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Wednesday August 19, 2020 $1 VAT Inclusive When will Nelson be moved? GOVERNMENT is being for the ‘Nelson Statue’ to location in Bridgetown consultation on the identi- which ends on August 23. wants an update from urged to state definitely be moved, and in recent was to be no more. In that fication of a location for Government as soon as when the statue of Lord times those calls were statement released the statue, adding that it With just a few days be- possible. Moreover, he is Nelson will be removed stepped up and resulted through the Government was intended that the re- fore that date, General calling for the removal of from National Heroes’ last month in the Minister Information Service at the moval and determination Secretary of the the statue to be a public Square in The City. with responsibility for time, it was also revealed of a new location would Caribbean Movement for event. Over the years there Culture, John King, an- that Cabinet agreed there take place during the Peace and Integration have been repeated calls nouncing that its prime should be further public Season of Emancipation, (CMPI), David Denny STATUE on Page 2 STUDENTS HAPPY WITH EXAM RESULTS THE results are in and Micah Francois of the Hilda Skeene Primary School and St. Gabriel’s Schools’ very own Ayobami Leon-Barker are respectively the top overall boy and girl of the 2020 Barbados Secondary Schools’ Entrance Examination. Leon-Barker was the top student overall, with 100% in Mathematics and 99% in the English exam for a total converted score of 244.31 A. Speaking to the media, 11-year-old Leon-Barker said that she jumped up upon hearing the news and was happy with the results along with being excited to be able to attend the school she had her heart set on, Harrison College. "I feel really happy because it was a long time taken to get here and I am glad it is over and I get to go where I wanted to go," explained the young lady. The top girl also high- lighted the swimming program at Harrison College as being the catalyst behind her dream of attending the institution. Ayobami Leon-Barker of the St. Gabriel’s School is the top overall student of the 2020 Barbados Secondary Schools’ Entrance Exam. Here she is flanked by her father and mother, Ekundayo (left) and LaTeisha Leon-Barker. GREAT on Page 3 INSET: Jayden Payne of Eden Lodge Primary School was the top boy in English.

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Another protest planned for this Saturday to strengthen movement’s position STATUE from Page 1 that the people of will also be an opportu- Barbados can go there nity “to celebrate that “The Caribbean and witness the re- long walk, that long Movement for Peace moval of Lord Nelson struggle”, which began and Integration wants from our National with the Bussa Rebellion the Government of Heroes Square,” the in 1816, into the 1937 Barbados to issue a CMPI General Riots, to today with the statement, so that the Secretary stated. call for the removal of people of Barbados Denny added in the Lord Nelson. would know the date statement released to the “This is an important and time that Lord media yesterday after- thing for us,” he insisted. Nelson would be re- noon, that the CMPI in- His remarks came he moved from our tends to organise another reiterated that the CMPI National Heroes’ protest this Saturday, though pleased that the Square, because we August 22 in an effort to Government of Barbados Lord Nelson statue in National Heroes’ Square. feel very strongly that “strengthen” their posi- agreed to remove the this activity in rela- tion as it relates to the statue, believes that tion to the removal of removal of the controver- Government must be pre- Lord Nelson should be sial statue. Likewise, he pared to provide the pub- a public activity, so said Saturday’s protest lic with those details. CARILEC partners with CARICOM in facilitating energy policy reform Castries, St. Lucia – The regulatory support and timely initiative. We have Caribbean Community electric utility services. been partnering with the (CARICOM) Energy With over seventy per- Secretariat for many Policy and Regulations cent (70%) of CARILEC years, more specifically to Help Desk is now estab- Member Utilities operat- engage in capacity build- lished with effect from ing in CARICOM ing and the exchange of July 29, 2020. Member States, ideas and perspectives on Collaborating with CARI- CARILEC’s collaboration regulatory reform for ad- COM to realize this mile- with CARICOM on this vancing the transition of stone were the Technical venture was fitting. In re- the sector. We look for- Assistance Programme cent times, the Caribbean ward to this collaboration for Sustainable Energy in Region has endured mul- and believe that it is vital the Caribbean (TAPSEC) tiple hazards in the face that we make the neces- and the Caribbean of climate change and sary advancements with Electric Utilities natural disasters. These the legislative and regu- Corporation (CARILEC). challenges are com- latory framework, in The purpose of the pounded by the high cost order to facilitate the CARICOM Energy Policy of fuel globally. CARILEC transitioning of the en- and Regulations Help and its Member Utilities ergy mix within the re- Desk is to provide CARI- have remained proactive gion. We commend the COM Member States in their pursuits to facili- CARICOM Secretariat on with the required techni- tate the transition of the launch of this Help cal support in order to power systems to sustain- Desk and we recommit cultivate an environment able energy or at least be- and reaffirm our support which promotes the criti- come partially sustain- for this most important cal transition to sustainable. initiative”. able energy. Two overar- CARILEC’s Executive CARILEC’s Member ching objectives drive the Director, Dr. Cletus Utilities are among the operations of the Help Bertin, expressed his sat- agencies which have been Desk, namely (1) the isfaction with this ven- approved to request tech- modernisation of energy ture and briefly explained nical assistance from the policies and legislation as the nature of CARILEC’s Help Desk. Interested well as the implementa- partnership with the Utilities can email ener- tion of actions and pro- CARICOM Secretariat in [email protected] grammes which are con- launching the Help Desk, g for further information sistent with national pol- “CARILEC is extremely on the technical assis- icy objectives, and (2) the pleased to partner with tance available to them review or modernisation the CARICOM and for further details on of regulatory frameworks, Secretariat on this very the application process. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday August 19, 2020 • 3 Leon-Barker and Francois come out on top in 2020 BSSEE GREAT from Page 1 student who is diligent The Barbados Advocate her middle name instead "I am a swimmer and I and focused. This is a cul- that he was very excited of her first. heard they had a good mination of years of very when he heard the news "I was listening to the re- swim team and I just good discipline on her that he was the top stu- port on the computer and I like how it is and how it part," said Blackett. dent and jumped up in cel- heard Malia Mayers from looks," said Leon- Micah Francois of Hilda ebration. Payne said that Trinity Academy and I Barker. Skeene was the top boy, he was nervous while he heard my school, but I was Principal of St. Gabriel’s scoring 243.57 B overall. awaited the results, but it like is there a Malia School, Angela Blackett With 100% in was all worth it as he will Mayers in my class? I re- was pleased with the re- Mathematics and 98% in be attending Queen’s alised after it was me," sult of having the top over- English, the shining light College come September. joked Mayers. all student, stating that from the east will be at- Ashley Mayers of Trinity Mother of Ashley, Leon-Barker was always a tending Queen’s College in Academy was one of the Michelle Mayers said that focused student. the coming new term. top ten overall students her daughter was focused "We are absolutely over- The top student in with 242.50 A and ex- on getting to Queen’s whelmed with happiness English, Jayden Payne of plained that she was ex- College and even after she for Ayobami and her fam- Eden Lodge Primary cited and still in shock at found out she was in the ily.Ayobami has been with School was the only stu- the announcement. She top 10 students, she was us for her whole primary dent to score a rare and also said that she was con- happier at being able to at- school career and she has perfect 100% in the fused by the announce- tend the Husbands, St. always been the type of English exam. Payne told ment as they had called James institution. (AS) Top 10 BSSEE Overall Performers 1.Ayobami Leon-Barker (St. Gabriel’s School) - 244.31 6. Soraya Goddard (St. Luke’s Academy) - 242.50 C A (Harrison College) (The St. Michael School) 2. Alaina Sobers (Wesley Hall Junior School) - 243.57 7. Tazara Griffith (West Terrace Primary) - 242.30 A B (Harrison College) (Queen’s College) 3. Micah Francois (Hilda Skeene Primary) - 243.57 B 8. Jayden King (St. Cyprian’s Boys) - 242.30 A (Queen’s College) (Harrison College) 4. Janae Rowe (Bayley’s Primary) - 242.83 A (Queen’s 9. Ishmile Alleyne (St. Winifred’s) - 242.30 B (Queen’s Principal of the St. Gabriel’s School, Angela College) College) Blackett was extremely pleased with the results 5.Ashley Mayers (Trinity Academy) - 242.50 A (Queen’s 10. Bianca Massiah (Providence) - 242.30 B (Harrison of the 2020 BSSEEE. College) College) Students do better in English than Mathematics EDUCATION Minister, were allocated to public 35 students, 22 males and 4.7 from 65.26 in 2019 to above the national mean.” pared to the national Santia Bradshaw an- secondary schools as com- thirteen 13 females, ob- 60.93. In 2018 it was 65.26. Turning her attention to mean of 65.74 in 2019. nounced the BSSEE re- pared to 97.5 percent in tained 100 percent. Similarly,the performance the English paper, the Further analysis of the sults yesterday while ad- 2019, 93.5 percent in 2018 She further stated “this for males dipped by 2.33 Education Minister said data also shows that there dressing a press confer- and 93.1 percent in 2017.” year the national mean in from 57.88 in 2019 to 55.55 15 pupils earned the dis- has been a marginal in- ence at the ministry’s Focusing primarily on this subject was 58.24 in 2020. In 2018 it was tinction of being named crease in the overall per- headquarters. the Mathematics results, which is a decline by 3.34 59.73.” She noted the de- among the top performers formance of females over Bradshaw told the she stated 24 students, 14 from 2019 which was cline “in the students’ over- in this subject. She noted the three-year period media of the students who males and ten 10 females, 61.58. In 2018, the na- all performance in the overall national mean 2018-2020 whereas male wrote the examination on scored full marks on the tional mean was 62.46”. Mathematics has been ob- this year was 69.25. performance indicates a this occasion “3226 or 94.5 Mathematics paper. This She added the “female served in a number of pub- “This represents an in- marginal decline,” she percent of the candidates is a drop from 2019 when performance dropped by lic schools which perform crease by 3.51 when com- added. (MG)

TOP STUDENTS IN MATHEMATICS 23 WATKINS, LIAM WEST TERRACE PRIMARY 100 122.32 No. Student Name School RAW SCORE CONVERTED 24 WILTSHIRE, JACOBY ST CATHERINES PRIMARY 100 122.32 SCORE 1 ALEXANDER, TOP PERFORMERS IN ENGLISH RAPHEAL ST PATRICKS R C 100 122.32 No PRIMARY SCHOOL NAME RAW SCORE CONVERTED 2 ALLEYNE, SHAKA ST STEPHENS PRIMARY 100 122.32 SCORE 3 BARROW, DARREN GORDON GREENIDGE 100 122.32 1 EDEN LODGE PRIMARY PAYNE, JAYDEN JOSIAH 100 122.73 4 BEST, JAZZAIR BLACKMAN & GOLLOP100 122.32 2 ST. GABRIEL’S LEON-BARKER, AYOBAMI 99 121.99 5 BOXILL, DEUEL ST ANGELAS PRIMARY 100 122.32 3 HILDA SKEENE PRIMARY FRANCOIS, MICAH KELLON 98 121.25 6 CARTER, ZAIRE EDEN LODGE PRIMARY 100 122.32 4 ST. LUKE’S ACADEMY GODDARD, SORAYA TAYLOR 7 DRAKES, ELYSSA WEST TERRACE PRIMARY 100 122.32 SAVANNAH 98 121.25 8 FRANCOIS, MICAH HILDA SKEENE PRIMARY 100 122.32 5 CHARLES F. BROOME JONES,NAEEM RAPHAEL 98 121.25 9 FREDERICK, ALEXEI BRIDGETOWN S D A 100 122.32 6 TRINITY ACADEMY MAYERS, ASHLEY SASHA 10 HOLDER, CHERIKA WILLS PRIMARY 100 122.32 MALIA 98 121.25 11 HOLLINGSWORTH, 7 WESLEY HALL JUNIORS SOBERS, ALAINA LEZLIE 98 121.25 TIARAH HILLABY TURNERS HALL 100 122.32 8 ST. WINIFRED’S PRIMARY ALLEYNE, ISHMILE RYU 97 120.51 12 HUTCHINSON- 9 THE ROCK CHRISTIAN BROOME, JONATHAN MAGUIRE LUCAS PROVIDENCE ELEMENTARY 100 122.32 BARRACK 97 120.51 13 JACKMAN, DANIEL THE ROCK CHRISTIAN 100 122.32 10 WEST TERRACE PRIMARY GRIFFITH, TAZARA 14 JOHN, ETHAN BAYLEYS PRIMARY 100 122.32 SAPPHIRE 97 120.51 15 LEON-BARKKER, 11 WEST TERRACE PRIMARY HOLDFORD, SOLANGE AYOBAMI ST GABRIELS 100 122.32 PATRICE AMOUR 97 120.51 16 LOWE, GABRIELLE PEOPLES CATHHEDRAL 100 122.32 12 ST. CYPRIAN’S PRIMARY KING, JAYDEN ANTHONY 17 NURSE, DANIEL BAYLEYS PRIMARY 100 122.32 NATHANIEL 97 120.51 18 ROWE, JANAE BAYLEYS PRIMARY 100 122.32 13 PROVIDENCE MASSIAH, BIANCA MARIE 97 120.51 19 SOBERS, ALAINA WESLEY HALL JUNIOR 100 122.32 14 BAYLEY’S PRIMARY ROWE, JANAE MALEAH 97 120.51 20 STOUTE, HEIDI ST WINIFREDS 100 122.32 15 ST. GABRIEL’S WALCOTT, KRISTEN JOY 21 VIDAL, MALACHI ST STEPHENS PRIMARY 100 122.32 EVADENE 97 120.51 22 WATERMAN, HANNAH ST GABRIELS 100 122.32 4• Wednesday August 19, 2020 The Barbados Advocate No major difference in ‘Early exam sitters do well’ COME September, three of the dent fell below the criteria of 85 2020 BSSEE results six students who wrote this percent and that was in year’s Barbados Secondary English.” Schools’ Entrance Examination The Education Minister said (BSSEE) early will be attend- on this occasion “requests were ing Harrison College. made for 17 students to write says Education Minister This was revealed on Tuesday the examination early as com- when Education Minister, pared to 14 in 2019 and 13 stu- By Marsha Gittens and their hands sanitized prior the performance of students at Santia Bradshaw announced dents in 2018. Of the 17 re- to entering the examination cen- both levels and the Ministry has the results of the 2020 BSSEE quests made in 2020, only [six] EDUCATION Minister tres on the day of the test. been taking steps to ensure that at the Ministry’s Bridgetown satisfied the stipulated criteria Santia Bradshaw says this This year’s BSSEE was origi- both in English and Maths that headquarters. The others will and were granted permission to year’s Barbados Secondary nally slated for May 5th. we drill down to allow our teach- be attending The St. Michael write the examination.” Schools’ Entrance However, it was postponed until ers to be retooled to be able to School and Queen’s College. Those who wrote the 2020 Examination (BSSEE) re- July 14th because of the deliver instruction in a more in- This year, six boys, who are Common Entrance sults were not significantly COVID-19 pandemic. Ahead of teresting way. under the age of 11-years-old, Examination early were St. different from those of previ- the exam, the Class 4s had four She further added, “We have were given permission to take Cyprian’s Preparatory Boys’ ous years. weeks of face-to-face sessions introduced things like coding as the test early having met the School’s: Micah Mapp, Joshua Her comments came while re- with their teacher. Prior to this, well to teachers because they requirements outlined in the Morris, Luke Springer and sponding to a question relating students attended classes too in a lot of the sessions done Education Act. Of these, four at- Caleb Clarke. The first three to what impact COVID-19 had through online platforms dur- with them recognise that chil- tended the St. Cyprian’s will be attending Harrison on the final outcome of the 2020 ing the national lockdown. dren use technology in their day- Preparatory Boys’ School while College while the latter was al- BSSEE. “The results are not much dif- to-day lives and we have to be one attended the Bridgetown located to Queen’s College. On this occasion, the Common ferent from the results in previ- able to make learning similar to Seventh-Day Adventist (S.D.A) Ajani Wharton of Trinity Entrance test was administered ous years. We haven’t seen a what they do in their playtime Primary School and the other Academy also sat the exam at 21 government secondary drastic difference in the num- because that is the only way attended Trinity Academy. early. He will be attending The schools and the Samuel bers and so I don’t know that I that we are going to be able to Speaking about the results of St. Michael School when the up- Jackman Prescod Institute. A can say that there has been a engage them. So a number of the early sitters, Bradshaw said coming school term starts on total of 3381 students wrote the significant difference in the our teachers are learning behind two scored above 90 percent in September 21st. Meanwhile, exam on July 14th under strict scores of the students.” the scenes how to create content both Mathematics and English. Asaiah Roach of the Bridgetown COVID-19 health and safety Bradshaw continued, “We from the syllabus and deliver it She also noted that “all [six] stu- S.D.A. Primary School will be measures. These included hav- have always known that we in an interesting way to the students scored above 90 percent in going to Queen’s College. ing their temperatures checked have had some challenges with dents as well.” Mathematics and “only one stu- (MG)

