Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan released a mother of six on $75,000 bail on Wednesday after she was charged for possession of illegal ammunition.Ann Maria Bowen, of 111 Mile, Mahdia, Potaro, is accused of having four live rounds of .38 ammunition in her possession,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, on May 4,Nike NFL Jerseys China, at Konawaruk Landing, without being the holder of a firearm licence.Bowen, who is two months pregnant, pleaded not guilty to the charge after it was read to her at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.Her attorney,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, Glenn Hanoman,China Jerseys Cheap, told the court that the ammunition could have belonged to someone else.? He said that at the time of the search,Cheap Jerseys From China, his client was on a bus. The lawyer added too, that a search was conducted on a bag the woman was carrying and the ammunition was found along with a quantity of male clothing. He asked the magistrate to release his client on reasonable bail because it is a small quantity of ammunition.He stated that Bowen is a reputable businesswoman who has six children to take care of, while pointing out that she has no intentions of fleeing.However, Police Prosecutor, Corporal Deniro Jones, contradicted counsel’s submission. He argued that the ammunition was found in the woman’s hand. He pointed out that the special reasons advanced by the lawyer should be granted to the offence,Jerseys NFL China, instead of the offender.Jones objected to bail citing the gravity and penalty attached to the offence should the defendant be convicted.This matter will be called again on July 13, at the Mahdia Magistrate’s Court.

Officers of the Guyana Police Force, who were engaged in the shootout with the now dead, Deryck Kanhai, Tuesday afternoon,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, did try to negotiate a surrender.Kaieteur News was told that after they managed to enter the Middle Street, Cummingsburg house in which Kanhai had secured himself, officers offered him a chance to surrender but he refused and continued to trade bullets with the lawmen before he was taken out.“We did negotiate with him. We called on him to put down his guns and come out. We assured him that we would not kill him although he had shot and killed two of our men,” a source who was a part of the operation told this newspaper.A three-hour standoff that almost paralysed an entire ward in the city ended when Kanhai was shot dead by police in the bottom flat of his Middle Street house.Tear smoke billows from the building in which the gunman was holed up. The Balwant Singh Hospital is in the background.This was after he had killed four persons, including two policemen, a female dispatcher of a taxi service and another civilian in what many are describing as cocaine-filled rage.Kanhai, 53,Authentic Jerseys Cheap, had also shot and wounded a taxi driver with whom he initially had a confrontation.It was after shooting the civilians, Vanessa Vyphuis, 38, and 73-year old Hugh Paul, that Kanhai turned his guns on the lawmen, Lance Corporal Michael Forde and Constable Sherwayne Pantlitz.The two policemen had responded with their other colleagues to the reports of shooting.From all indications, Kanhai was suicidal and was prepared to take out as many persons as he could before he was eliminated.“Any fool with a gun would kill a set of people before the police arrive,NFL Jerseys Outlet,” the source said.Need for SWAT teamTuesday’s incident is a clear indication that there is an absolute need for a Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) unit, said the Home Affairs Ministry.“This incident reinforces the contention of this Ministry that there is a dire need for well trained Specialized Units in the Guyana Police Force to respond to similar types of incidents.“We are now more than committed to ensure that the SWAT team is established in the Force within the time frame stipulated. The Ministry of Home Affairs commends the efforts that were made by the brave ranks who responded to the incident,” the Ministry said in its statement yesterday.“The Ministry of Home Affairs wishes to extend its condolences to the relatives of the policemen who lost their lives in the line of duty and the two civilians who were brutally murdered,” the statement added.There were a few raised eyebrows when Government announced that it was setting up a SWAT team.Some suggested that Guyana would not have the type of activity that would necessitate such a unit.However a senior officer of the Guyana Police Force disagreed with that suggestion, pointing to possible copycats.“Nuff people will try to be heroes. There are plenty guns in the hands of many more like Kanhai,” he said.In an invited comment on Monday last, Commissioner of Police Leroy Brumell told Kaieteur News that the force is in the process of identifying ranks for the SWAT unit.“We have all the equipment, everything that we’re supposed to have…long before now. We started preparing a long time now….whenever they are ready, we gonna be ready,” Brumell said.