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The world and its cravings are passing away, but the person who does the will of God remains forever. - 1 John 2:17 (CEB)

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Under the Mango Tree...pg 7

Kids Korner...pg 8

MMSP Assoc donates helments - pg 12

DFID must remain Vigilant...pg 3

The Caribbean after Chavez...pg 5

Tae Kwon Do exam exercises...pg 2More cont’d. on page 3

Geothermalresourceconfi rmedWell completed...resource to be tested

Headlines...

by Bennette Roach“The well is now fully secured” is

the latest exciting news as hopes for the sourcing of geothermal energy became reality and preparations are very much underway for drilling a second Well at the other site nearer to the unoccupied Cork Hill village.

Official reports following our story of April 26, 2013, (http://www.themontserratreporter.com/geothermal-drilling-hop-ing-for-well-1/ ) which said that “the resource could be close to expectation, or just hope,” now say after tests, “The results were very encouraging and it was unanimously agreed to stop drill-ing and to line the production area of the well. A 7″ steel, perforated, liner pipe was installed from 1,111M down to the bottom of the well (2,298m).

The April 26 story then, said prior to equipment breakdown, drilling had gone down 2,298 meters with the

Friday, May 17, 2013

by B. Roach

OVERSEAS TERRITORY OF MONTSERRATIN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

A.D. 2013LEGAL NOTICE

In the Estate of JOHN JOSEPH WEEKES, also known as JOSEPH WEEKES, deceased

NOTICE is hereby given that after the expiration of fourteen (14) days from the date hereof, application will be made in the Registry of the High Court of Justice for an Order that Letters of Administration to the estate of JOHN JOSEPH WEEKES also known as JOSEPH WEEKES late of Drummonds Montserrat who died on the 3rd of March 1979 at Geralds Montserrat be granted to KHARL MARKHAM of Allen Markham & Associates Banks Montserrat, the Lawful Attorney of GILBERT ABRAHAM EMMANUEL WEEKES the son and Personal Representative of the deceased.

ALL persons claiming to be benefi cially interested therein are requested forthwith to send particulars to me the undersigned.

FURTHER, any person objecting to the issuance of a Grant to the Applicant should notify the Registrar of the High Court of Justice no later than fourteen (14) days from the date of this notice.

DATED this 7th day of May 2013

Kharl MarkhamAllen Markham & Associates

TERRITORY OF MONTSERRATHIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

A.D. 2013PROBATE

LEGAL NOTICEIn the Estate of ANN CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH FROSTON, deceased

NOTICE is hereby given that after the expiration of fourteen (14) days from the date hereof Application will be made in the Registry of the High Court of Justice for Letters of Administration in the estate of ANN CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH FROSTON deceased who died on the 04th April, 2011 be granted to Sarah E Silcott of Sweeney’s Montserrat lawful Attorney for Louis E Froston of 86 Munroe Street, Roxbury, Mass. U.S.A. son of the deceased.

ALL persons claiming to be benefi cially interested therein are requested forthwith to send particulars thereof to the undersigned.

FURTHER, any person objecting to the issuance of Letters of Administration to the Applicant should notify the Registrar of the High Court, Brades, Montserrat not later than fourteen (14) days from the date of this notice.

DATED this 03rd day of May 2013

Hogarth SergeantSolicitor for the Applicant

Students display and perform Tae Kwondo activities and exams

The old Salem Primary school was the venue for a display of tae kwon do ac-tivities while the Montserrat Tae Kwon Do School put on its fi rst full set of examina-tions for 2013 on, Sunday, May 12.

Making yet another vis-it, which he said has spanned over 20 years, Grand Master Hyun OK Shin originally from Korea but residing in the U.S.A., presided.

The students grading ranged from White Belt to Black belt.

The Order of Range is set out as follows:

White BeltYellow BeltGreen BeltPurple Belt3rd Red2nd Red2 Kup Brown1 Kup Brown

+1 Brown++1 Brown (Candidate

Black)1st Dan Black2nd Dan Black5 Dan Black (Master)36 Students performed

in the examinations. 32 students received belts from yellow to ++1 Brown (Can-didate Black). The exams took the form of and con-sisted of Basic Movements, Tae Kwondo Forms , Combi-nations and Free Fighting.

Two students received their 1st Dan Black Belt – Aaron Lewis and War-ren Cassell Jr., while Luke Edgecombe tested for the 2nd Dan Black Belt.

The Instructor for the Montserrat Tae Kwon Do School Leonard Lynch (Master) received his 5th Dan Black Belt and is now Montserrat’s fi rst Tae Kwon Do Master.Photos: Young men, ladies, boys and girls go through their taekwon-do exercises in examinations


DFID must remain vigilant with Project Management Issues on Montserrat

NOTICE TO PAY OFF

TO: The Personal Representativesof the Estate of James White deceased

and/or The Estate of James White deceased

We, as attorneys at law for Montserrat Building Society Limited and on its instructions, hereby require you to pay to Montserrat Building Society Limited at its offi ces at Brades, Montserrat, West Indies, the principal money and all interest accrued thereon and all fees, expenses and charges incurred in connection therewith now pending under the Charge dated the 1st day of May 1990 on the property known as Parcel 36, Block 11/1, Salem Registration Section, and made between Montserrat Building Society Limited on the one part and James White deceased on the other part.

And you are hereby given notice that if such principal money, interest, fees and charges are not paid before the expiration of three months from the date hereof, Montserrat Building Society Limited shall sell the property comprised in the Charge in accordance with the provisions of Section 72 (2) b of The Registered Land Act of the Laws of Montserrat.

Dated this 8th day of May, 2013

___________________Jean E H Kelsick

KELSICK & KELSICKAttorneys at Law for Montserrat Building Society Limited

Principal money, interest and legal expenses due at the 30th day of April, 2013– EC$24,700.82

First well completed

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OVERSEAS TERRITORY OF MONTSERRATIN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

A.D. 2013LEGAL NOTICE

In the Estate of ELIZABETH O’GARRO, deceasedNOTICE is hereby given that after the expiration of fourteen (14) days from the date hereof, application will be made in the Registry of the High Court of Justice for an Order that Letters of Administration to the estate of ELIZABETH O’GARRA late of St. Albans 120-48 198th Street 11412 United States of America who died on the 13th of July 2009 at Queens Hospital Center, Queens New York United States of America be granted to KHARL MARKHAM of Allen Markham & Associates Banks Montserrat, the Lawful Attorney of KATHY J. KING the daughter and Personal Representative of the deceased.

ALL persons claiming to be benefi cially interested therein are requested forthwith to send particulars to me the undersigned.

FURTHER, any person objecting to the issuance of a Grant to the Applicant should notify the Registrar of the High Court of Justice no later than fourteen (14) days from the date of this notice.

