the montserrat reporter - october 26 2012

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Week Ending Friday, October 26, 2012

Jesus said to the disciples, “Remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”- Matthew 28:20 (NRSV)

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Kids Korner...pg 8Montserrat’s Woe...pg 4

Andrew Mitchell resigns...pg 2Review of Montserrat’s Strategic Growth...pg 3

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CoP Foster on leave for allegations of inappropriate conduct

The Royal Montserrat Police Service confi rmed last Friday that a 19-year-old male Orin Francois Redwood-Evans has been arrested and charged with the murder of local busi-nessman Aubrey Barry, who died en route to hos-pital in Barbados, where

19-year old charged with murder of Aubrey Barry

he was medivaced after he sustained head injuries at his home in Manjack here in Montserrat

Commissioner of Po-lice Steve Foster told the press on Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 that Evans had been remanded to Her Maj-esty’s Prison after being

formally charged with the killing of Barry, which took place sometime between late Wednesday and early Thursday morning, Octo-ber 4, 2012.

Commissioner Foster declined to say if Evans had confessed to killing

The fi rst words came to us at about 10 a.m. on Tuesday, October 23, 2012. “The Governor sent home Foster, is that true?”

That began a furore of investigations beginning with a silent Governor, who at fi rst and for several hours said nothing.

Several other sources would only con-fi rm, eventually a release from the Deputy Commissioner that Commissioner Foster, “is currently on accumulated leave for which he is entitled,” noting also “His Excellency Governor Davis approves all leave requests submitted by the Commissioner of Police.”

Now Acting Commissioner of Police, Bradley Siddell, according to Governor’s release, was at the time responding to what he termed, “public rumors that Commis-sioner Foster has been suspended from his duties…”

Prior to that we received information from a letter sent to the Governor by Attorney

tion who has been ac-cused of an act which merits being placed on enforced leave is entitled to know what the accusations are made against him. Ac-cordingly, I am hereby requesting that you provide me with in-formation regarding the specifi c allegations made against my client by noon on the 24th October, 2012.”

The Governor’s letter of October 22 had stated: “You will

undoubtedly appreciate that it would be imprudent to per-mit you to remain on active duty while these investigations (which had not yet begun) are being conducted.”

The letter further stated: “If the allegations appear to

be substantiated, you will be informed as soon as possible and be provided with all supporting materials. If the allegations do not appear to be substantiated, you will also be advised and you may then take additional vaca-tion leave or resume duties.”

at Law David S. Brandt confi rmed the “sending home”. Acting for Steve Foster the lawyer sought clarifi ca-tion from the Governor of his instruc-tions by Foster. The letter stated that Foster was told, “that he must immediately go back to his offi ce, don’t try to fi nd out anything about the allegation, clear up his desk and proceed on leave immediately.”

It referred to a Governor’s follow-up letter responding to Fos-ter’s request for information written and delivered the said day when he was asked to take leave, October 22, which among other things merely said: “a complaint has been made against you alleging certain conduct which may amount to criminal behaviour.”

He requested of the Governor: “Any person in my clients posi-

Commissioner Steve Foster

Deputy Commissioner, Bradley Siddell

by Bennette Roach

On Oct. 23 in mid-afternoon after we received this informa-tion, the Governor eventually issued a statement which said: “There have been allegations of inappropriate behaviour against the Commissioner…” which,

Friday, October 26, 2012

19-year old charged with murder... cont’d. from page 1

Andrew Mitchell resigns following allegations he called police ‘plebs’

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Chief whip's resignation comes amid row over whether George Osborne tried to travel fi rst-class on standard train ticket

In Feb. 2011, The Montserrat Reporter was not asking for more. We asked HMG for fairness and decency. Mitchel visiting Montser-rat, told the media, at three points

a 'pleb' or a 'moron' or use any of the other pejorative descriptions attributed to me.

"The offending comment and the reason for my apology to the police was my parting remark: 'I thought you guys were supposed to f***ing help us.' It was obvi-ously wrong of me to use such bad language and I am very sorry about it and grateful to the police offi cer for accepting my apology."

Cameron responded: "I was sorry to receive it, but I under-stand why you have reached the conclusion you have, and why you have decided to resign from the government."

The education secretary,

Michael Gove, said Mitchell had suffered a moment of exasperation and he praised the prime minister's loyalty: "I think one of the many reasons why David Cameron is an outstanding leader and an outstanding prime minister is that he believes in backing those who work for him.

"He is not someone who, at the fi rst whiff of trouble, abandons those who've pledged their loyalty to him. I think what you want in any leader is the knowledge that they will back you, that they will show steadiness, that they will do anything they can to ensure the team that's been picked stays together, works together, fi ghts

together."In a sign of the chaos sur-

rounding No 10, one hour after an offi cial briefi ng that there would be no announcement of who would replace Mitchell as chief whip, it then emerged that Sir George Young was to replace him.

Read also from:http://www.guardian.co.uk/

politics/2012/oct/19/andrew-mitch-ell-resigns-police-pleb?fb=optOut

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19922026

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4602336/Cabinet-split-over-David-Camerons-handling-of-Andrew-Mitchell-pleb-row.html

in the press conference: "I would be the wrong approach to be like a new born bird waiting in the nest for the mother bird to bring nourishment... I use the analogy of the little birds, the mother bird... I think that you are behaving like one of the little birds which I described."

