The management of the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has called in police after auditors uncovered a significant fraud, to the tune of millions of dollars in its Personnel Department.Kaieteur News was told that the Corporation’s Audit Department uncovered suspicious activities last week and after reporting it to management,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, the Personnel Department clerk was hauled in for questioning.While rumors had tagged the figures at some $22 million,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, GuySuCo now believes that amount may be up to $4M but checks are still ongoing. It is believed that the fraud was carried out for over a year.The staffer has offered to repay,China Cheap Jerseys, a senior GuySuCo official said yesterday.Kaieteur News was told that the clerk was charged with processing Leave Passage Allowances for workers of that sugar company.The allowance could be used to pay for mortgages or even home construction.Kaieteur News was told that over time,Cheap NFL Jerseys, the clerk requisitioned a number of cheques and made them payable to specific contractors. However, internal auditors were alerted to a number of discrepancies and raised the issue with the Personnel Department.“She has asked to repay the amount. However,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, she took sick leave and GuySuCo has asked the police to also investigate the matter,Cheap Jerseys Online,” an official who declined to be named said yesterday.The female staffer was said to have been transferred from the LBI estate to the Ogle headquarters of GuySuCo since 2008. The official yesterday denied that the clerk has disappeared and said that GuySuCo was in contact with her up to Thursday.

Lindo Creek massacre…After four painstaking years, the remains of the eight miners killed at Lindo Creek under the most controversial circumstances were finally laid to rest.But the final chapter on one of Guyana’s most heinous crimes is still to be written as lingering questions remain unanswered.Yesterday, the remains of Dax Arokium,NFL Jerseys China, his uncle Cedric Arokium,NFL Jerseys China, Compton Speirs,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, Horace Drakes,NFL Jerseys From China, Clifton Wong, Lancelot Lee,Wholesale Jerseys USA, Bonny Harry and Nigel Torres were packed into three coffins and laid to rest in three separate graves in Le Repentir Cemetery.This was after a brief but moving ceremony at the Lyken Funeral Parlour which was attended only by the parents of Nigel Torres, two policemen, several media operatives and a few employees from the parlour.The decision by the state to bury the remains was taken after other relatives refused to accept them, despite repeated requests by the police.Yonette Torres was inconsolable as she held on to the box bearing her son’s name, although she could not be sure if his remains were indeed in it. In fact no one knew for sure whose remains were in which coffin.There are reports that a request was made for the remains to be divided up and placed into eight coffins, but according to a reliable source, the administration of the Guyana Police Force, which was the body that had taken responsibility for its disposal, had insisted that only three coffins be used.This was after spending in excess of $40M (or $700,000 per month) to store the remains until the DNA tests that were being conducted in Jamaica were completed.The DNA results should have been handed over by January 2012, but Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee had said that notwithstanding the commitment given by the Jamaica Forensic team, they had not delivered.“They had promised us to deliver the remainder of the analysis, but they have not delivered. We are in touch with them and we are assured that their results will soon be available,” Rohee had stated.He had also justified the amount being spent by the administration to store the remains of the Lindo Creek victims.The Minister pointed out that the remains are very important to the families as well as the integrity of the investigation.“The integrity of these remains is important for any further analysis and if it costs a million dollars a day to ensure proper storage we have to do it,” the Minister had declared.Yonette Torres hugs the coffin bearing her son’s name.Rohee added that his Government and the police would have come under more scrutiny if they had failed to properly store the remains.“If we were not doing that (storing the remains at a parlour) and these remains were left stored in a box where rats and cockroaches were interfering with it, we would have been worse off and we would have been accused of being delinquent,” Rohee added.“This is the price we have to pay if we want serious results.”But Yonette Torres is less than convinced that everything was done by the administration to bring closure to the saga that has been eating away at her heart for the past four years.She desperately wanted to look at the remains in the coffins but was obviously prevented by parlour officials who explained that such a proposition would be unwise.“They never called us to see,” she said, adding that four years ago, the police passed her home at Kwakwani with the remains and didn’t even allow her to see them.“They are so compromised. They don’t want nobody see it,Cheap Stitched MLB Jerseys,” she cried as she was restrained by her husband and parlour employees.Mrs. Torres and her husband had traveled all the way from Kwakwani for yesterday’s occasion after they were informed by the police that the remains would have been buried yesterday. She was not happy with the way the matter of the burial was handled, making it even more difficult for her and the rest of her family.“I didn’t have any money and they gave me six thousand dollars alone to travel to town. That could not do for us because we had no money to buy any snack while we were in Georgetown and they say they were going to give us passage to go back,” Yonette Torres lamented.She was adamant that she still needs answers to the heinous crime that took her son’s life.But for Nigel Torres Sr., yesterday brought an end to the episode.“I am satisfied, that’s why I come and see he bury,” the elder Torres said.Le Repentir Cemetery is the final resting place for the remains of the Lindo Creek massacre victims.On June 21, 2008, dredge owner Leonard Arokium discovered the charred remains of eight of his employees i

