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YOUNG single motherswithin the St George Southconstituency are being em-powered to become businessowners.

This is through the HandsExtended Reaching Out (HERO)– Mom-preneurship

Programme.Yesterday, Minister of Labour,

Social Security and HumanResource Development, SenatorDr. the Hon.Esther Byer Suckooofficially launched the three-month initiative, which will see30 women seek to become entre-

preneurs, while developing newskills so that they can ade-quately take care of their chil-dren.

“HERO is a community-basedorganisation in St George Southestablished to develop the community eradicating poverty,

empowering women, youth andchildren, also the intergenera-tional impact … We are very ex-cited about this programme be-cause it empowers this genera-tion of mothers as it helps themto pass on that legacy to theirchildren,” Dr Byer-Suckoo ex-

plained during the launch heldat the Ellerton WesleyanHoliness Church, Ellerton, St.George.

Revealing that sessions willget underway next week, theSenator, who is also patron of

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THE Barbados Vagrants andHomeless Society (BVHS) is re-porting a quick turnover rate forpersons entering its recentlylaunched Women and Children’sShelter.

President of the BarbadosVagrants and Homeless Society,Kemar Saffrey told theBarbados Advocate this weekthat as word got out about its of-ficial launch, the BVHS has

been getting a number of re-quests from women, who havebeen threatened with eviction attheir places of residence. Hehowever noted that the BVHShas been able to get some assis-

tance for a number of womenand children residing at theshelter, so that they often passthrough rather than remain, al-lowing for a quick turnover andfreeing up space for others who

may be in need.“The women have been re-

sponding pretty well to theWomen’s Shelter. We have beengetting a lot of calls and

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Quick turnover rates for BVHS shelter

‘HERO’ EMPOWERINGYOUNG WOMEN

Patron of the Hands Extended Reaching Out (HERO) – Mom-preneurship Programme, Minister of Labour, Social Security and Human Resource Development,Senator Dr. the Hon. Esther Byer Suckoo (right) alongside Yvonne Blenman, a Trustee of HERO Charity (centre) and CEO of Barbados Investment &Development Corporation Sonja Trotman (left), during the launch of the Mom-preneurship programme held at Ellerton Wesleyan Holiness Church, yesterday.

2 • Wednesday September 7, 2016 The Barbados Advocate

THE Earth’s tempera-ture reached its high-est point on modernrecord in July.

July 2016 was thewarmest month in 136years since the first tem-perature measurements.

“July 2016 was ab-solutely the hottestmonth since the instru-mental records began,”said Director at NASA’sGoddard Institute forSpace Studies (GISS),Gavin Schmidt.

“It wasn’t by the widestof margins, but July 2016 was the warmestmonth since modernrecord keeping began in1880.”

In addition, a new report confirmed that2015 surpassed 2014 asthe warmest year onrecord. This is due to thecombined influence oflong-term global warm-ing and an exceptionallystrong El Niño event.

The State of the

Climate 2015 reportfound that most indica-tors of climate changecontinued to reflecttrends consistent with awarming planet. Severalmarkers such as land andocean temperatures, sealevels and greenhousegases broke records setjust one year prior.

The report, ledby NOAA NationalCenters for Environ-mental Information, isbased on contributions

from more than 450 sci-entists from 62 countriesaround the world and re-flects tens of thousandsof measurements frommultiple independentdatasets.

“This ‘annual physical’of Earth’s climate systemshowed us that 2015’s climate was shaped bothby long-term change andan El Niño event,” saidThomas R. Karl, L.H.D.,Director, NOAA NationalCenters for Environ-

mental Information.“When we think about

being climate resilient,both of these time scalesare important to con-sider. Last year’s El Niñowas a clear reminder of

how short-term eventscan amplify the relativeinfluence and impactsstemming from longer-term global warmingtrends.”

(TL)

July 2016 warmest month in over 100 years

THE Guild of Students of the UWI Cave HillCampus will be continu-ing its Caribbean LectureSeries, which brings stu-dents together throughopen dialogue to find solutions to a myriad ofissues.

Public RelationsOfficer, Kayrel Edwards,noted the above recently,indicating that theCaribbean Lecture Serieswill kick off from this se-mester at the Cave HillCampus.

“The Guild of studentshas four main objectives:the furtherance of educa-tional and social purposesof the University of theWest Indies; the further-ance of the common inter-est of the members of theGuild; the advancementand promotion of unityand fraternity amongstthe members of the Guild;and the promotion of re-gional pride and develop-ment in the Caribbean,”Edwards explained.

“Now in order to accom-plish these objectives,we normally host ourCaribbean LectureSeries. This has beendone over the past twoyears and this year, we

are going to continue todo this,” she stated.

Pointing out that in thepast the CaribbeanLecture Series exploredsuch topics as “Stay AtYour Yard: ExploringXenophobia in theCaribbean”, “Do As I sayNot As I Do: Examiningthe US-Venezuela Rela-tions” and “No Dash Itway: Examining theMyths of UniversitySexuality”, she acknowl-edged that this year’stopic will take a lightertone.

“This semester, wewant to kick off the yearwith our new CaribbeanLecture Series and it isgoing to on the topic of Bashment Soca,”Edwards revealed.

“We realised over thesummer when you hadCrop Over, that there wasthis rise of BashmentSoca and we went to seeexactly how the public isperceiving it and whereit’s going to carry us.So we will be putting thelecture series up on oursocial media page as to where and when it’shappening,” the Guild ofStudents PRO said.

(RSM)

UWI Guild to continueCaribbean Lecture Series

Wednesday September 7, 2016 • 3The Barbados Advocate

IF CHIEF Justice Sir Marston Gibsonhas his way, Barbados will be going theroute of an e-Court, cutting down long processes through proventechnology.

His comments came as he addressedthe official opening of the Legal Year2016-2017, where he highlighted areasthat can be improved in the interest ofreducing the backlog and eliminatetime wastage in the Court. He stressedthat in order to truly tackle thisproblem, things must be donedifferently and there must be a multi-faceted approach.

Drawing reference to the Singaporemodel, which he said has the most efficient judiciary in the world, SirMarston revealed that discussions wererecently conducted with the companyknown as Crimson Logic, which runsthe computer programmes used by thatAsian country.

He noted that Singapore had abacklog in the 1990s and throughcomputerisation was able to reduce it.

Invest in training Gibson pointed out however thatSingapore also spent a significantamount of resources to train judges andclerical staff, which also prevented thebacklog from recurring.

“Without this type of investment inboth hardware, software and especiallytraining, we cannot expect the courts toimprove,” he said.

Alluding to the case over which hepresided between Ansa McAl andAmbev to purchase shares of Banks Holdings Inc., he said he wasable to return a decision in a short time because counsel was requested tosubmit arguments by e-mail.

To this end, Sir Marston said it is his intention to make this the normrather than the exception, and willrequest that the Registrar commencethe bidding process as soon as possible for the new computerprogramme to replace the existingprogramme, which he said is obsoleteand is not being updated by theprovider.

The Chief Justice said he was alsopleased to hear of plans to launch anArbitration Centre in Barbados, whichhe explained would be a welcomedevelopment particularly for thebusiness community, which at times requires quick answers to legalqueries.

Additionally, he pointed to the 11mediators that have undergonetraining, saying mediation is a centralplank to reducing the backlog. He saidit is his wish to see no less than 50mediators in Barbados, but cautionedthat there cannot be a one-size-fits-allapproach to mediation. Therefore, hesays there is a need for specialisation,as he revealed that trainers are being sourced to teach mediationsubspecialties to local mediators.

(JH)

Chief Justicepushes forgreater use of technology

CHIEF Justice Sir Marston Gibsonhas highlighted two pieces of legis-lation which, if enacted, could havea significant impact on the court system in Barbados.

Addressing the official opening of theLegal Year 2016-2017 in the SupremeCourt on Monday, he noted thatAttorney General Adriel Brathwaitehas provided leadership in drafting andtalks on the Plea Discussion Bill, popu-larly known as plea bargaining; and theJuvenile Justice Bill.

Plea bargaining is the process wherea criminal defendant and prosecutorreach a mutually satisfactory disposi-tion of a criminal case, subject to the ap-proval of the court. It can conclude acase without trial. It is an arrangementbetween the prosecutor and the defen-dant whereby the latter pleads guilty toa lesser charge with the expectation ofleniency.

As it relates to the Juvenile JusticeBill, he said this piece of legislation con-

tains the concept of restorative justice.“The idea that every offence should notbe visited with punishment, but can ac-tually be visited with an attempt to re-store some sense of dignity to the victimand some sense of responsibility to theaccused.”

His comments came as he highlightedthe perennial issue of backlog and thefact that a piece of legislation enactedthis year to eliminate the workload ofmagistrates did not have the intendedresults. He was referring to theMagistrate’s Court (Amendment) Bill2016.

It was back in July that AttorneyGeneral Adriel Brathwaite led off de-bate in the Lower House, explainingthat preliminary inquiries were used todetermine whether the magistrate be-lieved that there was enough evidenceagainst the accused person for the mat-ter to go forward to be adjudicated, andnot as an adjudication of the accused.Assuch, he said that by eliminating that

process, they will ensure that via theuse of committal proceedings – the useof written statements rather than oralevidence and depositions – they canspeed up the decision making processregarding whether the matter shouldgo to the High Court.

However, the Chief Justice said thatthis Bill simply shifts the backlog, ex-plaining that instead of waiting on apreliminary inquiry, inmates have towait for a trial judge. He estimated thatthere are 172 persons on remand whohave had preliminary inquiries, but arenot awaiting trial. He also noted that arequest has been made for three addi-tional judges as well as a replacementjustice for Justice Sherman Moore whoretired last year. There are eight HighCourt judges, two of which are perma-nently assigned to assizes.

In spite of the challenges last year, hesaid the situation is not as daunting asit might seem. “I believe that excitingchanges lie ahead,” he said. (JH)

New legislation could reduce backlog

HERO from page 1the programme, took the opportunity to

thank the Barbados Investment &Development Corporation (BIDC), St.Luke’s Anglican Church, WesleyanHoliness, employers, among others forcoming on board to provide mentorship tothe young woman participating in Mom-preneurship.

She stressed that having a good men-tor will be vital.

“For this programme to be a success,our young women have to change theirmind-set. They have to see themselvesnow as being able to take control of theirdestiny. They have to be able to appreci-ate that they can do it.Therefore,mentor-ship will be a very important part of thatprogramme where we would ask women…to work alongside them, helping them

to get over some of the hurdles.This com-munity has produced some very success-ful women who are able to provide thissort of assistance to our young women.”

Dr. Byer-Suckoo also revealed that asparticipants develop, they will be able toaccess grant funding through the HumanResource Development Strategy, whichwill assist in taking their businesses tothe next level.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of theBIDC, Sonja Trotman, said that the gov-ernment agency has already identifiedsome of its female employees who residein St George to act as mentors.

“The BIDC is proud to be a part of thisprogramme.We are going to do whateveris required to assist,” she expressed.

“I am happy that persons who residein St George would have seen the

need…Sometimes we are always reaching out to offer advice and financialsupport, but there is nothing more thanempowering persons, and this is the aimof this programme.”

Yvonne Blenman, a Trustee of HERO,acknowledged that there are a lot of talented young women within the con-stituency.

“We have ladies who are good at hair,nails and much more. We are here to help these young mothers; to empowerthem.”

“I try to talk to mothers about how theyare managing and sometimes they say itis difficult. I try to explain to them thatit is not only about government…but it ishow you can empower yourself to becomea better person to help your children,” shesaid. (TL)

FROM LEFT: Minister of Labour, Social Security and Human Resource Development, Senator Dr. the Hon. Esther Byer mompreneur, Nadia Catwell.

Having a good mentor vital for success


RESIDENTS of St. Joseph andsurrounding areas are asked to notethat the Fair Trading Commission willhold a Town Hall meeting onStandards of Service for the BarbadosWater Authority (BWA), this Sunday,September 11 at 4:00 p.m. at theGrantley Adams Memorial School,Blackmans, St. Joseph.

Persons are invited to have their sayon how the proposed standards willimpact the delivery of water service;how individuals will be compensatedwhen standards are not met and if theBWA Standards of Service should beintroduced for issues such as meterreading, repair of burst mains andresponse to complaints.

For further information, theStandards of Service ConsultationPaper may be read at HYPERLINK“http://www.ftc.gov.bb” www.ftc.gov.bb,or individuals may contact theCommission at 424-0260.

JUNIOR Ambassadors of St. Jamesconducted a heritage tour of St.James under the tutelage ofrenowned historian MorrisGreenidge last Friday, September2, 2016. The tour began at the St.James Parish Church, where thejuniors recounted the history andtales of yesterday, which they hadlearned over the course of threemonths when this programme waslaunched on May 9, 2016 at the Gordon Greenidge PrimarySchool.

Public Relations Officer of the

Committee, Mr. Ade O’Neal said, “Thisheritage tour gave participants theopportunity to learn more aboutimportant historical and culturallandmarks that existed within theparish. Information such as Portvalederiving its name from theamalgamation of Porters, Vaucluse andLower Estate factories or that the SchoolMeals Service was originally a CassavaFlour factory to assist in food shortagesafter WWII are all testament to the richhistory of St. James. Additionally, thisheritage tour also allowed the JrAmbassadors to experience all that they

had learned in the classroom over thecourse of the last three months.”

Chairperson of the St. James ParishIndependence Committee, Mrs. RhondaBryan Hutson. explained that theactivity was a part of this year’s parishproject under the theme of “CelebratingWho We Are... Proud of our heritage”.“The Jr Ambassador programme is splitinto three components; training,experiential experiences and communityservice. These components will aid thechildren’s overall development and helpmake them productive members ofsociety,” it was further explained.

The Jr Ambassadors begin theCommunity Service component onSeptember 17, with a clean-up ofHusbands, St. James. The clean-upcampaign is in collaboration with theSt. James South Constituency Counciland the St. James Parish IndependenceCommittee.

The Holetown Monument, The Hole,Portvale Sugar Factory, St. James ParishChurch,Weston and Paynes Bay fishingvillages, Springhead, Met Institute,Welches Plantation House, Holders andthe St. James Cemetery were amongstsome of the stops on the route.

THE Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture (IICA) isorganising an International Seminarwith the main objective of analysing thecurrent situation and the outlook forprecision agriculture in the region.

The seminar will include contributionsfrom experts on the topic andpresentation of success stories related togood practices. It is aimed at enablingparticipants to identifyrecommendations that may support thedevelopment and implementation ofprecision agriculture in the region byemphasising its adoption by small-scalefarmers, while promoting thestandardisation of concepts andknowledge within IICA and among

agricultural stakeholders in theInstitute’s Member States.

In order to support the implementationof prospective analysis for decision-making and formulation of public policiesfor agriculture, for nine years now, theinteragency group comprisingIICA/FAO/ECLAC has been engaged inthe project: Outlook for Agriculture andRural Development in the Americas.

As part of this effort, the threeinstitutions jointly prepare the reportentitled Outlook for Agriculture in theAmericas, which is presented every twoyears to the Ministers of Agriculture ofthe region at the meeting of the Inter-American Board of Agriculture.

Furthermore, during the inter-

sessional years of the IABA, the threeinstitutions prepare technicalnewsletters on matters of currentsignificance for the region. For 2016, thethree institutions selected as the maintopic for the newsletters ‘The potential oftechnology in the development andsustainability of agriculture in theAmericas’.

As part of this effort, IICA isresponsible for preparing a technicalnewsletter on the transformationalpotential of precision agriculture in LatinAmerica and the Caribbean.

The seminar, which is to be held at theIICA headquarters in Costa Rica onThursday is part of the input going intothe document.

St. James Junior Ambassadors tour St. James

IICA to host seminar on precision agriculture

Jr Ambassadors at Portvale Sugar Factory.

Fair TradingCommission to hold townhall meetingthis Sunday


SEVERAL ongoing andpersistent problemsincluding the issue ofappointments ofteachers and violencein schools will be onthe agenda whenmembers of theBarbados SecondaryTeachers Union(BSTU) meet today atSolidarity House.

In a statement releasedto the media, PresidentMary-Anne Redman saidthat to a significant extentthese and other mattersof concern to the BSTUare not being afforded thelevel of attention andimportance from theMinistry of Educationthat they deserve. Assuch, she said the BSTU iswilling to do what isnecessary to change thatapproach.

She further indicatedthat the meeting expectedto start at 1 p.m. thisafternoon is the first oftwo meetings scheduled

for this academic year.She explained that theavenue will allow teachersthe opportunity to airtheir concerns andhighlight any issueswhich they believe theExecutive should focus on,so as to remain effectiveand relevant in fulfillingtheir needs, and to hearfrom the Executive howthey intend to addressthose issues.

“It is the start of a newacademic year and to thisend, as a Union we need,among other things, toplan for the safety of ourmembers and for theirprofessional developmentand well-being. Thesehave implications as theyhave the potential toaffect our members’responses to the manyissues affecting their jobs,the impact of those issueson their ability to performat maximum levels andthe avenues of response tothose issues that are

available to us as aUnion,” she said.

To that end, the Unionboss said that in additionto appointments ofteachers and the manyanomalies surfacing inthat process at someschools; violence in schoolsincluding the methods ofdeflecting, coping withand reacting to violence ofvarious types, as well assafety and health issues;they are also expected tolook at the docking ofteachers’ pay forattending Unionmeetings. This issuesurfaced when membersof their sister union, theBarbados Union ofTeachers (BUT), had insome instances, two dayspay docked, afterattending meetings calledby the BUT last term.

“We intend to look at theactions of the Ministry ofEducation and to whatextent they were legal andin keeping with the

custom and practice,” shetold The BarbadosAdvocate yesterday.

Redman further toldthis newspaper that thematter of school-basedassessments (SBAs)remains on their frontburner. The BSTU haslong contended thatteachers are notadequately compensatedfor correcting the SBAs,which they insist are theproperty of the CaribbeanExaminations Council.She added that theBSTU’s position is gainingsupport regionally, andthis is based on somedecisions that were takenat the last executivemeeting of the CaribbeanUnion of Teachers.

Also expected to engagethe teachers’ attentiontoday will be plans tocelebrate the BSTU’s 70thanniversary and theactivities to recognise theupcoming Teachers’Professional Day. (JRT)

Teachers to meet today

WILL there be furtherdelays in bringing theCustoms and ExciseDepartment under theBarbados revenueAuthority (BRA)?

The date for theCustoms and ExciseDepartment to comeunder the BRA had been

set for the beginning ofOctober.

However, the NationalUnion of Public Workers(NUPW) said that it is stillnegotiating with a numberof matters that must beaddressed beforefinalising terms andconditions of service with

the BRA.As such the union is

advising officers of theDepartment not to signany option forms until theissues are resolved.

