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Established October 1895 Tuesday November 18, 2014 $1 VAT Inclusive IT is not a question of ‘if’, but ‘when’. This was the assertion of Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development, Donville Inniss, as he spoke on the topic of Barbados becoming a 24/7 economy. “Society must accept that our customers or the rest of the world does not stop at four o’clock when we close our doors and shut down our systems and go home. The reality is that there are many out there who want to do business with Barbados and with a little sense of annoyance. Realise that at five o’ clock if you live in Geneva that you may have a challenge getting a hold of someone in Barbados because of the time difference. “You may have to get out of bed at six o’ clock in the morning to go into the office to handle business. Even with the best of technology, you may still find circumstances where persons have to be face to face with one another. So why can’t I, before I go into work, head into a government office to do my business or why can’t I at three in the evening go into a government office to do the same without hearing that ‘oops, cash closes off at three’ and these are some of the issues this will address,” he outlined. 24/7 on Page 3 Executive Director of the BEC, Tony Walcott (left) alongside other members of the audience during the panel discussion. INSET: Barbados Employers’ Confederation First Vice-President, Dawn Jemmott-Lowe listens as Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development Donville Inniss, makes a point during the Barbados Employers’ Confederation’s panel discussion at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre yesterday. A GOVERNMENT Minister has acknowledged the complaints often heard from entrepreneurs and those wanting to become entrepreneurs, about the obstacles they face in transforming their business ideas into realistic revenue-earning ventures and has identified some of the initiatives that Government is under-taking to help these businesses grow. Government’s efforts were identified yesterday morning by Minister of Labour, Social Security and Human Resource Development, Senator Dr. Esther Byer-Suckoo, during the Global Entrepreneurship Week 2014 Early Morning Connector Event, which was hosted by Caribbean Centre of Excellence or Sustainable Livelihoods (COESL) and Scotiabank, at the Divi Southwinds Beach Resort. “Obstacles range from insufficient access to start-up capital, a lack of partners for venture capital arrangements, a lack of equity financing arrangements and a lack of the necessary business skills. The Ministry of Labour and Social Security recognises that ‘imperfect information’ about the availability of financial and technical services, the process of setting up a business, training opportunities or other supporting services hamper entrepreneurial initiatives.And there often is not, and I’m not sure if there is now, a single window where you can get all this information,” she said. With that in mind, she explained that Government has begun to improve the dissemination of such information, through the Ministry of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small OBSTACLES on Page 5 Gov’t is doing its part Barbados, US sign FATCA agreement – Page 3 24/7 ECONOMY WILL HAPPEN

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Established October 1895

Tuesday November 18, 2014 $1 VAT Inclusive

IT is not a question of‘if’, but ‘when’.

This was the assertionof Minister of Industry,International Business,Commerce and SmallBusiness Development,Donville Inniss, as hespoke on the topic ofBarbados becoming a 24/7economy.

“Society must acceptthat our customers or therest of the world does notstop at four o’clock whenwe close our doors andshut down our systemsand go home. The realityis that there are many outthere who want to dobusiness with Barbadosand with a little sense ofannoyance.Realise that atfive o’ clock if you live inGeneva that you mayhave a challenge getting a

hold of someone inBarbados because of thetime difference.

“You may have to get outof bed at six o’ clock in themorning to go into theoffice to handle business.Even with the best oftechnology, you may stillfind circumstances wherepersons have to be face toface with one another. Sowhy can’t I, before I go intowork, head into agovernment office to domy business or why can’tI at three in the evening gointo a government officeto do the same withouthearing that ‘oops, cashcloses off at three’ andthese are some of theissues this will address,”he outlined.

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Executive Director of the BEC, Tony Walcott (left) alongside other members of the audience during the panel discussion. INSET:Barbados Employers’ Confederation First Vice-President, Dawn Jemmott-Lowe listens as Minister of Industry, International Business,Commerce and Small Business Development Donville Inniss, makes a point during the Barbados Employers’ Confederation’s paneldiscussion at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre yesterday.

A GOVERNMENTMinister has acknowledgedthe complaints often heard from entrepreneursand those wanting tobecome entrepreneurs,about the obstacles theyface in transforming their business ideas intorealistic revenue-earningventures and has identifiedsome of the initiatives that Government is under-taking to help thesebusinesses grow.

Government’s effortswere identified yesterdaymorning by Minister ofLabour, Social Securityand Human ResourceDevelopment, Senator Dr. Esther Byer-Suckoo,during the GlobalEntrepreneurship Week2014 Early MorningConnector Event, whichwas hosted by CaribbeanCentre of Excellence orSustainable Livelihoods(COESL) and Scotiabank,at the Divi SouthwindsBeach Resort.

“Obstacles range frominsufficient access to start-up capital, a lack ofpartners for venturecapital arrangements, alack of equity financingarrangements and a lackof the necessary businessskills. The Ministry ofLabour and Social Securityrecognises that ‘imperfectinformation’ about theavailability of financial andtechnical services, theprocess of setting up a business, trainingopportunities or othersupporting serviceshamper entrepreneurialinitiatives.And there oftenis not, and I’m not sure ifthere is now, a singlewindow where you can getall this information,” shesaid.

With that in mind,she explained thatGovernment has begun to improve thedissemination of suchinformation, through theMinistry of Industry,International Business,Commerce and Small

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One of the participantsin a panel discussion entitled “Flexible WorkArrangements in a 24/7Economy Open Forum”,the minister stressed thatthe island had no choicebut to become a 24/7 society, due to this need to make services morereadily available to con-sumers, to reduce unitcosts and to create morejob opportunities.

“We are saddled, cer-tainly on the State end,with many officers work-ing from eight until fourand from there after-wards you are talkingabout overtime and thereare usually costs on theState or ultimately thetaxpayers. It is my con-sidered opinion that inculcating a culture ofgreater flexible hours,you would have a cadreof staff covering services

for a longer period of timewithout having to incurthat additional labourcost,” he added.

Admitting that thiswould require somechanges to legislation, henoted that the Shops Actespecially, would have tobe dealt with frontally regarding working hoursand disclosed that hisministry, along with theprivate sector and tradeunions, had formed acommittee to address this effort of making theisland more efficient andproductive.

“If we move to flexiblework schedules and donot address the efficien-cies, then we have donenothing,” he pointed out.

The discussion washosted by the BarbadosEmployers’ Confeder-ation and held yesterdayat the Lloyd ErskineSandiford Centre.

(JMB)

THE Government ofBarbados is committedto the implementationof global standards forthe supervision andregulation of the inter-national business andfinancial services sec-tor.

This affirmation cameyesterday from Ministerof Industry, InternationalBusiness, Commerce and Small BusinessDevelopment, DonvilleInniss, prior to signing a Foreign Account TaxCompliance Act (FATCA)Agreement on behalf ofBarbados with the UnitedStates of America (US).The agreement was co-initialled by Ambassadorto Barbados, Dr. LarryPalmer, at the USEmbassy.

“The signature of thisFATCA agreement repre-sents one of the salientpillars in the transforma-tion of how we as an inter-national business and fi-

nancial services centre in-teract not only with otherjurisdictions on the shar-

ing of vital information,but is an indication of thetransformation of how we

interact with our clientsand apply greater duediligence in an ever-

changing environment,”Mr. Inniss stated.

The Minister, however,cautioned that the sign-ing was not a deviationfrom Government’s beliefthat “businesses and in-vestment must be allowedthe flexibility to thrive”.

“However, it must do soin an environment notfraught with uncertaintyand arbitrary regulation.This agreement thereforeseeks to strengthen thisregulatory framework,” he

emphasised.Ambassador Palmer

welcomed Barbados’ com-mitment to intensifyingits co-operation with theUS to improve interna-tional tax compliance, andhailed the signing as “asignificant step forward inefforts to work collabora-tively to combat offshoretax evasion”.

“The FATCA introducesreporting requirementsfor foreign financial insti-tutions with respect tocertain accounts held byUS taxpayers. Because ac-cess to information fromother countries is criti-cally important to the fulland fair enforcement ofdomestic tax laws, infor-mation exchange is a toppriority for the UnitedStates.

“By working together todetect, deter and discour-age offshore tax abusesthrough increased trans-parency and enhanced reporting, we can help tobuild a stronger, more stable and accountableglobal financial system,”Dr. Palmer stated.

The signing is the cul-mination of discussionsbetween Barbados’ TaskForce and NegotiatingTeam, chaired bySecretary to the Board of the Central Bank,Elson Gaskin, and the USTreasury Department.

BARBADOS’ Ambassadorto CARICOM, Robert‘Bobby’ Morris, says it isimportant that regional-ism is recognised as beingextremely beneficial to theeconomic development of the Caribbean and itspeople.

He offered this view yesterday morning whileaddressing those attend-ing the Early MorningConnector Event, whichwas hosted by CaribbeanCentre of Excellence orSustainable Livelihoods(COESL) and Scotiabank,at the Divi SouthwindsBeach Resort as part ofthe activities to com-memorate Global Entre-preneurship Week 2014.He was speaking on thetopic, ‘Regionalism as aStrategy for SustainableEconomic Development’.

“It [regionalism] pro-vides heightened impetusfor private sector develop-ment of goods and serv-ices, to trade both in thedomestic space of individ-ual economies and as wellas the wider economicspace created by the re-gional enterprise, as wellas a gateway into the in-ternational marketplace.There is a growing percep-tion that much more em-phasis has to be placed ondeveloping competitivegoods and services, espe-cially for niches in thewider marketplace,” hesaid.

He further suggestedthat the private sectorstands at the centre of theregional effort and that assuch, it is heartening tonote that within the or-gans of CARICOM, re-newed thrust is beingmade to foster the role ofthe private sector in a re-gional integration effort.With that in mind, he re-ferred to the CARICOMStrategic Plan 2015-2019,which was approved bythe Heads of Governmentin Antigua earlier thisyear. He explained thateconomic resilience is oneof the strategic prioritiesof the plan.

“…That has three further priorities: 1.Introducing measures formacroeconomic stabilisa-tion, because we do a planwithin the context ofwhere we are and the con-text that there is for theregion at this time is thatall of our countries aregoing through serious dif-ficulties… So that is one ofthe major things we haveto look at first, stabilise;and that is a challenge because at first peoplethought it would havebeen a single dip reces-sion, then a double dipand nobody knows whereit is now, it must be tripledipping by now. But weare facing the challengeand I am certainly con-vinced that the time willcome when we will move

past that and get back toa period of prosperity,” hesaid.

The second priority, hesaid, is to build competi-tiveness and unleash keyeconomic drivers to transi-tion to growth while thethird priority, he told theentrepreneurs present, isCARICOM’s intent to ac-celerate the implementa-tion and use of the CARI-COM Single Market andEconomy, for which lead-ership among the Headsof Government falls toBarbados’ Prime Minister,Freundel Stuart.

“It is important that asentrepreneurs that yougain an insight into thestrategic plan and to pre-pare yourself for the roleyou are expected to play,and to understand the freemovement regimes to seethe opportunities whichthey may make availableto you. Just as the nationstates are using the strat-egy of regional co-opera-tion to provide sustainablelivelihoods in the region,sometimes having to ne-gotiate around difficultand challenging differ-ences; so I would adviseyou entrepreneurs towork together,” he added.

Morris urged them todesist from one-upman-ship and rather to adoptco-operative principlesand practices that can beutilised to advance the interest of all.

“Entrepreneurs areoften seen to be driven bya rugged individualism,nothing is wrong withthat, but there is room forco-operative activities, es-pecially in sharing serv-ices of various sorts. Don’tkeep replicating, you canhave a group of entrepre-neurs that are tied to onelawyer, or one accountant,etc. and using one set ofequipment, etc.Let’s thinksynergistically and co-op-eratively in order to max-imise what you can do,” headded. (JRT)

Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development, Donville Inniss(right), co-initials the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) Agreement with United States Ambassadorto Barbados, Dr. Larry Palmer, at the US Embassy. Looking on is Foreign Service Officer, Tricia King.

Barbados’ Ambassadorto CARICOM, Robert‘Bobby’ Morris.

Morris offers advice to entrepreneurs

Efficiencies mustbe addressed

Barbados and US sign FATCA agreement

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A NUMBER of permanentsecretaries and others oc-cupying senior manage-ment positions in theBarbados Civil Service,stand to benefit from anongoing two-day HumanRights LeadershipSeminar, being held at theHilton Hotel.

Head of the HumanRights Unit at theCommonwealthSecretariat, KarenMcKenzie, who was inBarbados to help facilitatethe seminar, noted thatsuch a forum was critical,as permanent secretariesand others who serve atthe senior level of decisionmaking, policy develop-ment and implementationin the civil service, need tobe aware of the particularcommitments which thecountry is undertaking, inrelation to Human Rights.

“They need to be awareof the internationalhuman rights law that thecountry has ratified andthose are things that needto be taken forward. It’snot merely a matter ofsigning them, accepting

them and then nothinghappens nationally. Thereis always more that can bedone to protect and pro-mote human rights andhuman dignity of all citi-zens of the country,”McKenzie asserted.

“I think it is also impor-tant from the issue of coor-dination across Ministries.One of the challenges thatwe have across theCommonwealth, in termsof coordination amongstministries, is to push theHuman Rights agendamore effectively,” theHuman Rights Advocatesuggested.

While delivering thekeynote address at theopening of the seminar,Senator Maxine McClean,Minister of Foreign Affairs& Foreign Trade, ex-pressed Barbados’ appreci-ation to theCommonwealthSecretariat, and in partic-ular to McKenzie and theHuman Rights Unit whichshe heads, for their ongo-ing assistance to Barbadosin this vital area.

“This seminar is evi-

dence of theCommonwealthSecretariat’s commitmentto engaging with its mem-ber states, to strengthenthe respect,protection andpromotion of human rightsand to provide tangiblesupport for member states,as they seek to implementthe recommendations theyaccept under theUniversal Periodic Reviewprocess,” MinisterMcClean remarked.

Minister McClean alsorevealed since the adop-tion in 1965 of the firsthuman rights treaty – theInternational Conventionon the Elimination of allforms of RacialDiscrimination (CERD) –the human rights treatysystem has grown contin-uously and now consists of9 core treaties and 8 op-tional protocols.And sinceits independence,she said,Barbados has consistentlyand actively pursued a for-eign policy which isstrongly committed to theprotection and promotionof human rights.

“We have therefore sup-

ported ongoing action bythe international commu-nity to promote and pro-tect fundamental humanrights. This is reflected inour voting pattern at theUnited Nations and ouradherence to almost all ofthe core human rightstreaties. Barbados is cur-rently a party to 6 of the 9core human rightstreaties,” McClean re-vealed. (RSM)

Permanent Secretaries benefitfrom Human Rights Seminar

PLANS are on streamfor the Ministry ofLabour, Social Securityand Human ResourceDevelopment to createa comprehensiveframework on smalland medium-sized en-terprises development.

According to theMinister, Senator Dr.Esther Byer Suckoo, to ef-fect this, her Ministry iscollaborating with severalstakeholders. She re-vealed that consultationsthrough technical confer-ences and the workinggroup established forPillar 5 of the NationalEmployment Policy, willinform the framework anddevelop and adopt public-private coordinatingmechanisms to increaseopportunities for entrepre-neurship and the develop-ment of innovative goodsand services.

Her comments came asshe delivered the featureaddress at the GlobalEntrepreneurship Week

2014 Early MorningConnector Event, whichwas held yesterday morn-ing at the DiviSouthwinds Beach Resortunder the theme“CelebratingEntrepreneurs:PromotingEntrepreneurship”.

“The Ministry will alsobe looking at internationalbest practices,particularlyfrom African states,wherethere are significant par-allels to the Caribbeancontext and where entre-preneurship has been in-strumental to their devel-opment.Here is where theexpanded focus of theMinistry of Foreign Affairscomes in,” she said.

She spoke of the devel-opment as she sought topoint out the various stepsthat Government hasbeen taking in an effort tosupport entrepreneurshipand create an enabling en-vironment from which agreater number of diverseBarbadian goods and

services can reach not onlythe Caribbean,but also in-ternational markets.Withthat in mind,she said thatsuch work is a job not onlyfor her ministry,but for allministries and for privatesector partners as well.

Senator Byer Suckoosaid the DemocraticLabour PartyAdministration recognisesthat, if adequately facili-tated, entrepreneurshipcan easily become the keyplank in Government’splan to facilitate meaning-ful employment creationon a significant scale. Assuch, she explained thatthe promotion of entrepre-neurship is a part of theBarbados Growth andDevelopment Strategy2013-2020.

“As Minister responsiblefor Labour and matters re-lating to employment, Iunderstand the importantrole which entrepreneursand entrepreneurshipplay in economic growth,and the role which stake-

holders, who facilitate theentrepreneurial process,need to play. I also under-stand that there needs tobe a different mindset, aswell as new behaviours tocreate jobs not only forourselves, but for others,in order to attain sustain-ability for our economy,”she added.

The Minister howevernoted that changing atti-tudes and mindsets willnot be easy. Nevertheless,she said that this shouldnot deter persons fromstarting their own busi-nesses, because entrepre-neurship is the “very en-gine of the much neededeconomic growth”, as en-trepreneurs create wealthnot only for themselves,but jobs for the popula-tion.

“We count on these in-novative persons with newideas to revitalise oureconomy.Entrepreneurship in Barbados is the cata-lyst for such growth,” shemaintained. (JRT)

Framework for SMEsbeing worked on

Head of the HumanRights Unit at theCommonwealthSecretariat, AdvocateKaren McKenzie.

Ministry of Labour, Social Security and HumanResource Development, Senator Dr. Esther ByerSuckoo.

AN entrepreneur’s abilityto start and run their ownbusiness goes beyondfinancing. It is also abouthaving that requiredsupport system in placeamong other things.

This is according toGeneral Manager of theBarbados Youth BusinessTrust (BYBT), CardellFergusson, who spoke ata press conference tolaunch GlobalEntrepreneurship Weekyesterday at theCaribbean MediaCorporation (CMC).

She stated that it is thissupport system thatwould help to provide thebudding entrepreneurwith the tools necessary toturn his/her ideas intoreality.

“For me it is still anissue, but I think thatfrom our experiencerecently, funding is not themajor issue. It is ensuringthat the entrepreneur hasthe support network thatis available to bring themfrom an idea toimplementation [stage]and beyond because thereis a lot of funding outthere, but it is justaccessing it in the rightway.What we are seeing isthat entrepreneurs wouldcome to us for assistancebut they do not have whatit takes to run a successfulbusiness, and this is whywe put them through thepaces – the training that isavailable from YES, the

business support that isavailable from BYBT, thefunding that is availablefrom organisations likeFund Access, Cherry TreeTrust and several otherorganisations out there.”

Programme Manager atthe Cave Hill School ofBusiness, Egbert Irvingagreed, stating that thissupport system caninclude things like havinga mentor who would guidethem through the difficultprocess of running abusiness.

He added that having agreat business idea is onething, but the potentialentrepreneur also has toknow how to communicatethose ideas clearly in abusiness plan.