The Barbados Advocate Wednesday August 19, 2020 • 5 BDF seeking to strengthen its medical capabilities THE Barbados Defence Force the donation which included a nebuliser, (BDF) is seeking to strengthen its oxygen masks, a defibrillator, an indus- medical capabilities and a recent trial fridge for the blood bank, a suction donation of medical equipment pump, an oxygen concentrator and other from the Rotary Club of Barbados supplies. West to the BDF, to the tune of just President of the Rotary Club of over Bds $36,000, will assist in this Barbados, Trevor Williams meanwhile endeavour. remarked, “We are glad to be able to as- Lt. Col Junior Browne, who serves as sist in this regard. Fundraising may be Coordinator of the Barbados Defence a bit challenging, but we will continue to Force’s Medical Emergency Team ac- ensure that we assist, wherever possi- Lt. Col Junior Browne (right), who serves as Coordinator of the Barbados knowledged the above, as he joined ble.” Defence Force’s Medical Emergency Team, speaks about how the donation Chief of Staff of the BDF,Colonel Glyne Immediate Past President of the Club, of medical equipment and supplies will assist the BDF, as Chief of Staff of Grannum and other BDF personnel in Jean St. John meanwhile gave details the Barbados Defence Force (BDF), Colonel Glyne Grannum (left) and Major the Officers’ Mess at St. Ann’s Fort, The about how the donation became possi- David Binks, Facilities Manager look on. Garrison, St. Michael yesterday, to re- ble. ceive the donation of medical equipment “The Rotary Club of Barbados West, “On behalf of the Rotary Club of gift that keeps on giving. Your support and supplies. with funding from a District Grant, was Barbados West, I would like to say thank enables Rotarians to contribute to the “This donation from the Rotary Club able to donate to the BDF Emergency you to our many friends and supporters Rotary Foundation, which in turn pro- of Barbados West to the Barbados Medical Team Facility equipment val- of Rotary events and projects. When you vides funding, in the form of District Defence Force’s Field Medical Facility, ued at $36,031.13. give to Rotary,your donation becomes a Grants,” St. John remarked. (RSM) will enable the Barbados Defence Force to build its capability to respond to medical emergencies, not only here in Barbados, but across the region as well,” Lt. Col. Browne asserted. “As you know, the Barbados Defence Force and Barbados is part of CDEMA’s regional response mechanism. So therefore, we do have some responsibility going forward post disaster, to our neighbours throughout the region. So this addition of equipment will see us being able to move more towards the Type 2 WHO (World Health Organisation) classification of the emergency medical teams,” he said. He stressed, “The BDF is well known for its security related responses, but however, we want to strengthen our ability to respond, in terms of medical and our engineering capabilities.” Chief of Staff of the BDF, Colonel Glyne Grannum also placed on record his appreciation for the donation. “We are very happy that Rotary can Chief of Staff of the Barbados Defence Force (BDF), Colonel Glyne Grannum (fourth from left), Lt. Col Junior Browne come on board with us as a partner, in (third from right), who serves as Coordinator of the Barbados Defence Force’s Medical Emergency Team and this community effort. We are very,very President of the Rotary Club of Barbados, Trevor Williams (third from left) with BDF and Rotary personnel, following happy and very appreciative,” he said of the handover of medical equipment and supplies. Presentation possible through collaboration BREAKING CYCLE from Back Page starting small businesses; looking at en- tougher and noted that the initiative was cerned that 75% of the inmates at Dodds trepreneurship. So that when our young aimed at ensuring that all former in- were men under 30 years, he said that members of Prison Fellowship Barbados gentlemen come from prison, they will mates were not as short-handed in the there was an uphill battle being fought and we will be acquiring equipment to do come to the centre, they will have some race. against the status quo. landscaping as a means of raising funds, behaviour change modifications, we will “When these guys come out of prison “These are our young boys that are so that when the prisoners come out they look at helping them with some basic and they apply for a job, from the time coming out of school with no skills, noth- will have a sort of financial stability.That computer skills and we will also have the employers hear that they are out of ing to do and they end up in crime. So we is one of the problems that we have – no some equipment on-hand so that they prison, that is the last day that they are working as an organisation; we do finances and they end back up in prison can start some small businesses,” she would have worked. Now with the job classes in the prison two days a week, we – so we try to break the cycle,” Dowden said. situation in the country after COVID- are hoping to open computer classes. We said. FirstCaribbean Bank was represented 19, it makes it triply harder for offenders are also hoping in that class to teach With the relationship struck up by the by Business Development Manager to get a job because everybody is fighting them values, behaviour change, how to National HIV/AIDS Commission, their Raymond Ward and he said that the for the same job and as an offender, you deal with addiction, how to deal with cer- Behaviour Change Specialist, Cecelia bank was pleased to be a part of the ven- become the lowest on the totem pole to tain problems. We are trying, from our Neblett-Murray stated that the ture.“First Caribbean is with the society get that job so your chances are reduced end, to work with the young men in there Commission used their connections with and we are all for community.We com- every time.We are trying to nip that in and moreover to work with the children civil society organisations and donors to mend you for the work that you are doing the bud because we don’t have the fi- so that they don’t end up in there.We for- make the presentation possible. and it is a pleasure for us this morning nances to support them and we also want get that the children are also stigma- “We reached out to FirstCaribbean to donate these weed whackers so you them to get a chance to support them- tised by the behaviour of their parents Bank and they were willing to work with can assist persons in their transition selves and their families. They have got and that is something that we have to us on this partnership, whereby we re- back into society,” he said. children and they have bills like every- deal with in this society. Children are quested some weed whackers so that we Dowden added that the current cli- body else,” Dowden said. not responsible for what their parents can make sure that we are looking at mate made competition for work even Going on to say that he was very con- do,” he said. (MP)

6 • Wednesday August 19, 2020 The Barbados Advocate Volunteers participate in DEM simulation exercise COMMUNITY volun- nity to network. “The season is one that teers of the District “We would have gone is expected to be active so Emergency about volunteer engage- we are always in a con- Organizations were ment sessions over the stant state of readiness. pressed into action on past couple of months, en- We seek to refine our Saturday as a tropical couraging persons to join plans and procedures on storm made its way from our various commu- an ongoing basis and we over the island. nities, so that we can in- are ever mindful of the It was all part of a radio crease the complement of fact that although we are simulation operation community volunteers. in the hurricane season, called ‘Exercise Now these community there are various other Montgomery’ and looked volunteers are so impor- hazards that we have to at various scenarios in- tant to our national emer- treat to,” Hinds contin- volved in preparation for gency management sys- ued. a storm’s strike and the tem and they augment She insisted the DEM Department of Emergency Management Director Kerry Hinds. rescue and clean up oper- the resources of the na- had a pervasive, commu- ations in the aftermath. tional agencies such as nity resilience education One hundred and four the Department of program aimed at educat- volunteers took part in Emergency Management, ing the public of these var- the Department of the Barbados Fire ious hazards, including Second test reveals one Emergency Management Service, the Royal hurricanes, earthquakes (DEM) exercise, which Barbados Police Force, and tsunamis, “and the re- was held at Queen’s MTW and such. So this sponses they would have College, and held discus- exercise is to ensure that to ensure they do when new COVID-19 case sions on emergency re- we in Barbados are ready faced with these hazards, A VISITOR to the island his initial negative PCR 24.There are now 153 con- sponse, the capability of for any eventuality,” DEM emergencies or disasters tested positive for COVID- test on August 12. He has firmed cases in Barbados, the communication sys- Director Kerry Hinds told that may result due to 19 after a second test for now been transferred to and 122 people have re- tem and used the opportu- members of the media. these occurrences.” (JMB) the viral illness yesterday. isolation at Harrison covered. The 29-year-old man, Point, St. Lucy. The Best-dos Santos from the United States, Meanwhile, no one Public Health Laboratory was in quarantine up to leaves the isolation facility completed 132 tests yes- yesterday when he was today, so the numbers terday, bringing the total retested, five days after there have increased to to date to 14,674. CARICOM leaders prepare for hurricanes amid COVID-19 pandemic HEADS of Government of the Grenadines, the Chair the disease. They agreed the Caribbean of the Conference of Heads to encourage the enforce- Community (CARICOM) of Government. ment of protocols for pub- have received proposals The Heads of lic health measures to re- for dealing with the possi- Government noted that duce the risk of closure of bility of responding to a countries in the Region key sectors and loss of life. hurricane within the had already been grap- In acknowledging the COVID-19 outbreak. pling with a multi-hazard progress of the COVID-19 At their 11th Special scenario since January Tourism Task Force in de- Meeting held by video con- 2020. This included a veloping tourism guide- ference on Monday 17 drought in some States lines and training work- August, the Heads of which, according to the ers, Heads of Government Government recognised Caribbean Institute for agreed to support ap- that such an occurrence Meteorology and proaches that promote would add a significant Hydrology (CIMH), has testing before travellers layer of complexity and persisted since 2019 and leave the sending coun- would have an impact on the COVID-19 outbreak. tries as well as testing on regional response efforts. Heads of Government arrival in the Member The Caribbean Public stressed the need for con- State.This would promote Health Agency (CARPHA) tinued vigilance of the sustainability of the re- and the Caribbean Health and Border turn of safe tourism in Disaster Emergency Authorities to prevent CARICOM. Management Agency more importation of new They mandated (CDEMA) made presenta- cases of COVID-19. This CARPHA to prepare a tions to the meeting which needs to be matched by framework for the proto- was presided over by Dr heightened national sur- cols to operate a bubble the Honourable Ralph veillance to prevent the within the region to facil- Gonsalves, Prime establishment of the com- itate travel and boost do- Minister of St Vincent and munity transmission of mestic tourism. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday August 19, 2020 • 7 Chinese premier stresses financial support for real economy CHINESE Premier Li Keqiang on has gone directly to city and county gov- meeting. Monday stressed efforts to ensure ernments to enhance fiscal strength at More efforts should be made to benefit that new fiscal funds directly benefit grassroots levels. market entities by keeping the liquidity at businesses and people to consolidate Such progress has boosted government a reasonable and ample level while sup- the foundation of the country’s efforts in aiding market entities, stabilis- porting the real economy,especially small restorative growth. ing employment and ensuring people’s businesses, with a variety of monetary Li made the remarks while presiding livelihood, and accelerating restorative policy tools, it said. over an executive meeting of the State economic growth, it said. Financial support towards market en- Council. For the next stage, the meeting said ef- tities should be more convenient, accord- Li also called for strengthening the im- forts will be made to prompt local govern- ing to the meeting, which encouraged the plementation of financial policies de- ments to spend the allocated funds on employment of big data systems that can signed to back the real economy to help market entities and people’s livelihood, serve as handy liaisons between banks market entities relieve their strains, and closely monitor the use of the funds, and and companies. seek further development. strictly deal with irregularities and mis- China’s loan prime rate reform should Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. By early August, nearly 300 billion use of the funds once they are spotted. be further deepened to guide the lending yuan (about 43.3 billion US dollars) of In the first seven months, more than rates lower, and more measures shall be To promote employment of normal the two-trillion-yuan newly increased fis- 870 billion yuan in financial burdens were taken to facilitate the financing of small graduates, the meeting also decided to cal funds have been used to support tax exempted for market entities thanks to and micro businesses, it said. allow graduates of qualified colleges to and fee cuts, according to the meeting. the government’s supportive policies, in- The meeting also stressed carrying out acquire teacher certifications, with school Meanwhile, as far as the rest of the 1.7 cluding tax and fee cuts and deferring inspections on unreasonable and illegal assessments of teaching abilities instead trillion yuan in new funds, 97.8 percent loan and interest repayments, said the bank charges. of exams.

