A major national consultation on public procurement started yesterday in Barbados.The one-day consultation is to examine the Draft CARICOM Model Bill to facilitate the national implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) Public Procurement Regime.According to CARICOM,Cheap Jeseys NFL, the proposed regime aims to establish an integrated and single public procurement space for member states.Representatives of public and private sector organisations as well as procuring entities are attending the consultation at the Blue Horizon Hotel.This activity is part of a project that is facilitated under the 10th European Development Fund CSME Economic Integration Programme.“Participants will look at and discuss the Draft CARICOM Model Bill which sets out the implementation for the provisions of the protocol. It is anticipated that coming out of this national consultation,Cheap NFL Jerseys, recommendations will be made on national legislation to implement the regime.”CARICOM said that resource persons from the CARICOM Secretariat’s CSME Unit are conducting the activity.Apart from the Bill,Cheap Jerseys Outlet, the CSME Public Procurement Regime includes the Framework Regional Integration Policy (FRIP) on Public Procurement; the Draft CSME Policy on Public Procurement; Procurement Standard Operating Procedures (PSOPs); Standard Bidding Documents (SBDs); and the Community Public Procurement Notice Board (CPPNB) which is in its early stages.“This national consultation in Barbados is the first in a series of such exercises that will be conducted in other member states over the coming months. It is hoped that all member states will have completed their respective consultations by December 2016.”

Police in the interior are on the hunt for a gold miner who stabbed his ‘Bossman’ to death after the miner was accused of stealing gold from the camp.Thirty-five-year-old Noel Clementson, called ‘Professor Clem’, a dredge owner from Bartica, bled to death in his camp at Arimu Backdam, Cuyuni, on Tuesday night after he was stabbed several times by the suspect.Judy Gittens, the mother of some of Clementson’s children, who was in the camp at the time, survived the attack although she received a few cuts to her hand while trying to wrestle the knife from the killer.Police have detained a female who is closely associated with the suspect and they hope to gather enough information from her in their efforts to apprehend him.Speaking to this newspaper via telephone, Gittens said that Clementson had completed work for the day and they were retiring to bed when he heard footsteps approaching his work ground, which is located close to the camp.She said that Clementson was suspicious, since the gold he had harnessed earlier in the day appeared short. He was therefore on the lookout for any suspicious move that could confirm his belief that one of his workers was stealing.When he investigated the footsteps,Cheap NFL Jerseys, he saw the employee approaching the pipe that connected the dredge to the sluice box that traps the gold.“The man put steel wool in the pipe to block the gold and like he was going to remove it when Noel confront he,” Gittens explained.A heated argument ensued between the two men and Clementson walked away to avoid any violence.But he sensed that the employee was determined to harm him so he advised Gittens to put on her clothes and that they should head to another camp nearby for safety.But while Gittens was getting dressed, the employee crept up on Clementson and dealt him two lashes to his head with a piece of wood.When Clementson fell, the employee jumped on him and stabbed him several times.“I hear the lash and I run out. I did not see the knife; I thought he was cuffing noel. I see Noel on the ground trying to get up and fight. Is only when the moonlight come out, I see the glitter (of the knife) and I holler,” Gittens said.She told this newspaper that she ran out to her husband’s attacker and tried to stop him, but the man pushed her aside.“Like he go to kill me because he put de knife to me,Cheap Jordan Shoes For Sale, but I start kicking up and tumbling up on the ground.”By now her screams had alerted persons in a nearby camp and when they came to her assistance,Cheap Air Max Shoes, the suspect bolted from the scene.Gittens said that she ran to her fallen husband and hugged him, trying desperately to stem his bleeding, while the persons from the other camp tried to get their ATV started to transport the badly wounded man to get medical attention.“Like something was wrong with the bike and by the time they fix it and go to get a Cruiser,Cheap NFL Jerseys, Noel bled to death about three hours later in the camp,” Gittens said.Donna Jones, who is popularly known as Lady D,Soccer Jerseys From China, of local calypso fame and mother of two of Clementson’s children, told this newspaper that the father of eight was also a Calypsonian.“He was the original ‘Professor Clem’,” she said, adding that he should not be mixed up with the reigning calypso monarch, Lester Charles, who goes by the name ‘De Professor’.According to Jones, both she and Clementson had made plans to enter this year’s Mashramani Calypso competition but they missed the deadline for the audition.“We already had our songs and I was waiting for him to come out from the bush. But after we miss the calypso audition, he said he was entering the Soca Monarch competition,” Jones stated.She said that any plan she had for Mashramani has now been shelved since she can no longer muster the courage to go on stage to perform.Clementson is the fifth person to be murdered so far this year which is only eight days old.

