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Wednesday May 26, 2021 $1 VAT Inclusive GOVERNMENT PROTECTING ITS LAND MINISTER of Housing, that nobody notices, nobody “With the owning of land, not Lands and Maintenance, recognises, and after a period of only comes the benefit of the Dr. William Duguid is 10 years come and produce land, but also comes a duty and sending a stern warning something saying that we want a responsibility to maintain the to persons who seek to something called adverse pos- lands that you own, and this is infringe on crown land session. important.And it is something I with the intention to later He added, “Because nobody think that we fall down on from claim it as their own, to ain’t come and tell us about this, time to time, and what we're think again. we have taken up this piece of doing in the ministry, is we are Speaking in the House of land, we have maintained it, put retrying to strengthen that. So Assembly yesterday morning as some sort of hut or fence on it, those people who feel that he piloted a land resolution, and now we could get it by ad- they're going to come and put Duguid maintained that his verse possession”. up a fence to try to take on some Ministry will be taking such per- The minister, while condemn- of the National Housing sons before the law courts if they ing such actions, said that the Corporation’s land, you got an- persist. Government intends to be more other thing coming because we “In a certain constituency in vigilant with respect to its lands. [are] going court on that,” he Barbados, in fact in a certain He made the point while con- maintained. housing area, we have people tending that it is imperative Duguid appeared to be send- who try to expand and move that the Government not only ing the message to one culprit in their fence, not the housing area recognise where it owns land particular stating, “And he who Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance, Dr. William Duguid people, but the people surround- and monitors it, but it must I speak of, I hope he is listening ings, try to move their fence and maintain the boundaries and to hear what I am saying, be- So that he who I am speaking Minister made it clear that if take up land belonging to the ensure that persons are compli- cause I am not standing for peo- [of], move that fence and move it the fence is not removed, the National Housing Corporation ant with what they are sup- ple coming to take up what is quick”. National Housing Corporation or to Government, hoping then posed to do. not theirs and trying to claim it. The Housing and Lands will take legal action. Plans for a COVID-19 immunisation certificate

BARBADIANS fully immunised is done then you will get your been incorrectly inputted into against Covid-19 may soon pos- certificate again through the the system so they might be sess an internationally recog- email,” she said. going out, but not getting nised certificate. Currently,the blue vaccination through. In some cases, they Co-Coordinator of the card once completed by those re- have been going to the junk mail, National Vaccination Program ceiving their second dose, acts as so if you haven’t received your Dr. Elizabeth Ferdinand high- a certificate according to certificate check your junk mail, lighted the planned move during Ferdinand. and if it is not there then you yesterday’s ‘Covid Queries’ She noted however, that fully can call our headquarters and episode. vaccinated persons will also re- ask for a certificate,” she “We are in the process of hav- ceive an electronic copy of their stressed. ing a more internationally ac- certificate via email. Ferdinand used the opportu- claimed certificate which we are The retired medical doctor nity to once again encourage per- currently working on and therefore informed those who sons who have not received their Cabinet will decide the final for- have not received such to get into second dose to do so, noting the mat for it. I see recently that the contact with the Immunisation first dose only gave a person 50 European Union has put out an Unit. to 60 percent protection against international certificate as well, “Those should be done auto- Covid-19, while the second dose so whether we join them or we do matically from our end of it, but will bring a person’s level of im- Co-Coordinator of the National Vaccination Program our own certificate will be de- for many cases we are munity against the virus to 90 to Dr. Elizabeth Ferdinand. cided by Cabinet and when that finding that the emails have 95 percent. 2 • Wednesday May 26, 2021 The Barbados Advocate

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Parallel entities? Gov’t

OPPOSITION Leader, we recreating a parallel entity, ramps up Bishop Joseph Atherley is which perhaps we can better questioning the exclusion of control, better influence, better the National Housing serve not only public service affordable Corporation (NHC) from re- ends, but serve political ends as cently launched well?”. Government housing and He made the point while re- housing land projects. ferring to the establishment of Speaking in the House of the Public Affairs Department, Assembly yesterday morning, which for all intents and pur- push Atherley raised concern about poses, he hinted, has the same the glaring absence of the NHC role as the Government GOVERNMENT’S thrust on af- on the Home Ownership Information Service. fordable housing will see a lot Providing Energy (HOPE) “Are we creating a parallel en- more Barbadians becoming Project and Government’s deci- tity that relieves the NHC of its homeowners. sion instead to form a new en- functions? And are we creating Currently on the drawing tity, HOPE Inc. to undertake an entity that we can better board is a housing solution for the work. manage towards our own ends, persons earning under $2000 “But it would seem as though whether there are public service monthly, Minister of Housing, that the NHC has resiled itself oriented ends, people oriented Lands and Maintenance Dr. or has been dismissed as an en- ends or political oriented ends? Hon. William Duguid an- tity of importance with respect That is what I'm speaking to, nounced. to the business of overseeing, and I am illustrating that by The latest project, Home managing government lands, reference to the establishment Ownership Providing Energy award of contracts, etc.,” he of a Public Affairs Unit, when in (HOPE) Inc. has already seen said. fact you have a Government the launches of HOPE Direct de- Atherley added, “A voice from Information Service. So are we velopment at Lancaster, St. over there I heard complain in seeing on embarkation upon a James for persons earning this very chamber about per- path where we will have these $2,000 to $4,000 monthly. And ceived marginalisation of the parallel entities created in HOPE Premium at Chancery NHC in its role. And I still think Barbados?” he queried. Opposition Leader, Bishop Joseph Atherley. Lane, Christ Church targeting that that is an issue that needs monthly incomes between to be better clarified by the $4,000 to $8,000. Honourable Minister... as to the “HOPE has excited the popu- role of the NHC”. UNICEF statement noteworthy lation, and rightly so because we The Opposition Leader made have come up with a way to fi- the comments as he suggested By Cara L. Jean-Baptiste tantly,caring; these factors must Examination Redress and stu- nance houses that would carry a that the current administration be demonstrated in CXC’s ap- dents too across the region have significant part by the people in has perhaps embarked on a pol- THE fact that UNICEF has proach. We have been stating in stated similar.” the houses, giving us the oppor- icy of parallelism, in an effort to found it necessary to intervene relation to the timing, structure She noted that even though tunity to put a photovoltaic (PV) create better control, get around in the matter regarding the and scope of their high stakes there was an attempt at some system on their roof,” he told the regulations and achieve politi- issue of 2021 CXC examinations exit examination process,” she modification by CXC, those mod- Barbados Labour Party (BLP) cal ends. with a public statement is a sad said. ifications appeared to have been inaugural stan home political “So you have your National reflection on CXC. “Perhaps in too typical of fash- made in a manner that would mass rally. Housing Corporation, but you This is according to President ion, we Caribbean people don't not cause too much disruption to “So, we've started at create an entity called HOPE, of the Barbados Secondary value what comes from within, CXC and were not made with Lancaster, and we are then and HOPE does in the immedi- Teachers Union (BSTU) Mary- and hopefully,just as we have al- enough consideration to the on- going to Colleton, and from ate instance, what NHC per- Anne Redman. ready stated, those facts will going realities of Caribbean stu- Colleton we are going to Pool. haps would normally do if it In a recent press statement, now carry some weight, having dents and teachers in an ongo- And we're going to keep going were in a position so to do. And Redman outlined that UNICEF been repeated from an interna- ing pandemic. till we satisfy as much as we can the question has to be answered made the same statement that tional source. Additionally she stated that the demand for houses. So we as to whether or not it is. And BSTU has been making since “All of the reasons that while the Minister of Education have those that are making then the further question is, be- April 2020 to the effect that they UNICEF has stated for requir- in Barbados has made the at- $2000 to $4000 – that’s the yond HOPE, what next? Will were operating in anomalous ing adjustment and modification tempt to champion the cause in HOPE Direct Programme”. there be more hope, will there circumstances and therefore to the exams, the BSTU has al- relation to the modifications “We have programmes for be greater hope, will there be they could not operate as if it ready said to the Caribbean made, reportedly, too many oth- every single income. For those new hope, beyond HOPE?” was business as usual. Union of Teachers (CUT) and ers have been satisfied to simply making from $4000 to $8000 – The Leader of the Opposition “We need to be operating in a CUT has already stated to CXC; sit back and allow CXC free we have HOPE Premium, like continued, “So what is the fu- manner that reflects creativity, so have interest groups, the reign to the detriment of the one at Chancery Lane. Next, ture rule for the NHC and are flexibility, and fairly impor- Caribbean Coalition for Caribbean students. I'm going to do the one on Lower Burney, and from there we are going to Searles and then onto St. Lucy again”. Symmonds defends land use policy “And watch this, I have one coming now for people making under $2000 and I am working AS the Lower House debated a This administration recognised man? It is a land use policy inter- the north of Jamaica where be- on that, it is going to be transfor- land resolution yesterday, out front that there was a need to vention that makes sure there- hind tall walls you will find the mational. The Prime Minister Minister of Energy, Small break the barrier and go where fore that there is an opportunity hotel and people are far away says it is a housing revolution Business and Entrepreneurship we had been reluctant to go be- to have maximum utilisation of and security guards and police and I agree because you are Kerrie Symmonds defended gov- fore and raise the levels at which a small footprint for a hotel and officers are armed. Not so in going to change the landscape ernment’s land use policy. you can build. So for example in- at the same time, have land Barbados! If you go to the of how people benefit from hous- He noted with the limited stead of a hotel having to take up available for other developmen- Dominican Republic you will see ing in this country," he said. amount of land available, proj- and extra acre or two, it can go tal purposes for example housing it too, because there is no natu- The Minister further stressed ects such as high-rise hotels had vertically and instead of stop- in the immediate vicinity of the ral flow between the society of that government’s housing push to be embraced. ping at six stories, people were hotel,” he stressed, noting this the country and the hotel prod- goes beyond the HOPE pro- “Investors came to this new making applications to the Town characteristic distinguishes uct of the country. In Barbados, grammes, highlighting,“We also administration and the thinking Planning Department for 11 and Barbados from the rest of the people walk out of Sandals and built 15 houses in Todds putting at the time, as it always has 12 stories…Prior to Covid that Caribbean. walk over to Oistins and the the average contractor to work been, that we are doing invest- was the language that was being “If you go to Jamaica, you will same happens on the West Coast and when we finish those,we ments laterally as though we are spoken by tourism investors in find that there are hotels and where they leave luxury hotels are moving to Applewhaites and going to find more and more land Barbados. that they are segregated from and head into a rum shop and Rices – we are doing ten at Rices on an island of 166 square miles. “How does it help the ordinary the communities, especially in watch football,” he stressed, not- and four at Applewhaites”. (TL) 4• Wednesday May 26, 2021 The Barbados Advocate Cave family to set up FAVOUR Foundation

THE FAVOUR Foundation will be launched in Barbados, to aid the sur- viving relatives of persons who die under unfavourable conditions in Barbados. This is the promise of Andrew Cave, fa- ther of Shaquon Cave, who died while in police custody over a year ago. Cave said the FAVOUR (Families Against Violence On Our Race) Foundation will be estab- lished in memory of his son and a way to keep his promise to him, given a conver- sation he had with him when he came to spend time with him on his birthday,and he told him that he would one day be greater than his father. “When Shaquon died, I was so sad, be- cause I said Lord, I don’t understand this. I told my son that he is going to be better than I am, but yet he died and I couldn’t understand it, until one day I heard the Lord say to me, listen, I will keep my promise and the world will know Shaquon Cave, because he will not die in vain. We will pass a law in Barbados called Shaquon’s Law and that is how he is going to be better than me,” Andrew Cave commented. “We want to create a foundation in Mr. Andrew Cave. Shaquon’s name, called FAVOUR- Families Against Violence On Our Race right now. So we need a foundation like and that body will be responsible for sur- FAVOUR. It is greatly needed in viving families just like we are, to support Barbados. We don’t have that right now as it relates from a psychological point of and I know by doing so, I would have view. We will have counsellors, we will kept my promise to my son,” Mr. Cave create a network of persons who will be commented. able to give us legal advice for the surviv- He was at the time speaking during a ing families. We will create a fund and recent "Justice for Shaquon" press con- scholarships for the surviving children, ference, convened by the Caribbean just like (Shaquon’s daughter) needs Movement for Peace and Integration.

