– ‘Had a few drinks but was not drunk’The emergency shute that Christopher Satyanand deployedMonths after blowing the emergency exit door on Delta Airlines Flight DL 383, from New York to Georgetown, Christopher Satyanand, the passenger at the centre of the incident, has told this newspaper that he was not drunk when the incident occurred.He explained that it was his first trip back to Guyana in 25 years,Wholesale Authentic NFL Jerseys, and that he booked his ticket last minute.He said that he was told that there were no more economy seats available, and as such he paid US$2,000 for his first class seat.During the flight, he said,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, he did partake in some of the free alcoholic beverages which were offered. “I had a few drinks, but I was not drunk,” said Satyanand.When the plane landed in Guyana, he said that he thought there was a separate exit for first class passengers. So he gathered his personal effects and went to the first class door and opened it. “The next thing I know the slide opened up and I fell over,” he said.He emphasized that he did not know that he was not allowed to exit the plane from that door. However, he said that he figured that since he paid so much for the plane ticket he would have at least been able to leave the plane first.When he was questioned about his reported singing in the plane,Cheap Jerseys 2018, he said that he was listening to music from his mp3 player,Jerseys NFL Wholesale China, and may have been singing in accompaniment.Satyanand affirmed that following the incident he was banned from travelling with Delta Airlines for life,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, but said that he was not particularly concerned as “the service was lousy anyways”.At approximately 7:30 hours on July 3, 2008, Satyanand, disembarking passenger on Delta Airline Flight DL 383, from New York to Georgetown, blew the emergency exit door, sending him down the emergency exit slide and onto the tarmac of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport,Wholesale Jerseys, while other passengers were disembarking the aircraft.The incident resulted in the aircraft being grounded for 24 hours, and caused passengers scheduled to depart to New York on the same aircraft to be delayed.

By Rabindra RooplallThe Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has intensified its campaign against electricity theft, countrywide as fines and imprisonment have been cited as an issue for the power company since 1,248 cases are pending before the courts, according to statistics.The penalty for stealing electricity is a fine of $50,000 and a mandatory sentence of one year imprisonment.Statistics fingered the East Coast of Demerara as having the highest number of cases at Sparendaam Court with 360 pending cases. This was followed by Georgetown with 345 cases and 236 for Berbice.Electricity theft in GuyanaStatistics reveal that from 2007 to 2012 there were 2,490 arrests with 541 convictions. For the same period 1005 raids were carried out with 49,298 illegal connections removed.? During this time 7981 complaints were also recorded.According to Field Services Manager, Looknauth Singh, the power company continues to seek persons and business entities that are deceitful with illegal connections being responsible for 22 percent of the company’s losses. This, he said, was also due to non-technical losses in nature and is largely as a result of electricity theft, faulty meters and deficiencies in the billing system.Approximately 30 per cent of the population is illegally connected and this has caused GPL commercial losses estimated at $2 billion annually.The managers also noted that many persons are being duped by some GPL meter readers, ex-employee and other employees who are not authorized to “test a meter and to identify an illegality.” Only the loss reduction operation section is so authorized.“When meter readers visit a premises they have a hand held instrument that can read your meter from your gate.”Chief Executive Officer,NFL Jerseys China, Bharat Dindyal, recently noted that in an attempt to further reduce the incidence of electricity theft,NFL Jerseys Authentic China, the power company has launched a pilot programme financed by the Inter-American Development Bank. This proposed programme, he said,Wholesale NBA Jerseys China, is expected to target areas with high electricity theft and will be characterised by the introduction of new designs to curb such practices.“This will not only look at the network design using a more secure network sometimes called a fraud-proof network, but we are looking at introducing the latest in metering technology, something called an Automatic Metering Infrastructure, which is more advanced than the prepaid that we are using,” Dindyal explained.