Another Customs Officer has disappeared following the discovery of fraud at a city wharf.Sources yesterday confirmed that the officer was based at the Guyana National Shipping Corporation (GNSC) Wharf as a cashier and consistently, from all indications, cash has been missing from his custody over a period of time.Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur, last evening said that he is unaware of the incident,Wholesale Jerseys 2018, but at least two sources have confirmed it to Kaieteur News. Sattaur advised the reporter to check with the same sources for the story.A supervisor,China Jerseys, one source said, made checks after a particular incident and found that there was a trail of missing money.Following a report made to the Internal Affairs division of the Guyana Revenue Authority, the cashier, said to be from North Ruimveldt, was hauled in for questioning on Friday.He was told to report yesterday again to the internal investigation unit, but there was no signs of the man.It was unclear yesterday how much money is involved,Wholesale Jerseys China, but it is believed that a considerable sum may have been stolen. Several Customs Officers were at the Brickdam Police Station yesterday but it is not clear whether it was in connection with this latest incident.The case bears striking resemblance to a massive fraud last year in which a cashier,China NFL Jerseys, 28-year-old Gregory Alistair Ewan Barnes, fled Guyana after allegedly defrauding GRA of over $300M.Interpol has since posted a wanted bulletin for Barnes.Investigators believe that Barnes conspired with other staffers,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, including an IT official of GRA, to delete taxes and duties paid by businesses to the agency from the main database.However,Jerseys NFL China, the fraud unraveled after the IT employee failed to delete a payment made. The cashier was reportedly being investigated for two days by GRA before he fled the country.

Failure on the part of contractors to complete projects within the stipulated contractual period could see penalties being swiftly applied. This assertion was made by Minister of Education Priya Manickchand even as she commented on contracted school projects that have been gaining the attention of the media.Minister of Education, Priya ManickchandAccording to the Minister,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, she along with the relevant education officials met with contractors during the latter part of last year at which point she had categorically stated her position of zero tolerance for any unwarranted delay in meeting deadlines. “We only have three contractors working with us right now and they are working on several projects. For example we have Kares (Construction Company) and they have gotten about four schools they are working on…I met with all of the contractors and explained that we are not going to be tolerating delays and that we will be holding them to their contractual terms and that if they don’t honour those terms, we are going to apply penalties as per the contract they signed.”The meeting with the contractors had ended with them faithfully promising to finish their contracted tasks on time, a commitment which the Minister noted even then would be something that “we will have to wait and see.”However,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, although works had efficiently progressed, Manickchand revealed that some works, as at last week,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, were still to be completed.This includes the completion of the chemistry lab at the Leonora Secondary School.? The $293.5M education facility was commissioned two days before National Elections last year by then Minister of Education Shaik Baksh.Apart from the cost of construction of the school, which was executed by Kares Construction Company,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, the then Permanent Secretary attached to the Ministry,Cheap NFL Jerseys, Pulandar Kandhi said that $14.8 M was expended on furniture, $9.5M on tools and equipment and another $4.8M was directed to what he described as “two well equipped information technology laboratories.”Utilisation of the facility commenced on January 3 last when the new school term commenced. With the arrival of about eight custom sinks from overseas for the Science Laboratory, the Minister expressed confidence that works would have been completed on the school during the past weekend. “My understanding is that the contractor was awaiting these sinks and with their arrival they will be installed allowing for the remaining work to be completed on the school,” Manickchand said.During visits to a few schools on the West Bank and West Coast of Demerara last week the Minister appealed to teachers and school managers to be the Ministry’s “watch dogs” of various projects and urged them to seek to efficiently report on evident delays to the Regional Education Department or even Central Ministry so that corrective measures could be employed. The delay of projects,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, the Minister noted, cannot be taken lightly as they not only have the potential of affecting the conduciveness of the teaching environment but can also impact the actual delivery of education.

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