COVID-19 update: Two new cases 46 in isolation

THE Best-dos Santos Public Health 47 lives. Laboratory identified two new positive A total of 167,026 tests have been con- cases of COVID-19, both males, from the ducted by the public health laboratory. 429 tests conducted on Monday,May 24. Under the National Vaccination Forty-six persons are currently in iso- Programme for COVID-19, 76,413 people lation. have been immunised. Of these, 55,586 Since March 2020, there have been persons have been fully vaccinated 4,000 cases of COVID-19 (1,933 females during the second phase of the pro- and 2,067 males). The virus has claimed gramme. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday May 26, 2021 • 5

New way of garbage collection coming

GOVERNMENT is committed to a new will come with mechanical devices at ers made sport saying they call them the workers. way of garbage collection which will en- every household, to stop the occupational ‘dirty dozen’, but now we have over 41 “The workers when I first went to meet sure the safety of Sanitation Service hazards that the workers have faced all sanitation trucks at any given day – look them at the depot told me they wanted Authority (SSA) workers. the years”. around Barbados – clean and green”. medical insurance. What did we do over As a result, there will be a shift from Minister Forde, who was at the time re- “The equipment that we have bought the last couple of months - the workers manual to automated collection. porting on his Ministry during the so far include – 26 compactor trucks; two now have medical insurance to take care “We are going to change the way how Barbados Labour Party (BLP) inaugu- skip trucks; two skid steerers; two 10 of their health, that never happened be- we do business in terms of the collection ral stan home political mass rally de- wheelers; one water tank; one response fore... And then they told me about the of waste,” Minister of the Environment scribed the country as “clean and trans- truck; and one caterpillar in that short recreational facility and showed it to me, and National Beautification Adrian formed”. space of three years to keep Barbados and I saw the roof dropping out – an old Forde declared. He said since the Mia Mottley-led clean.And we spent the money to ensure facility that was not fit for human beings “We're going to have recyclable at the Administration took up office three years that Barbados benefit at all ends,” he and I said no it can’t work. So, I put source of collection. We are going to have ago, the SSA increased garbage trucks as stressed. $150,000 to repair the recreational hall, an Integrated Solid Waste Management well as acquired other much needed Minister Forde, recognising that good and the workers now have an air-condi- Plan like never seen in Barbados, where equipment. occupational health and safety protects tion facility that they can be proud of, be- those big heavy cans will no longer be “When we came to government, we had workers, also reported that this govern- cause we care; this government cares,” he lifted up by workers - where the trucks 12 sanitation trucks and the SSA work- ment has answered the calls of SSA said. (TL) B’dos Medicinal Cannabis Licensing Authority and TVET sign MOU

TWO weeks after signing a Barbadians to participate at whatever Memorandum of Understanding level that they wish,” she said. with the University of West Indies With the TVET Council to roll out on research and development, the certification for the NVQ in the first in- Barbados Medicinal Cannabis stance, the next stage will see them de- Licensing Authority (BMCLA) will veloping a regional CaribbeanVocation be making history as they signed Qualification (CVQ) for Cannabis another one with the Technical and Cultivation Medical at Levels 2 and 3. Vocational Education and Training Going on to mention that the BMCLA (TVET) Council of Barbados for the valued local knowledge and compe- development of the first National tency, Dr. Munro-Knight said that the Vocational Qualification (NVQ) in aim was now on building out a compre- the Caribbean for Cannabis hensive industry that is inclusive and Cultivation. During a physical sign- that has the capacity to accommodate ing that was carried live over Zoom Barbadians that want to participate. yesterday, the first step towards With the initial proposal for the devel- standardisingthe training for the opment of the NVQ sent in August of island's cannabis industry was 2019 just after the BMCLA's establish- taken. ment, there are plans to research, de- Once negotiations are completed with velop and roll out training in cannabis an institution for delivery, Barbadians cultivation, retail and distribution and will be able to become accredited in security and transportation. Noting Cannabis Cultivation. Speaking during that there was certification in manufac- the signing ceremony Chief Executive turing and processing for medicinal Officer of the BMCLA Dr. Shantal cannabis in the pipelines as well, Dr. Munro-Knight said that the event rep- Munro-Knight said that the sky was resents another strategic pillar for the the limit for Barbados in the industry. fledgling industry in training and cer- Barbados Medical Cannabis Licensing Authority Chief Executive Officer Dr. “It means then that the Barbadian that tification as it sets out to establish oc- Shantal Munro-Knight and Technical and Vocational Education and Training has their NVQ and then, hopefully very cupational standards and competence- Council of Barbados Executive Director Henderson Eastmond signing the soon, their CVQ can then be able to take based curricula. Memorandum of Understanding yesterday. that qualification, not only here in Noting that it was significant that Barbados, but once they have that CVQ, Barbados was the first to have approval for more Barbadians to be involved in license regime and everybody getting a can be able to work in the region. So for an NVQ despite having other coun- the industry. “What this means is that license and the cost of the license,we we're building an industry that will tries well ahead of Barbados in their in- Barbadians have another opportunity have always been committed to the de- provide a multiplicity of opportunities dustries, Dr Munro-Knight explained to be able to participate in the industry. velopment of a very broad-based and for people to be able to participate.” that this development opened the door While we have been occupied with the comprehensive industry that allows all (MP) St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Misinformation circulating School closed after potential COVID exposure on social media A POTENTIAL COVID-19 exposure Wellness", the school was closed IT has been brought to the attention of This bulletin has not been recircu- has forced the closure of the St Patrick's yesterday and will be until further no- the Royal Barbados Police Force that lated to any media from the Public Roman Catholic School. tice. the above and similar documents have Relations Office of the Royal Barbados In a press statement yesterday The school is in the process of being been circulating on social media. Police Force nor have we sent out any from the Roman Catholic Diocese of sanitized and all necessary protocols of From our records these persons were media releases pertaining to Wanted Bridgetown, it as revealed that the the Ministry of Health and Wellness the subject of a Wanted Persons Media Persons within the last 48 hours. action was taken out of "an abun- are being followed. Release issued by the Police Public This we deem as another matter of dance of caution and as mandated The school has returned to its online Relations Department on January 4th Fake News designed to create confu- by the Ministry of Health and format during this period of closure. 2015. sion. Please be guided accordingly. 6 • Wednesday May 26, 2021 The Barbados Advocate

SIDS’ vulnerabilities a concern for trade THE recent eruption of the La agreement does contain provisions Soufriere volcano in St which support efficient movement, Vincent has prompted re- release and clearance of goods, as gional trade experts to call for well as provisions to promote small island developing states effective border agency coopera- (SIDS) to take into considera- tion,” she stated. tion their vulnerability to She highlighted two articles of natural disasters when the agreement under which small establishing multilateral islands and other countries trading systems to reflect the experiencing natural disasters can vulnerabilities. design and pursue trade Addressing a recent webinar en- regulatory reforms that will titled ‘Trade and Natural facilitate the timely and critical Disasters – The Case of the La response to natural disasters. Soufriere (SVG)’, head of the “Specific articles include Risk World Trade Organisation (WTO) Management and Border Aid for Trade Unit, Michael Cooperation in a Single Window. Roberts told participants the These can be leveraged to support challenge facing these economies critical emergency relief efforts in is that these particular vulnerabil- the days to months following a ities were not considered at the natural disaster through relief ef- inception of the multilateral trade forts and recovery,” Dr.Wilkinson system. said. “The difficulty is that the WTO Her points were also supported rules were not originally written by Dr Giovanna Adinolfi, NEW ADDITION: The CLR James Cricket Research Centre at The UWI Cave Hill Campus with the impact of natural disas- Professor Law at the University of now has a new addition to its archives, after former Vice President of the Barbados Cricket ters (such as the volcano eruption Milan. Association and retired school principal Jeff Broomes donated his personal collection docu- in St.Vincent and the Grenadines) “Under the WTO agreements menting the history of Barbados and West Indies cricket. on vulnerable economies in mind. there certainly is scope for action The collection consists of invaluable cricket information in the form of books, pamphlets, However, there is some scope to in case of emergencies through the photographs, and newspaper clippings. address these issues within the lens of disaster response and re- From left: Dr Don Marshall, Director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic system as it stands. The rules of covery,”Adinolfi told the audience. Studies (SALISES); Judith Toppin, Officer in Charge at the Sidney Martin Library; Jeff the multilateral trade system Regional logistics expert, Curtis Broomes, former BCA Vice President; Richard Temple, Head of Special Collections; outline very important principles, Dennie, appealed for SIDS to Dr Margaret Broomes, Librarian, CLR James Cricket Research Centre. obligations, and commitments develop national resilience that can be applied under partic- frameworks that will mitigate the ular circumstances.Therefore, the impact of natural disasters, and pertinent questions are, what is strategically position their Focus on implementation of CARICOM report the scope of these rules and countries to build back stronger. FIRST the focus was on business, Significant attention was given He pointed to concrete steps obligations,how do they apply,and Dennie added that any such then emphasis shifted to trade as to the issue of implementation of that were already being taken, where are the difficulties poten- framework requires a clear, sys- The University of the West Indies, the recommendations due to the such as work on a draft enhanced tially arising,” Roberts stated. tematic approach which includes Cave Hill Campus continued to failure to act on reports submitted co-operation protocol and Meanwhile, Ricardo James, a review of the existing logistical examine aspects of the Caribbean to regional groupings in the past. negotiations with Senior Technical Specialist at the architecture,and advancement of Community (CARICOM) Report “I think if we can spur every telecommunications providers, Organisation of Eastern a disaster risk management on the Economy, which was single person in this region to be Digicel and Flow on the creation Caribbean States (OECS) strategy. recently submitted to Heads of excited about what we’ve of a single data roaming charge Business Development Unit noted “Approximately 90 percent of Government. presented, we can get it done. We for the region. that there are calls from small imports into St. Vincent and the The online forum, which was can get it done because there’s no “We were haunted by the vulnerable member countries in Grenadines [are] carried by ocean hosted by the Shridath Ramphal immediate cost involved,” said question of what do we need to do the WTO to be granted some freight and as such any disrup- Centre (SRC) on May 12 as part Turner-Jones, General Manager to make sure that our report does flexibilities when faced with the tion in the logistics and interna- of its monthly Lunchtime Chat of the Country Department not become like [the] Time for impact of disruptions such as tional trade will have implications Series, generated much discussion Caribbean Group of the Inter- Action [report], which was well- natural disasters. He added that for small island developing States in its engagement with members American Development Bank. received, but nothing was done,” while the rules may not have been like this country. It is therefore of the academic community and “These ideas are not new, but he said. originally written with these critical for any country with simi- other professionals. The Sagicor they [are] packaged in a different “The idea that we are drafting challenges in mind, given the lar vulnerabilities to review its Cave Hill School of Business and way.We’re [looking] at where the an enhanced co-operation protocol destabilisation caused by natural disaster risk-management Management held a similar region sits in the global where five countries can move disasters, there should be some strategy, giving consideration to conversation in April. community, what technology has ahead is real and radical.The idea flexibility to allow economies to its trade policy, and supply chain The SRC forum featured Chair to offer to make our economies that we are negotiating for the recover and develop. networks,” Dennie advised. of the commission, Professor modernised, be more efficient and first time as a region with Digicel Fellow panelist, Dr Andrea The event was chaired by Avinash Persaud and also how we can seize the and Flow on a single data Wilkinson, Research Associate at Deputy Director of the SRC, Dr. commissioner Therese Turner- imagination of young people, carrying rate is radical and Newcastle University said there is Jan Yves Remy and was the latest Jones. especially, to want to be part of a real…” some scope within the WTO Trade in a series of the SRC Lunchtime The officials explained how the new Caribbean. How do we create The Time for Action report, Facilitation Agreement which Chat events which feature major recommendations in the more Usain Bolts, not on the track published in 1992, was compiled countries can employ in times of regional and international experts report, which centres on the field, but in business with ideas by a West Indian Commission natural disasters. discussing contemporary issues of private sector as a driving force for and creativity and so on?” headed by former Commonwealth “While it does not explicitly trade and development impor- change, could bring Professor Persuad concurred, Secretary-General, Sir Shridath encompass the clearance of disas- tance to the Caribbean and the transformative benefits to saying the people of the region Ramphal, to advance regional ter relief and recovery goods, the world. regional economies and residents. should press for action. integration. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday May 26, 2021 • 7

