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MINISTER of Finance andEconomic Affairs, ChristopherSinckler, says far too manypeople in this country are notpaying the taxes they shouldand Government is taking stepsto ensure that this does notcontinue.

The Minister contended thateveryone in society has tocontribute their “fair share”,andso, in addition to urging those

persons to pay what is required,he said the Barbados RevenueAuthority (BRA) will also bedoing its part to collect what isdue.

“We are going to strengthenthe tax administration; we havebetter skilled staff, highernumbers that you can do theauditing. We are going tostrengthen the laws, which weare moving to do as you have

seen; and put it on a footing,” hetold the media during aninterview yesterday morning.

Sinckler added, “I know thereis going to be resistance, a lot of resistance. I’ve seen theprofessionals in particular,because there are someprofessionals who believe thatthey should not pay tax andthere are quite a few of themwho do not and soon enough it

will all come out how many arenot paying. And if the currentlegislation or current law doesnot take care of that; if the courtsystem is not moving fastenough to prosecute peoplewhen they are taken there, thenwe have to find other methods toensure people pay their fairshare.”

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Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Christopher Sinckler (left), chatting with Permanent Secretary in the Division ofEconomic Affairs, Dr. Louis Woodruffe, during the opening of a Green Climate Fund National Sensitisation Workshop at the GrandeSalle, Central Bank yesterday.

‘Pay your fair share of taxes’

SLU BEVERAGES hasacquired controlling interestin Banks Holdings Limited(BHL) after a very hecticbidding campaign.

This was confirmed yesterdayby Chairman of BHL,G. Anthony King.

Both SLU Beverages,which isowned by Brazilian beverage

giant Ambev; and ANSA McAL,a Trinidad and Tobagoheadquartered company, werelocked in a see-saw struggle for control of BHL after MassyHoldings had sold its 13 millionshares in BHL to SLUBeverages last September.

King explained that as a resultof SLU Beverages’ acquisition of

just over 6.0 million BHL shareson the Barbados Stock Exchangelast Wednesday at $7.10 a share,it increased its shareholding inBHL to just over 50 per cent.

“The Directors have confirmedthat the trades have now beensettled,” King pointed out.

“SLU Beverages, therefore,now has a controlling interest in

BHL,” King stated further.The two companies (SLU

Beverages and ANSA McAL)were involved in a spiritedcampaign for BHL. Last weekalone saw SLU Beveragesincreasing its offer to $7.10 ashare, only to be followed byANSA McAL, whose price wentto $7.20 a share.

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By Marsha Gittens

THE Belfield Playing Field in BlackRock, St. Michael was a hive ofactivity on Saturday when the youngand the old converged on thegrounds for the Bajan PrideExposition.

An event of the Barbados ProductAuthority in conjunction with the St.Michael West Central ConstituencyCouncil, the Expo jump-startedcelebrations for this year’s Tourism Week,which officially began on Sunday with achurch service.

Consultant with the Ministry ofTourism, Hugh Foster told TheBarbados Advocate that the all-dayevent was aimed at empoweringparticipants, generating income for themand providing visitors to the island andthe area with an opportunity to view andpurchase locally made items andexperience the Barbadian culture.

Foster added that the Exposition wasanother in the Expo series.He stated thatthose staged in the past have received apositive response from members of the

public and from those involved in theevent.

“This is about community tourism andwhat we try to do here is try to empowerthe community. [This is, to] get people inthe specific community that we are in, tocome out with their products, their art,their craft and food to display them for saleon the one hand.On the other hand,we tryto invite and pitch it to visitors to comeinto this space and hopefully the mergingwould generate economic activity. Henceempowering the community and at thesame time exposing visitors to Barbadianculture, food, art, craft and all the entireBarbadian lifestyle. That in essence iswhat it is all about,” it was explained.

At the 24 stalls across the Playing Field,individuals had a chance to buy locallymade craft, food and jewellery. Patronsalso engaged in domino games and dancedto the music played by the Q-In theCommunity disc jockeys.There were alsoactivities for the little ones to enjoy suchas the jumping tents and a Petting Cornerwhere they could view and in someinstances touch the sheep,rabbits,chickenand ducks.

Locals, visitors enjoyBajan Pride Expo

Matthew Dacosta Hinds, Codi Athill (in hand), Paulene Dascosta Hinds and PeterDacosta Hinds taking a closer look at the sheep in the Petting Corner.

Lorna Williams of Fancy Flavours and Creations assisting customers to thatstall.

It was an intense domino game going on during the Bajan Pride Exposition onSaturday.

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A GOVERNMENT Minister saysBarbados has an “unparalleledopportunity” to become the first Greeneconomy in the Western Hemisphere.

Minister of Finance and EconomicAffairs, Christopher Sinckler made thecomments yesterday morning whiledelivering the feature address at theGreen Climate Fund NationalSensitisation Workshop at the GrandeSalle, Central Bank. This Fund, theminister said,provides an unprecedentedfinancing window that can advance thiscountry towards climate-resilientdevelopment.

He added that while the role Caribbeancountries play in global emissions whichresult in climate change is negligible,Barbados is nonetheless willing to leadby example, and move towards a carbonneutral future.With that in mind, he saidthat Government has set several targetsin an effort to achieve this, among them,generating 29 per cent of all electricityconsumption from renewable sources. Ifachieved, the Finance Minister said, thisshould translate into as much as 22 percent savings in the country’s consumption

of electricity by 2029.The minister addedthat even outside of Government,entrepreneurs and ordinary homeownersare investing heavily in renewable energytechnologies, which are not only helpingfamilies and enterprises save money onenergy bills, but reducing the country’scarbon footprint on the environment.

Sinckler made the point while notingthat the threat from climate change isreal, serious and growing and given thatreality, there is need for urgent action toaddress it.

“All the data on climate change ispointing to the fact that no nation canescape the impact of climate change.Living with climate change has becomeour “new normal” and, if not addressedeffectively, could become an irreversiblecatastrophe,” he warned.

He added, “In essence, your presencehere this morning clearly signals that weall understand the gravity of the climatechange threat and the need for all of us tocontribute to the ambitious global effortsto combat its effects.” He made the pointwhile referring to the impact of climatechange on Small Island Developing States

(SIDS) such as Barbados. Sinckler notedthat empirical evidence has shown that allSIDS are among the most vulnerablecommunities, ecosystems and economiesto the adverse effects of climate change.Hebolstered that point as he referred toseveral natural disasters which have overthe years caused damage in SIDS withinthe Caribbean. Sinckler spoke ofHurricane Luis which in 1995 causedAntigua and Barbuda to lose 15-25 percent of its workforce and Hurricane Ivanwhich landed on the shores of Grenada in2004, damaging 90 per cent of thestructures, costing the government morethan twice the country’s GDP, damaging70 per cent of the tourism infrastructureand wiping out Grenada’s principalagricultural export – nutmeg.

With that in mind, he said thatyesterday’s workshop was expected toassist the stakeholders, in garnering abetter understanding of the operationalmodalities of the Fund and articulate theirrespective roles in identifying mitigationand adaptation projects that willcontribute to the sustainable developmentgoals of Barbados. (JRT)

GOVERNMENT is going toParliament next Tuesday to changethe amount of value added tax (VAT)charged on cell phone usage from 17.5 per cent to 22 per cent. The newrate is to come into effect on January1, 2016.

Minister of Finance and EconomicAffairs, Christopher Sinckler told themedia yesterday morning following theopening of a Green Climate FundNational Sensitisation Workshop at theGrande Salle, Central Bank, thatrepresentatives of the telecommunicationcompanies are to meet with governmentofficials this week to discuss and workout the technical details associated withsuch a move.

News of the increase of VAT on cellphone usage came late last month in theHouse of Assembly, where he indicatedthat 4.5 per cent increase in VAT to becharged by the telecommunicationscompanies, would replace the previouslyproposed airtime excise duty that was to

be applied to all mobile airtime used bycell companies operating in Barbados.Plans for that excise duty were revealedin the June 2015 Financial Statementsand Budgetary Proposal and was to comeinto effect this past August at a rate ofthree cents per minute for both serviceproviders.That excise duty was expectedto generate some $32.7 million in revenueon an annual basis, while the VATincrease is expected to net about half thatfigure.

The revenue to be raised through thishike in VAT on cell phone usage, thefinance minister said, will be collected bythe companies and passed on to theBarbados Revenue Authority (BRA). Hiscomments came as he made it clear thatthe increase in VAT is only relative to cellphones and is not an overall increase inVAT in this country.

“It is no indication of anything to come.The VAT rate is 17.5 per cent and long willit remain there as far as we can see andas far as I’m concerned,”he stated. (JRT)

VAT hike for cellphones coming soon

Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Christopher Sinckler delivering thefeature address yesterday morning.

Gov’t focused on green economy

BARBADOS recorded fewer fires up toNovember this year than it did last year,but the number of vehicular accidentsthat claimed lives or caused seriousinjury has increased to 88 this year,compared with 48 for the same periodlast year.

These figures were revealed by ActingChief Fire Officer with the Barbados FireService (BFS),Errol Maynard, in his 2015Christmas message.

However, while there have beensignificant reductions in the number offires, Mr. Maynard said the BFS was stillnot comfortable with the numbers.Overall, the BFS responded to 2 098incidents up to the end of November,

compared to 2 777 for 2014.Of this number, there were 75

residential fires compared with 93 lastyear. There was also a drop in rubbishfires, with 338 recorded this yearcompared with 349 last year. A furtherdecline in grass and cane fires waswitnessed: 837 grass fires were recordedat the end of November compared with 1382 last year; and 59 cane fires this yearcompared with 133 in 2014. However,there was a slight increase in the numberof commercial building fires, with thenumber rising from 15 at the end ofNovember last year to 20 for thecorresponding period this year.

“We believe this reduction is not only as

a result of our being out there,being morevigilant and executing a more focusededucation programme,but we also believethat it is as a result of you the publiclistening to our messages and acceptingyour individual responsibility as goodcitizens of Barbados,” Mr. Maynardstated, while imploring citizens to do thesame over the Christmas season.

In addition, the Fire Chief urged thepublic to adopt a defensive drivingposture, as 88 vehicular accidentsresulting in significant injury and loss oflife were recorded up to the end ofNovember this year, 40 more than lastyear.

“We are encouraging you to play it safe

by not drinking and driving. Play it safeby driving within the speed limits andadopt a defensive driving posture,” hestressed.

While giving business owners andmanagers a passing grade for adhering tothe law and regulations to ensure theirworkers and customers were safe, Mr.Maynard also urged those who werefalling behind in their responsibilities tostep up to the plate.

“Do not allow the joys off the season toblur your minds to safety.Do not for a fewgains endanger the life and well-being ofour families, friends and customers. Donot allow a season of joy to turn to a lifeof regret,” he pleaded.

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THE Ministry of Agriculture, Food,Fisheries and Water ResourceManagement is inviting primary andsecondary school children between sevenand 17 to take part in its gardeningcompetition.

Students are invited to submit photos ofthemselves participating in an agriculturalactivity at home, for a chance to winindividual prizes,as well as prizes for theirschools.The photos will be uploaded to theMinistry’s Food and Nutrition Facebookpage and weekly prizes will be given tocompetitors whose photos attract the mostlikes.Top prizes will then be awarded to thewinning competitor, the winning schooland the best photo.

Application forms and guidelines maybe collected from the Ministry’sheadquarters at Graeme Hall, ChristChurch,or downloaded from the Ministry’sFacebook page at https://www.facebook.com/GELinBim.

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THE Barbados WaterAuthority (BWA) informsthe public that due toexceedingly low waterlevels at its Half Acrereservoir in the north,there will be an emergencyshutdown to some of thepipelines in this system. Itstarted from 9:00 pmyesterday until 4:00 amand will continue dailyuntil further notice.

This is in an effort toallow the reservoirs toreplenish.

Some residents in the

parish of St. Lucyincluding Colleton,

Clinketts, Half Moon Fort,Sutherland,FusticVillage,Checker Hall, Maycock,Broomfield, Friendly Hall,Husbands,Harrison,CrabHill, Babylon Bourbon,Trents, Swampy Town,Nessfield, Hannays,Salmonds, Grape Hall,Cluffs, Greenidges, BrightHall, Connell Town,Roaches, Flat Field,Northumberland RiverBay, Hope, Harris, SpringHall, Bishops and

Rockfield as well as inBoscobel and Six Mens,St.Peter will experiencewater outages during thistime.

In addition, the nightlyshut off at Golden RidgePumping Station is still ineffect from 8:00 pm until4:00 am.

During this period,districts in St.Thomas,St.George St. John and St.Philip will be impactedand will includeHopewell, Vaucluse,Content, Rock Hall, Shop

Hill,Christie Village,CaneGarden Heights, Proute,Strong Hope;Applewaites,Locust Hall, BournesVillage, Paradise, Jericho,Market Hill, CottageGrove Development,Cottage Retreat,Newbury,Todds; Tappy Pond,Wilson Hill, Sherbourne,Claybury, Cherry Grove,Pool, Four Roads, LemonArbor, Gall Hill, Carters,Glebe Land, Clifton Hall,Edge Cliff, Church View,Newcastle, Foster Hall,Messiah Street, Colleton,

Coach Hill, SargeantsStreet, Pothouse, Society,Church View; Dodds,Moncrieffe, Parish Landand neighbouringdistricts.

Residents in these areasare advised to store waterduring the hours ofdisruption.

The Barbados WaterAuthority apologizes forthe inconvenience andassures its valuedcustomers that it is doingeverything possible torectify the problem.

THIS year, Carols byCandlelight will becelebrating 20 years.

The charity event hostedby Rotary Club ofBarbados, in an effort toraise funds for localcharities and communityprojects will take place onSunday, December 13th,on the grounds of IlaroCourt at 5.30 p.m.

For the first time, FirstCitizens Bank (Barbados)Ltd will join Rotary as titlesponsor to stage thisannual family affair.

During a pressconference yesterday,Marketing &Communication Officer atFirst Citizens, KareemMcClean said that theBank is excited to beinvolved.

“We are hoping that thiswill be a long timepartnership,” heexpressed.

“This event,which is intoits 20th year, is one of thoseways that Rotary givesback to the communities inwhich they operate andFirst Citizens is big on

giving back to thecommunities in which weoperate…I want toencourage Barbadians tocome out on Sunday intheir numbers for this veryimportant drive.”

President of Rotary Clubof Barbados, JedderRobinson expressedsincere thanks to themanagement and staff ofFirst Citizens forpartnering with Rotary toensure that Carols byCandlelight reaches alarger audience this year.

“Every year we aim tostage this show early inDecember to ensure thatwe start off the ChristmasSeason by bringing somecheer to people from allwalks of life. Theentertainment provided atthe show caters to the veryyoung, those not so young,the old and those not soold.”

President-Elect ofRotary, Lisa Cumminsfurther indicated that 100percent of all proceeds goto community projectsincluding work with local

children’s homes, childrenwith special needs andprojects with vocationaltraining, the elderly anddisabled.

She also took theopportunity to thank allfeatured performers inadvanced for giving theirtime. These include: -Mustard Seed Kids, DeRed Boyz with TamaraMarshall, Biggie Irie,

Nakita, Marvay, PeterRam, G-Syndicate,Nostaljah and DenisWarner.

“When you come toCarols by Candlelight andyour sitting on the lawn ofIlaro Court, understandthat you aren’t just therefor entertainment,you arethere also because you arepart of a cause; you arepart of a community that is

giving back. Every centthat you spend on a ticket,and on food is going backinto the community andwe are very proud of that,”she said.

Tickets can bepurchased from anymember of Rotary Club ofBarbados, as well as A&BMusic Supplies SheratonMall, Carlton & A-OneSupermarket, Emerald

City Supermarket, EssoTigermart Black Rock,Coffee Bean, Ticketpalonline, among others – foronly $35.00, which admitsone adult and two childrenunder 12.