The NUPW indicatedthat there are a number ofvacancies of customsOfficer 1 and 11 that are

yet to be filled. Therefore,the process of makingappointments to thosepositions has not yet beencompleted.

It also cited othermatters to be addressed.

These include theprovision of anorganisational structure

under the BRA, jobdescription that reflectCustoms and Excisefunctions, qualificationsconsistent with the dutiesof Customs Officer,maintaining the job titleof Custom Officer, andgenerally ensuring that allmatters relating to terms

and conditions of serviceare completed.

Bringing thatDepartment under theBRA has proven to beproblematic given the longdelays includingnegotiations and workstoppages that have heldup the process.

Will Customs make the move to the BRA from October 1?

THE Democratic LabourParty Government issuffering from “chronicfailure”.

That’s the view of theMember of Parliament forSt. James Central, KerrieSymmonds. TheOpposition MP told thoseattending hisconstituency meeting overthe weekend, thatGovernment’s repeatedattempts to get theeconomic situation in thiscountry under controlhave not been successful.

“We began in 2010 witha fiscal strategy that wassupposed to help thiscountry turn its economicfortunes around, thatfailed. By 2012 there wasa revised fiscal strategy;that too failed… In 2013,Chris Sinckler as the firstorder of business thenturns round and says ‘OhLord, we now have to havea new approach which isfiscal consolidation’. An18-month austerity

programme began in2013, that too failed andhe come back and say thatit must be extended to 31months, and now that toohas failed,” he lamented.

Symmonds said thatBarbados is now worse offthan the country wasprior to the start of thevarious initiatives and thesituation is made worse,as a result of losingforeign exchange at arapid rate.

“When we leftGovernment, when theyinherited a Governmentfrom us, there was $1.4billion in foreign exchangein the Central Bank ofBarbados, today it is downto eight hundred andchange, and that ain’t gotnothing to do with thecommitments that wehave, because you have tohold some because wehave debts and so on topay. We have lost $500million, understand whatI am saying, $500 million

has haemorrhaged in thiscountry during the life ofthis Government. In spiteof the fact that they tookout a Credit Suisse Loan,which was the samefigure, $500 million,” hesaid.

The Opposition MPthen suggested that therecent FinancialStatement and BudgetaryProposals in whichGovernment announcedthe two per cent NationalSocial ResponsibilityLevy, which will beapplied to imports, isintended to try to “plugthe gap”. However, hecharged, this new tax willonly put additional undueburden on Barbadianconsumers.

“What will happen atthe Port is that everythinggoes up by two per cent…but when that impositionis passed on, it might bean imposition of three percent, it might be animposition of three and a

half per cent, theconsumer is not protectedif the person sellingdecides that he is going tobe a vandal. There is noway of hauling in that popkite, if the man who’sselling says I see a chanceto make naked profits.The consumer hasn’t beentaken into considerationin this matter,Government will get whatis due to Government atthe port of entry, but whathas been done to help you?You have been left to facethe full impact of the twoper cent or more,” heindicated.

Symmonds said all theactions of the Governmentduring its two terms inoffice present a primeopportunity for theBarbados Labour Party to“put its house completelyin order”, as he contendedthat Barbados “cannotafford more of what theDems are dishing out”.(JRT)

Symmonds: Barbados worse off nowBVHS from page 1

requests, so that has beentremendous.Some womenare coming with a lot ofrequests for assistancewith three and fourchildren and sometimesthat poses a challenge,since we don’t have thatcapacity. And most ofthese are women that arelikely going to be homelesssoon, but we try to workwith them to get themback on their feet or wetry to talk with thelandlord before eviction.So that is going prettygood,” Saffrey pointed out.

“We have a few womenin (our) programme,women and children andit has been going good.Some of them have gottena job and moved on, so wehave really seen somequick and progressiveturnover rates so far,”Saffrey also indicated.

The Barbados Vagrants

and Homeless Societyrecently moved toestablish a Women andChildren’s Shelter, giventhe number of women,accompanied by theirchildren, who seek out itsservices.

Having seen some caseswhere women have beensleeping on the streetswhilst pregnant or withtheir children in tow andacknowledging that this iseven more worrisomethan having men on thestreets, the BVHSestablished the shelterwith the assistance ofCourts, Barbados, whichprovided the necessaryfurnishings.

The main reasonswomen give for needingassistance, is that theyhave lost their jobs, areunable to pay rent or theyare entwined in familydisputes, which all lead tothem being put out on thestreets. (RSM)

BVHS reports quick andprogressive turnover rates

Barbados Secondary Teachers Union, PresidentMary-Anne Redman,


By Peta Rowe-Forde

ON Sunday evening,just over 50 students,from the BarbadosSecondary SchoolEntrance Examina-tions (BSSEE) level tothe tertiary level, re-ceived awards compli-ments of the BarbadosPublic Workers’ Co-operative CreditUnion.

However, the specialawards and tasty re-freshments were not allbeing shared on the day.Founder and Director ofthe Barbados Associationof Muslim Women,Firhaana Bulbulia, gave

the feature address on atopic that these awardeeswere already familiarwith; and that is success.

Starting her speech bygiving several differentdefinitions of success,Bulbulia outlined that success means somethingdifferent to everyone andone form that is often over-looked is wanting anddoing for others what youwould want and do foryourself.

She went on to state thatoftentimes, persons are socaught up in acquiringmany physical attributes,for example being rich orbeing famous, that theyforget the work that ac-

companies it. To this,Bulbulia advised the stu-dents to be less concernedwith ‘being’ and becomedeeply engrossed in ‘doing’,because in many cases it isthe persons who ‘do’ thatend up ‘being’.

Furthermore, she im-plored that awards andrecognition are not the pin-nacle of success for it is ajourney and not a destina-tion.Thus,she told the stu-dents that as they embarkon their new course ofstudy, they will meet stu-dents who will do excep-tionally well and thosewho will not. Neverthe-less, she challenged themto be persons who create

solutions, who offer inno-vations, who solve chal-lenges, so as to ensure thatothers in the class receivetop grades like themselves.

In leading by example,she suggested that theycan start an association

that focuses on raisingmoney for those who cannot afford fees while offering extra lessons, usesocial media to form clubsand create campaigns thatensure that students withdisabilities or learning

challenges get what theyneed to be successful.

“As someone who bene-fits from this system,makeit your duty to ensure thissystem makes all of us suc-cessful,” stated Bulbulia asshe closed.

From left: CEO of the Barbados Public Workers’ Co-operative Credit Union, Sis. Clorinda Alleyne; VicePresident, Glendon Belle; and Featured Speaker, Firhaana Bulbulia, conversing during the ceremony.

Elena Scantlebury was all smiles as she received heraward for good work in BSSEE from Sis. Julie Corbin.

Shane Alleyne receiving his award for work in CAPEfrom Sis. Kieva Cadogan.

Deallo Small receiving his award from Sis. JulieCorbin.

Akilah Jordan-Watson receiving her award for goodwork in CAPE.

Ocean Campbell-Cumberbatch, doing his CXC examinations, receiving his awardfrom Sis. Christina John.

Students receivelesson on success

By Peta Rowe-Forde

DURING the Urbanand Regional Infor-mation Systems As-sociation’s (URISA)2016 Caribbean Geo-graphical InformationSystems (GIS)Conference this weekat Hilton Barbados,a relatively new map-ping and addressingapplication made its debut in theCaribbean.

Giving the keynote ad-dress at the conference,Co-Founder and ChiefExecutive Officer ofWhat3Words, ChrisSheldrick, explained ingreat detail the function-ality and benefits of usingthe app in a variety ofsectors.

Opening with a storyon suitcases as we know them with wheelswhen they first came into being, Sheldrickformed the analogy thatWhat3Words can simi-larly change the land-scape of commuting fromdestination to destina-tion. What3Words is auniversal addressing sys-tem based on a 3mx3mglobal grid. Each of the 57 trillion 3mx3msquares in the world has

been pre-allocated a fixedand unique word address.The geocoder on the appthen turns geographic co-ordinates into thesethree word addresses.

Going further to explain how it works,Sheldrick showed how adesired point of arrival

can be named using threewords, which makes iteasier to find rather thanlaunching co-ordinates ina GPS system or trying to

remember the name of anaddress that may not beideal. For example, one location in his hometown,London, is pre-coded as

tables.chairs.lamps.In giving a rationale

for the use and outliningthe benefits of the app,Sheldrick noted that 75

per cent of the world ispoorly addressed andeven those countries thathave sufficient address-ing systems have manycomplications.

“This means thataround four billion peo-ple are invisible, unableto report crime, unable toget deliveries or receiveaid, and unable to exer-cise many of their rightsas citizens because theysimply have no way tocommunicate where they live,” explainedSheldrick.

Likewise, many busi-nesses and tourist at-tractions are difficult tofind.

The app is being usedin 170 countries so farand has proven to be agreat success. Integratedin the system are Googlemap features as well asHelipaddy, which allowsfor a broader search.Most recently, the appwas used in Brazil for the2016 Summer OlympicGames by security per-sonnel as well as patronsand athletes in search ofvenues for specific events.


PARENTS and guardiansof students who will be entering first form atPrincess MargaretSecondary School nextweek are reminded of theorientation session at theschool today, Wednesday,September 7 at 9:15 a.m.Students are expected to

be in full school uniform.Meanwhile, fourth for-

mers must also wear thefull school uniform whenthey attend their orien-tation on Thursday,September 8, accompa-nied by their parents.The session also begins at 9:15 a.m.

Orientation forPrincess Margaretfirst formers today

What3Words makes its debut in the C’bean

Co-Founder and CEO of What3Words, ChrisSheldrick, developed an easier way to locate placeson the map.

Representative from the Caribbean Chapter, ValerieGrant, offering her opening remarks at the conference.

EACH person is blessed with only one body and ifit is damaged irreparably it will mean the end ofone’s life. Therefore it baffles the mind why somany people take such poor care of their health.More to the point, Barbadians need to be more re-sponsible, not only in their lifestyle choices, butalso in the healthcare choices they make.

Already there has been much noted on the im-portance of eating healthy foods and getting ade-quate exercise. This has seen, amongst otherthings, the development of the NationalCommission for Chronic Non-CommunicableDiseases (CNCDs) and the National Task Force onPhysical Activity, which were designed to informthe public and give them opportunities to puthealth plans into action, respectively.

Yet, even with these developments and with thebest of intentions people are still able to makepoor health choices by purchasing products orservices which may appear to enhance one’s ap-pearance and overall health, but which may dotheir bodies harm instead.Admittedly, these prod-ucts or services may be advertised locally or inter-nationally and may appear legitimate, but in ac-tuality would not work as advertised. In a lot ofcases, the individual or business behind the prod-ucts or services is not licensed to operate as ahealthcare provider.

The onus is therefore on you, the public, to makeinformed decisions about what you purchase.Products bought online should be researched thor-oughly. The manufacturers should be identified,along with the ingredients in the product and re-views should be obtained from previous customersand review boards if possible.You should also askyour doctor before taking any medication or sup-plement.

Where the product (or service) is made or pro-vided locally, similar investigations should be done.In addition, any local product should still havethe correct labelling. Many people believe that be-cause you have a small setup that it is acceptableto save costs on packaging by avoiding labels, butthis is far from the case.

Furthermore, the person or place of businessselling the product or service should have the rel-evant certification from the Ministry of Healthand, where applicable, from their institution oflearning, which must be displayed for all to see.You should never allow yourself to fall prey tobogus salespeople who are not equipped to adviseyou on your health.

An obvious indication of a product or servicethat you should avoid is one that is not adver-tised. If you can only hear about it on social mediaor by word-of-mouth, or if the person in charge isoperating under the guise of another business oreven from their own home, for instance, then youwould be wise not to place your health in theirhands.

It would also make life easier for everyone if in-dividuals would step forward and highlight anyknowledge of people or businesses operating underthe radar to the Ministry of Health, which wouldmake investigations into claims and ensure thatonly legit healthcare providers operate in thiscountry. Your actions could save someone else’slife.

Editorial

Your health is yourresponsibility

A SUSPECTED chlorinegas attack on an opposi-tion-held neighborhood inthe Syrian city of Aleppocaused dozens of cases ofsuffocation on Tuesday,res-cue workers and a moni-toring group said.

The Syrian CivilDefence, a rescue workers’organization that operatesin rebel-held areas, saidgovernment helicoptershad dropped barrel bombscontaining chlorine on theSukari neighborhood ineastern Aleppo.

The Syrian government

has denied previous accu-sations it used chemicalweapons during the five-year-old civil war. TheSyrian army could not beimmediately reached forcomment on the latest alle-gations.

The Civil Defence said onits Facebook page that 80people had suffocated.It re-ported no deaths. It posteda video showing wheezingchildren doused in waterusing oxygen masks tobreathe.

The British-basedSyrian Observatory for

Human Rights, whichtracks Syrian violenceusing sources on theground, said medicalsources had reported 70cases of suffocation.

A United Nations andOrganization for theProhibition of ChemicalWeapons inquiry seen lastmonth found that Syriangovernment forces were re-sponsible for two toxic gasattacks in 2014 and 2015involving chlorine.

The Civil Defence ac-cused the government oftwo other suspected chlo-

rine gas attacks in August. The United NationsCommission of Inquiry onSyria said it was investi-gating an August incident.

“Unimaginable crimesare occurring in Aleppo ...pro-government aerialbombardments cause masscivilian casualties,”Commission ChairmanPaulo Pinheiro told re-porters in Geneva.“In gov-ernment-held areas, indis-criminate ground shelling(by) armed groups ... is alsokilling scores of civilians,”he added.

By Dorian Bryan

ALMOST like a child look-ing for a toy to kick aroundwe have moved on to thenext hot topic issue - theproposed Hyatt Regencyhotel, which is slated forLower Bay Street.

I expected this from thetime that the proposed de-velopment was announced… opposition would beforthcoming and as usualI was right.As a student ofpolitics and social devel-opment, anytime there isa significant developmentproposed which will sig-nificantly change the tra-jectory of the landscape ofany area, we always seewhat can be best termedas the structured outcryfrom some sectors of ourcommunity.

First the obvious. It isstunning that given thereality that the CarlisleBay area, which ironicallyincludes the area whereproposed developmentwas captured in the initialSpecial Development leg-islation, that there is pro-vision for tourism-relateddevelopments. I deal withfacts and I hope that itacts as a wake up call tothose who refuse to thinkbefore they form opinionson the developments onthis island.

Now, the stark reality.The recent Budget debateshowed that this island isin a financial situationwhich requires making itattractive to sustained for-eign direct investment.This would primarilyfocus on tourism develop-

ment of hotels andtourism attractions as wecontinue to enhance andevolve our tourism prod-uct. First Sandals, nowHyatt should indicate thatmajor brands seeBarbados as an attractivelocation for developmentof hotels.

So we need to be seri-ous. From Crane in thesouth-east, to Sandals inthe South, Hyatt in thesouth-west, Four Seasons,Beachlands and Almondon the west coast - theblueprint is there for cap-ital inflows. This placesthe Town and CountryPlanning Department ina critical location at thecentre of this process.ThePrime Minister, as theMinister who holds thisportfolio then assumes acrucial role coupled withhis role as Minister re-sponsible for UrbanDevelopment.

So yet again, we hearabout these portents of‘doom and gloom’ andthese suggestions that de-velopment will change thequalities of urbanBarbados, which appar-ently are under threat. Iget really annoyed when Istart hearing this increas-ingly frequent line of talkwhich seeks to invade theprocess.

Bridgetown as a capitalcity, has an impressiveblend of modern and otherbuildings which maintainour historic building tradi-tions. So when I hear thatHyatt being 15 levels highwill be higher than theTom Adams Financial

Building, it makes me re-member the same argu-ment was made regardingthe re-development ofKensington Oval and thenew 3Ws Stand. Manypushed the notion that thenew Kensington Oval,wasnot necessary and fast for-ward eight years later, it iswidely regarded as one ofthe most impressivestands in world cricket.What would have hap-pened if naysayers hadprevailed?

During the course of his-tory, those with visionhave had to persevere inorder for this island to ad-vance. Drive through BayStreet and approach thetraffic lights by theRoman Catholic Churchat night.Windows have tobe rolled up and doorslocked because the arealooks deserted at night.Most of the buildings areeither abandoned or lookin a state of disrepair, so tothose who are opposed tothis development on thisfront, what are the alter-natives? Are they pre-pared to actually spendmoney to enact some de-velopment to change thelandscape for the better?

We often hear that fallback that access to thebeach could be compro-mised. It is same templatewhich seeks to divide usby class and creed.The un-derlying suggestion is thatthe wealthy will somehowbuy beach access and pre-vent those of the lowerclasses from using some-thing which is normallyopen to them. Many per-

haps play the MightyGabby’s ‘Dah beach ismine, I cud bathe any-time’.We need to move be-yond this kind of thinkingwhich suggests that some-how those who managethe process of develop-ment are incapable of pro-tecting our interests.

So when I heard theconcern being raisedabout the potential threatto our UNESCO inscrip-tion of HistoricBridgetown and itsGarrison, I was proactive.I looked at the initial in-scription and found thatthe protection of it is cov-ered in the Town andCountry Planning Act,supported by the PhysicalDevelopment PlanAmended (2003). It wasalso stated that Cabinetholds ultimate responsi-bility for the managementof the property and to thisend a Barbados WorldHeritage Committee hasbeen established since2011 with the Chief TownPlanner being identifiedas the Site Manager re-garding day-to-day con-cerns related to the urbandevelopment plan andplanning permission re-garding the area. So bylaw, no development canbe done in secret.

I am not surprised atthe rising temperature onthis issue. The award ofthe UNESCO inscriptiondoes not preclude develop-ment which can enhancethe space. What nonsenseto suggest otherwise butthen again -nothing sur-prises me anymore.

Development pains!

Suspected Aleppo chlorine attack chokes dozens

‘For the cause that lacks assistance, ’Gainst the wrongs that need resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do’


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Take care with health choices

“The truth came in flesh but still youdon’t believe/The best thing you know isthe spots to find weed/Get the knowl-edge dungarees, we still struggling.” –(Sunz of Man, Cold)

In her timely book The War on Cops,Heather Mac Donald speaks to “theFerguson effect” which argues that theincrease in homicides in cities post-Ferguson is directly related to the moveaway from proactive policing (nowbranded as racist) to a more reactivebrand of law enforcement. Indeed, thereseems to be more emphasis on creating“safe spaces” on college campuses thanon American streets. In her book, an of-ficer described the sentiments of fellowofficers: “Guys and gals in coffee shopsare saying to each other: ‘If you get outof your car, you’re crazy, unless there’s aradio call.’” Data released by the MajorCities Chiefs Association reveals thatcompared with the same period from ayear ago, homicides have risen 15 per-cent in fifty-one major cities. Chicago isone of two cities accounting for over half

of the increase.With four months to go, “Chiraq” has

already surpassed its 2015 total for thenumber of shooting deaths and peopleare using terms like “national emer-gency” and “total carnage.” In an inter-view with Mac Donald, one Chicago res-ident said, “I’ve been in Chicago all mylife. It’s never been this bad. Mothersand grandchildren are scared to comeout on their porch; if you see more thanfive or six niggas walking together, yougotta run.” The elites would probablybrand her as being guilty of racial profil-ing but truth be told, she knows what’sup and is not about to by killed by polit-ical correctness. Indeed, the political cor-rectness of the elite, stemming fromwrong-headed theories will get many ofus killed.