DATED this 7th day of May 2013

Kharl MarkhamAllen Markham & Associates

By Claude GeraldDevelopment proceedings at our fi ctitious town centre

continue to paint a picture of suspicion in resource use management and an arrogant disregard for moral and ethical standards in the work place.

The procurement of labour at least at the site is in defi ance of set rules and regulations. Tendering processes are being undermined with the Montserrat Development Corporation (MDC) acting as its own contractor, employ-ing at will, workers of certain affi liations and persuasions. Physical Planning laws are subjected to scornful slight and disregard to quicken the desire to expedite profi t margins and by relation, hasten losses in environmental capital. Emerging is a mosaic of ghost institutions in the form of Project Implementation Unit's, designed to further erode built in checks and balances against unfair practices in tendering for employment.

It is felt that key operators allied to MDC are seeking to exploit at public's expense, a syndrome that Jack-the-Warner can take pride in authoring. Is the combination of the opportunistic John E. Ryan, Executive Chairman of (MDC) and his side-kick the Premier, Reuben T. Meade, a man programmed to naturally engage in dealings that raise questions of their probity value, nicely positioned to make capital of their respective positions? Their ways of doing business are characterized by varying measures of personal interests' confl icts with MDC executive chairman reportedly getting involved in procurement outside his soon to be ex-pired role; given a fearlessly knowledgeable and responsible

Montserrat, their ambitious involvement in people develop-ment projects, which ought to rest on robust accountability and transparency, would have been derailed.

Construction trading remains an abiding focus in their lives on Montserrat. Mr. Meade despite his denials is be-lieved to be still a key decision maker in L&M Construction, a company he formed after his descent as Chief Minister in the 1990's. His admitted partnership in the company that frowned on election nomination regulations for which he escaped in a weird court battle attempt with editor Ben-nette Roach as complainant challenger, is still a sore issue in the minds of many with knowledge, who claim he lied in securing his nomination in 2009. Those party stalwarts who excused their leader, did so out of blind loyalty and are belatedly admitting to faulty evaluations of their leader's position then.

Though Ryan has dabbled in construction for near 25 years, securing signifi cant contracts, his record in this endea-vour remains shabby in work quality; outside his suspected insider trading connections, gaseous learned posturing and a disarming personality that fl oors some, he would not have enjoyed his pre-eminence in such diverse social services or be able to pull rank as frequently as he does. Ryan as far as is known still retains a contingent working crew to his beckoning.

In this management setting it is unreasonable to fashion optimistic feelings of people-welfare gains on any social investment undertaking like Little Bay development. The duo, given their historical business profi les on Montserrat

cannot be trusted to act in the public's interest as expected. Construction is the core to a realized commercial centre at Little Bay. Trust and confi dence runs parallel. On this we are tumbling already at the edge of the abyss.

It is a historical fact that neither power broker trusts each other. But convenience is their watch word and wed-ded in their DNA is the ability to exploit talents to create synergies, that are not altruistic and people empowering. Each is talented in brokering and advantaging a situation, which calls for collusion and together their machinations can gain momentum, tinkering with legal and ethical bar-riers if needed.

They have clashed many a time since 1980, with a memorable open-secret fallout in the lead up to the 2009 elections, resulting in the Premier distancing himself and others he infl uences from the Lyme, an entertainment busi-ness establishment of Ryan, built on lands with long lease arrangements that can be eye brow raising.

It must be understood that John Ryan is not a political animal, never linked to any political grouping. He is sure to appear as lilies in spring, once a government is formed. Feisty and soulless, with a knack to cultivate others, he micromanages and woos to his fancy, when and whom he pleases.

John Ryan is now a resurrected man of signifi cant global infl uence on Montserrat , dwarfi ng a throwback to his halcyon years of the early eighties when his detractors dubbed him the 'Henry Kissinger of Montserrat', for his energies and appeal as a highly traveled public servant in a regime ripe for his brand of exploitation. Tenaciously he tri-umphs when the season lends to growth and dominance.

Note worthily he rose to the position of Financial Secre-tary by-passing the mathematician Kenneth Lee, economist Jim Bass amongst other eligible contenders in a political directorate that initially treated him as a son of Lucifer. Ryan left offi ce prematurely for reasons not yet clear and entered the business world with more competitive knowledge due to his various positioning in government.

DFID the once sleeping giant is now awakened to pro-tect British taxpayers', in a time of global austerity in what rightfully is its business. The development agency may not be able to alter the practice of the politics of bad minded-ness that is inherent but it can very well bring impropriety to book at Little Bay, by various means available, to ensure resource management satisfi es equitable criteria at least, as it enforces proper stewardship in its partnership with the people of Montserrat.

Public Works, where the 'former' top accounting of-fi cer is facing growing attention in the handling of project

potential of going to 2,400 meters if required. This was after a 2,000 meter depth had been anticipated. At that level the director said, “if that shows, we have already past the hottest point in the well and start to cool off slightly, then there would be little point drilling down any deeper…”

Senior Geologist Paul Brophy was due on island,

bringing “…some very sen-sitive instruments with them, that can test the pressure and temperatures down the well.”

PWD director, Ron Beardsley now also reports the geothermal Well, ref-erences as ‘Mon-01’. He confi rms that between last Saturday and Sunday geo-physicist Thorstein Egilson using specialist measuring tools surveyed temperature

and pressure in the #1 Well. Egilson’s report was studied by GoM Geothermal Adviser Mike Allen, Senior Geolo-gist Paul Brophy, Senior Geophysicist Graham Ryan and Geothermal Drilling Project Manager George Scheid.

To come at the Well is, “testing the capacity of the well to generate geothermal energy.”

Beardsley confi rmed to TMR, “We did the testing to temperature and pressure, and based on those results it was agreed that we will line the well as it is, there is no need to try drilling any deeper…” adding, “we now leave it for roughly a month to stabilize …once that time expires we will then do a fl ow test on the well and that’s really what will tell us what resource we have.”

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The world and its cravings are passing away, but the person who does the will of God remains forever. - 1 John 2:17 (CEB)

The Lord has b lessed me, enabling me to be a wife, a mom, and a grandmother. However, I have struggled from time to time with low self-esteem. Because I do not have a college education or a career outside my home, sometimes I see myself as not having anything to offer the world. Other people have so much more to offer, it seems.

Recently, as I read Jeremiah 9:23-24, I experienced an epiphany; I grasped a new perspective on how we

Run A Littleshould evaluate ourselves. God said we are not to boast in the wisdom we possess, the strength we have, or the riches we’ve accumulated. Our education and whatever career or job we have are included as part of our wisdom and possessions. Just as we are not to boast, we also are not to be ashamed for our lack of a college education or a high-status job or career. If our value to the body of Christ could be measured, it should be measured according to our service to others.