Quake-hit areas in China resume school West urged ELEMENTARY and high schools resumed classes on Monday after a 7.4 magnitude not to force its earthquake hit northwest China’s Qinghai Province early Saturday. The earthquake, which jolted human rights Maduo County of the Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture at 2:04 a.m. Saturday,has left 18 injured and disrupted the lives of views on others over 32,000 residents from 26 CHINA has a comprehensive more comprehensive, diverse and townships in Golog and the and integrated concept of balanced, adding that the rights Yushu Tibetan Autonomous human rights, which to live and develop are as Prefecture, authorities said combines universal important as political and social Monday. principles with its actual rights, and fairness and justice Among the injured, 17 had conditions, and Western should be respected the same as been treated and discharged countries should not democracy and freedom. from hospital by 8 a.m. Monday, interfere in China’s domestic The Western concept of human said Li Jun, an official with the affairs under the pretext of rights can be traced back to the provincial department of human rights, experts said. Age of Enlightenment, but the emergency management, at a They made the remark as widely accepted international press conference. China completed its third view of human rights was One victim remains in hospital National Human Rights Action developed after World War II and and is receiving treatment. Plan (2016-20) and is drafting formed in 1948 when the General The earthquake occurred in and implementing the fourth one. Assembly of the United Nations sparsely populated pastoral “Western countries should not adopted and proclaimed the areas, where brick and wood Curmey Drolma (front) and her classmates learn the force other countries to hold the Universal Declaration of Human bungalows are mostly scattered, knowledge on disaster prevention inside a tent in Maduo same belief in human rights.At Rights, according to Chang. rescuers said. County of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest this very moment amid the “The participants in The rescue work is almost China’s Qinghai province, May 24, 2021. COVID-19 pandemic, China and formulating the declaration, and complete, and the relief work is Western countries ought to a series of related treaties and underway, the task force sent by is possible in the area. distributed materials including respect and learn from each other agreements, were from all across the Ministry of Emergency Power and water supplies are coal and heating devices. to better protect human rights,” the world, including China,” he Management (MEM) said. available at makeshift shelters. Traffic on all major roads said Chang Jian, director of said. Hou Jiansheng, a member of The central and provincial leading to the affected area has Nankai University’s Center for “Though the Western world the team, said an earthquake governments have allocated 69 resumed as of Monday morning, Human Rights Studies. was the dominating force in with a magnitude higher than million yuan (10.7 million U.S. according to the provincial China respects and accepts the formulating the papers, there 7.4 is unlikely,but a 6 magnitude dollars) for earthquake relief, and department of transport. international norms and system were Chinese elements in the of protecting human rights, and it documents. For example, the also believes that the contents of concept of conscience, which is the Universal Declaration of emphasized in traditional Human Rights and some related Chinese culture, was integrated agreements should be interpreted in this international declaration.” in various ways due to the unique culture and societal environment Tangible outcomes of each country, he said. However,due to different views “The Western notion of human of human rights, in recent years, rights is not synonymous with some Western countries, such as the international view of human the United States and its Western rights,” Chang said. allies, have turned a blind eye to Li Yunlong, a professor of China's fast development in human rights research at the human rights protection and International Strategy Research continued to slander and smear Institute at the Party School of its efforts, said Zhang Yonghe, a the Central Committee of the professor and executive director Communist Party of China, of the Human Rights Institute at pointed out that many Western Southwest University of Political countries tend to regard Science and Law. economic, social and cultural "China is one of the few rights as less significant than countries in the world that has suffrage and civil liberties. drawn up and implemented three “China insists that the rights to consecutive national human subsistence and development are rights action plans," he said. "The primary basic human rights,” he three plans fully demonstrate the said. government's determination and In a congratulatory message to confidence in advancing human Visitors view integrated circuit for cars during the 17th China International Semiconductor a symposium on the 70th rights development." Expo in Shanghai, east China, Sept. 3, 2019. Anniversary of the Universal While adhering to the people- Declaration of Human Rights in centered philosophy, China has 2018, President Xi Jinping, who is taken increasing people’s sense China’s IC industry sees sales rise 18.1% also general secretary of the CPC of gains, happiness and security CHINA’S integrated circuit (IC) packaging and testing sector rose percent year on year, with a total Central Committee,made it clear as the fundamental pursuit of industry reported a sales value of 7.3 percent to nearly 48 billion export value of 31.46 billion U.S. that people living a happy life is human rights as well as the 173.93 billion yuan (about 27.05 yuan. dollars, up 31.7 percent year on the primary human right. ultimate goal of State billion U.S. dollars) in the first China imported 155.27 billion year. In March, State Councilor and governance, according to Zhang. quarter of this year,an increase of IC units with a total import value China’s IC market is the world’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said In the past four decades, China 18.1 percent year on year, of 93.6 billion U.S. dollars in the largest. It saw robust growth in that the situation of a country’s has lifted more than 770 million according to the China first three months, with imports 2020, with the market size hitting human rights should be judged people out of poverty. The life Semiconductor Industry up 33.6 percent and their total 143.4 billion U.S. dollars last year, by its people, rather than other expectancy of Chinese people has Association. value up 29.9 percent year on according to an industrial report. countries based on their own risen to 77.3 years.The country's The sales values of the IC year, data from the General The market was 9 percent preferences. education, social security and design and manufacturing sectors Administration of Customs larger than the 131.3 billion U.S. He said the world should listen healthcare systems as well as its respectively climbed to 71.77 shows. dollars recorded in 2019, said to and absorb the views of grassroots democratic billion yuan and 54.21 billion China exported 73.7 billion IC leading semiconductor market developing countries so that the institutions are all the largest in yuan, and the sales value of the IC units during the period, up 42.7 research company IC Insights. definition of human rights will be the world. 8 • Wednesday May 26, 2021 The Barbados Advocate ‘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’ Editorial Battle of the sexes By Dorian Bryan Barbados remains when they are living Gwen, who endured a shielded from the rest of cheque to cheque, they fair share of loss herself, Second dose INTERESTING title the progressive world are supposed just handle burying sons and right! where performance is their business. Monthly daughters, her mother Now that I have your still not judged more bills are increasing with and father, before losing attention, the issue of the than personality. no increases in pay. her husband and best open days difference in the ways in Is this country still in Who budgets for power friend within months, which gender in this recession, with a huge washing a home from before losing her own country has been Cabinet, declining volcanic ash, for life. shocking approached and the foreign reserves, instance? Many men What stood out was expectations of how declining income tax might quietly feel lost as that she never broke AT the end of April the Ministry of Health began through perception, that revenue and monthly they contemplate how to under the pressure of to focus mainly on providing Barbadians with responses are developed. revenue intakes? manage these demands, those losses even when their second doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 The irony is that Families are struggling, but society expects men the losses were sudden. vaccine largely halting the roll out of first doses. society and custom has a living cheque to cheque, to get it done. It was that inner The situation was plagued with confusion due to lot to do with how the with rising water bills, Men are also told to strength which inspired the fact that some persons were originally given genders or sexes are electricity costs, forced to respect women and not me to separate the silly dates four weeks away from the date of their first supposed to interact. remain indoors on to raise their hands to antics of some aspects of vaccine on which they should receive their second Those views are successive Sundays, them. That is critical but daily life from the vaccine. The Ministry’s protocol for second doses developed in our young which make no sense if does not address the important stuff. subsequently changed requiring that persons be people from early in our the positivity rates of reverse when women Only days after given their second dose within ten weeks of development. They come new cases of COVID-19 raise their hands to men, Mothers Day 2021, my receiving the first dose. All of the original from how boys and girls continue to trend mindful that men cannot family endured another appointments were subsequently cancelled and are conditioned to downwards. and should not respond. loss – this time of my persons were either given new dates or told to interact. Then these This Prime Minister as I watched a video of a great-aunt Marjorie. She wait for contact from the Ministry. interactions are Opposition leader, woman in a urban area was the younger sister of Major David Clarke Co-ordinator of the National effectively codified blasted the previous slapping and kicking a my grandmother and Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign also instructed within our laws and Prime Minister Freundel man, who was trying to held the family together those who had to receive their second dose of the traditions as we get older Stuart, over the economic walk away.Urged on by a after my grandmother vaccine to wait to be contacted and not to and it has been left challenges which are growing crowd, she died five years ago. She overwhelm the polyclinic system. It was therefore unsaid for too long. child’s play compared to continued to harass the also possessed that quiet shocking to see announcements in the media of The conversation the fiscal calamity which man, telling him to ‘hit strength and continued second dose open days which were held on May 22 remains one-sided. For this government has she den’. The man to fight even though her and 23, the announcement suggested to some that such a long time, the presided over, with no showed amazing health was failing. the vaccine management system was far from conversation has existed push back from those restraint but this should I remember holding effective and that the Immunisation unit was around the plight of who were so vocal before. not be the case. The law her hand and walking aware that some people might fall through the women to achieve Stuart took his constant should be fair and through the grounds of cracks and fail to get the necessary second dose. equality and for good berating in stride as part recognise which ever my cousin’s home the The earlier stance by Major David Clarke caused reason. It is an of the job but this current party throws the blow. Christmas Day after my some concern for persons because of a lack of acceptable philosophy to PM has not faced any. In The issue of domestic grandmother’s funeral confidence in the system used since persons who have. Women have the fact, who is the Minister violence also shows a and remembering her had registered to get the first dose of the vaccine right to be seen on a of Finance and Economic blind spot in the law. saying that life teaches had oftentimes never been called and had to take similar level as men, in Affairs? What if a man owns the lessons. She told me that matters into their own hands by presenting terms of employment The sectors have all home and the woman is we can choose to cry and themselves to the polyclinic and vaccination opportunities, salaries, declined, yet this violent and hits the man question why loved ones centres. The situation is particularly serious leadership positions and Minister maintains a job. and the police are called? are taken or celebrate because if the window for receiving the second the whole spectrum. In fact, we continue to In some cases, the man, their lives. That is what I dose of the vaccine passes, the person is unlikely The movement for hear the excuses. The as the ‘stronger’ gender, chose to do and for the to receive the expected level of immunity and women to claim the top last government was told is asked to leave for the past few days, I have therefore the first vaccine administered would jobs in this country,came not to look at the global sake of peace, so what chosen to drown have been largely wasted as the person might full circle, with the recession and face their actions are taken against out distractions and have to start over with new vaccines. The supply election of our first Prime failures, when will this the female? In most focus on what I had to do of vaccines might be even more limited now that Minister in 2018 and we happen here as the ‘if not cases, none. to come to grips with her India is grappling with a disastrous second wave had our second female for COVID-19 refrain’ The law should also loss. of Covid-19 which has seen their death rate Governor General sworn continues to muddle good address the imbalance So I took a deep breath, skyrocket to surpass 200 000 reported. in earlier that year.What senses? related to consent of put my head down and In the US over five million people had reportedly remains is a seeming However, back to the minors. If a man has focused on work. Based missed the window for their second dose of vaccine. reluctance in the interest issue of the gender sexual relations with a on her feedback, she According to the New York Times, interviewees of equality for female divide. Men are trained minor female, he is would want me to do so. stated that they did not take the second dose due leaders to face the same from early to be strong dragged in front of the This country has major to fear of side effects or because they felt that the scrutiny as their male and stand up to any courts, rightfully, but issues, with COVID-19 protection provided by one dose would be enough. contemporaries. Now criticisms that they face. what about a woman and and with a stagnant According to UK surveys just one dose of the that the wielding of They are told to not be a minor boy? economy,much attention AstraZeneca vaccine could cut symptoms of Covid- political power has emotional. So men are On a personal note,I has to remain focused on 19 by up to 72 per cent but this protection may only surpassed the glass told to hold their feelings have strong women and what is going on. last until the second dose is due to be administered ceiling why has the in. men in my immediate There is so much to in ten weeks. It is also claimed that the first dose criticism that has So men – by societal family. I often speak of say, but I hope that this of the AstraZeneca vaccine could cut household followed all leaders standards, are still to be my admiration and love column starts the transmission of the virus by up to 50 per cent remained elusive? Maybe providers and in 2021, for my grandmother conversation. although these figures may sound good to some people, the sensible thing to do is to get both doses “The sectors have all declined, yet this Minister maintains a job. In fact, we as directed for maximum protection from the virus. The role of the Immunisation unit of the continue to hear the excuses. The last government was told not to look at Ministry of Health and Wellness at this time should mainly be to contact those persons who the global recession and face their failures, when will this happen here as are due to have their second doses and encourage the ‘if not for COVID-19 refrain’ continues to muddle good senses?” them to come out to the vaccination centres. They must ensure that each individual is contacted even if that means both by emails and telephone call so Telephone: 467-2000 News Fax: 434-1000 News Editor: Dorian Bryan Executive Editor: Allison Downes that each individual has the opportunity to be E-mail Address: [email protected] Business Editor: Jewel Brathwaite General Manager: Sandra Clarke Assistant Managing Director: Sean Eteen fully inoculated and therefore reasonably Website: www.barbadosadvocate.com Sports Editor: Corey Greaves Publisher: Sir Anthony Bryan protected from Covid-19. @The Barbados Advocate @barbadosadvocate The Barbados Advocate Wednesday May 26, 2021 • 9

