-recommends transfer of fee collection to CitizenshipThe Forensic Audit conducted into the Passport office has recommended that a new criterion beMinister of Citizenship, Winston Felixestablished whereby fees collected for passport applications,Brian Campbell Jersey, visas and citizenship should go directly to the Department of Citizenship, which has oversight.These sums were collected by the Ministry of Home Affairs and this state of affairs is continuing under the Ministry of Public Security. However,Wholesale China Jerseys, according to the auditor, Maurice Solomon, of Maurice Solomon and Associates,NFL Jerseys Supply, consideration for such a change ought to be given soon.“With the establishment of the new Ministry, consideration should be given as early as possible to separate all revenues between the then Ministry of Home Affairs inclusive of the Police Department and the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, Ministry of the Presidency,” the report stated.The report added, “All revenues collected for passport applications, visas, citizenship will now flow to the new Department of Citizenship and Immigration. The same criteria will apply to all expenditures.”The Department of Citizenship was established last year, with Winston Felix as the subject Minister. Felix had laid out the organization’s structure of his Ministry during his address to the National Assembly in June of 2015. He had stated that the Ministry would comprise two divisions.One, according to Felix, would have been registering births, deaths and marriages, while the other would have been in charge of registering citizens,Cheap Jerseys, naturalization, visa extensions,Wholesale Jerseys China, passport applications and other related matters.The audit also recommended a review of the facilities at the International Airports of Timehri, Moleson Creek and Ogle. This was flagged because of the increased passenger arrivals.At present, Guyana’s premier international airport is the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), located at Timehri. It boasts a terminal building, landing and maneuvering area, parking apron and other features.Currently, however there is a multi-billion-dollar CJIA expansion project being carried out by contractor China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC). In this year’s budget, Finance Minister, Winston Jordan announced that $5.2B has been set aside for the development of air services industry, and expansion of CJIA International Airport which is budgeted at $4B.“There is the need to review the facilities available including the number of immigration booths especially at Ogle Airport,Wholesale China Jerseys,” the audit report added.“With the increase in international traffic at Ogle, priority should be given to upgrade the departure/arrival areas with state of the art facilities for baggage handling, customs inspection and speedy immigration procedures with additional immigration booths installed for improved service.”The forensic audit report, which was compiled by Maurice Solomon and Company; Chartered Accountants and Management Consultants, was completed by March 16. The audit is one of several announced by the present Government soon after coming into office. Maurice Solomon had been given the Passport & Police Office to audit for the sum of $5.5M.

–?? ?Pauline Mahadeo’s storyBy Romila Boodram She was 38-years-old, a single mother with five children and no job. Pauline Mahadeo was at her wits end – food had to go on the table,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, and there were bills to be paid. Fortunately, her husband had left her with a home.After her husband’s death, it was imperative that she find a job, and fast.After a long search she heard about an opening at the Botanical Gardens and went to the office of then President Forbes Burnham to apply for the job.Burnham ruled Guyana from 1966 until his death in 1985. Pauline recalled meeting the foreman and the administrator for an interview and in less than 24 hours she was asked to turn-out to work.Pauline MahadeoIn 1977, she worked at the Botanical Gardens and would sometimes be asked to go over to Burnham’s house to take care of his plants, and she did so with “pride.”In those days,China NFL Jerseys, everyone admired her work and she was eventually transferred to Burnham’s residence, where she worked taking care of his personal garden at what is now Castellani House.She would leave her Grove, East Bank Demerara home early in the morning and would return in the nights.In those days, her village was populated by people of East Indian origin who were very critical of Burnham and his party, the People’s National Congress. So, to avoid trouble with villagers, she told them that she was still working at the Botanical Gardens.For Pauline, Forbes Burnham was a “good” man who was great to his employees. She said that his nick name was “Fat Man.”While working with Burnham, she received milk, oil, meat, greens and grocery, which was a “big thing” in those days.When her husband died, her eldest child was 14, and her youngest was just six years old. She did not give up on her children’s education. She worked day and night to send them to school.Yesterday, a proud Pauline sat on her veranda and recalled sitting with her children in the 1970s and telling them “the right from the wrong.”“I tell them that I will send them to school and whatever I cook they will have to eat. I tell them if I cook cabbage five days a week, then they have to eat it because I am giving them education.”With five children to take care of, she worked continuously and tried her best to grab as much overtime as she could. At this time, she was now a handy person, who assisted in the President’s office.Whenever she was at home, she would attend the Diamond Temple with her five children. It was there that she met a friend who was badly in need of a job.“She bin deh more bad than me so I tell her that I cannot afford to give her anything but I will help her find a job and she said that yes so I ask the manager and they call her in and give her a job.”“She work and after she see the job that I was doing she start mek bad for me because she de want my job. Within a few weeks, she mek I get transferred to State House and I cried a lot because I know I use to get milk and so when I use to work at the office and if I get transferred to State House I wouldn’t get anything.”Pauline moved to State House and was appointed as a maid. She got that position because one of the maids was about to migrate.“I use to work at State House and then I used to work over-time at Parliament building and other Government places.”She recalled what happened while cleaning Burnham’s room one day.“…Oh my God, his room was like heaven. One day the other maid pushed me on his bed and it was the most amazing feeling ever.”Pauline remembered hearing that her friend who caused her to get transferred to State House was “fired.”“When I hear that I try to find out what she did and is then when I heard that Burnham does use to send out people to check on his employees background and I heard that my friend had a terrible background that is why they fired her.”She said that her manager made her “ring” her ears not to bring anyone here again.Although, Pauline cannot remember the specifics, she said that the day when Burnham died, he bade his employees good-bye and told them that he was leaving to go do his surgery.“He tell everybody goodbye and he left and couple minutes later, when I was working,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, another worker come and tell me ‘Fat Man’ dead but I didn’t believe them (at first),” Pauline recalled.“When he died, they send home all the workers and the funeral day we had to wear black and white and the morning when I was walking out the street with my clothes,wholesale nfl jerseys, the neighbours them see and they curse me down and stop talk with me but I didn’t care because nobody don’t put rice in my pot.”She said that when Desmond Hoyte became President, she continued working and was able to send off her children in marriage.Pau

