Seventy Guyanese born, Cuban trained doctors are likely to commence service in less than a year, Minister of Health Bheri Ramsarran told Kaieteur News last Saturday following the convocation ceremony for the latest batch of medical professionals.President Ramotar and other officials thank the Cuban team for their contribution to the Guyanese students.Following the customary registering and certification process, Ramsarran said that the upcoming professionals would be ready to enter the field of actual work.Earlier in the evening, Minister Ramsarran told a gathering of diplomats, government officials, friends and relatives of the graduates at the Guyana International Conference Centre,NFL Jerseys China, that the 70 where only a small part of the larger Army of medical professionals pursuing their career in the Spanish-speaking island. He said that thanks to the Cuban government and their team, over 900 students are benefiting from the medical scholarship programme.Ramasarran also highlighted that not only are the Cubans educating the youngsters in their native land, but plans are already on stream for post-graduate training in areas such as orthopaedic surgery, gynaecology and paediatrics to be provided.To the 70 returning Guyanese doctors, Cuban Ambassador, H.E Raul Gortazar Marrero said that,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, “No amount of money will sink you.” After congratulating the doctors on their achievement, he urged them to be professional, conscious, committed and dedicated to the work that they are about to embark on. He urged them not to get caught up in the profits of their job but rather, use their skills to save lives and to promote development.Ambassador Marrero made it his duty to warn the graduates to never be satisfied with the little they know. He urged them to stay abreast with change in technology and medicine,Sale NFL Jerseys, since in that way they shall earn respect from their clients and peers based on knowledge.In honour of the founding father of the Latin America School of Medicine where the Guyanese students were trained,Discount NFL Jerseys, the Ambassador requested permission to dedicate the ceremony to former Cuban leader Fidel Casto as his upcoming 87th birthday approaches.The Ambassador used the opportunity to praise the tight friendship between Guyana and Cuba before emphasizing that small nations like the two countries, need to stick together and aid each other in development. He said that Cuba is pleased to lend its skills and expertise to Guyana.“We do not invest in wars to take lives; we invest in sharing and development. That is true solidarity; that makes people happy and develops them.”Dr. Manuel Osorio, Teaching Director of the Cuban Medical Brigade in Guyana told the gathering that the Cuban trainers are satisfied that the doctors are scientifically qualified to tend to more than 800 health problems. He said the graduates are about to embark on a huge responsibility and to promote social development through health.Dr. Osorio also urged the doctors to excel in their profession and to never feel satisfied with their knowledge. In the words of Fidel Castro, he said,Wholesale Jerseys, “To graduate as a doctor is to open the door to a road that leads to the noblest thing a human being can do for others……”President Donald Ramotar was also on hand to officially welcome home the new professionals and to congratulate them on their success. Speaking on development, he told the doctors that they are new assets in the medical system,Cheap Jerseys For Sale, while urging them to be diligent and not to back down from the prospects of being posted in remote interior locations.He said jokingly that such posts could have its perks since it was in the far reaches of Bartica that he first courted the First Lady who was at the time working as a nurse. He told them to remember that those persons in far reaching areas would probably need their services the most; and they too deserve the services that anyone in the city would receive.

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Investigators are continuing its probe of a billion-dollar fertilizer programme that was handled under the previous administration by the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC).Head of SOCUSydney JamesA forensic audit report handed in to the Coalition Government had recommended actions against former head of GMC, Nizam Hassan, for at least two sets of transactions- the fertilizer programme and the construction of the entity’s head office in Robb Street.The report had been sent to Cabinet which approved the investigations into the two sets of transactions.The matters were handed to the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) which recently concluded investigations into the building construction and recommended charges against Hassan, an engineer at the Ministry of Agriculture and the contractor. The file has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions for advice.With regards to the fertilizer investigations, head of SOCU, Sydney James,Cheap NFL Jerseys, confirmed Tuesday that the investigations are still ongoing.While the forensic auditor, Saykar Boodhoo, had been tasked with reviewing records of GMC, an arm of the Ministry of Agriculture, for the period of January 1, 2012 to May 31, 2015, he was given approval to extend the investigations of the GMC’s Fertilizer Account to September 1, 2008.He said that this was necessary due to the lack of information made available by GMC’s senior management.The auditor in his report to Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, on April 11,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, 2016, complained that Hassan was evasive to questions and not wholly truthful to him in providing answers to his questions and inquiries.Hassan was last year appointed by the new administration as the General Manager of the all-important Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), another agency under the Ministry of Agriculture.The auditor flagged and criticised several accounting shortcoming as well as poor work by the accounting firm hired to conduct GMC audits for the years 2012,Jerseys China Wholesale, 2013 and 2014.“My conclusion is that the accounting practice at GMC shows that the General Manager and the Accountant did not provide any meaningful fiduciary responsibility when any payment originated from the Minister of Agriculture or the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture. In other words, GMC’s General Manager and the Accountant acted more like rubber stamps when payments dealt with transactions originating from the Ministry of Agriculture.“More troubling was the lack of fiduciary responsibilities condoned by GMC’s Board of Directors during the period January 1, 2012 through May 31, 2015.”With regards to the fertilizer programme, in 2008,Stitched Jerseys, the forensic audit report said that the then Government, under Bharrat Jagdeo,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, acknowledged that there was a shortage of fertilizer available to farmers.Approval was granted from the Office of the President for the Ministry of Agriculture to handle the transaction – the idea was for GMC to purchase 12,500 tons of Urea costing US$7,812,500 of which 3,500 tons was for the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) and 9,000 tonnes to be sold to agencies of the Ministry of Agriculture.Funding for the 9,000 tons Urea was provided as follows: Contingencies Fund Advance $600M and GNCB Advance $553M.GMC was to sell the Urea at $7,000 per bag (50Kg) to stakeholders or resellers and the sales proceeds used to repay the above amounts in its entirety before December 31, 2008. A contract was awarded through a tender to a company named “Nova Scotia Manufacturing”. However the contract was cancelled by Cabinet and a new tender was supposed to be done. This never happened.The forensic audit report said that limited and filtered information was provided to the auditor.“The GMC’s General Manager, Nizam Hassan refused to make available to the auditor full access to original documentation of the financial transactions of the Fertilizer Programme.“As such there was a scope limitation thus preventing the auditor to properly audit the Fertilizer Programme transactions.”The auditor believed that the entire fertilizer programme was conceptualized to circumvent financial accountability laws and to provide funding to GuySuCo and others using “sinister” methods.Monies were also questionably made available to the Guyana Rice Producers Association.“The payments to GRPA were approved by the GMC’s Board of Directors via a special Board Resolution. However the resolution was signed by mainly the Government employees of the Board,” the report said.Among some of the transactions by GMC was an interest-free loan to GuySuCo for $450M which had a special clause in the loan agreement stati