Suzhou eyes more foreign talents THE government of Suzhou, East China’s a press conference on Friday. Jiangsu Province, pledged to attract more The city aims at attracting 10 000 foreign talent to work and live in the city high-level talents by the end of 2022, by rolling out policies amid the COVID-19 including 2 500 foreign high-level talents, and tense China-US relations. Gu said. For those who have already started As of the end of June, the city had their career in Suzhou, the city govern- 11 800 foreign talents with work permits. ment launched a pilot programme to However due to the impact of the allow foreigners to attain work and COVID-19 pandemic, the number of residence permits easier and faster. foreign talents the city attracted in the The Suzhou city government also first half of this year has reduced arranged charter flights to fly back compared with the same period last year. foreign employees who could not timely Since the end of June, the city launched return to the city for work due to a new pilot programme allowing foreign- COVID-19. ers working in the city to enjoy quicker ap- Gu Wanyong, deputy director of Suzhou proval of work and residence permits. Bureau of Science and Technology, said Under the pilot programme, foreigners the city would remove age restrictions for can apply for both work and residence foreign high-end talents, and lift the age permits at the special window of work Two foreigners submit their applications at the special window of work and resi- restrictions for other eligible foreign pro- and residence permits for high-end dence permits for high-end foreign talents in the Suzhou Area of the Jiangsu fessionals to 70 years old. foreign talents at Suzhou Area of the Pilot Free Trade Zone. Other measures included establishing Jiangsu Pilot Free Trade Zone, and a credit system for companies that hire they can receive the two permits in about security bureau – in applying for the two 112 applications were handled, said foreign talents so that such companies 15 days. permits, and they had to wait for Xu Ying, a police officer from the exit can enjoy preferential policies to help Previously, foreigners had to visit two 25 working days to get them. and entry administration of Suzhou their foreign employees submit materials government agencies – local science and Since the implementation of the industrial park branch of the public required for work permits, he said at technology commission and public programme on June 30, a total of security bureau.

European companies expand business in China, not succumbed to US pressure MANY European companies in China huge market and promising economy. downturn in Europe. “People in Europe been subject to high tariffs, and they may that emphasise global collaboration are Emin Guemues, division manager of need jobs to support their family, and we consider sending these products back to deciding to further tap into the Chinese Kern-Liebers Taicang company, the first see opportunities in China,” he said. Europe and exporting them to the US market and expand their investment in German company established in Taicang He mentioned the motive behind the from there to avoid the high tariffs. China in spite of repeated US attempts to in 1993, said what the US is doing in US political game is that it is worried that The problem is quite challenging for build an European alliance against Europe is “stupid,” as European China’s growing strength would threaten now, as US exportation accounts for China. companies,especially German companies its position as the world’s leading 50 percent of their business. However as European company representatives will not listen to the Trump administra- superpower. The US has constantly they are aiming at expanding Chinese said the US is containing China out of tion. attacked China on issues like COVID-19, market to have it account for about fears China may threaten its dominant “As an automotive company, we value but the results of China’s COVID-19 70 percent of their business in the next position in the world, but that European markets and China has a huge automobile response in contrast with the US response five years, and the impact will be much businesses will not succumb to market compared with the US and has been clear for the world, he said. smaller, he said. US pressure or play the US’ political Europe.China produces around 25 million In the future, more countries will get In Taicang,such situations are not com- game. cars each year, while Europe only stronger, and a world with only mon as most German companies in China Representatives of several German produces five million,” he said. one superpower will not work, Guemues focus on the Chinese market, said companies in Taicang, Suzhou, East The company supplies to global said. Zhang Zhenwei, chairman of Taicang China’s Jiangsu Province - dubbed the automotive, textile and consumer goods Although some German companies in Roundtable, a platform linking Chinese town for German enterprises - industries and it is building a new factory Taicang had part of their business affected German companies with Taicang local told the Global Times they would not in Taicang as part of its long-term by the current deteriorating China-US government.The platform has 98 German follow American companies to move their development strategy for the next ten relations, they said it’s only temporary. companies as its members. production out of the Chinese mainland, years. Matjaz Brezigar, managing director of German companies prefer globalisation and instead would strengthen their He said Germany companies will not Mahle Electric Drives in Taicang said and global collaboration in doing business partnership with Chinese move out of Chinese market, as the huge some of the products that were produced business, and will say “no” to trade counterparts as they highly value China’s Chinese market offers jobs amid economic in China but exported to the US have protectionism, according to Zhang.

8 • Wednesday August 19, 2020 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 The hypocrisy of waste management By Dorian Bryan Opposition stood up in a could argue was well under the previous gov- debate and blasted the orchestrated. This news- ernment were blasted as THIS may not be lan- Government on the proj- paper, in seeking to pro- an issue which has to be Starting a guage which many have ect. We were treated to vide the company with a controlled, yet this admin- become accustomed to what was deemed an as- chance to make its case to istration, as a primary from the writer of this sault on the very fabric of the public through hear- solution has advanced new chapter column but after the this country.We were told ing from key officials was banning single-use plas- THE results of the 2020 Barbados Secondary comments related to a about the dangers of keep- told that we should extend tics and now seems Schools’ Entrance Examination were revealed proposed waste-to-energy ing the plant consistently the same courtesy to those amenable to waste-to-en- yesterday and hundreds of children are now that plant – I have to let out going and finding enough who effectively mobilised ergy as a solution. Why much closer to moving on to a new chapter a big long Bajan ‘stupes’. waste to facilitate its oper- what seemed to be a well- is it good now, but was in their lives. The political hypocrisy ations. We were told that funded opposition to the not then? The exam, traditionally referred to as the 11-Plus which is guised in a self- the Barbados Water movement. But ask your- The Environment or the Common Entrance, has long been a rite of righteous attempt to avoid Authority (BWA) would selves who stood to gain if Minister needs to tell the passage for youngsters as they choose a new any accountability related find it difficult to provide the project was mired in public what is the status of learning institution based on their performance in to the vitriol which was water to the facility, given political fallout and was the Sanitation Services the examination to continue their education. Over cast around the island its proposed location unable to proceed? Authority (SSA) head- the years though, there has been much controversy as it was revealed in in St. Thomas and in For a Minister of the quarters in Vaucluse, surrounding the exam and after repeated calls, 2016/2017 about the drought-related times – Crown, then in 2020, to St. Thomas. Have prob- it was expected to be abolished this year. proposed entry of how was that feasible? stand on the floor of lems been addressed? However, the focus shifted instead to the the plasma gasification Residents in St.Thomas Parliament and announce What is stopping the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and the impact it plant Cahill into the still cannot get water con- that a waste-to-energy SSA from moving its oper- has had on our society as we attempt to ward off in- Barbadian landscape. sistently and this was project would come to ations into that facility? coming risks through our borders and implement For months, the then used as a cudgel on the St. Thomas – Vaucluse to When will this govern- new behavioural norms of social distancing and self- Opposition went after the issue. In 2020, what has be exact and it landed like ment apologise for protection. Furthermore, in the latter part of the then government about improved? Look at the list- an anvil, shows that Greenland? When will it school year children and teachers were called upon the proposal to construct ing of water main disrup- Barbadians are not explain since it loves to ad- to devise new strategies for online learning while the facility. Reckless com- tions and if you see St. naive. dress bad policy decisions dealing with a host of limitations, including direct ments about the technol- James listed, expect low- Barbadians responded of others, why this country challenges like technological and time constraints, ogy would be classified as lying areas of Redman’s to being told that the tech- took on debt for a dump, and personal challenges like economic hardships creating conditions within Village and those fed by nology was unsafe. Groups which could not be used in and job losses, which affect entire families. the proposed plant as the Shop Hill reservoir to ran around this island and the end? In the face of all this, it is remarkable that both being “hotter than the feel the impact as they get some took out advertise- The move towards teachers and children were able to put aside obsta- sun”, were thrown into boosted water from the ments alleging that a waste-to-energy has impli- cles and go to work on the important job of teaching the debate… and it Trents station. Now if government was taking cations. What will be the our younger generation and, furthermore, get worked. Vaucluse is at a higher action that was a danger role of the SSA and what through an evaluation system that despite Bombarded by carefully altitude, explain this now to this country’s environ- will it cost consumers who flaws allows children to move forward crafted messaging related perfect situation which ment, yet those groups are will obviously be required in their development. to a proposed attempt was imperfect four years interestingly silent now.To to sort garbage and pur- by Ministers to allegedly ago, to an educated miraculously claim that chase equipment/special Moving on conceal the proposed public. under the push to add waste containers to differ- That being said, the experiences of 2020 has agreements surrounding On and on, the rantings renewable energy to the entiate between glass, definitely shown all of us that there needs to be a the potential project, the went back and forth as the mix of energy options in paper etc? What are change in how we as Barbadians operate – in every Opposition was successful fear and unease which this country, all makes it the long-term plans for sphere. Where it regards education, though it may in condemning the were stoked achieved the right to accept a waste- to- the Mangrove dump? not require a huge jump into a totally online Democratic Labour Party ultimate objective. People energy plant now, is an Who is behind the syllabus, more consideration should be given to (DLP) government, when looked to one party as a insult to the public. proposed waste-to-energy employing newer technology in the classrooms all of the facts were not saviour and one which The Minister who made plant? and for homework assignments. Systems of known. The DLP poorly would return to the trap- the statement, or the This may be an aside, communication and administration in schools handled the procedure pings of good governance, Minister of Energy or the but we also deserve to should also be improved upon with an eye to and its reluctance to ad- accountability and trans- Prime Minister, are all hear from the Minister re- transitioning to an online version. dress the issue, left a space parency, while the other duty-bound to face the sponsible for the Sewage Key to this is communication, not only amongst which the Opposition was riddled with claims of public to explain this treatment plants. Major those in the school, but with the parents of students walked through. In the secrecy and an inability to decision. rainfall has started. A lot as well. In the past, there have been impasses Westminster system, it is govern. The Environment was made of the solutions created as a result of poor communication between the prerogative of the We heard from those Minister should be made to this problem, yet the parents, teachers and the education ministry. Even Opposition to oppose, who claimed to be environ- to speak to the country on sluice gate is still open and at present, there is concern with a lack of though since the last mentally-minded.The one the matter. Can we con- ‘brown water’ heads into communication with regard to the planned restart election, apparently some town hall meeting, which tinue landfilling? It is a Worthing Beach. No big of the school year on September 21. This was high- commentators online and the company Cahill and finite or short-term solu- press conferences or lighted in a release in The Barbados Advocate on in print have forgotten some of its representatives tion to an ongoing prob- hoteliers up in arms. Tuesday August 18, where the Democratic Labour this fact. held, devolved into a lem. We had fires at the What a strange world Party lamented a lack of “a clear plan and proposed The then Leader of the shouting match which one Mangrove plant which this is in 2020! protocols be outlined to stakeholders so that school administrators can adequately prepare for whatever will be insisted upon”, as well as question whether there is currently a Summer Maintenance Programme and the plan for sanitising schools. China, US will allow air carriers Some parents have also queried the conditions and procedures their children will have to endure, which would in fact become their new normal. to double flights between nations WASHINGTON – The US United States to double flights to China. United September 4, while the Congrats Transportation Depart- flights to eight weekly Airlines said yesterday department said Delta On a cheerier note, kudos to Ayobami Leon-Barker ment said yesterday round-trips. it will increase flights Air Lines is also eligible on being the island’s top performer overall in the it will allow four Chinese The boost comes as to China to four flights to go from two-times exam, Micah Francois for being the top male passenger airlines cur- China has also agreed to per week from weekly to four-times performer in the exam, and to all the students who rently flying to the allow US carriers to double San Francisco starting weekly. performed to the best of their abilities within this stressful pandemic environment, succeeding in Telephone: 467-2000 News Fax: 434-1000 News Editor: Dorian Bryan Executive Editor: Allison Downes E-mail Address: [email protected] Business Editor: Jewel Brathwaite General Manager: Sandra Clarke gaining entrance to a secondary school. Continue to Sports Editor: Corey Greaves Assistant Managing Director: Sean Eteen work hard and strive for excellence and this Website: www.barbadosadvocate.com Publisher: Sir Anthony Bryan country will be the better for it. @The Barbados Advocate @barbadosadvocate The Barbados Advocate Wednesday August 19, 2020 • 9

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ADVOCATE PUBLISHERS (2000) INC, FONTABELLE • FAX: 434-1000 • E-MAIL: [email protected] Making all secondary ‘Punching above his weight’ I WAS so impressed with portunity to contribute in schools the same Prime Minister Arthur some small way to the re- OUR primary school stu- in Barbados. that at the end of his lead- alisation of your vision for dents recently completed ership of Government, I Barbados. the Common Entrance D ifferent wrote him the following On behalf of myself and Exam, where they com- responsibilities letter dated February the staff of the Permanent peted for a place in our Primary and secondary 2008 and repeated in my Mission in Geneva, we secondary schools. We school teachers have book: thank you for your service seem to be confusing completely different re- Dear Mr.Arthur and look forward to your them with mixed mes- sponsibilities. Primary I join with tens of thou- continued contribution to sages. school graduates only sands at home and proba- the building of our nation We tell them that all have one place to go bly millions overseas to in whatever capacity students will find a place – secondary school. straight from the chest thank you for your most avails itself. in our secondary schools. Primary school teachers outstanding contribution It was my great pleas- We also tell them that all are paid to prepare our to the development ure to serve under your secondary schools are the students for secondary trades-persons who least ten years in an in- of Barbados and the leadership. same. Then we tell them school. taught us to make practi- come-generating career. Caribbean over the last 14 Yours truly, to compete for the ‘top’ To qualify for this re- cal things. My English The unqualified teachers years.Your visionary lead- Ambassador Clarke schools. sponsibility, the teacher teacher was part of the can then be given the op- ership has positioned As Prime Minister and The Government has should have successfully military, and my chem- portunity to develop the Barbados for a great Minister of Finance pre- stated its plan to end graduated from second- istry teacher was a career for which they future and history will senting the Policies of the the competition, by abol- ary school, and have the chemist. We planted and studied, or teach at our acclaim your economic Government of Barbados ishing the Common patience to teach chil- cultivated crops as part primary schools. craftsmanship. on December 7th 2004, Entrance (11+) Exam. dren. of our geography class. Jesus noted that a per- Under your leadership, the Rt. Hon. Owen Arthur For the fair allocation of The next step for our Having teachers with son cannot rise higher Barbados has been firmly cautioned that: “The hall- students, all secondary secondary school gradu- previous careers was a than their teacher. established as the small is- marks of managing a schools must be above an ates is to either go to privilege. Therefore, once a person land “punching above its small economy are that acceptable minimum tertiary learning institu- has been trained by one weight” in the interna- the scope for adjustment standard. tions, or seek employ- Achieving sameness teacher, they can either tional community.You is small, the range of op- At this point in time, ment. Secondary school Our secondary schools find a more qualified have given me an opportu- tions is limited, but the po- many secondary schools teachers are paid to pre- are managed by boards teacher, or chart a new nity to make a small con- tential for catastrophic are far below an accept- pare our students for of management. To path without one. tribution in this sphere failure is vast.” COVID-19 able standard. The per- both options. Therefore, achieve a low level of Primary school teach- and I wish to thank you must surely return this centage of secondary our secondary school sameness, Boards have ers, who never had sincerely. It has been and caution to the forefront of school graduates that are teachers should have succumbed to the temp- another career, cannot continues to be an inter- small economy leaders unprepared to enter uni- achieved both goals, so tation to hire secondary properly prepare second- esting, challenging and everywhere. versity, or earn a living, that they can properly school teachers the ary school students, frustrating experience It was a pleasure shows the vast difference prepare our students. same way that primary regardless of their good which together has pro- seeing our dearly beloved in quality. My teachers at school teachers are intentions. vided me with a most Professor Arthur re-en- To reduce that glaring Combermere School ap- hired – straight out of The current method of stimulating and reward- gaging in Barbados and gap, the Government has peared to be selected school. forcing our secondary ing four years in the inter- Caribbean development tried to provide all sec- based on their previous This method guaran- school teachers to behave national community – issues from outside of the ondary schools with sim- accomplishments, and tees that our students like primary school especially in the WTO. political arena he had left ilar physical resources. ability to teach. For ex- will not benefit from hav- teachers, explains the In 2002, you said that behind. Those resources only fa- ample, my first form ing a teacher with a pre- growing number of sec- international trade policy He will be greatly cilitate the work of teach- art teacher, Timothy vious career, who can ondary school graduates will be one of the most missed. ers. Teachers must close Callender, was an accom- properly prepare them. unprepared to earn. It challenging issues our May he rest in peace as the gap by properly plished artist. His art It also denies teachers only guarantees a low- small country will face his inspiration lives on! preparing our students classes were practical – the opportunity of devel- level of sameness, and over the next ten years. You for life after graduation. we could have earned at oping a career before does our secondary have taken steps to miti- C. TREVOR Despite our secondary that young age. teaching our students. school students a disserv- gate the impact of such CLARKE school teachers’ best My fifth form art To achieve a higher ice. challenges while entrust- Retired Chief Executive efforts, the gap keeps teacher was Karl level of sameness, the GRENVILLE ing me with the responsi- of Cable and Wireless getting wider. The grow- Broodhagen, an accom- qualification standard PHILLIPS II bility of ensuring that such Barbados and a former ing mass of unprepared plished painter and can be raised to graduat- Chartered Structural impact is minimised. I will Ambassador in Geneva. graduates is a root cause sculptor. Our Industrial ing from a tertiary insti- Engineer and President always remain grateful to His memoir can be found of many social problems Arts teachers were tution, and spending at of Solutions Barbados you for giving me the op- at ctrevorclarke.com.