Mr Vibert Parvatan was last evening bestowed with the order of Commander Brother of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John.Also receiving an order which was in effect a promotion was Agatha Edwards who was elevated to the position of Officer Sister of the said order.The ceremony was held at the Ursuline Convent Chapel,NFL Jerseys China, Camp Street.Among those at the well-attended ceremony were Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and Mrs Hinds,Cheap China Jerseys, British High Commissioner Simon Bond representing Queen Elizabeth,Adidas NHL Jerseys China, members of the legal and medical profession and of the business community/Installing Mr Parvatan and Ms Edwards was Sub-Prior Professor Marshall of Australia. Fr Malcolm Rodrigues conducted the service.All the speakers addressed the theme,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, ‘Service to Humanity’.

On the surface the surgeon and the pugilist have very little in common.Dr. Budhendra Doobay is a vascular surgeon who works with the Niagara Health System. He has spent his career repairing injured bodies.Dr. Budhendra Doobay and his daughter, Dr. Jaya Doobay.Lennox Lewis, the former heavyweight champion of the world,NBA Jerseys China, made a career out of injuring bodies.But both men were to be recognized last evening in Toronto for their achievements as professionals and men of Caribbean descent. The University of the West Indies awarded the doctor and boxer its annual Luminary Award.Elizabeth Buchanan-Hind, director of advancement with the university, said although the Caribbean is a collection of small countries, people from the region and those descended from it have had a noticeable impact on the world.“There are as many people of Caribbean descent living elsewhere in the world as there are living in the Caribbean,” she said. “We started this award a few years ago in New York City to honor (Caribbean-Americans) and then decided to do the same in Canada. Next year we will be doing the same in England as well.”Lewis, whose family hails from Jamaica, grew up in Toronto and boxed for Canada in the 1988 Olympic Games, winning gold. A dual British and Canadian citizen, he moved to the United Kingdom when he turned professional and became the last man to be considered the undisputed world heavyweight champion.Although his pro career was based in England, Lewis said he never lost touch with the Caribbean.“That connection has always been there,Jerseys From China, all my life,” Lewis said in a telephone interview from Jamaica. “This has always been a home for me. I love it here, always felt connected to Jamaica. It’s easy going attitude, not getting upset, taking life as it comes. That really was part of my attitude as a fighter.”Since retiring from the ring, Lewis said he has dedicated his time to the Lennox Lewis League of Champions Foundation, which helps underprivileged children in Canada, Jamaica and the UK.Doobay, whose father is from Guyana, is well known for his work in the Ontario Hindu community — including promoting organ donation in a religious community that often rejects the practice.Like Lewis, he never lost a connection to his family’s origin and returns to Guyana regularly along with sending medication to the country.Former world boxing champ,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, Lennox Lewis“Every year I am part of a group from the University of McMaster who go to Guyana to work in a dialysis clinic,” he said.Doobay said people in Guyana live on a fraction of what Canadians earn in a year and in the absence of universal health care,Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys, paying for a treatment like dialysis is often beyond their means.“So we are offering low cost dialysis,” Doobay said. “For those who cannot pay at all,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, we provide dialysis for free. For those who can, it’s a nominal fee of $40,Cheap Soccer Jerseys Free Shipping, even less.”Although Doobay oversaw the creation of the dialysis clinic, he credits the McMaster team who keep it running.Doobay and Lewis were to receive their awards last night at the Ritz Carlton in Toronto. (niagaraadvance.ca)