In Intellectuals and Society, ThomasSowell describes the gap between whathe calls “the vision of the anointed” andthe beliefs and concerns of the generalpopulation. He says, “Peer consensus in-side the sealed bubble of their vision canbe enough to prevent the intrusion of

facts from outside.” Adding, “Even themost blatant facts can be sidestepped bysaying that the causes of crime are too“complex” to be covered by a “simplistic”explanation.”A Chicago law enforcementofficial said homicides are primarilycommitted by people “who do not fear theconsequences of their actions.” Why youask? Well, look no further than Googlefor Theodore Dalrymple’s essay, HowCriminologists Foster Crime (CityJournal, Autumn 1999).

It is amazing how the elites pollutepopular culture with their “insights” andare nowhere to be found when the con-sequences are being paid, increasinglywith the blood of our young men.True foryou but not true for me they said.Traditional family structures and val-ues are oppressive patriarchal social con-structs they said. God is dead and freewill is an illusion they said. Don’t “forceyour morality” or “judge” they said.Truthbe told, the root cause of all crimes, thoseagainst our fellowman and God, arerooted in our sinful heart. A heart thatThe Roots described on How I Got Over,

“Out on the streets, where I grewup/First thing they teach us is not togive a ----.” The bottom line, was putbluntly by Deck on The City: “We stayhungry for money drugs and guns.”

But you had better not utter a word,lest you be lectured for “judging.” Youhad better sit by quietly and not “force”common decency or respect. The eliteshave reassured us that we will be betteroff, perhaps in the long run, for havingabandoned old-fashioned concepts likesin, evil and an objective, moral code.Truth be told they don’t have a clue.Dallas Willard does, and as he remindsus in, The Divine Conspiracy, “Even themoral disasters will be received by Godas they come to rely on Jesus, count onhim, and make him their companion inhis kingdom. Murderers and child-mo-lesters.The brutal and the bigoted. Druglords and pornographers.”You see, at theend of the day, and the age, the only safespace available will be in Christ. Andeven if we die, we die unto Him.

ADRIAN SOBERS

QUOTES FOR TODAY WORDS OFWISDOM

Suzanne Necker (née Curchod)(1739 - 1794)

French salonist & writer

Tom Robbins(1936 - )

US novelistJesus replied, “Anyone wholoves me will obey my teach-ing. My Father will love them,and we will come to them andmake our home with them.

John 14:23 NIV

“Fortune does not change men, itunmasks them.”

“Humanity has advanced,when it has advanced, not be-cause it has been sober, re-sponsible, and cautious, butbecause it has been playful,rebellious, and immature.”

They always talk whonever think.


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LET GODSPEAK TO US

CARICOM and its forerunner Cariftawere created as an essential part of theregion’s future.The federation which ac-tually lived for a while was a great idea,while the smaller one proposed in itsplace was stillborn. Both failed becauseour politicians were not prepared to giveup individual power for a greater re-gional good. Realistically one wouldthink that small territorial specks in theocean, with populations smaller thansome towns in USA, might see the ben-efit of presenting a united front to thewider world.

So we settled for an economic unionwhich allowed us each to hang on to ourprime ministers, and presidents; to setup costly diplomatic outposts throughoutthe world. But have we done enougheven with this limited vision? This writerwell recalls the dream of Guyana beingthe region’s breadbasket. After all, itsvast and rich landmass lends itself toagricultural production which could sat-isfy the needs of the region and beyond.Have we done enough through Caricomto rationalise areas of production? Itwould not be fair to suggest that nothing

has been done for this region. Surely wecan boast of the Regional SecuritySystem, and other areas of co-operationcreated for our collective benefit.Unfortunately having set up theCaribbean Court of Justice, only threemember countries find it satisfactory inits appellate jurisdiction. Most preferthe Privy Council.

Our reputation and strength as na-tion states could have been so muchmore solid had we acted together onmore issues. Certainly the ShipriderAgreement signed with the USA in thenineties would have impacted less onour sovereignty had we presented aunited front. Apart from Arthur’sBarbados and Patterson’s Jamaica,Caricom countries were quite happy togive USA excessive rights within theirwaters. After the signings, at least oneleader expressed regret. Alas too late.Another expounded the virtue of “limitedsovereignty”, a concept championed ear-lier by Soviet supremo Brezhnev, as hekept Eastern and Central Europe incheck. Barbados and Jamaica got anamended agreement.

A few years ago, some Caribbean ter-ritories tentatively sought to extract alevy from liners cruising quite profitablyin our waters. Some were interested, oth-ers were nervous about losing port calls.A unified stand could have given theseterritories a stronger negotiating posi-tion.

The concessions granted by Barbadosto a large hotel chain inevitably createda great stir. The power of this brand,coupled with the weak negotiating posi-tion of a government desperate for for-eign investment, set off ripples in localhotel circles. The potential tax intakefrom this one operator was lost to thetreasury for an inordinately long time.Unsurprisingly, the other hotels whichhad been with us in good times and badwanted the same goodies. And why not?

Nor does the loss to the country endwith reduced revenue. To the debit sidehas to be added the loss of business forsectors such as agriculture and manufac-turing which should be benefiting fromthe hotel orders. Surely low or no dutymakes importing more attractive. Thefurniture industry has recently cited this

development as a reason for closures.Many will consider the government’s

decision as a necessary evil. Meanwhileit was revealed that the government ofAntigua is locked in battle with thissame chain over concessions granted bythe previous administration.Governments of small, weak economiesfeel unable to forego these large invest-ments as they struggle to keep theirtourism industry afloat. They wouldhave rationalised that they could losethe proposed investment to competingterritories.That is where true solidaritycould make a difference.A joint regionalresponse would give these governmentsmore leverage in negotiating with suchan investor. For it is highly unlikely thata hotel chain seeking expansion in a spe-cific geographical area woud cancel suchplans because they did not get every-thing they craved.

The small size of each individual na-tion in the Caribbean renders it ab-solutely necessary for us to act together.United we stand, divided we fall.

ROOSEVELT BROME

True solidarity could make a difference

On ‘safe spaces’

MemberS of the Barba-dos Association of Fu-ture Office Professio-nals (BAFOP) are nowmore versed on busi-ness etiquette, thanksto the training by theirparent body, BarbadosAssociation of OfficeProfessionals.

BAFOP is an Associa-tion geared towards busi-ness oriented persons,both male and female, be-tween the ages of 15 and25. The Association meetevery fourth Saturday ofthe month.

Two workshops wereheld – the first day,a work-shop convened on Satur-day, July 30, 2016, at theGoddards Training Roomand was facilitated by Ka-ren Carter, Assistant Se-cretary/Treasurer on theBAOP Board of Directors.

The second session was

a full day workshop withtheory and practical ses-sions, held on Saturday,August 27,2016. The facil-itators were Sandra Grif-fith-Carrington, BAOPChairperson charged withresponsibility for the jun-ior arm and the UWICampus Officer forAlumni Relations; andHarriette Rowe, memberof BAOP and employee atDivi Southwinds BeachHotel.

The sessions covered“Etiquette at BusinessFunctions, Introductions”– What to do when intro-duced;and the importanceof eye contact and firmhandshakes; dining eti-quette, especially at an in-terview or business func-tion.

Griffith-Carrington saidthat such a workshop wascritical to teaching the

youth vital social skills,particularly since someparticipants were not ex-posed to fine dining. Shenoted that the partici-pants at the workshopranged from 15-24, withthe majority between theages of 16 and 17.

Thanks to Alvin Jem-mott and the managementand staff at Pure OceanRestaurant, who made itpossible for the partici-pants to participate inpractical exercises in eti-quette, with a three coursemeal at a reduced rate, fol-lowing the theoretical ses-sion.

Next month, as part ofthe training session, theyouth would be engaged inProfessional Ethics &Social Graces, geared toexposing them to the ex-pected standard of behav-iour when employed.


TWO students of the Uni-versity of Ontario Instituteof Technology (UOIT),have benefited from asummer internship withthe Barbados based finan-cial-technology firm, BittInc.

“When we first saw thisopportunity through ouruniversity, we knew itwould be fitting to apply,asit would solidify our skills,broaden our views, andallow us to pursue a veryinteresting and relevanttopic,” said studentsMurad Wancho andDakota Chodan.

Both undergraduatecommerce pupils, concen-trating in finance andmarketing, the duo spentthree months attached toBitt Inc.

“Up to this point,we hadnever travelled alone, sothe amount of developingwe experienced was phe-nomenal. Three monthsabroad really brought anew perspective, andhelped us expand relation-ships, as well as createnew life experiences,” theysummarised.

Bitt currently employsjust under 40 profession-als, and while still a start-up, has benefited from in-ternational funding andrecognition.Bitt’s Founder,Gabriel Abed, is a gradu-ate of UOIT.

“Due to the start-up na-ture of Bitt,we were fortu-nate enough to be able towork with other depart-ments other than our own,and witness the ever-

changing dynamic,” theysaid, adding that a majorhighlight of their experi-ence was the opportunityto attend formal confer-ences and business events,such as the Annual Cen-tral Bank Conference,andthe 2016 Barbados BudgetReview.

“Being within a corpo-rate environment helpedus develop in ways we did-n’t think it could.We beganto truly understand theimportance of team-work,patience, trust and com-munication,” they said.

Murad’s aim is to enterlaw school and eventuallypractice corporate law,while Dakota sees himselfbeing in corporate financeand one day owning hisown business.

Canadian students benefitfrom internship with Bitt Inc.

Bitt interns (left to right), Dakota Chodan and Murad Wancho.

BAFOP membersattend training sessions

Facilitators, standing, 3rd and 4th from left, Sandra Griffith-Carrington andHarriette Rowe, with participants. Seated left-right: Jane Small; Ria Burgess, President-Elect; Leah Thorne-Carrington; Amirah Cordice; Keanna Sealy, and Breanne Nanton, all from BAFOP.Standing: Keisha Blanche; Sherrol Gaskin, Recording Secretary, BAOP Board ofDirectors; Sandra Griffith-Carrington; Harriette Rowe; Anne McConney, BAOP;Winnie Watson, BAOP; Kerrie-Ann King; Dania Archer, BAOP/BCC ScholarshipWinner and Diatri Medford, BAOP.

SHOWROOMS from BackPage

a distribution store inthe City, to display the var-ious unit possibilities to po-tential buyers.

“The housing develop-ment at the Grotto is going

smoothly,” he assured.Reminding persons that

it was critical for the NHCto improve its cash flow inorder to provide housingfor poor people in thiscountry, the minister saidthis latest move wouldhelp to reduce the large

deficit.“While there is a lot of

criticism, in economictimes like these you cannotrush and go and do thingsthat you should not do andthen repent later.You haveto always ensure that youmake the right decision.”

Move to help reduce NHC deficit


By Patricia Thangaraj

THE Universal PeaceFederation continuesits work towardsbuilding a highwayconnecting variousneighbouring coun-tries and continents.

The Secretary Generalof the Universal PeaceFederation of Barbados,Gail Veith, said that thehighway is meant to actas a catalyst beyond theboundaries of race, na-tionality and religion,and would serve as amodern day Silk Road.

Two of the advantagesof this highway are thatpersons travelling alongit would not need visas toenter a country, and itwould also enable poorercountries to benefit fromthe resources of richernations.

Gary Veith, who is alsoa part of this Federation,which is a non-Govern-mental organisation(NGO) in consultativestatus with the Economic

and Social Council of theUnited Nations (UN),said that the idea wasfirst proposed in 1981,and there tunnels be-tween individual coun-tries, such as Englandand France.

One has alreadystarted from Japan toKorea, while Spain andMorocco have alreadyagreed to build a tunnelacross the mouth of theMediterranean, all in aneffort to enhance tradeand to build peace.

Walk for peaceAs for other projects

that they are involved in,Gail said that they part-ner with any group thatis committed towardsworking for peace, andthis is why they linked upwith Hope TransplantInternational and theLions and Leos Clubs of

Barbados, with the goalof making “one familyunder God”.

She said that one oftheir initiatives world-wide is this Walk forPeace, which more than100 countries across theworld would be partici-pating in within their re-spective nations.

Along this front, she en-couraged any group thatis committed to the samepurpose as their Fede-ration to come out andwalk with them onSeptember 17th.

The walkers are all en-couraged to wear white,which is a symbolic colourfor peace, and make andcarry signs that would in-dicate what steps theywould personally take inorder to bring aboutpeace in this world.

They would assemblyat Jubilee Gardens at

9:00 a.m., and then pro-ceed along their walk,which would end inIndependence Square,with various Ministers ofGovernment (MPs) andheads of different organ-isations addressing thosegathered.

Gary added that work-ing together for peacemust continue after thiswalk is held.

“We are encouraging allorganisations, groups andindividuals who are con-cerned about peace tocome out and supportthis. Let us work to-gether, even beyond thiswalk.

“And then amongst our-selves are people and or-ganisations with differ-ent expertise, differentideas (and) different ex-periences, and if we worktogether and put theseideas together, then wecan bring about substan-tial peace in reality herein Barbados,”Gary Veithstated.

Work on highway for peacecontinues around the world

Expected to serve as a modernday Silk Road

TRINIDADIAN con-glomerate ANSA McALsays it is moving to ac-quire two new compa-nies in Barbados,nearly eight monthsafter it lost in its effortto buy out the brewerycompany, BanksHoldings Limited(BHL).

President and ChiefExecutive Officer of ANSAMcAL Barbados Limited,Nicholas Mouttet, saidthat while in the past 20months the conglomeratehad opened three stores it

was continuing to look foropportunities to invest inBarbados.

“In fact, I can’t give thedetails and to the reportershere,please don’t ask...butwe are currently in negoti-ations right now to acquiretwo other Barbadian com-panies, which in itself rep-resent significant invest-ment again in Barbados,”Mouttet said at the open-ing of the group’s latest ad-dition—the Sissons Paintshop at Wildey, StMichael.

Mouttet declined to give

further details out of fearthat the deals could becompromised.

“And while in a conglom-erate environment there isalways a lot of buying andselling,as you would knowa few months ago we men-tioned our intention to sellTrimart(Supermarket)...and theTrimart sale we expect toclose in the coming weeks,”he added.

The online publication,Barbados TODAY re-ported yesterday that itunderstood that if all went

according to plan, the ac-quisition of the two un-named companies could befinalised by the end ofOctober this year.

The ANSA group of com-panies owns a number ofoperations and big brandsin a range of sectors inBarbados, including auto-motive,distribution, finan-cial services, retail andservices.

It is also involved intechnology, manufactur-ing, media, beverage andreal estate across its othermarkets.

The ANSA McAL group,which is the majorityshareholder of GuardianMedia Ltd, comprises over60 companies throughoutthe Caribbean and the US,employing over 6 000 peo-ple. It generated revenuesof $6.1 billion and profitbefore tax above TT$ 1 bil-lion as of December 31,2015.

Mouttet told the retailstore opening that sincethe investment inStandard Distributors inBarbados about 55 yearsago by the ANSA McALgroup, the company con-tinued to invest heavilyhere.

“It is our second largestgeography in terms of ourinvestment in the region.It is extremely importantto us and we continue toinvest for decades,” hesaid.

Pointing to the com-pany’s commitment to theisland, Mouttet said while“times are hard” inBarbados and some com-panies had not been able toexpand in recent times, theANSA McAL group of com-panies had been able toopen three retail stores inthe last 20 months.

One, he said, was the 10000 square foot furnitureand appliance Standardretail store in Wildey,which was opened just

over one year and eightmoths ago.

“Four months ago weopened up anotherStandard store inBridgetown in NormanCentre, and then today weare here to celebrate theopening of the first SissonsPaint shop...in Barbadosand a re-entry of ANSACoatings, which is theowner of the Sissonsbrand,” he explained.

“So three stores in 20months, and we continueto look for opportunities toinvest in Barbados,”Mouttet said.

Deputy PermanentSecretary in the Ministryof Industry, InternationalBusiness, Commerce andSmall BusinessDevelopment Sonia Fostersaid the investment in thenew shop represented thecompany’s confidence inthe Barbados economy.

“The benefits will notonly be found in the cre-ation of jobs, but the en-hanced value as well asthe product offerings in theWildey area,” Foster said.

“This and other enter-prises which have recentlyopened their doors,provideencouragement to othersuch entities looking to in-vest in Barbados and senda message that Barbadosis indeed open for busi-ness,” she said.


BANK RATESCommercial bank rates to the public at the close ofbusiness on Tuesday by the Central Bank of Barbados.

Valid for September 7, 2016

Telegraphic TransfersCurrency Buying SellingEuro 2.24104 2.28306 Pound Sterling £ 2.67473 2.72488 Canadian $ 1.54918 1.58159United States $ 1.99375 2.02768Guyana $ 0.00975 0.00981East Caribbean $ 0.73843 0.74306Belizean $ 0.99688 1.00313Demand/Sight:Currency Buying SellingEuro 2.23683 2.28306 Pound Sterling £ 2.66971 2.72488 Canadian $ 1.54626 1.58159 United States $ 1.99000 2.02768Guyana $ 0.00975 0.00981East Caribbean $ 0.73843 0.74306Belizean $ 0.99688 1.00313Notes:Currency Buying SellingEuro 2.20449 2.29731Pound Sterling £ 2.63110 2.74190 Canadian $ 1.53750 1.58298 United States $ 1.98000 2.02857East Caribbean $ 0.73704 0.74445Belizean $ 1.00000 1.00000

INDICATIVE RATES FOR SOME REGIONALCURRENCIES AS ADVISED BY THE

RESPECTIVE CENTRAL BANKSN.B.: These rates are not meant to be used for trading.

BDS$Guyana $ 0.00978Jamaica $ 0.01575Trinidad & Tobago $ 0.30136

ANSA McAL looking to invest in Barbados


DUBAI - Saudi Arabia’stop sovereign wealth fundis negotiating to buy astake in one of the king-dom’s most ambitious realestate projects as Riyadhrestructures the economyto cope with low oil prices,a source familiar with theplan said.

The Public InvestmentFund aims to invest inKing Abdullah EconomicCity (KAEC) on the RedSea coast near Jeddah, thesource said.

