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Friday July 31, 2020 $2 VAT Inclusive CRICKET LEGEND Sir Everton to continue his innings having been interred at 3Ws Oval

LAIDONE of the greatest TO REST middle order partner- ships ever struck up in world cricket can now resume as Sir Everton DeCourcey Weekes KCMG, GCM, OBE was laid to rest yesterday. Weekes, who died at the beginning of this month and made up one third of the iconic Three Ws, along with Sir Clyde Walcott and Sir Frank Worrell, had his body interred with his close friends at the 3 Ws Oval at Cave Hill Campus. During the official fu- neral service at Kensington Oval, Sir Everton was eulogised by Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, who regaled those in attendance with a his- tory lesson on the great- ness of the man, calling him one of the ‘greatest revolutionaries of our Caribbean world’ and ‘a disturber of colonial peace’. Highlighting the little-known fact that Weekes was a Lance Corporal in the Barbados Regiment, he went on to Barbados and West Indies opener Desmond Haynes (left) and Adrian Donovan leading the pall bearers out of Kensington Oval speak to his accomplish- under an honour guard of bats. ments inside his ten-year Test cricket career as he pressed its peer apprecia- Barbadian to be classified Barbados, not yet a nation cellence. The island en- cial gift to humanity,” he put himself and Barbados tion of Sir Everton and and celebrated as number state, and under colonial tered the annals of inter- said. on the map. “When adult designated him the best one in the world in any ap- oppression, had received national popular culture Going on to hail him as suffrage was finally won batsman in the world. In proved and respected en- its first international en- and the society that gave “a hero, an artist, a in our country, the global this recognition and ele- deavour. This was a seis- dorsement as a place that life and nurture to a na- cricket fraternity ex- vation, he became the first mic, seminal moment. produced performance ex- tive recognised as a spe- FUNERAL on Page 3 AOPT: Action against PSVs ‘high handed’ REPORTS are that 18 AOPT has described any Transport (AOPT) re- that I learnt that some 18 ers, conductors and com- one’s safety. It is impera- public service vehicles action against first time of- cently stated the Alliance’s PSVs were pulled off the muters, to please adhere tive that everyone be in (PSVs) were pulled off the fenders in the sector,as too position on the matter, road on Wednesday the to the wearing of masks. conformity with all of gov- road this week, as opera- draconian and “high suggesting that temporary 29th of July by officers of We are in a new norm, be- ernments COVID-19 pro- tors of these PSVs were handed”. action should be taken the COVID-19 Monitoring cause this disease is highly tocols” Haynes said in a found to be in breach of the Mark Haynes, against all first time of- Unit, as a consequence of contagious and the wear- statement issued to the recommended COVID-19 Communications and fenders, found to be in COVID-19 protocols that ing of masks is to help mit- Barbados Advocate. protocols, related to public Marketing Officer of the breach of the protocols. were breached. Once igate against its spread. transport. However, the Alliance Owners of Public “It is with deep regret again, I implore all driv- This is primarily for every- PLEA on Page 2 2 • Friday July 31, 2020 The Barbados Advocate Man dies suddenly Give a warning for in St. George on first offences construction site PLEA from Page 1 porary action should The AOPT’s POLICE from Boarded The deceased Owen “ However, I think that be taken. Ordering the Communications and Hall Station are conduct- Gunning 62 years of it is only fair and rea- PSV off the road for a Marketing Officer mean- ing investigations into a Dukes Alley, Nelson sonable that the driver first offence appears to while made an appeal to sudden death Street, St. Michael an em- and conductor, once be too draconian or workers in the PSV sector report where a man ployee of C. O Williams found to be in breach very high handed by to be more disciplined on working on a construc- Construction Limited, for at least the first the COVID-19 the road and for com- tion site along the road- was assigned the task of time, that they should Monitoring Unit. This muters also, to pay atten- way at Watts Village flag-man to regulate the be given a warning of is punitive and I there- tion to the recommended Road, St. George report- flow of vehicular traffic the infraction and si- fore call on the man- COVID-19 protocols. edly collapsed and died along the said stretch of multaneously, the agement of the COVID- “The workers in this sec- on the spot. This report road through the con- owner should be in- 19 Monitoring Unit, to tor must be disciplined was made about 07:30 am struction site. formed. If subsequent please consider my rec- and be of good behaviour on Thursday 30th July Police investigations to this they repeat the ommendation” he and conduct themselves 2020 are ongoing. offence, then only tem- added. with the highest level of decorum. It is imperative Mark Haynes, that there must be order Communications and and discipline on the Marketing Officer roads of Barbados. I make of the Alliance Owners another impassioned plea of Public Transport of the workers, not to (AOPT). bring the sector into pub- lic disrepute. Commuters upon entering the vehi- who bluntly refuse to wear cles, they should be re- their masks, as they are quired just to remove their about to board all PSVs, mask for adequate identi- should be refused entry to fication,” Haynes said. the vehicles. Additionally, (RSM)

Response to online article by Minister of Health and Wellness MINISTER of Health and closely with the Barbados Wellness, Lt. Col. Hon. Tourism and Marketing Jeffrey Bostic’s response Inc. (BTMI) on updating to an article published on- the country’s protocols for line, which inaccurately arriving passengers, and stated that travellers from our priority continues to medium-risk countries be the health and protec- were being considered for tion of the public. quarantine. “To this end, we will be “I understand that the releasing our revised pro- article published has tocols shortly. I know it is caused some of our important for travellers to prospective travellers un- have a level of comfort and necessary concern, and I certainty in their plans, so want to assure them that I also want to assure them the U.K., Canada and that there is always a other medium-risk coun- grace period of 48 hours tries are not being consid- for new protocols to come ered for quarantine on ar- into effect after they are rival in Barbados. The introduced, to allow pas- Ministry of Health and sengers time to make any Wellness is working adjustments if necessary.” One more recovery, no new cases ONE more person was Santos Public Health discharged from the Laboratory yesterday. Harrison Point, St. Lucy, The number of con- isolation facility yester- firmed cases therefore re- day, reducing the num- main at 110, comprising bers in isolation to seven, 61 females and 49 males. and increasing recover- Seven people have suc- ies to 96. cumbed to the viral ill- There were no positive ness. results for COVID-19 The public health labo- among the 110 tests car- ratory has completed ried out by the Best-dos 10,881 tests.

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Left to right: West Indies greats Sir Charles Griffith, Brian Lara and current Former West Indies Cricket West Indies Barbados Cricket West Indies player Ashley Nurse during the funeral ceremony at Kensington player and close friend Director Dr. Akshai Association President Oval. Cammie Smith. Mansingh. Conde Riley laying a wreath. Sir Everton was a huge humanitarian FUNERAL from Page 1 humanist and the existen- tial expression of goodness that resides as the key el- ement in what is consti- tuted as greatness”, Sir Hilary called his home club Empire the greatest incubator of cricketing tal- ent the world has known. As he went on to wax elo- quent of Sir Everton and and his legacy, he called him a symbol of truth that made the Caribbean na- tion possible and sustain- Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley and Adrian able. “He was the harbin- Donovan hold a wreath before they lay it on Sir Everton’s grave. ger, the one who an- nounced the coming of the flood of greatness in the A most-stirring rendition of ‘Well Done’ was given next generation that found by Dr. The Most Honourable Anthony ‘Gabby’ expression in the priceless Carter. person-hoods of Sir Gary and Sir Wes. These men bust, muscular and at one from reaching for the became bearers of God’s times, very jovial, depend- stars. He never, ever re- truths – that a people can ing on the subject of the ceived any form of coach- be enchained, a people can day. It could range from ing. During his time, he be disenfranchised, a peo- Spartan to Empire battles, would say he came ple can be tortured and West Indies and Australia through the New Orleans tormented, but their intel- and Barbados and Community Academy lect and eternal inner sov- Trinidad rivalries. This where his Test strip was ereignty can never be group would meet any in the backyard or in the driven from the fertility of time after work during the road and these coaches in- their souls,” Sir Hilary week and it was a waste of cluded members of the said. time for wives or other community who all On the more personable members of the family try- deemed themselves as side, close family friend ing to interrupt any of cricket experts.” Adrian Donovan offered a these sessions and many Known only to his clos- tribute on behalf of Sir of them tried,” he quipped. est friends as “Shorty”, Sir Charles Griffith (left) and Sir Wes Hall (centre) being handed their wreath Everton’s family and said Of his batting and coach- Donovan said that he at the graveside. that the man was a hu- ing prowess, Sir Everton would be leaving us to pick manitarian of enormous honed them both on his back up his innings with proportions but very few own and never hesitated his compatriots. “Let us people knew because he to pass on what he had celebrate this day and re- had a small inner circle. learned over the years as member ‘Shorty’ who lived Carl Ince passes away Noting that Sir Everton explained by Donovan.“Sir just around the corner was the last of a group of Everton entertained many here in Pickwick Gap and FORMER Ombudsman public complaints against zen and always pushed for lifelong friends to be called a national player at his who made Kensington his Carl Ince has passed the government for al- power to be held to ac- home, Donovan said that house who would drop by second home. As he leaves away. leged injustices. count in this country.Ince the group, which included seeking advice or just to us, he will continue his This was confirmed late Ince also served on the also wrote a column in the his own father, could be have a conversation on partnership up on the hill yesterday by his family Board of the Barbados Sunday Advocate. found most evenings de- how to improve his game. at UWI where he will be members. Advocate and was a cham- He loved sports and bating cricket late into the He was always accommo- reunited with two of his Ince served as pion of stories which took a keen interest in night. “The discussions dating and never for one comrades who made us all Ombudsman and handled helped to advance the cricket especially. sometimes were fierce, ro- moment discouraged any- proud,” he said. (MP) the office which heard rights of the average citi- May he rest in peace. 4• Friday July 31, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

UWI launches campaign to help students affected by COVID-19

AUGUST is Global Giving crowdfunding campaign, UWI As part of the University’s that of their family, community 10 000 of The UWI’s current month at The University of Global Giving, encourages commitment to quality, its lead- and nation on the back burner. 50 000 students have been the West Indies (The UWI). persons to give small contribu- ership is taking due diligence in We cannot allow that to happen. functioning in difficult social cir- The regional University is call- tions to the University – as ensuring that no student is left We are seeking to ensure that cumstances because of the ing on its community of alumni, little as US$10 online via behind at a time when educa- every Caribbean student has the COVID-19 pandemic. partners and friends regionally www.uwi.edu/giving. tion matters. opportunity to boldly step for- In May,the University’s senior and internationally to support The collective proceeds will According to Vice-Chancellor ward into academic year 2020- executive leadership committed students whose finances, and fund scholarships and bursaries of The UWI, Professor Sir Hilary 2021 to access the quality educa- to allocating a percentage that of their parents, have been for the students in need as The Beckles, “This is the time to em- tion they deserve.” of their salaries for three months negatively affected by the UWI’s new academic year and brace university education. It is August 1 is in many towards a student hardship COVID-19 pandemic. classes are set to resume at the not the time to retreat. One step Caribbean territories the obser- fund called UWI Cares. While Launching on August 1, the end of the month. back is to place their future, and vance of Emancipation Day, traditionally, UWI Global marking the freedom of enslaved Giving offers donors a range Africans who were victims of the of options for assigning gifts transatlantic slave trade. While and contributions to infrastruc- The UWI honours and pays trib- ture and various special Police need help ute to that past, it recognises projects, the 2020 campaign is that education is one of the most focused specifically on support- critical means to freedom and ing the UWI Cares fund for the finding wanted man propelling regional development, students. THE Royal Barbados Police self to the Drug Squad, so UWI Global Giving is themed Throughout the month of Force is seeking the assistance Oistins Police Station accompa- “Emancipate, Educate, Donate.” August, follow,like and share the of the public in locating nied by an attorney-at-law of his Minna Israel, Special Advisor 2020 UWI Global Giving cam- wanted man Ronald Moulton choice. to the Vice-Chancellor on paign on social media at Hunte, who is wanted for ques- Any person who may know Resource Development at The the hashtags #GivetoUWI tioning in connection with a the whereabouts of Ronald UWI and the Chair of the Global #UWIGlobalGiving and serious criminal matter. Moulton Hunte is asked to con- Giving Campaign Committee, #UWIGG2020. Hunte, whose last known tact the Drug Squad at 416- stated, “While we understand Persons seeking more infor- addresses are No. 172 2631or 2632, Police Emergency that this is a trying time for mation or those who wish to Kingsland, Christ Church and at 211, Crime Stoppers at 1-800- many,we are calling on the spirit make an alternative contribu- Lot #4 Gemswick, St. Philip, is TIPS (8477), or the nearest of kindness of our Caribbean tion to UWI Global Giving can slimly built and of a brown com- Police Station. people in the region and contact the Institutional plexion. He has a plaited hair- The public is reminded that it in the diaspora, to come Advancement Division in the style, an oval shaped face and a is a serious offence to harbour or Police are seeking the together in this time of crisis, to Office of the Vice-Chancellor pointed nose. assist wanted persons; any assistance of the public in give whatever they can to assist at 876-977-0052 or email giv- Ronald Moulton Hunte is ad- person caught committing this locating wanted man Ronald our students.” [email protected], or visit vised that he can present him- offence can be prosecuted. Moulton Hunte. It is estimated that at least www.uwi.edu/giving.

The Barbados Advocate Friday July 31, 2020 • 5 ‘Work to flatten COVID-19 curve’ ECLAC, PAHO launch joint report DIRECTOR of the Pan She was at the time ad- American Health dressing yesterday’s offi- Organization (PAHO), cial launch of a new joint Dr. Carissa F. Etienne report by the Economic has warned that coun- Commission for Latin tries must avoid think- America and the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr. Carissa F. Etienne; Sebastian Oliel, ing that they must Caribbean (ECLAC) and WHO/PAHO Media and communication specialist; Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Assistant Director of PAHO; and make a choice between PAHO, which reveals that Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). re-opening economies economies of the Region and protecting the will only be reactivated if and mitigate the effects reiterated that reactivat- political leadership and pointed out that advanc- health and well-being the curve of contagion of of the pandemic, reactiva- ing this region’s significant investment to ing equality is essential of their people. the COVID-19 pandemic tion with protection, and economies must be done effect change. for the effective control of “This in fact is a false is flattened. rebuilding in a sustain- gradually,based on evolv- “Recognising the im- the pandemic and for sus- choice – the choice be- The report, “Health and able and inclusive way. ing data about the virus’ pact of this crisis, we call tainable economic recov- tween health and restart- the Economy: A Some countries have spread and health sys- on all countries today to ery in Latin America and ing the economy,” she in- Convergence Needed to led the region to become tems capacity. invest the recommended the Caribbean. sisted. Address COVID-19 and the current epicentre of “Data must always 6 percent of GDP to “We must respond to “We have said time and Retake the Path of the pandemic, topping guide our actions against strengthen health sys- the emergency and imple- time again that full eco- Sustainable Development global case numbers. As this virus and PAHO and tems – it’s the right thing ment a strategy to over- nomic activity cannot re- in Latin America and the of 29 July, there have ECLAC are providing a to do and it will help us to come the structural sume unless we have the Caribbean”, proposes a been more than 4.5 mil- benchmark, but each be better prepared to face weaknesses of economies virus under control. And three-phase approach lion cases of COVID-19 country will need to be re- future waves of this pan- and societies. Changing to attempt otherwise that includes the adop- and almost 190 000 sponsive to their own na- demic, but also future the development strategy places lives at risk and tion of health, economic, deaths in Latin America tional and local context,” outbreaks.” in the region is therefore extends the uncertainty social and productive poli- and the Caribbean. she stressed, adding that Executive Secretary of essential,” she said. bought by the pandemic.” cies that aim to control Dr. Etienne therefore this will require strong ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena (TL)