“Apart from financing,mentorship is veryimportant, but anotheraspect is of course trainingand being able to provide[it] for the entrepreneurs.For example, you mayhave individuals who aretalented in particularareas – they might beskilled in developing amobile app for example –but [may lack] having thebusiness aspect of it, theability to put together aplan.

“Although a plan is not afull proof means ofsuccess, it does provide acertain roadmap, but theability to present yourideas to potentialinvestors is alsoimportant.” (PJT)

‘Funding is notthe major issue’

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IN Barbados, moreyoung people aredeveloping an appetitefor entrepreneurship,says Derek Browne,CEO of Entrepreneursin Action (EiA).

“The world is changingat such a pace that youngpeople need to beentrepreneurial to prettymuch survive and tocompete – have morebusiness skills.”

The UK–based EiA forthe past 10 years has beendeveloping innovativeenterprise basedprogrammes for youngpeople, and for the 4thyear they have joinedwith the Rotary Club ofBarbados South to carryout the “Classroom toBoardroom Challenge” inBarbados, sponsored thisyear by Digicel and FirstCitizens.

The Challenge will see14 secondary schoolstudents come up with asolution to a real-lifebusiness challenge set by telecommunicationsprovider Digicel.

Browne, who is alsofacilitator of theChallenge, shared withthe media that the oneweek programme isunique because it is led bythe students.

“Digicel will set thebusiness challenge. Thestudents will get intoteams and work onsolving the challenge.They will elect a CEO whowill be responsible forleading the group to reachthe solutions that Digicelare looking for,” heexplained during thelaunch yesterday atDigicel’s Corporate Office,Williams IndustriesComplex, Warrens.

“This exercise will allowthe students to get a feelfor their own careersgoing forward… Workingwith the young people ofBarbados is criticallyimportant. They are the

future and they representthe future entrepreneursand business leaders ofthis country,” he pointedout.

President Elect ofRotary Club of BarbadosSouth, John Williams,noted that the Challengecomes at a time when theworld is looking at the importance ofentrepreneurship.

He also took theopportunity to thankDigicel and First Citizensfor coming on board.

“Digicel in conjunctionwith First Citizens aretogether making itpossible for us to allowparticipants to get an ideaas to what is involved in abusiness, and to run abusiness in a real way,” hesaid.

“The challenge will be areal challenge, and I canspeak for Digicel and saythat at the end of the day,they will be taking the information and usingit.”

Digicel’s MarketingExecutive, Randy Howardadded, “This programme

falls in line with what weat Digicel try to achievein terms of working withthe youth in theirdevelopment.

“We are very excited tobe part of the 2014 editionof Classroom toBoardroom. From allreports this initiative has

had a very lasting andprofound impact on thestudents who have takenpart… There is atransformation in how

they approach their dayto day lives, how theyspeak and presentthemselves.”

(TL)

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Business Development,together with non-gov-ernmental agencies.Moreover, she saidGovernment is also sup-porting the education andtraining of entrepreneursand promoting entrepre-neurship to students andjob seekers who are regis-

tered with the NationalEmployment Bureau andthe Barbados VocationalTraining Board.

“What we have alsoadded now is a careercounselling discussion.Too many people have notconsidered entrepreneur-ship; in fact, too manypeople when they comelooking for a job, don’t

even know what job theyare looking for… Theynever paid attention tothat thing inside that iscalling us, so they are al-ways knocking aroundand not fulfilling theirpurpose,” the Ministeradded.

To that end, ByerSuckoo also noted thatthe provision of training

in business skills andother relevant competen-cies is being developed toequip potential entrepre-neurs.

Her comments came asshe noted that there areother key policies thatwill be promoted to assistin entrepreneurial devel-opment including the pro-vision of fiscal incentives

for new business ven-tures from such entitiesas FundAccess andEnterprise Growth FundLimited.

Likewise, she said thatthere will be the estab-lishment of structuredtime standards in whichentrepreneurs can obtainthe necessary documen-tation they need to start a

business and a study willbe conducted that wouldreview the tax system’seffects on small busi-nesses.

Additionally, theMinister said thatGovernment is set to re-view some key pieces oflegislation that are rele-vant to small businesses.

(JRT)

Measures being put in place to develop potential entrepreneurs

From left: Digicel’s Marketing Executive, Randy Howard; President Elect of Rotary Club of Barbados South, John Williams; and DerekBrowne, CEO of Entrepreneurs in Action (EiA), during the launch of the 2014 Classroom to Boardroom Challenge.

Derek Browne, CEO of Entrepreneurs in Action (EiA), speaking with some of the students participating inthis year’s Classroom to Boardroom Challenge.

Appetite for entrepreneurship growing

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TRANSFIXED gazesand gasps ofamazement were justsome of the reactionsto the St. Winifred’sSchool magicalproduction of PeterPan on Saturday night.

While not officially opento the general public untilNovember 22, thestudents showcased theirtalent during a showing toa very special audience,which included membersfrom the disabledcommunity, senior citizen’shomes and children’shomes.

The appreciativeaudience saw the J.MBarrie story of the littleboy who never grew up,masterfully reproduced byAnneMarie McConney,

with high qualitycostumes, props, as well asthe sound and actingtalent of the students whobrought to life thecharacters of Hook,pirates, the Lost Boys,beautiful fairies withbeautifully choreographedsequences.

McConney, who hasbeen involved in theproduction of thesetheatrical performancesfor almost three decades,says already five of the 18shows, which conclude onDecember 22, have beensold out.

She said the showfeatures a cast of 102 withincredibly strongprincipals, and assuredthe audience will not seean amateur production of

its kind anywhere in theworld.

Loud bursts of laughtercould be heard during theperformance, as theaudience identified withpassing references tochikungunya and even thesolid waste tax. The

director mused that localjokes were incorporatedfor topical flavour.

The show started backin 1969 with MotherGoose, and featured titlessuch as Robin Hood,Cinderella, SleepingBeauty, and the last two

productions were Alice inWonderland and theGrinch.

She said that the pro-cess, which started inJanuary, is the school’sprimary fund raise,r and aprocess valuable to thekids. She said they gain a

great deal of selfconfidence through acting.The producer also thankedthe creative team,corporate sponsors, andthe parents, whom shesaid are the keys to thesuccess of the production.(JH)

Peter Pancomes to life ...for a special audience

The wenches on deck.

Peter Pan with the mermaids and Tinkerbell on Mermaid’s Lagoon.

These foxes were also a hit with the audience.

The full cast after a successful showing on Saturday night.

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including children andpersons with disabilities;promoting genderequality and women’sempowerment, interalia,” McClean told thosegathered.

“Barbados has beenable to make progress inthe area of human rights,by seeking to provide anenabling environment toallow citizens, collectivelyand individually, toachieve an improvedquality of life. Notwith-standing ourvulnerabilities andcurrent constraints andchallenges, the promotionand protection of humanrights remains a priorityfor Barbados.

“Barbados iscontinuing to strengthenits governance structure

and human rightsframework. This seminar is an example of this,” McCleanasserted.

Noting that shewelcomed theopportunity the seminarpresented forsensitisation of the seniormanagement of theBarbados Civil Service onhuman rights issues,McClean expressed herhope that the seminarwould assist in improvingthe level of co-ordinationamong the stakeholderMinistries and Depart-ments, as they seek toimplement Barbados’international humanrights commitments.She further expressedher hope that thetraining would translateinto positive outcomes forthe betterment ofBarbados.

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Social Care, Constituency Empowermentand Community Development, Ernesta Drakes (centre), sits with Acting Commis-sioner of Police, Tyrone Griffith (left), and Chief Education Officer, Laurie King,during the Human Rights Leadership Seminar for permanent secretaries andother senior personnel in the Civil Service.

Improving citizens’quality of lifecountry’s priority

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THE Global Entrepre-neurship Monitor (GEM)project will help to guidepolicy making to ensurethe success ofentrepreneurs.

Delivering someremarks at the GEM 2013Barbados National Reportand Women in Entrepre-neurship Launch recently,Dean of the Faculty of So-cial Sciences of the Univer-sity of the West Indies, Dr.Justin Robinson, statedthat there were severalways to help this group.

“I am one of the personsthat holds the view that Iam not so sure that you cantrain an entrepreneur, al-though many people thinkthat, but I think that as auniversity, that we canplay two critical roles:Oneis that we can understandin a fairly scientific way thefactors that makeentrepreneurs and thefactors that can makeentrepreneurs thrive orsucceed, so that we canassist in the policymaking,” he stated.

Robinson stressed thatit was necessary tounderstand the realities ofentrepreneurship somechanisms could beimplemented for itssuccess.

“We have a lot ofanecdotal discussionsabout entrepreneurship.Some people link it to race,family, upbringing,etcetera, but do we reallyknow what we are talkingabout and can we reallymake effective policy?”

He therefore said theGEM report was “a criticalpiece as we seek to developmore entrepreneurs inBarbados and drive a moreentrepreneurial culture”.

Robinson lamented,however, the condition ofsome state ownedenterprises “which are anattempt to bring a privatesector entrepreneurialelement to the delivery ofpublic service”.

“As I look at state-ownedenterprises, what keepscoming to my head is thatwe have the worst of bothworlds, in that you seem tolose the rules and controlsof the public sector,but youhave not gained theentrepreneurshipflexibility and efficiency ofthe private sector, and youare in that bind,”he stated.

The event was held atthe School of Business ofthe UWI. (JMB)

GEMprojectcritical

THE Caribbean regionhas tremendous poten-tial to exploit in thearea of renewable en-ergy, including geot-hermal, photovoltaic,wind and biomass.

That’s according toAmbassador of the Fede-ral Republic of Germanyto Trinidad, Barbados andthe OECS, Dr. Lutz Gor-gens.

In fact, he is adamantthat such potential oftenexceeds domestic con-sumption. He made thepoint while speaking dur-

ing the opening of theFourth Caribbean Sus-tainable Energy Forum(CSEF), which took placeat the Caribbean Develop-ment Bank (CDB) lastweek, as he noted thatthere is a “striking contra-diction between the un-tapped potential of inex-haustible domestic re-source, and the costly pur-chase of finite foreign sup-ply”.

To that end, he said hewas hopeful that the two-day discussions wouldbring the countries of the

region closer to bridgingthe gap between potentialand utilisation. His com-ments came as he referredto the report of the In-tergovernmental Panel onClimate Change, whichwas released earlier thismonth, which he said isboth discomforting andstimulating.

“It is discomforting be-cause nobody can pretendanymore that globalwarming and climatechange do not promotefamine, flooding, scarcityand conflict. It is at the

same time stimulating be-cause we know now thatthere is only a small win-dow of maybe two decadesto limit the deteriorationof living conditions.We areall called to urgent action,”the Ambassador main-tained.

In that vein, he laudedthe recent decisions by thegovernments of the UnitedStates and China to do itspart to protect the envi-ronment. According tohim, the US intends to re-duce CO2 emissions by 28per cent until 2025, from

levels recorded in 2005,and China will increaseher renewable energyshare to 20 per cent by2030.

“You might say that thisis not enough. But thismessage from the world’stwo largest economies isthe right signal for smallereconomies too. And if im-plemented, it will have ahuge impact on globalemissions, and on globaluse of renewable energy.This is welcome news forthe Fourth CSEF,” Gor-gens added. (JRT)

Region rich in renewable energy

By RuthMoisa Stoute

THE Management teamand staff members of L &N workshop were creditedfor being one of the funda-mental pillars of that com-pany’s success. They werepraised by the company’sowner and Managing Di-rector, Norman Edwards,during his welcome re-marks at a product exposi-tion held on the grounds ofSimpson Motors last Fri-day evening.

The event, held underthe theme “Managing aSmall Business In ThisRecession,” saw variousvehicular products on dis-

play, from customisedtrucks and vans, to busesand trendy mobile offices.

Edwards, a former su-pervisor at the now de-funct Acme, went on tostart his own business in2003 with 9 employees.His operations have ex-panded to include 50 em-ployees, ranging frommanagement and super-visory, administration,body finishers, painters,welders, drafters and esti-mators.

The company workswith the Samuel JackmanPrescod Polytechnicthrough its internshipprogramme, which sees

students being attached tothe company each year.

The businessman saidthat the company wasvery fortunate to have alow staff turnover, partic-ularly over the last year.

“Maximising the poten-tial of your employees is afundamental to the suc-cess of your business,”Edwards stated, furtherremarking that it was crit-ical that individual em-ployee goals were alignedto the goals of the organi-sation, and that employ-ees were fully cognisant ofthe goals of the company.

He also stressed on theimportance of investing in

professional development,and added that L & NWorkshop Inc. paid partic-ular care to ensuring thatit adhered to the provi-sions set out under theShops Act and the Em-ployees Rights Act, whichwere in place to protectstaff members.

In his address, Ministerof Industry, InternationalBusiness, Commerce andSmall Business Develop-ment,Donville Inniss,alsonoted that companiescould not survive withouttheir employees.

“Too often in this soci-ety, we do not placeenough attention to the

value of our employees. Intimes of recession, youought even more to recog-nise your valuable em-ployees,. and while theywould not get the samelevel of rewards as intimes of plenty, this is atime when you have torecognise them as yourtrue partners in the busi-ness,” Inniss remarked.

This partnership couldbeen seen, he explained,through the sharing of in-formation on the com-pany’s finances, as well asthrough sharing the cor-porate vision and continu-ing to embrace and appre-ciate loyal employees.

Employees at centre of company’s success

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“The health of nations is more important than thewealth of nations.” Will Durant

WE should all be concerned about startling statis-tics revealed over the past few months regardingthe health of our nation.Approximately 30 per centof school-aged children are overweight or obese.Unfortunately, the trend is no better for the adults,with non-communicable diseases (NCD) so fataland expensive that they cause 70 per cent of deathsand make up 70 per cent of the health budget.Government has launched a number of initiativesto curb both adult and childhood obesity, but per-haps it is time to implement a more drastic meas-ure.

We add our voice to recent concerns highlightedby Minister of Health,John Boyce,about Barbados’dire health statistics. It is estimated that 74 per centof women and 55 per cent of men are obese or over-weight, which is an optimal condition to contract aNCD. Poor health/death by lifestyle is a phenome-non attributable to this modern era,as most nationsin the world suffer from high ranges of obesityrates in their child and adult populations.Barbadosis tied with The Bahamas as the 13th fattest nationin the world, with 34.7 per cent of citizens consid-ered obese. According to the World HealthOrganisation (WHO), since 1980 obesity has al-most doubled around the world and currently abouta third of the Earth – over two billion people – areoverweight or obese. This led Dr. Margaret Chan,the director-general of the WHO,to note that,“Partsof the world are literally eating themselves todeath.”

The world is struggling with this epidemic and forvarying reasons, many are not absorbing the mes-sages. Locally, workplace wellness initiatives, edu-cation in schools and publicised information havebeen launched along with themed walk/runs topromote exercise hand in hand with healthy living.Those with ears have heard,but the statistics showa sizable portion of the target audience – the obeseand overweight – are not onboard with the pro-gramme.

Perhaps the time has come to be more exacting.Scientists worldwide have warned that developingcountries’ economic growth is being threatened byan anticipated cardiovascular epidemic if obesityrates continue as they are or rise.NCDs,as MinisterBoyce pointed out, can rapidly erode the progressour country has made over our 48 years ofIndependence. It is frightening that a third of ouryouth are burdened by poor health that couldplague them into adulthood.

We must be proactive.Overweight and obese per-sons who habitually access free health care throughour social services should also see a state-spon-sored nutritionist and physical trainer, for up to sixmonths, who would manage weight loss, mealpreparations and exercise programmes.In this waypersons would be directed to realistic,healthy mealplans and have a practical exercise programmethat works for their lifestyles and time constraints.And the simultaneous reduction to the state’shealth bill will be just rewards. Inspired adults canby extension lead other members of their families– especially their children – to healthier lives.

Of course, such a provision would include anyNCD patient of any size and would apply to other-wise able-bodied patients, child and adult.The mes-sage this move conveys is simple: to access freehealth care patients have to show they are preparedto take charge of their health. Clearly as a nation,we are past the stage of asking people nicely to man-age themselves.

Editorial

Get seriousabout health

LONDON – The globaleconomy’s problems seemto be multiplying.

Hours after the leadersof the world’s 20 most de-veloped economies soughtto boost confidence bypromising to increaseglobal output by US$2 tril-lion over five years, Japansaid it had fallen into reces-sion.

That leaves the country –the world’s third-largesteconomy – on a long andgrowing list of troubledeconomies. China is slow-ing as well, and Europecan’t seem to take off.

Among major economies,only the United States andBritain are growing at de-cent rates, and how longthat lasts depends on howmuch trouble their tradingpartners are in.

British Prime MinisterDavid Cameron warned inan opinion piece in theGuardian newspaper onMonday that the “redwarning lights are flash-ing” for the world economy.

Here’s a look at the prob-lems in some key

economies.This setback was not in

the plan.Prime Minister Shinzo

Abe had pledged to end twodecades of stagnation witha strategy dubbed“Abenomics” that includedbig economic reforms andstimulus.But the economycontracted at an annualpace of 1.6 per cent in thethird quarter after housingand business investmentdropped following a salestax increase.

The contraction came de-spite predictions the econ-omy would rebound from adrop in the previous threemonths.

Consumer spending isfaltering as the populationshrinks and grows older.Household incomes peakedmore than a decade ago,and workers are increas-ingly having trouble mak-ing ends meet with part-time or contract work.

Manufacturers, mean-while, have lost their lead-ing edge in innovationwhile shifting productionto cheaper locations off-

shore.Japan’s weakness could

hinder growth elsewhere ifits companies cut invest-ment and buy fewer im-ports such as machinery,electronics and raw materi-als.The island nation is oneof the world’s biggest im-porters of food and thethird-biggest buyer of nat-ural gas.

Growth in China,a man-ufacturing giant, is slow-ing – from 10.4 per cent in2010 to an estimated 7.5per cent this year.Explosive growth in Chinahas been one of the pri-mary drivers of the worldeconomy for the pastdecade, so its slowdown ishaving ripple effects.

The question for Chineseleaders is how to let thecountry’s economy slow tomore sustainable growthrates without having a“crash landing.” The gov-ernment is trying to boostdomestic spending whileeasing off its dependenceon trade and state-spon-sored investment.

Because China has

strong trade links to theWest,a slowdown would dosome damage to the USand Europe. Its massivemanufacturing sector is abig consumer of raw mate-rials, so weaker growthwould particularly hurtcommodity-producingcountries like Australiaand Brazil. China’s slow-down from high rates isechoed in many otheremerging markets,such asIndia and Brazil.

Many of these countrieshave benefited for yearsfrom a steady flow of in-vestment from developedeconomies. Because inter-est rates have been atrecord lows in the US andEurope, many investorsthere have sought higheryields in emerging mar-kets, where interest ratesare higher.

That is changing, how-ever. The US FederalReserve is considering rais-ing interest rates, whichwill entice some investorsto keep their money in theUS – or withdraw it fromemerging markets.

By Janelle Husbands

IT is incredulous that weare educating personsthroughout their schoollife, and as historian Dr.Henderson Carterlamented during a recentlecture, some of them sim-ply just do not turn up fortheir exams.After makingsuch a large investment –why is this happening?

