The Motivator. is Wahtuse’s third. stint at writing. The. first was released in. 1992 when he was. at BWIA (now CAL. Airlines), when he. did a technical book. based on his experience. as a technical. instructor. That. book, he said, was. used by BWIA in. its engineering and. mechanics training. department.

Wahtuse’s second. book, I Sentence you. to Hell, was never. released in Trinidad. but the purely science. fiction horror book. written in 2002 is. doing well in sales on. Amazon, he said.

At tomorrow’s. launch guests will see. the Motivator Exercise. copybook and. what it stands for.

Wahtuse explained:. “The Motivator. Exercise book was. conceived as a result. of my concern for the. achievements of our. icons past and present. being forgotten. with the passing of. time.”. He said men and. women who through. their ingenuity, prowess. and outstanding. abilities, have all contributed. in making. this country what it is. today, but lamented. that they are all but. forgotten.

“We have become. a people who simply. take the things we. now enjoy for granted,”. he said. He cited. sportsmen such as. the late Rodney Wilkes,. Lennox Kilgore,. Mc Donald Bailey. and others who made. their contributions. on the world stage. and paved the way. for TT to enjoy the. prestige it does today,. and in particular, Sir. Learie Constantine. and the contribution. he made as a cricketer. and statesman. in the United Kingdom. in the mid-40s.

He noted too, “Dr. Rudranath Capildeo. and his contribution. to science and of. course, the revered. Dr Eustace Eric. Williams, one of the. greatest of minds.”. He also recognised. the younger, talented. and gifted people. who have etched. their names indelibly. into history by their. outstanding achievements.

“The Motivator. salutes these. icons of which there. are hundreds on the. front of its covers.

On the back cover a. short biographical. description is given. of these persons.

The bottom line, our. classroom student. and society are constantly. reminded of these great people.”. Wahtuse explained. the significance of the. hand reaching out. for the carrot on the. book’s cover. He said it. is the motivating factor to. everyone to try and achieve. or emulate the accomplishments. of our icons past and present.

Also displayed on the front. covers is TT’s rich heritage for. which he said, we all must be. very thankful. Those include. images of flora and fauna, oil,. the Pitch Lake, fruit and. vegetables, culture, pan. –the only musical instrument. invented in the. 20th century– amazing. pan tuners such as Tony. Williams and Bertie Marshal,. and many others pan. virtuosos.

Displayed on the inside of the. front cover is the standard tables. which have served this nation. for over a 100 years, and on the. inside of the back cover is what. Wahtuse views as the working. part of the Motivator Exercise. Book.

“It has information such. as civics which our school. population needs to know,. math, English grammar, and. other languages, science at the. primary, secondary and tertiary. level, information which the. student needs to have enforced. in their minds. This information. will be changing from time to. time with the countless issues. of the exercise book,” Wahtuse. said.

He said he saw the need for. this section as memories of his. struggling to remember things. he had learnt under examination. conditions, for instance trying. to remember the formula for. the conversion from Fahrenheit. to Celsius and things like that.

“That section is designed as a. constant reminder to everyone.”. The back cover gives a biographical. detail of what is on. the front cover. “My hope for. the Motivator Exercise Book is. that it would be used universally, for all of the Caribbean,. South and North America,. Europe and beyond. In. every diaspora. Children of. West Indian heritage living. in England need to know. of their heritage, likewise. their classmates should. know of each other, this is. an inducement to good. understanding and mutual. respect.

“It is my hope that with. the information gathered. over the years, the Motivator. will produce its first. volume of the Motivator. Encyclopedia.”. Wahtuse range of steel. percussion instruments. will be on display at the. launch including Wahtuse’s. Guinness World Record Jomoline. and his most recent. invention The Foundation. pan. Wahtuse, now 83,. was awarded the Guinness. World Record for the largest. pan in the world, the. Jomoline in 2011, after. constructing the instrument. 34 years prior. to attaining that recognition.

It measures. 104 cm (3 feet 4 inches). wide and 84 cm (2 feet 9. inches) tall.

A former BWIA aircraft. engineer, the prolific inventor. has also developed. the Manetone (a pan with. a detachable face), the. Venturi electronic pan, the. xylopan, and a collapsible. pan stand.

At the launch pan music. will be supplied by the Positive. Movement of Malabar.

Asked about the number. of people, places and things. available to be placed on. the copybooks Wahtuse. said the books would be. coming out in issues that. would be changed as the. sales are moving.

“My covers are to motivate. people,” he ended.

