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In this August 28 file photo, a Sidey’s player looks to dribble around the Roxborough Lakers goalkeeper in their Tobago Ascension Premier League match at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet. – David Reid

JERIME QUASHIE netted a first half hat-trick for Golden Lane FC in their 8-0 drubbing of Bertille St Clair’s Sports Academy when action in the Ascension Tobago Premier League continued on Sunday.

At the Shaw Park Recreational Facility in Scarborough, Quashie scored the opener as early in as the seventh minute. He again found the back of the net in the 34th.

Two minutes later, Anthony Belfour sent Golden Lane 3-0 up. Kerwin Simon showed no mercy and added two more to the tally in the 39th and 41st minutes.

Quashie then scored his third goal in the 45th minute to give them a heavy 6-0 advantage heading into the second period.

Jeromy Richards sent them further ahead when he scored in the 55th while Balfour completed the one-sided affair by netting another in the 62nd.

This result saw Golden Lane stay unbeaten after two matches and stay atop the central standings on six points while St Clair’s Academy are cellar placed, winless in two matches played.

Last Wednesday, Calder Hall also inflicted a 6-0 beating on St Clair’s with Kareem Tobias (17th and 65th) and Jeremiah Simon (45th and 88th) scoring twice and Darryl Trim (ninth) and Kareem Peters (35th) also among the goals.

In another central conference match, Christopher Morgan (48th and 90th) scored twice in Signal Hill United’s 3-0 beating of Stokely Vale at Mount Moriah Ground. Tyronne Manning scored in the 69th.

In western conference matches on Friday, top of the table Lambeau United (six points) recorded their second win in as many matches when they defeated St Clair’s Coaching School 3-0.

Jebarry Francis (40th), Miquale Franklyn (80th) and Nave Roach (85th) were the goal scorers.

Matches continue on Friday.

Other Results –

GEORGIA FC (3) – Jamal Small 53th, Nyah Davis 90th vs FC GOODWOOD (0).

CHARLOTTEVILLE POLICE YOUTH CLUB (1) – Jerron Chadband 63rd vs ROXBOROUGH LAKERS (0).

SIDEY’S FC (4) – Weah Adams 11th, Nick Quashie 30th, Daylon Gray 37th, Moses Bernard 49th vs BELLE GARDENS SC (1) – Kenta John 59th.

1976 FC PHOENIX (3) – Michael Jem Gordon 41th, 62th; Sherwin Lovell 90th vs BETHEL UNITED (0).

CARNBEE/MT PLEASANT (1) – Keano Brathwaite 53th vs HILL UNITED (1) – Justin Sandy 58th.

LEEDS UNITED (2) – Kernel Morris 56th, Kyle Brathwaite 90th vs MASON HALL POLICE YOUTH CLUB (1) – Shakeel Shade 33rd.

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A major catastrophe was averted on Tuesday when a fire, suspected to be electrical in nature, was averted at the Amelia’s Ward Primary School in Region Ten (Upper Demerara-Berbice).

Just after 13:00h, reports are that a staff member observed flames in one of the classrooms and immediately sounded an alarm for students to evacuate the area. Staffers at the school managed to contain the fire.

Fire responders were called to the school and an investigation was conducted.

It is suspected that the fire started from an electrical cable, situated in a classroom on the upper flat of the institution.

Before students return to school, the building will be inspected and an electrician will conduct checks to ensure it is a safe environment.

Less than two weeks ago, the Guyana Fire and Rescue Service confirmed that the massive fire that destroyed the St George’s High School in Georgetown in July was electrical in nature.

A rise in school fires has been observed in the past two years, which saw the North Ruimveldt Multilateral and North West Secondary School being destroyed.

Last month, the sod was turned for the reconstruction of several sections of the North Ruimveldt Multilateral School in Georgetown to the tune of $566.9 million

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“Climate science is clear: we are heading in the wrong direction”, declares a major, multi-agency UN climate science report released on Tuesday, with a focus on increasing fossil fuel emissions and rising greenhouse gases, now at a record high, which risk thwarting plans to reduce global temperatures and avoid climate catastrophe.