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US business groups team up to oppose tax rise proposals US business groups such as charging stations “Employers support more members in the have teamed up to form for electric vehicles and smart infrastructure to coming weeks and will a coalition opposing tax eliminating lead water ensure America’s 21st conduct research on increase proposals by pipes. century competitiveness, messaging around the the Biden The White House has but it shouldn’t be used as President’s proposals. administration. promoted its plans as the a Trojan horse to enact Treasury Secretary The US government is most ambitious public record high taxes on Janet Yellen was met with proposing a global spending in decades, America’s individually and a mixed response earlier in minimum corporation tax saying the investments are family-owned businesses.” May after delivering a rate, as well as increasing necessary to keep the US Other business groups speech to the US Chamber the tax in the US to pay for economy growing and signed up to the coalition of Commerce to pitch infrastructure projects. competitive with other include the American higher taxes to fund Twenty eight industry countries, especially China. Hotel and Lodging infrastructure spending. groups have now created However, Eric Hoplin, Association, American Ms Yellen told business an alliance called president and chief Rental Association, Auto leaders that corporation “America’s Job Creators for executive of the National Care Association, National taxes in the US were at a a Strong Recovery". Association of Wholesaler- Grocers Association and “historic low". The One organiser for the Distributors, which is the Wine and Spirits proposed hike would see new group said the tax leading the coalition, Wholesalers of America. them increased from 21 proposals “could not come warned: “The record tax Chris Smith, executive per cent to 28 per cent. at a worse time". hikes that Democrats are director of Main Street She said:“We believe the The alliance has been seeking to ram through Employers Coalition, corporate sector can President Biden’s administration has proposed formed as President Biden could not come at a worse added: “The pandemic has contribute to this effort by funding infrastructure spending largely through tax is seeking to pass a $2.3tn time for America’s job taxed individually and bearing its fair share: We increases. (£1.7tn) infrastructure creators who are just family owned businesses propose simply to return package, which would beginning to recover from a enough – taxing them the corporate tax toward the users who benefit from and Italy have also direct billions to initiatives crippling pandemic. again while they are still historical norms.” the investment,” the group welcomed proposals to struggling to recover just After the infrastructure said in a statement at the introduce a minimum goes too far.” package was unveiled in time. corporation tax floor SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE A spokesman for the late March, the Chamber Other business leaders, globally of “at least” 15 per group acknowledged that slammed the plan as such as Amazon’s Jeff cent. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE the infrastructure bill does “dangerously misguided". Bezos, have said that they UK Chancellor Rishi have strong support, but “Properly done, a major support the increase, Sunak has yet to comment CLAIM NO: CV1004/2020 said that “it quickly investment in having previously been publicly on the proposals, becomes unpopular when infrastructure today is an criticised over the level of but announced at the BETWEEN: you talk about taxes on job investment in the future, tax they pay in the United March Budget that the creators". and like a new home, States. UK’s corporation tax rate The coalition of lobby should be paid for over Countries such as would increase to 25 per RENATA ANNA MARIE GOODMAN CLAIMANT groups also expects to add time – say 30 years – by France, Germany, Japan cent by 2023. AND Liberty Steel nationalisation is BARBADOS PUBLIC WORKERS’ FIRST DEFENDANT BANK RATES COOPERATIVE CREDIT Commercial bank rates to the public at the close of unlikely, says Kwasi Kwarteng UNION LIMITED business yesterday by the Central Bank of Barbados. NATIONALISATION is “The assets Valid for May 26, 2021 WARDRICK HOWARD CHARLES SECOND DEFENDANT the least likely option to fundamentally are good Notes: keep Liberty Steel afloat assets, the workforce is NOTICE Currency Buying Selling and save thousands of jobs, skilled and dedicated, the Belizean Dollar 1.00000 1.00000 according to the managers of the plant are Canadian Dollar 1.63763 1.68607 government. very experienced,” TAKE NOTICE that the Claimant, Renata Goodman whose East Caribbean $ 0.73704 0.74445 Business Secretary Kwarteng said. address for service is c/o Mr. Gregory P.B. Nicholls, Attorney-at- Euro 2.39977 2.50083 Kwasi Kwarteng said the “The issue that Liberty Law of Fortis Legal, Wilkins Lodge, Two Mile Hill, Saint Michael Pound Sterling 2.77194 2.88866 UK steel mills that are up had... was to do with has commenced an action in the Supreme Court of Judicature United States Dollar 1.98000 2.02857 for sale are “good assets” financial engineering, the Demand/Sight: against the Second Defendant, Wardrick Howard Charles by which are likely to find opaque bit if you like, of Currency Buying Selling buyers. GFG. The leverage, the way of a Claim Form filed in the Registration Department on Belizean Dollar 0.99688 1.00313 September 28th 2020 in a claim breach of contract, breach of Canadian Dollar 1.64695 1.68459 He added that the finance, the debt that duty of care in the unlawful resale of a motor vehicle AND for East Caribbean Dollar 0.73843 0.74306 current owner, Sanjeev they’d incurred. All of that Gupta’s GFG Alliance, is was what I think put a lot damages for money had and received for the use and benefit of Euro 2.43499 2.48530 Guyana Dollar 0.00942 0.00946 in the process of of pressure on those the Claimant, general damages, interest and costs. Pound Sterling 2.81261 2.87073 refinancing. businesses,” he said. United States Dollar 1.99000 2.02768 GFG fell into difficulty He added:“Without that AND TAKE NOTICE that by Order of the Court made on Friday Telegraphic Transfer in March when its main I think there’s a healthy April 30th 2021 the publication of this Notice shall be deemed Currency Buying Selling backer, Greensill, interest in the assets and I good and sufficient service of the said Claim Form on the Belizean Dollar 0.99688 1.00313 collapsed. think they have a viable Canadian Dollar 1.65007 1.68459 Taking the steel mills future... It’s decarbonised, Second Defendant. East Caribbean Dollar 0.73843 0.74306 Euro 2.43957 2.48530 into state ownership was it’s clean, and there’s a Dated the 26th day of May, 2021. Guyana Dollar 0.00942 0.00948 one measure thought to be demand for their Pound Sterling 2.81790 2.87073 under consideration, with product.” ...... United States Dollar 1.99375 2.02768 the government under On Monday Liberty pressure to do whatever it Steel said it would be sell Gregory P.B. Nicholls INDICATIVE RATES FOR SOME REGIONAL takes to save the jobs. its specialist steel plant in Attorney-at-Law for the Claimant CURRENCIES AS ADVISED BY THE When asked by MPs on Stocksbridge as part of a RESPECTIVE CENTRAL BANKS business select committee restructuring plan. To: Mr. Wardrick Howard Charles N.B.: These rates are not meant to be used for trading. whether Liberty Steel The sale is set to include Vauxhall BDS$ plants in the UK are Stocksbridge’s mill at Guyana Dollar 0.00945 Christ Church Jamaica Dollar 0.01340 viable, Kwarteng said Brinsworth, and T&T Dollar 0.29627 there’s a “healthy interest” Performance Steels at in buying the assets. West Bromwich. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday May 26, 2021 • 11

Sanders to chair OAS Permanent Council again WASHINGTON, USA – Permanent Council in kidnappings and surging Political issues in COVID-19 pandemic. In untimely passing of the Antigua and 2016 when the OAS was levels of criminality, Nicaragua and El this connection, he will ambassador of Paraguay Barbuda’s faced with a financial fuelled by anti- Salvador are also consult regularly with Eliza Ruiz Diaz. Ambassador to the crisis as well as political government protests. expected to occupy the the Pan-American Ambassador Sanders Organization of issues related to Haiti The Permanent attention of the Health Organization said: “The best tribute American States and Venezuela, Council will make a Organization. (PAHO) for any action to that could be paid to the (OAS) Sir Ronald Current political issues decision this week on Sir Ronald said that he be taken. late President of the Sanders, has assumed with which the 34-nation good offices mission to will also be keeping a Sanders had been Permanent Council is to the Presidency of the organization is now faced facilitate a dialogue watchful eye on the serving as vice-chair of oversee successfully the Permanent Council of are public concern over between all stakeholders situation with respect to the OAS Permanent challenging agenda the Organization for a the security situation in that would lead to free the distribution of Council and assumed the before the Permanent second time. Haiti, including rampant and fair elections. vaccines related to the Presidency after the Council”. Sanders last served as the President of the

Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the OAS Sir Ronald Sanders has assumed the Presidency of the Permanent Council. Covid-19: St Kitts closes all schools for two weeks ST.KITTS – The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health have made a proactive decision to close all schools in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis in an effort to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus. All public and private schools in St. Kitts and Nevis, at the early childhood, primary and secondary levels are physically closed for the next two weeks effective Tuesday, May 25, 2021, until Tuesday, June 8, 2021. On May 24, 2021, the Federation recorded six (6) new cases of COVID- 19 bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 60. Forty-five (45) have fully recovered and fifteen (15) are active cases. 12 • Wednesday May 26, 2021 The Barbados Advocate

Haiti imposes curfew, orders Belize to re-open land mask use for pandemic emergency borders on May 31 BELMOPAN, Belize – accordance with the PORT-AU-PRINCE, Belize will re-open its protocol” Haiti – Haiti’s land borders on May 31, She said opening the government imposed a but only for visitors, with land borders is not an nightly curfew and the authorities here easy task, adding “it is other restrictions indicating that nationals not something we are Monday under an eight- will have to wait a bit taking lightly at all. It day “health emergency” longer in order to visit has taken a lot of meant to curb the neighbouring countries. discussion. spread of the Belize’s land borders “We have been trying to coronavirus. were closed in March of do it for a long time and it All outdoor activity will 2020 as part of the efforts has been delayed. We are be banned from 10 p.m. to curb the spread of the at the point now where until 5 a.m. under the coronavirus (COVID-19) we feel we can safely open decree issued by President pandemic. for tourism, and that will Jovenel Moise, who was in “Cabinet made a be the first phase. Ecuador on Monday for the decision to open land Depending on how that inauguration of that borders for tourists only, works, we will then have country’s new president. beginning May 31 and a better indication of how The decree also makes that is for tourist only.So, we can move to phase the use of face masks it’s a phased approach two. If it doesn't work, we mandatory for anyone out where tourist will come also reserve the rights to in public, while in under specific close the borders down,” temperature checks and conditions. It is not open Solano said. handwashing stations are for everybody. It is not But the re-opening of required for all public or open for Belizeans,” said the land border comes at private buildings such as the chief executive officer a time when there are banks, schools, hospitals in the Ministry of media reports of and markets. Social Tourism and Diaspora increased cases of distancing in public places Relations, Nicole Solano. COVID-19 in the state of is set at 1.5 meters (nearly She said that the Quintana Roo Mexico. 5 feet). The president also Haiti President Jovenel Moise and his wife First Lady Martine Moise arrive borders will not be “It is a huge concern, ordered public institutions for the inauguration of President-elect Guillermo Lasso at the National opened to Belizeans, nor and it is definitely to reduce staff on duty by Assembly in Quito, Ecuador, Monday, May 24, 2021. will they be used as in something that we have 50%, while he encouraged transit points. considered with the that other employees work crowded as was public Haiti has had 13,906 state of emergency. “It is open specifically ministry of health and from home. transportation. Most coronavirus cases since the Haiti has not yet begun for tourists who come in wellness, because looking Residents of Port-au- people were not wearing pandemic began in March to vaccinate its population under specific conditions. at the cases in both Prince seemed to take little masks and social 2020 and 288 deaths against the coronavirus. Any tourist that has a Mexico and Guatemala is regard of what was distancing was not related to COVID-19. But a The government recently negative COVID test a major concern. expected of them under followed. recent surge in daily cases announced its expects to similar to the airport, However, we have these new rules as street According to official of contagion has prompted begin giving the shots in they can come in. They protocols in place. markets continued to be government statistics, authorities to declare the June. have to be able to show a “We know that the negative PCR test taken number of tourists within 72 hours of coming in under those arrival, or 24 hours of protocols are very low. If State police director ambushed, killed in Mexico arrival with a rapid you look at the PGIA MEXICO CITY – Gunmen State Public Safety Castañeda called it “a state police. Sinaloa is antigen test. (Philip S. W. Goldson ambushed the director of Secretary Cristóbal cowardly attack.” home to the cartel of the “So if they don't have International Airport), state police in the cartel- Castañeda said Joel A bodyguard who was same name.The cartel has that they will be able to the majority of the people plagued northern Mexico Ernesto Soto was found with Soto was missing. been riven by internal test on arrival at the land coming in from the state of Sinaloa and killed dead in his bullet-riddled Soto was an army differences, and is also borders. But they will airport are coming in him Monday, authorities car on a highway near the lieutenant colonel who was engaged in turf battles have to be able prove that from the United States. said. state capital, Culiacan. on leave while heading the with the Jalisco cartel. they are COVID negative The US has a high to come in. Anybody that number of cases. Yet the tests positive will not be number of people coming able to enter the country,” in there that are positive Peru’s president says ‘no impunity’ she added. are very low,” Salano said. The authorities said Land border tourism for those behind jungle massacre that phase two of the land accounted for up to 14 per border reopening will cent of the tourism LIMA – 16 Peruvians in a and state forces, which led official figures. allow for foreign tourist market in 2019 and the jungle region known for to the death of 69,000 The attack took place and visitors of friends, government is confident cocaine production, which Peruvians, according to two weeks before family and relatives, that the land border authorities attribute to a official figures. Peruvians are set to elect a while the third phase will openings will be safe. dissident faction of This century, the new president, choosing be a full reopening. “We will have the Shining Path rebels. Shining Path has mostly between leftist Pedro However, there is no people who feel that it is “We are doing all we can retreated and a dissident Castillo, a school teacher, timeline on how long each necessary for tourism and to deploy the police and the faction of the original and right-wing Keiko of the phases for economic recovery, and military in a way that we group is still active in a Fujimori, the daughter of reopening will take. we will have the people can efficiently combat this section of the Peruvian jailed ex-president Alberto “Basically we are who feel we need to shut plague,” interim President jungle where they go by a Fujimori. looking at what phase down because we want to Francisco Sagasti told different name and, Both candidates have one will require. We are eliminate any possible reporters. “We know this according to authorities, condemned the attack. working of course with risk of having anybody is a rough terrain with serve as bodyguards for Fujimori supporters Interim President the Ministry of Health, enter with COVID. many ravines that the drug traffickers. have sought during the Francisco Sagasti BAHA (Belize Meanwhile, the narcoterrorists know very The massacre happened campaign to link Castillo Agricultural Health authorities said the well.” in that jungle section, to rebel groups Path) continues in just one Authority) there are temporary travel ban on Peru in the 1980s and known as the Valle de los sympathetic to the place and we hope to several agencies involved persons travelling from 1990s went through a Rios Apurimac, Ene y Shining Path. eradicate terrorism very that we need to work India and Bangladesh conflict between Shining Mantaro, where 75% of the “We beat them in other soon with decisive action through the situation to will also apply to the Path rebels who sought to nation's cocaine is parts of the country many from the armed forces,” make sure that it reopening of land overthrow the government produced, according to years ago,but (the Shining Sagasti said. happens safely and in borders. 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Biden-Putin summit: Awkward conversation looms in Geneva

JOE BIDEN said last month that he activities, including the 2020 SolarWinds would be meeting face to face with attack on US government and private Russian President Vladimir Putin computer networks, and the attempted at some point soon. Now we have a poisoning and jailing of Russian dissident date – and a location. Alexei Navalny. The first US-Russia summit of the Those conversations seem destined to Biden presidency will take place in be fraught, as Biden and Putin have Geneva, Switzerland, on 16 June. That traded verbal barbs amid rising tensions comes at the tail end of Biden’s already in the past months. scheduled trip to the United Kingdom In an interview in March, Biden agreed Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. for the G7 summit and Brussels for a with the description of Putin as a “killer”, meeting of Nato leaders, giving the prompting Russia to temporarily recall “stick”, the announcement last week that investigation and revelations of contact president plenty of time to hear from US its ambassador to the US and Putin, in the Biden administration would waive between members of the Trump allies before sitting down with Putin. turn, to say it takes one to know one, congressionally mandated sanctions on campaign and Russian nationals White House Press Secretary Jen before dryly wishing Biden “good health”. the nearly completed Nord Stream 2 gas (although the investigation found no Psaki, in a statement announcing the There’s little expectation of any pipeline between Russia and Germany evidence of co-ordination between the meeting, said the summit would cover a tangible results from this meeting, aside could help ease US-Russia tensions in two camps). “full range of pressing issues” as the US from the hopes it will lead to improved the run-up to June’s summit. When Trump and Putin had their first seeks to “restore predictability and relations and understanding between the If predictability and stability are part and only one-on-one summit in Helsinki, stability” to its Russian relations. That two leaders. of Biden’s goal, it will mark a sharp Finland, in July 2018, Trump echoes comments Secretary of State Contributing to the current US-Russia contrast from the four years of the Trump controversially stated that he believed Antony Blinken made during a meeting tensions are new penalties the Biden presidency,which began with allegations Putin’s insistence that Russia was not with his Russian counterpart, Sergei administration imposed last month as – confirmed by the US intelligence involved in election hacking, despite US Lavrov, in Iceland last week, as he said punishment for the Solar Winds hacking, community – that Russia had meddled in intelligence conclusions to the contrary. Biden’s goal was a “predictable, stable which included new limits on the 2016 presidential election and was During his presidential campaign and relationship with Russia”. transactions between US financial behind cyber-attacks on the Democratic throughout his time in office, Trump When Biden and Putin meet, they’ll institutions and the Russian government Party and its presidential nominee, expressed admiration of, and a have plenty to talk about. A short list of as well as sanctions on Russian Hillary Clinton. sympathetic ear toward, Putin, although subjects includes arms control, climate businesses and the expulsion of some Those attacks cast a shadow on much his administration did – after some delay change, Russian military involvement in Russian diplomats in the US. of the Trump presidency, leading to – follow through with congressionally Ukraine, Russia’s cyber-hacking If those sanctions were a diplomatic Robert Mueller’s special counsel mandated sanctions on Russia. Blinken promises US support for Gaza reconstruction

