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The only word that could describe 57-year-old Tulsiram Sukdeo,China Jerseys Wholesale, the victim of the Demerara River boat accident, is “remarkable”. The father of three had his face almost severed during an early morning accident last Friday in the Demerara River between a passenger boat and a Honduras-registered vessel.The man had extensive injuries to his face and underwent emergency surgery shortly after reaching the hospital. Tulsiram, however,Cheap Jerseys, lost his left eye as a result of the accident.Tulsiram has been removed from the Intensive Care Unit and is presently recovering in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.On Wednesday,Wholesale NBA Jerseys, in hospital, Tulsiram was surrounded by relatives who were excited to see that he was responsive and talking to them. His daughter, Nasema Singh, said that she was most grateful to have her father alive and out of danger.“We are happy to see him recovering and thankful that he is alive” Singh said.According to the man’s daughter, he is still unable to remember what happened to him and they are not telling him what happened either.“He really doesn’t know what happened or why he is in the hospital”.She said that the family is still vigorously pursuing the matter because they plan to take legal action against the perpetrators.“My brother is following up that aspect; the police are waiting on my father to give them a statement,” Singh explained.The daughter said that she is, however, unclear of the number of persons who were held in connection with the accident that are still in police custody. This newspaper was unable to ascertain if the persons were still in custody. A completed investigation had been done and it had included recommendations, which were submitted to the Director General of the Maritime Administration Department, Claudette Rogers.That same report has also been submitted to the police; investigations are continuing.Vishan Dat, who was the “Bow man” for the speedboat, had told Kaieteur News that they were coming from Vreed-en-Hoop to Georgetown with 32 passengers,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, including himself and the captain, Oswald Benjamin. He said that it was while the boat was in the middle of the river that they saw a vessel coming at a fast rate.He said that he immediately signaled the captain, Benjamin,Wholesale Baseball Jerseys 2018, to slow down. Then they stopped. He said that at the time the river was very rough.When the boat stopped, he said,Wholesale Jerseys, he stood up and tried his best to signal the oncoming vessel to slow down, but it kept coming at a fast rate in their direction.“I stand up and signaled that there is another boat in front, asking them to slow down,” Dat explained. The “Bow man” said that he failed miserably because the boat increased its speed.He said that after he saw that the boat was not slowing down and kept heading in their direction, his last resort was to jump overboard just before the collision, in an effort to save his life. He was rescued by other speedboat operators who rushed to the scene.The police stated that the other vessel, which is a Honduras registered S/V GEO, was at the time ferrying workers out to a “mother ship” when it collided with a passenger boat plying between the Vreed-en-Hoop and Georgetown Ferry Stellings.

…CEO insists company can withstand complete loss to Stanford InvestmentBy Gary EleazarIn light of the impairment of a $822M Hand-in-Hand Trust Corporation (HIHTC) deposit as a result of the recent freezing of assets of the Stanford Bank in Antigua, the company is ever more vigilantly monitoring the additional $5B in investments throughout the Caribbean Community (Caricom).This is according to Chief Executive Officer, Keith Evelyn,2018 NFL Draft Jersey, of Hand in Hand Insurance Company, yesterday.During a media briefing yesterday, he sought to debunk claims by Consumer Advocate Raymond Gaskin that in light of the impairment of the money exposed to Stanford Antigua,Wholesale China Jerseys, his entity was bankrupt.According to Evelyn, he was unsure of the computation Gaskin used to arrive at that assertion but according to the latest balance sheet available to the company, Hand in Hand was very solvent in that it had some $9B in assets as compared to liabilities which was marginally below the below the $8B mark.According to the CEO, the company was also very liquid in that it could pay its debts if called upon.Evelyn sought to point out that the statements made by Gaskin were potentially damaging,Cheap NFL Jerseys, not only to the health of Hand in Hand but also to the economy as a whole.Such an appeal to publicise what he called the “untrue nature of the damaging,NFL Jerseys Outlet, slanderous and mischievous statement” was dangerous.The CEO pointed out that the Consumer Advocate had taken the shareholder’s equity position of the Hand in Hand as at June 2007, which stood at $895 million, “and deducted