the new leisure car-rier powered by Air Canada and AirCanada Vaca ons. Jamaicas Minis -ter of Tourism Dr Wykeham McNeillwas a happy man, as he welcomedthe inaugural ight, declaring thatit was of great signi cance that AirCanadas leisure carrier, rouge, hadselected Jamaica in iden fying itsrst interna onal des na on.

But he noted that factors beyondJamaicas control had reduced air -li between Canada and Jamaicain recent mes by 40,000 seats,threatening the islands ability tosustain the rate of growth to whichit had become accustomed.

Air Canada rouges July 1 start-upeet consisted of two Airbus A319aircra and two Boeing 767-300ERaircra , which the company saidwould grow to 10 aircra by theend of 2013, with the addi on of sixAirbus A319 aircra by December2013, and an addi onal four AirbusA319 aircra by March 2014, for atotal of 14 aircra by the end of the2013-2014 winter season.

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Air Canada rouge will operateight s to Mexico, the United Statesand the Caribbean including Jamai -ca, Grenada, St Ki s, Grand Exuma,Bahamas, Curacao, NetherlandsAn lles and La Romana, DominicanRepublic. This is in addi on to AirCanada rouge service commencingwith its summer 2013 schedule onJuly 1 from Toronto year-round to10 Caribbean and Central Americades na ons.

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Customs communications officerAlicia Charles said the discovery wasmade late June 12 while a Customs of -ficer was conducting a routine patrol.The officer spotted a black duffel bagin a secluded area and checks revealedseveral packages wrapped tightly withbrown packaging tape.

A sweep was later made of the areaand nearby containers in which Customsrecovered six other du el bags withmore marijuana.

The shipment was found in a containerthat had several Volkswagen vehicles.

Best Auto Ltd, which is jointly ownedby Neal and Massy and Southern Sales,acknowledged the discovery in a pressrelease on Thursday.

Best Auto indicated the container wasshipped from the Volkswagen plant inMexico and may have docked at various

ports in transit to Trinidad.Senior Customs sources told reportersthey are very concerned with the importa-on of marijuana from non-tradi onal ar -eas such as Jamaica and the United Statesbecause the potency THC level of the drugis much higher from these places.

The drug haul has an es mated streetvalue TT$22.3 million (One TT dollar =US$0.16. cents)

On May 23, approximately 100 kilo -grams of compressed marijuana, withan es mated value of TT$7.2 million,was found on the port in another 40-foot container.

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This follows Jack Warners resigna onas chairman of the UNC on April 22..Gri th reportedly wrote to the UNCsgeneral secretary Dave Tancoo on June 7,2013, advising that he was resigning withimmediate e ect. The le er was alsocopied to poli cal leader of the UNC,Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

Assuring his commitment to the Govern-ment, even as he cuts es with the party,Gri th said my focus is on con nuing to

acquire the best policies to provide theci zens of this country with their most fun -

damental right, which is that of security.He said he wanted to make it cat-egorically clear that he is s ll suppor veof the Peoples Partnership Govern -ment and the Prime Minister. Gri th, who has been vocal on a num -ber of issues rela ng to the Govern -ment in the past, recently cri cised theGovernments protocol blunder duringthe three-day State visit in early June of the President of China , Xi Jinping.

He submi ed his resigna on the daybefore he publicly cri cised the coun -trys lack of proper protocol arrange -ments for the visi ng head of state.

PORT-OF-SPAIN Sandhya Sookhoo andKay-Lynn Ramlal, the top two per -forming pupils in the 2013 Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) examina -tion, will be schoolmates, and possibly classmates, at Naparima Girls HighSchool when the new school term beginsin September.

Troy Samlalsingh, the top male

performer and the third highest rankedpupil overall, is scheduled to attendPresentation College in San Fernando.The trio gave the Southland an SEA sweep. On July 4 Education Minis -ter Dr Tim Gopeesingh visited allthree pupils at their respective pri -mary schools to inform them of theirachievements.

The rst stop on Gopeesinghs tour was the Grant Memorial Presbyter ianSchool in San Fernando where he ar -rived around 8.15 a.m. Gopeesingh saidten of the schools pupils placed in thetop 200 in the country based on SEA results. The school registered two in the

countrys top ten with Sookhoo rst andKarissa Sonoo tied in 10th place.

Sookhoo, 11, whose goal it is to be -come a paediatrician, appeared cool andcalm about her top ranking. Sookhoos mother Marsha, a secondary school teacher, and brother Sanjeev, aThird Standard pupil at Grant Memo -rial, were on hand to celebrate her suc -cess. Her father Dr Kelly Sookhoo wasin the middle of surgery and was unableto attend. A sitar, scrabble and chessplayer, Sookhoo was named the mostall-round pupil of her class.

