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… injunction dischargedThe Mayor and City Council (M&CC) was granted? $40,Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys,000 in cost after the complainant who had caused a High Court Judge to lay an injunction against the Municipality,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, withdrew his case yesterday.Last week, the vendor,Cheap Jerseys From China, who refused to be part of the city’s ongoing street vendor relocation initiative, approached the High Court to halt his removal from the Water Street location outside the Guyana Stores zinc bond. He claimed that the bond’s owner, businessman Malcolm Panday, had given vendors permission to operate in front of his property. The court granted the ex parte injunction.However, Panday denied giving permission for vendors to occupy the perimeter of his bond and provided an affidavit to authorities attesting to this information.When the matter was called at the High Court yesterday,Cheap Jerseys Online, the complainant withdrew his case and was ordered to pay costs.Prior to this,Anders Nilsson Jersey, the Council was also able to have the injunction discharged. This was after? the attorney for City Hall,Chris Chelios Jersey, Roger Yearwood had presented the businessman’s affidavit to the court.The Mayor and City Council says it is currently seeking an organized and healthy vending situation in the city and welcomes the participation of all stakeholders.

– Crime Chief describes arrest as ‘significant development’Assassinated: Courtney Crum-EwingFour months after he was assassinated with a bull-horn in his hands, police appear to be close to solving the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing.Crime Chief Superintendent, Wendell Blanhum, announced yesterday that ranks from the force’s Major Crime Investigation Unit have questioned a suspect in connection with the March 10, 2015 killing that shocked the nation.Blanhum said that the suspect,Cheap Jerseys, whom he declined to identify, was contacted and questioned yesterday and remains in custody.“We have a new lead…Investigators are working on a new lead on the Crum-Ewing case,” the Crime Chief said.“During the course of today,Cheap Jerseys, ranks from the Major Crime Investigation Unit conducted an intensive interview with the suspect.”Declining to say whether the motive seems to point to a “political assassination,” Senior Superintendant Blanhum noted that the investigation is still in its “preliminary stage,” but described the arrest as “a significant development.”Contacted last night,Cheap NFL Jerseys, Crum-Ewing’s mother, Donna Harcourt, said that she too had heard about the arrest.“I feel good; I thank God that they are making progress. I hope that all of them will be brought to justice. People must not be allowed to kill and go free.”Crum-Ewing, a former Queen’s College student and army officer,Wholesale MLB Jerseys, was riddled with bullets on the evening of Tuesday March 10, 2015, as he stood on Third Avenue in the Diamond New Scheme.A post mortem revealed that he was shot thrice in the head and twice in the chest. The killer used a .32 pistol and fired at such close range that gunpowder burns were left on his victim’s clothes and body.His assassination occurred as he used a bullhorn while advocating for persons in the Diamond New Scheme, East Bank Demerara, area to support A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) coalition in the May 11 General Elections.This had prompted many to suggest that his murder was being politically motivated.Police had stated that Crum-Ewing was accosted by four men in a car,Wholesale Jerseys From China, one of whom discharged several rounds, hitting him about his body.Detectives had also heard that the activist had a brief verbal confrontation with the alleged killer before he was shot.Crum-Ewing’s relatives have alleged that he had complained twice of receiving threats. This occurred when the 40-year-old ex-army officer began staging his one-man protests, lasting some 80 days, outside Attorney General (AG), Anil Nandlall’s Carmichael Street office, while urging the Attorney General to resign in the wake of a recorded telephone conversation between himself and a Kaieteur News journalist.The first threat was reportedly made by an individual, who allegedly drove up to Crum-Ewing and said: “Anil ain’t going nowhere, so you better go or else…”On another occasion, he was reportedly told: “Crum-Ewing, you don’t mean to stop this stupidness?” They said that the protestor had reported these threats to the police and identified one of the individuals, but no action was taken.Crum-Ewing’s minibus was also vandalized.