At the time all but Ministers

of Government thought that the remarks were insulting to Montser-ratians and particularly to the press. So as the Guardian.co.uk writer says:

In his resignation statement, Mitchell said: "Over the last two days it has become clear to me that whatever the rights and wrongs of the matter I will not be able to fulfi l my duties as we would both wish. Nor is it fair to continue to put my family and colleagues through this upsetting and damag-ing publicity."

He continued to defend him-self from claims that he had called the police morons or plebs, claims made by the police officers in Downing Street who faced a bitter verbal volley from Mitchell.

The row developed after po-lice refused to open the main gates to allow him to take his bicycle through, instead forcing him to use the side gate. The exact words used by Mitchell on the night have been disputed ever since, with the former chief whip in effect saying the account in the subsequently leaked police log book on the night had been inaccurate.

In his resignation letter to Cameron, Mitchell said: "I have made clear to you – and I give you my categorical assurance again – that I did not, never have and never would call a police offi cer

the businessman who ran a small grocery in the Cudjoe Head area. He said the investigation was continuing and anyone with information about the incident could contact the police and share what

they knew in confi dence.A post mortem of

Barry, originally from Guy-ana, was conducted in Barbados with one local forensic offi cer in atten-dance. The results are being reviewed, the top

police offi cial said.This brings to two the

number of homicides in 2012. Commissioner Fos-ter said history has shown that Montserrat recorded one murder every fi ve to seven years and so this

statistic was unusual and bore looking into.

Police Inspector Ben-nett Kirwan has been as-signed as the lead inves-tigator with Inspector Wil-liams appointed as family liaison offi cer.

A funeral service for Barry was held at Anglican Church P leasants on the East Coast, Dem-erara on October 23. Several of his

family, relatives and friends from attend-ed the funeral, while the business which was open remained closed over the pe-riod.

Buried in home country Guyana

Family and friends say a fi nal farewell to Aubrey Barry in Guyana

Andrew Mitchell


Government despite some progress on the reforms and commitments to communicate better

George Allen Jr’s death still labeled as “unnatural”

ECCB celebrating 10 years of Financial Information Month

In other reports by the Royal Montserrat Police Ser-vice Commissioner Foster and his deputy, RMPS is presently awaiting the return of an of-ficer from Trinidad & Tobago with exhibits and results from tests conducted on the body of George Allen Jr. who died in June earlier this year, after reportedly being left for dead in March with a bullet in his head.

Commissioner Foster said his death remains labelled as “unnatural” as there has been

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no ev idence uncovered to declare it a homicide, denying that this was the case prior. The case has already been reviewed by the BVI Police Service who highlighted other directions in which the local police could consider in the investigation, Commissioner Foster reported.

fence of a minor. Al len is awaiting his court hearing.

C o m m i s s i o n e r F o s t e r said the results of evidence sent to Jamaica for forensic tests following several sexual assaults of women late in 2011 and early 2012 were negative and eliminated the suspects under consideration for the crimes.

In other po l i ce news, Commissioner of Police Steve Foster is hoping the decrease in traffic accidents contin-ues.

He said Friday that to da te t he r e have been 70 traffic accidents compared to 100 at this point in 2011.

He however caut ioned drivers with the ongoing road works to be careful and to observe the one directional t r a f f i c f l ows wh ich have been establ ished to enable the work to continue unim-peded.

At h i s oppor tun i ty to speak Deputy Commissioner (DCOP) Siddell told the media that the RMPS Traffic De-

partment would be instituting a “CheckStop” programme last week Thursday across the island. The programme wi l l focus on “one of our Policing Plan objectives “Im-p r ove Road Sa fe ty /Sa fe r Streets,” he said.

Every two to four weeks the Traffic Department will announce a new road safety theme. For example “Working L ights & S igna ls” , “Stop-ping Behind the Sign”, “Fol-low Safely Not Close”, or “Park Where Your Permitted”,

etc.”During prescribed short

time periods at designated locations, the Traffic Depart-ment assisted by Beat and Patrol officers will conduct saturated traffic safety edu-cation and enforcement.

“Our goal is to influence the pub l ic ’s v iews on the importance of safe driving,” Siddell explained.

The f i r s t “campa ign” was scheduled to begin this Thursday, October 18.

Sexual Assault Cases46-year-old Thomas Al-

l e n o f Jama i ca has been released on bail after being charged with the sexual of-

cont’d. on page 5

cont’d. on page 12

By Bennette RoachA Department for Interna-

tional Development (DFID) team visited the island to assess wheth-er the Government of Montserrat (GoM) has met its six-month milestones in the Strategic Growth Programme, milestones due to be completed by February 2013. Some good progress but some not good was the report, suggesting that a rethink on some targets may have to be made.

The Honourable Premier Reuben Meade on May 1, 2012, signed a Memorandum of Under-standing with the UK Govern-ment, which accordingly, would link future development aid to a series of reforms that the govern-ment would have to undertake, to make the island more prepared for inward investment and improved service delivery.