Her top ranking was a parting gift

for her teacher Barbara Sukhu who isscheduled to retire in November. Sukhualso has another SEA top performer un -der her belt with the success of ReannaGobin in 2004.

Sookhoo said she is looking forwardto making new friends and seeing oldfriends when she starts secondary school

in September. One of the new friends shemay make is 12-year-old Ramlal.

Gopeesingh also visited Ramlal laston his search for the SEA top trio. Ram -lal is a pupil of the newly constructedTulsa Trace Hindu SDMS (SanatanDharma Maha Sabha) School,which wascommissioned last year.

Before Gopeesingh surprised Ramlal with her second place ranking he wastreated to her musical talent. Ramlal

performed on the violin as part of theschools ensemble. Four pupils of TulsaTrace Hindu placed in the countrys top200. Interestingly, all four were part of the ensemble. Ramlal is also a friend of last years top SEA pupil Rebecca-AnnJattan, as the two attend ballet classes to -gether. Ramlal broke down in tears whenGopeesingh announced her success.

Her parents Kello and Radika alsocried when they heard the news. Radikais a standard ve teacher at the CocoyeaGovernment Primary School.


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Racism and Racial Pro lingM etropolitan Toronto is perhapsone of the most cosmopoli -tan areas to reside in North

America. To our credit the GreaterToronto Area (GTA) is home to myri -

ads of people from dif ferent ethnic andracial backgrounds. It is trite but truethat racism and discrimination is factorthat even professionals are faced with. Within the legal profession itself therehas been some recent developmentsfocusing on cases of discrimination andracial pro ling. Take the case of the PeelLaw Association v Selwyn Pieters. Onthe facts, two black lawyers and an arti -cling student were seated in the lawyerslounge at the Brampton Courthouse.There were several other lawyers thereat the time and a librarian who works inthe courthouse library approached themen and asked to see their identi cation

in order to verify that they were in factlawyers. The Peel Law Association man -dates that only lawyers and law studentsare allowed to sit in the lawyers lounge.This case stems back to May 2008 and was before the Human Rights Tribunalof Ontario, where it was found that thelibrarians actions were discr iminatory.The tribunal found that the librarian was aggressive and demanding whenshe approached the three individuals. Itshould be noted of the three individuals who were approached, two of the lawyers wore their hair in braids or dreadlocks.

The case was appealed to the Divi -

sional Court and the ndings of theHuman Rights Tribunal were dis -missed. In other words the DivisionalCourt found insuf cient evidence onthe part of the librarian to establishracism. Recently the mattercame before the Ontario Court of Appeal whooverturned the Divisional Courts Rul -ings and reaf rmed the ndings of theHuman Rights Tribunal of Ontario. Thesigni cance of this case and the reasonI refer to it is that it shows that lawyersand professionals are subject to racismeven while in the con nes of their own

professional setting. Obviously a greatdeal of time and money was expendedin bringing this case to the OntarioCourt of Appeal. But for Mr. Pietersdeep pockets and persistence the mat -ter would have ended at the DivisionalCourt ruling against him. Hav ing metSelwyn Pieters and worked with him Icommend him on his persistence in thisparticular instance.

In yet another case Roger Shallowsa Crown Attorney who happens to be black is suing the Toronto Police for 3.6million dollars. Mr. Shallows in hisclaim states that the police improperly

searched him because of his race. In hisclaim he alleges unlawful arrest, negli -gent investigation by the police and un -lawful arrest and strip search. This casestems from an incident in 2007 which

occurred in the Toronto entertainmentdistrict. Mr. Shallow was arrested andcharged with causing a disturbance andresisting arrest. The charges against

him were ultimately dropped. The civilsuit is yet to be heard and it will beinteresting to note the outcome.

Racial pro ling involving the law enforcement agents are commonplaceand it is unfortunate that only when bigplayers and celebrities are involved thatthe public is made aware of the facts. In

both of these two cases the complain -ants are lawyers and are expected to be knowledgeable about their r ightsand remedies. Unfortunately in a lotof cases that I encounter, clients areunaware of their rights, they are oftenintimidated and reluctant to stir thingsup. If you or someone you know is a victim of discr imination or racial pro l -ing I would urge you to get out of thismindset. Consult a lawyer and makesure you know your rights.

The foregoing is intended for infor -mation purposes only and you shouldconsult a lawyer if you need legal repre -sentation or a legal opinion.

Selwyn R. Baboolal is a partner at Ou -marally Baboolal practicing in the areaof litigation for the past 18 years.

