New research finds that when climate change and deforestation impacts are taken together, up to 58 percent of Amazon tree species richness could be lost by 2050, of which 49 percent would have some degree of risk for extinction.Under the deforestation/climate change scenario, half the Amazon (the north, central and west) could be reduced to 53 percent of the original forest. The other half (the east, south and southeast, where agribusiness occurs), could become extremely fragmented, with only 30 percent of forest remaining.Studies rarely take both climate change and deforestation into account. But the new study’s results bolster the findings of other scientists who have modeled results showing that when the Amazon is 20-25 percent deforested, it could cross a rainforest to savanna conversion tipping point, a disaster for biodiversity.Scientists warn that Jair Bolsonaro’s anti-environmental policies could result in a worst-case scenario, with severe damage to the Amazon rainforest and to its ecological services, including the loss of the sequestration of vast amounts of stored carbon, leading to a regional and global intensification of climate change. The Amazon rainforest is a cloud factory and has a tremendous influence on the weather and climate of South America. But deforestation and climate change could combine to greatly diminish the rainforest’s extent and diversity. Image courtesy by Hans ter Steege.The combined impact of ongoing deforestation and escalating climate change on the Amazon rainforest could radically transform its configuration by 2050, with the biome divided into two distinct blocks — one occupied by still significant but very seriously diminished rainforest, the other dominated by agribusiness and scattered forest inside conserved areas.That shift, were it to occur, could result in a decline of up to 58 percent of Amazon tree species richness, of which 49 percent would have some degree of risk for extinction (with tree species becoming vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered), according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change. The authors of the paper — four researchers from Brazil and the Netherlands — determined that both deforestation and climate change had to be examined together, and not separately as is typically done, in order to determine a realistic future scenario.To the researchers’ surprise, when the effects were combined in their models, the tree species loss numbers were very high.Under the deforestation/climate change scenario, one half of the Amazon (the northern, central and western portions) would be reduced to 53 percent of the original forest, although still with continuous areas. The other half (the eastern, southern and southeastern areas, where agribusiness activities currently take place), would become extremely fragmented, with only 30 percent of forest remaining; remnant vegetation would be found primarily in protected areas and indigenous reserves.Map showing forest coverage projections for 2050. Only half of the Amazonian forest may remain in 2050 under the worst-case deforestation/climate combined scenario. The blue areas show a relatively intact Amazonian forest continuous block, composed of northwestern and central Amazonia, the Guiana Shield and a smaller part of southwestern Amazonia. The red areas are a largely degraded and fragmented Amazonian forest block composed of eastern, southern and a major part of southwestern Amazonia. The light yellow areas indicate forest loss. Image © Esri, DeLorme Publishing Company, Arcworld.Two scenarios for 2050 were highlighted by the study, a more optimistic one — in which Paris Climate Agreement carbon targets are achieved and global temperature warms by less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) — and a more pessimistic one based on recent rising trends in deforestation and CO2 emissions.In the more pessimistic scenario, Amazonian tree species would lose up to 65 percent of their spatial distribution area (where they live and reproduce), and up to 58 percent of their diversity; 49 percent would be threatened with extinction, of which 22 percent would be critically endangered, according to IUCN’s threatened extinction criteria.Even the more optimistic scenario “does not indicate a promising future,” Vitor Gomes, an environmental scientist at the Federal University of Pará and the lead study author told Mongabay. That scenario predicts a loss of tree species richness of up to 43 percent, and a decline in tree species distribution area of up to 53 percent; under that scenario, 48 percent of tree species would be threatened, of which 11 percent would be critically endangered.