Cyclist, 77, dies on Friendship road
A 77-year-old pedal cyclist died on the spot when his cycle collided with a hire car on the public road at Friendship, East Bank Demerara, around 3.30 yesterday afternoon.

The driver of the car involved in the mishap said he was traveling in the direction of Georgetown when he heard someone call out for "Icycle Man". He said it was then that he saw the deceased, who he claimed looked back and began to cross the road just as the car was approaching.

The young man said he tried swerving away from the cyclist but hit him before his car ended in a nearby trench. The man pitched off his bicycle on the parapet in front of DIDCO, and the cycle ended in the same trench.

The driver received slight bruises about his body, and was arrested by East Bank police.

Maria Brehaspat Mc Lean, the dead man's daughter, said she was at home when someone called her cell phone and informed her that her father was killed on the spot in an accident. She said she immediately called a taxi and traveled with her brother to the scene, where she identified her father's "badly damaged" body.

She noticed his intestines protruding, and he suffered a broken right ankle and head injuries.

The grieving woman claimed eyewitness told her that the car driver was using his cellular phone when the accident occurred.

McLean’s son said his father's body was lying on the parapet some 40 feet away from his bicycle.

When Chronicle arrived on the scene, a crash truck was pulling the car out of the trench. The vehicle was stained, apparently with the man's blood, and had a broken fender and damaged front.

Another of Mc Lean's daughters said she sat in the hammock under their house around 12:00 noon and looked at her father playing on their step with a pup, which was new to their home. She said a few minutes later she watched him walk away through their gates, then jump on his bicycle and ride away. “And he seemed happy.” But that’s the last time she would see him alive.

The children described their father as "a quiet person, very nice and friendly".

He has left to mourn his wife, Dorris Mc Lean, four children and his mother, whose age is 104.

The makings of a jungle in the city?
NO, it isn’t a scene being prepared for a movie shoot. After years of neglect, a jungle seems to be emerging in the ruins of this once popular building at the junction of Camp and Regent Streets -- the heart of Central Georgetown’s commercial zone. Fortunately, the building is sealed so it cannot easily be inhabited by vagrants, drug addicts and bandits. And it’s a concrete structure that won’t suddenly collapse and endanger the lives of passersby. Still, it is an eyesore that people hope will draw the attention of the relevant authorities at City Hall sooner than later. Pix by Delano Williams

Suicide man wanted wife, other woman
By Juene Bailey Van-Kenric
BERBICE police are continuing their investigations into the death of Rajkumari Ramnareo, 33, and her married lover, Hemraj Hargobin, 38, called Darmin, on Friday last.

Rookmin Ramnareo said Hargobin, a cane harvester, began living with her daughter at Belvedere from June 2003, but would periodically visit his wife and four children at Number 19 Village, another Corentyne location.

The woman recalled being told by her daughter that Hargobin wanted to end the relationship and return to his wife, which he did on October 14 last.

After the separation, the mother said, her daughter being unable to pay the $4,000 rent, and was assisted by an uncle to secure a lower flat at Hampshire Village, Corentyne.

But on October 19, when Inderdeo visited his mother at her new home, he observed that Hargobin had moved in, and on returning to the house last Friday evening at 19:00 hours, noticed that the building was in darkness.

After getting no response, he entered the building, where, on turning on the lights, observed his mother on the bed “stiff”, with suspected marks of violence about her body.

An improvised nunchakus (martial arts weapon) was found a few feet from the body.

The youth said he subsequently related the incident to his aunt, who reported same to ranks at Albion Police Station.

Neighbours around the area said they heard nothing unusual, but observed the couple, who had moved into the area recently, chatting in a hammock earlier on Friday.

"Blackie", 43, a name she prefers, recalled that on October 14 her husband told her that he was finished with the extra martial affair, and wished to be reunited with her and their two children.

But, the widow said, during his brief stay, her husband told her that he could not live without the other woman, and had expressed his desire to see her.

On October 18, after having breakfast, Hargobin left the matrimonial home, never returning.

According to her, on Friday afternoon whilst at her place of employment at Number 19 Villlage, she was informed that her husband had drank poison, and whilst she was receiving detailed information, her husband exited a car, vomiting a green liquid, before falling off their bridge into a nearby trench.

He was rescued and taken to New Amsterdam Hospital where he died on Saturday at 03:00 hours.

Prior to his death relatives were told that he had ingested gramazome.

The police said that the body was found with a chord with pieces of stem from a tree about 6 inches long tied around the neck of the woman, who was suspected to have been strangled.

The police noted that the rope appeared to be that of the same type which was found hanging above the bed.

The working bag and cutlass of the cane harvester, together with a bottle containing a poisonous substance were found in the house, the police said.

Bandits rob taxi drivers, Plaisance man
POLICE on the East Coast of Demerara are investigating three reports of robbery under arms committed between Saturday and yesterday.  

Police said that on Saturday, a 37 year old taxi driver of Pike Street, Kitty, was hired by four men at UG Road to take them to the Embassy Club in Kitty.

While on the Embankment Road approaching Sheriff Street, the men ordered the driver to stop the car, stuck him up with cutlasses and knives and robbed him of cash totaling $7,000 and the radio set, valued $70,000.

The bandits then tied him up and placed him in the trunk of the car. The men drove to Ogle Embankment Road where they freed the driver and escaped in a waiting car. 

The Ogle Embankment Road was the site of another yesterday, police said.

In a statement last night, the police said a 21-year-old taxi driver of Remos Street, Agricola, who works with a popular city taxi service, was stuck up by three men, one of whom was armed with a hand gun, at the Ogle Embankment Road. 

Police enquiries disclose that the men hired the driver around 3:15 yesterday morning to take them from Sheriff Street to “several destinations.” While at Ogle, on the Embankment Road, one of the men placed a handgun to the driver’s neck and robbed him of cash totaling $5,000 and a watch valued $2,500. 

During the process, the driver lost control of the car and ran into a trench. The men exited the car and escaped, police said.

In the third incident, at about 03:15hrs yesterday, a 36-year-old man of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, was robbed by two men, one of whom was armed with a gun while in the vicinity of Victoria and Embankment Road. 

Police said the victim was riding along the Embankment Road when he was stuck up by the men, who robbed him of $18,000 assaulted him, and then escaped.

Victims of Cubana tragedy remembered
THE Guyana Honorary Consulate in Barbados participated in yet another timely remembrance service and wreath laying at the Cubana Monument in Barbados to mark the terrorist bombing of a Cubana Airlines plane in October 1976 in which 11 Guyanese died.

A total of 73 people perished when bombs planted by two Venezuelan born anti-Cuban government terrorists exploded on board shortly after the airliner took off from Barbados' Grantley Adams International Airport. The majority on board were Cuban nationals.

Despite the heroic efforts of the Cubana pilots to try and control it and return to land, the plane plunged into the ocean off the west coast of Barbados.

About five years ago, the Barbados government had a suitable monument designed and built at the coastline. It was designed by Virgil Broodhagen, the son of a Guyanese immigrant to the island, Karl Broodhagen. The unveiling ceremony was attended by Cubana President Fidel Castro and Guyana Government Minister Reepu Daman Persaud. The Ambassador in Georgetown of the Democratic People’s Republic (DPRK) represented the five DPRK citizens who were on board the ill-fated flight.