That would inject capi-tal into the business zone,now being developed byEmaar the Economic City(EEC) 4220.SE, a Saudiconsortium affiliated withDubai’s Emaar PropertiesGroup EMAR.DU, devel-oper of the Burj Khalifa,the world’s tallest build-ing.

Launched in 2005,KAEC had a population ofonly about 5 000 peopleand 120 industrial tenantsat the end of last year, butsays it plans to growswiftly into a full-blownmetropolis.

The chief executive ofthe city, Fahd Al Rasheed,told Reuters in Januaryits population was pro-jected to hit 50 000 by2020, with an ultimatetarget of 2 million around2035.

Tenants now includeFrench pharmaceuticalmaker Sanofi (SASY.PA),a venture involving U.S.battery maker JohnsonControls (JCI.N) and pro-ducers of building materi-als.

But with economicgrowth slowing sharplybecause of cheap oil, thegovernment wants suchzones to expand muchfaster and focus more onindustries such astourism, medical care andeducation to diversify theeconomy beyond oil andcreate jobs.

Under economic reformsannounced in April, thegovernment said it wouldwork with companies de-veloping major businesszones to “revamp” them;KAEC may be the first of

those cases.“What they can do is in-

ject cash. It s no secretKAEC needs a lot of eq-uity for this project,” thesource said of the PIF’splan. KAEC, EEC and thePIF declined to comment.

The source, speaking oncondition of anonymity be-cause the matter is not yetpublic, said the PIF couldeither buy a stake directlyin KAEC and serve as apartner to develop theproject along with EEC, ortake a stake in EEC itself.

EEC obtained a 5 billionriyal ($1.33 billion) loanfrom the Saudi Ministryof Finance in 2011, whichhas been extended until2026, and the source saidthe company had a similaramount of debt to com-mercial banks.

MASTERCARD Inc saidit signed a deal withPayPal Holdings Inc thatwill allow customers touse PayPal's paymentservices in stores.

PayPal's partnershipwith MasterCard followsa similar deal with VisaInc in July as the com-pany looks to expand itspayments network.

The partnership withMasterCard was first re-ported by the Wall Street

Journal.PayPal will allow users

to select a credit or debitcard as the default pay-ment method and sharedata on transactionsmade throughMasterCard's tap-and-pay feature, according tothe Journal.

PayPal, which spun offfrom e-commerce com-pany eBay Inc last year,has focused on aggressivegrowth.

The company's revenuein the second quarter rosemore than 15 percent to$2.65 billion from a yearearlier and the volume ofpayments it processesjumped 28 percent to$86.21 billion.

PayPal is also in discus-sions with banks thatissue cards, to explorenew products and part-nerships, the Journal re-port said, citing people fa-miliar with the matter.

GERMAN pharmaceu-tical and crop chemi-cals manufacturerBayer AG says talkswith Monsanto Cohave advanced and itis now willing to offermore than $65 billion,a 2 percent increaseon its previous offerfor the world’s largestseeds company.

“Both sides are gradu-ally nearing consensus,”one person familiar withthe matter said.

Monsanto has alsoagreed to open its booksfor Bayer to conduct duediligence checks on thecompany’s business, twosources close to the mat-ter said.

Bayer’s previous offerwas already the largestall-cash takeover bid onrecord with a deal withMonsanto aimed at giv-ing the German companya shot at grabbing the topspot in the fast-consoli-dating farm supplies in-dustry, combining itscrop science businesswith Monsanto’sstrength in seeds.

Bayer now says it isprepared to offer $127.50per share in a negotiateddeal, up from its previousoffer of $125 per share.

But German dailynewspaper RheinischePost also reported late onMonday that an offer of$130 per share may benecessary to get a dealwith Monsanto “in a swiftand friendly way.”

Bayer was still consid-ering all options regard-ing Monsanto, includingstriking a friendly deal,making a hostile bid orpulling its offer, a personfamiliar with the mattertold Reuters.

Bayer’s shares weredown 0.25 percent at 94euros by 0934 GMT onTuesday. Monsanto’sshares last traded at

$107.44 and analysts atbrokerage Equinet saidBayer has now effectivelycapped its Monsanto bid.

“We infer from Bayer’sstatement that failure toagree a deal at$127.50/share couldimply a risk to Monsantoshareholders of either ahostile bid at a lesserconsideration, or no dealat all,” they said in anote.

Analysts from BaaderHelvea disagreed. “Westill expect a bid pershare in the $130-135range before Monsantocomes to the table. Assuch, we continue see theBayer shares remainingunder pressure as the ne-gotiations continue,” theysaid in a note.

In a brief statement,Monsanto said onMonday it had been en-gaged in “constructive”negotiations with Bayer,during which it receivedthe updated non-bindingproposal of $127.50 pershare in cash.

The Saint Louis-basedcompany added that itwas continuing theseconversations as it evalu-ated Bayer’s offer, as wellas proposals from otherparties it did not name. Itcautioned that there wasno certainty that anydeal would occur.

Some Bayer sharehold-ers, however, continue tocriticize the proposedmerger, saying it wouldincrease Bayer’s expo-sure to agriculture at theexpense of its pharma-ceutical business.

“We knew that Bayerwould have to bid higherand this offer is probablygetting closer to succeed-ing, but it doesn’t changeour view that it presentssignificant risks to share-holders,” said GregHerbert, co-manager ofthe Jupiter Global

Equity Income Fund.“The company will be

left with a highly gearedbalance sheet and themanagement effort to in-tegrate the two busi-nesses could easily leadto the larger pharmaceu-tical business being neg-lected.”

John Bennett of fundmanager Henderson saidthat he opposed the re-vised offer.

“Bayer have backedthemselves into a corner,”he said in emailed com-ments. “The moneywould have been betterspent buying their ownstock. Alas, for share-holders, it was not to be.”

In July, Bayer raisedits earlier offer of $122per share to $125 to putMonsanto under pres-sure to engage further.

Monsanto subse-quently turned down the$125 offer, but said it wasopen to further talkswith the German com-pany, as well as otherparties.

Press reported lastmonth that Monsanto’stalks with Bayer weremaking progress, withthe latter receiving somelimited access to Bayer’sbooks.

Since then, negotia-tions have advanced fur-ther, with more informa-tion exchanged betweenthe two sides and thechief executives of thetwo companies engagingin direct discussions, ac-cording to people famil-iar with the matter, whoasked not to be identifiedbecause of the confiden-tiality of the talks.

However, while the twocompanies are close toreaching an agreementon price, they have yet toagree on a strategy onhow to jointly tackle po-tential antitrust chal-lenges, the people said.

Bayer sweetensMonsanto bid as talksenter final stretch

Saudi state fund plansstake in big industrial zone

PayPal, MasterCard reachdeal for store payments

The goal is to diversify Saudi Arabia beyond oil.

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MONTEGO BAY,Jamaica – Jamaica istrying to cash in on themulti-billion-dollarhealth and wellnesstourism sector thatseveral Caribbeancountries are turning toin order to boost visitornumbers, but it won’tbe traditional medicineit plans to use to reacha high in touristarrivals.

Minister of TourismEdmund Bartlett saidJamaica’s lush and rusticsouthwestern coast isideally suited for theconcept of “cannabis-infused tourism” whereproducts made from theherb would play a majorpart in the tourism sector.

Health and wellnesstourism has beenidentified as one of the keyareas of focus under theministry’s plan to growvisitor arrivals to fivemillion annually,generating earnings ofUS$5 billion by 2021.

Speaking at CanexJamaica, the firstcannabis-centredconference on the businesspotential of the marijuanatrade, Minister Bartlettsaid he recognised “howthe cannabis product andits application could fitneatly in a network ofhealth and wellness thatcould drive a newdemographic into Jamaicawith a higher spend andwhich will be able toestablish us as adestination with adifference.”

The Tourism Ministersaid Jamaica should not bea destination with only all-inclusive properties andmass tourism: “We believethat we can do productdifferentiation and we cando a level of productdiversification whichenables us to be attractiveto all demographics.”

An element of that,Bartlett added,was “rusticluxury” which combinednature with the benefit ofa luxurious lifestyle,whileenabling the utilisation of“the nutraceutical valuesof the rich biodiversity ofyour neighbourhood.”

He said the globalmarket for that kind of tourism stands ataround US$494 billion and Jamaica wants a pieceof it.

“What we’ve found alsois that cannabis-infusedexperiences have addedmuch to health andwellness across the UnitedStates,” the Ministeradded, citing the US stateof Colorado wherebookings increased by over175 per cent when itentered that market, andAmsterdam which has alsobenefitted tremendously.

He said the Health and

Wellness Network that hehas established in theTourism Ministry hadbeen tasked with definingthe policy that will providethe framework withinwhich the cannabis-infused health andwellness experience willbecome a reality inJamaica.

“And we’re going to havea full roll-out of that by theend of 2017,” Bartlettdisclosed.

In an invitation tomarijuana growers andprospective investors atthe conference, theminister urged them to

examine “how you canwork with me to drive thisnew experience and to

invest in the prosperityagenda that the countryhas.”


BASSETERRE, St. Kitts– Prime Minister Dr.Timonthy Harris hasstarted legal actionagainst OppositionLeader Dr. DenzilDouglas and a local radiostation for what he sayswere “false, malicious andlibellous” allegationsmade against him.

The action relates to astatement which Dr.Douglas made onFreedom FM 106.5 radiolast Friday afternoon,regarding threats beingmade against his life onthe popular social media

network Facebook.In addition to airing the

former prime minister’sstatement, Dr. Harrissaid, Freedom FM 106.5published it on itsFacebook page.

“As soon as theoffending publicationswere brought to hisattention, the PrimeMinister immediatelyengaged Thomas W.R.Astaphan QC in thematter, and after Queen’sCounsel communicatedwith Freedom FM106.5… the offendingposts were removed from

its Facebook page,” astatement from Harrissaid.

“The Prime Minister’sCounsel has commencedlegal action against bothFreedom FM 106.5 andDr. Douglas for thepublications of thesefalse, malicious andlibellous allegations.Justice will now take its

course,” it added.Dr. Douglas has been

calling for protest actionagainst how the 18-month-oldadministration of PrimeMinister Harris ismanaging the twin-islandfederation, as well as thecrime situation and thedeterioration ofhealthcare services.

Jamaica hoping to get a high from Cannabis tourism

Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett, right, meets with Edi Wray, first man and head of the Rastafari Indigenous village at Irwin inMontego Bay, after addressing Canex Jamica, the island’s first cannabis-centred conference on the business potential of themarijuanatrade. Listening attentively is Mitzie Williams.

SENIOR Medical Officerat the Department ofPublic Health Dr.Merciana Moxey said that50 of the 83 suspectedcases of Zika in TheBahamas came backnegative after beingtested.

Moxey told GuardianBusiness yesterday thatthe results of theremaining 33 cases arestill pending.

Health officials havepreviously stated that ofthe 83 suspected casesfound throughout TheBahamas, eight arepregnant women.

Meanwhile, TheBahamas has eightconfirmed cases of Zika.

The first case wasreported on August 10.

Blood samples are beingtaken from personssuspected to have beenexposed to Zika and sentfor testing to theCaribbean Public HealthAgency (CARPHA), inPort-of-Spain, Trinidadand Tobago.

Executive Director ofCARPHA JamesHospedales said in a pressstatement that samplesmust be taken and sent to

the agency no more thanfive days from the onset ofthe first sign and/orsymptom.

He explained thatbecause CARPHA usesreverse transcriptionpolymerase chain reaction(molecular) tests forlaboratory confirmation ofthe Zika virus infection,samples collected, sentand received after the five-day period may not bevalid for testing.

CARPHA is one of onlytwo laboratories in theEnglish-speakingCaribbean that has thetechnical capacity toaccurately test for the Zikavirus.

Local transmission ofthe Zika virus has beenreported in 45 Caribbeanand Latin Americanstates, with almost allCARPHA member stateshaving confirmed cases.

Zika virus is primarilytransmitted by the bite ofan infected Aedes aegyptimosquito.

It can also betransmitted throughunprotected sex and frommother to baby duringpregnancy, or around thebirth.

50 of 83 suspectedZika cases negative,33 outstanding

St. Kitts PrimeMinister andOpposition Leaderto battle in court

Prime Minister Dr. Timonthy Harris has started legalaction against Opposition Leader Dr. Denzil Douglas


CUBA’S Communistgovernment is filteringmobile phone text messagesfor key words such as“democracy” and “humanrights” and then blockingthem, dissidents said onMonday.

An investigative report byblogger Yoani Sanchez andjournalist Reinaldo Escobarconcluded that text messagesfailed to reach their destinationsif they contained Spanish wordsfor democracy, human rights orhunger strike, among others, aswell as the names of somedissidents.

Eliecer Avila, head ofopposition youth group SomosMas, which participated in theinvestigation, said 30 key wordsthat triggered the blocking hadbeen identified but there could

be more.“We always thought texts were

vanishing because the provideris so incompetent, then wedecided to check using wordsthat bothered the government,”he said.

“We discovered not just us butthe entire country is beingcensored,”he said.“It just showshow insecure and paranoid thegovernment is.”

It was not clear for how longthe filter had been in place.

State telecommunicationsmonopoly ETECSA could not bereached for comment.

Cuba has repeatedly chargedthat the United States wants touse telecommunications tosubvert the government andbrands Sanchez and otheropponents as mercenariesworking with Washington.

Reuters on Mondayunsuccessfully tried to sendmessages containing the words“democracy,” “human rights,”“Somos Mas”and Yoani Sanchez.Other messages containing theSpanish word for “protest” wentthrough. The messages that didnot reach their destinationsappeared as “sent” on the users’telephone.

Cuba arrived late to moderntelecommunications,authorisingmobile phones in 2008 and Wi-Fiinternet access only last year.Online, it blocks dissidentwebsites and media it believes tobe funded by the United States,but permits the websites ofcritical newspapers such as ElNuevo Herald and El Pais.

There currently are aboutthree million mobile telephoneaccounts with local provider

CubaCell, which is part ofETECSA.

Despite efforts by the Obamaadministration to link USinternet providers with thecountry as part of a detentebegun in December 2014,Cubanauthorities appear moreinterested in working withRussia on cyber-security, whileChina provides most of theCaribbean island’scommunications technology.

Experts estimate that between25 per cent and 30 per cent ofCuba’s 11.2 million residents hassome Internet access, mainlythrough Wi-Fi, though it issparsely used because of highrates.

Some five per cent of thepopulation enjoys home-basedInternet, which requires specialgovernment permission.

HAVANA, Cuba – A SilverAirways flight landed lastThursday morning at the AbelSantamaria InternationalAirport in Santa Clara, Cuba,opening a second UScommercial connection withCuba, following a JetBlueinaugural flight onWednesday, in what has beenthe resumption of directregular flights between theUS and Cuba since they werecancelled over 50 years ago.

Silver Airways CEO SamiTeittener was among thepassengers to land at theairport, where they werewelcomed by commercial andbusiness vice-director of theCuban Airport ServiceCompany (CACSA) RosaElena Nieves and by airportdirector Omar Andres Gil.

In statements to reporters,Teittener said this is the firsttime ever for a Silver Airwaysaircraft to have made acommercial flight to Cuba andnow those planes will becoming to Santa Clara threetimes a week.

Silver Airways expects toalso serve other Cubandestinations, includingeastern Camaguey andHolguin and also Cienfuegosin the south-central part ofthe island. Such flights willstart in October and, inNovember, Silver will fly toCayo Coco key, off the centralCuban coast, and Santiago deCuba, while in December thedestinations will includewestern Matanzas, easternManzanillo City and CayoLargo Key.

For the Silver CEO, Cuba isan emerging market withhuge opportunities fordevelopment over the nextfew years, given its touristpotential and the presence inthe US of a large CubanAmerican community.

WILLEMSTAD, Curacao – AMember of Parliament of theruling party in Curacao, PuebloSoberano (PS), Elmber Wilsoe,has resigned from parliamentafter a leaked document fromthe Investigation Co-operationTeam (RST) named Wilsoe asone of the suspects in the 2013 assassination of theisland’s political leader, HelminWiels.

An investigation is stillcontinuing into the intellectualauthors or those who gave

orders and paid for theassassination of the popularpolitician and former politicalleader of the biggest party onthe island. Wilsoe is named inthe leaked document as the onewho knew the exact location ofhis political leader.

On Saturday night during aPS meeting, Wilsoe indicatedthat on Monday he wouldpresent his resignation letterto the president of Parliament.He also indicated that he is notdoing this because he is guilty,

but that he has a conscience. “Iam a man of principle and Irespect the institution ofparliament. I am againsthaving suspects as Members ofParliament. This is why I willstep down and take the time toprepare myself for the battle,”said Wilsoe during his speech.

Wilsoe has now indicated hewill not resign fromparliament. Instead, he will notattend the parliamentmeetings until his case hasbeen resolved.

The MP is mentioned in aleaked document of theDetective Co-operation Team(RST), which indicates that hewas the last person who knewthe whereabouts of his politicalleader Helmin Wiels. He issuspected of being the personwho tipped the assassins on thewhereabouts of his politicalleader.

During a meeting at theparty headquarters lastSaturday,Wilsoe indicated thathe will resign from parliament.

“I did not do it, but I have aconscience and I must clear myname,” said Wilsoe to the partymembers.

On Monday, in a letter to thePresident of ParliamentMarcolino Franco, Wilsoeindicated that he will notresign, but said that he willstep back and will attend themeetings until his case hasbeen resolved. He will continueto receive his salary as MP,but will not be part of themeetings.

Curacao MP named as suspect in murder probe

Silver Airwaysopens secondUS commercialroute to Cuba

Cuba Gov’t filtering mobiletext messages, dissidents say

A man uses the Internet via public Wi-Fi in Havana, Cuba, September 5, 2016.


PARIS is to open its firstrefugee camp next month in re-sponse to asylum seekers livingin the city’s streets. Mayor AnneHidalgo said a camp to house400 men would be opened at asite in the north of the city inmid-October.A camp for womenand children, in the suburb ofIvry-sur-Seine, will follow bythe end of the year.

Meanwhile, a planned centrefor 200 asylum seekers inEssonne, 30km south-west ofParis, was set on fire overnight,investigators say.

Makeshift camps have ap-peared in public areas and

streets in Paris, before beingcleared by police. Hundreds ofpeople were dispersed in thecity hours before the latest an-nouncement.

The two camps will cost anestimated 6.5m euros(US$7.3m). They will provideshelter and medical care forasylum seekers for five to tendays.

The planned centre inEssonne, at Forges-les-Bains,was due to take in 90 people inOctober. A meeting on Mondayevening to discuss it was at-tended by protesters, accordingto French media, but dispersed

late in the evening.The fire wasreported to the authorities atabout 2:30 a.m. French policeare expected to launch an in-vestigation into the cause of theblaze.

Hidalgo said the fire was “adisgrace”.