Certainly there is an ur-gent need to change themindset from a very earlyage that education is orever was free.

The reality is that manychildren are forced into asubject matter that theyhave no interest in nordoes it have any relevanceto their own reality.

At the same time, we re-ally need to assess thesechildren from a very earlyage. A child that receivesless than 50 percent dur-ing the SecondaryEntrance exam, arguablydid not know half of thesubject matter when they11 years old, how wouldthey suddenly be expected

to be ready for the new syl-labus when they enter sec-ondary school a fewmonths later.

This is compounded bythe fact that they mustnow transition to severalmore subjects, when ar-guably they didn’t masterthe fundamentals ofEnglish and Mathematicsin the first place. Howthen, are these studentsexpected to attain thesame level of educationaldevelopment, when ar-guably they are playing agame of catch-up? Howthen are they expected tofinish school at the sametime as those who are ableto grasp concepts a lot ear-lier? It’s a difficult ask,which undoubtedly hasleft quite a few of thesestudents frustrated, angryand disruptive. They sim-ply cannot cope with thepressure of under-per-forming.

This in some ways cutsinto the question of theneed to value education.Unfortunately whenmany young people leave

school with no certificatesand nothing to show po-tential employers duringan interview, the lightswitch suddenly goes offon exactly how importanteducation is to their fu-ture. It is at this point thatthey have to go out ofpocket to fund their owneducation through thevarious channels avail-able, such as eveningclasses and it is not sur-prising that they are suc-cessful at these exams.

While it would be ar-gued that they are moti-vated because they haveto fund their education,this writer will also offerthe perspective, that theynow have the opportunityto focus on fewer subjectsand on job specific subjectsand at their own pace. Sowhether they take sixCXCs in two years ratherthan in one sitting, it’s stillsix. It must also be recog-nised that people learn attheir own pace.

Back to my earlierpoint, young children needto be taught the value of

everything that they con-sider to be free on the is-land, and to be honest,maybe it will be a lessonthat should be taught toadults.

A visit to the polyclinicor hospital, for any levelof care carries a cost.Every bus ride for a stu-dent on the TransportBoard carries a cost andgoing to school from nurs-ery to tertiary level car-ries a steep cost.

Sadly many parentsdon’t pay attention towhat is happening withtheir children’s reports atthe end of the school termand the comments, some-times harsh, from theteachers, try to take stepsto try to curb the rockypath on which they areheading. Until the par-ents, teachers and thewider administrative offi-cials pay closer attentionand seek to address thefailure rate, we are goingto be essentially wastingmoney that could be putto better use during thistough economic climate.

‘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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Understanding value

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By Ashlee Cox

AS Barbados and other countriesaround the world took the time tocommemorate the fallen of the WorldWars, we were reminded that thereis a civil war that is still being foughtand that is the war on our roads!

As noted by Sharmaine Roland-Bowen,President of the Barbados Road SafetyAssociation (BRSA), Sunday, November16 was the United Nations World Day ofRemembrance for Road Traffic Victimsand their families.This day is recognisedall over the world, and in Barbados,BRSA acknowledges the day by hostingan annual Church Service,where they in-vite the family and friends of those whohave lost their lives in a traffic accident,as well as honour those who had any con-nection with the scene, including the po-licemen, firemen, EMTs, doctors andnurses.

“We are killing each other on the roadsand the person that dies, they are part ofus and we need to remember those per-sons and to acknowledge this day,” she ex-plained passionately.

In a brief interview with TheBarbados Advocate at the display forTraffic Fatalities, in Waterford, she noted,“So far for the year there have been 13road fatalities, so in our display, we have13 crosses to symbolise the number ofpersons that were killed. It is not justnumbers ... 13 is just a statistic, a num-ber,but behind these statistics are namesand behind these names are persons whohave lost their lives to road traffic acci-dents.”

For Roland-Bowen, the display was cre-ated to awaken public awareness and to

get more of the public to really thinkabout their vulnerability, and to high-light the consequences of traffic accidents.

The display has 13 crosses to repre-sent those who have lost their lives thusfar in relation to traffic accidents on theIsland, as well as a ‘person’ in a wheelchair, who has only one leg, a motorcyclehelmet, a pair of shoes, representing

those who died in motorcycle accidentsand pedestrians respectively, as well as a‘ghost bicycle’, which is a phenomenonwhere the locations where bicyclists havebeen killed are marked with an all whitebicycle.

“We understand that there is deathamong us everyday, but when you aretaken away by an accident, you are just

snatched away from life, you don’t havea chance to tell this person goodbye; it’sso unexpected and it devastates families;so we really, really need to be more cau-tious when we are driving on the roadsand think about our futures and how wewould like other road users to treat usand drive with due care, considerationand for each other,” she stated.

DON’T trust drivers!As pedestrians traverse the roads and

streets of Barbados, one member of theBarbados Road Safety Association hasgiven the warning to be more aware andcautious especially when it comes to ve-hicles.

As noted by Sharmaine Roland-Bowen,President of the Barbados Road SafetyAssociation (BRSA), in a brief interviewwith The Barbados Advocate, pedestri-ans need to not trust drivers and to en-sure that they place their safety as para-mount, as several things could go wrong.

“They feel that if they see a car, that thedriver is seeing them and will make al-lowances for them, but it doesn’t workthat way, because sometimes the driver

is distracted, his mind is elsewhere, hemight be under the influence of drugsand alcohol and pedestrians put theirlives in the hands of drivers,” she noted.

As explained by Roland-Bowen, inmany cases pedestrians have neverdriven a vehicle and do not truly under-stand how a car will react, or how to es-timate speed and distances and willsometimes take a risk, thinking that theyare safe and that the driver will haveenough time to stop, however that is notalways the case.

“Walk and face the traffic, don’t crossthe road indiscriminately, use the pedes-trian crossings that are placed there forpersons to get over to the other sidesafely, wear bright clothing, during the

day and at night, reflective clothing, sothat you would be easily seen. Don’t walkand back the traffic, if you are facing thetraffic, you can jump out of the road orwhatever, because you would be seeingwhat is coming on.Any time you put yourback to a driver, you put your life at theirdiscretion,and cars are man-made, some-times brakes fail, sometimes you get atyre blow-out, so just don’t trust drivers,is what I would say to them,” she ex-plained. (AC)

By Jenique Belgrave

BARBADOS remains the amputationcapital of the world and one of the maincauses is the fact that many diabetics arenot properly monitoring their blood sug-ars.

“Over the years we have been teachingpeople how to take care of their feet,their eyes and their teeth, but the placewe need to put emphasis on is the con-trol of blood sugar. If the blood sugars are

not controlled you are going to have prob-lems with the peripheral artery diseaseand the reduced blood supplies to theextremities,” stated President of theDiabetes Association of BarbadosNoreen Merritt.

She made the comments while speak-ing to The Barbados Advocate re-cently, moments after the 5k walk/run atthe Barbados Diabetes Foundation gotunderway just after six.

“A lot of people are not monitoring

their blood sugars, so these are still crazyand until we address that situation,there will be issues. Some people feelthat just checking their blood sugarsonce a day, a fasting blood sugar andthey tell you that it is fine.The blood sug-ars after you eat are even more impor-tant to monitor than the fasting bloodsugar.You need to know how food affectsyour blood sugar because when these gosky rocketing high this is what does thedamage. So people need to take that re-

sponsibility of monitoring their bloodsugars,” she noted.

Merritt stressed that it was critical topay attention to what was happeningwith your body.

“It is about individual responsibilityagain. Do not depend on the health careprofessional to take care of your diabetesfor you. You have to learn how food andactivity affects your blood sugar. Super-sizing is not the way and doing it everyday does not help anybody,” she advised.

Individuals responsible for keeping diabetes under control

Roland-Bowen: Be aware of drivers

President of the Barbados RoadSafety Association. SharmaineRoland-Bowen, as she poses with theRemembrance Display!

Display to bring out more traffic use awareness

This display is an initiative of the BRSA, to raise more awareness of consequences of traffic accidents and fatalities.

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THERE has been somedelay in the re-opening ofthe Trimart flagship Su-permarket in Barbados.

So said A. NormanSabga while commentingon the nine-month per-formance of ANSA McAL.

Sabga, the Chairman,said that for the ninemonths ended September30,2014, the ANSA Mc ALGroup of Companiesearned profit before taxesof $638 million, $48 mil-lion less than for the corre-sponding period last year.

Commenting on theunaudited results,he said:“On a year to date basis,the financial services com-panies’ local and interna-tional investment portfo-lios generated $90 millionless than the correspon-ding period in the prioryear. Excluding this, thegroup’s core underlyingPBT (profit before taxa-tion) improved by seven

per cent.”Sabga said the automo-

tive, trading and distribu-tion segment generated a14 per cent improvementin PBT, while the manu-facturing, packaging andbrewing segment im-proved by three per cent.

Turning to Barbadoswhere ANSA McAL hasbusinesses, he said that“the re-opening of theTrimart flagship super-market store has been de-layed, pending regulatoryapprovals, and this hasnegatively impacted rev-enue growth and prof-itability in the retail sec-tor”.

“The Barbados opera-tions continue to adjust tothe challenges in the cur-rent economic environ-ment.

“However, we are confi-dent of recovery and con-tinue to invest in the busi-nesses.”

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A NUMBER of creditunions have been benefit-ing from technical supportprovided by the BarbadosCo-operative and CreditUnion League Limited.

This has been outlinedby BCCULL official,HallyHaynes while reviewingthe League’s operationsduring the last financialyear.

He said in theBCCULL’s report that theLeague has been utililis-ing the services ofConsultant Keith Bourneto provide the technicalassistance to member so-cieties focusing mainly onthose with assets below$20 million.

He said that the aimwas to achieve the follow-ing objectives: Ensuringthat credit unions are pro-vided with the technicalhelp to enable them tomeet the minimum stan-dards required to enterthe Deposit Insurancescheme, when the net isextended to include creditunion.

Another aim, he ex-plained, was the provisionof technical help to enable

credit unions to meet thenew regulatory standards,while responding to otherrequests for technical sup-port.

According to the official,while there is still a sub-stantial volume of work tobe done, it is pleasing tonote that good progresswas made during the re-porting period in somecritical areas.

“Utilising a mix ofmethodologies, includingbut not limited to in-housetraining, workshop ses-sions, among other things,progress was made in anumber of areas,” he said.

These include a signifi-cant increase in the num-ber of credit unions thathave substantially devel-oped the policy toolkit re-quired by the regulator;strengthening credit riskmanagement practices atboth the front end and theback end; and providingguidance to assist somecredit unions in draftingproposed amendments totheir by-laws ,so that theywould be in compliancewith the Act and theRegulations.

EXPORT competitive-ness is one of the keyways to boost economicgrowth in the Carib-bean and private sectordevelopment.

Pamela Coke-Hamilton,Executive Director ofCaribbean Export, said soat a colloquium held at theBarbados based agencyheld last week.

She reasoned that an in-crease in exports from thisregion could also ensurethe private sector has thenecessary platform for en-gaging policy makers.

She said that the re-gional private sector re-quires support as theycontinue to mitigate thenegative effects of theglobal recession thatstarted six years ago.

To build economic re-silience, the region mustlook at other ways of con-tribution to Gross Domes-tic Product (GDP). Oneway of doing this isthrough copyright andother forms of intellectualproperty (IP), she said.

“However, there needs tobe a cultural shift to view-ing IPs as having the po-tential to provide benefitsfor Caribbean citizens… inselect Caribbean countriesIP has accounted for avery small percentage ofGDP.”

Coke-Hamilton high-lighted the work beingdone by the CaribbeanExport with the establish-

ment of a private sectoradvisory group that in-cludes businesspersonsfrom across the Carib-bean, and added that anincrease in export compet-itiveness could ensurethat the private sector has“the necessary platformsfor engaging policy mak-ers directly”.

According to Coke-Hamilton, the trend to-wards registering IP needsto be spread across the re-gion – “not just register-ing UP, but also building

brands and valuing the IPwithin those brands” .

In addition to IP rightsand branding, she saidCaribbean countries havebeen recognising the roleof innovation as a catalystfor economic development.As a result, CaribbeanExport has developed aRegional InnovationAdvisory Group (RIAG)that will function as athink tank for matters re-lated to innovation, tech-nology transfer, sharing ofbest practices and guiding

the development of a re-gional innovation strategyand implementation plan.

Under the themeBuilding Economic re-silience for the Caribbean,the colloquium was heldthe Hilton, Barbados,funded by the EuropeanUnion as part of the 10thEuropean DevelopmentFund (EDF).

For the duration of theconference, Caribbean ex-perts focused on the per-formance of some of thekey sectors in the region.

Efforts to boost private sector

Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director of Caribbean Export.

Credit unionsreceiving supportfrom BCCULL

Trimart re-opening delayed;economic challenges cited

A. Norman Sabga.

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

Valid for November 18th, 2014

Telegraphic TransfersCurrency Buying SellingEuro 2.47979 2.52628 Pound Sterling £ 3.11579 3.17421 Canadian $ 1.76113 1.79796United States $ 1.99375 2.02768Guyana $ 0.00976 0.00982East Caribbean $ 0.73843 0.74306Belizean $ 0.99688 1.00313Demand/Sight:Currency Buying SellingEuro 2.47513 2.52628 Pound Sterling £ 3.10994 3.17421 Canadian $ 1.75780 1.79796 United States $ 1.99000 2.02768Guyana $ 0.00976 0.00982East Caribbean $ 0.73843 0.74306Belizean $ 0.99688 1.00313Notes:Currency Buying SellingEuro 2.43934 2.54206 Pound Sterling £ 3.06497 3.19403 Canadian $ 1.74784 1.79954 United States $ 1.98000 2.02857East Caribbean $ 0.73704 0.74445Belizean $ 1.00000 1.00000

INDICATIVE RATES FOR SOME REGIONALCURRENCIES AS ADVISED BY THE

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

BDS$Guyana $ 0.00980Jamaica $ 0.01771Trinidad & Tobago $ 0.31655

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LONDON – Shares felland the oil price slid onyesterday after datashowed Japan hadslipped into recession,raising concerns aboutglobal growth.

European shares openedlower. They followedTokyo's Nikkei index whichlost 3 per cent, its biggestone-day drop since Auguston news that the world'sthird-largest economyunexpectedly shrank by anannualised 1.6 per cent inthe third quarter.

This followed a 7.3 percent contraction in theprevious quarter caused bya rise in the national salestax and ran counter toeconomists forecasts for a2.1 per cent rebound.

The data initially pushedthe yen to a seven-year lowagainst the dollar, but asTokyo stocks fell the

Japanese currencyrebounded.

News Japan had tippedinto recession also shaved$1 off the price of Brentcrude oil and sent ripplesacross Europe, where theFTSEurofirst 300 pan-European share index wasdown 0.3 per cent.

Data on Friday showedeuro zone economic outputexpanded more thanexpected in the thirdquarter but remainedweak.

Leaders from the G20group of countries agreedon Sunday a package ofmeasures they said wouldadd an extra 2.1percentage points togrowth over five years.They also agreed steps totackle climate change andcrack down on taxavoidance.

But financial markets

focused on Japan'seconomic downturn.

“It's a bit of shock for themarket, because peoplebelieved that the Bank ofJapan had everythingunder control. But overall,the initial negativereaction shouldn't last toolong. Investors still expectcentral bank action world-

wide to support the globaleconomy,” FXCM analystNicolas Cheron said.

Other Asian shares alsofell. MSCI’s main index ofAsia-Pacific stocks outsideJapan lost 0.5 per cent.

Chinese equitiesdropped as profit takingoutweighed buying byforeign investors as alandmark Hong Kong-Shanghai trading linkdebuted yesterday.

The Shanghai Compo-site ended down 0.2 percent and Hong Kong'sHang Seng lost 1 per cent.

The yen was the bigmover on foreign exchange

markets. After the GDPdata, it fell to as low as117.06 to the dollar, butlater rebounded and waslast at 116.12, up 0.3 percent on the day.

The dollar index dipped0.1 per cent as a result andthe euro made a similargain versus the greenback.

As the Japanese datastoked concerns about theglobal economy,undermining stronger-than-expected U.S. retailsales data on Friday,German 10-year Bundyields also fell, openingdown 2 basis points at 0.77per cent, just above a

record low of 0.716 percent.

Brent crude last tradedat $78.32 a barrel, down1.4 per cent after theJapanese data was seenhitting global demand.

“This is another knockon crude oil prices,anotherbearish factor,” said TonyNunan,oil risk manager atMitsubishi Corp.

Eyes remain on possibleOPEC production cutswhen the oil cartel meetsnext week.

Gold held near two-weekhighs on a softer dollar.Spot gold was last at$1,185.60.

Global stocksfall, oil dips asJapan slipsinto recession

IMPROVE the ease ofdoing business inBarbados, and additionalGovernment revenue willnaturally follow.

This was the stance ta-ken by Barbados Interna-tional Business Associa-tion (BIBA) President,Connie Smith, as debatecontinues to swirl aroundregarding the appropriatemeasures that Govern-ment needs to take toimprove the country’sfinancial position.

“We have reports in themedia of investors tryingto get major projects offthe ground, but are beingstymied by the localagencies which have theauthority to make ithappen, or not make ithappen. We know of localentrepreneurs who wantto get up and running todo business with the restof the world, but we lackthe enabling environmenthere to propel thisforward,” said Smith.

The BIBA leader poin-ted to the fact that oncethe stumbling blocks thathobbled enterprise inBarbados were removed,

the island could seeexponential growth in thenumber of new domesticand foreign businesses onthe island, leading tohigher employment, moretax revenue and feesflowing into government’scoffers, and much moreforeign exchange.

“Unfortunately, theWorld Bank’s DoingBusiness series of reportsshows that Barbadoscontinues to slide, withspeed, down the yearlyrankings relative to theperformance of othercountries in our region, farless across the world.

“The fact that Antiguaand Barbuda, St. Lucia,St.Vincent and the Grena-dines, Trinidad and To-bago, Jamaica, Dominicahave all been reported ashaving surpassed us inthe ease of doing business,requires some seriousintrospection. It is franklyridiculous that it couldtake as long as 270 days torequest and receiveplanning permission for anew construction; or that anew electrical connectioncould take up to 87 days,”

said Smith.“What is important is

for us to set a nationalagenda for change, toidentify what we want tosee ourselves achieve overthe next two or threeyears, and then set aboutwith earnestness anddetermination to achievethese measures.

“Specific departmentaland individualaccountability must bewritten in to these targetsand enforced. TheMinistry of InternationalBusiness has set out aStrategic Plan for oursector, but we have tomove beyond this to aholistic strategy in whichwe establish benchmarksfor the type ofimprovements that weneed to see achievedacross our key public andprivate sector entities.

“We have to commitourselves to dealing withthese issues if we are toimprove our conditionsand pull ourselves out ofthe quagmire in which wenow find ourselves,” saidthe international businessexecutive.

Growth being hindered

Japan's economy unexpectedly slid into recession as housing and business investment declined following asales tax hike, further clouding the outlook for the global economy.

