‘Town Clerk forced to sign document under duress’-? Deputy MayorNew Amsterdam Municipality and the Ministry of Local Government are on a collision course over collecting Solid Waste in MunicipalityIt seems like the same script but different players. The allegation is that the Ministry is using the Town Clerks to bully the various Municipalities. But the New Amsterdam Town Council is prepared to fight. The council is ready to reject a document purportedly signed by its Town Clerk, Sharon Alexander, giving the greenlight to Advanced Environmental Solutions whose Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is Zaheer Osman,Nike Shox Women Clearance, with office at Princess Elizabeth Road,Cheap Jerseys, New Amsterdam.This disclosure was made by Deputy Mayor Harold Dabydeen at a press briefing held in the chambers of the Mayor and Town Council in New Amsterdam, yesterday.A terse and upset Mr. Dabydeen was flanked by Environmental Health Officer Mr Ackloo Samsud and Councilor Joseph Anthon.The Deputy Mayor stated that he was invited to a meeting with officials of the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development where a number of officials from the other Municipalities and Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDC) were present. He said that Town Clerk Alexander was also at that meeting.Mr. Dabydeen stated that from his understanding the meeting had to do with the performance of the local Government organs and the collection of Solid Waste in the Region. He said that he paid rapt attention to the presenters and after listening in depth to everything that was said he was not satisfied that Environmental Solution was up to the job.He said that as such,nfl jerseys wholesale, it was reasoned that unless the company could come up with something tangible to satisfy the Mayor and Town Council and the residents that it could fulfill the mandate of Solid Waste collection in the Town, the council will not enter into any agreement to privatise solid waste collection in the town.“This issue is a no, no because there are loopholes in the matter.He questioned the working of the Local Government Ministry and called for an immediate investigation into the workings of that Ministry.The Deputy Mayor added that before the conclusion of the meeting, the Town Clerk asked to be excused and was quickly followed by an official of the Local Government Ministry- one Mr. Jerrick.Mr. Dabydeen said that to his astonishment,Authentic China Jerseys, he received a call from the Town Clerk during the evening informing him that she was forced to sign a document that gave the right to Mr. Osman, to collect solid waste from residents and businesses in the Municipality.He said that the council views the situation as serious. Mr. Dabydeen said that what was upsetting and totally disrespectful and a blatant eye pass was that he as Deputy Mayor of the Municipality was present at the meeting and the Local Government Ministry totally disregarded him.The Deputy Mayor said that the municipality will disregard the document signed by the Town Clerk.In answer to another question, he said that the Town Clerk was not given a copy of the document and from what he understood she was not even given a chance to read the document.He said that there is a Statutory Meeting planned for Monday and the issue will be fully ventilated. He is not sure what action will be taken against the Town Clerk since the entire council is upset.Meanwhile Town Clerk Sharon Anderson stated that the entire issue of Solid Waste has to do with the Ministry of Local Government and any questions should be directed to the Ministry. She said that she did not get to read the document, but from what she understood it did not hand over the job of solid waste collection to anyone,cheap nfl jerseys online, but just gave permission for collection.Advanced Solutions had planned to start the collection by the end of last year . The company was awarded the contract by the Local Government Ministry after the government terminated the contract of Concept Solid Waste because that company failed to meet the requirements stipulated by the contract.It is not too sure where the Company would be dumping its solid waste.