Currency and correspondent banking problems Case made for open banking would be solved, says Business Executive EXECUTIVE in banks are also moving to- not only are the regional sleeping. There are many be this innovation hub are going to be the cus- Residence at the UWI wards open payments. banks connected to each developments but we need that we are talking about tomers, no. What we are Sagicor Cave Hill School “This is something that other, but they are con- to stay ahead. Open bank- we need to be fully inte- saying is we want you to of Business and the federal reserve is nected to the US and from ing is intended to kick- grated into the rest of the set up in Barbados and we Management, Roland pushing as well. That you the US as we saw on our start an ecosystem of in- world. want you to do interna- Haggins says open bank- can connect banks map you are connected to novation. Open payments Haggins reminded that tional business. In order ing is the direction in through a payment plat- the rest of the world as is designed to create a dig- discussions about fintech for you to do international which Barbados needs to form that has an API that well. So you have a fully ital economy that works are not directed solely to business, you have to be be heading in the future. you can plug into and not integrated open banking, for international busi- Barbadians. “We are not connected to the interna- Haggins was at the time just banks but fintechs in open payment system that nesses. Local businesses saying, we want fintech tional monetary system, speaking on the topic: general. So this is a way of is fully compliant and mit- and just customers, mer- companies to set up in to the international bank- Barbados: An Emerging integrating your local igates all the challenges chants. In order for us to Barbados and Barbadians ing system”. (JH) Hub for International economy.” that we face in terms of Business & Innovation Haggins said this is reputation risk and lack during a webinar hosted where open payment net- of correspondent banks by the Barbados works come into play. and so forth.” International Business “This is a system that is Haggins said this Association, where he ex- approved by a federal re- would also solve the prob- plained that open banking serve,You’re plugged in by lem as it relates to access is a framework that allows an API and your banks lo- to foreign currency. for the sharing of data be- cally can speak to each “Because you are now tween banks through an other. Transactions can fully connected and inte- API (application program- take place seamlessly,but grated and there is a cur- ming interface). in addition, you are open rency agreement, cur- “This is making banks to innovation. So if a fin- rency embedded in the more connected. It is en- tech comes and wants to technology. So it is some- abling better competition plug in they can do this thing we need to push for and the rise of fintech. through an API and data as a sector to ensure that Barclays is a leader in this can be shared. we are connected.” space and some of the “So not only are the local “We look around the other big banks out there.” banks and the regional globe and we see that the He explained that many banks connected, and then banking industry is not

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Atherley: Democracy must be preserved at all costs A CALL is once again being “We need to deal with these pipers. And they made for electoral cam- paign financing to be come Mr. Speaker, these pipers, in various addressed in Barbados to shapes, various hues, skin tones, and with ensure that corruption is kept at bay during elec- various class characterisations…” tions. It came from Opposition spoke – the price is worth it. something about those who Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley Electoral financing can help us have had some success in call- as he joined the recent debate to avoid where it does exist, ing those tunes in the past, on the Representation of the to curb any drift towards cor- those who would like to call People (Amendment) Bill 2020. ruption and the practice of some now. Saying that democracy politics and governance in “We need to deal with these should not be taken for Barbados. pipers. And they come Mr. granted, Bishop Atherley said “When the ugly spectre of Speaker, these pipers, in vari- “there is a cost [attached] to corruption raises its head ous shapes, various hues, skin the preservation of democracy. across many lands... we have tones, and with various class But I think the price could seen some evidence of it here characterisations. They come never be too high.” over which we all are con- bearing wherewithal that the He added that the country cerned. We need to curb it, we State itself does not have; cannot pursue positive devel- need to eliminate it,eradicate that political parties don't opment in a proper and truly it. I think implementation of have; that poor politicians do meaningful fashion unless it is establishment of proper not have. They want to call the done in the context of demo- legislation of electoral and tune! We need to stop them in cratic practice. campaign financing can help their tracks because that is a “Democracy has a cost that us to achieve that end. detriment to the practice attaches to it to establish, to Certainly it can help to serve to and preservation of a demo- practise, to preserve it and the sanitise the purpose of policy cratic political culture in price could never be too high, formulation.” Barbados. and I think somehow I hear the He said something needs to “I want to loudly call for, and echo of those sentiments com- be done about the “pipers who I repeat that call for electoral ing from the bosom of the call the tune in Barbados. and campaign financing in last honourable member who “We certainly need to do Barbados,” Atherley said. Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley. The Barbados Advocate Friday July 31, 2020 • 7

US military provocations in S.China Sea to strengthen China’s resolve: defence ministry DISREGARDING the facts and peace, destroys regional coop- ASEAN countries, the situation history, the US has made un- eration and sows discord among in the South China Sea is stable founded accusations against regional countries, Ren said, and the relevant negotiations China, sowed discord in the in response to a US State have achieved positive South China Sea and sent two Department release that ac- progress. US Navy aircraft carriers for cused China of causing insta- “We urge the US to stop dual exercises in the region, bility in the South China Sea by making wrong remarks, stop which fully exposed its hege- conducting military drills in the military provocations in the mony mentality and double Xisha Islands. South China Sea and stop insti- standards, China’s Ministry of Ren said that China has in- gating discord among countries National Defence spokesperson disputable sovereignty over rel- in the region,” Ren said, noting Ren Guoqiang told a press con- evant islands, reefs, and waters that the US’ troublemaking ference yesterday. in the South China Sea, which in the region will only make The US wants to portray it- has sufficient historical and China more firm in protecting self as “referee” over the South legal basis. its sovereignty and security as China Sea issue, but is actually Currently, through the well as safeguarding regional File photo shows a Chinese H-6K bomber patrolling islands and the one that disturbs regional joint efforts of China and peace. reefs including Huangyan Dao in the South China Sea.

EU sanctions on HK ‘symbolic’ THE European Union (EU)’s laterally rolling out sanctions sanctions on China over the that go against this goal. Hong Kong affairs are a Wang urged the EU to stop in- “symbolic gesture” to strike terfering in Hong Kong affairs a balance between Washing- and China’s domestic affairs, ton and Beijing, as the meas- and focus on healthy relations ures will only have a limited between China and the bloc. impact on Hong Kong, ob- This move was soon inter- servers noted. preted by Western media, in- However, they warned that cluding The Wall Street Journal, the EU should carefully watch as the EU inching toward a its further steps, and avoid tilt- tough US stance on China. ing to the US, especially as US The bloc’s decision can be seen elections are approaching,be- as kowtowing to US pressure, cause any further provocation but adopting those measures, against China will only under- which only have a very limited mine the basis of China-EU re- impact on Hong Kong or the lations, which are hailed as a Chinese mainland, are only a model of pragmatic interna- “symbolic gesture,” as it is part tional relations, and sabotage of its balancing strategy not to the bloc’s time-honoured diplo- upset too much Washington or Flags of the EU fly in front of the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium, matic independence. Beijing, Sun Keqin, a research June 30, 2020. The EU adopted measures on fellow at the China Institutes of Tuesday in response to the na- Contemporary International He said that China and the next step. as they share some ideological tional security law for Hong Relations, told the Global Times EU cannot agree on everything, Wang made a similar state- values; on the other hand, they Kong, including a ban on exports on Wednesday, noting that the but can collaborate. The EU’s ment when talking to French also prioritise practical policies of specific equipment and tech- bloc will never go as far as public comments on Hong Kong Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le and economic benefits, and nologies considered sensitive for Washington or London. cause understandable frustra- Drian over the phone on won’t go against China on core use in Hong Kong. Chris Tang Ping-keung, tion for China but - generally Tuesday, criticised US hege- issues, and hurt their coopera- The bloc said it will work to Commissioner of Police of the speaking - the EU position re- mony, saying a certain political tion, said Wang Yiwei, a profes- ease visa and “asylum” opportu- Hong Kong Police Force, told the mains mild. faction in the US, driven by the sor at the School of International nities for Hong Kong residents. Global Times last week that any On July 24, when speaking need to lift campaign prospects Relations of Renmin University The EU indicated it could take sanctions from any country with his German counterpart and maintain unipolar hege- of China. further steps at the end of the based on political reasons have Heiko Maas, State Councillor mony, are going all out to negate However, observers also year. absolute zero impact on him, and Foreign Minister Wang Yi the history of China-US rela- warned that as the US gets The Chinese mission to the and that in terms of training and stressed that current difficulties tions, suppress China on every tougher on China as its election EU on Wednesday said it firmly equipment procurement, the po- in China-US relations were cre- front, provoke China on its core approaches, the EU, being opposes the EU’s decision to im- lice force has kept in close con- ated by the US, which is at- interests. caught in the middle, may take pose sanctions on Hong Kong. tact with different places from tempting to break up China’s de- Both calls were made after US further steps to upset China. “It “We urge the EU to truly respect around the world, rather than velopment process. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will undermine relations be- China’s position on safeguard- focusing on one country. Wang told Mass some anti- called on “democratic nations” tween Beijing and Brussels, and ing national security in Hong “I believe Germany and China forces in the US have ma- to unite against the Chinese be a shame for the EU, which Kong, and to stop meddling in France do not bow to external liciously stirred ideological con- Communist Party. has long honoured its independ- Hong Kong affairs and China’s pressure. They independently frontations, and openly coerced China and the EU, during ent diplomatic policies,” Sun internal affairs in any way,” the shape foreign policies, and this other countries to pick sides be- their long-term interaction with said. Chinese mission said in a state- has been the case over the tween China and the US and each another, have already The EU should also learn its ment. years. And the EU is also mak- confront China to serve the self- adopted a management mecha- lesson from the recent rift be- Wang Wenbin, spokesperson ing steps to become strategically ish interests of the US. nism, where both sides can tween China and the US, that of China’s Foreign Ministry,said autonomous,” George N. Maas said Germany is ready sit down and negotiate critical China will not yield to threats that the EU believes that it is a Tzogopoulos, director of EU- to strengthen cooperation with issues, said Sun, citing talks from the outside world, espe- stakeholder and has concerns in China Programmes, and also a China in vaccine development between Wang and Mass, cially when it comes to sover- Hong Kong and wishes it pros- senior research fellow at the and post-pandemic economic re- and between Wang and Le eignty issues. So by pressuring perity and stability. Then it Centre International de covery and jointly plan for im- Drian. China on Hong Kong or other should take concrete steps to- Formation Europeenne, told the portant high-level exchanges be- On one hand, they echo the core issues, the EU may have ward these goals, instead of uni- Global Times. tween EU and China for the US and other Western countries, lost its reckoning, Sun said.

8 • Friday July 31, 2020 The Barbados Advocate ‘For the cause that lacks assistance, ’Gainst the wrongs that need resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do’ Editorial Former presidents hail civil rights icon John Lewis at funeral Strengthen ATLANTA – Barack service gave Obama a man for adhering to his be- higher ground,” Bush said. Obama challenged the na- thunderous ovation. The lief in peaceful demonstra- It was a remarkable tes- tion yesterday to honor the best way to honor Lewis, tion even when it meant tament to Lewis’ influence travel protocols memory of John Lewis by who served in Congress for being beaten by police or to have had his funeral at- IT would appear that the Barbados Association of picking up the fight for four decades after his work state troopers in the tended by three former Medical Practitioners (BAMP) believes that there his signature issue, voting in the civil rights move- 1960s. He noted the devo- presidents. The needs to be stricter measures in place, as it relates rights, during a eulogy for ment, is to continue the tion to what Lewis called fourth, America’s oldest to air travel, during this current COVID-19 pan- the civil rights giant in struggle for voting rights, “good trouble” –becoming living former president, demic. which he was joined by Obama said. an irritant to the status Jimmy Carter, 95, sent a As the country reopened its borders earlier this two other past presidents, Lewis, whom Obama quo to bring about change. statement that was read month, travellers were strongly encouraged take a George W. Bush and Bill hailed as “a man of pure “He got in a lot of good at the service. President PCR COVID-19 test from an accredited or certified Clinton. joy and unbreakable per- trouble along the way, but Donald Trump, who facility or laboratory within 72 hours of travel and to At the funeral at severance,” was a leader in let’s not forget he devel- feuded politically with bring the negative test result with them. Test re- Ebenezer Baptist the nonviolent demonstra- oped an absolute uncanny Lewis, didn’t attend. sults were also to be submitted electronically,via the Church where the Rev. tions that led to passage ability to heal troubled wa- Lewis died July 17 after Online ED Form. The test would then be validated Martin Luther King Jr. of the Voting Rights Act of ters,” Clinton said. “He a battle with pancreatic by the Ministry of Health and Wellness here in once preached, Obama in- 1965. thought the open hand cancer. He was 80 years Barbados. However, if travellers had not pre-tested, voked the names of Obama said voting was better than the old. the requirements were for them to be tested at a test- Southern segregationists should be made easier to clenched fist.” Not to be overshadowed, ing facility at the Grantley Adams International of the 1960s to make a former prison inmates Lending a bipartisan air other speakers talked of Airport on arrival, free of charge, if travelling from a point about how little has who earned their place to the funeral, Bush called Lewis’ life from its many high-risk country and those from moderate-risk coun- changed when it comes to back in society, that early Lewis “an American saint, facets. tries also had that option or they could be tested at protesters standing up voting should be ex- a believer willing to give House Speaker Nancy an approved satellite site or testing hotel outside of against government op- panded, and that Election up everything.” Pelosi spoke to Lewis’ con- the airport quarantine zone for a fee and there they pression to try to right Day should be a national Bush noted that he and tributions in Congress, could await their test results. what they perceive as in- holiday. Lewis had had political where his body lay in state It was later noted that persons from high-risk justices. “Even as we sit here, disagreements – Bush at the U.S. Capitol before countries with proof of a negative result were to be “Bull Connor may be there are those in being a Republican and being flown to Atlanta.he quarantined at a designated hotel or villa at their gone, but today we witness power who are doing their Lewis a Democrat – but is with them.” own expense, or free of charge at a government facil- with our own eyes police darndest to discourage that it was an inevitable Bernice King, a minis- ity,to be monitored for a few days, before receiving a officers kneeling on the people from voting,” said result of democracy in ac- ter,attorney and youngest second test within seven days of the first. These per- backs of Black Americans. Obama in a not-so-veiled tion. He said he admired child of King and Coretta sons were to be discharged once they tested negative George Wallace may be swipe at Republicans. He Lewis for his faith and Scott King, echoed the a second time, whilst those who tested positive for gone, but we can witness cited the closing of voting pursuit of a better world. “good trouble” theme COVID-19 would have to go to an Isolation Centre. our federal government locations and stricter iden- “We live in a better and Lewis embraced in a Also, of late, travellers may also be quarantined if, it sending agents to use tear tification card require- nobler country today be- prayer to start the service, has been determined that they were situated in an gas and batons ments that target minori- cause of John Lewis and urging the struggle for vot- area of the plane deemed to be in close contact with against peaceful demon- ties and students. his abiding faith in the ing rights and over white someone who tested positive on arrival or after ar- strators,” he said. Clinton, speaking slowly power of God, the power of supremacy “until this na- rival. In response, the masked in a soft voice, earlier democracy and the power tion truly becomes a com- Now,BAMP has suggested that “All persons arriv- mourners at the private hailed the late congress- of love to lift us all to a passionate nation.” ing from high and medium-risk countries, given the risk of contracting an infection on embarkation, dur- ing the flight or on disembarkation, must ideally still be quarantined for 14 days after arrival, with daily monitoring for fever or any COVID-19 symptoms.” ‘House members who refuse to “We recognise that all untested travellers and those from higher risk countries may still transmit COVID- 19 to any other traveller during the course of travel. wear masks will be thrown out’ We, therefore, believe that additional COVID-19 PCR NANCY PELOSI has said would come into effect at the White House before he tive. testing of all persons arriving on flights from high and lawmakers will be thrown 8am on Thursday morn- was set to make the trip to Republican Rep Mario medium-risk countries should be mandatory and out of the House of ing. Texas. Diaz-Balart of Florida and subsidised by the traveller.This testing should be per- Representatives if they re- “The chair would...like Mr Gohmert said that Democratic Rep Ben formed on arrival and repeated seven days later” fuse to wear a mask, after to remind members that he was asymptomatic and McAdams of Utah also BAMP has noted. the US recorded more the speaker has the au- appeared to suggest that tested positive earlier this BAMP has also recommended the use of online than 150,000 coronavirus thority to direct the ser- he may have contracted year. forms and/or mobile reporting apps for daily report- cases. geant at arms to remove a the disease by wearing a According to the ing of temperatures and symptoms and that trav- Under new regulations member from the floor as face mask. GovTrack.us website, at ellers be informed that failure to report daily,will be announced on Wednesday, a matter of decorum,” “It is interesting, and I least three Democrats and considered a breach of a signed contract given to representatives must Pelosi warned when an- don’t know about every- seven Republicans said them on arrival and may result in their mandatory wear a mask at all times nouncing the mandate. body, but when I have a they were diagnoses or quarantine or deportation. while in the chamber, re- “To reiterate, the chair mask on, I’m moving it to tested positive for the dis- However, though authorities have acknowledged moving it only to address views the failure to wear a make it comfortable, and I ease. that the protocols for persons coming into Barbados the house.Face coverings mask as a serious breach can’t help but wonder if Coronavirus cases and are being amended, Minister of Health and Wellness may be removed tem- of decorum.” that puts some germs in deaths have continued to Lt. Colonel Jeffrey Bostic, gave a response to BAMP’s porarily in office buildings The ruling came just the mask,” he said in the surge in the US after recommendation for visitors from medium and high- to eat, drink, hold meet- hours after Republican video. some states lifted lock- risked countries to be quarantined for 14 days. ings and do interviews. congressman Louie Mr Gohmert is not the down restrictions in April. “The seven-day period at the moment is what we Anyone found flouting Gohmert tested positive only lawmaker to have On Thursday morning, are working with. We have the right to extend as we the rules will get booted for Covid-19, who had caught the virus. In US officials reported see fit and that will depend on the second test that out of the chamber. been due to travel with March, Senator Rand 63,255 new cases, bring- the person takes around day seven,” he stressed, Democrat Rep Pelosi, 80, Donald Trump. Paul was widely criticised ing the total to 4.5 million. whilst pointing out that this period has to do with the said the regulations – in- In a statement issued after visiting the mem- More than 153,000 people incubation of the virus. troduced four months via video on Twitter, the bers’ gym while waiting have died with the virus Let’s hope that we are not missing the mark by not after the pandemic first 66-year-old claimed he for a test, which subse- in the US while 2.2 mil- strengthening our protocols, because as BAMP has took hold in the US – had been tested twice in quently came back posi- lion have recovered. pointed out, we must ensure that tourism and the in- crease in air travel is truly profitable and that we are Executive Editor: Allison Downes Telephone: 467-2000 News Fax: 434-1000 News Editor: Dorian Bryan not jeopardizing the health of our people, in the long Business Editor: Jewel Brathwaite General Manager: Sandra Clarke term. E-mail Address: [email protected] Sports Editor: Corey Greaves Assistant Managing Director: Sean Eteen Website: www.barbadosadvocate.com Publisher: Sir Anthony Bryan The Barbados Advocate Friday July 31, 2020 • 9