“The experience, internationally, no matter which country you are in, is that pleading with people doesn’t work. They think you can’t do anything different when you plead and jailing them makes them your enemy. So you have to introduce technology in a coordinated manner that allows you to get the intelligence to act on,” he added.Once the Automatic Metering Infrastructure is installed it will be connected to the GPL’s Billing Department via wireless control.? This technology, according to Dindyal, would allow GPL officials to literally speak to the meter whenever the need arises.“So what happens is that there is a platform there with a server that is running and that is tracking the meter all the time,” he expounded.He noted too that the transformer that is serving the area will be metered as well as the customers connected to that transformer will be metered and its software will be tasked with looking at the amount of power that is going in while simultaneously recording how much is actually going to each customer. Moreover,Cheap China Jerseys, the system would be able to develop intelligence on each customer, thus it would be able to flag a particular customer when something is happening,Cheap Jerseys From China, hence an alert will be sent to GPL to check on this customer.“In future we are looking to introduce this in a big way. We are hoping we can go to this technology totally,Cheap NFL Jerseys, so that when we come to your house we know exactly why we are coming there,” Dindyal asserted.>>>>>>>>Picture saved in Sunday’s Edition as GPLCaption: Electricity theft in Guyana

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Follow the leader, leader,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, leader!Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce you to the new General Secretary of the PPP: Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo. Based on what we have seen on the ground and heard from the field, it seems like Bharrat has taken over from Donald as the head of the party.When he was President, Bharrat had wrested control of the Government from Donald. There was a time when the Party stalwarts were questioning the direction of Bharrat as he divorced himself from the PPP in order to carry out his agenda. That was in the past.Today he has wrested control of the PPP from Donald and the Party stalwarts are again wondering what is slapping them so hard.The new leaders of the PPP are the used-up boys of the Jagdeo administration – one previous Regional Chairman and a host of other used persons. Is this a move toward a renewed push for another Jagdeo presidency? Will we hear new-term instead of third term?Whatever it is, his total lack of management and professional ethics cannot be good for that party. We will be looking on. The Party needs to think about the respect factor. Bullyism and cronyism will continue to erode the popular base of the PPP. And, we are not even addressing corruption here!Meanwhile, while the PNC has clearly supported David Granger as its leader, the lifespan of the APNU is shaky and will only last as long as there is this parliament. Granger has brought a new leadership style to the PNC and with it, a breath of fresh air that will do well for the PNC,Cheap Jerseys, provided Granger himself maintains his mantle of dignity and professionalism. Granger’s challenge is to stay relevant in the fast-paced angry-syndrome-type supporter and his danger is to fall into the sad fire-and-pestilence mode of Hoyte when frustration eventually gets to him.With Greenidge, Harmon and others in the periphery, the PNC/APNU will continue to play the political games with the PPP which will squeeze the PNC/APNU’s single ally in parliament, the AFC. But, while Granger will be negotiating and settling some matters with the PPP, he is closing the door on his own fate and that of a combined majority in parliament.As for the other two has-been Parties,Wholesale Jerseys, we know that the WPA’s death was stark with its last rites read during the last election and the TUF’s last rites reached its nadir of history.The AFC, however, seems to be attracting new blood in the political battleground and now-and-again gains some good momentum – but is badly lacking in terms of vision and proactive approach. Sandwiched between PPP and PNC (oops APNU), the AFC can only try to remain relevant as the PPP and PNC/APNU tries to set it up.Unfortunately, it sees itself in the adopt-a-protest mode and may be in danger of digging its own grave of immaturity.It is a sad fact that the political leaders (PPP,NFL Jerseys 2018, PNC, AFC) of tomorrow may have no tomorrow left in them. Granger,Wholesale Hockey Jerseys China, Bharrat, Moses.? One can see the PPP allowing itself to have Bharrat oppose Moses, but,NFL Jerseys Cheap, Moses needs to realize that he looks at AFC’s new leader every time he looks at Hughes. One can accept that Granger is needed at the present time. But, none of the current leaders give us hope.The recycling of the used and abused will continue to haunt us. This is almost laughable, yet an indictment on Guyana’s future.Until the future leaders are introduced, we will continue to live in the past.