…signed MOU more than one month agoBy Gary EleazarAgriculture Minister Robert Persaud (left) among others during his visit to the now defunct Morawhanna facility,China NFL Jerseys, which is hoped to be resuscitatedMore than a month after a Trinidadian investor signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Agriculture, work is yet to commence at the international port of entry at Morawhanna in Region One.Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud yesterday visited the facility and voiced his concern about the slothfulness with which the investor is approaching his commitment pointing out that the delay is detrimental to the livelihood of the people that depend on the facility.At present, the fisher folk have been most heavily hit by the non-functioning of the facility given that it produced ice, which is required by them to ply their trade.Persaud visited the port after receiving reports that it was not functioning in its capacity as an ice processing plant, a situation that is detrimental to the fishing industry in the RegionAccording to Persaud,Wholesale China Jerseys, the Ministry as well as Go Invest are yet to make contact with him about the delay.The Agriculture Minister said that they had put up the facility for private management given that they could not afford to maintain the facility and the investor would have paid rental.He noted that Government is investing a lot in Region One and as such is eager to have the facility up and running and that a clear timeline is needed from the investors.Government is set to benefit from the rental of the facility.Persaud pointed out that the provisions for rental are dependent on the scale of the investment.The port has been declared a port of entry and the necessary requirements such as customs will soon be in place but to date none of the upgrading work has been put in place.According to Persaud,Cheap NFL Jerseys, the Trinidadian proposal was to produce the ice for the fishermen as well as turn it into a processing and packaging plant as well as facilitates the shipment of produce out of Region One.CARICOM member states have indicated an interest in the acquisition of the produce.For several years the idea of having produce from region shipped directly to CARICOM states among others has been mooted but this is yet to be realised.This newspaper understands that the only business conducted by the Trinidadian was the sale of fuel from a vessel that he had moored at the Morawhanna wharf.He was reportedly selling the fuel for some $22,Wholesale Jerseys Online,000 per drum.During yesterday’s visit by the Minister the facility was observed to be effectively non functional and in a dire state of disrepair but its importance to the region is fuelling the desire to have it renovated and running to full capacity.Morawhanna is a small fishing/farming community in the Barima River in Region One, close to the Venezuelan border. Its residents are currently of the view that they have been abandoned.One reason is the fact that the fishing complex that provided the several fishermen from neighbouring communities with a facility to preserve their catch so that they can be transported to far-flung areas such as Port Kaituma, is no longer operational and the promise of new Trinidadian ownership now seems elusive.The complex has been closed for several months now and no change is in sight, according to one of the residents.According to Persaud, the plan is to make that point a key Caribbean agriculture export port and food processing facility.“Getting this facility up and running is part of the strategic plan for agriculture development in Region One,” according to Persaud.Recently, when this publication,jerseys nfl wholesale, visited the locale, one resident had said “it is as if Morawhanna is the village that the administration forgot.The complex had provided desperately needed employment for several in the village plus the spin-off benefit of persons mooring at the complex to conduct business at the few shops that exist.“Ever since that place close, business just get very slow.”The Guyana Oil Company (GUYOIL) has also shut shop in that community and has abandoned a depot that it had in place to provide fuel for fishermen and others in the community.

After the recent floods, caused by heavy rainfall, the government has sought to record losses suffered by farmers across the coast.Thus far, a technical team from the Ministry of Agriculture has created a data base which indicates that approximately 800 acres of cash crops, 5000 poultry birds and over 3800 acres of rice were affected by the floods.This week,Wholesale Jerseys, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, said there has been a record reduction in the levels of rainfall experienced recently, and the regions affected by flood have returned to normalcy.Luncheon said that while there has been damage to livestock, cash crops and rice farming, activities in the farming communities have resumed.“Minister Ramsammy has outlined the operations of the flood water control systems which are being maximally operational and explained its effect on minimising the consequences to farmlands during Cabinet meeting,” Dr. Luncheon said during his weekly post-Cabinet news briefing.He said the Agriculture Minister reported that in the event that there is a continuity of rainfall especially within the eastern sections, control structures at vulnerable areas,Cheap NFL Authentic Jerseys, would have to function at maximum capacity in order to prevent undue impact.Since the inception of the above normal rainy period, additional measures were undertaken to minimize losses. This entailed technical staff being deployed across the regions to assist in this regard.Dam maintenance, deployment of drainage pumps,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, excavators,Cheap Air Max Shoes, dam construction and maintenance were some of the measures implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture’s National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA),Wholesale Jerseys China, in light of La Nina weather condition.