Johnson displays the wound suffered at the hands of the accusedThere is a killer on the loose in the Lodge area, and residents are fearful for their lives. The man has served time for attempted rape, and has allegedly committed numerous crimes since his release.The residents say that they are fearful of the man, who seems to be enjoying immunity from the police. Some of them say that, unless the police take action,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, his next crime could be murder.Despite threats by neighbours to call the police, the man struck again at around 03:00hrs yesterday morning. According to reports of eyewitnesses, the man used a cutlass to wound Eusi Johnson of Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge on his head.Johnson said that he had attended a party at the Bloomingsdale Night Club on Durban Street, and was standing at Haley and D’Urban Streets, Wortmanville with a few friends consuming alcohol.He said that the man (name given) was also a part of the group. He said that after the first bottle of rum was emptied,Wholesale NHL Jerseys, the group nominated the accused to go to the bar for a refill. Johnson said that the man subsequently left and returned some 45 minutes later, informing the group that he had purchased the rum at another liquor bar.Johnson said that he became annoyed because the man had flouted the initial instructions. He said that he asked the man why he chose to go against the group’s wishes, and an argument ensued.The man became enraged and attacked Johnson with a cutlass. The injured Johnson said that, in self defence, he grabbed a knife and also wounded his attacker, but not before he (Johnson) had suffered a gaping wound to his head. He was also chopped on his left hand. The gaping injuries required more than 15 sutures.Eyewitnesses to the incident said that a team of police officers arrived on the scene, but instead of arresting the warring men, they decided to issue a warning and send them on their way. Johnson subsequently lodged a complaint at the Alberttown Police Station, where he was subsequently instructed to seek medical attention, to allow the police to conduct inquiries into the matter.Kaieteur News visited the home of the man accused of chopping Johnson, but was unable to speak with him, because he had left early yesterday morning. The neighbours said that his hands and other parts of his body were swathed in bandages.None of his neighbours seem to have anything good to say of the man. One of them,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, who identified herself as Paulette Daniels, said that in July 2002 she had had a confrontation with the man. She said that the man had lost his cool and attacked her with a cutlass.She provided a medical certificate that outlined the extent of her injuries. They included a fracture to the right hand and an inability to move the fourth and fifth digits of her hand. The woman also suffered injuries to her tendon.She has since been unable to perform major tasks with her hand. The woman said that the matter had since been addressed at the level of the High Courts,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, but after a prolonged trial,Cheap Jerseys For Sale, the man was exonerated.Instead of showing remorse, the man returned shortly afterwards to chalk up another offence. The victim, a mother of three, said that the incident had left her so traumatized that even now she gets goose pimples remembering it.She said that the man was a very good friend, but unknowing to her, he had nurtured secret ambitions of having a sexual liaison with her. She found this out shortly after she had delivered her first child.She said that the man, who was her neighbour at the time, asked her to lend him a pair of scissors and some rice to cook. She said that she took the items over to his home and he invited her inside. No sooner had she passed the door than the man attacked her, demanding that she have sex with him.She said that she rebuffed his advances, but the man turned up the music to drown out her screams. He then ripped off her blouse, but before he could get any further, her nephew, who apparently heard her screams above the din, prised open a window and rescued her. The woman said that the man was charged and subsequently incarcerated for five years.Even as the woman recited her story, several persons came forward with harrowing tales of their own.A man who said he lived nearby recounted that he had had a confrontation with the accused. He said that the man had dealt him a blow to his mouth, resulting in the loss of several teeth. He never received justice.The neighbours said that a man who once lived in D’Urban Street had had his belly slashed by the man after the two were involved in a confrontation. The slashed man has since died of natural

An Olive Ridley sea turtle was yesterday rescued by a speedboat operator in the vicinity of the Vreed-en-Hoop stelling at the mooring point for vessels.The turtle was found with a fish hook in its mouth and had a laceration on one of its fins that made swimming an arduous task. The rear portion of the shell was also infested.Annette Arjoon,Wholesale Football Jerseys, of the Guyana Marine Turtle Conservation Society, arranged for the sea turtle to be kept at the National Zoo, while Constable Kim Persaud assisted with transporting the sea turtle to the zoo.In addition,Cheap Jerseys China, Dr. Nicholas Waldron will be assisting with the surgical removal of the hook from the turtle’s mouth today.Government had established restrictions designed to protect the endangered sea turtles,China Adidas Hockey Jerseys, after environmental wardens reported finding the carcasses of the species on beaches.The Olive Ridley turtle is named for the generally greenish color of its skin and shell,Jerseys Wholesale, or exterior. It is closely related to the Kemp’s ridley,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys China, with the primary distinction being that Olive Ridleys are found only in warmer waters, this is the smallest of the sea turtles,Cheap Jerseys, weighing up to 100 pounds (45 kilograms) and reaching only about 2 feet (65 centimeters) in shell length. The Olive Ridley has a slightly smaller head and smaller shell than the Kemp’s.