The DFID team of Tom Kelly, Eric Arnold, Kato Kimbugwe and

Alan Clarkin were to and according to them did meet in discussions with Montserrat’s Core team of the Hon. Premier Reuben Meade, Hon. Financial Secretary John Skerritt, Cabinet Secretary Angela Greenaway, and Director of Policy & Planning Angela Estwick.

Kelly said at the opening session which was also attended by members of the Opposition, the Honourable Leader Don Romeo and Hon. Victor James that the

week-long visit will build on the monthly video conference ses-sions to review the timetables and assess how Montserrat is doing with meeting its targets. “DFID is very keen that the reform process is taken as seriously as any other investment. The new Secretary of State in charge of DFID Justine Greening is very keen on value for money,” Kelly noted.

At a press conference on October 22, 2012, the DFID team

sat with the Premier, who left on an emergency while Cabinet Secretary Angela Greenaway sat in his place, reported on some key messages emanating out of the discussions. Specifi cally, the report mentioned, Milestone 5 (Re-ducing customs clearance times); 11 (On-line visa applications); and 18-23 (wide range of access analysis), as showing progress, while “Performance has not been so strong in milestone 10, (Labour

policis); 13 (Tax reform), 27 (Ac-cess co-ordination functions; and 30 (Review of GoM regulatory functions).

On Wednesday last week the team met with Chamber (MCCI) members and small business owners at the Grand View Bed and Breakfast, where a Financing Management Workshop had been taking place. The DFID review team told the gathering there: “...the UK government wants to see these reforms implemented.”

That was based on the back-ground of the (then) Secretary of State Mitchell, who said since February, 2011, “who set out a very different view of the overseas territories …compared to the

As part of observing and carrying out activities for ECCB’s Financial Information Month (FIM)

representatives from financial institutions on the island par-ticipated in a fi nancial clinic on

Wednesday, October 24, 2012, organinsed by the East Caribbean Central Bank and hosted by the

local agency offi ce.The financial institution

which comprised primarily the

banks, Bank of Montserrt and the Royal Bank of Canada; and the St. Patrick’s Cooperative Credit Union (SPCCU) set up various booths at the Arts and Education centre in Brades where they ad-dressed fi nancial concerns from members of the public.

As the local Agency rep Mrs. Claudette Weekes said, she thought that residents would avail themselves of the opportu-nities to know of the benefi ts of these institutions. She told ZJB News,” I think it’s absolutely im-portant and I think that residents should avail themselves to these opportunities when there offered, very often the fi nancial institution have benefits and have things on the offer that people don’t know of…”

Mrs. Weekes reported that the day began with a trickle of people, but grew substantially throughout.Business Symposium and Innovation Forum

On Wednesday, October

17 the ECCB conducted another video conference seminar, titled Business Symposium and Innova-tion Forum under the theme “Iden-tifying Business Opportunities.”

The Symposium was co-sponsored by a few local busi-nesses as the Agency conference room hosted a packed gathering of business people on the island. The Symposium and Innovation Forum sought to provide a plat-form for the exchange of ideas and perspetives on the linkages between innovation, competitive-ness and business success.

The v ideo conference brought business persons who gathered at the various agency offi ces and at the bank’s head-quarters in St. Kitts from where the conference was conducted, servicing the Economic Union territories. These participants were exposed to presentations on Commericalisng Innovation, presented by Mr. Andred Harding, Managing Director of Vanguard


Jesus said to the disciples, “Remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” - Matthew 28:20 (NRSV)

I t was my son’s f irst day in kindergarten. Before this his dad and mum had always been near, but now he was suddenly left in a noisy room with people he did not know at all. Children were crying and shouting. The teachers were trying to shout louder than all the little ones. After leaving him in the kindergarten, I immediately wanted to run back and stay with him. He was frightened and lonely, and he needed comfort. At that moment, I realized that our heavenly Father longs to be with us in a fearsome world even

God Is Heremore than I wanted to be with my son. The most joyful news is that God is with us through the Holy Spirit, our comforter. We are not left alone in this dangerous world. Every second, with each of God’s children on earth, the Spirit is present. Having calmed down myself, I prayed that my son might also be comforted in knowing that God was beside him, even if his father and mother could not be.

Pave l Se rdukov (Moscow, Russia)

Dear Holy Spirit, our Comforter, bring us words of love, hope, encouragement , and comfor t , especially when we feel alone and powerless. Amen.

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The Montserrat Reporter

E D I T O R I A L

Three weeks ago we published an Editorial about deception and suggested that there is too much of it all around in Montserrat, perpe-trated from outside and within. We accused Her Majesty’s Government through the Foreign Commonwealth Offi ce (FCO) and the Department for International Development (DFID) as well as our own government.

This may sound like a repeat, but it is of concern because with de-ception there is hypocrisy and of course the subtlety that the ‘British’ is so well known for. That really is the master of deception. So it seems natural that they would not deny or defend the accusation. Last week we said that the behavior gives credence to the belief that particularly since 1995 everything that was done and authored by them was de-signed for Montserrat’s failure.

That is probably more easily said that it is to verify, but if there is any truth in the saying that they are the masters of deception (subtlety), then it is not worth the bother, since frustration will be the result. How-ever, that should not leave us in the situation where we must try to beat them at their own game. That is bound to lead to failure and perhaps that we have already reached the end.

