The media staged a walkout yesterday at the Ministry of Home Affairs after Permanent Secretary for that Ministry,Wholesale Jerseys From China, Angela Johnson, attempted to dictate what types of question should have been asked at a press briefing.Yesterday,Cheap Jerseys Online, the media turned up at the Ministry for a press briefing with Minister Clement Rohee and a representative of UNESCO, Alton Grizzle, who is working on a Community Radio project for that entity.After waiting for about 40 minutes, the media was told that Minister Rohee was engaged in another meeting but that his Permanent Secretary will host the briefing.Grizzle briefed the media about his project and subsequently fielded questions.When asked about his organisation’s position on the Gordon Moseley incident, considering the fact that the organisation is a front runner on championing Freedom of the Press, Grizzle said that he was not aware of the incident.He, however, added that freedom of the press is indeed a mandate of UNESCO.“We seek to work with our member states and with governments across the globe to promote this important precept.I should indicate that freedom of the press in the Caribbean is not considered to have any significant problems,” Grizzle said.When the same question was directed to UNESCO resident representative, Inghe Nathoo, Permanent Secretary Johnson said that such a question would not be entertained at the press briefing.This prompted the media operatives to pick up their equipment and walk out from the boardroom.Only members of the state owned media houses remained in the boardroom of the Ministry.Meanwhile, in a statement issued last evening, the Guyana Press Association stated that the body welcomes the move by several media houses to join in a range of activities to protest what are ‘clearly worsening attacks’ against the media in Guyana.The GPA has received commitments from Kaieteur News, Stabroek News,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys,? Capitol News,Cheap China Jerseys, Evening News,cheap nfl jerseys china, CNS TV6, GWTV News 2, HBTV Channel 9, Prime News, Guyana Times among others, to engage in a range of activities designed to send a ‘very strong’ and ‘clear signal’ to the administration that the media shall not allow its rights to be trampled upon.“Media workers are being guided accordingly,Cheap Jerseys, knowing full well that we may be collectively expected to intensify our activities during the? course of the coming weeks leading up to, during and after the month of August 2008 if the ban is not lifted,” the GPA statement stated.Already, the GPA said, several ministerial engagements with the media, including a briefing on Carifesta X by Culture Minister, Frank Anthony, were yesterday aborted, fearing a boycott or any of the other activities planned by the media.The GPA has been advised that Gordon Moseley’s position that he is ‘truly fed up with the President and his office’s constant attacks on the private media, especially Capitol News’ is not disparaging and disrespectful.“We do not see the need for any apology in this matter, even as we remain hopeful of an amicable resolution by the unconditional lifting of the ban.We do not believe that at this juncture of our evolving democracy, that media workers and indeed any Guyanese should be beneficiaries and victims of Media Freedom and Freedom of Expression.”This approach, GPA added, can amount to nothing more than a ‘smoke-screen’ to utilise freely expressed views by journalists and Guyanese in general to vilify them and declare them enemies of the state.Such is the case with Moseley, who defended himself against President Jagdeo’s criticisms of a report on a meeting the latter had held with Guyanese in Antigua earlier this month, the Association said.

The family of a 29-year-old carpenter is in deep mourning after he succumbed to injuries he sustained after falling several feet from the roof of a house he was working on yesterday.Yuvraj Sewlall, a father of two of Number Naught Village, Corentyne,Jerseys Cheap Wholesale, lost his life after falling from a 20 ft. house he was working on in Corriverton.Reports revealed that Sewlall called “Carpenter chip” fell from the roof of the house and hit his head on the concrete steps below.The house Sewlall was working on.Yuvraj SewlallA worker who was at the scene but wished to remain anonymous pointed out that Sewlall was on the roof laying blocks. The man stated that there was a Guyana Power and Light Inc. wire overhead and he would constantly remind persons working on the roof to be careful.“We always tell am seh ‘remember dem wire up deh’, but for some strange reason like he raise up and get into contact with one of de wire.”The man stressed that Sewlall then fell onto the steps, head first. “When me hear de sound,wholesale nfl jerseys, me run and tek he and rush he to the hospital and next me hear seh he dead.”Meanwhile, Sewlall’s wife, DevikaTejnarine,NHL Jerseys Authentic, 27, also known as “Christina” stated that she received the tragic news via telephone.She stated that the person who called her did not reveal details about the incident.“Dem tell me to please come to the hospital, seh my husband fell down,Cheap Jerseys Store, he hit his head and he is unconscious.”The woman,NFL Jerseys Supply, in tears, relayed that she quickly went to the Skeldon Public Hospital but she was not allowed to see her husband.“I beg de nurse and tell her me want see him just a little bit and she say, ‘no,Cheap Jerseys NFL China, sit down, everything will be ok’.”Tejnarine added that she requested that her husband to be taken to a Private Medical Institution but was told that he was in a critical condition and could not be moved.Sewlall’s grieving wife and their two childrenShe said that about 10 minutes later she was told by the nurse that her husband was being transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital.“When they bring him out and I run to grabble his hand, it was cold, cold and I see he make one breath and them tell me to don’t hold him.”The distraught wife said that when they arrived at the New Amsterdam Hospital, the doctor there informed her that her husband was critical.“I ask de doctor if he recover, if I can take him down to Georgetown and he say he didn’t make it.”The woman stressed that her husband was an excellent father and role model to their two kids.“He was always smiling and he would always mek joke with everybody and he love his work. He been doing it for 12 years now and not a day he would complain.”Sewlall’s body is currently at the New Amsterdam Hospital where a post mortem is expected to be conducted today. He leaves to mourn his wife, two children and other family members. Police investigations are currently ongoing.