By Leon SuseranA spanking-new shopping mall was commissioned and declared open on the Central Corentyne area on Wednesday. Additionally, two new stores officially opened their doors. One of them has returned to the Ancient County after being closed eight years ago as a result of a mega fire in the Pitt Street, New Amsterdam area.King’s Jewellery World is back in Berbice and Homeline Furnishings Furniture and Appliance store both opened their doors to the Berbice community during a cocktail reception attended by several business persons and government officials.The Persaud grandchildren cutting the ribbon to open the new King's Jewellery World branch in BerbiceChief Executive Officer of King’s Jewellery World, Mr. Loknauth Persaud, said that the new store is of the same “standards and quality as the one that was located at Pitt Street.“We made several attempts– we went as far as to build a new plan to restart the Pitt Street store, but we didn’t have the feelings that it was the right place, so this venue was recommended by a friend”.The store is now located at Lot 67 Public Road, Rose Hall Town, Corentyne.The building that the store is in houses 28 other businesses, including Church’s Chicken and Mario’s Pizza. “We should have been here before Valentine’s…before Mother’s Day…and we would continue to serve you with pride and continue to bring you standards that can never be surpassed and whatever you purchase from us will last a lifetime and your children and generations will still cherish whatever you get from us”.He added that if people look around in the store’s dazzling and well- stocked show cases, “you will see many new pieces of when we left the last time and if you were to look at the top of the building, you will see certificates”.The certificates belong to the various gemologists employed by the company “and we don’t only take pride in producing jewellery– we back them with confidence and we have the knowledge– you can close you eyes and accept that as ‘Gospel’ because that is what we stand for, quality”.He thanked his co- business partner, Mr. Ayube Hamid, who also opened the doors to his new business,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys Outlet, Homeline Furnishings in the same mall. Hamid has a showroom location at Canje but this new store is more spacious and has more appliances on sale as well as locally- made furniture.Region 6 Chairman, Mr. David Armogan,Cheap Jerseys From China, praised the two businessmen for venturing once more in Berbice. “Today, I am happy that Mr. Persaud has come back to Berbice and positioning himself in the centrally so that he can attract customers from both ends of Berbice”. Armogan said that his region is seeing quite a number of businesses springing up all over the place, “and we have seen the expansion of existing businesses and this tells us that people are having very great confidence in our economy and it augurs very well for the development of our region”.The new Shopping MallQuite a number of “exciting prospects” are emerging across Berbice today, he stated, “for employment and for growth and the fact that this new building is housing 28 businesses,Cheap Jerseys China, will not only create employment for Berbice but will also send a message of confidence to all potential investors who are interested in coming to our region to do business”.The regional administration, he said, has been recently flooded with requests and applications from overseas Guyanese “who are interested in coming back to their homeland to do business, so we have been having great competition”.“This will bring a better quality of goods and services available to our people in Berbice and as our economy continues to grow…people will naturally demand more goods and services and our business communities will have to create new and innovative ways to reach those demands”.He credited the University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC) its dynamic leadership under Professor Daizal R. Samad for playing a sterling and important role in the business initiatives “and ensuring you develop people with the relevant skills and knowledge necessary to ensure you have good management at all these businesses…..so in the medium and long term, the prospects for commerce and industry looks very good in our region”.He noted persons in Berbice are also doing business in agriculture, tourism and housing.President of the Central Corentyne Chambers of Commerce,Cheap Jerseys, Lakram Rambrich was happy that the new shopping building has been opened and for the return of King’s to the area. The two new businesses, he said,Cheap Nike Air Max 2018, will “brighten the image of Rose Hall like it was in the early 80’s and ea

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– Harmon tells Guyanese in NYGovernment yesterday vowed to go after assets stolen by the previous administration and stashed in the US.Speaking to a crowd estimated at over 10,Wholesale China NFL Jerseys,000 in Brooklyn, New York,Cheap China Jerseys, Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, made it clear that the people of Guyana voted for change and it will be delivered.Some of the Guyanese officialswho travelled to New YorkNew York basedGuynaese at the rallyThe Brooklyn rally which was geared to celebrate Guyana’s recent 49th Independence and the coalition victory at the polls was heavily monitored by New York Police.Harmon was accompanied by Tourism Minister, Cathy Hughes and Raphael Trotman, Minister of Governance and Natural Resources.The Minister said that Guyanese voted for a change and they will be getting it.Already, the city is being cleaned up already, several persons who were illegally being paid taxpayers dollars by the former administration to do political work have been sent home.“Let them go to the people who they working for to pay them.”A section of the large Brooklyn crowdSeveral others have been sent home,Cheap NFL Jerseys China Wholesale, including senior officials like Permanent Secretaries, as part of the cleanup.He said that Guyana has the people and the resources to develop the country. The government intends to go after assets right in the US which may have been stashed by Government officials.The assets will be found and put to use for Guyana’s development.“We are going to find them and apply it for the right purposes. We are a rich country, we are a powerful country, and we have to make sure that powerful and richness is reflected in the quality of life of Guyanese.Though the event was held in Brooklyn, home to thousands of Afro-Guyanese area, there were still quite a number of Indians there.The culturalpresentation at the rallyNew York basedGuynaese at the rallyHarmon promised to take the next rally to Queens to take the message of change and gratitude to the mainly Indo-Guyanese who live there.As part of the immediate plans, Harmon told the cheering crowd,Cheap MLB Jerseys, Government will move to speed up the processing of passports and other consular services for Guyanese living in the area.There will be more officers and the offices opened to take the services to the people.During the march through Church Avenue, Brooklyn, Harmon told the roaring crowd that there was an immense feeling that change has come,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, crossing boundaries and bridging the divide.It is “time” to celebrate unity the possibilities of Guyana, he urged.Government is planning a big bash for next year’s 50th Independence anniversary, urging Guyanese to return.He also promised that his Government will work to bring down airfares, a major bugbear especially for of thousands of Guyanese living in the Tri-State area of the US.