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A Jama can man, became desperate after pray ng to God to help h m, so he de-c ded to wr te to God nstead. He wrote Gad m t yad pray an yuh nah ansa m .Somet me m wanda f you caan hear m , suh m t nk t betta f m wr te yuh, caam kno yuh w read t. Gad m bruk, an only a beg 3 tousand dollas, thanks.

He went to the Post Of ce and ma led h s letter to Heaven D str ct, Heaven P.O.The Post M stresses, not know ng where to send the letter, dec ded to read theletter. Moved by t, they all put together but could only nd $2500. Anyway, theysent t to the man....

A few weeks later, the man p cked up h s letter at the Post Of ce, rushed home,only to nd $2500. He dec ded to wr te back to God. He wrote ...... Gad thank yuh d money, m kno yuh wuda read t, but Gad, next t me wenm ask nutten, sen t as a reg stered ma l, cause Gad, yuh know sey, the Tee ngPeople outa d Post Of ce, ... teef $500.

2. iNsPired iNsomNia

A Tr n dad an, a Jama can, a Barbad an and a Grenad an went to New York forthe Labor Day weekend. To save money, they dec ded to sleep two to a room.

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Guyanas TeenageBaird Wins CAC400 Metres Final

fraSer Prycegunning fOrdOubLeShelly Ann Fraser Pryce, last year, test-ed the water doing the sprint doubleat a major championship. Now she is alegi mate contender to take both 100

and 200 metres at the upcoming WorldChampionship.

Fraser-Pryce surprised many by tak-ing the 200m silver medal in Londonin a personal best of 22.09 and shesposi oning herself as a threat to the dothe sprint double in Moscow. But thedouble Olympic 100m gold medallistadmits there is a lot more work neededfor her to reach that level in the 200m.

Last year was a bit of tes ng thewater for me, where I did the 100 and200 at a major championships, whichwas rewarding. Now that I look backat it, I can take a lot from it, FraserPryce said at a July 5 Diamond Leaguepress conference.

Im de nitely working more at the200 because I can be a li le o in the200 because Im s ll trying to learn theevent. Im not one of those athleteswho will have a burst of energy to theline. I a ack it from the start. The more200s I do, the more Ill know whetherthis works or that works, she added.

Some mes going into a majorchampionships I say to myself: youdid that in 2012, can I do it in 2013? Itry to fool my mind, trick my mind andI want it. So I work I hard to try to ac-complish it.

G uyanas teenage sprinterKadecia Baird ran a seasons best 51.32 se conds to win the Womens 400 met res at the X XIV Central American and Caribbean(CAC) Senior Athletics Champi-onships on July 6. The 18-year-old also booked a place onGuyanas team for the IAAF World Championships in At h-letics in Moscow, Russia with anA standard qualifying time.

Baird overcame challengesfrom Chrissan Gordon of Jamaica(52.52) and Kineke Alexander of St

Vincent and t he Grenadines(52.81) to win her firstmajor title since securing

a silver medal at the IAA F World Junior Cham-

pionships in Athlet-ics in Barcelona,

Spain last year.Bairds mark highlighted

somegood perfor-

mances for Caribbeanathletes including JarrinSolomon of Trinidad &

Tobago, Shane Brathwaiteof Barbados and Monique

Morgan of Jamaica.Solomon won the Mens

400m (45.54), ahead of Omar Johnson of Ja-

maica (45.67) and GustavoCuesta of the Dominica Repub-lic (46.20).

In straight tussle betweenBrathwaite and Wayne Davis II

of Trinidad & Tobago for the mens110m hurdles title, the Barbadianprevailed in 13.70. Davis, who earlieradvanced with the fastest qualifyingtime of 13.50 took the silver i n 13.75and Yordan OFarril of Cuba wasthird in 13.82.

Morgan continued the Carib- bea ns dominat ion on the track ,copping a victor y in the Womens100m hurdles in 13.25. KierreBeckles of Barbados secured thesilver in 13.37 a nd LaVonne Idletteof the Dominican Republic settledfor third spot in 13.41.

On the opening day, Levern Spen-cer of St Lucia set a meet rec ord andmade the A qualifying standardin the Womens High Jump for theIAAF World Championships 2013.

Spencer cleared the winning height of 1.95 metres to erased herprevious championship record of 1.94m set eight years ago in Nassau,Bahamas. Her compatriot JeannelleScheper picked up the silver medal

with 1.92m and Sa niel Atkinson of Jamaica was third with 1.84m.

In other Caribbean results, An-drew Fisher of Jamaica (10.14),

Andr ew Hind s (10.19) and Ra monGittens of Barbados (10.19) ensureda Caribbean 1-2-3 finish in t he Mens100m.