Karenn Voorhees (Kansas, USA)Prayer: Dear Lord Jesus, you

came and served the world. Help us to see the ways we can follow your

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Opinion

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The Montserrat Reporter

E D I T O R I A L

For some time now, months, even years there have been some events, occurrences, publications, debates, reports and inactions, which have rolled by seemingly unnoticed by most, but not by everyone. Not by ev-eryone we say, but there is a problem. For the few who notice, a good many of them will say or do nothing, others will give a view point, while still others will say to us, will suggest that we write about this or that!

The response often is, we do not have the resources to do justice, why don’t you write and we publicise? This is not about us, but everyone. However, what is the general complaint? “There is little or no leadership!” they would say. Leadership among whom or by whom, we would enquire? You have seen that mentioned in one way or the other.

It may well be diffi cult to pin that comment down, but generally when it is made reference is to government. Just like the government and lead-ers around government have been quick to say these days, the time is here to stop expecting government to do everything. Generally, though, that statement is about something specifi c, since when it comes down to the discussion, Montserrat is at a place where such statements can be confounded in many instances.

The Commissioner of Police during his last press conference agreed concern that while crime fi gures have been decreasing, there is an escala-tion in a certain kind of crime, which is not common to Montserrat. He was not just referring to very violent homicides that have taken place recently. In considering this we will remember our numbers are very small.

The recent events, utterances, and even the silence of our leader-ship do leave a gaping hole and if nothing is done or no corrective action taken, things will only get worse. The tendency to attach importance and seek to assist institutions and sectors that are relevant only to some is a serious mistake, in that it is not usually to the benefi t of many but rather to the few.

When the complaint was made that the merchants were hiking the prices of their goods well before those goods attract new tariff, up or down, the Premier advised the people should boycott and go to Antigua to shop,, or get themselves in shopping cooperatives. Big problem. The price control department had been shut down and there is no protective legislation in sight for consumers.

When the Premier was questioned about what could be done to curb the increased air fares, he responded that this is a free enterprise market. And, so it has been for everything. Outsourcing is supposed to be of ben-efi t to an economy, but we cannot get it started. The Memorandum of Understanding signed on May 1, 2012 to bring about public reform about how we do business was not, um, really directed at the ‘local’ private sector. Of course not, when there are certain projects or contracts to be meted out, little attention is paid to how they are advertised locally, because, could it be that it is already known who will win the bid?

The blind eye, or the attitude that is not our business, or we have no control, or it is the media that should lead, when the blind eye is being turned in the opposite direction, directly and indirectly, will bite this island, as it has been. When no attention or understanding exists the progress becomes invisible.

The British Government, DFID and FCO joined with local Govern-ment when it is convenient every time to determine who is in control of what and when. The government says it runs its own affairs, but what Montserrat needs is money and it cannot generate that without ‘begging’ which the Premier says is an abomination. DFID says, oh no, that is the government’s responsibility for this or that, but government cannot lift a fi nger, because they (DFID) have to ‘justify’ or approve the spending. FCO says we do not know about these conventions that we have signed and committed you to, but your government has to conduct itself accord-ing to its laws in seeking development. But, they admit, development for Montserrat must be a ‘partnership’, between HMG and GoM.

Progress comes only with responsibility

Gun Hill is about to dis-appear. Just like Rifl e Hill in Little Bay, most of it its base is millions of years old of solid granite. It has protected the Carr’s Bay Basin for thousands of years. I hope they will leave at least 30 feet of the cliff side standing.

Rifl e Hill in Little Bay cost $3 million to take down instead of the estimated $700,000. I hope we are not going to make the same mistake again as we did with Rifl e Hill and the airport site at Geralds, where millions of dollars were spent un-necessarily, to cut out mil-lion years old granite, to be replaced with substandard, compacted material.,

What is sad, is that there is insufficient information available from an environ-mental impact study that would indicate the effects that the removal of Gun HIll

Former Chief Minister has Concerns on Gun

Hill’s demolition”will have on our coastline.

It is a pity that once again, as happened with the Gerald’s Airport, that Donor Agency deadlines are being used as an excuse to waste money. What is the point of removing the Hill, trucking and storing it, when it will not be needed for a whole year.

If we need to use up the EU money quickly, it could easily be used to put a submerged reef/Break water just outside the fi shing boats anchored in the shadow of Rendezvous Bluff. This would render the whole of Little Bay and the existing jetty calm and useable in all weather and achieve the original purpose that we believe the EU funds were given for. A project with an already approved environ-mental impact study report,

an affordable project that I understand does not meet the requirements of a poten-tial foreign investor and has therefore been abandoned.

SupportA comment in support

on this post to an email group says: “…think I also heard the archaeologist talking about a very large gun bat-tery (?) found on Gun Hill, which would have to be re-moved in a hurry to preserve it before they start.

I have been wondering if that hill served a purpose, protecting the bay, maybe acting as a partial breakwater. It does seem an awful waste of money to break it down, when already so much was spent on Little Bay. I think a hill is a natural thing that we have, so why spend money to remove it instead of using it and working around it? Below: Gun Hill


The Caribbean after Chavezby Edgar Nkosi White

It’s ridiculously easy to re-move a man from the earth.What is not so easy is to remove his memory. Chavez is dead. That much at least is clear. I neither believe nor disbelieve that the U.S. may have had any role in his death, but the fact that the allegation is even credible and in the realm of possibility itself speaks volumes about the age and the world we live in. Given the amount of time, effort and money that has been spent by the CIA in recent years to dislodge Chavez from power as well as the general euphoria in Miami on the announcement of his death, foul play is a distinct possi-bility.No clear evidence can come to light in less than fi fty years, by which time, the world will have moved on to much more horrifi c and contemporary outrages.What is of more interest to me is how the passing of Hugo Chavez will affect the Caribbean in general and particularly, the three most dependent of its allies: Haiti, Cuba and Jamaica.

Haiti especially will be im-pacted by the absence of Chavez because Haiti is the most vulner-able of the three. Haiti has never been allowed to recover from the devastation of the earthquake it experienced three years ago. This incredible occurrence took an estimated 300,000 lives and left a homeless population of over 350,000. Add to this catastrophe a sudden cholera epidemic which thus far has claimed 8,000 lives and over 640,000 stricken ill. The irony of all this of course is that the cause of cholera has been traced back to the very U.N. Peacekeepers who came to bring aid and relieve the suffering. (It was St. Bernard of Clairvaux who said:“Hell is full of good wishes and desires.” How right he was.) What is interesting is the fact that the U.N. can’t be sued because of its immunity, as stated in its 1946 convention, a very useful clause to have in your constitution if you want to make certain that no one can prosecute you. All of this, despite the fact that cholera has a very clear fi nger print and can be easily traced. This particular strain of cholera was unknown in Haiti until the U.N. Peacekeepers arrived from Nepal in 2010 and carelessly deposited the waste from their campsite into the Artibonite(Haiti’s largest river) and thus polluted the drinking water. Yet they cannot be held accountable.

