As the fallout continues from Thursday’s non-passage of two Bills critical to the financing of the country’s flagship US$840M Amaila Falls hydro electricity project, attention has been centered mainly on what transpired in the National Assembly.However, there has been scant regard for the monies spent so far or possible implications, if in the worst case scenario, the players walk away.Members of the PPP/C side during a press conference after Thursday’s sitting.Government would have been spending on the access roads leading to Amaila Falls, Region Eight.Sithe Global, the developer,Adidas Hockey Jerseys Cheap, has also been spending. So too has China Railway First Group, the Chinese contractor, which has also been awarded a contract to complete a section of the access road.What has been reported so far is that almost US$38.4M ($7.68B) has been committed to contracts for the access roads, which includes 100 km of new roads and 85 km of existing ones. The roads are needed to move equipment to the work site and a pre-requisite to financing.With regards to Sithe Global, sources of the ruling party indicate that with the contract already signed, should that contractor walk, Guyana could be liable for up to US$30M.Government, also through its Amaila Hydro Project Inc, the local subsidiary for Sithe Global,Stitched Jerseys, has signed a contract with China Railway for US$506M. It is unclear what happens if the year-end deadline is not reached in terms of penalties.Fresh negotiationsGovernment has declined to disclose details of repercussions, admitting that should the contract with China Railway lapse beyond this year-end, it will involve fresh renegotiations as that contract is tied to prices of materials and labour. This could effectively drive the US840M price even higher.On Thursday,Cheap Jerseys 2018, two key Bills that Government said are pre-requisites for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) were voted down by the Opposition which said that not much clarity on the spending has been forthcoming.IDB is currently assessing an application for a US$175M loan to the project. Guyana is contributing US$100M while China Development Bank has signaled its intentions to come up with US$413M.IDB had, according to the administration, given Guyana until July 31, to pass the Bills.Government has said that the Bills, which pertain to the raising of the country’s debt ceiling from $1B to $150B (US$750M) and the creation of a reserve area in Region Eight to counter the impacts of the hydro facility, could still meet the July 31 deadline, if the Opposition agrees.PM Hinds, APNU’s Leader,China Jerseys Cheap, David Granger and Deputy Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine on Friday night in deep discussion.Under the rules of the National Assembly, the highest law making body of the land, a Bill that has been debated and voted on cannot be laid for consideration again until the next session. The National Assembly is set to go on a two-month recess starting in August and returning in October, the same month that the IDB Board has to meet and consider the loan. With documents from Guyana to be submitted way before,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, the non-passage of the two bills have “greatly wounded” the hydro project, Energy Minister, Prime Minister Sam Hinds said Thursday night.During the sitting, the Opposition demanded that it wanted Government to pass four bills that paved the way for long-overdue elections to be held, before it lent support to the legislations for the hydro.SabotageGovernment has accused the Opposition of sabotaging the project with its vote with President Donald Ramotar saying Friday that it is now in jeopardy. He also described the downing of the bills as akin to terrorist acts.Seven-seat Alliance For Change, which together with A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) has a slim one-seat voting advantage over the ruling party in the National Assembly, has denied that the hike in the debt ceiling is a requirement of the IDB. The party said it learnt this following a meeting with the bank’s regional head earlier this week.APNU, in defending the coalition’s decision to vote against the two bills, said it does not want the 165 megawatt hydro facility to end up like the troubled US$200M Skeldon Factory which is still facing technical issues more than three years after being commissioned.Government, on Thursday night,Jerseys Wholesale, accused the Opposition of sabotage saying that it has been meeting regularly and providing answers on the project. There were no indications from the Opposition at any point in time that the local government reforms would be tied to the passage of the hydro Bills.Government also s

