— as Parent Support programme expandsPremised on the need to ‘work together in harmony to support today’s parents’, Youth Challenge (YCG) has embarked on a Parent Support and Mentorship Programme which according to a Parent Support Coordinator, Adel Lilly, was created in order to provide a medium to strengthen parenting abilities.According to Lilly the Parent Support programme at YCG was introduced in 2005 with the primary intent of addressing issues that can affect parenting and ways that they could deal with such issues.YCG’s Adel LillyThis process,Cheap MLB Jerseys China, he said, is characterised by interactive sessions hosted by facilitators who present non-judgemental and non-bias information to participating parents. However, he noted that prospective parents are also encouraged to be a part of the programme.“Groups would normally go to various communities and have conferences and educational sessions with parents, young adults and even teenagers dealing with the challenges of parenthood,” Lilly disclosed.At the moment, he revealed that YCG has Region Three has its main target area and has been working with a number of schools by holding parenting sessions. And the main focus right now, he said, is to look at how the generation gap between children and parents can impact the parenting process. “We are showing parents and teenagers that they need to bridge the gap. They can do this by starting with discussions in the home about things that affect them…things that are different now when compared to the past.”According to Lilly,Cheap Jerseys From China Outlet, the YCG parent support programme is working along with an in-school prevention programme. The in-school prevention programme, he said, is one where YCG engages third form students in order to appeal to them to delay their first sexual experience. It has been discovered, Lilly noted that although empowering students with the requisite knowledge is essential, their parents also need to play a major part if the desired result is to be fully realised. It is for this very reason he noted that parents have been recognised as a crucial target as well. “The parents have been coming out…At the in-school programme we have a number of parents that have shown a keen interest. They are eager to be a part of discussions that we have and they always have questions of how they could better handle their parenting roles.”Lilly,Wholesale Jerseys, during an interview with this newspaper revealed plans to expand the initiative by forming different parent support groups in a number of communities. “If we go to a particular community we just don’t stop there. We form a parent support group where parents can meet on their own maybe with a respected person in the society such as a pastor, or pandit, and they can have their individual sessions.”And there have been similar programmes that have been extended to other communities,Cheap NBA Jerseys Authentic, including Sophia in Georgetown, Golden Grove on the East of Demerara,Cheap NFL Jerseys, and plans are apace to head to Grove on the East Bank of Demerara, Lilly revealed.But though the programme has been yielding noticeable success, it has not been without some challenges. According to Lilly, there have been instances when parents have indicated that such a programme is not needful. He recalled venturing to a particular school where the issue of sex was being discussed and some parents had voiced some concerns. “Some parents just didn’t feel the need to have this discussion about sex…,” Lilly lamented.In order to overcome this challenge, he noted that intense efforts are being made to enlighten parents of the pressures that children are made to endure at schools in a quest to help them better understand the usefulness of the parent support and in-school prevention programmes, hence the need to emphasise the impact of the generation gap.Meanwhile, YCG has also embarked on another programme to recruit mentors who could lend to the effort of offering good guidance to parents. According to Lilly, efforts will be made to solicit the support of male figures in particular, adding that as in any other programme at YCG,Cheap Jerseys, women usually dominate. “We have found that even when we go out into the various communities we are having a mere two or three fathers coming out to our sessions.” As such, Lilly noted that YCG is appealing to males to be more supportive.

Leader of the Alliance For Change, Vice President/Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan, has vowedMinister Khemraj Ramjattanto investigate allegations of his tax records being illegally copied.Ramjattan is now seeking answers from the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) as well as from other senior Government officials.Ramjattan’s party is a critical part of the coalition Government that won the General Elections last May. The other part of the coalition is A Partnership for National Unity (APNU).Moses Nagamootoo, a senior AFC official, is the current Prime Minister. A number of other party officials hold key ministerial positions.Over the weekend, former tax chief, Commissioner-General, Khurshid Sattaur,Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys, alleged that after the new Government took office in May,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, several files of taxpayers were photocopied- including that of Ramjattan.The person who allegedly handled the files was said to be a senior GRA official.Sattaur has threatened to reveal names.The Commissioner-General was terminated last week by GRA’s Board of Directors, for a number of breaches, including allegedly sharing confidential information with an Embassy official and receiving over $12M in pension payments when he should not have received it.Sattaur has denied it all,Cheap Jerseys 2018, issuing a number of statements over the weekend to clear his name.The photocopying of confidential tax files, especially if not for official reasons, would raise troubling questions, especially as motives.Questioned about it yesterday,Wholesale Jerseys, Ramjattan said that he is not sure if the allegations of photocopying are true,Former tax chief, Khurshid Sattaurbut the Minister is intent on finding out.“Very surprising to me if it is happening. Whosoever the people are, they should not have done that. I don’t know if it is true what he (Sattaur) is saying. As I have said, I don’t know if he feels a little bad about me,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys, as indeed when I had indicated to him I know nothing of his termination…and now that he has been terminated, he may have got angry at me and such thing…”Ramjattan said that in addition to checking with the GRA’s Board, he will try to find out from Sattaur himself.“This is very improper and if not very illegal…if indeed it is true. Doing that to a senior official of Government… if they wanted to peruse my file for any legit purposes they have to get my consent.”Ramjattan made it clear that reasons have to be advanced for pulling his files and whatever the reasons are, his consent had to be sought first.“I am not so certain if it was legitimate. The insinuations are that it would certainly look illegitimate. I don’t know why they would want to pull my file.”The Minister, insisting that his tax file could stand up to scrutiny, said that it was part of exhibits in a court case filed against GRA a number of years ago.Government had been moving to introduce measures to ensure lawyers and other professionals pay more taxes before their practice certificate can be issued.But it was challenged by a number of lawyers.“All my returns, when I was cross examined, all the taxes paid… the compliance certificates… the receipts of payments…were tendered as exhibits in the matter before the then Chief Justice Carl Singh…”GRA has strict controls in place to monitor its records.Ramjattan noted that during the court case he had insisted that he paid more taxes from his legal practice than Ashton Chase, SC, who was representing GRA.These and other documents are probably part of the file.“I am very concerned and startled by the revelation and I want to know what is the purpose behind it all (the photocopying).”Currently strict systems are in place at GRA that controls the access of confidential files of taxpayers.Yesterday, Commissioner General (Ag), Ingrid Griffith,Cheap Jerseys From China, was unable to say what prevailed before she took over GRA in December when Sattaur was sent on more than 200 days of administrative leave, pending an audit of the authority.The official was unwilling to discuss measures but admitted that there are checks and balances in place to ensure the control.Over the last two weeks, GRA’s Chairman, Rawle Lucas, has also been speaking about the need to improve systems to ensure the confidentiality of taxpayers’ information.