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…NIS is largest shareholderA sale agreement has been concluded between the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) and the government. The government is now in possession of the 40 million shares DDL once had in the Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI).Kaieteur News understands that the transfer of shares,Cheap NFL jerseys China, which was long in the making, was made final about a month ago.? However, Government made no official announcement and there is no word on what was the price settled at. The company had an asking price of some $45M, but government was optimistic that,Cheap Jerseys, through negotiations, a more convenient price could have been arrived at.The additional shares acquired by government represent 10 per cent of the shares in BBCI.Last year, government announced that it wanted badly to “ease the pressures and burdens of the people who use the bridge.”Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo told the media that government wanted to place itself in a better negotiating position,Jerseys NFL Cheap, by attracting shares so that it could have a stronger voice in the governing body of this company.The Prime Minister said, “We are trying to ensure that our voice is not a feeble one and that the dominant partners in the Berbice Bridge would recognize that we are serious.”The Berbice River BridgeRecently, Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson said government remained committed to providing significant financial relief for those persons traversing the Berbice Bridge and in order to guarantee low fares, government would have to gain majority control of the company.Government had also hoped to engage with the other stakeholders about selling their shares in order to influence the decision to reduce the bridge tolls since the Bridge Company was initially refusing to lower them.But after intense negotiations,Cheap Jerseys China, government finally brokered an agreement with the company to reduce the tolls, which took effect this year.The toll on passenger cars and minibuses was reduced from $2,200 to $1,900, while there was a 10 per cent reduction for the other classes of vehicles.Government is also providing subsidies to the river taxis,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys, which were introduced after the BBCI maintained that it was not reducing its tolls.The New Guyana Pharmaceutical Company (GPC) which is owned by Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, has 80M in share stock in the Berbice Bridge.The other principal investors in the bridge include the National Insurance Scheme with an initial 80M worth in shares, Secure International Finance Company with 80M shares, Hand in Hand Motor & Life Insurance Company which holds 40M shares and the Colonial Life Insurance Company with 80M shares. DDL’s 40M shares now belong to government.The remaining and overwhelming majority of shares held in the Berbice Bridge Company belongs to government through the National Industrial and Commercial Investment Limited (NICIL) and stands at $950M in preference shares. This has since been sold to NIS, bringing its share stake to in excess of one billion.

– Police Officers peeved at intent to dismiss colleaguePresident Bharrat Jagdeo at this year’s Police Officers’ Conference had urged the participants to continuously upgrade their qualifications.But from all appearances it is as they say, “easier said than done”, as several officers have responded negatively to the disclosure that a Superintendent of Police is facing dismissal for proceeding on a scholarship in Britain, without the requisite permission from the administration.This follows the publication in this newspaper that the Police Service Commission is to recommend that Superintendent Simon McBean be struck off the list of officers in the Guyana Police Force.Superintendent McBean had resumed duties after returning from London, England,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, where he pursued post-graduate studies in security management.However, during his stint overseas,Wholesale NHL Jerseys, the officer had to secure his job with nine months sick leave while he completed the course.The intended move by the Police Service Commission is not going down well with several police officers who are of the view that the Force could ill afford to lose its young,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, highly qualified officers.Kaieteur News understands that McBean was selected by the British from among several police officers in the Caribbean because of his standout command of ranks during Cricket World Cup 2007.McBean had headed the Guyana contingent to Barbados, where the delegation received rave reviews for their performance during the mega event.McBean declined to comment when contacted by this newspaper.However,Wholesale Jerseys, Kaieteur News was reliably informed that disciplinary action was recommended against the officer.Speaking to this newspaper yesterday, one of McBean’s contemporaries was adamant that “what Guyana refuses, other countries will cherish”.“Here is a young man who is qualified and because of an administrative blunder, although of his own doing,Jerseys NFL Cheap, he is facing this kind of action. No wonder our qualified people are being gobbled up by the developed countries.”The officers are arguing that instead of attempting to dismiss the officer,NFL Jerseys China, the administration should look at other modes of discipline, such as censorship or reducing the officer’s seniority.“It would appear as if the force is against the upgrading of some, while others are repeatedly benefiting from training,” another Police Officer stated.The officers claimed that while they are speaking out, they are fearful of identifying themselves since there appears to be a long tradition of victimisation within the Guyana Police Force.They claimed that the administration should have jumped at the opportunity to have one of its officers trained by the British on a scholarship and put the necessary administrative measures in place.

The decomposed body found at Hararuni,Cheap Jerseys, Soesdyke/Linden Highway on Monday has been identified as that of 23-year-old Gavin Washington of South Vryheid’s Lust,Authentic NHL Jerseys, East Coast Demerara.Police said that an aunt of Washington’s identified his remains from the clothing that the victim was wearing. Kaieteur News understands that Washington moved into Vryheid’s Lust some six months ago and worked with a taxi service.Washington’s badly decomposed remains were found around 14:00 hrs on Monday on a trail off the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.There is speculation that Washington was shot,Wholesale Jerseys From China, since a warhead and a .45 bullet casing were found near the corpse.He was clad in a pair of denim jeans and blue underwear.A pair of Reebok boots was found near the body. Police sources said that a young man who was passing through the area found the remains and contacted the police.