In his remarks at the service held at the Paynes Bay Methodist Church, directly across the road from the Monument, Cuban Ambassador in Barbados, Jose Alvarez Portela said it was important to continually 'highlight' the terrible tragedy.

Terming those dead, including the Guyanese, as "symbols in the struggle against terrorism', Ambassador Portela said the attack on the Cubana plane and the September 11, 2001, destruction of the World Trade Center buildings in New York were "equally cruel and repulsive".

He called for international co-operation in the search for a real and lasting eradication of all forms of terrorism.

Representing the Guyana Government, Honorary Consul Norman Faria shared the views of the Cuban Ambassador and noted, "All states must now have in place more effective measures to combat terrorism. Representative state power, those that are the embodiment of people's will, must do what it can to protect that will."

Consul Faria referred to the street violence and crimes committed in the immediate aftermath of the last three elections in Guyana.

"Despite these three elections being deemed by respected regional and international observers to be truly representative of the Guyanese peoples' will, we still had ... lawless individuals unleashed by organised elements onto the Guyanese people. They killed, injured and indecently assaulted innocent people. They burnt and otherwise destroyed property, damaging our economic development. They made Guyanese of all races oppose such horrific activity. They were terrorists. While futile in their overall intent, the terror underscored the need of the State, as an embodiment of the will of all Guyanese to take the necessary action."

The Consul further praised the good Guyana-Cuba relations by the administrations over the years.

Both the Cuban Embassy and Guyana Consulate thanked the Barbados government for the kind and thoughtful gesture of erecting the monument.

Wreaths were later laid including one by Dame Billie Miller, the Barbados Minister of Foreign Affairs.

‘A journey of service with distinction’
Byron Blake, Assistant Secretary General of CARICOM, retires after three decades

AFTER a long distinguished career, spanning nearly three decades with CARICOM, Assistant Secretary General, Byron Blake finally decided to ‘throw in the towel.”

Blake who left his native Jamaica in 1970 to join the CARICOM Secretaraiat here, described Guyana as his second home, and, qualified as an economist for a mere three years, he rose to the challenge of the new responsibilities that accompanied his promotion to Economist 11 and then Senior Economist with the CARICOM Secretariat between 1970 and 1976.

With a deepened regional integration movement focused on the establishment of a regional-air carrier, the additional tasks of overseeing air transport and tourism were given to Blake with the new title of Coordinator, Economic Research and Policy from 1976-1979.

Seeking further academic advancement and intellectual growth to meet the new challenges of a rapidly changing era and the new demands of the integration imperative, Blake accepted a scholarship to pursue a Masters degree in Economics at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies.

He used this break as an opportunity to serve the region from a different vantage point and was seconded to the Jamaican government as Chief Planner for Agriculture and Rural development in the National Planning Agency from 1977 to 1979.

On his return in 1979, and, until 1983, the sectors of industry, energy, export promotion and science and technology became part of Blake’s responsibilities. In 1983 he became Director of the Division for Sectoral Policy and Planning. In 1994, he was appointed Director of Economics and Industry.

For a brief period during 1994, when the Secretariat broadened its scope of external engagements, Blake served as Director of Foreign Policy and external Economic Relations. Later that same year, he was promoted to Assistant Secretary General for Trade and Economic Integration, the post he held until his retirement in April of this year.

It is a testimony to the quality of his contribution for over three decades that after retiring from his substantive post, he was retained as Consultant, Trade and Economic Development until his departure last month.

Having called it a day at the CARICOM Secretariat, Blake described his stay as fulfilling.

“I am fully gratified to have been a part of the integration process. I think it has developed and matured into a public process. Overall, my experience was very interesting,” he declared.

His advice to his colleagues at the Secretariat is: “Be prepared for the call to integration, treat every sovereign state with equal importance and be quick to respond to situations that require technical expertise.”

Mr. Blake has been honoured for his outstanding work in his home country, the CARICOM Region, and internationally, including the Order of Distinction, Commander Class (CD) from the Jamaican government in 2001 and 1997 respectively, as well as the award of Honorary Citizen of Newfoundland, Canada.

In 2000 he received a meritorious award from the CARICOM Secretariat to commemorate 30 years of service.

He has over fifty publications and numerous technical and policy papers to his credit, and has also graced ministerial and technical level meetings at the international, hemispheric and regional levels with his insightful participation.

Mr Blake also attended the first three Summits of the Americas, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in 1992, and the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2002.

New attorney admitted to the Guyana Bar
ATTORNEY-at-law Mr. Troy Deygoo was on Wednesday last admitted to practise at the local Bar after Mr. Rex McKay, Senior Counsel (S.C.), presented his petition to Justice Jainarayan Singh at the High Court.

Justice Jainarayan Singh congratulated the new entrant and wished him success in his future endeavours.

Mr. Deygoo, who hails from Charlestown, Georgetown, attended Ketley Primary School and Queen's College.

He completed his law degree at the University of Guyana and moved to the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago where he graduated as a lawyer in October of this year.

Mr. Troy Deygoo is currently in private practice at the Chambers of Mr. Rex McKay. (George Barclay)

Big Guyanese turnout for ‘Bajan’ show
GUYANA had the third largest number of exhibitors at this year's Caribbean Gift and Craft Show held earlier this month in Barbados.

Feedback to the Consulate there indicates that the Guyanese exhibitors had mixed fortunes with some reporting unusually low sales. They, however, praised the organisation for the three-day get together, and they pledged to return, several to a big "Home Show" later in the month. Valuable contacts were also made with buyers.

“I understand this was because of other conflicting events such as Sesame Street show at the Sir Garfield Sobers auditorium, which organisers probably couldn't have foreseen," said Faria.

“The feedback I got from Guyanese exhibitors was that they were high in praise of organisers, although of course some would have liked a more prominent booth position. The craft business in Guyana is progressing as witnessed by the high turnout at the show. There are now better business practices and design capability, for example. Guyanese craft persons are also registering their firms in Barbados, which we in Guyana see as an import market. I talked with exhibitors such as Maria and Annette at the Guyana Marine Turtle Conservation Society, with leather goods manufacturers Chris Parris, Anthea Parris and Sookdeo Sancharra at Amerindian Handy Craft. Their dedication, creativity and business acumen must be commended. An official from our Guyana Office for Investment (GO-INVEST), which works closely with the craft people, came along with the participants," he added.

Consul Faria said that Guyanese and Caribbean area craft persons are already facing the challenges from the new type of globalisation. He pointed to competing mass produced rattan and basket products as well as clay and metal items imported into the region from the Far East.

"I would agree with (Barbados' Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs) Senator Lynette Eastmond, when she said, upon opening the Show, that trade liberalisation will mean stiffer competition. The Buy Local regional campaign, as exemplified by initiatives such as the Craft Shows and the overall work of the Barbados-headquartered and CARICOM-backed Caribbean Export Development Agency should be supported," Mr Faria said.

PERFIT the perfect napkin fit
PERFIT Sanitary Napkin is the perfect napkin fit that will make any child using it most comfortable.

Distributed by DeSinco Trading, PERFIT Sanitary Napkin is available in maxi pad and ultra thin, wing and non-wing, silky weave cover top and soft cotton-like cover top. Each variant is represented by a unique colour (non-scented) and comes in two sizes.

“PERFIT promises to provide comfort, security and better protection to women,” assures its distributors. “It is designed to fit comfortably and to provide comfort and security like no other. It is a very trendy brand and very high quality, therefore competing with premium brands on this attribute.”