from this the sum of over $1 billion which he claims is lost to Stanford….From this he has arrived at the conclusion that Hand in Hand is bankrupt or insolvent….You could not get poorer accounting.”According to Evelyn, the shareholder’s side of the balance sheet at 2007 could not possibly be the measure of a company’s solvency in that solvency tests whether the company has the assets to back its liabilities.The CEO stressed in his press briefing that the investment in the Stanford Bank was less than 10 per cent of the total assets of Hand in Hand.He also commented on an earlier report that two of the pension funds under its management were similarly affected.Evelyn pointed out that under the rules of the trusteeships,NFL Jerseys Supply, Hand in Hand was not liable for the investments made by the pension schemes under its trusteeship.He did say, however, that it is not anticipated that the Stanford investment will be entirely lost and we will have to wait and see what the regulators in Antigua find.“But in the meantime we have to treat it as a loss.”Evelyn added that were the monies to be completely lost, the company would still be in a safe position and would just have to inject additional capital in the Company possibly from the sale of some assets such as buildings.“We wish to assure you and the public that any impairment of its investments in Stanford Bank would not affect the solvency or operations of the Hand in Hand.“We are confident that Hand in Hand is fully capable of withstanding any possible loss of its investments in Stanford (SIB).”The CEO said that Hand-in-Hand Group of Companies was not exposed to the Stanford debacle given that Hand in Hand Trust Company was a separate legal entity.As it relates to the question of whether the investment in the Stanford Bank in Antigua was seemingly too good to be true, the CEO pointed out that this was not the case in that the seven per cent interest rate was not extraordinary.He added that prior to the seizure of the assets of the bank in Antigua,Jerseys NFL China, that group had always faithfully paid each year and there was no reason to suspect anything untoward.

Over the years there has been an increasing number of elderly Essequibians who are one and two years shy of becoming centenarians. More interestingly, over the span of those years,Cheap Jerseys, Essequibo has recorded a record number of centenarians to date.While many Essequibians may not be aware of that astonishing record, during my interviews with all four of those centenarians, I have noticed a significant factor which possibly has attributed to longevity of those four centenarians.Essequibo’s oldest resident,Wholesale Cheap Jerseys, 103-year-old Lillian Elliot,Cheap Jerseys From China, of Mashabo, an Amerindian community on the Essequibo Coast was born in 1909.Lilian Elliot, 103 years old (centre) with two of her daughters.The 102-year-old May Garraway,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, Essequibo’s second oldest resident, of Hackney,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, Lower Pomeroon River was born in the year 1910. Ram John Mohamed Khan, of Aurora and Charles Josephat Gardiner, Essequibo’s newest centenarians of Aurora and Adventure Villages were born in 1912.All four centenarians have attested that their common secret to longevity has been self discipline and observing a healthy lifestyle.Elliot, who still goes to the creek for her bath frequently, said that she relishes ground provision and fish.Her daughter, Joyce Garraway said that Elliot, who has been gradually recovering from a fall last month, continues to experience sporadic pains in her shoulder and back. Garraway’s meals also consist of ground provision and steamed fish.The younger Garraway added that her mother worked for many years on her farm and consumption of fish with ground provision has routinely become her daily diet.Khan and Gardiner, Essequibo’s newest centenarians have also shared similar sentiments concerning their diet.Gardiner acknowledged partaking in a variety of dishes but expressed his craving for fish. But while all of the centenarians have credited their longevity in the interest of maintaining a healthy life style, they have also zeroed in on regular exercise and waking up early.“I get up at three each morning and read my bible then prepare breakfast and lunch,” Gardiner boasted.Gardiner, who turned one hundred on Wednesday October 17, is active and needs no assistance to move around.? The popular Essequibian also attends the Airy-Hall Anglican Church frequently and takes it upon himself to uplift his monthly pension in the neighboring Village, Suddie.Essequibo’s two oldest residents, Elliot and Garraway are remarkably strong elderly women,Cheap NFL Jerseys Online, who have single-handedly worked hard on farms to raise their children successfully.Meanwhile, Khan who still travels abroad, has been a practicing Imam for the past forty years. He has a strong voice and confessed to praying regularly.

