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… Allows his newspaper to dominate Opposition Leader,Supply NFL Jerseys, Bharrat Jagdeo, hosted a press conference at Freedom House yesterday and spoke for just over an hour before he fielded his first question. Yet he limited questions from Kaieteur News reporters.Opposition Leader,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, Bharrat JagdeoThe first question he accepted was posed by a reporter attached to the newspaper he owns with his best friend, Dr Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop. Jagdeo entertained two questions from that reporter.The moderator, Zulfikar Mustapha then asked if any other reporter wished to pose further questions. The two reporters representing Kaieteur News at the press conference simultaneously indicated, by raised hands, that they wished to question the Opposition Leader.The two were the only reporters in the room who indicated,Wholesale China Jerseys, at that time, their interest to pose questions so Jagdeo allowed one of the reporters to ask questions.When that reporter finished, the other Kaieteur News representative attempted to pose questions to Jagdeo after receiving permission to do so by the moderator. However, Jagdeo said, “No, no, no,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, you cannot ask any question. Your colleague already asked questions.”He then asked if any other reporter wished to take the floor. After taking questions from one other media house,Cheap NHL Jerseys, Jagdeo again allowed the reporter from his newspaper to ask further questions. This occurred even with objections from the Kaieteur News reporter who was deprived of asking questions.At that stage the reporter simply walked out.The reporter wanted to ask Jagdeo how could he criticize the government for not offering an increase in salary for workers of a dying sugar industry knowing that his investment in an almost useless Skeldon plant was one of the major wounds inflicted on the industry.The reporter wanted Jagdeo to explain why he is so obsessed with Glenn Lall, the Kaieteur News Publisher, to the point where his only concern about the broadcasting sector, based on his opening statement,Wholesale Jerseys, is that Lall seems aggrieved that he has not yet been granted a radio licence. Jagdeo totally ignored the fact that the Board of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) is under investigations for corruption.The discord on that Board and the stalled progress were of no interest to Jagdeo. The reporter wanted to know how Jagdeo has no concern about the fact that the Board has done nothing to improve the broadcast sector since its appointment.The reporter also wanted Jagdeo to speak about the wealth he has accumulated during his political career and has stored in an overseas account.Also, the reporter wanted to ask Jagdeo how is it that he can criticize this government about corrupt deals when he supervised some of the most corrupt projects and negotiated the most questionable deals during his presidential tenure.Those questions remain unanswered.

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…over $400M accrued interest still outstandingDespite engaging desperate measures to reverse its cash-strapped state, the Mayor and City Council is yet to collect outstanding rates and taxes for the period July to December, amounting to more than $600M.This state of affairs was highlighted last evening when municipal officials met with representatives of the Guyana Labour Union (GLU) to discuss the municipality’s financial position.The meeting comes as part of the council’s attempt to garner the support of the union which represents more than 60 percent of those within its employ in order to prevent the possibility of industrial action should the municipality not be able to pay salaries on time.According to Public Relations Officer,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, Royston King, the meeting was cordial and there was mutual understanding between the parties involved.Also at yesterday’s forum it was disclosed that while the municipality had budgeted to collect just over $400 M of outstanding accrued interest a mere $59 M has so far been collected.As such it was requested of the union representatives yesterday to offer assistance in the municipality’s quest to appeal for the implementation of the Valuation Roll. The union was also encouraged to assist in the approach to appropriate agencies to collect outstanding sums and also to support new revenue initiatives,Cheap Jerseys From China, King added.The municipal officials also took the opportunity to inform the union of its inability to pay an increase of 20 percent to the GLU represented workers. According to King, the union had written to the municipality earlier this year requesting that the workers remuneration package be augmented.Accordingly, the council has promised to furnish the union with spreadsheets indicating the facts and figures representing the municipal’s financial state.Meanwhile,Jerseys Cheap Wholesale, the municipality,Cheap Jerseys From China, through an amnesty,Wholesale Jerseys From China, has been able to garner a reasonable amount of revenue, which may see the municipality being able to pay its staffers before month end.According to King, he has been informed that the municipality has been able to garner enough finances to pay its workers. However, no official word has emanated from the municipality as to whether salaries will be made available to the workers today,Stitched Jerseys, which is the entity’s official pay date.King assured that the municipality is obligated to honour its obligation to its workers even as he commended the commitment and support that has been forthcoming from them despite the evident financial crisis.