PERFIT is affordably priced and is available nationwide.

Four appointed to Neal & Massay boards
FOUR persons have been appointed to the board of the Neal and Massay Group of Companies.

Mr. Sohan Singh, who joined AINLIM in May 1995 as a Sales Supervisor, has been appointed to the Board of Associated Industries Limited (AINLIM).

In 1998 he was promoted to Sales Manager and Divisional Manager of Transportation in 2003, the post he held until his new appointment. He is the holder of a Bachelor of Social Science Degree in Business Management and a Diploma in Marketing, both from the University of Guyana.

Mr. Raoul Persaud has been appointed to the Board of Geddes Grant. He has been with the company since March 2000 and was manager in the Agriculture Division prior to his recent appointment. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture from the University of Guyana and a Diploma in Agriculture from the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA).

He also has a Post Graduate Diploma in Grain Storage Management from Greenwich University, Kent, United Kingdom.

Mr. Darwindra Ragnauth has been appointed Company Secretary to the Neal and Massay Services Limited Board.

He joined the company last year November as the Group's Business Development Manager. He is also a member of the ACCA.

National consultation on HIV/AIDS opens tomorrow
A NATIONAL consultation on HIV/AIDS Law, Ethics and Human Rights is due to be held tomorrow and Wednesday at the Carifesta Sports Complex.

Following a ground-breaking series of regional consultations on a draft report commissioned by the National AIDS Committee, the consultation will produce recommendations for changes in a range of Guyanese laws which touch on the AIDS pandemic.

The topics under discussion include ‘privacy and confidentiality’, ‘public health’, anti-discrimination laws’, ‘criminal law’, ‘the correctional system’ and ’consumer protection’.

The consultation will bring together delegates from all ten regions of the country. They’ll be drawn from agencies and non-governmental organizations involved in HIV/AIDS activities, as well as representatives from labour, the professions, the business community, the medical community, religious organizations and the legal fraternity. A number of parliamentarians have also been invited to participate in the discussions.

Preparatory discussions in the ten regions have focused on the National Assessment Report commissioned by the National AIDS Committee and promoted by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) regional HIV/AIDS programme, PANCAP.

Guyana is the first country to have reached the point in the assessment process at which a report and recommendations are being submitted to analysis by a wider range of national bodies.

Following the two-day national consultation, recommendations from the workshop will be formulated into amendments to existing legislation for presentation to the National Assembly.

Hindu devotees graduate from first-ever Vedanta course
FORTY-six Hindu devotees graduated Saturday from the first-ever Vedanta course here, organized by the Gandhi Youth Organization (GYO), with President Bharrat Jagdeo urging the graduates to enlighten others about the principles of morality that religion propagates.

President Jagdeo, speaking at the graduation ceremony at GYO Campus, Woolford Avenue, Thomas Lands, Georgetown, commended Guruji Balakrishna, Disciple of Swami Chinmay Ananda, for sharing his knowledge of Vedanta with the men and women.

The Head of State urged graduates to make full use of the knowledge gained from the Bhagwat Geeta. "You have received a wonderful opportunity and I hope you will not transfer what you have learnt, because transferring is not the right process to educate people. There's a lot more to teaching and you have to do it to the best of your ability, so that people can see what Hinduism is about," he charged the graduates.

President Jagdeo pointed out that the Vedanta course was a noble idea and noted that more courses of a religious nature should be taught throughout Guyana not as a means of contradicting other faiths but to enlighten people. "You are now armed with the knowledge of the Scriptures, and I trust that you will not let the one year go to waste. I urge you to make decisions and always enquire and if you can’t do that then this course would not really serve its purpose," he stressed.

Vedanta is a sacred science in Hinduism that focuses on the basis of life and the call for self-realization. It insists that man is essentially a perfect man and as a result of the perfection, man's potential is infinite.

Pandit Haresh Tiwari told the gathering that Vedanta reveals the need for spiritual development and creativeness of the world, which lies in man. He said there is no difference between the world and man and the Scriptures reveal same. "Ancient Rishis had always sought to inspire all human beings to seek higher potentials and realize their abilities, resulting in self development, the universe and bringing about harmony," the pandit explained.

The graduates are now tasked with engaging in dialogue with members of their respective communities. Plans are on stream to start another one-year Vedanta course.

Attending on behalf of the Christian faith was Rev. Dale Bisnauth, who is also Minister of Labour, and Mr. Roshan Khan from the Muslim community.

Berbice man dies in Line Path accident
POLICE in Berbice are investigating a fatal accident which occurred on the Line Path Public Road at about 13:00hrs Saturday in which 37-year-old Hemwant Deodat of Crabwood Creek died. 

According to a police statement last night, Deodat was riding motor cycle CD 5324 on the left hand side of the road. It was alleged by the driver of motor van GJJ 3144 who lives at Crabwood Creek and was traveling in the same direction, that the motor cyclist swerved right into the path of his van and was struck down. 

The cyclist was picked up and rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital where he died. 

The driver of the van, who also sustained injuries, was admitted to Skeldon Hospital and his condition is reportedly stable.  
Both vehicles are lodged in police custody. 

Getting back to basics
WHEN the Ministry of Education disclosed on March 24 this year that it was introducing “life skills education” in the curriculum from September, Guyanese were elated.

Coming amid grim reports – or rumors – that many of the bandits marauding East Coast villages and robbing minibus passengers in the Buxton area were “youth arm” members of the gang of the so-called “freedom fighters,” Guyanese who commented on the ministry’s plans felt relieved. The ministry’s disclosure allayed fears that government was deafening its ears to public cries for more vocational training for young people and the teaching of character development in schools.

Called the HFLE curriculum, the programme seeks, in the words of the ministry, “to give children the basic knowledge and skills they need to increase self-responsibility and to reach their full potential.”  A statement by the ministry in March said a life skills education curriculum had been developed under five themes – education, family, health, human rights, human sexuality – and aimed to provide teachers with an integrated and consistent approach to the application of life skills education.

We trust that the Education Ministry is seeking to ensure that the life skills education curriculum is exposed to all grades of students in the school system, because young Guyanese need to be taught character development more than ever before.

The death of 15-year-old Jermaine Peters in a shootout last Tuesday between police and bandits in Buxton makes such a curriculum as necessary and as urgent as can be.

For us, teaching character development in schools is tantamount to getting back to basics – returning to that era in our past when children learned and for the most part practiced the principles of respect and belief in the right of others to disagree with one’s viewpoint.

We’ve seen the dire results of young people and adults alike moving away from the lessons of that glorious era. People lose their tempers all too easily, fiercely intolerant of the opinion and religious, political and romantic preferences of others.

Getting back to basic will, as the Education Ministry correctly believes, help students in every area of personal and academic life by increasing self-esteem and self-responsibility, inspiring them to stay in school and develop a lifetime enthusiasm for learning, developing their positive social skills, training them to protect themselves from drugs, violence and other harmful influences, and empowering them to take charge of themselves and our environment.”

Part of the ministry’s release assured the public that, “each year, the curriculum will cover the same sort of skills, but in new ways that are relevant to their lives as they grow up. Each year's programme thus builds on that of the previous year. The materials cover roughly the same broad topics each year:

* Social skills- Communicating and listening, making friends;

* Non- discrimination, tolerance, respecting cultures religious values and ethnicity.

