The Commission of Inquiry which was set up to investigate the circumstances surrounding the recent escape of inmates housed at the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) at Onderneeming on the Essequibo Coast has started its work.This is according to Minister of Culture Youth and Sports, Dr. Frank Anthony, last evening.The Minister noted that the members of the commission had their first meeting this week,Cheap NHL Jerseys Online, and will soon be visiting the juvenile detention facility to conduct interviews with the inmates and staffers.Early last month, dozens of young people,Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys, whose ages range from 14 to 16,mlb jerseys china, during a violent rampage,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, escaped from the facility. They also stormed through several communities while being armed with cutlasses and other weapons.The inmates subsequently claimed that it was the abuse by staffers that prompted the escape. They had reached a breaking point, he said.Meanwhile,Cheap NFL Jerseys, a senior Ministry of Culture official had also made it clear that none of the juveniles made any such allegations to the team which had visited the centre prior to the escape.Consequently, as a result of these controversial statements, a Commission of Inquiry was formed.The five-member Board of Inquiry is being headed by former Judge Prem Persaud, and include Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, Alfred King; Senior Superintendent and Divisional Commander of ‘D’ Division,Cheap China Jerseys Authentic, Christopher Griffith; Senior Probation Officer of Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, Trenetta Scott and Mr. Maydha Persaud, a retired headmaster and member of the Teaching Service Commission.Recently, 48 of the inmates appeared in court. Eight of the 48 were charged with arson, while 40 were arraigned for escaping from a training school. Twelve of the inmates are female.Thirteen of the juveniles pleaded guilty to escaping from the NOC, while the remaining 35 entered not guilty pleas.Sixteen of the inmates were remanded to the juvenile facility in Georgetown, while the rest were returned to the New Opportunity Corps.Minister Anthony had initially posited that should any staffer be found guilty of abusing the children, that person will be dealt with condignly.

– despite procurement extravaganzas while in officeBy Jarryl BryanThe People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) yesterday lashed out at the government’s hiring of AuditorsGeneral Secretary of the PPP/C Clement RoheeAnand Goolsaran and Christopher Ram to carry out forensic audits throughout the state apparatus. PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee, said that in the absence of a Procurement Commission the government was providing no transparency while hiring these firms.He said that the government has been a fierce critic of the previous government’s track record of controversial procurement practices. Now it has sole sourced the audit.Not only did the PPP criticize the hiring of these firms, Rohee was of the view that the government was hypocritical in hiring two men who criticized the PPP/C while in office and were known supporters of the A Partnership for National Unity/ Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC), an accusation that has been leveled consistently against the PPP/C during its tenure in Government.The Public Accounts Committee (PAC),NFL Jerseys Cheap, one of the standing committees in the National Assembly, is responsible for examining Government expenditure and accounts. Having oversight for the Public Procurement Commission, it also submits nominated individuals for the Commission to Parliament. The PAC is chaired by a member of the opposition, as well as partly composed of opposition members.However, the establishment of the Commission has been delayed for years, with claims from the then PPP/C administration that the Commission would erode the executive’s no-objection prerogative in public procurement. Hotly debated in the 10th Parliament, the establishment of the Commission was subsequently stymied when former President Donald Ramotar prorogued parliament last October.There have been hopes that with the advent of a new Parliament, the Commission could finally be established. However,China NFL Jerseys, the PPP/C not only boycotted the opening of the 11th Parliament on June 10, but has refused to submit a list of MPs for Parliament. Still seething after claims that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) rigged the May 11th National and Regional elections in favor of the APNU+AFC, the party has also remained unclear on when or if they will ever take up their opposition seats in Parliament.Since, according to the law there is need for a two- thirds majority before the Commission could be established,Cheap Jerseys From China, questions have arisen over the PPP/C’s culpability in holding up several orders of business scheduled within Parliament.Asked if he did not consider the party’s criticism unfair when it has refused to enter Parliament and play a role in establishing the Commission,Wholesale Adidas Hockey Jerseys, Rohee was adamant that the party’s position was a fair one.“Of course it’s fair. The sitting President (Granger) must have been aware of what was required (to establish the Commission). It is not the PPP/C that made the promise of the immediate establishment of the Public Procurement Commission, within a 100 days; it was they (APNU+AFC) that made that declaration!”“More than that, how can they speak so proudly about your intention to establish a Public Procurement Commission, when the services of persons are being procured to carry out audits of government agencies and departments without it going through the established procurement process?”He also lashed out at Goolsarran and Ram’s appointment, stating that the two individuals were “friends” of the administration, who previously attacked the PPP/C. Rohee reminded the gathering that it was the APNU+AFC who had declared that the days for sole sourcing was over upon assumption of office. He queried whether there was ever a bidding process or public tender for the two auditors.“Was it advertised? It wasn’t. Here, is what Kaieteur,Cheap Jerseys From China, Stabroek and Inews used to criticize us for, that we were doing things without going through the established legal process. Here it is before our very eyes, two persons have been procured to carry out these audits and nobody knows what the process was gone through for their services to be hired.”When confronted with the PPP/C’s track record of not tendering for several commissions while in Government,Wholesale NBA Jerseys China, the General Secretary back pedalled, admitting that Commissions did fall under the President’s discretion and prerogative.The PPP/C, while in office, faced much criticism for sole sourcing many services at the expense of other potential bidders. One of the most infamous cases was new Guyana Pharmaceuticals Company (GPC),

The family of a 15-year-old girl is calling on members of the public for their assistance in locating the teen, who failed to return home from school on Wednesday.The teen, Joanna Wright, who hails from Berbice but now resides at 520 West Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, left for school on Wednesday, but,China Jerseys Wholesale, to date,China Jerseys, has not returned home, causing much apprehension to her relatives.According to the teen’s aunt, Ms. Rosalind Noel, on Wednesday morning,Wholesale Jerseys USA, she dropped her niece off at an Internet caf? to do an assignment.However, when they arrived at the Internet caf?, it was closed, so she told Joanna to take a minibus and head to school.Checks have so far revealed that the teen, who attends a city secondary school, did attend school on Wednesday.Relatives have also since contacted each other,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic, and it has been determined that the child has not returned to her Berbice birthplace.According to the child’s aunt,Cheap Jerseys From China, the child has never run away from home, but recently she was found at the home with a boy,China Jerseys, and ever since, she began staying out the house very late.In the meantime, the matter has since been reported to the police, and anyone with information on Joanna’s whereabouts is asked to contact the nearest police station.