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Friday February 20, 2015 $2 VAT Inclusive POTENTIAL FOR MORE EXPORTS

THERE are several opportunities for Barbados to boost its exports to China. Pointing out that China has a popula- tion of $1.3 billion, with a significant in- terest in other cultures, Senior Officer with the Barbados Investment Development Corporation Paula Bourne highlighted that while there has been a marked increase in trade between Barbados and China since 2007, there was still significant potential for export growth from the island. She noted for example that products such as rum and sea island cotton could be marketed and sold to the People’s Republic of China as well as music and cultural items. “While we are small and we often think that we do not have a lot to offer, China attaches great importance to economic trade and cultural relations with Barbados and the wider Caribbean. There is significant business potential that can be developed between the two countries and we need to step out and ex- plore,” she stated. Bourne stressed that private sector companies must work with facilitators in order to get samples of their products into Chinese markets. Noting that there were 2.4 million mil- lionaires in China, she pointed out that by gaining the interest of a few of these in products and services of the Caribbean could make a significant difference. In addition, she suggested that in the same way that China had trade agree- ments with various countries across the world, it is time that it also had one in place with Caricom. Bourne was speaking yesterday at the Grande Salle during an educational half- day seminar as part of the Fish and Students of the Alexandra School took in some of the exhibition of places in China. Dragon Festival. (JMB) INSET: BIDC’s Senior Development Officer Paula Bourne wants to see more trade between Barbados and China. BICO undergoing restructuring exercise

BICO Limited has undertaken a $1 mil- structuring exercise is in progress in opened it goes directly into an air con- process.” lion capital expenditure project to re- conjunction with staff and their bar- ditioned environment… Of course all “We will continue to restructure as we furbish and improve facilities at its gaining agent the Barbados Workers’ the goods are requiring different tem- go along because although we are seeing Harbour Cold Store. Union, with the aim of producing an ef- peratures. Also we do handle some a bright light at the end of the tunnel, The aim, according to Executive ficient world-class Cold Chain facility things which contain allergens, there- the future remains uncertain. So I think Chairman Edwin Thirlwell, is to achieve for importers and local merchants, for fore we have to have the various rooms you could see that to spend a million HACCP Certification by the end of chilled and frozen products. at various temperatures for the various dollars in updating the Harbour Cold February this year. Thirlwell explained:“As soon as a con- things. We have all new signs which will Store at a time like this is a major ges- Addressing a press conference yester- tainer comes from a ship and is taken to highlight the different allergen rooms ture of confidence in the future,” he said. day, he also revealed that a major re- our facility, the minute the doors are such as for nuts … It is an on-going BICO on page 3

2 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate New appreciation for Chinese culture

THE Fish and Dragon Festival has been giving Barbadians a new ap- preciation for the Chinese culture. Yesterday, several citizens from sixth form and tertiary students to cultural enthusiasts, filled the Grande Salle of the Central Bank for a half-day semi- nar to learn more about the People’s Republic of China and its people, and the educational opportunities avail- able through the government and Embassy of China. Several speakers, including repre- sentatives in the fields of trade and export promotion, education and well- ness, were on hand and shared from their own experiences visiting and liv- ing in China. Throughout the presentations, the audience was shown pictures of both urban and rural China, its traditional and modern architecture and given an insight to daily life in that country. They were also treated to a display of skilled ping pong players; a sport which China has dominated in mod- ern times. Later in the evening, a film screening was also put on. The Fish and Dragon Festival is in celebration of the friendship between Barbados and China as the latter China’s Ambassador to Barbados Wang Ke (left) listens to Governor of the Central Bank, Dr. Delisle Worrell. marks the Chinese New Year. Running from February 19 to 21, a will take place – Herbal Dialogues, a Friendship’ and a gala, both at the reminded that parking will be avail- Visualising China exhibition will run wellness seminar at the Grande Salle; Church Village Green. able at Harrison College and Queen’s daily, while on Saturday three events an all day celebration ‘In the Spirit of Admission is free and the public is Park. (JMB) The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 3 BICO seeing positive results

BICO Limited turned think that is the vital in a positive result for part – we still are striv- the year ending ing to have everything September 30th, 2014. from a dollar to the top According to the end.” Executive Chairman, In order to keep sales Edwin Thirlwell, a 14 per buoyant, the Executive cent increase in ice Chairman noted that as cream sales combined one promotion ends, days with an eight per cent later another begins as decrease in energy costs, to keep their customer improved BICO’s re- base interested, and to stated after tax profit by keep the cash flowing. 82 per cent in the year This impressive per- under review. formance by the ice “From the knowledge cream division was how- we have around the re- ever dampened by re- gion, others are looking sults at Harbour Cold more like a two per cent Store, where a combina- Executive Chairman at BICO Ltd, Edwin Thirlwell. increase. Therefore, 14 tion of lower volumes per cent at a time like through the Port and a this in an economy that slowdown in local com- is not buoyant, is indica- mercial activity resulted Photovoltaic system tive of the effort that we in a 25 per cent decline in have put into maintain- revenues. ing our market share.” Thirlwell further ac- producing savings Thirlwell was at the knowledged that the time sharing BICO’s per- Board of Directors had BICO from Page 1 Chairman added that the formance during a press recommended that no installation and commis- conference held at the dividend be paid for the Thirlwell further ad- sioning last August of a company’s Harbour year under review. mitted that BICO, in the 181 kw photovoltaic sys- Road, Bridgetown head- He explained that past year or two, has lost tem has already produced quarters yesterday. whilst ice cream sales for business because there savings. He said the com- He said that the com- the first two months of were not up to interna- pany expected another pany recognised that the new financial year tional standards on cold meaningful contribution they “had to have some- were already up by six chain. in the current financial thing at every price per cent on the same pe- “I think we are fairly year, particularly at point, to fit every riod last year, revenues confident now that we Harbour Cold Store, pocket”. at Harbour Cold Store would be going after extra which is a heavy energy “We can all say that have fallen by 40 per business because we are consumer, with one mil- the BICO Valu Pak has cent. now a world-class cold lion cubic feet of commer- fit the bill at the bottom “The company will store facility.” cial cold storage available end of the market. What stick to its strategy of de- The Executive 365 days per year. (TL) we found was that people livering value for money who traditionally bought to its loyal customer a 5 litre double delight base, while promoting (top end) now, because aggressively to increase things are tight, would sales and combat compe- B.U.T. President Jo-anne Pooler, General Manager at BICO Ltd. buy a 4 litre Valu Pak. I tition,” he stated. (TL) confirms letter’s receipt BARBADOS Union today to inform them of Teachers’ President, the latest developments. Pedro Shepherd, has con- “The BUT received cor- firmed that the organisa- respondence from the tion has received corre- Personnel Administration spondence from the Division indicating to us Personnel Administration the process that they are Division in the matter of going through at this the appointment of hun- stage and we are satisfied dreds of temporary teach- that the work is being ers. done and to that effect, we However,he pointed out will be meeting with our that while a day late from teachers tomorrow at 4 the February 18 deadline p.m. at our headquarters insisted by the BUT, the to bring them up to date,” letter had not specified he added. how many teachers would Shepherd stated that be appointed or when this the division also high- would happen, but stated lighted its desire to know its progress in seeking to the exact number of those appoint these educators. teachers seeking to be He noted that the BUT made permanent so that would be meeting with this could be done in the the affected teachers shortest possible time. The storage area at BICO Ltd.

4• Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate UWI’s first female principal congratulated publicly WITH the word out that – by Senator Irene Sandiford-Garner came the coordinator of the nity publicly to congratu- Professor Eudine Open Campus and she has late Dr. Barriteau,” Barriteau is tipped to Transport, Senator Irene ration with the Youth nise the progress of women worked her way to this po- Senator Sandiford-Garner succeed Professor Sir Sandiford-Garner, who Development Programme in the area of politics and sition.A woman of humble announced. Hilary Beckles on May also serves as Principal this week at the Baobab public life. beginnings in Grenada, Professor Eudine 1, 2015 as the new prin- Delegate to the Inter- Towers in Warrens St. “On behalf of the women who would have come here Barriteau,currently serves cipal of the University American Commission on Michael, Senator in this room and many as a child. She was edu- as Principal and Pro Vice- of the West Indies Cave Women (CIM), recently Sandiford-Garner used the other women who feel as cated in this country, she Chancellor of the UWI Hill Campus, and the noted that she is pleased occasion to publicly con- pleased as I do, I want to got married to a Open Campus. As she very first female to hold with the progress gratulate Barriteau, in congratulate Professor Barbadian. She has a moves to take up her new the post, one female Professor Barriteau has light of the fact that the Eudine Barriteau. She is Barbadian son,a beautiful post of principal of the politician has taken the made to date. workshop was held to the first female principal young man and has never UWI Cave Hill Campus time to publicly con- Following a Leadership mark celebrations for the of the University of the ever faltered in her work later this year, Professor gratulate her. Training Workshop for Day of Women of the West Indies. Dr.Barriteau with the women of this Sir Hilary Beckles will also Parliamentary Secretary Women in the Community, Americas, a day desig- would have been country and I am ex- take up his new position, in the Ministry of Tourism hosted by the Bureau of nated by the Organisation deputy principal for about tremely proud of her and I as Vice-Chancellor of the and International Gender Affairs, in collabo- of America States,to recog- fifteen years. She then be- wish to take this opportu- UWI, succeeding Barbados benefitted greatly from ‘Teachers must be investments in education constant learners’ BARBADOS has benefitted Social Sector Division at primary education,in prin- made as one of the coun- By Patricia Thangaraj what you have to do, to tremendously from invest- the Caribbean ciple, mass access to terti- tries that lead the region in constantly keep your ments in education, both Development Bank, Dr. ary education and now terms of investment in ed- TEACHERS must con- classroom alive, to make from a financial standpoint Martin Baptiste who spoke moving into the final fron- ucation.” stantly seek to acquire it live in a dynamic and as well as a human re- at the Launch of the tier which is unchartered He said that this is some- more knowledge in order sensible way.” sources standpoint made Enhancing Teacher development. With a very thing which they recognize to advance their abilities The Education by the Government of Effectiveness Component sophisticated education at their Bank at it is with to effectively teach the Minister stated that prin- Barbados and its respective of the ESEP 2 recently at system,state of the art and this in mind that they are children that enter into cipals of the schools must stakeholders. the Hilton Barbados. well-articulated framework always willing to lend sup- their classrooms. also be involved in this This is according to “Starting with universal and it has benefited from port in whatever capacity This is coming from constant learning be- Educational Specialist, secondary education and the investments that is has that they can to the various Minister of Education, cause it would ensure projects and programmes Science, Technology and that they are working in that the Ministry of Innovation, Ronald Jones tandem with the teach- Education has decided to who delivered remarks at ers that they lead within embark on. the Launch of the their schools. “At the bank, we under- Enhancing Teacher “And as part of that stand our role is to facili- Effectiveness Component process, principal leaders tate the development and of the ESEP 2 recently at and principal managers in the case of the education the Hilton Barbados. must be part and parcel sector to work along our He said that it is not of that process. If there partners in the region and about going and getting are strong divisions, be- in Barbados, to make sure your degree as this is tween he or she who that they systems evolve, only the foundation. “The leads and manages or become more sophisticated, teacher must be a con- those who are caught up but increasingly focussed stant learner. It isn’t that essentially with the ped- on development outcomes, you go and you qualify at agogy, then we are creat- that our responsibility is to Erdiston Teachers’ ing schools to fail. We are ensure that where initia- Training College or the creating children to tives are well designed and University of the West fail. That is the bottom based on best practices, Indies or some other in- line.” that we have a responsibil- stitution that prepares Jones said that at the ity to support everything you for the classroom. It end of the day, the suc- that the Ministry so prepares you for the cesses of the children chooses to do.” classroom essentially for must be their priority This Enhancing the moment that you are and their constant learn- Teaching Effectiveness in the classroom. That is ing provides the stepping Component of the ESEP is what it does.” stone that would help one such initiative as it is Teachers then have to them to get to that point. important that as they look use this foundation and “Whatever we do, has back at what they have build upon it in order to to be guided by the no- done over the past forty ensure that they can pro- tion that our children years, they need to now vide an efficient and in- must succeed. Whatever start shifting their focus. teractive learning envi- we do, whatever we deem “This component is criti- ronment for the future. our rights and responsi- cal and indeed when the “It doesn’t prepare you bilities are, at the end of project was being designed, for the future because the the day, it is the success we were very much instinc- future is essentially un- of our children that tively and unambiguously knowable. But it gives should be at the heart of committed to supporting you through the kind of whatever we do. So the this component.We under- mental schema, intellect, teacher as the constant stand that as we look at the ability that you can go learner; the teacher that educational systems in through adaptability that evaluates and re-evalu- Barbados and throughout as you get to the future – ates his or her profession- the region, that we need to because you get to the fu- alism; the teacher as a shift our focus from what ture – to go through the professional; the teacher we have been doing for the present to get to the fu- as a consummate profes- last four decades in the ture that you can make sional that is where it post-colonial era.” (PJT) those adjustments in has to be.” The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 5 New Gender Policy on the horizon THE Government of Leadership Training Meanwhile, the senator within our national plans Barbados, through its Workshop for Women in noted that the Inter- and policies” she further Bureau of Gender the Community, hosted American Commission of remarked. Affairs, is in the by the Bureau of Gender Women (CIM) was estab- process of developing Affairs, in collaboration lished in 1928 and is the Opposition Leader to a new gender policy, with the Youth first inter-governmental discuss political vio- that will seek to en- Development agency established to en- lence against women at sure that the human Programme. It was held sure recognition of CIM Meeting rights of our citizens at the Baobab Towers in women’s human rights. Noting that the CIM is are not marginalised. Warrens St. Michael. “It’ s mission is to shape “apolitical” as both gov- It will seek to address “I look forward to the the public policy agenda ernmental and opposition those lingering gaps implementation of the from a rights-based per- members of Parliament that affect our men new gender policy, which spective for the full citi- are included in the and women. would enable us to fur- zenship of women and the agency, she revealed that This announcement ther identify and work elimination of gender- this very week, was made this week by with diligence, to remove based discrimination and Opposition Leader Mia Parliamentary Secretary any remaining gender violence,” she explained. Mottley will be travelling in the Ministry of differences between men “Barbados as one of the this month to Washington Tourism and and women. This will signatories to the CIM, is D.C. to participate in a International Transport, help us to fulfill the man- expected to promote full roundtable discussion on Senator Irene Sandiford- date of the CIM (the and equal access, partici- political violence. As such Garner, who also serves Inter-American pation, representation, she said, the CIM brings as Principal Delegate to Commission of Women) , leadership and influence women in political and the Inter-American to promote full and equal of women in the civil, po- public life together as Commission on Women access for women, both at litical, economic, social they have a common de- (CIM). the political and commu- and cultural spheres. We nominator, that of being a The announcement nity level,” Sandiford- as a nation continue to woman in public life. came during a Garner commented. embrace this mandate In commemoration of Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of the Day of the Women of Tourism and International Transport, Senator the Americas (February Irene Sandiford-Garner 18th) and International Ministry of Tourism closed today Women’s Day (March Challenge”. It will be held Mottley will join promi- 8th) the Round-table dis- in the OAS Hall of the nent women from other THE Ministry of business today, Friday, issue. cussion , to be held on Americas, in the OAS countries to specifically Tourism’s offices at the February 20. The Ministry regrets February 25th, will focus Main Building, located on discuss “The role of polit- Lloyd Erskine Sandiford This is to allow work to any inconvenience on the topic, “Political the corner of 17th Street ical parties in addressing Centre, Two Mile Hill, St continue towards resolv- caused to members of the Violence Against Women: and Constitution Ave., political violence against Michael, will be closed to ing an environmental public. A Hemispheric N.W., Washington, D.C. women”. (RSM)

6 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate Sir Harcourt was a bridge builder THE late Sir Harcourt as the formation of the adding that his critical role foundation is the first Foundation. In that era it together in terms of this Lewis has been Insurance Corporation of in the Labour Movement organisation to seriously led in job creation for small massive contribution to described as a bridge Barbados Limited and the was the apex of that take the matter of small businesses.It was a second national development as builder. Barbados National Bank. bridge. business into its hands. window for loans the rising up of the small Senator Dr. Sir Trevor “These were at first Sir Trevor told other And Sir Harcourt was very programmes and Sir business sector. Carmichael during a public institutions but Honourable Members in much there. That Harcourt following on the He described Sir tribute to Sir Harcourt became private.They were the Upper Chamber that organisation was initiated vision of Sir Hugh was Harcourt as a gentleman Lewis in the Upper public which were created this apex morphs into his first by another stalwart – punctilious in the way in who never rushed, but got Chamber earlier this week on a private industry role in the National Sir Hugh Springer,” he which he guided that things done quickly adding highlighted his model. [Therefore] Sir Development Foundation. explained. Foundation,” he said. that he might have been contribution to various Harcourt was really “Sir Harcourt played an “It was his insight which Furthermore, the short in stature but organisations particularly building bridges even at important role in his guided us to ensure we had Ministry and the ICB gigantic in action and in the public service as well that stage,” he remarked, organisation. This a National Development experience all came service. (JH) ‘Persevere against all odds’ SUPPORT on Page 6 other.” certainly shows what it is As individuals become He advised while like to be an successful in their own making reference to Rawle entrepreneurship endeavours they will want Brancker of Brancker’s, particularly a female in a to spend some of the always find time for your challenging field. To the resources they earn. customers, even as big as contestants on the show However, if an individual your business grows. The you are all a winners, it starts to succeed and buy a minister pointed out that takes guts to get out there, car or house, people make you can still find Brancker you will have detractors comments such as he or speaking to his customers sometimes the banks will she is a thief, drug lord or at the store. tell you ‘no’, but I want you something negative. We Inniss added that, to persevere against all can do better in this society, “Producer of the television odds, stay focused and the celebrate our programme ‘Bank one me’, sky is the limit.You can be entrepreneurs; we can Alison Saunders of Blue successful entrepreneurs.” work to support each Waters Productions (NB)

Senator Verla De Peiza. Senator Verla De Peiza says thanks IT was back in the 1990s nation building. “and a demonstration that when Senator Verla De She thanked him for even though things start Peiza started working with securing the national bank out tough, they don’t have the late Sir Harcourt that others found it worthy to end up rough. That the Lewis, the then Treasurer of sale.“Although we knew extent of your contribution of the Democratic Labour it was a jewel in the crown need not be limited by your Party. that ought to have been situation”. During her tribute in the kept.” His wife Claudette Lady Upper Chamber, she De Peiza also thanked Lewis and his family for Ten-month-old Molly. recounted that at the time Sir Harcourt for his providing the stability at she was sitting on the leadership in the Barbados home that allowed Sir executive council as a Scouts Association, “at a Harcourt to work on the Jack Russell snatched Young Democrat. De Peiza time when young men national platform, were described Sir Harcourt as were definitely in need of also lauded. Distraught dog owner pleading for safe return of Molly very methodical, who positive reinforcement”. In the spirit of always gave a listening ear Also for assisting the remembering Sir A LEISURELY walk in approached by a is tricoloured with a and gave the truth. poor and emerging middle Harcourt, she called for a the countryside with his neighbour who was distinctive white stripe “His experience was so class in securing their monument to immortalise three Jack Russell walking her dogs in the from head to nose. vast – he touched on financial future through his life. “That our Terriers turned into a vicinity said that she One of the neighbours labour, economic issues, the credit union and for generation does not forget nightmare for Colin noticed what appeared to told The Barbados accounting savvy [etc]. He slaving tirelessly on behalf and other generations get Beadon on Wednesday be a beige car with a Advocate that she is was one of the most well- of the working class of to know the stature of a evening. young couple stopping aware that Jack Russell rounded persons in the Barbados through the man who truly stood out – When he whistled for and picking up a Jack puppies can be quite party. And alongside Sir trade union movement. ensured excellence was his them to come to his side, Russell and drove off. The lucrative, but Molly has Branford [Taitt], he was De Peiza thanked the motto.” two quickly returned but female occupant was been spayed and is willing to share with those stalwart for The senator mused that the youngest Molly did wearing pink. currently undergoing in the young generation,” demonstrating that it is she had never seen him not, as she usually does. A distraught Beadon long-term medical she stated. possible to give sterling lose his cool or raise his This happened around and the small group of attention. To this end she used the contribution through the voice adding, he was “a 5:10 p.m. as he walked the closely-knit neighbours If anyone has opportunity to thank Sir civil service despite gentleman who we can dogs between the are pleading with anyone information of her Harcourt for his years of wearing political colours. recommend as an example Moncrieffe and Mt who has information to whereabouts or seen service, and for assisting Furthermore, she gave of what a man can be Pleasant Plantations in assist in the safe return Molly, please contact in laying the foundation in thanks to Sir Harcourt for regardless of St. John. His fears were of the very affectionate COLIN BEADON: 423- the continuing process of letting his life be a beacon, circumstance”. (JH) realised when he was ten-month-old puppy who 0477.

The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 7 Glimpse into the Charleston Connection THE first five Dr. Watson however what that means ‘you all’. that several hundred of the governors of the recalled that it was Language transfer is Native American Indians Carolinas were all between 1665 and 1700 arguably one of the things of the Carolinas were Barbadian. Among when about 3 000 people that the Barbadian enslaved and shipped to them was Sir John left Barbados to settle in contingent took with them Barbados. Yeamans. the Carolinas. to the Carolinas.They also “If some Barbadians do a “According to internal Establishing themselves took the culture of art. DNA analysis today, evidence he seduces in an area called Goose Excavations in Charleston recover evidence of some Margaret, the wife of the Creek,they became known have revealed that early Amerindian input – then owner of Nicholas Abby as the Goose Creek Men. strata which speak to the this is a result of either the (Col. Benjamin Berringer), “These 3 000 comprised settlement of Barbadians importation of Indians of gets her pregnant and in of sons of planters, in the Carolinas,” Dr. what is today the Guyanas order to ‘get rid’ of enslaved people and Watson highlighted. and Venezuela into Margaret’s husband, indentured servants. The Historian went on Barbados, or the Yeamans invites the About half of those 3 000 to make it clear that importation of North couple to Speightstown to were enslaved, and who at Barbadians were not solely American Indians from dinner, and poisons the that point in time were responsible for the settling the Carolinas into husband and three months quite possibly first of the Carolinas, as there Barbados.” later marries Margaret generation born were also movements of He further and they go up to Barbadian of African people from elsewhere – acknowledged:“I calculate Charleston. Going back ancestry,” he such as from what is today that there are about eight and forth.” acknowledged. Pennsylvania. million Americans today Historian Dr. Karl “That whole marriage of “In the early very who have some direct links Watson shared this culture – African and informative years when through their ancestry to interesting tidbit with European combined to the Carolina settlement Barbados.” visitors gathered at the create something that you took shape and created “As small as our island Holetown Methodist start to see is Barbadian, patterns that would exist is, we have in many ways Church for this year’s such as language patterns. over the centuries – then made our impact not just Alfred Pragnell Memorial The 3 000 who left without a doubt the in regional history but Talk on “The Charleston Barbados had already Barbadian imprint in the world history. The Connection". started to modify their Carolinas is very solid, relationship between “I suspect anybody with language.... Gullah, which very strong and is Barbados and the a little imagination could sounds just like Bajan. celebrated today,” he Carolinas is just one make a fantastic movie out Gullah uses many words observed. example of many, that of this early movement of that we use. When I say According to Dr.Watson, illustrates the on-going Barbadians out to the ‘wunna’, any Gullah Dr. Karl Watson delivering this year’s Alfred Pragnell a reverse movement also influence of our island,” he Carolinas,” he said. speaker knows exactly Memorial Talk on ‘The Charleston Connection’. took place. He indicated expressed. (TL)