* Conflict resolving, dealing with emotions, expressing feelings

* Decision making, responsibility, peer pressure

* Growing up healthy, substance use and abuse

* Self esteem- building self confidence,

* Human sexuality-our bodies, family planning, sexual abuse, love or lust

* Character education- my attitudes and behavior, Moral values

* Dealing with family issues

* Caring for the environment.”

When in 2003 we cited the involvement of young people in violent gang crimes, the prevalence of truancy, drug abuse and teenage pregnancy, we had called for the teaching of character development because we saw these negative tendencies in our youths in the context of society’s failure, or the failure of the family, to provide adequate support and direction for our young.

We also said then that any programme that eventually materialized should do more than simply lecture to students on what is appropriate behaviour. A curriculum on character development should help students learn to be caring, principled, and responsible in and outside of the classroom – as well as give them frequent opportunities to act on these values.

We understand that private schools have begun or are preparing to emphasize character development as a major curriculum subject. That is as it should be.It’s an initiative whose time has come.

PERSPECTIVES
THE BALDRIDGE MODEL IN HIGHER EDUCATION
BY PREM MISIR
ALL IS not well at the University of Guyana (UG). The Government of
Guyana heavily funds the UG. Governments in many countries have initiated dramatic cutbacks in higher education budgets. Budget cuts now are becoming the norm in higher education in most developing countries. Today, the public in many countries demand increasing efficiencies, greater accountability measures, and added sensitivity to stakeholder demands. In simple language, what has happened is that higher education has become vulnerable to the market dynamics of a consumer-driven economy.

Effective leadership
One report suggests that the ‘university’ no longer holds the monopoly
controlling where students enroll and what program offerings are made.

Under these circumstances, any university must activate changes to attain sustainability levels congruent to nation building. Given this

situation, a critical issue that engulfs higher education is the requirement for effective leadership.

However, universities have always demonstrated an enormous capacity,

And frequently against all odds, to resist change and indeed, have been
successful in accomplishing this. Today, effective leader behavior is
needed to quell this resistance to change. The Perspectives in 1996 said:

“It is no longer a question of whether institutions must change but who will do the recasting,” those currently in charge “or an increasingly competitive market…that holds little sympathy for institutional tradition.”

The Higher Education Digest posed this question: Should traditional
definitions of higher education leadership be sustained, or should it be redefined to incorporate increased campus elements in sharing social
responsibility and accountability? Any redefinition of leader behavior
would require transformational leaders to identify the wide-ranging forces of change and to effect the leadership process.

The Baldridge model
The University of Wisconsin-Stout (UW-Stout) used itself as a case

study to redefine its leadership. UW-Stout has 8,000 students, 1,200 employees, and 450 faculty members. It has 27 undergraduate and 17 graduate programs.

In the 1990s, the University experienced fiscal restraint, especially when state government priorities moved from higher education to K-12 system, health, shared revenue, and corrections. The UW-Stout subsequently experienced a US$1.5 million budget reduction.

I want to now review how UW-Stout Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen, Redefined leadership, creating systems of leader behavior. Sorensen applied the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award (MBNQA) as the framework for this action. This approach utilizes seven criteria: (1) Leadership (2) strategic planning (3) student, stakeholder and market focus (4) measurement, analysis and knowledge management (5) faculty and staff focus (6) process management and (7) organizational performance results. In this piece, only the ‘leadership’ criterion would be briefly addressed.

As a response to the consequences and implications of fiscal restraint,
The Chancellor working collaboratively with the University Council, faculty and other campus constituent groups, speedily effected three significant changes: (1) creating a Chancellor’s Advisory Council (CAC), (2) creating open, inclusive planning, (3) creating an office of Budget, Planning and Analysis (BPA), and (4) creating the appointment of a chief information officer as part of the infrastructure for a digital campus.

CAC
The CAC is a 21-member body that includes every constituent campus
group. This body meets bi-weekly to consider planning, budget matters, issue recommendations, and to communicate campus information. In fact, this group is concerned with establishing and evaluating values and strategic guidelines.

The CAC gives each stakeholder an opportunity to influence campus
decision, creating systems of leadership shared among all campus constituents. They all agree that shared governance is shared accountability.

The CAC’s success depends on team building to produce trust and a
Behavioral code of ethics. Team building exercises are administered every 4-6 weeks. Each meeting is evaluated accompanied by an annual evaluation.

Budget, Planning & Analysis
The BPA unit brings into line institutional research, strategic planning, support campus budget process, and capital planning. In short, the BPA has aligned the UW-Stout’s vision, mission, priorities, and budget. The Chancellor pointed out that they do not generate an official priority without a budget for that priority. Ever since 1996, UW-Stout identified and funded 45 priorities: 81% to academic affairs, 18% to IT, and 1% to administrative affairs. The Chancellor noted that these statistics show their commitment to the educational mission.

The BPA also manages an open and participative strategic planning
process. For instance, each year, nine facilitated group sessions, comprising of 30% faculty and staff. Students are allowed in these sessions, but a special session also is conducted for the student body. Ideas from all these sessions are recorded and presented to the CAC. The CAC annually reviews the BPA’s data to measure progress on short and long-term goals and applies these quantifications into priorities to enhance UW-Stout’s performance.

A digital campus
A chief information officer was hired to spearhead an initiative to create a technology-intensive campus. The University is now a wired and wireless campus, producing a total digital campus. All students admitted are given a laptop computer financed through their tuition and fees. This is the e-scholar program and all students could be in this program by the Fall of 2005. Faculty and staff are trained on web-based teaching techniques, and there is the availability of three web designers.

This digital program has an assessment instrument to quantify the educational value to students. There already is some success with fewer
students dropping classes, and increasing pass rates in introductory
courses.

The IT facilitates a constant review of how efficient UW-Stout can
become in delivering academic programs. The Chancellor explained that not long ago, UW-Stout created a new School of Education without departments, solely a faculty of education. Some successes observed are:Greater teamwork in program and course delivery and an enhanced focus on the faculty of education, and not merely on an individual department. This strategy, the Chancellor noted, may help to maximize scarce resources.

Suggestions for action
Chancellor Sorensen believes that higher education requires a redefined
leader behavior, that is, a more inclusive leadership style. Sorensen made five suggestions for action:redefine leader behavior to include all stakeholders;use team building as an effective instrument with frequent
team building exercises to sustain trust;
create priorities and methods of implementation – priorities have to be related to funding;measuring performance every three months;apply a proactive approach where the MBNQA criteria are applied to determine what the university has and what the university wants.

The UW-Stout in 2001 was the first university to win the MBNQA in the
United States. I started off by saying all is not well at UG. Understanding how the UW-Stout addressed its fiscal restraint and the impact of the 21st century demands on higher education governance, indeed, may be quite instructive for UG. UG’s problems include but are not restricted to organizational design issues for administration and academic affairs, no real application of an operational strategic plan, minimal impact of research on national development, negligible effective frameworks for managing quality and standards, inter alia.

The changes initiated at UW-Stout demonstrated a remarkable impact in
only three years. This impact happened mainly through transformational
leader behavior and systems of leadership. The Chancellor at UW-Stout remarked that it had to take a crisis to initiate the changes and to capture the enviable Baldridge Award. The University of Guyana has a clear choice to act now!!

Pushing the housing drive 
THE PPP/Civic Government, when it was elected, was faced with a multitude of problems inherited from the PNC regime, including the great and long neglected need to provide house lots and housing for the people.