The government has approved the application of Surinamese Airline ‘Fly Always N. V.’ to operateSuriname’s businessman, Dilip Sardjoescheduled services in Guyana.According to a Government statement yesterday,Cheap Jerseys, this will take effect from this month and will be for an initial period of two years.The airline will operate on two routes, both twice weekly – Paramaribo, Suriname/Georgetown, Guyana/Bridgetown, Barbados and the Paramaribo,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, Suriname/Georgetown, Guyana/Boa Vista, Brazil using its Fokker–70 Aircraft.The airline is owned by Dilip Sardjoe,Cheap Jerseys China, owner of Fly All Ways Airline of Suriname,Wholesale Jerseys China, a sister company of Suriname’s Blue Wing Airlines.The plan to operate in Guyana was first reported in the Curacao Chronicle articles a year ago.Blue Wing has had many accidents and has been consistently blacklisted by the EU.In July 2010,China Jerseys Wholesale, the EU banned Blue Wing from its skies.In 2014, Fly All Ways acquired two of KLM’s Fokker 70s to ply its planned regional routes from the Paramaribo City Airport, Zorg en Hoop. The owner of Fly All Ways promised the government of Guyana to station one of the 80-seater Fokker in Georgetown. The company will fly from Guyana to Barbados and other undisclosed destinations in the region.Government has announced approval for Suriname-based ‘Fly Always N.V.’ to start operations here from this month end.The Fokker 70s have an average age of 20 years; they were manufactured between 1993 and 1997.Dilip Sardjoe is said to be the richest man in Suriname,Wholesale China Jerseys, who owns a collection of businesses in Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Miami.In 2008, his Rudisa Beverage Company was worth about US$500 million. He also owns a cement factory and the Suriname Times.Rudisia is the maker of the popular Trill line of soft drinks being marketed in Guyana.

‘Fip’ Motilall’s Performance Bond …The Alliance for Change has weighed on the fact that Hand in Hand Mutual Fire Insurance CompanyPresident Donald RamotarLimited is yet to make payments to the government as it relates to the US$1.5M Performance Bond that had been issued to Synergy Holdings Inc. headed by Makeshwar ‘Fip’ Motilall. Motilall was awarded a US$15.4M contract to design and construct the Amaila Falls access road.AFC Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan blames what he calls an ‘incestuous relationship” involving the stakeholders.He was speaking specifically to Winston Brassington, Hand in Hand and the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited NICIL).“It is an extreme example of incestuousness.”Ramjattan said that his party will continue to speak out against the affair.He said, “Here it is that the enforcer of that performance bond will have to be Mr Brassington. “But he got shares in Hand in Hand…The whole thing shows what has been a propensity for Mr Brassington not to want Hand in Hand to make the payout of US$1.5M.”Turning his attention to the Head of State Donald Ramotar,Wholesale Jerseys China, Ramjattan said, “Any decent President would order an immediate investigation into the entirety of this Performance Bond, the Brassingtons,Cheap Wholesale Jerseys, Jonathan and Winston,Cheap Jerseys Online, and would immediately also ask, Winston Brassington to resign.”Failing the President’s action on the matter the AFC Chairman said that there are no other options available to a political party “except to educate the public as to basic facts here and to let the public understand how their monies and how the Governance structure in this country have deteriorated and degenerated.”He says that it is ultimately up to an informed public to make their decisionsThis money, which on the surface appears payable to the government, is not automatic upon claim, said a source.Motilall’s performance bond expired on July 2011. That bond was negotiated and brought into force when the contract with Motilall was signed in January 2010, with a duration of eight months.This means that for the latter half of last year,Wholesale Jerseys NFL, Synergy Holdings Inc. was operating with an expired bond,Authentic Jerseys Cheap, pursuant to its stipulations.The bond did carry a stipulation that claims could be made for six months following its expiration.Government did lay claim prior to this deadline, but according to a senior official close to the matter,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, “This doesn’t mean that the claim is automatically valid. All aspects of compliance have to be thoroughly checked.”The source, knowledgeable on the issue of insurance, explained that Hand-in-Hand will have to conduct investigations on every aspect of the claim before it is accepted or rejected completely.Reports that the government and Synergy Holdings Inc. still have some balancing up to do to determine who owes whom, could also affect the outcome of the claim made by the government on the performance bond.

Meticulous measures are currently being considered by officials within the education system to harness disturbing dropout rate trends that appear to be prevalent in public secondary schools. And measures, according to Minister of Education Shaik Baksh, must begin in earnest at the primary level, failing which students will be forced to enter a six-year programme, which has been streamlined by his Ministry.“It is no use transitioning these people to the secondary schools because they leave; they drop out. And that is one of the challenges facing secondary education,” the Minister highlighted. He revealed that the dropout rate between grades seven to nine has become alarming, a situation which must be reversed with much urgency.“We have to turn that around,Jerseys NFL Cheap, we have to keep the students in the school so that the completion rates can go up significantly,” Minister Baksh added.And the very demanding task, according to him, will undoubtedly be bestowed upon teachers within the system. Teachers,Cheap Soccer Jerseys Free Shipping, he said, have the ability to identify the students who are most likely to drop out of the system. With such knowledge, he noted that teachers would be in a position to solicit the support of parents to aid needful intervening measures. “You have to call in the parents and encourage them (students) to stay and have the interventions. I am appealing to you (teachers) firstly to ensure that something happens at the secondary schools as it is now happening at the primary school with all of the Fast Track Literacy initiative, after hours .”According to the minister, the efforts are being directed to the weak students in primary schools with the intent of bringing them up to an acceptable standard. And there is a growing need, he said, for similar measures to be extended to the Secondary Schools.In primary schools, the Ministry has introduced a Grade Four Literacy Certificate and Minister Baksh explained that it is expected that students will attain no less than 50 percent of the recommended percentage. In addition, he revealed that schools with poor performances will be published in the national newspapers.“I am giving notice now, they will have to work hard and ensure they get the pass rate not even 75 percent but 50 percent…”And should students fall below the 50 percent pass rate they will have to retake the assessment and be continually monitored, Minister Baksh said. All improvement following will be duly recorded and students will receive commendation, he added.Without improvement measures at the primary level, the Minister asserted that there will be difficulties in realising the requisite results at the secondary level.It was just recently that the Minister revealed that students who do not reach the requisite standard required after participating in Mathematics and English at the National Grade Nine Assessment should not be allowed to write the said subjects at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) level. In fact, he revealed that such students would have to wait another year having taken remedial programmes or they would have to seek the services of private institutions.He revealed that the Ministry of Education is currently on a mission to review the Grade Nine Assessment, a move which has been prompted by the discovery that the assessment is not being used in the same way as in the primary level Grade Two and Four Assessments.? Baksh made this declaration when he addressed a gathering of head teachers.He emphasized that the Grade Nine Assessment must be used by the schools primarily as a diagnostic tool. “You must look at the Grade Nine passes and do something about it just as at the Grade Four in Primary Schools and devise school-based strategies. Some of you may have been doing this already but a lot are not, it is not being used.”The Grade Nine Assessment, he explained, should be used in the same way as the Grade Four Assessment to be the diagnostic instrument to do the remediation at Grade 10. “…so at Grade 10 the slow learners,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, that is those students getting less than 50 percent,Cheap NFL Jerseys, not in all the subjects, but in Mathematics and English…We will have to have programmes in the school at Grade 10 to ensure that at the end of Grade 10 the performances goes up.”Having participated in the programmes,Authentic NHL Jerseys, students will be given another test to ensure they would have reached the requisite standards,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, Baksh added.

