…as Customs (Amendment) Bill receives undivided support By: Kiana Wilburg Government and the political Opposition agreed yesterday that the time has come toFinance Minister, Winston Jordanend the abuse of the remigrant scheme. To this end, the Customs (Amendment) Bill 2016 which will bring about certain necessary changes to prevent the misuse of the system was unanimously supported.The Bill was brought before the House by Finance Minister, Winston Jordan, who said that the Bill seeks to amend Section 23 of the Customs Act so as to standardize requirements of residency, entitlements and conditions with regard to the concessions for duty free vehicles imported by qualifying re-migrants and settlers.The Parliamentarian said that Guyana has a large Diaspora population and various Governments, to their credit, have sought to bring that Diaspora closer to its natural home for various reasons.Jordan said that given the various gaps in Guyana, particularly of a financial and human resource nature,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, it is important that one taps into the Diaspora. He said that the Diaspora population is attracted by various schemes and incentives.The Finance Minister said that the remigrant scheme is one that has been around for quite a while. Of late,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, “some kinks have been thrown up.” He said that one in particular has to do with who really qualifies to be termed a remigrant and what are they really entitled to when it comes to vehicles.The politician said, “We have been reading the newspapers and we have heard stories about people being granted remigrant status and were just coming home to collect their duty free concessions on car or cars…Because of a system that is generally lax, perhaps because it lacks the manpower to man it, some problems came about.”He emphasized that the amendment to the law seeks to define who is a remigrant, how duty free concessionsFormer Attorney General, Anil Nandlallwill be granted on vehicles and what will happen if there is a breach.The Finance Minister said, “We are asking, for example,Cheap Jerseys Supply, that they live here for 183 days and that is the general prescription of the law. We are also saying that the vehicle must be imported by the qualifying remigrant or settler once within six months within assuming residency.”In the case of the vehicle, Jordan said that the laws will be amended for the vehicle to be imported provided that it is not older than eight years.He clarified that the remigrant has to live in Guyana for three years if he or she seeks to import an old vehicle and live five years in the country for new vehicles. The Finance Minister said that he believes that these are reasonable amendments and did not expect much opposition from his colleagues on the western side of the House.His prediction was correct as Opposition Member Anil Nandlall rose to offer his unequivocal support for the Bill. He said that the Bill obviously seeks to strengthen the remigrant scheme.The Parliamentarian said,NFL Jerseys From China, “We are all aware that the remigrant scheme,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, as noble as the intention of it may be,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, has been the subject of abuse and misuse and manipulation. And there are recorded cases of this.”He then gave the House several examples of how the system has been manipulated in various instances over the years. Nandlall said that the Bill is a good attempt by Government to block the holes in the system.The former Attorney General expressed hope that it will go a far way in assisting the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) in its quest to guard against the abuse of the remigrant scheme. When the Customs Amendment Bill was put for a vote, it was passed without opposition.

A family spat which purportedly stemmed from a dispute over a lollipop has left a seven-year-old girl and her 31-year-old uncle with injuries to their neck, back and hands as a result of scalding hot water which was thrown at them on Friday, last.Stanley Baksh, who resides at Lot 47 Guyhoc Park, Georgetown and his niece were treated for second degree burns after his 16 year old stepdaughter threw a pot of piping hot water on them. Baksh, an American Stores bondsman,Jerseys Wholesale, claimed that he had returned home from work to relieve his ‘wife’ of babysitting duties, while she went shopping at a city market,He was left to care for his five-month old baby and one-year old daughter as well as his niece and a neighbour’s child.“I go home to take care ah de four kids. When ah reach deh, me one year old daughter de fussin’ so I decide fuh give she a lollipop fuh quiet she down. But me stepdaughter come and pull it out she mouth and throw it away,” Baksh related.According to the man, this act was repeated about three times. However, on the third occasion, the 16-year-old young lady spewed,Cheap NFL Jerseys, “You is ah crass and a waste in this house. I don’t know why you don’t go lang yuh way.”The verbal battle intensified as Baksh responded with verbal taunts of his own.Baksh recalled that at this point, the young lady flew into a fit of rage and rushed into the kitchen of the one storey house and placed a pot of water to boil on the stove. Baksh told Kaieteur News that he was also in the kitchen, making porridge for the five-month-old baby.He claimed that the pot of water was still on the lighted stove but he had no clue that it was actually meant for him.He added however that he decided to take the other three children over at the neighbour’s to avoid further argument with his teenaged step daughter who he said had grown increasingly disrespectful.Baksh explained that as he bent down and was holding the chair up for his niece to search for her slippers, he felt what he described as “a heat” on his back. At the same time,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, he heard his step daughter proclaim “Is you ah put on the water fuh.”Uncle and niece burnt with hot water.But the water had caught his niece also.“I raise and turn around and I see she trying to throw it again but I block she. By then, I hear my niece screaming,Cheap Jerseys, running down the step, so I follow she. I didn’t even realise I geh bun up suh,” Baksh said.Meanwhile, his niece,Cheap Jerseys, who is a Grade Two student of the Ketley Primary School, said “I been searching for my slipper when she throw the water. Ah just feel something on top me back burning hot, hot, hot.”The seven-year-old told this publication that “When I reach downstairs,cheap nfl jerseys, ah jump up and down like a frog, bawling in pain.”Baksh said too that he rushed downstairs to tend to his niece but “As ah raise the jersey off her back, I see she skin peeling off.”Although the two victims were writhing in pain, the teenager was apparently not finished with them.According to Baksh, in an attempt to get some powder to place on his niece’s injuries, he went upstairs but as he was returning to her, his stepdaughter threw the now empty pot at him but it missed him.After receiving treatment at the Georgetown Hospital, Baksh along with his niece’s mother reported the matter to the police at the East La Penitence Police Station.The teenager was subsequently arrested on Friday. She was however released on bail the following day.Charges are likely to follow.