The government has all but failed in efforts to get the opposition to rush amendments to the law against financial crimes to avoid a blacklist being imposed next week in Nicaragua.Attorney General Anil NandlallHead of the Financial Intelligence Unit,Cheap Jerseys From China, Paul Geer, and a state attorney were expected to defend Guyana’s case, but the government has roped in Attorney General Anil Nandlall to seek an extension.“When momma dry, you gaffo suck granny,” is how government’s chief spokesman Dr. Roger Luncheon chose to describe the move to have Nandlall travel to the Nicaraguan capital, Managua.President Donald Ramotar had appealed to Parliamentarians to expedite their work on the amendments in a Special Parliamentary Committee and take their report for a vote in the National Assembly by May 28, the latest.A sitting of the House was originally set for that date when the House adjourned last Wednesday,Authentic Baltimore Ravens Jersey, but that sitting was postponed to June 13. The House can convene in a special sitting to take the vote if the committee completes its work, but that is unlikely to happen as the committee is due to hold its next meeting until June 12.The government wanted the amendments to the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill 2013 (AML/CFT) passed before it faces the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) review panel in Managua starting Monday.The CFATF is an arm of the International Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an independent inter-governmental body that develops and promotes policies to protect the global financial system against money laundering and terrorist financing, among other financial crimes.The CFATF had required that the country amend a range of laws. Amendments to the various laws were lumped together and taken to the House as the AML/CFT Amendment Bill.The amendments were needed to reduce structural,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, legislative and administrative deficiencies in the anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism architecture and to meet the international standards established to protect the international financial and banking systems.The government insisted that without passing the amendments before Guyana faces the review,Cheap China Jerseys Authentic, severe sanctions that would have a range of implications for the financial sector especially, including humbugs in the flow of international funds,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, such as remittances and wire transfers.In an unprecedented move, Ramotar, on Wednesday sent a message to the National Assembly appealing to all sides of the House to urgently review amendments to the law on financial crimes so that the country can avoid the international financial blacklist.The two opposition parties had said that they would not rush consideration of the amendments.The seven-seat Alliance for Change (AFC), which holds the balance of power in the National Assembly, is sticking to its demands.The party has said it would exchange its support for the amendments only if the government provides a definitive deadline for the setting up of the Public Procurement Commission and if the President re-considers assenting to two Bills which were brought to the House by the opposition and passed.Head of the FIU, Paul GeerThe opposition is adamant that the Government’s recklessness in the management of the country’s national and international affairs is what has led to what is being described as a crisis situation,Cheap NFL Jerseys Stitched, but the opposition said the blame lies squarely at the feet of the government for wanting to give the people’s elected representatives dribbles of information.

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ST. STEPHEN –Canada (Telegraph Journal) – Savita Singh-Murray offered to pay $2,500 apiece to smuggle illegal aliens into the United States, a witness testified in St. Stephen provincial court Monday.The 43-year-old Charlotte County woman, a native of Guyana,Cheap Jerseys From China, did not know that the “truck drivers” she talked to in Fredericton on June 18, 2008 were undercover RCMP officers, retired staff sergeant Arthur Gary Doyle testified.Nor did she realise that her supposed friend, Lloyd Laking from McAdam, who set up the meeting at Tim Hortons on Prospect Street,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, was a paid RCMP “agent,Cheap Jerseys,” Doyle said.“He’s sort of like an informant,” Judge William McCarroll said during testimony by Const. Mike Burke, the first witness in the trial on charges against four people.Doyle wore a recording device at the June 18 meeting, he testified.On May 14, the RCMP’s Atlantic Region Immigration and Passport Section charged Singh-Murray from outside St. Stephen, Joseph Vaughn McCluskey, 71, of Fredericton, and Mohamed Habin Yusef, 53, and Ravindra Hariprasad, 36,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic, both of Scarborough, Ont., with conspiring together with others to encourage or induce an alien to enter the United States contrary to American law between May 5, 2007 and May 11, 2009.The Criminal Code makes it illegal to use Canada as a base to break the laws of another country.The trial is scheduled to run all this week. On Friday, McCarroll will likely set dates for it to continue.Singh-Murray stated that she had a $10,000 contract to smuggle a young woman from Guyana into the United States, Doyle said. Singh-Murray said the woman stayed at McCluskey’s apartment,Cheap Soccer Jerseys, Doyle testified.Singh-Murray, who served a 132-day jail sentence in Maine in 2005 for smuggling people into the United States, said she could not cross the border, Doyle testified.The “truck drivers” demanded more than one person to make the smuggling run worth the risk, Doyle said. She said she could get at least three, possibly six, he testified.Singh-Murray’s brother-in-law would act for her in Ontario where the trucks would cross the border, Doyle said. Singh-Murray would get someone to pick up her clients once the truck crossed the line, the retired RCMP officer said.RCMP Cpl. Doug Roach testified to his role in preparing applications for wiretaps,cheap nfl jerseys, search warrants and other documents. Burke identified documents and items seized in New Brunswick and Ontario. Federal Crown prosecutor Monica McQueen from Halifax introduced 35 Crown exhibits into evidence.Later in the trial the court will hold voir dire hearings during which the judge will rule on whether to admit five other items marked for identification as Crown exhibits, McQueen said.These include DVD interviews of two people now in South America, who are not available to testify. The judge must also decide whether McCluskey and Hariprasad made statements voluntarily.