“The study should be seen as a big warning,” said Ima Vieira, a researcher at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi and a study co-author. “It shows that if deforestation is currently the biggest cause of habitat loss in the Amazon, over the next thirty years it will probably be surpassed by climate change, which operates throughout the whole biome and can alone reduce species diversity by up to 37 percent.”“It was not so clear to us how much the climate could affect the forest in the future,” Gomes added. “Deforestation is no longer the only major threat to the Pan-Amazon,” a biome designation that includes portions of nine South American countries.Excluding climate change impacts, deforestation alone could cause Amazon species diversity losses of 19 percent (in the best scenario) or 36 percent (in the worst), while climate change could cause reductions of 31 percent to 37 percent, respectively.The Amazon’s Rio Negro River. The new study does not offer findings as to how a drastic decline in forest cover might impact the Amazon’s rivers and aquifers, though other studies point to a severe increase in drought which would dramatically reduce water available to ecosystems and agribusiness. Image courtesy by Hans ter Steege.No time for migrationThe researchers analyzed the current distribution area of 6,394 tree species with available data among the 10,071 known Amazon tree species. They then compared that present data with both historical data (1950-2000) and projected deforestation data (up to 2050), along with current and future climate scenarios as determined by the United Nations IPCC (UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).From this total species data, they eliminated rare species with insufficient records available to produce distribution models, and species without statistically significant models, leaving a total of 4,935 species.Mapping the locations where the species can be found today is important to obtain temperature and precipitation limits in which they are apparently comfortable.“The trees will find less favorable conditions [as climate change escalates] to keep existing and propagating,” explained Gomes. “Because they are static, they are slow to migrate to new areas through dispersers and pollinators [such as wind, water and animals].” The study gives as a reference the Holocene, a geological period that started about 11,600 years ago, when climate change caused Amazonian tree communities to expand their distribution southward.“It took them 3,000 years to advance nearly 100 kilometers (62 miles). Man-induced climate change is happening now, and trees will be unable to move in 30 years or so more than 300 kilometers (186 miles), the distance to which the most suitable climates may be in relation with the current distribution areas [by 2050]. Not to mention that deforested areas [caused by agribusiness and other human development] make it even more difficult for trees to move forward once that barrier has been created,” Gomes said.Tree species found in the lower half of the Amazon — such as the Protium altissimum (Aubl.) Marchand, the second most abundant in the biome, for example — may face a serious threat of extinction as the species suffers losses of up to 50 percent of its suitable distribution area. While Eperua falcata Aubl., common in the Guiana Shield, could lose up to 63 percent of its suitable distribution area.Rainforest near Manaus, capital of Amazonas state, Brazil. Under the deforestation/climate change scenario, half the Amazon could be reduced to 53 percent of the original forest, while the other half (where agribusiness occurs), could become extremely fragmented, with only 30 percent of forest remaining. Image courtesy by Hans ter Steege.Agreement with previous studiesCarlos Nobre, a respected Brazilian climatologist and senior researcher at the University of São Paulo, along with Thomas Lovejoy, a U.S. ecologist at George Mason University, have estimated that deforestation and climate change combined could cause a large part of the Amazon biome to experience a rainforest to savanna conversion tipping point when around 20 to 25 percent of the biome is deforested.Nobre commented on the new study: “The results are quite credible as projections of the synergistic effect of climate change, due to global warming, and deforestation, on the distribution of species in the Amazon. In our studies, we looked at the rainforest as a biome, not species by species, as in their study, and we analyzed the risks