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‘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 Kerry, Iran FM to hold The lawyer’s fresh nuclear talks WASHINGTON – Iranian spokeswoman Jen Psaki ful civilian energy produc- nation due in August 2014 immunity Foreign Minister confirmed the two men tion. on two specific points. Mohammad Javad Zarif would meet on Sunday in Under an interim deal The world powers are “IT should be recognized as a principle of fundamental jus- and top US diplomat John Geneva as “part of the on- struck in November 2013, now working toward tice that the state cannot impose duties on lawyers that Kerry will meet in Geneva going nuclear negotia- Iran’s stock of fissile mate- reaching a political frame- undermine their duty of commitment to their clients’ this weekend for talks on tions” after top US nego- rial has been diluted from work for a deal with Iran causes…” Supreme Courtof Canada (2015) Tehran’s nuclear pro- tiator Under Secretary 20 percent enriched ura- by March 31, with the gram, Iranian and Wendy Sherman first nium to five percent in ex- final technical details to AN integral aspect of the local anti-money laundering American officials said meets with the Iranian change for limited sanc- be laid out in a compre- and combating of the financing of terrorism regime, com- Thursday. delegation. tions relief. hensive accord by June monly referred to as AML/CFT,is the regulation of finan- Iran and world powers Araqchi added there But skepticism is 30. cial institutions and of what are known as designated are trying to strike a deal would then be meeting of mounting about whether “The problem is that for non-financial businesses and professions [DNFBPs] by the that would prevent the so-called P5+1 -- a permanent agreement now, Iran has not yet state.This is based on the global recommendations of the Tehran from developing a Britain, China, France, is possible after two dead- demonstrated to us that Financial Action Task Force, an inter-governmental body nuclear bomb in return for Russia, the United States lines for a comprehensive it intends to renounce the established in 1989 to set standards and to promote the an easing of punishing in- and Germany -- which is deal were missed. bomb,” French President effective implementation of legal, regulatory and opera- ternational economic seeking to thrash out a Separately, the Francois Hollande said tional measures for battling these twin scourges of the in- sanctions. complex deal with Iran. International Atomic Thursday. ternational financial system and the proliferation of Zarif and Kerry will Psaki said the schedule Energy Agency said in a “But once that is done, weapons of mass destruction. hold two days of discus- was still being worked report Thursday that Iran the agreement will be con- DNFBPs are defined in the Recommendations as includ- sions from Sunday after out, but did not rule out still had not responded to cluded.” ing casinos, real estate agents, dealers in precious metals their diplomats begin bi- other multilateral meet- specific questions on alle- Amid growing rumors and precious stones, lawyers, notaries and accountants. lateral talks on Friday, ings. gations that it had previ- that a deal may be within According to Recommendation 22(d), the professional in- Iran’s deputy foreign min- Tehran denies seeking ously carried out nuclear reach, Psaki refused to be dividuals are required, when carrying out certain stipu- ister Abbas Araqchi said, atomic weapons, but weapons research. drawn on whether the two lated activities for a client, to engage in customer due dili- quoted by the IRNA news Western powers remain Tehran has consistently sides were close, saying gence procedures, to maintain records of the transaction agency. unconvinced its activities rejected the claims, and there was still six weeks for 5 years and,generally,to report suspicious transactions State Department are solely aimed at peace- failed to provide an expla- to go. to the local regulator. It is to be noted that the Recommendations themselves do concede some ground to the legal professional in that he or she may not be required to report transactions if the relevant information is subject to legal professional priv- Dispute between US and ilege, individual jurisdictions may permit the reporting of suspicious transactions to be made instead to the local Bar Association, and it is expressly provided that where a Persian Gulf airlines heats up lawyer seeks to dissuade a client from engaging in illegal activity,this will not amount to the offence of tipping-off. DALLAS – US airlines the US airlines are Washington, killing 176 Boeing jets and have Since lawyers and accountants,principally,are likely to be have been sparring for merely blocking competi- nearly 3,000 people. another 544 on order. used as instruments in money laundering,the policy is un- several years with fast- tion and protecting the “It’s a great irony to Delta said that derstandable. growing Persian Gulf ri- high fares they charge on have the United Arab Anderson did not mean to However,last Friday,the Canadian Supreme Court ex- vals that seem to be international flights. Emirates from the link the Gulf airlines or panded significantly on these concessions in its judgment poaching passengers from Some US consumer Arabian peninsula talk their governments to the in a case brought by the Federation of Law Societies of the Americans. Now, a groups agree. about that, given the fact 9/11 attackers. Canada against the Attorney General of Canada as rep- CEO’s comment that The Gulf airlines also that our industry was re- In a statement, Delta resentative of the Federal Government, alleging that the dragged 9/11 into the de- have also claimed that the ally shocked by the terror- spokeswoman Betsy Canadian legislation based on the FATF Recommendation bate has escalated the US airlines have gotten ism of 9/11, which came Talton said Anderson was was, in respect of lawyers, an unjustifiable contravention fight. subsidies too. And that is from terrorists from the only reacting to claims by of their Charter [Constitutional] rights against unrea- The three largest US where things got testy Arabian peninsula,” the Gulf carriers that the sonable search and seizure and the right not to deprived airlines claim that three this week. Anderson said on CNN. post-9/11 payments and of liberty without due process. big Gulf carriers have re- After the terror attacks On Thursday,Emirates bankruptcy laws In its pleadings,the claimant argued that the legislation ceived more than $40 bil- of Sept. 11, 2001, charged that Anderson’s amounted to subsidies. was an attempt to turn lawyers into “agents of the state” lion in subsidies from Congress approved $5 bil- comments were “deliber- “We apologize if anyone and their firms and practices into “archives for the police their governments since lion in cash aid and up to ately crafted and deliv- was offended,” she said. and prosecution”. 2004, making competition $10 billion in loan guaran- ered for specific effect. The US airlines have In a unanimous ruling, although there was a difference with them unfair because tees to help US airlines This brings into question been complaining about of emphasis, the seven-member Supreme Court held that their costs are artificially survive a sharp drop in his credibility.” Earlier, the Gulf carriers for sev- the law infringed solicitor-client privilege, indeed most of low. The CEOs of travel. The Gulf airlines Emirates CEO Tim Clark eral years. They say un- them were minded to mould a novel constitutional prin- American, United and contend that those pay- had said Anderson fair competition has re- ciple that a client was entitled to the commitment of his Delta are asking federal ments, and benefits that “crossed the line” with the duced the share of traffic or her lawyer to their cause in order to strengthen the al- officials to renegotiate or major US airlines re- comments about 9/11, between the US and the ready existing guarantee of life liberty and the security of kill treaties that have al- ceived from bankruptcy which “caused great of- Indian subcontinent on the person. lowed airlines from Qatar protection, amounted to fense in this part of the US and partner airlines A critical assumption in the judgment of the majority and the United Arab subsidies. world.” while the Gulf carriers’ was that the rules of legal practice and the underlying eth- Emirates to increase In response to those The United Arab share has grown. They ical standards sought to ensure that lawyers would not flights to the US claims, Delta CEO Emirates is among the say the Gulf carriers are connive at money laundering or terrorist financing.Yet,as American, United and Richard Anderson seemed most prominent Arab now targeting routes be- recent events show, these standards are effective only to Delta say that unless the to link the Gulf carriers members in the US-led tween the US and Europe. the extent that they are rigorously observed and enforced. treaties are changed, they and their nations to the coalition against Islamic But the effort to reopen The decision is of course not binding on the local courts, will be forced to cut back 9/11 attacks, in which State militants in Iraq or repeal aviation treaties although the principles enunciated in the case should or drop international American Airlines and and Syria, and all three is opposed by some con- apply equally to the legal profession in this routes. United Airlines jets were big Gulf carriers are sumer groups, who say jurisdiction.Our lawyers have arguably not enjoyed the State-owned Qatar crashed into the World major customers of US- the agreements have very best public reputation in recent times. We hasten to Airways, Emirates and Trade Center in New York made Boeing jets — to- boosted competition and add however, that this may be an over-generalisation Etihad Airways say that and the Pentagon outside gether, they have taken lowered fares. based on the misdeeds of a few who might have been sim- ilarly culpable had they entered any other profession.We Telephone: 467-2000 News Fax: 434-1000 News Editor: Dorian Bryan Executive Editor: Gillian Marshall await the reactions of the local regulator and of the Bar Business Editor: Jewel Brathwaite General Manager: Sandra Clarke E-mail Address: [email protected] Association on this important matter. Sports Editor: Corey Greaves Assistant Managing Director: Sean Eteen Website: www.barbadosadvocate.com Publisher: Anthony T. Bryan

The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 9 Well done Fruendel SATURDAY, 21st February,will Now as we enter our third to Barbados.The strategic move ditional defects, and the current mark two years that the year in office we can see the to bring the employment num- estimated cost is $3 million. Democratic Labour Party,under signs of recovery on the horizon bers in line with the size of the When this is added to what has the leadership of Prime and we know that our labour fleet being operated as well as been paid to the previous con- Minister, the Right Hon. was not in vain. The Barbados streamlining the fleet with one tractor the total cost of the proj- Freundel Stuart, Q.C., M.P,was economy is on a growth path and type of aircraft will help to re- ect will exceed $4 million and re-elected to serve the people of this Democratic Labour Party duce the overheads of the air- this is over $2.6 million more Barbados. Every day over those administration is assiduously line and place it on a growth than the original contract. two years we have kept our com- working to deliver on our com- path. The Project Manager in a re- mitment to the people of mitments from the 2013 mani- These two initiatives show port dated 28th February 2006 Barbados to deliver on our prom- festo. that the Barbados government noted the following: “This con- ise to develop a Barbados which Last week the Freundel is moving strategically to bring tract suffered for two reasons: is: socially balanced, economi- Stuart administration delivered about crucial changes which will lack of competent construction cally viable, environmentally two master strokes. The first have a lasting impact locally and personnel, and finance. In short, sound and characterized by good was the announcement of the regionally. Team DLP is on the a company which is not a con- governance. approval of $3 million in study job and continues to deliver pos- struction company is trying to Our Prime Minister, his grants for UWI students. The pated. However, we need to do itive results 2 years after our operate in a field alien to its ca- Cabinet and members of the second was the announcement things by the book. Those stu- 2013 election victory. Compare pabilities.” parliamentary team have shown by the LIAT shareholder gov- dents who will receive the bur- this to the idle members of the The payment to the contractor that they are capable of manag- ernments that Barbados will be- saries, I am sure will be grateful opposition Barbados Labour for poor construction work con- ing the affairs of Barbados in come a primary hub for the air- for the assistance even though it party,who are into their second stitutes a waste of Government’s the most challenging period that line. was delayed. year of consistently trying to re- funds, which could probably this country has ever gone When the government asked After the meeting of the share- tard the progress of develop- have been avoided had more through. We wish to commend students to carry a small por- holder governments of LIAT on ment in this country. A callous care and attention been given to our Prime Minister and party tion of the cost to finance their Friday it was announced that and idle opposition into its 40th the company’s track record in leader for his mature leadership education at the University of LIAT will be taking some strate- day of being paid for doing ab- this field of work, and a more style. He has handled every chal- the West Indies, this DLP ad- gic steps to reduce its expenses solutely nothing. pro-active approach adopted by lenged faced with a fearless re- ministration promised that we and return the airline to prof- the Ministry to monitor the work silience and integrity. would make the bursaries avail- itability. Among these strategic Pop Quiz – Trip down memory of the contractor. (Source: Over the two years we have able to students who needed a steps was the decision to make lane Auditor General’s Report, 2007, had to make some tough deci- helping hand. Finally, the sup- Barbados the primary hub al- The 2007 Auditor General re- page 72.) sions to stabilize the economy of port offered by this government lowing the airline to capitalize port provided a review of the We ask the Barbados Labour Barbados. The people of to students in need of assistance on the lucrative southern mar- construction of the Police Station Party to name the incompetent Barbados, recognising that this is available. ket. The Caricom market is the at Crab Hill St. Lucy. The fol- contractor who was awarded the action was indeed necessary, This DLP administration has third largest market for lowing conclusion was provided: contract. kept the faith with our Prime always kept its commitment. Barbados’ tourism. As the The construction cost of this Provide the name or names of Minister and the members of the The process may have taken largest shareholder government project has been rising steadily the “sanctimonious hypocrites” Democratic Labour Party. longer than originally antici- the success of LIAT is important as a result of the discovery of ad- who presided over this fiasco. Birds of a feather OUR grandmothers used to re- Most of them do not have friends can be no catch and release in ten in the state of Denmark” has gale us with lifestyle idioms and in high places who went or are this scenario. Thousands have never been more applicable to sayings that are buried deep in prepared to go the extra mile to suffered and someone must be Barbados.We are on the thresh- the psyche of generations of save their hides. Many of them held accountable. old of becoming a failed state. Barbadians born prior to the are now struggling to make ends Promises of continued free ter- Our once thriving economy has 1970s. In today’s political land- meet – really struggling. tiary education and no lay-offs been mismanaged to the point of scape two in particular come to They cannot run to the court have already been made and atrophy.Justice is denied the or- mind;‘God don’t like ugly’ and ‘A to unlock their money from broken by our Right Honourable dinary citizen by virtue of inor- man is known by the company CLICO, first and foremost be- Prime Minister with apparent dinate delays.A once trumpeted he keeps.’ cause the money is no longer indifference to the lives of strug- civil service has fallen victim to For the members of BIPA there. gling and suffering Barbadians. antiquated operational systems whose money is trapped some- As we all now know, Leroy On the question of CLICO, the that mask accountability and where between CLICO and Parris removed millions on the Barbados Labour Party is not strangle initiative with the re- NLICO, a story in the Press this eve of the company’s collapse. going to abandon the stakehold- sult that the citizen feels week indicates that both of these This man has more ‘guts than a ers. People in high places who cheated of the service they think sayings resonate with them. calabash,’ to quote another have been entrusted to uphold they deserve. Our health serv- They are rightly concerned Barbadian saying. A man who sons related to gridlock and in- the law and to guide and pro- ices, once the envy of the about the personal friendship of gives his assets as being in the adequate resources in the Court tect the citizens of this country Caribbean, appears afflicted by Leroy Parris, former head of millions, tells the court he is system. Several commentators, will not be allowed to look the a terminal illness brought on by CLICO and Prime Minister struggling and wants the Order including the CCJ, have spoken other way to protect their pals or the state’s failure to meet its Freundel Stuart.These are hun- freezing the money he funneled to this and it is not beyond re- to ensure their own political sur- cost. dreds of ordinary,hard working through Thompson & Associates pair provided there is the polit- vival. The country must be told Leadership and a fresh ap- Barbadians who placed their on a questionable invoice re- ical resolve to fix it. What the truth, the whole truth and proach are required to turn our trust and their hard earned cash versed. Barbadians are more concerned nothing but the truth. fortunes around. We humbly in CLICO. They do not have the Justice is under threat in about now is the perception that Marcellus’ observation to suggest that Mia Mottley and luxury of millions as back up. Barbados for a variety of rea- the big fish will get away.There Horatio that “Something is rot- her team will provide both.

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10 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ADVOCATE PUBLISHERS (2000) INC, FONTABELLE • FAX: 434-1000 • E-MAIL: [email protected] How much better will LIAT fare here? Teachers THERE are still cries of lamen- cern is intensified in light of LIAT. Income tax exemption the region’s tourist markets, at setting tation over the relocation of the recent local debate in the legis- in Antigua was once its attrac- one time focussed on Barbados heritage Barbados Mutual- lature for silence to incriminate tion for employees of LIAT. and Antigua. Sagicor corporate base from an accused person, in contradic- Reduction in the size of staff con- Economically, if Barbados is bad Barbados, to avoid taxation at a tion of the presumption of inno- current with relocation is no downgraded for attraction of in- higher level and simultaneously cence until positive proof as guarantee of a reduction in vestment and the Government enhance investment prospects evidence is produced by the pros- salaries,which are to be adjusted shareholders in LIAT are them- example for profitability guided by the ecution, without the assistance in compensation for loss of con- selves dependent on extra-re- implications of Standard & of the accused to incriminate cessions previously available in gional investment to capitalise HELP me to understand why Poors evaluating rating. himself. the original location. improvements of LIAT’s service teachers are allowed to bla- Instant settlement of uncon- The relocation of the LIAT hub Logistically, a Barbados hub intra-regionally, what are the tantly display disruptive, er- tested charges laid against the from Antigua,the original owner for LIAT to serve the Southern prospects for profitability as the rant, ungovernable behaviour rating agency has raised concern of the company, is related in OECS is of no great advantage motive for relocation of its hub? and absolutely nothing is being for the probity and motive of essence to the relocation of Bar- when Grenada, St. Vincent, St. None: Until Standard & Poors’ done to discourage it. its assessments as actuation of bados Mutual from Barbados. Lucia and Barbados all have op- evaluation is challenged and dis- If a child was constantly drop- potential investors. Barbados is the major erational international airports credited. ping out of school he or she The shadow cast by this con- Government shareholder in and accessible direct flights to LEONARD ST. HILL would be punished. That would be called truancy. If a worker in the private sec- tor was making a habit of not turning up for work, or finding things to do during working Broomes being made a scapegoat hours other than what they are being paid for, there is no way PARENTS of students at NCPTA president Rhonda Who is hiring whom here? students in the Fairchild that employee would still have a Parkinson Memorial School Blackman said: “The Ministry Is this a case of the tail wag- Street Bus Terminal since Mr. job. have had enough of the of Education has a mandate ging the dog? Broomes took over. What is so difficult about dis- industrial action by teachers, that every child is to be edu- Does the BUT pay the This nonsense must stop. ciplining teachers? and they have vowed to cated. We are compromising Ministry of Education or the Barbados has a reputation to The Ministry needs to start take decisive action if the our children’s education and other way round? live up to – i.e. that it has a enforcing the laws they made to teachers withdraw their labour putting our children at risk if If they have a problem at very high percentage of edu- govern teachers to prevent them again. they are not adequately super- work, how about those thou- cated people, and so this can from becoming “a law unto They made this known at a vised. Parkinson should not be sands of other persons who only continue if the teachers themselves”. It is obvious that meeting called by the school’s held to ransom.” work such long hours for less do the job they are paid for, these teachers no longer want Parent-Teacher Association One parent added: “We had money – and much less vaca- and for which they receive al- their jobs, so take them out of and the National Council of problems with weapons before tion – than them? most three months’ vacation their misery – find replace- Parent-Teacher Associations Mr. Broomes come here, so why They are nothing but callous, plus three Teachers’ days per ments. Because it can’t still be (NCPTA). they getting on so?” and should NOT be paid one year. about Mr. Broomes since he re- According to press reports, This statement by the par- red cent for the days on which I doubt if many managers re- futed all their allegations and “The Barbados Union of ent is the crux of the matter. they went absent without leave ceive half of that amount! brought proof to the public. Teachers withdrew the labour Mr. Broomes seems to be the (AWOL). You are not only being paid In the past teachers took that of 28 disgruntled teachers from boo man, because no matter As far as I know, the by the said parents whose job because they wanted to the school last week. They have where he is they find some ex- unions collect fees for such an scions you are bent on depriv- make a positive difference in the been complaining about the cuse to confront him in a very eventuality, so let them pay ing of their education, your ed- lives of young people. Not so management style of principal hostile manner. their own. ucation was paid for by them. today! Most people take up Jeff Broomes. They also ex- This thing about the It is sickening to see them It would stand you in good teaching because of the long va- pressed fear for their lives, weapons is nothing but a blackmailing the schools – stead if you thought about cations, and that is proven charging that Broomes was smoke screen, because they and by extension the these things before you skive daily with the amount of time not disciplining students who keep talking about not liking parents/guardians who pay off from your duties to the chil- teachers spend outside of the were bringing weapons to his management style. them. dren of this country and their classroom. school. Suppose all of the unions How come you did not go parents/guardians. Some schools end earlier than “However, after Broomes called out their people because AWOL during the three years I hope that the parents of 3 p.m. yet teachers can only displayed a drawer full of they did not like the manage- before Mr. Broomes was not at Parkinson students keep their have their meetings during the knives and scissors he had ment style of whichever busi- Parkinson? word and show the unions that hours that they should be teach- seized over time, and some ness or company, what would This seems to be a they cannot do whatever they ing. which he said he had found happen? personal vendetta against Mr. like and get away with it! There are a lot of qualified when he arrived at the school There would be anarchy. Broomes. Do like most people in this people out there who applied for two years ago, the teachers When I heard the BUT pres- I can say that the level of ma- country at present: Stand your teaching positions but there have agreed to return to ident saying that he is not lingering by Parkinson stu- ground! were no vacancies. Perhaps now school…as long as the weapons “bothered by the ministry dents has dropped drastically, would be a good time to apply. were removed.” threats”, I must ask myself: because one does not see many ANTHONY DAVIS RHONDA NEBLETT

LET GOD QUOTES FOR TODAY WORDS OF SPEAK TO US Mother Teresa WISDOM Friedrich Nietzche (1844 – 1900) (1910 – 1997) German philologist, philosopher, “Beloved, if God so loved us, Roman Catholic nun we ought also to love one an- cultural critic, poet and composer HONESTY other. No man hath seen God “We think sometimes that “I’m not upset that you lied to at any time. If we love one an- poverty is only being hungry, me, I’m upset that from now on I A lie may take care of the other, God dwelleth in us, and naked and homeless. The present, but it has no can’t believe you.” poverty of being unwanted, his love is perfected in us.” future – 1 John 4:11-12 unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.”

The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 11 Of political carnivals PERHAPS the only thing November, there remains seriously. Reformed con- people who depend on the which excites Caribbean much animosity between stitutions which reflect system most continue to people more than the two main political the needs and aspirations suffer. Carnival is their love for parties and tension over of citizens in the 21st cen- While carnivals pro- politics and political in- that country’s future. tury; a commitment to vide for a time of merri- trigue. President Donald high standards of good ment, relaxation and an The tradition of play- Ramotar prorogued par- governance; and support opportunity to de-stress; ing mas’ in the region is liament on November 10, for institutions such as political systems endure well rooted in almost 2014. Critics of this tactic the Caribbean Court of overtime and signifi- every Caribbean island. cited the strength of a Justice are critical to cantly influence peoples’ Over the past month, cit- pending no-confidence strengthening democracy lives. izens in Dominica, Haiti motion by the opposition in the region. Our current It is time for Caribbean and Trinidad traded in which would likely have systems are too distant, politicians to get serious their work uniforms been successful and trig- governance systems. vate sector and other authoritarian and leave about the business and stresses of everyday gered new elections. The Fostering greater partic- stakeholders is necessary out too many people. Too of representing our life for brightly coloured use of prorogation pow- ipation, collaboration if Caribbean politicians much time is wasted on people and cease playing costumes, infectious ers were seen by some as with civil society, the pri- are to be taken more petty politics while the mas’ in our parliaments. music and intoxicating anti-democratic and drinks. likely to have significant In the midst of the fes- economic consequences. tivities, there was much Ramotar finally an- political intrigue, start- nounced an election date ing with the land with in late January after the most celebrated heavy criticism from local carnival in region – and international critics. Trinidad and Tobago. The news of a May 11, As if to ensure that sea- 2015 election date was soned calypsonians had even heralded in a joint an oversupply of mate- press release by the em- rial, Trinidadian Prime bassies of the United Minster Kamla Persad- States, Canada and the Bissessar made a major United Kingdom, sig- Cabinet reshuffle. This nalling the level of con- reshuffle set alight cern over that country’s media houses across the political affairs. Caribbean and the social To put the icing on the media blogosphere. In cake, elections in St. Kitts what could only be de- and Nevis left many scribed as a scandal, the Caribbean people in sus- then Attorney-General pense. Hours after the and Minister of National polls closed there was no Security were accused declaration of the results. of witness tampering. This forced the current Subsequently in a na- chairman of Caricom and tional address, the Prime Bahamian Prime Minister asked for the Minister, the Hon. Perrie resignations of both men Christie, to issue a state- and revoked the appoint- ment expressing grave ments of a further four concern about the delay Cabinet ministers. in announcing the re- Barbados was not to be sults. These statements outdone with our own po- were backed up by Dr. litical controversy. The Ralph Gonsalves and the Honourable Speaker of embattled Kamla Persad- the House of Assembly Bissessar, who herself recused himself from will soon face the elec- the chair following a torate in Trinidad. court matter which was The delay in announc- brought to the public. On ing the election results his resumption of the raised several questions chair, there was a fiery about the electoral and exchange between the democratic process. To Speaker and the leader of what extent do our sys- the Opposition, resulting tems need reforming to in the opposition parlia- make them more trans- mentarians boycotting parent, efficient and to the sitting of parliament, avoid the delays such as which is now into its occurred during the past third week or so. week in St. Kitts? Meanwhile in Guyana, Beyond this, however, following the suspension is the urgent need to of parliament last transform Caribbean It is time for Caribbean politicians to get serious about the business of representing our people and cease playing mas’ in our parliaments.