“The people who did thisshould be utterly ashamed ofthemselves because if theythink this is the way we expressour country’s values thenthey’re quite wrong,” she said.

“It’s detestable, deplorableand criminal to act in this man-ner. I hope they’ll be found andpunished as appropriate.”

Paris to open refugee camp in October

HANGZHOU, China – PrimeMinister Shinzo Abe met withChinese President Xi Jinping onMonday evening on the sidelinesof a two-day summit of theGroup of 20 advanced andemerging economies inHangzhou, China.

In the first meeting betweenAbe and Xi in about one yearand five months, the two leadersagreed to work to bolster ties be-tween their two countries and topromote talks to expedite the es-tablishment of a “maritime andair liaison mechanism” to pre-vent unexpected clashes be-tween the Self-defence Forcesand Chinese forces.

At the opening of the bilateralmeeting, which lasted about 35minutes, Xi expressed his will-ingness to improve ties withJapan,saying that the two coun-tries should “bring their rela-tions back on the track of normaldevelopment as soon as possi-

ble”.The prime minister responded

that there were difficult prob-lems yet to be solved betweenJapan and China. But Abe alsosaid that he intends to better re-lations between the two coun-tries based on the idea of realis-ing a mutually beneficial rela-tionship founded on commonstrategic interests.

Chinese government vesselshave repeatedly intruded intoJapanese territorial waters nearthe Senkaku Islands in OkinawaPrefecture since August. Abesaid he deplores these activitiesand asserted that unusual ma-noeuvres of Chinese governmentvessels and navy ships could beconstrued as “unilateral actionthat escalates tension” in theEast China Sea.

He then called on China toshow self-restraint and takesteps to improve the situation inthe area.

Leaders of Japan, China towork on sea, air mechanism

LIBREVILLE, Gabon — TheEuropean Union observa-tion mission in Gabon saidyesterday it noted an anom-aly in voting results fromthe president’s strongholdprovince that pushed himover the edge to win re-elec-tion by a slim margin.

Election commission resultsshowed President Ali BongoOndimba beat opposition con-tender Jean Ping in Gabon’sAugust 27 presidential vote by1.57 percentage points. Clashesquickly broke out in this oil-richCentral African country afterthe results were announced lastweek, with opposition support-ers claiming fraud and burningbuildings and looting stores.

Ping on Friday declared him-self the rightful winner of thevote.

The EU observer commission

said in addition to not havingfull access to all districts withinBongo’s stronghold Haut-Ogooue province, voter turnoutthere appeared inflated.

According to the electoralcommission, there was a 99.93per cent turnout in that pro-vince, with 95 per cent voting infavour of Bongo.

The EU noted that such anumber means only 47 people inthe area wouldn’t have voted.

“An analysis of the number ofnon-voters and blank andspoiled ballots reveals an obvi-ous anomaly in the final re-sults,” it said, adding that confi-dence in the results is compro-mised.

Other provinces showed onaverage a 48 per cent voterturnout, it said.

“In order to restore the confi-dence of Gabon, I reiterate my

call on the Gabonese authori-ties to publish the poll results bypolling station,” said EU obser-vation chief Mariya Gabriel.

The opposition party mustlegally file any complaints by to-morrow, eight days after the an-nouncement of the results.

Post-election violence inGabon has killed between 50and 100 people, the oppositionpresidential candidate said yes-terday, a toll much higher thanthe government’s count of threein days of violent demonstra-tions against the president’s re-election.

International pressure isgrowing on Gabon’s governmentto show transparency in the voteresults, with French PrimeMinister Manuel Valls yester-day saying that “common sensewould command a recount of theballots”.

EU observers note anomaly inGabon voter turnout results

AUSTRIA’S government hasdrawn up a draft law that wouldprevent most migrants fromseeking asylum once the num-ber of applicants reaches 37 500.

Officials say the text of theproposed law was finalised yes-terday, but still has to undergo afour-week review period beforeit is put to a parliamentary voteby the centre-left government.

The text lists increased crime,

the dangers of Islamic radicali-sation, and overstretched insti-tutions as grounds for an auto-matic triggering of the law oncethe 37 500 limit is reached.

Parliamentary approval is ex-pected. Government statisticsshow nearly 29 000 people hadapplied for asylum in Austriathis year as of the end of July,about 8 000 fewer than duringthe same period last year.

Austrian draft law setslimit on asylum seekers

Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) told Japanese PrimeMinister, Shinzo Abe, that healthy relations between both coun-tries would benefit their citizens and also regional peace.

In this Thursday September 1, 2016 file photo, Gabonese Police stand guard on a barricade fol-lowing an election protest in Libreville, Gabon. Post election violence in Gabon has killed be-tween 50 and 100 people, the opposition presidential candidate said yesterday.


VIENTIANE, Laos – Philip-pines President Rodrigo Duterteis expressing regret after his ob-scenity-laden rant againstPresident Barack Obamaprompted the White House tocancel planned bilateral talksbetween the two leaders.

Duterte, who cursed Obamaas a “son of a b****” yesterday,said in a statement through hisspokesman that he regretted “itcame across as a personal at-tack on the US President”.

“We look forward to ironingout differences arising out of na-tional priorities and percep-tions,” the statement releasedyesterday read.

White House officials previ-ously said Obama would con-front Duterte about his coun-

try’s handling of drug dealers,including extrajudicial killings,which are government execu-tions without the benefit of judi-cial proceedings.

“Who does he think he is? Iam no American puppet. I amthe president of a sovereigncountry and I am not answer-able to anyone except theFilipino people,” Duterte scoffedin a speech on Monday. “Son ofa bitch, I will swear at you.”

A statement from Duterte’soffice yesterday claimed the “sonof the b****” insult was aimed atthe journalist whose questionprompted the fiery response,and not at Obama.

Obama has worked hard todevelop the Philippines’ part-nership with the US and as a re-

gional counterbalance to China.He’s visited the country twicein his second term, and an-nounced on a stop there inNovember the return of a USmilitary presence at a criticalnaval base on the South ChinaSea.

But Duterte’s derogatory com-ments and a spike in extrajudi-cial killings of suspected drugdealers put the relationship instormier waters.

Obama and Duterte had beenset to meet in Laos this week,where Obama is attending ameeting of Southeast Asianleaders. The statement fromDuterte’s spokesman said the“meeting has been mutuallyagreed upon to be moved to alater date”.

After cursing Obama, Duterteexpresses regret; meeting cancelled

THE bombs, as one Laotiandescribed it, “fell like rain”,US President Barack Oba-ma said yesterday on a visitto Laos, a first for any sit-ting US president.

“Given our history here, I be-lieve that the United States hasa moral obligation to help Laosheal,” he said.

He referred to America’s se-cret and devastating bombing ofLaos during the Vietnam Warin the 1960s and 70s.

Some US$90m will be spentover three years for the removalof cluster bombs and other unex-ploded ordnance.That comparesto US$100m spent in the last 20years.

President Obama describedLaos as the most heavilybombed nation in history. Eightbombs a minute were droppedon average during the Vietnamwar between 1964 and 1973 –more than the amount used dur-ing the whole of World War II.

The US flew 580 344 bomb-ing missions over Laos,dropping260m bombs – equating to 2mtons of ordnance,with many tar-gets in the south and northstruck time and again. Most de-vices dropped were anti-person-nel cluster bombs.An estimated30 per cent of these munitionsdid not detonate.

Ten of the 18 Laotianprovinces have been described

as “severely contaminated” byunexploded ordnance (UXO).

Mine-clearing agencies esti-mate that about 288m clustermunitions and about 75m un-

exploded bombs were left acrossLaos after the war ended.Cluster bombs scatter explo-sives across a wide area andoften fail to detonate on impact.They pose a significant threatto civilians because of both theirimpact at the time of use andtheir deadly legacy.

Launched from the ground ordropped from the air, clustermunitions consist of containersthat open and disperse sub-mu-

nitions indiscriminately over awide area. Many explosive sub-munitions, also known asbomblets, fail to detonate as de-signed, becoming landminesthat kill and maim indiscrimi-nately.

They are difficult to locate andremove, posing a danger to civil-ians long after conflicts end.

Children are particularly atrisk, as they can be attracted tothe bombs’ toy-like appearance.

Obama regrets‘biggest bombingin history’ in Laos

HANGZHOU, China – Presi-dent Obama and RussianPresident Vladimir Putin failedto reach a deal on Monday on acease-fire for Syria, but the twosides have agreed to continuenegotiating even as Syrian gov-ernment forces close in on thebesieged city of Aleppo.

Meeting with Putin on thesidelines of the Group of 20 eco-nomic meeting here,Obama em-phasised the humanitarian im-portance of and urgent need fora cease-fire,but he was adamantabout not striking an agreementthat wouldn’t meet his long-term objectives in Syria, said aWhite House official.

The 90-minute unscheduledmeeting was described by bothsides as longer than usual forthe sidelines of a G-20 summit.But an ultimate agreement re-mained elusive.

At a news conference, Obamasaid the breakdown of a previ-ous cessation of hostilities agree-ment had prompted SyrianPresident Bashar al-Assad to re-sume bombing opposition forces“with impunity”. That has ledopposition forces, includingthose with ties to terrorism, toramp up recruitment of newfighters, the president said.

Obama said he and Putin alsodiscussed the security situation

in Ukraine and disputes over cy-berespionage.The president de-clined to directly answer a re-porter’s questions about Russia’salleged hacking of the Demo-cratic National Committee’s e-mails, citing an ongoing investi-gation, but he acknowledgedtensions.

“We’ve had problems of cyberintrusions from Russia andother countries in the past,”Obama said, “and we’re movinginto a new era here where anumber of countries have signif-icant capacities. We have morecapacity than anybody both of-fensively and defensively. Ourgoal is not to suddenly, in thecyber arena, duplicate the cycleof escalation we saw when itcomes to other arms races in thepast, but rather implementingsome norms so everyone is act-ing responsibly.”

The White House official,briefing reporters in Hangzhou,said that Secretary of State JohnF. Kerry and Russian ForeignMinister Sergei Lavrov “aremaking plans to meet in thecoming days, certainly thisweek. If an agreement can bereached, we want to do so ur-gently because of the humani-tarian situation. However, wemust ensure it is an effectiveagreement.”

Obama and Putin unableto reach cease-fireagreement for Syria

Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte spoke at a news conference on Monday before departingto a regional summit in Laos.

President Obama [inset] announced yesterday that the US will provide additional assistance tohelp remove unexploded bombs (like pictured here) dropped by the US during the Vietnam War.


ARIES (March 21-April 19). It gets old, thisaccommodation of life's inconveniences and distractions.How you've longed for a day that includes nothingunnecessary or obligatory. This is it! Your day for straight-up business – finally. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You feel like you couldn't dothe job without your special helper, and in some ways this istrue. The job certainly wouldn't get done in the same waywithout this person. Acknowledgement is in order.GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Give yourself time to reachyour goals. Success trick: lower your expectations of whatyou'll be able to accomplish in a day, but raise yourexpectations of what you'll accomplish in 60 days.CANCER (June 22-July 22). The world may fall short ofyour vision today, but your focus on appreciating the realityyou're in will cause a change in your wants and needs. In theback of your mind and the center of your heart, a new visionis forming. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). When you made up those rules tokeep you on track, you were winging it – everyone is, in thebeginning. Now you see that some of the restrictions wereunnecessary. It's safe for you to change the rules now. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You're putting out a top-qualityeffort. Just know that you could be the sweetest peach in theworld and there would still be a certain (albeit very small)percentage of the population who don't prefer peaches. Nevermind them!LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You've a charm that inspiresdevotion in others, and at times this has actually frightenedyou; you don't always want so much attention. However, rightnow, you could use some help. Work it! SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). As for the people who aim forgreatness and fall short again and again, they are the ones towatch, align with and partner with because that kind ofcourage will get it right eventually and win big. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You've come to a door.If you knock once or twice and no one lets you in, don't walkaway. Keep knocking until you get your answer. The worldon the other side of the door will be worth it. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Sure, life can be unfair.However, it's also possible that the idea of justice we have inour head isn't as complete as the one the universe has in mind.Perhaps this thing unfolding before us is as perfect as it iscomplex.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Who has made a positivedifference in your life and why? You will set a goal that issimilar to one that this person has pursued, and you willsoon possess some of the same qualities. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). When you get your first rightresult, try for another and another so you can know andpractice what it takes to succeed. The method is the truegold. The method is worth way more than the prize.

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HURRICANE Newton roaredinto Mexico's Baja Peninsula onTuesday morning with winds of90 mph, forcing tourists in re-sorts at Cabo San Lucas to takerefuge in their hotels.

The Category 1 eastern Pacifichurricane brought howlingwinds and heavy rain to thetourist locale.There were no im-mediate reports of deaths or in-juries, though power wasknocked out in some areas, theAssociated Press reported.

Officials evacuated low-lyingareas and opened more than 50shelters late on Monday. Morethan a third of all flights at LosCabos International Airport yes-terday were cancelled.

As of noon ET, Newton was lo-cated about 110 miles northwestof Cabo San Lucas with winds of80 mph. It was moving to thenorthwest at 17 mph.

The system is forecast toslowly weaken as it moves northover the Peninsula but coulddump more than a foot of rain insome areas. Newton shouldmake a second landfall in north-western Mexico early today be-fore moving into the USSouthwest.

Its remnants are forecast tosoak Arizona, New Mexico andwestern Texas through tomor-row, where flash flood watchesare posted.The heavy rain couldcause life-threatening flashfloods and mudslides, especiallyin mountainous terrain, the hur-ricane centre warned. Somespots could pick up two monthsworth of rain in only a few hours.

HurricaneNewton hitsMexico, still aflood threatfor USSouthwest

THE first-ever person to have aface transplant, FrenchwomanIsabelle Dinoire, has died,French doctors say. In 2005, sur-geons gave her a new nose andmouth after she was disfiguredby her pet dog, but heavy use ofimmunosuppressant drugsweakened her and she suc-cumbed to cancer in April at theage of 49.

News of her death,announcedby a hospital in Amiens, was de-layed to respect her family's pri-vacy.

She said in 2009 that whenshe looked in the mirror she sawa mixture of herself and thedonor.“The donor is always withme,” she said.

She suffered another trans-plant rejection. The strong anti-rejection treatment she was re-ceiving led to two cancers.

In an interview, she said her

disfigurement by her dog hadcome as a result of an attempt toend her life.After taking an over-dose of sleeping pills, she awokelying beside a pool of blood, withher pet Labrador at her side.Thedog had apparently found herunconscious, and desperate torouse her, had gnawed away ather face.

The injuries to her mouth,nose and chin were so extremethat doctors ruled out a routineface reconstruction. Instead theyproposed a ground-breaking facetransplant. She was happy withthe surgery but expressed dis-tress at the attention from themedia and passers-by that theoperation brought her.

In recent years, face trans-plants have been performed inseveral countries, including theUS, Spain, Turkey, China andPoland.

First face transplantpatient dies in France

PARIS – A court in the FrenchMediterranean island of Corsicahas upheld a burkini ban issuedby a local mayor despite a highercourt ruling saying such bans onthe Muslim full-body swimwearmay violate basic freedoms.

A judge in the Bastia courtsaid yesterday the ban issued bythe mayor in the Corsican resortvillage of Sisco was legal becausepublic order had been disruptedin the region.

Last month, clashes broke outin Sisco after unconfirmed wit-ness accounts said a Muslimwoman was wearing a full-bodyoutfit on a local beach. Severalpeople were wounded and ten-sions spread to Bastia.

The Council of State has ruledbans are illegal unless there are“proven risks of disruptions topublic order”.Yesterday's rulingcan be appealed to the top court.

Also yesterday, the FrenchPrime Minister, Manuel Valls,has accused the New York Timesof painting an “unacceptable”picture of his country with anarticle about discriminationagainst Muslim women.The re-port was prompted by the de-bate over the bans.

Valls said such bans were partof a “fight for the freedom ofwomen”.

The paper said it stood by thearticle, as some Muslims saythey are being targeted unfairlyover burkinis.

French judgeupholdsburkini bandespite topcourt ruling

CHICAGO – The US’s thirdlargest city reached the grimtoll of 500 homicides for theyear after tallying 13 fatalshootings over the LabourDay weekend, police said.

The holiday weekend killings,along with dozens of non-fatalshootings, come after policerecorded 92 murders in August,the deadliest month for Chicagosince June 1993. With murdersup roughly 50 per cent for theyear, Chicago has tallied moremurders than much larger citiesNew York and Los Angeles com-bined.

The latest fatal shooting oc-curred around 10:45 p.m. Mon-

day on the city’s West Side,whensomeone in a silver mini-vanopened fire on a group of teensand young men, police said.Two22-year-old men were killed inthe incident – and three others,ages 16, 17, and 20 – were seri-ously wounded.Authorities saidone of the men killed was a doc-umented gang member. Policewere searching for suspects yes-terday.

Chicago Police Superinten-dent,Eddie Johnson,blames therecent surge in killings on in-creased gang activity and gunlaws he says are too weak to bean effective deterrent.The city ison pace to record well over 600

murders for 2016, a threshold ithas not reached since 2003. Inthe 1990s, in the midst of gangviolence driven by the crack-co-caine epidemic, Chicago regu-larly recorded more than 700murders per year.

The city recorded 473 murdersin 2015, according to police de-partment data. Chicago sur-passed the 500 homicide thresh-old over the holiday weekend,ac-cording to data tracked by theChicago Tribune.

Over this Labour Day week-end, the city experienced themost jarring spasm of violenceover 14 hours on Monday, whennine people were killed.

In one fatal shooting on thecity’s Southwest Side, a 24-year-old man and 47-year-old manwere killed in a shooting near acity park. The older victim toldauthorities before he died at anearby hospital that he waswalking a dog in the park whenhe heard gunfire from a vehicle.

Also around 6:48 p.m. onMonday, a 33-year-old man waskilled in a drive-by shooting inthe city’s Englewood neighbour-hood on the city’s South Side.Someone in a light-coloured ve-hicle opened fire at the man,striking him in the back,Pachecosaid. The man was pronounceddead at a nearby hospital.

Chicago hits 500 homicides for 2016after deadly Labour Day weekend

Hurricane Newton slammed into the twin resorts of Los Cabos on the southern tip of Mexico'sBaja California peninsula yesterday morning, knocking out power in some places as strandedtourists huddled in their hotels.

In 2006, Isabelle Dinoire described the moment she saw her dis-figured face.


RESEARCHERS have com-pleted the first phase of a mis-sion to ship glacier ice to theAntarctic

More than 400 pieces of Alpineice have been moved to a giantfreezer – a first step in their jour-ney to Antarctica.

The seemingly strange plan tosend ice to the coldest place onEarth is part of a scientific mis-sion to “rescue” some of theworld’s most endangered glacialice.