of change in the type of vegetation — that is, the forest being replaced by a savanna.”However, “The results of these two kinds of analysis are similar: higher impacts in the south and east of the Amazon, while the forest would remain in the west,” Nobre said. “The study strongly reinforces our projections and recommendations for a development model with zero deforestation or, better still, the restoration of large deforested areas” in the Amazon.Paulo Brando, an ecologist at the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, USA, noted that “the division of the Amazon in the middle is not necessarily a surprise. Previous studies, such as Duffy et al. 2015, have shown that the Eastern Amazon could be[come] drier and hotter with climate change, while the west would be more rainy. That said, the results are of immense importance for the conservation of the rainforest.“With the reduction of deforestation, Brazil could avoid the loss of occupation areas of hundreds of species. Without a global effort to stabilize the climate, however, some species would still be threatened. Thus, reducing deforestation would help not only to stabilize the climate but also to prevent habitat loss,” Brando concluded.The Ecuadorian Amazon. New research points to a drastic decline in Amazon tree species diversity if rising deforestation and worsening climate change are not curbed. But the present political situation, especially in Brazil where far-right President Jair Bolsonaro came to power this year, seems unlikely to foster stronger forest protections or climate initiatives. Image courtesy by Hans ter Steege.(Un)protected areasThe new research also highlights the crucial role of the currently existing network of protected areas and indigenous lands in the Amazon. Those areas can help buffer the loss of species diversity against future impacts.“Even though [trees inside protected areas] are not totally immune to climate change, our models show that forests outside protected areas can lose up to a third more species,” said Gomes. “That’s why the preservation [of conserved areas] and the creation of corridors between them are so necessary, allowing biological dispersion and the migration of animals. Otherwise there will be only forest patches left in the Amazon.”Vieira, of the Museu Paraense (linked with the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications), said that it’s not difficult to imagine the most pessimistic study scenario becoming reality, given the trouble the world’s nations are having in achieving their carbon reduction goals as expressed in the 2015 Paris Agreement, as well as the difficulty Brazil has had in controlling deforestation, first under the Temer administration and now under the Bolsonaro administration.June 2019 deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased by 88 percent as compared to the same month in 2018, and while this result is preliminary many analysts fear that 2019 could show a significant annual rise in deforestation.However, the nation isn’t responding by curbing deforestation, rather its policies appear to be encouraging the opposite. In May, Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles proposed a reevaluation of all 334 federal conservation units, with an eye on reducing the size of some, and abolishing others. More recently he declared without offering any scientific evidence that Brazil has already reached “zero relative deforestation,” that is, deforestation in the Amazon represents, according to him, “0.002 percent of the biome.” Later he said the correct number is 0.16 percent.Vieira responded: “There is a political scenario unfavorable to the environment in the country [of Brazil], with budget cuts in the environmental and scientific areas, reduction of operations in environmental control and inspection, setbacks in environmental legislation, freezing of indigenous lands demarcations and the threat of opening [indigenous reserves] to mining activities.