A big part of the problem is the ability of the DFID with the FCO’s support to say that the GoM (Government of Montserrat) is responsible to determine its own development. And GoM pretends that this is so, arguing that it sets its own budget. Then, we ask, why do we have budget talks, that gets the annoying statements from our Premier that we are made to feel or we behave like beggars. Thus we understand that former Secretary of State Mitchell, now fallen from grace, had no qualms about calling us chickens who do not want to leave their mother’s nest.

Why does Montserrat have to enter in Memorandum of Understand-ings, taken as Agreements, requiring the government to make deals, afterwards called bargains. The recent DFID team admitted that to some ex-tent the MOU document was in fact theirs. We believed that even if Montserrat penned it, that was on DFID’s terms.

HMG offi cials and particularly DFID offi cials have told the media that it is their responsibility to ensure that Government is kept on their toes in service to their people. But with a media terribly under sourced, a Government that knows only too well that a fully functional independent media, can make or break them, it is easy for them not to support it while they get their information to those already so down beaten that they accept it.

It’s on the website is the new catch phrase, when the truth is far too few really has the capacity or even the desire to go searching for the information. These offi cials know only too well that the Diaspora who may look at these websites, have little interest because there is little back here to interest them other than the gossip and a chance to say “good thing I am not there.” Or, “what am I going back there for?”

Then there are those who revel in the deception, because there will be those who benefi t from it. They claim to know all that is going on and care little about the overall development and progress of the country, because they are okay. So too are those who refuse to acknowledge the truth about the foundation of what true democracy needs, deny the support for it lying at times and places convenient, deliberately discour-aging any source of support to educate and inform the masses.

This creates a vicious circle and the deception goes round and round. Someone said recently that the behaviour of our offi cials is an inculcation of British practices and habits encouraged from the time Montserrat has come to rely solely on their support. Put this with the subtle strangle-hold they seem to have on our political leaders from time to time, the deception and the trickery is inevitable. What is certain is that really evolves to retrogression in the face of more deception.

Fly Montserrat Woes

FEEDBACK: Understanding the FlyMontserrat crash How does water get into

aircraft fuel tanks?

More on deception all round, and bad tactics

Following the Interim Re-port on the FlyMontserrat crash on October 7, 2012, which stated, “investigation of the fuel system feeding that engine found signifi cant quantities of water,” the question of mainte-

From: Rev Dr John Weekes < w e e s k e s d r j o h n @ y a h o o .com>

Not surprisingly, many peo-ple who are regular passengers on Fly Montserrat, and those living abroad who have already booked tickets to fl y from Antigua to Montserrat for the Christmas holidays are very worried because of the fatal accident on October 7 and followed just days afterwards by another, though minor, fl ying incident.

So we are apparently now at a stage where the aircrafts are grounded and some people I hear are asking for refunds. Speaking about refunds, I hardly think that, from a legal point of view, I am no lawyer mind you, the airline at this stage at least would be compellable to make refunds as a temporary grounding would hardly be seen as grounds for vitiating or frustrating a contract to be formed in the future.

More to the point, however, and what should be of the utmost concern is the cause of the two most recent incidents in the fi rst place. I was never a pilot; but I have spent 5 years in and around airplanes, pilots, mechanics, en-gineers and well over a hundred hours in the air over a period of 5

nance and other issues have been widely discussed.

Chris Lynt - E-mail: [email protected] sent us this follow-up. How Does Water Get Into Aircraft Fuel Tanks

P l e a s e s e e : h t t p : / /

w w w. a v i a t i o n p r o s . c o m /article/10384396/how-does-water-get-into-aircraft-fuel-tanks

by Jim GammonCreated: March 1, 2005Water in fuel tanks

years. During that time I formed a settled opinion, based on those experiences, that airplanes prop-erly serviced and maintained just do not fall out of the sky.

In my experience, aircrafts crash because of :

a) Poor maintenance,b) Human error, including

pilot’s error,c) Sabotaged) Mechanical failure.Like your car, aircrafts must

be regularly serviced and main-tained in order to avoid accidents. The big difference is the aircraft comes with a service manual and time table which must be strictly and rigidly followed. The trouble here is that often small and fi -nancially strapped airlines will defer and hold off maintenance schedules until it is too late. This needless to say would result in (d) mechanical failure, which, as was premised earlier really ever occur, and when it does may still be at-tributable to human error, which in turn would be negligence.

By contrast, the vast major-ity of air accidents are caused by human error, a combination of pilots, air traffi c controllers and the like.

Since from about the mid to late sixties, another accident

element, perhaps the most likely accident element, has been that of sabotage, the details of which we all know and about which most air travelers are most concerned. I have not added adverse weather conditions, because here again, with modern and advanced meteo-rological equipment and reports, bad weather conditions can be more often than not avoided. Yes a blinding snow storm can be hazardous for fl ying; but even the worst thunderstorm and lighten-ing rarely affect the safety of an airplane.

Of course in all of this we are talking specifi cally about a fifteen twenty minutes flight which should be like a picnic in the park. If an aircraft takes off with its braking system intact, it remains intact on landing. Leaks in the braking system do not spring up while the airplane is in the air, and certainly not half hour later. Neither do an engine which is working fi ne on takeoff suddenly stops working a few minutes later.