Guyana’s national figure of people living with HIV/AIDS could be 2,Nike NFL Jerseys China,000 less than what was previously thought, Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy has said.In addition, Guyana’s treatment programme has been recognized by a leading medical journal as the possible answer to stopping the spread of the epidemic.It was held that some 12,NFL Jerseys From China,000 persons in Guyana are living with HIV/AIDS. However, Dr Ramsammy said that based on evidence from tests conducted, and based on the number of persons who have died from the disease, the new number could be about 10, 000.However,NFL Jerseys Cheap, Dr Ramsammy said the data will have to be carefully analysed before there is a definitive conclusion on the new figure.Meanwhile, Dr Ramsammy has pointed out that Guyana’s model of universal access to testing and treating persons with life-saving Anti-Retroviral (ARV) drugs as soon as a person tests positive for HIV has been recognized by the leading medical journal “Lancet” as one of the surest ways to stop the epidemic in its tracks.According to Ramsammy,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, any Guyanese who wants it can get a test for HIV,Cheap Jerseys, and Guyana no longer waits until an HIV-positive person’s CD4 count reaches 350 or less to begin treatment.A person’s CD4 count, or T-cell count, as it is sometimes called, gives doctors a look at a person’s immune system. The immune system contains different types of cells that help protect the body from infection.One of these types of specialized cells is called the CD4 or T-cells. HIV attacks these types of cells and uses them to make more copies of HIV. And in doing so,Stitched NFL Jerseys, HIV weakens the immune system, making it unable to protect the body from illness and infection.A CD4 count measures the number of T-helper cells (in a cubic millimetre of blood). Someone uninfected with HIV normally has between 500 and 1200 cells.In a person infected with HIV the CD4 count declines over a number of years and so it may not be necessary to start a person on ARVs immediately. Treatment is generally recommended when the CD4 test shows fewer than 350 cells.However, Dr Ramsammy said that for about a year ago Guyana started treating persons as soon as they are diagnosed with HIV and not waiting for their CD4 count to reach lower.Researchers writing in the ”Lancet” say that a massive scale up of voluntary HIV testing combined with immediate antiretroviral treatment could stop the epidemic in its tracks.There have been criticisms that the research does not provide costing for such a large scale program but the bigger problem seems to rest with the issue that access to treatment being hindered by laws that criminalise behaviour such as homosexuality.

The Chikungunya Virus is expected to remain constant in the Guyanese society.? This deduction has been drawn byCommunicable Diseases Director, Dr Morris EdwardsPublic Health Specialist,Cheap Jerseys From China, Dr. Morris Edwards, who currently holds the position of Director of Communicable Diseases within the Ministry of Health. Dr. Edwards’s disclosure was made during an interview with this publication yesterday. He intimated that much like dengue fever, the Chikungunya Virus will continue to remain a threat.Both Dengue Fever and the Chikungunya Virus are transmitted by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito which is very prevalent in coastal areas. The virus is able to breed in stagnant but relatively clean water found in vases, tyres,cheap nfl jerseys, puddles, guttering, etcetera, that are easily fostered in and around yards.While there could not have been prevention of the entrance of Chikungunya to these parts, as it was an imported virus, Dr. Edwards did note that its impact could have been greatly minimised had the conditions conducive to the multiplication of the vector long been eradicated.The Communicable Diseases Director pointed out, “that now that the virus is here and the vector is very much here, we will continue to see a Chikungunya spread. Once there is an increase in the vector population you should expect that.”The symptoms of the virus can include: rash, vomiting/nausea,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys, headaches, fevers and joint and muscle pains which are similar in the manifestation of dengue fever.Guyana has officially recorded a few hundred cases of the virus but this publication understands that there have been thousands of clinical cases seen at both private and public health facilities.According to Dr. Edwards, it has been found that the discomforts resulting from the virus could last for five to seven days in the majority of patients, while there are others who are subjected to the symptoms for even longer periods. “We will continue to see a threat (but) lucky for us it is not a serious illness like malaria because if it was then, we would have been faced with a greater challenge,” asserted Dr. Edwards.Once an individual recovers from Chikungunya, he or she is expected to develop life-long immunity to the virus, according to the Communicable Diseases Director, as he ruled out the possibility that Guyana could have been exposed to the virus ahead of an outbreak in May this year.? “If it was then, we would have seen more cases and you would have seen the cases earlier but that didn’t happen; this is definitely new,” asserted Dr. Edwards.Confirmation of the presence of the Chikungunya Virus can be done through serological tests and since Guyana lacked capacity to test for the virus at the onset of the outbreak, it was dependent on the services of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in Trinidad much like the other territories of the Caribbean.However, Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Shamdeo Persaud, in an earlier interview with this publication disclosed that while Guyana is yet reliant on CARPHA it has since,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, with the help of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), been able to train personnel of the local National Public Health Reference Laboratory to test for the virus here. He however,Cheap Soccer Jerseys For Sale, noted that while all the relevant equipment and (testing) kits are here to facilitate testing “we are awaiting some panels to determine positive and negative samples…so we can try the kits to make sure that when we test and it says positive, it is really a positive and they are going through that process now.”And even as sustained efforts are being made by the Health Ministry to bolster its fight against the virus through vector control,Cheap Jerseys Store, Dr. Persaud admitted that there just might be further need to strengthen the response in this regard.