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ADVOCATE PUBLISHERS (2000) INC, FONTABELLE • F:AX 434-1000 • E-MAIL: [email protected] A society that flows is wealthier and has a greater tendency to reconfigure itself “A society that flows is wealthier and has good intentions to serious structural questions… State the objective of your Now listen to Bejan again: “Good is a a greater tendency to reconfigure itself, reform. Less we forget, the RT Hon Errol question specifically and clearly. Why is government that facilitates the and to flow more and become wealthier Barrow,in his 1961 budget, alluded to the it important to try something new. Why movement, reach and staying power of a over time.” Adrian Bejan-Physicist, and need to restructure the economy, away change the system that is already in whole society, including mobility, author of the 1997 Constructual law. from its dependency on remittances and place? What’s promising in trying participation, health and life expectancy. Tourism receipts. something new?” A government becomes better when it A RECENT media story of the Central Is it that leaders don’t think in terms Naitran appears to agree with Bejan. channels, shortens and straitens paths. Bank of Barbados’ 40th annual review of elections and not structurally? Listen: “At this point what we need is Removes roadblocks and waiting times.” seminar – The Impact of COVID-19 in Adrian Bejan, in his publication, The structural and institutional change to At a time in history when stress and the Region: Current Challenges, Future Physics of life, addressing the issue of make significant differences. We need to anxiety are high, and will continue to be Outlook and Policy Recommendation politics science and design change, wrote: think of a tourism that deeply embeds threatened by uncertainty,I like, Naitran indicated that panellist Simon Naitram “knowledge is the human capacity to itself in the heart of Barbadian society believes, that opportunities are on the – the President of the Barbados effect design change that is useful to and so generate spillovers to the rest of horizon. For example, relaxation, outdoor Economic Society (BES) proposed a humans, Intelligence is to see a better the Barbadian economy. I call this a living, nature walking, meditation, fresh “lifestyle model” for a challenged tourism design before it is put into words. Tested lifestyle tourism. Barbadians need to foods are now a necessary and important industry. Naitram wants visitors to and built. Knowledge is the fast – shift the value creation process to part of lifestyle management, for visitors participate in an authentic Bajan forwarding of the physic phenomenon of Barbados.To think about what value can and Barbadians. And, guess what access lifestyle. design generation, spread and evolution”. we create here, rather than asking what – a natural asset of our island – remains This letter commends the economist He expanded this idea and said:“the road can I import? This calls for significant unexplored. In Barbados everything is but at the same time, wonders what it that leads to better science and to good change in mindset from what Barbados next door. will take to move policy makers from government is made better by targeted has been doing for the past 300 years.” W ALTER EDEY Keynes the Probabilist (Part III) “For we write you nothing other than the model.” equipment or lay off workers, were never Taleb (Fooled by Randomness) reminds what you can read and also understand; “Physicists”, write Messrs. King and obviously rational or irrational in the us that it is two noneconomists who have I hope you will understand until the end.” Kay,“rely on stationarity – physical laws moment, because long-term “exerted the most influence on economic – 2 Corinthians 1:13 remain unchanged for century after consequences could not be predicted. But thinking over the past two centuries.” century. Economic and social the Keynesians, led astray by “No, it is not John Maynard Keynes, ONE of the authors of Radical phenomena are not similarly stationary.” Samuelson, had taken Keynes’ theory not Alfred Marshall, not Paul Uncertainty tells the story of being Why do we pretend otherwise? Zachary and constructed a system that, just like Samuelson, and certainly not Milton shown a paper written by “a well-known Carter offers a clue in The Price of Peace, the orthodoxy of the 1920s, dismissed Friedman”, it was “Daniel Kahneman macroeconomist with considerable “For [Paul] Samuelson and his followers, the significance of human agency.” and Amos Tversky, the two Israeli experience in central banks and finance physics was the foundation of She ended, “I do not regard the introspectors” who uncovered “areas ministries”. When asked “So what knowledge, and mathematics was its Keynesian revolution as a great where human beings are not endowed insight do we gain from this model?”, language. Where The General Theory intellectual triumph. On the contrary,it with rational probabilistic thinking and the economist replied that the numbers had proclaimed “uncertainty” to be the was a tragedy.” Robison received a optimal behavior under uncertainty.” He derived from the model should be the bedrock analytical concept for economic standing ovation and you should cheer continues, “Aside from some penetrating policy. However, Messrs. King and Kay thinking, Samuelson and his protégés her too. By failing to properly account for minds like Keynes, Knight, and Shackle, argue, “That answer begins to make sought not only certainty but precision.” uncertainty, economics is not serving as economists did not even figure out that sense only if the economist believed that Pride (and physics envy?) leads to a it should. “The success of economics”, they had no clue about uncertainty.” his model described ‘the world as it pretense of precision. But given the write Messrs. King and Kay, “should be That cluelessness still haunts us today. really is.’” subject matter, and the fact that we measured by the help it gives to the Mr. Carter presents Keynes as Russian roulette is not reality and cannot peer into the barrel of reality, minister of finance and the head of the something to which we can all relate,“a being good at chess does not make one a certainty and precision are more central bank, […] to people struggling to tangle of paradoxes”: the “bureaucrat grand strategist. Similarly, King and exception than rule in the social invest their savings or establish a who married a dancer; a gay man whose Kay argue that the value of models “lies sciences. Unless, as Taleb quipped, we business, to households buying their greatest love was a woman; … a pacifist in framing a problem to provide insights define social science as “inventing a homes or their groceries.” who helped finance two world wars” and into the large-world problem facing the certain brand of human we understand.” As Mr. Carter notes, “Keynes was closer to our point (and closing), “an policy-maker and not in the pretence In a talk delivered in December 1971, critical of any economic model that economist who challenged the that it can provide precise quantitative Joan Robinson made an important point claimed to offer reliable information foundations of economics.” We could use guidance. You cannot derive a about the human factor. Her point is still about the future. Economics was at best some of that challenging today,for what probability or a forecast or a policy (daresay more) valid in 2020: a field of rules of thumb, trends, and Keynes wrote decades ago rings true recommendation from a model; the “People made choices based on patterns that were liable to change.” As today: “Many of the greatest economic probability is meaningful, the forecast expectations about an uncertain future. we reacquaint ourselves with Keynes evils of our time are the fruits of risk, accurate or the policy recommendation Decisions like whether to save or spend, the probabilist, and live under the uncertainty, and ignorance.” well founded only within the context of or whether to buy new factory shadow of his economic doppelganger, ADRIAN SOBERS

LET GOD QUOTES FOR TODAY WORDS OF SPEAK TO US WISDOM G. K. Chesterton Alfred North Whitehead “For just as each of us has one (1874 - 1936) (1861 - 1947) body with many members, and English author & mystery novelist English mathematician & LAUGHTER these members do not all have philosopher the same function, so in Christ “By a curious confusion, many we, though many, form one “Civilization advances by If you don't learn to laugh at modern critics have passed from trouble, you won't have body, and each member the proposition that a masterpiece extending the number of belongs to all the others.” important operations which anything to laugh at when may be unpopular to the other you're old. proposition that unless it is we can perform without – Romans 12:4-5 | NIV unpopular it cannot be a thinking of them.” masterpiece.” 10 • Friday July 31, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

US economy sees sharpest contraction in decades THE US economy in 1958. the historic decline of the shrank by a 32.9 per Reduced spending on gross domestic product in cent annual rate in the services such as the second quarter should April-to-June quarter healthcare drove the fall. shock us all,” said Neil as the country Economists have said Bradley,chief policy officer grappled with cut they expected to see the at the US Chamber of backs in spending sharpest drop in the Commerce, a business during the pandemic. second quarter, with lobby group. “This jarring It was the deepest recovery thereafter. news should compel decline since the But as virus cases in the Congress to move swiftly.” government began US surge and some areas The International keeping records in 1947 re-impose restrictions on Monetary Fund has and three times more activity, the rebound is predicted that global severe than the prior showing signs of stalling. growth will fall by 4.9% Food banks have seen a surge in demand. record of ten per cent set More than 1.4 million this year. Yesterday, people filed new claims for Germany reported a unemployment last week, record quarterly decline of up slightly from the prior 10.1%, while Mexico’s week for the second week economy also reported a in a row.Other data points double digit contraction. to spending cuts and falls Compared with the in confidence in July. same quarter a year ago, Jerome Powell, the head the US economy of America’s central bank, contracted 9.5%. Exports on Wednesday warned of and imports were both renewed slowdown, down more than 20% from describing the downturn a year ago, while as the “most severe in our consumer spending – the lifetimes”. main driver of the US He urged further economy – fell 10.7% year- government spending to on-year. help American households The US has lost nearly and businesses weather 15 million jobs since the crisis. February, despite strong That call was echoed by hiring in May and June. other business leaders The US census estimates yesterday as the figures more than half of brought into focus the American adults live in scale of the economic crisis households that have seen facing the country. incomes cut since the “The staggering news of pandemic.

BANK RATES Commercial bank rates to the public at the close of business yesterday by the Central Bank of Barbados. Valid for July 31, 2020 Notes: Currency Buying Selling Belizean Dollar 1.00000 1.00000 Canadian Dollar 1.46808 1.51151 East Caribbean $ 0.73704 0.74445 Euro 2.31800 2.41560 Pound Sterling 2.56314 2.67106 United States Dollar 1.98000 2.02857 Demand/Sight: Currency Buying Selling Belizean Dollar 0.99688 1.00313 Canadian Dollar 1.47644 1.51018 East Caribbean Dollar 0.73843 0.74306 Euro 2.35201 2.40061 Guyana Dollar 0.00944 0.00950 Pound Sterling 2.60074 2.65449 United States Dollar 1.99000 2.02768 Telegraphic Transfer Currency Buying Selling Belizean Dollar 0.99688 1.00313 Canadian Dollar 1.47924 1.51018 East Caribbean Dollar 0.73843 0.74306 Euro 2.35643 2.40061 Guyana Dollar 0.00944 0.00950 Pound Sterling 2.60564 2.65449 United States Dollar 1.99375 2.02768 INDICATIVE RATES FOR SOME REGIONAL CURRENCIESAS ADVISED BY THE RESPECTIVE CENTRAL BANKS. N.B. These rates are not meant to be used for trading. BDS$ Guyana Dollar 0.00947 Jamaica Dollar 0.01360 T&T Dollar 0.29693 The Barbados Advocate Friday July 31, 2020 • 11

Samsung profits soar on work from home demand SAMSUNG Electronics has seen its the impact from Covid-19 continued, quarter due to strong demand for its gradual recovery in demand in the earnings soar as sales were boosted while demand for mobile was relatively chips that power notebooks and data second half of the year,” it said. by millions working and learning weak,” the South Korean company said centres. Despite Covid-19 causing lower from home during the virus in a statement. “Many enterprises are moving their demand technology brands continue to pandemic. Other major memory chip makers, operations to the cloud, and the server release new handsets. The world’s largest maker of including rival Korean producer SK computing segment is on the rise,” In April, Apple announced a new smartphones said second quarter Hynix and US firm Micron Technology, Prachir Singh, a senior analyst at iPhone SE, reviving a mid-market model operating profits rose 23 per cent have also been boosted by people staying Counterpoint market research firm told it had discontinued in 2018. compared to last year. at home and consuming Internet-based the BBC. A week earlier OnePlus unveiled new The results were helped by strong services like video conferencing and Samsung, which is set to launch its models, while the previous month demand for computer chips, which movie streaming. new Galaxy Note and Galaxy Z Fold Huawei launched its flagship P40 range. pushed up prices on the global market. Last week, SK Hynix said its operating handsets, also predicted that the market Meanwhile, Apple’s iPhone 12 and the Data centres have expanded capacity profit had tripled in the second quarter for smartphones will improve in the Google Pixel 5 and 4A are expected to be to support home working and schooling. from a year ago as server operators coming months as well as seeing it released later this year. “The Memory Business saw robust ordered memory chips and prices rose. becoming increasingly competitive. Samsung shares were a little higher in demand for cloud applications related to In June, Micron Technology forecast “The smartphone market is expected to Seoul trading on Thursday and have remote working and online education as higher-than-expected revenue this witness intensifying competition amid a gained around ten per cent this week. German economy sees deepest decline on record THE German economy shrank at its had been a “massive slump” in household fastest rate on record amid the impact of spending, investment in equipment and the coronavirus pandemic, according to machinery and in exports and imports. new official figures. Germany is a leading exporter, The total production of goods and especially for manufactured goods, so it services declined by 10.1% during the has inevitably been hit hard by the April-to-June period. disruption to international trade that the It was the sharpest decline since health crisis has caused. Germany began producing quarterly The one area where the statistics office growth figures in 1970. said there was some growth was The contraction followed a smaller but government consumption spending – still severe drop in activity of two per cent which means non-investment spending in the previous three months. by the public sector. The German economy, in common with There have been signs in other data most others,has been hit very hard by the that a recovery may have started after pandemic and the restrictions that have April. That is suggested by monthly been imposed in an effort to contain it. figures for industrial production and The country’s statistics office said there retail sales, for example. 12 • Friday July 31, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

Regular Market BARBADOS STOCK REPORT Security Volume High Low Market Advance/ Price Decline July 30, 2020 GODDARD ENTERPRISES LIMITED 1297 2.65 2.65 2.65 0 One security traded firm as 1,297 shares traded on the Regular Market, with a total value of $3,437.05. Goddard Enterprises Limited was the sole security trading 1,297 shares at $2.65.