The researchers behind “Uniting in Science”, coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), studied several factors related to the climate crisis – from CO2 emissions, global temperature rises, and climate predictions; to “tipping points”, urban climate change, extreme weather impacts, and early warning systems.

One of the key conclusions of the report is that far more ambitious action is needed, if we are to avoid the physical and socioeconomic impacts of climate change having an increasingly devastating effect on the planet.

Greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise to record highs, and fossil fuel emission rates are now above pre-pandemic levels, after a temporary drop due to lockdowns, pointing to a huge gap between aspiration and reality.

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Cities, hosting billions of people, are responsible for up to 70 per cent of human-caused emissions: they will face increasing socio-economic impacts, the brunt of which will be faced by the most vulnerable populations.

In order to achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement, namely keeping global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, greenhouse gas emission reduction pledges need to be seven times higher, says the report.

If the world reaches a climate “tipping point”, we will be faced with irreversible changes to the climate system. The report says that this cannot be ruled out: the past seven years were the warmest on record, and there is almost a 50-50 chance that, in the next five years, the annual mean temperature will temporarily be 1.5°C higher than the 1850-1900 average.

The report’s authors point to the recent, devastating floods in Pakistan, which have seen up to a third of the country underwater, as an example of the extreme weather events in different parts of the world this year.

Other examples include prolonged and severe droughts in China, the Horn of Africa and the United States, wildfires, and major storms.

“Climate science is increasingly able to show that many of the extreme weather events that we are experiencing have become more likely and more intense due to human-induced climate change,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.

“We have seen this repeatedly this year, with tragic effect. It is more important than ever that we scale up action on early warning systems to build resilience to current and future climate risks in vulnerable communities”.

‘Early warnings save lives’

A WMO delegation led by Mr. Taalas joined Selwin Hart, Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Action, and senior representatives of UN partners, development and humanitarian agencies, the diplomatic community, and WMO Members at a two-day event in Cairo last week.

The meeting advanced plans to ensure that early warnings reach everyone in the next five years.

This initiative was unveiled on World Meteorological Day – 23 March 2022 – by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who said that “early warnings save lives”.

Early Warning Systems have been recognized as a proven, effective, and feasible climate adaptation measure, that save lives, and provide a tenfold return on investment.

‘Still way off track’

The harmful impacts of climate change are taking us into ‘uncharted territories of destruction’, Mr. Guterres said on Tuesday.

Responding to the United in Science report, Mr. Guterres said that the latest science showed “we are still way off track”, adding that it remains shameful that resilience-building to climate shocks was still so neglected.

“It is a scandal that developed countries have failed to take adaptation seriously, and shrugged off their commitments to help the developing world” said Mr. Guterres. “Adaptation finance needs are set to grow to at least $300 billion dollars a year by 2030”.

The UN chief recently visited Pakistan, to see for himself the massive scale of the destruction caused by the floods.

This brought home, he said, the importance of ensuring that at least 50 per cent of all climate finance must go to adaptation.

SOURCE: UN News/SLT

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by Khaila Gentle

BELLA VISTA VILLAGE, Toledo District, Sat. Sept. 10, 2022

Elias Pacheco, a Honduran national, is wanted by police for chopping to death a Bella Vista man who was a friend of a woman with whom Pacheco had been in a relationship. Just after midnight on Saturday, Ernest Ellis Blanco, 46 years old, was standing in a yard with 33-year-old Denia Montolla in the village of Bella Vista when he was attacked by Pacheco, who is Montolla’s ex-common-law husband.

According to a police report made by the 33-year-old woman, Blanco had recently walked her home, and they were standing inside her yard when she saw a grey vehicle come to a stop in front of them. Shortly after, Pacheco emerged from the vehicle wielding a machete and chopped Blanco several times.

Blanco ran onto the street and collapsed. He was eventually transported to the Independence Polyclinic, but was pronounced dead on arrival.

According to Police Communications Director, ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, the police have since issued a wanted poster for Pacheco. They have also made contact with law enforcement agencies in neighboring countries, which have been asked to be on the lookout for him. He is believed to be in the country still and is likely to be armed and dangerous.

As we previously noted, Pacheco is the ex-common law husband of Montolla. ASP Yearwood noted that it seems Pacheco’s jealousy “put him in such a rage that he took the life of another man.”

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