Let us look at this initial report that the fuel system was apparently corrupted or contami-nated by water. We know that fuel and water do not mix. Fuel cont’d. on page 5


ECCB Celebrating 10 years

Montserrat woes

Commissioner sent home

cont’d. from page 3



is not soluble and it is not porous. By soluble I mean it’s not like salt or sugar in water. Both are said to be soluble. But it’s not like water and alcohol which are porous, that is to say the molecules of both water and alcohol can occupy the same molecular space at the same time. If you pour water into a gas such as aviation fuel, the water would sink to the bottom because of its greater density. So then, if somehow water got into the gas line of that ill-fated plane, did the pilot test the engines before take off? If it was working fi ne, why did it suddenly moments later stop working? Surely, with a full tank of gas and just some water, the gas being lighter would have been fi rst sucked into the engine. If water started to intrude, the engine would

spit and splutter, thereby giving the pilot a little more time to gain some height or do a circuit, feather the mal-functioning engine, and bring the plane in to land, bearing in mind that a half loaded plane of that type and size should have been able to fl y all the way to Montserrat on a single engine.

I have said all of this to say, grounding the aircrafts for a time is not a bad thing. Something is wrong and we need to fi nd the underlying cause of it. The fi nal report on the crash is not likely to be available before the Christmas season. So I say, let us be calm, let us have faith, and let us have confi dence that if good will abounds, and the operators are on the up and up, whatever the cause of these mishaps can be determined and FlyMontserrat will continue to fl y safely and proudly again.

Rev Dr. John Weekes

by Johnny Mac E-mail : [email protected]

. It is not just the result of a partnership between HMG and GOM. While they play critical roles in the process, development is much more multifaceted than that. Indeed there can be no authentic development unless the general population is the main force - morally, legally, intellectually, and commercially.

Indeed we shouldn’t condone a plutoc-racy. Freedom is never free! Every one of us at home and those living in exile have a vested interest in Montserrat’s redevelop-ment and must be allowed to make the in-valuable contributions that are absolutely required for the country’s redevelopment. If it becomes necessary to take civil/po-litical action against the government, then patriotism and commitment to brotherhood and sisterhood requires that we do that. I keep saying that “freedom is never free!

When the people lead the leaders will follow.” Are we suggesting that we have a dictatorial regime, or is it because people keep their tongues tied so they can get an extra piece of bread from Massa, or because are they disinterested or afraid? In any of these cases the redevelopment of Montserrat will be still born, and poverty and misery our constant companion. They will be the just rewards for our apathy and selfi shness. Don’t keep blaming the government. The elected offi cials are selfi sh, incompetent and dishonest. They seem to lack the virtues of honesty, integrity, fairness and com-monsense.

However they cannot reelect them-selves. I keep thinking that if the slaves who fought for their freedom had instead showed timidity and selfi shness that we exhibit we may still be living in slavery today. At least the Hon. Reuben Meade has many charac-teristics of a slave master.

FEEDBACK: Progress comes only with responsibility

Development is a multifaceted exercise

“have to be properly investigat-ed.”

The statement went on to say, “I am seeking the assistance of the Royal Cayman Police Service to conduct the investigation. I have asked the Commissioner to take leave while this process is ongoing. The Commissioner has not been suspended.”

According to Lawyer Brandt, “the Governor, like Nicodemus in the Bible, sent a letter on the night of the 23rd to Foster, describing

the nature of the allegations.” The lawyer on the 26th, wrote a further letter to the Governor noting that he had requested information “regard-ing the accusations against my cli-ent which precipitated his enforced leave.,” He then requested in respect of the allegations: “(a) The name of his accusers; (b) Particulars of the allegations, to include, date and time of each allegation.” The letter ad-vised further: “If I do not hear from you by Monday 29th October, 2012, legal action will be taken against you without further notice.”

Trading Ltd. Inc. Re-defi ning and Re-tooling the Business Sector Through technology by Mr. Julian Hall, Consultant and Author; En-trepreneurship, Business Models and Financing Innovation by Mr. Claudius Francis, Consultant,

Empowerment Group Compa-nies; and, Strategic Foresight, Strategic Agility and the Future Orientation of the Private Sector, by Mr. Michael Boon, Managing Director of Timothy Beach Resort in St. Kitts. These presentations were each followed by lively open

discussions.Perhaps the catchiest pre-

sentation was that of Claudius ‘peto’ Francis. One sector of his presentation dealt with The Ideal Business Model (Jim Muehlhaus-en) which talked to Eight essential areas to a business model

Packed agency offi ce with participants at the entrepreneurship video conference

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Rotaract Charter Anniversary Dinner celebrates 25 years of service

The Montserrat Rotaract Club hosted its first Charter Dinner to celebrate 25 years of service to the Montserrat com-munity at the Good Life Night Club last Saturday, September 29.

The Anniversary Dinner was originally anticipated to cater to a group of sixty (60) individuals but only saw a total of 39 persons. In attendance were: His Excellency the Gov-ernor Adr ian Davis and h is

wife Mrs. Davis; a number of founding members to include Mr. Cluade Hogan, Ms. Patricia Farrell and Norman Cassell, as well as members of the Rotary to include Mr. Julian Romeo among others.