12 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate Women benefit from leadership training workshop IT IS very important that women are empow- that women are em- ered, so that they can powered, so that they make significant input can make significant into the organisations that input into the organisa- they lead, as well as, to be tions that they lead. able to address the issues Mildred Hunte, Director which affect families and of the Bureau of Gender communities,” Hunte re- Affairs (BGA) noted the marked. above, as she delivered re- Stressing that leader- marks at a Leadership ship demands action, com- Training Workshop for munication and vision, she Women in the Community, also noted that leaders which was held yesterday must be able to adapt as From left: Senator Irene Sandiford-Garner as she spoke in her capacity as Principal Delegate to the at the Baobab Towers in circumstances change and Inter-American Commission on Women (CIM), while Mildred Hunte, Director of the Bureau of Gender Warrens St. Michael on they must be able to moti- Affairs listens. Tuesday, in celebration of vate those whom they the Day of Women of the lead. ipants would be able to Garner,Principal Delegate tivity is timely.It is an ac- bent upon us to develop Americas. The workshop Speaking to the need for gain the kinds of skills re- to the Inter-American tivity that has been de- new tools and methodolo- was hosted by the BGA in such a workshop, the di- quired for leadership now Commission on Women signed to give you, the par- gies as well as embrace collaboration with the rector stressed that and in the future, as pre- (CIM), during her re- ticipants, the additional new ideas to overcome the Youth Development “women everywhere are senters from the Youth marks, encouraged the skills needed to enable you challenges that we shall Programme. called upon to make signif- Development Programme participants to make the to lead and inspire others face in the future”. “Leadership is one of the icant changes, as they try and the Community most of the information de- by your actions.I hope that Sandiford-Garner also key pillars of any organisa- to juggle responsibilities Development Department livered to them via the you embrace the new encouraged them to use tion, if it is to be successful within the home and carry out their work at the workshop, which she de- knowledge and use the the new knowledge ac- and achieve its objectives. within the public domain”. workshop. scribed as “timely”. skills learnt since as soci- quired to empower other Thus, it is very important As such, she noted, partic- Senator Irene Sandiford- “I believe that today’s ac- ety changes, it is incum- females. (RSM)

The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 13 Importance of Agrofest is a theme clear marketing tool By Ashlee Cox By Ashlee Cox show how all of these [service].... And the reason sectors do work together DON’T use Agrofest as a they are calling us, is VENDORS and to lift Barbados and build tool to make a million because you have not done exhibitors of this year’s the economy,” he noted to dollars in just three days, your job to give it to them. Agrofest have been the media. instead, see it as the tool to So you have a duty as well encouraged to interact To the vendors, he market and push your to market your product and with the youths of the noted, “The theme was so business, which will then your service to all of the island, about the chosen because of the open the way to financial patrons who come to your importance of this linkages the sector has success. booth. You may not make year’s theme and how with all of the other Vendors and exhibitors the million dollars in three the agricultural sector sectors in the economy. who attended the recent days, you will have an plays a role within There are agro-tourism Queen’s Park held sponsor opportunity to make it other sectors. linkages, they are agro- meeting for Agrofest, were afterwards,” he explained. This encouragement manufacturing linkages, given this advice by the According to Fraser,what comes from Agrofest agro-processing, agro and event’s coordinator, has been evident since the Coordinator Theodore retail. We are going to do Theodore Fraser. premier Agricultural Fraser, as he addressed our best and we already “I always say ‘don’t use Exhibition was them at the sponsors have a group that will be Agrofest as a tool to make a resuscitated, is there have meeting which was held in set up, portraying the million dollars in three been a number of persons Queen’s Park recently. linkage.” days’. Look at the millions who have grown more This year’s theme is To the vendors, he of dollars you can make interested in agriculture ‘Inclusive Agriculture: explained that on Friday from Agrofest, after you and have started home Strengthening Linkages; especially when the fair leave Agrofest. If you come gardens.He also noted that Creating Synergies’ and was open to the various to make a million dollars... some youths had even Fraser explained that it schools across the Island in three days,you are going contacted them over the was important to have to, interact with the to fail,” he cautioned. years for information about those linkages as they youths about the link “We attract a large how to start sheep and worked to build the between the field and the crowd, but Agrofest, more poultry farms for instance, economy in Barbados. products and/or services so than anything else, is a and that has been able to “The theme looks to that they were doing, so marketing opportunity for provide the relevant show the linkages that that the youths could see you to push your products. assistance and push to Agriculture has with the the link in real time. After Agrofest every year, point them in the right other sectors in the “Most of the schools use for about two- three months direction. economy. You would have the event as a learning after, we get calls every “They have the noticed recently the exercise, children may single day from companies, opportunity to meet here Agriculture, come and be a little shy, from individuals who obviously and meet with all Manufacturing and but you can interact with would have been to the the stakeholders, all the Tourism would have them and let them know event,[who] saw a product, main players that can give signed an MOU to work how the field works with tasted someone’s food, was them the advice and you together, so that was also whatever product or impressed by some service know, the technical advice one of the pushes behind service it is that you are provider and wants the that they would need to get the theme. We want to doing,” he noted. Coordinator of Agrofest, Theodore Fraser. contact information for that into agriculture,” he noted. Exhibitors briefed on what to expect By Ashlee Cox expected of them over the one or two of them would weekend, and how they have lagged a bit and VENDORS and exhibitors can make their transition would have caused some who would be through the weekend as problems for the other participating in this year’s easy as possible,” he noted. exhibitors. So we are Agrofest, recently met in When asked about any trying to encourage them Queen’s Park to discuss particular issue that may as much as possible to set with the coordinator on have been reoccurring and up on time.Those who are any issues they may have, that they were working to not in place at that time, as well as to review the solve, he explained that they will have some guidelines of what would one of the continuing repercussions obviously...” be expected over the three stumbling blocks was that For the vendors, he days of the event. of vendors setting up their explained that they had Speaking to the media, booths late. up until 4 pm on Coordinator for Agrofest, “The main issues that Wednesday February 25th Theodore Fraser, we would have had where to ensure that all of their explained that they the vendors are concerned tents were in place. He expected at least 330 are some of them setting also noted that they had exhibitors for this year. up late. We have a set up made some improvements “Basically what we are day that we expect all the to the exhibitions and doing this afternoon is vendors to have their tents were working with their having a meeting with all in place by,and that is the key stakeholders, and the exhibitors and vendors Wednesday,so that we can service providers to who will be participating run all the utilities to ensure that come Friday, at the exhibition. We are those tents,” he explained. February 27th that the going through the Continuing, he further grounds and the vendors Vendors and exhibitors recently attended a sponsor meeting for Agrofest held at guidelines of what is stated, “So over the years, were ready to go. Queen’s Park.

14 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate Agrofest Expo attracting international interest By Ashlee Cox

AGROFEST is no longer just a local or Regional exhibition but has started to at- tract attention from in- ternational organisa- tions as well. Word of this comes from Agrofest Co-ordinator, Theodore Fraser, as he spoke during the sponsors meeting, which held re- Environmental Health Officer with the Ministry of cently in Queen’s Park. Health, Trevor Taylor, demonstrates how to effi- According to Fraser, this ciently use hand sanitizer. year Agrofest had a new sponsor in the form of Agriculture: Barbados Working Dogs Florida Agriculture and Strengthening Linkages; Association, that will be Mechanical University, Creating Synergies’. done on the main pasture. who would also be send- Many of those who would be vending or exhibiting at Agrofest turned up for the He also revealed that Given our theme again, ing a group to attend the sponsors meeting. this year would boast which looks at the link- three day event, which be- some new attractions. ages of Agriculture and gins on Friday, February cern is improving the effi- we have, the type of enter- have responded as they “We have major local the other sectors, Divi 27th. ciency of the exhibition, tainment, the different usually do, which was very fish expo that is going to South winds, which is one “Every year we say the quality of the show shows but we want to give well. He explained that be held in the steel shed, of our key sponsors, their Agrofest is getting bigger that we put on, so that it is patrons something new, they had stepped up and Bajan born, Bajan bred or- head chef will be doing and better, I think this is not just a random show- something different to look while they would like to namental fish, that’s a pickle and smoked meat, testimony to that and from case, but a showcase that forward to every single see more, they were there major expo, that you can feast on the Saturday, so here we are hoping to try you want to come to every year,” he noted. in a big way for Agrofest look forward to and we are that is new feature that to get bigger, but at the year, we try to change up As noted by Fraser, the 2015, which is under the going to be doing a demon- you can look forward to,” same time our main con- the type of exhibits that local business community theme, ‘Inclusive stration with the he revealed.

The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 15 Banks may do away with the standing queue IN an effort to increase productivity and out in the quickest possible time. acknowledged. of Barbadians are already doing banking and ensure greater efficiency, local “Whether the queue is sitting or “I think that persons are recognising transactions online, but more persons banks may eventually put queue standing, there will always be a queue, that it is all about effectiveness and need to be assured that they can do most management systems in place, to but if you are speaking about the there are a lot of queue management of their banking online, in a safe and ensure that customers no longer standing queue, I personally think that systems, (for example) pull a ticket and secure environment. Once a greater have to stand in long lines to it is a way that people would like to go, wait (while seated), that would allow number of persons are consistent with transact their business. but it is also a cultural thing and I think you then to manage your queues, but this practice he said, the banks will see President of the Barbados Bankers’ that as we go further along the curve the whole intention is to move the shorter queues. He did acknowledge Association, Glyne Harrison, who also and accept some of the norms that are customers out the bank generally, so however that some persons don’t mind holds the post of Chief Executive Officer happening, you’ll start to see that it is that the matter of queuing is not an standing in line, as they enjoy socialising of First Citizens Bank (Barbados) removed and for productivity and issue and that when you walk in, you and catching up with those familiar Limited, has however noted that while efficiency sake, you will start to see that walk in for an essential service that faces that they have not seen in a while, this move may not take place there is a transition away from the cannot be delivered another way,” he since they have the time to spare, immediately, banks are always looking physical queue, where you are going added. unlike others who frown on bank lines. for efficient ways to get customers in around in lines,” Harrison recently Harrison acknowledged that a number (RSM)

First place winner Tony Bishop receiving his prize from CEO, David Jean-Marie. Creativity showcased at Port’s Valentines Affair LOVE was in the air – the cool night air The other competing poet was Veronica by portside last Friday when Barbados King with her much appreciated piece, Port Inc. workers got into a poetic mood The Test Of Love. She also read the for Valentine’s Day. Carlyn Waithe-Murrell piece, Untitled. The Port staffers brought their poems; Afterwards, karaoke and fun was the their “swagger” and their creative order of the night as organisers energies to the stage, and in the end Tony expressed their satisfaction at another Bishop, from the HR Department, won year of creativity on stage by portside. the poetry contest by a whisker. This is the fourth year of similar Competing against four others, he competitions, which have included offered the acrostic Letters Of Love and calypso and karaoke. won by one point. The rhythmic and The staffers, led by Co-ordinator of the radical Clesia Oxley was second with In-House Committee Meshell Rawlins Love Dead, and Sheron Hartley was of the Accounts Department hope to step third with Love Restored – all self- up the quantity and quality of Second place winner Clesia Oxley receiving her prize from CEO, David penned. performances each year. Jean-Marie

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EU regulators likely to More development projects funded probe deeper into GE, THERE was a 61 out of poverty,” he said. per cent increase With that in mind, he Alstom deal - sources in loan approvals said that the CDB of the Caribbean continued its efforts to GENERAL Electric’s 12.4- reached for comment. Development Bank help borrowing member billion-euro ($14.08 GE said it was co- (CDB) in 2014, with the countries to keep growing billion) bid for Alstom’s operating with the figure moving from their economies, as (ALSO.PA) power Commission. $167 million the sustained economic equipment business is “Our goal is to secure previous year to $270 growth is important. likely to face a full-scale the required regulatory million for that period, Furthermore, it has the investigation by EU approvals and close the resulting in more potential to improve the antitrust regulators, three transaction by mid-2015,” development projects lives of the more than 16 people familiar with the the company said in an being funded. million men, women, and matter said yesterday. emailed statement. This disclosure came children living in our The move by the GE has a chequered from President of the region. European Commission history with the CDB, Dr. Warren Smith “Economic recovery, suggests that the EU Commission. Its planned who told local and although still at a modest watchdog may have take-over of US industrial regional journalists pace, continued for the concerns that the deal giant Honeywell was gathered at the Hilton fourth consecutive year in could reduce competition, squashed by the EU Hotel, that these projects the Caribbean. Policy- in which case it may watchdog in 2001 despite looked at such areas as makers sought to demand remedies. getting the green light food security across the overcome the legacy “There is a strong from US regulators. region; the modernisation effects of the great possibility that the Alstom shares were of the sugar industry in recession, and the European Commission down by more than one Guyana; economic setbacks associated with will open a phase two pct after the Reuters story. infrastructure in weak commodity prices. investigation although They were trading 0.9 per Barbados and St. Vincent Issues of adjustment, there is no final decision cent lower at 28.61 euros and the Grenadines; competitiveness, yet,” said one of the people at 1552 GMT (10:52 a.m. renewable energy resilience and access to who declined to be named EST). generation in a number of finance for investment because of the sensitivity The EU competition countries and solid waste dominated policy of the matter. authority is expected to management in Grenada. discussions throughout Another source said the announce the probe next His comments came while the year,” the President companies have not week. Alstom, whose noting that as the Bank stated. provided concessions to power assets contributed celebrates 45 years of Dr. Smith added that the EU competition to more than two thirds of existence and serving the while most countries in authority. its revenues, wants to region, it remains the region are now on a Commission spokesman refocus on train-making committed to its goal of growth path, they are still Ricardo Cardoso declined after falling orders at its reducing poverty in this far below the level needed to comment. French power turbines unit hit its part of the world. to be considered industrial group Alstom cash flow and credit “We have made sustainable and to yield could not be immediately ratings. progress. However, as real benefits. long as poverty exists, President of the CDB, Dr. Warren Smith addressing As such, he gave the ours remains unfinished the media. assurance that the CDB, business. Therefore, in will intensify its efforts in BANK RATES 2015 and beyond, the redoubling of our efforts the only way I know of 2015 to meet the needs of Commercial bank rates to the public at the close of region’s policy agenda to grow our economies that we can enable our the Caribbean region. business yesterday by the Central Bank of Barbados. must provide for a and create jobs. This is people to lift themselves (JRT) Valid for February 20th, 2015 Telegraphic Transfers Currency Buying Selling Euro 2.26414 2.30659 Pound Sterling £ 3.07218 3.12978 Canadian $ 1.59081 1.62408 United States $ 1.99375 2.02768 Guyana $ 0.00976 0.00982 East Caribbean $ 0.73843 0.74306 Belizean $ 0.99688 1.00313 Demand/Sight: Currency Buying Selling Euro 2.25989 2.30659 Pound Sterling £ 3.06641 3.12978 Canadian $ 1.58780 1.62408 United States $ 1.99000 2.02768 Guyana $ 0.00976 0.00982 East Caribbean $ 0.73843 0.74306 Belizean $ 0.99688 1.00313 Notes: Currency Buying Selling Euro 2.22721 2.32099 Pound Sterling £ 3.02207 3.14933 Canadian $ 1.57881 1.62551 United States $ 1.98000 2.02857 East Caribbean $ 0.73704 0.74445 Belizean $ 1.00000 1.00000 INDICATIVE RATES FOR SOME REGIONAL CURRENCIES AS ADVISED BY THE RESPECTIVE CENTRAL BANKS N.B.: These rates are not meant to be used for trading. BDS$ Guyana $ 0.00979 Jamaica $ 0.01732 Trinidad & Tobago $ 0.31684 Journalists from across the region who attended the press conference, listen attentively.

The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 17 New PM sworn in BASSETERRE, St. Kitts The governor general others, two of whom are – Prime Minister Dr also swore in Vincent Government senators and Timothy Harris on Byron as the new attorney one Opposition senator.The Wednesday took the general. attorney general is the ex- oath of office as the new On Monday, voters de- offico member of the leg- head of government in nied Prime Minister Dr islative body... this twin-island federa- Denzil Douglas an oppor- The St Kitts-Nevis tion following Monday’s tunity of becoming the first Labour Party had entered general election in regional leader to win five the election in an accom- which Team Unity consecutive general elec- modation with the Nevis swept the St Kitts-Nevis tions and instead voted Reformation Party, telling Labour Party (SKNLP) Team Unity,led by Harris, the public it was the best out of office after 20 a one-time senior Cabinet party suited to continue the years. minister in a Douglas ad- socio-economic develop- Harris, 51, told those ministration. ment of the twin-island fed- gathered at the official res- Team Unity comprises eration. idence of the governor gen- the main opposition But Team Unity urged eral that his elevation to People’s Action Movement, supporters it was time for the top post ushered in a the People’s Labour Party, there to be “Prosperity for new government of na- and the Concerned All” and accused the tional unity. Citizens Movement. outgoing administration of “I pledge as the prime The 15-member National nepotism, corruption and minister of the country to Assembly is made up of 11 mismanagement of the Dr. Timothy Harris being sworn in as Prime Minister by Resident Judge uphold all oaths that we elected members and four economy. Marlene Carter. have taken, to work dili- gently for the prosperity of the country and, equally important, the deepening Aviation minister says LIAT of the democracy. “Our platform for the election in this country was based on two critical pillars. staff cuts are necessary Democracy, democracy, so ANTIGUA – Less than 24 but was instead a sound also have to look at much of it was under threat hours after Prime business decision. whether you’re optimising in our view and ...we know Minister Gaston Browne “LIAT had 14 Dash-8s your revenue opportuni- we have to redeem it,” said called for regional airline in the air. Now they have ties and I really don’t Harris. LIAT to put a hold on 8.They must cut staff,” he think LIAT has quite Harris said that “amidst plans to axe 180 workers, said. “Every part of LIAT dome that,” he said on all the rosy picture the the minister responsible will feel the cut.” Wednesday’s Voice of the truth is there are too many for Civil Aviation, Robin Former LIAT executive People programme. unforgotten people, too Yearwood, announced his Gatesworth James said The Civil Aviation min- many situations unknown, support for the move. the job losses were in- ister added that the re- unseen, untendered where Yearwood, who repre- evitable, and that while moval of two LIAT air- people live”. sented Antigua & the company needed to re- craft from Antigua to the “I knew that there had to Barbuda at the meeting structure, that should not airline’s new fleet base in be a better way of existence of LIAT shareholder gov- be done in isolation. Barbados – which PM and the Government has ernments in Barbados “At some point in time, Browne also asked to be an obligation to take the 33 last Friday, said on OB- LIAT would have had to put on hold – will not af- per cent of people who live SERVER AM on do some cuts in their staff fect the number of passen- a life of abject poverty out of Wednesday that the move costs, but I think while gers arriving into that situation,” he said. Minister of Civil Aviation, Robin Yearwood was not mired in politics, you’re cutting staff you Antigua. Haiti Carnival tragedy prompts new security measures PORT-AU-PRINCE, was previously 16, with HAITI – The Haitian gov- more than 70 people were ernment is exploring meas- injured. ures to prevent future inci- According to the minis- dents involving overhead ter, an inter-agency com- high voltage power lines, mission is being set up to the Minister of report on the carnival Communications, Rotchild tragedy. He said the gov- Francois Jr. announced on ernment would inspect Wednesday. every high tension cable for The development fol- safety for nearby homes lowed a revision of the and traffic,as well as put to- death toll from Monday’s gether a plan to modernize electrocution, which now the state electricity com- stands at 18. Most of the pany,EDH. Improvements dead,15 men and 3 women, could include the possible died during a stampede installation of underground after one of the floats carry- lines on the streets where ing the popular band carnival is held every year. Barikad Crew hit an over- Francois said that in the head electric cable causing future, all major outdoor a sudden large flash that public events will be sub- caused a crowd of specta- ject to a public safety in- tors to panic.The death toll spection. 18 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate

CARICOM recognises Gov’t warns successes from 20 of illegal years of relations use of laser with Japan light on BELIZE CITY, Belize – The upgrading and improving the Caribbean Community artisanal fishing fleet; fishing aircrafts (CARICOM) has acknowl- ports and other shore-based in- edged the contribution of frastructure for storage, process- PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Japan in promoting sus- ing and marketing of fish; as The Trinidad and Tobago gov- tainable use and manage- well as provision of training in ernment has warned residents ment of living marine re- gear technology,processing and in an area close to the Piarco sources in the region over quality assurance, resource International airport to desist the last 20 years. management and conservation from using laser lights on “The fact that Japan has been of fisheries,” he said. aircrafts, warning that the willing and steadfast in con- The 20-year partnership be- authorities would adopt a zero tributing so generously to pro- tween Japan and CARICOM tolerance of such actions. mote sustainable use of marine culminated with a series of in- The authorities said that on resources in the CARICOM country seminars in six CARI- Monday, a Caribbean Airlines countries, even in these chal- COM countries, which discussed (CAL) flight 460 “was hit in the lenging economic times, is in my national level interventions sup- cockpit of the aircraft with the opinion, a true reflection of the ported by Japan, with presenta- beam of a laser light”, about special bond of friendship and tions on the successes as well as 2.5 miles short of the airport. It importance that Japan attaches the challenges. said another CAL plane was to our relationship,” said Milton At a regional seminar in Milton Haughton, executive director of CARICOM’s also affected by laser light. Haughton, executive director of Trinidad and Tobago, regional Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) “ The pilots of both aircraft CARICOM’s Caribbean fisheries officials and stakehold- reports the light source em- Regional Fisheries Mechanism ers reviewed the partnership Trinidad and Tobago,Yoshimasa Caribbean can learn and share anated from the Kelly Village (CRFM). agreement that covered areas Tezuka reiterated his country’s best practices and exchange ex- area which is on the approach Haughton said that over the including trade and investment, commitment to the sustainable pertise, toward making our path to Piarco.” last two decades Japan has education and human resource development of the fisheries sec- countries socio-economic and en- “The National Operations emerged as the major contribu- development, disaster risk re- tor in the Caribbean. vironmentally resilient,” he said. Centre (NOC) in its role for air tor to the development of the duction, environment and cli- “The Caribbean and Japan He said that the 20 years of coordination intergrates its op- fisheries sector at the bilateral mate change, integration in the share many similarities, from CARICOM-Japan Friendship eration with CAA. level within the Caribbean. global economy, and fisheries islands being surrounded by Year 2014 is “a momentous time Constant surveillance has re- “Japan has been providing and agriculture. water to being vulnerable to for both Caribbean and Japan to vealed the citizens of Kelly vital and substantial support in Japan’s ambassador in hurricanes. Both Japan and the harness deeper relations”. Village, St. Helena and Bamboo Village are breaking the law. “Internationally this irre- Guyana Government: Exxon Mobil will sponsible behaviour and wan- ton disregard for the law has been deemed and borders on begin exploratory drilling next month terrorist activity,as the perpe- trators are affecting the land- EXXON MOBIL yesterday told ing procedures of an aircraft the Guyana government that it and placing the passengers, would begin exploratory other aircraft and the members drilling in an offshore conces- of the public on the ground in sion in March. very grave danger.” Minister of Natural The NOC warned of the pos- Resources and the sible disaster that would occur Environment, Robert Persaud’s “if one of these aircraft affected office said he was updated on by the stupid act of these per- activities that the company will sonnel on the ground goes undertake over the next few down in one of our energy sec- weeks following a meeting with tors or oil and gas installations Mr. Chuck Calavan, the phathom of the catastro- ExxonMobil Vice President of phe cannot be imagined”. US and Latin America and Mr. The authorities said that the Jeff Simon, Country Manager, Trinidad and Tobago Police ESSO. Service with the support of the Minister Persaud was up- NOC “would be adopting a zero dated on the deployment of the tolerance of such actions and Company’s oil rig (Deep Water strongly advise that anyone Champion) which was to depart found conducting this illegal from Louisiana, USA yesterday act will receive the full brunt of to the Stabroek Block offshore the law”. Guyana where it is expected to “The NOC will continue to commence drilling in mid- monitor this situation and with March. all agencies in a combined ef- To further enhance this ef- fort to bring it to an immediate fort, Minister Persaud stated stop.” that Cabinet has recently ap- The Deep Water Champion Oil Exploration Rig. The authorities warn that proved a request from ESSO for persons found guilty of com- geological and geophysical sur- He also made reference to the Secretariat and other timeframe for delivery is to be mitting such acts would be, on vey in the form of 3D seismic Oil and Gas Policy which will partners. scheduled. In the Berbice Block, summary conviction, fined survey within offshore Guyana. give way to a modern oil and Additionally,in the Demerara ON Energy Inc. has completed TT$10,000 (One TT A permit has been granted to gas development framework. Block, CGX has concluded 3D an airborne geophysical survey dollar=US$0.16 cents) and im- CGG Service (UK) Limited to This is being done with support seismic survey and the data and the data is being processed, prisonment of one year. undertake this survey. from the Commonwealth continues to be processed and a Minister Persaud highlighted. The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 19 Puerto Rico Powerball winner appears, but anonymously SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – yesterday. ners in Texas and North Shell gasoline station in the further details. Carolina have said that a The winner of a Powerball The person stopped by Carolina. The unidentified southern coastal city of Puerto Rico began sell- lawyer informed them a ticket in Puerto Rico ap- the Puerto Rico Lottery of- winner can choose between Ponce,but the winner is not ing Powerball tickets just client with a winning ticket peared a week after hitting fice with their ticket and a lump sum payment of from there, said Antonio four months ago. is waiting to claim the the US$564 million jackpot has 60 days to decide how US$101 million, or 30 pay- Perez Lopez, assistant sec- A winner has not been money. but has opted to remain they want to claim the prize ments over 29 years. retary of the Puerto Rico identified in Texas, while Winners have 180 days anonymous, officials said they will share with win- The ticket was sold at a Lottery.He did not provide lottery officials in North to claim their prize. T&T to cut back St. Lucia MP on number of files injunction armoured vehicles against used in crime fight Boundaries PORT-OF-SPAIN, ward and they will be re- Trinidad – The Trinidad viewing. They are going and Tobago government to come as soon as will cut back on the num- possible. They will be Commission ber of armoured vehicles coming. They may not PARLIAMENTARY second and third defen- to be used in the fight come in the numbers that Representative for dants, respectively. The against crime as a result had first been an- Castries South East matter will be heard on of falling oil and gas nounced, for obvious rea- Guy Joseph has filed February 27, 2015 at 9 prices, National Security sons. We don’t have as an injunction in the a.m. before Justice Minister Carl Alfonso much money to spend,” High Court against Frances Belle in the High has said. Alfonso said. the Boundaries Court. There has been a But, speaking on televi- Government had Commission of St number of debates regard- sion recently, Alfonso, announced plans for the Lucia, which recently ing this issue. While some who recently took over vehicles as part of a approved the realign- persons believe that the the national security strategy that also in- ment of constituency realignment is long over- portfolio from dismissed cludes the use of drones, boundaries. The ac- due, others have ques- minister Gary Griffith, helicopters and off-shore tion, which was filed tioned the urgency of mak- said there were no plans patrol vessels. on February 17, 2015, ing provisions for addi- to abandon the idea of But the oil and gas seeks to restrain the tional constituencies. bringing in the vehicles prices have dropped from governor general, Some persons have also Guy Joseph, Member of Parliament for Castries to help in the crime-fight- a high of US$106 a barrel through the attorney said the country cannot af- South East ing strategy. in June lst year to under general, from making ford it now. However, oth- “We will be going for- US$50 dollars last week. any order or proclama- ers have said that by cies be increased from 17 North and Castries East tion for a period of 14 whatever means the coun- to 21. The Commission to reduce on the size of days. try must adhere to the rec- recommends that Gros- those constituencies. It In addition to the ommendations, in order to Islet to be divided into also recommended that a Boundaries Commission better serve the people. three constituencies and new constituency be cre- being named the first de- The Constituency a new constituency be ated from Castries South fendant in the action, the Boundaries Commission created by conjoining con- East and Castries South, prime minister and the at- has recommended that tiguous parts of to reduce on the size of torney general are named the number of constituen- Babonneau, Castries Castries South East. Colombia court Former St Lucia PM keeps limits on wants closure to police same-sex adoption force controversy COLOMBIA’S constitu- tween allowing same-sex FORMER Prime disclosed that he would tional court ruled on couples to freely adopt chil- Minister of St Lucia address the nation on the Wednesday to keep the dren and banning same- Stephenson King has matter this month, but current limits on same-sex sex adoption outright. called for his successor just this week resched- adoption. But lesbian, gay, bisex- Kenny Anthony to re- uled the address to The court said that ual and transgender lease a report done by the March 8. same-sex couples could (LGBT) groups expressed Jamaica Constabulary King says the Prime only adopt a child if it was their disappointment,say- Force on allegations of Minister must have “jus- the offspring of one of the ing the ruling did not go extrajudicial killings tifiable reasons” for not partners. far enough. against St Lucia’s police making the address as Discussion about Senator Armando force. promised. whether to lift the current Benedetti, a supporter of Last month Prime The claims were linked restrictions had dominated LGBT rights, called the Minister Anthony an- to 12 fatal shootings social media in the hours judges “cowards”. nounced that the govern- by the police that took before the ruling. The president of ment had received the re- place during the period It comes almost two Colombia’s Conference of port of an investigation 2010 to 2011, when years after the country’s Bishops, the Right carried out by the King was Prime Congress voted against al- Reverend Monsignor Luis Jamaica Constabulary Minister. lowing gay marriages. Augusto Castro Quiroga, Force into the alleged In 2013, the St Lucian Colombian media said said he would continue extra-judicial killings in Government enlisted the the ruling showed great fighting for “the right of St Lucia. help of the Jamaican po- wisdom, arguing that it children to have a father In a radio and televi- lice to investigate the National Security Minister Carl Alfonso took the middle road be- and a mother”. sion broadcast, Anthony country’s police force. 20 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate Thousands rally in Buenos Aires over Nisman death BUENOS AIRES – Tens Nisman.” uge in the capital were the rally in Buenos Aires: injured in the attack, the In a televised speech of thousands of people Drenched in driving Nisman’s two young local police said 400,000 deadliest in Argentina’s just hours before the demanding justice rain and led by prosecu- daughters and his ex- people attended, but fed- history – and one that has march began, Kirchner marched in symbolic tors and opposition fig- wife, Judge Sandra eral police said it was yet to be solved 21 years also suggested that un- silence Wednesday in ures, the rally is the first Arroyo Delgado. People in nearer 50,000. later. named outside interests soaking Buenos Aires major public show of defi- the crowd applauded Nisman was found in were somehow behind the to mark a month since ance in a murky case that them when they recog- his Buenos Aires apart- Seeks to destabilize scandal. the suspicious death of has ignited a political nized the three, dripping ment with a bullet Kirchner – Argentina’s “I ask you to open wide a prosecutor who was firestorm in Argentina as they walked. through his head on first democratically your eyes,” she said.“I am ready to accuse the and piled the pressure on “The march itself is a January 18, the day be- elected woman president not talking about conspir- Argentine president of President Cristina reflection of society’s un- fore he was to go before a and who is not seeking re- acies. It is a world of in- a massive cover-up. Kirchner, 61, in her last derlying demand for an congressional hearing to election – left the city terests that want to sub- “I am here because I year in office. end to impunity. Tension air his finding that with her cabinet ahead of ordinate others, and they want to see justice done Thousands also gath- between the justice sys- Kirchner and her foreign the march, delivering a are confronting govern- for someone who gave his ered in solidarity with the tem and executive were minister plotted to shield speech from the city of ments like this one that life for the truth,” said marchers in the cities of there before, but the Iranian officials impli- Zarate after inaugurating let no one set limits for teacher Marta Canepa, Rosario and Cordoba, in Nisman case has exacer- cated in the bombing of a nuclear power plant. us.” 65, among those traipsing the resort of Mar del bated them,” said sociolo- the AMIA Jewish- Her government Her top aides suggested the 1.7 kilometres (just Plata, and in the north- gist Rosendo Fraga with Argentine charity federa- slammed the rally as that the United States over a mile) under the west Tucuman province. pollsters Nueva Mayoria. tion. “golpista” – seeking to and Israel were trying to banner “Homage for Among those who There were contrasting Eighty-five people were destabilize the govern- drag Argentina into the Prosecutor Alberto braved the relentless del- figures for the number at killed and more than 300 ment. Middle East conflict.

