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Two-time champion jockey Shane Ellis booted home three winners at Caymanas Park on Saturday, closing his tally with the late double for the owner-trainer combination of Lakeland Farms and Spencer Chung, who brought down the curtains with RACE CAR in the Arthur Jones Memorial Cup at six furlongs.

Ellis, who got his first win on the 10-race card astride SPECIAL COUNSEL in the fifth, a $750,000 claiming event at five and a half furlongs, used Lakeland Farms’ United States-bred three-year-old debutante, even-money favourite CHAMPION BUBBLER, to land the ninth at five furlongs straight.

United States-bred RACE CAR outfinished EAGLE ONE and EMPEROROFTHECATS in their overnight allowance clash. The five-year-old grey reported off a three-month break to get a good start, chasing EAGLE ONE and three-year-old speedster EMPEROROFTHECATS into the lane.

RACE CAR joined the leaders early in the stretch run and responded to Ellis’ urgings inside the final half-furlong, winning by a length and a half in 1:13.3.

Champion jockey Anthony Thomas also rode a three-timer, improving his tally against Dane Dawkins with who he is in a battle atop the riders’ standings. Thomas rode a two-timer for Richard Azan, PERFECT BREW (8-5) and JOSH (7-1), in the fourth and eighth events, respectively, in addition to Jason DaCosta’s SUPER DUPER in the seventh at odds of 9-5.

Dawkins, who started the 10-race card five wins clear of three-time champion Thomas, won aboard Gary Subratie’s 6-5 favourite GREAT TRICK at five furlongs straight in the sixth event.

Dawkins starts Sunday’s nine-race meet with a three-win lead over Thomas

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It’s a good thing President Ali’s a citizen of Guyana…with the amount of time he’s been spending abroad to either defend or sell Guyana, he might be risking his residence status!! But hold it!! Unlike the Yanks, we don’t have Residence Status, where a Green Card gives us probationary citizenship, do we?? Maybe we should initiate something like that though…after the President had to defend our Local Content Secretariat’s refusal to certify Ramps Logistics on his visit to Trinidad to participate in their Agri-Investment Forum.

Now, this takes a lot of chutzpah, doesn’t it?? Imagine this Trini Company snags the bulk of the logistics contracts from Big Oil by claiming they’d complied with our local content law. And has the brass balls to go to the media to complain that they’re being given a run around that they don’t qualify, since they don’t have the requisite percentage of ownership in Guyanese citizens’ hands. Then they’re forced to concede that he thought he was clever to’ve placed 51% of the shares of his local company with a “Guyanese” who’s merely born of a Guyanese parent but has never lived in Guyana – or has any intention of doing so!!Now, who did he think he’s fooling?? Maybe that’s why we should now formally impose that residency requirement!! But you know what?? Like the typical Trini, they figure we’re just a bunch of hicks – like the Guyanese who flooded Trinidad when Burnham had wrecked our country and we had to escape by any means necessary!! Well, this time nah lang time!! And we won’t be insulted anymore by the likes of Kamla, who asked snarkily at a Caricom meeting if the rest of the territories thought Trinidad was an “ATM machine”!!

But what made matters weirder was that – as Pres Ali informed his inquisitors – most of the foreign investors raking in business from our fledgling oil industry are Trinis!! And THEY still haven’t removed all the barriers in their laws that prevent Guyanese from shipping our goods to their country!! Take, for instance, pharmaceuticals: They have hundreds of rules that discriminate against our products, not the least being their customs inspectors being in cahoots with Trini pharma companies. And so on and so forth!!

Rowley now says all those barriers are being removed. But your Eyewitness doesn’t trust those Trinis farther than he can throw them. And have you seen those Trinis?? They’re not Number 3 in the World Obesity Rankings for nothing!! Can’t even throw them an inch!! So, at their Agri-Investment Forum, your Eyewitness hopes we don’t give away our land. They have oodles of that factor of production after shutting down sugar!!

And President Ali should count his fingers after shaking hands!!

…from within

Now that we’re exploiting our 11 billion barrels of oil (and counting) – even with what might concededly be “crumbs” – when those crumbs are US greenbacks, they’ll soon add up into a pretty windfall for a nation of just 750,000!! Not too fine a division, eh?? And that’s why we gotta watch who – and how many – we let in!! Cause before you know it, we might end up with more Spanish-speaking than English-speaking citizens!! Notice the 2000+ Spanish-speaking kids in our schools?? And trust your Eyewitness – that’s not the half of it!!

We gotta have that immigration policy. For instance, do we really need folks from China and Trinidad to open up supermarkets across the country?? Is this a skill we lack?? So, in addition to that Residency Programme – that’ll give us the wherewithal to ensure we’re not being snookered – we should now establish criteria as to what kind of skills we’ll admit.

Like engineers and moneybags!!

Like the Canadians do!!

…from without

Back in March, we submitted our Memorial on the Venezuelan border controversy to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Do we have a contingency plan when that madman in Caracas refuses the judgement in our favour??

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