At the event, saw awards presented to several individuals and businesses in the community for their assistance and contri-butions to the Rotaract Club to aid community service and development. These included founding members such as LIME Manager Joseph Cassell, Direc-tor of Regional Affairs & Trade Claude Hogan, Entrepreneur Norman Cassell, Patricia Farrell and Peter White.

Current President of the C l ub Ms . Lyand ra Hobson thanked the founding members of Rotaract for establishing the club and its continued develop-ment throughout the years. In her remarks she encouraged all members and future ones to be a living example of the motto “Service above Self”.

She vowed the Club’s com-mitment to community service

and development in her remarks, she said, “It is our goal to develop stronger relationship within the community and the overall betterment of our coun-try. The initiatives we plan to undertake tie in to the overall district theme, “Service through passion, sustainable through training,” includes promoting a cleaner environment, giving back to the community, road safety init iatives, lending a helping hand to those in need and a peace gathering which is one of our major activities for this year as we part take in a global effort to bring peace and international understanding to the world.”

She said, “The club would also be facilitating training ses-sion to facilitate training growth and education in human relation and personal development.”

A feature address was delivered Miss Dorothea Hazel, epidemiologist with the Gov-ernment of Montserrat and a founding member of Rotaract. Hazel was also the only District Rotaract Representative to have ever served from Montserrat. In her speech she reminisced on fond memories and the opportu-nities, which the club provided for her, and reminded members that the club is not a “social” club but a “service” club

The theme for 2012-2013 of the Rotaract Club is, “Build-ing bridges to one community.”

Some of the init iat ives on this year’s programme tie into the district theme “Service through Passion, Sustainability through training.” These include promoting a cleaner environ-ment, giving back to the com-munity, road safety


Rotary donates baby warmers to Glendon Hospital

Montserrat media personality now News Director at Cayman 27

ers to the Glendon hospital to fulfill its man-date in caring for the newborn.

Principal Nursing Officer Desreen Silcott

Rotary and Po-lio eradication

On Wednesday last Montserrat Ro-tary club joined the rest of the world and observe World Polio Day. Polio is a high-ly infectious disease which causes pa-ralysis and is some-times fatal, to date there is no cure for the disease. Rotary international notes that world Polio day follows a succession of significant devel-opment that have made 2012 one of the most important years in the history of the polio eradica-tion initiative.

The Rotary Club

to the commu-nity in which w e l i v e a n d work,” adding that “our mot-to as it is well known to all is, ‘service above self’.”

The presi-dent said they were present-i n g t h e t w o open incuba-tors or infant radiant warm-

chaired the brief ceremony, while Dr. Michael Owner in accepting on behalf of the hospital, thanked the Rotary Club and said: “Small babies

tend to lose heat when their born and… we have radiant warmers to prevent loss of heat in small children.”

The CMO said that this a big part of the care of newborn babies, so having a couple of pieces of kit like this is actu-ally invaluable and will be an enormous asset to the equipment which, “we currently have and it will be extremely valuable.”

He said they really are genu-inely very grateful to Rotary Montserrat and to Rotary In-ternational”. “Thank you all in Rotary on behalf of the Ministry of Health for what will be a very useful and valuable addition to our equipment,” he concluded.

The Montserrat Rotary Club with assistance from Rotary International on Fri-day last, October 19, made a donation of two open in-cubators or radiant warmers to the Obstetrics Unit at the Glendon hospital.

At the brief handover ceremony, Rotary Club president Dr. Braimah Kas-sim (Glendon Hospital sur-geon) says the donation is part of Rotary’s mandate to give back to the com-munity.

In the presence of hos-pital nursing officials, in-cluding Chief Medical Of-ficer Dr. Michael Owen, and several Rotarians, Kas-sim said at the handover: “We are gathered here, because the Rotary Club of Montserrat is here to do what it does best, give back of Montserrat has made

contributions to the Polio eradication initiative with the last contribution be-ing US$500.00 in 2011. However, this year the club of Montserrat will host ‘give a dollar’ to the Polio project throughout December 2012. Club members will ask the public to contribute a minimum of $1.00 each time to aid in the eradica-tion of Polio in world.

Polio remains En-demic in three countries Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.

Ben Meade, son of Montserrat’s Premier Hon. Ruben T. Meade began his media career and is a former reporter and on-air personality at ZJB Radio Montserrat.

He has been appoint-ed as News Director at Cayman 27, the local news channel in the Cay-man Islands.

Ben has been with the company for the past two years as a reporter/producer. He has built a career in the field of journalism, having pre-viously worked at the Caribbean Media Corpo-ration, the

O b s e r v e r M e d i a Group in Antigua, and

the British Broadcast-ing Corporation. He has served in a short stint as a sub-editor with The Montserrat Reporter, 2005/6.

The news director can recall his very inaus-picious start to his career as an internstacking LPs in the library of Radio Montserrat in the 1990s, where he would later get his start as a reporter and on-air personality.

“When he was with us he showed the poten-tial to reach the top of his career as he possessed all of the qualities that would make him an excellent journalist and news edi-tor. We are very pleased

at his new appointment and wish him every success,” said Herman Sargeant, Broadcast Manager of ZJB Radio.

