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Police acting on information on Saturday went to Kuru Kuru where they found four fields of marijuana.The ranks from the Police Narcotics Brach burnt the fields which all together produced a total of 500 kilograms of marijuana.However,Jerseys NFL China, no one was arrested in connection with find as the area was completely abandoned.In the meantime,Wholesale China Jerseys, police continue to search the surrounding areas for more fields of the herb.

A day of sporting and reckless maneuverings resulted in a fatal road accident on the Alness Public Road, Sunday night around 22:00hrs. Two men are now dead while two others are listed as critical in the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).Dead are Davanand Seosankar, of Anchor, Port Mourant and Affie Jafar Ramaya,Nike Charlotte Hornets Authentic Jerseys, 24,NBA Jerseys Store, of Miss Phoebe, Port Mourant. Kaieteur News understands that Ramaya,Boston Celtics Jerseys, the driver of the car,Cheap Atlanta Braves Jerseys, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Port Mourant Hospital, while Seosankar succumbed yesterday afternoon at the GPHC.The other two men who are now fighting for their lives are taxi driver, Taresh Nandalall, 26,Cheap Buffalo Bills Jerseys, of Ulverston Village,Cheap Arizona Cardinals Hoodies, Corentyne Berbice and another man known as ‘Cow’, a barber of Tain.According to reports, “The men were having a nice time.” They were seen consuming alcohol, lavishly, at various sporting spots during Sunday on the Corentyne.Kaieteur News was told that just before 22:00hrs, Ramaya travelling east along the northern side of the road to the Upper Corentyne, drove his white wagon car in a reckless manner and hit a donkey before slamming into a truck which was parked on the opposite side of the road.According to reports the animal was hit so hard that it “burst into pieces”. After hitting the animal and having it land on the roof of the car, the driver lost control and slammed into the parked truck “shifting it”.The men were rushed to the Port Mourant Hospital before being transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital and later to the GPHC.Yesterday as Nandalall was being prepared for surgery, his family members were unable to maintain their composure. They wept uncontrollably outside the Accident and Emergency Unit of GPHC.

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It was well past noon and the group had already been huddled 80 feet beneath a Harpy Eagle’s nest for more than an hour when it started rain but yet they were not ready to leave. “We’re not ready to dip on the Harpy” they said, meaning miss the chance to see a rare bird.The nest appeared empty, but the more the guide Gary talked about seeing the adult female and juvenile Harpies at the nest two days ago, the more the group wanted to wait.Part of the group bird watching on the Essequibo River, near the Iwokrama River Lodge (Kirk Smock)So everyone stood at the base of the tree for two hours –half of it in pouring rain – staring at an impressive (albeit empty) nest, because the Harpy Eagle is a rare ‘mega-find’ that everyone wanted to see.For 11 days in March, this group of bird watching tour operators, journalists, and photographers from North America and the UK poked around Guyana’s rainforests and savannahs in search of birds, mammals, and local culture on a tourism product familiarization (fam) trip organized by the Guyana Sustainable Tourism Initiative(GSTI), a joint project of the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) and the United States Agency for International Development / Guyana Trade and Investment Support (USAID/GTIS) project.Reflecting on the journey, owner and founder of Nature Travel Specialists, Andrew Haffenden said, “I felt that all the places and guides are making an exceptional and personal effort to preserve and promote Guyana’s nature and people, which forms a very solid base.I’m sure the others [on the fam] agree that few places we visit have the same effect in this way as Guyana, and it’s quite refreshing and encouraging. In turn, it makes others,2018 World Cup Russia Jerseys, such as our group; want to assist all they can.”The fam trips have been a key part of the GSTI strategy to market and promote Guyana on the international stage.There are many beneficial results to providing a first-hand experience of Guyana to tour operators and media, including increased international recognition and a growing number of visitor arrivals.As Mr. Haffenden noted, it also allows local tourism suppliers to receive constructive feedback from experts who sell and promote trips around the world.The participants on this fam provided many excellent recommendations that will help improve Guyana’s tourism products for additional markets beyond birding, including community-based, general nature, conservation based, research-based, adventure, and educational tourism.The GSTI will be working with Guyana’s tourism suppliers to increase and improve guide training, product development, transportation logistics, and ecotourism standards.With no Harpy Eagles in sight on the group’s first attempt, they finally agreed to leave the forest after hearing of a different active nest near Rewa village, another stop on the itinerary that included Georgetown, Iwokrama River Lodge, Atta Rainforest Lodge and Iwokrama Canopy Walkway, Surama Eco-Lodge, Rock View Lodge, Karanambu Ranch, Lethem and Kaieteur Falls.Two schoolchildren at Rewa village sing a song about the areaThe birding was fantastic throughout – by the end of the trip the group had identified nearly 360 different species of birds (including the Harpy Eagle near Rewa). GeneralManager of Andean Birding, Charlie Vogt, has birded extensively in South America but still managed to add 65 new species (or ‘lifers’ in birding lingo) to his list – a “significant” achievement.Mr. Vogt said that he “was blown away by the vast pristine rainforests [in Guyana],” adding that he “can’t wait to sell this tour and have another chance to return to this magical place.”Due credit for the magic goes to the appearance of the day-glow orange Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock at Kaieteur Falls and Iwokrama, and the bizarre mooing and Dracula like poses of the Capuchin bird.And magic or not, various Macaws, Toucans, Woodpeckers, and Hawks lit up the group’s ‘bins’ (because ‘binoculars’ is too long) so often the birders began calling them ‘Trash Birds’ (‘TBs’ for short), or locally common birds.It sounds bad, but the birding experts said having Macaws and Toucans as trash birds is a good thing.Every now and then, the birders even managed to get excited over some non-feathered species like Kinkajou, Red-rumped Agouti, Tyra, Capybara, Giant River Otter, Black Caiman, and Red Howler, Spider, Capuchin, and Squirrel Monkeys.The Jaguar remained elusive but the guides did manage to find very fresh tracks – bins not even necessary. Cultural presentations at Rewa and Surama villages also made a big impact on the group.When asked to list Guyana’s strengths in tourism, Pelin Karaca of Holbrook Travel said, “Birds, pristine rainforest, and community tourism potential.” About the community-run ecolodges at Rewa, Ms. Karaca said,