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Goals from Malachai Daniel (a rocket from an angle after he ran on to a through pass from Isaiah Richardson in the 33rd minute) and Jevaughn Benjamin (a long range shot from 40 yards in the 56th) saw Rosa home.

Santa Rosa’s Under- 13 team lost a hard fought final 4-3 to Central FC, all the goals coming from Jashawn Thomas, who took his season tally to 15 in both Under-13 and Under-15 combined.

Thomas found the back of the net in the 21st, 28th and 31st minutes for Santa Rosa.

But Central FC were indebted to Abdul- Quddos Hypolite (17th and 34th), Ocean Lindsay (54th) and Du’Shaun Augustus (69th) as they secured the Under-13 crown.

And, in the Under- 11 division, Queen’s Park needed kicks from the penalty spot to edge San Juan Jabloteh 5-4, after the scores were locked at 2-2 at the end of regulation time. Mikey Chaves (25th) and Steven Griffith (39th) were the goal-getters for the Parkites, while Lindell Sween (eighth and 30th) replied for Jabloteh.

DELHI: That the West Indian team is in a state of decline is a well-known fact, with the side failing to qualify for the recently- concluded Champions Trophy and currently struggling in the One-Day International (ODI) series against India.

However, if West Indian pace legend Sir Andy Roberts’ opinion was to be taken into consideration, then the sport in general has gone downhill, and not just the team that he used to represent back in his playing days. At least, as far as levels of aggression in the sport are concerned.

“We don’t have enough pacers in the world. No one’s bowling fast because rules for short-pitched bowling have changed, batsmen are fully protected.

The rules of the game are cutting aggression.

You cannot even stare hard at the batsmen else they would fine you. They are taking all the aggression out of the game,” Roberts was quoted as saying by Hindustan Times.

“Let me ask you, women are playing, is it a female’s game? No.

People who make all these rules make them sissy’s game,” added the pace legend, who also said that the sport back in his time wasn’t for the “chicken-hearted”, but for those with a “lion’s heart”.

Roberts was an integral part of the fearsome West Indian attack of the 1970s and 1980s of which the fellow luminaries such as Michael Holding, Malcolm Marshall and Joel Garner were also part of. The team under the leadership of Clive Lloyd won two World Cups — in 1975 and 1979 — and were known for their intimidating bowling tactics, peppering the batsmen with short deliveries in an age when helmets and other protective gear weren’t quite widely in use.

Talking about players from the current generation, Roberts did not sound too impressed about 20-year-old Alzarri Joseph, who was West Indies’ find of the tournament in their successful campaign in the 2016 Under-19 World Cup and is fast becoming an integral part of the team.

“He is not fast. No, he is not fast. He bowls medium pace at 85 and 86 miles. What some of these guys need to do is speak to people, especially those from the past, and learn about their methods of training which made them bowl quick,” said Roberts

Seema Ramsaroop, 39, and her ten children from were ordered out of the home on on June 24. “Up to this day we are still trying to live in my mother’s small house because we have no place to go,” Seema said.

Seema’s mother,Sandra Ramsaroop, who lives in Princes Town, took in her daughter and her family following a family dispute.

Sandra is today appealing to the Housing Minister Randell Mitchell to assist her daughter whom she says is helpless.

Seema’s grand children, 18-month-old twins Rahesh and Sahesh Rampersad, have been sleeping on the porch of their great grandmother’s home with their parents, Sarah and Ramnath Rampersad.

Ramsaroop said she shared a common-law relationship with her husband Krishna Rampersad for 23 years and he died four months ago.

“The family members are in dispute over property but I know my husband’s name is in the will and his children should benefit from this,” she said. Her children range from ages 3 to 21 years-old.

According to Ramsaroop all her household items were removed from her property in Couva and transported to the home of her mother, several miles away in Princes Town.

She says her stove and television set were destroyed in the moving process. Up to yesterday, Seema’s belonging lay at the side of the road covered with black plastic.

Three of Seema’s children attend schools in Couva with two in secondary school and the other in primary school. Since the family left Couva the children are unable to attend school.

Sandra said her daughter (Seema) approached the MP for Princes Town Barry Padarath who told her she must have an income in order to get government housing.

“My sons look for work cutting lawns and I am unable to work.

This is why we are crying out for help,” she said.

“Mr Prime Minister you are responsible for the people ton whom you have delegated authority.” He was speaking in the Lower House on Friday on an Opposition motion on crime.

He criticised Government for spending 21 months blaming the previous administration to solve the problems of today and tomorrow but the country is “fed up” of this. He said the Government had declared they are in charge and we have to “deal with it” but the population is responding that they are not dealing with crime.