Bubbles in old,deep glacial iceare frozen records of our past atmosphere.

Scientists say their purpose-built Antarctic ice bunker willkeep these safe for future re-search.

“What we know for sure is thatthe ice will not be here in 50 or100 years time – any glacierbelow 3 500m altitude will begone by the end of the century,”explained Jerome Chappellazfrom France’s National Centrefor Scientific Research,one of theleaders of the project.

“[In the Alps], we’re trying torecover ice cores from one of theglaciers that is in danger.”

That glacier is at Col du Dome– just below the peak of MontBlanc. It is one of two that theteam has chosen to provide theirfrozen library with “referenceice” for regions where informa-tion on past climate and atmos-

phere is lacking.The team set up a high alti-

tude research camp on the icewhile they worked. They havenow successfully extracted threefull ice cores,drilling their cylin-drical cutting device through theentire 130m depth of the glacier.

Prof Carlo Barbante, from theInstitute for Research andDevelopment and the Universityof Venice – and another leadingmember of this Franco-Italianteam – explained that the projectat Col du Dome was a raceagainst time.

“We are losing a lot of mass ofice,” he warned.“We can already

see that some of the surface lay-ers of the glacier are percolatingdown into the deepest parts.

“So that means that we arelosing ice and we are mixing upinformation.”

The team, whose work wasfunded almost entirely by phil-anthropic donations, via a foun-dation,will next head to a site onthe Illimani mountain in theBolivian Andes. At 6 300m, thatsummit is too high for a helicop-ter, so heavy drills and otherequipment will need to be car-ried.

The scientists will also haveto carry every metre-long cylin-

der of ice back down the mountain in backpacks.

‘One-off chance’Julian Dowdeswell, director ofthe UK’s Scott Polar ResearchInstitute,praised the mission forits value to future scientists.

“Over the last 20 to 30 years,ice core geochemistry has come along way so it’s important tostore [these cores] for the futureas technology advances,”he said.“[These glaciers] are melting, sothis is a one-off chance.”

The Col du Dome ice will nowbe stored in a freezer at theUniversity Grenoble Alpes,while

the permanent snow cave is pre-pared over the next two years.That will be located close to theFrench-Italian ConcordiaResearch Station, in the high al-titude of the Antarctic Plateau,just over 1 500km from theSouth Pole.

“Basically a glacier is a mem-ory of our planet,” said JeromeChappellaz. “Many trace com-pounds [from the atmosphere]are found in the snowflakes andthen in the glacier.

“So by drilling through it, wego back in time and we can re-cover a book of what happened inour planet.”

BEFORE the morning mists hadbroken over Ivory Coast’s MontPeko National Park,thousands ofnewly homeless cocoa farmersand their families began to stir,fetching water and lighting cook-ing fires outside Sylvain Zongo’schurch at the forest edge.

“I don’t know what I am goingto do. All I can do is pray to God,otherwise it breaks my heart,”the pastor said,surveying a scenemore evocative of the WestAfrican nation’s civil war yearsthan its relative prosperity today.

This is the human toll of a gov-ernment crackdown on illegalfarmers that could leave hun-dreds of thousands destitute,dent gross domestic product andinflame tensions left over fromyears of unrest.

It is the consequence of whatmay be Ivory Coast’s last chancesave the most rapidly disappear-ing forest in Africa, home to endangered chimpanzees, forestelephants and the rare pygmyhippopotamus.

Since independence in 1960,Ivory Coast has built its econ-omy – French-speaking WestAfrica’s largest – on cash cropagriculture,growing about 40 percent of the world’s cocoa, whichmakes up some 15 per cent of its

GDP.While the chocolate ingredient

helped it become a relativelyprosperous nation in a desper-ately poor region, it also broughtit to the brink of an ecologicaldisaster.

Ivory Coast lost 80 per cent ofits virgin forest between inde-pendence from France in 1960and 2010, according to theEuropean Union.Another studyby Ivorian and French scientistsestimated it had the highest rateof deforestation in Africa – with265 000 hectares cleared annu-ally by 1999 – even before theonset of political unrest that ac-celerated the destruction.

During the 2002-2011 crisis,park rangers and forest officialsabandoned areas they were pro-tecting.

The 34 000-hectare Mont Peko,which means “mountain of hye-nas” in the local Guere language,became a symbol of the lawless-ness that reigned during that pe-riod as armed warlords seizedcontrol of the land and sold offparcels, many to immigrantsfrom neighbouring countries.

The government crackdown inMont Peko is a significant step inending illegal cocoa farming inIvory Coast’s eight national

parks, five nature reserves and231 forest reserves.

Annual production in MontPeko alone reached around 10 000 tonnes, worth over $28million in export value, a UNpanel of experts said in a reportin March,though some exporterssay the tonnage figure may bedouble that.

The government had repeat-edly told illegal farmers to leavethe park since 2012, but had notenforced its demand.On July 30,it formally issued a decree of evic-

tion and sent in troops to clearplantations, destroying cocoatrees and settlements thathoused tens of thousands of peo-ple.

“We must end impunity andwe dare to hope that we will fin-ish this once and for all,” saidpark ranger Kpolo Ouattara, ashis men pulled down the rem-nants of the camp of AmadeOueremi, the park’s most notori-ous warlord and a major illegalcocoa grower, who was arrestedin 2013.

Tens of thousands of illegalfarmers and their dependentshave already been removed, andforestry officials say hundreds ofthousands remain to be evicted.

A survey by scientists from theIvory Coast and United Stateslast year in 23 protected areasfound that 13 had lost their en-tire primate populations whilefive others had lost about half.Nearly three-quarters of forestssurveyed had been cleared oftheir forests and become cocoaplantations.

Endangered glaciers begin Antarctic voyage

Ivory Coast evicts thousands of cocoa farmers to save forests

Kolo Ouattara (L), an OPIR agents responsible for Mont Peko, stands in a destroyed village duringan eviction operation of illegal farmers from Burkina Fasso inside the Mont Peko National Park inDuekoue department, western Ivory Coast August 2, 2016.

Researchers say Antarctica is the perfect ‘natural freezer’ forthe samples.

Ice cores are transported by helicopter to the valley floor, thenby road to Grenoble.


LOGIN names andpasswords for morethan 98 million usersof the RussianRambler.ru email serv-ice have reportedlybeen stolen and put on-line.

The data includedemail addresses andpasswords that hadbeen stored withoutany protection, a secu-rity firm said.

Leaked Source saidthe massive cache ofcredentials dated from2012 but had only nowbeen leaked and putonline.

And it had come froma hacker who had sup-plied security firmswith 43 million usernames from musicservice Last.fm.

Rambler has beendescribed as theRussian equivalent ofYahoo as it offers emailservices as well as act-ing as a news and con-tent hub for its users.

Leaked Source brokethe news about thebreach and said it hadverified some of thedata with the help ofRussian journalists.

Rambler.ru has notresponded to requestsfor comment on thebreach.

Leaked Source saidpasswords associatedwith login names hadbeen stored with “noencryption or hashing”.Instead, it said, theyhad been listed in plaintext.

Analysis of the longlist of passwordsshowed that “asdasd”was the most popularstring, used by morethan 723 000 people, itsaid.

The second most pop-ular password amongthe 98 million userswas “asdasd123”.

In June this year, de-tails of more than 100million users of theRussian VK.com serv-ice were shared online.

Copies of the long listof login names andpasswords was offeredonline at a price of 1bitcoin (£456).

Russiansite ‘hitby hugedatabreach’

A STRING of aviation as-sociations has called forall small drones in Europeto be registered.

The ability to trace nui-sance drones back to theirowner or pilot would im-prove compliance withregulations, the groupssaid in a joint statement.

Near-misses involvingdrones and aircraft are onthe rise – ten UK casesrisked collision this year,according to the CivilAviation Authority (CAA).

US users must alreadyregister drones weighingmore than half a pound(228g).

A total of ten associa-

tions in the EU have made the call, includingthe European CockpitAssociation and theInternational AirTransport Association.

“The recreational use ofdrones is rapidly increas-ing, and the related riskof incidents and accidentswith manned aviationmust be mitigated,” thebodies said.

Safety risks associatedwith drones were oftenunderestimated, theyadded.

The UK’s CAA has notjoined calls for a droneregister.

“Our overall aim is to

prevent any kind of con-flict in the air from hap-pening in the first place,”a spokesman said.

“Registration has advantages, but it’s a complicated decision tomake about what the ben-efits of registration are.”

But registration couldbe used as a means to en-sure drones are safe touse, according to StephanAppt at law firm PinsentMasons.

“You can also obviouslyattach some requirementsto the registration whichcould be evidence of tech-nical security, that every-thing that needs to be

checked has been or thatthe device can land prop-erly if there is an emer-gency,” he noted.

Besides registration, theEuropean and interna-tional bodies are also re-

questing that drones beequipped with altitudeand distance restrictingsoftware preventing themfrom entering sensitiveairspace – a featureknown as “geofencing”.

EU aviation groups want all drones to be registered

The EU bodies want drone software to prevent themfrom flying in certain areas.

SONY Bravia smart TVsets made in 2012 willno longer be able toshow YouTube videosafter 30 September.

The devices will not becapable of displayingvideos from the sitethanks to changes madeby YouTube to the way ithandles uploads.

As a result, the app forYouTube will be removedfrom Bravia TVs by theend of this month, Sonysaid.

Sony has released a listof the 50 models across therange of TV sets that willbe affected by the change.

In a statement posted toits customer support site,Sony said the television

sets were not losing accessbecause of a “failure”of theset.

Instead, it said, recentchanges made to YouTube“exceed the capability ofthe TV’s hardware”.

This is believed to referto Google’s recent decisionto start encrypting all connections to its video-sharing site. Encryptingand decrypting data canbe a computationally in-tensive task that theprocessors in Bravia setsthat handle net-connectedfunctions cannot copewith.

Some owners of affectedTV sets have already beenreporting seeing errormessages or video streams

freezing during playback.The TV sets affected

span the range of Braviadevices from smaller setsonly 20in (50cm) across tothose that span 89in(2.2m) and cost £25 000.

James O’Malley, writingon the Gizmodo gadgetsite, said the change

proved there was just onerule when it came to buy-ing a smart TV.

“Buy a dumb screen,and plug something smartinto it,” he said.

It was far better to use aChromecast, Firestick orApple TV box for smart TVservices rather than rely

on the in-built capabilitiesof a TV that are likely tobe outpaced by changes intechnology in a few years,he said.

In March this year,many smart TV sets lostthe ability to use Skype asMicrosoft ended supportfor the app.

Sony BraviaTVs to loseYouTube access

Sony said the changes made to YouTube could not be handled by its older TV sets.

THE names of almost 800 000 registered usersof porn site Brazzers havebeen exposed in a databreach.

The account detailswere taken from forumsassociated with the siteon which porn fans dis-cuss favourite scenes andperformers.

It is thought attackersstole data using vulnera-bilities in the vBulletinsoftware used to run thechat forum.

Brazzers said it hadtaken measures to stopfraudsters re-using login

names found in the list.

‘Intimate thoughts’News website Mother-board said the informa-tion about Brazzers userswas passed to it byVigilante.pw, which mon-itors breaches. The dumpof data includes email ad-dresses, user names andpasswords spelled out inplain text. Many firmstypically digitally scram-ble or encrypt passwordsto protect them even ifthey go astray.

The data was takenfrom the Brazzersforum

site that was set up forusers but it appears thatmany people who signedup for the chat forumsused the same logins and passwords on themain porn site. The datawas stolen in 2013 buthas only now come tolight.

Security researcherTroy Hunt confirmed thatthe data in the dump wasaccurate by checkingsome of the details via thedatabase of stolen creden-tials he maintains.

Hunt told Motherboardthat the release of the

data was potentially moreembarrassing than justknowing someone was a member of a porn site be-cause, if someone usedthe stolen logins, theycould see private conver-sations about sexual pref-erences.

“Problem with a hacklike that is it’s a forum,”he said. “Worse than justadult website creds, thisis what people were talk-ing and fantasisingabout.”

In a statement,Brazzers confirmed thatthe breach occurred via

the vBulletin softwareused to keep the forumrunning.

Hunt said the widelyused vBulletin softwarewas often poorly main-tained by forum adminis-trators who did not applythe latest securitypatches leaving sites vul-nerable to attack. Severalrecent breaches had allbeen traced back tovBulletin, he added.

Brazzers said it hadtaken “corrective meas-ures” to protect users andstop credentials being re-used.

Brazzers porn account holders exposed by hackers


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LESLIE H Martinson, a prolificdirector of US television whosecredits included the 1966 filmversion of Batman, has died inLos Angeles at the age of 101.

A statement on his website saidhe died on Saturday “at home withhis family".

Born in Boston in 1915, hestarted out as a script supervisorbefore earning his spurs as a direc-tor on The Roy Rogers Show andothers in the 1950s.

He went on to direct twoepisodes of the Batman TV series,

starring Adam West, and its big-screen spin-off.

The show and film developed acult following thanks to its know-ing humour, outlandish villainsand fight scenes illustrated by car-toonish exclamations.

Emblematic of its tone was thescene in the film in which Batman,unable to find a safe place to dis-pose of an explosive, mutters thelegend: “Some days you just can’tget rid of a bomb.”

According to the IMDB website,Martinson’s many other TV credits

include episodes of CHiPs, FantasyIsland, Dallas and Wonder Woman.

He also directed such films as PT109, inspired by the wartime ex-ploits of John F Kennedy, and the1967 Rachel Welch vehicleFathom.

Martinson is survived by hiswife, the TV host and writerConnie Martinson.

A post on the website ofBrezniak Rodman FuneralDirectors said he would be buriedon Friday in Wakefield,Massachusetts.

Leslie H Martinson, Batmandirector, dies aged 101

Martinson directed two episodes of the 1960s Batman show starring Adam West

Wednesday September 7, 2016 •23The Barbados Advocate

SPORTSSPORTS

By Corey Greaves

BARBADOS is gettingset to celebrate some ofthe sporting icons overthe years with AnEvening with the Starsat the Barbados Hilton.

The black tie event isslated for this Saturday,November 10th and looksto honours those whohave made their mark onthe international arena.

At a press conferenceheld yesterday at theMinistry of Sports in SkyMall, Minister of CultureSport and Youth, StephenLashley, said that as partof the 50th anniversarythey are getting set to ho-nour the sporting icons.

He gave an update onthe plans for the event aswell as the reason behindit.

“We have over the yearsbeen able to develop somevery iconic sporting per-sonalities who are fittingwith honour and theevening is to celebratethem.”

He pointed out thatmany of Barbados sport-ing icons will be return-ing for event and one ofthe features of the

evening will be the hon-ouring of 20 of Barbadosmost distinguished sport-ing icons, the names ofwhich will be announcedon the night.

The special occasionwill be held under the pa-tronage of Sri GarfieldSobers Barbados only liv-ing National hero who isknown world-wide for hisexcellence in cricket and“Who still remains themost distinguished andacclaimed cricketer in theworld. He lives here inBarbados and movesamong us and we shoulduse every occasion to cel-ebrate not only his contri-bution but the many oth-ers.”

Lashley also mentionedthat the Prime Ministeras well as the Cabinet willbe in attendance. Therewill also be an interna-tional sporting icon in at-tendance and it was thevision and policy to usepurposeful events torecognised all outstand-ing Barbadians for theircontributions but thespotlight falls on oursporting icons for thisevent.

The night is slated to

start at 6 p.m. and theminister said that thereis an interesting formatto the night where every-one will get to hear fromsome of the icons.

The night “will serve tohighlight some of the ca-reers of many of our iconsas we will have inBarbados several of oursporting icons who wouldhave performed at theOlympics and other inter-national events.”

A key highlight of thenight will be the launch

of the Barbados SportsPersons Trust Fund.Though the purpose willbe varied, one of the focuswill be to provide assis-tance to sports personswho have retired andnothing has been done forthem.

“We feel strong that wehave to start by making aprovision where allBarbadians can con-tribute... and we do notbelieve that the currentsituation is adequate,”said Lashley.

“As we celebrate 50years, I don’t feel it issomething we can beproud of that many of oursporting personalitiesgive of their best, sacrificethe most productive yearsof their live representingBarbados over the yearsbut nothing has beendone in making provisionfor them in their years ofretirement.”

“I believe that any ath-lete who represents thecountry at an interna-tional level we as a coun-

try have to look at how weprovide for them. I thinkthat when we do this wecan also use this as ameans of providing someencouragement to youngathlete we want to excel.”

“We believe that this of-fering of the evening ofthe stars in saying to thecountry and by extensionthe rest of the world thatin our 50th anniversaryBarbados will be celebrat-ing our distinguishedsons and daughters of thesoil.”

An eveningwith the Stars

(from left to right) Director, Premier Event Services Inc, Faye Wharton-Parris, Minister of Culture, Youth andSports, Stephen Lashley, and CEO of the National Sports Council Jerry Blenman at a press conference yes-terday.

By Corey Greaves

WITH the right kind ofsport Barbados is poisedto do exceedingly well insome sporting disciplines.

This was the assertionof Minister of SportStephen Lashley as hespoke during a press con-ference yesterday at his of-fice.

“I think that we havewhat it takes but we haveto engage in a bit morestrategic planning and abit more active in the op-portunities we provide forour athletes throughoutthe year,” said Lashley.

Some of the thingswhich the Minister saidthey were looking at werea Sports Policy, Facilitiesand StrategicEngagement.

“It can't be that we keyinto to sports only period-ically. Sports and Cultureis the most important areaand we need to put it upthere as key to our devel-

opmental focus. Once wedo that then the dividendswill come back to us.”

Lashley spoke aboutreinventing ourselves as anation with Sports andCulture at the apex of ourfocus and developmentalmodel.

Key is full support of ourathletes from the cradleand along their various de-velopmental strands. Hewas also looking at lifeafter competition, “youcannot be talking aboutsupporting athlete whenthey are engaged in com-petition and when they arefinish we forget aboutthem.”

But one of the areaswhere he feels Barbadoshas to prioritise is the facil-ities.

“We believe that whileathlete go on the interna-tional circuit in terms ofcompetition as competitionis very important we alsoneed to capture some ofthose circuits in the

Caribbean.”In order to do this

Barbados needs aNational Stadium and notjust patch the current one.

“We need to have a newnational stadium,” saidLashley who added thatwhile the current stadiumhas an international track,the facilities includingwhat one would normallyhave in the stands, cannotmeet the test of what is re-quired to have an interna-tional engagements.

“Barbados is missing outon tremendous revenueand exposure for our ath-letes in terms of what ishappening in interna-tional track and field. Thefacilities need to be there.”

“We have completed thewhole plan and scope forthe National stadium andpresented the plan to thecabinet of Barbados andthey have given approvalin principle to the con-struction of the stands andfacilities that are required.

