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Lawmen assigned to the Narcotics Division have placed in custody a 37-year-old businessman of a St. Elizabeth address after he was caught transporting a large quantity of ganja valued at over $100 million on Thursday, August 18.

Reports are that at about 8:00 am during an operation, which was being conducted along with members of the Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch, on the Portmore Toll Road, a 2013 Toyota Hiace bus, transporting a quantity of processed food intended for export was intercepted.

During a search, ganja weighing approximately 700 lbs with an estimated street value of approximately US $850,000.00 was found concealed in tins labeled as canned food.

The vehicle, along with the contraband, was seized and the driver was arrested on reasonable suspicion for breaches of the Dangerous Drugs Act.

Formal charges are expected to be laid pending an interview which is to be conducted in the presence of his attorney.

The police are asking that a Taxi driver by the name of Anthony Murray, otherwise called ‘Sprang’, of Mike Town, Manchester, whom they believe can assist with their investigation to contact the Narcotics Division.

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Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson, Akeem Blake, and Christopher Taylor won gold medals on day two of the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) Championships at the Grand Bahama Sports Complex in Freeport, The Bahamas, on Saturday.

Oregon World Athletics Championships 100m silver medallist Jackson clocked 10.83 seconds to smash the championship record in The Bahamas and in the process secured her first international victory at the distance.

Celera Barnes of the USA clocked 11.10 seconds to beat Jamaica’s Natasha Morrison for the silver medal. Morrison clocked 11.11.

Blake clocked 9.98 seconds to also win his first international 100m gold medal. The 9.98 seconds also bettered the previous championship record of 10.03, set by fellow countryman Tyquendo Tracey in Toronto in 2018.

The 20-year-old Blake won ahead of the USA pair of Kyree King (10.08) and Brandon Carnes (10.12). Oshane Bailey of Jamaica finished seventh in 10.33.

Taylor, a 400m finalist at the Oregon World Athletics Championships, led home a Jamaica one-two finish in the half-lap event.

Taylor secured the gold medal in a new personal best of 44.63 to improve to 13th on the Jamaican all-time list while Nathon Allen clocked 45.04 for the silver medal.

Bryce Deadmon of the USA secured the bronze medal in 45.06.

Jamaica won 11 medals on the day, three gold, three silver, and five bronze medals, for a total of 12 following O’Dayne Richards’ bronze in the men’s shot put on Friday’s first day.

Megan Tapper and the mixed 4x400m relay team joined Nathon Allen as the silver medal winners.

Tapper won the silver medal in the women’s 100m hurdles,

Tapper, the first-ever Jamaican athlete to win an Olympic medal in the 100m hurdles when she finished third in Tokyo last summer, clocked 12.68 seconds to secure the country’s third medal in The Bahamas.

Alaysha Johnson of the USA won the gold medal in 12.62 seconds while Devynne Charlton of the host nation The Bahamas secured bronze in 12.71.

Jamaica’s mixed 4x400m relay team of Demish Gaye, Junelle Bromfield, Karayme Bartley, and Andrenette Knight clocked 3:14.08 for its silver medal, well behind the USA, who took gold in 3:12.05. Cuba secured bronze in 3:20.35.

Adelle Tracey, Orlando Bennett, Stephenie Ann McPherson, and Chanice Porter joined Natasha Morrison as the bronze medal winners.

Former Great Britain athlete Tracey secured her bronze medal in the women’s 800m. She completed the course in 1:59.54 to win her first medal for Jamaica.

Ajee’ Wilson of the USA clocked 1:58.47 to beat compatriot Allie Wilson (1:58.48) for the gold.

Bennett ran a season’s best 13.18 second for third in the men’s 110m hurdles.

Freddie Crittenden of the USA clocked 13 seconds flat, a new personal best, to beat compatriot Jamal Britt (13.08) to gold. Britt’s time was also a new personal best.

Oregon World Athletics Championships finalist McPherson ran 50.36 seconds to win her bronze medal in the women’s 400m.

Shaunae Miller-Uibo ended her season at home by winning the gold medal and setting a new record.

Miller-Uibo won in a time of 49.40 – a new NACAC record – replacing the previous mark of 50.82 by American Courtney Okolo in 2015 in San Juan, Costa Rica.

Barbadian Sada Williams, the Oregon World Athletics Championships bronze medallist, finished second in 49.86.

Junelle Bromfield of Jamaica finished sixth in 51.51.

Porter secured her bronze in the women’s long jump with an effort of 6.43m, which she achieved in the final round.

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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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