Murder accused Delon ‘Fatboy’ Reynolds’s caution statement was yesterday read to the jury and tendered into evidence, as the trial into the murder of self-confessed death squad informant George Bacchus continued.Retired Detective Charles Alleyne, who witnessed the caution statement, took the stand yesterday and read the contents of the statement,Cheap Jerseys From China, in which Reynolds said that he climbed through a window to Bacchus’s room and shot him three times.In the statement, Reynolds said that funeral parlour co-owner Debra Douglas offered him $200,000 to kill Bacchus, and he accepted. Douglas was the reputed wife of the man accused of murdering Shafeek Bacchus,Cheap Jerseys From China, who was killed a few months before George Bacchus.The caution statement also said that Reynolds was given a gun on June 23 and that he hid it at a Chinese restaurant in Garnett Street. The statement continued that Reynolds retrieved the weapon the following night to do the shooting.Reynolds also called Bacchus names such as ‘Jumbie’ and others. He was Bacchus’s handyman and lived in a shack in the yard.Detective Inspector Trevor Reid was the officer who took the caution statement,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, but he is now deceased.Alleyne’s cross examination by defence counsel Peter Hugh will continue today.Last week Monday, the second voir dire (trial within a trial) in this matter concluded.Earlier this month, the trial into this matter was aborted because one of the jurors was related to a witness.Bacchus was found dead in bed at his Lot 76 Princes Street home on June 24, 2004, after he had made bombshell revelations about a death squad operating in the city, for which he said he once gathered information.Funeral parlour co-owner Debra Douglas and her nephew, Fabian ‘Fabie’ Jessop,Jerseys NFL China, had been jointly charged with Reynolds for Bacchus’s murder,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, but they were subsequently freed due to insufficient evidence.State prosecutors are Dianna Boyan,Wholesale China Jerseys, Judy Latchman and Zamilla Ally.

– donates 300 more computersCanada-based Guyanese technology products inventor,Cheap NFL Jerseys, Alan Zaakir and Chris Sammy,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, yesterday followed through with his promise last month to donate some 300 additional netbooks to the Ministry of Education.Zaakir who had earlier donated 100 systems to the Ministry to bolster its Computer For All Schools Programme will also be donating 24 servers to the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) to accelerate and expand the programme to train teachers to use the computer as a teaching and learning tool.Speaking at the handing over ceremony at NCERD, the overseas-based Guyanese expressed gratitude to the Ministry of Education for affording him the opportunity to “give back” to his homeland.He called on officials to make optimal use of the systems. He also implored the gathering of students to always have the development of their country at heart and to be optimistic about life.“Dream big dreams; work hard to make the vision a reality and not to allow anyone to inject any negativity in your lives”.Education Minister Shaik Baksh said this gesture represents a significant leap in the drive to bridge the digital divide,Wholesale Jerseys Online, equip more schools with computers and to boost the delivery of the basic computer literacy programme for teachers.He noted that the Ministry has the vision,Cheap Football Jerseys, plans and programmes for Information Technology in the school system and remains dedicated and committed to seeing them to fruition.Baksh also commended the partnership his Ministry enjoys with individuals and organizations, both local and overseas, in realising the goal to have all primary and secondary schools equipped with computer laboratories.He disclosed that a group in the United States will soon be donating 100 desk top computers in support of the cause. Apart from the donors’ support,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, he said that this year some 2000 teachers across the country will be trained to use the computer as a teaching and learning tool and under the World Bank US$4.2M funded Teacher Reform Project, state-of-the-art laboratories will be constructed at the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) and the Faculty of Education and Humanities,NBA Jerseys China, University of Guyana.The Minister added that the goal of these innovations is to ensure that every teacher in the school system and those leaving the teachers’ training college are equipped with the requisite skills to use the computer as a tool to enhance and support learning.Mention was also made of the Ministry’s recent move to join forces with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Microsoft to focus attention on the implementation of plans to develop the capacity of local teachers to use technology more effectively in the classroom.Efforts are also being made to have trainee teachers benefit from President Bharrat Jadgeo’s One Lap Top Per Family Programme.About three weeks ago the two Canadian business minds presented the Ministry with 100 netbooks. Some time early next week five of the computers will be handed over to the North Ruimveldt Secondary School.Photo saved in server Saturday issue as computerAt centre, Canadian business minds, Chris Sammy and Allan Zaakir presenting Education Minister, Shaik Baksh, with one of the netbooks in the presence of students.