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A MEDITERRANEAN diet may be abetter way of tackling obesity than calo-rie counting, leading doctors have said.

Writing in the Postgraduate MedicalJournal (PMJ), the doctors said aMediterranean diet quickly reduced therisk of heart attacks and strokes.

And they said it may be better thanlow-fat diets for sustained weight loss.

Official NHS advice is to monitor calo-rie intake to maintain a healthy weight.

Last month NHS leaders stressed theneed for urgent action to tackle obesityand the health problems that often gowith it.

The PMJ editorial argues a focus onfood intake is the best approach, but itwarns crash dieting is harmful.

Signatories of the piece included thechair of the Academy of Medical RoyalColleges, Professor Terence Stephenson,and Dr Mahiben Maruthappu, who hasa senior role at NHS England.

They criticise the weight-loss industryfor focusing on calorie restriction ratherthan “good nutrition”.

Better than statinsAnd they make the case for a

Mediterranean diet, including fruit andvegetables, nuts and olive oil, citing re-search suggesting it quickly reduces therisk of heart attacks and strokes, andmay be better than low-fat diets for sus-tained weight loss.

The lead author, cardiologist Dr AseemMalhotra, says the scientific evidence isoverwhelming.

“What’s more responsible is that wetell people to concentrate on eating nu-tritious foods.

“It’s going to have an impact on theirhealth very quickly. We know the tradi-tional Mediterranean diet, which is

higher in fat, proven from randomisedcontrolled trials, reduces the risk of heartattack and stroke even within months ofimplementation.”

The article also says adopting aMediterranean diet after a heart attackis almost three times as effective at re-ducing deaths as taking cholesterol-low-ering statin medication.

The authors argue the NHS is in a“key position” to set a national exampleby providing healthy food in hospitalsand by ensuring doctors and nurses un-derstand the evidence.

‘Common sense’Professor Stephenson says the serv-

ice can exert a powerful influence, forgood or ill.

“Our hospitals and surgeries are thefront-line for delivering health, it’s noth-ing more than common sense then thatwe should be leading by example.

“We wouldn’t dream of letting peopledrink alcohol or smoke in any healthcareenvironment, so I find it incomprehensi-ble that we facilitate and sometimes ac-tively promote food and drink that insome ways cause as many problems.And

although some positive steps have beentaken on the food given to patients inhospital, their visitors and staff also de-serve better.”

Public Health England is reviewingthe dietary advice conveyed in the“eatwell plate” – which is used acrossthe UK for guidance on what food to eat.Its recommendations include calorie-counted recipes to help achieve a healthyweight.

Dr Alison Tedstone, the chief nutri-tionist at Public Health England, saidthere was no single silver-bullet solu-tion.

“Government advice is to eat plenty ofbread, rice, potatoes, pasta and otherstarchy foods, plenty of fruit and vegeta-bles; and some milk and dairy products,meat, fish, eggs, beans and other sourcesof non-dairy protein.

“Foods high in salt, fat and sugarshould be eaten less often and in smallamounts. If you are currently overweightyou will need to eat less to achieve ahealthy weight and be active as part ofa healthy lifestyle.”

The chairman of the National ObesityForum, Professor David Haslam, wel-comed the article.

“A calorie is not just a calorie and it isnaive for anyone to think the complexhormonal and neurological appetite sys-tems of the body respond to differentsubstances in the diet in identical fash-ion.”

He said banning fast food outlets inhospitals would be a “legal minefield”given the extended contracts in exis-tence. But he said healthy nutrition pro-grammes could be put in place – as hashappened in other big organisations – tocounter what he called their “sinistereffect”.

Doctors: Mediterranean diet is best way to tackle obesity

Inspired by traditional cuisine of countries such as Greece, Spain and Italy, theMediterranean diet has long been associated with good health and fit hearts.Typically, it consists of an abundance of vegetables, fresh fruit, wholegraincereals, olive oil and nuts, as well as poultry and fish, rather than lots of redmeat and butter or animal fats.

PEOPLE suffering from asthma whohave to take medication every dayto control it may face an increased

risk of heart attack, new research sug-gests.

And a second study confirms that hav-ing active asthma also increases yourheart risk.

“People with asthma should make aneffort to optimally control their asthmasymptoms,because proper asthma controlnot only improves asthma symptoms andquality of life but also reduces the risk ofheart attack,” said Dr.Young Juhn,a pae-diatrics Professor at the Mayo Clinic whowas lead researcher on one of the studies.

Juhn and his colleagues studied 543heart attack patients, comparing themwith 543 people who didn’t have a heartattack.

After accounting for heart disease riskfactors, such as obesity, high blood pres-

sure, smoking, diabetes and high choles-terol, they found that patients with activeasthma had about a 70 per cent higherrisk of heart attack than those withoutasthma. Inactive asthma, however, wasnot associated with an increased risk ofheart attack.

“People with asthma and their care-givers need to take symptoms for heart at-tack, such as chest pain or discomfort, se-riously since chest discomfort or pain canbe mistaken as a symptom of asthma,”Juhn said.

In the other study, a research team ledby Dr. Matthew Tattersall, an assistantProfessor of medicine in the cardiologydivision at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and PublicHealth, found that people with asthmawho take daily medications for it were 60per cent more likely to have a heart attackor stroke, compared to those without

asthma.For the study, the researchers followed

almost 6,800 people for 10 years.“Physicians should do all they can to

control every other modifiable cardiovas-cular risk factor in patients with asthma,”Tattersall said in a statement.

Both studies were to be presentedSunday at the American HeartAssociation annual meeting in Chicago.Research presented at medical meetingsshould be viewed as preliminary untilpublished in a peer-reviewed medicaljournal.

Dr. Len Horovitz, a pulmonary special-ist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New YorkCity, said the same factors that increasethe risk for asthma also increase the riskfor heart attacks – namely smoking andair pollution.

Both heart attack and asthma can re-sult from continued exposure to smoking

and poisons in the air, he said. “It’s likejogging behind a bus,” he said.

Not smoking is the best thing you cando to prevent both heart attacks andasthma, Horovitz added.

Earlier studies have shown thatasthma increases the risk for both heartattack and stroke, said Dr. GreggFonarow, a cardiology Professor at theDavid Geffen School of Medicine at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles.

“The way asthma increases the risk forheart attacks and strokes requires fur-ther study, but it may involve chronic in-flammation, failure to recognise earlyheart disease in people with asthma orthe bad effects of the medications used totreat asthma,” he said.

Although the new research showed anassociation between asthma and in-creased heart attack risk,a cause-and-ef-fect link was not proven.

Asthma raises heart attack risk, research suggests

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LONDON: 08°C FAIRBOSTON: 07°C OVERCAST/RAINMONTREAL: 00°C OVERCAST/SNOWTORONTO: 01°C OVERCAST/SNOWNEW YORK: 12°C OVERCAST/RAINMIAMI: 30°C FAIR

High: 00:50 a.m.& 12:58 p.m.

Low: 6:41 a.m.& 7:19 p.m.

Yesterday: NIL mmFor the Month: 54.3 mmFor the Year: 808.6 mm

5:59 a.m. 5:29 p.m.

Partly cloudy and breezy with some scatteredshowers mainly during the morning.

Max: 30.2 °CMin: 23.7 °C

NEARLY a million Americans visitthe doctor each year for eye

infections, which are often relatedto wearing contact lenses,

according to a new report.In 2010, people made930,000 doctor’s visits

plus 58,000 emergencydepartment visits in the

United States formicrobial keratitis,

according to the report,from the Centres forDisease Control and

Prevention.Microbial keratitis isan infection of the eye’s

transparent

outer covering caused by bacteria,fungi, amoebae or viruses.

The biggest risk factor for microbialkeratitis is improperly wearingcontact lens – for example, wearingthe lenses overnight, not keepingcontact lens cases clean and notreplacing cases frequently, the CDCsaid.

In more than three-fourths (76.5 percent) of the visits, the person was givena prescription for antibiotics, thereport found. The researchersestimated that visits for these eyeinfections result in $175 million indirect health care costs yearly.

Keratitis can cause eye pain,redness, blurred vision and evenblindness in severe cases.

In July, a woman in Taiwanreportedly went blind because she lefther contact lenses in for six months,and developed an infection from anamoeba.

“Contact lenses can provide manybenefits, but they are not risk-free –especially if contact lens wearers takeshortcuts and don’t take care of their

contact lenses and supplies,” Dr.Jennifer Cope, a CDC medicalepidemiologist, said in a statement.

It ’s estimated that 38 millionAmericans wear contact lenses. Toprevent eye infections, the CDCrecommends the following:

• Wash hands before touchingcontact lenses.

• Remove contact lenses before bed,showering or swimming.

• Rub and rinse contact lenses withdisinfecting solution every time theyare removed.

• Replace old contact-solution withfresh solution every time you storeyour contact lenses in a case.

• Clean contact lens cases after eachuse.

• Replace contact lens cases at leastonce every three months.

Keratitis can also be caused byfactors not related to infection, such asinjury to the cornea or chemicalexposure, the researchers said, sosome of the 1 million doctor’s visitsmay have been for eye problems notcaused by infection.

AS a nation we are severely sleep-deprived. According to data fromthe Centres for Disease Control andPrevention, as much as a third of allAmericans do not get the recom-mended seven hours of sleep a night.

“One of the myths is that we can powerthrough or sleep when we’re dead,” Dr.Charles Czeisler, chair of the NationalSleep Foundation and director of sleepmedicine at Harvard Medical School,said yesterday. “But of course we’ll getthere faster if we don’t get enough sleep.“

Women and men run into differentroadblocks when it comes to their questfor a good night’s sleep.

Women are more likely to toss and turnfrequently and fight bouts of insomnia, aresult of differences in hormonal regula-tion. Oestrogen tends to shorten thelength of the sleep cycle, which is whywomen often report that they experiencesleep troubles around the time of men-struation, pregnancy or menopause.

According to a poll taken by theNational Sleep Foundation, 63 per centof women versus 54 per cent of men ex-perience insomnia at least few nights aweek. Women are also more likely to ex-perience daytime sleepiness.

“One of the things is the internal clockcontrols the timing of sleep,” saidCzeisler. “It runs faster in women than itdoes men. It’s only about a tenth of anhour but it adds up so that women, ingeneral, their internal clocks are set to

about an hour or an hour and half earlierthan men, and that means it wakes themup earlier in the morning and it’s harderto stay awake in the evening.”

On the other hand, anatomical differ-ences in men mean they’re more likely tohave sleep apnea – a result of more fatdeposit around the neck.Approximately17 per cent of men and 9 per cent ofwomen are diagnosed with sleep apnea,a type of sleep disorder that is caused by

infrequent or paused breathing.“If you crowd out the airway then

you’re going to have trouble when yousleep,” said Czeisler. “One out of 3 menand about 1 out of 6 women suffer fromdisturbed sleep disordered breathing.But unfortunately, because it tends to beviewed as a male dominated diseasewomen are much less likely to be diag-nosed. Only 1 out of 10 women comparedwith men get diagnosed for sleep apnea.”

Regardless of these challenges, every-one can take a number of measures toavoid sleep deprivation. Czeisler saysgood sleep hygiene is essential, such asgoing to bed at the same time each nightto regulate your circadian rhythm. Somepeople find it helpful to set an alarm forbedtime. Creating a bedroom that’s con-ducive to sleeping is also essential: re-move all electronics from the bedroomand keep your room cool and dark.

Sleep problems differ for men and women

Contact lenses tied to thousands of eye infections

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THE People’s NationalMovement (PNM) willembark on constitutionreform, create a revenueauthority for greater effi-ciency in tax collectionand rehaul the social wel-fare system to cut downon state dependency im-mediately upon assum-ing office in 2015. Tobagowill also be granted in-ternal self governance,there will be an abolitionof appeals to the PrivyCouncil, the institutionof the Caribbean Court ofJustice (CCJ) as the finalcourt of appeal and in-vestment in the develop-ment of the city of Port-of-Spain.

These are some of the

plans contained in thePNM’s Vision 2030 policydocument and in aNational ElectionContract disclosed byOpposition Leader Dr.Keith Rowley at theparty’s 45th annual con-vention at the Queen’sPark Savannah, Port-of-Spain, on Sunday.Rowley announced theplans in the party’s policydocument, “The RoadAhead to 2030, Buildinga Nation, Together”. Hesaid while the PNM’s position remains that the 1976 RepublicanConstitution has servedT&T well, reform may berequired.

“We will embark onthat process immediatelyon getting into office sothat there is enough timefor consultation, analysisand debate to take placebefore the reforms go toParliament.”

Rowley said among thechallenges the PNM willface is the issue of statedependency by “million-aire and scrunter” alike.He said a raft of wel-fare support and otherprogrammes resultingfrom oil revenues had engendered the “deep underbelly of chronic dependency” seen todayin particular sections ofthe society.

“Too many people, frommillionaire to scrunter,have become entirely de-pendent on the state,” hesaid.

“In fact we now havesome CEPEP contracts

which have been cap-tured by businessmenwho obtain the contractsand make considerableprofit from them whileproviding little or notraining or improve-ments for workers norany migrating of theircompanies from the pro-gramme.

“If, and I daresay whenoil prices and energy sec-tor revenues collapse, wewill not be able to main-tain these expendituresand the social conse-quences might be dire.”

A Rowley-led govern-ment will create a tax au-thority to maximise rev-enue collection, he said.And while the PNM sup-ports the development ofdifferent regions in T&T,the capital city must betreated like a capital city.

“While we will supportand encourage plannedregional development inTrinidad and in Tobago,as well as the sensible decentralisation of gov-ernment services, we willcontinue to invest in thedevelopment of the capi-tal city of Port-of-Spain,”he said, noting thePeople’s PartnershipGovernment is, at pres-ent, spending billions toupgrade Chaguanas tocity status.

Rowley said crime wasa challenge the PNM willalso have to face, espe-cially murders. “The re-sponse here is to trainand sustain, at all levelsfrom parent to commis-sioner,” he said.

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TOKYO, Japan – Japanyesterday has said it is reviewing the as-pects of its OverseasDevelopment Assis-tance (ODA) pro-gramme for develop-ing countries, includ-ing the Caribbean,with emphasis nowbeing placed on devel-opment co-operationrather than on assis-tance.

Foreign MinisterFumio Kishida, address-ing a symposium com-memorating the ODA’s60th anniversary, heldunder the theme “Growthand Poverty Reduction –The role of Japan’s ODA”,said that Tokyo is alsofacing financial con-straints that have also ledto a drastic reduction inits overseas aid package.

He told the symposiumthat as a result, Japanwould now be targetingits aid programme alongthe lines of peace, pros-perity, human rights andinvolvement of the pri-vate sector.

Following the sympo-sium, President of theJapan International Co-operation Agency (JICA),Dr. Akihiko Tanaka, toldjournalists that Tokyo’said would also be guidedby the requests from de-veloping countries.

With specific referenceto the Caribbean,Tanakasaid Japan had beenusing the per capita grossdomestic product (GDP)for providing aid “and inthat respect some of theCARICOM countries arealready beyond the scopeof aid.

“But that does not indi-cate that we neglect theneed of the countries,” hesaid, noting that regionalcountries were now receiving assistance indealing with the impactof climate change andnatural disasters.

“Japan continues to explore how we wouldutilise the concept ofhuman security for ouractivities. In a way fromyour view point to slow,but we are beginning torealise the importance ofco-operation, particularlywith the small island nations.

“So we are in theprocess in a way reformu-lating our approach to is-land nations includingthe Caribbean. Theremay be specific needs andso we have to be attentiveto the needs of specificcountries, but then as awhile, particularly afterPrime Minister Abe dec-laration when he visitedthe Caribbean, we arenow in the process of for-

mulating how we shoulddo our efforts of develop-ment co-operation.

“Our approach has longbeen emphasising theownership and self helpof our partners and ourbasic approach is whatwe call request principle,this is a principle to allcountries of the worldthat we will not come for-ward and tell our part-ners this is what we aregoing to do in your coun-try.

“What we would like todo is to ask you what youwould want us to do andthat is what we call therequest principle, so Ithink with the Caribbeanwe are now in the processof having the requestfrom the partner coun-tries in the Caribbean,but that does not meanwe are simply waiting.

Tanaka said that Tokyowould like to “receive re-quests based upon con-versations between JICAstaff and the officials inthe partner country”.

He said one area whererequest has already beenmade is for Japanese vol-unteers “as one form ofpeople to people interac-tion, and also technicalco-operation programmesthat would be quite ap-propriate for the coun-tries”.

GEORGETOWN,Guyana – One weekafter President DonaldRamotar suspendedParliament to avoid a no-confidence motion,Britain’s HighCommission to Guyana,Andrew Ayre, has calledfor the swift resumptionof the legislature.

Ayre told reporters following the open-ing of a workshop on Anti-money launderingyesterday that “Par-liament should re-sit in Guyana and get on with the business of taking this country for-ward”.

“The UK believes thatthe central pil lar ofdemocracy is parliamentand, therefore, parlia-ment should re-sit withthe shortest possibledelay,” he said.

Meanwhile, the mainopposition group, APartnership for NationalUnity (APNU) has calledon the nation to resistthe imposition of a one-party dictatorship inGuyana.

In a release yesterday,the opposition also re-futed allegations thatthat dialogue betweenthe Opposition and theGovernment had been

discontinued.“The APNU calls on all

Guyanese not to acceptthis denial of democracyand not to allow thePPP/C to implant a ‘one-party’ dictatorship inGuyana,” the releasestated.

A Partnership forNational Unity (APNU)and the minorityAlliance for Change(SFC) control 33 of the 65 seats in theParliament and accord-ing to Ramotar, opposi-tion legislators used the one-seat majority tostifle Guyana’s develop-ment.

Britain’s HighCommission to Guyana,Andrew Ayre.

British High Commissioner to Guyana calls for ‘swift resumption’ of Parliament

Japan re-thinks aidpolicy to developingcountries includingthe Caribbean

Leader of the opposition People’s National Movement (PNM), Dr. Keith Rowley.

PNM rolls out 2015 governance plan

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KINGSTON, Jamaica –Leader of the opposi-tion Jamaica LabourParty (JLP), AndrewHolness, has reiter-ated his party’s stanceon the establishmentof the CaribbeanCourt of Justice(CCJ), as Jamaica’sfinal court of appeal.

Just two days beforethe House ofRepresentatives beginsdebate on three bills onthe CCJ, Holness toldsupporters at the party’sannual conference onSunday that the JLP hasno interest in abandon-ing the UK based PrivyCouncil at least for now.

“This is an example ofhow not to use foreignpolicy. One of our great-est assets is that ourfinal court is an interna-tionally recognised courtof arbitration and appealand we want to take our-selves from it.”

“We are not seriousabout investment, thingsnot going so well inCARICOM, our citizensare being treated withdisrespect and yet wewant to go and furtherintensify our ties withCARICOM. I say no tothat!” Holness said.

He pledged that in-stead, the JLP would useits foreign policy to influ-ence economic growthand development inJamaica.

