(Irish Examiner) Ireland – A Guyanese father in desperate financial straits has been jailed for three and a half years for smuggling 55 pellets of cocaine into Ireland in his stomach.Gordon Plass (aged 41) pleaded guilty to possessing nearly 39,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping,000 Euros worth of the drug after he was stopped at Dublin Airport last February and was found to have a suspiciously distended stomach.Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard he had liquidated all his assets to buy the cocaine with the aim of making 5,China Jerseys Wholesale,000 Euros profit here.His lawyers said he was in financial disaster and took a chance but ended up losing everything.

…AFC berates legislation as overruling Chief Justice  Minister of Legal Affairs Charles Ramson debating the almost empty opposition benches.By Gary EleazarThe House last evening, in the presence of a boycott of the People’s National Congress Reform, approved the Fugitive Offenders (Amendment) Bill despite staunch opposition to its passage by Alliance for Change (AFC) Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan.According to Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General, Charles Ramson, SC who piloted the Bill, it was merely meant to clarify the existing legislation which entertained significant chaos.He pointed out that the Bill is seeking to address an imbroglio that has its origin in the ruling of the Chief Justice (ag) as it relates to the extradition order of Barry Dataram who was wanted by the United States of America in connection with dug related charges.According to Ramson following the request by the US Government the matter was dealt with at the magisterial level but was appealed and Chang ruled in favour of Dataram.Ramson said that when the matter was appealed and he was then Justice of Appeal he had surmised that it could not be appealed further Chang should have been bound by a previous case in which the Court of Appeal had ruled citing the case of King versus the Director of Prisons wherein there was an inherent provision that could be drawn from a treaty between two countries.According to Ramson, it is incumbent to recognise that this ruling by a superior court to that of the High Court has not been challenged to date and he is of the view that the amendments would lend some clarity to the principal Act.“The objective of the exercise is to give statute to the ruling…to prevent continued rush to litigation based on the clarity that the amendments will produce.”He suggested that had the extant law been clearer then Dataram would have been sent packing, “he would not have flown the coup.”Khemraj Ramjattan,Cheap Jerseys Online, the lone opposition speaker as a result of the “selective participation/boycott” of the PNCR berated the presentation of Ramson calling it a dire attack on the Chief Justice. The amendments represent a second round of statutory overruling of the riling by Chang,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, he said.He sated that the ruling cited by Ramson namely King versus the Director of Prisons was based on implied provisions and Chang’s ruling was based on fact.According to Ramjattan his utterances were in no way a support of the Barry Datarams of the world, rather it was in support of the rule of law.He stated that Dataram’s ruling was not liked by the rule of law and as such they should have approached the Caribbean Court of Justice and not move to the legislation implying that it did not bode well for the separation of powers namely the Judiciary and the Legislative arm of the government.According to Ramjattan, Ramson was trying to statutise that what is not in the 1831 Treaty with the US is indeed there adding that,China Jerseys Cheap, “Chang’s ruling was based on a matter of fact (not implied provisions).”He also added that while there is need for clarity in the law the changes should have been made in an amendment to the Treaty with the United States as against the Principal.Ramjattan accused the Attorney General of using the opportunity to add to the legislation, additional powers to the Minister of Home Affairs.According to the Amendment the extradition order may be made should the Minister consider it necessary in the interest of Justice.This according to Ramjattan, the law will be used by the Minister to,CHeap NFL Jerseys China, “cherry pick” who will be extradited from local shores upon request.Ramjattan posited that this was setting a dangerous precedent.He suggested that if the government were to commence statutorily overturning rulings by Judges then in future they will be reluctant to enhance the jurisprudence.People’s Progressive Party Member of Parliament,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, Anil Nandlall, who supported the Bill, said that Ramjattan was wrong in his assertion that the Minister could selectively extradite in that following the order there was still the magisterial process.According to the government MP, “When we feel that the court is wrong we legislate it and there is nothing wrong with that.”This assertion was supported by another PPP MP and Attorney-at-Law, Bernard De Santos.He too supported the amendment saying that at present the law was in chaos and as such persons should not be held to the same maxim of ignorance of the law is no excuseHe said that the law should be clear.According to De Santos regardless of whether the Chief Justice’s (ag) ruling was right or wrong he was bound by the ruling that was