THE US will help rebuild Gaza as part The violence came after weeks of The prime minister also said they had would not benefit from the assistance. of efforts to consolidate the ceasefire spiralling Israeli-Palestinian tension in discussed replenishing the Iron Dome Hamas is designated as a terrorist between Israel and Palestinian militant occupied East Jerusalem which missile defence system that protects group by the US, EU, UK and Israel. groups, the secretary of state says. culminated in clashes at a holy site Israel from Palestinian rocket fire, and Israeli authorities said earlier that After meeting Israel’s prime minister, revered by both Muslims and ways to prevent Hamas rearming. they were allowing fuel, medicine and Antony Blinken said it was necessary to Jews. Hamas began firing rockets Blinken said intense, behind-the- food for Gaza’s private sector to enter tackle the grave humanitarian situation after warning Israel to withdraw from scenes diplomacy by US President Joe the territory for the first time since the to prevent a return to violence. the site, triggering retaliatory air Biden had helped produce last week’s fighting ended. The Biden administration will ask strikes. ceasefire, and that “now we believe we Blinken visited Ramallah in the Congress for $75m (£52m) in assistance Two children from Gaza City and must build on it”. occupied West Bank on Tuesday for Palestinians. Israel describe their experience of the He added: “We know that to prevent afternoon to meet Palestinian Authority The US would also reopen its Israel-Gaza conflict a return to violence we have to use the President Mahmoud Abbas. consulate in Jerusalem, Blinken said. Blinken began a three-day trip to the space created to address a larger set of “The United States will notify However, he added that the US would Middle East in Jerusalem by meeting underlying issues and challenges. And Congress of our intention to provide ensure the militant group Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin that begins with tackling the grave $75m in additional development and which controls Gaza, did not benefit. Netanyahu, who thanked him for humanitarian situation in Gaza and economic assistance to the Palestinians Blinken also reiterated US support “firmly supporting Israel’s right of self- starting to rebuild.” in 2021,” Blinken said after the meeting. for Israel’s right to defend itself. defence” during the escalation. He said the US would rally He added that the US would also More than 250 people were killed, the “We, too, will give meaning to our international support around that effort provide $5.5m in immediate disaster vast majority of them in Gaza, in 11 commitment to our self-defence: if while also making its own “significant assistance for Gaza and $32m to the days of fierce fighting that ended on Hamas breaks the calm and attacks contributions”, including some that United Nations Relief and Works Friday with an Egyptian-brokered Israel, our response will be very would be announced later on Tuesday. Agency (UNRWA), the UN agency for truce. powerful,” Netanyahu warned. He also promised to ensure Hamas Palestinian refugees.

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Italy orders four Egyptians to stand trial MORE than five years after an said there was “insufficient evidence to kicks, punches, beatings, cuts and even and Claudio Regeni, were at Tuesday’s Italian student’s body was found in support the accusation in court”. burns from red-hot objects. hearing to hear Judge Pierluigi Cairo, a Rome judge says four senior Egypt said evidence had been found Egyptian officials have admitted Balestrieri rule that there was sufficient Egyptian security officials should that Regeni had been robbed by a Regeni was being monitored and Italian evidence to indict the four men. face trial over his kidnap, torture criminal gang but that the killer had not investigators said in 2018 that people he Their lawyer,Alessandra Ballerini, told and murder. been identified. had met while doing his research had reporters that all the young man’s rights Giulio Regeni, a Cambridge University At the time of his disappearance, the betrayed him. had been violated, “but today we have postgraduate student, disappeared in 28-year-old PhD student was researching The four Egyptians all deny the well-founded hope that at least the January 2016. Egypt’s independent trade unions, a involvement in the student’s right to the truth will not be denied His body was so badly disfigured his controversial subject in a country where disappearance and killing. Cairo Giulio”. mother could barely identify him. unofficial protest movements have faced prosecutors dropped all proceedings “It has taken us 64 months. But it is a The four members of the Egyptian a crackdown in recent years. against them and a fifth suspect last good goal and a good starting point,” she security forces are unlikely to travel to His body was found dumped in a ditch December. said. Rome for the 14 October trial. by a road near Cairo on February 3, 2016. Gen Tariq Sabir,Col Usham Helmi, Col Egyptian officials did not comment The murder has heightened tensions An Italian post-mortem examination Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahim and Maj immediately on the decision and as the between the two countries. Italian and found he had been tortured “in stages” Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif all face four suspects’ home details have not been Egyptian investigators had originally between January 25 and the day of his charges in Italy of kidnapping Regeni. given to the Italians, there is little chance tried to work on the case together but death. Maj Sharif is also accused of conspiring of contacting them or that the Cairo when Rome prosecutors pushed for a trial Rome prosecutors went further, to inflict aggravated injuries and murder. government will agree to them attending in late 2020, their counterparts in Cairo detailing “acute physical suffering” from The student’s parents, Paola Deffendi the trial. Belarus flights redirected after Roman Protasevich’s arrest SEVERAL European airlines have said that they will not fly over Belarus, days after a dissident journalist was arrested on a flight diverted to Minsk. Ukraine and Poland are stopping all flights to and from the country,while the UK is preventing Belarusian airlines from entering its airspace. Western countries accuse Belarus of hijacking the Ryanair plane carrying journalist Roman Protasevich on Sunday. The Greece-Lithuania flight was rerouted over a supposed bomb threat. Belarus authorities on Monday released video of Mr Protasevich that appears to have been recorded under duress. He faces charges related to his reporting of last August’s disputed election and subsequent crackdown on mass opposition protests, and has said he fears the death penalty after being placed on a terrorism list. More people in more places trust BBC News than any other news source. Register for a BBC account to see why. At a meeting in Brussels on Monday, the leaders of the 27 European Union Sedat Peker (C) in 2014: He was jailed for various crimes in Turkey. member states called for the overflight ban, and promised further economic sanctions. Gang leader’s claims rattle Turkish Gov’t On Tuesday, the Belarusian transport ministry released a transcript of a THE Turkish government has reacted arrested. Adali was shot dead in Cyprus, but his conversation said to be between an air furiously to corruption allegations made More people in more places trust BBC killers were never identified. traffic controller in Minsk and a pilot on by a fugitive gang boss whose YouTube News than any other news source. According to Sedat Peker, the hit on Sunday’s Ryanair flight. videos have been watched by millions of Register for a BBC account to see why. Adali had been ordered by ex-interior According to the transcript, which has Turks. Soylu, a close associate of President minister Mehmet Agar. He also alleged not been independently verified, Belarus The seventh video, broadcast by Sedat Recep Tayyip Erdogan, denied the claim that Agar was linked to the murder in suggested several times that the plane Peker on Sunday, has had more than 12 and demanded that Peker return to face 1993 of Ugur Mumcu, another prominent should land in Minsk on “our million page views. justice in Turkey.He said the videos were journalist. recommendation”. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has part of an “international operation”. Mumcu, an investigative journalist for This appeared to contradict earlier called for an inquiry into his claims and “Even though the allegations and Cumhuriyet daily, was killed by a car statements from the Belarusian for him to be charged with slander. slanders are completely empty, it targets bomb. authorities that said the decision Peker, 49, says he is now in Dubai. He the state,” Soylu said. The Turkish Journalists’ Union to land was made independently by the served several jail terms in Turkey. Last week Erdogan said his AK Party demanded an investigation into both pilot. He began posting the videos in early had brought peace to Turkey by unsolved murders, in a tweet. “We At the Brussels summit, EU leaders May after a police operation targeted him combating gangs such as Peker’s and demand that the suspects be put on trial. told the bloc’s airlines not to fly over and his gang. He fled Turkey last year to would “foil this dirty script too”, Reuters We call on prosecutors to do their duty,” Belarus. avoid prosecution, and was previously news agency reported. the union said. They have also asked member states to jailed for fraud and running a criminal On Sunday Turkish police detained “Are we returning to the 1990s?” Many suspend operating permits for its group. Sedat Peker’s brother Atilla in Mugla are asking that question in Turkey now. national carrier Belavia. According to Peker, Soylu offered him province, on the Aegean coast, after Sedat That was an era of complex links between The Athens-Vilnius flight was diverted protection and tipped him off last year, claimed he had sent Atilla to kill Turkish mafia gangs, police, politicians and because of a bomb threat, Belarusian enabling him to flee Turkey before being Cypriot journalist Kutlu Adali in 1996. business circles. officials said. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday May 26, 2021 • 15

Australia to shut embassy in Afghanistan over violence fears AUSTRALIA has said it Afghanistan said it withdrawal of the US-led number of its troops in Embassy building on 28 The statement did not will shut its embassy in hoped the closure would be Nato force could plunge Afghanistan from more May 2021,” the document say where in the region Afghanistan’s capital “short-lived” and Australia Afghanistan back into a than 1,500 to about 80. said, adding that “it is Australian diplomats Kabul recently, as the would continue its full-scale war. US and Nato officials Australia’s expectation would be relocated. withdrawal of permanent presence. In April, US President have recently said that the that this measure will be This announcement international troops “The closure of an Joe Biden said American Taliban, a hard-line temporary and that we will throws up a number of proceeds. embassy is also a cause for troops would leave by 11 Islamist movement, have resume a permanent questions. The speed for In a statement, concern,” it added in a September, after 20 years so far failed to live up to presence in Kabul once starters – the embassy is Canberra talked of “an statement. “One question of military involvement in commitments to reduce circumstances permit. due to close by the end of increasingly uncertain that may come to the Afghanistan. “It is time to violence in Afghanistan. “Australia remains this week. Why so fast? security environment” in minds of some people is: end America’s longest war,” The Australian committed to the bilateral What does that mean for the country. ‘Why is Australia leaving Mr Biden said. statement was issued relationship with Canberra’s commitment to It said Australian Afghanistan in such a At least 2,500 US troops jointly by Prime Minister Afghanistan, and we will peace in Afghanistan? Just diplomats would visit situation and why did it are part of the 9 600-strong Scott Morrison and continue to support the four weeks ago, the foreign Afghanistan regularly – spend 20 years in this Nato Afghan mission. Foreign Minister Marise stability and development minister was in Kabul but would be based country?’". Over the past two years, Payne on Tuesday. of Afghanistan in concert reiterating her elsewhere in the region. There are fears that the Australia has reduced the “We will close our with other nations.” government’s support.

Assimi Goïta, who now serves as vice-president, said he was not consulted about a cabinet reshuffle. Mali’s coup leader Assimi Goïta seizes power again MALI’S president and been named vice- prime minister have been president. ousted by the officer who After last year’s coup, the led last year’s coup and junta leader had sought to became vice-president of lead the interim an interim government. government, which is Col Assimi Goïta says overseeing an 18-month President Bah Ndaw and transition to civilian rule. PM Moctar Ouane failed However,the regional body in their duties and were Ecowas, which mediated seeking to sabotage the the transition deal, country’s transition. insisted on a civilian They were arrested leader. hours after a government Yet Col Goïta clearly reshuffle which saw two remains the real power senior army officers broker in the unstable replaced. West African nation. Col Goïta says elections His removal of Ibrahim will still go ahead next Boubacar Keïta as year as planned. president last year was However, he ignored generally celebrated. It pleas from the UN chief, followed weeks of anti- the African Union, the government protests over Economic Community of rising insecurity, alleged West African States corruption and a failing (Ecowas), the EU and the economy. US that the president and However, the slow pace prime minister be released of change over the last nine without any preconditions. months has been causing The two men have been tensions.An ongoing strike held at a military camp by the main union is in its outside the capital, second week and threatens Bamako, since they were to cripple the economy. arrested on Monday The interim government evening. agreed to appoint a new, Col Goïta says he was more broadly based not consulted about the cabinet in the face of these cabinet reshuffle, in which problems and the threat of he says he should have renewed protests. 16 • Wednesday May 26, 2021 The Barbados Advocate