“A lot of eyes on us for this thing…They say we gonna recycle ranks, but we don’t have to recycle. We’re gonna get some fresh men,” he added.While several questions will arise about the police operations during Tuesday’s incident, there are quite a few suggestions that the ranks involved performed creditably,Wholesale Jerseys, although there is much room for improvement, if the force is to minimize casualties in any subsequent similar confrontation.Many are comparing Tuesday’s operation to the one almost 14 years ago which saw the demise of the notorious Linden ‘Blackie’ London, at a guesthouse on the East Bank of Demerara.On that occasion, London, who had also secreted himself in a building, held off the security forces for nine hours before he was finally killed.Back in February 2000, the security forces eventually had to negotiate surrender after efforts to eliminate “Blackie” failed, even after they had battered the building with rocket propelled grenades and set it on fire. London was nevertheless shot dead as he emerged from the building with his hands in the air.In Tuesday’s case, the police had to contend with a drug crazed man in a heavily built-up area, with a hospital nearby.“With ‘Blackie’ it was night and he had more weapons, including grenades and I believe he was better trained than Kanhai,” an officer from the Tactical Services Unit who asked to remain anonymous explai

– six percent drop in serious crimes for same period last year? Fourteen people were murdered in the first month of the new year,Cheap NFL Football Jerseys, according to statistics released by theDianne ChammanlallGuyana Police Force on serious offences for January 2016, and the corresponding period last year. In contrast, there were 13 murders in January 2015, but the Force recorded a six percent drop in serious crimes last January, compared to January 2015.Of the 14 murders last January, five were committed during robberies, three were domestic related and six were of the disorderly type.Statistics compiled by Kaieteur News showed that at least 10 of the 14 murders occurred within the first 18 days of the new year.Six occurred in Berbice ‘B’ Division; there were three in? ‘C’ Division (East Coast Demerara), while there was one each in ‘D’ Division (West Demerara/East Bank Essequibo).On January 3, 49-year-old Anita Baichan was bound, gagged and left to die in her burning house at Plantation Hope, WCB. On January 10, Doodnauth Rajkumar, 81, and Dianne Chammanlall, 41, were hacked to death during a robbery at their Lot 93 ‘A’ Bush Lot, Middle Dam, West Coast Berbice property.Yesterday’s release from the Public Relations Department stated that “diligent investigations” led to persons being charged in eight of the 14 murders. This included the murders of Anita Baichan, Doodnauth Rajkumar and Dianne Chammanlall, where three youths were charged.Investigations are continuing into the others.The statistics released yesterday showed that there were 79 robbery under arms last month,NFL Jerseys Store, and 75 inAnita BaichanJanuary 2015. But there was also a13 percent drop during this period in robberies in which firearms were used. January 2015 recorded 53 gun robberies and 46 similar robberies last month.At the end of January this year, police recovered six illegal firearms,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, including four pistols and two revolvers. This compares to a total of 3 illegal firearms that were recovered unto this time last year. But there was a 50 percent jump in robberies in which instruments other than firearms were used. The statistics showed that there were 22 robberies of this type in January 2015 and 33 similar robberies last month.Rape statistics continued a worrying trend, with an increase of four percent (26 cases) in January 2016 compared to January 2015,Discount NFL Jerseys, when there were 25 reports.Break and enter and larceny and burglary have shown an overall decrease of eight percent.In relation to domestic violence, at the end of last January, 274 reports were made from which 176 cases resulted.The Force attributed the six percent decrease in serious crimes to the higher level of networking and activities of the Joint Services under “Operation Dragnet” which was launched on December 1,China Jerseys, 2015, along with capacity building of the Police Force under the five-point strategy to deal with crime, which was outlined by President David Granger, and which has seen an increase in manpower and training in the Criminal Investigation Department and the increased deployment of ranks in the Police “F” Division, intelligence-ledXiu Di Yangpolicing and improved cooperation from the public.A SWAT team and ranks of the Major Crimes Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department have been dispatched to “B” Division (Berbice) in order to strengthen policing activities in the Division. This team was deployed following last Sunday’s brutal murder of Xiu Di Yang at No. 57 Village, who was shot by bandits last Sunday at her No. 57 Village, Corentyne restaurant.In relation to traffic, seven road fatalities from seven accidents occurred last month,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, in comparison to five fatalities from five accidents for the same period in 2015.The victims included four pedestrians, a pedal cyclist, a driver and a pillion rider. Four of the fatalities were due to speeding.Traffic enforcement by the police has resulted in a total of 6,012 cases for this year being made against errant motorists at the end of January 2016 – of this total 2,566 cases were for speeding, 304 for driving under the influence of alcohol, 84 for using cell phones while driving and 199 for failing to wear a seatbelt.Up to last Wednesday, three more persons lost their lives from three fatal accidents.