Deposit Receipts Security Previous Current Advance/ Close Close Decline BARBADOSBARBADOS STSTOCKOCK EXCHANGEEXCHANGE EMERA DEPOSIT RECEIPT $20.39 $20.68 $0.29 SHARE SUMMARY INFORMATION Thursday July 30 2020

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

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

BICO Limited 26-Jun-20 - - - $3.10 $3.10 - $3.11 - 64 - INDICES Banks Holdings Limited -+ 09-Dec-19 - - - $4.85 $4.85 - - - - - TODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES July 30, 2020 July 29, 2020 Barbados Dairy Industries Limited -+ 04-Oct-19 - - - $3.00 $3.00 - - - - - Local 2869.79 2869.49 0.30 Cross-list 1,400.14 1,400.14 -- Barbados Farms Limited 4-May-20 - - - $0.40 $0.40 - $0.35 $0.39 1000 1,000 Composite 703.90 703.83 0.07 Cable and Wireless Barbados Limited -+ 21-Sep-17 - - - $2.29 $2.29 - - - - - MARKET-- CAPITALISATION (in millions) Cave Shepherd and Company Limited 21-Jul-20 - - - $4.39 $4.39 - $3.95 $4.39 300 4320 TODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES July 30, 2020 July 29, 2020 FirstCaribbean International Bank 28-Jul-20 - - - $2.25 $2.25 - 2.10 $2.25 734 12,166 Local 6,112.12 6,111.48 0.64 Cross-list 178.78 178.78 - Eppley Caribbean Property Fund SCC 17-Jul-20 - - - $0.18 $0.18 - - $0.18 - 35,118 Composite 6,290.90 6,290.26 0.64 - Dev Fund MUTUAL FUND July 30, 2020 Eppley Caribbean Property Fund SCC 27-Jul-20 - - - $0.57 $0.57 - $0.56 $0.57 20,301 27,200 ENDED NAME OF FUND NAV OFFER BID NAV -Value Fund CHANGE 24-Jul-20 REPUBLIC CAPITAL GROWTH FUND w 1.2497 0.0002 Goddard Enterprises Limited 30-Jul-20 1297 2.65 2.65 $2.65 $2.65 $0.00 - $2.65 - 5,642 24-Jul-20 REPUBLIC INCOME FUND* w 1.2313 0.0003 24-Jul-20 REPUBLIC PROPERTY FUND w 0.6925 -0.0001 Insurance Corporation of B’dos Limited 17-Jul-20 - - - $3.20 $3.20 - - $3.15 - 2,000 24-Jul-20 FORTRESS CARIBBEAN GROWTH FUND w 5.7832 5.7832 5.7832 0.0363 One Caribbean Media Limited 06-Mar-20 - - - $2.70 $2.70 - $1.80 $2.60 6264 3,000 24-Jul-20 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - ACC. w 2.0456 0.0065 24-Jul-20 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - DIST. w 1.0244 0.0033 Sagicor Financial Corporation Pref 6.5% 23-Jun-16 - - - $2.26 $2.26 - - - - - 30-Jun-20 ROYAL FIDELITY SELECT BALANCED FUND m 5.4132 5.4132 5.3049 0.0043 30-Jun-20 ROYAL FIDELITY STRATEGIC GROWTH FUNDm 0.9451 0.9451 0.9272 -0.0009 Sagicor Financial Corporation Limited -+ 29-Nov-19 - - - $2.80 $2.80 - - - - - 30-Jun-20 ROYAL FIDELITY PREMIUM INCOME FUND m 1.6683 1.6683 1.6349 0.0039 24-Jul-20 SAGICOR GLOBAL BALANCED FUND w 2.59 0.02 West India Biscuit Company Limited 23-Jul-20 - - - $31.00 $31.00 - $31.00 - 15 - 24-Jul-20 SAGICOR SELECT GROWTH FUND w 1.52 0.01 24-Jul-20 SAGICOR PREFERRED INCOME FUND w 0.98 0.00 Emera Deposit Receipt 10-Feb-20 - - - $20.12 $20.39 $0.01 $20.90 - 50 - * Indicates the Fund is currently ex-div NOTES: QUOTATIONS AND NET ASSET VALUE PER SHARE ARE SUPPLIED BY THE TOTAL SHARES BOUGHT & SOLD 1297 FUND MANAGEMENT. THE OFFERING PRICE INCLUDES NET ASSET VALUE PLUS ENTRY COSTS. m = monthly valuation, q = quarterly valuation, w = weekly * = Security is Trading X-Div Fixed Income *+* = Security is Suspended Last Trade Last Current Bid Ask Bid Ask ** = Rights Issued Date Close Close Price Price Size Size GOB Series B 13-Jul-20 $64.99 $64.99 - $65.00 - 23,990 GOB Series D 12-Nov-19 $50.00 $50.00 GOB Series F 05-Feb-20 $89.00 $89.00 - NOTICES GOB Series I 24-Mar-20 $65.00 $65.00 $75.00 103,713 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS Barbados Farms Limited – Directors of Barbados Farms Limited have fixed July 17th, 2020 as the record date for the determination NEWS of shareholders entitled to receive notice of the Annual General Meeting of the Company. The date of the meeting will be communicated in the Annual Report which we will provide to Shareholders as soon as it is available. Amazon Q2 earnings blow past estimates as coronavirus buying BSE NOTICES

COVID-19 PROCEDURAL UPDATE AMAZON (AMZN) posted performance was boosted In light of the ongoing COVID-19 contagion affecting the island, the Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) and the Barbados Central second quarter earnings on by operating cash flow that Securities Depository Inc. (BCSDI) have been instituting several procedural changes. Thursday that blew away surged 42% to $51.2 billion Kindly note that effective May 18th, 2020, the BSE and BCSDI re-opened and has resumed normal office hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 Wall Street estimates, for the trailing twelve p.m. Please also note that we have implemented digital temperature checks for all persons entering the building. These checks are bolstered by consumer months, compared with being conducted on both staff and clients alike by trained personnel. trends during the $36.0 billion comparable While we acknowledge that every person with fever may not be COVID-19 positive and that some individuals may present without coronavirus pandemic that year-ago period. Net sales symptoms, please note that any person with a temperature reading of 100? F (37.8? C) or over will be denied entry to conduct business have catapulted the tech soared 40% compared within our offices. giant into one of the crisis’ with $63.4 billion a year biggest beneficiaries. ago. We wish to thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation, however, we must emphasize that this is a necessary step for the protection of staff and clients alike. The company’s results Meanwhile, Amazon also are even more impressive said it plowed over $9 TRADING SUSPENSION given that it acknowledged billion into capital projects, spending over $4 billion and saw its grocery The Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) wishes to advise that due to non-compliance with Section 4.01.3 and subject to Section 3.01.5.(1)(b) of the Rules of the Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. trading in the Common Shares of Banks Holdings Limited were during the quarter on delivery capacity skyrocket suspended effective December 10th, 2019. COVID-19 related costs. by more than 160% amid a Here are the results threefold spike in online The Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) wishes to advise that due to non-compliance with Section 4.01.3 and subject to Section compared to estimates grocery sales during the 3.01.5.(1)(b) of the Rules of the Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. trading in the Common Shares of Barbados Dairy Industries Limited from consensus compiled quarter. were suspended effective December 10th, 2019. by Bloomberg: “We’ve created over The Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) wishes to advise that to facilitate the closing of the Scheme of Arrangement effected by • GAAP earnings 175,000 new jobs since way of Section 99 of the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda involving the transfer of all the issued and outstanding shares in Sagicor per share: $10.30 vs. $1.51 March and are in the Financial Corporation Limited to Alignvest Acquisition II, it has suspended trading in the security Sagicor Financial Corporation expected process of bringing Limited. • Revenue: $88.9 125,000 of these employees The Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) wishes to advise that, as a result of the approved amalgamation of Cable and Wireless billion vs. $81.24 billion into regular, full-time (Barbados) Limited (CWBL) and Cable & Wireless West Indies Limited (CWWI), trading in the security - Cable and Wireless expected positions,” CEO Jeff Bezos (Barbados) Limited - has been suspended with immediate effect.. The quarter’s said in a statement. The Barbados Advocate Friday July 31, 2020 • 13 Guyana President, wife test Dominica PM reveals Entrepreneurship negative for Visa programme DOMINICA – Prime with the further expansion Minister Roosevelt Skerrit of the economy and local has announced the intro- entrepreneurship,” he COVID-19 duction of the Dominica stated. PRESIDENT David Stabroek News which Entrepreneurship Visa Prime Minister Skerrit Granger and First Lady noted that both Mr and Programme. also mentioned that his Sandra Granger have Mrs Granger’s test results He made the announce- government has set aside both tested negative for came back as negative. ment during his presenta- an amount of $1.5 million the novel coronavirus President Granger and tion on Tuesday of the to support persons under disease. Mrs Granger had their National Budget of the age of 40 years whose The President and First samples for testing taken $942,179,940 million. annual income is less than Lady were on Monday on Monday by health President David Granger and First Lady Sandra Granger “One of the ongoing $100 000,“who have never tested for COVID-19 and officials. It was stated challenges we faced pre- owned a home before and those results were re- then that the tests were the first couple had no vised persons to adhere COVID-19 and more so are interested in acquir- turned yesterday. Head of administered out of an known exposure to the to the precautionary now, is triggering greater ing a home of their own.” the Press Service Unit at abundance of caution virus or had contact with measures that were put in access to liquidity for busi- This support, he said, the Ministry of the though they showed no any positive case of the place since the initial nesses and also encourag- will be provided in the Presidency,Ariana Gordon signs or symptoms of the virus. outbreak in Guyana ing a widening of the pri- form of a grant voucher to provided the update to virus.According to Gordon The president had ad- in March. vate sector locally,” he said. a maximum of $10 000 per “With this in mind, we will home for the purchase of create another avenue for building materials or to be attracting investments put towards the transfer and much-needed capital fees for the purchase of a to new and existing busi- new home. Grand Bahama case count rises 32 nesses with an introduc- According to the prime tion of a Dominica minister, to qualify, first Entrepreneurship Visa.” time home builders must According to the prime present copies of building as New Providence slows down minister, under the plans approved by GRAND BAHAMA – that Bahamians who negative COVID test in purpose of seeking Dominica Entrepre- the Physical Planning TOURISM Minister want to have a vacation just the same fashion as emergency medical care neurship Visa Prog- Division and must have Dionisio D’Aguilar con- and stay in a hotel will visitors arriving or securing groceries, ramme, foreign investors commenced construction firmed Wednesday night be required to have a from outside the country. gas, pharmaceuticals or who started business in an with the secured financing His statement to The water.” approved sector or who in- required to complete Tribune came as the The statement went on vest in an existing ap- construction of the build- country recorded 37 to say “No hotel or resort proved local business or ing where they intend to additional COVID-19 is permitted to allow any pursue the option of a joint reside. cases, including five on guest – whether an venture with a local busi- He said the grants will New Providence and 32 international traveller or ness owner,will be granted be available from October on Grand Bahama. a Bahamian resident – residence status in 1, 2020 and will be admin- The number of hospi- to remain within its Dominica. istered by the Ministry of talised cases increased property without a “There is no doubt that Youth Development and by four for a total of negative COVID-19 the introduction of this ini- Empowerment, “and is 16. RT-PCR test”. tiative will result in the expected to benefit 150 Earlier Wednesday the “That is trying to allow creation of jobs and assist of our young people.” Ministry of Tourism for tourism,” D’Aguilar released a statement told The Tribune. “You saying it was aware of can’t have a hotel facility special offers and that is open to persons packages from hotels coming from overseas designed for Bahamian who have had a negative residents during lock- test to co-mingle with down periods. guests who have not It said, “Weekend lock- had a test. Everybody downs are being imple- has to have the same mented for the sole status. We’re not denying purpose of curbing fur- Bahamians, you just ther spread of can’t have a different COVID-19. status from the person “All residents, with the in the hotel.” exception of essential The ministry also workers, are required to reminded hoteliers of remain in their place their responsibility of residence for the in ensuring physical duration of the lockdown distancing and mask Tourism Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar. period, unless for the wearing requirements. PM Roosevelt Skerrit.

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14 • Friday July 31, 2020 The Barbados Advocate JA Gov’t launches $1 billion public sector graduate scholarship programme MINISTER of Finance and the offers public sector employees the ensure that recipients commit to Public Service, Dr. Nigel Clarke has opportunity to obtain a postgraduate adequate time in the Government officially launched the Marcus degree at the master’s level from service to allow them to employ, and Garvey Public Sector Graduate appropriately accredited universities transfer where applicable, their new Scholarship Programme which will in Jamaica, North America and Europe. skills and qualifications. offer 30 graduate scholarships each Scholarship recipients will pursue President of the Jamaica Civil Service year for the next five years for graduate studies in programmes of study Association, O’Neil Grant, in endorsing public sector employees. aligned with Jamaica’s national priorities the programme at the launch, encour- The programme has an estimated cost, and strategic objectives. aged his membership to apply and use over the five-year period, of J$1 billion, Commenting on the scholarship pro- the scholarship as an opportunity to take the ministry said in a press release. gramme, Clarke noted, “To the best of bigger steps in their professional The scholarships will be tenable at the my knowledge, this is the largest and development. University of the West Indies (UWI) most ambitious graduate scholarship The Scholarship’s Technical Mona and the University of Technology programme in Jamaica’s history. As we Secretariat, which will set the strategic (UTECH) in Jamaica; Johns Hopkins strive towards greater levels of efficiency direction for continued development and University and Harvard University in in our public service and by extension a relevance of the Programme, will be the USA; and King’s College London and better Jamaica, the Government of based in the Strategic Human Resource Minister of Finance and the Public Oxford University in the United Jamaica is investing in building the Management Division of the Ministry of Service, Dr. Nigel Clarke. Kingdom, the ministry said. human capital of our public service.” Finance and the Public Service. The Scholarship Selection Committee The programme, according to the will be chaired by Governor-General Sir ministry, is the first of its kind to offer Patrick Allen.The Marcus Garvey Public fully-financed Government scholarships Sector Graduate Scholarship, as first an- available only to public sector employees. nounced by Clarke during his 2020/21 It will be used as a tool to help attract, St. Lucia’s 25th COVID-19 Budget Presentation in March, was con- motivate and retain qualified staff in the ceptualised as a strategic human capital public service. The administration of the development initiative. The scholarship scholarship includes a mechanism to case is 86-year-old male SAINT LUCIA – On Thursday, July 30, shortness of breath. He is presently 2020, the Ministry of Health and Wellness in the Intensive Care Unit at the received results of a positive COVID-19 Respiratory Hospital for management case.This information was announced in and care. a video statement from the chief medical The team has commenced investiga- officer tions and contact tracing to establish the The individual is an 86-year-old male source and contain transmission. patient with a history of diabetes, high This new case brings the total number blood pressure, investigated for prostate of cases reported in Saint Lucia to 25 – 22 cancer,and a history of surgery two weeks of these cases have fully recovered and ago. three patients remain in care at the He was transferred to the Respiratory Respiratory Hospital. A total of 2 968 Hospital on July 26, 2020, with fever and tests have been conducted to date. The Barbados Advocate Friday July 31, 2020 • 15

Brazil’s first More than one million Chileans lady, minister seek to withdraw pensions test positive amid pandemic SANTIAGO – More than one million Larrain said it would take ten business Chileans yesterday asked to withdraw a days for the first payouts to arrive. for COVID-19 portion of their pension funds as a The influx of cash into the pockets of SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO – controversial law took effect allowing everyday Chileans is largely expected to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s citizens to tap into retirement savings to boost the economy. wife and one of his ministers have buffer the economic impacts of the Several economists and analysts have tested positive for COVID-19, coronavirus. revised dire predictions for Chile's gross according to an official statement Blocks-long lines formed in Santiago domestic product upward since the law’s yesterday, as the spread of the novel outside the offices of Pension Fund passage in anticipation of a kick-start coronavirus showed no signs of Administrators (AFP) as Chileans in consumer spending. slowing in the country with the sought to take advantage of the new law. President Sebastian Pinera’s centre- world’s second-worst outbreak after Brazil’s First lady Michelle Bolsonaro The emergency measure allows those right government nonetheless opposed the United States. has tested positive for COVID-19. with savings to withdraw up to 10% of the emergency relief measure, saying it Just days after her husband said he their pensions. would support citizens through the had overcome the virus with a negative Their infections are a palpable sign of “During the first hours, more than public purse instead. It has also warned test following weeks in quarantine, the scale of the outbreak in Brazil, which 1,100,000 members have been able to about the longer-term impact on the Bolsonaro’s wife Michelle has tested set fresh daily records on Wednesday for enter their withdrawal request success- profitability and already low average positive, the presidential office said in new COVID-19 cases and related fully,” said Fernando Larraín, president payouts of pensions. a statement. fatalities. of Chile’s association of pension fund Despite those pleas, opinion polls “First lady Michelle Bolsonaro tested The 69 074 new confirmed cases and 1 managers. indicate nearly nine out of every ten positive for COVID-19 on Thursday. She 595 additional deaths reported by the The websites of several of the fund Chileans planned to tap their funds. is in good health and will follow all estab- Health Ministry,pushed the country past administrators collapsed yesterday Most said they would use the money to lished protocols,” it said, referring to the 2.5 million infections and 90 000 killed. morning amid the deluge of requests, pay for basic goods and services. disease caused by the new coronavirus. Pontes made his announcement on prompting an apology from the Chile’s privatised pension system, Earlier yesterday, Brazil’s science and Facebook, saying he was quarantining companies. introduced under dictator Augusto technology minister, Marcos Pontes, said and working remotely. “As we warned from the beginning, Pinochet, has often been hailed as a his test had come back positive, becoming “I just tested positive for the new this process is unprecedented and we model, but has also been strongly the fifth minister in Bolsonaro’s govern- coronavirus,” he said. “I’m well, just a bit have had to quickly prepare all the criticised in recent years for low ment to be diagnosed with the disease. of flu symptoms and a headache.” platforms,” Larrain said. payouts.