Haiti’s response to the epi-demic has been a campaign of post-ing signs in creole stating:“Lave ak men ou ak savon,”which means wash your hands with soap, wonderful advice except for one

thing, there’s no available clean water for free. The only clean water is bottled and sold privately by international or local NGOs for profi t. The poor have to travel some fi fteen or twenty miles to find a stream and pray that it hasn’t been contaminated, and this is the reason why the chol-era has spread so quickly. The U.N., of course, doesn’t feel that they are responsible for water management and so the private fi rms are free to do as they like in the midst of this devastation. The U.N. is there only to erect tents and maintain order and no one seems concerned with the fact that three years after the earth-quake adequate housing has still not been provided. (Does anyone remember Hurricane Katrina and the private police in New Orleans or am I the only one plagued with memory?)

Now, where does Venezu-ela come into all this?It is only the fact that Hugo Chavez has provided oil through the Petro-caribe Accord—which effectively eliminates the middleman and offers generous time repayment plans—that Haiti has been able to function at all. The people have to pay for water and sanitation trucks. The more expensive the oil prices become, the more expensive will water become and therefore the less accessible. Privatization will kill more and more of the poor and effectively leave all goods and services in the hands of the Creole middle class who don’t give a damn about the diseased tent-dwellers in their midst.

The sad thing about cholera is that it is not the bacteria itself which kills you. It is the dehydra-tion.The body is starving for water, clean water. That’s the simple cure. A combination of saline solution and fresh water could save countless lives. In Haiti, poverty is a death sentence.The more rain that falls, the quicker the cholera spreads. Now is the rainy season.

The question is: how long will it take the right wing Venezu-elans to dismantle every positive program Chavez bequeathed? Menudo, Chavez’s successor, knows well what a fi ght he has awaiting him. Many have vowed

to not allow to a step back into the dark ages.Yet, the fi rst thing that will be sacrifi ced is foreign aid programs and certainly Haiti will suffer. What we will witness is, in effect, ‘petrocide,’murder by oil.

The second country in the Caribbean under threat is, of course, Cuba. Venezuela has long been Cuba’s lifeline since the Rus-sian collapse and America’s relent-less embargo which is constantly being renewed by those ever busy boys in Miami the Cuban lobby who are always about the Lord’s work. It has been estimated that if all the money which has been spent in the last fi fty years on assassination attempts against Castro was collected, it would be enough to put ten men on the moon and maintain a colony there. Suffi ce to say that there are those who’ve not wished Fidel well.

It is because of the U.S. embargo that Castro has had to purchase all goods in cash, leading to so many shortages. Likewise, it’s only because of Venezuela and its generous subsidies that Castro has somehow been able to withstand the many diffi cult seasons of draught and hur-ricanes and has still been able to maintain the highest literacy rate in Latin America, as well as the

best medical schools. In exchange, he has been able to export doctors around the entire Caribbean and has always been there in times of crisis and has certainly been a savior, especially to Haiti and others in the region. No one else has done this except Medecin Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) which operates out of France. Now, with Chavez gone, Cuba will have to depend solely on tourism to keep itself afl oat, mainly those from Canada and Russia who are very attracted to the island and are unaffected by the U.S. Embargo. There is also the Cuban diaspora who faithfully send remittances. Yet Cuba knows that shortly, life will become much more diffi cult without Chavez.

Next door to Cuba is Ja-maica which has been experienc-ing crushing infl ation due to the collapse of tourism and the world economic slump. Fewer people are filling those beaches these days and a rise in oil prices would certainly spell further catastro-phe. Venezuelan oil has made the difference. They are experiencing power cuts because of the rise in electricity prices. People are already taking to the streets. Police are called upon regularly to maintain order because people are stealing electricity. If the Pet-

rocaribe subsidies cease, the next stop will be oil theft and arson. We hope that the pressure doesn’t reach to that point. Yet the degree of poverty is still nowhere that of Nicaragua or Haiti.

I estimate that it will take at least two years for the right wing in Venezuela to dismantle the foundations of Hugo Chavez’s social policies. By then, I hope another country will step forward in the region.Will it be Brazil, which at present is experiencing a booming economy due to its discovery of oil, billions of barrels of oil? Will Brazil be generous and do as Chavez or will it continue its policy of relentless agribusiness which has meant destroying its rain forest and indigenous people all to the greater good of McDon-alds? Just how important is the

ozone level when compared to a big Mac? Only time will tell.

Then there’s Mexico, surpris-ingly wealthy due to its auto and telecommunication industries and vast supply of resources (especial-ly gold and silver mining) as well as boasting the world’s richest man, Carlos Slim. However, Mexico is not likely to share the sort of Bo-livian vision which inspired Hugo Chavez. In the end, the Caribbean will surely miss Chavez but his spirit will be a constant source of inspiration which can never be totally destroyed regardless of attempts to do so. Chavez’s ghost may yet prove to be more of a problem to topple than his existence.

Edgar Nkosi White is a Montserrat born playwright and novelist. His novel, The Rising is available on Amazon.

Edgar WhiteHugo Chavez

A public cemetery, soon, and Lookout school Building 6 project to resumeThere is light for the long planned

and awaited new public cemetery.The work has started on the new

cemetery in lower Look Out, overlook the sea, and Minister of Health, Hon. Colin Riley says it will have up to 1,500 burial spaces.

He told ZJB news earlier this week, “The cemetery is under construction. I

was on site looking at the construc-tion work. What we are doing is ripping up the site removing a lot of the heavy boulders and then over the time we will fi ll it back and get it prepared,” revealing also, that the burial ground is ex-pected to be fully operational by July 1, this year. cont’d.on page 6

He said than entranceway is being developed, “…and we will have 1500 burial spaces which we are hoping will last over 30 years,” he said.

The Minister said that his Ministry is being cautious as large infrastructure projects, sometimes you run into delays because you meet on-site situations,

New Public Cemetery being constructed


which force engineers to rethink. The result is that “we are saying within probably the next 4 to 8 weeks we will be ready to prepare the cemetery for its fi rst burial.”

Meanwhile, following the court battle over the procurement in the contract of construc-tion work on building 6 of the Look Out Primary School expansion project was recently concluded in the Appeal Court.

Procurement bids are being sought and with that, Minister of Education, the Hon-ourable Colin Riley is hoping that construction work can start in the next three to four months.