With Vision 20/20 as one of its primary focuses, the local health sector is poised to incorporate lessons learnt while at the same time consolidate the gains made over the past five years,China Jerseys Cheap, a process that will be well supported with its $19.2 billion budgetary allocation.In his budget 2013 speech on Monday Finance Minister,NFL Jerseys China, Dr. Ashni Singh, noted that the sizeable sum will help the health sector advance development of its new strategic plan and thereby aid efforts to achieve universal health coverage using a primary health care approach.Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni SinghTowards this objective, more than $2.3 billion has been allocated for the construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of health infrastructure countrywide of which $1.3 billion has been budgeted for the state-of-the-art specialty surgical hospital and the Port Kaituma District Hospital, disclosed Dr. Singh.Further, he informed that in an effort to improve the supply chain management system a new pharmaceutical and medical warehouse equipped with necessary software was commissioned earlier this year. This, he noted, is expected to result in a more efficient distribution network for drugs and medical supplies.From the allotted health sector budget over $369 million has been budgeted for human resource development to enhance the competency of health officials. And according to Dr. Singh, the system will benefit from the return of a further 278 Cuban trained doctors who will be deployed countrywide.In the context of specialised care, Dr. Singh emphasized that the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), in collaboration with overseas universities, is currently offering post graduate programmes in gynaecology, orthopaedics, internal medicine,Wholesale NFL Jerseys China, paediatrics, emergency medicine, anaesthesiology and surgery.High on the agendaWhile the provision of health care in its entirety is a very crucial undertaking, Minister Singh emphatically underscored that maternal health is a top priority on Government’s health care agenda.This, he said, will be done with a view of advancing progress towards the reduction of maternal mortality and under-five mortality.Earlier this month, national consultations were held to develop an action plan towards eliminating the current bottlenecks in the provision of quality maternal health care services as part of the Millennium Development Goal Acceleration Framework process.The under-five mortality concerns are being addressed with, among other things, a neonatal intensive care unit which is being established at the GPHC with support from an overseas-based partner and will be expanded through the same joint public private initiative in Linden and West Demerara, said the Finance Minister.Battling diseasesIn an effort to intensify the fight against malaria, Government has budgeted for the procurement and distribution of over 6,Authentic NFL Jerseys Cheap,000 long lasting insecticide treated bed nets for hinterland communities primarily in mining areas.However, it has been recognized that chronic non-communicable diseases now present a particular challenge for Guyana and the world as “we overcome infectious diseases of previous times,” added Dr. Singh.These, according to him, include cardiovascular diseases and hypertension, diabetes, cancers and chronic pulmonary diseases.”He said that lifestyle changes, especially in diet and an emerging sedentary habit, the use of tobacco and abuse of alcohol, have contributed significantly to the shift from communicable diseases.He added that budget allocations within the health sector will increasingly target addressing this shift.Emphasising commitmentGovernment,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, Dr. Singh declared during his three-hour long budget speech, remains committed to ensuring that “our citizens have access to high quality health care services.” To this end, he said that over $17 billion was expended in 2012, the final year of the National Health Strategic Plan 2008-2012.A total of $1 billion was spent to expand, upgrade and maintain the infrastructural facilities of the sector, including to fund a mobilisation payment for the state-of-the-art specialty surgical hospital at Liliendaal which will afford Guyanese the opportunity to access specialised health care services, upgrade of the National Psychiatric Hospital and Georgetown School of Nursing, and construction of the Port Mourant Health Centre.Last year, $335 million was spent on training public health personnel to meet the growing demand for both basic and specialised services.Further, the sector benefited from the return of another batch of 21 new Cuban-trained Guyanese doctors who

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