Since then, the government has distributed more than 60,000 house lots throughout the country, giving many people their first opportunity to own a house lot and to build a house for themselves and families.

Through the neglect by the previous government to address this crying need, thousands of people were forced to squat all over the country.

However, this practice became unnecessary with the government’s housing drive, and squatting is no longer necessary or permitted.

This government was faced with a huge task to regularise nearly 200 squatter settlements so that residents could be provided with roads, water, electricity and other infrastructure.

Nearly all have been regularised within the past 12 years, and most people are satisfied with the improvements and have been patient as they realised that not everything could have been done all over, all at once.

There is still quite a lot of work to be done or completed and Housing and Water Minister, Mr. Shaik Baksh is vigorously pursuing the drive to provide house lots and housing and the infrastructure.
DESMOND WALTERS

Invitation from the PPP
DISENCHANTED supporters of the PNCR are being invited by the PPP into its fold.

This has been done formally since the PNCR leader, Mr. Robert Corbin, in his TV `address to the nation’, finally admitted that the PNCR will be unable to win free and fair elections in 2006.

That confirms why the PNCR has been so desperately trying to find alternative means of getting into office, through even being legislated in.

The PPP/C, however, is committed to remaining vigilant in protecting Guyana’s democratic gains and will not allow any slackening of the accelerated development pace.

So PNCR supporters, who are disenchanted with them, can join the winning PPP team.
WESLEY ANDERSON

No need to squat
MINISTER of Housing and Water Shaik Baksh must be supported for his firm actions against those who want to squat in defiance of the laws and those who, for narrow political and personal motives and without any real or genuine interest, are encouraging them to do so in a vain attempt to cause confusion and disruption.

There is no necessity for anyone to squat these days as much land is available, provided they follow the proper procedures and do not break the law.

We cannot allow such disorderliness in the society when so much has been done and such large sums of money spent to regularise the many squatter settlements left behind by the PNC, because they refused to distribute land to the people who were in desperate need.

Such reckless and intolerable behaviour will not be tolerated and the laws must be obeyed.

Citizens must not be misled by those who have no real or sincere interest in their welfare.
SHAWN GREEN

Look at the big picture
DURING the next 527 days minus two, counting from 20/10/04, I hope that the PNCR will continue to attend Parliament in pursuance of Mr. Corbin’s declared commitment to the democratic process, in his recent TV `address to the nation’.

I need to remind him, however, that he and his party have a “responsibility and obligation” not only to the 43% of the electorate that voted for it, but to the entire population of Guyana.

They have to look at the big picture, and get under the big tent, if you will, in order to serve the interests of all the people and the country.

If they do this, they will be playing the role of a responsible opposition and thus greatly contributing to the accelerated development of the country which will benefit all, including their 43 %.
JOHN DA SILVA

Congratulations to the police
THE police appear to be getting and keeping on top of the crime situation in the country and must be congratulated and supported.

They have a heavy work load – preventing, apprehending and prosecuting criminals, and with the resources that have been and are being provided by and through the government, including training, they are demonstrating their increased capacity and showing that they can respond to the challenges.

They must continue to build rapport and understanding with the large number of law-abiding Guyanese, and keep good relations with them through professional and impartial attitudes, consideration and courtesy while carrying out their duties.

All members of the Police Force must realise that like their Commissioner, they are also accountable.
DANIEL DAWSON

Govt not soley to blame
I REFER to a letter in the Stabroek News dated 2004.10.18 and headed “There is too much control from the centre,” in which the writer blamed the Government for the state of Linden, where he said he spent three days while re-visiting Guyana.

The writer seems to be totally unaware of the real situation in Guyana and how Central and Local Government bodies interact.

Perhaps this is due to the fact that he has been abroad for fifteen years and was unable to appreciate these details surrounding the situation here within a few days. Whatever situation Linden faces cannot be blamed solely on the Government of the country when there are others involved in decision-making and implementing these programmes.

There are several other stakeholders involved in many cases and Guyana will not be able to move forward at a fast pace if cooperation is not there. Guyana’s situation is also a peculiar one where there is a main opposition party controlling certain areas.

There are certain regional and municipal bodies which are autonomous and politically controlled by the main opposition party.

This party lives up to its name “the Opposition” by doing just that. It opposes everything at each opportunity it gets without thinking about the best interest of the country and its people.

The country has been making progress and any honest citizen would admit this, though improvement could have been made at a faster pace, had all parties cooperated in the best interest of the Guyanese people.

The writer seems to be unaware that the town of Linden is controlled by the regional administration of Region Ten and not Central Government. Region Ten is controlled by the main opposition party of the country. In some cases, this is why there are always severe problems facing the town. Certainly, the writer knows that whatever happens at Linden is at most times, politically motivated.

Some of the people holding responsibility for decision-making in the town are guilty of neglect and mismanagement but again they lay the blame at the feet of Central Government. This is one of the reasons why the PNC/R-controlled Linden Town Council had to be scrapped and an Interim Management Committee set up.

It is a fact that the Government is doing its best to assist the town, but several of these efforts have either been blocked or thwarted. Government initiated several projects such as the Linden Economic Advancement Programme (LEAP) and it has also made several efforts to resuscitate the bauxite industry. In addition, Central Government has been allocating more than adequate resources to the regions, including Region Ten. However, certain objectives cannot be achieved without the cooperation of all stakeholders.

Each administrative region has a regional administration responsible and many regions face problems but endure. The Regional Democratic Councils (RDC’s) try to cooperate with Government to get things done. Some even do things for themselves. Many of them have been faring well. Region Ten is quite a peculiar case. I wonder why. Region Seven, another opposition-controlled region, has not been having as much problems as Region Ten.

So, I’m still baffled as to how the writer can take the problems of one area and conclude that the entire country has not progressed. The writer too seems unaware of the Government’s position on the proposed Waste Disposal Project in Linden. Let me recall what was carried in the local media.

Apparently, the RDC did not consult with several stakeholders such as the Environmental Protection Agency and others before proposing the project in the town. Many residents were quite upset about the project and Government had made it clear that only if the residents agreed on the project, then it would give it a go ahead.

I would also like to ask a few questions: When Guyana was about to find oil, who made a “secret” trip to Suriname and conspired to sabotage the project? The writer generalized about “poverty, apathy and anger”-- that looks to me like armchair conclusions. A lack of television stations in Linden? The writer should asks Mr. Corbin about that.
Vanburn Browne

Guyana beat Jamaica to earn semi-final berth
By Imran Khan
THEIR cricket was not perfect, but it was workmanlike. Their method was not clinical but it was enough. Guyana made hearts race and emotions overwhelm yesterday at the GCC ground, Bourda.

In a heart-stopping game, played the way fans prefer cricket to be played, Mahendra Nagamootoo and Neil McGarrell batted, not bowled, Guyana over an initially robust but eventually sloppy Jamaica, to edge into the semifinals of the WICB Regional One-Day Tournament in Barbados later this week.

Guyana’s stuttering response to Jamaica’s 234 was built around a marathon 62 from Krishna Arjune - promoted to open the innings and eventually had enough gas left in the tank to surpass the required 235 by one with an over to spare and three wickets in hand.

The home team needed 43 runs from the last six overs, with four wickets at their disposal. McGarrell (23 from 25 balls) and demoted wicketkeeper/opener Derwin Christian (12) gingerly brought it down to 25 runs from 20 balls when Christian was caught at cover off Chris Gayle.

