Parental pressure led to disappearanceAfter eloping for three days during which they reportedly went to Suriname, a young doctor and his fianc?e returned home on Monday night.Speculation was rife that the couple, Dr. Samsundar Lakeram and his fianc?e Radica Devi Dwarka had been kidnapped. However, the couple told police that they went to the neighbouring Dutch-Speaking Republic on their own free will.Dr. Samsundar LakeramThe couple initially declined to comment. However,Cheap Jerseys From China, Dwarka told this newspaper that they decided to travel to Suriname to get “married in a foreign land”.This newspaper was informed by a reliable source close to the investigation that parental pressure may have been the cause.The source said that Lakeram’s father had been pushing him to continue his medical career against his wishes.Kaieteur News understands that the young man had left his job at the Georgetown Public Hospital and wanted to be involved in business.The hospital in a press release had stated that Lakeram was no longer employed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation and that he had not been working at the hospital since July 14,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, 2008.Sources said that the young doctor had become intensely frustrated.The source said that the young doctor’s father was of the impression that he would resume working at the hospital on Monday last.But as the time drew nearer, the young doctor decided to flee rather than be pressured back into the medical field.On Saturday the couple left their respective homes at Non Pareil and Mon Repos on the East Coast of Demerara, telling relatives that they were going to the city.After they did not return home on Saturday evening, their relatives became worried and launched a search for them. Calls to a cellular phone were unsuccessful. The woman had left her cellular phone behind.On Sunday, the relatives, after combing several areas in the city, found the couple’s car abandoned on the Kingston Seawall.Radica Devi DwarkaTheir clothing comprising two pairs of pants and two bodices were found locked inside, as well as an empty purse belonging to the woman.The search continued late Sunday and Monday,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, with the police combing several East Coast Demerara locations.According to a source, the couple traveled to the Corentyne on Saturday with the intention of reaching Suriname by nightfall.However,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, they were unsuccessful and were forced to spend Saturday night at a hotel in the Ancient County. The following day they arrived in Suriname.The young doctor subsequently contacted a friend in Guyana and was shocked to learn that their disappearance had caused huge concerns for both their families as well as the police.This led to a change of heart and the couple subsequently returned to Guyana.“I sensed that something was terribly wrong,” Dr. Lakeram told this newspaper during a brief interview at the Brickdam Police Station where they were interrogated upon their return yesterday. They were subsequently placed in police custody late last night.Dwarka’s father told this newspaper that he received a message on his cellular phone from his daughter, shortly before the couple returned home,Jerseys NFL Cheap, informing him that they were safe, and urging him not to worry.The couple admitted departing Guyana illegally.Both families have expressed their elation that the couple who appeared to be inseparable yesterday had returned safely,Cheap NFL Jerseys, especially since some had suspected that they were kidnapped.

–?? ?US$2M to facilitate sale of carbon credits by hotels that invest in efficient equipmentGuyana is to benefit from a US$2 million grant from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The money was recently approved for the Caribbean Hotel Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Action – Advanced Programme (CHENACT-AP), which will assist in the tourism sector.Other countries that are set to benefit are Barbados, Jamaica, Bahamas,NFL Jerseys Outlet, Suriname,NFL Jerseys China, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.According to the IDB, the four-year project will finance energy audits for hotels in participating countries that want to cut their operational costs through greater energy efficiency. Efficiency measures in areas such as lighting, water use and air conditioning provide great opportunities for savings, particularly for small and medium-sized hotels.IDB studies have estimated that many of these hotels have the potential to reduce water consumption by 50 percent and overall energy consumption by 30 percent to 50 percent, when implementing an integral set of efficiency measures and microgeneration with renewable energies.But in order to make sound choices regarding efficiency improvements or obtain credit for such investments from donors or banks, hotels need to obtain detailed audits of their energy use. By providing grants for such audits, the IDB programme intends to jump-start efficiency investments in the hotel sector.The programme will also finance an innovative scheme to enable individual hotels to generate revenue from the sale of carbon credits in the international carbon market. Christiaan Gischler, project team leader at the IDB, explained that the transaction costs involved in selling carbon credits can make it prohibitive for an individual hotel or company to participate in the carbon markets.To overcome that barrier, the IDB will work with participating countries to bundle carbon emission reductions generated from energy efficiency or renewable energy application in the Caribbean hotel sector as a consequence of the CHENACT-AP. It will help them to certify those emission using United Nations carbon finance instruments.“In this way, multiple hotels will be able to access carbon markets at once, reducing the transaction costs of this process,China Jerseys For Sale,” said Gischler. “This will make it easier for participating hotels to sell carbon credits to offset the costs of their efficiency investments, while promoting green tourism and helping to market the Caribbean as one of the main ‘low carbon tourism’ destinations.”Furthermore,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic, the project will help hotels access existing funds and identify opportunities for new financial schemes to strengthen local governments and promote energy efficiency on a regional level.Counterpart funds provided by the governments of Barbados, Jamaica and The Bahamas as well as a number of regional and international organizations will bring the project grant up to a total of US$5,145,Cheap NFL Jerseys,000 million. The grant will be paid out over a period of four years.CHENACT-AP was launched last Thursday, at the 2011 Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF), the biggest and most influential gathering of renewable energy stakeholders in the Caribbean.Representatives of the Governments of Barbados, Jamaica and the Bahamas will be present during the signature of the agreement between IDB and the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), executing agency of the Program with operational support from the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) and the Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (CAST).

Yog Mahadeo on Friday ended his employment with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Co. Ltd (GT&T).The telephone company in thanking Mahadeo, recognized his “energetic and creative” leadership which “built tremendous goodwill” for GT&T “in and out of Guyana”.The company also recognized Mahadeo’s integrity and hard work.Former CEO of GT&T,cheap jerseys, Yog MahadeoThe executive announced his resignation in June after blowing the whistle on irregularities of payments to a senior official of the National Communications Network (NCN). It sparked a major investigation that saw NCN official, Martin Goolsarran,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, being sent home and his CEO, Mohamed Sattaur, resigning.“Under his leadership, GT&T reduced rates for consumers,Cheap Jerseys NFL China, made?significant investments in Guyana,Supply Authentic NFL Jerseys, improved customer service and?financial performance, and successfully launched innovative new?products such as our Blackberry service.”The company lauded “Yog” as an energetic and creative executive who?built tremendous goodwill for GT&T and was an effective ambassador for its brand both in and outside of Guyana. The company expressed thanks for Mahadeo’s assistance in effecting transition to the new team.“We thank Yog for his many contributions to GT&T and wish him every?success in all his future endeavors.”Mahadeo had been credited for revitalizing the GT&T Jingle and Song?competition which became wildly popular last year. He introduced a number of promotions and events including the GT&T FastBall competition and the Ten/10 softball competition.Mahadeo was often quoted as inviting Guyanese to “dare to dream” and “we will make your dream reality”.In addition to sport, he embraced new horizons launching the Spelling Bee competition, Literature quiz and the Cinderella show along with the play “Berbice Uprising”.Mahadeo had been involved in a host of developmental activities across the country. These included Mabaruma,China Jerseys, Buxton, Corriverton, and other places. The telecommunications link at Kaieteur Falls was achieved under his watch as the company also grew landlines to 150,000 and DSL subscribers grew by 18,000.The pony-tailed executive was a fixture at many events.“He revolutionized marketing and leadership in Guyana,China Jerseys Free Shipping,” an official of the Private Sector Commission said yesterday.