“To save the Amazon from destruction, initiatives should consider an integrated vision of the region, long-term public policies, respect for environmental legislation, as well as for indigenous territories and peoples, and there should be strong economic pressure to restrict the sale of products from deforested areas and protected areas of the Amazon,” Vieira concluded.Citation:Gomes, V. H. F., Vieira, I. C. G., Salomão, R.P., & ter Steege, H. (2019). Amazonian tree species threatened by deforestation and climate change. Nature Climate Change, 9(7), 547-553.FEEDBACK: Use this form to send a message to the author of this post. If you want to post a public comment, you can do that at the bottom of the page. Popular in the CommunitySponsoredSponsoredOrangutan found tortured and decapitated prompts Indonesia probeEMGIES17 Jan, 2018We will never know the full extent of what this poor Orangutan went through before he died, the same must be done to this evil perpetrator(s) they don’t deserve the air that they breathe this has truly upset me and I wonder for the future for these wonderful creatures. So called ‘Mankind’ has a lot to answer for we are the only ones ruining this world I prefer animals to humans any day of the week.What makes community ecotourism succeed? In Madagascar, location, location, locationScissors1dOther countries should also learn and try to incorporateWhy you should care about the current wave of mass extinctions (commentary)Processor1 DecAfter all, there is no infinite anything in the whole galaxy!Infinite stupidity, right here on earth.The wildlife trade threatens people and animals alike (commentary)Anchor3dUnfortunately I feel The Chinese have no compassion for any living animal. They are a cruel country that as we knowneatbeverything that moves and do not humanily kill these poor animals and insects. They have no health and safety on their markets and they then contract these diseases. Maybe its karma maybe they should look at the way they live and stop using animals for all there so called remedies. DisgustingConservationists welcome China’s wildlife trade banThobolo27 JanChina has consistently been the worlds worst, “ Face of Evil “ in regards our planets flora and fauna survival. In some ways, this is nature trying to fight back. This ban is great, but the rest of the world just cannot allow it to be temporary, because history has demonstrated that once this coronavirus passes, they will in all likelihood, simply revert to been the planets worst Ecco Terrorists. Let’s simply not allow this to happen! How and why they have been able to degrade this planets iconic species, rape the planets rivers, oceans and forests, with apparent impunity, is just mind boggling! Please no more.Probing rural poachers in Africa: Why do they poach?Carrot3dOne day I feel like animals will be more scarce, and I agree with one of my friends, they said that poaching will take over the world, but I also hope notUpset about Amazon fires last year? Focus on deforestation this year (commentary)Bullhorn4dLies and more leisSponsoredSponsoredCoke is again the biggest culprit behind plastic waste in the PhilippinesGrapes7 NovOnce again the article blames companies for the actions of individuals. It is individuals that buy these products, it is individuals that dispose of them improperly. If we want to change it, we have to change, not just create bad guys to blame.Brazilian response to Bolsonaro policies and Amazon fires growsCar4 SepThank you for this excellent report. I feel overwhelmed by the ecocidal intent of the Bolsonaro government in the name of ‘developing’ their ‘God-given’ resources.U.S. allocates first of $30M in grants for forest conservation in SumatraPlanet4dcarrot hella thick ;)Melting Arctic sea ice may be altering winds, weather at equator: studyleftylarry30 JanThe Arctic sea ice seems to be recovering this winter as per the last 10-12 years, good news.Malaysia has the world’s highest deforestation rate, reveals Google forest mapBone27 Sep, 2018Who you’re trying to fool with selective data revelation?You can’t hide the truth if you show historical deforestation for all countries, especially in Europe from 1800s to this day. WorldBank has a good wholesome data on this.Mass tree planting along India’s Cauvery River has scientists worriedSurendra Nekkanti23 JanHi Mongabay. Good effort trying to be objective in this article. I would like to give a constructive feedback which could help in clearing things up.1. It is mentioned that planting trees in village common lands will have negative affects socially and ecologically. There is no need to even have to agree or disagree with it, because, you also mentioned the fact that Cauvery Calling aims to plant trees only in the private lands of the farmers. So, plantation in the common lands doesn’t come into the picture.2.I don’t see that the ecologists are totally against this project, but just they they have some concerns, mainly in terms of what species of trees will be planted. And because there was no direct communication between the ecologists and Isha Foundation, it was not possible for them to address the concerns. As you seem to have spoken with an Isha spokesperson, if you could connect the concerned parties, it would be great, because I see that the ecologists are genuinely interested in making sure things are done the right way.May we all come together and make things happen.Rare Amazon bush dogs caught on camera in BoliviaCarrot1 Feba very good iniciative to be fallowed by the ranchers all overSponsored Amazon Conservation, Amazon Destruction, Controversial, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Politics, Forests, Green, Land Use Change, Rainforest Deforestation, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving The Amazon, Threats To The Amazon, Tropical Deforestation Article published by Glenn Scherer read more