He pointed out Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat’s statements in Parliament that he was “not a fan of the police” and they are part of the critical failure of the criminal justice system could demotivate and demoralising officers.

He added that the Prime Minister has not minced words with his criticisms of the Police Service.

He asked rhetorically that when senior government memebrs express disatisfaction with police service and they are in charge via the National Security Ministry and the National Security Council “what that leave for citizens?” Rambachan said he takes issue with statements that crime fighting is police work and not “government work” but “everything is government work”.

“Ministers cannot escape their responsibilities.” He said that the Prime Minister seems to think that he has delegated responsibility on crime.

“I must admit that I have reached the point that when I look at the Prime Minister and I look at how the Prime Minister is running the affairs of the country and by what he says that he is happy that he has achieved the goal of Prime Minister but he is very disinterested in the role of Prime Minister.

He said that when delegate authority you have to provide with resources.

“If you want police to solve crime you do not do that simply by increasing the number of crime investigators to 60 you know. You have to say what support they really need to crack the crime.” Rambachan said he had been complaining about the “chaos” in Chaguanas to the National Security Minister but nothing has been done to alleviate the situation.

He also expressed “horror” at the crime that is taking place “on our very doorsteps.” Rambachan said we “shudder and tremble” at the murder of a 13 year-old boy in a “brutal manner”, a reference to the killing of Videsh Subar in Malabar. He said, however, that while he drove through Chaguanas people were going about business as usual and questions whether we have become numb as country and have such a short memory since the last murder.

Earlier in the debate Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West MP Stuart Young said when he heard of the “heinous crime” (in Malabar) he looked at his son at home and felt a sense of despair.

He said that it pains him when he hears of a citizen affected by crime.

“As a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago and now someone who has been given the responsibility and has the knowledge of what it is we’re faced with it pains me because like everyone else in this house I have family. And everytime any citizen of Trinidad and Tobago is affected by crime, as we have seen over the last couple of days, it does genuinely pain me as the representative for Port of Spain North/St Ann’s West but more importantly as a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago.

Because…any patriotic citizen of Trinidad and Tobago would want to be part of the solution and not part of the problem.” He said that Government is not passing the responsibility on crime to the law enforcement agencies but that is their statutory responsibility.

“I have no power of search and arrest.” He continued: “I am not a police officer.

I do not have the ability to go and investigate crime and prosecute crime. So why is it those on the other side are criticising us when we say it is the police service must do that.

That is what the laws of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago say.”

“I just want to state that the union misrepresented the facts,” Khan told reporters during a news conference at the ministry’s head office, International Waterfront Complex, Port-of-Spain.

“The Ministry of Energy is not putting Petrotrin’s acreage for bid. Petrotrin has its acreage. It has a responsibility to develop its acreage and also has a responsibility to its shareholder, the people of Trinidad and Tobago to run a profitable enterprise.” At a news conference on Thursday last, OWTU president general Ancel Roget claimed that the committee set up by the Government to restructure Petrotrin was a ruse and that the State-owned company was surreptitiously moving to sell off the company’s assets.

Roget also wondered if selling off Petrotrin’s assets was a recommendation of the restructuring committee, which handed its report to Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on June 1.

Khan said yesterday the ministry, on behalf of the Government, has offered only open acreage for competitive bidding.

“We don’t offer Petrotrin acreage for competitive bidding but open acreage. That has been a longstanding model of development of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago.

It is called the competitive bid round.” The minister said the last series of competitive bidding for off-shore and deep water blocks was in 2013.

“What we (Government) have gone out to the market on is our competitive bid round 2017, the first phase of which is an expression of interest, you will say what blocks you think you will be interested in and then the second phase of the programme,” he said.

“We will be offering data packages for sale. You can evaluate the data. You can evaluate the prospectivity of the acreage and then make a structured bid to have it.” Khan added: “This is what keeps the industry alive. You have to continuously put acreage on the market to foster exploration.

“In the exploration and production business, it is a challenge to keep ahead and this country should complement itself that we have been in the oil business for 100 years and still surviving” He attributed the country’s success in the oil sector to prudent and proper management, especially in the post independent period.

However, Khan said since 2006, Petrotrin no longer had the right for deep acreage in its core assets.

“That is the acreage that has been put out for competitive bidding by the Ministry of Energy sand Energy Industries.” Khan said the first phase, expression of interest, closed off yesterday.

“We will evaluate the interest and then we will determine what blocks will actually go out for competitive bid,” he said.