In his most recent press conference the Premier reported the approval of additional funding and a time extension to the project. He revealed there would be, “new management and supervision arrangements which outlined the Ministry of Finance as the Contracting Authority and PIU as the project supervisor.” (see: http://www.themontserratreporter.com/premier-misfi res-on-procurement-gom-loses-appeal-in-court/)

Minister Riley has expressed optimism that the entire project would be completed by 2014. The rest of the project is to be retendered and will now have two completion phases, the fi rst in September this year and the second a whole year later. The overall investment from DFID now stood at £2.475 million and would provide additionally: Refurbished, furnished and equipped buildings at Lookout School; A multi purpose sports hall with changing rooms; IT classroom; Library, and Improved facilities for staff.

He agreed the procurement problems are now behind them (although there are whis-pers about the matter being taken further to the Privy Council by government). “It went into court and now it’s out of court so we are not worried about the past, we set that aside and now we’re goanna deliver a high-quality indoor sports facility for the Lookout school community and part of the reason we are building it at that location is that lookout is now our largest village and getting larger…” he said.d

Lookout School Rehabilitation

Projectcont’d from page 5

Building 6 site off to the right - Building 5 in view

While The Montserrat Reporter (TMR) and other members of the Montserrat media were asking the the Hon. Premier Meade questions regarding procure-ment, and specifi cally actions of the Montserrat Development Corporation (MDC) in the procurement

Opposition leader Romeo questions MDC procurement practises, notes disproportionate representation on

Procurement Boardappeal-in-court/)

That led him to write to His Excellency Governor Davis and the MDC board expressing concern that there are, “indications that MDC is acting as its own Con-tractor, and has apparently not held a tendering process under the applicable SRO 11 of 2012 (in particular paragraphs 19(1) and (2)).

The media had brought to the attention of the Premier that

or lack thereof regarding the construction of four shops at Little Bay, the leader of the opposition Hon. Donaldson Romeo was busy with an investigation of his own. (see: http://www.themontserratreporter.com/premier-misfires-on-procurement-gom-loses-

the MDC may have been acting in contravention of the Procurement Rules, as appears briefl y below.

SRO 11, 2012, Paragraphs 19(1) and (2): “Procurement by corporations and certain other bodies

19. (1) A corporations or other body in which the control-ling interest is vested in the Crown may conduct procurement proceedings according to its own

cont’d on page 9 MP Dondaldson Romeo


Children celebrate their successful

Producers of Under the Mango Tree production brought the full cast of children to a video showing of the production after which each child received a copy of the video.

The event took placeSaturday, May 4as the cast with their Director and Musical director, AlysJenkins and Rebecca Chalmers respectively, had a fun-fi lled evening as they played games, watched the video and then cer-emoniously received their video while Alys congratulated and described one by one their performance.

The music director explained the reason for the celebration. “We want people to know how we spent the money that they use on their tickets. We bought 30 DVD’s as a giveaway,” she said adding the thought was that was one of the best things they could do, “so the kids had a memory to take home.”

Below is the full cast of the production.Director Alys JenkinsMusical Director Rebecca ChalmersProduction Team Peter Filleul, Sian Wynne, Doug AndersonDesign Team Helen Lloyd, Terri How, Shan MurrellCAST OF UNDER THE MANGO TREE

Jacob Jermahri Meade Angelique Kieara Ryan

The Orioles Beyonce Osbourne Rhonda Allen Akyla Davis

Mermaid of Chances Peak Rhonnieka SweeneyKing of Redonda Rhoniil Lewis Watts Daniel DaleyFatau Yo Carisa BrudyErin Chelsea Key

Christopher Columbus Kyle James

Arawaks & Chorus Africans & Chorus

Janea Golden Kenisha BurnettKarina Beni Javicka AdamsStephanie Greenaway Janine SyersKeon Christopher Jwane LewisDashaun Bassaragh Mckayla Baptiste Adjani Lewis Kayla Baptiste Josue Dufrene Teresse Weekes Dante Daniel D'Vynne Henry Petreen Brudy Youseline Dufrene

showing of Under the Mango Tree


Kids time - In your own korner

Any Caribbean parent will tell you that “back chat” in a child indicates a character deficiency, which can apparently lead to the end of the world. Given the severity of the infraction, the common practice in my parents’ generation would be to slap the living back chat out of the kid.

Back in the day, back chat could severely en-danger one’s physical well being. If a child with a mother of Caribbean heritage gave back chat, the aforementioned child could be regularly found pick-ing their teeth up off the floor. Not only would this have provided an unsightly appearance in the child, it sometimes got the child’s parents in serious trouble. Back chat is no laughing matter and I, for one, plan to follow my mother’s advice and “leave dem thing whey yuh pick it up... real quick”.

Today times are different, so when I did the unthinkable back chat crime by adding my own in-appropriate statement to a instructive statement my mother made, I was hauled inside and forced to write this speculative essay reviewing the consequences of back chat.

Upon reflection I have found that back chat is the nonsensical response given after a statement is made, an order is given, or a question is asked by one’s elder. It is a singular impediment of character that can hide a thousand great qualities.

When someone constantly back chats they are usually cast off as disagreeable, argumentative and uncooperative (unless they’re studying politi-cal science). These are not very attractive qualities to possess; they have caused many people to lose opportunities, jobs, and friends. What you say, the manner in which you say it and the time you choose to voice your opinion causes others to make positive or negative judgments about you.

Rather than back chat, energy should be spent developing the key positive qualities of conscien-

Hello everyone – It is kid’s time with Auntie Lyka “In Your Own Korner”. Well count down to end of year exams. I urge you to Read. Read as much as you can and for as long as you can. Dr. Seuss said “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Do have a good week.

Pre-School CornerHello to you my preschool friends. This week we will trace and colour the maple leaves. Do enjoy.

The Back Chat Bluesby Kenya Jacob, 13 yrs

tiousness, respectfulness, cooperativeness, and agreeableness. These character traits induce good listening skills, create a healthier environment and provide opportunities.

The way one is viewed in society is essential to social development and advancement. This means that if you give back chat to someone today, you are that much closer to being written off as an ungrateful, uncooperative wretch tomorrow. Furthermore, bad karma travels around town. People love to discuss things - especially fellow people - so the best thing to do is to stay on everybody’s good side by doing the right thing. This works well since as a child there are many people with higher authority than you.

If highly-positioned people in your community get wind of the idea that you are an uncooperative, ungrateful wretch, there can be serious fallout. Say you were a model student, getting straight “A’s”, the head of the debate team and an all-around good person. You were on the upward arc of fame and fortune - then suddenly - the president of the Harvard Acceptance Committee calls to inform you that your

acceptance has been revoked and your free Harvard sweatshirt must be mailed back ‘instantaneously’, because your reputation has pursued you.

