Opposition says they played a key role in Bush’s final resignation Loop Cayman Islands

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Leader of the Opposition, Roy McTaggart

The Leader of the Opposition, Roy McTaggart, issued a statement today regarding the moving up of the timeframe for the effective resignation of McKeeva Bush as Speaker of Parliament. In his statement, Mr McTaggart indicated that the private member’s motion for a vote of no confidence brought by him played a key role in this happening.

The full statement of Mr McTaggart is set out below.

I was heartened this morning to learn that Mr Bush has finally done the right thing and vacated the Speaker’s chair. I have no doubt that the combined pressure brought by my and MP Barbara Conolly’s motion on a lack of confidence in the Speaker, together with the Opposition’s boycott of Parliament and insistence that the Speaker step down immediately, played a key role in Mr Bush being forced out of the Speaker’s chair. This is certainly in the best interest of the Country and the Parliament.

The Opposition wishes Mr Bush and his family well and look forward to working with the new Speaker when Parliament next meets and Mr Bush’s successor is elected.

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Imbert tells Senate: Many benefits in the budget

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FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert did not understand why some people do not see anything beneficial in the 2022/2023 budget. He addressed this as he opened the budget debate in the Senate on Wednesday.

The House of Representatives passed the budget on Wednesday by a vote of 21 to 19.

Imbert reminded senators there were 23 fiscal measures in the budget.

“If I’m going to be dispassionate about it, of the 23 fiscal measures, two involve the increase in fines for certain things…three actually…which I think no one would want to contradict.”

He listed these as illegal quarrying, theft of scrap metal and theft of timber from state plantations. Imbert said Government is looking at increasing the fines for illegal quarrying, illegal state timbering and theft of scrap iron.

“All of the other measures are benefits, and somehow, in the discourse on the 2022/2023 budget, all the benefits that are in the budget seem to have been clothed in a lot of contentious debate.”

On this basis, Imbert felt it important to remind the population of some benefits.

The first was increasing the personal income-tax exemption limit from $84,000 to $90,000 a year. Imbert reminded senators this means all individuals earning $7,500 a month or less will now be exempt from income tax.

This meant they would have an additional $1,500 a year in disposable income in their pockets.

“Therefore the multiplier effect comes into play.”

While these measures will result in a decline in government revenue of $450 million, Imbert said, “We expect the effect on GDP (Gross Domestic Product) could be as much as double that.”

But he added this was theory. “You have to see how these things work out in practice.”

To combat climate change and boost domestic agriculture production, Imbert said the budget offers rebates of up to $25,000 for implementing renewable energy, such as solar and wind energy, for approved agricultural holdings.

“To encourage farmers and other agricultural producers, agro-processors and so on, to use solar energy for lighting and maybe energy for the machinery and so on, they were given a rebate of $25,000.”

Imbert said the subsidy for the Housing and Village Improvement Programme could improve the quality of housing for many people. The subsidy ranges from $145,000 to $175,000 for housing improvement work in different geographical areas.

Imbert also said the budget places significant emphasis on infrastructure in fiscal 2023. The newly formed Secondary Road Improvement Company, under the Rural Development and Local Government Ministry, will be one of the entities undertaking infrastructural work in the next fiscal year.

Imbert recalled a similar entity existed in the 1970s.

“We thought there should be a focus on secondary roads and local roads. So we created this secondary roads company with a specific mandate to think, to focus on local roads and secondary roads.”

The company has been allocated $200 million for fiscal 2023.

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Ramdeen wants back his laptops, phones from police

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EX-UNC senator Gerald Ramdeen is threatening to take the police to court for the return of several items they seized when they searched his home and offices in May 2019.

On Wednesday, his attorney, Dayadai Harripaul, wrote to the acting Police Commissioner.

She said the searches were done on May 1, 2019 – the day before Ramdeen and former attorney general Anand Ramlogan,SC, were slapped with three corruption charges in an alleged legal-fees kickback conspiracy.