Cayman 27’s news team, which Meade will lead, is responsible for producing Daybreak, Cayman 27 News, 27 Tonight and a variety of local talk shows. Ben said he will appear as an analyst from time to time during special events such as elections but will work behind the scenes to ensure that his team contin-ues to deliver the exceptional standard of news program-ming that is synonymous with Cayman 27.

Special congratulations come from management and staff of The Montserrat Re-porter.

Ben Meade, newly promoted News Director at Cayman 27


Kids time - In your own korner

Sharing with one another

Once upon a time, there were two sheep. One was a small sheep ... so small (separate hands to show size).

It has a soft voice ... baa! The other was a big sheep ... so big (stretch arms to show size). It has a loud voice ... BAA! The two sheep are brothers.

Every day, Big Sheep and Small Sheep would go out to the fields to

play together and to look for grass to eat. One morning, as always, the two sheep went out. Big Sheep and Small Sheep gambolled out to the fields to look for grass to eat ... (Get the children to gambol together “to the fields.”) Now it has not been raining for many days and most of the grass had dried up.

Big Sheep and Small Sheep gambolled for a long time but they could not find any green grass to eat. They were getting tired. Their feet were tired and they could no longer gambol. So they walked ... (Get the children to drag their feet on the ground.) Big Sheep and Small Sheep walked and walked from morning until afternoon but there were no green grass. As far as they could see all the green grass had become brown.

The sun was getting hotter. Big Sheep and Small Sheep were tired, hungry and thirsty ... (Get the children to stick out their tongues and pant.) But Big Sheep and Small Sheep continued walk-ing and soon they came to a river. They lowered their heads and lapped up some water with their tongue ... (demonstrate how this is done).

When Big Sheep lifted his head, he saw a small green patch under a tree. He gambolled over to the tree. It was

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a patch of green grass. “BAA, BAA!” he shouted to Small Sheep to come over. Both Big Sheep and Small Sheep were very excited. But the small patch of grass was a very small patch ... it was just enough for one sheep. What should they do? (Pause) Who should eat the small batch of green grass? (Pause) “BAA, BAA! Go ahead and eat it. I am not very hungry” said Big Sheep and he began to move away. “Baa! Let us share the green grass” said Small Sheep. So Big Sheep and Small Sheep shared the small patch of small grass. They were very happy and they gambolled all the way home ... (Get the children to hold hands and gambol “all the way home.”)

Big Sheep found the green grass and he could have eat-en the grass all by himself. But Big Sheep was generous to let Small Sheep eat the small patch of green grass. Small Sheep was also sharing ... he shared the green grass with Big Sheep. Small Sheep loves Big Sheep and Big Sheep loves Small Sheep.

As they were gambolling home, a big bad wolf was following them. The big bad wolf had not eaten for many days and he was very hun-gry. He wants to eat both Big Sheep and Small Sheep.

Suddenly, he pounced on both Big Sheep and Small Sheep and started to attack them with his sharp claws. “Run!” shouted Big Sheep to Small Sheep. Small Sheep ran as fast as he could while Big Sheep tried to knock the big bad wolf with his head. But the big bad wolf was too strong for Big Sheep.

Small Sheep ran back to Big Sheep and now both Big Sheep and Small Sheep tried to knock the big bad wolf with their heads. Two sheep were attacking the big bad wolf at the same time and from different directions. Small Sheep attacked on the left and Big Sheep attacked

on the right. (Hold up a big pillow against your chest and have the children take turns to butt their heads against the pillow.)

Together Big Sheep and Small Sheep were stronger than the big bad wolf. So the big bad wolf cried .... all the way home.

Big Sheep and Small Sheep took care of each other. Big Sheep tried to protect Small Sheep from the big bad wolf. But when the big bad wolf proved too strong for Big Sheep, Small Sheep returned to help. United Big Sheep and Small Sheep were strong.

The big bad wolf went and called his other wolf friends to help. So a whole pack of three wolves came and pounced upon Big Sheep and Small Sheep. Big Sheep and Small Sheep tried to fight with the wolves but there were too many of them. “Run and get help” shouted Big Sheep to Small Sheep. Small Sheep ran toward home as fast as he could.

Meanwhile, the Shepherd heard the noises. When he saw Small Sheep running back alone without Big Sheep, he knew something was wrong. He picked up his rod and

ran towards Small Sheep. He saw the three wolves at-tacking Big Sheep. He used his rod to hit the wolves and chased them away.

Both Big Sheep and Small Sheep were hurt. The Shep-herd picked up Big Sheep and lifted him up to his shoulders then he carried Small Sheep in his arms. He brought them home and put

medicine on their wounds. The Shepherd took good care of Big Sheep and Small Sheep.

Whenever Big Sheep and Small Sheep have troubles, the Shepherd is always there to help them. Jesus is our Shepherd and He will always take care of us.

Big Sheep & Small Sheep

1. Johnny’s mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child’s name?2. A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

Try to fill in the missing numbers.Use the numbers 1 through 9 to complete the equations.Each number is only used once.Each row is a math equation. Work from left to right.Each column is a math equation. Work from top to bottom.