Leakages resulting from people breaking and bypassing mains were the number one reason for the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) losing revenue for more than 70 per cent of the water it produced in 2007.However, last year the company was able to bring down the percentage of non-revenue water to less than 60 per cent countrywide, according to Public Relations Officer Rawle Aaron.He pointed out that there were varying levels of reduction in various areas, which led to the results attained.Aaron attributed the notable reduction in the loss of water to the water company’s efforts to commence service upgrades in some areas.“For the areas we have done service upgrade we would find that the non-revenue water is much lower than the areas we have not done it in,” Aaron disclosed.As part of the upgrades,Cheap Jerseys China, he said, technical officials are now tasked with sleeving pipelines in a galvanised pipe, rather than just using polyurethane hose which cannot be easily damaged.“This does about three things: first, it eliminates the polyhose from being cut or burst by animals and persons who are maintaining the trenchways,NFL Jerseys Wholesale,” Aaron highlighted.In addition,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, he noted, it allows technicians to lead the service connection directly to customers’ premises, at which point it is sleeved with the galvanised pipe directly to the meter and then cemented.“Once that is done properly there is no way that a customer can execute a bypass. The major thing is to address this — to do service connection ugrades. We have been doing this.If a service connection is done properly, it is supposed to go from the saddle,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, which is a specific device we use around the distribution main to bring the water into the customer’s residence; so it is sleeved at that point with galvanised directly to the metre of the customers, and it is cemented there.“Once that is done, there is no way that a customer can execute a bypass. But what we have found is that persons have been coming up with all sorts of innovative measures to do bypasses. It has really been amazing,” the Public Relations Officer noted.He pointed out that when “we lose that water, it registers. For every cubic metre lost,China Jerseys, “we waste 60 per cent of our electricity cost.”Aaron stressed that more than 60 per cent of the water company’s operational cost is electricity; and because of that, technical officials have to constantly be on the alert for leaks.“The more water wasted, the more pumping hours we have to engage in. The thing to do is to reduce non-revenue water and to reduce pumping, in order to reduce our operational expenses,Jerseys NFL Cheap,” Aaron noted.Aaron said that, this year, GWI will be working towards educating customers on the importance of water conservation, even as the service upgrade process is expanded.

By Gary Eleazar“Wha’ Carbon dem a talk about…me in know what de saying…all I know is that de tell me they gun pay me if I stop burn de bush fuh plant me farm.”This was the reaction according to one of the resident/farmers in the Kachikamo on the Waini River in Region One when asked about the Low Carbon Development Strategy, clearly demonstrating an unawareness of what the strategy entails.This was even after the Consultations held with the Amerindian Toshaos who later related what was learnt with their respective communities.According to one of the Toshaos interviewed, Bony Boyer,China NFL Jerseys, who is the leader for the Three Brothers communities (St John,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, Lower Waini and Katchikamo) said that he was at the consultation but needs to know more about LCDS,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, given that he was still unclear and was not in a position to say whether the communities under his jurisdiction should opt in.“At this time we are on a stand still…We don’t fully understand…We need more time to make a suggestion on it.” He did point out however that there has been more consultations promised between now and December but said ever since the commitment he has not been notified of any such meeting but was still optimistic.“They say that they would come in and do some visits and explain to the people,” said Boyer.Under the executive summary of the Low Carbon Development Strategy that is being piloted by Guyana for implementation, it states that the country is reaching a new stage in its national development and over the past two decades, the country has re-established a market-led economy within a multi-party democratic system.It states that the economy has been restructured to support progressively increasing levels of social sector and infrastructural investment alongside private sector-driven economic growth.“As this first generation of reforms and infrastructural development nears completion, the Government is embarking on a new wave of reforms, coupled with further expansion of the country’s strategic economic infrastructure.”It is also pointed out that these aim to build on previous reforms to further stimulate investment,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, economic growth and job creation as well as to improve security and social services,China NFL Jerseys, protect vulnerable sections of society, and deal with increased climate change-induced flooding.It is also pointed out that Guyana’s pristine forests are its most valuable asset in that the majority of the 15 million hectare rainforest is suitable for timber extraction and post-harvest agriculture, and significant mineral deposits exist below its surface.The value of this forest – known as Economic Value to the Nation or EVN – is estimated to be the equivalent of an annual annuity payment of US$580 million.However, generating this EVN, while economically rational for Guyana, would have significant negative consequences for the world.Guyana’s forests suggest that, left standing, can contribute US$40 billion to the global economy each year.However,Cheap Jerseys, no trading markets exist for these environmental services and as a consequence, individuals and companies in rainforest countries face powerful incentives to deforest.It also states that there is increasing global recognition of the fact that protecting forests is essential to the fight against climate changeLow-Carbon Development Strategy seeks to provide insights on how to stimulate the creation of a low-deforestation, low-carbon, climate-resilient economy.