Nagamootoo walked out and as if the thick, obvious tension was non-existent and smashed four fours and 20 runs from 9 balls.

The left-hander bolted Gayle’s final delivery of the 49th into the midwicket fence and raced off into the relieved arms of his team-mates who will travel to Barbados to face the Windward Islands in their semi-final match-up.

Jamaica won the toss and Xavier Marshall, striking the ball from the middle of the bat and with immense force virtually single handedly guided the Jamaicans to 234 for 5 from 50 overs. The 19 year-old, during his 148 ball knock, flayed Guyana’s bowlers with entrepreneurial elegance, equally efficient when forcing singles and when hounding fours.

His masterful Man-of-the-Match innings (14x4, 3x6), though, may very well have been a nasty omen for his team, as none of the centurions this year has ended on winning teams.

The neat right-hander, oozing a classical touch, spent 76 balls on his first fifty, bringing up the landmark with the first of his three sixes which landed on the third level of the media centre off an extraordinarily short ball from part-time leg-spinner Sewnarine Chattergoon. Another 70 balls and he arrived at 100 after cutting through point for a gentle single.

Guyana had a hectic time in the field. The bowling changes were rife with miscalculation ending in their best bowler, Nagamootoo, being unable to complete his spell. Nagamootoo, 23 runs with one wicket from 9 overs could only hang around and watch as Marshall and Gareth Breese goaded themselves on to three sixes and to 19 runs in the final over bowled by an expensive Rayon Griffith (5-0-35-0).

First up, Marshall set a solid base for Jamaica with Chris Gayle whose 35 was the next best score. The opening pair scored 84 runs at four runs per over, before Gayle pulled spinner Lennox Cush with might and muscle but was amazingly taken low down at short midwicket by Nagamootoo.

Captain Chanderpaul, shortly after, did put down Marshall on 43, failing to take down a high drive at midwicket off Cush.

There was no monumental partnership thereafter, but ones that kept the Jamaicans going at an appreciable rate. Marshall, batting through the innings, posted 44, and 36 with Marlon Samuels (18) and Wavell Hinds (16) and 32 with Carlton Baugh Jr (15).

Nagamootoo, in particular, but also Cush bowled a steady line and went for 23 and 31 runs respectively, the off-spinner taking two wickets and the leg-spinner one.

Guyana for the first time allowed Krishna Arjune, who was inexplicably dropped for their previous game against Barbados, to open the innings and he responded with a dogged knock lasting 118 balls. He was sixth out, bowled in the 43rd over as he charged Gayle at 177 when Guyana needed 58 runs from 47 balls.

Arjune and Narsingh Deonarine fashioned 60 runs for the second wicket, both playing shots that ignited the large crowd into sometimes-raucous celebration. Deonarine on 29 was batting resolutely until he was caught and bowled by Samuels low down in the 22nd over.

Cush (21) stayed around to add 33 runs and so did Chanderpaul (18).

When Jamaica captain Breese held a stinging return catch from Chanderpaul at 155 he dealt the Guyana chances a severe blow. The crowd went silent, the Jamaicans went berserk and Guyana looked in danger of suffering the indignity of not being able to defend their title.

McGarrell then marshalled the innings forth after all the specialist batters had left.

A naturally unflustered player, McGarrell methodically stuck to taking sharp singles and keeping the required rate hovering just over one run per ball. It was working to perfection but was unbearably heightening the tension and drama.

Nagamootoo, then came to the fore and put everyone out of their misery, helped along with wild bowling from Gayle and Samuels who fired wides down the leg-side.

In total Jamaica conceded an inexcusable 35 extras (the second highest score) inclusive of 25 wides and it was perhaps those more than anything else that have now caused them to be in Barbados only as in-transit passengers rather than semifinalists.

The difference for Guyana was in Samuels’ final over, the 48th. It cost Jamaica ten runs including consecutive fours by Nagamootoo who, unlike McGarrell preferred brazen aggression.

Guyana, though having panicked at times, finished the preliminary round deserving winners over a Jamaican team that became complacent and slipshod when diligence was demanded.

JAMAICA innings
C. Gayle c Nagamootoo b Cush 35

X. Marshall not out 125

B. Parchment lbw Nagamootoo 6

M. Samuels c Griffith b McGarrell 18

W. Hinds stp. Christian b Cush 16

C. Baugh Jr run-out 15

G. Breese not out 6

Extras: (w-3, lb-10) 13

Total: (for five wickets, 50 overs) 234

Fall of wickets: 1-84, 2-103, 3-147, 4-183, 5-215.

Bowling: King 10-0-55-0 (w-2), Griffith 5-0-35-0 (w-1), McGarrell 10-1-31-1, Cush 10-1-31-2, Nagamootoo 9-1-23-1, Chattergoon 4-0-22-0, Daesrath 2-0-19-0.

GUYANA innings

S. Chattergoon c wkp. Baugh b Washington 14

K. Arjune b Gayle 62

N. Deonarine c & b Samuels 29

L. Cush b Miller 21

S. Chanderpaul c & b Breese 18

D. Daesrath run-out 2

D. Christian c Miller b Gayle 12

N. McGarrell not out 23

M. Nagamootoo not out 20

Extras: (w-25, nb-6, lb-4) 35

Total: (for 7 wickets, 49 overs) 236

Fall of wickets: 1-29, 2-89, 3-122, 4-155, 5-161, 6-177, 7-210.

Bowling: Washington 5-1-19-1 (w-7), McInnis 6-0-28-0 (w-3, nb-1), Bernard 1-0-17-0 (nb-5), Gayle 10-2-50-2 (w-6), Samuels 10-2-42-1 (w-2), Miller 9-0-41-1 (w-6), Breese 8-0-35-1 (w-3).

Points: Guyana 4

Harris overcomes Urkal challenge
GUYANESE Vivian Harris produced a gem of an uppercut to stop Oktay Urkal and retain his WBA light welterweight title in Berlin on Saturday.

Harris, in his third title defence, sent Urkal down in the 11th round, and although the challenger regained his feet, the referee stopped the fight.

The fight had been close until Harris began to pull clear from the ninth round onwards. "He's a top fighter, but I was better tonight," said Harris.

Urkal, a silver medallist in the 1996 Olympics, suggested the defeat could signal the end of his career in the ring.

"I don't have any desire to wait three or four years for another title shot," said the 34-year-old. (BBC Sport)

United end Arsenal's record run of 49 unbeaten matches
By Mike Collett
MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) - Manchester United beat Arsenal 2-0 yesterday to end the champions' record run of 49 unbeaten Premier League matches and re-ignite their own title challenge.

A controversial Ruud van Nistelrooy penalty and a late Wayne Rooney goal secured a priceless victory for United, who became the first team to beat the Gunners in the league since Leeds United on May 4, 2003.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger felt the penalty, awarded when Rooney tripped over defender Sol Campbell's outstretched leg, had decided the match.

"I don't think there was any contact and I feel today we were a little bit robbed," Wenger told reporters. "They got their usual penalty against us as they did last year and I am not happy about it. I feel we were the better team.

"The penalty was the turning-point in the game but I would rather congratulate my team for going 49 matches unbeaten."

The two Premier League heavyweights had slugged it out toe to toe in pouring rain in front of a passionate crowd of almost 68 000 without creating any clear chances until Rooney tripped over his England team-mate Campbell with 17 minutes remaining.