The Brontë sisters were all writers. Lost hand-written poems expected to fetch around £1m A “LOST LIBRARY” of British fetch between £200 000 and The public will have the chance literature, including rare £300 000. to see highlights from the library hand-written poems by Emily An annotated Brontë family at exhibitions in London, Brontë and works by Robert copy of Bewick’s History of Edinburgh and New York. Burns, is to be auctioned off British Birds – famously The new rare pieces “open a at Sotheby’s. referenced in the opening pages of window onto the short but The contents of the Honresfield Jane Eyre by Emily’s sister amazing lives” of the Yorkshire Library, which has re-emerged Charlotte – could go for between siblings, according to Sotheby’s. after almost 100 years in £30 000 – £50 000, estimates The library also includes a obscurity, will go up for sale at suggest. compendium of poems, notes, three separate auctions. Emily Brontë was largely personal letters and ideas put Emily’s poems are expected to unknown as a writer during her together by the Scottish bard fetch somewhere between lifetime, but wrote her passionate Robert Burns, when he was an £800 000 and £1.2m. love story Wuthering Heights in unknown 24-year-old. A first edition of her famous 1847 before dying of tuberculosis The collection was last sold at novel Wuthering Heights could a year later. Sotheby’s in 1879, for £10. Bridge The Barbados Advocate Wednesday May 26, 2021 • 17 SPORTS Uefa opens proceedings against Barcelona, Juventus and Real Madrid over European Super League plan

UEFA has opened disci- Barcelona, Juventus and spectors in connection Tottenham Hotspur, AC They will also have 5% rised competition in the plinary proceedings Real Madrid have refused with the so-called 'Super Milan, Inter Milan and of Uefa competition rev- future. They will be fined against Barcelona, to do so. League' project, discipli- Atletico Madrid - have enues withheld for one half that if they breach Juventus and Real Uefa said proceedings nary proceedings have been punished by season, starting in 2023- any other terms of the Madrid over their involve- had been opened against been opened against Real European football's gov- 24, and this money will be declaration. ment in the proposed the three "for a potential Madrid, Barcelona and erning body for their par- redistributed, including in Real Madrid president European Super League. violation of Uefa's legal Juventus for a potential ticipation. the UK. Florentino Perez, who was The clubs were part of framework". violation of Uefa's legal They have agreed to Each has also commit- appointed as chairman of the 12 'founding' members In a statement released framework. make a combined 15m ted to Uefa and its compe- the ESL, recently said of the breakaway league, on Tuesday, Uefa said: The other nine clubs in- euro (£13.4m) goodwill titions, with the clubs fac- that the 12 clubs that which later collapsed. "Following an investiga- volved – Arsenal, Chelsea, contribution to benefit ing fines of 100m euros agreed to join the project The other nine clubs re- tion conducted by Uefa Liverpool, Manchester children's and grassroots (£86.9m) apiece if they have "binding contracts" nounced the project but ethics and disciplinary in- City, Manchester United, football across Europe. seek to join an unautho- and "cannot leave". Amir, Malik and Lamichhane sign for Hero CPL

MOHAMMAD AMIR, seamer Mohammad tral to the success of the Shoaib Malik and Amir.With 220 T20 wick- Amazon Warriors in 2019 Sandeep Lamichhane ets to his name, 59 of when they won 11 consec- will be playing at the them coming in interna- utive matches. Malik has 2021 Hero Caribbean tional matches, Amir has played 417 T20 matches Overseas Players added to CPL teams. Premier League which a huge amount of experi- and won 12 trophies in takes place in St Kitts ence and a track record the format. last three seasons, regular in T20 tourna- for Hero CPL 2021 will & Nevis in August and of success across the Sandeep Lamichhane impressing with the St ments around the globe be revealed on the draft September. globe. joins the Trinbago Knight Kitts & Nevis Patriots, and will add potency show which will be broad- The Barbados Tridents Shoaib Malik returns Riders for the 2021 Barbados Tridents and to the Knight Riders at- cast on Friday 28 May at have secured the services to the Guyana Amazon season. He has played at Jamaica Tallawahs. The tack. 9am ECT | 2pm GMT | of Pakistani left-arm Warriors. Malik was cen- the Hero CPL for the leg-spinner has become a The complete squads 6:30pm IST. Japan says US travel warning for virus won’t hurt Olympians

TOKYO – The Japanese emergency and expected supporting the Japanese government Tuesday was to remain so through mid- government’s determina- quick to deny a U.S. warn- June because of rising se- tion to achieve the games,” ing for Americans to avoid rious COVID-19 cases that Kato said, adding that traveling to Japan would are putting pressure on Washington has told have an impact on the country’s medical care Tokyo the travel warning A man wearing a mask to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus Olympians wanting to systems. That raises con- is not related to the partic- walks in front of a screen showing the news on U.S. warning against visits compete in the postponed cern about how the coun- ipation of the U.S. Olympic to Japan. Tokyo Games. try could cope with the ar- team. U.S. officials cited a rival of tens of thousands The United States portant for us to prepare concerns while most peo- due to COVID-19,” it said. surge in coronavirus cases of Olympic participants if Olympic & Paralympic well to accept athletes ple will not be vaccinated. China, which is to host in Japan caused by virus its hospitals remain Committee said it still an- under such restrictions.” The U.S. warning from the 2022 Winter Olympics variants that may even be stressed and little of its ticipates American ath- Fans coming from the Atlanta-based Centers in Beijing, suggested cau- risky to vaccinated people. population is vaccinated. letes will be able to safely abroad were banned from for Disease Control and tion in travel abroad. They didn’t ban Chief Cabinet Secretary compete at the Tokyo the Tokyo Olympics Prevention said: “Because “At present, the world is Americans from visiting Katsunobu Kato said at a Games. months ago, but athletes, of the current situation in still facing a grave situa- Japan, but the warnings news conference Tuesday Seiko Hashimoto, the families, sporting officials Japan even fully vacci- tion of fighting COVID- could affect insurance that the warning does not president of the Tokyo from around the world and nated travelers may be at 19,” foreign minister rates and whether prohibit essential travel Olympic organizing com- other stakeholders still risk for getting and spokesperson Zhao Lijian Olympic athletes and and Japan believes the mittee, echoed the re- amount to a mass influx spreading COVID-19 vari- said Tuesday at a daily other participants decide U.S. support for Tokyo’s ef- marks of the USOPC. of international travelers. ants and should avoid all briefing. “For protecting to join the games that fort to hold the Olympics is “I’m aware the USOPC In opinion polls, the travel to Japan.” people’s health and safety, open on July 23. unchanged. said that the advisory Japanese public has ex- The State Department’s we advise Chinese citizens Most metro areas in “We believe there is no wouldn’t affect the games,” pressed opposition to hold- warning was more blunt: to avoid unnecessary Japan are under a state of change to the U.S. position she said. “I think it’s im- ing the games out of safety “Do not travel to Japan cross-border travels.” 18 • Wednesday May 26, 2021 The Barbados Advocate Bangladesh clinches 1st ODI series win over Sri Lanka DHAKA, Bangladesh – Bangladesh won by 33 runs Sandakan for two off 70 balls. Mushfiqur Rahim hit his on Sunday in the first of their Mahmudullah, who scored 54 eighth ODI century as three-match series. The final in the previous match, also was Bangladesh secured its first match is on Friday. on the verge of his second ODI series victory over Sri Mushfiqur, who scored 84 in straight 50, but his Lanka with a 103-run win by the first match, helped premeditated paddle sweep cost DLS method in the rain- Bangladesh recover from a his wicket as he was 41 off 58 interrupted second match shaky start after Tamim opted with one four and two sixes. yesterday. to bat first. Mushfiqur was on 85 and 96 In an innings twice halted by Sri Lanka fast bowler respectively when the rain rain, the wicket-keeper Dushmantha Chameera halted the game twice as Sri batsman scored 125 off 127 utilized the early moisture of Lanka was on top, leaving balls with 10 fours as the wicket well to swing the ball Bangladesh 184-7 in the 38th Bangladesh was bowled out for in both ways. over. 246 in 48.1 overs. It was His inswinger accounted both Mushfiqur reached deserving Bangladesh’s first series victory Tamim and Shakib Al Hasan in century off 114 balls with a against Sri Lanka across three the space of three balls in the glance toward fine leg for formats. second over, leaving Bangladesh boundary off Chameera. “It’s good to win the series, 15-2. Saifuddin, who was run out but we haven’t played our Chameera reviewed his leg- for 11, was struck on his helmet perfect game yet,” Bangladesh before wicket appeal against by a Chameera delivery and captain Tamim Iqbal said. Tamim, who scored 13, Taskin Ahmed replaced him as “We lost a lot of wickets and successfully to overturn the concussion sub. 200 was looking difficult at one umpire’s decision. Later, he got Chameera and Sandakan point. Mushfiqur’s innings was Shakib (0) via leg-before claimed three wickets apiece for really good and Mahmudullah also. Sri Lanka while Isuru Udana Mushfiqur Rahim hit his eighth ODI century chipped in as well. We still Out-of-form Liton Das picked up two. haven’t nailed it yet. Hope to struggled to make 25 off 42, “It’s very disappointing,” Sri made regular inroads to be on Hasan (2-38) and offspinner play well in the third match.” with two fours before left-arm Lanka captain Kusal Perera top always. Mehidy Hasan (3-28) ripped Sri Lanka was 126-9 after 38 spinner Lakshan Sandakan got said.“Lack of experience cost us Shoriful Islam (1-30) through Sri Lanka’s middle overs when rain interrupted the the better of him with a delivery a lot, middle-order collapses cost dismissed captain Kusal Perera order. Pacer Mustafizur game for a third time. Sri Lanka that turned sharply. us in both games. Our players (14) for his debut wicket to kick Rahman ended with 3-16. was set a revised target of 245 Mushfiqur and Mahmudullah have to back their strengths things off. Opener Danushka in 40 overs, meaning it needed shared a fifth-wicket stand of and believe in themselves, and The spinners then took center Gunathilaka was the top scorer 119 runs from the final two 87 to help Bangladesh hit back. play fearless cricket.” stage with the wicket for the side with 24 and Pathum overs. The visitors ended on Mushfiqur reached his half- Sri Lanka made a cautious increasingly slowing down. Nissanka made 20. Udana was 141-9. century by slog-sweeping start but Bangladesh bowlers Left-arm spinner Shakib Al not out on 18. Former Bayern Munich Germany pulls out coach Flick takes over of track cycling Germany to 2024 championships in Belarus FRANKFURT, Germany – Flick led Bayern to six titles BERLIN – Germany’s national Switzerland, said on its website. Former Bayern Munich coach in the 2019/2020 season and track cycling team will not Earlier Tuesday, British Hansi Flick signed a three- also won this season’s compete at next month’s Elite Cycling performance director year contract yesterday to take Bundesliga crown after Track European Championships Stephen Park raised doubts over Germany after the end initially taking over as an in Belarus in response to what about Belarus hosting. the European Championship interim coach in late 2019, but the West has called a state- “With 27 EU member states this summer, the German decided to leave the champions sponsored hijacking involving an telling EU airlines not to fly over Football Association (DFB) after 18 successful months in opposition journalist. Belarus, and promising further said. charge despite a contract to Raman Pratasevich was economic sanctions there can He will succeed Joachim 2023. arrested after being pulled off a surely be no way the (UEC) can Loew, with whom he won the “I would like to congratulate flight that was diverted to Minsk continue to deliver the Track World Cup as an assistant in the DFB for their choice of on Sunday – an incident that Euros in Minsk next month,” he 2014, and will be looking to coach,” said Bayern CEO Karl- drew swift condemnation from said on Twitter. complete an overhaul that was Heinz Rummenigge, who had EU leaders. Pratasevich, a 26-year-old started in 2019 but was agreed to Flick’s wish to leave The German Cycling journalist and activist, was disrupted by a string of bad and end his contrat early. Association said Tuesday it had arrested after Belarusian flight results and the coronavirus “I wish Hansi Flick the same contacted the European Cycling controllers ordered the Ryanair pandemic. success with the national team Union (UEC) “and made it clear jetliner he was aboard to land. A “Everything happened that he has had with Bayern.” that the German national track Belarusian fighter jet escorted the surprisingly quickly for me and Loew, who had a contract cycling team’s participation in the plane to Minsk, shortly before it I am happy to be national team until 2022, also won the 2017 Hansi Flick European Championships is not was to land in Vilnius, Lithuania, coach from the autumn,” Flick, Confederations Cup. possible after the events of the from Athens, Greece. who was the frontrunner for But his team crashed out in from 2006-2014 and then weekend, and (that it) pushed for In January, the International the post, said in a statement. the first round in the 2018 taking over as sports director an alternative solution.” Ice Hockey Federation “My joy is great because I see World Cup and has been until 2017. The UEC said it was pulled its world championships the quality of the players, struggling to perform at the “He was from the start at the “carefully monitoring the from Belarus following pressure especially the young ones, in highest level. very top our my wish list,” situation” and will decide on a from opposition groups and a Germany. So we have every A 6-0 thrashing by Spain in Oliver Bierhoff, national team course of action regarding the threatened boycott by sponsors. reason to approach the next the Nations League in director, said. championships, scheduled June Belarus was scheduled to tournaments, for example our November was Germany’s “I know the human and 23-27 in Minsk, at its co-host. Criticism had grown home Euro 2024 with worst defeat in competitive technical qualities of Hansi management board meeting on after authoritarian president optimism.” football. Flick and I appreciate them Thursday. Alexander Lukashenko’s Germany will host the The 56-year-old Flick has a since our many successful “No other comments will be disputed re-election was European Championship in long experience at the DFB, years together in the national published before this date,” the followed by mass arrests at 2024. having been assistant coach team.” UEC, based in Lausanne, largely peaceful demonstrations. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday May 26, 2021 • 19