By Kiana Wilburg“I share in Ramkarran’s view that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has become very intolerant of any criticism to do with corruption and corrupt practices and it is ironic that we were brought up in a generation of fighters in the PPP to believe that corruption in any form was intolerable.”Nagamootoo said that what former Speaker of the National Assembly,Cheap Jerseys From China, Ralph Ramkarran, has said is that in the post-Cheddi Jagan period,cheap jerseys, they had seen corruption still appearing and when they investigated, appropriate actions were taken.“Afterwards the floodgates were opened and the corrupt ones started to gravitate towards each other until they became a force.”The former Government Minister said that he too was attacked for going publically to voice his opinions,Cheap NFL Football Jerseys, particularly in the Jagdeo period because, “ I have leveled accusations against people whom I felt were indulging in corrupt practices.”He added,Wholesale NHL Jerseys, “I believe that Ramkarran’s comments were just brought to bear post facto (after the fact) a situation that has been festering for a long time.”The Vice Chairman said that there have been various attempts by the government to sweep corruption under the carpet. “That is a tragedy for the people of Guyana. For example, we read about the situation with a security firm that is associated with the PPP, where they caught operatives of the security firm stealing laptop computers that were meant for poor people.“This is a classic case where a fence was erected to protect the crops but when you wake up in the morning you realize that the fence ate all the mangoes, so what do you do with the fence? You keep it?”Nagamootoo said that what is happening is that too many people that are associated with the PPP now, the post-Jagan PPP that is, are invariably caught in various levels of corrupt practices.To support his comment that those who dare to fight the “corrupt cabal” met with the whippings of the PPP, he recounted just one of his experiences while he was a member of the party.“When I was a Government Minister,Wholesale China Jerseys, I fired a Regional Executive Officer in West Demerara, Region Three,Cheap Jerseys 2018, on allegations of corruption. I was later pushed out of the Ministry after a year and the guy was reinstated because he was a party man.“I was literally attacked for my position on corruption”He said that those who spoke about the comprehensiveness of policies of acts of corruption within the party were not only disciplined but sidelined.Nagamootoo said that there was also an abuse of the internal democratic process “where I said in writing to the General Secretary of the party at the time that there were simply Stalinist tactics.”

Three men who police claim are responsible for robberies targeting businessmen after they had visited commercial banks, were granted $250,Wholesale NFL Jerseys,000 bail when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday.Taxi drivers,Wholesale Jerseys, Afzad Khan, 53, of Belle West, West Coast Demerara, Parmanand Rampersaud, 56, of Kaneville Grove, East Bank Demerara and Randell Douglas,Cheap Hockey Jerseys, 39, of Palm Street Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, appeared before Magistrate Dylon Bess to answer a joint charge of simple larceny.From left Randell Douglas, Afzad Khan and Parmanand RampersaudThe charge read that the trio entered Brian Narine’s motor car PJJ 989 on April 26 at Middle Street, Georgetown, and stole a green bag containing $400,Cheap NFL Jerseys,000, a .32 Taurus pistol, and 45 rounds of matching ammunition – a total value of $550,000.They were not required to plead to the indictable charge when it was read to them by Magistrate Bess.Prosecutor Michael Grant did not disclose any facts about the case but he informed the court the three men are “known characters” to the police department.He said that the trio had previously been charged on similar offences,Wholesale Cheap Jerseys, and arrested during a “sting” operation set up by police, prior to this offence. He said he is unsure if they were ever convicted “but I know they have been charged before”.Grant said there is a video footage from a CCTV camera implicating the three accused in a robbery committed a few weeks ago. The prosecutor stated that he believes there are other charges forthcoming and therefore, he asked for more time for the police to bring the additional charges.The prosecutor then strongly opposed bail for the three defendants based on that fact,NFL Jerseys Outlet, and also on the nature of the offence.However, attorney-at-law Patrice Henry who represented the three men argued that his clients were all law-abiding citizens, who are also working fathers with fixed places of abode.Given pre-trial liberty, the lawyer said his clients would attend their hearings at the specified times allotted by the court. He then said the police had “ample” opportunity to investigate the alleged additional offences before his clients were brought to court. The lawyer said the prosecutor’s statements were highly prejudicial. He nevertheless made an application for the defendants to be granted reasonable bail.The magistrate then informed the prosecutor that “being charged does not make you a criminal. As long as you are charged before a court, these men are innocent until proven guilty”.Magistrate Bess then said he considered the nature of the charge and granted bail to the tune of $250,000 each. The matter was adjourned until May 16.