LET GOD QUOTES FOR TODAY WORDS OF SPEAK TO US WISDOM Hubert H. Humphrey Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1911 - 1978) “Religion that God our Father (1882 - 1945) 38th vice president of the United accepts as pure and faultless is 32nd president of the COMMUNITY States this: to look after orphans and United States widows in their distress and to “The impersonal hand of govern- We cannot live only for keep oneself from being pol- ment can never replace the “We cannot always build the ourselves. A thousand luted by the world.” helping hand of a neighbor.” future for our youth, but we fibers connect us with our – James 1:27 can build our youth for the fellow men. future.” 10 • Wednesday August 19, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

Walmart beats on profit, Home Depot’s posts record online sales sales increase as WALMART Inc posted its biggest-ever growth demand for DIY in online sales yesterday as shoppers cashed in stimulus checks and products surges ordered everything HOME Depot Inc re- would continue for the from electronics and ported its biggest rise in rest of the year, despite toys to groceries from quarterly same-store the US housing market the safety of their sales in at least two performing better than homes amid the decades yesterday as the broader economy. COVID-19 pandemic. demand for paint, tools The near-doubling of and lawn mowers surged DIY demand online sales in the second from consumers stuck at People spending more quarter helped the re- home due to the COVID- time on do-it-yourself tailer trounce Wall Street 19 pandemic. home projects such as expectations for quarterly The company’s same- painting and gardening profit and same-store store sales jumped 23.4% pushed Home Depot’s sales. in the second quarter, overall sales up 23.4% to The results showed that surging past analysts’ a record $38.05 billion in the unprecedented spike average estimate of a the quarter ended Aug. in demand seen by big-box 10.5% rise, as the home 2. retailers at the peak of the improvement chain That resulted in the coronavirus lockdowns emerged as one of the company’s highest ever has remained strong even corporate winners during profit sharing payout as restrictions ease, with Shopper wearing face masks are pictured in the parking of a Walmart the pandemic. to its hourly employees. shoppers using their stim- Superstore during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Shares of Home Depot, The company spent ulus checks to shop for dis- Rosemead, California, U.S., June 11, 2020. however, fell about 1% in about $480 million cretionary items like morning trading after in additional benefits, sneakers and clothes.This record high in morning ulus spending, but the du- weaker or more spread analysts cautioned that including weekly also helped Walmart re- trading. ration and extent of future out - and with no guidance its sales might have hit bonuses and overtime, duce the number of mark- “The health crisis has government stimulus re- - always gives investors an their peak. to compensate workers downs or discounts. created ... both tailwinds mains uncertain.” area of concern,” said “These are record required to work in However, as stimulus and headwinds to our Randy Hare, portfolio comparable sales – it’s stores and warehouses funds tapered off, sales at business,” said Chief Back-to-school woes manager at Huntington really tough to sustain amid the health crisis. Walmart returned to nor- Financial Officer Brett Walmart executives also Private Bank, adding that,”Wedbush Secu- Still, net income rose mal, recording only a 4% Biggs on a call with in- said the back-to-school that shares might have rities analyst Seth 24.5% to $4.33 billion, or rise in comparable sales vestors. “In Q2, we saw season has been “choppy,” traded higher had they Basham said. $4.02 per share. Analysts in July. Shares were trad- stronger-than-expected as more school districts done so. “We will see a slow- had expected a profit of ing down marginally at sales due in large part to rolled back their reopen- Department store chain down in the back half of $3.71 per share, accord- $134.80 after hitting a stock-up buying and stim- ing plans to curb the Kohl’s (KSS.N) also the year – the question ing to IBES data spread of coronavirus and pointed to softer trends for is the degree to which the from Refinitiv. shoppers had little-to-no its back-to-school selling slowdown occurs.” Shares of smaller rival BANK RATES need for backpacks and season due to the uncer- The company said it Lowe’s Cos Inc, which re- Commercial bank rates to the public at the close of uniforms. tainty around reopenings. could not determine ports second-quarter re- business yesterday by the Central Bank of Barbados. “Hinting at back-to- Kohl’s shares were down whether strong demand sults today, were down school being a little bit 12%. from earlier months marginally. Valid for August 19, 2020

Notes: Currency Buying Selling Canadian Dollar 1.50812 1.53444 Britain’s M&S to cut 7 000 jobs Euro 2.34903 2.42357 Pound Sterling 2.60634 2.68906 in latest blow to retail sector United States Dollar 1.99000 2.01786 LONDON – Marks & is seeking to reinvent it- by other major British re- Group sales were down Spencer will cut a further self after decades of failed tailers, including Boots, 19.2% year on year in the Telegraphic Transfer 7 000 jobs, it said yester- attempts. In May it said John Lewis, Dixons 19 weeks to Aug. 8, which Currency Buying Selling day, as the COVID-19 the crisis would indelibly Carphone and WH Smith. included part of Britain’s crisis deals another blow change its business and M&S expects a signifi- lockdown period, with Canadian Dollar 1.51666 1.53919 to Britain’s beleaguered that it would accelerate its cant proportion of its cuts clothing and home sales Euro 2.38181 2.41719 retail sector. turnaround plan. to be through voluntary down 49.1% and food sales Pound Sterling 2.64272 2.68197 “It is clear that there M&S said the crisis had departures and early re- down 1.1%. United States Dollar 1.99750 2.02500 has been a material shift shown it could work more tirement. Shopworkers’ Clothing and home in trade and whilst it is flexibly and productively trade union Usdaw called sales were down 29.9% in INDICATIVE RATES FOR SOME REGIONAL too early to predict with with more employees for urgent talks. the eight weeks since precision where a new multi-tasking and switch- “These proposals are an stores reopened. Store CURRENCIESAS ADVISED BY THE post-COVID sales mix will ing between the food and important step in becom- sales were down 47.9%, RESPECTIVE CENTRAL BANKS. settle, we must act now to clothing and home divi- ing a leaner, faster busi- while online sales were up reflect this change,” M&S sions. Its use of technol- ness set up to serve chang- 39.2%. N.B. These rates are not meant to be used for trading. said. ogy has also increased. ing customer needs,” CEO Food stores, which Clothing and home Last month M&S shed Steve Rowe said. traded throughout the BDS$ trading in its stores re- 950 store management M&S shares were down lockdown period, saw mained well below last jobs. Its latest cuts will im- 2.8% at 0818 GMT, ex- sales increase 2.5% in the Guyana Dollar 0.00946 year though online and pact its headquarters, re- tending 2020 losses to latest eight weeks. Jamaica Dollar 0.01336 home delivery were gional management and 48%. M&S said it was on T & T Dollar 0.30082 strong, said the retailer, UK stores over the next The firm said it was re- track to launch an online which has a UK workforce three months. taining a cautious ap- food service next month of about 78,000. The cuts add to thou- proach to planning for the through its partnership The 136-year old M&S sands already announced balance of the year. with Ocado.

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Rowley, Cabinet to be sworn-in today COVID PRESIDENT Paula-Mae Chairman of the Elections & Officer, the Office of the Weekes will swear-in Dr Boundaries Commission. Her President has had to reduce the Keith Rowley as Prime Excellency immediately there- number of invitees to witness worry in Minister today. after issued letters to Dr. Keith the ceremony. The announcement was made Rowley and Mrs. Kamla Persad- Apart from those to be sworn- via a media release yesterday. Bissessar enquiring of their will- in, invited to attend the cere- Jamaica Dr Rowley said his entire ingness to be appointed Prime mony are the Chief Justice GOVERNMENT and health of- Cabinet will also be sworn in as Minister and Leader of the and his spouse, the President ficials are worried about the well. Opposition, respectively. of the Senate, the Speaker of spiralling cases of COVID-19 The following is a statement The ceremony to swear-in the House, the Chief Secretary in the parishes of St Thomas from the Office of the President. the Cabinet for Trinidad and of the Tobago House of and Clarendon, with infections “Her Excellency Paula-Mae Tobago will take place [today] Assembly, the Dean of the leapfrogging beyond communi- Weekes O.R.T.T., President of Wednesday August 19, at 4pm Diplomatic Corps, the President ties under quarantine to neigh- the Republic of Trinidad and at the President’s House. of the Inter Religious bouring districts, which could Tobago today [yesterday] re- Given the most recent Organisation, who will lead the lead to more areas being put on ceived the final results of the COVID-19 protocols, and after prayer,and Mrs. Kamla Persad- lockdown in the days ahead. General Election 2020 from the consultation with Chief Medical Bissessar MP.” Dr Keith Rowley Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton, speaking at an impromptu press briefing following a Cabinet meeting Kamla yesterday, said the ministry has, over the past three weeks, conducted more than 300 home concedes visits in the St Thomas communities of Bamboo, Church 2020 General Corner, and Lower Summit, which have been under a 14- day quarantine, and collected Election 700 samples. OPPOSITION Leader Kamla He said, based on test results Persad-Bissessar has conceded from those areas and other the 2020 general election and communities in the south-east- also accepted responsibility for ern parish, approximately 89 the party’s loss at the polls. people have been identified as “You must accept responsibil- positive for COVID-19 since ity for mistakes made whether July 31, 45 of whom are within you were aware of them or not, the quarantine zone. whether you had any control Tufton said the ministry’s over them or not. And yes, some surveillance activities have of them you make on your own – also identified more sympto- I lay no claim to infallibility.I ac- matic people who have been cept full responsibility,” she said tested and are now awaiting in a media release yesterday. results. Therefore, effective Persad-Bissessar was ex- yesterday, the quarantine pe- pected to host a virtual media riod has been extended by an- conference yesterday at 12.30 other 14 days for the three St but a media release came one Thomas communities. The new hour later instead. quarantine period will now end This concession comes more on September 2. than a week after the August 10 St Thomas will also fall election when the People’s under a different curfew National Movement (PNM) regime from the rest of the is- claimed victory. land’s stipulated 11:00 pm to In the days between, the 5:00 am hours. Daily curfews United National Congress for that parish will run from (UNC) has been busy with re- 7:00 pm to 5:00 am the follow- counts in five constituencies. ing morning for the next two The recount did not impact on weeks. the bottom line, which was that Yesterday, Tufton said the the PNM had won the general combination of positive cases election. within the quarantine zone In a media release Tuesday, and positive cases outside the Persad-Bissessar said that the UNC leader Kamla Persad Bissessar during Tuesday’s walkabout with Ahloy Hunt UNC Candidate quarantine zone, plus addi- “people have spoken” and leader for St. Joseph in Aranguez. tional tests that are being done of the PNM, Dr Keith Rowley on people who are sympto- and his party will form the new wished Rowley “the best”. Trinidad and Tobago’s request of independent observers. matic, has caused more con- government. Despite the congratulatory for independent election ob- During the height of the cam- cerns about that parish. “After some days of reflection statements, Persad-Bissessar servers raise more questions paigning, Persad-Bissessar “The evidence points to and monitoring of the progress said that she shared the “grave than answers,” she said. called for independent observers continued transmission of the of the election recount process,I concerns” about the electoral On Monday, the Office of the and while Rowley said he wrote disease within these commu- am satisfied that the people process. Prime Minister released pages to the both bodies, he did not nities. have spoken,” she said. “We remain deeply concerned, of correspondence between itself share the responses publicly. He “Additionally, approximately She admitted to being “disap- especially since the release of and the Caricom Secretariat and did say that the bodies could not 20 communities within the pointed” with the results but correspondence relating to the Commonwealth on the issue afford to come to the country. parish of St Thomas have been impacted with new COVID-19 cases.These communities span the entire length of the parish and indicates a sort of commu- Brazil coronavirus cases top 3.4 million, death toll nears 110 000 nity transmission, some epi- RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil re- by the virus in the past 24 hours, 3 407 354 cases of the virus since ing to ministry data, marking demiologically linked, others ported 47 784 new cases of the the health ministry said yester- the pandemic began, while the the world’s worst coronavirus not, and hence the need for a novel coronavirus and 1 352 day. official death toll from COVID- outbreak after the United greater level of alertness,” the deaths from the disease caused Brazil has now registered 19 has risen to 109 888, accord- States. health minister said.