– 63 per cent rise in blackouts in 2011By Leon SuseranBerbice recorded 247 blackouts last year, the most ever for the past three years and a 63 per cent rise from the 2011 total.?In 2011,Nike Atlanta Hawks Authentic Jerseys, there were 157 blackouts compared to 222 in 2010, a reduction of 65 power outages last year in the Berbice area.The electricity situation in Guyana has been getting worse over recent times resulting in Guyanese experiencing various periods in the year of severe power outages. These ‘blackout periods’ are often met with numerous excuses by officials of the Guyana Power and Light Inc; 2012 was no exception.A period of electricity delivery usually follows an electricity crisis, but the situation usually returns to a poor state not too long after. In Berbice, the worst months for blackouts were May and November. In May,Kevin Love Jersey, there were 34 blackouts while there were 30 in November.In August, when there was a power crisis which saw 20 blackouts,Deion Sanders Falcons Jersey UK, GPL informed Berbicians of annual maintenance works on two of its main transmission lines (from Onverwagt in the West to Canefield and the other from Canefield to Number 53 Village). Problems were being encountered with a transformer at the company’s main power station in Berbice, the Canefield Power Station.By July,Cheap Nike Arizona Cardinals Jerseys Free Shipping, there were already 160 blackouts for the year, compared to 89 during the same period in 2011.The next crisis came in November,Blank Arsenal Jersey UK, which saw 30 power outages. Berbicians were asked by the company to bear with the outages for four weeks into December due to a damaged 69kV transformer at the Canefield station.This transformer was said to be the crucial component in the Berbice Interconnected system whereby power can be shared amongst the three power sources in the Berbice area: Skeldon Sugar factory, Onverwagt and Canefield Power Stations.The stations, as a result of the damaged transformer, were no longer inter-linked and therefore,Bradley Chubb Jersey, could not have shared or transferred power to each other.But perhaps no other area suffered more power outages than the Upper Corentyne area. The situation became worse in November when rolling blackouts hit the heavily- populated area. The generating equipment at the Skeldon Sugar Factory was reported to have been down for maintenance. Letter writers sharpened their pens and wrote several letters to the press about the disgusting situation.Not too long after, GPL denied that Skeldon was out of operation, however, the facts of long hours of blackouts, before and after the GPL statement was issued, proved otherwise. GPL’s Chief Executive Officer Bharat Dindyal and GPL’S Technical Director, in November, visited the Skeldon Co- Gen Plant.MONTH?? ?2010?? ?2011?? ?2012January?? ?24?? ?11?? ?20February?? ?18?? ?15?? ?24March?? ?22?? ?11?? ?24April?? ?10?? ?10?? ?18May?? ?20?? ?17?? ?34June?? ?19?? ?32?? ?17July?? ?16?? ?2?? ?23August?? ?26?? ?5?? ?20September?? ?19?? ?14?? ?13October?? ?17?? ?16?? ?20November?? ?24?? ?7?? ?30December?? ?9?? ?17?? ?4