L’entraîneur de Dudelange a lâché la phrase après une nouvelle déception en DN, dimanche, contre le RFCU (3-3) : «Ce n’est pas possible de continuer avec un effectif de 36 joueurs, il va falloir aménager le cadre.» Comprendre, forcément, le réduire. De combien d’éléments ?Emilio Ferrera ne l’a pas dit, mais certains garçons ont déjà du souci à se faire. Lesquels ? Ceux qui n’ont pas encore convaincu, et il y en a beaucoup. Souci : ils sont souvent localisés dans le secteur offensif, ou bien disposent d’un statut en or, celui de sélectionnable.Aux buts, l’offre est pléthorique avec cinq garçons. C’est sûrement au moins un de trop. Derrière, Ewert et Stumpf semblent avoir plusieurs longueurs de retard et n’apparaissent plus que sporadiquement, même dans les groupes de DN. Dramé et Djetou ne renvoient pas encore de signaux très positifs à leur staff. Au milieu, Couto Pinto attend encore de… jouer, tandis que Bouchentouf et Gonzales sont aux abonnés absents. Devant, certains ont totalement décroché (Pomponi, Muratovic), d’autres envisagent paraît-il d’arrêter pour reprendre leurs études (Agovic), ou semblent ne pas supporter la charge de travail (Bettaieb), voire sont loin d’être prêts (Mendy). Cela en fait, des concernés par le déclassement…Le Quotidien Partager read more

Si Cristiano Ronaldo inquiétait encore le gardien de Virton à la 23e, la production des champions d’Europe en titre a été par la suite beaucoup moins impressionnante. Et ce alors qu’en face, les hommes de Luc Holtz se dépouillaient sur la pelouse, sortant même de plus en plus et allant jusqu’à mettre à contribution Rui Patricio. Notamment sur une belle action de Vincent Thill peu avant la demi-heure.La deuxième période n’a pas été d’un autre calibre, les Portugais sollicitant Moris mais sans plus. Il a fallu attendre la 65e minute et le pressing de Ronaldo sur un Chanot placé en dernière homme pour voir le multiple Ballon d’or intercepter la passe en retrait du défenseur de New York City et s’en aller faire 2-0. Un but qui tombait à un moment où on se demandait justement si, avec ce 1-0 au tableau d’affichage, on ne pouvait pas assister à un match nul surprise vu la tournure des événements. Il n’en a donc rien été et les hommes de Fernando Santos ont même encore fait 3-0 dans les dernières minutes via un Goncalo Guedes esseulé dans la surface sur un corner (89e).J.C. Longtemps, le Luxembourg n’a été mené que d’un but par le Portugal de Cristiano Ronaldo. Avant que le multiple Ballon d’or ne fasse, lui-même, le break après l’heure de jeu. Au final, le 3-0 est sans doute un peu sévère pour les hommes de Luc Holtz.Comme si elle voulait mettre les choses au point dès l’entame du match, l’équipe de Fernando Santos a débuté la rencontre pied au plancher, la défense luxembourgeoise en ayant plein les bottes assez vite. Si les Portugais réclamèrent en vain dans les premières minutes un penalty qui semblait bien léger pour être sifflé, la première grosse occasion est tombée au quart d’heure lorsque la star lusitanienne João Félix manquait son face-à-face avec Anthony Moris. Le soulagement a été de courte durée dans les rangs des Roud Léiwen puisque dans la minute suivante, un déboulé de Semedo se ponctuait d’une frappe déviée par Moris qui revenait sur un Bernardo Silva qui ne se faisait pas prier pour pousser la balle au fond (1-0).Ronaldo met fin aux espoirs Fiche techniqueEstadio Alvalade. Pelouse mauvaise. Arbitrage de M. Stefanski (Pol).47 305 spectateurs payants.Évolution du score : 1-0 Bernardo Silva(16e), 2-0 Cristiano Ronaldo (65e), 3-0 Guedes (89e).Cartons jaunes : Barreiro (9e), Gerson Rodrigues (52e) au Luxembourg.PORTUGAL : Rui Patricio – Nelson Semedo, Ruben Dias, Pepe, Raphaël Guerreiro – Moutinho (90e Ruben Neves), Danilo – Bernardo Silva (77e Guedes), João Félix (88e João Mario), Bruno Fernandes – Cristiano Ronaldo.LUXEMBOURG : Moris – Jans, Chanot, L. Gerson, Carlson – Barreiro – V. Thill, Bohnert (46e Sinani), O. Thill (88e Bensi), Gerson R. – Turpel (59e Da Mota). Partager read more