Dutch striker van Nistelrooy, who hit the bar with a penalty in the goalless draw in last season's corresponding fixture, found the target in the 73rd minute by sending goalkeeper Jens Lehmann the wrong way with a low shot to his left.

MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
Rooney completed the win -- and capped a memorable 19th birthday -- with a breakaway goal three minutes into injury time created by substitutes Louis Saha and Alan Smith. The England forward scored with ease from close-range to send Old Trafford into ecstasy.

United manager Alex Ferguson saw the penalty incident differently to Wenger.

"He was brought down in the box, wasn't he? That's a penalty," the Scot said.

"It was an important victory. It's a great boost, we've been drawing too many games and, hopefully, we can get on a run now because we need wins to get alongside Arsenal."

Arsenal still lead the league on 25 points from 10 matches, two clear of Chelsea, but United are back in contention on 17 and have not lost in 13 league and cup matches since a 1-0 defeat at Chelsea on the season's opening day.

Rooney, coincidentally, had helped end a previous Arsenal unbeaten run when, as an Everton player, he scored the winner in a 2-1 victory over Arsenal in October 2002 which halted the Gunners' 30-match streak without defeat.

This epic tussle, prematurely hyped as the league championship decider as well as the match of the decade, was certainly not for the faint-hearted.

Tackles flew in, the play flowed from end to end and referee Mike Riley worked overtime to keep temperatures under control. He did well to keep the bookings down to five, though Wenger complained about the harsh treatment received by his Spanish striker Jose Antonio Reyes.

"Reyes was kicked off the park in the first half, I was very disappointed with that," Wenger said.

Arsenal's prolific forwards for once failed to find the net but United deserved the three points to put themselves back in contention to win back the title they have claimed eight times in the past 12 seasons.

It was Arsenal's first defeat in any competition for 22 matches since Chelsea won 2-1 at Highbury in the Champions League quarterfinals last April. The loss also ended Arsenal's astonishing unbeaten away league record of 27 games stretching back to a defeat at Blackburn Rovers in March 2003.

GRFU launches Women’s programme
By Leeron Brumell
THE Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) on Friday launched its women’s programme with the hope of forming a sevens-team and to participate in Caribbean tournaments as early as 2005.

The launching took place at the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) clubhouse, Thomas Lands and Albert Street with the female enthusiasts being addressed by GRFU president Kit Nascimento and Adonis.

Nascimento said that women’s rugby is some 20 years old, while the Caribbean boasts female teams from Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Cayman Islands and Jamaica.

“The game is beginning to develop and the International Rugby Board (IRB) is very keen on developing women’s rugby and the trust grants that they give to countries like ours have as a condition that we introduce and begin playing women’s rugby,” Nascimento explained.

Nascimento, a former motor racer explained the plan of the GRFU for women’s rugby.

“What we are planning to do is to start playing sevens-rugby, which is a much simpler game once you are athletic, have some ball handling skills, and you have a high level of fitness and good ball and hands coordination.”

He likened the game to that of basketball, passing the ball from player to player to take it up the field, with the only difference being that there is tackling.

The women will begin the same way as the young men four years ago with ‘touch rugby’ until the players have the skills to engage in tackling.

Karen Cumberbatch, member of the Dynamic Women in Sports Organisation (DWSO), which falls under the purview of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), encouraged the women to get involved in the game and extended an invitation for them to be a part of the oganisation.

“You are the beginning, do not be discouraged, get on the ball, get moving and get all the sisters involved,” Cumberbatch urged.

Adonis said that the Union intends to teach the women the nature of the game and they are seeing in the programme both short- and long-term objectives.

He said the short-term objective is to select a team for 2005, while the long-term objective is to institute a programme that is more widespread.

The GRFU is operating from a ‘top down’ perspective as Adonis explained, “we are starting with the Union, a national movement, and then attempting to have that spread out to the various clubs and regions.

Adonis added that the aim is starting from the national federation and from that the GRFU will then be disseminating knowledge and competencies and skills to various areas and then identifying in terms of teams, then into club structures, but eventually they want to be developing among women themselves their own coaches, management structure so we will not presume what we think is best for you, you would now be in control of your own situation.”

The Union meets with the GDF women on Wednesdays while on Fridays they will meet with other interested women on the National Park rugby field on Friday from 16:30 hrs.

National coach Sherlock Solomon, Alton Agard, Laurence Adonis and the youngest coach Elvin Chase will work along with them.

The union at the informal session aired videos on some of the greatest moments in the game and also the concept of the game.

The women will be introduced to new terminologies and strategies in the game and rules that provide for safety of the players.

SRI LANKA first innings 243 (T.Samaraweera 100; S.Akhtar 5-60, M.Sami 4-71)
Pakistan first innings 264 (Y.Hameed 58; R.Herath 3-68)

Sri Lanka second innings 438 (S.Jayasuriya 253, K.Sangakkara 59, M.Jayawardene 57; D.Kaneria 4-117)

PAKISTAN second innings

Y.Hameed lbw Fernando 17

I.Farhat lbw Fernando 53

A.Kamal b Fernando 1

Inzamam-ul-Haq b Fernando 3

Y.Youhana lbw Herath 44

S.Malik c and b Herath 59

A.Razzaq lbw Herath 0

M.Khan c Kaluwitharana b Vaas 1

M.Sami run-out 6

S.Akhtar stp. Kaluwitharana b Herath 12

D.Kaneria not out 0

Extras: (b-4, lb-1, w-6, nb-9) 20

Total: (all out in 79.2 overs) 216

Fall of wickets: 1-59, 2-65, 3-86, 4-91, 5-154, 6-158, 7-159, 8-187, 9-215.

Bowling: Chaminda Vaas 16-4-54-1 (nb-1, w-5), Lasith Malinga 6-2-13-0 (nb-2), Rangana Herath 32.2-10-64-4, Dilhara Fernando 20-3-77-4 (w-1, nb-6), Sanath Jayasuriya 4-2-2-0, Jehan Mubarak 1-0-1-0.

Second Test at Karachi from Oct. 28

Sri Lanka complete crushing 201-run win over Pakistan
FAISALABAD, Pakistan, (Reuters) - Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by 201 runs on the final day of the first Test yesterday to complete a second successive victory without their key bowler Muttiah Muralitharan.

After setting Pakistan 418 runs to win in the first match of a two-Test series, Sri Lanka dismissed the home side for 216 runs from 79.2 overs 40 minutes after lunch.

Left-arm spinner Rangana Herath, playing in his sixth Test, returned career best figures of four for 64 to finish with match figures of seven for 132.

Pakistan lost their last three wickets after lunch for 46 runs after resuming on 170 for seven. Shoaib Malik was the top scorer with 59 from 177 balls.

The victory was Sri Lanka's sixth in nine Tests in Pakistan and their seventh overall.

Pakistan resumed on 114 for four with the difficult task of having to play out 83 overs to save the game.

Herath triggered a batting collapse with two wickets in two balls after the overnight pair of Yousuf Youhana (44) and Malik had added 40 runs to the total in 17 overs and 75 minutes.

They put on 63 runs for the fifth wicket from 205 balls before Herath caught Youhana in front with a fine arm ball.

Malik negotiated the next over from Chaminda Vaas safely but with the first ball of his next over Herath trapped Abdul Razzaq leg-before for a first ball duck.