Brain Teasers

Maze

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2. Meat.Answers

Math Challenge

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Government to communicate better on the re-forms and commitments despite some progress

Police and Fire Community Week begins on Friday with changes

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previous liberal government in the UK,” while the UK conservative government feels very strongly that the overseas territories should get investment, that they should be able to grow, should be able to develop and that the UK govern-ment would help them do that with signifi cant investments and infrastructure.

In Montserrat’s case he said that meant a new town and a new port, but with as he stressed: “if the government of Montserrat does everything it can to make Montserrat a good place to do business in, making Montserrat attractive to the private sec-tor…”

The DFID team reported at the press conference on the prog-ress of the reform commitments outlined in the MOU, but also said there were areas that were not as good.

The team through their lead Kelly, said: “there was good progress…it’s very clear that the government of Montserrat is very committed to the MOU process. They have performed in some areas and even better than we had thought when we agreed the MOU…there are also areas inevi-tably where we could have made more progress and we have agreed where we should rethink some of the milestones to see how we can meet the February targets…”

One of the milestones that was commended and noted by the Cabinet Secretary, was that of outsourcing, after the team said that they were aware that some progress had been made, although there were concerns as to how some areas are being developed. Mrs. Greenaway re-ported that following consultants reports going back to 2008, GoM had selected four areas in this fi nancial year to be outsourced. These she said, “are school bus-sing, school needs program, care of the elderly and GoM cleaning services.” All of these, she said

further, “are at various stages of implementation.”

The team was critical on the issue of communications of the Government strategy and the reforms. “…it was clear to us that we think (GoM) needs to do a better job in reaching out…” particularly to the small busi-nesses, as they acknowledged, they didn’t expect, “that the aver-age Montserratian in the street is really interested in milestones…”

Checking a Summary Assess-ment of Achievements, obtained (not from GoM), it reveals that 21 of the 35 milestones showed “fully achieved” under a yes/no/partial column. Of the 21 fully achieved, 13 were done by Cabi-net. The 14 incomplete milestones are expected to be completed by February 2013, but suggestions by the Review team regarding improvements in co-ordination, monitoring and reporting hint at stringent requirements on GoM.

Video and voice clips can be seen or heard at www.the-montserratreporter.com

At the press conference: l-r: Eric Arnold, Principal Consultant, GIC Consulting Ltd.; Tom Kelly, Head of OTD, DFID, team leader; Angella Greenaway, Kato Kimbugwe, DFID Resident Rep.; Allan Clarkin, Deputy Programme Manager, OTD, DFID.

Acting Commissioner of Police of the Royal Montserrat Police Services (RMPS) Bradley Siddell, hosted on Friday, October 26, 2012, the newly constructed biweekly press conference, the fi rst of which was hosted by the Commissioner, absent on enforced leave following allegations of

“inappropriate behavior”.Among other things the Com-

missioner was pleased to promote the Police and Fire Community week of activities. He gave a run-down of the activities: The launch of the week is going to oc-cur here on site Saturday at 7:30 p.m. We’ve changed our opening

church service from tomorrow to Sunday because of the funeral on tomorrow which we will be attending, the venue there is going to be the Cavalla Hill Meth-odist Church on Sunday.

The family fun-day would also be Sunday at the Brades Basketball court. Gospel concert

and tax policy, environmental management; Tourism’s demand and supply constraints, along with access, a matter height-ened with the recent woes of FlyMontserrat.

on Monday 7p.m. Junior citizens day on Thursday between 9am and 4pm of course that involves the fi re service extensively. Games night is still a go on Wednes-day at 6:30pm and unfortu-nately on Thursday we had to cancel the lecture, which the Commissioner said, “and so I’m told that a popular event but unfortunately our guest speaker is unavailable for that, but we do have the

tournaments; a hike and those were sort of a different approach to some of the activities.”Impact from absence of Com-missioner Foster

Meanwhile, the Ag. Com-missioner responded, when asked about the effect of Commis-sioner’s possible absence for some time. “… it’s not affecting our ability to move forward our plan….Obviously from anorganizational point of view we will not have of direct access to the commissioner of police so that’s an additional resource that the organization relies on for leadership.

He said that from an execu-tive leadership level, “we’ve gone from two one, so that obviously

is going to impact the speed po-tentially at which we can deliver certain initiatives but I’m goanna work very hard at attempting to prevent any unnecessary delays - so there is goanna have to be further delegation of some of the commissioners responsibilities to other offi cers so that we can move forward on these plans.”

As to the investigation into the allegations against the Com-missioner he said that their role will be minimal and will just be a from “a logistical administrative role on ensuring transportation is available, accommodation is available, equipment and supply, a place for these offi cers to work from…”

That he referred to was the bargain between the UK and GoM. In the MOU it was mentioned as a “deal.”

Kelly confirmed later at a press conference after questions, that the private sector referred to local, international and the

diaspora. The team received presenta-

tions from the Montserrat Devel-opment Corporation (MDC) on the status of plans for building a new town in Little Bay; held discussions on the government’s investment policy; as well as immigration

dance. Possibly, we may or may not have the Karaoke on Friday 7:30 p.m.

Mr. Siddell explained the absence of the sports day was changed. “We sort of had some pre-police week such as the foot-ball tournament the two other

Commissioner Foster and Deputy Siddelll at fi rst bi-weekly press conference

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