“We hope to have that bid round in full swing at the fourth quarter of 2017. It is a buyers’ market because oil prices are low. We still hope because of the nature of the acreage, we have on offer, and will be getting fairly competitive bids.” The minister also said the report of the Petrotrin restructuring committee was presented to the Standing Committee on Energy on June 21.

“I want to state categorically that at no time did I or any other minister including the Prime Minister attempt to influence what was written in the report,” he said.

“We did not appear in front of the committee and the recommendations of the report was on the sole judgement of the committee.” Khan said a follow-up meeting is scheduled for 10 am today at the Office of the Prime Minister in St Clair.

“I want to categorically state that the government, through the prime minister, the Minister of Energy and Energy Industries or the Cabinet has taken no decision to date on the Petrotrin report,” he said.

“All options are being currently evaluated and I want to further state that nothing is off the table. These decisions that have to be taken on Petrotrin calls for deep analysis and some prudent business judgement.

But I want to further state that nothing is off the table.”

Sinanan said The Cargo Star will arrive in TT in mid July. It can carry 120 passengers plus cargo, to suit the needs of citizens of Trinidad and Tobago.

“It has been chartered for one year at a cost of US$22,500 per day. “A passenger vessel, the Ocean Flower is expected to arrive in Trinidad on July 17.

This vessel has been charted for one year at a cost of US$26,500 per day.” In a supplemental query, Caroni East MP Dr Tim Gopeesingh, asked if the two ships had been leased by way of a tender? Sinanan replied, “On several occasions I have indicated that the Government found itself in a situation where the cargo vessel was pulled from service, and the Port Authority had to use all the vessels that were available at that point in time. “There was a tender issued. That tender however was not subscribed to. We got one tenderer.

“The Port Authority again used the services of local agents. They looked at what was submitted to the Port.

Hence why a charter was signed for one year, with the expectation that a new tender will be going out very shortly.” Gopeesingh posed another supplemental.

“Are you saying that in the acquisition of these two vessels there has been no tender and it was sent directly to a local agent without any tendering process by the local agent?”.

Sinanan replied, “I think I was very clear as to the process used and any further information I’m sure the Port can submit in writing to you.” Sinanan, later in reply to a listed question from Pointe-a- Pierre MP David Lee, revealed that the Sea Lots Walkover will cost $10.7 million and will be ready by September.

Sinanan said the cost is actually below the initial engineers estimates, and the process had seen tender bids made by nine contractors, the highest bid of which was $17 million.

In a spirit of friendly rivalry, a great time was had by all as athletes from five different special-needs schools, across the country, met to display their skills. With play underway in alternating weather- bands of sunshine and rain, some players at times skidded in the mud while others danced for joy in the rain.

The other participating schools were Lady Hochoy Home Penal (second place), Lady Hochoy Home South (third) plus Memisa Vocational Centre and Palmeras Learning Centre (both coming joint fourth). The event consisted of a march past, individual skills (namely batting, bowling and fielding, for which medals were later awarded) and several short matches, each of five or 10 overs. The event sought to cater for any particular disability of the youngsters including Down’s Syndrome, cerebral palsy, autism and intellectual disabilities, Newsday learnt from David Benjamin, vice chairman of the board of directors of the Special Olympics Trinidad and Tobago.

He said the aim of the round-robin event was to allow each team to participate in as many games as possible with other teams, as opposed to the goal of elimination.

In his welcome address Benjamin said five out of eight scheduled teams had attended. He thanked the sponsors Digicel, plus the sports coaches and schools who had all made the day possible. Benjamin said that Special Olympics Cricket is not a new things, but that years ago a West Indian Special Olympics Cricket Team had visited India, including one player present on Saturday (Michael Modeste), and also to China.

Digicel representative Diana Mathura thanked all who had volunteered to help at the event, and told the participants to have fun.

Digicel project officer for special needs, Anjaana Downs, told Newsday that it was a great day, weather included. “When you spend a little time with these athletes, you never want to leave,” she said.

Among the participants was Melissa Nanan from Lady Hochoy South, a very determined bowler who said she had also honed her skills by playing cricket at home with friends and family. Asked about the event, Nanan told Newsday, “It went good.”

Deyalsingh said, “Tropical Storm Bret made its way over TT on June 18 and 19. By Thursday June 22, 90 percent of the flooded areas were already assessed.” He listed actions begun by Friday June 23.

“St George East, St Helena and Madras ULV spraying over about 1,000 homes.

Perifocal work started.

Biocidal spraying was done,” Deyalsingh related.

