Crime Chief Seelall Persaud says that Guyana’s murder rate is significantly higher than last year’s.There have been 109 homicides so far for this year, including three massacres and the beheading of a popular businessman.Murder statistics for 2007 showed that the murder rate was the lowest in six years. Some 113 people were murdered in 2007, in contrast to 150 homicides in 2006; 120 in 2005; 131 in 2004; 206 in 2003; and 142 in 2002,Cheap NFL Jerseys, the year of the infamous jailbreak.However, statistics gathered between January and March alone of this year showed that there were 51 murders, with 27 being execution-style killings.This year’s spate of murders began when a gang of marauding gunmen created havoc in the East Coast Demerara village of Lusignan, killing 11 persons, including five children, in one of the deadliest attacks in recent years.This was followed by another wanton attack by a barrage of gunmen, this time in the mining community of Bartica, where 12 people, including three police ranks, were slaughtered.Driving more fear into the nation was a third massacre which occurred at a mining camp at Lindo Creek, Upper Berbice River. Eight persons lost their lives in that attack.The year 2008 thus far has also seen its share of unsolved murders, with one of the most intriguing cases being that of Jiffi Lubes’ boss Farouk Kalamadeen.Kalamadeen had gone missing and feared kidnapped in April. The worst fears of many were realised when his headless body was discovered in Kingston.The gruesome mystery was further deepened when his head was found a few days later in a canal one block away from his business place at North Road and Light Street.There were other execution-style killings,Wholesale Jerseys 2018, including that of George Barton,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, called ‘Berlin’, who was gunned down on Holy Thursday in Laing Avenue.On March 10, Marcyn King,NFL Jerseys Outlet, a sister of notorious fugitive Rondell Rawlins, called ‘Fine Man,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping,’ was gunned down by an unidentified man in a white car at D’Andrade and Republic Streets, Newtown.King, 34, of Lot 128 D’Andrade Street, Newtown, was shot twice in the chest shortly after exiting a minibus about 100 yards from her home.There was also the execution of 22-year-old Arjune Narine, who was shot dead in Durey Lane, Campbellville.That murder is also unsolved. There were crimes of passion. Bibi Shaneeza Khan was victim of one such crime.She allegedly had her throat slit by her reputed husband at Grass Field,Cheap MLB Jerseys China, Enmore. Her killer subsequently hanged himself.

….patient seeking medical attention overseas The first imported case of the H1N1 virus (Swine Flu) has been detected in Guyana after a Guyanese travelling from China returned home,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, Chief Medical Officer Shamdeo Persaud disclosed yesterday. Persaud said that the man travelled from China,Wholesale China Jerseys, the U.S. and Trinidad and Tobago before returning home to Guyana.Fortunately, he stated,NFL Jerseys From China, the man displayed no symptoms of the virus on the flight and therefore placed no one at risk.“…which is good because it would mean that the patient would have been unable to transmit the virus since it is transmitted through a symptomatic person,” he told reporters at a press briefing.The virus is transmitted whenever an infected person coughs or sneezes and releases tiny drops of the virus into the air.Persons who have it can spread it one day before they have any symptoms and as many as seven days after they become ill.Despite its name, the virus is not transmitted by eating bacon, ham or any pork product. The symptoms include coughing, fever,Jerseys NFL China, sore throat, body aches and headaches.It was first known as swine flu because in the past, persons who contracted it had to have had direct contact with pigs. But, this changed several years ago when a new strain of the virus emerged and spread among people who had no contact with pigs.Persaud stated that the patient’s test result returned positive from the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in Trinidad and Tobago while the man is currently seeking treatment overseas.He stated that the Ministry is currently monitoring some of the man’s close relatives and health care workers who had attended to him at a private hospital.“We will ensure that the full 21 days of observation is adhered,” he stated.He also said that the Ministry has tightened its surveillance security system at the main Ports of Entry in Guyana, especially at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) and the Ogle International Airport.The Ministry is implementing precautionary measures from the “Keep Ebola and other Infectious Disease out of Guyana Strategy”.The strategy is divided into six crucial areas of coordination and control; rapid detection,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, isolation and risk reduction; points of entry; clinical management; laboratory diagnosis and information, education and communication.Recently, Trinidad and Tobago reported four H1N1 related deaths. On Wednesday, researchers revealed that there was a new strain of the virus with the potential to “transmit efficiently in humans” and cause a pandemic discovered in China.One hundred and thirty nine H1N1 swine flu viruses in pigs in China were isolated by scientists and it was discovered that they formed two groups distinct from the current human H1N1 virus.“Our study shows the potential of EAH1N1 SIVs to transmit efficiently in humans and suggests that immediate action is needed to prevent the efficient transmission of EAH1N1 SIVs to humans,” the scientists said.“We found that the EAH1N1 swine flu has got the highest risk score among six different subtypes of viruses,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, suggesting that the EAH1N1 SIVs may pose the highest pandemic threat among the influenza viruses currently circulating in animals”.