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Fire at Grove…One day after a fire of unknown origin destroyed four buildings including a Chinese restaurant,Cheap Soccer Jerseys, on the Grove Public Road, East Bank Demerara, the affected persons are estimating their loses to be several million dollars.Savitri Ganesh, a mother of three says she really doesn’t know where to turn, since everything has been totally destroyed.Ganesh who resided at Lot 52 Grove Public Road said she was unable to save anything in her house. She explained that the lot had two buildings, which had about four apartments. The woman’s elderly parents lived in one of the four apartments.Ganesh said she estimated her family’s lost at over $15M, since the houses were well furnished with all the modern appliances.Presently, the woman said they are staying with relatives at Herstelling, East Bank Demerara.Meanwhile,Cheap Jerseys From China, another neighbour has laid all the blame on the owner of the Chinese restaurant.According to the neighbour, the owner for the restaurant knew there was a fire and failed to alert persons.“This man know de fire was in the kitchen and he start moving out he things and ain’t tell nobody….is only after the people upstairs see the thick smoke, then people realise that there was a fire,cheap nfl jerseys,” the neighbour explained.The neighbour further told this newspaper that he suspects that the fire was caused by a leaking gas tube.According to the man, he had made three reports to the sanitation unit to investigate a leaking gas tube at the restaurant but no one came.This newspaper understands that Saturday’s fire was the third fire which started at the restaurant.“All de time we going and complain about this gas leak, but no one coming and de man continue buying he gas….now everybody homeless,” cried the man.The other affected persons were not present yesterday when this newspaper visited the scene .Efforts yesterday to contact an official from the Fire Service proved futile.The mid-afternoon fire left a total of 21 persons homeless.Reports are that the fire started at a Chinese restaurant which is located at lot 50 Grove Public Road but quickly spread to four other buildings.Alma Pooran, who lived in the upper flat of the two-story building that housed the restaurant, said that she was only made aware that fire was in the bottom flat when she heard neigbhours screaming.Savitri Ganesh points to her destroyed house Mrs. Pooran said that she lived at the premises with her husband, Cecil Pooran,China Jerseys NFL, and 13 other relatives,China Jerseys, including her daughter and grandchildren. The distraught woman said that the proprietor of the restaurant did not even indicate to them that the building was on fire.“People say they see this man trying to fetch he thing outside. Is till the fire get big then people know that there was a fire.”Mr. Pooran said that he tried assisting his elderly wife out of the building but by then a section of his flooring was on fire. He said that he sustained burns to the sole of his feet.The couple and other family members managed to run out the burning house before gas cylinders started to explode.Eyewitness at the scene had been complaining to the proprietor about the way he stores his gas.Another woman,Cheap Stitched MLB Jerseys, Yvonne Ramkishun, who lost her two-flat home located at 51 Grove Public Road, said that she was asleep. She was awakened by screams of ‘Fire! Fire!’The woman said that at the time she was home alone. Moments earlier her granddaughter had left for school. She added that her daughter who is physically challenged was at work.Ramkishun said that her losses will run into millions of dollars as she too had a well-furnished home.The other house which was destroyed housed a family of five, Neil James his wife and their three children. The lower flat of that building housed a liquor store. However some of the items from that business place were saved.