Mexico Supreme Court rejects state’s bid to decriminalise abortion

MEXICO’S Supreme Court has rejected Commission to Prevent and Eradicate a landmark injunction on abortion rights Violence against Women (Conavim) and across the country. the National Institute for Women The case revolved around an injunction (Inmujeres) in 2016. granted in the eastern state of Veracruz, The state government accepted the which would have effectively proposals and conclusions of the report in decriminalised termination in the first 12 March 2017 - but has still not reformed weeks of pregnancy. the law. Campaigners hoped the ruling would Although this decision only affects set a precedent for similar injunctions in Veracruz for now, campaigners said it other states. could have had repercussions for the rest Abortion is legal in just two of Mexico’s of the country, too. 32 states. In its article last week, GIRE said that In an article last week, reproductive if the injunction were to be upheld, rights organisation GIRE said they Veracruz state congress should “modify hoped the court’s decision would be a its abortion legislation, thereby opening “historic opportunity” for pro-choice the doors and setting a precedent for campaigners. other states to modify their local penal However at the hearing today,four out codes in the same terms”. of the Supreme Court’s five justices voted Currently,abortion is only legal in two against upholding the injunction. Mexican states – Oaxaca and Mexico One justice, delivering her verdict, said City. that upholding the decision would While other states allow abortion after “greatly overstep the constitutional pow- rape, there have been high-profile cases ers of this Supreme Court of Justice of the of women and girls in this situation being Nation”.Another voted against it because denied terminations. of what she called “a legal technicality”. In 2016, a 13-year-old girl in Sonora Last year, a judge in Xalapa, Veracruz, state was denied an abortion by health approved an injunction ordering the officials after a judge ruled that she was state’s Congress to remove articles 149, not raped, but was the victim of the lesser 150 and 154 of the local penal code. crime of “sexual coercion”. The case then went to Mexico’s The governing Morena party controls Supreme Court, which needed to decide most of Mexico’s state legislatures, but whether to uphold that judge’s decision. has been divided on the issue of Pro-choice activists in Mexico City in February 2020. Removing these articles would have abortion. decriminalised abortion in the first 12 President Andrés Manuel López sues, President López Obrador accused legislation. weeks of pregnancy, allowed termina- Obrador has also been accused of inaction “conservatives” of “putting on the mask In the years that followed, more than tions for health reasons, and gotten rid on women’s rights, including reproduc- of feminism and saying, ‘we’re going to half of Mexico’s states enacted laws that of the time limit on abortions in cases of tive rights and gender-based violence. get rid of the government’”. banned abortion in either all or most rape. Shortly after a historic protest in States were first given the right to set circumstances. These changes were first recommended March, in which thousands of Mexican their own health policies, including abor- This included Veracruz, which enacted in a wide-ranging report on women’s women took part in a Day Without tion laws, after a 2008 Supreme Court a constitutional amendment in 2016 that rights, published by the National Women strike to call attention to these is- ruling upholding Mexico City’s abortion said life begins at conception. 16 • Friday July 31, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

Donald Trump suggests delay to 2020 US presidential election DONALD TRUMP has suggested influence in voting, but they know that November’s presidential election be Mail-In Voting is an easy way for foreign postponed, saying increased postal countries to enter the race,” he said. voting could lead to fraud and Trump also said postal voting was inaccurate results. “already proving to be a catastrophic He floated a delay until people could disaster” in areas where it was being tried “properly, securely and safely” vote. out. There is little evidence to support In June, New York allowed voters to Trump’s claims but he has long railed vote by post in the Democratic primary against mail-in voting which he has said poll for the party’s presidential candidate. would be susceptible to fraud. However, there have been long delays in US states want to make postal voting counting the ballots and the results are easier due to public health concerns over still unknown. the coronavirus pandemic. US media report that there are also Under the US constitution,Trump does concerns that many ballots will not be not have the authority to postpone the counted because they were not filled in election himself.Any delay would have to correctly or do not have postmarks on Donald Trump speaks during an event. be approved by Congress. The president them that show they were sent before does not have direct power over the two voting officially ended. ignite a political firestorm, particularly balloting and suggested broad conspiracy houses of Congress. However, several other states have long after he has repeatedly refused to say theories. Critics warn that he could be In a series of tweets, Trump said conducted votes by post. whether he’d accept an adverse result in laying the groundwork for contesting the “universal mail-in voting” would make Donald Trump can’t delay November’s the upcoming presidential election. results – although the purpose may be November’s vote the “most inaccurate presidential election without Congress, Trump appears to be doing everything simply to give him a scapegoat if he loses. and fraudulent election in history” and a partially controlled by the Democrats, in his power to undermine the credibility His tweet could also be an attempt to “great embarrassment to the USA”. first approving the decision. If he didn’t of November’s vote, in which a record divert attention away from the truly He suggested – without providing already know this, someone has certainly number of Americans are predicted to dismal second-quarter economic numbers evidence – that mail-in voting, as it is told him by now. rely on mail-in voting to avoid the risk of just released. He’s been relying on a known in the US, would be susceptible to The president also must know that exposure to the coronavirus. He’s financial turnaround to breathe life into foreign interference. tweeting about a delay – even framed as repeatedly made false and misleading his re-election campaign, and instead the “The [Democrats] talk of foreign an “I’m just asking!” question – is sure to claims about the reliability of the mail outlook appears exceedingly gloomy.

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US urges Pakistan to act after American charged with blasphemy shot in court ISLAMABAD/PESHAW shot him had no remorse, AR, Pakistan – The and said he saw the United States urged Prophet Muhammad in a Pakistan yesterday to dream the night before,” take action over the Latif Afridi, who heads the killing of an American Peshawar High Court national in a crowded Bar Association, told courtroom as he faced Reuters. trial for blasphemy. Afridi questioned how Tahir Ahmed Naseem the man managed to get a was shot multiple times at gun into the court given close range as he appeared that all visitors are in the north-western city checked thoroughly at of Peshawar on three different points. Wednesday. “It is likely someone “We urge Pakistan to who can go without being take immediate action checked, perhaps a police and pursue reforms that officer or a lawyer,handed will prevent such a the shooter the gun after shameful tragedy from he entered,” he said. happening again,” the US According to the charge State Department said in sheet against Naseem, a tweet. seen by Reuters, the As Naseem’s American was in contact arraignment began before with a student at an the judge, a young man in Islamic school in Pakistan the room pulled out a on Facebook and told him handgun and shot him in he was a messiah sent by the head, officials and God. witnesses said.The young Naseem later met the man was arrested on the student in Peshawar,after spot. An ambulance carrying the body of a man, who according to police was killed by a gunman during a proceed- which police arrested him Yesterday,supporters of ing at a judicial complex, moves out of the Khyber Medical College (KMC) morgue, in Peshawar, Pakistan and charged him with a a hard-line Islamist group July 29, 2020. number of crimes, held a protest rally in including insulting the Peshawar calling for the defended his religion. and shared on social beside the judge’s bench, bloodied clothes, were Prophet Muhammad, release of the suspected The aftermath of the media, showed Naseem as other shackled taken from the room. which can bring the death shooter, saying he had killing, captured on video slumped over in a chair prisoners, some with “The young man who penalty in Pakistan. 18 • Friday July 31, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

Russia proposes scrapping technical talks with Ukraine MOSCOW/KYIV – Russia received a letter from format, so named because engaged in talks with “However, it is clear that than 13,000 people and has proposed to ditch senior Kremlin official the first talks took place in Kozak, said the negotiation there is no point in talking brought Western sanctions technical talks on Ukraine Dmitry Kozak proposing the French region of process “has not been easy”. about the termination of on Russia. regarding the level of scrapping the talks in their Normandy in 2014. “Mr.Kozak’s letter,in my negotiations. The work is There have been some political advisors in the so- current form, without “The format of advisors opinion, is more about a still ongoing.” signs of a thaw in relations, called Normandy format, withdrawing from the talks is ineffective,” a source in subtle diplomatic game, Relations between including prisoner swaps. as it sees little progress in altogether. Moscow said about the when one of the parties to Ukraine and Russia Last week, Ukrainian, the negotiating process, a Russia wants to end the letter,without elaborating. the talks wants to collapsed after Moscow’s Russian and OSCE source in Moscow told technical talks between the “There is little meaning in strengthen its position and annexation of Crimea from negotiators agreed on a full Reuters yesterday. foreign ministers and it”. seize the initiative,” he said Ukraine in 2014, and over ceasefire in eastern The Ukraine heads of states of Russia, The head of the Ukraine in a statement. He did not its backing for fighters in Ukraine from Monday, government later Ukraine, France and president’s office, Andriy say when the letter had the Donbass region in a putting on hold the military confirmed that it had Germany in the Normandy Yermak, who has been been sent. war that has killed more conflict. Italy’s Salvini to face new trial over migrant ship blockade ITALY’S Senate has that preventing irregular voted to allow the migrants from prosecution of ex- disembarking in Italy was interior minister government policy at the Matteo Salvini for time. blocking a migrant ship “Defending Italy is not a off Italy’s coast last crime. I am proud of it, I August. would do it again, and I More than 100 migrants will do it again,” he said on were stuck on the Spanish Wednesday. rescue ship Open Arms for His blockade of the ship 19 days off the isle of caused an outcry and a Lampedusa. serious split in the coalition Prosecutors in Sicily government at the time. accuse Mr.Salvini of illegal His League party was in a detention, which could coalition with the anti- The migrant ship was not allowed to dock in Lampedusa. bring a jail term of up to 15 establishment Five Star, years. but now he is an opposition 21%. in which he condemns the been postponed until 3 there with my head held The anti-immigration, MP. Coronavirus restrictions influx of migrants from October because of high and my back right-wing politician is Opinion polls suggest have prevented Mr.Salvini North Africa. coronavirus restrictions. straight". already set to stand trial the League’s popularity holding rallies up and In February, the Senate Prime Minister Last summer Open in a similar case. has slumped during the down the country or posing voted to strip him of his Giuseppe Conte had called Arms filed a legal The Senate voted 149 to coronavirus crisis, though for selfies on the beach - parliamentary immunity Mr. Salvini “obsessed” with complaint against Mr. 141 to strip him of his a Demopolis poll this week campaign tactics which in a similar case, involving keeping migrants out of Salvini’s block on their ship parliamentary immunity showed it still the top have endeared him to the Italian coastguard Italian ports. and finally on 20 August in the latest case, paving party, on 25.4%, followed many Italians. His boat, Gregoretti. All the parties in his the authorities allowed it the way for prosecution. by the centre-left popularity is driven by The opening court governing coalition voted to dock in Lampedusa, a Mr Salvini, 47, insists Democratic Party (PD) on prolific use of social media, hearing in that case has on Thursday to lift Mr. tiny island off Tunisia that Salvini’s immunity. has struggled for years to Mr Salvini tweeted cope with boatloads of defiantly on Thursday:“By migrants. sending me for trial they’re By that time, many of WHO warns partying youngsters not giving me a big gift, but the migrants had already to ‘let down guard’ on COVID-19 unlike the others I’m going been allowed off the ship. GENEVA – Young people invincible,” WHO Director reimpose harsh masks on planes and keep letting down their guard to General Tedros Adhanom restrictions. themselves informed as UK to impose 14-day enjoy the summer holidays Ghebreyesus told a news Britain and several COVID-19 cases surge are partly driving a spike briefing in Geneva. other European countries again in some countries. in new COVID-19 cases in Evidence suggests that have placed restrictions on The WHO had said in quarantine on arrivals some countries, the World recent spikes of cases in travel to Spain. June that it would update Health Organisation said some countries are being Maria Van Kerkhove, a its travel guidelines ahead yesterday. “driven in part by younger top WHO epidemiologist, of the northern from Luxembourg A fresh jump in cases in people letting down their told the same briefing that hemisphere summer LONDON – Britain will impose a fortnight’s parts of Europe, the United guard during the northern night-clubs were holidays, but has not yet announce a 14-day quarantine on people States and Asia has fuelled hemisphere summer”, he “amplifiers of done so. quarantine period for returning from fears of a second wave of said. transmission”. Its previous guidance for passengers arriving from Luxembourg,” BBC new coronavirus infections The leader of the north- “The majority of young travellers has included Luxembourg, the BBC reporter Chris Mason said, and prompted some eastern Spanish region of people infected tend to common-sense advice reported yesterday,echoing adding that a formal countries to impose new Catalonia on Monday have more mild disease. applicable to other settings a decision earlier in the day announcement was due restrictions on travel. warned young people to But that’s not always such as social distancing, by Scotland’s devolved later yesterday. The “We’ve said this before stop partying to help halt a consistent,” she said. washing hands and government. Department for Transport and we’ll say it again: surge in new cases or local The WHO this month avoiding touching your “I understand the UK did not immediately young people are not authorities may have to urged travellers to wear eyes, nose or mouth. government will also comment on the report. The Barbados Advocate Friday July 31, 2020 • 19