People gather at Plaza de Mayo square during the ‘Marcha del silencio’ (Silent March), called by Argentine prosecutors in memory of their late colleague Alberto Nisman, in Buenos Aires, on February 18, 2015. Testy relations between Uruguay and 6 Guantanamo detainees MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay The men had been held other one.” He also made a men are staying and asked resettlement plan from the gled to find countries will- – Just two months ago, for more than a dozen brief trip to neighboring them to start working. beginning, but one legisla- ing to take them. Uruguay welcomed six years at the U.S.Navy base Argentina saying he After his visit, the presi- tor, Sen. Ope Pasquet of While at Guantanamo, Guantanamo detainees for in Cuba before they were planned to ask that it give dent said on his radio pro- the Colorado Party, de- Dhiab was at the center of resettlement as a human- brought to Montevideo in asylum to Guantanamo gram that the former de- fended the men a legal battle in U.S. courts itarian gesture, and rela- December. Mujica said prisoners. tainees are far from the Wednesday. over the military’s use of tions have already gotten a they would be given help In the TV interview, ancestors of Uruguayans, “The Guantanamo six force-feeding.When he ar- little testy. getting established in a Dhiab expressed thanks to who he said were gritty, were jailed for more than rived in Uruguay, he was One of the former pris- country of 3.3 million peo- Uruguayans for taking the hard-working immigrants. 10 years in dreadful condi- reportedly weak as a re- oners complained in a TV ple with a total Muslim men in, but said there “If these people were tions,” he wrote on his sult of repeated hunger interview last week that population of perhaps 300. should be a plan for help- humble people of the Twitter account.“The psy- strikes. In recent videos, he and his five colleagues The government has of- ing the ex-detainees, who desert, poor people, they’d chological damage must be Dhiab appears thin but not had given up one jail only fered the former detainees need “their families, a surely be stronger and terrible. Making them overly so. to find themselves in an- a residential facility to home, a job and some sort more primitive,but they’re work now? Premature.” Since January 2002, other. Uruguayan study Spanish,learn about of income that allows them not,”Mujica said of the for- The six men were de- when the Guantanamo de- President Jose Mujica, Uruguayan culture and in- to build a future.” mer prisoners. “Through tained as suspected mili- tention center opened, who spearheaded the plan tegrate to their new home. A labor union that has their hands, features and tants with ties to al-Qaeda about 620 prisoners have to bring the men to this But Syrian refugee Abu been helping the men said, family histories, it seems in 2002 but were never been released or trans- South American nation, Wa’el Dhiab raised a stir however, that they have to me that they’re middle charged. They had been ferred, with the vast ma- shot back by questioning by complaining last week turned down job offers. class.” cleared for release since jority making no public the men’s willingness to that the men have “walked Mujica then visited the Some opposition law- 2009 but could not be sent statements or appear- work. out of a prison to enter an- home where five of the six makers have opposed the home and the U.S. strug- ances.

The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 21 Christians, Jews, Muslims hold peace pilgrimage in London

LONDON – “The terrorists hope to Christians, Jews and divide us but these atroc- Muslims from all ities are uniting us,” walks of British life Sheikh Khalifa Ezzat, made a pilgrimage chief imam at London through central Central Mosque, told the London on Thursday, press. in a show of unity The march was called against the hatred in response to last that drove recent at- month’s Islamist attacks tacks in France and in Paris, by a group of re- Denmark. ligious leaders brought More than 100 people, together under the inter- including faith leaders, faith Coexist pro- children and pensioners, gramme. (L to R) Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, Reverend Margaret Cave, the Dean of Coventry John Witcombe and walked in the rain from Since then Europe has Assistant Secretary General of the Muslim Association of Great Britain, Ibrahim Mogra, in London. London’s main mosque been rocked by the shoot- at Regent’s Park to the ings in Copenhagen, said Jonathan cluding Margaret Lloyd, flict,” she said. the front of the march Central Synagogue and which once again tar- Wittenberg, rabbi of the a 65-year-old follower of Walking through the alongside Ezzat, were ac- then through the geted free speech and the New North London the Church of England streets with her hus- costed at one point by a bustling crowds of Soho Jewish community. Synagogue. from Coventry in central band, she said: “We want passer-by. to Westminster Abbey. “The Paris attacks “We can’t let that be England. to be here – this demon- The man, who wore a At each venue they were extremely frighten- the last word... I felt it “There are so many ex- strates that people of smart suit, accused them gathered for a moment of ing. The violence – it was was very important that treme views flying faith can be people of of “appeasing” Muslims reflection, led variously an assault on freedom, there should be a re- around, which turn off a peace.” who had murdered Jews. by the local imam, rabbi on the sanctity of life and sponse.” lot of people who don’t Not everybody agreed. “I think he rather and priest, to emphasise it’s an assault on Many of those on the believe in God and make Wittenberg and priest missed the point of all their shared values and Judaism, which again we march had travelled to people think religion is Margaret Cave, who this,” remarked one of hopes for peace. saw in Copenhagen,” London for the day, in- responsible for all con- walked with a banner at the volunteer stewards. French government survives no-confidence vote PARIS - France’s after Socialist leaders European countries, they Socialist government said they would eject sparked a revolt by survived a parliament from the party any law- dozens of backbench no-confidence vote called maker who joined the Socialist lawmakers. by opposition conserva- censure motion. A Ex-president Nicolas tives on Thursday after it Reuters reporter in par- Sarkozy, now leader of resorted to a controver- liament said no Socialist the conservative UMP sial decree to bypass did so. opposition party and bid- broad opposition to a A no-confidence vote ing his time for a new as- flagship economic reform has only succeeded once sault on the presidency bill. in France’s 57-year-old in 2017, dismissed the Some 234 lawmakers Fifth Republic: in 1962, package as a “tiny” effort voted in favour of the when it was used to oust that would have no im- motion, according to the the government of pact on tackling unem- official vote tally - well Georges Pompidou. ployment rooted at short of the 289 votes The stand-off high- around 10 percent. needed to secure an ab- lighted tensions between Hollande has also solute majority in the President Francois pledged to enact further lower house of parlia- Hollande and Valls on reforms to laws requir- ment. the centrist wing of the ing small companies to The challenge was Socialist Party and create worker represen- made after Prime rebels on the left, augur- tation councils as soon as Minister Manuel Valls on ing battles ahead over they employ 50 or more Tuesday resorted to a lit- other moves aimed at staff, and also wants to tle-used mechanism to kickstarting the euro streamline industrial push through a package zone’s second largest dispute arrangements. of economically liberal economy and convincing French Prime Minister Manuel Valls delivers a speech before a no-confidence Such plans are also reforms opposed by the EU partners France can vote against French government at the National Assembly in Paris. likely to run into resist- left - a tactic widely de- reform. ance from the left, and nounced as anti-demo- In a speech just before confidence vote means government has the They includes rule to under the constitution cratic. the vote, Valls vowed to the package of economic right to use the same de- expand Sunday trading the government can only However the outcome continue reforming reforms automatically cree to push them hours and deregulate use the so-called “49-3” of the no-confidence vote “without wavering". pass their first reading through subsequent some sectors. While mild decree on one bill per came as little surprise The failure of the no- in parliament and the readings. by the standards of many parliamentary session.

22 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate Canadaian Obama rejects as ‘ugly lie’ engineering firm notion that West is at war charged with with Islam WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama corruption on Thursday urged coun- tries to tackle violent MONTREAL – Canadian fed- Switzerland to face charges re- Islamist militancy around eral police charged Montreal- lated to a Montreal hospital con- the world and rejected as based engineering firm SNC- tract. “an ugly lie” suggestions Lavalin and its subsidiaries with He was granted bail last that the West was at war corruption Thursday for al- November and is due to appear with Islam. legedly bribing officials in Libya in court for a preliminary hear- Obama said there was a com- during former strongman ing next month. plicated history between the Moamer Kadhafi’s reign. Ben Aissa, former CEO Pierre Middle East and the West and The charges are just the latest Huhaime, and the hospital’s for- no one should be immune from in a series of bodyblows dealt to mer chair,Arthur Porter,are ac- criticism over specific policies. one of the world’s largest engi- cused of orchestrating millions “But the notion that the West neering firms after its former in bribes in the awarding of a is at war with Islam is an ugly president and senior executives contract to build the hospital. lie,” he said. “And all of us, re- were accused of fraud, and the He was also the alleged mas- gardless of our faith, have a re- World Bank banned it from bid- termind behind an elaborate plot sponsibility to reject it,” he told ding on projects. to bring Saadi Kadhafi into an international conference in They are also the first accusa- Mexico with false documents at Washington on countering vio- tions aimed directly at the com- the height of pro-democracy lent extremism. pany on its home turf. protests in Libya in 2011. "Muslim communities, in- In a statement, SNC-Lavalin The RCMP said its investiga- cluding scholars and clerics, said it would fight the charges, tion of the company, started in therefore have a responsibility saying they stem from “alleged 2011, is ongoing. to push back not just on twisted reprehensible deeds by former Meanwhile, SNC-Lavalin was interpretations of Islam, but employees who left the company banned in 2013 from World also on the lie that we are long ago.” Bank contracts for 10 years after somehow engaged in a clash of "We believe that they would executives were accused of civilizations,” Obama said. be correctly applied against the bribery in the awarding of a con- With violent groups like individuals in question and not tract to build a four-mile (six Islamic State, Boko Haram and the company,” it said. kilometre) bridge in Bangladesh, al-Shabaab gaining strength According to the Royal and “misconduct” in a rural elec- across the Middle East and Canadian Mounted Police, the trification project in Cambodia. Africa, more than 60 countries United States President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the alleged offenses took place be- Other investigations have also and international organiza- State Department during the White House Summit on tween August 2001 and linked the century-old company tions have gathered in Countering Violent Extremism. September 2011. with approximately 45 000 staff Washington to come up with a The company,its international world-wide to alleged crimes in plan for tackling the problem. bullet,’” Ban said. “Missiles today,” Kerry said. “But you’re arm and another subsidiary are Algeria, Canada, Mexico and Critics have accused the may kill terrorists. But good kind of stupid if all you do is do accused of having offered Tunisia. White House of shying away governance kills terrorism.” that, and you don’t prevent Can$47 689 868 (US$38 115 A whistleblower first brought from tying extremism to the re- U.S. Secretary of State John more people from going to the 750)in bribes to officials and of these scandals to light. ligion of Islam, especially fol- Kerry said countries needed to battlefield,” he added. defrauding the Libyan govern- Since then, SNC-Lavalin dis- lowing the recent attacks strengthen civil society and He called for more collabora- ment of Can$129 832 830 tanced itself from former execu- staged by Islamist militants in reach out to community leaders tion among countries to come (US$103 761 529). tives targeted by police, while co- Paris and Copenhagen. to promote tolerance and up with a plan to prevent vio- SNC-Lavalin oversaw billions operating in investigations. Addressing the conference, peace, and to confront economic lent ideologies from talking of dollars worth of projects in Meanwhile, a new chief execu- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki- inequality that makes it eas- hold. Libya, including construction of tive officer, Robert Card, was moon said he would convene a ier for militants to recruit. “Some of our efforts are going a prison outside Tripoli and an brought in to oversee a sweeping meeting in coming months of Over the next few months he to take place in public gather- airport in Benghazi. restructuring and implementa- faith leaders from around the said the United States and ings such as this, but every- The charges relate to the tion of strict business ethics. world and warned that violent other countries would take the body here understands that world’s largest irrigation project Card said the company has al- extremism posed a grave battle to classrooms, houses of much of this work is going to be – the Great Man Made River ready incurred “significant fi- threat to international peace worship and vulnerable com- done quietly without fanfare in Project – to provide fresh water nancial damage and losses” as a and security. munities around the world. classrooms, in community cen- to the cities of Tripoli, Benghazi result of alleged wrongdoing by "Military operations are cru- “You have to do everything. ters, in work places, in houses and Sirte. former staff. cial to confront real threats. You have to take the people off of worship and in village mar- Point man in Libya In November the company But bullets are not the ‘silver the battlefield, who are there kets,” Kerry added. SNC-Lavalin’s former point slashed 4 000 jobs. man in Libya, Riadh Ben Aissa, The new charges do not affect was arrested in Switzerland in the company’s ability to bid or April 2012 and pleaded guilty to work on any public or private British teen convicted of bribery, money laundering and projects, Card said. embezzlement for having fun- But a conviction would bar it nelled illegal payments to Saadi from bidding on lucrative Kadhafi, the dictator’s son, and Canadian government contracts terrorist plan to behead soldier other officials. – its lifeblood. Swiss prosecutors said SNC- Card warned in October that LONDON – A teenage British Prosecutors said Ziamani was fore he was arrested in August Lavalin was a victim of that any attempt to hold SNC- convert to Islam who said he inspired by the two Islamic ex- with a 12-inch (30-centimeter) fraud. Lavalin accountable for crimi- wanted to decapitate a soldier tremists who murdered soldier knife and a hammer in his back- Ben Aissa was executive vice nal actions of former employees has been convicted of terrorism. Lee Rigby in a London street in pack. president of the firm’s construc- would severely hurt its business. A jury at London’s Central 2013. Ziamani also posted comments tion arm before he was fired only He told the daily Globe & Mail Criminal Court found 19-year- They said he researched the on Facebook saying he was “will- two months prior to his arrest. the company could be broken old Brusthom Ziamani guilty location of army cadet bases in ing to die in the cause of Allah” He is now back in Canada apart and sold piecemeal, or Thursday of preparing an act of London and told his girlfriend and calling for Islamic Sharia after being extradited from “cease to exist entirely." terrorism. he planned to “kill soldiers” be- law.He will be sentenced later.

The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 •23 Qatar to introduce pay reform for migrant workers DOHA – Qatar said transfers which should, in the- Thursday it would intro- ory, make it easier to track duce a major labour law re- those employers that do not form to ensure thousands of comply with the new law. workers building venues for It is not yet clear when the re- the 2022 World Cup are paid forms will be introduced but on time, after complaints by employers will have six months rights groups. to implement them. The changes by the future If they do not, they could face The Khalifa Stadium in Doha, pictured on November 13, 2014, is undergoing a complete renova- hosts of football’s biggest tour- up to one month in prison as tion in preparation to host some of the matches for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. nament, approved by Qatar’s well as a fine of up to 6 000 Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Qatari riyals ($1 650, 1 440 come to the changes announced Portrait of Low-Income McGeehan. “Why is this area Hamad al-Thani, will see work- euros). in Doha. Migrants in Contemporary changing first? Are they work- ers get paid at least once a Non-payment of migrant “It is a positive step as long as Qatar", found that 21 percent of ing around the edges and avoid- month and in some cases every workers, especially those in the it is properly enforced,” he told migrant workers in Qatar “re- ing the core problem?” fortnight. construction sector,has become press. ceived their salary on time only Other areas where campaign- The move, which will apply a sensitive issue for Qatar. He said the reform would af- sometimes, rarely, or never". ers have called for change in- to all workers, could head off Last November, Amnesty fect a “very substantial number However,there was some dis- clude the confiscation of pass- some criticism of Qatar follow- International accused the gov- of workers” across the Qatari appointment that the changes ports by employers, workers not ing mounting international ernment in Doha of not doing economy, not just those in con- announced did not address the being issued an exit visa so they pressure to improve conditions enough on the issue of non-pay- struction. controversial “kafala” sponsor- can leave Qatar, and migrant for migrant labourers working ment despite intense scrutiny Amnesty International’s ship system, which rights labourers having to pay recruit- on projects for the World Cup. after Qatar was awarded the Mustafa Qadri described the groups and global football ment fees. The announcement comes World Cup. plan as “a welcome develop- union FIFPro have urged Qatar Qadri said there was a con- with the international spotlight A lack of progress on the issue ment", but urged Qatar to en- to abolish. cern that these may be neg- set to fall on Qatar again as was highlighted earlier this sure it is properly implemented This enables employers to lected and Qatar “may just FIFA officials visit Doha early year by New York-based and to go even further. prevent foreign workers from focus on easier issues". next week to finalise a date for Human Rights Watch (HRW). “These should be seen as the leaving the country or chang- The Gulf state, which sits on the controversial tournament. ‘Avoiding the core problem?’ beginning of the reforms, not ing jobs and has been likened to the world’s third-largest gas re- Under the proposal, wages HRW researcher Nicholas the end,” he said. modern-day slavery. serves, is seeking to become a will be paid through direct bank McGeehan gave a cautious wel- A 2013 academic study, “A “That’s a concern,” said global leader in sporting events.

24 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate Libya urges UN to lift arms embargo to tackle IS

LIBYA has asked the Gaddafi. been seized in separate militants contained a UN Security Council Egypt’s Foreign incidents in January and threat to Italy. to lift an arms em- Minister Sameh Shoukry December from the The Italian govern- bargo so that it can said he supported the coastal town of Sirte in ment has also attributed deal with the Islamic lifting of the embargo as eastern Libya, which is a recent spike in the flow State (IS) group and events in Libya posed an under the control of of migrants trying to other militants. “enormous danger”. Islamist groups. cross the sea into Europe Foreign Minister He also called for a Egypt’s President to the worsening situa- Mohammed al-Dairi said naval blockade on arms Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has tion in Libya. that it would help the heading to areas of Libya called for a UN resolu- Italian Foreign government build its that were not in the con- tion allowing interna- Minister Paolo Gentiloni army and deal with trol of the internation- tional forces to intervene said, in a special address “rampant terrorism”. ally recognised Tobruk in Libya. to parliament, that Italy Thailand’s first female PM, Yingluck Shinawatra. Egypt said it sup- government. Egyptian officials have would be ready to help ported Libya’s request at Reporters claim that also suggested that a monitor a potential an emergency session of both Egypt and Libya US-led bombing cam- ceasefire in Libya and Thailand files the UN council on seemed to have stepped paign against IS in Syria help train its national Wednesday. back from earlier re- and Iraq could be ex- army. Rival militias have quests for a UN mandate tended to Libya. But, he added, this charges against been battling for control that would allow an in- Yesterday, Qatar re- could only happen under in Libya since 2011. ternational force to bat- called its ambassador to the auspices of a broader, The worsening secu- tle IS on Libyan soil. Egypt for consultations internationally agreed Yingluck Shinawatra rity situation has in- One correspondent over the air strikes on ceasefire. creased fears that the says that Western diplo- Libya, state media said. Libya has two rival THAILAND’S attorney Ms Yingluck is the country’s warring mili- mats will have strong Qatar had expressed governments - one based general filed charges younger sister of former tias may side with IS reservations about lift- reservations about sup- in Tripoli, the other in against deposed prime prime minister Thaksin militants. ing the arms embargo porting a clause in an Tobruk. minister Yingluck Shinawatra, a telecom- Mr Dairi said Libya because of fears that Arab League resolution On Wednesday, a mili- Shinawatra yesterday, in munications tycoon who needed a “decisive weapons could fall into welcoming the strikes, a tary jet reportedly con- a case that could result in shook up the political sys- stance” from the interna- the hands of militia stance that reportedly ducted an air strike on a 10-year jail term if she tem with policies favour- tional community to be groups. prompted Egypt’s dele- an airport in the town of is found guilty. ing the rural poor when able to tackle the threat. On Monday, Egyptian gate to the League, Tariq Zintan, which is con- Ms Yingluck, he became prime minis- “If we fail to have arms forces bombed alleged IS Adel, to accuse Qatar of trolled by the interna- Thailand’s first female ter for the first time in provided to us, this can targets in Libya after the supporting terrorism. tionally recognised gov- prime minister, was 2001. only play into the hands release of a video that ernment. charged with negligence The charges against Ms of extremists,” he said. appeared to show IS mil- Ceasefire Officials told the media for her role in a rice sub- Yingluck represent the Libya has been under itants beheading 21 The deepening crisis in that the attack had been sidy scheme that has cost latest stage in a 10-year an arms embargo since Egyptian Coptic Libya has also alarmed ordered by the Tripoli- the state billions of dol- struggle between Mr the 2011 uprising that Christians. Italy, its former colonial based authorities. There lars. She denies wrongdo- Thaksin, who was over- drove out the former The kidnapped power. A video released were no reports of casu- ing. thrown in a 2006 coup leader, Col Muammar Egyptian workers had this week by IS-linked alties. The Supreme Court and has lived abroad would decide by March since 2008 to avoid jail for 19th whether or not to a graft conviction he says pursue the case, court sec- was politically motivated, retary Theerathai and the royalist-military Charoenwong said. establishment. Ms Yingluck was forced He or his allies, includ- from office last May over ing Ms Yingluck, have a separate legal challenge won every election since days before her govern- 2001, to the dismay of the ment was ousted in a mil- establishment which sees itary coup. The coup him as threat, although ended months of protests pro-Thaksin govern- organised by supporters ments have only served of the establishment op- one full term because of posed to her government’s court decisions or mili- populist polices including tary intervention. the rice subsidy. A military-stacked leg- Ms Yingluck was not islature in January found obliged to appear on Ms Yingluck guilty of Thursday but would be dereliction of duty in rela- ready to report to the tion to the rice scheme, in court if the case proceeds, a retroactive impeach- her lawyer, Norawit ment that carries a five- Laleng, said. The govern- year ban from office. ment denied Ms Yingluck The Office of the permission to travel to Attorney General on the Hong Kong this month to same day announced it ensure she was in the planned to file charges country to face charges. against her. The prosecutor submit- Ms Yingluck’s critics ted 20 boxes of documents say the rice scheme was related to the case in the an effort to buy votes. court, Kosonwat Supporters of the Inthujanyong, deputy Shinawatras say the spokesman for the Office charges against her are of the Attorney General, aimed at ending Mr United Nations Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Bernardio told reporters. Thaksin’s influence. Leon, speaks via video link to the UN Security Council, in New York.