Children under 12 areasked to bring aworthwhile gift, wrappedand marked“Boy”or “Girl”for children’s charities.(TL)

MEMBERS of the DrugSquad have arrested andjointly charged Guyanesenational Lyndon AubreyKennedy, 34 years, andBarbadian RandyMcCurren Agard of NewOrleans, St. Michael withthe offences of:

Possession of 6 kgs of cocaine;Possession with intent to supply; andTrafficking On Friday 4th

December, 2015, Policecarried out an operation inHastings, Christ Church,where the vehicle in whichKennedy and Agard weretravelling in was stopped.A search of the vehicle dis-covered 5 packages of theillegal drug, weighing 6kilos.

Kennedy and Agardwere to appear at theDistrict A MagistratesCourt yesterday.

From left: President of Rotary Club of Barbados, Jedder Robinson thanking Marketing &Communication Officer at First Citizens Bank, Kareem McClean for the bank’s support with the hostingof Carols by Candlelight 2015 being held Sunday December 13th, at Ilaro Court. Looking on isPresident-Elect of Rotary Club of Barbados, Lisa Cummins (left) and Shauntelle Clarke, MarketingAssistant at First Citizens Bank.

Carols byCandlelight 2015this SundayFirst Citizens joins as title sponsor

GuyaneseandBarbadiancharged fordug offences

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The Finance Ministersaid what is worse, is thatthere are a number ofpeople who do not evenfile income tax as is thelaw. Despite this failure tofile income tax returnsand pay other taxes thatare due, Sinckler said the

authorities do not want tohave to go the route of“naming and shaming” toforce persons to step upand do what is right.However, he said they arewilling to do so if all otheravenues have beenexhausted. With that inmind, he said that wherepersons owe taxes and the

amount is too much to payin one go, they should visitthe BRA’s office and workout a payment plan.

He said the BRA iscurrently in the process ofdetermining how muchmoney it is owed bytaxpayers, including themonies owed prior to thecreation of that entity.

While he could not sayhow much that figure waslikely to be, the FinanceMinister said it is“substantial”.

“Some of it is probablygoing to have to bewritten off asuncollectible and that isthe process they are goingthrough now. They are

doing their various auditsand they are looking tosee on which year theycan say this is the year weare going to use as thebaseline and thenanything that falls behindthat we’ll waive andanything going forwardwe’ll go after,” heindicated. (JRT)

Several determinations to be made, says Finance Minister

By Patricia Thangaraj

THE hard work has paid off.This is coming from JanaeKellman, the Leader of thewinning St. Michael Schooldebate team who spoke tothe Barbados Advocate afterthe conclusion of the CrimeAwareness Month debate forsecondary school students atthe Prince Cave Hall,District A Police Station,Station Hill recently.

She said that the topic was thedeath penalty and whether ornot it should be reinstated inorder to curb violence in this

society and this team was theproposition.

She stated that some of theareas that their team wouldhave touched on were thedefinition of this term and someof their reasoning behind whythey thought it should bebrought back.

“We started off by explainingwhat the death penalty is, howits effectiveness has beenhindered since the last executionin 1984 because after thatnobody used it so people thinkthat it is ineffective. I also delvedinto the constitution andinternational pressures on

Barbados to abolish the deathpenalty but we should not bowdown to the pressures,we shouldlive by our constitution.”

The team were awarded anaverage of 35 points for suchareas as the content of thespeech, the research that theydid, they way that theyexplained their points, the keyterms, their tone, vocal varietyand they way that theyexpressed themselves such astheir delivery and bodylanguage, Kellman explained.

She said that preparations forthe debate was “rigorous, but inthe end it paid off. We had to go

over and over. It was a lot ofintense research involved. Weresearched endlessly.”

The other members of theteam included the Seconder,Adiel Charles and the CrossExaminer, Britney Sealy.

Meanwhile, Kyisha Bullen,the Cross Examiner, of TheAlleyne School debating team,said that they decided toapproach their opposition to thetopic in a more holistic fashion.Therefore, they would havelooked at what violence is, thedifferent types of violence suchas domestic violence andviolence in schools.

She stated that some of theareas that her team would havetouched on included the crimerates and the cost of the deathpenalty as opposed to lifeimprisonment.They received 33points.

“Some of the points that wewould have raised are the deathpenalty did not increase ordecrease the crime rates inBarbados. We also raised that itis cheaper to sentence a criminalto life in prison than it is to givethem the death penalty.”

Bullen said that some of thecomments that were made to theschool by the judges were“overall it was a good debate, ourSeconder was very strong in hispoints, we were told that wewere very strong, our questionswere developed well and theyalso advised us next time to usea little more charisma.”

The other members of theteam were the Leader, JakailaHewitt and the Seconder, PierreCooke.


The winning team from the St Michael School.

From The Alleyne School, (L-R) Kyisha Bullen, Pierre Cooke and Jakaila Hewitt.

WE’RE still here and westill care.

That’s the message fromChairman and Founder ofthe SAVE (Services Alliancefor Violent Encounters)Foundation Liesel Daiselywho was speaking to themedia before embarking ona walk along the RichardHaynes Boardwalk as partof 16 days of activism, whichis recognised across aroundthe world betweenNovember 25 and December10.

Daisley who was joinedwith members and othersupporters explained thatdomestic violence is ascourge in Barbados andapproximately 3 in every 5women will be affected bysome form of violence intheir lifetime.

“Those numbers are toohigh. That is why we arehere ...to raise awareness.To stop the violence,” shestated.

To this end, sheencouraged persons whowould like to speak outagainst abuse to call thehotline 43-ABUSE (432-2873), or visit thefoundation’s Facebook page for furtherinformation.

She explained that whilethis year has not been asbusy as it has been in thepast as it relates tomurders, the domesticviolence hotline is still verybusy.

“Women in this countryare still not treated the waythey should be treated. Notgetting the help that theyshould get. I think weshould do a lot better in2015 in keeping our womensafe and in terms ofbringing our laws into the 21st century and making them more currentand relevant to victims of domesticviolence.”

The Save Foundation wasincorporated in April 2009as a non-profit organisation.

Save Foundation offerscounselling via the Save Hotline or by making arrangements to beplaced in contact with a counsellor, social worker, psychologist orpastor or direct counselling services. legaladvice is also offered.(JH)

SAVEFoundationstill here to help

St. Michael School debate team triumphs

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PRINCIPAL of theSpringer MemorialSchool, Pauline Benjaminis urging parents toencourage their youngcharges to value theireducation.

She told parents that theonus is on them to place thevalue on this as it wouldencourage their daughters todo likewise.

“I do believe that if youplace a value on your child’seducation then your child willvalue it as well. If your childvalues education then shewill understand theimportance of following theschool rules and you willtoo… Urge your daughters toplace a high value on what isgiven to them and I wouldadd that you should impressupon them that to whommuch is given much isexpected. You should expectsome returns on your highinvestment.”

Benjamin furtherchallenged parents toconsider what their prioritiesare as she noted some personshave become unsure.

“Sometimes we are seeingstudents who have not paidfor textbooks or petty fees, orthey do not have thecalculator or music dictationbook or recorder, but they aresporting every term whateveris the latest and mostexpensive brand name bag –and may I say, some [of those]bags are very inappropriatefor school. Parents, you buythem the most expensive andlatest brand name shoes evenif they do not fall in line withschool rules. Then youcomplain that you cannot getthe correct and cheaper shoesbecause of the economictimes.”

“Cell phones will in thenear future, as you know, bepermitted in school and thenit will , I suppose, be acompetition as to who has thelatest model. We can becomevery caught up and unsure ofour priorities.”

Her comments came whileaddressing that school ’sSpeech Day and Prize-GivingCeremony held at theGovernment Hill, St. Michaelinstitution. In her Principal’sreport, she also told theaudience that the “Capeexaminations of 2015 theSchool registered a 95 percent pass rate overall – amove from 92 per cent in YearOne to 95 per cent in YearTwo.” She further shared thatthe “overall pass rate thisyear in the CSECexaminations was 65 percent” and an excellentperformance was reportedparticularly in the subject,Agricultural Science. (MG)

Encourage kids to value education

Deputy Principal of the Springer Memorial School, MitchelleMaxwell presenting the shield to Sadiya Manjra, MostOutstanding Student in 2015.

Principal of the Springer Memorial School, Pauline Benjaminpresenting the shield to Tristan Evelyn, Sports Person of theYear.

Latisha King accepting her prizes for Excellent work in CAPEEntrepreneurship Unit 2, Straight A profiles and she made theMerit List with a rank of No. 6.

Principal of the Springer Memorial School, Pauline Benjaminpresenting the prize to Lesleyann Downer for ConsistentService to the School 2015.

Jade Searles accepts her prize for being the Most Outstandingstudent in Lower 6.

Krystal Carter accepts prizes for being the Most Outstandingstudent in Year Upper Five.

SOME Caribbean statesare falling behind inproviding timelyreports on what stepsthey have takentowards meetingprovisions of UN humanrights treaties.

Saying this wasespecially true for CEDAW(the Convention on theElimination of all Forms ofDiscrimination AgainstWomen), Expert on theCommittee on theElimination ofDiscrimination andProfessor on GenderEducation at the MonaCampus of the Universityof the West Indies BarbaraBailey highlighted that alack of technical and

financial resources could bethe reason behind this.

“I have,in another forum,proffered that compliancewith human rightsobligations could, in theface of limited technicaland financial resources, beseen as a ‘soft’ option. Thisis even more so the case,where these resourcelimitations also constrainStates parties fromacceding to the associatedoptional protocols whichprovide avenues forindividuals and/or groupsto take complaints ofviolations of rights toanother level,” she stated.

She made the commentswhile addressing theopening of a workshop

highlighting the TreatyBody Capacity BuildingProgramme entitled‘Training of Trainers onTreaty Body Reporting’held at the RadissonAquatica yesterdaymorning.

Outlining the importanceof timely reporting, shestressed that it wasparticularly significantgiven that periodic reportswere a critical tool in themonitoring procedure,bothfor the states parties aswell as for the UNmonitoring bodies.

“These reports providethe basis for an assessmentof progress made by Statesparties in fulfillingobligations under the

respective treaties, as wellas, the basis for themonitoring bodies to issuerecommendations to guidefurther implementation ofthese treaties. In fact, Iwould like to suggest theobligation to report onimplementation of theprovisions under a giventreaty, in a timely manner,is not a dispensable option.It is a legally binding, non-negotiable obligation,”Bailey insisted. (JMB)


STUDENTS, model yourbehaviour.This is one of thevaluable lessons that theteachers who graduatedfrom the various associatedegree, diploma andcertificate programmesfrom the Erdiston TeachersTraining College learnt.

Accordingly, because ofthis they have to becautious of the way thatthey dress and conductthemselves in and outsideof the classroom and theentire school environmentbecause their students notonly pay attention to thesethings,but they also modelthem in their own lives,said Dwight Carter whodelivered the valedictorianaddress at the ErdistonTeachers’ Training CollegeGraduation Ceremony atthe Lloyd ErskineSandiford Centre (LESC)on Saturday night.

As a result, teachersmust ensure that theyconduct themselves in a

way that is worthy ofgarnering the respect of thestudents that pass throughtheir classrooms, he said.

“The first principle ofwhich we were remindedat the beginning of ourjourney at the college wasthat students watch ourbehaviours and modelthem. In fact, it wasiterated that we don’t justteach through subjectknowledge,but we teach byour lives.Consequently,wewere encouraged to be rolemodels in behaviour,speech, dress, deportmentand attitudes so that therewould be no lack ofcongruence between whatwe say and what we do.”

The teachers were alsoreinforced with the factthat each student hasdifferent learningcapacities and therefore,asteachers they have aresponsibility to make surethat each student receivesthe time and attention

necessary to cater to theirspecific learning style sothat no child is deprived ofthe learning experience,said the graduate of theAssociate Degree inEducation - Primary.

“Another importantprinciple which wasreinforced during our stayat Erdsiton College wasthat ‘each student isunique.’ Therefore we wereencouraged to cater to theirindividual needs andlearning styles. We asteachers must rememberwhat George Evans said,“Every student can learn,just not on the same day,orthe same way.” Studentslearn in various ways:some through motivation,some through group work,some through peertutoring, and others willlearn throughexperimenting,discussion,and individualpresentations.”

(PJT)

Teachers taught: Studentsmodel their behaviour

Consistent updates lacking

(From left) OHCHR Chief of Section, Human Rights Treaties Division Paulo David, Expert on the Committeeon the Elimination of Discrimination Barbara Bailey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade SenatorMaxine Mcclean and UN Resident Coordinator Stephen O’Malley have a short chat after the opening.

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“We have made aconsistent effort,certainly during the timeI have been a minister, tocatch up with thosereports to captureinformation in a timelymanner in order to meetour obligations, but at the

same time, it is necessaryto recognise that we havecertain constraints interms of human resourcecapacity, financialresources, and technicalcapacity, and it is to thatend that we areparticipating in hosting aseries of workshops,including this one,” sheadded. (JMB)

Capacity limited

Human Rights Officer at the Ministry of ForeignAffairs, Dr. Ricardo Kellman, as he spoke to themedia.

THE public meetings on the Barbados SecondarySchools’ Entrance Examination (BSSEE, alsopopularly known as the Common Entrance Exam) areover. As officials have stated over the course of thosemeetings, the BSSEE’s real purpose is to allocatethousands of primary school students to secondaryschools. Many persons object to its continuation,because they think it creates an unnecessary andtense competition for a desired set of schools amongparents. Despite this, it is incumbent on all torecognise that the exam is not the end all or be all ofa child’s life. In fact, with a roster of exciting subjectsavailable, the sky is the limit for eager young minds,regardless of the school attended.

The introduction of town hall meetings for theBSSEE must be commended. For the last few years,parents, teachers and other interested members of thepublic have had the opportunity to ask any questionsof officials from the Ministry of Education to takeaway the mystery of this much dreaded examination.We hope that parents and other caregivers are fullyapprised of the nuances of school zones and choices aschildren prepare to finish the Michaelmas term.Whether one believes it to perpetuate elitiststereotypes or not, over the years the exam hasdeveloped its own folklore, with tales of parentsputting undue pressure on children, and impartingharsh words of advice or bribery. This has had theunfortunate effect of making many children nervousof a one-shot test that determines if they go to “good”schools (in the eyes of parents), when in fact it is justanother chapter in their lives of formal learning.

We note with concern that over the years,a numberof children perform very poorly, suggesting a limitedcomprehension of English and Mathematics that willfollow them through secondary school. Is this the rootof a disconnect to school for some students – and apotential breeder of crime – and what can be done tocombat this?

As Ministry officials were at pains to point outduring the meetings, every child is talented in his orher own way.There are numerous routes for childrento achieve success, rather than the very limited notiontheir parents have believed necessary over the years.With the world of technology opening up, andadvances in science and engineering, the potential isthere for some of the newer secondary schools, forexample, to be deemed centres of excellence for STEMsubjects or computer science. For this to occur, it would require a shift in curriculum and a focus onstreamlining some of the newer secondary schoolswith the necessary technological upgrades and skilledpersonnel.

This has a double effect of not only raising interestamong those who are so inclined (and not as good intraditional academics), but it will also remove thestigma associated with reputations of certain schools,which in itself can breed low morale. This is seen inthe development of athletes as well, who can pursuefurther studies based on athletic scholarships. Withyoung talent being nurtured in these nurseries ofspecialised training, it would diversify the educationalofferings of Barbados in a way that keeps pace withmodern requirements and engages the minds of youngpeople, who are our future leaders.

As parents send their children to extra lessonsduring the Christmas holidays to ready them for theMay 3, 2016 sitting, they must be cognisant that theBSSEE is simply there to do its intended function.Putting pressure on children is not conducive to themperforming well or passing for a desired school. Wehope in the not-too-distant future, that other schoolswill be turned into specialised training grounds for thealways-in-demand STEM and computer scienceeducation.

Editorial

Exam not onlypath to success

‘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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BRUSSELS – The manrunning negotiations withBritain to keep it in theEuropean Union saidleaders could seal a deal in February but warnedDavid Cameron that acentral demand to curbimmigration may be ask-ing too much.

Donald Tusk, who nextweek chairs the first de-tailed talks on the issuebetween the British primeminister and all his 27peers, sent EU leaders aprogress report a monthafter Cameron laid outfour sets of reforms hewants if he is to campaignfor continued EU mem-bership in a referendumdue within two years.