Une journée assez chargée ce mardi à Kockelscheuer … en attendant un mercredi encore plus dense sur le papier.LA NOUVELLE DU JOUR. Elle est tombée peu avant midi : Maria Sharapova n’est pas venue. Cinq jours après avoir annoncé son forfait pour le tournoi proprement dit, la joueuse russe a, à nouveau, fait faux bond aux organisateurs du Luxembourg Open. Un deal avait été passé pour que l’ancienne n°1 mondiale et lauréate de cinq Grand Chelems soit présente hier afin de signer des autographes, de répondre à quelques questions, … Comme elle l’avait fait la semaine au tournoi de Linz, en Autriche. Mais au final pas de « Tsarine ». Cette dernière est, selon le communiqué de presse, « malade ».LA BLESSEE DU JOUR. Elle menait  tranquillement 4-0 dans le premier set face à la Roumaine Monica Niculescu lorsque la Belge Alison Van Uytvanck, tête de série n°4, s’est tordu la cheville  … alors que le point paraissait terminé. Résultat : un bandage, deux petits jeux encore disputés (et perdus) et un abandon. Avant de prendre la direction de l’hôpital sur des béquilles. L’HEURE (TARDIVE) DU JOUR. La journée de lundi n’a connu que des matches de plus de deux heures dont le Mandy Minella – Denisa Allertova qui en a duré plus de 3. Du coup, la dernière rencontre de la journée entre la Tchèque Krystina Pliskova et l’Espagnole Aliona Bolsova s’est, elle, terminée à 1h20 du matin. Ce n’est pas un record à Kockelscheuer mais on n’en est pas si loin…LA N°1 DU JOUR. Pour son entrée en lice, la tête de série n°1 belge du tournoi, Elise Mertens, l’a emporté sans trop de souci face à Néerlandaise Bibian Schoofs. Cette dernière a remplacé au pied levé la Suissesse Stefanie Voegele qui, elle-même, avait remplacé la Belge Ysaline Bonaventure, qui, elle-même, avait remplacé l’Ukrainienne Kateryna Kozlova… Vous avez suivi ?CE QU’IL FAUT RETENIR DU PROGRAMME DE MERCREDI. Les entrées en lice de la tenante du titre Julia Goerges, de l’ancienne lauréate de Roland-Garros (2017) Jelena Ostapenko et de Cori « Coco » Gauff. Voilà pour le simple. En double, il y aura deux Luxembourgeoises sur les courts : Mandy Minella et Eléonora Molinaro.LES RESULTATS DU JOURS. 1er tour : Laura Siegemund (GER) bat Marta Kostyuk (UKR) 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 ; Sorana Cirstea (ROU) bat Pauline Parmentier (FRA) 6-3, 6-4 ; Antonia Lottner (GER) bat Tamara Korpatsch (GER) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 ; Monica Puig (PUR) bat Fiona Ferro (FRA) 6-1, 6-0 ; Monica Niculescu (ROU) bat Alison Van Uytvanck (Bel, n°4) 4-2 abandon ; Elena Rybakina (KAZ, n°3) bat Chloé Paquet (FRA) 6-2, 7-6(2) ; Elise Mertens (BEL, n°1) bat Bibiane Schoofs (NED) 6-0, 6-3.LE PROGRAMME DU JOUR (MERCREDI).Center CourtA partir de 12 h : Denisa Allertova (CZE) – Elena Rybakina (KAZ, n°3) suivi de Viktoria Kuzmova (SVK, n°5) – Laura Siegemund (GER).Pas avant 15 h : Cori Gauff (USA) – Anna Blinkova (RUS, n°8).Pas avant 18h : Misaki Doi (JPN) – Julia Goerges (GER, n°2) suivi de Caty McNally (USA) – Jelena Ostapenko (LAT).Court 1A partir de 12 h : Monica Niculescu (ROU) – Margarita Gasparyan (RUS)Pas avant 13 h : Xenia Knoll (SUI)/Mandy Minella (LUX) – Naomi Broady (GBR)/Eden Silva (GBR) suivi de Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove (NED)/Bibiane Schoofs (NED) – Amandine Hesse (FRA)/Chloe Paquet (FRA), Eléonora Molinaro (LUX)/Katarzyna Piter (POL) – Margarita Gasparyan (RUS)/Monica Niculescu (ROU), Anna Blinkova (RUS)/Miyu Kato  (JPN) – Sharon Fichman (CAN)/Yana Sizikova (RUS) Partager read more

Arnett Gardens FC continued their impressive home record with a 3-0 win against newcomers Jamalco FC in the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL), at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex yesterday.Lennox Russell opened the scoring for the home team in the 15th minute, while Fabian Reid (30th) and substitute Marvin Morgan Jr (89th) netted the other goals.It was a fourth home win for Arnett, three of which have come in the Jungle, as the venue was banned for the first two home games of the season. Hence, Arnett played those games at Barbican.Arnett pushed to 13 points, while Jamalco remained on 10 points in the 12-team league.Russell, who was scoring his third goal in three consecutive games, says hard work is paying dividends.”It is just non-stop hard work that I have been putting in during training that is now paying off,” Russell, who was replaced in the closing moments of the game, told The Gleaner.”I am looking to score about 15 or more goals for the season. Some