The ‘go-ahead’ for the commencement of works on the expansion of the four-lane East Bank Demerara Public Road is expected to be issued next week. Soon after, the three contractors are expected to kick into high gear. The contracts,Deion Jones Falcons Jersey UK, totaling US$17,249,965, were awarded last month and have an 18-month duration.Timber piles driven in a Little Diamond canal by the contractor to construct temporary access/bypass through the canefield.One of the three contractors, Gaico Construction in association with General Earth Movers of Trinidad and Tobago, was awarded lot two of the project, to a tune of US$5,802,640. With permission from the Public Works Ministry, the contractor has commenced driving timber piles to construct its temporary access.This is according to Rabindranauth Chandarpal, Chief Transport Planning Officer of the Public Works Ministry. He explained that the contractor was allowed to begin works since construction will be executed in the adjacent canefield. The contractor is tasked with converting sections of the cane fields into a two-lane road adjoining the existing roadway to create the four-lane thoroughfare.Chandarpal stated that, “The contractor is building a temporary access to fetch materials and equipment into the canefield, and in about a month,Wholesale Jerseys From China, will begin construction of a two-lane road in that canefield.”He added that those two lanes after construction will become a bypass and works will commence to improve the existing roadway between Prospect and the ‘high-bridge’ outside the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) facility at Great Diamond.It was revealed that once both sets of works are completed the road will be officially opened as a four-lane highway,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, with the eastern two-lane carriageway taking traffic to the south,Cheap Wholesale Jerseys, and the western ones to the north.The other two contractors, Dipcon Engineering Services and BK International,Cheap NFL Jerseys, are expected to commence mobilizing their materials for construction shortly.Chandarpal said that Dipcon was awarded lot one of the project. The contractor is expected to construct the road from Providence to Prospect to a tune of US$8,003,265.Meanwhile, BK International will be carrying out construction works under lot three,Cheap Stitched Jerseys, at a cost of US$3,444,060. These works will see the expansion from the ‘high-bridge’ at DDL to Diamond/ Grove.Chandarpal emphasised that there are certain requirements for traffic management under this project. The contractors are expected to submit traffic management plans to the Ministry for approval.They are also required to provide a two-lane bypass anytime works are being executed on a section of the road. In most cases, all the road-widening works will take place before the contractor commences work on the existing two-lane.

…as Ministry of Presidency probes sale of state assetsThe release of two people from the Ministry of the Presidency,Cheap MLB Jerseys China, formally the Public Service Ministry, was done to facilitate an investigation into the suspicious transfer of state assets to private individuals, according to Minister of State,Wholesale MLB Jerseys 2018, Joseph Harmon.He was discussing the release of the agency’s Personnel Officer Margaret Cummings and Joyann Taylor.“It is more than an allegation. It is on actions the Ministry has taken based on a report which was made to me as the Minister of State by the Permanent Secretary (PS) of the Public Service Mr Hydar Ally,” explained Harmon.Minister Harmon said that he received written correspondence from the Permanent Secretary concerning suspicions that the two employees were involved in fraud under the Ministry of Public Service.Minister Harmon said that he learnt that there were some documents that had been sent to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), purportedly signed by the Permanent Secretary under his letterhead but in effect, were signed by someone else. “He had no knowledge of this transaction,” said Minister Harmon.According to the Minister, Permanent Hydar Ally had directed him to the discrepancy in the paperwork and to the application to the GRA for the transfer of eight vehicles. He said that the signatures of Cummings and Taylor, were found on the receipts for the documentation,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, sale and transferral of said vehicles which were owned by the Ministry.Signatures for the payment for state assets, the Minister explained, were from former Public Service Minister Jennifer Westford; Gary Beaton, a close friend of the former Minister; WayneWalker; Delroy Lewis and Osbert McPherson.“(Ally) sent me a bundle of documents which included a document from GRA which showed that there was an application to transfer these vehicles that belonged to the state, to some private individuals. The bundle of documents also included receipts showing that these vehicles were sold to these individuals by the Ministry,Cheap Stitched Jerseys,” said the State Minister.Additionally,Jerseys Authentic Stitched, Minister Harmon said that based on a preliminary investigation he conducted on a visit to the Public Service Ministry, he thought it important that police be called in to investigate the matter. He said that he asked that the two staff members involved in the matter to be “sent on leave immediately”.The documents, according to the Minister, have since been sent to the Assistant Police Commissioner, Wendell Blanum and that investigations have since commenced.Should those persons be found guilty, Minister Harmon said, the determination will have to be up to the police.He added that the transferral of 25 other vehicles is also under investigation. However, he said that those vehicles are the subject of another matter as the Government has received reports of many state-owned assets being transferred to private individuals.“In the second week of this administration I did make a statement to the effect that on two days in May that at least 28 vehicles were transferred from the Government of Guyana to private individuals. That is the subject of a separate investigation because what we are getting now is that many other assets of the state are being transferred to private individuals,” the Minister related.Harmon is calling on the public to return any assets they may have purchased or borrowed from the state.“The State Asset Recovery Unit will soon be starting its work and therefore as a sort of an amnesty of sorts,Cheap Jerseys From China Outlet, (we are asking) people who are in possession of assets belonging to the state to quietly bring them back to the state ministry from whence they came or bring them back to the Ministry of the Presidency,” said Minister Harmon.