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Same-sex China and Russia outline plans couple marries in Texas under to mark strengthening ties one-time order CHINA and Russia will cele- brate their growing close- AUSTIN,Texas – Despite Texas’ ness with a series of high- long-standing ban on gay mar- level exchanges in coming riage, a same-sex couple married months, including military in Austin yesterday immediately parades and joint commem- after being granted a marriage orations of the 70th anniver- license under a one-time court sary of the end of the second order issued for medical reasons. World War. It wasn’t immediately clear if The focus of this is the warm the couple’s wedding would have relationship between presidents legal standing given the ban, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, which remains before a federal and is a reminder to Japan, appeals court. Texas Attorney which is close to the US and has General, Ken Paxton, promised long been the regional domi- an immediate appeal of the nant, that China is gaining in county court ruling to the Texas authority. Supreme Court. Diplomats from both coun- The license was issued exclu- tries have outlined their plans sively for Sarah Goodfriend and for the commemorations over Suzanne Bryant, who requested the past few days. While they the license in Travis County two have stressed they were not tar- days after a local judge ruled in geting Japan, there is no doubt an unrelated estate case that that the next few months will Texas’ gay-marriage ban was un- prove a testing period in the constitutional. The couple cited volatile Sino-Japanese relation- that case, saying it should allow ship. them to wed. “Both Russia and China hold State District Judge, David responsible positions and are ef- Wahlberg, sided with the couple ficient at co-ordination in the and directed County Clerk, most complicated world issues, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin with China’s president Xi Jinping: China and Russia will mark Dana Debeauvoir, to immedi- and that has made our co-oper- their growing closeness with a series of high-level exchanges in coming months, including mili- ately stop relying on “the uncon- ation an important part of inter- tary parades and joint commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the end of the second World stitutional Texas prohibitions national relations,” according to War. against same-sex marriage as a the Russian ambassador to basis for not issuing a marriage”. China, Andrey Ivanovich among the leadership, feel path to democracy. think-tank Third Sector, which Debeauvoir said yesterday that Denisov. democracy has been badly tar- China’s growing economic appears to be very pro-Moscow she issued the license, but that Tensions between Japan and nished by the wheeler-dealing power has been matched by a and Beijing, as saying: “One any others must be court or- China over disputed islands in in America’s legislative system, desire to have a more defining year later, we can say that the dered. She said one of the the East China Sea and Tokyo’s by a failure to deal effectively role in regional affairs – politi- protests did not achieve their women, who live in Austin and perceived failure to properly with an Islamic fundamental- cal, economic and, increasingly, goals. Although the faces have have been together for 30 years, atone for second World War ist threat, by the revelations military. China is particularly changed, the system is still the “has severe and immediate atrocities have been the defin- about National Security Agency irked by visits by Japanese same. health concerns”. ing Asian conflict of the past few spying and by Europe’s general prime minister Shinzo Abe to “The situation in the country Goodfriend, who is policy di- years. timidity on dealing with eco- the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, is deplorable. Ukraine is now in rector for state Rep. Celia Israel, While many in the West hope nomic woes and regional con- which honours 2.5 million a de-facto state of war.The econ- has ovarian cancer. that President Xi will find inspi- flicts, including Ukraine. Japanese war dead, including omy is on the verge of collapse. “We are all waiting for a final ration in the democratic models Mr Putin, however,stands up war criminals. Consequently,people’s incomes decision on marriage equality,” offered by President Barack to the United States, his rule The gaze towards Russia has fell dramatically and the situa- Debeauvoir said. “However, this Obama or German chancellor has a vivid authoritarian stamp become frequent. tion in the social sphere remains couple may not get the chance to Angela Merkel, for him Mr and he wants his country to be In an article about Ukraine in shambles,” Mr Zolotarev said. hear the outcome of this issue Putin is a more palatable role perceived as strong and influen- on the Xinhua news agency,the He added that Ukraine should because of one person’s health.” model. tial. And he never asks about story quoted Andrei Zolotarev, learn from China’s experience The couple who were joined by Many Chinese, particularly China’s human rights record or an analyst at the Kiev-based during the process of reforms. their two daughters when they married in a ceremony presided over by a rabbi yesterday morn- ing. Bryant later released a 2 dead after ‘superbug’ outbreak at LA hospital statement saying they wanted to open the door for all families LOS ANGELES – tients are being sent free home- leading to coughing, fever or the infected instruments, and to have the right to marry in Contaminated medical instru- testing kits that UCLA will chills. we have heightened the sterili- Texas. ments are to blame for infecting analyse, the university said. UCLA said that infections sation process,” Tate said. “We were both born in Texas, seven patients – including two The bacteria may have been a may have been transmitted The CDC said that national came back to Texas after we met who died – with an antibiotic-re- “contributing factor” in the through two endoscopes used figures on the bacteria are not to build a family and establish sistant and potentially deadly deaths of two patients, a uni- during the diagnosis and treat- kept, but 47 states have seen our lives here. We plan to die “superbug” at Ronald Reagan versity statement said. ment of pancreatic and bile-duct cases. here, and we have waited to get UCLA Medical Centre, hospital Similar outbreaks of CRE problems. Since 2012, there have been married because, as proud officials said. A total of 179 pa- have been reported around the “We notified all patients who about a half-dozen outbreaks Texans, we want a Texas mar- tients may be infected. nation. They are difficult to had this type of procedure, and reaching as many as 150 pa- riage license,” she said. They were exposed to treat because some varieties are we were using seven different tients, according to reports. Bryant, an Austin lawyer,and Carbapenem-Resistant resistant to most known antibi- scopes. Only two of them were “This bacteria is emerging in Goodfriend said they believed Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, otics. By one estimate, CRE can found to be infected. In an abun- the U.S. and it’s associated with they were the state’s “first LGBT during endoscopic procedures contribute to death in up to half dance of caution, we notified a high mortality rate,” Dr. Alex to marry” between October and January of seriously infected patients, everybody,” Tate said. Kallen, an epidemiologist in Texas’ decade-old, voter-ap- when it was discovered during according to the national The two medical devices car- CDC’s Division of Healthcare proved ban on gay marriage was tests on a patient, said Dale Centres for Disease Control and ried the bacteria even though Quality Promotion, told the declared unconstitutional in fed- Tate, a University of California, Prevention. they were sterilised according media. “We don’t want this cir- eral court last year,but the judge Los Angeles spokeswoman. The bacteria can cause infec- to the manufacturer’s specifica- culating anywhere in the com- stayed the ruling to allow the The potentially infected pa- tions of the bladder or lungs, tions, UCLA said. “We removed munity.” state to appeal.

26 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate Defend and attack

DETERMINATION was the keyword for Samantha Greaves, stage name Sammy G, during the 2014 Crop Over Season. It was not only a significant year for the Festival and the National Cul- tural Foundation, it was also her final year in Secondary School, her penultimate year in the 13-18 category of the Scotiabank Junior Monarch Programme and, the way she saw it, it was her year to do some- thing big. And she hopes to con- tinue doing big things this year, as she recently announced plans to throw 31-year-old model, Amber Rose. her hat in the ring for the 2015 Sweet Soca competi- tion, in addition to vying for the Pic-O-De-Crop Amber Rose parties at crown and defending her Junior Calypso Monarch title. Trinidad Carnival She revealed this while speaking to the media at AFTER igniting a “Back to me killin the the Kardashian/Jenner the Grantley Adams Twitter war with Khloe gram,” she wrote on clan get her down, as she International Airport, Kardashian back in the Instagram on Tuesday, was seen booty dancing where she had just re- Our 2014 Scotiabank Junior Monarchs with Aaron States, Amber Rose took sharing a selfie of her to soca and calypso turned from a trip to Duncan, Trinidad’s Junior Soca Monarch winner, who her killer curves to sexy snakeskin bikini. music at the Trinidadian Trinidad and Tobago as will be heading to Barbados as a guest performer Trinidad and Tobago to The 31-year-old model Carnival in her scantily- part of a cultural ex- later this year. party in a bold bikini. didn’t let her feud with clad costume. change programme be- tween Barbados and the 2011 when she won the me from coming down in twin-island republic. 13- 18 category of the 2011.” As the reigning Junior local Scotiabank Junior Also accompanying Calypso Monarch, Calypso Monarch contest Sammy G was fellow Sammy G travelled to the at age 13. Junior Monarch, Raanan, neighbouring island to Speaking on her trip, who said he is looking for- guest perform at their Sammy G said, “My expe- ward to this year’s compe- National Junior Calypso rience in the Savannah tition. Monarch competition, her was lovely… This time it Both young artistes second time doing so, as was a lot better, because were presented with gifts she also went back in the children remembered from Scotiabank.

2014 Scotiabank Junior Monarchs, Samantha Greaves and Ranaan Hackett ,with Junior Monarchs, Samantha Greaves and Ranaan Hackett, sharing stories and pic- their chaperones Anthony Sargeant (l), Sharon Carew-White (r) and Ranaan’s tures with Scotiabank’s Senior Marketing Manager, Lisa Cole. mother Annette Slocombe (in back).

The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 27 Kanye West lost friends when he started dating Kim Kardashian had their back to her, other.” – calls Kris and now they turned it to Not one to disregard me.” his wife’s talked-about Jenner ‘Mom’ According to West, the physique, West also not-so-warm reception to praised it as “the body of OVE was not his first two collections all bodies” in the inter- easy for Yeezy. was really a blessing in view.The superstar rap- LKanye West re- disguise, essentially al- per added that it was un- vealed in a new inter- lowing him to start over. derstood that people view with Style.com “The so-called traction would react – some posi- that while he and his that I was getting in the tively and others nega- wife Kim Kardashian high-fashion world was tively – to his work in have become fashion completely thrown out fashion. “This audience Kanye West and wife Kim Kardashian West. royalty against many the window and I was fi- isn’t on my side, any- odds, the two shared nally allowed to go to ways,” he said. “It’s the who threw a tantrum ogise to the kids that had West added that he’s somewhat of a rocky school,” West reflected. fashion audience. They’re front row. to wait in the 42 theatres anticipating a more road to romance. “Every day I was in my not even on their own “Yeah, I apologise that where we streamed the favourable reception “She was always my mom [Kris Jenner]’s side... Fashion is merely people had to wait,” West show across the globe, I with his third collection. muse, now she’s become house, in my little an opinion. And I’ve got a confessed. “That’s defi- apologise to them for the “I didn’t know who I was other designers’ muses,” brother’s old room, Rob’s lot of opinions.” nitely not something I wait. Let me just explain until I had a daughter,” West, 37, reflected of the old room, re-tailoring a There was, however, did on purpose. I actually something to everyone. he admitted. “And then I reality star, 34. “Soon as Céline skirt, re-tailoring one personal flaw that had no idea what time it I’m sorry. I’m a human realised that the purpose we started dating, fash- a Saint Laurent jacket, West addressed with was. I wasn’t looking at being. I’ve got opinions, of life was to protect her ion people were really op- re-tailoring a Zara top, Style.com. The rapper’s the clock or in charge of I’m not always right, I’m and my wife at all costs. posed to the idea of real- re-tailoring Wolford … Adidas collaboration at that. It’s literally my first not always on time, I And that is who I am.” ity stars. And all the rela- And day by day by day, New York Fashion Week proposition [fashion don’t always say things (Indeed, unbeknownst tionships, the somewhat [Kim and I] learned, we started late last show] in three years. So I in the proper way, but my to many, little Nori was friends that I had some- got better.We looked at Thursday, Feb. 12, which apologise for the wait, to intentions are always ex- wearing a bullet-proof what built up, completely the photographs together resulted in some fussi- the people that had to ac- tremely pure. My pur- vest designed by her dad turned their backs on her and she improved my ness from his 20-month- tually wait at the New pose is extremely just.” at the Adidas show last and me. They already style, we improved each old daughter North West, York fashion show.I apol- Aside from the wait, week.) Tyga claims he’s not dating Kylie Jenner According to T-Raww, O.J. Simpson. rather infamous one – amidst Amber his break-up from Kim While denying that of his own with fellow Kardashian’s pal Blac Kylie was his girlfriend, superstar rapper Drake. Rose, Khloe Chyna – also the mother Tyga, 25, addressed their “First of all, we live in of his 2-year-old son overlap in circles on the same [neighbour- Kardashian feud King Cairo – was a long Tuesday.“TMZ didn’t re- hood],” Tyga said of their time coming. “Me and ally care about me until gated community in THIS Tyga is roaring Chyna, we broke up close they figured out that I Calabasas, Calif., which back. After Amber Rose to a year now,” he ex- live next door to Kim also includes Kris told The Breakfast Club plained. “And because of [Kardashian] and Kanye Jenner’s home. “He on February 16 that the decision we made, [West] and all that stuff,” knows exactly where my Tyga “should be and things in our rela- the rapper told The house is, I know exactly ashamed of himself” for tionship that wasn’t Breakfast Club. “But I where his house is. We dating 17-year-old Kylie going right, so we de- been friends with them live next to each other. Jenner, the “Rack City” cided to split to raise an before I even met Chyna. My thing is, if it’s real, rapper hit back the fol- emotionally stable kid. I was friends with Scott it’s real. If it’s not, it’s lowing morning with That’s what we did and [Disick], her family for not... I feel like he’s a new claims of his own. now we have a great years, so me hanging out nice guy on the outside “I’m not dating Kylie, I relationship.” with them was nothing but, he’s not genuine. He just want to get that out His direct statement new. People just want to plays people left and the way,” Tyga said on was made in response to make a story out of it.” right. That’s just my Tuesday, February 17, on Rose, 31, after the model The reason why the opinion and I’m entitled Power 105.1’s The dissed Kylie, 17, as a two are always together to have my own opinion.” Breakfast Club. “I want “baby” on Monday, and is simple, according to He also addressed his to be clear to everybody subsequently feuded Tyga, who called Kylie bad history with Nicki that I didn’t leave my with Khloe Kardashian. a “beautiful young Minaj. “Me and Nicki family to be with Kylie. Wiz Khalifa’s es- woman”, with a “matu- had got into it about That’s ridiculous.” (As tranged wife – who fa- rity and mentality [that] something stupid, it was Us Weekly confirmed mously dated Kanye is different than a lot of over a song, but that’s last August, the rapper West from 2008 to 2010 Kylie Jenner and Tyga. people”. what brothers and sis- and his model girlfriend – continued her heated While Rose’s feud with ters do,” Tyga reflected. had split after more than exchange with Khloe up an old, much- that Khloe is actually the Kardashians contin- “So, I don’t have any- two years together.) into Tuesday, dredging debunked tabloid tale the daughter of ues, Tyga addressed a thing against Nicki.

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Lance Armstrong must pay $10 million in perjury case LANCE ARMSTRONG better start counting his pennies. The disgraced cyclist, who admitted to doping in a 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey, was ordered to pay $10 million to SCA Promotions in an arbitration ruling February 16. Sports insurance company SCA paid approximately $12 million in bonuses to Armstrong throughout his career, which included seven Tour de France wins. In a two to one ruling, a Texas arbitration panel ruled in favour of the company that sued Armstrong, 43, for fraud in 2013. “We are very pleased with this result,” Bob Hamman, SCA’s president and founder, said in a statement obtained by USA Today.“It A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies photograph the scene where one person was killed and seven others were injured. is hard to describe how much harm Lance Armstrong’s web of lies caused Video shows Jenner rear-ended cars in fatal wreck SCA but this is a good first start towards repairing that damage.” LOS ANGELES – Video shows Bruce Department is investigating the cause the involved stretch of the Pacific The $10 million penalty is said to be Jenner started a chain-reaction crash of the wreck and will consider Coast Highway ahead of a stoplight. the largest sanction brought against an that resulted in a woman’s death on a whether to issue a citation that could Investigators have sought cellphone individual in US judicial history. Malibu highway, a law enforcement result in criminal charges. records to see if any drivers were According to papers filed Monday by official told the Press recently. The official briefed on the video was distracted, but the video appears to SCA, Armstrong has indicated he Jenner was hauling an off-road not authorized to speak publicly and show that Jenner was not using his would refuse to pay the fine, and SCA vehicle on a trailer behind his talked to the AP on condition of phone. His publicist, Alan Nierob, has asked a Texas court to turn the panel’s Cadillac Escalade on February 7 when anonymity. said Jenner was not texting decision into a final judgement. he steered to avoid cars slowing for a The official said the video taken by and is cooperating with “Perjury must never be profitable,” traffic light in front of him on Pacific cameras on an MTA bus in the area investigators. the ruling read. “Deception demands Coast Highway, the official said. showed Jenner’s vehicle continued The 1976 Olympic decathlon real, meaningful sanctions.” Jenner’s SUV rear-ended two cars, forward and rear-ended a Toyota champion better known these days as Armstrong is also being sued by the pushing a Lexus into oncoming traffic, Prius. Officials initially said the Kim Kardashian’s stepfather passed a federal government and his former the official added. Lexus had struck the Prius. field sobriety test and also submitted teammate Floyd Landis over his The driver, Kim Howe, 69, was TMZ was the first to report on the a blood sample to determine if he was sponsorship contract with the US killed when it was struck head-on by a bus video. intoxicated. Postal Service. That fraud case has yet Hummer. Another video taken from a gas Nierob did not immediately return a to go to trial. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s station showed traffic piling up along call seeking comment Wednesday. Allison Williams defends dad Brian Williams Admits situation has put her wedding plans on hold ALLISON WILLIAMS has spoken then a couple days before the dance I out in defense of her NBC Nightly was so upset and I got a surprise call News anchor dad Brian Williams from Iraq from my dad and he asked who has been suspended from me if I had a date to the dance. So, work without pay for making that’s the kind of man he is and I can’t erroneous claims about his war wait for him to be back on TV and I reporting from Iraq in 2003. know many of you guys feel that way,” During a Q&A with Seth Meyers at she added, before thanking the New York’s 92Y, the Peter Pan actress audience for their applause. spoke out about the strain her father’s However, while Allison is happy to high-profile disgrace has put on the support her dad, she did admit the whole family,and talked publically for current family drama has impacted one the first time about her faith in the important event in her life – the man she insists is “truthful” and planning of her wedding. “honest". The Girls star has been engaged to “This has been a really hard time. We marry fiancé Ricky Van Veen since this have also been very lucky, counting our time last year, but admits they are no blessings. We have our health, we have closer to organizing their big day. each other. It’s been incredible to “It’s been a very full year,” Allison experience the outreach from people admitted. “You sort of think, ‘What you love, family,friends, and then could possibly come along that would people we don’t even know,strangers, make me not think about this?’ And just reaching out saying we want him then I get Peter Pan and I think, ‘Okay, back on TV,” she said. I will think only about Neverland and Talking about that time in 2003 when then we’ll go back to planning our Brian was in Iraq, Allison recalled wedding,’” she explained. being in 9th grade, and realizing her “And then current events started dad would not make it back for a happening and so that derailed it a father-daughter dance, as she had little bit, but it has been this really hoped he would. beautiful throughline in our lives. It’s “As that date was coming, it didn’t just something we haven’t focused on, seem like he was going to make it like but, spoiler alert, we are excited!” she he had promised,” she recalled. “And added, laughing. Allison Williams and dad Brian Williams.

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Iggy Azalea quits Bobbi Kristina Brown’s relatives asking for social media after thousands of dollars, perks from media online bullies criticise her butt TO pray and to prey.While since the 21-year-old music the family,” family lawyer University Hospital has not Bobbi Kristina Brown remains scion – the only child of Bobby Christopher Brown told Us last communicated with them.” IGGY AZALEA’S had enough! in a medically induced coma, Brown and the late Whitney Friday,February 13. “The Meanwhile, inside Emory The Australian rapper is some of her relatives have Houston – was found facedown integrity of the events that led University Hospital, another walking away from social media attempted to cash in on the and unresponsive in a bathtub to the hospitalisation of Bobbi battle – also about money – is following paparazzi pictures of tragic turn of events. on January 31. Their public Kristina must remain brewing between Brown and her butt in a bikini, and the Certain family members updates in the media prompted uncompromised. Various Houston family members. subsequent online criticism she have asked for thousands of Bobby to release a statement members of the family have While both families have received for her normal, less- dollars in payment, plus other through his lawyer, slamming provided media interviews, gathered at the intensive care than-perfect appearance. perks like car services and information provided by family however, none of them are unit to pray for Bobbi Kristina The photos, which showed hotel stays, to do press members about his daughter’s approved visitors to see Bobbi (affectionately known as Azalea revealing her curves in interviews, an insider tells Us condition. Kristina. None of them have “Krissie” by relatives), money a pair of tiny bikini bottoms Weekly in the new issue. “At this time it is requested firsthand knowledge of Bobbi has become a “big point of while on holiday with her Multiple Brown family that the media cease speaking Kristina’s treatment and the contention,” the insider boyfriend Nick Young, led to members have spoken out with unauthorised members of medical staff at Emory adds. some unkind comments from Internet users who slammed her voluptuous appearance. The “Fancy” singer hit back at Someone is leaving critics via Twitter on Wednesday,February 18, vowing to quit social media for creepy notes the foreseeable future, to avoid being drawn into a host of negative emotions. “Just got back from a great on Taylor Swift’s vacation, came online and saw apparently it’s shocking and unheard of to be a woman and front door have cellulite. Lol,” the singer wrote. TAYLOR SWIFT, who very apartment, and even paid off "I feel the hatred and publicly moved to one fan’s student loan. (Hey, pettiness I see online at all Manhattan last year – she Taylor we’re fans too!) She times is at making me become even became an shares photos of her Big Apple an angry person and I cannot “ambassador” for the city abode on Instagram, including be that,” she continued. “To and included the song nights in baking with BFF become nasty because of the “Welcome to New York” on Karlie Kloss and her birthday way I feel I am treated would be her multi-platinum album party with guests like a disservice to my fans and I 1989 – had a creepy JayZ, Beyoncé, and Justin promise I will try to keep surprise waiting for her Timberlake. She’s also known smiling,” she added. when she arrived home on and loved for interacting with “But I also want to let my Tuesday. Someone who her fans via Twitter, fans know I am taking some appears to be a fan left at Instagram and Tumblr, time away from social media. I least 13 notes on the pop leaving kind comments on need to be happy and it is too star’s door yesterday, their posts, offering negative and draining,” she according to a disturbing encouragement, and even went on. “My management will post on Instagram. giving advice to a fan in the tweet/run my accounts from The 25-year-old singer is middle of a breakup (and today onwards with updates etc photographed regularly making her a playlist!). unless any message is signed – coming and going from her Unfortunately, all of this IA. Love you all. Peace out!” she downtown NYC apartment. seeming access, coupled with said, before adding one more But she’s also – rather the fact that it is very, very comment that the Internet is brilliantly – opened up her life easy to figure out where Swift “the ugliest reflection of to her fans in a way that few lives, can lead to fans feeling mankind that there is". recording artists of her stature like Taylor is really in their This isn’t the first time (and sales numbers) do. While lives, when she just isn’t. The Azalea, 24, has run into trouble most celebs would notes on her door – signed in the social media arena. Back understandably be a little “Love, Daisy” – seem fairly in December she became resistant to forging innocent, but while she may embroiled in a bitter battle friendships with their invite fans into her home, she with Azealia Banks, who admirers, it’s paid off for Swift probably doesn’t want them accused her of “making fun” of – her dedicated fan base showing up uninvited on her race issues. propelled 1989 to record doorstep. We don’t want her to Evidently feeling enraged by breaking sales topping 4 change out of fears for her own the accusations, Azalea fired off million copies. safety, because her interaction a stream of tweets in Banks’ She’s invited fans to her with fans is very genuine, but direction. “You’re poisonous and Beverly Hills home to hold her as @belleswift17 commented I feel genuinely sorry for you,” cats (Olivia Benson and on Twitter, “What was that she wrote at the time “It’s Meredith Grey, who are almost person thinking?!? It makes obvious at this point you are a as famous as she is), staged me so mad because she lets us MISERABLE, angry human mini-concerts in her NYC into so much of her life.” Taylor Swift leaving her NYC home. being. Regards!" Vanilla Ice released after being charged in Florida burglary LANTANA, Fla. – Vanilla Ice Police in Lantana say the his property. Project”. County jail Wednesday night on has been released from custody recording artist and home- Vanilla Ice, whose real name The 47-year-old was charged a $6 000 bond. in Florida after being arrested improvement-show host had is Robert Van Winkle, rose to on Wednesday with burglary of He told TV station WPTV as and charged with breaking into been renovating a home next to fame with the hit “Ice Ice a residence and grand theft and he left that the situation was a and stealing from an the victim’s. They said some of Baby”. He also hosts DIY taken into custody.He was “misunderstanding” that’s been abandoned home. the stolen items were found at Network’s “The Vanilla Ice released from the Palm Beach “blown out of proportion”.