Should everything go according to plan, citizens in the city could look forward to an almost incident-free Christmas season as the Guyana Police Force puts systems in place to reduce criminality and maintain order.At a special ceremony yesterday at the Police Officers’ Mess, Eve Leary,cheap jerseys, which was attended by members of the Private Sector Commission and the media,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, the Guyana Police Force’s ‘A’ Division announced plans to effectively keep the city and its environs safe, after six weeks of intense preparations.Under the plan, more police ranks, patrols and beats will flock the city to augment the existing city policing arrangements.‘A’ Division Commander Leroy Brumell outlining the Christmas policing plan.The plan will officially kick in tomorrow and will last until January 15 next year.According to Divisional Commander, Assistant Commissioner Leroy Brumell, the intention is to control and reduce criminal activity, build public confidence in the force and reduce traffic congestion which is usually at its peak in the city at this time of the year.Reflecting on this year’s performance so far, when compared with last year, Brumell disclosed that there were 35 murders in the division, the same as in 2007, while robbery under arms increased significantly to 676, compared with 481 for the same period last year.“The robbery under arms is a big worry for us,” Brumell said.In total, there were 2232 serious crimes in ‘A’ Division, a figure which is 13.2 percent more than in 2007.Brumell also revealed that the police in Georgetown and its environs recovered 38 illegal firearms, two more than last year.“This is an area that we have been plagued with and we are trying our utmost. Every other crime you hear that a firearm was involved,” Brumell stated.With this in mind, the Divisional Commander said that the police will be dividing the city into five sectors in order to establish more control over the situation in the particular areas.Brumell added that each sector will be manned by an Inspector.“We’ll have patrols – mobile, foot and mounted. Also we will have booths at various locations in Georgetown and at each booth we intend to have two armed ranks, and those ranks are expected to be on the alert at all times and respond to any calls that come to their respective areas,” the Divisional Commander disclosed.Brumell stressed that emphasis will be placed on municipal markets and around city banks as well as other major business areas. There will also be raids in several crime-prone areas, as well as in “any area we get information that something is about to happen”.Kaneville/Grove, Agricola, Bagotstown, Albouystown and North, East and West Ruimveldt will receive special attention.Also to be targeted are night spots,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, where according to the divisional commander there is excessive lawlessness.“We know that at some of these night spots persons are going in with firearms. We will raid those night spots,” Brumell assured.Persons who sell squibs and other explosive devices will not be allowed to escape the dragnet.There will be roadblocks in various areas in Georgetown and on the East Bank of Demerara and the Assistant Commissioner is urging citizens to be patient throughout the exercises.Special operations will also form a major part of the campaign.This will entail the police working with the Guyana Defence Force and their helicopters,Wholesale China Jerseys, which is expected to have similar results like the recent successful operation on the West Bank of Demerara following the $17M GuySuCo payroll heist.Increased river patrols will supplement the campaign.Residential areas will also see an increase in both foot and vehicular patrols.To make the campaign a success, the Guyana Police Force will be utilizing the services of all its ranks,Cheap China Jerseys, with most of the office staff being required to be on the streets.Assistance will also come from the various Community Policing Groups and the City Constabulary.Special emphasis will also be placed on the days immediately leading up to Christmas as well as Old Year’s Day.With respect to the traffic arrangements for the period, Traffic Chief, Superintendent Neil Semple outlined a detailed plan to ease the expected congestion.He told the gathering that traffic has been a year-round concern for all and during the period in question there will be a greater number of vehicles and pedestrians on the road.“We don’t want persons to be carried away that Christmas is a period of jollification, hence there is going to be any immunity for them to be doing any traffic lawlessness on the road,Air Max

Residents of the East Bank Demerara will shortly have a spanking newThe $16M Diamond Fire-Station under constructionfire-station constructed at a cost of $16M.Following reports of shoddy works,Cheap NFL Jerseys, this publication visited the worksite yesterday which lies adjacent to the Diamond Secondary School. Work commenced on the project in December by contractor Gharshan Sookdeo and was scheduled for six months.The contractor has refuted claims of shoddy works and said that the project will be completed before the April deadline.The building is 45 feet at its widest point and runs for some 70 feet in length.There is an open, roofed area that runs along the centre of the building which will house a fire tender and stands at 24 feet in height.E&A Consultants have been identified with the project with the client being the Ministry of Home Affairs.This newspaper understands that the Engineer’s Estimate for the project placed the cost at $19M and G&S Construction,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, owned by Sookdeo,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, secured the contract with his $16M bid.The 2011 Budgetary Estimates for the Ministry of Home Affairs,China Jerseys Free Shipping, under which the project falls, had indicated that the Ministry was allocated some $55M as part of a $65M to complete a fire station at Mahaica,Cheap Jerseys Online, the construction of the one at Diamond and a training school at Leonora. That sum also included the payment of retention.While the Diamond project does entail a culvert at the entrance to allow for a bridge,Wholesale Cheap Jerseys, it does not involve a perimeter fence.