ULV refers to Ultra Low Volume or “fogging” spraying.

“Caroni: The area of Madras Settlement was addressed by perifocal work. Victoria West: Woodland and environs were treated by both perifocal work and residual spraying.” Perifocal work means placing insecticide at sites where mosquitos breed such as stagnant water.

Residual spraying applies long-term chemicals to walls and roofs of houses to act against adult mosquitoes.

He said the local government corporations first had to wash down their areas, after which the Insect Vector Unit had gone in and done biocide spraying, plus residual spraying to keep adult mosquitos at bay for at least three weeks.

“Victoria East: Kanhai Road and Oropouche River Road in the Barrackpore community were visited by nine perifocal workers. Work was done,” Deyalsingh continued.

“St Patrick East: Clarke Road, Penal Rock Road in Penal community were visited.

St Patrick West: Icacos, Fullerton and Bonasse were visited.

“Nar iva/Mayar o : Same thing.” Deyalsingh then listed vector control activities for the coming week, starting this weekend.

“County Caroni and flood-affected areas in the Tunapuna/Piarco Regional Corporation: Caparo, Oropune, La Horquetta. Perifical work is continuing. We are also doing work with schools. We are collaborating with the regional corporations.

At the seminar, business owners accountants and financial advisors gathered and were briefed by the Inter- Bank Anti-Fraud and Security Committee of the Bankers Association of Trinidad and Tobago, on the ways and means of identifying and protecting finances from fraud.

Over the years the number of reports of fraud were pretty standard, according to bank investors yesterday; but in 2016, there were over a thousand cases of fraud and this year there have been 369 cases so far. These figures trump every murder tolls taken over the years.

Anti-Fraud member Antonio Ventour said that the cause for the rise in fraud cases was because of the economy in which we are operating.

“It would seem that fraud is a little out of control than murders.

We are operating in a challenged economy, and what we know is that whenever you have a challenged economy, fraud always increases” Ventour noted that most businesses did not have policies to combat fraud, which is important to have especially where there would be financial transactions taking place.

He highlighted some of the elements of several fraud methods which included card skimming, in order to get a victim’s bank card numbers and information, Ransomware, which was the act of freezing people’s data on their PC’s and holding the information to ransom as well as cheque fraud.

Ventour also gave tips for people to ensure that they are not victims of fraud.

He said that people should be very aware of every financial situation that they encounter.

People should be especially wary of social media, because it is a safe haven for fraudsters.

Ventour also advised businesses to have a comprehensive policy and procedure for transactions in the workplace.

He also said that beyond all else, people should verify with their officials whenever conducting a financial transaction.

TT will host Group A of the Caribbean leg of the CONCACAF Championships as they face US Virgin Islands, Curacao and Grenada from August 23-27. Haiti will host the final Caribbean round.

The winners of each of the five preliminary groups will advance to the final round to join Haiti, where they will be divided into two groups of three teams each, with the top three teams qualifying for the final CONCACAF tournament as the CFU (Caribbean Football Union) representatives.

Currently a TT squad comprising of 25 players is being overseen by English- born women’s coach Joanne Daniel.

The TT team are also currently participating in the TTFA (TT Football Association) Women’s League Football (TT Wolf).

“Preparation is going well at the moment, We are working very hard, currently playing in the Wolf League and overall I would say things are progressing nicely although there is always room for improvement,” Daniel said in an interview on the TTFA website on Saturday.

“Overall I think the players are progressing well. We have a larger squad of 25 at this time which is a bit high at this stage so close to the tournament but at the same time we want to give the players the best opportunity and then end up with the best squad for the competition.” Daniel continued, “This team came together in March after being together for six weeks last year so it’s not a huge amount of time to get ready. We are trying to get a lot accomplished in a little amount of time to get them ready. We play in the qualifiers in August and then the next round is in October.

“I am confident we can do very well in the first round. We have very good attacking players, our defensive play and defensive structure I think needs more work and that is what we are focusing on.

We have to win the first round yes but at the same time we have to be preparing to play the likes of Haiti and Jamaica,” added Daniel, who has lived in TT for the past nine years. “Our goal naturally is to get to the CONCACAF stage and give it our best shot to qualify for the World Cup.” The team trains on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and play in the League on Saturdays.

The Under-17 staff is currently Daniel (coach), Ricarda Nelson (manager), Glennon Foncette (goalkeeper coach) and Natalie Harper (equipment manager).

A total of 16 teams will play at the World Cup in December 2018 in Uruguay. Fifteen teams will qualify from six separate continental competitions including three from CONCACAF.