30 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate New celeb maybe-couples

ALENTINE’S DAY is behind Niall Horan and Melissa Whitelaw us, but it appears love may One Directioners freaked out after a Vstill be in the air for a whole video surfaced showing Niall slew of new celeb maybe-couples. flirtatiously twirling Ms. Whitelaw Here’s a breakdown of three around as they exited an arena together. rumoured romances currently Though the video appears to be from making waves in Tinseltown: way back when in 2014 – implying that these two may have been an item for a Nick Cannon and Nicole Murphy while now – the heartbreak is Rumours flew after the pair of happening now.Further complicating recently-single stars stepped out for matters, photos posted (and were then dinner for Valentine’s Day in New York deleted) that may or may not have City.Mariah Carey’s ex-husband and shown Niall kissing Melissa in a bar in Michael Strahan’s ex-fiancée (who was Australia. While we don’t know for sure once married to Eddie Murphy) spent if these two are for real, we know what the holiday at the iconic Tavern on the is: The pain fans feel. Green at the edge of Central Park. According to People, “Clearly they were Alexa Chung and Alexander Skarsgard on a date. They held hands, were very The fashion plate and the True Blood The rumours between these two continue. nice to everyone,” and shared a hefty hottie might not be official, but they’ve meal consisting of oysters, mushroom definitely spent some time together this soup, filet mignon, and pasta carbonara. week. On Monday night, the two were Rihanna, Leonardo DiCaprio And while Cannon stuck to soda, spotted at the Bowery Ballroom taking Murphy washed her dinner down with in the Father John Misty show,which, wine. Though neither has commented on its own, sounds a lot like a date to us. publicly on the status of the But then they were reportedly spotted on Valentine’s Day? relationship, a quiet Valentine’s Day again grabbing breakfast on Tuesday SHE found love in a hopeless place! they were standing very close to one outing is hard to read as anything other morning, making us wonder if their Rihanna has one seriously sexy new another as they took in the music and than romance. concert turned into an overnight affair. piece of arm candy in the form of slipped out quietly together halfway Leonardo DiCaprio. through the show. The two stars, who have been flirting After ending her volatile on-again, and orchestrating occasional meetups off-again relationship with Chris for months, took their fling to the next Brown in 2013, the Grammy winner level this past week when they spent was linked to Drake and Matt Kemp. Valentine’s Day weekend together.The Rihanna started dating Brown in 2007 “FourFiveSeconds” singer, 26, was and rekindled with him multiple times, spotted with the Wolf of Wall Street but has chosen not to get into a serious actor in New York City. relationship since. On Friday, Feb. 13, Rih and DiCaprio For his part, DiCaprio was most did a little clubbing, hitting celeb- recently dating model Toni Garrn, happy Manhattan hotspots 1 OAK and whom he split from late last year. His Up & Down. They continued their sexy exes – all of them supermodels, of weekend the next night when they both course – include Erin Heatherton, Bar attended Paul McCartney’s secret Refaeli, and Gisele Bundchen. concert at the downtown venue Irving “He thinks she’s incredibly hot,” a Plaza. second source tells ‘Us’ of DiCaprio’s “They were whispering and staring feelings for Rihanna, and adds that into each other’s eyes,” an insider tells they’re looking for the same no-strings Us Weekly exclusively of the pair’s get- fling. “Like him, she’s not looking for a Nick Cannon and Nicole Murphy. together at the the show, adding that relationship.”

The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 31 ‘Fifty Shades’ ties up a cool $93 million debut LOS ANGELES – The $41.8 million from 3,204 heat on “Fifty Shades locations, helping to of Grey’s” blockbuster solidify an overall record- debut cooled ever so breaking President’s Day slightly as the final weekend at the box four-day weekend office. numbers were The top 5 movies at revealed on Tuesday. U.S. and Canadian The R-rated movie, theaters Friday through Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney. which cost only $40 Monday,followed by million to produce, distribution studio, gross, took in $93 million number of theater Lady Gaga basks in from 3,646 locations locations, average across the long receipts per location, President’s Day total gross and number of engagement well-wishes holiday. weeks in release, as BLUSHING bride-to-be! eccentric entertainer on Although initial compiled Tuesday by As Us Weekly previously Monday. estimates put the four- Rentrak: reported, Lady Gaga “So so so happy for you! day gross at over $94 1. “Fifty Shades Of Grey,” announced on Monday, That ring... congrats million, director Sam Universal, $93,010,350, Feb. 16, that she and her Gaga!!!” Spears wrote, Taylor-Johnson’s 3,646 locations, $25,510 longtime love Taylor adding love-filled and adaptation of EL James’ average, $93,010,350, 1 Kinney are engaged. diamond ring emojis. steamy best seller still week. The “Applause” singer, The celebrated took the crown for best 2. “Kingsman: The Secret 28, took to Instagram to performer jetted off from February opening ever, Service,” 20th Century Fox, share a shot of the New York City on unseating the 2004 $41,761,512, 3,204 stunning heart-shaped Tuesday,Feb. 17, after record set by “The locations, $13,034 average, diamond engagement her happy news broke. Passion of the Christ.” $41,761,512, 1 week. ring that Kinney,33, Chicago Fire star Matthew Vaughn’s R- 3. “The SpongeBob Movie: presented when he Kinney has been dating rated comic book Sponge Out Of Water,” 50 Shades smashes records. popped the question. “He Mother Monster, whose adaptation “Kingsman: Paramount, $40,007,494, gave me his heart on real name is Stefani The Secret Service” also 3,654 locations, $10,949 Bros., $18,779,843, 3,436 Warner Bros., $10,755,447, Valentine’s Day,and I Germanotta, since 2011. exceeded expectations in average, $103,140,055, 2 locations, $5,466 average, 3,181 locations, $3,381 said YES!” Gaga “He is extremely strange, its first four days in weeks. $306,478,136, 8 weeks. average, $33,876,593, 2 captioned the sweet actually,and we theaters, bringing in 4. “American Sniper,” Warner 5. “Jupiter Ascending,” weeks. photo of her ring-adorned complement each other’s finger in Kinney’s hand. weirdness,” Gaga told The announcement Ellen DeGeneres in 2013. prompted an outpouring “At the end of the day of well-wishes from big- he’s my best friend. And name stars, including having your lover be your none other than fellow best friend, I mean, it’s pop star Britney Spears, the best thing ever. It’s who tweeted her the best thing I can say congratulations to the about it.”

From left to right: Kate Gosselin in 2004, 2008 and 2015. Kate Gosselin’s fountain of youth IF you watched But the former TLC “So it was really just forward to 2007 and the “Celebrity Apprentice” star has an explanation eye-trickery,I think,” she world really got to know this season you know for this. said. “You guys saw me at the couple, their Kate Gosselin was one of “I think when the my worst first, and then I sextuplets and twin the contestants. world met me I was three just kind of reversed in daughters Maddie and If you’re like the rest of days post having front of your eyes. It was Cara, on the reality show us, who had no idea that sextuplets, so the only nothing amazing, it was “Jon and Kate Plus 8,” “The Apprentice” spin-off place you can get from just, when you met me, which eventually became was even still airing, that point is younger,” who was that person?” “Kate Plus 8,” after the you’ll be equally the 39-year-old told E! Indeed, the world first couple split in 2009. surprised to learn that, News at the “Celebrity met Gosselin, and her Over the years, according to E! News, Apprentice” finale red then-husband Jon, back Gosselin has routinely some viewers had a hard carpet on Monday night in May 2004, after she denied rumours she’s time recognising the when asked about her gave birth to six undergone plastic famous mother-of-eight. new look. beautiful babies. Flash- surgery on her face.

32 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate ‘Fashion Police’ host Griffin gets Oscars red-carpet ready NEW YORK – Kathy AP: Do you ever Griffin likes to worry that you go too joke (or is she far with your fash- serious?) that, ion policing? one year on Griffin: I go her tax re- too far most of turn, she put the time. Later I her profes- think, ‘Oh, boy. sion as I said THAT?!’ “Anony- Then I go, ‘Wait mous”. Such a minute! This is her multi- is my job.’ hyphenate AP: But what stature: a qualifies you to stand-up comic, weigh in on their sitcom star, real- fashion foibles? ity-show queen, Griffin: I’ve been periodic D-Lister there! I’ve been on the and, now, host of worst-dressed list and the “Fashion Police”, E! net- best-dressed list. I started with work’s rollicking red-car- (the 1990s sitcom) ‘Suddenly Dena D’Angelo, a scenic artist, prepares to spray Oscar statues. pet rip. Susan’ going to red-carpet Griffin has retrieved the cou- events. I won two Emmys (for ture-critique mantle from Joan ‘My Life on the D-List’). I have Oscars may prompt more Hollywood Rivers, who presided riotously a Grammy (for best comedy in cahoots with her “Joan album). I’ve really been around Rangers” until her death last the block. And I have really introspection than usual summer. learned about fashion. I’m “She obviously left very big right there in the (Carolina) LOS ANGELES – To the out- you are still an amazing, ter- “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” shoes,” said Griffin. “But we Herrera and the (Oscar) de la side world, Hollywood might rific person,” said Tim Gray, Actor Bill Murray joked he agree that it’s essential to com- Renta. ooze effortless glamour, but awards editor at Variety. was so glad Anderson was get- edy to be fearless and not be AP: Are you still a D-Lister? just about anyone who makes “I think everybody in the ting recognition because he afraid to make enemies – Griffin: It goes back and movies will say the process is a Academy can relate to that be- would no longer have to defend certainly, in Hollywood! C’mon, forth. You win an Emmy: A- long grind, and a continual cause that’s the state of nor- the idiosyncratic director. His we’re not talking about heads List. You’re in an airport and blow to the ego and bank malcy for the film industry, colourful caper staged in the of state here.” someone says, ‘Hello, Miss account. that you spend a lot of time bygone era of a European re- As she spoke yesterday, she Gifford’: D-List. I’ve been on That might explain why two unemployed,” he added. sort has won universal was not in Hollywood but ALL the lists, and I’ve learned films that embody the inherent Keaton could therefore win acclaim from critics and audi- Manhattan, fresh from taping that none of them really mean struggle of show business - best actor over Eddie ences. a “Fashion Police” special tak- anything. –“Birdman” and “Boyhood” Redmayne, who has won a But the film that has been ing stock of New York Fashion AP: Is it hard not to play –are top contenders for best slew of awards for his por- most popular with audiences is Week. The show originated favourites with your friends or picture at Sunday’s 87th trayal of physicist Stephen “American Sniper,” director from the huge tent at Lincoln really big stars? Academy Awards. Hawking in “The Theory of Clint Eastwood’s gritty por- Centre, where Griffin joined Griffin: There is no one Even if “Birdman” has the Everything.” trayal of late Navy SEAL panellists Brad Goreski, Kelly who’s off the table, no matter if slightest edge, the race is one Chris Kyle, the US military’s Osbourne and Giuliana Rancic I’m friendly with them or how of the hardest to predict in NO BOX OFFICE BONANZA most lethal sharpshooter after to pronounce unflinching ver- famous they are. years, experts say, adding wel- “Boyhood” is a more simple his four tours in the Iraq war. dicts on outfits worn by such AP: Or me? come suspense to Hollywood’s story of a boy of divorced par- It has earned $307 million at A-listers as Rihanna Griffin: You are so on the annual climax, the largest tele- ents coming of age, but director the domestic box office, more (“Oshkosh B’gosh and bedaz- table right now you might as vised event in the United Richard Linklater earned re- than the other seven best pic- zled”) and Natalie Dormer well be a Kardashian. States outside of the sports spect from the industry for a ture nominees combined, and (“these gloves look like a bad AP: What’s the biggest chal- world. marathon undertaking never gathered strength in recent case of varicose veins”). lenge of hosting ‘Fashion And there’s room for a dark before attempted: making the weeks amidst a heated debate Here’s a condensed version Police’? horse to come in and win the film over 12 years with the about war and snipers. of the conversation that fol- Griffin: Holding back on the top honour from the Academy same actors. And he did it on a “Selma,” the Martin Luther lowed: four-letter words I use in my of Motion Picture Arts and shoestring budget. King Jr. biopic, drew early sup- The Associated Press: Are stand-up act. I have self-diag- Sciences, made up of 6 100 peo- It could be that the top con- port but lost steam after it you looking forward to your nosed Tourette Syndrome. ple who toil in the industry. tenders split best picture and earned only two nods and be- Academy Awards ‘Fashion AP: What if you had the The strength of “Birdman” best director, as “12 Years a came the symbol of the lack of Police’ special? chance to replace Jon Stewart lies not only in its nine Oscar Slave” and “Gravity” did last diversity among this year’s Kathy Griffin: The Oscars on ‘The Daily Show’? nominations, a near sweep of year. nominees. are gonna be great! Other Griffin: That would be awards from Hollywood’s “It seems a lot of people are With one of the smallest col- award shows, everybody’s just great. But God forbid they guilds and cinematic derring- saying that if they vote lective box office showings for trying to out-crazy each other would let a woman do it! do, but also in a story the ap- ‘Birdman’ in one of those two best picture nominees in re- with their fashions. But for the AP: Gender reassignment peals to the Academy’s largest categories, they are going to cent times, the Academy faces Oscars, these men and women seems popular these days. voting bloc: actors. vote ‘Boyhood’ in the other,” a challenging year for its tele- are trying to win an award Griffin: I will get one, if Director Alejando G. Inarritu said Paul Sheehan, editor at cast. It is betting on big music they care about, while at the that’s what it requires. But I presents a washed up, former awards handicapper acts and first-time host Neil same time they know they’re would love to see a woman at superhero actor trying to make GoldDerby.com. Patrick Harris to bring in the being judged even more that helm. a comeback, portrayed by But because of the best pic- young audience. harshly on what they wear. AP: What would you prefer, Michael Keaton, whose own ture category’s preferential People like to make fun of AP: Where will you watch hosting ‘The Daily Show’ or re- career sagged after his ballot, in which members rank the Oscars, Gray says, but in a the Oscars Sunday night? placing Brian Williams on “Batman” heydey. their top films rather than vote world saturated with enter- Griffin: I haven’t decided ‘NBC Nightly News’? “The message of the movie is for just one, a movie that is tainment choices, he likes to whether to go to a party where Griffin: I’m given to exag- even though you are unem- many people’s second choice believe the awards are still “a I can get more material, or just geration in my act. I think I ployed and you haven’t gotten could prevail. For Sheehan, way of curating” Hollywood’s watch at home, judging should host ‘Nightly News.’ all the success you deserve, that’s director Wes Anderson’s best work. harshly in silence. I’ve had a lot of training.

The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 33 Kelly Clarkson: No one will work with me ood thing she’s “I ask good people, I forts have gone multi- Miss Independent! don’t want to sing with platinum and hit No. 1 GKelly Clarkson re- crap people, so I mean, I on the Billboard 200, de- vealed in a new inter- ask people who are great spite the lack of big- view with BBC Radio 1 vocalists, but I’m not name collaborations. that she has a tough going to point out any- “I got John Legend to time getting other artists one,” Clarkson contin- say yes, and he’s cool,” to record with her. ued. “I have asked sev- Clarkson added to “I honestly would col- eral people... Sometimes Grimshaw of an upcom- laborate with a lot of I feel like I have the ing single with the R&B people, but everyone plague, or leprosy, crooner. “I can get coun- usually says no,” the they’re like, ‘If you get try artists to sing with Grammy-winning singer, too close...’ I don’t know.” me and John Legend! I’m 32, told host Nick One of the most suc- gonna keep John Grimshaw.“I’m not kid- cessful and prolific Legend. He’s super credi- Kelly Clarkson ding you. I have legiti- American Idol winners of ble and talented. I feel mately asked several all time, Clarkson is de- very good about myself clude recordings with Gill, added on BBC “I feel like I’m a very people that I’m not going buting her seventh stu- with that one.” Jason Aldean, her step- Radio 1 that she isn’t nice person that you to call out, and that’s dio album Piece by Piece Clarkson, whose previ- mother-in-law Reba taking the snubs too per- might want to sing with cool, but I don’t know.” next month. Her past ef- ous collaborations in- McEntire, and Vince sonally. me,” she said.

Murphy rejected offer to play Cosby on ‘SNL 40’ Laverne Cox cast as COMEDIAN Norm Macdonald took to transgender attorney Twitter Wednesday evening to share a long in CBS pilot ‘Doubt’ but fascinating account about the behind-the- LAVERNE Cox al- scenes drama that pre- ready made his- ceded “Saturday Night tory, becoming the Live’s” 40th anniversary first openly trans- extravaganza. gender performer Eddie Murphy, who to earn an acting made a brief cameo on Emmy nomination the NBC special, was ap- for her breakout proached to impersonate role on Netflix’s Bill Cosby in “Celebrity Orange Is The Jeopardy,” a skit New Black. She is Macdonald wrote and now looking to originally created for the break more show, but Murphy turned ground with the down the offer the night first transgender before the telecast. series regular Kenan Thompson character on eventually played Cosby broadcast TV in the revived sketch, played by a which also featured Will Eddie Murphy on the SNL 40th anniversary special. transgender actor. Ferrell (Alex Trebek), Cox is set to Macdonald (Burt But his affiliation with “Rock says, ‘There he pate in sketches like his co-star in Reynolds), Darrell the show would come to a is. Like Ali in Zaire,’” hilarious ode to “Jaws.” Doubt, from long- Hammond (Sean standstill in the early Macdonald wrote. Murphy, however, time Grey’s Connery) and Kate ‘90s when David Spade, As the A-list cast opted against the laughs. Anatomy execu- McKinnon (Justin during a segment on began to prep for According to tive producers Bieber). “Weekend Update” Sunday’s primetime Macdonald, he didn’t Tony Phelan Laverne Cox “Among many other quipped, “Look children, event, which drew over want to further shame and Joan Rater, things, this show was to a falling star,” as 23 million viewers, Cosby–public enemy No. Timberman/Beverly and CBS TV Studios. It centres be the return of Eddie Murphy’s image was dis- Macdonald pulled 1 on the Internet–who al- on a smart, chic, successful defense lawyer at a bou- Murphy,” Macdonald played in the back- Murphy aside in a dress- ready faces a litany of tique firm who shockingly gets involved romantically wrote. ground. ing room for an hour and sexual assault allega- with one of her clients who may or may not be guilty Macdonald went on to The actor-comedian tried to persuade him to tions for drugging and of a brutal crime. Cox will play Cameron Wirth, a shower the “rock star” was so upset by the joke, do the “Celebrity raping dozens of women. fierce and funny,competitive and compassionate actor-comedian, now 53, according to Macdonald, Jeopardy” sketch. “He knew the laughs transgender Ivy League-educated attorney.The fact with praise on Twitter that he refused to attend “When it’s over, I’m would bring the house that she’s experienced injustice first hand makes her for his immeasurable the “SNL’s” 25th anniver- convinced he’ll do it,” down,” Macdonald said of fight all the harder for her clients. contribution to the NBC sary in 1999. He also thought the comedian. his decision. “(But) Eddie The producers set out to find a transgender series in the early ‘80s, turned down several Adding to the decides the laughs are performer for the role from the get go. when the lowly-rated hosting gigs. “SNL 40” drama over the not worth it. He will not Cox’s Sophia on OITNB and Jeffrey Tambor’s “SNL” was nearly can- “David is a very kind weekend was the fact kick a man when he is Maura on Amazon’s Transparent have opened a new celed. man,” said Macdonald, that Bill Murray was down.” chapter for transgender characters on television. On “Eddie, the man who, “but his remark was not.” golfing across the Wearing a blue suit, broadcast TV,ABC’s Ugly Betty and Dirty Sexy in Lorne’s absence, kept After more than 30 country. Murphy entertained the Money opened the door with such characters several the show alive. years, Murphy returned “With Bill Murray, golf audience ever-so briefly years ago, the regular Alexis Maede, played by Singlehandedly…Every to the legendary halls of always comes first,” after a warm introduc- Rebecca Romijn, and the recurring Carmelita, Saturday Night at 11:30 Studio 8H on Saturday Macdonald said. tion from Chris Rock, played by transgender actress Candis Cayne, Eddie Murphy, a kid, night for rehearsal, to To the relief of “SNL” saying his “SNL” return respectively. would fill 90 minutes the surprise of “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels, was like “going back to Cox is repped by Hartig Hilepo Agency and Peikoff with comedy. vets like Macdonald and Murray eventually flew my old high school, kind Mahan. Impossible.” Chris Rock. to New York to partici- of.”

34 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate ’Two and a Half Men’ wraps up 12 years of comedy

NEW YORK – There’s miered in September co-creator Chuck Lorre. character,Walden, been plenty of comedy 2003. It was built around Sheen was fired from adopted a little boy – onscreen and tons of Sheen and his real-life the show in March 2011. after pretending to be drama behind the scenes. image as a freewheeling That spring, he roared married to Alan to boost It all comes to an end bachelor.The character back with a bizarre na- his case that he could Thursday as “Two and a Sheen played, Charlie, tionwide tour of live ap- offer the child a stable, Half Men,” the remark- flush from writing jin- pearances billed as “My two-parent home. ably durable hit CBS sit- gles, shared his cushy Violent Torpedo of In last week’s episode, com, wraps its 12-season beach-front house with Truth/Defeat is Not An Alan proposed to his on- run with a one-hour se- his uptight brother,Alan Option.” again-off-again girl- ries finale. (Jon Cryer) and Alan’s That fall, Charlie was friend, Lyndsey Funny or not, the con- young son (Angus T. reported dead (from (Courtney Thorne- clusion will answer this Jones). falling in front of a Paris Smith), who accepted, burning question: Will By this season, Jones subway train) as Ashton and Walden almost former series star (grown to full manhood) Kutcher joined the re- popped the question to Charlie Sheen make a had left the series. vamped sitcom as a bil- Ms. McMartin (Maggie conciliatory guest ap- So had Sheen, years lionaire internet entre- Lawson), the sexy social pearance, as rumored, before, after months of preneur who took over worker who handled the four years after his ran- show-biz turbulence fu- the house. adoption. corous firing? eled by scandalous be- By this season, the se- On the finale, will Alan Rife with jokes about havior on Sheen’s part ries had recovered its and Walden go through genitalia and bodily func- amid high-decibel clashes two-and-a-half-men with marriage (to people tions, the series pre- between him and “Men” standing as Kutcher’s other than each other)? Ellen Barkin calls off engagement

TOO much, too soon. Weekly. George Clooney in Perelman from 2000 to Ellen Barkin was all set “Ellen got swept up in September 2014. “Also, 2006. She and Byrne had to marry Amal the whole idea of Ben – the idea of meeting him two kids together; she Alamuddin’s colleague marrying a British at George’s wedding was and Perelman had a bit- Ben Emmerson (51), but lawyer, moving to so romantic.” ter, much-publicized di- just weeks after they got London, living that life,” This would have been vorce, after which she fa- engaged over New Year’s, the insider stated of the Barkin’s third marriage. mously sold the jewelry she began to have second Sea of Love actress, 60, She was previously wed he had given her at a thoughts about their who met the British bar- to actor Gabriel Byrne Christie’s auction that whirlwind romance, a rister at Alamuddin’s from 1988 to 1999, and to fetched more than $20 source reveals to Us Venetian nuptials to billionaire Ronald O. million. Bridge The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 35

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P R HOROSCOPES O S BY HOLIDAY A N D ARIES (March 21-April 19). You cannot change another person. However, when you offer your assistance without C the expectation that the other person will change, you will O make a difference. N TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You refuse to see any S situation as tragic or futile and are determined to find whatever advantage might exist. You’ll be successful in this quest, brightening the world for you and the ones you love. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). When you connect with a person as well as you connect with a certain someone, you can communicate profoundly in total silence. Therefore, don’t worry about what you’ll say. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Fantasies become realities. Z It happens all the time, so why not for you? Some small I occurrence that you wished would happen will materialize T in front of your eyes. S LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Needing validation makes you vulnerable. If there are words you long to hear, then hearing them will only weaken you. Be strong on your own, keep your power, validate yourself. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You wish everyone well — yes, every single person. That doesn’t mean you have to like them all. When you don’t expect to have a great affinity for most people you have to deal with, the way becomes R smoother. E LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Sometimes you feel so X connected to nature and the energy of it around you that you wish you could go live in the woods. Appreciating natural M beauty makes you more naturally beautiful. O SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). There’s a protocol, but R don’t feel overly obligated to follow it. Pretending won’t G work today, but doors will open to you when you show who A you really are. N SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Territorial issues will come up. There’s a lot you can let slide until next week. Everything that irritates you about others can lead you to a better understanding of yourself. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You genuinely want to make the world a better place for people, but your methods don’t always project that intent. Let them know that your P actions are aimed at the greater good. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ll search for the value H in interactions, and it shouldn’t be so hard to find. When A you click with people and you are where you belong, the N value will be glaringly obvious. T PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Knowing when you’re in O over your head is one thing; admitting it is quite another. M With a bit of humility, you’ll attract a teacher who is willing to help you in your quest to make more money.