Clinton Williams, Trustee of the Shipping Association of Guyana (SAG), has been inductedClinton Williams (second from left) being congratulated by his fellow awardees at the CSA’s AGM.into the Caribbean Shipping Association’s (CSA) Prestigious Silver Club.According to the Guyana Manufacturing Services Association (GMSA), Williams received the award at the October 2011 Annual General Meeting in Bridgetown, Barbados.The award is in recognition of his outstanding service to the shipping industry in Guyana and the Caribbean and Latin America over the past 25 years. It is also the highest award given by the Caribbean association which is the umbrella body for all agencies and organizations involved in the maritime industry in the region.Williams is the third member of the local Shipping Association to have achieved this distinction.? He stands now in the prestigious company of SAG Trustee, Christopher Fernandes of John Fernandes Ltd, and Executive Member, Desmond Sears, of Delmur Shipping Company.As a senior manager then CEO of the Guyana National Industrial Company (GNIC), formerly Guyana National Engineering Corporation,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys, he spent a major part of his career involved at various levels with maritime services through the company’s Maritime Services Group.? This group comprises Ship Building and Ship Repairs, Freight Solicitation,Cheap NFL Jerseys, Cargo Handling,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, Customs Brokerage, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering divisions. In addition, he has been responsible for improving Customer Relationships to enhance Market Access and Sales of the Maritime Transportation, Logistics and Shipping Services.He was a key member of the group that established the Shipping Association of Guyana in 1995 and served as that body’s President from 2002 to 2006.? The association was reformulated in 2005 under an IDB grant that allowed it to strengthen its capacity to provide more wide-ranging services to its membership that includes terminal owners and operators, shipping agents and brokers, and owners of Guyanese and overseas based cargo and recreational vessels.The 2005 SAG project culminated with a Strategic Five-Year Plan that Williams co-authored which addressed the critical rehabilitation of the Demerara Port and Navigation Channel, improvements in Port Security, adherence to the international ISPS code, and the skill needs for every operation in the sector.Later he wrote a Concept Paper for the ‘Improvement of Operational Efficiency of the Demerara Harbour’ in which he proposed establishing a Public/Private Sector Partnership with government’s participation to acquire the necessary funding,Wholesale NBA Jerseys China, equipment and skills for this critical rehabilitation project.According to GMSA, Williams remains very concerned that the long delay to replace the harbour’s often non-functional facilities and equipment,Cheap Jerseys Online, and the continuing build-up of hardened silt in the Demerara Channel which now requires capital dredging, is having a deleterious effect on the import and export trade and by extension, the commercial and industrial sectors of Guyana’s economy.The channel is now at a draught of just 3.5 metres which is too shallow to allow bulk cargo ships to enter Port Georgetown.? Even the lighter feeder vessels that transship cargo destined for Guyana from ports in the outer Caribbean must depend on high tides in order to navigate the channel coming in or going out laden with Guyana’s exports.CSA President, Panamanian Carlos Urriola Tam, acknowledged the immense contribution that Clinton Williams has made to the Maritime industry in Guyana, the Caribbean and Latin America, and his efforts to promote and sustain thriving trade relations among the various states.? Urriola himself was re-elected President at the AGM that was attended by hundreds of Maritime executives and operators from South and Central America,Wholesale Jerseys 2017, the Caribbean and affiliate members from European, Asian and North American states.Williams has received similar kudos from the Shipping Association of Guyana.