Ramdeen’s Palmiste apartment and his law offices in San Fernando and Woodbrook were searched by the Anti-Corruption Bureau.

Harripaul said electronic items including computers, laptops, iPads and cellphones were taken, and although the police were told the items contained privileged material, they said it was for Ramdeen to prove that.

“Despite my client’s request for a copy of the search warrant, a copy was not provided to him,” she also said.

Harripaul said on May 9, 2019, she requested the items: a Macbook Air laptop; an iPad; a Digicel cellphone; a Scotiabank transaction record receipt; a digital vault; a Royal Bank chequebook in Ramdeen’s name; a Dell laptop, a Lenovo laptop and two other devices.

Harripaul quoted the law on police powers to detain property and said the legal principles were clear and lead to “only one conclusion: that the items taken ought to have been returned forthwith.”

She said on Monday the criminal prosecution against her client was discontinued, so “the continued detention of my client’s property is illegal and unlawful.”

“My client has been deprived of his property for in excess of three years and I now call upon you to forthwith immediately return my client’s property failing which proceedings will be commenced in the High Court for the forthwith return of same.”

She said her client contended that the police had no lawful basis for keeping the items.

Acting Commissioner McDonald Jacob was given until 4 pm on Friday to respond or Ramdeen will go to court for orders to have his belongings returned.

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Facebook, Twitter asked to remove posts with illegal maps of Guyana

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The Chief Executive Officers of Facebook and Twitter have been written to in light of a renewed orchestrated disinformation campaign being waged against Guyana by a number of Spanish-language social media accounts claiming Guyana’s territory by publishing illegal maps.

In his letters to Facebook and Twitter CEOs, Foreign Secretary Robert M. Persaud highlighted that those social media operatives have been utilising Facebook and Twitter platform, to propagate a false narrative regarding the extant matter of the controversy between Guyana and Venezuela about the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Award which settled the land boundary between Guyana and Venezuela.

Mr. Persaud stated, “I wish to point out that Facebook (and Twitter) posts and the subsequent comments surrounding the particular posts, have the potential to permanently damage relations between States, incite violence against the territory and people of Guyana, and derail the current adjudication of the matter before the International Court of Justice (ICJ).’’

The Foreign Secretary informed that the land boundary between Guyana and Venezuela was settled by a legal process of International Arbitration on October 3, 1899, pursuant to an 1897 Treaty of Washington by which both parties agreed to respect the results of the arbitration as a full, perfect and final settlement of the boundary.

At that time, Guyana was British Guiana, a colony of Great Britain.

As required by the 1897 Treaty of Washington and the 1899 Arbitral Award, the boundary as determined by the Award was demarcated on the ground between 1900 and 1904 by Commissioners appointed by Britain and Venezuela.

On January 7, 1905, the official boundary map delineating the boundary as awarded and demarcated, was drawn up and signed by the Commissioners of both Britain and Venezuela and promulgated in Georgetown, at the Combined Court.

That boundary and the corresponding territory of Guyana are internationally recognised, including by the United Nations, Mr. Persaud pointed out in the letter.

“In this regard, I am requesting that these types of Facebook posts (and Twitter) which violate the basic tenet of international relations between States, the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and incite a threat of use of force against Guyana, be removed forthwith and more stringent measure be taken against their publications,’’ the Foreign Secretary’s letter urged.

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Ministry of Transport and Works to roll out extensive Road Rehabilitation Program

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The Ministry of Transport and Works will roll out an extensive Road Rehabilitation Program here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines over the next few weeks.

This was disclosed by Acting Prime Minister Montgomery Daniel, on NBC Radio this morning.

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Minister of Agriculture,  Saboto Caesar has been commended for receiving an Award of Excellence from the Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture (IICA).

The commendation came from Acting Prime Minister Montgomery Daniel while speaking on NBC Radio this morning.