To avoid scenarios like this, it is best to smile and nod along with what important people are say-ing. Do not misunderstand my previous statement though; it is good to stand up for what you believe in, however, if the only reason one is disagreeing is to be disagreeable, it is best not to disagree (still following me?).

In conclusion, it is not a good idea to get in the habit of “back chatting”. Nip it in the bud so you will not have to be punished like I am being punished, spending my time writing this essay when there are so many other things that would be more enjoyable. The aftermath of back chat is always disastrous, especially in today’s world of more sophisticated punishments.

So for all you back chatters out there: It is best to take heed of the speech of your elders, and al-low them to become a beacon in the darkness that is youth. Opposition is futile, and will hinder you in your life’s journey; not your parents. Take it from someone who is on the road to recovery.

Kenya Jacob is the Canadian-born child of Trini-dadian parents. An 8th grade “A” student, she has received many academic awards and is a member of the National Junior Honor Society in the United States. Kenya enjoys public speaking; one of her proudest accomplishments to date is standing before 2,000 people to give an address at an annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemoration. Kenya loves school, especially her great friends. Her favorite school subjects are drama, chemistry, mathematics and dance. Kenya is a proud member of the Ifetayo Youth Ensemble where she plays the drums, sings and acts. Her parents are her greatest cheerleaders.

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UK government moving ahead with funding of geother-mal and other major projects in Montserrat

DFID must be vigilantMP Romeo questions

MDC Practices

CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY SECRETARIAT

STAFF VACANCYApplications are invited from interested and suitably qualifi ed nationals of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States and Associate Members of the Caribbean Community to fi ll the following position (funded by the Global Fund) with assigned duty station in Guyana:

Administrative Offi cer, Global Fund(i)

Full details of this position may be obtained by accessing the following web sites-www.caricom.org; www.caribank.org; www.oecs.org; www.crnm.org and www.caribbeanjobsonline.com

Applications in English Language with full curriculum vitae details, including nationality, work experience, educational qualifi cations and/or expertise, language profi ciency, coordinates (including email addresses) of three referees (at least two of whom must be familiar with the applicant’s work), and other relevant information, should be addressed to the Executive Director, Human Resource Management, Caribbean Community Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana and sent by email to [email protected].

The deadline for the submission of applications is 9 June 2013.

resources, is now tasting the wrath of DFID, in sanction-ing and ordering a stoppage of development funds to that Ministry, halting road and other projects. It may well be not the beginning of the end but the end of the begin-ning in the agency's wake up call to ensure effi ciency in its relationship with the territory.

DFID ought to be mind-ful of the way Allan Stan-

ford's cricket development funds to Montserrat were administered, under a certain Cricket President and take stock accordingly. Montser-rat was unique in the OECS in troubling the accounting arm of Stanford's visionary experiment with cricket de-velopment in these islands.

History will begin to judge this international de-velopment agency with more favour if it continues to proj-ect strength. It must continue

to strategize, to use legal and diplomatic means in righting the glaring inequities ram-pant in areas that DFID has more than passing interest.

The mismatch between direct budgetary plus devel-opment support and what is being achieved since 1995 ought to be improving.

Nothing less should suffi ce.

Claude Gerald is a social commentator on Montserrat. Find him at [email protected]

By Nerissa Golden

(GIU) -- The United Kingdom is making good on its commitment to support Montser-rat’s redevelopment and move towards fi-nancial independence.In a letter to Premier Reuben Meade, signed by Department for In-ternational Develop-ment (DfID) Minister of State, Alan Duncan, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Common-

wealth Office (FCO), Mark Simmonds, the UK government has reaffi rmed its commit-ment to fi nance future capital projects for the island as long as they were clearly justi-fied and sustainable.“…We agree to move ahead in implementing other components of the Strategic Growth Plan (SGP) to help Montser-rat reduce its fi nancial dependence on the UK,” the letter stated.

The ministers reiter-ated that all investment decisions must be based on the following: that they “(i) are fi nancially and economically vi-able, both individually and taken as a whole; (ii) contribute to reduc-ing budget dependency; (iii) account fully for the contingent and repu-tational risks, and (iv) clarify any institutional changes and other ar-rangements required to make the SGP a suc-cess.”

The UK govern-ment said it will pro-ceed with the imple-mentation of other SGP components as follows; “i. Geothermal – De-pending on the results of the exploration phase, we will move ahead with a planning, design and appraisal phase for the installation of the generation capacity, in-volving the private sec-tor where appropriate. “ii. Access – We have agreed that an improved ferry service should be provided and have adjusted the budgetary aid settlement proposed

for final approval to reflect the increased access subsidy required. We will consider the case for long-term im-provements once the economic and fi nancial case has been made. “iii. Fibre optic cable –

GoM should work on the planning, design and appraisal phase. If a viable economic and fi nancial business case that fully explores private sector participa-tion is made it will be considered for funding.

The public works department recently announced that they have reached the de-

sired depth on the fi rst geothermal well and moving to drill the sec-ond one. In four weeks, after temperatures have stabilized they will test to estimate the capacity of the well to generate geothermal energy.

Discussions be-tween the access coor-dinator and ferry op-erators are continuing to look at plans for a faster ferry for Montserrat. At the same time, efforts are being made to map out a marketing strategy to attract day trippers and other visitors from neighbouring islands.

rules or regulations, provided that those rules and regula-tions are approved by the Public Procurement Board.

(2) Despite sub regulation (1), if the rules or regulations of the corporation or other public body conflict materially with these Regulations, these Regula-tions shall prevail.”

Romeo also notes in his letter to the MDC board SRO 11 of 2012, on single source procurement: “Single-source procurement”

“23. A procuring entity may engage in single-source procure-ment if—

(a) the goods or construction is available only from a particular supplier, or a particular supplier has exclusive rights with respect to the goods or construction, and no reasonable alternative or substitute exists;

(b) the services, by reason of their highly complex or specialized nature, are available from only one source;

(c) owing to a public emer-gency or national disaster, there is an urgent need for a goods, service or construction, and it is impractical to use the prescribed methods of procurement because of the time involved in using those methods . . .”

He then refers the board to DfID Business Case regarding MDC funding 2012-13: “GoM &

MDC procurement” where it says that “DFID will be stipulating the importance of open and transpar-ent procurement procedures that deliver VFM (Value for Money) and drive down costs in the project MoU.”