“We have made goodprogress,” the EuropeanCouncil president said in aletter that contained fewsurprises. “We ... have toovercome the substantialpolitical differences thatwe still have on the issue

of social benefits and freemovement.”

After next week’s sum-mit, he added: “We shouldbe able to prepare a con-crete proposal to be finallyadopted in February.”

Many governments arewilling to make changesto keep Britain in theUnion.Tusk said the mainstumbling block wasCameron’s pledge to cutimmigration to Britain bydenying benefits to work-ers from other EU statesfor four years after theyarrive.

Anti-EU campaignerssaid Tusk’s letter showedCameron would secure lit-tle of consequence fromBrussels. But the primeminister’s office said hewould stick with a pro-posal that many leaders,especially in the EU’spoorer east, say wouldmean illegal discrimin-ation and denying a fun-damental freedom to EU

citizens.“There is a strong will

on the part of all sides tofind solutions,” wroteTusk, while describing as“difficult” the demandsCameron set out in a let-ter on November 10.

In particular, Tusk saidchanges to social benefitrules are “the most deli-cate” of Cameron’s four re-form “baskets”. The for-mer Polish premier notedsupport for fighting wel-fare abuses and a possi-bility of reducing whatBritain pays in child benefit to workers whosechildren live in poorercountries.

But one welfare requestwas very tricky: “There ispresently no consensus onthe request that peoplecoming to Britain from theEU must live there andcontribute for four yearsbefore they qualify for in-work benefits or socialhousing,” Tusk said.

Cameron’s spokes-woman said the demandwould stay on the table forthe Brussels summit onDecember 17-18. “Thisissue that we are trying toaddress here is how bet-ter to control migrationfrom within the EU,” shesaid. “We will continue tohave discussions and ex-plore the options.”

Just how flexibleCameron may be is un-clear. Tusk suggestedsome welfare reformswere possible. Cameron’sspokeswoman said: “Weneed reform in all fourareas that we have out-lined.”

British finance ministerGeorge Osborne, speakingin New York late yester-day, said further negotia-tions would be “complexand robust”, but that themost recent developmentsshowed more progressthan many people had expected.

PARIS – Organisers ofglobal climate talks inParis sounded hopefulyesterday that they couldreach a deal by the end ofthe week, even if therewas little indication ofhow differences over fund-ing in particular would beresolved.

“We have to respect thegoals we set for ourselves,”said French ForeignMinister Laurent Fabius,who is presiding over negotiations that are supposed to conclude witha signed agreement onDecember 11. “The objec-tives are clear; the methodand the calendar too.”

He spoke as senior gov-ernment ministers, in-cluding US Secretary ofState John Kerry, beganarriving in Paris for thelast lap of a four-yearprocess to bind rich andpoor countries in a deal to curb greenhouse gasemissions beyond 2020.

It is already certain thatthe national emissionspledges made ahead ofParis will not be enoughto prevent global temper-

atures rising past a dangerous threshold of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times.

But there is at least agrowing sense that therewill be more money for thedeveloping countries leastable to give up fossil fuelsto build prosperity, or mostvulnerable to the in-creased floods, droughts,storms and rising sea lev-els that climate changewill bring.

Richer countries are al-ready committed to pro-viding $100 billion a yearby 2020; in Paris, the ques-tion is how far that annualsum should rise and, mostespecially, how or whetherbig emerging economiesshould contribute.

“I see a growing consen-sus that $100 billion willbe the floor and not theceiling,” said ChristianaFigueres, the top UN offi-cial in Paris.

“Are we there yet, at 100billion? No,” she said.“Butwe’re certainly movingclose.”

There is also still dis-

agreement on what kindof spending – public or private, new money or old– will count toward thattarget.Developing nationsare resisting attempts byrich countries to fold in existing climate-relatedspending to reach the$100 billion threshold.

‘Symbolic but important’“This $100 billion is acommitment by certaincountries that they needto fulfil,” said ShriPrakash Javadekar,India’s Minister forEnvironment, Forests andClimate Change.

He said the real cost ofthe global energy transfor-mation would be in thetrillions, but that the $100billion was “a symbolic butimportant gesture and oneshould not run away fromit”.

Yet on the surface, atleast, the conference hostsappear unfazed by suchdifferences.

UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon opened thesecond week of talks by

telling delegates that “out-side these negotiatinghalls, there is a risingglobal tide of support for astrong, universal agree-ment”.

He urged the represen-tatives from almost 200nations not to duck thehard choices as four yearsof often glacial-paced ne-gotiations peak.

“The world is expectingmore from you than half-measures and incremen-tal approaches,” Ban toldthe negotiators, calling for“a transformative agree-ment”.

He said a final dealshould include a review ofnational pledges at five-year intervals, starting be-fore 2020, which some de-veloping nations say is toosoon.

He also said the privatesector needed to receive aclear signal that the shiftto low emissions was “in-evitable”.

The heavy-lifting inParis will now be handledby senior ministers withthe political clout to makeconcessions.

Despite differences, optimism highas climate talks enter last lap

EU dangles February deal forCameron, but not on migrants

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THOUSANDS of musiclovers made their wayto the annual HennessyArtistry Show at theKensington Oval lastSaturday night, which featured a full night of performances ranging fromcalypso, R&B and reggae.

Local acts, such as KirkBrown and the Energy Bandwith Don Trent, Lead Pipe andSaddis, Damian Marvay andKing Bubba, heated up thestage with a medley of hitspredominately from the 2015Crop Over season.

While many were not sureabout the line-up of the all-starcast, they certainly did not ex-pect R&B singer Keyshia Coleto be first out of the blocks. Shestarted her set with the popular‘I Should Have Cheated’. Itsoon become apparent thatshe was experiencing sometechnical difficulties with herearpiece; she could be seengesticulating and nodding in disapproval. This led to a

lacklustre performance as she waltzed through a danceroutine with her otherwise en-ergetic dancers.

With 25 minutes left in herset, she kicked up her perform-

ance ironically with her slowermusic and connected with theaudience, belting out hits whichwere sung word for word by herfans much to her delight, evok-ing a broad smile particularlyduring her 2006 hit ‘Love’. Colesaid she loved the island, thefood and the weather. She alsoperformed crowd favouritessuch as ‘Heaven Sent’, ‘Let ItGo’ and ‘I Remember’.

She was followed by JahCure, no stranger to Barbados,who performed several of hishits, but some would say he was

not in his usual fine form. Thatdid not stop his fans fromsinging along to his seeminglyendless hits including ‘Call on Me’, ‘All of Me’,‘Unconditional Love’ and‘You’ll Never Find’.

The show, which was generally low-key up to that point, got a boost fromPopcaan, who deliveredsongs like ‘EverythingNice’, ‘Ravin’, ‘Party Shot’and ‘Only Man She Want’. In spite of sporadic rainfall, the timeless Anthony

B brought the show down instyle. He was accompanied byconsummate performer, Shabba

Ranks, who was a formerheadline act of the HennessyArtistry show. He was notscheduled to perform, but

thrilled the young andyoung at heart in attendance with hismegahits. There wasalso a surprise guestperformance by reggaestar, Kranium, singing

‘Nobody Has toKnow’. (JH)


R&B singer, Keyshia Cole, during her performance in Barbadosat the Hennessy Artistry show over the weekend.

Jah Cure came with his full arsenal of hits.

Surprise artiste, Kranium, performed his hit ‘Nobody Has toKnow’.

Anthony B was well received by the massive audience atKensington Oval.

Hennessy Artistrydraws thousands to Kensington Oval

A MAN described byhis superiors as quietand professional, andhighly valuable to theefficient operations ofthe information sys-tems at Massy UnitedInsurance, is celebrat-ing as Employee of theYear for 2015.

Pedro Watkins, a seniormember of the company’sInformation Technology &Communications (ITC) de-partment, was voted themost outstanding em-ployee on Friday night, asstaff and associates ofMassy United Insurancecame together for their an-nual Awards Ceremonyand Christmas dinner atthe Accra Beach Hotel inChrist Church.

Watkins, who studied inCanada and joined UnitedInsurance in 1983 as acomputer programmer,was reported to have thehighest appraisal score

among all contenders forthe top award this year,and also scored highly indemonstrating the corevalues of the company.

Currently a software de-veloper and a systems ad-ministrator, Watkins per-forms many tasks as anITC professional, but hasmajor responsibility forthe upkeep and efficientperformance of the com-pany’s Sun core system.

Watkins, also regardedas a type of trouble-shooter for staff, in helpingthem to solve hardwareand software issues, hasbeen a leader in develop-ing some of the softwareused by United Insurancein various markets to gen-erate reports for internaland external users.

“IT (Information Tech-nology) is my life, and Ienjoy it. The area can bevery challenging at times,but you feel a sense of sat-

isfaction when you con-quer the challenges. Uni-ted has been well man-aged over the years, and itis a good company to workwith. [The] staff are likeone big family,” saidWatkins.

The Employee of theYear was presented withhis treasured award byChief Executive Officer,Howard Hall, who in hisremarks to staff said thatMassy United Insurancerecorded a relatively goodyear, in spite of continuedchallenges facing the in-dustry.

Hall said gross writtenpremiums were up 15 percent for the company in2015, while having to re-tool and fight harder to de-fend their book businessand write new business.

The CEO also praisedstaff for their team-work

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Watkins named MassyUnited Insurance’sEmployee of the Year

Employee -Of-The-Year at Massy United Insurance, Systems Administrator PedroWatkins, being congratulated by CEO Howard Hall (left) and Human ResourcesManager, Lee-Ann Millar-Mendes (right).

Long-serving employees of the Reinsurance Department of Massy UnitedInsurance, Sandra Forbes (left) and Heather delCastilho, were recognisedfor 35 and 40 years service, and share a photo with Chief CommercialOfficer, Mark Sommerville.


OIL prices fell to theirlowest in nearly sevenyears yesterday, afterOPEC’s meeting endedin disagreement overproduction cuts andwithout a reference toits output ceiling, whilea stronger dollar madeit more expensive tohold crude positions.

The Organisation of thePetroleum ExportingCountries (OPEC) endedits policy meeting onFriday without agreeing tolower production.

For the first time indecades, oil ministersdropped any reference tothe group’s output ceiling,highlighting disagreementamong members abouthow to accommodate Ira-nian barrels once Westernsanctions are lifted.

“A stronger dollar andthe aftershock of Friday’sOPEC meeting are weigh-ing on the oil market,” said

Tamas Varga, oil analystat brokerage PVM OilAssociates in London.

Brent crude pricesLCOc1, the globally tradedbenchmark, traded down82 cents at US$42.18 abarrel at 1334 GMT andtouched a low of US$42.11,the lowest since March 12,2009. US crude CLc1 wasdown US$1.12 atUS$38.85 a barrel, a dropof nearly 3 per cent.

The dollar .DXY was upagainst a basket of curren-cies.

Analysts at Barclayssaid the lack of an OPECproduction target in itswritten announcementwas a sign of discord.

“Past communiqueshave at least includedstatements to adhere,strictly adhere, or main-tain output in line with theproduction target.This oneglaringly did not,” theysaid.

OPEC’s output of morethan 30 million barrels perday (bpd) has compoundedan oil glut, pushing pro-duction 0.5 million to 2million bpd beyond de-mand and putting manyproducers under pressure,especially small-sized USshale drillers that havepiled up large amounts ofdebt.

Analysts at Commerz-bank said any recovery inprices would be dictatednot by OPEC but by risingdemand and a fall in pro-duction outside of thegroup.

“Rising oil prices nextyear will not depend onOPEC reaching immediateagreement or on a returnto price control, as we ex-pect prices to increase pri-marily on the back of con-tinued robust demandgrowth and a decline innon-OPEC oil production,”they said in a report.

Saudi Arabia, theworld’s biggest oil expor-ter, is banking on produc-ers of unconventional oilbuckling for output to fall.

Saudi Aramco ChiefExecutive Amin Nassersaid at a conference inDoha yesterday that hehoped to see oil prices ad-just at the beginning ofnext year as unconven-tional oil supplies start todecline.

In a sign that US pro-duction could dip, BakerHughes’ November datashowed US rig count num-bers were down by 31month on month to 760rigs.

Others disagreed. Pa-trick Pouyanne, CEO ofFrench oil company Total(TOTF.PA), said at thesame event that he did notexpect prices to recovernext year as productiongrowth was set to outstripa rise in demand.

Oil at lowest in almost seven yearson OPEC inaction, strong dollar

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and commitment to theprocess of transformation,and said the company wason a growth path and hewas looking forward tocontinuing the journeywith them in 2016 and be-yond.

Around 30 awards werepresented on the night,and Human ResourcesManager, Lee-Ann Millar-Mendes, who also re-ported that 40 new staffmembers were hired overthe past year, said a num-ber of new awards wereintroduced in keepingwith the continued trans-formation of the company.

“Among the new inno-vations this year were –The Consider It DoneAward, The CustomerHero Award, the A ClassAward, and the Depart-ment MVP (Most Valua-ble Performer) Awards,which all seek to promoteand celebrate the core val-

ues of Massy United Insu-rance. These specialawards reflect our philos-ophy of recognising andrewarding our employeesfor outstanding perform-ance and living our corevalues,” she said.

The Human ResourcesManager said MassyUnited Insurance wasproud to recognise out-standing employees witha range of other awards –which also included long-service awards, rangingfrom 15 to 40 years, the“Spot Light” Core ValueAward, and the CEO’sStar Award which went toRastilla Barrow.

Among those collectinglong-service awards onthe night were EustineGittens (15 years); NoelForte (20 years); FayeJones (20 years); EvaldaBirkett (25 years); SandraForbes (35 years);Lorraine Barrow (35years) and Heather del-Castilho (40 years).

Outstandingperformersrecognised withrange of awards

Rastilla Barrow, of the Customer Care department,was presented with the CEO’s Star Award by ChiefExecutive of Massy United Insurance, Howard Hall.

Claims Officer Jamar Mayers (right) was presentedwith the Customer Hero Award by Michael Armstrong,Director of Marketing & Business Development.

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

Valid for December 8th, 2015

Telegraphic TransfersCurrency Buying SellingEuro 2.15900 2.19948 Pound Sterling £ 2.99612 3.05229 Canadian $ 1.47071 1.50147United States $ 1.99375 2.02768Guyana $ 0.00975 0.00981East Caribbean $ 0.73843 0.74306Belizean $ 0.99688 1.00313Demand/Sight:Currency Buying SellingEuro 2.15495 2.19948 Pound Sterling £ 2.99049 3.05229 Canadian $ 1.46793 1.50147 United States $ 1.99000 2.02768Guyana $ 0.00975 0.00981East Caribbean $ 0.73843 0.74306Belizean $ 0.99688 1.00313Notes:Currency Buying SellingEuro 2.12379 2.21321Pound Sterling £ 2.94725 3.07135 Canadian $ 1.45962 1.50279 United States $ 1.98000 2.02857East Caribbean $ 0.73704 0.74445Belizean $ 1.00000 1.00000

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FOR women who develop dia-betes during pregnancy, low-carbohydrate diets may not nec-essarily help keep the diseaseat bay after the baby arrives, aU.S. study suggests.

Researchers found thatwomen eating diets high in ani-mal proteins and low in carbsactually raised their diabetesrisk.A low-carb diet that washeavy in plant-based proteinand fat, in contrast, wasn’tlinked to an increased risk of di-abetes in the study.

“Our findings suggest thatsources of protein and fatsshould be considered for a low-carb diet as a way to controlblood sugar,” said lead study au-thor Dr. Cuilin Zhang, a re-searcher at the NationalInstitutes of Health inRockville, Maryland.

The researchers focused onthe risk of type 2 diabetes,which is linked to obesity andaging and happens when thebody can’t properly use or makeenough of the hormone insulinto convert blood sugar into en-ergy.

All of the women in the studyhad a version of the diseasewhile they were pregnantknown as gestational diabetes,

which usually disappears afterdelivery but significantly raisesthe future risk of developingtype 2 diabetes.

That risk appears evenhigher for women who cut carbsand get most of their fats andproteins from red meat andother animal sources, the studyfound.

