– Niles reportedly claimed other inmate was to have smuggled ammo into jailby Michael JordanA senior prison official has denied any involvement in the torture and subsequent demise of Camp Street inmate Edwin Niles?Edwin NilesIn a statement obtained by Kaieteur News from police sources, the official admitted to questioning Niles briefly, but said that he did not injure the prisoner, and left before the interrogation was complete.The statement also said that Niles had alleged that another prisoner, who often worked at Camp Ayanganna, was to have smuggled the ammunition into the Georgetown Prison.?The official is one of four prison ranks who police investigators said should be charged in connection with Niles’ demise.???In his statement,Wholesale Jerseys China, the prison official identified some of his colleagues who were present when Niles was being questioned.He said that a number of army ranks, including a female army captain, were also present during the interrogation.The official, who is stationed at the Mazaruni Prisons, told police that he was in Georgetown on July 3 for a conference and to assist in the transferal of prisoners to Mazaruni.???According to the statement,Cheap Wholesale NFL Jerseys, the officer was at the Prison Officer’s Club at around 16:45 hrs when Director of Prisons Dale Erskine summoned him to the Georgetown Prison.The officer told investigators that he went over to the prisons, where he saw Erskine with an engineer who had installed a bag-scanner at the penitentiary.According to the officer’s statement, Erskine then informed him that a prison inmate had been found with seven .22 rounds of ammunition.He was also informed that the prisoner and other inmates had just returned from the army’s headquarters at Camp Ayanganna.The prison official stated that Director of Prisons Dale Erskine remained outside the prisons.??However, two other prison officials, whom he named in the statement, proceeded to the office of the Assistant Superintendent of Prisons, where the suspect was being questioned.The prison official also said that he accompanied the two senior ranks to the ASP’s office.There he saw the alleged culprit, Edwin Niles, whom he knew. He told police that a female army captain and other army ranks, who were out of uniform, were also present.According to the statement, the ranks were trying to find out from Niles who had given him the ammunition and who the rounds were for.?????The prison official told investigators that because he knew Niles, he also began to question the prisoner.According to the statement, Niles eventually claimed that a prisoner,Cheap Jerseys Online, nicknamed ‘Tennis Roll’ was to have collected the ammunition from Camp Ayanganna.Niles reportedly said that ‘Tennis Roll’ often worked at Camp Ayanganna,Wholesale Cheap Jerseys, but did not go to the army base that day.According to the statement, Niles also alleged that an army rank who had escorted the inmates back to the Georgetown Prisons had given him the ammunition.However, Niles reportedly changed his story when a confrontation was arranged between him and the army rank.The other prisoners who had accompanied Niles to Camp Ayanganna also gave the officials a description of another soldier who Niles had spoken to at the army base.The statement added that Niles then refused to co-operate further.The prison official told police that he then left the office where Niles was being interrogated and returned to the Prison Officer’s Club.His statement alleged that about 45 minutes later,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, a prison official came to the club and informed him that Niles had been taken into police custody.It was only on the following day that he learned that Niles had been hospitalized,NBA Jerseys China, the statement said.???Police officials had told Kaieteur News on Thursday that they have recommended that four prison officers be charged with murder in connection with Niles’ death.They said that one of the senior ranks is stationed at the Georgetown Prisons, while the other is stationed at Mazaruni.Kaieteur News was told that the report concluded that Niles was tortured to the extent that he suffered first and second degree burns, among other injuries.Police investigators returned the file to the Director of Public Prosecutions last week, after providing further information about the case on her request.Some prison ranks are upset that no army ranks have been implicated in Niles’ death, although some of them were present when he was interrogated.A separate investigation by army officials appeared to focus primarily on how Niles obtained the ammunition.At the time Niles was found

– as 25th Community Council of Ministers Meeting commencesThe highly anticipated 25th meeting of the Caribbean Community Council of Ministers kicked off yesterday at the Caricom Secretariat with a moment of silence for the victims of the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti. That earthquake left in its wake thousands dead and numerous infrastructure ruined.Addressing the forum in the stead of absent Secretary General, Dr Edwin Carrington, Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite, emphasised that the Council gathers in the shadow of the greatest natural disaster to befall a member state of the Caribbean Community.She, however, noted that despite the devastating impact of the earthquake the resilient spirit of the people of Haiti has remained intact. And with the help of the Community and wider international partners,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, she revealed that the long and hard road to recovery and reconstruction has begun for the island nation.Ambassador Applewhaite also extended special gratitude to the government and people of Jamaica for their swift response on behalf of the Caribbean Community to the disaster.“They fully committed themselves to the responsibility as the sub-regional focal point for the area in the regional response arrangement established by the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA),” she disclosed. Guyana,Baker Mayfield Jersey, along with other member states that engaged relief efforts for the Haitian victims, was not left out.The Ambassador went on to highlight that there was a generous response in terms of human,Cheap Stitched Jerseys, financial and material resources.Yesterday’s meeting came on the heels of three significant meetings which have been held over the past two weeks, each of which has implications for the future direction of the Caribbean Community.In Paramaribo, Suriname on January 29 and January 30 last, the youths of the Community made abundantly clear their impatience at the pace of integration. In fact at that meeting they urged that steps be taken to accelerate the process.And then there was the 15th Special Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) that was held in Port of Spain,Wholesale Stitched NFL Jerseys, Trinidad and Tobago, on February 5 and February 6, last.The report of that meeting, according to Applewhaite contains far-reaching health initiatives to be considered by the Council.The 29th meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) right here in Georgetown, ended on Tuesday with the appraisal of the state of implementation of the Caricom Single Market and? Economy (CSME) being among the major items considered. And many of the issues of the last meeting were expected to engage the attention of the Council yesterday.Ambassador Applewhaite related that youth, health and CSME along with the reconstruction and development of Haiti are slated to occupy centre stage in the theatre of the community at this time.“Indeed they are significantly interlinked, given for instance, that the Heads of Governments have determined that the community’s primary intervention in Haiti, in the medium term, will be health while the youths are demanding that they be given tools to benefit from the CSME.”The Ambassador further emphasised that the remit of the Council under the provision of the revised treaty includes: development of communities,Wholesale China Jerseys, strategic planning and coordination in the areas of economic integration, functional corporation and external relations. As efforts are made to move forward in the context of today’s reality and priorities, Applewhaite noted that it is required of the Council to exercise the responsibility of strategic planning and coordination in a manner that the resources available is optimised in fulfilling outlined objectives.And it was with mixed feelings that Dominican Dr John Colin McIntyre, took up his role as Chairman of the 25th Community Council even as he pondered on the grim reality of the Haitian people. He, in brief remarks, extended sympathy to the people and the government of Haiti and underscored the role of Community Council.And as always, he highlighted, that the task of the Council must be carried out in accordance with the policy and direction of the conference.In this context he noted that the Council is required to consider proposals of the various Councils, the Secretariat and other Regional institutions with the objective of approving or revising such proposals as deemed necessary.It is also tasked with allocating resources for the implementation of the approved plans and programmes of the Community.Yesterday’s session also saw a preliminary review of the 2010–2015