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Cayman Islands extends ban on cruise ships Mexican THE Cayman Islands govern- president blasts ment extends its ban on cruise ships until 31 December due to purported cash COVID-19. Acting Port Authority Director Joseph Woods con- bribes seen in firmed that a notice was already given to the islands’ cruise in- viral video dustry partners. MEXICO CITY – An unverified “I sent it to the major cruise video that appears to show for- lines, the Florida Caribbean mer Mexican congressional Cruise Association, local ship- staffers counting piles of cash ping agents and tender opera- has exposed the “filth” corrupting tors,” he told the Cayman politics and shows why the last Compass in a telephone inter- government’s overhaul of the oil view. and gas market was tainted, In Cayman, the first recorded Mexico’s president said yester- case of COVID-19 involved a day. passenger from the Costa The video, which went viral on Luminosa cruise ship. The The Cayman Islands government decided to stop allowing cruise ships to dock on the island since YouTube on Monday,shows plas- Italian passenger sought med- 16 March. tic bags filled with cash bundles ical treatment after suffering a apparently being given to two heart attack but was later COVID-19 free for a month 19-free by PAHO, one of the very 32 000 mark. then senior Senate staffers who diagnosed with COVID-19 and After having no new case of few countries in the world to However, Public Health and worked for the opposition died at Health City Cayman COVID-19 for a month, the Pan- have achieved that status. This Chief Medical Officer Dr. John National Action Party (PAN). Islands. American Health Organization is testament to the careful Lee emphasised there is no time In his daily news conference, The Cayman Islands govern- has lowered the transmission thought, expert advice and to relax because there is still President Andres Manuel Lopez ment decided to stop allowing level rating of Cayman Islands effective execution of the possibility of having positive Obrador showed the full video, cruise ships to dock on the is- from sporadic to no cases. Government’s strategy, coupled cases . and said he wondered if it may land since 16 March. Premier Alden McLaugh- with the cooperation of the gen- Citing the continuous spread have been given to prosecutors The cruise industry world- lin thanked PAHO, the stake- eral public.” of COVID-19 worldwide partic- by the former chief of state-run wide has been struggling holders and the general public Cayman’s latest batch of ularly in the United States, oil company Pemex, Emilio after several ships reported for the achievement. COVID-19 tests on Thursday all the Government has also ex- Lozoya, who faces bribery outbreaks of COVID-19 on “I am gratified that Cayman returned negative as the coun- tended border closures until 1 charges in a corruption trial that board. has now been declared COVID- try’s screening tests crossed the October. has shaken Mexican politics.

UK-based group urges Guyana to renegotiate oil deal GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Global Witness. Global Witness said that the for- The United Kingdom-based, In February, the then main mer Government “rushed to anti-corruption organisa- Opposition People’s Progressive sign Exxon’s deal despite know- tion Global Witness yester- Party-Civic (PPP-C) dismissed, ing the company would soon an- day called on the new as a “lame excuse”, the allega- nounce new oil find results” and Government here to imme- tions by the ruling coalition while experts were informing diately investigate and rene- Administration that Global them to seek more information. gotiate the US-owned oil Witness was seeking to inter- It said that Exxon’s licence is giant Exxon’s exploitative fere in the March 2 regional and the subject of ongoing litigation oil licence to ensure the general election through its ex- in Guyana, with civil society country has the funds posé. groups arguing it is illegal. needed to rebuild after divi- The David Granger “Global Witness believes sive elections and a debili- Government had earlier issued President Ali’s Government tating novel coronavirus a statement condemning the 28- should investigate Stabroek to pandemic. page report, by Global Witness, determine if it was properly In a statement, Global on the oil industry in Guyana, in awarded. Exxon has denied the Witness said that in February which it claimed that the agree- deal is bad for Guyana and dis- 2020 its exposé ‘Signed Away’ ment signed with the US-based putes Open Oil’s analysis, as has revealed that Guyana could lose oil giant, ExxonMobil, in 2016, the oil data company Rystad. In billions of US dollars from a would deprive the country of up January, the then-Guyanese 2016 Exxon oil deal, according to to US$55 billion. Government said the deal was a report by the fiscal analyst But then Opposition Leader reasonable and that Guyana High quality oil reservoirs discovered in Guyana’s Stabroek firm OpenOil which it had com- Bharrat Jagdeo, speaking at his needed Exxon during the coun- Block. missioned. weekly news conference, said try’s maritime border ….with “The deal, for an offshore li- the PPP-C had nothing to do Venezuela,” the group said. “However, he made a specific continued to point investors to cence called Stabroek, has bad with the commissioning of the “Guyanese people deserve a exception for Exxon, stating Guyana as a reason for hope.” financial terms, thanks to report, titled ‘Signed Away: How new deal for schools, hospitals, he would not renegotiate Grant said that “now is Exxon’s aggressive negotiation Exxon’s Exploitative Deal and sea defences to hold back the Stabroek deal. According the time for President Ali and tactics with inexperienced Deprived Guyana Of Up To rising sea levels – and with an to press reports, the new Vice-President Jagdeo to not Guyanese officials,” the UK- US$55 Billion’. economy weakened by COVID- Government has now commis- only make good on their cam- based group said. “The People’s Progressive 19, they need it now,” said Gant. sioned a “review” of one of paign promises, but to do one “With Exxon increasingly de- Party did not bring Global “With these new funds in Exxon’s smaller licences called better. pendent upon an immense Witness here. We have no such hand, Guyana can do its part to Payara. “Guyana’s oil licences – in- Guyanese oil find, President powers over Global Witness, fight the climate emergency and “Global Witness believes rene- cluding Exxon’s Stabroek – Irfaan Ali has a remarkable which is an international NGO ban any new drilling by oil com- gotiating the Stabroek contract should be renegotiated. opportunity to make a new [non-governmental organisa- panies.” with Exxon is possible. Even be- Guyanese people deserve a bet- deal, while showing the inter- tion],”Jagdeo said, adding, “I The statement said that fore the outbreak of COVID-19, ter deal.And if the Government ests of all Guyanese – not Exxon suspect that its presence here Jagdeo, “who is now Guyana’s the company was highly de- is not prepared to give them – are at the heart of his was largely triggered by this vice-president, has previously pendent upon its Guyanese oil this, then the people should call Administration,” said Jonathan Government’s own act”. pledged to renegotiate the coun- finds.As oil prices have crashed for these bad deals to be can- Gant, senior campaigner at In its statement yesterday, try’s oil licences once in power. during the pandemic, Exxon has celled,” Grant added.

The Barbados Advocate Wednesday August 19, 2020 • 13 Ireland at ‘tipping point’ as Covid-19 cases increase THE Republic of Ireland’s cabinet 1 775. In an initial response to the measures has reversed some of its lockdown There were 190 more confirmed cases the leader of Labour party, Alan Kelly, relaxation measures as it attempts of Covid-19. has said the measures send out the to deal with rising Covid-19 case Crowds attending outdoor events, in- wrong signal and will affect morale. numbers. cluding sports, are to be reduced from The restrictions will remain in Irish Health Minister Stephen 200 to 15. place until September 13 at the Donnelly said,“We are at a tipping point.” Indoor gatherings – excluding shops, earliest. He added that a few weeks ago there restaurants and other businesses – Following yesterday’s cabinet were just 61 new reported cases for a are to be restricted to six people. meeting, Irish Health Minister Stephen seven day period but last week there Those over 70s are again being Donnelly told a press conference that were 533 cases. asked to stay at home as much as multiple clusters had emerged in homes The tightening of restrictions comes possible. and workplaces around the country. ahead of the reopening of schools over the People are also once again being en- Donnelly said the 14-day cumulative next two weeks. couraged to work from home and not to cases per 100 000 of population is now 26 Taoiseach (Irish PM) Mícheál Martin use public transport. and the Republic of Ireland’s rate of said that if the current rates of Consideration is to be given as to growth in the past two weeks was the Covid-19 continue to rise “it will be im- whether Gardaí (Irish police) should fourth highest in Europe. possible to stop the spread of the virus to get new powers to intervene where The number of coronavirus cases our most vulnerable and our most they believe social distancing rules are rose by 200 on Saturday, although compromised”. not being complied with. the daily tally on subsequent days was Yesterday, a further coronavirus- People have been advised to continue lower. Irish Minister for Health Stephen related death was reported, bringing working from home and to avoid public The number reported on Monday was Donnelly said ‘We are at a tipping the Republic of Ireland’s total to transport where possible. 56, down from 66 on Sunday. point’ in dealing with the virus. Canada’s Trudeau taps ally Freeland as finance minister, promises bold recovery plan OTTAWA – Canadian Prime Minister “We need a long term plan for recovery, Justin Trudeau appointed his close ally a plan that addresses head-on the funda- and deputy Chrystia Freeland as finance mental gaps that this pandemic has un- minister yesterday and promised “bold masked,” Trudeau told a news confer- new solutions” to help Canada recover ence. from the pandemic. Canada should embrace “bold new so- Freeland, 52, a former journalist and lutions”, he said, citing the need to do a foreign minister, becomes the country’s better job of protecting the vulnerable first female finance minister, replacing and greening an economy that relies Bill Morneau who resigned on Monday heavily on fossil fuel exports. amid friction with Trudeau. Parliament has been suspended until Freeland, who is considered Trudeau’s Sept 23, when Trudeau is due to formally most likely successor as Liberal Party outline his plan. It will be subject to a leader, spearheaded negotiations of the confidence vote and if the minority United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) Liberal administration loses, Canada will trade pact in 2017 and 2018 as Canada’s head into an election. foreign minister. Freeland has written about the need to Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks to re- She will be tasked with reviving an address growing inequality, in part by porters next to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Parliament Hill in economy crippled by the COVID-19 pan- making the rich pay more. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada August 18, 2020. demic, with the budget deficit this fiscal Trudeau, though, insisted taxes would year forecast to hit C$343.2 billion ($253.4 not be going up, saying this was the last tumultuous week for the government that had clashed over pandemic spending, in- billion). That would be the largest short- thing Canadians needed. ended in Morneau’s departure. Sources cluding on green initiatives the prime fall since World War Two. Freeland’s appointment comes after a told Reuters that Morneau and Trudeau minister views as key for the economy.

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High: 3:31 a.m. London: 18°C CLEAR and 4:32 p.m. Yesterday: 0 mm Boston: 28°C FAIR For the month: 125.4 mm Max: 30.1°C Montreal: 22°C FAIR Low: 10:10 a.m. For the year: 505.3 mm Min: 23.1°C Toronto: 22°C PARTLY CLOUDY and 10:02 p.m. New York: 26°C PARTLY CLOUDY Miami: 33°C FAIR 5:476:25 a.m. 6:175:51 p.m. 14 • Wednesday August 19, 2020 The Barbados Advocate US Postal Service halts controversial changes amid voting furore THE US Postal Service has sus- The US Postal Service (USPS) under By this Monday, the president tweeted pended new policies that were DeJoy had begun what it said were cost- that he wanted to “save the post office” decried as an attempt to sabotage cutting measures in recent months. and told a crowd in Minnesota that he the 2020 election. Policies that were begun under DeJoy would “strengthen” the service. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said included removing mail boxes, cancelling And now, his postmaster general has he would reverse operational changes delivery runs and closing down sorting said the agency will stop taking out postal that critics say would hamper postal centres. boxes and limiting delivery routes. voting. In a sharp reversal, DeJoy has now said It turns out the Postal Service is pretty The U-turn comes as DeJoy is due to that post office hours would not be cut, popular. A Morning Consult poll found testify to Congress and at least 20 states and post boxes and sorting machines 80% of Americans have a positive view of were preparing to sue. would stop being removed. it. The elderly use it to receive prescrip- Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. There is a fierce debate over postal DeJoy,a former Republican donor, also tion drugs. For rural residents, it’s a funding in 2020, as record numbers of said overtime pay would continue to be lifeline to the rest of the world. were necessary to help the USPS get out Americans are expected to vote by mail approved to ensure deliveries arrive on Whether the recent moves were a of financial debt. Its budget shortfall has due to the pandemic. time. misconstrued part of a long-planned risen to $160 billion (£122bn) amid a “To avoid even the appearance of any change or, as some on the left suspect, decade-long decline in mail volume. impact on election mail, I am suspending the result of a larger conspiracy,the White However,Mark Dimondstein, the pres- these initiatives until after the election is House concluded that there was only one ident of the American Postal Workers concluded,” DeJoy said in a statement. way out – retreat. Union which represents more than Guilty verdict The development comes as the row over 200 000 postal employees, told Fox News Why the U-turn? the politicisation of the most popular US yesterday that the changes “are truly over assassination A week ago, Donald Trump said he had no government agency has become a top slowing down mail, the customers see it... interest in any additional funding for the issue in the 2020 presidential campaign. the postal workers see it – mail is getting US Postal Service, lest the money be used Over the weekend, former President all backed up”. of Lebanon ex-PM to help process mail-in voting. It was all Barack Obama – in what was regarded as Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, A UN-backed court has found a member part of his ongoing, and largely his most high-profile criticism of his suc- cheered the postmaster’s volte-face of the militant group Hezbollah guilty of unfounded, campaign against the cessor to date – accused Trump of trying yesterday,telling reporters,“They felt the involvement in the assassination expanded use of postal ballots to min- to “actively kneecap” the postal service. heat and that’s what we were trying to do, of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri. imise the risk of spreading coronavirus. Defenders of the changes said they make it too hot to handle.” Judges at the Netherlands-based Special Tribunal for Lebanon said Salim Ayyash had a central role in the bomb attack in Beirut in 2005 that killed Hariri. They acquitted three other defendants, who like Ayyash were tried in absentia. Michelle Obama calls Trump ‘wrong president’ Hezbollah denied any involvement, and the judges said no evidence implicated the Shia militant group’s leaders. during Democratic Convention speech Hariri’s son Saad, who is himself a MICHELLE OBAMA criticised US former prime minister, told reporters President Donald Trump’s “utter lack of outside the court, “I think today every- empathy” on Monday, which marked body’s expectation was much higher than the first night of a four-day virtual what came out, but I believe the tribunal Democratic Convention. came out with a verdict that is satisfying The former First Lady called Trump and we accept it.” the “wrong president for our country” Now, he said, it was time for Hezbollah who “cannot be who we need him to be for to “make sacrifices”. us.” “It is clear that the network responsible “Because whenever we look to this is from its ranks,” he added. “We will not White House for some leadership or con- rest until the punishment is carried out.” solation or any semblance of steadiness, The verdict comes at a time of crisis what we get instead is chaos, division, in Lebanon, with the country still reeling and a total and utter lack of empathy,” from a devastating explosion at Beirut’s she stated in the pre-recorded speech. port two weeks ago that killed at least Referring to the ongoing coronavirus 180 people. pandemic, which has claimed more than The blast led to the resignation of the 170 000 lives in the US, Obama said government, already embattled by Trump “has had more than enough time protests over an economic collapse that to prove that he can do the job, but he is has seen many people lose their savings clearly in over his head.” and jobs. Her 20-minute speech – the last and Former first lady Michelle Obama speaks during the first night of the Democratic The tribunal’s verdicts will disappoint longest address in the Democrats’ exper- National Convention on Monday, August 17, 2020. supporters of Rafik Hariri as well the iment with a virtual Convention in the families of the 21 others who were killed coronavirus era – was earned through our borders, eliminate our police, the importance of voting in the and the 226 who were wounded, many her overwhelming popularity in her indoctrinate our children, vilify our he- November 3 election, which will take grievously. party and relative scarcity in the roes, take away our energy.”Trump went place amid a pandemic that has The man convicted in his absence,Salim political arena. on to portray the Democrat camp as a po- killed more than 170 000 Americans and Ayyash, was a well-connected, mid-level She used that spotlight to make a litical extreme that strives to implement infected more than five million in operative in Hezbollah, the most powerful broad appeal, reaching out to Democrats left-wing fascism. the US military and political group in Lebanon. but also to nonvoters and former Trump Yesterday morning Trump tweeted She noted that Trump lost the popular It is classified by the UK, the US and voters who may be regretting their in response to former first lady Michelle vote in 2016, but still won the election. others as a terrorist organisation. choice. Obama’s forceful rebuke of his character “We’ve all been suffering the conse- Hezbollah’s leader, Hasan Nasrallah, Earlier in the day, before the event, and leadership – claiming that he would quences,” she said. has denied it was involved and refused to Trump took a dig at the former first not have been elected to the White House “Now, Joe [Biden] is not perfect. And allow the arrest of Ayyash or the other lady’s coming speech, noting that her were it not for what he called the failings he’d be the first to tell you that. But there men who have been cleared. One of his remarks were prerecorded and that his of her husband’s administration. is no perfect candidate, no perfect presi- top military commanders, Mustafa own speech at the Republican National “Biden was merely an afterthought, a dent,” she admitted, adding that Biden Badreddine, was also indicted until he Convention next week will be live. good reason for that very late & unenthu- “knows what it takes to rescue an econ- was killed in Syria in 2016. “Who wants to listen to Michelle siastic endorsement,” he added. omy, beat back a pandemic, and lead our The verdict has nevertheless given Obama do a taped speech?” he said at country.” Rafik Hariri’s son Saad, a former prime a rally in Wisconsin. Obama urges people to votes She added, “If we have any hope of minister who might get the job again, He also accused Biden of being a “pup- Michelle Obama, who leads an effort to ending this chaos, we have got to vote for a lever to use against Hezbollah. pet of left-wing extremists trying to erase help register people to vote, spoke about Joe Biden like our lives depend on it.”