Is now people gun know if de government waste money when dem can tell people wha dem see bout de police shooting right by Big Market. That is one of de place wheh Clement claim he had to put cameras because nuff crime does tek place there.Some policemen see a car that look suspicious and dem put on de siren fuh pull over de car. All this happen by a traffic light. One of dem come out but he tek things fuh granted and did not approach de car like if he going on serious business. That was a big mistake and de policeman lose he life.De people in de car had AK47 and handgun and dem shoot up dem policemen. One dead and two get injured.De car drive away but as dem seh dem got cameras all over town dem shoulda see de car and by now de police woulda find it. That is why de opposition got problems when de government tell Parliament that dem got to get money to do certain things. De opposition does ask fuh explanation. In de past because dem didn’t have to answer to anyone dem use to give all kind of explanation.Well dem boys putting de camera to de test. Dem want to know if de camera was any help. Bharrat did tell de news people that dem got de camera suh dem can see if any vehicle leaving de city. Now this car had to leave de city and if de cameras deh at strategic locations more than one woulda see de car suh de police coulda know wheh it going.But dem boys also talking bout something else. When de police stop a vehicle dem should surround it. But these days when perks deh nuff,NFL Jerseys Authentic China, once de police stop a car,cheap authentic jerseys, one does come out and approach de driver because of de raise dem accustom to getting. This time de driver had something else to give.Dem boys want to know wha kind of training de police does get these days.Is sad that one got to die to prove a wrong.Talk half and ask Rohee bout dem cameras.

GDF officers and their colleagues from the Brazilian armySecurity challenges facing both Guyana and Brazil with the imminent opening of the Takatu Bridge,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, along with other high priority intelligence issues were discussed by senior officers of the military establishments of the two countries,China NFL Jerseys, when they met at the 14th Military Intelligence Exchange forum in Lethem last week.Meeting at the Savannah Inn, the Officers of the Guyana Defence Force and their counterparts from the First Jungle Infantry Brigade of the Brazilian Army’s Amazonia Sector, exchanged intelligence and other information on activities which occur on their common border.In addition, the effects of organized criminal activities on both nations and their defence policies were examined while areas of continued cooperation between the two armed forces were explored.The Brazilian delegation was headed by Commander of the First Jungle Infantry Brigade,Authentic Jerseys For Sale, Brigadier General Carlos Alberto Neiva Barcellos and included Brazilian Defence,Cheap Jerseys Online, Naval and Army Attache to Guyana Colonel Carvalho Dos Santos Eydes and four other officers.The GDF delegation was led by Commanding Officer,China Jerseys, 1 Infantry Battalion,jerseys from china, Lieutenant Colonel George Lewis and included four other Officers from the 1 Infantry Battalion and one Officer from the 4 Engineers Battalion.Cooperation between the Guyanese and Brazilian militaries goes back more than 14 years and Senior Officers from the GDF led by the Chief-of-Staff meet biennially at a higher forum, out of which these annual, Sectoral Military Intelligence Meetings are developed.Brazil which, like Guyana is divided into several military sectors, shares borders with 10 countries in South America, and has sectoral bilateral arrangements with each of the other neighbouring territories, conducting similar meetings with them.The Sector Meetings between Guyana and Brazil are held annually and are hosted alternately by the two countries.Both delegations had earlier paid a courtesy call on Regional Chairman, Region Nine, Orlando Lucas, who welcomed them and wished them success in their deliberations. The next meeting of this nature is scheduled to be held in Brazil during 2009.

It appears that the city of Georgetown’s refuse woes are set to start anew with garbage collectors withdrawingThe City Council’s Garbage Collection Scheduletheir services once again.In a release from the Public Relations Officer of the City Council,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, Royston King, it was confirmed that as of Monday August 1, 2011 garbage collectors working with the council had pulled their services from the city. The termination of service was attributed to delays in payment which were not elaborated upon by the PRO in his release.According to sources, there are tens of millions in outstanding fees owed to garbage collectors for the period March to June 2011.The two largest contractors,Wholesale NBA Jerseys China, Cevons Waste Management Inc. and Puran Bros Disposal Service confirmed yesterday that they are indeed on strike. They were also unable to say when their services to the city will resume.According to King, the delay is the direct result of the council’s narrow revenue base. He also blamed “the attitude of some property-owners,” who he said “fail to honour their civic-responsibility.”King noted that the narrow revenue base, in particular, continues to affects the council’s general and specific operations,cheap jerseys paypal, in the City of Georgetown, including the collection of garbage, drainage, health services and other essential municipal services to citizens. He added that the collection of garbage is an expensive undertaking. Add to that the long list of services and facilities council is expected to provide to communities. The municipality spends about one million dollars per day,Wholesale MLB Jerseys, to collect the city’s waste.He stated in the release “At the moment, the council is just not in a position to pay the contractors, but the administration is making every effort to mobilize its trucks and equipment to collect garbage from certain areas.”The fact that the council has procured two garbage compactor trucks with which it is expected to re-start its own garbage collection was also highlighted. Such an operation, King noted, will be done using a phased approach, in different sections of Georgetown.However,Wholesale Jerseys Paypal, there are reports, which Kaieteur News was unable to verify with Mr. King, that the Council’s financial woes may not just be the result of errant citizens who are not paying their taxes. The Central Government was fingered as owing the Council taxes for both the second and third quarters of 2011.The Council release also included a schedule for their collection rounds. King stated that the Council is asking citizens not to put out their receptacles until further notice. Also, they are appealing to people not to indulge in illegal dumping on parapets and in drains.