“The GoM will undertake the procurement of all goods and services under this arrangement and will perform all procure-ment in accordance with GoM’s procurement rules, guidelines and procedures. This includes use of a Procurement Board, chaired by the Financial Secretary and including DFID representation. The current threshold of open competition is EC$100,000 (approx £24,000). All procurement below this thresh-old will be reviewed and approved by the MDC Board . . . Since all procurement will be undertaken by GoM/MDC, standard DFID/EU rules do not apply, neverthe-less, DFID will be stipulating the importance of open and transpar-ent procurement procedures that deliver VFM and drive down costs in the project MoU.”

DFID will be stipulating the importance of open and transpar-ent procurement procedures that deliver VFM and drive down costs in the project MoU.”

In his letter the opposition leader argues: “A competitive bid-ding process, as the DfID Business Case points out, is one of the best ways to assure cost effectiveness and transparency. Unless it can be proven otherwise in this instance,

I call on the MDC Chairman and Board to bring its present ar-rangement for the construction at the Little Bay Fisherman’s Village in line with the applicable procurement regulations (SRO 11 of 2012) to which MDC is legally and contractually bound.”

There is the claim that the MDC acting as its own contrac-tor has employed workers mainly belonging to one MDC official and use the offi cials construction trucks to transport material.

There is also the rule which requires that such government entity conducting its own procure-ment process must do so under rules which require it to obtain permission to do so from the central procurement board and by directive from the Minister of Finance who, “may only give directions to the procuring entity, the Public Procurement Board or the Departmental Tenders Com-mittee prior to the deadline for submission of tenders.”

This suggests that the entity must have sought tenders for the project some time before their own request to act.

Then, in the letter to His Ex-cellency, the Legislative Assembly member noted that there are three members who serve on the MDC board serving on the fi ve member procurement board, and asks the Governor who makes the appoint-ment to help resolve his concerns regarding the procurement issue cont’d on page 10


New US immigration bill could benefi t Caribbean nationals

Caribbean foreign ministers to meet in Trinidad

CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY SECRETARIAT

STAFF VACANCIESCARIBBEAN COMMUNITY SECRETARIAT

STAFF VACANCIESApplications are invited from interested and suitably qualifi ed nationals of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States and Associate Members of the Caribbean Community to fi ll the following positions with assigned duty station in Guyana:

Programme Manager, Services, Tourism and Transport(i) Project Offi cer, Maintenance, Administrative Services(ii)

Full details of these positions may be obtained by accessing the following web sites-www.caricom.org; www.caribank.org; www.oecs.org; www.crnm.org and www.caribbeanjobsonline.com

Applications in English Language with full curriculum vitae details, including nationality, work experience, educational qualifi cations and/or expertise, language profi ciency, coordinates (including email addresses) of three referees (at least two of whom must be familiar with the applicant’s work), and other relevant information, should be addressed to the Executive Director, Human Resource Management, Caribbean Community Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana and sent by email to [email protected].


Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified nationals of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States and Associate Members of the Caribbean Community to fill the following position with assigned duty station in Barbados:

Senior Project Officer, Communications, CSME Unit(i)

Full details of this position may be obtained by accessing the following web sites-www.caricom.org; www.caribank.org; www.oecs.org; www.crnm.org and www.caribbeanjobsonline.com

Applications in English Language with full curriculum vitae details, including nationality, work experience, educational qualifications and/or expertise, language proficiency, coordinates (including email addresses) of three referees (at least two of whom must be familiar with the applicant’s work), and other relevant information, should be addressed to the Executive Director, Human Resource Management, Caribbean Community Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana and sent by email to [email protected].


Nelson A. King WASHINGTON D.C., United

States - The United States Con-gress has started formal consid-eration of a sweeping immigration reform bill that creates a “path to citizenship” for an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants, including Caribbean nationals.

The Senate Judiciary Com-mittee is expected to fi nish work on the bill this week adopting Republican amendments aimed at stronger border security.

The immigration bill requires the US federal government to gain almost total control of the border, authorizing money for drones, Customs and Border Protection offi cers and prosecution of illegal entries.

Under the bill, new guest worker programmes would be established, particularly for low-skilled workers, and employers would be required to verify the legal status of all employees.

In exchange, Caribbean and other immigrants now in the US without legal status would be eli-gible for provisional status if they paid fees, fi nes and taxes.

They could gain legal resi-dency 10 years after the border was declared secure. After 13 years, they would be eligible for citizenship.

The eight senators in the bipartisan group that drafted the bill - four of whom are on the 18-member Judiciary Commit-

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) foreign ministers will meet in Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday to review the region’s strategic bilateral relationships, the Guyana-based CARICOM Sec-retariat has announced.

It said that the two-day meet-ing of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) will be followed by the Community Council meeting on Thursday.

The Secretariat said that the foreign ministers will review the Community’s strategic bi-lateral relationships including those with countries in North and Latin America, Europe, Asia and the wider Caribbean and will also hold

discussions with their counterparts from New Zealand and the Domini-can Republic.

The Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and Special Envoy of the Government of Japan will also attend the meeting.

The Secretariat said that among the agenda items for the meetings include international de-velopment cooperation, preparing a coordinated approach to 2013 and 2014 multilateral engagements with a focus on hemispheric and international organisations as well as an update on the situation in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

The CARICOM Secretariat said that Thursday’s meeting is also in preparation for the CARI-

COM Summit scheduled for Port of Spain, July 4-6.

It said the meeting “begins on the date of the 40th Anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas which established CARICOM” and that the foreign ministers “will review and approve the agenda for the Heads of Gov-ernment Meeting and will receive an update on the arrangements being put in place.

“The Council will also con-sider issues related to the reform process in CARICOM including work being done on a Community Strategic Plan and progress of the change process at the CARICOM Secretariat,” it added.

tee - were successful in fending off changes that would derail the bill.

Immigration advocates and legal experts say no previous Congressional effort to change immigration law has offered such a broad, swift reprieve to immi-grants deported by the US.

The bill would give a legal second chance to thousands of Caribbean and other deportees without serious criminal records who have a child, parent or spouse with a green card or American citizenship.

Many deportees brought to the United States before their 16th birthday would be eligible to return as well.

An amendment from Ala-bama Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, who is among the bill’s most vocal critics, has sought to strip out the deportee reprieve.

But other opponents have welcomed it as a political god-send, describing it as such an overreach that it would make the entire immigration bill easier to defeat.

Some Democrats and immi-grant rights groups have pledged to defend the deportee return, characterizing it as an important step in righting a wrong.

“We have had four million people deported since 2002 and close to two million since 2008,” said Angelica Salas, director of the Coalition for Humane Immi-

grant Rights of Los Angeles.“This is the only way to re-

unite families that have been de-stroyed by our outdated, broken and cruel immigration policies,” she added.

The Senate bill would re-duce future deportations by giving millions of immigrants in the United States provisional legal status.

But a Senate aide involved in legislative negotiations says deportees would not be granted an automatic right of return; they would have to apply.