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The recent announcement by Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon that public servants would not be receiving a salary increase this year is not in conformity with any agreement with public sector unions, according to President of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU),World Baseball Classic Jerseys 2017, Patrick Yarde.His comments were contained in a letter sent to Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh. The same correspondence was carbon copied to President Bharrat Jagdeo; Minister responsible for the Public Service Ministry,Bryan Bickell Jersey, Dr Jennifer Westford; Permanent Secretary of the Office of the President, Dr Nanda Gopaul; and to Dr Luncheon.The letter, dated December 15, 2008, stated that,Kyrie Irving Jersey, “The Guyana Public Service Union expresses its concern about the statement released by Dr Roger Luncheon…in relation to the non-remuneration of salary increases for public workers.“In his statement Dr Luncheon had declared that ‘public servants would not be receiving any year-end salary increases and retroactive payment for 2008, as they did in previous years.“The Cabinet Secretary had stated that ‘those payments had been negotiated with the unions and that the life of that agreement had ended’.”But, according to Yarde, the GPSU has had no such agreement with the Government. He noted that the union completely rejects the Government’s position as articulated by Dr Luncheon, as well as his assertion that it is in conformity with an agreement with the public sector unions.According to Yarde, Parliament’s approval of levels of remuneration which are considered sufficient for the public workers to enjoy a reasonable existence is a gross misrepresentation of reality.“This has resulted in Guyana’s public servants being driven further into abject poverty, with an estimated 80 per cent of them existing below the poverty line.? The payment of increases in salary well below the rate of inflation has resulted in a decline in the purchasing power of the public workers…,” Yarde’s letter stated.It was noted, too, that the GPSU considers the state of affairs to be unsatisfactory, unconscionable, uncaring and unfair to public workers, and therefore it (the GPSU) demands that the matter be addressed, the letter stressed.“The GPSU demands that you (Dr Singh) address the short payment to public workers below the inflation rate, and rectify it as an interim measure while we continue with the Government of Guyana’s adherence to the process of collective bargaining, as provided by the International Labour Organization Convention Numbers 37, 98 and 151 as ratified by the Parliament of Guyana.”It was also recommended in the letter that Dr Singh propose a supplementary estimate to facilitate the payment of remuneration to public workers before the end of this year, in order to remedy short payments.Meanwhile, the GPSU,Paul Kariya Ducks Throwback Jersey, in a release issued yesterday,Bobby Doerr Jersey, also expressed concern at the number of persons who are appointed to act in important public offices, such as the posts of Commissioner of Police, Chief Education Officer, and Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission.The occupants of these posts have been acting in these positions for inordinately long periods; and in the considered opinion of the public and the union, are fully qualified to be appointed to the substantive positions.“The negative consequences of this state of affairs are well known.? It is difficult for persons in such positions to demonstrate the degree of independence and professionalism they are expected to exhibit in the execution of their public duties, and in their dealings with the public and those who have some say or influence over their career prospects.”According to the release,Cheap Arizona Diamondbacks Hoodies, it is therefore understandable that there is a high degree of skepticism in the society that the Government is hesitant and reluctant to appoint persons of professional and independent status to a number of public offices.It was further noted that there is a tendency to favour those who are politically affiliated or sympathetic to the Government.“This cannot be in the interest of the public. It is contrary to the expectation which was associated with the establishment of independent commissions and boards charged with the appointment, promotion, discipline and transfer of such personnel,” the release added.As a result, the General Council of the Guyana Pu

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