“Women with a history of ges-tational diabetes who follow alow-carbohydrate dietary pat-tern may consider consumingplant sources rather than ani-mal sources of protein and fat tominimize their future risk oftype 2 diabetes,” Zhang said byemail.

To understand how diet influ-ences future diabetes risk,Zhang and colleagues followedabout 4,500 women with a his-tory of gestational diabetes whofilled out dietary surveys start-ing in 1991 and continuingevery four years through 2001.Based on the results, theysorted the women into fivegroups from lowest to highestcompliance with diets centeredon reducing carbohydrates andboosting proteins.

Overall, women in the studywith the highest compliance tothe low-carb diet were 36 per-

cent more likely to develop dia-betes than those with the low-est adherence.

The researchers also scoredthe diets based on how muchfood came from animal versusplant sources.

The highest amounts of pro-tein and fats from red meat andother animal sources werelinked to a 40 percent greaterdiabetes risk than the lowestamounts, according to the re-sults published in DiabetesCare.

Women were more likely to beoverweight or obese with thehighest amounts of meat intheir diets, partly explainingtheir increased risk, the authorsnote. By comparison, for womenwith the highest amounts ofplant-based protein and fats in

their diet, the increase in riskfor diabetes small and mighthave been due to chance.

It’s possible that higher in-take of dietary animal fat mightmake it harder for women toprocess sugar and increasetheir risk of diabetes, the re-searchers conclude.

Eating a meal rich in animalprotein, compared to one heavyin protein from plants, may alsolead to higher concentrations inthe blood of branched-chainamino acids, protein buildingblocks that have been linked toan inability to process insulinand an increased diabetes risk,the authors speculate.

Women who ate the most ani-mal-based protein and fat alsotended to consume the highestamounts of red meat, a food tied

to increased diabetes risk.One limitation of the current

study is that dietary surveysmight not accurately reflectwhat women ate, the authorsconcede. It’s also possible thatmore health-conscious womenwho see the doctor more oftenare more likely to get a diabetesdiagnosis.Still, the findings em-phasize that just because a dietis low-carb doesn’t make ithealthy, said Dr. Deidre Tobias,an epidemiologist at Brighamand Women’s Hospital andHarvard University in Boston.

“A healthful combination offruits, vegetables, whole grains,legumes, and perhaps some fishor lean protein can provide aflexible road map to overallhigh quality eating,” Tobias saidby email.

The Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank (IDB)has approved

US$800,000 in fundingfor Caribbean Public HealthAgency (CARPHA) to addresshealth, safety and environmen-tal (HSE) threats thatchallenge the sustainability oftourism in the Caribbean.

CARPHA, which has directresponsibility for the executionof the project will work alongwith the Caribbean TourismOrganization (CTO) and theCaribbean Hotel Association(CTA) to execute the project.

CARPHA Executive DirectorDr C. James Hospedalespointed out that the Caribbeanis the most tourism-dependentregion in the world, and the

health of Caribbean economiesis therefore closely related tothe health of its tourism indus-try.

“Monies from the IDB willallow CARPHA to develop a regional tourism health information, monitoring and re-sponse system; Caribbean-wideHSE tourism standards; and a training and certification programme to build capacity infood and environmental safety,”he said.

Hospedales further explainedthat health surveillance systems for travel and tourismimplemented by the USCentres for Disease Controland other agencies have provento be a key factor in reducing outbreaks.

He said there is currently noregional or national, tourismhealth information, monitoringand response (THMR) systemin the Caribbean and that thisinitiative to improve countries’capacities to support healthmonitoring efforts can reducetourism HSE incidents, andprovide a healthier, safer, betterquality tourism product for visi-tors and residents alike.

CTO chief executive officer,Hugh Riley, welcomed this initiative and is confident thatthe Region will benefit significantly as it will also improve recognition, reputationand comparative advantage ofthe Caribbean as a tourism destination.

The Regional Tourism Health

Information, Monitoring andResponse Systems andStandards to EnhanceSustainable Tourism projectwill be executed in six participating countries(Barbados, Belize, Bahamas,Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidadand Tobago) from 2016-2019.

The project will be imple-mented under CARPHA’sTourism and HealthProgramme, coordinated by Dr.Lisa Indar, through a ProjectCoordination Unit (PCU) atCARPHA and a RegionalProject Steering Committee,along with National FocalPoints and a Private-PublicTeam in each country. TheRegional Project SteeringCommittee will comprise of

CARPHA, IDB, CaribbeanTourism Organization,Caribbean Hotel Association,the Chief Medical Officers andthe Permanent Secretaries ofTourism in each country.


Researchers found that women eating diets high in animal proteins and low in carbs actuallyraised their diabetes risk.

CARPHA Executive DirectorDr C. James Hospedales

C’bean health agency gets US$800,000to address health in tourism

Low-carb diet doesn’talways cut diabetes riskafter pregnancy

Unhealthy lifestyle. It’sa common contributorof our biggest health

problems: stroke, heartdisease, diabetes, cancer.What do the nation’s topphysicians recommend tokeep your heart, mind, andbody in optimally goodhealth?

For the secrets to a longhealthy life, WebMD turnedto Richard A. Lange, MD,chief of cardiology at JohnsHopkins School of Medicine.His advice:

Daily exerciseYou brush your teeth every

day; exercise is equallyimportant for your dailyroutine. Turn off the TV orcomputer, and get at least 30minutes of exercise every day.

To work your heart, it’s gotto be aerobic exercise. You’vegot lots of options: walking,jogging, biking, rowingmachine, elliptical machine,swimming. But don’t feel likeyou have to be an athlete.Walking is great exercise. Get10 minutes here and thereduring the day. It all counts.

Start with somethingsimple, like parking in the farcorner of the parking lot – soyou get those extra steps tothe door. Take the stairs oneor two flights instead of theelevator. If you take publictransportation, get off onestop early and walk the rest.Get out at lunch to walk. Orwalk with your significantother or your spouse afterwork. You’ll get a bonus –relaxation and stressreduction.

Healthy diet.Quit eating junk food and

high-fat fast food. Your heart,brain, and overall health are

harmed by foods high insaturated fats, salt, andcholesterol. There’s no gettingaround it. You’ve got toreplace them with healthyfoods: lots of fruits,vegetables, fish, nuts, olive oil– what we call theMediterranean diet. Eat likean Italian, a Spaniard, aGreek! Enjoy!

Weight loss.Too much body weight puts

your health at great risk.When you take in morecalories than you burn, youget fat – it’s that simple.You’ve got to eat less. You’vegot to exercise more. You’vegot to push yourself to makethese lifestyle changes – butyou’ve got to do it to helpavoid serious health problemslike heart disease, diabetes, orstroke.4. Regular physical exams.

Tell your doctor your familymedical history.

Learn your personal riskfactors, and the screeningtests you need. Women mayhave mammograms to screenfor breast cancer and Paptests for cervical cancer. Menmay have prostate cancerPSA tests. Routine screeningfor colorectal cancer shouldstart at age 50, perhapsearlier if colon cancer runs inyour family. You also needregular diabetes, bloodpressure, and cholesteroltests. Make sure yourimmunizations are up to date.You may need flu andpneumonia shots, dependingon your age.

Less stress.When a person says they’re

too busy to exercise, it tellsme other things are crowding

out what’s important in life:They don’t spend time withfamily and friends; don’texercise enough; don’t eatright; don’t sleep properly. Allthese things reduce stress inyour life, and that is criticalto your health and longevity.

To be healthy, we need toset boundaries – and setlimits on work hours. Weshould not be working so hardthat we’re neglecting thethings that keep us healthy.This is important advice, too,for people who take care ofelderly parents or youngchildren. Make sure you’regetting proper exercise andsleep – and that you’re nottrying to do too much.


Take the stairs one or two flights instead of the elevator toget exercise.

Learn your personal risk factors, and the screening tests you need.

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THE Pan American HealthOrganization/World HealthOrganization (PAHO/WHO) lastweek urged its member coun-tries to maintain their capacityto detect Zika virus and to pre-

pare their health services for thepossibility of an increase in de-mand for services.

The recommendations werecontained in an epidemiologicalalert issued on December 1.The

alert also urged countries to stepup their efforts to control themosquito vector that carriesZika.

PAHO/WHO is intensifyingits joint efforts with member

countries to strengthen surveil-lance and laboratory capacity todetect the virus and in the areasof risk communication, clinicalmanagement and follow-up ofpatients, monitoring of the

virus’s geographical spread aswell as complications and severecases, and reportingthrough channels establishedunder the International HealthRegulations.

Health tips for heart,mind, and body

PAHO recommends actions for countries to manage Zika virus and its vector

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TRINIDAD – Ministerof Finance ColmImbert says theCentral Bank has anobligation to informhim of monetary poli-cies, but he said hisministry did not re-ceive the contents ofCentral BankGovernor JwalaRambarran’s state-ment about a recessionprior to its delivery onFriday.

Imbert said the CentralBank Act at Section 49states, “The Bank shallkeep the Ministerinformed of the monetaryand banking policy pursued or intended to bepursued by the Bank.”

Section 50 of the Actmakes it clear that “theMinister may, after con-sultation with theGovernor, issue to theBank such written direc-tives of a general natureas may be necessary togive effect to the monetaryand fiscal policies of theGovernment.”

In other words, Imbertsaid, the Central Bankwas required to keep theGovernment properly in-formed of its policies anddo what was necessary to

support the monetary poli-cies of the Government.

He said he has takennote of a general percep-tion that has crept in overthe years that the CentralBank can act independ-ently of the Governmentin all matters, but saidthat was not the case.

Imbert said he saw thestatement when he re-turned home on Fridaynight after the sitting ofParliament.

“I am advised it was re-ceived by email at theministry after midday,” hesaid in response to ques-tions from the SundayGuardian.

Rambarran announcedthat T&T’s economy wasin a recession and alsonamed the largest users offoreign exchange.

Asked if there was amisalignment betweenthe Central Bank’s mone-tary policy and theMinistry of Finance’s fis-cal policy, Imbert saidthere should not be anymisalignment and thatthe Government wasstudying the governor’smonetary policy state-ment carefully to seewhether it was in factaligned with government’s

policy.However, Imbert said he

did not want to make anyspecific comments on thatmatter until his economicadvisers and technocratsdid their analysis and re-ported to him. Asked if itmade sense to increase in-terest rates if the economywas in a recession,he said,“In most countries,interest rates hardly everincrease during a recession. Actually, the opposite tends to happen:as the economy contracts,interest rates fall in tan-dem.“Further, centralbanks use tools to controlinterest rates, and duringa recession, they usuallytry to coax rates down-ward to stimulate theeconomy.”

The Finance Ministersaid when a recession oc-curred,people became riskaverse and conservative,and were more apt to savewhat they have, ratherthan to borrow for invest-ment purposes.

He added that followingthe basic demand curve,low demand for creditpushes the price of credit,that is, interest rates,downward.

“Accordingly, on the face

of it, increased interestrates in a recessionary pe-riod appear to be counter-intuitive.”

No plans to move ex-change rate

Despite a decline in for-eign exchange earnings asa result of the drop in oilprices, Imbert said thecountry’s level of foreignreserves was still at 11months of import coverwhich was well above the

common standard thatsaid that reserves thatcould cover three months’worth of imports were ad-equate. He said, however,“there are several coun-tries that maintain six to12 months of import cover,so the theory is not cast instone. At this stage wehave no plans to move theexchange rate, but we arekeeping the situationunder constant review.”

Asked if he found it ap-propriate for Rambarranto name the largest forexusers, the minister saidthere was a strong viewthat it was not but he wasseeking advice on the mat-ter before making a defin-itive statement. He saidconcerns had been ex-pressed to him by severalstakeholders, includingthe business community,about that matter.


Minister of Finance Colm Imbert

ANTIGUA – A youngJamaican woman wasexpected in court yester-day on multiple drugcharges related to a find ofcannabis, valued at nearlytwo million dollars, whichwas unearthed by one of

country’s drug interdictionagencies.

The 27 year old femalewas arrested after TheOffice of National Drugand Money LaunderingControl Policy (ONDCP),seized 489 pounds of com-

pressed cannabis from ahouse in Marble Hill,Thursday.

The officers also seizedcurrencies totalingEC$21,995.00

ONDCP estimates thewholesale value of the con-

traband at EC$1,956,000.The woman was charged

with possession ofcannabis, possession ofcannabis with intent totransfer, being concernedin the supply of cannabisand drug trafficking.

The young womanwould not have been re-quired to enter a plea inher first appearance at theMagistrates’ Court,yester-day,since the trial can onlybe done before a judge andjury given the quantity of

the controlledsubstance.At the time ofgoing to press, the youngwoman’s name was notmade available by the drugenforcement agency,whichis not customary, once anindividual is charged.

Antigua: Jamaican woman arrested in massive drug bust

T&T Finance Minister:Central Bank must informme of monetary policies

TRINIDAD – Oppositionleader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has denied thatthe People’s Partnershipgovernment is to beblamed for the recessionthat T&T is now in.

Central Bank GovernorJwala Rambarran an-nounced on Friday thatthe country was now offi-cially in a recession follow-ing four successive quar-ters of negative growth.

He also warned of thepossibility of an increasein inflationary pressures.

However, the re-electedleader of the UnitedNational Congress (UNC)is denying that the reces-

sion is any fault of theirs.“That is not so, during

the People’s Partnershiptenure we faced the sameproblem of falling oil andgas prices and did not mis-manage the economy inthe way the People’sNational Movement(PNM) is now doing.”

“Job loss is occurring be-cause of flawed PNM poli-cies, the trend did notbegin under the PP. Wehad nothing to worryabout once there was pru-dent fiscal management ofthe economy.”

Persad-Bissessar says itis very clear that the cur-rent government has fur-

ther moved to contract theeconomy which places thecountry “in grave jeop-ardy”.

She said governmentwants citizens to believethat her government is tobe blamed for the reces-sion, but the recent deci-sion to increase the bor-rowing limit says other-wise.

Persad-Bissessar notedthat the decision by OPEC(Oil Producing ExportingCountries) to continuecurrent production levelsand to not cut productionmeans that the prices willfall even further.

She added that there is

grave cause for concern,asgovernment has not enun-ciated any plans, any pro-grammes apart from theborrowing that they areseeking to increase.

“This places our dollar,which has already depre-ciated, for devaluation...and you already knowabout the forex (foreignexchange) problem inTrinidad and Tobago …..the second matter to arisehas placed us in the veryjaws of the IMF.”

They’re not concernedabout people-centred pol-icy and programmes,Persad-Bissessar stated.

Kamla on recession: It’s not our fault

Central Bank GovernorJwala Rambarran

T&T Opposition leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar

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CARACAS, Venezuela –Venezuela’s opposition woncontrol of the NationalAssembly by a landslide,stunning the ruling partyand altering the balance ofpower 17 years after thelate Hugo Chavez kickedoff the nation’s socialistrevolution.

The opposition coalitionwon at least 99 seats in theincoming 167-seat legislature, electoral authorities announcedearly yesterday.The rulingsocialist party won 46seats.

The opposition coalitionneeds to take 13 of the 22remaining races to give it atwo-thirds supermajority.That would allow it to passmajor legislation, sackSupreme Court justices orconvene a convention torewrite Chavez’s 1999 con-stitution.

The victory is likely tofuel demands for PresidentNicolas Maduro to freejailed opponents and rollback socialist policies dur-ing what could be a periodof intense political conflict.

Fireworks, car honking

and shouts of joy broke outafter midnight in thestreets of the Venezuelancapital of Caracas whenNational Electoral CouncilPresident Tibisay Lucenaannounced the partial re-sults, six hours after pollsclosed.

Within seconds, Madurorecognized the opposition’swin,saying that despite anadverse result,Venezuela’sdemocracy had triumphed.But he recalled the longhistory of US-supportedcoups in Latin America inblaming the “circumstan-

tial” loss on a conservative“counterrevolution” tryingto sabotage the oil-dependent economyand destabilize his rule.

“I can say today that theeconomic war has triumphed,” Maduro,surrounded by his party’stop leadership, said fromthe presidential palace.