But we have to get busynow working along withthe Ministry of Finance tofind the funding for it.”

Lashley pointed out thatfunding is not currentlyavailable within the nor-mal financial arrangementof the government andwhile some is available itwill not be available to fi-nance all of it.

“We will have to look atthe possibility of gettinggrant funding and that iswhat we are preoccupiedwith now. I can't give you atime line as it is somethingthat has to be worked on.”

Lashley pointed out thatfunding is not currentlyavailable within the nor-mal financial arrangementof the government andwhile some is available itwill not be available to fi-nance all of it.

“We will have to look atthe possibility of gettinggrant funding and that iswhat we are preoccupiedwith now. I can't give you a

time line as it is somethingthat has to be worked on.

The stadium has deteri-orated over years withhardly any attention to itand Lashley said that “weneed to understand that aswe build up sports we haveto continue to refresh ourfacilities.

A national Stadium hasto be continuously re-freshed and repositioned,we have not done that as acountry.We cannot do it byjust talking about it partic-ularly when we are hav-ing fiscal and other chal-lenges.”

“If I had it my way Iwould probably prioritiseit and remove one or twoother projects and put thenational stadium there.

“My resolve is that wewill pursue all channels toensure that we can get thefunding.”

Possibilities of a phaseproject is one of the ideasthe Minister said was opento them and an initiative

be the Sports Council wasdue to start soon wherefunding can be received byprivate parties.

“Part will be to invitevarious private entities toadopt a stand and in re-ward possibly providethem with various brand-ing... or other models canbe followed, tax breaks soit makes business sense.”

Lashley said it is some-thing that he will be pur-suing relentless so theycan atleast start the mainstand.

“The current standshave to be dismantled, thefacilities for staff is totallyinadequate and we can'tbe boasting of being acountry who is seriousabout sports when we aregoing to patch a stadium. Idon't believe that is theway forward.

That is not a way to re-ward the excellence thatwe want from our athletes.

cont’d on page 24

Funding needed for a new National Stadium


FOLLOWING completion ofFICA’s annual player survey,and ahead of further discus-sions at ICC level on thestructure of internationalcricket, the Federation ofInternational Cricketers’Associations (FICA) todayurged the ICC to deliver aclear and compelling futurefor international cricket,which includes meaningfulchange to competition struc-tures. FICA is supportive ofimproving, and adding con-text to all three formats of in-ternational cricket, ensuringa structure that delivers bet-ter clarity and balance be-tween the formats, and onethat will address the contin-ued decline in popularity ofmuch of internationalcricket. Cricket needs a newinternational structure nowto allow it to survive andthrive in the future.

“It is clear that there is a

ground swell of opinion aroundthe world that the current struc-ture of international cricket isnot serving the game globally,and that the status quo is notgood enough for the long termfuture success of cricket” TonyIrish,FICA Executive Chairmansaid.

“We have been involved in theongoing discussions on the struc-ture of the game, on behalf ofplayers, and there is no doubtthat the game’s stakeholdershave a unique opportunity to bebold and to provide a compellingfuture for the internationalgame. The entire cricket econ-omy, including all professionalplayers, both international anddomestic, is highly dependent oninternational cricket. To ensureits survival the game needs toevolve. It has many strengthsand its rich history must be pro-tected, but it is time to signifi-cantly move the game forward.That is not an easy task, but

thinking globally, and not basedon regional or country interests,is a good place to start” Irish con-tinued.

“To date, the issue that hasbeen talked about most is Testcricket, but we believe that thisreview is about creating clear vi-sions for all three formats of in-ternational cricket, and balanc-ing them alongside the contin-ued expansion and success of thevarious domestic T20 cricketleagues. We know from ourplayer surveys, and our engage-ment with players, that they arefacing a conflict between interna-tional cricket and domestic T20cricket leagues. This is a funda-mental issue that we want anyfuture structure of the game toaddress. Our concern is that ifnothing is done, internationalcricket may very soon lose moreand more of its best players tofree agency and the T20 leagues.”

“This re-structuring of inter-national cricket should be about

providing a better sporting prod-uct for fans, players and broad-casters. ICC management hasdone some excellent work onthis, and we strongly encourageMember Boards to look beyondtheir own individual country in-terests in taking this forward.We understand that not every-one is in agreement over the di-visional Test structure currentlyproposed,but this should not de-rail the entire process. We urgethe game to thoroughly exploreall potential options to create acoherent new structure thatadds more context and meaningto all matches. It is time forglobal, collective thinking.”

WORLD PLAYER VIEWS· AB de Villiers,South Africa:

“We have already raised our in-tensity and urgency just know-ing that a Test league might hap-pen. There is nothing like thepressure and adrenaline thatcomes with knowing you need towin matches. It’s time for all in-ternational matches to havemore meaning.”

· Jason Holder, West Indies:“Creating windows (for domesticT20 tournaments) would makethe whole situation a lot easier

as players would not be forced tochoose. If players could play bothdomestic T20 and internationalcricket, it would definitely help tokeep players in internationalcricket.”

· Shakib Al Hasan,Bangladesh:“It would be a greatthing for Bangladesh to playmore regular internationalcricket. I have been playing for10 years and have only played 42Tests. If I was from India orEngland I would have had theopportunity to play double thatamount.”

· Steve Smith,Australia: ”Wewant our best players to be onthe park as much as possibleplaying for our countries, and atthe moment that isn't alwayshappening. Players should ab-solutely have a say in the futureof the game.We are the ones outthere doing the job, we have aclose up view of what's happen-ing in the game, and it is impor-tant we are involved in decisionmaking.”

· Ross Taylor, New Zealand:“We need to find ways of keepingour players. To survive as acricket nation, we need our topplayers playing for New Zealandand not retiring early.”

ST JOHN’S, ANTIGUA –International Cricket CouncilPitch Consultant, AndyAtkinson is in Antigua at the SirVivian Richards Stadium con-ducting an intensive two-dayworkshop for Caribbean cura-tors yesterday and today(September 6 & 7).

The workshop will take a com-prehensive look on pitch alloca-tion, rotation, maintenance,draining, outfield managementand will offer technical guide-lines for the participants.

“The workshop is timely,” ac-cording to Director of Cricket,Richard Pybus, “this workshopshould serve to assist our cura-tors around the region with ad-ditional information on how tomaintain and improve their re-spective pitches.’

The Director of Cricket addedthat “in an effort to improvepitches it is important that wehave Andy with us. We are tak-ing steps, as we promised, to im-prove what we currently haveso the pitches respondfavourably to all formats of thegame.”

The Essex-born pitch consult-ant who has been with the ICCsince 1998 has toured exten-sively to cricketing nations glob-ally. He was last in the regionduring the World Cup in 2007and the ICC World Twenty20 in2010 and returned for a work-shop in September 2011.

The workshop has attracted25 participants from the six re-

gions with Kent Crafton, headcurator also participating. Theother representatives are from:

St Vincent, Dominica,Guyana, Grenada,Trinidad andTobago, University of Trinidadand Tobago, St Lucia, St Kitts,

Barbados, Jamaica, Antigua.

The territorial boards are cur-rently preparing their teams forthe start of the 4-dayProfessional Cricket League(PCL), season three, which is setto bowl off Friday, November 11.

FICA urges ICC to deliver a clear and compellingfuture for all International Cricket

ICC Pitch consultant returnsfor workshop in the Caribbean

International Cricket Council Pitch Consultant, Andy Atkinson.

STADIUM from page 23

In supporting the athletesLashley said it cannot just beoral support “but there has gotto be strategic engagement ofall the partners in sport, theMinistry, Sports Council ,BOA, Barbados AthleticAssociation. To be able to cometo grips with the kind of areasthat we need to expose ourathletes to.

He highlighted that the ath-letes are full funded throughthe collaborative efforts of theNational Sports Council andthe BOA but there are strate-gic engagements that theyneed to have and agree on tomake sure that our athlete areprepared in the critical peri-ods.

Speaking about the teamthat represented Barbados atthe Rio Olympics, Lashleysaid that “there are a host ofthings that we can expect from

them but we have to makesure that we can expose themto the right type of competi-tion and of course the righttype of support linking withthat competition.”

With the Sports Policy hesaid that it “can't just be repeating models of the past it has to be fully engagingand futuristic in terms of how we are going to moveforward.”

Lashley mentioned he had avery detailed and purposefulwith the Jamaica Minister ofsports, Olivia Grange, and “aswe speak we are looking to de-velop a bilateral agreementwith Jamaica which will focuson several areas of sportingcollaboration.”

“We have to form strategicbilateral agreements and ifthe time table is followed asdiligently as we said we hopeto have the agreement in placein a few months.”

New bilateralagreement inthe works


GUYANA’S Kristian Jeffreyand local racer DavidSimpson joined the SuzukiChallenge Series SR3 Cuproll of honour on Sunday asthey shared race wins withreigning champion SeanMaloney during the DigicelWilliams International RaceMeet at Bushy ParkBarbados.

Ryan Wood took the che-quered flag in all three SwiftCup races, but was disqualifiedfrom the third for taking theJoker Lap twice, handing vic-tory to Jason Parkinson.

Suleman Esuf claimed histhird pole position in SaturdayQualifying,despite a loose wheeldelaying him at the start of thesession; by the time he emergedfrom the pits, the others hadcompleted their allotted time, sohe enjoyed a virtually cleartrack, the only driver to record asub-60secs time.

Guyana’s Calvin Ming joinedhim on the front row, ahead ofMark and Stuart Maloney,Simpson and Mark Vieira ofGuyana, back for the first timesince last year, Sean Maloney,Trinidad & Tobago’s DavidCoelho and Jeffrey, who hadspun off on his first lap andfailed to set a time.

Esuf made the best start, lead-ing Ming and Stuart Maloneyearly on, with Mark Maloneymoving up to fourth just beforehalf-distance, by which timeSean Maloney and Vieira hadretired. On lap six, MarkMaloney tried a brave manoeu-vre into the Ws Hairpin, passingbrother Stuart and Ming on the

inside, even trying a move onEsuf; he spun across the track infront of Stuart and Ming on theexit, however - Stuart retiredafter contact,while Ming clippedthe kerb and continued.

Fifth-placed Simpson seizedthe moment; despite his best ef-forts, glued to the rear wing ofEsuf’s Radical, he failed to finda way past, crossing the linefour-tenths down, to equal hisbest result. Esuf was handed a5secs jump start penalty, how-ever, so Simpson claimed hisfirst win, with Esuf, Jeffrey andMing completing the finishers.Mark Maloney continued slowly,with damaged rear suspension,but was not classified.

The second race was one of anumber hit by intermittent rain,Coelho and Ming retiring withinseconds of the start as the packstreamed through the Hammerfrom the reverse grid formation,based on Qualifying.

Sean Maloney emerged theleader, ahead of Simpson andthe rest, but he soon spun,hand-ing the lead to brother Stuart,who had already passedSimpson, with Esuf next up.

Marks Maloney and Vieira en-joyed a fierce battle for fifth, theGuyanese driver eventually get-ting the upper hand, beforeSimpson spun down to last.Nowsecond, Esuf to second put pres-sure on Stuart Maloney, untilthey aquaplaneded off into thegravel trap at the Dipper to-gether, where they were soonjoined by Mark Maloney, leav-ing his brother Sean to win, fromVieira and Simpson.

For the second race in a row,

Ming was caught up in an inci-dent at the first corner, whichbroke up the field, with Jeffreythe main beneficiary, handed acomfortable lead he was not tosurrender. Initially second,Coelho lost the place to a deter-mined move by Simpson at theBullet, and then third to Esuf atthe same corner on the followinglap. After a spirited defence,Simpson lost out to Esuf threelaps from home, but still hadmuch to celebrate as the toppoints-scorer of the weekend,with three podium finishes.

Kenrick Husbands (TeamWilliams Industries) claimed hisfirst Swift Cup pole position, byone-tenth from points leaderWood (Team Digicel), with JoshRead (Team Massy UnitedInsurance) and newcomer RhettWatson (Team ICBL) on rowtwo.

Wood led the day’s first racefrom lights to flag, opening suf-ficient of a gap to take the JokerLap and rejoin still in the lead,ahead of Parkinson (Team InfraRentals/Sol) and Read, who thenlost third place to Husbands ashe took his Joker on the last lap.

From the reversed grid basedon Qualifying, Daryl Clarke(Team Digicel) lead off the line in

the second race, but CarlosEdwards (Team Rock HardCement) was ahead by the endof the lap, and looked set for thewin. Having started on the backrow, Wood had been workingthrough the field, however, andpounced on the final lap for hissecond win of the day, withMartinique’s Pascal Calvelclaiming his first Swift Cuppodium in third.

With the final grid based onpoints scored, Wood andParkinson sat on the front row,Clarke and Barry Gale (TeamGale’s Agro Products) on rowtwo, as Edwards had been

served a four-grid penalty for anoverly robust defence of his leadin the previous race.

As before, Wood opened thegap enough to retain the lead onhis Joker Lap, with the order be-hind remaining static,Parkinson ahead of Clarke andRead. By the final lap,Wood hadopened the gap again and, muchto everyone’s surprise, took asecond Joker!

Although that meant disqual-ification, handing victory toParkinson, the 50 points scoredfrom this two earlier wins werestill sufficient for Wood to be topscorer of the day.

Jeffrey andSimpson do well inSuzuki ChallengeSeries SR3 Cup

Barry Mayers finished with two wins and one second place finish in the Suzuki SX 4 in the CMRCGRoup 4

Sammy Cumberbatch leading Trinidad Franklyn Boodram inGroup 4 action.Stuart Maloney (centre) leading David Simpson (left) and Suleman Esuf in the Suzuki SR3 Radical

Guyana’s Stephen Vieira on the outside of fellow countrymanMatthew Vieira.


RIO DE JANEIRO –Brazilian police said onMonday they have “over-whelming” proof the former head of the OlympicCouncil of Ireland led an il-legal ticketing ring at theRio Games and are prepar-ing to make a formal accu-sation later in the week.

Patrick Hickey will be ac-cused, along with KevinMallon, a director of interna-tional sports hospitality com-pany THG Sports, with scalp-ing, ambush marketing andcriminal association, said Riode Janeiro police chief RicardoBarbosa.

Taken together, the crimesare punishable with up to eightyears in jail, according to po-lice.

“We have vast amounts of documentary proof and our in-vestigation will wind up onThursday,” Barbosa said. “Theillegal acts were committed by

the president of the Irish com-mittee who had complete con-trol over the scheme and thepower to make decisions.”

A lawyer for Hickey did notrespond to requests for com-ment. The 71-year-old was re-leased last week from theBangu 10 maximum securityprison, where he had been heldsince his Aug. 10 arrest at aluxury beachfront hotel duringthe Games.

In addition to Hickey andMallon, another seven peopleare wanted by police for allegedties to the ticket price-gougingscheme.

Hickey, formerly Europe’s topOlympic official, temporarilystepped aside as an IOC exec-utive board member, head ofthe European OlympicCommittee and the OlympicCouncil of Ireland after his ar-rest.

Mallon met with police onMonday but declined to answer

questions during a 40-minuteencounter. Hickey was due tomeet with officers yesterdaybut police said they alreadyhave enough evidence to go totrial, even without their cooper-ation.

“They have a constitutionalright to remain silent but evenif they do the proof is over-whelming,” Barbosa said.

“That won’t bother us be-cause we have other evidencesuch as witnesses, materials we have collected throughsearch and seizure, emails,conversations and otherthings.”

Barbosa said he would sendhis report tomorrow to stateprosecutors, who will then de-cide on presenting formalcharges to a judge.

Police will ask for the twomen, both of whom have al-ready had their passports confiscated, to remain in Brazilindefinitely.

Brazil police ready formalaccusation in Irish ticket scandal

Former top European member of the International OlympicCommittee (IOC), Patrick Hickey arrives at a residential buildingafter leaving the Bangu Jails Complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,August 30, 2016.

THREE-TIME Vueltawinner AlbertoContador expectsColombian rider NairoQuintana to win hisfirst Tour of Spain in

Madrid on Sunday.Movistar Team rider

Quintana holds anadvantage of threeminutes and 37 secondsover nearest rival, Tour de

France winner ChrisFroome with five stagesremaining, includingFriday’s individual timetrial.“Unless Quintana hasa bad day, he is the winner

of La Vuelta,” Contadortold Spanish radio CadenaSer. Contador is fourth inthe general standings, fourminutes and two secondsbehind Quintana. Fiveseconds separate Contadorfrom third-placed JohanEsteban Chaves ofColombia.

To beat Contador andwin La Vuelta would be asignificant achievementfor Quintana, the 2014Giro d’Italia champion.

“I’ve had to learn a lotvery quickly from figureslike Contador,” Quintanatold Marca. “I followed hismovements during an epicstage of his at Fuente De(four years ago) and I saidto myself that if I wantedto be someone importantin cycling, I would have tolearn what a rider likeContador did.