He said Caribbean and other deportees would be ineligible if they had been expelled for criminal reasons, or if they were convicted of a felony or at least three misdemeanors. The waivers would be granted at the discre-tion of the secretary of homeland security.

Immigration lawyers, how-ever, say that could mean ap-provals end up being inconsistent, adding that some immigrants would likely not trust the system that had deported them.

“It’s arbitrary. It depends on who picks you up, when, and where they pick you up,” said David Leopold, general counsel for the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

“So who will become eligible or ineligible in terms of illegal re-entry is really luck of the draw,” he added.

with the MDC.He tells the Governor: “…

there seems to be two of its Board Members, Mrs. Angella Greenaway and Mr. Kenneth Scotland, who sit on the Procurement Board. In ad-dition, Mr Cox, a senior offi cer of the MDC sits on the Procurement Board (note the attached). This seems to be a majority of the Pro-curement Board’s fi ve members, or at any rate a highly infl uential group coming from a single institu-tion that necessarily falls under the Procurement Board for projects.”

There have been several complaints prior and continuing

regarding procurement issues on Montserrat. This was noted in this year’s February UK Aide Memoire on Montserrat Budgetary aid discussions”2013/14, where it is stated: “A number of procurement and contract management issues arose in year which signifi cantly affected the delivery of both capital projects and government services. There appears to be problems with (i) the adequacy of the procurement regulations; (ii) the lack of procurement and contract management guidelines; and, (iii) limited technical expertise in GoM resulting in misinterpreta-tion of the existing regulations as

evidenced by delays to Lookout School, (see the court matter) and the A1 road upgrade, (which saw the suspension of funding by DFID).

Up to press time Mr. Romeo reported he had not received a response from either the Governor or MDC Board, but following the press conference where the issue was fi rst raised, there have been reports of meetings. The MP had also reported that offi cials from the MDC had told him that they were operating in the interests of cutting costs by carrying out the project themselves.

cont’d from page 9

Romeo on procurement


The PWD director also confi rmed that the repairs of broken down equipment were completed before the latest tests and that while not getting hot water as desired it was satisfactory with the other signs. “What we’ve always had is decent temperature so we were less concerned about getting a hot well…So at that point, we know we have temperature and we know we have fractures in the rock,…” responding that they had to repair to be able to pull out of the fi rst well.

But there are sceptics, so TMR asked, a month from now, “what happens if your fl ow test fails, what will hap-pen to the fi rst well?” Beardsley responded: “If we, at the end of one month, we’re not getting the fl ow through into each of the well that we’d expect, so that we’re not under heavy pressure, then there are things that we can do

to stimulate the well and encourage it to start flowing,” adding somewhat dismissively, “But the expectation is that, that will be the case anyway.”

Immediately after the testing had been reported, confirmed and accepted, the Iceland Drilling Company (IDC) who is executing the drilling work since February 2013, began the dismantling of the site and moved everything moved to the second well referenced “Mon-02″ in preparation for drill-ing. As of today (May 17), our pics show the Well head at the now almost vacated fi rst site and fi nal clearings being carried out, along with the rig being set up at the #2 site. Mon-01 well head-

sealed

cont’d. from page 3First well completed

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Jus wonderin why shoot cat-tle and leave the carcasses to rot WHEN the meat can be ut i l ised to help the retirement homes, the old age pensioners, the poor and dis-tressed, and jus anyone willing to buy.Jus wonderin if is true the geothermal “ex-perts” have been told not to talk to CRM.Jus what is there to hide and what hap-pen to Transparency and Accountability.Jus wonderin which set of fi nancial rules the M D C is using, if is SRO11/2012Jus wonderin when will the “ NO EXIT” sign by the Ferry Departures lounge be removed, since the roadway has been blocked by the MDC partitioning.Jus wonderin when the “Right Turn Arrow”

will be removed from the T junction outside government headquarters.

Jus wonderin which one of them fl ags BOM fl ying for the anniversary celebrations is their logo or represent their logo.

Jus wonderin if is not long time ago the Brit-ish say they goin build port for Montserrat, so where in the world private sector build port.

Jus wonderin if is only now they tak-ing survey levels of the road from Salem to St. John’s.

Jus wonderin if is now them stop the road project.

Jus wonderin if the premier throwin the minister them under the bus.

MMSP donates helmets to Aunt Madge Child Care centre children

The Montserrat Motorsports Association (MMSA) president in the presence of the Hon. Minister of Sports Colin Riley made a donation of two children helmets to Aunt Madge Child Care centre in Woodlands on Thursday, May 16.

President of the Association, John Osborne in brief opening remarks told the small gathering along with the little children, “MMSA, we are not just an association that deals with motorsports only. What we wanted to do this year was focus on our outreach program and one of the things that we thought of was, we should do outreach to the children as well, because safety is actually a big part of our association.”

He referred to his boyhood days, when they thought, “helmets weren’t cool…today I brought my personal helmet with me to show the children that helmets could actually be fun and cool,” he said. “Hold on let me show you guys.”

Following remarks from the Minister of Sports, who said it was his third visit to the centre for the year, Osborne gave helmets to two of the children.

The Minister said he would share brief remarks of what the activity was about. share just a few brief remarks about what today’s activity is about.

“Primarily it’s about good citizenship and leadership. Montserrat Motorsports is one of our best run organizations of all of the sporting disciplines and they have been doing an excellent job of organizing themselves for the future,” he said, adding that the sport has been in the world for over 100 years and I’m happy that Montserrat is now joining the international movement to promote the machines and how well they can perform, it’s a testimony to human ingenu-ity, innovation, and that’s what we want our children to aspire towards excellent careers that really are going to make a difference for our country,” he said to the children.

He mentioned also an-other reason for the event, “…to encourage and pro-mote responsible driving and we have to look after our children and make sure we keep them safe so we drive within the limits of the law.”

Madge Donoghue head of the Child Care centre accepted and thanked the association.” I accept these valuable helmets for the chil-dren of Aunt Marge Child Care…we thank you very much, and also, we know safety is very important for the children and I’m sure

the children are going to appreciate it very much and the parents and staff…” She also thanked the media and the Minister for coming to witness the event.

Raymond Samuel de-livered a vote of thanks fol-lowing which Miss Meredith Lynch, vice president and events coordinator of the association, who chaired the proceedings brought them to a close by thanking everyone for participating.

The MMSA leaves for Nevis on Friday night to take part in the annual car racing events there. The TMR photos show some of the cars due to for Nevis to participate in the races.

JUS WONDERIN

Minister of sports - Colin Riley speaks of excellencein the futurePhotos of the h e l m e t d o -n a t i o n a n d MMSA cars off to Nevis for weekend race

the montserrat reporter - may 17 2013

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