Shery-Ann Brooks completed thesprint double for Jamaica when shestopped the clock at 11.21, ahead of Marielys Sanchez of the DominicanRepublic (11.24) and Aleen Ba iley of Jamaica (11.34).

Chad Wright of Jamaica andCleopatra Borel of Trinidad & To-

bago continued their domina nce inthe field. Wrig ht copped the MensDiscus with a throw of 60.79m whileBorel was a comfortable winner inthe Womens Shot Put with 17.56m.


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Wicb , ScOtiabank Sign neW deaL

The West Indies Cricket Board and Sco abank have signed a new ve-yearagreement allowing the bank to remain exclusive sponsor of the WICBs KiddyCricket Programme.The new contract allows WICB to expand the programme of teaching founda on

cricke ng skills to the more than 150 000 students who are currently enrolled. Sco -abank is expected to double its investment under the new deal which representsthe longest sponsorship contract that the bank has signed with the WICB during their14-year associa on.

As part of the expanded programme, Sco abank is also set to fund the provision of close to 10 000 Kiddy Cricket programme gear and equipment kits featuring bats, ballsand stumps to a number of schools across the region.

The sponsorship arrangement is also set to play a role in the new Cricket CoachEduca on programme recently launched by the WICB in associa on with the Univer -sity of Technology in Jamaica.

caPtainS cOnfirMedThe Limacol Caribbean Premier League has con rmed the captains for the re -spec ve LCPL franchise teams: An gua Hawksbills Marlon Samuels Barbados Tridents Kieron Pollard Guyana Amazon Warriors Ramnaresh Sarwan Jamaica Tallawahs Chris Gayle St. Lucia Zouks Darren Sammy Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel Dwayne Bravo

Commen ng on his selec on as captain for the Guyana Amazon Warriors,Ramnaresh Sarwan said: It is a great honour to have been chosen to captain theGuyana Amazon Warriors in the rst ever Caribbean Premier League T20 tourna -ment. I have the opportunity to work with and lead some of the best players inthe region and the world, and I am looking forward to using my years of experi -ence to guide the Amazon Warriors to victory.

T he Caribbean Premier League(CPL) has con rmed that BenRohrer, Ahmad Shahzad andDavy Jacobs have been drafted in asreplacement players for the forthcominginaugural tournament. The announce -ment came after three Australia players Steve Smith, Shaun Marsh and AaronFinch were unable to obtain No Objec -tion Certi cates from Cricket Australia.Smith has been drafted in to Austra -lias squad for the Ashes series with

England, and Finch and Marsh have been selected for the Aus tralia A tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Australia n Rohrer will replace Smithfor the Antigua Hawksbills, PakistaniShahzad steps in for Marsh with theJamaica Tallawahs, andJacobs from South Af -rica comes in for Finch with the Trinidad &Tobago Red Steel.

Rohrer is a hard-hitting left-hander who made his Twen -ty20 Internationaldebut for Australiaagainst the WestIndies in March andhe played for theDelhi Daredevilsin the latest editionof the Indian PremierLeague.

The 32 year-old fea -tured for the MelbourneRenegades in the last Aus-tralias Big Bash League, andthe Renegades were the franchisethat had the consultancy servicesof Antigua Hawksbills coach Sir Vivian Richards, as wel l as the tal -ent of West Indies batsman MarlonSamuels, the Antigua Hawksbills fran -chise player and captain in this yearsLimacol CPL.

The Limacol CPL will be a perfectopportunity for Ahmed Shahzad to puthimself rmly back in the minds of thePakistan selectors after he missed outon selection for the ICC ChampionsTrophy squad.

Still only 21, the right-handed bats -man played for his country as recently as March in a T20I against South Afr ica. He has played 19 ODIs and 11T20Is and was part of the Pakistansquads for both the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2011 and the ICC World Twenty20 in 2009, withPakistan winning the latterevent.

He has two ODI hundreds,one of which was against the West Indies in St Lucia in 2011,and he also has two T20 hun -dreds and a superb strike-rate of 134.23 runs per hundred balls.

Jacobs is another vastly experiencedTwenty20 player who was unlucky tomiss out on a spot with one of the sixfranchises in the draft that took placeearlier this month.

The 30 year-old, who captains the Warriors in South African domest iccricket, is capable of batting anywherein the order and is an extremely capable wicketkeeper too.

He led the Warriors to their r st-evertrophies in 2010-11 with a limited-overs

double, including the domestic Twenty20title, and has played for both the MumbaiIndians in the IPL and Northampton -shire in English county cricket.

The inaugural Limacol Carib - bean Premier League sta rtson 30 July in Barbados and

concludes on 24 Augustin Trinidad.

Rohrer, Shahzad andJacobs For CPL


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