“Mek (let’s) we sort outCARICOM first, mek(let’s) build our economyfirst before we start topretend that we big, badand politically independ-ent. We must now seek tosecure our economic in-dependence because it isin our economic inde-pendence that we will

truly be able to secureour political independ-ence,” he added.

The statement fromthe JLP leader follows acall from Foreign AffairsMinister A.J. Nicholsonfor support towards theisland going the CCJ.

On the weekend,Nicholson told CMC thatthe administration ofPrime Minister Portia

Simpson-Miller wouldnot support the idea of areferendum on the issue.

The JLP had pre-viously called for a national referendum todecide on the country’smove towards the CCJ asits final court of appeal.

Nicholson said the rea-sons for moving awayfrom the Privy Council“are so relevant, easily

understood and every-body ought to haveknown that.

“But the most impor-tant of all is affordabil-ity.

In Jamaica and Irather suspect for therest of the CARICOM, nomore than perhaps oneper cent o our populationcan afford going toLondon to have their

case heard at the finallevel and yet in Jamaicait appears as if our oppo-sition doesn’t seem to un-derstand that.

He said based on thefact that the rulingPeople’s National Party(PNP) has two-thirds majority in the House ofRepresentatives, it’s ex-pected that the bill willbe passed.

MIAMI, United States –Haitians living in theDiaspora will no longerhave to fly to Haiti to geta national identificationcard, a critical documentto obtain a Haitian pass-port or the ability to votein the country’s elections.

The head of Haiti’s civilregistry, the NationalIdentification Office(ONI), said starting nextmonth, the agency willopen an office in Haiti’sMiami consulate andother consulates in theDiaspora to registerHaitians.

Approved applicantswill be issued a card,

valid for 10 years, with anassigned number similarto a Social Security num-ber.

With the registry key indetermining who can votein upcoming elections,ONI’s Executive DirectorJean-Baptiste Fils St. Cyrsaid demand at the con-sulates will also dictatewhere voting bureausoutside of Haiti will be in-stalled to allow Haitiansto vote.

Under Haiti’s revisedconstitution, nationalsliving in the Diaspora willnow be allowed to vote infuture elections.

According to a report in

the Miami Herald, the lo-gistics of Diaspora votingremains a work in processin Haiti, where there isstill no schedule for thecountry’s legislative andlocal elections now threeyears delayed, the Heraldsaid.

“There is a motivationamong some people in the Diaspora, when theycome to [Haiti] for 15 or22 days, they rush to ouroffice to get a number,” St.Cyr told reporters at apress conference in LittleHaiti Cultural Centre,downtown Miami.

“Even though theprocess is long, they never

hesitate,” he added. “Sowe decided that if youhave this kind of determi-nation, why not bring theservices to the people liv-ing in the Diaspora?”

St. Cyr said that, givenHaiti Diaspora’s criticalrole in the country’s eco-nomic development, “it’snot normal for them tostand outside of the polit-ical sphere”.

“There are a lot of op-portunities people lose be-cause they don’t have anyidentification,” he said,adding that the expan-sion of the office out ofHaiti has become “a mat-ter of necessity”.

KINGSTON, Jamaica –Chief Inspector at theKingston and St. AndrewPublic HealthDepartment, EvertonBaker, says progress isbeing made with the vec-tor control programme totackle the outbreak of theChikungunya virus.

He says the HealthDepartment checkedmore than 41 000 homesbetween June and lastmonth.

Seven thousand werefound with breeding sitesfor the Aedes Aegypti mos-quitoes.

Baker is urging the pub-lic to take care of the envi-ronment, as the countrycontinues to deal with theeffects of Chikungunya.

The Chief Inspectorsays community-based or-ganisations can also playa part in assisting withthe clean-up to get rid ofmosquito breeding sites.

In recent weeks, therehas been a significant decline in new cases ofChikungunya in the eastern parishes of St.Thomas, Kingston and St.Andrew and the centralparish of St. Catherine.

JLP leader, Andrew Holness, delivering his address at the party’s 71st Annual Conference on Sunday.

‘Sort out CARICOM first’ beforeabandoning UK Privy Council – Holness

Jamaica healthauthorities reportprogress in the fightagainst Chikungunya

Haitian diaspora to benefitfrom new identification office

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LONDON – A day afterSunni militants dis-tributed gruesomevideo footage of the ex-ecution of an Ameri-can aid worker, indica-tions began to emergeyesterday that the im-ages may have showna Briton and a French-man among a group ofexecutioners.

The suggestions by aBritish father whose sonhad travelled to Syria tojoin the militant Islamic

State and by a seniorFrench official seemedlikely to deepen appre-hension about the role offoreign-born jihadis in theconflict and the possiblehazards of their return tonative lands.

Thousands of youngEuropean Muslims havebeen reported flocking tojoin the insurgent IslamicState, also known as ISISor ISIL, in its campaign torevive an Islamic cali-phate in areas under its

control.The battle sharp-ened significantly in Junewhen the Islamistsflooded from Syria intoIraq.

The militant group dis-tributed a video on Sun-day purporting to showthat it had beheaded afifth Western hostage,Peter Kassig, anAmerican aid worker andformer Army Ranger.Thevideo featured a maskedexecutioner with aBritish accent who has

been nicknamed “JihadiJohn” in British media ac-counts of the earlier exe-cutions.

British news reportsyesterday said the fatherof another Briton whohad joined ISIS thoughtthe footage included aman who resembled hisson. The father, AhmedMuthana, from Cardiff,Wales, said, however, thathe was “not quite sure”

that the image showedhis son Nasser, who re-portedly travelled toSyria in June along withhis brother Aseel to jointhe militants.

“It resembles him,” Mu-thana said. “I was showna picture of the video. Icannot confirm it is him,but I think it might be.”

At the same time, theFrench interior minister,Bernard Cazeneuve, said

yesterday that there wasa “strong possibility” thatone of the unmasked mil-itants seen in the videowas a French citizen,Maxime Hauchard, who“left for Syria in August2013 after a stay inMauritania in 2012,”news reports said. He wassaid to be a 22-year-oldconvert to Islam, origi-nally from Normandy innorthern France.

British, French militants identified in ISIS video

A DOCTOR who spenttime treating Ebola pa-tients in West Africa diedfrom the virus yesterday.The death of Dr. MartinSalia, who contractedEbola in Sierra Leone,marks the second timeEbola has claimed a vic-tim in the United States.

Salia died at around 5a.m. ET yesterday, ac-cording to NebraskaMedicine spokesmanTaylor Wilson.

A surgeon and legalpermanent resident ofthe United States, Saliawas treating patients inWest Africa when he con-tracted the virus.

Salia arrived on Satur-day at Nebraska MedicalCentre in Omaha. Thehospital tweeted yester-

day that he was “extreme-ly critical” when his treat-ment began, and “unfor-tunately, despite our bestefforts, we weren’t able tosave him”,

Salia was sufferingfrom advanced symptomsof Ebola, including kidneyand respiratory failure,health officials said.

It is rare for someone todie in the United Statesfrom Ebola because med-ical and monetary re-sources are extensive –much more so than inWest Africa.

The first Ebola patientto die in the UnitedStates was Thomas EricDuncan, a Liberian na-tional who travelled toTexas in September fromthat West African coun-

try that, like Sierra Leoneand Guinea, has been hitthe hardest by the Ebolaepidemic.

Duncan, 42, died at aDallas hospital. He ini-tially went to the same fa-cility’s emergency roomafter he began havingsymptoms, but he wasmisdiagnosed and senthome.

Two days later, he wasback in the hospital,where he tested positivefor the virus and histreatment began.

The team caring forSalia in Sierra Leonecharacterised him as crit-ical ill, possibly sickerthan patients treated suc-cessfully in the UnitedStates, according toNebraska health officials.

Doctor’s death markssecond US Ebola fatality

VATICAN CITY/PHILA-DELPHIA – Pope Francisannounced yesterday hewould visit the UnitedStates next year, his firsttrip there as leader of the1.2 billion-member Rom-an Catholic Church.

Francis ended monthsof speculation when hetold an inter-religious con-ference on marriage hewould go to Philadelphiain September for theRoman Catholic Church’sWorld Meeting of Fami-lies.

Archbishop CharlesChaput of the Archdioceseof Philadelphia was in

Rome when the announce-ment was made and saidhe was “overjoyed” at theprospect of the pope’s at-tendance.

“A hallmark of his pa-pacy has been a keen focuson the many challengesthat families face todayglobally. His charisma,presence and voice willelectrify the gathering,”Chaput said in a state-ment.

“As I’ve said many timesbefore, I believe that thepresence of the HolyFather will bring all of us– Catholic and non-Catho-lic alike – together in tre-

mendously powerful, uni-fying and healing ways,”he said.

Francis would be thefourth pope to visit theUnited States, the arch-diocese said. Pope Bene-dict XVI came to Americain 2008 and Pope JohnPaul II in 1979.

Catholics in Philadel-phia said they werethrilled at the news.

“I want to show him thepeople and what faiththey have,” said JosephMicucci, 76, a deacon atthe Cathedral Basilica ofSaints Peter and Paul inthe Centre City district.

Pope says will visitUnited States next year

Salia died at around 5 a.m. ET yesterday.

An image taken from a propaganda video released by the Islamic State militantgroup shows a man believed to be Maxime Hauchard, a French citizen.

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RUSSIA said yesterday severalof its diplomats had beenexpelled from Poland and that anumber of Polish diplomats hadleft Russia after Moscow took“adequate” measures in return.

The Russian foreign ministrydid not say why the Russiandiplomats had been expelledand the Polish embassydeclined immediate comment.Diplomatic sources said fourPolish diplomats had left thecountry yesterday.

“The Polish authorities havetaken an unfriendly andunfounded step,” Russia’sforeign ministry said in astatement.

“In connection with that,Russia has undertakenadequate measures in response

and a number of Polishdiplomats have already left theterritory of our country foractivities incompatible withtheir status.”

The diplomatic sources saidthree Polish military attachesand one employee of thepolitical section had left Russiayesterday after being given 48hours to leave the country onFriday.

Germany said on Saturdayone of its diplomats had beenexpelled from Moscow after aRussian diplomat working inBonn was expelled amid mediareports he was a spy.

Relations between Moscowand European Union memberstates have been strained by thecrisis in Ukraine and by EU

sanctions imposed after Russiaannexed the Crimea peninsulafrom Ukraine.

Ties between Russia and

Poland, which for decades wasunder communist rule anddominated by Moscow afterWorld War Two, have

historically been difficult andWarsaw has been one of thefiercest critics of Russia over itsrole in Ukraine.

Russia orders Polishdiplomats out in tit-for-tat expulsions

EUROPEAN UNION foreignministers moved yesterdayto ratchet up sanctionsagainst pro-Russian sepa-ratists in eastern Ukraine,amid reports of intensifiedfighting in the region.

EU diplomats reported thatthe foreign ministers, who weremeeting in Brussels, have askedEU officials to put more sepa-ratists on the bloc’s sanctionslist.

However, there was no indica-tion that Russia would be hitwith additional EU sanctions.

The EU move follows electionsheld by the separatists earlierthis month in the areas undertheir control, which were de-nounced by Western govern-ments, as well as an upsurge infighting between rebel and gov-ernment forces despite a cease-fire reached in early September.

Witnesses reported freshshelling in and around the rebelstronghold of Donetsk yester-day.

Ukrainian officials reportedyesterday that ten servicemen –seven soldiers and three police-men – were killed over the pre-vious 24 hours in attacks at var-ious locations in easternUkraine’s Donetsk and Luhanskregions.

Donetsk city officials reportedthat one civilian was killed andeight wounded in shelling overthe weekend.

Government and rebel forcesroutinely accuse each other ofbreaking the September 5 cease-fire and shelling civilian areas.

In an interview published yes-terday with Germany’s Bildnewspaper, Ukraine’s President

Petro Poroshenko calledUkraine “the most dangerousplace in the world,” alleging that“thousands” of Russian soldiersare inside his country along withhundreds of tanks and heavy ar-tillery.

He said Ukraine’s military isprepared for the possibility of“total war” with Russia.

On Saturday, Poroshenko, is-

sued decrees ordering allUkrainian state companies op-erating in rebel-held territory tocease operations within a weekand to evacuate state workers.They also urged Ukraine’s cen-tral bank to close down all bank-ing services in rebel-held re-gions, including card operations.

Poroshenko already has or-dered an end to state funding to

the separatist-held areas inUkraine’s Luhansk and Donetskregions. Authorities said thosecuts were largely aimed at sub-sidies and social payments, in-cluding pensions, but would notaffect natural gas flow to rebelareas during winter months.

For his part, Russian Presi-dent Vladimir Putin, asked bythe German TV network ARD

in an interview broadcast onSunday about Western chargesthat Moscow is supplyingUkraine’s separatists, avoidedconfirming or denying those al-legations.

Putin responded by sayingthat “people who wage a fightand consider it righteous will al-ways get weapons”.

In the interview, which wasrecorded last Thursday, beforethe G20 summit in Brisbane,Australia, Putin said he wasworried about “possible ethniccleansing and Ukraine endingup as a neo-Nazi state.” Similarrhetoric has often been used byRussian officials and media inwhat is seen as a co-ordinatedpropaganda effort to discreditUkraine.

Putin’s early G20 summit de-parture

The Russian president left theG20 summit on Sunday earlierthan previously planned, after aseries of meeting with worldleaders described as con-tentious. But he told Russian re-porters his exit was induced byfatigue and had nothing to dowith discord over Ukraine.

President Putin has said hewants to reach a compromisewith Ukraine,while denying thepresence of any Russian soldiersor weapons in rebel-controlledareas. The Kremlin has soughtto portray Russian combat sol-diers inside Ukraine’s east asvolunteers.

Despite those denials,European observers reportedRussian tanks, troops andweapons crossing into easternUkraine this past week.

EU moves to sanction separatists

Pro-Russian rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko is seen approaching a ballot box in separatist-organised elections in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Nov. 2, 2014.

A man walks past a house damaged by shelling in the village of Spartak on the outskirts ofDonetsk in eastern Ukraine.

– as east Ukraine fighting intensifies

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) - Don’t lettranquility lull you into dropping your guard.By the same token, when things get heated,don’t succumb to the agitation around you.Stay calm so you can recognize theopportunities that disruption always creates.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - The factsand circumstances you’re dealing with todayare not inherently true or false – it’s yourthinking that makes them true or false. Spinyour mind in an empowering direction.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21) - A temporaryloss of motivation will cause soul searching.Once you set clear objectives, a new senseof purpose will whoosh into your being, andthe old passion and drive will ignite anew.

CANCER (June 22-July 22) - People maynot respond to your offerings in polite,appropriate or expected ways. If you canlive without immediate feedback, you’ll bebetter off. This takes a deep sense of innersecurity and self-trust.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - If you alwayslisten to feedback, you’ll fail. If you neverlisten to feedback, you’ll fail. The key is tosee the long view, trust yourself and heedyour intuitive leanings to incorporate orignore the feedback.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - Your powersof imagination are strong, and when youescape, you go to a happy, exciting place inyour mind. This is the secret to your upbeatmood and unstoppable vitality.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - Winners arerisk takers. Sometimes it takes going too farto know how far you can go. So if you crossboundaries and the result is less thanoptimal, chalk it up to experience.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) - You’recomfortable functioning in situations whereyou don’t (and quite possibly no one does)have the answers. Accepting the unknown(without freaking out) is a life skill that willtake you far.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) - Assoon as ennui sets in, go out and mastersomething new. Otherwise, you’ll succumbto temptation and distraction instead of usingyour restless energy constructively.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Thecurrent Saturn configuration gives youpause. The reflective mood will produce avaluable insight, provide profound meaningor renew your sense of purpose.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) - Onereason it’s important to prepare for a varietyof outcomes is that it teaches you not tohang on too tightly to any one of them. Sincemost of your preparations won’t directlyapply, you can maintain a flexible attitude.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) - Whenintelligence is teamed with an easy-goingattitude, the result is a personality that manyenjoy and seek out to add to their team. Thisexplains your recent popularity.

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KENYANS took to thestreets of Nairobi yester-day to send a message tomen: Stop attacking wo-men because of the waythey dress.

The protests followedthe latest incident of awoman stripped naked inthe capital by a group ofmen who accused her of“indecent” dressing. Theattack captured on videolast week prompted out-rage on social media un-der the hashtag #mydress-mychoice.

Protesters marchedthrough downtown carry-

ing placards that read “Mydress, my choice” whileothers donned mini-skirts,the same attire the un-identified woman worewhen she was attacked.Some men wore dresses toshow their support.

Others joined the marchto rally against the pro-tests, chanting “don’t benaked”and “wear clothes”.

This is not the first timea woman has been un-dressed for purported in-decent dressing in theEast African nation,whichis a majority Christian.Such incidents sporadi-

cally happen in othermajor cities, includingNakuru and Mombasa.

In the footage, the wo-man is confronted by herattackers at a bus stop.She looks terrified as sheis pushed and shoved by agroup of men, who even-tually strip her naked. Inthe background,attackersyell “Toa” – Swahili for“take it off!” as they tug ather clothes.

“It’s so sad that thesemen who strip women arethe same men who will goout in the night looking atwomen who are dressed tokill and they drool overthem,” said Brenda Otie-no, who supported theprotests in Nairobi.

Kenyans rally for womanstripped naked in Nairobi

THAI police said yes-terday two Americanssuspected of trying tosend infant and adultbody parts in parcels tothe United States hadfled the country.

A baby’s head, a baby’sfoot sliced into three parts,a heart and a “sheet ofskin” with tattoo mark-ings were found in parcelson Saturday after staff ata shipping office in Bang-kok scanned the pack-ages, police said.

The parts were storedin plastic containers filledwith formaldehyde andthe packages were des-tined for an address inLas Vegas.

“X-rays showed therewere contents similar tohuman body parts. Fromour investigation of threeparcels we found humanbody parts in five plasticcontainers,” Police Lieu-tenant General RuangsakJaritake, assistant to theNational Police Commis-sioner, told reporters.

“The packages weremarked ‘children’s toys,’but x-rays showed theywere not children’s toys.”

Police named the twosuspects, aged 31 and 33,and said they were being“monitored”, but did notsay how.

Both men fled Thailandon Sunday through acheckpoint in the east ofthe country, Ruangsaksaid.

He said the heart hadstab marks and belongedto an adult, while the

sheet of skin with tattoomarkings also belonged toan adult.

Museum of Death“As soon as we have re-

sults, we will contact theFBI,” he said.

Doctors at Bangkok’sSiriraj Hospital said thatthe body parts were takenfrom the hospital’s Medi-cal Museum, nicknamedthe Museum of Death,

which exhibits preservedhuman remains, many ofthem from murder vic-tims.

“We can confirm thatthey were stolen fromSiriraj,” UdomKachintorn, Dean of theFaculty of MedicineSiriraj Hospital, told re-porters.

He added that the twoAmericans visited the mu-seum last month.

In 2012, Thai police ar-rested a British citizen ofTaiwanese origin afterdiscovering six humanfoetuses which had beenroasted and covered ingold leaf stuffed intotravel bags at a hotel roomin Bangkok’s Chinatown.