Lakers’ James to face no action over COVID-19 protocol violation LOS Angeles Lakers forward photoshoot for his tequila brand “To clarify any remaining determined that his attendance similar fashion.” LeBron James will not face with several celebrities before misconception, LeBron James did not create risks related to Under NBA rules, vaccinated punishment for violating the Lakers’ 103-100 win over briefly attended an outdoor the spread of COVID-19 and players can engage in outside National Basketball Association the Golden State Warriors. event last week where therefore no quarantine was activities including their (NBA) health and safety James, who was participants were required to necessary. individual commercial protocols by attending a photographed without a mask be vaccinated or return a “Over the course of this arrangements. promotional event, with the at the event, also played in negative test result,” the NBA season, there have been James has not previously league saying he posed no risk Sunday’s 99-90 loss to the said in a statement numerous similar violations of stated if he has been vaccinated of spreading COVID-19. Pheonix Suns in the opening "Under these circumstances the league’s health and safety despite being asked by U.S. media reported last week game of their first-round playoff and in consultation with protocols, which were addressed reporters on multiple occasions, that James attended an outdoor series. medical experts, it was with the player’s team in a saying it was a personal matter. Cavs lose pre-draft tiebreaker to Thunder, slide into 5 spot CLEVELAND – The Antonio; New York Knicks (41- Cavaliers lost another one. 31) won a tiebreaker with After dropping 13 of its last 14 Atlanta; Dallas Mavericks won games and going 22-50 in a a tiebreaker with the Lakers regular season loaded with and Portland Trail Blazers; and injuries, Cleveland lost a the Clippers (47-25) won a tiebreaker yesterday to tiebreaker with Denver. Oklahoma City and will have The draft lottery is set for the No. 5 position in next June 22. The draft is July 29. month’s draft lottery, one spot Cleveland’s odds for getting below the Thunder. the No. 1 overall pick and The teams finished with perhaps a franchise-changing identical records this season, player like it did with LeBron prompting a “coin flip” that James nearly 20 years ago didn’t go the Cavs’ way. The didn’t change with the drawings were conducted by tiebreaker. NBA executive vice president Both the Cavs and Thunder Kiki VanDeWeghe at the league will have an 11.5% percent office in Secaucus, New Jersey, chance of winning the lottery – and overseen by the accounting something Cleveland did in Cleveland Cavaliers guard Collin Sexton (2) shoots against Washington Wizards center firm Ernst & Young. 2003, 2011, 2013 and 2014. Robin Lopez, bottom, during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Friday, May 14, The league decided five other Oklahoma City now has a 7.4% 2021, in Washington. The Wizards won 120-105. teams among those with percent chance of picking fifth, identical regular-season compared with 2% for the Cavs. The Cavs have a nice nucleus the club doesn’t have a bona fide league’s worst record at 17-55, records: Chicago (31-41) won a The result also means of young players in guards star to build around and is will have the best odds of tiebreaker with New Orleans Cleveland can pick no worse Collin Sexton, Darius Garland hoping for some luck in the winning the lottery at 14% and Sacramento; Charlotte (33- than ninth, and Oklahoma City and forward Isaac Okoro, who draft. percent along with Detroit (20- 39) won a tiebreaker with San eighth. had a solid rookie season. But Houston, which had the 52) and Orlando (21-51). Utah’s Jordan Clarkson wins NBA’s 6th man of the year award UTAH’S Jordan Clarkson, the win sixth man of the year,” coming off the bench in 67 of only player to come off the Ingles said on TNT, which his 68 appearances. bench and score 40 points in a broadcast the award Clarkson reached 40 points game this season, was announcement. “No, I think his twice this season, finishing announced Monday as the impact off the bench is with 40 against Philadelphia NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year. something he’s embraced and on Feb. 15 and then getting 41 And his closest competition taken pride in.” against Golden State on May was from a teammate: Utah’s Ingles got 34 of the remaining 10. He started 136 games over Joe Ingles was second, marking 35 first-place votes. his first three seasons, and has the first time the top two “Joe is a playmaker. He really started only five games in the finishers for this award came runs our second unit,” Clarkson four seasons since – and is now from the same franchise. said. flourishing in the reserve role. It’s the first time a Jazz New York’s Derrick Rose, the “I just really accepted it and player has won the award. other first-place votegetter, was kept rolling,” Clarkson said. Clarkson finished with 65 of third, while Dallas teammates In all, 15 players got at least the 100 first-place votes cast Jalen Brunson and Tim one first-, second- or third-place from a global panel of reporters Hardaway Jr. were fourth and vote in this season’s sixth man who cover the league and fifth, respectively. Voters were balloting. Last year’s winner, Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson (00) is guarded by appeared on all but five of the asked to select their top three Montrezl Harrell – then of the Sacramento Kings guard Jahmi’us Ramsey (3) during the ballots. picks for the award, in order. Los Angeles Clippers, now of second half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, “I tried to get him the ball as Clarkson averaged a career- the Los Angeles Lakers – Calif., Sunday, May 16, 2021. The Jazz won 121-99. much as possible so he could high 18.4 points this season, finished sixth. 20 • Wednesday May 26, 2021 The Barbados Advocate

REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE Gretzky leaves Oilers front Inchcape, St. Philip 4355 sq ft $ 96,000 office, citing ‘life changes’ Belle, St. George EDMONTON, Alberta – time Stanley Cup winner 4 acres $400,000 (under of- Wayne Gretzky is leaving as a player with fer) as vice chairman of the Edmonton, Gretzky Edmonton Oilers, citing returned to the Oilers in Haggatt Hall, St. Michael “the pandemic and other a front-office role in 6336 sq ft $126,000 life changes.” 2016. TEL: 247-4469 (under offer) CEL: 284-4667 The 60-year-old hockey According to the team’s 253-6319 Cane Garden, St. Thomas great announced the website, Gretzky’s duties 7,000 sf to 18,000 sq ft decision yesterday on included working with Email: Private entrance. Twitter. He said he will the Oilers Entertainment caribbeanpropertiesltd From $187,681 @gmail.com not be able to “dedicate Group on the commercial the time nor effort side of the business, as Ragged Point, St. Philip PROPERTIES 8,267 sq ft $166,000 needed to support this well as supporting world-class development initiatives Kirtons, St Philip Rolling Hills, St. George organization.” in the district where the 3 bedroom plus 12,000 sq ft The NHL’s all-time Rogers Place arena is 2 bedroom apt 4,790 sq ft $310,000 (negotiable) $685,000 leading scorer and a four- located. Ocean City, St. Philip Amity Lodge, Ch Ch 6150 sq ft $123,000 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom plus REAL ESTATE FOR SALE 1 bedroom apt Fortesque, St Philip 6,646 sq ft $650,000 Agricultural Land Cane Garden, St Thomas 1) Dexion Shelves, 494,500 sq ft $1,100,000 Roadfront land 2) Purple Heart Benches, Gibbons, Ch Ch 3.6 acres approved 3) Filing Cabinets, 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom plus Silver Sands, $1,650,000 negotiable 4) Large Storage Boxes, 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom apt Christ Church 5) Schwinn Aluminium 14 speed 9,835 sq ft 7,129 sq ft $160,000 Fitts Village, St James racer, $675,000 under offer Guest House, 4 Suites 6) Cedar Summit Kid’s Play House Bushy Park, St. Philip 6,135 sq ft Breezy Hill, St Philip 24,000 sq ft $190,000 $750,000 negotiable 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom plus Cell: 830-4529 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom Apes Hill, St. James Mason Hill Street The City NOTICES reduced to $298,000 31,000 sq ft upward 26,500 sq ft with buildings Large lots at $15 per sq ft $4,000,000 negotiable Black Rock, St Michael BARBADOS 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom All enquiries to Mount Wilton, St. Thomas IN THE SUPREME COURT 6732 sq ft $360,000 15,500 sq ft and 22,066 sq ft (246) 253 6319/ 284-4667 $300,000 and $220,000 or (246) 247 4469 OF JUDICATURE Enterprise, Christ Church HIGH COURT 3 bedroom, 2 bath Union, St. Philip VEHICLES 5062 sq ft 7560 sq ft IN THE ESTATE OF $390,000 (negotiable) SELLING WHOLE $150,000 OR IN PARTS ELEANOR MARJORY PARRIS The Belle, St George also known as Cottage, St George 2002 LANCER: ELEANOR MARJORIE Plantation style House 5000 sq ft Standing on 4 acres ENGINE, AUTOMATIC PARRIS also known as $118,000 (negotiable) TRANSMISSION, DOORS, $1.1M BUMPERS, HEAD LIGHTS, ELEANOR PARRIS, deceased Morningside, St Philip TAIL LIGHTS AND Frere Pilgrim, 4567 sq ft $133,000 MOST OTHER PARTS PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby Christ Church given that an application is 3 bedroom, 2 baths with Jupiter Gardens, St Peter Call: 834-3766 being made for the following two bedroom apartment. 7312 sq ft 4,387 sq ft. $850,000 AUCTION SALES Grant of Letters of $133,000 (negotiable) Testamentary namely:- Hanson Heights, St George Bagatelle, St. Thomas 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom 62,000 sq ft PROBATE OF THE WILL dated 8321 sq ft $595,000 (nego- $1M (negotiable) the 24th day of February tiable) 2012 of ELEANOR MARJORY Marley Vale, St Philip PARRIS also known as Ealing Grove, 21,780 sq ft $275,000 Christ Church ELEANOR MARJORIE 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 baths PARRIS also known as Sandford, St Philip ELEANOR PARRIS, deceased, 9320 sq ft $565,000 16,356 sq ft $300,000 late of “Kyrie Farm” Rockley LOTS FOR SALE New Road in the parish of Christ COMMERCIAL Church in Barbados, who died Boarded Hall, at Rockley New Road in the Christ Church Mount Standfast, St James By order of the Commis- 10,429 sq ft $157,000 parish of Christ Church in Two properties on sioner of Police, the following Barbados on the 29th day of 22,714 sq ft. Motor Vessels will be sold by July 2020 by CHRISTINA Westbury Road, St Michael Asking $1,200,000 Auction, on Thursday 27th 2,520 sq ft $45,360 May, 2021 at 10.00 a.m at MARY FOSTER, SALLY Black Rock, St. Michael the Barbados Coast Guard ANN DANNATT MILLER and Goodland Gardens, Warehouse/Storage space Headquarters, HMBS Peli- STEWART LINDSAY GILL Christ Church on can. three of the Executors named in 9,605 sq ft $145,000 4000 sq ft on 23,861 sq ft the Will of the said deceased. $900,000 (reduced) Nursery Road, St Philip All persons attending this 9,266 sq ft $139,000 auction must wear a mask An application shall be Foul Bay, St. Philip and adhere to the Covid-19 submitted to the Supreme Court Approved for condos, protocols. fourteen (14) days from the date Lashley Road, St Philip 39,242 sq ft $1,600,000. 5,839 sq ft, $150,000 of the Notice in the Official The following; Roebuck Street, Gazette and from the date of the Speedboats, moses and Salters, St George Bridgetown second notice of advertisement. 2 lots 32,760 sq ft, $230,000 Shopping Mall/Office space yachts. $8,100,000 negotiable Dated the 26th day Cave Hill Drive, St. Lucy Terms Cash/Certified of May 2021 14,876 sq ft. $110,000 Batts Rock, St Michael Cheque. Guest House, 12,078 sq ft 231-1928 /4254736 Bushy Park, St. Philip $2,850,000 negotiable George E. Edghill CLARKE GITTENS FARMER 17,000 sq ft $170,000 Dist “A” Auctioneer Attorneys-at-Law The Barbados Advocate Wednesday May 26, 2021 • 21

Regular Market BARBADOS STOCK REPORT Security Volume High Low Market Advance/ Price Decline May 25, 2021 GODDARD ENTERPRISES LIMITED 24000 2.1 2.09 2.1 0.01

One security advanced as 24,000 shares traded on the Regular Market, with a total value of $50,383.40. Goddard Enterprises Limited was the sole security trading 24,000 shares at a high of $2.10 and a low of $2.09 before closing up one ($0.01) cent at $2.10.