Opposition leaders weptwith emotion and swiggedchampagne as the resultswere announced. Manyseemed stunned by theirwin. Some cautioned thatthe result has more to do

with anger at Venezuela’swoes than an embrace ofopposition parties.

“The opposition needs toaccept this with a lot of humility,” said politicalconsultant FranciscoMarquez, who managedone of the winning opposition campaigns.“This was a punishmentvote and we will need toshow people that we’re upto the task.”

The opposition coalition,which pulled togethermore than a dozen partiesthat have historically com-

peted among themselvesfor power, has pledged touse its newfound leverageto pass an amnesty fordozens of opponents jailedduring last year’s protests.

But leaders offered fewother concrete policy proposals during the campaign, and it’s unclearwhether politicians whohave spent their entire po-litical careers railingagainst the socialist party’smonopoly on power will beable to govern withMaduro still in the presi-dency.

GUYANA – FormerPresidents BharratJagdeo and DonaldRamotar have movedto the High Court seek-ing large sums ofmonies following thecapping of the benefitsof former presidents.

Attorney General andMinister of Legal Affairs,Basil Williams said hewould “seek leave to de-fend the applications”that were filed onNovember 11, 2015.

The matters come upbefore Chief Justice IanChang and JusticeNarendra Singh onDecember 11, 2015.

The Attorney Generalsaid Ramotar and Jagdeofiled the applications

“seeking in effect to re-ceive large sums of moneyin benefits and other fa-cilities that were cappedon the coming into opera-tion of the FormerPresidents (Benefits andOther Facilities) Act No.3of 2015.”

“They are now challenging the Act andcontend that their earnings had accrued be-fore the passage of the Actand so they are entitledto continue to be able toreceive those tremendousearnings and benefitsstill,” he said.

Former AttorneyGeneral, Anil Nandlallearlier this year arguedthat three ex GuyanesePresidents and current

President David Grangercannot lose their benefitsbecause the constitutionguarantees right to property, employmentand security of salariesand benefits to the high-est amount.

Nandlall has explainedGuyana’s Constitution(Article 222(3) says certain officeholders areentitled to salaries and allowances as well asother terms of service“shall not be altered to hisor her disadvantage afterhis or her appointment”and those terms shouldbe taken to the “more advantageous than anyother terms to which he or she might haveopted.”


Former Presidents of Guyana, Donald Ramotar (left) and Bharrat Jagdeo.

Opposition supporters celebrate in Caracas, Venezuela, early yesterday. Venezuela’s opposition haswon control of the National Assembly by a landslide.

Supporters of Venezuela’s President NicolasMaduro react as National Electoral Council (CNE)President Tibisay Lucena announces the officialresults of parliamentary elections in Caracas,December 7, 2015.

Former presidentssue Gov’t for formerpresidents benefits

Venezuelan opposition wins legislative voting in landslide


FRANCE’S far-rightNational Front toppedthe country’s regionalelection vote on Sundayin a breakthrough thatshakes up the country’spolitical landscape.

The anti-immigrationparty received at least 29.4per cent of the votes as thecountry continues its stateof emergency following theParis terror attacks.It wonsix out of 13 regions in theelection’s first round,which44 million people were eli-gible to vote for.

Former president Nico-las Sarkozy’s conservativeLes Republicains partyand their allies came sec-ond with around 27 per

cent of the vote while Pre-sident Francois Hollande’sruling Socialists camethird.

National Front leaderMarine Le Pen welcomedthe ‘magnificent result’,which will leave her in theideal position for a presi-dential bid in 2017.

She added that the re-sult proved the party was‘without contest the firstparty of France’.

Le Pen, who led the firstround in southeast Francewith 42 per cent, had ar-gued before the vote thatrefugee camps like the so-called ‘Jungle’ in Calais arefull of young men who arepotential terrorists.

She also reminded vot-ers that some of the Parismurderers, including sui-cide bombers at the Stadede France,are said to haveentered Europe from Syriaas alleged asylum seekers.

Sarkozy on Sundayruled out any alliance withthe president’s party tokeep the far-right out ofpower in regional councils.

Voters were choosingleadership for the country’s13 newly redrawn regionsin elections that go to a sec-ond round on December 13.

Le Pen’s niece, 25-year-old Marion Marechal-LePen, also did well in thesouthern regions.

Marechal-Le Pen be-

came the youngest MP inFrench parliamentary his-tory, when she was electedthree years ago aged just22. The two women havestrenuously denied theyare competing against oneanother.

The result comes aftercommentators predictedNational Front will winthree major regions follow-ing the second round of vot-ing in a week’s time.

Their support hasclimbed rapidly since theseries of brutal and co-ordi-nated terror attacks onNovember 13, which sawISIS terrorists slaughter130 people at bars andrestaurants across the city.

The National Front is nowthe first party of France

THE Supreme Court yes-terday declined to reviewthe ability of cities andstates to prohibit semiau-tomatic high-capacity as-sault weapons that havebeen used in some of thenation’s most deadly re-cent mass shootings.

The justices decided notto reconsider a lowercourt’s decision in a casefrom the city of HighlandPark, Ill., near Chicago.But seven states – Mary-land, California, Connec-ticut, Hawaii, Massa-chusetts, New Jersey andNew York – have similarbans, and all of the prohi-bitions remain in place.

Justices Clarence Tho-mas and Antonin Scaliasaid the court should re-view the ban, which“flouts” the court’s SecondAmendment jurispru-dence. They criticisedlower court decisions thathave allowed jurisdictionsand impose what Thomascalled “categorical bans onfirearms that millions ofAmericans commonly ownfor lawful purposes.”

The court’s action yes-terday continues a pat-tern. After deciding inDistrict of Columbia v.Heller in 2008 that theSecond Amendment pro-vides the right for an indi-

vidual to keep a weapon inthe home, the court hasavoided all cases thatmight clarify if that rightis more expansive.

Gun rights advocatessay cities and states con-tinue to put unreasonablerestrictions on the consti-tutional right. But thecourt has not yet found acase it thinks requires itsintervention.

That could be because amajority of the courtthinks the restrictions arelegally justified or becausethe court is closely dividedand neither side is sure ofwhat the outcome of tak-ing a case might be.

By its inaction, the courthas left in place lowercourt rulings that allow re-strictions on carrying aweapon outside the home,among other things, andon the kinds of guns thatcan be prohibited.

Highland Park citedshootings in Aurora,Colo.,and at Sandy Hook Ele-mentary School in Con-necticut for prohibiting thesemiautomatic weapons.President Obama in hisaddress to the nation onSunday night called onCongress to make itharder to sell what hecalled “powerful assaultweapons”.

Supreme Court won’t review lawsbanning assault weapons

CHICAGO –A Chicago po-lice officer will face no statecharges in the shootingdeath of a 25-year-oldblack man named RonaldJohnson in 2014, a prose-cutor said yesterday, an-nouncing an end to a casethat had drawn attentionin the days since video of adifferent police shootingwas made public and amurder charge was filedagainst the officer in thatcase.

The announcement fol-lowed several weeks of up-roar here over the fatalshooting of Laquan McDo-nald, whose 2014 deathwas captured on a policedashboard camera.OfficerJason Van Dyke wascharged with first-degreemurder in that shootinglast month,but only after ajudge ordered city officialsto release video from theshooting to the public.

Yesterday, Attorney Ge-neral Loretta Lynch an-nounced that the JusticeDepartment will begin afar-ranging investigationinto the patterns and prac-tices of the Chicago PoliceDepartment, largely as aresult of the fallout overthe McDonald case.A sim-ilar investigation by theJustice Department intothe Police Department inFerguson, Mo., after the

deadly police shootingdeath last year of an un-armed black teenager, ledto a searing report showingnumerous abuses by thedepartment.

Anger over delays in re-leasing the McDonald vi-deo have led to mountingpressure on the city of Chi-cago to reveal other policevideos from other shoot-ings, including the deathof Johnson, who was shotand killed by the police inan unrelated episode eightdays before the death ofMcDonald in 2014. Facingmounting pressure overthe matter, Mayor RahmEmanuel announced lastweek that he would makethe new video public, re-versing the city’s earlierposition, in which it foughtthe release in court filings.

The police say they wereanswering a report of gun-shots fired on the city’sSouth Side when theycame upon Johnson onOctober 12, 2014. The po-lice have said he ran whenthey approached him, andthen pointed a gun in thedirection of the officers whowere pursuing him beforethey shot him. But alawyer for Johnson’s fam-ily says Johnson was run-ning away from the officersand never pointed a gun atanyone before being shot.

No charges forChicago officer in2014 shooting ofRonald Johnson

Ronald Johnson in June 2014. Johnson was 25 whenhe was fatally shot in October 2014 during an en-counter with Chicago police officers.

National Front leader Marine Le Pen casts her vote at a polling station during the first round of votes onSunday in Henin-Beaumont, northern France.


FIVE days after a mar-ried couple attacked apublic health depart-ment holiday party,killing 14 and injuring21, San BernardinoCounty employees re-turned to work.

“We stand here thismorning as testimony thatno December 2 anywhere,no act of terrorism any-where, will succumb, willinvest fear, will provideany kind of an end to thehard work, to the dedica-tion of every single SanBernardino County em-ployee,”County SupervisorJosie Gonzales said yester-

day as county offices re-opened.

The staff of the county’sEnvironmental HealthDepartment, where one ofthe shooters worked, willreturn on December 14.Ofthe 14 fatalities, 12 werecounty employees.

Trudy Raymundo,direc-tor of the county’s publichealth department, hadbeen at the party held atthe Inland RegionalCentre when the assai-lants – Syed Rizwan Fa-rook and Tashfeen Malik –opened fire.

As her voice wavered,she publicly thanked au-

thorities and medical per-sonnel who responded andrequested that the commu-nity join together in grief.

“Mourn with us the lossof our colleagues, of ourfriends,of our families andour loved ones,” she said.“Iask that you come together

and hold each other strong,because it is this strengththat will help us heal.AndI want you to every day begrateful for those of us thatwere spared.”

Raymundo said she hadarrived about an hour be-fore the shooting began,

noting that the usual ca-maraderie was on display.

“They were upbeat, theywere happy, they werelearning from each other,which is indicative of whatthis group has alwaysbeen,” she said.

“I want to make it clear

that this is a very tight,close-knit group. Theyhave always supportedeach other. They are be-yond co-workers.They arefriends and they are fam-ily. They are tight and weare holding onto eachother right now.”

San BernardinoCounty workersare back on the job daysafter shooting

BEIRUT – The US milita-ry alleged yesterday thatRussian warplanes wereresponsible for an attackon a Syrian army positionin eastern Syria, an air-strike that Syria blamedon the US-led coalition bat-tling the Islamic State mil-itant group in the country.

The Syrian governmentissued an angry statementearlier in the day accusingcoalition aircraft of carry-ing out the overnight at-tack in the eastern pro-vince of Deir al-Zour. Thegovernment said three

Syrian soldiers were killedand 13 others injured inthe strike.

It was the first such alle-gation by Syria since theUS-led air campaignagainst the Islamic Statebegan in Syria 14 monthsago, and it sent tensionssoaring in Syria’s crowdedskies.

A US military official,speaking on the conditionof anonymity because ofthe sensitivity of the issue,later said the Pentagon is“certain” that a Russianwarplane was responsiblefor the attack. There wasno immediate response tothe charge from eitherSyria or Russia.

The finger-pointing illus-trated the danger that amisunderstanding, mis-take or misinformationcould trigger a wider con-flict as Russia and theUnited States lead sepa-rate, rival air campaignsto combat the IslamicState.

US warplanes did con-duct overnight strikes inthe province of Deir al-Zour on Sunday, but thetargets were oil wells atleast 34 miles from Ay-

yash, the location the Sy-rian government said washit,according to Col.SteveWarren, a US militaryspokesman in Baghdad.

Syria’s Foreign Ministrycalled the alleged attackon the army post an act of“heinous aggression”. Itsaid it sent letters of com-plaint to the UN secretarygeneral and the UN Secu-rity Council, calling for theUnited Nations to take “ur-gent measures” to preventa recurrence of such an in-cident.

“The aggression on themilitary post hinders theefforts aiming to fight ter-rorism and reiterates thatthe US-led coalition lacksseriousness and credibilityin the fight against terror-ism,” the Foreign Ministrystatement said.

It said four coalition war-planes struck a Syrianarmy post with nine rock-ets late Sunday, killingthree soldiers and injuring13. The strike also de-stroyed three armouredvehicles, four military ve-hicles, two heavy machineguns and a depot of armsand ammunition, the min-istry added.

Pentagon says Russian,not US, warplanes hit aSyrian army base

A MAN has appeared incourt charged with at-tempted murder after aknife attack at Leyton-stone Underground sta-tion in east London, onSaturday.

Muhaydin Mire, 29, ofSansom Road, east Lon-don, was remanded incustody at Westminster

Magistrates' Court.The prosecution team

allege that the incident,which left a 56-year-oldman with “serious” stabwounds and another in-jured, was an act of ter-rorism.

The case will be sent tothe Old Bailey for a hear-ing on December 11 .

Police arrived atLeytonstone station atapproximately 1900GMT and used a Taserthree times before takingMire into custody.

His flat was latersearched by forensicteams.

Footage of the incidentwas captured on CCTV

and on several mobilephones.

One onlooker shouted:“You ain’t no Muslim,bruv” during the stab-bing. The phrase hassince been trended onTwitter and been ap-plauded by the PrimeMinister, David Came-ron.

Man appears in court afterLondon Tube stabbings

Civilians and rescue workers search for victims amid the rubble of a buildingafter a reported airstrike by government forces on the Sukkari neighbourhood ofthe northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

“I want you to know, we are strong,” Trudy Raymundo, the director of the San Bernardino CountyDepartment of Public Health, said at a news conference of county officials and doctors.


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ARIES (March 21-April 19) - It won’t beenough for you to know a person’s name. You’llwant to also know that person’s story. And if aperson can’t deliver you said “story,” you’llrespect that person all the more – a clean slate.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - The Internettells you to spoil the one you adore with hugsand kisses – not bad advice, though muchdepends on timing. You’re playing asophisticated game. One answer does not fit all.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21) - The Biblesuggests that we are dust and will return to it.Joni Mitchell echoed the sentiments when shesang, “We are star dust. We are golden.” You’llfeel the profundity of those words today.

CANCER (June 22-July 22) - There is aperson who depends on you. This is real andimportant. Be all you can be to that person today.This is one of many days in a chapter of time,and yet it is the only day we can do somethingabout.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - Maybe you don’teven know how you got into it, but boy, you arein it now. Are you ever. For a lot of the day you’llwonder how to get out of it. The expression thatrules after that: Good riddance.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - I takes a longtime to be a master. That’s why the masters areexonerated. You’ll praise one today withoutknowing how your praise will land. Truly, itwill mean more than the master lets on.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - When someonemakes an effort, you encourage. Words help;actions speak louder. You’ve a good idea aboutthe action you should take, so go for it: You arealways on the ready to make things better foryou and yours.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) - You attract goodfriends; there’s no question about that. Do theymeasure up to the standards that others set foryou? Maybe not. Are those people in a positionto set your standards? Maybe not.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) - It’s fine ifyou don’t make sense. In fact, stop. Then realise:No one makes sense all of the time. Yournonsense will have a certain genius to it today.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Playing thegame – that’s where the fun is for you. Thescore only matters in as much as it’s a markerfor who gets to play and who doesn’t.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) - Art is notscience. As much as one tries to measure it andweigh it and make sense of it, it can never workon a logical scale. And neither can a certainrelationship you have that is prettying up thewalls of your life.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) - You’ll use all ofthe tools available to you to connect with likeminds. This will accentuate your tendencies.By finding kindred spirits, you’ll feed the personyou are.


VIENNA – Russia’senvoy to the UN nu-clear agency said yes-terday he expected ahistoric nuclear dealbetween Iran andworld powers to be im-plemented in January,leading to sanctionsbeing lifted on Tehran.

Under the deal, Iranmust scale back its nu-clear programme, includ-ing its stockpile of low-en-riched uranium, which itplans to do via a swap fornon-enriched forms of ura-nium with Russia.