Thai detectives saidthey believed the corpseswere due to be sent toTaiwan to be used as partof a black magic ritual.

Body parts labelled as toys foundin Thailand DHL shipment

INDIA and Australia willcommit to an “enhancedstrategic partnership”when Prime MinisterNarendra Modi meets hisAustralian counterpartTony Abbott in Canberratoday.

Sources told The Hinduthat the two sides will an-nounce an “action plan”for co-operation in defenceand other areas.

This will include exer-cises between armies,navies and air forces, aswell as counter-terrorism,maritime security, non-proliferation and cyber se-curity. The joint maritimeexercises will be kicked offin early 2015. In other ex-ercises, an Australian

Coast Guard ship is ex-pected in Indian watersnext month, said sources.

In a first, India andAustralia will also set upa mechanism to discuss“synergies in integratingdefence system”, includingresearch and developmentco-operation on integrat-ing defence equipmentthat both countries cur-rently purchase, for exam-ple, US’s C-17 Herculesaircraft, according to offi-cials.

The new strategicframework will be dis-cussed in addition to fiveother agreements ex-pected to be signed whenthe two Prime Ministersmeet.

Modi, Abbott toupgrade defence ties

#MyDressMyChoice protesters outside the Supreme Court. Behind them, theanti-choice group hurls insults.

Thai police officer shows a picture of a tattooed human skin which was found ina package of a US tourist, during a press conference at Bangpongpang policestation in Bangkok yesterday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the audi-ence in Sydney yesterday.

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THE habitats of nearly 140 ofAustralia’s most threatenedanimals, including the hairy-nosed wombat and the greensawfish, remain unprotecteddespite recent growth in thecountry’s network of naturereserves, a new report hasfound.

Of the 1,613 species listednationally as threatened, 138fall outside the “safety net” ofa protected area, the WWFanalysis found. Of Australia’srecognised 5,815 land-basedecosystems, 1,655 remain un-protected.

Critically endangeredspecies without protectedhabitat include the northernhairy-nosed wombat, theworld’s largest burrowing her-bivore, which numbers just126 in the wild.

The green sawfish, a rela-tive of the shark now foundonly north of Cairns, and theDawson Yellow Chat, a

Queensland songbird reducedto just 200 individuals, alsoface being wiped out withoutadequate protection. Of all an-imals listed as critically en-dangered, 20 per cent have noprotection at all.

The lack of suitable havensfor these animals is despite anincrease in Australia’s na-tional reserve system. A totalof 16.5 per cent of Australia’sland mass is under some sortof protection, with nationalparks making up 8.3 per centof this total. In 2002, 9.5 percent of Australia’s landmasswas protected.

With a third of Australia’swaters in protected areas, thecountry is on target to meet akey international goal on pro-tected areas, but WWF saidthe coverage was uneven andleaving species at risk of beingabandoned.

The conservation organisa-tion said the federal govern-

ment should work with statesto create a comprehensive net-work of reserves that protectbiodiversity, as well as pro-hibiting mining in areasplaced under protection.

“A boost in funding over thepast five years has seentremendous progress in theexpansion of Australia’s na-tional reserve system, growththat will make a huge differ-ence to survival of nativewildlife in the years to come,”said Dr Martin Taylor, the re-port’s author.

“Unfortunately, we are stillfar from protecting the fullrange of Australian ecosys-tems, and there are still manythreatened species whosehabitats remain outside thesafety net.”

According to WWF, it willcost Australia an additional$170 million a year over thenext five years to meet itsgoals for habitat protection,

with $247 million required intotal to secure the desired ma-rine reserve area.

This expenditure is offset bythe $23.6 billion spent by visi-tors to Australia’s nationalparks and nature reserveseach year.

Yesterday, the federal gov-ernment announced a further$2 million to protect threat-ened species in the group offederal national parks, whichincludes Kakadu, Uluru andthe Great Barrier Reef.

The money will be spenttackling invasive threats suchas foxes and feral cats, whilesupporting populations ofbandicoots and northernquolls. In all, 10 projects willbe funded with the cash.

Greg Hunt, the environmentminister, said feral cats, whichkill an estimated 75 millioncreatures every day, haveproved a “wrecking ball” to na-tive animals.

“I don’t want my children tofind the northern quoll, thepartridge pigeon or the longnosed potoroo only in historybooks,” he said.

“That’s why I declared waron feral cats. That’s why Icommitted to ending the lossof mammal species by 2020.

“I appointed Australia’s firstthreatened species commis-sioner to champion this causeand made sure he was embed-ded in my department wherehe could most effectively influ-ence and access resources forthreatened species.”

The funding announcementis part of a number of commit-ments made by Hunt duringthe World Parks Congress,which is currently takingplace in Sydney. Last week, $6million was pledged to helpend deforestation in south-east Asia, with a further $6million earmarked to protectcoral ecosystems in the region.

Habitats of 140 Australian threatened species not protected

THE number of polarbears inhabiting a frozensea north of Alaska de-clined by about 40 percent from 2001 to 2010, ac-cording to a study pub-lished yesterday.

US Geological Survey re-searchers and scientists fromCanada and the UnitedStates found that bear sur-vival rates in the southBeaufort Sea were particu-larly low from 2004 to 2006,when only two of 80 cubsmonitored were known tohave survived.

Bears overall fared betterthan juvenile bears in thestudy. Overall survival ratesbegan to climb in 2007, butsurvival of juvenile bears de-clined throughout the 10-yearstudy period. The bear popu-

lation was approximately 900in 2010, the study’s final year.

Scientists said that the lowsurvival rates could be causedby a low seal abundance andlimited access to seals in thesummer and winter months.Winter ice has become morethin and increasingly mobileover the past few decades,leading it to break more fre-quently, creating “rough andjumbled” ice conditions thatare thought to make it moredifficult for bears to captureseals.

“The low survival may havebeen caused by a combinationof factors that could be diffi-cult to unravel, and why sur-vival improved at the end ofthe study is unknown,” saidJeff Bromaghin, a USGS re-search statistician and lead

author of the study, in a state-ment.

The Polar Bear Specialists’Group of the InternationalUnion for the Conservation ofNature has been trackingpolar bear populations glob-ally. The group will measurethe new figures against global

historic and current trends.Dr Steven Amstrup, chief

scientist at Polar BearsInternational, said he spentmost of his adult life workingwith this population of bearsand was “pained” to see thedecline in the population.

“In 2007, my colleagues and

I predicted we could losepolar bears from the southernBeaufort Sea by the middle ofthis century if we didn’t geton to a different greenhousegas emissions path,” saidAmstrup.

“This report confirms westill are on the wrong path.”

A polar bear keeps close to her young along the Beaufort Sea coast in Arctic National WildlifeRefuge, Alaska. Only two out of 80 cubs monitored in the region survived in 2004-2006.

Polar bearpopulation falls 40 per centin 10 years

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EFFORTS to fightoverfishing on thehigh seas have longbeen hampered by alack of enforcementand credible data.

That is about tochange with the an-nouncement thatGoogle is teaming upwith the environmentalgroup Oceania and re-mote sensing specialistSkyTruth to createGlobal Fisheries Watch,the first-ever globaltracking system of itskind. Global FisheriesWatch will launch nextyear and monitor com-mercial fishing aroundthe world.

The platform – a pro-totype of which was un-veiled Friday at theInternational Union forConservation of NatureWorld Parks Congressin Sydney, Australia –will leverage GPS dataused by 100,000 shipsworldwide.

“So much of whathappens out on the highseas is invisible, andthat has been a hugebarrier to understand-ing and showing theworld what’s at stakefor the ocean,” saidJohn Amos, presidentand founder ofSkyTruth, one of thefirst organisations touse satellite images toestimate the extent ofthe BP oil spill.

“But now, satellitedata is allowing us tomake human interac-tion with the oceanmore transparent thanever before. Fishermencan show how they aredoing their part to fishsustainably, we can mo-tivate citizens to watchthe places they careabout, and we can allwork together to re-store a thriving ocean.”

A combination of ille-gal fishing, poor man-agement and far toomany subsidised fish-ing fleets are to blamefor overfishing. Nearlyone-third of marine fishstocks worldwide havebeen overfished, and 90per cent were assessedas fully fished or over-fished in 2011, accord-ing to the UnitedNations Food andAgricultureOrganisation.

Some of the worstproblems occur in thedeveloping world wherea lack of money andmanpower has made itall but impossible to po-lice their f ishinggrounds. Further out inthe high seas, there arefew regulations, andthose that exist oftendepend on the good willof the fishing fleets toreport their catches.

“We know our fish-eries are overfished andmost of the importantfish stocks are collaps-ing,” said Jackie Savitz,Oceania’s vice presi-dent for U.S. Oceans.

“We can bring themback with good man-agement. But if thosepolices are not enforced,they don’t work,” shesaid. “The purpose ofthis tool is to createpressure for that en-forcement. So we hopethat this tool will allowthe public to pressuregovernment to enforcethe laws.”

Savitz said she envi-sioned the tool to beused by governments,scientists and interna-tional organisations tocatch illegal fishing,better monitor pro-tected areas, andgather data on trendsof fishing for particularspecies. It could also beused more broadly totrack fleets and betterunderstand hot-spotsfor illegal fishing andthose nations most re-sponsible for it.

“The uses are almostendless,” she said. “Wecan use it to track ablacklisted vessel thatis known to be fishingillegally. We can look atwhether people arefishing in no-take ma-rine protected areas. Inareas where you need aspecial license to fish,such as the high seas,we can see whetherpeople fishing therehave the necessary reg-istration.”

Google said its in-volvement is part of alarger push to use itstechnology to addressglobal conservation is-sues. It already has in-vested in a systemcalled Global ForestWatch which monitorsthe world’s tropical

forests and has pro-vided a US$5 million tothe World Wildlife Fund(WWF) to help it com-bat wildlife poaching.

“We said, how canGoogle bring its tech-nology to play to ad-dress global-scale is-sues around environ-ment, sustainabilityand climate change,”Brian Sullivan, the pro-gramme manager ofGoogle Ocean & EarthOutreach, told re-porters.

“When we look atoverfishing, it’s affect-ing the entire planet. Ithas that big impactpiece to it,” he said.“Hundreds of millionsof people either derivetheir main source ofprotein, livelihood orother things from theocean.”

Sullivan said the sys-tem will help bringtransparency to an in-dustry often cloaked inmystery and confusion.

“Just for the proto-type, we are startingwith close to 4 billiondata points, filteringthrough that and doingclassifications on that,”he said. “When we showthe visualisations thatwas never possible be-fore, anyone looking atthat monitor within 5seconds can start mak-ing inferences of whatis happening there. Wethink that is extremelypowerful.”

But Savitz acknowl-edged the system willhave its limits, includ-ing the fact that shipscan choose to turn offthe tracking systemknown as theAutomaticIdentification System(AIS). Even so, govern-ments or other organi-sations could identifythose not using theirsystems to raise ques-tions about their fish-ing activities.

“That is one of thebiggest challenges. Itcan be turned off,” shesaid.

“One of the firstthings we will do is ex-pose people doing that.We can actually seethem turning it off sowe will use that infor-mation of enforcementof the AIS itself.”

Google joins fightagainst overfishing

FOR most of us,Facebook at work meansscrolling through the pic-tures of your mate’sbirthday party and get-ting in a couple of roundsof Farmville when you’remeant to be working onan upcoming presenta-tion. But the world’sbiggest social networkreportedly wants tomake things more pro-fessional, taking onLinkedIn with Facebookat Work.

According to theFinancial Times,Facebook is developing anew site that features asimilar newsfeed andgroups to the currentfriends and family-basedsocial network, but en-ables you to collaboratewith colleagues and keepin touch with profes-sional contacts. Your per-sonal Facebook feed – in-cluding potentially em-barrassing photos,drunken posts and otherpersonal stuff – would bekept separate.

Up to now, Facebook

has been associated withpersonal use, so you cankeep in touch withfriends and family.Companies and individ-uals can create pages,but those are public-fac-ing pages for communi-cating with customersrather than an internalservice for workers andcompanies to work to-gether. The best-knownbusiness network isLinkedIn, which allowsindividuals to post theiremployment history, con-nect with colleagues andindustry contacts, andlook for jobs.

Facebook currentlyhas more than 1 billionusers. LinkedIn has over300 million users, ofwhich more than 90 mil-lion are active monthlyusers.

Facebook at Work is re-ported to enable you tocollaborate with col-leagues by giving severalpeople access to a docu-ment so each person canedit and make changes.That also puts the serv-

ice in competition withbusiness and collabora-tion services in GoogleDrive and MicrosoftOffice, which has itselfabsorbed the business-focused social networkYammer.

With smartphone andsocial network use ap-proaching saturationpoint in developed coun-tries, tech companies arelooking to expand intonew frontiers such as de-veloping markets or theworld of business. For ex-ample, BlackBerryBalance and SamsungKnox keep work and per-sonal content separateand secure onBlackBerry andSamsung mobile devices.

The business market isattractive to Facebook,Samsung and other com-panies because it opensthe way to lucrative cor-porate contracts – aslong as they can convinceIT departments thattheir networks or devicesare secure enough tokeep sensitive data safe.

Social media fans may no longer have to get their fix at work in secret ifFacebook at Work is accepted by employers.

Facebook at Work setto do the business likeLinkedIn, report says

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U2 FRONTMAN Bono was injuredwhile cycling in New York’sCentral Park, forcing a delay inthe Irish rockers’ return to “TheTonight Show Starring JimmyFallon”, the band said on Sunday.

U2 was scheduled to perform on“The Tonight Show” from Mondayto Friday. The band helped Fallon

launch the late-night show inFebruary as his first musicalguest.

“It looks like we will have to doour Tonight Show residency an-other time – we’re one man down,”the band said on its website in amessage signed by members TheEdge, Adam Clayton and Larry

Mullen Jr.Bono, 54, “has injured his arm in

a cycling spill in Central Park andrequires some surgery to repair it.We’re sure he’ll make a full recovery soon, so we’ll be back!”the band said.

The website did not give detailsabout the incident or the injury.

SALES of the new Band Aidsingle have been “manic”since its unveiling, organiserBob Geldof has revealed.

The musician and campaigneradmitted he had been “a bit nervous” but said the responsehad been “extraordinary”.

“From what we’ve seen fromiTunes it’s gone bonkers,” he told Radio 4’s Today programmeyesterday. “Within four or fiveminutes we had a million quid.”

The single, which features Ed Sheeran and One Direction,topped the iTunes chart within an hour of going on sale.

A video for the song, re-recordedto raise money to tackle the Ebolacrisis in West Africa, was shownon ITV’s The X Factor on Sunday.

The track is now available todownload at a cost of 99p. A CD

version, costing £4, will be released in three weeks.

Also appearing on BBCBreakfast, Geldof said demandfor the single had been “vast”.

“We really can stop this ... foullittle plague,” he continued, in-sisting that “100%” of proceedswould go towards the relief effort.

“I love living in this country atmoments like this,” he went on,saying the UK “led the world” inthis form of charity campaigning.

The current outbreak of thedeadly virus was first reported inMarch and has killed more than 5 000 people, almost all in WestAfrica.

Geldof and co-writer MidgeUre’s first version of “Do TheyKnow It’s Christmas?” raised £8 million for famine relief inEthiopia.

Rita Ora, Ellie Goulding, SamSmith and Coldplay’s ChrisMartin also attended the record-ing of the song on Saturday.

Geldof has also confirmed thatchart-topping singer Adele didnot respond to a request to takepart.

Further charity singles are also set to be recorded in the US,France and Germany, with DaftPunk and Carla Bruni amongthose said to be involved.

Geldof, however, was critical ofGermany’s response to the crisis,saying its leaders were not “doingenough” to tackle the epidemic.

“The most powerful economy in Europe are laggards and theyshouldn’t be,” the 63-year-old told Radio 4’s Sarah Montague.

“It’s as dangerous for them as itis for us.”

U2’s Bono injured while cycling,‘Tonight Show’ gig delayed

Band Aid single sales‘extraordinary’, says Bob Geldof

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SPORTSSPORTS

By Corey Greaves

THE future of

Barbados’ Road Tennisis in good hands. Thiscomes after the young

players turned in cred-itable performances onSunday in their Roundof 16 matches.

Leading the way wasDario Hinds, who showedthat no lead was too muchfor him to overcome.Hinds, playing againstKerry ‘TC’ Francis, camefrom a set down to defeatFrancis and advance tothe quarter-finals of theMassy United InsuranceClash of the Titans.

Even in the final set,Hinds was down 0-5 earlyand in the later momentsof the game took the leadand never looked back.Hinds won the game 17-21, 21-16, 21-18.

The other promisingstar who let his light beseen on Sunday wasDarius ‘Barracus’ Gaskin.Coming up against thetop-ranked Mark ‘Venom’Griffith, Gaskin did notjust roll over and concedethe game, but madeGriffith work for everypoint he scored.

With cheers and wordsof encouragement fromthe crowd, Gaskin stuckwith Griffith every step ofthe way and even held thelead in the see-saw battle.

But after not getting acall to go his way in thetight set, Gaskin had amomentary slip of concen-tration, which allowedGriffith to get home in the

first set 23-21.The second set was al-

most a copy of the first asboth players traded pointsand the lead. However,it was Griffith whosqueezed out the victoryat 21-19.

Also through to the nextround is Julian ‘MichaelJackson’ White after he defeated ShibbirGreenidge in two straightsets.White led 10-2 in thefirst set, but after dis-agreeing with a method ofthe chair, his concentra-tion was no longer. Thisallowed Greenidge to clawhis way out of what lookedlike a certain ‘Sow’ todraw within one point of

White. But White wasable to settle once againand regain his focus toclose out the set 21-13.

In the second set,

Greenidge, who hadlooked content to surren-der the game in the firstset, decided to put up afight much to the crowd’sdelight. He led the gamefor the first time, butWhite decided to dig inwith his play and climbhis way out of the hole.White went on to win thesecond set 21-17.

The final of the ladies’category will pit KimHolder, who defeatedCharene Ward in thesemi-finals, againstRachel Smith, who de-feated Susan Scantleburyin the other semi.

Also in winner’s row on Sunday was EmarEdwards, who won overChester Brewster, who forfeited the game as he is suffering from aright-hand injury andChikungunya.

Young players impress – in Massy United Insurance Clash of the Titans

Rachel Smith will meet Kim Holder in the final of theladies’ category.

Kim Holder on the attack in her semi-final match. Julian ‘Michael Jackson’ White stretching for thisball on his way to victory over Shibbir Greenidge.

Dario Hinds has his eyes on the prize.

Darius ‘Barracus’ Gaskin pumping his fist after win-ning a point in his match-up against Mark Griffith.

Kerry ‘TC’ Francis was defeated by Dario Hinds inthree sets.

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FORMER Champions ChrisArmstrong and Wayne Clarkereturned to winner’s row for the firsttime since June last year when theysaw off some top-class opposition inthe Nassco November Safari onSunday, November 9.