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Australia promises free doses if Captain of ship COVID-19 vaccine trial succeeds in Mauritius oil AUSTRALIA says it has secured access to a promising coronavirus spill arrested vaccine and will be able to offer free doses to its entire population THE captain of the ship that spilled of 25 million people. hundreds of tonnes of oil off the coast of The vaccine is being developed by the Mauritius has been arrested. pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca Sunil Kumar Nandeshwar, a 58-year- and Oxford University. old Indian man, was charged with If clinical trials are successful, the endangering safe navigation, police said. deal with AstraZeneca would secure He has not yet commented. “early access for every Australian”, The MV Wakashio ran aground on a Prime Minister Scott Morrison coral reef, Pointe d’Esny, on July 25 said. while carrying 4 000 tonnes of fuel oil, Australia’s death toll from the causing an ecological emergency. coronavirus stands at more than Pointe d’Esny is a sanctuary for rare 400. wildlife. Earlier this month, the state of Nandeshwar made an appearance in Victoria declared a state of disaster and the district court in the capital Port Louis imposed strict lockdown measures to hear the charges. after a surge in coronavirus infections. He will be held in a police cell until he It still has more than 7 000 active returns to court on August 25. cases and remains Australia’s worst Police said crew members questioned concern. as part of their investigation informed The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is them there had been a birthday party on one of five promising candidates to the ship the day it ran aground. reach an advanced stage of clinical Another theory being investigated is trials, with countries around the world that the ship navigated close to the shore seeking to secure supplies for their own in order to pick up WiFi signal, the BBC’s populations. correspondent, in Port Louis, reported. “If this vaccine proves successful, we The Japanese-owned MV Wakashio will manufacture and supply vaccines has already leaked about 1 000 tonnes of straight away under our own steam and The trial of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is at an advanced stage. fuel oil into the uniquely biodiversity-rich make it free for 25 million Australians,” marine ecosystem. PM Morrison said. signed a deal worth A$25 million needles and syringes. The ship split in half over the weekend The cost of supplying the vaccine to (£13.5m; US$18m) with Becton The deal with AstraZeneca is the first and the bow of the ship is being towed the whole population has not yet been Dickinson, an American pharmaceuti- such vaccine agreement that Australia away from the reef. fixed. Separately, Australia has also cal company, to supply 100 million has signed. But the rear part remains stranded on the reef with about 90 tonnes of the fuel believed to be on board. Rough seas have made it too risky to remove the remaining oil from the ship, the national crisis committee has said. Soldiers seize Mali President “Due to the adverse weather conditions, MALI’S President Ibrahim Boubacar Kati camp was also the focus of a it is still risky to remove the remaining Keïta has been arrested by mutinying mutiny in 2012 by soldiers angry at the small amount of residual oil in the engine soldiers, a government spokesman inability of the senior commanders to stop room”, the National Crisis Management confirmed to the BBC. jihadists and Tuareg rebels taking control Committee said on Monday evening, Prime Minister Boubou Cissé has also of northern Mali. adding that “oil pumping operations been arrested, despite earlier appeals for What began as a mutiny appears to should resume as soon as the weather “brotherly dialogue”. have morphed into a coup. This will be permits.” The apparent coup attempt in the West welcomed by the huge number of Mauritius has said it will seek African nation began with gunfire at protesters who have been out on the compensation for the leak from “the a key military camp near the capital, streets for months calling for President owner and the insurer” and Japanese Bamako, on Tuesday morning. Keïta to step down. firm Nagashiki Shipping has pledged to In the city young men set a govern- Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta won a second respond to requests for compensation. ment-owned building on fire. term in elections in 2018, but there is A team of experts from Japan are The arrest of President KeÔta and his widespread anger over corruption, the arriving in Mauritius today to help with prime minister has sparked widespread mismanagement of the economy and the the clean-up, Japan’s foreign ministry international condemnation. worsening security situation with has said. It came hours after disgruntled junior jihadist and communal violence on the Earlier this month, Mauritian Prime officers detained commanders and took increase. Minister Pravind Jugnauth declared control of the Kati camp, about In recent months huge crowds led by a state of emergency and appealed for 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Bamako. populist imam Mahmoud Dicko have international help. The unrest coincides with calls for more been calling on President Keïta to step Volunteers took the matter into their protests to demand that the president down. own hands, filling sacks with straw to resign. Much smaller crowds reportedly Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar make barriers against the oil – despite The mutiny is led by Colonel Malick gathered in the capital yesterday in Keïta. orders from the government to leave the Diaw – deputy head of the Kati camp – support of the soldiers. operation to the authorities. and another commander, General Sadio United Nations Secretary General months now,Ecowas has been taking ini- On Monday,around 416 cubic metres of Camara, the BBC reports. Antonio Guterres demanded the tiatives and conducting mediation efforts the homemade barriers – called booms – After taking over the camp, the muti- “unconditional release” of Mali’s leaders with all the Malian parties.” were collected and found to be saturated neers marched on the capital, where they and the “immediate restoration of consti- Mali is a key base for French troops with oil, our correspondent reports. were cheered by crowds who had gathered tutional order”. fighting Islamist insurgents across the IThe amount of oil spilled is relatively to demand President Ke tas’s resignation. The chairman of the African Union Sahel region, and the former colonial was low compared with the big spills the In the afternoon theyï stormed his Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, said quick to react to Tuesday’s events. world has seen in the past. residence and arrested the president and he “emphatically condemns” the The office of French President However,unlike most previous offshore his prime minister – who were both there. arrests of President Keïta and his prime Emmanuel Macron “condemned the spills, this has taken place near two The number of soldiers taking part in minister. attempted mutiny under way” and his environmentally protected marine the mutiny is unclear – as are their de- The Economic Community of West Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian ecosystems and the Blue Bay Marine mands. Some reports say it was fuelled by African States (Ecowas) said, “This urged the soldiers to return to Park reserve, which is a wetland of inter- a pay dispute. mutiny comes at a time when, for several barracks. national importance. 16 • Wednesday August 19, 2020 The Barbados Advocate ‘Chariots of Fire’ actor Ben Cross dies aged 72 ACTOR Ben Cross, Bernard Cross in London who was best known to a working-class for playing athlete Catholic family. Harold Abrahams in After graduating from the film “Chariots of the Royal Academy of Fire”, has died at Dramatic Arts (Rada), he the age of 72. moved from the stage to His representatives screen and took a minor said he had died “sud- role in the 1977 war denly” film A Bridge Too Far, following a short illness. which starred Sir Sean Writing on his Connery and Sir Michael Facebook page, his Caine. daughter Lauren said He became a member she was “utterly heart- of the Royal Shakespeare broken” that her “darling Company in the same father” had year, before gaining died. wider acclaim as Billy She said he had been Flynn – the lawyer “sick for a while” but representing murderer there had been a “rapid Roxie Hart – in a decline over the past 1978 version of week”. “Chicago”. Cross, who died in It was a performance Vienna, Austria, had two that was widely believed children, Lauren and to have earned him his Theo. role in 1981’s Chariots His representatives Of Fire, which went on to said he had just finishing win four Oscars includ- shooting horror film ing best picture. Actor Ben Cross passed away at the age of 72. “The Devil’s Light” and Cross played Jewish later this year will ap- runner Harold He later appeared as Rudolf Hess in the pear in a leading role Abrahams in the film, as Malagant in the 1995 2006 BBC production in the romantic drama which was based on the film “First Knight” and “Nuremberg: Nazis on film “Last Letter From true story of two British Sarek in the 2009 Star Trial”. Your Lover”. men racing for Olympic Trek reboot. He is survived by wife, Bridge He was born Harry gold in 1924. Cross also appeared Deyana Boneva Cross. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday August 19, 2020 • 17 SPORTSSPORTS Narine stars as Knight Riders beat Amazon Warriors in CPL opener Trinbago Knight Riders 147/6 enth over that we saw the tour- (Narine 50, Darren Bravo 30, nament’s first Hero Maximum. Munro 17; Naveen 2/21, Tahir The Kiwi veteran showed his 2/40, Paul 1/21, Shepherd strength off his legs, picking up 1/30) beat Guyana Amazon West Indies U19 star Jayden Warriors 144/5 (Hetmyer 63*, Seales for another six, but an Taylor 33, Pooran 18, Paul 15*; edge past slip off the young fast Narine 2/19, Ali Khan 1/21, bowler and one that Pollard Seales 1/24) by four wickets couldn’t hold at slip off Fawad Ahmed studded a stand of 50 for SUNIL Narine’s whirlwind the third wicket. 50 and miserly 2/19 saw Narine skidded one past Trinbago Knight Riders kick Taylor to end the partnership off the Hero Caribbean with Hetmyer, but Nicholas Premier League (CPL) 2020 Pooran started in purposeful in style, easing past Guyana fashion with a reverse sweep for Amazon Warriors in the four. The two West Indies inter- tournament opener at nationals were content to see off Tarouba despite Shimron Narine, and with the Amazon Captain of the Trinbago Knight Riders Kieron Pollard (centre) got his team off to a winning start. Hetmyer’s fine 63* off just 44 Warriors entering the last 5 balls. But despite Narine’s overs well-placed at 89/3, a huge Lendl Simmons to just 9 off the Paul kept the ball out of movement. heroics, fine catching and straight six from Pooran saw first 3 overs. Simmons swung Narine’s reach, sometimes liter- Narine’s aggression meant canny bowling from last them take 16 off DJ Bravo’s sec- and missed at four Shepherd ally,with his first over going for Darren Bravo could play him- year’s beaten finalists meant ond over. slower balls in a row, and while just six, but the pinch-hitter ex- self in, and when Pollard sig- the Bravo brothers had to Hetmyer wasn’t fazed by the he broke the shackles a little traordinaire broke free, with nalled his intentions by launch- hold their nerve right to the loss of Pooran, launching Seales with back-to-back fours off even Imran Tahir going for back ing Tahir back over his head it end to see the Knight Riders for a Hero Maximum into the Green it was no surprise when to back boundaries to take the looked a simple chase for the home. stands to bring up his fourth ca- he became Naveen’s first ever Knight Riders into the hometowners. But late drama Pollard’s decisions to bowl first reer Hero CPL fifty off just 38 Hero CPL wicket, spooning a Angostura LLB drinks break at saw the skipper and Tim Seifert in a match shortened by rain to balls. Rutherford holed out try- slower ball to the infield and de- 81/2 needing 64 off the last 48 both caught by King, the second 17 overs each, and to entrust Ali ing to repeat the dose off Bravo, parting for a sluggish 17. balls. a diving Republic Bank Classic Khan with the first over, were but Hetmyer and his fellow The Knight Riders began to Narine continued his assault, to go with the Munro grab, and each vindicated almost immedi- Guyanese, Keemo Paul, scram- find their feet after the launching consecutive Hero the elder Bravo brother’s penul- ately when last year’s Hero CPL bled 7 off a good penultimate Guardian Life Powerplay, with Maximums to bring the re- timate over Hero Maximum was top scorer, Brandon King, sliced over by Ali and then smashed Narine hitting Green over mid- quired run rate down to just vital in keeping the equation on to point for a duck. Bravo for 15 off the last to set wicket and Munro hitting the seven an over, but finally holed the Knight Riders’ side. Chandrapaul Hemraj chipped the Knight Riders a tricky 145. same bowler clean out of the out off Tahir just after simulta- He couldn’t quite see his team a return catch to Narine, and The Amazon Warriors started ground. But Shepherd came neously being dropped and home, falling to the impressive the Knight Riders spinners were magnificently with the ball, with back and dismissed the prolific bringing up his 50 off a remark- Naveen who was entrusted to bowling so well that at one point Afghan pace sensation Naveen- Kiwi for 17, with the aid of a su- able 27 balls.The veteran South close the innings as he’d opened Pollard even brought himself in ul-Haq, new captain Chris perb diving catch by King. It was African eschewed his trademark it, but younger brother Darren at short leg. It wasn’t until Ross Green and Romario Shepherd a fine comeback after Munro celebration in favour of taking held his nerve, and the home- Taylor brought out his signature combining to keep Knight had carved a four and scooped a the knee and raising a fist in ho- town boys are on the board slog sweep at the end of the sev- Riders’ openers Narine and six off his previous two balls. nour of the Black Lives Matter early.