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The award was presented to Minister Caesar during the organization’s 80th Anniversary Ceremony held at the IICA headquarters in San Jose, Costa Rica on Friday October 7th.

Minister Caesar, one of the longest serving Ministers of Agriculture in the hemisphere, has been recognized for his invaluable contribution to agricultural development and rural well-being in the Americas.

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Long Covid is “devastating” the lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of people and wreaking havoc on health systems and economies globally.

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Bajan water polo coach awarded scholarship to Hungary Loop Barbados

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Water polo coach, Tyrese Beckles has been awarded a scholarship by Olympic Solidarity (OS) to attend a coaching clinic in Budapest, Hungary.

The Barbados Olympic Association (BOA) nominated Coach Beckles for the OS scholarship on the recommendation of the Barbados Aquatic Sports Association.

Beckles will be taking in the International Coaching Course (ICC) from October 3 to December 9 at the Hungarian University of Sports Science.

The course focuses on the sporting disciplines of judo, handball, volleyball, water polo and wrestling. The International Relations Center has organised this non-degree full-time course, which is held in cooperation with the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Solidarity programme. The programme is designed to promote and develop excellence in coaching.

Beckles, a member of the Barbados National Water Polo Team, is among the students participating in the water polo training. Participants will receive intensive education in sport psychology, anatomy, physiology, sport management, sport pedagogy, sport sociology, sport administration, sport and research and sport practice. Graduates of the programme will receive the ICC Coach’s Diploma.

Director of the National Olympic Academy, Vaneisha Cadogan, said that the BOA is thrilled that Beckles has been awarded an OS scholarship, allowing him to be on the receiving end of this excellent training opportunity.

“The BOA is pleased that our candidate was selected for the ICC 2022 Autumn Course, providing an opportunity for one of our coaches to be exposed to world-class training, which can help to elevate water polo in Barbados. We look forward to Tyrese returning and applying the knowledge he gains to help advance the sport and the young athletes he coaches,” said Cadogan.

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Ashanti Calls Irv Gotti Obsessed On Diddy’s ‘Gotta Move On Remix’

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Ashanti turn her attention to Irv Gotti on Diddy’s “Gotta Move On (Remix).”

The R&B singer is teasing a new snippet, and fans seem to think she is taking shots at Murder Inc’s founder. Ashanti and Irv Gotti have had a tense relationship for years since she left the label. The Grammy-winning singer has been the object of Gotti’s anger this year after she attempted to buy back her masters from him and then decided that she would re-record the albums, killing Gotti’s royalties’ stream.

On Monday, Ashanti seemingly broke her silence after releasing a remix of “Gotta Move On” by Diddy and Bryson Tiller. A short snippet of the track had lyrics that referred to a man being obsessed and stressed.

“It’s giving obsessed, it’s giving you stressed, it’s giving you pressed,” she adds. “It’s giving this: missing the best…But it’s been 20 years, please say less we could see you and your tears… tried a new man, Yeah, you gotta move on,” Ashanti sings.

“You thought that you could have her on the weekends / Now you mad ’cause I told you I was leaving / I’m gone, I’m done,” Ashanti says in another verse.

A DJ on the track shouts out Ashanti, Yung Miami, Diddy, and Bryson Tiller, but the other verses on the Ron Browz track have not been released yet.

Ashanti’s response comes months following several damaging public statements by Gotti, who appeared bothered by Ashanti’s relationship with fellow artist Nelly. The artist also claimed that he and Ashanti were romantically involved, and they had just finished having sex when they created the hit song “Happy.”

“It helped her,” Irv said about their romantic involvement.

“I think of the whole track in the shower,” Irv shared while explaining his creative process of how “Happy” came to be after he had just been in bed with Ashanti.

Despite his many pronouncements about Ashanti, the music producer claimed he was not obsessed with Ashanti, as many fans had called him and said that he only spoke of the singer when questioned about their relationship. Irv Gotti’s response was to label himself as a marketing genius, meaning the statement might’ve been a PR stunt.

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