As the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC)Chefette MudDogs Safari Championshipdrew to a close, the outcome was hangingin the balance: reigning champions LeslieAlleyne and Chris O’Neal (SimpsonMotors/Shell Spirax/ShellRimula/Maxxis Isuzu D-Max) were tiedon points with Derek Gill and AndrewCroney (Insurance Solutions/SweetTemptations Mitsubishi Pajero) – evenafter the dropped-score rule was applied– so the crew which finished higher wouldwin the 2014 title.

Alleyne and O’Neal were ahead on bothroutes, to finish second, with Gill andCroney third, after a day plagued withmechanical issues, giving the 2013Champions back-to-back titles; while it isthe second consecutive year that O’Nealhas claimed the Sextant ChallengeTrophy as Champion Navigator, Alleynewill hold the Peter Farmer MemorialTrophy awarded to the Champion Driverfor the fifth time, having also previouslywon it in 2006, 2008 and 2011.

After Friday’s (November 14) Prize-giving at the Barbados Clay TargetShooting Association Clubhouse atSearles, Christ Church, Alleyne said: “Itwas by far the most enjoyable event forthe year. We had an absolute blast andGary [Mendes, the route-setter] did afabulous job. The first route was quitetricky and we had to hustle to keep withthe timing. We had a bit of brain fade ina BRC section and neglected to do a loopin Carlton, even though we had it plotted.That cost us 200 points and from there weknew we had to tighten the belt in thesecond route. We thought we had a goodsecond route, but discovered that we hadcollected a traffic violation from stoppingahead of the line in the road.

“It was a perfect way to end the yearsince the competition was so close ... andit’s great that Chris and Wayne won in aToyota! Hats off to Derek and Andrew, asthey suffered from mechanical issues allday but persevered to the end with nopower steering. Chris and I have been agreat team and, as always, he did an

outstanding job. Special thanks to all ofour sponsors, without whom we could nothave achieved this.”

Armstrong and Clarke, who wereMudDogs Champions in 2012, with twovictories to their name,had not won sincelast year’s June Safari, in a seasoninterrupted by injury; they won theNassco November Safari’s first routefrom Chefette Charles Rowe Bridge, St.George to Animal Flower Cave, St. Lucy,by a margin of 34 penalties, with GregoryDickenson and Andre Murrell second ina strong early showing for the Toyotabrand, and Alleyne and O’Neal third. Gilland Croney were seventh, although theywere only 112 penalties behind theirchampionship rivals, so all was not lost.

Novice crew Damien and BrandonJohnson (Western Union SuzukiSamurai) were the winners of route two,which led competitors back to the finishat the MudDogs’ spiritual home at ThreeHouses, St. Philip, where Armstrong andClarke’s second place for the routeconfirmed their victory.Only six penaltiesseparated Alleyne/O’Neal andGill/Croney – typical of the closecompetition enjoyed all season – but itwas enough to secure the title for asecond consecutive year.

The Chefette MudDogs NoviceChampionship was also in the balancebefore the final event, with wins sharedevenly in the first four rounds: theJohnsons won in April and September,

while Julian Kirton and Dominic Straker(Kirts Connection Jeep Wrangler)prevailed in March and June. Totallingall four results, the Johnsons were fourpoints ahead before Sunday, althoughjust two, with the dropped-score applied.With a strong turn-out of five Novicecrews, there was fierce competition,although the Johnsons maintained theupper hand on both routes to guaranteethem the title.

Armstrong, Clarke win Nassco November Safari Back-to-back titles for Alleyne & O’Neal

Nassco’s Roger Hill, flanked by Derek Hill (right) and Andrew Croney, whofinished third.

Nassco November Safari –November 9

Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship - round 51st Chris Armstrong/Wayne Clarke (Toyota Hilux),

612 penalties2nd Leslie Alleyne/Chris O’Neal (Simpson

Motors/Shell Spirax/Shell Rimula/Maxxis Isuzu D-Max), 779 pens

3rd Derek Gill/Andrew Croney (InsuranceSolutions/Sweet Temptations Mitsubishi Pajero),

897 pens4th Nicholas Lorde/Brett Barber (NL

Engineering/Comfeet Land Rover Discovery), 986pens

5th Ben Norris/Kirk Watkins (Birdies RestaurantFord Ranger), 1020 pens

6th Gregory Dickenson/Andre Murrell (ToyotaHilux), 1046 pens

7th Damien Johnson/Brandon Johnson (WesternUnion Suzuki Samurai), 1097 pens

8th Wayne Manning/Willie Hinds (ZephrinsBakeries/Quality Tyre Suzuki Samurai), 1183 pens9th Michael Broome/Warwick Eastmond (WOWCamp/12 Volt Auto Suzuki Jimny), 1382 pens

10th Julian Kirton/Dominic Straker (KirtsConnection Jeep Wrangler), 1620 pens etc

Route 1: 1st Armstrong/Clarke, 477 pens; 2ndDickenson/Murrell, 511pens; 3rd Alleyne O’Neal,

549 pens; etcRoute 2: 1st Johnson/Johnson, 50 pens; 2nd

Armstrong/Clarke, 135pens; 3rd Alleyne O’Neal,230pens; etc

Chefette MudDogs Safari Novice Championship -round 5

1st Johnson/Johnson, 1097 pens - 7th overall2nd Broome/Eastmond, 1382 pens – 9th o/a

3rd Kirton/Straker, 1620 pens - 10th o/a4th Nicholas Pinto/Adam Hunte (Power

King/Impulse Services Jeep Grand Cherokee),3262 pens – 11th o/a

5th Richard Hinkson/Nicola Clarke (EasternVeterinary Clinic/No More Turns Racing Suzuki

Samurai), 4526 pens – 12th o/a

Nassco’s Roger Hill (right) congratulates Nassco November Safari winning driverChris Armstrong.

Nassco’s Roger Hill, flanked by Leslie Alleyne (right) and Chris O’Neal, whofinished second, sufficient to secure them the 2014 Chefette MudDogs SafariChampionship.

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MUMBAI – InternationalCricket Council (ICC)chairman NarayanaswamiSrinivasan has beencleared in a reportsubmitted to India’s topcourt by a committeeprobing allegations ofcorruption in the Indian Premier League(IPL) Twenty20competition.

The Supreme Court hadrelieved Srinivasan of hisduties as the country’scricket board president toensure a fair investigationinto the controversy, in

which his son-in-lawGurunath Meiyappan wasindicted for illegal bettingon the 2013 IPL.

The report saidSrinivasan, who took overas ICC chairman in July,was not guilty of bettingand fixing nor of havingtried to prevent theinvestigation.

Meiyappan,an official ofthe Chennai Super KingsIPL franchise, wasarrested in May last yearby Mumbai Police probingillegal betting on thelucrative tournament but

he was released on bailafter two weeks.

Legal sports betting inIndia is confined to horseracing.

Srinivasan, oftendescribed as the mostpowerful man in cricket,was also accused of havinga conflict of interestbecause his India Cementscompany owns theChennai franchise.

The Supreme Court willhear arguments in the caseon November 24 but thereport is expected to clearthe way for the Chennai

native Srinivasan’s returnas the head of the Indiancricket board.

Controversy surfacedwhen former test bowlerShanthakumaranSreesanth and two otherlocal cricketers, all playingfor the Rajasthan Royalsfranchise,were arrested onsuspicion of taking moneyto concede a fixed numberof runs.

Sreesanth, who haddenied any wrongdoing,was subsequently bannedfor life by the Indian cricketboard.

IN its efforts to raise fundsfor its many programmes,including internationalmarketing and training formembers, the BarbadosHotel & TourismAssociation (BHTA) ishosting a Fund-raisingGolf Tournament thisweek.

The event tees off onFriday, November 21 at12:30 p.m. at the Apes HillClub and funds raised willalso be used to support theBarbados Culinary Team,BHTA sensitisationprogrammes andattendance atinternational trade showsamong similar projects.

The Association’sassistant vice-president,Sue Springer, explainedthat over the years theBHTA has hosted severalsuccessful fund-raisingculinary events includingNight of the Nineties,

Evening of Elegance andthe Gourmet Seriesfeaturing Gourmet Taste.

“We wanted to continueour efforts but with adifferent event and whatbetter way than with anactivity in which many ofour guests indulge whileon the island. Theresponse, so far, has beengreat and we are lookingforward to a day full of funand friendly rivalry,” shestated.

The tournament is open to both members and non-members of theAssociation and willconsist of 18 teams of fourplayers, competing in a Texas ScrambleFormat.

To register a team ortake part in thetournament, interestedpersons can contact theBHTA at [email protected].

BHTA inaugural fund-raisingGolf Tournament tees off Friday

India’s Srinivasan cleared of IPL corruption

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THE newly formedBarbados TourismMarketing Inc. (BTMI) hasset a precedent this yearand will continue tooutsource the planning andexecution of thePOWERade Run BarbadosSeries to private entities.

This position was stated byCEO, Billy Griffith, who was addressing the first full committee meetingrecently.

“I think the ownership of theevent needs to sit somewhereelse, and even if we provide themarketing support or maintainour existing level ofsponsorship, I think that’sreally where we need to go,”Griffith said.

He also suggested that toaggressively market the event abroad in order toincrease the visitorparticipation to previous

levels, the Series should revertto its origins of having amarathon event.

“The fundamental principleof hosting the Series is toattract members of theinternational road racingfraternity, therefore the entiremodel of how we set up therace needs to satisfy theirexpectations. So, if in factpeople travel the world yearlyto run marathons, then Istrongly believe that themarathon should always beone of the focal points of ourevent.”

Griffith also expressedcontentment that the neworganising team is comprisedof specialists in theirrespective areas andencouraged them to make thesuccessful execution of the racetheir primary concern.

Members of the committeeinclude race co-ordinator, Elite

Sports, which is headed byveteran sports administrator,June Rudder. She has alsodrawn on representatives fromthe local running fraternity,government officials, medicalsupport providers and otherloyal partners and volunteersto ensure that the race is wellexecuted.

Earlier this month the BTMIannounced its decision tocontinue with the RunBarbados series, a decisionthat was delayed due to therestructuring of theirpredecessor, the BTA.

The race series, which is inits 32nd year, will bring againspectacle and entertainment tothe streets of Barbados from Dover in the south to the City of Bridgetown andas far north as Holetown,St. James as the runners pass through thesecommunities.

BTMI to oursource POWERade Run Barbados SeriesBTMI CEO hints at a rebranded, marathon focused series in the future

CEO of the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI), Billie Griffith,endorsing June Rudder of Elite Sports as the race co-ordinator forthe 2014 edition of the POWERade Run Barbados Series.

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TUSCALOOSA – NickSaban and hisAlabama players keptsaying that being justoutside the top four inthe College FootballPlayoff rankingsdidn’t really matterwith big gamesremaining.

The second-rankedCrimson Tide took care ofthat situation on the fieldwith a 25-20 win overthen-No. 1 Mississippi

State on Saturday thatvaulted them two spots inThe Associated Press polland dropped the Bulldogsthree notches. A rise fromfifth in the CollegeFootball Rankings willsurely follow for ‘Bamatoday.

Safety Landon Collinsthinks the Tide (9-1, 6-1Southeastern Conference)made a clear statement ina game when they led by16 points at halftime andnursed a double-digit leadinto the final seconds.

"Let the NCAA and theworld know that we are atop competitor,” Collinssaid. “We’re playing to ourstandard. At the end ofthe day, we’re going to bewhere we need to be.”

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NOTICESLIQUOR LICENCE NOTICE

(Cap. 182)

APPLICANT: Dominic Seale

OCCUPATION: Businessman

ADDRESS: #1 Seaside Drive, Atlantic Shores, Christ Church

PREMISES: Wall structure with shingle roof Bar/Lounge “Red Door” situated at 2nd Street, Holetown, St. James

Dated this 16th day of October 2014

Signed. D. SealeApplicant.

This Application for a Grant of a Restaurant licence will be con-sidered at a Licensing Court to be held at Magistrates’ Courts Dist. ‘E’ on Friday the 12th day of December 2014 at 9 o’ clock a.m.

A. MahonClerk to Licensing Authority.

LIQUOR LICENCE NOTICE(Cap. 182)

APPLICANT: John Edward Chandler

OCCUPATION:

ADDRESS: Lancaster Great House, St. James

PREMISES: Two storey coral stone wall house, plantation house, Lancaster, St. James

Dated this 28th day of October 2014

Signed. J. ChandlerApplicant.

This Application for a Grant of a Restaurant licence will be con-sidered at a Licensing Court to be held at Magistrates’ Courts Dist. ‘E’ on Friday the 12th day of December 2014 at 9 o’ clock a.m.

A. MahonClerk to Licensing Authority.

LIQUOR LICENCE NOTICE(Cap. 182)

APPLICANT: Kieran Kelly

OCCUPATION: Company Direc-tor

ADDRESS: 349 Port St. Char-les, Speightstown, St. Peter

PREMISES: Wall structure, Sun-swept Hotel Games Room, Hole-town, St. James

Dated this 7th day of November 2014

Signed. K. Kelly Applicant.

This Application for a Grant of a Retail licence will be considered at a Licensing Court to be held at Magistrates’ Courts Dist. ‘E’on Friday the 12th day of De-cember 2014 at 9 o’ clock a.m.

A. MahonClerk to Licensing Authority.

NOTICES

LIQUOR LICENCE NOTICE(Cap. 182)

APPLICANT: Kristin Boland

OCCUPATION: General Man-ager

ADDRESS: #6 Highgate Gar-dens, St. Michael

PREMISES: Lone Star Restau-rant & Hotel Mount Standfast, St. James

Dated this 7th day of November 2014

Signed. K. BolandApplicant.

This Application for a Grant of a Restaurant licence will be con-sidered at a Licensing Court to be held at Magistrates’ Courts Dist. ‘E’ on Friday the 12th day of December 2014 at 9 o’ clock a.m.

A. MahonClerk to Licensing Authority.

FORM R REGULATION 9

NOTICE OF SITTING OF LIQ-UOR LICENSING AUTHORITY

LIQUOR LICENCE ACT CAP. 182

Notice is hereby given that a sit-ting of the Licensing Authority for Magistrates’ Court, District “B” Boarded Hall, will be held on Wednesday 3rd December, 2014 at 0900 hours at Magis-trates’ Court, District “B” Boarded Hall, St. George for the purpose of Granting Licences, Transferring Licences and Or-ders for the Registration of Clubs under the above-mentioned Act..

Dated at Magistrates’ Court, District “B”, Boarded Hall, St. George on 2014-11-13.

Cecelia Hadaway (Ms.)Clerk to the Licensing Authority.

NB:All applications should reach this Office at least twenty-one (21) days before the above mentioned date.

NOTICESLIQUOR LICENCE NOTICE

(Cap. 182)

APPLICANT: Mark Daghorn

OCCUPATION: Restaurateur

ADDRESS: #2 West End, Queen Street, Speightstown, St. Peter

PREMISES: The Lobster Pot Restaurant, Corner Jordan Building, Queen Street, Speight-stown

Dated this 13th day of November 2014

Signed. M. DaghornApplicant.

This Application for a Grant of a Restaurant licence will be con-sidered at a Licensing Court to be held at Magistrates’ Courts Dist. ‘E’ on Friday the 12th day of December 2014 at 9 o’ clock a.m.

J. BoyceClerk to Licensing Authority.

LIQUOR LICENCE NOTICE(Cap. 182)

APPLICANT: Robert Inniss

OCCUPATION:

ADDRESS: Risk Road, Fitts Vil-lage, St. James

PREMISES: Stone Walls, per-maclad roof, Jordan’s Road, Fitts Village, St. James

Dated this 11th day of November 2014

Signed. R. Inniss Applicant.

This Application for a Grant of a Retail licence will be considered at a Licensing Court to be held at Magistrates’ Courts Dist. ‘E’on Friday the 12th day of De-cember 2014 at 9 o’ clock a.m.

A. MahonClerk to Licensing Authority.

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Alabama takescare of playoffstatus on field

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Effective October 8th, 2012, the market price of a security listed on the board of the BSE will only change if a quantity of shares traded (in a single trade) is greater than or equal to the threshold amount (volume limit) as stated in the table below. For more information please visit the downloads section of

our website - www.bse.com.bb

BARBADOS STBARBADOS STOCK EXCHANGEOCK EXCHANGE

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

DATE CLOSE CLOSE CHANGE PRICE PRICE SIZE SIZE ABV Investments Inc. 20-Oct-14 - - - $0.32 $0.32 - $0.02 $0.30 100,000 10,000

BICO Limited 03-Oct-14 - - - $1.65 $1.65 - $1.60 - 1,000 -

Banks Holdings Ltd. 06-Nov-14 - - - $2.90 $2.90 - - $2.88 - 3,000

Barbados Dairy Industries Ltd. 21-Aug-14 - - - $1.50 $1.50 - - $1.60 - 803

Barbados Farms Ltd. 12-Nov-14 - - - $0.51 $0.51 - $0.25 $0.50 20,000 12,299

Cable and Wireless Barbados Ltd. 17-Nov-14 228 $2.60 $2.59 $3.00 $3.00 $0.00 $2.55 $2.60 4 4,161

Cave Shepherd and Co. Ltd. 14-Oct-14 - - - $2.51 $2.51 - $2.75 $3.68 10,000 4,000

FirstCaribbean International Bank 12-Nov-14 - - - $1.80 $1.80 - $1.80 $2.38 500 1,298

Fortress Caribbean Property Fund 22-Oct-14 - - - $0.22 $0.22 - $0.17 $0.22 10,000 16,666- Dev Fund

Fortress Caribbean Property Fund 05-Nov-14 - - - $0.55 $0.55 - $0.46 $0.50 1,000 9,994- Value Fund

Goddard Enterprises Ltd. 17-Nov-14 1,803 $6.31 $6.31 $6.40 $6.40 $0.00 $6.31 - 21,907 -

Insurance Corporation Of Barbados Ltd. 11-Nov-14 - - - $2.41 $2.41 - $2.40 $2.41 1,400 3,018

Jamaica Money Market Brokers Limited 05-Nov-14 - - - $0.15 $0.15 - $0.10 $0.30 5,000 4,550

Light and Power Holdings Ltd 5.5% Pref 27-May-14 - - - $3.11 $3.11 - $3.11 - 1,728 -

Light and Power Holdings Ltd. 15-Sep-14 - - - $25.70 $25.70 - $25.70 - 100 -

Massy Holdings Ltd. 29-Oct-14 - - - $20.00 $20.00 - $20.00 - 100 -

One Caribbean Media Limited 03-Sep-14 - - - $6.20 $6.20 - $6.72 - 4,400 -

Sagicor Financial Corporation Pref 6.5% 05-May-14 - - - $2.26 $2.26 - $2.26 - 1,589 -

Sagicor Financial Corporation 17-Nov-14 2,173 $1.80 $1.80 $1.80 $1.80 $0.00 $1.75 $1.80 1,000 17,790

The West Indies Rum Distilleries Ltd. 28-Aug-14 - - - $8.00 $8.00 - - $7.99 - 298

Trinidad Cement Ltd. 21-Aug-14 - - - $0.80 $0.80 - - $2.00 - 1,100

West India Biscuit Co. Ltd. 26-Aug-14 - - - $10.46 $10.46 - $12.00 - 804 -

TOTAL SHARES BOUGHT & SOLD 4,204

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

Royal Fidelity TIGRS A Fund 21-May-12 $10.50 $10.50 $10.50 100

Royal Fidelity TIGRS A1 Fund $10.00 $10.00 $10.50 100

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 4.75% 2016 29-Aug-14 $101.50 15,000B’dos Government Debenture 7% 2023 21-Oct-14 $95.00 $98.00 10,000 72,000B’dos Government Debenture 7.25% 2028 20-Oct-14 $100.00 105,000B’dos Government Debenture 7.75% 2025 16-Sep-14 $107.00 43,000

MUTUAL FUNDNovember 17, 2014

ENDED NAME OF FUND NAV OFFER BID NAVCHANGE

14-Nov-14 REPUBLIC CAPITAL GROWTH FUND w 1.5045 0.004814-Nov-14 REPUBLIC INCOME FUND -* w 1.4736 0.001314-Nov-14 REPUBLIC PROPERTY FUND w 1.2663 0.000006-Nov-14 CLICO BALANCED FUND INC. w 1.295 -0.001007-Nov-14 FORTRESS CARIBBEAN GROWTH FUND w 4.8133 4.8133 4.8133 0.037307-Nov-14 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - ACC. w 1.8441 0.001607-Nov-14 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - DIST. w 1.0040 0.000930-Sep-14 ROYAL FIDELITY SELECT BALANCED FUND m 4.6531 4.6531 4.5600 -0.020930-Sep-14 ROYAL FIDELITY STRATEGIC GROWTH FUND m 0.8274 0.8274 0.8109 -0.009430-Sep-14 ROYAL FIDELITY PREMIUM INCOME FUND m 1.4037 1.4037 1.3756 0.009914-Nov-14 SAGICOR GLOBAL BALANCED FUND w 2.28 0.0014-Nov-14 SAGICOR SELECT GROWTH FUND w 1.29 0.0114-Nov-14 SAGICOR PREFERRED INCOME FUND - w 1.06 0.00

* Indicates the Fund is currently ex-div

NOTES: QUOTATIONS AND NET ASSET VALUE PER SHARE ARE SUPPLIED BY THEFUND MANAGEMENT. THE OFFERING PRICE INCLUDES NET ASSET VALUE PLUSENTRY COSTS.

