Political activists weigh inBy Kiana WilburgSince the Granger-led administration assumed office, there seems to be a creeping impatience in some quarters to see all those who appear to be “too big to jail” hauled before the courts.Many yearn for the prompt prosecution of all those accused of raiding the public coffers, misusing assets of the State, or who acted in a manner that brought disgrace to their prestigious office.To date,Nike NFL Jerseys China, only three public officials have been brought before the court for such questionable behaviour. These are; former Minister of Health, Bheri Ramsaran , former Public Service Minister, Jennifer Westford and her Personnel Officer Margaret Cummings.In spite of the edginess of some members of the public who desire quick justice, some political activists believe that the Granger administration is not slow to prosecution. But they also feel that the government isn’t making substantial advancement either.Popular columnist,Cheap Jerseys Online, Freddie Kissoon is one such critic who holds this position.He said, “I would argue that they aren’t slow but they certainly aren’t making considerable progress. Maybe it is the half-full/half empty analogy.? One of the factors that the coalition government has in its arguments against its detractors is the?mountain of madness they have inherited.”Kissoon said that Guyana’s economy, bureaucratic and legal fulcrums, infrastructural facilities and social structures were severely weakened under the “shambolic rule” of former Presidents Bharrat Jagdeo and Donald Ramotar.He said that the solution pathway is going to take years. In that context, he said that the citizenry has to have patience. The communist argued, however, that the anti-corruption pursuits of the government have not been dynamic.Kissoon said that the nation is still to hear about the state of the GuyOil gas -scam and the two senior officers who awarded themselves back pay for services provided while on the board of the Guyana Power and Light without consulting any legal authority.Chartered Accountant, Chris RamPolitical activist and Associate Professor, Dr. David HindsPolitical activist, Freddie KissoonThe political activist emphasized that if government continues with these exposures, citizens will ultimately want early police action.“Even the Crum-Ewing case doesn’t look good. The nation feels the intellectual planners of the murder have not been touched,” Kissoon said.Were it in his power, he would recommend for the establishment of an anti corruption committee with wide spread jurisdiction. He suggested that such a committee should include people with legal and accounting skills.“Let them go after the financial nastiness during the Jagdeo/Ramotar reign and seek prosecution very urgently. Surely, there must be a huge paper trail of Jagdeo’s questionable use of the country’s resources. From the time this government came into power, Jagdeo should have been investigated,” the columnist said.Dr. David Hinds, an Associate Professor at the Arizona State University, believes the coalition government needs to be given the opportunity to conduct proper investigations before prosecuting persons,NFL Jerseys 2018, least it be accused, as it already has been, of witch-hunting.“I know people are impatient, but even the instances of corruption that are obvious need to be carefully documented before prosecution.? Accumulating the evidence needed to prosecute those suspected of misappropriation of government assets takes time.”The University professor said that the nation needs to allow the forensic auditors to do their work thoroughly. He said, too, that the State Asset Recovery Unit also has to make sure that it is engaged in investigation and not witch-hunting. According to Hinds, one must bear in mind that it takes some time to catch and follow the trail of corruption.Overall,China NFL Jerseys, Dr. Hinds believes that government is doing a good job. The University professor said that it is not easy coming into government after 23 years.“The new government has to confront a shattered economy,NHL Ice Hockey Jerseys, the Venezuela threat and a rampant and unrepentant opposition. That’s a fair bit to handle. The new government invariably encounters more problems than it anticipated.”The political activist said that the Granger administration has to deal with, for example, the partisan bureaucracy?installed by the previous government. He stated that the operatives may be political appointees but they know the system.Dr. Hinds said that if the government were to throw all of them out immediately without the proper replacements, then they may end up undermining their own administration.In this regard,

The 18-year-old man who alleged that he was drugged and raped by 10 men in a house at Vreed-en-Hoop,Cheap Jerseys From China, West Coast Demerara (WCD) on Old Year’s Night, has been referred to the New Amsterdam Psychiatric Hospital in Berbice.This was revealed by the teenager’s mother who noted that the doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) informed her that the hospital in New Amsterdam has the requisite equipment to treat the teen.The Bellevue,Jerseys Wholesale, West Bank Demerara (WBD) woman said that at present her son is not eating, walking or talking much. “He is now trying to talk but his words are not coming out clearly. He is just murmuring a little,” the teen’s mother said.She added that the doctors at GPHC had informed her that the young man is still traumatized over his assault and is probably too shy to face people.“I was told that the New Amsterdam hospital has the machine to check his brain and they are going to do shock therapy on him,” the devastated mother related.So far, police have arrested one person who was allegedly part of the gang-rape. That individual was later released on station bail.Police said that they are awaiting a statement from the teen to proceed with their investigation but due to his condition,Cheap Jerseys USA, the probe is at a standstill.A medical report submitted o police by the hospital has indicated that there was sexual trauma to the teen’s anus.According to reports, around 16:00 hrs on December 31, last,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic, the teen left his home to attend an Old Year’s Night party with a friend. The teen’s mother told this publication that her son did not return home that night.“The next day (New Year’s Day) about five o’clock in the afternoon (17:00 hrs) I get a call from my son’s friend. He said that my son would sleep by him the night and come home the next day (Friday, January 2) and I said that was okay,Wholesale Jerseys Online,” the mother said.She added that later that night (New Year’s), she received another call from her son’s friend.“He call and tell me that he sending my son in a taxi, but my son reach home till around 11 o’clock (23:00hrs) that night. He came with a car and as soon as the car stop, he run out,” the mother of nine said.“My son was in a terrible condition. He was scared for his life; he was nervous, his body was trembling and I could see he was in pain.”According to the devastated mother, at that point she did not question the teen much, since he was in too much discomfort.She said that he later asked to use the washroom.“I hold him up, but he couldn’t defecate. He was just shaking and he was crying out for belly pain. When he wiped himself, there was a lot of blood on the tissue and I hold him up and put him to lie down on a bed.”The mother said that when she questioned her son,Cheap Sports Jerseys, he related the dreadful news to her.“He said that his friend jook he with a needle, he and about nine other men rape him in a house.”She said that the teenager’s arm was swollen which seemed to indicate that he had indeed been injected.The woman said that her son told her that the men then locked him in the house and later went back for him.“He said that the boys took him somewhere and they were going to shoot him, but a lady see and shout, and tell him to run. He run and jump in a taxi and the car bring him home,” the mother said.Investigations are ongoing.