United Soccer League nets international TV agreement with Flow Sports

TAMPA, Fla. and NEW YORK – VP, Chief Commercial Officer, The United Soccer League has Global sports business agency helps land agreement that will B2C at Cable & Wireless. reached its first-ever interna- More details on live broadcasts tional television agreement with bring USL soccer broadcast to 22 Caribbean countries will be announced as available. Flow Sports, which will see the ear broadcasts to its already im- said USL Executive Vice for soccer, which makes this re- SPORTFIVE has an experi- USL Championship broadcast pressive portfolio of premier President Court Jeske. “With a lationship to bring USL action to enced media sales team and ro- to approximately 600,000 homes global soccer rights, which in- large amount of Championship Flow Sports viewers a terrific bust global network that allows across 22 countries in the clude the UEFA Champions players representing countries fit.” it to effectively package and sell Caribbean. The agreement was League and Europa League, in that region, we’re thrilled to “We are very excited to bring media rights around the world. secured by global sports busi- CONCACAF tournaments, offer fans an opportunity to gain the USL to our soccer fans The agency is also the leading ness agency SPORTFIVE, which Coppa Italia, and the FIFA regular access to our leagues.” across the region. Many of our marketer of soccer rights glob- entered into a partnership with Concacaf Zone 2022 World Cup “We’re proud to have helped Caribbean players from youth, ally and has relationships with the USL earlier this year to Qualifiers. secure an agreement for the senior and professional teams more than 90 European football market the international broad- “The USL is excited to partner USL with its first international- have progressed through and clubs and two FIFA associations, casting rights for the USL with Flow to better serve our based television partner in Flow are a valued part of the USL. including the Confederation of Championship and USL League Caribbean fans and I expect this Sports,” said Dennis Spencer, It’s great to be able to showcase North, Central America and One. will be the first of many interna- SPORTFIVE Senior Vice the talent from our communities Caribbean Association Football With the announcement, tional territories to get a fresh President, Media. “There is performing in the USL on Flow (CONCACAF) and the Asian Flow Sports adds live USL lin- look at USL’s brand of soccer,” great passion in the Caribbean Sports,” said Britta Reinhardt, Football Confederation.

18 • Wednesday August 19, 2020 The Barbados Advocate Swann, Coelho & Horton join closed-road action Ireland in February, co-driven Four-wheel-drive by Darren Garrod, three-time runner-up in Sol RB with numbers building Swann. Looking back on an event he describes as “an eye- with overseas opener”, Horton said: “It was a very humbling experience and arrivals one I am glad I took. The con- OVERSEAS rally drivers, ditions and the speeds the guys starved of competition were doing, unbelievable! It since the coronavirus pan- was certainly a baptism of demic brought motor sport fire, it was great having worldwide to a grinding Darren next to me and I halt in March, are pulling would not have wanted out all the stops to make the to do it without him.” return to closed road Garrod sat with events in Barbados a week- fellow Welshman end to remember. The non- Matt Edwards to win championship Barbados the British Rally Rally Club (BRC) Test Stage Championship in 2018 on Saturday (August 22) and Edwards had su- will be followed on Sunday pervised a test pro- by the Motoring Club of gramme for Horton before Barbados Inc’s (MCBI) Ireland, a day at the Anglesey ‘Hammer Time 20’. race circuit followed by two Britain’s Rob Swann will days on a closed stage in the head across the Atlantic on Welsh mountains. Horton Thursday,Trinidad & Tobago’s added: “I have asked Matt to David Coelho is already in the come to Barbados and help island, having competed at the with set up and more familiari- Vaucluse Raceway’s 20th sation after me having been Anniversary RallySprint last out of the car for a while. I must Saturday,while Paul Horton of thank Darren and Matt for the Turks & Caicos Rally Team making such a big difference will also arrive mid-week. With as I get used to the Fiesta, Jamaica’s Jeff Panton also on which is a real jump up from the ground testing for the first Trinidad & Tobago’s David Coelho captured in this Gerrard Wilson image during Sol Rally Barbados the Citroen. And I must also time in the Ford Fiesta WRC he 2019 thank my family,especially my acquired just before the global wife, who is my major sponsor lockdowns and the growing have before we fly. It will be return to motor sport. That’s looking forward to this week- through her business Java popularity of the FIA R5 class, good to get back in the Fiesta at one unique advantage that end. I plan to do a couple of the Island.” this weekend’s events look set the Test Stage on Saturday Barbados has afforded me be- practice runs on Saturday and A raft of Covid-19 Protocols to boast the biggest four-wheel- ready for the Double-header on yond letting me enter the is- look forward to the Sprints on will be in effect at both this drive entry outside Sol Rally Sunday. I won’t be carrying a land to seek refuge at a time Sunday.” weekend’s events and everyone Barbados for many years. co-driver so, hopefully, my when returning to my country Like other Caribbean desti- is urged to follow the relevant Like Panton, Swann now has Barbados experience will help of Citizenship still isn’t an op- nations, Turks & Caicos has Government advice and adhere a Fiesta WRC, in which he won me. Marie and I will then stay tion! I am eternally grateful. been in lockdown, with the to on-event signage. Saturday’s the Mini Tempest Rushmoor on for a week’s holiday, as I “The weekend was good fun tourism industry hit hard by 1.5-kilometre BRC Test Stage Stages in the south of England haven’t had a day off through at Vaucluse. I tried to drive the pandemic. Ahead of his trip at Orange Hill in St Peter is last December before shipping all the lockdown and could re- both cars – the R5 and the this week, Horton said: “We are scheduled to start at 2.00pm; the ex-Peter Smith car to ally do with one. It will be great BimmaCup – which was very staying as positive as possible, although a non-championship Barbados in time to test at to see all our Bajan friends, as difficult given the schedule and that’s all we can do like every- event, it will be marshalled in Bushy Park just before the is- it’s been a while.” the heat! I got properly beat in one else. I fly from Turks to the usual way with a full com- land’s lockdown in March. T&T’s Coelho was the first the BimmaCup (serves me Jamaica, test, then Jamaica to plement of volunteers, includ- Runner-up in the Caribbean’s driver in the region to regu- right) but had a better time in Barbados, test and hopefully ing a timing crew. Hammer biggest motor sport Inter- larly campaign an R5 car, a the R5, where everyone was only quarantine for a day or so. Time 20, jointly organised by national three times, he lost Fiesta, but the class is now quick. We all got up to speed If all falls into place, we test at the MCBI and the BRC, is out in 2017 and ‘18 to Panton, growing steadily, with at least and had some fun. Andrew Bushy Park, then tackle the slated for a 10.00am start on against whom he last competed six expected to be in action this Mallalieu and I had some great two weekend events. Orange Sunday; the double-header for- in the UK in February, both weekend. With Trinidad’s bor- matchups, Stuart Maloney was Hill and Cherry Grove have mat will run from Henley to driving Fiesta R5s in a single- ders remaining closed during going very quick but had to two different surfaces, speeds Cherry Grove in St John and venue event at the Cadwell the pandemic, Coelho has had leave before the end, which left and so on, so I think the vari- reverse, creating two points- Park racing circuit in Lincoln- his challenges: “After being me in a head-to-head with ance will be good for seat time scoring opportunities for com- shire. stuck in Miami for four plus Roger Hill for the final, which and set up.” petitors in both the MCBI’s Swann said last week: “We months, I managed to make my was decided in his favour by Horton has campaigned his 2020 Championship and Rally fly out next Thursday Covid way to Barbados and am now something like 6/100ths of a Fiesta R5 only once, in the Club’s annual Driver’s and test permitting, which we will stuck here, but at least I get to second I believe it was. So I am Galway International Rally in Class Championships.

Barcelona’s president says former player will be new head coach RONALD Koeman will be the Former Netherlands and “He has a contract until 2021, portunity for another year. Koeman, who played for the new manager of Barcelona, says Barca defender Koeman flew to I speak a lot with Leo and more Maybe it was time to start the Catalan giants between 1989 club president Josep Maria Barcelona on Tuesday to finalise regularly with his father. renovation last year. and 1995 and helped them to Bartomeu. a deal with the club. “He is number one in the “There is money but Covid-19 four league titles and the The 57-year-old, who is cur- There have been rumours world. There is no doubt that in has reduced income so we have European Cup, has a contract rently in charge of the that the team’s star Lionel Koeman’s new project you can to reduce payroll to be able to with the Dutch FA which runs Netherlands, is set to join the Messi could leave but Bartomeu count on Messi.” bring in new footballers. until the 2022 World Cup. La Liga runners-up this week. said:“Messi wants to end his ca- Bartomeu indicated a squad “The easiest thing would be Earlier on Tuesday, when the Speaking last night, Bar- reer at Barca, he has said that overhaul was now going to take to resign but I am not doing it former Barca player was asked tomeu said: “Koeman is the one many times. place. because of my responsibility to if he wanted to return as man- we’ve chosen. If nothing goes “I have spoken with Koeman “The renewal will be as deep the club. It is not a club crisis. It ager, he said: “I’d like to, but it’ll wrong he will be the head coach and the pillar of our project is as necessary,” he said.“I decided is just a sports crisis, which we only be confirmed once I’ve next season.” Messi. to give this generation the op- must fix.” signed the deal.

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Tiger Woods’ 11-year-old son, Charlie Woods, crushes the competition at a junior golf tournament with a 3-under finish GOLF’S next up-and- Florida. The younger played in and even cad- the fairway this past coming star isn’t even Woods shot 3-under in died on a few occasions. weekend. a teenager yet — and nine holes at Hammock Though the 15-time Though it’s unclear his name should Creek golf course, best- major championship win- when Charlie will next sound familiar to any- ing the second-place fin- ner was busy competing get back on the course in one who knows a isher by a comfortable at the PGA an official capacity, his thing about the five-stroke margin. Championships when dad will hit the links at sport. Tiger has been fairly Charlie won his most re- TPC Boston for the first Following in his fa- hands-on in his son’s cent US Kids Golf event, leg of the FedEx Cup ther’s footsteps, Charlie budding golf career. He’s photos posted on social Playoffs — The Northern Woods — Tiger Woods’ been present at multiple media show Tiger lug- Trust — beginning son — shows promise on events Charlie has ging his son’s bag across Thursday. the links at a young age. The 11-year-old heir to golf’s highest throne recently crushed the com- Neymar leads Paris Saint-Germain petition at a US Kids Golf event in Palm City, past RB Leipzig and into its first final LOST somehow in the real and overblown – he’s backwater of France’s do- NOTICES NOTICES NOTICES criticism that Brazilian a diver, he’s jealous of mestic league – is the fact superstar Neymar has en- Paris Saint-Germain that Neymar remains one dured from all corners of teammate/World Cup- of the three absolute BARBADOS the soccersphere over the winner Kylian Mbappe, must-see players in the last few years, for a litany he really regrets leaving world’s most popular IN THE SUPREME COURT OF of transgressions both Barcelona for the relative sport. BARBADOS No, Neymar didn’t score PROBATE DIVISION NOTICES NOTICES on Tuesday, as PSG breezed past Germany’s In the estate of MARCIA PATRICIA RB Leipzig 3-0 to reach its GRIFFITH late of 7 Denburn Court, first Champions League Rosemount, Aberdeen, AB25 1PJ, final. But just like last Scotland in the United Kingdom, week against Atalanta, deceased Neymar was far and away the best player on the PUBLIC NOTICE field. That’s true even if Angel PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given Di Maria, who notched a that Colleen Delores BEST of goal and an assist against Bibby’s Gap, Off Hall’s Road in the Leipzig after serving a parish of Saint Michael in this suspension vs. Atalanta, island, shall, on the expiration of no was a worthy Man of the less than 14 days from the 20th day Match. Neymar drew the of August 2020, submit an foul that set up Di Maria’s Application to the Probate Division perfect free kick onto of the High Court of Justice for a Marquinhos’ head to send Grant of Administration Cum the Parisians on their way Testamento Annexo dated 21 after just 12 minutes in March 2003 to the estate of the Lisbon, where Europe’s above-named deceased, who died elite eight teams assem- testate in the United Kingdom on bled to finish out this coro- the 08th day of January 2017 at the navirus-cursed age of 71 years. Champions League season following a five-month Colleen Delores BEST is the duly hiatus. appointed attorney on record in Simply put, Paris Saint- Barbados for Andrea Williams, the Germain isn’t in this final Sole Executrix named in the Last without Neymar. Say Will & Testament dated 21 March what you want about PSG 2013 of the deceased. being wholly owned by the Qatari government – and Any person who wishes to ensure it’s certainly deserving of that no grant is issued in the estate scrutiny – but this is ex- of the said deceased without notice actly why those owners to himself may enter a caveat in the paid Barcelona over $200 Registry. million for Neymar, more than twice the previous Dated this 19th day of August 2020 world transfer record, in 2017 to bring Neymar to K. S. MARSHALL the historically middling Attorney-at-law Ligue 1 club. (PSG added 1st Floor, “One Welches,” Mbappe a year later for Welches, St. Thomas about $180 million, the BARBADOS BB22025 second-richest fee of all time.) 20 • Wednesday August 19, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

Regular Market BARBADOS STOCK REPORT Security Volume High Low Market Advance/ Price Decline August 18, 2020 EPPLEY C’BEAN PROPERTY FUND SCC - Two securities traded firm as 7,000 shares traded on the Regular Market, with a total value of $64,850.00. Eppley Caribbean Property VAL FUND 5, 000 $0.57 $0.57 $0.57 $0.00 Fund SCC – Value Fund was the volume leader trading 5,000 shares at $0.57. They were followed by West India Biscuit Company Limited which traded 2,000 shares at $31.00. WEST INDIA BISCUIT COMPANY LIMITED 2, 000 $31.00 $31.00 $31.00 $0.00

Deposit Receipts BARBADOSBARBADOS STSTOCKOCK EXCHANGEEXCHANGE Security Previous Current Advance/ Close Close Decline SHARE SUMMARY INFORMATION EMERA DEPOSIT RECEIPT 25 19.89 -$0.02 Tuesday August 18, 2020

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

ABV Investments Incorporated 13-Mar-20 - - - $0.15 $0.15 - $0.02 $0.30 8,080 10,500