The need for nurses to specialise in various fields was emphasised by Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Dr. Emanuel Cummings, when he spoke at an awards ceremony on Saturday, for nurses who recently completed the Bachelors of Science (BSc) Degree Programme at the University of Guyana.As he addressed the gathering, Dr. Cummings disclosed that in securing for itself the flagship status at the university, the Health Sciences Faculty has over the years developed quite a number of post graduate programmes in medicine.Dr. Emanuel CummingsSince 2005, he disclosed, over nine programmes have been established in medicine and “I want the development of nursing to go hand in hand with the development of medicine because if you have a doctor who is a psychiatrist, you will also want a psychiatric nurse.”“If you have a general surgeon you will also want to have nurses specialising in surgical nursing,” Dr Cummings added.Moreover, he extended a challenge to the nurses in attendance to eye various specialties in nursing which he said can be kick-started with the BSc programme which commenced in 2002. This programme, he stated, is now well established at the university,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, so much so that there is no longer a shortage of lectures.“From time to time you will hear in the press that many of the university lecturers…about 30 per cent, are first degree holders, but all the tutors in the BSc nursing programme have Masters Degree.”“I can tell you that our current Vice Chancellor, who was recently installed, has already told one of our graduates that ‘you need to go and do a PhD in nursing,’” related Dr. Cummings.He disclosed too that there are many nurses who seek to further their studies by venturing into medicine and dentistry. While this is a very ambitious move, the Dean noted that there is also a need for nurses to attempt the third degree (PhD) in nursing.With graduates in this area, he insisted that “we can then further strengthen the nursing programme.”Dr. Cummings pointed to the fact that the nursing profession has evolved over the years with nurses in the past only seeing themselves as registered nurses (RNs). However, with the development of the BSc programme, nurses can move up from the level of RN.However,Cheap Jerseys Supply, the Dean was resolute in insisting that there is now the need for the introduction of specialty nursing at the University of Guyana so that “we can have nurses specialise in areas such as mental health.”“Currently, as we work in the School of Medicine we are working on a Master’s Programme in Psychiatry and I think at the same time we need to work on a post graduate programme in mental health nursing, because that is very, very important to deal with a lot of the issues that we do have in our society today,” said Dr. Cummings.Emphasising his conviction that they should never be satisfied, the Dean said that nurses should be motivated by the fact that theirs is a profession that is now much more visible in health care delivery. As such, he underscored the need for them to learn from their colleagues in the Caribbean, particularly those in Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados.He alluded to a point in time when local nurses would send research work to the Caribbean Health Research Council (CHRC) and papers were accepted and presented, and they were recognised.“That is something that I have said that we need to resuscitate – the nurses and other allied health care programmes which we do in the faculty, we do want to encourage all of them, including nurses, to do research.”He made reference to the fact that a premier function of the university is research which is essential to determine some of the issues that are existing and to gain the “know how” to address these.Health care in the Region has reached a stage where at the level of the CHRC,NFL Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, a research agenda has been established and this is so in Guyana,NFL Jerseys Outlet, Dr. Cummings added.? The research agenda,Cheap NFL Jerseys China Wholesale, he noted, too, is not in isolation of what goes on in the Ministry of Health or the Faculty of Health Sciences.“This research agenda has been put together by key players within the Ministry of Health and also the Faculty of Health Sciences, and so it was carefully chosen based on the issues we think are of national interest to health care delivery.”Dr. Cummings it is critical that nurses get on board with this movement and seek to do quality research so that answers can be found for a lot of the issues which exist here in the area of nursing education, thereby making an even more significant contribution and further developing themselves.? This, by extension,<a href="h