Lindo Creek massacre…After four painstaking years, the remains of the eight miners killed at Lindo Creek under the most controversial circumstances were finally laid to rest.But the final chapter on one of Guyana’s most heinous crimes is still to be written as lingering questions remain unanswered.Yesterday, the remains of Dax Arokium, his uncle Cedric Arokium,Authentic NFL Jerseys China, Compton Speirs, Horace Drakes,Wholesale Jerseys From China, Clifton Wong, Lancelot Lee, Bonny Harry and Nigel Torres were packed into three coffins and laid to rest in three separate graves in Le Repentir Cemetery.This was after a brief but moving ceremony at the Lyken Funeral Parlour which was attended only by the parents of Nigel Torres, two policemen, several media operatives and a few employees from the parlour.The decision by the state to bury the remains was taken after other relatives refused to accept them, despite repeated requests by the police.Yonette Torres was inconsolable as she held on to the box bearing her son’s name, although she could not be sure if his remains were indeed in it. In fact no one knew for sure whose remains were in which coffin.There are reports that a request was made for the remains to be divided up and placed into eight coffins, but according to a reliable source, the administration of the Guyana Police Force, which was the body that had taken responsibility for its disposal, had insisted that only three coffins be used.This was after spending in excess of $40M (or $700,000 per month) to store the remains until the DNA tests that were being conducted in Jamaica were completed.The DNA results should have been handed over by January 2012, but Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee had said that notwithstanding the commitment given by the Jamaica Forensic team, they had not delivered.“They had promised us to deliver the remainder of the analysis, but they have not delivered. We are in touch with them and we are assured that their results will soon be available,” Rohee had stated.He had also justified the amount being spent by the administration to store the remains of the Lindo Creek victims.The Minister pointed out that the remains are very important to the families as well as the integrity of the investigation.“The integrity of these remains is important for any further analysis and if it costs a million dollars a day to ensure proper storage we have to do it,” the Minister had declared.Yonette Torres hugs the coffin bearing her son’s name.Rohee added that his Government and the police would have come under more scrutiny if they had failed to properly store the remains.“If we were not doing that (storing the remains at a parlour) and these remains were left stored in a box where rats and cockroaches were interfering with it,Wholesale Stitched Jerseys, we would have been worse off and we would have been accused of being delinquent,” Rohee added.“This is the price we have to pay if we want serious results.”But Yonette Torres is less than convinced that everything was done by the administration to bring closure to the saga that has been eating away at her heart for the past four years.She desperately wanted to look at the remains in the coffins but was obviously prevented by parlour officials who explained that such a proposition would be unwise.“They never called us to see,Cheap Authentic Jerseys,” she said, adding that four years ago,cheap authentic jerseys, the police passed her home at Kwakwani with the remains and didn’t even allow her to see them.“They are so compromised. They don’t want nobody see it,” she cried as she was restrained by her husband and parlour employees.Mrs. Torres and her husband had traveled all the way from Kwakwani for yesterday’s occasion after they were informed by the police that the remains would have been buried yesterday. She was not happy with the way the matter of the burial was handled, making it even more difficult for her and the rest of her family.“I didn’t have any money and they gave me six thousand dollars alone to travel to town. That could not do for us because we had no money to buy any snack while we were in Georgetown and they say they were going to give us passage to go back,” Yonette Torres lamented.She was adamant that she still needs answers to the heinous crime that took her son’s life.But for Nigel Torres Sr., yesterday brought an end to the episode.“I am satisfied, that’s why I come and see he bury,” the elder Torres said.Le Repentir Cemetery is the final resting place for the remains of the Lindo Creek massacre victims.On June 21, 2008,Cheap NFL Jerseys co, dredge owner Leonard Arokium discovered the charred remains of eight o

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