That swap will be donebefore the end of the year,the Russian envoy to theInternational AtomicEnergy Agency (IAEA) inVienna, Vladimir Voron-kov, told reporters inVienna.

Iran has made it a pre-condition for fulfilling allits promises under theJuly agreement that theboard of governors of theIAEA formally close an in-quiry into Iran’s nuclearpast with a resolution onDecember 15.

“We hope by the end ofthe day this draft resolu-tion will be distributed forall member states ofIAEA,”Voronkov said aftermeeting envoys from theUnited States, China,France,Britain,Germany,the European Union andIran in Vienna.

Iran’s top nuclear nego-tiator,Abbas Araqchi, said

after the meetings he wassatisfied with the draftresolution and expected itto be adopted next week.He declined to divulge fur-ther details on the docu-ment.

For sanctions on Iran tobe lifted, the IAEA mustfirst verify that the IslamicRepublic has fulfilled allits commitments underthe July deal, includingdismantling large num-bers of its centrifuges foruranium-enrichment andfilling parts of its Arak nu-clear site with cement.

The IAEA report onIran’s nuclear past, whichwas issued last week,strongly suggested Tehranhad a co-ordinated nuclearweapons programme be-fore 2003, but, in a sign ofthe thaw in relations sinceJuly, Western diplomatsshowed no concern.

Araqchi said Iran re-jected the findings of thereport about its pro-gramme before 2003, butadded that, in Iran’s view,overall the documentshowed the peaceful na-ture of Iran’s atomic activ-ities.

“We believe that basedon this final assessmentthe board of governorsshould close the so-calledPMD issue,” he told re-porters, referring to the re-port into what is alsoknown as the “possiblemilitary dimensions” ofIran’s nuclear past.

Russia expectsIran nucleardeal to beimplementedin January

TURKEY has summonedthe Russian ambassadorafter a serviceman on aRussian naval ship al-legedly brandished arocket launcher while thevessel passed throughIstanbul at the weekend.

Images published inTurkish media appeared toshow the Russian on deck,resting the launcher on hisshoulder.

Relations between thetwo countries deterioratedsharply since Turkey lastmonth shot down a Rus-sian fighter jet, which itsaid was in its airspace.The pilot was killed.

Turkey has expressedoutrage over the images ofthe alleged rocket laun-cher. Foreign MinisterMevlut Cavusoglu calledthe incident a “provoca-tion”.The pictures showedthe Russian serviceman onboard the Caesar Kunikovas it passed through theBosphorus strait.

“The showing off of amissile by a soldier on aRussian warship, or otherthings such as anti-aircraftweapons, is pure provoca-tion,” said Cavusoglu .

Turkey is obliged toallow all merchant shipsthrough the strait, whichruns through Istanbul,during peacetime.Militaryvessels belonging to BlackSea countries also enjoyunhindered access.

For Russia it is the onlypassage its Black Sea fleetcan use to access theMediterranean and therest of the world’s oceans.

Turkey summons Russianambassador over missile launcher

MELBOURNE,Australia– An Australian whojoined Kurdish forces intheir fight againstIslamic State militants inSyria has returned toAustralia where he wasquestioned by police afterbeing deported fromGermany.

Ashley Dyball, 23, wasmet by AustralianFederal Police atMelbourne Airport lateSunday night, and inter-viewed for four hours be-fore he was released to his

family early yesterdaymorning.

His lawyer, JessieSmith, told AustralianBroadcasting Corp. thatDyball was interviewedand “released withoutcharge pending furtherinquiry.”

Australian FederalPolice said in a state-ment: “The public can restassured that anyAustralian who is identi-fied as a threat to securitywill be investigated bythe relevant agencies.”

Dyball had travelled tothe Middle East in Mayto join Kurdish forces,known by the acronymYPG, despite Australiangovernment warningsthat it was an offence forAustralian citizens to in-volve themselves in theconflicts in Iraq andSyria.

Dyball’s mother JuliaDyball told reporters atthe airport yesterday thather son was a hero whohad risked his own life bydefusing land mines.

“Countless people andchildren that have beenkilled by land mines andI don’t see what’s so crim-inal about dismantlingland mines so people canreturn home,” JuliaDyball said.

Ashley Dyball was alsowelcomed at the airportby the parents of ReeceHarding, a 23-year-oldAustralian who died inJune when he stepped ona land mine in Syriawhere he had been fight-ing Islamic State mili-

tants with Kurdish forcesfor two months.

Harding’s mother,Michelle Harding, saidAshley Dyball should notbe charged.

“When they went overthere, they knew the lawswere in place but thoughtthey were for terrorists,”Michelle Harding said.

Ashley Dyball had beentaking a break from thebattle field when he trav-elled to Germany and wasdeported because of hislinks to Kurdish militias.

Australian who joined Kurdish forces in Syria sent home

A general view of a meeting of the joint commission tasked with monitoring the implementation of a nucleardeal between Iran and six world powers in Vienna, Austria, on December 7, 2015.

A Russian soldier was spotted atop a Russian warship with a shoulder-fired mis-sile while crossing the Bosporus.


TOKYO – Japan has done nothingwrong by sending its whaling fleet outon its annual Antarctic hunt and theworld must agree to disagree on theissue, the country’s top whalingofficial said yesterday.

The International Court of Justicesaid last year that Japan’s whaling inthe Southern Ocean should stop andan International Whaling Committeepanel said in April that Tokyo had yetto demonstrate a need for killingwhales. Tokyo took a one-year hiatus

from Antarctic whaling.However, Tokyo’s retooling of its

hunt plan for the 2015/16 season,which cut the number of minkewhales it takes by two-thirds to 333,made every effort to meet theobjections of both the court and theIWC committee, said Joji Morishita,Japan’s IWC Commissioner.

Japan, which has long maintainedmost whale species are notendangered and eating whale is partof its culture, began what it calls

scientific whaling in 1987, a year afteran international whaling moratoriumtook effect. The meat ends up on storeshelves.

“We did our best to try to meet thecriteria established by theInternational Court of Justice and wehave decided to implement ourresearch plan, because we areconfident that we completed thescientific homework as well as ...meeting the ICJ judgmentrequirement,” Morishita told a news

conference.Morishita added that the emotive

issue may just be another one of manyirreconcilable differencesinternational society has to live with.

“The solution is that we have toagree to disagree,” he said.

“However, this does not mean thatwe will take all whales – exactlybecause we’d like to have sustainablewhaling, we’d like to have a healthywhale population,” it was alsoexplained.

THE German automaker is awareof the huge amount ofenvironmental concerns amongconsumers. Called the Mission E,this will be Porsche’s first breathin the electric-car industry,which is simply dominated byElon Musk’s Tesla.

The Mission E made its big débutduring the September FrankfurtMotor Show event. The companynotes that the Mission E will be 100per cent electrically powered.

Christian Weiss, Porsche corporatespokesperson, has said that thecompany’s new electric sports car willblend the traditional, beautiful

design of Porsche with incredibledriving performance. Theautomaker’s Mission E will bepowered by a 800-volt electric drivesystem.

Indeed, it appears to be a hugechange of direction as the carmanufacturer is known for their loud,speedy and fuel-hogging vehicles.Going green doesn’t necessarily meana cut in performance. In fact, the carwill boast a 600 HP engine, and itwill be able to reach 62 mph in justunder 3.5 seconds.

Impressive not only for an electriccar, but for the whole automotiveindustry.

It’s a new chapter for the company.The chairman of the executive board,Dr. Olivia Blume, along with supportfrom the chairman of the supervisoryboard of Porsche AG, Dr. WolfgangPorsche, have both assuredconsumers, and sport car lovers thatthe company will not be backingdown from the podium any time soon.

The brand is aware of the sensitiveissues that are affecting the world aswe speak. According to officialstatements, the Mission E will pleaseboth die-hard followers, which havematured along side the company, andyoung-consumers, who are more eco-friendly.

Porsche to launch an electriccar at the end of the decade

A Porsche Mission e concept car is displayed at the second press day of the 66th IAA auto show in Frankfurt am Main,western Germany.

World must agree to disagree on hunting whales, Japan official says

BERLIN/PARIS – Eat misshapenvegetables, wash clothes in cold water,drive more slowly and recycle? It isperhaps no surprise that companiessay persuading consumers to go greenis a big challenge.As negotiators seek adeal to reduce global emissions at theUN talks in Paris, companies are underincreasing pressure to account for alltheir carbon emissions, frommanufacturing all the way through topackaging and a product’s disposal.

Businesses have been lining up toannounce they will power theirfactories by renewable energy or sourceraw materials from sustainablymanaged forests and farms, but manysay it is up to consumers too to changethe way they use their products.

Years after detergents weredeveloped to wash clothes in cold water,many people still turn up the dial.Electric car sales have been as sluggishas their perceived performance on theroad, and tonnes of food and clothingstill choke landfills.

Unilever, maker of Dove soap,estimates that customers areresponsible for 70 per cent of thegreenhouse gas emissions associatedwith its products, compared to just 21per cent for the raw materials used tomake them.The consumer goods gianthas been promoting shorter showers –admittedly with limited success.

“It is far easier to get a consumer toswitch their purchase behaviour from aless sustainable product to a moresustainable product than it is toinfluence how people use the products,”said Sally Uren, head of Forum for theFuture, a non-profit that works withbusiness and government onsustainability issues.

Companiesstruggle topromote greenconsumption


THE state of emer-gency legislation de-clared by the Frenchgovernment after theNovember 13, 2015Paris attacks has al-ready put huge restric-tions on how peopleuse the Internet. Thegovernment howevermay be looking towiden those powers,proposing that it willban free public Wi-Fiand anonymous brows-ing because of the at-tacks, according toleaked documents.

The French governmentis considering extendingInternet powers in a waythat has only previouslybeen done in Iran andChina, according to thedocument seen by French

newspaper “Le Monde”.The document suggests

that the country will“Forbid free and sharedwi-fi connections” duringthe state of emergencythat is currently in place.Police have suggested thatpublic wi-fi networksallow people to use the in-ternet without beingtracked, according to thedocument.

The country is also look-ing to ban the anonymousTor browser, a move thathas only been attemptedin Iran and China.

That software and net-work sends users’ trafficaround the internet beforeit gets to its destination,hiding the IP address ofthe computer that origi-nally made the request.

As such, it is used by ter-rorists and cybercriminalsto communicate and findinformation without beingtracked. But it also allowsjournalists, whistleblow-ers and other groups whomight want to hide theirbrowsing to do so, and wasoriginally developed inpartnership with the USgovernment.

Blocking the technologyis difficult, and previousattempts in other coun-tries have had only lim-ited success.

In China, connections toknown parts of the net-work are banned – and thecountry’s “great firewall”also means that it canwatch all connections andanalyse the traffic for po-tential browsing. It is

likely that if France fol-lows through on the plansthat it would have to insti-tute a similarly large-scaleinternet surveillance andcontrol plan.

The state of emergencylegislation already givessweeping powers to au-thorities, including allow-ing police to search resi-dences without a warrantand the banning of publicprotest. Websites can alsobe entirely cut off if theyare thought to be illegal.

The powers have beenin effect since shortly afterthe Paris attacks. Soonafter that, the French par-liament voted to extend itfor three months – and re-ports have suggested thatthe country may look toextend it indefinitely.

France considers blocking Tor,public wi-fi after Paris attacks

The French Government is considering banning public wi-fi in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks.

APPLE has made good onits promise to increase theiCloud Music Librarylimit to 100,000 tracks.This was previously set at25,000, so the change in-creases the cap threefold.The move was first teasedin June, with Eddy Cue,the company’s SVP ofInternet Software andServices, promising itwould arrive before theyear’s end.

The iCloud MusicLibrary is an online col-lection of music that’s fedby two services: iTunesMatch and Apple Music.

iTunes Match is like anonline music locker; it

scans your iTunes collec-tion and gives you accessto any tracks it alreadyhas on its servers.Additionally, it uploadsany songs it can’t find andlets you access or down-load them with all yourregistered devices. AppleMusic includes a very sim-ilar service alongside itsstreaming options, butwith one key difference.Its “scan and match” fea-ture includes digitalrights management(DRM), so even thoughyou can download themthey will cease to functionif you cancel your sub-scription.

Apple increases iCloud Music Library limit

Users can enjoy additional music tracks with Apple.

IBM’s #HackAHairDryer campaignaimed at women backfiresAfter running for a cou-ple of months more orless unnoticed online,IBM’s “hack a hairdryer”campaign suddenly at-tracted a barrage of crit-icism by Twitter userswho called it patronisingand sexist – the companyhas now apologised.

A video was created byAmerican computinggiant IBM aimed to“reengineer mispercep-tions about women intech, and to focus onwhat really matters inscience”.

Women working in sci-ence and tech were askedto “hack a hair dryer”,then share their work onthe IBM website.

The video was postedon YouTube in early

October. It failed to grabmuch social media atten-tion at the time, but yes-terday a number of sci-entists, most of them fe-male, started tweetingtheir reactions.Unfortunately for IBM,most of them were notpositive.

The hashtag racked upclose to 5,000 mentionsin just a few hours. Oneof the most populartweets was by the engi-neer and rocket scientistStephanie Evans:

“The #HackAHairdryercampaign is a poorly de-signed attempt to inspirewomen to pursue STEM(science, technology, en-gineering and mathe-matics) careers due tothe fact that it reinforces

gender stereotypes,”Evans told BBCTrending. “Gettingwomen interested inSTEM is as simple asmaking educational re-sources readily availablefor them to freely pursuetheir interests withoutbeing placed in a glittery,pink box.”

Others called the cam-paign patronising, andmany of the tweets, de-ployed sarcasm to makea point.

One tweeter, namedRebeccaDV, wrote: "IBM,no one is asking male sci-entists to hack beardtrimmers."

Upulie Divisekera,tweeted, “I leavehairdryer fixing to themen, I'm too busy mak-

ing nanotech and treat-ing cancer.”

Another, called RandiLee Harper, wrote: “I likemakeup and hair care. Ialso like building robots.Guess which one I’d liketo see @ibm promoting to

women?”“Let’s get more women

into science by playingup tired gender stereo-types!” wrote, KirthanAujlay.

Amid the outcry, IBMapologised, tweeting yes-

terday: “This was part ofa larger campaign to pro-mote STEM careers. Itmissed the mark and weapologise. It is being dis-continued.”

The original video hassince been removed.

A screenshot from IBM’s “#HackAHairDryer” campaign, which the company nowsays will be discontinued.

Tuesday December 8, 2015 • 23The Barbados Advocate SPORTSSPORTS

ROBERTA FOSTER, one ofBarbados’ Elite DressageRiders, has shown why she ismore than deserving of the title‘Elite Rider’. Foster and hereight-year-old Dutch warm-blood mare, Chichic, have givenBarbados an international firstplace at Advanced Level in theInternational EquestrianFederation’s (FEI) 2015 WorldDressage Challenge, which pitsover 50 countries and hundredsof riders against each other forthe top equestrian honours inDressage and Show Jumpingeach year.

With an amazing score of69.86 per cent, Foster, daughterof the late Robin Hunte ofMerrymen fame, has takenBarbados where no rider hastaken the country before, to the

top of the international podiumin an FEI competition. This isnot only a huge personalachievement for Foster, but it isa tremendous achievement forBarbados and the BarbadosEquestrian Association, onethat has been lauded by theBarbados Olympic Associationand the National SportsCouncil.

What makes this feat evenmore remarkable, is that Fosterhas trained her horse over thepast four years primarily byherself. Although she hasworked with top dressagetrainers such as Stephen Mooreof the UK, Foster, herself a topequestrian trainer, has workeddiligently each day to bringChichic to this advanced level ofcompetition.

This pair will undoubtedlyrepresent Barbados in the nextfew years at the CentralAmerican and CaribbeanChampionships as well as PanAm Games; both Games atwhich Foster has representedBarbados several times on otherhorses over the years, oftenalongside her equally talentedequestrian sister, Gina Hunte.Foster had a phenomenal yearhaving also proudly led the 2015Barbados FEI Dressage team ofherself and three other riders –Mackenzie Manning, Bree-Anne Hurdle, and ErinStephany to the top position inthe Caribbean region (Zone 10)in the FEI challenge edging outcountries such as Trinidad,Jamaica and Bermuda for thetop spot.