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BARBADOS STBARBADOS STOCK EXCHANGEOCK EXCHANGE

COMPANY LAST TRADE VOLUME HIGH LOW LAST CURRENT PRICE BID ASK BID ASK

DATE CLOSE CLOSE CHANGE PRICE PRICE SIZE SIZE ABV Investments Incorporated 18-Aug-16 - - - $0.02 $0.02 - $0.02 $0.15 87,000 12,000

BICO Limited 31-Aug-16 - - - $2.05 $2.05 - $2.05 - 1,080 -

Banks Holdings Limited 06-Sep-16 2,568 $7.10 $7.10 $7.10 $7.10 $0.00 $7.10 - 154,987 -

Barbados Dairy Industries Limited 23-Aug-16 - - - $1.88 $1.88 - $1.88 $5.25 2,288 20,295

Barbados Farms Limited 29-Jun-16 - - - $0.50 $0.50 - $0.30 $0.50 12,100 5,666

Cable and Wireless Barbados Limited 31-Aug-16 - - - $2.66 $2.66 - $2.60 $2.66 644 8,048

Cave Shepherd and Company Limited -* 05-Sep-16 - - - $3.20 $3.20 - $2.52 $3.20 300 961

FirstCaribbean International Bank 15-Aug-16 - - - $2.05 $2.05 - $2.10 $2.25 10,000 8,477

Fortress Caribbean Property Fund 24-Aug-16 - - - $0.19 $0.19 - $0.15 $0.19 20,000 16,286Dev Fund

Fortress Caribbean Property Fund 31-Aug-16 - - - $0.52 $0.52 - $0.52 $0.59 34,523 15,948Value Fund

Goddard Enterprises Limited -* 06-Sep-16 1,500 $8.29 $8.29 $8.29 $8.29 $0.00 $8.30 - 2,960 -

Insurance Corporation Of B’dos Limited 05-Sep-16 - - - $3.25 $3.25 - $3.30 $4.75 1,300 1,000

JMMB Group Limited 14-Jul-16 - - - $0.15 $0.15 - $0.15 - 1,000 -

Emera (C’bean) Incorporated 5.5% Pref 17-Jun-16 - - - $6.00 $6.00 - $3.15 - 131 -

Emera (C’bean) Incorporated *+* 03-Feb-16 - - - $33.30 $33.30 - - - - -

Massy Holdings Limited 06-Sep-16 148 $14.50 $14.50 $14.50 $14.50 $0.00 $14.50 $15.00 16,481 748

One Caribbean Media Limited 10-Aug-16 - - - $7.00 $7.00 - $3.05 $6.99 3 500

Sagicor Financial Corporation Pref 6.5% 23-Jun-16 - - - $2.26 $2.26 - - - - -

Sagicor Financial Corporation Limited 06-Sep-16 1,901 $1.88 $1.85 $2.00 $2.00 $0.00 $1.85 $1.89 1,599 4,809

The West Indies Rum Distilleries Limited 24-Aug-16 - - - $8.00 $8.00 - - $8.00 - 18,115

Trinidad Cement Limited 18-Aug-16 - - - $0.80 $0.80 - $0.80 $0.85 850 37,361

West India Biscuit Company Limited 22-Jun-16 - - - $14.20 $14.20 - $14.40 - 350 -

Emera Deposit Receipt - - - $18.10 $18.24 $0.14 $18.50 - 25,000 -

TOTAL SHARES BOUGHT & SOLD 6,117

-* = Security is Trading X-Div*+* = Security is Suspended** = Rights Issued

Royal Fidelity TIGRS A3 Fund 18-Dec-13 $10.00 $10.00 $10.50 100

Last Trade Bid Ask Bid AskDate Price Price Size Size

B’dos Government Debenture 6.875% 2023 15-Jun-16 $98.50 $103.00 30,000 30,000B’dos Government Debenture 7% 2027 $104.00 50,000B’dos Government Debenture 7.25% 2026 06-May-16 $103.00 30,000B’dos Government Debenture 7.375% 2027 06-May-16 $104.00 20,000B’dos Government Debenture 7.50% 2026 13-Jul-16 $106.00 78,000 B’dos Government T/Note 6% 2016 05-Apr-16 $101.00 35,000B’dos Government T/Note 6% 2017 30-Jun-16 $105.00 296,000 B’dos Government T/Note 6.5% 2019 29-Jan-16 $106.00 150,000B’dos Government T/Note 6.625% 2019 18-Apr-16 $103.00 $106.00 28,000 28,000

MUTUAL FUNDSeptember 6, 2016

ENDED NAME OF FUND NAV OFFER BID NAVCHANGE

02-Sep-16 REPUBLIC CAPITAL GROWTH FUND w 1.5833 0.006002-Sep-16 REPUBLIC INCOME FUND -* w 1.5752 0.001102-Sep-16 REPUBLIC PROPERTY FUND w 1.2731 0.000102-Sep-16 FORTRESS CARIBBEAN GROWTH FUND w 5.0889 5.0889 5.0889 0.008202-Sep-16 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - ACC. w 1.9086 0.000102-Sep-16 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - DIST. w 1.0183 0.000131-Jul-16 ROYAL FIDELITY SELECT BALANCED FUND m 4.9284 4.9284 4.2980 0.054931-Jul-16 ROYAL FIDELITY STRATEGIC GROWTH FUND m 0.8585 0.8585 0.8413 0.012731-Jul-16 ROYAL FIDELITY PREMIUM INCOME FUND m 1.5378 1.5378 1.5070 0.007226-Aug-16 SAGICOR GLOBAL BALANCED FUND w 2.34 -0.0126-Aug-16 SAGICOR SELECT GROWTH FUND w 1.27 -0.0126-Aug-16 SAGICOR PREFERRED INCOME FUND -* w 1.07 0.00* Indicates the Fund is currently ex-div

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m = monthly valuation, q = quarterly valuation, w = weekly

Regular MarketSecurity Volume High Low Market Advance/

Price Decline

BANKS HOLDINGS LIMITED** 2,568 $7.10 $7.10 $7.10 $0.00SAGICOR FINANCIAL CORPORATION LIMITED 1,901 $1.88 $1.85 $2.00 $0.00GODDARD ENTERPRISES LIMITED 1,500 $8.29 $8.29 $8.29 $0.00MASSY HOLDINGS LIMITED 148 $14.50 $14.50 $14.50 $0.00

** It should be noted that these transactions represent the trades pursuant to SLU BeveragesLimited's offer for Banks Holdings Limited.

Deposit ReceiptsSecurity Previous Current Advance/

Close Close DeclineEMERA DEPOSIT RECEIPT $18.10 $18.24 $0.14

BARBADOS STOCK REPORTSeptember 6, 2016

Four securities traded firm as 6,117 shares traded on the Regular Market, with a total value of $36,360.65. Banks Holdings Limited**was the volume leader trading 2,568 shares at $7.10. They were followed by Sagicor Financial Corporation Limited and GoddardEnterprises Limited which traded 1,901 and 1,500 shares respectively.

JUNIOR MARKET

Fixed Income

SHARE SUMMARY INFORMATIONTuesday September 6, 2016

INDICESTODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES

September 6, 2016 September 5, 2016Local 2,538.71 2,538.71 - Cross-list 1,411.72 1,411.72 - Composite 647.66 647.66 -

MARKET CAPITALISATION (in millions)

TODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES September 6, 2016 September 5, 2016

Local 6,090.63 6,090.33 (0.31) Cross-list 2,325.18 2,325.18 - Composite 8,415.81 8,415.50 (0.31)

NEWSANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

JMMB Group Limited - Notice is hereby given that the Annual GeneralMeeting of the Shareholders of the Company will be held on September21st, 2016 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, Grand Jamaican Suite, 81Knutsford Boulevard, Kingston 5, Jamaica.

PUT THROUGH NOTICE

Put-through – Republic Finance & Trust (Barbados) Corporation wouldlike to announce that the put-through of 40,000 shares in Goddard

Enterprises Limited at $8.33 set to take place on September 12th, 2016.

BLOCK TRADE NOTICE

Block Trade – The Barbados Stock Exchange (BSE) would like toannounce a Block Trade transaction of 2,132,546 shares in GoddardEnterprises Limited at $6.60 set to take place on Thursday, September8th, 2016.

TRADING SUSPENSIONThe Barbados Stock Exchange (BSE) wishes to advise that, as a resultof the approved amalgamation of Emera (Caribbean) Incorporatedand Emera (Caribbean) (2016) Incorporated, trading in the security -Emera (Caribbean) Incorporated - has been suspended with immediateeffect. Please be advised that the trading suspension does not pertainto Emera Caribbean Incorporated 5.5% Preference shares.

SECURITY VOLUME LIMIT SECURITY VOLUME LIMIT

ABV INVESTMENTS INCORPORATED 3,500 EMERA (CARIBBEAN) INCORPORATED 1,000

BANKS HOLDINGS LIMITED 4,000 EMERA (CARIBBEAN) INCORPORATED 5.5% Pref 100

B'DOS DAIRY INDUSTRIES LIMITED 300 EMERA DEPOSIT RECEIPT -

B'DOS FARMS LIMITED 1,500 SAGICOR FINANCIAL CORPORATION 6.5% Pref 7,500

BICO INDUSTRIES LIMITED 100 SAGICOR FINANCIAL CORPORATION 10,000

CABLE & WIRELESS (BARBADOS)LIMITED

9,000 THE WEST INDIES RUM DISTILLERY LIMITED 300

CAVE SHEPHERD & COMPANY LIMITED 1,500 WEST INDIA BISCUIT COMPANY LIMITED 300

FIRSTCARIBBEAN INTERNATIONALLIMITED

10,000 JMMB GROUP LIMITED 10,000

FORTRESS CARIBBEAN PROPERTY -DEV FUND

3,500 MASSY HOLDINGS LIMITED 6,500

FORTRESS CARIBBEAN PROPERTY -VALUE FUND

3,500 ONE CARIBBEAN MEDIA LIMITED 4,000

GODDARD ENTERPRISES LIMITED 3,500 TRINIDAD CEMENT LIMITED 10,000

INSURANCE CORPORATION OFBARBADOS LIMITED

2,500 ROYAL FIDELITY TIGRS A3 FUND 100


FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Kaipo Marshall isthe Barbados SolNational Male JuniorTennis Champion.Playing in the finals ofthe u18 boys singlesover the past weekend,Marshall had a comfort-able come from behindvictory over Kyle Frost5-7,6-1,6-2. Marshallalso defeated the num-ber 1 seed RomaniMayers in the semi-final 7-6,7-5. The lossagainst Marshall was adisappointment for six-teen year old Frost whohad dropped only 3games in 3 matches onhis way to the finals.

However, it was Mayerswho got his revengeagainst Marshall in theu16 final which he won in3 sets 6-4,5-7,6-1. With

players permitted to enterthree age groups for thefirst time, Marshall, play-ing in the under 14s madeno mistakes defeatingKyle Griffith 6-1,6-0 in thefinal. Marshall won hissecond title dropping only5 games in his 3 matches.

Hannah Chambers re-cently back from the 12 &Under ITF CaribbeanTeam Championships inCuraçao continued herwinning ways capturingthe u12 and u14 SOL jun-ior girl’s national titles.Chambers defeated rivalAmelia Dickson in a veryclose match 6-3,1-6,7-6 inthe u14 final after beatingGabrielle Leslie 6-3,6-0 inthe semi-final. Chambershad a perfect record in sin-gles in Curaçao winningall 5 of her singles matchesincluding a victory over

the Jamaica u12 no 1,withthe strong Jamaican girlsteam placing first overall.

The u16 SOL nationalgirls champion for the firsttime is Tangia Riley-Codrington who defeatedLeslie 6-1,6-2 in the final.Leslie reached the final ofthe U-16s with a 6-3,4-6,6-3 victory over Dicksonwhile Riley-Codringtonbooked her place in thefinal with an early roundwin over Chambers 7-5,6-

0 and a walkover in thesemis over Alesha Alleynewho withdrew from thesingles due to injury.

The girls no 1 seed IlanaBlackwood is the u18 SOLNational champion. Ilana,currently #870 in the ITFjunior rankings after asuccessful summer on theregional tournament cir-cuit, did not drop morethan 4 games in a matchon her way to a comfort-able 6-0,6-3 victory over

Riley-Codrington in thefinal.

In the u12 final it wasCallum Dickson who de-feated his friend and rivalLance Castagne-Clairmont 8-3. Both boyshad also representedBarbados at the 12 &Under ITF CaribbeanTeam Championships inCuraçao with Dickson hav-ing a 4-2 record in singlesincluding a victory overthe Trinidad u12 no 1

player - the Trinidadianboy’s team placed firstoverall.

Chambers won the girlsU-12s SOL national girlstitle ending undefeated inthe round robin. SerenaBryan was the runner up.

The SOL NationalChampionships continueat the National TennisCentre with action in theSeniors divisions this weekfollowed by the Openevents.

Kaipo Marshall is the Barbados Sol NationalMale Junior Tennis Champion

Cardiff (United Kingdom)– England limited overscaptain Eoin Morgan saidhe was “excited” by histeam’s progress in 50-overcricket despite a season-ending four-wicket loss toPakistan in Cardiff onSunday.

That defeat meantEngland had to be contentwith a 4-1 one-day inter-national series win ratherthan a first home 5-0whitewash.

It also denied Morgan’smen, who back in Junetied an ODI with SriLanka in Nottingham be-fore winning that series,a maiden unbeaten sea-son in white-ball cricketahead of Wednesday’s loneTwenty20 againstPakistan in Manchester.

England may still befifth in the InternationalCricket Council ODI rank-ings but they have madesignificant progress sincetheir embarrassing first-round exit at last year’sWorld Cup in Australiaand New Zealand.

And with England stag-ing both the 2017Champions Trophy andthe 2019 World Cup, it isno longer fanciful to thinkthey could win their firstmajor international 50-over trophy within thenext few years.

“We’ve been outstand-ing,” said Morgan. “Everygame throughout the se-ries, we’ve come out with ahunger and determina-tion to perform at ourbest.”

England fell short ofwhat they wanted in mak-ing 302 for nine in Cardiff,with opener Jason Roytop-scoring with 87 andall-rounder Ben Stokes

contributing an ODI-best75.

But they were on coursefor a whitewash whenPakistan lost two wicketsin one Mark Wood over tobe 77 for three.

However, a recordfourth-wicket partnershipof 163 between wicket-keeper Sarfraz Ahmed(90) and Shoaib Malik (77)turned the matchPakistan’s way.

‘Hunger’Morgan, though, re-mained heartened byEngland’s commitment toan aggressive approach inODI cricket since theirWorld Cup debacle.

“I think it’s exciting,” hesaid.

“The attitude andhunger to want to be bet-ter playing in that man-ner, I think, sums up thedirection one-day interna-tional cricket is going and

the talent we have.”But with world number

one-ranked Australia alsocompleting a 4-1 seriesvictory away to Sri Lankaon Sunday, Morgan deniedEngland – beaten onhome soil in the 2013 finalby India at Edgbaston –were favourites for nextyear’s Champions Trophy.

“Australia are playingsome really strongcricket... South Africa,India as well,” said theIrishman.

“I know the lastChampions Trophy weplayed (here), the pitcheswere a bit drier than wethought, and brought insub-continent teams.

“I don’t think, this farout, you can label anybodyas favourites.”

Man-of-the-matchAhmed, who also scoredPakistan’s first ODI hun-dred at Lord’s in the sec-ond match, was the lead-

ing overall run-scorer inthe series with exactly 300at an average of 60.

“The way Sarfraz bat-ted, this whole tour he’sbeen exceptional,” saidPakistan one-day captainAzhar Ali following amuch-needed win.

“He’s been positive andscoring good runs at num-ber five, so we’ve got somegood performances but wejust need to bind it to-gether.”

Nevertheless, Pakistanremain ninth in the ODIrankings, with the 1992champions in danger ofmissing out on automaticqualification for the 2019World Cup.

Azhar has often beencompared unfavourably tocelebrated Test captainMisbah-ul-Haq, who hasled Pakistan to the top ofthe ICC standings in thefive-day game.

But Azhar responded tosuggestions he might re-sign the captaincy by indi-cating he intended tocarry on as skipper.

“I got a few 80s (againstEngland) so that will re-ally help my confidence.Leading by example isvery important. I will tryand keep that form in thecoming series. That willhelp the team.”

He added: “It’s a veryhappy camp right now –because it has been a verytough tour for us in ODIs,and getting a victory atthe end and finishing on ahigh is really good.

“A few guys we haveseen on this tour have re-ally stepped up – they areyoung guys, and if theycan play good consistentcricket we are looking at abright future.”

‘Exciting’ England encouragelimited overs captain Morgan

Eoin Morgan

PINELANDS took careof all and will be repre-senting Barbados inthe International 3x3Youth Tournament or-ganized by theInternationalBasketball Foundation(FIBA) in collaborationwith the CaribbeanBasketballConfederation (CBC).Barbados has been in-vited to participate andall countries partici-pating are required tohold national qualifiersfor both boys and girlsteams by the end ofOctober 2016. The win-ning teams of thesequalifiers will repre-sent Barbados at theTournament which istentatively scheduledfor later this year.

Last Sunday atBarbados CommunityCollege (BCC), the BABAhosted as part of theirSummer Jam YouthProgramme, the 3x3 bas-ketball national qualifiersfor players between theages of 15 - 17 i.e. ( playersborn between 1999 – 2001)boys. This event is FIBAendorsed and all rules gov-erning FIBA 3x3 basket-ball were adhered tostrictly.

The national qualifiersfor females will be heldmid-September/October

with the hopes of teamsregistering out of theschool league system.

The Boys 3x3Competition consisted ofthe following eight (8)teams which were spiltinto 2 zones. The top 2teams advanced to thesemi-finals, the winners ofeach semi-final played inthe Final.

In Zone A the teams con-sisted of the Panthers,Pinelands, W.A.K.Y andWildcats while the Zone Bteams were Cavs, ISOGriffins< Spartans andTridents.

In addition to the gamesthere were also two con-tests,a free throw shootingcompetition, each partici-pating team provided tworepresentatives for thecompetition, and the top 4shooters competed againsteach other.

A Skills Competitioncomprised of a skillscourse, where playerswere timed and the playerwith the best time wasdeemed the winner.

Team & IndividualAwards for the U17 3x3National Qualifiers:

Pinelands, Winners/CHAM-PIONS of the U17 3x3National Qualifiers.

Cavs, Runners Up

W.A.K.Y, 3rd Place

Kiserian Adams fromPinelands, MVP

Carl Thorpe - Winner of FreeThrow Competition fromSpartans

Zachary Moore - Winner ofSkills Competition fromPinelands

The Barbados AmateurBasketball Associationwants to extend congratu-lations to all the playersfor their time, energy andefforts and celebrate theiraccomplishments in thetournament. This week-end was a fun, excitingand learning experiencefor these young men.Overall we wish to inspireour youth to become am-bassadors for our sportand to embrace positivevalues such as courage,passion, respect and teamspirit, as we journey to-wards the development ofyouth Basketball for Boys& Girls in Barbados.

The association alsowishes to extend thanks toEquity InsurancesLimited, HealthcareBarbados (HCB) andCooperators GeneralInsurance Ltd for theirgenerous support and con-tributions throughout thistournament.


Pinelands Win U17 3x3 National Qualifiers

Pinelands Winners of the U17 3x3 National Qualifiers.

Kiserian Adams from Pinelands accepts his trophy for finals MVP fromPresident of the BABA, Derek Garrett.

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Wednesday September 7, 2016

By Jenique Belgrave

GOVERNMENT has come upwith two options for personslooking to acquire units atthe Grotto high-rise apart-ment complex: rent-to-ownor full purchase.

While several suggestionswere bandied about on the fate ofthe 122-unit National HousingCorporation (NHC) project,Minister of Housing, Lands andRural Development, DenisKellman,revealed government’sfinal decision in an interviewwith The Barbados Advocate.

“We have decided that thosewill be rent-to-own or those per-sons who can buy outright will beallowed to buy outright. We will

also ensure that the cost is nottoo high for them, but we intendto ensure that the masses of peo-ple can have an opportunity tohave a great product at the rightprice,” he stated.

While not divulging which unitwould be allocated to specific in-come earners, or how much oneunit will cost, Kellman is onrecord saying each could carry a$450 000 price tag on the openmarket.

In addition, he noted that per-sons interested in owning one ofthese will soon have an opportu-nity to view exactly what is beingoffered,as showrooms were to be“up and running pretty soon” bythe NHC, in partnership with

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GROTTOUNITSWILL BEUP FORSALE

Minister of Housing, Lands and Rural Development, Denis Kellman, speaking to The BarbadosAdvocate recently.

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