…as party condemns police actions against protest actionPeople’s National Congress Reform Executive member and Parliamentarian, Basil Williams, says that there must be an inquest into the fatal shooting of Kelvin Fraser of Patentia Secondary School recently.He also said that it is imperative that Police institute the necessary charges given that there is a clear indication of the excessive use of force. He added that the case is a clear indication of why there is need for independence of the coroner.Meanwhile, Amna Ally,Cheap Jerseys For Sale, of the PNCR lambasted the ranks of the Guyana Police Force over their actions in response to the protest action on Thursday last by friends and relatives of the slain young man.Ally told media operatives during the party’s weekly briefing on Friday, that the unprofessional and irresponsible conduct of members of the Police Force during what she said was the legitimate protest on Brickdam must be condemned by all right-thinking Guyanese.She said that it would have been expected that since it was the unprofessional behaviour of the police that led to the killing of a child and gave rise to the tense situation, “they would have shouldered the responsibility to appease the situation, restore normalcy and demonstrate concern for the family of the victim,Cheap China Jerseys, and students.”According to the Memebr of Parliament instead of restoring law and order,China Jersyes Cheap, the police were clearly guilty of incitement to breach the peace and of breaching the fundamental rights of Guyanese citizens.Ally suggested that the demands of the peeved students and relatives were not unreasonable since the people were justly demanding justice as citizens.She said that there must be urgent disciplinary proceedings against the ranks that carried out the acts and adequate compensation for the family be paid.“Statements from the hierarchy of the Guyana Police Force and the government have so far provided no assurance that the incident would be properly investigated.”She said that the failure by the PPPC Administration to act responsibly in the past is not unknown to those citizens and has obviously contributed to the loss of confidence.She cited the example of the fate of University of Guyana student, Yohance Douglas, who was fatally shot by the police on Mandela Avenue several years ago, while three of his schoolmates were seriously injured.“Despite the public statements that justice would have been served, the accused soon walked free…It did not come as a surprise to many since it was public knowledge that, before the trial had concluded, the accused persons,Cheap MLB Jerseys Authentic, who were supposed to have been incarcerated, were allowed out of the Georgetown prison to walk freely around the city.”She pointed also to the fate of 23-year-old Dweive Kant Ramdass who was murdered by the disciplined forces in the Essequibo River as well as the hundreds of other Guyanese youth who were victims of extra-judicial killing; and, the activities of the “phantom squad” in Guyana, which the Guyana Government refuses to have investigated despite calls from the United Nations.She posited that statements of intention by the Police or Government will have no meaning until and unless there is evidence of action and consequently, the students and residents are entitled to exercise their rights to protest as guaranteed by the Constitution.“It appears that members of the Guyana Police Force,Wholesale Authentic NFL Jerseys, so accustomed to the flagrant breaches of the laws of Guyana by the PPPC, have forgotten or refuse to accept that the Constitution of Guyana guarantees citizens of Guyana this right.”Indicative of this contempt, she said, is illustrated is the extensive police barriers around the public buildings when the National Assembly is in session that interferes with the right of citizens to peacefully demonstrate when their representatives are expected to meet and deliberate on their welfare.“The students moved their protest from West Demerara to Brickdam…They were prevented for being close to the Public Buildings or the Ministry of Home Affairs,Jerseys NFL Cheap, the Ministry accountable to Parliament for the GPF…The Police forced the protestors further down Brickdam thus creating a crowd.”In light of the actions by the police including the arrests of political activist Mark Benschop along with a driver, “It does not take an expert to conclude that the actions by the police were deliberately provocative and not intended to promote the peace,” according to Ally.“On whose instructions were the police acting…It was obvious to all that the Officers on the scene were not in

Government has okayed a $20M contract for electrical repairs to the aging West Demerara Regional Hospital. The state of the physical infrastructure at the hospital has been a subject of much criticism in recent times.A $41.6M contract was also green-lighted for the fabrication and installation of hydraulic ramp and retractor span for the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB).During his weekly press briefing, Head of the Presidential Secretariat,China Jerseys, Dr. Roger Luncheon,Cheap Jerseys From China, disclosed that Cabinet had granted its ‘no objection’ to eight contracts in the education,Jerseys NBA China, agriculture,Cheap MLB Jerseys China, public works, housing and water and security sectors.The approved contracts are as follows:Sector ??????????????????? Tender Value? Health Electrical installation at the West Demerara Regional Hospital$20.2MHome Affairs Construction of Coast Guard Training School – Phase 3 for the Guyana Defence Force$24.4MEducation Extension to the Salem Parika Secondary SchoolExtension to the LBI Secondary School$42.02M$40.76MNatural Resources Supply and delivery of Office Equipment for the Guyana Lands and Survey Commission$18.3MAgricultureEmergency works for? rehabilitating Moleson/Jackson Creek sluice$22.7MHousing and Water Construction of roads, drains,Wholesale MLB Jerseys, structures and the installation of pure water distribution network at? Block ‘EE’Eccles Industrial Site,Cheap Jerseys Outlet, East Bank Demerara$35.01MPublic Works Fabrication and installation of hydraulic ramp and retractor span for the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB)$41.6M