New man Moin Khan, whose place in the team has been under threat due to his poor batting form, averted the hat-trick but in the next over he edged Vaas to keeper Kaluwitharana to fall for one run having faced just four balls.

In the fourth over after lunch Mohammad Sami was run-out by a direct throw from Marvan Atapattu for six trying to steal a single in the covers. Malik struck a few lusty blows, including three fours off Dilhara Fernando in one over to reach his maiden half-century, before he was also dismissed.

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO innings
G.Mahabir c Adams b Jeremy 0

S.Ganga lbw Cornwall 21

D.Ganga b Banks 32

S.Babwah lbw Cornwall0

R.Powell c Morton b Cornwall 4

D.Ramdin lbw Cornwall 41

I.Jan b Banks 18

R.Kelly c Banks b Jeremy 22

S.Badree c (sub. E.Powell) b Adams 29

R.Emrit c S.Williams b Hodge 7

R.Sooklal not out 11

Extras: (lb-2, b-1, nb-11, w-20) 34

Total: (all 49.1 overs) 219

Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-47, 3-47, 4-60, 5-88, 6-104, 7-153, 8-176, 9-189.

Bowling: Jeremy 10-0-42-2, Hodge 7-0-36-1, Cornwall 10-0-52-4, Banks 10-0-33-2, Adams 9.1-1-36-1, Willett 3-0-17-0.

LEEWARDS innings

A.Adams c D.Ganga b Jan 51

A.Richards c wkp. Ramdin b Emrit 0

S.Joseph c Mahabir b Sooklal 17

R.Morton c D.Ganga b Powell 87

W.Cornwall lbw Kelly 1

S.Williams c Powell b Jan 7

J.Williams lbw Kelly 0

O.Banks c wkp. Ramdin b Emrit 7

C.Hodge c Badree b Sooklal 18

K.Jeremy not out 10

A.Willett run-out 2

Extras: (lb-7, w-4) 11

Total: (all out - 49.1 overs) 211

Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-56, 3-88, 4-89, 5-109, 6-110, 7-128, 8-199, 9-199.

Bowling: Emrit 10-0-46-2, Badree 4-0-19-0, S.Ganga 7-0-21-0, R.Sooklal 6.1-0-27-2, Kelly 10-1-22-2, Jan 10-0-44-2, Powell 20-25-1.

Points: T&T 4 points, Leewards 0.

T&T overcome Leewards to win by nine runs
GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Trinidad and Tobago, led by a fighting 41 from young wicketkeeper Dinesh Ramdin, and a bowling attack that overcame threatening half-centuries from Runako Morton and Alex Adams, secured an eight-run victory over the Leewards in their crucial West Indies limited overs championship match at the Uitvlugt Community Centre ground yesterday.

After posting 219 all out from 49.1 overs when they were sent in to bat, Trinidad and Tobago restricted the Leewards to 211 all out off 49.1 overs for the narrow victory and a spot in the semifinals later this week in Barbados.

Man-of-the-match Richard Kelly, who helped bolster T&T's late order batting, delivered 10 economical overs - with two wickets - that cost only 22 runs.

The in-form Morton lashed a shot-filled 87 off 117 balls and Adams got 51 off 77 balls, but no one else in the Leewards batting line-up reached as high as 20 and they fell short in the end.

Young opener Austin Richards was caught behind by Ramdin when he flashed at a delivery from pacer Reyad Emrit and departed without scoring at six for one as the Leewards began their chase for 220.

Adams and Sylvester Joseph carried the score to 56 when spinner Rodney Sooklal induced a false drive from Joseph (17) for the right-hander to be caught at mid-on by Gregory Mahabir.

It became 88 for three when Daren Ganga caught Adams at mid-off when the Anguillan drove at off-spinner Imran Jan.

And one run later, Kelly snared the first of his two wickets, trapping Wilden Cornwall (1) leg-before-wicket.

Jan then removed captain Stuart Williams (7) at 109 for five to trigger another rapid slide.

Kelly dislodged Jason Williams (0) one run later, and the Leewards dipped further to 128 for seven when Omari Banks (7) edged an attempted drive off Emrit to Ramdin.

Chaka Hodge then joined Morton in a rousing 71-run eighth-wicket stand that tormented the T&T bowling attack and seemed poised to snatch victory for the Leewards.

Boasting the most runs (225) and a solid average of 112.5 entering the game, Morton, manhandled the T&T bowling and thumped three fours and four massive sixes, two off Sherwin Ganga, and one each off Jan and Sooklal, all hit out of the ground.

But when he fell 13 short of a hundred, caught by Daren Ganga at wide mid-off as he tried to go over the top, the Leewards' hopes of victory appeared to go with his departure at 199 for eight.

Without addition to the score, Hodge fell for 19 to Sooklal, and young Akito Willett was run-out 12 runs later for two, leaving Kerry Jeremy not out on 10.

Sooklal, who picked up two for 27 off 6.1 overs, Jan (2-44), Emrit (2-46), and Powell (1-25) were T&T's other wicket-takers.

At the start of play, the Leewards rocked T&T early when, without a run on the board, seam bowler Jeremy had opening batsman Mahabir caught at second slip by Adams as the former West Indies-B team batsman pushed forward at a well lined delivery.

Trinidad & Tobago struggled throughout their innings and were only saved from disaster by fighting knocks from skipper Daren Ganga (32), Ramdin, and a 30-run last wicket stand between Samuel Badree and Sooklal. Ganga and his younger brother Sherwin Ganga staged a recovery after Mahabir's early dismissal with a 47-run second-wicket partnership that ended when seamer Cornwall trapped Sherwin lbw for 21.

Cornwall then stung the twin-island republic with two more crucial strikes. Without addition to the score, he sent back Shazam Babwah (0), and dislodged hard-hitting West Indies batsman Ricardo Powell 13 runs later to a superb catch by Morton at short mid-wicket.

Jamaica-born Powell (4) powerfully whipped a delivery from Cornwall off his pads and Morton clutched a remarkable left-handed reflex catch to remove the dangerous right-hander at 60 for four.

It became 88 for five when Ganga, failing to use his feet against Banks, missed a drive against the off-spinner and was bowled by a delivery that turned after pitching outside the off-stump. Ganga faced 59 balls for his 32 that contained three boundaries.

Jan joined Ramdin but the pair added only 16 for the sixth wicket before Banks bowled Jan for 18.

Ramdin, who captained the West Indies Youth (Under-19) team to the runner-up spot at the 2004 ICC Youth World Cup in March, then led a team-best 49-run partnership with Kelly (22) that significantly boosted the T&T hopes.

Jeremy dislodged Kelly at 153 for seven, and the 19-year-old Ramdin dragged the score to 176 before he became Cornwall's third lbw victim. Ramdin's top-score of 41 came off 69 balls, with two fours and a six over long-on off Banks.

After Reyad Emrit (7) fell to off-spinner Hodge at 189 for nine, the tail-enders flourished and stretched the total meaningfully beyond the 200-mark.

Badree spanked 29 off 38 balls with one boundary and Sooklal hit 11 off 17 balls, before the innings ended with Badree falling to off-spinner Adams.

Cornwall finished with four for 52 off 10 overs, supported by Banks (2-33) and Jeremy (2-42).

In the semis Thursday and Friday at the Windward Ground in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago will play Barbados, and the Windward Islands will face Guyana.