THE Barbados NetballAssociation got a helpinghand this weekend whenWanderers Australia made asmall but very welcomedonation of sportingequipment. The sportingorganisation, which hashosted several teams incricket and hockey toBarbados in the past, havebrought what is believed tobe the first junior Australiannetball team of any kind tothe Caribbean.

Speaking to The BarbadosAdvocate this past Sundayevening during games againstnational youth teams at SpringerMemorial, Wanderers Australiarepresentative Brad Fussellexplained that the organisationhad brought 27 girls rangingfrom ages 14 to 18 to play againstlocal schools and club teams fromNovember 29 to December 9.Noting that the three teams weremade up of girls who had notplayed together or even metbefore the trip out,Fussell statedthat the main aim of the tour wasto provide social and sportingenrichment for the youngsters.

“For a netball club or netballassociation from Australia tocome all the way to theCaribbean, it’s very expensiveand very difficult to get playersfrom one club who can all committo a tour for various reasons butyou might get one or two.So whatwe do is that we combine kidsfrom all over Australia who arepassionate about their netballand we combine them as a groupand the first time they meet eachother is when we leave fromAustralia.And the whole conceptis to improve their netball with

really good coaching. We comeacross and play against manydifferent styles of netball, see adifferent part of the world,embrace a new culture,and mostimportantly, go back a betterperson and a better netballer,” itwas explained.

With the main focus of the tripon positive exchange, Fussellhanded over several items to theBarbados Netball Association,such as balls and player andcoaching equipment and said

that he saw it as a fair exchange.“The whole idea about this isbecause in this part of the world,it can be difficult to get gear at allor it is expensive for the netballassociation,so we thought that itwas very important for us tocome here and not just use youguys for games. It is important tocontribute,” he said.

With a group of 46 in totalinclusive of family andsupporters,Fussell said that thistype of exposure was important

for the young players. He alsoadded that things were lookinggood for it to be an ongoingexercise as more teams wereshowing interest in similarprogrammes.

“For these girls, it’s a realhighlight for them to be able toplay against a national team. Alot of these girls might not go onto play at a higher level likeCommonwealth Games or WorldChampionships,so for them,thismight be the highlight of their

netball career. It’s wonderful thatthe association has been able tocome out and put their nationalteams on show and play againstus this week and we are alreadyin the planning for next year.Wehave already got three girlsteams signed on who want tocome next year,so we are hopefulthat we can make this an annualevent to try and help you guyspromote netball in Barbados andpromote the sport as everyonegets better,” Fussell said.

Wanderers Australia give back to Barbados

Wanderers Australia representative Brad Fussell is presented with a token of appreciation by Barbados Netball AssociationPresident, Nisha Craigwell, while they are flanked by players and umpires on Sunday evening.

Roberta Foster takes topInternational Equestrian win

Robert Foster taking her partner Chichic through the paces inthis year’s FEI competition.

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SAMMY EASTMONDwas a cut above therest as he claimed thetitle at the MichaelRiley Classic andInvitationalbodybuilding andFitness Show.

Competing at the St.Leonard’s school onSunday, Eastmond’simmaculate conditioningwas of such that thejudges did not evenbother to call him backout for a comparison withany of the othercontestants.

Instead the showdownwas for second placebetween last year’swinner Shaquille Lavineand David Small.

Eastmond in thecompulsory pose lookedshredded and full. Hewas superior in the sidechest pose, the doubleback biceps with hishamstrings shouting atthe crowd as he pulled onthem. His tear dropquads were also striatedand the separation leftvalleys between themuscles.

But his journey wasnot an easy one and thevisible fatigue Eastmondsaid after the show thatdespite it all, it as worthit.

Eastmond hascompeted in three shows

in five weeks, the DarcyBeckles Classic, Antiguaand now the MichaelRiley Classic.

He said he had the fludue to his extended dietwhich left the bodyvulnerable but he felt hewas at his biggest in hiscareer.

Eastmond has bouncedback from injury whichstruck early in 2014 andthen again at the start of2015.

Second in theInvitational was DavidSmall who went head tohead with a visiblybigger Shaquille Lavine.

Small finished secondand Lavine who waslooking for his thirdconsecutive victory in theMichael Classic had tosettle for third place.

The Classic winnerwas Kenmar Chandlerwho was clearly the mostmuscular of the contestwhich included 2015 MrSchoolboy KemmecoByer and the runner upLaslo Bryan.

Chandler won the titlewith Bryan coming outon top of Byer who wasnot in the same conditionas he was at MrSchoolboy.

In the Bikini Fitnessthe defending championDominique Doughtyappeared to be too soft in

her legs and glutes anddid not make the topthree. The winnerWymell Lynch defeatedsecond place Akela

Prescod and third laceAlisha Garnett who gavethe crowd a shakedownwith her routine.

(CG)

Sammy Eastmond shinesat Michael Riley classicWinner of the Michael Riley Invitational Sammy

Eastmond was a clear cut winner.

Winner of the Body Fitness Nicole Roach.

The contestants for the Bikini Fitness, (from left) second place Akeila Prescod, third place Alisha Garnett,fourth place Dominique Doughty and the winner Wymell Lynch.

David Small (left) and Shaquille Lavine during theircomparison for second place at the Michael RileyClassic.

SHONE SPRINGERis the Men’sPhysique championof the recentlyconcluded MichaelRiley Classic.

After placing secondlast year in the sameClassic, then this yearhe was second at MrBridgetown andsecond at Nationals,Springer had finallymade the other steponto the top of thepodium.

Springer said he wasconfident coming intothe show having builtup his confidence bycompeting in moreshows this year.

However, he was notdaunted by his noneplacement at theDarcy Beckles Classic.

“I had too muchconditioned andmuscularity for thatshow,” said Springerwho took on thechallenge to find theright mix and broughtit down by changinghis diet.

Second place went toJulian Belgrave, whilethird was Nicholas

Mosley. The growingtrend in the sport hasseen more athletescompeting in the Men’sPhysique and at theMichael Riley Classicit was the same, as thebiggest field was in theMen’s Physique with11 competitors takingto the stage.

Nicole Roach was aneasy pick as thewinner in the BodyFitness category withher other competitorsnot showing any abs orsmall separation thejudges look for. MsSchoolgirl EliseMofford may want toincrease herconditioning – sheopted to stay in thiscategory as she lookeda bit too soft tochallenge for the topand finished secondafter a showdown withRhea Lewis.

In the masterscategory WilliamMorris was muscularand cruised to victoryin the Masters over 50category over secondplace Joe Bourne andOrlando Blenman.


ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada– Barbados Pride beatWindward IslandsVolcanoes by 181 runs inan extended post-lunchsession on the fourth andfinal day of their fourthround WICB PCL first-class match at theGrenada NationalStadium yesterday.

Set 379 to win andstarting the day on 40without loss, theWindward Islands werebowled out for 197 in 70.2overs. The last ninewickets fell for 88 runs.The match ended at 3:22

p.m.Opener Tyrone

Theophile topscored with47. Veteran left-armspinner Sulieman Bennwas the main destroyerwith six for 55 off 26.2overs. Off-spinner RostonChase took two for 18 offnine overs.

Miles Bascombe, whowas on 20 at the start ofplay, was caught byAshley Nurse off Benn for30.

Theophile, from hisovernight 17, was caughtby Shamarh Brooks offBenn.

Sunil Ambris wasbowled by fast bowlerTino Best for nought.

Johnson Charles,driving, was caught onthe second attempt at slipby Benn off medium-pacer Kevin Stoute for44.

Dalton Polius, pushingforward, was leg beforewicket by Chase fornought.

Liam Sebastien wascaught by JonathanCarter off Benn for five.

Shane Shillingford wascaught by Best off Chasefor two.

Andre Fletcher wascaught by Nurse off Bennfor 21.

Mervin Matthew wascaught by MiguelCummins off Benn for 11.

And Kenroy Peters wascaught by Carter off Bennfor nought.

Alston Bobb was notout on 17.

Bowling: Best 7-1-22-1, Cummins 6-1-27-0(nb5), Stoute 14-2-44-1(w1), Benn 26.2-6-55-6,Nurse 8-1-29-0 (nb1),Chase 9-1-18-2.

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ShoneSpringerfinallytakes theother step

Barbados beat Windwards by 181 runs

Masters winner William Morris.

Shone Springer (centre) had what it took to win the Men’s Physique from Julian Belgrave (left) and NicholasMosley.

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NASSAU – JordanSpieth and his caddieshared the kind of hugon the 18th greennormally seen only bywinners.

They were six shotsbehind when they finishedthe Hero World Challenge,and it was clear thismoment wasn’t aboutSunday at Albany GolfClub. This was about therealisation that the yearwas finally over, the kindof year a player neverwants to end.

The Masters made itspecial. The US Openmade it incredible. TheFedEx Cup made itlucrative. The No. 1ranking made itsatisfying.

When the 22-year-oldTexan made his final fullswing of the year and was

walking toward the green,caddie Michael Grellerwalked alongside him.

"Michael said, ‘Hey,man, it’s been an honourto be in the passengerseat, sitting shotgun forthis ride this year. Thanksfor everything,’” Spiethsaid. “Obviously, I thankedhim. It’s been a teameffort this year, just as wealways stress. But yeah,there was certainly a sighof relief.”

It’s time to take a break,even if it’s a short one.

He leaves in just overthree weeks for Maui,where the new year startsat Kapalua and Spiethwill have to figure out anencore from winning twomajors to get halfway tothe Grand Slam, fivetournaments overall, arecord $12 million in PGATour earnings and asweep of all the major

awards.Except that he’s not

looking at it as a new year.It’s simply a break.

He had a chance to winthe Australian Open lastweek in Sydney until MattJones recovered on theback nine. Spieth was inrange at the Hero WorldChallenge until BubbaWatson didn’t give anyonemuch of a chance and wonby three shots.

Spieth was on a victorylap these last two weeks,and he said he spent moretime on the beach than onthe putting green, with noregrets. He played 28times this year, includingthe Presidents Cup. Hewon or finished second 10times. He was a combined54-under par in the fourmajors. He was due aworking vacation.

Even so, he’s alwayslooking ahead.

He was headed home toDallas on Monday for histhree-week break. Hisfirst order of business wasto play golf.

Spieth is taking hisfather, Shawn, and agentJay Danzi to AugustaNational to enjoy theprivileges of being the

Masters champion. Healso plans to play withAugusta member andAT&T chief executiveRandall Stephenson.

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

DATE CLOSE CLOSE CHANGE PRICE PRICE SIZE SIZE ABV Investments Incorporated 23-Jan-15 - - - $0.32 $0.32 - $0.02 $0.05 100,000 27,000

BICO Limited 29-Oct-15 - - - $1.85 $1.85 - $1.85 - 2,700 -

Banks Holdings Limited 07-Dec-15 331,897 $7.10 $7.10 $7.10 $7.10 $0.00 $7.10 - 4,894,979 -

Barbados Dairy Industries Limited 10-Jun-15 - - - $1.60 $1.60 - $1.50 $5.25 20 26,331

Barbados Farms Limited 10-Nov-15 - - - $0.40 $0.40 - $0.30 $0.50 10,000 1,342

Cable and Wireless Barbados Limited 07-Dec-15 340 $2.84 $2.84 $2.60 $2.60 $0.00 $2.60 $2.70 2,971 2,971

Cave Shepherd and Company Limited 03-Dec-15 - - - $3.00 $3.00 - $3.00 $3.68 600 4,192

FirstCaribbean International Bank 26-Nov-15 - - - $1.88 $1.88 - $1.65 $1.75 40,000 42,564

Fortress Caribbean Property Fund 03-Dec-15 - - - $0.21 $0.21 - $0.21 $0.22 3,000 3,572- Dev Fund

Fortress Caribbean Property Fund 27-Nov-15 - - - $0.57 $0.57 - $0.57 - 52 -- Value Fund

Goddard Enterprises Limited 27-Nov-15 - - - $6.60 $6.60 - $6.60 - 2,210 -

Insurance Corporation Of B’dos Limited -* 04-Dec-15 - - - $2.60 $2.60 - $2.51 $2.60 10,000 10,000

JMMB Group Limited -* 23-Jul-15 - - - $0.15 $0.15 - - - - -

Emera (C’bean) Incorporated 5.5% Pref -* 06-Nov-15 - - - $3.11 $3.11 - $3.11 - 1,491 -

Emera (C’bean) Incorporated -* 28-Oct-15 - - - $25.70 $25.70 - $28.00 - 985 -

Massy Holdings Limited 09-Oct-15 - - - $20.00 $20.00 - $19.00 $19.99 46 201

One Caribbean Media Limited 23-Nov-15 - - - $7.00 $7.00 - $6.81 $7.00 100 20,000

Sagicor Financial Corporation Pref 6.5% 04-Nov-15 - - - $2.26 $2.26 - $2.00 $2.26 630 4,580

Sagicor Financial Corporation 02-Dec-15 - - - $1.76 $1.76 - $1.79 $1.95 9,647 2,582

The West Indies Rum Distilleries Limited 13-Apr-15 - - - $8.00 $8.00 - - $8.00 - 13,100

Trinidad Cement Limited 21-Aug-14 - - - $0.80 $0.80 - $0.80 $2.00 2,350 1,100

West India Biscuit Company Limited 05-Nov-15 - - - $13.00 $13.00 - $12.00 - 804 -

TOTAL SHARES BOUGHT & SOLD 332,237

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

Royal Fidelity TIGRS A2 Fund $10.00 $10.00 $10.50 100

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 6.75% 2022 $ 95.93 $ 96.93 100,000 500,000B’dos Government Debenture 6.875% 2023 21-Aug-15 $ 98.00 $100.00 30,000 30,000B’dos Government Debenture 7% 2023 21-Sep-15 $ 97.50 $100.00 100,000 100,000B’dos Government Debenture 7.25% 2029 12-Oct-15 $ 97.50 $101.00 20,000 20,000B’dos Government Debenture 7.75% 2020 21-Aug-15 $103.63 500,000B’dos Government Debenture 8.50% 2018 21-Oct-15 $105.00 $108.75 60,000 600,000B’dos Government T/Note 6% 2016 16-Oct-15 $101.00 35,000B’dos Government T/Note 6% 2017 23-Nov-15 $105.00 296,000B’dos Government T/Note 6.5% 2019 05-Oct-15 $102.00 $103.00 150,000 150,000

MUTUAL FUNDDecember 7, 2015

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04-Dec-15 REPUBLIC CAPITAL GROWTH FUND w 1.5065 0.001904-Dec-15 REPUBLIC INCOME FUND -* w 1.5540 0.001404-Dec-15 REPUBLIC PROPERTY FUND w 1.2804 0.000404-Dec-15 FORTRESS CARIBBEAN GROWTH FUND w 4.8678 4.8678 4.8678 0.014504-Dec-15 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - ACC. w 1.8694 0.002704-Dec-15 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - DIST. w 1.0077 0.001530-Oct-15 ROYAL FIDELITY SELECT BALANCED FUND m 4.7007 4.7007 4.6067 0.028230-Oct-15 ROYAL FIDELITY STRATEGIC GROWTH FUNDm 0.8013 0.8013 0.7853 0.006030-Oct-15 ROYAL FIDELITY PREMIUM INCOME FUND m 1.4939 1.4939 1.4640 0.0073 04-Dec-15 SAGICOR GLOBAL BALANCED FUND w 2.25 -0.0104-Dec-15 SAGICOR SELECT GROWTH FUND w 1.23 -0.0104-Dec-15 SAGICOR PREFERRED INCOME FUND -* w 1.05 -0.02* Indicates the Fund is currently ex-div

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BANKS HOLDINGS LIMITED 331,897 $7.10 $7.10 $7.10 $0.00CABLE AND WIRELESS BARBADOS LIMITED 340 $2.84 $2.84 $2.60 $0.00

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Two securities traded firm as 332,237 shares traded on the Regular Market, with a total value of $2,357,434.30. Banks HoldingsLimited was the volume leader trading 331,897 shares at $7.10. They were followed by Cable and Wireless Barbados Limited whichtraded 340 shares.