Spain: American Australia’s Victoria records huge case jump AUSTRALIA’S virus-hit state of Victoria has reported its worst death gets seven years toll and case rise, prompting fears that a six-week lockdown of state in prison capital Melbourne is not working. The state confirmed 13 new deaths and 723 new cases yesterday – a 36% jump on for drug the case record set on Monday. There are fears now that Melbourne’s lockdown, which began on 7 July, will smuggling need to be extended. The spike meant Australia overall had MADRID – A Spanish court yester- its deadliest day in the pandemic. day found a 77-year-old American A 14th person died late on Thursday man guilty of drug smuggling and but his death will be included in today’s sentenced him to seven years in figures as it was announced after the prison, rejecting his defence that he government’s briefing. was duped. Officials in Victoria renewed appeals Victor Stemberger had told the for people with symptoms to get tested The resurgence of the virus in Australia has been centred in Melbourne. Madrid provincial court he didn’t quickly. know cocaine was hidden in the Last week, the Victorian government Melbourne has also become the first which began in June, has now led to more jackets he carried across the world on said sick people breaking isolation rules Australian city to make mask-wearing than 7 000 cases this month alone, ac- behalf of a man he thought repre- – or not getting tested in time – was mandatory in public, and this will be counting for about 95% of the national sented the United Nations. leading to continued spread despite lock- extended to all of Victoria from Monday. total in the second wave. Stemberger spent over a year in down measures. Premier Andrews said the latest case Last month, with community transmis- pretrial detention before his trial “If you’ve got symptoms, the only thing numbers reflected the virus’s hold in the sion low to non-existent elsewhere, every started earlier this month, you can do is get tested,” said Premier city’s nursing homes – with one in other state shut their borders to Victoria. The court concluded that found Daniel Andrews. six cases linked to residents and staff. However the virus spread to Sydney that he was carrying 2.4 kilograms “You just can’t go to work. Because all Elderly people have made up the through visits from Melbourne residents. (more than five pounds) of cocaine as you’ll be doing is spreading the virus.” majority of deaths reported in the past Authorities there are now battling he stopped over in the Spanish Thursday’s figures dash hopes that fortnight. clusters around restaurants and capital on a journey from Sao Paulo, recent lower case numbers indicated the Due to a successful suppression of the pubs, and warn the city is on a Brazil, to Hong Kong. The state had turned a corner. virus in the first months of the pandemic, “knife’s edge”. drug was expertly sewn into four Under Melbourne’s second stay- Australia maintains numbers far lower On Wednesday, Queensland joined the puffer jackets Stemberger had at-home order, people cannot leave their than many other countries – with about Northern Territory and Western Australia carried. home except for exercise, food shopping, 16 000 cases and 189 deaths. in barring entry to anyone from Sydney The Vietnam war veteran and work and care-giving. However the outbreak in Melbourne, due to the renewed risk. former business coach from the state of Virginia told the court he was asked to take the jackets by a man called Frank or Franklin, whom he met after receiving an email from an unidentified person, according to the court’s written verdict in the case. The verdict said Stemberger admitted transporting the jackets, which he was told were gifts, but said he didn’t know they contained drugs. The court found his story “implausible,” adding that it was “improbable” that he would take the jackets without any reward. The court also fined Stemberger 278 727 euros ($329 000s). Stemberger’s family claims he has had cognitive issues since he suffered a severe brain injury 15 years ago. He had no previous criminal record. His family in the United States expressed dismay at the verdict. The streets of the capital, Harare, were cleared the day before planned protests. “We just can’t understand why they would sentence him to prison with this kind of evidence showing he was a victim,” his son, Zimbabwe police clear streets ahead of anti-govt protests Victor Stemberger Jr., said ZIMBABWE’S security forces have Our correspondent says the govern- coronavirus despite not getting in a written statement. cleared people off the streets of the ment is nervous about the demonstra- the necessary consent of Zimbabwe’s Defence lawyer Juan Ospina capital, Harare, and forced shops to close, tions and growing public anger over a procurement registration authority. presented the court with a psycholog- a day before planned anti-corruption deepening economic crisis. He has not commented on this ical report that said his client protests. More soldiers have now been deployed accusation. suffers from dementia and that As a result, the city’s streets are at police roadblocks, which were After investigative reporter Hopewell Stemberger’s ability to interpret unusually deserted, reported the BBC. set up to enforce the four-month-old Chin’ono was arrested after reporting on reality is altered to such an extent Citizens have been warned not to take Covid-19 lockdown, she adds. the original story. that it compromises his decision- part in the demonstrations today. Several opposition parties, churches Zimbabwe is also struggling with its making. Government officials have accused and civil society groups have called on worst economic crisis in a decade. The US Justice Department Western governments of being behind the Zimbabweans to protest against Nurses have been on strike,demanding advised Spain that it believed protests. corruption. to be paid in US dollars. Stemberger was duped into acting as The authorities have said that the Earlier this month, Zimbabwe’s Health It has had a major impact on a drug mule for a West African opposition is being funded by Western Minister Obadiah Moyo was sacked amid healthcare: seven babies were stillborn criminal network, like many other diplomats and it is using the protests to corruption allegations. in one night at a major hospital this week elderly or vulnerable people try and overthrow the government. He is accused of going ahead with in a because their mothers did not in recent years. Charges that both opposition leaders and suspicious looking deal to buy masks and get adequate medical care due to the diplomats deny. other equipment to protect against strike. 20 • Friday July 31, 2020 The Barbados Advocate ‘Steppa’ doing it for the love of music ention of the name ‘Tony Francois’ may studio, Steppa answered with a very rare smile, “We leave many scratching their heads, but can do anything! If you want R&B, Gospel, Reggae. Manyone who finds themselves immersed We do everything. We started off with Dancehall and in the local and regional music scene would Reggae back in the day, and then I really got into definitely know the name ‘Steppa’. Soca because it is the more dominant genre of music Coincidentally, these two are one and the same in Barbados for you to get out there.” and have been churning hits out of Uprising With the majority of the island’s artistes releas- Studios for the better part of 15 years. ing music almost exclusively for Crop Over, Francois, a man of few words who has avoided the Francois said the model needs to change. spotlight for many years, agreed to sit down with “I don’t think we should only release music Showtime at his Chelston Gardens home to for Crop Over. I think we could release music share his story when you have and let it go all year round, Revealing that he began producing music just like how they do it in Jamaica and back in 2007, Francois noted that he got his Trinidad. When Jamaicans release music start as a deejay. Growing up around turnta- all year round, they get more play, they get bles and records, he explained that he started to tour more, they bring in more revenue honing his craft at the age of 10 years old. for their country and if you check it out, Francois said that as he got older, he formed Jamaicans are all over the world every alliances with well-known and respected year. They don’t wait for their carnival to disc jockeys such as Peter Coppin and Lil let go music. They let go music right Rick. It was working in Coppin’s studio that through the year and that’s what I think the bug bit him and he picked up an interest Bajans should do,” he said . and affinity for producing music. “When Trini Carnival comes around, try Immensely proud of the small but impres- to get on some Trini rhythms and let go a sive studio at his home, Steppa rattled off some tune for Carnival. Same thing for Dominica, of the names that he has worked with. “I have St Lucia – wherever there is a carnival, try worked with Pong, Contone, Scrilla, Leadpipe, to get on a rhythm down there and release Saddis, Patrice Roberts, Shal Marshall, Problem something. You never know, it may catch!” Child, Jagwa, Verseewild, Stiffy, Coopa Dan, Speaking as he prepared the booth for an- Natalie Burke, 5Star Akil, Barry and Bruce other of his artistes, King Cudi, Francois said Chandler, Faith and Ricardo Drue, just to name a that Barbados needs to have a better structure few.There’s lots more. I have worked with a lot of for our music industry. artistes,” he said before adding that he also produced “I think the NCF is trying to structure it in a way some of Scrilla’s biggest hits; ‘Bumpa Trending’ by that all cultural practitioners register now and they Shal Marshall; and the 2014 Tune of the Crop, ‘Ah would know all the artistes and all the producers, all Feeling’ by Leadpipe and Saddis. IN THE BOOTH! Steppa preparing the booth for the dancers and they would have them in the data- With Crop Over 2020 taking a massive hit as a his next artiste. base. So if you go to an NCF event, you can show result of COVID-19, Francois said that he was also your creative pass and you can get in without having affected by the pandemic. one wanted to save to pay as a creative. Because I don’t think a creative “People started to do music and after COVID came their money for food and what they needed. One or should be going to an event where your music is play- in, people that started projects couldn’t finish them two artistes that were finished with their projects ing or you have an artiste performing and you have anymore. Nobody wanted to spend any money put out their songs,” he said. to pay,” he said. because we were heading into a pandemic and every When asked about the genres of music done in his (MP)

Tony Francois hard at work despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

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O magazine features Breonna Taylor on its first cover without Oprah prah Winfrey is using the cover to protect you. And then mayhem. of O, The Oprah Magazine to What I know for sure: We can’t be Ospotlight someone else this silent. We have to use whatever mega- month. Instead of her own smiling face phone we have to cry for justice. And on the cover, as it typically has been for that is why Breonna Taylor is on the two decades, there is a powerful por- cover of O magazine.” trait of Breonna Taylor with three Winfrey also said she feels a kinship bolded words: “HER LIFE to Taylor, writing, “She was just like MATTERS.” me. She was just like you. And like “If you turn a blind eye to racism, you everyone who dies unexpectedly, she become an accomplice to it,” says a had plans. Plans for a future filled with quote from Winfrey that also appears responsibility and work and friends on the September edition cover. and laughter.” The demand for justice for Taylor – a Winfrey also wrote of connecting with 26-year-old Black EMT who was fatally Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer. “The shot by Louisville Metro Police day I called, Ms. Palmer was dealing Department officers on March 13 – has with the emotion of it all. She told me, ‘I continued to escalate amid the Black can’t stop seeing her face. Her smile. Lives Matter protests. Taylor was It’s what I miss most about her. I still fatally shot when police burst into her can’t grasp the concept of her being apartment, using a no-knock warrant, gone. It feels so surreal. I’m still wait- during a drug investigation. The ing for her to come through the door.’” warrant was in connection with a sus- The powerful cover image was cre- pect who did not live there, and no ated by self-trained 24-year-old digital drugs were found in Taylor’s apart- artist Alexis Franklin. ment. Taylor’s boyfriend fired his gun, In the magazine’s more than 20-year thinking it was a break-in, leading to run, Winfrey has appeared on every police firing more than 20 bullets. cover. While she has shared the cover of According to the Louisville Courier the Hearst publication ≠ she has al- Journal, Taylor – shot eight times ways been part of it. The issue, out Aug. – struggled to breathe for at least five 11, is focused on anti-racism and white minutes after she was shot and re- privilege. A powerful portrait of Breonna Taylor with three bolded words: ‘HER LIFE ceived no medical attention for more Earlier this week, it was announced MATTERS’ appears on the cover of O, The Oprah Magazine. than 20 minutes after she was struck. O magazine would end its regular Inside the magazine, Winfrey wrote, monthly print editions with the cial media to call for justice for Taylor #ChallengeAccepted social media chal- “Imagine if three unidentified men December 2020 issue. It will instead be since her story went viral in the wake lenge, some – including Chelsea burst into your home while you were focusing on its digital efforts. of George’s Floyd’s death. More re- Handler – have used it as an opportu- sleeping. And your partner fired a gun Many celebrities have been using so- cently, as stars participate in the nity to call attention to the injustice.

TV exec claims Ellen’s staffers told him not to ‘look at’ talk show host AS Ellen DeGeneres and her namesake Wilkins. When Breen and Wilkins got to the whole thing was totally bizarre. show face scrutiny over allegations of a “one of the flashy hotels” where the in- Like, we’re there to do an interview toxic workplace culture, more stories terview was set up, they were met by “a with her to promote what she’s doing – about the 30-time Emmy winner seem lot of people” from her show. but you can’t look at her? Like, come on. to be publicly popping up. Radio host “There were a lot of producers there,” Get real.” Neil Breen recalled a “bizarre” en- Breen recalled, adding that her staff DeGeneres has come under fire for counter with DeGeneres and her staff had control over “everything,” from the months following a string of negative when he was an executive producer on interview seats to the lighting and “how reports. In April, Variety reported Australia’s Today in 2013. it would work.” that crew members on her show were Breen, who now has his own show on “The producers called us aside and upset with top producers over their 4BC radio, said on his podcast he was said, ‘OK this is how it’s going to work treatment amid the coronavirus told by DeGeneres’s producers not to here this morning… Now Neil, no one is pandemic. look at her ahead of an interview.He to talk to Ellen. You don’t talk to her, Earlier this month, Buzzfeed pub- also claimed her staff “walked on you don’t approach her, you don’t look at lished a troubling report about an al- eggshells.” Breen told his story her,’” he recounted. The producer said, leged culture of intimidation and racism following Variety’s report this week the she’ll “come in, she’ll sit down, she’ll in the workplace, interviewing one cur- Ellen DeGeneres Show has become the talk to Richard and then Ellen will rent and 10 former employees. Many subject of an internal investigation by leave.” blamed the three executive producers WarnerMedia following numerous “I found the whole thing bizarre,” for the day-to-day toxicity, but one noted allegations of workplace problems, in- Breen stated. the responsibility ultimately falls on cluding a culture of racism, fear and in- Breen added that the producers DeGeneres as it’s her show. timidation. would loudly “giggle and laugh” at In a joint statement to BuzzFeed “I want to tell you my experience,” “every word she said” during the News, executive producers Ed Glavin, Ellen DeGeneres Breen shared. “When Ellen DeGeneres interview. Mary Connelly and Andy Lassner said came to Australia to do her show in “I had asked them to be quiet because they take the stories of the employees rience. It’s not who we are and not who 2013 I was the executive producer of the we were filming an interview,” he re- “very seriously.” we strive to be, and not the mission Today show…She was supposed to co- called, saying again it was “bizarre.” “Over the course of nearly two Ellen has set for us. host the show, but then her team said “I’m not blaming Ellen – ‘cause I decades, 3,000 episodes, and employing “For the record, the day to day respon- she’d only be available for an interview.” didn’t get to talk to her! I wasn’t al- over 1000 staff members, we have sibility of the Ellen show is completely Breen said the change of plans caused lowed to. So I don’t know whether she’s strived to create an open, safe, and in- on us.We take all of this very seriously him to have to take his Today team a nice person or not, I wouldn’t have a clusive work environment,” they said. and we realise, as many in the world from Sydney to Melbourne at the break- clue,” Breen concluded. “But I can tell “We are truly heartbroken and sorry to are learning, that we need to do better, fast programme’s expense. DeGeneres you the people who work with her learn that even one person in our pro- are committed to do better, and we will agreed to be interviewed by Richard walked on eggshells the whole time, and duction family has had a negative expe- do better.”

22 • Friday July 31, 2020 The Barbados Advocate Tiffany Haddish admits she’s afraid to have kids iffany Haddish ad- protested in L.A. in June, rapper and activist about that.” mits she’s afraid to said, “I’m not a fearful Common during quaran- That led to Haddish Thave children – and person, but I’ve watched tine.) pointing out, “White the reason why should many of my friends – not She continued, “There’s people don’t have to give pause. ‘many,’ but more than a part of me that would think about that. That’s The comedian ap- two of my friends grow- like to do that, and I al- something they don’t peared on Carmelo ing up, be killed by police ways make up these ex- have to think about.” Anthony’s podcast, officers. It makes you feel cuses like, ‘Oh, I need a Haddish said that “now What’s in Your Glass, like, dang, as a Black million dollars in the we have to come together this week and while talk- person we are being bank before I do that.’ I as a community,” adding ing about the Black Lives hunted. I’ve always felt need this. I need that. that while people may Matter protests in the like that: We’re hunted But really, it’s like, I not “all agree on the wake of George Floyd’s and we’re slaughtered. would hate to give birth same things,” we need to death, she said that It’s like they get this to someone that looks “find some common racism has kept her from license to kill us and like me, knowing that ground and move having her own children. that’s not OK.” they’re gonna be hunted forward as human be- The 40-year-old Girls Haddish, with her or killed.” ings.” Trip star said while she’s freshly shorn head, went At that point, Haddish Haddish also talked considered it, she doesn’t on to say,“I’m older now, was visibly upset getting about growing up in fos- want to bring kids into a a little older, and people the words out, but added, ter care and her personal world where they could are always like: Are you “Why would I put some- efforts to bring about potentially be “hunted or going to have a baby? one through that?” change. She talked at killed” because of their When are you going to Anthony, who has a length about her idea to skin colour. have some babies?” teenage son with open a supermarket that Tiffany Haddish cries as those gathered at George Haddish, who attended (She’s a divorcee, and BH90210’s LaLa, replied, offered cooking lessons Floyd’s memorial service in Minneapolis on June 4 Floyd’s memorial and was recently linked to “It’s scary to even think and literary workshops. pause silently for eight minutes and 46 seconds.

Sharon Jessica Simpson forgives Osbourne describes two woman who abused her JESSICA Simpson has following her high-pro- ‘out of body forgiven the woman who file divorce from singer sexually abused her as a Nick Lachey in 2006 child. that prompted her to experiences’ “I would say about have the conversation. SHARON Osbourne re- eight years ago I con- “I knew that I couldn’t vealed yesterday on The fronted her,” the singer move forward without Talk that she’s had two said Wednesday on the letting her know that... I of what she calls “out of new episode of wasn’t just gonna leave body experiences.” Katherine Schwar- it unsaid. I left it unsaid The disclosure came as zenegger Pratt’s podcast, for far too long, but I “Mrs. O” and her co-hosts The Gift of Forgiveness. knew that if I was hon- gathered for an episode “I went to her and I just est with her, that it of her daytime talker said, ‘I know you know would clear my con- with Sharon’s husband, what was going on and I science,” Simpson ex- Ozzy, and adult son, know that you were plained. “And I even sent Jack. The men appeared being abused,’ ‘cause she Jessica Simpson her the book, and I told on the show alongside was being abused by an her that I hope it brings her to promote the fam- older guy. And basically... they would be there to healing.” ily’s new Travel Channel and he was always there support her abuser. Then Later, in a lighter part series, The Osbournes at the house as well – so Simpson went in and ad- of the conversation, Want to Believe. he never touched me, but dressed her directly. Simpson spoke about “I had one when I had he would abuse her and “I told her in the mo- how much she admires pneumonia as a kid. And, then she would come to ment, ‘I know that you her younger sister, I also had a really bad me and do the stuff to have a lot to deal with’ Ashlee Simpson. lung disease at the same me – and so in many and I told her that I “She would’ve, like, time and I was out of ways I felt bad for her.” think she should proba- punched [an abuser]. my body,” Osbourne Sharon Osbourne has a new show with husband Ozzy Simpson wrote about bly talk to someone and She would’ve absolutely, explained. and son Jack. being sexually abused by find a way to understand like, stood up for her- The second such expe- a family friend during those moments and to self,” the elder Simpson rience, she said, was been able to observe. filming. childhood in her forgive those moments said. “[Ashlee has] al- years later. “The doctor said to me, The premise of the February memoir, Open and to heal from those ways had a sense of con- “I was in hospital and I ‘I’ll do anything, just show is that Jack, who Book. While Simpson moments,” Simpson said. fidence and honesty was having a blood come back, come back. believes in the paranor- didn’t identify the per- “And ‘I just want you to about herself that makes transfusion. I was sick Anything you want. I’ll mal, is trying to convince son, she said it was know that I forgive you her so unique and such and I can remember do anything.’” Osbourne his more sceptical par- someone who would and I don’t really care to an amazing individual. everything they did to said. “And then, when I ents that the phenome- have sleepovers with her be around you that much And she’s always so fear- bring me back,” saw the doctor the next non is real by showing when her family went to or ever again, but I do lessly been herself.For Osbourne said. “And, I day, I said, ‘You’ll do any- videos of supernatural visit another family two want you to know that, me, it took a lot longer to was hovering again out thing? I want an ice activity in their screen- or three times a year. like, I know what hap- learn how to own being of my body looking at the cream’… He was looking ing room. On The Talk, The Jessica Simpson pened between us, and myself. And she also room with the doctors.” at me like, what?” the younger Osbourne Collection designer said I’m not gonna live in de- changes a lot. She can She recalled something Osbourne son Jack said his parents are she had told the nial about it.’” just roll with it, and I from the scene that, logi- said he only learned “about even” in their woman’s brother and It was all the “soul- think too deeply about cally, she shouldn’t have about the stories during belief. mother beforehand, so searching” Simpson did things. …”

