Through its amnesty offer to rate payers, the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown has been able to garner more than $92M.As a result, the municipality, as of Monday was able to commence the payment of September salaries. All staff members will be in receipt of full payment by Friday.Public Relations Officer, Royston King, made this disclosure yesterday. He said that while a notable amount of rate payers had responded to the amnesty many are yet to visit the municipality in this regard.In a release issued on Monday, King had highlighted that the period of amnesty granted to property owners would come to an end today. He also noted that it was unlikely that the facility would be extended further.“Council is urging all property owners who have not settled their accounts to do so immediately since no other period would be designated during the year for this activity,” King asserted.He pointed out that the council had sought to grant the amnesty to all property owners in the city since many were experiencing difficulties in honouring their civic obligation to the municipality. The amnesty, as a result was intended to relieve tax payers of the accumulated interest their taxes would have attracted due to their failure to pay promptly.King underscored yesterday that regardless of how much is owed, rate payers must embrace the benefit of taking advantage of the amnesty. “We can only urge them to come in but it is mandatory, and they will have to pay up,Wholesale Jerseys Authentic, that rate payers settle their accounts fully so that we can fulfil our mandate.”According to King the municipality is mandated to address various issues in the city, including environmental health,Wholesale Jerseys China, enforcement of the building code,Cheap NFL Jerseys, maintain open spaces and parks,Wholesale NBA Jerseys, road building and repairs,Cheap Jerseys Supply, maintenance of the municipal day care among other crucial aspects.Meanwhile, the municipality remains indebted to private garbage contractors even after paying a sum of $45 M, a payment that was aided by Government’s payment of $41M of rates and taxes owed to the city entity.“Citizens need to remember that we are still indebted and we can only fulfil what we have to do if they fulfil their civic duty first,” King noted.The collection of property taxes, according to King, represents about 80 percent of the municipal revenue base which is in fact below the requisite amount needed to manage the municipality optimally.It was revealed recently that despite engaging desperate measures to reverse its cash-strapped state, the municipality is yet to collect outstanding rates and taxes for the period July to December amounting to more than $600M.This disclosure was highlighted when municipal officials met with representatives of the Guyana Labour Union (GLU) to discuss the municipality’s financial position last week.The meeting had come as part of the city entity’s attempt to garner the support of the union which represents more than 60 percent of those within its employ in order to prevent the possibility of industrial action should the municipality not be able to pay salaries on time.According to King the meeting was cordial and there was mutual understanding between the parties involved.Also, it was disclosed that while the municipality had budgeted to collect just over $400 M of outstanding accrued interest, a mere $59 M has so far been collected.Chairman of the Finance Committee and Deputy Mayor, Robert Williams, in explaining the financial circumstances of the municipality, at that forum,Wholesale Jerseys, had underscored the urgent need for new revenue measures, including the new Valuation Roll which was prepared some years ago by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).King related that the long anticipated Valuation Roll is one of the main avenues from which the municipality could have been gaining substantial and additional revenue.

The Guyana Youth and Student Movement (GYSM) says that it is the view of many Guyanese that Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Patrick Todd on the fateful day in Linden, was a trigger happy “John Rambo.”They believe that the three deaths and scores of injuries are the direct result of his actions, which the acting Commissioner of Police, Leroy Brumell, on the first day of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) testimony, emphatically stated was unjustified.GYSM representative James BondThese sentiments were expressed yesterday when GYSM held a press briefing at Congress Place, Sophia headquarters.The Linden Commission of Inquiry began on Monday September 24,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, 2012 and concluded on Friday November 2. Scores of witnesses gave evidence before and numerous exhibits were tendered to the five- member Commission which included Jamaicans Justice Lensley Wolfe and K.D. Knight S.C; Trinidadian Dana Seetahal S.C. and former Guyanese Chancellor Cecil Kennard and Justice Claudette Singh CCH. The report from the Commission will be released on January 13,Dallas Thomas Dolphins Jersey, 2013.According to Parliamentarian and representative of GYSM, James Bond, the Commission was established to inquire and report on the circumstances surrounding the shooting to death of Ron Somerset, Shemroy Boyea and Ivan Lewis,Cheap NFL Jerseys, and the injury of several other persons on July 18,Wholesale China Jerseys, 2012 at the Mackenzie-Wismar Bridge.Bond said that the COI had to determine if the Police Unit deployed at the scene of the bridge was given any training and preparation for the crowd control. “From testimony given, it was the Commissioner of Police who was the person that decided that a Half Riot Unit would be sent to Linden.”Underscoring that the unit was headed by ASP Todd and included 18 other ranks, Bond said that ASP Todd testified that he was the person who selected the members of the Unit and it was he who selected what weapons and ammunition they should carry.“ASP Todd further testified that the majority of the weapons he chose,Wholesale Jerseys From China, were weapons of deadly force. He also testified that most of his officers were inexperienced ranks. He testified that it was the inexperience of his ranks he chose which caused him to fire at the Wismar-Mackenzie Bridge,” Bond said. “What must be mentioned is that ASP Todd completely breached the SOP weapons and ammunitions given to the ranks as they should have been armed with more non lethal weapons.”Noting an example, Bond said each rank should have had two tear smoke canisters, the ranks Todd chose, according to him, were inexperienced, “yet he chose them and finally his greatest and most fatal error occurred when he refused to first use sufficient tear smoke and opted to use 12 gauge shotguns to disperse the crowd.”Nevertheless, Bond said nothing in the Police SOPs permitted this gruesome usurpation of power. Under the Riot Manual and Order 18 of the Standing Orders of the Guyana Police Force, it specifically states that the rank issued with the firearm may fire and though there may be exceptions; for example if the rank has died during hostile fire or is unable to use his firearm when his unit is under hostile fire, none of these exceptions arose, “therefore the ASP had no basis for his actions. Standing Order 18 Rule 31 also states when a rank may fire and for example when he/she is under attack, or you apprehend serious danger to your person and unable to defend yourself by any other means.“Again none of these circumstances were present on July 18, at the Wismar Mackenzie bridge yet ASP Todd made the shotgun, a weapon of lethal force,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, his weapon of choice. His evidence that his Half Unit came under attack with bottles and bricks was debunked as no other rank gave corroborating evidence. Neither did video footage or the police photographer support his ludicrous claims of bottles coming at him at a rate of 50 bottles per second.”

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