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The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 37 SPORTSSPORTS Blue returns to the top

BLUE House returned Division One, won the to the top of Graydon 200m, 400m, 800m, triple Sealy Secondary’s jump and 5 000m, and he inter-house athletics was tied for first place in championships with a the high jump. Greenidge convincing victory was also second in the when the curtains long jump, third in the came down yesterday shot put and 100m, fourth t the National Stadium. in javelin and discus. Last year Orange The victrix ludorum House had ended Blue title went to Ashanti House two-year streak, Phillips from Yellow but Blue rebounded with House who finished with a whopping 737 points.All 77 points. Competing in this despite having only Division One Phillips won one Division Champion in the long jump, high jump the form of Rianna Clarke and triple jump, while Theo Greenidge of Red House tied in Division 3. placing second in the with Shaqan Newton of Orange House Second place went 400m, 800m, third in in the Div 1 Boys H Jump. Green House with 696.5 200m, 1500m and Discus points, followed by Yellow and sixth in the shot put. with 688. Orange House Other division champi- slumped from the top last ons included Shade year to fourth this year Carrington from Green with 519.5 points, while who won Division Two White was fifth with girls, while Ross Thomas 450.5 and Red House also from Green won the 448.5. boys. The victor ludorum title The Division Three ti- went to Red House’s Theo tles went to Daniyel Greenidge who collected Harewood from white, an impressive 99 points. while the girls title went Greenidge competing in to Rianna Clarke. (CG)

Rachad Jackman of Green House (left) winning the Div 2 Boys 200m ahead of teammate Jadan Jones. Kayla Walters of Yellow House winning the Div 3 Girls 200m.

38 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate Barbados Pride missing out on bonus points

By Corey Greaves The bowlers and fielders seem ances in the first 110 overs of in the first innings within 110 Points Standings to be doing their part in re- each team’s first innings only overs. BARBADOS Pride must do stricting the opposition and and retained whatever the re- With teams awarded 12 Points Standings After Round 6 more than simply win. getting the three bonus points sult of the match”. points for winning, and a max- Guyana Jagaurs – 92 Having lost the opportu- on offer however, it is the bat- Barbados does not have a imum of eight points in Barbados Pride – 77 nity of two full games due ting that has not capitalised problem getting runs, but the bonuses on offer, each game Windwards Volcanoes – 64 to weather, Barbados must on the opportunity. batsmen, while looking for presents 20 points for a suc- Jamaica Franchise – 57 take care that while win- Barbados Pride has 16 personal glory, are scoring too cessful team. T&T Red Force – 30 ning they do not lose the bonus points from bowling, slowly and taking too many This would serve second Leewards Hurricanes – 14 chance of retaining the while only collecting seven overs in the 110 overs to get place Barbados in good stead championship. from batting; a statistic which the required runs for bonus as they come up against table A quick look at Barbados currently sits in is startling as there are five points. leader Guyana, who are 15 How Bonus points are awarded: second position in the bonus batting points on offer In the second innings how- points ahead of them at the Batting points: Standings with 77 points from each game while only three for ever, where there are no moment. 200 to 249 runs – 1 point six matches, four completed bowling. points on offer, Barbados Guyana has collected 32 250 to 299 runs – 2 points and two incomplete, and their Brathwaite said that they scores at a far higher run rate points in bonuses while 300 to 349 runs – 3 points captain, Kraigg Brathwaite, go according to the pitch and than in the first innings. Barbados has 23. 350 to 399 runs – 4 points said that they are confident batting in the first innings is In one game, Barbados only A number of Barbados play- 400 runs or over – 5 points they can do the job of winning not easy though they try to got one bonus point despite ers have registered centuries once again. maximise all of their games. scoring over 400 runs. so the time may be right for Bowling points: However, it is the bonus According to the West Indies The management team them to attack and look to 3 to 5 wickets taken – 1 point points on offer which website, “bonus points must reinforce the importance maximise points as they focus 6 to 8 wickets taken – 2 points Barbados has not maximised. awarded only for perform- of maximising their run rate on retaining the title. 9 to 10 wickets taken – 3 points

Barbados captain Kraigg Brathwaite.

Kirk Edwards. National Hero, the Right Excellent Sir Garfield Sobers talking to Shamarh Brooks at practise yesterday.

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What is the price of winning? Barbados pair By Corey Greaves It appears that the se- In their practice ses- paying the ultimate price lectors continue to do a sion at Kensington Oval because Barbados is win- THE Barbados Pride disservice to Kirk yesterday, Edwards was ning. in top eight selectors have named Edwards and the seen talking to National an unchanged team Barbados team as he is Hero and cricket legend, Squad: Kraigg for their Round 7 woefully out of form and Sir Garfield Sobers, be- Brathwaite (captain), match in the WICB yet retains his place on fore he took to the nets. Tino Best, Carlos at Bridge Professional Cricket the team. Edwards is pri- Sir Garry had some Brathwaite, Shamarh League Regional 4-day marily in the team for his words of advice for strug- Brooks, Roston Chase, cricket tournament batting as he does not gling Edwards before and Kyle Corbin, Miguel against the Guyana bowl and can not be said during his practice ses- Cummins, Shane Commonwealth Jaguars at Kensington to be a specialist fielder. sion, and the cricket leg- Dowrich, Kirk Edwards, Oval which starts As he enters his third end also lent his expert Shai Hope,Ashley Nurse, today. game and 29 runs later eye and advice to the rest Kevin Stoute, Jomel Games However, the question with scores of 5, 0, 24, it of the players during Warrican. must be asked: Is might be best served if their practice session. SIX Bridge players – larly in the World Shamarh Brooks suffer- Edwards gives way to his How can the selectors Management and Roglyn Hinds, Yvonne Bridge Championship. ing because of the success younger counterpart justify Brooks’ omission, technical staff: Seale, Colin Depradine, However though, of the Barbados team? Brooks as he goes in who has the possibility of Henderson Springer Harley Moseley, Barbados did not per- Brooks, though named search of some form. showcasing his talents (Coach), Dexter Toppin Michael Gill and form well in the team to the final team, has con- Edwards also appears for the West Indies selec- (Assistant Coach), Charles Hoolingsworth event despite beating tinued to sit in the pavil- to be out of favour with tors to see his worth and Hartley Reid (Manager), – represented one of the favourites ion, running onto the the West Indies selectors a possibility of making it Jacqueline King Barbados at the 4th Canada,as the Pairs field to service the play- as he has been omitted to the next level, while (Physiotherapist), Commonwealth team of Seale and ers by carrying towels from all three forms of they continue to retain Rodney Ashby (Video National Bridge Hinds distinguished and water, while one of the game and has not Edwards in a winning Analyst), Shannon Championships re- themselves by placing our senior batsmen con- been awarded a contract team? Lashley (Trainer), Nkoyo cently held in Glasgow. seventh from 88 Pairs. tinues to fail. by the WICB. Brooks seems to be Meade (Masseur). The Wales team won Barbados is slated to the competition, while host the CACBF Zonal How can the selectors justify Brooks’ omission, India took the silver tournament in May medal in the high stan- and the Barbados who has the possibility of showcasing his talents for the dard of play which was Bridge League contin- seen as many countries ues to hold Bridge West Indies selectors to see his worth and a possibility were represented by classes at their of making it to the next level, while they continue well-known profession- Headquarters on Pine to retain Edwards in a winning team? als who compete regu- Road Belleville.

40 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate UAE batting surprises Zimbabwe Fielding coach drawn in Cricket World Cup tie into Pakistan turmoil NELSON (New Zealand) – PAKISTAN’S World Cup Akmal and fielding coach Zimbabwe admitted campaign was rocked by fresh Luden and that the latter has underestimating the United allegations of unrest resigned because of it, are Arab Emirates after beating Wednesday when reports absolutely false and that the cricket minnows with claimed that fielding coach nothing of the sort has just 12 balls to spare in their Grant Luden was involved in a happened,” said a PCB World Cup match at Saxton heated row with senior players. statement issued on Oval in Nelson yesterday. Even before the tournament Wednesday. It was a match the Test- started, eight members of “The entire team trained playing Zimbabwe should have Pakistan’s 15-man squad – together in Christchurch on won easily against the least including Shahid Afridi and Tuesday under the supervision experienced and only amateur Ahmed Shehzad – were fined of head coach Waqar Younis side in the tournament. $300 each by team with each of the other coaches, Instead the game went down management for breaking a where some players were put to the wire after the UAE curfew. through their paces by all posted their highest-ever one- Days later Pakistan suffered coaches, with Luden putting in day international score of 285 a 76-run defeat by defending an extra hour on both days with for seven after being sent into champions India in their a select group of players,” the bat. tournament opener in Adelaide, statement added. It took Zimbabwe until the the team’s sixth successive loss Nevertheless, the PCB also end of the 48th over to pull off to their arch-rivals at the World admitted Luden had offered to a four-wicket win built on the Cup. resign before the World Cup back of an 83-run stand for the Initial reports in the Pakistan started. sixth wicket between Sean media on Tuesday said Luden “A few days prior to the start Williams (76 not out) and Craig had resigned after an argument of the World Cup 2015, Luden Ervine (42). The UAE's Andri Berenger (left) pulls a ball to the boundary with Afridi, opener Shehzad had expressed his desire that “A lot of people would have from Zimbabwe fast bowler Tendai Chatara (right) during their and batsman-cum for personal reasons, he would thought Zimbabwe should have Cricket World Cup match in Nelson on February 19, 2015. wicketkeeper Umar Akmal want to be relieved of his duties walked over UAE but that following Sunday’s Pool B loss. sometime in May 2015,” the clearly wasn’t the case,” man- conceded. were in the shaky position of “Luden had a serious board statement said. of-the-match Williams said. “They actually hit the ball 167 for five in the 33rd over. argument with some senior “Subsequently, as his issues “We didn’t know what to really well down the ground “I could feel it out there,” he players and out of frustration were resolved, he took his expect from them and they put and they hit the ball long.” said. “I tried not to show it. I resigned,” a source in the resignation back. The PCB and up a really good performance Zimbabwe now have one win tried to breathe, relax and hit Pakistan camp told AFP. the team management as well with the bat and our fielding from two matches after losing the ball down the ground and Luden, a member of Pakistan as the boys hold the job he is wasn’t that great.” their tournament opener to stick to what we’d been (doing coach Waqar Younis’s backroom doing in high esteem, and are Williams said Zimbabwe South Africa by 62 runs when in) training and it ended up staff, was hired as fielding keen that he continues to serve misread the UAE after they collapsed chasing a target paying off.” coach in May last year on a two- in his present role.” watching videos of their of 340. But the left-handed batsman, year contract. Pakistan also has former previous games, which led Their pursuit against the who has a deft reverse-sweep in But the Pakistan Cricket Zimbabwe batsman Grant them to believe the Middle East UAE began sedately before his armoury, said the gap Board (PCB) denied Luden had Flower as its batting coach. nation’s batting was brittle. wickets started falling at between associate or junior resigned after the India match. Pakistan continue their “We were basically waiting regular intervals and Williams nations such as the UAE and “Reports stating that there World Cup campaign against for them to get themselves out admitted the tension was Test-playing countries was has been a tiff between three the West Indies in Christchurch but that wasn’t the case,” he getting to him when Zimbabwe closing. players, Afridi, Shehzad and on Saturday. Eyes on Kirsten as South African cricketers prepare for India MELBOURNE – Having Indian Premier League (IPL), the team.” Whatever the colours you wear, coached one team to the World where he coaches the Delhi Both teams won their opening you’re expected to give your best Cup title, Gary Kirsten is now Daredevils franchise. games, with India thrashing shot. In today’s world, little is helping plot another nation’s bid Kirsten will be on hand to arch-rivals Pakistan by 76 runs unknown as information for the coveted prize – and the watch the two sides meet at the in Adelaide and South Africa spreads fast and gets shared.” two will meet when India take Melbourne Cricket Ground on beating neighbours Zimbabwe Kirsten is not the only man in on South Africa on Sunday. Sunday in a key Pool B match by 62 runs in Hamilton. the South African set-up with Kirsten, the former South which will almost certainly Indian connections. African opening batsman, was assure the winner a place in the ‘Work is work’ Bowling coach Allan Donald India’s coach when Mahendra quarter-finals. South Africa have never won is involved with the IPL and Singh Dhoni’s men won the Domingo said he was happy the World Cup, despite being one trainer Gregory King was with World Cup in Mumbai four to have Kirsten around, even if of the most powerful sides in the Indian squad for four years years ago. only on a temporary basis. modern-day cricket, and until 2007. He left the job immediately “Gary is an experienced coach, Kirsten’s input will be vital as Several players, including after the tournament to take he has been with the side for a the Proteas seek to ditch their skipper de Villiers, Duminy, over as South Africa’s coach, long period of time,” Domingo unwanted tag of “chokers”. Miller and fast bowlers Dale serving the Proteas for two years said on Thursday. “I’m desperately hoping that Steyn and Morne Morkel, also before handing the baton to his “He has a certain number of we win the World Cup this year,” ply their trade in the lucrative deputy Russell Domingo. days with us for important Kirsten told the Kolkata-based IPL. The 47-year-old is now back stages of the event where we Telegraph newspaper as he Australian Mike Hussey, with AB de Villiers’ side as a think he can offer us a lot of vowed sentiment would play no given a backroom role by the consultant for a part of the input and advice.” part in his approach to Sunday’s South Africans specifically for World Cup and joined the squad “Just having his presence match. the World Cup, has also been an on Wednesday after returning around is a big source of “In a professional IPL regular since its inception in from the players’ auction in the inspiration and motivation for environment, work is work. 2008. Gary Kirsten.

The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 41 Australia coach: World Cup is way too long AUSTRALIA coach Darren Lehmann question the length of the tournament. is saying what a lot of people often Then International Cricket Council chief think during the Cricket World Cup. executive Malcolm Speed said during the It needs to be shortened. 2007 World Cup in the Caribbean that Lehmann’s squad has a seven-day gap seven weeks was too long. between its opening victory over England “We listen to criticism, and there has and its next Pool A match against been a lot of it ... so we’ll look to make it Bangladesh in Brisbane on Saturday, shorter,” Speed said then. “We’ll seek to cyclonic winds and torrential rain reduce this 47-day World Cup (including permitting.Australia’s third group match warmup games) by seven or ten days, – against co-host New Zealand in and hopefully we’ll get it down to Auckland – isn’t until Feb. 28. somewhere between five and six weeks “I think we can condense the next time.” tournament a little bit to be honest,” “Next time” has happened twice since, Lehmann told a Melbourne radio station. still with no shortening of the schedule. “A week in between is a long time.” Although there’s plans to cut the number The logistics of conducting a World Cup of competing teams from 14 to ten at the in 14 cities across two countries make 2019 World Cup.” scheduling matches tricky. While New Zealand prepared to take on In the only match Thursday, for England today at Wellington,Australia’s instance, Zimbabwe played for the second match on Saturday against Bangladesh time in four days and beat United Arab – which is coming off a win over Emirates – the last of the 14 teams to play Afghanistan in Canberra on Wednesday its first match – by four wickets. – remains in doubt due to a cyclone off the Zimbabwe, coming off a loss to South Queensland state coast. Africa, reached 286-6 with 12 balls to Cyclone Marcia was expected to hit the spare in reply to the UAE’s 285-7. coast overnight Thursday about 600 Shaiman Anwar scored 67 and 43-year- kilometers (400 miles) north of Brisbane old Khurram Khan scored 45 for the – just over 48 hours before the Gabba Emirates team after being sent in to bat match is scheduled to begin – and at Nelson, New Zealand.After slipping to forecasters predicted more than 200 167-5, Zimbabwe rallied on Sean millimeters (eight inches) of rain in the Williams’ unbeaten 76. area over the next several days. Off-spinner Mohammad Tauqir, who The weather was much more pleasant Australia's Mitchell Marsh (2nd right) is congratulated by team mates after became the World Cup’s oldest captain at Thursday in New Zealand’s capital of taking the wicket of England’s captain Eoin Morgan during their Cricket World 43, took 2-51 before Williams hit three Wellington – mostly sunny and a high of Cup pool A match in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015. consecutive fours for the winning runs. 23 Celsius (73 Fahrenheit) – where Lehmann’s point about the schedule is England will attempt to get over its Eoin Morgan seriously out of form, and when it does hopefully I can cash in well-taken. The World Cup group phase opening 111-run loss to Australia. making four ducks in his last five innings. on it and either make a match-winning involves 42 matches in a month, followed New Zealand had a 98-run win over “I’d love you to explain it to me because performance.” by quarterfinals and semifinals before Sri Lanka in the tournament opener and I don’t understand it,” Morgan said of his New Zealand will take an unchanged the March 29 final. All up, more than followed up with a three-wicket win over slump. “You don’t look any further than lineup into the match at Wellington’s seven weeks. Scotland on Tuesday. what’s in front of you and I’ve done that Regional Stadium, where it has won nine Lehmann is by no means the first to The match comes with England captain but it hasn’t worked. I believe it will work of its last 11 ODIs. Cricket WCup’s family affair Tournament revives a career SYDNEY – When Mitchell Marsh nepotism. stunned England with a five-wicket haul However, India great Sunil Gavaskar in co-hosts Australia’s 111-run thrashing insisted such charges were wide off the interrupted for Elliott of England in their opening World Cup mark. WELLINGTON – Watching the 1992 fellow international cricketers Michael match it represented the latest chapter “Stuart Binny will be handy with bat World Cup got New Zealand’s Grant Lumb and Jonathan Trott. in a remarkable family history. and ball in Australia and New Zealand. Elliott suspended from school but also Elliot was born and bred in South Saturday’s match at the Melbourne It’s (his selection) not because he is Roger set him on the path to a career as a Africa but a contractual dispute with Cricket Ground was Marsh’s World Cup Binny’s son,” Gavaskar told NDTV, professional cricketer. Gauteng and a desire to play debut and his return came 28 years after adding Roger Binny always removed Twenty-three years on and the all- international cricket saw him shift to his father,Geoff Marsh, marked his first himself from selection meetings when rounder has the 2015 version of the New Zealand in 2001. match in the tournament with a hundred Stuart’s name came up for consideration. global showpiece to thank for bringing an He made his international debut against India at Madras (Chennai). end to a two-year suspension of his against England in a test match in Australia went on to win the 1987 Simmons’ divide international career. Napier in 2008 but developed more of a World Cup, with opener Marsh a But while the Binnys are on the same Elliott was a wide-eyed 12-year-old reputation in the limited overs game. mainstay of the side. side that is not the case for two members South African school boy watching on He had been in line to be selected for Marsh’s eldest son, Shaun, a batsman, of the Simmons’ family, who found television the last time the World Cup the last World Cup, having spent nine has also followed him into the themselves in opposition on Monday was held in New Zealand and Australia. months in the team, but was surprisingly international arena and just missed out with Lendl playing for the West Indies He had been given permission by his not taken to India, with James Franklin on selection for Australia’s squad. against an Ireland team coached by mother to take the day off school to watch and Jacob Oram the all-rounders. After presenting Mitchell with his uncle Phil, himself a former West Indies his country of birth make their return prized ‘baggy green’ cap, Marsh joked batsman. from international sporting isolation. Water cooler moment “speak to my wife, we should have kept Phil Simmons, having seen Ireland Unfortunately,his school had not been Elliott spent all of 2013 back in the going!” as he confirmed his own personal reduced the West Indies to 87 for five, told. team but was then discarded after the production line of international then had to witness his nephew make a “I got suspended from school and from tour of Sri Lanka before he became the cricketers was at an end. brilliant hundred as his old side piled cricket that week for it,” Elliott told the selection discussed around office water- Marsh is not the only player at this up a commanding 304 for seven at Dominion Post newspaper last month coolers last month. World Cup looking to emulate his father Nelson’s Saxton Oval. after he had been the surprise selection Many had expected Jimmy Neesham by lifting the trophy. “It was a good innings, we needed a in New Zealand’s World Cup squad.“But to be named with Corey Anderson as the Medium-pacer Roger Binny was one partnership,” said Lendl Simmons. the tournament left quite an impression recognised all-rounders in the team. of the stars of India’s shock success in Brothers too have made their mark on on me.” Neesham’s test form, however,was not winning the 1983 World Cup. the World Cup with Umar Akmal, “It was then that I decided I wanted to translating into the limited overs format, Not only is his son Stuart a bowler of Pakistan’s wicketkeeper in their team’s be a professional cricketer.” while the decision not to include the similar type, but Roger Binny is now a loss to India on Sunday, succeeding A talented batting all-rounder, Elliott controversial Jesse Ryder and Brendon member of India’s selection panel and, Kamran, gloveman at the 2011 edition, attended St Stithians College in McCullum’s subsequent move to the top inevitably,there have been accusations of behind the stumps. Johannesburg, which has also produced of the order opened the number five spot. 42 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate

Regular Market BARBADOS STOCK REPORT Security Volume High Low Price Advance/ DECLINE FORTRESS C'BEAN PROP. FUND - DEV FUND 19,143 $0.23 $0.22 $0.22 $0.00 February 19, 2015 MASSY HOLDINGS LIMITED 13,907 $20.00 $20.00 $20.00 $0.00 FORTRESS C'BEAN PROP. FUND - VAL FUND 11,143 $0.56 $0.55 $0.56 $0.01 One security advanced and three traded firm as 44,318 shares traded on the Regular Market, with a total value of $288,979.22. BANKS HOLDINGS LIMITED 125 $2.85 $2.85 $2.85 $0.00 Fortress Caribbean Property Fund - Development Fund was the volume leader trading 19,143 shares at a high of $0.23 and a low of $0.22 before closing firm at $0.22. They were followed by Massy Holdings Limited and Fortress Caribbean Property Fund - Value Fund Put Through Market which traded 13,907 and 11,143 shares respectively. Security Volume Market Price GODDARD ENTERPRISES LIMITED 20,000 $6.40

INDICES TODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES February 19, 2015 February 18, 2015 Local 2,138.86 2,138.63 0.23 Cross-list 1,729.04 1,729.04 - BARBADOSBARBADOS STSTOCKOCK EXCHANGEEXCHANGE Composite 614.42 614.38 0.04 MARKET CAPITALISATION (in millions) SHARE SUMMARY INFORMATION TODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES February 19th, 2015 February 19, 2015 February 18, 2015 Local 5,368.80 5,368.24 0.56 Cross-list 2,899.45 2,899.45 - COMPANY LAST TRADE VOLUME HIGH LOW LAST CURRENT PRICE BID ASK BID ASK Composite 8,268.25 8,267.69 0.56 DATE CLOSE CLOSE CHANGE PRICE PRICE SIZE SIZE MUTUAL FUND ABV Investments Incorporated 23-Jan-15 - - - $0.32 $0.32 - $0.02 $0.30 100,000 10,500 February 19, 2015 BICO Limited 16-Feb-15 - - - $1.90 $1.90 - $1.81 $1.85 6,156 20,517 ENDED NAME OF FUND NAV OFFER BID NAV Banks Holdings Limited 19-Feb-15 125 $2.85 $2.85 $2.85 $2.85 $0.00 $2.50 $2.85 8,856 48,273 CHANGE 13-Feb-15 REPUBLIC CAPITAL GROWTH FUND w 1.4845 0.0028 Barbados Dairy Industries Limited 21-Aug-14 - - - $1.50 $1.50 - $1.50 $1.60 100 803 13-Feb-15 REPUBLIC INCOME FUND -* w 1.4991 0.0013 Barbados Farms Limited 11-Dec-14 - - - $0.50 $0.50 - $0.25 $0.50 20,000 625 13-Feb-15 REPUBLIC PROPERTY FUND w 1.2661 -0.0006 Cable and Wireless Barbados Limited 18-Feb-15 - - - $3.00 $3.00 - $2.48 $2.50 820 32,287 12-Feb-15 CLICO BALANCED FUND INC. w 1.289 -0.0080 13-Feb-15 FORTRESS CARIBBEAN GROWTH FUND w 4.8159 4.8159 4.8159 0.0115 Cave Shepherd and Company Limited -* 30-Jan-15 - - - $3.00 $3.00 - $2.52 $3.00 300 7,315 13-Feb-15 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - ACC. w 1.8424 -0.0022 FirstCaribbean International Bank 18-Feb-15 - - - $1.80 $1.80 - $1.85 $1.90 50 7,166 13-Feb-15 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - DIST. w 1.0031 -0.0012 Fortress Caribbean Property Fund 19-Feb-15 19,143 $0.23 $0.22 $0.22 $0.22 $0.00 $0.22 - 6,000 - 31-Jan-15 ROYAL FIDELITY SELECT BALANCED FUND m 4.6681 4.6681 4.5747 -0.0059 - Dev Fund 31-Jan-15 ROYAL FIDELITY STRATEGIC GROWTH FUND m 0.8204 0.8204 0.8039 -0.0053 Fortress Caribbean Property Fund 19-Feb-15 11,143 $0.56 $0.55 $0.55 $0.56 $0.01 $0.55 - 4,000 - 31-Jan-15 ROYAL FIDELITY PREMIUM INCOME FUND m 1.4275 1.4275 1.3989 0.0073 - Value Fund 13-Feb-15 SAGICOR GLOBAL BALANCED FUND w 2.28 -0.01 Goddard Enterprises Limited -* 18-Feb-15 - - - $6.40 $6.40 - $6.42 - 171 - 13-Feb-15 SAGICOR SELECT GROWTH FUND w 1.28 -0.01 13-Feb-15 SAGICOR PREFERRED INCOME FUND - w 1.05 0.01 Insurance Corporation Of B’dos Limited 18-Feb-15 - - - $2.40 $2.40 - $2.36 $2.41 500 2,017 * Indicates the Fund is currently ex-div Jamaica Money Market Brokers Limited 05-Nov-14 - - - $0.15 $0.15 - $0.10 $0.30 5,000 4,550 NOTES: QUOTATIONS AND NET ASSET VALUE PER SHARE ARE SUPPLIED BY THE Emera (C’bean) Incorporated 5.5% Pref 08-Dec-14 - - - $3.30 $3.30 - $3.11 - 1,722 - FUND MANAGEMENT. THE OFFERING PRICE INCLUDES NET ASSET VALUE PLUS Emera (C’bean) Incorporated 04-Feb-15 - - - $25.70 $25.70 - $21.75 $25.70 212 3,856 ENTRY COSTS. m = monthly valuation, q = quarterly valuation, w = weekly Massy Holdings Limited 19-Feb-15 13,907 $20.00 $20.00 $20.00 $20.00 $0.00 $19.50 - 10,000 - One Caribbean Media Limited 12-Feb-15 - - - $6.77 $6.77 - $6.76 $7.00 500 500 Fixed Income Sagicor Financial Corporation Pref 6.5% 22-Jan-15 - - - $2.26 $2.26 - $2.00 $2.26 630 5,411 Sagicor Financial Corporation 18-Feb-15 - - - $1.80 $1.80 - - $1.75 - 13,028 Last Trade Bid Ask Bid Ask Date Price Price Size Size The West Indies Rum Distilleries Limited 18-Nov-14 - - - $8.00 $8.00 - - $8.00 - 4,897 B’dos Government Debenture 4.75% 2016 16-Feb-15 $101.50 15,000 Trinidad Cement Limited 21-Aug-14 - - - $0.80 $0.80 - - $2.00 1,100 B’dos Government Debenture 6.625% 2018 28-Jan-15 $105.50 15,000 B’dos Government Debenture 6.875% 2023 20-Nov-14 $103.00 15,000 West India Biscuit Company Limited 26-Aug-14 - - - $10.46 $10.46 - $13.00 - 1,000 - Barbados Government Debenture 7% 2017 29-Dec-14 $106.50 13,000 B’dos Government Debenture 7.25% 2028 $100.00 105,000 TOTAL SHARES BOUGHT & SOLD 44,318 B’dos Government Debenture 7.75% 2025 16-Sep-14 $107.00 43,000 Barbados Government T/Note 6% 2016 16-Feb-14 $102.00 65,000 Barbados Government T/Note 6% 2017 11-Feb-14 $105.00 15,000 -* = Security is Trading X-Div *+* = Security is Suspended ** = Rights Issued NEWS