The saying that a killer always returns to the scene of his crime held true this week, and led to the capture of a mining camp employee who has since confessed to clubbing his boss to death last month and stealing his gold.On February 2, the skeletal remains of Jaynarine Basdeo, a gold miner of Fort Ordinance, East Canje Berbice was found at Kurubang,NFL Jerseys From China, Mazaruni.? A length of wood was near the remains.Police suspected that Basdeo, said to be about 70, was slain in mid-January by his 32-year-old employer, Ramishpan,Wholesale Jerseys, who was now missing.On Monday, police arrested a man at Five Mile Junction, Mid-Mazaruni, with some 600 grammes of marijuana in his possession. It was only when they had taken him to a police station that the ranks realised that their prisoner was Ramishpan, the mining camp employee, who was wanted for Basdeo’s murder.According to the police,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, the suspect, who is from Berbice, confessed to killing Basdeo. He claimed that he had worked for the miner for about three weeks and that in January,Wholesale NHL Jerseys, he asked his employer for his money, which amounted to ten pennyweight of gold. He claimed that Basdeo refused to pay him, and struck him on the arm with a length of wood after they quarrelled. The suspect claimed that he managed to disarm Basdeo and struck him twice to the head.Leaving the murder weapon near the body,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, the suspect said he then went into the mining camp and removed 12 pennyweight of gold from a bucket under Basdeo’s bed.The employee then headed to ‘the landing’ and later travelled to Bartica. After that, he returned to his home in Berbice.On Monday, he decided to return to the interior,NFL Jerseys Outlet, and it was then that he was held at Mazaruni.Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said that DNA samples have been taken from the remains and from some of the victim’s relatives to confirm identification.

STANLEYTOWN, NEW AMSTERDAM – Fifteen-year old Trinemcon Tracey Martin of Lot 46 Stanleytown,NFL Jerseys China, New Amsterdam has neuroblastoma, a rare cancer of the central nervous system.Her relatives have been told that there is no hope for her, but Trinemcon is determined to try to beat the odds and live a normal life.Victim Trinemcon Tracey MartinAnd the family is optimistic that she could be given a second chance if only medical experts are willing to accept the challenge.The child’s aunt, Alexis Williams of 1399 Central Amelia’s Ward, Linden has only known her for ten years and could not give a complete history of her battle with the disease.But according to her,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic, she became involved in 2008 and has been accompanying Tracey to all doctors’ appointments ever since.Mrs. Williams explained that periodic clinical checks were done over a two year period in Georgetown from 2008. In 2009, based on the results of a biopsy she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma and chemotherapy was administered. Six cycles were recommended for Tracey starting in June and ended in January 2010. According to Mrs. Williams, in the final analysis, the chemotherapy was not successful and the girl’s condition is deteriorating as the cancer continues to have its way.Mrs. Williams said that the specialist at the Georgetown Public Hospital recommended yet another CT scan in February.“It showed the extensiveness of the mass and where it is situated. The doctor said because of where this tumor is situated they cannot do anything about it. They (doctors) decided that nothing more could be done for her. The doctor said surgery would be dangerous for her. I feel that because of the technicality they gave up on her. All they said was to return for monthly clinical checks. They said because of her clinical reports they would not recommend treatment overseas. The main doctor said what he said and because of that they closed the case. In other words it was a dismissal, just return for clinical checks and that’s that.”The option given to them is not to their liking.“All they (doctors) did was just give me a brief dismissal. I would like somebody else to say if it (surgical intervention) cannot be done here (in Guyana) if it can be done elsewhere in a country where technology is further advanced. She is young,Cheap China NFL Jerseys, hasn’t lived her life and it is painful to know that they have just give up on her and we just have to watch her waste away and die.”Mrs. Williams said she was hoping that the doctor would have spent just a little more time explaining in detail what is wrong with Tracey Martin. She experiences numbness in the legs and severe pains in both the legs and abdomen, “Where the tumor is, it is not easily accessible. It rests on the main blood vessel that carries the blood around the body. She cannot lie on her back and cannot sit for long periods. She is folded in half most of the time because that is the most comfortable position for her and that is how she eats drinks and everything.’In May this year Tracey’s condition took another turn and she became incontinent and stopped walking as well. On June 2, she was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital. Mrs. Williams said that a catheter was inserted after kidney tests were done. On June 21st the aunt requested a transfer to the New Amsterdam Hospital because the distance was an ordeal for the sick teen.Mrs. Williams can be contacted on telephone number 697-2548 or 442-3393. When she first met Tracey, she appeared to be active.“She was going about like any normal child only that she had a limp.” The first time she accompanied the child to the doctor was in August 2008 for a CT Scan on a lump that was located somewhere between the abdomen and back. She said the family members gave her different versions about the discovery of the lump and when it appeared.According to Tracey’s sister,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, 25-year old Kerrenca Schultz, Tracey Martin has no birth certificate. Even the correct spelling of her name could not be ascertained. On almost every medical document the family presented to the Kaieteur News the spelling of the child’s name was different.Their mother, 50-year-old Debra Schultz has a hearing impairment.Life for the family is no one’s dream,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, “My mother works for $3,500 a week. She does clean the Church and catch she hand washing and so for people. She got to mind five children in all. My sister is 17, she is disabled and she does catch fits a lot. My nine-year old brother got asthma. My sister is seven, her face twist up bad (Down’s Syndrome). The 14-year old boy is okay. Is eight of us in all.&#822