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Johnny Depp was victim of ‘abuser’ Heard, court told LONDON – Johnny Depp was lawyer David Sherborne said the victim of invented allega- while Depp had been open tions and physical violence about his use of drugs and alco- from his former wife Amber hol, Heard had played down Heard, London’s High Court her own consumption of them was told on Tuesday, the final as well as her anger and jeal- day of the Hollywood actor’s ousy issues. three-week libel suit against a “She is the abuser, not Mr British tabloid. Depp. He is no wife beater,” “Pirates of the Caribbean” Sherborne told the court. star Depp is suing News Group He said Heard was a “wholly Newspapers, publishers of the unreliable witness and, Sun, and one of its journalists, frankly, compulsive liar” who Dan Wootton, over a 2018 arti- had tailored her story to meet cle that called him a “wife the evidence produced against beater”. her and lied about injuries she Depp, 57, and Heard, 34, both said she had suffered. Actor Johnny Depp arrives at the High Court in London, Britain gave evidence at the trial. Depp July 28, 2020. INSET: Johnny Depp’s former wife Amber Heard. said he had never been violent ‘Period, full stop, nada’ towards Heard or any other A recording was played to the retorts: “I hit you like this. But would never strike a woman. woman and that she was the court in which Depp tells I did not punch you.” “He has never hit a woman in one who had attacked him. Heard she is lying when she Sherborne said the admis- his entire life. Period, full stop, Heard said Depp assaulted says she did not punch him, sion that Heard hit Depp nada,” Sherborne said. her on at least 14 occasions, in- which Sherborne said demon- would have caused “consterna- He said the Sun’s article was cluding punching, head-butting strated Heard’s “propensity to tion” if the roles were “not researched at all” and pre- and throttling her, and on violence”. reversed. sented in a one-sided manner, Monday her lawyer said Depp “Don’t tell me what it feels In his testimony, Depp said effectively convicting Depp was “a hopeless addict”. like to be punched,” Depp said he modelled himself as a of a crime he had never com- In his closing speech, Depp’s in the recording, before Heard “Southern gentleman” who mitted.

The cast of ‘Game of Thrones’ accepts the award for Outstanding Drama Series during the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 22, 2019. Pajamas anyone? Emmy awards show to go virtual LOS ANGELES – The Emmy be a traditional gathering in or another location of their which is usually broadcast live and “Succession.” Many of the Awards show in September Los Angeles to celebrate televi- choice. in front of an audience of A-list nominees are British actors, di- is the latest casualty of the sion. “So, what are you wearing??? stars. rectors or writers. coronavirus pandemic, and “As you’ve probably guessed, Our informal theme for the ABC television, which will The Emmy Awards is one of that may mean some we’re not going to be asking you night is ‘come as you are, but broadcast the show, said on the few entertainment industry celebrities appearing in pa- to come to the Microsoft make an effort!’. Wednesday that producers had gatherings that have not been jamas or from their bed- Theatre in downtown LA on “If you want to be in formal reached out to nominees and cancelled because of the pan- rooms. September 20th. This year, it’s wear, we’d love that, but equally that plans were still being demic. Venice film festival or- Hollywood trade publication still going to be TV industry’s if you’re in the UK and it’s 3am, worked out. ganisers said this week that Variety on Wednesday said that biggest night out... but we’ll perhaps you want to be in de- The letter followed Tuesday’s they were going ahead in early host Jimmy Kimmel and pro- come to you!,” said the letter, ob- signer pajamas and record from Emmy nominations, which September with a slimmed ducers of the Sept. 20 telecast tained by Variety. your bed!,” the letter added. were led by “Watchmen”, com- down version of what will be have written to Emmy nomi- It said producers were plan- The letter gave no details edy “The Marvelous Mrs. first major in-person movie fes- nees confirming there will not ning to film nominees at home about the format of the show Maisel,” crime drama “Ozark” tival in the COVID era.

24 • Friday July 31, 2020 The Barbados Advocate Benidorm star’s ‘joyful’ story wins children’s book prize BENIDORM star picture book storytelling Nathan Bryon and is redefined for a new era illustrator Dapo in this joyful and Adeola have won the energetic tale; an Waterstones children’s inviting narrative plot is book prize for their interspersed with “joyful” picture book nuggets of non-fiction, Look Up! satisfying curious young It sees would-be minds with a multi- astronaut Rocket trying faceted experience away to get her brother to turn from screens. his eyes to the sky rather “More than ever before, than his phone. we are exploring non- Bryon, who played fiction and inspirational Joey Ellis in Benidorm, characters at younger was inspired by a visit to ages, and we champion Hyde Park, London with Rocket’s boundless his girlfriend. enthusiasm, curious “She wanted me to see nature and kind spirit as the Peter Pan statue and a hero for us all. I was too busy looking “She is a little person down at my phone,” he with big dreams, who has said. captured our hearts.” “The book is a message As well as being an to me to be more present, actor, Bryon has to Look Up! and see all previously written for the wonderful things the children’s TV shows that are around me, as Rastamouse, my emails really aren’t Swashbuckle and Apple that important.” Tree House. The book also explores He asked his friend the significance of role Adeola, an illustrator models and Nathan Bryon played the ‘nice but dim’ Joey Ellis in and character designer, representation, as Rocket the ITV comedy series Benidorm. to draw the character of is a young black girl Rocket. “I just told him aspiring to follow a of British children’s character. she was a black girl, with traditionally male career. books have been found to Florentyna Martin big hair, and glasses - it And it comes at a time contain a black or from Waterstones said: was like he had a cable to Bridge when only four per cent minority ethnic main “The mould of traditional my brain,” said Bryon.

The Barbados Advocate Friday July 31, 2020 • 25 Artists urge politicians to get permission for campaign songs ICK JAGGER, Lorde, Sia issued through a songwriters’ associa- and Blondie are among the tion such as ASCAP or BMI. Martists demanding that US However, there is some leeway for an politicians seek permission before artist to complain their image and repu- playing their songs at rallies. tation is being damaged by the repeated They’re among more than 50 acts use of a song without their express per- who’ve signed an open letter calling for mission. new rules on how their music is used. The new letter, organised by the The letter calls on Democrats and Artist Rights Coalition (ARA), ad- More than 50 artists signed the open letter, and gave lawmakers a deadline of Republicans to “establish clear policies dresses that point in its third para- August 10 for a response. requiring campaigns to seek consent” graph. from songwriters and artists. “Being dragged unwillingly into poli- mission siphons away that value.” unnecessary public controversy, and the Campaign music has been a heated tics in this way can compromise an The ARA directs its letter at six politi- moral quagmire that comes from falsely topic throughout the 2016 and 2020 artist’s personal values while disap- cal campaign organisations: the claiming or implying an artist’s support elections. pointing and alienating fans – with Republican and Democratic National, or distorting an artists’ expression in Artists including Rihanna, Adele, The great moral and economic cost,” it says. Congressional, and Senatorial commit- such a high stakes public way.” Rolling Stones, Panic! At The Disco and “For artists that do choose to engage tees. The signatories have requested that the estate of Prince have asked the politically in campaigns or other con- “As artists, activists, and citizens, we political parties respond by August 10, President Trump to stop using their texts, this kind of unauthorised public ask you to pledge that all candidates explaining how they plan to “accomplish music at his rallies, with some threaten- use confuses their message and under- you support will seek consent from fea- these changes”. ing legal action. mines their effectiveness. tured recording artists and songwriters Among the stars endorsing the cam- Technically, US copyright laws give “Music tells powerful stories and before using their music in campaign paign are Sheryl Crow, Cyndi Lauper, politicians carte blanche to use recorded drives emotional connection and en- and political settings,” it says. REM, Alanis Morrisette, T Bone music at their rallies – as long as the gagement – that’s why campaigns use “This is the only way to effectively Burnett, Aerosmith and the estate of venue has a public performance licence it, after all! But doing so without per- protect your candidates from legal risk, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.

UK sets up $647 million emergency insurance fund for film, TV LONDON – Britain has announced a filmmakers try to get back to work, they market. discussions with the TV and film indus- 500 million-pound ($647 million) fund are finding some insurers have stopped “From award-winning dramas, to try and was warmly welcomed by it. to help television and film companies providing the COVID-19 coverage they iconic comedies and revered documen- “The issue of securing coronavirus- restart productions after companies need to secure financing. taries, the UK makes the films and TV related insurance quickly emerged as complained they were unable to get The government said the insurance shows the world can’t wait to watch. the biggest hurdle for independent insurance because of the coronavirus fund will be available to all productions Yesterday’s announcement means more producers,” said Ben Roberts, chief pandemic. made by companies where at least half clapperboards snapping into action,” executive of the British Film Institute, Shoots shut down abruptly in March the production budget is spent in the said Oliver Dowden, Britain’s culture describing the new fund as “really great as the novel coronavirus spread and the UK, and is estimated to cover more minister. news for our production business, jobs government imposed a lockdown. As than 70% of the film and TV production The decision comes after months of and for the economy.

Netflix to stream classic Black shows GET ready for a big dose of nostalgia from Netflix. The streaming giant announced Wednesday that it will begin streaming a series of classic African- American shows from the 1990s and early 2000s “Moesha,” “The Game,” “Sister Sister,” “Girlfriends,” “The Parkers,” “Half & Half” and “One on One” will all start streaming on Netflix in the weeks to come. The official Twitter account for Netflix’s “Strong Black Lead” shared the news along with a video of some of the stars of the various shows speaking on the importance of the announce- ment. ‘Girlfriends’ will be available to watch on Netflix from September 11.

Time to pop bottles!! Sister Sister - September 1 To celebrate, here’s a message from evision as we know it,” “Half & Half” The following classic shows are Girlfriends - September 11 your faves: pic.twitter.com/zohNPEo0rz star Valarie Pettiford said in the video. coming to @Netflix (US) The Parkers - October 1 – Strong Black Lead (@strongblack- Read More Half & Half - October 15 lead) July 29, 2020 Strong Black Lead launched at Moesha – August 1 One on One - October 15 Netflix in 2018 and amplifies both The Game S1-3 – August 15 “These shows changed the face of tel- Black content and Black creators. 26 • Friday July 31, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

Drake breaks Billboard record RAKE has officially de- throned Madonna, thanks Dto a little help from DJ Khaled. According to Billboard, the rapper has broken the record for the most top 10 hits in the history of the Billboard Hot 100. His appearances on DJ Khaled’s “Popstar” and “Greece” have entered the Hot 100 at no. 3 and 8, respectively. Those two singles mark Drake’s 39th and 40th entries in the Top 10, surpass- ing Madonna’s previous title of 38. It’s not the first record he’s broken. In 2018, Drake’s “Scorpion” album set a record by posting seven simultaneous singles on Billboard’s Top 10. That toppled The Beatles record of five singles set in 1964. Drake with DJ Khaled.

British rap artist Wiley. Kerry Washington says we may see a ‘Scandal’ movie in future UK Rapper Wiley THE cast of “Scandal” held a virtual same side for once as the cast Mellie Grant), Jeff Perry (Cyrus Beene), says ‘I’m not reunion for charity on Wednesday reminisced about their time on the Emmy Award nominee Kate Burton night. show. (Vice President Sally Langston), Emmy Kerry Washington's Olivia Pope, the Tony Goldwyn (President Fitzgerald Award winner Dan Bucatinsky (James racist’ after anti- White House and B613 were on the Grant), Bellamy Young (President Novak), Norm Lewis (Edison Davis), Katie Lowes (Quinn Perkins), Semitic posts Guillermo Díaz (Huck), Cornelius Smith (Marcus Walker), George LONDON – British rap artist Wiley Newburn (Charlie), Joe Morton (Rowan apologised on Wednesday and said he is Pope) and Executive Producer/Director not racist after posting a string of Tom Verica all took part. anti-Semitic comments on his social Fans asked questions in real time and media accounts. could donate to The Actors Fund for the The rapper’s Twitter account, which chance to have their names read on air had half a million followers, published a by a member of the cast. series of tweets last week asserting that When asked if she would reprise the Jews systematically exploited Black role of political fixer Olivia Pope, artists in the music industry, continuing Washington at first said it was “hard to a pattern of exploitation dating back to imagine.” the slave trade. However she added that it may be a His account has now been perma- possibility, saying, “It would be very nently suspended by Twitter and the so- hard to say no to the opportunity to cial media company has apologised for work with these people again.” the time it took to respond. “We still spend time together, and we Wiley said his disagreement was with really love each other,” Washington his Jewish manager and he would hand shared. back the UK government honour given “Scandal” aired its final episode more to him for his contribution to music in than two years ago. 2018. The reunion was the latest project for “I just want to apologise for generalis- “Stars in the House,” which launched ing and going outside of the people who during the coronavirus outbreak to I was talking to within the workspace The cast of ‘Scandal’ held a virtual reunion for charity on Wednesday night. promote support for The Actors Fund. and workplace I work in,” he said in an interview with Sky News. “My comments should not have been directed to all Jews or Jewish people. I want to apologise for generalising, and Founding member of The Roots Malik B, dead at 47 I want to apologise for comments that were looked at as anti-Semitic.” MALIK ABDUL BASIT, a rapper, the news. Wiley, 41, whose real name is Richard singer and founding member of No cause of death was released. Cowie, released a number one single in The Roots, has died, according to a Basit, who performed under the Britain in 2012 and had several other statement posted on the group’s name Malik B., was part of the top 10 hits as a leading figure in grime verified Twitter account. Philadelphia-based group from its music, a British genre of rap. He was 47. early beginnings to about 1999, when The rapper’s former manager John “We regretfully inform you of the he departed amid group tensions de- Woolf, who is Jewish, said he would no passing of our beloved brother and tailed in the song “Water” from The longer represent the artist. long time Roots member Malik Abdul Roots album “Phrenology.” Written by Wiley said, “I’m not racist, you know. Basit,” the statement read. “May he be Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, the I’m a businessman. My thing should remembered for his devotion to Islam track speaks to Basit’s struggles with have stayed between me and my and innovation as one of the most addiction. manger. I get that.” gifted MCs of all time. We ask that Basit went on to produce solo mate- His comments led to condemnation you please respect his family in our rial and, several years after his depar- from celebrities and lawmakers, time of mourning.” ture, also appeared on several tracks including British interior minister A publicist for the group confirmed on Roots albums. Malik Abdul Basit – aka Malik B. Priti Patel.

The Barbados Advocate Friday July 31, 2020 • 27 SPORTSSPORTS New date set for Henderson Layne invitational memorial draughts competition THE popular Henderson Layne Club President Hallam Hope has invitational memorial draughts reported that face masks, social competition will now start distancing and hand sanitising protocols on August 16, two weeks later will be in place to address the COVID-19 than originally planned. pandemic crisis Organised by the Lodge Road Spectators and players will be located Richard Grazette (left) who was second in the Lodgse Road In House draughts Draughts Club the premier event separately for the competition. tournament receiving a trophy and cheque from tournament director Michael will be played at Best Road, Last Sunday the club held a delayed Edgehill. Christ Church. awards ceremony for the 2019 winners of Jack Francis and several well-known its In House individual tournament Grazette, Jeffrey “Socks” Clarke was Tournament Director Michael Edghill players will be competing in the Master’s which was won convincingly by third, Anthony “Rat” Agard was fourth said he was pleased to have been category with prize money being doubled Ronald “Suki” King. and past club president Whitfield associated with the incident-free, on this occasion. The second place was taken by Richard “Festus” Robinson fifth. keenly-contested event. (HH)

Awardees in the Lodge Road 2019 In House tournament : (l-r) Whitfield Robinson (5th), Jeffrey Clarke (3rd), Richard Grazette (2nd) and Anthony Agard (4th). Missing is winner Ronald ‘Suki’ King.