JUNIOR MARKET ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING BICO Limited - Directors have fixed January 26th, 2015 as the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive notice of Royal Fidelity TIGRS A Fund 21-May-12 $10.50 $10.50 $10.50 100 the Annual General Meeting of the Company which will be held on Royal Fidelity TIGRS A1 Fund $10.00 $10.00 $10.50 100 February 26th, 2015. Royal Fidelity TIGRS A2 Fund $10.00 $10.00 $10.50 100 FirstCaribbean International Bank Limited - Directors have fixed Royal Fidelity TIGRS A3 Fund 18-Dec-13 $10.00 $10.00 $10.50 100 February 13th, 2015 as the record date for the determination of Effective October 8th, 2012, the market price of a security listed on the board of the BSE will only change if a quantity of shares traded (in a single trade) shareholders entitled to receive notice of the Annual General Meeting of is greater than or equal to the threshold amount (volume limit) as stated in the table below. For more information please visit the downloads section of the Company which will be held on March 13th, 2015. our website - www.bse.com.bb Banks Holdings Limited - Notice is hereby given that the Annual SECURITY VOLUME LIMIT SECURITY VOLUME LIMIT General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Company will be held on March 3rd, 2015. ABV INVESTMENTS INCORPORATED 3,500 EMERA (CARIBBEAN) INCORPORATED 5.5% Pref 100 PUT THROUGH NOTICE BANKS HOLDINGS LIMITED 4,000 SAGICOR FINANCIAL CORPORATION 6.5% Pref 7,500 First Citizens Investment Services (Barbados) Limited would like to announce the put-through of 1,728 shares in Banks Holdings Limited at $2.92 set to take place on February 23rd, 2015. B'DOS DAIRY INDUSTRIES LIMITED 300 SAGICOR FINANCIAL CORPORATION 10,000 DIVIDEND DECLARATION B'DOS FARMS LIMITED 1,500 THE WEST INDIES RUM DISTILLERY LIMITED 300 Cave Shepherd and Company Limited - Directors have declared a final dividend of six (6) cents per share to be paid on February 27th, BICO INDUSTRIES LIMITED 100 WEST INDIA BISCUIT COMPANY LIMITED 300 2015 to Shareholders on record at close of business on February 13th, 2015. CABLE & WIRELESS (BARBADOS) 9,000 JAMAICA MONEY MARKET BROKERS LIMITED 10,000 LIMITED Goddard Enterprises Limited - Directors have declared a final CAVE SHEPHERD & COMPANY LIMITED 1,500 MASSY HOLDINGS LIMITED 6,500 dividend of fourteen (14) cents per share to be paid on February 27th, 2015 to Shareholders on record at close of business on January 30th, FIRSTCARIBBEAN INTERNATIONAL 10,000 ONE CARIBBEAN MEDIA LIMITED 4,000 2015. LIMITED FORTRESS CARIBBEAN PROPERTY - Emera (Caribbean) Incorporated - Directors have declared an interim 3,500 TRINIDAD CEMENT LIMITED 10,000 DEV FUND dividend of sixteen (16) cents per share to be paid on March 13th, 2015 to Shareholders on record at close of business on February 26th, 2015. FORTRESS CARIBBEAN PROPERTY - 3,500 ROYAL FIDELITY TIGRS A FUND 100 VALUE FUND BSE NOTICE ROYAL FIDELITY TIGRS A1 FUND 100 GODDARD ENTERPRISES LIMITED 3,500 Trinidad Cement Limited - At a meeting of the Board of Directors of Trinidad Cement Limited held on Friday 6th February, 2015, the Board INSURANCE CORPORATION OF 2,500 ROYAL FIDELITY TIGRS A2 FUND 100 passed a resolution to raise capital through a Rights Issue of BARBADOS LIMITED 124,882,568 new shares at a price of TT $2.90 per share. Subject to 1,000 obtaining all necessary approvals and the removal by Shareholders of EMERA (CARIBBEAN) INCORPORATED ROYAL FIDELITY TIGRS A3 FUND 100 the 20% restriction on share ownership (as per Article 5, Schedule 2 of TCL's Articles of Continuance), Shareholders will be offered the right to purchase one new share for every two shares held. The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 43

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Sea Grape Drive, St. Philip .Large Residential going to have to do a lot series while playing Valencia visits Cordoba 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bathroom Apart- more activity as a team, together - Stoudemire For No. 12 on Saturday.The next day ment $1,600.00 monthly but we’re not going to sit was injured for New Barcelona has made a Sevilla is at Real .Small quick fix-up jobs Contact: Telephone on our hands during this York’s 2013 first-round remarkable turnaround Sociedad and Villarreal (246) 432-7191 period of time. We’re victory over Boston. for a team that seemed to hosts Eibar. Website: www.creis.com Tel:237-7874 44 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate

The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 45 Tuach through FA warn Van Gaal over to Semis Cambridge remarks BARBADOS’ surf sen- woman quarter final, LONDON – Manchester comments. sation, Chelsea she was up against a United manager Louis “The Manchester Tuach, has made it to powerful, Australian van Gaal was warned by United manager denied the semi-finals of the surfer in Billie Milinz the Football Association that his comments which WSL QS 1000 Burton and again took a con- on Wednesday over com- followed The FA Cup Automotive Women’s vincing victory by drop- ments he made following Fourth Round tie against Classic at ping a 7.3 and a 6.83 his side’s FA Cup draw Cambridge United on 23 Merewether, NSW, with her powerful and with Cambridge United, January 2015 alleged Australia. fluid style. but escaped further pun- and/or implied bias on the Tuach who wanted to “Today has been an ishment. part of the match referee, showcase her best surf- amazing day and I am Speaking after the 0-0 and/or brought the game ing in the competition so happy to be in draw at the fourth-tier into disrepute.” has been doing just that. the semi-final. The side last month, Van Gaal Van Gaal had expressed Tuach made her way to waves are tricky but claimed that “every aspect surprise when informed of the semis by first surf- fun and they are getting of the match” had been the charge against him ing in her Round 4 heat bigger. The girls are all “against” his team, adding: and vowed to contest it. against an all Australian ripping so to be in the “You saw the referee.” “I am very disap- line up. She dropped two semi-final is a real confi- The FA said in a state- pointed,” said the experi- excellent scores, and dence booster. I hope ment: “Following an enced Dutchman, who 8.67 and a 7.67 to take a that I can keep the mo- Independent Regulatory joined United in July.“For Manchester United's Dutch manager Louis van Gaal convincing victory over mentum going and get Commission hearing on nearly 30 years I have Ellie Brooks who was the win for Barbados as Wednesday 18 February been a trainer, coach or ence the same phrases, be- 3-0 at Old Trafford and second, Alyssa Lock and I am the only non 2015, Louis van Gaal has manager and I have never cause I know in advance then beat third-tier Sophia Bernard who Australian surfer left in been warned as to his fu- been charged. that everything is in Preston North End 3-1 on were third and fourth re- the draw,” said a jubilant ture conduct after he was “Up to now I don’t think favour of the underdog. It Monday to set up a quar- spectively. Tuach shortly after her found to have breached FA I said something wrong. I is always like that.” ter-final tie at home to In her woman on heat. Rules in relation to media said in our press confer- United won the replay holders Arsenal.

46 • Friday February 20, 2015 The Barbados Advocate Williams and Kvitova head pile of scattered seeds

DUBAI – Titleholder One of them is Lucie Ivanovic 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. ones are really small,” Venus Williams and Safarova, a 28-year-old top Ivanovic didn’t help her Muguruza said. Wimbledon champion 20 Czech who outplayed cause with two double Another Spaniard, Petra Kvitova headed Williams 6-4, 6-2 and faults near the end which Carla Suarez Navarro, ac- a long list of seeds whose hard-to-read left- scuppered her chances. counted for Kvitova by 6-3, blown away on handed serve contrasted “We don’t have many 4-6, 6-3 on a tree-lined out- Wednesday at the markedly with the 34- players like that,” said side court where flocks of Dubai Open. year-old American’s deliv- Ivanovic. birds increased in num- Williams, unbeaten in ery which appeared half “She (Pliskova) hits very bers and made an increas- 16 matches over six years paced amidst on-court flat and she hits quite late ing cacophony as the sun here, and Kvitova, the temperatures reaching 40 so it’s difficult to tell where went down. Venus Williams, beaten by Lucie Safarova in Dubai, champion two years ago, degrees. she’s going to go.” Navarro’s ground is targeting a return to the top 10 both failed to reach the "I think she played awe- Pliskova, 22, however strokes always looked as quarter-finals, and were some,” said a gracious has an idea where she if they might be slightly end of the week. Navarro been super happy with the joined by another former Williams. wants to be going. too much for the under- is inside the 20 already. year so far,” she said. winner, Agnieszka “There were a couple of “I always knew if I can pressure second seed who They now play each other. She may go to Doha next Radwanska, and a former games where I didn’t even keep to my game, serve mostly played quite well Fortunately Simona week but confirmed she world number one, Ana get my racket on the ball. good, and play aggressive even though her swerving Halep, the top seed, and will not go to Indian Wells Ivanovic. What can I say to that?” from the baseline, and if serve did not always make Caroline Wozniacki, the to join her sister Serena All were ousted at an Karolina Pliskova, a it’s going, I can really,like, the angles she would have former world number one, Williams, the world num- upgraded tournament younger Czech, whose beat everyone,” she said. liked. both survived - a relief to ber one, who will return to with a first prize which is steep serve from a six-foot However perhaps the Kvitova was aware of tournament stakeholders the Californian event after now nearly half a million one-inch frame launches most likely player to burst the danger from the start. fearful of losing all the fa- 14 years during which dollars, suggesting the an attacking game which on to the 2015 scene in a “I think, like, the top 50 mous names. both sisters have boy- pool of talent capable of is flat and forceful enough big way is Garbine is pretty same level, and By far the biggest miss cotted the tournament – a beating the leading play- to trouble anyone, over- Muguruza, a 21-year-old only in the small, impor- will be Williams. Her loss response to hostile treat- ers has deepened. came an often excellent Spaniard who plays fear- tant key points it’s differ- was the more surprising ment from spectators. lessly and who over- ent,” she said. given that it was only her Asked if she understood whelmed an ailing “Everybody can beat second of the year, and Serena’s decision to let by- Radwanska by 6-4, 6-2. everyone in the top. And, that she is hopeful of re- gones be bygones, Venus Qatar World “I think that nowadays yeah, maybe it’s nice for turning to the world’s top said: “Um, I don’t know. I like there are so many the fans to see something ten after a four-year inter- just respect every decision girls that play so good that new.” val. she makes, pretty much. the difference between the Muguruza has hopes of “But I don’t think I was There’s nothing compli- Cup in Nov- top players and the other reaching the top 20 by the playing badly and have cated about it." Dec ‘done deal’ Mercedes still miles in front NEW York - Staging the host nation as a test run 2022 Qatar World Cup in for the global football November and December showdown. ahead of second Formula 1 test to avoid blazing summer In December, the heat is “a done deal,” European Clubs BARCELONA – The Lap times in the early Ferrari chairman Sergio based team can realisti- Sports Illustrated reported Association and European build-up to the 2015 stretches of testing are no- Marchionne has de- cally expect to be challeng- on its website Wednesday. Professional Football Formula One season steps toriously unreliable as a manded improvement ing at the front of the grid Citing multiple sources, Leagues indicated a strong up a gear when the second guide to how the teams from the start line in when the season gets un- the magazine’s report said preference for playing the of three four-day pre-sea- will perform come the first Melbourne. derway. the decision has been 2022 World Cup from May son tests gets started in Grand Prix of the season “I am encouraged by the Red Bull are also under made, saying a FIFA task to June. Barcelona yesterday. in Melbourne on March performance of the new pressure to put in more force will make the Just last week, FIFA ex- There was a familiar 15. car, though it is one thing laps in the Catalan capital November-December tim- tended the US media sight when testing began However,with four-time to do a quick lap and an- after their RB11 went ing recommendation next rights to the World Cup for in Jerez earlier this month world champion Sebastian other to do an entire race,” largely unnoticed in Jerez week at a meeting in Doha four years through 2026 as the Mercedes of world Vettel now on board, the said Marchionne. not due to its camouflaged and FIFA’s executive com- with Fox and NBC champion Lewis Hamilton spring appeared back in "Now we’ll see when the exterior but a lack of run- mittee will finalise the Universal-owned Spanish and Nico Rosberg was lit- Ferrari’s step after a sea- world championship ning time with just 165 plan when it meets next language network erally miles ahead of the son to forget. starts in Australia. I do laps on the board. month in Zurich. Telemundo. The move competition, completing The Italian giants man- not expect miracles, but it Elsewhere, all eyes will Just three weeks ago, came without opening the 516 laps over the four aged just one podium fin- is important to see be on Susie Wolff as she FIFA general secretary events up for bidding, a days. ish in 2014, finishing progress.” drives the Williams on Jerome Valcke told shock especially given the Mercedes won 16 of 19 fourth in the constructors’ At the other end of the Thursday before Valterri France-Info radio the United States might bid Grand Prix last season championship, and pro- spectrum in Jerez was Botas and Felipe Messi World Cup in Qatar for the 2026 World Cup. and seemed intent on iron- voking two-time world McLaren, who suffered take over for the final should be staged in winter At the time, there was ing out a few reliability champion Fernando teething problems in their three days. but clashing with the 2022 speculation the move was problems that prevented Alonso to jump ship to new partnership with Force India will also be Winter Olympics in a sign that the 2022 World even greater dominance in McLaren. Honda after a 22-year ab- making their first outing February was also a con- Cup would move to the 2014. Ferrari went fastest in sence. of the season after skip- cern. winter, a major hit for “We all loved the experi- three of the four days in Alonso and Jenson ping the test in Jerez. The report said the cur- North American rights- ence of last year and Jerez with Finn Kimi Button managed just 79 However, with the new rent plan was to impact holders given the more everyone wants to do it Raikkonen claiming he laps between them in VJM08 not expected to be only one European club filled TV sports landscape again,” Hamilton warned could already tell “this Jerez, a figure which rac- ready until the second set season, with clubs hoping in a November-December his title rivals after just year is a completely differ- ing director Eric Boullier of testing in Barcelona to trim some international time frame compared to his second day in the new ent story to last year.” admitted only amounted from February 26 to match dates to achieve, the usual June-July sched- Mercedes W06. Team principal to about 50 percent of March 1, Sergio Perez and but there was no firm plan uling. Giving rights-hold- “It’s been pretty amaz- Maurizio Arrivabene said what they had hoped for. Nico Hulkenberg will be regarding the FIFA ers another World Cup ing to see how reliable the he was aiming for a mod- Boullier also warned driving the car which took Confederations Cup, typi- could make up for finan- car has been and how est two race victories that any more setbacks in them to sixth in the con- cally staged the year be- cial losses a change in tim- much mileage we’ve cov- when the car was unveiled Barcelona will mean a structors’ championship fore the World Cup in the ing could bring. ered.” last month, but new delay in when the Woking- last season.

The Barbados Advocate Friday February 20, 2015 • 47 No vote of confidence Kubiak can build an for Cutler in Chicago offense for Manning, INDIANAPOLIS -- Both the coach and general manager but will he run it? of the Chicago Bears were given ample opportunity INDIANAPOLIS – Even under ported: Wednesday to endorse Jay new management, the Broncos • He’s been working with a per- Cutler as their quarterback offense can be built to fit Peyton sonal trainer in New Orleans to for 2015 and beyond. Manning’s game. assess his fitness. Time and again, they declined. The still-lingering question: • There’s some thought the ‘’We’re going to ask this about Will Manning be in Denver to Broncos would like him to rework eight different ways?’’ coach run it? his contract to make it more cap- John Fox said after one of the at- Broncos coach Gary Kubiak de- friendly; Manning is scheduled tempts Wednesday at the NFL bunked any notion that he’d push to make $19 million this season. scouting combine. ‘’I don’t think Manning into running the roll- • Elway and Kubiak are both there’s any question that there’s out-heavy offense the coach is on record as wanting him back. ability and talent there. But most comfortable with from his The coach reiterated that there’s a lot more that goes into days designing schemes in Wednesday. it, and we’re evaluating that as Baltimore and Houston and back ‘’No doubt I want him to be,’’ we speak.’’ when he was the coordinator in Kubiak said. ‘’I think all indica- The Bears signed Cutler to a Denver. tions are that (through) every- seven-year contract worth $54 ‘’You do what your players do thing he said and through his million guaranteed last offsea- best,’’ Kubiak said Wednesday at conversations with John,he feels son, with the thought that he’d the NFL scouting combine. ‘’It’s good. He’s had his self-assess- lead them into the next decade. interesting to me - I’ve been ment or however you want to But 2014 was a debacle in asked over the course of the last label that and he feels good about Chicago. The Bears finished 5- month since I’ve been in Denver moving forward. We’ll just con- 11, coach Marc Trestman got about the bootleg and those types tinue with the process.’’ fired and Cutler tied for the of things. We had Joe (Flacco) in Ah, the process. It’s holding league lead in interceptions Baltimore last year and I think things up in Denver, though it (18) and was in the middle of Jay Cutler we booted maybe 25 times in the certainly can’t for much longer. controversy all season. season.’’ Manning has to pass a physical Fox said he met with Cutler maybe I’m a fourth through the he hurt his knee in the NFC title That number would probably and the Broncos need to know when he was hired in Chicago test.’’ game. Cutler has never had a drop if Manning, who will be 39 whether he’ll be on their roster by last month, but when pressed, The Bears brought in free passer rating over 90. when the 2015 season starts, re- the start of the new league year, the coach offered up nothing agent Josh McCown for a work- Bears general manager Ryan turns for his fourth year with the which is March 10. about what he took out of that out and Fox said ‘’there’s Pace was every bit as noncom- Broncos. The Broncos are heavily com- meeting. obviously interest or we proba- mittal as his coach when asked Last week, Manning flew to mitted to veteran players on de- ‘’I’m just getting to know him,’’ bly wouldn’t have met with about having Cutler back this Denver to meet with Broncos ex- fense and have decisions to make Fox said.‘’Everyone’s got percep- him.’’ season. Cutting him would ecutive John Elway, but he left on free agents Demaryius tions.This is a relationship busi- Cutler is 44-38 as the Bears count as much as $15.5 million without making any announce- Thomas and Julius Thomas, ness and that takes time. I don’t starter, and has led the Bears against the Bears salary cap, ment about his future. among others. They also have to want to stand up here and give within a game of the Super Bowl though there are ways to recoup Other tidbits about Manning’s make some changes to their of- you a final evaluation when only once, in 2010. That season, some of that loss. offseason have been well-re- fensive line. Colts take lead in brave, new world of American football INDIANAPOLIS – Ryan Indy,Grigson has presided over FCS, Division II, Division III and find people who have not been every six or seven years and Grigson will go anywhere and four major moves — the release NAIA, an American soldier and into sports for various reasons, that’s despite saving some cash do practically anything to find of Peyton Manning, the decision two converted college basketball who are attracted to our sport.” because the combine is in his football players. to draft Andrew Luck instead of players, one of whom never Former Dallas Cowboys exec- own backyard. Unlike some His global view has taken Robert Griffin III, one high-pro- played organised football until utive Gil Brandt, who now penny-pinching owners, Irsay Indianapolis Colts’ scouts to file trade for cornerback Vontae last spring. works for NFL.com, was one of insists his investment has been different pro leagues, college Davis in 2012, which worked Tommy Wiking, president of the key innovators in the 1960s worth every penny. campuses of all sizes, regional out, and one blockbuster move the International Federation of and 1970s. He found players in “You understand why you combines, American basketball for Trent Richardson, which did American Football, believes in- all sorts of places – Europe, want the ability to drill down courts and even African rugby not. creasing international interest Australia, on national caravans and find talent,” said Irsay,a for- fields. Three seasons into his So when the NFL’s annual in American football could and landed players from other mer GM of the Colts. “I make first gig as a general manager, scouting combine kicks into high create more locker room melt- sports. The Cowboys routinely sure I don’t have wasted costs, Grigson believes this will be gear Wednesday, Grigson will ing pots. brought 120 players to training but I also want to make sure we blueprint of the NFL’s brave new continue looking for players who He points to the 2013 draft, camp, started workouts as have the resources for great- world. will fit into one of the league’s when linebacker Bjoern Werner early as July 2 and when they ness.” “I think the guys that sit on most unique locker rooms. of Germany and defensive line- couldn’t keep everyone, traded With Irsay’s support, Grigson their hands, they’ve got to live Indy’s current roster includes men Ezekiel “Ziggy” Ansah of them. has been able to guide with themselves and look in the four players from the CFL, two Ghana, Margus Hunt of Estonia The Grigson doctrine, Brandt Indianapolis to the playoffs mirror and realise they didn’t of whom attended Canadian col- and Star Lotulelei of Tonga were believes, is a logical extension of three straight years and turned take any chances,” he said. leges; a long snapper who devel- all selected among the top 53 what he did all those years ago. his unconventional philosophy “They’ve got to look at them- oped his skills in the United picks. This year’s international “I think Ryan is a lot like me,” into a blueprint for success. selves and say, ‘Did I even de- Football League and af2, a lower contingent includes Nigerian- Brandt said. “I didn’t have to go “Coach Andy Reid hit me with serve this opportunity?’ If you level arena league; an Arena born Tayo Fabuluje and on scouting trips because I had something, it was even before I just sit on your hands and say, Football League veteran; a quar- Bahamian native Jean Sifrin. scouts I trusted. I enjoyed it. I had furniture in my (Colts) of- ‘I’m going to play it safe all the terback who spent part of his With more and more interna- think he probably understands fice. He said,‘Grigs, just be your- time,’ you might be middle of the childhood in Europe; lineback- tional athletes trying American now how his guys grade football self,’” he said. “I think that kind pack. But if you don’t take a ers from Germany and Africa; football, Wiking sees no end to players. He may tell them what of let loose the creative juices. I swing, you’re never going to hit and a kicker who started his ca- this new wave. to look for.” was just kind of like,‘OK, people it out of the park.” reer in Amsterdam. “It could be soccer, it could be Though Colts owner Jim Irsay haven’t done this before and Grigson will never be consid- The Colts have at least two handball, it could be someone in won’t say how much money he gone about things this way’ and ered risk averse. players from every American the gym that hasn’t found a pours into scouting, he acknowl- who cares? I was going to blaze During his brief tenure in college football division, FBS, sport,” Wiking said. “You also edges player costs top $1 billion my own path.”

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Friday February 20, 2015 SUPPORT ENTREPRENEURS MINISTER of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development, Donville Inniss, has reiterated the need for Barba- dians to celebrate our entrepreneurs. He was speaking re- cently at the ‘Bank on ME’ finale at the Savannah Hotel, where he high- lighted that the time has come to create an enabling environment to foster and encourage those who want to work for themselves. Inniss stressed that we must allow the creative spirit to grow and to be competitive. Pointing to the value of persistence in the face of challenges, he also stated that many of the successful business persons over the years have shown remarkable resilience. “I find too often we put too many stumbling blocks in their way. In Barbados our education system needs to be re- formed to engender entre- preneurship. Our society must stop condemning in- dividuals who try to start business ventures and fail; we run our young people off...We have to recognise that they will try and try again until they succeed... Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development, Donville Inniss (left), having a word with and that is also the im- Caribbean entrepreneur and owner of Sandals Resorts International, Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, during the ‘Bank on ME’ finale on portance of mentorship. Wednesday evening at the Savannah Hotel. SUPPORT on Page 6

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