–? man believed to be Guyanese(Daily Mail) United Kingdom – A murder victim’s family who want to know if the man who shot their son is in Britain legally have been refused the information – to protect the killer’s privacy.Wintworth and Lurline Deslandes are desperate to confirm suspicions that Saturday Hassan, believed to be from Guyana, is a foreign national, so they can ensure he is deported if he is released from jail.Saturday HassanBut they have been told the killer – who shot their son,Authentic China Jerseys, Darren, in the head after being thrown out of the family’s pub – must agree to details of his immigration status being handed over to their MP.Officials said this ‘personal information’ needed to be ‘safeguarded’ and cited the Data Protection Act in their refusal to hand it over.The UK Border Agency also insisted it needed ‘written authority’ from Hassan himself, who is serving life with a minimum term of 37 years, before any details could be released.The Deslandes family is enraged by the response and their case has sparked a furious reaction at Westminster,NFL Jerseys China Cheap, with the couple’s MP branding the decision ‘ridiculous’.Their son, a former Dulwich College schoolboy who attended Brunel University and worked for a housing association, was due to be married to Abigail Beresford earlier this year.Last week,holesale Soccer Jerseys, Croydon North MP Malcolm Wicks said: ‘The logic of that answer is that I should write a nice letter saying, “Dear murderer, would you give me permission to find out if you are a foreign national, so I can make sure in the future you are deported”.’The former Labour business minister added: ‘It’s ridiculous. The family of the murdered man had a suspicion for some reason he might have been a foreign national and it didn’t come out in court. My experience as an MP is that if you find out some criminal is a foreign national, I do my best to pressure the Home Office to check the person out. That’s one reason an MP should be able to find out.’”Hassan, 31, was thrown out of the Deslandes family’s pub – the Newton Arms in Croydon, South London – on New Year’s Eve 2009 after threatening a customer.Minutes later he returned with a semi-automatic weapon, firing at Darren, 34, and his younger brother Junior, who had evicted him.Darren was shot in the head and died instantly. Junior, 26, was hit three times in the head, neck and shoulder. He was left critically ill but survived.Mr Deslandes – who bought the pub in 1999 after working as an insurance underwriter in the City of London for 25 years – was hit over the head with the butt of the gun.Last year Hassan was found guilty of murder and attempted murder at the Old Bailey and jailed.Judge David Paget said: ‘What you did has taken the life of a thoroughly good and worthy young man with his life before him and has devastated the lives of the whole Deslandes family, of Darren Deslandes’s fianc?e and I dare say of others near and dear to them.’The family insist the question of Hassan’s immigration status never came up at the trial.During the trial, Mr Wicks wrote to the Home Office asking for information on the killer’s immigration status after the family told him they believed Hassan was in the country illegally, having arrived here from Guyana in South America.On December 2 last year the UK Border Agency wrote back. A letter signed by the then chief executive,NFL Jerseys Cheap, Lin Homer,NHL Ice Hockey Jerseys, refused to divulge any details about Hassan’s past.She wrote: ‘I hope that you will appreciate that in order to safeguard an individual’s personal information and comply with the Data Protection Act 1998, we are limited in what information we can provide when a request is made by someone,Wholesale Jerseys USA, such as your constituent, who is not the subject of the application. Except in a few exceptional circumstances, we must ensure we have the written authority of the individual concerned before the information is divulged to anyone else.’It also said the reply was a ‘proportionate response to protecting the privacy of the individual’.

A police officer, who was supposed to investigate an unusual incident was on Saturday accused of bribery after he sent away a bus well packed with illegal beef from an abattoir at Mon Repos,Cheap Arizona Cardinals Hoodies, East Coast Demerara (ECD).The officer who is assigned to the Turkeyen Police station claimed that he sent away the bus because he did not want the meat to spoil.According to information reaching this publication, Chetram Rambarran, of 314 Block Y, Cummings Lodge,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys China, ECD,Cheap NFL Jerseys, woke up early Saturday morning only to discover that four of his cows were missing.Rambarran said that he became worried and started to comb the area but his efforts were futile. Minutes later, he claimed that he received a call from a friend who told him that he saw a bus (PEE 2440) parked at the abattoir in Mon Repos.The cattle farmer said when he arrived at the abattoir, he saw the bus and two men- the driver and a man who claimed to be the owner of the meat.Rambarran explained that the owner of the beef failed to provide documents to show ownership.The police were summoned and Rambarran left the abattoir to get his documents to show the police but minutes after he returned,Cheap Jerseys From China, the bus disappeared.When he questioned the officer as to why he sent away the bus which had contained the suspected illegal meat,Nike Air Max 95 Sale, the officer told him that he was afraid that the beef would have spoiled.“Since then we ain’t hear anything from the police or anybody. But I found out that the cows were killed in the same village because I went and saw the guts and blood,Cheap Jerseys From China,” the owner lamented.