Deposit Receipts Security Previous Current Advance/ Close Close Decline BARBADOSBARBADOS STSTOCKOCK EXCHANGEEXCHANGE EMERA DEPOSIT RECEIPT $23.08 $23.15 $0.07 SHARE SUMMARY INFORMATION Tuesday May 25, 2021

LAST TRADE VOLUME HIGH LOW LAST CURRENT PRICE BID ASK BID ASK DATE CLOSE CLOSE CHANGE PRICE PRICE SIZE SIZE

ABV Investments Incorporated 15-Oct-20 - - - $0.05 $0.05 - $0.10 $0.30 1 10,498

BICO Limited 21-Sep-20 - - - $3.10 $3.10 - $3.10 - 70 - INDICES Banks Holdings Limited -+ 09-Dec-19 - - - $4.85 $4.85 - - - - - TODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES May 25, 2021 May 21, 2021 Barbados Dairy Industries Limited -+ 04-Oct-19 - - - $3.00 $3.00 - - - - - Local 2,444.40 2,443.19 (1.21) Cross-list 1,140.86 1,140.86 - Barbados Farms Limited 18-Mar-21 - - - $0.68 $0.68 - $0.30 $0.40 7,574 6,561 Composite 598.75 598.46 (0.29) Cave Shepherd and Company Limited 23-Mar-21 - - - $4.10 $4.10 - $4.00 $4.10 72 1,081 MARKET CAPITALISATION (in millions)

FirstCaribbean International Bank 14-Apr-21 - - - $1.80 $1.80 - - $1.80 - 11,126 TODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES May 25, 2021 May 21, 2021 Eppley Caribbean Property Fund SCC 12-Apr-21 - - - $0.16 $0.16 - - $0.16 - 1168 Local 4,913.43 4,911.00 2.43 - Dev Fund Cross-list 145.67 145.67 - Composite 5,059.11 5,056.68 2.43 Eppley Caribbean Property Fund SCC 01-Apr-21 - - - $0.56 $0.56 - $0.56 $0.58 5522 51870 MUTUAL FUND April 20, 2021 -Value Fund ENDED NAME OF FUND NAV OFFER BID NAV CHANGE Goddard Enterprises Limited 25-May-21 24000 2.1 2.09 $2.09 $2.1 0.01 $2.01 $2.1 200 2048 14-May-21 REPUBLIC CAPITAL GROWTH FUND w 1.2837 0.0088 Insurance Corporation of B’dos Limited 18-Mar-21 - - - $2.00 $2.00 - $1.78 $2.00 56,258 19,274 14-May-21 REPUBLIC INCOME FUND w 1.2663 0.0003 14-May-21 REPUBLIC PROPERTY FUND w 0.6761 -0.0002 One Caribbean Media Limited 30-Mar-21 - - - $2.20 $2.20 - - $2.20 - 1601 14-May-21 FORTRESS CARIBBEAN GROWTH FUND w 6.8577 6.8577 6.8577 0.0177 14-May-21 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - ACC. w 2.1049 -0.0037 Sagicor Financial Corporation Pref 6.5% 23-Jun-16 - - - $2.26 $2.26 - - - - - 14-May-21 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - DIST. w 1.0049 -0.0018 30-Apr-21 ROYAL FIDELITY SELECT BALANCED FUND m 5.7710 5.7710 5.6556 0.1299 Sagicor Financial Corporation Limited -+ 29-Nov-19 - - - $2.80 $2.80 - - - - - 30-Apr-21 ROYAL FIDELITY STRATEGIC GROWTH FUNDm 1.0833 1.0833 1.0617 0.0317 30-Apr-21 ROYAL FIDELITY PREMIUM INCOME FUND m 1.6720 1.6720 1.6386 0.0277 West India Biscuit Company Limited 03-Mar-21 - - - $31.25 $31.25 - $31.35 - 100 - 21-May-21 SAGICOR GLOBAL BALANCED FUND w 2.83 0.03 Emera Deposit Receipt 14-Aug-20 - - - $22.35 $22.41 $0.06 $25.01 - 100 - 21-May-21 SAGICOR SELECT GROWTH FUND w 1.75 0.03 21-May-21 SAGICOR PREFERRED INCOME FUND w 0.98 -0.01 * Indicates the Fund is currently ex-div TOTAL SHARES BOUGHT & SOLD 24000 NOTES: QUOTATIONS AND NET ASSET VALUE PER SHARE ARE SUPPLIED BY THE FUND MANAGEMENT. THE OFFERING PRICE INCLUDES NET ASSET VALUE PLUS ENTRY COSTS. * = Security is Trading X-Div m = monthly valuation, q = quarterly valuation, w = weekly *+* = Security is Suspended Fixed Income

** = Rights Issued Last Trade Last Current Bid Ask Bid Ask Date Close Close Price Price Size Size GOB Series B 15-Apr-21 $60.00 $60.00 $80.00 34,828 GOB Series D 12-Nov-19 $50.00 $50.00 NOTICES GOB Series F 03-Nov-20 $89.00 $89.00 DIVIDEND NOTICES GOB Series I 24-Mar-20 $65.00 $65.00 $70.00 19,617 Eppley Caribbean Property Fund Limited SCC – Value Fund – Directors have declared a dividend of zero point eight ($0.008) NEWS cents per share to be paid on July 9th, 2021 to Shareholders on record at close of business on May 28th, 2021.

BSE NOTICES Gov’t borrowing

COVID-19 PROCEDURAL UPDATE Effective April 19th, 2021, the offices of the Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) and the Barbados Central Securities fell in April Depository Inc. (BCSDI) have reopened. Our office hours are Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Kindly note that mandatory digital temperature checks and hand sanitizing for all persons entering the building will be enforced. These checks will be conducted on both staff and clients alike by trained personnel. While we acknowledge that every person as UK reopened with fever may not be COVID-19 positive and that some individuals may present without symptoms, please note that any person with a temperature reading of 100? F (37.8? C) or over will be denied entry to conduct business within our offices. GOVERNMENT borrowing total of £300.3bn in the fell in April compared with financial year to March. We wish to thank you in advance for your understanding, however, we must emphasize that this is a necessary step for the the same month last year, While that was down protection of staff and clients alike. as parts of the economy slightly from its previous reopened after lockdown estimate of £303.1bn, it measures eased. remains the highest level TRADING SUSPENSION Borrowing – the since the end of World War The Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) wishes to advise that due to non-compliance with Section 4.01.3 and subject to difference between Two. Section 3.01.5.(1)(b) of the Rules of the Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. trading in the Common Shares of Banks Holdings spending and tax income – The ONS said the cost of Limited were suspended effective December 10th, 2019. was £31.7bn, official figures measures to support show, which was £15.6bn individuals and businesses The Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) wishes to advise that due to non-compliance with Section 4.01.3 and subject to lower than April last year. during the pandemic meant Section 3.01.5.(1)(b) of the Rules of the Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. trading in the Common Shares of Barbados Dairy However, the figure was that day-to-day spending Industries Limited were suspended effective December 10th, 2019. the second highest for April by the government rose by The Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) wishes to advise that to facilitate the closing of the Scheme of Arrangement effected since records began. £204.1bn to £942.7bn last by way of Section 99 of the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda involving the transfer of all the issued and outstanding shares in Borrowing has been year. Sagicor Financial Corporation Limited to Alignvest Acquisition II, it has suspended trading in the security Sagicor Financial hitting record levels with The huge amount of Corporation Limited. billions being spent on borrowing over the past measures such as furlough year has now pushed payments. government debt up to The Office for National £2.17 trillion, which is 98.5 Statistics (ONS) now per cent of GDP – a rate estimates that the not seen since the early government borrowed a 1960s. 22 • Wednesday May 26, 2021 The Barbados Advocate

Lille won at Angers on Sunday to finish one point ahead of Paris St-Germain at the top of the table. Galtier leaves French champions Lille two days after winning title CHRISTOPHE GALTIER has He had been expected to leave after cision. the club - with the side in serious rele- stepped down as head coach of new owners took control of the club The announcement came after gation danger. Lille just two days after they won halfway through the season. Lille took part in an open-top bus After keeping them up he then took the French league title. "I simply have the deep belief that parade in the centre of the city to Lille to second- and fourth-place fin- The 54-year-old helped Lille secure my time is up here," he told L'Equipe. celebrate the title win with fans on ishes over the next two seasons before their first Ligue 1 championship in a He said he was moving on to avoid Tuesday. this season's title. decade on Sunday, finishing one point "falling into a routine". Galtier took over at Lille in December Galtier has been linked with the man- ahead of Paris St-Germain. Lille later said they accepted his de- 2017 following Marcelo Bielsa's time at agerial jobs at Nice and Lyon. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday May 26, 2021 •23

P R O HOROSCOPES S A Aries - You could react impulsively then look back and N wish you hadn't. If someone disagrees with you, count D to ten and don't give in to temper. Family problems that have been ignored will be brought out into the open C and with everyone more willing to talk, these can now O be solved satisfactorily. N S Taurus - If you are learning new skills, the more you practice, the better you will get. Your confidence in yourself is starting to grow and by this evening, there is nothing anyone can do or say to deflate the faith you now have in yourself. An adventurous friend's com- pany will be inspirational.

Gemini - A business proposal will not have strings at- tached although you may suspect this, at first. If you Z look suspicious, this will go against you. Show your I interest and ask for time to think about it. Discussing the future and new possibilities with a close tie will T help you analyse your thoughts and decide on what you S really want.

Cancer - You and a romantic partner may decide to end your relationship because it is interfering with commit- ments one or both of you will already have. This is not going to be an easy decision for either of you. It will mean a lot of discussion and even when you have come to an agreement, you might still wonder if it's the right one. R E Leo - Someone close will take you by surprise by tak- X ing the initiative in a matter they have so far shown no interest in. You will be grateful for their support. There's a stronger sense of cooperation in the home. M This makes it easier to agree on future financial goals O and you will feel more confident about making R arrangements for the future. G A Virgo - If there is anything you don't understand, speak N out. People will be more understanding than you ex- pect and one person in particular will know exactly how to put you at your ease. If a relative is going out of their way to support and reassure you, be sure to let them see that you have noticed.

Libra - Your charisma is at an all-time high and your intuition is working at peak levels. A series of uplift- P ing experiences will make you excited about the future. H Relationships are improved through your willingness to go with the flow. Friends will enjoy your charming, A easy going company. N T Scorpio - You feel duty bound to give your time to a O group project even though you would rather not get so M deeply involved. People need your help and one way to handle the situation will be to keep your distance while giving others the support, guidance or practical assistance they are asking for.

Sagittarius - Taking up an opportunity that could bring many benefits into your life will also mean some big changes have to be made. A temporary separation M from someone who means a lot to you is something A you aren't looking forward to but this won't do your re- lationship any harm. Absence can make the heart grow R fonder. Y Capricorn - You can understand it when someone has W made a decision and does not intend to change it. You O can be stubborn yourself, at times. What's annoying is when a relative is making life difficult for you because R no matter how hard you try to reason with them, they're T not listening even though they're not making a good H choice.

Aquarius - An offer may be a one you would love to accept but the timing is all wrong. You may have to turn this opportunity down due to commitments else- M where. Responsibilities will ease eventually but for O now you need to try to hide your disappointment es- T pecially if you're sacrificing your own needs for some- H one you love. E R Pisces - Disagreements are occurring in places where there should be accord. People who are usually coop- G erative are being awkward. You would like help in a O matter that is causing you a lot of stress but you aren't O being supported. Although you're annoyed with some- one's attitude, the least said, the sooner it will be S mended. E Amir, Malik and Lamichhane sign for Hero CPL Page 17

Wednesday May 26, 2021 NEUTRAL PARTY NEEDED Attorney: Barbados in need of a Human Rights Commissioner or Ombudsman

A CALL has been made should sincerely agitate for a Human Rights for some sort of independ- Commissioner or ent Human Rights Ombudsman in Commissioner as they Barbados, who can have in New Zealand or serve as an independ- Humans Right ent party to investigate Ombudsman as they have complaints about in places like Slovenia, to human rights breaches ensure that there is a gen- and other alleged uine, transparent, objec- wrongs committed in tive, non-bias, neutral in- the country. vestigation, not only of is- The call came recently sues like this, but general from Attorney-at-Law issues.” Lalu Hanuman, as he “So people who have noted that a Human complaints about the gov- Rights Commissioner ernment in terms of should be the one making human rights issues, they an investigation into the can approach that Human death of Shaquon Cave, Rights Commissioner or who it is said died in po- Human Rights lice custody over a year Ombudsman and that ago, but answers are still person then can investi- forthcoming. He noted gate and publish a report. that matters like these I think this is what we and any other matters in should be campaigning for need of investigation in Barbados and I think should be given to an in- it is quite opportune at dependent party, even as this time as well,” the at- he took issue with mem- torney stressed. bers of the Royal Pointing out that Barbados Police Force Barbados will become a doing their own investiga- Republic by November of tion into the matter. this year, he added, “This “There is need in is a great opportunity to Barbados for a transpar- Attorney-at-Law Lalu Hanuman (above). change our Constitution. ent investigation process. That article could be put It is a breach of natural Commissioner of Police is that it is genuinely trans- Shaquon’s father Andrew said, “I hope your son’s into the new Constitution, justice in effect, to have given a certain role and as parent and independent, Cave and mother Trudy death is not in vain. the Republic Constitution, any role of the police in an such, it means that given that there is a role Chow during a recent Nothing can replace him to ensure that there is ei- investigation of them- anybody objectively look- for the Commissioner of press conference convened and substitute for the ther a Human Rights selves. Under the ing at that investigation Police,” Hanuman pointed by the Caribbean pain and suffering you Commissioner or Human Barbadian Police process would be some- out. Movement for Peace and feel, but if anything, I Rights Ombudsman in Complaints Authority,the what challenged to say Speaking directly to Integration, Hanuman think as a group we place.” Childhood obesity in Barbados not a genetic problem By Krystal Penny Bowen Training session. The UWI lecturer counter that with the ef- 40 per cent vegetables. nal” finding for Dr. Sobers. She further argued that stressed that there is still fect that obesity spending Additionally, 80 per cent The medical profes- ONE local leading re- this condition is not a be- a need to highlight that will have on the govern- of Barbadian primary sional noted that this is searcher has revealed that havioral problem either. there is an obesity prob- ment in general,” said Dr. school children access the not good enough as chil- childhood obesity in Dr. Sobers said children lem. She noted that the Sobers. school meals department. dren are placed in an obe- Barbados is not a genetic have been placed in an implementation of nutri- In her research, 73 per sogenic environment issue as 40 years ago, obesogenic environment tion policy is not based on We are not giving cent of the students re- which makes it difficult 31 per cent of Barbadian and this problem is multi- physical health, but also children choices ported drinking one or for them to make the right children were not obese. faceted. mental health and the Dr. Sobers noted that in more carbonated bever- choices. Dr. Natasha Sobers, a “We must have an un- economic wellbeing of the an audit of 24 schools, stu- ages per day with 18.5 per “It is important for us to University of the West derstanding of the obeso- individual and the coun- dents have an availability cent of students consum- create an environment Indies (UWI) lecturer in genic environment. We try. of 100 per cent sugar- ing fast food three to four that allows our children to Epidemiology,shared this have to understand the “When we speak about sweetened beverages with times a week and stu- have healthier options so information during the re- impact of the lack of phys- what some policies will 90 percent availability of dents indicating not con- that’s all we are doing cent Childhood Obesity ical activity” said Dr. have on the earnings of unhealthy snacks and suming any vegetables for with the nutrition Prevention Online Media Sobers. big business then we only 20 per cent fruits and the month, a “phenome- policy,”said Dr. Sobers.

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