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

Regular MarketSecurity Volume High Low Price Advance/

DECLINE

SAGICOR FINANCIAL CORPORATION 2,173 $1.80 $1.80 $1.80 $0.00GODDARD ENTERPRISES LIMITED 1,803 $6.31 $6.31 $6.40 $0.00CABLE AND WIRELESS BARBADOS LIMITED 228 $2.60 $2.59 $3.00 $0.00

BARBADOS STOCK REPORTNovember 17, 2014

Three securities traded firm as 4,204 shares traded on the Regular Market, with a total value of $15,879.10. Sagicor FinancialCorporation was the volume leader trading 2,173 shares at $1.80. They were followed by Goddard Enterprises Limited and Cable andWireless Barbados Limited which traded 1,803 and 228 shares respectively.

JUNIOR MARKET

Fixed Income

SHARE SUMMARY INFORMATIONNovember 17th, 2014

INDICESTODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES

November 17, 2014 November 14, 2014Local 2,136.21 2,136.21 - Cross-list 1,706.54 1,706.54 - Composite 611.03 611.03 -

MARKET CAPITALISATION (in millions)

TODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES November 17, 2014 November 14, 2014

Local 5,364.64 5,364.64 - Cross-list 2,848.07 2,848.07 - Composite 8,212.71 8,212.71 -

NEWS

DIVIDEND DECLARATION

Light and Power Holdings Limited - Directors have declared aninterim dividend of fourteen (14) cents per share to be paid onDecember 15th, 2014 to Shareholders on record at close of business onNovember 23rd, 2014.

Light and Power Holdings Limited 5.5% Pref - Directors havedeclared a dividend of thirteen point seven five (13.75 cents per shareto be paid on December 31st, 2014 to Shareholders on record at closeof business on November 23rd, 2014.

Jamaica Money Market Brokers Limited - Directors have declared aninterim dividend of sixteen (16) JMD cents per share to be paid onDecember 16th, 2014 to Shareholders on record at close of business onNovember 21st, 2014.

Barbados Dairy Industries Limited - Notice is hereby given that theBoard of Directors of Barbados Dairy Industries Limited ("theCompany") decided, after due consideration, not to pay a dividend onthe outstanding shares in the capital of the Company for the financialyear ended August 31st, 2014.

PUT THROUGH NOTICECIBC FirstCaribbean Trust and Merchant Bank Limited would like toannounce that the put-through of 65,000 shares in Goddard EnterprisesLimited at $6.40 scheduled to take place on November 17th, 2014 willnow take place on November 18th, 2014.

SECURITY VOLUME LIMIT SECURITY VOLUME LIMIT

ALMOND RESORTS INCORPORATED 3,500 LIGHT & POWER HOLDINGS LIMITED 5.5% Pref 100

BANKS HOLDINGS LIMITED 4,000 SAGICOR FINANCIAL CORPORATION 6.5% Pref 7,500

B'DOS DAIRY INDUSTRIES LIMITED 300 SAGICOR FINANCIAL CORPORATION 10,000

B'DOS FARMS LIMITED 1,500 THE WEST INDIES RUM DISTILLERY LIMITED 300

BICO INDUSTRIES LIMITED 100 WEST INDIA BISCUIT COMPANY LIMITED 300

CABLE & WIRELESS (BARBADOS)LIMITED

9,000 JAMAICA MONEY MARKET BROKERS LIMITED 10,000

CAVE SHEPHERD & COMPANY LIMITED 1,500 NEAL & MASSY HOLDINGS LIMITED 6,500

FIRSTCARIBBEAN INTERNATIONALLIMITED

10,000 ONE CARIBBEAN MEDIA LIMITED 4,000

FORTRESS CARIBBEAN PROPERTY -DEV FUND 3,500 TRINIDAD CEMENT LIMITED 10,000

FORTRESS CARIBBEAN PROPERTY -VALUE FUND

3,500 ROYAL FIDELITY TIGRS A FUND 100

GODDARD ENTERPRISES LIMITED 3,500 ROYAL FIDELITY TIGRS A1 FUND 100

INSURANCE CORPORATION OFBARBADOS LIMITED

2,500 ROYAL FIDELITY TIGRS A2 FUND 100

LIGHT & POWER HOLDINGS LIMITED 1,000 ROYAL FIDELITY TIGRS A3 FUND 100

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SYDNEY – With the optimism overMichael Clarke’s fitness for the test seriesagainst India fading fast, Australia’sselectors will have to ponder theircaptaincy options as well as the make-upof their bowling attack over the nextweek.

Chief selector Rod Marsh’s confidencethe 33-year-old would be fit to face Indiaat the Gabba on Dec 4 was underminedby Pat Howard yesterday, the teamperformance manager saying Clarke hadvirtually no chance of playing in theseries.

Coach Darren Lehmann has not givenup hope, however.

“Until I get confirmation, I’m not goingto say he’s in or he’s out,”he told reportersin Perth on Monday.

“At the moment, he’s captain ofAustralia and, if he’s fit to play and getsthrough the next little bit, then hopefullyhe’ll front up in the first test.”

Since taking over as captain in 2011,Clarke has managed a long-term backinjury, which contributes to his frequenthamstring problems, to play all but oneof his country’s 39 tests.

But with Australia’s main priority overthe next couple of months being to keephim fit for the World Cup, an understudymight now be required for the fourmatches against India.

The most obvious choice to becomeAustralia’s 45th test captain is vicecaptain Brad Haddin.

The wicketkeeper has the leadershipqualities required but has also been ruled

out of the ongoing one-day series againstSouth Africa because of a shoulder injury.

Shane Watson, who stood in for theinjured Clarke for one test on the Indiatour last year, is another option butneither the 33-year-old all rounder norHaddin, 37, are long term solutions.

George Bailey, 32, stood in as skipperof the one-day team after Clarke’shamstring failed him again in theopening match of the series againstSouth Africa last Friday.

The former Twenty20 captain isadmired for his calm leadership but just183 runs in the last Ashes series appearto have curtailed his test career afteronly five matches.

Of the younger candidates, openingbatsman David Warner is in the frame byvirtue of being an automatic selection,but his chequered disciplinary recordmight work against him.

The 28-year-old was fined for a twitteroutburst aimed at two journalists lastyear and suspended ahead of the firstAshes series of 2013 after punchingEngland’s Joe Root.

Another top order batsman, SteveSmith, has come from nowhere to bewidely touted as a future Australiacaptain.

Smith is one of the few players whoreturned from Australia’s 2-0 test defeatat the hands of Pakistan in October withhis reputation enhanced.

The 25-year-old, though, might beconsidered in need of more time tocement his status as a test cricketer.

INDIA’S hard-hitting batsman ViratKohli has moved to second place inthe Reliance ICC ODI PlayerRankings for ODI Batsmen followingIndia’s 5-0 victory over Sri Lanka inthe series that finished in Ranchi onSunday, while his team-mate RohitSharma has vaulted to 15th, as thereigning World Cup championcontinues its preparations for theICC Cricket World Cup 2015.

Kohli completed a series-highest scoreof 139 not out in the fifth ODI on Sunday,having earlier scored 66,53 and 49,whileSharma rose spectacularly by 18 placesafter his world-record breaking innings of264 in Kolkata, in what was the 27-year-old’s second ODI career double-century.

For Sri Lanka,Lahiru Thirimanne rosefour places to 46th after scoring half-centuries in Kolkata and Ranchi (59 and52 respectively).

Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews,meanwhile, has surged to the top of theReliance ICC ODI Player Rankings forODI All-rounders for the first time afteraccumulating 339 runs, including 139 notout and two half centuries (75 and 92 notout), to finish the series with an averageof 113.00 with the bat. In doing so,he also

moved up four places to a career high10th place in the batting rankings. TheColombo star also chipped in with fourwickets, and he now holds a nine-pointadvantage, on 420 points, over Pakistan’sMohammad Hafeez in the all-rounderrankings.

In the ICC Players Rankings for ODIBowlers, Mathews has moved up fiveplaces to 24th, while RavichandranAshwin climbed one place to 15th to be 21points off a place in the top ten.

For the home side, the biggest moversin the bowling stakes were fast-mediumbowler Umesh Yadav, who claimed tenwickets to climb eight places to 40th, andslow left-arm spinner Akshar Patel, whohas moved 11 places to a career high 71stranking after claiming 11 wickets in thefive-match series.

Sri Lanka will next face England inthe first of seven ODIs on November 26,while India will next be seen in ODIaction in a tri-series involving Englandand joint host Australia in January priorto the start of the ICC Cricket World Cup2015.

Reliance ICC ODI Player Rankings (ason November 17, at end of India-SriLanka series) on the left of page.

India batsmenprogress followingSri Lanka series win

Australia eye captaincy optionsafter Michael Clarke limps home

Batsmen

Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Average Highest Ranking

1 ( - ) AB de Villiers SA 887! 51.21 887 vs Aus at Perth 2014

2 (+1) Virat Kohli Ind 862 52.61 886 vs Ban at Fatullah 2014

3 (-1) Hashim Amla SA 834 53.42 901 vs Eng at Trent Bridge 2012

4 ( - ) George Bailey Aus 810 46.65 867 vs SA at Harare 2014

5 ( - ) Shikhar Dhawan Ind 777 45.46 785 vs SL at Hyderabad 2014

6 ( - ) K. Sangakkara SL 776 39.99 853 vs Afg at Mirpur 2014

7 ( - ) MS Dhoni Ind 738 52.85 836 vs Aus at Delhi 2009

8 (+1) T. Dilshan SL 731 37.92 767 vs Pak at Sharjah 2013

9 (-1) Quinton de Kock SA 718* 42.29 747 vs Zim at Harare 2014

10 (+4) Angelo Mathews SL 706! 40.87 706 vs Ind at Ranchi 2014

Selected Rankings

Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Average Highest Ranking

15 (+18) Rohit Sharma Ind 651 37.89 672 vs WI at Kochi 2013

17 (-2) Suresh Raina Ind 639 35.82 669 vs Eng at Dharamsala 2013

30 (-4) M. Jayawardene SL 601 33.15 738 vs WI at Colombo (RPS) 2001

46 (+4) L. Thirimanne SL 544 30.32 573 vs Pak at Mirpur 2014

47 (-2) Ajinkya Rahane Ind 534 29.28 550 vs SL at Cuttack 2014

66 (+2) Ambati Rayudu Ind 500*! 45.66 500 vs SL at Ranchi 2014

69 (-8) D. Chandimal SL 493 29.28 667 vs Aus at Adelaide 2012

83 (-2) Upul Tharanga SL 458 32.52 663 vs NZ at Napier 2006

84 (-5) Kusal Perera SL 456* 23.87 487 vs SA at Hambantota 2014

100 (-1) Thisara Perera SL 408 18.37 427 vs Ind at Cuttack 2014

Bowling

Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Ave HS Rating

1 ( - ) Saeed Ajmal Pak 770 22.18 4.13 810 vs SA at Centurion 2013

2 ( - ) Sunil Narine WI 753 26.49 4.10 791 vs SL at Jamaica 2013

3 ( - ) Dale Steyn SA 712 25.31 4.82 746 vs Ind at Durban 2013

4 ( - ) James Anderson Eng 690 29.10 4.94 719 vs SA at The Oval 2013

(+1) M. Johnson Aus 690 25.72 4.82 724 vs Ban at Darwin 2008

6 (+8) Morne Morkel SA 651 23.88 4.86 717 vs SL at East London 2012

7 (-1) M. Hafeez Pak 647 35.01 4.06 769 vs Ind at Kolkata 2013

8 (-2) B. Kumar Ind 641 36.59 4.60 657 vs WI at Dharamsala 2014

9 ( - ) Steven Finn Eng 640 28.41 4.74 755 vs NZ at Auckland 2013

10 (-2) Ravindra Jadeja Ind 638 32.29 4.79 738 vs Zim at Bulawayo 2013

All-rounders

Rank (Change) Player Team Points Highest Ranking

1 (+1) Angelo Mathews SL 420! 420 vs Ind at Ranchi 2014

2 (-1) M. Hafeez Pak 411 438 vs Ind at Kolkata 2013

3 ( - ) Shakib Al Hasan Ban 361 453 vs Zim at Chittagong 2009

4 ( - ) Ravindra Jadeja Ind 336 378 vs Eng at Edgbaston 2013

5 ( - ) T. Dilshan SL 312 373 vs NZ at Hambantota 2013

*indicates provisional rating; a batsman qualifies for a full rating after a minimum of 40started innings; a bowler qualifies for a full rating after he has conceded 1,500 runs.

!indicates career-highest rating

Reliance ICC ODI Player Rankings(as on November 17, at end of India-Sri Lanka series)

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A NEW campion will bedecided next weekendwhen the sixth annual St.Peter Ah Come FromIndependence VillageFootball Tournamentcomes to an end.

With two more teamsmaking their exit this pastweekend, the 2014 editionof the competition is downto the last two teamsstanding. Playing at theSpeightstown field onSunday, Six Men’s and St.Peter’s Bay Road Viewbooked their spots in theultimate round aftertaking wins in the StarChick Ltd. semifinals.

In the evening’s firstgame, Six Men’s

dispatched Black Bess byone goal to move into nextweek’s final. With Jason‘Pie’ Gilkes scoring twicefor Six Men’s in the 4thand 45th minutes, BlackBess were able to collect aconsolation goal in the65th minute from RamonGreaves. The nightcapsaw a single goal givingRoad View the win overDiamond Corner. OmarArcher hit home in the50th minute for the berthin the finals.

Next Sunday at theSpeightstown field, thetwo will square off withthe final scheduled to beplayed at 8:00 PM.

(MP)

Six Men’s andRoad View tofight in finalTHE rivalry is alive and

well between two of theisland’s top femalesurfers and this pastweekend’s event, put onby the Barbados SurfingAssociation (BSA),ensured that the publicgot to see it. ChelseaRoett and ChelseaTuach shared tophonours in the BSA’sIndependence Profemale events to leavetongues wagging onSunday at the SoupBowl.

With the Junior Women’sclass as the first of the bigfinals on the day, the ladieshad a total of 25 minutes toimpress the judges and thelocal girls did notdisappoint.Tuach looked ingood form and put down ascore of 14.84 to win by just

0.18 over Roett who had14.66. The pair left USvisitors Tia Blanco (11.27)and Malia Osterkamp(8.56) in their wake.

In the Open Women’sclass, the placings wereswitched as Roett rippedher way to 11.70 to bestTuach (10.20) by 1.70.Frankie Harrer was thirdwith 8.07 while Costa Rica’sLeilani McGonagle had anot-so-great round to finishwith 6.17.

The Junior Men’s finalsaw an all-US roster lookingto take out defendingchampion Parker Coffin.Coffin was good on the daybut not good enough toretain his title as he wasforced into second place byDaniel Glenn, who putdown a whopping 15.20.Coffin was not too far off as

he picked up 13.40 to comein before Nolan Rapoza(13.34) and Noah Schweizer(12.77).

The Open Men’s final waswon by US’s CodyThompson, who posted14.60 for victory.Hometownboy, Joshua Burke surfedhis way into second place byputting up 12.50. USA alsotook home third and fourththrough Colt Ward (11.93)and Jake Marshall (8.63).

In the Under-16 final,Che Allan continued hiswinning ways from earlierthis month where he took

two nationalchampionships, to lead afield of visitors.Allan put in17.00 to whip KeiKobayashi of the US(11.03),Thomas Debierre ofGuadeloupe (10.70) andStevie Pittman of the USA(8.60). The Under-12 was astraight final and Titouanof Guadeloupe (17.50) wonfrom the field of five.Barbados’ Caleb Rapson(11.70), USA’s Kyle Tester(9.74), and Barbados’Cameron Moll (5.26) andTai Garrett (3.90) fell secondto fifth. (MP)

The ‘Chelseas’both pull 1-2’s

Chelsea Roett took the 1-2 spots.

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BARBADOS is contin-uing to strengthen itsgovernance structureand human rightsframework.

Senator MaxineMcClean, Minister ofForeign Affairs andForeign Trade, noted theabove on the occasion of the opening of a two-day Human RightsLeadership Seminar forPermanent Secretariesand other senior person-nel in the Civil Service,at the Hilton Hotel yes-terday.

“Barbados’ strong com-mitment to human rightsin the international arenaoriginates from nationalpolicy, where it occupiesa central role. This has resulted in priority beingplaced on building a national infrastructuresupportive of the protec-tion of human rights bypromoting good gover-nance; working towardsthe eradication of povertyand hunger; safeguard-ing the economic and social rights of the mostvulnerable and margin-alised within the society,

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BARBADOS REMAINSCOMMITTED – to promoting and

protecting human rights

Senator Maxine McClean (right), Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, in talks with Head of the Human Rights Unit at theCommonwealth Secretariat, Karen McKenzie, following the opening of the Human Rights Leadership Seminar for Permanent Secretaries.

Young players impress in Massy United Insurance

Clash of the Titans

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