A movie styled mid-morning high-speed chase from Canal Number 1 to Canal Number 2,Cheap NFL Jerseys, West Bank Demerara has left four persons nursing different degrees of injuries.The drama, which included armed policemen, saw the totaling of a bus shed; two badly damaged cars, while three alleged animal thieves escaped into the canfields aback of the Alliance community.The high speed chase began following a report of simple larceny of a sheep and a goat belonging to a female policewoman who resides at Lot 156 Unity Street, La Grange. The perpetrators were men in a bronze car sporting number PPP5502.Several ranks were on patrol in the nearby village of Stanleytown when they saw a car fitting the description zooming past and they swung into action, joining other ranks in a civilian car for the chase which had started from Canal Number 1. They joined the chase down the Canal Number 2 road.Dwarka of Lot 85-86 Alliance, was on his balcony when he saw two vehicles, including the police speed past, heading west?on the main road?in hot pursuit of the bronze car. But he did not think much of it initially.About five to eight minutes later, as taxi driver Gopaul Outar with three passengers in his silver car HB 6121 was about to turn east into the main road from the Claybrick Bridge,Brad Kaaya Jersey, he was slammed into by the same bronze car. “Me nah been see them coming and as me about to turn, ‘badam!’ the car slam into the left-side of me car.”His car spun out of control and as it headed in the direction of the bus shed, he noticed a woman standing under it, but there was nothing he could do to save her. Within split seconds the bus shed came crashing down,Wholesale NFL Jerseys China, pinning the woman under it.“It was like a movie …I think she been dead, how the thing sounded so hard,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, but when we pull she out, she had small injuries,Cheap NFL Jerseys China,” a bystander recounted.That woman as well as two other women and a man who were passengers in the silver Toyota Carina were rushed to the West Demerara Hospital for medical attention.When Kaieteur News arrived on the scene,NFL Jerseys Outlet, a police vehicle drove away with a goat and a sheep in its tray. The animals were actually removed from the trunk of the crashed bronze car, which was identified as the one from which three young men had hurriedly exited with minor injuries before making a dash through an open yard.“Me been going to help dem cause me think was a crash but then dem run through here and nearly jam me down and go in the cane field…but it look like dem get some injuries, cause dem was bleeding,” Dwarka said.The front of the bronze car they abandoned was submerged in a drain.Meanwhile, many villagers on the scene relayed stories of an upsurge in theft of their sheep and this was confirmed by police ranks.While the three thieves were not caught, they were identified as young men aged in their early 20s. This publication has since learnt that the animals which were at the center of the high-speed chase were positively identified as belonging to woman police Shondel Sparman and they have since been returned to her.? (Mondale Smith)

Both Guyana Teachers Union President, Colwyn King,Cheap NFL Jerseys, and the 15-year-old girl with whom he allegedly had sexual relations have undergone medical examinations and while King’s results have not been revealed,wholesale jerseys china, the medical on the teen suggested that she was sexually assaulted.Police Commissioner Henry Greene said the force is awaiting two confirmations to further pursue the matter before sending the file to the DPP.He told Kaieteur News, “Investigations are ongoing but we are awaiting verification of the girl’s age and King’s medical results.”The Commissioner said that King is on $100,000 bail and has to report to the police station daily until further notice.The commissioner however said,http://www.soccerpro.us.com/FC-Barcelona/, “There is nothing to suggest that she (the victim) did not go with him (King) voluntarily.”As part of ongoing investigations, Commissioner Greene said that his ranks have collected statements on the matter.The commissioner however noted, “She’s sexually active,Cheap Jerseys 2018, she has reported that the encounter was her first time being engaged in such an act. King is denying the allegations.Investigations are pointing to statutory rape allegedly perpetuated by the GTU president on a 15-year-old girl for food. These allegations have incensed sections of the populace who are questioning why it is that King is not before the courts.Police investigations thus far are that on October 6, the teen had a quarrel with her mother,Cheap Jerseys, left her Sophia home and was wandering around close to the Kitty seawalls.King allegedly picked up the Sophia teen and offered to buy her food as she was hungry. After purchasing the food he allegedly took her to his office on Wolford Avenue then to a hotel where they had sexual intercourse.Police Commissioner Greene said that these are the allegations against the GTU President. “We are looking at some other evidence that approaches were made to the girl’s mother on King’s behalf to settle the matter financially.”King who has denied the sex allegations was arrested and was placed in the lock-ups for one night.