BICO Limited 26-Jun-20 - - - $3.10 $3.10 - $3.11 - 64 - INDICES TODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES Banks Holdings Limited -+ 09-Dec-19 - - - $4.85 $4.85 - - - - - August 18, 2020 August 17, 2020 Barbados Dairy Industries Limited -+ 04-Oct-19 - - - $3.00 $3.00 - - - - - Local 2,791.19 2,791.21 0.02 Cross-list 1,400.14 1,400.14 - Barbados Farms Limited 4-May-20 - - - $0.40 $0.40 - $0.35 $0.39 1000 1,000 Composite 685.18 685.18 -

Cable and Wireless Barbados Limited -+ 21-Sep-17 - - - $2.29 $2.29 - - - - - MARKET CAPITALISATION (in millions) TODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES Cave Shepherd and Company Limited 21-Aug-20 - - - $4.39 $4.39 - $4.05 $4.39 900 4320 August 18, 2020 August 17, 2020 Local 5933.77 5933.81 0.04 FirstCaribbean International Bank 17-Aug-20 - - - $2.15 $2.15 0 2.10 $2.25 734 11, 798 Cross-list 178.78 178.78 - Eppley Caribbean Property Fund SCC 17-Jul-20 - - - $0.18 $0.18 - - $0.18 - 35,118 Composite 6,112.55 6,112.59 0.04

- Dev Fund MUTUAL FUND August 18, 2020 Eppley Caribbean Property Fund SCC 18-Aug-20 5000 $0.57 $0.57 $0.57 $0.57 0 $0.56 $0.57 21701 22,200 ENDED NAME OF FUND NAV OFFER BID NAV -Value Fund CHANGE 14-Aug-20 REPUBLIC CAPITAL GROWTH FUND w 1.2519 -0.0014 Goddard Enterprises Limited 12-Aug-20 - - - $2.60 $2.60 0 $2.55 $2.59 600 2754 14-Aug-20 REPUBLIC INCOME FUND w 1.2304 -0.0005 Insurance Corporation of B’dos Limited 12-Aug-20 - - - $3.00 $3.00 - $3.00 $3.10 287 11, 000 14-Aug-20 REPUBLIC PROPERTY FUND w 0.6928 -0.0002 07-Aug-20 FORTRESS CARIBBEAN GROWTH FUND w 5.8104 5.8104 5.8104 0.0348 One Caribbean Media Limited 06-Mar-20 - - - $2.70 $2.70 - $1.80 $2.60 6264 3,000 07-Aug-20 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - ACC. w 2.0489 0.0045 07-Aug-20 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - DIST. w 1.0260 0.0022 Sagicor Financial Corporation Pref 6.5% 23-Jun-16 - - - $2.26 $2.26 - - - - - 31-Jul-20 ROYAL FIDELITY SELECT BALANCED FUND m 5.4814 5.4814 5.3718 0.0682 31-Jul-20 ROYAL FIDELITY STRATEGIC GROWTH FUNDm 0.9670 0.9670 0.9477 0.0219 Sagicor Financial Corporation Limited -+ 29-Nov-19 - - - $2.80 $2.80 - - - - - 31-Jul-20 ROYAL FIDELITY PREMIUM INCOME FUND m 1.6771 1.6771 1.6436 0.0088 14-Aug-20 SAGICOR GLOBAL BALANCED FUND w 2.61 0.01 West India Biscuit Company Limited 18-Aug-20 2000 31 31 $31.10 $31.00 $0 30 - 100000 - 14-Aug-20 SAGICOR SELECT GROWTH FUND w 1.54 0.01 Emera Deposit Receipt 14-Aug-20 - - - $25.00 $19.91 -$5.09 $25.01 - 300 - 14-Aug-20 SAGICOR PREFERRED INCOME FUND w 0.98 0.00 * Indicates the Fund is currently ex-div NOTES: QUOTATIONS AND NET ASSET VALUE PER SHARE ARE SUPPLIED BY THE TOTAL SHARES BOUGHT & SOLD 1300 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 31-Jul-20 $60.00 $60.00 - $65.00 - 435, 353 GOB Series D 12-Nov-19 $50.00 $50.00 GOB Series F 05-Feb-20 $89.00 $89.00 - NOTICES GOB Series I 24-Mar-20 $65.00 $65.00 $75.00 103,713 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS Barbados Farms Limited – Directors of Barbados Farms Limited have fixed July 17th, 2020 as the record date for the determination NEWS of shareholders entitled to receive notice of the Annual General Meeting of the Company. The date of the meeting will be communicated in the Annual Report which we will provide to Shareholders as soon as it is available. S&P 500 rises to a record close as stocks regain pandemic-related declines DIVIDEND DECLARATIONS THE S&P 500 and Nasdaq session, after company Cave Shepherd and Company Limited – Directors have declared an interim dividend of five ($0.05) cents per share to be paid on each closed at record highs executives said sales growth August 21st, 2020 to Shareholders on record at close of business on August 7th, 2020. Tuesday, with tech shares was normalizing and leading the broader market decelerating during the BSE NOTICES to regain its pandemic- current quarter, as COVID-19 PROCEDURAL UPDATE In light of the ongoing COVID-19 contagion affecting the island, the Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) and the Barbados Central related losses. government stimulus to Securities Depository Inc. (BCSDI) have been instituting several procedural changes. Walmart and Home Depot consumers waned. Kindly note that effective May 18th, 2020, the BSE and BCSDI re-opened and has resumed normal office hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 shares turned negative Home Depot also delivered p.m. Please also note that we have implemented digital temperature checks for all persons entering the building. These checks are despite the companies better than expected second- being conducted on both staff and clients alike by trained personnel. While we acknowledge that every person with fever may not be COVID-19 positive and that some individuals may present without reporting estimates-topping quarter results, with 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 second-quarter results, after comparable sales growth of within our offices. executive commentary 23.4% in the three-month We wish to thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation, however, we must emphasize that this is a necessary step for around slowing sales period, or more than double the protection of staff and clients alike. growth in the current the 11.4% growth rate quarter drove investor expected. Consumers and TRADING SUSPENSION jitters. professionals alike flocked Walmart (WMT) reported to the retailer for DIY The Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) wishes to advise that due to non-compliance with Section 4.01.3 and subject to Section 3.01.5.(1)(b) of the Rules of the Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. trading in the Common Shares of Banks Holdings Limited were second-quarter results that projects while working from suspended effective December 10th, 2019. easily topped consensus home, and as housing expectations on both sales market activity and home- The Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) wishes to advise that due to non-compliance with Section 4.01.3 and subject to Section and profit, with US building picked up in late 3.01.5.(1)(b) of the Rules of the Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. trading in the Common Shares of Barbados Dairy Industries Limited were suspended effective December 10th, 2019. comparable same-store spring. Company executives sales up 9.3%. E-commerce said on their earnings call The Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) wishes to advise that to facilitate the closing of the Scheme of Arrangement effected by sales nearly doubled, Tuesday morning that way of Section 99 of the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda involving the transfer of all the issued and outstanding shares in Sagicor surging 97% as consumers third-quarter earnings Financial Corporation Limited to Alignvest Acquisition II, it has suspended trading in the security Sagicor Financial Corporation Limited. increasingly turned online results were holding at to shop during the second-quarter levels, The Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) wishes to advise that, as a result of the approved amalgamation of Cable and Wireless pandemic. However, the extinguishing hopes of an (Barbados) Limited (CWBL) and Cable & Wireless West Indies Limited (CWWI), trading in the security - Cable and Wireless stock traded choppily after extended gain for the home- (Barbados) Limited - has been suspended with immediate effect.. gaining in the pre-market improvement giant. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday August 19, 2020 • 21

22 • Wednesday August 19, 2020 The Barbados Advocate Squash Spotlight – Kemar Lord SQUASH is a racquet sport How many years have you Are you right or left- played by two players (or been playing squash? handed? four players for doubles) in a 6. years I am right-handed. four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. What or who inspired you What is your favourite Once the ball is served, players to play squash? shot? take turns hitting the ball A relative suggested that I B ackhand volley drop. against the front wall, above the give it a try and encouraged me tin and below the out line. The to join the Barbados Squash Who is your favourite ball may strike the side or back Association’s Junior Squash squash player? walls at any time, as long as it Academy programme. Paul Coll. hits below the out line and above the tin. The ball may only How many days a week do Are there any goals you bounce once on the floor, and you normally spend train- have in mind that you would players may move anywhere ing? like to accomplish in the around the court. I currently train two to three sport? Squash is a challenging con- days a week. As I leave the junior circuit, test of agility,strategy,talent and my goals are to continue to im- mental and physical strength. Who is your coach? Where prove my game and to represent The Barbados Advocate pres- do you often train? Barbados at the Senior Carib- ents: Shawn Simpson. I train at The bean Area Squash Association Name: Kemar Lord Barbados Squash Club. (CASA) Championships in the future. Age: 18 years old Have you had the privilege of representing Barbados at Besides squash are there What school do you at- any regional or international any other sports that you Kemar Lord tend? tournaments? play? If not, do you have any I attended The St. Michael Yes. I have competed at the hobbies which you care to Barbados Junior National sibly can. School and will be attending The Junior Caribbean Area Squash share? Squash Boys’ team that University of the West Indies - Association (CASA) Cham- I don't currently play any won gold at the Junior CASA What would you say to a Cave Hill Campus to study Sport pionships from 2015 – other sport besides squash. I Championships. child or adult to encourage Sciences. 2019; member of the 2018 competed in swimming and them to choose squash as a Barbados Junior National taekwondo before I started play- What are your plans for sport? At what age did you start Squash team. I have also coming squash. your game of squash in the Squash is an extremely fun to play squash? peted at the Canadian Junior What do you see as your future? and exhilarating sport. It helps I started playing at age 12 and Open (2015-2018) and US Junior greatest accomplishment? To play on the professional cir- to develop agility, strategy, coor- immediately fell in love with the Open (2016-2018) tournaments. My greatest accomplishment cuit (PSA). I plan to continue to dination and mental & physical sport. was being a member of the 2018 play squash for as long as I pos- strength.

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P R O HOROSCOPES S A ARIES (March 21-April 19). People will find N out who you are through your actions, your sto- D ries or because you share your preferences. So you really don't have to worry about telling C O them who you are. You're already showing N them. S

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You're gutsy. You forget that sometimes. Or rather, you take it for granted, believing that everyone else is gutsy, too. Not true! You're lucky when you rec- ognize the quality and make it count today. Z GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Before a mutu- I ally satisfying deal can be struck, the others will T want to understand your story. So let them S know where you were, what happened, and why they need to know. That should do it.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Self-sufficiency is among your many attractive qualities. You won't ask your friends to help you unless you truly can't do on your own. In that case, a Taurus is your ideal support. R E LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Like the cat your sign X is named for, you are choosy about who you M like, and then obsessively loyal to your chosen O ones. Also like a cat, curled up and cozy will R be your default mode today. G A VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). People have their N own agendas, but they might adopt yours if it is appealing enough. People are usually willing to forgo their plan when there's something more interesting, attainable, lucrative, fun, urgent or important to do.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). If you stop saying P H yes so often, people will take notice. They will A value your time and services a little more, see- N ing them as limited commodities that others T also want. O M SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You love to know what's really going on in people's lives, but mostly they show you what their lives look like instead of what they feel like. Good thing you never go strictly by appearances.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Your M compassion is an enormous strength. You will A ideally use it to be helpful, to teach others R and/or be the catalyst for their growth. What Y you don't want is to enable others or "fix" them, which never works. W O CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Aim for the R middle of the road. You'll hit the perfect note: T surprising, but not obvious; spontaneous, but H not impulsive; romantic, but nobody's fool.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). If "play" is an art form, you're a fine artist indeed today. You'll M O be so involved in your process of curious en- T joyment that you won't even think to stop and H commemorate it. This is living. E R PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). In friendship, you'll deal with the other person's flaws or be G O kind enough to look the other way. But you're O stricter when your heart's on the line. There are S standards that must be met before you give E your trust. Narine stars as Knight Riders beat Amazon Warriors in CPL opener Page 17

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FARMERSCHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of has had a negative impact on theHURTING He added, “And as much as the people additional costs. He said this has been the Barbados Agricultural Society agricultural sector and needs to be criticise the poultry producers and extremely hard on the farmers, and he is (BAS), James Paul is making an addressed. the pig farmers, prices have remained hoping that Government will waive the appeal to Government to give “In the non-irrigated areas where relatively moderate in terms of meat as costs. farmers an ease with their water farmers have to be using Government well. When you look at the amount of the “We have to look to see whether or not bills, expressing concern that water,the water from the Barbados Water increases that they have absorbed, special exceptions should be given to the hefty water bills are hurting Authority to wet their crops, it is hard on it has been insignificant. In the case of farmers as it relates to the Garbage and the agricultural sector and could them. Remember there has been no dairy farmers for instance, you have a Sewage Contribution. I am really calling potentially put some farmers out of ease with the Garbage and Sewage dairy farmer for instance who is on Government to waive that Garbage business. Contribution, plus all the other paying a water bill of $3 000, and Sewage Contribution, because it is Paul said since the Garbage increases that the farmers have had, yet where before the bill was less too onerous on farmers’ operations,” he and Sewage Contribution (GSC) was you can see there have not been any $1 000. That is a lot in one month, said. introduced in 2018 and levied through major increases in the price of and that is a significant increase – The BAS official said that the water the Barbados Water Authority bills, it has agricultural commodities, especially when threefold”. bills, like the challenge posed by praedial significantly increased the operating costs it comes to vegetable crops,” he said Paul said that especially in this larceny, have cut into the profits of the of the farmers. Paul said while he in an interview with The Barbados COVID-19 environment, the farmers farmers and is putting the sector understands the rationale for the levy, it Advocate. have had to continue to absorb those in jeopardy.

Prison Fellowship receive help with new project FORMER inmates of Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds will now have an opportunity to get a foot in the door as it relates to finding their way back into society as Prison Fellowship Barbados launched a new initiative to get their members working. The over-30-year-old organisation was given a push in the right direction yesterday as they received some assistance from CIBC First Caribbean Bank. Aimed at helping former inmates get their feet on the ground as they seek to reintegrate into society, Prison Fellowship Barbados was presented with two brand new weed whackers to augment its landscaping business. With the programme aimed at employing former inmates to do the work while supervised by officials from the Fellowship, Executive Director Neil Dowden explained that it was all in a bid to end the vicious cycle faced by persons who went through the nation’s punitive system. “This project will be supervised by From left to right: Executive Director Neil Dowden and Jennifer Dowden of Prison Fellowship Barbados pose with Behaviour Change Specialist National HIV/AIDS Commission, Cecelia Neblett-Murray and Business Development Manager BREAKING CYCLE on Page 5 of CIBC First Caribbean Bank, Raymond Ward.

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