Criminal case opened against FIFA president Infantino

GENEVA –A criminal case against FIFA make up reprehensible behaviour,” public office, breach of official secrecy,“as- president Gianni Infantino was opened according to a statement from the sisting offenders” and “incitement to these yesterday by a Swiss special prosecutor, Swiss authority overseeing the federal acts,” the supervisory authority for the of- plunging world soccer’s governing body prosecutors office. fice of the attorney general said in its in a new scandal. Keller opened a criminal case against statement, adding other criminal Special prosecutor Stefan Keller has Infantino as well as Valais prosecutor acts and proceedings could also be concluded there is enough evidence Rinaldo Arnold, and has sought considered. to take the case to court after investigat- authorisation to open a legal case against Suspects in such cases benefit from a ing the circumstances of a meeting Lauber,too, according to a statement from presumption of innocence in Switzerland Infantino had with Swiss attorney general the Swiss authority. until legal proceedings are completed. Michael Lauber, who offered his resigna- Keller, a legal expert named to the post FIFA declined to comment but Infantino tion last week. of special prosecutor on June 29, found said last month “this whole thing is quite FIFA president Gianni Infantino. Keller has uncovered “elements that possible infractions included abuse of absurd.”

28 • Friday July 31, 2020 The Barbados Advocate Clijsters, Osaka, Hamilton can pass Venus among Schumacher records, says Ferrari chairman wildcards in LEWIS HAMILTON is He added that Ferrari poised to pass Michael was the first company in Schumacher and become Italy to implement ‘Equal US Open tuneup Formula One’s most suc- Salary certification for NEW YORK – Four-time comeback in 2009, when cessful driver,according to equal pay for women and Grand Slam champion she won the first of back- Ferrari chairman John men with the same quali- Kim Clijsters was to-back US Open titles to Elkann. fications and duties’ and among four major title go with her first in 2005. Hamilton can tie stressed that showed winners given wild- Former world number Schumacher’s all-time “commitment to a work cards yesterday into one Clijsters also captured record with a seventh environment that is inclu- the WTA field for a US the 2011 Australian Open world title this season. sive and respectful of dif- Open tuneup event and in 2017 was inducted Elkann said Hamilton ferences”. next month in New into the International was “an exceptional Hamilton, the sport’s York. Tennis Hall of Fame with driver” who “can become only black driver, was crit- The 37-year-old Belgian 41 singles titles. the most successful ever... ical of Ferrari when he was joined in the wildcard Osaka, 22, won the 2018 He has been able to work spoke to the media follow- field for the Western and US Open and 2019 with concentration and in- ing his victory at the Southern Open by Japan’s Australian Open. The telligence. Styrian Grand Prix. Naomi Osaka and 10th-ranked star was “His move from He said, “F1 has come Americans Venus Will- listed as the highest-paid McLaren to Mercedes was forward and said that they iams, Sloane Stephens female athlete in the world Russia given second not an easy one. It was not are supporting ‘end racism’ and Caty McNally. by Forbes magazine in obvious and it was a win- and it’s amazing to see The event, typically May. ning choice.” Mercedes doing the same staged in Cincinnati two Stephens, 27, was a deadline by World Responding to the thing, but no other team weeks before the US shock winner of the 2017 Briton’s call for the Italian has said a single thing. Open, was moved to US Open after an team to do more to pro- “We’ve seen Red Bull’s Flushing Meadows and 11-month absence due to a Athletics to pay fine mote diversity during an mechanics take a knee, will be played August 20- right foot injury that saw interview with Italian which I think is great, but 28 inside the National her ranking plunge to MONACO – World “At least we’re daily La Gazzetta dello publicly as businesses and Tennis Center bubble 957th in the world. Athletics gave Russia’s now in a position to Sport, Elkann defended as teams, if you look at without spectators as a re- Venus Williams, 40, has troubled track and field continue the reinstate- Ferrari. Ferrari who have thou- sult of the coronavirus won seven Grand Slam ti- federation a second ment process, having at “The civil commitment sands of people working pandemic. tles and 49 career events deadline yesterday to least had a very clear he is carrying out is impor- with them, I’ve heard no US Open play will begin overall. The former world pay a $5 million fine indication that they have tant and dear to us,” said word saying that they hold there on August 31. number one became only by mid-August after accepted the seriousness Elkann, who succeeded themselves accountable Clijsters, a mother of the sixth woman to reach saying the Russian and the severity of the Sergio Marchionne as and this is what they’re three, returned to the 800 all-time match wins. Sports Ministry situation.” chairman of Ferrari in going to do for their WTA Tour this year after McNally, 18, was a promised to clear the World Athletics 2018. future.” retiring in 2012. She was Washington semi-finalist debts. extended a freeze on ousted in her first match last year and took 23-time The Russian Athletics giving Russian athletes at Dubai in February and Grand Slam winner Federation, known as permission to compete in Monterrey in March. Serena Williams to three RusAF,was fined $10 mil- as “authorised neutral Vettel in no hurry to She had first retired in sets at last year’s US lion in March, with half of athletes” in international 2007 before making a Open. that sum suspended. It events until the money missed a July 1 deadline is paid and the plan decide his future to pay. Members of its is confirmed. That is SEBASTIAN VETTEL is given the right packasge, former leadership were likely to mean no Russian in no hurry to decide his I have a lot more to give... accused of providing athletes compete when future and wants to make it depends on what the Recalled Willey stars as forged medical docu- the Diamond League sure his decision is options are.” ments to give an athlete restarts amid the ‘right’ for him, he said Vettel, told by Ferrari an alibi for being coronavirus pandemic yesterday. that he is no longer part of England beat Ireland unavailable for drug next month. Speaking during a video their plans after this sea- testing. Russian Sports news conference ahead of son, has been linked with a England captain Eoin launches the new World World Athletics said it Minister Oleg Matytsin this weekend’s British move to Racing Point next Morgan hailed the “heart Cup Super League to de- will call on its congress to called the offer Grand Prix, the four-time year when the Silverstone- and soul” of David Willey termine qualification for vote virtually on described by World champion who is in his based outfit is re-branded after the left-arm pace- the 2023 50-over show- expelling Russia if Athletics a “guarantee” in final season at Ferrari said as Aston Martin. man marked his return to piece in India, slumped to the $5 million fine and comments reported by he was learning to be He said,“I feel physically the global arena by setting 78-4 at the Ageas Bowl. another $1.3 million in state news agency patient. driving and so on that I’m up the world champions' However Sam Billings, costs aren’t paid by Tass. He said the min- “I would give you an an- no worse than I have been six-wicket win over a late injury replacement August 15. Russia istry was “prepared to swer if I really knew,”he in the years that I’ve been Ireland at Southampton for Kent team-mate must also provide a support RusAF” but said, when asked for an in Formula One. I feel very yesterday with his Joe Denly, made 67 not plan for further anti- didn’t name a source for update on his plans. “But good and there’s a lot to first five-wicket haul in out, including 11 fours. doping and governance the funds. at the moment I don’t and give so it depends what the one-day internationals. Together with World reforms. The head of World I think it’s probably options are. Left-arm paceman Cup-winning skipper It’s the latest extension Athletics’ Russia task realistic to be patient and “Looking to the future, Willey, appearing in his Morgan, he shared an un- in a long-running force, Rune Andersen, wait a little bit. there’s the big rule change first ODI since being left broken fifth-wicket stand dispute. RusAF is still said the offer from “That could be a couple in 2022, which might be out of England’s World of 96. serving a suspension Matytsin was received of weeks, that could be exciting or might not be. Cup-winning squad for Former Ireland bats- imposed in 2015 by yesterday morning. longer than that.Time will I think we don’t know Jofra Archer, took 5-30 as man Morgan completed a World Athletics over RusAF said this week it tell. Nothing has changed sitting here now. Ireland were dismissed for win with more than 22 widespread doping. has had no income since to what I mentioned in the “I think you always hope just 172 in a match that overs to spare when he hit “I am pleased that we December and failed to last three weeks or prior for the better and as a fan marked the return spinner Simi Singh for six. have made a bit of a attract external funding. three races. of the sport I hope so too, of white-ball cricket But this victory was set breakthrough. It’s RusAF has no president “I’m not in a rush. I want but whether I will be there from the coronavirus up by Willey, who said a start, but it’s only a after Yevgeny Yurchenko to make sure that I make or not I don’t know.” lockdown. being left out of the start,” World Athletics resigned July 13 follow- the right decision for Vettel is the only non- An unfamiliar-looking World Cup squad at “the President Sebastian Coe ing less than five myself and then take it Mercedes driver to have a England, in the first of a eleventh hour” had been said. months in charge. from there. won a British Grand Prix three-match series that “difficult”. “I have made it clear, in the last seven years. The Barbados Advocate Friday July 31, 2020 • 29

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Man City £40m bid for defender accepted by Bournemouth RELEGATED Bournemouth have Begiristain said the club intended to accepted a £40m bid from “move fast” to strengthen their squad Manchester City for defender this summer. Nathan Ake. I don’t think anyone appreciated quite It is understood there is an additional how fast. £1m in add-ons as part of the deal. On Wednesday, City advanced talks Netherlands international Ake, 25, with Valencia winger Ferran Torres, joined Bournemouth in 2017 for a club which will see the Spain Under-21 record fee and has made 121 appearances international become the club’s for the Cherries. replacement for Leroy Sane for around Manchester City manager Pep £20m. Now, the Ake deal is almost done. Guardiola has been targeting at least One of the obvious reasons why City one centre-back to bolster his squad next lost the Premier League title to Liverpool season and Ake has been a target for a was their failure to sign a replacement for while. Vincent Kompany. Bournemouth were relegated from the It is significant that after the 3-2 defeat Premier League after finishing 18th, by Norwich on 14 September,Guardiola’s while Manchester City finished runners- two most experienced central defenders, up. Nicolas Otamendi and John Stones, did It was understood Ake would leave not start another Premier League game Bournemouth this summer whether together until July. Eddie Howe’s men stayed in the top flight Both stayed on the bench throughout or not. However,their relegation was the the rematch with Norwich, when 19- trigger for City to open talks. year-old Eric Garcia started, before being Ake, who played 29 of Bournemouth’s replaced by Fernandinho at half-time. 38 games in the Premier League this It is a prerequisite for Guardiola that season, has been capped 13 times by his his defenders are able to take passes in country and has previously played club tight situations and trigger attacks. Ake football for Chelsea, Watford and fits this template superbly. Reading. He is also good in the air, which is one Last year, Bournemouth sold defender of 35-year-old Fernandinho’s weaknesses Tyrone Mings to Aston Villa for £20m after he was pressed into service in the which is currently the highest fee makeshift role as Stones or Otamendi – received for a player by the Cherries. and sometimes both – were ignored. Following Sunday’s final Premier It might not be the end of the spending League game against Norwich, either, with more defensive Manchester City sporting director Txiki reinforcements anticipated. Centre-back Nathan Ake scored 11 goals in 121 appearances for Bournemouth.

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ARIES : It’s starting to feel as if you have too much on your A plate. If you’ve taken on a friend or neighbour’s N responsibilities or you’re standing in for a sick colleague, there D is little if any time left for yourself. You’ve gone above and C beyond the call of duty. Listen to a relative who is telling you O it’s time to think of yourself. N S TAURUS : You’ve always been careful with your cash and if a bonus, refund or unexpected financial gift comes your way, park your money where it will earn the most interest. Developments will call for you to give attention to joint financial arrangements and other money matters. Evening is a good time to discuss a potentially embarrassing subject with a friend. Z GEMINI: Getting involved with a charity or fund-raising I project will be a fine way to expand your life experiences T while being of service to others. One of your favourite S pastimes could be in the picture now which means travel is on the cards. Everything will happen so fast that it’s hard to take it all in.

CANCER : A situation will call for some quick thinking. Flexibility and creativity will be needed to solve a problem and you seem to be the one who comes up with the best answers. It will be easy to persuade others to go along with your ideas simply because they can’t come up with anything R better themselves. E X LEO: The social scene is becoming more active and this will bring new romantic possibilities. Are you single? Your fun- M loving spirit could win you the heart you want. If you already O have a partner, there will be benefits through sharing some R happy moments in their life. Be ready to pit your wits against G others in an online competition or quiz. A N VIRGO: You can’t keep doing other people favours and keep on top of your own work. If you’re starting each day feeling tired before you’ve even got down to business, you need to start slowing down. Get important matters out of the way early on and make time in your busy schedule to pamper yourself. Everyone needs a little time to themselves. P LIBRA: It will do you good to be more assertive. People will H show you more respect when you stand up for yourself. Someone will try to manoeuvre a situation to their advantage. A Don’t let them. Once you make a decision, stand by it. Don’t N lose faith in a relationship that’s been difficult. It will be T stronger than you might think. O M SCORPIO:You’re witnessing magical moments in amongst some difficult times. This helps uplift you and reminds you that a situation who has been getting you down is only temporary. Just one or two more steps will take you onto a better path. Your life will soon improve and there will be more co-operation in romance and friendships. M SAGITTARIUS : Avoid tiresome people who try to prompt A you to make negative decisions about a goal you are more than R capable of achieving. If someone or something is getting Y you down, put it aside, do something else and return to it another day. If someone you trust suggests they can do you a favour, accept their offer. W O CAPRICORN: Be honest about your feelings when talking R to a partner or close friend. Be truthful about your hopes for T the future. This gives them a better idea on where they stand H with you. If you have different long-term goals, take this chance to discuss this dilemma and how it might affect your joint future. M AQUARIUS : You can’t sit back and watch a gradually O worsening situation cause chaos and disruption around you. T It is time to take action to rectify the problem. This could place H you at odds with a higher up or someone with an overbearing E personality. This doesn’t matter as you will always fight for R what you believe in. G PISCES: Great results will be achieved through combining O positive action with positive thinking. If you want to be O successful you need to be prepared to put in the effort. Don’t S find excuses as to why you can’t attend important meetings E especially if you are seeking funds for a joint business venture.

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Friday July 31, 2020 LONG-AWAITED GHANAIAN

Minister of Health and Wellness, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Bostic welcomed the contin- gent of 49 women and 46 men NURSES ARRIVE to Barbados. By André Springer

AFTER months of planning, the fruits of labour came to fruition when the contingent of ninety-five Ghanaian nurses arrived at the Grantley Adams International Airport yesterday. Landing at approximately 5:57 pm yesterday evening, aboard Azores Airlines, the nurses celebrated their arrival by waving the national flag of the Republic of Ghana before being greeted by Minister of Health and Wellness, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Bostic and Minister of Tourism and International Transport, Senator Lisa Cummins. The nurses are here to help alleviate the nurse shortage in Barbados under a two- year contract. Minister Bostic welcomed the contingent of 49 women and 46 men to Barbados, explaining that there had been many The long awaited contingent of 95 Ghanaian nurses arriving yesterday evening at Grantley Adams challenges and that their arrival International Airport. INSET: Nursing Officer Lorraine Atopley. was a momentous occasion. He highlighted that the occasion better position to provide those all over the world. She also Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo, was a continuation of the initia- services. stated that the arrival of the thanked the Ministry of Health tive started by Prime Minister “Your presence here today and Ghanaian and Cuban nurses and people of Barbados for their Mia Amor Mottley, in reconnect- when you begin to work in a was part of the roll out of the hospitality. ing Barbados to the Republic of couple weeks, will enhance our domestic tourism initiative. “We pray that we are going to Ghana and Africa. The non-stop capacity to deliver the quality “They are going to be with us have great communication and flight from Africa to Barbados health care services that we have for some time and we are going interaction here and a very good was an important one,according been doing for years and we to ensure from the Ministry of stay for the next two or more to Bostic, as it was shorter than will continue to do so,” said Tourism perspective, that as part years. We promise to work hard a flight to the United Kingdom. Bostic. of our tourism domestic product, to deliver good service to “These nurses will be at the ‘no retreat, no surrender,’” said Minister of Tourism and they can have all the best that everyone and be at peace with Queen Elizabeth Hospital as Bostic. International Transport, Senator Barbados has to offer, so when everyone as we feel welcome at well as the primary health care The health minister explained Lisa Cummins remarked that they go back home they are able home,” said Atopley. sector,the geriatric hospitals and that though Barbados had to the first flight from the Azores to share with their friends and The nurses will be quaran- polyclinics and they have arrived deal with the virus, there was Airline was part of the ongoing family,” said Cummins. tined for the next fourteen days at a very opportune time because still a responsibility to the work being done negotiating Nursing Officer Lorraine and after being cleared to we are fighting the COVID-19 remainder of the healthcare direct air service agreements Atopley, on behalf of the nurses work, will be staying at various pandemic and we have a saying, sector and it was now in a between Barbados and countries and President of the Republic of residences across the island.

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