There is some stigma associated with diabetes. Some people are accused of consuming too much sweet and are even ridiculed if they develop this disease. However, what many people may not know is that developing the disease may notMiss Keziah Nestorat times be preventable. There may not be a clear reason why some people have the disease in the first place.Adults are certainly not the only ones suffering from the disease. There are a number of young people who have been living with Type One Diabetes for most of their lives.Type One Diabetes is an autoimmune disease that hampers the body’s capabilities to produce insulin. Medical experts are yet to ascertain what causes this disease to occur.Many young people are,Cheap Jerseys, however,Stitched Jerseys, not too keen on disclosing their condition for fear that they will be a target for ridicule.But this should not be the case asserted, Keziah Nestor, President of the Young Leaders, the youth arm of the Guyana Diabetic Association.In fact it was in order to give young diabetics an avenue to share their concerns and feel appreciated even with their infliction that the youth arm was established.Reflecting on the genesis of the group, Nestor recalled that although she has been around people in her immediate family with the condition all of her life, it was only a few years ago that she learnt that the condition could be especially depressing to young people.She spoke of a friend having the disease for five years before speaking about it. “He was very afraid and he thought there weren’t other young people with it. My mother is a diabetic; my grandfather and an uncle too are diabetics…so I was surrounded by diabetes all the time,” related Nestor as she pointed out that “there is this idea that diabetes is an old people thing.”But according to Nestor, she had long recognised that although she is not currently infected with the disease, she has over the years been very affected.Nestor,Cheap Jerseys, moreover, has the ability to easily empathise with young people who have the disease.She noted that since “some people don’t like telling other people they’re sick, we are trying (through this group) to get people to come out.”“My friend was hiding it for five years; it wasn’t easy for him to come out and tell people he is diabetic because as soon as somebody hears that somebody is diabetic, you hear,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys, ‘Oh he or she eats too much sugar or he or she is eating too much chocolate’,” Nestor disclosed.The Young Leaders group was therefore formed, Nestor said, to be a support group for young diabetic patients so that they can share their emotions. “It helps to save lives because we have been able to find others who have Type One Diabetes. We have one member who got so depressed because of her condition…She is taking insulin and because of this she is gaining weight and is not happy with how she is looking. But when she is around other young people she gets to understand she is not the only one,Cheap Jerseys 2018,” Nestor explained.The group currently has about 20 members but, according to Nestor, “We are hoping to grow in 2017.”In addition to facilitating talks whereby members can better cope with their condition, the group also spearheads other activities including international trips so that its members can be exposed to other cultures. Added to this, Nestor said that “for the young ladies who don’t feel that they are pretty enough we also plan on having sessions for them to help build their self esteem.”Becoming a part of the group is as simple as expressing an interest, said Nestor. She revealed that the group meets the first Wednesday of each month at the Croal Street, Georgetown ‘Clean Cars Complex’ drive through car wash.“Once you express your interest we have an application form you can sign up and you pay the $2000 to get your badge with your picture and you are a part of group just like that,” Nestor informed.With backing from the Guyana Diabetic Association,Cheap China Jerseys Authentic, the group will today be facilitating a clinic/camp for Type One Diabetic patients at the Charlotte and Alexander Streets, Georgetown Nursing Association Hall.Today’s session is being held in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health. “They are going to see the doctor, and they will be given advice and some may probably have insulin administered to them too,” said Nestor.