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SHARE SUMMARY INFORMATIONDecember 7, 2015

INDICESTODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES

December 7, 2015 December 4, 2015Local 2,289.33 2,289.33 - Cross-list 1,738.11 1,738.11 - Composite 643.26 643.26 -

MARKET CAPITALISATION (in millions)

TODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES December 7, 2015 December 4, 2015

Local 5,726.17 5,726.17 - Cross-list 2,853.96 2,853.96 - Composite 8,580.13 8,580.13 -

NEWSDIVIDEND DECLARATION

Emera (Caribbean) Incorporated - Directors have declared afinal dividend of sixteen (16) cents per share to be paid onDecember 15th, 2015 to Shareholders on record at close of business on November 20th, 2015.

Emera (Caribbean) Incorporated 5.5% Pref - Directors havedeclared a dividend of thirteen point seven five (13.75) centsper share to be paid on December 31st, 2015 to Shareholderson record at close of business on November 20th, 2015.

JMMB Group Limited - Directors have declared a dividend ofnineteen (19) JMD cents per share to be paid on December18th, 2015 to Shareholders on record at close of business on November 30th, 2015.

Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited - Directors havedeclared a interim dividend of seven (7) cents per share to bepaid on December 15th, 2015 to Shareholders on record atclose of business on December 3rd, 2015.

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 SAGICOR FINANCIAL CORPORATION 6.5% Pref 7,500

B'DOS FARMS LIMITED 1,500 SAGICOR FINANCIAL CORPORATION 10,000

BICO INDUSTRIES LIMITED 100 THE WEST INDIES RUM DISTILLERY LIMITED 300

CABLE & WIRELESS (BARBADOS)LIMITED

9,000 WEST INDIA BISCUIT COMPANY LIMITED 300

CAVE SHEPHERD & COMPANY LIMITED 1,500 JMMB GROUP LIMITED 10,000

FIRSTCARIBBEAN INTERNATIONALLIMITED

10,000 MASSY HOLDINGS LIMITED 6,500

FORTRESS CARIBBEAN PROPERTY -DEV FUND

3,500 ONE CARIBBEAN MEDIA LIMITED 4,000

FORTRESS CARIBBEAN PROPERTY -VALUE FUND

3,500 TRINIDAD CEMENT LIMITED 10,000

GODDARD ENTERPRISES LIMITED 3,500 ROYAL FIDELITY TIGRS A2 FUND 100

INSURANCE CORPORATION OFBARBADOS LIMITED

2,500 ROYAL FIDELITY TIGRS A3 FUND 100

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RHETT WATSON was honoured forhis second consecutive clean sweepof titles at the Barbados RallyClub’s (BRC) Annual Prizegiving at Colleton, St. John, on Saturdayevening (December 5). TheChampion Driver also carried awaythe SuperModified 12 and 2wd trophies (with co-driver JamesHutchinson), as nearly 80 membersof the island’s motor sport frater-nity were rewarded for their effortsin 2015, including the Club’s inval-uable volunteer marshals, whoearned some of the loudest ap-plause.

The 4wd Championship was won byRoger Hill and Graham Gittens, whileHill also won free entry for the 2016 BRCDriver’s Championship as highest points-scorer in the 4wd classes; Watson(SuperModified), Neil Corbin (Modified),Wayne Archer (Historic) and JeremyCroney (Clubman) will enjoy the sameprivilege next season;Archer and Croneyalso having finished second and third re-spectively in the Driver’s Championship.

Among the evening’s awardees werelong-standing marshals JonathanChandler, Luke and Missy Gittens,Wesley Nicholls and Everton Smart, eachof whom received a trophy presented byBiddy Barber, herself a BRC competitorand marshal of long standing; otherswere recognised in the Outstanding andRookie Marshal categories.

In the Chefette MudDogs SafariChampionship, Chris O’Neal won theSextant Challenge Trophy as ChampionNavigator for the third year in a row,with Leslie Alleyne adding a sixthChampion Driver title, again takinghome the Peter Farmer MemorialTrophy. Derek Pinto and Adam Huntewere Chefette Novice Champions, whileJamaica’s Christopher McFarlane wonthe Autocross Championship, dislodgingformer four-time Champion OmarBoodhoo.

In a brief address, Club ChairmanMark Hamilton said: “It has been a rea-sonable year of motor sport in every area,highlighted by the biggest and best SolRally Barbados to date. It is encouraging

to see that around one-third of theawardees tonight are first-time recipi-ents; also to note that participation fromregional competitors is growing, withDavid Coelho, Paul Horton, Jeff Pantonand the recently transplanted (toBarbados) ‘Teach’ McFarlane all compet-

ing on a regular basis. I should also liketo make a special mention of ‘Penti’Powell, who at his own expense has beenfirmly entrenched in the growth of motorsport within Barbados and further afield.

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Watson claims secondhat-trick of titles

Champion driver, Rhett Watson (right), collects his award from Mark Hamilton.


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Hamilton also thankedthe sport’s stakeholders,including the body ofmarshals – “a pivotalpart of the sport’s suc-cess”, the Club’s commit-tees, officials, partnersand the media for con-

tributing to another successful season, alongwith “the Armstrongfamily for the use ofColleton, the Pintos forthe use of their frontyard, Noel Edwards andHutchy for cooking thepig and Paul Marshal forhis support of tonight’sproceedings”.

Rally Club celebratesthe season’s end

BRC Driver’s Championship(Each driver received a trophy)

Champion Driver: Rhett Watson (SM12 Chefette/Power King/Gliptone/Stihl in sup-port of Little Pink Gift BMW M3), 128 points2nd Wayne Archer (Hist Archers Hall Design Centre/Diamonds International/CACSBMW 325), 126pts3rd Jeremy Croney (Club Warrens Lubricants/Sign Station/SRGEngineering/Sweet Temptations Peugeot 206XS), 125pts4th Neil Corbin (M6 Nassco/Jason Jones/BG Products & Services/AutoSolutions/Valvoline/Max Meyer Paints/Emtage Electric Toyota Starlet), 119pts5th Paul Inniss (M6 Durex/Sun General Insurance/Caribbean Villa Chefs/ChickenStop Inc/Illusion Graphics/Hugh Auto Body/HIV Aids Commission/Erie TyreService/JJ Racing Team Honda Civic), 105pts6th Jamal Brathwaite (M7 Platinum Motors/Valvoline/Automotive Art/R SElectrical/Ellesmere Quarries/JSB Motorsport/Chicken Pen Racing/CodgiesCustoms Brokers Honda Civic Type-R), 104pts7th John Corbin (Hist Valvoline/Corbins Garage/Pro Sales Toyota Corolla), 100pts8th Roger Hill (WRC-2 Nassco/Esso/Pennzoil/MotorMac Toyota Corolla WRC),98pts9th Daryl Clarke (M7 MQI Collision Repair/Mom’s Pasta Products/RobertsManufacturing/Valvoline Honda Civic), 96pts10th Rommell Martin (Club Winston Enterprise/Fusion Boutique/VV&K Rentals/B3Imaging/Candy Lane/Rallymaxx Toyota Starlet), 89pts

BRC Class Championship(Each driver received a trophy) Hill (4wd), Watson (SuperModified), N Corbin(Modified), Archer (Historic) and Croney (Clubman) also won free entry (not incinsurance) to the 2016 BRC Championship

WRC-1 – Champion: Roger Skeete (Sol/Flow/Simpson Motors/Automotive ArtSubaru Impreza WRC S12), 56pts; 2nd Dane Skeete (Sol/Flow/AutomotiveArt/WTI Subaru Impreza WRC S12), 42pts; 3rd John Powell – T&T(Intercontinental Shipping/Trinidad Mooring & Launch Services Ford FocusWRC08), 28ptsWRC-2 – Champion: Hill, 109ptsGroup A – Champion: Avinash Chatrani (iShop Barbados/Electric

Avenue/PowerBass/Lenovo/1 of K/Copocabana/Sign Station Mitsubishi LancerEvo VI), 78ptsGroup N – Champion: David Coelho – T&T (Total/Lubetech/Zanzibar/Kaizan

Sushi/www.machinerysalestrinidad.com/Quipsol Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX), 82pts;2nd Andrew Mallalieu (Terra Caribbean/Blue Sky Luxury Subaru Impreza N10),80pts; 3rd Mark Thompson (Automotive Art/Stag Beer/Glassesco/NKMClothing/Bio Beauty Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX), 49ptsSuperModified 12 – Champion: Watson, 128pts; 2nd Justin Campbell (Dream

Solutions/Itstaboo.com/Hunikom/Campbell Racing Team/Castrol/HiltonBarbados/One Media/Biz Needz BMW M3), 77pts; 3rd David St Hill (Solar & WindEnergy BMW M3), 53ptsSM11 – Champion: Andrew Jones (AP Jones Pharmacy/Southern Surf Beach

Apartments/Lucozade Ford Escort MkII), 83pts; 2nd Stuart McChlery(Lubriguard/Gunk Ford Escort MkI), 31ptsSM10 – Champion: Josh Read(Stihl/Gliptone/Sprite/Hankook/Weetabix/Chutney’s/Royal Purple/EZone ToyotaStarlet), 77pts; 2nd Neil Armstrong (Rubis/Chefette/Hankook/Nassco/GUNKToyota Pitbull WRC), 55pts; 3rd Roger Mayers(Chefette/Sol/Digicel/DHL/Hankook/Illusion Graphics WR Starlet), 54ptsSM9 – Champion: Clifford Cox (Snorkel Toyota Starlet), 63pts; 2nd Mark Kinch(Black Pearl Party Cruises/Jolly Roger 1/Rubis Kirtons/UltravioletEntertainment/Appleton Estate Jamaica Rum Toyota Starlet), 45ptsModified 7 – Champion: Brathwaite, 104pts; 2nd Clarke, 96pts; 3rd Kurt Thompson(Glassesco/NKM Clothing/Bio-Beauty/Digicel 4G/Beacon Insurance Honda Civic),58ptsM6 – Champion: N Corbin, 119pts; 2nd Paul Inniss (Durex/Sun General

Insurance/Caribbean Villa Chefs/Chicken Stop Inc/Illusion Graphics/Hugh AutoBody/HIV Aids Commission/Erie Tyre Service/JJ Racing Team Honda Civic),

105pts; 3rd Chris Williams (Cutters Barbados/Sun Flower Events/Solo/RoyalChinese Restaurant Ford Fiesta), 65ptsClubman – Champion: Croney, 125pts; 2nd Martin, 89pts; 3rd Pierre Clarke(SDRR Hydraulics & Industrial Spares Honda Civic), 86ptsHistoric – Champion: Archer, 126pts; 2nd J Corbin, 100pts; 3rd Jonathan Ince

(Ocean Fisheries/Hankook Daihatsu Charman), 84pts;GpB – Champion: Geoffrey Ullyett (Ullyett’s Machine Shop Service BMW M3),

22pts

BRC 4wd Championship(Each driver and co-driver received a trophy)

Champions: Roger Hill/Graham Gittens, 125pts; 2nd Roger Skeete/Louis Venezia,72pts; 3rd David Coelho/James Harris, 69pts; 4th Andrew Mallalieu/GeoffreyGoddard, 65pts; 5th Avinash Chatrani/Andrew Skeete, 63pts

BRC 2wd Championship(Each driver and co-driver received a trophy)

Champions: Rhett Watson/James Hutchinson, 98pts; 2nd Neil Corbin/MatthewStaffner, 78pts; 3rd Andrew Jones/Lindsey Pilkington, 73pts; 4th Josh Read/MarkJordan, 61pts; 5th Wayne Archer/Derek Edwards, 60ptsHighest-placed female co-driver – Lindsey Pilkington

Special AwardsRookie Award, a $1,000 Automotive Art gift voucher – Rommell MartinRichard Roett Memorial Trophy – Andrew JonesGolden Turkey Award – Daryl Clarke

Chefette MudDogs Safari ChampionshipThe Champions received the Sextant Challenge Trophy (Navigator) and thePeter Farmer Memorial Trophy (Driver); second and third Navigator and Drivereach received a trophy

Champion Driver & Navigator: Leslie Alleyne & Chris O’Neal (SimpsonMotors/Shell Spirax/Shell Rimula/Maxxis Isuzu D-Max), 236pts2nd Ben Norris & Kirk Watkins (Birdies Restaurant Ford Ranger), 228pts3rd Chris Armstrong & Wayne Clarke (Toyota Hilux), 224pts

Chefette MudDogs Novice Safari ChampionshipEach received a trophy and a Barbecue Barn voucher; the Champions also re-ceived free entry (not inc insurance) to the 2016 MudDogs Safari ChampionshipChampion Novice Driver & Navigator: Derek Pinto & Adam Hunte (ImpulseServices Inc Toyota Hilux), 240pts2nd Richard Hinkson & Kevin-Jon Manning (Goodyear Tyres Suzuki Samurai),234pts

BRC Autocross Championship(Each driver received a trophy)

Champion: Christopher McFarlane – JAM (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X), 39pts2nd Omar Boodhoo (Suzuki Swift), 26pts3rd Stephen Edwards (Honda Civic), 25pts4th Kevin Manning (Peugeot 106 Rallye), 21pts5th, Roystone Hinkson (Peugeot 205GTi), 19pts

Marshals Awards(Each marshal received a trophy)

Long-standing Marshal: Jonathan Chandler, Wesley Nicholls, Everton Smart; Luke& Missy Gittens (MudDogs)Outstanding Marshal: Orrie Brooms, Dexter Griffith, Selwyn Maloney; AdrianSinckler (MudDogs)Rookie Marshal: Gerianne Bullard, Dannielle Burke, David Russell; Chris Thornhill(MudDogs)

Barbados Rally Club Annual Prizegiving – List of Award Winners

ABOVE: Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship:Chris O’Neal won the Sextant Challenge Trophy asChampion Navigator for the third year in a row, withLeslie Alleyne adding a sixth Champion Driver title,again taking home the Peter Farmer MemorialTrophy.

AT LEFT: Jeremy Croney (right) collecting his award.

Winner of the Richard Roett Memorial Trophy,Andrew Jones.

Highest-placed female co-driver – Lindsey Pilkington(right).

Wayne Archer (right) was second in the battle forthe overall title.

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Tuesday December 8, 2015

ADMITTING that the islandwas behind on the submis-sion of some of its progressreports on UN conventions,Human Rights Officer in theMinistry of Foreign Affairsand Foreign Trade, Dr.Ricardo Kellman, said thebacklog was being clearedup.

“We are working on the back-log and clearing it up. We stillhave some issues which come upon economic and social rights.That one is also a little late andwe have to work on that, butwith all the other issues we areup to par, or we have alreadysubmitted the reports that nowhave to be appraised,” he said inan interview with the media yes-terday.

Kellman outlined that likemany other Caribbean coun-tries, Barbados had experiencedcapacity constraints, which hadled to the late submission ofsome of the reports.

Pointing specifically to theConvention for the Eliminationof Discrimination AgainstWomen, he stated that this re-port had been completed andsubmitted to the trading body

in Geneva for recommendationson how internal processes couldbe strengthened.

He made the comments dur-ing yesterday's opening of theUN Human Rights Office of theHigh Commission's Training ofTrainers on Treaty BodiesReporting Treaty Body CapacityBuilding Programme, at theRadisson Aquatica.

In addition, Kellman outlinedthe push for a standing commit-tee on human rights co-ordina-tion.

“Previously, we had preparedreports for committees, in partic-ular the universal periodic re-view,and that had been on an adhoc basis, but we want to for-malise this now to have a stand-ing committee to reflect all ofthe views which are in the soci-ety,and have a clear approach onhow we will deal with humanrights,” he said.

Minister of Foreign Affairsand Foreign Trade, SenatorMaxine Mcclean, outlined thather department was working as-siduously to have these reportsout in a timely manner.

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BACKLOGBEING CLEARED

TOP FORM! Winner of the Michael Riley Classic and Invitational bodybuilding andFitness Show, Kenmar Chandler (centre), with second placed Laslo Bryan (right) and KemmecoByer, who finished third during the event, which was held last Sunday at the St. Leonard’s BoysSchool. (See pages 24 and 25)

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