Although the Region from the beginning of the 21st century was faced with the tremendous risk of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the threat has been mitigated by the persistent work of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP).This is according to Garfield Barnwell, Caricom’s Director of Sustainable Development, who addressed the gathering at a Guyana/Suriname Joint Border Health meeting at the Guyana International Conference Centre (GCCI) on Friday.He said that the Caricom sub-region had the highest incidence of HIV facing any sub-region with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa.And according to him the economic potential of the Region by every expert estimate was under a serious and real threat whereby productive human resources were at risk of contracting the disease.Mr Garfield Barnwell,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, Caricom’s Sustainable Development DirectorHowever, Barnwell noted that 12 years later this threat has lessened through PANCAP which is a regional partnership established by CARICOM Heads of Government in 2001 to respond to the epidemic in the Caribbean. And according to him too “the tireless work of its stalwarts should never be forgotten.”He pointed out that the partnership in its infancy negotiated on the world stage the first successful reduction of the prices of anti-retroviral with the International Pharmaceutical Companies from the impossible level of US$12,000 per patient annually to almost US$1000.And that latter triumph, he underscored, was celebrated this year in Barcelona on PANCAP’s 10th anniversary.According to Barnwell, many of the stalwarts of those negotiations – Drs. Denzil Douglas,Cheap Jerseys, Prime Minister of St. Kitts; Drs. Leslie Ramsammy and Douglas Slayter, former Ministers of Health, along with Professor Edward Greene former Assistant Secretary General at the CARICOM Secretariat, were on hand for the celebration.Barnwell said that “access to anti-retrovirals across our Region has been pivotal to our success in reducing mortality from HIV.” He noted,Jerseys Wholesale, too, that coverage of those eligible has reached over 50 per cent which is testimony to the heroic efforts made to eliminate Mother to Child Transmission of the virus, and according to him, “the Region is at the point of achieving this goal. I am told that this wide spread use of ARVs has been the single most important feature of our prevention efforts these days.”And while clinical management has yielded much success, Barnwell noted that efforts in some areas are yet lagging. He specifically alluded to “our success in dealing with stigma and discrimination has been below par. The lack of equal access to prevention, care and treatment has been of concern.”However, Barnwell said that Dr. Edward Greene, the current UN Ambassador to the Region, continues to champion the cause of the vulnerable and ineligible by promoting the need for effective anti-stigma policies.And PANCAP,China Jerseys Cheap, he said, has contributed its share to this effort.Moreover,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, an anti-stigma toolkit continues to be useful to HIV workers and enterprises,Cheap NFL Jerseys, said the Sustainable Development Director who disclosed that PANCAP continues to be an excellent partner to the Member States and vulnerable groups.And according to Barnwell, the CARICOM Secretariat is pleased to be associated with the Guyana/Suriname Joint Border Health Meeting-Summit which he said “subtly points out the anomaly these two Member States represent being continental members of our integration movement.”“This is unique, for these two are the only Member States that share a common border.It is my understanding that these meetings have a long history. They have had as their principal themes the sharing of epidemiological information and best practices all aimed to ensure that the populations of each Member State are subjected to minimize the risk from the constant Migration which takes place.”He observed that whilst the agenda of such conferences, over the years, has had a staple of items, in the last 20 years HIV, its prevention, surveillance and management have been added.“We at the Secretariat are indeed grateful to the German Government and German International Cooperation Agency (GIZ) for their interest in Migration as driver of the HIV epidemic and its willingness to work with Guyana and Suriname as pilots for improving the approach to migrants in the broader frame work of HIV care and support,” said Barnwell.And even as he commented on the move by Guyana and Suriname to collaborate, he observed that cooperation in health in the Region has had a long history and ev

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Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur,Cheap NHL Jerseys Online, is urging taxpayers to complete the self-assessment section of their Income Tax Return Forms by doing the Income Tax computation. He pointed out that persons are in the habit of lodging incomplete returns which result in the authority being unable to enter them in its data base.“When persons file incomplete returns a lodgment receipt cannot be issued, and if efforts to contact such persons prove futile, then the taxpayer is listed as having not filed a return and may subsequently be issued with a demand notice. The fact is that the system will not accept an incomplete return and the GRA will have no record of the taxpayer filling a return for the particular period,” Mr. Sattaur said.In a press release, the GRA noted that such lapses on the part of taxpayers will have future consequences if for some reason the taxpayer should need a compliance or tax liability certificate.The Commissioner-General is quoted as saying that in cases where a person fills out a return on the behalf of a taxpayer, the person filling out the return should indicate this on the return so that in case of any discrepancy,Cheap Jerseys, the person can be contacted to rectify it.He said the person should sign the Return form and state their address and the date the Return was completed as proof that they did indeed prepare the Return on behalf of the taxpayer.Persons are also required to state the capacity in which the Tax Return was made, such as a trustee, agent or attorney.Sattaur further stated that taxpayers are also neglecting to do the tax computation that will allow them to personally assess the taxes they should pay based on income from all sources for the earning period.He said that in the case of self-employed persons, self-assessment is necessary as it allows this category of taxpayers, who pay advance taxes based on estimated income,Wholesale Jerseys NFL, to know whether they overpaid or underpaid taxes. On the other hand, employees may owe taxes or be entitled to a refund as a result of errors in the calculation of taxes deducted. Where taxes were underpaid, these persons have until April 30,Cheap NFL Jerseys, 2010 to pay outstanding taxes.Self-employed persons must submit an Income and Expenditure Statement along with their return,Cheap NFL Jerseys, while employees are required to obtain a 7A or 7B Slip from their employers which must be attached to the return being lodged.Failure to pay taxes can result in a penalty of up to five per cent per month of the unpaid taxes. Further,China Jerseys Cheap, persons who fail to file returns on time may be required to pay an additional two per cent of the tax assessed.Where a notice is issued demanding the return, a penalty of five per cent of the tax assessed will apply if the return is not submitted in the time frame specified in the notice.Moreover, taxpayers are reminded to quote their Taxpayer Identification Number to enable the processing of Returns.