senior players are not yet back with the team, so I have to continue working to remain in the starting team,” the 22-year-old former Charlie Smith High Manning Cup star reasoned.”I know that Arnett have a lot of talent in the squad, so I have grabbed my chance with both hands. The aim is to be more clinical in front of goal as I have missed a lot of chances,” said Russell, who is Arnett’s leading marksman this seasonGOOD PLAY”We are playing good, especially at home. We lost two games on the road that we could have won, but for lack of finishing.”The team did great today in scoring three goals without giving up any goal. We just have to continue working match by match in order to win the title again,” Russell pointed out.Arnett’s veteran coach Jerome ‘Jerry’ Waite described Russell as a good talent.”Russell has scored in three consecutive games. He is pretty much talented, but needs to improve in some areas of his play,” Waite said about the player he also coached at Charlie Smith.With regards to the game, Waite was satisfied with the result.”We played in spurts, but it was good to score three goals without conceding any. We will get better as the season progresses,” Waite said.Jamalco’s coach Rayon Johnson said his team needs to start strong.”In the last three games, we started flat, so we need more intensity. We had hoped to give Arnett a better fight, but it did not happen. We got chances, but failed to capitalise,” Johnson said.Meanwhile, the Boys’ Town vs Tivoli Gardens game was not played because of a waterlogged surface at the Barbican Complex.Yesterday’s ResultsReno 1 Maverley-Hughenden 1Arnett Gardens 3 Jamalco 0MoBay United 2 Waterhouse 1Humble Lion 0 UWI FC 1Harbour View 1 Portmore 2 read more

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A 36-year-old man of North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was fined ,000 after he appeared before Magistrate Faith McGusty at Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on a charge of assault.Lloyd Kissoon pleaded guilty with explanation to the charge which stated that on September 9, 2016 at Alexander Street, Kitty, he assaulted Ronald Williams as to cause actual bodily harm.Kissoon explained to the court that he was a construction worker at the Kitty Market and on the day in question, the Virtual Complainant (VC) was under the influence. As such, he asked him to leave the compound of the market, which he refused to do. Kissoon claimed the man was behaving disorderly, so he took a piece of wood from the work site and “braced” him on his leg.The prosecution’s case revealed that an argument ensued between the VC and the defendant, which escalated into the assault on the Virtual Complainant, who suffered injuries to his hand and back. read more

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The management of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Corporation (CJIAC) on Saturday officially commissioned its new arrival terminal.Arriving passengers on Saturday were treated to local beverages as they entered through the newly opened terminal.Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson is quoted by the Department of Public Information as saying he is pleased with the current development of the new services. Further, the Minister stressed that with the new services available, the immigration process is expected to be diminutive.The departure terminal of the CJIA is set to be completed in December of this year.The new arrival terminal and boarding bridges were tested earlier this month to ensure all systems under the passenger treatment/loading conditions are acceptable to allow the identification of final opportunities for improvements ahead of yesterday’s opening.The 4891 square metre terminal features 10 passport control booths, one elevator, one escalator, two functional boarding bridges, three baggage carousels, a spacious customs area and a public greeting hall to welcome the arrival of family and friends.Under the previous Administration – People’s Progressive Party – Guyana had secured a US$138 million loan from the China Export-Import (Exim) Bank to fund the expansion and modernisation project, for which the Guyana Government has injected some US$12 million.However, when the coalition Government came into power in 2015, the project was put on hold, but following discussions between the Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson and the contracting company, China Harbour Engineering Corporation (CHEC), it was announced that the project would be continued, but with a reduction in its design and capacity. read more