Government has announced a US$50,000 (G$10M) financial assistance to the typhoon-hit Philippines.According to a release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the assistance by Guyana is part of the international response to the immense loss of lives and devastation in the Philippines caused by Typhoon Haiyan.“Guyana’s contribution will go to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) which launched an appeal for US$348M for relief efforts. The OCHA is currently headed by UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Baroness Valerie Amos of the United Kingdom.”OCHA is focusing its efforts on providing food,Cheap Jerseys, clean water and shelter as well as prioritizing the needs of women and girls who remain in a vulnerable position following the disaster.The November 8th storm,Cheap Jerseys, known to Filipinos as Yolanda, was one of the most powerful typhoons ever to make landfall, packing sustained winds of up to 195 mph and triggering storm surges that devastated many coastal communities on the islands of Leyte and Samar.At least 5,500 people were killed and an additional 1,700 are still listed as missing, according to the latest government count. More than a million homes were damaged or destroyed and 3.4 million people displaced. The storm also swept away trucks and fishing boats, ravaged businesses, and left agricultural fields under water.“The enormity of this disaster is unprecedented,Cheap NFL Jerseys, at least in the Asia-Pacific region, in terms of the geography,Cheap Jerseys USA,” said Sanny Jegillos,Cheap Jerseys China, coordinator for crisis prevention and recovery at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). “It’s much, much larger than the tsunami in Aceh.“The rehabilitation cost will be more expensive for Haiyan, because a unit of a school will be more expensive than a school built in Aceh because of the design parameters.”The government’s initial estimates point to a reconstruction cost of as much as 250 billion pesos ($5.7 billion). Aceh’s rebuilding over eight years required nearly $7 billion,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, funded by the Indonesian government and international donors.Manila has said new structures in the typhoon-prone areas must be able to withstand winds of 300 kph (186 mph), close to Haiyan’s maximum winds when it slammed into Eastern Samar province before crossing the central Philippines.

(NEW YORK, CMC) – Prosecutors here say that a Guyanese-born man who went on a New Year’s Day firebombing spree faces a maximum sentence of life in prison on charges that include committing arson as a hate crime.Ray Lazier Lengend,Cheap Jerseys China, 40, was arraigned at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, where he is undergoing psychiatric evaluation, via a video feed into Queens Criminal Court.“This case is very troublesome,Jerseys Wholesale,” said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. “Flames from the Molotov cocktails can spread very quickly.”Prosecutors said Lengend tossed flaming bottles at four buildings in the Jamaica section of Queens,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, New York, including two houses of worship. A fifth bottle was tossed at his brother-in-law’s Long Island home.Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said cops are looking into Lengend’s claim that he tossed gas-filled bottles at two private houses and a vehicle.“We’ve gone to these locations and we’re trying to gather evidence,” Kelly said.Lengend told cops he bought five of the glass bottles at a gas station near the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens and the store gave him three more for free.He said he drove to another gas station and paid cash to fill up the bottles with gasoline. From there, he drove off to the Imam Al-Khoei Islamic center but got scared off when he saw cops, he claimed.Lengend told cops he headed to a deli on Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens and waited more than an hour to make his move because the store was too crowded.“Once they left, I got out of the car and walked into the deli and screamed and threw the lit bottle filled with gas into the store,” he told cops. “I then went back to the mosque and threw another bottle of gas at the temple.”Queens prosecutors said they successfully sought an order to have Lengend locked up without bail.“There was a potential for tremendous carnage based on the defendant’s actions, terror that reverberates throughout the city,” prosecutor Dave Jeffries said.Lengend told cops he planned to “inflict as much damage as possible and take out as many Muslims and Arabs as possible” by tossing gas-filled Starbucks Frappucino bottles from the balcony of a Queens mosque.In a statement to cops,Soccer Jerseys From China, Lengend claimed he “hated all the Muslims and Arabs because they were trying to take over his life. They have been doing it for 40 years.”The unemployed truck driver is expected to remain at Bellevue Hospital for several days.Lengend’s lawyer, Lisa Saltzman,Cheap Jerseys Store, noted that her client was not identified by eyewitnesses in the first of two police lineups.Prosecutors, however, said he was positively identified in the second lineup, which he disrupted.